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Doctors Treat Patients…
Dr Avery Hinds
Doctors Treat Patients not Covid-19 Tests
Covid-19 Main Stories T&T News
DOCTORS do not wait for Covid-19 test results to treat patients but rather they treat what is in front of them.
Dr Naresh Nandram
This was stated by Principal Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health Dr Naresh Nandram, during the Health Ministry's virtual media conference on Monday.
He was responding to claims that a couple of people may have died before receiving their Covid-19 tests.
Nandram said, "I'll just like to say reemphasizing the message that was put out by the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr (Roshan) Parasram, doctors, clinicians and health professionals everywhere are very much aware we treat the patient in front of us we don't treat a piece of paper that the test comes on we treat the patient."
He added, "I'd also like to bring it to the public's attention that there is no specific treatment for Covid-19 at this time. The treatment recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is supportive care which does not require a test for us to do, so that supportive care is given to every patient whether they receive a test result or not."
Epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds explained further, "When a patient is clinically assessed at any of the public health institutions, the only role that a positive or negative Covid-19 test result will play is in determining where or in which facility the patient will be admitted."
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"All of the clinical needs, their need for support with regard to oxygenation, with regard to hydration, with regard to any medication that is required, all of those decisions are based on the clinical assessment of the patient," he said.
He assured, "Decisions for admission I'm not made on the basis of whether you are Covid-19 positive or not decisions for treatment are not made on that basis but the test will then allow us to redirect confirmed persons to the parallel healthcare system."
Dr Hinds noted, "As you may be aware there is an existing system what we refer to as suspect cases meaning persons who may be ill, we don't have the results but they require care, the care is currently being provided."
And Dr Nandram said the large numbers of Covid-19 patients that are taken to hospital after receiving Covid-19 positive results had nothing to do with a backlog or that people had to wait a long time before they were taken to hospital
In the Health Ministry's Monday morning clinical update, it stated that 285 persons were being admitted to hospital while 76 others were being processed for admission.
Dr Nandram said, "Because our testing in several facilities run across the night prior to our updates just before 8 o'clock in the morning, we usually get the reports of all the positives coming in immediately before so we usually get updated with those figures just before we come on. That also contributes to why there are these large figures coming in."
He said, "The facilities have room and the process of bringing a positive patient in, it's a little bit involved. The first thing we need to do is advise the patient and then coordinate with the clinical team to bring them in, so when we are notified of 20, 30, 40 cases immediately before, those would be brought in during the course of the day."
Nandram said, "It's something that we're consistently working on. Patients aren't brought in at any one point in time, they are brought in consistently day or night and the figures just represent a snapshot."
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If you are an Internet user, you would know that posting photos that could get you into a lot of trouble is just like airing your very dirty laundry. But there are some people do not seem to know or understand this as they still continue to post photos or comments that could be their downfall.
Take for example Harley David McKenzie. McKenzie, a meat worker, posted a very disturbing photo of himself beside a leopard seal that he has attacked with rocks. His photo caught the attention of the staff at the Department of Conservation, which led to his arrest.
Upon investigation, it has been found out that McKenzie has long been mistreating animals. In fact, he admitted that he once cut off the tail as well as the ears of a pig for fun just last year. Aside from this, he also admitted that he, together with five other friends, shot three dairy cows a year before the pig incident. McKenzie and two of his buddies were ordered to pay huge fines for the damage they have done.
Last October 2009, McKenzie, along with two other friends, found a leopard seal at the Te Waewae Bay and thought it would be funny to throw stones at it. That act not enough, McKenzie dragged the injured animal down to the beach and took photos of himself with the suffering leopard seal.
They were ordered to appear in court for their "barbaric" actions. His friends, Michael William Matthews and Phillip Ray Horrell, were fined $7,000 and $5,000 respectively; while McKenzie was to be sentenced. For his stupid act, McKenzie could be facing jail.


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Scott Appleby Reflects on Nobel Peace Laureate
Author: kroc.nd.edu
The Nobel Committee chose quite brilliantly in selecting Barack Obama. Those who say that the President does not deserve the peace prize because he has not accomplished anything more than "delivering a series of well-crafted speeches" or, more generously, "set a new tone" and "charted a new direction," betray a stunted notion of what constitutes peacebuilding. For a fuller notion of peacebuilding, consider:
First, the daunting set of problems facing the world—from nuclear proliferation to environmental degradation to resource wars that draw upon and deepen ethnic, religious, and national animosities. Take note of the growing realization that these problems are interconnected, global in scope and scale, and beyond the capacity of any one nation, or bloc of nations, to manage effectively. Keep in mind, as you ponder the intractability of these problems, the message conveyed to the world over many years by the world's most powerful nation, that "you are with us or against us," that any "partnership" between peoples and nations begins from our set of assumptions and values and ends there.
Then, feel the psychological impact of the accumulating expressions, at home and abroad, of mistrust, hatred, racism, ethnic warfare, religious extremism, and violent nationalism. Now factor into that picture a black President who refuses to take the bait, whether its source be racial, religious, ultranationalist, partisan, or privileged. A President who acknowledges human dignity based not on color, faith, or citizenship but inherent in our common humanity. Decidedly not a man who closes his eyes and ears to evil or papers over real conflict, but who powerfully draws the lines of division, not between classes, races, religions and nations but between those who want to work together, as authentic partners for the universal common good, and those who do not. A world figure who accepts the Nobel in the name of "the leader imprisoned in her own home because she refuses to abandon her commitment to democracy" [the Burmese peace advocate Aung San Suu Kyi] as well as "the soldier who sacrificed through tour after tour of duty on behalf of someone half a world away.
Finally, add to that mix the human resource, the quality of spirit, without which the hard and dreadful collaboration for sustainable peace and integral human development would be deemed a fool's errand. And yet that quality, so essential but so elusive, can become the foundation for genuine progress only if it is articulated and embodied in an unlikely person who somehow represents, in words, action, and presence, the sweet suspicion we all harbor, that hope is not an airy platitude, but a necessary and reliable foundation upon which people of good will can collaborate to provide clean drinking water, access to quality education, the right to a living wage, and protection from violence and all the other conditions that make sustainable peace possible.
An audacious, and inspired, choice by the Nobel Committee.
Scott Appleby
Professor of History, John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Appleby's comments may be used whole or in part.
Contact: Scott Appleby, 574-631-8500, rappleby@nd.edu

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Face Painting and Henna for Peace Day!
Yesterday, our lead face painter, Cynnamon, offered face painting at the Academy of Arts Middle School in San Francisco, Ca in celebration of "Peace Day". Cynnamon was offering her face painting to the teenagers attending the middle school alongside a very talented henna artist named Julia, who is now a part of our Bay Area Party Entertainment team. The teenagers seemed to be weary of getting their faces painted, wondering if it was "cool" enough, until they stood behind Cynnamon, watching her paint designs in awe. One of the girls burst out, "Oh wow, this isn't like any other face painting I've ever seen, she knows what she's doing". It's easy for the older kids and adults to want to get in on the face-painting-fun when the artist does beautiful work!
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28 Oct 2003 @ 22:24 by Paul Hughes @24.205.195.242 : why pretend, when it can be real?
Why pretend when it can be real? Yes, yes, I know. But siriusly, years of talk therapy will do little except affect changes at the mental level, but the real changes, the ones that last forever, and feel absolutely great, escatic, healing to the core, full of love, life, energy and fun happen at the feeling-healing-kinesthetic level. Real therapy happens at the body level.
You see Ming there is so much Info in just one sec. that it is hard to filter out what is important and what is not, etc etc etc...we have to abstract...that abstracting process is called Gestalting...So our lives in short are our novels or stories,which in turn affect us as we are writing them and affect others as they are writing their Story or Novel which affects our novels.
...above. Why pretend, when reality is the best therapy, ever!
I share that same story with you and Paul Shawa, and we can have a great deal of agreement on that especially about talk therapies but when I talk to your unconscious as I am doing now Shawa as well as your conscious mind and your unconscious mind to Paul as well as your conscious mind if you feel me trustworthy now, and you understand I want Shawa and Paul to florish, and live the full life that Paul describes, than my words which may penetrate to the deeper layers of your minds can have that feeling kinetic effects that you and Paul are talking about and which I fully agree with.
However, it is not the talk in talk therapy which doesn't work, its the lack of the I/thou relationship that is sadly often lacking. It's the brother and sister feeling needing help , and a loving projection screen feeling and perception that is lacking (on the part of the so-called therapist). What doesn't working is seeing someone as a client or patient...okay for a catagory but not how you relate to someone...and I'm not sure its even okay as a catagory...Still I have to agree, what often happens in talk therapy is either the person seeking the therapy takes on the therapist agenda and starts to talk like Woody Allen, or fails to, and the therapy is a bust in the usual way rather than the former one.
The point is exactly that what you pretend well enough IS reality. So, yes, of course it is about what you can feel and live and breathe. Talking is such a small part of living. All the senses need to be there. But the wonderful news is that despite any dismal state of reality, it is possible to change our minds and make it different. And if we change our mind, and our feelings, and we start perceiving something different, soon enough it will be very real. The key is to realize the tremendous power inherent in our ability to choose.
Yeah, you couldn't have painted so well without your head, of course. Yes, I do believe we can get pretty much whatever we want if we get through to our sub-conscious or super-conscious. But the problem is when we're not specific enough. And it is very hard to crate a complete reality that doesn't leave big chunks of it up to chance. We get what we clearly ask for, but it might be surprising how we get it.
29 Oct 2003 @ 10:39 by Andy @81.103.145.170 : How do you know?
How do you know what is reality and what is pretence?
29 Oct 2003 @ 10:54 by Paul @24.205.195.242 : re: How do you know?
I also tend to prefer a kinesthetic way of embracing and evolving reality. We can more easily fool ourselves without getting anywhere if we use just words, or just pictures in our mind for that matter. But, really, I think the trick is to do all of it. You probably won't change a deeply ingrained reality by just a few positive affirmations that you don't entirely believe. But you might do it if you both say it, and see it, and feel it, and smell it, and you go out and act accordingly.
J. and I agree with your perspective completely,,,,however it is also a great story in support of a pragmatic, eclectic approach to working with ones own stories, and supports the idea that life is the creation of a novel, that when it is working mirrors reality. Which does not contradict Ming, in fact supports his hypothesis, and which I believe is not ideological....by the way you look so young to be pondering issues like this...I saw your pic in your profile, by the way what is your mommy's name, it is your mommy holding you...isn't it?


Let us remember the birth of Christ, our Lord and Savior. Christ, who was born to die, and to live again.
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. ]This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Merry Christmas from OK-SAFE – may we all continue to the work of restoring liberty, while remembering that the giver of that liberty is the Lord.
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OK-SAFE's training classes are in-depth, un-sissified working sessions.
Classes are broken up into three parts, starting with the basics for beginners, moving on to how and when to lobby, then to the more advanced subjects of how to read a bill with understanding, understanding political doublespeak, and who and what is influencing legislation in Oklahoma.
Attendees will come out of this class better informed, more confident in their ability to communicate with elected officials, better able to track and follow legislation, and more informed about the potential impact proposed legislation could have on this state.
The following dates, times and locations have been confirmed for three training classes. Class details will be noted in our next newsletter.
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Saturday will be 2 weeks for Daniel and I ....and we just can't believe how quickly time has passed by! It's like, 2 weeks before the wedding you are running in slow motion...and after...well...you lose track of time.
Last night Daniel and I continued our decorating of the house. It's turning out quite nicely. Pix to come soon! We also have fabulous news--we found out just before the wedding that we were going to be an Aunt and Uncle to his sister, Rachel & Matt's baby. Want the story (they adopted...its just beautiful)? Go here for part one and here for part two, three & four.
Well....we are looking forward to tonight...we have friends & family from Columbia coming up to have dinner at one of our favorite spots, Red Robin, tonight.
One of the reason's my husband is so great.....click here.
ADDITION TO BLOG AT 10:18 am...I just read this post...that I got from LB's link....read it. Powerful.
thanks for your comment...i can't wait either!!...sounds like life is good! Congrats on being an Aunt again...i get to be an Uncle in a few months!
Hello, Aunt Candice and Uncle Daniel! :) Thanks for all your comments! We are so thrilled to be parents...and can't WAIT for you to meet Micah!!!


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News|US Elections 2020
Iran's Rouhani says Trump administration 'abjectly struck down'
President says US President Donald Trump befell a fate it wished to exact on Iran's governing establishment.
Rouhani says the end of Trump's rule will allow the Middle East to better focus on its interests [Reuters]
Tehran, Iran – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said the Trump administration, which he alleged aimed to overthrow Iran, has been "abjectly struck down" by its own people in the 2020 US elections.
In a televised cabinet speech on Wednesday, Rouhani said the current American leader, who has been projected as the loser of the presidential elections but has refused to concede, was goaded into abandoning the Iran nuclear deal "with childish and delusional conceptions".
"The regime that dreamt of the Iranian establishment's downfall has been itself abjectly struck down, and today all countries – except the few that have always followed the regime – see different circumstances in front of them," Rouhani said.
The Iranian official pointed out that US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wishes to return to the historic nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers in 2015.
"This is up to them. If they implement their responsibilities they can choose a new path," Rouhani said.
"The policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran are very clear, based on peace and stability in the region, respecting the rights of nations, not infringing or interfering in countries' internal affairs, combating terrorism, ending unilateralism, and adhering to accords and constructive cooperation."
'Betting on outsiders'
The president said the end of the Trump administration signals the removal of an "intrusive factor" that will allow the region to better focus on its interests and for Iran to have better relations with its neighbours.
Earlier this week, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet that "Trump's gone in 70 days but we'll remain here forever" in a message to Iran's neighbours to stop "betting on outsiders" and turn to dialogue to resolve issues.
Zarif's message came a day after media reports said the US was planning a "flood" of new sanctions against Tehran in coordination with Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
US Special Representative on Iran Elliott Abrams was in Israel on Sunday and Monday to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the new sanctions and will travel to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi next.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is also expected to travel to the region soon to coordinate Iran action among other things.
The United States on November 10 imposed sanctions on six companies and four people for alleged weapons of mass destruction proliferation and supplying sensitive goods to an Iranian military firm.
Trump also "terminated" Pentagon chief Mark Esper and is reportedly considering firing other top defence and intelligence officials, in a move that has prompted concerns over potential conflicts in the Middle East – in Iran in particular – in the less than two months left until Biden assumes office.
'Iran neither frightened nor ecstatic'
On Wednesday, deputy Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with state-run IRNA that Iran will neither be "frightened" if Trump stays nor "ecstatic" if Biden prevails.
"We will decide and behave based on our own interests," he said.
A day before his cabinet speech, President Rouhani addressed a virtual meeting of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and blasted the United States.
He said the Trump administration's "bullying" approach in the past few years posed a serious threat to economic and political multilateralism.
"The results of the US elections showed that not only the world is opposed to the incorrect policies of the current US administration, but the American people have had enough as well," said Rouhani.
Rouhani said this shows the foreign policy of a country that always resorts to threats and sanctions has "certainly lost its way".
After reneging on the landmark Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, the Trump administration has pursued a "maximum pressure" campaign of harsh economic sanctions on Iran.
It has included torrents of nuclear and non-nuclear sanctions that could prove more difficult to lift for a Biden administration.
In a news conference in Tehran on November 10, government spokesman Ali Rabiei called on the US to put an end to Trump's approach and work to make up for his mistakes.
"Returning to the [nuclear deal] and a commitment without conditions to all its requirements is a step that can be taken to correct US policies," he said.
US imposes Iran-related sanctions on 6 firms, 4 people
The US Treasury Department accuses the network of supplying sensitive goods to an Iranian military firm.
'Trump is gone in 70 days but we'll remain here forever': Iran FM
Tehran warns regional rivals against counting on US amid report that Trump administration is planning fresh sanctions.
Iranian officials react to Biden victory in US presidential race
As politicians in Iran welcomed Donald Trump's defeat, some were sceptical about the prospects of improved relations.
What will a Biden presidency mean for Iran?
Democratic nominee's win boosts hopes of revitalising Iran nuclear deal – but undoing Trump years will not be easy.


The width of a ship at its widest point. Also called breadth.
The navigation and command area of the ship.
Your room onboard the ship.
The stairways inside the ship.
For a nominal fee, some cruise lines allow you to take your own wine onboard to drink during dinner. This usually ranges from 15-20USD per bottle.
Process of getting off the ship on the final day.
The measurement from the waterline to the lowest point of a ships keel.
Process of boarding the ship.
A line dividing the northern and southern hemisphere at latitude 0 degrees.
The passageway (door) by which passengers embark or debark a ship.
Another word for tips which in most cases is automatically added to any onboard beverage purchase.
Measurement of 100 cubic feet of enclosed revenue earning space within a ship.
A "guarantee" cabin or stateroom is a promise that the passenger will sail on a stated voyage in a pre-defined minimum price category or type of cabin. It basically means you will be given this cabin type or better (upgrade). In this booking class you will usually not be assigned a specific cabin until close to the departure date.
Ships identification number issues by the International Maritime Organization consisting of the letters IMO and followed by 7 numbers. The number was introduced to enhance martime safety.
The first official sailing of a ship with passengers.
A line running along the longtitude of 180 degrees where the time zones +12 and -12 meet and where the date changes. Few adjustments are made to this line to avoid a division of certain island groups.
A ships schedule of port and sea days.
The centerline of a ship running from front to back.
At sea, the ships speed is measured in knots. It is a unit of speed reflecting one nautical mile per hour, or 1.15 land miles per hour. The term comes from the old days when a series of knots were tied in a rope and attached to a log and spaced out of a certain distance. The log was thrown out over the stern and the number of knots which ran out while a 28 second sand-glass emptied were counted. The number of knots counted gave the ship's speed.
The side of the ship sheltered from the wind.
Smaller reserve boats carried on the ship in case of emergency.
To assemble passengers and/or crew in a designated area onboard the ship in the event of an emergency.
A map of a sea area showing coast lines, rocks, water depths, buoy position and lighthouses. These charts are now mainly used in digital format however, ships also still have paper charts.
A distance equal to 6,076 feet. A land mile is 5,280 feet.
The highest ranks (command) onboard the ship. Below are some officer positions found onboard cruise ships. Not all ships have the same structure and not all ships have all the officer positions mentioned.
A person from local port authority that conducts a ship in and out of a port.
The country in which a ship is registered. This can frequently be seen by that flag and city/county under the ships name.
When a ship moves from one seasonal cruise area to another.
Wing-like retractable devices extending form the sides of the ship to reduce movement and produce a more stable situation.
The back part of a ship.
A smaller vessel used to move passengers to and from the ship. Frequently ship own lifeboats are used.
Facing towards the direction of the wind.


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Q: Is "last two years ago, I was in a classical concert " a correct sentence? In my English class my Teacher said I cannot use "Last two years ago...", so what should I use correctly?

A: *Last two years ago is incorrect because it combines two constructions with different senses:

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*Ago is a preposition which, unusually, follows its object. That object is a measurement of distance in time and designates a time point (though it may be a rather fuzzy point) at that distance in the past. It's used to designate the date or time at which an eventuality occurred:

Two years ago I answered a question about stative verbs. —that is, I answered the question in September of 2014. (It was actually on September 15, but as I said, the 'point' is fairly fuzzy.)

*The last (not bare last) are a determiner and an adjective†; when this group is attached to a nominal which designates a measurement of distance in time it designates a timespan of that length reaching from the past right up to the present. The entire noun phrase is used with a preposition such as in or for or since to designate the period during which one or more eventualities occurred:

In the last two years I have answered thirteen questions tagged perfect-constructions. —that is, during the period running from September, 2014 up to the present I answered thirteen questions.

Note that the noun phrase the last [TIME MEASUREMENT] can also be used without a preposition to designate the period itself:

The last two years have gone by very quickly.

Combining last and ago, your phrase tries to characterize two years simultaneously as both a time point and a time span. You have to pick one or the other.

† As Ahmad suggests, it is arguable that last* in temporal contexts should be considered a determinative, and the last a Determiner Phrase*—but that doesn't affect the point at issue here.

A: "ago" is used to specify a time point in the past when something happened. Before "ago" you need a time period like "two years" or "10 minutes" to specify how long ago it happend:

5 minutes ago
an hour ago
a long time ago
some time ago
two years ago

bare "last" without "the" is used as a determiner (opposite of next) to specify a time.

last year, last night, last week

last can also be used as an adjective to point to something that is at the end in a sequence.

the last person
the last chapter of the book
the last two years
the last year

Note, when you point to the last two years, you point to a specific time period ("two years") which is the last one. It spans from two years ago to the present and you usually use a "present perfect" tense with it

I have been learning English in the last two years.

This time period can also be used as the subject or object of the sentence.

The last two years have been very difficult for my family.

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Q: When I run this command to deploy the solana contract this error is reported So when I run this
ts-node C:\Users\ras zebi\Desktop\solana boobs\metaplex-master\js\packages\cli\src\candy-machine-v-cli.ts upload -e devnet -k C:\Users\ras zebi\Desktop\solana boobs\keypair\my-keypair.json -cp C:\Users\ras zebi\Desktop\solana boobs\metaplex-master\js\packages\cli\example-candy-machine-upload-config.json C:\Users\ras zebi\Desktop\solana boobs\metaplex-master\my assets
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Require stack:
- C:\Users\imaginaryUncacheableRequireResolveScript
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    at Function.resolve (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:108:19)
    at requireResolveNonCached (C:\Users\ras zebi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ts-node\dist\bin.js:496:16)
    at getProjectSearchDir (C:\Users\ras zebi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ts-node\dist\bin.js:466:40)
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    at bootstrap (C:\Users\ras zebi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ts-node\dist\bin.js:44:30)
    at main (C:\Users\ras zebi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ts-node\dist\bin.js:32:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\ras zebi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ts-node\dist\bin.js:526:5)
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What can I try to fix this?


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const rateLimit = require('../..').poisons.rateLimit

suite('poison#rateLimit', function () {
  test('limit', function (done) {
    const opts = { limit: 2, threshold: 10 }

    const res = {}
    res.setHeader = function (key, value) {
      expect(key).to.match(/RateLimit/i)
    }
    res.end = function (data) {
      expect(data).to.be.undefined
    }

    const invalidRes = {}
    invalidRes.setHeader = function (key, value) {
      if (key === 'X-RateLimit-Limit') {
        expect(value).to.be.equal(2)
      }
      if (key === 'X-RateLimit-Remaining') {
        expect(value).to.be.equal(0)
      }
      if (key === 'X-RateLimit-Reset') {
        expect(value).to.be.below(10)
      }
    }
    invalidRes.end = function (body) {
      expect(body).to.match(/Too many requests/i)
    }

    const limiter = rateLimit(opts)

    limiter(null, res, next)
    limiter(null, res, next)
    limiter(null, invalidRes, next) // invalid

    // Wait to try again
    setTimeout(function () {
      limiter(null, res, next)
      limiter(null, res, end)
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Q: user only select one payment option(credit card) through radio button with the help of Javascript I have 4 credit card options user can select only one payment option(credit card) at a time and return value per name or some values of card. And i dnt want to any submit button after cards because these options are in form  and form have already submit button.I want to do this with JavaScript.
Here is my html code:-
    <INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="Ccard" VALUE="visa">Visa

    <INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="Ccard" VALUE="master">Master

    <INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="Ccard" VALUE="american_express">American Express

    <INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="Ccard" VALUE="discover">Discover

Kindly advise me ASAP.
Thanks,

A: I assume you have already the HTML of the radio buttons.
the javascript needed :
 if (document.getElementById('idOfRadioButton1').checked) {
 creditCard= document.getElementById('idOfRadioButton1').value;
}

the same for radioButton2,3,4.

A: Well simply use HTML radio input:

function getValue(){

    var radios = document.getElementsByName('creditcard');
    for (var i = 0, length = radios.length; i < length; i++) {
      if (radios[i].checked) {
        alert(radios[i].value);
        break;
      }
    }
  }
        <INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="creditcard" VALUE="Type1" CHECKED>Type1

        <INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="creditcard" VALUE="Type2">Type2

        <INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="creditcard" VALUE="Type3">Type3

        <INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="creditcard" VALUE="Type4">Type4

        <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Get Value" onclick="getValue()">

By giving the four input elements the same name, they will be like a group of radio buttons where you can select only one of them at once.
And with this Javascript function you can get the checked element from them.


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A Florida witness at Titusville reported watching an oval-shaped object crossing the sky "shrouded in the bright, meteor-like light" while waiting for an Atlas V rocket launch, according to testimony in Case 81674 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The events occurred about 8:15 p.m. on January 19, 2017.
"My husband and I were in the viewing bleachers for the launch of the Atlas V rocket carrying a missile detecting satellite," the witness stated. "We were in a launch delay. I was standing in the bleachers and others were sitting." The witness says she was staring at the sky as she had heard that UFOs sometimes frequent launches. "I was looking towards the east and suddenly I saw an extremely bright, yellow/green light and it was wide, and it was close. It was horizontal to the ground and it streaked by us. I yelled, 'Look' and people in the stands caught a glimpse. It was so fast that many missed it, but some didn't. The woman behind me who was sitting down and just caught a glimpse said it was a meteor. I said, no, there was something in it." The witness saw a light streak by with something metallic in it. The witness described what she saw. "Just before the yellow/green steak of light vanished, for a fleeting bit of a second, I saw part of something metallic. It had a seam and a shape that was rounded. But the yellow/green light obscured all but a small part of the object. I know what I saw and there was definitely something in that light." The launch was scrubbed due to a wayward aircraft in the flight path of the rocket. "We all got on the buses and left. But I was still filled with excitement as I believe that was a UFO. I checked the web and cannot find any record of a meteor on that night." NOTE: The above image is CGI.


Limonite is the orange particle in this field of view. The white particle is a newly crushed quartz particle. These particles are from a tranformer oil sample.
Limonite is FeO-OH-nH2O. It varies in color from very pale yellow to orange-brown, depending on the amount of water in the matrix. The flakes often contain darker, less hydrated nuclei. The form of the limonite particle reflects the shape of the interface between the oil and the water layer. This flat sheet indicates a very flat, smooth interface. Limonite is amorphous or cryptocrystalline but as it looses more water the nuclei convert to a more evident crystal structure. There are at least five forms of FeO-OH that have distinctive crystal structures. They include lepidocrocite, goethite, and others.
The quartz in this image is probably a filler or bulking agent from a polymer used in the Transformer The quartz particle is sharply angular and shows no weathering. It is a very pure form of quartz with no inclusion other than water. The Inclusions seen in the particle are vacuum chambers with small drops of water that would fill the cavity with water vapor at the temperature at which the crystal grew. This is a commercial grade of quartz and not a random natural mineral.
Free water is accumulating on the surface of sheet iron and is corroding the iron. Growth of crystal sites in the limonite film indicate that this has been occuring for at least many months.


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Q: Looking for javascript plugin about drop down element from input text I am looking for something like stackoverflow Tags input that will show me the suggestion list after I input something.
I don't mind jquery plugin as long as it meet my needs.
Thank you for advance.

A: If you're just looking to offer the opportunity to select multiple values in an autocomplete field, use the Autocomplete "Multiple" variant from jQuery UI:
http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#multiple
Hope this helps.


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Q: Integer array to string in c programming Lets say i have an integer array with ascii values.
int stringAscii = {"072", "101", "108", "108", "111", "032",
                   "087", "111", "114", "108", "100"};

and i want to convert the ascii values to characters and combine them to a string:
char *string = stringAsciiToString(stringAscii);

printf("Output -> '%s'", string);

// output -> 'Hello World'
How would you make such a function? This is what i got so far;
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<math.h>
#include<string.h>

long int p,q,n,t,flag,e[100],d[100],temp[100],j,m[100],en[100],i;
char msg[100];
int prime(long int);
void ce();
long int cd(long int);
void encrypt();
void decrypt();

int main()
{
    p = 53;
    q = 61;
    printf("\nENTER MESSAGE\n");
    fflush(stdin);
    scanf("%s",msg);

    for(i=0;msg[i]!=NULL;i++)
      m[i]=msg[i];
    n=p*q;
    t=(p-1)*(q-1);
    ce();

    encrypt();
    decrypt();

    strcpy(msg, "");

    for(i=0;en[i]!=-1;i++) {
      strcpy(msg, concat(msg, en[i]));
    }

    printf("%s", msg);

    return 0;
}

char* concat(const char *s1, const char *s2) {
    char *result = malloc(strlen(s1)+strlen(s2)+1);                              //+1 for the zero-terminator
    strcpy(result, s1);
    strcat(result, s2);
    return result;
}

int prime(long int pr)
{
   int i;
   j=sqrt(pr);
   for(i=2;i<=j;i++)
   {
      if(pr%i==0)
         return 0;
   }
   return 1;
}

void ce()
{
   int k;
   k=0;
   for(i=2;i<t;i++)
        {
            if(t%i==0)
                continue;
                flag=prime(i);
            if(flag==1&&i!=p&&i!=q)
            {
                e[k]=i; flag=cd(e[k]);
                if(flag>0)
      {
         d[k]=flag;
         k++;
      }
      if(k==99)
         break;
      }
   }
}

long int cd(long int x)
{
   long int k=1;
   while(1)
   {
      k=k+t;
      if(k%x==0)
         return(k/x);
   }
}

void encrypt()
{
   long int pt,ct,key=e[0],k,len;
   i=0;
   len=strlen(msg);
   while(i!=len)
   {
      pt=m[i];
      pt=pt-96;
      k=1;
      for(j=0;j<key;j++)
      {
         k=k*pt;
         k=k%n;
      }
      temp[i]=k;
      ct=k+96;
      en[i]=ct;
      i++;
   }
   en[i]=-1;
   printf("\nTHE ENCRYPTED MESSAGE IS\n");
   for(i=0;en[i]!=-1;i++)
      printf("%c",en[i]);
}

void decrypt()
{
   long int pt,ct,key=d[0],k;
   i=0;
   while(en[i]!=-1)
   {
      ct=temp[i];
      k=1;
      for(j=0;j<key;j++)
      {
         k=k*ct;
         k=k%n;
      }
      pt=k+96;
      m[i]=pt;
      i++;
   }
   m[i]=-1;
   printf("\nTHE DECRYPTED MESSAGE IS\n");
   for(i=0;m[i]!=-1;i++)
      printf("%c",m[i]);
}

A: Assuming that your stringAscii array is:
int stringAscii[] = {72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32,
                     87, 111, 114, 108, 100};

And not:
int stringAscii = {"072", "101", "108", "108", "111", "032",
                   "087", "111", "114", "108", "100"};

Which is incorrect for two reasons:

*

*you need to have stringAscii[] as your array name.

*You can't have string " " values as members of an integer array. That is type conflict in C.

You can dynamically allocate space for char *string using malloc, and add your ascii integer values to the dynamic array one at a time.
You can free the requested space at the end.
Something like this will help you get started:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

char *stringAsciiToString(int stringAscii[], const size_t size);

int
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    int stringAscii[] = {72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32,
                     87, 111, 114, 108, 100};

    const size_t size = sizeof(stringAscii)/sizeof(*stringAscii);

    char *string = stringAsciiToString(stringAscii, size);

    printf("Output -> '%s'\n", string);

    free(string);

    return 0;
}

char
*stringAsciiToString(int stringAscii[], const size_t size) {
    int i, slen = 0;

    char *string = malloc((size+1) * sizeof(*string));
    if (!string) {
        printf("Cannot allocate memory\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        string[slen++] = stringAscii[i];
    }
    string[slen] = '\0';

    return string;
}

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Enabling Jihad at Stanford, Georgetown, and Beyond
Matthew Hanley
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 @ 12:00 am	 In	2017,Columns | Comments Disabled
It's harder to get into Stanford than any other American university (5 percent of applicants are admitted). Yet Stanford recently saw fit to admit someone who used his precious essay space – in response to the question: "What matters to you, and why?" – by repeating "#BlackLivesMatter" 100 times. Imagine the chagrin of the many other worthy applicants who didn't make the cut.
Turns out he was an intern for Hillary (of course); he also happens to be Muslim, but media accounts invariably offered no word about how he might reconcile his ostentatious profession of concern with the fact that black lives are still enslaved in parts of Africa by Muslims [1] – nowhere else and by no one else. Not a pretty picture [2].
So is this "celebrated" Stanford student repudiating the example of Mohammed, who personally owned slaves, and sanctioned slave raiding? Well, is he? We might just say this is all pretty "rich" and leave it at that. But more needs to be said about the fact that it is harder to broach uncomfortable facts about Islam at Stanford than it is to be admitted. Robert Spencer could tell you all about it.
A group of students invited him to come talk about his meticulous elucidation of the Islamic sources that justify and even mandate jihad. This sparked a flurry of indignation, including calls for the event to be canceled and boycotted. Though he is more knowledgeable than most imams, agitated students dismissed him as "not intelligible," "not scholarly," – in a word – "trash." Administrators libelously bemoaned his supposed history of stirring up hatred.
Is standing against hideous things – jihad murder, slavery, the manifold indignities Sharia visits upon women, etc. – suddenly discouraged at Stanford when they happen to be embedded into the fiber of a religion deemed so worthy of uncritical adulation that they must be willfully overlooked?
Stanford did not mimic Berkeley by canceling the event or resorting to thuggery to prevent a curiously unwelcome voice from being heard. They just hatched a subtler plan – weeks in advance – to achieve the same end.
Shortly after his talk began, an Islamic chant was let loose for a tense moment – apparently on someone's phone. A lot of people sure were looking at their phones, which was odd given that the room was so packed that many were denied entry. A few minutes later, the majority walked out in choreographed unison – with the aggressive, supremacist undertone of Islamic chant blaring from devices: Allahu Akbar without the violence. Those who had originally been barred due to lack of capacity were then denied the opportunity to occupy the vacated space.
Free speech, Stanford style
Spencer had just finished relaying an objective fact that belongs at any institution of higher learning: a key feature of jihad, according to the highest Sunni authority of jurisprudence (Al-Azhar University in Cairo) is that one's blood and one's possessions are only safe if one succumbs to the rule of Islam; nobody outside it merits protection. Substantively, this could qualify as an ingrained, religiously sanctioned form of "hate speech," which the students imagined they were virtuously heading outside to condemn.
Spencer maintains that administrators abetted the disruption and that, in any case, it amounted to a quintessential display of fascism; that may seem a loaded term, but by first mounting a defamation campaign against him and then forcibly preventing others from being exposed to his ideas, Stanford earned the characterization.
His mere presence was alleged to make Muslims feel unsafe – and yet only Spencer needed a sizeable security detail. His contention all along has been that detractors resort to smear tactics because they cannot engage on the level of facts and ideas. Stanford's walkout proved his point in spades, just as surely as those who committed violence in response to Pope Benedict critically remarking at Regensburg upon the violent tendencies associated with Islam proved him right.
By not allowing the examination of jihad on its own terms Stanford chose to enable it. Apparently, Islamic figures, approvingly repeating binding Islamic texts that, say, urge the wiping out of Jews must go unremarked. Only calling this out is problematic – the secular sin of "Islamophobia" (a Saudi-manufactured term).
Corporations also nurture this climate of conformity. Just down the road from Stanford, the boors at PayPal blocked Spencer's web site from using their services, thereby depriving him of a source of financial support. Exactly what the Southern Poverty Law Center, specialists in declaring organizations it doesn't like as "hate groups," wanted. They merely declare Spencer's outfit a "hate group" and the media dutifully echo it despite SPLC's obvious bias.
Stanford, however, is far from being alone. Catholic Georgetown University hosts Saudi-funded initiatives designed to propagate the best spin on Islam. Threatening aspects are, it seems, of marginal concern. But what some people consider minor can be very consequential; New York, London, Paris, Brussels, Nice, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, even Scandinavia now can testify to that.
The stakes are similarly high when some allege that Spencer's "marginal" stance does not align with the overall conciliatory thrust of the modern Church vis-à-vis Islam:
I disagree with Pope Francis' claim that "authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence," as any sane and informed person, Catholic or non-Catholic, should. If that is indeed "Church teaching," then the Catholic Church has a massive problem: it is presenting outright falsehood as "Church teaching," and cannot be trusted by Catholics or anyone else.
Several years ago, a man in the admissions office at Stanford left his post to become a priest. I cannot say if the inanities of university officialdom played any role. Yet I wonder: if the kind of naïve falsity that seems to prevail everywhere else also prevails within the ecclesiastic circles he now travels in, where would he go then?
Matthew Hanley is senior fellow with the National Catholic Bioethics Center. With Jokin de Irala, M.D., he is the author of Affirming Love, Avoiding AIDS: What Africa Can Teach the West, which recently won a best-book award from the Catholic Press Association. The opinions expressed here are Mr. Hanley's and not those of the NCBC.
URL to article: https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/11/21/enabling-jihad-at-stanford-georgetown-and-beyond/
[1] parts of Africa by Muslims: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions/
[2] Not a pretty picture: https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/black-africans-slavery.jpg


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Lisa Schweitzer
Working to understand the complex connections between people, cities, and environments
Category: social inclusion
On police legitimacy regardless of social science findings
07/18/2016 07/18/2016 Lisa Schweitzer
On Wednesday I wrote about how statistical innumeracy has led to way too much being read into Roland Fryer's recently released NBER study. Despite my appalling lack of talent ;^), I feel a little like it's my job to write those kinds of posts in order to help people understand the mechanics of social science. I'm a somewhat unusual planner in that I have spent most of my career in economics before heading into planning and urban studies, and I was fortunate to wind up at USC Price where, though they drive me to drink on a daily basis, I am surrounded by excellent social scientists from both economics and political science. So I'm still learning every day.
That said, I don't think the answer to #BLM advocacy is going to come from social science. Social science is good for many, many things, but with #BLM and the individual cases like Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland, there are two things going on which really have nothing to do with things that social science can detect.
The first are individual injustices: even if we did show, for example, that there were no disparities in police violence by race (which is not the case, but let's say it was), any person unjustly harmed by representatives of the state–police–is a wrong that should be addressed if the system we have set up is functioning in a manner that people consider broadly just. Each individual case, from Freddie Grey to Sandra Bland, has to be correctly adjudicated even if there are no broad social trends that might be detectable with social science.
Fumbling on the adjudication of one wrong now and then does not mean the entire system is terrible; most people who aren't Frederich Hayek understand that there is no perfect justice. A mistake here and there might be the best we can do.
But with Black Lives Matter and the issues they highlight, we aren't talking about a few isolated incidents here and there.That's the second issue. We are talking about multiple wrongs (or harms at the very least) that, over time, have accumulated so that a subgroup within the political community has lost faith in both policing and courts as public institutions. To some degree, we might be able to use social science to inform experiential knowledge of being subjected to policing. Experience matters, however, in how people know and learn, and it is itself a very important component to public policy formation, as well as institutional conduct.
The lack of legitimacy among police in black communities has been a forever problem in the US. What BLM seeks to do is get other parts of the political community to see and experience what they see: That trust is gone, the way they are treated is vastly different than the way others are treated, and that this policing is done under the tacit consent of all of us in the political community. When that trust is broken, then it's gone, and it doesn't come back because of social science. It comes back through governance: by demonstrating trustworthiness through changing behavior and practices.
#BLM advocates are not getting rich doing this. They are not looking for "special rights", whatever that means. They are going to a great deal of trouble–I strongly suspect they would rather be playing Pokemon Go or watching television or painting or gardening or going for a hike than getting arrested and shoved around, don't you? But they don't have that privilege. They are protesting, like all those who protest in majoritarian or elite-dominated systems, because they have, through experience, listening, and observing, identified change they need and they do not have influence through lobbying or other back-door means.
Social science does not really have an answer to any of it, and it's wrong to ask it to, just as it is wrong to try to use social science to undermine the calls for change.
Barbara Jordan's 1976 DNC speech , Black history, Women's history, LGBTQ history getting made, all at once
With HRC's presumptive nominee status, people have been remember Shirley Chisolm, who was the first woman to run for president (in 1972). These conversations, and the upcoming convention, have me thinking about Barbara Jordan. I remember her 1976 convention speech like it was yesterday: I was only just in elementary school, but my father was a local politician and he watched the conventions, both sides, obsessively. I thus did, too. To a little kid with a bad stutter and poor diction, she lit up my mind.
Barbara Jordan's speech was a work of art. And I loved it: I loved the way crowd came alive. I loved the Texas theme song. I loved her pastel mint suit with the unapologetically frilly neck doodad. I loved how the crowd loved.
I still make my students in my social policy class watch the speech because it wasn't always shameful to discuss the welfare state in American politics, and people should see and remember the work of Black of politicians. I still point people to it whenever I can because she was incredible. It's also good to remind people that many of the problems we think we only have today have been with us awhile.
Less well known is that Ms. Jordan seems to have had a lifelong partner, which makes me happy.
She only lived another 19 years after this speech, which she gave when she was 40. Too young, damn it. Neither she nor Representative Chisolm lived to see President Obama in the Oval Office, which makes me sad, because they helped him get there.
It was a historic moment, it was a very good vision for the welfare state, and she was magnificent:
IHE, the PLANET defection, and the #NotAllMen defense
Inside Higher Ed ran a piece on the PLANET walk-out. The comments are irritating because it's the usual dudes saying dumbtwat dudely things like "geeeeee can't take a jeeeeooooke" rationalizing. "DurrrrGee I thought it was funny."
Lemme explain this again:
The gentleman posting this stuff is a human being who makes contributions to the field. We respect him and do appreciate all the work he's done.
But, honestly: had he sent that joke to one of his female graduate students, and she had taken it to her university sexual harassment officer, he would have to sit through eleventy million hours of sexual harassment training. But I guess if he sends it to 2 trillion of his female colleagues via a listserv, it's all good. Because THEY ASKED TO JOIN THE LIST, yah, that's the ticket.
It really would be both wise and nice if he would stop it.
And it would be even nicer if when asked that it stop, it actually…stops. Instead of that request resulting in: "YOU BITCHES SHUT YER CAKEHOLES OR LEAVE."
This is one reason why I need to clap back at Bill Page, who is another wonderful person we all appreciate, but who is wrong in the IHE, as is the person he quotes, if we are supposed to assume that Bill agrees with this person. (GOD THERE I GO AGAIN TELLING PEEPS THEY ARE WRONG).
Page, the founder and coordinator of the Listserv, responded to an email request for comment by sending what he sees as "a representative response of what is being said on PLANET about the statement of the 118 that you reference."
The response: "I am disappointed that 118 of the best voices on PLANET have chosen to leave rather than to stay and help to make this online community a better one. By my count there are approximately 1,400 subscribers. Several of them behaved badly this week. Most of them did not. Most of us would be pleased to hear what many of the 118 have to say about this matter, and, more importantly, what they would have to say about many significant planning-related issues in the future. I am sorry that many of our valued colleagues have chosen not to participate in this large and unique international community of planning scholars, and, should any of them read this, I hope many of them decide to come back."
Now, I know this was meant to be polite, and it was very civil, and this person is trying to be nice. But no. This is concern trolling and needs an answer.
What happened here wasn't a bunch of short-fused firebrands walking off and slamming the door before anybody had a chance to deliberate the points with them. Women tried to contribute and were told to shut up and leave and that they "wouldn't be missed."
And "I'm sorry they have chosen to leave." How about being sorry that women were treated badly in the first place? How about starting there? See, that's where you should have started.
Beyond that, spare us the "some have behaved badly, but most people didn't." Bergh. #NotAllMen. 2014 called and wants its lame rationalizing hashtag back.
I've had one senior male faculty member after another make excuses for some of the people writing "Bite me, bitches" emails to PLANET, like "So and so is actually a really sweet guy." Uh-huh. Scratch the surface gently on any number of guys, who face-to-face wear a respectable mask, and you can, and often do, find hatred towards women who fail to please. Decent men and often very nice men, men who very much want to be good men, live in a world where they are told, all the time and in every way possible, they are entitled to degrade women who fail to please.
The mask slipped, and there were the uuuuuuuugly bits that remind us that even very, very nice men can hate women. As a dedicated blamer of the patriarchy, I must blame where blame is due. That there is the patriarchy, doing its thing inside the head of a "nice man."
Scratch the surface of a lot of women who have achieved status in the hierarchy and blam–there is a good dose of internalized hate, too. They have made it, didn't they, and they need to believe that they did so because they are awesome, not that they complied and internalized injustice.
And while "the vast majority" of you "want those 118 to do this or that" then the "vast majority" of the community should have used your vast majority power to show young women that you cared about them and what they think when you had the chance.
You didn't. And you got the nerve to call for unity NOW?
Let me explain something, which is my #1, Never-Fail, Go-To advice for all scholars from the margins, and that is:
The community/institution/whatever does not get to use your human capital if people therein are disrespectful to you.
Let me repeat:
And, in case you missed it:
The idea that "the collective/community/we" are entitled to oppressed people's work, time and talent, no matter how badly "the collective/community/we" treat folks, is the freaky deaky sine qua non of oppression.
The idea that oppressed people have to "be civil" when eating crap they don't deserve is the sine qua non of bourgeois academic virtues.
My senior male faculty for a bit had a baaaaaaad habit when I started, and that was: they'd demand my presence on committees and meetings and then talk over me, dismiss my ideas, and treat me not as well as I deserved.
For awhile, I sat there and seethed, on the margin, where I was supposed to be.
Then I got tenure.
And then when they indulged in that nonsense, I started getting up and leaving in the middle of whatever it was. You wanna treat me badly? Ok, then, you don't get. I got gardens to plant, books to read, articles to write, and students to torment.
And if you don't appreciate me taking time from those things, done for me, to do for you, then you don't get. Nor do your students, nor do your projects. You don't get from me when you don't respect me.
Is that clear? Which is why, no, lots of people do not feel the need to stick around PLANET to educate people on why it's not okay to tell jokes about women that frame them as gossips and a baby factory. Women are a wee bit prickly about those humiliating tropes because they were historically an excuse to treat women badly. That history has lingered.
So yeah, gee, why not stay around and educate people on why this is a problem? Well, here's why:
We are, collectively, as women, people of color, and LGBT, people who have, over the years, on PLANET and ASCP, asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and
for PLANET and planning educators to knock it off with the "we're just da boyz here in the da boyz club snapping towels at each other" tone.
I suppose people could 'stick around and let people know what we think' because so many people would "be pleased to hear" (yah, boy, I get up in the morning to please people, yessireeebob, it's right up there with making sure I'm pretty when my husband comes home and all those church suppers I prepare) but you know, the first 100 times women let people know what they thought on PLANET, they've either been ignored or treated like crap. How many tries women got to make before they get to give up on y'all and your "community", and you admit that the "community" is the problem and not the people who just can't with this nonsense anymore? 101? 1,000,001? Or is there really no upper limit to the "community" entitlement?
Why, exactly, are women and their allies here supposed to stick around and share their thoughts with you when some of y'all have made it 100 percent clear you'd rather read jokes about *dead* women than read about what women think about these jokes, and the "vast majority" of you kept your heads down instead demanding Bill step up?
Asian poets commenting on Michael Derrick Hudson, and some poetry for good measure
I've been racing around with a project this week (yes, I do work, now and then), and I've not had a chance to settle down and read think about my reactions to Michael Derrick Hudson and his admission that he took a high school friend's name and submitted his poetry under it, after having less success submitting under his own, obvious white-guy name. He came clean after having a poem included by Sherman Alexie in Best American Poetry. This is naturally irritating, with the usual outcry of "oh see political correctness can't stand up to the superiorness of the white guy" and a good deal of criticism being leveled at Sherman Alexie for admitting that he gave the poem more consideration and heavier weight than he would have otherwise out of consideration for what he thought was the writer's identity, as well as criticism from poets of color for Alexie's response.
There are a few things I do think I can contribute to this discussion even though I am hardly an expert at poetry, as I want to talk about the writer's process and being in these markets.
First, this is not like JK Rowling publishing under her initials so that boys will read her book because they would never, ever read a book by a woman. For one, she used her actual initials. And in that instance, she was advised to do so by an editor–aka somebody who had market experience. We don't know what would have happened with Harry Potter if she had gone with her girlie name; we don't have that counterfactual, but I suspect the editor was right. I have run my own experiments in class where I allow students to pick their own reading materials, and male students, with only a few exceptions, inevitably opt for full course of men, men, men, men and more men. After all, women don't know anything worth knowing.
Similarly, I don't think Hudson's little gambit suggests a damn thing about being published as a white-guy poet versus being an "ethnic poet" other than people like Hudson can be jerks about the whole thing. I don't know much about poetry, but I can't believe it's any different than most other crowded, elite fields in that you spend your early career getting rejected, period, unless you are very very lucky and very very talented, and the very very talented part is a necessary, but not sufficient condition, and you get luckier the more you stick with it.
My friend, Linsey Marr, is now a full professor, a highly respected environmental engineer and atmospheric scientist, and probably one of the most successful and most consistent NSF grant winners in her field. But I was with her when she started out, and it was one rejection after another. Now, in theory, she's the same person at the beginning of her career as she is as she progresses. But she's not the same scientist. The work teaches you, and rejection teaches you, and your work tends to get better. Sometimes it doesn't, or so people tell me. There are some fields where people assume you are finished after 30, and thank heaven I'm not in one of them because I didn't even start writing until my mid-thirties. (I think those assumptions are ageist bullshit, but I'm not a mathematician, so maybe I am wrong.)
So the fact that Hudson sent out his early poems under his name and his later poems under the Asian means we can't identify the source of the variation. He might have gotten the same consideration that Alexie gave him from other editors, sure. But he also may have gotten better at matching submissions to potential outlets, which is something your early career teaches you, and the later poems may have, simply, been better. We don't know.
We do that when we look at English departments and grad programs and Nobel laureates and publication counts that white guys are doing pretty darn ok, to say the least.
Finally, I don't buy the idea that because Alexie gave more consideration to a poem he thought came from an Asian writer that that, somehow, proves that there are all these wunnerful, wunnerful, wunnerful white dude poets languishing in the reject pile because all these substandard Asians and Blacks and whatnot "get all the breaks." I do think there are probably very talented poets out there who don't get the recognition they deserve because it's very likely that in any competitive field where labor is somewhat oversupplied and editors can pick and choose, that very good poets will not get their desert. Let's put it this way: I doubt there's a huge difference in talent and ambition between me and plenty of people who wound up adjuncting because that's all that's out there save for the very, very fortunate.
In the publishing/art/music world, we live with some subjectivity. No, it's not entirely subjective: we can tell really bad writing from really good writing. What's good and bad has some reasoned basis for it even it is not your personal taste. But it's not the same as a mathematical proof, nor should it be: these are different endeavors in human life. The fact that an editor took the time to really think about a submission from somebody "ethnic" just means out of the oceans of very, very good submissions that deserve our attention but are going to get passed over anyway because of numbers, he wanted to include voices we don't hear everywhere all the time.
I hardly think that his process is a harbinger of how political correctness is killing us all. I don't think he's right in the way he responded, but as somebody who has had to judge competitions and agonized over what to include and what not to include, and suddenly having to rationalize choices at the end, I do understand that it's not easy. Yes, I guess he should have done the legwork and ferreted out the fact that Hudson was a liar, but honestly, I bet most of the rest of us wouldn't have, either, because who does this shit? and thus who gets up in the morning thinking "Gee, I need to go out and ferret out the white guy submitting poems under his Asian high school classmate's name?" and "Gee, I should do a background check on this Dolezal lady who wants a job in advocacy."
Asian poets have responded, and it's covered here in a blog entry from The Margins from Asian American Writers' Workshop:
As AAWW Executive Director Ken Chen wrote for NPR, "In New York, where almost 70 percent of New Yorkers are people of color, all but 5 percent of writers reviewed in the New York Times are white. Hudson saw these crumbs and asked why they weren't his. Rather than being a savvy opportunist, he's another hysterical white man, envious of the few people of color who've breached their quarantine."
They have a collection of responses from Asian poets, as well, and those responses are well worth reading. My favorite comes from Kenji Liu:
Dear MDH,
Please find attached an invoice for $500. You recently admitted to using my name to submit a poem 10 times. This $500 is to cover all the submission fees you paid in my name, plus any others you have not yet declared.
Please be advised that you are to cease and desist using my name in any way. Any future use of my name will result in further invoices.
In the unlikely event that you win a prize or get a book published, you are to immediately redirect all income (after taxes) to an Asian Pacific American organization of my choice.
Please note that if you refuse, I have access to ninjas.
YFC
They also have a page of actual Asian poets you can read, and you should, because poetry is lovely.
A short reading list for Kim Davis; understanding law, justice, and religious liberty
By now the internet has had quite a time discussing Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who has refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. I always feel sorry for the people who wind up in Kim Davis's position, though I am sure part of her probably enjoys the attention for what she perceives to be a heroic stance against what she considers to be an immoral law.
This question–should you obey laws that you don't agree with–is an oldie and a goodie in political theory and philosophy, where people make a distinction between law and justice for good reasons. What is lawful may not be just, and what is just may not, currently, be lawful. But the absence of any sense of justice in the law robs the law of its moral legitimacy, or why people will go along with the laws in the first place.
I've always maintained that the point of theory is to help people empathize with different ways of thinking about the world, particularly ways that differ quite a bit from their own. Towards that end, I put together a little reading list for students who want to think about Ms. Davis and her problem, which is: she believes same-sex marriage violates natural (divine) law (physis), but her professional legal role in enforcing man's law (nomos). (My computer seems to want to insist on turning nomos to gnomes. What the actual hell? Does the word gnomes come up more often than the concept of nomos? Really??)
Laws and Justice, on the duty to obey laws, or not, and sublimation of the self to political community in classical studies:
Plato: Apology
Plato: Crito
Plato: Phaedo
Cicero: On Duties
Augustine: City of God
Aquinas: Selections from the Summa–get a reader that curates for you
Areopagitica by John Milton
Machiavelli: The Prince; The Discourses
Hobbes, Leviathan
Locke, First Treatise of Civil Government
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
Bentham, Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation
Burke, Empire, Liberty, and Reform
Marx, On the Jewish Question (this one right here, if you can read no other; this is why conservatives should read Marx).
Mill, On Liberty
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
I've got to run off to class but I will come back later in the week with some contemporary writers and thinkers who have been riffing off the concepts from the classics, but you can't actually get at an answer for any of this without Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Antonio Gramsci, and some of the writings of Mahatma Gandhi.
Let me say this out loud for the Trump-ites: I genuinely like my neighbors from Mexico
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I do not see them or their children as a burden on my taxes any more than I see white kids or white old people as a burden on my taxes. Some of them are criminals, sure. Some Americans are criminals, too. That's humanity for you.
Mostly, I just see people who would like to flourish.
The languages, cultures and practices they have brought with them from Mexico are often diverse and interesting, and I enjoy learning about them. I would some folks from Mexico to change their attitudes about animals, just like I would like lots of Americans to change their attitudes and behaviors towards animals, too.
I do not say this as a Californian who, as the National Review alleges, enjoys having cheap labor to raise my kids, clean my house, or cut my lawn for me. In the interests of full disclosure, I do have a lovely guy who comes in to help Andy and me harvest the fruit from the trees. He's a nice man, who has raised very nice kids, one of whom is a US Marine. This impresses me.
I am not saying this out of "political correctness."
I am saying it because I simply like people, young and old, from all different places. Los Angeles would be a much poorer place without all these folks, and I am glad of them. I love it when their kids come to USC, and I get to meet them. I do not feel like newcomers have taken anything from me; I might feel differently if I were competing with them for jobs, but globalization and mechanization has changed the jobs landscape forever, and the Mexicans here are not the ones who pushed those agendas, if I recall properly.
So that's it. I fell in love with Los Angeles after hating my first year here because of the people. The built environment here is often a challenge for those of us who do not drive, but the weather is nice, the universities good, and my neighbors from everywhere are always showing me something new. They have added value to my life and my city, and thus, to my country.
I just thought that was worth saying.
#ReadUrbanandPlanningWomen2014 entry #12 Kristen Jeffers, the Black Urbanist blog
We're in the middle of commencement, and my next research entry is a book, so I am a little behind and I thought I was use this week to direct you to the very nice blogging of Kirsten Jeffers of the Black Urbanist. Her writing is accessible, and her relationship with things urban is delightfully personal. Here is the link to the blog so you can get over there and set it up in your feed: The Black Urbanist. And here are some of my favorite recent posts get you started:
Things that should never be in driving distance
Can we let people gentrify themselves?
This breaktakingly sensible post about cars: What Grinds Our Gears About Cars
Whose Suburb Are We Talking About, Again?:
But enough of this kind of snark. Let me get to the real shade. Urban is not a race of people. Suburb is not a race of people. Rural is not a race of people. Say it as many times as you need to. Then, if you write articles like this that either by accident or lack of inclusiveness, imply that only one race of person moves to and from the suburbs, don't be surprised if they get interpreted as attempts to be nice about labeling races, instead of true analyses of migration patterns.
Go read and share.
I'm officially tired of the "Things you shouldn't say to Whomever" lists online
I really do understand the desire to forestall the rudeness of racist questions–I really do–in the original entries in "Things you shouldn't say" genre. And in some ways, the effect of these have been good by making it clear: people educated about race don't ask these things.
But now I think we've started undermining the efficacy of the original message with silly things like "Things you shouldn't say to people without children" and the like. I have no children. It was not by choice. I have dealt with my fair share of shitty comments from people over the years. But I delight in other people and their families despite my grumpy anti-social demeanor, and nobody promised me a rose garden. Parents say clueless things. Non parents say clueless things other times. If you are not really part of an oppressed group, it's your job to engage in conversation to help people get a clue if they don't have one, and then move on and forgive once you have. It is also your job to obtain clues when you should. For those facing oppression, the cluelessness of dominant majorities is different and more damaging than the simple fact that people don't understand special, special me and the fact I haven't had children. Oppressed groups have told us again and again, left us many clues, about the nature of their oppression and their differences. Not getting a clue there is all-too-socially-accepted.
Places to go for some good Black History Month Reading
For Harriet has a lot of material written about black women and their contributions.
InMotion is a documentary of African Americans and their migration experience.
A timeline of African American inventors and inventions!
Become a member of the wonderful California African American Museum.
Not just for Black History Month, read Te-Nihesi Coates blog and Post-Bourgie and particularly this piece that agrees with me on the empty critiques of sayings about "do what you love" and work. Also, the Crunk Feminist Collective, which allows you to both read and financially support the page, which is an excellent idea if you want people to keep creating content unsubsidized by the University of Southern California the way I am.
Finally, The Root has wonderful online reporting; please see this very nice piece on Stokely Carmichael.
50 books to add to Brent Toderian & Planetizen's standard, white city-making books
The risk of critiquing book lists is that a) it's easy to kvetch about others' lists, and b) you risk insulting the many wonderful writers who do appear on the original list, including the person who took the time to put together the list in the first place. But at the risk of doing both a and b, I have to say I am disappointed in Brent Toderian's list of 100 best books on city-making for Planetizen. We can go around and around about this: I guess it depends on what he means by city-making. And a lot depends on what a person reads. But if you are going to go around labeling something "the best", you'd better be well-read, and this list just doesn't strike me as being that broad or that open to different perspectives on cities. Then, in his addendum, he adds some fiction, including the rapey The Fountainhead, which he does include as a 'negative' example, I guess. But does that tiresome book really need more press? At least he included Calvino and China Meiville in the addenda. But this list and his addenda are standard white urbanist fare, with a lot of echoing of the same ideas from one white urbanist to another. It make me sad that our "best of" lists are still doing this. That said, Jan Gehl's book is very fine, and you could spend a long time reading the wonderful books on this list.
And he does have some women on the list, but the ones chosen are not exactly writing from non-dominant perspectives, and there are some terrific books by Asian authors on the list, including work from my wonderful colleague, Tridib Banerjee. It's not that I want to erase the people from the list. It's that I really wish urban planners would read more widely and take seriously their job to understand and promote more than one perspective on cities, not just focussing on a perspective that simply creates an echo chamber of the wonderfulness of white urbanism and planning with its bike lanes and its downtown retail. The latter is like an endless diet of FoxNews or MSNBC.
You are not educated until you get off your butt and start learning to see the world from a perspective other than your own.
City-making is not the exclusive purview of planners or self-declared urbanists.
So here are some to add to the list, in no order because I'm bad at order. I don't claim these are 'the best'–just books I have read that reflect cities and how they are made, that were worth reading, and that represent an effort to read what people from different perspectives have to say:
1. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. Much of what you need to know about how ineffectual city government is in governing black neighborhoods appears here in the first few pages as Morrison riffs on "Not Doctor Street."
2. There Goes the 'Hood by Lance Freeman. Contemporary gentrification debates.
3. The Truly Disadvantaged by William Julius Wilson. This book should be required reading.
4. The First Suburban Chinatown by Timothy Fong
5. Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America by Ella Howard. The first book from a very promising scholar.
6. Off the Books by Sudhir Venkatesh I don't like his other, much higher profile books as much: this one tells the stories about how people make a living despite city regulation.
7. Promises I Can Keep by Kathryn Edin. Read anything by Kathryn Edin. Just do it. This book focuses mostly on impoverished women in Philadelphia.
8. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila There are some great books on Baltimore, but this one is a good recent one.
9. Gay New York by George Chauncey I wish I could assign this book more often; it's long, and it's not easy to chop up. But it is worth your time.
10. Barrio Urbanism by David R. Diaz I like David Diaz's work a great deal anyway, but this is my favorite.
11. Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak by Bettina L. Love Young black women talking about the role of art and expression in their coming of age in Atlanta.
12. Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
13. Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture by Hui Zou So interesting.
14. Snow Drops by A.D. Miller A novel set in post-Socialist real estate in Moscow. Harrowing.
15. Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces by SanSan Kwan
16. Harlem Nocturne by Farah Jasmine Griffin
17. Sento at Sixth and Main by Gail Dubrow and Donna Graves This book made me cry.
18. 18. The Hiawatha by David Treuer Urban Indians in Minneapolis. A haunting, haunting novel.
19. Cities of God and Nationalism: Rome, Mecca, and Jerusalem as Contested Sacred World Cities by Khaldoun Samman
20. Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora by Martin F. Manalansan IV
21. Tunnel People by Tuen Voeten
22. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, who did dystopian Los Angeles like nobody else.
23. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, by Samuel Delany. Oh, and read some of his novels, too.
24. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor M. Rios
25. Graceland by Chris Abani a wonderful novel about post-colonial Lagos
26. Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 By Heda Kovaly
27. Factory Girls by Leslie Chang Follows the story of young women who move from village to metropolitan China.
28. Black, Brown, Yellow, & Left by Laura Pulido
29. Young and Defiant in Tehran by Shahram Khosravi (Author)
30. Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde by Doryun Chong, editor. (Yes, I'm including edited volumes)
31. Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans By Emily Landau
32. Daily Life in Victorian London (an anthology) London of Dickens and Sherlock Holmes was a terrible place if you weren't rich.
33. The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick Good fiction, with a strong sense of place.
34 In The Land of Isreal by Amos Oz A wonderful book about people, politics, and territory.
35. Aztec of the City–these Comic books are cool, about an urban superhero in San Jose
36. Season of Migration to the North By Tayleb Salih a terrific novel about the influences of east and west and city and village in a globalizing context.
37. The Havanna Quartet by Leonardo Padura. A police procedural set in Havanna.
38. Smeltertown by Monica Perales–the story of the Mexican residents who live in El Paso's company town.
39. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York by Suleiman Osman
40. Anything written by Walter Mosley . Anything.
41. L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food by Roy Choi
42. Paul R. Williams, Classic Hollywood Style by Karen Hudson
43. City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa by Adam LeBor (wonderful prose style and an intimate look at individuals and the contestation over urban space.
44. All Souls: A Family Story from A Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
45. Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic City by Rudolf Gaudio
46. Black Manhattan by James Weldon Johnson
47. The Rise of Abraham Cahan by Seth Lipsky If you have an interest in migrants and the global reach of NYC media, here you go.
48. Chavez Ravine: 1949 by Don Nomark
49. Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows edited by June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf
Another terrific edited volume.
50. The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996 by John Robb
De'Londa Brice: one of the Wire's most misunderstood characters
LA and California History viewed through Perry Mason and Paul Drake's Hair
Arnaldo Momigliano's time management
Library and book song parodies: a collection of my favorites
Is a C+ really that much worse than a B-? Please explain
Fair share housing "burdens" and putting teeth in RHNA
Why rents are sticky downward even if there is some slack in the rental market
Land value taxation, Prop 13 reform and single family homeowners
An Open Letter to Mr. Stanley Gold, USC Board of Trustees
Rent control and time


Time is a 2007 Malayalam movie directed by Shaji Kailas starring Suresh Gopi, Padmapriya, Vimala Raman and Manoj K. Jayan. The movie is produced by Gopan and the music composed by Rahul Raj.
The climax doesn't impress as much as it was intended to. You leave the theatres saying that the film is good only up to the interval. The post-interval section is too crammed-up and stretchy and the average audience won't like it.


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A politically incorrect conversation on a project of Italian cuisine
A book presentation curated by Lorenzo and Marco Bassetti
December 12, 2017 – h19-21
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Sala delle Colonne
Molto, model of Italian cuisine between art and tradition, created by Lorenzo and Marco Bassetti, will be turned into an evening of literary and artistic rides on gastronomic culture at the Galleria Nazionale d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Sala delle colonne) in Rome. The roasted chicken will be the unexpected protagonist of conversations, works of art and anecdotes, which will turn the happy volatile into an exceptional guest.
On occasion of the preview of the prestigious book Molto. Cucina Italiana – available in January in the bookstores – artists, writers and food lovers will be invited in a wider conversation about a wine, food, styles of life, cooking techniques and discussions about the eating habits which ostracise meat.
Molto. Cucina Italiana is more than a cookbook. It is part of a project which aims to promote a gastronomic culture, which combines elements of modernity and tradition, starting from the use of organic products, which are cultivated in the Family market garden located in the Lazio hinterland. The cultural project of Molto. Cucina Italiana is inspired by the homonymous restaurant in the prestigious neighbourhood of Parioli in Rome and it is a step forward of an effort of constant evolution which is looking to an expansion abroad.
The book Molto, in five colours and fine quality paper, contains 100 receipts by the chef Paolo Castrignano (previously at La Pergola Restaurant), a photographic work by Marco Delogu, and a text by Heinz Beck and Umberto Giraudo. The book is accompanied by the contribution by the artist Alessandro Piangiamore (expressly created for the book cover), Tobias Rehberger, Giuseppe Gallo, and Piero Sadun. During the evening, the Molto restaurant owners, Lorenzo and Marco Bassetti, will invite to conversation the critic and art historian Luigi Ficacci, the winemaker Gelasio Gaetani d'Aragona and the journalist and writer Sapo Matteucci.
The evening guests
Luigi Ficacci is a critic and art historian, former student of Giulio Carlo Argan. Currently Soprintendente of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Lucca and Massa Carrara, he has curated many important exhibitions in Italy. He has been teaching Professor at various Italian universities, such as La Sapienza in Rome, the University of Cassino and the University of la Tuscia. Among his publications: the monography about Piranesi (2016), Bacon (2015), Francis Bacon e l'ossessione di Michelangelo (2008).
Gelasio Gaetani d'Aragona is a winemaker, wine consultant as well as one of the most eclectic experts in the world of Italian wine and not only. From his grandfather, the baron Franchetti, he has inherited his passion which has allowed him to work for very prestigious wineries from Florence to California, from New York to the British Columbia. He is also the author of numerous books, such as Wine Notes (with Luca Dotti, 2002), Walking on the Wine Side (2013), Vini, Amori (with Camilla Baresani, 2014).
Sapo Matteucci is a journalist and writer; he has published among the others Q.B. La Cucina quanto basta and C'era una vodka, un'educazione spirituale da 0 a 60, both with Laterza publishing company. With Niccolò Bassetti he has written Sacro Romano GRA. He collaborates with newspapers and magazines.
The video of the book presentation at "Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea" in Rome.
Molto. Cucina italiana.
Editor: Punctum
Date of publishing: novembre 2017
Language: italiano e inglese
Press Office Molto. Cucina Italiana
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