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(Elsevier) Open access is growing across the industry, but it can be hard to know which articles are open and which are subscription. Being able to easily find and identify open access content saves researchers time and effort. With Elsevier�s new partnership with Impactstory, a nonprofit that creates online tools to make science more open and reusable, researchers will soon be able to find open access content on Scopus more efficiently. Meanwhile, for university research offices, the expansion of OA-identified content in Scopus will enable improved strategic analysis and benchmarking.
(Elsevier) Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, have signed a national license agreement with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) for access to SciVal, Elsevier's research management tool. The EKB now has quick, easy access to research data analytics of 9,400 research institutions located in 230 nations worldwide.
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(Elsevier) Elsevier and Hypothesis are announcing a collaboration to align annotation capabilities in Elsevier�s Research Products with the emerging ecosystem of interoperable clients and services for annotation based on open standards and technologies.
(Elsevier) The FinELib consortium and information analytics business Elsevier today signed an agreement making Elsevier's globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose.
(Elsevier) Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, announces SSRN, its world leading working paper repository and preprint server, today launches the Chemistry Research Network � ChemRN.
(Elsevier) Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today acquired bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions' research for maximum impact. Founded by three University of California, Berkeley professors in 1999, bepress allows institutions to collect, organize, preserve and disseminate their intellectual output, including preprints, working papers, journals or specific articles, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings and a wide variety of other data.
(Elsevier) Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, today announced PlumX Metrics from Plum Analytics are now integrated into several of its leading research products, and its journal and society partner sites.
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Q: How to encode/decode URL parameters in javascript? Before anyone jumps in and says, "Oh!! that's a bad idea", I know it is.
I want to keep both the key and value in the query string to be not easily visible to the end user.
I have something like this google.com/?category=textile&user=user1
I need to make it unintelligible like this: google.com/?kasjdhfkashasdfsf32423
Is there any way to achieve this in javascript. I have already seen this
I have already seen this
and this.
but I don't think encoding will solve the problem. Also, this code is entirely in client side. I know that it is not secure but I just need this is a naive, weak defense.
Please help.
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I apologize if my question was not clear earlier.
The URL google.com/?category=textile&user=user1 is being passed on from a different application.
The values passed in the query string directly controls what is being displayed to the user. As is, anyone with no technical knowledge can easily change the value and view the data corresponding to a different category or user. I need to make this unintelligible so that it is not obvious. If a user is a techie and figures out the encryption used, then it is fine. I need a stop-gap solution till we have a better architecture in place

A: You can use base64. Javascript has native functions to do that :
alert(btoa("category=textile&user=user1")); // ==> Y2F0ZWdvcnk9dGV4dGlsZSZ1c2VyPXVzZXIx

and to reverse it :
alert(atob("Y2F0ZWdvcnk9dGV4dGlsZSZ1c2VyPXVzZXIx")); // ==> category=textile&user=user1

Be careful to read the doc if you have unicode strings, it's a little different : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window.btoa

A: If you don't looking for serious strong crypto, you can use ROT13:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13
This is enough for slightly obfuscate keys/values in the your URLs.

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Q: Exporting users from specific OUs I'm writing a PowerShell script to list of all our users in our active directory. Within our main OU we have sub OUs, there are two things i'm struggling with.
First being I need to exclude specific sub OUs from this report I'm not sure how to do this. The second problem I am having is i'd like to have the OU they are within included within the report, at the moment I get a output like this:
DisplayName   CanonicalName

Kanye West    ad.test/All Users/People that have left/Kanye West

I'd to exclude the "ad.test/All users" and "/Kanye west". So all I'd like to output is the SUB OU name.
Here is what I have written so far:
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=All Users, DC=ad,DC=test" -Properties DisplayName, CanonicalName | select DisplayName, CanonicalName | Export-CSV c:\experiment.csv

A: If you only need the output from one OU, I'd suggest going to that location first.
Import-Module activedirectory
Set-Location 'AD:\OU=People that have left,OU=All Users,DC=ad,DC=test'
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties DisplayName,CanonicalName | Select-Object DisplayName,CanonicalName | Where-Object CanonicalName -ne 'Kanye West' | Export-CSV C:\Experiment.csv

Add:
Import-Module activedirectory
Get-ADUser -Filter 'CanonicalName -ne "Kanye West"' -SearchBase 'OU=People that have left,OU=All Users,DC=ad,DC=test' -Properties DisplayName,CanonicalName |
  Select-Object DisplayName,CanonicalName |
  Export-CSV C:\Experiment.csv

A: Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but I would get a list of all OU's/Containers you want to search first in an array and then search all of those for objects.
# The OU you want to start searching from
$baseOU = "OU=All Users, DC=ad,DC=test"
# Any OUs that you do not want to be searched
$ouOmits = "All users","Kanye West"
# Get all sub OUs and OU of $baseOU minus any OU that is in the omission list
$ousToSearch = Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -SearchBase $baseOU -Filter *  |
    Where-Object{$_.name -notin $ouOmits} |
    Select -Expand DistinguishedName

If you only have PowerShell 2.0
$ousToSearch = Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -SearchBase $baseOU -Filter *  |
    Where-Object{$ouOmits -notcontains $_.name} |
    Select -Expand DistinguishedName

So that will get all OU's you want to search for. So now lets loops through them and get all of the objects we actually want.
$ousToSearch | ForEach-Object{
    Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase $_ -SearchScope OneLevel -Properties DisplayName,CanonicalName
}

Normally the search is recursive. To make sure our omits work as intended then we limit the search to just the OU's we are asking for.


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Q: Hyper-V on 2012R2 HyperV Edition or 2008R2 Standard Edition? We are currently running VMWare ESXi, with 1 Windows 2008 R2 Standard instance, 1 Windows 7 instance and 2 Linux instances.
So, recently I wanted to upgrade my server, because there were a lot of things happened. I couldn't find Intel 1GB multiport adapter, so I get Dlink's adapter, but it was not supported by VMWare. Another issue is that our hardware NAS is extremely slow, and their technical support is dud at best. 20MB/s of RAID5 with NIC teaming and only iSCSI really can't say much in term of performance. So I have encountered Starwind VirtualSAN which can only run only under Windows. Therefore I plan to migrate my VMWare into HyperV.
We have only 1 Windows 2008 R2 Standard license available. But as I read on Microsoft site, Windows 2008 R2 Standard is eligible for 1 VM and 1 host. This Windows 2008 R2 is responsible for Citrix Remote Desktop.
I have successfully performed the migration, but I have a few question remains before performing the live migration.

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*Since I can run 2 Windows 2008 R2 Standard total (host + VM), should I run Windows 2008 R2 Standard on top of Windows 2008 R2 Standard host, or is it better with Windows 2012 R2 HyperV host? Is there any new features in 2012 R2 I should know about than 2008 R2 counterpart?

*VMWare's Ubuntu support has been excellent, and it is very fast. How about HyperV performance? Anyone ever tried to compare Ubuntu server on HyperV and on VMWare?

*Is it better to let them VMs access iSCSI from their host, or just allocate fixed VHD to them? i.e, 100GB for VHD + 2TB of iSCSI, or just put 100GB VHD and 2TB VHD? The iSCSI will be cached by about 16GB cache RAM on the host. I really have to install Starwind on HyperV host, since I have another server which currently accessing iSCSI too.

Thank you for helping

A: StarWind vSAN runs under VMware just fine. You have VMware's own vSAN there also. Shouldn't be an issue to live migrate your VMs.

A: Ok.. it's been a while... I was hoping some has done some testing and can help me in this matter, but after last few days, I've been testing some configurations and benchmark them, trying to find and compensate myself. This may not be perfect config, but this is comfortable enough for me.

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*I go with Windows 2012 HyperV + 2008 R2. StarWind running at windows 2012. 2012 hyperV is faster than 2008R2's HyperV. At least, I don't need it to leave overnight to finish an installation, unlike 2008 R2. Plus, I can NIC Teaming the server. Thus granting our iSCSI connection a full 3GBps bandwidth with 2 DLink plus one onboard. Our iSCSI running at around 2GB/s plus, close to 3GB. a very significant upgrade speed for our other servers, compared to old 20MB/s. Just lovely. More than that, Starwind can achieve much faster than that, read below.

*Ubuntu service was not good in 2008R2, but very good with 2012 R2 Gen2. another point in choosing 2012 R2 HyperV. Microsoft's Gen2 HyperV is a VERY significant update to old Gen1 one. Doesn't feel that different than those in VMWAre.

*I go with iSCSI starwind route, and minimal VHDX. The reason being, is that I can only achieve 50MB/s with VHDX, but I can achieve some 9 to 10GB/s with StarWind. Using 8GB RAM cache, plus 100GB L2 SSD Cache, Starwind is screaming FAST. And I really mean FAST. It also has server mirroring, so data integrity is covered there.

*Also as for migration, I don't really that care, since with iSCSI, I
can simply disconnect the drive from VM 1, and connect it to another
VM on another server or simply connect it to physical server, and
resume operation at virtually no time lost. No migration needed,
simply switch connection, and voila.. done.
So, after running benchmark testing, I decided to go with HyperV 2012 R2, 2008 guest, and all data in iSCSI.


Steven Price's Houdini knows better than most the limitations of life, having bent the efforts of a lifetime to transcending them, and having failed. Ah, but his thinking! Or rather Steven Price's thinking with and through him. 'Make it muscular and be apparent in it,' says Houdini's archivist/advisor, 'words are also escapes.' So they are in a book with the sinew of Anatomy of Keys. The facts of Houdini's life are here - immigration to America, youth, circus stint, fame, that notorious life-ending punch - but the facts are the spine of a deep and ardent meditation on what is. In poems of astonishing technical virtuosity, Steven Price reads Houdini's world and our own in compellingly original ways.


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Published on Nov 2, 2016 12:04 pm IST
As Charan's Dhruva is nearing its completion, the onus has completely shifted towards his new film with Sukumar. The latest gossip doing the rounds is that Raashi Khanna has been approached to play the female lead.
As the film is a complete village drama, Sukumar is out looking for a girl who will suit this setup. The pre-production of the film has been completed and last-minute formalities are being completed.
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Ukrainian skaters at Worlds: sending the message of a country hit by war
Ukrainian representatives at 2022 World Figure Skating Championships in Montpellier, France, during the opening ceremony. Coach Lilia Batutina is the first on the right. Photo © International Skating Union
Head to head, we look into Lilia's phone and we keep quiet. "Red is for bombing, green means bombing is over. Now it's bombing!" Lines of sentences in Ukrainian, and red and green exclamation points – a long line of messages that Lilia keeps receiving on her phone; a bombing-alert system that gives you shivers.
At 2022 World Figure Skating Championships in Montpellier, France, the war in Ukraine seems geographically very far. But watching the red-green alerts in Lilia Batutina's phone – Lilia is a coach and choreographer from Dnipro, accompanying her pair skaters in Montpellier – the war never felt so close.
by Florentina Tone/Montpellier
This edition of the World Figure Skating Championships has been, first and foremost, about them: the Ukrainian team – five skaters, one coach – who came to Montpellier, France, with a purpose: to tell the world what's happening in their country.
To send the message of a country, of a nation hit by war. To skate for all Ukrainians. To ask the world to hear them out. To thank for the support – and ask for more support.
The five skaters are ice dancers Oleksandra Nazarova (25) and Maksym Nikitin (27), pair skaters Sofiia Holichenko (17) and Artem Darenskyi (20), and single skater Ivan Shmuratko (20). The only coach accompanying them – coach to Sofiia and Artem – is Lilia Batutina (40). Oleksandra and Maksyim are from Kharkiv, Ivan and Sofiia, from Kyiv, Artem and Lilia, from Dnipro.
They had just returned from 2022 Olympics in Beijing, and taken a couple of days off, when the war started. Weeks into the war, in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, their hometowns, they've seen it all, they heard it all.
And now they're in Montpellier, and it took them days to arrive to the place of championships, it even took them a while to scatter doubts on their mind (is there a point in skating when there's a war happening and people are dying?) – but this is, nevertheless, a journey with a meaning.
Still, they don't know what their life will be like when World Championships end. Maybe stay and train in Poland, in France, in Italy? At the time of the competition, their future was hanging under a huge question mark.
Different roads to get to Montpellier, a common purpose
Pair skaters Sofiia Holichenko and Artem Darenskyi skating their short program in Sud de France Arena in Montpellier; their coach, Lilia Batutina, at the boards.
It is with coach and choreographer Lilia Batutina that we talk first, on the night of March 23. Her young students, Sofiia Holichenko and Artem Darenskyi, have opened the pairs' event at Worlds – less than an hour after taking part in the emotional opening ceremony of the championships, focusing on them, applauding them, the Ukrainian delegation.
And until Sofiia and Artem find their way through the numerous media crews in the mixed zone, we're surrounding Lilia. The coach has left Ukraine with her daughter and her mother, to come to Poland, and from there to France, for the World Championships.
What we know so far is the skaters' roads to these championships have been different, in routing, in the cities they left from, the days spent on the road – and we also know they couldn't possibly train.
So we listen to the coach, her words translated by a graceful colleague in the mixed zone, and we don't dare to ask much – until we do, we ask the questions, we hear the answers, because these six Ukrainian people in Montpellier are signaling the world, in their own way, about what happens in their country – what they had seen, what they had lived in the month since the war started.
Listening Lilia talk, you understand: for her skaters it was like falling from very high in the sky (their dream to be at the Olympics, the goal of every skater out there) to a mundane, atrocious, unthinkable experience: that of a war.
Coach Lilia Batutina: "Now it's bombing!"
To get to Montpellier, France, wasn't easy – Lilia summarizes her students' journey to get to Worlds, her own journey, and her sentences are a mixture of dreams, skating, war and unknown future. We give Lilia the word – our questions have been eliminated and her intervention has been translated and edited.
"After the Olympics, we went home, had a little time for ourselves – and then we couldn't go to the ice rink [in Dnipro] because the war started – so the skaters didn't practice at all before these Championships, after the Olympics.
That's why we only have a small team here, because they had no practice, and it's dangerous for the skaters to perform at this high level without any practice.
My skaters, Sofiia and Artem, are in their first year together, and they had this dream of going to the Olympics. The dream came true, and they were thinking: «Oh, afterwards, we go to France and then we have holidays».
But after the Olympics, they came back, they had a couple of days off, and the war started…
We came here from Poland. We stayed one day in Torun, we practiced there for one day – and we came here, in Montpellier. I left my mother and my daughter there [in Torun].
Afterwards, we will go back to Torun. We also have an invitation from the Italians, to maybe go there and train. Maybe, we don't know it yet…
[Leaving Ukraine] was difficult, was awful, because we had to cross all Ukraine. I took my mother with me – she can't walk, she's an invalid, and I also took my daughter. We were very frightened because at any time a tank could have come, or a bombing could have happened…
I have on my phone… [she shows us a line of messages on her phone, alerts for when and where the bombing happen in Ukraine]: Green means bombing is over, red means bombing is going on. Now it's bombing!
[Lilia repeats the information in English: «Red – bombing started, green – finished bombing. Now, bombing!»].
So far, my home is still intact, but…
The skaters' families are still in Ukraine, they are without their families here.
[The authorities] gave the permission to leave the country only to the skaters from the first national division, from the highest level, the others couldn't go.
My husband, my father, Artem [Darenskyi]'s father, all men couldn't leave Ukraine – they are fighting or they are defending the country. They pray every day.
I call and ask: Where are they bombing? [Lilia says it again in English: «Where is bomb? Here, here»].
We don't know for how long the war will go on – and I'm afraid that, maybe, my skaters will stop the sport, will stop skating, because no one knows when the skaters will resume practice in the normal way.
That's because of a country, we all know the name of the country – that the skaters will, perhaps, stop their sport, their future in sport.
…Yes, Sofiia and Artem changed the music of their short program, they now skate to a Ukrainian song [«Zhiva» (Alive)] and the lyrics say something like: «The wheat doesn't grow now…», so it's a bit of a symbolic song.
A symbol for the people at home, for when they listen to the song – and we had help from Hugo Chouinard in Montreal, many thanks to him, and the skaters had to adapt their program to the new music. We decided: If we go to the World Championships, we'll have this music – and it was done very quickly".
Sofiia and Artem: "We want to show that the Ukrainian athletes are here to fight, that the Ukrainian people are very strong"
Soon, pair skaters Sofiia Holichenko and Artem Darenskyi join us in the mixed zone – and listening to them, as well as listening to all of them during the days of championships, it becomes even clearer: Ukrainian skaters are in Montpellier, at Worlds, not so much to skate, or pride themselves with the quality of their skating, but to signal what happens in Ukraine, and show their strength, their power, their resilience to their people.
A message both to the world and the Ukrainians watching them, looking at them – even from afar.
And the journey they all follow throughout the championships is more or less common: apart from Ivan Shmuratko, who will venture to skate his free program too in Montpellier, the dancers and the pair skaters will only skate their short programs here, as much as they could have trained them, in a day or two, and then withdraw from the next segment of the competition "due to personal reasons".
Because what is more personal than a war?
Sofiia and Artem are the youngest of the entire Ukrainian team at Worlds – but their answers strike you with their maturity, especially considering the mission they all embraced in Montpellier; and, more than that, they impress you with the strength they found in them to go out there and skate after an opening ceremony that had all of us watching it on tears.
It took them approximately six days to arrive in Montpellier, from Ukraine, Sofiia says in the mixed zone.
"We travelled from Dnipro to Romania, to Italy and to Poland, to Torun". The translator offers additional information: "From the city where they train in Ukraine, they travelled for 16 hours to get to Romania. From Romania, they went to Italy, then they flew to Warsaw, then they took a train to Torun, where they stayed for two more days".
Sofiia again: "In Poland [in Torun] we had two days of training, one without our coach, and one with the coach. And we also changed our program music, we are now using Ukrainian music. We didn't have time to do much, and we came here already, in France, after two days in Poland".
For their short program in Montpellier, "we were more mentally prepared – than physically. After everything that happened, yes, it was difficult – but it was really motivating for us, the whole world was supporting us. And we want to show that the Ukrainian athletes are here to fight, and that the Ukrainian people are very strong".
Their families are still in Ukraine, they say. Sofiia: "All my family is in Kyiv, which is bombed, and there are airstrikes every day, and I really hope that at least my mother can come out, but men over 16 years of age cannot leave the country". Artem adds: "My mother is in Dnipro, my father is now serving in the army. I have a lot of friends and acquaintances, and they are all serving in the army right now, and everybody is doing whatever they can to support our country".
Their future is uncertain, and they only know their next steps. Sofiia: "We decided together with our coach that we will withdraw from the free skating. We are not prepared to do the free as we did not train since the Olympic Games". Artem: "After this competition we go back to Poland, to the city of Torun, and we will train there and we will decide what to do next".
And they don't leave the mixed zone without a final message.
Sofiia: "First of all, I want to thank the people in Poland who received us so well and who made it possible for us to come to the World Championships – because without their help I don't think it would have been possible for us to come here, and show what we, at least, were able to show today".
Artem: "I want to thank all people, especially in Poland, Romania and Slovakia, for taking a lot of refugees. I got many messages, even from people in Brazil, that they are supporting us, and I want to thank the whole world for supporting Ukraine, and delivering humanitarian aid and doing what they possibly can to support Ukraine".
Championships with a heart – a blue-yellow heart
Looking around, at skaters, coaches, officials, at people in the stands of Sud de France Arena in Montpellier, it is so very obvious: the support for Ukraine is tremendous. There are Ukrainian flags in the audience, and blue-yellow banners – and many skaters, from so many different countries, wearing a blue-yellow heart, in the colours of Ukraine, on their jackets, while sitting in the Kiss and Cry.
The message of these Championships is more than clear: We stand with you – we stand with Ukraine.
Ukrainian skater Ivan Shmuratko, taking the ice on March 24 for his short program, does even more, when deciding – a well-thought of decision, and one that is so powerful – to skate in his training T-shirt: a blue one, with Ukraine's name on his back, on which he added a blue-yellow heart.
And he skates his short program to "Une vie d'amour" by Charles Aznavour – and this program, on this music, becomes, all of a sudden, even more striking and emotional. He breathes a second life into his program, so much (new) meaning into it – and this performance brings people on their feet. Behind the boards for him, taking the roles of coaches, of friends, of Ukrainians being in this together, are teammates and ice dancers Oleksandra Nazarova and Maksym Nikitin.
They had to run from their practice session in Vegapolis ice rink, in another part of the town, to be here for Ivan – and they did, and they are all here and show the world the team they are.
Team Ukraine with Ivan at the boards: one for all and all for one
Ivan: "Today I skated with all my country by my side"
Minutes after his skate, in the mixed zone, Ivan is offered by a journalist to speak in Russian, if it's easier for him. He'll say No to that. He'll talk in English, quietly, slowly, and carefully choosing his words.
"It is important for my country to live – and I'm proud that my country is so strong. And today I skated with every Ukrainian, with all my country by my side. And there is no room for different colours or costumes with everything happening in my country during the war. So I decided to skate with my flag, with our flag on my chest and the colours of my country, Ukraine".
The situation in Ukraine, as he saw it, coming from Kyiv?
"It's really hard to describe what's going on there. It's a war there. Bombs are flying all over cities in Ukraine, people are dying, children, women…
But people of my country are having everything to fight for – and if someone just comes and wants us to give them what's ours, no, that's not how it goes, with a war in the 21st century.
Ukraine is strong, I'm proud to be Ukrainian and thank you to the world for being with us. Thank you to everyone standing with Ukraine, for supporting us.
We are proud to be here to represent Ukraine, and to be together during the programs, during the competitions, because it is really important now to stand behind each other and support each other".
"We're living day by day now, hour by hour – it's hard to say what's next for us"
Two days later, after skating his long program to "Nuvole bianche" by Ludovico Einaudi, Ivan Shmuratko will take again the opportunity to emphasize Ukraine's strength, confronted with a war, and give a voice to all Ukrainians at home.
"Now, in our world, the words «difficult» and «skate» cannot be used in one sentence, because «difficult» from now on is to get a message that your friends, or someone from your family is killed, or they are dead, or you cannot find them. So it was not difficult to skate here.
What is happening around is life and, in life, everything is possible, you can change whatever you want. What is not possible is to change the thing that someone is dead.
So, now, the world should change the values and we, Ukrainians, will show, and are showing for one month, what the real values are. Of course, in the 21st century the understanding of war, for the people, is surreal – but it is what is happening in our country and Europe, on our planet.
We have to make everything possible for each of us to stop it, to stop the terrorism, to stop people being killed by the will of some just crazy maniac".
His future, their future? He can't really comprehend the meaning of the word at the moment.
"We're living now day by day, hour by hour – hard to say what's next for us, just step by step. I will probably stay in Europe, train, I hope to do volunteer work, I will make everything possible from my side to help my country".
"When strangers are coming / They come to your house / They kill you all and say / We're not guilty"
Oleksandra Nazarova and Maksym Nikitin are the last Ukrainian skaters to take the ice at Worlds: the ice dancing event only starts on Friday, on March 25th.
But up until this point, they had already lived the emotions of their teammates, and their own emotions in the practice sessions, in the opening ceremony and in the Kiss and Cry, outpourings of affection and support coming their way.
We see them first on March 24th, in their practice group at Vegapolis ice rink: around noon, Oleksandra and Maksym are practicing their rhythm dance to a new music, and Jamala's powerful voice, powerful words, her cry fill the arena.
There's this utter despair in the song, in the lyrics – one that you feel through every fiber of your body.
"When strangers are coming
They come to your house
They kill you all
and say
We're not guilty
Where is your mind?
Humanity cries
You think you are gods
But everyone dies
Don't swallow my soul
Our souls
We could build a future
Where people are free
to live and love
The happiest time
Where is your heart?
Humanity rise
You might remember Jamala – and, in these times, you most certainly do: she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016, with this song, titled "1944", inspired by the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea, taking place under the Soviet regime in 1944. Jamala's great-grandmother, Nazylhan, and her family were among the ones deported. But the song was equally inspired by the Crimean annexation by Russia in 2014, the singer confirmed in her post-win interviews.
The song is symbolic, an ancestral cry coming from within, and, to those listening, it's absolutely heartbreaking: Jamala sings in English, for everyone to get the meaning of it, but the chorus is in the Crimean Tatar dialect.
And watching Oleksandra and Maksym skate to "1944" in their dark training suits in the practice rink becomes a moment that gets imprinted on us even before they get to perform their rhythm dance in the main arena.
And the second piece of music they use is a Ukrainian patriotic song that can be translated through "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow", composed in 1914 – and remade, at the beginning of March, by the Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk (from the band Boomboks) and remixed by the South African musician The Kiffness. The singer was on tour in the United States when the war started – and he came back to Ukraine, to fight against the invasion.
"Oh, in the meadow a red kalyna has bent down low,
For some reason, our glorious Ukraine is in sorrow.
And we'll take that red kalyna and we will raise it up,
And we shall cheer for our glorious Ukraine, hey, hey!"
Taking bits of this march for freedom, and adding them to Jamala's cry, Montreal's music editor Hugo Chouinard helped Oleksandra Nazarova and Maksym Nikitin to be ready, music wise, for the World Championships in Montpellier. Had they not changed the music, they wouldn't have come – they didn't want to skate to happy, jolly music, their previous rhythm dance music, in times of war.
Oleksandra and Maksym: "One month ago, no one could believe someone can attack a country in the 21st century…"
And when Oleksandra and Maksym finally take the ice, on March 25th, you know it already: it's going to be emotional.
It is emotional. Two Ukrainian hearts, one blue, one yellow, on the white surface of Sud de France Arena. And what a powerful message they send to the world, while skating to those poignant, meaningful, striking music pieces.
With them at the boards, with them in the Kiss and Cry, it's Ivan Shmuratko. And just like Ivan a day prior, Oleksandra and Maksym have too skated in their national T-shirts: Oleksandra, in blue, Maksym, in yellow.
In the mixed zone minutes later, they talk in Ukrainian. And though we don't understand Ukrainian, we understand words like "terror" and "fascism", as powerfully said, as repeatedly said by Maksym.
Translated into English, their words keep their power.
Oleksandra: "[In our hometown Kharkiv] we saw the tanks, heard the shooting, my house doesn't have windows anymore. It's horrible to run to the shelter holding a kid in your arms – and I will not wish to anyone to live through it".
Maksym: "The bigger point is to tell the truth about what is happening in Ukraine – and I hope this will help people in Ukraine who are now not safe, they are still in danger and might lose their houses. I hope we can help all people in the world understand what really happened, because we saw it!
Just six days ago I was in Kharkiv, and our whole families are still in Ukraine, and we saw what they [the Russian army] are doing, how they work, and it's disgusting.
The music [we skate to] is Ukrainian, by our famous Ukrainian singer Jamala, who won the Eurovision Song Contest. The song [1944] was written by her. The first part is a call for the whole world, and telling them, and warning them.
One month and a day ago, no one could believe someone can attack a country in the 21st century…"
At the end of the day, at the end of the competition even, Oleksandra and Maksym will be asked to join the medalists of the ice dancing event on the ice: they'll take pictures, and cry, and be embraced by everyone – the embrace, as a metaphor of the entire world embracing Ukraine in the times we are living.
And though their future was uncertain, and the roads to follow under a question mark, they'll retain their role as messengers – as Jamala herself did, singing in so many European capitals since the war started, and bringing Ukraine's message to the world.
On April 2nd, Oleksandra and Maksym were in Bucharest, Romania, home to so many Ukrainian refugees, as guests of the show "Dancing on ice". But not just that: talking about the war, their experience, wearing black costumes, they'd also skate to a Romanian song, while on the background one could see ruins, flames, cities destroyed. Not a random choice of a song – not at all: Alexandrina sings – her deep, profound voice – a song called "Oraşul umbre": "The city-shadows".
Oleksandra Nazarova and Maksym Nikitin at Dancing on Ice, Bucharest, Romania. Photo by Gabriela Arsenie/Antena 1
"Time will pass
You'll understand, and I'll understand
Our city is destroyed
We have nowhere to go
It burned, our Living Town burned
Burned to ashes
The wind blew
And of what's left now
Sprouting buds from ashes
Rose red like a sunset
How to fly now
Over the abandoned city
The Earth flees underfoot
It is not known where
It runs further away
All we're left are shadows,
All we're left are shadows…"
A week later, still at Dancing on Ice Romania, the two Ukrainian ice dancers, in light-brown costumes, will offer the audience, the viewers, another emotional performance to maybe one of the most meaningful Romanian songs: "Nopţi" (Nights) by Valeriu Sterian, an hymn to freedom and to those who died in December 1989, overthrowing communism.
"Lord, come, Lord,
And see what's left of people…"
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Longwood University can be found in Farmville, VA, a public college which focuses on only a select few programs offered. LU has an enrollment of around 5,000 students.
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Canada prevailed in the inaugural World Cup of Curling, winning the mixed doubles final on Saturday night over the U.S. Canadians Laura Walker and Kirk Muyres defeated Americans Sarah Anderson and Korey Dropkin 7-3 from Suzhou, China.
Canada prevailed in the inaugural World Cup of Curling, winning the mixed doubles final on Saturday night over the U.S.
Canadians Laura Walker and Kirk Muyres defeated Americans Sarah Anderson and Korey Dropkin 7-3 in Suzhou, China in the first leg of the event.
The couple from Edmonton was the first of three Canadian squads playing for a win.
Rachel Homan will play early Sunday morning in the women's final, and Kevin Koe will play in the men's final.


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'[God] gave me an angel to love:' New Berlin couple's love story is 60 years in the making
Bill and Mitzi Nowicki share the keys to a successful relationship ahead of their 60th anniversary.
By: James Groh
NEW BERLIN — The making of Bill and Mitzi's Nowicki's love story started back in eighth grade. More than 60 years later, the New Berlin residents story is still being written.
Mitzi describes her husband as being a flirt when they first met.
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"He was eyeing me and all the others too," she laughed.
However, it didn't take Bill long to fall madly in love with her.
"[God] gave me an angel to love," Bill said.
Things weren't always easy for the couple. They had a son diagnosed with leukemia. Mitzi, 78, has Alzheimer's, and Bill, 80, has Parkinson's.
"You have your good and your bad, you know. I mean I'd say most of the times it's good," Mitzi said.
Through it all, they learned that they have each other, their family, and love to see them through.
The experienced couple with 59 years of marriage under their belts (they celebrate their 60th anniversary in September) sat down with TMJ4 News to share their love story and give some of their own tips and tricks for a successful relationship to younger couples. Surprise, surprise, communication and compromising were at the top on their list.
Watch the above video to see this adorable couple love, laugh, share words of wisdom we can all appreciate.
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We indulged in their Valentines Tea last week with a little pre-Valentine's day tasting pleasure. Their French chef has designed a wonderful menu to pair with the TWG teas to celebrate this special day.
Pan-roasted red grouper with caper salsa accompanied by carrot sponge, fondant potatoes infused with Valentine Breakfast tea and kabocha pumpkin mousseline, served with a spinach emulsion and squid ink crackers.
Amour de The infused lychee mousse filled with strawberry marmalade topped on a crispy white chocolate cookie with royaltine served with strawberry pearls and a scoop of raspberry sorbet, a stunning dessert to celebrate this special day.
For an extra $12 receive the above noted sparkling wine cocktail.
TWG Tea Salon & Boutique in Vancouver, located at 1070 West Georgia Street.


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A mutt is a dog with parents of a different breed. Some mixed breeds are created by engineering which breeds to mate. i.e. Puggle, Chiweenie, Labradoodle, Cockerpoo and Pitchu. Wait a minute! What is a Pitchu? It is a mixed breed with Pitbull and Chihuahua parents. Let me introduce Ozzie, a Pitchu. He is the size of a Chihuahua with a Pit Bull face, muscular Pitbull legs and brindle Pitbull coloring. His ears are a just a bit smaller than a Chihuahuas'. The result is a very cute, but very unusual looking little dog. Because Ozzie is a dog, he is not teased or bullied, and does not suffer from poor self esteem. We humans are not so lucky.
What about humans? We are mutts too. We have a female and a male parent (different breeds). We have 23 pairs of chromosomes which contain our genetic material. Combinations of genes can't even be counted. We are truly one of a kind. Amazing!


A 38-year-old woman who was identified as Mrs. Veronica Igwe, 38, has reportedly offered her four-year-old daughter, Uloma Igwe, to her creditor as collateral for her N100 debt. Accoding to Punch Metro, the Desk Officer in charge of Child Abuse/Maltreatment Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Cecilia Elom, while briefing newsmen in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State on Thursday, said the ministry received an emergency call on Tuesday, informing them that Veronica had exchanged her four-year-old daughter because of her inability to settle N100 debt.
Elom said immediately her office received the report, officials of the ministry rushed to the CAS campus of Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, where the alleged creditor, Mrs. Josephine Nwali, resides.
"On reaching the residence, we saw little Uloma Igwe with another seven-year-old boy hawking. On interrogation, they confessed to have been lured into hawking by Mrs. Josephine Nwali who they were living with.
Veronica said she had "business transaction" with Mrs. Josephine Nwali at the Rice Mill Abakaliki in August 2017, where she bought some items from her, after which she owed her N100.
Veronica said she then suggested to her debtor that she could bring one of her children in exchange for the debt.
She maintained that she did not know the residence of the woman she handed her daughter to, but that the transaction took place at the rice mill where they do daily rice transactions.
Elom said the Igwes hail from Okposi Umuoghara in Ezza North Local Government Council of Ebonyi State; while Mrs. Josephine Nwali hails from Okoffia in Ezza South Local Government Area of the state.
"Officials of the Ministry of Women Affairs invited Mrs. Josephine Nwali to the Office, from where she was handed over to the Ebonyi State Police Command for interrogation," Elom said.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Women Affairs has concluded arrangement to take little Uloma Igwe to hospital for proper medical treatment.


It's finally happening! On the heels of our very successful reading at the legendary Neptune Theatre in the summer of 2017 attended by over 500, Don't Call it a Riot! will get a full production opening on Friday, May 11th, with a preview on Thursday May 10th for eight performances at 18th & Union Theatre in Seattle's Central District. Look for our Kickstarter campaign launching soon!
Parley Playwrights presents: When a Tree Falls, a staged of a new play by ... ME!!
Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 7 p.m., 18th Avenue & Union: an Arts Space. Tickets, $10.
Rocky Styles has a lot to carry on her 17-year-old shoulders. Already she has dropped out of high school to take care of her ailing mother. Now she is selling off the furniture to stave off their imminent eviction. But when a stranger appears, it just may change Rocky's family forever.
Starring Imani Woodley, Rachel Glass, Anjelica McMillan, Zoe Wolf, Alice Bridgforth and Terry Boyd!
OMG! I had a blast in the role of Nancy in this hilarious and scathing black comedy, 63 Trillion. Reviewer Nancy Worssam called it: " ... a witty, wonderful, wildly funny play ... a marvelous cast ... brilliantly funny dialogue."
Reading of Don't Call it a Riot! a Rousing Success!
Hundreds showed up for the reading of Don't Call it a Riot! at the Neptune Theatre on August 10th. Many, many thanks to those who came out to support the work, and to the wonderful cast, and director, Quiqui Martinez. Thanks to all the wonderful people at STG. Stay tuned for more info on the full production in May 2018!
NIGHTS AT THE NEPTUNE, A PEOPLE'S THEATRE JOINT, AND DON'T CALL IT A RIOT!
I am honored that a staged reading of my Play, Don't Call it a Riot! is included as part of the Nights at the Neptune series. The reading is August 10th, 8 p.m. Guest panel discussion on Activism Then and Now, to follow.
STG Presents a staged reading of DON'T CALL IT A RIOT!, a new play by Amontaine Aurore, on August 10, 2017 as part of STG's free Nights at the Neptune series! There will be a 30 minute post-show discussion.
It is 1968, and Reed, a member of Seattle's Black Panther Party must juggle the demands of a new marriage and being six months pregnant, yet still finds time to fight for liberation and dream of creating a better world. When her best friend, Marti, moves in, there is yet one more thing on her plate. Reed has no clue of the forces at work that will eventually destroy the Party, nor the ones that threaten her own happy home. It will take twenty-nine years before she will finally discover the betrayal that was at the root of a dream deferred.
Amontaine Aurore is a writer, actor and performance artist who has lived and/or studied in Los Angeles, New York, Bali, Egypt, and Italy, and is presently living in Seattle. She is the author of eight plays, including FREE DESIREE, which is published by Indie Theater Now, and DON'T CALL IT A RIOT! Her plays have been presented at the United Solo Theatre Festival, the New York Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 59E59 Theatre, On the Boards, West of Lenin, the Orcas Center, Theatre Battery, the Thelma Dewitty Theatre, and New City Theatre, among others. Amontaine is the recipient of several artist grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the Puffin Foundation. Amontaine is a proud member of Parley Playwright's Group, and has twice been a writer-in-residence at the Hedgebrook Writers' Retreat for Women. Her play, DON'T CALL IT A RIOT! was a finalist in the 2017 Bay Area Playwright's Festival. DON'T CALL IT A RIOT! created with support from Artist Trust's GAP Award.
Here is a nice article from the Seattle Times about the series on its 5th Anniversary.
Nights at the Neptune Celebrates Fifth Anniversary with Six Social Justice Programs, by Dusty Somers.
I am thrilled to announce that my play, Don't Call it a Riot! was a finalist in the 2017 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival! Here is the announcement and full list of winning plays and playwrights!
Parley is thrilled that the radiant Amontaine Aurore has joined our ranks! Welcome, Amontaine! Amontaine is a writer, actor and performance artist. She is the author of eight plays. Her plays have been produced throughout Washington, as well as nationally and abroad. Her solo play, Free Desiree, has been produced in various venues throughout Seattle, as well as at the New York Fringe Festival, where it was named a Fringe Best Bet, and included among the collection of Best New Plays in the 2013 New York Fringe by Indie Theater Now. Amontaine's newest solo play, Love Letters Beyond the Veil, premiered at the Orcas Center Mainstage on Orcas Island, and made its New York debut in November 2016 at the United Solo Theatre Festival. In the summer of 2016, her play, Don't Call it a Riot! was chosen to receive a workshop and public reading from Theatre Battery in Kent, Washington. Don't Call it a Riot! will have another public reading in August 2017 at the Neptune Theatre for the Nights at the Neptune Series, and will have a full production at 18th and Union Theatre in January 2018. Amontaine is the recipient of several artist grants from Artist Trust, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the Puffin Foundation. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Hedgebrook Writers' Retreat on Whidbey Island.
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I felt so honored this past weekend to be included as a panelist in the Black Woman WIsdom Summit with some of the flyest playwrights in the country. These women are brilliant, articulate, and take no prisoners when it comes to speaking their minds. Here is an article from the Seattle Weekly on the event.
Here is a recent interview I did with Encore Magazine. Enjoy!
Yippee Yi Yay! My solo show, Love Letters Beyond the Veil has been accepted into New York's United Solo Theatre Festival. United Solo is the world's largest solo theatre festival, currently in its 7th season. All shows are staged at Theatre Row: 410 West 42nd Street, New York City. Use the link below to access details about Love Letters at United Solo. Thank you!
We're pleased to announce our selections for this season's BATTERY POWERED series! There were a number of excellent submissions this year, and somehow we managed to narrow it down to these 3 plays that will be workshopped and presented as staged readings. Stay tuned for performance info, and we'll see you there!
DON'T CALL IT A RIOT! by Amontaine Aurore (right): Three members of Seattle's Black Panther Party in the 1960s fight for liberation and dream of creating a better world. But as forces conspire to destroy the movement, and as their paths veer in wildly different directions, each will come to pay the price for a dream deferred.
A QUALITY EDUCATION by Seayoung Yim (center): In an elite private school, students and staff of contrasting backgrounds must each navigate their places of power... and the starting line is not the same for everyone.
I am excited to be playing the role of Petra in Annex Theater's production of Eat Cake, written by Seth Tankus, directed by Catherine Blake Smith. Opening soon! Tuesdays and Wednesdays, April 26th - May 11th. This show is hella fun! Come join the party and Eat Cake!
I am pleased to announce that I am starring in the short art film, Avatar: Fanon and Decca, written and performed by this year's Stranger Genius Award Winner, C. Davida Ingram. It is part of the Genius Exhibit at the Frye Art Museum, from September 26, 2015 to January 10, 2016. I play the dual roles of Fanon Brown and Decca Jones. Below is the link to an article in Vanguard Magazine regarding the exhibit.
The World Premiere of Love Letters Beyond the Veil was a rousing success! My heartfelt thanks to the artists who collaborated on this show and gave so generously of their time, energy and passion, and to the Orcas Center for giving me the opportunity to bring this story to the stage. Click below to read the review by Norm Stamper.
I am thrilled to announce that I will be part of Radial Theater Project's Locally Grown, a new festival of original performance by local artists.
FAMILY AFFAIR - CABARET SERVED UP FAMILY STYLE!
I will be performing at the Rendezvous Seattle as a part of Family Affair -Cabaret Served up Family Style, on Wednesday, January 21st at 7:30 p.m. Also on the bill is musical guest Diamondwolf, Paul Shipp, Christi Cruz and Emmett Montgomery. Should be loads of fun!


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Twitter may be valued at $1.4 billion, but it's definitely not a smart buy in Suze Orman's opinion. Well, that is if you're Mark Z., a 25-year-old degreeless professional with $300 million in liquid assets, $4 billion in Facebook stock, $2,500 in monthly expenses and no debt.
In her latest "Can I Afford It" segment, Orman strongly advises Mark Z. — an obvious reference to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — against buying Twitter. She exclaims, "You want to spend $1.5 billion on Twitter, do I have that right? ... Why do you need to buy it ... you know Twitter, you can get it for free."
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Mineur à son avènement, sa tutelle fut assurée par son oncle Guy de Nevers, seigneur de Nouastre, de 1066 à 1075. Celui-ci mourra sans enfants en 1084, lui léguant la terre de Nouâtre.

Comme son père,  fut régulièrement en conflit avec l'abbaye de la Trinité ; en un accord mit fin à la brouille en 1083.

Sans alliance, il mourut en 1085.

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Open mics and opening minds: US musician calls SZ home
2015-July-21 Source: Szdaily.com
PETER KRUSE hated playing the piano. A strange place to start for a well-known Shenzhen musician who can play the guitar, ukulele, mandolin and, yes, the piano.
"When I was a kid, I hated piano because my parents forced me to learn it," said Kruse, a native of Chicago, Illinois.
"However, when my brother gave me an electric guitar, I had no teacher and I would just create my own music. Eventually, I became good enough to join a band and even make money playing guitar," he said.
Kruse came to Shenzhen in 2013 and teaches music at an international school.
"Whenever I teach, I try to remember what inspires me about music, and I try to relay that to the students," said Kruse.
To inspire his students, Kruse sometimes plays movies at the end of class, said Tiffany Faass, a Grade 9 student.
"When my students perform a song in front of the class, they are often nervous at first," said Kruse. "But by the end of the year, they've developed a confidence which also helps them become more confident in everyday life."
Kruse studied music performance in Judson University. He later completed an internship under award-winning composer Michael Aukofer and co-wrote some songs with him.
In Chicago, Kruse played in several bands and opened for the Grammy nominated-band Blind Melon. Rufus Tree, one of Kruse's bands, released an album with two tracks featuring Grammy nominated guitarist Phil Keaggy. Another musical project, A Gain of Ten, attracted note from Yahoo Music, CCM Magazine and Classic Rock Review.
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From wood to glass
37 years ago the artist Wladimir Rudolf created his first wooden sculpture. From then processed and he transformed the "stored solar energy" (the artist) to its artistic manifestations. The wood served faithfully as verwirklichendes material for his ideas and wishes, until recently, working with glass fascinated the artist. The artist himself mean, he was there "just fell into it." Thus, the first works of art made of glass, metal and light emerged. In June 2016 was presented "Desordre organisé" in the district of Bezons in Paris then the glass sculpture, which also symbolized the set up there wood sculpture "la fléche rouge" the leitmotif of the exhibition "Riesen".
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The exhibition GLASS Sculpture AND GARDEN 2016 was supplemented by a special exhibition by the sculptor Wladimir Rudolf, which can not be more contradictory in form and material.


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Car fire at University of Michigan Hospital parking structure A car fire damaged several cars at a University of Michigan Hospital parking structure Thursday.
Several cars were destroyed after a fire broke out Thursday morning in a parking structure outside the University of Michigan Hospital.
The heat from the fire also melted the bumpers on a couple of cars across from the ones that were on fire.
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You are here: Home / News / Wedding Tips / The rehearsal dinner: the American tradition flies to Tuscany!
The rehearsal dinner comes from the American wedding customs and nowadays has been imported by us.
Why is it so popular in the last wedding seasons?
The rehearsal dinner is a dinner that is organized the night before the big day, almost all the guests of the wedding are invited to take part at it and, according to the American tradition, the costs are borne by the groom's parents. Although nowadays it is often the groom himself, or the bride's parents to pay for this kind of welcome dinner.
We say welcome not randomly.
In the last years destination weddings are really fashionable and in vogue.
Celebrations now are longer, and they are often an opportunity to spend time with friends and family for 3 days in spectacular places, as our Tuscany is.
And that's why the rehearsal dinner is so required: it allows bride and groom to welcome the newly arrived guests in the chosen Medieval village for the wedding weekend.
We mean stay together between the bride team and the groom team. Let know the relatives and friends of one team with the other ones. It is a dinner designed for icebreaking, and this will allow the couple to have a more amusing party all night long at the wedding day.
It's common knowledge that fun, for centuries, is the essential ingredient for icebreaking.
If fun is combined with good wine, success is assured!
And the Tuscan wine is so amazing!
So let's think about nice activities to do all together: a good idea could be a bike tour to reach the venue of the dinner.
Or why not a treasure hunt? Keep hidden the name of the venue, and let the guests, divided into mixed teams, to find it!
If you want to facilitate the knowledge of the two sides, we are ironic, organize an informal dinner. Choose an alternative location (not the one of the wedding day) not far from the place of the overnight stay. You can choose a panoramic restaurant, a rustic farmhouse in the countryside, an ancient wine cellar.
But please don't forget: the dress code does not include long dresses and sparkling outfit.
Let's leave them for the next day! Do you agree?
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the more I wrote the more I began to enjoy it, soon I expanded what I wrote, I currently have loads of books I written, that I've yet to typed up, which may take months.
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I went to university, but was bullied really badly, i had to go to hospital because of it, when I returned to university i was again bullied, and the my art department including teachers treated me really badly, and did not help me, even after i left i asked help in getting things like documents and they did not help.
this situation made me worse and i went to a crisis center and again to a hospital, all the people around me did not help me at all and even one of the doctors tried to blame me about things that happened in university, in a later incident the same person asked me if I found her rude, I skilled fully avoided her question, as doctor and nurses have a lot of power, better not to piss them off, one of my workers after painful months finally acknowledged what I went threw and the truth of the matter, where as my social workers and others wouldn't.
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Larry Tribe: The Crank Years
By Scott Lemieux
Chait has an amusing discussion of Laurence Tribe's willingness to cash paychecks from Big Coal to make arguments better suited to the CATO institute blog:
Tribe is playing an important legal role, which has to be evaluated on its own terms. Other law professors, like Richard Revesz, Jody Freeman, and Richard Lazarus, have called Tribe's legal argument frivolous and absurd. Tribe has responded. But aside from the legal case Tribe has devised, his advocacy is also playing a crucial public role in the debate — even liberal professor Laurence Tribe noted that Obama's climate regulations must be unconstitutional, which sounds very different from even coal company lawyer Lawrence Tribe agrees that Obama's climate regulations must be unconstitutional. Should anybody put weight on Tribe's endorsement of the anti-Obama lawsuit, any more than they should have taken Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz's word for it that O.J. Simpson was innocent?
The question of whether Tribe is arguing in bad faith is difficult to answer. His fetish for bad states' rights arguments did not begin here, although as far as I can tell he's certainly never made any claims this remotely this bad or this radical before. As Paul has previously observed, at Tribe's particular position in the legal profession asking whether he's arguing in bad faith is almost a category error, like trying to figure out what the leader of a large brokerage party "really thinks."
The more important question is whether his arguments are at all plausible, and…they are in fact strikingly terrible. They push far beyond current federalism doctrine to reach results with appalling consequences. Taken together, if applied seriously the arguments he's making would threaten huge swaths of the United States Code. I'm particularly gobsmacked that he would embrace a favorite argument of radical libertarians, "the contemporary regulatory state is unconstitutional because the takings clause":
Second, the constitutional arguments are wholly without merit. Tribe argues that EPA's rule is an unconstitutional "taking" of industry's private property under the Fifth Amendment because government regulation of power plant pollution has not covered greenhouse gas emissions until now. The clear implication of Tribe's novel view of the Constitution is that the coal industry, and the power plants that burn their coal, possess an absolute constitutional property right to continue to emit greenhouse gases in perpetuity. No Supreme Court opinion has ever announced such a preposterously extreme proposition of constitutional law. Nor has even one single Justice in more than two centuries of cases endorsed such a reading of the Fifth Amendment.
If Tribe were right, government could never regulate newly discovered air or water pollution, or other new harms, from existing industrial facilities, no matter how dangerous to public health and welfare, as long as the impacts are incremental and cumulative. The harm EPA seeks to address with its power plant rule not only affects future generations, but also current ones already managing the impacts and risks of climate change. Indeed, after an unprecedented and exhaustive scientific review, EPA in 2009 made a formal finding that greenhouse gases already endanger public health and welfare. The D.C. Circuit upheld this finding, and, given a chance to review it, the Supreme Court declined. This is important because it makes it all the more astonishing that Professor Tribe has himself determined that greenhouse gases do not pose the kind of risk that government is entitled to address, unless it is willing to compensate industry for its losses. It is hard to imagine a more industry-friendly and socially destructive principle than this.
Thankfully, this principle has no basis in constitutional law. The Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear that the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause does not shield business investments from future regulation, even when that regulation cuts sharply into their profits. The Constitution protects only "reasonable investment backed expectations," and there is simply no reasonable expectation to profit forever from activities that are proven to harm public health and welfare. Certainly the coal industry uniquely enjoys no special exemption from this fundamental constitutional rule.
The nondelegation and anti-commandeering are no better, and any of them could have been made by Richard Epstein himself. I don't really care whether Tribe believes them or not; what matters is that they all need to be killed and the earth salted before they could reemerge. They would be embarrassing if they were being made for good policy ends, let alone being made to protect the interests of polluters and increase carbon emissions during an environmental crisis. And I'm note sure he'll be able to get even Clarence Thomas's vote for the constitutional arguments.
Tribe has made many salutary and important contributions to constitutional law. Where's he's coming from here, I have no idea.
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2. Chubby Checker, "Pony Time"
3. Shirelles, "Dedicated To the One I Love"