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Hamlin Garland Homestead
Brian D'Ambrosio
Holidays, USA, WI
Some pithy poet once said, "A man lives, he dies; he is only killed by forgetfulness." Generals, statesmen, celebrities, sports figures, movie stars, and writers are by and large the types of characters who, for better or worse, usually keep and store well in the collective recall of public awareness. But while history records them as notable, often the communities in which they labored or lived irrespectively overlook their native yields. Many fail dismally even to remember or to recognize the value of their distinct achievements.
Since its beginning in 1851, West Salem, Wisconsin, has seen many noteworthy events take place and many an individual has left their mark upon the village. One of the most consequential is Hamlin Garland. To think of and to understand Garland, a prolific author and poet, it is necessary to begin by keeping in mind the forces which brought his parents to West Salem; to see his father, Richard Garland, as he pushed onward toward the goal of level, rich farmland on the expanding frontier.
Hamlin Garland home
It's illuminative for us to revisit a few words of description of Wisconsin and West Salem as written by Hamlin Garland:
"My Wisconsin birthplace has always been a source of deep satisfaction to me. That a lovely valley should form the first picture in my childhood memories is a priceless endowment. It doesn't matter so much what Green's Coulee looks like now or what it looked like to grown-ups in 1865. It will always remain a charming and mysterious place to me"
"It is still vivid in my mind. I have but to closed my eyes to the present, and the tiger lilies bloom again in its meadows. The mowers toss up once more the scarlet sprays of strawberries. The blackbirds rise in clouds from out of the ripening corn. A hundred other sights and sounds, equally beautiful and equally significant, fill my inner vision."
Maple Shade
Born in Greenwood, Maine, on April 1, 1830, Richard Garland ran away from home to work on a railroad. Later he returned home and persuaded his parents to move westward. Arriving in Milwaukee in 1850, they started out across the promising countryside. Weeks later, they had arrived in an open meadow not far from the Mississippi River and the Minnesota border, a place called Green's Coulee. To the east was a mill pond. A trout brook came in from the north, and a grist mill rose against a conical hill around whose base the mighty river ran in a reedy curve. On the bottom lands to the west, scattered pines were growing, and in the edges of these groves and on the banks of the stream, a group of wigwams denoted the presence of Indians. Here they laid down roots. Richard worked at various jobs, always dreaming of owning his own farm. He soon married a woman called Isabel McClintock. It was in a swatter's cabin, half way between West Salem and the county hospital that Dr. William Hughes Stanley delivered a baby boy, christened Hamlin Garland, on September 14, 1860.
During the Civil War, Richard joined the Union army. Upon his return, the family moved westward, making their new home in Winnesheik County, Iowa, in 1868. After spending his teenage years in rural Iowa, Garland became a teacher in the Boston School of Oratory. Between the years of 1885 and 1889 he taught private classes in both English and American literature. Some time was also spent lecturing on land reform in and around Boston, where he made the acquaintance of Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Bernard Shaw, William Dean Howells, Edwin Booth and other worthies.
A trip back to Wisconsin in 1887 led him to write his Mississippi Valley stories. His impressions induced a mood of bitterness. During the weeks he worked on his father's farm, he became aware that every detail of his daily life on the farm was assuming literary significance in his mind.
"The quick callusing of my hands, the swelling of my muscles, the sweating of my scalp, all the unpleasant results of physical pain I noted down…Labor when so prolonged and severe as at this time my toil had to be its warfare…I studied the glory of the sky and the splendor of the wheat with a deepening sense of the generosity of nature and the monstrous injustice of social creeds."
It was three years later that Main Travelled Roads was published. An instant attack was made on the book in the Midwest because it pictures the ugliness, endless drudgery and loneliness of life on a farm. Reviewers in the East, such as William Dean Howells, however, praised him.
"The stories are full of those gaunt, grim, sordid, pathetic, ferocious figures, whom our satirists find so easy to caricature as Hayseeds," wrote Howells in Harper's Magazine. "The type caught in Mr. Garland's book is not pretty; it is ugly and often ridiculous; but it is heartbreaking in its rude despair."
In 1891, his first novel, A Spoil of Office, was published. It was based on the political unrest in the agricultural regions of the country. The Populist movement was now in its heyday, and Hamlin's father, Richard, was a delegate to the Omaha convention of the Populists. The winter of 1892 was spent in New York, but the following year Garland moved his headquarters to Chicago. One year later Hamlin bought his parents their first home, called the Hays House, in West Salem. It was situated on the road leading to the town of Mindoro, where so many of his mother's family and friends lived. Built in 1857, the house was part of a wooded, four-acre lot, and immediately Hamlin began enlarging it, raising the west end to the two- story bay window first, tearing out the partition in the living room, putting in a furnace and bathroom. The only part left unchanged was the stairway. From 1893-1915, Garland summered here, and from 1916-1938 he extended his stays from spring till fall.
In 1912, an overheated grease fire, which started in the kitchen when the maid was lighting the fire in the oil stove to heat water for the morning washing, destroyed much of the home. But Hamlin quickly restored it. The Garlands had the first tennis court in West Salem and tennis parties were frequently held there. Named "Maple Shade" for the beautiful maple trees which shaded the kitchen and rear entry, it held tremendous views of the surrounding hills and valleys. Garland's mother lived permanently in the house, but Richard continued to spend summers in Dakota.
Hamlin's first born, a daughter named Mary Isabel, was born in West Salem in 1903, while the second was born in Chicago in 1907. Their summers were spent in West Salem until 1915 when they began summering in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The folks of West Salem recall Garland as an eccentric and withdrawn man, as an article in the Saturday Sentinel alludes:
"The inhabitants of La Crosse County have been troubled by the fact that he writes books. From the society of these blissfully unliterary persons he departs each year into the book sets of Chicago and New York, where he is more profoundly terrorized at the display of new books."
It was written that Garland might be met on the street but never acknowledged the passerby. One woman called Mrs. Tilson, who lived across the street from Garland for many years, when asked how she ever got the man to return her greeting, said that the exchange happened only because she had been "working on it for twenty years."
It was in 1917 that A Son of the Middle Border was published. The next year, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Four years hence, A Daughter of the Middle Border was published. For this novel, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for best biography of 1921. The University of Wisconsin gave Garland the degree of Doctor of Letters on June 21, 1926. In bestowing this honor, Professor Frederick Paxson said: "Hamlin Garland is the novelist of our northwest farmer country. For thirty-five years his easy pen has worked at the life of our people…His writings are words of art, but they are also documents that may become the source of history…as the preserver of the fact and flavor that gave identity to the Middle Border from which we sprang."
Garland sold Maple Shade in 1938. In the long run every man has to shut down – Garland died in 1940 – and if he is remembered thereafter it is by the effort of others.
In 1959, Errol Kindschy was a young man, barely into his 20s, when he first saw the village of West Salem through the eyes of a fledgling social studies teacher. He had only been in the town for two weeks before the school year began, and on the first day he posed the same opening inquiry to each of the six classes he was hired to instruct.
"I asked if anybody famous was from this area," recalls Kindschy. "For five classes, I was told quite affirmatively no. But on the last class of the day, one of the boys raised his hand, and he said that an author of some kind was from the town. He didn't even know his name. This got me curious."
Kindschy asked neighbors and coworkers about this famous mystery man, most of whom knew nearly nothing about the accomplished writer beyond the vague recognition of his name: Hamlin Garland.
There was one woman, however, one Rachel Gullickson, who was rather offended by Kindschy because he didn't know the slightest bit about Garland. Not only was she familiar with Garland, a huge fan of his writing talents, but she lived in what was once his homestead.
"Gullickson moved in when Garland moved out," said Kindschy. "This made me even more interested in Garland, and also quite interested in the fact that no history of West Salem had ever been written. When the Garland homestead came up for sale in 1972, I bought it, restored it, formed the West Salem Historical Society, and resold it to the society at a low rate."
Although a bit run down and neglected at the time of the purchase, Kindschy saw a glimmer of a forgotten world. He understood that a single house may have only limited architectural significance, but the former residence of a great writer makes an indelible impression.
Thanks to Wisconsin Historical Society funds, donations and volunteer muscle, the Hamlin Garland Homestead was restored to the period of 1912 to 1915. The restoration of the Garland Homestead, which neatly reversed the structure from a jumbled three apartment subdivide, started in 1974, and concluded two years later, opening to the public on July 4, 1976.
"It's been more than 30 years and most of Wisconsin still doesn't know we are here," says Kindschy. Kindschy wants to push forward nevertheless. He intends to translate some of Garland's better material into German and Japanese himself. Plus, he still has ample material from Garland's extensive catalogue to get acquainted with.
"I've read thirty-eight out of the fifty-two books Garland wrote," says Kindschy. "And, honestly, some of them I wish I never picked up, and some of them are fantastic. Main Travelled Roads and Trailmakers, which is the story of the Garlands coming into this area, are my favorites."
"Somewhere in Garland's life," he continues, "he discovered that all the books he was reading had happy endings. He didn't like this. In my opinion, he became the first American realist, Jack London and others followed. In his lifetime, he was known as a controversial dean of American Literature. I've dug up old newspaper articles in which he was booed off the stage here in West Salem at the old settlers' meeting, and booed off the stage at the University of Madison, for supporting American Indians and women's independence and education, promoting the occult and séances, and proposing a single tax system."
Kindschy and I toured Garland's study, which includes his rocker, desk, movie projector, ink wells, pictures, and books. It's one of the most evocative rooms in the house, silent and peaceful, with Garland's own card table and playing cards, and a bookcase of his original books, many autographed to members of his family or friends.
It's Kindschy's favorite room – and it shows in his keenness. I never saw anyone so feverishly alive as this little, old man in this room, his bright, withered cheeks, over which the skin was drawn tightly, his darting eyes, under their prickly bushes of eyebrow, his fantastically-creased white and gold curls of hair, his subtle mouth, and, above all, his hands, never at rest. His fingers are short, tight, bony, wrinkled, with every finger alive at the tips, like the fingers of a mesmerist. His hands are never out of his sight, they travel to his nose, crawled all over his face, and grimace in little gestures.
"Garland had an indoor bathroom and tennis court and lawn mower," says Kindschy, pointing to the back yard. "So people thought he was putting on heirs. He wouldn't converse with the local people at all. His short stories were thought to have portrayed some of the local Germans in a negative light. He described them as he saw them, I guess. They wanted to talk about family and farming, he wanted to talk about literature and books. Those farmers, they didn't see his work as a writer."
One hour or so later, we were back downstairs in the museum room, which includes Garland's actual Pulitzer Prize, his original book illustrations, first editions, family photos, letters, autographs, cards, and poems, all of which have been collected by Kindschy over time.
"One time I was playing Hamlin Garland," says Kindschy, flipping through a scrapbook of Garland-related press clippings. "And this 80-year-old woman came up to me and said, 'do you remember when I brought cookies to your house? I knocked on your door, and you asked me what I wanted, grabbed the plate, said thanks, and slammed the door. I cried all the way home.' She must have thought I was Garland."
As we exited the museum room and prepared to return to the vagaries of the banal, comparatively dull world outside, Kindschy speculated on the long-term fate of Garland's writings, which he thinks might someday have a revival. A revival he hopes to spark with a blitzkrieg of Garland events scheduled to coincide with the one-hundred and fifty year anniversary of his birth in September.
During a brief interlude in the conversation, I told Kindschy how much I appreciated all that he has done to preserve and enhance a deference that transcends a single, tangible structure, and that stimulates symbolic, hopeful feelings drawn from the desire to learn our cultural heritage.
Seemingly quite touched, he clicked off the lights, grinned affectionately, took a deep breath, and said, "I am proud of what I have been able to do to contribute to the recognition of Hamlin Garland."
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Posted by Dino on 1 March 2018, 10:00 am
Today we welcome a guest post from Jerry Gershenhorn, author of Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle, just published by UNC Press.
Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. From 1927 to 1971, he published and edited the Carolina Times, the preeminent black newspaper in the state. He used the power of the press to voice the anger of black Carolinians, and to turn that anger into action in a forty-year crusade for freedom. In this biography, Jerry Gershenhorn chronicles Austin's career as a journalist and activist, highlighting his work during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar civil rights movement. In examining Austin's life, Gershenhorn is able to tell the story of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina from a new vantage point, shedding new light on the vitality of black protest and the black press in the twentieth century.
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Louis Austin: A Courageous Voice for Black Freedom in North Carolina
As we near the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, black American activists are fighting for racial justice in the nation's political, economic, educational, and justice systems. Meanwhile, the enemies of racial equality pursue policies to suppress the black vote, incarcerate more African Americans, and continue policies that disproportionately impoverish African Americans. Furthermore, powerful government officials attack the media in a transparent attempt to weaken the ability of the media to tell the truth about policies that would perpetuate inequality in America.
These are not new issues. During the early and middle decades of the twentieth century, black activists engaged in a long freedom struggle against a broad range of racial injustices, some that were not so different from today's. In North Carolina, a key leader who challenged white supremacy emerged in 1927, when Louis Austin purchased the Carolina Times, Durham's black news weekly, and transformed the paper in to a trumpet for justice. In doing so, he provided a voice for the black community, during a time when white newspapers regularly ignored or demonized black people in their pages. An extraordinarily outspoken and dynamic leader, Austin fearlessly attacked anyone, including prominent blacks and whites, who stood in the way of freedom, equality, and opportunity for all people. He exemplified the Carolina Times's motto, "The Truth Unbridled."
During the 1930s, Austin initiated a new strategy in the black freedom struggle, as he employed legal tactics to challenge segregation and counseled African Americans to leave the Republican Party for the Democratic Party to increase black political influence in the one-party state. Austin led voter registration drives, campaigned for public office, pursued integration of higher education in the courts, lobbied for equal pay for black teachers and equal funding for black schools, demanded equal economic opportunity for African Americans, and denounced police brutality. In 1933, Austin, black attorneys Conrad Pearson and Cecil McCoy, and a young man who hoped to become a pharmacist, Thomas Raymond Hocutt, filed the first lawsuit to integrate higher education in the South, when they sued the University of North Carolina. Although the case was unsuccessful in the short run, it was an important start to the two-decade legal struggle that achieved success in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the landmark Supreme Court case that overturned legal segregation of southern public schools. In 1934, Austin was elected justice of the peace as a Democrat in 1934, a victory that was hailed by the Pittsburgh Courier as the beginning of the New Deal in the South. The following year, Austin co-founded the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs (DCNA), which promoted black political participation and worked to improve black life in Durham.
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The decade leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision was pivotal for the black freedom struggle. In 1945, Austin staged the first campaign in the twentieth century by an African American to win a seat on the Durham city council. Although he lost, his campaign laid the groundwork for the election of the first black member of the Durham city council in 1953. Austin fought for integrated public facilities, organizing an integrated football game in Durham, which national newspapers pronounced the first racially integrated football game in the South.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Austin joined with a new generation of activists who fought for integration of public schools, lunch counters, and restaurants; equal access to employment opportunities; and voting rights. Unlike many black leaders, he immediately embraced a Durham sit-in that began in 1957, three years before the more celebrated Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins. Austin publicized sit-ins, boycotts, and marches, and serving as an important advisor to young activists. He backed a boycott of white retail businesses that refused to hire black workers by publishing the names of those businesses in the Carolina Times. This strategy helped compel white businesses to hire African Americans.
Austin worked relentlessly for public school integration, as North Carolina government officials implemented policies to delay enforcement of the Brown decision. When southern white conservatives cried out for states' rights in rejecting the Brown decision, Austin denounced their claim as a sham, asserting that states' rights meant "the right . . . to compel Negroes to go to inferior schools. . . . It means the right to attack and rape Negro women . . . . It even means the right to lynch, to force Negroes to enlist in the armed service, fight for democracy and then deny them the fruits of their sacrifices." During the mid-1960s, Austin's efforts along with those of thousands of freedom fighters compelled the U.S. Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. called the black press "the conscience of our nation." He explained, "It has become angry for people who dare not express anger themselves. It has cried for Negroes when the hurt was so great that tears could not be shed. . . . It has been a crusading press and that crusade has, from its beginning in 1827, been the cry of 'Freedom.'" In defining the role of the black press, Dr. King perfectly described the role played by Louis Austin and the Carolina Times, which voiced the anger of black Carolinians, and turned that anger into action, in a forty-year crusade for freedom.
Jerry Gershenhorn is Julius L. Chambers Professor of History at North Carolina Central University. Follow him on Twitter.
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Book Review - The Cats Came Back
Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson often seems to gets mixed up in murder, but luckily, her very special cats always find a way to help her close a case . . .
The charming Minnesota town of Mayville Heights is hosting a music festival, and the whole place is bustling with musicians and tourists. Kathleen is looking forward to taking in some fabulous performances--and her two cats, Owen and Hercules, are looking forward to taking in some fabulous sardine crackers. But then the trio stumbles across a dead body by the river.
The victim is a close friend--who also happens to be a look-alike of a popular cabaret singer set to perform at the festival. Who could have wanted to harm this innocent girl? Was it a case of mistaken identity?
As accusations abound and suspicions swirl, Kathleen, Hercules and Owen will put their abilities--both mundane and magical--to the test, and lay down the paw.
New York Times bestselling author, Sofie Kelly, writes the Magical Cats mysteries, set in the small town of Mayville Heights, Minnesota. As Sofie Ryan, she is the author of the popular bestselling Second Chance Cat mysteries that feature repurpose shop owner, Sarah Grayson, a group of senior sleuths and the world's oldest computer hacker.
Sofie has been a late night disk jockey—which explains her love of coffee--and taught absolutely terrified adults how to swim. Like Kathleen Paulson in the Magical Cats books, she practices Wu style Tai Chi. Sofie is also a mixed-media artist and likes to prowl thrift shops looking for things to re-purpose in her art.
This was an absolutely delightful book and was definitely a cozy read.
Kathleen is a small town librarian who owns two cats with amazing powers of perception. When they are out doing a photo shoot for the town calendar, they find a dead body. It happens to be someone that Kathleen is acquainted with and it starts the sleuthing by both her and her two kitties, Hercules and Owen.
I liked the fact that Hercules and Owen had once been feral cats but trust Kathleen to hold and pet them - something that they allow no one else to do. They do like others and make it quite clear when they don't. They are definitely special cats that can perform strange feats!
Marcus is the local police detective, who happens to also be Kathleen's boyfriend. It's refreshing that he encourages her help instead of trying to keep her out of things. He's protective without being oppressive and is not only her boyfriend, but a true friend.
There is the side story to the wedding taking place and different family situations that lend to the main story of murder. I did know who had done the murder early on in the book, however, it was a joy to read the book for the pure enjoyment and not be trying to figure out "who done it" the entire time. There was enough of a twist to the murderer's reasoning to make it hugely interesting.
I enjoyed this book so much! I read it in about three settings and it was so relaxing to read between my more serious non-fictions books. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys cozy mysteries and just a good read.
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package org.wikipedia.analytics;

import org.wikipedia.WikipediaApp;
import org.wikipedia.page.PageActivity;
import org.wikipedia.util.ReleaseUtil;
import org.wikipedia.util.ShareUtil;
import org.wikipedia.util.log.L;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.text.TextUtils;

public final class InstallReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    private static final String BOOT_ACTION = "android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED";
    private static final String INSTALL_ACTION = "com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER";
    private static final String REFERRER_KEY = "referrer";

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context ctx, Intent intent) {
        String action = intent.getAction();
        switch (action) {
            case INSTALL_ACTION:
                // for play store devices only:
                // * invoke the receiver and open the page:
                //     `adb shell am broadcast -a com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER -n org.wikipedia.dev/org.wikipedia.analytics.InstallReceiver --es "referrer" "referrer_url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWombat&campaign_id=foo&install_id=bar"`
                // * invoke the receiver but don't open the app (bad url):
                //     `adb shell am broadcast -a com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER -n org.wikipedia.dev/org.wikipedia.analytics.InstallReceiver --es "referrer" "referrer_url=gibberish&campaign_id=foo&install_id=bar"`
                installReferrer(ctx, intent);
                break;
            case BOOT_ACTION:
                // `adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED`
                recordChannelId(ctx);
                break;
            default:
                L.d("action=" + action);
                break;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Receives an Intent from the Play Store app upon first launch after the app has been
     * installed. If the original link that led the user to the Play Store for installing
     * the app contained a "referrer" query parameter, then the contents of this parameter
     * will be passed to this receiver.
     *
     * For a breakdown of the structure of the referrer string, please refer to this task:
     * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103460
     *
     * @param ctx Context in which this intent is received.
     * @param intent Intent that contains referrer data from the Play Store.
     */
    private void installReferrer(@NonNull Context ctx, @NonNull Intent intent) {
        String referrerStr = intent.getStringExtra(REFERRER_KEY);
        L.d("Received install referrer: " + referrerStr);
        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(referrerStr)) {
            return;
        }

        String refUrl = null;
        String refCampaignId = null;
        String refCampaignInstallId = null;
        try {
            // build a proper dummy URI with the referrer appended to it, so that we can parse it.
            Uri uri = Uri.parse("/?" + referrerStr);
            refUrl = uri.getQueryParameter(InstallReferrerFunnel.PARAM_REFERRER_URL);
            refCampaignId = uri.getQueryParameter(InstallReferrerFunnel.PARAM_CAMPAIGN_ID);
            refCampaignInstallId = uri.getQueryParameter(InstallReferrerFunnel.PARAM_CAMPAIGN_INSTALL_ID);
        } catch (UnsupportedOperationException e) {
            // Can be thrown by getQueryParameter() if the referrer is malformed.
            // Don't worry about it.
        }
        // log the event only if at least one of the parameters is nonempty
        if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(refUrl) || !TextUtils.isEmpty(refCampaignId)
                || !TextUtils.isEmpty(refCampaignInstallId)) {
            InstallReferrerFunnel funnel = new InstallReferrerFunnel(WikipediaApp.getInstance());
            funnel.logInstall(refUrl, refCampaignId, refCampaignInstallId);
        }
        if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(refUrl) && ShareUtil.canOpenUrlInApp(ctx, refUrl)) {
            openPageFromUrl(ctx, refUrl);
        }
    }

    private void recordChannelId(@NonNull Context ctx) {
        String channel = ReleaseUtil.getChannel(ctx);
        L.v("channel=" + channel);
    }

    private void openPageFromUrl(Context context, String url) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        intent.setClass(context, PageActivity.class);
        context.startActivity(intent);
    }
}

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It feels like forever since I did a monthly reading wrap-up . . . probably because it has been a mule's age since I wrote a post about my most recent reads. In any event, I thought I would briefly discuss my August reading habits and what I managed to finish last month.
In August I officially started teaching at my new school site. After almost a decade teaching at the high school level, I am now working with a precocious group of seventh graders who have been keeping me on my toes . . . let's say I have had a learning curve, shall we? My new job involves a longer commute and, on days I take public transportation to work and am not grading papers on the go, I am able to get a solid two hours of reading in.
However, by the time I get home from work, I am either swamped with papers to grade or I am too bleary eyed to hold up a book let alone read one. So, as you can well imagine, I didn't manage to read nearly as many books as I had hoped. August's total was a disappointing, but not unimpressive five books.
I began this book on audiobook only to find that the audio version is abridged, cutting out the last chapter and a half from the book. Perfectionist that I am, I checked out a copy of the book from the library and finished the book properly. In simple terms, the book is about the odd tourist industry that has grown out of the three pre-Kennedy presidential assassinations-- Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley-- and Vowell's trips around necrocentric America. If you are a fan of David Sedaris, you will probably enjoy Vowell's work.
My mother recommended this coffee table book about stress and taking care of yourself to me. There is nothing revolutionary to be found in this book and it certainly isn't the place to go if you are looking for answers to life's greatest problems; however, if you're bummed out and photos of beleaguered animals makes you smile (as it does me), then this one is worth a read.
Tworkowski is the fellow behind "To Write Love on Her Arms," a non-profit dedicated to suicide prevention and support to individuals struggling with depression and addiction. The organization has gotten a lot of time from segments of the music industry and from various grades of celebrity (mostly B- level). The essays in this collection were originally published on Tworkowski's blog and tie into his work building and growing the organization and supporting people in need. At points the book is a bit too name-dropper-y and Tworkowski's aversion to capitalizing first-person singular pronouns grates on the nerves. Had I read this collection when I was fifteen instead of thirty-two, I am sure I would have felt "understood" after reading this book instead of feeling slightly annoyed.
Yup, the monthly Murakami. I plan on writing a longer review in the coming week, so I will reserve my comments for that post. Suffice it to say, I found the book an emotionally challenging read, but a good one.
Again, I plan on writing a longer review of this book, probably as part of a longer post on the work of Ryu Murakami so I will save my comments for then. As you can see by my rating, I didn't like the book. No, no. I LOATHED the book. Watch this space for more seething!
Those were all of my August reads. What did you read last month? Let me know in the comments below.


The 1978 PGA Championship was the 60th PGA Championship, played August 3-6 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. John Mahaffey won his only major championship in a sudden-death playoff over Jerry Pate and Tom Watson. This lot contains a Lee Trevino signed program from that years championship.


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Dan Larimer Leaves Block.One - The EOS Technicals
Whether we agree with how Dan Larimer's career has played out, he's still had an effect on every single one of us here on Hive.
There's no denying his tech works and he has laid an excellent foundation for Web 3.0 to be built upon.
Dan Larimer Leaves Block.One
But did you see the news this week that our very own Dan Larimer has left Block.one.
After Larimer primarily developed the EOS blockchain, Block.one went onto raise $4 billion in their ICO.
An amount that most of us in the crypto community no doubt expected the company to do more with.
Voice was meant to be the great Steem/Hive killer after all!
After resigning as CTO of Block.one, Larimer has said that he's looking to pursue personal projects, including building censorship-resistant technologies.
Not a ringing endorsement for Voice, but we already knew that Hive was already in a better position in that respect.
Money can get you a lot of things, but it also brings a lot of complications with it.
"I will continue on my mission to create free-market, voluntary solutions for securing life, liberty, property, and justice for all."
"I do not know exactly what is next, but I am leaning toward building more censorship-resistant technologies. I have come to believe that you cannot provide 'liberty as a service' and, therefore, I will focus my attention on creating tools that people can use to secure their own freedom."
The EOS Technicals
An announcement of this magnitude on the day Bitcoin rejects 40K was never going to see EOS fare well, but let's take a look at just where we're at.
Bring up the EOS daily.
EOS/USD Daily:
You can see that price was already pushing into a confluence of trend line and horizontal resistance.
The setup was there for the sellers to take back control of the market, at least in the short term.
The Larimer resignation was just the kicker that they needed.
Isn't it funny how fundamentals so often don't override technicals, but instead they just help the technicals play out.
Well I love it at least haha.
Now the question becomes will we see our very own Dan Larimer back on Hive?
We're at the very least an excellent, decentralised place to promote whatever his next project is.
Certainly better than the current alternatives.


On June 15, 2018 Andrew Michaliszyn "Andy" was suddenly taken from us in a car accident. As a disc golf family we are coming together to support the Michaliszyn family on July 7th.
We will be running a post-event raffle with all proceeds benefiting the Michaliszyn family. Tickets will be made available online and at the event.
*If ace pot is not hit, it will be donated.


There is a considerable transplant organ deficit. To offset the organ shortage, living donation is being encouraged. Young persons form a sector of the population in whom early awareness is important to encourage favorable attitudes toward donation. Teachers play important roles in education and in generating attitudes.
The increase in the British population, including Welsh citizens, in the south-east of Spain is generating a new social and healthcare reality that is affecting the world of transplantation.


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Wilhelm Tiedemann (* 1900; † 1982) war ein deutscher Pferde-Fotograf und -Filmemacher.

Leben
Wilhelm Tiedemann spezialisierte sich im Jahr 1924 auf das Fotografieren von Pferden. Hierzu besuchte er nahezu weltweit sämtliche international ausgerichteten Reitturniere, aber auch die Olympischen Spiele bis hin zu den Olympischen Sommerspielen 1964 in Tokio.

Schon zuvor war Tiedemann 1930 "auf Veranlassung von Dr. Gustav Rau" an die Kavallerieschule Hannover geholt worden. In dieser Zeit ließ sich der Fotograf mit seiner Firma in Langenhagen nieder.

Spätestens in den frühen 1950er Jahren produzierte Wilhelm Tiedemann auch Filme zur Pferdethematik, aber auch Filme mit Titeln wie "Lied der Heimat" oder "Eine kleine Afrika-Reise". Sein Dokumentarfilm "Sie reiten für Deutschland" erschien 1959.

Archivalien
Nach dem Tode Tiedemanns erwarb das Deutsche Pferdemuseum in Verden zunächst in den 1970er Jahren einen Teil der Tiedemannschen Sammlung. Die Erben schenkten dem Museum in den 1990er Jahren zudem rund 250 Filmrollen und zahlreiche Fotonegative.

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Tierfotograf
Sportfotograf
Dokumentarfotograf
Dokumentarfilmer
Fotograf (20. Jahrhundert)
Fotograf (Hannover)
Unternehmer (Hannover)
Person (Langenhagen)
Person (Pferdesport)
Deutscher
Geboren 1900
Gestorben 1982
Mann

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text:
Ménetreuil är en kommun i departementet Saône-et-Loire i regionen Bourgogne-Franche-Comté i östra Frankrike. Kommunen ligger i kantonen Montpont-en-Bresse som tillhör arrondissementet Louhans. År  hade Ménetreuil  invånare.

Befolkningsutveckling
Antalet invånare i kommunen Ménetreuil

Se även
 Lista över kommuner i departementet Saône-et-Loire

Källor

Kommuner i Saône-et-Loire


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Q: go get url from github on my Apple MAC is not working on a private repository in company I'm on a Apple MAC Laptop, go get command is not working.
I have normal git access, I can git clone and git commit and git push. Why does this go get command not work?
temp % go get github.com/MYCOMPANY/myproject
go get: module github.com/MYCOMPANY/myproject: git ls-remote -q origin in /Users/someuser/go/pkg/mod/cache/vcs/1872293eea4df8de643499713e2d8621a72624bb2514a7a88c1182d1869ef891: exit status 128:
    ssh: Could not resolve hostname github.com:MYCOMPANY: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

    Please make sure you have the correct access rights
    and the repository exists.
temp % go get github.com/MYCOMPANY/myproject
go get: module github.com/MYCOMPANY/myproject: git ls-remote -q origin in /Users/someuser/go/pkg/mod/cache/vcs/1872293eea4df8de643499713e2d8621a72624bb2514a7a88c1182d1869ef891: exit status 128:
    ssh: Could not resolve hostname github.com:MYCOMPANY: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

    Please make sure you have the correct access rights
    and the repository exists.

A: This is what works for me, based on @elulcao
go env -w GOPRIVATE=github.com/COMPANYNAME
git config --global --add url."git@github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"

Then I can do
go mod download

In the projects git folder or go get

A: 'go get' by default does not support private repositories. It only supports public repos.
If you want to get private repos please refer to this link

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(March 22): Most Southeast Asian stock markets fell on Wednesday, taking cues from a selloff on Wall Street as investors are increasingly worried that U.S. President Donald Trump will struggle to deliver promised pro-growth policies, including financial deregulation.
Investors see the Trump administration's struggles to push through the healthcare overhaul, as a sign that he may also face setbacks delivering promised corporate tax cuts.
"Everything is down with the surprise 200 point drop in America," said Joseph Roxas, president of Manila-based Eagle Equities Inc, adding that the U.S. market was "really overbought" and due for a "big correction".
"Everything will be down for today, probably not to the same degree as the United States. We will probably recover faster. My feeling is that emerging-market stocks will gather more interest in the meantime or going forward."
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell as much as 1.5%, in its biggest intraday percentage fall since Dec 15, 2016.
In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 1.1% lower, while the S&P 500 lost 1.2%.
Singapore shares fell as much as 1.3% and wereheaded for a third straight session of declines, with losses being broad-based.
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding declined by 3.5%, making it the biggest loser on the index, while Sembcorp Industries Ltd dropped 2.2%.
Philippine shares fell up to 1.2%, dragged down by financial and consumer stocks with property developer Ayala Land Inc shedding 2.5% and SM Investments Corp declining 1.4%.
Thailand shares recovered from early falls to trade 0.3% lower.
The country's customs-cleared exports data contracted, but the drop was smaller than expected and the government was still optimistic about the trade outlook.
Bucking the trend, Vietnam gained as much as 0.6% to its highest in over nine years.
Gains were led by financials and consumer staples, with Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam gaining 0.5%.


Making the decision to undergo neck or back surgery is certainly not an easy one. It is a situation that many of us will encounter at some point — in the United States alone, one in three, or 75 million adults, are experiencing neck or back pain.
If you are one of the millions who has reached the point where you're ready to treat your spine condition with surgery, and you've explored your treatment options with your doctor, you'll want to take the next step and prepare yourself for what's to come during your surgery experience – from pre-procedure planning to recovery.
To ensure the entire spine care experience is as comfortable as possible, we've provided a *printable* Spine Surgery Checklist so you know what to expect before, during, and after your time with us.
Depending on the kind of surgical treatment that you and your physician have decided on, your recovery period could take anywhere from one week to a few months.
While you're recovering, you'll want to have a comfortable and safe home environment, to mitigate any last-minute errands or emergencies that might pop up. Keeping your home peaceful and recovery-ready is key!
Have meals and snacks prepped for your return home. Many of our patients stock their freezers with prepared meals and have other convenient foods ready to go. This helps to save time and energy after surgery. Your body will undergo healing and repair after your surgery, so you'll want to provide it with nutrition and fuel to help that process.
Invest in a toilet riser. You might have seen this device before – it's a smooth plastic piece that sits on top of your toilet seat, about 8-12 inches high. Some surgeries may result in leg or knee stiffness or pain, making it difficult to bend and sit — a toilet riser can help to avoid any significant pain.
Make searching for items easier with a hand-held "reacher" or "grabber." You can find these in many stores that sell rehab equipment — but you might also find them (at lower prices) at department stores or pharmacies. There are several styles, but these helpful, hand-held devices are lightweight, with a grabbing device on the end for picking up socks, napkins, pencils, etc.
Make getting dressed easier, with slip-on shoes. Normal, everyday movements (like bending down to tie your shoes) can be made more difficult while you're healing from spinal surgery, so having a pair of slippers handy will make things easier on you.
Have all of your essential and personal items within reach. Make sure items like tissues, water, TV remotes, books, and magazines are all set up near your "recovery station" so that you can rest at home without interruption after your surgery.
If you haven't experienced surgery before and aren't sure what to expect, the process can be a bit intimidating.
At OLSS, our advanced and minimally invasive treatment options available to you means your healing and recovery time is faster than traditional open back surgery. With the right preparation, you'll be ready for the day of your surgery and will have our team of spine experts by your side throughout the process.
Preparation: On the morning of surgery, you'll be checked in at your treatment center by the nursing team, who will make sure you're fully prepped and taken care of before the operation. Your doctor will also visit with you before the surgery to go over the procedure and answer any questions that you might have.
During Treatment: Our team will make sure you are comfortable and at ease before administering anesthesia and performing your operation. The amount of time that you spend in surgery is dependent on the kind of treatment that your condition requires, but many patients are able to go home on the same day of surgery.
Recovery: After the surgery is complete, patients spend some time in the recovery room immediately after their operation for monitoring. If you require additional monitoring or care, you'll go to your private room for recovery. Typically, patients go home within 48 hours of surgery, but this depends on the complexity of your procedure. At OLSS, we provide outpatient options for the majority of our treatments, so our patients have the convenience of checking in and checking out the very same day for an immediate at-home recovery.
WHICH OLSS TREATMENT IS RIGHT FOR ME?
We encourage our patients to contact their clinic after their surgery if any questions or concerns should arise. At OLSS, our dedicated staff is available via phone for any post-procedure issues you may have.
There are a few other post-surgery details that you might consider as well for the speediest recovery possible and to ensure that you heal without any complications.
Avoid alcohol, at least excessively. Drinking alcohol, especially in excess, may interact with any medications you've been prescribed. Alcohol is also a depressant, and healing from surgery requires a healthy and positive environment. If you do drink, refrain from large amounts of alcohol.
Avoid smoking. Nicotine is detrimental to the post-surgical recovery process, and smoking has been determined to contribute to back pain.
Set up regular physical therapy appointments following your procedure. Although it's not required, many of our patients benefit from continued therapy and experience faster recovery times.
Avoid being sedentary. As soon as your recovery permits, it's helpful to get up and get moving so that your joints can gain back mobility.
Take pain medication as needed. Make sure your recuperation and recovery are as comfortable as possible.
Maintain healthy habits like good nutrition, drinking plenty of water, and getting the rest and sleep that you need. Your body is in the process of healing and providing it with the fuel and care that it needs is crucial!
Being prepared for your surgery is one of the best ways you can guarantee the kind of recovery that you need.
Our patients experience faster, more efficient recovery times because they have researched and worked with our doctors to prepare themselves and their home environment for post-operative care. Ultimately, having a positive attitude towards your surgery and the many benefits that you'll experience afterwards is key.
Feeling well prepared can foster a sense of control over the experience, so if you're considering surgery to treat your spinal condition, be sure to work with a team who will guide you through the process.
Interested in reaching out to OLSS? If you're ready, call us directly to speak with a spine pain specialist and discuss your options. Call 855-586-2615 or request a FREE MRI REVIEW.


"I can't believe I made people make their own tortilla chips or use fresh ingredients when you can use dried and it'd be just as good," Chrissy Teigen told Refinery29 in April. This incredulity about the more involved recipes in her first cookbook Cravings was caused by the fact that she's now a mother of two and has a lot less free time than before. That's why Cravings: Hungry For More, Teigen's new cookbook that dropped yesterday, features plenty of shortcuts, tips, and hacks.
Though the recipes in Cravings 2 still call for love and attention, this time around, Teigen is including tons of time-saving suggestions. "If there were places where we could make things easier for people's busy schedules, we did that in this book," she explained. That was evident when we flipped through the over 100 new recipes from the star.
In Cravings: Hungry For More, Teigen never assumes you know what an ingredient is or know how to do something. If one of her recipes calls for a specific thing, she'll explain where you can find it or what you can use instead if you're unable to find it. If one of her recipes calls for an ingredient prepared a certain way, she'll provide her personal favorite tricks for getting the ingredient just right before adding it to your dish. The nine hacks ahead will show you exactly what we mean.


Beautiful route from Camperstop Messines to the start of the barragem do Funcho. Easy-to-drive asphalt roads with little traffic meander through the hilly landscape to end up at a well-maintained picnic area with a beautiful view of the lake. On the way back you can visit one or both monasteries, or stop in town for a nice coffee with cake at one of the many "pastelarias".


Amanda Properties proposes for sale on the heights of Cannes in a dominant position, this beautiful property in perfect condition 400m² absolute charm with its beautifully landscaped garden of 2.700m².
Lovely view over the Estérel hills.
Consisting of two main houses. Each one has a magnificent & spacious living room, a swimming pool & offers high amenities.
The first house has four bedrooms while the second one has three.
In annexes: cellars, laundry rooms, boiler room, possible independent bedroom with shower room, storage space, parking and carport.
Ideal for a guests house or a large family that wants to benefit of two independant houses.


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A member of Solihull School's catering team has won a charity award after helping to improve the life of a young pupil who was suffering up to 30 epileptic seizures every day.
Enaya Hoque, a year 3 pupil who joined the school in September, has had childhood absence epilepsy since she was five years old, suffering seizures which left her incoherent for up to 10 seconds each time.
She was put on medication which had severe side-effects, including hair loss, so her family began researching alternative therapies and came across the ketogenic diet, a special high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet which has been used to control seizures in some people with epilepsy since the 1920s.
Doctors usually recommend the ketogenic diet for children whose seizures have not responded to different medicines, but in Enaya's case they were happy for her to stop taking medication and start the diet due to the side effects she was suffering.
Sticking rigidly to the strict diet, and with no medication, Enaya has been seizure-free for more than 170 days. So successful has the diet been for the pupil, she has appeared on the BBC's Food: Truth or Scare programme and is also due to appear on The One Show.
When Enaya joined Solihull School, assistant catering manager Yvonne Pearce had a meeting with the pupil's parents and the school nurse to assess her needs. As a result, Yvonne created a bespoke menu, based on the school's existing menu but adapted for Enaya's ketogenic diet.
Enaya's mum Aneesa nominated Yvonne for a Matthew's Friends Keto-Star award to thank her and to show her how much her efforts were appreciated.
The star awards are for people who have gone that extra mile to support someone on prescribed ketogenic dietary therapy.


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/**
 * @module calculate
 */

import $ from 'jquery';

import config from 'enketo/config';
import { getAncestors } from './dom-utils';

export default {
    /**
     * Updates calculated items.
     *
     * @param {UpdatedDataNodes} [updated] - The object containing info on updated data nodes.
     * @param {string} [filter] - CSS selector filter.
     */
    update( updated = {}, filter = '' ) {
        let $nodes;
        const that = this;

        if ( !this.form ) {
            throw new Error( 'Calculation module not correctly instantiated with form property.' );
        }

        // Filter is used in custom applications that make a distinction between types of calculations.
        if ( updated.relevantPath ) {
            // Questions that are descendants of a group:
            $nodes = this.form.getRelatedNodes( 'data-calculate', `[name^="${updated.relevantPath}/"]${filter}` )
                // Individual questions:
                .add( this.form.getRelatedNodes( 'data-calculate', `[name="${updated.relevantPath}"]${filter}` ) )
                // Individual radiobutton questions with a calculate....:
                .add( this.form.getRelatedNodes( 'data-calculate', `[data-name="${updated.relevantPath}"]${filter}` ) );
        } else {
            $nodes = this.form.getRelatedNodes( 'data-calculate', filter, updated );
        }

        $nodes.each( function() {
            let index;
            const $control = $( this );
            const control = this;
            const name = that.form.input.getName( control );
            const dataNodeName = ( name.lastIndexOf( '/' ) !== -1 ) ? name.substring( name.lastIndexOf( '/' ) + 1 ) : name;
            const expr = that.form.input.getCalculation( control );
            const dataType = that.form.input.getXmlType( control );
            const relevantExpr = that.form.input.getRelevant( control );
            const dataNodesObj = that.form.model.node( name );
            const dataNodes = dataNodesObj.getElements();

            if ( dataNodes.length > 1 ) {

                if ( updated.repeatPath && name.indexOf( updated.repeatPath + '/' ) !== -1 ) {
                    /*
                     * If the update was triggered by a datanode inside a repeat
                     * and the dependent node is inside the same repeat, we can prevent the expensive index determination
                     */
                    const dataNode = that.form.model.node( updated.repeatPath, updated.repeatIndex ).getElement().querySelector( dataNodeName );
                    index = dataNodes.indexOf( dataNode );
                    updateCalc( index );
                } else if ( $control[ 0 ].type === 'hidden' ) {
                    /*
                     * This case is the consequence of the unfortunate decision to place calculated items without a visible form control,
                     * as a separate group (.or-calculated-items), instead of in the Form DOM in the locations where they belong.
                     * This occurs when update is called with empty updated object and multiple repeats are present.
                     */
                    dataNodes.forEach( ( el, index ) => {
                        updateCalc( index );
                    } );
                } else {
                    /*
                     * This occurs when the updated object contains a relevantPath that refers to a repeat and multiple repeats are
                     * present, without calculated items that HAVE a visible form control.
                     */
                    const $repeatSiblings = $control.closest( '.or-repeat' ).siblings( '.or-repeat' ).addBack();
                    if ( $repeatSiblings.length === dataNodes.length ) {
                        index = $repeatSiblings.index( $control.closest( '.or-repeat' ) );
                        updateCalc( index );
                    }
                }
            } else if ( dataNodes.length === 1 ) {
                index = 0;
                updateCalc( index );
            }

            function updateCalc( index ) {
                const pathParts = name.split( '/' );
                /*
                 * First determine immediate group parent of node, which will always be in correct location in DOM. This is where
                 * we can use the index to be guaranteed to get the correct node.
                 * (also for nodes in #calculated-items).
                 *
                 * Then get all the group parents of that node.
                 *
                 * TODO: determine index at every level to properly support repeats and nested repeats
                 *
                 * Note: getting the parents of $control wouldn't work for nodes inside #calculated-items!
                 */
                const parentPath = pathParts.splice( 0, pathParts.length - 1 ).join( '/' );
                let startElement;

                if ( index === 0 ) {
                    startElement = that.form.view.html.querySelector( `.or-group[name="${parentPath}"],.or-group-data[name="${parentPath}"]` );
                } else {
                    startElement = that.form.view.html.querySelectorAll( `.or-repeat[name="${parentPath}"]` )[ index ] ||
                        that.form.view.html.querySelectorAll( `.or-group[name="${parentPath}"],.or-group-data[name="${parentPath}"]` )[ index ];
                }
                const ancestorGroups = startElement ? [ startElement ].concat( getAncestors( startElement, '.or-group, .or-group-data' ) ) : [];

                if ( ancestorGroups.length ) {
                    // Start at the highest level, and traverse down to the immediate parent group.
                    var relevant = ancestorGroups.filter( el => el.matches( '[data-relevant]' ) ).map( group => {
                        const $group = $( group );
                        const nm = that.form.input.getName( group );

                        return {
                            context: nm,
                            // thankfully relevants on repeats are not possible with XLSForm-produced forms
                            index: that.form.view.$.find( `.or-group[name="${nm}"], .or-group-data[name="${nm}"]` ).index( $group ), // performance....
                            expr: that.form.input.getRelevant( group )
                        };
                    } ).concat( [ {
                        context: name,
                        index,
                        expr: relevantExpr
                    } ] ).every( item => item.expr ? that.form.model.evaluate( item.expr, 'boolean', item.context, item.index ) : true );
                } else {
                    relevant = relevantExpr ? that.form.model.evaluate( relevantExpr, 'boolean', name, index ) : true;
                }

                // Not sure if using 'string' is always correct
                const newExpr = that.form.replaceChoiceNameFn( expr, 'string', name, index );

                // It is possible that the fixed expr is '' which causes an error in XPath
                const xpathType = that.form.input.getInputType( control ) === 'number' ? 'number' : 'string';
                const result = relevant && newExpr ? that.form.model.evaluate( newExpr, xpathType, name, index ) : '';

                // Filter the result set to only include the target node
                dataNodesObj.setIndex( index );

                // Set the value
                dataNodesObj.setVal( result, dataType );

                // Not the most efficient to use input.setVal here as it will do another lookup
                // of the node, that we already have...
                // We should not use value "result" here because node.setVal() may have done a data type conversion
                that.form.input.setVal( control, dataNodesObj.getVal() );

                /*
                 * We need to specifically call validate on the question itself, because the validationUpdate
                 * in the evaluation cascade only updates questions with a _dependency_ on this question.
                 */
                if ( config.validateContinuously === true ) {
                    that.form.validateInput( control );
                }
            }
        } );
    }
};


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Q: Insert multiline example in a table environment I would like to put the example in the right cell of a table, and a description on the left. I can't manage to do it though.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\usepackage{stmaryrd}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{qtree}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}

\title{Your Paper}

\author{You}

\date{\today}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

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Your abstract.
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I'm learning so much Spanish that my head physically hurts, but it's a good thing. I'm learning.
Today, a trip to San Juan de Oriente to visit the artisans. A family that weaves baskets from the palms, a woman who spins and paints pottery, a man who carves figures from volcanic rock. Here, there is beauty in the simplicity of life.
At the end of the day, we drive to the lookout over the laguna to stop for juice. There are fried bananas and cheese to eat.
I normally don't eat cheese or fried anything, but I normally don't wander cobblestone street with motor taxis and Cathedrals in Nicaragua. It's about embracing the discomfort.


Self-rejection is a huge problem for those of us struggling with addiction and mental health issues. Deep down we hate ourselves, and this is often a contributing factor in our suffering. Our lack of self-acceptance can be debilitating. We don't believe in ourselves. We lose hope. We can feel as though life is meaningless and like we are worthless. Learning to accept ourselves with all of our flaws and faults takes a shift in perspective. We tend to think that we are only worthwhile if we're doing well, if we're successful or happy, if we're able to compete with other people. We have to start measuring our worth not in our accomplishments but in our ability to grow. Our capacity for change, for healing, for transformation – that is where our strength lies, not in the amount of money in our bank account or the value of our house or what we look like.
Every mistake we've ever made is an opportunity to learn something valuable about ourselves and the world. When we're too busy beating ourselves up and refusing to accept ourselves for who we are, we miss out on these important opportunities. We don't learn the life lessons, until our patterns repeat themselves and we're forced to learn them with even more harshness and potentially drastic impact. Let's start seeing our mistakes not as examples of our failure but as stepping stones in our evolution.
We can take an organized, methodical approach to learning self-acceptance. When you think of your worst mistakes and biggest sources of shame, what things come to mind? Let's use a journaling practice to help ourselves get to the root of our self-rejection. List the things that bother you most about yourself and your past. Be as specific and detailed as you can. What did you do, and how does it make you feel? Perhaps you feel disappointment with yourself, shame, embarrassment, regret, remorse. Write it all down. Now read your words again. Read them over and over again, like a meditative practice, to help yourself come to terms with it. Seeing it written down and facing it head on in this way can help us desensitize ourselves to it. It can help take some of the sting out of it.
Now think about the big picture. Are these things you can move on from? Can you forgive yourself? What were the lessons you've learned? What wisdom can you glean from them, and how can you use that moving forward? How can you help others? Use these questions and this writing exercise as often as you need to, to help you face yourself and therefore learn self-acceptance.
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Calcium Hydroxide (a natural preservative that has no adverse effects. It is an acidity regulator and a firming agent).
They take only moments to prepare, pop them in hot water and hey presto, they are done!
Konjac consists of a soluble fibre called glucomannan. Therefore it helps you feel fuller for longer, keeping the hunger at bay and regulates the blood sugar in the body. This has the effect of keeping your mood more balanced.
Like other soluble fibres such as guar or psyllium, glucomannan has the ability to slow down the passage of food though the digestive tract and lower cholesterol. They help you feel fuller so you're less likely to tuck into after-dinner sweets or chocolates.
Several studies testify to its power to delay absorption and it's been suggested as important in diabetic and weight loss diets.
There's not a huge number of studies but three well-controlled projects reported that glucomannan lowered cholesterol, triglycerides and body weight and kept blood sugars levels lower in diabetic subjects but it had to be taken every day for several weeks.


Zimbabwean national Brighton Moyo - real name Thabiso Proud Mlanje - being "resurrected" by pastor Alph Lukau. Supplied file photo.
JOHANNESBURG, April 16 – Two women have been arrested on fraud charges in a fake "resurrection" incident where a Zimbabwean man known as Brighton Moyo was filmed "rising from the dead" at the South African church of Pastor Alph Lukau earlier in the year.
According to Mlanje's family, he developed an illness before the resurrection stunt with Lukau.
After the "resurrection miracle", Mlanje was allegedly so afraid of South African police that he would sneak out whenever his wife, Simelweyinkosi, took him to hospital.
According to police, they are still searching for suspends and are treating Mlanje as a wanted suspect until they receive confirmation from Zimbabwean authorities that he is in fact dead.
Media reports from Zimbabwe have said the police visited Mlanje's relatives after the burial to ask questions about the "resurrection" incident.


LA PAZ. The potholed asphalt road winds constantly upward outside La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. It's hard to believe that we can climb any higher. At an elevation of 3,600 meters, La Paz is the world's highest capital city. The air is thin, breathing is arduous, even the cigarettes almost go out by themselves.
The houses along the road have no plaster covering, only piles of bricks that create densely packed one-story homes. The view would be breathtaking if there were any breath left to take. Below, in the valley, lies La Paz. Above looms the chain of the Andes Mountains in hues of blue, brown and red, and some of the peaks are snowcapped even at the height of summer. The slopes of the hills are covered with shantytowns built in the past 20 years – their population is now comparable to that of the capital.
This is the road to Villa Fatima, a suburb of La Paz. It is named after the Virgin of Fatima, an apparition of the Virgin Mary to three Portuguese shepherd children from the village of Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Here in Bolivia, Fatima is famous for its market of coca leaves, the largest in the vicinity of the capital.
Indeed, to judge by his driving, the whole country is on the edge: no one uses windshield wipers, not even in driving rain. Drivers turn off their lights when they stop for a red light, if they decide to stop. Sometimes they also turn off the engine.
In the Villa Fatima market, the locals are in no hurry to trust the gringo visitor and refuse to talk or have their picture taken. Their lifeblood, the coca leaf, is already being subjected to a prodigious offensive by everyone who is trying to eradicate its end product, cocaine – especially the United States. The U.S., which is considered the biggest consumer of cocaine in the world, has decided to launch a campaign to stamp out coca cultivation in Bolivia and the neighboring countries.
Thus, instead of doing battle against the New York yuppies who sniff cocaine after – or during – their workday, the world's only superpower is fighting hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers and their families in Bolivia, a country where the average annual per capita income is about $1,000.
The market is a two-story structure that looks very much like a school, but instead of students in empty classrooms there are Indian families from the more fertile areas of Bolivia, from the Yungas Valley or the Chapare region. The pattern repeats itself: at the head of each family stands an elderly woman dressed in traditional clothing and watching with deep concentration an old television set.
The program might be a local telenovela (Latin American soap opera) or a North American (as the United States is called here) series dubbed into Spanish. Around her are the younger members of the family, watching over large sacks, each of which contains 25 kilograms of dried coca leaves, at $5 a kilo.
These casually piled sacks are the nightmare of the United States, but in Bolivia they say that the use of coca leaves is a matter of tradition. Chewing them, brewing them, using them in medicines, potions and ointments is part of the Indian tradition, which long predates the Spanish conquest of the continent. Tea made of coca leaves is served in government ministries, and in every hotel you will find coca tea bags laid out alongside an apple brew or regular tea. The Bolivians say the crop is not grown for commercial purposes and that in any event the coca leaf is not addictive. The problem lies only in the cocaine that is produced from it, in an expensive chemical process which does not take place in Bolivia.
But the data show that most of the coca grown here is in fact earmarked for export. Since the 1970s, commercial quantities of coca have been grown in Bolivia, in part due to the collapse of the world tin market, in which the country played a major role. Tens of thousands of destitute workers migrated from the mining regions in the south of the country to the warm, moist areas east of La Paz and became growers of coca, which brings in revenues up to 10 times greater than other crops. According to United Nations estimates, Bolivia produced 36,000 tons of coca leaves in 2004, of which 25,000 tons were exported, mainly to Colombia, where they are processed into cocaine.
According to estimates of the Bolivian government, the average yearly income of coca farmers fell from $2,700 in 1998 to $900 in 2002.
One of those whose life and livelihood are wholly dependent on coca is Elcides, 22, from the Yungas Valley. Every Monday, he makes the five-hour trip to the capital with two sacks of coca and comes here, to the Villa Fatima market, to sell his produce to whoever will buy it. "Our life is built on coca," he explains. There is a heavy odor that recalls a dense orchard that has lain uncultivated for years. Next to him, atop a pile of sacks, another youngster dozes on a mattress. Time is in no rush here.
In the middle of the room are scales that have seen better days. Each family has 10 to 15 sacks, and a quick calculation shows that the total value of all the merchandise in the market at this moment is $100,000. This industry provides a livelihood to hundreds of thousands of people – growers, driers, packers, drivers and sellers, among others. Eradication of the crop would mean a death blow to all these people. "You can chew coca all day," Elcidas says. "To wake up after sleep, not to fall asleep when you are tired, when you don't feel well. All the time." He strongly recommends coca tea, which should be steeped four or five minutes in boiling water, with at least two teaspoons of honey as a sweetener.
These Indians, many of them cocaleros – coca farmers – are now leading a great human revolution in Bolivia. For the first time in 180 years, since independence from Spain, Bolivia has an indigenous president, an Aymara Indian, a former llama herder and coca farmer himself. To understand the magnitude of this revolution, it is sufficient to look at La Paz or its suburbs on the slopes of the surrounding hills, which in time became the separate city of El Alto. About a million people live in El Alto, almost all of them Indians who migrated to the big city in search of a living. There are few paved roads there, and many of its homes are not hooked up to water, electricity or gas – this in a country which has the continent's second largest natural gas reserves (after Venezuela). A working sewage system? Proper health services? Not here.
But the revolution of which Evo Morales' election as president last December is the crowning symbol goes further, because it heralds the entry of millions of Indians into visible space, a place where they are no longer transparent and, accordingly, can no longer be ignored. Some 60 to 80 percent of Bolivia's nine million inhabitants are Indians from various tribes. Yet in the whole city there is not one sign in a native language. Everything is in Spanish. Until the middle of the 20th century, Indians did not have the vote, and discrimination against them continues to this day.
However, Gomez says, in the past few years the Indians began to learn the rules of the game and to demand their rights. Above all they demanded that coca growing be legalized and that the rights of the citizens to the country?s natural resources, especially gas and water, be restored. In 2003, demonstrations by the Indians toppled the government of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who was derisively nicknamed "El Gringo," because he studied in the United States and returned to Bolivia with a ?North American? accent. Hundreds died in the demonstrations.
Two years later, the government of President Carlos Mesa was also forced to resign, and afterward, the streets of La Paz were filled with armed soldiers and police at every corner. Social tensions continue to run high, but now a new tenant resides in the presidential palace in Plaza Murillo in the heart of the city.
The presidential palace, a colonial structure in Italian Renaissance style, is adjacent on one side to the Cathedral of La Paz and on the other to the Parliament building. One hundred and eighty years after independence, the palace still looks like a foreign implant, as though remnants of the Spanish Conquest continue to dominate this Indian city. Nor does the European splendor suit President Evo Morales, who makes a point of never appearing in public in a suit.
The palace is a square structure with a large covered interior courtyard. It is easy to imagine a ball being held there for members of the white aristocracy, perhaps from the last century. Here, on the cream-colored marble floor, couples elegantly dance a waltz. And here, next to one of the impressive stone pillars, the city governor huddles with a general in dress uniform, its gilded buttons glittering. Overlooking the scene are huge portraits of the white generals who led the struggle for independence from Spain. A portrait of Simon Bolivar, for whom the country is named, shows the great leader in a grim mood. Only the two guards who stand by the flag remind the visitor that this is Bolivia: Not for a second do they stand straight.
Now, at any rate, the heroes have changed. One cool evening in March, Evo (as everyone calls the president) convened a press conference in order to sign a bill calling for the convocation of a new constituent assembly to draft a state constitution. The previous constitution was drawn up by Europeans in 1825, and the new president, who calls himself "Che Guevara without the bullets," wants to include in the document specific articles about the status of the Indians and the rights of the citizens.
It's enough to make you rub your eyes to believe it: the waltzing couples have now been replaced by short Indian women wearing the traditional dress of their tribes of origin. Until a few years ago this scene would have been impossible, but now the presidential palace is theirs. Miners in simple clothes and helmets replace splendiferous generals, and the "regular" politicians, those who wear suits and ties, are few and far between.
It is not difficult to understand why this man, with hair black as coal, enjoys such tremendous popularity in Bolivia and elsewhere. He won 54 percent of the vote in the December 2005 elections, which produced the highest voter turnout in the country's history, and became known throughout the world as the first Indian president of Bolivia. His workday begins at 5 A.M.; on his first day in office he slashed his salary in half (to $1,800 a month), and above all, perhaps, his fame rests on the sweater he took with him on his first trip abroad. Day after day, he was photographed with the president of France, the prime minister of Spain and other leaders in the rough wool sweater, which, he later said, was simply the first sweater he found in his closet before heading for the winter cold in Europe.
Whatever the president's attitude toward women, four of the ministries in his government have been entrusted to them. The most exciting story is that of Casimira Rodriguez, who went from servitude into the cabinet. At the age of 14, Rodriguez, an indigenous Bolivian, now 39, was taken from her village to Cochabamba, the country's third largest city, to work for a white family. Her parents, members of the Quechua tribe, were promised that in return for her work the family would see to her needs and education. Instead, Rodriguez was held in conditions of near slavery. She was forced to work long hours, endured abuse of various kinds, and never went to school.
After two years she escaped from the family and joined the struggle for workers' rights – and she is now justice minister of Bolivia. She always dresses in a lace blouse and a wide skirt, and two thick braids lie on her shoulders. It goes without saying that she is the first member of her tribe ever to serve as a cabinet minister.
What is it like to walk into offices which not long ago were barred to Indians?
What did you learn from your personal experience as a politician?
In Latin America it is very common for wealthy families to have servants at home. Do you intend to eliminate this custom?
workers themselves. Because of the poverty, and in light of the dreams that domestic workers usually have of becoming independent, the first work they are capable of doing is this. Regrettably, the workers experience a discriminatory attitude and many violations of their human rights.
As justice minister, what will you try to change?
Whether Rodriguez succeeds in her ministerial post or not, one thing is clear: the mission facing her and President Morales is very complex. Bolivia, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere (only Haiti is more impoverished) is divided between rich and poor, between mountain people and plains people, between whites and Indians, and sometimes between different groups of Indians as well. The direction Morales will choose to follow is not yet clear: Will he be "Che Guevara without bullets,? clamp down on the international gas mining companies and bring about a genuine change in the living conditions of millions of people who earn less than $2 a day ?(this is the minimum wage in Bolivia, which is not always adhered to?)? Or will he compromise and moderate his ambitions?
The question of when is of no importance, he says, whether it happens in this generation or the next. But victory is certain.


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Hi friends! Are you up for an August sketchbook challenge? We have a fun new spread of art prompts to to keep you and your kiddos busy with art and creativity this month.
This challenge is a wonderful way to connect with your child through open-ended prompts.
Give yourselves a few minutes each day for this challenge. Try the morning after breakfast, after school, after dinner, before bed, etc.
Interpret the daily prompt. Use your imagination, be free, don't hold back, have fun.
You'll start each day with a new prompt and it's up to you to interpret it however you like. For example, if the prompt is "tiny", you could draw an object with tiny marks, make a small pattern, or paint a picture of small things like snails, sand, or chihuahuas. The possibilities are endless.


Our work for Enfield Homes has included a wide range of external improvements to the Klinger Estate, which comprises eleven separate buildings.
Works included roof renewals; the repair and resurfacing of balconies, hallways and walkways; window, door and entrance renewals; communal window and door renewals; concrete and brick repairs and repointing; internal and external repairs and redecorations; and garage repairs.
Detailed communication was required with residents, particularly those identified as vulnerable. Our team of Resident Liaison Officers facilitated a high number of 'meet the contractor' events and sought early engagement in order to gain a clear understanding of individuals' needs. The team helped vulnerable residents by removing their belongings from balconies and disposing of unwanted goods, preventing programme delays from developing and ensuring that the project successfully completed on time.


When we learn that fruit and candy symbols are on the paytable we can usually predict the appearance and gameplay of a slot as we've played enough online fruit machines to last a lifetime, however the Reel Rush video slot from Net Entertainment pleasantly surprised us and we have no doubt that you'll be rushing to play it after reading this review.
As soon as you load this free Reel Rush slots game it becomes obvious that Net Entertainment have taken inspiration from two of the most popular games ever to be released as the blocky platforms in the background will instantly bring back memories of playing Super Mario on the Nintendo, while the fruit and candy symbols are reminiscent of Candy Crush which has taken the world by storm in recent years.
Reel Rush has a structure of 5 reels with 5 rows and 45 standard paylines, however this increases up to a mighty maximum of 3,125-ways thanks to the amazing Re-Spins feature which has been included and there is also a free spins mode too.
Like the popular games which NetEnt have clearly taken inspiration from, you can play Reel Rush on mobile as it is part of the NetEnt Touch series which means tablet, iPhone and Android devices are all supported.
When you finish this review and compare this recent slot release with classic fruit machines you'll notice that the minimum stake is larger at 50p while the maximum you can spin the colourful reels for is £100, and while that may sound like a lot to low limit players, it's well worth trying as you could cash-out up to 480,000 coins!
Those of you who like to play video games as well as real money online slots will recognise the Wild symbol. While it will appear as just a star to many of you, it actually represents a power up in lots of games, and it certainly showcases how powerful it is in these vibrant reels as it can substitute for all symbols in both the base game and free spins mode, although it never appears on the first reel.
There are eleven other symbols which fill the reels, six of which are types of fruits with the other five being types of candy, and they have all been designed in a blocky style in keeping with the bright background.
Strawberries are tastiest of all here as they offer satisfying wins of up to 1,000 coins for you to sink your teeth into while you will also find yourself devouring pineapples for up to 500 coins, lemons are worth up to 250 coins, there are kiwi-fruits that bring up to 200 coins, grapes fill you with up to 150 coins and plums see you enjoy up to 100 coins.
While the fruit symbols have been impressively designed, the candy symbols are nothing to write home about. They are represented by a circular candy with a differing colour for each (red, orange, yellow, green and purple) but all have the same values with up to 50 coins on offer for winning combinations of each.
The key to getting, or getting close to, that maximum win of 480,000 coins lies with the Re-Spins and free spins features that Reel Rush boasts.
Re-Spins are activated whenever you land a winning combination, either in the base game or during the free spins feature, with the number of ways to win increasing on each subsequent winning combination and we haven't found a player yet who doesn't love it. Your first reel re-spin sees the 45 paylines switch to 135-ways to win while the second sees this increase to 405-ways, on the third it jumps to 675-ways, the fourth and it's 1,125 ways, while a fifth will see 1,875-ways to win.
You may be wondering where the 3,125-ways to win we mentioned at the start of this review went to and that's because this doesn't come into play until after a fifth Re-Spin. Going on such a hot streak sees you rewarded with 8 free spins with 3,125-ways to win – a combination which never fails to deliver sensational wins!
The blocky throwback design of the Reel Rush slot machine combined with the array of colourful fruits and candies you are tasked with collecting, the amazing sound effects, the Re-Spins feature which sees the number of ways to win increase and the free spins mode where you spin the reels at no cost all make for an incredible experience that will have you rushing back to the reels many times over!


I have been a long time fan of Karen Walker eye wear, so I was thrilled when she approached me to shoot her latest campaign with some of the Advanced Style ladies. I cast some of my favorite women and shot all the photos in their own homes. I am proud to present The Karen Walker Spring 2013 Forever Campaign starring Ilona Royce Smithkin, Joyce Carpati, Linda Rodin and Lynn Dell.


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In the United States, major advancements in marriage equality have been secured through court [Page 737]challenges on both the state and federal levels. The first same-sex marriage cases date from the 1970s and the early days of the gay liberation movement. However, the concerted push for marriage equality did not begin until the mid-1990s, when a series of positive decisions from the Hawai'i state courts signaled that same-sex couples could secure the right to marry under state constitutional law. The Hawai'i marriage litigation provoked a popular backlash, and voters in many states amended their state constitutions to prohibit same-sex marriage, thereby eliminating the power of the courts to use state constitutional protections to compel same-sex marriage. Beginning in 2009, the focus of the marriage litigation ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls Ads That Chase You Across the Web 'Creepy'
BYLisa Marie Segarra
Tim Cook, chief executive office of Apple Inc., speaks during an event at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Apple is making announcements in a bid to win back students and teachers from Google and Microsoft Corp. Photo by Christopher Dilts—Bloomberg/Getty Images
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is no stranger to wading into online privacy debates. His latest targets are ads that follow you online, appearing on nearly every website you visit.
"To me it's creepy when I look at something and all of a sudden it's chasing me all the way across the web. I don't like that," Cook said during an MSNBC interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Recode's Kara Swisher.
Cook also took aim at Facebook's latest Cambridge Analytica scandal saying that everyone should know what data they're sharing and what others can learn about them from information, noting that "privacy is a human right."
"The truth is we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customers. If our customer was our product, we could make a ton of money," Cook said. "We've elected not to do that."
It's not the first time Cook and Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg have made comments with opposing views on the services and their effects on users' privacy.