This article provides you with a glimpse inside Volume IV of my 25-year Handmade Book Series. Every year I take a lot of the art I've done, write about it, and turn the adventure into a book. Within the following paragraphs is a snippet of how the fourth volume of the 25-year Handmade Book series is coming along. This is the fourth year of the all-encompassing project. The subject was obvious: 4 seasons, perfect, as my primary mode of painting is plein air.
It would've been lovely if I'd had a peaceful existence of spending my work hours in the great outdoors! But, packing the French easel as I head for the door, a variety of things stop me. From a strongly recommended stay in a sleep lab, to parents having scary illnesses, to our failing dog… life happens. To get my work done I had to have a vision, a plan to navigate through the daily obstacles: being diagnosed with sleep apnea, migraines, weekly veterinarian appointments, interspersed with the carpet cleaner. My writing gets done in 500 word chunks at 5 AM. As I try to sleep, I envision the painting series I plan to do, so that when it actually happens it all flows like a déjà vu.
The Treetop series of nine paintings (3 small, 3 medium, and 3 large) were done in layers. I used a paint sprayer for the very smooth background of sky, made up of about eight layers from palest lavender to deep cerulean. When I finished with the acrylic under-coats, I moved onto oils and placed the first layers of branches across the three canvases. The triptychs were worked on simultaneously. With ever-present interruptions, completing a segment gives a certain sense of satisfaction, rather than insanity. For instance, when I had to fly up to New York City in a moments notice, this series was easy to pick up where I had left off.
A fellow Womancraft member asked me to join her in an exhibit in the Highlight Gallery. Having just finished the Treetop series, this sounded like a good opportunity to focus on smaller spring paintings.
The spring images fell into four series: Irises on reclaimed wood, New Green (representing new leaves), Rooftops (mini relatives to the Treetop series), and the fourth is Spring Alive (which are small oils on boomerang panel with a vibrant orange under-painting, making them very alive!) There are twenty-five pieces in all. With summer visitors streaming in, a fundraiser that falls on my skinny shoulders, and then torrential rains, it's a contest as to which keeps me from the plein air painting I'd planned to do for Volume IV of the 25-year Handmade Book series. Currently I envision being at the Eno River finally to do my illustration for Shelly Hehenberger's RIVER book project. This past week, Womancraft flooded, as if a river had come through the store , not the kind of waterway I had planned to paint for the RIVER book. Being stuck inside due to the rains has shaped my 4th book of the series.
At the reuse store, Scrap Exchange, I found a large roll of white paper. Back at my studio I tested it for acidity. Happily it was neutral so it could be used as the primary base for this new book structure which I'd created before in my insomniac meanderings. With my foster cats sitting on either side of me, I rolled the paper out to 7 foot lengths of 18 strips and then cut them further to be 10 inches wide each, making enough for 54 books. These I basted on one side with a muted mustard shade and the other side I splattered with slate grey. Once dry, I folded the 10" x 84" tinted strips of paper into 6" x 6" book-blocks with 12 pockets. Then they are sewn with front and end pages, then later content and covers are added.
I hope this essay has shed some insight into what the 25-year Handmade Book series is about and my process. Now, you might ask what are boomerang panels? You can find this out by visiting my open studio during the Orange County Studio Tour!
To see more of Emily's work visit her website. Another note of interest: Weinstein volunteers with the Independent Animal Rescue, and has been busy gathering the works of various artists for their upcoming fundraising event, The Painted Chair and More Auction. Eight other OCAG members will take part in this signature event. This includes Shelly Hehenberger, Dale Morgan, Trudy Thomson, Louise Francke, Martha Petty, Emily Lees, Ann Matrone and Miriam Sagasti.
We own several of Emily's paintings (some commissioned) and books. We love that she frequently donates a percentage of her proceeds to various non-profits. She does great work.
I first met Emily at one of the Durham art events several years before I joined OCAG. I was struck by her creation of books and by her animal paintings. I find the 25-year Handmade Book series to be amazing! Imagine making a series of books BY HAND! EACH YEAR!for a quarter of a century.
Emily's landscapes are beautiful renditions of her own garden and yard. When I visited her studio and saw some of her work, it was like déja vu — I has just walked through the same scenes.
Emily finds time to put her heart and soul into the Independent Animal Rescue. I am proud to be a contributor to their annual auction benefiting cats and dogs who would otherwise be homeless or worse.


There are a couple of things that make Pennsylvanians unique among Americans. The first: we tend to stay put. If we do leave, we tend to come back, if only after retirement. Both sets of my grandparents, for example, relocated to New Jersey for their jobs, but moved back to Pennsylvania after they retired.
The paramount theme in analyzing the mobility of Pennsylvanians is their reluctance to move, however long or short the distance. Such relative immobility is most sharply illustrated by the fact that 84.5% of the state's residents in 1980 were born in Pennsylvania, a figure well above the comparable values for other states. Such uniqueness persists as we examine movements within the state, local moves within a neighborhood, city, or county and moves from county to county within Pennsylvania. Such attachment to home and locality is not attributable to the usual economic factors, since it seems to prevail during economically slack periods as well as in more fortunate times. The only logical explanation would seem to lie in the nature of the regional culture, in some traditional inclinations, whether conscious or not, to remain amidst familiar surroundings.
How do we account for this apparent lack of self-knowledge or interest, so different from the insistent awareness of Southernness or New Englandness elsewhere? The failure to appreciate the regional personality of the PCA [Pennsylvania Cultural Area] (aside from its barns and Mennonites) stems largely, I suspect, from its sheer middleness. … [M]uch that was to become national and 'mainstream' later is found in the PCA, too prosaic and too normal to stir up comment.
In other words, we are unique in our lack of a sense of uniqueness. It's kind of hard to pin us down — and we're just fine with that.
It is seldom possible to make a statement about Pennsylvania that holds true of the whole state — and many observers have simply thrown up their hands in frustration. There is a good deal of evidence, however, that its inhabitants like it that way. Pennsylvania's mosaic of varied, complex landscapes offers its residents an extraordinary range of environmental choices within a very short distance.
Fascinating! There's a sense that some of our older values of home, community, roots and history are still intact in your state. I wonder how it compares to other parts in the Western world outside US – wouldn't that be a great research project?!
marja-leena – Thanks for the comment. I am sure there are some parts of Europe, and many parts of the Global South, where people are much like Pennsylvanians in their rootedness and strong valuation of community and extended family networks. Pennsylvania had many waves of immigrants, but the most influential layers were the the original Quakers; the Scotch-Irish; the Germans; and the Italian and Slavic immiagrants in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Today, we have large numbers of Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, on a par with other northeastern states. But the basic cultural patterns seem to have been set quite early, and I suspect the Scotch-Irish and Germans had the biggest influence over-all.
Some of this may have resulted from a sort of geographical self-sorting mechanism. Huge numbers of European immigrants came through Philadelphia – as many as Ellis Island – and headed west through the state. It's easy to imagine those who were most easily contented deciding to settle in Pennsylvania, while their restless siblings forged on in search of greener pastures. So, aside from the Scotch-Irish, who were hell-raisers, maybe we ended up with a lot of people who were just motivated enough to get on a boat, but weren't terribly restless otherwise. And of course we got a lot of persecuted religious minorities due to the famous Quaker tolerance, most notably the Amish and Mennonites.
I would guess that most people who have lived in a lot of different places (like me) yearn very, very much for the life in place described here. When I was boy, we moved from Colorado to Arkansas. Unlike the Pennsylvanian lack of regional identity, the Ozark Arkansans who were our new neighbors had a often xenophobic attachment to their own, leaving little space for newcomers. Then in Arizona (where we lived most recently), almost everyone was from somewhere else; this was coupled with a pronouned openness to new arrivals (except undocumented immgirants or Californians!). It would be neat to see different parts of the U.S. graphed with x being mobility and y being regional identity.
We do have a certain strain of xenophobia here, but it's not dominant. The main thing that might drive an intellectual like yourself a little crazy if you lived in central or western Pennsylvania would be the widespread anti-intellectualism. But if you want to get away from that and still live in the country, New England and parts of the upper Midwest are probably your only options.
Hostility toward new arrivals wouldn't be such a bad thing if it translated into effective political action against the forces driving so-called development. But in most places in the rural U.S., people are extremely wary about enacting any kind of restrictive zoning, and their dislike of the way the way familar landscapes are changed and destroyed by real estate speculators turns into a seething resentment toward the people occupying all those new subdivisions.
David Hackett Fischer's book, "Albion's Seed" has an interesting analysis of Pennsylvania's regional culture–he traces it to the influence of the founding Quakers, and portrays it in quite a positive light.
His section on Appalachia is light on evidence and heavy on nineteenth-century "local color" mistaken for evidence, but the other three regional analyses seem more sound. Unfortunately, his "Scotch-Irish/Appalachian" region is the most cited section, supporting the "Red State/Redneck" stereotypes we rural people so enjoy.
Sounds interesting. It does seem as if many of our patterns were established quite early, by the first waves of immigrants. How else to explain the fact that so many of de Tocqueville's and Dickens' observations still seem accurate?
One reason for the lack of strong regional identity is the arbitrary nature of state borders, which often don't follow geographic bioregional borders.
Taking my home state of Missouri as an example, the northern third of the state has more in common with southern Iowa and western Illinois, while southern Illinois, southwest Missouri, and northwest Arkansas can be thought of as "the Ozarks". The bootheel SE corner of the state is part of the cotton-growing South.
I rode a motorcycle through Pennsylvania a couple of summers ago. Afterwards I felt like I had been through at least three states!
BTW I meant to also say that I loved your photos illustrating the post! The gradations of mist-filtered colors in that last one are wonderful.
Larry – Yes, that's doubtless true about state boundaries. But the study mentioned above looked not just at state identifiers but even larger regional ones, as well – Midwest, Great Lakes, New England, etc. Most Pennsylvania residents, and some folks in neighboring parts of Ohio, New York and Ontario, had no regional sense of identity at all.
Glad you liked the photos! The last one was shot from our mountain looking across at the next ridge five miles away with a telephoto, whence the haze. The middle one shows the end of our mountain from Tyrone.
I'm a NW Pennsylvania native (McKean County, more specifically the Bradford/Smethport area) now living in northern Ohio. Your blog – and your mother's blog – help to nourish the part of me which has never truly separated from the hills of home.
I absolutely agree with you about the lack of strong state identity in most Pennsylvanians as opposed to other states, including Ohio. I believe that geography – specifically, our beautiful and rugged terrain – has also played a strong part, especially in the early days of the state's history. "My" area of the state was not even settled till about 1820 – 1830, which is probably later than any other part of the state. The Scotch-Irish & Germans who settled other parts of western PA didn't show up till about 15-20 years after the Yankees from New England (via upstate NY) opened up the land. (I descend from those earliest settlers on my maternal grandmother's side).
I grew up in an area of the state that is actually still considered part of the Buffalo media market. I never saw any Pennsylvania TV station till our area was finally wired for cable in the mid-70s. Bradford is two hours from any Pennsylvania interstate (U.S. Route 219 will become all four-lane in oh, say, the year 2120). These factors are enough all by themselves to discourage a strong sense of state identity.
As to the "rootedness" of Pennsylvanians, my stepfather's family -good Germans all, with a sprinking of French ancestry – arrived in Pennsylvania in the late 18th century and moved to Clarion County by 1840. And altho the family now numbers in the high hundreds, I only know of one (my half-brother) who lives outside Western Pennsylvania. In fact, most of this close-knit family lives no more than two counties away from the Clarion area. They're about to hold their 60th annual reunion, by the way. I have my reunion T-shirt ready to go.
Cheri – Thanks for a very interesting comment. It's good to know our blogs are helping provide a sense of connection for Pennsylvanian "ex-pats" like yourself.
We certainly shouldn't minimalize the importance of rugged terrain in focusing people's attention on the local area above all else. I think this holds true down through the Appalachians, too, where regional identity has always been definied by outsiders (and usually in a not very complementary fashion).
My father's mother's people are Yankee farmers, too, from that same Connecticut settlement period, albeit farther east, in Luzerne and Wyoming Counties. And they have also maintained a robust family reunion tradition. We have photos from their reunions in the 1940s, so I guess it's been around 60 years for them, too.


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Catholic Church and Trade Unions Form 'Holy Alliance' to Enforce Sunday Observance
Trade unions across Europe held small protests March 4 calling for governments to force companies and shops to shut on Sunday, as Catholic preachers supported the campaign from the pulpit.
Religious groups and trade unions, organized under the banner of the European Sunday Alliance, helped organize protests in 12 EU countries.
A lot of the activity took place in Italy, where a law allowing businesses to choose their own opening hours was only passed in December. The leader of Italy's biggest trade union, the Italian General Confederation of Labor, joined protesters outside a shopping center in Rome.
Meanwhile, the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, Avvenire, hailed a new "holy alliance" between the Catholic community and trade unions.
"We believe that all citizens of the European Union are entitled to benefit from decent working hours that, as a matter of principle, exclude working late evenings, nights, public holidays and Sundays," wrote the European Sunday Alliance. "Only essential services should operate on Sundays."
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'Sitting shiva' is a term used to describe the action of Jewish mourners participating in the traditional rituals of observing a shiva. During the period of shiva, mourners sometimes sit on low stools or boxes while they receive condolence calls. This is where the phrase "sitting shiva" comes from, and it is a practice that symbolizes the mourner being "brought low" following the loss of a loved one. For seven days, the family members of the deceased gather in one location – typically their own home or the home of the deceased – and mourns the loss in a variety of ways. This section will help guide you during this difficult time and inform those unfamiliar with the customs and traditions of Jewish mourning.
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Yellow Submarine is the tenth studio album by The Beatles in the United Kingdom, released on Apple Records. It was issued as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which premièred in the United Kingdom seven months prior to the album's release.
Only one side of the album contains songs performed by The Beatles; of the six, four were previously unissued. "Yellow Submarine" had been simultaneously issued in 1966 as a single and on the album Revolver, and "All You Need Is Love" had been issued as a single in the summer of 1967. The second side features the symphonic film score composed by George Martin, in versions recorded specifically for the album.
"All You Need Is Love" appeared in either mono or rechanneled stereo, ('fake stereo') on the US LP Magical Mystery Tour. It debuted in a true stereo mix on LP for this album. American cassette and 8-track tape versions featured "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as an extra song on side two.
Only four new Beatles songs appeared on the album, and two were recorded specifically for the film, "All Together Now" and "Hey Bulldog". "Only a Northern Song" had been recorded during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper, but was set aside from the final running order. "It's All Too Much," like similar numbers recorded immediately following the Sgt. Pepper sessions, was not intended for a specific project. "Hey Bulldog", recorded on 11 February 1968, evolved from an initial intent to shoot a promotional film for the "Lady Madonna" single.
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" was also originally intended for the film soundtrack, but was released as the B-side to "All You Need is Love" instead and was not included in the Yellow Submarine album.
In contrast to how the film was received, Yellow Submarine is usually considered The Beatles' weakest release. It was one of the few Beatles releases not to top the charts on either side of the Atlantic. Its highest position was #2 in the US, kept from the top by their own The Beatles, which had been released two months before. The Beatles themselves did not consider it a proper studio album, since they had little involvement in the project, and the four previously unreleased tracks on it were taken hodge-podge fashion from various sessions in 1967 and early 1968.
Yellow Submarine EP
After mixed response to the album upon its release, The Beatles considered releasing Yellow Submarine as a five-track mono EP, without the film score but including the then-unreleased "Across the Universe" as a bonus track. The EP was mastered but never issued. The Beatles had previously released popular songs from their LPs as EPs in the British market.
The songs were later released on Mono Masters in 2009.
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Although the essential artwork on the album covers issued in the United States and the United Kingdom are similar, there are a few subtle differences on the sleeves. The front of the British jacket contains the words "NOTHING IS REAL" (taken from Strawberry Fields Forever) in green print just below the album's title. This subtitle had been omitted from the American album cover.
On the back of the cover, the British album contained a review of "White Album" written for The Observer by Tony Palmer. The review was introduced by a few liner notes by Apple press officer Derek Taylor. The American cover contained a fictitious illustrated biography of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in which the ensemble's battle with the Blue Meanies was compared to three other epic struggles in the history of the English-speaking world: Beowulf's struggle to save the Heorot mead hall, King John's signing of the Magna Carta and Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.
The two album covers (and record labels) also differ in the fact that the British version recognises seven tracks from the film's score on side two, while the American version only recognises six tracks, treating the songs "Sea of Time" and "Sea of Holes" as a single track, titled "Medley: Sea of Time & Sea of Holes".
One final difference is that the American album was only released in stereo, while the British album was available in both stereo and mono, though the mono version is simply a fold-down of the stereo version and not a true mono mix (a fold down is two stereo channels combined into one channel; see more at The Beatles in Mono). The mono LP does not include the true mono mix of "Only A Northern Song" and instead includes a fold-down of the fake stereo version that appeared on the stereo LP. A true stereo mix of the song was released in 1999 on the Yellow Submarine Songtrack and a true mono mix appears on the 2009 remaster of the original album.
Re-issues for compact disc
The first compact disc release, remastered by George Martin, appeared on 25 August 1987. Like all the Beatles CD reissues, it is consistent with the British version of the LP. The running order is the same with "Sea of Time" and "Sea of Holes" as separate tracks, the "Nothing Is Real" subtitle remains intact and the review of the White Album with Taylor's introduction is included inside the CD insert.
The album appeared in a totally different version on 13 September 1999, coinciding with the remastered re-release of the film. Called the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, it dispenses with the George Martin orchestrations, and includes the six Beatles songs from the original album, along with an additional nine songs, all completely remixed for this disc.
It was reissued a decade later for a third time, along with the entire catalogue, on 9 September 2009. Done at 24-bit/192 kHz resolution, this duplicated the original album, and included both sets of sleeve notes. "Only A Northern Song" appears in its mono mix in this version, instead of the 'fake stereo' mix on the original. The mono mixes of the four songs that were intended for the unreleased EP (along with "Across the Universe") were released for the first time on the Mono Masters collection as part of the box set The Beatles in Mono.
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Description: A problem is stated that is devoted to optimization of routes in a non-singly-connected area, which, upon the certain restrictions, presumes minimization of the number of intersections with the given network and the given functional. A method for solving of this problem is proposed that is based on a topological factorization of the space of routes.
Belous, N.V. and Smeliakova, A.S. (2003), "Model i metod resheniia zadachi optimizatsii soedinenii po topologicheskomu kriteriiu" [Model and Method for Solving of the Route Optimization Problem over a Topological Criterion], Information Processing Systems, Vol. 1(23), pp. 218-225.


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Strong presence of Women Filmmakers in Foreign Language Film Oscar
By Bijan Tehrani on	 09/29/2017 News
Women filmmakers have an impressive presence in the list of films submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.Women filmmakers have an impressive presence in the list of films submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
So far 83 countries have announced their selection and Ghana, Honduras and United Arab Emirates will submit theirs in the next few days. Among 83 films selected for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, 22 films are directed by woman filmmakers.
Iran is the only country represented in this list by two women filmmakers, Anahit Abad, Iranian Armenian filmmaker that her film Yeva is represented by Armenia and Narges Abyar Iranian film director that Iran has introduced her film Breath to the Academy.European lead the list of women filmmakers by 11 films.
Here is the list of the films directed by a women filmmaker and submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar:
Afghanistan: A Letter to the President, Roya Sadat
Armenia, Yeva, Anahit Abad
Bulgaria, Glory, Kristina Grozeva (and Petar Valchanov)
Cambodia, First They Killed My Father, Angelina Jolie
Croatia, Quit Staring at My Plate, Hana Jušić
Ecuador, Alba, Ana Cristina Barragán
Georgia, Scary Mother, Ana Urushadze
Hungary, On Body and Soul, Ildikó Enyedi
Iran, Breath, Narges Abyar
Laos, Dearest Sister, Mattie Do
Luxembourg, Barrage, Laura Schroeder
Mexico, Tempstad, Tatiana Huezo
Netherlands, Lyla M., Mijke de Jong
Palestine, Wajib, Annemarie Jacir
Panama, Beyond Brotherhood, Arianne Benedetti
Paraguay, Los Buscadores, Tana Schembori (and Juan Carlos Maneglia)
Poland, Spoor, Agnieszka Holland
Singapore, Pop Aye, Kirsten Tan
Slovenia, The Miner, Hanna Antonina Wojcik Slak
Spain, Summer 1993, Carla Simón
Switzerland, The Divine Order, Petra Biondina Volpe
Taiwan, Small Talk, Huang Hui-chen
Thailand, By the Time It Gets Dark, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Best Foreign Language Film Award oscar Women Filmmakers
Bijan Tehrani
Bijan Tehrani a film director, film critic and writer, works as editor in chief of Cinema Without Borders while teaching Language of Film and Film History at workshops nationwide. Bijan has won several awards in international film festivals and book fairs for his short films and children's books.
CWB Jury & Nominees for 2019 GoE Bridging The Borders Award at ShortFest


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TVLogic designs and manufactures LCD and OLED High Definition displays from 5.5" to 55" designed specifically for broadcast, production, post-production, digital signage and multi-viewer applications.


The legendary Okefenokee Swamp is located in south Georgia and is one of Georgia's natural wonders. The swamp is protected by the Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge. The park is home to many wildlife species and was designated a U.S. Natural Landmark in 1974.


The flock of 17 wild turkeys that have frequented the neighborhood these past few weeks are gone. Hopefully they've moved onto more lush grazing grounds than paved streets on the edge of suburbia. We kept trying to warn them what month it was – I hope they've finally listened and are hiding somewhere safe.
I've had a lot going on lately and haven't thought much about Thanksgiving, but I'm now starting to get excited for the great feast. It's one of my favorite holidays because the meal is the big deal. No presents or numerous parties, just great food that everyone loves.
The chickens are doing as well as can be expected now that the weather's turning cooler, the bugs they love are leaving and the grass no longer tastes very sweet. Coco is frankly very crabby these days. The most vocal of the group, she's going through her first molt and letting us know about each ache and pain as it happens. A litany of complaints comes forth each morning as she scurries out of the coop, feathers flying in her wake. I only hope the neighbors are patient – it will pass.
Judging by the girls' actions when their feathers start falling out, it must cause the same sense of loss and embarrassment that men (and women) feel upon losing their hair. When they're molting the girls run desperately away from me, I can't even get near. They also lose their place in the pecking order, dropping one or two slots temporarily until they regain their plumage. I imagine it must hurt as the stiff shafts of feathers start growing back because at this point the girls often resemble porcupines more than cute fluffy chicks.
The rate and time of molting varies with each bird, Cleo is molting fast making it much more dramatic and more traumatic for her. Ruby seems to be lazily molting, dropping a couple of feathers here and there but maintaining her good looks and good humor. Fast molters get back to the business of laying eggs quicker, so I'd love it if all of the girls molted quickly but I don't get a say in it. Right now I'm only getting 1 egg a day, if I'm lucky, and each one is extremely precious. I give the girls extra protein to keep up their energy during this difficult period by feeding them dried meal worms, yogurt, cheese and spinach. We all need something special during these dark days of November.
As I start to think about our special Thanksgiving meal, I'm wondering if there's a way to slip in something new this year. Our families are very tradition-bound and it's a stretch to change up this classic dinner. Trust me, there is no way I could get by with not serving the Bread Stuffing with Pork Sausage and Fresh Sage created by my grandmother! And my mom's Pumpkin Pie with heaps of heavy whipped cream is an absolute that must not be tampered with. But I have a feeling that I'd see a lot of happy faces if I also served this fabulous Toasted Pecan-Apple Pie. It's a combination of two of my favorite pies and a perfect way to introduce something new for this special day.
Can't decide between pecan or apple pie? This pie is the best of both worlds. The tart apples cut the sweetness of the pecans in brown sugar custard, while the egg yolk crust bakes up golden brown and extra-crisp.
To make the crust: Whisk together the flour, granulated sugar, and salt in medium bowl. Blend in the butter with a pastry blender or your fingertips until the butter is the size of blueberries, with some smaller pieces. Whisk together the egg yolk and 2 tablespoons of the ice water. Toss with the flour mixture, adding additional water if necessary, to form a dough. Gather the dough together and press into a disk. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour or overnight.
Place the oven rack in the bottom position and preheat the oven to 350°F. Roll out the dough to a 13-inch round. Line a 10-inch deep-dish glass pie plate. Trim the overhanging dough to 1/2 inch, turn the edge under, and flute. Beat the egg white until loose and frothy. Brush over the bottom and sides of the dough. Refrigerate while preparing the filling.
To make the filling: Beat together the eggs, egg yolk, and flour in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until blended and smooth. Beat in the brown sugar, corn syrup, melted butter, vanilla, and salt. Stir in the pecans. Arrange the apples over the bottom of the pie shell. Pour the pecan mixture over the apples.
Bake the pie on the bottom oven rack for 45 minutes. Cover the edge of the crust with foil and continue baking for 20 to 25 minutes, or until puffed and a knife inserted into the center comes out moist but clean. Cool completely on a wire rack. Serve at room temperature, store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to two days.
*Toast the pecans in a 350°F oven for 6 to 8 minutes or until slightly darker in color.
Oh my……pecan apple pie! This looks wonderful! I am going to add this to our dessert table this year! Thanks for the recipe. Always enjoy your blog.
Thanks Kathleen, let me know how you like it!
That pie looks delicious. I just had some ice cream but could still tuck into a piece of that pie!
Do you need help on Dec. 6th?
Thanks Cindy, the pie really is great! How nice of you to offer to help on the 6th, let me get back to you about that!
My chickens are the same way. They seem embarassed during moult and it is the only time they're not in a hurry to get out of the coop each day.
Good to hear that others go through the same thing, with chickens I'm never quite sure what is "normal".


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BAT (oprindeligt forkortelse for Bornholms Amts Trafikselskab) er et dansk trafikselskab, der dækker Bornholm. Selskabet driver et antal regionale regionale buslinjer fra Rønne til øens øvrige købstæder og mindre byer. Desuden driver det bybusserne i Rønne og forskellige lokale buslinjer rundt omkring på øen. BAT ejes af Bornholms Regionskommune.

Produkter

Rønne Bybusser
BAT driver bybusserne i Rønne. Linjenettet består af to bybuslinjer, linje 21 og linje 23. Busserne kører i timedrift fra morgen til aften, men dog i halvtimedrift i morgenmyldretiden. Linje 23 fortsætter som bybuslinje 21, når den ankommer til stoppestedet "Snellemark 45" i det centrale Rønne, og ender derefter på Rønne Havn, hvor bussen holder pause inden den kører igen. Der kører to busser forskudt af hinanden på de to bybuslinjer i Rønne. Bybusserne kører i ringruter, der dækker det meste af byen.

Bybussernes historie.

Rønne har haft bybusser i mange år, men nettet, der er kendt af de fleste bornholmere, er nok systemet med to små busser på de daværende bybusruter 22 og 24. Linje 22 kørte i Rønne Nord og Linje 24 i Rønne Syd indtil 2010, hvor der blev introduceret en linje 23 som supplement til de to øvrige ruter, der kun kørte på hverdage. Linje 23 blev introduceret med weekenddrift for at tiltrække flere passagerer til bybusserne end dem, der hidtil havde kørt på linjenettet. I 2012 blev nettet udvidet med en ny linje 21, så linjenettet herefter bestod af fire linjer. Linje 24 kørte i nogenlunde modsat retning i forhold til linje 23's ringrute. I 2012 kom der også en femte rute til, som overtog aften og weekendbetjeningen fra den normale linje 23. Den femte rute blev døbt linje 23A.

I 2014 blev linje 24 nedlagt i forbindelse med at linje 22 blev omlagt betjene en del af linje 24's daværende dækningsområder. Linje 23A blev nedlagt i 2017 hvor linje 21 og 22 overtog weekend- og aftenkørslen i Rønne by. I 2019 skulle linje 22 egentlig nedlægges i sommerferien grundet færre brugere af bybusserne i ferieperioden men grundet underskud i BAT forblev linjen nedlagt permanent. Linjenettet i Rønne er siden 2019 blevet betjent af to ringruter med både aften og weekenddrift (linje 21 og 23).

Lokalruter
Lokalruterne på Bornholm er ruter, der kører på skoledage i forbindelse med skolernes ringetider i de større byer. Ruterne forbinder alle dele af Bornholm og knytter sig til regionale ruter i de byer, hvor der befinder sig en folkeskole.

Lokalruterne kører ikke i skolernes ferier, hvor der derimod er øgning på de regionale ruter og indsat teletaxa til de mindre områder.

Regionale Ø Ruter

Bornholm har 10 Regionale busruter der forbinder øen på kryds og tværs. 9 af de 10 ruter har udgangspunkt ved færgen i Rønne og kører hver sin vej ud af byen. Linjerne 7 og 8 er ringruter der kører hver sin vej hele vejen rundt om øen hvor 7'eren kører imod fra Rønne imod nord og Hasle og 8'eren kører imod syd og Bornholms Lufthavn på vej ud af Rønne. Linje 9 er den eneste af de regionale større ruter, der ikke kommer forbi Rønne. Ruten kører udgangspunkt i Aakirkeby og kører via Almindingen til Gudhjem, Linje kører kun på hverdage. På nær linje 9 kører alle de regionale ruter alle ugens dage, men med højere frekvens på hverdage end i weekender og om aftenen. BAT har ligeledes en feriekøreplan om sommeren, hvor de regionale ruter bliver forstærket, men bybusnettet i Rønne bliver nedprioriteret på grund af øens store sommerturisme.

Natbusdrift
De regionale ruter linje 1 og 6 kører natbusdrift året rundt. Ruterne er markeret 1N og 6N, hvor linje 1N er en nordgående ringrute, der betjener den nordlige del af Bornholm, medens linje 6N er en sydgående ringrute, der betjener den sydlige del af Bornholm. Linjerne har udgangspunkt fra Rønne Havn og kører søndag til torsdag hver dag klokken 00:00. Fredag og lørdag er der to daglige afgange fra Rønne klokken 00:00 og klokken 02:00. Begge ruter har forbindelse med hinanden på Rønne Havn.

Overblik over de regionale Ø ruter og bybusserne i Rønne

Administrativt

Ledelse
Ledelsen i BAT består af personer fra Bornholms Regionskommune, Personer fra Region hovedstaden. og trafikchef Kim kock-Hansen

Udbud af kørslen
BAT er det eneste trafikselskab i Danmark, der varetager driften på busbetjeningen af Bornholms regionale Ø Ruter og bybusserne i Rønne. Lokalruterne er udliciterede til lokale vognmænd på Bornholm. De lokale vognmænd på Bornholm har i flere år meddelt BATs ledelse, at de er klar til at overtage kørslen fra trafikselskabet igennem et udbud. Dette har BAT hidtil afvist.

BAT udbød tidligere busdriften til licitering hvor de fleste bornholmere nok kender de røde busser drevet af det daværende Connex. Connex stoppede opeationerne i Danmark kort efter Veolia Transport overtog selskabet. Efter Veolia var trådt ud af det Danske marked overtog et lokalt bornholmsk selskab kaldet "Iversens Busser" Busbetjeningen af bybusserne i Rønne og de regionale Bornholmske busruter. Iversens Busser gik i 2009 konkurs og siden har BAT stået for de regionale ruter og bybusserne i Rønne på egen hånd.

Hovedkontor
BATs hovedkontor er placeret på adressen Munch Petersens Vej 2, 3700 Rønne, BAT har desuden et billetkontor der er placeret i det "Røde Pakhus" på adressen "Snellemark 45" i Rønne by nær Store Torv.

Billetmuligheder hos BAT
BAT er det eneste trafikselskab i Danmark, der ikke udbyder salg eller brug af Rejsekort på trods af, at de har aktiver i Rejsekort & Rejseplan A/S. Hos BAT kan man benytte sig af følgende billetmuligheder:

 Kontantbillet
 Klippekort i både pap og App: Bat er det sidste trafikselskab i Danmark der benytter sig af fysiske klippekort i papformat.
 24 timer billet i form af klippekort: Giver adgang til ubegrænset transport på hele Bornholm i 24 timer
 7 dages billet i form af klippekort: Giver adgang til ubegrænset transport på hele Bornholm i 7 dage.
 Ø-kort: Giver ret til transport på hele Bornholm i et år fra købsdato.
 Periodekort: Købes i app eller som fysisk kort fra 30 dage som minimum og op til et år som længste tid.

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Referencer

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Q: C++ function declaration syntax What is the meaning of the following excerpt:
  : program_(program), max_iters_(max_iterations), num_iters_(0)

in this piece of code:
Search::Search(const string& program, int max_iterations)
  : program_(program), max_iters_(max_iterations), num_iters_(0)
{
  max_branch_ = 0;
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}

A: What you are referring to is called initializer list. A class or struct can initialize member variables using this list in its constructors.
Example:
struct foo
{
    foo() : member_(0) {}

    private:
        int member_;
};

The initialization list is especially important if you have members that have no default constructor - because when you reach in the body of the constructor, every member will have been created. If you did not choose a proper constructor for this member, compilation will fail.
Example:
struct bar { bar(int) {} };

struct foo
{
    foo()
        : bar_(0) // does not compile without this line
                  // because the compiler will try to default
                  // construct otherwise
    {}

    private:
        bar bar_;
};

A: That is a constructor initialization list. Presumable, Search is a class with data members program_, max_iters and num_iters.

A: First, it's not a function declaration but a class constructor implementation
The class Search declared before a ctor with 2 parameters and now your are in front of its implementation where the parameters are use to initialize data member.


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'Double Your Dollar Day' Doubles Your Food Bank Donation
By Douglas Trattner on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:27 am
Thanks to the generous participation of businesses like Dominion, Dunkin' Donuts, Marco's Pizza, Medical Mutual and Walgreens, all donations made today to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank will be doubled. The fundraising event, Double Your Dollar Day, is being organized with help from WKYC-TV Channel 3.
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A new Marvel theory suggests that an overlooked character will play a key role in Avengers: Endgame.
While many fans agree with Ant-Man playing an important role in the Endgame, many theories also assume time travel to happen. This is based on the photos from the sets of the film.
In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Janet Van Dyne confirms that time vortexes exist within the Quantum Realm. The prevailing theory is that Ant-Man leads the Avengers into the realm. And they use of these vortexes to travel back into the past.
However, how does Scott Lang know to do this? Janet is definitely speaking with Lang when she says "time vortex", but that isn't much to go on with. Reddit user JoshandMarietheorises that Scott will get everything he needs from Ghost, the villain of the last Ant-Man film.
Will Ghost Play An important role too?
Will Ghost be in Avengers: Endgame?
The user states that there are other sources too. Bill Foster teaches a class on the Quantum Realm but his classes are based on all theory. Ghost's sad state in Ant-Man and the Wasp means she has knowledge of all these things. If the snap made by Thanos took Foster away, the man who raised her, that could motivate Ghost to save Scott.
Ant-Man got stranded in the Quantum Realm when the snap hapoened, as we saw in Ant-Man and the Wasp. It's also possible that Ant-Man comes across a time vortex and escapes the Quantum realm like that.


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ORONO, Minn. — Divers have recovered a body from Lake Minnetonka near where a boater was reported missing.
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office says the body was found Sunday near Big Island. Deputies had been searching that area for a missing boater since Saturday evening.
Deputies responded to a 911 call of a boat circling in the water. When deputies arrived, they found a recreational boat operating with no one aboard.
The sheriff's office is investigating. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office will identify the body and release the cause of death.


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Disappointment as FG suspends WASSCE participation
A day after the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) announced dates and modalities for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), the Federal Government changed its mind about Nigeria's participation in the examination to the disappointment of school administrators and pupils, reports KOFOWOROLA BELO-OSAGIE.
On Monday, the Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajuiba, announced that the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for SS3 pupils would begin 3 August.
He urged state governments to allow schools to resume so the pupils could revise for the examination.
On Tuesday, Head of National Office, West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Mr Patrick Areghan, followed with modalities for the examination.
He announced that 23,250 newly recruited supervisors would coordinate the examination for 1,549,463 SS3 candidates in 19,120 schools nationwide.
He said supervisors would be provided with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE); while schools would be expected to provide running water and soap, infrared thermometers, hand sanitizers and ensure candidates are spaced two metres apart for the examination.
Patrick said the examination was to be written in all five-member countries that make up the West African Examination Council (WAEC) during the period (August 3 to September 5), adding that the timetable was drafted to suit Nigeria's interest.
"The examination will run simultaneously in all the member-countries. If they are writing Government today in Nigeria, they are also writing same in Ghana, Sierra-Leone, Gambia and at the same time," he said.
However, just 24 hours afterwards, the Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, announced that Nigeria would no longer be participating in the examination.
Rising from the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja, Adamu said it was not safe and appealed to schools to be patient.
The news of Nigeria's sudden withdrawal from the examination came as a shock for some school managers.
National President, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Chief Yomi Otubela, expressed disbelief about the news, saying a meeting with the Education Minister on Tuesday was about preparing for the examination not about pulling out.
"I still had a meeting with the Education Minister yesterday. All the commissioners for education were there. I was at the meeting representing private school proprietors.
"What we discussed at the meeting was to assess whether the time between now and the examination was adequate for revision and we agreed that it was as the syllabus had already been covered before schools closed in March.
We had a few people who thought the time was short and called for the date to be moved forward, but we basically agreed the time was enough."
Otubela said schools had started preparations for resumption in line with the protocols laid down by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 so, they were ready to receive pupils before the news came.
National President, Association for Formidable Educational Development (AFED), Mr Emmanuel Orji, expressed disappointment with the government's move to pull out of the examination.
He said members of AFED, the umbrella body of low-cost private schools in Nigeria, had long prepared for resumption before the WASSCE timetable was set.
He said the government was confused to have announced dates for the examination and rescind its decision after a short while. He added that Nigeria had to learn to live safely with the virus since it was not going away anytime soon.
"For me, it appears the Federal Government is confused. In the U.S., they have thousands of cases daily but they are trying to open up the economy. It is obvious that children's education is not prioritised. People have to live. Life has to continue.
"We have told the government that the incidence of the disease is increasing. It means this kind of disease won't leave us soon. So, we need to learn to live with it like HIV and malaria," he said.
Emmanuel said the government had to consider the fate of investors in the education sector who have been adversely affected by the pandemic because they cannot open schools.
"If the government could raise our hopes to say schools will resume then we run around using the little we have to put things in place, it has to do something about this situation.
"Economically, some of us are dead. They have to find a way to resurrect us. Government has a constitutional role to find a way around the pandemic, but it needs to also protect us, the investors," he said.
Ahead of resumption, schools had started putting facilities in place for handwashing, physical distancing and mini-isolation centres, among others.
Emmanuel said AFED had secured loans to produce about 7,000 mobile hand-washing buckets for use in schools as well as infrared thermometers at reduced prices. He added that most schools had been fumigated ahead of resumption.
"AFED as a body has been able to sensitise our members on preparation, thinking all schools would resume. We have produced our own automatic hand-washing buckets.
Already, in collaboration with EDFIN Micro-Finance Bank, we have secured funds to start the production of 5,000 buckets.
EcoBank gave us funds for 2,000 buckets so we can distribute to our members and they would repay gradually.
"We have also distributed infrared thermometers that we secured from importers at a reduced price. We are giving it to them for N16,000 compared to the N25,000, N45,000 it is sold in the market.
Most of our schools have also been fumigated by local government authorities in preparation for resumption," he said.
Parents were also ready to return their children to school. One father, Mr K. Oladapo, said he was not worried about sending his teenager back to her school in Ogun State to take the examination.
He said she had been studying at home and was confident she would be fine.
"I am not afraid. She will be fine. We will just be praying for her. She has been studying all this while though we got tired of it, she still kept studying," he said.
Another parent, Mrs Chine Olisakwe, was also ready to allow her 16-year-old daughter Precious return to Government Senior Model College, Badore, to take her examination.
However, she was anxious about the news that the government would not allow the pupils into the boarding house. She urged the government to allow pupils to stay in school dormitories, especially since only the two terminal classes (JSS3 and SS3) would be in school using facilities meant for six levels.
"In my own opinion, they should be in school if they are not many. She (Precious) said where they eat is big enough for SS3 to do their WAEC.
And since they would only be in school with the JSS3 students, let them just allow them to stay in school," she said.
If the boarding school is not opened for returning pupils, Chine is worried that her daughter would not be able to commute daily from Ijesa on Lagos Mainland to Badore, after Ajah on the Island.
"If they should tell them to go from home, I don't have anybody in Ajah that she could stay with. If the government should just give us information on time, I will look for some of her school mates living close to Ajah where she could stay for a month," she said.
When she learnt of the indefinite suspension of the examination, Chine said: "Well, we will wait until they announce a new date," she said.
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Dr. Waters received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Tulsa prior to going to medical school at the University of Missouri. After medical school, he completed residency training in family medicine at the University of Missouri. He spent the first four years of his career at the University of Missouri seeing patients as well as teaching medical students and residents. Prior to coming to CommunityCare in 2015, he worked with St. John in Owasso.


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CNP Recognized as "seeking qualification"
February 19, 2017 by Theo
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California National Party Hits Milestone
Officially Recognized by California Secretary of State as "Seeking Qualification Status"
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Feb. 17, 2017)—After an election cycle rife with discord, many have begun to look toward new alternatives in political representation. Among these is the California National Party (CNP), which has officially gained recognition by the Secretary of State as a political body "seeking qualification status."
With a platform targeted specifically at issues impacting the Golden State—such as immigration reform, environmental protection, women's rights, and economic growth—and an ultimate goal of becoming an independent nation, the California National Party aims to provide voters with a clear alternative that better reflects the state's values.
PDF of official letter on Secretary of State's website
"Achieving official status as 'seeking qualification' is an important step for our party," says CNP Chairperson Theo Slater. "For some time now, California's progressive agenda has been at odds with our American friends, and our voice is not heard at the volume it should be on the national level. For example, in terms of population, we get 1/70th the representation per person in the Senate and 1/3 the representation per person in the Electoral College that Americans in Wyoming receive."
The organization has posted a 10-point platform on their website which outlines the party's focus on creating educational opportunities, tax code simplification, universal healthcare, and much more.
"Our platform focuses on issues like repairing our infrastructure, improving our public schools, and a quality single-payer healthcare. These are things that the vast majority of Californians support, but neither the Democrats or Republicans have been willing to champion" says CNP Vice Chairperson Jed Wheeler. "We have the sixth largest economy on the planet, a population larger than most independent nations, and our farms feed the world. We are more than capable of making our own way."
In order to qualify as a political party, the organization must register approximately 50,000 voters under its banner by Jan. 21, 2018. With that goal in mind, CNP volunteers are actively canvassing in their communities and networking via social media to encourage fellow Californians to join them in making a difference. The organization is optimistic that their egalitarian initiatives and regionally-focused approach will resonate with voters.
The California National Party has scheduled their third annual convention for March 11, 2017, in Santa Monica. California residents interested in changing their voter registration status to the CNP may log onto http://registertovote.ca.gov/,select "Other," and write "California National Party" in the text box.
About the California National Party
The California National party is a grassroots political party that advocates Californian independence on a progressive platform designed to grow California's economy, protect her people, and preserve and defend her natural environment. You may read the party's platform at https://californianational.party/platform
If you are a California resident interested in changing your voter registration status to California National Party, you may log onto http://registertovote.ca.gov/, select "Other" and write in "California National Party".
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What kind of trouble did you get yourself into this time?
I have recently been setting up a new machine that I'll be using jointly as a work machine and a MythTV frontend/backend. As part of setting this up, I've had several issues getting the integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 display board to work correctly. I'll save the details for another post, but the short version is that none of the three available X drivers (ATI's fglrx and the open-source radeon and radeonhd) seem to drive the HDMI output connector correctly.
As part of testing this, I used Tormod Volden's packages for the radeon and radeonhd drivers, which are based on newer releases than are available in the mainline Jaunty package trees. For some packages, they are even based on bleeding-edge git checkouts, rather than released tarballs. (More notes on using radeonhd can be found here.) While neither package was able to use the HDMI connector properly, the radeon driver was able to give me output on the VGA connector, with full 2D and video acceleration (which I needed for the MythTV front-end). My monitor (a Westinghouse L2410NM) was auto-detected through the connection, so my xorg.conf is trivial.
However, neither open-source driver has 3D acceleration support yet. To get this, I'll need to use ATI's fglrx driver. Not a problem, right? Just install the packages, then change the radeon entry in your xorg.conf over to fglrx, and you're good to go! Except that by using Tormod's package tree to pick up the latest radeon and radeonhd drivers, I also pick up more recent versions of xserver and friends, and it would seem that the fglrx drivers don't play well with the new version — I get segfaults when the X server tries to start using fglrx, which didn't happen before installing Tormod's drivers.
So, I need to back out all of the packages installed from Tormod's tree, and revert back to the versions of these packages that I had previously installed from the mainline Jaunty trees.
Now we've removed Tormod's packages from our list of available packages. Ideally, we could run an apt-get command to "downgrade" our packages to those that are mentioned in our package lists. However, I wasn't able to find such a command. If you try to run apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade, APT will see that you have more recent versions of the X packages installed (the ones from Tormod's tree), and won't overwrite those with the older packages mentioned in the sources that we've activated. Normally, this is the behavior that we want; but in this case, we're boned.
Instead, we'll need to remove the newer packages using apt-get remove, and then reinstall them using apt-get install. Unfortunately, you have to specify which packages you want to remove and reinstall on the command line. So, we need a command pipeline that will tell us "all packages installed from Tormod's tree", so that we can call apt-get remove and apt-get install on them.
Now that we're sure that Tormod's tree has a file in /var/lib/apt/lists. The filename is based on the URL of the sources.list entry that you want to deal with. So if you're following these instructions for a different package tree than Tormod's X packages, you'll need to find the correct file and grep it instead. You'll see several files for each source; you want the file that ends in Packages and contains binary and your architecture in the name.
Note that the \t in the above is an actual tab character, and not a backslash followed by a T. In most shells, you type in the tab character by pressing Control-V and then the Tab key.
Now we have a list of installed packages that might have come from Tormod's package tree. I say might have, because it's possible that the mainline Jaunty has a newer version of a package that Tormod's tree does. Earlier, we said we were looking for the packages that definitely came from Tormod's tree, so that we can reinstall them. If we reinstall all of the packages in this list we've just created, then we might end up reinstalling a package that we don't need to. But that's not the worst thing in the world — we're only reinstalling a dozen or so packages in total, so the extra work of reinstalling a couple of packages that we don't need to won't really kill us.
Perfect! Let's save this package list into a file.


This apartment of 58 m² (about 624 ft²), in a building of 5 floors has 3 rooms including 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 1 toilet. It has a living room and a fitted separate kitchen. It's located on the 4th floor. Heating : gaz.


In student theater, you see a lot of political plays. But this piece sees things from both sides. On one hand, it gives this perspective of harsh, fascist law and how terrible that is, but it also shows the other side and their perspective. I respect that in a play.
It talks a lot about the loss of rights, things we're starting to see in day-to-day politics.
Bone and Skin, two millers thin, / Would starve us all, or near it; / But be it known to Skin and Bone / That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.
I shall prove it - as clear as a whistle.
It's rare that you get the rights to such a recent, successful play as this.


It's just a few weeks until Christmas; so many of you will be thinking of your annual Christmas shindig.
Make sure that your company party is tax deductible by following a few simple rules.
If you meet the above criteria then the party if allowable for tax.
If the cost is £151 then all of it is taxed as a benefit in kind!
The amount spent up to the limit of £150 is for each employee. So that doesn't mean that you can take your friends or family out for a slap up meal either!
However it does mean that if you are a directors and employee of your own company then you can have yourself a Christmas meal on the company!
Enjoy and a very early Merry Christmas to you all!


A man was fatally shot Wednesday night in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago Police.
The 32-year-old was in front of a housing complex in the 6200 block of South Indiana when at least one person walked up and shot him in the head about 8:45 p.m., police said.
He was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.


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Femtocell grid promises dramatic cost savings
by Paul Rasmussen |
May 8, 2009 12:37pm
Having originally developed the system for a mobile operator, femtocell design house Ubiquisys is now offering the technology to other operators with the promise of huge reductions in the cost of ownership compared to DAS, microcell or picocell alternatives.
The company claims its design is based upon a self-organising network of femtocells that automatically work together to serve any size or shape of building with 3G coverage. Ubiquisys claims the cost savings are achieved partly because the system is based on low-cost mass-produced femtocell hardware, but largely by the technology being designed to be self-installed by the customer's IT staff--thereby eliminating the costly radio planning and specialist installation requirements.
The self-organising aspect of the femtocell grid comes from the individual use of cognitive radio by each femto to form themselves into a self-managing grid. The femtocells are said to continuously sense both surrounding macro cells and their femtocell neighbours, and then configure power, frequency and scrambling codes between them to provide an optimum service according to the operator's policy.
Chris Gilbert, CEO of Ubiquisys, said that the femtocell grid would enable mobile operators to reach vast numbers of SMEs with a cost effective solution for the first time. "But it also scales to provide flexible, modular coverage for organisations of any size. The system promises to be a catalyst for the next generation of converged business communications."
For more on this story:
Cellular News
European Femtocell Deployment Status
Femtocell proximity changes Android UI
Sony and Toshiba join Femto Forum; femtocell business case outlined
When will the femtocell revolution happen?
Paul Rasmussen


A replay of the event is either on the Everquest 2 Facebook page or http://www.stickam.com/viewMedia.do?mId=190818094&rf=fbTab.
The event is not specific to Everquest 2. Coverage of the Erollsi day event starts at 6:09 and ends at 13:45. All of the material covered is oriented towards new players.
The video quality is poor. The participants are reading scripts.


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Ejigbo is an important town in Osun State. It is one of the earliest Yoruba towns, and is as old as Old Oyo founded by Oranmiyan.

Various traditions of Ejigbo origin agree that the founder of present day Ejigbo was a prince of Ile-Ife (son of Ogirinyan, one of the youngest grandsons of Oduduwa of Ife) whose name was Akinjole. He left Ife at the time Oranmiyan returned from Benin to found Old Oyo Empire. According to Prince Oyeleke Bello: "Akinjole followed the footsteps of his brother (from the same mother) Akinoruja, who founded the town Ikire-ile in Osun State". After consultations with the Ifá oracle, he was directed to face the direction of the place where Ejigbo is today, and told that he should not stop until he reached the place where "Eye Agbigbo" (ostrich) were rampant. It also instructed him to go along with his father's god, Orisa-Nla (which is known and called Orisa Ogiyan in Ejigbo) and be its custodian, because this god would guard, guide and protect him throughout his journey. Akinjole then prepared himself and left Ile-Ife to start his adventure in the thick forest where in which dwelled wild animals and evil spirits.

Beginning of the kingdom
Tradition has it that Akinjole and Olusiji were living together and exchanging views. Then strangers, visitors, men and women started migrating into present day Ejigbo (due to one reason or the other) from their original homes. Some people came as hunters, farmers, black-smiths, goldsmiths, traders etc. These people were received by both Akinjole and Olusiji. They assimilated and accepted the same culture.

Palace
The Ogiyan palace is situated in the centre of the town surrounded by a concrete wall. The Northern side of the place is occupied by the Town Hall, adjacent to the evening market and the imposing Central Mosque; its North-eastern side is occupied by the Cooperative Bank (now Skye Bank) while its Eastern side is occupied by the Ejigbo Local Government Shopping Centre.

Palace chiefs and their functions
In the days preceding western influence in the interior of Yorubaland, Ejigbo palace procedure was a unique one. This can is supported by paragraph 30 of Dickson:

"[The inner council consisted of the Elejigbo (Ogiyan)
and the three senior title holders ...
The procedure followed was similar to that of an army court marshal in England,
that is to say the junior member spoke first;
Aro, then the Apetumekun, then Ajeiku;
then Oye, Ejemu and Osolo (the first three chiefs are subordinates to the latter three chiefs respectively)
and finally the Elejigbo would sum up and make a decision.
The minor chiefs might have been consulted previously but did not attend the meeting.
Afterwards, Osolo announced the decision of the council to the people outside]".

Installation of a new oba

Death of an oba
When an oba dies ('waja'), regardless of the time spent in the position, the priests of Orisa-Ogiyan and of other gods are the first people to see his dead body so that they can perform special rites and rituals on the demised oba. This happens before an announcement to the public is made.

Selecting a new oba
The method of selection of a new oba in Ejigbo in the days before the spread and conquest of Western Civilization in the land of Yoruba was quite different from the way it is selected today. Today, there are innovations, motivations and improvements in the selection of an oba.

Orisa-Ogiyan
Ogiyan is the name of the person who holds the title of oba in Ejigbo. Ogiyan is the short form of "Ogiriniyan," the father of the founder of Ejigbo (Akinjole). Therefore, the god worshiped by Ogiriniyan when Akinjole became its custodian was called Orisa-Ogiyan (The god of Ogiyan). Ogiyan festival is the only festival that unites all sons and daughters, Muslims and Christians, of Ejigbo together. The Orisa Ogiyan festival is held at the beginning of the harvest of new yams, usually in the rainy season. The Orisa is fed with new yam and epo pupa (palm oil). It occurs every year during the month of September. The King's palace (Aafin) is the center of spiritual rites and social activities during this period. The oba, being the custodian of the god and all the activities, social and spiritual, are focused on him.

Conclusion
The founder of the present day Ejigbo was a priest of Ile Ife (Ogiriniyan's sons, one of the youngest sons of Oduduwa) whose name was Akinjole. He left Ile Ife the time Oranmiyan returned from Benin to the Old Oyo Empire. Being the custodian of his fathers' god – Orisa Nla, he left Ile Ife with it to found Ejigbo. The god later became known as 'Orisa Ogiyan' in Ejigbo.

References

Bibliography
Akinyele I. B.: Iwe Itan Ibadan ati die ninu awon Agbegbe re Bi Iwo, Osogbo Ati Ikirun, - Ibadan. Board Publications Limited, 1911
Biobaku, S. O. ed.: Sources of Yoruba History, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973
Dickson, E. N. C.: Intelligence Report of the Ejigbo District of Ibadan, Division, Ibadan: University Press, 1978
Ilupeju, A. M. (1986): Ejigbo Palace Organisation,FCE, Okene.
Ilupeju, T. A. (2008): An Economic history Ejigbo People in Cotonu (1935–1975), Dept. Of HSS, University of Lagos.
Ilupeju, T. A. (2009): An Economic history Ejigbo People in Togo (1935–2005), Dept. Of HSS, University of Lagos.
Lasebikan, E. B.: Ojulowo Yoruba, Iwe Keta, London: 1958
Oyeyode. O. O. (1972): The Impact of emigration of Ejigbo People in Ivory Coast on Ejigbo, Mémoire de Licence, University of Ibadan.
Saliman, O. L. B.: Itan Ilu Ejigbo: Osogbo: Fads Printing Press, 1974
Commission on Chieftaincy Declaration review of Oyo State of Nigeria and the Government Decision Thereon: 1976

General
Oodu – Vol. II; Ife: University of Ife, 1979/80
Coronation of New Elejigbo: Ibadan: The Sketch Publishing Co. Ltd, 1974
Ogiyan Festival, Ibadan: The Sketch Publishing Co. Ltd, 1982

Populated places in Osun State
Towns in Yorubaland


second time asking - buy a biz with no money down?
Has anyone viewing this forum ever bought a business without putting any of there own money in? My reason for asking is quite simple - there is a legitimate business in Mexico that I want to buy - a small hotel/guesthouse - and I haven't got the money for the down payment let alone buying it outright.
Re: second time asking - buy a biz with no money down?
From a financial prospective, it is always better to use some else's money - called leverage. But, in reality, you will always need to contribute something to the deal. Put yourself in the shoes of an investor or lender - why would they lend or give you money if you have nothing to lose.
History has shown, those with nothing in the game or nothing to lose tend to walk away without a fight. But, if your own personal contribution is at stake - you as the borrower will work harder to ensure success.
Your question should not be how to buy a business with no money down - but how to fix your own situation and acquire the money (the percentage you need) to make the deal work. Don't expect lenders or investors to change their rules to fit your situation - but, fix or improve your situation to fit the rules.
If you are seeking a business in Mexico - start with local lender or investors in Mexico - do your research to determine how much you will need of your own money - then work to make that happen.
Thank you very much for your very honest response to my question. It would be great to speak about this further if possible.
Thanks once again for your input, I value any real advice from "real" people greatly.
Question?: Do you believe in intangible assets? Do they carry any weight during the lending process?


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Academicians Take Plunge in Ayodhya Dispute
Ayodhya dispute is perhaps the longest and most complex civil suits in the annals of the legal and judicial history of India if not in world as it dragged almost seventy years in various courts including the Supreme Court of India, where it was pending for the last eight years. While hearing petitions, the apex court made it clear that they will deal with it as a "title suit for the disputed land" which Hindus claimed as the birth place of Lord Ram, an ancient great King of Ikshvaku dynasty and an incarnation of Lord Vishnu as per belief, while Muslims claimed it a Masjid constructed by Emperor Babur. For the two communities, it was a matter of religious faith and belief with umpteen conflicts and clashes reported at the site and elsewhere since 1850s taking a toll of numerous lives and property not only in Ayodhya but also at other parts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi (Retd) deserves laurels and appreciation for his grit and commitment for an objective consideration and taking it to a conclusive end. By doing so, he has also set an example that a problem, however difficult and challenging, can be resolved only by facing it rather than postponing or running away from it. Several petitions were filed by the two communities in the Supreme Court by both parties in December 2010 following a verdict of the Allahabad High Court in September same year. Ever since eight Chief Justices retired without substantive action or focus on the case before Chief Justice Gogoi, heading a five-judges constitutional bench, resolved to take it to finality through continuous hearing from August to October 2019, even giving ample opportunity for a negotiated settlement too. While delivering judgment on 9 November 2019, the judges' bench opined that Hindu parties were able to produce sufficient evidence through scriptures, books, travelogues, gazetteers, reports, inscriptions, archaeological findings and witnesses in support of their claim of continuous possession and worship at the site compared to the opposite parties.
Notwithstanding aforesaid observation, the apex court avoided any concrete inference about the nature of the disputed structure; instead, they relied mostly on the preponderance of evidence and Article 142 of the Constitution, which empowers the supreme court that in the exercise of its jurisdiction it may pass such decree or make such order as is necessary for doing complete justice in any cause or matter pending before it. Accordingly, the entire site comprising of about 2.77 acres was decreed in favour of the deity of Hindus simultaneously directing the government to allot 5 acres land in favour of Sunni Waqf Board at a suitable place in Ayodhya for the construction of Masjid. Quite obviously, the earlier verdict of the Allahabad High Court equally dividing the disputed land in three parts in favour of contenders was not practicable in the context of the nature of dispute.
The verdict generally received a warm welcome by both the communities nationwide. In so for as Hindus are concerned, they avoided any celebration or public expression of their joy and satisfaction; similarly, the majority Muslims expressed their agreement and satisfaction with the verdict barring a section of clergy and politicians, who openly expressed their dissent and anger with the judgment as also some of them tried to incite the community to reject the outcome and unitedly raise voice against it. Soon, contrary to the long asserted stand of Muslim parties to accept the Supreme Court judgment in whatever way it comes, many of them filed a review petition in the Supreme Court during the first week of December 2019 raising technical flaws in the verdict. Some Muslim and other organizations, which were not part of original litigation, too filed review petition.
The first plea was filed on 2nd December by the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, representing Islamic clergy of the Deobandi school of thought in India. Six more petitions were filed by the other Muslim litigants on 6th December for the review of judgment and directing the Central Government to stop formation of trust for temple construction. Among the rest of petitions, two petitions - one by the Hindu Mahasabha and the other by fourty academicians and rights activists filed on 9 December were also significant. While the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind Chief held that complete justice could only be done by directing reconstruction of Babri Masjid at the disputed land, the Hindu Mahasabha had moved their petition against the direction of court to allot five-acre land to Sunni Waqf Board in an obvious retaliation for building a mosque in Ayodhya.
However, the most unconventional and outlandish petition was that of fourty academicians and activists such as Irfan Habib, Harsh Mander, John Dayal, Farah Naqvi, Nandini Sundar, Shabnam Hashmi, John Dayal and Jayati Ghosh among others, who filed the review petition through advocate and rights activist Prashant Bhushan stating that they were "deeply aggrieved" by the verdict as it "errs in both fact and law". Among several contentious points, they alleged that the judgment overrides the faith of one community to favour the faith of another and has a direct adverse impact on the syncretic culture of the country. According to them, the belief of the Hindus that Ram was born in Ayodhya is not without doubt. They argued that the existence of Babri Masjid is a fact that has been historically documented, whereas the existence of the Hindu temple on which this mosque was built is merely a belief of the Hindus, one that has not been corroborated by any of the evidence adduced by the Hindu parties.
The aforesaid averment of the rights activists was either due to ignorance or conscious attempt to justify their case. The fact is a plethora of credible evidence was evinced by the Hindu parties to establish their possession and faith while the Muslim parties, except for intermittent period of prayer inside the premises, could not even establish whether the Masjid was constructed by Babur or Aurangzeb. These facts are documented in the 1045 pages long judgment itself. Taking a prompt action on the review petitions, the Supreme Court comprised of the same five judges bench headed by new CJI SA Bobde (one judge replaced retired CJI Gogoi) dismissed all eighteen review petitions on 12 December 2019 filed against the historic Ayodhya case judgment. The apex court considered only those review petitions, which belonged to the parties of the original four lawsuits filed in the case. The bench observed that the review petitions were lacked in merit and did not contain any point which was not addressed in the judgment. The bench also held that those who were not party to the suit cannot be permitted now to file a review inter alia dismissing pleas of fourty activists.
Well! Irrespective of what they said before judgment, the original parties to the litigation have right to seek remedies available under law, be it the already dismissed Review Petition or now perhaps a Curative Petition if they so desire. But what really bothers is the approach and action of the fourty academicians and rights-activists, popularly also known as "intellectuals and liberals" in India. Questioning existence of King Ram or a temple in Ayodhya by Irfan Habib Inc. in petition has not come as surprise. Likes of him, Romila Thaper and others have done it in the past too denying and criticizing legacies of Hindu civilization and culture including Ayodhya and Ram. During prolonged hearing, the Supreme Court judges too had considered and held unreliable "four historians' report" disputing Hindu scriptures and evidence of temple at the disputed site even without visiting the place and ignoring archaeological findings.
For many, it remains a puzzle why many of these academicians (mostly historians) can't see facts beyond the three domed disputed structure in Ayodhya or the history before 1528. They see a mosque there as a temporal reality but close their eyes to umpteen realities, present and past, in and around same site representing Hindu culture and religion. An academician or historian is expected to dispassionately reveal truth rather than discreetly glorify one aspect and suppress others. Of late, many conscious Indians have started questioning academicians who wrote history during the British rule and after the independence. After all, it's a fact that an average Indian can narrate the entire pedigree of Mughals or Khiljis while the same Indian, leave aside the pedigree of Guptas or Mauryas, hardly knows anything about even the great emperors like Ashoka, Chandragupta Vikramaditya or Lalitadiya Muktapida. This is so because prominet historians mainly focused on the last millenium from Slave dynasty to Mughal dynasty that ruled largely north and central parts of India.
The question arises why many of the academicians aka historians have had a lopsided view of the history in the past and what is that some of them continue to remain discreet while writing about past glory, faith and beliefs of two different communities. Even prevailing laws of many countries insist that the faith and belief system of people should be respected. Sadly, some of the Indian academicians/historians have even attempted to see nobility among Islamic invaders and mercenaries who are infamous for mass murder, loot, violation of modesty of women while systematically destroying temple and shrines i.e. symbols of Hindus' faith and beliefs; then while they cast doubts on scriptures of one religion but never dare even to talk about another religion. There is no need to discuss names but apart from Ram and Ayodhya, they have similarly questioned Mahabharata and Krishna, and other ancient divine and historical entities and symbols of Hindu faith and belief.
A background check of the academicians / rights-activists would reveal how many of them are either established Marxist or have leanings towards the left ideology. It could be anybody's approximation what justice an extreme leftist or rightist will do with a cause. The leftists are well known for their disregard about the established faith and belief system of the masses in any country or civilization, and many of them are declared atheist or agnostic people. To a considerable extent, this explains their apathy and indifference or even strong dislike of Hindu culture and religion in India. Another point that often bothers any well-meaning person is as to why some of these people are so selective in their approach towards two different religions when it comes to the question of their critical evaluation. Here the answer is rather simple: There is one religion that tolerates all kinds of dissent and debate, so anybody can take liberty and get away with it without any mortal fear or risk; then there is another religion with zero tolerance where a person could risk his life and everything for any criticism or even caricature. So apparently they remember the nemesis of people who ventured into such acts in the past elsewhere and, for sure, they are wise enough not to forget the Charlie Hebdo in 2015.


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Half Dead
Authors: Graham, Brandon
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Synopsis: Calvert Green literally believes he's dead--but that won't stop him from diving deep into the secrets that threaten to bury him.
The car accident took his wife and nearly killed him too, but Calvert Green's problems are just beginning. He was a respected Russian literature scholar in Chicago, but due to severe head trauma, he's now suffering from Cotard's Disease--a rare physiological condition that makes him believe he's dead. He has also lost much of his memory, including the academic knowledge that defined his life.
Calvert knows few details about the accident but believes there's more going on than he's been told, so he leaves the care facility determined to find the truth behind his "death." His search lands him in the middle of a city being terrorized by a murder spree, and young homicide detective Whistler Diaz has a prime suspect. But Whistler's cousin Moe, a crusading journalist, zeroes in on Calvert, determined to prove he's not all he seems.
Intuition and improvisation were never Calvert's strong suits, but now he has to draw on his hidden inner resources to clear his name. On a harrowing journey into the city's underbelly--and deep into his psyche--Calvert begins to uncover the shocking truth of who he once was.
Calvert might be on the verge of finding a new definition of sanity--but a malevolent force lurks in the shadows bent on total madness.