Four priceless superstars of the art world will return to the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane from the National Gallery London on Thursday 23rd May to huge anticipation.
Part of the famous Hugh Lane Collection is a group of eight paintings by renowned French Impressionist painters. This group is shared in a unique agreement with the National Gallery London (see history of agreement below). These eight paintings are divided into two groups, with four paintings on display in Dublin for six years at a time.
"This is an exciting homecoming for these much loved masterpieces which are part of the cultural history of modern Ireland. These superb works will be on exhibition for the enjoyment of all Dubliners and visitors to the city. "" said Barbara Dawson, Director of the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.
The masterpieces will be on view to the public from Friday, 24th May. There will be a free public lecture on Renoir's Les Parapluies by Dr. Margarita Cappock, Head of Collections at the Gallery on Sunday, 26th May at 3.00pm.
The much loved and world renowned Les Parapluies ( or The Umbrellas ) by Auguste Renoir returns to delight Dublin audiences. Renoir who lived in the heart of Paris depicts a rainy day on a crowded Parisienne street where brightly coloured umbrellas are hoisted against the inclement weather. Renoir paints a vivid and colourful picture of urban life which is all the more fascinating due to the underlying tension between the humble but beautiful flower girl and the admiring seductive glance of the wealthy man to the left of the painting.
The Portrait of Eva Gonzales by Edouard Manet aroused great excitement when Hugh Lane purchased it for 100,000 francs in 1904. Gonzales became a pupil of Manet's in 1869 and he painted this portrait of her in 1870. A successful artist during her brief lifetime, ( she died in childbirth aged 36) one of her paintings. Children Playing in the Sand Dunes is in the National Gallery of Ireland. George Moore, a great fan of this painting,in one of his lectures in support of Hugh Lane and a gallery of modern art for Ireland, exhorted his audience to no longer look upon the withered thighs of martyred saints, but rather on the beauty of female form and the raised arm of Mme. Gonzales and William Orpen included Eva Gonzales in the background of his famous painting 'Homage to Manet.
The magnificent Jour d'Ete or Summer's Day by Berthe Morisot shows a sunny day in the Bois de Boulange on the outskirts of Paris, where two women in the rowing boat on the pond captures the leisured pursuits of Paris society at the turn of the century.
Camille Pissarro's View of Louveciennes captures the French countryside in Springtime.
Hugh Percy Lane was born in County Cork, Ireland on 9 November 1875. He was brought up in Cornwall, England, and began his career as an apprentice painting restorer and later became a successful art dealer in London.
Through regular visits to Coole (near Gort), County Galway, the home of his aunt, Lady Gregory, Lane remained in contact with Ireland. He soon counted among his family, friends and social circle those who collectively formed the core of the Irish cultural renaissance in the early decades of the 20th century.
Extolling the cause of Irish art abroad, Lane also became one of the foremost collectors and dealers of Impressionist paintings in Europe, and amongst those outstanding works purchased by him for the new gallery were La Musique aux Tuileries by Manet, Sur la Plage by Degas, Les Parapluies by Renoir and La Cheminée by Vuillard.
The Municipal Gallery of Modern Art opened in January 1908 in temporary premises in Harcourt Street, Dublin. Lane hoped that Dublin Corporation would run it, but the Corporation was unsure if it would be financially viable.
For his "services to art" in Ireland, Lane was knighted in June 1909 at the comparatively young age of 33.
Lane did not live to see his gallery permanently located as he died in 1915 during the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, off the west coast of Cork, the county of his birth.
At the request of Lane's aunt, Lady Gregory, WT Cosgrave, leader of the Irish Government unsuccessfully approached Ramsay MacDonald on the matter in 1929. When John A. Costello became Taoiseach in 1948, he initiated further negotiations with Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister. This eventually led to a compromise in 1959, under Taoiseach Sean Lemass, whereby half of the Lane Bequest would be lent and shown in Dublin every five years.
In 1993 the agreement was varied so that 31 of the 39 paintings would stay in Ireland. The remaining 8 were divided into 2 groups, so that 4 would be lent for 6 years at a time to Dublin. These 8 include works by Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Morisot, Vuillard and Degas. In 2008, in celebration of its first centenary, the Hugh Lane negotiated with the National Gallery London for the return of the entire Bequest for a period of three months, the first time they were reunited with the rest of Hugh Lane's collection since 1913.
The Gallery, is now situated in Parnell Square in central Dublin. A new wing was opened in 2006.


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Q: Laravel - Calling my Web services Api multiple times bypass the logic of single entry in database and duplication record in database I've a web services Api
Api inserts data multiple times in database while it has only to insert only one time and update second time If record exist.
The Problem occurring due to Transaction. I've brief all thing what's happening here.
Laravel 5.4
Database: Maria Db 10.1.21
Host: Localhost
web service Includes

*

*call external apis to fetch result

*store fetch result in database

// code here
   public function getWebsiteDetails(Request $request) {
    Log::info("call ");
    try
    {
     return DB::transaction(function () use($request)
    {

    //  Get record from website_master of given business id
    $businessWebsiteRecord = Website::where([
        'business_id' => $businessId
    ])->first();

    // calling external api to get result
    $pageSpeedResult = $this->pageSpeedResult($url);

    Log::info("crossed external api point");

    /**
     * Again check to confirm record is exist or not
     * code write to only for testing purpose
     */
    $recordChecker = Website::where
    (
        'business_id', $businessId
    )->first();

    if(!empty($recordChecker))
    {
    Log::info("if" );
    }
    else
    {
    Log::info("else");
    }

    /**
    * Update record if exist
    * else
    * Create record
    */
    Website::updateOrCreate(
    ['business_id' => $businessId],
    [
    'website' => $url
    ]
    );

    // saving data in another table after some operatins
    $thirdObj->globalIssueGenerator(/* some data*/);

    return $this->helpReturn('Website data saved & issues are generated in system');
    });

    } catch (Exception $e) {
    Log::info(" getWebsiteDetails >> " . $e->getMessage());
    return $this->helpError(1, 'Some Problem happened to run script.');
    }
    }

I've to add only single row entry in database table. But the problem is
If I call api multiple times it inserts data multiple times in database while it has only to add first/single time.
As Laravel Updateorcreate function is using.
Test Case
If I call APi first time and then again hit that api second time after 3-5 seconds
That api will bypass the check and re-insert data like insert data in multiple times like shown in this screenshot.

That's why I using below code to check.
/**
* Again check to confirm record is exist or not
* code write to only for testing purpose
*/

$recordChecker = Website::where
('business_id', $businessId)->first();

if(!empty($recordChecker))
{
Log::info("if");
}
else
{
Log::info("else");
}

Logs:
so logs generated time same like in database insertion screenshot.
[2018-02-12 06:18:58] local.INFO: call
[2018-02-12 06:19:03] local.INFO: call
[2018-02-12 06:19:16] local.INFO: crossed external api point

Going in else because data not available in database
[2018-02-12 06:19:16] local.INFO: else

like in screenshot data has been inserted in database.
Second Call logs
[2018-02-12 06:19:19] local.INFO: else
[2018-02-12 06:19:19] local.INFO: crossed external api point

Again Going in else because data has not been in database yet.
Data has been submitted in database but yet second call response is on the way
Problem Detected:
I'm using Transaction
I'm updating two tables by inserting/updating a record.
Without Transaction
If I comment transaction code and apply above mentioned test cases data insert only single time. What I require.
Here's the logs of without transaction
[2018-02-12 06:59:56] local.INFO: call
[2018-02-12 07:00:00] local.INFO: call
[2018-02-12 07:00:14] local.INFO: crossed external api point

Going in else because data not available in database so data will be create
[2018-02-12 07:00:14] local.INFO: else

[2018-02-12 07:00:17] local.INFO: crossed external api point

Going in if because data available in database
[2018-02-12 07:00:17] local.INFO: if

But I can't remove transaction because after inserting data in first table most operation done and insert multiple data in table.
I'm thinking to use different action to handle to update flag in file system or in Redis but that's a different technique whichI'll handle this.
I want if any one has fix of this because I've more web services which I'm using same technique
FUll Code
public function getWebsiteDetails(Request $request)
    {
        Log::info("call ");
        try {
            return DB::transaction(function () use($request)
            {
                $thirdObj = new ThirdPartyEntity();

                // user extract
                $checkPoint = $this->setCurrentUser($request->get('token'))->userAllow();

                $user = $checkPoint['records'];
                $businessDetail = $this->businessEntity->userSelectedBusiness($user);

                $businessDetail = $businessDetail['records'];

                $userId = $user['id'];
                $businessId = $businessDetail['business_id'];
                $url = $businessDetail['website'];

                /**
                 * Get record from website_master of given business id
                 */
                $businessWebsiteRecord = Website::where([
                    'business_id' => $businessId
                ])->first();

                // if business_master (url) is exist then go to if block
                if ($url != '') {
                    $data = [];

                        $pageSpeedScore = '';
                        $mobileReadyScore = '';
                        $data['website'] = $url;

                        $url = 'http://'.$url;
                        $pageSpeedResult = $this->pageSpeedResult($url);

                        if( $pageSpeedResult['_metadata']['outcomeCode'] == 200 )
                        {
                            $pageSpeedData = $pageSpeedResult['records'];

                            $speedResult = json_encode($pageSpeedData['formattedResults']['ruleResults']);

                            $data['title_tag'] = $pageSpeedData['title'];
                            $data['page_speed_score'] = $pageSpeedData['score'];
                            $data['page_speed_suggestion'] = $speedResult;

                            $pageSpeedScore = $pageSpeedData['score'];
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            $speedResult = NULL;

                            $data['title_tag'] = NULL;
                            $data['page_speed_score'] = NULL;
                            $data['page_speed_suggestion'] = NULL;
                        }

                    $mobileFriendlyResult = NULL;

                    $data['mobile_ready_score'] = 0;
                    $data['mobile_ready'] = 0;
                    $data['mobile_ready_suggestion'] = NULL;

                    $data['google_analytics'] = 0;

                        Log::info("busnes " . $businessId);
                        Website::updateOrCreate(
                            ['business_id' => $businessId],
                            $data
                        );

                    $issueData = []
                        $thirdObj->globalIssueGenerator($userId, $businessId, '', $issueData, 'website', 'website');

                    return $this->helpReturn('Website data saved & issues are generated in system');
                }
            });

        } catch (Exception $e) {
            Log::info(" getWebsiteDetails >> " . $e->getMessage());
            return $this->helpError(1, 'Some Problem happened to run script.');
        }
    }

A: Use record locks during the transaction to prevent duplicate records.
Locks can be applied at the table level - preventing any record from being modified - or at the record level - preventing any other processes from modifying just that record.
Since you have duplicates you'll likely need to use table level locking

A: @btl, @Nikola
Current I try with code location changes and returning result correctly and inserting record in database,
I paste out code from transaction which check data exist in database or not.
Currently I'm digging what's happening but I'm sharing the current status please see new code and old code. new code is working and also add logs of both code
Newcode after changing
public function getWebsiteDetails(Request $request)
    {
        Log::info("call ");
        try {

            /**
             * out from transction
             */
            // extract user
            $checkPoint = $this->setCurrentUser($request->get('token'))->userAllow();

            $user = $checkPoint['records'];

            // extract business of user
            $businessDetail = $this->businessEntity->userSelectedBusiness($user);

            $businessDetail = $businessDetail['records'];
            $userId = $user['id'];
            $businessId = $businessDetail['business_id'];
            $url = $businessDetail['website'];

            /**
             * Get record from website_master of given business id
             */
            $businessWebsiteRecord = Website::where([
                'business_id' => $businessId
            ])->first();

            $result = DB::transaction(function () use($request, $url, $businessId, $userId,$businessWebsiteRecord)
            {
                $thirdObj = new ThirdPartyEntity();

                // if business_master (url) is exist then go to if block
                if ($url != '') {
                    $data = [];
                    $pageSpeedScore = '';
                    $mobileReadyScore = '';
                    $data['website'] = $url;
                    $url = 'http://' . $url;

                    $pageSpeedResult = $this->pageSpeedResult($url);

                    if ($pageSpeedResult['_metadata']['outcomeCode'] == 200) {
                        $pageSpeedData = $pageSpeedResult['records'];
                        $speedResult = json_encode($pageSpeedData['formattedResults']['ruleResults']);
                        $data['title_tag'] = $pageSpeedData['title'];
                        $data['page_speed_score'] = $pageSpeedData['score'];
                        $data['page_speed_suggestion'] = $speedResult;
                        $pageSpeedScore = $pageSpeedData['score'];
                    } else {
                        $speedResult = NULL;
                        $data['title_tag'] = NULL;
                        $data['page_speed_score'] = NULL;
                        $data['page_speed_suggestion'] = NULL;
                    }

                    $mobileFriendlyResult = NULL;
                    $data['mobile_ready_score'] = 0;
                    $data['mobile_ready'] = 0;
                    $data['mobile_ready_suggestion'] = NULL;
                    $data['google_analytics'] = 0;
                    Log::info("busnes " . $businessId);

                    $recordChecker = Website::where('business_id', $businessId)->first();

                    if (!empty($recordChecker)) {
                        Log::info("if busnes " . $businessId);
                    } else {
                        Log::info("else busnes " . $businessId);
                    }

                    Website::updateOrCreate(
                        ['business_id' => $businessId],
                        [
                            'website' => $url
                        ]
                    );
                    $issueData = [
                        [
                            'key' => 'title_tags',
                            'value' => $data['title_tag'],
                            'issue' => 36,
                        ],
                        [
                            'key' => 'page_speed',
                            'value' => $pageSpeedScore,
                            'issue' => 38,
                        ],
                        [
                            'key' => 'mobile_speed',
                            'value' => $mobileReadyScore,
                            'issue' => 37,
                        ],
                        [
                            'key' => 'google_analytics',
                            'value' => $data['google_analytics'],
                            'issue' => 39,
                        ]
                    ];
                    $thirdObj->globalIssueGenerator($userId, $businessId, '', $issueData, 'website', 'website');
                    return $this->helpReturn('Website data saved & issues are generated in system');
                }
            });

            Log::info("finish");
            return $result;

        } catch (Exception $e) {
            Log::info(" getWebsiteDetails >> " . $e->getMessage());
            return $this->helpError(1, 'Some Problem happened to run script.');
        }
    }

Old code
public function getWebsiteDetails(Request $request)
    {
        Log::info("call ");
        try {
            return DB::transaction(function () use($request)
            {
                $thirdObj = new ThirdPartyEntity();

                // user extract
                $checkPoint = $this->setCurrentUser($request->get('token'))->userAllow();

                $user = $checkPoint['records'];
                $businessDetail = $this->businessEntity->userSelectedBusiness($user);

                $businessDetail = $businessDetail['records'];

                $userId = $user['id'];
                $businessId = $businessDetail['business_id'];
                $url = $businessDetail['website'];

                /**
                 * Get record from website_master of given business id
                 */
                $businessWebsiteRecord = Website::where([
                    'business_id' => $businessId
                ])->first();

                // if business_master (url) is exist then go to if block
                if ($url != '') {
                    $data = [];

                        $pageSpeedScore = '';
                        $mobileReadyScore = '';
                        $data['website'] = $url;

                        $url = 'http://'.$url;
                        $pageSpeedResult = $this->pageSpeedResult($url);

                        if( $pageSpeedResult['_metadata']['outcomeCode'] == 200 )
                        {
                            $pageSpeedData = $pageSpeedResult['records'];

                            $speedResult = json_encode($pageSpeedData['formattedResults']['ruleResults']);

                            $data['title_tag'] = $pageSpeedData['title'];
                            $data['page_speed_score'] = $pageSpeedData['score'];
                            $data['page_speed_suggestion'] = $speedResult;

                            $pageSpeedScore = $pageSpeedData['score'];
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            $speedResult = NULL;

                            $data['title_tag'] = NULL;
                            $data['page_speed_score'] = NULL;
                            $data['page_speed_suggestion'] = NULL;
                        }

                    $mobileFriendlyResult = NULL;

                    $data['mobile_ready_score'] = 0;
                    $data['mobile_ready'] = 0;
                    $data['mobile_ready_suggestion'] = NULL;

                    $data['google_analytics'] = 0;

                        Log::info("busnes " . $businessId);
                        Website::updateOrCreate(
                            ['business_id' => $businessId],
                            $data
                        );

                    $issueData = []
                        $thirdObj->globalIssueGenerator($userId, $businessId, '', $issueData, 'website', 'website');

                    return $this->helpReturn('Website data saved & issues are generated in system');
                }
            });

        } catch (Exception $e) {
            Log::info(" getWebsiteDetails >> " . $e->getMessage());
            return $this->helpError(1, 'Some Problem happened to run script.');
        }
    }

Note: Going in else because data not available in database so data will be create
Going in If because data has already existed. (That' what I acquire)
Ne code Logs
[2018-02-12 14:18:49] local.INFO: call
[2018-02-12 14:18:53] local.INFO: call
[2018-02-12 14:19:08] local.INFO: crossed external api point
[2018-02-12 14:19:08] local.INFO: else
[2018-02-12 14:19:08] local.INFO: finish
[2018-02-12 14:19:09] local.INFO: crossed external api point
[2018-02-12 14:19:09] local.INFO: if
[2018-02-12 14:19:09] local.INFO: finish

Old Code Logs
[2018-02-12 14:17:16] local.INFO: call
[2018-02-12 14:17:19] local.INFO: call
[2018-02-12 14:17:34] local.INFO: crossed external api point
[2018-02-12 14:17:34] local.INFO: else
[2018-02-12 14:17:34] local.INFO: finish
[2018-02-12 14:17:35] local.INFO: crossed external api point
[2018-02-12 14:17:36] local.INFO: else
[2018-02-12 14:17:36] local.INFO: finish

Currently as per old logs which run after first transaction
that old code did not found record yet in database in second transaction but in new code logs shows
data before start second transaction found data in database,
Yeah this has the chance of failure but if the response is same and both call saving data at same time into database but I'll use another technique to handle this but New code has the better chances to track record if record already inserted 3-5 seconds ago which was failing on old code.
Thanks @btl and @Nikola. But Please share if you have anything on this behavior.

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Turkey's Court of Cassation is not recognizing the international divorce decrees of other countries if they are against public policy. Turkey's high court recently threw out a lower court verdict that a man's divorce from his wife in Saudi Arabia is valid in Turkey. The "triple talaq", or "unilateral" divorce contradicted with "Turkish public order as it ignored the woman's will."
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almost to a standstill, according to diplomatic sources.
almost finished the first phase of demobilization, that of registering the soldiers.
can agree to at this stage," said one western diplomat.
paid to each soldier who leaves the army.
there is nervousness on both sides [government and donors]," said the diplomat.
for a share of the riches.
the German Embassy nor the Swedish development agency SIDA would comment.
heads the demobilization working group, said that it was a "sensitive issue"
that he could not comment on.
take the lead on this.
it might disrupt the delicate situation which we are at now," he said.
business of implementing the reforms gets under way.
has been delayed by six months until the end of July 2000.
than might have been promised or expected."
of law contact group" which looks at issues not covered by the other groups.
allow for the opportunity to discuss judicial and human rights issues at the meeting.
report on that issue that we can respond to."
of these have been confirmed.
convivial than the first meeting in June, now that the real work of reforms was beginning.
the President, could place further obstacles in the way of funding to Cambodia.
of Cambodia, except loans to support basic human needs."
issues with the US stance.
and in Washington actions speak louder than words.
begin by arresting those who committed gross human rights abuses in 1997 and 1998."


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Prof. Ortwin Hess
Ortwin Hess currently holds the Leverhulme Chair in Metamaterials in the Blackett Laboratory (Department of Physics) at Imperial College London. He obtained the PhD degree from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) in 1993 and the Habilitation at the University of Stuttgart in 1997. From 2003 to 2010 he was professor at the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK) and visiting professor at Stanford University (1997/98) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (1999/2000). Ortwin's research interests bridge theoretical condensed matter physics with photonics and are focused on light-matter interaction in nano-photonics, metamaterials and spatio-temporal nano-laser dynamics. He discovered the 'trapped-rainbow' principle, had the idea of stopped-light lasing and made defining contributions to the fields of spatio-temporal dynamics of semiconductor lasers, ultraslow light in metamaterials, complex quantum dot photonics and photonic crystals and strong coupling in nanoplasmonics. Ortwin pioneered active nanoplasmonics and optical metamaterials with quantum gain for which he is awarded the 2016 Royal Society Rumford Medal.


The Directors of Homeless Nexus believe wholeheartedly in second chances provided that honesty is forthcoming.
So Carmen is a 34 year old man living in Pittsburgh that is starting classes for the 3rd time on the 11th at the local community college to obtain his GED.
He requested help in the way of transportation to allow him to attain this goal. We contacted the the GED Director of the Community College to confirm his registration and got more than confirmation but support as well, they really want to see him achieve his GED.
So the Director and I worked out a plan. We sent Carmen his first weeks worth of bus passes and in order for him to obtain the rest of the bus passes he must attend the classes and his professor will provide him with them.
We wish you all the best Carmen!
Meet Alfredo who is disabled. All he asked for was a rolling backpack to make his homeless road a little easier.
I discovered that he was almost out of minutes from his government phone, so we got him some more minutes too.
As you can see by his smile, Alfredo takes life in stride and has a wonderful attitude despite his current situation. He also gives big bear hugs which y'all know LaDonna just loves.
We met Jeff in Houston on a particularly cold and wet day. All he asked for was a tarp and some rope to help weatherproof his tent. We were glad to oblige.
We met John a couple weeks ago during our last Dallas giveaway. He is currently homeless and staying at the Austin Street Center. We got to chatting with him about his situation and learned that he worked for a local school district as a master electrician and was let go after his second back surgery.
After he lost his job, his situation quickly worsened. Without a steady income, bills quickly piled up, and before he knew it, he was homeless. He's just recently turned 62 and is waiting for his Social Security benefits to kick in, as well as waiting to be able to access his retirement funds.
We asked him what we could do to help, and he didn't ask for much.
At a minimum we want to provide him with a couple months of bus passes. He has also requested a few other items that we'd love to provide such as some haircuts and a backpack.
CJ is an atheist who is homeless and currently sleeping on the concrete floor at a friends house. He is diagnosed bipolar and has been off his meds for a couple of weeks because he has no transportation to make it to his appointments at Metrocare Services.
His application for Social Security Disability benefits will be denied if he can't continue seeing his doctor. He has reached out to several organizations, most of which are religious and we are the only ones that have responded.
We put out the above call for action on our FB page telling the donors of all he needed and a couple of things that he wanted to make his homelessness more tolerable. The donors pulled out all the stops for CJ and we were able to provide him with all he needed and wanted which included 3 monthly bus passes, tape style walkman, backpack, and phone minutes.


Your 401(k) auditor has two essential and one optional step to take with regard to internal control deficiency findings. Before you hire your auditor, ask what you can expect with regard to communication and recommendations. By including your expectations in your engagement letter, you'll get a better quality audit and can get information that will help you.
Degree of possibility that the plan's controls will fail to prevent, or detect and correct a misstatement of an account balance or disclosure.
2. Communicate the deficiencies in writing – Your auditor has no more than 60 days following the financial statement issuance date to communicate the deficiencies to you. For plans that file a Form 11-K with the SEC, the deadline is to communicate within 45 days. If no deficiencies are found, the auditor must also communicate a lack of deficiencies.
Note: Auditors are required to put the same deficiencies in writing repeatedly until the deficiency is corrected. And, the deficiencies found must be put in writing even if they were corrected after a verbal notice of the deficiency.
Recommend steps to take to improve internal controls – To me, this step separates an adequate auditor from a good auditor. Your organization can gain valuable insight from the recommendations prepared by your auditor. The recommendations give you fiduciary guidance that you can use to evaluate the costs and benefits for revising internal controls.
Such focused attention on internal controls gives plan fiduciaries a confirmation of governance, which is justification of a well-managed plan.
Top 10 questions to ask before choosing an auditor Do you know if your 401(k) plan is broken?


Join us for Discover USC Kaufman Dallas on Saturday, November 3, 2018 or Sunday, November 4, 2018. Each day will begin with welcoming remarks, followed by ballet, contemporary and hip-hop master classes with faculty. Guardians will also have the opportunity to connect with USC Kaufman's Director of Admission. Please note that this event is only open to juniors and seniors.


The time has come to invite you once again to the original Second Nature home and my home – the land of Transylvania. Experience a week long transition into summer by pausing, recharging and expanding your mind and body at the foothills of the Carpathian mountains, in a gorgeous villa, minutes from Dracula's Castle.
Join me and a handful of carefully selected people to experience the ultimate Raw Transylvanian Adventure. Because of the very, very limited places we're opening an application process. You can apply via the link below and fill in the form. Application are open now. For other questions email us at hello@second-nature.co .
I look forward to being your host! We'll have a blast!
P.S. Make sure you check out our last adventures and the testimonials below.
We all need to pause, detoxify and restore our energy levels and revitalise our health. The fast paced environment we live in requests a pausing time to allow our bodies to naturally recharge and replenish in order to maintain optimum health and well being.
However, it's not about getting by anymore, it's about how you live your life at its fullest! By being in the right environment and giving your body the right food and nutrients within the right mindset you're charging your batteries for success. Healthy living is not a fad diet or a trend. It's a long term investment equally important as your retirement plan. The seeds we plant today will thrive and bear fruit continuously along our life. It's not about instant gratification, but long term habits built to last and serve you and the ones around you. A happy, energetic body will lead to a happy mind and that will affect the quality of your relationships and everyday life.
Transylvania is not a fantasy place where Bram Stoker placed his novel, but a real historical region in Romania. It is one of the most beautiful places in the world and still a virgin territory from many aspects. The pace of life here might send you back 100 years in time and the scenery will complement it, making any visit a special one to remember. You will stay in the village of Bran surrounded by valleys, hills and mountains. The energy and purity of nature here would count alone for a retreat, but there's more to it than that.
Meet Anda and Denisa, your hosts. London based, but Transylvanian at heart, they share the same passion for healthy living, raw foods, nature and adventure. We want to share our experience and expertise with you and host you in our favorite place. Denisa is a health coach, nutritional therapist and raw food chef, the brains and soul behind Second Nature. From teaching living food classes to catering for large parties and events with green smoothies and raw foods, Denisa has a way to make you fall in love with healthy living. Anda shares the same passion for nutrition inspired from an early age by her grandmother who is a doctor. Outside her corporate job, she loves to travel, conquer different mountains, mediate and do sports – living a healthy life in tune with nature as much as possible and is happy to host you and make you feel at home in her home.
Juices, smoothies and raw foods will be the centerpiece of your menus. You will be nourished with the best local ingredients (as much as the seasons allows it) in the form of juices for the first 3 days, followed by raw foods for the remaining 4. By sending readily available nutrition to your cells you will allow your body, and entire system for that matter, to pause and repair. It will be a feast for your taste buds and eyes – tasty, colorful and satisfying.
What good would it be to come for 7 days and leave without knowing what to do next? You will be taught the rationale behind the raw food diet and plant based nutrition, the steps you need to know to make your life easier, recipes and how to's when it comes to juicing, blending and food preparation. You will be given the right tools to make a healthy lifestyle your second nature.
It's not about only what you put into your body but also what you do with it. Yoga is an excellent way to facilitate the detoxing process as well as strengthen your body. Your teacher will make sure you are given the right moves and sequences to complement your needs. There will be one daily yoga sessions and you may request individual consultations at an extra rate per hour.
This retreat is created with you in mind. That is why in order to help you relax while you're going through the detox phase and cleanse you will have a full body massage session during your stay.
Denisa is your coach for your stay and you will have the possibility to book one of the allocated slots for individual health coaching. During this session you will look at your background and habits and discuss a nutritional strategy for when you will be returning home after the retreat.
Since you will be in Transylvania, more exactly "Dracula's County" you will be taken on a tour of the castle and grounds in Bran village to explore the myths and see whether they're true or not. There will also be country side activities and excursions to discover the beautiful surroundings.
Last, but not least, your accommodation will be in newly built guest house that intertwines the rustic and traditional style with modern facilities. There are en-suite twin and double rooms available as well as an apartment. The views are spectacular and calming and you will have the privacy and opportunity to enjoy your space and time there.
Please email us at hello@second-nature.co for details and availability.


Alexis Adams Panshin was born in 1940. He has written several critical works and several novels, including the 1968 Nebula Award-winning novel Rite of Passage and the 1990 Hugo Award winning study of science fiction The World Beyond the Hill written with his wife, Cory Panshin.
Alexei Panshin is the co-author with his wife Cory Panshin of The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence, widely considered one of the most important non-fiction books on the history of science fiction literature. The massive volume was built upon some of the ideas explored in Panshin's earlier books, Heinlein in Dimension (1968) and SF in Dimension (1976), and won the Hugo Award in 1990 as the best non-fiction book of 1989. It traces in exhaustive detail the development of science fiction from its beginnings in the 18th and 19th centuries through its Golden Age in 1939-1945. The book provides a compelling argument that science fiction literature created myths relevant to our scientific worldview that have replaced the previous myths of the supernatural and thereby become the most relevant literature of our modern era.
The book has been widely heralded by those within the science fiction field as perhaps the best history to date of the development of science fiction. When I first read The World Beyond the Hill, I was blown away by the Panshins' exhaustive knowledge of both early science fiction and the historical background against which it was written. In my review of the book in 1990, I concluded: "This is one of the most important works of SF scholarship to date, and should earn the Panshins a Hugo Award this year." I was pleased to be proven correct just a few months later.
Alexei Panshin also authored a significant body of science fiction stories and novels, primarily in the 60s and 70s, some co-authored with Cory. I began reading science fiction in 1965 -- at the age of 12 during my own proverbial "Golden Age" of science fiction -- and his first novel, Rite of Passage, which won the Nebula Award for best novel of 1968, was one of the touchstone books of my youth.
The following interview with Alexei Panshin was conducted in July, 2010, subsequent to the reissue of The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence this year by Phoenix Pick.
What was the driving impetus that led you to spend more than a decade researching and writing such an ambitious work as The World Beyond the Hill?
Actually, I was at it quite a bit longer than that.
When I started tracking down science fiction to read in the early 50s, I didn't know anyone else who read it. Where it came from, what it meant and how to read it was a real puzzle to me. I read all the books available that might tell me, but even people who wrote SF didn't seem to be able to say what science fiction was. The best definition I was able to find was Damon Knight's "Science fiction means what we point to when we say it."
I took up writing about the nature of science fiction myself in 1963 in the wake of the publication of my first SF story. And I had my first try at writing a book about science fiction in 1967. The World Beyond the Hill did take us ten years to write, but there were at least half-a-dozen tries at a book on science fiction that we threw out or abandoned before that.
The question of the nature and meaning of science fiction had a grip on me for a very long time, and it was largely satisfied by writing The World Beyond the Hill.
Your historical analysis of the field essentially ends with the pinnacle of the Golden Age of SF created primarily by Astounding Stories editor John W. Campbell and his brilliant stable of writers in 1939-1945. What are your thoughts of the subsequent further evolution of science fiction in the 50s and 60s?
SF may have been called "science fiction" in the 50s and 60s, but by then science-beyond-science was no longer being invoked in stories as the name of the transcendent wonders and marvels which distinguish SF from mundane fiction. At least, that's what Hugo Gernsback -- the inventor of the name "science fiction" -- declared in 1963.
I think the changeover point came in the middle 40s. By 1947, Robert A. Heinlein was suggesting "speculative fiction" as an alternate name for SF. And by 1954, Forrest J Ackerman was calling SF "sci-fi," the popular name it's currently best known by.
It was because imaginary science was no longer at the core of SF by the time that SF writers first began to write about it critically in the 50s that someone like Damon Knight could find the kind of fiction he wrote and edited so elusive to define.
In one of the few strong critiques of The World Beyond the Hill from within the field, John Clute accused it of being a Whig History, a view of history that reinterprets past events solely as their role in building a foundation for later events. Do you think Clute's views in this regard have any legitimacy?
I think Clute's characterization is a result of misunderstanding. He treats The World Beyond the Hill as though it were saying that Golden Age science fiction was the be-all and end-all of SFness to which all earlier science fiction was an imperfect predecessor. But that's not what the book says. The book says that science fiction had a course of conceptual development from "science" imagined as bringing dead body parts back to life in Frankenstein to human beings in Asimov's Foundation stories operating the imaginary science of "psychohistory" and controlling the course of galactic history. And the book documents this conceptual development writer by writer, story by story and crucial image by crucial image.
Where Clute went astray, I think, was in saying, "We will put to one side their version of the nature of myth" and "this is not the place or time to make any sustained argument for any alternative version of the nature of myth" -- apparently not understanding that the essence of The World Beyond the Hill was that it treats stories invoking super-science as a phase of myth which had a beginning and an end. If at the outset you put to one side what a book says it's about, that seems like a good basis for misunderstanding it.
I must admit that I may have failed to fully understand at least one aspect of your thesis as well. In what way did the super-science myth end? Modern SF has diverged in many directions, with biotechnology, nanotechnology, quantum physics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and many related tropes providing the basis for super-scientific and even post-human futures. Are there no more recent authors or tropes that you believe have continued science fiction's Quest for Transcendence?
The quest for transcendence isn't something special to science fiction. Rather, it's the other way around. Transcendence -- that which lies beyond current human knowledge -- is primary. Science fiction -- stories which looked for transcendence in science beyond the science that we currently know -- was only one phase of this quest.
Our thinking here follows the mythic scholar Joseph Campbell. His definition of myth was a metaphor that's transparent to transcendence. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, science-beyond-science was able to serve as that kind of metaphor. For a time, it seemed that you could look through "science" and catch a glimpse of infinite possibility on the other side.
But when rockets and atomic bombs came along in World War II, suddenly "science" no longer looked quite so exalted. More like a present actuality with the same compromised nature as everything else around us. There had to be something more than science that would provide us with a route to the transcendent.
It was at that point that SF in the larger sense began to look past the metaphor of unknown science to a new metaphor -- higher states of human consciousness -- as our route to the transcendent. That's when you started to get stories of mutant human beings armed with psi powers standing in the ruins left by atomic war and wondering which way to go.
But, of course, higher consciousness is only one more metaphor that will take us a certain distance and then lose its power. SF -- mythic stories -- will continue. Science fiction -- or "scientifiction" as Gernsback first called it -- is a phase of SF that's been left behind.
I think this is where John Clute failed to follow us. Golden Age science fiction wasn't the end. It was simultaneously a final flowering and a new beginning.
I'm not at all sure what Clute's personal background and allegiances are. But he appears to be coming from a traditional literary perspective in which every work of art has to be taken on its own terms, whereas we see SF as an evolving conversation among writers and readers in which problems get argued back and forth until some sort of resolution is reached and new problems are raised.
To say that Isaac Asimov, for example, was able to answer certain questions first posed by H.G. Wells doesn't mean that Asimov was a better writer than Wells. It merely identifies the roles each of them played in a fictional discussion about the vastness of time and space and the prospect of human devolution.
How have mainstream literary academics responded to The World Beyond the Hill? Do you think it has received the attention it deserves outside of the science fiction field?
Except for people like Northrup Frye and Charles Tart, who commented on the book before it was originally published, and a review that appeared in a Jungian journal, I'm not aware of any response to The World Beyond the Hill from outside the SF field.
Considering the continued growth in academic interest in science fiction over the past 20-30 years, I find this lack of attention somewhat surprising. Any theories regarding this lack of response -- pro or con -- to your thesis on the importance of science fiction?
Back in 1941, say, SF was in the midst of a Golden Age. But the only people who read it then were a special audience of engineers, teenage boys and weirdos. It wasn't published in book form then. It wasn't reviewed. It wasn't taught in colleges. It was essentially invisible. No one who wanted to be taken as a serious person regarded science fiction seriously. That would take quite a few years to begin to happen.
The World Beyond the Hill offers a view of science fiction stories which is itself SFnal. I think it was because of this that Northrup Frye, who wrote in his Anatomy of Criticism that "the axioms and postulates of criticism� have to grow out of the art it deals with," welcomed The World Beyond the Hill and said he'd learned a lot from it.
But as far as most critics and academics today are concerned, our book is as invisible as science fiction was to serious people back in the Golden Age. It's not consistent with what they're already sure they know. Right now, what we have to say is still too far out for them. Give them another twenty or thirty years and then we'll see how they've adjusted to our SF criticism.
One of the few histories of science fiction of similar stature to The World Beyond the Hill is Brian Aldiss' Billion Year Spree (1973), later updated as Trillion Year Spree (1986). Have you considered an update or sequel to The World Beyond the Hill?
Since the facts haven't altered or been disputed, and the stories the book refers to haven't changed, I'm not sure that an update to The World Beyond the Hill is necessary. Cory and I have thought about a sequel, but it would be a very different book with a different story to tell. However, a book like that would take twenty more years to research and another ten years to write, and it's not what we've been working on.
Some modern readers might be unfamiliar with the seminal works of science fiction's Golden Age. What novels or story collections do you think would provide the best introduction to that period for modern readers?
I hate to say "read our book," but I think the story discussions in The World Beyond the Hill are the best guide we can offer to contemporary readers as to what classic science fiction stories they might care to check out.
Thanks are due to both you and Cory for producing one of the most insightful and thought-provoking works on science fiction, and for the many hours of reading you have fostered for many thousands of SF fans.


I just love this pattern and color from Thibaut. It is from their Wild Flora Collection. This velvet jacquard in pink is such a bright and bold burst of color, making it perfect for a girl's room. Perfect for an accent wall and a few throw pillows or upholstered arm chair in the same pattern fabric.


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Arturs Bareikis took the lead at 20 miles and went on to win the Sanford Fargo Marathon
After grabbing the lead at about Mile 20, Arturs Bareikis spent the final six miles in the Sanford Fargo Marathon on Saturday constantly looking over his shoulder. There was noone there.
The 32-year-old from Midlothian, Ill., made his third trip to Fargo winning the 15th annual event in 2 hours, 27 minutes, 14 seconds. He placed second in 2014? He was on a mission not to let that happen again.
"I came here to do one thing," Bareikis said.
Winning was the only goal. He didn't wear a watch and therefore wasn't paying attention to mile splits. It was all about racing with a pack of four from the outset that consisted of defending champion Geofrey Terer, Anthony Kirui of Minneapolis and Garang Madut from Lebanon, Tenn.
Terer and Kirui split from the other two after a few miles. In an oddity, Terer had the solo lead around Mile 9 where he had to stop to tie his shoe. That appeared to solidify the pack again until Bareikis made his break at Mile 20.
"I knew that was going to cost him and he wasn't going to be able to make that last move," Bareikis said of Terer having to stop. "I always observe early in the race what people do and I was staying in the back. You only get one real move and I waited for mile 20 to make it. It wasn't guaranteed but I knew (Friday) I was going to hit it at Mile 20."
He knew Friday after studying the weather forecast. The race was was run in light rain and wind. Those elements, Bareikis said, played into his favor.
After mile splits in the neighborhood of 5:45 to 6:05, Bariekis ripped off a 5:19 from mile 20 to 21. He was hoping a small cramp that began to develop in his leg didn't escalate.
"Once you start feeling a cramp, it's a little bit scary," he said. But it did not excalate and he went on to win.
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by Jeff Kolpack
2020 events have been moved from May 9th to August 29. The Fargo Marathon is a week full of events, The Fargo Marathon is bound to have something for everyone. From the Cyclothon, Furgo Dog Run, Largest Kid's Race, 5K Walk/Run, 10K, Half Marathon, Full Marathon and Relays, there is a distance for all! Start and Finish inside the Fargo...
Kenyans have won the last five men's full marathons of the Sanford Fargo Marathon
The country that has produced so many great long distance runners over the years will be represented a sixth time at the Fargo Marathon Saturday.
It looks to be a competitive field for the 7 a.m. start. Perhaps helping the increased number of elite runners is the upcoming Olympic Trials for the 2020 Olympic Games.
Runners like Enock Birir, who is training out of Sante Fe, N.M. He'll toe the line with the fastest personal record of the elite entrants at 2 hours, 20 minutes, 10 seconds. The 28-year-old won the Des Moines (Iowa) Marathon last fall, which was his first marathon in seven years and took third in the Mercedes-Benz Marathon in February in Birmingham, Ala., with a time of 2:26:44.
He'll have competition from Arturs Bareikis of Crestwood, Ill., a native of Latvia, who took second in the Fargo Marathon in 2014. The Duma Running Club in Coon Rapids, Minn., is sending Kenyan runners Anthony Kurui and two-time Fargo champion David Tuwei.
Kurui most recently finished fifth in the half-marathon in Lincoln, Neb. The 40-year-old Tuwei lists a 2:14 as his PR, but his performances in the last few years have been more in the range of his Fargo-winning times of 2:27.15 in 2015 and 2:28.24 in 2017.
Perhaps the favorite is Garang Madut, who won the St. Jude Memphis Marathon last December. He ran cross country for four years at Cumberland University (Tenn.) and is a graduate assistant coach for the Cumberland women's cross country team.
Madut moved to Nashville, Tenn., from South Sudan when he was 5 years old. At 23 years old, he may be on the verge of realizing his potential.
Defending Fargo champion Geofrey Terer of Colorado Springs, Colo., won the Brookings (S.D.) Marathon last weekend in 2:30.47. It's doubtful the 42-year-old would have enough in the tank to challenge on consecutive weekends but he's been in the running game long enough to know competition over 26.2 miles can get strange at times. It worked last year when he won the Fargo in 2:30.00.
"It's about who's on Saturday?" Almquist said. "Who has it mentally and physically together? Or who adapts best to the conditions the runners are facing that day? You know Fargo, it could be anything on Saturday."
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Colorado Runner Geofrey Terer is back to defend his 2018 victory at Lincoln Marathon
The 42-year-old Geofrey Terer is back to defend his 2018 victory. Terer won last year's full marathon in 2 hours, 29 minutes, 37 seconds.
Running last year his first-ever Lincoln Marathon, the 41-year old from Colorado Springs, Colorado, took the lead from Lincoln's Eric Noel — the 2016 winner — between miles 16 and 17 and cruised to the finish line in 2 hours, 29 minutes, 37 seconds.
Terer's time bested Michael Zeigle's record of 2:32:41 in the 40-44 age bracket set in 1992. His winning time was just over four minutes slower than 2017 winner David Tuwei.
"I just increased the pace a little bit around Mile 17, and he (Noel) wasn't able to maintain it," Terer said. "There was quite a lot of cheering along the way with the race, and that was very, very nice."
With temperatures creeping into the 70s and virtually no breeze on the course, staying hydrated proved to be key for the 13,500 runners competing in either the half- or full marathon.
"It was a little warm, and when it's warm like this you lose a lot of water," Terer said. "Around Mile 25 I got tired and hit the wall. Cooler weather is OK."
Though it was Terer's first Lincoln Marathon, it wasn't his first race in Nebraska. He ran the Nebraska State Fair Marathon in 2015 and 2016. He decided on a whim to register for Lincoln.
Terer has won previous marathons, including the 2016 and 2017 Missoula, Montana, event.
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The Lincoln National Guard Marathon and Half-Marathon is run on a citywide course that starts and finishes on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Runners in both races share a common start and run a loop route past the Nebraska State Capitol, along Sheridan Boulevard, past Union College, along the Highway 2 bike path, past the Lincoln County-City Building...
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LOS ANGELES -- In most sports, when things go badly, as they often have the past few years in horse racing, they fire the person in charge.
That person is safe in horse racing. He or she doesn't exist.
It is a sport without a rudder, an asylum run by the inmates.
Not that they haven't tried to name someone.
In January 1994, racing appointed Brian McGrath as head of the Thoroughbred Racing Association. He was supposed to be the czar of the sport, even though he knew little about it. He was there to market and brand and get more TV exposure.
Then, coming on the scene in 1998 was Tim Smith, who had worked for the Atlanta Olympic Committee, the Carter administration and the PGA Tour. He was smart and personable and became the head of the NTRA, which had added the word "National" to its title.
"We even called him the commissioner," said R.D. Hubbard, former owner of Hollywood Park and current member of the 13-person Breeders' Cup board.
Hubbard said that didn't work because, despite the NTRA's important-sounding title, it does not have the authority to run a sport whose real authority, because of things such as wagering and rules on medication, comes from the states.
"Having a commissioner just doesn't work," Hubbard said. "It's pie in the sky."
So, two weeks after Eight Belles broke down in the Kentucky Derby and was immediately euthanized, sparking instant outrage, soul-searching and not a little defensiveness, the sport can agree only that it has no central power and can't even agree on whether that matters.
Ron Charles, president of Santa Anita Park and chief operating officer of powerful Magna Entertainment Corp., the track's owner, said, "Our rules are now all over the place."
Rick Arthur, equine medical director for the California Horse Racing Board, when asked about the concept of a true commissioner, said, "We need one."
Trainer Richard Mandella said: "Great idea, but who do you get? It would have to be someone independent of any special interest group. Someone who could bring everybody together."
Mother Teresa is no longer with us, so maybe longtime racing secretary Tom Knust's idea has credence.
"We need a dictator," he said.
Then there is the plan of Bob Baffert, one of the winningest trainers.
"I'd make Wayne Lukas commissioner," he said, referring to another legendary trainer and longtime rival. "He knows the sport, the people. He could get through all the politics and get something done. When the filly went down in the Derby, I would have just hauled Lukas out of the stands and put him in charge, let him handle the press and the doctors."
Lukas, 72, laughed at the thought of Baffert being his public relations agent and agreed that he, too, thought the sport needed to put somebody in charge, then respectfully declined.
"I don't want a desk job," he said.
Beyond the question of leadership, the industry is wrestling with the issue of synthetic surfaces, now used at nine tracks in the country, including four in California.
Frank Calabrese, leading owner at Arlington Park from 2000 to 2007, said, "I feel right now that the safest track is Polytrack."
Hubbard greets the topic with a grumble. "One thing that is not the answer is the [synthetic tracks] Richard Shapiro and California are mandating," he said.
Mostly, much of racing is more than perturbed that all the attention over Eight Belles is detracting from the star quality of Derby winner Big Brown.
Hubbard says he will probably skip the Preakness because "I don't like having to bet on something that will go off 1-9. But I'll be there at the Belmont when we crown the next Triple Crown winner."
While lacking authoritative leadership, racing doesn't lack vision, nor a desire to fix what it can.
Hubbard is the head of the site selection committee for the Breeders' Cup. In an unprecedented move, the Cup has decided to stay in the same place, Santa Anita, for the next two events, starting this fall. Hubbard said he can see things turning around for his sport with a Triple Crown winner and a well-marketed Breeders' Cup in a major media market such as Los Angeles.
"We want to take things to the next level," he said.
Racing has established commissions, appointed committees, called on its best and brightest to improve things. BloodHorse.com even reported recently that a study done in Southern California has developed a blood test that has a "90 percent predictability for diagnosing a pre-fracture injury" in a thoroughbred.
That would be a startling breakthrough. So would an announcement from somebody with the authority to demand everybody use it.
Bill Dwyre writes for the Los Angeles Times. Sandra McKee and Ken Murray of The Sun, Michael Cunningham of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Neil Milbert of the Chicago Tribune, Tania Ganguli of the Orlando Sentinel and Larry Stewart of the Times contributed to this article.


The Eugene A. Riotte estate designed by Slee & Bryson c. 1920 in Manhasset. Riotte was president of the Standard Motor Construction Company. The residence has since been enlarged, click HERE to see it on bing.
Zach ~ Any date attached to the pictures ? Year of construction ?
Well...I believe the house was built c. 1920 and these photos, as noted by the citation at the bottom, are from a 1922 publication. So I would say somewhere between 1920-1922.
Sorry, Zach, I missed the citation; I was looking for one on the images themselves. By the appearance of the furnishings of the dining room I would have thought the pictures were taken a score of years before the '20s; and talk about "scatter rugs" in the living room.
Riotte, who died in Miami in 1929, does not appear on either the 1914 or 1927 maps. The 1914 map shows the name Southern Investing Co. over the general area where the house would be built and the '27 map shows a handful of names almost too small to read but none of them appear to be Riotte. However, his 1929 death announcement states that Mrs. Riotte "is to bring the body north to their home in Manhasset, L.I." The 1939 map has no names.
I believe this is the estate.
Thanks Anon 11:57AM. I would not have called this house a "center hall Colonial" but I'm sure the Realtor knows of what they speak.
Not pristine but not desecrated either. Appreciate the paneling has never been painted. The flooring in the hall is wrong & I can't figure out what the Hell is on the floor in the living room ... but it's wrong, too.
The estate was actually torn down in September of 2015, a year later. Such a shame.


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Opinion: First thoughts on Trump-era science.
Stanford researchers Paul and Anne Ehrlich offer suggestions on coping in a world where science suddenly feels devalued.
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Opinion: First thoughts on Trump-era science
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SYDNEY—Like virtually all people with interest in the functioning of human society, we've been thinking about the consequences of a Trump presidency. The results of the election were a shock but not a surprise.
We were in Britain shortly before the Brexit vote and saw the anger in some people (especially taxi drivers) at President Obama's attempt to persuade that nation to stay in the Union. At home we were treated to people expressing similar attitudes in support of Trump all through the long elections season. And we knew from an extensive literature that decision-making has a large emotional component.
Many people were clearly enraged at the "Hood Robin" efforts (stealing from the poor and lower middle class and giving to the rich) started by President Ronald Reagan and continued by subsequent administrations, with little attention to the plight of blue-collar Americans. That working-class Americans' blind hunger for change would drive them to fall in behind the first effective demagogue to come along, even a narcissistic sexual predator, a racist misogynist, and a climate denier to boot, was to be expected. Left unconsidered, apparently, is that Donald Trump, utterly ignorant of how the world works, seems certain to make the situation for them much worse than Hillary Clinton would have.
They wanted to strike back.
Trump's victory makes truly cooperative approaches ever more difficult and deprives society of much of the intellectual power it needs to deal with the existential threats civilization faces.Immediately, of course, Americans need to speak out about—and act to oppose—the permission the Trump campaign and victory has given to the haters in our society. Following their leader's example, champions of bullying, ignorance, racism, religious prejudice, misogyny, sexism, and xenophobia feel a new freedom to spread lies, verbal abuse, and physical violence.
They will make it ever more difficult for people and institutions attempting to find ways to soften a collapse of civilization that we fear is imminent, given the clear trends we're seeing across myriad branches of science. Trump's victory makes truly cooperative approaches ever more difficult and deprives society of much of the intellectual power it needs to deal with the existential threats civilization faces.
So, what to do about the longer term and those building threats? First, those concerned with the state of the world should face up to a likely further reduction in the odds of society changing toward sustainability. The job many of us have been trying to tackle—making the coming collapse less severe—has clearly become much harder.
We were hopeful that at least a partial recovery would be possible and that the worst impacts of our unsustainable ways could be averted. But today we fear there is close to no chance that Trump will take the obvious steps to improve the future for all Americans, even on parochial issues.
He will not institute more progressive tax policies or reduce the gigantic amounts of money wasted on the military. He wouldn't use the funds thus released to create jobs redesigning and rebuilding the nation's energy and other infrastructure or to provide programs such as single-payer health care that would really help the disaffected. His initial appointments indicate he has no idea how badly a President needs to be surrounded by bright, well-informed people with a common vision of the future that they want to build.
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Where does Trump stand on the great global issues largely absent from political discourse? We see a growing risk of nuclear war, and on this point Trump seems even more dangerous than Clinton, hawk that she is. In the other interrelated symptoms of the looming civilizational collapse—climate disruption, global toxification, destruction of biodiversity and soils, increasing chances of pandemics, failing governance, and so on—Trump's statements (like bringing back the coal industry) suggest he will be a total disaster.
Of the most basic forces driving us toward destruction—increasing overpopulation and overconsumption, like most politicians and elite decision-makers—he is pig-ignorant.
He certainly will not dramatically promote the need for population shrinkage in the United States (a long-term project if we are to accomplish it humanely), or advocate reduction of consumption by the rich and substantial redistribution of wealth. When improving the condition of women globally is a sine qua non of tackling the horrendous problem of continuing population growth, he has shown himself to be a determined enemy of women.
The lack of understanding of basic science is appalling in many so-called "educated" people and is often dramatically displayed in the mainstream media.
As scientists, we're faced with the issue of what our community should do. It seems to us that we should focus on three areas in an attempt to soften the coming crash and make a partial recovery more possible.
The first is generating a thorough discussion of the probability of nuclear war and the likely consequences of both a "small" one and a global one. Few people seem to realize that with such things as "modernizing" the U.S. triad (Clinton) or encouraging proliferation (Trump), the odds of Armageddon will continue to increase beyond where they were during the Cold War. A nuclear war would trigger a global collapse from which recovery in any form would be near impossible.
Scientists and their organizations should speak out loud and clear on the dangers of a nuclear holocaust.
The second area of focus should be on inequity and redistribution, which will be critical to prepare humanity for dealing with the coming environmental collapse. A collapse will hit the poor hardest and fastest as continuing population expansions and consumption growth by the rich take us down.
Worse, it is likely to be accompanied by class warfare that may make any attempt at amelioration impossible. The scientific community must outgrow the foolish old idea that scientists should not advocate and end this reticence to speak frankly and directly on existential problems like overpopulation and overconsumption, governance of Earth's life-support systems, and inequity in general.
Scientists must, to paraphrase Garret Hardin, make clear that a "life-boat" philosophy among the rich, besides being unethical, is also suicidal. Having poked a hole in the bottom of the lifeboat of civilization, it is not prudent to announce to the poor "your end of the boat is sinking." Remember, there likely will be no post-collapse scientific community.
The third area of focus ought to be to work to bring universities into the 21st century. As the results of recent elections have shown, while most politicians have college educations, most are also hopelessly ignorant of how the world works. This leads to such things as climate denial, anti-evolution, belief in perpetual growth, and faith-based policies.
It is quite possible to graduate from Stanford—arguably one of the best universities in the world—without knowing anything of significance about the impacts of population growth, the second law of thermodynamics, ecosystem services, total fertility rates, how the climate works, externalities, exponential growth, the food system, the biology of race, nuclear winter, the limits to growth, Federalism, the history of fascism, or many other topics of critical importance to modern citizens.
Needless to say, much of the essential material should be taught pre-college, but the time to institute the changes and get a widespread improvement in the grasp of the crisis among the young is probably too short.
But it should be tried. Because a better understanding of the coupled social and ecological systems might help any young people who survive the end of civilization to avoid further mistakes in a post-collapse world.
Paul Ehrlich is the president of the Center for Conservation Biology and the Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University. Anne Ehrlich is a senior research scientist and the associate director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. The two, who are married, have co-authored several books on overpopulation and ecology.
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Whitesides' story time music delights fans
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The female-heavy crowd screamed with delight as 18- year-old Jacob Whitesides, singer/songwriter, took the stage at the Rave Club on June 4. The mostly teenaged crowd swooned with his smooth voice and constant dancing. He could hardly stay still while singing about love, but he did slow down at one p...
Prince, the music continues…
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The Times Cinema was packed tight, on the evening of April 28, as fans crowded in to view Prince's movie "Purple Rain." Fittingly, outside the sky was a deep grey purple with light lavender clouds hovering over the theater, dropping a hint of purple mist. Inside, the excitement in the air was al...
Screaming Eagle of Soul sells out Turner Hall
The pop punk band Tenement blazed the onlookers with their fame by opening for the 67- year-old "Screaming Eagle of Soul," Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires on April 29 at Turner Hall. The unseen combo captured audiences for a sold-out concert. Lovers and singles alike, as well as speculated mu...
Gabriel Iglesias- Fluffy Breaks Even is hilarious
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I love standup comedy, and for more than 10 years I have seen great comedians, but some comics could never make me laugh. One of them has been Gabriel Iglesias, a.k.a. Fluffy, so when I went to his show in April, I was skeptical. The show started with Iglesias' posse. These three openers struggled to ke...
The Naked Magicians entertain with amazing magic and a lot of skin
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Bluegrass band energizes fans at Miramar Theatre
by Keith Schubert, Times Staff Reporter
Hot Buttered Rum, a notorious and long time touring bluegrass band continued their Spring Tour at the Miramar Theatre on Friday April 8. The energy and excitement that filled the Miramar that night was what everyone in attendance was looking for. The hour and a half non-stop ride that included fiddle,...
'Within the Child's Core' overcomes the past
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Janiece Corevine, a pen name of a student at MATC in the Medical Administrative Assistant program, grew up in a troubled home. From a small age, she suffered abuse. Corevine explained, "I was in therapy dealing with a lot from my past so my therapist told me, 'why don't you put your worlds on p...
DiFranco engages crowd at Turner Hall
With a small frame but large mind, Ani DiFranco graced Turner Hall April 8. DiFranco's guitar swelled, but didn't swallow her vocals. Her Jewel-esque music soothed the crowd. She exclaimed, "You're my favorite team, my favorite crowd. I'm proud of you." DiFranco, a folksinger and songw...
Peter Murphy strips Turner Hall down
Lovers of goth, glam rock, post punk, alternative and other genres, lovingly swayed to the sounds of Liv Mueller, a long-time Milwaukee talent, awaiting the following act, originally from England. The crafty artist knocked listeners out with her gem, "Voodoo Love," opening for the "ears up sha...
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Only five days passed since the World Chess Olympiad had finished in Istanbul and Turkey once again welcomes participants of another international chess event! The opening ceremony and technical meeting of the 6th stage of FIDE Women Grand Prix Series 2011-2012 took place in Goksu Lokantasi Restaurant in Ankara on the 15th of September.
The event was attended by such honorable guests as the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE Vice-President and President of TCF Ali Nihat Yazici, FIDE CEO Geoffrey Borg, Assistant to the FIDE President Berik Balgabaev, Suat Sözen, the corporate communications Manager of Türkiye İş Bankası, other guests and players.
During the technical meeting the Chief Arbiter Ozgur Solakoglu drew the attention of the participants to the "no-draw offer" and "zero tolerance" rule. Any draw claim will be permitted only through the chief arbiter in the cases of the triple-repetition of the position, perpetual check, in case of theoretically drawn position and the 50 moves rule. Nona Gaprindashvili and Nana Alexandria will be the Technical Adviser and the Head of Appeal Committee respectively.
Ali Nihat Yazici welcomed participants and honorary guests and thanked the government of Türkiye İş Bankası for their great support.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov thanked the board of TCF, the President of TCF Ali Nihat Yazici, the sponsor Is Bankasi for the organization of the 6th stage of FIDE Women Grand Prix in Ankara. He welcomed participants and chess legends Nana Alexandria and Nona Gaprindashvili.
The Chief Arbiter of the tournament Ozgur Solakoglu conducted the ceremony of drawing of colors. The top seed Anna Muzychuk chose number 2.


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Tees Valley Mayor Praises Family-Run Manufacturing Firm
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Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has praised a natural stone work surface manufacturer for its dedication to encouraging the region's young people in a visit to its factory.
F Jones Cleveland Ltd is one of the largest importers and fabricators of natural stone and quartz work surfaces in the UK, operating out of a 65,000sq ft factory in Middlesbrough. It supplies manufacturing, template and installation services across the UK, leading the way in innovation and best practice.
Since it was established in 1982, with just two employees, the family-run company has grown to employ 40 people, supporting its apprentices with advanced training and also providing literacy, numeracy and IT skills, to give them the best start to their employment.
At the meeting, the Mayor met Directors Ian Jones, Simon Jones and Craig Fyall who highlighted that F Jones hoped to expand its factory within the next two years and discussed recruitment support and what else the firm could do to help the local community.
The business has already signed up to TeesValleyCareers.com, the £3million UK-first initiative to give the region's 100,000 young people at least seven meaningful engagements with more than 1,000 employers.
Mayor Houchen said: "F Jones is one of Tees Valley's vital SMEs with the expertise and reputation that has allowed it to go on to national success. But it's more than that – it's a family-owned company which, through its almost four decades of trading, has kept an ethos of doing the best for its employees, providing a pathway for good-quality careers.
"Our discussions today, and by signing up to TeesValleyCareers.com, have shown the owners are keen to go even further in training up the next generation of quality manufacturers. I'm looking forward to hearing even more of their good work for our apprentices and its further growth."
Ian Jones said: "We were delighted to meet the Mayor and take him on a tour of our factory, so he could see first-hand the hard work we're doing here.
"We've been running successful training courses for more than a decade and the majority of the team we employ today consists of those we've helped. With our future expansion plans, we'd love to engage and recruit even more people who can benefit from our training.
"We are excited to see how we can work even more closely with the Mayor, Combined Authority and other local organisations to really help Tees Valley."