On the craggy side of our driveway, arching over a rusty fence, there is a rose bush that has grown wild. Once upon a time, I imagine, it was planted by a quiet, well-mannered couple. Decent, hardworking folks who placed that bush, square and manageable, at the far end of their placid yard and expected it to behave. Fortunately for us, it never has.
Their petals cover the ground, like small mouths softly consuming the soil. Every day a new bloom pushes outward, begins its slow and sensuous unpeeling. I stand with both arms stretched out like wings beneath the tall canopy of pink. I carry them into the house, watch the chambers unfold by candlelight. They are like perpetual poets. Sometimes I get so close to them, my hands, my face, I feel as if I am drinking.
Roses. They hold a power over me.
Maybe it's in my blood. According to family lore, my great great grandfather died for the sake of a single rose. An English gardener and flower breeder by trade, in the late 19th century this passionate predecessor entered a maddening race: to be the first man to breed a black rose. He tried for months. Time and time again, there was simply too much purple, a discouraging dash of pink, a ruining run of crimson. Finally, one fateful day, a new bloom opened and there it was, dark, rich, fulfilled– the black rose (or at least as close as anyone had yet come). At this point, the race had become so vicious, so contested, my great uncle refused to leave the rose. As my grandmother tells it, he decided to sleep out in the greenhouse rather than leave his beloved black bloom to the threat of poachers, known to be keeping close tabs on the race. The way I see it, the glory of the black rose drove him into a steeply dedicated madness. In a plot twist worthy of the romantics, my great great grandfather, who slept dutifully besides his single rose, caught pneumonia in that green house and fell deathly ill. Within months, he passed away, out of the history books and forever disqualified from the race. All for the sake of a single rose.
Crushed, coddled, beloved– Roses have surpassed that solid, statuesque position of symbolism. In the rich tableau of our cultural history, story, and song roses have come to hold a meaning that belongs to them alone. Like catching a heady embankment of your lover's old perfume, Roses have simply become that which we have always ascribed to them. Love, longing. The double-edged sword of opened beauty and hidden thorns. Protection. Delicacy. The bravery to open fully to the delights of existence. I once read that there is a term for an object or creature that has come into being–exists– simply because so many people, for so long, have believed in its reality. Perhaps, this is the case for our roses.
I like to think that the roses always knew we would adore them. Perhaps it has been planned from the beginning. Maybe they visited the Ancient Persians, the first to cultivate the wild rose, in their dreams, swept them under the velvet robes of their bewitchment, and bid them to begin their devotion. And I'm sure it was the inner ebb of those blooms, the voice that belongs to them alone, that first told us of their medicine. In traditional Western Herbalism, rose petals and buds are prized for their nervine properties. They are powerful medicine for healing grief, loss, sadness, fatigue and heartache. Cooling and uplifting, roses are also used as a general anti-infective and anti-inflammatory. They are a sumptuously effective remedy for wounds, burns, traumatic injuries and sore muscles. Rose medicine is as diverse as the incredible multitudinous of their species (Dive into southwest Herbalists Kiva Rose's Monograph for a rich introduction to the healing powers of Rose).
One of my favorite ways to preserve the medicine of rose season is to craft a fresh batch of rose honey. Sensuous, evocative, and downright delicious, capturing this sweet stretch of profuse blooms is wonderfully fun. Visit your roses in the evening. Wait until the light has grown honey-warm and the scent of the blooms has spread like wine through the air. Or perhaps you'd like to venture out first thing in morning to shake off the dew. What matters is this: take time. Learn how to make the moment delicious, and all else you do (including your honey) will spin out from there. Get as close as the rose will allow. Slide your nose into the velvet folds and deeply inhale. Close your eyes. Feel their scent stir something inside you, humming some deep part of your body. Run the tips of your fingers across the arc of the petals. Watch how the unopened buds bounce in the wind. Observe, reflect, share your breath with this wild plant. When the time is ripe, gather. Wait until you have drunk your fill, and have been acknowledged by the rose…(and what an extraordinarily enthralling idea, to be recognized and accepted by such a specimen of perfection). Bring a basket or a woven bag of cloth. Collect the blooms, open and budding. Be gentle, touching the thorns on occasion. Once you have collected a few good handfuls, you are ready to make your honey.
3. Pour honey over the mixture until the petals are just covered.
6. Sneak off spoonfuls as needed (eating the petals as you go) or simply strain by pouring your mixture through fine cheesecloth. If your honey mixture is stubbornly thick, pour the contents of the jar into a double boiler and gently heat until the honey is warm enough to run. (If you don't have a double boiler you can easily create one by placing the metal rim of a mason jar in a large pan and covering with water. Balance your smaller pot onto the metal rim with its bottom just submerged in the water of the larger pot. Et voila).
Rose honey is a fabulous remedy for wounds and burns, you can apply directly to the skin. In my life however, this nectar almost always ends up dedicated to the realm of the edible.
Unveil your honey at a late summer garden party and serve with warm scones and sweet basil cocktails. If you made honey liqueur, try bringing your homemade elixir to the riverside with a lover and a picnic basket full of pillows. See what unfurls. Savor the special medicine of rose season in any slow corner of the year.
We've slipped into one of the most delicious times of the year– that liminal, lofty space between spring and summer. The raucous rush of springtime ephemerals has died down, leaving a haphazard cascade of petals dissolving beneath the trees. And yet, the hot days of dry grasses and hibiscus have yet to arrive. Like the anticipation of a full moon, the coming of this new season has stirred something inside me that I can only recognize as a honeyed, exhilarating mixture of nostalgia and desire.
The plumping of the oats, sown in the earliest days of Spring, is yet another indicator that the heat of Summer is near. Milky Oats is one of the most sensuous, enthralling and enchanting herbs I have ever had the pleasure to grow. (Even its scientific name is utterly delicious: Avena sativa). Most people are familiar with oats as a cover crop or a cereal grain. Growing up I, quite frankly, thought oats were supremely boring! (Although, having been raised as a Quaker, I did feel a strange modicum of pride in our small, oat-bound, claim-to-fame. There was something about that simply dressed Quaker character and his good old-fashioned stoicism…) Turns out, oats are wild, exciting and truly incredible medicine.
Growing at breakneck pace, the green stalks of oats are unbeliveably nutritious and mineral-rich. Infused in hot tea, oat straw is considered a tonic nutritive, feeding our body and nourishing a calm state of mind. It is an excellent source of calcium and magnesium and can help ease the stress of rough transitions and dark moods. If you grow oats as a cover crop, you can snip the greens at anytime. Cut them into sections for easy drying and store as a delicious tea beverage throughout the year.
Let your oats keep growing, and their magic will continue to unfurl in the tiny, delicate wands of their seed heads. Soft, prancing, seriously delightful, the semi-mature oat seeds should be harvested for medicine at a very specific time. It requires finesse, and maybe a whispered hint from a fairy or two, to get it just right. You must develop a relationship with your oats, squeezing them gently every day until you see that telltale drop of "milk" appear at their tip. This milk is a naturally occurring latex, and signals us herb-worshipers that the time is ripe to gather this medicine.
Blended with alcohol to make a tincture (using a ratio of one part herb to two parts alcohol), Milky Oats forms a vibrant, verdant green slurry of medicine. After it sits for at least 6 weeks, you can strain your alcohol off and enjoy the many blessings of Milky Oats. Note on Gluten: As someone with an extreme gluten-sensitivity, I have never had a reaction to any reliably grown oat medicine. Grown commercially, many oats are processed with wheat, rendering them unsafe for anyone with celiac or gluten sensitivities. I do not generally buy oat straw from the store. However, oats that I know have been grown and processed separately from wheat have always treated me kindly and should, technically, be completely gluten-free.
Personality wise, Milky Oats is akin to a sweet, round, sensuous water nymph…asking you to slow down, simply drink, and enjoy. Milky Oats is a tonic in the traditional sense, you will see the most profound shifts in physical and emotional states when taking Milky Oats over a longer period of time. I recommend 1-2 dropperfulls of tincture up to 3x day taken for at least three months for long-term benefits (although, as a supremely safe herb, you could increase that dosage to 3-5 dropperfulls as needed).
One of my favorite expressions is the old adage of "sowing ones wild oats." When you seed oats you broadcast them, recklessly and with abandon, knowing that at least one of them will take and, frankly, not caring very much which one! Recently, a younger friend of mine broke up with her long-term high school sweetheart and has had a string of brief love affairs and amorous encounters. When asked about it, her mom simply shrugged and smiled, "she's just sowing her wild oats." Far from the negative stereotyping of wild foolishness or reckless naivety, sowing one's oats can be incredibly empowering. It's about striking out into the world, finding levity and the space to play, trying new things and seeding the light of your curiosity and creativity in all kinds of crevices. (In this way it reminds me of the stone known as Fools Gold, or Pyrite).
Wild Oat Flower essence, a form of energetic plant medicine made from a wild variety, embellishes this same narrative. This sweet essence is also called the Vocation essence, as it can help those who feel distracted or distanced from their life purpose, or squarely confused about the nature of their path, next step, or greater calling. Often indicated for those who feel consistently restless or dissatisfied with their life. Taken in drop dosages, Wild Oat flower essence can help you find and feel enlivened by the call of your individual destiny. Vivid and true, Oat essence shows you the uniqueness of your path and helps you to invoke and appreciate work as an expression of your true spirit and inner calling. A clearing of purpose and conviction, this essence is wonderful for those graduating from school, stagnating in a limiting or boring vocation, or perhaps even experiencing a mid-life crisis.
Yesterday, I went out to the garden to harvest my last batch of oats. Soft and slender, I held each one like a small dancer. On my knees, I clipped them slowly. I was in no hurry. I let them fall into an old willow basket and felt the late afternoon sun warm like orange on my skin. The breeze moved across my arms gently, carrying the distant scents of fresh grass, wet earth, and faraway roses. Summer was coming, and she was speaking to me with each methodic clip and quiver. She was whispering something that felt like a daydream and sounded, in hollows and vowels, like destiny.


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For all the righteous (and understandable) complaining the Democratic party makes over the Electoral College system, you'd think they'd let the popular vote determine their primary system. In fact, they instead use a system that is even less democratic than the Electoral College by employing "superdelegates" who are allowed to vote for anybody. Superdelegates are party leaders and other members of the Democratic party establishment, and they comprise about 800 of the roughly 4000 total delegates. So, about 20% of the delegates aren't democraticaly allocated!
Given the closeness of the Hillary/Obama race, it's highly likely that the final decision will not be in the hands of the people, but in the hands of the party establishment, which is largely controlled by the Clintons who have far better Washington connections. They already have nearly double the so-far pledged superdelegates than are in Obama's camp, and if that proportion continues, the superdelegate system will spot Hillary a 6% advantage over Obama. This is a significant handicap in a race whose national poll margins are less than that. The process is pretty much preordained in her favor. Besides being patently undemocratic, the system also presents a pragmatic problem. With 700 superdelegates outstanding and unpredictable, it takes that much longer for a clear winner to emerge. All of this makes the Republican's penchant for winner-take-all primaries look rather smart, actually. While McCain is busy already starting on his national campaign and closing rank with other Republicans, the Democrats are still locked in a divisive internal fight. At the rate they are going, this will continue all the way to their convention with neither side attaining enough delegates to ensure victory. The superdelegate system is thus handing the Republicans a distinct advantage, and its hard to chide the Republican party for their winner-take-all system when at least 95% of their delegates are determined by actual voters.
The superdelegate system was created to allow party officials to retain significant power over the nominee, preventing the people from choosing somebody the party deems unworthy or unelectable. While the wisdom of that is questionable, given that polls show Obama to be more electable than Hillary, it doesn't even apply here. In the end, the superdelegate system appears to be just more of the same corrupt, self-dealing Washington establishment politics. The more ambitious of the superdelegates will use their power to buy their way into the administration of the eventual winner. This is why so many of them have not yet commited either way; they are biding their time, waiting for more clarity on who that will be before they make their pitch.
When the Democratic party doesn't choose its own candidates democratically, it's no wonder people are disenchanted with politics. And I'm guessing the superdelegate system isn't something to which Hillary plans to "bring change" if elected.
This entry was posted in Politics and tagged delegates, Democrats on February 5, 2008 by Jonathan.


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The Mandalorian star Gina Carano no longer employed by Lucasfilm
By Jordan Gerblick published 11 February 21
Lucasfilm called the actor's controversial social media posts "abhorrent and unacceptable"
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Lucasfilm has announced Gina Carano, who portrays Cara Dune in The Mandalorian, no longer works for the production company following controversial social media posts shared by the actor.
Carano faced criticism after posting an image on her Instagram feed comparing contemporary American politics to Nazi Germany. Her story also included memes mocking the mask mandate in California that was issued by the California Department of Public Health in response to the spread of COVID-19. The posts have since been deleted, but the Twitter hashtag #FireGinaCarano was trending shortly afterward. This controversy comes after months of complaints from Star Wars fans about Carano's social media presence.
On Wednesday evening, Lucasfilm issued a statement (via io9) on the matter, calling Carano's behavior "abhorrent and unacceptable," and explaining that the company no longer employs the actor and had no plans to reverse course.
"Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future," the statement reads. "Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable," the statement reads.
Lucasfilm has not shared anything about its plans for Carano's character now that she's no longer part of the show. We will likely hear whether they plan on recasting the role or simply doing away with the character in the coming months. With Lucasfilm stating that it has "no plans to reverse course" that means we can write Cara Dune out of the Rangers of the New Republic spin-off that was announced last December, as well. The Mandalorian wrapped its critically acclaimed second season in December, and since it's one of the most-watched shows of 2021 so far, it's no surprise that The Mandalorian season 3 is well underway and likely coming in 2022.
If you've finished season 2 and don't know what to do with yourself, check out the best TV shows of 2020 for something else to watch.
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After scoring a degree in English from ASU, I worked in - *shudders* - content management while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG. Now, as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer, I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my apartment, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.

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MAJOR RULING FROM SCOTUS PENDING
The upcoming decision on the Environmental Protection Agency's climate oversight will render an opinion of the very basics of the United States Constitution. The Constitution gives legislative or law-making ability exclusively to the legislative branch of government. The executive and judicial branches are granted different duties but have no authority to make law.
This case deals with the executive branch issuing primarily regulations, but it will also apply to executive orders, that are deemed to be law. The legislative branch has contributed to this problem as they have in the past passed a law in concept and then told the executive branch to fill in the blanks. That is unconstitutional.
SCOTUS, if it agrees with those bringing the case, will be declaring it unlawful for federal agencies to make "major" decisions without clear authorization from Congress. SCOTUS will be declaring that Congress must fulfill its constitutional duties of making law as it declares that the executive branch cannot make law.
"Congress did not — and, under our Constitution, cannot — grant unelected administrative officials at EPA legislative power to creatively reimagine energy policy for the entire country," states a legal brief by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
SCOTUS has the opportunity to state that indeed we are a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy. That means that we must live by what the Supreme Ruler of the land says, that is the United States Constitution, and not concoct new rules that make democracy or dictatorship easier.
If the court rules in favor of the Constitution and freedom, this ruling will apply to all aspects of the executive branch including the NIH, HUD, DOJ, Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture, that is the entire executive branch.
It should also be extended to the judicial branch. The judicial branch has no legal authority to make law. SCOTUS did make law when it ruled on Roe vs Wade. A court that not only gives opinions on the Constitution, but adheres to the Constitution, would have declared that Roe v Wade was an issue for the states or for Congress and would have refused to issue the inane ruling it did.
Let us hope this ruling comes down on the side of the Constitution and freedom, and not on the side of democracy and dictatorship.


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Chronologie de la Suisse
1876 en Suisse - 1877 en Suisse - 1878 en Suisse

Gouvernement au  janvier 1877
 Conseil fédéral
 Joachim Heer (PRD), président de la Confédération
 Karl Schenk (PRD), vice-président de la Confédération
 Bernhard Hammer (PRD)
 Emil Welti (PDC)
 Numa Droz (PRD)
 Fridolin Anderwert (PRD)
 Johann Jakob Scherer (PRD)

Évènements

Janvier
 Lundi
 Entrée en vigueur de la loi fédérale sur les poids et mesures qui impose le système métrique en Suisse.
 Entrée en vigueur de la loi fédérale sur la naturalisation suisse et la renonciation à la nationalité suisse.

Février
 Jeudi 8 février
 Décès à Lausanne, à l'âge de 77 ans, de l'avocat Jean Muret, auteur d'un herbier de la flore suisse.
 Dimanche 25 février
 Décès à Lausanne, à l'âge de 67 ans, de l'entrepreneur horloger Auguste Agassiz.

Mars
 Jeudi
 Décès à Genève, à l'âge de 64 ans, de l'entrepreneur horloger Antoine Norbert de Patek.
 Vendredi 16 mars
 Mise en service du premier funiculaire suisse entre Lausanne et Ouchy.
 23 mars :
 La première loi fédérale sur les fabriques instaure la journée de onze heures et interdit de faire travailler des enfants. Le comité d'initiative publie un article dans le journal de Genève le  concernant leur opposition contre cette loi.

Avril

Mai
 Dimanche 13 mai
 Décès à Zurich, à l'âge de 54 ans, de Markus Getsch Dreifuss, premier juif suisse à s'immatriculer à la faculté des lettres de l'Université de Bâle et premier juif déclaré éligible à un poste d'instituteur titulaire.

Juin
 Vendredi 1er juin
 Ouverture de la ligne ferroviaire Sierre-Loèche (VS).

Juillet
 Dimanche 1er juillet
 Le premier numéro du Démocrate paraît à Delémont (JU).

Août
 Mercredi
 Entrée en vigueur la loi fédérale sur le prix de vente des enveloppes timbrées.
 Dimanche 5 août
 Entrée en vigueur de la loi fédérale concernant le placement des fonds de la Confédération.
 Lundi 6 août
 Début du Congrès phylloxérique international à Lausanne.
 Dimanche 26 août
 À la suite d'accrochages entre des gendarmes et manifestants, le gouvernement Tessin ordonne l'occupation militaire de Lugano.
 27 août  : à Lugano, des gendarmes arrêtent des jeunes gens armés de sabres et de revolvers qui chantent des chansons révolutionnaires dans la rue. Bilan: plusieurs blessés.

Septembre
 Vendredi 21 septembre
 Fondation à Genève, de la Croix-Bleue, association de lutte contre l'alcoolisme.

Octobre
 Lundi
 Entrée en vigueur de la loi fédérale concernant la correspondance télégraphique dans l'intérieur de la Suisse.
 Samedi 6 octobre
 Entrée en vigueur de la loi fédérale concernant la police des eaux dans les régions élevées.
 Dimanche 21 octobre
 Votations fédérales. Le peuple approuve, par  oui (51,5 %) contre  non (48,5 %), la loi sur les fabriques, réduisant la durée du travail à onze heures par jour, interdisant le travail des enfants et le travail dominical.
 Votations fédérales. Le peuple rejette, par  non (51,6 %) contre  oui (48,5 %), la loi fédérale sur la taxe d'exemption du service militaire.
 Votations fédérales. Le peuple rejette, par  non (61,8 %) contre  oui (38,2 %), la loi fédérale concernant les droits politiques des Suisses établis et en séjour, et la perte des droits politiques des citoyens suisses.
 Le village d'Airolo (TI) est complètement détruit par un incendie.
 Dimanche 28 octobre
 Décès à Genève, à l''âge de 75 ans, du peintre François Diday.

Novembre
 Lundi 5 novembre
 Un incendie ravage le village de Scuol (GR). Deux hommes perdent la vie et une quarantaine de bâtiments sont détruits.

Décembre
 Mercredi 12 décembre
 Décès à Genève, à l'âge de 69 ans, de l'entrepreneur horloger Jules Jürgensen.
 Lundi 17 décembre
 Premier essai de liaison téléphonique en Suisse entre Thoune et Berne.
 Lundi 31 décembre
 Décès à La Tour-de-Peilz (VD), à l'âge de 58 ans, du peintre français Gustave Courbet.

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Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal has asked the state-run company to improve the quality of its coal by December 31, 2014.
In a stern message to Coal India, the government has asked the world's largest coal company to improve efficiency to avoid restructuring.
According to sources, Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal has asked the state-run company to improve the quality of its coal by December 31, 2014. The minister has also said that the coal major should pull up its socks and perform in order to avoid restructuring.
The Coal Ministry had earlier planned to restructure Coal India to improve its operational efficiency.
The PSU, which accounts for over 80 per cent of the domestic coal production, missed its output target of 482 million tonnes in 2013-14 and produced only 462 million tonnes of coal.
The company's 7 subsidiaries include Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL), Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) and South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL).
According to sources, Goyal told Coal India that coal supplied to the power companies should not comprise stones or boulders and it should work towards arresting coal grade slippage.
As per experts, coal grade slippage has an adverse impact on power generation.
Meanwhile, the Minister is of the view that the power generation companies should have the right to appoint neutral quality samplers.
He has also asked Coal India to reduce the quantity of coal sold through e-auction and make that portion of the fuel available to power plants.
Coal India has been directed to limit e-auctioning of coal to 25 million tonnes this year from 57 million tonnes, sources said.
Last week, at a meeting with private power developers, Coal Ministry and Coal India officials Goyal asked the state-owned coal major to make efforts to raise production from its existing mines.
Goyal who is also the Coal Minister, met top power honchos, including Anil Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Power, Gautam Adani, Chairman of Adani Group, Vineet Mittal, Managing Director of Welspun Energy, and Naveen Jindal, Chairman of Jindal Power, to look for solutions to address the country's electricity shortage, which was as high as 7,000 MW in May.


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Marvel's Phase 4 Movie The Eternals Adds More To Cast [UPDATE]
[UPDATE: Millie Bobby Brown now says she has "no idea" if she'll be in The Eternals]
With Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home out of the way, Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is over. Phase 4 of the MCU is expected to be revealed during either San Diego Comic-Con later this month or D23 soon after, and one of the movies in the mix is The Eternals. Now, a new report reveals who may star in it.
Variety reports that Stranger Things and Godzilla actress Millie Bobby Brown is in the movie, alongside Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), and Richard Madden (Game of Thrones). The film is to be directed by Chloe Zhao (The Rider).
Other MCU Phase 4 movies are expected to be Shang-Chi, which will be the first MCU movie with an Asian lead, along with Doctor Strange 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Black Panther 2, and Black Widow.
The first Eternals comic was published in 1976 by late writer and artist, Jack Kirby (1917-1994). The Eternals, an offshoot of life created by an alien race called the Celestials, were established to protect the Earth from the Deviants, a dastardly project by the Celestials gone awry. 30 years later, eclectic writer Neil Gaiman gave the superheroes a facelift in 2006, bringing them and their universe to the modern era with a seven-issue miniseries that concluded in 2007.
For lots more, check out GameSpot's rundown of everything we know about MCU Phase 4. You can also check out the video embedded above.
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David Jobson is a professional guitar teacher offering high-quality lessons to students of all ages.
Welcome to Guitar Lessons Leicester! My name is David Jobson and I am a professional guitar tutor based in Leicester, helping students of all ages and abilities learn to play the guitar. I teach my pupils from my home teaching space located just off the A6, near Leicester racecourse in LE2 – it is a great place to learn to play the guitar with great transport links and all the equipment we need for the lessons.
I am a qualified music teacher, having gained a Music Degree from Brunel University and more recently a Level 3 Award in Education and Training (QCF). I have over 20 years experience in the music industry which includes touring, writing, composing and many more. I've also taught in the school system in both London and the Midlands.
I have a simple approach to my lessons. That is to make sure my students learn the music they want to learn. I feel as well as learning all the groundworks of theory and chord structure, it is very important that my students learn the music that they are interested in. With this approach, we can make very achievable targets to improve your guitar playing faster.
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My lessons are built around my student's goals. I will ensure we set realistic targets in theory, exercise and song work. By making sure we use the correct technique I believe we can improve all three previously mentioned aspects very quickly.
I believe it is really important to make sure the lessons are driven by my student's musical preferences. This means that we will learn the music and acts that you enjoy and wish to learn. Taking this into account and with a solid grounding of theory, I have seen many of my students progress from beginner to intermediate players in no time at all.
I welcome students of all abilities. For my beginner students, I will make sure we approach the lessons with patience but attention to technique, making sure you don't develop any bad habits. If you happen to be a more advanced student and have a certain goal in mind, I can most definitely help you also.
I charge £15 per half hour/£30 per hour for lessons taught at my home teaching space. If you have any more questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Yes, I have a wide range of experience teaching students of all ages. I am able to help students as young as 9 years old to learn to play the guitar. For younger students, I would recommend taking a 1/2 hour lesson each week. This helps to develop the knowledge and the technical skills week on week at a pace that is enjoyable and rewarding for the student.
I teach all styles in both electric and acoustic guitar. I can also provide tuition for students interested in music production.
Beginners are more than welcome to attend my lessons, I have many students who started as beginners and are now progressing to an intermediate stage of playing and beyond. With the right course of lessons and some good practice as a student you won't stay a beginner guitar student for long.
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Xanador is een stripverhaal uit de reeks van De Rode Ridder. Het is geschreven en getekend door Karel Biddeloo. De eerste albumuitgave was in januari 1981.

Het verhaal

Johan vervult de laatste wens van een oude man door op zoek te gaan naar zijn drie verdwenen zonen. Zij gingen naar de gouden stad Xanador. De minstreel Gaetan, die de stad eerder heeft bezocht, begeleidt Johan als gids. Ze worden gevolgd door de drie gelukszoekers Mitje, Ward en Jakke.

Gaetan is een ronselaar voor amazone Vida. Zij wil sterke en moedige kerels hebben om de koningin der Amazones, Alena, ten val brengen om de onderwerping van mannen af te schaffen. Alena wordt bijgestaan door raadgever Hermax, een beoefenaar der zwarte kunsten.

In de moeras overwint Johan de moerasgeest en wordt zijn baas Hermax door Gaetan gedood. Dan vindt de langverwachte tweestrijd tussen Vida en Alena plaats in een verlaten mijngang. In de tussentijd bevrijden Johan en Gaetan met hulp van de gelukszoekers de mannelijke slaven. In de mijngang heeft inmiddels Vida Alena overwonnen. Maar door de intensieve mijnbouw stort Xanadu in. Gaetan redt Vida en vestigt zich uiteindelijk met haar in het dal.

Johan brengt de drie zonen terug naar hun ouderlijke huis.

Stripverhaal van De Rode Ridder


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The 1966 Torneo Descentralizado was the 50th season of the highest division of Peruvian football. This season marked the first time the Primera División was named the Descentralizado because teams outside Lima and Callao were invited for the first time making it the first national championship in Peru. The four teams invited to play in the inaugural national championship were Melgar of Arequipa, Octavio Espinosa of Ica, Grau of Piura, and Alfonso Ugarte de Chiclín of Trujillo.

The first match of the season was played on 13 August 1966 between Universitario and Mariscal Sucre in the Estadio Nacional. Shortly after this match, the first match to feature a team outside the Lima and Callao region was between Sporting Cristal and Alfonso Ugarte in the same stadium on the same day.

The champion was Universitario. Four teams were relegated at the end of the season. Carlos Concha was relegated to the 1967 Segunda División as the last placed team. In addition, Octavio Espinosa, Alfonso Ugarte, and Melgar were relegated as they needed to place seventh or higher to remain in the first division. They needed to play the 1967 Copa Perú to attain promotion to the first division.

Teams

League table

Season statistics

Top scorers

Scoring
First goal of the season – Héctor Chumpitaz for Universitario against Mariscal Sucre (13 August 1966)

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Scrap quilts, improvisational quilts, and art quilts with occasional forays into travel and books.
Here's my revised Ocean Waves which may be more traditional. I've been (re)constructing it this past year... off and on. Each block has 49 pieces; it's not a beginner's pattern.
Piecing the blocks looked straightforward - alternate dark and light triangles. Not quite. You don't want to know how I did it but I assure you, it was the most difficult manner possible. I recently found very clear and much easier directions on Quiltville. As luck would have it her blocks are the same size as mine. Another advantage of Bonnie's method is the ability to check and trim the size of the squares as you progress. I wish I'd seen it earlier.
I'm slowly quilting the large squares. Feathers sound good but not a wreath.
Fret not; enjoy the day.
A colors are beautifully blended, and the quilting is looking great!!
Thank you. I like the colors too. And after all these changes, I'm a bit surprised.
Reading your comments is a pleasure. I usually reply here where everyone can join in to create great conversations.
Quilt/Sewing News, Kona Cotton 'Splash', Bright Modern Sampler Hand Quilting Progress, And Happy Easter!
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Louise Mary McKenzie
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Name Louise Mary McKenzie
Born 17 Dec 1876 Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbright, Scotland [1]
Census 1900 Barre, Washington, Vermont
Census 1910 Salida, Chaffee, Colorado
Census 1920 Salida, Chaffee, Colorado [2]
Obituary 23 Dec 1943 Long Beach, Los Angeles, California [3]
Died 23 Dec 1943 Long Beach, Los Angeles, California
Obituary 24 Dec 1943 Salida, Chaffee, Colorado [4]
Dec 24, 1943 Mrs. Louise M. Woody Die's in Long Beach Former Salidan
Friends here received word of the death of Mrs. Louise M. Woody, a former resident of Salida. Mrs. Woody died Wednesday night at a Long Beach, Calif., hospital. She had been ill for ten days. Funeral services are being held in Long Beach this afternoon and interment will be there. Mrs. Woody was the widow of F. C. Woody, cashier for the First National Bank of Salida and secretary of the school board. Mrs. Woody had a host of friends in Salida. Mrs. Woody left Salida two years ago to make her home in California. During her residence here she was a member of the Tuesday Evening Club and the Salida Womans Club. She was also a member of 0. E. S. She retained her membership at her former home but took an active part in the Star activities in Salida. For many years she was organist of the Presbyterian church. She was an exceptional pianist. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. John Contrell of Long Beach and Mrs. Luther Jones of College Station, Tex., and five grandchildren.
Person ID I162 Winnifred Mackenzie
Last Modified 8 Oct 2007
Father Robert McKenzie, b. 4 Dec 1831, Urr, Kirkcudbright, Scotland , d. 20 Aug 1891, Barre, Washington, Vermont (Age 59 years)
Mother Catherine Conroy, b. 14 Feb 1835, Newry, Down, Ireland , d. 14 Feb 1921, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 86 years)
Married 6 May 1863 St. Michans, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland [5]
Immigration 21 Apr 1891 Boston, Suffolk, England [6]
The family arrived at Boston on the 21 April 1891 on the steam ship Catalonia. Named: Robert, age 59, granite polisher; Mary, age 53; Emily, age 21; Robert, age 18; Louies, age 14. They had seven pieces of luggage. There destination was Vermont.
George remained in Scotland and John James was already in Vermont
Catherine Conroy with her five children about 1901. George, John James, Emily, Robert, Louise
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John James Mckenzie with wife Catherine Conroy and children in the Barre Vermont 1900 Census
Family 1 John Miller Panton, b. 15 Sep 1870, St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland , d. 29 Mar 1908, Barre, Washington, Vermont (Age 37 years)
Married 29 Jun 1901 Barre, Washington, Vermont [7]
+ 1. Catherine Conroy Isabella Panton, b. 22 Jul 1902, Barre, Washington, Vermont , d. 6 Dec 1989, , Brazos, Texas (Age 87 years)
2. Emily Millar Panton, b. 20 Apr 1904, Barre, Washington, Vermont , d. 29 Oct 1981, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California (Age 77 years)
Family 2 Franklin C Woody, b. 31 Jan 1862, Greensboro, , North Carolina , d. 3 Jan 1926, Salida, Chaffee, Colorado (Age 63 years)
Married 25 Jul 1911 Buena Vista, Chaffee, Colorado [8]
Born - 17 Dec 1876 - Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
Census - 1900 - Barre, Washington, Vermont
Married - 29 Jun 1901 - Barre, Washington, Vermont
Census - 1910 - Salida, Chaffee, Colorado
Married - 25 Jul 1911 - Buena Vista, Chaffee, Colorado
Obituary - 24 Dec 1943 - Salida, Chaffee, Colorado
Pin Legend : Address : Location : City/Town : County/Shire : State/Province : Country : Not Set
Louise Mckenzie 1909 with daughters
A picture postcard sent to Mrs. Charles T Campbell in Barre Vermont. in May 1909. It shows Louis Mary Mckenzie Panton and her two daughters, Catherine and Emily.
1900 Census of Barre Vermont
9 Hill Street; Katherine Mckenzie living with two children; George and Louise and a lodger, John Panton. John Panton later married Louise.
[S35] Scotland, Civil Registration, Births, General Register Office for Scotland, (Certificate in possession of Don Jaggi), Kirkcudbrightshire, Dalbeattie, 1876 / #??.
[S19] Colorado - 1920 Census, United States. Bureau of the Census, Frank C Woody household; Chaffee County, Salida; roll ??, E.D. 9, sheet 21, Line 1; FHL film 1820156.
[S95] Newspaper - Long Beach Press Telegram, (Long Beach, California), 23 December 23, 1943, page B2, 11 Nov 2001.
[S103] Newspaper - The Salida Mail, (Salida, Colorado), 24 Dec 1943;.
[S58] Ireland, Civil Registration, Marriages, General Register Office, Ireland, (Certificate or Transcription in possession of Don Jaggi), Dublin North district; 1863; Vol 5 page 123, 8 Jul 2001.
[S67] Passenger lists of vessels arriving at Boston, 1820-1891 micropublication M277,, United States. Bureau of Customs , (Washington, D. C. : National Archives Record Service, 1959-1960), Mckenzie entry; SS Catalonia Passenger Manifest, 21 April 1891, roll 114, list 95, page 6, line 230.
[S77] Vermont Vital Records 1871 to 1942, Vermont. Secretary of State, (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1967, 1994-1995, 1997), FHL Film 540119.
[S15] Colorado, Chaffe County Clerk vital records, Chaffee County, Marriage no. 2120.
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51 Butterfly Effec
 It took Xinya three days in-game before he was finally able to get his fishing experience to 99%, now all he had to do was go to the next town to find the rank 2 fishing master so he could level up the skill. He was relieved that he could finally stop fishing, there were so many fish in his inventory that he didn't know what to do with them all and they were not the lobster and crabs that he set out to get. After spending a whole day at Tuttle lake and only catching shrimp, Xinya gave up on trying to fish there.
Just as he was about to go to town and sell some of the low-quality fish that he didn't want or need a ding sounded signaling him that he received a message from someone. Clicking on it, he read it to find that it was from Wei. It seemed that she was finished changing her class and wanted to show off. Xinya already knew what her class was going to be, she even goes on and on about how the explorer is a good class and great at making coins when they are eating a meal together. If he didn't know that's the class she wanted to be he would have to be stupid, that's why he didn't understand why she was acting like her class would be a surprise.
Xinya shook his head in confusion, he didn't know why she was acting this way but he just shrugged it off, he can act like her class selection was a surprise. He did want to see her in her beginner explorer gear anyway, by the time he was able to play with her she was wearing normal fighting gear. Xinya walked over to the meeting place that Wei decided on, it was the west gate that leads out of Bellport. The west gate leads to monsters that were level 10-15, so Xinya assumed that Wei wanted to show off her fighting skills along with her avatar class change.
Out of nowhere a woman appeared and grabbed Xinya arm while saying, "Hey."
Xinya was startled, quickly pulling his arm out of her grasp he moved a couple of steps away from the girl while frantically wiping at the place where she touched him looking as if he was about to have a panic attack.
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry." The girl said sounding upset. "It's me, Wei. I can't believe I did that, I was just so excited. I'm sorry."
Knowing that it was Wei helped him calm down, taking a deep breath he said, "It's okay, I'm alright."
Wei knew that he wasn't alright since he was still rubbing at the place where she touched him, but she didn't say anything, he was coping a lot better than he used too. When she used to go over to his house when he lived with his father if a woman so much as brushed him lightly he would have a full-on panic attack and wheel himself into the bathroom to wipe off the place that has been touched. The way she sees it Xinya has come a long way.
"That's good," Wei said with a smile, then bringing out her guns and twirled them. "What do you think."
After his panic eased, Xinya finally got a good look at Wei. He was really surprised, she wasn't a beastman or explorer. He knew that she was an elf, but she looked different from the other elves that he has seen. She had more sex appeal than the female elves that he seen, her body was more voluptuous, she also had golden tattoos across her chest, arms and legs. Besides that, the avatar still looked similar to how Wei did in real life. Xinya could tell she made her eyes a little bigger and made her nose thinner and her hair changed from black to a deep blonde.
"What's going on? I thought you wanted to be an explorer?" Xinya asks genuinely confused.
"I did, but for all the wrong reasons.." Wei proceeded to tell him why she thought being an explorer was good in the first place, but then told him that it wasn't the class she wanted to be. She told him that when she first researched the game, the treasure hunter appealed to her most, but since she knew she needed to make money that's why she decided on explorer and talked herself into believing that's what she really wanted to do.
"But after seeing you becoming a dryad, learning cooking and potions even though you need to make money, made me change my mind," Wei said looking at him as if he changed her life.
Xinya didn't know rather to laugh or cry at this situation, it seems that meeting her this early really did cause a butterfly effect. Xinya didn't know how to help her now if she was an explorer he planned to help her save money by opening a shop where she could help out at, but treasure hunters didn't need to save up for gear. Treasure dungeons are everywhere in the world, a player just needs to find a map. Maps aren't that hard to find, but the good ones are.
In the future, after a treasure hunter found a crystal mine, more and players decided to become one. At first people thought it was easy since finding a 1teir map was easy as fishing for it or researching in libraries about clues on where treasures were located, but they came to find out that tier 1 treasure dungeons rewards were only at best 400-500 bronze coins and at worst 200 bronze coins and if they were really lucky they could get an item that was worth 3-4 silver coin. This was a tough road that Wei put herself on, but Xinya would do his best to help her down it.


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Q: How to deploy my Spring MVC web application using the build classes or war file into the Apache tomat dir? I am new to Spring MVC Framework. Recently I have learned to deployed the simple web application created using JSP/Servets in Apache tomcat. I have created a sample web application and successfully deployed it in Apache tomcat. For deploying I did following-
I have downloaded the Apache Tomcat core 64 bit zip from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi. Copy that folder "apache-tomcat-6.0.37" to Z: Drive and extract the folder. I already had Java 1.7 installed on my system in C: Drive. Created System Environment of JAVA_HOME and TOMCAT_HOME. Copy my sample web application into apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ You can see the structure in the below image.

Now I have created the same above web application in Spring MVC Framework using Net-beans IDE and I am able to run the application over the web browser using URL- http://localhost:8084/SpringWebSample/index.html.
Now I would like to go live with this application and deploy it on my server into Tomcat directory according to above screen shot but I am not finding any easy deployment steps. Each link that I found showing steps to run the Ant build script to deploy the sample application.
can I deploy my spring MVC web application in the same above way like I did to deploy the simple JSP/Servets web application?
Is there any way to deploy my Spring MVC web application using the build classes or war file into the Apache tomat dir?
Please help.

A: A Spring MVC application is a regular Java webapp which happens to use Spring internally. It's deployed like any other web application. So yes, you can simply take the war file of your Spring MVC app and drop it in tomcat/webapps.

A: If you work with Spring 4 + gradle, you can leverage spring boot.
you can simply run gradle bootRepackage.
More inforamation about packaging as WAR:
http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#build-tool-plugins-gradle-packaging
To build and run a project artifact, you can type the following:
$ gradle build
$ java -jar build/libs/mymodule-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
To build a war file that is both executable and deployable into an external container, you need to mark the embedded container dependencies as belonging to a configuration named "providedRuntime", e.g:
...
    apply plugin: 'war'

war {
    baseName = 'myapp'
    version =  '0.5.0'
}

repositories {
    jcenter()
    maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot" }
}

configurations {
    providedRuntime
}

dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")
    providedRuntime("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat")
    ...
}

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Tag: royal family
The Queen Lowers the Boom on Harry and Meghan
Today's Campaign Update, Part III
(Because The Campaign Never Ends)
It's all couched in flowery royal language, but Harry and Meghan are paying dearly for their Megxit from the Royal Family. – Here's the official statement from Her Royal Highness on the matter:
Sounds all sweetness and light, doesn't it? Well, appearances can be deceiving. As reported by Sky News, here are the details of some of the costs to Megs and Harry for disentangling themselves from the Royal circus:
Prince Harry and Meghan will lose royal funds and no longer use their HRH titles from spring, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.
The couple will be known as Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will also repay £2.4m of taxpayers' money spent on renovating their Berkshire home – Frogmore Cottage.
Ouch. And you can bet that those few details released along with the Queen's statement are far from the only costs the young ingrates will bear before they make their final departures for the frigid confines of Canada in the coming weeks. There, they will wait…and wait…and wait five long years for the Trump Administration to finally conclude, since Megs has firmly assured us all that she will never return to the United States while the Bad Orange Man occupies the Oval Office.
Honestly, I have zero real concern about any of this, and frankly find the whole "royal family" thing to be just a very weird British thing, an odd anachronism in the modern world. But I do admire the Queen and the manner in which she has conducted herself amid all her ne'er-do-well relatives for the past 67 years since the throne was thrust upon her.
Good for her for doing what so many Baby-boomer parents have failed to do: She basically told the 35 year-old grandchild who has been sponging off of her and his parents for all these years to go get a job, and come see me on holidays. That's good grandparenting.
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30 Jan — 10 May 2020 at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, Mexico
Lina Bo Bardi. Courtesy of Museo Jumex
Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat addresses the life, work, and legacy of the Italo-Brazilian architect, designer, curator, museum director, writer, editor, and set designer. Bo Bardi is known internationally for the design of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (1968) and SESC Pompéia (1982), a leisure center for workers in the same city. Through a selection of drawings, photographs, and original furniture designs, the exhibition presents her work as a practice that modified the canon of modern architecture in Brazil and the educational role of the museum by incorporating other knowledges taken from her approach to popular culture.
The exhibition takes its title from Habitat magazine—founded by Bo Bardi and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi, and edited by them between 1950 and 1953—and presents Lina as a radical culture figure of the twentieth century who critically participated in a process of unlearning from Western knowledge through her multiple engagements in the expanded fields of cultural practice.
Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) studies architecture in Rome, her natal city. Arriving to Brazil in 1946 at the age of 32, Bo Bardi quickly immersed herself in the country's diverse cultures to create a new design language from the unique perspective of her experience, especially influenced by the time spent in Salvador, Bahia.
Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat is co-organized by MASP, Museo Jumex, and the MCA Chicago. It was on view at MASP from April 5 through July 28, 2019, and will travel to Chicago in June 2020. The exhibition will also present a selection of works from the MASP Collection, displayed on the iconic glass easels designed by Bo Bardi for MASP's Picture Gallery, along with a recreation of A mão do povo brasileiro from 1969.
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The Jumex Museum is the main platform of the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation. It opened its doors to the public in November 2013 as an institution dedicated to contemporary art with the aim not only of serving a broad and diverse public, but also of becoming a laboratory for experimentation and innovation in the arts.
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The Injury "I was in second place at Kitzbühel. I went off the last jump. No one pre-jumps it, but I tried to pre-jump it to win the race and paid the price, big-time. So I post-holed it going about 80. I just stuffed my hip into the snow and rammed my femur up into my hip socket."
The Rehab "I didn't go to the hospital because I wanted to just tough it out. I didn't want them to yank me off the circuit. So I went home and took six weeks off, and I never went to the hospital."
The Lesson By the time spring rolled around, Fleischer couldn't even walk on his leg, so he got an MRI. "They just handed me crutches and said, 'Stay off your legs for eight weeks minimum.' My femur was just black. So that's an ailment that's been with me since that day, because I was an idiot and toughed it out. I thought I was a tough kid."
The Injury "I went to a race, and the course was set way too straight into this one turn. I tried to pull it off. I caught my arm in the fence going about 70 mph and just yanked it right out of the joint. We're at a Europa Cup, so it's like this bogus race. We don't have a doctor there, so I just lay on the ground face down with my skis on and I just start pounding my arm. Finally it goes back in. I did a couple of arm swings, and I'm like 'Oh, I'm all right.' I skied off and got to the finish line, and my arm was so torn out that every time I let it relax it would just fall out of socket on its own."
The Rehab Fleischer's season was over. He flew back to the States for surgery and rehab at the Steadman Hawkins and Howard Head clinics. "Getting range of motion back for my knee was like torture, but on a day-in, day-out basis from a comfort standpoint, I'd say that my shoulder hurt a lot more than my knee," Fleischer says. "They have to cut through a lot more body tissue, so your neck feels like someone's giving you the Vulcan neck pinch for a month straight."
The Lesson "I'd been on the team for seven full years at that point, so I just viewed the injury as an opportunity to have my first year off. I was able to get stronger than I'd ever been because I could work out for 10 months straight before I went into the next ski season. I only skied like eight days that whole year. But in the first race out of the blocks, I was fifth."
The Injury "One day at Mt. Hood, I suddenly went from never having a back issue in my whole life to feeling like someone stuck me with a knife in my lower back. And my hip was hurting on top of that, partly because I had never rehabbed that previous injury." Fleischer discovered the root of the problem was his equipment. He'd canted his boots four degrees out for better skiing on Mt. Hood summer snow. "So I skied really well there because I was the only moron out there with my boots canted four degrees out. It worked really well in theory, but I didn't make the adjustment back to normalcy when I came back to Colorado. Whenever I put my ski on edge, I had so much edge so fast that my body couldn't take it. I was crippling myself."
The Rehab Fleischer switched his cant back to zero degrees. Once he'd restored proper alignment, he was able to rehab his back to full health.
The Lesson "Sometimes you have to experiment and figure out for yourself what the problem is. I discovered what was going on when I decided to try switching boots. That didn't come from a chiropractor or doctor or coach or anyone else. That was just me figuring it out on my own."


A new awards show for a "restaurant-hungry public increasingly obsessed with eating, drinking and travel," and the first ever restaurant awards to be televised, will take place in Paris on 18 February 2019.
The World Restaurant Awards, conceived by food writers Joe Warwick and Andrea Petrini, in partnership with producers IMG, will be judged by a 100- strong panel of the most influential voices in food today, including chefs such as Yannick Alléno, Elena Arzak, Alex Atala, Massimo Bottura, David Chang, Dominique Crenn, Hélène Darroze, Daniel Humm, René Redzepi, Ana Roš and Clare Smyth, and assorted renowned international food press.
The judges met for the first time in Paris on 14 May for a collaborative workshop to help define the objectives of the awards. "The World Restaurant Awards will be conducted with complete integrity, total transparency and a real sense of inclusivity. We want to make everyone think about the full gamut of the world's great restaurants – old and new, from luxury destinations to humble institutions – and what makes them so special," says Warwick.
The panel made their first commitment to sustainability, by naming the Perennial Farming Initiative, which is "dedicated to combating climate change by mobilising support for regenerative agriculture in the food world," as the official charity of The World Restaurant Awards.
The World Restaurant Awards categories will include the following: Big Plates (serious) and Small Plates (tongue-in-cheek), Tweezer-free Kitchen and Instagram Account of the Year.


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10 Famous Cricketers who got involved in Fixing
Article by Maruthappan, August 8, 2014
A note of thanks to Sreesanth, Ankit Chawan, Ajit Chandila, Amit Yadav and Abinav Bali. Here I would not have been writing this article if the controversies didn't rise up in this IPL season. The insiders of Mumbai and Delhi police hint that still many more are involved in spot fixing. I questioned myself: Whether Cricket is the only game that involves fixing? Answer to this question would be definitely 'NO'. Fixing of games occurred in the heyday of ancient Greek civilization where the First Olympics where held. Then why are games fixed? Mainly to change the outcome of the game in favor of bettors, therefore they do wish to offer some money to the players of the opponent team. Other reason could be mutual dislike among the team members towards the captain or any other authority of the team. Is cricket the game which involved most match fixing incidents? Huh, Cricket lost in this category to Football which is also the most famous sport in the world. Comparing match fixing involved in various sport across the world, we can come to a conclusion that "Popularity of the game is directly proportional to the number of Match fixing cases involved". For example, Football which has the largest fan base in the world also hold the record for most match fixing cases. Similar case is applicable to Cricket. Now we are sure that cricket is not the only game involves fixing and India is not the only country for bettors.
When was I about to start the article, I was in a confused state. On what basis should I rank the cricketers who were involved in fixing? There are many factors such as the amount they received for fixing the match, the post and years of experience they hold before they were suspended from the game or the length of ban. The first two factors may result in a tie or not be revealed. Therefore I opted for the third factor 'Length of Ban'. And this is a more transparent thing. Here I am going to present you the top ten famous cricketers who involved in fixing in the order of number of years they were banned from cricket.
10. SALIM MALIK:
One of the former captains of Pakistan Cricket team and notable player of the game till the betting allegations rose up. He held a memorable innings for his country. After scandal aroused, everything changed. He was accused of taking bribe from a bookie and was handed a life ban. But he claimed innocence from the beginning .Only later it was found to be true. The life time ban imposed on him was removed. But then he never wished to join the sport. He also hold the record of the first ever cricketer to arrested for spot fixing.
9. HERSCHELLE GIBBS, HENRY WILLIAMS:
They were arrested for the betting case against India held at Nagpur in the year of 2000. Initially Herschelle Gibbs agreed to score less than 20 runs in ODI. Since he couldn't convince himself, he scored 74 runs off 53 balls. Similar was the case with Henry Williams. Initially, he agreed to concede more runs in the overs bowled by him. Later he was not able to keep up his word because of his bruise injury. Therefore both of them were banned only for six months. While Herschelle Gibbs made a re-entry in to the South African Cricket team and established himself as a player of high rank, Henry Williams never returned to play.
8. MARLON SAMUELS:
West Indies cricket player was accused of leaking information about the team and its tactics to the bookies in the match played against India in the year of 2007. Hence International Cricket Council (ICC) ordered a probe. At the end of the probe, player was found to be guilty and restricted him from playing the sport for two years. But he claimed innocence throughout the period. At the end of two years, he joined Jamaica cricket team and now playing for West Indies.
7. MAURICE ODUMBE:
One of the most significant players and former captain of Kenya team was offered a ban of five years in a row in the year of 2005 after he was found receiving money from bookies in several occasions. During this ban period, he worked with Non- Government Organization carrying out social work. After the lifting of ban in the year of 2010, he started to play at a domestic level.
6. AJAY JADEJA:
His name was brought in to allegations by Mohammad Azharuddin, the then skipper of Indian cricket team, who confessed in the investigation that he was able to fix the matches with the help of this batsman who was also a good fielder. He was banned from playing the game for a period of five years. Later on he challenged the ban in the High court. But his petition was dismissed as there was no one represented him. He overturned from his ban in the year of 2003 itself. Now he is playing domestic matches in India.
5. MANOJ PRABAHAR:
He was banned in the year of 2000 from International cricket matches by Board of Cricket Council India (BCCI) for five years. He was found guilty by having association with the book makers. In the initial stage he accused Kapil Dev of getting involved with the bookies. But it backfired on him and a probe was ordered on his conduct. Later on he was found to be delinquent himself. From then on, he was barred from holding any official post in the cricket council of India. He served as the bowling coach and then head coach of the Delhi team for a few years.
4. MOHAMMAD ASIF:
He is one of the most recent player to get arrested for involving in Match fixing issues. He was arrested for bowling pre-determined number of No balls against England in the year of 2011. He was found guilty by U.K. court for accepting corrupt payments. From then on he was imprisoned in U.K. jail for a period of one year. He was confined from playing cricket for a period of seven years by Paksitan Cricket Board. He tried his hands in the Bollywood film industry before getting imprisoned. But it resulted in vain.
3. SALMAN BUTT:
Salman Butt was arrested in the same scandal as that of Mohammad Asif. This scandal was brought to the shore by the British Tabloid News of the world in 2010. Before getting suspended from the cricket team, he served as the captain of Pakistan Cricket team. He was one of the star players till he got involved himself in the spot fixing issue. He was also awarded a year of imprisonment by U.K. Court for accepting corrupt money. Pakistan Cricket Board ordered a ban of 10 years on him right from the year of 2011.
2. HANSIE CRONJE:
Hansie Cronje was one of the most respectable players in the world till the Indian Police released the tapes of conversation between the player and a book maker. He was accused of giving information about the team and forecast of the match against India. Initially he didn't accept the charges. But later on, he confessed his dealings with book maker. Till the end, he maintained that none of his team mates were involved in this charge. He was banned for the life time by South African Cricket Board Council. Two years after this incident, he died in a plane crash. In the same scandal other South African players were also banned including Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams.
1.MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN:
He served as the skipper and captain of Indian cricket team till 2000. After the life time ban on Hansie Cronje, Indian government ordered CBI to conduct a probe whether any Indian cricketer was involved in betting. From then on, players came under scanner and their houses were probed. The reports revealed that Mohammad Azharuddin had involved in betting with the help of Ajay Jadega and another team member. Initially Azharuddin reported that he was targeted being a Muslim. Later on he confessed that he received money from bookies. Hence BCCI issued a life time ban on the player.
Everybody knows that this is not the final result of ranking. There are still more to be added including Sreesanth, Ankit Chawan, Ajit Chandila, Abinav Bali and Monish Misra. Since the probe is going on, nothing to be said sure. But I do hope that this list would end with these names alone forever. This is the wish of every cricket fan all around the world.
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Puerto Rico Puts Rubio in a Political Pickle
"Rubio's attitude toward millions of Puerto Ricans is actually a nightmare."
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During the GOP presidential debate Thursday night, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was asked to defend his position on Puerto Rico and his belief that the island shouldn't be permitted to file for bankruptcy as it struggles with more than $72 billion in debts.
Telemundo's María Celeste Arraras, who is Puerto Rican, asked the question, framing it as an electoral problem in his home state of Florida, where as many as 1 million Puerto Ricans live. And even though Puerto Ricans in Florida are a solid Democratic voting group, Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, will need every vote he can get in the March 15 primary.
"You say that it is only a last-resort measure, but the government of Puerto Rico has said that bankruptcy is its last resort," she said. "How do you explain this very strong stance to the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans that vote across the US, and particularly in your state of Florida?"
Rubio said bankruptcy wouldn't fix the underlying issues driving Puerto Rico's debt problems, and that "it's too expensive to do business there, the tax rate is too high, the government regulations are too extensive." He said that was the primary reason for the flight of working professionals moving from the island to places like Florida, New York, and elsewhere on the mainland. Any bankruptcy protection for Puerto Rico must come later, he said, after bigger budget cuts—"but not as the first resort…because it will not solve the problems on the island."
Economic experts agree there are a variety of reasons the island amassed such unwieldy debts over the years, including government mismanagement, waste, and bloat. But Rubio omitted key context and a couple of pertinent facts from his answer.
First, despite the Puerto Rican government's slow response, it has taken major steps to address its budget issues. Puerto Rico's government has already raised sales taxes to the highest in the nation, raised gasoline taxes, cut tens of thousands of public jobs, and cut hundreds of millions of dollars from education spending.
Second, as pointed out by Latino USA's Julio Ricardo Varela, the debt crisis has been growing for decades under politicians of all political stripes, and Wall Street has profited all along the way. Since 2000, Wall Street banks and hedge funds have made more than $900 million managing various bond sales, according to Bloomberg News. Several of the same hedge fund executives who stand to benefit if the island is barred from restructuring its debt through bankruptcy have donated to Rubio's campaign.
"The GOP are touting Marco Rubio, a Latino candidate for president of the U.S., as 'proof of the American dream,'" wrote Nelson Denis, a former New York State assemblyman. "But Rubio's attitude toward millions of Puerto Ricans is actually a nightmare…In 2016 and beyond, that is a lot of voters…and they will not forget Rubio's political calculus."
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A convicted serial bank robber who is on the run after cutting off his electronic monitoring device while on probation from federal prison is now wanted in a Wednesday bank holdup in Montgomery, and an October heist in Hoover.
Myron William Ernst, a 60-year-old South Carolina man, has been identified as the suspect in robbery at Regions Bank on Atlanta Highway. According to Montgomery police, the suspect entered the bank about 11 a.m., produced a threatening note demanding money and then fled on foot. Central Alabama Crime Stoppers identified the suspect as Ernst and said he was last seen wearing a red shirt and blue jeans.
He was also identified Wednesday as the suspect in the Oct. 22 holdup at Regions Bank on Montgomery Highway in Hoover. The Hoover holdup happened at 11:18 a.m. that Monday.
Hoover police Capt. Gregg Rector said police officers arrived at the bank within two minutes of the Hoover 911 Center receiving the alarm, but the suspect had already fled. Police said the white male – now identified as Ernst - presented a note to the teller, demanding money. He implied that he had a gun, though one was not displayed. He took an undetermined amount of cash and was last seen on foot walking southbound. A warrant for his arrested charging him with first-degree robbery was issued Oct. 23 and police and federal authorities have been searching for him since then.
"Myron Ernst! You're the next contestant on "Not In My County" with your host, Sheriff Grady Judd!
Yesterday, Myron did what Myron does - he robbed a bank. It was the second bank he robbed this week - he robbed one in Clay County on Tues 10/9, and then one here in Polk on Fri 10/12. Both agencies posted pics of him on our FB pages, and our fans did not disappoint - they let us know "right quick" who Myron was.
Our people got with their people, and before you know it, we got a whole lot more info about good ole Myron. And a warrant. That's like your magic ticket straight to jail - do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Turns out, Myron also cut off his GPS ankle monitor before heading down here to the Sunshine State (he probably didn't want that awkward ankle tan). You guessed it, he's on federal probation for..........bank robberies! And that charcoal gray Ford F-150 he's riding around it? Yeah, that's stolen. You're probably saying, of course it is!
Did we mention the feebies are also looking for him?
This sure is a #CrazyCriminalStory.
An Orlando, Fla., man who admitted to going on a bank robbery spree -- including a heist in Mobile, Ala., two years ago -- will go to prison for more than 11 years, a federal judge in South Carolina has decided.
Anyone with information on Ernst's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Central Alabama Crime Stoppers at 334-215- STOP, Crime Stoppers' website at www.215stop.com or on Central Alabama Crime Stoppers Facebook page.


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If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W. Dulles's The Craft of Intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles's incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and America's premier intelligence officer. Dulles was a high-ranking officer of the CIA's predecessor--the Office of Strategic Services--and was present at the inception of the CIA, where he served eight of his ten years there as director. Here he sums up what he learned about intelligence from nearly a half-century of experience in foreign affairs.
Dulles reveals much about how intelligence is collected and processed, and how the resulting estimates contribute to the formation of national policy. He discusses methods of surveillance, and the usefulness of defectors from hostile nations. His knowledge of Soviet espionage techniques is unrivaled, and he explains how the Soviet State Security Service recruited operatives and planted "illegals" in foreign countries. He spells out not only the techniques of modern espionage but also the philosophy and role of intelligence in a free society threatened by global conspiracies.
Dulles also addresses the Bay of Pigs incident, denying that the 1961 invasion was based on a CIA estimate that a popular Cuban uprising would ensue. This account is enlivened with a wealth of personal anecdotes. It is a book for readers who seek wider understanding of the contribution of intelligence to our national security.
Allen W. Dulles, one of the most important figures in the history of American intelligence, served under eight U.S. presidents, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy. He served presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1961. When he died in 1969, President Nixon remarked, " . . . in the nature of his task, his achievements were known to only a few."


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First aircraft carrier to be named in honor of African-American serviceman, announced on MLK Jr. Day
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ALICEVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Police in west Alabama say a person whose body was found after a police shooting was dead before the officers fired.
Aliceville Police Chief Tonnie Jones tells the Tuscaloosa News that the driver had a dead body in a stolen car.
He tells WTVM-TV that an officer fired at the car Friday but did not hit anyone.
Jones told the newspaper that officers first tried to stop the Volkswagen Jetta just before noon on Alabama Highway 17, and shot at the car just before it hit a police car near downtown.
He did not identify either the dead person or the driver, who was taken into custody.
Aliceville is a town of about 2,300 people. It's nearly 100 miles west of Birmingham near the Mississippi state line.
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Humans of Lambert
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Last week in Lambert sports: Week 6
Josh DeRoche, Staff Writer|September 22, 2017
Lambert senior Kassidy Krupit gets ready to deliver a pitch.
While the week of August 11, 2017 had a significant decrease in the number of games, it didn't halt Lambert sports in the win category.
Softball: Lambert faced off against the Forsyth Central Bulldogs in a match between two top 50 ranked teams in Georgia. Going into the game, each team had seasonal and regional winning records. The game was slow from the very beginning with neither team scoring throughout the first four innings. It wasn't until the fifth inning where things started to pick up. Lambert struck first with two runs, but Forsyth Central quickly responded with two runs of their own. Again, the game slowed down, causing there to be extra innings. Both the eighth and ninth inning remained scoreless. However, the tenth inning had Lambert scoring one run which gave them the 3-2 win. This was a very important game as the winner would have been ranked in the top 25 which is where Lambert currently stands. Due to state standings, with Lambert ranking 24th and West Forsyth ranking 143rd, the following game did not setup to be a close one. The entire game was dominated by Lambert's high powered offense and disciplined defense. Ultimately, Lambert ran away with the game winning 9-0. As of now, Lambert softball is not slowing down- they have their eyes on that Regional Championship.
Volleyball: Lambert volleyball took on West Forsyth and Forsyth Central over the week, making it an intense battle between the three schools. The first game was against the West Forsyth Wolverines. Lambert manhandled West, winning each of the three sets by a significant margin. The following game against Forsyth Central wasn't going to pose a greater threat. They only have four wins for the season with no regional wins. Surprisingly, the first set was won by Lambert with only a score of 25-17. This close score awoke Lambert, as they won the next two sets by a large margin. With both of those wins Lambert is now ranked 21st in state with a huge winning streak.
Football: The start of this year hasn't been in favor of Lambert football. They entered this game with one win and two losses, making them hungry for that second win to even their record. Lanier also had a record of 1-2 making this appear to be a great match-up. The game began fast with Lanier scoring a touchdown on their second drive of the game. Lambert would not back down as their running game was able to put them inside Lanier's twenty yard line. However, they were able to capitalize on the great drive with only a field goal. The second quarter again was in favor of Lanier as they scored six points and Lambert again had to settle for another field goal. No team scored in the third quarter, which diminished all hope for Lambert because they were down two possessions. Lanier grabbed a safety late in the game which capped off the game, resulting in Lanier's win 15-6. While Lambert is 1-3 this season, it is still very early, meaning they can still turn things around.
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Q: Should I be using keyword "this" in a constructor when no arguments are being passed? I was wondering whether I should be using "this" in Java when no arguments are being passed in the constructor of a class.
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Thank you for your time.

A: If there is no argument, then it's all the same.
However it's always a good practice.

A: No, this in this case is optional. Only need it when the constructor is passed a parameter named id to avoid variable shadowing.

A: You shouldn't be doing either actually. You should initize that variable in the declaration.
If you have a more complex case, the principle of least redundancy applies: don't write it where it isn't required.


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Greensboro Opera Companions is a guild of men and women whose mission is to promote and sustain the quality of Greensboro Opera and its productions. We do this through service, education, and financial support. The art form opera is the magical combination of voice, music, and drama. It teaches, magnifies, and brings focus to the theater of everyday life.
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Health Services at Newberry College contributes to the physical, academic, emotional, and social development of students by providing quality healthcare for students. We do this through offering free general healthcare services, and by counseling students who are experiencing emotional/behavioral or learning difficulties. We are also committed to promoting healthy behaviors for all students through health education. Health and Counseling Services operates with a commitment to confidentiality, ethical behavior, and practices that reflect current research and professional standards.
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. We are located behind the Science/Math building and across from Brokaw Hall. Services on campus are free of charge to all full-time students.
Assessment and treatment of acute illness.
Physician services are contracted with Compass Family Medicine, P.A., for illness, injuries, and ongoing allergy injections. The physician's service bill is separate and filed through the student's private insurance. Students will need to provide insurance information and co-pay for physician services.
Referrals to other resources on campus and within the community.
Consultation and educational services to assist in fostering an environment supportive of the intellectual, emotional, and social development of students.