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#ifndef UCP_H_
#define UCP_H_

#include <ucp/api/ucp_def.h>
#include <ucs/type/status.h>
#include <ucs/type/thread_mode.h>
#include <ucs/datastruct/queue.h> /* TODO remove, needed for req priv */

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief UCP configuration
 *
 *  This structure defines the configuration for UCP context.
 */
struct ucp_config {
    UCS_CONFIG_STRING_ARRAY_FIELD(names)   devices; /**< Array of device names to use */
    UCS_CONFIG_STRING_ARRAY_FIELD(names)   tls;     /**< Array of device names to use */

    int                                    force_all_devices; /**< Whether to force using all devices */

    UCS_CONFIG_STRING_ARRAY_FIELD(methods) alloc_prio;   /**< Array of allocation methods */

    size_t                                 bcopy_thresh;  /**< Threshold for switching to bcopy protocol */
};

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Completion status of a tag-matched receive.
 */
typedef struct ucp_tag_recv_completion {
    ucp_tag_t             sender_tag;  /**< Full sender tag */
    size_t                rcvd_len;    /**< How much data was received */
} ucp_tag_recv_completion_t;

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Non-blocking tag-match receive request.
 */
typedef struct ucp_recv_request {
    ucs_status_t               status; /**< Current request status */
    ucp_tag_recv_completion_t  comp;   /**< Completion information. Filled if
                                            status is != INPROGRESS.*/
    ucs_queue_elem_t           queue;
    void                       *buffer;
    size_t                     length;
    uint64_t                   tag;
    uint64_t                   tag_mask;
} ucp_recv_request_t;

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Progress callback. Used to progress user context during blocking operations.
 */
typedef void (*ucp_user_progress_func_t)(void *arg);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Read UCP configuration.
 *
 * @param [in]  env_prefix    If non-NULL, search for environment variables
 *                            starting with this UCX_<prefix>_. Otherwise, search
 *                            for environment variables starting with just UCX_.
 * @param [in]  filename      If non-NULL, read configuration from this file. If
 *                            the file does not exist, it will be ignored.
 * @param [out] config_p      Filled with a pointer to configuration.
 *
 * @return Error code.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_config_read(const char *env_prefix, const char *filename,
                             ucp_config_t **config_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Release configuration memory returned from @ref ucp_config_read().
 *
 * @param [in]  config        Configuration to release.
 */
void ucp_config_release(ucp_config_t *config);

void ucp_config_print(const ucp_config_t *config, FILE *stream,
                      const char *title, ucs_config_print_flags_t print_flags);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Initialize global ucp context.
 *
 * @param [in]  config            UCP configuration returned from @ref ucp_config_read().
 * @param [in]  request_headroom  How many bytes to reserve before every request
 *                                 returned by non-blocking operations.
 * @param [out] context_p         Filled with a ucp context handle.
 *
 * @return Error code.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_init(const ucp_config_t *config, size_t request_headroom,
                      ucp_context_h *context_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Destroy global ucp context.
 *
 * @param [in] context_p   Handle to the ucp context.
 */
void ucp_cleanup(ucp_context_h context_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Create a worker object.
 *
 *  The worker represents a progress engine. Multiple progress engines can be
 * created in an application, for example to be used by multiple threads.
 * Every worker can be progressed independently of others.
 *
 * @param [in]  context       Handle to context.
 * @param [in]  thread_mode   Thread access mode to the worker and resources
 *                             created on it.
 * @param [out] worker_p      Filled with a pointer to the worker object.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_worker_create(ucp_context_h context, ucs_thread_mode_t thread_mode,
                               ucp_worker_h *worker_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Destroy a worker object.
 *
 * @param [in]  worker        Worker object to destroy.
 */
void ucp_worker_destroy(ucp_worker_h worker);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Register user worker progress callback. The callback is called
 * from @ref ucp_worker_progress().
 *
 * @param [in]  worker     Worker object.
 * @param [in]  func       Callback function. If NULL, removes the current callback.
 * @param [in]  arg        Custom argument that is passed to callback function.
 */
void ucp_worker_progress_register(ucp_worker_h worker,
                                  ucp_user_progress_func_t func, void *arg);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Get the address of worker object.
 *
 *  Returns the address of a worker object. This address should be passed to any
 * remote entity wishing to connect to this worker.
 *  The address buffer is allocated by this function, and should be released by
 * calling @ref ucp_worker_release_address().
 *
 * @param [in]  worker            Worker object whose address to return.
 * @param [out] address_p         Filled with a pointer to worker address.
 * @param [out] address_length_p  Filled with the size of the address.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_worker_get_address(ucp_worker_h worker, ucp_address_t **address_p,
                                    size_t *address_length_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Release an address of worker object.
 *
 * @param [in] address            Address to release, returned from
 *                                @ref ucp_worker_get_address()
 */
void ucp_worker_release_address(ucp_worker_h worker, ucp_address_t *address);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Progress all communications on a specific worker.
 *
 *  This function progresses all communications and returns handles to completed
 * requests.
 *
 * @param [in]  worker    Worker to progress.
 * @param [out] reqs      Pointer to an array of request handlers to be filled
 *                         with completed requests.
 * @param [in]  max       Size of request array.
 *
 * @return How many request handless were written to `reqs'.
 */
void ucp_worker_progress(ucp_worker_h worker);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Create and open an endpoint.
 *
 *  Create an endpoint to remote peer. This function is non-blocking, and
 * communications may begin immediately after it returns. If the connection
 * process is not completed, communications will be dealyed.
 *
 * @param [in]  worker      Handle to the worker on which the endpoint is created.
 * @param [in]  address     Destination address, originally obtained from @ref
 *                            ucp_worker_get_address().
 * @param [out] ep_p        Filled with a handle to the opened endpoint.
 *
 * @return Error code.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_ep_create(ucp_worker_h worker, ucp_address_t *address,
                           ucp_ep_h *ep_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Close the remote endpoint.
 *
 * @param [in]  ep   Handle to the remote endpoint.
 */
void ucp_ep_destroy(ucp_ep_h ep);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Map or allocate memory for zero-copy sends and remote access.
 *
 * @param [in]     context    UCP context to map memory on.
 * @param [out]    address_p  If != NULL, memory region to map.
 *                            If == NULL, filled with a pointer to allocated region.
 * @param [in]     length     How many bytes to allocate.
 * @param [in]     flags      Allocation flags (currently reserved - set to 0).
 * @param [out]    memh_p     Filled with handle for allocated region.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_mem_map(ucp_context_h context, void **address_p, size_t length,
                         unsigned flags, ucp_mem_h *memh_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Undo the operation of uct_mem_map().
 *
 * @param [in]  context     UCP context which was used to allocate/map the memory.
 * @paran [in]  memh        Handle to memory region.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_mem_unmap(ucp_context_h context, ucp_mem_h memh);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Serialize memory region remote access key.
 *
 * @param [in]  context       UCP context.
 * @param [in]  memh          memory region handle.
 * @param [out] rkey_buffer   contains serialized rkey. Caller is responsible to
 *                            release it using ucp_rkey_buffer_release().
 * @param [out] size          length of serialized rkey.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_rkey_pack(ucp_context_h context, ucp_mem_h memh,
                           void **rkey_buffer_p, size_t *size_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Release packed remote key buffer, returned from @ref ucp_rkey_pack().
 *
 * @param [in]  rkey_buffer   Buffer to release.
 */
void ucp_rkey_buffer_release(void *rkey_buffer);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Create remote access key from serialized data.
 *
 * @param [in]  ep            Endpoint to access using the remote key.
 * @param [in]  rkey_buffer   Serialized rkey.
 * @param [out] rkey          Filled with rkey handle.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_ep_rkey_unpack(ucp_ep_h ep, void *rkey_buffer, ucp_rkey_h *rkey_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Destroy remote key returned from @ref ucp_rkey_unpack().
 *
 * @param [in]  ep           Endpoint which has created the remote key.
 * @param [in]  rkey         Romote key to destroy.
 */
void ucp_rkey_destroy(ucp_rkey_h rkey);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief If possible translate remote address into local address which can be
 *        used for direct memory access
 *
 * @param [in]  ep              endpoint address
 * @param [in]  remote_addr     address to translate
 * @param [in]  rkey            remote memory key
 * @param [out] local_addr      filled by local memory key
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_rmem_ptr(ucp_ep_h ep, void *remote_addr, ucp_rkey_h rkey,
                          void **local_addr_p);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Send tagged message.
 *
 * This function is blocking - it returns only after the buffer can be reused.
 *
 * @param [in]  ep          Destination to send to.
 * @param [in]  buffer      Message payload to send.
 * @param [in]  length      Message length to send.
 * @param [in]  tag         Message tag to send.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_tag_send(ucp_ep_h ep, const void *buffer, size_t length, ucp_tag_t tag);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Receive-match a tagged message.
 *
 * @param [in]  worker      UCP worker.
 * @param [in]  buffer      Buffer to receive the data to.
 * @param [in]  length      Size of the buffer.
 * @param [in]  tag         Message tag to expect.
 * @param [in]  tag_mask    Mask of which bits to match from the incoming tag
 *                           against the expected tag.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_tag_recv(ucp_worker_h worker, void *buffer, size_t length,
                          ucp_tag_t tag, ucp_tag_t tag_mask,
                          ucp_tag_recv_completion_t *comp);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Remote put. Returns when local buffer is safe for reuse.
 *
 *  Write a buffer to remote memory.
 *
 * @param [in]  ep           Remote endpoint.
 * @param [in]  buffer       Buffer to write.
 * @param [in]  length       Buffer size.
 * @param [in]  remote_addr  Remote address to write to.
 * @param [in]  rkey         Remote memory key.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_rma_put(ucp_ep_h ep, const void *buffer, size_t length,
                         uint64_t remote_addr, ucp_rkey_h rkey);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 * @brief Remote get. Returns when data are in local buffer
 *
 *  Read a buffer from remote memory.
 *
 * @param [in]  ep           Remote endpoint.
 * @param [out] buffer       Buffer to read into.
 * @param [in]  length       Buffer size.
 * @param [in]  remote_addr  Remote address to read from.
 * @param [in]  rkey         Remote memory key.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_rma_get(ucp_ep_h ep, void *buffer, size_t length,
                         uint64_t remote_addr, ucp_rkey_h rkey);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 *
 * @brief Force ordering between operations
 *
 * All operations started before fence will be completed before those
 * issued after.
 *
 * @param [in] worker        UCP worker.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_rma_fence(ucp_worker_h worker);

/**
 * @ingroup CONTEXT
 *
 * @brief Force remote completion.
 *
 * All operations that were started before ucp_quiet will be completed on
 * remote when ucp_quiet returns
 *
 * @param [in] worker        UCP worker.
 */
ucs_status_t ucp_rma_flush(ucp_worker_h worker);

#endif


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Liebe im Dreiklang ist eine Operette in drei Akten des Komponisten Walter Wilhelm Goetze. Das Libretto verfassten Walter Wilhelm Goetze und Emil Malkowsky. Die Uraufführung der Operette fand am 15. November 1950 im Stadttheater Heidelberg statt.

Handlung
 1. Akt – In Knipperlings Laden und Werkstatt
Die Handlung spielt in einer Stadt in Deutschland, irgendwo im Fränkischen, kurz nach dem Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges. Schneidermeister Knipperling überzeugt sich zu Beginn der Handlung bei seinem Sohn Hannes, ob die Bestellung des neuen Kostüms für die ansässige Herrin, das adelige Fräulein Carola von Ebernstein, ordnungsgemäß ausgeführt wurde. Hildegunde, die Kammerzofe des Fräulein von Ebernstein, kündigt die baldige Ankunft ihrer Herrin an. Hildegunde und Hannes geraten in einen Streit. Hildegunde hat nämlich herausgefunden, dass Hannes nicht nur ihr, sondern auch ihrer Cousine, der Kammerzofe Rosamunde, den Hof macht. Hannes gelingt es jedoch, Hildegunde zu versöhnen. Auf dem Marktplatz der Stadt taucht ein unbekannter junger, gutaussehender Mann auf, der sofort allen Mädchen Komplimente macht. Er nennt sich Mucki Nix. Der Fremde betritt kurz darauf Knipperlings Werkstatt und fragt nach einer Anstellung als Schneidergeselle, obwohl er weder Papiere noch einen Gesellenbrief vorweisen kann. Trotzdem will es Schneidermeister Knipperling mit ihm versuchen. Schnell freundet sich Mucki Nix mit Hannes an. Mucki Nix berichtet, dass er sein ganzes Vermögen im Spiel verloren hat und nun auf der Flucht vor seinen Gläubigern sei. Hannes erzählt ihm von seinen Problemen mit seinen beiden Kammerzofen. Während Hannes für den hungrigen Mucki Nix ein Essen zubereitet, erscheinen die Mädchen der Stadt und staffieren Mucki Nix mit eleganten Kleidern aus. Carola von Ebernstein betritt zur Anprobe ihres Kostüms den Laden. Sie verliebt sich sofort in Mucki, der ihr ebenfalls Komplimente macht. Sie bittet darum, Mucki Nix möge ihr das fertige Kostüm noch heute persönlich nach Gut Ebernstein liefern. Rosamunde erscheint und gerät ebenfalls in Streit mit Hannes. Hannes kann jedoch auch Rosamunde versöhnen, indem er ihr verspricht, extra für sie zwei Abendkleider anzufertigen. Ein Stadtschreiber betritt den Marktplatz und verkündet ein neues Gesetz: Um dem Frauenüberschuss nach dem verlorenen Krieg abzuhelfen, soll es jedem Mann erlaubt werden, zwei Frauen zu heiraten. Hannes beschließt nun, Hildegunde und Rosamunde zu heiraten und eine Ehe zu dritt zu führen.

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Auf Ebernstein wird die Hochzeit der jeweiligen Braut-Terzette gefeiert. Carola und ihr Onkel Kunibert begrüßen die Heiratswilligen. Auch Hannes hat sich mit Rosamunde und Hildegunde dort eingefunden. Doch seine Ehe steht unter keinem guten Stern; ständig kommt es zu Zänkereien zwischen den drei Ehepartnern. Kunibert hat inzwischen herausgefunden, dass der fremde junge Mann eine eklatante Ähnlichkeit mit Graf Nepomuk von Westernhain hat, der ihm Geld schuldet. Auch Carola hat die Identität des Fremden inzwischen entdeckt, will ihm jedoch treu bleiben. Die beiden Liebenden gestehen sich erneut ihre Liebe. Auf dem Fest geben Carola und Nepomuk ihre Verlobung bekannt. Es kommt jedoch zum Eklat, als der Augsburger Schneidermeister Flock eintritt und seine Forderungen geltend macht. Mucki ist nämlich die Bezahlung von drei Kostümen für seine Ehefrau schuldig geblieben. Mucki gibt nun zu, dass er bereits verheiratet ist und sich vergeblich um die Scheidung seiner ihm untreuen Ehefrau bemüht hat. Doch seine Beteuerungen nützen Mucki nichts mehr; Carola wendet sich von ihm ab.

 3. Akt – Auf Gut Ebernstein
Zwei Monate später. Vom Oberrichter erfährt Carola beim Schachspiel, dass Muckis Scheidungsurteil inzwischen rechtskräftig ist. Mucki hat inzwischen beim Schneidermeister Knipperling begonnen, seine Schulden abzuarbeiten und seine Gläubiger zu befriedigen. Er hat sich inzwischen außerdem zu einem ausgesuchten Kenner für Damenbekleidung und Meister seines Fachs entwickelt. Carola bestellt Mucki auf das Schloss und bittet Mucki, ihr ausgewählte Seidenstoffe für ein Brautkleid zu liefern. Inzwischen ist Hannes über die Entwicklungen seiner Ehe zu dritt völlig desillusioniert, zumal sich beide Frauen ihm inzwischen verweigern. Hildegunde hat sich außerdem einem anderen Verehrer zugewandt. Rosamunde und Hannes entdecken ihre Gefühle für eine gemeinsame Zweisamkeit. Mucki bringt Carola die Stoffe vorbei und sie präsentiert ihm sein Scheidungsurteil. Die beiden Liebenden finden nun ebenfalls zueinander. Kunibert erlässt seinem Schwiegerneffen seine Schulden. Auch das Gesetz über die Ehe zu dritt wurde mittlerweile wieder aufgehoben, da sich alle Dreierpaare beschwert hatten.

Werk
Goetzes Spätwerk Liebe im Dreiklang (Uraufführung 1950) gehörte ebenso wie seine früheren Operetten Adrienne (1926) und Schach dem König (1935) zu dem Typus der Operetten mit historischem Sujet. Goetze versuchte mit seinen Kompositionen einen musikalischen Gegenpunkt zu den in den 1920er Jahren in Mode gekommenen Schlager- und Nummernoperetten zu setzen. Größere musikalische Ensembles (Soli mit Chor, Duette, Terzette, Quartette und Quintette, häufig ebenfalls mit Chor) und ausgearbeitete Finali kennzeichnen seine Operetten, so auch Liebe im Dreiklang. Die Operette Liebe im Dreiklang konnte jedoch, im Gegensatz zu früheren Operetten Goetzes,  keinen dauerhaften Bühnenerfolg erzielen und ist mittlerweile nahezu völlig in Vergessenheit geraten. Das frivol-anzügliche Thema der Vielweiberei führte vor der Uraufführung auch zu Protesten kirchlicher Kreise. Der Misserfolg ist wohl auch darauf zurückzuführen, dass nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges tatsächlich viele Frauen ohne Männer lebten und die Zeit für einen ironischen Umgang mit dem Thema noch nicht reif war.

Im Juni 1951 entstand unter der musikalischen Leitung von Franz Marszalek, einem Kenner der Operetten Goetzes, eine Gesamtaufnahme der Operette Liebe im Dreiklang beim Westdeutschen Rundfunk in Köln. Die Rolle des Mucki Nix übernahm kurzfristig der deutsche Tenor Peter Anders, nachdem der ursprünglich vorgesehene Österreicher Karl Friedrich unerwartet wegen Krankheit absagen musste. Für die Hauptrollen wurden Irmgard Först und Paul Bürks als Sprecher verpflichtet. Diese Rundfunkaufnahme wurde inzwischen bei mehreren Labels als CD wiederveröffentlicht; auch Ausschnitte und musikalische Höhepunkte sind auf CD erschienen.

Literatur
 Liebe im Dreiklang. Booklet zur CD-Ausgabe. Line Music Service 5.01301 (2 CD)
 Traumland der Operette: Adrienne. Liebe im Dreiklang. Booklet zur CD-Ausgabe. Membran 231708 (2 CD)

Tondokumente
 1951: Westdeutscher Rundfunk – Dirigent: Franz Marszalek Besetzung: Peter Anders (Mucki Nix); Ilse Hübener (Carola von Ebernstein); Ruth Zillger (Rosamunde); Edith Teichmann (Hildegunde); Willy Hofmann (Hannes Knipperling); Willy Schneider (Flock). Kölner Rundfunkchor; Kölner Rundfunkorchester Line Music Service 5.01301 (2 CD)

Operette aus dem 20. Jahrhundert
Operette nach Titel
Musik 1950

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Bodzentyn – gmina miejsko-wiejska w województwie świętokrzyskim, w powiecie kieleckim. W latach 1975–1998 gmina położona była w województwie kieleckim.

Siedziba gminy to Bodzentyn.

Na koniec 2010 r. gminę zamieszkiwało 11 656 osób. Natomiast według danych z 31 grudnia 2019 roku gminę zamieszkiwało 11 479 osób.

W czasach Królestwa Polskiego gmina leżała w powiecie kieleckim w guberni kieleckiej. 13 stycznia 1870 do gminy przyłączono pozbawiony praw miejskich Bodzentyn.

Struktura powierzchni
Według stanu na 1 stycznia 2011 r. powierzchnia gminy wynosi 159,75 km², z czego miasto Bodzentyn zajmuje 8,65 km², zaś obszary wiejskie – 151,10 km².

W 2007 r. 50% obszaru gminy stanowiły użytki rolne, a 45% – użytki leśne.

Demografia

Miejscowości

 Piramida wieku mieszkańców gminy Bodzentyn w 2014 roku.

Sołectwa
Celiny, Dąbrowa Dolna, Dąbrowa Górna, Hucisko, Kamieniec, Leśna-Stara Wieś, Orzechówka, Podgórze, Podmielowiec, Psary-Kąty, Psary-Podłazy, Psary-Stara Wieś, Siekierno, Sieradowice, Ściegnia, Śniadka, Święta Katarzyna, Wiącka, Wilków, Wola Szczygiełkowa, Wzdół Rządowy, Wzdół-Kolonia, Wzdół-Parcele.

Pozostałe miejscowości:
Cerle, Kamienna Góra, Kresy, Parcelanci, Parcele, Podkonarze, Podlesie, Siekierno-Podmieście, Siekierno-Przedgrab, Sieradowice Drugie, Sieradowice Pierwsze, Sieradowice-Parcele, Śniadka Druga, Śniadka Pierwsza, Śniadka Trzecia, Trzcianka

Sąsiednie gminy
Bieliny, Górno, Łączna, Masłów, Nowa Słupia, Pawłów, Suchedniów, Wąchock

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Established May 2012, the Garden of Eatin' at the South Austin Senior Activity Center was made possible through the Health's Angels program of St. David's Foundation. The garden now has total of 20 garden beds in all different sizes and dimensions, a green house, and compost area. Garden classes are taught by Resolution Gardens staff on site at the Senior Activity Center. Members meet for harvest every Monday at 10 AM November-February and 9 AM March-October.
Garden Membership: Open to seniors aged 55 and up.


The silence yawned wide between us. I could tell she was terrified that she had called me on my explanation – admirably courageous of her. I suppressed a smile – it was much too soon. Exploring all of these different art forms, sharing them with the media, was doing wonders for my reputation.
The look on her face as she scribbled down her notes – it will last me a long time. Until we meet again.
You have to love artistic interpretations don't you Freya. And to end with the scribbling note taking is just wonderful. Plus I love the images you have created.Loved it.
Thank you! I dredged the recesses of my mind for the Magritte inspiration. My step-Dad has a Magritte book which I loved to flick through when I was a teenager.
The phrase came to me on the train home from work… I wanted a play on words, something humorous!
Indeed we do! I'm glad you enjoyed my little tale.
Such cheeky characters!! I love the wry humor threaded throughout. You certainly know how to nail your characters' "Voice." Well done!!
Thank you! I have my moments….


This is the Violet plan at Westmount, built by Standard Pacific Homes. Brand new home that is newly built, and will be ready for move-in this November. Garage has extra space for workshop/hobby area, Master features Dual sinks, large w/I closet. Open kitchen design will include Stainless Steel appliances and Slab Granite Countertops. Very nice living in San Jose!


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So when Jindal arrived at the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Monday morning, all he really had to do to blame Obama for the world's woes was to quote Panetta.
"How did we get to this point?" Jindal asked. "Just ask the people who can be honest about what happened. Ask former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta."
In a news conference following the speech, I asked Jindal to elaborate. Panetta "is now the latest in a series of officials who have served in this administration coming out and saying from the inside they saw some of the dangerous mistakes this president has made," the governor said.
George W. Bush got criticism from former advisers, as did Bill Clinton, but this level of disloyalty is stunning, even though it is softened with praise for Obama's intellect.
At the start of the year, Robert Gates, Obama's first defense secretary, wrote a memoir full of criticism of Obama's handling of Afghanistan, saying Obama made military decisions based on political considerations. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who also published a book this year, criticized Obama for rejecting her advice on Syria and mocked the "Don't do stupid stuff" phrase used by administration officials to describe Obama's doctrine.
The lack of message discipline is puzzling, because Obama rewards and promotes loyalists. But he's a cerebral leader, and he may lack the personal attachments that make aides want to charge the hill for him.
Also, as MSNBC reporter Alex Seitz-Wald tweeted in response to a question I posed, Panetta, Gates and Clinton didn't owe their careers to Obama. Clinton was a rival, Gates was a Bush holdover and Panetta is a Democratic eminence grise. Loyalty didn't trump book sales — or Clinton's need to distance herself from Obama before a presidential run.
But there's also David Axelrod, long Obama's loyal strategist, saying on NBC's Meet the Press that Obama made "a mistake" in saying his economic policies will be on the ballot next month.
Obama's most loyal mouthpiece at the moment may be Vice President Biden, who in a speech at Harvard last week condemned as "inappropriate" the books by former administration officials. But having Biden speak for you is of dubious value: The vice president's criticism of Panetta was overshadowed by loose remarks in that same speech that led Biden to apologize to the governments of Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
Whatever Obama's difficulty is inspiring loyalty among former aides, it is delighting conservatives and Republicans.
Jindal embraced Panetta as if he had just endorsed the Louisianan's presidential campaign. "I think it took a lot of courage to tell that truth," he said. "Secretary Panetta was, in coming out publicly criticizing the president, saying he still has two years to reverse the dangers and the dangerous deterioration that's happened this past six years."
All Obama needs to do, Jindal said, is listen to "folks like me, folks like Leon Panetta."
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Apr 13 Review: Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
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Sep 5 Guest Post: How Discovering Sandra Cisneros Helped Me Find My Own Path in Writing
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Today we're happy to welcome Phillippe Diederich to Clear Eyes, Full Shelves, whose new novel, Playing for the Devil's Fire, is out now from the excellent Cinco Puntos Press (this is an outstanding independent press--seek out their books if you're looking for fresh voices).
I started reading seriously when I was in tenth grade. I had a great English teacher and we were reading Italian and Russian short stories. I really took to the Russians. It led me to read Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina. I didn't read that much for the rest of my high school days, but that was mostly because I didn't like the books I came across. We had to read Ordinary People and The Old Man and the Sea. Well, for a 16 year old boy who'd never gone fishing, I couldn't imagine more boring books.
May 25 Guest Post: Stacey Lee on the Importance of of Asian American Representation in YA Literatue
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Jun 22 Podcast Episode #29 (Season 3, Episode 3): Talking Cultural Appropriate, Diversity & Publishing with Nafiza (Part 2)
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We couldn't be more excited to have the brilliant blogger Nafiza of Bibliographic Monologues and The Book Wars fame join us for the second in a two-part podcast series on diversity and cultural appropriation.
Nafiza is one of the smartest ladies in the bookish blogosphere, complete with a Masters in Children's Literature, and we're so happy to have her join us for this discussion. If you'd like to hear more from Nafiza (and you really should), visit her online at Bibliographic Monologues and The Book Wars and check out all her smarty pants tweets at @Nafizaa.
Mar 24 Recommendation Tuesday: Trade Me by Courtney Milan
Recommendation Tuesday started as a joke and is now an official thing. Basically, this is my way of making Tuesday a little more awesome. If you've got a book to recommend on this or any Tuesday, tweet me at @FullShelves and I'll help spread the word.
View all of the past recommendations over here.
Have I ever told you guys what prompted me to pick up my first Courtney Milan book?
Obviously I'd heard of her, but I didn't decide to read one of her novels until one date I was screwing around on Tumblr (as one does) and accidentally tapped on the notes link on the bottom of a Tumblr post from one of the many Australian Shepherd Tumblrs I follow and noticed that the person who'd like the post of a cute Aussie puppy was Courtney Milan. Obviously, this was important information! A quite look at Courtney's Twitter feed told me that yes indeed she shares her life with one of these wacky dogs too. So, I picked up one of her books, even though historicals set in England aren't usually my cup of tea and enjoyed it.
And this, my friends, is why book marketing is such a tough nut to crack.
Mar 14 Friendship, Diversity and Adventure in Stacey Lee's Under a Painted Sky
A fantastic historical novel is a special thing--and I sometimes feel like it's a unicorn situation. The last historical novel I loved (that wasn't a verse novel) was Jennifer Donnelly's luminous A Northern Light and that was quite awhile ago.
Fortunately, Stacey Lee's debut young adult historical novel about two girls on the Oregon Trail in the early 1800s, Under a Painted Sky, landed in my mailbox at just the right time, as it was the historical novel I've been looking for for ages and ages.
Father always said, If you cannot be brave, then imagine you are someone else who who is. So I imagine myself as him, my optimistic father, whose steps never wavered, whose face never hid in shadows. Lifting my chin, I march after Andy as if my cares were few and my outlook, golden.
Under a Painted Sky starts off with a bang, with narrator Samantha--a skilled violinist of Chinese descent--being left with no choice but to flee her Missouri town. Dashed are her dreams of moving back to New York and pursuing a music career.
Nov 25 Recommendation Tuesday: Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
Ms. Marvel, G. Willow Wilson's comic about teen superhero Kamala Khan, came highly recommended by many, many people. I usually don't care for the big comic publishers (Marvel, DC), largely because they're too slick for me, but the glowing recommendations from friends, plus the ridiculous controversy around meant my interest was piqued--and I pretty much loved it.
Oct 28 Recommendation Tuesday: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
It's not often I find a work on literary fiction that has a story as compelling as its prose--hence, I don't recommend it very often. Sparkling, thoughtful writing is wonderful, but it feels awfully vapid when the story falters. Or it's filled with dull Middle Aged Man Angst.
Discovering Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You was an unexpected surprise, as result. While imperfect (as all novels are), it hits so many notes that make worth checking out, even if you normally avoid literary fiction. It's a historical novel, though the 1970s time period is one of the book's less-developed aspects, but more than anything it's a story of family and marriage.
Oct 4 Stream-It Saturday: The Fosters (TV)
In my continuing selfless service to the world (ahem), I'm always looking for the next awesome thing to stream. And, of course, I must share my finds with you fabulous folks. Hence, Stream-It Saturday.
Check out all my previous recommendations over here.
Apparently, I am the target demographic for ABC Family--who knew? Between the show I'm spotlighting today, The Fosters, and my new binge-watching addition, Switched at Birth, I am a fan of the network, apparently.
Jul 7 Recommendation Roundup: June 2014
I don't know about you, but reading has been weird for me lately. Between summer and a stressful couple of work projects, I'm finding myself in a bit of a funk.
I keep starting books and then they lose my attention. However, Nafiza's wonderful graphic novel recommendation list came to my rescue and it's been just what the doctor ordered. I've gone way down the Saga rabbit hole and am official obsessed.
I also picked up a couple of fabulous middle grade verse novels I'd been meaning to read and that was a pretty solid life decision. I got Kwame Alexander's beautiful and moving The Crossover from the library and I'll definitely be buying a copy for my own shelves. It's one of my favorite reads of 2014 for sure. I want everyone to read it so that I can nerd out about it with other people!
Onward to the recommendations!
May 27 Recommendation Tuesday: Biggest Flirts by Jennifer Echols
Jennifer Echols is another relatively well-known author with a book I'm happy to include in my Recommendation Tuesday series. While Jennifer is well-loved by readers, she's generally under-recognized by gatekeeper types, despite having embraced positive depictions of teen girl sexuality and identity in her novels for many years.
Her latest, Biggest Flirts--the first in a new series of connected novels, is no different.
Tia, the first person narrator of Biggest Flirts, is a senior at her Florida high school, drummer in the marching band and notorious flirt. She unashamedly prefers casual hookups, eschewing boyfriends, and even has a regular hookup buddy (Sawyer, who's going to be a main character in the third book in the Superlatives series).
Apr 30 diVERSEity: Verse Novels with People of Color as Main Characters, by Skila Brown (Guest Post)
Books, Verse Week
As we celebrate verse novels all this week, let's take a moment to highlight those stories that feature a person of color as the main character. This is not a complete list, but a list of some of the best.
If you have favorites not listed below, tell us about them in the comments!
The Good Braider by Terry Farish
Viola leaves war-torn Sudan for a new life in the United States. Such a great story of strength and loss of innocence. Beautiful cover! Beautiful writing!
Apr 29 Recommendation Tuesday: Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Recommendation Tuesday started as a joke and is now an official thing. If you've got a book to recommend on this or any Tuesday, tweet me at @FullShelves and I'll help spread the word.
This week's Recommendation Tuesday is part of our Verse Novel Week celebration! View all of the past recommendations over here.
And the pomegranates,
like memories, are bittersweet
as we huddle together,
remembering just how good
life used to be.
— Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
When I get ready to put together Verse Novel Week each year, I always try to (rather foolishly) get caught up on verse novels I've missed and check out as many as I can find from the library. This year, my pile reached fairly ridiculous proportions, but at the top was Guadalupe Garcia McCall's Under the Mesquite, which came highly recommended by Nafiza, who has excellent taste.
Under the Mesquite is one of those books that will just suck you into its words and rhythm, and the verse format adds so much to that feeling as Garcia McCall weaves together Mexican American immigrant Lupita's story of family, loss and hope.
Apr 28 Review: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander, Guest Post by Allie of In Bed with Books
Kwame Alexander's newest novel, THE CROSSOVER, is a verse tour de force. It's told through poems by the main character, Josh Bell a.k.a. Filthy McNasty. He and his twin brother Jordan (JB) are talented basketball players, but jealousy threatens to split them apart when JB gets a girlfriend.
I love how many levels of story are woven into this novel.
THE CROSSOVER is the kind of book I never would've picked up when I was younger because I didn't like sports. There is the sports story promised by the cover, all leading up to a big championship game, but it is far from the only plotline. Nor is it the most important plotline. That's reserved for all the family stuff.
Apr 25 Reflections on Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
A couple of years ago, Sarah and I spent a long weekend in Washington, DC. She lived there for several years during and after college, and I always enjoyed visiting the city. Returning to the nation's capital was a real treat, since a number of new attractions opened since my last visit. While we intended to hit many of them, we instead visited the National Museum of the American Indian several times.
In the gift shop, I came upon a graphic story collection Native American tales, Trickster: Native American Tales. Leafing through it evoked memories of my own childhood, memories of beauty, memories of sunshine filled days, and memories of a gentle man, Larry of the Klickitat Indian tribe, who lifted me upon his shoulders carrying me about and speaking to me, telling me stories. He gave me beautiful memories of a singing, sparkling river, of dry pine covered mountains, of compassion, and love—all memories I hold sacred.
Apr 12 Links & Things: Angry Girls, Feminism, Diversity & More Cheapo Books
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Blogger Reynje wrote the best review of Elizabeth Scott's brilliant Heartbeat and digs into who much some readers have hated the main character.
If Emma's character is divisive then I'm stating right now that I'm firmly on her side. I want to see more of this: more honesty, more difficulty, more discomfort. Sometimes teenage girls are angry, or sad, or complicated. And that's okay.
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Mar 6 Podcast #20: Diversifying the Shelves (Part 2) with Author Sarah Ockler & Blogger Racquel of The Book Barbies
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We're super-thrilled to publish the second half of our discussion with author Sarah Ockler and Racquel, blogger from The Book Barbies, about diversifying our bookshelves, how writers can work to authentically represent people of color in their fiction and recommendations for books and authors that do this successfully. You can find the first half over here.
In this half, we get down to the nitty-gritty and recommend some novels that really, in our eyes, get it right, and why. It's important to emphasize that this is most definitely not a comprehensive conversation--if anything, it's framing questions and talking about our personal experiences. We hope to continue to explore this topic in future episodes. If you'd like to be involved in a future podcast discussion on this subject, get in touch and let's talk.
Feb 24 Podcast #19: Diversifying the Shelves (Part 1) with Guests Author Sarah Ockler & Blogger Racquel of the Book Barbies
Podcast, Podcast: Season Two
In episode 19 of the Clear Eyes, Full Shelves we are joined by author Sarah Ockler and welcome back blogger Racquel of The Book Barbies. This is the first in a two-part conversation about diversifying our bookshelves, how writers can work to authentically represent people of color in their fiction and recommendations for books and authors that do this successfully.
It's important to emphasize that this is most definitely not a comprehensive conversation--if anything, it's framing questions and talking about our personal experiences. We have a second part of this podcast coming soon and hope to continue to explore this topic in future episodes.
Sep 13 Links & Things: Friday the 13th Edition
I haven't posted a slew of interesting links in awhile, but I've been saving up a bunch to share with y'all.
Onward ho!
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There's a special place in movie hell for Prometheus, quite possibly the worst "film" I've ever seen. Awhile back, Laura sent me this fabulous video about everything that's wrong with that movie. Enjoy.
Jillian Cantor's 'Margot': Stop Writing Anne Frank Fan-Fiction (Flavorwire)
" She could have created an original character, but she chose the dead sister of one of history's most famous murdered children as her subject, and there is something horrifically exploitative about that. Margot's story in Cantor's novel is unspecific enough that it could have been about any survivor, but the usage of the Frank name rings of gimmickry. "
— Jason Diamond, Flavorwire
When I saw Jillian Cantor's Margot up on Netgalley, it certainly gave me pause. As a human being, there's something that just doesn't sit right with me about this premise (and apparently, there are other titles of this ilk). Jason Diamond of Flavorwire wrote a succinct discussion of why this needs to stop.
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TWO FIFTY ONE: ART in Residence
Article: Christopher George
Designed by award-winning Southwark architects Allies and Morrison, TWO FIFTY ONE is closer to central London than both Vauxhall and Nine Elms, and with the Elephant and Castle becoming the new Central London South, with the Utopian developments happening that are creating a mind boggling city skyline, thriving caffe culture along with Artswork Elephant that is injecting an urban creative buzz at the heart of this vibrant area.
55 visits TWO FIFTY ONE for the opening event from the 35th floor, to sample amazing views and contemporary art and interiors.
TWO FIFTY ONE, the latest of the Elephant & Castle residential towers, has announced the launch of its Artist in Residence programme. The series of partnerships will bring together some of the city's most exciting names in the contemporary art world, to support the booming creative scene in London's SE1.
Collaborating with names including renowned street artist Pegasus, Stephen Wiltshire who draws vast cityscapes from memory, illustrator and printmaker Jess Wilson, and Instagram photographer Ope O, the programme will see the ambassadors create and exhibit original items that take inspiration from the local sights and sounds in Elephant & Castle.
The scheme is a modern take on the traditional 'Artist In Residence' role that was popular in the 20th century, where many buildings and institutions would partner with nomadic creatives.
Launching in June, the bespoke commissions will be displayed in an exhibition open to the London public for a month, before being permanently on view in the new development.
Each ambassador has donated a selection of prints from the original artwork manifest that TWO FIFTY ONE will sell to both its residents and to the general community. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated to charities within the Elephant & Castle, including Cool Tan Arts, a locally based art group that focuses on mental health initiatives.
Martin Lent, CEO of SCM, the development manager of TWO FIFTY ONE said,
"The Artist in Residence programme showcases the broad range of artistic talent that this city has to offer. Each artist has taken inspiration from Elephant & Castles' evolving skyline, heritage and creative culture. Not only are we creating a series of bespoke works to be enjoyed by residents of TWO FIFTY ONE, and locals alike, but also raise funds for local charity Cool Tan Arts, a locally based arts focus group which help fund local well-being work through artists work"
From inception TWO FIFTY ONE has chosen to focus on the rich arts and culture of the community. The Developers partnered with the nearby London College of Communication in a unique photography competition. The winning twenty-six talented students' works were chosen after a rigorous selection process by an eminent panel of art experts including Lucinda Bredin of Bonhams Magazine and Caroline Douglas Director of the Contemporary Arts Society. These photographs are for the first time on permanent display in each of the residential corridors in the forty-one storey building. Copies of each winning entry will be on shown during the three-week exhibition.
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Russian animation in search of a hero
Maria Tereschenko
True, the Soviet makers of animated films, unlike the Soviet makers of spaceships, were did not have instructions to "catch up with and overtake America"; everything they did was for their own homegrown Soviet viewer. However, this did not prevent many of their films from earning international acclaim.
Today Russian animated-cartoon artists are facing that eternal Russian question: "What is to be done?" Should they continue to produce their signature non-commercial films or should they work for the industry? Their choice will determine the future of Russian animation — festival showings for a small circle of professionals or productions for a mass audience.
"Give Us a Soviet Mickey Mouse!"
In the summer of 1933 Moscow hosted its first festival of American animated films — an event that changed the history of Soviet animation. The films of Walt Disney so stunned Soviet viewers, including Joseph Stalin, that it was decided that the Soviet Union should create something comparable. "Give us a Soviet Mickey Mouse!" was the slogan and order of the day. Three years later, Soyuzmultfilm (an exact replica of Disney's studio with assembly-line production) opened its doors.
Having begun by imitating Disney, Soviet animators refined their drawing techniques almost to perfection. The Soviet government did not grudge money for animated films and the artists had the luxury of using many more drawings for each film than was customary. Where more commercialized countries often sought to cut expenses by producing "limited" animation with an average 5 drawings per second, the Soviet Union never used less than 12 drawings per second and sometimes as many as 24. So that the quality of Soviet animated films was significantly higher that that of the average Western production.
Another difference between Soviet and American animation was the lack of violence. "Films like 'Tom and Jerry', where the heroes are always punching each other and playing mean tricks, have never been popular here," said Sergei Merinov, a film director with the Pilot studio. "In our films there has always been less aggression. We staked our all not on action, but on psychology, humor and a dialogue with the viewer. This had nothing to do with special ideological concerns; it came out of the tradition of Russian folktales."
The best Soviet animated films from the "Disney period" — such as "The Golden Antelope" (1954) and "The Snow Queen" (1957) — were world-class productions. Hayao Miyazaki, the prominent Japanese maker of many popular animated feature films, saw "The Snow Queen" during a difficult period in his life when he was thinking of leaving animation. Thanks to that film, he realized that high-quality, painstakingly drawn animation could reach the depths of a person's soul.
Soviet animation was finally liberated from Disney's influence in the early 1960's.
This coincided with the appearance at Soyuzmultfilm of directors like Fyodor Khitruk, who created the Russian version of Winnie-the-Pooh. His first film, "Story of One Crime", made a huge impression. Everything in it was new. Both the story (of a very sweet man whose noisy neighbors drive him to attempt murder) and the art (a montage of drawn animation combined with cut-up photographs). In 1962 this film received the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Khitruk's technique of layering was perfected by another master of Russian animation, Yuri Norshtein. This technique was first used in Soviet animation in the 1920's — for lack of anything better. It was far simpler to cut out separate parts of a figure and move them around in front of the camera than to make a drawn film. Then it turned out that an artist with a good imagination and this technique could create all sorts of interesting things. Yuri Norshtein, for instance, thought of dividing not just the figure of an animal character into large parts — head, trunk, paws — but into much smaller parts using various materials. He would scratch out and draw lines on pieces of tin foil and celluloid, then arrange these pieces on horizontal glass tiers set up at different distances from the camera so as to make the animal three-dimensional. This is the technique he used in his world-famous films "Hedgehog in the Fog" (1975) and "Tale of Tales" (1979). A few years ago "Hedgehog" was voted the world's best animated film by a poll conducted among 140 animators and film critics from different countries. Norshtein is also using this layering technique in his new masterpiece "The Overcoat" based on the story by Gogol. He has been at work on this film for more than 20 years (finances are a constant problem) and has so far completed 20 minutes.
"A Mountain of Gems"
The golden century of Soviet animation ended with the arrival of perestroika, when the gargantuan state studio Soyuzmultfilm broke up into dozens of private studios. That was when Soviet animators first had to decide whether to go on making their signature films funded by sponsors for the sophisticated few at festivals or to earn money on their own with commercial projects. According to Alexander Gerasimov, director of the Open Festival of Animation in Suzdal, in the 1990's most animators were betting on signature films: "They started making 'grown-up' animation that they hoped would end up in the programs of international festivals. These were philosophical films about the meaning of life, about man's inner world. No one wanted to make films for children."
Many of these films did do well at festivals — the program of almost every animation festival contains Russian films, but mass audiences have not seen them. A fresh attempt to win Russian audiences, now spoiled by the best Western films, began in the early 2000's when the Russian government again began giving financial support to animated films. The first such successful project was the "Mountain of Gems" cycle produced by the Pilot studio for television. The point of this series (of the 100 episodes planned, 52 have been shot) is to tell Russian children about the county they live in. Each episode is a mini-film based on a folktale from one of the peoples that inhabit Russia. Each episode begins with a brief history of that people's customs and traditions. For instance, to film the episode based on a Mordvinian folktale, director Sergei Merinov traveled all over Mordovia looking for the material he needed about costumes, customs and everyday life. The result was so colorful that it won not only Best Film at China's Golden Panda Festival but also Best Make-up and Costumes. Merinov was then invited to show this film at the National Geographic Festival. "Few people know about the many nationalities that make up the Russian Federation," says Merinov. "And in the process of making this film we, too, learned many interesting facts."
If the "Mountain of Gems" project is entirely dependent on government support, then "Smeshariki" is Russia's first truly successful commercial project. It was born in 2003 at the Petersburg studio of computer animation. "At first the idea of creating a Russian brand based on animated films was met with great skepticism by people here," said Alexander Gerasimov, co-producer of "Smeshariki". "They considered that that niche had already been taken by foreigners." But soon it turned out that the idea of a world without violence (this series stars nine very sweet spherical creatures, none of whom is bad) is very advantageous. "We practically gave the series away to TV, we knew it wouldn't make any money," said Gerasimov. Today the series' characters are recognized by almost 100% of Russian viewers. Last year the series made its debut on the American channel CW, where it is known as "Gogoriki".
Today "Smeshariki" is a whole range of products under the same name: DVDs, audio books, regular books, a monthly magazine, computer games and interactive games. In 2008 revenues from licensing "Smeshariki" products totaled $160 million.
Another success story is the "Bogatyr Trilogy" (drawn, feature-length films that use irony in recounting the adventures of three heroes from Russian folkore: Alyosha Popovich, Dobryn Nikitich and Ilya Muuromets), a brave and brilliant gesture by the magnificent producer Sergei Selyanov, who made his name with the cult film "Brother". The third film in this trilogy, "Ilya Muromets and Solovei Razboinik", premiered in early 2008 and took in nearly $10 million at the box office (having been made for $2 million).
Another encouraging tendency is that of our modest independent directors, unsinkable in any domestic or financial storms. Take, for instance, the famous director Ivan Maximov. He makes small films relatively cheaply, works extremely hard and is an outstanding talent. His films, absurd and touching little vignettes, grow in popularity from year to year. And although "Wind Along the Coast" (2003) or "Rain Down from Above" (2007) has not won an Oscar, these films are as much loved by Russian viewers as any of Norshtein's productions.
The small studio Metronome-film has also been a pleasure to watch. Founded only three years ago, it has already produced its second charming series. The first series, "World Lullabies" directed by Elizaveta Skvortsova, consisted of several dozen 3-minute clips based on lullabies of different countries. Now in post-production is the 12-episode "Year Round" directed by Veronika Fyodorova, a collection of miniatures based on the prose of Yuri Koval.
"Today the old masters are fighting for signature films, while young animators are fighting for the industry," said Alexander Gerasimov. His hope for a revival of Russian animation is in the quantity of films submitted to the Suzdal festival. "If in 1997 there were 20 animated films, today we get 130, 80 of which enter competition." Gerasimov also feels sure that despite the domination of computer animation, drawn films will not die because a picture is very organic for the eye. Drawing technique is the strong suit of Russian animation.
Remarks by Otto Alder
The Swiss film expert Otto Alder directed a documentary about Fyodor Khitruk called "The Spirit of Genius" (1998). He is currently head of the International Animation Academy of Lucerne.
"Russian animation has a very long history, rich traditions and a serious school. At its foundation stand people like the pioneer of puppet animation Vladislav Starevich, the experimentalist Nikolai Khodataev and the talented artist Ivan Ivanov-Vano. After that brilliant period came years of building up mastery with Soyuzmultfilm and then the artistic revolution (it can't be called otherwise) brought about by Fyodor Khitruk.
"Now, of course, as throughout Eastern Europe, Russian animation is not in one of its best periods, but it still has remarkable artists and directors among both the older generation (Yuri Norshtein, Eduard Nazarov) and the younger generation (Ivan Maximov, Mikhail Aldashin).
"Most surprising of all in their films is the manner of narration: both the stories these directors choose to tell by means of animation and how these stories are told. I suppose that the type of story typically chosen is the main distinguishing feature of Russian animation. Russian animation is tied to Russian folklore, on the one hand, and to fairytales, on the other. Today many Russian animation directors choose Russian folktales as subjects for their films. As a result, contemporary Russian animation is by and large ethnographic (which cannot be said, for example, of Canadian or Swiss animation). It's hard to imagine that a project like "Mountain of Gems" by the Pilot studio could be made in any other country.
"Of course, material such as folktales dictates a certain intonation in the telling. Therefore Russian animated films are essentially kind, heartfelt and pleasant to watch. At least I like to watch Russian animated films.
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SYDNEY ORTHOPAEDICS
Dr James Laban
Neurosurgeon & Spine Surgeon
Dr James Laban is an experienced and highly respected dual-certified consultant neurosurgeon and spine surgeon practising in Sydney. Dr Laban specialises in state-of-the-art spine, brain and peripheral nerve surgery, using minimally invasive techniques, robotics and computer-guidance.
As Director of Neurosurgery at St George's University Hospital in London, one of the world's largest teaching hospitals and a neurosurgical centre of excellence, Dr Laban treated patients with the most complex neurosurgical conditions from all around the world. He has been awarded multiple scholarships, sat as faculty board member of numerous neurosurgical committees and completed fellowships at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney in both cranial and spinal neurosurgery.
Dr Laban now runs a large private practice in Sydney. He is an expert in specialist spinal disorders, cranial neurosurgery and peripheral nerve surgery. His multidisciplinary team has extensive experience and together they provide world-class patient-centred care. He believes deeply in listening to patient's concerns and delivering comprehensive and personalised treatment programs to achieve the best possible health outcome.
Dr Laban consults from his rooms in Double Bay and at North Shore Private Hospital.
Whilst studying medicine at the world-leading Imperial College London, Dr Laban undertook
a further research degree in neuroscience. He received the prestigious national Wolfson
Scholarship and was awarded a Bachelor of Science Honours, Bachelor of Medicine and
Bachelor of Surgery.
Dr Laban was chosen for postgraduate studies in neurosurgery at London's top hospitals,
including the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, King's College Hospital and
St George's University Hospital. During this time, he achieved the highest marks in both the
UK and European written examinations.
Following qualification as a specialist neurosurgeon, Dr Laban was awarded the HCA
International Foundation and Codman Neurosurgical Scholarships. He furthered his skills and
knowledge at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, undertaking two Fellowships to become
an expert in the fields of cranial and spinal neurosurgery. Dr Laban subsequently ran a large
private practice which also specialised in peripheral nerve surgery.
As Director of Neurosurgery at St George's University Hospital in London, one of the world's
largest teaching hospitals and a neurosurgical centre of excellence, Dr Laban treated patients
with the most complex neurosurgical conditions from all around the world. He was
educational and clinical governance lead and faculty board member of the Health Education
England Neurosurgery Training Committee and the Neurosurgical Specialist Advisory Group.
In 2017, in recognition of his international work, he was appointed Honorary Professor of
Neurosurgery at Cangzhou People's Hospital, Hebei, China. Prior to returning to Sydney in
2018, Dr Laban's busy private practice was based in the elite medical centres of Harley Street,
The London Clinic and The Lister and Cromwell hospitals where he provided expert care and
treatment to a large notable international patient base.
Dr Laban has also been honoured with Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons and Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is a member of the
Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, the Society of British Neurological Surgeons and the
Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology. He has worked as a reviewer for international
journals and presented and published nationally and internationally.
In 2005, Dr Laban became one of first Australians to have reached the Magnetic North Pole
on foot. He is a qualified ski and tennis instructor and enjoys surfing and logic.
Dr Laban believes deeply in listening to patient's concerns and delivering comprehensive and
individualised treatment programs. Dr Laban is committed to achieving the best possible
health outcomes for his patients by providing expert personalised care.
Dr Laban is an expert in back pain, sciatica, neck and arm pain, lumbar, thoracic and cervical
disc degeneration and spinal tumours including spinal metastatic disease. He has a vast
repertoire of spinal surgical skills (including minimally invasive surgery, computer-guided
surgery, anterior / posterior / 360-degree fusion, disc surgery and robotics). After qualifying
as a specialist neurosurgeon, Dr Laban was awarded and undertook the Royal North Shore
specialist neurosurgical spine fellowship. At St George's Hospital, London, he developed one
of the largest spinal services in the UK. Dr Laban is interested in spinal pathophysiology,
preventative medicine and non-invasive therapies. He combines his expert knowledge of
these non-surgical and surgical therapies to provide tailor-made individualised treatment.
Surgical treatment includes:
+ Microdiscectomy
+ Laminectomy
+ Foraminotomy
+ Anterior cervical discectomy & fusion
+ Disc arthroplasty (disc replacements)
+ Fusion surgery
(ALIF, PLF, PLIF, TLIF, OLIF, DLIF)
+ Vertebroplasty
+ Intradural surgery
+ Tumour surgery
Dr Laban is a specialist cranial and neuro-oncological surgeon with expertise in treatment of
benign and malignant brain tumours, neurovascular compression syndromes (including
trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm), cavernomas, Chiari malformation and
hydrocephalus. He uses computerised image guidance, intra-operative electrophysiological
monitoring, fluorescence and awake surgery to maximize tumour resection, improve patient
safety and obtain the best long-term outcomes. He works closely with other physicians who
provide non-surgical therapies, including anti-epileptic medication, neoadjuvant and
adjuvant chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy and radiosurgery treatment options.
He offers guidance on the various treatment options to deliver excellence in patient-centred
neurosurgical care.
Dr Laban has a specialist interest in peripheral nerve surgery including peripheral nerve
decompression and tumour surgery. His expertise includes genetic conditions such as
neurocutaneous syndromes including neurofibromatosis 1 & 2 and schwannomatosis. He
works closely with orthopaedic and plastic surgeons as well as neurologists and clinical
geneticists to deliver personalised and comprehensive care. Dr Laban uses his expert
knowledge to provide tailor-made individualised treatment and deliver excellence in patient-centred
CONSULTING LOCATIONS
Double Bay Consulting Rooms
451 New South Head Road
DOUBLE BAY NSW 2028
North Shore Private Hospital
Consulting Rooms
3 Westbourne Street
Dr Laban operates at the following hospitals:
East Sydney Private Hospital
Northern Beaches Hospital
For further information please visit our website, or contact us via telephone or email:
E info@drjameslaban.com.au
P PO Box 298, Double Bay NSW 1360
www.drjameslaban.com.au
Level 3/451 New South Head Rd Double Bay, Australia 2028
Phone+61 2 02 8313 9217
Email info@orthopaedicspecialists.com.au
Monday to Friday: 7:30am to 6 pm


I believe the sofa can be used as a bed.
We stayed there last night for 1 night. Very clean and modern however, we are a couple mid/late 60's and had a code to get into garage,front door and our room. TV was hard to maneuver (a must for hubby to use!) NO ELEVATOR YET MANY HANDICAP PARKING SPACES IN GARAGE!!!! ??? We understand modern ways but it was very over whelming to us just getting in for the evening. Once settled-better. BUT- the bed was a murphy bed and one could easily stub/break a toe on the couch underneath-just getting into bed! We had to be very careful! The town of Wolfville was adorable but did not realize it was a university town-no big deal in Aug! Everyone in Nova Scotia has been sooooo friendly!
Does Suite 217 have a balcony ?
The first floor suites with Sea view have the largest balconies, not much privacy on these balconies though. There is a row of balconies on the back of the building with a divider waist high between them with a small table and two chairs. Beautiful view. We have stayed there twice and it has always been quiet.
Is this hotel in the center of town- walkable to everything? Is there a place to park and hopefully leave the car for the time we are there?
Yes, in town and walkable. There is a locked parking garage, for which you can add access to your booking, for a small fee. Otherwise, you can park on the street.


If he asks you to hang out and you wait an hour to respond to him in order to look cool, he's only going to wonder if he made a mistake. It's difficult enough for him to find the strength to ask you out, and having to wait for a response just makes everything more stressful. Do him a favor by responding to his texts as soon as you get the chance. It won't make you look desperate. It'll make you look interested.
Some women wrongly believe that flirting with other men is a good idea. Trying to make your boyfriend jealous by hitting on his friends won't make him want you more. If anything, it'll only make him consider breaking up with you. It's rude to flirt with other people when you're in a relationship, so just don't do it.
3. Fibbing with "I'm Fine."
When he asks you what's wrong, tell him. Even though he should know you well enough to figure out what's been bothering you, being blunt will save you both a lot of trouble. If you tell him that you're fine when you're not, it's only going to draw out the fight. Get it over with quickly by explaining how he messed up. He'll be thankful for the honesty.
Hypothetical questions can be fun, as long as they aren't a trick. You can ask him what he'd bring to a desert island, but don't ask him which one of your friends he'd hook up with if you died. That conversation will never end well. There's no reason to start an unnecessary fight.
If he asks you what restaurant you want to visit for dinner, tell him. If you say that you don't care, then you shouldn't veto his idea to go to Taco Bell or Olive Garden. He'll be confused if you keep making him choose where to go, and then complain about his decision.
If a man thinks you look pretty, he'll tell you. However, they don't like to be asked if a dress makes you look fat. They don't like when you ask them if you find a certain woman pretty, either. They know they'll get in trouble if they don't give the right answer, so it's a stressful process.
If you like a guy, let him know. You don't have to blurt out the words, but avoid intentionally confusing him. If he asks you out, don't play hard to get by pretending you're too busy to see him. If you do, then he'll assume you don't feel the same way about him and will move on.
Men hate trying to figure us out, so it's important for us to make it easier on them. If we're lucky, they'll do the same. What confusing things have you noticed the men in your life doing?


Little known fact about me: I'm a huge fan of conspiracy theories. I don't necessarily buy into them, especially the ones pertaining to things like the lizard colony and the illuminati, but it's interesting to hear how some people try to explain the universe and why certain things happen. We're all familiar with the more mild and well-known theories that have to do with Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster (both of which I buy into), but there are deeper corners that some people venture into, myself included, and I am here to share some of my favorite conspiracy theories. For this blog post, I encourage you all to delve into this with an open mind and suspend logic. I will admit, a couple of these are incredibly far reaching, so whether or not you want to believe them is up to you. Also, keep in mind that I am trying to keep these as concise as possible, so I may not be able to include some other key facts, but I will certainly try to maintain their underlying ideas.
2017 has been a big year in film, and is perhaps one of my favorite years in film. There hasn't been one instance throughout the year where I wasn't eagerly checking showtimes to see if I can squeeze a trip to the movies into my schedule. So many long anticipated films came out this year, spanning from big budget films such as the live action version of Beauty & The Beast, to lower budget independent films such as Lady Bird. As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I have a very niche taste in film, and tend to gravitate towards independent movies, period pieces, and witty coming of age stories. Aside from the super exciting string of Marvel films that were released this year, here are several of my favorite films that came out this past year.
It's been exactly one month since Taylor Swift released her new album, "Reputation," and over a week since she has made the album available on all streaming platforms. Given her pop culture presence over the past several years, it's pretty safe to say that the release of this album has been long anticipated, whether you stand on the side of excitement or apathy. Now that I've had the album in my possession for a month (and has since been on repeat in my car), I feel now is the appropriate time to finally share my thoughts and feelings on this album.
It's been about six months since I've finished school, and I've done the usual things one is expected to accomplish post-grad: I got a full time job, I'm paying off bills quicker, and I'm taking reasonable steps towards future career goals while still basking in the freedom from homework, exams, and day to day interaction with other jaded students. There have also been transitions that I've been undergoing that I wasn't at all anticipating, mostly having to do with my relationships with the people who are (and were) in my life. When you're in school, despite how cynical you may have become due to the curve balls life throws at you, you still maintain somewhat of a rose-colored glasses perspective, especially with your friendships. There comes a point in college where you realize you're basically an adult, which translates to thinking that the other young adults in your life have to remain there forever. For some, this may be true, but the reality is that just because you're an adult doesn't mean that you're done growing. As people grow up, sometimes people grow at different times, in different directions, and ultimately apart.


I grew up in the 1950's. As a family we took our "portable" as we called it, on every family picnic and fishing trip. I remember listening to "Sing Something Simple" on the BBC every Sunday early evening as my mother made sandwiches by the River Trent. We ate home grown tomatoes and ate Smiths crisps after shaking the little blue twist of salt contained in every packet while my dad stoked up his primus stove to boil the kettle.


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Angelo Bavaro Producer remixes Lady Gaga
Italian music producer and remixer Angelo Bavaro Producer has just shared a remix of "Perfect illusion" by Lady Gaga.
The remix gives the original tune an electronic dance touch. Especially relevant, Angelo decided to mix and master it in Milan, the place where he lives at present.
It's not the first time Angelo produces a remix of other international artists' hits. He previously reworked Robin S' dance hit "Show me love", "Into the groove" by Madonna and "If love was a crime", the track with which Poli Genova represented Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
Furthermore, in these last days, the singer has launched a brilliant new website.
According to sources, Angelo is working on a new track that could be the lead single for an album.
Lady Gaga announces new single "Perfect illusion" Lady Gaga – Perfect illusion (audio) Watch Lady Gaga performs Joanne tracks Lady Gaga works with Mark Ronson for the new album
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Team news for Tuesday's League One clash between Oldham Athletic and Sheffield United at Boundary Park.
Oldham are unlikely to keep the same starting line-up for an eighth successive game in their penultimate fixture against Sheffield United.
Latics have kept an unchanged XI for seven straight games - a feat only achieved by three of the other 72 Football League clubs - but they will not become the first side this season to name the same team for an eighth consecutive fixture with boss Lee Johnson vowing to make changes.
Johnson revealed some of his players have minor niggles which will force his hand. And with Oldham having confirmed their place in the third tier of English football for an 18th successive season, it could give the likes of captain Korey Smith (knee) and midfielder David Worrall (groin) the chance to rest.
Winger James Dayton came off the bench to net the winner at Carlisle on Saturday so could be pushing for a start. Defender Genseric Kusunga (hamstring) and midfielder Anton Rodgers (groin) have been long-term absentees.
Sheffield United defender Neill Collins is a doubt for their clash with Oldham.
The centre-half limped out of Friday night's clash with Port Vale and was replaced by Matt Hill. Collins remains doubtful so Hill could be handed a start.
Boss Nigel Clough has no other fresh concerns, so Bob Harris remains the only confirmed absentee as the left-back recovers from a groin injury.
Clough has indicated that he could utilise his full squad, though, as he contemplated changes with nothing riding on the Boundary Park clash.


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Q: Gitlab CI service and docker hub auth Due to new restrictions on docker hub non-authenticated pulls, how do you authenticate your docker hub account for gitlab-ci services?
Here is the sample CI config from the gitlab documentation:
# from official documentation
services:
  - postgres:12.2 # <---- this will fail at some point because it's a non-authenticated pull

variables:
  POSTGRES_DB: nice_marmot
  POSTGRES_USER: runner
  POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ""
  POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: trust

This causes the followin error after a while:
ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon:
toomanyrequests: You have reached your pull rate limit.
You may increase the limit by authenticating and upgrading: https://www.docker.com/increase-rate-limit (executor_docker.go:188:1s)

As the services are pulled before script run, we cannot docker login in the script section. I could not find any documentation from gitlab regarding url auth or environment variable auth.
An ideal solution would not require to have admin access to gitlab-ci servers or gitlab-ci runners and would not require to setup a custom runner with pull_policy = never (which we ended up doing but it slowed down our CI drastically with a single runner bottleneck for e2e tests)

A: Check also, with GitLab 13.7 (December 2020) if the improved Dependency Proxy can help:

Avoid Docker rate limits and speed up your pipelines
For faster and more reliable builds, you can use the Dependency Proxy to cache the container images hosted on Docker Hub.
But, when Docker started to enforce rate limits on pull requests from Docker Hub, you noticed that even when your image was pulled from the cache, Docker counted it against your limit.
That's because the Dependency Proxy was only caching the image's layers (or blobs) and not the manifest, which contains information about how to build a given image.
Since the manifest is required, a pull request was still required. This also means that if Docker Hub was unavailable, you couldn't pull your image.
Moving forward, the Dependency Proxy will cache both the image's layers and manifest.
So, the first time you pull alpine:latest, the image will be added to the Dependency Proxy cache and count as one pull against your rate limit.
The next time you pull alpine:latest, it will be pulled from the cache, even if Docker Hub is unavailable and will not count against your rate limit.
Don't forget, as of milestone 13.6, the Dependency Proxy is available in Core. So, give it a try and let us know what you think. Or better yet, consider contributing to one of the open issues.
See Documentation and Issue.

And:
Still with GitLab 13.7 (December 2020)

Use pre-defined variables with the Dependency Proxy
By proxying and caching container images from Docker Hub, the Dependency Proxy helps you to improve the performance of your pipelines.
Even though the proxy is intended to be heavily used with CI/CD, to use the feature, you had to define your own variables or hard-code values in your gitlab.ci-yml file.
This made it difficult to get started for individuals, and prevented it from being a scalable solution, especially for organizations with many different groups and projects.
Moving forward, you can use pre-defined environment variables as an intuitive way to use the Dependency Proxy. The following variables are supported:

*

*CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_USER: a CI user for logging in to the Dependency Proxy.

*CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_PASSWORD: a CI password for logging in to the Dependency Proxy.

*CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_SERVER: the server for logging in to the Dependency Proxy.

*CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX: the image prefix for pulling images through the Dependency Proxy.

Give it a try and let us know what you think!
See Documentation and Issue.

This works even for private projects (December 2020)

Use the Dependency Proxy with private projects
You can use the GitLab Dependency Proxy to proxy and cache container images from Docker Hub. Until recently the feature was only available for public groups, preventing many of you from being able to use it.
You can now use the Dependency Proxy with private projects.
You can reduce your reliance on Docker Hub by caching your container images for future use.
Because the Dependency Proxy is storing Docker images in a space associated with your group, you must authenticate with your GitLab username and password, or with your personal access token with the scope set to at least read_registry.
See Documentation and Issue.

With GitLab 13.9 (February 2021):

Automatically authenticate when using the Dependency Proxy
By proxying and caching container images from Docker Hub, the Dependency Proxy helps you to improve the performance of your pipelines.
Even though the proxy is intended to be heavily used with CI/CD, to use the feature, you had to add your credentials to the DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG CI/CD variable or manually run docker login in your pipeline. These solutions worked fine, but when you consider how many .gitlab-ci.yml files that you need to update, it would be better if the GitLab Runner could automatically authenticate for you.
Since the Runner is already able to automatically authenticate with the integrated GitLab Container Registry, we were able to leverage that functionality to help you automatically authenticate with the Dependency Proxy.
Now it's easier to use the Dependency Proxy to proxy and cache your container images from Docker Hub and start having faster, more reliable builds.
See Documentation and Issue.

See GitLab 13.10 (March 2021)

Use the Dependency Proxy with 'containerd' and Docker 20+
The GitLab Dependency Proxy is a local proxy you can use for your frequently-accessed upstream images from Docker Hub. In the case of CI/CD, the Dependency Proxy receives a request and returns the upstream image from a registry, acting as a pull-through cache. This helps to reduce your CI minutes and increase reliability.
However, you haven't been able to pull images by digest, which as an immutable identifier ensures you are using the exact version of a specific image and tag. Since both containerd and Docker 20+ depend on pull-by-digest, this meant that many of you were blocked from using the Dependency Proxy.
We are happy to say that you can now pull your container images from Docker Hub by digest. You can use the Dependency Proxy by adding the URL to your .gitlab-ci.yml file, manually pulling the image from the command line, or using a Dockerfile. Check out the documentation and start saving time on your builds.
See Documentation and Issue.

A: I'm having the same error, and had a look at Docker documentation on toomanyrequests, that provides a way to retrieve a token, that can then be used in Gitlab-CI.
However, it's not yet clear to me: I just tried the first step, and get 401 unauthorized when trying to get my remaining quota :-/
Another interesting path: we may have to define our credentials for Docker hub as for a private repo. However, setting a variable with multi-line content and characters like " make it non-maskable, which seems an issue considering we provide username:password only base-64-encoded and not cyphered... :-/

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