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Q: Google Apps Script: Compare two columns and do something if condition match in a any row of the range I'm completely new is this thing of scripting/programming, so I'm sorry if I've made something really stupid below
The scenario:
In column "D" I pull stock prices from Google with =GOOGLEFINANCE(B2;"PRICE")
In column "K" I setup a value that I'm waiting the paper to reach
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I've wrote (or at least I thing I did) a script (pasted below) that sends me an e-mail when "D" < "K". Actually it's working, but only for the first row. The trigger is correctly configured and working, since when in the first row the condition above is matched, I receive an e-mail.
What I need:
A script that reads the column "D" and compare it with the column "K", row by row. If "D" < "K" send me an e-mail for each occurrence. Preferably with the paper name in the subject, which is stored in column "B"
Something like: "Alert! Paper TAEE3 reched the value"
function PaperValue() {
  var valorAlertaRange = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Situação").getRange("K2:K16");
  var valorAlerta = valorAlertaRange.getValue();
  var valorAtualRange = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Situação").getRange("D2:D16");
  var valorAtual = valorAtualRange.getValue();
  if (valorAtual <= valorAlerta){
    var subject = 'VALOR DO ALERTA ATINGIDO!';
    var message = 'O valor da ação atingiu o preço definido no alerta;
    MailApp.sendEmail("xxx@live.com", subject, message);
  }
}

Thank you for your time!

A: Try this:
function PaperValue() {
  var krg = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Situação").getRange("K2:K16");
  var kvs = krg.getValues();
  var drg = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Situação").getRange("D2:D16");
  var dvs = drg.getValues();
  var subject = 'VALOR DO ALERTA ATINGIDO!';
  var message = 'O valor da ação atingiu o preço definido no alerta';
  kvs.forEach((k, i) => {
    if (dvs[i][0] <= k[0] && MailApp.getRemainingDailyQuota() > 0) {
      MailApp.sendEmail("xxx@live.com", subject, message);
    }
  });
}

Explanation:
getValue() returns a single (top-left) cell in the range. Because of this, it is only working for the first row. Use getValues() and iterate instead.


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"Asks the Meaning of Life but Gives No Answers"
DEAR EVAN HANSEN is a musical drama about a high school student with social anxiety disorder who finds a connection with a married couple grieving their son's death. One day, Evan Hansen writes a letter to himself, which a troubled bully named Connor steals from the school printer. The next day Evan is told Connor committed suicide and the letter was the one thing of meaning left on his body. When Connor's parents want answers and stories about the friendship between Evan and Connor, Evan lies to comfort them and gain attention. Will Evan come clean and tell the truth?
DEAR EVAN HANSEN is well produced. It has some excellent singing, and the acting is excellent. Also, the characters seem well defined. Overall, the movie feels much like a musical, but lacks a clear resolution. DEAR EVAN HANSEN has some moral elements but is overwhelmed by a humanist, godless worldview. The movie shows some positive pro-family elements and moral repercussions. Overall, however, it offers no solution to the world's negativity, and viewers are left feeling purposeless. DEAR EVAN HANSEN contains excessive foul language.
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Humanist, godless worldview provides no resolution and no answers about questions of concerning life, death, tragedy, and meaning/purpose, but there are some positive moral, pro-family elements
23 obscenities (including two "f" words) and six profanities (including the use of Jesus as a curse word)
Boy falls from a tree, and a suicide occurs
No sex scenes or sexual immorality, but there is some kissing
No nudity
No smoking or illegal drugs, but some prescription anti-depressant drugs are used and mentioned; and,
Strong miscellaneous immorality where lying is a major part of the plot, but there are negative repercussions.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN is a musical drama about a high school student with social anxiety disorder who finds a connection with a married couple grieving the loss of their son. Based on the Tony-winning play, DEAR EVAN HANSEN has some moral elements to it, but it's overwhelmed by a humanist worldview and contains foul language.
Evan Hansen suffers from social anxiety and depression. He doesn't seem to fit in to his high school. When he breaks his arm, his mother gives him a sharpie and tells him to ask other kids to sign the cast. At the request of his therapist, every day Evan writes a letter to himself about what he's done that day and how he feels about it.
He writes a letter about the girl he likes, Zoe. When he's in line to print the letter on the school printer, he sees Zoe's brother, Connor. Connor says he'll sign Evan's cast, but right after that he sees that Evan has written about his sister, so he steals the letter. The next day Evan comes to school and is called into the principal's office. Connor's mother and stepfather are there, and they tell Evan that Connor has committed suicide. The only thing they found on Connor was Evan's letter. This leads them to believe that Connor wrote the letter to Evan and was Evan's only friend. Of course, this isn't true. In reality, Connor was a bully to Evan. However, Evan feels he can't let the parents down since they just lost their son. Also, the news about the letter brings lots of attention to Evan.
Going along with the lie that Connor and Evan were friends, Evan starts telling stories about Connor. Connor's whole family begins to accept him and bring him into their family. Even Zoe starts to like Evan and even wants to date him.
Now the question is, has the lie become to misleading and will it hurt people deeply? How can Evan come clean?
DEAR EVAN HANSEN is a well-produced musical drama. It has some excellent singing, and the acting is really good. Also, the characters seem well defined. Overall, the movie feels much like a musical, but the story doesn't have a clear resolution at the end.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN has a humanist worldview and requires extreme caution due to Connor's suicide and the lie that's the premise of the movie. DEAR EVAN HANSEN has some positive notes about families learning to come together. The movie shows a young man learning confidence and how to interact with other people. Though this is the case, there is no redemption. Thus, eventually, the movie offers no solution to the world's negativity, and viewers are left feeling purposeless. DEAR EVAN HANSEN also contains excessive foul language. So, although Evan does have to admit the lie and feel the repercussions of that, MOVIEGUIDE® must advise extreme caution.
Watch DEAR EVAN HANSEN:
Starring: Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Amy Adams, Kaitlyn Dever, Danny Pino, Colton Ryan, Amandla Stenberg
Genre: Musical/Drama
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Executive Producer: Michael Bederman, Steven Levenson, Stacey Mindich, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
Producer: Kalsey Nicolle Scott, Adam Siegel
Writer: Steven Levenson
Jeff Schell, CEO, NBCUniversal (a subsidiary of Comcast)
Donna Langley, Chairman, Universal Pictures (Focus Features, Universal Television, DreamWorks Animation)

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Last week, the new private MO Museum founded by Danguole and Viktoras Butkus opened its doors for the first time to the public. Designed by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the museum stands on the site of the legendary former Lietuva Cinema and is home to some 5,000 works of contemporary Lithuanian artists from the 1960s to the present.
As museum founder Viktoras Butkus maintains, the MO Museum is an institution that both invites visitors to discover a unique collection of work while challenging them to engage directly with the world of art. "I am really happy that we finally have crossed the finish line, but I also understand that the most important work is still ahead of us. We want the museum to be alive, so for that reason we will do our best to attract visitors. And not only for one visit, but for regular visits," remarks Butkus.
Museum architect Daniel Libeskind, who was on hand for the opening ceremony, can now add the MO Museum to his celebrated portfolio of work, which includes buildings like the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Dancing Towers in Seoul, and the World Trade Center master plan in New York. Libeskind was thrilled to design an intimate and iconic museum for a great collection of contemporary art. "As someone who has a true appreciation for the history and beauty of Vilnius, I believe the building and its architecture will become a wonderful place to enjoy art and the spirit of the city," he reflected.
The MO's first exhibit curated by Professor Raminta Jurėnaitė also proves that the museum is open to all point of views. Entitled All Art is About Us, the exhibit challenges audiences to take in the works of art both from their own personal perspective and through the broader prism of Lithuanian national identity. The exhibition interweaves multiple strands of Lithuanian historical experience, including the post-war period, the Soviet thaw, the stagnation of the Brezhnev years, the relief that came with Perestroika, the Sąjūdis independence movement, and the restoration of the Lithuanian State, as well as the rapid changes and new challenges that ensued.
Now that the MO Museum is officially a place for art, aesthetics and inspiration, everyone will have the opportunity to visit it for exhibitions, film screenings, open lectures, concerts and a range of other cultural events. For more information, please visit the website of the museum: https://mo.lt/en/.
Photos of the museum and the opening: https://bit.ly/2q33yov.


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22 October, at 11 a.m.
"Cats in the Hat" - kids reading club meets this Saturday at the American Cornet- 4a Slaveykov Sq.
Mrs. Keely Whiteley is going to read for us "Room on the Broom" by Julia Donaldson.
For crafts we will make "shape witch" and other interesting activities for kids.


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Jose Cruz
January 4, 2012 /in BioProject - Person 1980s All-Stars Parent-Child, Siblings Puerto Rico Puerto Rico and Baseball /by admin
Jane Schupmann Hewitt
"One of the best and most underrated players I have ever seen." — Joe Morgan, Hall of Famer
"A Puerto Rican legend whose brilliance equals that of the stars." — Honduran sportswriter Greg Moraga
Growing up in Houston in the 1970s and '80s, every kid idolized Astros left fielder José Cruz. They dreamed of watching him, meeting him, and getting his autograph. One of the most popular players in the history of the franchise, Cruz is equally adored in his native Puerto Rico, as widely known as the great Roberto Clemente. His consistently solid work ethic, good character, and respect for the game and his fans have won him admiration from young and old alike.
Nothing exemplifies these traits more than the story of young fan-turned-ballplayer, Dave Dellucci. On a Fox Sports Diamondbacks Live pregame show on April 26, 2012, interviewer Todd Walsh introduces Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Dave Dellucci to his childhood hero, José Cruz, now the Houston Astros first-base coach. Dellucci tells the heartfelt story of driving to his first major-league baseball game, in Houston with his uncle from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. About 5 years old, Dave was carried on his uncle's shoulders down the sidelines to meet some Astros ballplayers. The player who signed his miniature baseball bat that day was José Cruz. Little David never forgot. He began rooting for "Cheo" Cruz and developed a stronger interest in baseball as a result. When possible, Dave always chose to wear Cruz's number 25 when he played. He was thrilled to be introduced to his idol, José Cruz, and Cruz was touched by Dellucci's story. He said he always liked "being good to everybody," and could never "say no to the kids."1
Born in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, on August 8, 1947, José was the eldest of three brothers who must have been born to play baseball. He was an all-around athlete at Arroyo High School, excelling in track, basketball, softball, and baseball. Cruz signed with St. Louis Cardinals scout Chase Riddle out of high school in 1966.2
After paying his dues with minor-league teams in St. Petersburg, Florida (Class A), Modesto, (A), and Little Rock (Double A), Cruz was called up to St. Louis for his major-league debut on September 19, 1970. He played in six games and got his first major-league hit, a single, off the Philadelphia Phillies' Rick Wise on September 19. He started the 1971 season with the Triple-A Tulsa Oilers of the American Association, managed by Hall of Famer Warren Spahn. He roared to a .327 average in the first 67 games with the Oilers, and was called up to the majors for good.
In 1973 spring training, Cheo found himself in an all-Cruz outfield for the Cardinals, playing an exhibition game against the New York Yankees. Younger brothers Cirilo (Tommy, b. 1951) and Hector (Heity, b. 1953) had been signed by the Cardinals in 1969 and 1970, respectively, and would make their major-league debuts in the 1973 season. While a good many brothers have played professional baseball, the Cruz trio was one of only a handful of sets of three or more baseball brothers to be in uniform at the same time. Cardinals manager Red Schoendienst was impressed with them, telling sportswriters, "They're good ballplayers. [If] they have six brothers back home, and if they come to town, I'll play them, too."3
José Cruz was not destined to stay long in St. Louis. He was sold to the Astros in a cash deal on October 24, 1974. Cruz debuted for the Astros on April 7, 1975, in the Astrodome, going 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs in a 6-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves. The Astros' spacious Astrodome was a pitcher's haven, especially against the Astros weak offensive lineup.
That bland offense began to shape up, though, and Cruz was a large part of its success. In 1977, he emerged as the best hitter on the team, batting .299 with 17 home runs, 87 RBIs, and 44 stolen bases. Fans loved how J. Fred Duckett, the Astros public-address announcer, drew out Cruz's name when he came up to bat, and they joined in a chorus of "CRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZ!" This created a great relationship between the two; José appreciated Duckett's gesture, and when he left the Astros, he gave Fred one of the bats from his last game, signing "Cruz" with about 15 U's, according to Duckett.4
Tal Smith, often called the architect of the Astros for his role in constructing both the team and the Astrodome, had returned to the Astros in 1975, bringing Bill Virdon with him as manager. His challenge was to build a talented nucleus of young players mixed with experienced veterans. He wanted pitching, speed, and defense — necessities in the spacious Astrodome. Smith didn't need "stars." He wanted versatility and flexibility.
To outfielders José Cruz and Enos Cabell, called the "glue of the team" by sportswriter Jack Hand of the Houston Chronicle, and an already talented pitching staff including Larry Dierker, J.R. Richard, Dave Roberts, and Joe Niekro, Smith added other versatile talent, including Cesar Cedeño, pitcher Joaquin Andujar, and a strong veteran presence in Joe Morgan.5 Cruz and Morgan were like-minded, both interested in the team win, not personal recognition. Virdon brought a new level of efficiency to the team, expecting every player to run all-out to first base, even the pitchers. "This started a new mindset, a changing of the guard," said Cabell when he appeared on a panel at the SABR convention in Houston in 2014.
Cheo Cruz was already a leader in that philosophy, frequently sacrificing personal stats to move runners ahead. "I always play for the team," Cruz said. He never tried to pull the ball because the Dome "wasn't a place for home runs." Cruz's batting coach on the Astros, Deacon Jones, observed that, "Cheo worked tirelessly at hitting to the opposite side," which made him one of the best clutch hitters in baseball. In fact, in Smith's opinion, the 1980 outfield was "the absolute best in character and performance."6
Cruz had hit in 15 straight games early in the 1979 season, from April 21 to May 9, raising his batting average from .267 to .340. He led the Astros in many offensive categories that year: batting average (.289), games (160), doubles (33), home runs (9), RBIs (72), and walks (72), as well as in game-winning RBIs (14). In 1980 he was selected to play in his first All-Star Game, was voted Astros team MVP, and received his second straight Roberto Clemente Award.7
However, the 1980 season held misfortune, too. Midway through the season the Astros suffered the tragic loss of phenomenal young pitcher J.R. Richard to a stroke. And though Cruz's memories of the Astros-Phillies playoffs were unforgettable, as the first-ever championship series for the Astros franchise and himself (he batted .400 and received a record three intentional walks in Game Three of the 1980 NLCS), the outcome was dismal. The best-of-five series included four extra-inning games, two controversial plays in Game Four,8 and in Game Five, with the Astros six outs from the World Series, Cruz having helped tie it up at 7-7, doubles by Phillies Del Unser and Garry Maddox led to a heartbreaking 8-7 loss in the 10th.
In 1981 Cruz continued to excel, leading National League batters throughout the strike-interrupted season.9 He led Astros teammates in games played, at-bats, runs scored, hits, and RBIs. He had a great defensive year in his second full season in left field. Cruz hit in three out of five Division Series games against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Astros winning two home games to start but losing the last three in Los Angeles. He was named Puerto Rico's 1981 Pro Athlete of the Year.
The 1982 and 1983 seasons showed Cruz to be one of the most durable Astros, rarely missing a game. By the end of the 1982 season, he was among the top six in every Astros category for career offense; his .291 was second all-time to Bob Watson in batting average and he ranked third to Cedeño and Morgan, with 213 stolen bases. In 1983, he put together a monumental season, going down to the wire in a battle for the National League batting title. He hit a scorching .375 in July, and averaged .341 for the second half of the season. While he came in third for the batting title at .318, he tied Andre Dawson of the Montreal Expos for most NL hits (189), was sixth in on-base percentage (.385), seventh in RBIs (92), and ninth in slugging percentage (.463). The 1983 season saw Cruz drive in his 1,000th run, on his 36th birthday, August 8, and rap out his 1,800th hit two days later
Cruz continued to excel in 1984, again finishing the season at the top of National League offensive categories; he tied for fifth in hitting (.312), third in triples (13), fifth in hits (187), sixth in runs scored (96) and on-base percentage (.381), seventh in RBIs (95), and ninth in walks (73). He became the Astros team MVP for a record fourth time. For the second consecutive season he was named to The Sporting News Silver Slugger team as one of the National League's top three offensive outfielders. He passed Joe Morgan's former franchise record for triples (63) with 68, and tied the club record for runs scored in one game (4).
By 1985, Cruz had finally been discovered by baseball fans across America. It seemed that everywhere the Astros played, some reporter wanted to do a story on him. At least one writer referred to him as "the most underrated ballplayer of the last decade."10 But fame was so new to the always genial Cruz that he even complained a bit about the overwhelming presence of the press to surprised Astro teammates and staff. What was remarkable was that, at age 37, his career seemed to be getting better. Astros manager Bob Lillis asserted that Cruz continued to have the body of a younger man because he was continually in shape. After playing in the Puerto Rican winter league he came back to spring training ready to go, said Lillis.11 Cruz said, "That's all mental. I've been playing winter ball for 15 years. Then I take two or three weeks off and I don't even need spring training." Lillis liked the fact that Cruz was willing to play anywhere. He didn't want to have a day off, said Lillis. He just loved to play.12
Latin players had often had trouble getting recognition, even stars like Clemente, and Cruz was no exception. Writers hesitated to tackle the possible language barrier, and multiple players named Cruz (including his brothers Hector and Tommy) added confusion. But Chicago Tribune sportswriter and columnist Robert Markus concluded, "People have been adding the numbers and they add up to stardom."13
Cruz turned 38 at the end of the 1985 season, leading the franchise batting lists, but starting to show his age. In August 1986, he was hot, hitting .327 and driving in 17 runs for the Astros. That season he had enough stamina left to aid the Astros playoff efforts, but by 1987 a much younger Gerald Young was competing for his spot in left field. Many Astros fans were disappointed when Cruz was not able to complete his career in Houston; when his contract was not renewed he played a final partial season with the New York Yankees. When he left the Astros, he was first or second in virtually every offensive category. His 80 triples (as of 2017) remained a franchise record.
Cruz also holds a few rather extraordinary distinctions: Out of 7,448 at-bats, he was hit by a pitch only three times in his career in Houston (once each in 1975, 1982, and 1983). He seemed to have developed a unique ability to avoid getting hit.14
The second noteworthy record involves a play resulting in major-league baseball's millionth run scored.15 Major League Baseball was tracking the scoring of this milestone run. As players closed in on the milestone, the clock times of run-scoring were being monitored across the major leagues. In the second inning at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on May 4, 1975, Astros first baseman Bob Watson walked, then stole second during José Cruz's at-bat. Cruz also walked. Then Astro Milt May hit a home run off San Francisco Giants pitcher John Montefusco, scoring both Watson and Cruz. Watson crossed the plate at precisely 12:32 P.M. with the millionth run, followed by Cruz and May, who almost crossed paths, which would have nullified the run. Watson reached home only three seconds before Cincinnati Reds shortstop Dave Concepcion scored from his homer off Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves in Cincinnati.
As Cruz's career drew to a close, baseball fans and writers attempted to evaluate his impact on the game. Some, like Puerto Rican baseball writer/historian Edwin Kako Vasquez, simply said that Cruz was a "great natural ballplayer," and that he had many fine attributes, the best of which are "his good character, his great friendship, and the fact that he is always ready, always prepared."16
Others, like Bill James, who in 1987 introduced the concept of "park effects" in his annual Baseball Abstract, tried to analyze Cruz's stats and determine the effect of the Astrodome on his hitting. He concluded that the playing field is not level when it comes to the effects of home ballparks on player statistics. In other words, Cruz's offensive numbers would have been much better if he had not had to hit in the Astrodome, since his on-the-road statistics were considerably better than at home. Astros fans had long before figured this out: Cruz was a much better hitter than most people realized.17
The writers of Total Baseball also developed an objective method for evaluating hitters, called the Total Player Rating (TPR). It is expressed in a number that attempts to show how a player performs either above or below what an average player might produce. It is also adjusted for park effects. Cruz's TPR of 28.7 is not only very good, but places him at number 139 on the all-time major-league player list, and above several already in the Hall of Fame. While many may not have voted Cruz into the Hall of Fame, few would dispute that he never received the credit he deserved.18
In 1992 José Cruz's number 25 was retired by the Astros, and in 1997, he was named first-base coach when Bob Lillis became manager. However, now came the time for Cheo's sons to share a little of the limelight. Baseball had always been a family affair in the Cruz house, and now Cruz and his wife of 30 years, Zoraida (Vasquez), had time to watch sons José (Cheito or Little Cheo) Jr., and José Enrique shine — first, at Rice University, where both sons excelled in baseball. After some years of taking classes around their baseball careers in order to keep a promise made to their mother, both Cheito and Enrique graduated in May 2013 with degrees in sports management.19 José Jr. had been drafted in the first round in 1995 by the Seattle Mariners, and played in the major leagues for 12 years.
Enrique Cruz, drafted in 2003 by the New York Yankees, moved around for eight seasons in the minors, and then became the director of Cruz Baseball Camps. Both sons played in the Puerto Rican winter leagues. In 2003-04 Cheo Cruz was voted Manager of the Year for piloting the Ponce Lions (and both sons) to the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League Championship20 and later to victory in the 2004 Caribbean World Series. One of Enrique's favorite moments was when he and José Jr. hit back-to-back home runs during the 2003 winter season,21 a repeat of an earlier feat when father José Sr., playing for Houston, and Uncle Cirilo "Tommy" Cruz, playing for the Chicago Cubs, both hit homers in the same game on May 4, 1981.22 When Carlos Beltran was traded to the New York Mets at the end of the 2004 season, Cheo suggested that the Astros sign his son Cheito to fill his spot in the outfield.23 In the 2006 World Baseball Classic, José Sr. coached the Puerto Rican national team, including José Jr., to the second round.
In 1992 Cheo Cruz's number 25 was retired by the Astros. It was a special day for Cruz, but did not signal the end of the Cruz family's contribution to baseball. They have contributed six players to US professional baseball,24 Cheo and brothers Hector and Tommy, sons Cheito and Enrique, nephew Cirilo (Hector's son), and possibly more, with grandson Trei (son of José Jr.) a middle infielder playing at Rice University, scheduled to graduate in 2017, and attempting to "keep the Cruz legacy going."25
The 2017 baseball season marked José Cruz's 34th campaign with the Astros. He played 13 seasons in the outfield, coached for 13 more, spent five years as a special assistant to the president and then as a community outreach executive.
This biography appeared in "Puerto Rico and Baseball: 60 Biographies" (SABR, 2017), edited by Bill Nowlin and Edwin Fernández.
In addition to the sources cited in the Notes, the author also consulted baseball-reference.com, CalltothePen, LatinoBaseball.com, MLB.com, SABR.org, YouTube.com, and the following:
Puerto Rico Herald, http://puertoricoherald.org/PRBtnArch/PRBtnArch2002/PRSportsBeat.
AstrosDaily.com, http://astrosdaily.com/files/team/cruz/cruz.html.
Moraga, Greg. "José "Cheo"Cruz, leyenda boricua que brillo igual a los Astros." CatrachoSports.com, June 14, 2015.
Special thanks to my daughter, Mary K. Moritz, for assistance with Spanish translation.
1 See entire Walsh/Dellucci/Cruz interview at: youtube.com/watch?v=Psoi5btQK9k.
2 Riddle since 1963 had been the Cardinals' scouting supervisor for the Southeastern United States, Puerto Rico, and Latin America.
3 Samuel O. Regalado, Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 154.
4 David Barron, "J. Fred Duckett Remembered for Cruuuuz Intro," Houston Chronicle, June 26, 2007.
5 Joe Morgan had been signed to the Colt .45s in 1963, and appeared two years later in the lineup for the renamed Astros' first game in the Astrodome, April 9, 1965, vs. the New York Yankees. Traded to the Cincinnati Reds in 1971, where he helped win two World Series in 1975 and 1976, he was reacquired from Cincinnati by the Astros in 1980.
6 All quotations from a 1980 Astros panel at the SABR convention in Houston in 2014.
7 The Roberto Clemente Award is presented each year to the major-league player who most exemplifies baseball, sportsmanship, and local humanitarian work. Each of the 30 clubs selects a team winner, who then becomes a candidate for the national award. Cruz won the team award in 1979 and 1980.
8 Both were disputes over trap-or-catch situations. See entire Game Four at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-2kkfWU0zz4.
9 The strike began June 12, 1981; an agreement was reached on July 31; and play resumed with the All-Star Game on August 9, followed by the remaining regularly scheduled games. A total of 713 games had been canceled. See also: thesportsnotebook.com/downloads/download-the-story-of-the-1981-mlb-season/ for a summary of the unusual and not-quite-fair split-season format adopted by MLB after the strike to determine playoff teams.
10 Robert Markus, "Meet Best Cruz of All, Houston's Jose," Chicago Tribune, May 26, 1985. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-05-26/sports/8502020814_1_jose-cruz-houston-astros-left-fielder-bob-lillis
14 "Cruz Control: Avoiding the Plunk," astrosdaily.com/files/team/cruz/cruz.html.
15 Jonathan Fraser Light, The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co., Inc., 1997), 627.
16 Enrique Vasquez, Tribute to Cruz on Television, Houston Channel 7, in Spanish: youtube.com/watch?v=Dd4q410xWro Uploaded on May 15, 2009. Retrieved on November 11, 2016.
17 "The Astrodome: Where Fame Went to Die," AstrosDaily.com: Jose Cruz Tribute, http://astrosdaily.com/hall/Cruz_Jose.html.
19 Richard Justice, "Cruz Family to Enjoy a Proud Day Together," MLB.com, http://m.mlb.com/news/article/47139994/jose-cruzs-sons-jose-jr-and-enrique-to-graduate-from-rice-university/.
20 The Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente or LBPRC was formerly known as the Puerto Rico Baseball League, or Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico, and is the main professional baseball league in Puerto Rico.
21 Playing for the Caguas Creoles (las Criollos de Caguas).
22 Lyle Spatz, ed., The SABR Baseball List and Record Book: Baseball's Most Fascinating Records and Unusual Statistics (New York: Scribner, 2007), 64.
23 Jose de Jesus Ortiz, "Cruz Suggests Astros Pursue His Son in Trade," Houston Chronicle, January 14, 2005.
24 The Cruz family is tied with several on the list of five or more family members in baseball, including the Perez and Alomar families, with six; fewer than 20 other families have more than six. Baseball-Reference, http://baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Largest_Baseball_Families.
25 Mark Berman, Houston's Fox 26, September 24, 2015. http://fox26houston.com/sports/24283728-story.
Jose Cruz Dilan
August 8, 1947 at Arroyo, (P.R.)
1980s All-Stars · Parent-Child · Siblings · Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico and Baseball
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Lakeview Orchestra
Colton Davis2022-11-29T11:28:02-05:00November 29th, 2022|
Website: https://www.lakevieworchestra.org/our-story
Ste 215, 2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60657
The Lakeview Orchestra was founded in 2013 and is recognized as a leading non-professional orchestra in Chicago. Under the baton of Artistic Director Gregory Hughes, the orchestra presents acclaimed performances that engage, entertain, and educate. The orchestra is home to professionally-trained musicians that revel at opportunities to perform a diverse variety of music — from established masterworks to pieces written expressly for the ensemble.
The orchestra's commitment to artistic excellence has been noted by audiences, critics, and artists alike. In 2016 the Lakeview Orchestra garnered an unprecedented three awards in a single year from the Illinois Council of Orchestras, including the prestigious Orchestra of the Year award.
Upcoming Shows at This Theater:
Hanson's Romantic Symphony
Join the Lakeview Orchestra presenting Hanson's Romantic Symphony! Sunday February 19th 2PM at the Athenaeum Center.


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Tate Etc.
Tate Etc. issue 4: Summer 2005
A fearless embrace of our common existential situation as frail, short-sighted creatures lost in space in a temporarily lucky planet
Tate Etc 1 May 2005
A fearless embrace of our common existential situation as frail, short-sighted creatures lost in space in a temporarily lucky planet Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Kenneth Baker
Robert Smithson's vast earthwork Spiral Jetty 1970 became an instant icon of land art, partly thanks to iconic photography by Gianfranco Gorgoni, and recently resurfaced after being submerged under the Great Salt Lake. Smithson's visual inspiration for this project was typically diverse – ranging from the molecular structure of salt to Constantin Brancusi's abstract portrait of James Joyce, and a 'Spiral Jetty Weekend' invite allows Kenneth Baker to make a visit.
Ikonos, satellite image of Spiral Jetty, 14 September 2002
© Courtesy Space Imaging
"I think that's more or less run its course – the typical idea of exhibitions in a museum," Robert Smithson told me in conversation in 1971. "I think it would be quite possible to make art in a quarry, a mine, a lake, or canal – you know, any number of places. To build directly out of the ground of the site is one of my intentions."
In fact, he had already done it. Smithson built his land art milestone Spiral Jetty in 1970. It had appeared on the cover of Artforum almost immediately. Gianfranco Gorgoni's photographs, including the iconic shot on the front page, instantly persuaded most people who saw them that they reported an epochal work, one that might revise the terms of ambition for future sculpture.
But events kept Smithson from compounding the eccentric brilliance of Spiral Jetty. In 1973, with many of his plans for earthworks unrealised, he died at 35 in the crash of the small aircraft from which he was inspecting his work-in-progress, Amarillo Ramp, a piece later completed by his widow Nancy Holt and friends, Richard Serra among them. Other important American works of land art followed, by Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria and others. But Spiral Jetty so far remains sui generis, or so the photographs have always suggested.
Smithson foresaw that the remoteness of the desert site, on the uninhabited north shore of Utah's Great Salt Lake, would keep visitors to a minimum. He made the half-hour film The Spiral Jetty 1970 – part documentary, part ancillary artwork – to guarantee the earthwork some kind of foothold in public memory, regardless of how many people made the trek to see it. And no one who sees the film, a dazzling reverie sprung from Smithson's fascination with geology, paleontology, astronomy, mythology and cinema, ever forgets it. I have seen it six or seven times in 35 years, but I finally visited the Jetty itself only last September.
By 1976, the water level of the Great Salt Lake had risen enough to submerge the work completely. Except for a brief period during the late 1990s, it seldom re-emerged – until recently.
Last July, a mail had arrived at my office announcing a "Spiral Jetty Weekend", co-hosted by the International Sculpture Centre and the Salt Lake Art Centre. The programme included organised visits to the site on successive days, with an evening panel discussion of Smithson's art sandwiched between them.
Salt Lake City is known the world over as the centre of the Mormon church, formally called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Reportedly, about half the city's population, and a considerably larger fraction of the state's residents, professes the Mormon faith. We dwellers in America's godless coastal cities get a time-travel sort of shock when we visit the heartland and find it punctuated with roadside crosses and billboards forecasting imminent apocalypse and promising salvation to the repentant. The nation's vast mid-section seems to lack all sense of the United States as an Enlightenment project. But despite that, and despite Salt Lake City's town plan centring on the Mormon Temple, the casual American visitor to Utah comes away more impressed by the influence of the aerospace industry than by the region's peculiar Wild West strain of messianic Christianity.
Riding out to Spiral Jetty in a chauffeured van full of other first-time visitors, some of them locals, I saw a sign drift by near a roadside exit. It read "Thiokol" in the white-on-green Helvetica format reserved for place names in official American highway signage. I asked a fellow passenger, a Salt Lake City heart specialist, about it, because I knew the name only as part of the corporate moniker of a major military contractor, Morton Thiokol, manufacturer of rocket engines and other environmentally unfriendly products. Sure enough, the town owes its name to the company. Elsewhere along the route, for hundreds of yards at a stretch, high concrete baffles flank the roadside. These, our well-informed companion told us, are blast deflectors. Should one or more of the rocket fuel storage units behind them explode, they will divert the blast upward, giving passing drivers a speeder's chance of evading harm.
The drive from Salt Lake City to Spiral Jetty takes at least two hours. Outbound, the last rest stop occurs about three quarters of the way to the site, at the Golden Spike National Historic Monument. Here, at a small theme park attached to a visitor centre, costumed performers and short trains powered by antique steam locomotives regularly re-enact the 1869 ceremony that marked completion of the world's first transcontinental railroad. In fact, the builders of the original eastbound and westbound tracks almost missed connecting by several miles. But the ceremony reforges over and over the legend of their meeting without mishap at the intended spot.
The previous day's visitors to the Jetty had told us they returned exhausted by withering, windless heat. But the weather had changed overnight. Cold, relentless winds forced most of us to don extra layers when we stopped. At the last fork in the road before the site, a small hand-painted sign with an arrow pointed the way. Noticing it produced a shiver of unease. No one wants to see Spiral Jetty go the way of the Golden Spike. Many of us were anxious about the aspect of pilgrimage in our outing: we had no wish to be the first wave of a slowly gaining tourist onslaught. When the work resurfaced last year, following years of drought, the Salt Lake City newspaper ran a big feature story about it. But most locals still seem to regard it as a late 1960s oddity, wrought by an outsider, though a point of pride merely because of the world's inexplicable interest in it.
Obedient to the rules of access, our vehicles parked about a quarter of a mile from the Jetty. We walked the last stretch, several of us following the advice of earlier visitors to climb the rocky hill that overlooks Rozel Point, whence the sculpture springs, and approach it "from above". Stiff, barbed creosote bushes fill the gaps among the sharp, basaltic rocks that cover the hillside, ripping at trousers and exposed ankles. The wind surged even more fiercely as the few of us who took the slope gained elevation, but the effort of climbing generated an inner heat that felt like fever in combination with the chilly blasts from without.
When I surmounted the ridge that overlooks the work, I had a similarly visceral experience of the situation's impact, struggling for balance against the wind and awed by the spectacle below. The rugged stone-strewn slope appeared to promise only a fatal tumble. It took me half an hour to pick my way down to the lakeshore level again. But there lay Spiral Jetty, no longer the salt-rimmed spiral prominence pervaded by blood-red water that Smithson described, but a white-on-white relief improbably evocative of Malevich in its ambition to position itself in a cosmic frame.
Whenever the water of the lake recedes, it leaves salt in its wake. After the recent long drought, it now encrusts almost every inch of the work and a salt bed has risen and hardened within its 1,500ft-long spiral. It appears inevitable that after a few more cycles of high water and drought – probably a matter of decades – the Jetty will disappear completely within a matrix of impacted salt: an art conservation problem for the ages.
We visitors could see the process underway. The deep water lay far out in the lake bed, a roseate sea rippling away for miles, its surface torn into whitecaps by the wind. Between the Jetty and the water's edge were scudding, tumbleweed-like plumes and quivering masses of salt foam, the latter in various stages of coalescence into the hard white ground, still tinged with rosy algae, on which we walked and stood. Despite the facts, I kept imagining the lake bed and the work as being ice-bound rather than salt-bound, so white has the setting become. Spiral Jetty was not even 35 years old when I saw it, yet the mind could easily accept the thought of it as 3,500 or 35,000 years old. Only a nearby derelict oil rig, the ruins of a speculator's failed scheme, provides some anchorage in time for the disorientated visitor. That, and the presence of other visitors. Seeing the work from the nearby ridge, dotted with 30 or 40 people, created a slightly sickening sense both of humankind's unstoppable dispersal across the planet and of the planet's, and the larger universe's, utter obliviousness.
The idea of the spiral goes way back in human culture to the earliest rock inscriptions in the American south-west, for example. Smithson saw mentioned its occurrence in the disposition of galaxies and nebulae, in the fine structure of crystals, in the human ear and in Constantin Brancusi's famous abstract portrait of James Joyce as a spiral adjoined by a vertical.
In writings and conversation, its creator emphasised the difficulty of getting a fix on the scale of the Jetty. Now I knew how literally he meant it. From up on the ridge, the sculpture looks gargantuan in its prehensile hold on the lake bed. But set foot on it, and it turns almost intimate, a mere filigree of earth-moving within a desert immensity that lacks all familiar cues to the sizes and distances of things.
Had Smithson lived and earned the sort of celebrity bestowed on contemporary artists in part to neutralise the truly disturbing things they occasionally make, we might be able to dismiss Spiral Jetty as a colossal projection of ego. Of course, getting it made did require the artist to impose himself on quite a few people. But those who visit the piece tend to come away, as I did, convinced of its success in very different terms: as a monument to artistic self-effacement, in a spirit Katherine Hayles, professor of English at the University of California, likes to call "post-human". Not the dignified detachment of classicism, but a kind of self-annihilation through fearless embrace of our common existential situation as frail, short-sighted creatures lost in space on a temporarily lucky planet – a situation that embarrasses the triviality of most things that matter to us and the grandiosity of our feelings about them.
Spiral Jetty, for all its rough magnificence, goes nowhere. We need more than ever its nested reminders that further self-involvement will not save us, as individuals, as a society, or as a species.
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Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in England, 1969
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I hope you all enjoyed a great weekend! I had a little bit of crafting time which was much needed and today I bring to you a card that I made for a very dear friend who celebrated her birthday over the weekend! We managed to get together today to celebrate and as always it was lots of fun!
I always enjoy giving a handmade card, especially ones that have been made for special friends and family. This one was definitely made and sent with lots of love!
Going in a slightly different direction for me, I have used Wisteria Wonder, not one of my go-to colours but I'm really pleased with how it looks against the craft colour.
I have used Balloon Celebration here as the main event and it never disappoints! It is such an easy set to use for making really effective cards and with a matching punch you just can't fail!
I have used Timeless Textures Stamp Set to create the background, and have covered with Velum to create a 'faded' look.
I have cut 2 of the largest Squares from the Layering Squares Thinlits Dies for the focus area.
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"Reinhardt Schneider, one of the 2 main characters in Castlevania 64, after surpassing the challenges of the clock tower is surprised by Death itself. The heir to the Belmonts was sure to meet his doom, if it wasn't for Rosa, a benvolent vampire, a tragic soul who sacrifices her own imortality in order to Reinhardt be able to vanquish the evil that's covering the land. But only after destroying Dracula's minion Death with her deadly scythes and soul eating flying fish from hell.
Castlevania 64, as it's name suggests, came out to the Nintendo 64 and despite all the hate that seems to get nowadays, it actually was well received by critiques back in the day. In matter-a-fact, and I say this fearing for my own well being on the internet but I say it proudly nonetheless, Castlevania 64 is one of my most favourite games(well behind Super Castlevania IV and Rondo of Blood); of course it has it's issues, it's not near a perfect game but it's not as bad as the internet makes it to be.
Anyway this is not the place to discuss this and more importantly, it's only my opinion after all.
With that said, even if you don't like this one, I truly hope that at least, you'll all be able to enjoy this picture!


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Spirulina: A Nutritious Algae
Spirulina is a type of algae that grows in freshwater. It is harvested from lakes, ponds and rivers. It is found mainly in Africa but also in Asia parts of Asia, Mexico and the US.
Spirulina is called dihe in Chad and is harvested from Lake Chad by women in the Kanembu tribe. The Kanembu people believe that if men were to harvest spirulina, it would cause the lake to become barren. Spirulina's use in that part of Africa goes back to the Kanem Empire in the 9th century.
In Mexico, records of spirulina's use date from the 1700s when soldiers under Cortes' command observed Aztec people harvesting it from Lake Texcoco. Spirulina was especially prized by the Aztec runners as it was reputed to give them energy. There is not much evidence of spirulina harvesting and use after the 1700s, probably because Spanish colonists were draining the lakes to develop urban areas.
In both cultures, spirulina was made into cakes and used as food.
The first facility for producing spirulina on a large scale began operation in Mexico in the early 1970s. The facility drew attention to spirulina from all over the world.
The name comes from the fact that the two spirulina species (Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima) were at one time classified in the Spirulina genus. The Arthrospira platensis species is the African variety; Arthrospira maxima is found mainly in Mexico and parts of California.
In Chad, spirulina provides income to Kanembu women; however, Lake Chad is shrinking due to water consumption for agricultural use as well as droughts. As a result, Chadian spirulina is in danger of extinction.
Spirulina flavor profile
Spirulina has a mild, savory herbal flavor that is sometimes likened to seaweed. It also has notes of sulfur similar to those from cabbage and kale.
Health benefits of spirulina
The whole point of using spirulina is the fact that it is loaded with nutrients. Some of the beneficial compounds that you will get from it include:
Beta carotene: You can get a significant amount of beta carotene from a serving of spirulina. Beta carotene is an important antioxidant that your body converts to vitamin A.
Protein: Spirulina is a complete protein, which makes it unusual among plants.
Vitamins: Spirulina is an excellent source of B vitamins like riboflavin and thiamin and is also one of the few plant sources of vitamin B-12. Note that the B-12 in spirulina is usually not bioavailable to humans.
Minerals: You can get more than twice the amount of iron you need each day from a single serving of spirulina.
There are many claims about the health benefits of spirulina, many of which are unproven. You may be able to treat or prevent the following conditions by adding it to your diet:
Malnutrition: Spirulina's high concentration of nutrients may make it an effective tool for combating malnutrition in poorer countries.
Cancer: Studies have failed to show the benefits of taking antioxidant supplements to stave off cancer and other diseases associated with cell damage. Since spirulina is considered a food, it may actually be beneficial for this purpose.
Some varieties of spirulina algae produce microcystins that have the potential to be toxic. There are also concerns about heavy metal poisoning, which is known to affect spirulina sold in China.
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Let's take a look at the six principles we have learned and implemented in our internet marketing home business. You should note that these principles build on each other. In other words, it may be the best online marketing system, but it is designed to be progressive as you improve your marketing skills and techniques.
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When you're creating your masterpieces, keep in mind this rule of thumb. Content creation should take about 20% of the time you allocate for this principle. 80% of the time should be spent promoting your content to your audience.
How many times have you signed up for something you saw online only to never hear from the source again? Or, perhaps you are flooded with follow-up emails that only annoy you until you unsubscribe.
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Meet Siri the Kundalini Yogini in cartoons! Have fun and get your kundalini juices flowing with yoga cartoons.
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My question is that much of the building will still want to absorbe a lot of water as the old bricks are so soft, so is there a solution I can use that's 'clear' so as to create a bonded layer over the brick surface (and mortar) to protect them from further water and frost damage yet maintaining it to pass the maximum amount of water vapour. I do not want to trap moister in the building fabric.
Your advice will be most welcome.
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Downtown with Nick on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of the rain, we naturally gravitated towards books. This was all my doing, because the Annex in Toronto is a good place between where Nick and I live so it's a natural meeting place. Sometimes I leave both stores I frequent without anything, and other times I hit the jackpot. My wallet always weeps, but I'm usually happy.
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell. I have yet to read this epic and now I have two copies. Email me if you want a nice one on the cheap.
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck. Again, I have two copies of this now... but I had been looking for this version for a LONG time. I have a Reader's Digest version available... great quality and cheap.
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck. I absolutely love this book, and own multiple copies. I have learned that if you ever find a Steinbeck or Hemingway Franklin/Easton then you buy it on the spot and ask questions later.
The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron. I had never heard of this (though the name Nat Turner is somewhere in my memory banks). This is a novel that is supposed to be told from a Southern slave's perspective... perhaps it belongs in the same mentioning of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" which I also have yet to read.
The Egyptians, by Alan Gardiner. I have always wanted to learn more about them, and this book is a behemoth. Jen doesn't think I will read them, as I have yet to touch five other civilizations in the series. I think I'd start with the Egyptians... or maybe the Aztecs.
Two hundred bucks was a lot to blow in one store, but I have learned that you always regret the ones you didn't buy. It's rare that your memory for a lost purchase dissipates. I still remember a Charles Dickens set that I could have had for so cheap, but didn't get because I didn't want to carry the whole set-around in London. Your back is always a small price to pay for a nice haul.
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Pizza Hut delivers pizzas near Houston via kayaks
By Nia Wesley
KENS SOURCE: KENS
The real MVP award goes to one Houston-area Pizza Hut manager! When Shayda Habib, the manager of a Sugar Land Pizza Hut, found out people were trapped in their flooded homes near her store, she decided to "act fast." Habib gathered her employees and had them prepare as many pizzas as possible. Floodwaters were no match for her team's dedication. They used kayaks to deliver the pizzas to neighboring families! "When I heard there were families in need, I knew we needed to act fast. I called my husband and asked him to gather up kayaks and meet me at the restaurant," Habib said in a press release sent to KENS 5. Pizza Hut's "Oven HOT" delivery pouches also played a major role in the operation's success.
SUGAR LAND, Texas (KENS) —
The real MVP award goes to one Houston-area Pizza Hut manager!
When Shayda Habib, the manager of a Sugar Land Pizza Hut, found out people were trapped in their flooded homes near her store, she decided to "act fast."
Habib gathered her employees and had them prepare as many pizzas as possible.
Floodwaters were no match for her team's dedication. They used kayaks to deliver the pizzas to neighboring families!
"When I heard there were families in need, I knew we needed to act fast. I called my husband and asked him to gather up kayaks and meet me at the restaurant," Habib said in a press release sent to KENS 5.
Pizza Hut's "Oven HOT" delivery pouches also played a major role in the operation's success.


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Порни́к () — коммуна на западе Франции, находится в регионе Пеи-де-ла-Луар, департамент Атлантическая Луара, округ Сен-Назер, центр кантона Порник. Расположена в 49 км к западу от Нанта на побережье Бискайского залива, в месте впадения в него канала От-Перш. В центре коммуны находится железнодорожная станция Порник, конечный пункт линии Нант-Порник.

Население (2017) — 15 018 человек.

История
Найденные на территории коммуны топоры из обработанного камня дают основание оценить начало присутствия человека в этих местах примерно за 100 000 лет до нашей эры. Несколько сохранившихся мегалитов относятся к V тысячелетию до н.э. В Раннем Средневековье Порник относился герцогству (королевству Арморика. В IX веке Порник входил в состав округа Эрбож и вместе с другими приходами и деревнями Нижнего Пуату боролся с нашествиями викингов.

В 851 году король Бретани Эриспоэ и король Франции Карл II Лысый подписали в Анже договор, согласно которому к Бретани отошли земли Ренн, Нант и Рё. В X веке герцог Бретани Ален II возвел замок в долине Порник, чтобы защитить окружающую территорию от викингов; от этого замка до наших дней сохранилось только название улицы.

Во время Революции большинство населения Порника поддержало Республику. С эти периодом связано два события, вошедшие в историю как Первая и Вторая Битвы при Порнике. 23 марта 1793 года Национальная гвардия, состоявшая из 400 человек, во главе со кюре Клиона, называвшим себя «республиканским священником», вышла из города, чтобы забрать пшеницу. «Белые» (роялистские войска) воспользовались этим, чтобы захватить город. Но сразу после этого они напились, что позволило вернувшимся республиканцам без особых проблем вернуть контроль над городом. Спустя четыре дня, 27 марта, к Порнику подошли основные силы повстанцев во главе с Франсуа де Шареттом. Они захватили город, разграбили его и подожгли дома, в которых предположительно укрывались республиканцы. Через месяц Шаретт покинул Порник, опасаясь разгрома наступавшими республиканскими войсками.

В XIX веке наступил расцвет Порника как морского курорта, чему способствовала открытая в 1875 году железнодорожная линия Нант – Сент-Пазан – Порник. Также была построена узкоколейка от Порника до Пэмбёфа вдоль морского побережья, просуществовавшая до 1939 года. В этот период в Порник приезжали на отдых многие знаменитые писатели и художники: Густав Флобер, Роберт Браунинг, Огюст Ренуар, Эдгар Максенс, Анри Лебаск и другие.

Во время Второй мировой войны 26 июня 1940 года город был занят немецкими войсками. В Порнике были построены многочисленные береговые укрепления, входившие в состав Атлантического вала. Немецкая оккупация здесь из-за существования т.н. «кармана Сен-Назера» продолжалась на девять месяцев больше, чем в остальной северной Франции (с августа 1944 года по 11 мая 1945 года), при этом фактическая капитуляция гитлеровского гарнизона произошла через 3 дня после капитуляции Германии, 11 мая 1945 года.

1 июня 1973 года в состав коммуны Порник вошли соседние коммуны Ле-Клион-сюр-Мер и Сент-Мари-сюр-Мер.

Достопримечательности
 Шато Порник XIII-XV веков, перестроенный в XIX веке
 Шато Бреф в Клион-сюр-Мер XIII-XVII веков, полностью перестроенный в 1989 году; сейчас в нем располагается культурный центр
 Ренессансный особняк Ла-Туш XVI века
 Приходская церковь Святого Эгидия (Сен-Жиль) конца XIX века
 Церковь Святого Петра в Клион-сюр-Мер XIII-XIV веков
 Руины аббатства Сент-Мари и сохранившаяся церковь Святой Марии

Экономика
Структура занятости населения:
 сельское хозяйство — 1,5 %
 промышленность — 6,9 %
 строительство — 7,7 %
 торговля, транспорт и сфера услуг — 53,8 %
 государственные и муниципальные службы — 30,0 %

Уровень безработицы (2017 год) — 12,6 % (Франция в целом — 13,4 %, департамент Атлантическая Луара — 11,6 %).
Среднегодовой доход на 1 человека, евро (2017 год) — 23 750 (Франция в целом — 21 110, департамент Атлантическая Луара — 21 910).

В 2010 году среди 8304 человек в трудоспособном возрасте (15-64 лет) 5698 были экономически активными, 2606 — неактивными (показатель активности — 68,6 %, в 1999 году было 69,0 %). Из 5698 активных жителей работало 5204 человека (2586 мужчин и 2618 женщин), безработными было 494 (245 мужчин и 249 женщин). Среди 2606 неактивных 703 человека были учениками или студентами, 1281 — пенсионерами, 622 были неактивными по другим причинам.

Демография

Динамика численности населения, чел.

Администрация

Города-побратимы
  Скалби, Великобритания
  Линц-ам-Райн, Германия
  Байона, Испания

Примечания

Галерея

Морские курорты во Франции


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PECOS, Fri., Nov. 7, 2003 -- About 20 individuals have signed up for the Second Annual Key Opinion Leaders Summit, scheduled for Saturday at Balmorhea State Park.
Anyone wanting to join the group can contact the chamber, at 445-2406.
The Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) group will meet to help in the planning process for the next year, according to Nancy Ontiveros.
"This summit we will focus on setting goals and developing strategies for the coming year that can help revitalize the Pecos area," said Ontiveros.
This past year the group focused on four issues including: cleanup of debris, vacant buildings, trash and the general appearance of the town, according to Ontiveros.
The second issue was facilitating greater cooperation and communication between the government entities and agencies; third, the employment opportunities, improving the quality of labor force and business opportunities for new and existing businesses. The fourth issue dealt with was increasing the availability of affordable housing and improving property values.
"There were many successes which included organizing alley cleanups, establishing a litter campaign and a clean-up campaign for the schools called Keep Your Community Clean," said Ontiveros.
A successful landscape project was implemented, according to Ontiveros.
"We will continue quarterly KOL Forums, initiating a dispute resolution process for agencies," said Ontiveros. "We're also surveying businesses to identify needs and the initiating of customer service training."
"We believe that the KOL Summit is very important for the future of Pecos, because it provides us with a plan that all businesses and entities can work toward so that Pecos can grow prosper and succeed," said Ontiveros. "All ideas generated and goals established from the summit will have an implementation timeline attached to ensure completion of these process or goals," she said.
The KOL Summit is being sponsored by the Pecos Area Chamber of Commerce and West Texas National Bank.
"We appreciate all of the leaders that have responded and are interested in working toward the better future of Pecos," said Ontiveros.
Ontiveros will be the facilitator for the event.
PECOS, Fri., Nov. 7, 2003 -- A reimbursal payment to Wackenhut Correctional Corp., the new management company for the Reeves County Detention Center, will be on the agenda for Reeves County Commissioners on Monday, during their regularly scheduled meeting at the Reeves County Courthouse.
A resolution authorizing payment of Wackenhut reimbursements, on approval of County Auditor Lynn Owens prior to submittal to commissioner's court will be discussed by commissioners, when they meet at 10 a.m., Monday in the third floor courtroom.
Reeves County signed a 10-year agreement with Wackenhut for prison management services earlier this week, in an effort to avoid default on bonds for the new RCDC III unit, which has failed to attract inmates to help fund the $40 million in bond payments.
Under the agreement, the county will pay WCC $333,333 per month to manage the prison and WCC would pay the county total of $430,000 to market RCDC III for each month that unit remains un-utilized.
In other action, commissioners will discuss and take action of the RCDC III security fence addition; LMD architect request for expense reimbursement, Invoice No. 308 and inmate transportation crew mileage payments.
The group will meet in executive session under Texas Government Code Section 551.074-Open Meetings Act to discuss the RCDC Monitor position.
Regular agenda items include: reports from various departments; budget amendments and line-item transfers; personnel and salary changes (county clerk's office); minutes from previous meetings and semi-monthly bills.
PECOS, Fri., Nov. 7, 2003 -- The second major cold front of the season sent temperatures in the Trans-Pecos region plummeting in the past 24 hours and brought light rain throughout the region, though no areas reported any snowfall similar to the surprise snow that hit the area two weeks ago.
The Pecos Valley stayed warm enough at that time to avoid the snow accumulations that hit Fort Stockton, Alpine and other areas both to the north and south, and Pecos again reported warmer temperatures than other area cities overnight. This morning's low was only 44 degrees, while the thermometer dipped to 37 in the Midland-Odessa area.
The Texas A&M Experiment Station west of Pecos recorded 0.10 of rainfall over the past 24 hours, bringing the total just over six inches for the past 11 months, but that is well short of the average for a year in the region. The area would need to get another five inches in the next 54 days to reach the average total yearly precipitation of 10.99 inches.
Late rains last year pushed Pecos' rainfall total for 2002 to just over 11 inches, the first time in a decade the city had received above-normal precipitation.
Heavier rains were reported in areas east of Pecos, while to the north, temperatures fell to just above freezing overnight.
Lamesa saw temperatures drop to 33 last night, but with no significant rainfall, while Guadalupe Pass saw the low hit 36 and 0.05 of precipitation fall over the darkness hours.
The region is not facing severe weather this weekend according to forecasters at the National Weather Service Center in Midland, though it is not predicted to warm-up until Sunday.
The road conditions should be good for any weekend travel with lows tonight estimated to be around 40 degrees with a 40 percent chance of rain for the region. Saturday should see overcast skies with a nighttime low of 45 and a 30 percent chance for precipitation.
PECOS, Fri., Nov. 7, 2003 -- Pecos Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Veterans' Day Appreciation breakfast on Tuesday, November 11 for all veterans in Reeves County.
The event is to be held at the Reeves County Civic Center, with a flag raising ceremony at 7:30 a.m. and a full breakfast to be served afterward. Veterans who would like to attend are encouraged to contact the Chamber at 445-2406 for further details and to let organizers know how many will be attending.
PECOS, Fri., Nov. 7, 2003 -- High Thursday 51. Low this morning 44. Rainfall last 24 hours at Texas A&M Experiment Station .10 inch. Forecast for tonight: Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Areas of fog and drizzle. Lows near 40. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Saturday: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs near 55. East winds near 10 mph. Saturday night: Cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Lows 45 to 50. East winds near 10 mph. Sunday: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds near 10 mph. The chance of rain is less than 20 percent. Sunday night: Partly cloudy. Lows 45 to 50. Monday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Monday night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Survivors include three sons, Rodney Williams of Sterling City, Tx., Jack Williams of Toyah, Timmy Williams of Sterling City; one daughter, Joyce E. Worley of Midland; one sister, Lucille Clift of Hemmit, Calif; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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Ma'am please help me by providing some new project ideas for my final project in completing by civil engineering.
I would like to do my project on transportation engg or water resource engg. Or else i would like to do on any advanced construction materials.
But sorry that we are not able to conduct studies as the final year project. Hope you understand the situation. Please provide me with some ideas that can be experimented.
You can produce samples ( small beams) in geo polymer concrete and regular cement concrete and compare properties.
The google scholar link given above has publications up to 2015. Maybe later as well.
Hope your help will be offered further for completing my project.
My area is Materials Science, not Civil Engineering. Certainly you can depend on whatever help that is within my capacity. You can continue looking for projects in the other areas that you indicated.
We decided to take geopolymer concrete as our topic. But we are confused about the activators to be used. Hope you will help us.
What your team can do is to try it out in a micro scale just to see if it feels, how it sets and looks. No studies need be done. Once you get a feel for it you can go after configuring the project.
Sir one more doubt. Does it have a strength greater than opc concrete?
I am not sure. But it's temperat resistance is much better than cement concrete, which means that fire damage will be less.


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WHAT IS THE STAFF ACCOMMODATION LIKE?
Kingfisher Bay Resort offers a variety of accommodation options on the island – all looked after by a dedicated village supervisor. The most common style of accommodation is share accommodation with small fridge and a communal laundry – this is known as donga-style accommodation. However, self-contained management accommodation is also available.
Employees living in the staff village are required to provide their own linen. Televisions and stereos are not provided, though staff members are able to bring their own.
You don't have to live on Fraser to work at Fraser. A large number of resort staff choose to commute from Hervey Bay on the mainland to and from work. The first passenger ferry runs from 6.45am and the last leaves the island at 11.00pm – it's a pleasant 50 minute journey across the calm waters of The Great Sandy Strait.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER RESTRICTIONS FOR LIVE ON STAFF?
If you are wanting to live and work on Fraser Island, then you must be over the age of 18 years.
The resort operates on a 7-day week, whereby all staff members have 2 rostered days off per week.
I DO NOT LIVE IN AUSTRALIA - CAN I STILL APPLY FOR WORK ON FRASER ISLAND?
Yes you can – provided you have a valid working visa to work in Australia.
All staff members are required to provide their own shoes and matching belt. Our team will be able to inform you of styles/colours once your application is successful.
We highly recommend all live-on staff members bring a working alarm clock with them.
The Kingfisher Bay Resort has a Mainland Reception located at River Heads (Hervey Bay). Our Mainland Terminal staff will direct you to our ferry. The trip is approximately 50 minutes long.
At Kingfisher Bay Resort, applications from passionate, customer-oriented individuals are always welcomed.
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Cu Chi half day tour is a private guided tour that starts from your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city, and takes you to Cu Chi tunnels where you have the chance to discover the underground network made by the Viet Cong guerillas.
08h00: you will be picked up by our local team at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city. Drive to Cu Chi tunnels, about 65 Km from Sai Gon. The drive takes about 1½ hours.
The tunnels of Cu Chi are an immense network of connecting underground tunnels located in the Cu Chi district of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, and are part of a much larger network of tunnels that underlie much of the country. The tunnels were used by Viet Cong soldiers as hiding spots during combat, as well as serving as communication and supply routes, hospitals, food and weapon caches and living quarters for numerous North Vietnamese fighters. The tunnel systems were of great importance to the Viet Cong in their resistance to American forces, and helped to counter the growing American military effort.
En route, you have the chance to see rural scenery, daily life activities – cashew nut farming, duck breeding, rice farming and production of rice paper, a key ingredient in Vietnamese cuisine.
Around noon, you are brought back to your hotel in Saigon. Trip ends.


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Kurt Vonnegut wasn't kidding when he wrote in his 1990 hilarious success Hocus Pocus, "I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them." Vonnegut also said about life, quite famously, "When in doubt, castle."
Considering Vonnegut is a voice of a generation, and that he often gave speeches to students, his advice might not come off as particularly productive.
However, there are several important life lessons we can take from Vonnegut's jaded, rather depressing words of wisdom. The most important being: there is no such thing as success if we don't first consider failure.
Whether you're a child violin prodigy or a failing business entrepreneur, a small-town lawyer or sales assistant, there will come a time in life that you will get knocked down.
This is a fact of human existence; perhaps the only way we can come to know success or happiness.
Life is Deeply Fragile and Intensely Puzzling
The scope of each decision is vast, considering that each one made can change a life for better, or worse.
When Steve Jobs dropped out of college, he was penniless and inspired, but very lost. He was wading his way through an academic terrain he didn't believe in, but unsure of what he really believed in. In a sense, he failed before he began.
In this, we can learn that failure is a crucial part of the process of learning.
There's a reason memories we associate with something bad often come to mind before happy memories, and that is because the human brain is wired to remind the person why something bad happened.
Inspiring Life Lessons
Learn these life lessons and you are well on your way to achieving the things that inspire the drive that's inside of you:
1. Let Yourself Feel Lost
Feeling lost isn't pleasant; in fact, it's downright unsettling. But feeling unsettled, in a twisted sort of way, is also the way we are forced to "grow up" a little, "mature" a little, grow slightly more humble, and slightly more sure of what we don't want.
When Jobs founded Apple in his parents' garage, he was still penniless and inspired, but also suddenly deeply driven. In a sense, he became inspired by the feeling of being lost, and developed a strong desire to find his way.
2. Plunge Into Something You Really Believe In
Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, grew up in the Brooklyn projects. After graduating from college in northern Michigan, Schultz moved penniless to Seattle to work for Xerox.
He put everything he had into trying to start a small, independent coffee shop called Starbucks. And when the shop began to grow, so did Schultz.
Schultz had a plan, and he stuck to it. His decision to put everything he had in the coffee shop, while not quite a knee jerk reaction, only succeeded because he mixed his desire for the shop to succeed, with a love of working.
His work ethic alone is something we can all look to for inspiration.
3. Be Flexible With Your Plan
Most often, things will not pan out the way you plan. Mostly, you will change more than your plans. In a study conducted by the Harvard Business Review, they found that the more successful the Ducati Course motorcycle team was, the more focused they became on winning, but not on learning.
It made them worse as a team. Only when they lost to a rookie team were they able to improve their skill.
4. Do the Job to Make Yourself Proud
You are the only one who gets to determine what 'success' means for your life. Whatever choices you make in life – make choices that will make you proud afterward.
Often this means not quitting, but every so often, quitting is the right thing to do. Know your limits. Know what feels most right.
5. Find Something That Makes You Come Alive
Howard Thurman put it best: "Do not ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs are people who are alive."
What Life Lessons Have You Learned?
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Jody Powell says:
Wonderfully written, and very pertinent to our complex and adaptive lives. As a father to an 8 and 6 year old I am struggling with the tendency of organized youth sports of today. Everyone is a winner. Everyone gets a trophy. Some organizations don't even recognize the winners of team events. What is this teaching our children at such fragile ages? I remember the taste of defeat was bitter, and if I wanted to remove that taste from my mouth I had to try harder, run faster, and be better than those I competed against. In other words I had to improve myself through the lessons of being defeated… or failing in my own sense of the word.
I will share your story as far as I can, and thank you for your two cents. They will be worth two dollars tomorrow!
Nick Rojas says:
Jody, thank you for the kind words. I think we naturally want to add more structure, and less randomness for our children. That's why there's all the structure. But this topic really resonated with me because I am a firm believer that failure is the greatest learning experience. Yes, it sucks, but in the end, we become better people (if we realize what we need to change and accept we were wrong) because of these failures.
Ron Whitaker says:
Excellent points, Jody. Everyone, from kids to grand parents, needs a dose of reality therapy occasionally. After all, there can't be winning without a little losing. Most importantly, the trill of winning loses its allure if you never experience the sting of defeat.
Thanks Nick, for an outstanding job of writing this post. Hope to publish more of your articles in the near future.
David McCuistion says:
I like Numbers 2, 4 & 5. As for being lost, I always remember a President Lincoln quote: "This too shall pass." And it will if you follow 2, 4, and 5. If you are doing the think that most makes you come alive, you will change the world and find worth and value in that venture.
Keep the Quest Alive. Loved the article.
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