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Nick Offerman to Host 2018 National Book Awards Ceremony
The National Book Foundation announced that Nick Offerman, acclaimed actor and bestselling author, will host the 69th National Book Awards on November 14 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
The acclaimed actor and writer to serve as master of ceremonies for the 2018 National Book Awards
The National Book Foundation announced that Nick Offerman, acclaimed actor and bestselling author, will host the 69th National Book Awards on November 14 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Offerman, best known for playing the role of Ron Swanson for seven seasons of NBC's Parks and Recreation, will serve as master of ceremonies for the event that will announce the National Book Awards Winners in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature. The ceremony will also include the presentation of two lifetime achievement awards, to author Isabel Allende and Doron Weber of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
In addition to announcing the winners of the National Book Awards, the benefit dinner on November 14 serves to fund the educational and programming work of the National Book Foundation year-round.
Nick Offerman's bio is below, and more information about the National Book Awards can be found here.
Nick Offerman is an actor, writer, and woodworker best known for his role as Ron Swanson on NBC's hit comedy Parks and Recreation. Most recently, he reunited with his Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler as a co-host and executive producer for NBC's Making It, an unscripted competition series celebrating craftiness and creativity. Offerman is currently in production on the FX tech thriller series Devs, starring opposite Sonoya Mizuno. The show, created by Alex Garland, will be released next year. Earlier this year, he starred alongside Kiersey Clemons in Brett Haley's Hearts Beat Loud. Offerman is a four-time New York Times–bestselling author. He released his fourth book, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, this October with his wife Megan Mullally.
Author Meredith AndrewsPosted on October 25, 2018 October 25, 2018 Categories News
The 2018 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
The twenty-five Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature (YPL) were announced with Buzzfeed News's AM To DM.
Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature
The twenty-five Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature (YPL) were announced 10/10 with Buzzfeed News's AM To DM. The five Finalists in each category were selected by a distinguished panel of literary experts, and were advanced from the Longlists announced in September. Between the five categories, there are five writers who have been previously honored by the National Book Awards: M. T. Anderson, a 2002 YPL Finalist, 2006 YPL Winner, and 2015 YPL Longlister; Rae Armantrout, a 2009 Poetry Finalist; Lauren Groff, a 2015 Fiction Finalist; Terrance Hayes, a 2010 Poetry Winner and 2015 Poetry Finalist; and Jhumpa Lahiri, a 2013 Fiction Finalist who appears on this year's list as a translator in the new Translated Literature category. Five of the twenty-five Finalists are debuts.
Publishers submitted a total of 1,637 books for this year's National Book Awards: 368 in Fiction, 546 in Nonfiction, 256 in Poetry, 142 in Translated Literature, and 325 in Young People's Literature. Judges' decisions are made independently of the National Book Foundation staff and Board of Directors; deliberations are strictly confidential.
The Winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 14 at the 69th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Two lifetime achievement awards will also be presented at the Awards dinner: Isabel Allende will be recognized with the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented by Luís Alberto Urrea, and Doron Weber will receive the Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Literary Community, presented by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Finalists for Fiction:
Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man
Lauren Groff, Florida
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
Viking Books / Penguin Random House
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
In the debut collection A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley populates nine stories set in New York City with a host of Black boys and men—brothers, friends, classmates—all grappling with questions of masculinity, trauma, and entrenched racism. In Florida by 2015 National Book Award Finalist Lauren Groff, the titular state lives at the heart of eleven disparate stories set in suburbs, swamps, and in the middle of hurricanes, examining themes of love, pain, isolation, and the many expectations and experiences tied to motherhood. Brandon Hobson's Where the Dead Sit Talking follows a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy placed in a new foster home, reeling from the effects of his mother's substance abuse and seeking closeness and commiseration with a fellow foster child. In alternating chapters, Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers imagines a group queer friends in Chicago in the 1980s and a woman in 2015 searching for her daughter in Paris, chronicling the years of the American AIDS epidemic from its terrifying outbreak to the present, and addressing issues of systemic neglect, the burden of memory, and the rippling consequences of loss and grief. Contemplating mourning and the unexpected places we find solace, Sigrid Nunez's The Friend is the story of a writer who loses her dearest friend, only to inexplicably be left his aging Great Dane. Infusing its first-person narrative with quotes and anecdotes from literary texts, the novel provides a realistic portrayal of a devoted writer struggling to cope with loss and parsing the complicated legacy of a loved one.
Finalists for Nonfiction:
Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Victoria Johnson, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company
Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Scribner / Simon & Schuster
Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Colin G. Calloway's The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation recounts the relationship between Native leaders and our first president, aiming to illustrate the ways in which Washington's interests were directly tied to the destruction of Native lands and rights, and examining the influence of the country's first inhabitants on the trajectory of one of the most famous figures in American history. American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson sheds light on the life and work of David Hosack, a renowned surgeon at the turn of the 19th century, whose passion for botany would lead him toward groundbreaking pharmaceutical research, the gathering of unmatched collections of flora, and the pioneering of medical practices that took inspiration and direction from the natural world, ultimately impacting the medical and botanical worlds for many years to come. Sarah Smarsh's Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth details Smarsh's childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 90s, addressing issues of generational poverty, class divides, and identity through the lens of first-hand experience. Jeffrey C. Stewart's The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke provides a granularly detailed account of the life of the often overlooked Alain Locke, a Harvard-educated philosopher and scholar who was one of the key architects of the Harlem Renaissance. The work explores his years of education, his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar, his role as a champion of African American art in the Jazz Age, his complex personal life, and his work and contributions in helping lay the groundwork for contemporary African American studies. In We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, Adam Winkler traces corporations' long history of influence in the U.S., and the ways in which they have shaped the nation and politics to create a system in which they have rights that closely resemble the rights of individuals.
Finalists for Poetry:
Rae Armantrout, Wobble
Wesleyan University Press
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House
Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of
Omnidawn Publishing
Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency
Coffee House Press
Jenny Xie, Eye Level
Teetering on the edge of the American Dream, Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout's Wobble seeks to both playfully and forcefully evoke the devastation of a chaotic, unstoppable culture. In American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, National Book Award Winner Terrance Hayes works through fear, bewilderment, and ambivalence as he grapples with a moment in American history both new and entirely too familiar. In her debut collection, Ghost Of, Diana Khoi Nguyen explores the liminality of mourning, reaching out toward the memories and voids left behind by a lost loved one. Questions of systemic hostility and the struggle against oppressive institutions live at the heart of Justin Phillip Reed's Indecency, which seeks to intimately confront issues of masculinity, sexuality, racism, and more, working to both critique and lament a culture of exploitation. Interiority and restlessness permeate Jenny Xie's Eye Level, which meditates on the itinerant body and identity, examining shifting and rarely solidifying experiences of solitude, estrangement, and belonging.
Finalists for Translated Literature:
Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
Translated by Tina Kover
Hanne Ørstavik, Love
Translated by Martin Aitken
Archipelago Books
Domenico Starnone, Trick
Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri
Yoko Tawada, The Emissary
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
New Directions Publishing
Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
Translated by Jennifer Croft
Négar Djavadi's debut novel Disoriental, translated from the French by Tina Kover, follows a young Iranian woman living in Paris, divided between the life she's made for herself and a rich family history that spans many generations in Iran. Hanne Ørstavik's short novel, Love, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken, takes place in a remote town in the north of Norway, following a mother and young son separately navigating their way through a single night, disconnected and headed for tragedy. In Domenico Starnone's Trick, translated from the Italian by National Book Award Finalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, an aging illustrator watches over his four-year-old grandson in an apartment in Naples, forced to confront his own troubled past in the face of the child's youth and innocence. In Yoko Tawada's The Emissary, translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, a young boy and his great-grandfather live fully entwined lives in Japan following a fictional, unnamed disaster, their dispositions reflecting and juxtaposing one another. Translated from Polish, Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, which won Tokarczuk and translator Jennifer Croft the Man Booker International Prize earlier this year, weaves together a bevy of narratives and characters, observed by a single narrator, as they wander through space and time, moving towards or away from the things they seek.
Finalists for Young People's Literature:
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers
M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers
Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie
Scholastic Press / Scholastic, Inc.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo
Graphix / Scholastic, Inc.
A novel in verse, Elizabeth Acevedo's New York Times bestseller The Poet X follows a Dominican teen who her voice in slam poetry, even as she pushes back against a restrictive family life and the unwanted attention of her neighbors. M. T. Anderson, who has been recognized by the National Book Awards three times previously (2002 Finalist, 2006 Winner, and 2015 Longlister), and Eugene Yelchin combine narrative prose and extravagant illustration to tell a story of elves, goblins, and intrigue in The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, a political satire commenting on conflict, discrimination, and the bias inherent in history as told by those on top. In Leslie Connor's The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, a young protagonist struggles to make sense of the unexplained death of his best friend, as a cycle of bullying continues and a new friend goes missing. In The Journey of Little Charlie, Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy in 1858 who, after agreeing to seek out three fugitives in order to pay off a debt, must rise above the ugly values of his time to become an unlikely hero. Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka is a graphic memoir that chronicles a childhood fraught with familial addiction and abandonment, illustrating the exceptional power of art as survival.
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Aberrant War Gun Removal / Into the Badlands
LordHeru
So I just binged watched Into the Badlands on Netflix and absolutely loved it. I do thing there are some gaps in geography and history but that said the fights are fun and the set up interesting.
I especially like the set up of the Badlands with its seven Baron territories and the natee of the society.
The powers represented by the Gifted is also interesting, especially in how those highly trained can use it to power technology. Imagine taking it to the next level and instead of using coal and oil they use Chi energy.
The one thing that intrigued me the not is the lack of guns. Now the truth is that it's clearly a setting conceit on how it's gone but it made me think on the possibilities.
Including the idea of a quantum power or event which could make guns not work. Which then led me to wondering how such a thing could occur.
So I was wondering if anyone else had thoughts on this element or others.
While I'm not a fan of getting rid of guns because it strongly limits character options, I could see the world of Eden, settled by Novas, being a no-gun-zone. If the planet has no large predators, capable of threatening the human colonists, and a strong enough agricultural base (perhaps initially gotten off the ground by Novas with relevant powers, like plant control), then it could be argued that the human colonists wouldn't have any use for guns, other than killing each other, or shooting at their Nova 'benevolent overlords,' some of whom likely aren't bulletproof.
So that would be a place where a gunless society could exist, although the presence of Nova overlords (and, presumably, their human supervisors), would make it quite different than Into the Badlands, in other particulars.
The search for / mentoring of young people who could erupt with Nova powers (and whatever sort of status might come with finding such children, or that various individual Novas might garner from having more or less such new Novas under their wing) could mirror the search for (and squabbling to control) the black-eyed children with power, in the show.
Creating a section on Nova earth where there are no guns seems harder to handle, since the zone would have to be more or less a voluntary association, to survive the outside world trying to meddle in it's business. (Any notion that there's an area where the people aren't allowed guns because the Nova overlords have forbidden them seem likely to get subject to some sort of Utopia-backed UN intervention, since it's bad precedent and counter to Utopia's goals of having people not be afraid of Novas.)
I am not sure what level of quantum you'd need to make a "dies the Fire" zone, but people would probably work around that with different types of projectiles especially with Talents, Novas and Psychics out there.
The Dune solution might be an option, a nova makes personal forcefields that make bullets obsolette and sufficiently cheap but because of the speed issue swords could pierce it.
Baaldam
Also, to be a little precise and asinine, it's not personal firearms per se that make things problematic for unarmed or melee users, we had them working together fine for about 3-4 centuries. Quickload, repeating and automatic fire, developments that came to be about the mid-19th century (more or less) were the real dividers.
And even then there's some room to play with if one takes out machine guns, assault rifles and such.
johntfs
Originally posted by Baaldam View Post
One of the cooler bits from an old TORG module came from a "battle" between a motorcycle gang armed with pistols, shotguns and submachines against a unit of Victorians (think late 19th century British soldiers armed with rifles). Modern guns emphasize rate of fire. Older guns emphasized range. The MC gang got slaughtered before they got halfway to long-range for their weapons.
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Originally posted by johntfs View Post
One of the cooler bits from an old TORG module came from a "battle" between a motorcycle gang armed with pistols, shotguns and submachines against a unit of Victorians (think late 19th century British soldiers armed with rifles). Modern guns emphasize rate of fire. Older guns emphasized range. The MC gang got slaughtered before they halfway to long-range for their weapons.
An interesting moment for certain - that as an aside, makes me think of how a longbowmen vs riflemen scenario might go out too.
I can't really do real-life, but in TORG terms, Long range for a Longbow was 300 meters. Long-range for a Lee-Hollings Rifle (the standard longarm of Victorian soldiers) was 1500 meters, while its medium range was 300 meters. Long range for UZIs and Mac-10s was something like 40-60 meters. And that's why you don't screw with the Victorians unless you're right up on them. Because they will snipe your ass dead.
Baladain
Locally, it would be a challenge, but if you're looking at a global lack of firearms, it gets simpler.
"Due to a lack of easily obtained and refines chemicals, making gunpowder is prohibitively expensive."
Doesn't stop them from existing, but makes them exceedingly rare.
MoroseMorgan
Originally posted by Baladain View Post
Piggy backing on this to emphasize that this isn't just for the gunpowder. The infrastructure needed to reliably produce semi-automatic and automatic weapons en masse is fairly complex as well.
It takes exact machining, as well as a steady supply of quality raw materials, which is a feat in and of itself.
Combine that level of societal collapse (present in the show) with a societal armistice (also present in the show) and the setting is fairly believable in my opinion. Then throwing Aberrant fuel on this fire, all you would need is them using quantum to foul the most abundant source of high quality raw ingredients for propellant. So instead of some persistent "no gun field" several hurtles have been put in the way of making small arms a viable option. Add the delta of time for any extant stockpiles to be decreased, and you are good.
Only wrinkle could be the Aberrants with Mega-Int accelerating societies recovery of technology, but it could be that the Abbies just GTFO after making Earth FUBAR.
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Reincarnation of magnificentmomo.
Originally posted by Ian Turner View Post
Why does this section have to take place on Nova/Prime Earth? The concept of other dimension is now pretty explicit in terms of the Aeonverse. We mentioned Time and Crosstime Travel in another thread. But there no real reason Aeon (or somebody) could find (or build or accidentally create) a portal into other dimension. Calling Stargate: SG-Aeon. That way you have your group go "Into the Badlands" for a bit but still come back to Earth later and maybe go somewhere/somewhen else.

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I was reading an unrelated commentary by David Stern the other day and I came across this thought-provoking aside: "pride, and the reverse-sin of embarrassment".
I've not yet seen it specifically mentioned in a biblical sin-list — "Thou shalt not be embarrassed" for example, or "Those evil-doers who are embarrassed". A quick check of the NIV doesn't pull up any results for "embarrass" at all.
I think I had a wrong image in my head of sin. After all, you put pride on the list (something I know I constantly struggle with) and I start thinking of the 7 deadlys and, obviously, Brad Pitt. Hard to remember sometimes what sin actually is – not just bad things you do, but good things you don't do, and perhaps even more importantly, your heart's attitude when you them.
When my heart isn't identifying as a follower of Jesus, then there's something wrong with my heart. Even if I'm afraid, or if I know that the result would be persecution, it doesn't give me an excuse to lay low and pretend I'm not who I am. That's denying Him just as much as if I had said it aloud. And therefore, sin.
So is embarrassment sin? In and of itself, I don't see any biblical backup for that. But when it comes to God, Jesus and other true followers of Jesus – we can't be ashamed to be identified. Our hearts belong to Him, and as such should always be willing to declare it.


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George Washington's Warning About American Despotism: A Cautionary Tale for Today
Although known as his Farewell Address, the words Washington selected were never spoken to an audience. The president arranged with David C. Claypoole, editor and proprietor of the Daily American Advertiser to print his letter in the Philadelphia newspaper in September of 1796. As one reads Washington's words in his Farewell Address, an adept reader may be astounded at how remarkably prophetic they are. Some of what Washington conveyed to his countrymen about the divisiveness of political parties reveals the president's genuine wisdom:
The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
President Washington expressed genuine concern in that "the alternate domination" of one political party over another, thereby allowing one party to enjoy temporary power over the government that would use it to obtain revenge on the other. He seriously felt that this tendency toward atrocities directed at the party out of power "…is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."
Washington understood what America would become if "a wise people" did not do their duty to discourage and restrain the over-zealous development of political parties.
Unfortunately, it may be too late to restrain the hunger for power evident in America's political parties in this day; such power now seems entrenched as it has become evident that both major political parties have a hard time yielding to the will of the people.
The presidential election of 2016 had offered some hope as a "wise people" to have wised up, and the antics of the 2016 election have helped many a naïve American citizen awaken to the realities of what "We the People" have allowed over several decades as the two major political parties "ran the show." Americans trusted the political process, but now realize the political system is broken – and it threatens the existence of the very nation Washington and those of the founding generation had fought so hard to create.
If enough Americans can awaken in this time, they may begin to realize that it is not just one political party that is the problem, it is both political parties that have led to the state of politics that allows an aristocratic political elite to ignore America's founding principles and values. If enough Americans can awaken in this time, the nation may be able to avoid the "frightful despotism which can lead at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."
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This issue's Editor's Page from James Lawrence examines our feature topic.
Our Rarities section starts off with an unusual jawfish.
New Age Mutant Clownfishes – Matt Pedersen looks at the plethora of designer clownfishes who owe their unique looks to genetic mutations.
Hybrid Clownfishes – in this second article, Matt Pedersen looks at clownfish hybrids from the wild and aquariums, ranging from intraspecific hybrids to hybridization that crosses genus boundaries.
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Study reveals limitations of drug testing policy
A study by researchers at Leeds Metropolitan University has found that drugs testing alone is not an effective deterrent in preventing athletes from taking performance-enhancing substances.
The study, carried out by sports scientists in the University's Carnegie Research Institute, investigated athletes' attitudes, beliefs and willingness to participate in performance enhancement in sport and found that more emphasis needs to be placed on doping prevention and education which focuses on changing athletes' doping-related perceptions.
Speaking about the study's results, lead researcher Lisa Whitaker said: "Prevention education is most effective if it is targeted and this study has allowed us to generate an evidence base to inform future anti-doping programmes. The findings suggest that anti-doping programmes need to target athletes' doping-related perceptions, including their feelings towards other athletes' doping behaviour, and their expectations of the outcomes of using banned substances."
The research also revealed that athletes would be most willing to use a banned substance if they were to suffer a dip in performance and their funding was under threat or if they were to suffer an injury before a major competition. The athletes also indicated that they would be more likely to use banned substances if they thought others were using and getting away with it, although they felt themselves that they would receive little approval from their significant others if they were to use banned substances.
The study, which gathered over 700 anonymous responses from athletes from a range of sports, found that male athletes perceived themselves to be more similar to athletes who use banned substances when compared to female athletes. It also suggested that athletes' perceptions of those who use banned substances must be targeted through prevention programmes that instil negative attitudes towards doping.
The role of coaching in doping abuse was also investigated, with the study indicating that coaches are highly influential on athletes' behaviour and must be prioritised in terms of banned substance education.
To read the report in full click here


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El 100 Cycle Challenge (oficialmente: 100 Cycle Challenge) es una carrera ciclista de un día que se disputa anualmente en el municipio de Ekurhuleni en Sudáfrica con inicio y final en el lago Germiston. La prueba cuenta con una versión femenina del mismo nombre y se corre sobre una distancia de 100 km.

La carrera fue creada en el año 2018 y hace parte del UCI Africa Tour como competencia de categoría 1.2.

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Véase también
 100 Cycle Challenge femenino

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to cover all bases - make it as clear as possible.
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Le nouveau site de notre association
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Iranian Official Acknowledges Torture of Protesters
By ROBERT F. WORTH and NAZILA FATHI
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A top judiciary official acknowledged Saturday that some detainees arrested after post-election protests had been tortured in Iranian prisons, the first such acknowledgment by a senior Iranian official.
Meanwhile, a second day of hearings was held in a mass trial of reformers and election protesters, with more than 100 people accused of trying to topple the government. The accused included a French researcher and employees of the French and British Embassies, prompting angry responses from Britain, France and the European Union.
But even as the trial appeared to further the campaign by the hard-line establishment to intimidate and silence the opposition, at the expense of alienating Iranian moderates and the West, the statement on torture by the judiciary official, Iran's prosecutor general, revealed continued divisions within the government. Speaking to reporters at a news conference, Qorbanali Dori-Najafabadi, the prosecutor general, said "mistakes" had led to a few "painful accidents which cannot be defended, and those who were involved should be punished." Such mistakes, he said, included "the Kahrizak incident," a reference to the deaths of several detainees at Kahrizak detention center in southwestern Tehran.
His comments came after weeks of reports that detainees had been tortured, and they fell somewhere between an admission and an accusation, as most of the arrests were made by the Revolutionary Guards and the paramilitary Basij militia, groups that are not under the control of the judiciary.
Even so, the statement was likely to be incendiary in Iran, where allegations of torture by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi became a central justification of the 1979 revolution that brought the hard-line clerics to power. Detainees' accusations of torture have already prompted a parliamentary investigation of abuses at Kahrizak, which was closed last month by order of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Mr. Dori-Najafabadi said his team had tried to change the situation after taking control of the arrests last month, the ILNA news agency reported, and he encouraged people to come forward with complaints. "Maybe there were cases of torture in the early days after the election," he was quoted as saying, "but we are willing to follow up any complaints or irregularities that have taken place."
In another indication of dissension, he said a special judiciary committee had recommended the release of Saeed Hajjarian, a prominent reformist. Mr. Hajjarian's family said he had been tortured, and has expressed concern about his health. Last week, the Iranianauthorities said Mr. Hajjarian had been moved to a site with access to doctors. Mr. Dori-Najafabadi also said that about 100 people had been arrested every day after the post-election demonstrations began, and that there were efforts to release about the same number daily. There are nearly 200 detainees today, he said.
At the trial on Saturday, families of the defendants gathered outside the court and were attacked by riot police officers when they began chanting slogans, Web sites reported. Zahra Mir-Younessi, the wife of one of the detainees, and several others were arrested.
Inside the courtroom, the French researcher and an analyst at the British Embassy who have been accused of spying took the stand to apologize, saying they had wanted only to update their embassies on Iran's recent political turmoil. The researcher, Clotilde Reiss, who was working at Isfahan University, said she had collected news and information about politics and the protests, and presented some of it to officials at the French Embassy in Tehran. "I realize this was a mistake," she said, according to a transcript provided by the semiofficial Fars news agency. "I apologize to the court and the people of Iran, and I hope they will forgive me."
Hossein Rassam, a political analyst at the British Embassy in Tehran who is an Iranian citizen, also took the stand after espionage charges were read out against him. He said his job required him to gather information on Iranian politics and to convey it to his employers. He then expressed "regret," according to Fars, and asked for a pardon and an opportunity to make up for any action that might have harmed the government. His lawyer then rose to say that Mr. Rassam's activities were not spying, but the requirements of his job at the embassy.
The trial, which opened the previous Saturday, has included confessions by prominent reformist figures, whose friends and relatives said they had been coerced through torture. The confessions Saturday appeared to be part of a strategy to link the opposition, which maintains that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide re-election on June 12 was rigged, to foreign powers.
The court appearances followed more than a month of intense diplomatic efforts by Britain and France to persuade Iran not to charge the two embassy employees and the researcher. Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, said that the charges against Mr. Rassam were unjustified and that the action against Mr. Rassam and Ms. Reiss "only brings further discredit on the Iranian regime." The French government demanded that Iran immediately release Ms. Reiss and its embassy staff member, Nazak Afshar, saying espionage accusations against them were baseless.
Mr. Miliband said Britain had raised its concerns in a meeting in Tehran between Britain's ambassador and the Iranian deputy foreign minister, and in London, where a Foreign Office official met with Iran's ambassador. Officials at the Foreign Office had previously said they believed that they had assurances from Iran that Mr. Rassam would not face trial. British officials, speaking anonymously in accordance with diplomatic protocol, have said Mr. Rassam appeared to have been chosen as a scapegoat after Ayatollah Khamenei identified Britain as a target during the protests after the election.
In a speech at Friday Prayer in Tehran, Ayatollah Khamenei said Britain, with a long history of colonial interference in Iran, was leading a covert international effort to manipulate the outcome of the election.
As in last weekend's session, prosecutors began Saturday by reading a long, wide-ranging list of accusations that seemed to implicate any Western organization with an interest in Iran — including media organizations, rights groups and research institutes — in a vast, seditious plot.
The other defendants on trial Saturday included two prominent political analysts, Ahmad Zeidabadi and Bijan Khajehpour, as well as people the government said were members of a monarchist group and a terrorist group and who were accused of planning bombings. One defendant accused of planning bombings at the time of the elections, Muhammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, testified that he had met a number of foreigners. They included an American intelligence official in Iraqi Kurdistan known as "Frank" who he said had given him money, a phone and other assistance.
Robert F. Worth reported from Beirut, and Nazila Fathi from Toronto. John F. Burns contributed reporting from Cambridge, England.
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marcnaimark dit :
Je m'étonne que dans la presse (notamment française) on fait semblant d'ignorer la grande tradition des aveux sous torture du régime iranien.
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The Playhouse Theatre in central Perth, Western Australia was purpose-built for live theatre in the 1950s and remained one of the city's principal venues for performing arts for over half a century until replaced by the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia in January 2011. It was demolished in October 2012 as part of a redevelopment of Cathedral Square.

History

Founding
The theatre was constructed adjacent to St George's Cathedral on Pier Street land owned by the Anglican Church, the former site of the Church of England Deanery tennis court. The building was designed by the local architectural firm of Sheldon & Krantz and constructed at a cost of £65,000. The main lobby contained a mural by local brutalist architect Iwan Iwanoff.  The theatre was formally opened on 22 August 1956 to a capacity audience of 700, with the opening production of John Patrick's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Teahouse of the August Moon.

In 1919 the establishment of the Perth Repertory Club had led to the development of a strong local amateur-based theatre scene. The Repertory Club initially worked out of a basement room at the Palace Hotel and, later, the old composing room of the Western Australian Newspaper Company.  The need for the Playhouse arose as Perth's main theatre, His Majesty's Theatre was considered too large to provide a feasible venue for locally produced live-theatre productions, and had been functioning principally as a cinema since the early 1940s. In the mid-1950s the board and members of the Repertory Club commenced fundraising for the construction of a smaller purpose-built theatre to stage their productions. With the opening of the Playhouse, the Repertory Club became a fully professional theatre company, the National Theatre Company.

Actors and crew
Notable actor Edgar Metcalfe was a regular performer on stage and also served three terms as artistic director between 1963–1984. A rare period of box-office success was enjoyed by the theatre from 1978–1981 when Stephen Barry was artistic director of the National Theatre at the Playhouse. He arranged outstanding guest performances by international celebrities Warren Mitchell, Honor Blackman, Robyn Nevin, Timothy West, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Judy Davis, among others. Barry commissioned Dorothy Hewett's play, The Man from Muckinupin, for the State's sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary celebrations in 1979 (WAY '79), despite hostile resistance from then state premier Sir Charles Court. However, soon after Barry's departure, the company lost its audience appeal. Despite an extensive renovation in 1982, with reduction of seating capacity, the National Theatre was liquidated in February 1984. In 1984 the Playhouse was leased to the Perth Theatre Trust and the venue subsequently became home to The Playhouse Theatre Company (1984–85), Western Australian Theatre Company (1985–1991) and finally the Perth Theatre Company (1995–2009). The Playhouse was principally used for drama, contemporary dance and comedy performances.

Facilities
A traditional proscenium arch theatre with a raked auditorium, the Playhouse had bar and conference facilities, and hosted productions from the annual Perth International Arts Festival. It was the performance and administrative home of the Perth Theatre Company for sixteen years, until the company's relocation to the new State Theatre Centre of Western Australia in January 2011. The Company's last production was of David Williamson's The Removalists in April 2010.  Demolition was originally planned for 2010 but postponed when the Perth Theatre Trust sought to extend its lease due to delays to the construction of the State Theatre. The final production was the pantomime production of Puss in Boots in December 2010, produced by the MS Society of WA.

See also
Regal Theatre

References

Further reading

 Casey M Creating frames: contemporary indigenous theatre 1967-1990 Univ. of Queensland Press, 2004
 Sara Fitzpatrick  Playhouse Theatre, Perth Playhouse enjoys second coming at InMyCommunity, 21 June 2011

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Gregory Polanco Tests Positive For Coronavirus
By Connor Byrne | July 17, 2020 at 12:08pm CDT
Pirates outfielder Gregory Polanco has tested positive for the coronavirus, Rob Biertempfel of The Athletic was among those to report.
Polanco has been out of Pirates Summer Camp for almost the entire week, making this an unsurprising development. However, it's unclear whether he's dealing with severe symptoms or whether he'll be able to return in short order. The same goes for two of his teammates, reliever Keone Kela (whom the team placed on the injured list Friday) and third base prospect Ke'Bryan Hayes. They've also been absent from camp.
From an on-field standpoint, Polanco is one of the Pirates' most important players. He was a solid producer as recently as the 2018 season, in which he batted .254/.340/.499 with 23 home runs and 12 stolen bases in 535 plate appearances. But Polanco couldn't build on that during an injury-plagued 2019 that saw him take just 167 PA and bat .242/.301/.425 with six HRs and three steals.
Now, as Jason Persak of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote Thursday, the Polanco-less Pirates could turn to any of Guillermo Heredia, Socrates Brito, Adam Frazier or Jose Osuna in right field. Bryan Reynolds figures to start in left, while Jarrod Dyson should occupy center.
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Shiver me timbers, a concerning development for the Pirates
Everyone figured as much.Any player who is suddenly away from the team and no official word as to why makes you assume that it is covid related. Here is to hoping that he is asymptomatic and back on the field in a week. From all accounts, he has been outstanding since summer training started
AZPat
If you want him to be back in a week, you want it to be a false positive. If it's asymptomatic, he's out for at least 14 days, then he has to test negative twice. At least that's the way I read it.
Halo11Fan
He was in camp. How long has he been out of camp? Did he infect anyone else?
The Pirates have now become an interesting team.
Dexxter
This is really going to be a fascinating season to watch.
A couple impact players testing positive could keep them out for almost 1/4 of the season. That could swing any team from contender to not in a short season like this.
The teams that follow the health protocols and keep their players on the field will have the best chance in this weird 2020 season.
"A couple impact players testing positive could keep them out for almost 1/4 of the season."
More than that. Matt Theiss
"…it's also a little frustrating when you know you feel perfectly fine. But for me personally, it took me 20-something days of testing to test negative, and I was isolated close to 28 or 29 days."
True enough. That's almost half the season.
It's going to be crazy.
Gigorilla
Cue the music — youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
ElGaupo77
Pirates prospect Jared Oliva is a above average CF and was an AFL all star. A platoon of him and the LHH Jason Martin would be fine to start season.
SoxRewl
Tough break for the guy, who was reportedly looking real good in practice and had a real good shot at a bounce-back season. Hope his symptoms aren't too severe and he feels good enough to rejoin the team soon.
Briffle
Polanco is in that perpetual "he's looking in practice, has a great chance to rebound" camp.
solaris602
Definitely. No one can argue that the man hasn't always had all the tools to be a solid impact player, but he's either been injured, ill, or generally unable to put it all together consistently. You hope he doesn't end up being that guy sitting on a barstool talking about what might have been, but…….
Part of this is due to the Pirates roster. When Polcano starts heating up, it very easy for teams to pitch around him given the rest of the Pirates lineup. If he played for the Yankees, Astros or even the Twins, his stats would look much better for the games he's been healthy enough to play in. He's a valuable player and would probably bring back a collection of talent if Pitt ever chose to move him.
Harvbanger
I'm a Bucs fan. Unfortunately, I think Polanco has worn out his welcome…way too many brain cramps in the field & on the basepaths. Very inconsistent at the plate…with a few hot streaks to tease the fans…and injury riddled. I'd be shocked to see him fetch much in any deal.
"Young Gregory Polanco" and all his potential will be turning 29 before this shortened season is over. He was supposed to be a perennial all-star based on all the hype with his tools. He's a 6 win player after 6 years. He has negative defense, even in PNC Park's tiny right field. I agree that between the injuries and the lackluster play, he has worn out his welcome. I don't think anyone would give up much for him. He's a guy that should be in his prime. But he was fast enough to steal bases and would always come off the bag, his cannon arm is now broken, he might give you two hot weeks in the summer but the rest of the time he's basically average or worse at the plate. Starting to see more strike outs than hits. He's become the new Pedro Alvarez.
bighiggy
Wonder what it would take for the cards to trade for Polanco? Maybe edmundo sosa and jake wofford. I mean the cards would have to move fowler somewhere first, but I think Polanco could rebound in stl.
As a Pirate fan, I will take anything for the Giraffe.


Canada's hot property markets Toronto and Vancouver showed flat figures despite the rise in Canadian home prices for April, the latest Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index shows.
The 0.2% jump in house values for last month from March was the fourth straight monthly increase. However, the index noted that the pace of the gains was slower and the housing markets of Toronto and Vancouver were flat.
From a year earlier, prices were up at a historic level of 4.4%.
The price index showed prices were up 1.9 per cent in Winnipeg, 1.7 per cent in Quebec City, 1.0 per cent in Montreal, 0.7 per cent in Halifax, 0.6 per cent in Edmonton and 0.2 per cent in Calgary.
Those with decreases were Ottawa with 0.7 per cent, Victoria with 0.2 per cent and Hamilton with 0.1 per cent.
Reuters said Finance Minister Joe Oliver maintainted the Conservative government's position that the market is not over-inflated.
"We're monitoring the residential market as we always do, and  we don't believe we're in a bubble. If there is a decline, we think it would be a soft landing, but I'm not predicting that," he was quoted as saying.


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Toni Matthews was prepared to have her first baby on the side of a country road.
With her partner Darren Beveridge behind the wheel, they left their Baradine property in north-west NSW when she went into labour.
Almost two hours later, they arrived at the nearest hospital, at Gunnedah.
"You're in the car, the kangaroos [are on the road], you just want to get there, you're in pain, you've got no pain relief, it's not nice," she said.
There are more than 21,000 babies born in regional NSW every year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
They will die about two years earlier than their city counterparts, have a lower chance of surviving cancer and are more likely to suicide, according to research by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
NSW's Coalition Government faced a backlash in the bush at last month's state election, losing three regional seats.
Health is set to be a major issue when Australians head to the polls for the federal vote on May 18, with Labor campaigning particularly hard on the issue.
Ms Matthews, now a mother-of-four, has refined her routine since the precarious birth of her first child in 15 years ago.
Her most recent baby, Payden, was induced on April 1 at Gunnedah Hospital.
She recognises living on the land comes with its challenges and said she "wouldn't have it any other way".
But she said the concentration of healthcare services in regional centres had not been balanced with support for people who live more remotely.
"People are feeling like they're kind of forgotten out here," she said.
"We need help, we need something to be done, we're not getting what we need."
Photo: Country doctor Aniello Iannuzzi is worried about the future of rural healthcare.
Country doctor Aniello Iannuzzi — who has worked as a GP in Coonabarabran for more than two decades — said he had watched rural health services be wound back.
"You've got this vicious cycle of patients who can't get access, who can't afford access and lack of skilled clinicians and an increasingly difficult situation in terms of recruiting and retaining skilled clinicians," he said.
"It's a world of hurt".
Federal Department of Health figures show there are more than 72,000 doctors servicing major cities around Australia — less than a third of that number are working in regional and remote areas.
Dr Iannuzzi said the issue had been compounded by long hours, poor conditions and a five-year freeze on remuneration for permanent doctors who work in country hospitals.
Coonabarabran woman Jane McWhirter started the charity Palliative 4 People in 2015 after her husband Mark died of cancer.
Her decision was sparked by a comment Mark made while receiving treatment at Sydney's Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, a not-for-profit cancer treatment and support clinic.
"He actually did say at the time 'wouldn't it be good to have something like this at home'," she said.
Ms McWhirter worked with the community to raise more than $100,000 to provide a palliative care facility, which opened this year at the Coonabarabran Hospital.
It's is a stark contrast to the previous space at the regional facility, which Jane described as "not ideal" for her husband to spend his last moments.
While Ms McWhirter is proud to have improved the situation in her home town, she said the responsibility to provide healthcare should not rest with charities.
"It's all well and good for [state and federal governments] to say they are going to do this or that, come up with the goods," she said.
"Don't just say it, do it."
Dr Iannuzzi said problems with regional healthcare could also be caused by one-size-fits-all policies that do not cater to the bespoke needs of patients in the bush.
"I think health departments in general have to understand that the rules they put in place in bigger centres don't apply and can't apply in smaller centres," he said.
"Too often we're getting told policies that we've had absolutely no say in formulating.
"That becomes a very stressful situation, it erodes a lot of trust and leads to situations where experienced clinicians then start to disengage."
Back in Baradine, Toni was keen to point out rural health battles went well beyond first-time mothers.
"Everyone is struggling," she said.
"My friends my age to be struggling how they are — high blood pressure and stressing and taking on more work and more jobs to try and survive."


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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 5:34PM ET / Published Feb. 04, 2012 8:57AM ET
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It's a snowy weekend in Colorado. The season's first major snowstorm dumped up to six feet of snow in the Rocky Mountain foothills and one to two feet in Denver. Near-zero visibility caused officials to close all 160 miles of westbound Interstate 70 between the Kansas state line and Denver. Travelers mostly heeded warnings to stay inside, and the accident rate was low. Some 600 flights were canceled out of Denver International Airport. The storm has moved eastward, dumping 13 inches of snow on Nebraska.
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Grignan is a village in the Drôme department ( Rhone - Alpes ) and has 1452 inhabitants (2005 ) . The place is part of the district of Nyons .
The sight of Grignan is dominated by the castle of Grignan , the largest Renaissance castle in southeastern France . In 1035 , the first mentioned in writings . The building had then a military function and is built on a rock with steep walls . In the 15th century the castle has converted by the severe Gaucher Adhemar into a luxurious castle. His son Louis Adhemar , governor of Provence and ambassador in Rome , has continued the modernization .
In the 17th century the castle gets fame thanks Marquise de Sevigne , Marie de Rabutin - Chantal . Her daughter , Françoise Marguerite , married in 1671 with the Count of Grignan and goes to live at the castle . The result is a correspondence between mother , who lives in Paris , and daughter . These letters have become very well known. Grignan is a statue of Marquise De Sevigne . In June / July, in her memory in Grignan a festival held on everything to do with writing .


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Rihanna Finally Gives Fans A Behind-The-Scenes Look Of The New Album Recording Process
Alexis Stone Jun 2, 2019 2:58 AM PDT
Rihanna has been promoting her businesses a lot of social media, but her fans are longing for some new music. They always ask their favorite star when will she be dropping a new album, and RiRi finally decided to update people on the subject.
She shared a video featuring herself while recording, and even though she doesn't seem too excited, her fans will definitely be happy to see this.
#PressPlay: #Rihanna giving a behind the scenes look of her album recording process 😩
A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) on Jun 1, 2019 at 9:54pm PDT
Someone said that 'Her face looks like "at this point, I'm doing this for y'all I just wanna go to sleep" 🙄😂'
One commenter posted, 'Y'all rushing her to record an album she doesn't wanna record. Ya better buy it.'
A fan wrote, 'She looks like she really doesn't enjoy making music anymore or is it JUST me 🤔'
Someone else said, 'Ima need some of y'all to speak for y'all selves cause I want the damn album.'
As it was already reported, Rihanna has been advertising her business these days and she made her fans happy when she also posed with her mom.
Some of her fans are asking for some new music, but others are simply praising RiRi for what she's been doing so far.
Some fans are even rooting for her to become the next billionaire woman of color.
Others have compared her to Kylie Jenner and they said that they could not believe Kylie is a billionaire and RiRi is not one.
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On a mission: OB/GYN center reflects Dr. Miriam Mackovic's passion for women's needs
CJ Dablo
-Staff Writer-
CEO and Founder Dr. Miriam Mackovic (left) opened Complete Women Care, a healthcare organization with four locations in the greater Long Beach area and San Pedro. Dr. Jessica Rayhanabad (right) is a breast specialist.
Dana Padilla was about to have her first surgery, and she was scared. The 24-year-old was told earlier this year that she needed a surgical procedure known as D&C (also known as dilation and curettage). She never had general anesthesia before. She never had a major surgery like this one until now, however, after being referred to Complete Women Care, a healthcare facility in Bixby Knolls dedicated to OB/GYN needs, Padilla realized quickly she was in good hands.
Nurses Mary Chung (left) and Ian Ganzagan (right) are among the surgical staff at the GYN Emergent Care Center for Complete Women Care.
The staff at Complete Women Care has tried to create a comfortable environment. The waiting room at the facility looks like a living room.
In a telephone interview, Padilla happily described the spa-like treatment she received in the hours and minutes before her operation in August. Her blood pressure had spiked due to anxiety, and the staff offered her a lavender-scented spa eye mask. The aromatherapy immediately calmed her and dropped her blood pressure. The staff turned on music before anesthesiologist Dr. Lawrence Presley would put her to sleep. Padilla liked the '80s song that was being played (she couldn't remember what it was), and the doctor sang to her as she inhaled more lavender— this time through her gas mask— before she drifted into unconsciousness.
"They made me so comfortable over there," Padilla said. She was told that she would feel less pain after her surgery.
Her unusual surgical experience at the GYN emergent Care Center is the brainchild of Dr. Miriam Mackovic, the founder and CEO of Complete Women Care. The healthcare organization dedicated to OB/GYN needs has locations in Naples, Bixby Knolls, Lakewood and San Pedro. The centers focus on early pregnancy and other gynecological issues. At Bixby Knolls, Mackovic opened the GYN Emergent Care Center in October 2013. Mackovic said that it's the first center of its kind in California, and another spokesman for the company said that there are few facilities like it in the United States.
Mackovic seemed comfortable at her desk during her interview at the Bixby Knolls office at 3711 Long Beach Blvd. Speaking rapidly and passionately, she explained how her facilities are centered on women's needs. Mackovic said that she aimed to provide quality care that is comprehensive and affordable. Laboratory tests are also available on-site.
The center's website claims that patients with gynecological emergencies will be seen faster than if they go to a regular hospital emergency room and that the average wait time for patients to be seen is 20 minutes.
When asked about the need for her new emergent-care center, Mackovic stressed the importance of women's healthcare related to the female reproductive system.
"Usually OB/GYN issues are those that develop rapidly," Mackovic said, explaining that ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage and ruptured cysts are examples of medical problems that can often develop within hours. She criticized how general emergency-care facilities aren't well-equipped for those kinds of urgent issues. "Our current system!is set up to address the problem over the days," she added, "not over the hours! And there is a mismatch between what our patient really needs and our pre-conceived idea [of how] medicine should be delivered."
Mackovic aimed to change just how medicine should be offered to women. Parson's experience as a patient is standard protocol for the surgical patients at the Bixby Knolls facility. In addition to the aromatherapy, they also get customized heated blankets, and if patients must remain overnight, they can order from menus from local restaurants for a delivered meal served on fine china. The staff also offers massage therapy with acupressure, if needed.
Mackovic has been developing the procedure over several years. She cited studies that explained how the scent of lavender calms part of the brain and said that patients feel less pain and need less opioid medicines when they are relaxed under this treatment.
She has an extensive educational background. She was trained at UCLA to be an OB/GYN. Mackovic specializes in non-invasive surgical procedures. With science degrees in physiology and molecular biology, the doctor also has an Executive-MBA degree.
Mackovic emphasized that patients need high quality in their care and that extra touch for a deeply meaningful experience. She stressed the importance for patients to feel as though they matter and that that feel cared for.
"Medicine is still [an] art besides being science," she said.
Mackovic's medical "artwork" has a practice purpose–minimizing the pain that goes along with a potentially frightening experience. The art just smells like lavender. Patients like Padilla appreciate it.
In October 2013, the GYN Emergent Care Center opened in Bixby Knolls at 3711 Long Beach Blvd. This particular center is dedicated to emergency services related to OB/GYN needs. Founder Miriam Mackovic says the facility is the only center of its kind in California.
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Indices Shares Tesco Supermarket Brexit Technical analysis
| Writer, | Publication date: 2019-09-25T15:54:46+0100
When is Tesco's earnings date?
Tesco PLC reports earnings on 2 October, covering its first-half (H1) results.
Tesco earnings – what does the City expect?
Tesco is expected to report earnings of 7.5p per share, up 17.2% YoY, while revenues remain flat at £31.7 billion. H1 pre-tax profit is forecast to be £944 million.
Tesco's outlook is clouded by the difficult comparatives with last year's strong performance. 2018 was a warm year, and while 2019's summer had some pockets of warm weather, the overall sales performance is not likely to be as strong. Instead, the message will be very much 'steady as she goes'. Ireland may provide a cushion to poor performance in the rest of the division, but the Europe arm will suffer from a difficult period for Poland. Competitiveness is still the key for Tesco, and this is achieved by further progress in price and quality in its core grocery operations.
For UK supermarkets, the Brexit issue will not go away. A no-deal exit at the end of October seems unlikely now that parliament has passed the Benn amendment preventing such an outcome and an extension will, it seems, result that extends the process until the end of January. But the companies must continue to plan for the possibility of major disruption, and be aware that a sudden rupture could hit consumer spending and cause a drop in sterling that would push up prices of imported goods.
It is this fear that is holding back Tesco shares, which have otherwise done quite well so far this year, gaining 20% versus around 9% for the FTSE 100. If a deal is done, then the outlook clears and supermarkets become more attractive. Certainly, with Tesco trading at 13.5 times forward earnings, well below its five-year average of 17.6 and one of the cheapest valuations in over five years, there is plenty of room for increased growth and a re-rating in the shares.
How to trade Tesco earnings
Tesco usually sees an average move of 6.05% on results day, according to previous price movements. At present options pricing points towards a 5.05% move. Of 21 analysts covering the shares, 14 are 'buys', six are 'holds' and one is a 'sell'. Tesco has beaten earnings estimates in five of the last eight updates, and beaten revenue forecasts in four of the last eight.
Tesco shares: technical analysis
Tesco shares have rallied hard this year, moving from a low around 185p to peak at 250p. However, since the end of April they have drifted lower, and two rallies in June and August have failed to break above 242p. Thus we may have the makings of another sell-off if the price cannot push higher. A pullback may target 220p or 210p, the low from late August.
Tesco is cheap, but faces headwinds
Tesco shares are not expensive, and indeed at present are fairly-valued. But Brexit presents one major reason for caution, while a second is that the company has yet to articulate a compelling plan for growth beyond sprucing up its core retail arm. While the shares are up for the year, progress has stalled since May, muddying the technical outlook.
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AXA Investment Managers calls for new "transition bonds" to help companies go green
Green bond market needs a new "transition" bond to allow carbon intensive companies to finance their gradual shift away from fossil fuels, AXA Investment Managers has said.
While green bonds have become established options for fixed income investors, AXA IM believes the asset class is at a crossroads, with the potential for the bonds to be undermined by a desire for further issuance which the sector cannot currently provide.
As such, AXA IM's ESG research and engagement team is calling for a new type of bond that is required to help companies which are not yet green - and will therefore struggle to justify high quality and eligible for any "green taxonomy" green bonds - to instead issue debt which is tied to them becoming greener businesses.
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Q: Javascript literal nested object - refer to top level properties I'm writing a client side for mobile app that work with restful style web services.
var globApp = {
    sessionId : "",
    lastActionName: "",
    userName : "2victor",
    md5Pwd : "1234",
    hostApiPath : "http://host/api",
    action : {
        login : {
            scriptPath : "/acc/login",
            method : "PUT",
            requestParams : {
                user : this.userName,
                pwd : this.md5pwd
            },
            responseParams : {

            }
        },
        register : {
            scriptPath : "/acc/reg",
            method : "POST",
            requestParams : {
                user : "myUserName",
                fname : "myFirstName" ,
                lname : "myLastName" ,
                email : "mail@mail.com" ,
                age : "28" ,
                gender : "male" ,
                pwd : "1234" ,
                priv : "good"
            },
            responseParams : {

            }
        }
    }
}

Properties userName and md5pwd will be assigned when application start.
What I want to achieve is, to assign this values to user and pwd properties under requestParams object for each action. Of course using this doesn't work and return undefined cause this in that case refers to the nested object if I understand correct.
This requestParams object is sent as JSON by AJAX.
I can define few variables out of this object and use them but I don't want to.
How it can be done?

A: It can't be done. The object is not available in any way until it has been fully defined. So you can't do it on one single step.

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About Schmidt (2002)
(Release Date: September 27, 2002)
An Engrossing, Stylistic Horror Film for Suburbanite Malcontents!
It's amazing how every once in a while a completely Niche Market will be catered to in a Major Hollywood motion picture, and even less often it will be a hit. Somehow director Alexander Payne has managed to get both to happen and attract Oscar's interests as well! His screenplay (with Jim Taylor) adaptation of Louis Begley's novel of the same name makes for one of the most frightening films ever made, but only for one small market out there... aging suburban male sycophants with growing daughters, and a complete misunderstanding of the world around them. It's a specialized group to be sure, but it's nice to be catered to every once in a while... not every movie needs to be Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. What does disturb me about this tale is that many moviegoers out there will see this as a comedy. Make no mistake, the writers have carefully chosen the scariest things that can happen to a person and have put them into one movie that is in 125 minutes more frightening a Jack Nicholson vehicle than The Shining, Mars Attacks!, and Wolf all put together. I should know, I am an aging suburban male sycophant with a growing daughter!
About Schmidt is an appropriate title to be sure, as this movie really is all about Warren R. Schmidt, a retired insurance adjuster whose career doesn't amount to a "gosh damn thing" (I watched this on a plane, can you tell?)! His real life is getting used to the next chapter in his life, and adjusting, uncomfortably to the next chapter in his daughter's life... unfortunately, she's marrying a complete loser that Warren doesn't approve of. And who would? It's Dermot Mulroney with a bad mullet, a creepy job and a pyramid scheme that "isn't really a pyramid scheme!" that he brings up at inappropriate times. His daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) loves the guy, and can't see any flaws in him. But Schmidt could, and so could I! As if this wasn't creepy enough as it is, certain revelations in Schmidt's life, add more weight to his relationship with his daughter than to any other part of his life, and her life, and her mediocre choices trap Schmidt in a web from which escape is nigh impossible!
Schmidt maintains his sanity (barely) through correspondence with Ndugu, a sponsored child in the vein of those Sally Struthers commercials. It's Schmidt's letters to Ndugu that narrate the film in both a spooky and an uncomfortably humorous way. His one way (for the most part) relationship with Ndugu is both touching and detached, and is deceptively perhaps the most important aspect of the film, holding the key to Schmidt's purpose in life. It's easy to forget that Ndugu is a real human being, instead of simply the object of Schmidt's soliloquy! Ndugu is more important than he seems.
The rest of the cast can hardly be considered anything less than vital. Yeah it's About Schmidt but the supporting cast is necessary to, well, support what Schmidt is about. June Squibb plays Helen, Warren's wife and Jeannie's mother, whom Warren barely recognizes after 40 plus years of marriage. Howard Hesseman is the father of the groom, and he is uncomfortably funny! Hey, it's great to see Dr. Johnny Fever in something again, as he really is an underrated gem... here is no exception. It's a creepy and scary environment as you enter his and Kathy Bates' home, but they both add just the right humor to keep Schmidt from running screaming from the horror! Kathy Bates almost steals the show as the mother of the groom. She's quirky and frightening (more so than she ever was in Misery) as she attempts to pull what's left of Warren Schmidt into her tangled web she deems to be actual normality.
Have you ever been to a family reunion, or to meet the parents, or to a wedding and there are some creepy, eerie people you are forced to make nice with, but deep down inside you just can't because of horror unequalled even in Apocalypse Now? I have! Now imagine those same people want to drug you and use your body sexually like the worst nightmares of William Chester Minor! The mayor of Sunnydale even makes a cameo in one of the less frightening sequences!
The best part of the film was undeniably the end! It has to be one of the best and most emotional endings to a Horror film I have ever witnessed! I can't reveal what goes on, but I can say that it's beautiful, and makes the previous horrors bearable in a very unique way. Please just watch it!
I was stunned that this director was the writer of Jurassic Park III! About Schmidt is much, much scarier than JP3 was, and has more emotion and heart than the previous film... plus both prominently feature dinosaurs. Probably every critic in the world has uttered or written the phrase "Nicholson's hair was a character in and of itself!" but I won't (oh, I just did!). The man has a bad comb-over, but so does the Operations Manager here at my work. Let's not detract from the greatness of his part (no pun intended)! What Nicholson does with pure acting is wonderful. His detached annoyance and fear, his love and pain, and his sadness and hope are all captured perfectly. Life is hard, even for suburban malcontents, and being displaced suddenly in a strange and uncomfortable world is frightening even without all the other terror in this film. Nicholson handles it all as if he truly understands Schmidt... and I think he makes us understand him as well! This film displaces As Good as it Gets as Nicholson's prime example of emotional range, and replaces The Witches of Eastwick as his scariest movie!
A great big insulting hand gesture goes to US Airways for their shoddy sound system, dinners you have to pay for, lack of vegetarian alternatives and teeny rinse and spit cups of diet Coke. Even all that couldn't keep About Schmidt from earning Four Stars! Truly this is among the best horror movies of the new millennium and will long be considered a Nicholson Classic up there with Five Easy Pieces! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go update my will, put a down-payment on my Winnebago, admonish my daughter for her future choices in mates, adopt a starving child in a third world country and look for another job that is indeed worth a gosh damned thing! Anyone hiring Film Critics?
Well if you're not so discontent you could die...
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About Schmidt (2002) Reviewed by J.C. Maçek III who is solely responsible for his views and for his inability to think of anything witty to say right now.
Ho-Hum!
Got something to say? Write it!At long last we get to see the goodies Kathy Bates has been hiding under that blouse! YUMMERS!