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I hike, kayak, love to travel, building a library in Tanzania, never say no to champagne or diet Red Bull.
The Sopranos, Weeds, basketball, baseball, and tennis.
Lovely to see you again, my friend..
Hi Rosemary, I want to introduce you to my debut novel "A Circle of souls" which is a murder, mystery, psychological thriller and a tale of justice and hope. Do visit www.acircleofsouls.com to read more about the book. Make sure you sign up to win an autographed copy of the book. You can also read more reviews by clicking on the More Reviews button at the website. Thanks for your time in advance.
Hi Rosemary, What zone are you gardening in. I'm trapped in a mysterious 3/4 spot myself.
Thanks for the invite. Lots of success.
Thanks for the friend invite, and good luck with the book in February. St. Martins is a nice hosue to start out from. Congratulations.
The reason many people travel in RVs is to travel with their pets. A limited number of hotels allow a small dog but not enough. So tell your husband you are NOT nuts!
Rosemary, do you still have a Jeep? I suggest checking into Scamps or Casitas. These are lightweight bare-bones travel trailers that can be towed with anything, even something small. We tow ours with a Jeep Wrangler (it's really for my m-i-l, but we use it if the motor home is in the shop or if we're going somewhere where the motor home is too large to park).
Hi Rosemary, thanks for the invite! You're putting us all to shame with your blog here!
Greetings I don't think cozys are dead, we are just adding more kinds of mysteries. Mine is a paranormal crime novel - crossing genres - My book, The Beatitudes, is a paranormal thriller set in New Orleans. It will be out in the fall and I am donating all royalties directly to the New Orleans Public Library Foundation. Libraries support the infrastructure of a great city, so I have started The Beatitudes Network to promote awareness of the importance of public libraries in NOLA.
The blogsite www.beatitudesinneworleans.blogspot.com describes the Network, has excerpts from The Beatitudes, recipes, and more. Merci mille fois. Lyn Lejeune.
Writers, please pass the word…..it's for a good cause….don't let the libraries of New Orleans or the US go the way of The Great Library of Alexandria. P.S. just posted an excerpt on my Crimespace page.
I don't think you are morbid for wanting your sisters name with yours. I don't want anyone to forget that my sister was alive and she was a wonderful twin. I think giving tributes where they are due is the upmost respect you can give anyone... Look at the monuments given to famous people in the past... just because my twin wasn't famous, just a great sister, she deserves recognition. And so does your sister.


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Album Review: MISFORTUNES - The Isle of Tomorrow (2020)
Misfortunes is a one-man synth project based in Thessaloniki, Greece and formed in 2014 by Ioakim Vasileiadis. On September 24, 2020 he released his second album "The Isle of Tomorrow" on Tonn Recordings, an independent record label based in Belfast. The LP comes in 12" black vinyl with printed inner sleeve and lyrics, but also as a digital release. The lyrics, some of which are in Greek, have been written by various contributors featuring poems by Markos-Valsamis Lyritsis, Constantinos Georgiadis, Nikolina Chatzipantazi, Kosmas Lazaridis and Ioakim Vasileiadis.
The opening track "Blood Disco" had already been released in 2019 as a digital single. A great track that captures your attention immediately and showcases Misfortune's nice combination of minimal synth and modern darkwave. Then we have the majestic sounding "Είμαι Εσύ" (I Am You) and "Sealed Windows". While on "Στο Τέλος του Δρόμου" (At The End Of The Road) Ioakim's vocal is deep and dark. The first side of the record ends with "Forever And A Day", another example of his 80's inspired synth sound, combining coldwave, minimal synth and synthwave.
On the second side we have "Mercury" that starts as spoken word piece with textures of synthesizers in the background, before the 80's pop beat steps in. The next track "Diomede Islands" has that early EBM sound, reminiscent of Front 242. The Eighties decade of the previous century are also praised on the 80ish "Directed Lies" and on the last track "Μαύρο Τσουκάλι" (Black Cauldron) that sounds literally as if recorded back then.
The digital release has a further two tracks, "Another Me" and "First Light" that are in the same vein as the main tracks of the album.
The Isle of Tomorrow by Misfortunes
CONJECTURE - ∫V (2020)
The electronic, avant-garde, dark ambient, experimental, industrial noise project from Greece, Conjecture, has just released a new EP "∫V". This is a companion EP to his full-length LP "V" (released on Amek in 2019). According to the artist, in mathematical language the "∫" means "complete" and so the record contains previously unheard music, written during the recording sessions of "V".
The EP consists of three previously unheard solo pieces of Conjecture's signature introspective yet powerful take on post-industrial music, but also features three guest interpretations (remixes) of the same material. First is "ΛΑΣΠΗ" (Mud), with Conjectures familiar apocalyptic soundscapes. A kind of nocturnal track filled with distant industrial noises in a dark ambient setting. On the next track "ΦΟΝΟΣ" (Murder) things get a bit more intense, dominated by a monotonous drum strike and an icy synth line. The third new composition is "ΛΥΜΗ" (Great Depression) where the noises get louder around a revolving motoric synth rhythm that later intensifies with the addition of a metallic sounding drumbeat.
The second part of this EP features the three remixes, that re-envision Conjecture's music and bring its already deep and nuanced sound to a whole new level. The track "ΛΑΣΠΗ (Antechamber Remix)" is treated by the Viennese producer Mahk Rumbae, who amplifies Conjectures more delicate ambient approach with more emphasis on the industrial noises. The same could be said for "ΦΟΝΟΣ (Tалос Remix)", mixed by the audio visual project duo Tалос, that also has added vocals provided by Glen Tartaglia of the project ]interstice[. While on "ΛΥΜΗ (Late Remix)" by Emil Mitov of the experimental music project Late from Sofia, Bulgaria, we have yet another take on an original filtered through the remixer's own prism.
All music was written by Vasilis Angelopoulos between 2018-2019 and was mastered by Sotiris Laskaris. The cover photo is by Vaia Pilafa, with cover model Hawk Stigmata (of the project Liebchen). Apart from the digital release, "∫V" will also be available as a limited-edition cassette C30, limited to 66 copies.
∫V by Conjecture
Album Review : THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA - Skeleton Dreams (2020)
The Beauty Of Gemina is a band from Switzerland founded by Michael Sele in 2006. They just released their ninth album "Skeleton Dreams" on September 4th, 2020. The Zürich band are known for their blend of darkwave, americana, alternative rock and indie-folk wave.
The opener "A Night Like This" served as a single with its video released a few days before the album. A classic example of their dark alt. rock with melodic guitars and Michael Sele's characteristic voice. Then with "Naked" we have a semi-acoustic stripped bare track. Like much of the album, the songs are very emotional and dreamy in feel. On the acoustic "Maybe God Knows" things get more American folk, while on "Friends Of Mine" we have an even more stripped down acoustic track with a haunted feel, with some nice strings adding to the atmosphere. In the same vein we have "Resurgence" but more electric. The atmosphere is more subtle again with "Where Has It All Gone" that has some nice strumming guitars and icy keyboards.
Halfway through we have "Rainbow Man", another dive in dark Americana territory. Followed by "Dark Suzanne" on which they pick up on the pace. Next is their brilliant cover of the Sisters Of Mercy song "Nine While Nine" where they have brought this classic to match their own sound. We have a return to the acoustic set up with the gentle "I Come To Grief" before the band burst into the melodic electric guitar driven "Apologise", a song that had premiered earlier in July when it was released as a first single and the official video was uploaded. The album finishes with the gentle bare acoustic tracks "The World Is Going On" and the ending piano piece "Hold On To This Night".
Overall, a great sounding album by a band that has left nothing to chance. The band here consist her of Michael Sele (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, grand piano, organ, keyboards, arrangements and programming), Philipp Küng (bass guitar, percussions, keyboards, arrangements), Andi Zuber (bass guitar) and Mac Vinzens (drums). The music was recorded, mixed and mastered by Michael Sele at Icecube Studio Mels, during March - June 2020 and was produced by Michael Sele and Philipp Küng.
Skeleton Dreams by The Beauty of Gemina
Album Review: METAL DISCO - Sex, Drugs & Hardware (Werkstatt 2020)
The dark electronic project Metal Disco released their third album "Sex, Drugs & Hardware" on September 8th, 2020 on Werkstatt Recordings. On this release Metal Disco (main man Toxic Razor) has collaborated with various artist from the indie dark electronic scene.
First, we get into the electronic vibe of the album with "Nowy Wymiar", a track featuring Marta Raya (known to us from her previous band Monowelt) on vocals and lyrics. On "Inexorable Romance", we have Toxic Razer singing a more oldschool electro/EBM track. In the same vein we have "Aurora Resurgens" with lyrics by Keren Batok (courtesy Of Psi, Isotropia & Red Sol). The tone changes on "For A Ghost Named Lothario" that features Sky Lesco (of Tearful Moon) on vocals and lyrics. Here the analog synths are more evident, giving it a more retro feel. Next is "Addiction" a night synth track with Toxic Razer himself again on vocals.
The mood changes with the more danceable "Excess (feat. Night Haze)" where we find PlasticineK taking lead vocals. On the next track "Sore Heart" the lyrics are provided by Chroma Carbon (courtesy of Factice Factory / Sine Silex). We have another collaboration on "Dimensions Of The Eye" that features the Greek dark/minimal wave duo Incirrina and especially Irini Tini's characteristic vocals. Toxic Razer steps up again to the mic stand for "Burn It Down", a track that has all the elements of the darkwave, minimal, new wave and synth-pop genres as on the ending title-track "Sex, Drugs & Hardware".
This release comes in a limited-edition CD professionally duplicated cd in shrink-wrap, in a standard jewel case with an 8-page booklet with lyrics. Also, it comes as a limited-edition cassette in black shell, in a clear case and a double-sided printed 3-panel j-card with lyrics.
324. METAL DISCO - Sex, Drugs & Hardware by Werkstatt Recordings
LIEBCHEN – Daemon (2020)
The project Liebchen was setup in the mid 2010s in Berlin by Hawk Stigmata (Apostolis Zanias) known from his previous bands Phoenix Catscratch και Flesh United. Now having returned to Athens he has teamed up with Vasilis Angelopoulos (Conjecture) and released on September 3rd, 2020 their first EP "Daemon". So, the electronic hybrid duo featured on this release is Hawk Stigmata, who provides the lyrics and vocals and Conjecture who produces the electronic punk-industrial EBM sounds.
First track is "Sickness". A track that was first heard back in March when uploaded as a video directed by MarIa Damkalidi. The track is a powerful breed of electro and industrial EBM with Hawk spitting out passionately his esoteric but socially political lyrics like "I was a witness, to this sickness". Next is "Hold Me Tighter", a more industrial based track with a deep metronomic stomp. Lyrically, the song is emotional set, with feelings of despair "Like a liar on a witch trial, drink the fire and take the blame, like a liar on a witch trial, don't you feel the same?" and longingness "If you wanna hold me tighter, I will ask you now to stay, If you wanna hold me tighter, you can always call my name…"
On "Embrace My Blood" we have a danceable synth track with a rhythm enhanced with break beats, while on "ΠΕΤΡΑ (Petra / Stone)" the duo has managed to bring a nice sense of brutality and sensitivity in the same song. The inspiration for "ΠΕΤΡΑ" came from an important life event that happened to Liebchen and is dedicated to all the children that have been bullied out there, all the freaks, the free spirits, their LGBTQ brothers and sisters and to all the children that didn't make it and never saw the light "But please stay alive, I'll promise you the light…". The EP closes with the electronically fueled up "Desire". Here things get more techno fused with Hawk all fired up singing "There's fire now in the temple, a sadness in your eyes…" and "Desire! Fotia! Can you taste that desire?!".
The lyrics written by Hawk Stigmata in general are an expression of the hunger that human brain has in order to complete the journey of the heart. All the songs, according to the band, are an electronic political statement about freedom lgbtq/human rights and a big respect and dedication towards freedom that bring us closer to the great divine.
Daemon by LIEBCHEN - Daemon
Album Review: MEPHISTO WALZ - All These Winding Roads (2020)
The pioneers of deathrock, Mephisto Walz, have returned with the new album "All These Winding Roads". The album is now available digital, released September 2nd, but will also be out on CD by Dark Vinyl Records. Mephisto Walz was formed in 1986 by Barry Galvin (aka Bari-Bari) after his departure from the influential deathrock band Christian Death. After a long career Bari-Bari is now with Myriam Galvin on vocals and had first worked together on their previous album "Scoundrel" in 2017.
As stated by Bari-Bari, who has done all the production, the album is described as "New vocalists, new songs, unreleased tracks, old vocalists merged into a new release". Something that is obvious from the first track "The Lost And Haunted" that features Veronica Campbell (of Death Loves Veronica) on vocals and words. Then on "They'll Never Find You", a great track that shows that Mephisto Walz still have what it takes, we have Mari Kattman on vocals with Myriam writing the words. Next is the cover of The Hollies pop song "Stop In The Name Of Love" featuring on vocals Christine Leonard, Mephisto Walz's first female singer. While on "Is This Really My Life" with Mari Kattman on vocals and Myriam writing the words we have one of the more ethereal songs of the album. As on all the album, we hear Bari-Bari's signature songwriting style and distinctive wall of chorus/delay-effected guitar sound. Another cover follows with the 1960's instrumental "Apache" written by Jerry Lordan.
Veronica Campbell appears also on "When No One's Left To Hear", a classic upbeat oldschool deathrock track. The cover "Like The Wind" follows with vocals provided by Alastrelle Delyon (of Dead Souls Rising). A 80's rock song written by an unknown artists that has become famous as "The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet". Things calm down and get darker on "Here Lies Forever" featuring Veronica Campbell who provides once again vocals and words. In the same vein, but more atmospheric, we have "Firefly" with vocals and lyrics provided by Johna. We get to hear beloved Christine Leonard again on "Skin", the classic Madonna cover originally released on the "Virgin Voices / A Tribute To Madonna" in 2000. The album closes with the more dynamic "Suntanned Satans", with thumping drums, screaming guitars and Bari-Bari taking lead vocals.
All These Winding Roads by Mephisto Walz

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Top 10 Most Haunted Hotels in the World
Julia Melko 30 Dec 2013
Are you afraid of the dark? You certainly will be after a night in one of these terrifying hotels that are home to ghosts and ghouls of every variety. Ghosts of young girls, weeping widows, and floating apparitions will keep you company in these haunted buildings, and you may even spot a celebrity spectre floating past your bedroom door.
1. The Stanley, Colorado, USA
This creepy hotel inspired one of the greatest horror novels of all time, The Shining. Legend has it that when Stephen King and his wife stayed here, they briefly left their hotel room only to return and find their suitcases unpacked and their things stowed away in the closets. Guests at the hotel include the ghost of a woman who froze to death in the basement, and the building's former owner F.O. Stanley roams the halls supervising the hotel from beyond the grave.
1. Top 10 Most Haunted Hotels in the World
2. Karosta Prison Hotel, Karosta, Latvia
3. Akasaka Weekly Mansion, Tokyo, Japan
4. The Crescent Hotel, Arkansas, USA
5. Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, England
6. Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
7. Hawthorne Hotel, Massachusetts, USA
8. Elvey Farm, Pluckley, England
9. Hotel Burchianti, Florence, Italy
10. Dragsholm Slot, Sealand, Denmark
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This radiant board book introduces babies and toddlers to the Christmas story.
This sturdy, colourful board book introduces babies and toddlers to the wonder of the Christmas story.
Hilde Heyduck-Huth's radiant illustrations will engage children and the simple, gentle text is perfect for reading aloud.
Hilde Heyduck-Huth is a renowned German author-illustrator whose awards include winning the prestigious Premio Grafico at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Her books have been translated into twelve languages.


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Spooktacular hikes for the Halloween season
Halloween is approaching and it's that time of year where we are seeking things a bit creepy. So if you're outdoorsy, what better way is there to celebrate the spooky season than taking a hike deep into a dark, shadowy forest?
We have numerous trails in our region that lead to cemeteries, gravesites and even a ghost town. Hikers often report haunted or unnerving activity at many of these locations. Trek to one of these eerie spots to find out for yourself if the stories are true. And if you're feeling extra-bold, wear a headlamp and hike in the dark or camp nearby to see if you can withstand the night.
Here are my top three local hikes to get a tingle up your spine:
Nick Grindstaff Monument
Nick Grindstaff was born in 1851. He was orphaned at the age of three. Rumor has it that he later moved out west where he was robbed and beaten, along with suffering other financial difficulties.
'Lived alone, suffered alone and died alone' — the tombstone of Nick Grindstaff
He soon returned to Tennessee, where he lived out the final 45 years of his life in total solitude, except for his dog, Panter, in a tiny cabin high up on Iron Mountain.
In 1923, a man went to visit Nick and found him dead inside his cabin. Some stories say that Panter watched over Nick's body for days, and the dog had to be overpowered and tied to a tree so Nick could be buried. Other accounts say that when Panter died, he was buried alongside Nick.
The cabin's chimney serves as a headstone with the epitaph reading, "Lived alone, suffered alone, died alone."
To this day many hikers who camp near this monument report the spine-chilling howls of a dog late at night, and some claim to see a phantom dog guarding the area.
Getting there: From Highway 19E in Elizabethton, drive Stoney Creek Road (Highway 91) toward Shady Valley for 18 miles to a parking area at the intersection of Highway 91 and Cross Mountain Road. From the parking area, walk over Cross Mountain Road and head into the forest, following the white blazes.
This is heading south on the Appalachian Trail. If you cross over TN91 you will be heading north on the A.T. toward Osborne Farm, which is the wrong direction. Simply follow the white blazes. In 3.5 miles of steady climbing, you'll reach the Nick Grindstaff Monument, only a few feet off of the Appalachian Trail.
Abandoned Community of Lost Cove
The ghost town of Lost Cove is located above the Nolichucky River, just outside of Erwin, near the North Carolina/Tennessee border. It is situated in a very remote and isolated area on the rugged slopes of Flattop Mountain. No roads lead to it, only foot trails and the railroad along the river.
Lost Cove: 'Beware the ghost of John B. Tipton.'
Most historians believe the town was settled around the time of the Civil War, and for many years the inhabitants (around 100) made their livings by logging and moon-shining. But eventually timber resources began to diminish, and the railroad moved toward hauling coal, leaving the town to dwindle. The last residents left in 1957.
What you will find there today is two remaining houses, a few stone chimneys, an old logging truck, building remnants and a small cemetery with crumbling gravestones. Be it haunted or not, this is an extremely eerie place isolated deep in the middle of nowhere. It would take a brave soul to spend the night alone in Lost Cove.
Getting there: From Interstate 26 take exit #43 (Temple Hill). Turn east at the bottom of the exit, then take a right on US 19W. Proceed for thirteen miles, and take a left on White Oak Flats Road. This paved road will ascend steeply for a little over a mile, then end at an intersection with two graveled roads. Take the gravel road to the left, which is FS 278.
This road will continue to climb as you follow it for 2.0 miles. The Lost Cove Trail begins near the summit of Flattop Mountain, and is a very strenuous, six-mile round trip hike.
Vandeventer Shelter
There have been very few deadly attacks on the Appalachian Trail. However, in 1975 at the Vandenventer Shelter overlooking Watauga Lake, Paul Bigley murdered Janice Balza of Wisconsin. She was an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker.
Bigley killed her with a hatchet, allegedly because he coveted her backpack.
Many hikers staying at this shelter give accounts of hearing loud footsteps in the nearby woods late at night, but no one is there. Others hear strange sounds coming from the cliffs behind the shelter.
Getting there: From Highway 19E in Elizabethton, drive Stoney Creek Road (Highway 91) toward Shady Valley. In about four miles turn right onto Blue Springs Road. When Blue Springs curves sharply to the left (about one mile), go straight onto Steel Bridge Road. After 0.8 miles, turn right and go across the bridge.
Follow the signs for Wilbur and Watauga Dams.
Pass by Wilbur Dam and cross a bridge over the reservoir. Just beyond this bridge bear left. The road starts to climb.
The Appalachian Trail crossing (with parking) is at the top of the climb. After parking, walk north on the Appalachian Trail (on the same side of the road as the parking spots), following the white blazes.
In about 4.4 miles of strenuous climbing, you will reach Vandeventer Shelter.


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London Radio Stations.
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:28 am Post subject: London Radio Stations.
I don't know how Magic London can compete up against Smooth London? Smooth go live at 7am and Magic at 8am although is Magic live or voice tracked from 8am, know one really knows?
Although Magic was nominating the London airwaves for a while and do play some good music, I do think they are going to lose some ground in the listening figures.
I know Capital and Heart are part of the main stations in London, but they play to a different audience. I'm talking about the two named above who play more of a wider variety of music.
I think Smooth London is going to push a lot of them off the dial? Even Smooth Radio in general across the UK.
Clive55
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:14 am Post subject:
Had Smooth on at work for a while. But one of my colleagues kept changing it to Capital.
We've now reached a compromise & listen to Heart. Not too bad, they play alot of Shania & LeAnn.
I do like Magic, but they tend to play the same tracks forever.
Smooth play a good, wide range of music.
On DAB I sometimes listen to Easy
On the net, I listen to american country radio
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Smooth seem to have a good sound and some good presenters who seem to have something interesting to say as well.
Magic has always been the station that is played when people want background music or dont want to upset customers in cabs, shops, cafes, etc. The songs get played on very high rotation. If you want to develop an abiding hatred for Michel Buble's "Home", try listening to Magic for a few days.
RockitRon
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Magic, Heart, Century, Smooth - how many variations of Bland do we really need? As you say, shop/hotel background.
Capital is still London's premier pop station, though whenever I listen to it (digital or online) there seems to be a technical problem which causes the discs to skip.
As soon as it was released (on Buble's It's Time album) I picked out Home as being different from his usual big-band-crooner material and ideal for one of Nashville's finest to pick up and cover with more of a country feel. Just don't blame me for the fact that it was Louis Walsh who obviously thought it ideal for Westlife
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RockitRon wrote:
Blake Shelton did a country version
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Thank you for that, Clive, so he has - it's a new release in the US by the looks of things, not in the chart yet, and not on an existing album. It has been promoted by appearances in duet with Michael Buble.
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Ron, you can buy the single at i-tunes for 79 pence!


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Ruling near on Calif. same-sex marriage ban
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A federal appeals court is ready to announce its ruling on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday a three-judge panel plans to publish its long-awaited opinion on Tuesday.
The panel heard oral arguments more than a year ago but delayed a decision while it sought guidance from the California Supreme Court on whether sponsors of the ban, known as Proposition 8, had legal authority to challenge a trial judge's ruling that the voter-approved measure was unconstitutional.
Even if the 9th Circuit upholds the lower court, same-sex marriages are unlikely to resume in California any time soon. Both supporters and opponents of Proposition 8 have said they would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if they lose in the intermediate court.
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Inspirational quotes on creativity. Motivate, inspire yourself, get back onto the creative path; increase your happiness quotient!
DEDICATED TO THE CREATIVE GEEK—This book is for those who are blessed or cursed with the gift of creative intelligence. Those whose right brains keep them up at night with brilliant concepts; those who question everything; those who don't respect authority; those who were never understood by their peers, parents or teachers; those who were the class clowns.
You know who you are. You never fit in, were never voted to be famous, and were not popular among your classmates at school. Your parents despaired that you might end up in the gutter because you wanted to be an artist.
You were one of the motley misfits who sat at the back of the room reading science fiction, the art-geek who drew cartoon characters in math class, the budding scientist who experimented with potentially incendiary ingredients from your mother's kitchen in the bathroom, the fledging drummer who just couldn't sit still in grade school. You were the one couldn't figure out why everyone else wanted to lead a normal life.
I honor you with our special secret salute (I can't show it here, but you know what that is).


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Microsoft India says 50 of top 100 BSE-listed firms use its cloud services
Microsoft Tuesday said that 50 of the top 100 companies listed on BSE have adopted its cloud services in the six months of its launch.
June 28, 2016, 14:07 IST
NEW DELHI: Microsoft Tuesday said that 50 of the top 100 companies listed on BSE have adopted its cloud services in the six months of its launch.
Companies such as HDFC, ICICI Lombard, IDFC, Fortis Healthcare, Apollo Hospitals, AIIMS, Reliance Capital, Essar Group, L&T, among many others across various sectors have started using Microsoft Cloud Services.
Microsoft had launched its cloud services through local data centers located at Mumbai, Pune and Chennai in September 2015. The company offers 'cloud-on-your-terms' with a complete portfolio of cloud services; Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics CRM Online.
The IT giant said that it has invested heavily in four areas that are security, privacy, compliance and transparency, to strengthen its cloud services through the local data centers.
Microsoft and its ISV partners are providing solutions with tools such as Azure Machine Learning, Azure Analytics, Power BI among others.
Meru Cabs, JustDial, PayTM, Snapdeal, Pepperfry , Mahindra & Mahindra, Kotak Mahindra and Axis Bank have also opted for Microsoft Cloud, the company said.
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The date of this book is unknown but the internal evidence pinpoints the volume to the years 1896 to 1899. The size is 25x30cm. The cover is an eye catching gold printing on pebbled dark maroon cloth, gilt edges, scuffing to edges, each page specially attached. The book contains laid down newspaper cuttings of Johannesburg life in the late 19th century. The author of these Weekly Star contributions was Johnstone Sheldon who wrote under the pseudonym The Vagrant. The album holds 96 of his pre South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902) columns.
It appears as though the album was commissioned by Sheldon to preserve his newspaper writing. Here is an example of collectable ephemera which is difficult to price because it is unique. It was my pleasure to become the new owner of the album. I found it while browsing at the Frank Thorold book farm out at Kya Sands. It is one of those rare treasures that one is lucky enough to stumble upon. I was welcomed by the well-known fashion photographer Merwelene van Der Merwe, the new owner of Frank Thorold's books, who has sadly taken the decision to sell the entire Frank Thorold - Robin Fryde - Neillen Van Kraayenberg collections. The sale started about six months ago but there are still many incredible books remaining. It was an enormous quantity of rare and unusual books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers, paper ephemera, reputed to comprise some 150 000 items. Extraordinary books have come onto the market to bring pleasure and pride of ownership to the next generation of custodians of these treasures.
The pages of the album are a faded, insipid green and the newspaper columns are a pale shade of pink. It is a volume that reveals something about newspaper printing in early Johannesburg. At the same time the subject matter and themes pursued week after week by Sheldon give us a glimpse of what life in Joburg was like in the pioneering days of the 1890s. It is an unusual volume of newspaper clippings that would otherwise only survive in the vast collection of old newspapers in the Johannesburg Public Library. The compilation of an album makes for a far more accessible resource.
I believe that this is a volume that should be reprinted so it can be more widely known and used. I have numbered the pages of the album and compiled an index of the 96 columns (if anyone is interested I am more than happy to share this). I plan to offer Wits' Historical Papers a scan of the album to ensure the preservation of this extraordinary resource.
Sheldon wrote about all aspects of life in Johannesburg roughly between the years 1896 and 1899 following his arrival from Australia. One presumes he found work on the Weekly Star and remained a journalist in Johannesburg until the outbreak of the War. He travelled widely over the social scene. His interest lay in the life of the poor, the working man, the underclass. He was the champion of the man and woman who undertook menial jobs - the brickmaker, the nurse, the working miner, the shop girl, the baker, the firefighter, the laundress, the barber and the hairdresser. His was a campaign for social justice. He was curious about people, how and where the poor lived (the mine boarding houses, the cheap lodging houses, night shelters at 9d a night, a location etc.). He wrote about labour disputes, life in the hospital, the coolie location (sic), how people died (E.g. The Braamfontein Explosion) and where they were buried. He promoted the work of the early social workers, churches and philanthropists of the town, for example, Nazareth House, Saint Monica's home, Sister Rosa, the Salvation Army, Mr Kelly's home etc. Sheldon also explored the social institutions of the day - the churches, the gaol, the hospital, the racecourse, the social and musical clubs, the sports clubs, the Witwatersrand Agricultural Show and more. He poked and probed across the town as a true vagrant.
The churches of Johannesburg of the late 1890s. Only St Mary's (now called St Mary's the Less) remains today.
Sheldon also wrote about the unacceptable living conditions in Johannesburg in the late 1890s - the insanitary situation (Johannesburg had a very high death rate from typhoid because of poor water management). He visited the meat market and commented on the rise in the price of meat because of the rinderpest epidemic.
Some of his columns are little gems. There is a fine piece about the Market Gardeners of Johannesburg; how the Portuguese are the producers, the Italians are industrious, the Chinese are cautious and he provides a description of Zoccola's farm - Lombardy - today's Lombardy East. There is an account of a day in Durban (he travelled by train) and a description of celebrating the American Day of Independence.
His writing is interesting but somewhat earnest, stolid, florid, verbose and filled with detail. Most important for the eye witness are accounts of the on the spot observer. He was the master of alliteration - 'prayer and praise', 'pleasure profit and possibilities', 'barbers and baldness', 'unknown and unnoticed', 'gold and grain', 'the law and the lash' all feature in his writing.
It is quite a task to read a Sheldon column from beginning to end. We learn about the details of working for £1 a day or £6 a week. There is one delightful column about going to the races in early Johannesburg. Other topics include attending a dog show of the Kennel Club, the Christmas picnic spots in and around the town by 1898 and spending a day in the court. Sheldon also has his prejudices reflecting the social mores of his time. He may have supported the underdog but his working man was likely to be white working class; he supported trade unionism but for a white working class. He saw Chinese immigrants as cunning and possibly threatening with their gambling dens and their grocery stores. For Sheldon the coming of black miners posed a threat to the white immigrant miner.
The Star newspaper appeared for the first time in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star. It was founded in Grahamstown under that title on 6 January 1871 and was moved to the Witwatersrand in 1887 by the brothers Thomas and George Sheffield, the then owners. In 1889, the name Eastern Star was changed to The Star. The Star still appears as a daily paper and there is also a Saturday Star. It is currently owned by Iqbal Surve, chairman and active owner of Independent Media. The Star's great slogan was the byline "telling it like it is" and here is a superb collection of writing about Johannesburg, like it was in the 1890s. An excellent and popular history of The Star was the centenary volume, Like it Was, The Star 100 Years in Johannesburg, published in 1986 (edited by James Clarke). Chapters 1 and 2 of this book give a taste of Johannesburg in the period 1886 to 1900. Here is another view of the world of Sheldon. Here too the Dynamite explosion of 1896 and the impact of the Rinderpest epidemic were graphically recounted. In January 1896 the news of the day was the political crisis of the Jameson Raid but The Star wrote it up as "not an unconditional surrender" by Jameson and his column. By April 1896 Jameson had become a waxwork figure at Lingard's art Waxworks. In 1897, the "invention of the age" (the motor car or horseless carriage) was exhibited at Berea Park.
I have also discovered, but only too late, that there was a second album of newspaper cuttings of Johnstone Sheldon called Johannesburg Golden Doings Word Pictures of Life in Johannesburg after the War and that this was listed in the auction catalogue of Westgate Walding in February 2018. I presume it was then sold. If anyone reads this contribution and through good luck and chance can put me in touch with the new owner of that second volume of cuttings, we may well be able to arrange for copies to be made and an exchange and sharing of information to happen. It is a shame that the two volumes of cuttings have now been separated.
Of course I wanted to know more about Sheldon. Online genealogical information provides the bare bones. He was born in circa 1865 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. He was the son of Joseph Sheldon and Jane Smith. He had three brothers, Ernest George Sheldon, Joseph Sheldon and Herbert Sheldon. Johnstone Sheldon was a journalist; he worked for the Ballarat Star newspaper for four years. The first of the family to emigrate to South Africa in 1895 was Joseph Sheldon (born 1863). In November 1895, Johnstone Sheldon and his younger brother, Herbert (born 1875), left Melbourne and sailed for South Africa on board the S.S. Damascus. Their final destination was Johannesburg. (click here for more biographical details).
The QSA Medal. Note it was not without some controversy that certain war correspondents became eligible for the award of this Anglo-Boer War British Medal (Source: QSA Medal roll).
Sheldon is briefly mentioned in Frederic William Unger's 1901 book, With 'Bobs' and Krüǵer: "Captain Tennant introduced me to two other correspondents, Mr. Sheldon, of the Cape Argus, and Mr. Swallow, of the Central News Company."
In 1900, Sheldon visited both Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia to lecture on the Second Anglo-Boer War and South Africa. The New Zealand Evening Post reported in June 1900 that "Mr. Sheldon has had to relinquish his work owing to the strain having told upon his health, and he is taking a round trip as a means of recuperation." (Source: "A War Correspondent's Lecture", 14 June 1900, pg. 6, Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 140, New Zealand).
"Visiting South African journalist Johnstone Sheldon, who had been on the Johannesburg Star at the start of the war and who became Special War Correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle and Cape Argus, gave four lectures at the Palace Theatre in June 1900. He brought '100 realistic limelight' views of the 'grand and rugged scenery' to his analysis of the battle of Stormberg. The colonists, echoing Archibald Forbes' view that they were a practical people concerned for their own advantage, were more interested in the information contained in the pictures on the potential of southern Africa for settlement and trade than in Sheldon's 'patriotic appeals'.
The Anglo-Boer War marked a clear dividing line in the life of Johnstone Sheldon. Tracking back to the album of Life in Johannesburg, the columns reveal that Johnstone quickly threw himself into life of a new corner in a rough mining town, perhaps not that different from his hometown of Ballarat. Within the social constraints and conventions of his day his columns reveal him to have been a social investigator, a humane man, a documenter of the social scene and a curious reporter. His writing has something of the flavour of a Henry Mayhew in Johannesburg. Mayhew (1812-1887) was the London journalist, researcher and campaigner for social reform who wrote about London life and the London poor in a series of newspaper articles published in the Morning Chronicle.
I have not picked up further trace of Johnstone Sheldon after the Boer War. I urgently need his second volume of columns to source the man and his view of the changing town of the Edwardian period.


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Harún (también llamado Harún de Barcelona, ) fue el último valí musulmán de Barcelona del 800 al 801.

En otoño del 800, sitiada Barcelona por los francos, su predecesor, el valí Sadun al-Ruayni intentó en vano huir para pedir ayuda, y fue capturado. El cabecilla musulmán Harún, emparentado con algunos nobles godos de la ciudad, asumió el gobierno interino. No quería rendirse a los francos que sitiaban la ciudad. Pero sus mismos parientes y aliados godos, ante el hambre y las penalidades por las que estaban pasando, lo hicieron prisionero y entregaron al valí y Barcelona a los francos el 3 de abril de 801.

Bera, un noble franco, hijo del conde de Tolosa, será nombrado primer conde de la ciudad.

De Harún no se sabe nada tras su captura y entrega a los francos.

Referencias

Valíes de Barxiluna
Políticos de España del siglo IX
Nacidos en Barcelona
Andalusíes del siglo IX

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King Tut and the Winter Palace Hotel
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The discovery of King Tut's tomb in November 1922 is considered one of the greatest archeological treasures in history.
The Last Expedition
At 4 p.m. on November 26, 1922, British archeologist Howard Carter lifted an iron rod and hammered it through a stone wall, creating a small hole into an underground chamber that had been sealed for 3,300 years.
Beside him was his friend and patron, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon.
The two of them had spent 10 years together in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt — shifting sand, moving boulders, digging excavations, studying maps and poring over documents, all in the hope of finding an ancient pharaoh's tomb.
They had a few small successes, but not enough to keep going. This was their last expedition.
With Lord Carnarvon's health and money running out, it had all come down to this. If this new chamber was empty? Well….that would be the end.
His hand trembling with excitement, Carter lit a candle and pushed it through the hole.
He wrote: "At first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle flame to flicker, but presently, as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues and gold – everywhere the glint of gold."
The sight struck him speechless. Lord Carnarvon could stand the suspense no longer and blurted out, "Can you see anything?"
"Yes," Carter said. "Wonderful things."
They had just discovered the greatest archeological treasure in history – the almost intact tomb of King Tutankhamun.
The Next 4 Years
Over the next four years, Carter would painstakingly remove from the tomb some 4,000 items of incredible beauty.
Alabaster vases, baskets, sculptures, solid gold headdresses and daggers, games, weapons, model ships, jewelry, chariots, a 243-pound solid gold sarcophagus (coffin) and the most priceless of all Egyptian artifacts – the solid gold death mask of Tutankhamun himself.
With all this excitement, what did our two British explorers do after discovering the most priceless treasure in history?
Well, being proper Englishmen, Carter and Lord Carnarvon went to have a cup of tea at the nearby luxurious Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor.
Today, it's possible to walk down the same 16 steps leading to King Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings just as Carter and Lord Carnarvon did on that fateful day.
Then follow in their footsteps and have high tea on the banks of the Nile River in one of the most historic and famous hotels in Egypt.
The rear of the luxurious Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor. The Winter Palace was built in 1886. Photo by Rich Grant
Built in 1886, the Winter Palace has changed little since the day Carter told the world about the discovery by posting a notice on the hotel's bulletin board. Lord Carnarvon had taken a suite in the hotel, and Carter was a frequent guest.
The hotel became the press center for the discovery, which became a worldwide sensation – unleashing what the Americans called, "Tut-mania."
"The idea of buried treasure is one that appeals to most of us," Carter wrote.
From grand movie palaces in Hollywood to the famed Chrysler Building in New York, architects became fascinated by Egyptian art, incorporating it into their Art Deco designs, while starlets placed dark black makeup under their eyes to mimic the look of Egyptian women found on 3,300-year-old drawings.
The lobby of the Winter Palace. Photo by Rich Grant
Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor
At the center of "Tut-mania" and headquarters for the international press corps following the story was the Winter Palace Hotel.
Today, standing in the lobby, it's easy to picture men in white suites and hats and women in the long dresses of the 1920s standing on the same tile floor, anxious to hear about the latest treasure coming from the tomb.
The hotel is a classic piece of Edwardian England — as if Downton Abbey had been picked up and dropped in the desert. Which could not be more appropriate.
Lord Carnarvon's home in England was Highclere Castle – the gorgeous Jacobethan country house that was destined to later be filmed and become the fictional Downtown Abbey.
The lobby bar at the Winter Palace. Photo by Rich Grant
The outside entrance to the hotel is a curving marble staircase covered with a red carpet. Passing through a wood revolving door, the lobby is cool after the hot Egyptian sun, with a grand staircase at the far end, lined with a curving ironwork balustrade.
Brilliant chandeliers hang from above in a three-story atrium. There are overstuffed chairs, palm trees in brass planters, paintings of famous Egyptians and a most unusual wood and brass shoeshine chair that occupies the center of the room. Hotel staff will greet you with a cold karkade, a refreshing hibiscus tea.
Egyptian King Farouk, the last king of Egypt, was a frequent guest of the hotel, which also entertained Winston Churchill, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Jaqueline Kennedy, Tony Blair and Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
The lobby pours out into the highlight of the hotel — a 40,000-square-meter garden. Filled with 50 different types of trees, the garden offers quiet paths ringed with pink bougainvillea that wind past fountains and small plazas.
Bananas, lime, orange and other fruit trees add fragrance to the air. Keep an eye out for Hod Hod birds that still roam the gardens. The long beak birds are depicted on 3,500-year-old drawings in the nearby Luxor Temple.
Luxor Temple is an ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River. Photo by Rich Grant
The gardens originally grew fruits and vegetables for the hotel's guests, but today there is a swimming pool, outdoor bars, and quiet nooks to sit and relax. Agatha Christie stayed at the hotel and enjoyed long walks in the garden.
It was on a hotel balcony overlooking the Nile that she wrote her classic mystery, Death on the Nile. Noel Coward, Jane Fonda, Richard Gere, and John Malkovich, are among the many celebrities who have stayed here and walked in these gardens.
When China's President Xi Jinping visited Egypt on a recent trade mission in January 2016, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hosted and met with him at the Winter Palace.
High tea in the Victorian Lounge is special. After the heat of the day, this opulent room is cool and dark with a crystal chandelier, pink oriental carpets, and historic paintings of scenes along the Nile.
King Farouk loved the ritual of high tea and many times enjoyed macaroons, scones, crab and shrimp sandwiches and other treats in this room.
The terrace at the Winter Palace. Photo by Rich Grant
Nile Terrace
Another highlight is the Nile Terrace, the hotel's huge block-long outdoor balcony overlooking the Nile. It was on this balcony that Carter and Lord Carnarvon first met and formed their partnership.
Tea or cocktails can be enjoyed here at sunset, as feluccas, the traditional wood sailing boats, glide up and down the river, their distinctive triangular lateen sails catching the last light of the day.
Luxor has dozens of horse-drawn carriages and the familiar clip-clop of horses going by only adds to the timeless quality of the hotel.
And of course, no stay would be complete without a cocktail or a Pimms in the Royal Bar. The library-inspired red room is covered with books and has amble table and chair settings for a quiet drink before dinner.
Unfortunately, the discovery of King Tut's tomb was the highpoint for Carter and Lord Carnarvon. Within six months, Carnarvon accidentally cut a mosquito bite while shaving.
The cut became infected and his weakened body caught pneumonia. Though he was rushed to Cairo, he soon died. Reporters started a rumor that his death was the curse of the pharaohs – revenge by the ancient kings for having entered their tombs.
It was said that all the electricity in Cairo went out at the moment Lord Carnarvon died. Others who worked on uncovering the tomb were also said to have died in unusual circumstances.
Of course, there were no facts to the story, but Hollywood loved it, and to this day, they are still making films about a mummy's curse.
Carter also did not fare well. He had frequent arguments with the Egyptian government, and was removed from the site, only coming back later to work his remaining years cataloging items from the tomb.
His house nearby in the Valley of the Kings is now a museum detailing his accomplishments.
The Karnak Temple Complex nearby. Photo by Rich Grant
All 4,000 items from the tomb now reside at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and will soon all be on display together for the first time in history in the spring of 2018 at the new Grand Egyptian Museum.
The new $1 billion museum marks a huge change for the treasures of Tutankhamun. But if you want to go back in time to where little has changed, book a stay at the Winter Palace.
IF YOU GO:
The Winter Palace has 92 rooms and is a Sofitel with rates starting at $160 US. Nile views are the classic rooms, but the garden view rooms are also magnificent.
Many rooms offer balconies. www.sofitel.com High tea is served from 4 to 6 p.m. The hotel also has a formal French-inspired restaurant, 1886 (jacket and tie required for men).
The Royal Bar is less formal, but jeans and sports shoes are discouraged. Under the current political situation, Egyptian tourism is way down and the hotel is lightly occupied.
Ask Mr. Mohamed Ali, who has worked as chief concierge for 24 years, nicely, and he might give you a tour of the Royal Suite where Princess Diana stayed.
The hotel is a short walk from Luxor Temple and an $8-10 horse-drawn carriage ride from the Temple of Karnak. Day trips to the nearby Valley of the Kings and King Tut's tomb can be easily arranged.
Author Bio: After 35 years of doing public relations for Visit Denver, Rich Grant is back to his first job as a freelance travel writer and is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the North American Travel Journalists Association. He and Irene Rawlings are co-authors of "100 Things to Do in Denver Before You Die," Reedy Press, April 2016.
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Investors are likely to spend up to €14m on Baggot Street Hospital site
The ornate red brick Victorian building that used to house Baggot Street Hospital in Dublin is being sold by the HSE with a likely price tag of up to €14m.
The landmark 60,000 square feet is likely to be redeveloped into a hotel or upmarket apartment buildings according to estate agents Savills.
One of the conditions of the sale is that the buyer will be required to provide a new primary care health centre in a convenient location covering the area stretching from the Grand Canal to Dublin 4 suburbs such as Sandymount and Donnybrook.
The HSE is offering to enter a long-term agreement to lease the new centre at €193 per sq m - or to take ownership of the new facility with the cost likely to be part of the overall price paid for the property.
Some €5m is expected to be invested in developing this new facility.
John Swarbrigg of Savills, who is handling the sale, is of the opinion that this very well located site is going to attract strong interest due to "the uniqueness and quality of the offering, combined with very favourable dynamics in the residential, office and hotel markets in Dublin.
He is "expecting to attract substantial interest from investors across the globe, with a number of local and international investors already having made approaches."
The hospital complex comprises of the original five storey over basement red brick hospital building fronting Baggot Street Upper, a two storey granite faced building facing onto Eastmoreland Lane, a late Victorian building at no. 19 Haddington Road and various modern infill structures of different heights.
Baggot Street community hospital was originally founded in a single house (no. 9 Baggot Street) in 1831 by a group of doctors from the Royal College of Surgeons, then known as the City of Dublin Hospital. The institution grew into no. 14-18, the premises having been re-numbered over time.
The hospital then had 'Royal' added in 1900 following a visit by Princess Alexandra who had accompanied her mother Queen Victoria on her visit to Ireland at that time; however in 1986 the hospital ceased to operate as an acute general hospital.
It then re-opened shortly afterwards under licence from the Trustees to the Health Authority, presently the HSE, who now operate the premises with the building known as "Baggot Street Hospital".
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Wieliczka Salt Mine Interesting Facts
Wieliczka Salt Mine was opened in the 13th century as one of the world oldest salt mines. It reaches almost 327 meters below the ground and has over 287 kilometres. You will walk through 20 chambers taking increadible journey for over 2 hours.
Besides admiring magnificent timber construction, lakes, chambers and majestic corridors, your visit will also have a positive effect on your health. Get ready for an amazing trip to Wieliczka Salt Mine!
While walking along 3 kilometers of corridors you will have an opportunity to see with your own eyes the heritage left by generations of miners who devoted their life to hard work at the mine. It includes a number of carved in salt sculptures, 20 chambers and 4 chapels with the Chapel of St. Kinga being the one which leaves the most lasting impression on you.
The Chapel of St. Kinga is the only underground church in Europe. It is dedicated to Princess Kinga who is believed to have brought the salt treasure to Polish land. One of the most spectacular pieces of art to be found here are crystal chandeliers made from rock salt that have been dissolved and reconstituted to achieve a clear, glass-like glow.
Later on the Krakow Salt Mine Tour you will be taken to see an underground lake which measures 9 meters in depth at its lowest point. This saline lake located 104 meters below the surface is surprisingly a wonderful spot for surfing. In 2004 it was sailed across by multiple medalist, World Champion and European Champion, Mateusz Kusznierewicz.
Another chamber in Wieliczka Salt Mine is the Stanislaw Staszic Chamber. It measures 6 m in height and it is the largest excavation on the route accessible to tourists. Did you know that the chamber is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the place to hold the first underground balloon flight? A fun fact is that the volume of soil excavated from the mine during its history is enough to build 3 pyramids similar in size to the Pyramid of Cheops.
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I'm not overly excited for winter to be over but it's that time of year when I start looking forward to spring. I'm gearing up to occasionally open windows and watching my trees bud and bloom. The thing that I don't really look forward to is swimsuits. This year I had to focus a little earlier on it then most because Harper wanted a pool party for his birthday.
I love this free people suit, it's a once piece which isn't normally me but I bet the top doesn't budge much! Probably not the best for tall people like me.
I also discovered this little boutique suit shop Desi's Bikini Boutique that creates many different styles and cuts that surfers swear by, unfortunately I can't get to Costa Rica anytime soon and without an online catalogue I'm a little lost.
Target doesn't make the cut this time. Not impressed with pricing, quality or style this year.
I found that the high rise bikini's are getting trendier, hard to tell if they are flattering without trying them on but some look promising like these ones from Nordstrom and Lululemon (normally I lean towards black but that blue!!!).
Ultimately I ended up buying form Athleta where they had a ton of different options for mix and match solids but the quality sounded up to par for the preformance I wanted and best of all, no-hassel, no-cost returns. I wore it to Harper's party and the bottoms are amazing so far, the fit is perfect and coverage/staying power is exactly what I want (though activity was minimal so far there was still no wedgie). The top is fine, it will do the job coverage wise, though I'll probably end up with a rash guard as well thanks to my skin cancer caution.
Life Pro Tip: make yourself a first of the month list.
I'm not sure how I didn't think of this concept before my mom shared it with me last year. Having a small checklist of things to look at/check into and clean due all on the same day has helped me remember these easily ignored and forgotten chores.
Here's the basic concept: make a list of important chores to do that you either don't like to do often or often forget to do.
You don't have to use my list, it's just an example of the things I try to do on/around the first of the month. Also it doesn't have to be the first, sometimes if I know I'm going to be busy I do it in the days before, if I don't feel like it I do it during the week later, the first of the month is really just a term I use in order to remember the general time frame of the last time I did it. Here is my list, it's not long, I don't like to overwhelm myself.
change the air filter, I do buy 60-90 day filters but doing this on the 1st even helps keep track of how old it is.
clean dryer lint trap-not the one in the dryer, or even the one on the inside tube (if you life in a cold weather climate you know), I'm talking about the one that's outside the house, the one that's easy to forget exists until your clothes are suddenly not getting as dry.
clean front door and back door- both mine are glass, sometimes this happens more often.
No, I'm not reading 2017 books but this is the first one I've finished of the new year. When it comes to books I like to judge by the cover (no joke last trip I bought all books with black/white covers) and I make decisions fast. I don't go read reviews and it's often hard for me to fully read and understand the synopsis on the back. I'm a tad reckless with reading.


Aggregates in Postgres are expressed in terms of state transition functions. That is, an aggregate can be defined in terms of state that is modified whenever an instance is processed. Some state functions look at a particular value in the instance when computing the new state (sfunc1 in the create aggregate syntax) while others only keep track of their own internal state (sfunc2). If we define an aggregate that uses only sfunc1, we define an aggregate that computes a running function of the attribute values from each instance. "Sum" is an example of this kind of aggregate. "Sum" starts at zero and always adds the current instance's value to its running total. We will use the int4pl that is built into Postgres to perform this addition.
If we define only sfunc2, we are specifying an aggregate that computes a running function that is independent of the attribute values from each instance. "Count" is the most common example of this kind of aggregate. "Count" starts at zero and adds one to its running total for each instance, ignoring the instance value. Here, we use the built-in int4inc routine to do the work for us. This routine increments (adds one to) its argument.
"Average" is an example of an aggregate that requires both a function to compute the running sum and a function to compute the running count. When all of the instances have been processed, the final answer for the aggregate is the running sum divided by the running count. We use the int4pl and int4inc routines we used before as well as the Postgres integer division routine, int4div, to compute the division of the sum by the count.


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In Love with Barbara is a 2008 drama television film, inspired by the life of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland, which tells the story of what made her the Queen of Romance. It was written by Jacquetta May and shown on BBC Four at 9:00pm, on Sunday 26 October 2008.

Cast

 Anne Reid – Barbara Cartland
 David Warner – Lord Mountbatten
 Sinead Matthews – Young Barbara
 Tom Burke – Ronald Cartland
 Rebekah Staton – Helen
 Jacquetta May – Polly Cartland
 Christopher Naylor – Hugh McCorquodale
 Elliot Cowan – 'Sacchie' McCorquodale

References

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2008 television films
2008 films
2008 romantic drama films
British romantic drama films
Biographical films about writers
Cultural depictions of writers
Cultural depictions of British women
Cultural depictions of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
2000s English-language films
2000s British films
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Q: How can I make a customizable circle segment length mixin? I'm trying to make an animated version of this picture:

To do so, I use a mixin for each of the circle segment. I can setup everything except for the circle segment length. In the picture, you can see that the center is a full circle, the orange one is like 80% and the next ones are around 40%.
Is it possible to update my mixin so that I can use a percent of the circle segment length as argument?
Here is what I have so far:

$width: 240px;
$height: 240px;

#container {
  width: $width;
  height: $height;
  position: relative;
}

@mixin semi-circle($w, $bg, $rt) {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: calc(#{$width / 2} - #{$w / 2});
  border: $width/30 solid $bg;
  border-top: 0;
  width: $w;
  transform: rotate($rt);
  height: $w/2;
  border-bottom-left-radius: $w;
  border-bottom-right-radius: $w;
  animation: rotate 1200ms ease-in-out 3;
  transform-origin: top center;
}

#sc1 {
  @include semi-circle($width/6, #ffdc00, 0deg);
}

#sc2 {
  @include semi-circle($width/(60/19), #fba421, 10deg);
  animation-delay: -200ms;
}

#sc3 {
  @include semi-circle($width/(15/7), #c43688, -20deg);
  animation-delay: -400ms;
}

#sc4 {
  @include semi-circle($width/(60/37), #793e79, 20deg);
  animation-delay: -600ms;
}

#sc5 {
  @include semi-circle($width/(30/23), #5c3190, 60deg);
  animation-delay: -700ms;
}

@keyframes rotate {
  from {
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }
  to {
    transform: rotate(360deg);
  }
}

And here is a codepen with the code running (can't use preprocessors with SO snippets):https://codepen.io/billybobbonnet/pen/QWddwKg

A: I ended up using SVG. It was requiring too many tricks to achieve this with CSS alone.
https://codepen.io/billybobbonnet/pen/xxggOKd
<svg id="page-loader">
    <circle cx="110" cy="110" r="20" />
    <circle cx="110" cy="110" r="39" />
    <circle cx="110" cy="110" r="58" />
    <circle cx="110" cy="110" r="77" />
    <circle cx="110" cy="110" r="96" />
</svg>

/* Align items to the center -- just for presentation purposes. */
body {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    height: 100vh;
}

/* 1. Style the SVG circles. */
#page-loader {
    width: 220px;
    height: 220px;
}

    #page-loader circle {
        stroke-width: 9;
        stroke-linecap: round;
        fill: none;
    }

        #page-loader circle:nth-child(1) {
            stroke: #ffdc00;
            stroke-dasharray: 160;
        }

        #page-loader circle:nth-child(2) {
            stroke: #fba421;
            stroke-dasharray: 180 50;
            stroke-dashoffset: 80;
        }

        #page-loader circle:nth-child(3) {
            stroke: #c43688;
            stroke-dasharray: 140 160;
            stroke-dashoffset:-120;
        }

        #page-loader circle:nth-child(4) {
            stroke: #793e79;
            stroke-dasharray: 180 500;
            stroke-dashoffset: -80;
        }

        #page-loader circle:nth-child(5) {
            stroke: #5c3190;
            stroke-dasharray: 200 500;
            stroke-dashoffset: -150;
        }

/* 2. Create the keyframe animation. We start at 50% so the circle will rotate back to its original position. */
@keyframes loader {
    100% {
        transform: rotate(360deg);
    }
}

#page-loader circle {
    animation-name: loader;
    animation-duration: 5s;
    animation-iteration-count: 1;
    animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
    transform-origin: center center;
}

    #page-loader circle:nth-of-type(1) {
        animation-delay: -0.2s;
    }

    #page-loader circle:nth-of-type(2) {
        animation-delay: -0.4s;
    }

    #page-loader circle:nth-of-type(3) {
        animation-delay: -0.6s;
    }

    #page-loader circle:nth-of-type(4) {
        animation-delay: -0.8s;
    }

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Vancouver rockabilly guitar maestro and great friend of The Wheelgrinders, Paul Pigat, has a killer trio named Cousin Harley. If you ever see a posting for a gig by Paul or Cousin Harley do yourself a favour and go check them out. Brian Setzer named Paul as one of the three best rockabilly guitarists in the world today and named him among the top five of all time.


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Eva's makes Charity Intelligence's top lists
We are pleased to announce that Eva's Initiatives was selected for Charity Intelligence's Top 10 Canadian Impact Charities, Top 10 Canadian Youth Impact Charities, and Top 5 Toronto Impact Charities of 2020 lists! This honour comes at a time when Canadian donors are putting much greater scrutiny into where they are donating their hard-earned money. Charity Intelligence researches Canadian charities so donors can be informed and give intelligently. Charity Intelligence uses their demonstrated Social Return on Investment (dSROI) framework [...]
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Employee Profile: Meet Gian Carlo Badilla
Meet Gian Carlo Badilla, a Youth Service Worker (YSW) at Eva's Satellite and now during the COVID-19 pandemic at the hotel. Gian has been with Eva's for just over a year now and says his age gives him a unique perspective. "I am 23 years old. I am the same age/demographic of the people we serve. What's special is that I can relate to whoever comes in, I find there's always a connection," says Gian. "Whether it's discussing music [...]
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What's on the menu?
Eva's residents will be participating in a newly revamped culinary program called 'What is on the menu? This five-week workshop uses tactile activities like creating a meal to incorporate other skills like financial literacy, time management, and budgeting. "I didn't want to replicate a classroom setting with these sessions, cooking should be an enjoyable process that anyone, regardless of their skill-set can be proud of the meals they create," says Linda Frempong, Program Facilitator, Eva's Phoenix. "It is a [...]
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Brunswick Review The Leadership Issue
Climate Ambition vs. Energy Reality
Jason Bordoff of Columbia University talks to Stephen Power.
When it comes to explaining energy and climate policy, not many academics are as comfortable fielding questions from Stephen Colbert as they are a panel of US senators. Jason Bordoff is one of them. Since founding the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy in 2013, Bordoff has become the go-to authority on energy policy for politicians, journalists, corporate heavyweights—and the occasional late-night comedian. Columbia's President, Lee Bollinger, cited Bordoff's skill at making energy research "accessible" to non-academics in recently naming him a Co-Dean of Columbia's new Climate School—the first new school at Columbia in more than 25 years.
In an interview with Brunswick's Energy & Resources team, Bordoff—who served as special assistant to President Obama on energy and climate change—discussed what he sees as the widening gap between climate ambition and energy reality; why energy and climate policy is likely to become "messier" and more "disruptive" for businesses; and how growing up the son of a gas-station owner and an immigrant influenced his career. Below are highlights from the interview, which has been edited for brevity.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had a falling out in July over oil policy that caused prices to spike to six-year highs. What does this conflict between traditional allies say about the state of energy policy globally and in the US?
One thing it's revealed is the fragility of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries [in a carbon-constrained world]. When oil demand may be barely rising in the future, it changes the dynamic about whether oil producers think it makes sense to participate in a cartel or not. It's also exposed the tension between energy policy and climate policy. You have, on one side, people criticizing the Biden administration for coming out in favor of a deal to increase oil production, on the grounds that we're supposed to be moving away from oil. But if the administration hadn't taken the position it did, other people would have said, "oil prices are rising because of your Green New Deal policies." I'm not characterizing it that way, but others would. Administration officials are sort of damned if they do push for more production and damned if they don't.
What's been the biggest surprise of 2021 so far when it comes to energy policy, markets and technology?
The Exxon board shareholder vote was pretty surprising. I wouldn't have expected a company of that scale to lose three seats on its board and that the world's largest asset managers would get behind that effort. A question I have is whether it would have happened if they had been more profitable and paying a hefty dividend.
What is a misunderstood aspect of energy and climate policy?
I don't think people realize how different it is to go from setting a goal of holding temperature increase to 2°C to setting a goal of 1.5°, and how quickly things need to change. Another thing that's not fully understood is the way that issues of environmental justice and racial equity are going to change climate and energy policy. It's a fundamental shift that has hugely important consequences for what climate policies will be on the table, what environmental advocates can support and what philanthropies will fund.
Can you give an example?
If you look at the recent report of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, you'll see there is complete opposition to carbon capture, direct air capture and a whole range of other technologies that many energy companies are advocating as solutions to climate change. This is a new dynamic that will affect how people, particularly on the left, think when they design climate policy.
What should energy corporate leaders—and their advisors—be keeping an eye on?
The growing gap between climate ambition and energy reality. I think this is going to be the major focus of the next decade and that it has to reach a breaking point.
It's easy for me to see why people in oil and gas corporate boardrooms might look at rising energy demand in Southeast Asia and Africa and the mix of GDP growth and population growth and feel complacent about the risk that climate change poses to their business. But in order to feel complacent, you also need to believe that in five or 10 years the world's going to be totally fine with falling completely short by a very large amount of the climate goals everyone's talking about. Something has to give, and I don't think it's going to be the ambition. I think it's only going to increase.
The things we're fighting about are rounding errors compared to the amount of capital that needs to be put toward clean energy.
What does that mean for energy businesses?
The risk is that instead of getting smart, cost-effective, predictable and gradually more stringent policies, businesses are going to find themselves facing more disruptive, messy policy measures. Like every day, some new city wakes up and bans the internal combustion engine. I don't think we're going to see a linear policy-making process of bringing oil demand down. And that's going to be a challenge for people trying to make long-term investment decisions.
You've said that to address climate change, governments must reduce demand for oil, not just supply. What's the best way to do that?
Any economist will tell you the most cost-effective approach is to put a price on carbon, so people have incentives to buy a Ford F-150 Lightning instead of a Ford F-150 or take mass transit instead of driving.
What are the prospects for pricing carbon in the US?
Let's put it this way: Five years ago, a carbon tax was the centerpiece of Bernie Sanders' campaign for president. Today, the Biden administration is barely willing to talk about it or support it at all.
So if the US isn't willing to put a price on carbon, what are the alternatives?
I think the answer, increasingly and for reasons of politics, is that people are looking to governments to finance the cost of the transition. And I think that's going to be hard. There's a lot of focus in Washington on whether we can spend a few billion dollars here or there and whether governments can come up with the $100 billion pledge on climate finance that was made as part of the Paris climate agreement. But the International Energy Agency just told us that investment in the global energy sector will need to more than double its current level of $2 trillion to get to $5 trillion by 2030 to guarantee a reliable and economic supply of low-carbon energy. So, the things we're fighting about are rounding errors compared to the amount of capital that needs to be put toward clean energy. What you need to do is put policies in place that will shift how private capital moves.
What are you hearing from your contacts in publicly traded oil and gas companies about how easy or hard it is to attract capital now?
Most investors I talk to are trying to figure out where they should draw the line between what's acceptable and what's not in a world that still uses 100 million barrels of oil a day and where they still are expected to deliver returns that track various indices. There is more and more pressure on financial institutions to back out of oil and gas.
At the same time, there's a lot of capital out there. If there's money to be made, a lot of capital will shift from large publicly traded companies to private equity.
What role—if any—do you see for oil and gas companies in addressing climate change?
I think this is a fundamental challenge for the industry: helping people understand what their businesses will be in a world where they're producing less oil. There's an understandable skepticism, a view that these companies have a financial interest in the world continuing as usual, and that behind the scenes they will try to prevent change. At the same time, if you want to build a hydrogen economy or carbon-capture at scale, I don't see how you do that without some of the world's largest oil and gas companies being part of that, given the amount of infrastructure, pipelines and capital you need, plus the project management skills and engineering expertise it requires.
Why has Columbia established a new Climate School?
Our President, Lee Bollinger, likes to say that universities have traditionally had three purposes—education, research and community service—but that they can't maintain their social license to exist in the 21st century unless they are deeply engaged in addressing humanity's greatest challenges. That's what he means by the "fourth purpose" of universities. And it's the idea behind creating the first climate change school in the country.
With a challenge as complex and all-encompassing as climate change, you need to bring together multiple disciplines and fields under one roof—science, engineering, technology, law, policy, business, finance, ethics and culture—rather than addressing it piecemeal.
What does success look like?
We're going to measure our success not only by whether we're publishing in the best academic journals and handing out degrees, but whether the knowledge being created at this institution is actually being deployed in the real world, in the form of new technologies being deployed, new business models being created and new policies adopted.
What's an example of energy research with that sort of real-world impact?
About two and a half years ago, I was thinking about what might happen if you had an administration that wanted to scale up government investment in energy innovation. When you're in government, it's easy to spend money but hard to spend it well. You need evidence and research to know where you'll get the greatest return on your dollar. So we said, "Let's work on this for the next year."
We put out a book called Energizing America which was a detailed point-by-point roadmap on how to go big on clean energy research and development. What we found is that if you really want to make a big dent in clean energy, you should triple the size of the federal R&D budget for clean energy. We went into detail about how the government should put that capital to work. And I'm pleased that the Biden administration is doing a lot of what was in that book.
What other questions do you want to tackle?
One thing we're working on is better understanding the connection between climate and equity and justice. I think the most staggering statistic in the International Energy Agency's Net Zero by 2050 Roadmap is their projection that world energy use in 2050 will have to be lower than it is today. I don't know how that can be true if history continues as it has. Historically, when economies grow, energy demand increases. You need to fundamentally change that relationship. The question is, how?
You studied at Oxford and Brown universities, graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Why did you pursue a career in energy policy?
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1970s. My dad owned a gas station and an auto repair shop, and my grandfather owned a Texaco station. I remember after school seeing my dad and grandfather dealing with long lines at the gas stations, and seeing the impact that energy has on the economy and what it meant for our household if gas prices were up or down. And from my mom, who was an immigrant from the Middle East, I was aware of the extent to which energy shaped the geopolitics of that region.
In general, I'm interested in a lot of things and I can't think of anything that brings together economics, science and geopolitics like energy does. You get to learn about the environment, wildfires, oceans, sea level and the dynamics of relations between countries. Energy connects all those things.
Stephen Power is a Partner with Brunswick in Dallas. He leads the US Energy and Resources practice and has worked with clients including Saudi Aramco and BP. A former journalist with The Wall Street Journal and the Dallas Morning News, he has written for The New York Times and the Boston Globe and appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CNBC, Fox and other networks.
In Conversation: Nithi Patarachoke
A President at the Cement-Building Materials Business of one Southeast Asia's leading conglomerates, SCG (formerly known as the Siam Cement Group), Nithi Patarachoke recently spoke with Brunswick about leadership, sustainability commitments, and key trends set to shape Southeast Asia.
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Classics / Movie Reviews
Two films starring Jane Wyman
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So Big (1953)
This film is based on Edna Farber's novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Wise, who later directed The Sound of Music. Farber also wrote Giant, which was made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean. Like Giant, So Big is a story of family and values.
Selina Peak (Wyman) is a teenager at a girls' boarding school in 1890s Chicago when her father suddenly dies. His huge fortune has dwindled down to nothing, and even household furnishings must go to auction, including a fine portrait of Mr. Peak painted by John Singer Sargeant. Because of her close friend Julie's father, Mr. Hempel, Selina gets a position as schoolteacher in the small farming town of New Holland, a community of Dutch immigrants several hours away from Chicago. Mr. Hempel made his fortune by selling hogs to the town, and he's grateful.
Selina approaches her new, no-frills type of life with cheerfulness, remembering a lesson her father taught her- there are two kinds of people in this world, wheat and emerald. The people who take care of the land, grow food, and provide for the survival of others are wheat. Those who see the beauty of the world and work in creative ways are emerald. The world needs both kids of people.
Selina boards with the warm-hearted, yet traditional, Pool family and begins teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. Roelf, the adolescent son of the Pools, already works in the fields with his father. Though he's "too old for school" unlike his two sisters, Roelf still has a desire to read and improve his piano playing. Selina recognizes Roelf's potential, and encourages him by giving lessons at home and allowing him to use the school's piano. Roelf (emerald) wants to get out of New Holland and see the world.
At the church box supper auction, Selina meets Purvis DeJong (wheat), a tall and rugged widower who's courting a wealthy older widow. Purvis' head turns toward Selina, and he goes quickly to her side, much to the amusement of the locals. They make fun of Purvis because his farm is in the lowlands and doing badly. He admits to Selina that he doesn't have "a head for figures." Buyers at Hay Market swindle him when he goes to sell his meager crops. Selina decides to give him math lessons. Purvis calls her "Little Lina" and seems more interested in romance than studying. This upsets Roelf, who has a huge crush on his teacher.
Eventually, Lina marries Purvis and settles into the role of a farmer's wife. She has a son named Dirk, who is nicknamed So Big, because she has big plans for his future. Dirk sees beauty in everyday things, like his mother. "A modest amount of success" comes to Lina as the farm specializes and modernizes. Lina is able to send her son to college to become an architect. Though he seems to be a kind young man, Dirk wants success to come quickly, envying the comfortable lives of his wealthier peers and social-climbing girlfriend. Lina, who values hard work, worries that Dirk is embracing the wrong values of the modern age.
Lina embodies the pioneering spirit of American women of the late 20th century. These were the women who left established cities, worked beside their husbands and children on humble farms, and valued an honest day's labor. They didn't have much time to cry or complain. They had to work to survive, so their children wouldn't have as much to struggle against. These were the mothers who raised "the greatest generation."
Miracle in the Rain (1956)
This is a film about love, romance, and forgiveness. Ruth (Wyman) is a hardworking secretary for a shoe company in NYC who's scarred by the fact that her musician father abandoned the family when she was a girl. Her mother, who's depressed and in frail health, tells her never to trust men because "they're all nice, until they find someone else." Ruth rarely has time to go out or meet eligible men, as she must care for her mother.
One rainy day after work, Ruth meets Art (Van Johnson), a talkative and cheerful soldier from Tennessee. He's stationed nearby and doesn't have much to do, so he invites himself to her apartment. Art makes himself at home, even singing and playing the (long-silent) piano. Ruth hands Art an unfinished composition of her father's to show to his songwriter friend.
Like that song, the main issue in Ruth's life, is unresolved. We learn that her father is playing at a fine restaurant in the city, but he can't face his family yet. And falling in love with Art is not the end of Ruth's story; he's a catalyst for positive change in her life.
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