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The Church of Reformed Libertines
Linnie Greene - 7.25.2017 | 2
In meme parlance: life comes at you fast. Perhaps that sentiment is so retweeted and relatable because it always feels true. Time is elastic, defiant of the order we pretend to impose, the past simultaneously whispering in our ear and calling long-distance, a continent away. Joan Didion wrote that we are "well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not." I have ghosts that visit every time I taste tequila or enter a room with faux-wood paneling, whose reappearances often coincide with tales of bad sex or bad choices or a sort of drunken, desperate ambition I often see in women between 18 and 25 with artistic temperaments.
It's uncanny to slip as thoroughly into a character as I did with Jaracaranda Leven in Eve Babitz's Sex and Rage, published in 1979 and reissued this summer by Counterpoint Press. The novel follows a young Angeleno, progeny of the Hollywood relatively-elite, as she fumbles with varying degrees of elegance through relationships and self-discovery, art-making and rent-paying. It is the story, really, of one's 20s, or at least the kind I've had, wherein the clashes of reality and desire can lead to spectacular and terrifying confrontations with the chasm that divides them.
It would be foolish to ignore the differences—her West Coast upbringing vs. my North Carolina one, where I was more prone to encounter a screened porch than a screenwriter; her inherent ease with boys and men, which I feigned (poorly) until I could hide in my room with a notebook to exorcise my insecurities. We share more superficial things in common, though: an interest in books, a dicey relationship with alcohol, a scramble throughout our 20s to find meaning and fulfillment in unconventional, often fruitless ways. By the time I finished the online synopsis, I was already sniffing out the novel like a bloodhound, eager to meet a character that felt so particular but could be a stand-in for many young and reckless women like me, members of the Church of Reformed Libertines.
I picked up the novel just when I'd reached an odd détente with the city of San Francisco, about 390 miles north of Jacaranda's native bars and surf breaks. I'd resigned myself to spending 46 percent of my take-home pay to live in an apartment two hours by train and bus from work in academic publishing. I'd effortfully carved out a niche of people who didn't ask to meet for $15 cocktails, who read Clarice Lispector, and occasionally fed me at our Dungeons & Dragons games. I had the perilous sense that I had built a life for myself, but that it could shift with the next mass exodus of good friends, the price of the incumbent repairs on the car with the failing brakes. Unwilling to work in tech, tired of being hamstrung by the intermittent medical bill, I applied for a few gigs in a place I'd rejected for its West Coast opposite: New York.
Sex & Rage's Jacaranda, reckoning with her alcoholism, exudes a similar reticence when faced with a voyage east. Recently launched from "the barge," a cluster of high-rolling partiers who slept with, shit-talked, and enabled one another, she writes, "There seemed no place to go, after fourteen [gin, lemon, and egg-white] White Ladies, but into a spin that fell out of the sky, a smashed victim of impending gravity." I thought of a particular summer, a night with cocaine and a blood ritual and the bruises I accrued by morning, outward tattoos that weren't so different from the smashed way I felt inside, writing down my sins in the wood-paneled room. "She was lucky," Babitz writes. "…because most of the girls they used for local color died before they were thirty." A fateful encounter with an East Coast literary agent named Janet Wilton accelerates Jacaranda's writing career from piecemeal freelance work to a book deal, and she's faced with potential that's almost as terrifying as its wanton, boozy opposite.
Babitz structures the novel such that its bulk occurs on Jacaranda's sun-drenched home turf, in which she's imagining the numerous ways her departure could end in tragedy. Live in coastal California long enough (about three years, personally) and it imprints on you—its languor and the subtlety of its seasons, the tendency towards liberality and the fringes. Even if Jacaranda and I spent most of our nights in bed with wine and cats, often both, I feel I know her enough to say that she, like me, felt she belonged on that furthest edge. What would a "Goodbye to All That" look like in reverse? Probably a long toke in Dolores or Griffith Park, and then a "meh" when someone asked what you thought of all that hustle & bustle, the concrete and steel. Maybe something more stringent. "She began feeling an even finer-tuned rage against material East Coast diamondy objects," Babitz writes, and as soon as I read it, I thought about the visceral nausea I felt on a visit to Times Square.
This is a façade, though, especially in a place that contains multitudes. There are wide swaths of the western-most state that would rather ship out the homeless than care for them; rent is cheaper in Brooklyn than it is in San Francisco, and I have the anecdotal evidence to prove it. Who are we not to allow ourselves success, even if there is a part of us that bucks the conventional way, the one that would bring us less grief? "Up until this point," Babitz writes, "it didn't seem as though she was debauched at all, but the truth was that while she believed in being a washed-up piece of driftwood on the shore, she also believed in bold adventuresses, cigarettes, and suffered from one too many of anything."
The novel's most interesting section takes place when Jacaranda boards the plane, when she goes from spinning her wheels in a rut to launching herself forward, full speed. Babitz's prose mirrors her new sobriety, both clear-eyed and frenzied. When she runs into Max, a beloved member of the barge with whom her romantic involvement was both vague and intense, Jacaranda has a revelation. "And once again [she] felt the aching waves roll over her from wanting what she couldn't have. She couldn't afford Max," Babitz writes. "That much truth cost too much." She doesn't fall for the city like she fell for Max—she admires its glitter and lets herself feel simultaneously exhausted and enamored. She acknowledges its faults and sees its winsomeness, her affair with Manhattan an ember in contrast to roman candles like Max, like Colman or Gilbert or Etienne or Shelby before him.
Jacaranda and I were and are privileged white women with the bailouts and resources to fuck up many times between the achievements that buoyed us from year to year. Self-destruction can seem sexy until you've sobered up and seen how much easier it is to lay low—pay your rent on time, spend less on ibuprofen, allow yourself the simple pleasure of being good and thorough at your work. I think Jacaranda learned that, by the end of Sex and Rage, when she boards the plane back to L.A., having proven to herself that she could take a leap of faith, bet on her own will. I'm sitting in the July heat in Crown Heights, a black cat who's the analogue of Jacaranda's beloved Emilio splayed on the wood floor, with no return ticket to the place I thought suited me best. Finding your fictional parallel can be uncanny, but it can also be a reflection that brings your blemishes and beauty into a different relief. The future isn't clear, it stands on shaky, sober legs, but here is the money I did not spend on rent. I'm placing my bets.
Fertile Ground: On Anne Raeff's 'The Jungle Around Us' and Claire Louise Bennett's 'Pond'
Sex, gender, and nature, a potent and sometimes winsome combination, aren't a novelty in literature; they're so inextricably entwined as to be almost obvious, fertile material for anyone probing at the edges of identity and environment. While D.H. Lawrence might have been treading new ground (pun intended) when his character masturbated onto the earth, while John Casey might have set his two lovers to tryst on the windswept seashore before they retired to a boat, it's the women of contemporary fiction who are writing the latest revelations about interiority and exteriority, the tamed and the wild and the places where the two merge. The women in Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond and Anne Raeff's The Jungle Around Us contain a wilderness that cannot be mapped.
What the wilderness outside possesses in mystery and density, so too do these characters' inner lives contain veritable jungles, uniquely feminine experiences that rival the wiliest outdoor spaces in their mess, their beauty, and their inability to be wholly, completely known.
On their writerly surfaces, these books share few commonalities. Pond deals in freewheeling language that disorients and flummoxes, run-on sentences that fragment and dissolve in turn. Following the course of a single, unnamed narrator through her daily existence in the Irish countryside, in a ramshackle cottage whose quirks and malfunctions rend it almost a character, it zooms in close on the inner workings of a single, inimitable mind. In "Morning, 1908," Bennett writes:
Everyone has seen a sunset — I will not attempt to describe the precise visual delineations of this one. Neither will I set down any of the things that scudded across my mind when the earth's trajectory became so discernibly and disarmingly attested to. Peculiar things, yet intimately familiar. Impressions of something I have not perhaps experienced directly. Memories I arrived with. Memories that snuck in and tucked up and live on within and throughout me
The Jungle Around Us unspools more conventionally, with clean, digestible prose and stories that ambush the reader, stealthy in their impact. It follows numerous characters, primarily women (with a few men scattered throughout), and finds literal and metaphorical jungles in places as disparate as New York City and Mexico. The collection opens with "The Doctors' Daughter," wherein a 14-year-old named Pepa, whose family fled wartime Vienna for Bolivia, prepares to care for the homestead during her parents' trip to the jungle on a medical mission. She describes the clinic attached to the back of the house as "painted a soothing blue like the eyes of an Alaskan husky, like winter." After the doctors' return, Pepa finds herself pregnant by a local boy named Guillermo, whom she would go to meet in the bordering forest. The ensuing abortion is as clinical as the story itself, haunting. Pepa sees "the instruments…lined up like soldiers, and everything smelled so clean."
But beneath these superficial differences, the collections share an emphasis on the thorniness of femininity throughout time and space, whether present or past, in a city or a forest clearing. The unruly spaces in which these stories are set are a direct reflection of the characters' inner lives, the turmoil and tranquility, the known and unknown. To be a woman is to arrive at a wilderness with a destination in mind but no map, the sprawling vagueness before you both a challenge and a threat. When there are so many ways to be, and so many pitfalls to encounter, women learn the topography by stumbling over it, step by step, the foibles as necessary and inevitable as the ascent.
Take, for instance, Raeff's "The Boys of El Tambor," in which Ester writes to her former lover, Amy, from the Mexican town to which she's decamped after their breakup. "Nature" here is not so much canopies and blooms as it is dive bars and cheap hotels, a distinct, unfamiliar environment in which Ester can shed her past self and observe the world anew. Having given up painting and taken up a love affair with a straight couple, her experimentations in reshaping her identity are tethered directly to the permissive, occasionally debaucherous place in which she's settled. Raeff's descriptions of the central watering hole, El Tambor, take on the vibrancy and verve of a tropical space. She writes, "It's completely pink. There's not one wall, one chair or tabletop that is not bright pink. Even the napkins are pink, and the toilet paper, when there is toilet paper." Ester loses herself in this cotton candy dream, swimming through memories and newfound sensations like one overtaken by a rip current.
In Pond, the natural landscape's promises and disappointments mirror the narrator's continual pogoing between expectation and reality, her thoughts that bounce like Ping-Pong balls from one subject to another, only to arrive at truths that demand a reckoning. In "The Gloves Are Off," she fantasizes about the dreamy origins of the reeds that will soon thatch her roof, laid there by workmen who make lewd jokes and crane their necks for a glimpse at pretty girls. "I liked to think about all the little fishes that had nudged around and prodded at the reeds here and there…And the swans' flotilla nests resplendent with marbled eggs," she muses. Later, when she discovers that they're sourced not from the nearby River Shannon but from faraway Turkey, the daydream abruptly shatters. As she's pruning the garden afterward, her trepidation about the flora surrounding her cottage becomes apparent. "Oh, fuck the leaves and fuck the flowers!" she thinks. "I want to see naked trees and hear the earth gasp and settle into a warm and tender mass of radiant darkness."
The writers' respective views of nature differ. For Bennett, it is a constant presence, alternately a site of revelations and the menacing beast breathing at the back of the door. For Raeff, it's background, the quiet symphony on the turntable that underpins the human drama at the fore. Yet despite their relative engagements with wild spaces, environment is essential for these characters' trajectories. It's a reminder that the woods and the psyche both startle us, be it with monkeys appearing in the trees in Raeff's "Maximilano" or Bennett's protagonist's persistent daydreams of rape while passing a stranger on a morning walk in "Morning, 1908."
In both collections, the marriage of environment and psyche, the overgrown thicket and the tangled brain, finds further footing in the characters' caginess, their circumspect awareness of themselves or their reluctance to reveal certain facets to the reader. The cool, almost clinical tone of stories like "The Doctors' Daughter" in The Jungle Around Us lends the collection an air of detachment, more impactful for its lack of sentimentality or melodrama. Still, it hints at further, unplumbed depths — there is no mention of how Pepa feels about her own abortion, only the stoicism she displays when faced with a trek through the jungle or a two-week stretch as the head of the household.
In Pond, the narrator's breakneck narrative speed — her thoughts circling and derailing like a drunken carousel pony — means that certain revelations or milestones get treated with the same gravitas as replacing a malfunctioning oven (see: "Control Knobs"). It's difficult to parse the significant from the mundane and easy to conflate the two, much like the barrage of stimuli one might encounter in a dense, wild space. The reader is subject to whiplash following the narrator's trains of thought, the connections forged in unlikely and unconventional ways, and taking a psychological temperature proves difficult. When she nods to her character's emotional state, Bennett tends to deal in koan-like non-sequiturs, spurs that jut from within the paragraph. After turning on a tap of water, the protagonist muses, "If we have lost the knack of living…it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."
There's a line in Bennett's "Finishing Touch" that reads, "…I feel quite triumphant for having the good sense at last to realise that people who are hell-bent upon getting to the bottom of you are not the sort you want around." For Bennett and Raeff, this might well be a manifesto. The women in these collections aren't easily sussed. Their lives unfold in untamed spaces, jungles either literal or metaphorical, but their inner lives rival these environments, unknowable and wild.
Keep Trying. Be Content: On Belle Boggs's 'The Art of Waiting'
Linnie Greene - 9.8.2016
It is an innocent train ride, full of the banal chatter we save for our post-work hours, until my coworker Marthine pulls out her phone and shows me a video of her laughing son. At what she calls the "sweet spot," those tender months between squalling and teething, Arun (whose name refers to the dawn in Sanskrit) glimpses himself in the mirror and chortles, drool pooling between his lips and chin. He is as smitten with himself as the world is with him. He observes himself; he loves what he sees. We observe him; we love what we see.
There is a portion at the end of Belle Boggs's The Art of Waiting in which, as she's holding her infant at home, a mason says, "Imagine if there was only one baby in the whole world…Wherever that baby was, we'd put down our things and go see it." "You're right," she says. "I'd go." At 26, newly struck with baby fever, I would be there in line, craning my neck to behold.
I can't point to the moment that it started, and yet it accrues every day, the inverse of my bank account. The way I accuse men of thinking with their penises, I've begun thinking with my ovaries — sidelined by tiny outfits, ogling at babies on Instagram, indulging vague daydreams about pregnancy clothes worn with wide-brimmed straw hats. I am an unfit mother: a smoker, a shopper, a too-frequent cheese eater, and bill forgetter. I inhabit (with my husband) a tiny one-bedroom in the most expensive city in the country, where we can barely afford our square footage. I've over-drafted my bank account buying cat food. I've celebrated the arrival of my period in college with cake and champagne, bought anxiety-inducing pregnancy tests at the pharmacy with nail polish and cheap beer. And yet; and yet.
"It's spring when I realize I may never have children," Boggs opens the first chapter, this forthrightness setting a precedent for the rest of the memoir. The Art of Waiting delves directly into the process of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in all its pre- and mis-conceptions, its prose like a sledgehammer cracking through drywall. She probes beyond the clinical terminology and atmosphere of the doctor's office and takes as her subjects cicadas and gorillas, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion's Blue Nights, and Raising Arizona. She sees motherhood everywhere, like I do: it's inescapable, especially because we do not have it.
In a book that could easily become insular, instead the reader finds Boggs's considered, holistic approach, wherein she covers families of numerous formations and facets — different races, socioeconomic categories, and world views pepper this intelligent and insightful treatise on fertility, medicine, and motherhood, which spans years of Boggs's life and years of research on childbearing, its successes, and its failures. Science meets narrative; the global meets the personal; the reader meets the author, or at least feels that way, a knowing closeness that builds with every revelation and dispersal of personal, painful fact. The world of reproduction is hardly beautiful, with its sanitized wands, needles, and oocytes, and yet we're privy to it, as if standing next to the stirrups.
We're privy, too, to stories that vary dramatically from Boggs's. There are her mentors, professors, and friends who choose to forgo children in favor of careers and lives of artistry. There is Virginia Woolf, who writes, feeling euphoric after completing The Waves, "Children are nothing to this." There are gay couples facing rampant discrimination. There are her friends who adopt from overseas, and face the harrowing knowledge that their black child will live an entirely different life in their mountain community because of the color of his skin, the story of his origins.
Perhaps the most important lesson that The Art of Waiting imparted was its insistence on the long game; that the things worth wanting are worth waiting for, and that impatience is a tax we pay for arriving at our fateful conclusions. There's a decided sense of fatedness about the entire book, a necessary corollary for a treatise on building a family. Who are we meant to be, and in relation to whom? Is a struggle with infertility a sign that we're meant to walk a different path? Is resisting the body's futility an act of bullheadedness, foolhardy? Boggs, who describes herself as non-religious, persists, questioning every phase of intrauterine insemination (IUI), the consideration of adoption, and eventually of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The result is ultimately a baby — Beatrice — but the question lingers, essential to the book: if we're always in the process of becoming, what are we meant to become? What if that end isn't the one we had in mind?
Boggs aptly describes the arduousness of ART without writing an arduous narrative — she spares no detail, be it negotiating insurance coverage with a cut-rate pharmacy or injecting herself with one of many medicines each cycle. These details never become drudgery. They're an inherent and interesting part of the narrative of modern pregnancy. It's easy to forget, amidst the deftness of Boggs's prose, that this book depicts a clinical process.
The experience of child-rearing, of adoption, of infertility, impacts more than just the person at their center, despite the feelings of isolation they bring about. Mr. Cheek, the aforementioned mason, embodies this knowledge. "He knew something bigger, more profound," Boggs writes. "Each baby is born not just to her parents, but to the world surrounding her. To neighbors, friends, teachers, enclosure mates. To ex-cons and allomothers and cousins and grandmothers, who will each want a peek and will each have some impact." The same could be said of unintended childlessness; in the void created by such powerful wanting, whole communities are implicated.
I pass babies in their carriages on my street and sometimes we lock eyes, as if my desire is transparent. Round-headed and wide-eyed, taking in the new world, they take me in, and I take them in right back, pining for something I'm too sacrilegious or jaded to call a miracle. Meanwhile, I care for my cats. I love my husband. I yearn, and I scheme, and I imagine what fate will deal me next year, or the year after that. In the present, I am only a collection of wants, imagining what it's like to shape the destiny of a tiny, malleable being.
"Keep trying. Be content. How do you reconcile those two messages?" Boggs writes in her epilogue. She has no exact answers; this is not a textbook. Rather, it's a primer on waiting and wanting, something we're arguably always doing, whether it's for the end of the workday or whatever missing piece we feel might complete us, for whatever unknowable reasons. We're waiting for the world to adapt, to accept all forms of family; for our bumbling bodies to perform as we wish; for fate to unfurl like a carpet, its threads and fibers as intricately, tightly woven as our own desires.


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Q: How to do fast scroll of the cardviews I'm a beginning android developer. I have made an app with many cards in cardviews, but I doesn't know, how to do fast scroll in my app.
My code is here: Cardview's data are changed while srolling RecyclerView
P.S: This guide is difficult for me - How to add a fast-scroller to the RecyclerView

A: if you don't want to implement it yourself, you can use this library:
https://github.com/plusCubed/recycler-fast-scroll
just add the gradle dependency to your app's module, and use it as mentioned under the basic usage section

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Perafort – miasto w Katalonii w Hiszpanii, leżące w pobliżu Tarragony. Początki miasta sięgają aż okupacji rzymskiej Półwyspu Iberyjskiego, o czym świadczy wiele znalezisk archeologicznych. Podstawową gałęzią gospodarki miasta są winnice oraz uprawy migdałów i orzechów laskowych. Na granicy miasta znajduje się stacja kolei wysokich prędkości Camp de Tarragona.

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Boris Johnson pledges 'good offer' on border after Dublin rejects plans
Paris Gourtsoyannis
Published: 09:17 Tuesday 01 October 2019 Updated: 11:17 Wednesday 02 October 2019
Boris Johnson has denied the UK Government is proposing to build customs infrastructure five miles on either side of the Irish border after leaked British proposals to end the impasse over the backstop were dismissed by Dublin and Brussels.
Irish state broadcaster RTE reported that the suggestion sent to the EU by the UK would lead to customs posts being built at the edge of a 'clearance area' along the border.
Deputy Irish premier Simon Coveney dismissed the plans as a "non starter", saying Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland "deserve better".
READ MORE: Brexit: Tory 'indifference' to no-deal could wreck economy, claims SNP
EU sources were also quoted rejecting the proposals thought to have been included in a set of informal 'non-papers' presented to negotiators in Brussels last week.
But in interviews at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester this morning, the Prime Minister insisted that the reports were "not what we're proposing at all".
He said a "good offer" would be made and claimed critics were seeking to "needlessly distort" the UK Government's plans.
Speaking to the BBC's Breakfast programme, Mr Johnson said: "They are not talking about the proposals we are going to be tabling, they are talking about stuff that went in previously.
"But clearly this is the moment when the rubber hits the road.
"This is when the hard yards really are in the course of the negotiations.
"The difficulty really is going to be around the customs union and to what extent Northern Ireland can be retained within EU bodies at all.
"We're going to make a very good offer, we are going to be tabling it very soon, but there is a difficulty if you try to keep Northern Ireland in a customs union because one of the basic things about being a country is you have a single customs perimeter and a single customs union."
Formal proposals to resolve the dispute over the future of trade across the Irish border are expected to be tabled this week.
Responding to the RTE report on Monday night, Mr Coveney tweeted: "Non-Paper = Non-Starter. Time the EU had a serious proposal from the UK Govt if a #Brexit deal is to be achievable in October. NI and IRE deserves better!"
Wildcat referendum on Scottish independence will simply worsen division – Alex Cole-Hamilton
An Irish Government spokesman said a credible alternative to the backstop had yet to be proposed by the UK.
Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said: "If Boris Johnson had spent any time listening to businesses and communities in Northern Ireland, he would know that these proposals are utterly unworkable."
He added: "If accurate, these proposals represent yet another failure of the Government's negotiating strategy.
"The Prime Minister should admit he has no credible plan for Brexit and that the only way to resolve this issue is to go back to the people with a public vote."
Meanwhile, The Times reported that Mr Johnson's plan to get around the Benn Act - the law aimed at preventing a no-deal Brexit without MPs' approval - would be to ask EU leaders to rule out any extension to the October 31 deadline.
READ MORE: Brexit: Scottish Tories reverse Ruth Davidson's opposition to no-deal
He would then seek to present MPs in Parliament with a straight choice of agreeing the revised deal or leaving without an agreement on Halloween.
Asked whether he could request a fellow Eurosceptic leader like Hungary's Viktor Orban to veto an extension request, Mr Johnson told the BBC: "It's a matter of common observation that the UK wants to come out. I don't think any purpose is served in corralling the UK inside the EU".
He added: "I think it would be a mistake to keep the UK bound in beyond the time people want to come out."

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Lyperia es un género con 59 especies de plantas de flores de la familia Scrophulariaceae.

Especies seleccionadas
Lyperia acutiloba
Lyperia amplexicaulis
Lyperia antirrhinoides
Lyperia argentea
Lyperia aspalathoides

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16MP Live MOS Sensor. This 4/3 sensor, most likely a hybrid of the E-M10, utilizes the TruePic VII Image Processor to reduce noise levels across the normal ISO 200-3200 range. Additionally, the processor has been tweaked for excellent high-speed performance, now reaching 10 fps when using a fixed focus point and 5 fps when using autofocus.
40 MP Multi-Exposure Mode. Utilizing the image stabilization system, the camera essentially shoots eight images over the span of one second to then combine these images into a single 40 MP image. Since it's composited from multiple images, any movement will muck it up quite nicely, so both you and your subject will need to be completely still. In other words, use a tripod and don't try to shoot your two-year-old.
Big Boy Video. We won't say previous-generation Olympus cameras were bad at video, but they weren't great. The E-M5 II joins the big boys in video performance with full HD 1080/60p/51Mbps using IPB compression, and 1080/30p/77Mbps using All-I compression. Additionally, there's now true focus peaking, uncompressed HDMI output, a mic input socket, and timecode options for filmmakers. And don't forget the 5-axis stabilization that's been optimized for video!
Viewing Methods. The flagship E-M1's fantastic 2360k-Dot electronic viewfinder is employed in the E-M5 II, offering 1.48x magnification with 100% coverage. If you're shooting from a tripod or arms reach, the swap to a fully-articulating 3.0" touchscreen rear LCD is sure to make you happy. While the tilting versions in all of the previous OM-D cameras were decent, they just don't compare to an articulating version.
Build & Ergonomics. The weather-sealed, magnesium-alloy body provides a solid, reliable workhorse for all types of shooting. Button and dial placement has been refined, providing a more comfortable layout with even more customization than the E-M5. The physical size is quite similar to the former, with a slight reduction in height due to the removal of the accessory port. It's not a major advertised feature, but the included accessory flash has been improved substantially, now featuring a bounce-able/rotating head.
Other Notable Features. The built-in wi-fi from the E-M1/E-M10 has made its way to the E-M5 II, allowing wireless image transfer to and camera control from smartphones and computers. There's a silent electronic-shutter mode that enables a max shutter speed of 1/16000 sec. when engaged (1/8000 sec. normally). The camera still records images and video to SDHC/XC memory cards, but the battery life sees a slight dip to 310 shots per charge using the same BLN-1 model.


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Q: AWS Lambda function is returning response from a different Lambda function I'm new to AWS and attempting to build an API for a basic course scheduling app. I am currently able to get the API running locally and able to invoke two functions. Function 1 is executing properly, but function 2 seems to be executing the code from function 1. Here is how I have my SAM app structured:
- sam-app
| - events
| - tests
| - src
|   - api
|     - course
|       - AddCourse Lambda
|   app.js (Index Lambda, the default hello world sample function, mostly just using to check that API is up)

The Index Lambda at app.js does a GET / and returns status code 200 and body with message "Hello World!" so long as the API is reachable.
The AddCourse Lambda is supposed to do the following via POST /courses:
try {
        console.log("Adding a new item...");
        await docClient.put(params).promise();
        response = {
            'statusCode': 200,
            'headers': {
                'Content-Type': "application/json"
            },
            'body': JSON.stringify({
                message: 'Successfully created item!'
            })
        }
    } catch (err) {
        console.error(err);
        response = {
            'statusCode': 400,
            'headers': {
                'Content-Type': "application/json"
            },
            'body': JSON.stringify(err)
        }
    }

Instead, it is returning status code 200 and body with message "Hello World!".
My template.yml seems to have the correct routes specified too:
Resources:
  Index:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      CodeUri: src
      Handler: app.handler
      Runtime: nodejs14.x
      Policies: AmazonDynamoDBReadOnlyAccess
      PackageType: Image
      Events:
        GetEvent:
          Type: Api
          Properties:
            Path: /
            Method: get
    Metadata:
      DockerTag: nodejs14.x-v1
      DockerContext: ./src
      Dockerfile: Dockerfile
  AddCourse:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      CodeUri: src/api/course/Course-POST-CreateNewCourse
      Handler: index.lambdaHandler
      Runtime: nodejs14.x
      Policies: AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
      PackageType: Image
      Events:
        GetEvent:
          Type: Api
          Properties:
            Path: /courses
            Method: post
    Metadata:
      DockerTag: nodejs14.x-v1
      DockerContext: ./src
      Dockerfile: Dockerfile

What could possibly be going on here? Is there something inherently wrong with how I structured my app?


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והוא ישב פתח האהל כחם היום - Abraham's trait of extreme kindness (חסד) is what qualifies him to be considered "the father of our nation." In Micah 7:20, it is his Hesed (תתן אמת ליעקב חסד לאברהם) that most exemplifies him for posterity. In Genesis 18, when it comes to his hospitality, Abraham plays a very active role in the process by standing at the entrance of his tent to actively seek to invite guests (וישא עיניו וירא). Abraham seeks these guests specifically at noon (כחם היום); the hottest and most uncomfortable part of the day to be outdoors. Not only did Abraham perform these acts alone, but he positively influences others to rush (מהרי) and partake in these experiences. It is because of acts like these as well as knowing that Abraham "observes God's path" (ושמרו דרך ה׳ לעשות צדקה ומשפט) that God is hesitant to withhold anything from Abraham (המכסה אני מאברהם) and decides to confide in him about future events. Beth Torah Bulletin, 11/4/17.
ואברהם עודנו עמד לפני ה׳ - "And Abraham remained standing before God" is the last part of Genesis 18:22. According to the Tiqqun Soferim (as cited by Rashi), however, the original text read "And God remained standing before Abraham," but it was later changed. Tiqqun Soferim refers to about 18 scribal changes made to the Tanakh for various reasons. According to this tradition, the two subjects are reversed, and the word 'God' is replaced with 'Abraham' in order to preserve the honor of God. Rather than write that God remained standing before Abraham, the scholars didn't want to give the impression that God was waiting for a human (which can be viewed as disrespectful). Despite all this, there is absolutely no evidence in the Septuagint, Samaritan Pentateuch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, or any other known ancient sources that there was ever an original Torah text reading "And God remained standing before Abraham." Tiqqun Highlights, Beth Torah Bulletin, October 27, 2018.
וישקף על פני סדם ועמרה - As Abraham witnesses the devastation of Sodom (Genesis 19:28), we can only imagine the sense of failure that he experiences for a calamity that should have been avoided. Abraham only has the audacity to petition God to spare Sodom, because he assumes that his former confidant, Lot, after many years together, has become a role model and positive influence on his society. It comes as a disappointment when it is apparent that Lot has accomplished absolutely nothing; not following Abraham's example of steering people towards the path of righteousness. As the descendants of Abraham, we have been blessed with many fine role models who actively shape our lives. Unlike Lot, who laid low and contributed nothing to his society, we must actively seek ways to become those role models and make a positive impact on the lives of those around us (Beth Torah, 11/19/16).


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The Edward III 6 shilling coin was minted in the mid-1300s but was discontinued after a year of production. The coin that sold for $6.8 million is one of only three in existence, making it one of the rarest coins in the world.
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OFFSTAGE: Taylor Swift Covers Fall Out Boy
by Alison Bonaguro 8/10/2011
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
"There's a song that was all I listened to my freshman year in high school," Taylor Swift told the crowd at her sold-out concert in Chicago last night (Aug. 9). "And the band who sings it is from Chicago. I feel like if you knew it, it'd be amazing if you'd sing along. Could you do that?"
Then she launched into a quiet little take on Fall Out Boy's 2005 pop punk hit, "Sugar, We're Goin Down," which is actually a really pretty song when she sings it. Except that part about the loaded God complex, cock it and pull it. But Swift did the song from the revolving stage at the back of the arena floor, where she sat under a lighted tree, with just her voice and a guitar. That's enough to make any song sound sweet.
Fall Out Boy, by the way, was one of my predictions since Swift started doing these city-specific tributes at her shows. And it was a much better fit for her and her acoustic guitar than, say, a Styx song. That said, she plays Chicago again tonight, so maybe she'll throw in a "Come Sail Away" cover.
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Glass-like thermal conductivity of crystalline strontium niobate; a crystalline solid synthesized with solution chemistry: Congrats Brian Foley!
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Brian Foley's paper, "Glass-like thermal conductivity of (010)-textured lanthanum-doped strontium niobate synthesized with wet chemical deposition," has been published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society (DOI: 10.1111/jace.13318). In this work, we have demonstrated that solution-based chemistry can produce highly textured, single crystalline oxide-films of strontium niobate with ultra-low thermal conductivities. the low thermal conductivities originate due to the variable and layered bonding environments in this perovskite structure. Congrats Brian!!!
We have measured the cross-plane thermal conductivity (κ) of (010)-textured, undoped, and lanthanum-doped strontium niobate (Sr2−xLaxNb2O7−δ) thin films via time-domain thermoreflectance. The thin films were deposited on (001)-oriented SrTiO3 substrates via the highly-scalable technique of chemical solution deposition. We find that both film thickness and lanthanum doping have little effect on κ, suggesting that there is a more dominant phonon scattering mechanism present in the system; namely the weak interlayer-bonding along theb-axis in the Sr2Nb2O7 parent structure. Furthermore, we compare our experimental results with two variations of the minimum-limit model for κ and discuss the nature of transport in material systems with weakly-bonded layers. The low cross-plane κ of these scalably-fabricated films is comparable to that of similarly layered niobate structures grown epitaxially.
B.M.F. is grateful for support from the ARCS Foundation Metro Washington Chapter. P.E.H. is appreciative for funding through the Army Research Office (W911NF-13-1-0378) and the NSF EAGER program (CBET-1339436). This work was performed in part at the Center for Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science (CAMOS) at the University of Virginia. This work was supported, in part, by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) pro- gram at Sandia National Laboratories (H.B-S., M.J.C., D.L.M., P.G.C, J.F.I., P.E.H.). Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. This project was supported by Financial Assistance Award No. 01-79-14214, awarded by U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Adminis- tration, to the University of Virginia (P.E.H, B.M.F). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration.
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When Senator Marco Rubio launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2009, he was considered a long shot and was predicted to lose big. Senator Rubio prevailed on a pledge to stand up to Washington's reckless spending and its assault on the free enterprise system. Today, he is proud to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate where he's working to fulfill his promise to restore fiscal discipline and give job creators more certainty and confidence to open new businesses or expand existing ones.
Senator Rubio's faith in America's promise was shaped early on by his parents who left Cuba in 1956 and, after Fidel Castro solidified his communist grip, were never able to return. In America, his father worked mostly as a bartender, while his mom worked different jobs through the years as a maid, cashier and retail clerk. He was born in Miami and spent his early years there, moved to Las Vegas for several years and eventually returned to Miami, where he lives today with his wife Jeanette and their four children. Earlier this year, Senator Rubio published his best-selling autobiography "An American Son," a tribute to the American dream through the story of his grandfather and parents.
Senator Marco Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. His committee assignments currently include Commerce, Science and Transportation; Foreign Relations; Intelligence; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Since serving in the Senate, Senator Rubio has proudly been on the side of job creators and parents whose mission in life is to build a strong and prosperous America their children will be blessed to inherit. He supported efforts to "Cut-Cap-and-Balance" our budget; add a strong Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution; save Medicare; repeal ObamaCare; oppose short-sighted budget gimmicks and spending plans; and approve job-creating free trade agreements. He also opposed raising the debt ceiling in the absence of real measures to control our long-term spending problem and provide greater certainty to job creators.
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/**
 * A {@link CliOptionMissingValueException} is thrown if an option requires a value that is missing (no proper value is
 * specified as commandline argument).
 *
 * @author Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public class CliOptionMissingValueException extends CliException {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 5158277628043461982L;

  /** @see #getCode() */
  public static final String MESSAGE_CODE = "MissOptValue";

  /**
   * The constructor.
   *
   * @param option is the according {@link CliOption option}.
   */
  public CliOptionMissingValueException(String option) {

    super(createBundle().errorCliOptionMissingValue(option));
  }

  @Override
  public String getCode() {

    return MESSAGE_CODE;
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Web User researchers employed two tests in measuring firewall performance. First they used the Gibson Research Corporation's "Shields Up" test to check for open ports and general vulnerability to external Internet threats. This is considered a baseline level of protection that all firewalls need secure against. The testers then used Firewall Tester by Atelier Web, a software development and consultancy proprietorship that simulates internal threats that would be caused by Trojans. Specifically, this test examines how firewalls deal with ten kinds of attacks that are launched by threats already on a consumer's computer. Based on these two rigorous testing processes, Comodo's Firewall Pro passed with the highest level of efficiency.
According to the article by Andy Shaw, "Comodo put on an impressive performance, withstanding anything that Shields Up could throw at it and blitzing the Atelier Web tests . . . The latest version of Comodo . . . makes [a PC] extremely secure. . ."
He concluded the article by saying that "The latest version of Comodo is without a doubt the free firewall to look for."
"We are thrilled to get this kind of recognition from Web User," said Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO and Chief Security Architect of Comodo. "Firewall Pro continues to outperform its rivals in threat tests of all kind, and it's great to be recognized for its high quality."
Topped the list in Matousec's May 24, 2007 leak-test of 11 leading firewalls, and was one of only two firewalls to receive an "excellent" rating. Of a possible total score of 9,625 over 77 various leak tests, Comodo scored 9,475, making it the highest scoring firewall available.
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Web User is a consumer magazine produced in London, UK and published by IPC Media, the UK's largest consumer magazine publisher. IPC is owned by Time Inc., the publishing division of Time Warner, the world's largest media organization.
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I live in Zürich and commute with the tram every day, annoys me a bit at least two-three times a day people not covering their cough.
So I guess I'll start with a complain!
Wear a surgical mask and learn to duck?
Isn't it horribly difficult to live in a country where you don't really have many reasons to complain? OP, you win the complaints prize for this week. I'm looking forward to reading your future impressions!
Welcome to the community, spaghetti monster!
Well chosen forum section for your complaint.
If you cough then nobody can hear the fart.
Or ring the ding thing on the tram!
Don't worry about it. Most of them aren't suffering from a cold virus which you could catch - it's just a smoker's cough.
Bit of a risky assumption given the piss-awful flu virus which ripped through Zurich the last couple of months.
Half the people in my office have been barking like walruses for the last 3 weeks and none of them smoke.
Actually you can work it to your advantage. For all those people standing uncomfortably close to you, summoning up a rather robust cough followed by some intensive nose blowing into a hanky can encourage people to back off a bit.
I'm trying to teach myself to release a Defcon 1 trouser-cough on demand for those occasions in the tram when there's some sweaty bloke leaning an armpit against me or breathing a stale mixture of garlic and coffee over me.
Indeed . Farting on the tram/train is my favorite thing. Especially when i'm surrounded by backpack-morons with no spacial awareness.
Or walking down the train I see somebody taking up the whole places, I'll sit there and fart all the way to my destination.
Umm, I think that that's a different problem.
Anyway, simple, just don't use public transport.
Coughing in your hand is just a polite way of smearing the germs all over everything that you touch, coughing in your arm/elbow is actually caring as to where your germs all go.
There a lot people , who want to enter the bus/tram /train without letting people exit first.
Respect other people, where is the problem ?
I hope you covered your mouth.
Sensei, I´ll be your Padawan if you teach me how to fart at will.


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Loneliness gives us the opportunity to reflect on ourselves and our shortcomings.
Reacting to a situation based on assumptions is the beginning of our downfall.
Telling a lie may free us for a moment, but we are only digging a hole to get ourselves trapped.
Change tells us to move on and not to hold back, because this is an opportunity to make great progress.
Listen to truth and the advice of great teachers, but do not forget to close our ears to untruth and gossip.
Do not simply plan for the future, unless it is followed by action, or else we will not be able to reach anywhere.
Think before we act - only then will we have the last laugh. Otherwise, we will be the first to cry.
Do not dream for unrealistic goals, and rather than just talk, we should act now for a brighter future.


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The Organisers of Brong Ahafo Music Awards, J Black Code Events, have shot down false reports going viral that Joyce Blessing won the Artiste of Year at the maiden edition of the awards.
They clarified that Bono rapper, Kooko, was crowned as the Artiste of the Year at a ceremony which took place at the Tyco City Hotel Auditorium in Sunyani on Friday, September 21, 2018, so any other misleading information must be treated with the contempt it deserves.
In a statement copied to Newshuntermag.com, the Media and Communications Manager for J Black Code Events, Seth Wilson, revealed that Joyce Blessing rather won BAMA Gospel Artiste of the Year, BAMA Album of the Year and BAMA Songwriter of the Year.
September 2018 captioned "Joyce Blessing wins Brong Ahafo Artiste of the year.
has been made to her to take down the story or change the caption.
that publication as false. We don't know her motive behind that.
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The Cloudy Dreamer is the fifth mini-album by Olivia Lufkin, released on January 17, 2007. The mini-album debuted at #15 on the Oricon Weekly Charts, making it Olivia's most successful album to date.

Two versions of the album were released, a CD Only version and a CD+DVD version. The DVD includes the PV "Stars Shining Out" and five live performances from Olivia's July 25 concert at Shibuya O-West. In addition to new songs and the A Little Pain song with the song "Wish (English version)", the mini-album also features "Dream Catcher", which was used as the ending theme for the live action television drama series of Jigoku Shōjo and "If You Only Knew", which was used as main theme for the Korean drama of The Snow Queen.

First press limited editions of the CD+DVD version included Olivia's Art & Photo Mini-Book and Olivia's Art & Photo Poster.

Track listings
CD Track listing
 "If You Only Knew"
 "Stars Shining Out"
 "Dream Catcher"
 "Who's Gonna Stop It?"
 "Cloudy World"
 "Cut Me free"
 "Wish" (English ver.)
 "A Little Pain"
DVD Track listing
 "Stars Shining Out" (PV)
 "Alone in Our Castle" (Live at Shibuya O-West 25 July 2006)
 "Let Go" (Live at Shibuya O-West 25 July 2006)
 "A Little Pain" (Live at Shibuya O-West 25 July 2006)
 "SpiderSpins" (Live at Shibuya O-West 25 July 2006)
 "Devil's in Me" (Live at Shibuya O-West 25 July 2006)

References

Olivia Lufkin albums
2007 EPs
2007 video albums
2007 live albums
Live video albums
Avex Group live albums
Avex Group EPs
Avex Group video albums
Japanese-language EPs


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Burma's Brutal Crackdown Continues: 'They Come at Night and Murder the Monks'
Burma's Brutal Crackdown Continues 'They Come at Night and Murder the Monks'
In Yangon the killing goes on. Opponents of the regime and monks are falling victim to the junta's special forces by night. Diplomats assume that several hundred people have already been killed. Now even China is putting the military under pressure.
Von our correspondents in Yangon
Riot police and military personnel crack down on the protests in Yangon last week. There are reports of a brutal crackdown at night, with hundreds of people killed.
Foto: REUTERS
It is 9.15 p.m. on Tuesday evening in Yangon, the time of day when the stranglehold of fear settles across the city. The first heavily armed soldiers take position outside the few restaurants that still serve foreigners. Curfew starts at 10 p.m. After that, anyone who is still out on the streets is risking their lives.
"Take a bicycle to the street to grab a taxi," the manager of L'Opera, an Italian restaurant, yells into the kitchen. The foreigners, waiting in the courtyard, can't find any more rental cars. Someone dashes out to look for some kind of transport.
It is completely quiet for a moment in the car park. Then a young man emerges from the darkness. He was obviously waiting for a chance to be alone with foreigners. He is poorly clothed, but speaks English that is somewhat understandable. "Please don't believe what the junta says," he whispers. "The repression is continuing every night. When there are no more witnesses, they drive through the suburbs at night and kill the people."
The young man wanted to tell his story quickly. He knew that he couldn't let himself be caught doing so -- otherwise he could soon find himself in jail or dead. He comes from South Okalapa, a huge township east of Yangon, where there is hunger and misery. Most of the monks who demonstrated against the regime last week came from there. After the junta's troops finally crushed the unrest in the city center on Saturday, they took their brutal revenge in Okalapa on Sunday.
It was around midnight when the long convoy of military vehicles drove into the district. They contained police officers from the anti-insurgency unit and the so-called "Lome-Ten," a unit of gangsters and ex-convicts, who do the regime's dirty work.
They surrounded a monastery on Weiza Yandar Street. All the roughly 200 monks living there were forced to stand in a row and the security forces beat their heads against a brick wall. When they were all covered in blood and lay moaning on the ground, they were thrown into a truck and taken away. "We are crying for our monks," said the man, and then he was gone.
Four days have passed since the last shots were fired in central Yangon but normality has yet to return to Burma's largest city. Most shops remain closed today and the human rights violations continue. Horrifying rumors and news of further repressive measures continue to leak out.
These rumors are difficult to confirm as journalists are not allowed to work in the country. The few correspondents who are left in the country on tourist visas are being observed day and night. Secret service spies waylay them at their hotels. And even if the regime doesn't dare to execute another foreign journalist following the death of the Japanese photographer last week, it's still impossible to conduct normal reporting and research.
Every Burmese whose name appears in the international media has to fear for his life. Even foreigners living in the country are opting for silence, for fear of persecution. But the rumors and stories circulating in the city paint a horrible picture. It's clear that Yangon has done away with almost all of its monks.
In the huge monastery complex under the Shwedagon pagoda, only the red and saffron coloured robes of the holy men are left to blow in the wind. There are no traces of the several thousand monks and novices that once leant this place its unique and peaceful air.
A deadly silence has also settled into Yangon suburbs like Okalapa or Takada, where young monks from other provinces can normally come to learn to read and write at small religious institutions. But these have been shuttered, their entrances barricaded with iron doors and rubbish is piling up on the premises. The monasteries, temples, schools and orphanages in the surrounding area are empty.
"We are assuming that the number of victims among the monks and protesters last week goes well into the hundreds," says one diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity. Clearly security forces in both suburbs have engaged in major crackdowns. As the junta's henchmen tried to remove the monks on Sunday and early this week, residents of both districts resisted, and many of the demonstrators are believed to have been shot.
"Our students have gone back to their home villages for the time being," the abbot of one Okalapa monastery says. But that's only half true. Diplomats here have fairly reliable information that the junta has built at least three internment camps in recent days in Yangon, where it has placed opponents of the regime.
One is located near the old British horse race track, between Yangon's 50th and 51st streets. Another camp is located near the Mingala international airport. The worst conditions, though, are to be found on the grounds of the Yangon Institute of Technology.
In the north-western part of the former Burmese capital, very close to the notorious and overflowing Insein Prison, about 300 cells have been erected in recent days -- each measuring 3 meters by 3 meters (9.8 by 9.8 feet). Close to 800 monks have been imprisoned there. Sanitary conditions are atrocious and the monks are engaging in a hunger strike. Just as they did during their protests, the monks are refusing to accept any food handouts from the military. Meanwhile, the armed soldiers have stopped locals from trying to bring any food to the monks. And if the authorities don't provide international organizations with access to the camps soon, it will be a matter of time before there are further deaths.
But although the situation appears hopeless, the British ambassador -- of all people -- sees a first glimmer of hope in the chaotic situation. Mark Canning sits in his high security office with a view of Yangon port. He is a large man with a youthful face, and wears a white shirt but no jacket or tie. He is surely not a typical representative of the Foreign Office. Canning appears to regard finding a solution to the conflict in the country, which was once Great Britain's wealthiest colony in Southeast Asia but finds itself today in abject poverty, as his own personal mission.
Canning exploits his room for maneuver right up to the limits of what is possible for him as a diplomat. During the uprising, the ambassador constantly gave live interviews to the BBC about the situation in the country. "If the events achieved one thing, then it is the fact that the international community is now united in its condemnation of the regime," he says.
He repeats the word "revulsion" several times. It was the word used by the otherwise very reserved ASEAN, the community of the Southeast Asian states, to condemn its member country Burma over its crackdown on the uprising.
For that reason, Canning believes that the process of dialogue which the United Nations has initiated with the Burmese military regime could soon show its first results. After his arrival in Burma on the weekend, the UN special envoy for Burma Ibrahim Gambari met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest. Then he met Tuesday morning with junta leader Than Shwe in the new capital Naypyidaw.
Canning pins particular hope on the Chinese. The generals could not survive for long without the economic assistance of Burma's northern neighbor. "The Chinese have made it clear to Burma that they want stability and peace on their southern border," says Canning. Admittedly the Chinese aren't talking about democracy, Canning says, but perhaps they can help to establish dialogue between the military and Aung San Suu Kyi. That way, the hunger and misery in Southeast Asia's poorest country could be alleviated -- which is exactly what the demonstrating monks had been demanding from the junta.
Editor's Note: For security reasons we are not naming our correspondents in Burma.


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Q: Multiple level Inheritance Mapping with doctrine 2 I have three entities which are "Addressable" (can have an Address):
Delivery Points
Customers
Distribution Centers
Every Addressable entity also is Geolocatable (has latitude and longitude), but i have entities that are Geolocatable but not Addressable, like  Track Points and Route Points (an ordered sequence of lat and lngs).
What is the best way (please take performance in account, as some tables may have millions of rows), to achieve this with doctrine 2 (using Symfony2 and YAML mapping)?
My question is: what is the best approach for this problem? mapped supperclasses? single table inheritance? multi table inheritance? I didn't get which one is best for this by reading doctrine's docs.
I'm using PostgreSQL, if that matters.

A: This is definitely a situation where composition is a better fit than inheritance.
The language you use to describe the problem is instructive.  You define "Addressable" as "can have and Address, which is different than "A Customer is a type of address".  In the latter case, inheritance would make more sense.
Level zero is just use associations (Address OneToOne Geolocation, Customer OneToOne Address, RoutePoint OneToOne Geolocation), etc).
If you want to perform a set of operations on anything that has an Address, create an interface called Addressable, and have your Customer implement it.
If you're running PHP 5.4, you can use traits to DRY up implementing those interfaces.

A: The fastest option would be not using any table-inheritance at all and mapping all entities to distinct tables but if you want to use table-inheritance for some reason ...
single table inheritance is faster by architecture as there are less joins in the queries ... see this article to get an idea of how table inheritance works/looks ...
metadata is usually cached so there will not be a noticable performance impact between using mapped-superclasses or providing complete mappings (which would be bad in terms DRY) for every single of your entities.
The real performance gain will come from optimizing your queries and caching these and their results.


Well the nursery is almost complete, just waiting on a few shipments from Etsy for finishing touches. It feels so good to have it almost complete. I absolutely love the room and I can't wait to share it with you guys!
One of the first thing I made for the nursery was a little owl pillow. I know you aren't supposed to put anything in the crib with the baby but for now, this little guy is just chilling in the crib waiting for Henley to come along.
I saw this pillow on the make it and love it blog and not only was it totally adorable, she provided a pattern to use. Making this first really helped me create a plan for my giant floor mat owl I made (see here).
I got all of my fabric on Fabric.com, they had the best deals compared to some other places I have seen and their shipping was pretty quick as well. Since the blog site has all of the details of making the pillow, I'll just show you guys some pictures I took during the process.
All of the pieces cut and laid out. This fabric is a super soft minky and since it's a furry texture, sewing the eyes out of it looked terrible so I ended up just using felt. The felt works great and was really easy to work with. (This purple for the wings ended up being hard to work with since it was so furry I ended up using a dark purple dot fabric).
The feet are stuffed and all of the front pieces are sewn together here.
All finished and stuffed---ready for Henley!
This project wasn't too difficult at all, I highly recommend it, especially with the pattern that is provided.
Hope you all have a great week and I'll be back Wednesday with a weekly update!
::Baby G:: Week 28 is Great!


All original deep brass shell DynaSonic, complete with rail, snares etc. Some scratches and a little pitting on the lugs. This '60s model has the correct square snare guards and the correct rail with rubber tips. Also has the Rogers batter head, bottom head is Remo Ambassadore snare head. Maybe not a museum piece because of the little scratches, but certainly a very nice players drum that has all the original and the hard to find parts. The sound is big and fullbodied.


A landmark borough hotel and popular wedding venue is up for sale.
Offers in the region of £2.95m are being taken for the Greyhound in Leigh.
It is being offered for sale by the specialist hotels team at real estate advisors Colliers International, which is acting on behalf of owners Here For You Hospitality Ltd.
Julian Troup, head of UK hotels agency at Colliers International, is managing the sale.
He said: "The property is in an outstanding location, being highly visible on the A580 between Manchester and Liverpool, with a high bed stock and full leisure offering.
The Greyhound has 74 en-suite bedrooms, leisure facilities including a gym, sauna and swimming pool, banqueting and meeting rooms, a pub and restaurant and parking for 135 vehicles.
Colliers said it achieved a turnover of £1.48m in the year ending December 31, 2017.
According to the advisors, the Greyhound attracts both residents and local people to its pub and restaurant, has strong external membership of its leisure facilities and is a popular venue for weddings and events.
Colliers said the hotel provides a great deal of trading potential given its location and popularity, with opportunities to increase trade through more aggressive marketing, targeted refurbishment and potential branding opportunities.
It highlighted the hotel's location on the A580 East Lancs Road and its proximity to Manchester, Liverpool, airports and attractions such as Leigh Sports Village and Haydock Racecourse.
Sporting Lodge, which is owned by Here For You Hospitality Ltd, bought the Greyhound in 2001. After the sale, it announced plans for a lavish refurbishment programme, which included the development of the leisure complex.


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El 27 de junio 2014 - por breakdengue
Dengue's disappearing from Argentina's headlines
Back in 2009, Argentina suffered from its worst ever dengue outbreak. With cases reported in 16 of Argentina's 23 provinces, there were more than 26,000 cases of the disease – and five people died that year.
A year later, the country totally turned this around: healthcare officials reported just 900 cases of dengue in 2010, and as of April 2014, not a single death has been attributed to the disease since then. So what happened? How did Argentina see a 90% reduction in dengue cases between 2009 and 2013?
It's partly thanks to the support of the World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization. With their financial help, Argentina's Ministry of Health has tightened up dengue surveillance, increased public awareness, and has sped up access to treatment. Now the average number of dengue cases stands at around 250 a year, and according to the Ministry of Health, in the first four months of 2014, there were only 27 cases reported in the country.
Even children have been included in the government's health information campaigns, with stories reminding them to turn over any containers that could turn into mosquito breeding grounds.
Argentina is now reaping the benefits of slowing dengue in its tracks at the prevention and the treatment stages. With their success, it wouldn't be surprising if neighboring countries follow their lead.
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