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Do Casinos and Big Cities Mix? Some Major Real Estate Developers Think So
Holly Dutton· November 29, 2022
Thousands of miles east of Las Vegas, big-name developers are clamoring for a rare casino license in one of the most densely-populated cities in the country. A long-in-the-works set of licenses, which will cost at least $500 million each, are up for grabs in New York state, which has led to a rush of bids from companies including Manhattan's largest landlord, SL Green, mega-developer Related Companies, and the New York-based firm Thor Equities. But while the companies' billion-dollar bids aim to capitalize on the city's status as a powerful tourist draw, critics, including city officials and industry groups, don't think a casino in the heart of New York City is a good idea.
The casino saga began nearly a decade ago when voters approved Las Vegas-style casinos to be built in New York. This April, three full-service casinos were approved in the state budget for the downstate region of New York. The state took another step forward when it named the first members of a board that will oversee the bidding and siting process for the casino licenses last month. The 2013 amendment allows a total of seven new casino licenses in the state, with four designated for the upstate region and three for the downstate region, which includes New York City. However, two of the licenses are widely expected to go to casino properties that are already operating in the area: Resorts Worlds New York in Queens and MGM's Empire City Casino in Yonkers, just north of Manhattan. Both casinos are currently limited to horse racing and video slot machines, but landing one of the new licenses would give them full status. With two licenses generally thought of as already taken, fierce competition has begun for the last one.
Rolling the dice
The application process for a New York casino license is set to open the first week of January, and as the date grows closer, more hopeful developers have been unveiling or, at the very least, talking about their bids. Thor Equities is one of the latest developers to announce a proposal. For the company's Founder and Chairman Joe Sitt, building a casino would fulfill a childhood dream. Sitt grew up in South Brooklyn and would skip school to go to amusement parks like the borough's Coney Island boardwalk, he told the New York Times, even earning the childhood nickname "Joey Coney Island."
The chance to add a casino to the entertainment mix at the historic tourist destination would also mean reviving an ambitious plan that Sitt first proposed in the early 2000s, though it did not include a casino element. At one point, Sitt was the largest property owner in Coney Island, and in 2005, he was hoping to develop a mixed-use complex with hotels and entertainment to the neighborhood, envisioning "something like the Bellagio hotel," he told New York Magazine at the time. Though that didn't come to fruition, his firm still owns several sites near the Boardwalk, and if Thor's bid (currently the only one from Brooklyn) is accepted, that's where the casino would go, according to the firm.
Meanwhile, many in the real estate and gaming industries are eyeing Manhattan as the prime spot for a casino. The borough's largest office landlord, SL Green, has partnered with Caesars Entertainment, the owner of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and other properties, on a bid for a casino complex in the heart of Times Square. The proposed project would be called Caesars Palace Times Square and would be built as a redevelopment of 1515 Broadway, an office building in the middle of Times Square. The project would include a casino, a Broadway theater, a hotel, and restaurants. Related Companies, the prolific development firm behind Manhattan's Hudson Yards and other major real estate projects, was one of the first companies to announce a bid for the license. The firm has teamed up with Wynn Resorts on a proposal for a casino on an undeveloped parcel next to the Javits Center in Hudson Yards. Related CEO Jeff Blau said the project's location near mass transit, the Javits Center, and Midtown Manhattan makes it an ideal spot for a casino and one that would create billions in tax revenues.
In what's been called a "six-way race," other contenders are also reportedly vying for the license but have not been as public or forthcoming about their plans. They include Mets owner Steve Cohen, who is eyeing a partner with Hard Rock at a site near Citi Field in Queens, billionaire real estate developer John Castimatidis, who is also looking at Coney Island, Stefan Soloviev, of the Solow real estate dynasty, who is proposing a site in Midtown East near the U.N., and Vornado Realty Trust CEO Steve Roth, who has hinted at proposing a site in Manhattan's Herald Square.
New York isn't the only big city opening the door to casino developments. In Chicago, where casinos were approved by the city council in May, a planned casino project from Bally's just took another step forward this month. The casino operating company recently closed a $500 million sale-leaseback agreement with a private equity firm, reportedly Oak Street Capital, which purchased the 30-acre site located along the Chicago River. Oak Street will contribute $300 million to the development of the $1.7 billion casino and entertainment complex, which city officials are hoping will open by 2026.
A steep hill
Casinos can be big drivers of economic growth for cities through job creation and taxes. In Nevada, the gaming industry generated more than $783 million in tax revenue in 2019. But despite all the excitement and jostling for bids in New York and Chicago, not everyone is on board. Influential theater industry groups like the Broadway League and Shubert Group, the largest theater owner in NYC, have come out against a casino in their neighborhood, saying it would overwhelm the already congested area and be disruptive to Broadway theaters. While elected officials in the area say, it would be a difficult road for developers looking to get there. "I think it's a very steep hill," said State Senator Brad Hoylman, whose Senate district includes Midtown Manhattan.
Hoylman, who has represented the area in the State Senate for the last nine years, came out against the casino amendment just before it went to voters in the fall of 2013, saying the costs outweigh the benefits. "We've seen across the country and in different parts of the world that communities that have casinos suffer," Hoylman wrote. "The jobs are short-term and low-paying, and the benefits don't accrue to local neighborhoods."
Developers, for their part, disagree. SL Green executives believe a casino development can help revitalize an area in need of an economic boost. "We think it's not just a big opportunity for the state and city, but it's almost a—it's a rallying point for Times Square to have a catalyst of something very positive, to help redirect some of the degradations we've seen in that area," said SL Green CEO Marc Holliday in the company's recent earnings call. Holliday went on to compare the potential for a Times Square "renaissance" to the new development around Grand Central Terminal, like the company's own One Vanderbilt tower, over the past few years.
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Vornado's Roth said in an investor letter to shareholders last year that the company had been approached about developing a casino in Manhattan and was evaluating Herald Square as a potential location. "It makes perfect sense for the third and final license to go to Manhattan," Roth wrote. "Being the center of everything, Manhattan will generate, by far, the highest revenue for our education system; after all, aren't we in it to maximize the tax revenue?"
Casinos are one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, according to a recent study from the journal Nature. Since the early 2000s, a number of states have been changing regulations to allow gambling venues in a bid to add more revenue streams. In other cities around the country where casinos have been introduced, research has shown that gaming and resort developments do not negatively impact property values and, in some cases, have a positive impact. A study out of Louisiana last year found that in several states where casino developments were built, including Ohio, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Louisiana, property values in surrounding neighborhoods and the city as a whole improved. However, other studies have found mixed results.
A Center for Governmental Research report from 2005 found that a casino's impact on the local economy was unclear, and while some areas fared well and property values increased, other places with casinos experienced more bankruptcies and violence. Michael Wenz, an associate professor of economics at Northeastern Illinois University who has done research on the impacts of casinos, said that dense, urban areas are not the best place for casinos. "The best places to put them is where there is no economics, and there doesn't seem to be anything driving economic activity," he said.
For a lot of big-name developers, it seems that nailing down a casino development is a rarified kind of project with the potential to bring in enormous amounts of profits and tax revenue while boosting their company's reputation. Research on the impacts of casinos in urban areas has shown both positive and negative impacts on communities, and with so many variables to look at in each particular area, it's hard to predict how one project will turn out versus another. While projects like the Bally's Chicago casino look primed to move forward, and New York's to-be-determined licenses continue to generate a flood of interest, there will likely be a lot of community input to consider on issues of jobs, housing, and social impacts these projects could create. Though it will still be years until these projects finally open, and a lot of hurdles to get over, that's a gamble that a lot of developers are willing to take.
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Authorities say a 21-year-old Cedar Rapids man has died from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle crash earlier this week.The Linn County Sheriff's office says John Philipp of Cedar Rapids died Wednesday at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.Authorities say Philipp lost control of a John Deere Gator and struck a fence at a private residence in Mount Vernon on Sunday around 10:40 p.m. The ATV rolled, pinning him to the ground.Authorities say they're still investigating the crash.
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Authorities say a 21-year-old Cedar Rapids man has died from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle crash earlier this week.
The Linn County Sheriff's office says John Philipp of Cedar Rapids died Wednesday at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
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Numerous Affordable Care Act provisions specifically benefit women, including guarantee of maternity coverage
By Judy Peres
Meg Finnegan thought she might never be able to afford to have a baby.
Finnegan, who is self-employed and has a pre-existing medical condition, was having trouble finding health insurance at all, let alone a policy that would cover pregnancy and childbirth. So she was thrilled to discover that the plan she signed up for last fall under the Affordable Care Act includes maternity coverage.
"When you don't have insurance, you're afraid of any life event that brings you to the hospital, for a good or a bad reason," said Finnegan, 37, an Evanston resident. "If I didn't have insurance, I wouldn't have a baby. All those doctor's appointments and tests, and possibly a high-risk delivery — how would you pay for it?"
Finnegan is not sure whether her fertility treatment will be fully covered. Because she's in a same-sex relationship, she plans to use artificial insemination.
"Insemination would be covered for a heterosexual couple if they failed to conceive after a year," she said. "But the language (of the policy) doesn't mention same-sex couples. I might have to pay for the first attempt. If that didn't work I'd be technically infertile, and the next attempts would probably be covered."
That's one of many things that remain unclear about how the Affordable Care Act will be implemented. It's still in the early days, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sometimes has to issue clarifying regulations.
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My Alcoholic Father's Embrace
Barron Harper | Mar 17, 2021
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My father Ross was an alcoholic – but in the end, he didn't let his drinking define him.
As a young man during the Depression, before his addiction took hold, he and a companion outworked a crew in the Kilgore oil fields for a job that enabled him to send money home to his struggling parents. He had a strong character – as a youth, I saw him stand up to a menacing younger man in spite of weakened health.
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Raised during the hard years of the Great Depression, he joined millions of young men to "fight the good fight" against the Axis powers in the Second World War. Assigned to fly transport in the Asian theater of the war, he was flawlessly courageous. In 1942 he would pass a rigorous exam as an officer candidate despite his backwoods upbringing and lack of a higher education.
Recognized for their heroism in the Second World War in Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation", many veterans suffered from PTSD before the invention of such a term. After the 20th century's two World Wars, they called it "shell-shock" or "battle fatigue." Many veterans emerged from that horrific conflict dependent on alcohol and nicotine, and Dad was no exception. Discharged from the US Army-Air Corp as a Major in 1945, he struggled to reintegrate himself into civilian life while falling prey to his addictions.
As his eldest son, born in 1946, I experienced a childhood traumatized by an atmosphere of alcohol, conflict, and divorce. A second marriage fared no better. By the end of this marriage, Dad had bartered away economic stability as we faced an uncertain future. Drifting from place to place, I attended five junior high schools in the 7th grade.
Thanks to being raised around alcohol and its effects, I detested it. When it is your parents raging in a drunken stupor at each other while you cower frightened nearby, the childhood trauma on some level seeps and lurks within you throughout life. While alcoholism contributed to the ruin of my father's first two marriages and destroyed the health of a once robust man, I have observed that people who drink excessively can become increasingly addicted and surround themselves for support of their addiction with others who share in their habit – a habit hard to break or condemn in an alcohol-accepting culture.
Whether socially or palliatively induced, the continuing consumption of alcohol and the disease of alcoholism gradually erodes health and affects relationships. Because that erosion occurs over time, an alcohol-dependent person is seldom aware of its long-term consequences and likely defensive if challenged. Health-wise, modern medicine has established that alcohol contributes to a host of ailments: anemia, cardiovascular disease, cirrhosis of the liver, sexual dysfunction, dementia, high blood pressure, diabetes, pancreatitis, and ultimately death.
The Baha'i Teachings on Alcohol
Unsurprisingly, the Baha'i teachings instruct Baha'is not to consume alcohol unless prescribed by a competent physician for curative purposes. Baha'u'llah, the prophet and founder of the Baha'i Faith, wrote in his Most Holy Book:
It is inadmissible that man, who hath been endowed with reason, should consume that which stealeth it away. Nay, rather it behoveth him to comport himself in a manner worthy of the human station, and not in accordance with the misdeeds of every heedless and wavering soul.
Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'u'llah's son and successor, elaborated when he wrote "… both light and strong drinks are prohibited. The reason for this prohibition is that alcohol leadeth the mind astray and causeth the weakening of the body."
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One morning in the spring of 1959 my father awoke in excruciating pain. "Barry, call an ambulance!" he shouted at me. At the hospital he was coherent long enough to call and ask his sister, in another part of the country, to please come and look after me. He underwent emergency surgery for acute pancreatitis brought on by years of alcohol abuse. Comatose, doctors gave him little chance of surviving.
Thankfully Dad did survive his emergency operation. But for the rest of his life until his passing at 69 years of age in 1985, he would suffer surgeries again and again on his compromised digestive system. In advancing years, he would lose his sight to diabetes and eventually require constant care.
But after that shock to his system in 1959, he never touched alcohol again.
In spite of his troubles, Dad had a marvelous sense of humor. When I saw him in 1985 and he needed help with writing a check due to his fading eyesight, I asked him how he had driven his car so recently to a local coffee shop where he relaxed. "Well," he replied. "When the cars go, so do I. And when they stop, I do too."
In 1961, two years sober and mentally revived, Dad met and married Margaret. In her he found a spiritual companionship on a physical level. Before she passed away ten years later from uterine cancer, Margaret and Ross were the best of lovers and the best of friends. Through her son, Toddy, she brought Dad the knowledge of the Baha'i revelation late in 1966. Straightaway he accepted Baha'u'llah as the return of the Christ spirit. Massaged by suffering, he embraced the divine Beloved and rejoiced in His tender compassion, as Baha'u'llah wrote in his book Epistle to the Son of the Wolf:
The companions of all who adore Thee are the tears they shed, and the comforters of such as seek Thee are the groans they utter, and the food of them who haste to meet Thee is the fragments of their broken hearts.
My father gave up alcohol, thanks to an intense near-death health crisis in his life. Through his embrace of the Baha'i Faith and its transformative influence, he became a companion second to none. For the first time, he became a loving and attentive father, too. Blessed with a brilliant mind and a purity of heart, he touched others with a profundity of penetrating insights into biblical scripture relating to the return of Christ. Like a lion, he roared out and astonished those who came into his presence with his insight and perception. Yet, he also demonstrated a sweetness of character that endeared him to friends and acquaintances.
When he passed from this world in December of 1985 and I stood at the podium at his service, I could barely express my farewell. To this man who had so upended our lives, but who in later years had such a life-altering effect on our spiritual destinies, I realized that with his life he had indeed fought the good fight and in the end won the eternal prize.
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Barron Harper (M.S. in accounting from the University of North Texas) is a US International Tax Consultant with clients in more than 20 countries. A Baha'i since 1967, he has served on local and national Baha'i institutions in the United States, Argentina and Portugal, and...
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TranSenz's Travis Interviewed in "Shiga +1" Magazine
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Thanks to an introduction from one of our friends at Artoner, Travis was interviewed by Shiga Prefecture's semi-monthly magazine "Shiga +1" (滋賀プラスワン) as one of the January/February issue's featured new residents of the prefecture. The original article is up on the Shiga Prefecture website in Japanese (and in pdf format as well), but we wanted to put up an English translation here, too.
I was really happy to have the opportunity to talk about why I love living in Shiga, since I consider this area to be one of Japan's hidden treasures. Living here, in a semi-rural setting, I'm away from the intense population density for which Japan's cities are infamous, but still have access to everything I need. Without further procrastination, here is my translation of the page header and article:
Living in Shiga
"Move to Shiga, Fall in Love."
New residents to the prefecture share their stories about what drew them to Shiga and why they enjoy living here.
"Shiga's Most Powerful Charm is the Kindness of its People":
Working to Spread the Word About Shiga and to Give Back to the Community.
Travis Senzaki
Ritsumeikan University, International Center Staff
Living in Shiga for One Year
From Massachusetts, USA. Spent a year in Yasu as an exchange student, beginning in 1999, lived in a variety of places around the world and returned to Shiga in 2011.
Performs translation and international student support.
Travis first came to Shiga as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student at age 16 and lived in Yasu for one year. His best memories of that stay are of the kindness and generosity of his host families, who made sure that he got to travel around and see Japan from many perspectives.
After that year, he lived in a number of places, including Thailand and Aomori Prefecture, but he remembered how he had enjoyed living in Shiga and how it was that experience in Shiga that made him fall in love with Japan. Even after returning to his home country, he maintained the desire to return to live in Japan again. Finally, in 2011, he returned to Shiga with his family. He notes that the fresh air, closeness of nature, and delicious local produce make it an ideal environment to raise children. But Shiga's most powerful charm is the kindness of its people. Since moving to Shiga, he has once more been impressed by the kindness of his neighbors and the whole community, who have been consistently helpful and friendly.
Travis currently works as at Ritsumeikan University, where he is responsible for translation as well as for international student support. Additionally, he serves as a consultant for TranSenz, a translation business that he established with his wife, where he works to create an English platform to promote Shiga and to make it an easier place for international residents to live. Remembering the kindness that he experienced in Shiga as an exchange student, he hopes to use each of his connections and activities to give back to the community in any small way he can.
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All rights to the original article and photo above are reserved by Shiga Prefecture's Public Affairs Office, as well as by the original author and photographer and are reproduced here for personal use as permitted under the site's policy. The translation was done by Travis, and he promises that he didn't change it (much) to make himself look better.
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#include <iostream>
#include <math.h>

#define SIZE_MATRIX_DEP 3
#define DEMIE_SIZE_MATRIX_DEP SIZE_MATRIX_DEP/2
#define PAS_DEPLACEMENT 10

extern unsigned int SizeX,SizeY;

using namespace sf;
using namespace std;

/*inline double randRange(double fMin, double fMax)
{
    return fMin + ((double)rand() / RAND_MAX)*(fMax - fMin);
};*/

inline double randMax(double fMax)
{
    return ((double)rand() / RAND_MAX)*fMax;
};

inline double rand100()
{
    return ((double)rand() / RAND_MAX)*100.0L;
};

inline double rand1()
{
    return ((double)rand() / RAND_MAX);
};
class SemieSitue;
class Reaction;

class Entity
{
    public:
        Entity(string parent="",string parent2 ="");

        inline void SetDeplacement(const unsigned int dep[SIZE_MATRIX_DEP][SIZE_MATRIX_DEP])
        {
            SumDep=0;
             memcpy(deplacement,dep,sizeof(unsigned int)*SIZE_MATRIX_DEP*SIZE_MATRIX_DEP);
             for (unsigned int i=0;i<SIZE_MATRIX_DEP;++i)
                for (unsigned int j=0;j<SIZE_MATRIX_DEP;++j)
                {
                    if (i != DEMIE_SIZE_MATRIX_DEP ||  j != DEMIE_SIZE_MATRIX_DEP)
                        SumDep+=deplacement[i][j];
                    else
                        deplacement[i][j]=0;
                    deplacementCumule[i][j]=SumDep;
                }
        };

        inline void SetDemieVie(const unsigned int dv=0){demie_vie=dv; ProbaPassage = (demie_vie<=0)?1.0L:pow(2.0,((double)demie_vie-1.0L)/((double)demie_vie))/2.0;};
        //graphic
        //inline void SetColor(const Color& c){ sprite.SetColor(c);};
        void SetImage(const string& img);
        //affichage
        inline void SetNom(const string name){nom=name;};
        inline void SetDescription(const string desc){description=desc;};
        inline int GetIndex(){return Index;};

        static int GetMaxIndex();

        inline void GetDeplacement(unsigned int d[SIZE_MATRIX_DEP][SIZE_MATRIX_DEP])
        {
            memcpy(d,deplacement,sizeof(unsigned int)*SIZE_MATRIX_DEP*SIZE_MATRIX_DEP);
        };
        inline void GetDeplacementCumule(unsigned int d[SIZE_MATRIX_DEP][SIZE_MATRIX_DEP])
        {
            memcpy(d,deplacementCumule,sizeof(unsigned int)*SIZE_MATRIX_DEP*SIZE_MATRIX_DEP);
        };

        inline unsigned int GetSumDeplacement()const{return SumDep;};
        inline unsigned int GetDemieVie()const{return demie_vie;};
        inline double GetProbaPassage()const{return ProbaPassage;};
        //graphic
        //inline const Color GetColor(){return sprite.GetColor();};
        //affichage
        inline const string GetNom()const{return nom;};
        inline const string GetDescription()const{return description;};
        inline void HaveToBeInit(){not_initialise=true;};

        inline void Draw(sf::RenderTarget* App,const unsigned int x,const unsigned int y)
        {
            if (not_initialise)
            {
                SetTexture();
            }
            sprite.setPosition(x*PAS_DEPLACEMENT,y*PAS_DEPLACEMENT);
            App->draw(sprite);
        };

        Color couleur;
        vector<Entity*> enfants;
        vector<Reaction*> Reactions;
        string* parents;

        inline bool IsOrIsParentOf(Entity* E)
        {
            if (this == E)
                return true;

            bool enfant = false;
            const unsigned int _size = enfants.size();
            for (unsigned int i=0; i<_size && !enfant;++i)
                enfant = enfants[i]->IsOrIsParentOf(E);

            return enfant;
        }
        void Write(FILE* F);

    private:
        bool not_initialise;
        double ProbaPassage;
        int Index;
        unsigned int demie_vie;
        unsigned int deplacement[SIZE_MATRIX_DEP][SIZE_MATRIX_DEP];
        unsigned int deplacementCumule[SIZE_MATRIX_DEP][SIZE_MATRIX_DEP];
        unsigned int SumDep;

        void SetTexture();

        //graphic
        Texture texture;
        Sprite sprite;
        string FileName;
        //donnée d'informations
        string nom;
        string description;
};
#endif


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.Former Ghanaian international Awudu Issaka has advised Ghanaian not to be ungrateful by calling for the heads of both Gyan and the Ayew brothers.
Some sections of Ghanaian's have called for the retirement and sacking of Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan, his deputy Andre Dede Ayew and Jordan Ayew, for not being in action for Black Stars in the world cup qualifications second leg encounter with Congo in Brazzaville.
Ex Black Stars Player Awudu Issaka has frowned at whose Ghanaian's, saying they should remember what these Players have done for the nation before and also consider the situation at which they couldn't be in action of the nation, speaking with Michael Owusu Asare(A.T de General) on LOOK Fm.
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according to sources, 10.0 has been cancelled.
Rubikon got cancelled along with the new inscription system and the gas cloud of the Rampage mode.
This is actually good news, according to Storm, the 10.0 patch was being rushed upon us with its new bugs fixed or not as well, something that he was against.
Wargaming took the wise decision to listen the community and pull back the 10.0 patch as this could have been a major flop.
However, the FV4202 replacement and the new Rampage mode will be coming as a micropatch.
- Storm's earlier statement on this topic: "We decided to release thepatch with all the emblems giving the same bonuses and introduce the full setof bonuses only later"
- Patch 10.0 cancelled? Storm: "Wait for official information"
- 75mm ARES American prototype light tank RDF/LT in WoT? "No comment"
- The leaked Korean Patton has 192mm penetration while the T95E2 and 59-Patton with the same gun have 172mm? "No comment"
- Q: "Storm, what are you doing in WG? After all War Thunder has destructable buildings!" A: "Go whine to another community, please."
- Q: "Why don't you remove Mittengard? Players presented good arguments against it." A: "Yea I remember these arguments: 'ITS SHIIIIIIIIIIT'"
- Confirmed: Chieftain will not replace FV215b - "there are other plans"


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Rich Archbold column: Tragic love story – Is…
Rich Archbold column: Tragic love story – Is the glass half full or half empty?
Dan Schuck, the author of a book on mental health at his home in Long Beach on Thursday, October. 25, 2018. (Photo by Brittany MurrayPress-Telegram/SCNG)
By Rich Archbold | rarchbold@scng.com | Press-Telegram
PUBLISHED: November 3, 2018 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: December 3, 2018 at 10:02 a.m.
In a morning ritual, Dan Schuck would place water in a glass and ask his partner, Jill Messick, whether the glass was half filled or half empty. It was their way of dealing with her mental health issues and helping both of them deal with life's challenges.
For most of his life, Schuck had been talking to people about lessons learned by discussing the age-old question about whether or not a glass is half filled or half empty. In Messick, he found a soulmate who helped him shape his ideas about "The Question."
So much so that he was preparing a homemade version of a children's book for grown-ups, "A Glass…Half Empty or Half Full" with cut-out pictures, staples, glue and drawings he created himself. As a surprise, he was going to give it to Messick as a gift on Valentine's Day.
Tragically, Messick, 50, a movie and TV executive, took her life "horribly and unexpectedly, the week before Valentine's Day," Schuck said, sending him and Messick's family and friends into shock.
Messick had been in the news earlier in connection with allegations by actress Rose McGowan that movie producer Harvey Weinstein had raped her in 1997. McGowan detailed her account of the alleged assault in her book, "Brave," which was released in January. In an email written by Messick and released by Weinstein's attorney, Messick, who was McGowan's manager at the time, said McGowan told her that getting into the hot tub with Weinstein was consensual and "that in hindsight it was also something that she regretted having done."
Messick's family called her suicide "collateral damage" in the Weinstein sex scandal. The family said Messick "chose to remain silent in the face of Rose's slanderous statements against her for fear of undermining the many individuals who came forward in truth. .. "
In a statement following Messick's suicide, McGowan wished Messick's family "solace during this pain" and added: "That one man could cause so much damage is astounding, but tragically true. The bad man did this to us both."
Schuck said the statements against Messick by McGowan devastated her and led to her suicide. "She was down, but not so much that I thought she would do what she did," Schuck said recently. He said she took her life in the patio of their home in Calabasas in the afternoon of Feb. 7.
Schuck, 49, said he first met Messick in 2013 at the Magic Castle where her aunt worked. "It was love at first sight," he said. "We both were going through divorces. During that first week, she told me she was bipolar."
Schuck is a former financial services technology executive with a degree in communications from UC San Diego. He said he was a survivor of a mental health-related tragedy in his family. His grandmother had bipolar disorder but it wasn't called that in the 1940s and 1950s when she went through shock treatment in a sanitorium, he said.
"I was so much in love with Jill," he said. "We made a good pair."
Schuck said he turned what was to be a Valentine gift to Messick into a book as "a coping mechanism" to deal with his grief and as a way to honor her memory. He said he has been careful not to exploit his relationship with Messick to sell his book.
"I've been walking a tightrope on that, but she is such a big part of my story," he said.
After Messick died, Schuck said he could no longer live in their Calabasas home and he moved to Bixby Knolls in Long Beach in June.
In addition to consulting work, he said he is working hard to make his self-published book more available to everyone.
He said his book is "the daily story of discovery, doubt, sorrow and joy we each experience as we re-learn the lessons of The Question." The illustrations feature a goldfish in a bowl.
He said his mother kept a goldfish in an old peanut butter jar by their sink when he was growing up.
"I used to think about what that little orange fish thought of the world it saw each day whirling about in the Schuck family kitchen. We're we optimistic? Pessimistic?" he said.
He said he hopes the book will make more people aware of mental health. "We talk a lot about maintaining our physical health but not so much about maintaining our mental health," he said.
What's the answer to the question, "Is the glass half full or half empty?"
There is no right or wrong answer to the question, Schuck said, but he has learned that by talking about the question he has found balance in his life. He hopes other can do the same with some help from his book. According to Schuck, the book takes a childlike approach and uses humor and his goldfish in exploring pessimism and optimism to find balance, manage stress and enjoy life. He said that sometimes life's most complicated riddles are "best explored with childlike wonder."
Schuck dedicates his book "For Jill, my soulmate, my inamorata, my teacher and my inspiration. I will love you forever. Valentine's Day, 2018."
The book is available on Amazon.com.
Rich Archbold columns
Rich Archbold | public editor
Rich Archbold is public editor of the Press-Telegram. Archbold, who arrived in Long Beach in 1978, was the longtime executive editor of the Press-Telegram and managing editor before that. He writes a weekly column and coordinates the Press-Telegram's myriad community connections.
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Q: How to convert nested JSON file into CSV using pandas The code I'm using is following.
The screenshot is an output I am getting currently. I want expand CVE_Items column as well.
import pandas as pd
    df = pd.read_json('nvdcve-1.0-modified.json')
    df.to_csv("test.csv")

Format of JSON. This is an NVD data from NVD website.
{
  "CVE_data_type" : "CVE",
  "CVE_data_format" : "MITRE",
  "CVE_data_version" : "4.0",
  "CVE_data_numberOfCVEs" : "1000",
  "CVE_data_timestamp" : "2018-04-04T00:00Z",
  "CVE_Items" : [ {
    "cve" : {
      "data_type" : "CVE",
      "data_format" : "MITRE",
      "data_version" : "4.0",
      "CVE_data_meta" : {
        "ID" : "CVE-2001-1594",
        "ASSIGNER" : "cve@mitre.org"
      },
      "affects" : {
        "vendor" : {
          "vendor_data" : [ {
            "vendor_name" : "gehealthcare",
            "product" : {
              "product_data" : [ {
                "product_name" : "entegra_p&r",
                "version" : {
                  "version_data" : [ {
                    "version_value" : "*"
                  } ]
                }
              } ]
            }
          } ]
        }
      },
      "problemtype" : {
        "problemtype_data" : [ {
          "description" : [ {
            "lang" : "en",
            "value" : "CWE-255"
          } ]
        } ]
      },
      "references" : {
        "reference_data" : [ {
          "url" : "http://apps.gehealthcare.com/servlet/ClientServlet/2263784.pdf?DOCCLASS=A&REQ=RAC&DIRECTION=2263784-100&FILENAME=2263784.pdf&FILEREV=5&DOCREV_ORG=5&SUBMIT=+ACCEPT+"
        }, {
          "url" : "http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/07/10/vulnerable-breasts/"
        }, {
          "url" : "https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSMA-18-037-02"
        }, {
          "url" : "https://twitter.com/digitalbond/status/619250429751222277"
        } ]
      },
      "description" : {
        "description_data" : [ {
          "lang" : "en",
          "value" : "GE Healthcare eNTEGRA P&R has a password of (1) entegra for the entegra user, (2) passme for the super user of the Polestar/Polestar-i Starlink 4 upgrade, (3) 0 for the entegra user of the Codonics printer FTP service, (4) eNTEGRA for the eNTEGRA P&R user account, (5) insite for the WinVNC Login, and possibly other accounts, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors.  NOTE: it is not clear whether this password is default, hardcoded, or dependent on another system or product that requires a fixed value."
        } ]
      }
    },
    "configurations" : {
      "CVE_data_version" : "4.0",
      "nodes" : [ {
        "operator" : "OR",
        "cpe" : [ {
          "vulnerable" : true,
          "cpe22Uri" : "cpe:/a:gehealthcare:entegra_p%26r",
          "cpe23Uri" : "cpe:2.3:a:gehealthcare:entegra_p\\&r:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        } ]
      } ]
    },
    "impact" : {
      "baseMetricV2" : {
        "cvssV2" : {
          "version" : "2.0",
          "vectorString" : "(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)",
          "accessVector" : "NETWORK",
          "accessComplexity" : "LOW",
          "authentication" : "NONE",
          "confidentialityImpact" : "COMPLETE",
          "integrityImpact" : "COMPLETE",
          "availabilityImpact" : "COMPLETE",
          "baseScore" : 10.0
        },
        "severity" : "HIGH",
        "exploitabilityScore" : 10.0,
        "impactScore" : 10.0,
        "obtainAllPrivilege" : false,
        "obtainUserPrivilege" : false,
        "obtainOtherPrivilege" : false,
        "userInteractionRequired" : false
      }
    },
    "publishedDate" : "2015-08-04T14:59Z",
    "lastModifiedDate" : "2018-03-28T01:29Z"
  }, {
    "cve" : {
      "data_type" : "CVE",
      "data_format" : "MITRE",
      "data_version" : "4.0",
      "CVE_data_meta" : {
        "ID" : "CVE-2002-2446",
        "ASSIGNER" : "cve@mitre.org"
      },
      "affects" : {
        "vendor" : {
          "vendor_data" : [ {
            "vendor_name" : "gehealthcare",
            "product" : {
              "product_data" : [ {
                "product_name" : "millennium_mg_firmware",
                "version" : {
                  "version_data" : [ {
                    "version_value" : "-"
                  } ]
                }
              }

So I want to convert nested JSON into CSV where even nested columns will be part of CSV columns not as a JSON.
Output of script:

A: You should use json_normalize.
import pandas as pd
from pandas.io.json import json_normalize
import json

with open('nvdcve-1.0-modified.json') as file:
    data = json.load(file)

df = json_normalize(data, 'CVE_Items', ['CVE_data_type', 'CVE_data_format', 'CVE_data_version', 'CVE_data_numberOfCVEs', 'CVE_data_timestamp'])

This will flatten the first level of nesting of CVE_Items. You will probably need to repeat this process to flatten some or all of the resulting columns as well, depending on how you want the final output to be.
For more details, refer to the documentation: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/generated/pandas.io.json.json_normalize.html
This blog post can also be helpful:
https://mindtrove.info/flatten-nested-json-with-pandas

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Spouses in the process of divorce are strongly advised to think twice before posting on social media accounts, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram—the list goes on. While entertaining, social media content simultaneously serves as legal evidence during divorce proceedings, evidence that is capable of spurring a frenzy in the courtroom.
When in doubt about your social profiles, speak with your attorney.
Reason #1: Deleting social media accounts, messages or images can be misconstrued in a court of law as spoliation (the legal term for deleting evidence). As mentioned, social media contents are considered legal evidence during a litigation.
Reason #2: You may wish to delete the photo of you with disheveled hair and a frown. If you delete it, the opposing side can claim you were intoxicated instead of just having a less than stellar hair day.
Digital forensics is capable of uncovering even deleted data. When in doubt about your social profiles, speak with your attorney.
If you must post on social media during divorce proceedings, do not post illegal, immoral or disparaging comments or photos. Posts depicting you gambling, drinking or smoking marijuana, for instance, will be used against you in court.
Posts showing excessive partying or drinking can lead the judge or opposing counsel to assume you are disinclined to be a responsible parent. Such posts can sway the judge into giving you less time with your children.
Only positive and truthful social media posts are advised if you must post at all during the midst of a divorce. Staying positive on social media includes refraining from posting any negative comments about your soon-to-be ex, his or her lawyers, mediators, evaluators and especially the judge.
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On social media, do not stage photos. For instance, you may want to demonstrate your attentiveness as a parent. You may snap and post a photo of you at your child's football game, only to leave a minute later. Witnesses will set the story straight. Instantly, your child custody battle is severely weakened.
Everything you do or say on social media will be uncovered by opposing lawyers, the divorcing spouse and his or her friends and family. This evidence more often than not will be used against you in court.
Since social media reflects who you are at any given time, keep this fact in mind during your divorce trial. Think twice about constantly complaining about single parental obligations on social media. Doing so is likely to hurt you when child custody issues arise.
If you recently purchased a shiny new Ford truck or a vacation home in San Juan, don't brag. Photos of luxuries will work against you when alimony or child support come up. Rather, during a litigation, paint a realistic picture of your finances.
Even if you believe your case is handled wrongly, do not discuss the trial online. Appeals are available for a brief span after the ruling. Rather than vent on social media, discuss concerns with your attorney.
During the divorce proceedings, you may start dating. Posting photos of a new romantic interest can be twisted by the opposing counsel. Your ex may claim adultery. As a consequence, spousal support may be irreversibly barred.
Equally important is to not post intimate photos. Possible incarceration, awards for financial damage or the loss of one's job may result from posting intimate photos to scandalous sites without the other party's consent or knowledge.
During a divorce trial, set social media privacy settings to the highest level. Privacy settings do not preclude social media users' content from being found. Being tagged in photos or mutual friends can leak damaging information. Plus, certain social media platforms arbitrarily change privacy settings.
Social media users can protect themselves to an extent when involved in a divorce trial. Ask trusted friends to keep an eye out for content that may be harmful to your case. If disparaging details are floating around, seek the advice of your lawyer.
During a divorce, your reputation is thoroughly scrutinized. Social media plays a substantial part in deciphering your character—though it is rarely the single source for information.
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In life we will experience many situation that will make us feel like is all done and said and perhaps discouraged, but is right at that time that we have to sit back and take a look at how far we've made it decide to try again. We still have a chance with humanity and with everything we set ourselves to do.
We have to disconnect from what we want to connect to what we need, freedom in spirit, love, peace, personal relationship, connections and communications.


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Have I missed some seismic shift in the entertainment world. TV has suddenly created millions of voyeurs. Poor old Mary Whitehouse turning in her grave.
I presume its shown after the watershed so does that mean its ok to walk naked around the streets after 9pm?
Cannot believe our nation has sunk so low.
Had to laugh at your title for this thread because that's about exactly what I thought when I watched it Fish ha. Only once that was enough but yes I just don't know how they're getting away with it. Really TV dregs not nice at all!!
Wow ! What have I missed, what time and what channel ?
Are you saying you have not had a TV for 30 yrs. therefore, you haven't watched TV for 30 yrs in your own home.?
Well, you shouldn't have bothered now. It's the biggest load of shite since TV was invented. Not even worth the electricity any longer apart from the odd documentary or wildlife programme.
I don't even know which channel or programme you are talking about. Lollipop obviously does though.
Channel 4.....as cools has posted it just above me.
I think TV is worth it for RT and Al Jazeera alone - and as you say, wildlife stuff .--- Oh, and the travel channel for 'Shed and Buried' a bike and car restoration prog that keeps OH out of my way for hours!
Hi Granny. Its actually a tadge over 30 years. left home and rented a house which didn't have one, got married and missus was happy not having one. Kids grew up on video and dvds so they didn't feel too different at school.. Bit of a novelty when stay in hotels or caravans on holiday. As you say so much *rap on it. If there was something I really wanted to see .like a cup final or footy match I would just visit parents.
The internet took its place and that has plenty of *rap on it as well. At my current address I have 6 years worth of letters from TV Licensing threatening to take me to court for no TV licence. Not going to tell them as it helps keep Postman employed.
Even News At Ten are getting in on the naked action.
Isn't this the same as 'Reality TV'?
I've seen neither, but it is my understanding that Reality TV shows belted out by BBC and ITV are just screwing shows. Perhaps I've got it wrong though.


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Nell Leyshon talks about her new play, FOLK, her fascination with source singers, Louie Hooper and Lucy White, and the difficulties inherent in bringing Cecil Sharp to life on stage.
In the summer of 2021, my dyed-in-the-wool folkie uncle (everyone should have one) sent me a link to a new radio play called FOLK. Written by the playwright and novelist, Nell Leyshon, the piece looked at the relationship between controversial folksong collector, Cecil Sharp, and two of the women he collected from – Louie Hooper and Lucy White. I put my earbuds in, whistled for the dog and set off for a memorable stroll across the North Wessex Downs.
As Nell Leyshon explains in this interview, summing up a play of this nature can't really be done in a few pithy sentences. The inner world of Louie Hooper is a complex place, and Leyshon explores it with a poignancy that touches on a kind of pastoral magic realism, imagining Hooper's repertoire of traditional songs as living things that evolved with the land. Similarly complex is Cecil Sharp himself – a man driven by a need to prove himself against a cultural landscape in which he had so far failed, subsequently given to perhaps claiming more credit than he was due. And, of course, wherever Cecil Sharp goes, whispers of nationalist leanings soon follow. Finding space for all of this in a 90-minute radio play was no mean feat, but Leyshon managed something that most writers long to do: her work lingered. It profoundly altered my mood, and I found myself thinking about it for days afterwards.
This week I was reminded of FOLK when I found an article written by Leyshon on the Guardian website. I was pleased to see that the play had moved to the stage, where it had originally been heading until the pandemic had its way, and had now taken up residence at Hampstead Theatre, where the production, directed by Roxana Silbert, runs until February 5th. Fascinated to find out more about this story, I quickly found Nell Leyshon on Twitter and asked if she fancied a Zoom chat. She responded within minutes and, less than a day later, the following conversation occurred.
Let's start by sumarising the play for readers who know very little about it. Can you do that?
It's an exploration of folksong collecting down in Somerset, but it's from the point of view of the two sisters, Louie Hooper and Lucy White, but particularly Louie. The two sisters' mother has just died, and in the middle of their grief, a visitor comes, and that's Cecil Sharp collecting folk songs.
Very brief. Very good!
[Laughs] The trouble is, you either do brief or you spend ten years writing a play, and there's nothing in between. It's the hardest thing I've ever written because you have to please the people on the Sharp side and people on the Louie side. To get it right for both of those, that was what was really tough.
And have you had responses from either side of your audience?
They both seem to really like it. It was a tightrope walk, and hopefully I got it right.
You were keen to point out before we started recording this interview that you're not a folk expert. Did you grow up with any interest in traditional music? Was it around you at all?
I've always been interested in traditional craft. My brother was a thatcher, and we moved to this farming village on the edge of the Somerset Levels. But all the songs had gone, so Cecil Sharp was right. There wasn't one left. When we moved, it was just at the end of the traditional harvest, so we joined in. And I don't remember any singing. It was all radios and tractors, and the songs had gone. So, I didn't have a particular interest in folk music, but I really love it. I'm fascinated by the difference between orality and literacy.
Orality and literacy?
Yeah, really interesting subject matter. I did a very big work project – I wrote a play for Theatre Newfoundland, and I went over to Newfoundland five times, and I met a singer called Stephanie Payne. Very modest, and I think she knew 200 songs off by heart. I don't even know if she's done anything with them. It was incredible. I remember being really struck by the thought, "What does it feel like to have that in your body?" I don't have that in my own mind. I don't have access to reams of quotations or songs. You become your own expert, don't you? Your own entertainment machine.
Yes. I talk to quite a lot of people who make it their business to have these vast traditional repertoires. There are two ways that they seem to come into existence. Some people consciously think, "I'm going to sit down and learn that many songs". And then you have the likes of Louie Hooper, certainly in your portrayal of her, who was more sponge-like and just sucked them in.
"Catching songs", she called it. It's beautiful, isn't it?
It really is. My friend, Jackie Oates, the traditional singer, seems to be very like that. She just seems to sponge them all up and suck them all in. And they're just there. She's like a walking tradfolk jukebox.
It's such an amazing thing. I run The Outsiders Project, working with very marginalised, unheard voices, and I work with a guy who composes orally, so he never writes it down. And he has instant access – instant recall to all of his pieces at any one time. He never puts them on paper. The only time they're put on paper is if I write them down. And that's where my interest gets really piqued. So, it would be disingenuous if I said, "Oh, I've always been a folk music fan." But that doesn't mean I don't love it, and I don't really appreciate it.
WHO WAS LOUIE HOOPER?
Louie Hooper was born in 1860 and baptised at Hambridge Church, Somerset. A "collar worker" by the age of 10, and a "buttonhole worker" by 21, she was known locally for the songs she sang while working. Said to have around 200 songs in her repertoire, she sang to Cecil Sharp in 1903 when she was 43. Sharp collected 33 songs from Hooper and her half-sister, Lucy White, 27 of which came from Hooper alone. Songs including 'Henry Martin' and 'The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell' were published in Sharp's book, "Folk Songs from Somerset". Sharp inscribed the sisters' copy with the words, "exchange is no robbery". Louie Hooper was recorded by the BBC in 1942. She died in 1946.
How did you come across Louie Hooper and Lucy White, the two source singers at the centre of the play?
It was at an exhibition at the Somerst Rural Life Museum. I went to that exhibition and I saw the photo of John England [the man who Cecil Sharp overheard singing 'The Seeds of Love']. Even I'd heard of him. Then I saw Oliver Shutler [another of the source singers who sang for Sharp], a stone breaker from my village, and I thought, "Oh, my goodness. This is really incredible. Sharp was collecting where I'm from."
And then it was just this weird thing. I saw these two women. It must have said how many songs Sharp had collected from them. And I realised they were the main women that he'd collected from in Hambridge, which is where a friend of ours had lived. I used to go there and it was just… wow. All of this is in front of me.
And then my sister gave me this. [Nell holds up an old envelope with Oliver Shutler's name on it.] This was an empty envelope that had been passed to my sister, who gave it to me. So Oliver Shutler, in fact, actually lived next-door-but-two from our house, and that was where Sharp had collected the song, 'The True Lovers' Farewell'. And that's the song that finishes the play.
I knew instantly that I should write this play when I was in the exhibition. You know, when an idea comes, it just goes off in your head like a firework. And then it was a question of doing a little bit of research. There was definitely something there.
So, that sense of place was vital?
Yeah, completely. Absolutely. We moved there when I was 11, so I was there for all my formative years, formed in Glastonbury and then in this village, and it's that rootedness to the actual land and the shape of the land which is in the play as well.
I know quite a lot of people in the traditional folk world that came to it for similar reasons – that sense of place, that affirmation of who you are and where you come from. For me, I sing traditional songs from the Midlands, which is where I'm from, because I find they connect me in a way that nothing else ever has before.
So, you're singing your identity, aren't you?
I suppose, in a sense, I am.
It does feel that way. There's a scene in the play where Louie walks in the field, and she's teaching Cecil Sharp how he should sing the songs. Not how he sang it, but how he really should sing it. She actually ties the song to the land, into the location where she is, and that's her identity as well – where she is.
The song and the land are one.
That part of the play really resonated strongly with me – that she ties the songs to the land, making the land and the songs inseparable. I found that really profound, really beautiful. I wanted to ask you about that – about whether that was something you found in your research, or something that you imagined for the Louie character.
I made it up. What was so interesting about writing this play is that I did too much research. I had to learn in order to write: I had to learn about folk music, I had to learn about classical music. I had to understand the differences. I'm not musical in any way. I have no musical background. So I had to learn these two worlds.
And then I saw a guy on Twitter saying, "No! The two sisters liked Sharp!" Yeah, I know they did. The problem was that I had to find out the facts and then, having found the facts, I needed to change them to make a good play. And that is really challenging because, for someone like me who would actually be mortified if I got something so wrong, if I'd upset people in the folk world, I would be really upset. And I really wanted to honour what you love about those folk songs. So I was scared all the time. But, essentially, if you look at anything that's been made about Cecil Sharp before, it's actually quite boring because what he did was he went to the village, and then he went to house one, house two, house three, house four, house five… and he did 10 houses in a day. That doesn't make a play. It's really boring. That's what we call an episodic drama, and it just doesn't work. So, you have to actually make a decision, right? And obviously, in order for me to explore some of the things I wanted to explore, I had to sort of sit with Louie and Lucy. So, I do know that they were really happy he collected the songs at the time.
The appropriation, in a way, is me thinking about life now and appropriation now and going backwards. So, all of that goes back to what you were saying about the scene in the field. That was an act of imagination for me. And I was slightly worried about that as well, because I thought, "What if the folk people ask, 'Where does that come from?'" But, sometimes you just make things up and you just have to go with it because that's creativity. And for me, there was something truthful about that. So, if I feel that it's truthful, then I have to go with it.
I read a book last year, a novel called The Song Collector by Natasha Solomons. It comes from a similar world. It's to do with a kind of gentrified song collector in Edwardian times collecting songs in the West Country, and it's clear who it's modelled on. There's a similarity in the way that the author has imagined, quite rightly I think, that the people who sang these songs felt a strong connection between the songs and the land. Those songs were intrinsically part of rural life and they evolved with the seasons. You only have to listen to Frost and Fire, the album of ritual songs by The Watersons, to hear that these traditional songs were spokes in the wheel of the year.
Absolutely. Do you know about the Aboriginal songlines in Australia?
They're really extraordinary things. They're songs and stories, and the indigenous people use them as maps and instructions on how to cross Australia; how to survive in the wilderness. I'm re-reading The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, this amazing book that I read when I was about 25 or 26. So, here's a section where they're talking about these songlines: "'Yes', said Mrs. Lacey, sighing with satisfaction. 'The song and the land are one.'"
I read that when I was young and I was really taken with it. I probably took that idea in somewhere. Writers are terrible magpies. We haul up little ideas and they cook like a cauldron and then something spills out eventually.
I think it's spot on, and I think it has relevance now, with so many people looking for a more organic, less digital way of life.
I agree with you. I think people have become dislocated from something very essential. I've been doing a lot of thinking about that recently.
I've been writing a lot about wassailing, so it has been at the forefront of my mind.
Oh, people are wassailing all over the place! That's connecting songs to the land, through the trees. That's in the second play I wrote, Comfort Me With Apples. It's all about apple orchards, cider, and wassailing. That was back in 2005, I think.
Returning to your current play, obviously there's a difficult theme at the centre of it all which could perhaps be summed up with the question, "What to do about Cecil?"
[Laughs] Yes. What to do about C. Sharp?
He is a really difficult historical figure, isn't he? He has been accused of publishing some of the songs under his own name, and it has been said that he wouldn't collect from people of colour. On the other hand, without him, we wouldn't have many of the songs that we love so dearly.
I wouldn't have been able to write the play without him. There was a double challenge. There were the points that you've just summed up perfectly, and there was the point about nationalism and how we express our love for our country without becoming nationalistic. And in the end it seemed that if I could succeed in showing a balanced view of Cecil Sharp, accepting the fact that yes he took and pinned down the songs, but he also saved them, then I could show a way of saying through my characters' voices, yes, I do love my country, but it's not straightforward.
It's a really tough one, isn't it? If you take the countries neighbouring England, each with their strong folk traditions and sense of identity, they don't appear to have this difficulty.
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No, and Sharp said that, too. It's in the play. He said, "We English are very bad at saying how much we love our own country." And, at the moment, we're asking some very deep questions about what it is to be English, and what it is to have an identity within a multicultural country as well.
I recommend that you seek out the work of Angeline Morrison, who is using her music to look at the way in which the black experience in the UK seems to have been excluded from our singing tradition. She's releasing an album called The Sorrow Songs which aims to right that wrong.
That's really brilliant. I don't know if you've seen the photographs from the stage version of FOLK. The two sisters are played by women of colour: Sasha Frost and Mariam Haque.
Yes, I did see that. I was going to ask about that.
Well, it's a play, clearly, about identity and Englishness, and I wanted it to be relevant. There were some conversations around that, but if you're putting on a play in London and you only have an all-white cast, that's not reflecting London. So, it was quite a simple decision, actually. Amazingly, Mariam, who plays Louie, had been singing folk songs all the way through lockdown. She had been singing all these traditional folk songs and had become obsessed with folk singing, and then this play landed on her desk.
That's extraordinary.
Isn't it? You should interview them both. They're really brilliant.
Sasha Frost as Lucy White, and Mariam Haque as Louie Hooper, in Nell Leyshon's FOLK. Picture credit: Robert Day
I shall try to. In the meantime, back to Cecil Sharp.
Oh yes. "What to do about Cecil?" Well, I think we say he was a man of his time. My hypothesis is that he was 41, he was unbearably ambitious, he was so driven. He wanted to be a famous composer and it wasn't going to happen. He didn't have the talent for it. So, once he found folksong collecting, he put all of his drive and ambition into that. And he became very overbearing with it and became the very controlling expert.
When I first thought that that was the case, after reading extensively about him at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, I checked with Malcolm Taylor who used to be the librarian there. Malcolm said, "Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's about right." So I kind of went with that.
My job as a writer is to try and understand what a character's motivation is. So, my job didn't feel like it was to really judge him. I think it would have been too simplistic. You could so easily bring someone down like that. You can just say, "Oh, yeah, he was a terrible man." And the reason that we can't is that we wouldn't have all those songs.
Do you believe that that's the case, that the songs would've been lost without him?
I do. They were gone from my village. The Industrial Revolution really finished in the 20th century, didn't it? That was the tail end of it. The songs had gone. There were other collectors who collected songs, sure, but nobody else collected like he did. I think a lot of those songs would have gone. Correct me if you think I'm wrong.
I agree with you, to an extent. I have this romantic sense that traditional music and traditions will always find a way, but I doubt they would've found a way in such volume had it not been for Sharp and his contemporaries.
I think the trouble was that the world changed so fast. If the world hadn't changed so quickly, maybe those songs would have stayed around a bit more.
I had a conversation with somebody recently who was of the opinion that Cecil Sharp House should change its name because Cecil Sharp ought to be cancelled. They felt that EFDSS should no longer be associated with what they believed were the unpleasant aspects of the man.
I didn't come across anything damning enough to say that. I had a really interesting email from David Sutcliffe. He's a historian who actually moved into the Reverend Charles Marson's old house in Hambridge. David wrote a book about Marson, and he did a huge amount of research. So, as part of my research, I read this book and I got in touch with him because originally Marson was a character in the play. (I've done so many different rewrites of it.) I got back in touch with him when I started working on the play again, and he had taken over the work of CJ Bearman, a defender of Sharp. Bearman did a big PhD on Sharp and actually proved that some of the theories put forward by Dave Harker [author of Fakesong, published in 1985, and vehement critic of Sharp] were too extreme. Bearman was trying to bring balance back. He died quite unexpectedly and David Sutcliffe took over his research. He's writing a new biography of Cecil Sharp.
That sounds very interesting.
Now, Malcolm Taylor told me that he thinks it's really good, and there's some really good work in it. David has been an amazing person for me. He reads everything to make sure I haven't made any terrible mistakes. He's brilliant, actually, as was Malcolm. As I say, he sent me a really interesting email two days ago defending Sharp and saying he wasn't quite as misogynist as people say, and he certainly wasn't as much of a racist as people say. When his book comes out, David may actually be able to put some of that to bed. What I'm trying to say is that I didn't find anything bad enough for him to be cancelled.
Our views on cultural appropriation have developed and changed. We really know, now, about who can tell which stories and when they should shut up and someone else should speak. There are a few people around who still haven't got that, but a lot of people have understood that, I think.
The play is running at Hampstead Theatre until February 5th. Are there any plans for it afterwards?
Well, the reviews have been amazing, but it's really not my decision. I just have to kind of wait and see. It's very early days. The press night was two days ago, so we're still just getting all the reviews through. Fingers crossed.
For more information on FOLK, head to hampsteadtheatre.com. To find out more about the playwright herself, head to nellleyshon.com.
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Liseberg has invested significantly over the course of the past six years, spending €120m on new additions to the park to combat declining visitor numbers.
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(JustPatriots.com)- The White House announced on Tuesday that President Joe Biden has officially nominated former Republican Senator for Arizona, Jeff Flake, to be the new ambassador for Turkey.
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In a Medium post, former Senator Flake said that he is "honored and humbled" by the trust President Biden has placed in him. He expressed the "strategic importance" of maintaining a good relationship with Turkey, and described the position as a "pivotal post" during an important time for the two countries.
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Vitamin D is often referred to as "the sunshine vitamin" because it naturally occurs when the skin comes into contact with the sun's ultraviolet B (UVB) rays. Due to the lack of strong UVB rays in the UK during the winter months, it can be a prevalent time for vitamin D deficiencies.
Vitamin D can be naturally found in a number of foods, including oily fish such as salmon, egg yolks and some fortified foods.
However, for people who cannot get enough vitamin D in their diet, supplements are another option.
Though supplements can be an easy way to boost your intake, it is important you do not take too many.
Taking too much vitamin D can come with a number of uncomfortable side effects and may even encourage more long-term risks.
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Studies have shown that this can often occur in children.
A case study conducted in 2014 found that a boy developed stomach pain and constipation after taking improperly labelled vitamin D supplements.
In 2016, a second study found that a child aged 18 months also developed diarrhoea and stomach pain when taking 50,000 IU of vitamin D. These symptoms soon stopped once the child stopped taking supplements.
In some cases, the rise in blood calcium levels can also induce nausea and vomiting.
How much vitamin D is recommended?
According to the NHS: "Children from the age of 1 year and adults need 10 micrograms of vitamin D a day. This includes pregnant and breastfeeding women and people at risk of vitamin D deficiency."
The health service adds that babies up to the age of one year need between 8.5 and 10 micrograms of Vitamin D.
The NHS states: "A microgram is 1,000 times smaller than a milligram (mg). The word microgram is sometimes written with the Greek symbol μ followed by the letter g (μg).
"Sometimes the amount of vitamin D is expressed as International Units (IU). 1 microgram of vitamin D is equal to 40 IU. So 10 micrograms of vitamin D is equal to 400 IU."
What are the long-term risks of taking too much vitamin D?
As well as short term symptoms, taking too much vitamin D can also lead to more long-term risks.
The NHS states: "Taking too many vitamin D supplements over a long period of time can cause too much calcium to build up in the body (hypercalcaemia).
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People are advised to talk to their doctor before taking supplements, just in case they have a medical condition which means they cannot have as much vitamin D.
The NHS adds: "You cannot overdose on vitamin D through exposure to sunlight. But always remember to cover up or protect your skin if you're out in the sun for long periods to reduce the risk of skin damage and skin cancer."
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			}

			if (oObjStatus.getIcon()) {
				oRm.write("");
				oRm.renderControl(oObjStatus._getImageControl());
				oRm.write("");
			}

			if (oObjStatus.getText()) {
				oRm.write("");
				oRm.writeEscaped(oObjStatus.getText());
				oRm.write("");
			}

			/* ARIA adding hidden node in span element */
			if (sState != sap.ui.core.ValueState.None) {
				oRm.write("");
				oRm.writeEscaped(ValueStateSupport.getAdditionalText(sState));
				oRm.write("");
			}

			oRm.write("
");
		}
	};

	return ObjectStatusRenderer;

}, /* bExport= */ true);