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Passenger fare hike unlikely in Rail Budget
The Budget may have something for every section, and that includes additional trains and innovative schemes to corner more freight traffic from the road.
For the seventh year in a row, passenger fares are unlikely to be revised in the Railway Budget to be presented on Wednesday as Mamata Banerjee is once again set to reach out to the common man with populist measures, reports PTI.
The Budget may have something for every section and that includes additional trains and innovative schemes to corner more freight traffic from the road, Rail Bhavan sources said.
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee, who will be presenting her second budget in UPA-II, will also lay the foundation for the implementation of the ambitious Railways Vision document for the coming decade.
The document may seek to attain inclusive development, generate large-scale employment and ensure environmental sustainability. The Vision Document 2020 was unveiled by Ms Banerjee in the Winter Session of Parliament last year, along with the White Paper.
"Most of the proposals mentioned in the vision document, like expansion of rail network, raising train speed and safety measures and commercial utilisation of railway land, are expected to find mention in the rail Budget," the sources said.
With elections round the corner in Bihar and West Bengal, Ms Banerjee is unlikely to touch passenger fares though she is under pressure to review them, which have not seen upward revision for the last seven years. Ms Banerjee might rationalise freight rates and announce innovative schemes to compete with road transport, while leaving the loading rates of essential commodities like food grains untouched.
At present, more than 70% of the freight traffic movement takes place through highways. Railway Budget will also contain proposals for introduction of more trains including about a dozen Duronto non-stop trains, a couple of Janshatabdis in southern states, and a number of new services for West Bengal.
Ms Banerjee is also likely to announce expediting project works of upcoming locomotive and coach manufacturing units in states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, and expansion of Kolkata Metro network. With frequent train accidents becoming a major issue for the railways, she is likely to announce enhanced budgetary allocation to address the problem. Ms Banerjee had earlier met finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in this regard.
Some of the safety measures include the implementation of Anti-Collision Device (ACD) and Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) in certain congested routes. Improving passenger amenities in stations and onboard trains, tightening security measures which include raising a special all-woman force would also find mention in the Budget.
The sources said more passenger reservation counters would be announced and the Tatkal scheme would be made more passenger-friendly besides launching of a new passenger enquiry number (138). Opening of more affordable food outlets like Janahar and improving hygiene conditions in preparation of food for passengers are also likely to find mention.
The railway minister is expected to reach out to the farming community by taking forward the kisan vision scheme and announcing introduction of special trains for transportation of farm produce. Putting its unused land to best use, the minister is set to lay the grounds to woo more private investment for its commercial utilisation.
Railways had already announced a tie-up with the health and human resources development (HRD) ministries for setting up medical facilities and 'Kendriya Vidyalayas' on rail land.
The Budget is also expected to lay emphasis on the proposed dedicated freight corridor, as the Vision Document envisages operationalisation of the corridor before 2020.
The document also mentioned optimum utilisation of the railways' land bank and setting up multi-modal logistic parks and industrial hubs along the corridor.
Interacting with captains of Indian industry earlier this month, the railway minister laid stress on private participation in expansion of rail network.
The revenue-sharing model for private participation in laying new rail tracks is likely to find mention in the Budget. Keeping the wagon shortage in mind, the Budget might also contain measures to tackle the problem through a new wagon procurement policy.


The symbol of Britain's refusal to give up during that dark summer of 1940, the Spitfire won the hearts of both pilots and public in World War II. Regardless of the version, with either Rolls-Royce Merlin or Griffon power, all Spitfire cockpits are virtually identical and wonderfully compact. Climbing in really is (to use a very worn turn of phrase) like pulling the machine on. If everything is done correctly, the Spitfire is one of the easiest aircraft to start. The engine usually fires within two blades and runs like a clock.
While the Merlin-engine versions run very smoothly, the larger Griffon-engine machines feel as if they are angry. The sound from the exhaust stacks and the vibration transferred to the seat of the pants communicates visceral power, almost a desire to go kill something. Any hot-rod lover would enjoy this sensation of unbridled horsepower, this impatience to be turned loose and hunt. Every fighter I've been in is great fun to fly but only a very few are brutally straight about why they exist. The Griffon Spitfire is one such machine.
With enough warmth in the coolant and oil, a flip of the parking brake catch releases the brake lever on the spade control grip and the aircraft is taxiing with minimal power. The first time I had the opportunity to fly a British aircraft with this hand operated air brake system I was skeptical about it being very effective compared to hydraulic toe brakes. Within a very few minutes I was completely won over. It is far easier to manage, particularly on run up when one has to really stand on most American fighter rudder pedals. The source of high-pressure air is controlled by the brake lever on the spade control grip, or stick. The rudder pedals modulate the distribution of pressure to the left and right main wheel brakes. If the pedals are even, equal braking is applied to both sides; as one rudder pedal is applied then more brake pressure is fed to that side. Strength of application is delivered by the hand lever on the grip. The major benefit to all this is having one's feet and legs almost completely relaxed most of the time.
Lining up for take-off is intimidating with that Rolls-Royce engine sticking way out in front. There is no sense in thinking too much about it. Throttle up slowly to prevent a lurch to the right (if in a Griffon Spit where the propeller turns the opposite direction from American aircraft)...left foot moves forward almost in concert with the left hand to keep the nose straight. Monster torque shoves the right wing down rapidly, very much like the P-40, until full left aileron and full (give or take a minuscule amount) left rudder is held. The Rolls is a wounded dragon bellowing horrendously.
There is so much raw power and noise, and you are so tightly focused on keeping everything under control, the actual lift-off at around 90 kts goes by almost unnoticed. Switch hands, move the gear lever down to disengage it from the slot, inwards through the gate and then smartly all the way forward, hold momentarily, then let go. If all is well, the lever snaps outwards through the upper gate, then springs back into the upper slot. Its easy to spot a new Spitfire pilot...the aircraft porpoises as the pilot changes hands and works the gear lever.
Sitting behind this demon V-12 churning out so much power is intoxicating...the earth falls away at a rapid rate, at least for something with a propeller. A look around reveals the excellent visibility out of the bubble canopy. This lessens, to a degree, the impression of being buried within a Spitfire, though that feeling of being a part of the machine does not change. The elevator is very light while the rudder is stiff and the ailerons even more so. Every Spitfire I've flown takes a bit more muscle to roll than most fighters. As speed increases both rudder and ailerons get heavier, resulting in a curious mismatch at high speed...one has to handle the almost oversensitive elevators with a light fingertip touch while arm-wrestling the stiff ailerons. Pilots had to keep this in mind during combat, particularly when going against the Fw 190 which had a sterling rate of roll and exceptionally well harmonized controls. That being said, the aircraft is very well balanced and delightful to maneuver. Whipping a Spit around the clouds ranks right up there at the top of aviation's great experiences.
The aircraft stalls like a Piper Cub. Though a wing tends to drop, there isn't the slightest mean streak in it unless you cob the power, which produces a very violent torque roll. Power off, gear and flaps down, main fuel tanks full, it stalls at 65 kts, which is ridiculously slow. Add a slight bit of power and that drops to 60 kts. With that enormous snout, I try to make a curving approach to landing at about 100 kts in order to keep the runway in sight as long as possible. By the time I'm rolling out across the field boundary, if at max landing weight, I should be no faster than 85 kts with power and 95 kts in a glide. At lighter weights these speeds can be reduced by 5 kts.
All Spitfires are exceptionally easy to land with no inherent tendency to swerve or groundloop. Just reduce power to idle, flare to a three point attitude and she sets down on a feather almost every time. This is a great surprise to most considering the narrow track undercarriage and full swivel, non-locking tailwheel. Why doesn't it drop a wing violently or make the pilot stomp on the rudders? I wish I knew. The genius of managing to combine light aircraft characteristics with such high performance is nothing short of miraculous compared to most other wartime tailwheel types. One or two landings in the Spitfire and you are in love for life.


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package test

import org.specs2.mutable.Specification

class AvroTypeProvider00Test extends Specification {

  "A case class with an `Int` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest00(1)
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Float` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest01(1F)
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Long` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest02(1L)
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Double` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest03(1D)
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Boolean` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest04(true)
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `String` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest05("hello world")
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Null` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest06(null)
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an empty `Option[String]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest07(None)
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an empty `Option[Int]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest08(None)
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `List[String]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest10(List("head.tail"))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `List[Int]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest11(List(1, 2))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Option[String]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest12(Some("I'm here"))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Option[Int]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTest13(Some(1))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Map[String,Int]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record =  AvroTypeProviderTestMap01(Map("justice"->1))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Map[String,String]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record =  AvroTypeProviderTestMap02(Map("justice"->"law"))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with an `Map[String,String]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record =  AvroTypeProviderTestMap03(Map("justice"->Some(List(1,2))))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with two `Map[String,Int]` fields" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap04(Map("justice"->2, "law"->4), Map("sweet"->1))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with two `Map[String,String]` fields" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap05(Map("justice"->"crime", "law"->"order"), Map("sweet"->"sour"))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with fields `x: Map[String, Option[List[Int]]], y: Map[String, Option[List[Int]]]`" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap06(Map("justice"->None, "law"->Some(List(1,2))), Map("sweet"->Some(List(3,4))))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with a `Map[String, Map[String, Int]]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap07(Map("pepper"->Map("onion"->6)))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with a `List[Map[String, Map[String, String]]]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap08(List(Map("pepper"->Map("onion"->"garlic")), Map("bongo"->Map("tabla"->"conga"))))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with a `Option[Map[String, Option[List[String]]]]` field" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap09(Some(Map("pepper"->Some(List("howdy", "doody")))))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with `x: Map[String, Map[String, Int]], y: Map[String, Map[String, Int]]` fields" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap10(Map("pepper"->Map("onion"->6)), Map("salt"->Map("garlic"->7)))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with `x: Map[String, Map[String, Int]], y: List[Map[String, Map[String, String]]]` fields" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap11(Map("pepper"->Map("onion"->6)), List(Map("salt"->Map("garlic"->"oil")), Map("sriracha"->Map("chili"->"oil"))))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

  "A case class with `x: Map[String, Map[String, AvroTypeProviderTest00]], y: Map[String, AvroTypeProviderTest58]` fields" should {
    "deserialize correctly" in {
      val record = AvroTypeProviderTestMap12(Map("c1"->Map("00"-> AvroTypeProviderTest00(2))), Map("58"->AvroTypeProviderTest58(AvroTypeProviderTest00(4))))
      TestUtil.verifyRead(record)
    }
  }

}

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Changes to Student Loan Repayment thresholds
The Department of Education (DfE) has announced new repayment thresholds for Student Loan Plans 1 and 2, effective for the tax year 2020/21.
On 6 April 2020, the Student Loan Plan 1 repayment threshold will rise from £18,935 to £19,390. The current Student Loan Plan 2 repayment threshold will also rise from £25,725, to £26,575.
Where earnings exceed the thresholds for both Plan 1 and Plan 2 in 2020/21, repayments will still be calculated at 9 per cent.
The threshold for repaying the postgraduate loan type, introduced in the 2019/20 tax year and which currently stands at £21,000, will remain the same in 2020/21 and repayments will continue to be calculated at 6 per cent of any earnings above this.
These figures will apply to all current and future borrowers for whom employers make Student Loan deductions.
The new repayment system:
In the same year that the repayment thresholds increase, a new online service will also be implemented in a bid to modernise the Student Loans Company (SLC) repayment system.
The new system will enable former students to manage their balance more efficiently and give them access to the most up-to-date information relating to their student loan.
With developments in Real Time Information (RTI) and employers being required to send Full Payments Submissions (FPS) each pay cycle, the data needed to facilitate a digital service is more readily available and so arises the opportunity to replace regular paper statements.
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Q: Android Studio can't find SerializedName in Kotlin file, but compiles anyway I'm building my first Android app in a long time, and learning Kotlin in the process. I'm using Volley to get JSON data and Gson to parse it. In some cases I use the SerializedName annotation in my model classes to get nicer property names, for example like this:
@SerializedName("_id")
var id = ""

Android studio is constantly complaining that it can't find the SerializedName annotation, even though I've added the import import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName.

The strange thing is that everything compiles fine reglardless, so it's more of an annoyance than a problem. Still, I would like to get rid of all the red markings that this causes, to make it easier to spot real problems, preferably by making Android Studio understand where the annotation can actually be found.
The project compiles fine with or without the implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.5.0' dependency that people seem to add to get the SerializedName annotation, so I guess it's either part of the basic Gson package (I'm using implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6' in my Gradle file) or that it gets included as a secondary dependency.
Any ideas? Thanks!

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Three Shelby County schools appeal postseason bans
Posted 5:06 pm, February 7, 2019, by Stacy Jacobson, Updated at 12:39PM, February 8, 2019
HERMITAGE, Tenn. — Administrators from three Shelby County schools went to Hermitage Thursday to make their case for the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association to reverse its decision to ban them from the postseason for two years.
Principals from Melrose, Wooddale and Westwood high schools want to save their basketball seasons as they're supposed to be heading into the playoffs.
They spoke about two separate games on January 25 that each ended in chaos.
"Security officers were breaking up fights, pushing students and fans out toward the exit. At that time, that's when they sprayed the mace," said Westwood boys basketball coach Isiah Brown, whose team played Fairley High School that night.
A fight also broke out that night at the Wooddale-Melrose game.
Officials said a Melrose basketball player threw a ball at the head of a Wooddale player, thus causing the fight.
"Very unfortunate video we just watched, the incident on Jan. 25," Melrose principal Mark Neal said during the hearing.
According to video shown at the hearings, in both fights, fans from the stands ended up in the middle of the melee. In response, the TSSAA banned all four teams from the playoffs for two years and leveled some hefty fines.
TSSAA executive director Bernard Childress asked the principals what they have done to change fan behavior.
"At our most recent game, we turned away 38 people who wanted to be spectators because coming in the door, if you have a certain culture with you, we know it's going to drag down and take from what spectators want to see," Westwood Principal Julia Callaway said.
The principals also said they're working to rebuild relationships with their opponents. The students have met several times as a group to discuss their similarities and put differences behind them.
"People do make mistakes, and we want to make sure that they have a chance to right their wrongs," said Kevin Starks, Harding Academy boys basketball coach and TSSAA board member who advised Childress regarding the punishment.
It's unclear whether Childress will reverse the two-year postseason suspension, since he said they've given that same punishment to other schools in similar situations. However, he did say after a few months, those schools came back to the board and presented their improvements. They subsequently had their punishments reduced.
"I'm hopeful they can take into consideration what measures we've already put in place and let that influence the decision today," said Shelby County Schools attorney Kenneth Walker II, who presented on behalf of all three schools.
Fairley High School officials also said they plan to appeal the decision, but that date has not been set yet.
The TSSAA executive director said he will likely release his decision about the fates of the schools Friday.
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John Heydon ( Baxter; died 1479) of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, was of humble origins, the son of a yeoman, William Baxter of Heydon. He became a successful lawyer, and is known, through the Paston Letters, as one of the principal agents in East Anglia of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and one of the chief opponents of the Paston family.

Career

John was the son of a yeoman, William Baxter of Heydon, Norfolk. Legal records from as late as 1450 refer to him as 'John Heydon of Baconsthorpe alias John Baxter of Heydon'. His mother's name was Jane, daughter and heiress of John Warren, of Lincolnshire, whose arms, Chequey or and azure, on a canton gules, a lion rampant argent, is also quartered by the Heydons family; William was the first of his family that settled at Baconsthorpe, having purchased a moiety of the manor of Woodhall in this town, and was buried in the chapel in the north isle, with this epitaph, now lost: O Jesu tolle a me quod feci Et remaneat mihi quod tu fecisti, Ne pereat quod sanguine tuo redemisti.

John was educated at the Inns of Court, and, by 1428, was acting on behalf of Edmund Winter of Town Barningham, Norfolk, likely in connection with Winter's dispute with the Paston family over the manor of East Beckham.

In 1431, he was appointed Recorder of Norwich, but was unpopular with the townsmen, and was dismissed from the position before May 1437. Many years later, in 1450, it was alleged that during his tenure as Recorder he had informed Norwich Cathedral priory of information concerning the City of Norwich's dispute with the priory. By the mid-1430s he was acting as legal counsel for the priory, and, by 1445, was the priory's chief steward. From 1438 onward, he served on numerous commissions in Norfolk, was a Justice of the Peace from 1441 to 1450, and, in 1445, a Knight of the Shire for Norfolk. By 1447, he was steward of the East Anglian estates of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Among his numerous legal clients were Lord Bardolf, Lord Cromwell, Lord Willoughby and Sir John Clifton (d.1447).

However Heydon chiefly owed his prominence in East Anglia to his service with William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (d. 1450), with whom he had become associated by 1435. Through his influence with Henry VI, Suffolk is said to have ousted John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, from his rightful position as the dominant magnate in East Anglia. Two of his agents in particular, Heydon and Sir Thomas Tuddenham, from 1443 jointly held the 'powerful and lucrative' stewardship of the Duchy of Lancaster, and are said to have terrorised East Anglian gentry, including the Paston family.

The conflict between the Pastons and Heydon over the years is recorded in the Paston Letters. In 1448, it centred on the manor of Gresham, which William Paston had purchased from Thomas Chaucer. In February of that year, 'almost certainly on Heydon's initiative', Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford, asserted his wife's claim to Gresham, then in the hands of William Paston's son, John. Paston attempted to recover the manor through negotiation and legal action; both proved fruitless, and, in October 1448, Paston asserted possession by sending his wife, Margaret, to reside in a house in Gresham. In the following January Hungerford's servants assaulted and damaged the house, forcing Margaret Paston to leave; Hungerford remained in possession of Gresham for the next three years. In a letter in 1448 Margaret referred to Heydon as a 'false shrew'.

Suffolk fell from power at the beginning of 1450, and Heydon and Tuddenham immediately found themselves under attack by their principal opponents in East Anglia. Sir John Fastolf, a kinsman of John Paston's wife, Margaret, immediately requested a servant to provide him with a list of the wrongs which Heydon had done to him over the previous thirteen years, and in October 1450, a commission was empowered to inquire into complaints in East Anglia.

Indictments were drawn up which provided details of Heydon's and Tuddenham's actions during the previous fifteen years; according to Richmond, these allegations were perhaps biased, since Fastolf, John Paston, and the City of Norwich were among the principal informants, but it is 'likely that much of the shire was hostile to the pair of them'. During the years 1450–51 the Duke of Norfolk, John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Fastolf also exerted efforts to remove Suffolk's former agents from positions of local power. These efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, however. By the spring of 1451, Suffolk's widow, Alice (d.1475), and Thomas Scales, 7th Baron Scales, had regained Suffolk's former dominance in East Anglia.

After this setback, Heydon was never again as influential in East Anglia, although he retained his offices and stewardships, and was a member of various commissions from 1452 on. When the Lancastrian regime was overthrown in 1460–61, the Pastons hoped that Heydon would be destroyed. However although Tuddenham was executed in 1462, Heydon was not. He continued to enjoy the patronage of Suffolk's widow, Alice, and was able to obtain a pardon from the Yorkists in April 1462 on payment of 500 marks. During the Readeption of Henry VI he attempted to gain the favour of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, a Lancastrian, and was appointed to two commissions, but thereafter, for the remaining eighteen years of his life he was not prominent in public affairs, although he continued to practice law and to administer his clients' estates as well as his own.

Heydon died in 1479, leaving more than sixteen manors to his son and heir Sir Henry Heydon, purchased with the wealth acquired during his career. Among them was his seat at Baconsthorpe, where he had rebuilt the manor house, a project perhaps begun about 1446 when the King granted him forty oak trees from the forest at Gimingham.

His will, which he made in March 1478, makes no reference to his wife or to any child other than his son, Henry. In addition to numerous charitable bequests, he left £200 towards the marriages of his granddaughters, and £20 towards his burial in the Heydon chapel in Norwich Cathedral.

Marriage and issue
Heydon married Eleanor Winter, the daughter of his first patron, Edmund Winter (d.1448) of Barningham, by whom he had a son and heir, Sir Henry Heydon.

He disputed the parentage of a second child born to his wife Eleanor. In a letter written in July 1444, Margaret Paston claimed that Heydon would have nothing to do with either his wife or the child, and that he had threatened to cut off his wife's nose and kill the child.

Notes

References

External links
Baconsthorpe. Retrieved 3 October 2013
The Heydons of Baconsthorpe Who Built Salthouse Church. Retrieved 3 October 2013

1479 deaths
15th-century English people
Year of birth unknown
People from Baconsthorpe

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Brews News: What's a vacation without beer?
Wayne Newton • Special to Postmedia News
Feb 07, 2020 • February 7, 2020 • 4 minute read
London native Cory Pitman pours a Steam Whistle Pilsner straight from a newly brewed tank at the Toronto brewery's biergarten eatery. WAYNE NEWTON SPECIAL TO POSTMEDIA NEWS
There are vacations and vacations with beer. Which do you prefer?
For fans of malt, hops and yeast, it's a no-brainer as we scour locations not just for attractive vistas, but also for interesting beer. Call them brewcations or beercations, either translates into interesting and social explorations.
Brews News: What's a vacation without beer? Back to video
Among the craft beer meccas close to home is Buffalo, N.Y., (Resurgence, Big Ditch, Thin Man, et al.) and the pretty nearby town of East Aurora, where 42 North is a must. Further afield, nothing beats Fort Collins, Colo., home of Odell and New Belgium, and a host of smaller breweries, like Purpose.
Brewery-rich Toronto also fits the bill. It makes a difference to sample draft straight from the tank, as was underscored when I ordered a glass of familiar Steam Whistle Pilsner in the new biergarten eatery. No offence to the bottles and cans from the store, but this was crisper and more refreshing.
I asked a handful of local brewers where they'd go for a brewcation and their answers skipped America altogether to focus on Germany, the nation of inspiration for brewmasters worldwide.
"I love the idea of a brewcation," said Sam Smith of Toboggan Brewing in London. "It's very difficult to pick one region for beer tourism, but I have always been drawn to the beers of Southern Germany, made in the traditional Bavarian style.
"The breweries of Schneider Weisse and Weihenstephan in Bavaria both produce excellent and inspirational wheat beers and lagers that are unique to that region of origin, but seem to be liked universally by global tastes. I would really like to put a trip together to visit and maybe even find a way to observe a brew at one of these great historic breweries.
"Weihenstephan is a state-owned brewery, which is celebrating its 1000th anniversary in 2040," he added. "That would be a great time to be there."
Maybe he could share a flight with Toboggan co-owner Rick Doyle, whose dream brewcation focuses on Saxony.
"I would like to visit Dresden, Germany, to see Radeberger Brewery," Doyle said. "The pilsner is the brand I would like to taste direct from the fermenters."
Anderson Craft Ales takes much of its inspiration from German beers, so it's little surprise that brewmaster Gavin Anderson would also be on that flight.
"For me, it would definitely be Germany . . . , probably Munich," Anderson said. "I think it's pretty obvious we are big fans of German beers — three of our four seasonals are German styles (Spring Schwarzbier, Summer Pilsner, Autumn Oktoberfest) and we have made many other German styles like kolsch, helles, bock, altbier and Vienna lager. I would love to check out Hofbrau and Spaten breweries and all the small independent ones I haven't heard of yet. I would start with a nice malty marzen or a festbier and then every other beer I can get my hands on."
Brandon Huybers of Refined Fool in Sarnia would break ranks and head for Belgium's Cantillon Brewery, where his first order would be a lambic.
Does anyone share my love for American craft breweries? Maybe Michael Naish of Storm Stayed, who's passionate about juicy IPAs.
"One trip that I would love to make (if time allowed), is to tour through the northeastern United States," Naish said. "I am a huge fan of juicy New-England style pale ales and IPAs, fruit forward sour beers, and hybrids of these.
"There are many breweries in Vermont, Massachusetts and New York that have helped to define these styles and continue to innovate. It would be great to visit several."
The list includes Alchemist and Foam in Vermont, Trillium and Treehouse in Massachusetts, and Hudson Valley and Other Half in New York,.
"Of course, there are many other great breweries to seek out and enjoy in these states and others throughout the U.S.," Naish added.
So many breweries, so little time. Use your vacation days wisely.
NEW AND NOTED
Storm Stayed on Wharncliffe Road in London has a new Belgian dark strong ale in bottles. Bleu is 9.8 per cent alcohol with flavours from spices, candi sugar and, of course, hops and malts. A limited release that won't last long, Bleu is ready to enjoy now as a winter warmer or cellared to age for a future special occasion.
For those looking for love, Storm Stayed is hosting a speed-dating night Feb. 11, just in time to make sure Valentine's Day isn't solo. There will be craft beer involved. Contact Storm Stayed in advance.
Half Hours on Earth in Seaforth has a new sour, Burnout Generation is brewed with wheat and oats, chamomile, cinnamon, lemon zest, vanilla and local buckwheat honey. Soft, silky and soothing are the words that come to mind.
The grand opening of Forked River's new taproom featured a bunch of cool beers, including a nine per cent sour tangerine Belgian tripel called Psychocandy, Wren and Stimpy Sour IPA that will next surface at the Wren on the Danforth in Toronto, a light-ish strawberry lager called Lager Jam, Karen's Lament Chocolate Raspberry Coffee Porter and, the one and only Berry Mango-low, a mixed berry and mango radler that I'm betting gets big engagements at retailers soon.
Wayne Newton is a freelance journalist based in London.
wayne.newton@bell.net
Twitter.com/WayneWriteOn


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Northern Ireland party agrees to prop up Theresa May's UK government
By James Masters, CNN
Updated 7:59 AM EDT, Mon June 26, 2017
DUP 'only lifeline' for Theresa May after election
Government seals deal with Democratic Unionist Party
PM May secures governing majority
London CNN —
Britain's embattled Prime Minister Theresa May has finally secured a governing majority in the UK Parliament after agreeing a £1 billion ($1.2 billion) deal with a political party with 10 MPs from Northern Ireland.
Under the deal, the 10 lawmakers from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will back May's minority government over the Queen's Speech – which sets out the legislative program – as well as bills relating to national security and Brexit.
In return, the UK government has pledged an extra £1 billion ($1.2bn) investment over the next two years from the British government, in addition to £500 million ($600m) already committed.
"I welcome this agreement which will enable us to work together in the interest of the whole United Kingdom, give us the certainty we require as we embark on our departure from the European Union, and help us build a stronger and fairer society at home," May said in a statement.
Arlene Foster, leader of the DUP, was pictured with May at Downing Street.
Power sharing
The deal could act as an incentive for Northern Ireland's political parties to return to the country's Parliament after months of deadlock over the power-sharing assembly.
Theresa May (L) shakes hands with DUP leader Arlene Foster.
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Northern Ireland has been without a devolved government since March when the main nationalist party, Sinn Fein, pulled out in protest over Foster's handling of a financial scandal.
A deadline of June 29 has been set for an agreement to be reached or the prospect of direct rule from Westminster could be implemented. That means the £1 billion would be distributed by London, rather than local politicians in Belfast.
Read: The 10 people who can make or break Brexit
"I hope the parties will look beyond their differences and come together with a shared sense of common purpose to serve all communities in the best interests of Northern Ireland," May said in a statement.
"Northern Ireland needs a functioning devolved government at this important time."
Northern Ireland's power-sharing arrangement means nationalists and unionists must work together, with the First Minister and Deputy First Minister chosen from different sides.
But the two main parties have so far failed to reach an agreement despite extensive talks.
The unstable situation at Stormont has led some critics to warn that that the deal with the DUP risks peace in Northern Ireland because it ties the UK government to one side in the peace process.
Fmr. UK minister: May has lost control of Brexit
May's Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority at the country's general election earlier this month and faced the unappealing prospect of forming a minority government.
The move will be met with huge relief in May's administration. May had faced a turbulent few weeks since suffering the setback of failing to achieve an overall majority in the election.
Read: May warned of risk to Northern Ireland peace with DUP deal
May called the snap election three years before legally required to do so in an effort to secure a mandate which she said would strengthen her position going into Brexit talks.
Opinion polls suggested she would win handily; but her campaign faltered, and she was left with fewer MPs than she started with. The result left May with no option but to secure a deal with a minority party in order to pass her legislative agenda through Parliament and avoid a vote of no confidence.
May's pursuit of the DUP has raised concerns across the political spectrum, even within her own party. Ruth Davidson, leader of the Conservatives in Scotland, sought assurances that LGBT rights would be protected after any deal with the DUP, which opposes same-sex marriage as well as abortion.
May under pressure
May has faced pressure on several fronts. A spate of terror attacks in the UK has stretched security services' resources, leading to questions over cuts to police budgets that she presided over when she was Home Secretary.
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The headaches of negotiating Brexit
She has also been heavily criticized in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster, the tower block fire which killed at least 79 people.
The UK government's proposals for the rights of EU nationals after Brexit were deemed "not sufficient" by President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.


When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller, SOPHIE'S WORLD sets out to draw teenagers into the world of Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel and all the great philosophers. A brilliantly original and fascinating story with many twists and turns, it raises profound questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe.


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Optoma Unveils Eight-Ounce, 100-Luman Pico PK320
Fremont, Calif. | January 8, 2012 | Optoma®, the world leader in Pico projectors, has introduced the all-new PK320, a palm-sized, 8 oz. Pico projector capable of delivering images up to 150" in size in widescreen WVGA format from its 100 ANSI lumen light engine. With 2 GB of internal memory, a microSD slot that supports up to 32 MB of additional storage, and Office Viewer software that allows for PC-free operation, the PK320 sets a new standard for personal projectors and is the perfect complement to business executives and consumers who thrive on the mobile lifestyle. Available now, the PK320 has an end-user price of $449.
"The PK320 is the most powerful and versatile pocket projector available," said Jon Grodem, Optoma's senior director of product and marketing, "and it's a shining example of Optoma's commitment to provide the most complete selection of mobile projectors for business and personal use."
The PK320 is perfectly suited to meet the wants and needs of business users and others who are looking for maximum power in a minimal package. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the PK320 measures only 4.7" x 1.2" x 2.7", yet it is packed full of features that place it at the top of its class.
An easy-to-use user interface provides fast access to essential functions, which translates into shorter set-up processes and less waiting time. Instead of the usual "drill-down" menu design, the PK320 incorporates six function keys and a home key. Specific functions are assigned to each key and those functions change depending on the menu level, resulting in users having single-key access to often-used functions.
When plugged into an AC outlet, the PK320 delivers 100 lumens of brightness with a contrast ratio of 3000:1; when unplugged, it runs off its internal battery and the projector automatically switches to its 25 lumen mode for battery life of about one hour. The multimedia and Office Viewer software, preloaded in the projector, enable users to enjoy PC-free operation and support the most popular Microsoft Office programs, including past and present versions of PowerPoint, Word, Excel, as well as Adobe PDF files, jpeg images, and most common video file formats: AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, and WMV.
The PK320's WVGA resolution (854 x 480 pixels) produces vivid images in 16:9 aspect ratio, making it a perfect match for computer and movie formats. It also provides a full complement of I/O ports, including mini HDMI, a port for VGA, an input for composite video and audio, micro USB, and 3.5 mm stereo out. This gives users the ability to connect to just about any device, including computers, tablets, smart phones, gaming consoles, or digital cameras and camcorders.


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Danielle Wong - Exploring How Love Transcends Boundaries of all Kinds
Danielle Wong is an award-winning author living in California. Her debut novel, Swearing Off Stars, won an Independent Press Award, an International Book Award, and a Benjamin Franklin Award, among others. Danielle's writing has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, The Huffington Post, and Writer's Digest. She has short stories published in the Be the Star You Are!® series, and is currently working on her next novel. As our Author of the Day, she tells us all about her book, Swearing Off Stars.
Please give us a short introduction to what Swearing Off Stars is about.
Amelia (Lia) Cole is an American studying at Oxford in the 1920s. After arriving in England, she quickly falls for Scarlett—an aspiring actress who introduces her to a gender-equality movement with high stakes. But when their secret love clashes with political uprising, their relationship is one of the casualties. Spread across time and place, Lia and Scarlett's story is one of desire, adventure, and ultimately, devotion.
More than anything else, I wanted to explore how love transcends boundaries of all kinds. I originally conceptualized a contemporary narrative, but my manuscript quickly evolved into one deeply rooted in history. I chose to punctuate Lia and Scarlett's relationship with a series of political events and socially imposed obstacles. This friction ultimately serves to strengthen their bond, though not without years of strain and struggle.
Tell us more about Amelia Cole. What makes her tick?
Lia craves freedom and independence from the only life she's ever known. Traveling across the world and studying abroad provides a welcome sense of autonomy. It's only after meeting Scarlett that she begins to uncover a new dimension of herself.
Why did you pick the 1920s as the backdrop for your story?
I have always been fascinated by the 1920s—the grit, the glamour, and the dichotomy between modern and traditional ideals. I wanted to explore what college life would be like during such a tumultuous decade.
What makes Scarlett so appealing to Lia?
Scarlett is everything that Lia is not. She's confident, dramatic, and unafraid to speak her mind. These traits initially draw Lia in, but she eventually discovers a hidden vulnerability within Scarlett that no one else has seen.
I know how to evacuate a full plane of passengers in an emergency. It's an interesting—albeit nontransferable—skill that I learned during my time as a flight attendant. Balancing drink trays during severe turbulence sounds a little less morbid, though, so let's go with that!
Your story covers over thirty years. Why did you take this approach?
My goal was to render a realistic relationship given the political climate. Love can be messy and irrational to begin with, but Lia and Scarlett's story has several additional layers of complexity. Setting my novel over an extended time period allows the characters to grow into themselves and experience the magnitude of a lifelong love.
I think it's kind of brilliant how love can endure despite the most harrowing circumstances. It survives war, death, and destruction . . . centuries, malice, and chaos. I wanted Swearing Off Stars to capture that idea.
What was your greatest challenge when writing this book?
The research that a historical fiction novel demands is quite extensive. Although finishing my manuscript was a huge step, I had my work cut out for me when I started the editing and fact-checking stages. I wanted to accurately portray the multiple time periods included in Swearing Off Stars, from dialogue and technology to clothing and sense of place.
What is the best writing advice you've received?
A fellow author once told me that she rarely feels inspired to write. "If you wait for inspiration to strike, you'll be waiting forever." I genuinely feel lucky that I get to do this for a living, but I agree with her main point. Sometimes, it's a matter of forcing yourself to start. You have to be able to stare a blank page in the face and commit to filling it up, even when the words aren't flowing.
Is there something that compels you to write? And do you find that writing helps you achieve a clarity about yourself or ideas you've been struggling with?
I have always gravitated towards reading and writing as valuable outlets and means of escape. During childhood, I learned that discovering a great story can feel like magic, and I wanted to create that thrill myself. Writing books both enables and requires me to imagine other points of view while exploring new worlds and periods of time.
Do you consider yourself a disciplined writer? Do you have a schedule that you stick to, or is it more in the moment?
My schedule evolves frequently to accommodate what else is going on in my life. I am equally spontaneous and plan-oriented, so I find it helpful to maintain a malleable routine. I usually alternate between daily word count minimums and timed writing blocks. If I'm struggling with a particular scene, I often shift to character development or background research. When all else fails, I take a break and go running. Physical activity is the paramount stress reliever. It allows me to reset and return to my work with fresh eyes.
I just finished writing a psychological suspense novel about a woman who wakes up with no memory of the past decade. As she struggles to adjust to a shocking new reality, she becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. The victim? Her husband.
I always love hearing from readers! Daniellemwong.com has more information about my work, and I stay pretty active on social media during the week.
Twitter: @Daniellemwong
Instagram: @Daniellewongwrites
Facebook: @Daniellemwongauthor


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Q: Como realizar una función lambda - Python Quiero saber que error estoy cometiendo al usar esta función lambda.
Antes que nada estoy trabajando en Python con Pandas.
Tengo un listado de fechas con hora y me gustaría eliminar la hora con una función lambda.

Lo que tenía en mente era algo así:
entradas = np.array(
    (lambda x: x[0:10],
     e)
)

En el que cortaba el str con la fecha en cada entrada.
Imagino que podría hacerlo mediante la librería datetime (me refiero a lo de modificar el formato, no al aplicar la lambda).
Pero creo que este método sería menos costoso computacionalmente.
Agradeceria la ayuda, gracias.

A: Buen día,
En este caso no necesitas utilizar lambda (Se podría utilizar pero es más eficiente utilizar el accesor dt si conviertes la columna a datetime64.
Ejemplo:
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({'Col': ['2023-01-02 20:44:00', '2023-01-03 20:45:00', '2023-01-04 20:46:00']})

# Convertimos la columna a datetime64
df['Col'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Col'])

# Obtenemos solo la fecha y la ponemos en otra columna
df['Fecha'] = df['Col'].dt.date

print(df)

Esto imprime:
                  Col       Fecha
0 2023-01-02 20:44:00  2023-01-02
1 2023-01-03 20:45:00  2023-01-03
2 2023-01-04 20:46:00  2023-01-04

Edición
Hice unas pruebas para medir el tiempo de ejecución entre el código anterior y la respuesta propuesta en el comentario de @Abulafia
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({'Col': ['2023-01-02 20:44:00', '2023-01-03 20:45:00', '2023-01-04 20:46:00']})

df['Fecha'] = df['Col'].map(lambda x: x[0:10])

print(df)

En ambos casos comenté la línea de print(df) y utilicé timeit para medir el tiempo de ejecución.
El código utilizando el accesor dt:
535 µs ± 1.66 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1,000 loops each)

El código utilizando lambda y map
265 µs ± 871 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1,000 loops each)

En efecto, es más rápido utilizar lambda y map, pero depende de lo que deseas hacer con tus datos. Si en algún momento necesitas utilizar las propiedades de la fecha u hora, es mejor utilizar el accesor dt ya que facilita el manejo de los datos, si únicamente deseas obtener la fecha entonces con lambda y map sería suficiente.
Edición 2
Hice otra prueba, pero ahora únicamente midiendo el tiempo de ejecución de la línea:
df['Fecha'] = df['Col'].dt.date

Y la línea:
df['Fecha'] = df['Col'].map(lambda x: x[0:10])

Ya que de otra forma estoy midiendo también el tiempo de convertir la columna a datetime64 así que fue un error de mi parte haber hecho esa comparación.
El resultado del accesor es:
123 µs ± 343 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10,000 loops each)

El resultado de lambda y map es:
92.5 µs ± 732 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10,000 loops each)

Por lo que se puede ver que utilizando el accesor es más rápido.


Deposition Author(s): Zhou, Y.F., Springer, T.A.
Highly reinforced structure of a C-terminal dimerization domain in von Willebrand factor.
The C-terminal cystine knot (CK) (CTCK) domain in von Willebrand factor (VWF) mediates dimerization of proVWF in the endoplasmic reticulum and is essential for long multimers required for hemostatic function. The CTCK dimer crystal structure reveals highly elongated monomers with 2 β-ribbons and 4 intra-chain disulfides, including 3 in the CK. Dimerization buries an extensive interface of 1500 Å(2) corresponding to 32% of the surface of each monomer and forms a super β-sheet and 3 inter-chain disulfides. The shape, dimensions, and N-terminal connections of the crystal structure agree perfectly with previous electron microscopic images of VWF dimeric bouquets with the CTCK dimer forming a down-curved base. The dimer interface is suited to resist hydrodynamic force and disulfide reduction. CKs in each monomer flank the 3 inter-chain disulfides, and their presence in β-structures with dense backbone hydrogen bonds creates a rigid, highly crosslinked interface. The structure reveals the basis for von Willebrand disease phenotypes and the fold and disulfide linkages for CTCK domains in diverse protein families involved in barrier function, eye and inner ear development, insect coagulation and innate immunity, axon guidance, and signaling in extracellular matrices.
Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston and Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.


According to German Foreign Minister that could be discussed "If substantial progress is made in eastern Ukraine and at the talks on the ceasefire in Syria"
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced conditions for Moscow's return to G8, reports RIA Novosti.
"The conflicts in Syria and Ukraine demonstrate our interest not to exclude Russia from close cooperation between the world leading economies," the minister said in an interview posted on the website of the German Publishers Association on Aug. 31.
Russia joined the G7 in 1998. After it, the association came to be known as G8.
In March 2014, the organization decided to return to the G7 format over the Ukrainian issue and subsequent escalation in relations between Russia and the West.


Myles De Bastion (33), who is profoundly deaf, turned his passion for music into a successful career.
"When I was younger I was lucky to have a small window of sound when using hearing aids."
With the help of other artists, Myles began by creating a seat to plug his guitar into which would light up and vibrate in response to his performance. Eventually he invented a sound-to-light system which he called the Audiolux. This device creates an engaging multi-sensory experience and makes sound accessible through light.
Myles, who used speech growing up, also became more interested in the Deaf community and learnt American Sign Language (ASL) which is now his primary means of communication.
To find out more about Myles, visit his websites: www.myles.debastion.com, www.cymaspace.org and www.audioluxdevices.com.


Development Horizons by Lawrence Haddad: Is it wrong to cut UK aid to India?
Ha Joon Chang argues that aid should shift away from basic needs (health, education, sanitation etc) towards a productive industrial policy for long term development.
Can that be applied in say the development/aid policy of India?
Even in Delhi and Mumbai, the depths of poverty can be as appalling as anywhere else. Yes, India is still a very poor country, but it is also an increasingly unequal one. Taking away development aid would probably worsen the inequality-- surely not the outcome British lawmakers desire.
On inequality, yes, agree it is rising in India, and yes agree that aid that helps to level the playing field or help the poorest play the game will slow that down (of course not all aid does) But the Indian government does not seem too concerned about inequality, although I think that is changing, if only because they are getting worried about inequality as a drag on growth's ability to reduce poverty.
India still being a member of Commonwealth nations, and Indian being a major contributor to the flow of cultural-material wealth to British empire,it is not just on the part of the UK to shun away its historical, moral and global responsibilities towards the multitude of masses wallowing in deprivation and destitution. What makes it brutal irony is these masses are off-springs of those communities of colonial past who had helped British empire to consolidate its power from Flanders to France and Egypt.


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The Private Pilot Licence (PPL) allows the holder to act as the pilot in-command of certain kinds of aircraft.
Applicants for a Private Pilot Licence must be at least 17 years old and hold a valid JAR-FCL Class 2 Medical Certificate. They must also have specified theoretical training and practical training requirements laid down in JAR-FCL. At present this includes seven written theory examinations which combine the following:
Minimum of 45 hours of flying training, including 10 hours' solo flying
5 hours of flying solo cross-country
A minimum of one solo flight of not fewer than 150 nautical miles with full-stop landings at two or more different aerodromes other than the aerodrome of departure.
A holder of this licence may not fly for remuneration. However, subject to national restrictions by a JAR-FCL PPL holder as well as several other requirements, a JAR-FCL PPL holder may carry passengers who make a pro-rata remunerative contribution toward the direct cost of the aircraft operating costs.
A Flying Instructor rating may be included, subject to requirements under JAR-FCL (Amendment 5) being satisfied within JAR-FCL PPL, provided the applicant has successfully completed a number of additional examinations. A person giving flying training may not be remunerated.


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Violinist.com - Violin Blogs - Margaret Mehl - Monthly Archive
のだめカンタービレ Nodame Cantabile: Comic Beethoven
I've never managed to develop a taste for manga and anime. When a student wants to write an assignment about Japanese "popular culture", I send them to my colleague. When another colleague lent me the first volume of the best-selling manga series NODAME CANTABILE, about the lives and loves of a group of students at a fictional music college in Tokyo, I did make another effort and actually got through it. I gave up a few pages into the sequel, however, even though a Japanese colleague had recommended that I read the lot, 23 volumes, because it would help me understand Japanese images of Western classical music.
But then I discovered that the live action drama was available on Youtube, and was hooked. The music had a lot to do with it, especially Beethoven's 7th, the first symphony I played after joining the Collegium Musicum as a student at Bonn University. The story gripped my too. It is true comedy, meaning that all (or nearly all) the comic effects are intended - and how many comedies do you know that have classical music as their main theme? The live action drama begins with the childhood memories of Chiaki Shin'ichi, 4th-year piano student at Momogaoka Music College, who spent his early years in Europe. In Prague he was befriended by the famous Italian conductor SebastianoViera. Now he dreams of returning to Europe as Viera's student, but unfortunately he is terrified of both airplanes and boats. Many laughs result from poor Chiaki's dilemma.
A brooding, obsessive character, Chiaki supposedly shares traits with Beethoven, his favourite composer. He has nothing but contempt for Momogaoka College of Music and the feeble efforts of his fellow students. After falling out with his regular piano teacher, he is relegated to the teacher for the "losers," who pairs him off to play Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D major (KV 448) with Noda Megumi. Nicknamed Nodame, her genius and childish ways are reminiscent of Mozart (as portrayed in the play by Peter Schaffer and the film by Milos Forman). Thus begins a stormy relationship, in which Nodame love is at first entirely unreciprocated. Chiaki is both exasperated and moved by Nodame's wayward playing, and her messy habits drive him up the wall. Even so, the violence with which he sends her flying and uttering weird noises should be taken with a pinch of salt; it shows the live action drama's indebtedness to its manga origin, as do the animated hears floating around, pastel purple fluid oozing from Nodame's trash bags or mushrooms erupting from her dirty laundry.
Luckily for us violinists, the story includes violinists among the characters, most importantly Miki Kiora and Mine Ryûtarô. They represent two different types. Miki Kiyora, the haughty female concertmaster of the college's elite A-orchestra, seems all set for a career typical of many Japanese violinists in the last few decades; freshly returned from studies in Vienn, she plans to return there after graduation, enter competitions and enjoy a solo career abroad. Her playing is technically flawless. Mine Ryûtarô, on the other hand, seems modelled on the Japanese pop violinist NAOTO http://www.naoto-poper.com/pc/index.php , right down his trademark peroxide-blond hair (NAOTO actually plays the violin for him in the film). Initially he prefers to play rock music on his electric violin and with his band. Like Chiaki, he feels contempt for his fellow-students, but for different reasons; obsessed with classical music and getting the notes right, they ignore the variety of music outside the college and don't seek to express themselves.
Predictably, Mine is converted to the joys of playing classical music through his encounter with Nodame and Chiaki. He has to play Beethoven's "Spring Sonata" for his second attempt to pass the end-of-year exam. In his desperation to find a pianist who is prepared to partner him for the exam, he collars Nodame. There is a wonderful scene in Episode 2 where the two kindred spirits play the sonata in a way guaranteed to make purists climb every wall in the studio. Mine is ecstatic; at last someone who can match his style. "We were even together in the mistakes," murmurs Nodame.
Fortunately for Mine's exam, it has to be said, Nodame is too ill to play on the day, and Chiaki, who increasingly finds himself in the role of her minder, reluctantly substitutes. Actually, Chiaki, an awful know-all, popular with the girls, multilingual, can not only play the piano, give erudite lectures about composers and their music and cook fancy foreign dishes, but is also a whiz-kid on the violin. He has already tried to reign in Mine and Nodame after hearing the two rehearse in Nodames flat, next door to his own. But as in the piano duo with Nodame, Chiaki rises to the challenge of following Mine's flamboyant, but not exactly accurate playing. Thrilled, Mine ditches his electric violin (not for good, one hopes, but for the rest of the drama) in order to embrace classical music.
There is a clip of the exam scene here (English subtitles; not that many are needed, as it's mostly music):
Chiaki's real ambition is to become a conductor, and he gets his lucky break when the world famous conductor Franz von Stresemann appears on the scene. A character combining in him all the worst traits detailed in Norman Lebrecht's "The Maestro Myth", he at first prowls about incognito, taking pictures of students. Those he likes are invited to join the "S-Orchestra" – "all the losers," as a jealous member of the elite orchestra observes, full of disgust. Mine Ryûtarô is the concertmaster and even Nodame is assigned a role, as "mascot". But Streseman soon abandons the orchestra to Chiaki, while he enjoys himself at the hostess club "One More Kiss."
Chiaki has a hard time with the "losers'" orchestra. Among the problems he has to contend with is the tiny double bass player Sakura Saku, who always beetles in late, her enormous instrument on her back. Her playing is behind too. Her father's antique business is doing badly and she has to work to feed herself leaving little time for practice. When she doesn't turn up at all, Chiaki and Mine visit her home and discover that her father hoards a collection of priceless violins in a secret safe. "Listen to the tone", he demands, and proceeds to produces the most appalling screech, because he can't play. Needless to say, this particular storyline has a happy ending; Saku's father finally accepts Saku's love for the double bass and sells the fiddles so she can pursue her calling.
Finally, of course, boundless, enthusiasm, teamwork and love for the music win the day. Mine has the benefit of patronizing advice from Kiora, concertmaster of the A Orchestra. He carries his flair for showmanship over into spectacularly choreographed performances of Beethoven's Symphony no. 7 and Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."
Here "S-Orchestra's version of the Rhapsody:
And here is the Beethoven (Spanish subtitles, but then it's mostly music anyway):
Have a look for yourself! There are 11 hour-long episodes, and then 2 live-action movie sequels, set mostly in Paris. Although Stresemann hails from Germany, the supposed true heartland of classical music, it presumably seemed more in the spirit of a comedy to have Chiaki and Nodame continue their studies in Paris, because of the "dark" and "serious image Germany has for many Japanese. Chiaki and Kiora both enter international competitions.
Here are clips of Chiaki conducting the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (with a doting Nodame in the audience) as his final piece, and Kiora performing Brahms in her final round.
Japanese fans of the drama include musicians who say that the depiction of student life is convincing. Like all good comedies, NODAME CANTABILE addresses serious issues as well. Perhaps the overarching one is how to do justice to the music, and how to reconcile adhering faithfully to composer's intention as represented by the score with individual expression. It has become a stereotype that Japanese musicians (and Asians in general) are fixated on technical perfection at the cost of musicality. Discussion threads on violinist.com show that the question of expressing emotions does not preoccupy only the Japanese, but presents food for thought for all musicians in the Western classical tradition. While the depiction of the tension between the following the score and following one's heart in NODAME CANTABILE might appear cliché-ridden, the experience for many musicians seems real enough. Perhaps enjoying this light-hearted take on the subject might even prove inspiring.
Here are links to Episode 1 (in 4 instalments, English subtitles). The links worked as of 11 June, but locations on Youtube keep changing, because copyright infringements mean that they are regularly removed (for true fans of Japanese TV dramas there are better sites).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZDEDA76-L0&feature=endscreen&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=sd3wkFe8JBE&feature=endscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe8HK4-HFT0&feature=endscreen&NR=1
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How Holy Spirit Sparks Excellence in Your Kingdom Calling
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Allison and Tom Cartwright (inventshine.com)
As a successful businessman, Tom Cartwright is a firm believer in Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV), which says, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
It is a Scripture that has sustained him through his ups and downs in the business world, and it moves him to lean on Holy Spirit when he needs a spark in challenging times. Cartwright says Holy Spirit will jump-start your creativity in whatever your kingdom calling.
"Your faith is definitely tied into God's leading, and he has things preplanned for you," Cartwright, the founder of Invent Shine, told Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. "There are businesses you can go into if you just open your heart, and you're willing to step out and let Him lead you. ...
"Most businesses today have challenging times—it's just part of the landscape. There's always a virus coming along. When that happens, you need to get hold of a specific Scripture—a word from God. You get that word, and then you have something to stand on."
Cartwright's daughter, Allison, who has been managing and developing products for the company for many years, says it's all about your relationship with Jesus.
"It all comes to, in the morning, spending time and making sure you're filled up with Holy Spirit's grace and direction," Allison says. "You and He are both creative. You have to be, because God made you in His image. You can pray, 'Lord, it's not my business, it's Yours. Please lead me today and show me what to do specifically in my business because it's what You've called me to do.'
"You have to trust that you've prayed that prayer in the morning and that God is going to lead you and guide you, that you're going to know what it is you have to do. Trust in God's promises that He's going to work everything together for good, even when you make a mistake."
For more about how Holy Spirit leads you to creativity and success, listen to the entire podcast.
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Popular Coral Coast-based and family oriented property, Fiji Hideaway Resort & Spa, has added a sister location outside of Nadi.
I Do Fiji Holidays' readers may recall our previous story on the property from January last year. Well, the great news is that the resort is now up and running.
About 20 minutes drive north from Nadi International Airport, and after driving along a cane field-lined highway before turning onto a windy secondary road, and just after passing a small marina, you'll find the boutique 4.5-star Fiji Hideaway Resort & Spa Vuda.
Vuda (pronounced Vun-da) has been earmarked by the Fijian Government as a designated future tourism precinct. Established in the area and just down the road is First Landing Beach Resort & Villas, and a littler further away is Anchorage Beach Resort, both of which sit on the coast.
Fiji Hideaway Resort & Spa Vuda (Hideway Vuda) held a soft opening a few months back but is yet to have "officially" launched, Hideaway CEO and Managing Director Chandar Dutt explained to I Do Fiji Holidays. A precise official opening is slated for sometime before late July, but for now, all facilities are fully operational.
Aside from its somewhat isolated location and current size, what sets Hideway Vuda apart from its sister-hotel is the target market. Adults.
The new resort won't take bookings for under 16 year olds. Dutt said his Vuda property is the only resort on the Fiji mainland exclusively adults-only. There are numerous off-shore options – take for example Likuliku and Matamanoa in Fiji's Mamanuca islands – but none as close to Nadi.
"At this time, Vuda is not as popular as places like Denarau and the Coral Coast. It's a new destination. The area is very quiet and Hideaway Vuda suits the environment. Very quiet, peaceful and no disturbances from traffic. It's quite exclusive and will appeal to people looking for a real private and peaceful holiday," Dutt told I Do Fiji Holidays.
Hideway Vuda has just 26 keys – comprised mostly of self-standing villas – making it extremely intimate for guests and capable of providing personalised service. The central building contains a handful of Deluxe and Ocean Deluxe Suites. There are also five two-person duplex Garden Bures, two of which provide interconnecting facilities. Couples should stretch the budget and select one of the four Beachfront Bures, all of which have a private plunge pool.
For couples tying the knot there is also an Honeymoon Beachfront Bure which sits adjacent to the wedding chapel – Fiji's newest. Dutt admits the new hotel is only entering the wedding market, but believes the unique product will entice newlyweds.
"The chapel is right on the beach. Normally a structure such as this needs to be set back at least 14 metres from the shore line, but we've received approval to be almost perched on it," Dutt said. It can accommodate up to 50 people sitting or up to 100 standing. A deck stretching off the chapel can also be used as a wedding ceremony venue, or couples can exchange vows on Hideaway Vuda's white sand beach.
A mock-up setting for a beachfront wedding with the chapel behind.
Adjoining the chapel is a Function Room which enables couples to hold their wedding reception privately to the rest of the resort. The resort's beachfront lawn, the restaurant, or the Chapel's deck can also be selected as reception venues, ranging from 40 to 50 guests.
If a couples' guests' occupy up to 70% of rooms it can be bought out for exclusive use, based on a minimum of three nights and maximum of seven nights. A buy-out would also allow children under the age of 16 to stay, but under strict guidelines. I Do Fiji Holidays' couples will also be privy to special value-add inclusions – contact us for more information.
A deck extends off the chapel to the waterfront and can be used as a setting for intimate weddings.
Onsite guests will find a central pool with swim-up bar, a restaurant with a cocktail bar and a day-spa. Beachfront BBQs and parties are also organised regularly to offer additional dining options. "A lot of dining options can be arranged onsite," Dutt said.
The setting for a beach-front wedding at Hideaway Vuda.
From the resort's beach club, guests can kayak, dive and snorkel in the calm waters of the bay on which Hideaway Vuda sits.
Nightly performances during dinner by Hideaway's in-house staff keep guests entertained as they dine.
Dutt says the advantage of staying on the mainland is the resort and transport cost-savings. "Travelling by launch and floatplane to the islands is quite expensive and often requires an overnight stay in Nadi or Denarau for visitors flying in from abroad due to timings, not to mention the cost of accommodation. Those costs are eliminated by staying on the mainland," he explained.
The five-year masterplan for Hideaway Vuda will see up to another 80 keys (rooms) added. Expansion work is flagged to commence as early as next year. With growth, additional dining venues will also be introduced.
Dutt said the company was expected to introduce multi-destination accommodation packages, combining stays at Vuda with the Coral Coast to offer guests more variety. Additionally, layover accommodation at Vuda for Hidewaway Coral Coast guests on late flights into or early departures out of Nadi are in the pipeline.


I am lucky enough to be a part of this amazing bookblast for Kings & Queens by Courtney Vail hosted by Kathy from I Am a Reader, Not a Writer. The purpose of the bookblast is to get the word out about the book, and give you all an opportunity to win an amazing prize: $100 Amazon Gift Card!!!
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Many of us may be fascinated by merely looking at the night sky and wondering about the distant stars that shine like jewels. An amateur astronomer is anyone who enjoys watching the moon or the stars. No matter what we know about astronomy now, there would always be an ocean of knowledge left to be learnt. This is a never ending field of knowledge. An amateur astronomer need not have tall objectives like discovering a new comet or taking part in a space journey. It is enough if we have a love for skies and would happily spend hours looking at the night sky for the sheer joy of the wonders that lie above.
We actually do not need a great deal of equipment to start with. Even under light polluted skies, one can still be able to find most of the popular constellations and visible planets. Constellations are group of stars classified by early astronomers purely for ease of navigation of the night sky. They saw shapes like a hunter or a scorpion in those patterns and named the constellations accordingly.
Orion is one of the most famous constellations to start with. Then we have big dipper, pegasus and andromeda constellations that are fairly easy for beginners to catch. One can do a net search to know the shape of these constellations and then take tips on how to identify them.
One should also understand star maps for which an understanding of equilateral coordinates system is important. This system is fairly simple conceptually. There is plenty of information available on the net and one should take the effort to understand the system. If you do not have the patience to understand this, you can still still enjoy watching the night sky your own way. But it could be a bit difficult to understand the position of stars and constellations without this knowledge.
Planets are easy targets as the visible planets are brighter than most other stars. Planets do not twinkle as much as the stars do and they are an ideal starting point to expand our knowledge of night sky. Then, who can forget our special Moon that goes through various phases?
To start with, one can start enjoying the night sky wonders with just the pair of eyes that we have. We can spot the planets like Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn fairly easily with just our eyes, if you know where to look. Mercury is a bit tricky as it always stay closer to Sun but we can spot it too with luck.
Binoculars and telescopes could make our night sky watching experience richer. Do you want to know which one is better? Actually, telescopes are better for looking at our Moon and planets. Telescopes have larger magnifications and we can spot the moon's craters or Jupiter's moons through the telescopes. Binoculars have smaller magnifications but they gather a large amount of light. What does this mean? Binoculars can help us spot very dim objects not visible to naked eye. So binoculars are ideal for spotting deep sky objects like comets, nebula and galaxies.
So if you love to watch moon, planets etc., you should go for a telescope. If you love to watch diffuse objects like a comet, galaxy or a nebula, you should go for a binocular. If you need to view both, you need both telescope and binocular.
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Happy New Year to you all. We sincerely hope you had a wonderful time spending your Holidays with family and friends.
For the new year, we wish you the very best; a year in excellent health and success with sticking to your resolutions.
Our new year comes with a few challenges, but definitely with some great opportunities too.
Let me first of all thank you for your loyal patronage last year and for helping us through the tough months of the discouraging and messy road construction. We experienced hard times keeping our business afloat. That is history now and we are looking forward to the new year ahead.
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If you remember this post, I was debating the whole buy vs. build decision for a potting bench/outdoor buffet. A build would have been really ideal because of the awkward space and the way I wanted to incorporate a hidden cooler but the reality of life stepped in and convinced me to go with a more affordable and much less time consuming buy option.
I feel like I compared every ready made potting bench on the market and narrowed it down to these three: modern style teak with a steel top, a cheaper version with cabinet + drawer or this simple mid priced all cedar unit. Ultimately I went with option 3 thinking it would last the longest outside and be most versatile.
Now I have it, I don't know how I did without it. It's a great little workspace and makes that spot under the stairs so much more functional than the pile o' junk storage I was using it for before this arrived. Of course I can't just leave well enough alone so I whipped up a quick farmer's market inspired sign with some scrap wood I had laying around to fill some of the dead space to make it a little more personal. Right now it's doing its intended duty as potting bench but I can't wait to have our next outdoor BBQ so we can use it as a bar/buffet.
I thought about painting it or cutting a hole out to make room for a large bucket to serve as a drink cooler as well as a few other upgrades but I think I'm going to leave it just as it is right now. Maybe its the heat of summer or the general malaise of the 9th month of pregnancy but I'm feel the need to simplify lately and not put quite so much pressure on myself for everything to be just so. It's definitely a struggle for this control freak but I'm trying. Anyone with me?
Love it! We have a baker's rack in our courtyard that we converted to a potting bench/bar. All it took was some spray paint and a slab of granite to upgrade it from its original use. You will get lots of mileage out of your new purchase. Good luck with your final weeks of pregnancy. Remember to rest.
Looks great! And in your ninth month of pregnancy, you get a pass! You can make it just so for next summer!


Not only is driving a mobile phone prohibited while driving, but it can also cause dangerous situations in traffic and even lead to accidents! Chris makes the streets safer and everyone gets something out of it!
Chris is the first speech assistant for Android smartphones and has been specially developed for car drivers. The smart device can be retrofitted in any car, connects to the Android smartphone via Bluetooth and transforms the vehicle into a connected car. This allows you to send and receive WhatsApp and SMS safely and conveniently with voice commands while driving. At the same time, Chris is a fully-fledged hands-free car kit, offers voice-controlled navigation with detailed turn-by-turn instructions and wirelessly plays music from a mobile phone. Everything controlled by voice and with simple gestures.
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The Moore Law Firm is pleased to announce that Brian R. Moore, family law and divorce attorney, has been honored for 2015 as one of the "Top 40 under 40" lawyers in Virginia by The American Society of Legal Advocates. Brian is asking that no one tell them that he is turning 41 in 2015.
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Celebrate a March birthday with this Signature Heart Openwork silver charm with aqua crystal accent.This item is a single charm only. Bracelets sold seperately. Styling images may show this charm on a bracelet as styling inspiration.
March Signature Heart Birthstone Charm is rated 3.0 out of 5 by 32.
Rated 3 out of 5 by Angelian from Beautiful but not Aqua blue. My mother in law bought this for a Christmas gift! It's gorgeous but the stone is not Aqua Blue at all. Looks clear! She checked with the store as well and all the March stones were the same way.
Rated 3 out of 5 by ShannonSpiffy from Very light blue My boyfriend gave me this charm for Valentine's Day and the charm itself is beautiful, but I agree with everyone else that the stone is very light in color. Looking at it on an angle, you can tell it's aquamarine, but straight on, it looks clear. I still love the charm , I just wish the color was more accurate. On the plus side, I think that charm is a nice size and I love the filigree design!
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Rated 1 out of 5 by Beachmom22 from Looks Good But.... I just got this in the mail 3 days ago, it's suppose to be Aqua Blue crystal but it's just looks clear no shade of aqua blue at all.


Sophocles' play Antigone tells the story of a young woman who defies the laws of the state in order to do what she believes is right. The issues considered in the play remain as important now as they were almost two and a half millennia ago. Should one follow one's conscience or obey the law? Does justice transcend the law? How does one determine what is right?
one of the most sublime and in every respect most excellent works of art of all time. Everything in this tragedy is logical; the public law of the state is set in conflict over against inner family love and duty to a brother; the woman, Antigone, has the family interest as her 'pathos', Creon, the man, has the welfare of the community as his. (Hegel, 1975, p 464).
The word pathos most commonly means the quality of something that evokes pity. However, Hegel uses the word to denote "an inherently justified power over the heart, an essential content of rationality and freedom of will" (p 232). Pathos is the emotional commitment that defines a person – his or her driving passion. Sophocles' play presents the conflict of these passions.


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Be popular. Don't miss out on the party. Figure out what's cool before it's, well – not anymore. Social media today has the familiar symptoms of a high school classroom; but now, instead of obsessing over what our classmates think, it's become our followers. From business professionals to cultural commentators and stand-up comedians, we all have a common goal of getting noticed and staying relevant. While our approach to social media went through its own learning curve, the window for experimentation is closing. Networks and channels are more aligned with real world ecosystems, but it's the same high school dynamics and politics ruling the landscape. To thrive in the current social space, let's reacquaint ourselves with the unwritten laws and social codes from high school. Our knowledge and individual experiences from the past can help us become more effective publishers today. Together, once we go back to school, our desired actions in social can become tangible results.
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Examination Management System Software is playing the vital role in making the process simple and perfect. Examination is an important academic activity, which helps in evaluating and assessing the students' ability and their performance. It is not simple to manage, as it involves many elements to be taken into consideration right from framing an appropriate exam timetable to create progress reports. It further includes processes like creating question paper, marks entry, final result display of the students and much more. However, with the Examination Management System Software, everything is now made easy and simple. This software makes everything paperless.
Exam Scheduling: This software will help to create workable exam schedules for all the classes on weekly, monthly and even yearly basis. This helps the students to get prepared for their examination in advance.
Plan Easily: It helps to set exam venue, make seating plans and other plans feasible. It makes everything easier to handle and plan.
Grading and Result Management: This examination management software will further help in managing the results with grading systems, which is commonly used by schools and other educational institutions.
Analysis: This software makes online results and reports available to everyone. It also provides a detailed analysis to the teachers and parents to easily assess the students' performance. These reports will also come in a pattern to easily print.
Automation: This software makes everything related to examination automated. It eliminates the challenges involved in the traditional examination process. It helps make any changes related in the examination process easier and successfully implement any new changes.
Increased efficiency: There is no doubt that this software increases the efficiency of the management, by simplifying the evaluation process. The chances of errors majorly reduced with the help of this examination management software.
Cost saving: This is an other important factor to consider in using this software. This software can effectively reduce the overall costs involved in an examination process, while enable the institutions to perform much in a better way.


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Ole Miss English professor publishes collection of memoirs
byNatalie Seales
Beth Ann Fennelly, Mississippi's poet laureate and professor of English at the university, is celebrating the publication of her new book, "Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs," on Tuesday at Off Square Books.
Fennelly said she did not set out to write an epic tell-all. Rather, she was more interested in "little, tiny stories." The shortest story is just one sentence, and the longest is only a couple pages.
"My goal was to find little tiny moments in my life that, when the surrounding noise is cleared out and you just focus on the one moment, seem to reveal something that elucidates," Fennelly said. "Something that surprises, that is quirky or funny or helps me make sense of what it means to be a human on earth walking around with a weird brain with other people walking around with weird brains."
This is Fennelly's sixth book, and it rounds her catalog into three works of poetry and three of prose.
"I wanted to take the extreme compression and abbreviation of poetry," Fennelly said. "I wanted to have the narrative drive of fiction, and I wanted to have the truth-telling of creative non-fiction."
Because of Fennelly's unique approach, "Heating and Cooling" is not the typical memoir. She focused more on the idea of smaller memories and moments she feels reveal the most about people.
"The moment something terrible happened to you or the moment you met your boyfriend — they have clear emotional weight, but we all remember things that we don't know why we remember them," Fennelly said. "It's kind of curious to pause and think about why that might be. I was interested in memory and interested in the ways a person constructs their identity from the little things that make up their life."
English professor Ann Fisher-Wirth, who was an early reader of Fennelly's work, said the tiny narratives resonate beyond nostalgia.
"It's like really delicious little hors d'oeuvres at parties," Fisher-Wirth said. "You eat one, and you just can't believe how delicious it is, and it's only just a bite. And then you kind of have the aftertaste, and it just kind of ripples out from that experience of biting into it."
Poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown, who completed her MFA at Ole Miss last year, has been an outspoken champion of this project.
"Watching, over many drafts, and many meals—and cups of coffee, and glasses of wine—as this collection came into being has been one of the great privileges of my reading and writing life," Brown wrote on Facebook. "The book is innovative, funny, smart, tender, and a little bit raucous, all the extraordinary things Beth Ann herself is."
Fennelly said it isn't just one emotion she wants people to feel but rather the broad range of emotions that come with the human experience.
"A couple people have commented … 'I started to just read one or two, but I read the whole thing,' and I think that's such an awesome compliment," Fennelly said. "That's really what I wanted. … I wanted the book to be fun. I think the cover is fun, and I think the design is fun, and I hope the experience of reading it is fun."
As for her next project, Fennelly said she doesn't know where her writing will take her.
"I think sometimes the next book that you want to write is not necessarily the next book you write," Fennelly said. "When writing is going best, it's because it's coming from a place where you're not controlling it."
Fennelly will sign copies of "Heating and Cooling" at 5 p.m. Off Square Books and will read from the memoirs at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.


The Mainstay Awards will be updated in 2017. The format and timing of the awards program is being reconsidered, as we look at the safety year as a whole and enter the final year of the Workplace Safety Strategy. Entry deadlines and entry requirements will be updated here as they become available. Check this space often for updates.


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Q: How to verify a restored SVN repository? I've restored another SVN server's repository onto a new SVN server. How shall I verify the restored repository? Is the following enough?

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*Run svnadmin verify on the repository

*Check out some major project.

*Modify and Commit.

Is there anything else I need to test?

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*Run svnadmin verify to check the repository for corruptions,

*Make sure the repository hooks are working on the new server.

It also makes sense to svn checkout the repository and do a commit, but if svnadmin verify told you that the repository is consistent (i.e. no errors found) then the repository should be healthy.


This competition is Round 7 of the Presidents Cup and is open to all comers. There is no entry qualification level and first-time competitors are welcome.
(2) Go to "Shop" on website of Weightlifting Tasmania and complete online payment of entry fee. Select "President's Cup Rnd 7 - 03 NOV 2018" from the list of competitions.
The competition entry fee is $30 for members and $45 for non-members of Weightlifting Tasmania.
The event timetable after entries are finalised will be posted on this page, and on the website of the Weightlifting Academy of Tasmania. However, prospective competitors should be aware that the first session of the competition will start at 9:30am and the last session will take place in the afternoon.
Requests for pre-competition advice or questions about Weightlifting competitions should be forwarded to Leo Isaac at contact details above.