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The Skin, Curzio Malaparte
Posted on May 25, 2015 by Josh Nudell
I love the NYRB Classics series of books, both for the eclectic selection of English-language works and translations and for the (usually) reliable introductory essays that accompany the texts. My preference is usually to skip directly to the main text and to return to the introduction afterward so that I can appreciate the introduction as I digest what I just read. Usually this is a leisurely process of gaining new appreciation for the depth of the novel or for the author; sometimes it is a necessary confirmation that I indeed understood the absurd, shocking, grotesque thing that had just unfolded. The latter was my experience with The Skin.
Jimmy Wren, of Cleveland, Ohio…was, like the great majority of the officers and men of the American army, a good fellow. When an American is good, there is no better man in the world. It was not Jimmy's fault if the people of Naples suffered. That spectacle of grief and misery offended neither his eyes nor his heart. Jimmy's conscience was at rest. Like all Americans, by that contradiction which characterizes all materialistic civilizations, he was an idealist. To evil, misery, hunger and physical suffering he ascribed a moral character. He did not appreciate their remote historical and economic causes, but only the seemingly moral reasons for their existence…
Jimmy had certainly not achieved an understanding of the moral and religious considerations which let him to feel partly responsible for the suffering of others… It was not even to be expected that he should know certain essential facts about modern civilization–for instance, that a capitalist society (if one disregards Christian pity, and weariness of and disgust with Christian pity, which are sentiments peculiar to the modern world) is the most feasible expression of Christianity; that without the existence of evil there can be no Christ; that capitalist society is founded on the conviction that in the absence of beings who suffer a man cannot enjoy to the full his possessions and his happiness; and that without the alibi of Christianity capitalism would not prevail.
–pp. 62-3
It is 1943. Naples has been liberated. Our narrator, Curzio Malaparte, is a liaison officer in the Free Italian armed forces accompanying American officers and watching the newly-free city rot from the inside. The Skin is composed of vignettes about life in liberated Naples, Capri, and the subsequent campaign northward to Rome, interwoven with observations and imaginations of the narrator. The suffering and depravity were real, but in Malaparte's hands the situation turns into a nightmarishly surreal comedy.
The Skin is not an easy book to sum up, in large part because the lurid details–whether of the plague, the last virgin in Naples, the triumphant entry into Rome, the eruption of Vesuvius, or the preparation of the marine life from the Naples Aquarium for a banquet– are, to a great extent, the point. In fact, the quote included above is itself misleading. It is an example of Malaparte's style where he picks up on a point or an observation and teases it out as far as it will go. Malaparte's Naples is a pre-Christian relict, infused with pagan mysteries, where "your tanks run the risk of being swallowed up in the black slime of antiquity." Malaparte's Americans despise the Europeans for having caused their own problems, and "believe that a conquered nation is a nation of criminals, that defeat is a moral stigma, an expression of divine justice." Malaparte's Neapolitans are scrapping to save their own skin at any cost, prostituting and abasing themselves. The shining light within this grim vision is Jack Hamilton, an optimistic American officer, an Olympian who speaks French and reads Pindar. Hamilton represents the best America has to offer, one untouched by the blight of the old-world, but appreciative of its deep antiquity.
Curzio Malaparte–the nom de plum of Kurt Eric Suckert, and a name chosen as an inversion of "Bonaparte"–was a correspondent on the eastern front during World War 2 before returning to Italy and assisting the American forces in Italy. He was criticized for his similarly surreal account of the war in the east (published in his book Kaputt), and was a supporter of the Italian fascist movement, but served a stint in prison after publishing a manual under the title The Technique of the Coup d'Etat. As the introduction to The Skin noted, there are parallels to nearly everything Malaparte included in this book, but his presence at every turn, even where he could not have been, blurrs the line between reporting and reimagining. Malaparte is elusive throughout. By turns he despises, pities, and mocks those around him. He is an acute observer, but bitter, frustrated, and convinced of his own superiority. Not his own morality since he seems to locate himself more in the deep antiquity–an heir to Pindar, at times [note: I was reading Pindar in Greek when I started reading this book]–than in the contemporary moment, more with paganism than with Christianity, but in his own superior intelligence and ability. I am not rushing out to do so, but I was intrigued enough by this that I will at some point read Kaputt, but Malaparte also convinced me that I need to also read books that are a little less morbid from time to time.
Since finishing The Skin, I also finished Master and Commander, the first in Patrick O'Brian's historical fiction series. It was a mostly enjoyable read and I'm going to read at least the first few books, but I wasn't so smitten that I'll commit to all twenty just yet. Even well-done Horatio Nelson fan-fic only does so much for me. Now I am in the middle of Augusto Roa Bastos' I, the Supreme, which stitches together multiple narratives give a portrait of the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who ruled Paraguay from when he was elected in 1814 until 1840. At a third of the way through, this is one of the densest books I have yet read. The Supreme coyly asks "Don't you think that I could be made into a fabulous story?" If you check out the Wikipedia page, the answer is yes, but Bastos takes those features that beg for a titillating historical story and asks much deeper and more meaningful questions. A fuller review will probably follow when I finish reading it.
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Transforming traditional media relations into a brand journalism approach increased audience by nearly 50 percent, reaching 6.6 billion people.
Nationwide Children's Hospital had long taken a traditional approach to its PR and media relations. In partnership with its agency, MediaSource, the hospital pivoted entirely, adopting the brand journalism approach of telling its own stories the way a journalist would. For the effort, MediaSource and Nationwide Children's Hospital have earned the Grand Prize for campaigns over $50,000 in PR Daily's 2016 Media Relations Awards.
The newsroom approach allowed the team's writers to begin viewing prospective subjects through an external journalist's lens as they looked for compelling stories to tell. The team also looked for opportunities to "newsjack" the day's events to create a connection between the hospital, breaking news and cultural events.
Top health websites and blogs were targeted for possible guest posts, strengthening the thought leadership role of Nationwide Children's doctors. The hospital's traditional newsroom was converted into a brand-journalism source, with mainstream media journalists able to preview the content in multiple formats (high-quality video, high-resolution still images, bios of the doctors, suggested tweets, AP-style articles, etc.).
As a result, the content reached 6.6 billion people in 2015, an increase of an astounding 48 percent over the previous year. That includes more than 6,000 media placements, including coverage on top-tier outlets like NBC's "TODAY Show," "NBC Nightly News," "Good Morning America," "World News Now" and other highly desirable venues.
For recognizing the importance and value of brand journalism and executing brilliantly, congratulations to Lisa Arledge Powell, Clark Powell, Shannon McCormick, Jerred Ziegler, Robert Leitch, Kevin Volz, Garry Checki, Kelly Stincer, Colleen O'Morrow, Drew Schaar, Kristina Feduik, Rocky Sanguinetti, Lisa Renee Martyn, Pam Barber, Donna Teach, Gina Bericchia, Danielle Warner, Katelyn Hanzel, Jane Abel, Nicole Chave, Kelly Nightingale, Callista Dammann, and Diane Lang.


Have you ever pulled a gun on a convenience store clerk, but then found yourself stuck because some schmuck walked in for a Ding-Dong and a Slurpee before you could grab the cash and leg it out the back door? Hey, it happens to everyone now and then. Fortunately, Rockstar has the cure for what ails you.
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The one thing the patch notes doesn't cover is how a game that came out 16 days ago is up to version 350.1. And now, enjoy some ragdoll shenanigans!


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I got this Kawasaki 750 H2 engine a few years ago when I repaired a couple of springer front ends for a guy in trade. I had it sitting in the case after putting fresh rings in it. A friend of mine, Matt, wanted me to build something pretty wild and I told him I had some ideas using that power plant. I started building the bike with a digger style in mind. I wanted a molded prism style tank and oil bag that matched the fenders that I make. I got the flanged wheels from a swap and wanted to go with a skinny ribbed front and a big 18×5.5 in the rear to set off the digger look. I have always liked the style of Triumph dual leading shoe drums, and they actually stop pretty well too. With all the polish on this bike, the stock steel hubs that usually went with these brake plates wasn't going to cut it. The Early 70's Triumph conical hubs have the same 8" brake size and can be polished up nicely. I wanted the bike to steer well and not be a pain to ride, so the trail was brought back in to being stock by the 8° raked trees. The prism style tank was molded in the frame for that clean digger style. The leather seat flips up for easy access to the capacitor and the oil reservoir fill. The bike took about 700 hours to complete over the course of a year and a half.


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Christmas is the most widely celebrated holiday among the nations. There are as many different traditions as there are nations that observe it. For example the poinsettias were embraced by America when their Mexican representative, Joel R. Poinsett, brought back this green and red plant that blooms in the winter. Christmas, as we know it today, is largely a product of the Victorian Age in the 1860s.
Santa Clause, or more specifically Saint Nicholas, was Europe's most popular image of Christmas and by the end of the Renaissance was it's most admired saint. His benevolence was primarily directed toward children and their necessities of life and not originally toys. For example, even a lump of coal was something of value in the dead of winter and considered practical. However, don't pout children, it was accompanied with other trinkets or toys in stockings.
Swiss and German children, who were well-behaved, were said to be most deserving of Kris Kringle's gifts. The friendly witch, La Befana, rides her broom down Italian chimney's to stuff children's stockings with toys. In Scandinavia, it was Jultomten who brought presents in a goat-powered sleigh. To the English, it was Father Christmas. Pere Noel is the French version of this children's stocking stuffer.
Many years ago Babouschka believes she gave the Three Wise Men wrong directions to Bethlehem and thus to baby Jesus. To make amends she leaves presents by Russian children's bedsides, in the hope that one of them would be the baby Jesus. In Nordic countries, the people observed this time of the year, from December 21st through January, as a celebration of the sun's beginning it's trek form the shortest day light-period (darkest day) to increasingly longer day's with sun.
The Finns thoroughly enjoy 'Hyvää Joulua!' or the "Peace of Christmas" on Christmas Eve. Most of the nation resides in a sauna that night listening to a national broadcast. Tradition holds that this is a day of observation of departed friends and family. Gravesites are visited and those departed are remembered. Perhaps this is where the "peace" comes from.
Norway is the birthplace of the Yule Log, which is the Norse word for 'wheel'. This refers to the circuit the sun takes annually with Christmas being its beginning point of its circuit. During the 17th century in early America and England, observing Christmas was illegal. Thus certain customs were born. For example, the candy cane was a disguised reference to Jesus Christ. The red strips represented the bloodied strips He received and the white strips declared His purity. The j-shaped is obviously symbolic of His name.
However you say it, Merry Christmas to you and your family from ours.
In Italy the salutation is Buon Natale. Natale literally means "birth." What is being celebrated is the birth of somebody who was the light of the world, came into the world, and the world knew him not...(St. John's prologue). All over Europe and the US we are now being told that to say Merry Christmas is offensive; the politically correct salutation is Happy holidays. So the question is: what exactly is being celebrated?
P.Sl Interesting too that San Nicola, a saint from Anatolia is buried abd veberated in a cathedral in Bari but precious few know it. The jolly old man from the North Pole has substituted St. Nicholas while La Befana, the witch, has substituted the three kings (the astrolegers) bearing gifts for the new born king on the feast of the Epiphany (January 6). Reminiscences and ruminations on Christmas.
I agree Emanuel. Political correctness is oft taken too far; akin to walking on egg shells...thinking of liability issues everywhere and all the while, never being able to be quite sure, who to say Merry Christmas too or simply happy holidays. Thus, most flow with the greater masses and wish happy holiday. As for our home, without Christ it isn't merry. Next perhaps, Happy Winter Solstice Day and a Happy New Calendar Year.
The word Christmas is actually a contraction of Christ and Mass (another name for a religious service). It is observed on December 25th which is held to be the traditional day of Jesus birth.
The ancient Middle English word Christemasses, was first used in 1038 A.D. In early Greek versions of the New Testament, the letter X (chi) is the first letter of Christ (Χριστός). This is where the abbreviation "Xmas" came from.
Saint Nicholas was a fourth century Bishop (overseer) of a church in Asia Minor (now Turkey) who attended the Council of Nicea. He is not only one of the most popular of saints, he is known as the Patron Saint of Children and His day is actually December 6th, but he gave throughout the year. He not only left toys but clothing, shoes, etc. for especially needy children. Children of the rich had no need of St. Nicholas but the poor received little if anything.
The Dutch name for Saint Nicholas was Sinterklaas, hence the name Santa Clause. Santa is simply Spanish for Saint.


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Having a joyful, connected holiday season is absolutely possible.
When my kids were younger, one of our favorite summer activities was to have leaf races in the rushing streams near our North Carolina summer rental. We'd strategically drop our leaves in the wider section of the stream, where the water drifted sluggishly, and excitedly watch them pick up pace as the brook bed narrowed and our leaf boats rushed through a collection of rocks.
This is what November and December feel like to me, like time itself is rushing and racing at an ever-quickening rate until WOOSH—the new year arrives.
We no sooner get the Halloween decorations packed away when the sudden onslaught of party invitations, recitals, end of year meetings, travel plans, family get-togethers, decorating to-dos, gift lists, and holiday cards crashes in like a tidal wave.
The holidays are simultaneously thrilling and dizzying, filled with both joy and total overwhelm.
Lost in a sea of turkey stuffing and stocking stuffers, one critical aspect of my life is swiftly curbed: my connection with my husband, Marc. The person that emerges when I am disconnected with myself and my partner is edgy, stressed, resentful, and exhausted.
In my relentless crusade to provide my family with the "best holidays ever," I misplace the parts of myself that are patient and easy, slow and kind. By January, I am spent and I've overlooked what the holidays are actually supposed to be about: connection, togetherness, gratitude, and giving.
There's another way and it starts with one magical word: no.
No to party invitations and to doing more than a single string of lights outside in our front yard. No to perfectly wrapped teacher gifts and to attempting that elaborate (and frankly, out of my depth) potluck dish.
Good enough is the new perfect. Good enough creates white space. White space is where my life actually dwells. It's the moments of just being, not accomplishing or checking things off a list, where the best parts of my marriage live.
This year, I've placed giant blocks of nothing in my Google calendar, placeholders for time to just be with myself and my people. These empty blocks, anywhere from one to four hours in length, are set aside as white space—they're not waiting to be filled.
They stay deliberately empty and noncommittal. I came upon one this past weekend and it was like finding a rare treasure. Of course, I had no idea what to do with myself. Free time is not something our culture handles well. We fill every moment. And when we find ourselves in an atypical instance with nothing to do, we reach for our smartphone or look around and busy ourselves as quickly as possible. But I just sat, on my couch, in the middle the day. I closed my eyes, took some deep breaths, and felt my whole body smile. White space is glorious. This holiday season, let's all schedule some nothing time.
Even when Marc and I are committed to being with other people, whether it's a family function or a party, we usually have the drive there and back to connect. Often, we miss out on the opportunity to really turn towards each other, either because one of us is on our phone or we're having a surface-level conversation.
I've realized that we can use these to and fro moments to really tune in. We can drop a layer deeper and ask better questions. Same goes for bedtime. If I'm not exhausted from a chaotic gust of activity from dawn to dusk, I can find a few quiet minutes before I drift off to sleep to connect with Marc. The key is having something left in my batteries for him and not expending every bit of energy I have on holiday perfectionism.
In a guided meditation I was recently listening to on Insight Timer, the speaker introduced me to the idea that we can actually feel like we can slow time by slowing our breathing, our bodies and our motions. When I'm buzzing around my house like a tornado, my life feels a little out of control, like I'm in a speeding car clutching the steering wheel with a white knuckled grip.
But when I slow down, literally exaggerate my movements like I'm pretending to be a sloth, it's as if the world begins to pace itself to me. Perspective immediately sets in. The lens pulls back. I suddenly see that I'm being a crazy person and I'm probably missing the point of the whatever I am doing. When I slow down and become less frantic, I can see that I actually do need a hand and I can invite Marc into the kitchen to work with me. I speak more kindly to everyone instead of harshly barking orders to Marc and the kids like a drill sergeant. I let go of getting it all done. I get less prickly and thus easier to connect with.
Staying connected with Marc, I've recently realized, is an inside job. If you'd asked me last year how a couple can stay connected through the holidays, I would have suggested they schedule more date nights or make sure they meet on the couch twice a week to catch up. But now I realize it's really about making myself more available and accessible in our day-to-day life instead of running myself ragged and becoming boorish and bitchy. By taking better care of myself, slowing down, tuning in, and getting grounded, the best version of myself emerges.
If the holidays become a tireless and harried flurry of getting stuff done, Marc is quickly (and brusquely) relegated to my sous chef and errand boy. But when I slow down and put things into perspective, I remember who he really is to me: my partner and the person I always dreamed of creating holiday memories with. Look, none of the holiday trappings mean anything if I've attained them by force and fury. Having a joyful, connected holiday season is absolutely possible. But if it is to be, it's up to me.
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Another megaproject pushing public utilities to the brink
Posted on October 2, 2017 by consumerpolicyinstitute
(October 2, 2017) Nalcor's Muskrat Falls hydro project will cost more than double original estimates, is years behind schedule and will impose triple-digit rate increases on electricity customers when it starts producing power.
This article first appeared in The Telegram.
Muskrat Falls will cost more than double original estimates, is years behind schedule and will impose triple-digit rate increases on electricity customers when it starts producing power.
But behind the headlines of a project gone off the rails lies a much deeper malaise plaguing public utilities across Canada: megaprojects.
Like nearly all megaprojects, the original cost estimates of Muskrat Falls have proven to be wildly optimistic. In 2010, the "total cost" of the project was said to be $6.2 billion. It took Nalcor years to publicly admit that figure didn't include interest and other financing costs, which, if included, pushed the price tag up to nearly $7 billion.
But it wasn't until 2016 — with the appointment of new CEO Stan Marshall — that Nalcor came anywhere close to admitting the true cost of Muskrat Falls. One of Marshall's first major announcements was that the price of the megaproject had increased to $11.4 billion and was two years behind schedule — and he couldn't rule out more cost increases. Marshall has since issued two new estimates of the megaproject, admitting that Muskrat Falls will cost $12.7 billion and that it's a "hell of a lot worse" for Newfoundland and Labrador's ratepayers than the notorious Churchill Falls contract.
The rate increases that households and businesses across the province will be forced to pay because of Muskrat Falls, like most megaprojects, have followed the time-tested method of being overly optimistic and repeatedly revised higher. Early estimates put the all-in cost of power from Muskrat Falls at around 15 cents per kilowatt hour. But the most recent estimate from Nalcor has upped that figured to more than 23 cents and it would be even more if that figure didn't include the "savings" stemming from a $7.9-billion federal guarantee to bail out Nalcor if it can't pay off its ballooning debt.
Most megaprojects typically go ahead only after regulators are blocked from examining the economics of the project. Muskrat Falls is no different. First, the province ignored the warnings of a 2011 joint federal-provincial review panel calling Nalcor's evidence that Muskrat Falls was the most cost-effective way to meet future demand "inadequate." Then the province used the legislature to block its own regulator, the Public Utilities Board, from reviewing Muskrat Falls. Only after public outcry did the province allow for a very limited review, with the PUB publicly calling the process "torturous" and Nalcor's refusal to co-operate "inexplicable."
Unfortunately, the problems facing Muskrat Falls are part of a well-documented trend with megaprojects, plaguing numerous other projects being built by public utilities across the country.
Manitoba Hydro's Keeyask dam is expected to cost $8.7 billion — more than triple initial estimates. Contrary to claims from the utility's executives that the dam's output would be sold to power-hungry customers in the United States and help lower bills for Manitoba ratepayers, the utility now expects to sell that power at a loss, meaning Manitobans will be subsidizing power for American consumers and businesses for decades. The utility is also asking for much higher rate increases than it initially forecast, amounting to more than four times the rate of inflation.
In B.C., the legislature was used to block its regulator from reviewing the $8.8-billion Site C dam. The province also passed laws setting rates at an arbitrarily low level and forced the utility — and the regulator tasked with setting "just and reasonable" rates — to defer the costs of Site C and other capital projects to future customers.
In Ontario, the province steadily dismantled the regulatory system that was explicitly put in place to protect customers from projects like the $12.8-billion refurbishment of the Darlington nuclear station. The legislature was used to establish the "need" for the project, blocked it from a public review and then forced the regulator to artificially lower rates in the near-term, kicking the cost to future ratepayers.
Like nearly all megaprojects, Muskrat Falls is the result of a public utility relying on the power of its shareholder — the province — to run roughshod over the checks and balances put in place to protect ratepayers and taxpayers alike from this type of reckless spending. Sadly, Nalcor's folly with Muskrat Falls is just the latest cautionary tale.
Brady Yauch is an economist and Executive Director of the Consumer Policy Institute. bradyyauch@consumerpolicyinstitute.org.
Read Consumer Policy Institute's recent report "How Megaprojects Bankrupt Power Utilities and Leave Regulators in the Dark."
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Q: Angular 11 - Modal Method checks for value in array and returns false even when the constructor loads the array I have a form that registers a new Group of courses called 'areas'. The form have a button that calls a modal window and allows the user to select the desired courses and add them to the form list.
The initial function seems to work fine. When I select a course in the dialog, the course is added to the Parent Component array. Then I check if the course is already selected in order to show a button to deselect the course.
The problem lies when I close the Modal Dialog and open it again. The "isCourseSelected" method (which checks if the "course" object is inside the array) doesn't work. It returns false even if the constructor populates the array "modalSelectedCourses" from the initialState of the modalService.
Here is the code which have the problem:
import { ChangeDetectorRef, Component, EventEmitter, OnInit, Output } from '@angular/core';
import { AngularFirestore } from '@angular/fire/firestore';
import { FormControl, FormGroup } from '@angular/forms';
import { FileUploadValidators } from '@iplab/ngx-file-upload';
import { BsModalService, BsModalRef } from 'ngx-bootstrap/modal';
import { isThisTypeNode } from 'typescript';
import { Course } from '../../../../shared/models/course.model';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-area-form',
  templateUrl: './area-form.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./area-form.component.scss'],
})

export class AreaFormComponent implements OnInit {
  public selectedCourses: Course[];
  bsModalRef?: BsModalRef;
  public animation: boolean = false;
  public multiple: boolean = false;
  private filesControl = new FormControl(null, FileUploadValidators.filesLimit(2));

  public demoForm = new FormGroup({
    files: this.filesControl
  });

  constructor(public modalService: BsModalService, private cd: ChangeDetectorRef) {
  }

  get staticSelectedAreas() {
    return this.selectedCourses;
  }

  public processSelection(course: Course) {
    if (this.selectedCourses.indexOf(course) !== -1) {
      this.selectedCourses = this.selectedCourses.filter((curCourse) => course.id !== curCourse.id);
    } else {
      this.selectedCourses.push(course);
    }
    this.cd.markForCheck();
  }

  public toggleStatus(): void {
      this.filesControl.disabled ? this.filesControl.enable() : this.filesControl.disable();
  }

  public toggleMultiple() {
      this.multiple = !this.multiple;
  }

  public clear(): void {
      this.filesControl.setValue([]);
  }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.selectedCourses = [];
  }

  openModalWithComponent() {
    const initialState = {
      modalSelectedCourses: this.selectedCourses
  };
    this.bsModalRef = this.modalService.show(CoursesModalComponent, {initialState, class: 'modal-lg'});
    this.bsModalRef.content.notifyParent.subscribe((e) => {
      this.processSelection(e);
    });
    this.bsModalRef.content.closeBtnName = 'Close';
  }

}

@Component({
  selector: 'app-search-courses-list',
  templateUrl: './courses-list-modal.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./area-form.component.scss'],
})

export class CoursesModalComponent implements OnInit {
  @Output() notifyParent = new EventEmitter<Course>();
  title?: string = 'Buscar Cursos';
  closeBtnName?: string;
  courses: Course[] = [];
  modalSelectedCourses: Course[] = [];

  constructor(public bsModalRef: BsModalRef, firestore: AngularFirestore, public modalService: BsModalService) {
    firestore.collection('courses').valueChanges({idField: 'id'}).forEach((course) => {
      course.forEach((tempCourse) => {
        const newCourse: Course = new Course().deserialize(tempCourse);
        this.courses.push(newCourse);
      });
    });
    this.modalSelectedCourses = this.modalService.config.initialState['modalSelectedCourses'];
    console.log(this.modalSelectedCourses);
  }

  public addSelectedCourse(course: Course) {
    this.notifyParent.emit(course);
    this.modalSelectedCourses.push(course);
  }

  public removeSelectedCourse(course: Course) {
    this.notifyParent.emit(course);
    this.modalSelectedCourses = this.modalSelectedCourses.filter((curCourse) => course.id !== curCourse.id);
  }

  public isCourseSelected(course: Course) {
    if (this.modalSelectedCourses.indexOf(course) !== -1) {
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  }

  ngOnInit() {
  }
}

Also, here is the code of the modal template "courses-list-modal.component":

{{title}}

    <button type="button" class="btn-close close pull-right" aria-label="Close" (click)="bsModalRef.hide()">
      ×
    </button>

                <input type="text" class="form-control search-course-textfield" name="search" placeholder="Buscar curso">

            <button class="btn btn-primary">+ Crear curso</button>

                    Nombre del curso
                    Cant. de lecciones

                <ng-container *ngIf="courses; else noCourses">

                        {{ course.name }}
                        ##

                            <ng-container *ngIf="isCourseSelected(course); else notSelectedTemplate">
                                <button (click)="removeSelectedCourse(course)" type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Asignado </button>
                            </ng-container>
                            <ng-template #notSelectedTemplate>
                                <button (click)="addSelectedCourse(course);" type="button" class="btn btn-outline-primary">Asignar</button>
                            </ng-template>

                </ng-container>
                <ng-template #noCourses>

                        No hay cursos disponibles

                </ng-template>

I don't know why the method returns false on the second time I open the dialog.
Thank you in advance for your support!

A: The workaround I though was to make the "selectedCourses" a static variable. It wasn't working because the this.modalSelectedCourses inside "isCourseSelected" method was always empty on init. So, making the variable static, it will mantain the data on memory and checked the real array values.

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What is a training log?
A training log is a record of all your workouts. It is a notebook or file where you write down the details (or the generalities) of each swimming workout. As you'll see, the data collected in a training log varies greatly from athlete to athlete.
Training logs can do more than just provide motivation and accountability. They can also help you determine why your performance has plateaued or whether you are overtraining. Everyone has a different reason for keeping a swimming log, but they all boil down to the same basic idea: tracking progress.
Pick a format that appeals to you. Some swimmers record every workout in pen in a leather-bound journal. Others will scribble on whatever scrap of paper is handy, and collect them in the side pocket of their bag.
Of course, many swimmers are blogging their workouts. Keeping a swim blog might be the way to go, if you are motivated by the thought that others are viewing or tracking your workouts.
Choose a format that a.) you can easily maintain on a regular basis and b.) you will be able to flip through (either literally or virtually) later in time.
• Total Distance: Add everything up and write down how far you swam.
If all you want to know is how far you swam in the past month, your training log entries can be this simple. The up-side of simplicity is that you will always have time to scribble (or text yourself, see step 3) eight to ten words. The down-side is that you don't have a whole lot of information to use if you need to troubleshoot your training regimen later on.
• Workout logistics: What time of day was your swim? Who was the coach? If your practice has paced lanes, which lane did you swim in?
• Detailed description of the sets: When you write down your sets, list equipment used, intervals made and missed, the number of repeats, and drills done. Note which set was the focus of the workout.
• A few words or phrases about how you felt, physically and mentally: Highlight or star sections of the workout where you felt strong and fast, or make note of where you had to change an interval. Stars, check marks, or other symbols can serve the purpose you're looking for here: to remember what went well and what needed work.
March 7, 2008, noon Masters at Rec Center, SCM.
4 x 50 IM, drill/swim **Felt super-fast!
• Track your motivations: During which sets were you excited to be swimming? What were you thinking about when discouragement set in? When did you get your second wind? Again, a few words, phrases, or symbols are all you need to record.
As with your training, consistency is more helpful than fits of obsessiveness and weeks of doing nothing. Perhaps the best way to regularly write your workouts down is to make it part of your "swim routine." Of course, the best time to record your workout is immediately after practice, when it is still fresh in your mind.
If you don't have time or need to get to your computer, it's worth making brief notes immediately after practice. Scratch 6-8 words on a piece of paper in the locker room even before your shower, or copy the main set off the whiteboard as you are drying off. Use your phone or blackberry to text or email yourself a few key words. Those few words will spark your memory later in the day when you actually get around to logging the day's workout.
There is no right way to keep a training log. Just keep in mind your guiding principle: consistently recording information in a format that will allow you to look at it later and mark progress.


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Nayef è noto per le sue invenzioni, come un'unità antincendio di massa per il salvataggio e il soccorso in elicottero, per cui ha ricevuto un premio della Federazione Internazionale degli Inventori (IFIA) al Salone Internazionale delle Invenzioni di Ginevra. È Presidente Onorario dell'Associazione degli inventori sauditi.

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Note

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