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Raquel Ércole, telenovela actress dies, is the supposed curse fulfilled?
Days after the death of Don Vicente Fernández and Carmelita Salinas, the departure of another actress is announced
He died unexpectedly at home
The woman did not suffer from diseases
The entertainment world has gone through extremely difficult times with the departure of Carmelita Salinas and Don Vicente Fernández. In the same week, Mexico experienced the mourning of two great artists and exhibitors of Mexican culture in the world. Now a soap opera actress has passed away.
No medium is saved from superstitions and alleged 'curses', in the entertainment world there is a strong belief that with the death of a great artist, singer, comedian or actor, two other deaths of colleagues accompany him, thus completing the 'curse' of the three.
Telenovela actress dies hours after Vicente Fernández died
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Obviously there is no evidence that this supposed curse is true, but what is 'chilling' is that within hours of the death of Vicente Fernández and after the death of Carmen Salinas, the death of Raquel Ércole, a famous actress from TV soaps.
Raquel Ércole died this Monday at the age of 81, just hours after the death of the "Charro de Huentitán" was announced. The actress of "Impatience of the heart" was found dead in her home, according to the portal Infobae. In addition, national media reported the alleged cause of death.
Telenovela actress Raquel Ércole dies in 'strange circumstances' and is found at her home
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The tributes and mourning did not take long to arrive and flood social networks, while it was reported in various media such as "El Tiempo" that the actress died unexpectedly and 'strangely' at home. According to the Infobae report, the first actress died of natural causes, since she did not suffer from any disease.
Publications made by her daughter before her death showed her calm, enjoying vacations and the beach, according to Infobae. "One of those screaming scenes that made us laugh. Rest in peace my dear Raquel, I will always remember you as a woman of character, disciplined, tender and generous, "said Marion Zapata, according to Infobae.
Reveals how actress Raquel Ércole died
The quoted medium details that the beloved soap opera actress went to sleep on Sunday and never woke up. Raquel Ércole was one of the first Colombians to make her debut on the small screen. She was married to the musician and comedian Lizardo Díaz Muñoz.
She was the mother of fellow actress Patricia Ércole. He participated in soap operas such as: "Impatience of the heart", "An angel from the street", "The enigma of Diana", "Letters to Beatriz", "The shadow of a sin", "A life to love you", "This Sunday "," Sinister games ", and" Golden flower ", according to Infobae.
Damn in show business?
The entertainment world continues to mourn the death of Raquel Ércole and while the details of the deaths of Don Vicente Fernández, the "Charro de Huentitán" and Carmelita Salinas continue to come to light, and it is that the same day that the Mexican singer died, he was alerted to a shooting in full vigil.
They report shooting in full tribute in honor of Vicente Fernández and the followers fled the scene. The authorities confirmed the facts and are investigating the crime scene. While in Mexico, a heartbreaking scene took place at the funeral.
They report shooting in full tribute to Vicente Fernández
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Alejandro Fernández sang in front of the body of his father Vicente Fernández during the heartfelt tribute they paid to the 'Charro de Huentitán' at the VFG arena on Sunday night, December 12, while the shooting broke out on the Hollywood walk of fame when a subject shot near the tribute to Vicente Fernández.
This vigil was carried out after announcing the death of the singer. Reports NBC Los Angeles, cited by The Sun, they point out that a man armed with a rifle fired multiple times from the window of an apartment near the memorial area.
This was the shooting that caused panic among his followers
Meanwhile in Mexico, Doña Cuquita was in front of the coffin of her husband, Don Vicente Fernández, and then Alejandro Fernández took a microphone, approached, hugged her and began to sing in front of his father's body. The moment was more than emotional, Don Chente's wife of 60 years burst into tears when she heard her son pay tribute to his father.
Apparently the building near the shooting faced the celebration in honor of the Charro de Huentitán in Hollywood. The famous and beloved Hispanic singer died this December 12 in Mexico. The news shocked all his followers and thousands in the country.
They report bullets and evacuate the followers of Vicente Fernández
He received his star on the Walk of Fame in 1998, according to The Sun. An ABC7 reporter wrote on Twitter: "Shots erupt across the street from the #VicenteFernandez tribute to his star on the walk of fame," according to the quoted outlet.
"We heard 4-5 shots. A bullet broke a glass door across the street, "he said in another message. There are no reports of injuries. They are looking for the shooter, "added the journalist on Twitter. Later it was revealed that the followers of the Mexican singer were evacuated from the area. The area was considered a crime scene according to The Sun report.
People do not stop arriving at the funeral of the Charro de Huentitán
Meanwhile in Mexico the tribute began late at night, but people do not stop arriving and it is that Vicente Fernández's family has said that they will not close the doors, on the contrary, they will continue open so that all the people who want to come to say goodbye of the singer pass very close to the coffin of their idol.
Just while a tribute was being held in Mexico for Vicente Fernández, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, sent a message in which he recognized the enormous loss that the death of the singer represents for millions of people around the world.
Joe Biden sends message about Vicente Fernández
"The world of music has lost an icon. Vicente Fernández's music created memories for millions. We send our condolences to his family and to all who loved him. Vicente will be remembered for generations to come, "Biden tweeted tonight.
Doña Cuquita said goodbye to her beloved Don Chente, who had been her husband since 1963, while in the background the songs of her great love were heard. With the strength that the pain allowed, Refugio Abarca placed herself next to her husband's coffin, kissed him and nodded towards the public that chanted his name, the name of the woman who accompanied the 'Charro de Huentitán' for almost all his life and that she is also the mother of her three sons. TO SEE THE VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING CLICK HERE.
Doña Cuquita says goodbye to Don Chente
On stage. This is how Vicente Fernández said goodbye to his beloved audience and the family decided to open the doors for some 11,000 fans to say goodbye to their idol as he would have liked, singing the songs that became the flag of Mexican music.
Late at night, Don Chente's coffin arrived on the shoulders of his mariachi while the audience sang "El Rey" with deep feeling. The first vocalist of his mariachi also continued to sing "Mexico, cute and dear," "Hermoso cariño," and so little by little the enormous repertoire of Vicente Fernández began to sound, while his children and closest relatives raised a guard of body present.
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Samsung has announced a wide-ranging accessories portfolio which is exclusively designed to complement their much anticipated Galaxy Tab device. These accessories include a Keyboard dock, Multimedia Desk Dock, Notebook/Stand case, Leather Slip Case, D30 Silicon/Gel Case, Portable Speakers, Headphones, Samsung Memory Cards, Travel Adapter, USB Data Cable, TV-Out Cable and an In-Car Charger.
From the portfolio, the Keyboard Dock and Multimedia Desk Dock are being mentioned as the exceptionally brilliant devices. The well designed portable Keyboard Dock has a full-sized 83 key keyboard and can hold the Galaxy Tab securely in a portrait position as it is equipped with a built-in docking station. It can be used to charge the Tab and provides audio connection through a 3.5mm audio jack.
The Multimedia Desk Dock comes with speaker outputs (3.5mm) and a mini HDMI socket. It is a portrait stand and can charge the Tab while it is being used.
The Keyboard Dock is priced at £69.99 ($110) and the Multimedia Desk Dock will come with a price-tag of £39.99 ($60).
All the devices, except the D30 Silicon/Gel Case, will be available immediately along with the launch of the Galaxy Tab which is scheduled for November 1st. Initially the product will be launched in the UK and later into the other markets.


The Big Goal: Google Integration - Productive Computing, Inc.
As FileMaker developers, we've had many requests to integrate a client's FileMaker solution with Google Calendar. The partnership of a customized database with the flexibility and accessibility of an online calendar is ideal. Events can be composed in FileMaker and pushed to Google calendar, where users can access event details from their phones, tablets or browsers. But it can be a challenge to connect Database A to Calendar B, so let's delve a little into how to tackle that task.
Read more on how to integrate FileMaker with Google Calendar at Philosophy of FileMaker.


Most of you know that Sandy Smock, author of The Beacon for the last five years, is gone. I am writing to thank those of you who faithfully read his weekly writings. I know you all know how much he loved our church and how he believes that we are capable of great work at Church of Our Saviour! I am grateful to Fr. Gary who gave his approval for this weekly Column and grateful to those who personally encouraged him! He wanted to "be purposeful" to the very end.


AFTER what we have said, a discussion of friendship would naturally follow, since it is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living. For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods; even rich men and those in possession of office and of dominating power are thought to need friends most of all; for what is the use of such prosperity without the opportunity of beneficence, which is exercised chiefly and in its most laudable form towards friends? Or how can prosperity be guarded and preserved without friends? The greater it is, the more exposed is it to risk. And in poverty and in other misfortunes men think friends are the only refuge. It helps the young, too, to keep from error; it aids older people by ministering to their needs and supplementing the activities that are failing from weakness; those in the prime of life it stimulates to noble actions -- 'two going together' -- for with friends men are more able both to think and to act. Again, parent seems by nature to feel it for offspring and offspring for parent, not only among men but among birds and among most animals; it is felt mutually by members of the same race, and especially by men, whence we praise lovers of their fellowmen. We may even in our travels how near and dear every man is to every other. Friendship seems too to hold states together, and lawgivers to care more for it than for justice; for unanimity seems to be something like friendship, and this they aim at most of all, and expel faction as their worst enemy; and when men are friends they have no need of justice, while when they are just they need friendship as well, and the truest form of justice is thought to be a friendly quality.
Between sour and elderly people friendship arises less readily, inasmuch as they are less good-tempered and enjoy companionship less; for these are thou to be the greatest marks of friendship productive of it. This is why, while men become friends quickly, old men do not; it is because men do not become friends with those in whom they do not delight; and similarly sour people do not quickly make friends either. But such men may bear goodwill to each other; for they wish one another well and aid one another in need; but they are hardly friends because they do not spend their days together nor delight in each other, and these are thought the greatest marks of friendship.
It is in this way more than any other that even unequals can be friends; they can be equalized. Now equality and likeness are friendship, and especially the likeness of those who are like in virtue; for being steadfast in themselves they hold fast to each other, and neither ask nor give base services, but (one may say) even prevent them; for it is characteristic of good men neither to go wrong themselves nor to let their friends do so. But wicked men have no steadfastness (for they do not remain even like to themselves), but become friends for a short time because they delight in each other's wickedness. Friends who are useful or pleasant last longer; i.e. as long as they provide each other with enjoyments or advantages. Friendship for utility's sake seems to be that which most easily exists between contraries, e.g. between poor and rich, between ignorant and learned; for what a man actually lacks he aims at, and one gives something else in return. But under this head, too, might bring lover and beloved, beautiful and ugly. This is why lovers sometimes seem ridiculous, when they demand to be loved as they love; if they are equally lovable their claim can perhaps be justified, but when they have nothing lovable about them it is ridiculous. Perhaps, however, contrary does not even aim at contrary by its own nature, but only incidentally, the desire being for what is intermediate; for that is what is good, e.g. it is good for the dry not to become wet but to come to the intermediate state, and similarly with the hot and in all other cases. These subjects we may dismiss; for they are indeed somewhat foreign to our inquiry.
Friendship and justice seem, as we have said at the outset of our discussion, to be concerned with the same objects and exhibited between the same persons. For in every community there is thought to be some form of justice, and friendship too; at least men address as friends their fellow-voyagers and fellow-soldiers, and so too those associated with them in any other kind of community. And the extent of their association is the extent of their friendship, as it is the extent to which justice exists between them. And the proverb 'what friends have is common property' expresses the truth; for friendship depends on community. Now brothers and comrades have all things in common, but the others to whom we have referred have definite things in common -- some more things, others fewer; for of friendships, too, some are more and others less truly friendships. And the claims of justice differ too; the duties of parents to children, and those of brothers to each other are not the same, nor those of comrades and those of fellow-citizens, and so, too, with the other kinds of friendship. There is a difference, therefore, also between the acts that are unjust towards each of these classes of associates, and the injustice increases by being exhibited towards those who are friends in a fuller sense; e.g. it is a more terrible thing to defraud a comrade than a fellow-citizen, more terrible not to help a brother than a stranger, and more terrible to wound a father than any one else. And the demands of justice also seem to increase with the intensity of the friendship, which implies that friendship and justice exist between the same persons and have an equal extension.
There are three kinds of constitution, and an equal number of deviation-forms -- perversions, as it were, of them. The constitutions are monarchy, aristocracy, and thirdly that which is based on a property qualification, which it seems appropriate to call timocratic, though most people are wont to call it polity. The best of these is monarchy, the worst timocracy. The deviation from monarchy is tyrany; for both are forms of one-man rule, but there is the greatest difference between them; the tyrant looks to his own advantage, the king to that of his subjects. For a man is not a king unless he is sufficient to himself and excels his subjects in all good things; and such a man needs nothing further; therefore he will not look to his own interests but to those of his subjects; for a king who is not like that would be a mere titular king. Now tyranny is the very contrary of this; the tyrant pursues his own good. And it is clearer in the case of tyranny that it is the worst deviation-form; but it is the contrary of the best that is worst. Monarchy passes over into tyranny; for tyranny is the evil form of one-man rule and the bad king becomes a tyrant. Aristocracy passes over into oligarchy by the badness of the rulers, who distribute contrary to equity what belongs to the city -- all or most of the good things to themselves, and office always to the same people, paying most regard to wealth; thus the rulers are few and are bad men instead of the most worthy. Timocracy passes over into democracy; for these are coterminous, since it is the ideal even of timocracy to be the rule of the majority, and all who have the property qualification count as equal. Democracy is the least bad of the deviations; for in its case the form of constitution is but a slight deviation. These then are the changes to which constitutions are most subject; for these are the smallest and easiest transitions.
Every form of friendship, then, involves association, as has been said. One might, however, mark off from the rest both the friendship of kindred and that of comrades. Those of fellow-citizens, fellow-tribesmen, fellow-voyagers, and the like are more like mere friendships of association; for they seem to rest on a sort of compact. With them we might class the friendship of host and guest. The friendship of kinsmen itself, while it seems to be of many kinds, appears to depend in every case on parental friendship; for parents love their children as being a part of themselves, and children their parents as being something originating from them. Now (1) arents know their offspring better than there children know that they are their children, and (2) the originator feels his offspring to be his own more than the offspring do their begetter; for the product belongs to the producer (e.g. a tooth or hair or anything else to him whose it is), but the producer does not belong to the product, or belongs in a less degree. And (3) the length of time produces the same result; parents love their children as soon as these are born, but children love their parents only after time has elapsed and they have acquired understanding or the power of discrimination by the senses. From these considerations it is also plain why mothers love more than fathers do. Parents, then, love their children as themselves (for their issue are by virtue of their separate existence a sort of other selves), while children love their parents as being born of them, and brothers love each other as being born of the same parents; for their identity with them makes them identical with each other (which is the reason why people talk of 'the same blood', 'the same stock', and so on). They are, therefore, in a sense the same thing, though in separate individuals. Two things that contribute greatly to friendship are a common upbringing and similarity of age; for 'two of an age take to each other', and people brought up together tend to be comrades; whence the friendship of brothers is akin to that of comrades. And cousins and other kinsmen are bound up together by derivation from brothers, viz. by being derived from the same parents. They come to be closer together or farther apart by virtue of the nearness or distance of the original ancestor.
The friendship of children to parents, and of men to gods, is a relation to them as to something good and superior; for they have conferred the greatest benefits, since they are the causes of their being and of their nourishment, and of their education from their birth; and this kind of friendship possesses pleasantness and utility also, more than that of strangers, inasmuch as their life is lived more in common. The friendship of brothers has the characteristics found in that of comrades (and especially when these are good), and in general between people who are like each other, inasmuch as they belong more to each other and start with a love for each other from their very birth, and inasmuch as those born of the same parents and brought up together and similarly educated are more akin in character; and the test of time has been applied most fully and convincingly in their case.
Between other kinsmen friendly relations are found in due proportion. Between man and wife friendship seems to exist by nature; for man is naturally inclined to form couples -- even more than to form cities, inasmuch as the household is earlier and more necessary than the city, and reproduction is more common to man with the animals. With the other animals the union extends only to this point, but human beings live together not only for the sake of reproduction but also for the various purposes of life; for from the start the functions are divided, and those of man and woman are different; so they help each other by throwing their peculiar gifts into the common stock. It is for these reasons that both utility and pleasure seem to be found in this kind of friendship. But this friendship may be based also on virtue, if the parties are good; for each has its own virtue and they will delight in the fact. And children seem to be a bond of union (which is the reason why childless people part more easily); for children are a good common to both and what is common holds them together.
There are three kinds of friendship, as we said at the outset of our inquiry, and in respect of each some are friends on an equality and others by virtue of a superiority (for not only can equally good men become friends but a better man can make friends with a worse, and similarly in friendships of pleasure or utility the friends may be equal or unequal in the benefits they confer). This being so, equals must effect the required equalization on a basis of equality in love and in all other respects, while unequals must render what is in proportion to their superiority or inferiority. Complaints and reproaches arise either only or chiefly in the friendship of utility, and this is only to be expected. For those who are friends on the ground of virtue are anxious to do well by each other (since that is a mark of virtue and of friendship), and between men who are emulating each other in this there cannot be complaints or quarrels; no one is offended by a man who loves him and does well by him -- if he is a person of nice feeling he takes his revenge by doing well by the other. And the man who excels the other in the services he renders will not complain of his friend, since he gets what he aims at; for each man desires what is good. Nor do complaints arise much even in friendships of pleasure; for both get at the same time what they desire, if they enjoy spending their time together; and even a man who complained of another for not affording him pleasure would seem ridiculous, since it is in his power not to spend his days with him.
Now it seems that, as justice is of two kinds, one unwritten and the other legal, one kind of friendship of utility is moral and the other legal. And so complaints arise most of all when men do not dissolve the relation in the spirit of the same type of friendship in which they contracted it. The legal type is that which is on fixed terms; its purely commercial variety is on the basis of immediate payment, while the more liberal variety allows time but stipulates for a definite quid pro quo. In this variety the debt is clear and not ambiguous, but in the postponement it contains an element of friendliness; and so some states do not allow suits arising out of such agreements, but think men who have bargained on a basis of credit ought to accept the consequences. The moral type is not on fixed terms; it makes a gift, or does whatever it does, as to a friend; but one expects to receive as much or more, as having not given but lent; and if a man is worse off when the relation is dissolved than he was when it was contracted he will complain. This happens because all or most men, while they wish for what is noble, choose what is advantageous; now it is noble to do well by another without a view to repayment, but it is the receiving of benefits that is advantageous. Therefore if we can we should return the equivalent of what we have received (for we must not make a man our friend against his will; we must recognize that we were mistaken at the first and took a benefit from a person we should not have taken it from -- since it was not from a friend, nor from one who did it just for the sake of acting so -- and we must settle up just as if we had been benefited on fixed terms). Indeed, one would agree to repay if one could (if one could not, even the giver would not have expected one to do so); therefore if it is possible we must repay. But at the outset we must consider the man by whom we are being benefited and on what terms he is acting, in order that we may accept the benefit on these terms, or else decline it.
It is disputable whether we ought to measure a service by its utility to the receiver and make the return with a view to that, or by the benevolence of the giver. For those who have received say they have received from their benefactors what meant little to the latter and what they might have got from others -- minimizing the service; while the givers, on the contrary, say it was the biggest thing they had, and what could not have been got from others, and that it was given in times of danger or similar need. Now if the friendship is one that aims at utility, surely the advantage to the receiver is the measure. For it is he that asks for the service, and the other man helps him on the assumption that he will receive the equivalent; so the assistance has been precisely as great as the advantage to the receiver, and therefore he must return as much as he has received, or even more (for that would be nobler). In friendships based on virtue on the other hand, complaints do not arise, but the purpose of the doer is a sort of measure; for in purpose lies the essential element of virtue and character.
At all events it seems that each party is justified in his claim, and that each should get more out of the friendship than the other -- not more of the same thing, however, but the superior more honour and the inferior more gain; for honour is the prize of virtue and of beneficence, while gain is the assistance required by inferiority.
It seems to be so in constitutional arrangements also; the man who contributes nothing good to the common stock is not honoured; for what belongs to the public is given to the man who benefits the public, and honour does belong to the public. It is not possible to get wealth from the common stock and at the same time honour. For no one puts up with the smaller share in all things; therefore to the man who loses in wealth they assign honour and to the man who is willing to be paid, wealth, since the proportion to merit equalizes the parties and preserves the friendship, as we have said. This then is also the way in which we should associate with unequals; the man who is benefited in respect of wealth or virtue must give honour in return, repaying what he can. For friendship asks a man to do what he can, not what is proportional to the merits of the case; since that cannot always be done, e.g. in honours paid to the gods or to parents; for no one could ever return to them the equivalent of what he gets, but the man who serves them to the utmost of his power is thought to be a good man. This is why it would not seem open to a man to disown his father (though a father may disown his son); being in debt, he should repay, but there is nothing by doing which a son will have done the equivalent of what he has received, so that he is always in debt. But creditors can remit a debt; and a father can therefore do so too. At the same time it is thought that presumably no one would repudiate a son who was not far gone in wickedness; for apart from the natural friendship of father and son it is human nature not to reject a son's assistance. But the son, if he is wicked, will naturally avoid aiding his father, or not be zealous about it; for most people wish to get benefits, but avoid doing them, as a thing unprofitable. -- So much for these questions.


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Business, Digital, Marketing	| by Barry Holder on 23rd October 2015
The health of the Northern Powerhouse (and Chinese Medicine)
I published the following post a couple of weeks ago asking the question of why the Northern Powerhouse had dropped off the radar. Fast forward to today and the visit to Manchester of Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to reinvigorate the Northern Powerhouse concept through a number of deals promising investment into the region.
So will this dose of Chinese medicine be what is needed to kickstart the Northern Powerhouse? As with the talk before the election, it will be interesting to see what happens after the state visit ends and to see if the investment that is promised happen and for these projects to be delivered.
The health of the Northern Powerhouse
I have confession to make. I wrote the first draft of this blog back in April ahead of the election, but life being life in a busy and successful agency the draft sat on my desktop as v0.9 waiting for some time to polish it off and punch up the adjectives.
If you cast your mind back to 5 months the country was in full election swing and politicians of all persuasions were falling over themselves to offer businesses a bright and cheery vision of life in the coming months and years.
One phrase in particular was a constant whenever senior government figures appeared at a photocall in a power station, call centre or railway station north of Birmingham – "The Northern Powerhouse".
What is the Northern Powerhouse?
London and the South East was saturated, the North was where all the growth was going to happen with infrastructure projects to make travelling from Leeds to Liverpool as quick as crossing East to West London, devolved power for Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield to enable them to invest as they saw fit to encourage businesses to the region. Regardless of which side of the Pennines you were from – the good times were coming!!!
So what happened?? And more importantly, to return to the title of my blog, how is the health of the Northern Powerhouse now?
One of the most telling things in the past 150 days or so since the last election, as far as the Northern Powerhouse (as a political concept) is concerned is that it hasn't been completely abandoned.
The halt on rail projects has been restarted this week and in the past couple of weeks the political commentators have reported that the chancellor in China, and PM in New York, have been courting investment in some of the hero projects such as HS2.
But what about those of us actually driving the Northern economy?
From where we sit at Fantastic Media, it's all looking pretty good! Our clients based in the region are all exceeding growth targets, we see graduates across all disciplines from partner universities improve all the time and increasingly we see talent in terms of marketers within Fantastic, our clients, and other agencies we speak to increasingly migrating from London and other perceived centres of excellence.
Which is all great, but what is next for the Northern Powerhouse?
Firstly, despite it all going quiet for 140 of the past 150 days, the government still seems interested. As mentioned both George Osborne in China and David Cameron in New York have been selling the north to potential investors. There is a minister for the Northern Powerhouse, James Wharton and the electrification of the rail lines through the Pennines was restarted this week.
Over the past few months at Fantastic Media we have taken on a number of pieces of work for clients based in London and the South East who are attracted by our blend of talent & skill, business savvy approach and genuine value that is built into every project we undertake. Clearly London still attracts talent from across the world, but the UK has always been innovators and leaders in marketing, advertising and digital and perhaps businesses are realising that is the case outside of the M25?
So, how is the health of the Northern Powerhouse? Personally I'd give it a 6 out of 10. There are undoubtedly opportunities for the economy to flourish and businesses to grow, but for the full realisation of the Northern Powerhouse is going to come to fruition, we need more than soundbites from our politicians.
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Putback bucket by Mese! Double-double! Six-point lead!
Putback bucket by Mese! Six-point lead!
Hof with her 10th double-double of the season. She has 10 points and 11 rebounds.
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It was one heck of a ride, but your final, presented by @WellsFargo , sees FGCU (28-5) fall in the first-round of the NCAA Tourney to Miami (25-8). @_CallmeKeroee leads the way with 24 points, while @DesWashington_ adds 10.
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What in the world is this? This is fraud, that's what it is. This is a number that hospitals come up with at the end of the year. It's a number that supposedly represents the amount of charitable care delivered for which they were not paid. The hospitals report this number to the feds. Then….ready?….they get car dealer like rebates from….ready?….YOU! Yes, that's right.
Ahhh. If only that were true. I suppose that's why there's a crane in front of every emergency room to build on and expand! The hospitals are actually incentivized to overcharge the uninsured and poor to maximize their take at the end of the year! What?! That's right. The less you obviously have, the more you will likely be charged. Take a look at the state of Arkansas questionnaire on how to calculate eligibility for the "disproportionate share" program (what I'm calling rebates). To confuse matters further, the "rebates" don't arrive until the subsequent year (what is called "prospective payment").
Now, in all fairness, there is some argument amongst the hospitals about all of this. You see, some of the hospitals, although participating in this scam, are angry at some of the others that are taking advantage of the "program." Some of the hospitals calculate this number differently than the others. While the number is supposed to be the amount of uncompensated charitable care, some are actually using the difference between what they billed and collected…..for everyone receiving care. What? If the hospital charges $100 for an aspirin and insurance only pays them $5 for the aspirin…well, you see, they lost $95. This number then is added to the big tally and the feds (your money and mine) compensate them for this terrible loss. This loss also helps the hospitals maintain the fiction of their not-for-profit status.
The discipline of the free market is absent in so much of medicine. The free market is the medicine that so much of American medicine needs (sorry that came out kind of corny). The idea that more government, not less, will make things better in any way in the delivery of health care is simply idiotic. This example illustrates that, I think.


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Romy Silvers is the only surviving crew-member of a spaceship traveling to a new planet, on a mission to establish a second home for humanity. Alone in space, she is the loneliest girl in the universe until she hears about a new ship which has launched from Earth with a single passenger on board. A boy called J.
I'm starting this review by confessing that I read this book in one day and in one sitting, so prepare yourself for only positivity. When I saw this on the library bookshelf I only had to read the words "daughter of astronauts", "isolation", and "lonely" to know that this was the book for me.
The themes of loneliness and isolation make this book and the character, Romy, so relatable. As someone who has her head stuck in the stars and in space, I felt strangely connected to Romy. She's all alone, light years away from Earth, and just wants a friend. CAN RELATE.
I also loved how much math and physics were subtly included throughout the book. Romy has been a pro at astrophysics since she was a kid, and throughout the book she talks about solving different math and physics problems. At first she struggles to do any academic work because it reminds her too much of her childhood and the times before she lost her parents, but as she becomes more independent and confident, she finds comfort in solving hypothetical problems using calculus and knowledge of physics. It's just a lot of fun to read.
Sometimes I have dreams about doing math, just because that feeling is so wonderful. But then, as always, I start criticizing myself. A voice in my head tells me that I don't know what I'm doing, that nothing I've written is right.
Now let's discuss the twists and turns of the The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. This starts out just like any teen YA; with a girl and her quirk: she is obsessed with a tv show and spends her free time writing fanfiction. Also, she just so happens to live in space. The first twist is that this isn't really a teenage romance book. Any romance in this book is, in my opinion, a subplot to the real storyline. Romy is independent in a literal and figural sense. She is learning to be strong and confident all on her own. This book would stand alone just fine without the romance and I love that.
Another twist is that there's so much depth. There are small details woven into the story that build up throughout and then serve a purpose in the plot progression. Some are very obvious, and others are not. That is what makes this book so great. You read it and see the build up to one thing, but are caught completely by surprise at other things to which you hadn't really been paying attention. I've seen a lot of people describe this book as a thriller, and I would agree. There are so many tense and exciting moments that makes the book hard to put down.
I very much enjoyed this book by Lauren James, and would definitely recommend it to everyone. Now I just wish it was part of a series!


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Inside Boston Medical Center: The heart of the coronavirus storm
In the city's safety-net hospital, seven out of 10 admitted patients are sickened by COVID-19
By Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff,Updated April 18, 2020, 2:40 p.m.
A nurse wore full personal protective gear while caring for an intubated COVID-19 patient at Boston Medical Center.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
The sidewalks around Boston Medical Center, usually thronged with patients and families, are eerily still. Only one entrance is open.
The impression of quiet could not be more wrong. To enter BMC today is to arrive at the heart of the coronavirus storm.
For more than 150 years, the hospital at the edge of Boston's South End has taken pride in caring for the city's most vulnerable patients. But now as the coronavirus ravages the communities BMC serves, the city's safety net hospital by necessity has become essentially a COVID-19 hospital. The pandemic hit here first and hit here hardest.
At midweek, seven out of 10 patients admitted to the hospital were seriously ill with coronavirus, and a quarter of them were in intensive care.
Reflecting the pandemic's disproportionate toll on minority communities, 82 percent of coronavirus inpatients at Boston Medical Center are Black or Hispanic. In comparison, during the previous year, 60 percent of patients admitted for any illness were Black or Hispanic. Twelve and a half percent of COVID-19 patients are homeless, compared with 9.5 percent of all admissions previously.
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Monica Germain removed her face shield after caring for a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit. Erin Clark/Globe Staff
The hospital, a sprawling complex off Albany Street, has responded to the crisis with a rapid reorganization of its physical space and a recalibration of services, changes shown to a Globe reporter who visited last Wednesday. Special cameras have been placed in some coronavirus patients' rooms, enabling nurses to keep a closer eye on patients. The usually packed endoscopy waiting room was empty, its treatment space repurposed for other needs.
Dr. Ravin Davidoff, chief medical officer, said the crisis has drawn employees into new roles. "We have people volunteering to go all over the place to work," he said in an interview in his office. "People are saying, 'I'm a surgeon, I'm not that good at being an internist, but tell me what to do and I'll try to do my best.'"
Davidoff worries about patients they aren't seeing — who may be seriously ill but avoiding the hospital, with repercussions that won't become clear for weeks.
Still, as the hospital cared for more than 200 coronavirus patients late last week, he freely accepts the label of "COVID hospital."
"Being a COVID hospital is just what we do," he said. "We take care of people who are sick. It's our work."
Boston Medical Center patient Candace Samayoa waved goodbye to nurses as she was being released from the hospital. Samayoa had been admitted to BMC two weeks earlier after testing positive for COVID-19. Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Anyone familiar with the role of race, poverty, and social conditions in determining health outcomes would not be surprised that the pandemic has hit Boston Medical Center's patients so swiftly and so hard. Many have the kind of preexisting conditions common among the marginalized, such as diabetes or asthma, which make them more likely to get seriously ill from COVID-19. Most live in Boston's dense urban core, where social distancing is difficult, and work at low-wage jobs involving interaction with the public — jobs they can't afford to quit.
"The patients that we serve," said hospital president Kate Walsh, "are essential workers and are going to work driving Ubers, delivering Amazon packages, and had less opportunities for social distancing."
As a result, Boston Medical Center was the first Boston-area hospital hit with a sudden surge in patients, and continues to face a far higher percentage of COVID-19 patients than most other hospitals. With 410 adult beds, Boston Medical Center has, proportionally, the biggest coronavirus load, according data gathered by the Globe.
Boston Medical Center these days looks and feels different — as do other hospitals that have restricted visiting and canceled services to limit disease spread.
Boston Medical Center RN Helen Connelly cried tears of joy after saying goodbye to patient Candace Samayoa. Erin Clark/Globe Staff
The quiet on the sidewalks outside is one difference. At the entrance on Wednesday, a staffer who once worked in the orthopedic clinic and a former operating room nurse were taking the temperature of everyone who entered and asking them if they've felt ill.
With most people staying home, fewer are getting hurt in car crashes and sports injuries, reducing trauma admissions. But, in a profound mystery that other hospitals have experienced, Boston Medical Center is seeing fewer patients with life-threatening emergencies, such as strokes and heart attacks, for which a hospital trip would not seem optional.
Physicians here worry about even the potentially skippable visits. Most outpatient visits have stopped. Of the 4,000 who normally come for doctor's visits each day, 1,500 are staying in touch by phone or Internet, and 500 have come in person, said Walsh, the hospital president. But she is concerned about the remaining 2,000, wondering if they are suffering silently and away from needed help. Similarly emergency room visits are down by half, from 400 visits per day to 200. Davidoff believes sick people who need medications and advice are not coming in for care, and worries about the consequences of that.
Meanwhile, the surge of very sick COVID-19 patients can be overwhelming. Two weeks ago, the hospital faced 72 patients needing intensive care for COVID-19 and had only 63 ICU beds, forcing the transfer of nine patients to other city hospitals. That incident served as a citywide wake-up call, Davidoff said. "That alerted many around town that 'Hey, this is upon us,'" he said.
A nurse took a break from attending to COVID-19 patients at Boston Medical Center. Erin Clark/Globe Staff
It also lit a fire under the hospital's own efforts to adapt.
Like other hospitals, Boston Medical Center had already canceled elective services. It stopped admitting children, referring them instead to Boston Children's.
As part of new configurations of the space, those who don't need intensive care have moved to the children's floor. Additional space was cleared by moving medical-surgical patients — such as people waiting or recovering from procedures — to the endoscopy suite, where they stay in curtained bays rather than rooms.
And the hospital has boosted its ICU capacity to well over 70 patients, with the potential to treat up to 120 if necessary by repurposing spaces such as the radiology suite.
The week before last, the fifth-floor step-down unit — intended for patients recovering from an ICU stay — transitioned to a new role as a full-fledged ICU. But that took some adjustment, and touch of ingenuity.
"This team had to be incredibly flexible," said Nancy Gaden, the hospital's chief nursing officer.
Although 10 percent of employees were furloughed, others have stepped up to take additional shifts or new responsibilities.
Luckily, the nurse manager in the step-down unit, Beth Solari, already had experience in critical care. In accordance with new crisis-management guidelines, Solari has paired ICU-trained nurses with the step-down nurses, and each two-person team takes care of three patients.
"The ICU nurses and step-down nurses have worked so well together," Solari said. "Now it's sort of like a well-oiled machine."
Physicians had a morning briefing before attending to COVID-19 patients at Boston Medical Center.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Solari says she has enough nurses, so far. Many have volunteered to take on extra 12-hour shifts, and the hospital has started hiring traveling nurses who specialize in critical care.
In a normal ICU, all the rooms' walls and doors are glass, enabling nurses to keep an eye on patients at all times. Here, there are opaque doors that have to be closed for infection control. So the nurses deploy cameras normally used for patients at risk of falling out of bed, and train them on all the COVID-19 patients. From the nurses' station, they can move the cameras and can even zoom in to read the settings on the ventilator.
Normally, nurses put on full protective gear only for certain patients with highly contagious illnesses. But now, with all patients on the unit considered highly contagious, nurses have to don a gown, two pairs of gloves, a mask, and a face shield before entering a patient's room. The face shields are a new requirement with COVID, to protect the eyes, where the virus can enter. Nurses are wearing plastic carpenter's face shields or disposable shields developed at MIT.
They try to complete all their tasks in a single visit to each patient's room, because the protective gear is scarce and time-consuming to remove safely.
Working exclusively with COVID-19 patients is exhausting and stressful for the staff, said Avital Rech, ICU nurse manager. Patients seem to get better and then suddenly get worse. Nurses wearing heavy protective gear sweat through three hours of work when they enter the room. With visits by family members banned, they're often the only ones who are with the patients, sometimes holding their hands as they die.
"We've had many people who are quite young die," Rech said. "It's hard to see that every day."
But plenty of people inside and outside the hospital want to support the staff. Donations from Rech's Facebook friends have enabled her to buy lunches and coffee for them, and she works to make sure they have the equipment they need.
Offered a bonus for extra shifts, many nurses are working additional hours. "Thank God," Gaden whispers. Asked if she was worried about her staff, Gaden said, "Yeah, it's a pandemic, I'm worried. I'm worried that everyone is exhausted and overwhelmed."
Caught off guard by the surge two weeks ago — the additional ICU space had not yet opened — Boston Medical Center is now looking ahead, using modeling to anticipate the needs going forward.
"We started out being reactive, but now every day we talk about what's tomorrow," said Davidoff, the chief medical officer. And while the numbers change daily, Davidoff said the hospital is on track to meet the needs even in a worse-case scenario. The biggest challenge will be finding enough critical care nurses, he said.
Walsh, the hospital president, said that the hospital has drawn from experiences overseas and in New York City to foresee what lies ahead.
Signs decorated the walls of Boston Medical Center to say goodbye to patient Candace Samayoa.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
At every hospital, doctors are struck by how sick COVID-19 patients can get, and how quickly, Walsh said.
But, she added, "People do recover. That part is really heartening." As of Wednesday, 271 COVID-19 patients had been discharged from Boston Medical Center.
One of those going home on Wednesday was Candace Samayoa, who had spent two weeks on 7 West, formerly a medical-surgical floor that is now COVID-only. Samayoa, 51, said she suffered from a cough and diarrhea. A double amputee, she lives in a skilled nursing facility, and couldn't stay there to recover because she would put other residents at risk of infection.
The nurses gave Samayoa a "Certificate of Achievement" for completing her treatment, and hung hand-lettered signs declaring "We will miss you" and "Keep kicking butt."
And as she rolled into the hallway, on her way back into the world, everyone burst into applause.
Felice J. Freyer can be reached at felice.freyer@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @felicejfreyer.


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The Saltmarsh Murders is a 1932 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. It is the fourth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It has been highly acclaimed as a part of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Synopsis
In the village of Saltmarsh the Vicar's maid is strangled not long after giving birth to an illegitimate child. Mrs Bradley, staying in the nearby manor house, leads the investigation. The killing opens the lid on a Pandora's Box of vice in the small settlement.

References

Bibliography
 Miskimmin, Esme. 100 British Crime Writers. Springer Nature, 2020.
 Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

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British crime novels
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A Wedding in Uganda
samfloy~29 September 2016 /East Africa/East Africa Culture
When chatting to a lady named Cathy at a house party one Friday she asked if I was free next week to attend her wedding.
Without much hesitation I said yes and the following Saturday morning myself and Leoni (German housemate) were off to church.
The day was captivating, and this is what happened.
I think I've been to about five weddings in my life, and this one started like the English ones.
We entered a church in the city and, as a guest of the bride, took our seats on the left. The pews began to fill and familiar faces greeted each other.
The vicar came out and prepped us that proceedings were about to kick off and flicking through the programme I could see the a recognisable schedule of hymns, readings and "I do"s.
As soon as he came to front though there was a slight detour in what I'd experienced previously.
Reverend Moses soon had the congregation in giggles as he welcomed the wedding entourage and commented how Collins had done well to lock Cathy down. Many in attendance, he said, would volunteer to take his place today.
After everyone was in place and the rings were on, Moses sat down the newlyweds and gave them life lessons, again laced with humour and often through metaphor: "when I was at school we learnt how a plant in a box was attracted to light. If you don't tell your wife you love her, she will move to someone who does"
The audience were relaxed and called out "A-men" when something sounded good.
To communicate "I agree" they would call out "aye-aye-aye-aye-aye" in a quick high pitched type yodel.
This meant that when it got to the bit about how the man should be willing to die for his wife, and the wife should submit to her husband, the church was reverberating with these elated wailing calls.
Moses concluded the ceremony after an hour and everyone walked out to "Happy Days" to take pictures.
Cathy and Collins are atypical in Uganda.
When we met, she told me about her children and how she and Collins had made a conscious decision to have only two.
She acknowledged that having just two children was "Western" but, with Collins' job at the Sheraton hotel, they were able to pay for both to have a private education to give them the best start in life.
Their families were slightly perturbed that they had raised children out of wedlock, but were happy they were now tying the knot.
And it was Cathy's father (Patrick) who, after the ceremony, invited us back to his sister's house for a snack before going to the reception.
Beatrice's house was about a fifteen minute drive away (a minibus had been hired) and Leoni and I were greeted by about twenty family members all sat in the living room.
Food was provided for all, and Beatrice dished out beans and a combination of white carbs for us to eat. Cutlery was passed around until it ran out, and the elders of the room instinctively ate with their hands.
Once replete, everyone said a prayer of thanks, and then returned to the minibuses. I was able to exercise one of the approximately six Lugandan phrases I know ("Webale Nyo": "Thank you very much") and we took to the road to go south of the city.
I've been told that there are two types of ceremony for each Ugandan wedding: a traditional ceremony, and a western ceremony.
This was the latter, meaning Cathy wore a long white dress and Collins and the ushers were in tails.
The guests though were wearing traditional dress.
For the men this is pretty unimaginative, with most in simply a suit, but the women's attire was much more remarkable.
It was kind of like an Indian sari, with heavy, shiny, colourful cloth wrapped around their bodies. Interestingly though the shoulders were padded out and pointed up like little triangles.
From behind the dress looked like the outline of a cartoon cat
The younger females at the reception were mainly in modern frocks (is that an oxymoron?) and the catering staff wore uniforms with loud patterns.
Leoni, Maureen and I. 1/3 of us had flair shoulder pads
We took a seat with Patrick's brother (also called Moses) and his wife (Maureen) on one of the 20ish tables in the large gazebo.
It was only once the reception started properly that I realised the morning ceremony in the church had been in English.
Moses' son (Abraham, Cathy's cousin and also a doctor) was a sort of MC, directing the DJ and introducing the various forms of entertainment.
At least I'm guessing that was the case as he was speaking Lugandan and only occasionally said one of my six stock phrases.
Multi-language sentences
As a slight aside, at times I've found the whole being to speak multiple languages thing quite amusing.
People can slip in and out of dialects seamlessly and often in the same sentence. When it's a local language to English it means getting a snippet of information about what they were just saying, leaving you to wonder what the context is.
Often it's when the base language doesn't have a word for what they are explaining which, I guess, is because the concept they are talking about wasn't introduced until, in our example, English was spoken.
Favourites have included:
"… and get an Uber"
"… Monitoring and evaluation"
"…. nagging woman"
One point where English was spoken was when Abraham gave Leoni and I shout out and then did a little skit about the word "muzungu" (word used in East Africa for foreigner).
The food was traditional and plentiful.
Each table took turns to go up and be served a variety of local dishes from the buffet. Patrick was a fan of millet and so got a double helping.
I asked him about his speech and he assured me there would be jokes as the last thing people want after a dense meal is an even heavier speech.
Whilst tucking into our heap of food, the DJ put on country music which was a surprise to me and Leoni, but no one else. It's quite common here, Moses told me, and we ate in silence listening to the dulcet tones of a generic American Midwestern singer.
(As a side note, is anything other than "tones" described as "dulcet"?)
Anyway things shifted back from America to Africa with the beat of a drum.
An incredibly energetic troupe of musicians and dancers kept everyone's attention for a good fifteen minutes as they rhythmically danced around the gazebo keeping the beat.
Patrick took to the stage once everyone had settled down and finished their food.
Speeches here were different to what I had experienced at other weddings I'd been to. People who are important in the bride/ groom's life would take it in turns to get up and speak with other people from that "group".
For both Cathy and Collins we had their friends, aunties/uncles, and brothers/sisters.
When Collins' siblings were called, 16 people lined up
It was only then that the impact of having a large or small family really hit me.
With Collins' children now, it's not just that the pot for school fees can be divided by 2 rather than 17, it's also the time and strength of relationship that can be forged.
Collins' father spoke in English and I got a sense of distance in the way he was speaking about his third eldest son.
Moses (one of ten) was pretty matter of fact that he didn't know the age of his eldest sister and I can imagine how a finite reserve of "cousin goodwill" could be diluted as the numbers multiply out. Most people in the room seemed to be cousins.
Nevertheless there was a definite sense of deference when it came to the elder members of the family.
Being sat next to Moses and Maureen meant several times their nephews and nieces came and knelt at the feet to have a catch up and see how things were.
Every time someone took to the front they danced rather than walked.
When the speeches were complete Cathy and Collins did the rounds and received presents from the tables of family and friends.
They and the entourage then had a wardrobe change and made a reappearance which again brought everyone to their feet.
Once they, the ushers and the bridesmaids finished their coordinated dances it signalled the beginning of the party proper and people started making their way to the d-floor.
The music was mainly Ugandan pop, though Ed Sheeran made an appearance
Needing to get back to town Leoni and I said our goodbyes to the relevant people and left everyone to groove.
Weddings are great not just because everyone is generally happy, but it also offers a window into another culture.
Besides the obvious aspects such as traditional dress, music and food we got to observe some of the undercurrents of how the Buganda tribe operate.
Weddings are obviously a religious ceremony, but thanks to the Lord were a regular occurrence throughout the day that I noticed. Watching the dynamics between family members was also interesting.
The use of technology was much as it was back home: people taking out their smartphones to get a snap of the happy couple and big screens showing pre recorded videos from well wishers.
This was my last full day in Uganda and was an excellent way to conclude the trip.
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Q: graphql-ruby. Use (not Relay) mutations DRY. With or without GraphQL::Function? I'M NOT USING RELAY.
I have read some tutorials. Many use this way for mutations:
app/graphql/graphql_tutorial_schema.rb
GraphqlTutorialSchema = GraphQL::Schema.define do
  query(Types::QueryType)
  mutation(Types::MutationType)
end

app/graphql/resolvers/create_link.rb
class Resolvers::CreateLink < GraphQL::Function
  argument :description, !types.String
  argument :url, !types.String

  type Types::LinkType

  def call(_obj, args, _ctx)
    Link.create!(
      description: args[:description],
      url: args[:url],
    )
  end
end

and finally they have:
app/graphql/types/mutation_type.rb
Types::MutationType = GraphQL::ObjectType.define do
  name 'Mutation'

  field :createLink, function: Resolvers::CreateLink.new
end

So they are using a GraphQL::Function.
Is this the way to go? If I'm not using Relay this is just the only way to go?
And what if I want a unique file for all link operations (CRUD)?
Other tutorials (http://tech.eshaiju.in/blog/2017/05/15/graphql-mutation-query-implementation-ruby-on-rails/) use this:
app/graphql/mutations/comment_mutations.rb
module CommentMutations
  Create = GraphQL::Relay::Mutation.define do
    name "AddComment"

    # Define input parameters
    input_field :articleId, !types.ID
    input_field :userId, !types.ID
    input_field :comment, !types.String

    # Define return parameters
    return_field :article, ArticleType
    return_field :errors, types.String

    resolve ->(object, inputs, ctx) {
      article = Article.find_by_id(inputs[:articleId])
      return { errors: 'Article not found' } if article.nil?

      comments = article.comments
      new_comment = comments.build(user_id: inputs[:userId], comment: inputs[:comment])
      if new_comment.save
        { article: article }
      else
        { errors: new_comment.errors.to_a }
      end
    }
  end
end

and app/graphql/mutations/mutation_type.rb
MutationType = GraphQL::ObjectType.define do
  name "Mutation"
  # Add the mutation's derived field to the mutation type
  field :addComment, field: CommentMutations::Create.field
end

so I can add also:
MutationType = GraphQL::ObjectType.define do
  name "Mutation"
  field :addComment, field: CommentMutations::Create.field
  field :updateComment, field: CommentMutations::Update.field
  field :deleteComment, field: CommentMutations::Delete.field
end

But this works good just with Create = GraphQL::Relay::Mutation.define: I'm not using Relay!
In your docs I find nothing related to this problem.
I have to always use GraphQL::Functions?
Or maybe I can use it this way:
MutationType = GraphQL::ObjectType.define do
  name "Mutation"
  field :addComment, field: CommentMutations::Create
  field :updateComment, field: CommentMutations::Update
  field :deleteComment, field: CommentMutations::Delete
end

and have this (code is an example):
module Mutations::commentMutations
  Createcomment = GraphQL::ObjectType.define do
    name "Createcomment"

    input_field :author_id, !types.ID
    input_field :post_id, !types.ID

    return_field :comment, Types::commentType
    return_field :errors, types.String

    resolve ->(obj, inputs, ctx) {
      comment = comment.new(
        author_id: inputs[:author_id],
        post_id: inputs[:post_id]
      )

      if comment.save
        { comment: comment }
      else
        { errors: comment.errors.to_a }
      end
    }
  end

Updatecomment = GraphQL::ObjectType.define do
    name "Updatecomment"

    input_field :author_id, !types.ID
    input_field :post_id, !types.ID

    return_field :comment, Types::commentType
    return_field :errors, types.String

    resolve ->(obj, inputs, ctx) {
      comment = comment.new(
        author_id: inputs[:author_id],
        post_id: inputs[:post_id]
      )

      if comment.update
        { comment: comment }
      else
        { errors: comment.errors.to_a }
      end
    }
  end
end

Is this another way?

A: You should try https://github.com/samesystem/graphql_rails gem. It has MVC structure on graphql side, so your GraphQL will be almost the same as your RoR code.

And what if I want a unique file for all link operations (CRUD)?

GraphqlRails has controllers instead of resolvers. You could have something like this:
class CommentsController < GraphqlRails::Controller
  action(:create).permit(:article_id, :body).returns(!Types::CommentType)
  action(:update).permit(:id, :body).returns(!Types::CommentType)

  def create
    Comment.create!(params)
  end

  def update
    Comment.find(params[:id]).update!(params)
  end
end

A: Heres what mine currently look like:
blah_schema.rb
BlahSchema = GraphQL::Schema.define do
  ...
  query(Types::QueryType)

mutation_type.rb
Types::MutationType = GraphQL::ObjectType.define do
  name "Mutation"

  field :comment, !Types::CommentType do
    argument :resource_type, !types.String
    argument :resource_id,  !types.ID
    argument :comment, !types.String

    resolve ResolverErrorHandler.new ->(obj, args, ctx) do
      ctx[:current_user].comments.
        create!(resource_id: args[:resource_id],
          resource_type: args[:resource_type],
          comment: args[:comment])
    end
  end

  field :destroy_comment, !Types::CommentType do
    argument :id, !types.ID
    resolve ResolverErrorHandler.new ->(obj, args, ctx) do
      comment = ctx[:current_user].comments.where(id: args[:id]).first
      if !comment
        raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound.new(
          "couldn't find comment for id #{args[:id]} belonging to #{current_user.id}")
      end

      comment.destroy!
      comment
    end
  end
end

resolver_error_handler.rb
class ResolverErrorHandler

  def initialize(resolver)
    @r = resolver
  end

  def call(obj, args, ctx)
    @r.call(obj, args, ctx)
  rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound => e
    GraphQL::ExecutionError.new("Missing Record: #{e.message}")
  rescue AuthorizationError => e
    GraphQL::ExecutionError.new("sign in required")
  rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid => e
    # return a GraphQL error with validation details
    messages = e.record.errors.full_messages.join("\n")
    GraphQL::ExecutionError.new("Validation failed: #{messages}")
  rescue StandardError => e
    # handle all other errors
    Rails.logger.error "graphql exception caught: #{e} \n#{e.backtrace.join("\n")}"
    Raven.capture_exception(e)

    GraphQL::ExecutionError.new("Unexpected error!")
  end
end

So yes it is different - I'm not sure it's better, it's just what i came up with.  My mutation_type.rb is a lot fatter which i don't like.
You didn't clearly spell out any goals or problems so that might help you get a more specific answer.

A: There is another method I've been utilizing recently. We also do not use React, and it seemed odd to be using GraphQL::Relay::Mutation.define for describing mutations.
Instead we describe the fields. (for example: app/graphql/mutations/create_owner.rb)
Mutations::CreateOwner = GraphQL::Field.define do
  name 'CreateOwner'
  type Types::OwnerType
  description 'Update owner attributes'

  argument :name, !types.String
  argument :description, types.String

  resolve ->(_obj, args, _ctx) do
    Owner.create!(args.to_h)
  end
end

Then in your app/graphql/types/mutation_type.rb you add:
field :createOwner, Mutations::CreateOwner

This can be refactored further by extracting resolvers into their own resolver classes.
Without some defined best practices that I've been able to locate, this has been a pretty clean way of dealing with this issue.

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More than 24 hours after he incited a mob to attack the United States Capitol, Donald Trump urged an end to the violence and finally acknowledged that Joe Biden will be the next president, saying in a video statement that "a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20 "and promising a smooth transfer of power.
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