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Our school consists of two different buildings since the beginning of August 2006: "Hundertwasser" and "Melanchthon".
According to Luther and Melanchthon education has to serve the following tasks:
On the one hand, one has to receive the logic, poetry and rhetoric of Aristoteles.
Otherwise the knowledge of foreign languages like Latin, Greek or Hebrew and the subjects mathematics, history and art have a great importance.
According to Luther and Melanchthon the Greeks were "astonishing intelligent and bright people" listening to languages, learning history and playing music with the help of mathematics.
You do not need "only highly educated teachers". The people have to become wise.
Luther was proud of the teachers: "Anybody is able to pay their worthful work as they deserve.
Luther and Melanchthon wanted every child "to be forced by the authorities to go to school."
Luther claimed - apart from the knowledge of words and facts - the comprehensibility of all lessons, a thorough scientific education and respect of teachers. He demanded that the State has to build German schools for boys and girls. In 1530 the council of Lutherstadt Wittenberg decided to found the first school for girls.
"One is not capable to fulfill a function" without a good education.
At first, Luther founded a private school in his house: the "schola privata". The students were allowed to attend school for free, they should observe a planned structure of life and get used to a systematic way of working. They hold the view:
"... A person wanting to teach other people must be highly skilled and very capable."


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Unlicensed Philadelphia Abortion 'Doctor' Gets 6 to 12 Years
Caribbean medical school grad assisted in abortions at Kermit Gosnell's clinic.
By Dan McQuade·	 2/13/2014, 12:15 p.m.
Steven Massof, who testified against "House of Horrors" abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell last year, received a sentence of 6 to 12 years in state prison yesterday.
"I'm not here to make excuses. I'm here to take full responsibility for my actions and my inactions," an emotional Massof, 51, said before being sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner.
Massof, originally from Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty in November 2011 to two counts of third-degree murder in the deaths of two babies and to related crimes.
Massof, an unlicensed medical school graduate from a school in Grenada, testified last April that each procedure was "literally a beheading…. It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place." He could be eligible for parole in as early as three years.
Kermit Gosnell was convicted and is serving three life sentences without parole. Philadelphia magazine writer Steve Volk extensively covered Gosnell's abortion practice last year.
[Daily News]
Kermit Gosnell

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03 Nov 19 to 26 Nov 19
Fans Who Bought Tickets For Days 4 And 5 Of Kolkata Test To Get Refunds
"Felt Like World Cup Final": Ganguly On Atmosphere During Day-Night Test
Chahal Praises "Youngster" Rohit Sharma After He Interviews Pacers
Sourav Ganguly Poses With CAB "Elite Team" Post Successful Pink-Ball Test
India Win Day-Night Test To Complete 2-0 Series Sweep Over Bangladesh
India vs Bangladesh Day-Night Test Gets Underway In Kolkata
India Beat Bangladesh By 30 Runs In 3rd T20I To Clinch Series 2-1
2nd T20I: Rohit Sharma Masterclass Flattens Bangladesh As India Level Series
India vs Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan's Ban Will Affect Team's Performance, Says Bangladesh Coach
Ahead of the first T20I in Delhi, Bangladesh head coach Russel Domingo said that Shakib Al Hasan's ban will affect the visitors' performance in the upcoming series against India.
Written by Ajay Pal Singh
Russel Domingo said that Shakib Al Hasan's absence will affect his team's performance. © Twitter
Bangladesh suffered a huge blow ahead of their tour to India when their premier all-rounder, Shakib Al Hasan, was banned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for not reporting corrupt approaches. Ahead of the first Twenty20 International (T20I) of the three-match series against India, Bangladesh's head coach Russel Domingo said that Shakib Al Hasan's absence will affect his team's performance and it is difficult to replace a player like him. "There's not much we can control. Obviously it (Shakib's ban) affects the team's performance but we need to be focused on the series and the World Cup (T20)," he added.
Bangladesh's head coach highlighted that Shakib's unavailability will cause a selection headache for the visitors.
"He bats at No.3. Often, he opens the bowling, bowls first change, bowls four overs in every game, he is one of our leading batters. So you need to decide whether you replace the batsman or do you replace the bowler."
"Because you can't replace both as it is very difficult to get players who provide both skills. So you might find yourself short in some department and strengthened in one department," Domingo added.
Bangladesh's coach also explained that the final XI will be decided after the team management will assess the condition on the match day.
"It will depend on conditions. If the pitch is flat, we will have an extra bowler and if the pitch does a little, may be have an extra batsman. It is very difficult to fill Shakib's shoes but those available should try their best to get those numbers," he said.
(With PTI inputs)
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Shakib Al Hasan Turns To Football After Being Suspended From Cricket By ICC
India vs Bangladesh: "Will Continue Loving Shakib Al Hasan", Says Mahmudullah
India vs Bangladesh: "Series Will Be 2-1 In Favour Of India", Says VVS Laxman Ahead of Bangladesh T20Is
"Our Cases Different": Banned Former Bangladesh Captain Mohammad Ashraful On Shakib Al Hasan
Shakib Al Hasan's Ban Leads To Protest In Bangladesh


Goa is located on the western coast of India in the coastal belt known as Konkan. Goa was enlightened by the Indian Army from Portuguese colonisation on December 19, 1961 and became a Union Territory along with the enclaves of Daman and Diu. On May 30, 1987 Goa was bestowed statehood and became the 25th state of the Indian Republic.
Goa is encircled by the state of Maharashtra on the north, the state of Karnataka on the south and east. The huge stretch of the Arabian Sea on the west shapes the wonderful shoreline for which Goa is renowned. Popularly known as "Tourist Paradise". The superb picturesque attractiveness and the architectural splendour of its temples, churches and old houses have made Goa a stiff favourite with travellers around the world.
The main food in Goa is fish and rice, both among the Hindus and the Catholics.
Area : 3700 sq. kms.
Altitude : 1022 ft above sea level.
Temperature : 32 0C-21 0C.
Clothing : Summer : Tropical, Winter : Light Woollens.
Language : English, Konkani and Marathi & Hindi.
Airways : Goa is serviced by an international/national airport located at Dabolim near Vasco.
Railways : Well connected by train facility with different cities.
Roadways : An intra-state and inter-state bus network also plays an important role in getting locals and visitors alike in and around Goa.
This exhuberent and wonderful waterfall is located in the high peaks of the Western Ghats at Sanguem taluka and provide a spectacle view to see especially in the monsoons when it is in bursting and enraged flow. The waterfall emerges like tributaries of milk hastening down the edge from a distance. It is a great place for a day packed of excitement and gambol.
The Portuguese terms the city "Panjim" and after freedom it has changed its name to "Panaji". It is the state capital situated on the banks of the Mandovi river. There are two older segments of the city presented today, one identified as "Fontainhas" and the other "Sao Tome". It is an educational, commercial and cultural center of Goa.
In the 16th century, the structure was the palace of Adil Shah (the Sultan of Bijapur). The Portuguese took over the palace and built the Viceregal Lodge in 1615. In 1843, the structure became the Secretariat, and today it is the Passport Office. The Goa Medical College used to be located here (since moved to Bambolim) and so do the Goa College of Pharmacy, the Goa College of Art and the Government Polytechnic. Other noteworthy places are The Kala Academy, and a number of theater complexes, fine government buildings along the riverside boulevard, and the Passport Office.
Beautiful and attractive beaches are the only symbol of Goa. The extensive golden stretch mixes with the blue water of Arabian Sea are ideal for sun bathing and beach parties, sea bathing, sun-tan and water-sports. The following beaches are the most common and unique.
The south Goa beach circuit begins from Margao, the second most important city in Goa. Beginning from Majorda beach, a 20 kms long silvery white sand stretches across till the headland of Cabo de Rama. Velsao, Majorda, Betalbatim, Colva, Benaulim, Varca, Cavelossim, Mobor, Betul and Palolem beaches are all interconnected.
This stretch begins from the headland of Fort Aguada just outside Panaji city and moves up north towards the border to Maharashtra. Right from the Fort Aguada Beach Resort, an interrupted stretch of sand lies awaiting tourists, sunbathers and party animals. Sinquerim, Candolim, Calangute, Baga, Anjuna, Vagator, Morjim, Miramar, Aguada and Arambol are the beaches that can be covered in the North Goa Circuit.
Other attractions in Goa are World Heritage Monument – Basilica of Bom Jesus, Sandy beaches, BITS Pilani Goa Division, National Institute of Ocenography (NIO), Five Star hotels and Resorts with Ayurvedic Massage Centres and Spa.


everyone is going crazy over this. in case you're a n00b and don't know, this is the 'processing key' for all HD-DVDs out currently. this means that linux will now have the ability to decode and play HD movies, as well as facilitate the creation of HD-DVD backup warez. this number cannot be copywritten, so feel free to share!
well my buddy donovan has been learning more and more about flash as his college career progresses. we were discussing the idea of flash games and he decided to attempt to make one. with some minor help/troubleshooting from my end, d has managed to make a pretty sweet first game. check out the beta version of skate-er-guy.
today was a little too interesting not to write about. I woke up and checked to see if the paint was dry on my new computer. I made 3 camouflage stencils that I used on the entire box (including cd/dvd drives, sound blaster audigy, power buttons, EVERYTHING!). I also cut out a toxic symbol as the case window on the door. after putting all the components in, and a brief battle with some jumper settings, it finally turned on and recognized all the devices.
place this code in a file called index.cgi, chmod it to 775, and place it in a directory of html files. this script will pick one of the files in the specified directory at random, and print it to the screen. refresh the page for a new random one.
well the 806 crue has been in full effect once again. this time our mission took us out into the cut, to a place called goulds ohio. there is a mile long train tunnel that has a large open room at the end. nina, pete, and i took some amazing photos. and zak and i reigned supreme as usual. this time i went by the handle "ph33r".


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Folz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Art Foltz (1903–1965), American football player
Hans Folz (c. 1437–1513), German author
Jean-Martin Folz (born 1947), French businessman
Richard E. Folz (1922–1973), American politician
Robert Folz (1910–1996), French medievalist
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Q: Is it safe to exclude Scaffolding packages from publish version? I have Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design nuget in a project.
Can it be safely excluded from publishing (<ExcludeAssets>runtime</ExcludeAssets>)?
Is there scenario, when during runtime, code has dependency on this package?
As I understand this package is used only for generating the code during development.
I don't see any reason to add its dll in published code.

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Is it safe to exclude Scaffolding packages from publish version?

As the package describes,

Code Generation tool for ASP.NET Core. Contains the
dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator command used for generating controllers
and views.

It only works for generating code for views or controllers during developing and the project itself does not depend on the package at runtime.
So it is safe to exclude that nuget package from publishing using your method. And you do not have to worry too much about it.

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Smith Drug Company (SDC) is launching a variety of services designed to give independent retail pharmacies access to offerings and information that have previously only been available to major chains. Under the HealthWise Pharmacysm umbrella, these offerings include a specialty at retail pharmacy network and clinical solutions, consulting services, long term care solutions, market intelligence, OTC merchandising and branding solutions, and an intuitive predictive ordering solution to optimize inventory.
HealthWise Pharmacy®Specialty Network gives local retail pharmacies access to training and programs to provide their patients with specialty pharmaceuticals, customized to the individual patient, for diagnoses including cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV, CID and many others. Highly complex patient care is managed by pharmacists and technicians who have expertise in specialty pharmacy, while the patient stays with the pharmacy team they know and trust. Patient outcomes are improved with greater medication adherence and reduced costs for the patient.
HealthWise Pharmacy®Consulting Solutions has a merchandising-360 element through a partnership with a leading merchandising firm that will ensure pharmacies have the right products, in the right size categories, in the proper places within the front end of the pharmacy for the demographic mix of their communities. HealthWise Pharmacy®Consulting Solutions also provides assistance to pharmacies in staffing optimization through use of an algorithm, as well as to optimize workflow, systems and automation to create the utmost in efficiencies in a pharmacy.
Analytics and predictive modeling are routinely used in large-scale retail to manage inventory, however developing an in-house solution is usually beyond the ability of most independent retailers. HealthWise Pharmacy®Intuitive Purchasing System (IPS) is a next generation inventory optimization tool for retail pharmacy. IPS pharmacies will be able to determine how much and what type of inventory should be maintained so that products are readily available for patients when they are needed.
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HealthWise Pharmacy®Clinical Solutions helps improve retail pharmacies' 5-star ratings. In this program, retail pharmacies have access to many capability partners and solutions that will help them synchronize medications of patients, do outbound refill reminder calls, identify patients who are "outliers" in terms of adherence, and other data mining assistance that can improve the performance level of their pharmacy.


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UP. State Fair starts Monday
Jordan Beck
jbeck@dailypress.net
Jordan Beck | Daily Press Skerbeck Family Carnival Ride Operator Chris Carlisle works on setting up "Rainbow Rock" for the U.P. State Fair Friday. The fair will begin on Monday, Aug. 12 and continue through Sunday, Aug. 18.
ESCANABA — A late-summer tradition will return to the area next week. The Upper Peninsula State Fair will begin Monday, Aug. 12 and continue through Sunday, Aug. 18.
According to Executive Director of the Delta County Chamber of Commerce Vickie Micheau, 2019 is a milestone year for the fair. She said the operation of the event transitioned to the U.P. State Fair Authority that year.
The State of Michigan announced its funding for the U.P. State Fair and Michigan State Fair would end after September 2009.
"People from across the Upper Peninsula did not want to lose this huge asset and tradition and (banded) together to come up with a solution to maintain the fair and have more local control. Through that process, the U.P. State Fair Authority was formed and has been very successful at maintaining and growing the fair for the past decade," Micheau said.
Micheau said attendance for the U.P. State Fair has gone up each year, and she hopes 2019 will once again be a record-setting year for the event. However, she also noted one key element in determining final attendance numbers at the fair is out of her control.
"Weather is a huge factor in the final attendance numbers because most of the fair attractions and activities are outdoors," she said.
Despite this, she said fairgoers can still enjoy the fair's barns and other indoor activities if it rains.
This year, a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new multi-use complex on the U.P. State Fairgrounds will take place at 3 p.m Monday. Micheau noted the completion of the building is not the only improvement that has been made to the fairgrounds for 2019.
"Significant improvements have been made to the camping areas within the fairgrounds. Campsites have been added and are larger as mandated by the Department of Environmental Quality," she said.
Additionally, Micheau said a company will be present at the U.P. State Fairgrounds to handle pre-event cleanup and waste management during the fair.
"Before the crowds arrive, their mission is to bring the facilities into pristine condition and keep them that way during fair week," she said.
Golf cart shuttle services will also be available during the fair this year. These carts will take fairgoers from the gate at 9th Avenue North to the midway and livestock barns.
Midway entertainment options at this year's U.P. State Fair will include the Flying High Pages, the Great Lakes Timber and Lumberjack Show, mARTinez Studio Art Club sand artists, cheese carver Sarah Kaufmann and Woodworks Chainsaw Carvers, along with appearances from Marvel Super Heroes Spider-Man and Captain America on Saturday and Sunday during fair week.
Shows will also be offered at the fair's grandstand each night of the fair. Carly Pearce will perform at the grandstand on Monday, followed by 906 Got Talent on Tuesday, Forgotten Highway on Wednesday, Peacemaker on Thursday, Theory of a Deadman on Friday, Billy Ray Cyrus on Saturday and UPIR Racing and fireworks on Sunday.
"The reaction has been very positive to the lineup this year," Micheau said.
So far, Gold Circle tickets have sold out for Theory of a Deadman and Billy Ray Cyrus. General seating for grandstand entertainment is free with paid admission to the fair.
Other events at the fair will include the crowning of the U.P. State Fair Queen and her court Monday; remarks from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Senior Citizens Day Tuesday; the annual Veteran of the Year award ceremony, a luncheon with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Native American Celebration on Thursday; Ladies Day on Friday; an antique car show and the Junior Market Livestock Auction on Saturday; and Scout Day and family entertainment on Sunday.
Micheau said attending the fair will be an ideal way for people to enjoy one of the last weeks of the season.
"The U.P. State Fair Authority continues the tradition to offer affordable family fun at the U.P. State Fair — the best way to top off summer," she said.
For more information about the event, visit www.upstatefair.net.
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Junior propels Regis Jesuit to state tennis title
Raiders repeat as champions in boys 5A field
jbenton@ColoradoCommunityMedia.com
Morgan Schilling, a junior at Regis Jesuit, accomplished two things on Oct. 19 during the finals of the boys Class 5A state tennis championships at the Gates Tennis Center. First, Schilling won the …
Junior Morgan Schilling of Regis Jesuit returns a backhand shot during the No. 1 singles finals at the Colorado State High School Boys Tennis Championships on Oct. 19 at the Gates Tennis Center. Schilling, a runner-up last season, lost the first two games but won the state title with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Fairview's Luke Silverman which helped Regis capture the state title.
Photo by Jim Benton
Valor Christian sophomore Jack Scherer rallied to capture third place at No. 3 singles Oct. 19 at the Gates Tennis Center. He posted a 4-6, 6-1,6-3 win over Will Jones of Heritage.
Cherry Creek sophomore Matthew Batmunkh returns a volley during his No. 2 singles championship match against Andy Schulling of Regis Jesuit on Oct. 19 at Gates Tennis Center. Schulling won the state title with a 6-4, 6-2 win as the Raiders pulled away from Creek on the final day to win the team title.
Posted Monday, October 21, 2019 11:10 am
Morgan Schilling, a junior at Regis Jesuit, accomplished two things on Oct. 19 during the finals of the boys Class 5A state tennis championships at the Gates Tennis Center.
First, Schilling won the No.1 singles title with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Fairview's Luke Silverman after he was the state runner-up last season.
And second, he helped Regis win its second straight state team title.
"To have all the support and have my family here it was good to win for them and more importantly for the team," said Schilling. "At first I was nervous, I was playing pretty tight. I got my mojo in the second set and started playing more loose and more to win. I think I played pretty well.
"The experience (last season) helped me, just playing in front of crowds with a big stage and the pressure to win. I knew what that felt like, and coming into today, I knew what to do."'
After last season's finals loss to Chatfield's Christian Holmes, Schilling's determination swelled.
"He walked off that court, he set a goal for himself to come back this year and win that state championship for his team," said Regis coach Laura Jones. "Even though we did win the state championship last year, he ended up on the last day with that loss next to his name. He worked super hard with the goal of 'this year I'm going to win the state championship.'"
Schilling's win helped the Raiders outscore perennial power Cherry Creek, 14-6, during the final day of the tournament. Regis held a narrow 69-64 lead when the final round began and finished with an 83-70 advantage over the second-place Bruins in the team standings.
Regis won three of four matches against Creek during the finals.
Andy Schuiling beat Creek's Matthew Batmunkh, 6-4, 6-2 for the No. 2 singles title match. In the No. 3 singles finals, Cameron Kruep downed the Bruins' Nick Svichar, 6-3, 6-2. Alexander Samuelson and Nathan Tolva defeated Creek's Nathan Henden and Ben Zhang, 6-2. 7-2, in the No. 4 doubles finale.
"We played very well considering the circumstances because it was anybody's game to win or lose," Jones said. "I am happy and feel very blessed... (The players) know how to trouble-shoot, they know if something is not going their way to take a breath, look around and figure out a way to make it go better."
Cherry Creek did win two state titles.
Aram Izmirian and Kiril Kostadinov defeated Regis' Grigor Karakelyan and Conner Kaczmarczyk 6-4, 6-2 in the No. 1 doubles final, and the Bruins won at No. 3 doubles when brothers William and Blake Holst defeated Maxim Kokoshinsky and Jake Wicks of Fairview. 7-5, 6-3.
"We were close enough going in to have a fighting chance," said Creek coach Art Quinn. "Our destiny was in our hands to a smaller or larger extent depending on how you look at it. And the finer team prevailed. But it's a long life. The team that prevailed today does not necessarily have to prevail tomorrow. The odds were a little bit longer coming in. Some of the chips fall your way, some of them don't and some of them were never in your pile at all."
Valor Christian was third in the team standings, and the Eagles' No.2 doubles team of Nick Solimene and Truman Osburn downed Mason Heimel and Will Franks of Denver East to the capture state title, 6-2, 6-1.
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While many may not think of Douglas County as a community where students struggle with hunger, a new nonprofit has been formed to address just that situation. Highlands Ranch resident June Everett …
Pair of Highlands Ranch artists adorn school with giant mural
A massive, colorful collage of Red Rocks, the Rocky Mountains, Denver and a giant elk now adorn the stairwell of Highlands Ranch High School thanks to two seniors who completed the mural during their …
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Q: Upserting with SQLAlchemy into Postgres to Table with a '.' in the name I am trying to upsert into a postgres table where some of the columns have a '.' in their name.
example column names: country.name.
It would be best not to change the column name.
When I try to do this I get an error.
def upsert(df: DataFrame, engine: sql_engine) -> None:
  with engine.connect() as conn:
    base = automap_base()
    base.prepare(engine, reflect=True, schema="some_schema")
    table1= Table('table1', base.metadata,
                      autoload=True, autoload_with=engine, schema="some_schema")
    stmt = insert(table1).values(df.to_dict('records'))
    conn.execute(stmt.on_conflict_do_update(
        constraint='table1_pkey',
        set_=dict(country.name=stmt.excluded.country.name
                  )))

I get the following error:
SyntaxError: expression cannot contain assignment, perhaps you meant "=="?

I was trying to follow this recipe which was working fine until the name of the columns had a '.'
https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/dialects/postgresql.html#updating-using-the-excluded-insert-values
Any tips?

A: The sqlalchemy statement contains a excluded field where all the columns are, if you use this then it will work.
I created a "updated_dict" where all the columns names and object are from the excluded column. I filter out the primary keys.
This way it won't matter how the name of the columns are constructed.
def upsert(df: DataFrame, engine: sql_engine) -> None:
  with engine.connect() as conn:
    base = automap_base()
    base.prepare(engine, reflect=True, schema="some_schema")
    table1= Table('table1', base.metadata,
                      autoload=True, autoload_with=engine, schema="some_schema")
    stmt = insert(table1).values(df.to_dict('records'))

    update_dict = {
        c.name: c
        for c in stmt.excluded
        if not c.primary_key
        }

    conn.execute(stmt.on_conflict_do_update(
        constraint='table1_pkey',
        set_=update_dict ))


The mind can be a great and funny thing, and it can show you how to get over your ex girlfriend.
You can think the past is behind you like you got over that girl.
Heck you have even moved on with your new sweet honey love.
Then for no particular reason your ex springs to mind .
How to get over your ex girlfriend ?
Most often it is correct to assume.
That the person with whom you start a relationship had former lovers.
Most people want to feel assured that past loves, romances and marriages are over and done.
Naturally, the one exception is if a man or woman has children with their former partner.
That makes contact with the former partner inevitable and naturally understandable.
Most people would assume a the start of a relationship each partner is free and single.
It is kind of one of the requirements to be able to start a relationship for most people.
Researchers at Stanford University found people tend to "carry a heavier burden from rejection".
When they feel that who they are as a person has been revealed or exposed.
When we love someone truly we open up to them in an act of vulnerability.
Sometimes this revealing does not get reciprocated.
And few things in life are more traumatic than being rejected by someone we loved.
Decide that she no longer care for you or wants to be with you.
Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford, said in a statement.
The experience of being left by someone who thought that they loved you.
Then learned more and changed their mind.
Can be a particularly potent threat to the self.
And can drive people to question who they truly are.
This heavy burden of rejection can be devastating.
Taking its toll on the person and taking some time to get over.
It can take months years or even decades in some cases.
So what can you do to and how to get over your ex girlfriend ?
Sometimes, the reasons why someone can't get over an ex-partner.
Can be a little more complicated than just the rejection.
Perhaps it is not the heavy burden of rejection but the heavy burden of unrequited Love.
It is hard to accept when someone doesn't want you anymore.
It is like an attack on your person or your ego.
It can feel like you have failed miserably at something.
And it is really hard to accept when something does not work out between you.
Our lives are an accumulation of our loves as well as our lost loves.
Like the assumption that your partner would have had former lovers.
We can assume that those relationships likewise, did not work out.
Why is it that some can remain in mind, long after they have finished ?
Sometimes we decide who we want to date on the back of that.
And base what we look for on avoiding the failures of previous relationships.
Perhaps instead of focusing on what we did not like about our former lovers.
It might be more helpful to focus on what we liked about how we loved them.
This shift of focus from the picture of our former lovers to how we loved them.
Can be enough to get some distance and to stop bringing them to mind so often.
As the adage goes, we never fall in love the same way twice.
Or with the same person.
And remembering the love instead of the lover can be helpful.
When you are struggling with how to get over your ex girlfriend.
Very few would wish to absolutely obliterate the memories of an ex.
Well maybe there are a few who have tried to block out those memories.
With blackouts brain damage and black label vodka.
That is no way to deal with the pain associated with them.
It is just a substitute for another kind of pain.
The mind can bring in a safety mechanism to deal with those painful memories.
It reminds us of the good memories and fails to balance them with the painful ones.
That accumulation of memories or internal images of lovers contributes to a richer internal world.
These images represent the scope of our loving self.
We are revealed to ourselves through our relationships good and bad.
Maybe in some ways all loves are important in allowing us to experience ourselves as loving.
We are strengthened by the variety of ways in which we can recall ourselves as loving.
But in the end we can be left with an unbalanced view of those relationships in memory.
They can seem better in memory or hindsight.
Than they were in actuality.
The grass may seem greener in memory.
This can be to the detriment of our present relationships.
We can suffer from the actuality of living them.
And the past relationships and partners.
Can be polarized by the recollection of the good times and memories we have of them.
When our present relationships fail to meet our expectations.
We can find and meet those expectations in the past.
Where everything is rosy sweet smelling and without the thorns.
A place where those times, dates, people and places we recall meet those expectations.
They meet our needs and desires without fail.
At least in memory they do, or the way we recall them they do.
A whole world away from the real thing of actually living them.
It is much the same as the way printed photographs started out in the early days.
They required the light to be good, for them to show up properly.
This meant that the majority of photographs were taken on sunny days.
Holidays and days at the beach were the normal subject and framing for them.
But in looking back through the photo albums it was all sunny and light.
No photos of the days you got caught out in the rain and soaked to the bone.
This is the way the mind frames the memories of the ex.
Think positive if it wasn't meant to be it was not meant to be.
There were obviously reasons why you are not together.
For every moment you are recalling the pleasant memories of your ex.
Memories like how she could not cook to save her life.
Or the fact that when she did she used every utensil in the kitchen.
And the way she left you to clean up after the disaster.
Maybe she was too flirty with your mates.
Or caused problems between you and your mates.
So recalling that aspect of her nature will balance the nostalgic and longing.
Try not to think of the moments you both had.
Start by removing all those pictures on your phone or on the internet.
Social media following of your ex has been shown to bring on increased negative feelings.
Negative feelings like jealousy and resentment.
Increasing these negative feelings is not how to get over your ex girlfriend.
So give yourself a break if you are watching her feeds this will only cause you pain.
If you are still friends as in you can still see her feeds.
But perhaps you two are not on speaking or even texting terms.
It is time to move on away from that medium.
Block, unfollow, unfriend or even set up a new account.
You need to limit the amount of information, time and energy spent given over to her.
And the internet can take as much time as you can give it.
Perhaps you need to start limiting time spent with certain friends that you have in common.
They will only lead you to remember her.
Anything that may have her stamp on it the house has to be put away.
This would include letters postcards gifts clothes whatever could remind you of her.
If you are too sentimental, put all in a box seal it and give it to a friend or bring it to your parents.
Just to make sure you do not have access or won't open that box.
Avoid going to the same places you both used to and start exploring new paths.
This means avoiding the places you may have had dates in.
Or places you may know where she is liable to hang out.
It is time to find new places.
Any place that had memories associated with your ex need to be off limits.
It is time to do the things you always wanted to do.
But you didn't because she didn't like the idea, fancy a karate class?
It's great fun and you will start making a new circle of friends.
It will have the added benefit of keeping you fit and will keep your mind focused.
At least this will be a couple of hours where your ex won't be in your head.
Not keen on the idea of martial arts?
What about a cooking class?
Or any other class for that matter.
The library has always lots of things a person can do.
Cultural exchange learn a new language and so on.
You need to keep your mind from thinking about your ex keep busy, stay occupied.
Stay surrounded by people who care about you.
Visit all those friends you weren't able to when you were with your ex.
You can go away for a weekend with your current partner.
Make them the focus of your life.
Weekends away and any activities you can do together.
They are a great way to increase your bond.
Getting out together and doing new things with your current partner.
You must make that effort.
Go shopping together for new wardrobe that can keep the spirits up.
You need to make some changes to make sure the thought of your ex is pushed from your mind.
In order to help with how to get over your ex girlfriend.
Make a conscious decision to change your mind and get over your ex girlfriend.
You will see that each day you will think less and less about your ex.
Until someday soon you will realise that you have not thought of her for days.
And so it will go into the area for memories rarely accessed.
Remember who you used to be before you met your ex.
You were able to live without her then.
And you are still capable of doing the same now.
The most amazing thing about a human being is that we are able to adapt to any environment.
And the mind is a very resilient thing.
That just takes a little training to change.
Studies show that a period of twenty one days of consistent training is enough.
Enough to change thought patterns and habits that you have formed.
To change how we think and even how we feel about things.
It takes time and effort, but you can do it.
A months of holidays trekking in the mountains or jungles would be enough to do it.
The thing is you just have to put your mind to it.
Shift focus on to something else someone else and it is possible.
Any thing is possible if you put your mind to it.
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Ziggy Sears
John William Sears
Born: 1 / 10 / 1892 at Central City, KY (US)
Died: 12 / 16 / 1956 at Houston, TX (US)
Stats: • Retrosheet
This article was written by Bruce Bumbalough
John William "Ziggy" Sears was a minor-league outfielder from 1912 to 1928, a Texas League umpire from 1929 to 1934, a National League umpire from 1934 to 1945, a Pacific Coast League umpire in 1946, a scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, a Texas League umpire from 1948 to 1951, and an actor in two baseball movies in 1948 and 1949.
Sears was born in Central City, Kentucky, to George T. and Mattie Sears on January 10, 1892. His father was a coal miner, a trade Ziggy Sears practiced briefly before attending college and then becoming a professional baseball player. He attended Western Kentucky State Normal School from 1910 to 1911. The college later became Western Kentucky University.1
Sears' baseball career began in 1912 when he played for the Winchester Hustlers/Nicholasville Orphans/Mount Sterling Orphans in the Class-D Blue Grass League. In 1913 and 1914, Sears played for Owensboro in the Class-D Kentucky-Illinois-Tennessee (Kitty) League, for Marshalltown in the Class-D Central Association, and for Streator in the Class-D Illinois-Missouri League. Sears married Hazel Phillips on February 2, 1915. That year, the 5-foot-11, 198-pound outfielder was with Streator and Marshalltown.
In 1916, while playing for Clinton in the Central Association, Sears was almost called up by the Detroit Tigers. Detroit purchased his contract, but a leg injury prevented him from joining the team. He stayed with Clinton and also played for the Central Association's Dubuque/Charles City franchise in 1917, the year his son Kenneth was born.
Sears' rise to fame began in 1918 when he began playing for stellar manager Jake Atz and the Fort Worth Panthers of the then Class-B Texas League. Atz was one of the best minor-league managers ever. The teams he managed in the Texas League won 1,566 games and lost 1,221. Both are the top marks for any manager in the league. His teams won six consecutive Texas League championships from 1920 to 1925 and five of six Dixie Series championships in those years. The Panthers finished second to Dallas in 1917 and 1918. They compiled the best record in the league in 1919 but lost to Shreveport in the playoffs.2
Atz gave Sears his nickname when Sears reported to the Panthers. Sears announced his name as John, but Atz decried there would be no "Johns" on his team. Atz's given name was John Jacob. Recalling a pitcher named Ziggy Shears, who had tried out for the Panthers the previous season, Atz gave Sears the moniker and forever branded Sears as Ziggy.3
Sears, a left-handed-hitting outfielder with good speed, most often played left field. From 1918 to 1926, he hit .290 with 277 doubles, 31 triples, and 87 home runs. He played in 1,256 games for the Panthers in those years. He also played for Fort Worth in 1927, but that data is not available. Sears' best season was 1925 when he hit .321 with 35 doubles, 2 triples, and 23 home runs. In a game against San Antonio in May 1925 he drove in 11 runs. Panthers team secretary Paul LaGrave valued Sears so highly that in 1926 he arranged for the outfield sod at old Panther Park to be moved to the new Panther Park, being built a few blocks east of the old park.4 He sought to protect Sears' fragile ankles with the move.5
Sears played for Waco, Shreveport, and San Antonio in his final two seasons. At the end of the 1928 season, he asked Texas League President J. Doak Roberts for a job as an umpire, and Roberts accommodated him. Sears umpired in the Texas League until July of 1934, when he was hired by the National League.6
Sears was selected to work the 1935 All-Star Game after less than one full season in the National League. He also umpired in the 1938 and 1944 World Series. Illness prevented him from working the 1943 World Series. He stayed in the National League until the end of the 1945 season when he suffered a broken foot in the final game of the year.
In the book Nice Guys Finish Last, Leo Durocher related a story in which he got an ejection by Sears overturned. On August 16, 1945, Sears booted Durocher, then the Brooklyn Dodgers manager, for arguing balls and strikes. Durocher claimed he wasn't arguing Sears' call, but rather seeking clarification on it. On an appeal by Durocher, National League President Ford Frick overturned the ejection and Durocher said that Frick levied a fine on Sears. A few months later the league released Sears.7
Sears and Durocher had a rocky relationship. Sears ejected Durocher eight times between 1938 and 1945, including twice in the final months of the 1945 season. Sears led the league in ejections that year with eight.
The events that led to Sears' departure from the National League are unknown. Did he quit or was he fired? Did the number of ejections he made in his final season cause too much trouble for Ford Frick and the National League powers? Was the foot injury enough to bring the then 53-year-old Sears to thoughts of retirement? Did the hearing and fine combine with the injury and the exhaustion of an umpire at the end of a long season enough to bring Sears to seek his release?
Regardless, Ziggy Sears returned to baseball the following season. He worked in 1946 as an umpire in the Pacific Coast League, and then scouted for the Pirates in 1947 before returning to the Texas League as an umpire from 1948 to 1951.8
Sears appeared briefly in two baseball films in 1948 and 1949. The first was The Babe Ruth Story, starring William Bendix as Ruth. The film credits listed Sears as an umpire. Film critics generally regarded the movie as one of the worst baseball films ever produced. Leonard Maltin called it "perfectly dreadful."9 Bosley Crowther, longtime film critic for the New York Times, said it was "a wallow in sloppy sentiment."10
As Crowther noted, the film presents Ruth as a naïve, lovable man-child prone to acting on impulse, often to his detriment. It is a sanitized and heavy-handed version of Ruth's life and career. Bendix was right-handed and had no athletic ability. His efforts at baseball were comically amateurish. Ruth was, of course, left-handed and a great athlete. The picture of Ruth as the hard-drinking, womanizing, shrewd businessman was almost totally absent from the film.11
Sears also appeared, this time uncredited, in The Stratton Story. James Stewart played Monty Stratton. June Allyson played Stratton's wife, Ethel. Monty Stratton was a White Sox pitcher who came up in 1934 and established himself as a rising star. He had a career record of 36-23 with an ERA of 3.71 at the end of the 1938 season. Stratton accidentally shot himself while hunting in Texas in November of 1938. Doctors amputated his leg and provided him with a wooden prosthesis. After fighting through a bout of self-pity, Stratton learned to walk with the artificial leg and then to pitch. He eventually returned to the low minor leagues in Texas, where he pitched for seven seasons. Bill Dickey and Jimmy Dykes appeared in the film as themselves and Cleveland Indians pitching star Gene Bearden appeared as a pitcher for an All-Star minor-league team. Douglas Morrow, co-author of the screenplay, won an Oscar for the Best Writing, Motion Picture Story for his work on the film.12
In 1951 Sears suffered vision damage when he was hit by a thrown ball while working an exhibition game between the Dallas Eagles of the Texas League and the Milwaukee Brewers of the American Association. He retired from the game at the end of the season. He lived out his life in Houston and died there of a heart attack on December 16, 1956. His remains rest in Forest Park Cemetery in Houston.
Ken "Little Ziggy" Sears followed his father into baseball. He was a mascot for the Fort Worth Panthers as a child and attended the University of Alabama from 1936 to 1938. He signed with the St. Louis Cardinals as a catcher. By 1943 he was in the New York Yankees organization. Debuting in the major leagues on May 2, 1943, Sears played in 60 games, batting .278 with two home runs and 22 RBIs. Sears was in the US Navy in 1944 and 1945.13 He played in seven games for the St. Louis Browns in 1946, hitting .333 with no home runs and one RBI. He finished his baseball career with Little Rock (Southern Association) and San Antonio (Texas League) in 1947 and Borger (West Texas-New Mexico League) in 1949.
After retiring from baseball, Ken Sears became a train engineer for the Rock Island Railroad. He died in Bridgeport, Texas, on July 17, 1968.14 He is buried in Greenwood Memorial Park, Fort Worth.15
This biography originally appeared in "From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors" (SABR, 2018), edited by Rob Edelman and Bill Nowlin.
In addition to the sources cited in the Notes, the author also consulted Retrosheet and Baseball-Reference.com.
1 1900 US Federal census for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky; 1910 US Federal census for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky; The History of WKU (wku.edu/wkuhistory), accessed June 23, 2016.
2 2016 Texas League Media Guide and Record Book. The Dixie Series was a postseason playoff between the champions of the Texas League and the Southern Association. It was played from 1920 to 1958.
3 John Sears file, Giamatti Research Center, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.
4 A team secretary in those days was equivalent to a general manager today.
5 John Sears file, Giamatti Research Center.
7 Leo Durocher and Ed Linn, Nice Guys Finish Last (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975), 197-198.
9 Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2004 (New York: Plume, 2003).
10 New York Times, August 1, 1948.
11 The Babe Ruth Story, Internet Movie Database (imdb.com), accessed June 23, 2016.
12 The Stratton Story, Internet Movie Database (imdb.com), accessed June 23, 2016.
13 The Sporting News, January 13, 1944.
14 Fort Worth Press, July 18, 1968.
15 Ken Sears Memorial, Findagrave (findagrave.com), accessed June 23, 2016.


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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
See all articles by Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya
Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Christina Gathmann
Alfred-Weber Institut; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
Grant Miller
Stanford University - School of Medicine; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Date Written: December 2012
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates an alternative explanation: the demise of the 1985-1988 Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign. Using archival sources to build a new oblast-year data set spanning 1978-2000, we find a variety of evidence suggesting that the campaign's end explains a large share of the mortality crisis - implying that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as lethal as commonly suggested.
Bhattacharya, Jayanta and Gathmann, Christina and Miller, Grant, The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis (December 2012). NBER Working Paper No. w18589. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2186319
Jayanta Bhattacharya (Contact Author)
Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research ( email )
Center for Health Policy
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Trying to find a recipe my Oma made when I was little. She called the bread Landbrot, and the other was Funfkornbrot.
Would love to make this, but her recipes were never wrote down.
Hope some one out there can help!
I am afraid, it won't be easy to find a recipe that tastes the same like the bread your Oma made. With more than 300 different kinds of German bread varieties, a Landbrot is slightly different in German regions.
Like Bauernbrot, Landbrot is a hearty rye/wheat mix bread with variable fractions of rye and wheat flour. The crust is often dark brown, but the bread is not as dark inside.
The top photo is what we call a Roggenmischbrot (rye/wheat mix), Landbrot or Bauernbrot.
Fünfkornbrot or Mehrkornbrot is bread that is baked with different types of flour, wheat, rye, barley, spelt. Sesame, sunflower and/or pumpkin seeds are added additionally.
Although I love to bake, I have never made bread myself, so I won't offer you a recipe that is not tested. Hopefully, other readers add their German bread recipes and you'll find one that comes close to your Oma's bread.
Same as Landbrot, you can buy it there.
http://backereidohring.com/2.html is what you are looking for.
Vicki: do not show me only pictures of good German bread, tell me where I can buy it.


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Q: can install TeamViewer 10 & 11 on Macintosh at same time? Teamviewer 11 is installed onto a Macintosh via an installer application.  I think Teamviewer 10 is erased as the new version is installed.
And that's not counting any resources in System Folders (e.g. "/Library/") that get installed or overwritten.
I know they can't run at the same time, but does anyone know if Teamviewer 10 & Teamviewer 11 can co-exist on a Macintosh at the same time?

A: Long story short, no. TeamViewer can be downgraded to an earlier version, but can't install two versions side by side. It will overwrite each time you attempt to install it.
Two potential options to solve your problem:

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*Find a portable edition of one or both versions. TeamViewer does not make a portable version for Mac, but there might be a portable executable that someone has created somewhere out on the internet.

*Run the other version in a virtual machine. You can use Parallels to set this up.


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HOME / FIND BEACHES / DODECANESE
The Dodecanese (/doʊdɪkəˈniːz/; Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa, [ðoðeˈkanisa]; literally 'twelve islands') are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in theAegean Sea, of which 26 are inhabited. Τhis island group generally defines the eastern limit of the Sea of Crete. They belong to the Southern Sporades island group. They have a rich history, and many of even the smallest inhabited islands boast dozens ofByzantine churches and medieval castles.
The most historically important and well-known is Rhodes (Rodos), which, for millennia, has been the island from which the region is controlled. Of the others, Kos and Patmosare historically more important; the remaining nine are Astipalea, Kalimnos, Karpathos,Kasos, Leros, Nisyros, Symi, Tilos and Kastelorizo (which actually lies in the eastern Mediterranean). Other islands in the chain include Agathonisi, Alimia, Arkoi, Chalki, Farmakonisi, Gyali, Kinaros, Levitha, Lipsi, Nimos, Pserimos, Saria, Syrna and Telendos.
Agathonísi (Greek: Αγαθονήσι) is a small Greek island and municipality located at the northernmost point of the Dodecanese in Greece. It is surrounded by many smaller islands and is home to two villages, both inland; Megálo Chorió ("Big Village"), and Mikró Chorió ("Small Village").
The Greek Mediterranean island Alimia (Greek Αλιμιά (f sg)), and Almia, mostly Alimnia (Greek Αλιμνιά) is part of the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean.
Arkoi (Greek: Αρκοί) is a small Greek island which is part of the Dodecanese archipelago. It is situated in the eastern Aegean Sea, close to the Turkish Aegean Coast.
Astypalaia (Greek: Αστυπάλαια, pronounced [astiˈpalea]), called in Italian Stampalia, is a Greek island with 1,238 residents (2001 census). It belongs to the Dodecanese, an island group of twelve major islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
Kalymnos, (Greek: Κάλυμνος) is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese and is located to the west of the peninsula of Bodrum (the ancient Halicarnassos), between the islands of Kos(south, at a distance of 12 km) and Leros (north, at a distance of less than 2 km): the latter is linked to it through a series of islets.
Karpathos (Greek: Κάρπαθος) is the second largest of the Greek Dodecaneseislands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smallerSaria Island it forms the municipality Karpathos, which is part of the Karpathos regional unit.
Kasos (also Kassos; Greek: Κάσος) is a Greek island municipality in theDodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea, and is part of theKarpathos regional unit.
Kastelorizo (Greek: Καστελόριζο - Kastelorizo, officially Μεγίστη - Megisti) is a Greek island and municipality located in the southeastern Mediterranean. It lies roughly 2 km (1 mi) off the south coast of Turkey, about 570 km southeast of Athensand 125 km (78 mi) east of Rhodes, almost halfway between Rhodes and Antalyaand 280 km (170 mi) to Cyprus. Kastelorizo is part of the Rhodes regional unit.
Kos or Cos (Greek: Κως) is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of theDodecanese, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos. The island measures 40 kilometres (25 mi) by 8 kilometres (5.0 mi), and is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the coast ofBodrum, Turkey, and the ancient region of Caria.
Leipsoi (Greek: Λειψοί, also: Lipsi) is an island south of Samos and to the north ofLeros in Greece. It is well serviced with ferries passing between Patmos and Leros and on the main route for ferries from Piraeus.
Leros (Greek: Λέρος) is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies 317 km (171 nautical miles) from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 11-hour ferry ride (or by a 45-minute flight from Athens). Leros is part of the Kalymnos regional unit. The island has been also called in Italian: Lèro
Nisyros (Greek: Νίσυρος) is a volcanic Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between the islands of Kos and Tilos. Its shape is approximately round, with a diameter of about 8 km (5 mi), and an area of 41.6 km2 (16.062 sq mi). Several other islets are found in the direct vicinity of Nisyros, the largest of which is Gyali.
Patmos (Greek, Πάτμος; Italian: Patmo) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. One of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex, it has a population of 2,984 and an area of 34.05 km2 (13.15 sq mi). The highest point is Profitis Ilias, 269 metres (883 ft) above sea level.
Rhodes (Greek: Ρόδος, Ródos, [ˈroðos]) is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital.
Ro or Rho (Greek: Ρω) is a small Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea nearKastelorizo, close to the Turkish coast. It is part of the municipality of Megísti (Kastelorizo), in the Dodecanese prefecture.
Symi also transliterated Syme or Simi (Greek: Σύμη) is a Greek island andmunicipality. It is mountainous and includes the harbor town of Symi and its adjacent upper town Ano Symi, as well as several smaller localities, beaches, and areas of significance in history and mythology.
Halki (Greek: Χάλκη; alternatively Chalce or Chalki) is a Greek island andmunicipality in the Dodecanese archipelago in the Aegean Sea, some 6 km (4 mi) west of Rhodes. With the area of 28 km2 (11 sq mi), it is the smallest inhabited island of Dodecanese.
Tílos (Greek: Τήλος; ancient form: Telos) is a small Greek island and municipalitylocated in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, and lies midway between Kos and Rhodes. It has a population of 533 inhabitants (2001 census).
Pserimos (Greek: Ψέριμος Δωδεκανήσου) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Kos in front of the coast of Turkey. It is part of the municipality of Kálymnos, and reported a population of 130 inhabitants at the 2001 census.


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WATERAGRI and Water is attracted to Water
WATERAGRI is taking an innovative approach to public engagement, collaborating with theatre and film makers to connect to a wider public over the course of the project. Drawing on current research into experiential engagement in marketing and the arts, WATERAGRI not only aims to engage with stakeholders in the agricultural world but to connect with the wider public engaging their curiosity and enthusiasm for sustainable solutions in agricultural production, food security, and water.
Water is Attracted to Water is an interdisciplinary theatre show about the human relationship with water. Professor Miklas Scholz, WATERAGRI co-ordinator is collaborating with theatre-maker Kate Adams as a scientific consultant and performer in her show in which some of the key issues relating to water and sustainable practices are introduced.
The show is aimed at a non-specialist audience including teenagers and adults and will be touring from 2021. It aims to help people reconnect with water and the significance of it in our world, as the performers sing songs, tell stories about water science, remember the floods, and do the water molecule dance.
Water is Attracted to Water is an exploration of how playfulness and joy can still be part of our lives as we struggle to confront difficult truths, and how we can find positive perspectives by learning about current research and engaging people's curiosity.
The show is accompanied by participatory workshops, discussions and audiences can also learn the water molecule dance to raise awareness. New tour dates available soon.
Film has been performed and awarded at lot of festivals. The full list of festivals and awards is:
Environment and Climate short award: Kiez Berlin Film Festival, Germany.
Best Eco Film: Golden Giraffe International Film Festival, France.
Best Eco Work: Masters of Cinema, Italy.
Best Eco Film: Amsterdam Freedom Independent IFF, Holland.
Dancing Story Award: Cinema Verde: International Environmental Film and Arts Festiva, USA
Official selection: Resurge: Canadian Film Festivals for a Liveable Climate
Official selection: SEFF Smaragni Ecofilm Festival, Croatia.
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excellent service & price, perfect for our boat.
Brilliant, next day service. Good website - plenty of information and easy to order.
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Essential protection if the worst happens. We have a few of these around the house now.
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Excellent delivery and easy installation - hope it's never used!
looks good, thankfully not used.
Easy to fit bracket to wall and good value for money but fortunately not had to use it.
Well made, high spec, great price!
I hopefully won't know how it performs but it looks fine.


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Q: Close children of child form I have main form which is MDI parent.
Inside I opened second (same solution, different project) form like this:
Dim f As New mynevproj.frm_list
With f
  .MdiParent = Me
  .Show()
End With

In those new form (frm_list) I open another new form in few instances:
Dim fa As New frm_art1
With fa
  .StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual
  .Location = New Point(Me.Location.X + 20 + (inst * 20), Me.Location.Y))
   AddHandler .aClosed, AddressOf frm_artikl_Closed
  .Show()
End With

What happens?
When I open few instances of frm_art1 and then closes frm_list I expect that all frm_art1 will be closed in order to closing frm_list.
But that doesn't happen.
Every time I click (X) to close frm_list one instance of frm_art1 closes and finally when all frm_art1 was closed then frm_frm_list closes.
How to get that all forms opened through frm_list closes when I close frm_list.
This works good in non MDI enviroinment.
Now I try additionally this in form_closing of frm_list:
For Each frm As Form In My.Application.OpenForms
  If frm.Name = "frm_art1" Then
    frm.Close()
  End If
Next

And this also doesn't work!

A: Try making the frm_list the owner of the other forms:
Dim fa As New frm_art1
With fa
  .StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual
  .Location = New Point(Me.Location.X + 20 + (inst * 20), Me.Location.Y))
  AddHandler .aClosed, AddressOf frm_artikl_Closed
  .Owner = Me
  .Show()
End With


September's energies were about completion as it held the vibration of the number 9. October, therefore is a time of new beginnings. October holds the vibration of the number 10. The number 10 is actually the rebirth of number 1. However, in this life, 1 is no longer standing alone. The number 1 has now gained the spiritual power that is represented in the mystical number 0 that now stands with it.
From a spiritual perspective, 1 is the number of creation. The number 1 resonates with the vibrations and attributes of new beginnings, independence, uniqueness, motivation, ambition, positivity and intuition. '0' has no beginning and no end, so represents infinity, wholeness and shows us separation doesn't exist. This is basically the new beginning we are moving into! An action based energy that is motivated by our intuition and positive thoughts with an underlying foundation of support knowing that we are all connected.
This month's energy is not necessarily about starting something completely new, although that may be the case, it can also be about building on what we have already been working on throughout 2018.
What I have found interesting over the last couple of months is that we are also living in a Chaos cycle right now, which has really shown itself in a big way during September. This Chaos cycle seems to be happening everywhere and to everyone!
Chaos cycles are a part of life here on Earth. They are energetic patterns that actually help us transform. Chaos is normally a precursor to a new beginning, although it may not feel like that at the time!
Chaos can be stressful and can unbalance our energy fields, yet we need chaos to bring in change. Chaos cycles happen when we have maxed out our potential, and we need to go through a huge change to get to a new space within. All the things happening in the world remind me of the Tower card in the Tarot. Everything feels and looks a bit like it is falling apart and it kind of is! Without disruption something new can't be born, therefore chaos actually brings in new choices and a new destiny.
The good news is that once we work our way through this Chaos cycle transformation will occur. Chaos brings empowerment.
I am having a lot of building work done on my home, which entails knocking down walls and replacing floors! This is chaotic as everything looks a mess and there is a huge amount of dust! We are all living at my Dad's house while this is being done, so I feel a little unstable too! However, once the building work has finished I will have a lovely new open kitchen and my floors will be secure! So, the chaos needs to happen to transform my home into a safe, clean and wonderful space! My Dad is also not very well at the moment, so the timing is perfect as usual, as I can help him while I am living here.
My Dad's illness has also brought up emotions and with everything going on my life it has felt rather chaotic! This has been an amazing lesson in how to let go of control (one of my biggest challenges) and attachment to the material (for me this is my home). This has taught me in a big way about surrender, interestingly about boundaries & responsibilities and also gratitude! Disruption needs to happen for the good stuff to be able to come in. For me all of this external chaos has changed my perspective and I have had let go of some old fears and beliefs. Chaos makes us shift, so even though I have not enjoyed this process, it has helped me shift old behaviours and patterns and I actually feel freer than I did before because I have had to surrender and let go!
We can also see this happening throughout the world with the massive Earth shifts that have created the earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis and typhoons. Awful destruction and loss of life has occurred, which is terrible, but all of this chaos is bringing people together, opening hearts and helping people become communities again.
Many people around the world feel isolated and sometimes great shame comes up when we need help and intense guilt for reaching out for it. We have a strong desire to achieve success on our own. A sense of community that is forming, not just due to the Earth shifts, but also social changes such as the #Me Too movement, has led to us feeling more accepted, which in turn brings about a deeper connection with our true selves. We will see a lot more Earth shifts this year as well as social changes as this is just the beginning.
We are transitioning energetically, spiritually and physically. Even though this month is a new beginning, you may find you are still living with the old while embracing the new for a while yet. We are moving into the unknown and expanding individually as well as collectively. It is uncomfortable and we need to find the courage within to move forward and embrace it.
One astrological event happening this month will actually help us face the new is Venus being in retrograde between 5th October and 16th November. This is a big event as it only occurs every 1.5 years! Venus is the planet of love, so relationships and all matters to do with the heart will be amplified around this time. This period is an important time for self-reflection around the values we place on our relationships and also with the relationship we have with ourselves.
One of the main things to observe this month about relationships is understanding where there is drama! If there is drama in a relationship or a few of them, ask yourself why it is there. Do you enjoy the drama? What feelings does this bring up? Venus retrograde will shine a light on our relationships and can help us to re-evaluate, change our behaviors and help us to release any old emotions within our hearts. Take the time to look deeply at how loved you feel, how much love you are giving to others and where you can improve on both aspects as giving and receiving love are just as important as each other! Also check in with yourself and see if you are giving yourself enough love too! This will also help to highlight any areas of our lives that are perhaps lacking in joy, so take the time to look at all aspects such as work relationships as well as family, friends and romantic ones.
This all links into the Chaos cycle we are going through as 'community' is a key theme for our transformation. The connection we have with others help us to feel accepted and loved. This brings about a deeper connection with our true self and Source as the reflection we see in others helps us to understand the truth.
We have a lovely New Moon on 8th October which helps expand the energy by increasing opportunities and will help us move more easily into our new beginnings! This is a great time to clear your energy with a salt bath and sage your home to clear out the old ready to bring in the new! It also feels good to program a crystal with a specific intention to help us cope with change or set an intention about a goal we want to manifest this year. I shall be doing this myself on the New Moon as the energy feels so good to help us move forward!
We also have the 10/10 gateway on 10th October, which will hold a powerful energy to help us build on our dreams and goals. Use the energy of the 10/10 gateway to focus positive thoughts on what you desire and when visualizing these desires with excitement and joy, also say these words out loud "Please show me the way forward" and then let it go like a rocket straight out into the Universe! This will help bring in the guidance you need for the next steps of your journey as the energy of 10/10 will be very magnetic, so be very conscious of the Law of Attraction on this day and keep your thoughts positive!
I am holding an event on 10/10 for the Chaos Flush attunement, which is by donation as all my attunement events are (min £1) and includes healing for all who join. You can also receive the attunement energy after the event, so you don't have to be available at the event time! This attunement can help you manage the chaos in your life and re-balance your energy fields easily. Running this in conjunction with the Efficiency Empowerment, which I am running on the 17th October, can help you feel more empowered, balanced and in charge of your life! I am running another event to celebrate Samhain as well, which I have written more about below. Please click the links for more information about each one to see if you feel guided to a specific energy or all 3 to help you through the energies of October!
On the 24th October, we have a Full Moon and this energy will encourage us to fully understand the lessons from the Venus Retrograde and helps us to release any relationships that are no longer serving our highest good. Venus also rules over finances as well as the heart, so our finances may also be in the spotlight this month, especially around the end of the month to help us create more stability and security for the future.
On the 31st October, we have Samhain, which is believed to be a Celtic word which loosely translates into Summer's End. It marks the beginning of both the Celtic and Wiccan New Year. In the Christian calendar, it is known as All Saints Day or All Hallows Eve; this has been shortened in modern times to Halloween. Samhain is one of the two times in the year when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest: a powerful time for divination and contacting the spirit realm. For many practitioners, Samhain is the beginning of the spiritual new year. It is a time to reflect, ask for guidance, honour our ancestors and begin the process of transformation for the new year! I am celebrating Samhain with an attunement event. This attunement can help you connect with the energy of Samhain and receive the answers you seek!
October feels like a very special month with the energies of the New Moon on the 8th, the 10/10 gateway and Samhain on 31st October. These dates are also the best times to ask for guidance about the way forward. Be open to new opportunities that come your way and trust your intuition as answers will come in clearly this month, so make sure you are listening! If you are facing chaos in your own life, know you have the courage to embrace the change. And remember chaos means you have maxed out your potential and are ready for the new! So, feel empowered by the changes happening and dream BIG!
Wishing you a magical month.


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The China Syndrome [EMPIRE OF THE SUN & THE LAST EMPEROR]
From the Chicago Reader (December 18, 1987). — J.R.
* (Has redeeming facet)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Tom Stoppard
With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers.
**** (Masterpiece)
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Written by Bertolucci and Mark Peploe
With John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
"The first major Hollywood studio production ever to shoot in the People's Republic of China" and "the first Western production to be made about modern China with the full cooperation of the Chinese government" are the two blockbusters of the season, and the dizzying gulf that stretches between them has a lot to do with the conceptual ranges of the two filmmakers who stand behind them. While the two movies need to be considered separately before they can be meaningfully juxtaposed, one preliminary generalization seems in order: while both films attack difficult subjects, Bernardo Bertolucci's spectacular is predicated on a number of self-imposed limitations — emotional, dramatic, visual, linguistic, historical, and (more broadly) conceptual; Steven Spielberg's, on the other hand, sprawls in the same half-dozen areas.
Empire of the Sun is based on an autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard, an English writer whose previous work is nearly all science fiction, much of it experimental in form and most of it dealing with the curious psychological adjustments brought about by disasters. Perhaps the most consistent trait in this varied and substantial oeuvre is a certain bloodless morbidity, a capacity to look at entropic horror — the end of the world, the collapse of civilization, assassinations, car crashes, diverse technological and sociological nightmares — without blinking or flinching. (Major formal influences appear to be William Burroughs and various pop and collage artists.) Ballard's first four novels all chart the effects of worldwide natural catastrophes, with heroes who ultimately choose to go with the flow of these events rather than cling to vestiges of the normal lives they once knew.
My introduction to Ballard's work came about 15 years ago when I was hired to adapt one of these novels, The Crystal World, into a screenplay; my strained efforts to climb into the mind of a writer whose major poetic thrust was a romanticizing of the death wish as a universal principle left me with a lot of uneasy questions. The powerful effect of reading Empire of the Sun recently was that it answered all those questions as lucidly as I could have wished. The experiences Ballard underwent between the ages of 11 and 15 in Shanghai, as World War II disrupted his idyllic family life there, clearly provided the scenario as well as the rationale for all his fiction to come. As Ballard describes it, it took him "20 years to forget and 20 years to remember those horrendous events," and his entire output can be inscribed within that process, with Empire providing both the climax and the skeleton key.
Whatever personal investment Spielberg has in this material — and his adaptation of it with Tom Stoppard is anything but impersonal — it was clear at the outset, when he announced this project, that his own experiences were as remote from Ballard's as they were from Alice Walker's in The Color Purple. Perhaps that's why he took them on, as a challenge to master the unimaginable — a more art-conscious version of imagining extraterrestrials, roughly comparable to Disney taking on Beethoven and Stravinsky in Fantasia after proving his mettle with the stories of Snow White and Pinocchio. But it's a foregone conclusion that his methods would have to process out much of what gives Ballard's work its focus and purpose, just as Disney had to wind up reorchestrating The Rite of Spring. (I would dearly love to see how Spielberg would adapt my two favorite shorter Ballard pieces, both of them included in Judith Merrill's England Swings SF: "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race" and "Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.")
How, for example, could Spielberg grapple with these two characteristic sentences from Empire? "As Basie sucked at the chocolate cup with his sharp teeth, he resembled a white-faced rat teasing the brains from a mouse"; and, "A drop of blood fell from his nose into the water and was instantly attacked by myriads of small fish no larger than a match head." And what about the thoughts of Ballard's hero Jim, after he's herded with others out of a Japanese prison camp and into an Olympic stadium crowded with cars, appliances, and furniture, just before he witnesses a flash of light from the atomic blast in Nagasaki? "Jim looked at the hundreds of prisoners on the grass. He wanted them all to die, surrounded by their rotting carpets and cocktail cabinets. Many of them, he was glad to see, had already obliged him, and Jim felt angry at those prisoners still able to walk who were now forming a second march party. He guessed that they were being marched to death around the countryside, but he wanted them to stay in the stadium and die within sight of the white Cadillacs."
Needless to say, Spielberg doesn't reproduce such thoughts, although he does dutifully reproduce both the contents of the stadium and the A-bomb flash — without clarifying whether it comes from Nagasaki or Hiroshima. And to sweeten Jim's thoughts while retaining some of his wartime confusion, the film has him (Christian Bale) comment after the flash, "I thought it was Mrs. Victor's soul going up to heaven." Mrs. Victor (Miranda Richardson) is the married woman with whom Jim shares a room in the prison camp for most of the war, along with her husband, and who dies on her way to the stadium. In the novel, Jim likes and is attracted to her though he knows that "if he starved to death in his bunk she would find some polite reason for doing nothing to help him." In the movie she's merely cranky and unfriendly, and the press book describes her as a friend of his parents.
What, if anything, is the key to Spielberg's bewildering adaptation? A friend once remarked that in The Color Purple the central house became at different times a mansion or a shack, depending upon the dramatic needs of separate scenes. In Spielberg's Empire, World War II is blessed with the same magical elasticity — sometimes it's fun (Jim loves airplanes), sometimes it's horrible (people die), sometimes it's picturesque (over 15,000 extras), but almost never, as in Ballard, is it all of these things at once. Ballard's vision can be described as antiwar only because of the sustained ironic and psychoanalytic distance he keeps from his crazed younger self — something that understandably took him 40 years to achieve. Spielberg intermittently toys with traces of this irony, but is perfectly willing to chuck it out the window whenever it gets in his way (which is often — his passionate identification with Jim is paradoxically the reverse of Ballard's detachment), so that it makes no sense at all for him to claim that this is "an antiwar story, not just of a single war but of all wars."
Any moral vision, like any coherent style, demands the suppression of certain elements as well as the persistence of certain others, but Spielberg's anywar or everywar veers in so many directions that it ultimately becomes any movie or every movie: "Spielberg" becomes the only persistent form of coherence, which means that everything else that the movie is about — including World War II and wars in general — becomes incoherent beyond the borders of a single sequence. There are undeniable scenic splendors in the portions shot in Shanghai (which took only three weeks — the remainder was filmed in Spain and England), but the overall lack of focus makes one understand Todd McCarthy's remark in Variety: "Steven Spielberg delves deeply into the well of seriousness in Empire of the Sun and comes up with about half-a-bucket."
Oddly enough, some of the best filmic ideas in the novel, which might have lent Spielberg's scattered notions some poetic unity — most notably the silent "newsreel" war dreams that Jim has before the war, which are already mentioned in the novel's second sentence — are completely bypassed. Instead, the viewer is provoked into wondering if life in a Shanghai detention center is all that bad if the place is blessed with Spielberg lighting — which resembles the starship at the end of Close Encounters more closely than anything in Shanghai in 1941. The point isn't that Spielberg should have stayed at home; the fact is, he never really left.
One anomaly in Spielberg's film is that there's a fair amount of untranslated Japanese spoken between Jim and his captors in the prison camp. By ironic contrast, all of the dialogue in The Last Emperor — a film that goes much farther in introducing us to a remote foreign culture — is entirely in English. This requires some adjustment on our parts, but once accepted, it allows Bertolucci and his scriptwriter Mark Peploe to remain firmly in control of a story that covers over 60 years of modern Chinese history. And by following the life of a man who remained at once marginal and central to that history — Pu Yi (John Lone), China's last emperor (1906-1967) — the film can deal with both our marginal relationship to that history as Westerners and the centrality of that history to world culture.
Pu Yi's marginality and centrality to China both stemmed from the same fact: that he was designated a symbol of imperial rule, at a time when imperial rule was virtually out of date. In 1908 at the age of three, Pu Yi was named tenth Qing emperor by the empress dowager Tzu Hsui. From this point on he was to remain a symbol, even though his emblematic importance changed in relation to the major upheavals he lived through: the birth of the first Chinese republic in 1912 (which effectively brought an end to his rule, but kept him confined in the Forbidden City for 12 more years), his expulsion from the Imperial Palace in 1924, his installation as puppet emperor of Japanese-run Manchukuo in 1933 (which ushers in the decadence and art deco styling of Bertolucci's The Conformist), his five years in a Siberian prison camp (1945-50), his "reeducation" in a Chinese prison (1950-59), his release as an ordinary citizen in 1959, and his last years as a gardener and researcher, which overlapped with the beginnings of the Cultural Revolution. (The film elides the research job, and on the whole is selective rather than comprehensive.)
As a passive victim and prisoner of his symbolic position for most of his life, Pu Yi does not make a conventional hero, and as a personal story, The Last Emperor is infused with a sense of loss and melancholy that reflects some of Bertolucci's own alienation from present-day Italy, as well as the theme of a lost childhood paradise that has haunted much of his work since Before the Revolution (1964). But it is important to stress that one of the remarkable achievements of this uncommonly ambitious film, which might have been called After the Revolution, is to broach areas that exist beyond the personal — a reasonable enough notion if one acknowledges that no word for "privacy" exists in Chinese — and viewers who complain about the "narrowness" of the plot might do well to look through Pu Yi's story rather than simply at it, to perceive the richness that lies on the other side. For Pu Yi's function in the film is partially that of a conduit or lever into a broader social reality — a reality that the film mainly depicts through indirection, but which is nevertheless central to its subject and meaning.
Two fundamental keys to this conception can be found in aspects of the film's respective handling of space and time. Our perception of the Forbidden City, which dominates the first part of the film, is largely predicated on Bertolucci's refusal to show us a single all-encompassing view of it. This point was perceptively brought out by Pauline Kael, who uses it, however, as a strike against the movie: "Peter O'Toole has said that it wasn't until the movie was actually being shot and he was riding on a golden palanquin, ten feet in the air, that he saw the Imperial Palace as 'a sea of yellow triangular and rectangular loops,' and realized that the whole Forbidden City was intended to be seen from the height of a palanquin — that it was a maze designed for lordlings, not earthlings. I don't understand why the moviemakers didn't get the camera up there. What better way for Bertolucci to show us the true meaning of a life of privilege?"
One could argue that the true meaning that Bertolucci is after concerns not that of a life of privilege — the subject of Before the Revolution — but of the historical fate of a symbol. A high-angle shot of the Imperial Palace would have invited us to share Pu Yi's illusion of power and mastery over China — just the sort of Hollywood chutzpah that the film is at pains to avoid, and with good reason, though it still offers us the most ravishing color spectacle of any Western film made this year (with 19,000 extras — even more than in Empire). Significantly, Bertolucci does show us an overhead shot of a toy model of the palace, when Pu Yi is being instructed as a child, which is a good deal more apt. From the vantage point of today's China, the palace is a toy, and any view that attempted to persuade us otherwise would have to come from an earlier period.
This brings us to the film's handling of time. The story is mostly conveyed in flashbacks from the period of Pu Yi's "reeducation" in a Chinese prison in the 50s, yielding a narrative of parallel and alternating plots, and a dialectical structure that shapes our whole reading of his life. The process by which the putative onetime ruler of nearly half the world's population becomes an ordinary citizen can obviously be interpreted in a number of ways — as defeat or liberation, brainwashing or reeducation — and Bertolucci leaves it to us to decide whether Pu Yi ultimately breaks free from his symbolic identity or merely becomes a different kind of symbol. Conscientiously avoiding propaganda and attempting a balanced view, Bertolucci shows Pu Yi being dealt with harshly as well as humanely in prison, and there's certainly some historical irony when, after his release, he encounters the kindly prison governor Jin Yuan (Ying Ruocheng) being victimized by the Red Guard — although one wishes that the film had clarified the fact that Jin Yuan's persecution was provoked by his support of Pu Yi.
"In my view," Bertolucci has said, "the brainwashing story corresponds to a sort of forced psychoanalytical itinerary." Freud and Marx have both been percolating in his work for some time, often in competition with one another, but The Last Emperor combines them in the same fluid process, which translates psychoanalytical categories into social ones. The hero's forced separation from his family as a child — an event viewed solely in traumatic terms in Spielberg's film — anticipates the substitution of the state for the family that is part of China's history, and seen from the vantage point of Pu Yi's reeducation, it becomes a necessary stage in his social integration. When Jin Yuan observes that Pu Yi's former servant is still dressing him, he moves the ex-emperor to another cell, and Pu Yi protests that he's never been separated from his family before — an illogical statement unless one realizes that the servant is only the most recent in a long line of family surrogates that has also included his wet nurse, wife, and concubine. By the same token, Jin Yuan becomes a father substitute as well — duplicating the role formerly played by a Scottish tutor (Peter O'Toole) — albeit a final transitional one. (The real-life Jin Yuan, who served as a consultant on the film, is cast as the prison official who hands Pu Yi his release.)
The film is tightly and brilliantly structured around rhyming effects of this kind between imperial and communist, personal and social values — there's even a relationship between the devoted study by eunuchs of the baby emperor's excrement and Jin Yuan's instructions to Pu Yi on how to urinate at night without waking fellow prisoners — and the hero's reeducation implicitly becomes our own reeducation about contemporary China. One crucial stage in this development occurs in prison when Pu Yi sees himself as Manchukuo's puppet emperor in a newsreel about the war, and two versions of the hero are literally brought face to face.
"You've saved my life to make me a puppet in your play," Pu Yi asserts to Jin Yuan — echoing his comment as emperor after expelling thieving eunuchs from the palace: "The Imperial City has become a theater without an audience. So why did the actors steal all the scenery?"
"Is that so terrible?" Jin Yuan replies in the prison yard. "To be useful?" One might pose a similar rhetorical question about the Spielberg and Bertolucci films alike. Is it so terrible to question their use in teaching us something about the other side of the world? At best, apart from a few snapshots, Empire of the Sun teaches us something about the inside of one director's brain. The Last Emperor incidentally and secondarily does that too; but it also teaches us something about the lives of a billion people with whom we share this planet — and better yet, makes us want to learn still more about them.