Grocery purchasing. Researchers at the College of Minnesota Extension, in a 2014 research , said, "there is not any professional or academic consensus on the term 'local meals.' " Some outline it by the gap between the farm and the market. Milo's Tea Company is a part of the Purchase Alabama's Finest branding program, which does not require that native substances be used in products bearing the model.
Meals produced by farmers or gardeners may be modified by industrial processes (the meals trade ). Processed food often accommodates a number of pure substances and food components (akin to preservatives , antioxidants, emulsifiers, flavour enhancers, and so forth.).
Buying meals in bulk can save on prices in case you observe the right checklist. That is enough to qualify for membership in Utah's Own meals-branding program, stated Bradshaw on the Department of Agriculture. To become an Ohio Proud member, a food maker's product should be made up of not less than 50 p.c of components "raised, grown or processed in Ohio." That means half of the components can come from another state or country.
The United States Department of Agriculture, which oversees the $74 billion meals stamp program referred to as SNAP, has printed a detailed report that gives a glimpse into the purchasing cart of the typical family that receives meals stamps. In that spirit, listed here are 7 foods paw-picked by yours truly, and sometimes my dog.
On-line shopping for Restaurant and Bulk Food Provide from a great choice at Grocery & Gourmet Meals Retailer. California Grown has more durable requirements than most state applications. As long as native governments are decided to get all Large Brother on making sure meals stamp recipients use their subsidies wisely, we've some recommendations for products that should not be covered by the SNAP program.


text:
An Inconvenient Office
Nick Baumann
Most politicians like to talk about returning honesty and ethics to Washington. But they're not too hot on actually being investigated themselves. For decades, the House and Senate ethics committees were the main place where potential violations of Congressional ethics were investigated. More often than not, they were also where such investigations went to die.
In 2008, two years after they took back Congress, the Democrats passed ethics reforms that established an independent Office of Congressional Ethics. OCE has generally been a tough, independent watchdog, and it infuriated some members of Congress when it referred information about the PMA lobbying scandal to the Justice Department for potential prosecution. (PMA was a lobbying shop that specialized in obtaining earmarks for its clients.) Now, Politico reports, many members are regretting the decision to establish the OCE in the first place:
The Office of Congressional Ethics, a powerful symbol of Democrats' promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington, is in danger of having its power stripped after the midterm elections.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have led the charge, airing complaints about the aggressive, independent panel in a private session with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last month, and they've drafted a resolution that, if approved, would severely curtail the panel's power.
But there's hot competition between the CBC and the official House ethics committee over who has less regard for the Office of Congressional Ethics, also known as the OCE. And the rest of the House doesn't appear to be far behind in its disdain. Privately, Democratic and Republican lawmakers, and even some congressional leaders, acknowledge that there's a strong sentiment to change rules that empower the office to publicize investigations and wreak havoc on lawmakers' political lives.
This is reprehensible stuff. The lawmakers in question are considering weakening the OCE in 2011, after the midterms, presumably because they think it will make them more likely to get away with it. Politico catches a lot of flak for its obsession with the day-to-day minutiae of politics, but this is exactly the sort of thing that should get more attention. If either party even tries doing this after the election, they should get hammered for it.
Congressional Ethics Office Vote Today
DeLay's Ethics Extermination!

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text:
package com.kk.taurus.playerbase.event;

import android.os.Bundle;

import com.kk.taurus.playerbase.player.IPlayer;
import com.kk.taurus.playerbase.player.TimerCounterProxy;

/**
 * Created by Taurus on 2018/3/17.
 */

public interface OnPlayerEventListener {

    /**
     * when decoder set data source
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_DATA_SOURCE_SET = -99001;

    /**
     * when surface holder update
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_SURFACE_HOLDER_UPDATE = -99002;

    /**
     * when surface update
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_SURFACE_UPDATE = -99003;

    /**
     * when you call {@link IPlayer#start()}
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_START = -99004;

    /**
     * when you call {@link IPlayer#pause()}
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_PAUSE = -99005;

    /**
     * when you call {@link IPlayer#resume()}
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_RESUME = -99006;

    /**
     * when you call {@link IPlayer#stop()}
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_STOP = -99007;

    /**
     * when you call {@link IPlayer#reset()}
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_RESET = -99008;

    /**
     * when you call {@link IPlayer#destroy()}
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_DESTROY = -99009;

    /**
     * when decoder start buffering stream
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_BUFFERING_START = -99010;

    /**
     * when decoder buffering stream end
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_BUFFERING_END = -99011;

    /**
     * when decoder buffering percentage update
     */
    @Deprecated
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_BUFFERING_UPDATE = -99012;

    /**
     * when you call {@link IPlayer#seekTo(int)}
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_SEEK_TO = -99013;

    /**
     * when seek complete
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_SEEK_COMPLETE = -99014;

    /**
     * when player start render video stream
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_VIDEO_RENDER_START = -99015;

    /**
     * when play complete
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_PLAY_COMPLETE = -99016;

    /**
     * on video size change
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_VIDEO_SIZE_CHANGE = -99017;

    /**
     * on decoder prepared
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_PREPARED = -99018;

    /**
     * on player timer counter update {@link TimerCounterProxy}
     * if timer stopped, you could not receive this event code.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_TIMER_UPDATE = -99019;

    /**
     * on get video rotation.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_VIDEO_ROTATION_CHANGED = 99020;

    /**
     * when player start render audio stream
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_AUDIO_RENDER_START = -99021;

    /**
     * when audio decoder start
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_AUDIO_DECODER_START = -99022;

    /**
     * when audio seek rendering start
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_AUDIO_SEEK_RENDERING_START = -99023;

    /**
     * network bandwidth
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_NETWORK_BANDWIDTH = -99024;

    /**
     * bad interleaving
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_BAD_INTERLEAVING = -99025;

    /**
     * not support seek ,may be live.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_NOT_SEEK_ABLE = -99026;

    /**
     * on meta data update
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_METADATA_UPDATE = -99027;

    /**
     * Failed to handle timed text track properly.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_TIMED_TEXT_ERROR = -99028;

    /**
     * Subtitle track was not supported by the media framework.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_UNSUPPORTED_SUBTITLE = -99029;

    /**
     * Reading the subtitle track takes too long.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_SUBTITLE_TIMED_OUT = -99030;

    /**
     * on play status update
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_STATUS_CHANGE = -99031;

    /**
     * if you set data provider for player, call back this method when provider start load data.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_PROVIDER_DATA_START = -99050;

    /**
     * call back this method when provider load data success.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_PROVIDER_DATA_SUCCESS = -99051;

    /**
     * call back this method when provider load data error.
     */
    int PLAYER_EVENT_ON_PROVIDER_DATA_ERROR = -99052;

    void onPlayerEvent(int eventCode, Bundle bundle);

}

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As a teacher, we should also know when to be easy-going with our students sometimes. At the same time, we must also be sensitive that students are not robots to do homework and just concentrate with their studies all the time. They also need to let go and have fun even once in a while to ease all the tension before midterm exams. So, I did give my classes a TREAT of their lifetime!
And of course M3/12 playing "This Blows" too. In fact, they were super happy that I gave them this special treat considering that in their case everyday is a TEST DAY! So, with this game at least I get to let them feel happy with me.
Finally, we have M1/12 who is already used to activities although this week we got new faces who did the hosting and the games.
So sorry to say that M2/12 were not able to enjoy the fun for this week, but they will have their fun share by next week.
One more week to go before Midterm. Well, the question is what do our students in MEP do in preparation for their tests? Cram and study more? Not really!
Although we have to do intensive review of all our lessons from Day 1 of Semester Two, its not really hard and serious as you all think of. We still got the coolest idea to be able to integrate review studies and at the same time enjoying it. How? Take a look at the snapshots we prepared for you.
Voila! Art integration, for our Science Review! Instead of memorizing the formulas and illustrations, how about having a group work to draw, illustrate and label the parts of some important facts and information from our lessons. Added with the colorful words and label, I bet that we will surely remember the color!


It was almost six when I finished for the day. I had three more clients after Tina, and each of them occupied my mind in different ways. Stewart—I called her by the last name stitched into her ACUs—was an Army medic who had the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen. She kept me busy talking about her next post, about how, with her job, she could be stationed almost anywhere in the world, so being posted to Hawaii was like hitting the jackpot. It was nice to see her so happy.
Some people love to move around in the military and Stewart was one of them. She was only a year older than me, but she'd already been deployed to Iraq—twice. And did she have stories. At twenty-one she'd had experiences most people couldn't dream of. But when those experiences turned into memories . . . well, they started playing through her mind on a constant loop. Never waning, never quiet, those memories became background noise that eventually took up residence in her head—tolerable, but always there. I knew all about it. My dad's brain was full of that clamor. With six tours between Iraq and Afghanistan, his background noise blared throughout our house. His house.
I thought about all of this while Stewart lay on my table. I was glad she could open up to me, that she could unburden herself by talking and releasing a bit of her background noise. I knew better than most that it's not just the physical aspect of massage that reduces stress, that helps a body come alive.
It was almost poetry the way Stewart talked about her life. I felt every word when she spoke. I thought about things I tried hard not to. She connected me to something and when she told me everything she had been through and everything she knew she opened me up to a different perspective.
For instance. Stewart talked a lot about how, in the United States, less than eight percent of living citizens have served in the military. That includes all the branches—every veteran who has ever served, even for one term. Out of over three hundred million people, less than eight percent. It was hard for me to realize that the way I grew up, moving from post to post, trying to make new friends, trying to adapt to strangers every few years, wasn't the reality for most people. For most Americans, anyway.
Less than eight percent? It seemed impossible to me, that small number. From my great grandfather to my dad, my uncles and cousins who were scattered across the country (except that loser uncle my brother was living with), everyone around me wore a uniform or lived with someone who did. The world had never felt so big until Stewart and her statistics.
She talked a lot during our sessions, like Tina. But unlike Tina, Stewart didn't expect me to share. I could hide behind her experiences, many of which forced me to bite back my tears. Maybe that's why her sessions went so fast.


Chiropractic is an alternative care treatment that focuses on disorders of the nervous system and musculoskeletal system and the effects these disorders have on general health.
Chiropractic care is used to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints, including but not limited to carpal tunnel syndrome, degenerative disc disease, herniated (bulging) discs, headaches, joint instability, myofacial pain/trigger points, piriformis syndrome, sciatica, spondylosis (osteoarthritis), whiplash, upper back/shoulder blade pain, peripheral neuropathies (arm or leg tingling and/or numbness), tendinitits/tendonitis, shoulder/hip impingement, patella (knee) pain/dysfunction, sprained ankles, whiplash syndrome and pre/post-operative rehabilitation.
Chiropractic Adjustment – also called spinal manipulation-involves moving a joint beyond its usual range of motion but not beyond the range of motion the joint is designed to move. The goal of chiropractic adjustment is to relieve pain and improve your body's optimal function. Dr. Chen is specifically trained to provide gentle yet effective adjustment for all of the joints of the body.
Activator Method Chiropractic Technique – As an alternative to manual manipulation of spine or extremity joints. The device is categorized as a mechanical force manual assisted (MFMA) instrument, which is generally regarded as a softer chiropractic treatment technique.
Postural and Corrective exercises are the key to strengthening, stabilizing, and making long term corrective changes to the way your body functions. Without this process, you are probably only getting temporary relief from your chiropractic care or massage therapy. Without some form of physical rehab, recovery from an injury or long-term spinal problem can take longer to achieve.
We customized for our patient's condition by combined effectiveness of chiropractic, physiotherapy and exercise rehabilitation to help restore normal pain-free range of motion, increase muscle strengthens, enhance coordination and balance.
Clinical nutrition therapy by assessing the patient's case history through a comprehensive physical examination and a patient's weekly dietary diary. We will review patient's current diet and lifestyle and make specific recommendation on nutritional supplements and healthy food choices. Nutritional deficiency can causes aging, insomnia, muscle weakness, dry hair, poor reflex, and depression. Our goal is to help every patient reach their optimal health with healthy diet and achieve a happily lifestyle full of the activities they enjoy most.
Consists of many different types of treatment including: Cryotherapy, Interferential Electrical Muscle Stimulation, Ultrasound, Moist-Heat Therapy and Neuro-Muscle Re-education. Physiotherapy treatments are very effective in reducing the amount of swelling, inflammation, muscle adhesions, trigger points, muscle spams and edema that is usually associated with and complicated most musculoskeletal complaints.
The Kinesio® Taping Method is applied over muscles to reduce pain and inflammation, relax overused or stressed muscles, and support muscles in movement on a 24-hour-a-day basis. The taping method requires a tape that is skin-friendly, possesses optimum elastic qualities, is the same thickness as the skin, and is durable enough to stay on for multiple days, even through sweating and shower. Kinesio tape is not a restrictive type of taping and allows for full range of motion. It can also be used to improve the function of specific muscle systems or stabilize joints. It's a quick non-invasion way to use to treat acute and chronic condition such as lower back strain/pain (subluxation, herniated disc), knee and shoulder conditions, sport injuries, and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Acupuncture is useful in treatment of chronic and acute pain, neurological disorders, musculo-skeletal disorder, joint pain, headache and TMJ. The theory behind acupuncture's ability to treat pain and disease is based on an energetic model of human. Pain or disease occurs in the body when there is a deficiency or an imbalance of the energy in the meridians. Acupuncture points are specific locations along the meridians. Over the centuries, it has been documented that the insertion of a very fine needle at a given point has a very predictable effect on the energy that passes through that point, restoring balance in the meridian. Modern science has been able to measure the electrical charge at these points, confirming the location of the meridians that were mapped out in ancient times. Continued research has shown that acupuncture has the ability to increase circulation, reduce inflammation and stimulate the body's own opiate-like chemicals to control pain.
Qigong (氣功)is a practice of aligning breath, movement, and awareness for exercise, healing, and meditation. "Qi "is the central underlying principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine and martial arts. "Gong" is often translated as cultivation or work, skill, and is often used to mean "Gung Fu".
With roots in Chinese medicine, martial arts and philosophy, qigong is traditionally viewed as a practice to cultivate and balance qi, the "intrinsic life energy". Typically a qigong practice involves rhythmic breathing coordinated with slow stylized repetition of fluid movement, a clam mindful state, and visualization of guiding qi through the body. Qigong is believed to help develop human potential, allow access to higher realms of awareness, and awaken one's "true nature".
The Eight Pieces of Brocade was created by the legendary Chinese military general, Yue Fei. Originally created to help healing his soldiers injured on the battlefield, the Qigong has evolved and become one of the most widely practiced Qi form for health promotion and maintenance for the past 1,000 years in China. Through gentle breathing, stretching and strengthening movements, the Qi energy is activated to help improve blood circulation and immune system. It also strengthens all internal organs. Regular training provides practitioners with abundant energy to live a healthy and vibrant life. With both a sitting and standing set, anyone can practice these simple and effective exercises in as little as 20 minutes a day.
Wild Goose (Dayan) Qigong is a traditional qigong form said to be over 1800 years old and created by Daoist monk living in the sacred mountains of Kunlun on the border of northern Tibet. The form has a wide variety of movement ranging from slow, fluid, and gentle to quick and strong emulating the soaring, flapping, fluttering and spiraling graceful movement of beautiful geese.
The second 64 form trains our ability to not only take in fresh energy but also get rid of diseased Qi, thus enabling us to detoxify and strengthen ourselves at the same time. This form treats "pre-birth" condition, and has shown to be effective for self-healing, rejuvenation, and improving cognitive function.
There are three basic components to traditional qigong exercise- breathing, mental intent and posture.
BREATHING– In Wild Goose Qigong the breath is to be natural and relaxed. There are no specific breathing patterns. You simply breathe as you feel you should, to match the flow of movement.
MENTAL INTENT– The mind is to be relaxed and occupied with movement of the form. There is no specific mental intent to manipulate the flow of qi, rather remain on the movement and allow the form to work. If your mind drifts during practice, bring it back to the movement. Keep a positive attitude while you do the form.
POSTURE – The postures in Wild Goose Qigong enable the balancing of qi throughout the body. This is accomplished by the cooperative effect of the positions of the limbs and movements of the joints. Each posture contains specific alignments with qi flow points (acupuncture points) that work together with the action of the body's living matrix (all the bones, connective tissue and organs) to stimulate the balance the body's qi.
Note: While these practices are safe and gentle, they are not a substitute for regular medical care. If you have any questions concerning your health, ask your health practitioner before starting this program.


Common questions when talking about the importance of learning to swim is "Why should children swim all year round? Surely it is only important to swim in the warm summer months? Won't my child get sick?" These assumptions are completely incorrect.
Learning to swim is a long term, ongoing process, and consistency is the key to the development and maintenance of swimming skills. Attending swimming lessons makes up an important part of a child's weekly routine throughout their infant, preschool and early school years, and should not just be limited to the summer months, as the skills and behaviours taught in lessons need to be practised all year round to allow children to develop at their own pace. Unfortunately the risks posed by drowning do not go away in winter, so neither should the lessons.
Additionally, children under 5 are just beginning to develop muscle memory, and need constant reinforcement to retain skills previously learnt, so a break in lessons often results in a loss of skills. By taking a break in the cooler months, you may be wasting all the time and money spent on lessons previously, and by swimming all year round children remain confident in the water. It is important to remember that learning to swim is not just another option on the list of sports and activities available to children – it is an invaluable lifesaving skill – not a seasonal recreational activity.
1. Don't put your child in a rash shirt – they are for sun protection, not warmth. They will only make you child colder in the water.
2. If you are a parent in the water, you may wish to remove your shirt before you get out of the water, because as soon as the air hits the wet fabric, you will feel the cold.
3. Have your towels easily accessible near the edge of the pool, so as soon as you get out of the water, they are ready to wrap.
4. Bring your dressing gown! This way you won't be struggling to keep it on while you wrap your child. (A big old hoodie jumper is a great alternative if a dressing gown is just too much for you in public). A dressing gown, hoodie or hooded towel for the kids makes life much easier, and leave the child's arms free as they move to the change rooms.
5. Take advantage of our hot showers – and bundle everyone into warm dry PJ's or a track suit for the rest of the day.
6. Don't forget head and feet – throw on a beanie or hat, and some ugg boots.
7. Give children a hot meal or drink (my children love warm milo as a great post swimming treat in winter) when you get home – they will sleep soundly that night, or even for their day sleep!
8. Remember – exercise is good for winter immunity! Exercise slows down the release of stress-related hormones. Some stress increases the chance of illness. Lower stress hormones may protect against illness.
9. DO NOT stop attending lessons – you will simply be wasting the time and money spent so far teaching your child the valuable skill of swimming, and they will have to relearn some of their swimming skills again in the Spring.
10. Enjoy this time to slow down and be with your child/ren – either in the water, or poolside watching their progression of skills – come summer they will be even better swimmers!


text:
import time

import pytest

from paasta_tools.utils import SystemPaastaConfig

def time_to_feel_bad(*args, **kwarg):
    raise Exception("This test called time.sleep() which is bad and slows down our test suite")

time.true_slow_sleep = time.sleep
time.sleep = time_to_feel_bad

@pytest.fixture
def system_paasta_config():
    return SystemPaastaConfig(
        {
            'cluster': 'fake_cluster',
            'api_endpoints': {'fake_cluster': "http://fake_cluster:5054"},
            'docker_registry': 'fake_registry',
            'volumes': [{
                "hostPath": "/hostPath",
                "containerPath": "/containerPath",
                "mode": "RO",
            }],
        },
        '/fake_dir/',
    )


text:
I Saw the Trailer for "SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy" and I Have Some Concerns
Criticism, Trans Stuff, Video Games
So, this came out on Thursday:
Normally, I'd issue a long, irritated sigh and go about my day, but a lot of my trans friends seem to be into this, so I felt the need to get it out of my system. (This post is technically safe for work, but honestly: it's kinda not.)
Now, I should preface that when it comes to problematic things, I have as many faves as the next person. I own a great many Garth Ennis comics, I have watched a number of movies starring actors I know to be crummy, I have played every game in the increasingly horny Shantae series and I did just spend last night watching a clip of one-liners from Bulletstorm, the cult FPS from 2011 where you get bonus points for shooting someone in the dick.
I get having a problematic fave, especially when it comes to something as innately sexually charged and swathed in The Gender Feels as the subgenre called "Whoops, I'm a Girl Now" (or forced feminization, if you're nasty.) And it might yet throw a curveball at me by being more thoughtful after all, though given that the website advertises "embarrassing costumes" including a cowgirl bikini for Mai Shiranui…
…my hopes are not exactly high.
But I still sigh heavily when I look at this, and I feel depressed, because I have a pretty good idea where this is going. This isn't going to be Terry Bogart coming to an important revelation about their gender and getting the fighting game magic equivalent of HRT and surgery; this'll be a "haha, you're a GIRL" story. It'll be a game where no, honest, there's a very good reason Terry has to be dressed like a cheerleader. It'll be evoking the frisson of humiliation that is all tied up in the shame and embarrassment I felt when I first felt trans tendencies. It'll be the same kind of thing I grew up on, that was just as much barrier as stepping-stone.
The one thing I'll give in is favor is that the website still calls him a him, which is accurate; but given that all the reactions I see to this are "Terry Bogard's a girl now!" I have to ask how firmly the lesson has stuck. And the social media campaign, of course, has to sneak in the implied wink and nudge…
Without getting too deep in the weeds here, forced femme/the "what the hell happened to my dick" genre is a genre that I feel is just trans-adjacent enough that I wind up frustrated by all the ways it's not trans, and in fact, gives the wrong impression about being trans. I described Ranma ½ in my ComicsAlliance overview as being about "a cis boy who sometimes turns into a trans boy," and that's still basically what I believe to be true, if a little simplistic (trans boys don't get the luxury of having their dysphoria cured by something as simple as a pail of water.)
I see attempts to reclaim this as a trans girl narrative, which I sympathize with but ultimately can't agree with. I know that queer people reclaim narratives all the time; I'm familiar with Disney Villain Queer Theory. I see the POV of claiming that Terry Bogart secretly wants to be a girl and wish fulfillment happened and so on and so forth. I wrote stories like that, too, way back in eggmode. But all the trans narratives I feel actually are trans narratives start with the realization and then the journey; even such a reclamation, unofficial and limited to headcanons, gets things exactly backwards.
I feel that getting this sort of thing exactly backwards leads nowhere pleasant, because I have to ask if that's not just taking a different path towards cisnormativity; you have the parts typically associated with gender X, so you're gender X whether you want to be or not. I ask how this isn't any different from stuff like The Assignment, the infamous movie about forced feminization.
And I look at myself, with my terrible hair and broad shoulders and unwanted body parts, stuck in neutral in my own body and my own life, and I see in this take on Terry Bogart everything that I'm not, with impossibly bouncy anime tits he doesn't want and that I'll never have. I ask myself: if Terry Bogart's a girl because of external attributes Terry didn't ask for, what does that make me?
So that's why I'm not on board.
Like I said, I get Disney Villain Queer Theory. But I can't help but notice that several decades of reclamation in the name of Disney Villain Queer Theory has yet to actually give us any canonically queer Disney characters, and I'm forced to conclude that it's because it hasn't forced Disney to give a shit. And why would they? If all they have to do is heavily imply that, say, Elsa is queer, and we do all the work of proclaiming her as such, they get to have it both ways – they get plausible deniability towards homophobes as well as some nice, unearned goodwill from queers (and money from both directions.)
In light of that I'm ill-inclined to try and reclaim this. There's trans art by trans people speaking from life experience, and by cis people who actually are putting in the effort (see an upcoming issue of Astro City I'll be reviewing.) I'd rather give my heart to that. If you want to try and reclaim this, go for it, but I'm at the stage where this is the kind of narrative I'd rather leave in the past.
Plus, I was around for the "Why Crossdressing Cloud in Final Fantasy 7 is Good, Actually" takes, directed towards a sequence that I still see referred to as "Trap Cloud," so I'd rather clock out before I get to the "Why Terry Bogart in a Cheerleader Outfit is Empowering" thinkpiece. You know it's coming.


Helix Oxford maths set in a wonderfully vintage style tin, but with purple contents! Yes - everything inside is tinted a stunning purple. Except the compass pencil - that's black. Er, and the eraser - that's white, but it does have 'Helix' stamped on it in purple.
Contents include 45° and 60° set squares, a 180° protractor, lettering stencil, compass, pencil, 15cm ruler, sharpener and eraser. There's even a timetable sheet, on the back of which are lists of mathematical definitions and symbols.
The tin has a hinged lid and measures 75mm x 180mm x 20mm.


text:
Hockey sides to explore new turf
Field of dreams: The new UCT hockey turf, ready and waiting for the new year.
Racing to work along De Waal Drive, some of you may have noticed the work going on at the UCT hockey field over past weeks.
What you witnessed was the laying of a brand spanking new, R1.6-million artificial surface (or Astroturf, as some know it), which includes a new shock pad and carpet. The pitch is sand-dressed, requiring watering only by choice and just a few loads of sand, which is brushed into the pile and is barely visible when playing.
The choice of carpet - sand-dressed versus water-based - was inspired in part by the tighter water restrictions imposed over the past two years, says John Donald, director of the Sport & Recreation Department at UCT. The pitch can be watered though, should the occasion require and the rainfall allow.
It's a sizeable investment, but well justified, says Donald. Fourteen UCT teams play at least half of their WP league games on the turf. Then there are the 34 teams that compete in the UCT internal league, which is bracing itself for a boom this year. Not to mention the many school sides that make use of the field during the week.
The turf, good for at least 10 years according to the guarantee slip, should weather the onslaught with aplomb, adds Donald.
"It's a really excellent pitch."
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text:
Q: When all of $n-2$, $n+2$, $n^2-2$, and $n^2+2$ are primes?
Find the smallest $5$-digit number $n$ for which all of numbers $n-2$, $n+2$, $n^2-2$, and $n^2+2$ are primes.

Actually after some calculations, I realized that it should be solved using a computer. But it would be nice if you could provide a way to find this number, mathematically.

A: You have a computer, might as well use it.
However, for this particular problem, there are ways to optimize the search. Such as, for example, that $2$ is the only even prime among the positive integers. So if $n \neq 4$ is even, you already know that neither $n - 2$ nor $n + 2$ is prime. You can easily cut your computer's search time in half, give or take a few microseconds, just by ignoring even $n$.
Also, $n$ must be composite, because $n = 5$ is the only instance among the positive integers such that both $n - 2$ and $n + 2$ are prime. This suggests another optimization: if $n + 2$ is prime but any of the other conditions fail, increment $n$ by $4$ rather than $2$, e.g., $n = 27$, we see that $n + 2 = 29$ is prime but $n - 2 = 25 = 5^2$. Instead of moving on to $n = 29$, move on to $n = 31$.
Notice also that if $n \equiv \pm 2 \pmod 5$, then either $n - 2$ or $n + 2$ must be a multiple of $5$. Therefore you can concentrate your search on numbers having $1$, $5$ or $9$ for a least significant digit (base $10$).
I'm sure there are further optimizations you can apply. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's any mathematical algorithm that automatically guides you to the correct answer. You just have to search through the integers for the numbers that satisfy all five conditions (four primality conditions and the condition $10^4 < n < 10^5$).

A: I wrote a script in Swift that finds $n$. It can be run here
import Foundation
var n: Double = 10003

func isPrime(_ n: Double) -> Bool { //Translated from https://stackoverflow.com/a/2385999/6557621
    if n < 2 {return false}
    if n == 2 || n == 3 {return true}
    if n.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 2) == 0 || n.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 3) == 0 {return false}
    let sqrtN: Double = Double(sqrt(n)) + 1
    for i: Double in stride(from: 6, to: sqrtN, by: 6) {
        if (n.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: (i - 1)) == 0) ||    (n.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: (i + 1)) == 0) {return false}
    }
    return true
}

while !(isPrime(n - 2) && isPrime(n + 2) && isPrime(pow(n, 2) - 2) &&             isPrime(pow(n, 2) + 2)) {
    n += 2
}

print(n)

It prints $13761.0$

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"The lawyer races to rescue" Campaign was started in the beginning of July this year by specialists of the Home Care Department of the Complex Social Service Centre in Cheremshansky municipal district. The aim of the Campaign is to protect rights and responsibilities of senior citizens.
Clients of the Home Care Department that need legal advice are visited by specialists in social work accompanied by jurisconsult. According to statistics, since the beginning of July seventeen senior residents of Cheremshansky municipal district received legal support.


I've just returned from my first Australia-UK return flight and I reckon the Qantas 747-400s I flew in were far, far noisier than any other plane I've been on recently. I compared the noise level with the Virgin Blue 737 and a Jetstar A3something I flew on this weekend and the latter two planes were far quieter.
Now I know the engines are twice as numerous and probably a lot more powerful on the 747, but does that really make all the noise? When I stepped onto the 747 in London I noticed that the ventilation system was making a hell of a racket and this never subsided for the duration of the flight. In fact the engines were a minor addition to this. My noise cancelling headphones did a good job of lessening the irritation but they don't work miracles.
Should I be aiming for Airbus flights in future on long trips? Like Emirates perhaps? Has anyone else noticed that the 747s seem to be very noisy?
I was in 47K by the way.
Not at all. The upper deck is a nice cocoon.
In the first months of my QP membership I flew almost solely on the old Qantas Airbus' A300B4s; being mainly in the last row I became quite used to the noise. One day, out of the blue, as a QP member I was upgraded to Busines class in row 4 and was quite surprised at the noise difference.
In my experience, and certainly for anyone sitting forward of the engines, most of the noise in the cabin is from the air-conditioning and other passengers rather than from the engines.
AC noise varies by aircraft and if it was indeed making the racket you mention, then I suggest there was something lose inside the vents or ducts. Most of the AC noise is from the flow of air through the ducts and vents.
Note that Qantas 747 aircraft have individual movable air vents for each seat. These provide you with the ability to control your own flow of air, but do contribute to an increased air-flow noise when open. This is just due to the volume of air flowing through the constricted vent. You have the choice to turn them off if you want.
Some other airlines do not have individual personal vents (such as BA) on their aircraft. They have the air vent into the cabin from above the overhead lockers through larger vent grills. This results in less AC noise, but less individual control for the passengers.
I find my noise-isolation earphones (Shure E3) work way better than the best noise cancelling headphones.
Yeah I'm convinced it was mainly ventilation noise, I was just amazed at how much noise could be made with air vents. There must be a very high speed/low cross section duct involved in creating the uniquely loud noise on the plane. And I guess some planes have different vent structures and therefore lower noise.
Most of the AC noise comes from the airflow through the personal air vent located above each individual seat. When fully open, they probably have about a square centimetre space for the air to flow out. They are adjustable so the vent area varies down to zero. I find they are most noisy when almost closed and hence restricting the flow most.
So yes you will find less AC noise on a BA 747-400 flying the same route. But you won't have the personal air vent that you adjust for your own personal comfort. That is the trade-off.
So if travelling on a BA 747, you are reduced by one weapon on your personal defence arsenal against recliners .
... So if travelling on a BA 747, you are reduced by one weapon on your personal defence arsenal against recliners .
Also, don't forget the level of protection they afford against hygenically challenged fellow PAX.


Romania stands on the edge of an EU sanctions procedure, the European Commission has warned, amid concern that law and order is being dismantled in the interest of its ruling elite.
"Concrete actions from the Romanian side will be needed sooner rather than later," EU justice commissioner Vera Jourova told MEPs in Strasbourg on Monday (15 April).
"If our concerns are not met, the [European] Commission will have to act and use all the instruments at its disposal," she added, referring to the so-called 'Article 7 procedure', already triggered on Hungary and Poland, which could lead to the suspension of Romania's voting rights in the EU Council.
Jourova reeled off a list of abuses which, she said, amounted to "massive interference in the independence of the judiciary" and might lead to "systemic, de facto impunity for high office holders who were suspected of corruption".
The European Parliament debate came after similar warnings by the commission earlier this month.
It also came after Romania tried to obstruct the appointment of a crusading prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi, to a new EU post investigating abuse of EU funds.
Centre-right, anti-federalist, liberal, and Green MEPs echoed Jourova's concerns.
"We haven't had this downward spiral as far as rule of law is concerned in any other EU country," German centre-right MEP Ingeborg Graessle said.
The EU should "block funds" going to Bucharest as well as triggering Article 7, Graessle, who heads the EP's budgetary control committee, added.
"The moment has come for us to move forward on this front," she said.
Graessle, as well as Dutch MEP Judith Sargentini, bemoaned the fact that Romania, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, did not show up to Monday's talks.
"We've got a government that is seriously backsliding and that is chairing the European Council right now ... we need to be ashamed of this, six weeks before the European elections [in May] and we've got this as an example," Sargentini said, amid concern that Romania, and others like it, were giving eurosceptic parties ammunition in the EP vote.
"Romania is slipping into a criminal dictatorship," Monica Macovei, a former Romanian prosecutor who is now an MEP with the anti-federalist European Conservatives and Reformist (ECR) group, added.
Josef Weidenholzer, a German deputy from the centre-left Socialist & Democrats (S&D) group, which counts the Romanian ruling party, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), as one of its members, was less outspoken.
He said Romania had achieved a lot in its EU presidency role, but noted that support for rule of law was "in the interests of all of us".
The Party of European Socialists, the structure which underpins the S&D, has temporarily frozen relations with Romania's PSD over the concerns.
But it has stopped short of expelling them the same way that Graessle's centre-right European People's Party has stopped short of expelling Hungary's ruling party and that Macovei's ECR has done nothing to discipline its Polish ruling party members.
For her part, Sophie in 't Veld, a Dutch liberal politician, noted that her Alde group had taken a "firm stance" against its Romanian delegates and complained that EU politicking was standing in the way of real action.
A handful of Romanian MPs from the PSD accused the commission of interfering in the country's internal affairs - the same line taken in the past by Hungary and Poland.
Dan Nica, for one, took the floor to accuse the EU of "discrimination" against Romania because it was being "flooded" by counterfeit products and fake medicines from other EU states and because its citizens were not allowed to benefit from the EU's borderless-free Schengen travel zone.
"We do not interfere in individual cases, we are concerned about the systemic situation," Jourova countered.
She said dialogue with Romania was "ongoing" at a "technical" level, but that political-level discussions ought to take place soon.


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Achieve higher intensity commercial/industrial land uses through at least one of the following strategies:
a. Include in the city zoning ordinance and zoning map a commercial district with reduced lot sizes and zero-lot-line setbacks, or a FAR minimum of 1.
b. Set targets for the minimum number of employees/acre in different commercial zones.
As one walks along an indoor mall there is another storefront to look at and enter every 25 to 40 feet. Mall interiors have very few blank walls. Successful commercial zones follow this same Gehl Door Average rule of thumb: the more different retail shops located along a street, the more reasons to be there. See a sampling of ordinances for limiting parking garage walls facing the street.
Employment density of at least 25 jobs per acre in compact, human-scaled, walkable centers and neighborhoods is one criteria under the national Star Community Rating System.
Document the existence of a district meeting the FAR standard and/or zero-lot line.
Achieve 1 Star rating AND: locate the higher intensity district near higher density housing; have at least one co-working office space in your city.
The number of retail entrances per 330 feet in a downtown retail district ranges between 8 and 13; employment density of 25+ jobs/acre in compact areas; a maximum block perimeter of 2000' in a downtown zoning district.
Grand Marais has managed commercial and residential growth to create a vibrant downtown waterfront district. The zoning code distinguishes between the highway commercial district and the waterfront district, directing appropriate development to the waterfront that encourages walkability in downtown. Amenity of the waterfront deliberately designed to enhance attractiveness of commercial downtown and create a walkable commercial district. The City has also encouraged higher density housing in and adjacent to the downtown.
The EDA is the process of updating the county housing study and plans to have a shovel-ready workforce housing project by the end of 2015.
Hutchinson - 2 star
Zero lot lines are allowed in our C-3 Commercial District in our Downtown Area. This area of town is centered to promote walkable/bikeable commercial activities in close proximity to both single family and higher density housing.
Descriptive links: http://www.ci.hutchinson.mn.us/citycode.html
Dan Jochum (City staff) | djochum@ci.hutchinson.mn.us | 320-234-4258
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(3a)	New Brighton's B-2 and B-3, Neighborhood Business and General Business zoning districts provide for zero-lot-line setbacks in the side yard abutting other business-zoned districts. Further, New Brighton's B-3, General Business zoning district provides for a floor area ratio of 1.0.
Included in the city ordinance is a municipal development ordinance. The zoning map includes two districts that have zero setbacks: central district and mixed use district. Both districts require reduced lot sizes down to 5,000 sq. ft and encourage higher density residential housing. The mixed use zone is a transitional zone between commercial and residential development.
Mixed Use Districts (MU-C and MU-R) include zero lot lines (build-to line). For commercial districts, Section 534.11, Subd. 2 (b): "The front setback requirement for a principal building on a lot located along an arterial road may be reduced to five (5) feet when a customer entrance is provided along that wall of the building." The Code does not include FAR minimums.
The Mixed Use districts are located in areas where there is existing commercial and residential intensity and planned growth. Also the Land Use Plan Map in the Comprehensive Plan designates mixed use and higher residential densities as the predominant land uses in the City's commercial centers.
Section 544.15 of the Zoning Code states: "Pedestrian circulation and access, Subd.1. Pedestrian access points shall be provided at all pedestrian arrival points to the development including the property edges, adjacent lots, abutting street intersections, crosswalks, and at transit stops. Pedestrian access shall be coordinated with existing development to provide circulation patterns between developments." One of the goals for the downtown area in the Comp Plan states: "As the market permits, provide circulator transit services connecting the City Center area to the remainder of Richfield." The plan for the I-494 corridor (p. 4-9) "envisions the evolution of a strip freeway corridor into a complete community that features a range of housing types, shops, services, entertainment and amenities. The proposed land use pattern for the area is described as an urban village, an area of multiple story buildings that are more densely developed than the surrounding neighborhoods achieving a greater mix of land uses and more pedestrian activity." This complete neighborhood philosophy permeates the City's plans for its major commercial areas.
Rochesters CDC has a zero-lot-line setback as well as a FAR Maximum of 6.0
The mixed use and business districts, including the Downtown district, have zero lot line setbacks except if the lot line is adjacent to another district with lot line setbacks.
In late 2018, the City opened a co-working space called the Garage.
Descriptive links: https://www.cityofwinona.com/city-services/planning-zoning/development-code-update/
Carlos Espinosa (City staff) | cespinosa@ci.winona.mn.us | 507-457-8250
Partners: Garage Cowork (https://www.thegaragecowork.com/)
The B3 Central Business District has reduced lot sizes and zero-lot-line setbacks.
Apple Valley allows reduced lot sizes, and zero lot line setbacks in the Central Village district.
B-3 district, 100% lot coverage allowed through zoning ordinance in this district
Permitted in CBD
The City of Bloomington has some zoning districts where a minimum FAR of 1 is required.
Zero-lot-line setbacks are allowed in the Planned Unit Development District, and all commercial and industrial districts.
Both the PUD district and CBD district permit zero-lot line development.
The Riverdale Transit Station District, which regulates development near the Riverdale commuter rail station on the Northstar line, allows zero-lot-line setbacks, no minimum lot size, and a minimum building height of two stories, which yields an FAR of at least one.
C1 Districts in the City Zoning Ordinance (Section 30-1041) allows zero setbacks and maximum lot coverage of 100% and a higher maximum height.
Descriptive links: http://library1.municode.com/default-test/home.htm?infobase=13427&doc_action=whatsnew
The Central Business District has no minimum lot size and zero-lot-line setbacks.
The City of Fergus Falls has had a B-3 zone established since 1965.
Commercial district with reduced lot sizes included within the DC Zoning District.
Isanti's Central Business District (CBD) has a zero lot line setback and no minimum lot size. The Central Business District is surrounded by a Central Business Transitional District (CBTD) which promotes a high quality mix of uses found within the Central Business District along with residential uses that easily transition the area from downtown to more residential areas. Condo's and/or apartments constructed within the CBTD are subject to the "zero-lot-line setback" and "no minimum lot size" regulations outlined in the CBD.
Under zoning code 154.159: Minor Subdivisions, table C demonstrates that in zone C-2 (Central Business District) there are zero-lot-line setbacks. In addition, lot sizes in the downtown C-2 zone are 2,000 square feet compared to 10,000 square feet in C-1 and 20,000 square feet in C-3.
Maplewood encourages a higher density of commercial land use with commercial districts. many of these lots have reduced lot sizes and zero-lot-line setbacks, or a FAR minimum between .75 and 1 to some standards. These districts can seen within the area surrounding the Maplewood Mall , as well as the commercial areas along Highway 36 and 61.
We've created two mixed use zoning districts that allow for reduced lot size and zero-setback requirements.
Rosemount encourages higher intensity commercial land uses through its DT - Downtown District. This district has reduced lot sizes and zero-lot-line setbacks.
The outcome of the DT - Downtown zoning district is Rosemount's compact and mixed use downtown.
The City of St. Cloud adopted the Land Development Code (LDC) as its official Zoning Code on February 10, 2008. Article 9 of the LDC established the C-3 (Central Business District) and C-4 (Fringe Central Business District) to provide for high-density commercial development within the downtown core and surrounding fringe areas. These areas are defined as being highly accessible by customer foot traffic. Both of these areas do not require a minimum lot size to be maintained and allow for zero-lot-line setbacks.
Our Central Business District (B-3) Zone has zero-lot-line setbacks.
The City Zoning Ordinance allows for zero-lot-line setbacks for the City's Central Business District. The flexibility allows for higher intensity of commercial land use in the Central Business District and a better use of space.
Reduced lot sizes and zero-lot-line setbacks are utilized in B-5 District and LVMU District.
Practice 7, Action 3(a): Land Use Plan (Page 76) Adopted February 12, 2007. See Introduction for more details.
Partners: Greater Bemidji Area Joint Planning Board
Areas zoned as Mixed Use Commercial and some buildings in Form Based zones can have 0 setbacks for structures 35 feet tall or less. Mixed Use Waterfront buildings can have 0 set backs as well and certain Form Based districts also require 0 setbacks.
Duluth also has multiple Coworking spaces available including the Wells Fargo Building and 324 W Superior St building in downtown Duluth. These buildings provide a variety of working spaces from shared open areas to private conference rooms with teleconferencing capabilities to serve a wide range of needs.
Section 24-231 of the city's ordinance under the 'Development Regulation' requires each development within the Central Business District to have the following minimum requirements:
(1)Lot area: None.
(2)Lot width: 18 feet.
(3)Front yard: None.
(4)Side yard: None.
(5)Rear yard: None.
(6)Maximum height: 50 feet.
(7)Maximum lot coverage: 100 percent.
All these requirements are also incorporated in the zoning of map of the city.
Descriptive links: https://library.municode.com/mn/saint_peter/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CICO_CH24LAUSREZO_ARTIIDI_DIV8CBCEBUDI


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This Holiday Season: Buy Locally
Published by DJB
I have never been one to rush out to the local mall on the so-called "Black Friday" after Thanksgiving. With a day off, and the opportunity to connect with friends, food, and football, what's the point? But for the past several years we've returned to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley town of Staunton, Virginia, where we lived for 15 years in the 1980s and 1990s, to spend the holiday with good friends. We make all those connections above (except for the football – our friends don't have cable) but we add in lots of live music so it makes for a terrific respite. And we've taken to spending a good part of Friday in downtown Staunton. I know this part of town intimately, having worked with the local merchants, property owners, residents and city officials to preserve it for 13 years. My office was in the Wharf Historic District and our home was only 4 blocks away in the New Town Historic District. Downtown Staunton is a National Trust Great American Main Street Award winner as …
Heritage Travel / Historic Preservation / Random DJB Thoughts
Bush and Skaggs: Coming home, coming full circle
Two recent releases by Sam Bush and Ricky Skaggs — two superstars of Americana, roots, and bluegrass music — show both artists coming home in ways that bring them full circle with their own artistic travels. Bush's Circles Around Me is a return to the bluegrass and early progressive newgrass of his youth in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The album opens with the title track, a tune that celebrates "being thankful that you're here" according to Bush. His terrific road band — Byron House on bass, Chris Brown on drums, the amazing Scott Vestal on banjo and Stephen Mougin on guitar — plays on the majority of the 14 tracks, stretching out their musical chops on tunes such as the instrumental Blue Mountain and the old New Grass Revival song Souvenir Bottles. This latter tune, along with Whisper My Name written by original NGR bassist Ebo Walker and featured on their very first album, brings Bush back to the band where he made his name and helped shape a whole new genre of music — Newgrass. …
Acoustic Music / Bluegrass Music
Our Year in Photos – 2009
As we approach Thanksgiving 2009, the Browns are taking the time to give thanks for a year full of joy, sorrow, good friends, good health and visits to wonderful places. Last year's photos posted at Thanksgiving were a hit for family and friends, so I've again placed a number of photographs from throughout the year on More to Come…. They include places we've been, time with family and friends, and special events in our lives. If you put your cursor over the photo, the caption will magically appear. At the top of the post you'll see our lovely children, Andrew and Claire, on the night we were headed to the Kennedy Center for the Cappies. Andrew was part of a musical quartet in his high school's production of The Music Man that was nominated for a Cappie Award (the high school equivalent of the Tony Awards). You'll find more photos of all the Browns below. We had a blessed year and hope you'll enjoy the photos. More to come… DJB
Best Of... / Random DJB Thoughts
It's the Fearless Who Love…
…and the loveless who fear. Wisdom from The Flatlanders. New York City is not the place where you'd expect to hear great country music, but on a Tuesday night in Gotham, in the middle of Times Square, B.B. King's was filled with the music and wisdom of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock: The Flatlanders. A business colleague, her college friend and I ventured out on a beautiful night in the city to catch the Zen Cowboy and his companions play a rollicking set of Texas country music. The tunes were great with all three stars taking turns showcasing their work. As they neared the end of the show, The Flatlanders worked in Gilmore's Dallas – a wonderful song – and then rocked it out with the Townes Van Zandt tune White Freightliner before closing the show with Pay the Alligator. A night full of energy and great music. More to come… DJB
A Little Bach on the Mandolin
The Fretboard Journal just posted this wonderful video on their Facebook page. It features mandolin phenom Chris Thile playing the Bach E Major Prelude on his Dudenbostel mandolin. I found the video compelling not only for the beautiful music but also because of the way it highlights Thile's amazing right hand pick techniques. The guy is incredible. Enjoy. More to come… DJB
Is This A Great Country or What?
If you have had it up to here with screaming right-wing talk show hosts or pontificating left-wing bloggers or just three days of rain, I have the perfect antidote: the Vintage Roadside 2009 Road Trip Slide Show. Each year Jeff and Kelly from Vintage Roadside travel the back roads from Portland, Oregon to the host city of the National Preservation Conference and take pictures and blog about the experience. (Vintage Roadside makes great t-shirts that honor the wonderful mom-and-pop roadside attractions, motor courts, motels, tiki lounges, drive-in restaurants, bowling alleys and roller-skating rinks found along America's back roads.) This year the trip took them to Nashville, Tennessee. You will laugh out loud, you will be amazed at the quirky attractions that still remain on America's roadsides, and you'll marvel at what a diverse country we live in. So take my recommendation – visit their slide show and spend a few minutes with this great country. Thanks Jeff and Kelly. It was wonderful to spend a bit of time with you in Nashville. Thanks for what …
Heritage Travel / Historic Preservation
Why architecture matters: I.M. Pei and Henry Cobb's Hancock Tower
I'm reading Paul Goldberger's new book Why Architecture Matters. As you would expect from Paul, it is a smart, well-written work that is designed to help the reader interested in buildings "come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually." I've already come across numerous passages and examples that resonate, but last evening I was reading his take on I.M. Pei and Henry Cobb's John Hancock Tower on Copley Square in Boston and was reminded of my last impression of that building when Andrew, Claire and I were visiting the city in March 2008. Paul, a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer and a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is describing the Hancock Tower in comparison to New York's Seagram Building and G.M. Building. All three are postwar American landmarks. It was great fun to introduce Claire and Andrew to Copley Square when we visited Boston in 2008. We toured the great H.H. Richardson-designed Trinity Church, of course, and took …
Heritage Travel / Historic Preservation / Random DJB Thoughts / Recommended Readings
On this Veteran's Day 2009, we honor those who have served and continue to serve in our armed forces. In my immediate family, that includes my father, a World War II Navy veteran, and my brother Joe, who served in the Navy on a helicopter carrier during the 1980s. I am always proud of their service, but don't always remember to tell them so except on special days of honor such as this. Both survived their time of service. But men and women join the military knowing that they may have to make the ultimate sacrifice. Most expect that if that happens, it will occur on a foreign battlefield. None expect it to happen on a United States military installation on U.S. soil. President Obama's short but eloquent tribute yesterday to the 13 men and women who died last week at Fort Hood is a reminder of what their sacrifice means. This is a time of war. Yet these Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle. They were killed here, on American …
John Gorka Preview
I mentioned a week ago that singer/songwriter John Gorka was playing at the historic Avalon Theater in Easton, Maryland on November 20th. Gorka has a way with words and a melody. One of my favorite John Gorka songs is Love is Our Cross to Bear. It's from me, it's to you For your eyes It's a weight, a wonder that is wise I am here, you are there Love is our cross to bear I found this really sweet video of Gorka singing Love is Our Cross to Bear from a recent concert in The Netherlands. Let me know if you make it to Easton for the concert. In any event, enjoy. More to come… DJB
What a Glorious Day…There's More Baseball to be Played!
Game Five of the World Series was what we've been waiting for and, as a result, there's more baseball to be played. Hallelujah! As Dave Sheinin wrote in this morning's Washington Post, "The Yankees still hold a 3-2 edge in the series, but it feels exponentially smaller than it did 24 hours ago." In his Washington Post column, Tom Boswell has a wonderful piece on how this has turned into an "Old School Series." How right he is. And he nails the landing: Once back in New York, Matsui and Posada will be back in the lineup. Pettitte will be set to pitch a game that might be Exhibit A on his Hall of Fame résumé someday. Utley will take aim at Reggie-Reggie-Reggie. A-Rod has a chance to be MVP and own New York for decades. Girardi won't sleep for the next 48 hours. Martínez has a chance to reverse the "Daddy" chants for a day and bring baseball a Game 7 that would raise the hair on heads from coast to coast. This is …


Is it possible to add the whole table itself depending on user input? Example there is a table for house but people may have more than one house and if they have, once you click ADD, boom another table to write the details?
Is it possible, when we click on add column button and on the place of the number we get the same value which is heading like when we click on add column we get no (0,1,2 etc) but I wnat know if i want the value like (small, html, table) on click on add column at the place of number how. plz tell me the js code.
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Back from the night shift in my usual zombie-like state. I read an article in the newspaper during the night, about Steven Van Zandt, whom i know from Sopranos – I didn't know that the guy is also the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen.. Apparently he's doing new "American/Norwegian" series called "Lillyhammer" .. That's all a know.. Is it any good?
The face has great character.
Yeah, this guy has got a face that's really fun to draw!


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The Big Reunion
Dane Bowers, Abz Love, Shane Lynch and Ben Ofoedu 'joining forces for new band'
It's definitely happening!
Liberty X played just two songs at their reunion concert in New Zealand
They only wanted a little bit more...
Kevin Simm admits he probably wouldn't have won The X Factor
He has The Voice but Liberty X would've held him back
Louise Redknapp says she didn't know Eternal were on The Big Reunion until she saw it on telly
Looks like they didn't want her to...Stay. Ha.
Kavana 'to dish the dirt on Mel B in CBB house'
This could be interesting...
B*Witched are back (again)
There's new music, but maybe don't reach for your best double-denim outfit just yet though...
Which seven boy bands are all going on tour together?
You read that correct. The Big Reunion have announced dates for a Boy Band Tour this winter including acts from both series one and two.
Ras from Damage sets the record straight: What you didn't see when we met with Coree Richards on The Big Reunion 2
It's clear that Coree just wants to move on and leave any wrongdoings in the past, says Damage's Rahsaan J Bromfield.
The Big Reunion 2014: Damage set to star in their own fly-on-the-wall TV series
The Big Reunion 2014's Damage are set to star in their own fly-on-the-wall TV series.
Girl Thing's Nikki Harrington: You have to have the strength to pick yourself up, especially when your bandmate decks you
It was a reunion. And a BIG one! That was probably the most nerve wracking thing I have ever had to sit through. There was alcohol flowing that night, probably too much in hindsight.
The Big Reunion 2 – a tearful Girl Thing get together and Gareth Gates shows 5th Story how it's done
The Big Reunion 2 has hit week five and we continue to follow our reunited bands from the past as they continue their journey to the big stage and to perform in front of hoards of screaming fans again - for some it'll be the first time in years.
Girl Thing's Nikki Harrington: Our reunion on The Big Reunion 2 was dramatic, explosive and shocking – this is reality TV and then some
Watching last week's show was refreshing to me. Refreshing because it was nice to see that Eternal could forgive and forget.
The Big Reunion 2: 3T talk life in the Jackson family and finally that awkward Eternal reunion
A1 promise plenty of exciting moments to come in The Big Reunion 2 as they thank fans after Hammersmith Apollo gig
What an awesome night! We've finally come down from the massive high we were on after Friday's show to be able to say our thanks to everyone involved.
The Big Reunion 2014: Dane Bowers possibly devastated over comeback gig
Dane Bowers is in a right strop after he and his 5th Story bandmates - Kenzie from Blazin' Squad, Adam Rickett, Gareth Gates and Kavana - performed to a crowd for the first time ever.
The Big Reunion gig was amazing. When the has-beens go on tour, everyone needs to go
So we're three episodes in to The Big Reunion 2014 and, if we're being completely honest, things at this point are looking more than a little shaky. But fear not because these lot performed a one-off gig at the Hammersmith Apollo and all six bands really impressed. The vocals were good, the routines were slick and the atmosphere was electric.
Dougie Poynter denies Ellie Goulding romance on The Jonathan Ross Show: 'We're friends'
Dougie Poynter has denied he's dating Brit Award winner Ellie Goulding.
Gareth Gates: Katie Price ruined my career
Gareth Gates reckons his fleeting romance with Katie Price ruined his pop career.
The Big Reunion: Can the 5th Story boys put their troubled pop pasts behind them and make it as a band?
Week three of The Big Reunion and time to see how 5th Story have been getting on since their big split... oh no, wait they are not a real group - I mean let's see how 5th Story are going to get on as five individuals brought together for the show.
Gareth Gates on The Big Reunion 2: Reliving Katie Price sex drama was hard
I was really proud watching our episode tonight – we've all been through such different things, but at some point been chewed up and spat out by the industry while doing the job that we love.
A1's Mark Read on The Big Reunion 2: It would been nice to have cleared the air with ex-bandmember Paul
A1's Mark Read blogs for Metro about his thoughts on The Big Reunion, and being down a band member this time around.
The Big Reunion 2 – A1 and Eternal under the spotlight
Round two of The Big Reunion and this week we were treated to a trip down memory lane courtesy of girl group Eternal and cheeky fourpiece A1 (who surely weren't named after the road right?).
A1's Ben Adams on The Big Reunion 2: My one piece of advice? Write your own songs!
A1's Ben Adams talks about growing up, why he's thankful the boys were forced to write their own music and what's in store in episode 2 of The Big Reunion 2...
Big Reunion 2014 in big nineties throwback: I was sacked by fax – how glamorous, blasts Eternal's Kelle Bryan
Kelle Bryan of Eternal fame has lifted the lid on the band's messy split.
Girl Thing's Anika Bostelaar on The Big Reunion 2: I blocked the whole music industry out but now I don't want this feeling to end
I'm going to be totally honest - I was so nervous about seeing the girls again! Not a bad nervous but a good exciting nervous, the kind of nervous you get when you're on a first date! Have they got kids and a hubby? Are they happy? What are they up to nowadays? Do they still look the same? Will they have changed as people? All kinds of questions were popping up in my head! Excited!!


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Vía Libre, la revista del ferrocarril es una revista técnica de carácter divulgativo dirigida al sector ferroviario, que edita la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, en cuyo patronato se encuentran representadas las empresas públicas del sector ferroviario.  La revista se edita en dos versiones -impresa y digital- mensualmente en el primer caso y con renovación diaria de contenidos en el segundo. Es una publicación dirigida a profesionales, técnicos y aficionados al mundo del tren. La publicación es hoy la primera revista de ferrocarriles en español y está situada entre las cinco mejores revistas ferroviarias del mundo.

La revista

Orientada a la difusión de información relacionada con el ferrocarril, su objetivo es prestigiar y divulgar todos los aspectos relacionados con este medio de transporte con una información que se elabora bajo criterios de rigor técnico; lenguaje divulgativo; textos documentados y orientación positiva. Su línea editorial tiene así como propósito el servir a la sociedad contribuyendo en la defensa del ferrocarril como medio de transporte de calidad, tecnológicamente innovador, eficiente y respetuoso con el medio ambiente.

La revista se dedica íntegramente al ferrocarril, ya sean trenes reales o virtuales, y en todos sus aspectos: trenes, servicios, infraestructuras, tecnología, estaciones, metropolitanos, metros, tranvías, historia, desarrollos tecnológicos, viajes, etc. Cuenta con las secciones: infraestructuras, operadores, planificación, internacional, estaciones del mundo, técnica, material, dossier monográfico, modelismo, historia, piezas de museo, estampas de ayer, viajes, mapa del mes, ilustraciones, imágenes. La colección de Vía Libre -casi cincuenta tomos y más de 550 números- es un bien muy preciado por los suscriptores e incluso se cotiza en e-bay o puede encontrarse en la oferta de las ferias del Libro Antiguo. La revista ha llegado a ser un referente de consulta imprescindible para conocer la crónica ferroviaria de España. La publicación se ha convertido en un fenómeno prácticamente único en el panorama de la información especializada en nuestro país y en la más importante empresa de divulgación ferroviaria que se ha llevado a cabo en España.

La publicación impresa se distribuye en España mayoritariamente y en 18 países más, fundamentalmente de Europa e Iberoamérica. Su edición digital www.vialibre.org cuenta con un boletín diario de noticias en español y un boletín quincenal en inglés. La web en 2011 recibió una media semanal que superaba las 130.000 visitas, con 7,33 páginas consultadas por visita.

Vía Libre ha puesto a disposición del público los primeros 530 números en versión digital y recogidos en DVD. La digitalización con programa de motor de búsqueda facilita el acceso inmediato a datos, informaciones y fotografías. Más de 40.000 páginas relacionadas con el ferrocarril.

Por su 50º aniversario puso a disposición a los nuevos clientes "Aquellos Trenes" un DVD con recopilaciones de trenes de todo España de los años 60 y 70.

Historia

La publicación nació en enero de 1964 por iniciativa de Renfe como revista de empresa, aunque no gratuita, dirigida a sus trabajadores. Su dirección profesional se situaba en la calle de Santa Isabel, número 44, en el distrito 12 de Madrid, que, después de haber recorrido distintas sedes, es el domicilio de la revista en 2011 y desde 1986. Se trataba de  una publicación de carácter "familiar" que formaba parte del entramado de los beneficios sociales que la empresa Renfe ofrecía a sus agentes. Era una revista dedicada a la actualidad del ferrocarril que se cerraba con una serie de secciones de carácter cultural y de ocio de interés para la familia. El primer número rendía tributo a su antecesora, la revista Ferroviarios -a la que después de 23 años venía sustituir Vía Libre como órgano de información de Renfe.

En su número 170, de marzo de 1978, Vía Libre cambia su cabecera, la misma que hoy 35 años después, con mínimas modificaciones, se mantiene y recuerda la silueta de una locomotora de vapor con su ténder. La cabecera -su tipografía y su diseño- era común con otras dos publicaciones, la italiana Voci de la Rotaia y la francesa La Vie du Rail. Junto con esas dos revistas se lanzó un suplemento cultural común, Mare Nostrum,  que aparecía simultáneamente en los respectivos idiomas en las tres publicaciones, cuya primera entrega recibieron casi medio millón de lectores en España, Francia e Italia.

Otros hitos importantes

 1985: el 20 de febrero de 1985 se constituye la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles por iniciativa de Renfe y con la colaboración de la otra empresa ferroviaria de ámbito estatal, Feve. Se fijó su sede en el Palacio de Fernán Núñez y entre sus objetivos se le encomendaba la edición de la revista Vía Libre.

 1986: al hacerse cargo de su edición la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, la publicación cambia sus contenidos -únicamente información ferroviaria- para pasar a ser una revista especializada.

 Años 90: la década empezaba para la revista con la reducción de su formato para adaptarse a la impresión estándar en máquina plana. Aprovechó también para cambiar su maqueta por un diseño más ágil y limpio, modificando su diseño de portada con un marco en el que descansaba la mancheta. Desde esa fecha se convierte en exclusiva en el medio de comunicación en español del sector ferroviario. Su colección de más de quinientos números se encuentra digitalizada, ya que constituye una crónica excepcional del desarrollo del ferrocarril en España.

 1991: Vía Liibre recibe el premio a la mejor revista por la Asociación Española de Asesores de Comunicación.

 2000: empieza su edición digital y un año más tarde obtiene el Premio Internacional IBest 2001 en la categoría de transportes y por votación popular -294.643 fueron los votos emitidos- entre más de 5.200 páginas web presentadas.

 2008: en junio de 2008 se imprime con una nueva imagen. Por primera vez la mancheta deja de encabezar la portada y queda inclinada a la izquierda. Para destacarla se le agranda el tamaño y se la da un barniz brillo. La encuadernación abandona definitivamente la "grapa" y se pasa al lomo americano, según el uso mayoritario de las revistas de calidad, y se incorpora a las cubiertas una solapa en contraportada.

Publicaciones antecesoras

Vía Libre es heredera de una larga tradición de revistas ferroviarias. Las dos primeras se publicaron en 1856. Fueron Gaceta de los Caminos de Hierro y Revista de Caminos de Hierro y telégrafos. A finales de siglo XIX aparecía la  Revista ilustrada de vías férreas, que apenas duró una década.

En los años treinta del siglo XX nacía Ferrocarriles y Tranvías, dedicada principalmente a la divulgación técnica del transporte ferroviario. Su labor duró treinta años. En esta revista empiezan a aparecer de forma ya habitual las fotografías, aún en blanco y negro.

En 1939 las compañías de ferrocarriles del Norte y de Madrid a Zaragoza y a Alicante (MZA) decidieron publicar conjuntamente dos revistas: Trenes y Ferroviarios, publicaciones ambas que pasaron a Renfe. Trenes se dedicó a divulgar la imagen cultural del ferrocarril y a promocionar el turismo en tren. Ferroviarios, por su parte, estaba dirigida al personal de las compañías. Ambas revistas se publicaron por Renfe durante veinte años para luego desaparecer y dar paso a Vía Libre. Todas ellas han dejado en sus páginas la actualidad del ferrocarril y son fuente imprescindible para la investigación de la historia del ferrocarril en nuestro país.

Colaboradores periodísticos
Por la revista han pasado una nutrida y cualificada nómina de periodistas, escritores y humoristas gráficos que han enriquecido con sus escritos los contenidos técnicos, periodísticos o literarios de la misma.

Entre los humoristas se encuentran: Almarza, Cele, Chumy Chumez, Cork, Dátile, Forges, Lolo, Máximo, Oli, Olmo, Peridis, Quique, Serafín, Summers y Vives.

Entre las colaboraciones, la revista cuenta con artículos de: Blanca Álvarez, Francisco Umbral, Felipe Mellizo, Luis Figuerola-Ferretti, Alejandro Fernández Pombo, Alfredo Amestoy, Carlos Dávila, Manuel Calvo Hernando, Alfonso Paso, Vicente Verdú, Fernando Díaz-Plaja, Fernando Quiñones, Maruja Torres, Manuel Galán, Ana Puértolas, Félix Grande, José García Nieto, José María Carrascal, Félix Grande, Antonio Ruiz del Árbol, Santiago Amón, Pilar Miró, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón y Luis Carandell.

En su actual etapa -de carácter sectorial - la revista ha cambiado también sus colaboradores, dejando únicamente a las más prestigiosas firmas en el ámbito de la divulgación ferroviaria. Entre ellas, han sido y algunos de ellos son todavía firmas habituales: Alberto García Álvarez, Justo Arenillas, Ángel Maestro, Gustavo Reder, Juan Carlos Casas, Francisco Wais, Miguel Cano López-Luzzatti, Fernando Fernández Sanz y Juanjo Olaizola.

El director más longevo fue José Luis Pérez Cebrián, que estuvo al frente de la publicación entre 1972 y 1992. La revista está dirigida actualmente por Pilar Lozano Carbayo y tiene como redactores a Ángel Rodríguez, Amalia Julián, Belén Guerrero, Miguel Jiménez y Yolanda del Val.

www.vialibre.org, el portal del ferrocarril

La edición de Vía Libre digital se inició en septiembre de 2000. En una primera etapa la web recogía una selección mensual de los artículos que se consideraban de más interés de la revista impresa, de manera que la web aportaba la posibilidad de la "búsqueda" inmediata de contenidos, pero no se elaboraban en ese momento informaciones propias para la versión digital. Seis años más tarde se ofrecía a los internautas una década y media de información ferroviaria a disposición de historiadores, aficionados, profesionales del sector y amantes del ferrocarril en general. Alta velocidad, material rodante, material motor, historia, libros, empresas, información de fácil y rápido acceso, con más de dos mil artículos publicados y la exposición de más de seis mil fotografías ferroviarias.

Este éxito inicial y la imparable evolución y enriquecimiento del mundo de internet llevó a la revista a plantearse la renovación absoluta de su página web. Se trataba de elaborar el mayor portal de información ferroviaria en habla hispana. La construcción de la página se realizó concibiéndola en dos vertientes. La primera era incorporar a la red una gran cantidad de información del ferrocarril que fuera la herramienta imprescindible de técnicos, profesionales, aficionados y cualquier persona que precisara información sobre el ferrocarril.

Esta información se estructuró en apartados diferentes que van desde galerías fotográficas, cartografía actualizada de las redes ferroviarias o fichas de material rodante, documentos o legislación, a unas útiles guías informativas que ofrecen datos precisos y actualizados de empresas suministradoras, países, empresas explotadoras, administraciones, etc.

Junto a esta base documental la página se renueva diariamente -de lunes a viernes-con las noticias de actualidad ferroviaria, con especial dedicación a España pero también con una mirada internacional para todos aquellos acontecimientos que puedan ser de interés. Con las informaciones diarias se elabora un boletín informativo que se distribuye sobre las 8-9 de la mañana. Un segundo boletín diario, con el título de "El ferrocarril en los medios", que se distribuye entre las 11-12 de la mañana, ordena y selecciona las noticias ferroviarias del día publicadas en los medios de comunicación.

Otros productos de la marca Vía Libre

Vía Libre Técnica e Investigación Ferroviaria

En 2009 se incorpora a la red la sección Vía Libre Técnica-Investigación Ferroviaria en la que se recogen trabajos de investigación en el ámbito del ferrocarril, realizados por investigadores de empresas, universidades y otros organismos investigadores. Junto a las comunicaciones y estudios del ámbito empresarial y universitario, la sección incorpora un tablón de anuncios y noticias relacionados con el ámbito de la investigación.

Anuario del Ferrocarril

En 1995 vio la luz el primer número del Anuario del Ferrocarril. El Anuario recoge en su primera parte un informe de la actividad del año en las diferentes áreas: infraestructuras, instalaciones, material rodante, administraciones públicas, operadores ferroviarios y administradores de infraestructuras. En su segunda parte aporta una serie de guías de consulta actualizadas: empresas, protagonistas del ferrocarril y administraciones públicas. La publicación cuenta con un  notable apoyo de toda la industria y administraciones ferroviarias.

Monografías y números especiales

 "Los pecados capitales en el ferrocarril" de Fernando Díaz Plaja. (1981)
 "El ferrocarril en la pintura" de autores varios. (1973-1986)
 "Historia del ferrocarril en el mundo" de Gustavo Reder y Fernando Fernández Sanz.
 "Prehistoria del Ferrocarril" de Jesús Moreno. (1983)
 "Diccionario Políglota del Tren". (1994)
 "El Gran Libro de los Trenes". (1997)
 "El gran Libro de las locomotoras españolas". (2001)
 "Imágenes del tren" de Adolfo Mendoza. (2003)
 "El Libro del Tren" de  Pilar Lozano Carbayo (2005)
 "La Tracción en los ferrocarriles españoles" de Justo Arenillas (2006)
 "Alta velocidad. Líneas y trenes" de Alberto García Álvarez (2008)
 "Renfe 70 años". (2011)
 Especial AVE Madrid-Sevilla. (1992)
 Especial 30 años. (1994)
 Especial 150 años de ferrocarril en España. (1998).
 Especial Madrid – Barcelona en alta velocidad.  (2001).
 Especial número 500. (2006).
 Especial AVE a Levante. (2010).

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 www.vialibre.org - Web oficial de la revista.
 Web oficial de Vía Libre Técnica, Investigación Ferroviaria.
 Web del Anuario del Ferrocarril.
 Web de la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles.

Asociaciones del ferrocarril en España
Revistas ferroviarias

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Heechan Ku, 17, is a junior at Bergen County Academies, started cello at the age of 9. Heechan has been studying with Clara Kim at The Juilliard School pre-college division since he was 13. Heechan has won prizes in several national and international cello competitions. He was the 1st prize winner at the YWCA New York Music Competition, International Grande Music Competition, and a winner of the Youngarts Competition, NJIO Concerto Competition, Camerata Artists International Competition. Heechan has also been invited to compete at the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall, and Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center on numerous occasions. This past summer he has attended the Interlochen Arts Camp and has received the fine arts award for his achievements. He has performed as a chamber musician as well and played in the Chamber Music Society program in 7th, 8th and 10th grade. He has also played in multiple orchestras that include the New Jersey Region I Junior High School Orchestra (2015-Principal Chair), New Jersey Region I High School Orchestra (2018), New Jersey All-State High school Orchestra (2018), All National Orchestra (2018), Juilliard Pre-college Symphony (2015 -2018), Juilliard Precollege Orchestra (2018- current).
Fourteen year old Sadie Goodman began playing flute in the 4th grade at age 8. She has performed with the Norwalk Youth Symphony for four yearsand is currently Principal Flute of the Principal Orchestra. This year she won the Norwalk Youth Symphony Concerto Competition resulting in a solo performance with the Orchestra. Sadie was the first place winner of the Alexander and Buono International FluteCompetition 2018 which culminated in her debut at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, NewYork. Shealso won first place in the New York Flute Club YoungMusicians Contest and both the junior and senior divisions of the Norwalk SymphonyOrchestra Young Artist Competition. She has received the Boxwood Festival(Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) Kasper Memorial Scholarship. Sadie has been invited to perform in masterclasses for Cobus du Toit (University of Massachusetts/Amherst), Nina Assimakopoulos(West Virginia University), Alice Dade (University of Missouri) and Gergely Ittzes (Tianjin Julliard School). She has furtherparticipated in both the Chamber Music Institute for Young Musicians and the WorldChamber Music and Improvisation sessions in Connecticut.
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Major, No. 1 for piano. Hudson began piano study at age seven and has studied with Wilton teacher Yoshie Akimoto, Steinway Artist, since he was 9. He is home schooled.
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George Jackson by Bob Dylan. The meaning and impact of the music and the lyrics
Posted on March 15, 2016 by TonyAttwood
George Jackson was written in 1971 – one of three songs written that year. Wiki insists there were two but the Chronology pages on this site show three:
When I paint my masterpiece
Watching the river flow
George Jackson
and I'm sticking with that. Wiki just lists dates songs were released – what I am trying to do is focus on when Dylan actually wrote the songs.
As I am sure you know, but for completeness let me just say, George Jackson was a leader of the Black Panthers. Right, that's that bit done, but after that I have a lot of problems. As I have said many times on this site, I'm an English guy, who has visited the US on a number of occasions, but would never in a million lifetimes suggest I know or understand what goes on in US history or the US psyche.
So the best I can do is note that the portrayal of George Jackson by Dylan in the song as being a man of love is not the one that comes across in many accounts. Heylin's account of the writing of the song and the portrayal of Jackson within it suggests that Dylan had been interested in the Soledad Brothers and had had conversations with Howard Alk who was making a film about the Panthers and others who were knowledgeable about the situation.
But, Heylin argues, there were multiple versions of what the Panthers were and how they operated. Dylan's version has Jackson as the innocent victim; Heylin and many others give details that suggest otherwise. Several writers point out that the $70 robbery was not what Jackson was in prison for this time – that was in 1959 when he served a year for armed robbery of a gas (petrol) station. In January 1970 Jackson killed a prison guard.
Let me stress again, I don't know about the Panthers, I am just contrasting the images put in the song, and Heylin's report and what I've read in my encyclopaedia.
What we do know pretty much for sure was that the song was very quickly written, recorded and put out as a single, with a different version on each side. (There is a suggestion that if a different B side had been put on the single, the radio stations might have taken the safe option and played that, instead of Jackson, so the two versions were run).
Interestingly (for me at least) the song did appear on iTunes for a while but was then withdrawn, and apparently Dylan has never performed the song in public. But less this seems like a conspiracy to remove the song it does apparently appear on the Bob Dylan Complete Album Collection Vol 1.
What is particularly interesting to me is that Dylan should, at this period when he was writing few songs, and when the two songs that immediately preceded this song were about life as an artist contemplating the world, suddenly move back into the world of protest.
But this is not protest in the sense that Dylan did it before. If you search for the last significant protest song Dylan wrote before this one you might reach the conclusion it was Desolation Row in 1965 – a masterpiece if ever there was one. And in every respects a huge, huge song. Huge in the ground it covers, the musical complexity, and just the sheer size of the composition. Before that, maybe It's Alright Ma and before that Chimes of Freedom. All complex pieces of music with deep intricate lyrics.
Here everything is simple – four short lines and a longer chorus, followed by an instrumental section.
The "Every Dylan Song" website makes the point that when Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were shot Dylan was "baking bread and teaching his children the ABCs or what have you. It's just funny how these things work, I guess."
And yes, I feel that way too. And I'd agree with the writer of the site that this song doesn't reach any poetic heights. Indeed I'd go further and say it doesn't try to reach any poetic heights. Now of course there is no rule that says that songs should. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah" isn't exactly great poetry, but a lot of people still remember the Beatles. I can listen to "You ain't nothing but a hound dog" and enjoy it, but that's not the same. Dylan is, most of the time, different from the rest.
To me, this song is really not quite right, somehow not quite Dylan. If I think about Davey Moore, I understand that Dylan's song is not wholly accurate as a reflection of what happened on that night. But the way the song is constructed as a re-working of the Cock Robin nursery rhyme with its questioning, is interesting, intriguing and clever. But this song is none of those.
Musically it is fairly ordinary – the verse has little melody to speak of, and is carried along with the chord changes, starting in G and ending on A minor, and the sequence is reflected in the chorus, again ending on A minor. It's an unusual and interesting sequence (G, D, C, Em, Am) but not that interesting as to make it the foundation of the whole piece.
Now that doesn't matter, in my view, if the lyrics really give us something new and interesting. But we get
I woke up this mornin'
There were tears in my bed
They killed a man I really loved
Shot him through the head
And I ask myself what this has to do with me? OK I am a white Englishman, so not too much maybe, but the whole thing is not universalised, and nor is it interestingly personal. Nor is it metaphorical, or intriguing or intricate. It is not any of the things that Dylan normally does.
And when I now find that the next verse
Sent him off to prison
For a seventy-dollar robbery
Closed the door behind him
And they threw away the key
isn't actually based on the reality, then he doesn't really get to me. There has to be something special somewhere in the song. These are simple words with a simple tune and a simple message that others suggest is actually unfounded.
There is one interesting moment however, right at the end.
Sometimes I think this whole world
Is one big prison yard
Some of us are prisoners
The rest of us are guards
Now that is very simplistic, and it has been said before, but it is still interesting. If only Bob had started there, and worked outwards, and perhaps taken a lot more time, we might have had something more. The controllers and the controlled. How control works in this world on a social, on a psychological, on a political, and on a physical level. Now there's a big song in that.
All of the songs reviewed on this site.
Dylan's songs in chronological order of writing.
4 Responses to George Jackson by Bob Dylan. The meaning and impact of the music and the lyrics
Bob always did seem to stand on the side of those who were wrongly treated. Although George Jackson did kill a prison guard, it was in response to the deaths of three activists. Still, Bob's portrayal is definitely biased.
The Black Panthers were actually portrayed negatively by the media, yet offered free breakfast for tens of thousands of children and did much more good than bad. Check out the documentaries The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and The Black Power Mixtape if you want more information.
Oixne says:
I found your article interesting. You matter of factly state that George killed a prison guard, when what I'm finding is that there was not enough evidence to link him to that event. The only "evidence" that they went off of was that he was a known Panther and the prison guard apparently fell from the ledge in front of George's cell. No witnesses ever came forward and he was not ever tried for this offense as he was killed shortly before the trial was to begin. I cannot quite understand how you convicted him of this act when he was never actually convicted in a court of law?
Please rephrase your remarks to the point that he was alleged to have killed an officer. I'd allow that even though the two others that had been indicted had been acquitted due to lack of evidence in the case.
source – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_Brothers
Also, the $70 robbery is the official story, Bob Dylan even mentions it but you are quick to say that it was not the crime he went to prison for and do not say what the actual crime was. If you are going to discredit the historical record and Bob Dylan, I think you should supply a valid rebuttal argument, or at least an attempt.
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David George Freeman says:
Hello Tony, another fine analysis. Lift the lid on Bob Dylan's Music Box http://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/208/George-Jackson and join us inside to listen to all the great versions.
Mauro Suttora says:
Very good review.
The last verse is enough to turn the song into a masterpiece.
It's one of the ten most unknown Dylan's songs, with Caribbean Wind and others