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Sunday Stories: "The Subtle Art of Caring for a Stray"
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The Subtle Art of Caring for a Stray
by K. Joffré
Somewhere along my life I had to become a good actor–not a Meryl Streep–but good enough to scurry off with small lies every so often. There were a few big lies, mostly about my sexuality, but most were small lies; like where I was, what I was doing, who was I doing it with, so forth and so on. What people never tell you about lying is that it creates a compulsion which blossoms into a habit. If you always lie then you are compelled to continue to lie even when it isn't necessary. This was probably why I had never confessed to Bobby Lee that I had been to his ex Jason's apartment earlier that year for a night of hot sex that turned into an awkward early morning good-bye. I had also neglected to tell Bobby that I did not like Jason because Jason had also lied to me when we first met, leading me to believe he liked me when he was just using me for a place to stay. Bobby assumed that I had never been to Jason's place, and so introduced our destination as somewhere deep in Brooklyn where he used to live with Jason.
"Oh?" I offered, with a raised eyebrow. I bounded up into the large U-Haul truck with Bobby Lee at the wheel, and I marveled at Bobby Lee's new pair of perfectly rectangular black glasses. Bobby Lee had a tall square face, with bits of spiky hair on top, and the glasses made him look even more blocky, like a grinning mad square.
"When did you get the glasses?"
"I got them a week ago, do you like them?" But before I could answer he continued, "I couldn't renew my driver's license without an eye test. Turns out I have astigmatism."
"Should you be driving large machinery?"
"We'll be fine; the road just looks a little wider than usual."
Bobby Lee was like a fly in a jar, all fussy energy, and to make matters worse, he was practically blind now, steering a six thousand pound truck that was about to barrel down Manhattan streets and highways. I gripped the dashboard of the truck hard. The chaos started early; Bobby Lee yanking on the wheel yelling out of his door 'come on!' as some black luxury sedan outside honked its horn and sped ahead of us. I was worried that this move would take all day and we'd end up back in the U-Haul watching Bobby Lee drive at night, squinting his way through darkness trying to navigate against black cars.
"This isn't going to take long is it?"
"I don't think Jason is moving too much stuff. I think he's leaving most of it behind. He's sort of a mess…"
"Oh?" I offered, again, with a raised eyebrow. This time Bobby Lee opted to stare at me instead of on the road. Too obvious? Better tone it down. "Oh sounds bad. Where's he moving to?"
"With me, in the apartment. It's only temporary."
"Do you really think that's a good idea?" I said, subtly letting Bobby Lee know that I didn't think it would be a good idea.
"No it isn't. I'm going to be cramped for a while."
We drove towards Bushwick, up and over highways that were perfectly foreign to me. In Los Angeles the highways are grey and bland, utilitarian, like power lines. In New York the highways can sometimes be astounding, like racing your car on the edge of a grey chandelier. Sometimes the highways dipped into parts of the city that were barely seen, exposing impossibly placed graffiti or camps full of old hermits. We drove across bridges that ran over shimmering water, almost always with a full view of Manhattan's tall dildo buildings. I was enthralled to see the city like this, in a speeding car, with the wind in my hair, driven by a maniac. We drove through bridges and tunnels, and the highways flattened out with no trees in sight. Bobby Lee sped between the sparse cars dotting the rest of the trip. The highways here were like LA's; dreary and flat. Out of the off ramp, the streets were like Los Angeles streets; long, full of dirt, weeds, dusty like a forgotten city. The houses lined up in a row, all the same exact height, with paint dulled by years of a lack of upkeep. Bobby Lee slowed the car and started reading street names by squinting his eyes behind his lenses. I looked around and wondered whether these were the same streets I wandered around some months ago after my tryst with Jason. It was hard to tell where we were because every building looked the same.
Jason stood in front of his building waiting for us–arms in his pocket–wearing a simple white shirt, frayed denim jacket, and shorts, looking sheepish and out of place. He signaled for us to get out of our truck and follow him down some stairs towards the entrance to his apartment, and as I walked down into his place I vividly remembered the last time I was there. Back then the walk was dark and flush with a sexual charge, but now, under the bright sun, it was like walking into a trap.
"Jesus, Jason. Look at this place. There's garbage everywhere. Have you even done the dishes just once?" Bobby Lee made a big show about stomping around on the garbage, turning on all the lights, and waving his hands around the dirty sink stacked with dishes and taken over by a crew of small flies.
Jason rolled his eyes, shook his head, and simply said: "I'm never home."
Bobby Lee, without a follow up word, let his hands fall to the sides and slumped his shoulders. I could see a history worth of arguments, phobias, and red flags pop up in an instant between them, and just as quickly they were gone, tumbled out of Jason's rolling eyes and off of Bobby Lee's slumping shoulders.
"Well what are you taking with you? I gotta warn you, we're not taking half this stuff. I'm not moving trash into my apartment, Jason, you've seen how small it is." Bobby Lee said.
Jason casually walked around his hovel, steadying himself on visible ground between the stacks of cardboard and paper, and started dictating to Bobby Lee what he would take: this couch, that table, a few drawers from a dresser (but not the entire dresser). I was scratching my hair, looking around, really taking in the piles of junk everywhere, trying really hard not to hold anything over Jason. We all had our demons, our vices, but this kind of place could change what you thought of people.
Jason ignored my walk about and went on directing what he would take to Bobby Lee's apartment: "I'm also taking the cat obviously."
"There's a cat here!?" I screamed. I was so loud that I startled them both.
"Her name is Diva," replied Jason in a soft matter-of-fact voice.
"Diva's still alive? That's a nice surprise. I was expecting your hoarding to kill her off." Bobby Lee laughed at his own dark joke then started blowing kisses in the air: "Diva? Diva?"
"I think she's under the bed."
Jason led us towards the back of his apartment to his bed, a single mattress on springs, with a lone window above it. I shot a look towards Jason who didn't return it. I had been here, we both had been here–together–and apparently a cat had been underneath us, and Jason didn't exactly lie to Bobby Lee like I had, but his silence was a sort of lie. Bobby Lee put his hand on the mattress and looked underneath it. I could feel Jason attempting to ignore me, so I dropped it. We were both now lying to Bobby Lee.
"Divaaaa" Bobby Lee had found his old cat. The cat responded by rustling some newspapers. Jason found the cat's cage and put it on top of his bed in preparation to capture the feline. Bobby Lee tried luring the cat out but something about it scared him. He stopped looking under the bed, stood up, looked at Jason and demanded: "What is wrong with that cat? What did you to do Diva?"
"She's just a little dirty." Jason, exasperated, stooped down and under his mattress, reached both arms in, clucked his throat, and slowly pulled out the cat. I gasped at the sight of it The creature that Jason pulled out in no way shape or form resembled a normal house cat; it was a very large pile of orange fur with a hard spiky shell on its back, like a furry anklyosaur. The "cat" had an indignant look on its face, and meowed resentfully at being moved out of its safe zone.
"What did you do to Diva?" Bobby Lee said in a rare show of genuine anguish.
"She's fine. She just has really dirty fur."
"How does a cat grow a shell?" I asked.
"It's just matted fur." Jason said with what I could tell was a mixture of curt condescension coupled with a hint of humiliation.
I felt a deep despair just looking at the hard shell that I dared to reach out and touch. The prickly ends of the spiky fur felt like an appendage, a furry leg, and as my finger slid down I reached the hard back plates which felt like a crusty carapace. I shuddered. Could people grow shells of hair on their backs if we just cowered under a bed for years? How was Jason so non-plussed about his monster cat living under his bed? This cat was a living refugee of the relationship between Jason and Bobby Lee, a relationship I now understood had been too young, too careless, and too cruel. Bobby Lee and I shared the same disgust, and then the same resolve, we were not only moving Jason, but we were saving Jason and this monster cat.
Moving in New York was a permanent way of life for us. Bobby Lee had moved two or three times, Jason was about to move his third time, and I had probably lived in four different places over the last few years. I kept large boxes tucked away in a small closet in my room, ready to be built and used to store things to move, and my rolling bag was always on hand ready to skedaddle with me. We'd seen so many neighborhoods between us: Harlem, Midtown, "Bushweek," Queens, but you knew the perfect place to move to was someplace where it was both safe and a little dangerous, a little too scary for rich folks, but not too scary for poor families.
While Bobby Lee and Jason both carried furniture, and I helped them load them up into the truck, I also recognized the mark of shame on Jason. I wasn't conscious of being poor when I was growing up until my mother urged me to invite friends over after school one day, and that's when shame announced itself, almost as if it had been a quiet guest just waiting to be noticed. How would I explain to my friends how I lived? What my mom did? Why there were so many people living in this apartment? How small it was, would they think it was too small? Would they think less of me? To Bobby Lee, Jason's apartment was just a symptom of a disease Jason had, something he could cure with Xanax. I recognized Jason's shame, the shame of having nothing, of having to explain yourself, swallowing the shame down, staying busy in order to avoid it. Jason hid it well. Ultimately, my friends didn't care how I lived because they lived the same way, and they had fun visiting, and I then visited them, and I saw that they lived in small shaky houses in dirt fields, and I was fine with that. When we shared our shame, it disappeared. I returned that old good mannered gesture now to Jason.
"Is that chair coming?" I pointed to a chair Jason had left on the sidewalk.
"Oh. Yeah I think so."
Jason was doing his best not to look at me, but unlike the first time I met him, it wasn't to be pointedly stand-offish–or to seem better than me–but to avoid compromising himself in the lie that I had never been there before and maybe also to hide his shame. The move took all day, like I feared. The sun started to set as Jason and Bobby Lee carried a mattress and a cheap bed frame into the truck.
"Is that everything?" Bobby Lee said.
"Yeah, I think that's it. The rest stays. My asshole landlord will have to deal with it."
"Okay. now you have to make me a promise before we go." Bobby Lee said this like a stern mother would, stealing a glance at me while doing so. I thought Bobby Lee was going to out me, ask us not to hook-up in his apartment. I tensed up and looked at Jason.
"You gotta promise me to clean that cat tonight. I'm not having Diva run around my place lookin' like a ninja turtle."
Jason rolled his eyes and the hint of a familiar devilish smile cracked his angelic face.
"She just needs a washing."
"I'm serious, that cat looks like it's in pain."
"She's not in pain. I'll handle it, Mary."
Diva rolled around in her cage peacefully unbothered by our racket, letting her bigger quills protrude outside of the holes of her cage like a terrible porcupine. She didn't look like she was in pain to me but she didn't look happy either. Jason carefully carried Diva in her cage to the front of the U-haul to ride in his lap, and he nestled awkwardly between the driver's seat and the passenger seat. After a brief debate over the legality of having three people ride in front of the U-Haul truck we settled the matter by having Jason promise us that he would duck down if Bobby Lee saw any cops.
"Alright, boys, I got this! No worries! Say goodbye to Bushweek, Mon!"
"Get me outta Bushweek, mon" Jason replied.
Bobby Lee peeled away from the curb, this time going forward, and down the road towards the highway.
"Why do you guys call it Bushweek?" I asked.
Jason answered: "When Bobby and I lived here the train would sometimes break down before Bushwick (Bobby interjected: "This part of the neighborhood is too broke down for the MTA!") so we'd have to hop out and catch a cab. One time we got into a cab with a Jamaican driver who couldn't understand where we were going. We gave him our cross-streets; he didn't get it. We gave him step-by-step street directions, but he kept getting lost and turning down the wrong streets. He's totally lost for fifteen minutes and it's obvious to me that he doesn't speak a word of English. We're trying to tell him where we live, and Bobby screams at him that we live in Bushwick. The cabbie goes: "Ah! Bushweek, mon! Easy!" Bobby starts yelling, goading this guy on, "ja mon, we going to Bushweek mon! Take us to Bushweek!"
Bobby Lee started laughing: "That guy was great. He wouldn't shut up about Bushweek, he was just as happy as we were that he knew where he was taking us."
"That's kind of a cute story. I thought you guys were just being racist." I said.
"Well it's a little racist." Jason clarified.
For the very first time I felt like a piece of both Jason and Bobby had been shared with me. Something real, beyond the drinking and the clubbing, even if it was a twisted memory of the past, it was a dumb inside joke they almost unintentionally shared with me, but it still felt like it meant something.
Bobby Lee drove down dark evening streets with two hands on the wheel, peering through his glasses away from the harsh lights of oncoming traffic. I rolled down the window to feel the wind in my face and to calm my anxieties over Bobby's driving. Jason's demeanor changed during the drive: he became effervescent, playful, and mischievous.
"Bobby those glasses. They're awful. Why'd you get them?"
Bobby Lee was struck by those comments. Jason's opinion was the only opinion Bobby cared about.
"You think they're ugly?" Bobby Lee looked over at me as if to question why I hadn't said anything about them.
"You look like Napoleon Dynamite." Jason said, practically cracking himself up. Jason loved toying with Bobby Lee's emotions when he was in high spirits. At first I had considered this a sinister character trait, but now it felt different, like it was a language between them that I started to understand. Jason poked Bobby because he knew it could get a reaction, and Bobby was only sensitive to Jason and no one else, and in that way they communicated how important one was to the other. I decided to speak their language and try and join in.
"You do look a little nerdy." I smiled at Bobby Lee during my confession in order to soften the blow.
Jason started laughing and Bobby Lee let out a hearty"fuck you guys..it's too late for me to change them–you should have been there to help me pick something out…" and he went on and on until Jason calmed him. This was their language, similar to the language Bobby and I had, I liked to egg him on, and so did Jason, and in that moment our differences felt like they were melting away.
Bobby Lee drove up towards a turnpike, narrowly missing a few cars here and there, and he settled into a steady speed on a mostly empty highway on the way back to Manhattan. We played music and I listened to them talk about life in Bushwick then, versus now, and life in Manhattan with all of its possibilities. There was always new food to try, new bodegas, new stores. Manhattan appeared on the horizon, a glowing beacon in the dark, Jason's new home, which he quietly contemplated. He looked over the Bobby Lee's driver side window to look at the lights, then settled back down, and he looked at the overhead street lights as his head moved to the music on the radio. Bobby Lee jerked the car to the right to avoid a slow driver, then back to the left, almost knocking me off my seat. I admonished him: "You're going to get us killed!"
"Sorry everyone sorry, I'm having a little trouble seeing with these glasses. The lanes look so big."
Bobby steered the U-haul in frightening directions a few more times along the trip, until we entered the city proper, back to the hermits living in the alleys, and the skyscrapers, the traffic, and the familiar neighborhoods. We moved Jason into Bobby's Midtown building, taking his few essentials–struggling with his big mattress–and finally letting Jason set up his living space while we returned the U-Haul and walked back with pizza and mixers for our drinks.
"I see you've already set up." Bobby Lee said to Jason.
"Wasn't hard. Didn't have a lot of stuff."
Jason and Bobby Lee turned their attention to the matter of their monster cat, and I took the opportunity to inspect Jason's new living space. It was an odd setup: The place was a one bedroom with a living room area which was cordoned off by two freestanding japanese floral print room dividers. Behind the dividers was Jason's new living space, which was in total square area a significant step down from his old place, but was pristine, which was an improvement. I poked my head around the partition and saw that Jason had set up his bed, a small table, a laptop, and a TV. The setup was almost identical to mine. I wondered about Jason now, for the first time, as someone who was almost exactly like me. Jason king of the night, gorgeous, manipulative and insufferable, was also hurting, also just like me, stranded out in a dusty urban desert with only two friends to help him out. I found it impossible to hate him now.
"Kinda small right?" Bobby Lee breathed into my ear. He was also peering around the partition.
"You both going to be fine?" I said.
"Yeah we've been through worse. I'm trying to get him to come out tonight but he doesn't want to. That's the thanks I get."
Jason was busy in the bathroom running the shower and using a heavy duty tub brush to scrub his monstrous cat to no avail.
"I think I'm gonna to have to shave him. These hairs are too crusty!"
"Well shave him on the bathroom floor. Don't make a mess!" Bobby Lee said, handing me a drink.
"I'll get him to come out," I said to Bobby Lee.
Jason looked around the bathroom, found some clippers, and started work. Diva lay still on Jason's lap with a wide-eyed expression on her face, her tail twitching in anticipation. Jason sat cross-legged–wearing pajama pants and a simple long sleeved white shirt–and nestled his cat in one hand while he moved the clippers over Diva's back. The cat purred in adulation as the first of its big chunky clumps fell on the bathroom floor with a tuft of stray fuzz falling on Jason's leg.
"We're going to the Roxy tonight, Jason, with or without you," Bobby Lee called out from his kitchen.
"Go ahead, Mary, I have to get settled. I can't start drinking now."
This was the very first time I had seen Jason lacking in extremes: He was neither a hot nightlife know-it-all, nor a runaway destitute. He appeared now agreeable in the same way every one of us appears agreeable when we just want some peace and quiet at home. Jason stared at the ground, at the fur that fell from his cat, swiped his bare feet across the bathroom floor to haphazardly sweep the abundant falling cat fur into a messy pile next to him. I was intimidated by Jason when I first met him, by how he moved expertly through the world I wanted to belong to, by how he made my heart beat faster with a look. Now, all I could see him as was as some poor schmuck with a cat he wanted to care for. In that moment, Jason no longer made my heart flutter, but he made it laugh. He wasn't any different from Bobby Lee or me, just a weird-looking runaway with nowhere to go. I connected my iPod mini to Bobby Lee's laptop and started playing a song I secretly devoted to Jason: Kings of the Wild Frontier, by Adam Ant. It reminded me of the time Jason told us he was part Native American, but had no real connection to that past because his family had stopped talking to him. Bobby Lee started admonishing me to turn off "that shitty weird music you like" and Jason rolled his eyes without appreciating the gesture–which was fine–because any hostility that Jason had sensed from me or I from him had vanished, replaced with a feeling of kinship that turned stabs into pokes. I was going to return the favor. I was going to get Jason off that floor and out with us with the simplest torture. I took a daring photo of Jason shaving his cat on the kitchen floor using my phone, I handed him a vodka tonic mixed drink, and then I whispered at him from the doorway of the bathroom with all the seriousness that I could muster:
"Hurry up and shave your pussy. We're going to get wasted."
K. Joffré is a gay Guatemalan-American writer happily married in New York. He has non-fiction published in Slate and fiction published in Cosmonauts Avenue, Cecile's Writers, and an upcoming story in Opossum Lit. He is currently working on a novel. You can find him on twitter: @kjoffre_.
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Q: How to create a folder on BIM 360 though .NET I am currently trying to create a folder inside the Plans Top Folder with the name "NET folder". Using my method, the program crashes with the output:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)
The code below is what I am currently using:
CreateFolderDataRelationshipsParentData createFolderRelationshipsParentData = new CreateFolderDataRelationshipsParentData(
    "folders",
    parentFolderId);
CreateFolderDataRelationshipsParent createFolderDataRelationshipsParent = new CreateFolderDataRelationshipsParent(createFolderRelationshipsParentData);
CreateFolderDataRelationships createFolderDataFolderRelationships = new CreateFolderDataRelationships(createFolderDataRelationshipsParent);
BaseAttributesExtensionObjectWithoutSchemaLink baseAttribute = new BaseAttributesExtensionObjectWithoutSchemaLink(
    "folders:autodesk.bim360:Folder",
    "1.0",
    folderInfo.Value.attributes.extension.data);
CreateFolderDataAttributes createFolderDataAttributes = new CreateFolderDataAttributes("NET Folder", baseAttribute);
CreateFolderData createFolderData = new CreateFolderData(createFolderDataAttributes, createFolderDataFolderRelationships);
CreateFolder createFolder = new CreateFolder(new JsonApiVersionJsonapi(JsonApiVersionJsonapi.VersionEnum._0), createFolderData);

folderApi.PostFolder(projectId, createFolder);

Is there something I am missing to create a folder with the name "NET Folder"?

A: The problem was I was using the wrong object body inside the BaseAttributesExtensionObjectWithoutSchemaLink. Instead of using folderInfo.Value.attributes.extension.data, I replaced it with folder.data and it worked after.

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Slinger Bag Acquires Foundation Tennis, and GameSquare's GCN Announces Alliance with Black Fire Innovation
Montreal Canadiens Face 2020 Champs in Stanley Cup Final, and Geraint Thomas Crashes in Stage 3 of Tour de France
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Slinger Bag Inc. (OTC:SLBG) has announced its acquisition of Foundation Tennis, described in the press release as "a pioneer in tennis software applications covering tennis club and facility administration and encompassing highly functional user and CRM experiences." Mike Ballardie, CEO of Slinger, said:
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Gaming Community Network (GCN), part of a group of companies from GameSquare Esports Inc. (CSE:GSQ), has announced an alliance with Black Fire Innovation, which is itself a collaboration between the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of Economic Development and Caesars Entertainment, Inc. This will see GCN tasked with "producing collegiate esports tournaments, hosting and coaching content creators, and developing curriculum as part of a master class series for students to gain real-world insights within the gaming and esports industry." Drew Brunson, GCN's Vice President of Partnerships and Activations, commented:
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The Montreal Canadiens square off against the 2020 Stanley Cup champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning, tonight with the latter having the home ice advantage. The Canadiens have not won a Stanley Cup final since 1993, which is also the last time any team from Canada has won. Though it's been so long, Montreal has won more Stanley Cups than any other franchise in the NHL, considerably more than the runner-up Toronto Maple Leafs, who have 13. In fact, the Canadiens, until 1999, had the most championships by any team of the four major North American sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL).
The Associated Press reports that Welsh cyclist Geraint Thomas crashed in Stage 3 of the Tour de France. Thomas, who had become the first Welsh cyclist to win the Tour in 2018, reportedly suffered a dislocated shoulder, but managed to recover and finish another 3,000 kilometers to the finish line in Paris. Belgian Tim Merlier, winner of the 2019 Belgian National Road Race Championships, went on to win the Tour's third stage.
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Culture has more to do with quality than anything else. You can measure number of escapes, try to enforce policies of defining doneness criteria, but none of those individual things are going to really do what you want, which is make your customers happier. Creating a culture that loves the customer, strives to get to know them better, and wants nothing more than to make their lives better is going to improve your "quality." So long answer short, in my opinion you should focus more on building empathy between your team and your customer than you do on finding constraints.
First I must say I was incredibly proud of Lee's comment. I'd worked with him at a company called iContact for approximately three years. We were an agile shop and I believe some of his council is coming from his experience there.
One of the things we did at iContact that truly connected our agile teams to the customers was pair every team member with a customer support person on a periodic basis.
We were lucky enough that all of our ~70 customer support folks were in the same building as our cross-functional Scrum teams. Somewhere along the line, a policy had been established that everyone in the Technology & Product department would spend 2-4 hours a month tethered to a customer support engineer taking live customer calls about our products.
Was there whining and complaining about it? You bet. But the policy was firmly reinforced.
I must admit, I don't particularly care for these sorts of prescriptive actions within agile organizations. But in hindsight, the policy had an incredibly positive impact.
And finally to Eat our own dog food.
Ultimately it built empathy, gave us information so we could improve, and to Lee's point – apparently it helped build a culture around loving the customer.
In hindsight, I think that's what ultimately drove our client successes at iContact.


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It's not just the most important meal of the day, it's probably the most special as well. Anyone can cook dinner or lunch, you're already awake and hungry. But getting up early in the morning and making sure everyone has something to eat, that's a bit of extra dedication. A lot of people put less and less importance on breakfast as they grow older, but for me there's no better meal to have when I'm dining out than a nice, full breakfast platter, even if it's served when I finally wake up in the afternoon!
This is a dish that got me started on cooking as a kid with my mom. I remember being amazed at the seeming magic of an egg ending up inside of bread. I was five or six at the time, and discovering that food could be put into other food was a sort of magical revelation. It's still tasty today despite being so simple. To start out, lay the bread on a cutting board and cut out a hole from the center using a cookie cutter. I find that something between 2 and 3 inches works best, such as the top of a jar of grated Parmesan cheese. Using the melted butter or margarine, brush over both sides of the bread to coat, including the hole you cut out.
Heat a non-stick pan over medium low heat and lightly crack each of your eggs so they can be split open quickly. Now lay the bread down in the pan, 2 slices at a time if it's a good sized pan. Break the eggs open and let them drop into the hole cut in the bread. Take the hole you cut out and dredge it lightly in the egg on both sides before laying it down in the pan as well. Season them lightly with salt and pepper and after a few minutes, flip the holes over to check them. When the holes are done on one side, so are the egg in a baskets. Carefully flip them over to the other side and finish cooking. Serve hot.
Serving suggestions: Try it with some sliced fruit to make a quick breakfast.


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Higashiyama Onsen is a historical onsen (hot spring) town located on the eastern outskirts of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture. More than 1,300 years old, the town's healing waters have been a respite for Buddhist priests, noble samurai, and weary travelers alike.
Today, Higashiyama Onsen is known as one of Tohoku's top three onsen resorts. About 15 different hot spring hotels and ryokan (traditional inn) and hotels sit along the tranquil Yu River, nestled in a scenic valley. The old-style wooden ryokan are the best option, as they give you the impression of stepping back in time and make you feel like an honored guest in real traditional Japan.
Mukaitaki Ryokan
Photo by:M MurakamiOnsen for nobles and pilgrims alike.
Mukaitaki Ryokan is undoubtedly the most famous among Higashiyama Onsen's ryokan. It's well known as the valley's most prominent landmark. It also offers its guests one of the most authentic onsen experiences you can have.
The guest rooms are designed like those which nobles stayed in when traveling during Edo Times. They all offer magnificent views towards the large traditional Japanese garden of the ryokan or the Yu River. The views change with the seasons, and the rooms also give great views of cherry blossoms in spring, summer greens, colorful autumn leaves, and pristine blankets of snow in winter.
The Mukaitaki offers several onsen baths, one of them being kazoku style, where you can enjoy the hot spring in private with your family.
The food on offer is decidedly Japanese and features local ingredients. The Aizu region is famous for sweet-water fish, beef, and delicious vegetables. The sake made from local rice is divine. Depending on the season, you will get served the best in a multitude of dishes.
Enjoy a geisha performance
Photo by:SayacaAutumn in Higashiyama Onsen.
Higashiyama Onsen is a certified geisha district. Thus, you can experience what it's like to be entertained by a real, traditionally trained geisha.
The geisha of Higashiyama Onsen, locally known as geigi or kanariko, are refined stage performers, masters at playing the shamisen, and singing ancient songs about love and life. Seeing them dance and perform in their elegant kimono is utterly unforgettable.
Booking a geisha for a performance at your dinner table is also possible. While on the pricey side, sharing the bill with a group of friends would make it still quite affordable.
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Manuel Espinosa attended the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, and his first paintings were figurative and very rooted to both anecdote and argument. At the beginning of the 40s, he painted murals and illustrated books. Between 1942 and 1943, he met Joaquín Torres-García and Tomas Maldonado, who greatly influenced him. In the middle of the decade, he remained a figurative painter, centering his attention more on form than narrative.
In 1946, Espinosa participated in the inaugural exhibition of Asociación Arte-Concreto Invención (Peuser Hall, Buenos Aires), whose original manifesto he had signed the previous year. He made works with irregular frames and participated in the diverse exhibitions and activities of the group until the end of the decade, when it was dissolved. Between 1951 and 1952, Espinosa traveled to Europe to meet the main representatives of the Concrete Art movement. After his return to Argentina he spent several years assimilating his European experience. In 1959, he exhibited the results at the Galería Van Riel in Buenos Aires, using curved outlines, open or in spiral form, precise or vague , as well as groups of circles, semicircles, squares and rhombuses to construct paintings whose main subject was the creation of space and its contrast with emptiness.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Espinosa lived in Spain and Italy. He returned to Buenos Aires in the middle of the decade and participated in numerous collective exhibitions of Constructive Art, including Nuevo ensamble and Materiales, nuevas técnicas, and nuevas expresiones (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1968). In the latter, he presented three-dimensional acrylic boxes that produced, either by the displacement of the observer or manipulation, diverse optical and kinetic effects. This type of production was displayed again at the Galería El Taller (Buenos Aires, 1969).
At the end of the 1960s, with his interest in Op Art growing, he began to develop one of his most important series of paintings. These focused on the organization of circles of identical size that, with displacement, chromatic transition, and degradation, produced very active vibrational phenomena. The picture plane became the field for his experimentation and the variations of it in series became his process of work.
From the beginning of the 1970s, Espinosa experimented with the square as he had previously done with circles. He displayed this investigations for the first time in tht solo exhibition Pyopen or 20 variaciones sobre un tema (Galería Arte Nuevo, Buenos Aires, 1970). Among several innovations introduced on this occasion was hanging the support from one of its vertices. During this decade, Espinosa presented some exhibitions in which he showed drew inspiration and influences from other arts, including literature and music. He dedicated an exhibition to James Joyce (Galería Vermeer, Buenos Aires, 1977) and another one to Eric Satie (Galería del Retiro, Buenos Aires, 1979). In these exhibitions he continued to use the square form, but with more contrasting colors, and in some cases he subverted the reticular organization or changed the size of the squares.
In 1981, Manuel Espinosa was forced to abandon his artistic practice due to declining health.
Manuel Espinosa. Buenos Aires: Ana Espinosa, 2012.


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Green Light For £150M Olympic Stadium Conversion
By cashinmattress, May 30, 2013 in House prices and the economy
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Plans for the £150m conversion of the Olympic Stadium got the green light at a planning meeting in Stratford last night.
London Legacy Development Corporation's planning committee granted permission for the original structure to be transformed into a 60,000-seater venue with a capacity of 80,000 for concerts.
The multi-purpose venue, which has Premier League club West Ham United confirmed as an anchor tenant, will host Rugby World Cup 2015 matches and the 2017 World Athletics Championships.
Subject to a referral to the Mayor of London, work will begin later this year on the proposed alterations.
The stadium will boast the world's largest spanning tensile roof at 84m, which will cover every seat and make the stadium "intimate and enclosed"
Conversion plans will also involve a seating bridge between the upper and lower tiers on the East side to create a large "Kop" style stand.
The 54,000-seater ground will also include 995 toilets and multiple food kiosks which were outside during the Olympics.
Traditional turnstiles will also be installed nearer the stadium rather than remoter access points which operated during the 2012 Games.
A host of big names are lining-up for the £150m conversion contract despite Sir Robert ********'s strong claims as original builder.
********-led Team Stadium also included Populous as the architect and Buro Happold as the designer of the civils, structural and building services work on the 2012 stadium.
Populous is already on board as architect for the shell-and-core conversion contract.
Dennis Hone, Legacy Corporation chief executive, said: "This is an important milestone that paves the way for the Stadium's intended legacy use as an all-year-round venue.
"As we prepare for the phased re-opening of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park this summer, with the long-term future of all eight permanent venues on the Park now secure, we remain firmly on track to deliver a meaningful physical and social legacy for Londoners."
Sir Robin Wales, Mayor of Newham, said:"This is fantastic news and we will work hard to make sure our residents have access to the jobs created by the construction project as well the Stadium itself once it opens. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is beginning to take shape and the progress that's been made so far is impressive."
Just another Tory pal getting taxpayer monies for an unnecessary project.
Hey mods.. why is M c A l p i n e starred out? Is this offensive to somebody?
Might be something to do with recent allegations made against a very frail, senior Tory.
I thought a very rich football club were taking this over? I'm sure they need taxpayer support however, with all those footballer fee's they have to pay?
London has many concert venue's now. But being a "world class" City, I'm sure it can support more.
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Whoever did the original designs should be shot if it's totally useless for any other function. If its going to be impossible to get the refurb money back they should cut their losses and knock the whole thing down and sell the land for houses or something.
Wasted money pays wages......few do very well out of it, the rest end up paying for it without getting any benefit whatsoever from it, so it goes on.....ho hum.
How is that any worse than the speaker's wife? And look what happened to her!
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Spot on. It was never sustainable as just an athletics venue. Should have been built as a multi-functional stadium from the start, now its costing a fortune to refurb it.


From its inception Royal Wimbledon Golf Club played on Wimbledon Common, sharing the Tom Dunn designed course with London Scottish Golf Club. Four holes around the Windmill were lost and replaced in 1901 but, sadly, no map of the revised layout has survived.
The arrangement was perfectly amicable, but the arrival of a third user, newly- formed Wimbledon Town Golf Club and the increasingly unwelcome presence of nannies, their prams and the picnic parties who found the small close cut greens irresistible, led to mounting congestion, frustration and, perhaps inevitably, the decision to go it alone. In 1907, RWGC began construction of its own course, designed by Willie Park Jnr, on 240 acres of farmland adjoining the Common, leased from Warren Farm.
The new course, however, wasn't perfect and a radical redesign from the celebrated Harry S Colt (who happened to be a Member) was undertaken in 1924 at a cost of £7,000. This is virtually the course we play today with one or two modifications. The first being the surrender of the old 17th to create space for wartime allotments and the removal of the 18th Green to a safer distance from the Club House.
Measuring 6,366 yards for the men and 5,581 for the ladies, with Standard Scratches of 71 and 73 respectively, the course has undergone a continuous programme of improvement in recent years designed to enhance the visual aspects, protect against players' improved equipment and fitness and provide appropriate practice and teaching facilities.


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Q: I need to highlight a listbox element that is referred to by another element I am trying to do the following. I have a listBox with a DataTemplate that is bound to a list of objects.
I also have another element that is bound to an object. that object contains a property that is a reference to one of the elements in the listbox.
The DataTemplate for the ListBox has a border and I want to make an extra thick border around the list item that is referred to by the other object.
I have been playing around with triggers and such, but I can't seem to get my head around how to solve this problem.
Any suggestions?

A: Check out DataTemplateSelector. You can select which datatemplate to use based on the bound object's property.


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De Nieuwe Tijd is volgens de traditionele indeling de periode in de westerse geschiedenis die volgt op de Middeleeuwen (476-1450) vanaf ongeveer 1450. De term kan twee verschillende betekenissen hebben:

 de hele periode na de Middeleeuwen tot heden. In dat geval duurt de Nieuwe Tijd tot vandaag de dag. Binnen deze betekenis kan nog worden onderscheiden tussen de Vroegmoderne Tijd en de Moderne Tijd.
 als alternatieve naam voor de Vroegmoderne Tijd. In dat geval duurde de Nieuwe Tijd tot ongeveer 1789. Vaak wordt ook het begin van de negentiende eeuw nog als 'vroegmodern' beschouwd. De hiernavolgende periode wordt dan in de regel Nieuwste Tijd (of Moderne Tijd) genoemd.

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De gewoonte om de westerse geschiedenis in drie perioden – Oudheid, Middeleeuwen en Nieuwe tijd – onder te verdelen, is ontstaan tijdens de renaissance. De humanisten meenden dat na een periode van verval en barbarij, de Middeleeuwen, een periode van hernieuwde bloei van kunst en wetenschap was aangebroken. De Oudheid werd door hen geïdealiseerd.

Voor niet-westerse culturen is deze indeling niet gebruikelijk en ook meestal niet toepasbaar.

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After the train journey from London Paddington into Moreton-in-Marsh (a 1.5 hour journey by train) we head straight into the Cotswolds countryside and visit the iconic Chipping Campden, the beautiful American inspired gardens at Hidcote, then have lunch in the best pub in England (Sunday Times) before heading to the hotel in the afternoon.
For those who want to venture further, with a small additional charge, we head for Stratford, the birthplace of Shakespeare, and home to the Royal Shakespeare Company and its theatre. If you would like to see a production at the RSC we can organise this for you (bookings need to be made in advance however). Mileage either 4 / 6.
The tour then winds its way through the picturesque Cotswolds countryside, taking in some of the most well-known towns and villages including Chipping Campden, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Slaughters, Snowshill and the majestic Broadway Tower. For lunch we stop at the gardens at Snowshill Manor and then back to the Manor in Moreton in Marsh.
We visit the country home of Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace, a World Heritage Site. We walk through the back gate of its 2000 acre estate and stroll through the stunning grounds. On arrival we give guests a sumptuous picnic in the Capability Brown inspired gardens and give you ample time to explore the historical house and beautiful gardens. We then travel to Burford, the Gateway to the Cotswolds.
We head through the Cotswolds to the beautiful Cotswold town of Bampton, home to the hit show Downton Abbey (it is the village where all the outside filming is shot) then on to the home of William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement. We take guests to Oxford by bus in the afternoon for a good look round the historical university town, returning to Burford in the evening.
We travel from Burford towards stunning White Horse Hill, the Ridgeway and walk up the hill to one of the most iconic English views with the landscape rolled out like a patchwork quilt. After a side visit to the Neolithic long-barrow at Wayland Smithy we head onto lunch at the White Horse in Woolstone, before transit to a mainline railway station and the end of the tour.
Guests stay in the best 4* hotels in the Cotswolds countryside, with unbeatable settings, wonderful accommodation and stunning food. Further options are available for those who want to stay in a country cottage location or in a selection of hand-picked pubs. This tour includes 3 dinners.


"To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.
Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.
All of nature is resurrection.
Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.


I first created a sandbox by downloading a Fedora 10 virtual appliance (http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/#fedora10). I then setup the Bugzilla environment with a simple command (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Linux_Distro_Installation).
Follow the instructions there to make sure you have all of the addons configured and database setup properly (e.g. /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl --all).
Congrats. Go to your server and make sure things are looking good (e.g. http://localhost).
Go ahead and configure Bugzilla parameters. You will need to enable aliases and bug moving (for importing). The aliases are only going to be used since I want to know the old bug # from the previous system.
I'm going to wait on the actual upgrade of the DB until after the migration since the new version of Bugzilla has additional security features and I'm not sure if I'll end up breaking some references between tables based on my import. But, I wanted to have the latest version of importxml.pl since that has some updates for importing bugs.
I exported from MS Access using the attached code. Remember, you will need to install the MS DAO into your references (Tools >> References) when in the module editor. Of course, you'll have to modify your queries to produce the proper data for your custom system, but this should get well on your way.
Bugzilla XML export from MS Access utilizing VBScript: bugzilla-xml-export-from-ms-access-utilizing-vbscript.
Now, here is the tedious part. You need to first have a bunch of data setup within Bugzilla so that the migration can go smoothly. Otherwise, you'll end up with a bunch of bugs in there that have no useful project, version, status, priority, severity, owner, etc. You need to get all of this data and setup Bugzilla. I recommend that you run some SELECT DISTINCT statements on your main data output query from MS Access to determine the other data you need to setup prior to import.
From those SELECT DISNTINCT statements, you can fill out this spreadsheet that I put together to manage the queries required to get the rest of the data setup.
Run the SQL statements using phpMyAdmin (http://localhost/phpMyAdmin).
Since, I don't like Bugzilla's severities, overwrite their severity table with the values I like (Bugzilla SQL status table overwrite).
You'll need to define a default owner, product, component, etc. Be sure do that the in administration parameters.
Before attempting to import into Bugzilla, I suggest that you take a DB snapshot so that when things don't go well, you can easily get back to this initial state, add the missing data, and re-try the import. Go to phpMyAdmin and do an 'Export." Make sure that you 'disable foreign key checks' and include the 'drop table' statements.
Now check the ~/ bugzilla_migration.log for errors. Look out for times when it says that it can't locate the product, version, component, QAContact, status, priority, severity, etc. Ignore errors with #PCDATA in them.
If you have errors to deal with, work through them by first restoring the bugs DB in phpMyAdmin. Then add the proper lines into the Bugzilla excel spreadsheet and use the commands to add the missing values Bugzilla needed. Re-import the file using the same commend. Repeat this process each time until you only see #PCDATA errors in the file.
Congrats, you now have the data in Bugzilla. Now, we'll need to do some cleanup.
There is one final thing that is very useful for my project. It is custom multiple select fields. I'm not sure why the Bugzilla team hasn't incorporated these fields into the search filter, so we'll have to tweak some of the Bugzilla code.
I've based the two attached files on this posting: .
If you are using Bugzilla 3.2.2, you can probably just overwrite the files with what I have here. Please see the above for where to put the files.
After doing this, you'll need to re-compile your templates by executing checksetup.pl again. Now, you'll be able to report and search by your custom fields multiple select fields.
Congrats, I hope this was helpful. Now you'll need to finish customizing Bugzilla.


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Q: Converting Coldfusion encryption code to C# (again) Once again I'm tasked with converting ColdFusion code used for a single sign-on to C# and am running short on time.  This one is completely different than my question that was answered here, so I'm back to being in over my head.
The original ColdFusion code was executed in a <cfscript> tag.  I've replaced the src and pwd variables with abbreviated placeholders just to obscure their actual values:
//create a key to be used
src="xxx";
pwd="abc";

// Base64 Decoding the key
base64Decoder = createObject("java", "sun.misc.BASE64Decoder");
desKeyData = base64Decoder.decodeBuffer(pwd);

// Initialize the constructor of DESedeKeySpec with private key
KeySpec=createObject("java", "javax.crypto.spec.DESedeKeySpec");
KeySpec=KeySpec.init(desKeyData);

// Generate the secret key using SecretKeyFactory
keyFac=createObject("java", "javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory").getInstance("DESede");
secretKey =keyFac.generateSecret(KeySpec);

// Get CIPHER OBJ ready to use
decodecipher = createObject("java", "javax.crypto.Cipher").getInstance("DESede/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
decodecipher.init(2, secretKey);

encodecipher = createObject("java", "javax.crypto.Cipher").getInstance("DESede/ECB/PKCS5Padding");

encodecipher.init(1, secretKey);

stringBytes = toString(src).getBytes("UTF8");
raw = encodecipher.doFinal(stringBytes);

// Base64Encoding of generated cipher
cipherText=ToBase64(raw);

I also have a document from the other party that outlines the steps for creating the single sign-on as follows:
Creating the encrypted token

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*Create the plain text (this corresponds to the variable src above, and that part I've done successfully in C#)

*Pad the plain text

*Decode the key (the key corresponds to the variable pwd above, and must be base 64 decoded; I think I've successfully gotten up to this point as well.)

*Perform the encryption (use the decoded key obtained above and the plain text to do the encryption)

*Encode the cipher text (url encoded)
I have the BouncyCastle libraries installed and am trying to make use of those, but I'm stuck on the actual encryption step. So far the beginning of my C# conversion looks like this (once again the token and key have abbreviated placeholders to obscure the actual values):
//steps omitted here to create src string
string token = "xxx";
string key = "abc";
byte[] decodedKeyBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(key);

I know that's not a whole lot to go on, but I've tried so many things that haven't worked that I've lost track.  Eventually when I get to the piece where I'm initializing the cipher, I assume I need something like this:
PaddedBufferedBlockCipher cipher = new PaddedBufferedBlockCipher(new DesEdeEngine());

Thanks very much for any suggestions/examples.
Update:
Thanks to the very helpful answer below, I was able to get this working using the following code:
string token = "xxx";
string key = "abc";

byte[] base64DecodedKeyBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(key);
byte[] inputBytesToken = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(token);

// initialize for EBC mode and PKCS5/PKCS7 padding
PaddedBufferedBlockCipher cipher = new PaddedBufferedBlockCipher(new DesEdeEngine());
KeyParameter param = new KeyParameter(base64DecodedKeyBytes);
cipher.Init(true, param);

// encrypt and encode as base64
byte[] encryptedBytesToken = cipher.DoFinal(inputBytesToken);
string tokenBase64 = System.Convert.ToBase64String(encryptedBytesToken);

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This one is completely different

Not so much ;-)  You already answered your own question.
Do not let the java code throw you. Ignoring some unused variables, it is doing exactly the same thing as encrypt() on your other thread - except with "TripleDES" instead of "Blowfish". encrypt() hides a lot of the complexity, but internally it is does the same thing - using those same java classes FWIW. That means you can use the same C# code. As you already guessed, you just need to swap out the crypto engine:
....
// initialize for EBC mode and PKCS5/PKCS7 padding
PaddedBufferedBlockCipher cipher = new PaddedBufferedBlockCipher(new DesEdeEngine());
...

Update:
Just to elaborate a bit, when you use encrypt( someUTF8String, base64Key, algorithm, encoding), CF performs the same steps as your java code internally:

*

*Decodes the key from base64, and creates a KeySpec object for the given algorithm, ie
// Base64 Decoding the key
// CF may use a different decoder, but the overall process is the same
base64Decoder = createObject("java", "sun.misc.BASE64Decoder");
....
secretKey =keyFac.generateSecret(KeySpec);

*Next it extracts the UTF-8 bytes of the plain text, ie
stringBytes = toString(src).getBytes("UTF8");

*CF then creates a cipher, which pads and encrypts the plain text, ie:
encodeCipher = createObject("java", "javax.crypto.Cipher").getInstance(algorithm);
encodeCipher.init(1, secretKey); // 1 - ENCRYPT_MODE
raw = encodeCipher.doFinal(stringBytes);

*Finally, CF encodes the encrypted bytes as base64, ie:
cipherText=ToBase64(raw);
So as you can see, the java code and encrypt do exactly the same thing.


Please read at least once before setting.
4. Second hand will move to the position of 0 seconds (12 o'clock) , Now you can adjust "minute", "time and date" and "years since month, leap year".
Note: Each time you press the button, "minute" → "time and date" → (back to the beginning) → "years elapsed from the moon-leap year" will be switched.
5. Align the minute by turning the crown. (This is after you have press the button A at Step 3. Every one minute = second hand will turn 1 round. Turn the crown until you have reach 05 minute.
6. Press button A for time and date setting.
7. Hour hand moves slightly, which means watch is at time and date adjustment.
You set the date and time by turning the crown. Turn the crown forward will you reach 25th. The date will move in accordance to how many rounds the hour hand moves.
8. Press button A for year setting.
The second hand points to the current month and year (factory settings).
Please see details on how only the month and year, "Display of the month" and "display of the year."
Read Page 78 and page 79 of the below URL. Month August Year 2014 is at 42 minute mark.
9. Push the crown back to "0" position.
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An irascible de Gaulle talks to Douglas Johnson on boring England, declining France and the Iraq crisis. The great strategist is not impressed with Chirac's handling of America - or could he just be a little bit jealous?
Charles de Gaulle: No, excuse me professor, but we are not talking French today. We are talking English.
DJ: I didn't realise that you spoke good English.
CdG: Well, it so happens that, where I am at the moment, it is very easy because we have been provided with the gift of tongues, and I can speak any language that I choose. I don't like speaking these other languages, they are all inferior to French, but my voices told me that today we should speak English. You will not be surprised that I have my voices. I believe that they appear in British diplomatic documents. When I returned to government in 1958, there was a certain Gladwyn Jebb who explained to Mr Macmillan that my voices had told me that I must restore France to being a great power.
DJ: What was your English like when you were alive?
CdG: Ah, I could speak English, but I had a strong French accent. In 1940, English people only knew one Frenchman and that was Maurice Chevalier. When they heard me speak, they were reminded of Chevalier and sometimes said so. I did not like this, especially as he was singing to the Germans in Paris, so I issued an order stating that General de Gaulle did not speak English and only spoke French.
DJ: Did you like being in England?
CdG: Well, you must remember that when I came to England, I left a France that was in the middle of a terrible war. We were being defeated-war was everywhere. But when I was driven to London, I saw people playing tennis, shopping, going to the cinema-war was nowhere. It was a different sort of country. And, when I was in London, they did one of those surveys and they found that a third of all the people in England had never met a single Frenchman-and many of those who had known French people had, I suppose, met them in the 1914 war.
DJ: But when you got to know England better, you must have found good things.
CdG: Well, yes. I found that England was boring.
DJ: Is that a way of saying that you disliked it here?
CdG: Not at all. Boredom is important. Sacha Guitry wrote a play which shows a couple sitting separately on large poufs. In between them, at the back of the stage is a clock. The man and his wife look at one another, without saying a word. Then, from time to time, as if by some secret agreement, they look at the clock. It's excellent. Boredom is useful. And the British people know how to benefit from boredom.
DJ: If I might change the subject, I was told that you agreed to speak to me because you had been told that I was an historian, not a journalist. Does this mean that you mistrust English journalists?
CdG: No, not at all. I've always been reluctant to discuss things with historians. After the war, it was more than two years before I agreed to talk to an historian, and I was then forced to meet an American historian. I remember that the British press were kind to me in the first days of Free France. The Times and the Daily Sketch gave me lots of space and when the papers announced that Vichy had condemned me to death, I was sent jewels and wedding rings, sometimes from war widows, I do not forget that.
DJ: If you have been looking at the English papers recently, you must have seen how they are attacking France over the conflict with Iraq. It is said that France is not showing gratitude to the thousands of Americans who gave their lives to liberate France. One paper even had on its front page a picture of American soldiers fighting on Omaha beach.
CdG: The Red army filled many more cemeteries than the Americans, but I didn't notice the Americans following Soviet diplomacy out of gratitude. Let me recall an episode that is relevant. It was in July 1943. I was in Algiers and there were difficulties between General Giraud, who had his understandings with Vichy, and myself. Eisenhower summoned the two of us and explained that the US government was dissatisfied with us and regretted that we were not acting democratically. He added that, if we did not organise our affairs as they hoped, then they would be obliged to cease supplying us with arms. They particularly objected to the National Committee in Algiers making me the political head of the country and Giraud the commander-in-chief, without political powers.
I then posed a number of questions to Eisenhower. In 1914, I said, France was a rich country. We were able to provide arms for the Belgians, the Serbs and, to a lesser degree, the Russians. But did we intervene in their internal affairs? We provided the American forces with aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery, but did we interfere in the appointment of the US president or the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary forces? Would the American people have accepted these French exigencies? And supposing that the American government had refused French demands, would the French then have stopped supplying the American forces with arms? I have to tell you that Eisenhower did not reply to any of these questions.
DJ: But Eisenhower was very helpful to you, at least in the later years of the war.
CdG: Yes, he accepted in 1944 that we could not occupy Strasbourg and then abandon it, and he let us send Leclerc to liberate Paris in August 1944. However, I remember that when we started to organise our victory parade on 26th August, there was an American general who claimed to be in command of the region who forbade it. Naturally, I paid no attention.
DJ: What do you think of President Chirac? Many say that he is following your example in defying the Americans over Iraq, sending troops to the Ivory Coast, and visiting Algeria to restore French influence.
CdG: I knew Chirac during the difficult days of May 1968. He was minister of labour and it was his job, under Pompidou's direction, to negotiate a wage settlement with the unions and put an end to the strikes. He was, I believe, very efficient. He dealt directly with Pompidou. He came to see me once. But the Chirac of today is different. And it is not only that years have passed and he has been prime minister and president of the republic. Above all, he has found himself with 80 per cent of the votes in the presidential election and with a new party, formed around him, which has a big majority in the assembly. He is no longer a weak figure. He is no longer the victim of cohabitation. At the age of 70, he is transformed. And he has chosen not to exercise his power in the narrowness of domesticity. He wants to show his power and his talents to the world. He has taken wing.
But-and this is his tragedy-his powers are limited. To begin with, people voted for him not because he was seen as a great man but because they were frightened that the adventurer Le Pen might be elected. People wanted to put their gloves on when voting Chirac, or put clothes pegs on their noses, all to show their distaste, and the authorities had to explain that such acts would invalidate their votes. I've never heard anything like it. And his party won the parliamentary elections because the left was divided. Chirac should not think he is a dominant figure, admired and followed by the whole of France.
DJ: But public opinion is very solidly behind him.
CdG: Pay no attention to public opinion in France. Opinion polls aren't to be trusted. He is not Louis XIV. Louis wanted to dominate Europe. France was at his feet. The aristocracy was confined to Versailles, the bourgeoisie was getting richer and wanted to become the aristocracy, no parties could be formed against the King. Michelet, a great historian, has said that this was the most perfect agreement between the people and a man. But this is not the case of France today. France is in decline. And I'm not just talking about the unemployment. The constitution that I gave to France has been reduced to absurdity. We may soon return to the cohabitation nonsense. And where is the French state? Everything depends on the state, but it does not work any more. And what is Chirac's government doing about this? It has a programme of decentralisation. France is in a mess, subjected to what you call "globalisation," in the hands of dishonest bankers, told by Brussels that it must revise its budget. But you will say that I am being Gaullist. Or rather, de Gaullist.
DJ: Andr?alraux said that everyone has been, is, or will be, Gaullist.
DJ: About this war against Iraq, people remember that you supported America in the Cuban crisis of 1962. Why is France acting differently now?
CdG: Cuba was very simple. Once I was certain that the Soviet Union had installed missiles on Cuba that could reach America-and I examined the photographs of these missiles very carefully-then it was obvious that the Americans would first blockade and then attack Cuba. If the Russians replied militarily, they would not attack America directly, but they would invade Berlin. With that in mind, I assured the US that I would support them, because it was in French interests so to do. This did not stop Kennedy, Dean Rusk and others regarding me as an enemy, especially when I refused to allow France to be part of a multilateral nuclear force, dependent upon US submarines and Polaris missiles. Later, after the death of Kennedy, President Johnson took great offence at my hostility to the American war in Vietnam, to the expelling of American troops from France in 1966 and to France's recognition of communist China.
But it was easier for me to stand up to America because the cold war still held the west together-it placed limits on how serious the internal dispute could become. The situation now is very different and I hear Richard Perle saying that France is not even an ally of the US. It is not just that there is only one superpower, it is also that this superpower has discovered that it is vulnerable. Bush has declared war on Muslim terrorism. The Americans had to invade Afghanistan to destroy the base, then they had to assure themselves of the support of Pakistan. The next step was clearly the middle east. Not only is it a source of terrorism, but it has vital stocks of oil and it includes the state of Israel, protected by the US and important in any American election because of the Jewish influence. But what would be America's strategy? It was obvious. Saddam Hussein was a villain and dangerous. Once the US had removed him, the rest of the middle east could be sorted out, including the Israel-Palestine conflict.
DJ: Was it really possible to foresee all that?
DJ: And what about Britain in all this?
CdG: Well, what can you expect? When I rejected the British application to join the Common Market in 1962, I did so because Britain, with its "special relationship" with the US, would have swamped us. You see that I was right. Blair has acted like Bush's agent. However, I believe that Blair is in some respects different to previous British leaders and would like to take an important job in Europe, so he wants to show that he can restrain Bush. Because the Americans have the most powerful state in the world, it doesn't mean that the British will always be their servants. I think there are some remnants of independence in England-we may all be surprised.
DJ: And what about Europe?
CdG: I always said that creating a united Europe would be like building a cathedral in medieval times: that took a very long time and demanded special skills. But suddenly the European Community is being enlarged in a matter of months. It is hardly surprising that the problem of Iraq has revealed the many differences that exist within both the old Europe and the new states from the former eastern bloc. Poland hopes that American forces now stationed in Germany will be moved to Poland, which will give the country prestige and economic rewards. The Czechs relish their independence and are indignant to be given orders from Paris or Brussels. Spain is fearful of Muslim terrorists from north Africa. France has allowed too many Muslims on to her territory-I believe it is over 5m now. I always feared that Colombey les deux Eglises would become Colombey les deux Mosqu?.
DJ: You have not mentioned Germany. You must be pleased that the 40th anniversary of your treaty with Adenauer was celebrated so enthusiastically.
CdG: You have forgotten, like everyone else, that the Bundestag verified the treaty with a preamble stating its fidelity to Nato. The preamble was drawn up by my old rival Jean Monnet in the name of European unity. I said at the time that treaties were like young girls and quoted Victor Hugo: "Alas! Have I not seen young girls die." We must not forget this. United Germany will follow its own policies now the cold war is over. They are not as enthusiastic for Europe as they seem; they are not necessarily attached to France; they must fear that they will be accused of being ungrateful to the Americans, and they are not all pacifists. A confused country is not a reliable ally.
DJ: Do you hear any good gossip where you are?
CdG: I've been told that when the president of Algeria, Bouteflika, visited Paris in February, it was he who suggested to Chirac that he oppose the Americans. It would, he said, make him a hero in the Arab and Algerian worlds. Chirac leapt at the idea. But do not let us forget France's long friendship with Saddam-back in the 1970s, soon after my death, Giscard and Chirac thought that he was the man to modernise the Islamic world. In 1975, when Chirac was prime minister, he met him in Paris, assuring him of his affection. Did that create a special bond between them?


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PUSHING PEACE
BATTINTO BATTS JR. Staff WriterSUN-SENTINEL
Jason Donovan was alone at his apartment when three young men with glass bottles and attitudes knocked at his door.
One of them was angry because he thought Donovan was dating his girlfriend. "They were going to beat me up," Donovan said. "I was scared. But we talked about it and realized it was a misunderstanding."
Even though Donovan wasn't harmed, he says the incident alerted him to a trend among young people.
"People my age are always ready to fight," said Donovan, 19. "There is just so much violence. Something needs to be done."
Soon after the incident, Donovan, who is a marketing student at Broward Community College, began forming an organization of young people called Youth For a Better Tomorrow.
Its objective is to promote understanding among people of different races and backgrounds and promote concern for the environment. The fledgling organization has about 10 members around Broward County.
Youth For a Better Tomorrow had its first membership drive Saturday night at the Davie Moose Lodge.
Donovan says he hopes his group will unite young people - by meeting, talking and setting up positive events, such as cleaning the beach.
The activities would prevent the conflict he predicts between youths of different races in backgrounds.
"Almost every kid at school has a gun now. It scares me," said Donovan. "It's going to look like Beirut or something. History has a way of repeating itself. We're going to have another civil war."
Police officials say there is some friction among gangs in Broward County, but added the situation is not as dangerous as Donovan makes it.
"We are seeing some problems in our school systems that weren't there when we went to school," said Sgt. Robert Dinkel, of the Broward County Sheriff's Office. "There is more violent crime among young people. But I don't think I would go far enough to believe there will be a civil war."
Still, Dinkel applauds what Donovan is trying to do.
"Most of today's young people are pro-active and want to do something," he said. "If [Donovan) is trying to do something positive, then good. I would like to sit down and talk to him."
Donovan says he wasn't always so concerned about helping society.
"I used to used to be like other kids, starting fights and everything," he said. "I used to get into things, but nothing too serious."
He nearly missed graduating from high school because he sprayed a string-like substance on a teacher on the last day of school.
"It was just a joke," he said.
But the teacher didn't think so. Donovan was suspended.
After several discussions between his parents and school officials, Donovan was told he could graduate if he performed several hours of community service. "I was wrong, but I thought the punishment was a little harsh," he said. "However, that was a tremendous learning experience. I think I've come a long way since then."
Youth for a Better Tomorrow started as a potential profit-making venture for Donovan.
"I was looking for a way to make money," he said. "So I got some T-shirts made that promote peace. I was selling them for $10."
But now Donovan says he has forgotten about making money and is more concerned with preserving the peace. "I'm giving the T-shirts away. I can't remember the last time I made any money."
Students at Broward Community College said Donovan's organization is a good idea, but note that it's not for everyone.
"It may open some people's minds," said Stacy Garcia, 23, of Davie. "The violence is pretty bad. But I don't have the time to put into something like that. I'm a full-time student."
Sandra Manning, executive director for Flamingo Gardens - where Donovan works as a tour guide - also supports his group and is providing a place for members to meet.
Donovan says he knows why there is so much violence and misunderstanding among youths.
"We don't have any leaders," he said. "We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or John F. Kennedy right now. We need people who promote peace. I want to be like them."


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Grotesque Advice in Seventeenth-Century Iceland
The Mysterious Origins of Grobbians rímur
Philip Lavender
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.33.10
Grobianus et Grobiana was an influential sixteenth-century German work by Friedrich Dedekind which presented advice on how to behave badly, supposedly as an inverse way of encouraging people to behave well. This article looks at an Icelandic work from the seventeenth century, Grobbians rímur, which drew on the figure of Grobianus and his wife Grobiana (who becomes Gribba in the Icelandic text) but is no mere translation. Grobbians rímur is little studied and has a complex transmission history, with several authors contributing additional fitts over a period of many decades. The focus here is the earliest four fitts (what I call the "core Grobbians rímur"), usually attributed to a single author, either Jón Magnússon í Laufási or Guðmundur Erlendsson. Through a consideration of the three extant seventeenth-century manuscripts, two early versions come to light, one consisting of only three fitts as well as another consisting of the more familiar four fitts. A hypothesis is developed that these two versions could be the result of two authors working together and expanding on each other's compositions, thus both Jón Magnússon and Guðmundur Erlendsson could equally be considered the authors. Other poems by these poets suggest that they responded to each other's works. Thus arguments are presented that the three-fitt version is most likely the earlier form of the poem, probably composed principally by Jón Magnússon, while the four-fitt version came after and Guðmundur Erlendsson was probably involved in its composition. This study will hopefully pave the way for future research which will consider the literary and cultural value of this intriguing work.


ABSTRACTWe investigated longitudinal relations among gaze following and face scanning in infancy and later language development. At 12 months, infants watched videos of a woman describing an object while their passive viewing was measured with an eye-tracker. We examined the relation between infants' face scanning behavior and their tendency to follow the speaker's attentional shift to the object she was describing. We also collected language outcome measures on the same infants at 18 and 24 months. Attention to the mouth and gaze following at 12 months both predicted later productive vocabulary. The results are discussed in terms ofsocial engagement, which may account for both attentional distribution and language onset. We argue that an infant's inherent interest in engaging with others (in addition to creating more opportunities for communication) leads infants to attend to the most relevant information in a social scene and that this information facilitates language learning.


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Although women make up half our citizens, they continue to be underrepresented in government. Pursuing my education while raising two children as a single mother enforced in me the idea that despite the unique challenges women face, there are few protections and support offered to women trying to do better for themselves and their families.
My record as a fervent supporter for equal pay for equal work, and in the protection of a woman's right to choose have earned me the endorsement of groups such as Planned Parenthood and Emily's List. I also co-sponsored HB 16, which sought to decriminalize abortion in the state.
The state of New Mexico ranks 50th in education — this is unacceptable. The focus on testing over teaching has done a disservice to our children.
Instead of focusing on test scores, we must promote teaching to give all children the opportunity to succeed in the long term. This is why I co-sponsored HB 185, which sought to limit the number of hours students may be tested.
Early childhood education is key to a strong educational foundation. Programs like the New Mexico PreK at Alpha School in my home county of Doña Ana offer opportunities for children from rural and urban communities who might not get the same educational benefits. We need to expand these programs to serve all New Mexico students.
To create opportunities for our citizens, we must build a strong foundation for our economy to grow. I believe building a healthy and prosperous community depends on investment, both in our infrastructure and our people.
Supporting our abundant natural resources such as wind and solar energy, and eliminating our dependence on oil and gas is just one of many ways we can promote a sustainable energy infrastructure for our state. In addition, expanding job training and apprenticeships can help promote opportunities for our citizens seeking to build a better life. When we create these systems, we can build an economy that works for everyone, not just the few.
When corporations have an unfair advantage, it puts strain on both our economy and our citizens. I'm opposed to tax cuts for the rich and corporate tax loopholes, both of which put the tax burden on the less fortunate.
With nearly 1 million New Mexicans on medicaid, I believe in the expansion of medicaid, and healthcare for all. My time as a member of the Health and Human Services committee has shown me how our state fails our neediest residents.
Creating accessible, affordable healthcare for all citizens, and expanding healthcare resources to rural communities makes sense, especially as healthcare costs continue to rise. Our state government spent almost $700 million on prescription drugs in 2016 alone, which was a 54% increase in just two years. This is why I co-sponsored SB 354, which would have formed a Pharmaceuticals Purchasing Council to require New Mexico state agencies to work together to pursue coordinated cost containment strategies.
The natural beauty of New Mexico should not be taken for granted. Not only do our citizens rely on our public lands for recreation, but our state economy relies on them for tourism as well. I support keeping the Organ Mountain Desert Peaks as a national monument and believe in protecting the status of all national monuments.
Allowing the Trump administration to damage these resources for economic gain is not only a disservice to our citizens, who will lose access to these public lands, but a disservice to our environment as well.


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Present: Greg Chernack, Scott Livingston, Maryann Luongo, Phil Giordano, Ashley Kavanaugh, and two Section 5 residents
Chairman Greg Chernack called the meeting to order and welcomed those in attendance.
Agenda Item: Review and Approval of June Council Meeting Minutes
Chairman Chernack moved that the minutes from the June meeting be approved; there was a second, and the motion passed.
Agenda Item: Residents comments
There were no resident comments.
Agenda Item: Consideration and Adoption of Resolution 9-19-1, a Resolution to Adopt the Montgomery County Hazard Mitigation Plan of 2018
Chairman Chernack introduced Resolution 9-19-1, a resolution to adopt the Montgomery County Hazard Mitigation Plan of 2018. He explained that the County's plan must be adopted in order to preserve the ability for the Section to obtain disaster mitigation grant funding. Council Chair Chernack moved that Resolution No.: 9-19-1 be approved; there was a second, and the resolution passed by unanimous vote.
Agenda Item: Update on Potential Candidates for Part-time Section 5 Police Positions
Last spring during budget discussions, the Section decided to hire two off-duty police officers to work exclusively in Section 5. Each officer would work a total of five hours per week for a total of ten hours. Chairman Chernack and the Town Manager met with four prospective candidates over the summer. Chairman Chernack recommended the hiring of Captain Jason Cokinos and Sergeant Mike Pratt. There was a motion to approve the hiring of both officers with a start date of October 1, 2019; there was a second, and the motion passed.
Agenda Item: Monthly Financial Report
The Town Manager presented an overview of the Section's current financial status, and entertained questions from the Council. When reviewing the Section balance sheet, Council member Luongo inquired about moving money from our checking account to the MLGIP DC account that has a slightly better interest rate. The Council authorized the Town Manager to transfer $350,000 from the Bank of America checking account to the MLGIP account.
-The Town Manager indicated that the Section is still under contract with Lee's Trees to do leaf removal this fall. Lee's Trees has proposed a fee increase of $100 per day of work. The Manager recommends allowing for the increase as they have not changed their fees in several years. The Council agreed, and the Manager will notify Lee's Trees of the agreed upon increase.
-The Manager said that Section 5 received a snow removal proposal from Rolling Acres for the 2019-2020 winter season. The Section has used Rolling Acres for snow removal for several years. The new proposal shows the same fee schedule with no price increase. The Manager recommends agreeing to the proposal. The Council agrees, and the Manager will notify Rolling Acres.
-The Manager noted that all the curbs, cross walks, and stop bars were repainted in early September.
-The Manager said that she had met with the auditors in early August. The audit should be completed in October, and it will be presented to the Council at the December meeting.
-The Manager asked about rescheduling the October meeting for Wednesday, October 16. The normal meeting date is Tuesday, October 8, but it falls on Yom Kippur. The Council agreed to the date change, and the Manager will make residents aware.
-The Manager provided an update for the Council regarding the possible project with Grace Fielder and Associates. Ms. Fielder indicated that her firm was not inclined to assist the Section with the implementation of new signage and planters. She noted that in general her firm specializes in large-scale all-encompassing projects. The Council decided that at this time the Section was not ready to engage in a project of this nature. We will continue to pursue the idea of new Town signs, planters, and the necessary sidewalk reconstruction.
-The Manager asked about sending flowers from the Section to Harold and Wilma Schneiberg. The Schneibergs have lived on Thornapple for 54 years and are moving out mid-month. The Council approved.
Chairman Chernack adjourned the meeting. The next meeting will be held October 16, 2019, at 7:30 PM at the Village Hall, 5906 Connecticut Avenue. The Village Hall has handicapped access. Everyone is welcome.


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Q: What is the most "Ubuntu" way of preventing certain users from shutting down, suspending etc? On a traditional Unix system, non-root users cannot do this.  What is it that gives users this ability in modern desktop environments and how would I go about disabling this on a per-user or per-group basis?
I've seen a great method to prevent anybody from shutting down/suspending, but ideally what I'm looking for is to prevent certain users (such as, by adding/removing them from a certain usergroup) from being able to execute a shutdown, restart, suspend.

A: As mentioned in the other question, you can control these actions via PolicyKit's local authority system.
If you create a file /etc/polkit-1/50-local.d/restrict-shutdown.pkla with content like:
[Disable shutdown/etc for group restricted]
Identity=unix-group:restricted
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop;org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart;org.freedesktop.upower.suspend;org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=no

This will prevent any member of the group restricted from performing the matched actions.  Alternatively, if you want to restrict individual users, replace unix-group:restricted with unix-user:user1;unix-user:user2;....  Any user not matched by this policy should end up with the default behaviour.

A: Create and edit this file as root:
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/power-management.pkla

Copy and paste the following:
[Disable shutdown/restart for users jim jane]
Identity=unix-user:jim;unix-user:jane
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.reboot;org.freedesktop.login1.reboot-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.power-off;org.freedesktop.login1.power-off-multiple-sessions
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=no

[Disable suspend/hibernate for users jim jane]
Identity=unix-user:a;unix-user:vvpinker
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend;org.freedesktop.login1.suspend-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=no