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Mark Tritton
Bed Bath & Beyond suffered a rough third quarter, with earnings dipping into the red, but in his first conference call as the company's CEO, Mark Tritton provided his view of how the company would turn things around, including an expansion of in-store pickup and the launch of a new vendor collaboration program.
Bed Bath & Beyond CEO Tritton Restructures Leadership Team
Bed Bath & Beyond is making an extensive restructure of its leadership team, including the departure of six senior members. The move reflects the priorities of new president and CEO, Mark Tritton, who will launch his new vision for the company in early 2020.
BB&B Gives Tritton A Big-League Opportunity
I've been known to drop a sports metaphor in this space from time to time (the former sportswriter in me breaking loose). So, please indulge me if the hiring of Mark Tritton as Bed Bath & Beyond's president and CEO had me thinking of all the Major League Baseball teams currently interviewing for a new manager.
Fixing Bed Bath & Beyond's Stores Should Top Tritton's To-Do List
Another chapter in the ongoing Bed Bath & Beyond saga of reinvention has been written with the hiring of former Target executive Mark Tritton as the home specialty store's new president/CEO.
Target Names Fiddelke CFO, Updates Merchant Leadership
Target has named Michael Fiddelke evp/chief financial officer, effective November 1. The retailer also updated its merchant leadership following Mark Tritton joining Bed Bath & Beyond as CEO.
Tritton Named Bed Bath & Beyond CEO
Bed Bath & Beyond has named Mark J. Tritton as the company's new president and CEO, effective November 4. He succeeds interim CEO, Mary Winston.
Target Names Tritton Chief Merchandising Officer
Target has named Mark Tritton evp/chief merchandising officer. In this role, he will oversee enterprise buying, product design and development,…

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When I was in high school, people started to give negative comments and spread the rumors about me in school. *sigh*. Some of them say that I was a la-di-da just because I walk really fast. *Errr REALLY?*. Some of them say that I was always showing off my dad's money by wearing expensive stuff and whatsoever like that. They can even say that I'm accepted to Giovanni Catholic SHS because my dad has an in with his position atm (He is one of Giovanni graduates who have entered the record as a successful graduate in the present). They talked many things about me –which am not true at all. Some of them are used to be my friends. They became a backstabber. I tried to talk with my mom and dad at first because it made me uncomfortable at school. But then I realized I can't lead by the nose the situation.
Not only at school, even my RELATIVES said bad things about me. It's just okay if your friends or a-nobody give any negatives comments about you. It becomes unbelievable when your relatives did it TOO. Some of them say that "That girl can't do anything. She doesn't have the makings of anything. All the she can do is only wasting the money." or "Suzan doesn't know anything about life because she was born in front of money". Once or twice is just normal: maybe they're right that I should be a better person. When they keep gossiping many times over, then it made me wonder. I started to think the reasons why they can become that kind of person. And then I conclude it: A person might hate me for 3 reasons: 1) they want to be me. 2) They hate themselves. 3) They see me as a threat.
I was a serious person. I used to take everything seriously –which is frustrating. They took me down, and then I just realized that they're no-one. I tried to become a cool person. I mean I shouldn't listen, not even care about them. The more I feed the attention about it, the more they happy. Sometimes I found it fun when they judged me. I mean they can't tell me who I am because unless I wrote down all my thoughts on a piece of paper and hand it to them, they don't even know half of me. *hahaha*. I remember Henry Ford's words: "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it". I took that as a chance to show them that they're NOTHING. No matter how hard they tried to put me down, they will never make it comes true. EVER! It made me stronger even more. Yo Haters, you can say anything about me as you please but I am what I am and that's someone you'll NEVER be!
If you guys are backstabbers, haters, hypocrites, or liars, I just wanna make you realize that there're SO many things to do instead of hating others and spread the rumors about someone. Don't make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone, because it will depreciates their reputation and yours. Please behave yourself. What's so good about gossip? Nothing! I think one thing you guys should understand is that someone's success doesn't take away from yours, and your success doesn't take away from theirs. So just stop being jealous, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS and Show some RESPECT. C'mon guys, life's too short to spend hating others. Stop being haters and just SPREAD THE LOVE.


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Being a professional musician, I spent several years traveling around the globe. The beauty of our unique planet caused an overwhelming desire to stop the instant, to keep memorable events and happy moments in photos.
The reasons why the pictures keep someone's attention and inspire … The ability of a picture to enter the consciousness and change the observer's attitude to the world, in order to disclose the magic of the world through the lens of a camera.
In my works, I try to convey as much as possible the inner world of a person, the purity of a child's smile and to show the truth about perfections and flaws of this world.
Thanks, Girolamo, for your kind words. I will do my best.


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Bartók's Bluebeard
by Charles T. Downey | Monday, September 20, 2004
One of the operas we are covering, pretty soon, in my course on Opera in the 20th Century is Béla Bartók's one-act A Kékszakállú herceg vára (Duke Bluebeard's Castle). Tim Ashley's article (Bloody chambers, August 28) for The Guardian is a nice introduction to some of the problems of this troubling and fascinating work. It also has some good information about the historical background of the legend on which the opera is based:
There is no consensus even as to its origins, which have been traced to two very different sources, though both, significantly, have a serial killer at their centre. The first deals with Comar, a spurious fifth-century Breton chieftain, who murdered his wives in turn, when each found evidence of what had happened to her predecessor. The second concerns the historical figure of Gilles de Rais, who was executed by the Inquisition in Nantes in October 1440. At his trial, De Rais stood accused of "heresy, sacrilege and offences against nature". During its course, however, he confessed to the sexual assault and murder of more than 140 children, crimes so obscene as to defy belief, though historians have also questioned - and continue to question - whether the charges were fabricated and his confession forced.
Other stories about De Rais were soon in circulation, however. We know him to have been estranged from his wife, Catherine, but it was soon rumoured that he killed her when she found incriminating evidence in his torture chamber. Then there was the question of his beard, so black that in a certain light it looked blue. It was said that De Rais's actions appalled even the devil so that the latter marked him with the blue beard to distinguish him from all other men.
The rumours surrounding De Rais were doubtless the source of Charles Perrault's tale, published in 1695. Here we find the legend's essential elements: Bluebeard handing his keys to his wife with instructions that she may use all but one in his absence; her breaking of his prohibition only to discover his former wives' bodies; the bloodstained key that betrays her actions; and Bluebeard's determination to kill her as punishment for her curiosity.
Here is the text of Charles Perrault's second edition of the Conte de Barbe Bleue (in French or in English), or the original edition with morality (in French only). The opera was performed recently at the Proms (Prom 69, September 7), with Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet as Judith and John Tomlinson as Bluebeard, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. The program began with the British premiere of Kaija Saariaho's Orion (see Andrew Clements's appreciative review of the concert on September 9, for The Guardian). If you're in London, the Hungarian National Opera and Ballet will perform the opera (along with Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin) at Sadler's Wells, from October 4 to 6.
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Q: equivalent of TypeInfo.getMethod for privates methods I want to test private methods.

Unit testing private methods in C#

I tried the fifth solution. ie : using reflection
using System;
using System.Reflection;

namespace tobeDEleted
{
    static class classA {
        private static void method1() { Console.WriteLine(1); }
    }

    class classB
    {
        private void method2() { Console.WriteLine(2); }
        private static void method3() { Console.WriteLine(3); }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            var objb = new classB();
            MethodInfo methodInfo1 = typeof(classA).GetMethod ("method1", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
            MethodInfo methodInfo2 = typeof(classB).GetMethod("method2", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
            MethodInfo methodInfo3 = typeof(classB).GetMethod("method3", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);

            object[] parameters = { };
            methodInfo2.Invoke(obj, parameters);
            methodInfo3.Invoke(obj, parameters);

        }
    }
}

as expected methodInfo3 throw a exception:

System.NullReferenceException: 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'

Is there a similar method as GetMethod for static methods.
I don't know too, how to test an static class.

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a-Singled for Heisey in the 9th.
2B: Votto (11, Gonzalez, G).
HR: Hernandez, Ra (3, 10th inning off Wuertz, 0 on, 0 out), Votto (15, 10th inning off Bowers, 1 on, 1 out), Rolen (15, 10th inning off Bowers, 0 on, 1 out).
TB: Phillips; Votto 6; Rolen 4; Cairo 2; Hernandez, Ra 5; Bruce.
RBI: Votto 3 (46), Bruce (31), Hernandez, Ra (16), Rolen (46).
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Phillips; Cairo; Bruce.
SB: Stubbs (15, 2nd base off Bailey, A/Suzuki, K).
Outfield assists: Gomes, J (Barton at 3rd base).
2B: Sweeney, R (16, Leake).
HR: Kouzmanoff (8, 9th inning off Cordero, F, 0 on, 0 out).
TB: Jackson, C; Sweeney, R 2; Barton; Suzuki, K; Kouzmanoff 5; Pennington.
RBI: Jackson, C (14), Kouzmanoff 2 (38), Sweeney, R (31).
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Jackson, C; Cust 2; Ellis, M; Davis, R.
SB: Pennington (9, 2nd base off Cordero, F/Hernandez, Ra).
E: Pennington (10, fielding), Davis, R (2, fielding).
Cordero, F pitched to 2 batters in the 10th.
Game Scores: Leake 56, Gonzalez, G 75.
Pitches-strikes: Leake 96-51, Masset 23-15, Rhodes 4-3, Cordero, F 33-16, Herrera 8-5, Smith, J 10-5, Gonzalez, G 105-64, Breslow 13-8, Bailey, A 21-14, Wuertz 5-4, Bowers 21-12.
Groundouts-flyouts: Leake 10-2, Masset 2-1, Rhodes 0-0, Cordero, F 0-0, Herrera 1-0, Smith, J 1-0, Gonzalez, G 9-4, Breslow 1-0, Bailey, A 0-1, Wuertz 1-0, Bowers 0-1.
Batters faced: Leake 26, Masset 5, Rhodes 1, Cordero, F 7, Herrera 2, Smith, J 2, Gonzalez, G 27, Breslow 3, Bailey, A 5, Wuertz 3, Bowers 5.
Inherited runners-scored: Herrera 2-1, Smith, J 2-1, Bowers 1-1.
Umpires: HP: Jerry Crawford. 1B: Chris Guccione. 2B: Brian O'Nora. 3B: Phil Cuzzi.


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Should I stay in India? Should I continue doing service work? Should service be my main focus? How much money do I want to earn? How relevant are the plans that I had from before the fellowship year? And, above all, what does this past year mean to me in the context of the rest of my life?
In April, with a few months left in my fellowship year, I started thinking about the big "what's next" question. This is a significant question for many fellows since the Indicorps experience is such a momentous shift from the previous trajectory of our lives.
Tentatively, I started exploring options to stay in India. Once I started looking, I was amazed at the many opportunities: staying on with my Indicorps project placement, editing a travel guidebook, joining Indicorps staff, helping start a world-class university in Orissa and laying the infrastructure for solar energy to take off across India, among others. Not bad, especially compared to what I had been hearing about peoples' six-month job searches in the U.S.
The questions kept circling in my head. One of my initial reasons for coming to India was to explore the possibility of making a career and life here with the hope of shaping India's mushrooming cities to make them more socially equitable, environmentally sustainable, and more genuinely livable for the growing multitudes inhabiting them. Although I had not thought about these issues much during the course of my fellowship, my meandering train of thought returned to ponder these ideas. Is this still important to me? And what would working in this field in India actually look like?
With the help of an Indicorps introduction, I started work six weeks ago at an architecture, urban planning, and design firm in Ahmedabad. Staying in India another year not only gives me the opportunity to explore my professional interests and experience living in an Indian city after spending a year in a small town, it also allows me to enrich my engagement with the values that I lived and the process of growth that I began during my fellowship year. Whether it is grappling with what it means to "live simply" while working a professional job, befriending the support staff in the office, or viewing this segment of India through a holistic frame, I am continuing the journey that I embarked upon during my first year in India during this second one.
I was so nice to read your letter and you said lot of things in a short simple letter.
I am sure your outer experience with inner search must have met a nice fusion point.
We feel that you are taking a journey with lot of rich values in you.
It is good to know about the wonderfull work that you have done and it is quite intresting to know that you are staying for another year in India.
Well we have a lot of energy in our self, I wonder how sucessfull India would be if just every Indian gives an year of service to the nation.
Really nice to know about u.
Great decision. Proud to have been in your midst.


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Give RuPaul An Emmy!
Written by Kevin Farrell on June 10, 2011
Anyone who has laid eyes on RuPaul's Drag Race knows that the titular star plays double duty on the program. Viewers are treated to both of Ru's personas each episode. This is no easy feat, considering one is a voluptuous Amazon goddess, and the other is, well… The other is RuPaul not in drag.
Ladies and gentleman and ladygents and gentleladies, for your consideration: Rupaul's campaign for an Emmy nomination.
By the way, we're not at all amused by Orbitz' commercial starring three drag queens that plays before Ru's video here. Normally we'd flip for the inclusive campaign, but not when the company behind it is double-crossing the gay community by our backs.
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import pytest

from hatchling.version.source.code import CodeSource

def test_no_path(isolation):
    source = CodeSource(str(isolation), {})

    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match='option `path` must be specified'):
        source.get_version_data()

def test_path_not_string(isolation):
    source = CodeSource(str(isolation), {'path': 1})

    with pytest.raises(TypeError, match='option `path` must be a string'):
        source.get_version_data()

def test_path_nonexistent(isolation):
    source = CodeSource(str(isolation), {'path': 'a/b'})

    with pytest.raises(OSError, match='file does not exist: a/b'):
        source.get_version_data()

def test_expression_not_string(temp_dir):
    source = CodeSource(str(temp_dir), {'path': 'a/b', 'expression': 23})

    file_path = temp_dir / 'a' / 'b'
    file_path.ensure_parent_dir_exists()
    file_path.touch()

    with pytest.raises(TypeError, match='option `expression` must be a string'):
        source.get_version_data()

def test_match_default_expression(temp_dir, helpers):
    source = CodeSource(str(temp_dir), {'path': 'a/b'})

    file_path = temp_dir / 'a' / 'b'
    file_path.ensure_parent_dir_exists()
    file_path.write_text('__version__ = "0.0.1"')

    with temp_dir.as_cwd():
        assert source.get_version_data()['version'] == '0.0.1'

def test_match_custom_expression_basic(temp_dir):
    source = CodeSource(str(temp_dir), {'path': 'a/b', 'expression': 'VER'})

    file_path = temp_dir / 'a' / 'b'
    file_path.ensure_parent_dir_exists()
    file_path.write_text('VER = "0.0.1"')

    with temp_dir.as_cwd():
        assert source.get_version_data()['version'] == '0.0.1'

def test_match_custom_expression_complex(temp_dir, helpers):
    source = CodeSource(str(temp_dir), {'path': 'a/b', 'expression': 'foo()'})

    file_path = temp_dir / 'a' / 'b'
    file_path.ensure_parent_dir_exists()
    file_path.write_text(
        helpers.dedent(
            """
            __version_info__ = (1, 0, 0, 1, 'dev0')

            def foo():
                return '.'.join(str(part) for part in __version_info__)
            """
        )
    )

    with temp_dir.as_cwd():
        assert source.get_version_data()['version'] == '1.0.0.1.dev0'

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In boredomresearch's award winning Lumen Prize artwork AfterGlow, an Animate Projects commission funded by the Wellcome Trust, boredomresearch collaborated with Dr Paddy Brock, a mathematical modeler at the Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, to explore the bounds of current epidemiological practice. This project forms a new expression of a malaria infection transmission scenario, placing the audience in the perspective of the mosquitoes.
Locked in perpetual twilight – prime mosquito blood-feeding time – AfterGlow presents a terrain progressively illuminated by glowing trails, evocative of mosquito flight paths. These spiralling forms represent packets of blood, carried by mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium knowlesi, a malaria parasite recently found to jump the species barrier from monkey to human. The infection left in the wake of wandering macaques as they search the island for food reveals the intimate relationship between disease and its environment. In AfterGlow the spectator is taken on a real-time journey through the eyes of an autonomous camera which traverses the island following the infection scenario; from clustering luminous spiralling cells of colour to black turbulent infectious spirals. Where the infection is most dense, we see a blizzard of disease, vividly expressing the complexity of this dangerous scenario.
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Tighter Adoption Rules
MOSCOW (AP) -- The State Duma urged the government Thursday to tighten control over foreign adoptions to protect the children's rights and ensure that Russian families have priority.
The Duma voted unanimously in favor of a request to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to interfere in what it called "the critical situation concerning the adoption of Russian children by foreign citizens."
"Nearly 7,000 kids from Russia are adopted by foreigners every year," said Deputy Yekaterina Lakhova, adding that more children were adopted by foreigners last year than by Russians.
The appeal appeared to be a reaction to a recent NTV report about a few Russian children who were killed by their adoptive parents.
8 Killed in Bus Crash
MOSCOW (AP) -- A bus carrying a soccer team crashed with two other vehicles outside Moscow on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring 11, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
The team was from the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, said ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov.
Beltsov said the accident occurred 80 kilometers east of Moscow when a long truck carrying heavy containers tried to avoid colliding with a small passenger car and plowed into the bus instead.
Mubarak Visits
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President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the government will do everything in its power to foster the reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church and its foreign branch. (AP)
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Nintendo's Enduring Games Evolve
In its annual E3 Digital Event on Tuesday, Nintendo of America Inc. President and CEO Reggie Fils-Aimé noted a distinctive theme that encompasses so many Nintendo experiences. "If there's a secret to the success of Nintendo franchises, it is transformation," Fils-Aimé said. "We never let them stand still."
Nintendo spotlighted this transformative theme in a wide selection of games coming to the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS platforms in 2015 and beyond.
Super Mario Maker allows players to create and share their very own sidescrolling Super Mario stages for the first time in series history. The game employs the Wii U GamePad for detailed level construction. Players can place enemies, hazards, and more by tapping a stylus to the touch screen. Super Mario Maker includes stage elements from several past games--both from the pixel-based classics and modern 3D entries.
In advance of its release September 11, Nintendo detailed new features for the creation game. Super Mario Maker will support the company's Amiibo smart figurines, which lets players activate the Costume Mario ability and dress the hero up as other characters--such as Link or the Wii Fit Trainer. Nintendo will release a 30th Anniversary Mario Amiibo figure specifically for Super Mario Maker and the game will release with a book that highlights the series' history and offers sample stage layouts to try.
The transformational theme is also central to Star Fox Zero, which continues the long-running space shooter series with a brand new Wii U entry. Zero leverages the unique design of the Wii U console experience to let players to use the GamePad screen as a cockpit view, providing more precise aiming capabilities. The television screen simultaneously shows a more traditional, cinematic look at the action.
Legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto discussed the creation of the game during the Digital Event, noting that some elements were carried over from the canceled Star Fox 2 (originally designed for the Super Nintendo console in the mid-1990s). Players can transform the Arwing ship into a tank or gyrocopter to tackle levels in new and different ways. Developed in collaboration with Bayonetta 2 creator Platinum Games, Star Fox Zero is due out this holiday season.
Nintendo also showcased a number of other Wii U entries coming before the end of the year. Yoshi's Woolly World is a sidescrolling platform adventure that carries on the spirit of Kirby's Epic Yarn for Wii, putting the familiar Super Mario character into a world built of fabric. Yoshi can use the unique composition of his yarn-based body to help overcome the adorable challenges ahead of him. The game has its own Amiibo toys available. Yoshi's Wooly World is set to release October 16.
Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash brings the arcade-style sports series to Wii U this fall with new features like jump shots and giant mushrooms. And Nintendo has teamed up with Activision to power up the Wii U version of Skylanders SuperChargers, which features two characters from the Nintendo universe: Turbo Charge Donkey Kong and Hammer Slam Bowser. The companies will release exclusive Amiibo toys that work with Skylanders and other Nintendo games. SuperChargers and the figures are set to release September 20.
The Amiibo focus continues with Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival this fall, which offers up a digital board game experience featuring characters from the popular life simulation series. Nintendo's other big holiday release is quite different in tone: Xenoblade Chronicles X, out December 4, lets players dig into an epic role-playing experience set amidst an intergalactic war. The publisher also offered a brief glimpse of 2016's Genei Ibun Roku #FE (working title), an Atlus-developed role-playing game that blends elements of the Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem franchises.
Earlier this week, Nintendo also announced several content additions for last year's Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. Iconic character Ryu from Capcom's Street Fighter series joined the fighting game roster as an optional add-on character, along with Roy from the Fire Emblem series. New stages and costumes were announced and the company revealed intentions to eventually release Amiibo figurines based on every character from the games.
While Nintendo has several Wii U experiences on the horizon, the upcoming Nintendo 3DS slate is just as strong, led by The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes. The popular adventure series adopts a cooperative multiplayer approach for this new entry, which can be enjoyed by up to three players at once. Tri Force Heroes includes new fashion elements and allows players to customize their characters with different outfits when the game releases this fall.
Another Zelda game on the horizon for the handheld is Hyrule Warriors Legends, a remix of last year's Wii U game, which blended familiar characters and elements from the series with the action-packed excitement of Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors games. The Legends version adds new characters from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and will be available in the first quarter of 2016.
Nintendo has a trio of other 2015 releases planned for the 3DS. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, set for release September 25, lets players customize their own colorful homes and gardens and utilize new Amiibo cards. Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon expands the role-playing series this fall with even more randomly generated dungeons to explore--all filled with loads of familiar monsters. This holiday season's Yo-Kai Watch brings a popular Japanese role-playing game to America for the first time, letting players seek out and battle fantastical creatures.
Nintendo plans to tap more of its enduring franchises for new 3DS entries in 2016. Metroid Prime: Federation Force reimagines the sci-fi adventure series as a cooperative four-player game on the handheld and features a three-on-three competitive sports experience called Metroid Prime: Blast Ball. Meanwhile, Fire Emblem Fates delivers an expansive role-playing experience in the long-running series with two versions of the game being released to allow players to experience the fantasy struggle from opposing sides.
Mario makes his own 3DS appearance in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, which pairs characters from the earlier Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi entries in a new comedic role-playing adventure, slated to release next spring.
Nintendo plans to support the Wii U and 3DS significantly in the months ahead, as evidenced by its impressive lineup. But the company is also looking ahead to the future: Fils-Aimé affirmed during the event that Nintendo plans to share details on its next game console, codenamed "NX," in 2016. With impressive games now and big plans on the horizon, Nintendo continues to deliver transformative games and experiences now and into the foreseeable future.
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In this article, we'll cover the first of the five targeted heart rate zones for Effective Exercise.
This is the starter zone, which is called the "Warm Zone". This target heart rate zone is only going to require that you reach about 50-60% of your maximum heart rate in order to have an effective workout.
Using the 187 as an example, you want to reach the target zone of 50-60% of that for the Warm Zone. So, around 93-95 BPM is the perfect heart rate for the Warm Zone. It is important to stay in this zone for a minimum of five minutes. 20-40 minutes is ideal, but since this zone is suitable for those not used to heavy exercise, 5-10 minutes will certainly be sufficient.
This is for individuals easing into exercise, or for obese or elderly people. It helps to boost metabolism in a safe way. Use this zone to get your breathing and stamina up and to give your diet a boost.
Zone one is the most comfortable zone out of the five. It can be easily reached by just walking briskly. It will strengthen your heart, help shape and tone your muscles, and it will also assist in dropping that unwanted body fat, reducing cholesterol, and even reducing blood pressure.


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Spartan Power is based in Reno, Nevada and manufactures what we and many believe to be the best Made in the USA battery cables on the market today, and their DC to AC inverter/chargers aren't too shabby either! Spartan also produces a very powerful line of portable jump starters, with their flagship model being a 20,000mAh dynamo that will start the majority of the vehicles on the road today, yet small enough to carry with you. Oh, did we mention it also charges pretty much any laptop or phone on the market today? Spartan rounds out their product line with some very high quality ANL fuses, fuse kits and voltage meters.
Their products carry some of the best warranties in the industry today and their commitment to quality is really second to none. We highly recommend that you check out Spartan Power's offering, if you have any questions about one of their products, please fel free to contact us today!


Spring Festival will coming. Looking back, our heart infinite many regrets. First of all, thank you for the past 2016 years for our support and help, with your cooperation and help. Let us to the brilliant achievements in 2016. 2017 for our company, it is frequently success and realize the development of a year. Since the company since its establishment, we learned a lot from the customers. Customers are also constantly promote our development and progress. The development of our company can't depart from the support of customers, from all walks of life with the help of the government, in the sincere gratitude and appreciation to you all. As a professional manufacurer which engaged in winding wire, Henan MG Magent Wire Co., LTD know that the customer's choice of wire, is not only in the choice of technology, and choose the service guarantee, is to choose a long-term partner. We deeply know, want to let the customer to choose us.It's not enough to be verbal commitment. It needs to be persistent on research and development, technology innovation, keep improving service products, make services more professional and more sincere. We need to keep communication with customers, make our products and services to better meet the requirements of all. We need to keep the company long-term and healthy development, allow us to become long-term customers trusted partners.
In the coming 2017, you will also continue to see us in a steady stream of creativity as a rookie enterprise on the winding wire industry. Our team is stronger than before, we will with the ambition and drive to achieve greater customer return on investment goals. After two years of team building, we have established a knowledge, learning, unity, dedication, pragmatic team. We will get a great success in 2017. Our team will also bring you great benefits.
Hope you also for the future with confidence and passion in 2017. Looking forward to a pleasant cooperation with you in 2016 years. Looking forward to the future, we will continue efforts to keep pace with the times. We will do our best to provide the best quality for the general customers. Also please continue to pay attention to our latest dynamic. Sincerely wish you prosperity in the year ahead, and all the best!


Every day you hop in front of your computer, log into your Facebook or Twitter or Instagram etc accounts and like pics, share posts, keep yourself updated with all the things your friends are doing in their life. Is this Social Media all about in our daily lives?
If your answer is YES then you need to think again!! What if we tell you that by just sitting in front of your computer you can help to Make A Change in someone's life with whom you have never met or that person may live in any other part of the world, interesting, isn't it?.
Even the big companies and organizations are coming forward to support & fulfill their obligations towards the society. They are running campaigns online which you can join by sharing, donating any amount which you feel like giving as it is aptly said: "Every Drop Makes an Ocean".
Social Media for the social cause is using of all the types of social platforms available for the benefit of the society in general. We bring you some great examples of social media being used by some of the biggest companies/organizations to fulfill their Corporate Social Responsibility.
Help is Always Given to Those Who Ask for it !!….Organizing fundraising events or charity campaigns have been in existence for more than a decade but in the past 5-6 years with the ever-growing popularity of Social Media among the people has paved the way for numerous charity campaigns being organized by using the social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter etc. Below are discussed 2 of the most famous charity campaigns which spread like fire with the help of Social Media.
SAVE THE CHILDREN campaign has been in existence since the 1930s, it works for the benefit of the children of The United States Of America and other countries of the world giving "What Every Child Deserves" i.e. a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and care when disaster strikes. With the invent of Social Media, this campaign has increased its reach by using various platforms like Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest where you can locate them and give donations to support their noble cause.
Who can forget the famous "Ice Bucket Challenge", dumping buckets full of ice on yourself and if not succeeded then to donate money to ALS Association. This campaign went very viral during July-August 2014 and on August 29 the ALS Association announced their total donations exceeded $100 Million. Superb isn't it? This is the actual power of campaigning and fundraising through Social Media.
Pinterest is no longer only to PIN the images/videos just for fun, many big organizations like UNICEF are turning the social media platforms like Pinterest to raise funds for the children of many developing and underdeveloped nations. For instance, UNICEF launched an interesting campaign through Pinterest by using the term "Really Want These" from the point of view children who do not get to enjoy the basic human necessities which the people of developed countries take easily for granted. For more information go to http://bit.ly/21bIeaL.
Cause marketing means the use of Social Media by a for-profit business organization which promotes its brand along with supporting a social cause.
When biggies like Louis Vuitton & UNICEF join hands together it has a huge impact but combines it with Social Media the impact is nuclear. Recently, in January 2016 both the giants came together in Los Angeles for a Charity Ball which raised over $2.5 million to save and protect the world's children. To make the most of this partnership Louis Vuitton created a digital campaign to raise awareness and encourage as many people as possible to support UNICEF's actions. This commitment is symbolized by a "pinky promise", a popular way among children to signify that a promise has been sealed by entwining their little fingers. People are invited to share their pledge on social networks via the hashtag #MAKEAPROMISE. For more information go to http://bit.ly/1U9VkmM.
Johnson's Baby also timed a social media cause marketing campaign with an upcoming holiday. The company is donating a dollar to Save the Children for every like or share on one of their Mother's Day cards.
Kellogg's set a goal to serve one million breakfasts to children who are in need of food. In order to reach this goal, the company created a Facebook post, a set Tweet using the hashtag #sharebreakfast, and a pin on Pinterest, and promised to feed one child breakfast for every share.
No matter how big or small you or your organization might be, even the smallest help can bring a SMILE on the face of that someone and the blessings of those people from the heart are the best "Return on Investment" one can wish for.


LILONGWE - A fierce fight that had ensued between Malawi's President Peter Mutharika and friends of Vice President Saulos Chilima came to a temporary halt last Wednesday when the VP who was coaxed to stand as president on the ruling party ticket declared at a press conference he will not stand.
Chilima, 45, told the press that he will not even attend the convention or run for DPP presidency amid rising tension in the country two months after the former first lady Callista Mutharika endorsed him for presidency.
The VP said he would resign as a DPP member in due course and stated that there was so much corruption and mismanagement in government which had put Malawians on their knees.
He said there was a need for someone to take Malawians out of the predicament they are currently in.
He said he would tell Malawians soon what his next step would be.
Chilima's announcement comes just two weeks after a group calling itself Chilimaism movement conducted a press conference which was led by former cabinet minister and Mulanje West MP, Patricia Kaliati, where they endorsed the VP as their presidential candidate against President Mutharika whom they said has come of age and needs to retire from politics.
The rift between the two factions in the party had created hate speeches and ridicule to the extent that the president himself said he was going to deal with anyone who was against him, including those for Chilima Movement.
Former First Lady Callista Mutharika had said in an earlier interview that DPP members would force Chilima to contest in the 2019 elections.
Some senior DPP members, such as director of youths, Louis Ngalande, and legislators Bon Kalindo, Allan Ngumuya and Noel Masangwi have also come out in support of Callista.
Callista had said she had not discussed the issue with Chilima but claimed that members of the ruling DPP would force him to contest as a DPP presidential candidate.
But President Mutharika has declared himself torchbearer of the DPP during the 2019 elections, trashing those calling for him to leave the stage and in favour of Chilima, saying they wanted a weak candidate to give Malawi Congress Party (MCP) the presidency on a silver platter.
Callista Mutharika said recently that Mutharika, 79, would be too old to carry on as he would be 84 at the time of leaving office in 2024 if re-elected next year.
The President described those calling for him to leave the stage to young people as "Judas Iscariots" who do not wish him and the DPP well.
"There are some who want to destroy DPP. The MCP are running scared of DPP because they fear that if I will am candidate ndizawanyenya (I will defeat them). From 2012 when Bingu (wa Mutharika) died, the party had died but you and me continued with the party securing victory in 2014 and we will do it again in 2019," said Mutharika.
"There are some Judas Iscariots who say they want to boot me out of the party. I am going nowhere, I will not go as people have said, I will stand come 2019, contest and win with a landslide," he said.


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How Ground Coffee Temperature Causes Uneven Espresso Extraction
Are you concerned about the 3ºC variation in the water temperature inside your espresso machine's group head? Yes? Well, what if I told you that the temperature of your ground coffee could vary a lot more than that?
The relationship between ground coffee temperature and espresso quality is often overlooked. However, it exists – and the industry is starting to pay attention to it.
To find out more, I spoke to two experts: Lauro Fioretti, Product Manager at Simonelli Group, the maker of the Nuova Simonelli and Victoria Arduino grinders and espresso machines; and Colin Harmon, four-time Irish Barista Champion and owner of 3FE Coffee in Ireland. Lauro and Colin both worked on the development of the Mythos One and Mythos II, grinders with milling chamber temperature control. Who better to tell me all about this issue?
You might also like Understanding Coffee Extraction For Better Coffee
Pulling a double espresso shot at The Fix, Madrid. Credit: Fernando Pocasangre
Is Your Coffee Grinder Heating Up Your Ground Coffee?
There are many different types of grinders available. However, whether conical or flat, ceramic or metal, specialty coffee grinders typically use burrs rather than blades.
What this means is that, within the grinder, you'll find two burrs. The distance between them determines the grind size. When the grinder is turned on, at least one of them will rotate, grinding the beans into smaller pieces.
However, this process involves friction, which in turn generates heat. This heat then spreads to the rest of the grinder and to the coffee itself. So, unless you're working with specialized equipment, the exact temperature of the grinding chamber will vary according to how long the grinder has been operating for.
Of course, professional grinders normally have a cooling system, comprised of fans, heat exchangers, and heat sinks. However, while these systems cool the machine down, they rarely do so with precision. Nor do most of them enable baristas to monitor the temperature of the ground coffee.
Lauro Fioretti has experimented with several grinders from different manufacturers. He tells me, "Depending on how fast or slow, or how busy you've been or how quiet you've been, the grind temperature of your coffee can go anywhere from 20ºC/68ºF to, I bet, 80ºC/176ºF. So, there is a 60ºC/176ºF swing."
A temperature change like this has an impact on your coffee's extraction, leading to issues with both quality and consistency.
The disassembled flat burr set of a Mythos One grinder. Credit: Victoria Arduino
The Impact of Inconsistent Ground Coffee Temperature
Lauro tells me, "When the temperature [inside your grind chamber] is increasing, you see that your shot times get shorter and shorter and shorter. So your coffee is extracting faster, so they have to tune up the grinder to make it finer, finer, and finer to compensate for this effect."
And then, when the peak time ends and the baristas need to use the grinder less? The temperature starts to fall. Once more, the baristas have to amend the grind setting. While this may not sound like a big deal, the more often baristas have to adjust the settings, the greater the risk of errors, inconsistency, and poor extraction.
What's more, Lauro tells me that as the grinder heats up, it also starts to grind the coffee faster. This has a knock-on effect. "The temperature of the grinder affects the dose, because most of the grinders on demand that are actually available on the market, they dose by time. So, you do a prediction of what you will get in your portafilter according to a timer, but the performance of the grinder changes according to the temperature."
I ask him why temperature has this impact on coffee extraction and grind time, but he tells me that they're still trying to work that out. "The first idea we had was a change in the granulometry," he says, "so we have ground the same coffee at different temperatures and we have analysed it with our Master Sizer.
"Also, André Eirmann [Marketing Director at UCC Switzerland and Communications at Swiss SCA] has done the same test on another grinder brand. The results show a small difference in the fines. [It's] not statistically significant, according to André, but I believe that small difference in fines can make a big difference in the exposed surface of particles (but that needs to be proved) and/or it may be that we are not using the right analyser for it."
Yet regardless of the reasons why, one thing is clear to Lauro: the changing temperature has an effect on the coffee.
A rotary knob for adjusting grind size. Credit: Simonelli Group
Why Is It So Hard to Keep Grinders Cool?
Cooling down a grinder chamber isn't impossible, although it's a lot easier if you can avoid it getting hot in the first place. Take the Mythos II: the grinding chamber is external and made of aluminium to keep it as cool as possible.
However, as Colin says, "to cool a room is far more expensive than to heat a room; to refrigerate something is very expensive and very difficult, and it uses a lot of energy."
In other words, you can cool your grinding chamber – at a cost. But for café owners looking for increased efficiency and energy savings, this might not be the ideal option.
And, in fact, how much do we actually need to cool down the grinding chamber? Colin tells me that, in 2010, "the widespread belief was that hot ground coffee is bad and cold ground coffee is good."
But some people are now questioning this assumption.
Drinking espresso at VESTA Coffee Roasters, Las Vegas. Credit: Neil Soque
Stabilising Ground Coffee Temperatures
"Maybe the issue was not that the ground coffee was hot or cold, but, in fact, the issue was that it was changing," Colin says.
So, the team put the theory to the test: they ground several different coffees at different temperatures and then analysed the extraction. The result?
"I believe there is a different solubility of the compounds at different temperatures and this will affect the extraction," Lauro stresses. But the difference in quality wasn't notable in this experiment.
What's more, regardless of the exact number of degrees inside the chamber, as long as it was steady, the team could dial in their grinder and achieve the same extraction time and flavour profile for every espresso – no matter how quickly they were dosing those shots.
In other words, their research indicated that the biggest issue with grinding chamber temperature was inconsistency, not the temperature itself.
The team still emphasised the importance of cooling the chamber to avoid extremely hot conditions. However, when building the Mythos II, they also built in a preheating function. This allowed them to reduce how many degrees much they needed to cool down the chamber, and so save energy, without risking inconsistency.
Mythos 2 grinders on display. Credit: Victoria Arduino
Ground coffee temperature: it's not a variable we're used to discussing, but it can impact both quality and consistency. For busy coffee shops, it can cause particular problems as the grinding chamber heats up during peak hours.
But like most things in coffee, consistency is key. It's not so important what temperature the beans are ground at, providing it's the same temperature every single time.
Please note: This article has been sponsored by Simonelli Group.
Ivan Laranjeira Petrich
Ivan is a Social Media content manager and staff writer at Perfect Daily Grind, based in Brazil
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Barnaba Dorda | 11 sp. 2020 | Zostaw komentarz
Helen McEntee TD
Minister for Justice
Dear Minister,
We are writing in relation to an article published in the Irish Examiner on September 1st, 2020 entitled "Welfare check for pandemic fraud targeted Eastern European flights" (https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40041488.html).
The author of the article states that it has emerged that the vast majority of airport checks for those suspected of abusing welfare benefits (e.g. the Pandemic Unemployment Payment) during the Covid-19 pandemic were aimed at flights to Eastern Europe. It seems that no checks/limited checks were carried out on flights to different destinations, including English-speaking countries such as the UK or the USA. Data obtained through FOI from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection clearly confirm these practices.
We have also learned, through our own community channels, of many incidents between April and August 2020, where Eastern European migrants were checked at airports without being advised clearly as to the nature of these checks. In many of these cases, the people complained that subsequently their social welfare payments, including child benefit, were stopped, before being later reinstated. Many of such social welfare payments were the only source of their income, thus, decision had a severe impact on their condition of life.
The above practices look like a deliberate profiling of specific nationalities, which is very alarming. The fact that flights to other specific countries were not targeted in this way seems to confirm the existence of profiling. It is wholly inappropriate to deliberately target passengers of flights to countries froma which the majority of migrants living and working in Ireland come.
We are requesting a comprehensive review of practices at the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding checks for social welfare fraud. We would like to understand how the aforementioned airport checks were decided upon; what the scale of this practice was; what protocols were in place; and how the data gathered were used.
In addition to the above, we also ask that any decision to stop social welfare payments needs to be clearly explained as well as any decision to reinstate it.
As Forum Polonia, an organisation advocating for the Polish diaspora in Ireland and supporting its involvement in Irish society, we remain ready for a meeting to discuss all the above with you.
Needless to say, we truly hope that profiling did not drive these practices. Given the scale of the contribution of Eastern European migrants to the economic, social and cultural life of Ireland, this would be very disappointing if it were the case.
Barnaba Dorda
Chair of Forum Polonia's Board of Directors
List do Ministra Witolda Waszczykowskiego dot. Ambasady RP w Dublinie
List do redakcji Independent w sprawie artykułu pt. "Israeli fury as Poland 'rewrites history' of Nazi death camps"
Transnational Health Practices at DCUNowy kurs doktorancki na DCU
Social Welfare Services to be discussed at the next Ethnic Minority Health Forum


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Second Season Episodes :: #208 "The Mistake"
Quotes from this episode are spread around the site (depending on subjects)
so after reading the ones below, click on the "Search" button above to search for "208".
House (Hugh Laurie) is the subject of an internal investigation for a potential mistake which, may have led to a patient�s death in the HOUSE episode "The Mistake" airing Tuesday, Nov. 29 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Also pictured: Jennifer Morrison.
Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.
Writer / Director
Peter Blake	/ David Semel
The patient
Kayla, a young mother of two elementary school daughters who has stomach and joint pain.
How House gets involved
Chase calls in Foreman for a consult and the symptoms they find are "weird enough to get House interested."
The mis-diagnoses
Bichette's - tests confirm it but... due to what turns out to be an understandable distraction, Chase missing a bleeding ulcer, which later perforates spilling the content of her stomach into her body and she gets septic. She needs an emergency liver transplant but has a rare blood type and her brother matches perfectly according to tests he brings them.
The privacy invasion / ethical breach
First House tries to bribe and then blackmails a surgeon to do a liver transplant (later it appears that House uncharacteristically told the surgeon's wife that he was having an affair even though the surgeon did the surgery). And both he and Chase lie to Stacy, even though she is trying to help them.
The final diagnosis
Upon meeting the brother, House detects that he has hepatitis and "an undiagnosed hepatoma that was transplanted with his liver. Grew a lot faster in Kayla because she was immunosuppressed." The doctors were able to save the brother but not Kayla.
The clinic patient(s)
1) The patient started out as Chase's clinic patient.
2) Chuck, a clinic patient House sees can afford expensive gadgets but not health insurance. House tells him a story about a patient named Buck who "has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. His lung tissue's turning to rock. There's no known cause, no treatment. He is slowly suffocating.... Lung transplant's about a half a million dollars, but this poor sucker's got no insurance. If he tried to sign up now, he'd be excluded, pre-existing condition." Patient rushes out to get insurance. When Stacy complains about the way he gave his diagnosis, House tells her, "He's got a cold, and soon, health insurance."
3) Susan, another clinic patient without health insurance, tp whom House also tells a story about a patient named Fusan.
Notable incidents
About half of this story is told in flashbacks as they review what led to the death of a patient who Chase first saw six months before.
Chase learns his father has died (which causes his distraction).
Chase feels resposible for Kayla's death and when he learns that her brother and her children will have to sell their house and move, he tells the brother that he was hung over when he misdiagnosed Kayla when the truth was the he was distracted because he had just learned that his father was dead.
Information on the health issues/diseases mentioned in the episode.
For more information on this episode:
See the Fox official description of the episode including guest cast and descriptions from TV.com. (This is a pop-up.)
Also check out the long Television Without Pity recap of this episode
And for even more details see all the text of this House episode
And Analysis of the medicine in the episode from "Polite Dissent".
And Fox also has an in-depth recap.
Episode Quotes (also search for quotes throughout the site using "208" as your search term.
Stacy [to Cuddy about counseling Chase and House about an upcoming hearing]: "Let me work with Chase. House should have separate counsel."
Cuddy: "Stop looking for whatever you're looking for. For the last month, House has been crowing that you can't work with him because you're just swooning in love."
Stacy: "There is nothing approaching love in what I feel about him right now."
Cuddy: "Well if you can't work with him, it amounts to the same thing."
Stacy: "We had a fight. It's awkward. Why not use another lawyer?"
Cuddy: "Because 40% of our lawsuits last year were about House. You can't work with him, you can't work here."
Season 2 DVD
Wilson (upon discovering that Stacy is only preparing Chase for an upcoming hearing): "She's only advising Chase? Not you?"
House: "Well what's the committee going to do to me? I haven't even met this patient."
Wilson: "Your disdain for human interaction doesn't exculpate you, it inculpates you. Besides the charts, you're responsible for everything Chase does."
House: "Which is why this doesn't matter. She protects Chase, she protects me."
Wilson: "Unless her advice to Chase is to make a deal and give you up. [switches to an accent that is supposed to sound Australian but sounds "Turkish?"] 'I'm so sorry, if only Dr House had paid attention, he'd never even met her, he never does.'"
House: "Chase loves me. And isn't Turkish."
Wilson: "Cameron loves you. Chase loves his job."
House: "You really think Stacy hates me that much?"
Wilson: "I think right now she hates you more than enough. You think emotion only affects doctor's judgments?"
Season One DVD
for North America
Region 2 DVD
from/for Britain
Investigating Committee Chairman: "After considering the testimonial and documentary evidence, this committee in the matter of Kayla McGinley has reached a decision. Dr Chase, your error resulted in a patient's death. You also lied, both to your superiors and the patient's brother. But taking into account the mitigating factor of your father's death, we've decided not to revoke your privileges. You'll receive one week's suspension, and a letter in your permanent file. Now as for Dr House — there is no evidence of a failure to supervise that would lead to disciplinary action. And yet, there is enough in the record to be very troubled by your conduct, including certain allegations of blackmail from members of the transplant team. And by your general refusal to meet with your patients. It should be noted that your patient's cancer was diagnosed as the result of a direct physical examination of—"
House (interrupting): "Not of the patient, I met the brother. Never met her. You want me to go to a family reunion every time I take on a patient?"
Investigating Committee Chairman: "The committee has determined that for no less than one month, Dr House will have his practice supervised by another doctor, to be designated by Dr Cuddy. This proceeding is adjourned."
There are more quotes from this episode in the pages on House and House Rules.


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The Rivals: Poiret and Chanel
by Jeanne Willette | May 10, 2019 | Modern, Modern Aesthetics, Modern Art
"My time was ready for me, waiting, all I had to do was come on the scene," said Coco Chanel. As her biographer, Linda Simon pointed out in 1913, changes in women's fashions had progressed from the avant-garde world of the Wiener Werkstätte and its artists and designers to the female consumers of the Galeries Lafayette. "..fashion magazines already showed a new silhouette: slim, with fluid lines, in soft fabrics. These magazines addressed riding, camping, and skiing. They danced energetically, and each issue of the upscale women's magazine Femina featured instructions for new dances–the turkey trot, 'le pas du double boston,' the one-step and the tango. In 1919, the year Chanel woke to fame, drawings of designs by her competitors which were appearing in French fashion magazines all featured the same look as her won: trim and narrow. Fashion plates by illustrators such as George Lepape and Georges Barbier depicted slender young women with impossibly long legs and cropped hair, wearing low-waisted dressed in muted tones like grey and beige, and in fluid fabrics like silk and jersey. 'The sensational novelty of the season almost everywhere,' reported Vogue, 'is the effect of a man's short or shirt collar with a collar, and this collar is of infinite variety.' But those other designers who helped create the garçonne look did not embody the new woman as Chanel did; she not only designed for her generation, she wore her own designs everywhere and the outfits looked. stunning on her. She did not liberate w omen from the constriction of corsets–that credit goes to Paul Poiret and Madeleine Vionnet who had long before rejected the hourglass figure by designing soft, flowing, drapey dresses. But while they created costumes for women to pose in, Chanel created outfits to live in, clothing that seemed to caress a body that was–ideally–svelte and sexy."
As a fashion designer, Paul Poiret was wedged between those last lovely decades before the Great War and the shock of the War itself. What made Poiret famous was that he took a giant leap and turned the reform movements into fashion for the mainstream wealthy customer, and, in the process, he made all other clothes look old-fashioned and out of date. Poiret did not attempt the alter the historical function of the dress—to advertise wealth and taste—but he took pride in freeing his customers from corsets and rehabilitating undergarments. With his slim wife as his source of inspiration, he made clothes that only a very narrow woman would wear. Inspired by the exotic costumes of the Ballets Russes, Poiret brought the harem pants from the 1910 production of Schéhérazade into the parlor of the manor house and dared women to wear them at dinner parties. In these gauzy and voluminous pants, a woman could finally walk comfortably, something that cannot be said for another Poiret innovation, the hobble skirt, which literally hobbled the woman, forcing her to take tiny steps. In style for ten years until 1915, this dangerous garment caused women to trip and fall, and it was almost impossible to step up into an automobile or a street car.
Clearly Poiret enjoyed experimenting—sometimes maliciously–with rather exotic garments, such as the equally famous lampshade dress, as if he were daring adventurous women to follow his lead no matter how absurd the silhouette.
Paul Poiret can be credited by taking that first step in modern design by creating clothes that eliminated the corset, stressed a long, lean vertical line that more or less followed the natural contour of the female body. He pulled in the horizontal appendages from the crinoline to the bustle, threw away the squeezed waist and uplifted chest, relaxed the materials and used soft and flowing fabrics festooned with dangling décor. But as modern as he was in his own time, the Great War would change women and alter their habits of dress in a way that would leave Paul Poiret behind and opened the door to the success of Coco Chanel.
In 1912, at the height of the craze for the hobble skirt, opportunity drove Coco Chanel to Deauville, a French port beloved by the well to do English and Americans for its racing and its gambling. In this town of multinational sailors, English tailoring and British vacationers, she opened a boutique and competed with the Parisian branches of the established fashion houses also in the resort town. Ignoring the middle-aged matrons, Chanel, financially backed by her lover, "Boy" Capel, aimed at the younger women who had already adopted the easier to wear clothes based on male attire. Observing the sailors, Chanel designed wide legged pants and pull over sweaters for women and she ended hard to clean impractical dresses when she decided to do something with inappropriate jersey, a material that was comfortable and lightweight but that was used—scandalously–for men's underwear.
As Mary McAuliffe wrote in When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends: "The war imposed its own constraints on Chanel, much as it did on Poiret and other Paris couturiers, most of whom virtually or completely closed down for the duration. Chanel remained for a time in Deauville, where she worked with jersey, a readily available fabric more commonly used in underwear. Using this, she continued to create clean-lined and comfortable clothing, much of it inspired by menswear. The summer residents of Deauville, cut off from Paris by the German advance, were delighted to supplement their wardrobes with Chanel fashions, which were as practical as they were attractive. Soon Chanel— who by this time was earning enough to operate without Boy Capel's or anyone's financial support— moved to Biarritz, where she opened her first maison de couture and took up residence in a villa that she bought, for cash, at the war's end. Abandoning the waistline, as she did, and shortening skirts to allow more freedom of movement (as well as a shocking glimpse of ankle), her clothing freed women at a time when increasing social emancipation as well as the demands of war called for exactly what she was providing. "One world was ending," she later told Paul Morand; "another was about to be born. I was in the right place; an opportunity beckoned, I took it." She also took the shears to her long hair, freeing women from yet one more burdensome style. It was a bold move, and one that other women quickly imitated. As Paul Poiret later remarked, "We ought to have been on guard against that boyish head. It was going to give us every kind of shock, and produce, out of its little conjuror's hat, gowns and coiffures and jewels and boutiques."
Given that wool was rationed during the War, jersey, made of wool, was as close as one could get to a so-called respectable fabric. Jersey, in contrast to the delicate fabrics of the past, was available, stalwart and tough, and it draped over the woman's body, skimming the curves and hugging the shape. Better yet jersey was cheap, no one wanted it, and it was easy to fit and therefore to sew, requiring few seams. As the heir to Chanel's Empire, Karl Langerfeld, later said, "Jersey was men's underwear material and it was much more shocking in those days because women weren't supposed to know that men wore underwear."
In these early years, Chanel was on the margins but with her eye on becoming known as an innovator, while she experimented in ways very different from Paul Poiret. Poiret, as did his predecessors, regarded fashion design as costume design. Although his silhouettes were slim and rectangular, the dress was such a statement of his desires and fantasies that every outfit was about Paul Poiret. The woman was lost in his visions, his designs were attractive visions to be sure but they were concepts, not clothing. Chanel designed with the actual woman in mind: how this woman moved, walked, sat and stood, what this real woman needed to wear to be comfortable, distinctive, and, above all, modern. It was Chanel who seemed to grasp the difference between "new"—a marketing technique Poiret understood quite well—and "modern"—a mood and an attitude possessed by women and understood by Coco.


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When opposites attract, it's not just the team that's in for a shake-up.
When a stipulation in his father's will throws Mark back into a family that disowned him, he has only two things on his mind; buying his way out of contractual obligations and running in the opposite direction as fast as he can. When neither option pans out, he finds he is now a one third owner of the struggling Arizona Raptors hockey team, and that is just about the worst thing he could have happened to him. Not only does he hate hockey, but the Raptors are a bottom-of-the-league team, rife with jealousies and anger in a locker room that only knows self-pity. How is he supposed to help turn things around when the only way to start fixing things is to form an alliance with the estranged siblings he'd run from fifteen years earlier?
Then there's Rowen Carmichael, a stubborn, opinionated, irritating man with superiority issues and questionable taste in music. Butting heads with Rowen, who he'd never even wanted to hire in the first place, is one thing, but there is no way in hell that he will allow the growing attraction to the new coach become anything more. Until with everything on the line, he has to make decisions that will change his life forever.
After years of collegiate coaching, Rowen is given an offer that he simply can't refuse, although perhaps he should. When he's presented with the chance to take one of the worst teams in the league and mold them into a future cup contender, the challenge is just too alluring to pass up. He leaves his beloved Ontario behind and moves west to the arid city of Tucson where he is faced with a broken team, shoddy management, and players overflowing with resentment and bigotry.
Never in his twenty years of hockey has he ever seen such a raging dumpster fire of an organization. Yet there's something about this team and this city that compels him to roll up his sleeves and start dismantling. He has his eye on a new associate coach that's bound to makes waves, and several key players who should be sent packing. Now all he has to do is convince the new owners of the team that his choices are for the best. If only Mark Westman-Reid, one of three siblings who now own the Raptors, wasn't so damned rock-headed, so damned snooty, and so damned appealing his job might be a bit easier.
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Just when you're ready to settle in for some egg and nog and whatever may accompany, Windows starts throwing poison frog darts. This month, a fairly boring patching regiment has turned topsy turvey with an unexplained emergency patch for Internet Explorer (you know, the browser nobody uses), combined with an Outlook 2013 patch that doesn't pass the smell test.
Mysterious bug fix for IE
Microsoft set off the shower of firecrackers on Dec. 19 when it released a bevy of patches for Internet Explorer:
Win10 1809 – KB 4483235 – build 17763.195
IE 11 on Win7 and 8.1 – KB 4483187
As Gregg Keizer explains in his Computerworld analysis:
Microsoft issued a rare emergency security update to plug a critical vulnerability in the still-supported IE9, IE10 and IE11. The flaw was reported to Microsoft by Google security engineer Clement Lecigne. According to Microsoft, attackers are already exploiting the vulnerability, making it a classic "zero-day" bug.
That's what Microsoft claimed; from the description it sounds like a drive-by hole, where you can get infected by merely looking at a bad website. But in spite of dire warnings from many corners, there's exactly no information about the vulnerability making the rounds. In a situation like this, one would expect some sort of detailed explanation from Microsoft, Google or Lecigne. As of early Friday morning, we've seen nothing.
Perhaps all the explainers are already beset with visions of sugarplums, but it's mighty odd for an emergency patch to hit the offal fan with nary a hint of what's wrong, or why it needs to be fixed with such abandon. This isn't a garden variety "C" or "D" week non-security patch. It's a full 10-claxon call to arms at a time when most people are taking an early vacation. Or at least a languid liquid lunch.
To add to the urgency, Microsoft Thursday night issued a similar tiny IE patch for the latest beta test round of the next version of Win10 – KB 4483187 brings the "19H1" beta build up to 18305.1003. So something's afoot, but we don't know what.
As most of you know, patching IE isn't just for people who actually use IE. Microsoft has woven IE into the fabric of Windows – and it's still there despite a decade-or-so of extraction effort. An IE patch is an important event because a hole in IE can manifest itself in many ways. But in this case, with no clear explanation, we don't know what ways, or whether you're only at risk if you actually use IE.
It gets worse.
I'm seeing reports that the Win7 patch, KB 4483187, triggers random crashes. Removing the update restores the machines. But with the holidays about to go into full swing, it's hard to say if that's an isolated incident or a lump of cantankerous coal.
Outlook 2013 patch Three Card Monty
Also on Thursday, Microsoft released yet another mysterious patch, KB 4011029, the "December 20, 2018, update for Outlook 2013." According to the KB article, it fixes a bug where Mail delivery rules stop working. When you try to open the "Manage Rules & Alerts" dialog box in Outlook 2013, you receive the following error message:
The operation failed because of a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, reinstall.
Nice little holiday bug for anyone using rules in Outlook 2013. But, again, there's more to the story.
Three days ago, Microsoft acknowledged a bug in Outlook that's identical to the one described in the KB 4011029 article, but it affects three different "perpetual" (which is to say, bought and installed) versions of Outlook – Outlook 2010, 2013 and 2016 -- plus bugs in four different subscription (which is to say, rented versions) releases of Office 365:
Version 1810 build 11001.20108
Version 1803 build 9126.2315
Apparently, the bug was introduced in the November security patches, but hadn't been acknowledged until three days ago.
I've found no explanation for why Outlook 2013 has been patched, but the other six versions have not. It's possible that there are five more patches waiting in the wings. It's possible that this one patch is actually intended for other versions of Office. All we know for sure is that somebody's left us hanging out to dry – no explanation, no release plan.
Sounds like a pretty common state of affairs, eh?
The 1809-pound elephant in the room
All of this is happening against a backdrop of Microsoft's newly restored zeal in pushing Win10 version 1809 on all Win10 users. Reports on 1809 have been good, in general – although the new feature set won't wow anyone but the most diehard Windows (and Notepad) fans – but Microsoft itself hasn't yet declared version 1809 as fit for businesses.
Those who click "Check for updates" are most likely to get the new version, but it'll get pushed on non-seekers soon enough.
I've seen exactly zero reports of machines being taken over by the Internet Explorer bug, zero detailed descriptions of the problem (or its solution), zero bonafide cause for alarm, but the "Sky is Falling – Patch Right Now!" cry continues to ring throughout the blogosphere. That could mean one of two things:
The problem is so bad that people in the know don't want to let the cat out of the bag, or,
It's a typical zero-day that'll have to be patched eventually unless you're the target of well-heeled nation state scoundrels and the people who do the explaining are taking the weekend off
I'm convinced the latter is far more likely. But your level of paranoia may well differ. Hey, you may actually enjoy putting your PC through the wringer while the world's taking a well-deserved break.
We'll keep a watchful eye through the holidays on the AskWoody Lounge.