miracle life! is an original album featuring original compositions and the occasional remix from Soshi Hosoi and vocals by YURIA, under the name YURIA-plugged-HOSOI. Most of the tunes have a pop feel to them with a retro flavor. Is the end result an enjoyable listen?
The album opens with "Happy Tea Time," a bubbly synth tune with pop and jazz tones. The melody itself is quite nice, although I'm not the biggest fan of the vocalist, and it sets the tone for much of the album. There is also a bonus remix of this tune by YMCK, which takes a more retro approach and a slower minimalist sound. While it does fit with the vocals, it can also be a bit cacophonous and a bit jarring at times. "SEEK☆ANGEL" is a more upbeat pop driven tune with a super catchy chorus and an extremely fun instrumental section. Similarly, "Weekend Shopping" is another bright and upbeat pop tune with a catchy melody. "Sunny Day Drive" retains the pop flavor but also adds more jazz influence and chiptune elements, making for a great blend of modern/retro sounds with a fun melody to boot.
"Under the Starlight" is a bubbly tune featuring vocoder with jazzy chords abound. The blend of jazz piano and FM synth makes for an interesting combination that creates a fairly memorable tune. There is also a bonus remix of this tune by Soshi Hosoi, transforming it to a more ambient and ethereal atmosphere with more of a techno influence. All said and done, I prefer this to the original. The titular tune, "Miracle Life," incorporates techno beats with its peppy pop sounds, catchy melodies, and rhythms. There are also two tunes on the album originally composed by others. The first, "The Sound of Rain -YpH ver.-," composed originally by Kazunari Tanaka, offers a very different sound from the rest of the album. It has a rustic meets jazz sound, yet still manages to tie in the various styles heard on the rest of the album. There is a beautiful instrumental section featuring acoustic guitar and strings that manages to impress. The other tune, "Spring of 120 Yen," originally composed by Hitoshi Fujima, of Elements Garden, features a quirky sound with a bright melody, jazz tones, including a piano solo, and a beachy/tropical vibe overall. The end result is quite enjoyable overall.
miracle life! is certainly an interesting and enjoyable album when it comes to the actual composition and sounds. The combination of pop, jazz, and retro sounds makes for an engaging listen. However, the vocals are sure to be more divisive, featuring high pitched vocals that fit with the style of music, but will certainly not be everyone's cup of tea. Fans of Hosoi's more pop oriented works will certainly find something to enjoy on this album, but I wouldn't recommend it for everyone.


text:
Fidelio in Concert
"The whole thing is haunting, beautiful and extraordinarily moving."
★★★★ - The Guardian
Print-at-Home Programme
The outstanding cast, led by Katherine Broderick as Leonore and Toby Spence as Florestan, performs Peter Mumford's semi-staged concert of Beethoven's masterwork, complete with a beautifully filmed backdrop, that Garsington Opera last performed to great critical acclaim at the Philharmonie in Paris in 2016.
Douglas Boyd conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a specially arranged, reduced orchestration. The wonderful singing of our chorus is pre-recorded and artfully integrated into the performance.
Fidelio is a wonderfully fitting work to announce our return to the stage. The worldwide plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary Beethoven season were of course decimated because of Covid 19 and I'm thrilled that we can still bring his opera to life in 2020. The themes of oppression and isolation, but also of hope and above all the power of love, make it the perfect opera for our times. This project is so important to us all - artists and audiences alike - to share the power of music, together again.
Douglas Boyd (Conductor & Artistic Director)
BBC Radio 3 Broadcast - Saturday 26 September, 6.30pm
12, 14, 16, 18 & 20 September 2020
Start time: 6.30pm
Finish: c.8.30pm (no interval)
Katherine Broderick
Florestan
Toby Spence
Stephen Richardson
Andrew Foster-Williams
Marzelline
Galina Averina
Jaquino
Trystan Llŷr Griffiths
Richard Burkhard
First Prisoner
Richard Pinkstone
Second Prisoner
Thomas D Hopkinson
Douglas Boyd
Stage Director, Lighting & Projection Designer
Peter Mumford
Associate Video Designer
William Reynolds
Assistant Conductor & Chorus Master
Jonathon Swinard
Cecilia Stinton
Reduced Orchestration
Francis Griffin
Garsington Opera Chorus
Siân Dicker
Carolyn Holt
Richard Pinkstone, Florian Panzieri
Philharmonia Orchestra
Eugene Lee, Emily Davis
William Bender
Timothy Walden
Tim Gibbs
Flute/Piccolo
Timothy Rundle
Marie Lloyd
Bassoon & Contrabassoon
Luke Whitehead
Diego Incertis Sánchez, Kira Doherty
Jason Evans
Antoine Siguré
Ben Cook
Sound Supervisor
Andy Rose
Steve Parkinson
Surtitle Translation
Kenneth Chalmers
Language Coach
Rahel Wagner
BIOGRAPHIES - Fidelio in Concert
Galina Averina, Marzelline
Galina studied at the Russian University of Theatre Arts, the Welsh International Academy of Voice and the Royal College of Music International Opera School. Recent and future engagements include Erenice Venceslao (Opera Settecento); Ilia Idomeneo, Atlanta Serse, Iphise Dardanus, Lauretta Gianni Schicchi (English Touring Opera); Partenope Partenope (Iford Arts); Oscar Un ballo in maschera (West Green Opera); and a Mozart Residency at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Other engagements include Brigitta Iolanta, Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia, Xenia Boris Godunov, Noémie Cendrillon, Charmion Cléopâtre (Perm State Opera Theatre); Despina Così fan tutte (Dubrovnik Summer Festival); Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Calisto Giove in Argo, Adele Die Fledermaus and Dalinda Ariodante (RCM International Opera School).
Douglas Boyd, Conductor
Douglas is Artistic Director of Garsington Opera. He has conducted the Glyndebourne Tour, Opera North and Zurich Opera in repertoire including Die Zauberflöte, La clemenza di Tito and Salieri's La grotta di Trofonio. He conducts regularly in Europe, Australasia (including a complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos in Melbourne), Canada and the USA. Plans include The Rape of Lucretia for Potsdamer Winteroper and returns to Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, the Aalborg Symfoniorkester and L'Orchestre de chambre de Paris, where he was Music Director from 2015 to 2020. Previously for Garsington Opera: Le nozze di Figaro, Fidelio, Così fan tutte, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Eugene Onegin, Haydn's The Creation, Roxanna Panufnik's Silver Birch, Capriccio and Don Giovanni.
Katherine Broderick, Leonore
Katherine studied at the National Opera Studio and won the 2007 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She enjoys a successful career on stage, as a recitalist and in the recording studio. Between 2016 and 2018 Katherine was a member of the Staatstheater Karlsruhe Ensemble, where her roles included Sieglinde Die Walküre, Adriana Adriana Lecouvreur and Vitellia La clemenza di Tito. Highlights of the 2019–20 season included her highly successful debut with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra singing Brünnhilde Die Walküre with Jaap van Zweden, the Ulster Orchestra for Wesendonck Lieder, conducted by Jac van Steen and the Oxford Lieder Festival with Sholto Kynoch. Plans this season include a return to Opéra National de Montpellier for Alice Ford Falstaff and Oper Leipzig for Brünnhilde Die Walküre. Further ahead, Katherine will again return to Oper Leipzig and make her debut with Opéra de Paris. Previously for Garsington Opera: Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw.
Richard Burkhard, Fernando
Anglo-Swiss baritone Richard recently sang Don Alfonso Così fan tutte (Classical Opera Company); Count Gil Il segreto di Susanna (Scottish Opera); and Harry Easter Street Scene (Opéra de Monte Carlo). He looks forward to his German debut as Junius The Rape of Lucretia with Kammerakademie Potsdam. He has also performed for the Royal Opera, English National Opera, Opera North and Opera Holland Park, as well as in productions at Teatro Real Madrid, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy, Bregenz Festival, Moscow's Bolshoy Theatre and New Zealand Opera. Highlights in recent seasons have included Count Gil (Opera Holland Park); Papageno Die Zauberflöte (Scottish Opera); Harry Easter Street Scene (Teatro Real Madrid); title role Gianni Schicchi (Opera North); and Garibaldo Rodelinda (Bolshoy). Previously for Garsington Opera: Speaker Die Zauberflöte and Ford Falstaff.
Siân Dicker, Chorus Soprano
Siân has recently completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She won the Singers Prize in the 2020 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition and will compete for their Gold Medal in November. She is a winner of the 2020 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform with duo partner, Krystal Tunnicliffe, and returns to the Festival for a recital in October. Siân is a Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award holder. Recent roles have included Amaranta La fedeltà premiata, Venus Venus and Adonis (Guildhall Opera); and Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte (Hurn Court Opera). She premiered the role of Observer 1 in Lliam Paterson's new commission The Angel Esmeralda for Guildhall Opera. She is a Live Music Now musician and has worked with the charity to create online concerts for care homes throughout this year.
Andrew Foster-Williams, Pizarro
Andrew's repertoire ranges from the classics of Bach, Handel, Gluck and Mozart to more recent masters including Britten, Stravinsky and Wagner. Recent performances include Pizarro Fidelio (Theater an der Wien); his debut as Telramund Lohengrin under Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Festival de Lanaudière); Captain Balstrode Peter Grimes (Theater an der Wien); Nick Shadow The Rake's Progress, Gunther Götterdämmerung and Kurnewal Tristan und Isolde. This season Andrew makes his house debut at Opernhaus Zürich singing the Four Villains in a new staging of Les contes d'Hoffmann by Andreas Homoki and conducted by Antonino Fogliani.
Carolyn Holt, Chorus Mezzo-Soprano
Ireland-born Carolyn won the Dermot Troy Prize for the best Irish singer in the 2019 Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition and recently sang the role of Sister Helen Prejean in the UK staged premiere of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking. She was a semi-finalist in the Grange Festival International Singing Competition, 2nd prize winner in the Bampton Young Singers Competition, winner of the Irish Heritage Bursary and the Audience Prize at the NI Opera Festival of Voice. She has worked with Irish National Opera and Welsh National Opera and performs regularly with orchestras and choral societies at home and abroad.
Thomas D Hopkinson, Second Prisoner
Thomas is a current Young Artist at The National Opera Studio supported by Help Musicians UK and The South Square Trust. Notable performances include: Viktor Anya17 (Awayday Music Productions); Hans Foltz Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (the Hallé); Dulcamara L'elisir d'amore (Royal Northern College of Music Opera); Prince Gremin Eugene Onegin, Commendatore Don Giovanni (Opera on Location); Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Dr Grenvil La traviata (Westminster Opera); Monterone Rigoletto, Batone L'inganno felice, Caliph Mahadi The Veiled Prophet (Wexford Festival Opera); Marchese d'Obigny La traviata (Al Bustan Festival); Tippett's A Child of Our Time, Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, Handel's Messiah, Dvořák's Stabat Mater and Verdi's Requiem. He has also performed in the chorus with Opera North, Wexford Festival Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and Grange Park Opera. Previously for Garsington Opera: chorus The Bartered Bride, Mourner and chorus Fantasio and King of Bavaria Fantasio (OperaFirst performance).
Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, Jaquino
Trystan's operatic roles include Oronte Alcina (Opéra national de Lorraine); Kudryash Káťa Kabanová (Opéra national de Lorraine, Scottish Opera); Beppe Pagliacci (Zurich Opera, Welsh National Opera); Ferrando Così fan tutte (Scottish Opera); and First Armoured Man/Second Priest Die Zauberflöte (Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam). Concert highlights include Mozart's Requiem with the Orchestre Prométhée at Festival de Lacoste; Serenade to Music at the BBC Proms conducted by Sakari Oramo; Classic FM Live concert, 2018, at the Royal Albert Hall, London; and a concert with Bryn Terfel and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London. He was also named as one of the 2018 HSBC Laureates of the Académie du Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Previously for Garsington Opera: Ottavio Don Giovanni.
Peter Mumford, Stage Director & Lighting / Projection Designer
Recent lighting designs include Madama Butterfly (Vienna State Opera, English National Opera and Metropolitan Opera); Falstaff, Belshazzar, Le nozze di Figaro (Grange Festival); Within the Golden Hour (Royal Ballet); Beauty and Sadness (Hong Kong); Queen of Spades (Vilnius City Opera); The King Dances, Edward II, E=mc2 and Faster (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Káťa Kabanová, Andrea Chénier (Opera North); Manon Lescaut, Werther, Carmen, Faust (Metropolitan Opera); La traviata (Glyndebourne); The Mast of Orpheus, Damnation of Faust (ENO); The Ferryman (West End and Broadway); King Kong (Broadway); My Name is Lucy Barton (Broadway); A Number (Bridge Theatre); Far Away (Donmar Warehouse); Long Day's Journey Into Night, 42nd Street (West End); 8 Hotels (Chichester); Three Sisters (National Theatre); Jude (Hampstead); The Children (Royal Court and New York). Directed and designed concert stagings of The Ring Cycle and The Flying Dutchman (Opera North); Otello (Bergen National Opera) and Fidelio (Orchestre de chambre de Paris). Awards include: Oliviers for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, 1995 and Best Lighting Design, 2005, The South Bank Sky Arts Opera Award, 2017 for The Ring Cycle (Opera North); Helpmann and Green Room Awards for Best Lighting, 2013 for King Kong and Double Tony nominee 2019 for Best Lighting Design for The Ferryman and King Kong.
Florian Panzieri, Chorus Tenor
Paris-born tenor Florian graduated with a first class Masters in Vocal Studies from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and continues his studies on the Guildhall Opera Course. Opera credits include Ottavio Don Giovanni (Merry Opera); Berthold Scoring a Century (British Youth Opera); Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw (King's Opera). He was recently awarded the Rosalind Armstrong Song Prize in the Hurn Court Opera singing competition and is exceptionally grateful to the Leatherseller's Company, the Countess of Munster Trust, the Kathleen Trust and the Mario Lanza Educational Trust for their support. Previously for Garsington Opera: chorus The Bartered Bride and Fantasio and Rutten/Max Fantasio (OperaFirst performance).
Richard Pinkstone, First Prisoner
Born in Northumberland, Richard made his professional operatic debut singing the title role in Albert Herring for the Grange Festival, before joining the Royal College of Music International Opera School. Roles at the RCM included Lysander A Midsummer Night's Dream, The School Master The Cunning Little Vixen, Sandy/Officer 1 The Lighthouse, Il Podestà La finta giardiniera and Alfred Die Fledermaus. His studies were generously supported by the Carne Trust, an Yvonne Wells Award, The Winship Foundation, Talent Unlimited and The Josephine Baker Trust. Since graduating, his engagements have included debuts with Scottish Opera on the Opera Highlights tour, with Nevill Holt Opera as Flute A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Opera North as Tamino The Mini Magic Flute and with English Touring Opera as Pedrillo The Seraglio.
William Reynolds, Associate Video Designer
William has worked with Peter Mumford on the video for The Ring Cycle and The Flying Dutchman at Opera North. Recent designs include set and lighting: Pictures of Dorian Gray (Exeter Northcott and UK tour); Little Mermaid (Theatre by the Lake and UK tour); Jungle Book (London Wonderground and international tour); Blown Away (Lyric Hammersmith and international tour); Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre and 59E59 New York); Saturday Night (Arts Theatre); lighting: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (Aurora Orchestra, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall); Weimar Cabaret (Barbican Theatre); Smoke and Mirrors (Queen Elizabeth Hall); lighting and video: Trying it On (Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court and UK tour); Sonnet Walks (Globe Theatre); video: Prima Donna (Sadlers Wells); The Gambler (Royal Opera House). William is Artistic Director of Metta Theatre, a creative associate with Aurora Orchestra and recently Artist in Residence at the V&A.
Stephen Richardson, Rocco
Stephen studied at Manchester University and the Royal Northern College of Music. He has created roles in many important contemporary works including Adès' The Tempest, Tan Dun's Orchestral Theatre II: Re and Tea: A Mirror of Soul, Barry's The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit' The Importance of Being Earnest and The Intelligence Park, Tavener's Eis Thanaton' Resurrection' The Apocalypse and Fall and Resurrection and the British premiere of The Handmaid's Tale. Most recent and upcoming engagements include Dansker Billy Budd, Dikoj Káťa Kabanová and Father Trulove The Rake's Progress (Opera di Roma); King of Hearts in Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland (Los Angeles Philharmonic and Barbican); Baron Ochs Der Rosenkavalier (Bolshoi' Moscow); Hobson Peter Grimes (La Scala' Royal Opera House' Opera North and Aldeburgh Festival); Geronte Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park and Grange Festival); Timur Turandot and Powder Her Face (Northern Ireland Opera); Ochs, Dansker, Dikoy Káťa Kabanová' Simone Gianni Schicchi and The General Silent Night (Opera North). Previously for Garsington Opera: Osmin Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Sprecher Die Zauberflöte, Sir Morosus Die schweigsame Frau, Waldner Arabella, Trulove The Rake's Progress, Rocco Fidelio and Doctor Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro.
Toby Spence, Florestan
Toby divides his time between the concert platform and the world's major opera houses. He has sung with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras under Rattle, San Francisco Symphony under Tilson Thomas, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Pappano, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Gergiev, Los Angeles Philharmonic under Dudamel and at the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals under Norrington and Mackerras. Highlights of this season include Florestan Fidelio in Stavanger; Mahler 8 at Atlanta Symphony Hall; Pylades Iphigénie with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; The Dream of Gerontius at the Slovak Philharmonic Concert Hall; Missa Solemnis with the Wroclaw Philharmonic; and Britten's Serenade with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and l'Orchestre National de Lyon. Future plans include Aschenbach Death in Venice for Opera du Rhin and his role debut as Parsifal for Opera North and at the Edinburgh Festival. Previously for Garsington Opera: title role Ideomeno.
Cecilia Stinton, Assistant Director
After training as a violinist at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, Cecilia graduated from the University of Oxford in Music and History of Art and is currently finishing a PhD on the history of experimental opera at University College London. She has recently directed Scott Joplin's Treemonisha for Spectra Ensemble, Bedřich Smetana's Libuše for University College Opera and scenes from Tristan und Isolde for the University of Oxford. She has assisted at the Royal Opera House, Opera Holland Park, Berlin Opera Academy and British Youth Opera. In 2019, Cecilia's company Spectra Ensemble was nominated in the Broadway World UK Awards for Outstanding Achievement in a New Opera Production for Treemonisha. In 2021, Cecilia will direct Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon at the Oborne Festival and Ethel Smyth's The Boatswain's Mate at the Grimeborn Festival before a UK coastal tour.
Jonathon Swinard, Assistant Conductor
Conductor and pianist Jonathon is Head of Music at Garsington Opera and Chorus Master at Scottish Opera. He studied at Oxford University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before beginning his career at Scottish Opera. He subsequently held the Alexander Gibson Choral Conducting Fellowship with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus before spending two years as Solorepetitor and Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater in Nuremberg. Jonathon is passionate about the training of young singers. He spent six years on the Faculty of Solti Accademia di Bel Canto and Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, two years as the Artistic Director of the Scottish Opera Young Company, and was Head of Music for the inaugural New Generation Festival in Florence. He is the Artistic Director of the Young Artists' Programme at Garsington Opera and works regularly as visiting coach in the major UK music colleges.
Fidelio in Concert Gallery
Fidelio in Concert Reviews
From Light to Darkness to Light
Raging Humanity

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Q: Application label font not preserved on orientation change I am not able to preserve the font for my application label on screen orientation change. Currently I am setting the font using the below code in the onCreate method of SherlockFragmentActivity.
titleId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android");
if(titleId == 0)
    titleId = com.actionbarsherlock.R.id.abs__action_bar_title;
mAppName = (TextView) findViewById(titleId);
Typeface face = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/handsean.ttf");
mAppName.setTypeface(face);

On Orientation change the font reverts back to the default. I tried preserving state using manifest.xml but it didnot help. it preserves everything except the label font. Can someone suggest how this can be done ?
Thanks for stopping by and reading this post.

A: Did you tried setting android:configChanges="orientation" and handling the orientation change with onConfigurationChanged()?
edit: also explained here why it's not functioning.

A: **Yes we can do this.

Override onConfigurationChanged
set the action bar title inside a handler with a delay of 200.**

@Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
        new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                //your code to set the action bar title
                setActionBarTitle(title);
            }
        }, 200);
    }

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


The Kilauea Volcano is still active.
Kalapana Cultural Tours venture into the heart of the Kilauea Volcano.
The town of Kalapana was covered in lava in 1986.
Tourists can approach the volcano by boat and walk on its surface.
A trip to Hawaii is sure to involve idyllic beaches, and perhaps a hike on one of its many nature trails.
But if you're looking for something a little bit more, say, explosive, Kalapana Cultural Tours offers boat tours into Kilauea, an active volcano that completely buried the town of Kalapana in 1986.
Who could pass up a chance to meet Madam Pele, the fire goddess herself?
Kalapana Cultural Tours is a private tour company based in Kalapana.
The boat tours venture into the heart of the Kilauea Volcano.
To locals, she's known as Madam Pele, the fire goddess.
The guides are all descendants of native Hawaiians who lived in Kalapana.
The town was buried under 50 feet of lava in 1986.
Because lava moves slowly, no one died.
But more than 150 homes were destroyed.
Today, the town has mostly been vacated.
Kalapana Cultural Tours is one of the holdouts keeping its memory alive.
They offer thrill-seeking tourists a chance to see what the volcano left behind.
And what it's doing now.
The tours cost $200 per person or $1,200 for a private charter.
Participants approach Kilauea from the water by boat.
They can then walk on the active volcano and get super close to its bubbling pools of lava for photographs.
The views are pretty incredible too.


No sooner am I back from Vaujany than I have to fly off to Austria for a wedding. Ana and Christof are good friends of mine and a great couple.
They organised their wedding at very short notice (no she's not pregnant, that's just how they are), and it was very good.
My journey started in Stansted, where I got on an easyjet plane to Ljubljana. It was a pretty decent flight. I'd packed lightly to avoid the expensive luggage charges, so basically had ski gear and a change of underwear, some jeans and my suit. It all fitted in my carry-on case, which made the journey quite smooth.
On landing in Ljubljana, I wanted a coffee but had no idea what currency they used, so thought it best not to risk it. Turns out they use Euros. Exchanged some texts with Stephen (Ana's friend who I never met before) and we met up and made our way to the car hire desk.
Problem number 1 - an unexpected 72€ for random stuff for driving in Austria. Snow chains and the like.
Problem number 2 - apparently a toll for the tunnel (not a problem in the end, see below), and a 7.90€ fee for a Vignette, needed to drive on Austrian motorways.
Problem number 3 - the biggest problem we faced - my TomTom Navigator only has maps for Western Europe, and Slovenia counts as Eastern Europe. This meant TomTom was unable to find a reference point to begin navigation.
We just headed in what we thought was the right direction. Turned around and went the other way. Turned around again and headed for the motorway. I saw a sign for Klagenfurt and thought that was in Austria, so headed there, on the basis that once there the navigation would work. This meant we avoided the toll tunnel, taking the scenic route instead. We got there later and all was well.
On the Friday night Ana and Christof had organised a night in a local bar, with awesome goulash soup. Yummy. There were quite a few of Ana's friends who I'd met once or twice there, so I didn't feel completely alone, and apparently a friend who I'd helped skating who recognised me but whose name I couldn't remember. I won't reveal her name just yet because it took me a day to work out what it was.
The next day, the wedding took place in a lovely little church on the mountainside. I can now confirm that a regular suit is not suitable attire for a mountain church. It was freezing, and I thought my toes were going to drop off. At one point I thought they had. The reception couldn't come soon enough!
After warming up indoors, and having made eye contact with mysterious skater girl several times during the wedding, we finally spoke to each other Turns out her name was Olga. She was pretty hot, and liked flirting with me, which was awesome. Alas, flirting was all it would be with Olga. It was a shame in a way because we spent the evening together, going through photos for Ana and Christof's on-the-fly wedding album, and generally had a good time.
We spent the whole of the next day skiing together. She's fun, and wants to come skiing again in March. Nothing was ever going to happen anyway, because she lives in Russia, which is rather inconvenient for finding a time to meet up and go for dinner or see a movie.
The return journey went fairly smoothly, but I was pleased to return home.


text:
Q: Como obter os amigos e seguidores de uma pessoa no Twitter usando a biblioteca tweepy? A função getting_friends_follwers() abaixo funciona se eu remover o valor 100 de (cursor2.items(100)) . O meu objetivo é pegar estes nomes (seguidores e amigos) e guardar em um arquivo "amigos.txt".
O problema: O nome screen_name possui uma quantidade gigantesca de amigos e seguidores e, assim, a conexão é encerrada pelo Twitter. Pensei em tentar capturar os nomes de 100 em 100 (daí o valor 100 na chamada de cursor2) mas ocorre o seguinte erro:
builtins.TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'User' and 'User'

Como corrigir?
f = open("amigos.txt","w")
Meu = []
def getting_friends_follwers():
    # Get list of followers and following for group of users tweepy
    cursor = tweepy.Cursor(api.friends, screen_name="Carlos")
    cursor2 = tweepy.Cursor(api.followers, screen_name="Carlos")
##    for user in cursor.items():
##        print('friend: ' + user.screen_name)

    for user in sorted(cursor2.items(100)):###funciona se eu tirar este valor!!!
         f.write(str(user.screen_name)+ "\n")

         print('follower: ' + user.screen_name)

f.close()
getting_friends_follwers()

A: Tente isso

f = open("amigos.txt","w")
user = '@Carlos'
count=300 # quantidade de seguidores que será retornado pela api (altere para quantidade que quiser, só cuidado com o limite da api)

try:
    followers = tweepy.Cursor(api.followers,screen_name=user).items(count)

    for follower in followers:
         f.write(str(follower.screen_name)+ "\n")

except BaseException as e:
          print('failed on_status,',str(e))
          sleep(3)
f.close()

Esse deve código faz o que você está procurando, porem o usuário @carlos tem o perfil privado, e não é possível coletar seus seguidores.


While I'm weighing multiple $300m+ offers, I wanted to take a moment to announce a change to the site: I will no longer be making regular daily game thread posts.
The good news is that I will still be lurking in the background to keep the site running and making the occasional snide comment. I'll keep the contests running, too.
Mark Johnson has been named Cubs Minor League Catching Coordinator (position was vacant since Tim Cossins took MLB coaching position with Baltimore Orioles in December), Jimmy Gonzalez replaces Johnson as AA Tennessee Manager, Steve Lerud replaces Gonzalez as Myrtle Beach Manager, Lance Rymel replaces Lerud as Eugene Manager, Ricardo Medina replaces Rymel as AZL Cubs #2 Manager, Ty Wright replaces Medina as Myrtle Beach Hitting Coach, Michael Carter replaces Wright as Eugene Hitting Coach, and the AZL Cubs #1 Hitting Coach slot (formerly occupied by Carter) is presently vacant (TBD).


text:
using System;
using System.IO;
using Bender.Configuration;

namespace WebApi.Bender
{
    public class BenderXmlFormatter : BenderFormatter
    {
        public BenderXmlFormatter(Options options) :
            base(options, "application/xml") { }

        protected override void Serialize(object value, Stream writeStream, Options options)
        {
            global::Bender.Serialize.XmlStream(value, writeStream, options);
        }

        protected override object Deserialize(Stream readStream, Type type, Options options)
        {
            return global::Bender.Deserialize.Xml(readStream, type, options);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Dumitrașcu Lăcătușu (n. 22 martie 1891, județul Covurlui — d. 13 august 1999, București), la 108 ani, a fost ultimul veteran român al Primului Război Mondial.

În 1997 a fost decorat de Consiliul General al Municipiului București la vârsta de 106 ani.

Dumitrașcu Lăcătușu a fost inclus în albumul "La Grande Guerre", publicat în 1998 în Franța. În acest album el era prezentat drept cel mai bătrân militar în viață dintre cei 21 de supraviețuitori ai celor Două Războaie Mondiale. Dumitrașcu Lăcătușu deține și un alt record semnificativ: este veteran a trei războaie (războiul balcanic și cele două războaie mondiale) și ultimul cavalerist român.

Note

Legături externe
 Dumitrașcu Lăcătușu, a murit la vârsta de 108 ani, 16 august 1999, Evenimentul zilei

Nașteri în 1891
Decese în 1999
Veterani români
Centenari români
Veterani ai Primului Război Mondial

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Shaun Ross
Design: F. Inomata
Shaun Ross Sings "Good Vein" For Press Play shaun-ross-sings-his-ethereal-equality-anthem-good-vein-press-play
Shaun Ross Sings His Ethereal Equality Anthem "Good Vein" For Press Play
The model-turned-musician shows us we're all the same in the latest edition of the Recording Academy's original performance series
Nate Hertweck
Your new summer session of mind-expanding chill(s) has arrived. Sit back and enjoy the latest edition of Press Play featuring Shaun Ross' exclusive performance of his enchanting song, "Good Vein."
The Bronx, N.Y., model-turned-musician began singing three years ago, but he already counts Seal and producer/songwriter Rush Davis as his musical mentors. And with influences ranging from Björk and Meshell Ndegeocello to Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, it's no surprise Ross' music has a mojo all its own. He released his first single, "Symmetry," in 2017.
If Ross looks familiar, you may have seen him in music videos by Lana Del Rey, Beyoncé, Katy Perry and Kanye West. He also collaborated with designer Nina Athansiou in 2018 for the "In My Skin" clothing line to bring awareness to the congenital disorder albinism.
New single coming out 7/24 Good Vein pic.twitter.com/9YG8fy4bZl
— Shaun Ross (@ShaundRoss) July 15, 2019
"Good Vein" will be released as a single July 24 and be on the lookout for Ross' debut LP, which on its way next month.
"Press Play" Series To Celebrate Pride Month With Special Edition Episodes
Shea Diamond
Shea Diamond Sings "Don't Shoot" For Press Play shea-diamond-sings-dont-shoot-special-pride-month-edition-press-play
Shea Diamond Sings "Don't Shoot" For Special Pride Month Edition Of Press Play
The dynamic soul singer delivers a moving perfomranc of her new single In this exclusive special Pride Month edition of Press Play
In this special Pride Month edition of Press Play, we hear from soul singer Shea Diamond as she delivers an exclusive performance of her new single, "Don't Shoot."
Born in Little Rock, Ark, before moving to Memphis and then Flint, Mich, Diamond was inspired to become a singer by Tina Turner and honed her skills as a singer singing in church choir. As a Black Transgender woman, she faced many obscacles and expectations.
"As early as I can remember, I always identified as being a girl. It was hard work to pretend to be a gender that you're not," Diamond said. "I should have gotten an Oscar, really. I had so much pressure on me as child to be masculine. Even when I was the choir director for our church, my mother would still whisper in my ear that I was singing too high. Growing up trans takes a lot of guts."
Her debut EP, Seen It All, arrived last year, and earlier this month, "Don't Shoot" was released as a single. "Don't Shoot" was co-written by Diamond with Justin Tranter and Brandon Colbein and it is dedicated to the memory of gun violence victims, especially Black and Brown Trans people.
This year I fell like a superstar! Trans woman out her in these streets proudly represented at #DCPride #musician #MusicHourUK #WorldPride #TransIsBeautiful #erasureisreal #RepresentationMatters #BlackMusicMonth #activist #BlackExcellence #BlackLivesMatter #musicthatmatters pic.twitter.com/IDQp5cp4aj
— Shea Diamond (@iamsheadiamond) June 26, 2019
Feel the power in her words and voice in this exclusive performance of "Don't Shoot" for Press Play.
VINCINT Sings "Please Don't Fall In Love" For Press Play Pride Month Special Edition
Asiahn
Asiahn Sings "Like You" On Press Play asiahn-sings-about-love-vibes-timing-you-special-pride-month-edition-press-play
Asiahn Sings About Love, Vibes & Timing On "Like You" In This Special Pride Month Edition Of Press Play
The accomplished songwriter and artist performs her latest In this exclusive special Pride Month edition of Press Play
Our celebration of Pride Month continues with another special edition of Press Play. This week, three-time GRAMMY nominationated singer/songwriter Asiahn bares her soul in an exclusive performance of her song "Like You" from her latest album, Love Train 2.
So far this month, she has performed at Roots Picnic in Philadelphia and L.A. Pride in Los Angeles. Asiahn spoke to us about what the LGBTQ+ communtiy means to her and how she's helping promote equality.
"I am a lesbian, so just to be a part of the community is big for me, and then to be an advocate and a person in the music industry to represent for so many others who don't get that representation in the music industry is definitely a big deal," said Asiahn. "Having my single where I'm singing about loving another woman on the radio is a big deal... I feel like we still need some more representation out there, there's still people who aren't represented."
If you're lucky enough to catch her show live with her band, which she calls Asiahn & The Vibe, you'll feel her talent is matched only by her authenticity. The Charleston, S.C.-raised Los Angeles-based artist first became interested in music from her parents and her grandmother, also a vocalist. Asiahn's music talents bloomed, and the versatille artist now plays several instruments, including violin, clarinet, bass clarinet, and bass guitar. Recently, she was also invited to join the Recording Academy as part of its inaugural invite class of 2019.
Y'all .... I'm Officially apart of the @RecordingAcad Thank you to everyone at the Academy for your Love and support!! It's Lit!! pic.twitter.com/5rrjF3q1t7
— ASIAHN (@IamAsiahn) June 5, 2019
In addition to her accomplishments as an artist, Asiahn also counts an impressive list of songwriting credits under her writing moniker Asia Bryant for other artists, including J. Lo, Miley Cyrus, Drake, Lil Wayne and more. She also was featured on "Just Another Day" from Dr. Dre's Compton album. We asked he what her secret is to writing great songs without getting stuck.
"If I ever get writer's block. I just put the pen down, put the phone down. I go live life. It means you're just not inspired at the moment," she said. "You need to go live some real life and do some real things that inspire you. Sometimes just sitting behind a computer, or behind your phone or pad all the time, you run out of things to say, and you run out of ways to say it, which means it's time to go do something else. Go listen to some different genres of music... go bunjee jump or do some go-karts, lazer tag, do anything to get your creative juices flowing."
You can hear the creative juices flowing in her exclusive performance of "Like You" for Press Play. Enjoy!
Andrew Bird Plays "Olympians" For Press Play andrew-bird-turns-it-around-his-olympians-performance-press-play
Andrew Bird Turns It Around With His "Olympians" Performance For Press Play
The multi-talented musician/composer shares his "darkest before the dawn" original song on the latest episode of the Recording Academy's original performance series
In the latest episode of Press Play, the incomparable Andrew Bird performs "Olympians" with help from Madison Cunningham. Have a look and listen:
From his new album, My Finest Work Yet, "Olympians" can be taken as a "socio-political allegory," according to Bird. Showing the contrast of despair and hope, the "darkest before the dawn" scenario song expresses how we as people can, "Spiral in our thoughts," said Bird, "get competitive about suffering" and ultimately, "Will ourselves out of these dark places."
Growing up in Chicago with a mother who loved classical music and a father who loved Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, Bird started playing violin at age 4. His influences grew to include jazz, gospel, Lester Young, Staples Singers, and much more. Early in his career, Bird became known as a virtuoso violinist, songwriter, composer, vocalist and whistler, pushing the boundaries of style and technique with each new album since his 1666 debut, Music of Hair.
Enjoy Bird and Cunningham's live rendition of "Olympians," and stay tuned for more exclusive original performances on Press Play.
La Santa Cecilia Scroll Down The Feed With "Winning" For Press Play
La Santa Cecilia Play "Winning" For Press Play la-santa-cecilia-scroll-down-feed-winning-press-play
The eclectic Mexican-American GRAMMY winners seek inspiration in the digital information age in this comment- and commentary-packed edition of the Recording Academy's original performance series
Aug 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
"If I don't share, then it didn't happen," sings La Santa Cecilia lead singer La Marisoul in the hilarious and poignant performace of "Winning," performed exclusively for Press Play.
La Santa Cecilia Are "Winning" On Press Play
"Winning" is a fun number with a powerful message about social media oversaturation and the dangers of faux online activism. La Marisoul frantically reads and sings as she scrolls, quoting comments, quiping clichés into satire and creating a musical manifestation of the frenzy in our phones with pin-point sardonic accuracy. And you can dance to it!
Drawing from a wide range of influences including bolero, Mariachi, R&B and rock, La Santa Cecilia draw their name from the Catholic patroness of musicians. The band started out in 2007 performing in coffee shops and backyards around Los Angeles. "Winning" is their latest single, dropping just last month on July 19.
And speaking of winning, in 2013 the group won the GRAMMY for Best Latin Rock, Urban Or Alternative Album for Treinta Días, their first win, at the 56th GRAMMY Awards. La Santa Cecilia have been nominated twice since, again in the same category three years later for Buenaventura, and the following year for Best Latin Pop Album for Amar Y Vivir En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017.
So sit back and enjoy this exclusive perfomance of "Winning" in this edition of Press Play, don't forget to like and share, and be sure to catch La Santa Cecilia on tour in a city near you


Caprino's Italian can accommodate your private group for special occasions, private functions, celebrations, corporate events and birthday parties.
Caprino's Italian is a 4,300-square-foot indoor event space, high-end Italian scratch kitchen, featuring an outdoor patio, a VIP Lounge, a semi-private dining room, a gorgeous bar, plus an amazing menu and atmosphere. This unique event venue is perfect for groups of all sizes. We reserve space for groups ranging for 10 to 300 people.
If you are looking for an authentic Italian restaurant near Orlando's theme parks, that is family owned and operated, you must check out Caprino's Italian. We are known for the best Italian dishes, amazing pizza and many other homemade selections.
Located just a few miles from Walt Disney World, Caprino's Italian is in close proximity to Orlando's most frequented destinations such as the Orange County Convention Center, Universal, Disney and Mall at Millenia. Our prime location makes for easy transportation to and from these areas where many out of town guests are accommodated.
Our unique and multipurpose facility accommodates countless customization options because of our unique setting and different event spaces within the 4,300 sq. ft. venue.
Ask about our group dining menu options and group beverage packages.


text:
About The Market
The Laurel Farmers' Auction Market began in January 1940, when area farmers elected 10 of their peers to the original Board of Directors to begin the organization. This new cooperative would prove to play a major role in the region's agriculture, history, and identity. It would also impact the national marketing of one of our country's major and favorite produce items, the watermelon. The auction's origins and continued success are a tribute to the power of cooperation. Hundreds of farm families from Delaware and Maryland have survived on the land as a result of the Auction Market.
Laurel-area farmers were shipping trainloads of watermelons at the turn of the century. For example, on August 17, 1905, 45 carloads of melons, with 1,200 melons per car were loaded on a train in Laurel. The watermelons weighed between twenty and forty pounds each. This particular trainload generated $30,000 in cash sales for the many farmers who cooperated to put the load together.
Delmarva producers, then as now, enjoy a competitive freight advantage over growers from more distant regions. In 1926, 2,014 carloads of cantaloupes and 356 carloads of watermelons were shipped by rail from Delmarva. Rail car transportation charges for cantaloupes shipped from Delmarva to New York were $148.70 per car, versus $612.50 from California.
A wholesale produce market existed at the corner of Poplar and Clayton Street in Laurel during the 1920s. It is unclear if this small shed facility was an auction, or simply a buying station for shippers. However, a photograph from that time demonstrates it was active and busy.
That market was replaced during the 1930s by a private auction block, the Laurel Produce Association, controlled by brokers operating in Laurel. Farmers were dissatisfied with the trade practices followed at this auction and charged that the brokers controlled the auction to their advantage. Outside buyers could make purchases only through a local broker who belonged to the auction. Brokers charged fees of five cents per package to the buyer and two cents to the farmer. These burdensome commissions made it less attractive for buyer and seller alike. Moreover, the system of allowing purchases only through member brokers tended to force other buyers to make purchases elsewhere, since they disliked dealing exclusively through the brokers.
The word was spread among farmers in the area about a meeting in January 1940 to discuss the formation of a grower-owned auction market in Laurel. By the end of that first session, a plan was set and ten men were elected to the original board of directors. Those founding members were Merrill G. King, Earl T. Cooper, Harley G. Hastings, William J. Hopkins, Norman O. Dickerson, Fred M. Wright, Martin W. Johnson, Jr., Watson W. Moore, Grover C. German, and Roy C. Dennis. Merrill King was elected President.
These 10 directors then went out to solicit and collect $5 investments in the new cooperative from interested farmers. They attracted 213 people who found the five dollars to become the original stockholders. Who could guess that this act of cooperation and faith, generating seed money of $1,065, would create something so lasting and important to generations of people and families in the region?
In April 1940, the Board hired Carmel Moore as Treasurer and General Manager. Still a legend in Laurel even years after his death in 1978, Moore was known not only for his honest and keen management of the auction, but also as a fair man for both buyer and seller. Moore is generally acknowledged as the man who made the venture work. He would manage the auction into the 1970s.
That first year, 22,000 sales transactions generated sales of $231,887.74. From those beginnings, the Laurel Auction Market now sells over $5 million of produce annually. More than 80 percent of that is in watermelons.
The light, sandy soils, coupled with our warm, summer climate, make the agricultural region around Laurel and the neighboring counties in Maryland an ideal spot for production of high quality, nutritious produce, especially watermelons.
If you would like more information on the history of the market, you can obtain "Where Buyer and Seller Meet – Sixty Years of the Laurel Auction Market," by Ed Kee, from the Laurel Historical Society or the Southern Delaware Truck Growers Association Office at the Laurel Auction at 302-875-3147.
Copyright Laurel Farmers' Auction Market
Crafted In Delaware With By 48half


text:
Apple's Korean War Goes Into Overtime
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) won a massive victory in a Californian court a month ago. The jury found Samsung guilty of infringing Apple's iPhone and iPad patents to the tune of $1 billion in damages -- an amount that could be tripled if judge Lucy Koh finds the infringement "willful." Moreover, a Samsung tablet that was not seen trampling on Cupertino's design patents had already been blocked from sale in America. Since Samsung had already appealed that injunction and thus moved that sub-case to a higher court, Koh found it impossible to give the Koreans any relief.
That was then, and this is now.
This week, the Court of Appeals remanded the Galaxy tablet block back to Judge Koh, who immediately granted Sammy's motion to dissolve the case. Moreover, Apple may have to pay up to $2.6 million to compensate Samsung for lost sales while the non-infringing device was off the market. It's but a drop in Apple's overflowing money buckets, but it's a symbolic victory for Samsung nonetheless.
And the Koreans could use some courtroom confidence right now, because the company is mounting a counter-attack.
Another Korean war?
For one, Samsung argues that the $1 billion verdict should be overturned and a whole new trial launched. The jury foreman may have lied about his background in the jury selection process, the company says, and then misled other jurors to further his own personal agenda. In post-trial media interviews, foreman Velvin Hogan certainly comes across as a guy with an axe to grind: "[E]xcept for my family, [the jury service] was the high point of my career... you might even say my life," he recently told The Verge.
Moreover, it turns out that Hogan was fired and then sued by hard-drive maker Seagate Technology (Nasdaq: STX) nearly 20 years ago. Samsung is now a major shareholder in Seagate, a stake acquired last year as Seagate bought Sammy's hard-drive operations. If it doesn't sound like a soap opera yet, the lawyer who sued Hogan back then is now married to a partner at Quinn Emanuel -- the law firm that represented Samsung at this trial.
So Samsung owns part of a firm that Hogan has reason to hate, and the guy knew enough about patents to twist deliberations the way he wanted. It's a strange and far-fetched connection, but personal vendettas have been launched over even lesser slights.
Now, Judge Koh may or may not buy what Samsung is selling here. But if she doesn't start a fresh trial with presumably less-tainted jurors, you can rest assured that Samsung will appeal. Stay tuned for more legal fireworks.
Oh, and the stakes are only rising higher. Apple has asked Judge Koh to increase the damages by another $700 million and stop sales of every infringing Samsung device. In return, Samsung waited for Apple to release the iPhone 5, so the Korean company could examine the phone and add it to a different lawsuit under the same judge. If things start going Samsung's way, in other words, Apple might find itself unable to sell its latest and greatest handset. So that sword is cutting both ways now. However, that suit isn't scheduled for trial until 2014. By then, the iPhone 5 will be old hat.
In other news, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) division Motorola Mobility shocked just about everybody by simply withdrawing an Apple complaint with the International Trade Commission. There's no settlement, no agreement to smoke a peace pipe in Cupertino, no nothing -- just a dropped complaint that could have removed iPhones, iPads, iPods, and even Mac computers from American store shelves.
Many observers thought the complaint was kinda-sorta evil and out of step with Google's image to begin with. Maybe this is damage control, or maybe Motorola simply launched that assault without Google's say-so, in which case the wayward son has been corrected. We may never know the real backstory. But the lattice of criss-crossing legal actions over smartphones and tablets just got a tiny bit less complicated.
If nothing else, this comedy of errors reminds us all that the patent system is in dire need of an overhaul. The current laws were made in a different era, for a different era, and they don't work very well in the fast-moving world of modern technology. Besides, it's a "one size fits all" solution for a diverse landscape of innovation and creativity, where different industries really should work under different standards. Patents were always meant to give inventors more reason to invent, but they've devolved into ammunition in legal battles that reduce the pace of real progress.
I don't have all the answers, or I'd be running for Congress with a patent reform agenda. Could we talk Judge Richard Posner into running for a Senate seat in 2014, perhaps?
A new premium report on Apple details the opportunities and challenges in store for its shareholders, including a deep dive into the legal arena. The report also includes a full year of updates to keep you up to speed. Click here for your comprehensive report on Apple.


Oracle's executive chairman doesn't mince words about the competition, paying credit to a few legacy veterans while brushing off others as irrelevant.
SAN FRANCISCO---A quick glance at the sea of red and white banners flooding the blocks in and around San Francisco's Moscone Center is all it takes to glean where Oracle's focus is right now.
The simple answer: the cloud.
"Along with Microsoft, we're the only one working at all three layers of the cloud," remarked Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer at Oracle, on Sunday evening.
Tens of thousands of customers, investors, analysts and media have descended once again for Oracle OpenWorld, the tech giant's flagship conference.
Many of them will be zeroing in on Oracle's cloud stack to see if it matches up in an exceedingly crowded market -- not to mention with Oracle's own ambitious goals for market dominance.
Trumpeting the "integrated cloud," Ellison opened the show by unveiling new products for managing cloud-based apps and platform services.
In the wake of a disappointing earnings report last month (including a miss in cloud revenue during the first quarter), Oracle has its work cut out for it this week as well as the next few months.
Ellison followed up on that prediction on Sunday, projecting Oracle will "sell more new business" in SaaS and PaaS than any other company around. More specifically, Oracle plans to sell at least 50 percent more than Salesforce, Ellison projected.
Yet, in a brief retelling of the cloud market over the last two decades, Ellison insisted we're really just in the "middle" of what is taking shape in the market, suggesting top players now have run rates upwards of $6 billion versus $100 million a few years ago.
The first cloud companies, like Workday and Salesforce as cited by Ellison, were cloud companies 15 years ago before "cloud" became the default catch-all category.
But it has been a decade since Oracle realized it would have to rewrite virtually all of its applications to run "as-a-Service," Ellison recalled, acknowledging more work had to be done, including retooling all of Oracle's middleware and databases.
But during that time frame, Ellison reflected on how the competition has changed too. The former CEO pointed toward Salesforce, Workday and Amazon Web Services as competitors at different layers in the stack.
But Ellison didn't mince words about two other industry stalwarts.
"We no longer pay attention to either one of them," Ellison said flatly about IBM and SAP, admitting it has been "quite a shock."
In some cases, Oracle is blatantly going head-to-head with its competitors. For instance, Ellison promised Oracle will always at least match -- if not outright beat -- Amazon Web Services on pricing.
AWS, much like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, is famous for routine price cuts for cloud services throughout the year.
Nevertheless, Ellison also promised Oracle will never price higher than AWS.


text:
Yann Demange (* 1977 in Paris) ist ein in London aufgewachsener und lebender britischer Filmregisseur.

Leben
Demange filmte Live-Konzerte, drehte Musikvideos, Werbespots, Kurzfilme und Fernsehserien, die für verschiedene Preise nominiert wurden. Bis 2001 studierte er Film am London College of Printing; sein Abschlussfilm Joe lief auf verschiedenen Festivals. Von 2004 bis 2006 studierte er Regie an der National Film and Television School. Anschließend drehte er Fernsehserien für Channel 4 und die BBC. 2007 war er Teilnehmer des Berlinale Talent Campus.

Sein erster Kinofilm '71 über einen Soldaten im Nordirland-Konflikt lief im Februar 2014 im Wettbewerb der 64. Berlinale.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 2006: Headspace (Kurzfilm)
 2006: Incomplete (Kurzfilm)
 2007: Alan & Samir (Kurzfilm)
 2008: Dead Set (Fernsehserie, acht Episoden)
 2009: Criminal Justice (Fernsehserie, drei Episoden)
 2011: Top Boy (Fernsehserie, vier Episoden)
 2014: '71
 2018: White Boy Rick
 2020: Lovecraft Country (Fernsehserie)

Weblinks

 Biografie auf der Website der Produktionsfirma
 Interview zu seinem Berlinale-Beitrag
 Interview zu seiner Filmlaufbahn

Einzelnachweise

Filmregisseur
Brite
Geboren 1977
Mann


STEVEN STAPLETON NEW YORK CITY EXHIBITION!
We are very proud to announce Steven Stapleton's first exhibition at May 68 Books and Records in New York City!
'We are very pleased to present art by Steven Stapleton, the artist's first exhibition in the United States. Stapleton (British, b. 1957), best known for his now 40-year musical project Nurse With Wound, has over this span of time created works that can be seen as a vivid, visual correlation of NWW's most famous designation: "Purveyors of sinister whimsy to the wretched." Stapleton's art, produced under one of his numerous aliases, Babs Santini, has graced the covers of records by Current 93, Shirley Collins, Sol Invictus, Sand, Andrew Liles, The Legendary Pink Dots, and his own releases as NWW.
Stapleton's show with MAY 68 includes seven large framed montage pieces, a term the artist prefers to collage, as montage suggests the sort of filmic dream state he explores within cut-up and reassembled imagery. Though dark, they are also buoyed by irreverent humor and a poetics that the surrealists might identify as navigating the passage between cruelty and tenderness. The great and greatly missed British writer J.G. Ballard would certainly see in Stapleton a kindred re-maker of reality. Stapleton's deftly mischievous sleight-of-hand will recall Dada, Hannah Höch, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Roland Topor and Bruce Conner. In addition, eight rare test pressings will be shown, each with a unique montage cover, among them Current 93's classic, All the Pretty Horses and a highly sought after unreleased collaboration between Nurse With Wound and Faust'.
The exhibition runs from May 9 to June 3rd.


Preheat oven to 400°F. Combine all ingredients in a sealable plastic bag. Shake until well coated. Transfer to a roasting pan and bake until tender, about 25 minutes.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Toss together ingredients until well combined. Roast until tender, turning once halfway through, about 30 minutes.
Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor until smooth. Add water to thin, if needed.
Microwave sweet potato until tender. Mash sweet potato and combine with other ingredients.


text:
Q: package org.assertj.core.api does not exist I am getting compilation error while I am trying to install the maven dependencies from my POM.xml.
I tried adding and deleting many dependencies but I'm not sure why the error is coming in my project. I am adding my POM.xml file for the same. Could you please tell me what is wrong with these dependencies ?
I am adding output for the same :-
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.0.M4</version>
        <relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>UL</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>UL</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                    <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>junit</groupId>
                    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
                </exclusion>

            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java8</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>

        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>datatable-dependencies</artifactId>

            <version>1.0.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>2.53.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
            <artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>
            <version>2.12.0</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.22.0</version>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
                        <artifactId>surefire-junit47</artifactId>
                        <version>2.22.0</version>
                    </dependency>

                </dependencies>
                <configuration>
                    <rerunFailingTestsCount>${reruncount}</rerunFailingTestsCount>
                    <!-- <disableXmlReport>true</disableXmlReport> -->
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                    <source>${java.version}</source>
                    <target>${java.version}</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>

    </build>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-milestones</id>
            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>spring-milestones</id>
            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>

</project>

A: First. You do not have proper dependency installed
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.assertj/assertj-core -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
    <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
    <version>3.13.2</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Second. When dealing with dependencies mind the proper scope. This might impact libraries provisioning in different cases.


text:
What Do April Showers Bring?
Dear Friends and Fans of Celtic Music,
Spring Greetings! As we prepare to depart on our Ireland tour, we are thinking of everyone who came out to our CD release parties to celebrate the new album, "These Are the Days". You truly warmed our hearts with your overwhelming support. And to those who could be there in spirit only. . . we hope to catch up with you all sometime in 2016.
Radio News! "These Are the Days" took the #1 Top Album spot on the January Folk-DJ Charts!
In the January Top Songs category, the album landed the #1, #2, and #4 spots for "Madam I'm a Darling," "The Mountain," and "Another Day."
Our gratitude goes out to the international Folk-DJ Community for all those spins!
And this week, we are thrilled to announce that two tracks from the new CD are featured on Fiona Ritchie's "Thistle and Shamrock" program on NPR. The program is entitled "More New Spring Sounds." Listen to it here.
With Gene Shay at WXPN Studio in February 2009
In related news, Gene Shay, a.k.a. "the Dean of American Folk DJ's", will emcee our April 23rd show at the Landhaven Concert Series in Barto, PA.
Gene Shay, a founder of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, retired from radio in 2015, after more than 50 years of hosting folk radio programming. Hosting occasional shows at Landhaven is a continuation of his life's work; promoting folk music and musicians. We are thrilled and honored to be presented by Gene.
*Saturday, April 23, 2016*
A "Gene Shay Presents" Evening
Landhaven Concerts in Barto, PA
Showtime: 8:00 PM. Doors open 7:15. BYOB
Call to order Cuisine in a Box Little Meals prepared by the Landis Store Hotel
Oswego Music Hall in Oswego, NY
Showtime: 7:30 PM. Doors open 6:45.
Light refreshments & homemade desserts available
*Sunday, May 1, 2016*
Acoustic Celebration Concert in Ridgefield, CT
Showtime: 4:00 PM
New Festival for BBC!
*Saturday, May 28, 2016*
Gallabrae: The Greenville Scottish Games
Held on the beautiful grounds of Furman University
Stage times: 11:00 / 2:30 / 5:30
For all show tickets and information, click the link on the venue name above, OR check the calendar on our band website.
We hope you'll bring your family and a big bloomin' bunch of friends to join in. The more the merrier!
Love and cheer,
Rose, Amy, Lou and Pete
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/burningbridgetcleary6
http://burningbridgetcleary.com
http://facebook.com/Burning.Bridget.Cleary
http://reverbnation.com/BurningBridgetCleary
Find us on Pandora Radio!
P.S. In case you haven't heard, Rose has teamed up with Brian Buchanan (Enter the Haggis) for a side project called "House of Hamill." They are developing an edgy Celtic folk-fusion sound, writing unusual new fiddle tunes and breathing new life into traditional and contemporary songs. Please check out their website, like them on Facebook, and cheer them on at their shows!
Madam I'm a Darling 3:30
Chloe's Passion: Skin the Peelers / Chloe's Passion / Farewell to Whalley Range / 4:13
Another Day 3:53
A Day in the Life (Of Lou): The Pistachio Nut / The Pizza Connoisseur [feat. Rose Baldino] 3:32
Bill Oja's Waltz 3:51
Tha Mi Sgith 2:53
Portherhead and BBC Set: Girl of the House / Stan Chapman's / Boys of Ballymoat 3:34
The Mountain 4:08
Scones of Boxty: Farewell to Miltown / Three Scones of Boxty / Reel D'issodun 4:32
Return of Skelly Shelly (feat. Louis Baldino) 4:09
The Ballad of Tim Evans 4:06
On a Sea of Fleur De Lis 4:49
Clay Slaps / the Appropriate Dipstick / Trip to Miriam's 5:09
Stor Mo Chroi: Darling of My Heart 3:18
I Know Who Is Sick / On the Spot 3:19
Oh My Little Darling / Fire On the Mountain 2:53
Pressed for Time / Bonnie Mulligan 5:39
Ashokan Farewell 3:02
Burning Bridget Cleary 3:30
The Black Rogue / McIntyre's Fancy / the Twin's Delight 4:32


It's safe to say that gift giving and creating memorable experiences are what we're most passion about. There's nothing quite like being able to be a part of an event where a company's employees are being celebrated. Working together to appreciate and inspire amazing people is our core purpose after all. We've come a long way in the last 8 years, so we wanted to take a moment to reiterate how our core purpose continues to motivate us to be the strongest and brightest in the industry.
As much as we love giving gifts, we know that it's just as much about the experience of your program. After all, incentive trips or events are meant to celebrate your employees and their accomplishments. Our main goal is for your guests to constantly think back to their incentive trip and remember how great it was. The best way to do that is to give gifts that allow them to create memories that are special to them and ultimately make them feel appreciated.
Our logo, the Cultivate Diamond, represents our desire to be the strongest and brightest in the industry, as well as champions our mission. In everything we create and everything we execute on-site, we strive to be flawless. Which is why we conduct our Diamond Level Certification training throughout the year. This training focuses on client experience, event success, brand expertise, solutions-oriented, and coordination & efficiency to make sure our team is delivering their best every time.


text:
previews September 2006
Reaching back to Michael Craig-Martin's precocious beginnings in the '60s as a Duchampian Conceptualist dealing with film and readymades, the show, comprising some fifty works, will expand to acrylic paintings and neon sculptures and to site-specific mural environments that seem to wed Pop to LeWitt.
In 1989, Michael Craig-Martin, already a talismanic figure for young British artists, had his first retrospective, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Now, seventeen years later and in his native Dublin, Craig-Martin's second retrospective should reveal an artist of even greater breadth and historical magnitude. Reaching back to his precocious beginnings in the '60s as a Duchampian Conceptualist dealing with film and readymades, the show, comprising some fifty works, will expand to acrylic paintings and neon sculptures and to site-specific mural environments that
IN UNEXPECTED WAYS, Bill Rubin and I seem to have been twinned for life. He was born in New York City in the summer of 1927 (a Leo only eighteen days my junior), and each of us at one point considered a career in music or musicology before ending up doing graduate work in art history. He went uptown to Columbia, and I went downtown to NYU. I got my Ph.D. in 1956; he got his in 1959. And during those years, when we first met and when most art historians, either out of ignorance or aversion, shied away from contemporary art, we both espoused not only Abstract Expressionism but also the work of a
"Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination"
This show promises to be an educational Halloween party. With 160 works, it explores the demons, witches, and elves imagined by two dozen high-minded British visionaries and considers such popular entertainments as "Phantasmagoria."
This show promises to be an educational Halloween party. With 160 works, it explores the demons, witches, and elves imagined by two dozen high-minded British visionaries and considers such popular entertainments as "Phantasmagoria," which offered nineteenth-century Londoners a preview of the modern horror film, complete with grisly slide shows and creepy sounds. This rich territory was a core ingredient in the Romantic imagination, which, from the 1760s on, expanded into an ever-more irrational world. Here, the focus is on the odd couple of Swiss-born Henry Fuseli, with
"Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939"
This exhibition not only extends as far afield as Japan, Brazil, and Israel but mixes the exalted heights of Mondrian and Mies van der Rohe with 350 more-earthbound examples of graphic design, furniture, photography, painting, film, and costume.
For some die-hards, Modernism with a capital M may still be a religion of absolute truth and beauty, but for the rest of us (especially antique dealers) it's become as much a period style as Second Empire or Art Nouveau. Fraught with the historical nostalgia of a long-lost utopian dream, the movement can now seem as quaint and precious as Bakelite and glass brick, which means it's high time for an all-embracing retrospective. This one not only extends as far afield as Japan, Brazil, and Israel but mixes the exalted heights of Mondrian and Mies van der Rohe with 350
print December 2005
1 "MATISSE: THE FABRIC OF DREAMS—HIS ART AND HIS TEXTILES" (ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK) Instead of kneeling again at Matisse's shrine, curator Ann Dumas thoroughly resurrected him. The master's "working library"—a half century's ragbag accumulation of fleamarket cotton prints, couture gowns, Romanian blouses, North African hangings, and more—was excavated from family trunks and displayed beside the works that incorporated their patterns and textures into landscapes for a new vision of Paradise. Seeing the alchemy that turned rags into riches
Updating her 1987–88 traveling retrospective, MoMA's survey of seventy-odd paintings and drawings spanning four decades is a tribute to Elizabeth Murray's eccentric presence in today's art world. With a funk sensibility that connects her to the indigenous art of her native Chicago, as well as to Guston and Crumb, she has created her own, Pop-inspired universe swarming with forms resembling Mickey Mouse ears, Dagwood shoes, thought balloons, and domestic objects that morph into illegibility. But her work has equally strong parallels to the story of abstraction, often echoing
Put together for the first time, the more than 150 paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele amassed in the collections of Neue Galerie cofounders Ronald Lauder and the late Serge Sabarsky amount to a comprehensive survey of the short-lived rebel's work. The staged gawkiness of Schiele's naked bodies—ready for sex or painful self-reflection—not only fit perfectly into the world of Klimt and Freud, but offer a Janus-faced mirror of Viennese art, looking backward to the grimacing busts of Messerschmidt and forward to the kinky body-art performances of Nitsch. And there's another
The Surreal Calder
"Surrealism," like "Romanticism," encompasses a bewildering variety of artists as different as Magritte and Miró. Now Calder will be initiated into this strange fraternity. Often pigeonholed simply as the inventor of the mobile, Calder in fact participated in many of the vital artistic movements of his time, but it was Surrealism that rooted his art in a biomorphic universe. Calder's flying, crawling creatures, celestial visions, and fantastic constructions from unexpected fragments—dating from 1927 to 1947—will find themselves at home in the company of works by his
Hail to the newborn Salvador Dalí, so often scorned by the last century! Now resurrected in a retrospective for his hundredth birthday (in 2004), he is making a vengeful comeback that will open eyes both old and young. It turns out that he is not only still alive and well (the crowds goggling each painting were testimony to his miracle working), but he is also emerging as a surprisingly unfamiliar master whose work has yet to be integrated into art history.
My credentials for this overview are venerable. It was in May 1939, just before my twelfth birthday, that I rushed to Flushing Meadow to see
passages April 2005
BY NOW, the works of Tom Wesselmann, who died on December 17, 2004, have become textbook icons of the '60s. Born in 1931, he began to paint, like other members of his generation, under the shadow of New York's chef d'école, de Kooning, before veering in the direction of Bonnard's and Matisse's domestic interiors. But with the passing of the '50s, startling intrusions appeared in his work, mirroring one of the landmark rebellions in twentieth-century art. In 1961, for example, in two of the earlier entries in "Great American Nude," the ongoing series he began in the same year, Wesselmann slipped
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subcultures
Takashi Murakami's global empire keeps expanding. The next takeover promises to rival even Christo dimensions: transporting the high-tech universe of otaku to Manhattan, where a visiting delegation of Murakami's compatriots will present some two hundred works, immersing us in an ethos of game arcades and shop-window displays.
Takashi Murakami's global empire keeps expanding, whether he's marketing riffs on Louis Vuitton or kiddie-party decorations for Grand Central Terminal. The next takeover promises to rival even Christo dimensions: transporting the high-tech universe of otaku—that infinite profusion of comics, video games, toys, and websites—to Manhattan, where a visiting delegation of Murakami's compatriots will present some two hundred works, immersing us in an ethos of game arcades and shop-window displays. These installations will turn up everywhere, from subway cars and
1 "Andy Warhol: The Late Work" (Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz) In a year that honored our pantheon of twentieth-century deities (see below), two Warhol shows soared high. Organized by Mark Francis and Jean-Hubert Martin for Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, "The Late Work" buried stale prejudices that favor '60s over '70s and '80s Warhol by offering an eye-popping spectacle of little-known work, including mural-size crosses and knives, replays of Pollock's drip paintings as tangled yarn, and takes on Arp's and Kelly's organic contours as the flattened profiles of a dozen supermarket eggs.


Buy Now Hard Money - Underpromise. Overdeliver.
Post the Claim Token you get in your blog, so they can verify.
The subject quote was from Richard Davis, the real estate investor who was the first subject of "Flip This House" on A&E. I used to love watching him on the show, even though he was a little over the top. He was creative, wasn't afaid to tackle projects that were outside the normal house flip, and told it like it was.
He originated the idea of the show, and had an oral contract with A&E for half of the profits. A&E evidently didn't pay him, and he sued and won in court. A&E appealed, and Davis won again in a federal appeals court recently.
Kudos to you Richard. You are a little wacky, but an inspiration to us all.


text:
Franciscan Peacemakers provides a pathway to sustainable, healthy, safe, and productive lives for women engaging in prostitution due to trauma, human sex trafficking and drug addiction.
Street Ministry
Franciscan Peacemakers have had a visible presence on the streets since 1995 distributing bag lunches and personal hygiene items, allowing us to be in contact with women engaging in prostitution due to trauma, human sex trafficking, or drug addiction. In service to both these women and the wider community, we develop trust over time and provide information about Franciscan Peacemakers' healing pathway to a sustainable healthy, safe, productive life.
Though currently closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Franciscan Peacemakers Hospitality Center opened in August 2019 to provide a respite from the streets for an average of 12-15 women per morning on Lisbon Avenue. The sanctuary provides a place to meet basic needs (restrooms and food) while also offering an opportunity for longer conversations with Franciscan Peacemakers staff, including Peer Support Specialist, Cynthia Perkins. In the short span of 6 months from its opening until the pandemic closure, the Hospitality Center was key to the referral of 2 women from the streets into the Clare Community program.
Housing and Healing
Clare Community was opened in January 2014 in response to the growing need for resident-based trauma care for women seeking a way out of engaging in prostitution due to trauma, human sex trafficking, or drug addiction. Named in honor of St. Clare of Assisi, Clare Community is a unique holistic program where exploited women find sanctuary and connections to resources needed to become sober, stable, safe, and prostitution-free while living in and contributing to the community. Clare Community currently consists of a 3-resident facility with plans to expand service for up to 9 women in residence.
Clare Community also encompasses a network of clients and volunteers who are not in residence but are committed to journeying together in healing. This community gathers weekly on Monday mornings for 'Candlelighting' - a time for prayer, reflection and mutual support.
The Franciscan Peacemakers Social Enterprise (formerly known as Gifts for the Journey) was launched in January 2013 as a supportive workplace where women in recovery from drug addiction and/or sexual exploitation are employed while learning skills in manufacturing, packaging, marketing, sales and administration. While acquiring the skills they need to earn a living wage, the employees who live at Clare Community have the opportunity to put a percentage of their earnings in a matched savings account to begin a strong financial foundation upon their graduation from Clare Community.
Franciscan Peacemakers products include soaps, lotions, candles, bath bombs and salt scrubs - beautifully handmade with all-natural ingredients by women working together toward individual and collective healing.
Franciscan Peacemakers products are available at the following physical locations:
Franciscan Peacemakers Retail Store
3333 W. Lisbon Avenue in Milwaukee, WI
Open: Thursday and Friday, 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM and by appointment (call 414-949-1551)
List of Retail Partners
To inquire about becoming a retail partner and receiving wholesale pricing, please contact our Sales Team at sales@franciscanpeacemakers.org
With our service rooted in Franciscan Spirituality we are committed to creating community awareness about women engaging in prostitution due to trauma, human sex trafficking, and drug addiction, including why it exists and persists.
Members of our Board and Staff are available to speak to your faith community, community service organization, business, school, or foundation. We explain how to recognize the signs of human trafficking and how Franciscan Peacemakers ministries are working to help address the problem and provide a healing pathway to a sustainable healthy, safe, productive life for women seeking healing and recovery.
To begin getting to know Franciscan Peacemakers work, check out our podcast where you will hear from those connected to our programs - staff, participants, board members, volunteers with the hope that what we have learned in our 25 years of ministry can be applied to your life in some way.
Are you a parish or faith community looking to get connected and active in the work to end human sex trafficking? Please see the possibilities for collaboration with Franciscan peacemakers here.
GET CONNECTED WITH FRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS


Phero is a rapper who represents the KLA Ink imprint and you may have seen him on one of your TV sets. As a rapper Phero blends swahili and English to give us something incredible. Phero has been on his grind for a minute and he already has a mixtape under his belt that you can stream/download here. His "Dagala" release features a lot of African elements from the drums to the luganda hooks complimented with some Swahili bars. As you listen to Phero his aspiration to stay to his roots through the music stands out. Enjoy!


text:
Joint Security Operations Center (JSOC)
Learn more about the nation's first-of-its-kind cyber command center for data sharing and cyber coordination.
Building Connections across New York State
The Joint Security Operations Center (JSOC) brings together federal, state, city, and county governments, critical businesses and utilities, and state entities like Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Office of Information Technology Services, New York State Police, MTA, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New York Power Authority, among others.
Agile Cybersecurity Response
The JSOC is the nation's first-of-its-kind cyber command center that will provide a statewide view of the cyber-threat landscape and improve coordination and agility on threat intelligence and incident response.
JSOC Press
Governor Hochul Announces Formation of Joint Security Operations...
The New York JSOC will serve as a first-of-its-kind hub for data sharing and cyber coordination.
Governor Hochul Appoints New York State's First Ever Chief Cyber...
Governor Kathy Hochul announced the appointment of Colin Ahern as the state's first ever Chief Cyber Officer.
Governor Announces Formation of Joint Security Operations Center
On Feb. 22, 2022, Governor Hochul announces the formation of the Joint Security Operations Center to oversee cybersecurity across the state.
The JSOC is the nation's first-of-its-kind cyber command center that will provide a statewide view of the cyber-threat landscape and improve coordination on threat intelligence and incident response.
NYS ITS Chief Information Officer, Angelo "Tony" Riddick, speaks at the JSOC signing.


This is a brand page for the ATTITUDIES trademark by WEST COAST TOY COMPANY in VAN NUYS, , 91406.
Write a review about a product or service associated with this ATTITUDIES trademark. Or, contact the owner WEST COAST TOY COMPANY of the ATTITUDIES trademark by filing a request to communicate with the Legal Correspondent for licensing, use, and/or questions related to the ATTITUDIES trademark.
On Friday, May 20, 1988, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for ATTITUDIES. The USPTO has given the ATTITUDIES trademark serial number of 73729695. The current federal status of this trademark filing is CONTINUED USE NOT FILED WITHIN GRACE PERIOD, UN-REVIVABLE. The correspondent listed for ATTITUDIES is ALLAN M. SHAPIRO of 15315 MAGNOLIA BOULEVARD, SUITE 105, LINDEN COURT, SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91403 . The ATTITUDIES trademark is filed in the category of Toys and Sporting Goods Products . The description provided to the USPTO for ATTITUDIES is DOLLS.
Trademarkia-Network law firms can help you incorporate a business around your ATTITUDIES trademark in less than 5 minutes. Trademarkia makes the process easy and convenient, so start now!
ALLAN M. SHAPIRO is a correspondent of ATTITUDIES trademark.


With Danica Patrick scheduled to kick off her NASCAR Sprint Cup season at the Daytona 500 later this month, there's been a lot of talk about whether the 29-year-old racer can make an impact among the good 'ol boys.
Patrick's seven-year stint in the IndyCar Series was more about hype than actual results. Sure, her 2008 victory at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan was perhaps one of the more memorable moments in U.S.-based open wheel racing in the past decade, but other than some impressive top-end finishes at the Indianapolis 500, Patrick's on-track promise hasn't lived up to her commercial appeal.
As a marketing tool, Patrick is arguably the best in the business -- and that's a valuable asset to any racing driver's career.
Most racing teams, whether they compete in NASCAR, IndyCar or Formula One, are constantly looking for ways to raise money through sponsorships. Patrick's marketability has certainly helped her career in this regard (you'll probably never see IndyCar stars Dario Franchitti or Will Power on a Super Bowl commercial), but she is approaching the point of her career when on-track results will need to weigh more than her marketing appeal.
Patrick will have to push her game to another level if she's going to defy the odds and be successful in the most prestigious stock car series on the planet. Recently, open-wheel stars making the jump to NASCAR have had mild to poor results. Sam Hornish Jr. and Juan Pablo Montoya have had their moments, but others, including Franchitti, have seen their NASCAR careers go nowhere.
There's no doubt that Patrick is a competitive racer (and an inspiration to some, especially women who are breaking into the ranks of male-dominated auto racing), but until she wins races and becomes a Chase for the Cup contender, NASCAR fans need to rein in their expectations.
This season will be another learning year for Patrick. Hopefully, her team will stick by her and not give up on her if she struggles this season -- and that looks promising based on her ability to attract sponsors.
Still, until she can prove herself on track, she's simply the most visible driver on it.


← Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Press!
culpable al pago de alimentos en favor del inocente.
Consequently, for us alimony, spousal and child support will translate as "alimentos" and this is a good example of a difference in legal terminology between two Spanish-speaking countries.
I was aware of this difference with respect to Mexican terminology and for that reason was careful to indicate in my post that the information and terminology are from Spanish law. But thanks also for your input from a Mexican perspective.
Yeah, It is important to be aware with this difference.


text:
Marian Engel
"A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance."
--Margaret Atwood
The winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, Marian Engel's most famous – and most controversial – novel tells the unforgettable story of a woman transformed by a primal, erotic relationship. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belonged to an eccentric nineteenth-century colonel. Eager to investigate the estate's curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. Lou's imagination is soon overtaken by the island's past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. What she discovers will change her life forever. As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. Includes a reading group guide.
Decrease quantity for Bear
Increase quantity for Bear


Come delight in the bounty of winter squash! In this class we'll learn how to cut, cook, and prepare a variety of pumpkin and squash dishes. You'll never have to fear the dreaded butternut or question how to tackle these autumn beasts again. Instead, come celebrate the abundance of fall as we pickle pumpkins, roast whole squash, make pumpkin pie filling from scratch, and feast upon winter squash chili. This class is 2.5 hours and includes refreshments and hearty snacks. Cost is $50 per person. To register, click here. In the contact form, please let Heather know which day you plan to attend so that she can send you the proper invoice.


text:
Celebrity Big Brother's Heavy D is engaged to girlfriend of one month
Posted by Admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Pop Culture | 0 |
Celebrity Big Brother star Heavy D is ready to walk down the aisle after becoming engaged to his girlfriend of just one month.
The TV star, 43, popped the question to his new lady Bryony Anne Harris, 21, live during a radio broadcast on Thursday and he was left a happy man when she accepted.
CBB's Heavy D is engaged (Ian West/PA)
The uniquely romantic moment between the pair – who are "obsessed" with each other – happened on Fubar radio during Lizzie Cundy's show.
Taken by surprise as Heavy D, real name Colin Newell, got down on one knee and asked for her hand in marriage, YouTube personality Bryony said: "Yes, obviously, but you're f****** mental."
Love this picture! ❤❤ @BryonyHarris2 pic.twitter.com/6XGVOPRqM1
— HEAVY D (@HeavyHeavyd) September 23, 2016
She later said: "We've been talking about this a lot, but I didn't think you'd actually do it!"
Heavy D added, using his well-known catchphrase: "It's a yes! Boom! I don't mess about."
I love him so much @HeavyHeavyd pic.twitter.com/BIVI4hUnEj
— Bryony Anne Harris (@BryonyHarris2) September 21, 2016
Thinking ahead already, Bryony then discussed what their engagement party might be like, and she's keen on a "crazy golf folk festival with Guinness tents".
The day after they became engaged, Bryony made sure to show off her sparkling, reversible engagement ring on her Twitter page for all to see.
We're Engaged! @HeavyHeavyd a reversible ring you did well 💛💛💛💛 pic.twitter.com/uS3mzlo4Pf
The pair met shortly after Storage Hunters UK star Heavy D left the CBB house, and Bryony got in touch with him because she loved him on the show.
After sparks flying and a quick holiday in Marbella, it seems that things are firmly on the romance train for this speedy pair.
PreviousWho will become the Premier League's first 21st-century boy?
NextUnder-the-skin Implants Help Detect Breast Cancer Spread
Jacqueline Jossa dazzles on red carpet at Inside Soap Awards
Danny Mac flashes his chest in first sequinned Strictly number
Honey G is the best thing to happen to Saturday night
Kristen Stewart calls her past relationship with Robert Pattinson 'a product'


text:
/*
 * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
 * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */
package pl.hojczak.meh.p2;

import pl.hojczak.meh.utils.TSPLIBParser;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 *
 * @author jhojczak
 */
public class Problem {

    private long[][] graph;

    public Problem(long[][] graph) {
        if (graph == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("graph can't be null");
        }
        this.graph = graph;
    }

    public int getSize() {
        return graph.length;
    }

    public float getSizeAsDouble() {
        return (float) graph.length;
    }

    public double getDistance(int from, int to) {
//        if (graph[from][to] <= 0d) {
//            throw new IllegalArgumentException("This connetion [" + from + "]=>[" + to + "] don't exist");
//        }
        return graph[from][to];
    }

    public void loadProblemFromProperties(Properties prop) {
        prop.getProperty("problem.graph.file", "");
    }

    public static Problem createProblemFromFile(String file) {
        TSPLIBParser parser = new TSPLIBParser();
        try {
            long[][] graph = parser.loadGraphFromFile(file);
            return new Problem(graph);
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException | SAXException | IOException ex) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(ex);
        }
    }

    boolean isConnection(int from, int to) {
        return graph[from][to] > 0l;
    }

}


The Dallas County Sheriff's Department has various opportunities for professional growth for anyone looking to start a career in law enforcement. We offer entry level non-sworn detention service officer positions, to sworn-in deputy positions, as well as other civilian positions for anyone looking to give back to their community. In addition, there are part-time career opportunities for retirees or enrolled college students.


Poll: Is Your Military Husband a Good Father?
Most advice about how to be a good father assumes that the guy is right there, too. They already assume that the man is present every day, up for midnight feedings, teaching the kids to throw a ball, reading to them, brushing their teeth, respecting their mom.
If you want to be a good dad, the first rule is that you gotta be there.
But, um, by definition, our military husbands work long hours. They are rarely in charge of their own schedules enough to accommodate school schedules and dentist appointments or even midnight feedings.
And then there is the fact that they are gone. A lot. Sometimes they are in the field or at sea for a couple of weeks or months. Sometimes they are gone for a year or more at a time. So does that mean that they aren't good dads? That they can't be good dads?
That's what we want to know from you. Secretly, in your heart of hearts, do you think your military husband is a good dad?
Take our poll and then check out the results below!


Who doesn't love trivia and beer? Gather your team and join us for the monthly trivia night at the pub! We'll have a variety of categories to test your knowledge and winners will receive a Short's gift card.


Labor & Employment | Comegno Law Group, P.C.
The firm has considerable experience representing management interests in Labor and Employment matters ranging from preventative advice and training to policy and practice development, day to day employment counseling, and litigation services. We routinely counsel clients dealing with discrimination claims, disability and protected status matters, and restrictive-covenant, non-compete, non-solicit, and trade secret issues.
We pride ourselves in assisting clients with increased effectiveness in employment practices and policies. Our services minimize the risk of legal challenges and maximize the defensibility of management action. At the same time, if a dispute litigates, our firm brings to bear its resources and experiences to zealously defend claims and pursue swift resolution.
Our attorneys have defended management in single and multiple plaintiff litigations and alternative dispute resolution proceedings across all levels of administrative, state, and federal courts.