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How COVID-19 Affected Bankruptcy Filings In Massachusetts in 2020
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| April 04, 2021
Here's how the pandemic affected bankruptcies in Middlesex County. Experts warn of a likely surge in coming years.
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HOLLISTON-HOPKINTON, MA — The coronavirus pandemic has caused sharp swings in the economy over the past year, thrusting many businesses and families into economic uncertainty and in some cases outright collapse. Even so, the number of national bankruptcies filed in 2020 was the lowest since 1986 and nearly 30 percent lower than in 2019.
But many experts expect bankruptcies to increase in the coming years. The federal court system was closed near the beginning of the pandemic, which delayed filings for months. Moreover, bankruptcies also tend to be "lagging indicators" of economic distress because of the complex legal process involved; the Great Recession began in 2007 but bankruptcies didn't peak until 2010.
"You see these businesses that ultimately go bankrupt were probably in trouble six months or eight months or a year before they file for bankruptcy," said Fred McKinney, director of the People's United Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
Nationally, all types of bankruptcy filings decreased in 2020 except for Chapter 11, which saw an increase of 18.7 percent compared with 2019. Chapter 11 is typically used by businesses that hope to stay in business by renegotiating their debt. Several large iconic companies including J.C. Penney and Neiman Marcus declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020.
Across Massachusetts, 4,427 total bankruptcies were filed in 2020 — 41.84 percent fewer than in 2019, when 7,612 were filed.
And in Middlesex County, 633 total bankruptcies were filed in 2020 compared with 1,116 in 2019, according to the U.S. Courts Administrative Office.
Businesses accounted for around 4 percent of all bankruptcies in the U.S. during 2020, but they can have a large effect on the economy as locations are shuttered and employees are laid off.
Businesses tend to be dependent on each other, and there can be an economic ripple effect that takes years to play out, said Neil Peretz, an attorney with more than 15 years of experience litigating bankruptcy cases in the public and private sectors. Peretz represented public interests in large bankruptcy cases as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice during the Great Recession.
"Each entity in the economic food chain is trying to hang on a little bit longer," said Peretz, who now runs a company called Proxifile that helps small creditors negotiate the bankruptcy process when larger businesses fail. "Not everything can cease instantly and people are still trying to sort that out."
Business bankruptcies in Middlesex County
Business bankruptcies in Middlesex County decreased last year: 70 business bankruptcies were filed in 2020 compared with 92 in 2019.
There were 52 business bankruptcies under Chapter 7, commonly referred to as liquidation bankruptcies, in Middlesex County during 2020. That's a decrease from 2019, when 70 businesses filed under Chapter 7.
All non-exempt property is sold during a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which can be used by both businesses and individuals.
Middlesex County had 17 Chapter 11 bankruptcies filed in 2020 compared with 14 in 2019.
Non-business bankruptcies in Middlesex County
There were 563 non-business bankruptcy filings in 2020 compared with 1,024 in 2019.
Middlesex County had 422 non-business Chapter 7 filings in 2020 and 673 in 2019.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings, also known as "wage earner's plans," saw a decrease in Middlesex County in 2020 compared with 2019. There were 137 filed in 2020 and 344 filed in 2019.
Chapter 13 is typically used by people with a regular income to reorganize and pay off debts over time. It gives an opportunity for people to keep their homes.
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Azerbaijan improves its position in world passports ranking
Azerbaijan improves its position in world passports ranking Azerbaijani citizens can visit 66 countries without visa
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Baku. 5 September. REPORT.AZ / Henley & Partners has published a rating of passports, which demonstrates the degree of freedom of citizens' movement from different countries.
Report informs that the Azerbaijani passport ranking 72nd gives the right to visit 66 countries without a visa. The Azerbaijani passport ranked 74th in company's previous ranking. This means that the Azerbaijani passport has improved its positions by two points.
Singapore and Japan topped the ranking in 2018 with their citizens able to visit 189 countries without a visa. Germany ranked second with 188 countries. The third place in the list was shared by seven countries: Denmark, Sweden, Italy, South Korea, Spain, France, Finland, whose citizens have the right of visa-free entry to 187 countries.
The passport index, formerly known as the Visa Restrictions Index, has been compiled since 2006 by Switzerland's Henley & Partners in cooperation with the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
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Russian version Азербайджан улучшил свои позиции в мировом рейтинге паспортов


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MARGOT LEVERET (Composer / Musician) Margot Leverett is one of the foremost of the new generation of klezmer clarinetists. Classically trained at Indiana University School of Music, she was involved in avant-garde music when she first heard klezmer, the dynamic East European music traditionally played at Jewish weddings. Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 and Mikveh in 1999. Her solo CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," was released in 2001 on Traditional Crossroads (CD4296) to glowing reviews. Her new band, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, has just released a CD by the same name, a startling fusion of klezmer and bluegrass.
LAURA LIBEN (Composer / Musician) Laura Liben plays with and composes for Gamelan Son of Lion, a new music percussion ensemble based in NYC, with whom she went on tour to Estonia this summer. She is also a musician with The Actor's Shakespeare Company in Hoboken, NJ. Her piece "She Herself Alone" written for toy piano and psaltery was performed in 2003 by Margaret Leng Tan at music festivals in France, Australia and Woodstock, NY. Laura is a long time music teacher and teaching artist with children in both public and private school settings.
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One of the worst camping trips I have ever had. The park is not mowed and very dry. The Rangers spend more time watering trees with a bucket then grooming the park for a holiday weekend. I purchased a full hook up site went to hook up my sewer saw that there sewer was plugged. I hunted down the Park Ranger and told her about it, she responded with oh ya that site is all messed up its been plugged up for a long time, just dump my sewer when I leave. I beleave they should have emailed me about the problem or at least tell me when I got to the park.
Great place to camp. The tent sites are at the river edge. This is close to the train tracks, but I certainly did not have a problem sleeping as there were not a lot of trains. The view of the area and the river was just delightful. Hosts were pleasant and cost was $19 per night. I will stop by again.
Memaloose is a good size rv state park. The only issue for some will be the proximity of the highway to your site. We were on the south that is closest to the highway. The noise is not too bad just present. There are 4 park hosts so one is always on duty. This park is dog friendly. There is ample area to let you dog get a bit of exercise if you are careful and you dog is obedient. Sites are tarmac and good sized with about 20 feet separation. We booked for 2 nights and stayed for 4. Ice is available on site for $2.00.


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In 1998, a year after a tragic event, a group of friends in Greenhill, Connecticut struggle to move on. Embracing high school & preparing for adulthood, lies will be exposed about what happened the summer of 97'. While facing the reality of loss & death, they will realize that anything can happen — Changing the moments of their lives forever.
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Since I was a child, I have been fascinated with film and television. The television screen would captivate me for countless hours. Eventually, I taught myself how to write screenplays when I was old enough. Over the last 11 years, I have written various genres. Through my traumatic childhood, writing was my only escape. In the end, it saved my life. That's why I created Greeneland Productions. To give myself and others like me the platform they deserve to express themselves with their art and hopefully connect with other local artists.
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EVENT VIDEO. Russia's New Tools of Influence in Africa
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Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Seminar, a forum co-hosted by the Harriman Institute and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
Over recent years, Russia has played an increasingly active role in influencing the domestic politics of African countries, including Central African Republic, Madagascar and Libya. Russia's influence activities have grown in their intensity and range, from mounting online social media campaigns, to soliciting economic contracts and even conducting security operations. This new range of activities raises a number of issues. What is the relationship between groups conducting influence operations and the Russian state in contemporary Africa? Should they be considered part of Russia's foreign policy and, if so, what are Russia's goals and interests on the continent? What actually distinguishes Russia's use of social media actors and private security companies from Western actors that also employ them? And what are the practical difficulties in covering and attributing such activities? This distinguished panel of scholars and journalists will share their experiences and insights about Russia's new toolkit of influence in Africa.
This event is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Roman Badanin, editor-in-chief of the investigative media outlet Proekt
Shelby Grossman, Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory
Kimberly Marten, Professor & Chair of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University
Khadeja Ramali, independent social data analyst and researcher
Alexander Cooley, Director of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Joshua Tucker, Director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University
BIOGRAPHIES & PUBLICATIONS
Roman Badanin is editor-in-chief of the investigative media outlet Proekt and former editor-in-chief of TV Rain, one of Russia's few independent news outlets in Russia. Badanin, who began his journalistic career in 1996 at Izvestiya, has since edited several media projects, such as RBC, Gazeta.ru, and Forbes Russia.
Shelby Grossman is a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. Her primary research interests are in online political disinformation, the political economy of development, and Africa. Her articles appear in Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, World Development, and World Politics. She was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis from 2017-2019, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from 2016-2017. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University in 2016.
"Evidence of Russia-Linked Influence Operations in Africa," Stanford Internet Observatory, October 30, 2019.
Kimberly Marten is a professor of political science (and the department chair) at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a faculty member of both Columbia's Harriman Institute and its Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies. She has written four books: Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States (Cornell, 2012); Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past (Columbia, 2004); Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest: Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia (Columbia, 1997); and Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation (Princeton, 1993), which received the Marshall Shulman Prize. The Council on Foreign Relations published her special report, Reducing Tensions between Russia and NATO (2017). In addition to her numerous academic journal articles, her policy pieces have appeared in the Washington Quarterly, ForeignAffairs.com, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and the New Republic. She is a frequent media commentator, and appeared on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart. She earned her A.B. at Harvard and Ph.D. at Stanford. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and is a founding member of PONARS-Eurasia.
"Russia's use of semi-state security forces: the case of the Wagner Group," Post-Soviet Affairs, 35:3, 181-204 (2019).
"Russia's Back in Africa: Is the Cold War Returning?," The Washington Quarterly, 42:4, 155-170 (2019).
"Russ-Afrique? Russia, France, and the Central African Republic," PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo 608, August 2019.
"Into Africa: Prigozhin, Wagner, and the Russian Military," PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo 561, January 2019.
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Christmas Day Basketball Jerseys Are Gone But Will Never Be Forgotten
BySean Malcolm
Close up of the original Christmas jerseys that debuted in 2008. (Image via Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty)
It all started with a snowflake on Christmas in 2008. Scheduling a slate of five games throughout that day for the first time ever, the NBA showcased their best and brightest stars on the hardwood, all donning jerseys with a simple white ice crystal design surrounding their iconic logo. Before then, the NBA only featured one or two games on Christmas, a practice that started in 1947. The teams involved would wear their usual uniforms with no nod to the holiday. But that changed in 2008, when an understated snowflake design first appeared on the upper left chest of the jerseys of the teams playing. And just in case the snowflakes were too subtle, the NBA also scheduled one game that year where opposing teams wore hallmark Christmas hues of green or red as part of their uniforms.
That was the standard holiday attire until 2012, when the league and its then-uniform partner, Adidas, took a dramatic approach to Christmas jerseys, spearheading the "Big Color" campaign. Sans snowflakes, 10 teams sported monochromatic versions of their unis that year. Bold, garish, and hard to read with tonal lettering, they were eyesores on HDTVs across the country. But those 2012 uniforms marked a significant change in how the league differentiated franchises worthy of balling in the Yuletide games.
"[The NBA] decided to introduce new Christmas designs as a merchandising gimmick," explained Paul Lukas of Uni Watch. "New uniforms on the court, new product to sell at retail."
The now infamous sleeved jerseys that were debuted on December 25, 2013. (Image via Stephen Dunn/Getty)
Every Christmas Day since 2012, Adidas tried out new jersey designs in hopes of securing the bag and finding something that resonated with fans. In 2013, superstars like Kevin Durant, then an Oklahoma City Thunder player, and James Harden of the Houston Rockets, wore sleeved jerseys with big team logos on the chests, but these "Big Logo" jerseys weren't exactly popular. Steph Curry straight-up called them "ugly" after a loss that year, while Dallas Mavericks' legend Dirk Nowitzki took to Twitter to deem the sleeved jerseys "awful." Former Blazers' big man Robin Lopez even called for "a mass burning of these sleeved NBA jerseys" on his social feed.
LeBron James didn't co-sign them either, but his concerns were less aesthetic and more basketball-oriented. Days before his Miami Heat took the court on Christmas Day, James told journalist Joseph Goodman, "I can't have my shooters out there worrying about some sleeves and not shooting the ball." Eventually, James' frustration with the NBA's Christmas uniforms peaked two years later when "The King," by then back with the Cleveland Cavaliers, literally ripped the sleeves off his jersey during a primetime game to improve his shooting motion. "The whole sleeved thing, whether on Christmas or for any other game, never worked," Lukas tells Complex. "Keep it buried."
The Warriors sporting the old-fashioned script Christmas jerseys in 2016. (Image via Jason Miller/Getty)
The following year, Adidas cut the sleeved jerseys and scaled back the big logos, but added players' first names on the backs of the uniforms. It was cute, but not quite what fans or players wanted. Still, in 2015, the NBA and The Three Stripes finally found a design that stuck. That year, players wore jerseys with their team names in old-fashioned script, recalling holiday cards of yore. That looked stayed for 2016, but once Nike took over the NBA's apparel contract in 2017, the mini-tradition of Christmas-specific jerseys ended without so much as a press release explaining why. The news basically broke on the courts as people tuned in for the Christmas games. And fans weren't in a jolly mood. "Nike not having Christmas unis this year is wack AF," said content creator and host of the Flagrant 2 podcast, Kazeem Famuyide, in a now-deleted tweet. And that pretty much summed up fans' reaction to the lack of Christmas gear that year.
Even though Nike hasn't created uniforms for any of the last three Christmases, the company has pioneered its own holiday tradition of sorts, introducing "City Edition" jerseys in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. This year every team (minus the Memphis Grizzlies, who haven't explained why) unveiled snazzy new uniforms that incorporate city zip codes and cultural elements into each jersey. And they had the media and fans buzzing with excitement.
The Clippers' Old-English Mister Cartoon-designed jerseys during a December 2019 game. (Image via Stacy Revere/Getty)
Some, like the Denver Nuggets' modern take on their classic '80s rainbow skyline jerseys, were considered a drip and "just beautiful," as Sports Illustrated gushed. OKC scored points for their social consciousness with uniforms honoring the victims and survivors of that city's 1995 bombing. Graffiti and hip-hop culture influenced both the Los Angeles Clippers' Old-English Mister Cartoon-designed uniforms and the Brooklyn Nets' Notorious B.I.G. "Bed Stuy" jerseys, created by graf legend Eric Haze. Despite those successes, a few City Edition uniforms have been headscratchers. Let's see a show of hands from people who knew that Milwaukee was called "Cream City." And then there are the "WTF" uniforms, like the Dallas Mavericks' Fresh Prince of Bel-Air-style anomalies.
But sadly, outside of wearing special edition warm-ups on Christmas Day, which an NBA rep confirmed will occur this year, there will be no special jawns for the likes of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kawhi Leonard, and the rest of the sport's superstars to don by tip-off. Still, if there are special warm-ups on the horizon, they might be a sign that Christmas Day unis will be resurrected soon.
The Mavs' 2019 City Edition jerseys (Image via Glenn James/NBAE via Getty)
However, as it stands, that's not officially in Nike's or the NBA's plans and that's a real shame. No other sport competes with basketball on Christmas, so watching our favorite players in some exclusive ish just adds a special feeling to an already cherished day. Even though the concept was in its infant stages by the time Adidas' apparel contract ceased, it became a beloved custom for hoops fans to look forward to, like spiked eggnog or walking the snow-covered streets with a mistletoe strapped to your head. Wearing City Edition unis, or any of the other standard designs, just doesn't give off that "once-a-year" aura since teams will wear them throughout the season and the playoffs. Sure, a few designs from the past should be left there, but the way Nike has been churning out creative joints since teaming up with the NBA, there are likely no bounds to the flyness The Swoosh could add to some Christmas uniforms. But if they won't do that, at the very least, please bring back the snowflake.
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Phân tích bài thơ Đây thôn Vĩ Dạ của Hàn Mặc Tử hay nhất – Ngữ văn lớp 11
/Kiến Thức Tổng Hợp /Phân tích bài thơ Đây thôn Vĩ Dạ của Hàn Mặc Tử hay nhất – Ngữ văn lớp 11
Topic: Analysis of the poem "Here is Vi Da village" by Han Mac Tu
Lecture: This is Vi Da village – Ms. Thuy Nhan ( teacher)
There was a Vietnamese poet who went to two cities to take his name from the streets, that is Han Mac Tu. He is the most extraordinary phenomenon of the new poetry movement, commented by Che Lan Vien: "There was no one before, there was no one after that, Han Mac Tu was like a star shining through the sky of Vietnam with a dazzling tail. his brilliance". Referring to Han Mac Tu, people do not forget the beautiful image of nature and people of Hue dreaming through the poem "Here is Vi Da village". It is a beautiful picture in harmony between nature and people, between reality and fantasy of life, as well as the voice of the poet's earnest love for life.
The poem "Here Vi Da village" was composed in 1938, initially titled "Here Vi Da village" and later changed. The work was printed in the collection "Crazy Poetry" (later changed to "Pain"). "This is Vi Da village" was inspired by the poet's unrequited love with a dreamy Hue girl named Kim Cuc. She is the daughter of a high-ranking official, a young woman with a gentle beauty, gracefully keeping her rustic features. Han Mac Tu loves a secret girl who only dares to watch from afar. That sincere love was cherished by the poet in the book "Country Girl". After that, Hoang Cuc followed his father to Vi Da village in Hue, so he was sad, in pain, and carried leprosy, making that pain even more painful. Han Mac Tu's friend Hoang Tung Ngam (Hoang Cuc's cousin) knew that sentiment, so he wrote a letter to Hue to advise her to write a letter to visit and encourage an unhappy soul. "Instead of writing a letter to visit, I sent a picture of the landscape with the size of a business card. In the photo there are clouds, water, a girl rowing a boat with a horizontal boat, there are some bamboo groves, there is white light or the sun shines on the water. I wrote after the photo a few greetings to Tu and asked Yin to give it back. After a while, I received the poem "Here is Vi Da village" and another poem sent by Ngam. It is the direct postcard of Han Mac Tu's emotional arousal and secret love that has written a poem rich in emotions, rich in dreamy images and imbued with the sadness in the poet's soul.
Vi Da village is a small village located on the banks of the Perfume River in Hue. This place is a beautiful garden with ornamental trees, very famous fruit trees becoming the inspiration for poets, typically the poem of poet Bich Khe: "Vi Da village! Vi Da village / The bamboo bridge is not sad but drunk". Or a verse describing the fairy beauty of Con Hen Vi Da: "Ti bamboo loves spring under the moon / Flowers pretend to dream in incense…"
Opening the poem "Here is Vi Da village" is a verse in the form of a rhetorical question with different nuances and meanings: "Why don't you come and play in Vi village?" Is this a gentle reproach as well as an earnest invitation to visit Vi village of the girl? Or Mac Tu's self-blame for why he didn't go to Vi village to play, the phrase "go back to play" is sincere, sincere and very close and dear. The opening verse of Han Mac Tu is very special, he knows how to put the equal sound in the third word "no" and especially the boldness to break the law, to fail in the fourth word "about" to put an equal bar because according to It must be a barbaric poem because it follows the rule of "Second four six-pointedness". If the opening verse is "Why don't you visit Vi village?" Or the sentence "Tun Wei, why don't you come and play?" then it has another poetic meaning that is no longer the unique ego of Han Mac Tu. He was like Thoi Hieu who broke the way in the verse "Temple of the past, the past of the Yellow Crane". Thanks to the equalization in the first, second and sixth syllables create the momentum for a series of equals that follow before ending with the soaring bar in the word "Vi" which is stunningly beautiful. The verse reminds us of a lot of thoughts and concerns about a poetic soul "Talent and destiny".
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Opened behind that question is a picture depicting the scene of Vi village in the early morning sun: "Looking at the new sun rising / Who's garden is so green as jade". The unique impression is that the areca trees are sunny, in the garden areca trees are the tallest trees, the trees that receive the first sunrise. The phrase "new sunshine" refers to the pure morning sunshine, the new word emphasizes the clarity and purity. It's still the same sun every day, but in the eyes of the poet, it's so beautiful, so peaceful, so warm. "Who's garden" evokes a feeling of dreaminess and uncertainty with the use of the colloquial pronoun "ai" that arouses curiosity with its mysterious beauty that cannot be possessed. The adjective "smooth" refers to the young, greasy green of the trees, which are full of vitality with the color of spring, compared to the green of jade – a gentle green with a strange charm. Under the eyes of the poet, the garden in the early morning brings a shimmering and fanciful beauty when the night is bathed in dew, and in the morning is filled with new sunshine. It is a beauty of elegance, purity of a quiet countryside that makes the poet surprised, admiring in happiness.
On the background of the natural scene, people suddenly appear: "Bamboo leaves cover the face of the fill". The typeface here is a specific face of a girl with a shy and graceful beauty behind a bamboo leaf or is it a stylization of the poet to indicate the beauty of the soul of the wounded Hue people. hard working, upright, discreet and kind? Either way, we can see the beauty of the person appearing after the verse. It is a fictitious image that gives a sense of dreamlike beauty. More than once, the poet has reminded the image of a girl and a bamboo in his poetry: "Thinking with someone sitting under the bamboo / It sounds delicate and innocent". Thus, with the conventional penmanship symbolizing the poet, he has created a beautiful picture that harmoniously combines the beauty of nature in the early morning and the grace and grace of man, showing the soul that loves life and loves nature deeply. Human color is tortured to the point of writhing because of illness.
As if the poetic circuit was interrupted, the poet suddenly changed the scene from dawn to romantic moon night. That is a unique feature of Han Mac Tu's poetic thinking. It looks fragmentary on the outside, but deep inside is the logic of the emotional circuit. The poet, who was in an eager mood, looking forward to returning to Vi village, turned sad and lonely as if he had returned to the harsh reality because that predestined relationship was separated and hindered by his roots. terminal illness at that time. The images of nature are also tinged with separation and sadness of the poet:
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"The wind follows the wind and the clouds, the way the clouds go
The water is sad, and the cornflowers are lying."
The clouds and the wind should be a pair of parallels, the wind blows the clouds away, but here Han Mac Tu sees it separates the wind and the wind, the clouds and the clouds form the art of cottage with the way of pacing 4/ 3 suggests double separation. The poet's gaze and observation moves from high to low, from far to near. The poet pans the lens of his soul from the heavenly scene to the water below, which is flowing slowly and lazily. The image of cornflowers gently shakes to react with water. The poet used the art of anthropomorphism to make the water feel sad. Here is a pen to describe the scene of love, Han Mac Tu describes the loneliness of the scene to evoke his own sad and lonely mood, it is not natural that the water can be sad but because of a sad look. , somber of the poet that becomes so. Just like Nguyen Du once said: "Sad people are never happy". Thus, the two verses describe the image of nature divided into two and separate to describe the poet's situation and mood.
The emotional circuit is switched again when from a sad water now becomes a river full of moonlight:
"Whose boat docked at the moon river
Keep carrying moon tonight"
The moon, wind, and clouds are the inspirations of poets for many generations, such as Xuan Dieu's poem "Sad moon" written: "The morning wind blows, the poet misses/ Loves those who don't know how to stand sad on the moon/ Glorious The moon is wide and majestic, the sky is blue, the earth is flat." In Korean poetry, we see him always with the moonlight, the moon is the soul of the soul, the last soul of the poet to hide from reality. at illness. His poetry page has many beautiful, unusual, and immortal images of moonlight: "The moon is lying on the willow branch / Waiting for the east wind to come back to relax" or "The moon is full of flowing rivers", in the article. The poem "This is Vi Da village" is also a moon river with "ai's boat" parked on it, with the melting moon making the water full of shimmering and dim moonlit night. The strangeness of the verse is not only because this is a surreal verse, strange because it is surreal in a very realistic way under the specification of Mac Tu. The rhetorical question in the two verses carries the author's troubled mood. The word "timely" indicates the patient's race against life time, "tonight" being such a brief star night. We feel that in the soul of Korean poetry, there is always a mood of guilt that is different from Xuan Dieu's concept of death. The king of love poetry always sees death at the end of the road, so he has to make the most of a useful life, meaning every day to the fullest with happiness, and the Korean poet_unfortunate person carries a terrible leprosy. Seeing death near, for him just being alive is happy. If the boat is to carry people and things, for the poet, it is to carry the moon – a natural phenomenon high in the sky. It is a blur mixed with reality showing the despairing anxiety of the poet, who is sympathetic, mourning for the fate of talented and talented poets but encountering the tragedy of life. The more madly in love with life, the more painfully tortured to the point of writhing by illness. As L.Tolstoi once said: "The hardest thing is to love life with its sufferings".
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Han Mac Tu's poetry is always harmoniously interwoven between reality and fantasy. Reality is too harsh, so the poet returns to the beauty of the dreamland to comfort his heart, but no matter how long the dream, he must wake up so that the poet falls into the illusion of reality:
"Mo Guest distance, long distance guests
My shirt is too white to see
The fog is foggy here
Anyone who knows the bold?"
Dreaming is an unconscious state when people are immersed in the dream world, the word "traveler" is repeated twice with two emotional states. The first time is the desire to dream of meeting a visitor from afar, the next time is the reality that the more you want to dream of a guest, the farther the road is. The author dreams about the shadow of a beauty in an illusion. Unable to get out of the dream world, the author brings back to the present with a realistic image "My shirt is too white to see" that is my shirt with a pure and pure white color, the poet is extremely white in color. strange, unexpected should make "em" sink into the virtual realm. The third verse appears, making the meaning of the second sentence more clear. The weather in Hue is sunny, rainy and foggy. The smoke blurs the silhouette of "you", plus the white color of the shirt makes the beauty's shadow both near and far, both real and false. This is an illusion far removed from reality. It seems that this makes the poet's mood even more restless, which is expressed through the repetition of the trivial pronoun who: "Who knows… who has…" in the last sentence emphasizing the wistful, pitiful mood of a person. soul yearning to live, to be loved and passionately in love with a Hue girl named after a flower. The verse contains two opposing meanings: First of all, how to know if the feelings of the people of Hue in a far away place are rich or not like a mist that fades and then disappears. Second, how to let the girl know the poet's longing for her. The question expresses the loneliness, emptiness and pain of a talented poetic soul whose circumstances and fate are tinged with tragedy.
The poem "Here in Vi Da village" with symbolic art style, depicting the allegorical scene, with pure and refined words, unique poetic images and the use of alliteration have shown the heart of the poet. novel lyricist. He deserves to be a brilliant and outstanding genius among new poets with a painful poetic soul of a sick person but still with a strong desire to live, creating a strange poetic soul in Vietnamese literature just like Nguyen's poetry. Writing Lam for Korean poets: "Dear Tu, your poetic soul is only one / The planet is too tight to hold two"
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Donny Meacham Published: October 26, 2022
Fans of Netflix's revived series Unsolved Mysteries were surprised when Season 3 launched Oct. 18 on the streaming giant, two years since Season 2 aired.
The third season will consist of nine episodes, dropping three at a time, with the final set premiering Nov. 1.
This season consists of a wide array of cases from UFO sightings, peculiar deaths and mysterious disappearances.
The original series ran from 1987 to 2002, airing over 230 episodes. According to the Unsolved Mysteries site, 260 of the over 1,300 cases were solved. Additionally, half the cases featuring wanted fugitives were solved.
Over 100 families were reunited with lost individuals, and seven people wrongly convicted had their convictions overturned.
Has the revived Unsolved Mysteries solved any of its cases? Sadly, the answer is no, according to Newsweek.
Various cases from the first two seasons have received updates though and caught the attention of the public and renewed interest from law enforcement.
Anyone watching who may have a tip on one of the cases can submit information to the site, unsolved.com/tips/.
Unsolved Mysteries creator Terry Dunn Meurer explained to Gizmodo that it takes time for these cases to be solved.
"We had thousands of tips and leads that came in, but nothing was solved," he told the outlet. "But it does take a while for cases to get solved. They can't just have a tip and go and make an arrest."
He continued, "So, nothing has been solved yet. But we still are very hopeful because with the show streaming, we still see people going back and looking at them and sending in new tips."
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There's nothing august about Mumbai
July 26, 2005: It began raining at 11 am. In the next 24 hours, India's most populous city received 944 mm of rainfall. The resultant flood killed 450 people (officially), and caused financial damage worth about Rs 4,000 crore. For three days, the water didn't recede.
August 2005: Fever, malaria, dengue, leptospirosis, diarrhoea, cholera. Inquiries, press conferences, public hearings, committees, commissions, terms of reference. Mumbai is back to normal. But Mumbai is asking: how did it happen? Why? nidhi jamwal examines these questions in great detail.
The flood was foretold. The disaster, in all its dimensions -- perhaps not the scale -- was already mapped. For years now, Mumbai's politicians -- of all hues -- have ignored the signs: the crumbling drainage system; the built-over natural drainage; the poisonous landfills where garbage stands 8-10 metres high, exuding poison; the untreated sewage, shamelessly dumped into the Arabian Sea.
Post 26/7, will anything change? Might not. For like the flood, one kind of future for the city has also been foretold. Says Transforming Mumbai into a World-Class City: First Report of the Chief Minister's Task Force: "Our vision is for Mumbai to possess, by 2013, the twin elements of a world-class city: dynamic, job-creating growth and a comfortable quality of life. Our ten-year vision is for Mumbai to be globally distinctive in economic growth and healthcare, and to be in line with global best practice in other parameters like housing and transportation."
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Let Mithi flow
According to the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), Mumbai's 'official' storm water drains consist of road drains, minor nullahs, major nullahs and outfall. All are interlinked, and finally empty into either the Arabian Sea directly or into the four creeks that open into the Arabian Sea.
The city is extremely privileged. It has 115 sotrm water drain outfalls. In contrast, the Western suburb has 43 and the Eastern suburb a paltry 28 -- the Mithi river carries most of the discharge from these. Also, the City system is mostly underground; the suburbs have open drains and nullah s. "Suburbs are developing so rapidly that the municipality is not able to provide proper drainage. Also, low-lying areas and old ponds have been filled to make multi-storey buildings and shopping malls. So the natural drainage system, of holding ponds and water channels, no longer exists. Flooding is but natural," says R N Sharma, head of unit for urban studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
The suburban outfalls depend on gravity to discharge rainwater: flood gates -- which close when the tide reaches 4.6 m high, or in heavy rainfall, to avoid a seawater backflow -- are located only at Love Grove, Worli; Cleveland Bunder, Worli; and Haji Ali. This is why most low-lying suburban areas experience annual floods. Moreover, "At many places seawater has intruded into the city through stormwater drains and corroded pipelines. Sometimes it even shakes multi-storey buildings," says Girish Raut, a Mumbai-based activist.
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Mumbai's drainage problem is completely an effect of construction- and reclamation-mania. Explains Gupta: "The quantity of water falling on the city has not decreased, but the space to flow has, tremendously. Earlier, almost 50 per cent water would seep into the ground, drastically reducing the total volume to be managed. But today the whole city is cemented. Hence, whenever water falls, the ground cannot absorb it. Most nullahs and drains are encroached upon and choked. They, too, cannot tackle so much water."
There is no local practice of stormwater management. At present, every municipality in India must follow the 1993 Manual on Sewerage and Sewage Treatment of the Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (cpheeo) under the Union ministry of urban development. "The cpheeo manual prescribes a single capacity -- of 12 mm to 20 mm per hour flow -- for swdn throughout India, be it Jaisalmer or Mumbai. This is ridiculous. It needs to be updated," says Gupta.
An swdn in any Indian city is today constructed keeping in mind peak per hour flow. Gupta believes this doesn't make sense. All calculations, he says, need to be made on the basis of 15 minutes peak flow, for in any Indian city, on average, it takes about 15 minutes for water to flow -- from where it falls -- to the nearest drain.
The MCGM conducted an elaborate study of Mumbai's drainage system in 1992. The Brihanmumbai Storm Water Drains (brimstowad) report recommended the following: divert dry weather flow to sewage pumping station; provide storm water pumping stations; increase drain capacity; improve floodgates; repair dilapidated drains; augment railway culverts; and deepen/widen nullahs. At that time the cost of the project, to be implemented over 12 years, was Rs 616 crore. This has now escalated to Rs 1,200 crore. Some work was started. Then everything stopped, due to lack of funds.
Dirty deal
The sewerage network, over 1,400 km, comprises 41 satellite pumping stations and seven major pumping stations -- one for each zone, each with their own sewage collection and treatment system. Sewage is collected in sewer lines through gravity and conveyed to satellite pumping stations. From here it is pumped to the main sewage pumping station (sps). The sps sends untreated sewage to a sewage treatment plant (stp) of a zone, for treatment and final disposal into the sea. mcgm, with financial support from the World Bank, is implementing an integrated water supply and sewerage project and has prepared a sewerage master plan till 2025. According to a recent paper, Sewerage operations of mcbm, by P R Sanglikar, deputy municipal commissioner, mcgm, the master plan is a five-phase programme (2005-2025) with a total cost of Rs 55,70.4 crore -- Rs 39,45.15 crore for sewerage work and Rs 16,25.25 crore for slum sanitation. The plan is under implementation. Still, untreated sewage continues to flow into the sea. Why?
Marine outfall
Marine outfall is basically a conduit to dispose sewage into the sea after partial treatment. A typical marine outfall has an influent pumping station (ips) and an effluent pumping station (eps). The former discharges sewage in normal conditions; eps comes into play during high tide.
Down To Earth visited Bandra ips and eps sewage facility. The facility is on reclaimed land near the Mahim creek. Stiff local opposition delayed the plant's completion by over two decades. But since May 27, 2003, it has been functioning.
The inflow of sewage here is about 600 million litres daily (mld); this increases during the monsoon. According to the sewerage operations department of mcgm the increase is due to rainwater inflow in sewer lines. But the municipality's stormwater division claims it is the raw sewage that mostly flows in the stormwater nullahs throughout the year and needs to be diverted to the sps for proper treatment. "Before this facility began, untreated sewage was emptied out in the sea through various nullah s and Mithi river. But things have changed now and fish can be seen near the coast, proving the facility's success... . Although the normal flow of sewage is up to 600 mld, the total capacity of this facility is over 2,100 mld. This will take care of additional load for the coming 15 years in Bandra zone," says V P Pandey, assistant engineer, Bandra ips facility. But things are not as rosy as mcgm would want us to believe.
The treatment method followed in marine outfall facilities is rather incomplete. Firstly the floating matter (chiefly plastics) is removed using screen bars at ips . Sewage is then pumped up to the eps facility, where the floating materials are once more. "Plastics are a major problem as they form a wall against the screen bars and restrict sewage flow. This leads to grit settling in the first chamber itself, whereas it should settle in the next chamber. Grit up to 6 feet height has deposited in some chambers and we are physically removing it," says an engineer at Bandra eps facility.
After screening chamber, the sewage enters the aerated grit chamber, where compressed air helps settle grit. mcgm engineers claim such aeration is tantamount to 'treatment'. The sewage is finally disposed off in the sea through a 3 km pipeline. The whole process, according to Pandey, takes eight hours. Both the floating matter and the grit is transported to Deonar dumping ground for disposal.
But is the present eight-hours-aerated-grit-chamber-treatment method effective for sewage treatment? Not so, if one goes by the data of mcgm's laboratory at Dadar. According to lab reports Down To Earth (dte) chanced upon, the so-called treated effluent fails to meet prescribed mpcb standards (see table:Treated sewage?). This data is collected during the monsoon, when rainwater dilutes sewage. So what must the situation be in other months?
Lagoons any better?
The second method of sewage treatment mcgm uses is aerated lagoons. These lagoons are operational in Versova, Ghatkopar and Bhandup and follow a more elaborate treatment process. dte visited Versova Waste Water Treatment Facility and Lagoons (vwwtfl), at Versova near Andheri. This facility, running since 1998 and built at a cost of Rs 34 crore, has a total capacity of 180 mld of wastewater and 90 mld for lagoons. This means: the facility can receive up to 180 mld of sewage, but the lagoons can treat only 90 mld. So where does the rest go? "We have no option but to bypass excess untreated sewage straight into the [Malad] creek," admits an MCGM official.
vwwtfl follows an exhaustive treatment process -- physical treatment that removes floating materials and grit, and biological treatment in lagoons that removes organic matter. Lagoons consist of six ponds. The first two ponds are aerobic lagoons whereas the rest four follow both aerobic and anaerobic processes. These ponds consist of aerators, which help microorganisms present in the sewage digest the organic pollutants. The whole process takes about four-and-a-half days to complete," says Sagar Kharde, sub engineer, vwwtfl. The results indeed are encouraging, with bod reduced to as low as 30 mg/l, tss at less than 50 mg/l, and cod as low as 80 mg/l. Treatment cost is also low, at Rs 340 per million litres.
But this is true only of 90 mld. What of the untreated 60 mld to 110 mld sewage? " mcgm has two options. Either to reduce the retention time for sewage treatment or to set up more lagoons. For the latter we need more land and there is hardly any free land in Mumbai. An entrepreneur has approached mcgm with a chemical whose addition, he claims, will reduce retention time from over four days to less than a day. mcgm is testing the chemical's efficacy," says a mcgm official on condition of anonymity.
The Versova facility faces other problems as well. The lagoon capacity is decreasing; one and half metre thick sludge has accumulated in the ponds that has not been removed since the facility started functioning.
Unofficial sewage
"The present sewerage covers only 60 per cent of Mumbai, leaving out slums and maybe some upcoming residential/commercial complexes. Efforts are on to provide sewerage facilities to these areas," says Dange.
Experts claim this is a typical development syndrome most urban cities across the world are facing. "Cities are growing at such a rapid pace that basic infrastructure has failed to keep pace with it. Hence in Mumbai, more and more multi-storey buildings are coming up, whereas the municipality is not able to provide these basic services. More and more of drinking water is being sourced for Mumbai from many kilometres away, and more water supply means more wastewater. Also, many localities that do not have adequate municipal water supply depend on water tankers, so their wastewater does not count as official sewage. Again, to cut costs, many housing colonies prefer throwing their sewage into a nearby nullah rather than pay for an official connection," says Kapil Gupta, professor at civil engineering department of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.
Where does the sewage from 40 per cent of Mumbai go? "Where else other than nullahs, rivulets and rivers such as Mithi, all of which empty into the sea. And it is wrong to only attack slums for polluting waterbodies. How much wastewater can a slum household generate, that hardly receives any drinking water supply? It is these housing societies/commercial complexes that are playing havoc with Mithi and government has turned a blind eye towards them," says Girish Raut, a Mumbai-based activist.
"In Greater Bombay, dumping sites ... are located along creeks... waste is deposited below high tide level without any soil cover. The creek water gets polluted on account of direct contact with refuse and on account of leachate. The refuse...does not get decomposed even after 3 years."
-- Draft Regional Plan for Bombay Metropolitan Region ( drpbmr ) 1996-2011, October 1995
Mumbai generates between 7,000 and 7,800 tonnes per day (tpd) of waste. And, as a recent paper Waste management scenario in Mumbai: things can improve , by Rakesh Kumar, director of the Mumbai office of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (neeri ) puts it: "Mumbai's waste management problems are unique... It has least available space, hence landfilling is not sustainable... Residential colonies are in close proximity to dumping grounds... And due to high commercial activity, volume of waste generated is also high.
Treated sewage?
Data from Bandra eps facility (in mg/l)
Date Inlet Outlet* mpcb standard
29.6.2005 BOD 130 124 100
TSS 170 160 100
7.7.2005 BOD 146 146 100
BOD 160 147 100
*All figures for outlet column exceed the prescribed limits
BOD: biological oxygen demand; TSS: total suspended solids; mg/l: milligramme per litre
Source: Data collected from Bandra EPS facility, MCGM, Mumbai, mimeo
Mumbai panics
September 9, 2005. Panic gripped Mumbai, again. Within 24 hours the city received more than 200 mm rain. It started pouring heavily in the morning. By 11 am the unrelenting downpour caused traffic jams. Not leaving anything to chance, the state government issued a rain alert. With Terrible Tuesday (July 26) fresh in mind, people left offices. Schools were shut down. As everyone came on to the roads, or headed towards local train stations, the Bandra-Mahim highway, a major intersection joining suburbs with the island city, was chock-a-block with traffic. Within an hour or so of rain, low-lying areas like Kurla, Sion, Mahim, Dadar, Andheri, Goregaon and Bandra East were flooded. To avoid another public backlash, the state government evacuated close to 300 families. The infamous Air India colony of Kalina once again went under water. Services on Central Railway were suspended for about 3 hours.
It is September 10 today, and the rain has still not relented. Most low-lying areas remain flooded and trains are running late. It is a holiday today and tomorrow, and people themselves are taking precautions not to venture out unless it's unavoidable. They know banking upon the government can be suicidal. Once bitten, twice shy!
Way out
"First and foremost we need to protect Mumbai's natural drainage system and implement the crz regulations that restrict construction activities. fsi restrictions within crz ii zone should be strictly adhered to, and the 1991 crz rules implemented in their totality including the clause for a buffer zone. Projects such as bkc should not be cleared. Also there should be a check on permitting buildings that are constructed by blasting hiils," says Samant. "Rivers must not be channelised or forced to change course at the whim of a project," he adds.
Raut agrees. He wants the remaining mangroves to be granted the status of protected forests: "Mangroves are more efficient in cleaning up Mumbai's sewage than the present expensive sewage treatment plants."
What most experts agree with is that Mumbai needs to arrest its population growth. Sharma of tiss points out why :
• mmr's population will rise to 22.4 million by 2011.
• Gross water demand for the region in 2011 will be 7,959 million litres daily (mld) as against the present supply of 3,922 mld.
• By 2011, private vehicles will be more than double their 1991 levels.
• Peak period passenger trips will increase from 21.55 lakh in 1991 to 32.6 lakh in 2011, with public transport accounting for 85 per cent of the trips.
Kapil Gupta of iit Bombay agrees and says, "Bringing in more water will mean more wastewater problems." " mcgm is unable to handle the present amount of wastewater, with 40 per cent of Mumbai still not sewered. How logical is it to generate more sewage?" he questions.
Various authorities/committees and fact-finding teams have been set up to revive Mithi river, but the recommendations of none are binding upon the government. So will they be of any help?
There are also discussions on getting rid of the present cement mania. Almost the entire city is cemented and no way can the water seep into the ground. Parts of Mumbai are already facing a saline ingress. Hence, it is important that water percolates into the ground and recharges the groundwater. For this porous building blocks could be used. Gupta claims that such blocks are used in most industrialised countries.
Protect open spaces
Mumbai needs to desperately protect its fast-dwindling open spaces. "Not only do these open spaces act as city lungs, but they are also holding ponds during heavy rainfall. Saltpan lands, which the state government wishes to open for construction activities serve exactly the same purpose and should be retained," says Samant. He accepts that reclamation is required, but says it should be done with care. "Reclamation can be done by either joining the low-lying islands or from the sea. Sea reclamation, though easy, is more expensive. First and foremost, wave patterns need to be studied and reclamation should be done in such a manner that the wave attack is not straight. Enough barriers should be put at the shore to absorb wave shocks."
Land-use maps need to be prepared with local people's participation. "Most people do not even know the land-use plan of their area. Hence, politicians and builders get these plots reserved or dereserved keeping in mind the market conditions," says Krishnan. Other angry Mumbaikars suggest non-payment of taxes (worth Rs 58,000 crore a year) to the Centre; some even demand a separate state. They claim that Mumbai's residents should have the right to elect their chief minister, so that there is some accountability.
But, there are hardly any public protests. It is this chalta hai attitude Mumbai needs to jettison. Hopefully, July 26 -- and now, September 9 -- will wake peopleup. For future's sake.
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If you've spent much time on Pinterest, you've probably seen some variation of the pillow bed. My cousin's wife asked me if I'd make one for her son, so I did some investigating. Some of the pins suggest sewing pillowcases together; another goes to a tutorial that no longer exists. I based mine on this tutorial, but she did a lot of eyeballing, and I am a diehard measurer, so here's my version with measurements.
Lay your sheet out right side up and fold one of the long sides over 15" and pin.
Fold the other side over 22", making a finished width of 28". Double-check that this is a snug fit for your pillows. The ones we had varied in length by a few inches. This comfortably fit our longest ones, but was a bit loose for the shorter pillows. Pin.
Move your cat out of the way.
Sew along one of the short ends. I serged mine, but you could also sew just inside the existing hem (on the far side of the above picture) if you don't have a serger or cut it off, stitch and then zigzag the seam allowance.
Measure 85" from the seam you just sewed. Mark, sew, and finish as you did the other end.
Turn right side out! I didn't do this on the first attempt, because I was rushing to finish before E. woke up from her nap and then had to do a whole lot of seam ripping. Push out corners.
Smooth it out so it's as even and wrinkle-free as possible. Mark lines every 17" and sew, backstitching at both side edges.
The blue line doesn't show up well, but it's there.
Insert your pillows and test it out!
I've been thinking about making one of these for my kiddos. They love jumping on pillows on the floor and wallowing in them.
THANK YOU! I've been trying to find a decent tutorial to explain this. NOW I get it! lol. I never understood the back of it... people always show one side fabric longer on the edge & that didn't make sense to me. Thanks!
I made one last night in a little over an hour or so ... cooking supper at the same time! I had my husband pick up pillows at Walmart. He got extra firm ... they were hard to stuff in the pockets and a tight fit. I think the firmness was the problem. My 9 year old son love it.
I'm so glad to hear you tried it and that your son loves it!


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Sri Lanka – India Agree on 4 Pillar Initiative to Boost Lankan Economy
by Amruth Sundarkumar | Dec 7, 2021 | Sovereigns
Sri Lanka and India agreed to a four-pillar initiative to boost the Lankan economy that includes the following:
Credit lines for food, medicines and fuel purchases granted by India
Currency swap agreement to deal with Sri lanka's balance of payment issues
Early modernization project of the Trinco oil farms that India has been pursuing for several years
Sri Lankan commitment to facilitate Indian investments in various sectors
This comes after a two-day visit by Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa to New Delhi. The Sri Lankan High Commission said, "It was agreed that modalities to realise these objectives would be finalised early, within a mutually agreed timeline". However India's Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Finance Ministry did not issue any statements on the outcome of the meetings.
Sri Lanka's dollar bonds inched higher on Monday with its 7.55% 2030s up 1 point to 54 cents on the dollar.
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I'm not well versed in science fiction, so perhaps that affected my enjoyment of Meredith's novel. I'd like to say that first, just so readers who live and breathe this genre will still give this story a chance.
Okay. The plot itself was a mixture of I-Robot, Humans, and Westworld. Even the video game Detroit: Become Human came to mind. However, Meredith's take on developing robots seemed a bit immature to me. The story came off as flatly dramatic – I simply wasn't sold on how things progressed. The first rule in fiction is to convince the reader that what is happening in the book, no matter how unrealistic, is possible. I was not convinced. Why did the characters do so many of the things that they did?
Meredith's narrative is simple. Logical. Which fits the genre, yes, but I was unimpressed with the use of exclamation marks and almost childish descriptions. However, saying that, when a scene turned gory or centered around technology, Meredith's writing improved drastically. He just needs to polish his dialogue and casual description to mirror the strength of the bloody and factual scenes.
To continue being blunt…I did not care for the characters. If I had to choose a favourite, it was Patrick, but barely so.
The saving grace of this book is Meredith's technology and his play on human/android natures. Hence the 3 star rating instead of 2.
I can see Meredith becoming an impressive author with more polish. He has quite the scope for technological vision.
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Not sure where to even start with this magical day. All I know is this wedding was straight out of a dream. You'll understand as you keep scrolling. Teresa & Kyle are clearly pretty incredible people- they have more friends than the town I grew up in (kidding… but it's close). 😉 But honestly- you learn a lot about a couple by watching them interact with their friends and family- and these two- well, you'd be crazy not to want them in your inner circle. They are kind and compassionate, laid-back and fun to be around. And it's rather obvious that the camera is in love with them (added bonus!).
These two said their "I do's" at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis and then headed out to Grant, MN to finish the day celebrating under a glass ceiling tent as the sun set ohhh-so perfectly behind them (I'm telling ya- this day was a dream!). The tent was on Teresa's parent's property and I gotta say- it was the perfect location. Teresa & Kyle kicked the dance off with an amazing rendition of Ray Lamontagne's "You Are The Best Thing" (The Dap Squad is amazing!). Watching those two belt the song out to each other as they shared their first dance as husband & wife was simply the best thing (pun intended). As if the day wasn't dreamy enough already, we topped it off with capturing some sweet end-of-the-evening-moments as golden hour came to a close. I'm tellin ya- these two know how to throw an amazing celebration, but more importantly- they know how to share their love & joy with those who are closest to them.
Teresa: Most memorable part was probably our first look. It was the most exciting part to finally see Kyle and have my nerves somewhat relieved. That is until I was standing behind the church doors with my dad waiting to walk down the aisle. That was the most crazy exciting feeling to see everyone we love and care about behind the doors and Kyle waiting at the end of the aisle.
Kyle: Listening to our parents give speeches and talk about how happy they were for us. There support means a lot so it was special hearing them speak at dinner.


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May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 Jana J. Monji
'Une Vie' Is a Sensitive Take on Guy de Maupassant's Novel ✮✮✮✮
Don't be dissuaded by the title. "A Woman's Life" is about a woman, but it is really about life and how idealistic youthful expectations are slowly stripped away by reality. For those caught up in the Disney princess happily-ever-afters, this tale comes as a brisk and cold gradual misting that becomes a brutally cold bath.
The movie is based on Guy de Maupassant's "Une vie" or "L'Humble Vérité." In 1958, Alexandre Astruc directed a French movie, "One Life" ("Une vie") based on the novel. The original French is only "A Life" or "The Humble Truth." Adding woman clarifies the gender of the protagonist, but diverts from the original focus. Maupassant is best known in the United States for his 1884 short story, "The Necklace," (La Parure).
The woman of the title, Jeanne, begins the movie as a young woman of 16. She's been raised and educated in a convent. The eligible men of her class will not have been so sheltered from the world. That's unfortunate.
Jeanne Le Perthuis des Vauds (Judith Chemla) isn't exactly a woman of leisure, carefully coiffed and coddled. At home, she helps her parents with the garden of their chateau. In voice over, she wonders, "What good are the flowers if the fruit doesn't ripen?" The darkness of the movies content is suggested the declaration that "the convention of nature and God by fatal prescription" is life.
When a young nobleman moves nearby, the local cleric introduces him to Jeanne's family. Welcomed into their home for a meal, Jeanne's parents, Baron Simon-Jacques (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and Baronne Adélaïde (Yolande Moreau), try to decipher his lineage. His background includes an aristocrat who hanged himself. These aristocrats are not a happy bunch. The problems her parents note won't be unfamiliar to any fan of Downton Abbey. The young man,Viscount Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud) , has title, but his income is low and he was forced to sell his chateau to pay his father's gambling debts. He's not only a penniless aristocrat, but his ancestral home is gone.
For those unfamiliar with the hierarchy of aristocracy, an emperor tops king or queen. Princes and princesses are below kings and queens. Then it is duke/duchess, marquess/marchioness, earl (English)/countess, viscount/viscountess and then baron/baroness. A viscount is a step up the antiquated ladder of aristocracy.
The young Jeanne is thus an attractive solution to his situation, and he elevates her status when they marry. Jeanne quickly learns that he can be insensitive. He is boorishly unsympathetic to her discomfort on their wedding night. His coldness extends to the very temperature of their home. He demands she not wastefully burn wood to keep the rooms warm or use candles to light the darkened rooms. He might be away elsewhere–keeping company with the Count and Countess of Fourville, and leave Jeanne alone, but she must survive in cold, dark rooms and simply wear warmer clothes. Gradually, the movie divides her life into the pastel colors of sunny days of the past in flashbacks and the cold, dark days of the present.
Julien soon deprives her of her female friendships. Since childhood, Jeanne has confided in her maid Rosalie (Nina Meurisse), but Rosalie has become strangely silent. Soon Jeanne realizes Rosalie is pregnant and unmarried. Julien argues to send her away; Jeanne wishes for her to remain and to care for both Rosalie and her child.
Soon enough we learn who the father of Rosalie's child is and it's not good news for Jeanne. Abbé Picot (Olivier Perrier) helps Jeanne and her parents with this situation. With Rosalie sent away, Jeanne finds a friend in the Countess de Fourville, Gilberte (Clotilde Hesme). Julien and Georges, the husband (Alain Beigel) of Gilberte, are hunting buddies.
Jeanne finds love letters between Julien and Gilbert. She confides with Abbé Tolbiac (Father François-Xavier Ledoux) who tells her she must tell the count, "by denying Count Fourville the truth you're denying God the truth."
While the truth might set one free, it can do other things. And when the truth is finally revealed some souls are set free from their mortal cells, but Jeanne isn't quite free. She is a widow haunted by death and with the responsibility of raising a son, Paul (Henri Hucheloup at five, Rémi Bontemps at 12 and finally Finnegan Oldfield at 20). Paul, unfortunately, turns out to be much like his father and perhaps the gambling grandfather we never meet. That dooms Jeanne. He writes to her for money, and hs please sound like emotional blackmail: "I'll blow my brains away rather than survive this disgrace."
Jeanne's one love becomes her burden, a distant voice that never gives her love or protection. Between Paul and some misfortune, Jeanne's financial holdings become diminished. Still, she believes, "When doubts abound and all is bleak, in the soul, something's glimmering." We are told there is "a patch of blue sky and hope in one's heart" but that hope isn't clear until the end of the movie.
If there is a moral to this tale, then it is the karmic cycle where good and bad deeds revisit one when one least expects it. Far from the fantasy of fairy tales this look at an aristocratic life by director Stéphane Brizé (co-written with Florence Vignon) is an atmospheric look at the hardships of aristocrats as their way of life was slowly fading away. Yet in the end, "life is never as good or as bad as you think."
Chemla was nominated for a Best Actress César and Madeline Fontaine was nominated for Best Costume Design. The film won Prix Louis Delluc for Best Film and an FIPRESCI Award at the Venice Film Festival for Best Film. In French with English subtitles.
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Description: Book has just a bit of bumping at extremities. No marks. Binding is sound. Dust jacket has light wear to upper and lower edges; a bit of light age toning to surfaces. DJ has been placed in an archival mylar sleeve. Limited to 3,000 copies of this edition, printed November, 1966. This is number 584. French Language.


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Another recipe to satisfy my sweet tooth. Yup. Cotton Candy (much to my father's disgust) is one of my all time favorite flavors in ice cream and frozen yogurt. Back in December I was at King of Prussia, enjoying a delightfully delectable cup of Cotton Candy Frozen Yogurt and I just decided, I need to find a recipe for this! And I did. And now, I'm going to share this recipe with you guys, because this stuff is delicious, yet very filling. I love it.
In a medium size mixing bowl add the yogurt and milk. Whilsk until smooth and creamy. Add in the honey and vanilla and mix to combine.
Add in the flavoring and mix thoroughly. Add more to taste if needed.
Divid the yogurt into two separate bowls. In one bowl, add two drops of neon pink food coloring (it's not very neon) and in the other, two drops of blue. Mix.
Pour both mixtures into a deep dish and use a tooth pick or butter knife to create swirls in the mixture.
Cover with plastic wrap or foil and put container in freezer and allow to freeze for at least 3 hours. Serve and enjoy!
Who ever said cheesecake was hard to make? Okay, full on cheesecakes are a little more tricky, but not overly so, and these cheesecake bars? One of the easiest recipes I've ever made. I actually made it last year and it was quite the hit with my classmates. These cheesecakes bars are easy and really pretty quick to put together- if you have a last minute thing you need to bring something to- this might be a useful recipe. Okay, maybe it's not the quickest thing, you have to chill it in the fridge for three hours, but it is really quick to put together- if you have an extra few hours, yeah, totally try these. They're delightful.
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line an 8 by 8-inch baking pan with foil, leaving an overhang.
2. Smash graham crackers in a ziplock bag with a rolling pin until finely crushed. In a medium bowl, mix together the melted butter and the graham cracker crumbs until the butter is evenly distributed.
3. Press the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until lightly golden brown and fragrant. Let cool.
1. In the bowl of an electric mixer, (You can hand mix, it will just take a whole lot longer) beat the cream cheese and sugar on medium-high speed until well combined and smooth.
2. Next, beat in the lemon zest, lemon juice, eggs, and vanilla until combined.
4. Spread the mixture over the crust.
1. In a food processor or blender, puree the raspberries until smooth.
4. Dollop the unbaked cheesecake with spoonfuls of the raspberry puree. Use a skewer to make swirls.
1. Bake for 30 minutes, or until set at the edges but ever so slightly jiggly in the middle.
2. Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.
3. Cover and chill the cheesecake in the fridge until very cold, at least 3 hours. The cheesecake can be stored in the fridge for up to 2 days.
4. Before serving, use the foil to remove the cheesecake from the pan. Cut into 15 squares. Serve chilled.


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PRESS RELEASE: Historic Former Salford Town Hall Receives Planning Permission for Luxury Residential Conversion
By Samantha Jones
Located on a site of historical importance for the residents of Salford - the Battle of Bexley Square which took place in October 1931, the former magistrates' court and town hall is to be converted into 122 studios, aiming to breathe life into the derelict building once again.
As part of the refurbishment, the building will retain many of its original features, including the original brick and stone facades, listed gates, the existing feature staircases and mosaic entrance floor.
Located in an area of intense regeneration along the Chapel Street corridor, residents will benefit from a wealth of future amenities, including new leisure and entertainment facilities and an Italian-style piazza.
More than £10m of investment has been secured by the North West Development Agency for the regeneration project, and work is already underway in the form of extensive traffic calming measures, widened pavements and new paving and lighting along the length of the corridor.
Launched in July 2013 by Knight Knox International, there are only a couple of apartments left in this development and construction is due to start before the end of March 2014.
Following on from the success of previously completed developments like X1 Arndale House and X1 Salford Quays (Phase 1), X1 Town Hall is certain to provide a high standard of accommodation for the residents of
Salford.
There are a few units remaining in this development, but investors are advised to act quickly as interest is extremely high. Contact a Knight Knox consultant today on 0161 772 1370 to reserve an apartment.