Here is my first pair of non-mall store studs--finally got something from Whiteflash! Their customer service is great. Received the studs (.6 ctw, both Hs, VS1 and VS2) today and am in love. Going through this thread and seeing the various sizes helped me make a decision, so I figured I'd contribute. I worried these would be too small since each one is only .3 carats but, for now, I think they work.
Edited to add that the setting is the three-prong martini setting from Whiteflash. I've never had anything but baskets before so I'm excited to see if I like this setting more after wearing them for a few days.
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Back on page 7 is a better close up shot of my .82 ctw. . .
Here's those again with a smaller pair. The larger are WF ACA F SIs .82 ctw (set in WG) and the other pair, I'm not sure about the specs except they're .50 ctw (set in platinum).
Yes it's an old post but...VERY helpful comparison! Your larger stones are about 1 mm larger than well cut stones in your smaller size.
Gosh they look beautiful on you. As my previous post, this is the size I am looking for as far as tcw for studs. Glad you are happy with your purchase. Did you get someone to help you select the pair? and if you did how did you go about it? chat or phone? Just curious about the process, because the selection seems overwhelming at times.
@portia33, thank you! I used whiteflash's diamond pair search. When I first searched, I knew I wanted ACAs, H or above, and VS2 or above. Once I put that information in and set it to my max budget, it narrowed them to a more manageable list. After that, I just looked for stones that were very close together in size. Posted the pair I was thinking about in Rockytalk and got some great feedback. People told me I could go down to J to get bigger and still be pleased with their color. After seeing these Hs, I totally believe it but found I like this size for now.
I also chatted and exchanged emails (maybe a telephone call) with Becca. She sent me photos of an H up against an I and a J, and confirmed that the pair were well matched. If you're finding it too difficult to look through the paired matches online, I would consider giving whiteflash a call or using the live chat. The company seemed great to work with. And good luck with the search---hope to see a pic in the thread in the future!
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Thank you for such a detailed response. Much appreciated.
I am in love! I want a 5 ct pair!!
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2.18 ctw pair. Plan to upgrade eventually to hopefully ~ 4 ct total.
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These look GREAT on your ear. Do you have a side view that shows the setting? What is the diameter of the small stud you are wearing compared to the main stud?
I finally get to post here, I got just over 08ctw G SI1 from Whiteflash. I set them in a 4 prong basket setting. I couldn't be more delighted with them, they sparkle loads, and are plenty big enough for me, for now!! I'm still trying to decide on sleep with them in or not?? I've had them in the last few nights, and they can hurt a bit when I wake up, I sleep on my side! But I haven't worn earrings for about a year. It used never bother be before now. Any Thoughts??
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Stone hunter have posted an ear shot for you.
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New OEC studs, K SI1, 0.67ct & 0.69ct (1.36ctw), 5.5mm & 5.6mm. Double claw prong martini setting with La Pousette backings by David Klass.
Shown with a MRB in the middle, roughly .3 ct (mm unknown), and a piercing crystal stud, mm unknown.
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Wow @JPie! Beautiful stones and the setting is dreamy, love those prongs!
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SO beautiful @DiamondBaby! Congrats, they look great on you!
I don't sleep with my earrings in, I can feel it as I also sleep on my side.
Gorgeous @Monnyjay! Love the look of classic, elegant studs!
@Maisie, looks SO pretty on you, love the bezel setting!
Thank's Junebug, I'm very happy with them. Being triple x's they are sparkly little critters, my photography skills don't do them justice.
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Here are my diamond studs set in yellow gold. They had been my mom's, so I don't have any specs on them. They measure 5 mm, so they're approximately 1 ctw...a nice size for my tiny earlobes!
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These are my 3.04 ctw studs next to my 2.03 ctw center diamond engagement ring. The next one is one of the studs in my ear. I have lots of room on my lobe so I think it appears smaller.
They are VVS2 G color ideal cut.
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I have lots of room on my lobe so I think it appears smaller.
I think that's what amazes me most about this whole thread. I'll see photos with 1ctw diamonds and think they look perfect, and then other photos with 2ctw and think they still have room for more. It's like taking my e-ring off of my size 6.5 finger and putting it on my size 4 pinky... DSS cured!
Maybe there's a lobe-ectomy surgery to make our lobes smaller?
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You can see better here that I have plenty of space! I definitely need a lobe-ectomy!
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They're very pretty! I would take them out at night to keep them clean. Keep a dish next to your bed and put them there. After your shower pop them back on. I take mine off before bed and in the morning I either sit them in cleaner in the kitchen before my shower or just pop them in and out of the cleaner and rinse with hot water and dry with a paper towel. It keeps them sparkly.. Just be careful not to drop them down the drain! I put the stopper down!
What does everyone think about the Tiffany Victoria diamond studs? I'm considering them in the mini size (I like tiny studs). They would be my first real diamond earrings.
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All change for passengers on first day of Broadmarsh bus station closure
Hannah MitchellDigital News Correspondent
The Broadmarsh bus station is now officially closed in preparation for its demolition.
The last bus left the terminus on Sunday night, and today (Monday, July 10) marked the first day of new routes for many of the city's buses.
It left some travellers somewhat confused this morning, as they arrived at the bus station to find it completely deserted.
All buses that went through the bus station now have new stops on nearby roads including Friar Lane, Collin Street and Station Street.
Gary Fountain, 40, and Sarah Fountain, 35, from Ilkeston, were travelling to Skegness and arrived at the station hoping to catch the National Express.
The pair were redirected to Station Street, where the service will now run from.
Mr Fountain said: "Everyone has been very helpful and we found where to come quite quickly.
Broadmarsh Bus Station on the first day of its closure
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"We didn't know it was closing today at all until we got an email last night, so we were a bit worried about our trip, but once we arrived we were redirected to the right place.
"I have seen a lot of confused people wandering about, the only concern I have is that people who don't use the internet won't have received the email so they won't have a clue it has shut."
Another traveller who had to find their new bus stop was 20-year-old Laura Franco, who was travelling to Birmingham.
The student said: "I knew it was closing so it didn't come as a surprise to me and the staff have all been very helpful with regards to finding out where you need to be waiting for your buses."
Nottingham City Council staff are at the bus station to help redirect people.
The Broadmarsh car park.
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Peter Dolan, who works for the council, said: "We have people on the ground here from National Express, the City Council and Trent Barton all helping to redirect people to the right areas.
"It is surprising the amount of people who didn't know it was closing though. However, this is the first day of its closure and it is going well so far.
"Everyone has been very grateful for the help."
This bus station closure marks the first step in the redevelopment of the Broadmarsh area of Nottingham city centre, which will see the site turn into a new shopping, cinema, leisure and restaurant complex, as well as new bus terminals and car parks.
Demolition work to the bus station and the 1,150 space car park above is set to start soon. The car park will be closed imminently and the process of taking down the building will take around six months to complete.
Rebuilding of the new bus station will begin in early 2018, with the new facility opening towards the end of 2019.
The whole project will take four years to complete, with the shopping centre refurbishment beginning next year.
A City Council spokesman said: "Major planned changes to buses operating out of Broadmarsh bus station take effect from Monday 10 July. Trent Barton services can be accessed from Collin Street and Friar Lane, Skylink and Centrelink will depart from Canal Street and National Express services will depart from Station Street.
"Broadmarsh Car Park will close fully later in July when all necessary preparatory steps have been taken."
Trentbarton says the Cotgrave will be relocated to X1 Mount Street and C5 Collin Street, the Eighteen to B1 Beastmarket Hill, i4 to F3 Friar Lane, Indigo to F4 Friar Lane, the Keyworth to C6 Collin Street, Mainline to F2 Friar Lane and C5 Collin Street, Rushcliffe Villager to C6 Collin Street, Skylink Nottingham to F1 Friar Lane, C5 Collin Street and C10 Canal Street, Skylink Express to C11 Canal Street, 21 to X1 Mount Street, and 20 to B1 Beastmarket Hill.
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Kinchbus 9 will relocated to C6 Collin Street. National Express coach services will move to Station Street. The Megabus service will pick up from outside Waterfront House, Station Street.
Nottingham City Transport's Turquoise Line 77, 77C, 78, 79, 79A and N77 will move from their current stop on Broadmarsh Collin Street (coded C6) to stop C1, which is located under the car park at the bottom of Maid Marian Way.
Timetables may be affected by these relocations – so travellers should check before they travel.
Taxis can be caught from Trent Street near the train station, which is about a five minute walk from Carrington Street. From 7pm to 4am, taxis also rank at Greyfriar Gate near the Arndale Car Park.
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Q: Traverse through unknown complex object dynamically using reflection I need to traverse through complex object using reflection. Only thing is it could be any type of object. Because of that, the property names are not known before hand.
The ultimate goal is to log this whole thing into string for logging purpose.
I have below code. But problem is , it doesn't reach to child level
public static string GetLogFor(object target)
{
    var builder = new StringBuilder();

    foreach (var property in @target.GetType().GetProperties())
    {

        builder
            .Append(property.Name)
            .Append(" = ")
            .Append(property.GetValue(@target, null))
            .AppendLine();
    }

    return builder.ToString();
}

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A: You could simply use Json serialization, if the output suits your logging needs:
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Kings XI Punjab skipper Ravichandran Ashwin believes his team bounced back in the tournament at the right time and lavished praise on young pacer Arshdeep Singh for taking two crucial wickets on his IPL debut. After suffering successive losses, KXIP Tuesday brought their campaign back on track with a comprehensive 12-run win over Rajasthan Royals at home to grab the fourth spot in the table with 10 points.
"It was very important to get that 10-point mark and I guess it's the right time in the tournament to do that," said Ashwin at the post-match presentation. "It is very tough to defend here, the wicket generally gets better in the second half. We probably thought we were 10-15 runs short on this pitch."
Defending the total, 20-year-old Arshdeep provided a big breakthrough for Punjab when he dismissed the big-hitting opener Jos Buttler early. "I thought Arshdeep bowled really well in the first few overs. We had some plans for Jos and he really executed well," Ashwin said.
"He (Arshdeep) can actually swing the ball both ways and for a left-hander to swing both ways is a massive advantage in the first six as we have seen with Deepak Chahar in the CSK. We are looking forward to Arshdeep doing some great things in the tournament." Ashwin was adjudged the Man of the Match for his two wickets and a terrific cameo of 17 runs of four balls.
Talking about his game, Ashwin said: "For me, it's about getting various lengths with different speeds and trying to get the batsman with under cutter and reverse carrom. I worked on a lot of things despite people actually calling me for trying too many things, I kept on going." Not in the initial scheme of things for Punjab, David Miller, who made it to the playing XI after Moises Henriques suffered an ankle injury at the last minute, contributed with 40 runs.
"Most of the changes are actually forced, we got Moises into the eleven today. He was actually handed the cap but unfortunately he got injured in the last minute. Miller wasn't playing but he came in and played a vital hand for us, he took a couple of catches as well," he said. "Mujeeb also I thought was brilliant, he went for a few runs but we got the wicket up front. We are waiting on Mujeeb's status (injury) and Moises (Henriques) seems okay," he added, referring to the spinner, who went off the field after bowling three overs due to a shoulder injury.
Rajasthan skipper Ajinkya Rahane was disappointed with the team's batting effort. "182 on that wicket was quite chaseable. We started well. Just a matter of two sixes," he said.


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Q: Allowing remote access to my nextcloud on raspberry pi by port forwarding I hope the question isn't too confusing but i am trying to connect to my nextcloud instance that is being hosted on my raspberrypi but outisde of my local network. So here's what i have done and tried:

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*I assigned my raspberry pi a static IP address avoiding DHCP dynamic assigning.

*I attached my raspberry pi's IP address to No-ip to give it a DDNS.

*I port forwarded my raspberrypi's IP address to port 8080 so that i can access it remotely.

Now internally in my network, everything work's fine, i can access my apache server through my network as well as my nextcloud instance with the DDNS link or the raspberypis IP address as well.
But when i try accessing it on my phone using a separate network, nothing happens, as if the port is not being forward or opened. I also have no firewall in my router set up to be blocking any connection or ports, When i scan my routers internal IP address it show's that the port is closed, thus not being forwarded. I been on this problem for hours, what am i doing wrong? why can i not access it outside my network if everything in the network works and its forwarded?
Would be super thankful for the help as well as learning more as well.


In a bowl, marinate the chicken with salt, pepper and soy sauce. Let it sit for 20 minutes.
Heat oil in a non-stick frying pan. Fry the almonds until toasted. Transfer it to a plate.
Heat oil in the same pan. Stir fry the garlic until golden. Add the onion and chicken and stir-fry until cooked.
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Q: Rails route constraint for base64 encoded parameter I have the following route:
get '/:id', to: 'articles#show'

How do I have the route only match if the :id is a base64 encoded string? I've tried regexp unsuccessfully.
EDIT: I've tried using the regex suggested in one of the responses.
get /:id, to: 'articles#show', constraints: { id: /^(?:[A-Za-z0-9+\/]{4})*(?:[A-Za-z0-9+\/]{2}==|[A-Za-z0-9+\/]{3}=)?$/}

This leads to the following error in Rails:
Regexp anchor characters are not allowed in routing requirements:
/^(?:[A-Za-z0-9+\/]{4})*(?:[A-Za-z0-9+\/]{2}==|[A-Za-z0-9+\/]{3}=)?$/

A: From the Rails routing guide located at https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.11/routing.html
get '/:id', to: 'articles#show', requirements: {id: **Your Regex**}

This route would only hit if the :id parameter hit on the Regex.
As for a regex that will successfully match a base64 string, answers to the following StackOverflow question provide lots of options.
RegEx to parse or validate Base64 data
Update:
Remove the anchor characters from your Regex.
Source: Rails custom route with constraints - regexp anchor characters are not allowed in routing requirements


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Total synthesis of 5,5-spiroacetal natural products and studies toward the total synthesis of eleutherobin
(Thesis) Ph.D.
Author: Chang, Stanley Yueh Hwa
A novel chlorohydrin-based spirocyclization reaction has been developed that complements contemporary approaches to spiroacetals. The discovery and optimization of a silver(I)-promoted cyclization of ketochlorohydrins enabled the synthesis of a wide range of 5,5-, 5,6-, and 5,7-spiroacetal compounds. In addition, this strategy was applied in the total syntheses of (+)-cephalosporolide E and (−)-cephalosporolide F, which were accomplished in six steps. Further extension of this methodology culminated in the first total synthesis and full stereochemical assignment of (+)-ascospiroketal A. Specifically, a silver(I)-promoted cyclization cascade was developed that effected both a spirocyclization as well as an oxetane rearrangement, and generated a quaternary all-carbon stereogenic centre with complete stereocontrol. This unique reaction sequence was a critical component of the eventual total synthesis of (+)-ascospiroketal A and several diastereomers that were made available in fourteen steps. An additional study detailing efforts geared toward the total synthesis of eleutherobin, an anti-cancer natural product, is also presented. By utilizing a cyclobutanone α-arylation/Haller-Bauer fragmentation/Friedel-Crafts acylation strategy, a tetralone intermediate for the synthesis of eleutherobin was made available on multi-gram-scale. Efforts to convert this material into the bicyclo[8.4.0]tetradecane core of eleutherobin are described including the identification of an intramolecular aza-Michael strategy that secured the carbon complement of eleutherobin.
total synthesis
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Cephalosporolides E and F
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These are the top 5 airports flying high in 2021
The ratings are in and according to aviation enthusiasts, the following airports have surpassed the mark with flying colours.
HIA passenger terminal and carpark
The results on the world's best airports are in and to the surprise of many, they're not what we expected.
Singapore's Changi Airport, renowned for its hustle and bustle of international cargo and passenger traffic, and beautiful interior designs, took the top spot for eight years in a row.
But this year, the South East Asian airport has been dethroned in an unforeseen twist.
1st Place: Doha Hamad Airport
HIA passenger terminal at sunset
Ranking first in the 2021 Skytrax World Airport Awards is Doha Hamad, also known as Qatari Hub.
Doha Hamad swapped places with Changi this year, after placing third in the 2020 report.
Engr. Badr Mohammed Al-Meer, Chief Operating Officer at Hamad International Airport (HIA), says the airport is honoured to be crowned the World's Best Airport of 2021.
"This is a truly remarkable achievement for HIA and the State of Qatar, and an endorsement from our travellers for our commitment to service excellence," Al-Meer says.
"As we look towards the future, HIA remains devoted to boosting our efforts in providing the best airport experience to all our passengers."
The Qatari Hub also won the titles of Best Airport in the Middle East, the World's Best Airport in the 25 to 35 million Passenger category, and the Best Airport Staff in the Middle East
2nd Place: Tokyo Haneda Airport
Haneda Airport Terminals
Holding position in second place for another year is Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
It's one of the Japanese capital's two major airports and is home to Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways.
More recently, the Japanese airport saw the arrival and departure of several athletes for 2020s Tokyo Olympic games.
Haneda Airport tarmac at night
In a newly introduced category, Tokyo Haneda Airport was awarded a 5-star COVID-19 Airport Safety Rating.
This award follows their success in meeting very high standards of hygiene and safety protocols put in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus during their preparation for the Olympics.
Qatar's airport also received the same award in 2020, being the first airport in the Middle East and Asia to receive the 5-star rating.
3rd Place: Singapore Changi Airport
Changi Jewel
Despite falling two places from the top, Singapore's Changi Airport still finds itself in the top five.
This year, the eight-time winner was named the World's Best Airport in the 10 to 15 million Passenger category and took the awards for the World's Best Airport Staff and the Best Airport Staff in Asia.
Changi terminals
While it may come to the disappointment of fans who regularly praise the airport for it's ease, quality food and beverage options and overall comfort, Changi still sits high in third place as one of the most beautiful airports in the world.
4th Place: Seoul Incheon Airport
Seoul Incheon Airport
Sitting comfortably in fourth place is Incheon International Airport in South Korea.
One of the largest and busiest airports in the world, Incheon International seems like something from Futurama.
The airport thrives off delivering the ultimate experience for their passengers, providing plenty of space to relax, unwind and to get lost in Seoul's culture.
5th Place: Tokyo Narita Airport
Narita Airport Terminal 1
Tokyo is fortunate enough to see both of it's airports placed in the top 5 with Tokyo Narita International Airport earning a spot this year.
Having placed seventh in 2020, the airport located in the capital's east advanced two steps higher to make it to fifth place.
While they may have not received the 5-star COVID-19 Airport Safety Rating like their Haneda counterpart, Narita International Airport is applauded for their high health and hygiene standards and continuous efforts to keep everyone safe during the pandemic.
Narita Airport shopping strip
Results for the 2021 Skytrax World Airport Awards are obtained from the Annual Airport Customer Survey for the Passenger's Choice Awards with data collected between August 2020 and July 2021.
Travellers are to vote for their favourite or best airport experiences, with many taking the COVID-19 pandemic into consideration this year.
For the full list of the World's Top 100 Airports for 2021 and more airline awards, head to Skytrax's website.
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3 Dev Adam (1973)
The Turks were a crazy bunch in the film world during the mid-to-late 20th Century. Thanks to huge political upheaval, films from such movie juggernauts as America were unavailable in Turkey, so local filmmakers took it upon themselves to remake these films for the Turkish audience. These films included the infamous Turkish Star Wars, Turkish Superman, Turkish Whole Nine Yards and one of the more notorious, 3 Dev Adam, also known as Captain America and Santo* vs Spider Man.
*For those not in the know, Santo was a famous Mexican luchador, who appeared in dozens of low-budget goofball films (a notable one being Santo vs the Vampire Women, which was featured on movie-mocking TV series MST3K). Such was Santo's popularity that he was even famous all the way out in Istanbul.
To make the film a surefire hit, director T. Fikret Ucak decided to include as many superheroes as possible in 3 Dev Adam, in order to eclipse all of the competition. The finished product was a film where Turkish Captain America and Turkish Santo are up against Turkish Spiderman (who's also a pretty convincing Turkish Hannibal Lecter), who plots to counterfeit Lira...for some reason. The film was hard to find and impossible to find with any form of subtitles until 2006, when Turkish DVD company Onar Films released it on DVD (which includes a stack of special features, like interviews, photo stills and trailers).
Police Chief Orhan (who looks like Charles Bronson) calls upon the superheroes, CAPTAIN AMERICA, SANTO, AND...Captain America's girlfriend Julie. The heroes can't wait to put a halt to 'The Spider's' brutal crime syndicate, which is spreading it's counterfeiting racket all the way into America and Mexico. The Spider is a mysterious character, described as a child-minded lunatic, who along with being a sociopath, has the BIGGEST EYEBROWS KNOWN TO MAN!
Among Spidie's exploits in the film are digging a woman neck-deep into a hole on the beach and moving a boat and it's propeller to her face, strangling a woman in her bathtub with a telephone cord, impaling a couple in the shower Jason Voorhees style, and making mice eat a man's face!
The rest of the film is pretty basic. Cap's girlfriend goes undercover as a fashion model, is found out and kidnapped.While Cap rescues her, Santo gets into costume and goes snooping in a karate dojo, after a list of addresses of where Spidie's going to steal artifacts from next. After stuffing several stolen items into his pants (yeah...it's about as strange as you'd expect), he is spotted and fights off several karate trainees.
After they ruining several money drops, Spider decides to take personal revenge against the heroes. It's when this happens that The Spider shows a sinister power-whenever he is killed, a new Spider shows up. Santo and Captain America concurrently fight Spider, killing him an embarrassing number of times before he successfully gets away.
Eventually the final battle occurs between the three mighty men (the film's title in English) and Spider is killed in several gruesome ways before finally being plunked into a train track and crushed by a cart of cinderblocks.
3 Dev Adam, is a great find for anyone who is a fan of very strange cinema, it's exciting, it's funny, and it's Turkish! The film's quality is low but still very watchable, and the transfer to DVD by Onar Films is admirable. Coming to the film's costume department I have to applaud whoever was responsible. For a low-budget film, the costume of Captain America is surprisingly well done; the real Santo only ever wore a luchador mask, a cape and silver-painted pants, so the costume in this didn't need much thought; and finally, despite being lopsided and mis-coloured, Spiderman's costume is good, especially when he regenerates himself, you can clearly see that several Spiderman costumes were designed for the movie which is very impressive.
In short, anyone who loves the bizarre should-and probably already do-have this movie in their collection.
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"Bangladesh would do well to look at their approach than suggestion that ICC favours India" - Sunil Gavaskar on Bangladesh's batting in T20 World Cup
By Viransh Shah
India v Bangladesh - ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has asked the Bangladesh cricket team to improve their game rather than complain about India's alleged undue influence upon the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The Tigers lost to India in a Group 2 match of the Super 12 stage in the T20 World Cup recently. They collapsed from a potentially winning position after the game resumed following a rain break. India ended up winning by five runs after the game was curtailed and the target recalibrated.
The Tigers were asked to chase 151 in 16 overs, which meant they needed 85 runs in 54 balls after the resumption of play. Bangladesh opener Litton Das (60 runs off 27 balls) got the better of the Indian bowlers with a blistering attack in the pre-rain powerplay overs.
@ICC
Litton Das brings up his fifty off just 21 balls! 🤯
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Litton Das brings up his fifty off just 21 balls! 🤯#T20WorldCup | #INDvBAN | 📝: bit.ly/INDvBAN-S12 https://t.co/sPM4wU5vch
From 66 for no loss in seven overs before the rains interrupted, The Tigers plummeted to 145/6 at the end of 16 overs. Das' dismissal, in hindsight, became a turning point in the game.
While dissecting Bangladesh's batting approach in their matches against India and Pakistan, Gavaskar, in his column for Sportstar, wrote:
"Sadly for Bangladesh, its batsmen went for glory shots of sixes instead of playing smart cricket and running hard between the wickets. The Bangladesh batsmen were guilty of the same in their game against Pakistan, where after batting well in the first half of their innings, they disintegrated playing some totally forgettable shots to end up with only 128 instead of around 160, which would have given their bowlers a great chance."
A lot of criticism on social media platforms was targeted at the ICC for allegedly favouring India. It was claimed by unhappy fans of teams such as Pakistan and Bangladesh that the ICC is helping India.
Bangladesh lose two quick wickets after the rain break
Bangladesh lose two quick wickets after the rain break 😯#T20WorldCup | #INDvBAN | 📝: bit.ly/INDvBAN-S12 https://t.co/eOrgwV0y8r
Addressing these supporters, the legendary former India batsman wrote:
"Bangladesh would do well to look at their approach, which made them lose from winning positions than suggesting that the ICC favours India. Equally amusing is the allegations from across both sides of our country's border that India gets preferential treatment at ICC tournaments. The rules are the same for everyone and while there will always be a bit of a stretch in its interpretation, there is no preference towards India.
The former Indian batter also pointed out that Indian fielders were more disadvantaged while playing in the wet outfield after play resumed. Explaining how batters have the advantage to capitalise in wet conditions, Gavaskar wrote:
"If anything, a wet outfield would be a big disadvantage to the fielding team for its fielders as well as the bowlers, who would have to bowl with a wet ball. The ball would also come on to the bat better as it would skid off the pitch, making it easier for the batsmen to play their shots."
The Tigers were eliminated from the T20 World Cup after losing their final group stage game, a virtual quarter-final, against Pakistan in Adelaide. Meanwhile, India topped the points table with four wins and will meet Jos Buttler's England in the second semi-final on Thursday, November 10.
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The Dream of Gerontius est un oratorio composé par Edward Elgar sur un texte adapté du poème du cardinal John Henry Newman. La première exécution eut lieu le  lors du festival triennal de musique de Birmingham.

Résumé du livret

L'œuvre raconte le voyage de l'âme après la mort, ou plutôt au moment de la mort.

Dans la première partie, on assiste à l'agonie du corps de Gerontius. Dans la seconde partie, son âme voyage dans un espace indéterminé ; guidée par un ange gardien, elle évite les démons affamés et arrive dans la Maison du Jugement, pour être présentée devant Dieu. Toutefois, la vue de Dieu lui est insoutenable et elle demande à être envoyée au purgatoire. L'ange lui dit « adieu mais pas pour toujours ».

Style de l'œuvre

Histoire de l'œuvre

, The Dream of Gerontius fut très vite reconnu comme un chef-d'œuvre d'Elgar ; la carrière de l'œuvre n'a pas connu d'interruption en Grande-Bretagne, où elle est encore jouée régulièrement.

Première

Julius Buths est présent à Birmingham lors de la création de The Dream of Gerontius en . Il est très impressionné par cet oratorio et le traduit en allemand et avec l'aide d'August Jaeger le produit en Allemagne lors d'une première européenne le  à Düsseldorf. Elgar est présent et écrit « Il a complètement retranscrit mon idée de l'œuvre : le chœur était très bien ». Buths le rejoue à Düsseldorf le  lors du Festival de musique de Basse-Rhénanie.

La soliste est Muriel Foster et Elgar assiste une nouvelle fois à la représentation ; il est appelé vingt fois sur scène pour être applaudi. C'est la représentation qui a convaincu finalement Elgar qu'il a vraiment écrit une œuvre satisfaisante. Richard Strauss, le codirecteur du festival, est suffisamment impressionné par ce qu'il a entendu pour dire lors d'une réception post-concert : Je bois au succès et au bien-être du premier musicien anglais progressif, Meister Elgar. Les deux représentations de 1901 et 1902 sont complètes.

Discographie sélective

Il existe deux séries d'extraits, d'environ 50 minutes, dirigés par Elgar lui-même : ces témoignages ont été captés en 1927, lors de concerts donnés au Royal Albert Hall et dans la cathédrale de Hereford. Ils ont été réédités en CD par EMI dans le premier volume de la série The Elgar Edition, aujourd'hui indisponible.

Les versions intégrales les plus notables :
 Sir Malcolm Sargent (direction), 1945 : Gladys Ripley (contralto), Heddle Nash (ténor), Dennis Noble (baryton), Norman Walker (basse), Huddersfield Choral Society, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / 2 CD Testament (SBT 2025)
 Sir John Barbirolli (direction), 1964 : Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Richard Lewis (ténor), Kim Borg (basse), Halle Choir, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Ambrosian Singers, Halle Orchestra / 2 CD EMI 5735792
 Benjamin Britten (direction), 1972 : Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Peter Pears (ténor), John Shirley-Quirk (baryton), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / 2 CD Decca 4481702
 Sir Adrian Boult (direction), 1975 ; Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano), Nicolai Gedda (ténor), Robert Lloyd (baryton), London Philharmonic Choir, John Alldis Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra / 2 CD EMI 7243566540
 Andrew Davis (direction), 1997 : Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Philip Langridge (ténor), Alastair Miles (basse), BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / 1 DVD Warner Music Vision 3984 223512

Notes et références

Oratorio
Œuvre d'Edward Elgar
Musique classique vocale en anglais
John Henry Newman

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Earl Soham Swimmers go one better than last year!
In the swimming gala held at Fram. College this morning our Earl Soham children once again did themselves proud. Last year we finished 3rd overall, but were top small school. This year we were again top small school, but finished 2nd overall with 109 points, the winners being Debenham with 141.
All of the children should be proud of their efforts, as we were represented in 11 out of 14 of the individual event finals. The only disappointment of the morning was that there were no medals presented this year, especially as we had an individual race winner in the girls' backstroke. Well done young lady!!
The morning culminated in the normal chaos of the raft race - the girls taking the raft one way down the length of the pool and the boys bringing it back. All good 'clean' fun!!! Well done everyone, and I hope your parents aren't too hoarse!
Once again so full of pride after watching this event, we were epic! It is so great to see the wonderful team spirit our school has as the children stood up & cheered on every Earl Soham participant. I feel exhausted just watching it, Well done to every single one of them.
Another fantastic sporting achievement and, by all accounts, a tremendous team effort. I'm delighted that you are really 'competing' so well and representing our school with such pride. A very happy Headteacher!
Another fantastic sport......Very Great small school..Well done teacher!


Organizers said attendance at the Progressive Insurance Tampa Boat Show was up 25 percent.
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The Progressive Tampa Boat Show opened with a record VIP reception at the on-water portion of the show Thursday night.


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Q: Is the MVC design pattern used in commercial computer games Is the MVC design pattern used in commercial computer games?
Particularly with regard to high performance games I am curious if there have been any commercial users of MVC in the games industry?

A: It's rarely used in games. It took me a while to figure out why, but here's my thoughts:
MVC exists to make a distinction between two representations. The Model is the abstract representation of your data. It's how the machine views the state of your application. The View (and Controllers) represent a more concrete visible instantiation of that system in a way that's meaningful to humans.
In most business apps, these two worlds are pretty different. For example, a spreadsheet's model is simply a 2D grid of values. It doesn't have to think about how wide the cells are in pixels, where the scrollbars are, etc. At the same time, the spreadsheet view doesn't know how cell values are calculated or stored.
In a game, those two worlds are much closer to each other. The game world (model) is typically a set of entities positioned in some virtual space. The game view is also a set of entities positioned in some virtual space. Bounding volumes, animation, position, etc., all things you would consider part of the "view" are also directly used by the "model": animation can affect physics and AI, etc.
The end result is that the line between model and view in a game would be arbitrary and not helpful: you'd end up duplicating a lot of state between them.
Instead, games tend to decouple things along domain boundaries: AI, physics, audio, rendering, etc. will be kept as separate as possible.

A: That will depend a lot on the game.
For example, a first-person shooter, probably not.
A flight simulator, MVC is very likely (X-Plane and FlightGear both actually do use MVC, you can tell from their plugin APIs).  SimCity, you certainly could do that way and make sense (no idea if they actually did).  Real-time strategy, perhaps.  Bejeweled, who knows.

A: I don't know of any commercial games that use it; there may be some. However, I was able to find a paper (PDF) that mentions the MVC pattern being used in computer games. This may give you a little bit of insight.


Hey guys. So I wrote a little short story, and I'm offering it for free in pretty much every digital format your little heart could desire. Kindle, PDF, plain text, Nook – you name it. Click on the picture to download it from Smashwords. I'm sorry to say that you will have to sign up for an account, but it seems like a relatively painless endeavor.
It's just under 7000 words, so it's a quick read, and unrelated to any of the current projects I've got up in the air. Feel free to let me know what you think! The short story is an art unto itself, and one I haven't explored very much (considering a typical work of mine is a hundred thousand words or more, it's easy to see why), but it's something I'd like to work on. For those of you with more experience, I'd be happy to take some pointers.
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First, what's commonly in backcountry water?
Microorganisms—Simply put: tiny bugs or germs. Microbes are the primary focus of treatment devices because of their immediate and potentially serious risk to your health. The pathogenic ones include bacteria (e.g., E-coli, Salmonella), protozoa (e.g., Giardia, Crypto), and viruses (e.g., Hepatitis A, Norwalk).
Sediment/Turbidity—Dirt, silt, mud, glacial flour. Sediment gives water its dirty appearance and is unpleasant to ingest. But it usually isn't harmful in small amounts.
Tannins & Humics—This natural organic matter (NOM) leaches into wilderness water as plants decay, staining it a tea color. They're not harmful in small quantities, but they do impart odors and a bitter taste to the water.
Organic & Inorganic Chemicals—Includes NOMs, but also pesticides, herbicides, and inorganic chemicals resulting from both industrial activity and natural erosion. Health risks usually arise from long-term, repeated exposure.
Ordinary Salts—The result of eroding natural deposits or seawater contamination, salts simply make water taste bad; though very high concentrations can dehydrate you. When exploring coastal and desert regions, avoid drinking sea and brackish waters.
Metals—Metals, like lead and mercury, can result from industrial contamination or natural erosion. They vary in potential health risk, but you can check with the ranger station for any local precautions before venturing out.
In terms of backcountry water treatment, what defines water that's safe to drink?
In the context of backcountry water treatment, water is usually considered safe to drink when it is free of pathogens—the disease-causing microorganisms. This is because they're considered the "immediate threats." In other words, swallowing even a few of these pathogenic critters on a short-term backpacking trip can make you sick with flu-like symptoms, or worse, very rapidly.
In contrast, those other non-biological contaminants, while not appetizing, typically take a much greater amount, usually from repeated, long-term exposure to build up in your system and cause you harm. If your favorite backpacking loop makes you drink repeatedly from sources with pesticide runoff—that's not a good thing. But in general, backcountry zones are relatively low-risk for these types of contaminants and the trace amounts you'd ingest on a typical trip likely aren't enough to agonize over.
That said, it's important to assess your own risk level, and include drinking-water collection as part of your trip planning process.
Are treatment devices required to prove their removal claims?
Unfortunately, the answer is no. It may surprise many to learn that there is no government-regulated testing requirement to ensure a portable water treatment device actually removes the pathogens it claims to.
The reasons for this are complex, but it makes it all the more crucial to buy from a reputable company. To ensure the safety of MSR products, we voluntarily test them to a standard developed by the EPA and NSF. This 10-day, multi-criteria test, called NSF Protocol P231, is based off municipal water treatment requirements. It tests a product's ability to stop targeted pathogens, requiring that half the water used is so difficult to treat it's referred to as "worst case" water. This allows MSR to confirm the reliability of our products in real-world conditions.
Needless to say, researching a water treatment product before you buy is critical to your health.
But, what about removing the other stuff?
Again, the microbes are the primary focus because they pose the immediate threats. But how do you remove those secondary contaminants?
First, it's important to understand that contaminants come in a range of sizes. Protozoa, most bacteria, and sediment are considered "larger" on the microscopic scale. Filters that use "size exclusion" media, like ceramic, and hollow fibers (with pores smaller than the contaminants) typically filter these out. Viruses are the tiniest of the pathogens and require a purifier to be removed/deactivated.
But even smaller still are the tastes and odors from tannins, and contaminants like pesticides, herbicides and metals.
That's where activated carbon can help.
The role of activated carbon.
Activated carbon has long been used in treatment devices because of its adsorptive properties—it attracts many types of molecules to its surface and traps them. Carbon is also highly porous, so a small piece provides lots of surface area.
For these reasons, activated carbon is great for catching many contaminants that are so small—tiny molecules—that they pass through a microfilter. These include tastes, odors, pesticides, herbicides and pharmaceutical byproducts. Carbon can also pull out some heavy metals.
3.) Adsorptive filters, like carbon, don't indicate when their surface is full—you have no way of knowing when it's no longer doing its job.
Therefore, treatment devices that rely solely on adsorption to remove the microbes run the risk of letting some of those immediate threats through to you.
For these reasons, MSR products don't rely on adsorption/carbon to remove the microbes. The MSR MiniWorks, for example, uses a ceramic element to filter out the bacteria, protozoa and sediment, and then activated carbon to reduce tastes, odors and chemicals. When viruses are a concern, we recommend the Guardian purifier or the MiniWorks with the addition of MSR Aquatabs® purification tablets.
Activated carbon can make water more enjoyable to drink and adds an extra level of safety, but it's still important to research where you're going, and the types of filters and purifiers ideal for those environments. Also, a quick call to the ranger station can inform you of any particular local risks. Unfortunately, not even activated carbon will remove everything. But in most wilderness regions, a high-quality filter or purifier can get you out and back—with nothing more than stories of great adventure to share.


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Les Alpilles, literary meaning the small Alpes, is a very secret yet extremely desirable part of the French Provence. If you are looking for the real Provençal experience, the one and only that we picture when entering a L'Occitane boutique anywhere in the world, then look no further and share my little secret destination.
I cannot help feeling like a real Provençal native as I live, feel and expect from the world as if Provence's traditions and culture were a proper philosophy. However, to be totally honest my roots belong to the South-West France, an outstanding and characterful region located in between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic Ocean. We often agree we appreciate things better when we discover them and not when they are given to us, like the area we are born in: that is one of my explanations for my fascination with Provence. So, somehow, maybe due to my Mediterranean origins on the paternal side, Provence has always attracted me in a way I cannot describe with words. Provence has simply always been the love of my life, growing from a passionate attraction to a deep cultural knowledge and a great understanding.
After living and desperately trying to explore every part of Provence as part of my doctoral thesis for many years, I am excited to share one of my favorite sides of this Oh so culturally rich & colorful French region.
Locals say that the Alpilles are the discrete side of Provence, just the opposite of the French Riviera "m'as-tu vu?" (show off).
Indeed, Les Alpilles offers you quiet olive tree fields, vineyards, picturesque medieval villages and the unmissable bistrot on the main square of the picture perfect villages.
It is not surprising, Hollywood -and French- film makers use this natural décor to film their typical French orientated movies: nothing has changed, time and beauty just froze once upon a time… However, this very quiet countryside scene hides the greatest fortunes, celebrity hangs out and, therefore, awakes a real attraction to the area not just thanks to the landscapes, sun and gastronomy. A villa in Provence is a must-have for most of celebrities from all over the world. But don't expect to see Ferraris and paparazzi everywhere, Provence offers discretion and respect. The locals are used to-and modestly proud- to buy their baguette at the same boulangerie than Jean Reno, eat at the same restaurant than the royal family of Monaco or have a Pastis at the bistro after cycling with the most respected French actors: they all share the love for Provence "L'amour de la Terre" and its -very- good things such wine and food, bien sur!
Where are Les Alpilles located and which are the main points of interest?
Well, to get to the Alpilles easily you can take a TGV train (Train Grande Vitesse) From Paris to Avignon. You will travel on a fast train that can reach 500k/hour (but normally it doesn't travel faster than 300k/hour) and reach Avignon in only 2h30, magnifique! From Avignon -definitely a must-seen town- you will have to rent a car to discover the region at your pace (or book private tours).
Otherwise, Provence is very well deserved region as you can fly from London to Marseille or to Montpellier: in about 1 hour drive you will be enjoying the beauty of Les Alpilles after a not less scenic drive from the airport… c'est facile!
Aureille, Les Baux-de-Provence, Eygalières, Eyguières, Fontvieille, Mas-Blanc-des-Alpilles, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Mouriès, Paradou, Orgon, Saint-Étienne-du-Grès, Saint-Martin-de-Crau, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sénas, Tarascon.
Never the less, the gastronomic offer is one of the best of France if not the very best (taking some risks here..). There is plenty to do, the surroundings are so picturesque you will want to rent a bike and explore the rural landscapes to deeply breath the delicate pine trees aroma, discover hidden lakes. You can also just go for some nice walks or hiking excursions with your family, Les Alpilles has many scenic walking paths!
However, if you cannot spend more than one day in the Alpilles I would definitely recommend a small but intense tour comprising Saint-Remy de Provence, Les Baux de Provence, Maussane-les-Alpilles and Fontvieille. A stop by the town of Arles and/or Avignon will give you the most complete tour of the area.
Les Alpilles in Provence is certainly one of the most complete cultural destinations in Europe.
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Q: Enter-PSSession not working within domain Im sitting on two VM's where one is a server and another is the client. When I try to Enter-PSSession on both the server and the client, i get the following error
Connecting to remote server 10.10.106.2 failed with the following error
message : The WinRM client cannot process the request. If the authentication
scheme is different from Kerberos, or if the client computer is not joined
to a domain, then HTTPS transport must be used or the destination machine
must be added to the TrustedHosts configuration setting. Use winrm.cmd to
configure TrustedHosts. Note that computers in the TrustedHosts list might
not be authenticated. You can get more information about that by running the
following command: winrm help config. For more information, see the
about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

 Computer Details
Server

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*OS: Windows Server 2016

*IP: 192.168.2.2

*hostname.exe:Host

*$env:Username: Administrator

*$env:UserDomain: JEPPESEN

*whoami: jeppesen\administrator

*Domain in control.exe system:Jeppesen.local

*Full computername in control.exe system: Host.Jeppesen.local

*$PSVersionTable.PSVersion | FT -H : 5 1 14393 2248

Client

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*OS: Windows 10 Pro 1809

*IP: 192.168.2.3

*hostname.exe: DESKTOP-USJVHNQ

*$env:Username: JoHa

*$env:UserDomain: JEPPESEN

*whoami: jeppesen\joha

*Domain in control.exe system:Jeppesen.local

*Full computername in control.exe system: DESKTOP-USJVHNQ.Jeppesen.local

*$PSVersionTable.PSVersion | FT -H : 5 1 17763 1
And I've checked the Firewall. Have added TrustedHosts on both sides. Even followed a guide to configure WinRM on a domain controller.
And sorry about this long post.

A: The error message is giving you most of what you need. This isn't just about the TrustedHosts list; it's saying that in order to use an IP address with the default authentication scheme, you have to ALSO be using HTTPS (which isn't configured by default) and provide explicit credentials. I can tell you're at least not using SSL, because you didn't use the -UseSSL switch.
Note that SSL/HTTPS is not configured by default - that's an extra step you'll have to take. You can't just add -UseSSL.
The default authentication mechanism is Kerberos, and it wants to see real host names as they appear in AD. Not IP addresses, not DNS CNAME nicknames. Some folks will enable Basic authentication, which is less picky - but you should also set up HTTPS since you'd otherwise pass credentials in cleartext. Enable-PSRemoting only sets up HTTP.
Adding names to your hosts file won't work. This isn't an issue of name resolution; it's about how the mutual authentication between computers is carried out.
Additionally, if the two computers involved in this connection aren't in the same AD domain, the default authentication mechanism won't work. Read "help about_remote_troubleshooting" for information on configuring non-domain and cross-domain authentication.
From the docs at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347642.aspx
HOW TO USE AN IP ADDRESS IN A REMOTE COMMAND
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    ERROR:  The WinRM client cannot process the request. If the
    authentication scheme is different from Kerberos, or if the client
    computer is not joined to a domain, then HTTPS transport must be used
    or the destination machine must be added to the TrustedHosts
    configuration setting.

The ComputerName parameters of the New-PSSession, Enter-PSSession and
Invoke-Command cmdlets accept an IP address as a valid value. However,
because Kerberos authentication does not support IP addresses, NTLM
authentication is used by default whenever you specify an IP address.

When using NTLM authentication, the following procedure is required
for remoting.

1. Configure the computer for HTTPS transport or add the IP addresses
   of the remote computers to the TrustedHosts list on the local
   computer.

   For instructions, see "How to Add a Computer to the TrustedHosts
   List" below.

2. Use the Credential parameter in all remote commands.

   This is required even when you are submitting the credentials
   of the current user.

So, use the hostname or configure SSL/HTTPS.


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To do so his Slytherin side must come out to play, and once it's out it sticks around turning life at Hogwarts on its head. Truer words were never spoken by Dumbledore when Harry found himself as the Master of Death. Now, Harry is reborn as the Crown Prince of a realm on the brink of civil war. Fudge seems intent on spending more time covering up what's happening than dealing with it. Could a stronger relationship between Harry and the Bones family change history. HPDG, with a bit of HPTD, AU grey! ot-helpless! ore-suave! arry. As Death's Champion he's being asked to do it all over again, and this time he'll get the chance to have the family he always wanted. Will Harry once again emerge victorious or will his friends and family pay the price for his failure. But will all his attempts at seeming normal be ruined when they find out he can speak to snakes. His Slytherin friends take the news differently than the Gryffindors.
. where, until recently, our passenger railroads have been left to decay. Still, it shouldn't be too difficult for American kids, reared on "Thomas the Tank Engine," to understand and enjoy. In it, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis are the railway children whose lives change dramatically when their father is mysteriously taken away by men in long coats. They move from London to a cottage in rural Yorkshire with their mother, where they befriend the local railway porter, Perks, and wave to passengers they recognize from their daily commute. The strangers will play a key role in the adventures the kids embark upon in their quest for answers to their father's disappearance. This, the latest filmed iteration of The Railway Children, represents a joint York Theatre Royal and National Railway Museum production, which was staged in a venue near Kings Cross Station in London. The audience sits on bleachers that line a stage bisected by an improvised track, depot and moving train cars. It's an interesting way to introduce kids to live performances, by actors who aren't all that much older than they are. If, at first, the costumes and narrative feel a tad antiquated, it won't take long for them to empathize with the railway children's dilemma. In turn, Hollywood offers to add warnings before the opening credits, during commercial breaks and content ratings that no one pays attention to anymore. (In 1972, the Italian-American Civil Rights League convinced the producer of The Godfather to omit the terms "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" from the film's dialogue. Inside, he discovers a group of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) — his classmate and crush object — who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
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Сао́рж () — муніципалітет у Франції, у регіоні Прованс — Альпи — Лазурний Берег, департамент Приморські Альпи. Населення —  осіб (2011).

Муніципалітет розташований на відстані близько 680 км на південний схід від Парижа, 195 км на північний схід від Марселя, 40 км на північний схід від Ніцци.

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Brian O'Nolan
(Flann O'Brien)
Jane Ross (1810 - 1879):
Musical antiquary
Jane Ross lived a quiet, rather genteel life, but is credited with the discovery and publishing of the "Londonderry Air", or "Derry Air", one of the most famous melodies - perhaps the most famous - to come out of Ireland, and is known worldwide.
She was a product of the local gentry; her father was a Captain in the Limavady yeomanry, who was quite prosperous, owning land, flour mills and a bleach green. Her brother William was rector of St Columb's Cathedral, Derry, and her paternal grandfather had been provost of Limavady. Jane Ross lived with some of her sisters in Limavady town and at some point in the 1860s began to collect folk tunes, which she had published in Dublin by George Petrie of the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland, in a collection, The Ancient Music of Ireland, in 1855. The air which became famous was originally produced as an untitled piece without any text, though later, texts were written, notably by Fred Weatherly (the famous "Danny Boy" text) and Alfred Perceval Graves but there were many other texts adapted to it. Arrangements of the music have included those by Australian musician Percy Grainger and Sir Hamilton Harty, the prominent conductor and composer, of Hillsborough, County Down.
Musicologists have been baffled ever since as to the precise origins of the tune, various theories including Scotland, Magilligan (County Londonderry) or, given that there were no other versions known before Petrie's publication, that Ross wrote it herself.
Ross was commemorated by a musical festival in Limavady, where she lived out her life, and was interred in Christchurch Graveyard in the town.
Dictionary of Irish Biography; www.limavady.gov.uk; www.standingstones.com/dannyboy


I'm sitting in Starbucks with my new Chromebook. It's so much easier to blog on a keyboard than on a phone. Maybe now I can take it all more seriously. Or not.
And I'm stressed. I don't want to be stressed. I don't need to be stressed. And yet I am. And in my head I'm trying to work out why. I'm trying to figure out my day. What it is that I need to get done that will make it all better? Am I tired? Do I need to nap? Do I need to clean? Plan? Play? And if I become caught up in this, I'll be off down the rabbit hole again. Because, there is nothing that I need to do. There is nothing that will make it better. I don't have to do anything. The thoughts are there. The feelings are there. The stress is there. Dizziness. Headache. Anxiety. Anxious thoughts. Restlessness. Wanting to do so much. Not feeling able to. Not knowing what to do.
And I go to Starbucks. Knowing that it will pass. That at my core – I am still. My thoughts and feelings are not the truth. I can't fix me because there's nothing to fix. Only my belief or thoughts that say that there is. My thoughts and feelings that tell me that something's wrong. Run. Fight. Fix it. Google. Search. Do this. Do that. Have counselling. Take medication. Rest. Help someone. Change your diet. Exercise. And on and on and on.
But… the answer comes from inside. We can't change the external to affect the internal. The internal is already sorted. We simply need to know it. Live an inside out life. That's where the rest comes from. The peace. The love. Our real selves. Hidden behind the external that we've built to create ourselves. When in reality, we are already perfect. The inside life is the true life. We already have all that we need. We already know all that we need to know.


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Baseball Sweeps Bethel In Final Home Series
Posted on May 4th, 2016 by CJ Siewert
ST. PETER, Minn. – The Gustavus baseball team concluded its home schedule in style Wednesday by sweeping Bethel 5-2 and 3-2 behind a pair of impressive complete game pitching performances. Jacob Volness (Sr., Cokato, Minn.) went the distance (7 inn.) in game one, allowing one earned run on just two hits with three strikeouts and a walk. Connor Kern (Jr., Hutchinson, Minn.) followed suit in game two with a nine-inning complete game, allowing two earned runs on seven hits with three strikeouts and two walks. With the sweep, the Gusties improve to 18-18 overall and 7-11 in the MIAC.
Gustavus 5, Bethel 2 | BOX SCORE | PHOTO GALLERY
The Royals jumped out to an early lead in the first with a run on two errors and a sacrifice fly, but Gustavus responded in the bottom half with a pair of runs. Isaiah Welckle (Jr., Minneapolis, Minn.) and Dan Carlson (Jr., Plymouth, Minn.) both scored on a double by Sam Warner (Sr., Chanhassen, Minn.).
The Gusties tacked on two more in the second. Joe Melles (Sr., Hopkins, Minn.) singled and scored on a double by Cody Christensen (Sr., Luverne, Minn.), who then scored on a sac fly by Welckle.
Bethel added its second run in the fourth after a single, hit-by-pitch, wild pitch, and a ground ball RBI, but once again the Gusties responded with an insurance run in the fifth. Warner singled and scored on a base hit by Melles.
Warner (2-3, R, 2 RBI, 2B), John Lundquist (So., Rochester, Minn.) (2-3), Christensen (2-3, R, 2B, RBI) and Melles (2-3, R, RBI) led the Gusties at the plate with two hits each.
Gustavus 3, Bethel 2 | BOX SCORE
After two scoreless innings, the Gusties took a 2-0 lead as Christensen singled in a run and later scored on an error. Bethel answered with a pair of runs in the fourth on three hits and an error.
The game-winning run came in the sixth as Carlson led off the frame with a triple to the right field corner and scored on a wild pitch.
Kern did the rest on the mound retiring nine of the next 11 batters for his third win of the season. Christensen led the team at the plate once again, batting 2-3 with a run and an RBI.
Gustavus wraps up MIAC play Saturday with a 1 p.m. doubleheader at St. Thomas.
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Great European Lives: French feminist and writer Simone de Beauvoir
Charlie Connelly
Published: 4:00 PM April 17, 2020 Updated: 9:09 PM September 23, 2020
French author Simon de Beauvoir, 68, in her Parisian apartment. Simone de Beauvoir is renowned for her book "The Second Sex." Picture: Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma via Getty Images - Credit: Sygma via Getty Images
CHARLIE CONNELLY examines the life of Simone de Beauvoir, author of The Second Sex.
Maybe it was a feeling of release after so long under a repressive regime, a sense of shackles coming off, but the years after the liberation of France were prolific ones for Simone de Beauvoir. Her novel Le Sang des autres ('The Blood of Others') was published in 1945 followed by Tous les hommes sont mortels ('All Men Are Mortal') a year later. Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté ('The Ethics of Ambiguity'), a philosophical treatise written partly in response to her partner Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Être et le néant ('Being and Nothingness'), followed in 1947 by which time she had already commenced writing the work that would define her career and become the lodestone of modern feminism.
Writing about the self was a novelty in the middle of the 20th century. The surrealist Michel Leiris had published L'Age d'homme in 1939, a groundbreaking autobiographical work that delved deep into the author's psyche while containing a tangible streak of self-mockery, but a book by a woman analysing what it meant to be a woman from a first-person point of view had never been done. Indeed, the prospect of such a book was so unlikely as to be almost unimaginable: women in France had only been enfranchised in 1944, birth control would remain illegal for another two decades and abortions until as late as 1975. The level of marginalisation de Beauvoir endured socially, culturally and economically is almost unthinkable today.
Despite this, Beauvoir began to think about writing a confessional book, a philosophical memoir that would by extension examine women's place in the world from a woman's perspective. It was an ambitious project.
'I had never had any feeling of inferiority; no one had ever said to me, 'You think that way because you are a woman'', she mused. 'My femaleness had never bothered me in any way.'
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Sartre encouraged her to think deeper about the issue, about her own experience and how it chimed with that of women across the world. When she delved into the subject and began to process it philosophically, shedding as much of a lifetime of patriarchal conditioning as she could, de Beauvoir astounded even herself.
'It was a revelation,' she would recall. 'This world was a masculine world. My childhood was nourished by myths concocted by men and I hadn't reacted to them in the same way I should have done if I had been a boy. I became so interested that I gave up the project of a personal confession in order to focus on women's condition in general.'
It took just over a year to produce Le Deuxième Sexe, ('The Second Sex'), a work that displayed extraordinary depth of research and clarity of thinking, especially considering that during the 14-month window in which she wrote it she also travelled to the US and produced a journal of the visit L'Amérique au jour le jour ('America Day By Day'), not to mention commencing a passionate affair with the American writer Nelson Algren.
Le Deuxième Sexe was informed, unprecedented, erudite and so comprehensive it had to be divided into separate volumes. The first book, Les faits et les mythes ('Facts and Myths'), appeared in June 1949, selling 22,000 copies in the first week alone, while L'expérience vécue ('Lived Experience') followed in November, more autobiographical, more opinionated, exploring aspects of a woman's life that were never discussed.
'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman,' she wrote, going on to define the perception of her sex that had always deprived women of agency.
'She is a womb, an ovary; she is a female – this word is sufficient to define her.'
If the first book, which set out Beauvoir's research, caused a sensation, the second, which interpreted that research through a mixture of her lived experience and philosophy, astounded readers and critics alike, not necessarily in a positive way. The Vatican condemned it while Albert Camus denounced de Beauvoir for, as he saw it, ridiculing the French male.
'Professors hurled the book across the room,' she recalled. 'People sniggered at me in restaurants. The fact that I had spoken about female sexuality was absolutely scandalous at the time. Men kept drawing attention to the vulgarity of the book, essentially because they were furious at what the book was suggesting – equality between the sexes.'
For all her achievements in expressing the oppression under which women laboured, this independent thinker and writer, a woman who exploded the norms of the patriarchal society, has come to be known as much for her relationship with Sartre as for her work. She was 21 when they met for the first time and already making a name for herself as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. He was three years her senior and doing likewise at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. In 1929 both were sitting the agrégation, a competitive national philosophy examination in which success guaranteed an academic career for life, and were part of the same small study group. At their first meeting she explained Leibniz to him in a way that opened up the philosopher's work to a level of understanding Sartre had never achieved before.
When the national agrégation results were published Sartre came first and Beauvoir, the youngest student ever to sit the exam and only the ninth woman ever to pass, was one place behind. Later the examiners conceded that she was clearly the better philosopher but Sartre was placed top because he was attempting it for the second time. The most significant outcome of the 1929 agrégation, however, was how it brought together two of the most remarkable minds of the French 20th century, enmeshing them romantically and academically for the rest of their lives. Theirs was a liberated, modern relationship. Both openly enjoyed romantic liaisons outside the relationship, none of which threatened the bond they had.
'One single aim fired us, the urge to embrace all experience, and to bear witness concerning it,' she wrote. 'At times this meant that we had to follow diverse paths without concealing even the least of our discoveries from one another. When we were together, we bent our wills so firmly to the requirements of this common task that even at the moment of parting we still thought as one. That which bound us freed us; and in this freedom we found ourselves bound as closely as possible.'
They never lived together. Indeed, beyond a brief period after the liberation in which they lived on separate floors of the same boarding house, they never lived in the same building. Throughout their lives they addressed each other by the formal vous rather than more personal tu.
'We have pioneered our own relationship,' wrote de Beauvoir, 'with its freedom, intimacy and frankness.'
She was born into a privileged Catholic family in Paris. Her father was an assistant to a leading Parisian lawyer while her mother came from a family on the fringes of nobility: she'd never known a life without domestic servants until Georges de Beauvoir went bankrupt after the First World War. Not only did this mean Simone's mother had to learn to cook and sew, the couple's hopes that their two daughters would marry into French high society were dashed. Simone and her younger sister Hélène would have to earn their own livings.
'I was freed,' said de Beauvoir. 'It's financial independence that counts. To earn one's living is not an end in itself but it is the only way to achieve securely based inner independence.'
It was a limited liberation but it allowed de Beauvoir to explore her intelligence and creativity to the full. As well as the existential philosophy for which she became famous, her fiction was so good that in 1954 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary honour, for her novel Les Mandarins.
In later life Le Deuxième Sexe and her relationship with Sartre came under fire from the new wave of feminists that emerged in the 1960s but de Beauvoir remained unrepentant and unapologetic to the end. 'I said all I had to say about the condition of women when I wrote Le Deuxième Sexe,' she said in an interview towards the end of her life.
'That was it, my feminist book. I made my statement, then I had my life to live and I lived it as I wanted, not as a group of feminists would have wished. I'm sorry if I disappointed them, but it's my life and I live it, I don't freeze it into an object according to other people's wishes.'
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Finally, you will relax in an exclusive fully equipped yacht while enjoying stunning views of the Guadalquivir River. You will have the opportunity to delight a selection of Iberian pork and have "Rebujito", one of the most typical drinks in the area. You will also be able to see Seville from the air with 3D glasses.
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These tours are suitable for anyone with a basic level of fitness. Most of our itineraries are on easy-going unpaved roads and sealed roads.
The biking exploration allows us to see more than the incredible legacy of the Khmer empire but also affords us a glimpse into rural Cambodian life. This trip has a specific temple guide who is extremely knowledgeable on the temple complex and can also explain the local area, history, customs and way-of-life each time we stop.
An unforgettable adventure experiences with Asia Travel Needs by cycling through the area's mystical temples ruins that tower majestically amongst the pristine natural surroundings and witness typical Cambodian village life as you power your way to the surrounding villages.
Cycling has to be the best way to see the temples complexes of Angkor, nothing can compare to cycling through a thousand years of Khmer history. Our tour guide will ensure that full explanations are given on all that you will see. A remarkable facet of Angkor unlike many historical sites is that it is a hive of activity as there are dozens of farming communities dotted around this area, a chance to see ordinary Cambodian people going about their everyday life.
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YES! ITS A MINOR INJURY!
Is it? Haven't read about it but I felt sad after seeing the initial news. He was having a great start this season, I felt like he's already running for the MIP award this year.
Yes, it is a dislocation, not the compound fracture many expected. He doesn't need surgery and will be back! I'm so excited.
Didn't we already have a Joe Ingles Ruby moments card!???


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In 2011, Nancy Mintie, founder of Claremont, CA-based Uncommon Good saw in urban agriculture an opportunity to help fulfill her organization's mission to break intergenerational poverty cycles and give people the tools to lift themselves up. Mintie says her embrace of urban agriculture in Uncommon Good's ongoing efforts to promote health, wellness, education and sustainability was a matter of leveraging a resource that had been right under her nose.
The seed was planted during the recession.
Hope was in short supply.
Farmer A.G. Kawamura is doing his part to preserve and foster the agricultural heritage in Irvine, California, a city of more than 250,000 in the heart of heavily-populated Orange County, just south of Los Angeles.
Kawamura, the former secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, is in charge of field production at family-owned Orange County Produce. His grandparents immigrated to California from Japan in the early 1900s and began farming. Then, in 1958, his father moved the operation, then known as Western Marketing Company, to Orange County. In 1994, the family changed the company's name to Orange County Produce because of their belief that Orange County still wants to participate in its agriculture heritage.
Because of its strategic location in Southern California, Kawamura believes Orange County Produce can make an impact throughout the region.


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New Orleans attracting entrepreneurs in droves
posted by Neil Takemoto | August 11, 2009 | In Coworking, Economic Gardening
New Orleans is attracting scores of entrepreneurs and small businesses, and there hasn't been a better time to be a creative. "There has never been a better time in Louisiana for the creative class to thrive," says state lieutenant governor, Mitchell J. Landrieu. Why such a bold statement?
First of all, the evidence.
– New Orleans' metro area gained 100,000 nonfarm, post-Katrina jobs from October 2005 to June 2009, and by 2016 is expected to grow 24% from 2006 levels to 98.8% of pre-Katrina levels.
– At least four entrepreneurial hubs now exist: a coworking space for nine companies called Entrepreneur's Row; the Icehouse 'coworking warehouse'; a cluster of technology and start-ups known as the I.P., ('intellectual property'), and the Entergy Innovation Center, offering a group of companies affordable office, retail and community meeting spaces sponsored by Idea Village, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs.
Not bad for a city that many said shouldn't have a future.
Why New Orleans? Three major reasons:
1. "There's a sense of opportunity and possibility, combined with people who have the horsepower to actualize those possibilities," Michael Hecht, 38, president of Greater New Orleans Inc., a nonprofit economic development agency. What excites a creative more than an opportunity to actually create something? That's definitely post-Katrina New Orleans.
2. Low rents. That, along with business tax incentives and…
3. New Orleans legendary music and culture… and voila!
Read more in Entrepreneurial hubs are springing up across the city and spurring economic development and Entrepreneurs Leverage New Orleans's Charm to Lure Small Businesses, especially on the initiative behind Entrepreneur's Row – that's the juice every city needs to thrive.
If you're interested in crowdsourcing such a place in Broadmoor, New Orleans, such an effort will soon be underway at Destination Broadmoor.
Also, for implementation in your own city, check out two resources:
– CoworkDC.com, a nascent week-old regional coworking community using a free platform to build a coworking community;
– Bubbly, for when you have a government or corporate sponsor to grow the community in the hundreds/thousands through crowdsourcing contests allowing people to submit and vote on creative entrepreneurs/business ideas/companies of the month.
Photos: Top to bottom, Entrepreneur's Row, the Icehouse, Entergy Innovation Center, New Orleans.