The Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government Faiszer Musthapha directed the officers of the Colombo Municipal Council to hand over the Henry Pedris Stadium to Isipathana College, during a discussion held at the school.
The discussion was held under the patronage of Minister Musthapha and Isipathana College Principal Premasiri Epathe, with the school's teachers, Colombo Municipal Commissioner (CMC) V. K. Anura and officials from the municipal council and ministry also present.
Principal Epathe and the Old Boys' Association of that college had informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of the school's need for a stadium and he had directed Minister Musthapha to hand over the stadium to Isipathana. Isipathana's Principal said that it was a historical event for the school to receive a stadium.
The administration, maintenance and development activities of the stadium, which were carried out by the CMC until now, will henceforth be continued by both the CMC and the school in accordance with an MoU that is to be signed between them.
CMC Treasurer K.D. Chithrapala said that a committee would be appointed comprised of members from the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government, the CMC and Isipathana to draft the MOU.
Principal Epathe said there were about 4,700 students at the school at present. Until now, the college had rented grounds in order to engage in their sports activities. Epathe says that about half of the Sri Lankan rugby team has been selected from Isipathana for a long time.
Isipathana won the Presidential Championship rugby tournament and the Milo Championship rugby tournament in 2016.
Epathe revealed the school had recently contributed three players to the Sri Lanka national under-19 cricket team. 2016's Most Popular Cricketer and Best Cricketer of the Year were also from Isipathana.


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Q: Firebase Cloud Messaging - Identify delivery status for a particular push notification message Is it possible to identify whether a particular push notification message was delivered to a particular token via Firebase Cloud Messaging? And, if so, is it possible to do so via an API call or by listening to some callback?
I know that I can look at aggregate statistics in the console and even segment those statistics through analytics tags, but cannot find a way to get more discrete information.
I also know that the API will synchronously respond if a token is invalid but the process by which Apple and Google invalidate tokens is a bit opaque (to me) and doesn't help if someone simply turned off push notifications for my app.
Thanks!
Jason

A: If someone turned off push notification – you can check it with code
Swift ios check if remote push notifications are enabled in ios9 and ios10
Android app - detect if app push notification is off
But user can be offline, or APNs / Firebase service – can get some problems and your notification will be drop. You can check delivery status with some code in iOS and Android applications.
If you need check, delivery status for some push you can make push notification extension (in iOS). For send status about delivered notification in your API. More info about push notification extension.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/unnotificationserviceextension
It can be helpful
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/modifying_content_in_newly_delivered_notifications
https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/understand-delivery
https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/android/receive#handling_messages  About handling messages in Android (you can send status delivered too)
I hope this answer will help with your problem.
UPD:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/understand-delivery

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Q: malloc of a structure in C ( ported from C++ ) I would like to reserve some memory space on the heap and access it with a pointer.
The code run fine in C++ but I cannot compile it in C.
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define IMG_WIDTH 320

struct cluster_s
{
  uint16_t size;
  uint16_t xMin;
  uint16_t xMax;
  uint16_t yMin;
  uint16_t yMax;
};

static struct cluster_s* detectPills(const uint16_t newPixel[])
{

  static struct cluster_s **pixel = NULL;
  static struct cluster_s *cluster = NULL;

  if(!pixel){
    pixel = (cluster_s**) malloc(IMG_WIDTH * sizeof(struct cluster_s*));
    if(pixel == NULL){
      return NULL;
    }
  }
  if(!cluster){
    cluster = (cluster*) malloc((IMG_WIDTH+1) * sizeof(struct cluster_s));
    if(cluster == NULL){
      return NULL;
    }
    for(int i=0; i<IMG_WIDTH;i++){
      memset(&cluster[i], 0, sizeof(cluster[i]));
      pixel[i] = &cluster[i];
    }
  }
(...)
}

which gives me the following compilation error:
error: 'cluster_s' undeclared (first use in this function)
   pixel = (cluster_s**) malloc(IMG_WIDTH * sizeof(struct *cluster_s));
If I comment out the two malloc calls, I am able to compile it.
I also tried to remove the cast before malloc and got the compilation error:
In function _sbrk_r':
sbrkr.c:(.text._sbrk_r+0xc): undefined reference to_sbrk'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
EDIT:
The proposed answers are correct, the problem comes from the linker which do not find sbrk

A: This

I also tried to remove the cast before malloc and got the compilation
  error:

and this

The code run fine in C++ but I cannot compile it in C.

contradict each other.
The first one means that you are trying to compile the program as a C++ program.
To make the program to compile as a C++ program and as a C program there are two approaches.
The first one is everywhere in the program to use the type specifier struct cluster_s instead of just cluster_s . For example
pixel = (struct cluster_s**) malloc(IMG_WIDTH * sizeof(struct cluster_s*));
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
//...
cluster = (struct cluster*) malloc((IMG_WIDTH+1) * sizeof(struct cluster_s));
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The second one is to introduce an alias for the type specifier struct cluster_s like
typedef struct cluster_s cluster_s;

A: Replace
struct cluster_s
{
   ...
};

with
typedef struct cluster_s
{
    ....
}cluster_s;

In C++, a struct and a Class are analogous and can be used interchangeably for the most part. So cluster_s and struct cluster_s can both be used.
In C, cluster_s is not defined. The change above will define a type of the same name.
You can see the answer When should you use a class vs a struct in C++? for the differences between a class and a struct.


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Reliance Jio filed 54 patents in last one year
Telco says average consumption by users is 10 GB per month; has also filed 54 patents
ET Bureau | Jun 29, 2017, 02:36PM IST
The report also stated that since Jio's launch, current mobile broadband coverage in India has shot up to 75%,... Read More
MUMBAI: Reliance Jio Infocomm has filed 54 patents in the last one year, according to the annual report of parent Reliance Industries (RIL), which also said the average data consumption by users of the newest telecom operator at 10 GB a month per subscriber is the highest per capita usage in the world.
The report also stated that since Jio's launch, current mobile broadband coverage in India has shot up to 75%, which is on a par with US. Jio aims to expand that reach to 95% within the next year.
"Jio's network is the largest 4G network in India and literally present in every city, town and most of the villages of the country with more than double the number of 4G base stations when compared to those of all the other Indian operators put together," the report said.
Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio driving India's 4G growth: Rohm
Japanese semiconductor company Rohm has said Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm is driving India's 4G growth rate, which is the fastest in the world.
Jio has over 1,00,000 radiating sites, which is "significantly more than what any other operator had at its launch and already positions Jio as one of the largest network operators in the country," it added.
The company also said that with the launch of its LYF brand of devices by retail arm Reliance Retail and several rollouts by other leading handset makers, almost all the smartphones sold in the coming months will be Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) enabled.
Availability of adequate VoLTE devices at affordable price points is critical for Jio's subscriber addition plans since it is the only telecom operator which runs a 4G VoLTE only network.
The telecom operator has been in the news for its expected launch of a VoLTE feature phone, which is expected to be the next game changing move in the telecom sector.
Trai dismisses criticism by telecom sector players on its handling of network testing issues
The telecom regulator has dismissed criticism by the sector's top players on its tackling of issues around network testing, as the two sides disputed yet again over a matter related to the market's newest entrant, Reliance Jio Infocomm.
Such feature phones with their low price points are expected to help the telco get subscribers who cannot afford a smartphone.
After a flying start last September with consecutive free promotional offers, which led to a subscriber count of over 100 million within 170 days, Jio has seen its subscriber additions dip in the last few months, which is attributed to the limited number of VoLTE handsets in the market.
The Mukesh Ambani-led firm's launch has intensified price wars in a sector reeling under a debt of nearly `5 lakh crore and forced the top players Vodafone India and Idea Cellular announcing their merger.
The RIL annual report said that the operator unlike its competitors had a simplified tariff structure with less than 20 plans as against the over 22,000 tariff plans prevailing in the country today.
RIL also said that Jio, in addition to its own tariff plans, will also offer its customers the option to choose the highest selling tariff plan of any of the other leading Indian telecom operator, but with 20% more data than what the other operator provides.
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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (Auctioneers of Antique Silver): A George III/George IV Irish Silver Swing Handled Basket, Maker Stephen Bergin, Dublin, 1819?
A George III/George IV Irish Silver Swing Handled Basket, Maker Stephen Bergin, Dublin, 1819?
A George III/George IV Irish Silver Swing Handled Basket, Maker Stephen Bergin, Dublin, 1819? (FS38/185) offered in our Two Day Fine Art Sale starting on 10th April 2018 at our salerooms in Exeter, Devon.
A George III/George IV Irish silver swing handled basket, maker Stephen Bergin, Dublin, 1819? inscribed under the foot, of circular outline with embossed decoration of griffins, fruit, scrolls and foliage, with loop handle on caryatid hinges, raised on a spreading circular foot, 34.5cm diameter, 40.38ozs.
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It was a steamy evening, punctuated by thunderstorms. Destitute figures, clad in rags, slept under the remote porticoes of the government's Manila Film Center. Out front, hundreds of the more fortunate paid 35 pesos (about $1.75) to get in, more than four times the going ticket price at privately owned movie theaters. Soldiers stood on guard against possible terrorist attack.
Inside, dozens of formally dressed cine'astes, civic leaders and members of the press heaped Philippine delicacies on their plates from a lavish buffet. Nervous anticipation charged the air -- tonight's event was the hottest ticket in town.
The crowd had come for the premiere of "Scorpio Nights," an erotic thriller about a young man's adulterous affair with a nubile neighbor. It would break boundaries here in terms of explicit sex: Graphic sequences of lovemaking culminate with a scene of simultaneous orgasm and death -- footage that would earn the movie a quick X rating in the United States.
By morning, "Scorpio Nights" would be the talk of Manila, on its way to becoming a box-office smash.
The most notorious Philippine movie of 1985 would eventually gross 8 million pesos (about $500,000 at the time) -- shown exclusively in a film center conceived by the Philippines' First Lady Imelda Marcos, funded by the government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos and run initially by their daughter Imee.
In this politically oppressed and economically bleak country, such cultural contradictions seem absurdly logical.
"The film center makes its money off the sex movies so it can show the good ones," says director Tikoy Aguiluz, whose sexually charged (and critically praised) "Boatman" was a big hit at the center. "It's like the mother who sells her daughter on the street so the next child can go to the university. It is crazy -- but it's the Philippines."
Cinema here mirrors the chaos and cultural schizophrenia endemic to this former U.S. possession of 7,000 islands, 50 million people, a $26 billion foreign debt and a government flirting with political disaster.
Although Marcos is said to have little personal interest in movies, his wife considers herself both a patron of the arts and a cultural "protector of the children." So while child prostitution, corruption and political murder flourish, government censors -- recently replaced by a ratings board -- do their best to keep messages of protest or reform off the screen. Most of the 150 or so movies made here each year fall into the exploitation genre, shot for $100,000 to $200,000, full of bloody violence and machismo or lots of heated clutching and soapy melodrama.
But a handful of more serious filmmakers struggle to make movies with some social consciousness, or at least some social realism.
"We have been given police powers," says the grandmotherly Maria Kalaw Katigbak, who chaired the recently dismantled board of censors. "We have a team of police soldiers who get authority from me to confiscate films and close theaters." Although the board had once been preoccupied with sexual content, Kalaw said, "Now, we have the problem with the movies that are the propaganda against the government. We have to be firm in interpreting what is subversive and what is not."
Late last year, Marcos declared that he had "abolished" both censorship and the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines (ECP), the government agency that administrated the Manila Film Center.
Created as a sanctuary for filmmakers from the government's own censorship laws, the ECP generated widespread controversy when it began exhibiting the most sexually explicit films ever seen in the Philippines.
Marcos replaced the ECP with the Film Development Foundation of the Philippines (FDFP) to "pave the way for the establishment of a foundation aimed at encouraging private-sector participation in the movie industry and the uplifting of the people's esthetic values." It operates with the same staff in the same offices as did the ECP.
At the same time, Marcos replaced the board of censors with the Movie and Television Classification and Review Board, a mix of 125 film industry representatives and 15 prominent citizens that will ostensibly classify movies but not censor them.
But a local film industry reporter contends that members of the new ratings board "are the same dog with a different color. They are still cutting film. They want to make it appear that they are only classifying films, but by giving an X, they can keep a film from being shown commercially. The board controls the creative process." The censors, he says, have always been "less concerned about sex. Sex entertains the people. What they are really worried about are political themes, because they might raise the consciousness of the people."
The showing of sexually oriented films at the Manila Film Center stopped shortly before Marcos announced the new election.
The six-level, state-of-the-art Manila Film Center (which one official estimates cost about 53 million pesos) has become a target of populist scorn, as did the ostentatious Manila International Film Festival it was built to house (the festival was abandoned in 1983 after two years). Like the nearby Manila Cultural Center, another pet project of the first lady's, the film center is built on land reclaimed from the sea, which makes it appear to some even more symbolic of the shaky Marcos regime.
"The people are beginning to get angry," about "pornography" at the center, said the matronly Kalaw, before the ECP sanitized its program. "And they are blaming the first lady, the poor woman."
While the Catholic Women's League expressed outrage over sexually oriented films at the center, members of the political opposition raised issues of cost, waste, questionable accounting and class privilege.
John J. Litton, deputy secretary general of ECP, heads the new FDFP. The Manila film festival has been abandoned, but Litton manages to stage retrospectives and an annual local festival. The center holds film classes and school tours. Facilities are rented for weddings, awards shows and other private events to bring in extra revenue.
"To be very candid," says Litton, "it's still too early to say whether the Manila Film Center was a good or bad decision."
Several ECP-financed productions, all nonerotic, have largely been commercial failures. Without erotic attractions, some claim, Imelda Marcos will never be able to pay for her expensive white elephant.
One hears assertions in Manila film circles that Litton requires a quota of sex scenes be put in -- while touchy political content be kept out ("Film must be free," he said, "but you can't have propaganda").
Director Lino Brocka has long boycotted the ECP since the first Manila film festival, claiming it "legitimizes pornography." The issue, he said, is not esthetics. "I have nothing against sex films. The issue is that when the film center was built and the ECP was organized, it was to be for the encouragement of serious Filipino cinematic art . . . We didn't know it was going to be used like it has been. The word is mockery, and they do it so blatantly."
Brocka claims that after the ECP broke barriers two years ago with "Isla," featuring nudity and sex and starring a former Miss Philippines, producers came to him "with cash to make skin flicks for the film center." A round-faced, mild-mannered man, Brocka has made about 50 films since 1970, the first Filipino director to have his work shown at the Cannes Film Festival (three times altogether). In recent years, his trademark has been the socially conscious melodrama.
"Bayan Ko," made in 1984 but held up until last fall by the censors, portrays a poor laborer who refuses to join a union strike because he needs the wages to pay his wife's hospital bills. The censors demanded cuts Brocka refused to make, including scenes of anti-Marcos demonstrations. When "Bayan Ko" was finally distributed Nov. 6 -- with an R rating by the new board -- it fared poorly at the box office.
Brocka blames the socially conscious content of his films for his arrest by the government last January. He was detained after a rally of striking jeepney (small bus or taxi) drivers and charged with illegal assembly and inciting to sedition (strikes here are virtually forbidden).
"They only did it because I made the films," Brocka said. "It's their way of harassment."
At first a director of comedies, Brocka's politicization began when Marcos declared martial law in 1972. It was "private and individual commitment" that became more outspoken with the assassination of democratic opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. at the Manila airport on Aug. 21, 1983. "That was the turning point for a lot of people. It shocked the country. The moderates, the silent, the indifferent were so shocked, it brought us together."
Now free on bail, Brocka faces years in prison if he's found guilty, and has been effectively silenced as a filmmaker.
"The films I became famous for touched on certain social realities -- the slums, low wages and working conditions, certain problems the government is touchy about. Films that the first lady particularly does not like. They go against what she calls the good, the true and the beautiful."
Tikoy Aguiluz, a stocky, outgoing film buff, founded the cinema department at the University of the Philippines and made documentaries before "Boatman." Since the film's success, he has signed to direct three more low-budget pictures in his home country.
Although he speaks with an artist's vision, he confesses to being "a B-movie freak."
"The best of our movies are a weird combination of Italian realism and Roger Corman," Aguiluz said over bottles of San Miquel beer in a Chinese cafe' not far from Manila's notorious Red District. "We grew up on a diet of B movies. So there's no escape from sex and violence. The audience wants and maybe even needs the sex and violence. As I made 'Boatman,' I even felt myself falling into the exploitation trap. I hope it rises above that, but I could still feel that mentality taking over.
"When I decided to make it, I knew it would lead to problems with the censors . But the worst problem was self-censorship -- you find yourself censoring your own work, which is the most dangerous thing for an artist. It's hard enough just to make a movie without having to deal with the censorship problem."
Outwardly apolitical, Aguiluz said he would be content making movies that are pure entertainment, but finds it difficult.
"It's the curse of every Third World filmmaker that these social issues automatically crop up. It's good and it's bad. It's like feminist filmmakers -- they have to take a stand, deal with the issue. I've only made one movie, yet I feel this curse, this burden.
"But how can you make a film in the Philippines and not deal with the social problems?"
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers rumoured to be lined up for Star Wars VII
Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been linked to the next Star Wars film
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is rumoured to be in talks to star in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII.
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The Irish actor, who played King Henry VIII in TV drama The Tudors, is rumoured to be in discussions to join the cast of JJ Abrams' sci-fi film, reported the LA Times' Latino Review.
Details about the 35-year-old's role is being kept under wraps, but it would mark a reunion between the actor and director, following their previous collaboration on Mission: Impossible III in 2006.
Star Wars: Episode VII has a tentative release date of 2015.
JJ has said that the film is in very early stages, as he focuses on promoting his Star Trek sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness.
"I definitely feel that the opportunities are enormous, and as a fan of Star Wars since I was about 11, I feel incredibly honoured to be a part of that franchise and that world," he has said.
"It's very early on so we're just getting started but it really is an exciting thing to get to be in that universe."
Jonathan, who has starred in Albert Nobbs, Match Point and Bend It Like Beckham, will next be seen in The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, where he has been cast as Valentine Morgenstern.
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Celtic Thunder is a Celtic music group, composed of five Celtic male soloists who perform both solo and ensemble numbers. Celtic Thunder debuted in August 2007 at the Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland.
Since the group's formation, Celtic Thunder has released two albums: Celtic Thunder and Act Two and a live performance DVD entitled Celtic Thunder: The Show, with a new album titled "Take Me Home" to be released on July 14, 2009.
Celtic Thunder is known for its eclectic style with songs ranging from a soloist to an ensemble focus. The group is backed by the Celtic Concert Orchestra, and their live shows are known for the use of dramatic effects via lighting and choreography as well as a stage set resembling an ancient stone pathway suggestive of those referenced in Celtic lore.
In March 2009, Celtic Thunder opened the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York City, and later that day performed for President Obama, Mrs. Obama and Taoiseach Brian Cowen (or Irish Prime Minister) at the White House.
The members of Celtic Thunder are (in order of youngest to oldest):
Damian Joseph McGinty, Jr. (born September 9, 1992) is the youngest member of the group and is from Derry, Northern Ireland. He recorded the first Celtic Thunder album when he was only fourteen years old.
Keith R. Harkin, (born June 10, 1986) is also, like Damian, from Derry, Northern Ireland. He plays the guitar and has written one of the songs for Celtic Thunder: "Lauren and I". In 2008, a new solo album by Keith was rumoured to be in the working stages but has not yet been released as of early 2009. Keith enjoys surfing and has written a song called Chasing Dreams that articulates his love for it.
Paul Michael Byrom (born April 11, 1979) is from Dublin, Ireland. In addition to Celtic Thunder, he has also performed at major sporting events in Ireland and abroad, including singing at the All Ireland Finals in Dublin's Croke Park and at Heinz Field for a Pittsburgh Steelers game in the USA. He has also performed for Ireland's President, Mary McAleese, and for Emperor Akihito of Japan. Paul has released two albums: Velvet and I'll Be Home For Christmas.
Ryan John Kelly (born November 6, 1978) is from The Moy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He holds two degrees from the Queen's University Belfast, having earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and also a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Accounting, qualifying Ryan to be a chartered accountant.
George Donaldson (born February 1, 1968) is the oldest member of the group and is a well-known balladeer, guitarist and flutist from Glasgow, Scotland. At Scotland's Celtic Park, Donaldson played to 65,000 fans at the opening match of the 2000-2001 season.
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Member Name: brize
Comments: I've been to 5 CT show (2 since George passed away) and they are just as wonderful now as when they first started out. The last show I saw was in the beginning of April this year (the Best of Celtic Thunder) some of the songs have been rearranged vocally with the additions of Emmett O'Halon, Colm Keegen and Damian McGinty (since his return) and the the deletions of Emmet Cahill and George Donaldson.The ensemble songs have been rearranged, Emmett O'Halon was given some solo songs from Emmet Cahill's part and some of his own, Damian no longer sings his 'teen songs' because his voice is much deeper now. I think he took over some of George's parts in ensemble songs. As a tribute to George they sang 1 of his songs towards the end of the show and Emmett O'Halon left the stage (since he never met George only the lads that knew him sang his song).
Member Name: domtierno
Comments: Has anyone seen Celtic Thunder perform since George Donaldson passed away? How have they filled the gap he left? I know they performed in NJ several months ago, but we had tickets to see the Irish Tenors, in New Brunswick, the same night. Any comments would be appreciated!
Member Name: southernbel
Date Posted: 04-Sep-2014
Comments: Hi out there!, I haven't been around to talk lately, but i have been keeping up with CT and all the lads. Neil/Ryan have finished their tour and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Keith is starting his tour, Colm/Laura are on their FIRST tour and doing great. Our new Emmet will get his breaking in come Nov, but I know he will do great. He has a marvelous voice and will fit in very well. Declan is working on some new merchandise for us, that will come out in Oct 2014. Keith's parents are up and running with their soaps and they are wonderful. I have just about tried all the selections. I'm not able to go on the cruise this year, so i hope there is one for 2015. They are coming back to LA in Feb 2015, and I can't wait to see them. Well take care and keep listening to CELTIC RADIO!!
Member Name: Grace2302
Comments: I attended a CT show earlier this month with my sister, mom and aunt. The guys were even better than last year. I loved the format for the show and the fact that the guys were able to interact more with the audience. It was the first CT concert for my mom and aunt and they both loved it. My mom was already a fan, but the concert converted my aunt. Colm is a great addition to the group and Emmet seems to be much more at ease on stage this year. It was wonderful to see Ryan so healthy and happy after a difficult year. (He's my favorite ) It's always nice to see and hear George, Keith and Neil as well. I'm looking forward to what the guys have in store for us in the new show coming out next year.
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Comments: An amazing group of talented young men (3 of my girls are older than George, so he will always be young to me) individually & as a group. While I think the original group had a magical sound, I do like the new lads. Their live performances are outstanding. These lads enjoy their work! I found Celtic Radio through them & in turn found more Celtic music to love.
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It was around four in the morning when Jean left the Cooper's timber-slatted cottage. The air was cool, and despite a flush of pink in the east, the sky was dark and filled with stars.
Not yet time, then.
The door to the house opened behind her and Henry Cooper stood there, backlit, his shoulders sagging.
"Miss Jardine, forgive me," he said. "Let me bring the horse round and I'll take you home."
Jean faced him and said, "No. I will walk. Margaret needs you. Go back to her." She could sense he was staring at the burden she carried and not at her. He breathed heavily.
"Go inside," she said more firmly, and to emphasise her point turned her back on him and walked away. She heard the door close.
It was an hour's easy walk from the Cooper's place at Narrawallee Creek to Milton. The town was perched on the ridge behind the coastline, almost hidden from the Pacific Ocean by forests and hills. By the time Jean reached her home on Wason Street, the magpies were calling in the trees and the currawongs, further away in the Budawangs, were starting to join in.
The sky was lighting up. The air was warming and heavy with the scent of wattles. It would be another hot spring day, something Jean still found hard, despite ten years away from Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands, where her childhood spring days had been cold and sharp. She took a deep breath; she had to get the job done before it was too hot for manual work.
She put her burden on the back step before going into the house, for it must not be allowed to cross a second threshold, got the coal shovel from the kitchen and went back outside. She used the shovel's length to measure the right distance north from her apple tree, and dug a hole about a yard long, a yard deep and half that wide. She returned to the burden and gently picked it up. She reached into the swaddling and closed her rough, red hand around the small ivory one.
"Fàilte, Coinneach," she said. "Welcome, Kenneth. Aye, that's a fine name for a boy. Kenneth Cooper."
Jean placed the burden into the hole and sat down next to it, then looked up into the sky waiting for the first rays of the sun. When she saw them glimmer over the roof of St Peters and St Paul, she took the burden's hand once more and said, "God and Saint John, christen the child both flesh and bone." She tucked the hand away one last time and stood up with the help of the shovel.
"Slàn leat, Coinneath, farewell," she said, and filled in the hole.
Jean slept for four hours then went to Doctor Mayr's house. He had been called away to Nulladulla, so she left a message with Tilly, his maid, to let him know that Margaret Cooper had lost her child and he might want to look in on her. Tilly tut-tutted when she heard the news.
From there she made her way to the main street and bought fruit and vegetables and lamb's brains. At the Star Hotel she filled her stoneware bottle with two pints of ale. As she walked home she exchanged greetings with those she knew well, gave smiles and nods to those she knew less well. These days, there was no one in the area she did not know.
She had reached Wason Street when a trap pull up beside her. Its driver, a small, thin man with a light brown moustache and outsized hands, leaned over to her and said, "There you are, Jean!"
"Good morning, Dr Mayr."
"So formal? How many times do I say to you, it is not Dr Mayr. We know each other too well for that."
"If you were still in Dresden, Doctor, you would not say that."
"But I'm not in Dresden, and you're not in Glenn Filly, so I would say this point is not relevant. This is a new land and because we are here we are a new people."
"Glenfinnan," she corrected him. "Well, then. Andreas. Are you back from the Coopers?"
"Please, Andrew now. People here do not like Andreas. And I am on my way back from Nulladulla. One of the crew on a timber steamer has appendicitis. What's this about the Coopers?"
"I left a message with Tilly. Margaret Cooper lost her baby last night. You should see her."
The doctor sighed and wiped his forehead with a handkerchief he pulled out of his jacket pocket. "It is too warm Yes, as you say, I shall visit her. That is her second gone, I am thinking."
"Did you deliver the first?"
"I was not there in time," Jean said, and could not help frowning. "Henry Cooper buried it. He would not tell me where, and I would not dare push him on it."
The doctor pulled his buggy around. "You cannot save every soul!" he called out as he drove back down the main street.
Back home, Jean first put the ale under the house to keep it cool. When she reached the front door she found on its step an open sack filled with carrots and cabbages and peas. Underneath was a note with untidy handwriting which read, "We have no money, but these will do. H. Cooper."
Yes, Henry, she said to herself, these will do. But she could not help wish that more of her clients could sometimes spare pennies instead of peas. She could not buy her ale with vegetables and the Star Hotel did not stretch to credit.
Towards evening it was still warm. Jean retrieved the ale from under the house and sat on the front step with two cups, surrounded on both sides by clumps of cloudberry and sea pinks. She filled one cup and looked west and south towards the Budawangs, which receded in undulating shadows all the way to the Great Divide, forested and dark and close. She had always thought the vestige of highland forest she had known as a child in Glenfinnan was crowded, with its pine and birch and juniper, but here it was almost like a jungle, and almost impossible to make your way from valley to ridge without teams of men clearing the way for you. What trails existed were made by the cedar getters and logging wagons, curling and looping through the forest like secret writing, eventually winding down to Nulladulla where steamers took the logs to Sydney and to Melbourne. She drank her ale, wishing it was whisky, and tried to remember the landscape of her childhood.
As the view melted into the growing darkness, Andreas Mayr joined her. He sat next to her on the step, picked up the second cup and held it out. As Jean poured she said, "How is Margaret Cooper?"
"Fever," he said levelly. "She will be all right, I think. Strong woman."
"Yes. The next time?"
"You cannot tell. She might have ten children, healthy and whole."
"If chance was a fine thing," she said doubtfully.
They drank more ale. They heard nightjars and an owl. A little later, the first cicadas of the season started up, but their calling was disjointed like an amateur orchestra's first rehearsal, and they soon gave it up.
"Summer is coming early," Andreas said. "I was hoping the rains would have started by now. It is very dry. It is hard sometimes adapting to this country. Everything is harder than you imagine it will be."
"It will rain," she said with a suddenly fierce certainty.
Andreas splayed his hands out and studied them "I hope so. My skin dries like baked mud."
"You miss your home?"
"Dresden, you mean? No. I think this is my home, but it took a long time for me to accept it. I'm still not sure what it means for me. And you, do you miss your Glen … ?"
"Glenfinnan," she finished for him. "Yes. But it's the home of the girl, Andreas, not the woman."
"Please, Andrew."
"I am making this my home. Slowly, over the years." She stopped. She had wanted to say more, but did not know how to put it into words. Silence fell between them, and after a few minutes the doctor stood up, brushed down his pants and said goodnight.
Jean felt the weight of the bottle. There was enough for tomorrow. She slipped it back under the house. Before going in she stood on the step, all civilisation behind her, and watched out over the hills and forest. Waiting. When she heard the sound, so far away, she was not surprised. The sound was unmistakeable, the cry of the golden eagle.
Many days later, a call from Sam Billings woke her early. He was tapping on her back window, and when Jean opened her eyes the first thing she saw was Sam's blond tussle jumping into and out of view. She dressed quickly and opened the front door. There was a buggy waiting outside. "Sam? Round here."
The boy appeared, flushed and feeling brave. "It's time," he said breathlessly. "Da says it's time. You gotta come."
"Did he say anything about your mother?"
"She's making those sounds," Sam said, wincing. "Like when Harriet was born. But Da says it's all right. But you gotta come quick. But – "
"Stop with the butting," she said. "I'll need a minute more and then we'll go."
When she returned, properly dressed, Sam said, "I'll drive ya."
Jean pretended to consider it. "On the way back, Sam. This time, though, I'd best get us there."
Sam tried to hide his disappointment. "That's what Da said, too."
"Well, then," Jean said, and that was the end of it.
She pushed the horse as much as she dared; it was old swaybacked beast, but surefooted and built for endurance. Sam gabbled all the way, aware that something important was happening, something dangerous for his mother, but not even thinking it could end in her death. It was the virtue of being a child, she knew, where death was always an immortality away.
Jim Billings was waiting outside their home, a half-brick, half-timber place a few miles north of Milton and west towards the mountains. The land first had been cleared for sheep, but the soil was so good, and rain so plentiful most years that like many other farmers in the area, Jim had introduced a few head of dairy cattle.
Jean could hear the moans of his wife, Bridget. They were urgent but not desperate. "You should be inside, Jim," she told the farmer.
He smiled quickly, but found it hard to meet her eyes. "God knows you're right, but I fret so, and she sent me out."
"Boil me lots of water."
"Clean cloths, like towels – "
"Lordy, Miss Jardine, it's all done. I remember last time with Harriet. Please, just go to her?"
The cries from inside went up a pitch. "I'm just in time," she said to Sam. "You did very well."
She took a deep breath of fresh air, saw that among the cedars behind the house there were some yew, and even a Douglas Fir.
"What are you going to call her?" Jean asked, rolling her sleeves down after washing her hands and arms. Sam stared at the bloody water. "Jim?"
Jim pulled his eyes away from his sleeping wife and the sleeping baby cuddled up beside her. Harriet, only two, was asleep at her mother's feet. "What about it, Sam? What do you wanna call the baby?"
"Sam," Sam said.
"Can't call it Sam," Jim said. "It's a girl."
"Harriet."
"Can't do that, either. We'd all get in a mess, not knowing who was who."
Sam looked up at Jean. "What do you think?"
"Well, as a rule I like strong Scottish names for boys, but for girls I think a Christian name. Mary. Ruth. Alice."
"I like Alice," Sam said.
"Alice it is," Jim said. "Well, if your ma says. She might have an Irish one in mind."
"You'd better be taking me home," Jean said to Sam, and then to Jim, "I'll get Doctor Mayr to drop by. I had to put some stitches in. She'll be sore and cranky as a cat under a wheel for a few days. Let her rest all she wants."
Sam was smart enough to let the horse pull the buggy back to Milton at its own pace. He held the reins to show his passenger how grown up he was, and talked and talked. Jean nodded now and then, but mostly let her mind wander. Another Australian, she thought. And each one she helped bring into the world made her feel more like one as well, as if she was making a claim with each new bairn.
When she got home she gave Sam a handful of apples from her tree. He thanked her and left, keen to get back to his new sister. Jean watched him until he left Wason Street and then went round back. She checked the new mound. The ground here was low and water sometimes seeped up under her feet, but there was toad and slender rush growing along the fence line and moving up, and they kept the soil together. Further up, near the house itself, bell heather took over, sweeping around the house until they met the flowers out front. She gently pushed down on the mound, flattening it a little. In a month or two it would be as level as all the others. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed a quick, brown movement. She glanced up and saw the rear end of a mountain hare disappearing across the road and into the longer heather growing there. If it wasn't careful, the eagle she heard last night would catch it. A mountain hare that size would give a golden eagle no problem at all.
There was not much for Jean to do over October, and then November came and the rains came with it, great cascades of water born in violent electrical storms that swept along the coast like the angry breath of God. Then, when the rains eased, came the heat, stifling like a closed kitchen, the nights given shape by the incessant calling of cicadas and the birds that preyed on them. But every now and then Jean noticed the air coming off the Budawangs was cooler than usual, and the sound of it in the trees was like the soughing of a breeze through the tops of Scots pines and Douglas firs. The smell, too, was more Highlands than Budawangs.
There were no birthing in the offing until February. Or at least, there were none she knew about, so when Andreas appeared at her front door early one evening, the trap ready outside and his bag on the seat, she wondered what was going on.
"Jean, I need you to come with me. The harbour master sent someone to get me. There's an emergency on a steamer just in from Sydney."
"Of course," she said, already reaching behind the door for her own bag, "but I don't see what use I'll be … "
"It's a woman," he said, a little breathlessly, but didn't elaborate further.
No, not a woman, Jean thought, just a girl. And the problem was obvious.
The steerage cabin, already too small, was crowded with people. The girl lay on the only bunk, barely conscious. She was covered in a fine film of sweat and her dark hair stuck to her face like seaweed.
Dr Mayr knelt by the bunk. "What is her name?" he asked the captain, a long man with a long head and red whiskers.
"She's not on our passenger list," the captain said tightly and glared at the quartermaster, who in turn glared at a second and older woman standing by the cabin door anxiously chewing a thumb nail.
"We only had enough money to buy a single fare," she said. "But Annie said she had to get to Melbourne. That's where the father lives, she said."
"Annie's your sister," Jean said, glancing between them.
The woman nodded. "Our mum and dad don't know about this." The statement seemed so out of place that no one said anything for a long moment.
"How long has she been like this?" Dr Mayr asked.
"Since yesterday," the sister answered.
"How long has she been pregnant?"
"She thinks eight months. But she is not sure."
The doctor placed his palm on the woman's forehead, then felt for her pulse on her wrist. "All right, everyone to leave please, and close the door," he said. "Except you, Jean."
When the others had left he pulled back the bed clothes and and felt for the baby. "It's turned." He pulled a stethoscope from his bag and listened for the baby's heartbeat. "Nothing."
"Can she be saved?" Jean asked.
"She is not in labour. It will have to be a caesarean." He took a deep breath. "But yes, we can try."
It was not the sight of all the blood that finally drove Jean to the top deck, but the smell. In the confined space of the cabin it had been overpowering, and she had managed to control her stomach until the dead baby had been cut out and the mother stitched up. Then, with a hurried apology and the bile filling the back of her throat, she had rushed up to fresh air – ignoring the startled looks of the captain and quarter master and the mother's sister – and vomited over the side of the steamer.
The sister burst into tears and turned away. The captain came to Jean and put a hand on her shoulder. The action was as unexpected as it was gentle.
"The woman … the patient … " the captain started.
"She is still alive," Jean said quietly so the sister could not hear. "But it will be a miracle if she survives until night."
"The child?"
Jean shook her head. "There was nothing we could do. It had already died."
She pushed away from the railing, wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, and started towards the sister. The captain held her back.
"Your blouse, woman. Look at your blouse."
She looked down and remembered how the mother's blood had soaked into the bed clothing and the thin mattress, a seeping copper-smelling wash. And her blouse. Her gaze was drawn to the tide's margins where the drying blood faded to brown and then to the linen's original ivory, a curving coastline scalloped out of her own self.
"God," she said, and in that moment felt completely lost. She did not know what to do next.
"It's all right," the captain said, his hand still on her shoulder. "I'll tell her sister."
"Don't let her downstairs yet," Jean advised. "Get someone in to clean up first."
Jean turned back to the rail. The sister may already have seen the blouse, but perhaps not. She ignored the crying and the fuss behind her, the clattering as people passed and up down the gangway to the deck below. She looked out over Nulladulla Harbour. Seagulls swooped low over trawlers unloading their catch. The air pressed down on her, on the whole country and its shore, flattening the sea, making her feel more alien than she had felt for a long time in this strange mess of a continent. Death did that to her, reminded her that when her own time came she would forever be apart from her own ancestors and culture.
Still, she thought. Still, it was a choice. And there's always redemption for those who deserve it. Redemption from sins, from loneliness, from choices well or badly made. She stayed there for a long while until she saw a pair of otters. They were playing with each other just like otters played with each other in Loch Shiel below Glenfinnan.
When Dr Mayr finally appeared he carried the burden with him and gave it to Jean. "A boy," he said.
"And the mother?"
"They steam south this afternoon. If she lives it will be a miracle."
"If she doesn't?"
"They will bury her at sea." He swallowed. "They will throw her into the deep, where she is out of reach. God does not go down there. Even the devil is afraid of the abyss. I want to get off this ship."
He led the way onto the jetty. One of the harbour crew was watching the buggy for them; when he saw what Jean carried he made the sign of the cross.
It was still light when Jean got home, so she immediately dug a small grave, placing it next to Kenneth Cooper's. As she lay the burden in it she took its hand and said, "Fàilte, Murchadh. I know not your last name, but I will give you mine and the Lord will understand. God and Saint John, christen the child both flesh and bone." She stood up and readied a shovel full of dirt. Just before she scattered it over the burden, she prayed quickly, "And the Lord will find your mammy; the doctor was wrong. The Lord will find her and bring her home, so don't be afraid. Murdo Jardine, slàn leat."
When she was done she knew she had said the right thing and that all would be right for bairn. God understood.
She stretched her back to get rid of the pinching, stomped her feet on the spongy ground. Leaving the shovel where it was she found her stoneware bottle and went to the front step. The forest was dark and away, away to the high land beyond it spread. For a moment she thought she saw a great movement in its shadow, and as she peered into the green she saw it again, the great antlered head of an elk. It paused in its travelling and looked in her direction ever so briefly before moving deeper into the closing trees.
Jean felt half afraid and half exhilarated. You made your own home. This land may have been on the other side of the world from her birthplace, but with every life, every prayer, she put her roots down and made it her own.
["Welcome, farewell" first appeared in Baggage, ed Gillian Polack, Eneit Press, 2010.]


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All day I couldn't do anything else but sit at my computer and read stories about you, and the many sad reactions, (I hope you realize what an impact you had on so many people) and gently start on my own journey of reminiscing.
When I first met you during a costume fitting for the Canadian feature film, "Touched", shot in the mysterious Similkameen Valley, I felt a bit intimidated, but you soon fixed that with your humour and openess!
I was working as the assistant costume designer to designer Crystine Booth, and once in production, the costume set supervisor. I was beyond thrilled to be working near you, a "Redgrave", and the actor in me was ready to absorb and learn from a master.
I loved watching you work, before a scene, during a scene, and even afterward. I gradually learned to recognize when you needed your walkman and would sneak your headphones on your ears just before your request!
I was honoured when you quietly started sharing your thoughts about your work on the film, and in that process, I knew you were also acknowledging my acting experience.
Much later, after many personal trials and tribulations for both of us in our separate lives, you invited me to New York. You opened up your life to me, and I got to experience your generosity, and affection.
You made a dream of mine come true. You offered to coach me. In exchange, I had to help you learn lines of your next play.
Later, I thought to myself, "What was I thinking? Now I have to perform in front of Lynn Redgrave! Am I nuts?" I didn't tell you my fear :).
When I finally nailed my Shakespeare monologue in your living room, you leapt off the couch and into the air saying, "You were f—-g great!"… Wow… I was in heaven.
I still cannot believe you are gone. I knew cancer was a part of your life but you were so strong that I never imagined it taking you. I remember how we joked about you being an Amazonian Woman Warrior after your mastectomy, and how well you suited the title, especially when you told me to "clear off" in your strongest British accent, when I tried to stop you from carrying my luggage. You insisted because I was still walking with my cane as a result of my back operation.
Lynn, I wish I could have said goodbye, and I guess this is my way of doing it. I know you would understand as you liked the web, and you were a storyteller. And, you encouraged me to be one, too.
I will, Lynn – in your honour.
My condolences go to your family. Your presence will be hugely missed. If any of them read this blog post, I hope they will realize how touched I was by you, Lynn, and that I'm just one of many.
As a last gesture, in celebration of your life, and with a fond memory of all of us belting out this song with the band at an impromptu party in Keremeos, I leave you with "Mustang Sally"… What fun we had.
Thank you for sharing some beautiful memories! Lynn sounds like she was an amazing woman. Having only known her own screen, I can only imagine what she might have been like.
I didn't know she had battled with Cancer. One of my mother's best friends lost her life to the same disease last year. So hard to lose friends & family, especially to this disease.
Thanks again for sharing these memories. She did touch so many lives & will be forever missed….
Thank you, Guinevere, for your comments and taking time to read my piece. It is helping me to heal, and to move forward with this unexpected knowledge.
Very heartfelt and revealing. An honest portrait of an admirer of someone great, Trilby.


An old friend in a new persona appears back on Kahvi now after a long break - Opaeq (you may know previously as Abyssal Plains) has teamed up with a new face on Kahvi - Lunarblues - they make a formidable team as you'll hear!
A five track ep with both artists appearing on centre stage for a track or two each, along with a couple of special appearances of Opaeq in Lunarblues tracks.
If you're familiar with the Abyssal Plains magic, then I don't need to tell you that you've got more of the same but even better, in a more advanced, chilled and minimalistic style. Lunarblues doesn't fail to impress either with his track Lyra, but out of all the tracks, the track I keep coming back to is Lunar Plains, which I found on youtube many moons ago and can never get enough of. Enjoy this fantastic ep by a legend, and legend to be!


Access - The property has access from John Smith Road.
Land Use - The land is currently for farming with a small portion that is a planted pomegranate orchard.
Topography - Flat farm ground.
Improvements - 2,200 sq ft home and an equipment shed.
Zoning - Agricultural Productive (San Benito County). Property is subject to the Williamson Act.


FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT: courtyard, garden.
DISTANCES: The distance to the closest beach is 300 meter. The distance to the sea is 50 metar. The distance to the town center is 50 metar. Grocery store - 50 m. Closest restaurant - 50 m. Closest infirmary/hospital - 7000 m. Closest public transport (bus etc) - 300 m. Airport - 80 km. Train station - 50 km. Ship / ferry port - 40 km.
BASIC FEATURES: Apartment type: A1. 4 bed/s for adults. Apartment capacity (adults): (4). Category of apartment is 3 stars. Apartment size is 41 m2. The apartment is on high groundfloor. Access for the disabled is not enabled. Number of bedrooms in the apartment: 2. Number of bathrooms in the apartment: 1. Number of balconies in the apartment: 1.
EQUIPMENT: air conditioning in the living rooms (included in price), TV set, SAT-TV, smoking allowed inside the apartment , free heating (air conditioning).
KITCHEN EQUIPMENT: table and chairs, kitchen sink, hob with four cookers, electric and gas hob, oven, refrigerator, freezer, iron.
BATHROOM (1): Bathroom size is: 7 m2. Equipment in the bathroom: bath tub, toilet, washing machine, tiles, hairdryer, bath towels.
BALCONY/TERRACE (1): Size of balcony/teracce of the apartment is 7 m2. Features and equipment of the balcony/terrace covered, seating set, orientation sea side, partly sea view.


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Real Housewives Recap: 'Sundance City'
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2020 has officially become so terrible that I found an episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City weirdly … poignant? This week is centered around the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and now, almost a year later, with a mostly virtual Festival on the horizon in 2021, the world of packed screenings and ill-advised house parties feels like an impossible dream. We were all so innocent back in January!
Setting aside my impending emotional breakdown: yes, it's Sundance week! It was obvious since the announcement of this series that the Housewives would spend some time soaking up the closest thing Utah gets to Hollywood glamour. And while the drama isn't gone from this episode entirely, the general tone is more excited than bitter as the women prepare for Park City festivities.
Since the first episode, Lisa has touted her Sundance cred. ("Some people call me the queen of Sundance. I just think I'm really good at what I do," she says early in the episode. Later, she refers to herself as the queen of Sundance, so apparently "some people" includes herself.) Her high-octane ambition fuels the episode as she runs from event to event on practically no sleep. Her husband, John, seems decidedly less invested—in one telling confessional, he admits that Lisa is the real boss, says that he doesn't care because Lisa is a great boss, and then suggests that Lisa prepped him for the interview. (Honestly, I respect the business savvy! Don't let those Bravo producers control the narrative without a fight.) Still, he comes in clutch with a U-Haul full of furniture, and Lisa ends the episode quite pleased that everything is going so well. We also get a judgmental scene of Lisa skipping a FaceTime call from her kids. I found this narrative to be pretty gross. It's her busiest work week of the year! Her kids will survive if they can't video chat while eating Buffalo Wild Wings.
Meanwhile at the Marks household, Brooks is preparing for his clothing line to be featured at Park City's first ever Fashion Week. (In a telling moment at the end of the episode, Brooks gushes, "I don't know how I got this opportunity … I mean, I do. My mom, obviously.") Every moment of Brooks involves some sort of near-breakdown. He's surprised to learn that he's walking the runway, and wishes he would have gone on a juice cleanse. Right as he's supposed to leave for the show, he's still in a face mask. Then, a leaking toilet, blaring smoke alarm and dog accident make him 45 minutes late to the show. All the while, he's upset that Seth isn't coming to see the show, while Meredith feels increasingly guilty that her marital problems are partly to blame.
This episode's contractually mandated big party comes courtesy of Whitney, who is planning a big bash for her husband Justin's 52nd birthday. We haven't really seen much from this couple recently, and at the very least, it's clear they aren't lacking for excitement. The pregame isn't even finished before Justin slurps a shot from Whitney's belly button. Then, Whitney, Jen and Heather board the party bus to Deer Valley. I'll trust the Housewives that this party was fun, but it all looks strangely stilted on camera, especially when Mary shows up. She declined the invitation to go on the party bus, and she spends the night awkwardly dancing on her own away from the other women. Of course, Mary and Jen quickly start fighting again. This spat isn't the energy-sucking blowout of episodes past, though Mary does directly address Jen's, um, blunt comments about Mary's marriage. Jen conveniently says that she was too drunk to remember. The two are (sort of) able to keep their tempers in check, seemingly for Whitney's sake, though it's clear this rivalry isn't over.
Whitney's raucous party spurs what is easily my favorite subplot of the night—Heather is, simply put, extremely horny and not afraid to say it. The two cousins debrief at Punch Bowl Social (R.I.P) where Heather offers her weekly Sunday school lesson on Mormon culture and politics. (Yes, Utah liquor laws never really moved past the Prohibition, as most locals are well aware of.) Whitney's nontraditional, sex positive marriage inspires Heather to take stock of her own relationship history. She regrets "choosing faith over love"—in a brutal bit of editing, Heather talks about her loveless marriage as photos of her young family, husband included, are displayed. Now, post-divorce, Heather is in a serious dry spell. She feels rejected by Utah men who want her to fit into the typical Utah mold, and she is haunted by an alternate timeline of her 20s where she explored her sexuality and tried new things. Sure, Heather's attitude is more than a little fatalistic—she declares that "the men in Utah are worth nothing"—but dating in Utah is rough for just about everyone, and Heather is feeling the pain.
This comes to a head when Jen hosts a screening for a film by her cousin Tony Vainuku, filled with men who are a little drunk, ready to have some fun, and, most importantly, not from Utah. "This is a feeding frenzy for me," Heather says. And, for all of their interpersonal squabbles, the Housewives are surprisingly good wingwomen! Jen primes a hot single guy to talk to Heather, Vanderpump Rules stars Lala Kent and Katie Maloney-Shwartz hype her up and Whitney offers the classic Mormon mom line: "Remember who you are. Return with honor." Heather's charmingly odd attempts to flirt include calling a projector a "mad ass printer," but apparently it works, because the couple leaves the party together to everyone else's obvious delight. Good for Heather!
I am weirdly fixated on one very specific moment of the episode. It's B-roll at the beginning of a scene at Shah Squad marketing. The camera zooms in on a notebook that reads, in a font that's best described as "Target mom," "just a girl boss building her empire." Just to review: Jen's son has a sign in his bedroom that defines the word "hustle." Mary gave out notebooks that say "boss lady" at a Met Gala-themed (?!) luncheon. And now we have this? These women wake up every day and choose violence.
This raises the most important question of the episode: which Housewife is the best "boss lady?" Lisa, to her credit, is effusively upbeat to the staff members at her many Sundance events. But Lisa, who says the Church of Jesus Christ teaches the "constant pursuit of being your best self," has a relentless positivity that could be exhausting. We haven't seen Meredith interact with her staff, but she does teach Brooks that timeliness is important, so she seems to be at least professional. Jen tries to be a fun boss—she rollerskates through the halls of her office in sunglasses and a tiara—and teases her first assistant Stuart for his drunken antics at an earlier Sundance party. (He apparently called himself "Stu Chainz," which I consider a microaggression of some kind.) But her insistence on treating staff as family could be a boundary-setting nightmare. How often does Stuart literally fan Jen? Do the rotating cast of makeup artists and nail technicians ever tire of supporting Jen through petty drama? Do any of these people have their own families that probably want them to clock out at 5 p.m.? These are the questions that keep me up at night.
Mary's housekeeper Charlinda is literally family, because apparently Charlinda is Mary's grandmother's brother's daughter. But Mary's definition of family is … well, I'll just let her explain it: "We're not close at all. Like, I don't know her life and what she does outside of what she helps me with. But at the end of the day we're family." This checks out—Mary exuded strong Karen energy when she berated the staff prepping her Met Gala luncheon. And yet Charlinda keeps beat-boxing on, seemingly bulletproof. She is the episode's most inspiring person and the show's moral center. I hope Mary offers her a spare Chanel purse this Christmas.
Random observations:
Meredith calls Park City the cultural center of Utah, which is definitely up for debate!
Another perfect Heather line: "I am always looking for sex but I am not looking for love. … That sounded horribly vulgar. Can you delete?" Thankfully, no one deleted.
Jen "kept it modest" with her one-piece swimsuit—and a fur coat and matching boots of course.
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An Offbeat Australian Sports Controversy Offers A Lesson For Americans, Especially Those On The Left
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As Americans argue over concepts like "fairness" and "inclusion" in feeding the cultural confusion created by arguing for letting women into traditionally male domains and having transgenders turn up wherever they please, we have another example of how fruitless these debates are in the face of thousands of years of human history and biology.
Let's turn to Australia.
There, they play a version of basketball called "netball," and recently the state of Queensland held its under-18 state championship tournament.
A team called the won the title, blitzing all of the competition. For example, the Suns won 46-12 in the championship game.
What made the Suns unique is that they are an all-boys team that, in the spirit of "inclusion," were allowed to compete against seven all-girls squads in the big tournament.
The governing body, Netball Queensland, sounded like American feminists advocating for, say, a woman to play college football or for transgender women in female lockerrooms in explaining why it essentially allowed the equivalent of LeBron James and the Lakers to play in the WNBA.
"We stand by the decision to choose inclusion over exclusion," the group noted, adding that the boys "have limited opportunities to play in a high-performance environment due to low participation numbers [of other boys] and limited pathways."
The Suns were "verbally abused by parents," the local media reported, noting that "several spectators leveled vile insults against the players and coach with many outraged that an all-boys team was allowed to play against an all-girls team."
One person who was particularly outraged was Katherine Deves, co-founder of a group called Save Women's Sports Australasia – which opposes allowing transgender women to compete in biological women's sports.
"Who's being included here? Because it's certainly not the women and girls,"Deves told Australian media. She added that the tournament showed that women and girls were expected to sacrifice their sports so "men and boys feel good about themselves. It's absolutely outrageous."
America could learn from this.
President Joe Biden not long ago said, "There's not a single thing a man can do that a woman can't do as well or better."
Well, there's at least one – play netball. And we know from human history, science, and common sense, there are plenty of others.
The Queensland Suns did not deserve the scorn directed at them. That should have been aimed at the adults who let them play for the sake of "inclusion."
But, in a lesson some American liberals pushing a radical anti-woman agenda could learn, their domination shows that biology wins out in the end, and to deny that means to penalize women for no good reason.
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Hanson fick tidigt musikalisk utbildning, reste 1865 till USA och var sedan dess bosatt i Worcester i Massachusetts. Vid sidan av en omfattande handel med musikalier och musikinstrument ägnade han mycken tid åt sångens tjänst och verkat som ledare av flera svenska sångföreningar. Han komponerade ett antal smärre musikstycken samt kantater och operetter, bland vilka Tyrolean queen (1880), Princess Phosa (1895), Enchanted forest (1896), Frithiof and Ingeborg (1897) och Countess of Tivoli (1902) var de främsta.

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Haas breaks free for one of his three receiving touchdowns in the game against McMurry in October. His three touchdowns in the game tied the all-time record for receiving touchdowns in a game at the university.
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Seguin's Hayde Haas had a game and season to remember for the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor as the Crusaders faced McMurry University in Abilene in October.
Haas played receiver for Seguin during the 2018 sesaon, when he had 1,005 yards receiving and 12 touchdowns in his senior year.
A game to remember: Haas ties Crusaders record in first season at UMHB
Kevin Duke Seguin Gazette
First, Seguin's Hayden Haas had to make the team.
Then, as a freshman, Haas had to play a back-up role as a second-string receiver for one of the top NCAA Division III schools in the country.
With both of those requirements met, the 2018 Seguin graduate was set to play his first year for the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor Crusaders, on a team that had won two of the last three Division III national championships.
And in a game at McMurry University in Abilene last October, Haas took full advantage of his opportunity.
The Crusaders were pounding McMurry, up 38-0 in the second quarter, when Haas got the call to play.
He responded with a record-setting performance, catching three balls in the contest, with all three going for touchdowns. The three-touchdown game tied the all-time record for touchdown catches in a game at the university.
Not bad for a second-string, freshman receiver in his first year of college ball.
Picking a school
Haas made the decision to go to UMHB after a visit last spring, at least partially because of the winning tradition at the school.
"I really loved the atmosphere at the school," Haas, 18, said. "I learned that they were the DIII national champions two out of the last three years and that really intrigued me — I wanted to win."
Haas hadn't committed to play anywhere, this despite a senior season at Seguin that saw him catch 12 touchdowns and gain over 1,000 yards receiving, and make All-District, All-Area and 5A All-State teams.
A recruiting coordinator for the university contacted Haas in March of last year, leading to the visit and his decision to go there. He received an academic scholarship to attend the university.
Reporting to practice last August, Haas had a big mountain to climb to make the varsity team.
"The first day I got there, there were about 200 guys," Haas said. "They bring in a lot of guys so they can get the best of the best. I worked my butt off, beat out a whole bunch of freshmen and got put with the varsity. I was one of two freshmen (receivers) to make the varsity."
The level of competition to accomplish that goal was formidable, he said.
"It's a whole other caliber of athlete, going from high school to college," Haas said. "It's a whole different ball game when you're going up against guys bigger than you, faster and stronger. You just really have to push yourself."
Haas saw playing time in every game with UMHB, but much of it was in games that the 12-1 Crusaders had blown out their opponents.
"I started on punt return," haas said. "But I saw time at receiver every game because almost every single game was a blowout."
Three scores
The game against McMurry was special for the freshman.
"It was the first game I got more than one ball thrown to me," Haas said. "It was near the end of the second quarter that I got my first college touchdown."
Haas turned a 10-yard slant into a 38-yard touchdown catch and run for the score. He scored again in the third on the exact same play, this time rumbling for a 53-yard score.
A fade pattern for a 20-yard score came late in the contest, giving the freshman the tie for the record.
"It was a really neat experience," Haas said.
Most of the games he came into were already decided, so the Crusaders didn't throw the ball that much when he was in. He ended the season with five catches for 198 yards (a 39.6 yard average per catch) and the three touchdowns.
Haas saw some playing time against his hometown school, Texas Lutheran, which was odd after he had rooted for the Bulldogs growing up in Seguin.
"It was kind of weird, but I wanted to beat them really bad," he said. "A lot of my family went to the game so it was good to see all of them,. but it was fun because it was the conference championship game this season."
UMHB beat the Bulldogs 41-3 to continue their unbeaten (at that point) season.
Playing football at a school that has established itself as a winner year in and year out meant Haas had to step up his game.
"You have to have a special mindset when you are around that group of guys, you don't really have a choice," Haas said. "The way they work, working toward one goal every day, you can't help but follow that, follow that lead.
"It's really an awesome program, that's why they are so good every year. They're not only committed to that goal, but to one another."
The Crusaders were ranked No. 2 in the country for most of the season, won the conference title and two playoff games, before falling to eventual national runner-up, Wisconsin-Whitewater.
"The whole experience of being in the playoffs was really special to me," Haas said. "Going to Seguin, we didn't really do much until coach Bush got there and we made the playoffs for the first time in my senior year.
"We lost in the first round, so being able to win a playoff game in college was super special to me, because it was something I had never done in my life."
Haas plans on returning to the Crusaders for his sophomore season next year, with the possibility of starting, as the receiver ahead of him on the depth chart is graduating in the spring.
"I'll be going for the offseason (workouts)," Haas said. "I have a good chance (to start), but I know I'll have to work my butt off, because there will be a lot of new guys coming in."
Kevin Duke is the sports editor of the Seguin Gazette. You can e-mail him at sports@seguingazette.com .
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We talk a lot about why van wraps are an excellent tool for your business.
They're a great way to advertise to a large number of people, they're a great marketing tool, and they have the ability to be mobile, so they create a lot of visibility. However, if they are not installed properly or aren't taken care of afterward, van wraps have the potential to fail. If your wrap looks cruddy, it won't reflect well on your brand and you probably won't generate new business with it. Basically, if one aspect of your wrap fails, there will be a snowball effect to follow. Here are five common reasons why van wraps fail and how to avoid it from happening to yours.
Before your van is ready for a wrap, it has to be in pristine condition-a car wash doesn't cut it. All dirt, oil, and debris has to be removed from the vehicle to ensure the vinyl bonds to the surface. While dirt may be invisible to the eye prior to wrap installation, it will be visible once a wrap is installed, creating an unsightly texture. Oily residue can lead to an inability for the wrap to adhere to the vehicle or cause your van wrap to bubble. Proper pre-installation prep would include chemical cleaning on your vehicle to prevent any of this from happening.
When you're searching for a professional installation company, cheaper isn't always better. In fact, cheaper installation prices probably mean that the materials they use are also cheap. The wrong film will lead to bubbling, wrinkling, poor adhesion, and distortion. Seek out a reputable company that will use high-quality materials on your van wrap.
Often the result from using the wrong vinyl film, overstretching a van wrap will lead to distortion and fading. If you want the artwork on your wrap to look like your original design, listen to the advice we gave above. Don't use a company that offers low prices for low-quality material. Otherwise, your circle logo might end up looking like an oval. That's just plain embarrassing.
This part is on you. When you get a van wrap installed, you have to take care of it afterwards. Even the best looking wrap will end up looking bad if it's not given the proper care and maintenance during the course of its lifetime. Wraps should be cleaned often, using soft microfiber cloths, not abrasive scrubbers.
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