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Pavel Antonov, PhD
Co-founder and Executive Editor of BlueLink.
Research focus on normative, occupational and social changes of post-socialist media, politics and civil society, which suppress citizens' and journalists' abilities to safeguard democracy and the public interest. Studies the expansion of market relationships over various forms of social, political and economic interaction, including civil society, mass media and environment protection. Analyses the engagement of social movements with journalists and business over issues of collective interest, such as environmental and climate change and tobacco smoking.
Current and recent work: Lead, Remembering Europe - Civil Society under Pressure Again (Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria), EU for Citizens Programme; Senior expert/Editor, BlueLink Virtual Newsroom project for support of public interest journalism across East Central Europe, Germany, NIS; Senior Expert, Trainer, journalism in support of rural civil society in Albania; Scientific co-ordination, Expert group against trans-border corruption of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum; Green Economy in South Eastern Europe research co-ordinator; communication campaign leadership and social analysis for the Smoke-free Life Coalition, Bulgaria.
Past work: edited Green Horizon at the Regional Environmental Center for CEE and led training courses for journalists and e-networking activists across Eastern Europe, Turkey and NIS. He is the former chief editor of current affairs at Bulgaria's Nova TV where he also reported on political news and hosted Sofia's Fairy Tales – a weekly show on multiculturalism.
Awrds: for his leadership of the Smoke-free Bulgaria campaign Antonov was listed by Capital weekly among Top 10 civil society promoters in 2010.
Honorary positions: a trustee of Greenpeace International, a Board member of Greenpeace CEE and Council Representative to the Association for Progressive Communications
See a list of his selected publications with BlueLink at http://www.bluelink.net/publications.
Contact:pavelan [at] bluelink [dot] net (subject: BlueLink%20contact%20form) (pavelan [at] bluelink.net ).


Renaissance Lute, by David Romero. Reproduced under CC-BY licence.
These days when we think of the North East's music venues, we probably imagine the Metro Arena in Newcastle or the Sage Gateshead. In the medieval period, though, the market town of Beverley was the lively centre for musicians in the region. According to the Ordinances (regulations) of the Beverley Guild of Minstrels, no minstrel could perform in public without becoming a Guild member. Each year, the biggest gig in the North East was the great annual meeting of minstrels at the Cross Fair held in Beverley in May.
Minstrels – and waits, or official town bands – were central to the cultural life of the region. They left their mark not only in music, but in some of the architecture of our churches and in precious objects. They can be considered as the north-eastern predecessors to likes of The Unthanks or Lindisfarne.


Justin Scoggins may be one of the youngest fighters on the UFC roster, and has gone undefeated to date, but the flyweight prospect clearly understands the importance of training with the best of the best. The 21 year-old once again prepared for his UFC 171 bout Saturday with the world renowned American Top Team, and Scoggins has no doubt that he'll be ready for what Will Campuzano brings as a result.
Scoggins began training in martial arts at the young age of three, and as he also relayed to Full Contact Fighter recently, MMA has long been "the goal in mind" for the Kenpo Karate black belt. As a result, Scoggins is no stranger to training with top tier fighters, despite the fact he's yet to hit 22.
In Campuzano, Scoggins will face a veteran fighter who made his UFC debut when the ATT member was still competing as an amateur. After exiting from the UFC in 2011, Campuzano secured another run in the promotion by winning five straight fights, which included a decision win over Japanese vet Hideo Tokoro. Most recently, the 27 year-old flyweight was handed a decision loss by Sergio Pettis at UFC 167.
UFC 171 will be hosted by the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, Texas, and will feature Johny Hendricks battling Robbie Lawler for the vacant welterweight title.


Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by tsmr, Dec 8, 2007.
I currently offer free wifi access to customers in my pub and I am trying to implement a layer 7 filter to block P2P filesharing.
My plan is to use debian-box to take care of the P2P blocking: I compiled ipp2p (tcp layer7 packet analyzer) but I can't figure out how to make the machine act as a gateway for the wifi clients.
All the examples I found online refer to the situation where the computer has two network interfaces, but I only have eth0.
I believe you'd have to add a 2nd lan card and connect the wifi router to it.
If your router has a firewall, can't you just use it to block the p2p ports?
In case you decide to charge for access, you can checkout Zonerider.


I come down on the side of science, which frequently puts me at odds with deniers of all stripes. That's especially true with the anti-vaccination crowd.
I have no patience for anyone willing to put someone else's health at risk because they choose to believe myths and misinformation.
Vaccinations are good. Vaccinations save lives by making people immune to potentially deadly diseases. Alas, opponents remain convinced they are a Deep State plot because of something they heard on talk radio or read on the internet.
So, diseases like measles are spreading among unvaccinated kids. That is so sad.
Florida requires that kids receive vaccinations before they enroll at a public or private school, but parents can have them opt out on religious grounds.
The Tampa Bay Times reviewed state data that shows the number of such claims has been steadily climbing, reaching nearly 25,000 last year.
The Centers For Disease Control reported on 465 cases of measles since the first of the year in 19 states, including Florida. Pinellas County last year had its first cases of measles in 10 years.
Didn't the federal government declare in 2000 that measles had been eliminated, thanks to vaccinations here and in other countries?
But two years earlier, a highly flawed study erroneously linked the measles vaccine and childhood autism. Even though the study was retracted, the anti-vax moment has been gaining speed ever since.
The argument against vaccines has been ongoing since the days of Voltaire in the mid-1700s. It has been a global fight, too. I suppose that is because people everywhere have an instinctive distrust of authority. They are more inclined to believe some quack pseudo-scientist on a website than an actual doctor who spent years learning medical facts.
Polio was the scourge when I was growing up in the late 1950s and early '60s. But in 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announced the discovery of a vaccine against that crippling disease.
Kids like me were soon lining up all over the country for sugar cubes with the drug and polio virtually disappeared.
Like every other kid in town, I took all the required vaccinations for school. I still take vaccinations that are recommended by medical professionals.
You can talk yourself blue in the face, and it won't convince an anti-vax person that they are wrong. They are wrong though, and it puts people at risk of contracting a serious and preventable disease.
There is not much the Legislature can do about this beyond eliminating the religious loophole, which won't happen. The state can't question the sincerity of the religious claim, either, thanks to a 1998 state Supreme Court ruling.
Once again, we face the modern problem where some people will believe misinformation over facts.
That's true no matter what it does to the kids.


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Capitol mob recalls attack on U.S. Rep. Giffords decade ago
A decade ago, a gunman with paranoid schizophrenia killed six and injured 13 including Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Small pro-Trump rallies break out in Canada amid chaos at U.S. Capitol
Small pro-Trump rallies popped up in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary Wednesday, as a riotous mob supporting the outgoing president occupied the U.S. Capitol.
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The Right's "Respectable" Rioters
Adam Serwer writing at The Atlantic: The Capitol Rioters Weren't 'Low Class'. They were business owners, CEOs, state legislators, police officers, active and retired service members, real-estate brokers, stay-at-home dads, and, I assume, some Proud Boys. The mob that breached the Capitol last week at President Donald Trump's exhortation, hoping to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, was full of what you might call "respectable people." They left dozens of Capitol Police...
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Jul. 9, 2019 12:26 pm
Carvertise unveils a major overhaul
The new, more streamlined site is geared toward rideshare drivers.
Vanguard culture anchored in growth and giving back View Open Positions
Carvertise cars are wrapped right in the office.
(Photo by Holly Quinn)
In 2017, Carvertise undertook what would be its first big brand overhaul.
"If there's a next time," founder Mac Nawaswami told Technical.ly at the time, "I'm hiring other people to do it."
Just recently, founding partner Greg Star announced on LinkedIn that the team had spent five months on another update for the company that wraps cars with advertisements.
Before the 2017 rebrand, Carvertise's website looked "like a startup website," Nagaswami said. The newer version of the site was visually slick and dynamic (thanks in part to photos by Sam Suh). It looked like a site for an up-and-coming national brand.
In the last two years, Carvertise has grown, including moving to its own all-in-one-location. In April, Nagaswami told Technical.ly that the company (which would have been quietly working on the new update at the time) planned to have 600,000 drivers registered on its platform by the end of 2019.
Not coincidentally, the new site reflects that, with a straightforward, eye-catching splash page that is particularly geared toward rideshare drivers (i.e. Uber and Lyft drivers), who potentially get the most eyeballs and are the most desirable for advertisers. The more streamlined site is split into two distinct sections — one for drivers, one for advertisers.
Carvertise.com splash page. (Screenshot)
It's a long way from the days when the then-University of Delaware startup was called PenguinAds. Believe it or not, this photo is only about seven years old, not 20:
Companies: Carvertise
A new DECO deli is set to open on Jan. 22
5 ways you can honor Martin Luther King, Jr. this Monday
Here's the second batch of EDGE Grant awardees
Delaware's first chemtech conference is coming to the Chase Center in February
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← Gallery Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2021) Claudia Skoda: Dressed to Thrill / Kulturforum Berlin (2021) →
Maison de France / Institut Français Berlin: July 10, 2021 – August 15, 2021
As part of the art festival BALADE, an exhibition trail through the district of Charlottenburg designed by curators Liberty Adrien and Carina Bukuts, an exhibition by Ulrike Ottinger will take place at the Maison de France / Institut Français Kurfürstendamm 211 in 10719 Berlin-Charlottenburg.
On July 11, 2021, at 11:00 am, Cinema Paris will screen Ulrike Ottinger's new film PARIS CALLIGRAMMES.
This will be followed by the exhibition opening and reception at the Maison de France / Institut Français Berlin.
The BALADE exhibition will be on view there until August 15, 2021.
"In her presentation at the French Institute, Ulrike Ottinger traces a path from her artist days in Paris in the 1960s to her creative phase as a filmmaker in West Berlin in the 1980s. The two cities attracted artists and intellectuals from around the world during their respective decades and were simultaneously marked by complex political upheavals: While Paris is the scene of student protests and decolonization processes, Berlin is still finding its identity between the occupation zones. At the French Institute, Ottinger's textile works, costumes, and films condense into a topography of the two cities that invites visitors on a foray through past and present." (Excerpt Homepage Institut Français)
Balade: Ulrike Ottinger
Maison de France / Institut Français, Berlin
Tue - Fri: 09:00 am - 6:00 pm
→ Link to the exhibition
Links to press releases
Kunstparcours durch Charlottenburg Brot mit Gürkchen, Nicola Kuhn, Tagesspiegel, 27.07.2021, 18:01 Uhr
AUSSTELLUNGSPARCOURS "BALADE" Besondere Kunst an neun Orten, Ulrike Kiefert, Berliner Woche, 24. Juli 2021, 15:30 Uhr
Ein Lobgang auf den Spaziergesang "Balade"-Ausstellungsparcours durch Charlottenburg, Lara Brörken, Gallerytalk.net Magazin, 26. Juli 2021
Kunst am Strassenrand- Spazieren mit Balade Berlin, Laura Storfner, CeeCee Blog, Juli 2021
Exhibition views / Copyright: Eike Walkenhorst (see below).


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The festival is in full swing and the weather couldn't be more perfect. There were great crowds today, lots of friends stopped in to see my new work & say hello. I finished quite a few new pearl vessels, large and small. I set a handful of "petal" pearls and they turned out fabulous! They are petite and perfect to wear casually or not. I also had a new batch of Copprclay come out of the kiln to make more earrings. In the photo you can see my drill press to make consistent holes in the dried clay and an engraver to sign my pieces in the leather hard state.
I will be gearing up for another one day festival next Sunday, in Littleton on the campus of the Arapahoe Community College campus. There is an admission charge, you can print out a coupon for $1.00 off the admission of $5.00. Or stop by my booth, I have a few flyers with a coupon attached. The proceeds benefit the scholarship fund. And at this show, all merchandise will be priced under $100.00.
Lastly, my week was full of emotions, as we took our youngest son to college. It was a happy sad moment and we look forward to many new adventures ahead.
Golden Fine Arts Festival is coming up soon!
August 18 & 19th is the weekend of the Golden Fine Arts Festival in historic downtown Golden. The festival runs from 10am until 5pm both days. I'm in booth number 19. There is no admission fee, there will be music to entertain, and a Kids Art Zone. It's a great festival–worth the trip to Golden. And if you want to shop for clothing & jewelry, stop in to Baby Doe's Clothing, Artisan Jewelry & Fine Craft at 1116 Washington Ave. From 12pm – 3pm there will be a painting demonstration and Creative Cooking for Kids demo.
I'm also gearing up for the Affordable Arts Festival, its first year taking place on the Arapahoe Community College campus on South Santa Fe Drive. There's lots of parking on the grounds, and the festival runs from 10am – 5pm. There is a $5.00 admission fee, which supports the ACC Foundation Scholarship Program.
And while down there–please check out Willow, an artisan's market in downtown Littleton, 2400 West Main Street. I have a collection of jewelry there now. They were recently picked in the 5280 magazine, Top of the Town.
This batch of bronze has amazing colors. I keep the charcoal in the laundry room, atop the dryer–could that be the reason for all the colors? Of course and there are the dull green-blues–but, okay, I'll take the purples, pinks, etc. This batch had no cracking either. The Yahoo Metal Clay discussion group has been talking a lot about BronzClay cracking. I made sure this batch was really dry. I have a "dehydrate" function on the oven, so placed the pieces on a plastic screen in there. I also dry out in the sun for quite awhile. Lastly, I stacked a bunch of pieces on my cup warmer. I had a tiny bit of warping in the drying process, will try and straighten them out. Back to work, must highlight & polish up!
I was so excited to see an article written by Lisa Cain in the recent Metalclay Artist Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue #2 called, Reconstituting Silver Metal Clay. I have 11 years worth of scraps I've saved –I know–do I throw anything away? I gathered it all in one shoe box and started my first batch, and I was amazed, like is like a package of new clay. So far, I've made three batches. You need to grind it, sift it, add water, roll it out and then let it sit overnight. With the price of silver going up (and down) and all these leftover scraps, it makes sense. My next mission is to take all my fired reject silver scraps to a metal recycler. I have the name of a company in Denver that you can take your scraps, they melt it down while you wait, pull a plug out and then tell you the percentage of metal and apparently give you a fair price.
Don't forget to purchase a subscription to the first magazine dedicated to Metal Clay!
How time flies, and I'm realizing my last post was so long ago! I have been busy, really! I've been working on photographs to apply to summer shows, restocking the galleries I have my jewelry featured in, and making some ceramic pieces for our Colorado Potters Spring Show & Sale, which was last weekend! I managed to make 40 or so olive dishes, a few birdhouses, and some bowls. That means throwing clay in my basement where you are not sure if the sun is shining or not. I've also been working on some mixed metal pieces, with steel, bronze clay & silver clay. I found a very cool class online, by CRAFTCAST, Alison Lee hosts different artists who give online classes. You can watch it live, or later download it. She features different artists, and podcasts a you can listen to as well.
In my personal life sadly, I lost a cousin due to alcoholism, and in March went back to Milwaukee for a very sad funeral. He had been in rehab after falling while very drunk & hitting his head over the holidays. Unfortunately, the brain injury facility did not keep him very long, and after 30 days in an alcohol rehab, he got out & continued to drink. It hit me hard, as I grew up with his family of nine kids. I'm now realizing that alcohol can kill, and is very addictive. And the addictive brain is a strong beast. And 52 is way too young to leave this world.
Happy 2011! And oh–a new years resolution!
Yikes, I'm tired! Does anyone else feel like a whirlwind all of the time? After thinking about streamlining my jewelry business, I began to think about how many art things do I do?
On the up-side, I am never bored. I feel blessed I'm able to work & do the things I love. I've met great people and made great friends through the art world I'm involved in. I love creating, teaching, taking classes, exploring new mediums. So in 2011, I'll work on giving up some of these jobs–anyone know a good bookkeeper to start?
I've been constructing some new pearls, and this one had a different shape, so I made this form for it. An old friend bought it, and not being a necklace person really, she loves wearing it. I asked if I could photograph it, and lo and behold, this spot kept appearing on my photos. I cleaned, and cleaned some more. The glass was spotless, the lenses were spotless, so I called the camera shop. "There's something on your sensor" was the response. We have to send your camera away for cleaning. Odd, I'd never heard of that. He said it happens when you change lenses. So, in 10 days I hope to have a fresh newly cleaned camera.
It's always something–especially when you are dealing with technology! As I write this, I have no back up drive. It has died, I assume. I've had other back-up drives and they have not failed, but this one is failing! It has been less than a year, so I'll see what the store has to say when I take it in. It's kind of scary though, not backing up my data. I had a hard drive fail last year on my trusty "vintage" laptop, PowerBook G4. I lost lots of e-mails addresses, and some music, but had most of the files backed up. It's a must if you have a business and your life involves around a computer. My newer desktop iMac is now the main machine, and I'm living on a thin thread without a back-up drive!
I can't believe it is August already! I just returned from the PMC Conference in West Lafayette, Indiana, at Purdue University. It was a great conference, and I learned a ton, and I was inspired by all the amazing folks there. It was my fifth conference, beginning in Wooster, Ohio in 2002. This photo was taken when Tim McCreight gave a demo of the new clay Mitsubishi is about to release, PMC Pro. It's amazing, and we'll see in the fall when it is introduced. Stay tuned for more info!
I posted a quite a few photos on my Facebook page of the fun at the conference. Are we Facebook friends yet?


What will my body protector do to keep me safe?
The purpose of a body protector is to offer protection from impacts suffered as a consequence of a fall or kick from a horse. Body protectors are constructed of impact-absorbing foam that allows them to protect the thorax (chest and ribs), the abdomen and the internal organs. They also prevent soft tissue injuries including bruising, laceration, abrasions and contact burn. Body protectors do not offer direct spinal protection and do not protect against injuries involving severe torsion, flexion or crush.
Can you explain the safety standards for body protectors?
Airowear body protectors have been manufactured and tested to meet the requirements of EN13158:2009 (European standard for 'Protective Jackets, Body and Shoulder Protectors for Horse Riders') and are also CE marked to show their confirmation to the Personal Protective Equipment Directive 89/686/EEC.
In addition, the Outlyne, AirMesh, Flexion®, Reiver 010 body protectors and the foundation layer for the AyrVest are tested to the BETA Level 3 2009 Standard for Horse Riders' Body and Shoulder Protectors, which have specific tests to establish their performance under impact.
Level 3: – Purple Label, 2009. Body protectors carrying the purple BETA label, stitched flat to the outside of their body protector, conforms to BETA 2009 Level 3. This level will provide a level of protection that is considered appropriate for normal horse riding, competitions and for working with horses as it protects against minor bruising that would produce stiffness and pain, reduce soft tissue injuries and prevent a limited number of rib fractures.
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Should I wear shoulder protectors?
Shoulder protectors offer additional protection to the collarbone area by dispersing energy from a fall to prevent a broken clavicle and damage to the point of the shoulder. All styles of Airowear body protectors come with the option of attaching BETA Level 3 2009 certified shoulder protectors, and all of our shoulder protectors are made with flexible materials that move with the rider so as not to interfere. They also include convenient medical card holders.
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Do you have hat silks to match?
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The cover on the Outlyne, Flexion and AirMesh body protectors cannot be removed for washing, so we recommend hand washing the outer surface with warm water and a mild detergent. To dry, lay the body protector flat and away from sources of heat.
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Emergency Life Support Team (ELST) delivers First Aid training and qualifications across the South of England. Director Andy Sullivan has over 22 years of practical First Aid experience.
My career started as an operational fire-fighter, with hands on First Aid experience, in the Kent Fire Brigade. I served with Kent Fire Brigade for 17 years; and qualified as an instructor. In my last few years of service I became the Manager of First Aid training for the Brigade. Whilst in this role I worked closely with the Ambulance and Air Ambulance services.
With 20 years of experience and knowledge under my belt, I developed Emergency Life Support Team in 2005, of which I am proud to be the Director.
With a team of dedicated instuctors, who all have an Emergency Service background, we can offer a First Aid course that is delivered from real life experience.
I know from experience that First Aid truly makes the difference between life and death and I believe that everybody, young and old, should have at least the basic skills to save a life.
Best Wishes and thank you for visiting the website.


Good-bye home, Hello New Hampshire!
Mmmmmmmmmmm. Also tomato sauce that I put up last summer. This soup tasted like spring!
I have also been enjoying my sewing room. I am hard at work on projects that I can not talk about, but I promise to share as soon as I can.
I loved every minute of my time at home and I am officially recovered from my trip to Australia. I am ready to meet some of my favorite quilters at Bits 'n Pieces in Pelham, New Hampshire this weekend. Will I see you there? Liz told me that she has a surprise for me. Should I be afraid?
If you can't make it to Bits 'n Pieces, check my teaching calendar.
If you aren't able to take an in-person class with me, check out my Craftsy class.
I spend a lot (too much?) time on Facebook and reading blogs and you know how sometimes people are all saying the same thing? Lately, I've been reading a lot of "I like that people show me how to quilt on video, but they only quilt on little squares and not big quilts" type comments.
So, I basted up a quilt and moved my video camera away from my table for a wide shot of how I flip and fold and move a quilt while quilting. I don't give any instruction in this video, nor do you see the pattern that I am quilting. If you are curious, I am doing some continuous curve with an oval template and then some free-motion ribbon candy designs.
You do, however, see my Cheezit fabric finally used in a quilt. I bought it a few years ago because Cheezits are my absolute favorites! I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but it is 60% of the back of this quilt and I am so in love with it!
If you wanted to see how a large quilt is manipulated under a machine, I hope this helps. If you have no interest in that, I hope you enjoyed the Cheezit fabric!
Odd that I just returned home from a trip to Australia and I was ready to make the Sydney block in Pat Sloan's Globetrotting block of the month from 2014. I have never actually visited Sydney, but I've transferred through their airport many, many times.
This block is a tad darker than my other blocks but I think it will give some depth and balance to the quilt.
I can't wait to make the pink version!
Swanky from Chez Moi from Moda worked perfectly!
I hope this family remembers my love and respect when they use their quilt.
Aside from arriving at a foreign destination, the high point of the actual travel day is watching movies. I rarely watch movies at home; I listen to old favorite movies while quilting instead of watching new movies.
Coming home from Australia, I watched shockingly few movies.
It was a WWII movie starring Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf. I love WWII movies so I am biased, but this was pretty good considering I watched it while it skipped and dissolved on my lousy seatback monitor.
I wish I could say I watched the Imitation Game. I dozed through the movie and the monitor stopped working when I tried to replay it. I will definitely get this from the library and watch the whole thing some time.
I've seen this before and liked it, so I watched it again. Thank you, Canada.
I dozed through this one but got the general idea. Who isn't in this movie? Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Vera Famiga, Alec Baldwin, Mark Rolston, J. C. MacKenzie, and more. Spoiler alert: Everybody dies. OK, not everybody, but you get the idea.
I currently have no overseas trips planned, so I'm not sure when I'll watch another movie!
One of my favorite things in the world is to hang laundry on the line outside. No, I'm not kidding. Yes, I too have heard that medication could help.
I am now home from Australia, my body is almost back in the western hemisphere, I have a suitcase full of dirty clothes, and it's April. I'm obviously going to wash all of those clothes and hang them on the line.
Wait! Where are the clothes? IT WAS SNOWING, Y'ALL!!! In April! On my clean clothes! I am a terrible photographer and couldn't get the falling snowflakes to show up on the iPhone. They were really cool snowflakes, by the way; they were like little styrofoam pellets. Odd.
Since laundry isn't my favorite thing this week (stupid snow!), I will have to talk about a different favorite thing: thread. DecoBob from WonderFil especially.
I love this as a bobbin thread for quilting, in the needle and/or the bobbin, but I want to love this as a piecing thread. I never did.
Like I said: not love at first piece.
Have you tried DecoBob thread yet? Are you in love?
I am blessed to have a job that I love which also routinely introduces me to new people, places, and experiences. My recent experience going to Australia was as uneventful as it could be. My time in Australia could not possibly have been better. My journey home from Australia? Well, I landed safely each time. That's HUGE, but it is also the only good thing about that 40 hour journey.
8:00 am Melbourne time: was informed that there was no possible way to leave Melbourne that day. Prepared to stay for a one-day holiday and maybe go to the zoo. Koalas and kangaroos? Sign me up! Had to wait for hotel and taxi info.
9:45 am Melbourne time: was informed that my flight to Aukland was booked and I had 15 minutes to reclaim luggage and check in. Then I had 15 minutes to get through security/passport check and run to the farthest gate of the international terminal.
10:00 am Melbourne time: check in for flight. Discover that I had sliced my finger while retrieving luggage. Left a huge puddle of blood at the check-in desk. Tried to mop the blood from both arms (how did I do this?) and not look like a serial killer while going through security screening. I guess I succeeded.
10:15 am Melbourne time: boarded my plane huffing, puffing, and sweating. Discover that I was in the middle seat for a 3 1/2 hour flight. My worst nightmare in a "first-world problem"sort of way.
(I lost track of time after this). My left seatmate was a delight, but my neighbor to the right? He was a frustrated percussionist and did his Ringo Starr impersonation for the entire three hour flight. I was elbowed every few seconds. In frustration, I elbowed back and claimed the armrest. I have never done this before. VICTORY!!! As my elbow was repeatedly assaulted for the remainder of the flight, I will admit to shedding several frustrated tears. I was going to another country without any tickets for future flights. I had no cell phone or computer access to figure out where I was going. No one on earth knew where I was.
I flew Air New Zealand to Los Angeles. I was seated in a window seat (Praise God!) but my seatmate was a hyperactive mom. Her daughter in the aisle seat was very well behaved, but the mommy needed to be told to sit still. For twelve hours. T w e l v e H o u r s. And the movies didn't work. I didn't cry, but I wasn't having much fun, either.
Landing in Los Angeles and turning my phone back on? It was pure joy! I felt in control of my trip again. I still didn't have a ticket for my next flight nor did I know when/where it was taking off, but I was in the States and I knew that I would make it home eventually.
At passport control, I used an automated kiosk and it printed out a receipt with my photo on it. One should never have a photo taken 23 hours into their travel day. It wasn't pretty.
I rechecked my luggage and the kind man told me that I should go to Terminal 5 by turning right outside the door. I walked along a narrow sidewalk outside LAX under the departures platform breathing car exhaust. I had no luggage (again, Praise God!) but most other people did so I kept tripping over them until I passed Terminal 4 and entered Terminal 5.
I checked in. Finally! A ticket!!! I made it through security for the 4th time during this odyssey and discovered that my flight was actually in Terminal 6. This time I walked underground. I never minded the distance. Stretching my legs after all of those hours on a plane was glorious!
I grabbed some lunch and made it to my gate with a few hours to spare. I volunteered to give up my ticket if necessary. They would have put me in a hotel room with a bed and a shower and then flown me home in the morning. How lovely would that have been? Alas, they didn't need my ticket and I sat in my window seat (Praise God!) for the 5 hour flight home. My middle seat-mate was in a band from Mexico and the young lady in the aisle was petrified of flying. We landed in bad weather (bumpy, oh so bumpy for the last hour) so I spent the last part of the flight reaching around a sleeping musician to hold this gal's hands and talk her down. The poor thing was shaking with fright!
We landed at JFK only 10 minutes late. Whee!!!! I called my sweet hubby and told him to go to sleep and I'd be home in 2-3 hours. Oh how foolish I feel about that now. They didn't have a gate available for us so we sat on the Tarmac for a while. Eventually, we deplaned.
While waiting for our luggage in the wee hours of the morning, we were informed that the luggage ramp was closed due to a lightning storm. Of course it was! Eventually I got my luggage and got on the shuttle to the off-site parking lot.
At 2am, the shuttle got a flat tire while I was on it and we were stranded on the side of the road until another vehicle could come to take us to our cars. My shuttle mates had difficult trips with 2-3 hour delays from Orlando, San Diego, and San Francisco. 10 hour delay, starting in Australia. I win so be quiet! The replacement shuttle arrived and I think it did double duty at the Fulton Fish Market. Oh the stench! I was afraid fish juice was in the seats and would stay on my clothes. Fortunately the smell stayed in the van and didn't follow me home. After all of these hours, I smelled bad enough without reeking of fish!
I eventually got to my car and drove home slowly, first due to JFK traffic (even at 2:30 am) and then due to the heavy rains. I made it home by 4am.
HOME! Hubby was awake, wondering where I was. He helped me unload my bags and then fell back to sleep. I got some food, got a shower, and was asleep by 5am. Time elapsed between beds? 40 hours.
Woke up to my alarm at noon. Could have slept longer but needed to adjust to NY time. Did a little computer work and went back to bed at 11 pm.
Woke up today and am as right as rain. I love that I don't suffer from jetlag once I'm home. I get good sleep in my own bed and can reset my clock very quickly. It takes a few day for me to start being hungry at the right time of day again, but that's easy enough to deal with.
I will spend 10 days at home before heading out again, this time to New Hampshire. NO PLANES INVOLVED!!!!
So, that sounded a lot like whining. I didn't want to write a whiny story but I've received countless emails asking about my adventures. I relented.
These ladies were in my 2-day class. Some of them took a third day with me and some took all four. One has taken all 12 days of classes that I have taught in Australia. Such a dear!
If you want to take a class from me and live closer to me than Australia, you might find a city near you on my teaching calendar. If none of the locations/dates work so that we can meet, check out my Craftsy class. Remember, Craftsy = the place where you always win the armrest war!
After a long, Long, LONG trip home from Australia, I was tickled to open my mail and see the latest Modern Quilts Unlimited magazine.If you turn to page 22, you will see my quilt!
I do believe that this is the first quilt pattern of mine to be published in a magazine and I am tickled pink!
The pattern is called Dedication and is inspired by a Luis Sacilotto painting I visited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston during a rare day off from Quilt Festival a few years ago.
The fabulously talented Mandy Leins also has a quilt in this issue. If you are looking for a take-along hand-piecing project, check out her Strawberry Moon quilt!
Now that I'm home for a few days adjusting to the western hemisphere, I hope to quilt my copy of this quilt pattern; I always make two copies of a quilt when I test a pattern. I plan to use ribbon candy quilting (of course!). If you liked the ribbon candy quilting on my quilt in the magazine, I teach how to do that in my Craftsy Class.
I've finished all of the qiulting on block 6 of my 2014 Pat Sloan block of the month. Whee!!! I hope to finish this 2014 block of the month before the end of 2015. It's good to have goals.
I was never convinced that this plan was a good one, but I let it work itself out in time.
I think I like how those triangles turned out, after all!
I have a new Craftsy class all about free-motion quilting.
My people have an inclusive definition of "family." If you are my dad's Stepmother's sister, you are in. If you are my husband's uncle's wife's daughter, you are in.
I just made a quilt for my son's niece. If she calls him "uncle," that makes me her "great aunt," right?
I made it for my Craftsy class.
When Charlotte gets older, I'm going to quiz her and see if she can find all of the butterflies.
I just returned from packing up my classroom after my last day at AQC in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. I'm sad to see it come to an end.
So if I drink a lot of this "skinny" milk, I'll be skinny? Is that a promise?
She is an absolute delight and love the American flag fabric on the back of my samples.
I have a fairly good idea of who I should blame for these shenanigans. Cough*Gary*Cough.
If you are wondering what happened next, all I can say is "What happens in Australia stays in Australia."
So long, my Australian friends. I will think of you fondly during all 31 of my travel hours tomorrow and for weeks to come.
Ok, I lied. Traveling isn't always fun.
Early this week I flew from New York to Los Angeles to Sydney to Melbourne. That is about 25 hours of in-fight time and was 36 hours of actual door-to-door travel. Does that sound like fun?
This Tom Cruise movie was War of the Worlds meets Ground Hog's Day. I had never heard of it but it wasn't terrible.
I had heard of this movie, but I didn't really know much about it. Again, not terrible.
Another movie I had never heard of, and now I really want to read the book by P. D. James to see how the story was intended to turn out.
I've read all of the books and now I've seen the latest movie. It is interesting to see the books on screen. They are different than they were in my head, but I'm willing to see the last one.
Christian Bale as Moses. Um, no.
I have to reverse this trip on Monday and am not looking forward to that, no matter how many movies I get to watch!
These lovely folks might just make me look forward to another 50 hours on an airplane!
Life at home continues without me, though, and I am trying to keep up with it as best I can. One of my happiest notes from my real life is that my Craftsy students are posting photos of their quilting projects on the Craftsy platform. They are doing so well!
I guess it's a good thing that I have awful flights to look foward to; otherwise, I might believe that my life was too perfect!
As I've been struggling with jetlag, living 14 hours ahead of my husband, and constantly asking myself "What time is it, really?" I have had the "why do I do this to myself?" thought more than once. And then the quilt show starts and I remember why I volunteer for this abuse again and again and again.
If you can't read the writing on the tool box, it says "Touch my tools and die."
Enlarge the photo to get a close-up of her quilting. I'm totally stealing her design.
I am looking forward to my Friday class where we will rock the ribbon candy designs in class... all day long!
If you missed the cocktail party at AQC last night, you missed my grand entrance to R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. In other years they've used Born in the USA and other national tunes. It's always fun to see what music Gary picks for his international introductions.
You also missed watching me dance to Hooked on a Feeling. If you know me at all, you know that missing seeing me dance was a blessing.
Bacon-onion-tomato pizza with all ingredients fresh from the Queen Victoria Market. You missed the pizza, too.
It's amazing what can be cooked in a hotel kitchenette!
I can't wait for my first day of classes. I met up with students from previous years at the party last night and now look forward to meeting my new students!
I have a confession to make: I am addicted to Cutie Quilts. Those pretty fat-eighth packs of fabrics just drive me wild!
I used the leftover bits from this quilt. I adore Fig Tree & Co. fabrics!
If you've ever taken a class from me, you know that I love quilting with ribbon candy. This quilt is perfect for ribbon candy quilting!
I'm keeping this quilt as a working sample, but I'll probably have to pet it regularly.
If you like this quilt pattern, it is only one of the patterns I have designed for the Cutie Pattern line.
If you liked the ribbon candy quilting, I teach how to do that in my Craftsy Class.
I finally finished quilting block 6 of Pat Sloan's Globetrotting block of the month!
I like my Plan B and will keep it on my quilt. Sometimes, quilting is a process.
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Quilt of the Week -- Sweet Tooth!
Today I am on an airplane, and I do mean today. All day. I got on a plane last night and will get off the plane on Tuesday morning. Overseas travel is so glamorous. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
This is a sample from a retired quilt pattern.
This quilt is now going to live with a friend undergoing chemotherapy. I hope she feels hugged whenever she uses this quilt.


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Q: storing user input to an empty hash I'm writing a basic program. I am starting out with an empty hash, and using gets.chomp and want to store the info into the hash so that it can be recalled later (in the same session).
runs = {}
puts "how many miles did you run?"
miles = gets.chomp
puts "how long did it take you?"
time = gets.chomp

... program continues
Later I would like to have the user enter 'review' to display this (and any others that were entered) as information:
runs.each do |miles, time|
   puts "#{miles} miles in #{time} minutes."
end

I know I am missing something before/after the "gets.chomp". Any suggestions?

A: To add a key value pair to a hash, you would use runs[miles] = time.
So your code would look something like this:
runs = {}
puts "How many miles did you run?"
miles = gets.chomp
puts "How long did it take you?"
time = gets.chomp

runs[miles] = time

# When user enters `review`
runs.each do |miles, time|
    p "#{miles} miles in #{times} minutes."
end

That's not the only way to add a key/value pair to a hash, so you can look at all the methods available over in the rubydoc.

A: As your program is written, if a user ran the same distance twice (with different times) only the last result will be recorded, as a hash cannot store duplicate keys. A better way would be to store it in an array of tuples (== array with two values):
runs = []

puts "How many miles did you run?"
miles = gets.chomp
puts "How long did it take you?"
time = gets.chomp
runs << [miles, time]

# ...

runs.each do |miles, time|
   puts "#{miles} miles in #{time} minutes."
end

A: runs = Hash.new
puts "How many miles did you run?"
runs ["miles"] = gets.chomp
puts "How long did it take you?"
runs ["time"] = gets.chomp

# When user enters `review`
runs.each do |miles, time|
    p "#{miles} miles in #{times} minutes."
end

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Dream Lover: The Bobby Darin Musical is a jukebox musical based on an original concept and stage play by Frank Howson and John-Michael Howson, adapted for the stage by Frank Howson with Simon Phillips and Carolyn Burns. The musical reveals the extraordinary story of legendary singer, songwriter and actor Bobby Darin.

The original production played at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from September to November 2016. It featured David Campbell as Bobby Darin, Caroline O'Connor as Polly / Mary Douvan, Hannah Fredericksen as Sandra Dee, Bert LaBonte as Charlie, Martin Crewes as Steve Blauner, Marney McQueen as Nina, and Phoebe Panaretos as Connie Francis.  A Melbourne season, with Marina Prior replacing O'Connor, ran from December 2017 to March 2018 at the State Theatre.

Dream Lover was nominated for six 2018 Helpmann Awards including Best Musical. Campbell received the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical.

Cast recording
The Australian cast recording featuring David Campbell was released in September 2016 and peaked at number 9 on the ARIA Chart. It was nominated for an ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Recording in 2017.

Track listing
 "Dream Lover" – 2:20
 "Mack the Knife" – 3:19
 "Splish Splash" – 2:34
 "That's the Way Love Is" – 2:52
 "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" – 1:47
 "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" – 1:49
 "I've Got the World on a String" – 2:14
 "Call Me Irresponsible" – 2:37
 "Dream Lover" (duet version) – 3:08
 "Multiplication" – 1:43
 "The Best Is Yet to Come" – 2:22
 "Things" – 2:05
 "More" – 3:17
 "Beyond the Sea" – 3:00
 "If I Were a Carpenter" – 2:43
 "The Curtain Falls" – 4:19

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Release history

References

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Lara's GP insisted she had PND. But she knew she wasn't depressed. Her gut said otherwise.
Amy Clark
Senior Lifestyle Writer
Lara Huddleston almost didn't give her husband Adam a chance. They met online – she, carrying the weight of an awful previous relationship, he, divorce proceedings and two young children.
But when the 33-year-old from Adelaide walked into the Belgian Beer Cafe for their first date and saw him, she knew straight away that he was it.
"As soon as I saw him, I thought he was the most gorgeous man I'd ever seen. We had such strong chemistry, and the way he made me feel, for me, it was love at first sight," she told Mamamia.
"I drove home after that date and thought, I'm going to be with him or the rest of my life, I just knew it."
Next came their son Thomas, a beautiful, cheeky little boy with "gorgeous red hair". But bringing Thomas into the world wasn't such a beautiful experience. In hindsight, Lara believes in her gut that's when things started changing for her.
"I had a pretty rough pregnancy, I had Hyperemesis gravidarum and gestational diabetes, and then I ended up with preeclampsia. I was really, really sick," the former registered nurse said.
"And I had this unique shoulder pain unlike anything I'd ever felt in my life in my third trimester, I still get that shoulder pain now."
Lara went in for her scheduled cesarean in August, 2016, but her blood pressure was so high, it was at 'stroke' level. It was a code blue medical emergency, "everyone came running and they get my blood pressure so they could get Thomas out safely."
Thomas was underweight but healthy. As they warmed him up, Lara spent the following two nights in the ICU.
"100 per cent, I feel in my gut like the trauma of my pregnancy and birth activated the disease for me. It feels like that was the start for me," she said, reflecting on the story of how her life began to change.
After being so sick throughout her pregnancy, Lara felt healthy and fantastic for a few months after Thomas was born.
"Thomas came along and I fell in love instantly." Image: Julie Camilleri from Captured in time Photography.
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However when he was around seven or eight months old, she started having trouble getting up off the ground when she was playing with her son or changing his nappy.
"I was sitting [on the ground] with the other mums at a baby class where the kids all crawl around on the matts, and I just couldn't get up. One of the girls giggled at me and said 'oh you're really tired'. I hadn't slept well the night before, but I knew in the back of my mind, something's really wrong here."
"Increasingly, I had trouble getting up off the floor. I started tripping for no reason over nothing and that's when I started getting really worried."
A big fall while walking to work training eventually prompted Lara to go to a GP.
"I went down really hard like a tonne of bricks, I ripped my jeans, grazed everything and I couldn't get up. I didn't know if it was pure shock or something worse, now I think it was the disease.
"It was really cold in the middle of winter, but I stayed on the cement until a couple of nurses came by and helped me get up. That was really embarrassing, but I went in and did my nursing competencies anyway - that's nurses for you, even though I really didn't want to stay there, there's a thing with nursing and showing weakness, we've got to keep strong for everyone else."
But when Lara told the GP about her symptoms - "I went to a general practice where you go in with whoever they can fit you in with" - he didn't take her seriously. She was a new mum after all, new mums get tired. It was probably just a bit of post natal depression (PND), he said.
"He said, 'oh young mums can be really tired and it takes a lot out of you, your husband isn't home to help so you're probably overtired.' He asked if I was depressed. I said no. He smirked at me and said, 'do you feel like taking your own life?' I said 'no, of course not'. He still gave me a prescription for anti-depressants, even though I said I didn't want to take them. I never got the prescription filled."
"I didn't feel depressed, I never once felt depressed. I felt lonely because my husband was away for work, and overwhelmed because I was on my own to figure out things like when you're a new mum - what does that mean, am I doing everything right? I felt overwhelmed, not depressed, there's a big difference between the two.
"But I was really annoyed, especially being a nurse, because I knew that it wasn't PND. I'd had a spout of depression when my dad died and I know what depression feels like, and that was not depression. There was something wrong.
"They're my whole world, that's my biggest fear is leaving them because they're my everything." Image: Supplied.
"He didn't check me out physically, he just put me in a box because I was a new mum and my husband was away. I said I wasn't depressed but he didn't believe me. He tried to convince me that I had PND, he wouldn't listen to me. Every time I said I wasn't depressed, he just smirked at me. It was awful. If I hadn't have had depression before, I definitely would have thought I was clinically depressed, taken the anti-depressants and probably been worse off, sitting here undiagnosed.
"He planted a tiny seed of doubt in my head that, maybe I'm so tired and that's why I keep tripping. But that seed of doubt made me wait a few weeks before going back to another doctor. He gave me a month of self-doubt."
Lara went and saw another GP a month after that horrible experience. The doctor listened.
"I sat in her chair and I said, I think I have a motor neuron disease. She basically fell off her chair but she believed me from the start," Lara said.
"She checked me out and did the reflex test where they bang your knees, and my right leg didn't move at all. She said 'this is really, really bad' and got me into a neurologist straight away. I was diagnosed in two weeks. If it wasn't for her, who knows if I'd even be diagnosed right now."
Lara was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a type of Motor Neurone Disease (MND). The disease runs in her family and has a low life expectancy - her father died from the same inherited disease when she was a teenager, three years after diagnosis, her aunt and grandmother lasted just two.
Patients with MND lose the ability to control the muscles that allow us to move, speak, breathe and swallow, and over time their muscles gradually weaken and waste. Symptoms include stumbling, leg weakness, difficulty holding objects, muscle craps and twitches, and slurring of speech or difficulty swallowing.
Each day in Australia two people are diagnosed with MND, MND Australia reports. And each day, two people are taken by the disease.
Lara said her doctor's early diagnosis bought her and her family time. Time to go on a beautiful family trip to South Australia's Kangaroo Island. Time to walk down the aisle on her wedding day in December last year.
"As soon as I got diagnosed, [Adam and I] planned our wedding straight away. It was going to be this May, but we didn't want to wait, and I didn't want go down the aisle with a frame or a walking stick. We only got married, on our terms, because of my diagnosis."
"Being able to walk down the aisle meant so much to me, I'm a very proud person and not being able to would've really upset me. I just wanted to be a normal person on my wedding day and not look like a 'disabled bride'. I just wanted to be a bride."
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Lara wakes up every morning in pain. Her muscles are sore, her body fatigued. She feels like she could stay in bed all day. She said that tiredness never goes away. You never feel normal.
"It's really, really hard. I'm still able to walk for short distances but mostly I'm in a wheelchair now. My legs are really bad at the moment, I've fallen four times this week. And when you fall it really hurts because there's no muscles, my right leg is a wasteland. Now it's started in my left leg and my right arm - I can't lift a kettle, I can't lift my son or take the rubbish out. A month or two ago I walked to the letterbox, there's a tiny incline, and I got so puffed out I almost fell. Putting on the washing makes me worn out."
"My husband helps so much, but he works 15 hour days so sometimes I'm on my own with Thomas for that long, it's really exhausting keeping up with a toddler who's 20 months old and wants to explore and run, and I can't.
"I feel very guilty because I can't take him anywhere. I feel guilty I can't do the normal things like taking your kid to kinder gym or playgroup but I feel like I'm doing the best I can. I'm trying to make the best memories I can with my beautiful little boy, so basically I just forget everything and just focus on him. I think life's too short to care about putting a load of washing on."
Lara knows what it's like 'at the end' when you have ALS because she watched her father go through it. The last bit is really yucky, she said, stuck in a paralysed body, only able to move your eyes.
"Getting to that point will be absolutely devastating. I'm scared, I saw my dad go through it and it's awful. I would've loved to have had another child as well, that was always on the cards for us, but I feel so grateful having what I have. I look at my husband and I'm so in love with him, and I look at Thomas and I'm so proud of him."
"So look, I just hope to last as long as I can in a form where I can spend as much time with my husband and son and just love them. Even if I'm in a wheelchair full time, which I don't think will be too far off, I'll still able to interact with my family. As a unit, we adore each other."
Lara and her family started a GoFundMe page to raise money for medical costs and equipment, and a van for the electric wheelchair. But more than that, it's about buying time and memories with her young family. Lara would love to use that van to take her husband and son travelling. "Nowhere exotic," she said. But she'd love to drive up to Uluru and Darwin, and explore places in Australia she hasn't seen yet. To experience them together.
"They're my whole world, that's my biggest fear is leaving them because they're my everything. Adam is the love of my life, as soon as I met him, I knew that's my man, and then Thomas came along and I fell in love instantly."
"I felt like I had the perfect family and now this disease is trying to take that away from me. At the same time, I'm fighting with every inch of my body because I don't want it to win. I don't want it to beat me. I want to live the fullest life I can. I don't want to waste a moment."
To support Lara and her family in making the most of the time they have together, please donate via the Lara Huddleston GoFundMe page. You can also find out more information on ALS and MND on the MND Australia website.
If you or someone you know is experiencing mental illness of post natal depression, please seek professional medical help or contact PANDA on 1300 726 306, Lifeline on 12 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636. If you are in immediate danger, call 000.
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Even behind bars, serial killer Harvey Day Smith exudes menace. Psychologist Jolene Granger has agreed to hear his dying confession, vowing not to let the monster inside her head. And Harvey has secrets to share—about bodies that were never found, and about the apprentice who is continuing his grisly work. . .
Saturday, April 6, 11:00 a.m.
If Texas Ranger Brody Winchester had come to see Dr. Jolene Granger on personal business, he'd have come with hat in hand. He'd have been ready to eat a heaping helping of humble pie, or better yet, crow.
But this visit wasn't personal. He'd not come to apologize or to make amends. He had no intentions of digging up the past or rubbing salt in old wounds. This. Was. Business.
He parked the black Bronco in the recreation center's parking lot and shoved out a breath. He reached for his white Stetson on the passenger's seat, took a moment to level the silver Concho trimming on the hat's base before setting it squarely on his head. He stepped out of the vehicle, straightened his shoulders and eyed the large box-shaped building. The sign above the double glass doors read:AUSTIN ROCK CLIMBING GYM.
As he stared up at the sign, he wondered if the boys back at headquarters were having a good laugh at the new transfer's expense. The Jo Granger he'd known hated heights and if anyone had bet him she hung out in a place like this, he'd have taken the bet, damn sure he'd win.
'Course, he'd not been face-to-face with Jo in fourteen years. And time changed plenty.
Dr. Jolene Granger was no longer a wide-eyed college student but a psychologist who consulted with the Texas Rangers. In fact, her expertise on violent behavior had landed her several television interviews last year when the reporter had been digging for the motivations driving a serial killer that had hunted along I-35.
He'd seen on television that she'd given up the peasant skirts and flip-flops in favor of dark suits, pencil skirts and a tight bun. Always wore white pearls around her neck. Reminded him of a librarian he'd had in school as a kid. Cool. Controlled. Hot.
Yeah, she'd changed in fourteen years. Maybe heights didn't bother her anymore.
A couple of laughing teens wearing shorts and carrying gym bags raced past him through the front door. He trailed behind them, finding himself in an industrial-style lobby tricked out with a cement floor, solid crate furniture and soda machines. He moved toward a long narrow reception desk where a young guy was texting. Dark hair swept over a thin pale face and tattoos covered every bit of skin exposed below his white T-shirt cuff.
If Brody had been in a more charitable mood, he'd let the kid finish his nonsense communication, which likely had to do with gossip or a party. But a foul and dark disposition sapped all patience.
Jo had always coaxed this kind of loyalty out of folks. Kind, smart as a whip, she drew people. The kid was no different and Brody gave him props for standing up to him.
He softened his scowl. "Dr. Granger isn't in trouble. But my business is official. If you don't mind, I need for you to get back behind that counter and take care of your own business." He took a step toward the kid who hustled back behind the counter.
As Brody turned toward the main gym he imagined the boy on his cell again, texting his friends as fast as his thin fingers could move.
In the main gym, Brody was greeted by the smells of sweat and freshly polyurethane-coated floors. The walls were covered with gray rocklike facings that jutted and curved as a rock ledge might. Dispersed over the wall were colored footholds and handholds, some large and others so small he wondered how his large hands could maintain a grip.
A collection of climbers scaled the walls from the floor to ceiling. Belayers stood at the bottom feeding climbers their safety ropes. A young blond girl scaled the wall as if she were part monkey. A couple of guys in their mid-twenties moved between the rock ledges with a power and grace he admired. He couldn't imagine that fourteen years had changed Jo so much that she now enjoyed this kind of foolishness.
The shouts and giggles of a group of girls in a side room drew him. The ten girls, who looked to be between fourteen and sixteen, stood at the base of a tall rock wall. Several were pregnant and most had tattoos and piercings. Young, but he imagined they all had a lifetime of experiences already under their belts.
There was no whiff of anger or sorrow radiating off anyone. They were cheering, like kids their age should. His gaze trailed theirs to a woman racing a male climber to the top of the rock wall toward a bell.
He'd found Dr. Jolene Granger.
Brody stood behind the students, rested his hands on his hips and shifted his gaze from the male climber to the woman. Her chalked fingers clung to slivers of manufactured rock while her feet perched on similar pieces. Tight black pants and a white fitted spandex top molded a trim athletic body. Long red hair bound into a ponytail swept across her muscled back as she scrambled haphazardly from rock to rock. Jo? He looked closer.
Damn, if it wasn't her.
The girls laughed, shaking heads and pointing to each other. None fessed up to having any doubts about her.
A rumble of laughter and whispers rolled through the teens. "Yes!" they shouted.
The male climber rang the bell. He regarded Jo, his good-natured appreciation clear as he nodded his concession.
Brody assessed the man, wondering if Jo had really beaten him or if he had held back to win points with Jo. If he had to wager, he'd put his chips on the latter.
"Doug buys ice cream for everyone!" Jo said.
Brody crossed his arms over his chest, taking inventory of her high cheekbones, pale complexion and full lips. She was more relaxed, and a hell of a lot hotter than the grim woman he'd seen on television last year.
As if she'd read his mind, her gaze shifted from the kids to him. For a moment she stared at him, as if she couldn't believe her eyes. He made a point not to blink or show the faintest sign of curiosity for this new version of Dr. Granger.
Shaking off her surprise, she moved to climb down the wall but missed her handhold and, in a blink, fell. The girls squealed. Brody tensed, moving toward the crowd, ready to shove his way toward the wall's base. But the rope tightened, halted her fall and the bilayer held tight.
Jo immediately grabbed for another rock and swung herself back into position on the wall. For an instant, she didn't move.
"You okay, Jo?" Doug said.
She moved through the crowd of girls. Several stopped and asked her again if she was okay. She assured them all she was fine. Her back was straight and her gaze direct as she finally cut through the crowd and closed the distance between them.
Wisps of hair framed her face, which had grown more angular over the years. Though she'd always been slim, her body now was trim and nicely muscular. No hint of apology softened green eyes now as sharp as emeralds. The years had been good to her. And he was real glad. The last time he'd seen her she'd been…broken.
"Are you getting arrested?" one shouted.
"No, ma'am." He spoke loud enough for all to hear.
He'd been a Texas Department of Public Safety officer when he'd collared Smith. But the arrest had been the coup that earned him his Ranger's star. The Texas Rangers were an elite group of one hundred and forty-four men and women in the Department of Public Safety.
Brody's jaw tightened and released. He'd used every trick in the book to get Smith to open up but endless hours of interviews had been a waste. Smith had taken pleasure in jerking his chain.
She dropped her gaze to the ground, shaking her head.
— RT Book Reviews, 4 stars on NO ESCAPE.
"Mary Burton embraces the dark side of humanity . . . engrossing . . . a chilling thriller . . .a climax that is terrifying . . .excellent entertainment." — Long and Short Reviews on NO ESCAPE.
Burton always writes great, edgy suspense, and this book is no different. Pages will fly by as the danger around Jolene and Brody increase!" — The Parkersburg News & Sentinel on NO ESCAPE.


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Языкова́я карти́на ми́ра — исторически сложившаяся в обыденном сознании данного языкового коллектива и отражённая в языке совокупность представлений о мире, определённый способ восприятия и устройства мира, концептуализации действительности. Считается, что каждому естественному языку соответствует уникальная языковая картина мира. Термин «наивная картина мира» у Ю. Д. Апресяна является аналогом этого понятия, так как наивные знания (наивная геометрия, наивная физика пространства и времени и т. п.) извлекаются именно из единиц языка. Это же понятие  обозначил термином .

История понятия
Понятие языковой картины мира восходит, с одной стороны, к идеям В. фон Гумбольдта и неогумбольдтианцев (Л. Вайсгербер и др.) о внутренней форме языка, а с другой стороны — к идеям американской этнолингвистики, в частности, так называемой гипотезе лингвистической относительности Сепира-Уорфа.

Понятие «языковая картина мира» было введено в научную терминологическую систему Л. Вайсгербером. Основными характеристиками языковой картины мира, которыми её наделяет автор, являются следующие:
 языковая картина мира — это система всех возможных содержаний: духовных, определяющих своеобразие культуры и менталитета данной языковой общности, и языковых, обусловливающих существование и функционирование самого языка;
 языковая картина мира, с одной стороны, есть следствие исторического развития этноса и языка, а с другой стороны, является причиной своеобразного пути их дальнейшего развития;
 языковая картина мира чётко структурирована и в языковом выражении является многоуровневой. Она определяет особый набор звуков и звуковых сочетаний, особенности строения артикуляционного аппарата носителей языка, просодические характеристики речи, словарный состав, словообразовательные возможности языка и синтаксис словосочетаний и предложений, а также паремиологический багаж;
 языковая картина мира изменчива во времени;
 языковая картина мира создает однородность языковой сущности, способствуя закреплению языкового и культурного своеобразия в видении мира и его обозначения средствами языка;
 языковая картина мира существует в однородном своеобразном самосознании языковой общности и передается последующим поколениям через мировоззрение, правила поведения, образ жизни, запечатлённые средствами языка;
 картина мира какого-либо языка является его преобразующей силой, формирующей представление об окружающем мире через язык как «промежуточный мир» у носителей этого языка;
 языковая картина мира конкретной языковой общности — это её общекультурное достояние.

Современный статус
В последние годы языковая картина мира стала одной из наиболее актуальных тем российского языкознания.

Языковую картину мира определяют следующим образом:
 представление о действительности, отраженное в языковых знаках и их значениях — языковое членение мира, языковое упорядочение предметов и явлений, заложенная в системных значениях слов информация о мире;
 результат отражения объективного мира обыденным (языковым) сознанием того или иного языкового сообщества.

Утверждается, что совокупность представлений о мире, заключённых в значении разных слов и выражений данного языка, складывается в некую единую систему взглядов, или предписаний (например, хорошо, если другие люди знают, что человек чувствует), и навязывается в качестве обязательной всем носителям языка, потому что представления, формирующие картину мира, входят в значения слов в неявном виде. Пользуясь словами, содержащими неявные смыслы, человек, сам того не замечая, принимает и заключённый в них взгляд на мир. Напротив, те смысловые компоненты, которые входят в значение слов и выражений в форме непосредственных утверждений, могут быть предметом спора между разными носителями языка и тем самым не входят в тот общий фонд представлений, который формирует языковую картину мира. Так, из русской пословицы Любовь зла, полюбишь и козла нельзя сделать никаких выводов о месте любви в русской языковой картине мира: можно говорить лишь о том, что козёл предстает в ней как малосимпатичное существо.

Согласно О. А. Корнилову, в современной лингвистике можно выделить два подхода к языковой картине мира: «объективистский» и «субъективистский». Первый из них предполагает, что при образовании картины мира язык выступает не демиургом этой картины, а лишь формой выражения понятийного (мыслительно-абстрактного) содержания, добытого человеком в процессе своей деятельности (теории и практики). Таким образом, языковая картина мира «привязывается» к объективному миру через постулирование её стремления максимально точно, адекватно отразить объективную реальность.

Согласно второму, «субъективистскому» подходу, языковая картина мира — это отражённый в языке вторичный мир, являющийся результатом преломления в человеческом сознании объективного мира. Обыденный язык творит языковую картину мира, в которой отражаются и фиксируются не только знания о мире, но и заблуждения, ощущения относительно мира, его оценки, фантазии и мечты о мире. Такое понимание сущности языковой картины мира не требует от неё объективности.

По мнению В. Н. Телия, языковая картина мира — это неизбежный для мыслительно-языковой деятельности продукт сознания, возникающий в результате взаимодействия мышления, действительности и языка как средства выражения мыслей о мире в актах коммуникации. Метафора является одним из наиболее продуктивных средств формирования вторичных наименований в создании языковой картины мира.

Отмечается, что языковая картина мира отражает состояния восприятия действительности, сложившиеся в прошлые периоды развития языка в обществе. Вместе с тем языковая картина мира изменяется со временем, и её изменения — это отражение изменяющегося мира, появление новых реалий, а не стремление к идентичности с научной картиной мира.

Типология языковых картин мира
Языковая картина мира вообще является абстракцией. Реально существуют и могут анализироваться лишь языковые картины мира конкретных национальных языков — национальные языковые картины мира.

Результатом отражения объективного мира обыденным (языковым) сознанием отдельного человека является индивидуальная национальная картина мира. Также общенациональной языковой картине мира противопоставляются языковые картины мира, ограниченные социальной сферой — территориально (диалекты, говоры) и профессионально (подъязыки наук и ремесел).

См. также
 Картина мира
 Научная картина мира
 Неогумбольдтианство
 Лингвокультурология
 Этнолингвистика

Примечания

Литература

 Корнилов О. А. Языковые картины мира как производные национальных менталитетов. — М., 2002.
 Новикова Н. С., Черемисина Н. В. Многомирие в реалии и общая типология языковых картин мира // Филологические науки. — 2000. — № 1. — С. 40-49.

Ссылки
 Анна Зализняк, Ирина Левонтина, Алексей Шмелев. Ключевые идеи русской языковой картины мира
 Воротников Ю. Л. «Языковая картина мира»: трактовка понятия
 Содержание понятия языковая картина мира в лингвистике
 В. Н. Телия Метафоризация и её роль в создании языковой картины мира
 Ольга Андреева. Картина мира, нарисованная языком // Русский репортёр, № 44 (74), 20 ноября 2008 г.
 Л. М. Бондарева. К проблеме языковой картины мира в немецкой лингвистике
 А. Б. Михалев. Слои языковой картины мира

Лингвистика


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Hans Cleuver, Focus' first drummer, passed away. A conversation
In 2017 Gary, Mark and Wo. embarked on what turns out to be a series of conversation on music. Always jumping from topic to topic. One started on Focus (read on here: http://wonomagazine.blogspot.nl/2017/03/lets-focus-thoughts-on-band-focus.html). Yesterday (6-3) news came that Focus' first drummer passed away. You will find that this sad fact led to many other bands and occasions.
Gary, 7-3-2018
I was sent this by Focus:
"Hans Cleuver , the first drummer of Focus, passed away. We owe him a lot, concerning his inspiring work for the group, both musically and in organising the very first gigs in Amsterdam! Our thoughts are with his wife and children."
Thijs van Leer, on behalf of all members of Focus
Mark, 8-3-2018:
Thanks. He's not the drummer on Moving Waves so I looked up the Wikipedia history of the band. Hans Cleuver was a life-long close friend of Thijs but after the first album "In and Out of Focus" as we know it (have you got that, Wout?), Jan Akkerman wanted him out and his mate Peter Van Der Linden in on the skins. So a mighty prolonged rift in the band ensued with Jan's man winning out in the end - and hit the big time when Moving Waves took the world by storm (after Focus appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test music programme on British TV - the only one that took popular music seriously - all of Polydor's record plants had to switch their entire production to churning out round the clock enough Moving Waves to meet the demand).
So it seems Hans's life story is similar to that of the hapless Pete Best though cruelly no-one wanted to take Pete's side in the Beatles case, only his female fans at The Cavern one of whom legend has it gave George a black eye for sacking their handsome first drummer with the un-fab quiff (after his own band fizzled out in the mid-sixties Pete ended up being a civil servant for a Liverpool office of the Dept of Employment, Gary!). Only when the first Anthology album came out in 1995 with Pete on drums on the pre-EMI recordings did he make any significant money out of his association with the Fab Three. Hans, however, seems to have kept his hand more securely in the music business and later teamed up with Thijs again so I guess he never felt he was as big a loser as Pete.
I met up with Pete Best's brother in Liverpool a few years ago. He was doing tours of the Casbah Club (by appointment) which was run by their mother Mona Best and is where the Silver Beatles as they were then called first played regularly. John and Paul helped out with decorating some of the walls and miraculously their arty handiwork with paint brushes has survived after all these years. You could say the remarkable Beatles story started in that cramped suburban club rather than at the legendary Cavern and like Hans in the history of Focus, Pete was a key player in The Beatles' formative years. However, his fussy and noisy drumming on the earliest recording of Love Me Do is horrendous compared to Ringo's simpler style (even if George Martin didn't like the latter and got a session musician called Andy White to replace Ringo for the original Parlophone single version. White passed away in 2015 by the way, aged 85).
(I know: hou je mond, shut up Mark, you're rambling on about the Fab Four again). Unlike last year's Strawberry Fields remaster, there are no Beatles records on this year's Record Store Day list just out: see http://www.nme.com/news/music/record-store-day-2018-releases-2255889 Nor any Focus - but hey guess what! There is a double album of Shocking Blue's singles! How about that for premonition on our part?! I think I might be tempted by the Curved Air pioneering picture disc re-issue of Air Conditioning. - and the 12" demo of Bowie's Let's Dance...and the "early mix" of Lazy Sunday Afternoon. I see there is also a picture disc version of Tormato, Gary.
I thought Led Zep didn't release singles! RSD is on 21 April so start saving the pennies.....and cents!
Close your eyes and drift away.......
Gary: 8-3-2018
Fascinating story about Pete Best, most of which I did not know about…. I know only to well that feeling of leaving the music scene to get a job in a Dole Office, Pete has my deepest sympathies! In the drumming world you either like Ringo or (like George Martin) not… similar to whether you like Charlie Watts or not…. I was neither a fan of Ringo or Charlie's style of drumming.
Yes, the personal dynamics within Focus were pretty volatile, especially between van Lear and Ackerman although the decision to replace Hans Cleuver with Pierre van der Linden (Peter Van Der Linden is I think the Dutch Technologist who I once saw at a conference in London some years ago?) was the right one as he is a truly amazing drummer! He, like Carl Palmer, was heavily influenced by Buddy Rich and so technique is of the highest importance…. Although van der Linden was Ackermans friend he still plays (as you say) for Thijs van Lear's version of Focus to this day!
I saw Curved Air at the Mick Jagger Centre last year, Sonja Kristina looks and sounds absolutely amazing for her age (68)…. There seems to be something of a youthfulness for our generation that wasn't there for our father's time at our age… not sure what it is? Most of the 70s bands are producing reissues (especially on vinyl) and seem to be making a good income from it to supplement the pension! I get e-mails from Yes advising me of reissues and remasters 6 months in advance although the price they ask is somewhat daunting at times. Prog magazine is also a good source of upcoming new and reissues: http://teamrock.com/prog.
Led Zeppelin on yellow vinyl!!!! Also maybe worth considering saving pennies for Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin which is the first and only official illustrated book to be produced in collaboration with the members of the band. Celebrating 50 years since their formation. Published by @ReelArtPress due October this year? And if you can afford it Zeppelin is releasing a 'Deluxe Box' in March of the live 'How The West Was Won' which was recorded at the Forum in Los Angeles…. Not enough money to buy everything though on a Civil Service pension!!!!
Wo., 8-3-2018
Good morning, gentlemen.
The news about Focus' first drummer has passed the Netherlands by it seems. To be honest I had never heard of the man. To me it seems like Pierre van der Linden was Focus' only drummer that mattered. He played with Akkerman before in Brainbox (and in the very early 60s in Johnny and his Cellar Rockers). You should listen to the band's first single 'Down Man' (listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJWLVYK9zk4). Kaz Lux is the singer. He worked with Akkerman again in the mid-70s for a few duo albums. 'Down Man's lyrics may not be the best English, the song is fabulous. It even made the U.S. charts at the time.
BTW, I have got the two Focus albums second hand in the spring of last year. The second one an issue from before it got to be called 'Moving Waves', just 'Focus II'. Great records that I truly enjoy. I also got the greatest hits of Kayak (mach I), another sympho rock band from NL. The first band I got to see live at high school. Several of its singles still stand out. And, Shocking Blue? What can I say? At least Sweetwood is finally close to nailing 'Send Me A Postcard'. The drummer has got the break. The bass player may still be grumbling about the complexity of the verses but is getting there.
What our conversation on Focus has done for me, is that I have started to listen to several bands (again) and found that the quality of music coming from this country in the late 60s and early to mid 70s was extremely good.
After Focus Van der Linden played drums in a trio with Rick van der Linden, a second cousin, then ex-Ekseption and Jaap van Eik called Trace, a mix of jazz rock and classical. I haven't played that album for ages. So am about to do so soon.
Led Zeppelin released several singles here in NL. I think they charted four times. 'Good Times Bad Times', 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Immigrant Song' and 'Black Dog'. The second one was their biggest hit over here. One day in early 1970 I went out with my hard saved up nickels and dimes to buy 'Whole Lotta Love' in the little village we had recently moved to. They had never heard of the song, so I came home with 'Marie Jolie' by Aphrodite's Child instead. Talking about missing a piece of history. Although I really liked that band's singles at the time.
Personally I pass the RSD by most of the years. The prices are near horrendous and usually for something I already own in some form. So I decided to save up for something I do not have. I can't tell about the international origins of RSD, but I have read that the daughter of a local retailer, who since starting in Leiden in the 90s branched out over the country, yes, against all odds, started the initiative as a school assignment that got a bit out of hand. His shop in Leiden has only grown bigger through the years. No longer living there I noticed recently that both remaining record shops have had an overhaul making them look a lot better. So they must be making money.
On Ringo Starr. I know he is not rated highly as a drummer and wasn't even when he was at his Beatles heights. Yet, listening to the songs, many of his contributions stand out as something special. Nothing flashy, just setting a totally different sound than many other drummers would have come up with, I think. That is a very special place to be in. And Charlie? I think he's totally unimaginative and has no ego to speak of. So he plays just what needs to played without a single extra anything. Creating the tight sound the Stones usually have. All that it needs probably. I was at the Django Django show yesterday and Franz Ferdinand on Sunday. Here the drummers are fabulous, playing all these strange rhythms, keeping me wondering: how do you do that?
So here's a link to the present, gentlemen, where some fantastic music is being made by bands like this. Both bands' latest 2018 efforts, 'Marble Skies' and 'Always Ascending' are stellar records.
I checked up on Hans Cleuver on Wikipedia. He remained manager of Focus until 1980, and started a drum academy in Utrecht. His daughter Emilie was part of a 100% percussion outfit called Slagerij Van Kampen. The name is a pun on butcher (slager) and hitting (slag).
Cleuver was married to Bojoura, a Dutch hippie singer, who scored several hits in the late 60s and early 70s. George Kooymans of Golden Earring, then Golden Earrings, wrote several songs for her, but her hits were mostly covers, e.g. 'Frank Mills' from 'Hair' and 'The Letter'. Kooymans had received singing lessons from Bojoura's mother, who was a Bulgarian soprano. The song I remember best is 'If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium', a song I heard somewhere not too long ago.
Just a little background with thanks to Wikipedia.
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--drop proc sspBatchDPU  -- Daily Paying User
create proc sspBatchDPU
as
set nocount on
declare @TodayDT datetimeoffset(7)
declare @CurrentDT datetimeoffset(7)
declare @nowdt datetime
declare @DPU bigint

set @nowdt = (select getutcdate())
set @TodayDT = ((SELECT DATETIMEFROMPARTS (DATEPART(year, @nowdt), DATEPART(month,@nowdt), DATEPART(day, @nowdt), 0, 0, 0, 0 )))
set @CurrentDT = ((SELECT DATETIMEFROMPARTS (DATEPART(year, @nowdt), DATEPART(month,@nowdt), DATEPART(day, @nowdt), DATEPART(hour, @nowdt), 0, 0, 0 )))

set @DPU = (select count(*) from MemberItemPurchases where PurchaseDT between @TodayDT and @CurrentDT AND PurchaseCancelYN like 'N')
insert into StatsData(CategoryName, CountNum, Fields, Groups) values('DPU', @DPU, CONVERT(nvarchar(8), GETUTCDATE(), 112), '')
GO

------------------------------------------------------------------
-- run test
--exec sspBatchDPU
------------------------------------------------------------------

/*
select * from StatsData order by createdat desc
select * from Members
select * from MemberItemPurchases
select count(*) from MemberItemPurchases where PurchaseDT between '2016-05-15 15:00:03.1749825 +00:00' and sysutcdatetime()

-- test data value
update Members set LastLoginDT = sysutcdatetime() where memberid like 'bbb'
update Members set LastLoginDT = sysutcdatetime() where memberid like 'ccc'
update Members set LastLoginDT = sysutcdatetime() where memberid like 'ddd'

select sysutcdatetime()
select dateadd(day, -1, sysutcdatetime())
select CONVERT(nvarchar(20), getutcdate(), 112)

declare @nowdt datetime
set @nowdt = (select getutcdate())
SELECT DATEPART(year, @nowdt) + '-' + DATEPART(month,@nowdt) + '-' +  DATEPART(day, @nowdt);
SELECT convert(datetime, getutcdate(), 121) -- yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.mmm

--test payNumber
declare @nowdt datetime
declare @CurrentDT datetimeoffset(7)
declare @testdt datetimeoffset(7)

set @nowdt = (select getutcdate())
set @CurrentDT = ((SELECT DATETIMEFROMPARTS (DATEPART(year, @nowdt), DATEPART(month,@nowdt), DATEPART(day, @nowdt), DATEPART(hour, @nowdt), 0, 0,0 )))
set @testdt = (dateadd(hour, -14, @CurrentDT))

update MemberItemPurchases set PurchaseDT = @testdt where memberid like 'ccc'
exec sspBatchDPU
select * from StatsData where CategoryName like 'DPU' order by createdat desc
select * from MemberItemPurchases
*/

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: How can I calculate successive elements in a database using Rails? Is there a way I can query the database to return only the elements that have happened successively (in time) according to a set variable?
Specifically, I need to find out how many times the user has won a game in a row. The games are stored in the database with an attribute win_loss (1 is win, 0 is loss).
I would like to see if the user has won 3 games in a row. Is there a way to do this in the database?
If not, what would it look like in the application?
I apologize ahead of time if this is confusing. Please ask questions and I will try to clear it up. I'm using Ruby on Rails.

A: I would take different approach. I would add a column consecutive_wins into your User model (negative numbers could represent consecutive losses if you need that as well).
EDIT: if you really need to query it...
Two queries:

*

*select the newest victory and newest loose for given user (could be done in one query, in SQL SELECT max(created_at) AS newest, win_loss FROM games GROUP BY win_loss (I can't recall how to do grouping functions in Rails right now but you should get the idea)

*and then, regarding the result of query (1):

*

*if both newest win and newest lose are found, count the games with condition that created_at > newest_win AND created_at > newest_lose

*if only newest win or lose found, user was always wining or always loosing, just count the number of his games

*in other case there were no games

I recommend adding the column to user model, it will be better when you need to display the whole table of gamers and their consecutive wins/loses.