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Have you ever met a Korean popstar who didn't have flawlessly glowing skin? Okay, you got me—I've never met a K-pop star either. But if there is one that thing they have in common, it's definitely an enviable complexion. Even Psy has a blemish-free face and lust-worthy glow about him—seriously, Google him.
On a more serious note, it's undeniable that Korean beauty is having a real moment right now, sparking extensive intrigue in the world of all things beauty related. From the infamous ten-step pampering ritual of South-Korean women to (extremely) unusual yet effective products and ingredients (snail-slime face mask, anyone?).
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The look we're talking about here?
Smooth, impeccably hydrated, radiant and pore-free complexions, bright doll-eyes and rosy cheeks and lips.
RACINNE's research and development director, Sy Koh explains that "Korean women are known for their flawless skin and extensive beauty regimes. Western cultures are beginning to see the trend in Korean skincare and are following suit." And follow suit we will—flawless skin is not something we'll ever pass up, no matter how extensive the regime!
But what about those of us who don't have Asian skin? Can we still embrace the Korean beauty trend?
Without question! "Korean products are definitely okay for non-Asian skin. Regardless of culture or ethnicity, everyone's skin has the same structure and cells… Korean beauty brands and key ingredients found within Korean beauty products pride themselves on delivering results in shorter periods of time" explains Sy. What that means for us is that we won't necessarily need to use a skincare regime for months and months before we see results. And that gets a big gold star from us!
So, what makes Korean beauty products different to products from the rest of the world?
Well, you have extensive research and development to thank—we're talking incorporating revolutionary ingredients and ground-breaking biotechnology to deliver products that really work. The Korean government has invested heavily into local skincare research to ensure Korea retains their position as global pioneers within the skincare and cosmetics industry.
But that flawless porcelain doll-like complexion doesn't come without a little help from your friends (your friends; in this instance, being a plethora of products that are soon to become must-haves within your beauty arsenal). You know that infamous ten-step regime I referenced earlier, let me simplify it for you; here are the best Korean beauty trends and products that you actually need to know about—right now.
The Korean cleansing ritual—the secret to revealing bright, dewy skin. Why cleanse once when you can cleanse twice? Start with an oil-based cleanser and follow with a cream or foam cleanser. Korean luxury skincare brand, SU:M37, has a revolutionary cleansing stick that is made up of coconut oil, camellia oil, glycerol and rose petals and is continuously sold out everywhere. Grab one while you can at Soko Glam, who have recently started shipping Australia.
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Fondly referred to by Korean women as magic-cushions, cushion compacts are considered the ultimate Korean makeup innovation. Cushion compacts are redefining the ways in which complexion makeup should be applied; the newly launched Miracle Cushion by Lancôme is the first cushion-compact to be released by a Western beauty brand. It's not a foundation, nor a compact, it's buildable, luminous coverage right at your fingertips.
Korean makeup is defined by a healthy, rosy glow or a 'flirty flush', as described by some of our favourite K-beauty brands. Step away from the bronzer! Think porcelain skin, highlighted with subtle candy pink cheeks, like K-fave, Peripera Ah Much Real My Blusher that neatly dispenses cream blush through a soft foam tip. Highlight cheeks and areas where 'the sun hits' (think subtle strobing) with a light champagne-hued highlighter, like MAC's Mineralize Skinfinish in Soft & Gentle.
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Q: Mocking a method which is called using an arrow function as a parameter How can I use the Sinon package to stub/mock a method call where one of the parameters I have to mock is called using an arrow function? eg
let objWithMethod = { method : function(x) {}; };
function SUT() {
    // use case
   let x = 'some value';
   let y = { anotherMethod : function(func) {}; };

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}

let mockObj = sinon.mock(objWithMethod);

// Both of these fail with a "never called" error
mockObj.expects('method').once().withArgs(objWithMethod.method.bind(this, x));
mockObj.expects('method').once().withArgs((x) => objWithMethod.method(x));

SUT();
mockObj.verify();

I couldn't find anything in the sinon docs nor after a few attempts at a google search.

A: Loose matches you're trying to do can be done with matchers, to compare against any function it should be
mockObj.expects('method').withArgs(sinon.match.func)

And it will fail, because objWithMethod.method isn't called at all.
This

// I want to test that y.anotherMethod() is called with
// (x) => objWithMethod.method(x) as the argument

cannot be done, because the code wasn't written with tests in mind. JS can't reflect local variables, and SUT function is a blackbox.
In order to be reachable for tests and get 100% coverage, each and every variable and closure should be exposed to the outer world.

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Our city does not NEED another major sports league
Melisa Smithson
by Melisa Smithson - The leadership of our city is once again trying to sell the taxpayers on the latest and greatest 'must have' - Major League Soccer, and they want it ONLY on the Fairgrounds property. They also want the taxpayers to co-sign for the deal for the billionaire owners, the Ingram's, who could get any financial institution to loan them the money. In return, the city will give them 10 acres of prime real estate at the Fairgrounds for making the deal. Also, they want to take away 30 acres for a 'Fair Park' with seven soccer fields, a dog park, and greenspace.
If you don't know already, a prominent family of the times donated the Fairgrounds to the State to generate revenue to hold a State Fair each year. In the Private Acts of 1923, a Fair Board was established, giving them ultimate power to excise a tax, borrow money, whatever it had to do to generate revenue to hold the yearly State Fair. When the Metro government was formed, it adopted the Private Acts as part of their Charter.
During Karl Deans reign in 2010, the city wanted to do away with the Fairgrounds to build a mix-use facility with parks, affordable housing, retail (sound familiar) – all part of a 'Master Plan'. A small group of us got together to form a coalition and were able to stop the city from bulldozing the Fairgrounds, assembled a petition drive, and placed a referendum on the May 2011 ballot, which 72% of the voters of Nashville voted to keep the Fairground's existing uses and require a super majority vote of 27 another referendum for any changes to the existing uses or demolition of buildings.
Fast forward to today, they are presenting the same 'Master Plan', only disguising it as a 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunity to bring Major League Soccer to Nashville. When we decided to bid for an NFL team, we had a chance to vote for it. The city is trying to sell you that our opportunity is now and only now for MLS. This is not true. They can apply again within two years, but they say that would be much harder and competition would be further along in the bid process, and we must act now, sounding like a typical sleazy used car salesman.
This deal has BAD written all over it for the taxpayers and citizens of Nashville:
Why are we co-signing for bonds for $250 million for the owners?
Why are we having to give away land for the deal?
Why the Fairgrounds when the city owns so much more property?
Why no 'Plan B' if the Fairgrounds cannot accommodate?
Why do we need to have a MLS Stadium, while we haven't paid for the Titans Stadium or Sounds Stadium?
Why put our city, and state, at risk for a lower bond rating?
Where is our money from all the investments already made in downtown?
Why are we not seeing a return in our surrounding communities from the Sounds or Titans or Predators?
This deal is not good for Nashville in so many ways. It will cannibalize the existing uses of the Fairgrounds, and the city will be on the hook if the sport does not do well (we are already on the hook for the Sounds, Preds and Titans). It's like our city leaders are addicted to development and the latest and greatest 'must haves', but our city has a lot of 'need to haves' we must address. Our surrounding communities have been ignored and in need of sidewalks, public safety, public works, schools, to name a few. Let's start spending our resources on our neighborhoods and not downtown, and not to MLS. We can skip this one, focus on our communities, and stop spending our money!
Melissa Smithson is owner of Smithson Marketing Solutions and Chair of the Davidson County Republican Party. She has been a leader in the effort to save the fairgrounds.
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What are the conditions for removing excommunication of a married priest?
If a Catholic priest leaves his priesthood and marries a woman, he is automatically excommunicated. Does the Catholic Church recognize his marriage? He marries outside of the Chuch so his marriage is not sacramental but it might still be recognized as it is for atheists or other Christians.
What can the priest do if he realizes his wrong decision and wants to go back to the priesthood or at least start leaving a sacramental life? Let's say he has children and is validly married according to the secular law.
I know deacons must stay away from a marital act with their wives and live in celibacy. So I'm expecting similar requirements for an excommunicated priest who at least wants back because of sacraments. Can he even live with his wife as it might be considered cohabitation or would he be allowed to remarry in the Catholic Church so he can live with his wife?
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Where'd you hear that about deacons (that they must be celibate)? – Peter Turner♦ May 10 '17 at 15:27
@PeterTurner, not celibate but abstain from sex with their wife. usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/vocations/diaconate/faqs.cfm – Grasper May 10 '17 at 15:47
Nothing there states that they must abstain during their marriage, only that they may not remarry after their wife dies. – Matt Gutting May 10 '17 at 15:49
@MattGutting, someone mentioned it in one of my questions but now I can see it's not true. – Grasper May 10 '17 at 15:52
I've known two situations in my life like this: in the first case, a priest and nun, they were excommunicated and haven't returned, but their daughter was my beat friend for a year--otherwise healthy family who called themselves "Christians"; second, my wife's uncle married a parishioner, but he had self reported and after a brief hearing (with the bishop?) was released from his duties as a priest and was able to marry and take Communion--they had four boys, good Christians all – Stu W May 11 '17 at 13:47
If a man is ordained, he is unable to validly marry in the Church:
Those in sacred orders invalidly attempt marriage.
(Code of Canon Law, canon 1087)
But he is not (as AthanasiusOfAlex points out) excommunicated by that fact. He is suspended from carrying out his priestly office:
A cleric who attempts marriage, even if only civilly, incurs a latae sententiae suspension. If he does not repent after being warned and continues to give scandal, he can be punished gradually by privations or even by dismissal from the clerical state.
(Canon 1394)
Thus it is expected that the man will separate from his putative wife and presumably get a civil divorce. In some ways he is in a similar situation to one who has civilly divorced and "remarried" (i.e., one who who lives in concubinage). (I've answered a question about that very possibility.)
There is no way to validate the putative marriage by convalidation or radical sanation while still being a priest. He can request an indult (formal permission) from the Holy See to become laicized, and then another to marry after that.
He cannot go on living "as brother and sister" with his putative spouse. This is an option for lay people. But if a priest were to do so, he'd invite scandal, the possibility of leading people into evil (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, para. 2284.) In this case, the scandal would be the potential belief that the Catholic Church was actually OK with the man's sin, and therefore that this wasn't a big deal, and maybe that it was not really a sin in the Church's eyes. Thus he will need to leave, and make it clear that he is not married to this woman.
If he is laicized, he can (with permission) validly marry. Even if he remains a priest, though, the man is still responsible for his minor children, and will have to make some sort of arrangement for their welfare. Since the bishop is in turn responsible for him, he will probably suggest that the priest request to be laicized, allowing him to raise a family as if he were a married layman.
Either way, once the man's spiritual situation is regularized (i.e. once he becomes again either an active priest in good standing or a laicized priest validly married), he should confess the sin (of fornication) which he has committed, and return to full spiritual health.
Matt GuttingMatt Gutting
There are a number of issues discussed in this post.
Excommunication is not incurred for attempted but invalid marriage
First of all, a priest who attempts to marry does not incur a latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication. Canon Law gives a very precise list of which crimes incur this penalty, and attempted marriage is not one of them.
On the other hand, as Canon 1087 says, those who have received the sacrament of Holy Orders are impeded from contracting marriage (unless, of course, they are given an indult after laicization).
Moreover, a priest in that situation can (and eventually should) be formally warned and punished, if necessary, with gradually increasing censures, up to laicization (Can. 1394). However, generally excommunication is not one of that censures contemplated, unless there are aggravating circumstances (e.g., abortion, attempted absolution of the priest's accomplice).
Hence, bishops, priests, and deacons who attempt a marriage after their ordinations, and persist in it, would be barred from receiving Communion, based on Canon 915:
Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty* and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin** are not to be admitted to holy communion.
So, to answer the O.P.'s questions:
There is no excommunication to lift.
The marriage is not recognized (unless we are talking about clergy who have already been laicized and received an indult to marry). In order for that person's situation to become regular, he must either leave the invalid union or obtain an indult for laicization and marriage.
Once he has done that, he may simply go to confession and return to full Communion.
Returning to active ministry is a delicate issue that the priest will discuss with his bishop. In the case of a priest who has attempted marriage, although he is not excommunicated, he is automatically barred from exercising ministry (i.e., suspended; see Can. 1394). His bishop, or the Holy See, would have to lift the suspension before he could return to active ministry. A priest who has, for instance, fathered children will probably be counselled to seek laicization and help raise the children. On the other hand, a priest who repents and is otherwise free of obligations may very will be admitted back into active ministry. Although it incurs a suspension, a civil marriage is not completely determining, because in this case the civil marriage, although binding in the civil law, is, in fact, only an invalid attempted marriage.
Deacons and celibacy
First, some definitions: celibacy means not contracting marriage. Continence means not engaging in sexual intercourse.
All clergy without exception, as the O.P. points out, are called to celibacy. That means that, once they are ordained, they are never to contract marriage in the future. (In particular crisis cases, the Holy See can give an indult dispensing with this prohibition; however, the interested party must first seek laicization—that is, cease exercising his ministry.)
Nevertheless, deacons (and priests in the Eastern churches—as well as in some rare cases in the Western church), but not bishops, may be chosen from among married men. Like all married men, married deacons and priests are not required to live in continence.
However, unmarried clergy (like all unmarried men) must live in continence. The difference, of course, is that unmarried clergy must remain continent for life, whereas unmarried laymen may, of course, marry.
Again, to answer the O.P.'s questions: married priests and deacons do not have to abstain from the sexual act with their wives.
What to do in case of a latae sententiae excommunication
Someone who finds that he has incurred a latae sententiae excommunication (or interdict, which is a lesser censure) should simply go to confession and ask for advice from the priest.
Generally, absolution from a latae sententiae excommunication is reserved either to the bishop or, in more serious cases, to the Holy See. In some cases, the bishop (or the Holy See) delegates the faculty to absolve certain censures to his priests.
If he has the faculties, the confessor will absolve the penitent directly. Otherwise, he will probably instruct the penitent to come back, or otherwise get it touch with him, after a certain amount of time (a couple of weeks or so), so that the priest has time to make recourse (as the case may be) to the bishop or to the Holy See. If the penitent prefers, he can make that recourse himself, although it is preferable to go through the confessor in order to protect the penitent's identity.
A "shortcut" is to go a so-called "minor penitentiary"—a priest designated by the bishop, or by the Holy See, who can absolve from censures. Every diocese should have them at the cathedral, and there are some at all of the four major Papal basilicas in Rome (St. Peters, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, and St. Mary Major).
*Again, for clergy to attempt marriage does not incur an excommunication. In any case, Canon 915 does not apply to latae sententiae excommunications that have not been publicly declared.
**Nevertheless, persisting in an invalid marriage without regularizing it is a case of so-called manifest grave sin.
AthanasiusOfAlexAthanasiusOfAlex
Ok, they are not excommunicated but they are in mortal sin and can't receive absolution. – Grasper May 10 '17 at 21:43
Correct. Until they repent, of course. – AthanasiusOfAlex May 11 '17 at 4:04
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In LDS church, what is the difference between formal probation, disfellowshipment, and excommunication
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Are Cats Really Independent Pets?
Cats are often considered the most independent of pets. So it's no surprise that when Mary Todd Lincoln was asked if her husband—America's 16th president Abraham Lincoln—had any hobbies, she replied, "Cats."
Lincoln was known to take in strays and doted on his beloved cats Tabby and Dixie, once stating that Dixie was smarter than his entire cabinet.
Perhaps America and cats go hand in hand because we both have a love and respect for our independence. Cats are so independent in fact, that they are the only species to have domesticated themselves, adapting into household pets as a way to survive.
Looking back, cats and humans have always seemed like a logical pairing. Because wherever humans go, small vermin follow, and that means cats can hunt and eat well. As time wore on, though, cats realized humans would do the "hunting" for them—feeding them on a regular basis and providing them with shelter. Thus, the modern domestic feline was born.
Despite this attachment to humans, cats haven't ever lost their sense of independence or seemingly aloof nature. Unlike the domestic canine, which relies almost solely on humans for its existence, cats can still get by on their own through hunting and foraging. And they seem to know it.
But hunting is an instinct that cats learn from an early age. Mother cats, show their litters how to stalk, chase, and pounce by catching and (sometimes) consuming prey. Indoor cats maintain these instincts but don't need to kill to survive, so they simply exhibit the hunting behaviors in a playful way.
Pet cats may bat a stray thread or pounce on a dust bunny. Or they might chase one another around the house. And, of course, we know they love wand toys that mimic small prey and play tunnels where they can hide and pounce. But without proper stimulation, a cat will become bored and listless—sleeping far too much and sometimes exhibiting unwanted behaviors.
Because they seem quite independent, we often leave our cats to their own devices, but they really do need interaction and play. One of the easiest ways to entice a bored cat to play is a small dusting of a cat attractant like silver vine or catnip. Cats use all of their senses to hunt, and with indoor cats, scent is often the least used of the bunch. By providing them with something new to sniff out, their hunting instincts will kick in, and you'll have a playful cat in no time.
And on this Independence Day, do what one of the greatest presidents in our nation's history would do and play with your cats. Oh, and if anyone ever teases you about it, tell them it's un-American to dislike cats. Abraham Lincoln all but said so.


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PROMOTING REPUBLICANISM
Category: Against Unionism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,How they are organised,Political Campaigns,UK state/British imperialism — RCN @ 5:28 pm
Murdo Ritchie (RCN) wrote the following article for supporters of the Republican Socialist alliance. It was first also posted on Murdo's blog at http://murdoritchie.blog.co.uk/2015/02/13/promoting-republicanism-20090169/.
Thomas Paine – republican internationalist in England, USA and France
The advocacy of socialist republicanism has very few precedents in the United Kingdom. While many organisations can make claims to republicanism, in most cases this has been rarely developed and has often seemed like it was added on as an extra to more immediately pressing concerns. It should be no real surprise that an anti-political, economic reductionism (economism), or a separatism that sought an end to London rule, and many other perspectives have used the term emptying it of any real understanding or meaning.
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SECULARISM: TIME TO SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE
Category: Against Unionism,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,Ideology and Religion: Science and Secularism,Ireland,Scotland — RCN @ 2:35 pm
This is an introduction given by Allan Armstrong (RCN) to the Edinburgh branch of the Edinburgh Radical Independence Campaign on Monday, September 30th. It is followed by some responses from other socialists.
Two interesting articles were published last week. The first one in The Herald (27.9.13) highlighted the recent Scottish census, which pointed out that, for the first time, those professing no religion had emerged as the largest and fastest growing group in Scotland (37%). The second article in the Sunday Herald (22.9.13) highlighted the growing penetration of Protestant fundamentalist church activity in Scotland's 'non-denominational' schools.
The best way to understand and deal with such issues is to take a secular approach. Twenty years ago, most people, especially on the Left, would have been quite clear what secularism meant. Secularism is the complete separation of religion from the state. People's choice of religion or of no religion is a private matter.
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Abraham Daninos (), né le  à Alger et mort le  dans la même ville, est un dramaturge algérien, pionnier du théâtre arabe.

Biographie
Il naît à Alger en 1797, dans une famille juive de marchands de Livourne.

En 1826, il s'installe à Paris comme bijoutier. Là, il compose un petit dictionnaire arabe dialectal algérien-français à l'usage des officiers de l'artillerie française. Contrairement à ce qu'avait avancé L.-Ch. Féraud dans Les Interprètes de l'armée d'Afrique en 1876, Abraham Daninos n'a pas servi de guide interprète lors de l'expédition d'Alger de 1830, selon Alain Messaoudi ; le lexique arabe-français de Daninos est postérieur à 1831.

En 1837 il accompagne une délégation de l'émir Abd el-Kader en France. Cette même année il rentre définitivement à Alger où il exerce le métier d'interprète.

Membre de la Société asiatique dès 1847, il est naturalisé français en 1849. En 1853, il épouse à Alger Rose Bouchara, dont il a trois fils.

Il meurt en 1872 à Alger.

Œuvre
L'universitaire britannique Philip Sadgrove a retrouvé en 1996 le texte d'une pièce de théâtre imprimé à Alger en 1847 d'Abraham Daninos, Nazahat al mushtaq wa ghusst al 'ushaq fi madinat Tiryaq bi l'Irak, « Le plaisant voyage des amoureux et la souffrance des amants dans la ville de Tiryaq en Irak » (), qui met en scène le voyage de personnages algérois vers une ville en Irak (ville imaginaire appelée Tériak).

Un débat s'est engagé entre les spécialistes portant sur la question de savoir s'il s'agit là de la première pièce de théâtre publiée en langue arabe.

Des formes populaires de théâtre arabe (sans texte écrit) ont existé depuis l'Antiquité. En 1848, ou peut-être en 1847, le Libanais Maroun Naccache (1817-1855) donnait avec sa pièce El Bakhil, une adaptation libre de L'Avare de Molière, la première représentation théâtrale sur une scène arabe, conçue par des artistes arabes. Cependant, Mohammed Kali souligne le fait que la pièce d'Abraham Daninos est une création originale, la première à avoir fait l'objet d'une publication, tandis que celle de Maroun Naccache adapte une pièce classique du répertoire français.

Analysant l'intérêt de cette découverte d'un point de vue littéraire, indépendamment du fait que le père du théâtre arabe est un Maghrébin et un juif, Merzak Bagtache, dramaturge, relève que « la langue utilisée par Daninos est bien celle des Algérois du début du , une langue stylisée, raffinée, dont on a trace dans les chansons andalouses figurant encore dans le répertoire de nos chanteurs d'aujourd'hui ».

La pièce s'inspire selon Khalid Amine et Marvin Carlson des Mille et une nuits et du Dévoilement des mystères (Kashf al-Asrar) de Izz al Din al-Maqdisi, auteur du . La présence d'un prologue qui contient un bref résumé de la pièce rappellerait par ailleurs la tradition arabe du théâtre d'ombres. Selon Shmuel Moreh et Philip Sadgrove l'auteur de la pièce aurait eu la volonté d'affirmer sa culture algérienne en un temps d'hégémonie culturelle française.

La pièce, parue dans une période de troubles militaires, n'a pu être jouée. Elle est mentionnée dès le  dans le Journal asiatique par Jules Mohl et en 1850 dans la revue annuelle de littérature Zeitschrift der Deutschen Mörgenländischen Gesellshäft.

Un auteur de la Nahda
La Nahda est un mouvement de renouveau civilisationnel, un  du  jusqu'au début du  auquel ont participé des musulmans, des chrétiens (comme le dramaturge Maroun Naccache) et des juifs.

Lital Levy situe Abraham Daninos dans le contexte de la Nahda et le relie à d'autres auteurs juifs arabes du  et du début du  qui ont apporté leur contribution à ce mouvement de renaissance culturelle, comme Yaqub Sannu ou Mourad Farag en Égypte, Esther Azhari Moyal (1873-1948), née au Liban, Nissim Mahlul (1892–1959), né en Palestine. Elle souligne le fait que l'apport de ces auteurs est sous-estimé par l'historiographie sioniste et aussi, quelquefois, par les historiens de la littérature arabe.

Bibliographie

L'auteur
 Shmuel Moreh, « The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Playwright, Abraham Daninos, as a Bridge between Muslim and Jewish Theater », Judaism and Islam : boundaries, communication, and interaction : essays in honor of William M. Brinner, ed. William M Brinner; Benjamin H Hary; John L Hayes; Fred Astren, Leiden / Boston, Brill, 2000, , Lire en ligne.
 Khalid Amine, Marvin Carlson, The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb, Palgrave MacMillan, 2012, chapitre « The First Arab Performances », les  sont consacrées à Abraham Daninos, Lire en ligne.
 « Abraham Daninos », dans Alain Messaoudi, Les Arabisants et la France coloniale. Annexes, ENS éditions, 2015 lire en ligne.

Édition critique
Shmuel Moreh and Philip Sadgrove ont réédité la pièce d'A. Daninos avec une présentation et des notes dans Jewish Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Arabic Theatre Plays from Algeria and Syria - a Study and Texts, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Littérature algérienne
 Théâtre algérien
 Juifs arabes

Liens externes

Naissance en avril 1797
Naissance à Alger
Écrivain algérien arabophone
Pièce de théâtre en arabe
Nahda
Histoire des Juifs en Algérie
Décès en février 1872
Décès à Alger
Décès à 74 ans

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This is a post about two bands with the word 'sunny' in their name. You know the score.
I got an email recently from Carlos at I Am Sound Recordings telling me about their new signings Sunny Day Sets Fire. I managed to catch them on the telly for Road To V [link] a few weeks back in fact, although I must admit the most interesting thing I thought about them at the time was that the founding members met while working together in a cinema.
But after listening to their singles, I was really quite impressed. XFM described debut single 'Brainless' as such: "Imagine an upbeat Postal Service with added trumpets, and drums, the volume turned high and 'Brainless' might fit somewhere. A great build up and a driven energetic track using the trumpet to great effect. Added cat samples accompany and bring a large slab of kitsch, before high quality full guitar riff returns to ensure its' novelty value isn't exhausted. Trumpets most certainly are the future." I couldn't agree more.
Recent single 'Wilderness' may not be quite as wonderful but to steal the press release, it's "a breezy slice of wonky, infectious pop that recalls Arcade Fire or the Polyphonic Spree, while B side, Green Clouds twits, turns and bleeps like the errant offspring of Radiohead and Sigur Ros."
Sunnyvale Noise Sub-Element are monstrous. Is it glitchy post-rock? Is it experimental electronica? I have no idea, it's simply a calculated bombardment to our senses. The name somewhat aligns itself with their music, a bit ungainly yet intriguing all the same. I challenge 65DaysOfStatic fans not to like this stuff.
I found out about Sunnyvale on the Radio 1 Unsigned section [link] and they had this to say about them: "These kids are a trio from Oxford who create experimental electronic tunes. Utilising clockwork toys, samples, glue and crisps for their unique sound. Is that Ready Salted or Cheese and Onion boys?" How witty.
At times, they almost remind me of fervent button bashing at the arcade before rescinding into a calm Zen-like state and then back to chaos all over again. And again. And if this in anyway sways you, Damo Suzuki of Can is apparently a big fan and has sung for Sunnyvale live and all.
p.s Hope all A Level students reading did themselves proud!


May 16 2018 - May 17 2018. NAVIGATE 2018. Turku, Finland.
NaviGate 2018 will bring the most important operators in the maritime cluster to Turku on 16 and 17 May 2018. The key themes of this trade fair are the maritime industry, maritime logistics and shipping. The main elements of the event include seminars, briefings, networking, recruitment, research, development and training. NaviGate is held every two years.


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Remai Modern debuts new project by Saskatoon artist Amalie Atkins
Amalie Atkins, The Diamond Eye Assembly (film still), 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
For immediate release — April 5, 2019
Saskatoon, Canada — Remai Modern will debut Amalie Atkins' most expansive film project to date on April 5. Amalie Atkins and The Diamond Eye Assembly is a trilogy of films that explore ancestral connectivity and the retrieval of distant memories.
Shot on 16 mm film and set in the rural community of Petrofka in the North Saskatchewan River Valley, Atkins' fictional world comes alive through lyrical music and haunting narratives. A cast of female characters animates the landscape, a site of trauma and resilience, communicating with one another across time and connecting past to present. The installation at Remai Modern is comprised of three films shown on 16 mm and 35 mm projectors, giving the work a distinct visual and aural texture.
The exhibition is curated by Sandra Fraser, Curator (Collections).
"Amalie's work is marked by a spirit of invention, which has been recognized widely throughout Canada and beyond," said Fraser. "Her handmade aesthetic may look effortless but there's an incredible amount of complexity in her work, where every detail is carefully considered. Remai Modern is thrilled to debut this project, which has been nearly a decade in the making, and to support the vision of an artist whose work showcases our region in ways that resonate both at home and much further afield."
The exhibition is on view in Remai Modern's free Connect Gallery until June 9. On April 5 at 7 PM, visitors are invited to a special screening for the museum's latest Turn Out event. Remai Modern will present Atkins' project in the SaskTel Theatre with a live musical score by respectfulchild, featuring performances by members of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. Free with admission or membership.
The exhibition also coincides with the launch of Remai Modern's first artist's edition, an original screen print of Atkins' creation that shines a light on her creative process. The screen print, derived from a collaged map Atkins' created in reference to the trilogy of films, points to both fictional and real locations in Saskatchewan and provides clues about the topography, characters and action in her work.
The limited, 50-edition run was printed by Michael Peterson from Saskatoon's Void Gallery and consists of eight layers of hand-mixed archival ink on cotton rag paper. It is available for purchase in the museum's Art & Design Store while supplies last.
Remai Modern's presentation of Amalie Atkins and The Diamond Eye Assembly is made possible through the generous support of TD.
About Amalie Atkins
Amalie Atkins lives, works and canoes while holding a film camera in Saskatoon. She creates cinematic fables through a blend of film, textiles, installations, performance and photography, imprinting a fictional world onto everyday life. Atkins has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Central Art Garage, Ottawa; Moving Image, New York City; and 12:14 Contemporary, Vienna. She has also exhibited in Queensland & Tasmania, London and Berlin.
Her work has been included in major survey exhibitions, most notably, Oh, Canada, presented by MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; DreamLand: Textiles in the Canadian Landscape, presented by Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto; and Road Show East, which toured in Eastern Europe.
Atkins was the recipient of the Locale Art Award for western Canada in 2011 and long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2012 and 2013. The solo exhibition we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical toured to the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; and College Art Galleries, Saskatoon. Her work is currently on view in Where the hour floats, a selected exhibition for Capture Photo Fest at Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam.
Remai Modern is a new museum of modern and contemporary art in Saskatoon. It is a vibrant, imaginative and prescient museum committed to affirming the powerful role that art and artists play in questioning, interpreting and defining the modern era. Remai Modern is home to the world's foremost collection of Picasso linocut prints, and aspires to be a leading centre for contemporary Indigenous art programming.
For additional information contact:
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Remai Modern is situated on Treaty 6 Territory and the Traditional Homeland of the Métis. We pay our respects to First Nations and Métis ancestors and reaffirm our relationship with one another.


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Jesus said He came to "heal the broken hearted" (Luke 4:18-NASB). The apostle John takes it a step further: "Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers" (3 John 1:2 -NASB).
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AHS students named State Champions in UIL Film Festival
Written by Community Reports
Atascocita High School animation students took home first place in Traditional Animation at the 2019 UIL Young Filmmakers Festival. Siblings Elizabeth and Jesse Banda's animated film "Ravioli" won the state champion award.
Atascocita High is the first Humble ISD school to win a state champion title in the UIL Film Festival. Animation students Samuelle Buning, Stacie Hamlett, Jasmine Hueneberg and Angelina Perez received second runner-up for their animated film "Static."
"Winning state UIL made me feel like I was the big cheese when they handed me the plaque and put a medal around my neck," senior Jesse said. "It's really cool for all the hard work to actually pay off in the end. This made me realize that I want to pursue my dreams of working in animation and film."
The competition preparation began in October for animation students. After the first submission in January, the students received feedback from the contest judges and made changes to their films based on that feedback.
"Hundreds of hours went into each film," Ann Wehrman, Atascocita High School animation and game design teacher, said. "Animation takes longer than everyone thinks it will take, so every minute of class time was precious."
Wehrman is proud of her students for working together as deadlines approached.
From left, Jasmine Hueneberg, Samuelle Buning, Angelina Perez and Staci Hamlett.
After learning the basic technical skills in Animation I, students learn about storytelling and character animation. In Animation II the students work in teams to produce six or seven short films. Wehrman explained that the class is run like an animation studio and students will pitch story ideas to each other and then determine what they will produce. They call themselves the AHS Animation Federation.
Throughout the course, the students get to know each other's strengths and they use that to create strong productions. There are students who draw, others who specialize in audio, some that color, and some who animate. The students collaborate to create animated stories that they find interesting, timely and important.
"Winning second runner-up was an important achievement because I wanted to produce a message that relates to a small yet prominent minority that struggles with something they think they have no power over," Buning said. "I am passionate about teaching self-help and that motivated me while working on this film. To achieve something as special as receiving an award at the UIL contest was a plus."
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Baijiu is a liquor (the word means white liquor) distilled in China that is sought after for official banquets and for gifts. Kweichow Moutai is probably the best known baijiu. Sales of the potent white spirit have risen in recent years, powered by a boom in the luxury market in China.
According to data from International Wine & Spirit Research, mainlanders drank more than 11 billion litres of baijiu last year, and the spirit, distilled from sorghum, wheat or rice, accounted for more than one-third of all spirits consumed in the world.
Baijiu, particularly the more expensive brands, was not in great demand this festive season as a result of the central government's crackdown on extravagance ahead of the Lunar New Year, said Liu Yuan, the secretary-general of the China National Association for Liquor and Spirits Circulation. As a result, liquor retailers were heavily discounting their stock.
The two firms admitted on their official websites earlier that they had violated antimonopoly laws by charging penalties to distributors who sold their baijiu alcohol products at lower prices than the producers had required.


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Home / News / Business News / Can the iPad Pro replace the laptop?
Can the iPad Pro replace the laptop?
Posted on Sunday, November 15, 2015 by CNN in Business News
True productivity is a mess. Stacks of open applications, browsers crowded with tabs, ongoing chat conversations pushed to the edge of the screen.
Laptop replacement is just one of many possible uses for the 12.9-inch super-powered iPad. It has the required processing power and a stunning screen, but as a serious work device, it's not there yet. Despite the "Pro" in its name, it's a better fit for more casual laptop users.
There are a few areas where the device doesn't quite make the leap from tablet to laptop: the premature death of the mouse, lack of full-featured software, and multitasking.
The iPad Pro dreams of a world without that little arrow cursor, where you just touch buttons and windows. Who hasn't absentmindedly reached up to tap their computer screen, only to feel embarrassed and maybe a little disappointed?
Unfortunately for the iPad, we are not yet post-mouse. The official Apple keyboard supports some common shortcuts, but has no trackpad. This creates a frustrating (and tiring) mishmash of hand movements.
When you're in the zone on a laptop, your arms barely move and your fingers fly across the keyboard and trackpad, executing familiar shortcuts and movements. On the iPad Pro, you're constantly pausing to reach up. It sounds minor, and maybe it will become second nature over time, but it's a distracting and unfortunate design.
All existing iPad apps work on the iPad Pro. The most interesting options are apps that have been updated to work with the Apple Pencil, the optional stylus. If you don't need any heavy-duty apps, or use custom company software, then there's a chance you can do everything you need on an iPad.
Developers love to make iOS apps. Unfortunately, they're usually lightweight versions of popular professional software. Adobe has multiple Photoshop iOS apps. They're great for someone dabbling in photography, but they won't work for professional photographers. Same goes for other industries. Really great mobile versions are just not good enough to use full time for work.
The latest version of iOS has made huge strides in productivity, and the iPad Pro has some multitasking options. If you want to run two apps side by side or watch a video while you work, then the iPad Pro is a good option (if $799 is in your price range). But for most, these features aren't enough to mimic the laptop experience.
Maybe iOS on the iPad Pro is a vision of how we should work. Focused on one thing at a time, two max.
But even accepting its limited view of multitasking, Apple's iOS still has a lot of work to do before it catches up to laptops as a tool for pro users.
That pencil
It's really great! If you're thinking of moving from a pencil-based workflow to a laptop, this is a fantastic upgrade. It feels as close to writing on paper as possible, plus there's an entire world of options like 3D modeling, painting, and design.
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Ceol Cascadia - Cascadia Irish Music Week's parent organization
Ceol Cascadia is a project of the Seattle Irish Heritage Club, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. We are based in Seattle, Washington, USA. Our mission is to preserve and nurture the heritage of Irish traditional music and culture in the Pacific Northwest by organizing classes, concerts and other events; through public outreach; and by presenting the Cascadia Irish Music Week, a yearly gathering of learners and teachers of Irish traditional music and culture.
Cascadia Irish Music Week Board of Directors
Randal Bays, Artistic Director
Joe McDonough, Program Manager
Brendan Boyle, Supporting Board Member
John Blandin, Webmaster
CIMW's primary financial resources are our tuition fees. The best way you can show us your support is to attend our program — and get a fantastic deal on a week-long music program while you're at it!
Donating to CIMW
While the tuition fees cover the cost of bringing in the great faculty members every year, we depend on donations and sponsorships to enrich the camp experience and to provide the extras that make it such a special event. Whether it's offering scholarships to promising young musicians, bringing in special guests to lead sessions, or ensuring that participants have the ability to interact with the teachers in a low-key, intimate environment, we try to make it a great experience while keeping it affordable. Please consider making a donation of any amount you can afford to CIMW to ensure that we can continue to provide these special programs.
CIMW is made possible by the many folks who generously donate their time before and during the week of camp. A big thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers, who number too many to list here. We couldn't do it without you!
If you are interested in volunteering with us, please email us.
History of Cascadia Irish Music Week
Our part of the world - Cascadia, or the Pacific Northwest - was never a big destination for nineteenth century immigrants from Ireland, like Boston or New York. However, since the beginning of European settlement there has been an Irish presence here, from the early loggers and fishermen, right down into the present, as a new wave of Irish immigration has brought many young Irish men and women to the region to work in high technology, aerospace, etc.
Founder and artistic director Randal Bays has lived most of his life in Cascadia, and has been involved in Irish music for many years. He was in Ireland in the early 90s where he experienced the Willie Clancy festival in Co. Clare. Returning to the Northwest, Randal wanted to create something similar here that would help people learn about Irish traditional music and the people who created and sustain it. In 2002 he partnered with Dan Paulson of Friday Harbor, Washington, and founded the Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp, which operated every March for ten years and brought many of the finest Irish musicians to Cascadia to teach and play.
The Friday Harbor camp ended in 2011 and Randal began looking around for a way to start a new event that would be similar but would happen in the summer, making it more accessible to young musicians. John Keane, of the Seattle Irish Heritage Club and Honorary Irish Consul, expressed interest in having the new event come under the umbrella of the IHC, so Randal brought together a few interested friends to form Ceol Cascadia and present the new event. The name Cascadia Irish Music Week was chosen and it was decided to put on our first week at Camp Casey on Whidbey Island. After two years there, we moved to The Evergreen State College in Olympia, our current home.


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Connor Chambers
Stanley Cup Final Breakdown - Who's Going to Win?
Source: RealSport101
With puck drop of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final scheduled 24 hours from now, hockey fans get the matchup that will not only provide the most entertainment, but the closest results as well.
Anaheim brought a solid veteran team, and Ottawa brought a feel-good Cinderella story, but the matchup that will be the most intense and electric belongs to Nashville versus Pittsburgh. I have to say that I would have never imagined the Guinness Book of World Records be in attendance of a Nashville Predators playoff game to record the sound decibels to measure if it's the loudest indoor sporting event of all time. The #Smashville fans are crazy, and I love how they embrace not only the sport, but the team. The Penguins bring speed and maturity against a relatively young and inexperienced Nashville team. The Pens fans have been through this last year, and you know they will be hungry for a repeat, something that hasn't been done since the 1997 and 1998 Red Wings teams.
Each team carries it's own strengths, weaknesses and pressures, which we will dissect below. Categories that will be measured include offence, defence, goaltending, special teams, and "other" intangibles.
Offence Breakdown
Pittsburgh - There's not enough that can be said about this team offensively. Four of the top six total point-getters these playoffs belong to the Pittsburgh Penguins (Malkin - 24, Crosby - 20, Kessel - 19, Guentzel - 16). It is important to keep in mind that the Penguins have played the most amount of games out of any team these playoffs with 19, so these numbers are a little inflated. Even with the amount of games, Malkin, Crosby and Kessel are all averaging a point-per-game or higher. Saying that, hockey fans have seen the potential of this offence, scoring four or more goals in a game six times. Having sustained injuries to key contributors such as Hornqvist, Rust and of course Sid the Kid, this team has received scoring from both likely and unlikely players alike, capped off by the Kunitz two-goal performance in game seven versus Ottawa, who hadn't scored a goal in a game since February 25th.
Nashville - This team definitely does not have the same offensive numbers that the Pens forwards possess, but they can kill you with their speed. The Predators only have four forwards with 10 or more points, with the dynamic Filip Forsberg leading the way (Forsberg - 15, Johansen - 13, Sissons - 10, Arvidsson - 10). Of course, with the season ending injury to Johansen, a big portion of Nashville's offence has been depleted. However, like Pittsburgh, they find clutch scoring from some unlikely names, such as Sissons, Watson and Aberg. The downside to this offence is that not a single forward is averaging a point-per-game or better, and their highest scorer (Forsberg) would rank fifth against Pittsburgh's forwards. Couple this with the fact that Nashville's captain Mike Fisher hasn't registered a single point in the playoffs, and their reliance on secondary scoring may come back to bite them in this final series.
Advantage - Pittsburgh Penguins
"It will be the toughest challenge of my life."
— Evgeni Malkin on facing Predators defence
Source: Pred Lines
Defence Breakdown
Pittsburgh - This team has faced adversity when it comes to its blue line. With Letang ruled out of the playoffs before playing a single game, the Pens have been facing an uphill battle with their defence since game one. Injuries sustained to Schultz and Daley throughout the playoffs forced young players such as Dumoulin and Ruhwedel into the spotlight. They clearly aren't the same impact players as Letang and Schultz for Pittsburgh, and when Dumoulin is leading the defence in ice time during games, you know the Pens are as depleted as can be on the back end. With Schultz and Daley back to adequate health, the Pens do get a boost for their defensive depth that hasn't really been seen for majority of their playoff run.
Nashville - It's no surprise that David Poile has constructed this team from the back end out, and the Predators defence corps are the reason why they are battling for their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. The top four defence of Josi, Ellis, Subban and Ekholm make up four out of top eight scorers for the Predators. It's extremely rare to have such massive contributions offensively from your defensemen, and to have three in double digit point totals already exemplifies how integral the Predators defence is to their game and overall success. Not to mention they are just as impressive defensively as they are offensively, blocking shots and creating important game-changing turnovers. You know they are impressive when Malkin is quoted as saying that it will be the toughest challenge of his life, also stating that they have four Erik Karlsson's on the blue line.
Advantage - Nashville Predators
Goaltending Breakdown
Pittsburgh - The goaltending carousel of the Penguins has actually been a massive benefit for the team. When Murray went down during practice before game one of the playoffs, there were maybe a handful of people on the entire planet that had the confidence in Fleury to not only keep this team alive but become an integral component. Throughout the playoffs, Fleury posted a respectable 9-6 record with a .924 save percentage and a 2.56 goals against average. Fleury was a massive contribution for Pittsburgh, literally stealing games for his squad. After his collapse against Ottawa, coach Mike Sullivan made the change to go with Matt Murray, and his gamble paid off. Murray is posting a stellar 4-1 record with a .946 save percentage and a 1.35 goals against average. It will be interesting to see how Murray will stack up against a fast Nashville team while only starting four games these playoffs. It's nice for Pittsburgh to know that if Murray falters, Fleury will be more than capable of handling the duties between the pipes.
Nashville - As impressive as Pittsburgh's goalie tandem has been, Nashville's leading netminder has been just as incredible. Known more for his inconsistencies than stellar play over the past few seasons, Pekka Rinne has put that label behind him. Over the course of 16 games, he's posted a 12-4 record with a .941 save percentage and a 1.70 goals against average. With goaltending being arguably the most important element in the Stanley Cup playoffs, Rinne has been the foundation that has allowed other elements to thrive and play loosely over the last 16 games. Something else to consider would be that Rinne had to face arguably more potent offences than Pittsburgh overall these playoffs. This position matchup is as close as any I've seen in a long time, but I would have to give the edge to the netminder who's played the entire playoffs.
Source: The Canadian Press
Special Teams Breakdown
Power Play - The power play advantage is a perfect reflection of the balance between offenses. Pittsburgh ranks tied for second in the playoffs with a 25% power play percentage, while Nashville ranks 12th with a 14.9% power play percentage. There's no doubt that this category belongs to Pittsburgh.
Penalty Kill - Similar to the power play, the penalty kill reflects the defensive perceptions well. Nashville ranks fourth in the playoffs with an 88.1% penalty kill percentage, while Pittsburgh ranks eighth with a 85.5% penalty kill percentage. While this category is closer in proximity than the power play, the advantage will still have to go to Nashville.
Summary - While each team excels in one particular aspect of special teams compared to the other, it's hard to ignore the disparity of power play percentages between Pittsburgh and Nashville. Therefore, Pittsburgh has the advantage in the special teams department by a narrow margin.
Source: Tribune News Service
"Other" Intangibles Breakdown
Home Ice Crowd - While both clubs are expecting their fans to be the loudest they have heard all year, there's one arena which has stood out above the rest for housing the loudest fans all playoffs long: the Nashville Predators. Like I said earlier, I'm still amazed and shocked at how loud fans in Nashville of all places can get. While Pittsburgh is no slouch for crowd loudness, nobody is topping the Predators and their fan base in this category.
Days Off & Games Played - Since both of these intangibles revolve around the element of fatigue, I decided to group them together. Nashville is definitely the more well rested team, as they have not only had more days off in general, but had been waiting for Pittsburgh for three days already. Another factor to consider is that Nashville has not had to play a game seven yet these playoffs, while Pittsburgh has gone through two of them and have played three more games than Nashville (19 for Pittsburgh, 16 for Nashville). This category favours the Predators.
Home & Road Splits - While it's expected that both teams play better at home than the road, one team does both better than the other. The Penguins have a home split of 7-3 (.700) and a road split of 5-4 (.556), however the Predators have been dominant at home with a split of 7-1 (.875) and a 5-3 split on the road (.625). These splits allow the argument that the Predators will have a easier time defending home ice and winning on the road than the Penguins. Advantage to the Predators for this category.
Summary - There's a lot of "other" intangible factors, but I picked these three in particular as I feel that they have the most underlying influence in the playoffs. In the categories that often go unnoticed, give the edge to Nashville.
Source: NY Magazine
This Stanley Cup Final is going to be incredible. The speed, offence, defence, goaltending, crowds and storylines will be on full display, and that's all fans of the game can ask for. When everything is broken down into specific categories, these teams are quite even and match up really well against one another.
Personally, I have always lived by the motto that defence wins championships (unless you are in the NBA...). Nashville has an incredible defensive corps that can not only lock down top line forwards, but can also contribute offensively at the rate of top forwards in the playoffs. When Pittsburgh is locked down offensively, it's difficult for them to fall back on their defence for support, and will lose those close one-goal games more often than a team like Nashville. With this important element combined with the home dominance of Nashville, I believe that Nashville will be lifting Lord Stanley for the first time in franchise history.
Prediction - Nashville in 6 games
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Joe Cowley and Spreading Yourself Thin as Cardboard
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Did you know that former Major Leaguer Joe Cowley spent his prime pitching years leading a double life? It might sound far-fetched, but I have some (remembered) evidence to back up this assertion, and it would help explain a few things.
Here's how the story goes …
In the spring of 1986, Joe Cowley was 27 years old and flirting with the front of the Chicago White Sox rotation. It was an unlikely development for a guy whom the Atlanta Braves signed as an amateur free agent in 1976 and then spent six years in the minors before getting a brief shot at the Majors in 1982.
After an uninspiring 17-game run with the Braves that summer, they sent him back to Triple-A Richmond in 1983 and then released him that fall.
The New York Yankees apparently saw something in the soon-to-be 25-year-old and signed him as a free agent. It must have been an exciting time for Cowley considering that 1) he was getting a new lease on Big League life and 2) he was going to the Yankees, who had won 91 games in 1983.
After half a season with the Triple-A Columbus Clippers, Cowley got the call from New York, and he seized his opportunity. In 17 appearances for the Yanks in 1984, including 11 starts, he went 9-2 with a 3.56 ERA.
That performance earned Cowley a rotation spot for 1985, and he parlayed that status into a 12-6 record, though with a heftier 3.95 ERA.
Cowley had to be feeling pretty good about his future, but the Yanks wanted something different. In particular, they wanted Britt Burns, so they shipped Cowley to the White Sox along with Ron Hassey in exchange for Burns and minor leaguers Glenn Braxton and Mike Soper.
And so Joe Cowley entered his age-27 season — the prime of his prime — in the rotation of a ChiSox team that finished 85-77 in 1985, with hopes of contending in 1986.
By that spring, I considered myself a veteran baseball card collector, and I was also finishing up my eighth-grade year.
Now, our country school was small enough that the junior and senior high schools shared the same building. That made for some uncomfortable moments every fall as fresh-faced seventh graders made their way through Senior Hall, littered with man-sized delinquents, on their way to algebra or typing or whatever class.
In the spring, the big kids turned their attention toward proms and graduations and jobs — real adult stuff, it seemed at the time.
And so it happened that, one day in April 1986 as I was walking to class after lunch, I had to pass through a gauntlet of meatheads just looking to pick a fight. My heart dropped as one of them pivoted in front of me and stopped me cold.
It was Joe Cowley.
Now, I know that sounds ridiculous, but I knew my baseball cards, and I knew the faces on my baseball cards. And this dude standing in front me with a fake smile was Joe Cowley, erstwhile Atlanta Braves prospect.
"Hey, you're Adam, right?" Cowley cooed at me. His buddies snickered all around me. I was being set up, and I knew it — but what could I do?
The kid gave me his name, which he claimed was something other than Joe Cowley, but I knew better.
"You collect baseball cards, right?"
Warning alarms threatening to burst my mind — and ticker — I answered in the affirmative again.
Cowley's smile broadened, and he clapped a meaty hand on my shoulder. The sea of bullies parted, and Joe guided me to his locker.
"My dad used to collect, too, back in the 1950s. Had some really good cards … and he gave them to me."
That was cool. I was starting to thaw. Maybe this guy — Joe Cowley — was OK, after all. Maybe he really wanted to be friends since we were both collectors.
"Here, look," Joe said as he pulled a tattered brown paper sack from the bottom of his locker. I was excited. And scared, sorta.
Joe unrolled the top of the bag and reached inside. Pulled out a handful of mushy old cardboard that I recognized immediately: these were indeed 1950s Topps and Bowman cards.
And time had beat the hell out of them.
There were probably 100 cards in the bag, and the undoubted king of the pile was a 1955 Topps Willie Mays.
Now, I'm all for ugly cards. Beat-up cards. Loved cards.
But this Mays card was loved more than most — multiple major creases, corners rounder than John Kruk and fuzzier than Yogi Berra's logic, a hunk or two missing, pinholes ready to aid with bulletin-board display.
I could feel Joe glance at me, grinning, as he thumbed through the cards. My stomach fluttered, because I knew where this was heading.
"I can let you have them for $200," Cowley told me.
There are three basic reactions people have when they find out you collect baseball cards:
Their eyes dim as they ratchet down their internal opinion of you.
Their eyes light up because they're immature, too.
They offer to sell you the rare treasures they've been sitting on for generations.
I'll let you guess which one Joe had.
What he may not have realized, and certainly didn't care about, was that I was just a kid and didn't have any money. What's more, I was savvy enough to know that a piece-of-crap Willie Mays card was worth much more to the the person who had "built" it than it was to anyone else in the world.
I'm guessing those cards were worth maybe $10 total, and they probably haven't appreciated too much in value in the intervening decades.
So … I tried to explain my situation to Joe Cowley as delicately as I could, laying the blame on myself as much as possible.
I didn't have money.
I didn't know that much about old cards.
But Joe was insistent — he needed money for his post-prom trip, he said, and his offer was fair. He needed me to uphold my end of the "bargain."
I could feel the flesh walls closing in on me as Cowley and his cohorts stared me down. Only the sweet chime of the class bell and a vigilant math teacher saved me from certain doom.
In the end, I scampered down the hall to English class while Joe burned holes in me with his eyes.
I slinked through the rest of my day and week trying to avoid his notice, but Joe always seemed to be there, standing against a bank of lockers, seething. Ready to pounce again should I get close enough.
The prom came and went, and I suppose Joe worked something out — those kinds of guys always do — but his disgust for me was palpable, and I never really felt comfortable until summer break swooped in to save the day (year?).
Just a few days into vacation, while I was sorting through cards and pounding chips and grape soda, Joe returned to his second life as a Major League pitcher. He went 7 1/3 innings as the White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals, 4-1, at Royals stadium.
Then, on May 28, he drew the starting assignment against the Texas Rangers in Arlington Stadium. Whatever anger still seethed in his blood over my temerity in refusing his cardboard overtures boiled over on that hot night, and Cowley did something astounding …
He struck out the first seven Rangers he faced: Oddibe McDowell, Scott Fletcher, Pete O'Brien, Pete Incaviglia, Gary Ward, George Wright, Steve Buechele.
Those were some pretty decent hitters, but Cowley got them all.
Then … well, reality caught up to him.
Maybe it was the reality that he was just a high school student whose coercion skills needed brushing up.
Maybe it was the reality that he wasn't really a strikeout pitcher — at least not that kind of strikeout pitcher.
Or maybe it was just the reality that he had thrown a big gob of pitches in less than three innings.
Whatever the case, the reality of an Orlando Mercado flyout broke the rhythm.
Then, Curt Wilkerson collected the Rangers' first hit, a single to right field.
After catcher Carlton Fisk muffed a foul ball, Cowley coaxed McDowell into a groundout to end the inning.
But in the bottom of the fourth, with his arm tiring and the strikeout streak long gone, Cowley gave up two runs on two hits, an error of his own, and a wild pitch. The next inning, he got hammered for four more runs and left with two outs, relieved by Gene Nelson.
Cowley took the loss that day, dropping his record to 1-2, and he'd scuffled to stay above .500 the rest of the way, though he did throw a no-hitter against the California Angels in a 7-1 victory on September 19. After his last start on October 5, a loss to the Minnesota Twins in the Homer Dome, Cowley's record landed at 11-11, though he had an OK 3.88 ERA and struck out more than seven batters per nine innings pitched.
The next spring, Chicago traded him to the Philadelphia Phillies for outfielder Gary Redus, but Cowley struggled to crack the rotation for a mediocre Phils team.
After four starts in five appearances for Philly in 1987, Cowley was 0-4 … and then he was released.
I don't really remember seeing Joe around school that fall of 1986 (or after), and I always just kind of assumed he graduated. I mean, he was 28 by the time he retired from the Phillies, so that seems like a good enough time to leave high school, too, right?
If there was one consolation for Joe Cowley in all his mixed-up, messed-up travels and travails between rural Indiana and the Big Leagues, it's that he crafted his own space in baseball card collections across the land.
His cardboard may never be loved enough to end up fuzzy and creased and pinholed, but he did log face time on 10 or so real Big League cards — including a spotlight card for his no-hitter in the 1986 Donruss Highlights set and mention of the same on the back of his 1987 Donruss card.
He also has the distinction of logging a no-hitter as his last Major League victory.
So, was it the strain of the seven straight strikeouts in May if 1986 and the no-no on September that eventually led Cowley out of the game?
Or was it the mental hangover from not being able to sell his dad's baseball cards?
Nah …
After all, Joe Cowley wasn't really the cardboard bully from my high school.
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This bulky book of 1980s Avengers material is an anomaly, as most of the earliest Epic collections focussed on tales not previously available as graphic novels. This exception is probably in preference to reprinting the long unavailable and much admired title story, but also incorporates The Once and Future Kang. It represents the peak of Roger Stern's period writing the Avengers.
There's a decent Secret Wars tie-in, but otherwise the opening issues here are average, marking time, the primary plot motivation being the Avengers taking in Sub-Mariner as a member. There are public protests, given the Atlantean monarch's history of aggression against the surface world, and alpha-male clashes with Hercules, previously the team's undisputed powerhouse.
This more ordinary content benefits, as does everything else, from the art team being John Buscema's pencils inked by Tom Palmer. Is there anyone whose work Palmer didn't supply with a grace and sophistication while still letting their individualism shine through? Brute power is key to much of the material, and Buscema's distillation of his influences endows the assorted half-naked men with a Greek athleticism with the semblance of classical illustration. Looking at page after page of pure quality, it's difficult to believe that Buscema hated drawing superheroes.
Kang's story is a complex unthreading of alternate timelines, with a covert council of Kangs from assorted alternate futures executing their less competent counterparts. Co-operation, however, isn't on the agenda for very long, although if your objective is ruling throughout time perhaps involving your greatest enemies isn't a great starting point. Stern, though, weaves a bittersweet tale of deception and betrayal, cleverly working in reference to the Avengers' second adventure, and leading to a clever ending.
'Under Siege' is even better, starting with the premise that all too often the Avengers are successful because they're many and control any circumstances. What, however, might things be like if an entire army of super villains attacked them in their headquarters? A few slower chapters show Baron Zemo's recruitment of the Masters of Evil amid soap opera scenarios for the Avengers, but they lead into what becomes a desperate battle with a considerable cost. Stern's characterisation of Hercules over the preceding pages comes home to roost, and the extent of the brutality with which Avengers butler Jarvis is attacked still shocks. Small elements could be improved, the Avengers' salvation arriving via an outsider is one point of contention, and overall elements of the writing style such as self-reflective and occasionally expository thought balloons do concede this book's 1980s origins. Overlook that and you're left with what are still two very good superhero stories surrounded by still better than average material. It also contains the germ of what would become the Thunderbolts.
Rather strangely Marvel have used a cover prominently featuring Thor, who plays little part within, and which formerly graced the collection of material directly following this content, Assault on Olympus. This is now incorporated into the next Epic Collection, Judgement Day.