You are not expected to be an expert in all things photography, even if you have hired one before. Below are the most frequently asked questions and their answers to help guide you through hiring a photographer, and make sure you are making an educated decision when choosing Pure Natural Newborn Photography for your portrait experience. If there is anything missing, I am only a phone call or an email away.
When is the best time to book my newborn photos? maternity photos? fresh 48 or birth story?
The best time to book for your newborn photos is before baby arrives, while you are still pregnant to ensure you can take advantage of our guaranteed availability policy, and make sure we can schedule your session for within the first 5-10 days after birth.
Maternity sesssion typically take place between 27-37 weeks along, to ensure you have a gorgeous baby bump and are still flexible and comfortable moving around in & out of poses.
It is recommended to book your maternity and newborn sessions together about a 1-2 months before you want your maternity portraits captured. This ensures we have enough time for our consultation process and availability in our schedule.
For births and fresh 48 sessions, since I am currently limiting my number of on-call clients to 1-2 PER MONTH, it is highly encouraged that you book as soon as possible to ensure availability.
Are parent shots included in my session? What about siblings and family photos?
Yes, I absolutely love to capture the sweet bond between parents and their newborn baby. There is a &Family option to each of the offered sessions (newborn, baby, maternity) at no additional cost. This is something we discuss during the consultation. Parent images are typically done at the end of the session, unless there are siblings, in which case they would be captured at the beginning so that they can leave early with the second parent, but technically newborns run the show so we play it by ear (every session is different).
Do you have props & accessories or do I have to provide them?
The portrait studio is fully stocked with a plethora of different background options & props such as buckets, crates, bowls, etc. & baby accessories like dainty headbands, perfectly fitting diaper covers & rompers, and a large selection of hats and bonnets. Each and every item in studio has been carefully researched and selected because it matches the studio's style and aesthetic that you've hired me to create for you, and conforms to stringent safety standards. The goal is to make sure your newborn baby is the star of the image, and all of the props and accessories compliment the setup and highlight your baby.
You are more than welcome to bring in family heirlooms to be incorporated, but this should be mentioned in your pre-session consultation so I can incorporate it/them into the planned setups.
With a full service studio, you get to choose from a wide selectin of high quality and luxury print products to display in your home, or gift to friends and family. The available print products include heirloom portrait albums, luxury folio image boxes, archival wall art prints, and many other smaller add-on items such as greeting cards, gift prints, photo cubes, accordion brag-books, digital files, etc.
Where will the photos be taken? Do you travel?
Outdoor newborn sessions are available upon request in the summer months when certain conditions are met (safety first!).
Themed, Maternity and Family sessions can take place in outdoor locations throughout Ottawa or Gatineau (weather exclusions apply).
For Fresh 48 sessions and Birth Stories, I travel locally to Gatineau and Ottawa hospitals, homes, and select birthing centres.
How do I schedule a newborn photo session when I don't know when my baby will be born?
When you book your session in advance, I take note of your due date and guarantee availability for your birth story or newborn session. Babies have a mind of their own, and they tend to arrive whenever they feel like it. Whether your newborn arrives before, spot on, or after your estimated due date, we will make room for you and your newborn in our portrait schedule. In order to be able to offer this unique personalized service, I only accept a limited number of bookings as to be flexible to baby's schedule, and make room for all of my clients. It is always best to book for a newborn session while you are still pregnant so that we may plan accordingly for your session to be within the recommended first 5-10 days after birth. Once baby arrives, you contact me and we schedule your portrait session. Last minute bookings are occasionally accepted, but it is highly encouraged to book early to ensure we save a spot for you.
Can I book a session if my newborn has already arrived? What if they are older than the recommended 10 days?
Absolutely YES! I only accept a limited number of clients to ensure they all receive the utmost level of care and attention, but last minute bookings for new babies are always welcome. While I may not have guaranteed availability within the recommended time-frame after your baby's birth, I will do my best to schedule your session as soon as possible. And a BIG HOWEVER, newborn sessions are NOT mandatory to be within the first 10 days. It is often more ideal at that age because babies are still super flexible and we can achieve the adorable curly poses, but that doesn't mean it cannot be done. After the 10-14 day mark is when babies' bones start to fuse & fully calcify, and become less flexible. Plus, all they want to do is stretch-out, making posing more difficult, and can sometimes cause them discomfort. I will happily schedule a session for an older baby (up to 3 months old) and proceed as a newborn session, BUT it all depends on the individual baby whether we can get certain poses or if we capture great bright-eyes shots (which are super adorable!). I will NEVER refuse an older baby! We will work with their motor skills and sleep schedule to create gorgeous images, no matter what. For any newborn or baby session, our large prop and accessory collection will allow us to get plenty of variety in your gallery, even if baby is limited to certain poses.
I'm glad you asked! You have two options to contact us to book your session: you can CALL 613-371-4594 or use the Contact Us form. We will then proceed with scheduling your consultation to go over the session details, products available, complete the contract and start session planning. To hold your session date or newborn availability, we collect the creation fee, served as a booking deposit, which will be applied to your print collection purchase when booking in advance.
What is a consultation, pre-session planning, and an image reveal & ordering appointment?
Through the full-service experience offered, I guide you through the entire process from first contact to picking up your print products after your session.
The no-obligation studio consultation service allows you to meet me before booking, and to find the perfect fit for your family's needs and desires. At this meeting, I help you become an educated client by going over in detail the process, studio policies, and product prices. I answer your questions, we go through the different samples so you get touch and feel the printing options, and you get to tour the studio and see where the magic happens. All with the comfort of a warm cup of coffee or tea to help you relax.
The pre-session planning is done through a questionnaire on our website followed by a confirmation call, typically once baby is born once we are selecting an exact date. We discuss colour preferences, a recap of the flow for the session, and discuss how to prepare for your upcoming session.
The image reveal and ordering appointment takes place after your session has been photographed and your images are ready for viewing. You and your partner would travel to the studio for your image reaveal, and you will be guided through the design of your wall gallery (print grouping display for you wall(s)), album, keepsake photo box, or help you decide which is best for your needs. You even have the option of having your art personally delivered to your home and helping you get it set up (free with qualifying purchases, within the service area). I would then photograph the final setup in your home so I can show others how beautiful custom art can be. You can see examples on our testimonials page.
What is a creation fee, and what does it include?
The creation fee covers anything and everything required to create the images to fill your proofing gallery. It accounts for your photographer's time and talent during the session, pre-planning and communication, post production editing and retouching, and your proofing gallery proofs/slideshow production. Your session's images, digital or printed, are not included in this fee, and are to be purchased additionally. The create your own collection allows you to build a custom package to suit your needs, and leaves room for personalization.
How much are the prints? Do you have any packages? What about digital files?
All collections are customized for each client based on your needs and desires. I guide you through the entire process, and help you design the best ART for your space. Most clients invest between $950-2500 on their portrait order, which includes printed & digital art. Individual custom art pieces are also available a-la-carte, starting from $500.
There is no minimum order attached to your creation fee, and you do not have to select your items until AFTER you've seen your session's images–putting the responsibility on ME to create a beautiful gallery of images for you.
Itemized pricing will be provided to you during your consultation, and custom packages are always available.
How soon will I be able to see my photos?
Often clients will be invited to schedule their ordering session within 7-10 days, and certain sessions have the option of same-day ordering. The type of session you've booked and the time of year will affect the timeline, and your personal turnaround time will be outlined in your contract. At the ordering appointment, you will be able to view the slideshow of the images on the big screen in addition to the printed proofs, to help with creating your print collection. The print order takes anywhere from 2 to 8 weeks to complete depending on the item as many are hand-crafted art pieces. For those who are not able to return to the studio, there is an option to purchase the entire gallery in digital format and place your optional print order online.
Have more questions? I'd love to answer them and go over all of the details about the session types, printed ART products available, and the different processes.
Let's schedule a consultation & studio tour.


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Germany's energy crisis powers hydrogen switch
Louisa Off , Riham Alkousaa | Posted: Dec. 29, 2022, 6:20 a.m. | Updated: Dec. 29, 2022, 6:20 a.m. | 2 Min Read
By Louisa Off and Riham Alkousaa
KELHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - From the moment Russian gas exports to Germany were first disrupted in June, German firm Kelheim Fibers began casting around for alternative options to keep its engines running.
As a result, the Bavarian-based firm, whose fibres are used in anything from teabags to tampons, will be able to use heating oil instead of gas starting mid-January.
The downside is that will increase carbon emissions and for the longer term, the firm is considering a switch to hydrogen, which is a much cleaner energy source provided it is produced using renewable power.
"We want to be one of the first large companies in Bavaria to switch to hydrogen," Craig Barker, managing director of the 87-year-old firm, told Reuters.
Energy costs account for over 60%-70% of the company's variable expenses, overtaking that of its main raw material, Barker said.
Kelheim Fibers is one of many small and medium-sized companies that form the backbone of Europe's biggest economy, and that are seeking to diversify their energy mix to maintain output.
Russia's reduction of gas supplies to Germany following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February, has forced Berlin to reactivate or extend the lifespan of its coal-fired power plants, putting greenhouse emissions targets in jeopardy.
However, ifo economist Klaus Wohlrabe said the crisis could eventually lead to greener production.
"Relying on fossil fuels for the long term [...] has proven to be a risky path. So in the medium term, at least, companies have no choice but to reorientate themselves," Wohlrabe said.
Kelheim Fibers, which has so far covered 85% of energy needs with gas, is in talks with stakeholders over hydrogen imports with an expected annual consumption of about 30,000 tonnes, starting from 2025, Barker added.
"We definitely need infrastructure," he said, adding that a pipeline will be needed to connect to the German refinery Bayernoil and a port to cover the demand the company cannot meet from domestically produced hydrogen.
Earlier this month, Germany's Economic Affairs Ministry approved the construction of the country's first hydrogen pipeline network. It also announced an action plan to support small and medium-sized companies as they switch to climate-neutral production, including expanding hydrogen infrastructure.
More is required to accelerate investments in hydrogen, including a Hydrogen Act to cut bureaucracy and regulate the hydrogen ramp-up quickly, utility industry association BDEW said earlier this month.
"2023 must provide new impetus for investments in renewable energies, hydrogen, hydrogen-capable gas-fired power plants and energy networks," BDEW president Kerstin Andreae said.
(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa and Louisa Off, editing by Emma-Victoria Farr and Barbara Lewis)

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I spy with my little eye... a double-digit Birthday.
In 10 days exactly I will be celebrating a double-digit birthday. It made me think of my last big celebration, my Catherinette birthday. In France, on the 25th November, on Saint Catherine day, the Fashion and Couture houses of Paris celebrate every unmarried employee turning 25 years old. The ladies are called Catherinettes and the gentlemen are called Nicolas. This tradition serves two purposes: obviously getting the young bachelors to meet and mingle, but also and even more importantly, to do justice to the hard working seamstresses, the well-named "petites mains" (little hands is how we call them in Haute Couture in french) by putting them in the light.
When I turned 25, I was single and working for Christian Lacroix. Being the free-spirited man that he is, he decided to design the hats himself, forgot about the green and yellow colours and went for personalised items instead. Our studio team went thriftshopping for bowler hats and customised them according to each Catherinette and Nicolas personality. Mine was all about bullfighting, sorry for the sensitive souls, it's just something I had in common with Christian.
I loved turning 25 with the Lacroix family, I have amazing memories!
Christian's sketch. My face, my hat... Hated posing for the photo but love that sketch.
Christian putting my hat on.
The hat (I look so young!).
Amazing! I didn't know you used to work at Lacroix's, you must have spent priceless moments there!
@Manal: I have the greatest memories. It is a fantastic fashion house and Christian is a true Gentleman.


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South African soccer star Richard Henyekane died in the early hours of Tuesday following a car accident. The 31-year-old, who played for the national team on nine occasions, was with four other passengers, but was the only one to lose his life.His club, Free State Stars, confirmed his passing on its official website.
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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 10, 2016
Fun Home, Betrayal, Graeme of Thrones, and 12 more new theater reviews
The Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel and a Pinter classic are among this week's best bets.
Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Another Snowy Day With Beatrix Potter and Friends, Chicago Children's Theatre, Will Bishop, Grace Needlman, Betrayal, Raven Theatre, Harold Pinter, Abigail Boucher, Sam Guinan-Nyhart, Keith Neagle, Cosmic Events Are Upon Us, Waltzing Mechanics, the Romanovs, Keely Leonard, Anastasia, Tsar Nicholas II, Chicago Opera Theater, The Fairy Queen, Henry Purcell, Baroque opera, semi-opera, Andreas Mitisek, Haymarket Opera Orchestra, Marc Molomot, Kimberly E. Jones, First Lady Suite, Michael John LaChiusa, Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nick Graffagna, Nicholas Reinhart, Circle Theatre, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, David Zinn, Sam Gold, Robert Petkoff, Abby Corrigan, Graeme of Thrones, Ali Brice, Libby Northedge, Michael Condron, Krampus!, Ghostlight Ensemble, Underground Wonder Bar, Jaclyn Jensen, Mike Wozniak, The Little Flower of East Orange, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Eclipse Theatre Company, Steve Scott, John Henry Roberts, Moon Shot, Theater Unspeakable, Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gargarin, Mark Frost, John F. Kennedy, Apollo 11, Wernher von Braun, NASA, Murder on Mount Olympus, Plautus, Public House Theatre, Byron Hatfield, Bye Bye Liver, Xolotl, Out of This World, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Cirque de Soleil, Rutherford's Travels, Charles Johnson, Middle Passage, Ilesa Duncan, David Barr II, Breon Arzell, Pegasus Theatre, Shrewish, The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare, Artemisia Theatre, Singin' in the Rain, Tammy Mader, Michael Scott, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 12, 2016
Too much embellishment obscures the clean lines of Pinter's The Room
A Red Orchid revives the playwright's first play.
By Tony Adler
Tags: Theater Review, The Room, Harold Pinter, A Red Orchid, Dado, Kirsten Fitzgerald, HB Ward
Film, Movie Review May 20, 2016
In The Lobster, if you're single you might be transformed into an animal
Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another dark absurdist comedy.
By Leah Pickett
Tags: Movie Review, The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos, Colin Farrell, Efthymis Filippou, Theatre of the Absurd, Dogtooth, Alps movie, Martin Esslin, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Ben Wishaw, John C. Reilly, Angeliki Papoulia, Ashley Jensen, Jessica Barden, Rachel Weisz, Greek cinema, Recommended, Video
Film, Movie Review Feb 18, 2015
The screen version of The Last Five Years does Jason Robert Brown's musical right
Divergent careers tear a marriage apart in Richard LaGravenese's film.
By Ben Sachs
Tags: Movie Review, Richard LaGravenese, The Last Five Years, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, Rob Marshall, Anna Kendrick, Jason Robert Brown, Harold Pinter, Betrayal, Jeremy Jordan, Video
Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 22, 2014
Too many of this year's Rhinofest offerings are too small and too safe
The 25th annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival presents the cozy side of fringe.
By Zac Thompson
Tags: Theater Review, Anton Chekhov, The Seagull, Konstantin Treplev, Curious Theatre Branch, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, stonRep Theatre Company, The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter, Tim Larson, Rory Jobst, The Dumb Waiter, Jeff Helgeson, In the Moment, Neil Young, After the Gold Rush, Tell It & Speak It & Think It & Breathe It, Dan Caffrey, Neko Case, Man, Jessica Reese, Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Joshua Davis, Katie Schell, One Week in Spring, Kristiana Colon, Cecilie O'Reilly, Mark Chrisler, Phonies, Frauds, and Fakes
Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jan 15, 2014
The 25th annual Rhinofest isn't getting old
The fringe-theater festival has been around longer than some of its most noteworthy participants.
Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Theater Oobleck, Neo-Futurists, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Curious Theatre Branch, Pigeons With Teeth, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Jack Helbig, Let's Copy Each Other So We Can Be Copy Cats, Jessica Peri Chalmers, Phonies, Frauds, and Fakes, Elevator Tours, Carolyn Hoerdemann, Colm O'Reilly, The Ruckus, Tell It & Speak It & Think It & Breathe It, Neil Young, Neko Case, The Dangling Conversation, Astonrep Theatre Company, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Boygirlboygirl, Cremes and Jellies, Loa to Divine Narcissus, Josh Nordmark, Falling, Jenny Magnus
Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2013
About Face stages The Pride—just in time for Pride
Alexi Kaye Campbell's play juxtaposes gay couples in London 50 years apart.
By Albert Williams
Tags: Theater Review, Alexi Kaye Campbell, The Pride, Royal Court Theatre, Dominic Cooke, The Pride, John Whiting Award, Wole Soyinka, Ben Whishaw, About Face Theatre, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Bonnie Metzgar, Patrick Andrews, John Francisco, Jessie Fisher, Benjamin Sprunger, Terence Rattigan, Terrence McNally, William Boles, Becca Jeffords, Stephen Ptacek, Recommended
Weekly Top Five: "Violence is not funny"—the best of William Friedkin
Weekly Top Five: William Friedkin films
By Drew Hunt
Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, William Friedkin, The Friedkin Connection, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library, The Exorcist, Killer Joe, Filmspotting, Adam Kempenaar, The Exorcist, Deliverance, Straw Dogs, New Hollywood, Rampage, Richard Chase, Bug, Rules of Engagement, the Hunted, Tracy Letts, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, To Live and Die in L.A, Robby Muller, Repo Men, Paris Texas, Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, Cruising, The French Connection, Sorcerer, The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 6, 2013
Pinter's The Birthday Party, now
free of menace
Austin Pendleton directs John Mahoney and Moira Harris in the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Harold Pinter's early play.
Tags: Theater Review, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Upstairs Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, comedy of menace, Austin Pendleton, Marc Grapey, Ian Bradford, Rachel Anne Healy, Francis Guinan, John Mahoney, Moira Harris, Sophia Sinise
Weekly Top Five: Roman Polanski films
The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week
Tags: Things I Love, Weekly Top Five, Film, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, The Ghost Writer, Chinatown, The Pianist, The Tenant, Dave Kehr, Franz Kafka, William Castle, Knife in the Water, National Film School in Łódź, Repulsion, Carnage, Harold Pinter, Samuel Becket, Freud, Frantic, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
This week's movies, and the rest of this week's movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags: Film, Can movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vogue, Music Box, Head Games, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Cee-Lo Green, House at the End of the Street, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, How I Ended This Summer, Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Looper, Rian Johnson, Brick movie, The Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Lou Harrison: A World of Music, Love Likes Coincidences, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Logan Lerman, Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Snowman's Land, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Vulgaria, Bernardo Bertolucci, Before the Revolution, Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter, Dark Star, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facets Cinematheque, James W. Anderson, Northwestern University, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fred Camper, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Audre Lord's Cultural Legacy, Audre Lord: The Berlin Years 1984-1992, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lord, movies, Video
Harold Pinter and the sound of silence
Harold Pinter's screenplays deepen our understanding of his work.
Tags: Film, Harold Pinter, Joseph Losey, The Servant, Dick Borgade, James Fox, Robert Maughman, William Friedkin, Killer Joe, The Birthday Party, The Boys in the Band, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, F. Scott Fitzgerland, Figures in a Landscape, McCarthyism, David Caute, Accident, The Go-Between, Secret Ceremony, Robert Mitchum, Elleston Trevor, The Quiver Memorandum, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon, Galileo
Film, Movie Feature Aug 1, 2012
Chamber brothers
With Killer Joe, Tracy Letts and William Friedkin deliver another tale of bad people in close quarters
Tags: Movie Feature, William Friedkin, Tracy Letts, August:Osage County, Steppenwolf, Matthew McConaguhey, murder, violence, morality, Harold Pinter, Video
Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2012
Smartphones and Soirees: new performing art reviews
New performing arts reviews from Reader critics from the July 26, 2012 issue
By Sharon Lurye
Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, The American Plan, The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter, Nickel History: the Nation of Heat, Girls Night: The Musical, Sleeping Beauty, Reefer Madness, Richard III, Smartphones: A Pocket-Sized Farce, La Soiree, The Vortex, WTC View, Noel Coward, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Khecari dance company, Pales, Thodos Dance Chicago
Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2012
John Wayne Gacy and lighting-based dance: the week in performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader writers
By Jordan Larson
Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, Hero:The Musical, Second City, We're All in This Room Together, Slideshow Theatre Company, The Gacy Play, John Wayne Gacy, Jr., Dance Union, "Salon Solarium—Dancing to Lighting", As You Like It, Lorenzo B, Renny Black's Delightfully Doomed Door of Decadent Disarray, The Lover, Harold Pinter, Hooter Rangers: A Spicy Morphing Burlesque, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Naked July:Art Stripped Down, iO, My Mans, Mark Raterman, Tim Robinson
On Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter
Reflecting on the deaths of Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt.
Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Iraq War, Eartha Kitt, Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize for Literature, Vietnam War, Lady Bird Johnson, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill


The Tables of the Law | Paul Dry Books, Inc.
"His senses were hot, and so he yearned for spirituality, purity, and holiness—the invisible, which seemed to him spiritual, holy, and pure."
"Into the stone of the mountain I carved the ABC of human behavior,but it shall also be carved into your flesh and blood, Israel…"
Mann's tale of the ethical founding and molding of a people sharply rebukes the Nazis for their intended destruction of the moral code set down in the Ten Commandments. But does his famous irony and authorial license mock or enhance the Biblical account of the shaping of the Jewish people? You know the Bible story. Now read Mann's version—it will grip you anew.
Thomas Mann's many works include Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers, and Confessions of Felix Krull. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.
Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann co-authored a biography of the pianist Rudolf Serkin and have together translated Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human.


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Wellcome Photography Prize 2020 shortlist: mental health in a changing world
Written by Jacob Dykes
Published in Geophoto
Nyancho NwaNri
The shortlist for the 2020 Wellcome Photography Prize has been announced, with a series of photographs depicting the annual floods in Lagos among the candidates
With a population of more than 20 million people, Lagos is now the largest city in Africa. Every year, annual floods wreak havoc on the homes and livelihoods of its soaring population. Displacements and destruction of homes are commonplace, while the spread of vector-borne diseases is a mounting threat. Now, with high intensity rainfall exacerbated by climate change, combined with rising sea-levels, the floods are getting worse.
As a Lagos-based photographer, Nyancho NwaNri has a deep personal connection to the annual flooding. Her series Going Under has been shortlisted for the Wellcome Photography prize 2020 (released today) which this year has the theme of mental health. Her photographs provide an intimate portrayal of the toll that living in flood zones has on Lagos' people.
'My interest in the floods was first piqued in 2018 when I saw a woman come out of her house with rain boots on,' says Nyancho. 'I thought it was just the streets affected, but she told me that the inside of her house was flooded. I noticed then that she was pregnant, and it struck me.'
The sight became a turning point for Nyancho. 'Imagine having to live with metre-high water in your house for six months out of a whole year. I started to think about the strain that must place on people's mental health. Whenever flooding is mentioned, there is mention of the damage to property and lives, and of the water-borne diseases, but the conversation around the effect on people's mental states is lacking.'
Take a look at Nyacho's series of photographs below along with some of the other shortlisted entries...
A mother carries her child to school through the floodwaters. 'The human connection is always what draws people into a photograph,' says Nyancho. 'For six months of the year, they have to live with this in their everyday.'
Two men sit on a dampened bed. 'Imagine if you tried to get out of bed and your legs landed in water. You then have your breakfast, surrounded by water. I began to think how demoralising that would become,' says Nyancho
A man holds his feet from the floodwaters on a makeshift stool [Nyancho NwaNri]
A young girl looks at a family album damaged by the floodwater. 'I chose to photograph the photo album because it represented fond memories to the families. It spoke of the loss of personal connections that the flooding has. Imagine losing the documentation of your childhood, or special family moments,' says Nyancho.
'The owner of the house was so despondent that he asked me to very quickly take my picture so that we could both leave,' says Nyancho. 'For him, the pain of seeing that house – the house that he one day dreamed of raising his son – was too much to bear.'
Other shortlisted images
Category: Hidden World
Blood Speaks, Poulomi Basu, Surkhet district, Nepal, 2016: Saraswati, a 16-year-old new mother, is being carried from her village to the nearest hospital – a three hour journey that will involve a river crossing
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Home Article Car Service Taxi Service Transportation Travel Travel Tips How to Know More in Details about the Taxi Service from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Paris?
How to Know More in Details about the Taxi Service from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Paris?
As a traveller, it's your noble duty to perform some researching before going to travel anywhere. Well, there are too many sources available for researching purpose. First of all, you can take help from different blogs. The blogs consist a number of articles and by reading them properly, you will be able to gather much more knowledge on what you want to know. Anyway, in this article, I will try my level best to provide you with some sources that will help you to gather knowledge about the taxi service from Charles de Gaulle to Paris. So continue reading this article to get some exciting information.
If you do really have any friend or relatives stay in Paris, then don't forget to ask them before leaving your country. Just ask whatever you want to know. It would be better if you communicate them through Skype or if you want you can also communicate via different social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. Before going to make a short discussion, try to write down all of your questions that you want to ask them. So you will never forget to ask them anything. As you are talking to your friends, so don't feel shy to ask them anything. Even if you want to know about the pricing of Paris taxi service or hotel and temporary apartment, feel free to ask. It will save your huge amount of time. You know why? Well, keep reading what I am going to write in the next so that you will discover why I said that discussing with your friends will actually help you to save your much more time. If you don't have any local friends or people in Paris, then try to create some new foreign friends through different social networking sites. If you fully depend on the reviews for getting information, then keep in mind that reviews are okay to do so but reviews will not help you like what your friend will do for you. You can even stay a single night in your friend's house at free of cost but will the reviews will do the same thing for you? Of course, not. Hope you understand what I want to mean actually.
If you really don't have any local or foreign friend in Paris, then I would like to suggest you to take a look at different reviews about different taxi services. By following the reviews, you will have the ability of determining the quality of Paris taxi service from Charles de Gaulle airport to Paris. Besides, it will also let you know about pricing and other different offers and discounts. Finally, it can be said that reading the reviews can be the best alternative if you don't have any friends or relatives in Paris. It's tough to read the reviews for those who don't like to read but those who are quite interested in reading they will surely get something from the reviews. If you are one of them who always try to avoid following the reviews, then you have to create new friends or you might have to knock your local friends or people who stay in Paris. Don't expect that the reviews will all the time provide you with the correct information. Sometimes reviews are used for business purpose. People hire the writers for creating fake reviews in order to increase the business.
There is no denying the fact that people in Paris are quite helpful and friendly. So if you have time and especially if they have sufficient time to help you to solve your issue, then of course they will. No doubt about that. But I would recommend you to make use of my first and second tips instead of using this step. Though the people in Paris are really helpful for the foreigners as well as the travellers, they lead a very busy life. So before going to ask anything to them, make sure that you are not wasting their time. That's why it's better if you do some sort of researching before leaving your country. So that you need not to bother any foreigners. Well instead of asking the locals, you can also ask the taxi drivers in Paris. They will help you with lot more information. I am quite sure about it. This is considered as another benefit of hiring a taxi service. You can both enjoy your journey and keep gossiping at the time of going anywhere.
It's really not that much difficult to collect information about the taxi service from Charles de Gaulle airport to Paris. What you need to do is to follow those steps in a proper way and of course you need to manage your time for that. You can also keep someone or a tourist guide with you at the time of exploring Paris but that will cost more. So better manage your time and research and finally enjoy your travelling. Thanks for reading this article.


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Hon. Joseph A. Leafe (Ret.) Joins The McCammon Group
The Honorable Joseph A. Leafe, retired Chief Judge of the Norfolk Circuit Court, has joined The McCammon Group, Virginia's leading mediation, arbitration, facilitation and training firm.
Judge Leafe served eight years on the bench in the Norfolk Circuit Court until his retirement in March, 2006. His time on the bench was preceded by a distinguished public service career. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, Norfolk City Council and was Mayor of the City of Norfolk for eight years. In addition to his public service career he had a broad civil litigation career. Judge Leafe is a former member of the Wilcox & Savage law firm, American Bar Association, Virginia Bar Association,
and Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association.
Judge Leafe joins the other McCammon professionals located in Hampton Roads:
Hon. John E. Clarkson (Ret.) Cheshire I. Eveleigh, Esq.
Richard S. Glasser, Esq. Hon. E. Preston Grissom (Ret.)
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Join us for live music, delicious food, outdoor fun for the kids, and the most delicious chili our school community has to offer.
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TCDS Parents' Club hosts one or two of these per year. Meet up with other Trinity families and friends at a local restaurant. A portion of purchases will benefit TCDS.
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BERKELEY — The Bay Area economy is booming, but housing production is way short of keeping pace.
That was a principal theme of Tuesday's special City Council workshop on housing, featuring experts from the city and the market-rate, nonprofit and public housing sectors.
And what little housing has recently been completed — as well as the somewhat more robust volume of housing in the approvals pipeline — is overwhelmingly market-rate, according to a fact sheet produced by Berkeley Planning Director Eric Angstadt.
Of 163 residential units in Berkeley issued a certificate of occupancy since the start of 2012, just 31 are below-market-rate, the fact sheet shows.
With those units, plus all of the projects at various stages of the use permit application process as well as those under construction, the totals since 2012 come out to 206 affordable units out of 2,787 total units, or 8 percent.
There was consensus among the experts that the city needs to expedite housing construction by facilitating funding and cutting red tape. But not all of them bought into the oft-cited notion that building lots of luxury housing will put a significant dent in the affordable housing shortage, which all agreed is a pressing issue.
Several of them, as well as some council members, lamented what they saw as the loss of economic and ethnic diversity in a city where skyrocketing residential rents are out of reach of most working people, many of them minorities.
The median monthly rent in Berkeley as of October was $3,584, or 12 percent over a year earlier, according to the website Zillow as cited in a city staff report.
The rising rents represent "a major transfer of income from tenants to real estate investors," and they vastly exceed what a landlord needs to profitably operate and maintain a building, said former Berkeley Housing Director Steve Barton, one of the presenters on Tuesday.
"It's simply an 'admission charge' for (the) privilege of living here in Berkeley," he said as part of a PowerPoint presentation.
Meanwhile, as several presenters noted, federal and state investment in public and other affordable housing is flagging.
Barton urged increasing the business license tax on gross residential rent receipts — a 1.8 percent increase, or about $30 per unit, would yield about $4 million a year, he estimated, while a 2.8 percent increase would yield about $6 million.
Earlier in the evening, developer Patrick Kennedy and Rhoades Planning Group principal Mark Rhoades, in a segment on the market-rate housing sector, said a laborious approval process, the restrictiveness of zoning rules, and inconsistency in how they are interpreted, make development more costly and drive up rents. Construction costs are driven up by the current Northern California-wide development boom, Kennedy noted. The duo advocated looking into micro-units and modular construction in the future to reduce housing costs.
Susan Friedland, executive director of Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, and Dan Sawislak, executive director of Resources for Community Development, advocated for public funding for acquisition of properties.
Other speakers included Miriam Chion, planning and research director for the Association of Bay Area Governments; ABAG chief economist Cynthia Kroll; former Oakland Housing Authority Executive Director Jon Gresley; Berkeley Housing Authority Board Chairwoman Carole Norris; UC Berkeley Professor of City and Regional Planning Karen Chapple; and UC Berkeley Professor of Affordable Housing and Urban Policy Carol Galante.
Mayor Tom Bates proposed raising the city's affordable housing mitigation fee from the current $28,000 per unit to $34,000 per unit; developers can avoid the fee by providing a number of affordable units on-site equal to 10 percent of the market-rate units. The fee would be reduced to $28,000 if paid when a building permit is issued.
The item is on the Feb. 23 City Council agenda.


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The Hypochondriac
Molière, translated by Martin Sorrell
Acting Edition$11.95
ePlay$15.00 + $7.50 per print (enter total prints)
Play Description
First produced in 1673 and Molière's final play, THE HYPOCHONDRIAC is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the "quack" medical profession. Argan is a perfectly healthy, wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. However, his most efficacious cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan but in his sharp-tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master's eyes.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Single Set
Categories: The Plays, Classics Tags: French, 17th Century
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 – 1673), known as Molière, was a French dramatist, director, and actor, and one of the world's greatest masters of comic satire. Of his nearly 40 plays, his most famous are TARTUFFE, THE MISER, THE LEARNED LADIES, THE MISANTHROPE, and THE IMAGINARY INVALID.
Martin Sorrell
Martin Sorrell is Professor of French Poetry and Literary Translation at the University of Exeter. He has published many books and articles in his field and is a prize-winning translator of French poetry. He has published a number of translations of Molière plays for Nick Hern Books.
Nick Hern Books
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The Hypochondriac is produced
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Q: How to make facetgrid of 100% stacked area plot in Python? Here is what I made with a very long code.

fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=[7,2], sharex=True, sharey=True)

ddf_Pclass_Sex0 = pd.crosstab(titanic_df[titanic_df.Survived == 0].Pclass, titanic_df[titanic_df.Survived == 0].Sex)
ddf_Pclass_Sex0.divide(ddf_Pclass_Sex0.sum(axis=1), axis=0).plot.area(stacked=True, ax=ax1, color=['#55A868', '#4C72B0'])
ax1.set_title('Survived = 0', fontsize=9.5)
ax1.legend('')
ax1.set_xlabel('')
ax1.set_ylabel('Percent (%)')

ddf_Pclass_Sex1 = pd.crosstab(titanic_df[titanic_df.Survived == 1].Pclass, titanic_df[titanic_df.Survived == 1].Sex)
ddf_Pclass_Sex1.divide(ddf_Pclass_Sex1.sum(axis=1), axis=0).plot.area(stacked=True, ax=ax2, color=['#55A868', '#4C72B0'])
ax2.set_title('Survived = 1', fontsize=9.5)
ax2.set_xlabel('')

leg = ax2.legend(fontsize='small', loc='center left', bbox_to_anchor=(1, 0.5))
leg.set_title('Sex', prop={'size':'small'})

fig.suptitle('Sex Composition in Percentage by Ticket Class', fontsize=9.5, y=1.06)
fig.text(.5, -.05, 'Ticket Class', ha='center', fontsize=9.5)

ax1.set_xticks(np.arange(1, 4, 1))

plt.show()

This is the crosstab table in the code.

This is how it looks after division.
But I have to make them 2 times in my code because I need one plot for the Survived = 0 and one for Survived = 1.

How to achive the same effect with a much shorter amount of code? I feel very stupid to make subplots, and plot and customize them one by one.

A: You can set axes as a list, use list comprehension to setup an array of ddf_Pclass_Sex, then loop over them (to reduce repeated calls to xlabel, xticks and set title). Otherwise I think you need to call everything else,
fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=[7,2], sharex=True, sharey=True)
ddf_Pclass_Sex = [pd.crosstab(titanic_df[titanic_df.Survived == i].Pclass,
                              titanic_df[titanic_df.Survived == i].Sex) for i in range(2)]

for i, d, axs in enumerate(zip(ddf_Pclass_Sex, axs)):
    d.divide(d.sum(axis=1), axis=0).plot.area(stacked=True,
                                              ax=ax,
                                              color=['#55A868', '#4C72B0'])
    ax.set_title('Survived = ' + str(i), fontsize=9.5)
    ax.set_xlabel('')
    ax.set_xticks(np.arange(1, 4, 1))

ax[0].set_ylabel('Percent (%)')
leg = axs[1].legend(fontsize='small', loc='center left', bbox_to_anchor=(1, 0.5))
leg.set_title('Sex', prop={'size':'small'})
fig.suptitle('Sex Composition in Percentage by Ticket Class',
             fontsize=9.5, y=1.06)
fig.text(.5, -.05, 'Ticket Class', ha='center', fontsize=9.5)
plt.show()

Sorry cannot run without the dataframes. In my experience, it's actually better to keep the code more like you had it before. Even if it is longer, it makes it much easier when you need to adjust later on; everything is explicit and can change things easily if you want differences in the two plots.

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Thoughts before 17 Tamuz
Dear Congregation Beth Israel members and friends,
On Tuesday, July 15, many Jews will observe Tzom Tamuz, "the fast of Tamuz" — one of Judaism's minor fast days, commemorating the breach of Jerusalem's city walls which led (three weeks later) to the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 C.E.
I say "many Jews" because I know that the minor fasts are not universally observed, especially in liberal Jewish communities. The notion of commemorating the first chink in Jerusalem's armor almost two thousand years ago may seem strange to us.
But I think there's value in observing 17 Tamuz, and being conscious of the Three Weeks which link it with Tisha b'Av, even if you do not fast, and even if you aren't certain you actually want to mourn the fall of a Temple you can barely imagine.
There is a deep wisdom in the way the Jewish calendar unfolds. Our festivals and fast days are waypoints along the journey we travel each year. 17 Tamuz marks the beginning of the descent toward Tisha b'Av. At Tisha b'Av, we mark the beginning of the ascent toward the Days of Awe.
In Hasidic tradition there's the idea that often in order to rise, one first has to fall. Yeridah tzorech aliyah: one has to go down in order to be able to go up. Descent for the sake of ascent. This drama plays itself out in a variety of places in Torah — for instance, in the Joseph story, in which "descent for the sake of ascent" is a recurring motif. The downs are necessary precursors to the ups.
For Lurianic kabbalists, the whole of creation was a shattering which it is our unique privilege to be able to rebuild. If there had never been a rupture, then there couldn't be a healing.
This drama also plays itself out on the stage of every human life. We fall down, we get up again. I believe that there are gifts to be found when circumstances have laid us low. As the 17th-century Japanese poet Mizuta Masahide wrote, "My barn having burned down, I found I could see the moon."
17 Tammuz, the Three Weeks which follow it, and Tisha b'Av which comes at the end of those weeks, are a time for us to delve together into descent. It's not only "my barn" which has burned down — it's our barn, the place which was spiritual home for all of us together. It's not only my life which sometimes contains brokenness or sorrow — it's all of our lives. We're in this together.
17 Tamuz is a day to consider: when and how do your "walls," the boundaries of your emotional and spiritual integrity, feel breached? What is it like to feel that something painful has come through your defenses? What issues, subjects, or sore spots make us feel defenseless and alone?
The tradition says that 17 Tammuz is the anniversary of the day when Moshe came down the mountain, saw the people worshipping the golden calf, and in heartbroken fury shattered the first set of stone tablets containing God's words. What are the idols our communities have fallen into holding sacred? Can we allow ourselves to grieve the ways in which our communities are not yet what we most yearn for them to be?
The point of 17 Tammuz and the Three Weeks and Tisha b'Av isn't wallowing in anger and sorrow. It's allowing ourselves to recognize the things that hurt, the places where we are broken, so that together we can emerge from those places humbled and energized to begin the climb toward the spiritual heights of the High Holidays. Descent for the sake of ascent. If we're willing and able to go down together, we build bonds of community which will lift us to greater heights when it's time to climb up.
This year the 17th of Tammuz falls during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when our Muslim cousins are fasting from dawn to nightfall every day. (This "minor fast" in our tradition is observed in the same way — morning to night, not 25 hours like Yom Kippur.) And this year, 17 Tammuz arises amidst tremendous bloodshed and suffering in the Middle East.
Eliaz Cohen, a poet who lives in the settlement of Gush Etzion, has suggested that in the midst of so much sorrow and violence in Israel and Palestine, Jews and Muslims can choose to consciously fast on this day in solidarity with one another, as a "Hunger Strike Against Violence." You can learn more at Fasting Together, Jews and Muslims Choose Life (mostly in Hebrew) 0r War Looming: Make Fasts of 17 Tammuz and Ramadan Hunger Strikes Against Violence (English).
Whether or not you fast from food and drink on 17 Tamuz (next Tuesday), I invite you to consider spending the day fasting from negative assumptions about others and from unkind thoughts and actions.
May the minor fast day of 17 Tamuz, and the following Three Weeks of opening ourselves to grief, bring us together in our low places so that together we may begin the work of building a better world.
Wishing everyone a Shabbat shalom,
Adapted from a post on Velveteen Rabbi.
the Three Weeks
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