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Q: Stack Pointer Register value for undefined stack (Assembly) When a stack is not defined in an Assembly program, what does the Stack Pointer register SP point to (what value does it contain)?
Our (badly printed) school book says the following: "The SP register contains the adress of the last byte of the pile IF it is definied, if not, then the value 0, this means the last byte of the segment (2^16), knowing that the operation on the SP register is to decrement by 2, this gives us -2 = 0FFFE in Hexadecimal which is taken as the adress (non signed value)"
However, I think the paragraph is supposed to say "The SP register contains the adress of the last byte of the pile IF it is definied, if not, then the value 0, knowing that the operation on the SP register is to decrement by 2, this gives us -2=0FFFE in Hexadecimal which is taken as the adress (non signed value), this means the last byte of the segment (2^16)"
I have some questions about this and the SP in general:

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*Why did they decrement SP, why not just leave it at 0?

*Why did they decrement by exactly 2?

*Shouldn't the last byte of the segment be 0FFFF not 0FFFE?


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Nicolaes Lauwers (Anvers, 1600-1652) est un graveur flamand.

Il est le père du graveur Conrad Lauwers.

Biographie
Nicolaes Lauwers est né à Anvers en 1600, fils de Jacques et Marguerite Huysraet.

Il devient membre de la guilde de Saint-Luc de sa ville natale en 1619 et ouvre peu après un atelier de gravure appelé  sur le rempart des Lombards (Lombardenvest).

Lauwers se marie le  avec Maria Vermeulen.

Il devient diacre de la guilde en 1635. Il y a comme élèves son fils Conrad, Nicolas Pitau et .

Nicolaes Lauwers meurt en  et est enterré le .

Œuvre

Il est connu pour ses gravures d'après Pierre Paul Rubens et Gerard Seghers, entre autres. Il représente principalement des sujets religieux et des scènes de genre en rapport avec la paysannerie.

Gravures réputées :
 Jupiter et Mercure avec Philémon et Baucis, d'après Jacob Jordaens
 Le Triomphe du Saint Sacrement, d'après Rubens
 L'Adoration des roi mages, d'après Rubens
 Jésus Christ devant Pilate, d'après Rubens
 La Descente de Croix, d'après Rubens
 Le Concert de Sainte Cécile, d'après Gerard Seghers

Il fait partie des graveurs engagés par Antoine van Dyck pour graver ses dessins pour son album Icones Principum Virorum.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
  Hollstein, vol. 10 (1953), .
  Cornelis de Bie, Het Gulden Cabinet, 1662, .
  Thieme-Becker, 1928, .
  B. Linnig, La Gravure en Belgique ou Notices biographiques sur les graveurs anversois, bruxellois et autres, depuis les origines de la gravure jusqu'à la fin du  siècle, Anvers, Janssens Frères, 1911, .

Liens externes

  Nicolaes Lauwers sur Artnet.

Naissance en 1600
Naissance à Anvers
Décès en octobre 1652
Décès à Anvers
Graveur flamand (avant 1830)
Graveur belge du XVIIe siècle
Membre de la guilde de Saint-Luc d'Anvers

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NO FAST FOOD…is a trio of equals. 'Settings For Three' is the third release by the band, following the superb two-disc set 'In Concert.' This studio date finds the trio diving into eight Haynes compositions. Liebman rides above the formidable rhythm team of bassist Drew Gress and Haynes. They've been playing together for over 30 years but the music is anything but predictable…an excellent demonstration of improvisational elasticity.


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Q: Python 3.10 is the default PyCharm update for pyspark/spark 3.0.0.preview - are these two compatible? There is documentation that indicates Python 3.9 is the last version compatible with Spark 3.0.0.preview.   For someone new at setting up compatibility on Windows using Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Python, and PyCharm, the number of possibilities for compatibility is daunting and while browsing through the first few, given the course suggestions, it is trying to find python and spark compatibility.  The version of interpreter used for the Anaconda3 is 3.8.8.
In the image below, it would appear from the school of hard knocks, the compatibility may not exist.  The downloads are not indicative of versioning for Python.   The Scala with the course is 2.11.  The latest release also indicates 2.12 is needed for Scala (same link).  Somewhere within all these choices (Using Windows 10), there is a solution but it is elusive.  Hadoop version seems to be an issue as well.  (Hadoop 2.7)
Other compatibility issues occur prior to setting Edit Configurations for each project and include missing files or access errors (this is a company machine - privileged management - but not full admin rights)
From the thread dump, there appears to be a log of information but being new again, it is difficult to sort through all the debug information.  Possibly the JDK is wrong? but it is the one suggested to use with JRE1.8.0_201.   I saw some issues as well about the possible space in "Program Files" being problematic with the JAVA_HOME path.  Java did not seem happy when during one of the trial setups, it was installed to a different directory.
    Anaconda3>pycharm
    CompileCommand: exclude com/intellij/openapi/vfs/impl/FilePartNodeRoot.trieDescend bool exclude = true
    2022-11-04 08:40:31,040 [   1132]   WARN - #c.i.o.f.i.FileTypeManagerImpl -
    com.adacore.adaintellij.file.AdaSpecFileType@4f671e00 from 'PluginDescriptor(name=Ada, id=com.adacore.Ada-IntelliJ, descriptorPath=plugin.xml, path=~\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\PyCharmCE2022.2\plugins\Ada-IntelliJ, version=0.6-dev, package=null, isBundled=false)' (class com.adacore.adaintellij.file.AdaSpecFileType) and
    com.adacore.adaintellij.file.AdaBodyFileType@22a64016 from 'PluginDescriptor(name=Ada, id=com.adacore.Ada-IntelliJ, descriptorPath=plugin.xml, path=~\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\PyCharmCE2022.2\plugins\Ada-IntelliJ, version=0.6-dev, package=null, isBundled=false)' (class com.adacore.adaintellij.file.AdaBodyFileType)
     both have the same .getDisplayName(): 'Ada'. Please override either one's getDisplayName() to something unique.
    com.intellij.diagnostic.PluginException:
    com.adacore.adaintellij.file.AdaSpecFileType@4f671e00 from 'PluginDescriptor(name=Ada, id=com.adacore.Ada-IntelliJ, descriptorPath=plugin.xml, path=~\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\PyCharmCE2022.2\plugins\Ada-IntelliJ, version=0.6-dev, package=null, isBundled=false)' (class com.adacore.adaintellij.file.AdaSpecFileType) and
    com.adacore.adaintellij.file.AdaBodyFileType@22a64016 from 'PluginDescriptor(name=Ada, id=com.adacore.Ada-IntelliJ, descriptorPath=plugin.xml, path=~\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\PyCharmCE2022.2\plugins\Ada-IntelliJ, version=0.6-dev, package=null, isBundled=false)' (class com.adacore.adaintellij.file.AdaBodyFileType)
     both have the same .getDisplayName(): 'Ada'. Please override either one's getDisplayName() to something unique.
2022-11-04 08:40:45,822 [  15914] SEVERE - #c.i.u.m.i.MessageBusImpl - PyCharm 2022.2.3  Build #PC-222.4345.23
2022-11-04 08:40:45,825 [  15917] SEVERE - #c.i.u.m.i.MessageBusImpl - JDK: 17.0.4.1; VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM; Vendor: JetBrains s.r.o.
2022-11-04 08:40:45,826 [  15918] SEVERE - #c.i.u.m.i.MessageBusImpl - OS: Windows 10

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A: First, don't use preview releases. It's been over 2 years since Spark 3 was released; use at least the latest minor release.
That being said, Spark 3 mostly is meant to be used with Hadoop 3. All should work fine on Windows, using Java 11 (your logs say 17)
You can use Scala 2.12 or 2.13 for Spark.
Pyspark support should be fine on Python 3.9. Don't use Anaconda if you don't need it. Download Python directly. pip install pyspark. That's it. You don't even need Hadoop to run Spark code.
And unclear why you're trying to run Pycharm from the terminal. Start with spark-shell, then if that works, then you can run pyspark. Then you can use spark-submit. Only once those work, should you realistically move towards an IDE.
Alternatively, don't pollute your host machine with a bunch of software, install Docker instead, and use that to run Jupyter with Spark pre-configured - https://jupyter-docker-stacks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using/running.html

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A Retreat with Teilhard de Chardin
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A Retreat with Thomas Merton
Thérèse of Lisieux: Wisdom's Daughter
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The Christian Contemplative Tradition
Other Programs by This Professor
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The Theology of Christ
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Serenity and Contemplation: A Christian Guide to Meditation
Teilhard de Chardin's Cosmic Christology and Christian Cosmology
The Spirit of Life: A Catholic Retreat with the Holy Spirit
St. Thomas Aquinas: Master Theologian and Spiritual Guide
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Trained as a geologist and ordained as a Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was one of the most profound spiritual writers of the 20th century. Explore his towering mysticism in this one-of-a-kind retreat experience.
Born in 1881, the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin led a fascinating and eclectic life. One of 11 children, he was a paleontologist who, along with Charles Dawson, was involved with the discoveries of the "Piltdown Man," and later the Peking Man. In World War I, he served as a stretcher-bearer. But this series focuses on another facet of his identity: Teilhard the mystic, whose cosmic vision continues to enthrall people around the world.
Much of Teilhard's life work was wrapped up in reconciling his academic training with his Catholic faith, and with creation theology in particular. It takes a special kind of tutor to parse such complicated philosophy and science—not to mention translate it into layman's terms—and Fr. Donald Goergen is just the man for the job. Not only did he write his dissertation on Teilhard, but he has gone on to publish ten books on Christian spirituality and Christology. As you will see, Fr. Goergen is as gifted an instructor as he is an accomplished author. He deftly balances the universal with the personal.
At six 25-minute conferences, this retreat series might be small but it packs a punch. It will fit conveniently into your routine, and, more importantly, it will capture your spiritual imagination. Embrace Teilhard's vision of the world as your own.
This program was originally part of Fr. Goergen's A Retreat with Four Spiritual Masters.
Your Free Electronic Study Guide! When you order this course, we will send you a free electronic study guide that you can access in 3 convenient ways:
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A World-Affirming Spirituality
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Donald Goergen, O.P., Ph.D., is a Dominican priest, teacher, lecturer, and author. He has published many articles and ten books in the areas of Christology and Christian Spirituality. His most recent book was Fire of Love: Encountering the Holy Spirit. He has taught, lectured and given retreats in Asia, Africa, and throughout North America. He was previously Provincial for the Dominican Friars of the Central Province as well as President of the Dominican Leadership Conference.
He co-founded the Dominican Ashram, a contemplative Dominican community and ministry of prayer, in which he lived for nine years. He previously taught and currently teaches at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, MO, where he is also prior of the formation community. His doctorate is in systematic theology, his dissertation on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and his current interests include contemplative traditions, East and West, the evolution of consciousness, and the thought of Thomas Aquinas as a spiritual master. Among other honors awarded him, he is the recipient of the 2010 Yves Congar Award from Barry University in Miami.
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"The finest professor with whom I have had the privilege to study, Don's style is at once captivating and endearing."
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"Fr. Goergen is a contemplative person, very much in tune with contemporary spirituality. He has carried many administrative responsibilities with steady competence. He possesses the Midwestern virtues of hard work and sober judgment, along with a ready humor."
– Benedict T. Viviano, O.P., biblical scholar
"Few have Fr. Don Goergen's understanding of the elusive depths of Dominican spirituality. His living of our Dominican life shines through his body of published work on the Holy Spirit as well as his down to earth recorded lectures and retreats on Chardin and our own Eckhart."
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"Father Don Goergen, O.P., is a master of the spiritual life. He has not only studied Christian spirituality for many years but has put into practice in his adult life all of those key elements which enable one to grow in holiness…. Let Don show you with the way with his wisdom and insights."
– Father Harry Byrne, O.P., Professor Emeritus, Aquinas Institute of Theology
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"Don Goergen has spent his life meditating on the meaning of Jesus and his mission… His work, whether spoken or written, is always holistic: intellectually satisfying, strengthening the heart, socially and pastorally sensitive."
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Spoke about it - a parishioner borrowed CD, and was entranced Review by (Fr) Clem Cafarella Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Posted on 7/28/2017)
Spring Survey: April 2017
I believe Teilhard to be the most brilliant and original thinker of the modern era, this was an excellent easy to understand presentation of his ideas which are complex and hard to grasp for many. Great CD Review by Barbara Sabonis-Chafee East Windsor, CT (Posted on 4/9/2017)
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A Retreat with Teilhard de Chardin was my first exposure to Chardin. This presentation was delivered in an understanding manner. I have played it over and over and look forward to ordering more CDs on Chardin. Review by Marcia (Posted on 10/19/2016)
I've listened to this course several times. The first time I listened to it was on a 450 mile road trip across Wisconsin and Iowa. It seemed like I got there in no time! Review by Sister Irene Zimmerman, Milwaukee, WI, USA (Posted on 4/13/2015)
Concise and clearly understandable exposition of the thought and spirituality of a prophetic genius. Review by Walter Helms, Tiffin, IA (Posted on 4/13/2015)

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Eric Ghost is well named as he is indeed a mystery man. A contemporary (and best friend) of 1960's Funky Jazzman Jeremy Steig his self published Private Press albums are much coveted and difficult to obtain and command high prices. This Psychedelic Jazz masterpiece was recorded in 1975 and features Dave Valentin bassist Lincoln Goines in his studio debut as well as Jim McGilveray who went on to record with Paul Horn and The Cult. If you're a fan of The Blues Project "Flute Thing", Paul Horn's more esoteric offerings or indeed the aforementioned Jeremy Steig then this album is for you. The music is intense and demands your attention, it's both Funky and Spiritual from the first note of "Orangeland" to the last notes of the Eastern influenced "Bizarre Bazaar". Eric was involved with the Counter Culture from his time in Morocco in the early 1960's (while serving in the US Army, kind of like a Hip Elvis) until shortly after this album was recorded when under his real name, Richard Barth Sanders he was convicted of LSD Manufacture (he invented the blotting paper method of LSD distribution so could be entitled to say he was the world's first Acid Jazzer) and sentenced to 7 years in a Federal Prison. The album is re-issued with the original cover artwork with the correct track order for the first time. SECRET SAUCE by ERIC GHOST
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More than a provincial daughter: ROSAMUND DASHWOOD (1924-2007) (and a teaser about E. M. Delafield)
I'm very excited about this post, but also rather embarrassed to be writing it after such an inexcusable delay. I mean, I am known to be slow at following through on my bloggerly intentions, but honestly, this is a new low (or more accurately a new long).
My initial intention to dedicate a post to Rosamund Dashwood came about shortly after my post on her mother E. M. Delafield's First Love (aka What Is Love?), which was more than a year ago now. That post led fortuitously to a comment on the post and then an email from Judy Truelove, who turned out to be E. M. Delafield's granddaughter-in-law. Judy is currently at work on a biographical book about Delafield which is likely to excite her many loyal fans. Here's how Judy described her project to me:
My book's focus is a collection of letters written by EMD to her husband while on tour in Russia in 1936. She was there to write I Visit the Soviets. I use a frame story about a trip to the UK that I made with my daughter to learn about EMD and her family. Interspersed are many excerpts from Roz's unpublished memoirs. Together, EMD's personal letters and Roz's memoirs provide a window into the life and character of EMD, a woman so far known only through her fiction.
A completely enticing description, isn't it? Unpublished letters, unpublished memoirs, a more personal glimpse of a much-loved author—what could be better? Judy is hoping to have a draft of her book completed by the end of this year, so let's all send inspirational literary vibes her way…
Of course, the "Roz" from Judy's description is Rosamund Dashwood. Now, from the perspective of a blogger specializing in lesser-known authors and enjoying the quest for information about them, Delafield—unquestionably one of the great authors of the feminine middlebrow and possibly the most beloved of all of them—is old hat. Her daughter, however, whom most of you know published a single novel, an homage to her mother's beloved Provincial Lady series called Provincial Daughter (1961, published as "R. M. Dashwood"), has remained a bit more of an enigma.
Rosamund Dashwood, taken at the same time as
her Provincial Daughter author photo, circa 1961.
Photo courtesy of Judy and Patrick Truelove.
Like many readers, I came across Provincial Daughter while in the distraught state of withdrawal and anguish which typically follows the realization that one has finished the fourth and last of the wonderful Provincial Lady novels. I first read it a few years ago and found it a delightful updating of provincial lady-ish concerns and hilarity from the 1930s and early 1940s sensibility of the original novels to the early 1960s sensibility of Dashwood's novel. I then more recently used preparation for this post as an excuse to read the novel again.
No homage is likely to be quite as brilliant and hilarious as the originals to which homage is paid. But then, Dashwood herself would likely not have expected such a thing. Her original introduction to the book made this charmingly modest disclaimer:
It seemed natural to write it in the same idiom, but if the result seems to any reader too imitative, or even plagiaristic, I can only ask their forgiveness, as the original Provincial Lady would, I am sure, most warmly have given hers.
On the other hand, however, Provincial Daughter is hard enough to resist on its own terms. From the opening lines, I felt I had a treat in store:
Am disconcerted, at breakfast, to receive letter from old school friend saying What am I doing with My Brain these days, and isn't it a Pity to Let It All Go? Know what she means but am very angry nevertheless, and lose myself thinking out some really telling replies. Am recalled by Toby asking thoughtfully How Do You Make Soggy Paper? and by Ben flinging toast in all directions from his high chair. Two older children applaud this warmly, and James says, in tones of utmost besottedness, that Ben's Manners are Atrociable. Lift Ben down and send all three children away and give Lee a second cup of tea (why can't men help themselves?).
It was, in fact, difficult to choose only a couple of quotes to share with you, there were so many possibilities. There is, for instance, a marvelous set-piece about a young woman from the nearby horticultural college touring the provincial daughter's garden and offering advice:
Grand tour of garden ensues. Young Woman, says her name is Miss Englefield, is kind about everything and says we ought to be able to make something out of it. Fear Capability Brown touch emerging and say All I want is to be told names of flowers and what to do about them, and produce piece of paper and pencil in what I hope is business-like way. Miss E then tells me a great many names, most of which I cannot spell, and adds sometimes You ought to Prune this, and sometimes I shouldn't Touch That. Get notes very muddled. Ask What about this, and indicate rather pretty little creeping flower that I think looks well. Miss E says Oh that stuff, it is a nuisance isn't it, terrible to get rid of, and I try to pretend I knew it was a weed all along. (Am well aware that Hermione is not deceived by this.) Miss E then comes to a sudden halt rather like a pointer dog and gasps in astonished admiration in front of meagre little bush that I have never even noticed before, and says Surely not a Carborundum Mysterioso (or something), crawls excitedly round it like Sherlock Holmes looking for clues, and finally admits that it is a Carborundum Mysterioso and we obviously go up by leaps and bounds in her estimation.
But my favorite passage must be one which deliciously skewers my fellow Americans, but in such a vivid and believable way that I couldn't possibly be offended (I've met more than a few such Americans myself—of both sexes, I should add). This is only part of the wonderful scene:
Charming American, recently met at cocktail party, rings up to say Its very short notice but she is giving small birthday party for Junior who is Ben's age and would Ben care to come along? Make rapid mental plans to send James and Toby to Susan on return from school, and accept. J and T are offended at not being included but agree to go and watch Television at Susan's and Ben and I set out. Quite incredible scene of confusion greets us at birthday party. Charming American is exactly like something out of Gone With the Wind, beautifully dressed and made-up but clasping a shrieking baby and in despair because she Seems to be Kinda Disorganised. Nothing is ready for the party. Charming American, name is Maybelle, says she has Sent Cliff round to the store for a Few Things but she can't think what's keeping him. "Few Things" apparently include all food for the party except what she refers to as Candy and Cookies, which she proceeds to ask me very nicely to arrange on the table for her. By this time am already holding the still-shrieking baby but do my best. Another mother is called into service to blow up balloons. Maybelle says again that she can't think what's keeping Cliff, and spills a bottle of orange squash all over the floor. Another mother mops it up.
I was laughing out loud all over again just queueing up that quote. I'm sure there must be ineffectual young British women (and men) as well, but to my mind there's just nothing like an ineffectual young American helplessly putting everyone around her to work. I'm afraid, as well, that it sounds a bit like a party or two I've given…
But this is not just an admiring review of Dashwood's one and only novel (or a bemoaning of the fact that she only wrote one, though I could certainly bemoan that).
Rosamund Dashwood in 1966.
One of the first things I mentioned in my initial email exchange with Judy—who is married to Patrick Truelove, the third of Dashwood's four sons—was that I very much wished for a better photo of her. When Virago reprinted Provincial Daughter in 2002, they used a tiny photo of Dashwood, looking eminently likeable but distinctly blurry, presumably taken around the time that her novel first appeared in 1961. And that's the only image I've ever been able to track down online. I asked Judy if she and Patrick might have another photo they would be willing to share and would allow me to use on this blog.
They certainly came through for me, with not just one photo, but five, spanning nearly a quarter of a century of Dashwood's life, from the days just before Provincial Daughter appeared to an adorable family photo of her with three of her grandchildren in 1983. Judy and Patrick very kindly granted me permission to use all the pictures here (see above and below), and I'm thrilled to be able to share them with you so that this talented and interesting woman isn't represented only with a tiny, grainy, black-and-white photo!
Rosamund Dashwood in Vancouver, 1979.
In addition, Patrick and Judy came through with a hilarious, provincial lady/daughter-ish anecdote about Rosamund that only makes her seem more charming and likeable.
In Judy's words:
Once in a crowded tube station in London, Roz asked a passerby for directions to a certain platform. He was in a hurry, so he brusquely responded that the sign was right in front of her. Embarrassed, she said, "I'm blind," meaning that she should have noticed it. The unfortunate man took her literally, apologized profusely, and insisted on taking her arm and guiding her to the platform. Too mortified to correct him, Roz had to act the part, pretending to be blind even after he'd left her in case he were watching!
Recalling our own experiences in the London Tube, and the frantic (if astonishingly polite) rush of commuters, I couldn't help but laugh at the mental image this story provides.
Meanwhile, with some additional details from Judy and a little trawling of the internet, I was able to piece together a bit more about Dashwood's life before and after her novel. From her rather sparse Wikipedia page I learned that she was in the WAAF during World War II and that her work involved radar, which was still very much top secret at the time. After the war, she attended Somerville College at Oxford and met her husband, Leslie Truelove, who went on to become a doctor, with whom she had four sons—Paul, Simon, Patrick, and Michael.
Rosamund Dashwood in Saltspring, 1980.
This of course means that Patrick is none other than the real-life model for the toast-throwing Ben in the quotation above, and I had to ask how he felt about this fictional representation. Judy said that he thought "it was fun to be a character in a book" and added, "he remembers that it was funny for our two kids, too, to read it and imagine their dad as a baby flinging toast around the room."
According to Judy, the family emigrated to Canada in April of 1960, where they settled in Winnipeg. Patrick remembers that Dashwood, like Delafield herself, was often on the phone doing work for three different women's auxiliaries: at the arthritis and rheumatism clinic where Dr. Truelove worked, at the school her sons attended, and at their Unitarian church. She also served as president of the Winnipeg chapter of Voice of Women, a feminist anti-war organization.
In 1968, with their children grown, Rosamund and Leslie relocated to Vancouver, where she was for a time a radio interviewer at local station CJVB. After the move, the couple decided to improve their physical fitness. In an interesting interview on the Prairie Inn Harriers website, Dashwood describes how they casually took up running after years of being couch potatoes and fast food junkies. After Leslie's tragic death while running in the Vancouver marathon in 1976, however, Rosamund's own running became both more serious and a part of her grieving process: "I would recommend that anybody who is going through a bad patch, for whatever reason, get out there and run. Or something. Centre yourself. It doesn't alter the situation, but it helps you deal with it."
Rosamund Dashwood with three of her grandchildren, 1983.
By 1983, she had relocated again to Victoria and was running her first marathon, and she eventually became one of the top female masters runners in Canadian history. (If you aren't familiar with the concept of masters athletics—I wasn't—here's a Wikipedia page for your edification.) In 1989, at age 65, Dashwood scored two world records for her age group, and three more Canadian records, which is pretty extraordinary for a former couch potato. (Maybe there's hope for me yet—hopefully before I turn 65!)
The interview was given when Rosamund was 68 years old, but you can certainly see her energy and spirit coming through. I will, for example, remember her attitude toward injuries:
"I have an optimistic theory that exercise-induced injuries sooner or later get better, given half a chance. Injuries from stresses, aches and pains that you get from inaction, from just sitting around, become chronic. So I cherish myself with that one when I'm sore after a run."
And if this is not necessarily an attitude all doctors would agree with, she adds for good measure:
"Sometimes a doctor will tell a runner that they will never run again, but when that happens, a dedicated runner will find another doctor. One who runs."
(I wonder if the same could apply to readers overcoming eyestrain?)
Rosamund was still running and competing at age 73. When she died in 2007 at age 83, her running club organized a Rosamund Dashwood Memorial Walk and Run, and they also added her name to a memorial bench in Beaver Lake Park in Victoria (had I but known when we were there a couple of years ago, I'd have a snapshot of it to share with you).
My sincere and enthusiastic thanks again to Patrick and Judy Truelove for the lovely photos and the additional details of Rosamund's life. It's such a pleasure to share them. And keep writing diligently, Judy—that book can't come soon enough!
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Have much enjoyed all the Provincial books of mother and daughter so far, and am now awaiting the "memoir," or tribute or whatever - thanks for the heads up, Scott!
Thanks, Tom, glad you enjoyed it.
DJ August 19, 2015 at 10:59 AM
Hi - what a lovely tribute to my grandmother (Roz) and great-grandmother (EMD), and my mom's upcoming book! It's so cool to see how passionate people still are about my ancestors' work. Imagine if they had known how far their words and funny 'little' daily life experiences would stretch! Thanks for the beautiful blog post.
D. Truelove
Thank you, DJ, I'm so glad you liked the post. It's great to hear from other members of the family!
Thanks, Simon, this is brilliant. So complete, and so very generous of you. The 'inspirational literary vibes' are coming through loud and clear!
PS: I don't really mean to be Anonymous!
I think that this is your comment, Judy? I understand from the comment below how your slip of the tongue (or fingers) regarding my name came about! Thanks again for all your help, and glad the book is coming along!
JTruelove August 21, 2015 at 12:19 PM
Sorry, Scott!!! I wasn't confusing you with my brother-in-law, but with another Delafield blogger, 'Stuck in a Book.' Not confusing you, in fact...just your name!! If you answer my emailed questions, I'm sure I'll never make that mistake again!
Furrowed Middlebrow August 24, 2015 at 6:51 AM
No worries, Judy! Names are always a problem for me. I always say I have to be introduced to someone three times before the name sticks.
Elizabeth August 20, 2015 at 3:49 AM
Totally fascinating.
I love the "Provincial Lady" series - so very recognizably English - so am most interested to hear about her daughter.
What rich research you do!
Thank you, Elizabeth! And if you haven't read Provincial Daughter, do give it a try.
As the rare reader who came to Provincial Daughter first and Provincial Lady second, thanks for this post! What a shame she never wrote a second. Looking forward to the Delafield book...
Sorry I missed your comment before. Indeed, your perspective on all the books must be different as a result of reading them in that order! Glad you enjoyed the post.
lyn August 20, 2015 at 2:55 PM
Lovely post. I love the PL & I enjoyed Rosamund's book as well. Do you know Mrs Ford's Diary?
https://mrsfordsdiary.wordpress.com/
A contemporary PL & very funny.
Thank you, Lyn! I'll definitely check out the blog--I am very intrigued...
Am intrigued by the post that says "thanks Simon" from Aug 19th. I am Rosamund's 2nd son Simon (aka Toby); however probably have done nothing deserving of this expression of gratitude. Its wonderful to see the interest in my mother and my grandmother, but is there another Simon?
Thanks very much, Simon, and you've inadvertently provided clarification as to your sister-in-law's slip on my name. Very glad you liked the post, and so pleased to hear from another "character" from your mother's book!
Pat August 21, 2015 at 1:12 PM
Very nice to read all of this! The London Tube story has always been a favourite of mine: so like my mother! Thank you so much, Scott, for your interest, your appreciation and your efforts.
-"Ben"
So glad you liked it, Pat, and thank you again for your input and for the Tube story--it was worthy of inclusion in a novel itself!
Claire (The Captive Reader) August 21, 2015 at 11:42 PM
What a fascinating profile, Scott! Thank you so much for sharing your research with all of us. I'll look forward to Judy's book.
Thank you, Claire. I was very happy to be able to share it.
GSGreatEscaper August 23, 2015 at 3:15 PM
Wonderful wonderful, Thank you very much. Great to see a woman look better as she gets older, and in color. Usually B+W photos of young people are so lovely; but without her blondeness they don't look as well.
Thanks, so glad you liked it!
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As of September 2016, the City is rapidly advancing deployment of sidewalk repair program components to target high-need repair areas, as it was mandated to do. However, there's a huge problem: the City has yet to conduct an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to understand the full impacts of the sidewalk repair program, and we still don't have critical report-backs from various City departments on what standards the City will use to protect street trees from removal whenever possible.
This means that we are already starting to rip up LA sidewalks without any sense of how this program will impact our City's street trees, or how we'll mitigate for the damages. This is unacceptable, and will have long-standing consequences for Angelenos if we don't do things right.
A protective, mature tree canopy can take decades to replace, and given the pressures already placed on our street tree population by drought and pests, unnecessary removal and/or inadequate replacement of canopy could result in permanent loss of the critical protections trees provide. Furthermore, an unintended consequence of rapid sidewalk repair program deployment is that many of the repairs, investments, and construction done in the early years of the program face a high chance of being undone, or redone, as other programs are implemented.
Public Outreach and Education. Key stakeholders, including people with disabilities, low-tree canopy communities, City agencies and elected officials, neighborhood leaders and the people of Los Angeles, MUST understand the public health, environmental, equity, and fiscal impacts of the sidewalk program. We need greater transparency and appropriate communication forums to provide the public with opportunities to provide input on how the City prioritizes investments in our infrastructure.
Protect against immediate threats to street trees. It's critical to jumpstart repairs to improve accessibility for Angelenos. However, it is possible that we could see 1,000 trees removed in just the first year of the program. It is imperative that the City develops a thorough understanding of the heat and health impacts to communities if urban canopy is removed. We also need ironclad strategies for avoiding tree removals whenever possible and ensuring adequate levels of canopy are maintained. A critical first step is ensuring that the City commits to funding and caring for replacement trees that the sidewalk program removes. TAKE ACTION TODAY! Visit TreePeople's website to write to your Councilmember!
Update and re-imagine urban forestry standards and practices. The sidewalk repair program provides a unique opportunity, given its impact on street trees, to re-imagine a robust, visionary urban forestry program that adequately protects LA's urban forest for 30 years of sidewalk repairs and beyond. Key to this is updating standards around planting specifications, proper tree species selection, replacement ratios, pruning and watering cycles, and other best practices to reflect the reality of the health of our City's current street tree population, as well as future drought and climate change scenarios. We also need a citywide framework that prioritizes a data-driven, needs-based approach for identifying high priority planting areas while providing communities in these areas with appropriate resources for maintaining healthy trees. To achieve all of this, the City's Urban Forestry Division must be adequately resourced to maintain our current canopy levels and ensure we're planting today for the canopy we'll need tomorrow.
Leverage multi-benefit opportunities through coordinated planning. Given the contributions trees make to public health, flood control, water quality and supply, and energy savings, the sidewalk program should be leveraged to bring together a range of City stakeholders to advance upgrades to our infrastructure. Spending time now, at the program's inception, to collectively identify collaborative funding and planning opportunities around infrastructure investments can help ensure we avoid canopy loss and missed opportunities for enhancing public health and livability investments in public rights-of-way.
The City of LA is truly at a crossroads (streets pun=INTENDED). Are we going to join other cities around the US and the world that have recognized the critical life-saving and environmental benefits that a thriving urban forest provides its residents, and make worthy investments in trees as essential city infrastructure? Or will we fail our communities by leaving them vulnerable to heat-related health impacts because we were unable to see the value of our urban forest as we craft new sidewalk repair policies and programs? It's up to us as a community to make sure our voices are heard loud and clear on this one. TAKE ACTION TODAY and make sure your voice is heard.
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The streetcar service will include WiFi and leather seating
Future phases of the project will look at bus priority schemes for the rapid transit style service
The new Leeds/Bradford Streetcar livery has been unveiled. The vehicle will be the centerpiece of a rapid transit style service between Leeds and Bradford, to be implemented at the end of October this year. First is working in partnership with West Yorkshire ITA (WYITA), Metro, Leeds City Council and Bradford Council, to establish the new transport project.
The service aims to help ease car congestion on roads between Leeds and Bradford, after they were recently labelled the most congested in the UK and the seventh most congested in Europe as part of a major study by TomTom.
The new livery is supplemented by branding which First said signifies the economic and social importance of the two West Yorkshire cities. On-board facilities will include free WiFi and leather seating.
Other benefits will include a seven-minute frequency during the Monday to Saturday daytime period and enhanced customer service training for staff will also take place to ensure the highest standards of customer service are met.
The local authorities are also supporting the project and at a recent West Yorkshire ITA meeting an initial £74,000 was earmarked for improvements to street infrastructure on the route. Future phases of the project will consider the feasibility of new bus priority schemes to speed up and reduce the variability of journey times on the corridor. First said it has committed to reinvest any surplus resources as a result of these developments into further frequency and network enhancements.
Dave Alexander, Regional Managing Director for First in the North of England, said: "We are excited to see the first images of the Streetcar and its striking royal blue livery, which will certainly catch the eye of existing and new bus customers.
"On the run up to the launch in three months time, we will continue to keep our customers up to date with key information about this strategically important project which will bring significant economic and social benefits to Leeds and Bradford."
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Kali Uchis brought her signature style and good vibes to the 2021 Premios Juventud.
The 27-year-old singer-songwriter made her debut at the annual awards show, taking the stage during Thursday's ceremony to perform her hit single, "Telepatía." Uchis radiated in a sparkling bodysuit with a sheer draped dress as she began to belt out the lyrics.
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Uchis is nominated for three Premios Juventud. She is up for La Nueva Generación - Femenina, Girl Power for her and Rico Nasty's son "Aqui yo Mando" and El Más Trendy.
Before the awards show, she showed off her killer style, posing on the red carpet for pics.
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Bringing clean water to Quibdó through rainwater harvesting
Vishwas Vidyaranya
Environmental activist and head of Escuela Robótica de Chocó, Jimmy García with the water filters for rainwater harvesting.
Water, water everywhere…but not a lot to drink. Despite being on the rainiest places on the planet, Colombia's Chocó department has a serious lack of clean water. Rainwater harvesting is how one group are working to fix it.
The Chocó is one of Colombia's most beautiful corners, touching both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and is also its wettest, recording a staggering 13,000 mm – yes, that's 13 metres! – of rain a year in some areas. The main city of Quibdó gets at least a respectable 8,000 millimetres and 300 rainy days a year. So there's no shortage of good water? Right.
Wrong. Water, waste and sanitation systems are sub-standard across the region – one of the most impoverished in the country – and particularly in urban communities like Quibdó locals can't rely on clean drinking water coming out of a tap. Instead they are forced to use contaminated supplies or fork out cash to buy packaged water in the corner shop.
This is because in Quibdó the public water is piped to less than 50% of the 115,000 inhabitants and only about 11% have a sewage connection. Hence, it's common to see packaged drinking water sold in plastic bags and bottles, which not only contributes to the rubbish pile but also adds economic stress to already poor communities.
Part of the problem is the polluted rivers. Quibdó lies on the banks of the River Atrato, which like many Chocó rivers is polluted with heavy metals like mercury from illegal gold mining and contaminated by sewage discharge because of the lack of wastewater treatment.
Finding solutions to these problems can be challenging. For decades the Chocó has been the epicentre of social and environmental conflicts driven by clandestine activities – gold mining, coca growing and illegal timber industry – and large public infrastructure projects are hard to get off the ground.
One answer is household harvesting of the ample rainfall from rooftops, allowing families to collect and control their own water supply. There are still contamination issues – the water can get dirty on the rooftops – but with the appropriate intermediate technology a steady clean supply can be achieved.
With this plan in mind, the Bogotá-based company VIC has set up a pilot project in Quibdó to collect rooftop rainwater and install cleaning filters made from materials available at local hardware shops and sand, gravel and stones procured locally.
The pilot plan is in place with collaboration from the Escuela Robótica de Chocó (The Chocó School of Robotics), an innovation centre based in Quibdó giving students a doorway into the world of technology. Students from the school have won several international accolades and have just returned from representing Colombia at the world championship of robotics in China.
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The school's founder Jimmy García is also at the forefront of environmental activism in the Chocó and welcomes the rainwater harvesting project.
He told us: "This project is important because it gives access to potable water to the communities using a low-cost system that is easy to build, maintain and is easily replicable. It helps us remove the dependence on the public utility companies and is a sustainable way to potabilise water. Hence our decision to implement."
The pilot's objective is to demonstrate to communities how they can harvest the eternal rainfall, but also treat it using a low-cost 'do-it-yourself' system that local people can replicate.
In the plan, water is collected by guttering on 100 square meters of rooftop, then sent through down-take pipes through a centrifugal filter (called RAINY FL 100) which removes large particles, than piped to a large tank which feeds a second slow filter of stones, gravel, sand and activated carbon. This removes smaller physical contaminants and allows for natural biological disinfection of the water. The clean water can then be stored in barrels for household use. The system requires minimal maintenance and has high treatment efficiencies of over 99%.
VIC believes the average household in Quibdó can harvest approximately 2,000 litres of rainwater every day – four times more than the average daily water demand – and filters treat between 300-500 litres of water per day.
The pilot plant was set up in just two days and cost approximately $2,000,000 COP. While this amount could be seen as a high initial cost for many households, it could be achievable with a microfinance plan: as it is at present households spend on average $50,000 per monthly on purchased drinking water, so in the longer term rainwater harvesting can reduce the financial burdens while giving access to safe drinking water.
Access to clean drinking water is a basic human right and in regions like Quibdó, where water is available in such abundance, sustainable decentralised systems must be implemented instead of waiting for the utility companies to do the same.
Author Vishwas Vidyaranya is the Technical Director of VIC SAS, Bogotá. He is a sustainability expert with over nine years of experience in India, Germany and Colombia in water and waste management systems.
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Q: Google SignIn SFSafariViewController/WebView redirects to Google.com after accepting permissions Im trying to implement the new Google SignIn Library that I installed using Cocoapods. Deployment Target is 8.4 and Im testing in a 9.0.2 device.
1- I have the proper plist file with clientID and reverseID
2- I have the URL types set
3- I have the AppDelegate as a delegate of GIDSignIn [GIDSignIn sharedInstance].delegate = self; and the proper delegate methods implemented to catch the callback - (void)signIn:(GIDSignIn *)signIn
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{               return [[GIDSignIn sharedInstance] handleURL:url
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5- Im using the automatic GIDSignInButton class and is placed in a subclass of UIViewController, so I dont need to implement the GIDSignIn uiDelegate methods. But I still have [[GIDSignIn sharedInstance] setUiDelegate:self]; set in the viewDidLoad
6- I have SFSafariViewController.framework in the Linked Libraries.
7- I never manually set the clientID to GIDSignIn because that is not part of the instructions at google's official documentation. Although many people keep doing it I dont know why.
The Problem: Once I press the Login button, a SFSafariViewController gets presented, I select the account I want to use (notice it never went out of my app into any other google apps for authentication even though I have several installed). The permissions get presented, I see the name & logo of my app that I configured in Google Developer Console, I accept the permissions. The SFSafariViewController falls back to "www.google.com" and thats it. The only way to dismiss this screen is to tap on the "OK" button in the uppper right corner, and then the - (void)signIn:(GIDSignIn *)signIn
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A: Just solve it. As you are using CocoaPods, seems like you have to set
Swift:
 func application(application: UIApplication, openURL url: NSURL, sourceApplication: String?, annotation: AnyObject) -> Bool {
    return GIDSignIn.sharedInstance().handleURL(url, sourceApplication: sourceApplication, annotation: annotation)
}

Obj-c
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation {
    return [[GIDSignIn sharedInstance] handleURL:url sourceApplication:sourceApplication annotation:annotation];
}

in your appDelegate. Now you will be redirected to your app after accepting the permissions.
More info: https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/ios/sign-in

A: I found out the problem. Google Official Documentation mentions the need to implement the following method in your AppDelegate
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application
               openURL:(NSURL *)url
     sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication
            annotation:(id)annotation {
     return [[GIDSignIn sharedInstance] handleURL:url
                             sourceApplication:sourceApplication
                                    annotation:annotation];
}

But it never mentions the need to implement also a similar method called
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)app openURL:(NSURL *)url options:(NSDictionary<NSString*, id> *)options

I had to implement both methods in order for my app to work properly. I have facebook authentication too, so my methods ended up looking like the following.
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)app openURL:(NSURL *)url options:(NSDictionary<NSString*, id> *)options {
    return [[FBSDKApplicationDelegate sharedInstance] application:app
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            || [[GIDSignIn sharedInstance] handleURL:url
                                   sourceApplication:options[UIApplicationOpenURLOptionsSourceApplicationKey]
                                          annotation:options[UIApplicationOpenURLOptionsSourceApplicationKey]];
}
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation
{

        return [[FBSDKApplicationDelegate sharedInstance] application:application
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                                                sourceApplication:sourceApplication
                                                       annotation:annotation
                 ] ||
                [[GIDSignIn sharedInstance] handleURL:url
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Autor: Mark 'Billy' Billingham
Sprecher: Mark 'Billy' Billingham, Simon Slater
Billy is a highly decorated veteran, with a reputation for excellence, honesty and integrity not only supporting his comrades Ant Middleton, Jason Fox and Ollie Ollerton but equally intimidating and inspiring the contestants who take on the gruelling challenges each week. The Hard Way details Billy's story thus far but will also educate and enthral those wishing to seek a challenge and conquer it - the SAS way.
Tom Thorne, Book 2
Autor: Mark Billingham
Sprecher: Mark Billingham
It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. And this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day. It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them - and two killers are way more deadly than one....
Serie: Tom Thorne, Titel 2
Their Little Secret
Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It's what she wants others to think of her. But the truth is, she needs something new, something thrilling. Meanwhile, DI Tom Thorne is investigating a woman's suicide, convinced she was driven to do it by a man who preys on vulnerable women. A man who is about to change Sarah's life.
The Bones Beneath
A Tom Thorne Novel
Tom Thorne is back in charge - but there's a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried 25 years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and travels to a remote Welsh island, at the mercy of the weather and cut off from the mainland. Thorne is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them.
Serie: Tom Thorne, Titel 12
Discover one of the two masterful hit novels adapted for the massive new BBC One Drama series In The Dark, featuring brilliant heroine Helen Weeks. Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up. But this is a place full of secrets, where dangerous truths lie buried. When family man Stephen Bates has been arrested, Helen and her partner Tom Thorne head to the flooded town....
The Dying Hours
A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown to the police and the deaths are quickly dismissed by the police as routine. Only one man is convinced that something more sinister is taking place.However, no one listens to Tom Thorne anymore. Having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform and he hates it. Patronised and abused by his new colleagues, Thorne's suspicions about the suicides are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to investigate alone.
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Autor: Mark Billingham, Robin Morgan
Sprecher: Mark Billingham, Robin Morgan
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Audible exclusive. Mark Billingham joins us to talk about his new book, Die of Shame. Who will die? Who will be betrayed? Who will kill? Talking about stepping out of his comfort zone to keep it fresh, the challenges of writing a series and much, much more. About Die of Shame: full of betrayal, deceit and suspense, Die of Shame is the spectacular new book from number-one best seller Mark Billingham - author of Time of Death and In the Dark, both soon to be major BBC series.
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Autor: Elise Italiaander
Today, best-selling crime writer Mark Billingham makes his second trip to the Audible Studios to discuss the latest edition of his D.I. Tom Thorne series. Love Like Blood, the 14th book in the series, sees Thorne team up with fellow police officer, D.I. Nicola Tanner, in an attempt to find the killer of Nicola's murdered partner. Mark Billingham welcome back to Audible.
The Killing Habit
From number one best seller Mark Billingham comes a twisting, unbearably gripping DI Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner thriller inspired by a dramatic real-life case. How do you catch a killer who is yet to kill? We all know the signs. Cruelty, lack of empathy, the killing of animals. Now, pets on suburban London streets are being stalked by a shadow, and it could just be the start. DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile of such offenders all too well, so when he is tasked with catching a notorious killer of domestic cats, he sees the chance to stop a series of homicides before they happen.
The Hostage. Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman. The Demand. The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody.
Alison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel, but she is completely unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake. Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: it isn't Alison who is the mistake, it's the three women already dead. Thorne must find a killer whose agenda is disturbingly unique, and Alison, the one person who holds the key to the killer's identity, is unable to say anything....
Die of Shame
Full of betrayal, deceit and suspense, Die of Shame is the spectacular new book from number-one best seller Mark Billingham - author of Time of Death and In the Dark, both soon to be major BBC series. Every Monday evening six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction. There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regret and, above all, shame. Then one of them is killed - and it's clear one of the circle was responsible.
Love Like Blood
Sprecher: Avita Jay, Mark Billingham, Sagar Arya
As DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner, Susan, is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft - and vengeful. Taken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts. As the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour.
When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered 15 years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met and ended with seven women dead.
It has been a decade since Alan Langford's charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife, Donna, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served 10 years in prison. But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fibre of her being - the man she paid to have murdered - seems very much alive and well. How is it possible that her husband is still alive?
Autor: Mark Billingham, My Darling Clementine
Sprecher: Mark Billingham, My Darling Clementine
We recommend that you download this combined spoken word and music audiobook using Audible's Enhanced Audio download option. The Other Half is a unique collaboration between the leading lights of mystery fiction and country music. An original story by best-selling crime writer Mark Billingham soundtracked by the powerful and poignant songs of internationally acclaimed Americana duo My Darling Clementine.
Stroke of Luck
So many things that could have been different. An almost infinite number of them: the flight of the ball, the angle of the bat, the movement of his feet as he skipped down the pitch. The weather, the time, the day of the week, the whatever. The smallest variance in any one of these things or in the way that each connected to the other at the crucial moment and nothing would have happened as it did. An inch another way or a second or a step and it would have been a very different story.
Tom Thorne Novels, Book 3
It's only 10 days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt. Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own. And when a second sex offender is found dead, DI Tom Thorne knows he has a vicious, calculating vigilante on his hands.


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Google has won a six-year court case brought by software firm Oracle, which claimed Google had infringed its copyright by using 11,500 lines of Java code in its Android operating system.
The jury ruled that Google's use of 37 Java APIs (application programming interfaces) was fair use. The news will be welcomed by developers, who typically rely on free access to APIs to develop third-party services.
Oracle had contested that Google's use of its proprietary Java code exceeded fair use, and was seeking damages of up to $9bn. Android is by far the most popular mobile operating system, with 1.4 billion monthly active users worldwide and a market share of more than 80%. Those users downloaded 65bn apps in 2015 alone.
More importantly, the "fair use" decision in this case sets a strong precedent in an industry where programs and apps are often as much constructed from various building blocks of code that already exist as they are from whole cloth.
If the company that owns the original code language – as Oracle does with Java – can claim ownership over systems which use parts of its code, in varying sizes, that might have a serious dampening effect on developers, few of whom have Google's deep pockets and batteries of legal artillery to call into battle in their defence.
That means today's verdict marks a victory for Google of the latest battle in a years-long war between these two titanic companies. It will probably not be the last, as Oracle is likely to appeal.
When it was developed, Android partly used the programming language Java to build its API. Java was a widely used language, developed by a company called Sun Microsystems in the 1990s.
Sun was bought by Larry Ellison's $169bn software conglomerate Oracle in 2010, and after unsuccessfully trying to negotiate for a deal which would allow Google to license the Java APIs, Oracle sued for copyright and patent infringement, firing the first shot in the legal war.
The key question in the case was this: between a patent, in which the mechanism is the idea being protected by law, and a copyrighted text, in which the language is the idea being protected by law, where does a program – in which the language is the mechanism – fall?
First blood went to Google when in 2012 a Washington DC judge sided with Google, saying that APIs can't be copyrighted, effectively torpedoing Oracle's case that the Java APIs used in Android infringed upon Oracle's intellectual property. That order which followed a jury trial which had a patent phase – which Google also won – and a copyright phase, which ended in a split verdict.
But that was just the beginning. In 2013, the federal circuit court of appeals heard Oracle's case again, and in May 2014 the federal judge reversed Allsup's ruling, holding that the "structure, sequence and organization" of the Java API packages – there are 37 in total which Oracle claimed Google copied – and remanded the case back to the district court to be retried, this time to discover whether Google's actions constituted "fair use" of Oracle's technology.
If you think that all sounds rather arcane, you'd be right. Lawyers for both sides in the San Francisco trial attempted in various ways to explain to the jury how "fair use" might be contemplated in the context of programming language, often using tortuous metaphors.
"During opening and closing arguments, Google had filing cabinets to point to as a [metaphor for a] system of organising things," said the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Parker Higgins, who watched the trial closely.
At other moments, he said, lawyers pointed to dishes on a menu, pointing out that chefs still have to prepare those dishes themselves, or at a steering wheel and pedals as common factors in all cars of all makes, meaning that drivers don't have to learn entire systems in each new car.
"Oracle [was] trying to use software copyright to protect a portion of the software thats basically functional, and copyright isn't supposed to protect functional things," he added.


Simone Veil maakte van 1974 tot 1979 carrière als minister van Volksgezondheid onder presidenten Jacques Chirac en Raymond Barre en was de eerste vrouw op deze positie. In haar eerste jaar als minister van Volksgezondheid zorgt ze voor betere beschikbaarheid van anticonceptiemiddelen. Een jaar later, in 1975, weet ze legalisatie van abortus in Frankrijk te realiseren. In 2010 werd ze als zesde vrouw in de geschiedenis lid van de Académie française, het instituut van de bevordering van de Franse taal. Als lid ontving zij een ceremonieel zwaard waarin drie kenmerkende teksten waren gegraveerd. Het motto van de Franse Republiek, de Europese Unie en het nummer dat op haar arm was getatoeëerd: 78651.
Simone Veil was born in Nice in 1927 as the daughter of a Jewish architect. In 1944, her entire family was arrested and separated from her father and brother, who did not survive the war. Veil made a career from 1974 to 1979 as Minister of Health under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Raymond Barre and was the first woman in this position. In her first year as Minister of Health, she ensures better availability of contraceptives. A year later, in 1975, she managed to realize the legalization of abortion in France. In 2010 she became the sixth woman in history to become a member of the Académie française, the institute for the promotion of the French language. As a member she received a ceremonial sword in which three distinctive texts were engraved. The motto of the French Republic, the European Union and the number that was tattooed on her arm: 78651.
In 2016 Lisa Weeda took part in the deBuren writer's residency in Paris, where she put Indexen voor verwijtbaarheid on paper. In this work, the Dutch-Ukrainian writer denounces the at-times lopsided, Western-oriented reporting surrounding the MH17 crash and the current situation in Eastern Ukraine. a story brought to life Looking to experience literature in a new way.
Studio ZZZAP accepted the challenge to convert Indexen voor verwijtbaarheid into virtual reality. The team moved in early 2018 to the countryside around Kiev, where it mapped out digitally the environment of local inhabitants. Studio ZZZAP enrolled the help of young Ukrainians who know the land inside out, carried out extensive background and visual research, and used material provided by Weeda's relatives, who live in the war zone.
The Bauhaus in Germany was a dynamic think tank and its ideals were spread worldwide. This year, all of Germany will be celebrating the centenary of the Bauhaus with a colorful festival program. To impress in conversations about next year's big event visit also Rotterdam for more info!


The above photograph is of Hodgson's Leap, 3km west of Kendal in Cumbria. (Grid Reference NY486910.) Sometime in the nineteenth century a person named Hodgson made a bet that he could ride a horse down the side of Scout Scar. Drink, of course, played a major role. He blindfolded his horse and over they went! Needless to say, neither survived.


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EEOC Issues Proposed Enforcement Guidance on Unlawful Harassment
By: Alyssa N. Campbell
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking public comment on its newly proposed enforcement guidance addressing unlawful workplace harassment under the federal anti-discrimination laws. The initial deadline for employers and other members of the public to submit input regarding the proposed guidance was February 9, but on February 3 the EEOC announced that it was extending the deadline to March 21.
The publishing of the new proposed guidance stems from the recommendations made last June by the EEOC's Select Task Force on the study of harassment in the workplace. If put into effect, the new guidelines would supersede pre-existing agency guidelines created during the 1990s. The EEOC issued a press release, in which EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum was quoted as saying: "This guidance clearly sets forth the Commission's positions on harassment law, provides helpful explanatory examples, and provides promising practices based on the recommendations in the report."
The majority of the 75-page guidance offers an overview of the EEOC's positions on the following topics:
harassment based on protected characteristics (race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, and genetic information);
establishing causation;
harassment resulting in discrimination based on a term, condition, or privilege of employment;
defining hostile work environment claims;
employer liability standards; and
systemic harassment.
In its guidance, the EEOC also suggests a number of "promising practices" to help employers eliminate workplace harassment including:
committed and engaged leadership;
strong and comprehensive harassment policies;
trusted and accessible complaint procedures; and
regular and interactive anti-harassment trainings.
In its press release accompanying the issuance of the proposed guidance, the EEOC stated that the new guidance is necessary because the number of harassment claims filed over the past several years is on the rise. According to the EEOC, between 2012 and 2015, the percentage of private sector charges that included an allegation of harassment increased from slightly more than one-quarter of all charges annually to over 30% of all charges. In 2015, the EEOC received 27,893 private sector charges that included an allegation of harassment, accounting for more than 31% of the charges filed that year.
Employers who are interested in providing input on the proposed guidance may do so by submitting comments through www.regulations.gov, or by sending written feedback to: Public Input, EEOC, Executive Officer, 131 M Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20507. The EEOC will consider input from the public before finalizing and issuing the guidance. In addition, this would be an opportune time for employers to review their anti-harassment policies and complaint procedures, to revise those policies and procedures if necessary, and to conduct some anti-harassment training for employees.


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Brian S. Brown (born c. 1974) is an American activist who is a co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), and has served as its president since 2010, having previously served as executive director. NOM is a non-profit political organization established in 2007 to work against legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. NOM's mission is "protecting marriage and the faith communities that sustain it".

Brown is also president of the World Congress of Families.

Career
In 2001, Brown became the executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, a socially conservative organization. On February 10, 2002 Brown presented a testimony in front of the Connecticut House Judiciary Committee on HB 5002 and HB 5001.

Since its founding in 2007, Brown has been National Organization for Marriage's executive director and was additionally named president in 2010, succeeding Maggie Gallagher. NOM led the initiative to pass California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which intended to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage in the state.

In 2012, he announced that NOM would launch a global "Dump Starbucks" campaign in response to that company's support for same-sex marriage. In October 2013, Brown announced that The National Organization for Marriage filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Internal Revenue Service for releasing confidential tax documents; the lawsuit was settled for $50,000.

In 2016, Brown announced the foundation of the International Organization for the Family (IOF), so that NOM could "focus on efforts in America,"

As of August 2018, Brown was the president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society, an anti-abortion advocacy group which is part of the World Congress of Families (WCF) network supporting far right groups in Europe and other continents. He is on the Foundation Board of Trustees of CitizenGo, a Spanish anti-abortion advocacy group founded in 2013.

In late 2019, NOM filed a brief related to the cases about LGBTQ rights—Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia; Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC; and Altitude Express v. Zarda—pending before the Supreme Court. On October 29, 2019, two Supreme Court justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito, posed for a photograph with Brown inside the Court. The reason for the meeting was unclear. The other two people who posed in the photo were Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis and Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller.

Personal life
Brown was raised in Whittier, California. At age 25 he converted from Quakerism to Roman Catholicism. He has a bachelor's degree from Whittier College, where he was student body president, and a master's degree in modern history from Oxford University, and is a C.Phil. at UCLA. The C.Phil. is an interim status for students who intend to complete their PhD within a given time period.

References

External links
National Organization for Marriage website
Brian S. Brown biography on National Organization for Marriage website
https://actright.com/

Living people
American anti-abortion activists
American social activists
American Roman Catholics
Whittier College alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Same-sex marriage in the United States
National Organization for Marriage people
American anti-same-sex-marriage activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Quakerism


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Goodfellas – Movie Review
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Goodfellas, Movie, Review
Joe Pesci won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his part in GoodFellas, a film nominated for six Academy Awards overall including Best Picture. And every accolade attributed to this film is well deserved. With an all-star cast of performers, GoodFellas is one of director Martin Scorsese's greatest productions. Based on the true story of former mobster Henry Hill, GoodFellas begins with his famous quote, "As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster…"
GoodFellas follows the life of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), an Irish-Italian American who becomes involved in organized crime at a young age. Quickly rising in stature as a small time gangster, Henry wins the heart of a local Jewish girl, Karen (Lorraine Bracco), despite her parents' objections. Karen, though frightened, is fascinated by Henry's life of crime. He has many friends – rich friends, powerful friends. And nobody messes with him. When they get married, Karen is forced to adjust to the life of a typical mobster's wife…
Meanwhile, Henry's best friends (he and Karen only associate with those connected to the mob) in crime are Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) – two fellow wiseguys with their sights set on bigger and better jobs. When Henry, Jimmy, and Tommy pull together a team that executes the biggest heist in years, their reputations rise fast within the mob hierarchy. But things begin to fall apart when the incompetent and undisciplined men with whom they worked start flaunting cash from the robbery. The three friends are forced to kill off several members of the team in order to avoid raising the suspicions of the police.
But eventually, Henry becomes arrogant and reckless, landing himself in jail. When he gets out, he's careful in his business dealings due to the fact that local mob boss Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino) has his eye on him. Paulie doesn't want Henry to do anything stupid and land himself in jail again. But in the end, Henry, Jimmy, and Tommy get more than they bargained for when Tommy kills an annoying barfly – unaware that the man he killed was a "made man". Now, each man must figure out for himself which direction his life will take…
Raw and blunt in its pronouncements, GoodFellas easily holds its own with some of the greatest films of all time. Like any good story, it brings the audience into an unknown world of mystery and seduction. The audience begins to feel the tension along with the characters in the film. That's the mark of a great movie…
Liotta, Pesci, and De Niro all stand out in this epic drama about one man's life as a professional criminal. Through each man, the audience views the perks and the pitfalls of life in the mob as well as the perpetual feeling that one is always looking over his shoulder. GoodFellas doesn't glamorize life in the mob by any means, and those who enjoyed The Godfather will appreciate its contemporary slant on the drug trade to which Don Corleone so vigorously objected. When taking an objective view, GoodFellas stacks up as one of the 100 greatest movies of all time, and it certainly merits the designation of must-see film…
Gladiator -Movie Review
Gladiator, Movie, Review
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, and nominated for an additional seven, Gladiator is one of the best produced and directed films of its time. Reminiscent of Mel Gibson's Braveheart, it creates a world so seemingly realistic, you find yourself drawn backward in time to the glory days of Rome. The musical score, colorful costumes, and intricate sets combine to create the illusion that one is actually witnessing the trials and travails of human existence in early millennial Rome.
The film opens with a sobering display of ancient warfare's equivalent of "shock and awe" as the Roman legions advance on a band of rebels resisting the empire from the outskirts of Gaul. From the moment the legion commanders signal attack, the fury of hell is unleashed as flaming arrows and iron bars batter a unified front of rebel fighters. The scene is more comparable to Desert Storm than an ancient battlefield, and it visually illustrates the overwhelming power once embodied in the Roman legions.
The central figure of the film and leader of the opening battle is Maximus (Russell Crowe), a Roman general adored by his men and admired throughout the empire for his impeccable character. While visiting the battlefield, the aging Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) reveals to Maximus his secret plan to appoint the general caretaker of Rome upon his death, with the understanding he will restore the Senate and eliminate the dictatorial rule of the Caesars. But unbeknownst to both men, the emperor's overly ambitious son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) learns of the plan. He murders his father and demands the allegiance of Maximus. When the general refuses, the new emperor calls for his execution, seeking to eliminate all who stand in his way. But the plan goes awry when Maximus escapes, setting the stage for the central conflict of the film as Maximus the gladiator grows in legend and Maximus the slave challenges the authority of a Roman emperor…
Crowe is cast well in the roll of the classic hero, but it's the supporting cast which puts Gladiator in another dimension of cinematic excellence. Joaquin Phoenix dominates the screen with his impassioned portrayal of the darkly ambitious Commodus, providing film lovers with an early glimpse of his now apparent acting genius. Richard Harris is his usual charismatic onscreen presence, while Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, and Derek Jacobi lend excellent complimentary support to the role of Maximus as their characters unveil the driving life force and internal motivations of the larger than life Roman hero. To this end, the strength of the cast creates a synergy reflected in the overall quality of this memorable film.
As a work of entertainment, Gladiator is second to none. The gladiatorial battle scenes provide endless thrills, and the dialogue between the characters is wrought with political intrigue, lust for power, and conflicting realities. Russell Crowe is superb in his role as the hero Maximus. Noble in his intentions and powerful as a leader, Maximus represents the ideal of honor and chivalry. One of those rare films which offers its audience a true emotional stake in the outcome, Gladiator is fraught with high-octane suspense and thrilling action sequences. If you liked Mel Gibson's Braveheart or The Patriot, then you'll simply love Gladiator…
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