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August 18, 2022 The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories
081816 The Tragically Hip, Ottawa, ON
August 18th, 2016 was the penultimate show of what will likely stand as The Tragically Hip's ultimate tour. The show was at the hockey rink in Ottawa, and I walked in with the distinct possibility that this would be my last time seeing Gord Downie. The last stop on the tour would be Kingston and it was the hottest ticket in the country. The mass fervour that had built across the country in support of Gord and the boys had inspired scalpers to set their prices in the thousands for the Kingston show, and as big of a fan as I was I was not prepared to shell out that kind of cash to that sort of person to be in the room.
But that's getting ahead of things.
Despite living in Ottawa, my friend Rob had rented a room at the Marriott up the street from the venue so we met there early for a few drinks before the show. We ended up spending most of our time sitting in front of the hotel, the de facto meeting place for all the Hip fans that were staying there.
I'm sure it looked the same as any pre-show party: people were decked out in their concert gear shaking hands with friends and strangers alike, everyone was chatting and clinking beers and all anyone was talking about was the band. But as jovial as we all were there was a solemn backdrop to every conversation that kept actual joy at bay. The elephant that had invited us into the room was a very heavy reminder that this was the last time any of us would see Canada's band in our nation's capitol.
The first time I ever laid eyes on Gord Downie was in Ottawa. That was way back in 1991 when The Tragically Hip played a show at the Congress Centre that still stands as one of the greatest rock and roll experiences of my life. I went on to see him another seventeen times here in my adopted home city, and here he was playing for what would likely be the last time.* Adding it all up this night would be my twenty-fifth Tragically Hip concert in as many years, so for me the band had been (on average) a yearly dose of epic Canadiana, like my own rock and roll Canada Day.
And now it was coming to an end.
We all walked to the venue, I stopped and bought about a thousand t-shirts at the giant merch area set up outside the venue and got my ticket punched.
As they had done for the whole tour, The Hip divided the evening into four-song groupings, each mini-set representing a different album. On this night they opened the concert with Boots Or Hearts, launching a quartet of fan-favourites from their first full-length release Up To Here, finishing up with their signature hit New Orleans Is Sinking.
The second chunk of music was from their new album, the only musical placement that stayed consistent throughout the tour, then they followed with tracks from In Between Evolution and then my favourite Day For Night before getting around to Fully Completely.
I really like how they changed the stage setup three times over the course of the evening (again, as they had done for the whole tour). During mini-intermissions the band left the stage while the crew altered the amps and mics to represent first a theatre-type stage, then a very intimate club-setting with the band standing closely together and facing in towards one another, until finally they closed out the show with their well-deserved arena setup, once again basking in the blinding limelight of an entire nation.
And while the pair of encores came close to getting to me (Courage/Wheat Kings/100th Meridian and Bobcaygeon/Poets), I didn't well up once at this concert, unlike the Toronto show where I caught myself openly weeping at least twice. And though this show was fantastic top-to-bottom the band somehow (to me?) didn't hit the apex that they seemed to maintain the whole night when I saw them in Toronto. Frankly, that show had felt almost Baptismal, like a wake that quickly got very, very rowdy. This concert was more like a rock and roll wave goodbye, heavy on the rock and roll.
On its own merit the final Ottawa Tragically Hip show was nothing short of amazing. The band was tight and united, dedicated to elevating their music a high as it would go and showcasing their dear friend to a capitol crowd that cheered with real heart (a rarity in this city). And despite having to work from behind a horrible, debilitating brain disease Gord was truly astounding. There was bravery and courage behind every scream. There was just so much love in the room – love for the band and love from the band – it was palpable and obvious and everyone could feel it. It was a 20,000-strong symbiotic thankful farewell and my never-ending gratitude will forever go out to The Hip for making it happen.
(After the show we all decompressed back at the Marriott, again out front. In an impressive feat of coincidence I introduced myself to a couple who had driven down from Labrador City for the show, a drive I was set to make in the coming weeks. I had serious reservations about the road conditions and lack of gas stations I might encounter but my new friend set my mind at ease. I really couldn't believe my luck; I'm not sure I had ever met someone from Labrador City before.)
*Fortunately this was not the case. Gord Downie performed his poignant and important Secret Path at the National Arts Centre later that year. Unfortunately I was out of town and couldn't be there.
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Trump backs off proposal to cut Special Olympics funding
Nation Mar 28, 2019 6:02 PM EST
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was backing off a budget request to eliminate funding for the Special Olympics, reversing course after his administration weathered days of criticism for the proposed cut.
Speaking to reporters as he left the White House for a rally in Michigan, Trump said he had authorized funding for the event. "I heard about it this morning. I have overridden my people. We're funding the Special Olympics."
Trump's announcement came after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spent days defending the proposal, which drew widespread criticism from lawmakers, as well as advocates and celebrities. Even before the president stepped in, legislators said the cut was unlikely to be approved.
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The president added: "I've been to the Special Olympics. I think it's incredible."
His comments came hours after Senate Democrats grilled DeVos during a budget hearing on the proposal. She was also pressed by House Democrats days earlier, sparking a wave of criticism online.
In a heated exchange with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., DeVos said she "wasn't personally involved" in pushing for elimination of the funding, but she defended it as her agency seeks to cut $7 billion for the 2020 budget.
"Let's not use disabled children in a twisted way for your political narrative," DeVos told Durbin. "That is just disgusting and it's shameful and I think we should move on from that."
Durbin countered that it would be shameful to pull support for the Special Olympics, saying "someone has to accept responsibility for a bad decision."
The Trump administration's education budget proposal calls for the elimination of $17.6 million in funding for the Special Olympics, amounting to roughly 10 percent of the group's overall revenue. Most of its funding comes from individual and corporate contributions and other fundraising efforts.
DeVos said her department had to make "tough choices" on the budget and insisted the Special Olympics should be supported through private donations.
READ MORE: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to cut funds for Special Olympics
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., joined in on the criticism, telling DeVos that "this is not about tough choices, this is about you prioritizing your agenda over students with special needs."
The proposed cut generated a storm of criticism from advocates and celebrities this week, with many rallying to support the organization.
Trump officials previously called for the elimination of Special Olympics funding in their budget proposal for 2019, but Congress rejected the idea. Lawmakers from both parties said they would reject it again for 2020.
"Let's not use disabled children in a twisted way for your political narrative."
– Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
Asked Thursday whether he supports the proposed cut, House Minority Leader Kevin, McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters, "No. I fully support Special Olympics."
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said Wednesday that he also supports the group and would not cut it from the budget.
DeVos faced questioning on a range of topics Thursday, including her proposed rewrite of rules around campus sexual assault and her handling of for-profit colleges.
Murray said the Education Department has been too slow to process more than 100,000 applications for loan forgiveness from students who say they were cheated by for-profit colleges. DeVos previously delayed an Obama-era rule allowing such forgiveness, but a federal judge said the delay was unlawful.
WATCH: 50 years after first games, Special Olympics aims for 'inclusion revolution'
Asked on Thursday how many applications had been approved since the judge's order was issued, DeVos she didn't know but that officials are "reviewing them regularly."
Others criticized DeVos' department for being unresponsive to congressional requests for information. Blunt, chairman of the Senate subcommittee over the education budget, said he shared that concern.
"There are two or three departments we're just not getting responses back from as quickly as we should," Blunt told DeVos. "We're your funding source and have an oversight responsibility in addition to that."
Associated Press writers Catherine Lucey and Alan Fram contributed to this report.
Left: President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was backing off a budget request to eliminate funding for the Special Olympics. Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters.
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Borce Ristevski charged with murder of Karen Ristevski
Borce Ristevski, 53, has been charged with the murder of Karen Ristevski
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Missing Persons Squad detectives charged the Avondale Heights man at 7.20am
The arrest is a sensational twist in the long-running murder mystery
The Melbourne mother-of-one vanished from her home on June 29, 2016
Her body was discovered wedged between two logs in February
By Daniel Piotrowski and Hannah Moore For Daily Mail Australia
Borce Ristevski, the husband of slain Melbourne mother Karen Ristevski, has appeared before a court for the first time after being charged with her murder.
Detectives from the Victoria Police Missing Persons Squad arrested the Avondale Heights father-of-one, 53, about 7.20am on Wednesday.
Mr Ristevski was charged with one count of murder and he appeared before Melbourne Magistrate's Court just hours later.
His lawyer, Rob Stary, said his client intended to plead not guilty.
Dressed in a white T-shirt and appearing scruffy, Mr Ristevski did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody. A committal mention has been listed for April.
The businessman has long been considered a suspect in his wife's disappearance – with Mr Stary conceding he was the 'number one' person of interest in February.
But Mr Ristevski has vehemently denied any involvement in Karen's death.
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SHOCK: Murdered mother Karen Ristevski (left) with husband Borce and daughter Sarah at her 21st birthday. Mr Ristevski has now been charged with his wife's murder
FUNERAL: Borce Ristevski (pictured as a pallbearer at his wife's funeral in March) was arrested on Wednesday morning
Mr Ristevski is pictured being comforted by a friend while attending his wife's funeral at the St Johns Uniting Church in Essendon
Mr Ristevski's daughter Sarah wept and carried a huge photo of her mother during the memorial
Mr Ristevski's wife, 47, who ran the fashion retailer Bella Bleu, went missing from her Oakley Drive home on the morning of June 29, 2016.
A bushwalker discovered her body wedged between two logs in Mt Macedon National Park on February 20.
The body had been there for some time, police said.
Mr Ristevski was a pallbearer at his wife's funeral in March.
Close family friends had long insisted they were '95 per cent certain' Borce had nothing to do with the killing.
GRAVE: Mrs Ristevski's body was discovered wedged between two logs at the Mt Macedon national park
After his wife's disappearance, Mr Ristevski told police he and his wife had an argument about money before she left the home.
Afterwards, Mr Ristevski claimed he drove her black Mercedes-Benz SLK 200 afterwards coupe to fix the fuel gauge.
Investigators have been seen recreating the car's journey from Avondale Heights on several occasions.
The dramatic development comes after almost a year-and-a-half of mystery which has gripped the nation.
Mr Ristevski has this year wound up the couple's business, closing Mrs Ristevski's last store at the Watergardens shopping centre in May.
He has since rented out the couple's sprawling home – the site of scores of live TV crosses – and worked briefly for an abattoir also as a lollipop man.
KAREN RISTEVSKI'S DISAPPEARANCE: A TIMELINE
Borce and Sarah Ristevski – seen on the day where he was asked: 'Did you kill your wife?'
June 29, 2016: Melbourne mother Karen Ristevski disappears from her house on Oakley Drive in Avondale Heights, in the city's north-west at about 10am
July 8: Mr Ristevski is questioned by detectives and denies any involvement in her disappearance
Borce told police the pair had an argument and she had left the home to 'clear her head'
July 13: Police and SES scour the bushland behind the Ristevski home, near the Maribyrnong River
July 14: Mr Ristevski addresses a press conference appealing for information about her disappearance.
A Channel Seven reporter controversially asks Mr Ristevski: 'Did you kill your wife?' Borce refuses to respond
July 29: Police divers search another part of the Maribyrnong River, about three kilometres from the Ristevski house
August 11: Mr Ristevski's son from an earlier relationship posts a series of disturbing and unsubstantiated messages to social media
August 24: Mr Ristevski's brother Vasco suggests Karen might have fled to the U.S. or China on a fake passport
December 19-20: Police drain dams and search countryside at Toolern Vale – close to the Mt Macedon crime scene
February 20, 2017: A bushwalker finds her body under a large log at Mt Macedone, about 52km from her house, and contacts police
February 21: The body is confirmed to be Ms Ristevski's and police break the news to her family
February 22: Mr Ristevski's lawyer Rob Stary concedes Mr Ristevski is the 'number one suspect' in Karen's death
March 6: Karen Ristevski is farewelled by mourners at a church in Essedon. Mr Ristevski is a pallbearer and his daughter Sarah leads the procession
June 19: A Current Affair run into Vasco Ristevski bushwalking near the site of Karen's grave
December 13: Borce Ristevski is charged with Karen's murder
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In the past fortnight, Australia has been gripped by revelations that former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to several additional ministries.
The move has been labelled a "power grab" by his successor as prime minister, and Mr Morrison has been scolded by many – even his own colleagues.
But the scandal has also dragged Australia's governor-general into the fray – sparking one of the biggest controversies involving the Queen's representative in Australia in 50 years.
So does Governor-General David Hurley have questions to answer, or is he just collateral damage?
'Just paperwork'
Governors-general have fulfilled the practical duties as Australia's head of state since the country's 1901 federation.
Candidates for the role were initially chosen by the monarch but are now recommended by the Australian government.
The job is largely ceremonial – a governor-general in almost every circumstance must act on the advice of the government of the day. But conventions allow them the right to "encourage" and "warn" politicians.
Key duties include signing bills into law, issuing writs for elections, and swearing in ministers.
Mr Hurley has run into trouble on the latter. At Mr Morrison's request, he swore the prime minister in as joint minister for health in March 2020, in case the existing minister became incapacitated by Covid.
Over the next 14 months, he also signed off Mr Morrison as an additional minister in the finance, treasury, home affairs and resources portfolios.
Mr Morrison already had ministerial powers, so Mr Hurley was basically just giving him authority over extra departments.
It's a request the governor-general "would not have any kind of power to override or reject", constitutional law professor Anne Twomey tells the BBC.
"This wasn't even a meeting between the prime minister and the governor-general, it was just paperwork."
But Mr Morrison's appointments were not publicly announced, disclosed to the parliament, or even communicated to most of the ministers he was job-sharing with.
Australia's solicitor-general found Mr Morrison's actions were not illegal but had "fundamentally undermined" responsible government.
But the governor-general had done the right thing, the solicitor-general said in his advice this week.
It would have been "a clear breach" for him to refuse the prime minister, regardless of whether he knew the appointments would be kept secret, Stephen Donaghue said.
Critics push for investigation
Ultimately, Mr Hurley had to sign off on Mr Morrison's requests, but critics say he could have counselled him against it and he could have publicised it himself.
But representatives for the governor-general say these types of appointments – giving ministers the right to administer other departments – are not unusual.
And it falls to the government of the day to decide if they should be announced to the public. They often opt not to.
Mr Hurley himself announcing the appointments would be unprecedented. He had "no reason to believe that appointments would not be communicated", his spokesperson said.
Emeritus professor Jenny Hocking finds the suggestion Mr Hurley didn't know the ministries had been kept secret "ridiculous".
"The last of these bizarre, duplicated ministry appointments… were made more than a year after the first, so clearly by then the governor-general did know that they weren't being made public," she says.
"I don't agree for a moment that the governor-general has a lot of things on his plate and might not have noticed."
The historian says it's one of the biggest controversies surrounding a governor-general since John Kerr caused a constitutional crisis by sacking Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975.
Prof Hocking famously fought for transparency around that matter – waging a lengthy and costly legal battle that culminated in the release of Mr Kerr's correspondence with the Queen.
And she says the same transparency is needed here.
The Australian public need to know whether Mr Hurley counselled the prime minister against the moves, and why he didn't disclose them
The government has already announced an inquiry into Mr Morrison's actions, but she wants it to look at the governor-general and his office too.
"If the inquiry is to find out what happened in order to fix what happened, it would be extremely problematic to leave out a key part of that equation."
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull – Mr Morrison's predecessor – has also voiced support for an inquiry.
"Something has gone seriously wrong at Government House," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"It is the passive compliance along the chain… that did undermine our constitution and our democracy… that troubles me the most. This is how tyranny gets under way."
PM defends governor-general
Prof Twomey says the criticism of Mr Hurley is unfair – there's was no "conspiracy" on his part to keep things secret.
"I don't think it's reasonable for anyone to expect that he could have guessed that the prime minister was keeping things secret from his own ministers, for example.
"Nobody really thought that was a possibility until about two weeks ago."
Even if he had taken the unprecedented step to publicise the appointments or to reject Mr Morrison's request, he'd have been criticised, she says.
"There'd be even more people saying 'how outrageous!'" she says. "The role of governor-general is awkward because people are going to attack you either way."
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also defended Mr Hurley, saying he was just doing his job.
"I have no intention of undertaking any criticism of [him]."
A role fit for purpose?
Prof Hocking says it's a timely moment to look at the role of the governor-general more broadly.
She points out it's possible the Queen may have been informed about Mr Morrison's extra ministries when Australia's parliament and people were not.
"It does raise questions about whether this is fit for purpose, as we have for decades been a fully independent nation, but we still have… 'the relics of colonialism' alive and well."
Momentum for a fresh referendum on an Australian republic has been growing and advocates have seized on the controversy.
"The idea that the Queen and her representative can be relied upon to uphold our system of government has been debunked once and for all," the Australian Republic Movement's Sandy Biar says.
"It's time we had an Australian head of state, chosen by Australians and accountable to them to safeguard and uphold Australia's constitution."
But Prof Twomey says republicans are "clutching at straws" – under their proposals, the head of state would also have been bound to follow the prime minister's advice.
"It wouldn't result in any changes that would have made one iota of difference."
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A car carrying the Australian prime minister's security team has crashed in Tasmania during an election campaign visit.
Four police officers were taken to hospital with "non-life threatening injuries" after the car and another vehicle collided, authorities said.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was not in the car, but the accident prompted him to cancel the rest of his campaign events on Thursday.
The other driver involved was not hurt.
Tasmania Police said initial investigations suggested the second car had "collided with the rear of the police vehicle, while attempting to merge". It caused the unmarked security vehicle to roll off the road.
The two Tasmania Police officers and two Australian Federal Police officers were conscious when taken to hospital for medical assessment, the prime minister's office said.
"Family members of the officers have been contacted and are being kept informed of their condition," a statement said.
"The PM is always extremely grateful for the protection provided by his security team and extends his best wishes for their recovery and to their families."
Australians go to the polls on 21 May. Mr Morrison – prime minister since 2018 – is hoping to win his conservative coalition's fourth term in office.
Polls suggest the opposition Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese, is favoured to win. However, Mr Morrison defied similar polling to claim victory at the last election in 2019.
Mr Morrison's Liberal-National coalition holds 76 seats in the House of Representatives – the minimum needed to retain power.
Political observers say the cost of living, climate change, trust in political leaders, and national security will be among key issues in the campaign.
In recent weeks, the prime minister has faced accusations of being a bully and once sabotaging a rival's career by suggesting the man's Lebanese heritage made him less electable. Mr Morrison has denied the allegations.
Mr Albanese stumbled into his own controversy this week when he failed to recall the nation's unemployment or interest rates.
Long queues at Sydney airport's domestic terminals have continued for a third day, with some passengers missing international connections, as the airport warns delays resulting from a surge in travellers and a shortfall in security staff could continue for weeks.
Chaotic scenes were reported in the departure halls as early as 4.30am on Saturday, with some frustrated travellers, many of whom heeded the pleas of airport chiefs to arrive at least two hours before their domestic flight was due to take off, claiming only one security line was operating.
While the queues that formed early on Saturday are understood to have cleared later in the morning, the airport apologised to affected travellers.
"Traffic numbers are picking up and the close contact rules are making it hard to fill shifts and staff the airport. We appreciate your patience," Sydney airport said on its Twitter account.
A wave of families travelling as the term two school holidays begin this weekend, combined with close contact rules that are understood to be taking out about 20% of security shifts in any given day, are driving the problem.
Certis, the company that Sydney airport contracts for its security operations, is desperately trying to recruit personnel, while the airport has reallocated back office, IT and retail workers to the departure hall to comb queues so they can prioritise passengers at risk of missing their flight.
"We are working around the clock to resolve these issues and have teams in the terminals bringing passengers forward in order of priority," a Sydney airport spokesperson said.
He added that the airport is "anticipating it will [be] busy right through the school holiday period and peak over the Easter and Anzac Day weekends, in some cases at 90% of pre-Covid passenger levels".
"We're deeply grateful to passengers for their ongoing patience and we're sorry to everyone who has been inconvenienced," the spokesperson said. "We would also like to thank passengers for getting to the airport early and treating staff and each other with kindness and respect."
The Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce was forced to clarify comments he made on Friday that passengers were "not match fit" and that those forgetting to remove laptops and aerosols from their bags at the security check contributing to the delays.
"Just to be clear, I'm not 'blaming' passengers," Joyce said. "Of course it's not their fault," he said.
Qantas shed thousands of staff during the pandemic, and outsourced ground crews in a decision that was challenged in court.
On Saturday, Qantas also apologised to a Melbourne family left stranded in Sydney, after domestic flight delays caused them to miss an international trip.
Javiera Martinez, her partner Daniel Capurro and their three children were supposed to be flying to Chile on Friday to visit relatives they had not seen in three years.
But after their 8am Qantas flight from Melbourne was delayed by half an hour, baggage handling and airport transfer delays in Sydney meant they couldn't make their 11.30am LATAM Airlines flight to Santiago.
Martinez said the airline's procedures at the airport were chaotic.
"We think Qantas didn't behave appropriately. I got berated by the person at the counter – they never apologised, they never assumed any responsibility at all," she said. "It was a rude conversation. We have been mistreated badly I would say."
The PCR tests they need to travel have now expired and they will have to take them again as they wait for seats on the next flight to Santiago from Sunday.
The airline has apologised and paid for a night's accommodation in Sydney.
"We sincerely apologise that the family missed their connecting flight on another airline due to delays moving through Sydney airport on Friday," a Qantas spokesperson said.
The family is among many affected by hold ups amid the busiest travel period in two years, with Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane airports warning passengers to arrive two hours before domestic flights.
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Zasady norymberskie (ang. The Nuremberg Principles), sformułowane w statucie Międzynarodowego Trybunału Wojskowego w Norymberdze (1945), zatwierdzone  rezolucją Zgromadzenia Ogólnego ONZ nr 3(I) z 13 lutego 1946  oraz nr 95(I) z 11 grudnia 1946 roku, stanowią podstawę odpowiedzialności karnej jednostek w prawie międzynarodowym.

Wyróżniamy 6 głównych zasad:
prawo międzynarodowe może penalizować czyny nieścigane w prawie wewnętrznym poszczególnych państw
prawo międzynarodowe może bezpośrednio nakładać obowiązki na jednostki
pełnione funkcje państwowe nie zwalniają od odpowiedzialności przed międzynarodowymi sądami karnymi
działania na rozkaz nie stanowi czynnika zwalniającego z odpowiedzialności za popełnione czyny
katalog zbrodni podlegających ściganiu zostanie ustalony aktami prawa międzynarodowego (pierwszy taki katalog znajdujemy już w statucie MTW)
jednostki mogą ponosić odpowiedzialność za te zbrodnie z mocy samego prawa międzynarodowego

Zasady te (takie jak zakaz brutalnego traktowania jeńców i ludności cywilnej; rabunku czy dokonywania zniszczeń nie usprawiedliwionych koniecznością wojenną) formułowano wzorując się na normach konwencji genewskich i haskich od dawna akceptowanych przez większość państw (w tym Niemcy).

21 listopada 1947 Komisja Prawa Międzynarodowego otrzymała od Zgromadzenia Ogólnego polecenie ułożenia projektu Międzynarodowego Kodeksu Karnego wzorowanego na Zasadach Norymberskich.

Projekt w ostatecznej wersji omawiał w art. 1 przestępstwa przeciwko pokojowi i bezpieczeństwu ludzkości. Był oparty na wspomnianych Zasadach oraz na Konwencji z 1948 r. a w sprawie przestępstw przeciw pokojowi na Konwencji z 1933 r. z uzupełnieniami.

Przedstawiony w Zgromadzeniu został 4 grudnia 1954 odłożony do czasu zdefiniowania agresji (co nastąpiło 14 grudnia 1974), następnie sprawa została ponownie odłożona. Dopiero w latach 90 wznowiono działania, w wyniku których powstał oparty na Zasadach Norymberskich Międzynarodowy Trybunał Karny.

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 Konwencja o niestosowaniu przedawnienia wobec zbrodni wojennych i zbrodni przeciw ludzkości przyjęta przez Zgromadzenie Ogólne Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych w Nowym Jorku dnia 26 listopada 1968 roku, (DzU z 1970, nr 26, poz. 208)

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Jewish Life Vocabulary (JLV) is a collection of Hebrew words or phrases that increases one's connections to Jewish people, traditions, culture and life.
Chances are that you already sprinkle Jewish Life Vocabulary into your speech - "Mazal tov! What a great accomplishment!" or "We're heading to t'fillah. Jaime, could you grab the siddurim?" But formalizing a JLV curriculum allows educators to choose the words they feel are most important for their students and families.
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Apahida é uma comuna romena localizada no distrito de Cluj, na região histórica da Transilvânia. A comuna possui uma área de 106.00 km² e sua população era de 9341 habitantes segundo o censo de 2007.

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seinfeld does the talk show circuit.
Wow, an amazing hour long interview with Jerry Seinfeld on Charlie Rose. (video should be online in a day or so). Good insights about the TV show, the nature of comedy, etc.
I'm sure Charlie Rose has other good guests. Gunter Grass, John Updike, E.L. Doctorow. Listening to the entertaining sci fi Asimov classic Nightfall on escapepod. Great reading by Stephen Ely too. I'm falling behind on listening to podcasts because I've spent the last 9 months listening to Wired for books interviews. I plan to do a blogpost about it on teleread when I have time to catch my breath. (Basically there are a ton of interviews, about 50% are average, 25% stink, 15% are extraordinary interviews with great writers and 10% are not-so-famous writers who nonetheless gave great interviews.
My god, if I see Valerie Plame on another interview show, I'm going to vomit! (She is a hottie though). I don't want to knock PBS, but they are unimaginative about book guests they invite (the only exception perhaps is Bill Moyers).
I've been some doing audio recording recently and am astonished at how hard it is; you can just talk, and then you will have natural inflections, but everything will seem rough and hurried. You can sound ok on an interview or something improvised, but you want to rewind or edit out things or repeat things more than once. Or you can really concentrate on delivery and a script that is set in stone. You can polish it more, but your voice starts to sound unnatural; it fatigues easily, and you tend to overpronounce words.
Everything is ashamed of their own speaking voice, but while listening to my own, I see that there are things about my voice which I can change and things about my voice which I can't. I'm finding that the things I can change are actually harder to change than one might think. I recently saw a professional actress do a reading; she blew me away with her perfect cadences and breathing. A certain part of it is god-given talent, but I also see how much work is involved in making it look effortless.


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Q: Pandas: How to count Occurrences of Categorical features Grouped by ID Suppose I have this DataFrame df
My_ID   My_CAT
  1       A
  2       B
  3       C
  1       A
  1       B
  2       D

I'd like to know how many occurrences of each distinct My_Cat value occurs for each distinct My_ID.
I need it in the form of a dense array like
My_ID   A    B    C   D
  1     2    1    0   0
  2     0    1    0   1
  3     0    0    1   0

I tryd with
df.groupby(['My_ID','My_CAT']).count()

but although I see data are grouped accordingly to my need occurrences are not counted.

A: Use crosstab (less typing, by slowiest):
df = pd.crosstab(df['My_ID'], df['My_CAT'])
print (df)
My_CAT  A  B  C  D
My_ID
1       2  1  0  0
2       0  1  0  1
3       0  0  1  0

Faster solution with groupby + aggregate size + unstack:
df = df.groupby(['My_ID','My_CAT']).size().unstack(fill_value=0)
print (df)
My_CAT  A  B  C  D
My_ID
1       2  1  0  0
2       0  1  0  1
3       0  0  1  0

And last:
df = df.reset_index().rename_axis(None, axis=1)
print (df)
   My_ID  A  B  C  D
0      1  2  1  0  0
1      2  0  1  0  1
2      3  0  0  1  0

Notice:
What is the difference between size and count in pandas?
Timings (bigger data):
np.random.seed(123)
N = 100000
L = list('abcdefghijklmno')
df = pd.DataFrame({'My_CAT': np.random.choice(L, N),
                   'My_ID':np.random.randint(1000,size=N)})
print (df)

In [79]: %timeit pd.crosstab(df['My_ID'], df['My_CAT'])
10 loops, best of 3: 96.7 ms per loop

In [80]: %timeit df.groupby(['My_ID','My_CAT']).size().unstack(fill_value=0)
100 loops, best of 3: 14.2 ms per loop

In [81]: %timeit pd.get_dummies(df.My_CAT).groupby(df.My_ID).sum()
10 loops, best of 3: 25.5 ms per loop

In [82]: %timeit df.groupby('My_ID').My_CAT.value_counts().unstack(fill_value=0)
10 loops, best of 3: 25.4 ms per loop

In [136]: %timeit xtab_df(df, 'My_ID', 'My_CAT')
100 loops, best of 3: 4.23 ms per loop

In [137]: %timeit xtab(df, 'My_ID', 'My_CAT')
100 loops, best of 3: 4.61 ms per loop

A: pd.get_dummies with groupby
pd.get_dummies(df.My_CAT).groupby(df.My_ID).sum().reset_index()

   My_ID  A  B  C  D
0      1  2  1  0  0
1      2  0  1  0  1
2      3  0  0  1  0

groupby with value_counts
df.groupby('My_ID').My_CAT.value_counts() \
  .unstack(fill_value=0).rename_axis(None, 1).reset_index()

   My_ID  A  B  C  D
0      1  2  1  0  0
1      2  0  1  0  1
2      3  0  0  1  0

factorize and numba
This is my experimental proposal
from numba import njit
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

@njit
def xtab_array(f1, f2, m, n):
    v = np.arange(m * n).reshape(m, n) * 0
    for i in range(f1.size):
        v[f1[i], f2[i]] += 1
    return v

def xtab_df(df, c1, c2):
    f1, u1 = pd.factorize(df[c1].values)
    f2, u2 = pd.factorize(df[c2].values)
    v = xtab_array(f1, f2, u1.size, u2.size)
    return pd.DataFrame(
        np.column_stack([u1, v]), columns=['My_ID'] + u2.tolist()
    )

xtab_df(df, 'My_ID', 'My_CAT')

   My_ID  A  B  C  D
0      1  2  1  0  0
1      2  0  1  0  1
2      3  0  0  1  0

pure numpy
def xtab(df, c1, c2):
    f1, u1 = pd.factorize(df[c1].values)
    f2, u2 = pd.factorize(df[c2].values)
    n, m = u1.size, u2.size
    v = np.bincount(f1 * m + f2)
    v = np.append(v, np.zeros(n * m - v.size)).reshape(n, -1)
    return pd.DataFrame(
        np.column_stack([u1, v]), columns=['My_ID'] + u2.tolist()
    )

xtab(df, 'My_ID', 'My_CAT')

   My_ID  A  B  C  D
0      1  2  1  0  0
1      2  0  1  0  1
2      3  0  0  1  0

Timing
small data
%timeit pd.crosstab(df['My_ID'], df['My_CAT'])
%timeit df.groupby(['My_ID','My_CAT']).size().unstack(fill_value=0)
%timeit pd.get_dummies(df.My_CAT).groupby(df.My_ID).sum()
%timeit df.groupby('My_ID').My_CAT.value_counts().unstack(fill_value=0)
%timeit xtab_df(df, 'My_ID', 'My_CAT')
%timeit xtab(df, 'My_ID', 'My_CAT')

100 loops, best of 3: 5.21 ms per loop
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.23 ms per loop
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.2 ms per loop
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.23 ms per loop
1000 loops, best of 3: 280 µs per loop
1000 loops, best of 3: 298 µs per loop

@jezrael's bigger data
np.random.seed(123)
N = 100000
L = list('abcdefghijklmno')
df = pd.DataFrame({'My_CAT': np.random.choice(L, N),
                   'My_ID':np.random.randint(1000,size=N)})

%timeit pd.crosstab(df['My_ID'], df['My_CAT'])
%timeit df.groupby(['My_ID','My_CAT']).size().unstack(fill_value=0)
%timeit pd.get_dummies(df.My_CAT).groupby(df.My_ID).sum()
%timeit df.groupby('My_ID').My_CAT.value_counts().unstack(fill_value=0)
%timeit xtab_df(df, 'My_ID', 'My_CAT')
%timeit xtab(df, 'My_ID', 'My_CAT')

10 loops, best of 3: 82.6 ms per loop
100 loops, best of 3: 10.7 ms per loop
100 loops, best of 3: 15.6 ms per loop
10 loops, best of 3: 19.9 ms per loop
100 loops, best of 3: 3.01 ms per loop
100 loops, best of 3: 3.22 ms per loop

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Grading teachers: Districts may lose control to state
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to give the state control over teacher evaluations
Governor proposes to use %22independent observers%22 to evaluate teachers%27 classroom performance
He also wants student scores of state tests to count more in teacher evaluations
Parents%2C teachers%2C union officials and school administrators object to the proposal
Who gets to grade the teachers?
That question is at the center of a debate ignited by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is challenging how much control local school districts should have over teacher evaluations. The governor has proposed to give the state, rather than teachers' local supervisors, the power over who rates the performance of teachers in their classrooms.
Scores of teachers took to the streets in Nyack and across New York recently to protest the proposal.
The governor also wants to increase the weight of state-administered tests given to students in grades three through eight in evaluating the performance of their teachers.
Many Lower Hudson Valley parents, teachers, union officials and school administrators think local principals remain the best people to evaluate a teacher's performance. And they oppose giving more weight to state tests.
Cuomo is proposing to use "independent observers" to evaluate teachers' classroom performance. He has provided few details, other than to say that these professionals could be principals or administrators from within or outside the school district or an evaluator approved by the state Education Department.
Critics say his plan would take away local control of schools, be cumbersome to administrators, and saddle taxpayers with another unfunded mandate. Educators say it would be demoralizing to principals and teachers. And parents worry that it would create more stress for children.
Bedford Schools Superintendent Jere Hochman said he was troubled by the "one size fits all" philosophy of the proposal.
Hochman said that while an administrator from another building within the district may share the overall vision of the district, it does not make sense for every teacher to be evaluated by someone from outside the building.
"Teacher evaluations are not drive-by inspections," said Hochman.
Cuomo's proposal followed the release of state tests that showed:
• Only one-third of students in grades three through eight in New York were rated proficient in math and English language arts, according to the passing rates set by the state.
• But 97.5 percent of teachers in the state (outside of New York City) were rated "effective" under the current method of evaluating teacher performance.
"There's a real contrast between how our students are performing and how their teachers and principals are evaluated," said Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch. "The goal ... is to identify exceptional teachers who can serve as mentors and role models, and identify struggling teachers to make sure they get the help they need to improve. The evaluation system we have now doesn't do that."
Beth Berlin, acting commissioner of the state Education Department, agreed. "Unfortunately, in far too many districts across the state, we see evaluation results that do not reveal the true performance of educators and annual student growth goals that do not reflect rigorous expectations," she said.
About 60 percent (32 out of 54) of the districts in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam rated 100 percent of their teachers as "effective" or "highly effective" overall, a Journal News analysis shows.
In the Port Chester school district, 100 percent of the teachers were rated effective or highly effective, whereas only 17 percent of students were deemed proficient in English language arts and 18 percent in math.
In Chappaqua, which rated 99 percent of its teachers effective or highly effective, the student achievement scores were better aligned. There, 78 percent of the students were deemed proficient in math (the best performing district in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties) and 70 percent in English (second only to Bronxville, which came in at 71 percent).
Before the state-mandated teacher evaluation — or the Annual Professional Performance Review — was instituted in 2012-13, districts were free to come up with their own evaluation plans based on a broad set of criteria from the state.
"What we had before may not have been perfect but, in many places, it had the potential to stir innovation and to use evaluation not just to get rid of bad teachers but to foster improvements of teachers at all experience and skill levels — exactly what you want an evaluation system to do," said Christine Clayton, associate professor in the School of Education at Pace University in Pleasantville.
In order to qualify for federal Race to the Top grants, New York agreed to implement a new teacher-evaluation system, the Common Core standards and other changes.
Under the new system, formal classroom observations count toward 60 percent of a teacher's evaluation. The other 40 percent is split between student performance on state tests and assessments chosen by local districts.
After the most recent teacher scores were tallied in December and all but a few scored in the top brackets, the governor demanded change. He has proposed that student performance on state tests account for half of a teacher's evaluation and that the other half be based largely on "independent classroom observations."
Under his proposal, 35 out of 50 possible points on the classroom observation portion would be scored by the independent observer and the remaining 15 points scored by the building principal.
Supporters of the governor's plan point to the disparity between low student scores and high teacher grades as evidence that change is needed.
"There has been rampant inflation of scores across the state, and parents and educators deserve a system that is fair and reliable and that's what the governor has proposed," said Jenny Sedlis of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-reform advocacy group.
Critics call it a power grab.
"APPR and now Cuomo's new plan for teacher evaluation is increasingly removing the judgment of teaching quality away from local communities and placing it in Albany," Clayton said.
"What we are heading towards with Cuomo's proposed plans ... is an evaluation system that is all about policing," Clayton added. "This neither inspires people in a system to improve nor to enter the profession in the first place."
School district leaders blame the evaluation process, which they say is flawed. They say the evaluation formula forced districts to artificially inflate teachers' scores. They contend they were pressured to meet a tight deadline to adopt teacher-assessment policies that would be acceptable to teachers and to their union, and that the state needs to refine — not do away with — the current system.
Cuomo's proposed fix, embedded in his 2015 executive budget proposal, must be approved by the Legislature.
"We are striving for a system that has accountability and objectivity, and part of that is ensuring that the observation process is more objective and allows for better comparisons across districts," said Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for the governor. "Incorporating outside observers into the system will help accomplish these dual goals."
Critics argue that principals who work with teachers every day are in the best position to evaluate them, instead of basing an evaluation on one observation.
"Even a poor teacher might be able to pull off one good lesson," said Robert Lowry, of the New York State Council of School Superintendents.
The New York State United Teachers, a union which represents 600,000 members, vehemently opposes the plan.
"It's a potential boondoggle," said Carl Korn, spokesperson for NYSUT. "Outside observers hired to come for one day are not going to be able to capture all that a teacher does in a classroom working with students nor understand the teacher's relationship with parents or the community."
The governor's call to base half of a teacher's grade on student performance on state tests has likewise faced vehement opposition.
Parents say the move would further stress their children and zap classroom creativity.
"Making 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation dependent on state tests is not going to lessen the focus on tests," said Christine Zirkelbach, a parent in the Brewster school district. "It's inevitable that teachers will be forced to teach to the test."
Rachel Shinder, a mother of three in Clarkstown, said she was alarmed by the emphasis on tests she has observed with her young daughter compared with her older children.
"Our great teachers will have no choice but to teach to the test, as so many other districts are already doing," said Shinder. When a teacher's job is dependent upon the scores the students get, what option do they have?"
Both Zirkelbach and Shinder said they were also troubled by the outside observer portion.
"It may inhibit both the teacher and the students from performing in their normal manner," said Shinder.
Zirkelbach likewise said taxpayers would bear the burden of the reforms.
"My tax dollars are paying for my principal to run my school," said Zirkelbach. "I am not paying for them to drive all over the region evaluating other teachers. This is another way for Cuomo to come between taxpayers and the local schools. We want our schools to be serving our children, not a political agenda."
To understand the schools' position on teacher evaluations, it's helpful to understand how the tests were scored.
Teacher ratings are based on a 100-point score. Depending on the score, teachers can be rated ineffective, developing, effective or highly effective. Teachers rated ineffective for two consecutive years risk losing their jobs.
Within that 100-point score, a maximum 20 points can be earned from students' performance on state tests, another 20 from students' performance on local tests and 60 by teachers' performance in the classroom, as observed by their principal.
To be graded "effective," a teacher has to score a minimum 75 points overall.
An "effective" or "highly effective" teacher falls within a generous range set by the state — between 9-17 points — in each of two categories: student performance on state tests and local tests.
It's the 60 points that come from classroom observation that get complicated.
Districts were allowed to determine the point range for the scores on classroom evaluations.
In the Lower Hudson Valley and throughout New York (except for New York City), this was decided locally, and subject to collective bargaining.
In Pleasantville and many other districts, officials determined that a teacher receiving the minimum "effective" rating in the two categories set by the state — two "9s" — would need a minimum 57 out of 60 in a classroom evaluation order to get a 75, or overall "effective" score. (9 + 9 + 57 = 75)
That led these districts to set 57 as the minimum score for "effective," said Pleasantville schools Superintendent Mary Fox-Alter.
Problem is, 57 out of 60 is a pretty steep score by any measure, as Pleasantville and the other districts discovered. Particularly as the rubric used to score the teachers — again, approved in collective bargaining — rated them on a scale of 1 to 4 in areas that included engaging students in learning, managing student behavior, communicating with families. Under this system, a 3 is equivalent to "effective."
A teacher graded a 3 across all criteria would score 45 points — way below the 57 the district set as the minimum for effective. In fact, it would put the teacher in the "ineffective" category. Fox-Alter called it a "flaw in the system."
Enter grade curves.
In September, after analyzing the 2012-13 teacher evaluation data, The Journal News reported on how local administrators had bumped up classroom observation scores in their teacher evaluations. Following this report and others, the governor's office is urging the State Education Department to investigate whether the skewed ratings warrant changes to state law.
Fox-Alter said Pleasantville and other districts used conversion charts they designed that were ultimately approved by the state Education Department.
"We concluded that this methodology was an appropriate one to use to adjust for the flaw in the formula," said Fox-Alter.
So in Pleasantville, a 45 was scaled up to a 57.
End result: 99 percent of the teachers in the district were rated highly effective in the first year. In the current year, 89 percent of teachers scored in that range.
"The state incentivized scaling up," said Fox-Alter. "This model never went through a research and development stage. It never went through a panel of experts, and the rushed model had a deadline, and as we all know now — had a major flaw in the basic math of the model."
Julia Rafal-Baer, an assistant education commissioner who oversees evaluation, disputed the conclusion that a teacher rated at the low end of the "effective" spectrum on the two student-test categories should have to be rated effective overall.
"This is a multiple measures system. A teacher is not rated effective until they receive an overall 0-100 score. Just because you get a 9 in one subcomponent, does not mean you earn an effective overall," she said. "If a teacher scored all 3s (on the classroom evaluation) and got a 57 then you would expect they got more points than 9, which is less than half the points available, on other subcomponents."
Not all districts use the same scoring method. Scarsdale, for example, chose a different approach.
In that district — regarded as one of the best school systems in the country — no teacher was rated highly effective on the classroom observation portion of the evaluation in the past two years.
Lynne Shain, Scarsdale's assistant superintendent for instruction, said the district had chosen to use the raw scores — with no curve or "scaling."
Scarsdale set 43 as the minimum score for an "effective" rating in the classroom observation.
"We used a broad range for the effective score because we believe that such a range reflects reality," said Shain. "We also wanted to avoid a needless and counterproductive atmosphere of competitiveness among our teachers."
1. Chappaqua (78 percent)
2. Briarcliff Manor (74 percent)
3.Bronxville, Byram Hills (72 percent)
4. Scarsdale, Edgemont, Irvington, Eastchester (71 percent)
5.Mamaroneck (69 percent)
1.Bronxville (71 percent)
3.Briarcliff Manor, Scarsdale (65 percent)
4. Byram Hills (64 percent)
5.Edgemont (62 percent)
About 60 percent (32 out of 54) of the districts in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam rated 100 percent of their teachers as "effective" or "highly effective" overall
Top five districs that rated teachers "highly effective"
1. North Salem (96 percent)
2. Clarkstown (93 percent)
3. Eastchester (92 percent)
4. Briarcliff Manor, Byram Hills, Haldane, South Orangetown (91 percent)
5. Ardsley (89 percent)
Source: Department of Education
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I read this as a teen and immediately made my close friends read it, too. Told in letters (some of which are from imaginary organizations), it's a clever, funny, touching look at the evolving nature of friendship.
Admittedly, this one started slow, but it's such a great story of a gender-non-conforming teen. All the relationships felt so real to me, and I especially appreciated Pen's struggles with her traditional Portuguese family.
This middle-grade novel about a girl with grand piano dreams and an organ reality hit me right in the feels. It's a thoughtful, fun, and funny story about family, friends, fear, and surprising yourself.
Such a sweet, funny, touching story about a girl dealing with family pressure to excel, major crushes, and a secret love of pop music. Patti's church group friends are my fav.
This is one of my favorite family stories, about four generations of women helping one to pass onto the afterlife. Doyle has such a way with voice and dialogue.
This story about a competitive high school runner who learns to run again after losing her leg in a car accident feels so genuine, both in terms of the emotional stakes and of the information about what it actually takes to go through rehab and run with a prosthetic.
This is a two-for, because Sarah Combs is one of my all-time favorite writers and humans. Both of her books are packed with gorgeous writing, touching stories, deep sadness, pure joy, and characters you just want to hug.
A historical, epistolary series about a royal family at the edge of WWII? Sign me up. Cooper does a fantastic job creating a memorable set of characters and gives a fascinating look at the rise of hate, fear, and war (which, sadly, feels too close to today's vibe) and what good people can do to stand against it.
This was one of my very favorite books when I was 10/11-years-old. After reading The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, I randomly stumbled across this one in the library and it hit all those good Victorian feels–even governesses, plucky orphans, and a whole forest of hungry wolves.
Underrated books that you love? Share them in the comments! Also make sure to check out everyone else's Top Ten Tuesday hidden gems via That Artsy Reader Girl.
Happy Friday, guys! It's a beautiful Friday here in the Boston area, and I'm looking forward to a weekend of seeing friends, playing games, and walks with Bodo the dog. Let's start the weekend off with a few micro-book reviews.
Sepetys knows how to craft a stunning gut-punch of a historical novel. Just my type!
Thoughtful look at police brutality. Loved Rashad, but wanted more from Quinn's part.
If you're like me, the news about immigrant families being separated and children being detained in horrifying conditions makes you ill to think about. This is a human rights violation happening on our watch. While I'm not an immigration lawyer or social worker, I can take a small part in this effort to reunify families and make sure these abuses never happen again.
I'm taking part in two raffles–one that includes a signed copy of The Chance You Won't Return and one that includes a query critique by yours truly.
Happy Friday, guys! It's been brutally hot here, but I used the indoor time to finish a revision I'd been working on and am excited about starting a new draft. I'm also excited about seeing friends at a wedding this weekend, which feels like a summer activity. In the meantime, let's get the weekend started with some book reviews in fifteen words or fewer.
I might secretly be Danish because I am fully into the hygge life.
A great look at OCD/anxiety, but maybe my least favorite Green book.
Wasn't quite as into the insta-love but fantastic look at immigration; loved the multi-POV.
Happy Friday, guys! I'm starting off the weekend with a sick day (ugh, feels so unfair to have a sore throat when it's like 90 degrees out), but hopefully this will be a mostly restful and relaxing weekend. Let's start things off with a few book reviews in fifteen words or fewer.
A satisfying end to the Lunar Chronicles, but not my favorite of the series.
A great look at managing the difficult times, when don't know what path we're on.
Great contemp YA with strong voices and cultural background; wish they'd had more coding though!
I follow these (and others) on Feedly and, when I see a good review or description that sounds interesting, add to to my list.
This used to be the primary way I found books. From the time I was an early reader through high school, I'd go to the library or local bookstores and spend time scanning the shelves for titles that sounded interesting. I still love doing this, although most of my library browsing tends to be through their online catalog of available audiobooks to download.
I don't pay a ton of attention to year-end book lists (like "best of 2018"), but I do keep an eye out for which books win major awards. In the children's literature/YA sphere, that includes ALA Youth Media Awards, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. These might be more popular/well-known books that I already kind of have on my radar, but the awards make me feel like I should check them out to get a sense of what's being recognized in the kid/YA lit sphere.
Getting a good review from professional review organizations like School Library Journal, Kirkus, or Publishers Weekly can be a big boost for books in the market. It's also a place I tend to read book reviews. I don't put a ton of weight into whether a book gets a great review or not, but if I like the sound of a book overall, I'll check it out.
This one is actually a little iffy, because lots of times I get weirdly defiant when people tell me I have to read a certain book. Even if it's a book I know I'd enjoy, a lot of times I'll stubbornly feel like You can't make me! I also tend to pick books from my reading list based on feel (like "I want something fun and scifi next") vs. recent recommendations, so I don't usually circle back to friends' recommendations until later. But there are a few people I 100% trust with book recommendations and am always happy to get their suggestions–even if I don't always end up reading them right away.
This is total literary nepotism, but I'm way more likely to read a book if I know and like the person who wrote it. Again, it may not happen right away, but friends' books are always on my list. I'm also way more likely to buy friends' books, when I can afford it, vs. getting them from the library, which is how I read pretty much everything else.
writing to get a sense of what's already out there and what other authors have already done. Sometimes this is in tone (quirky, funny, sad, etc.) or topic (books about military families, books about teens in theatre, etc.) or just genre (sci-fi, fantasy, contemp, etc.). I know a lot of people don't like to work this way, in case they get too bogged down in other people's stories, but I find it immensely helpful and inspiring.
Where do you find your next read? Share your recommendations in the comments!
Happy Friday, guys! It's been a while since my last Friday Fifteen, but I've been busy with the work life and the writing life, and the throwing the squeaky toy for Bodo the Dog life. Fortunately, this is the Friday before Marathon Monday, aka the best day of the year, so I'm super excited to head into the weekend. Let's get things started with a few book reviews in fifteen words or fewer.
A fantastic look at disability, friendly, struggle, and strength. As a runner, I'm a fan.
A sweet and sad and real middle grade about loss and family. Loved the setting.
A sensitive, real portrayal of a girl battling an eating disorder. Recovery is complex here.
Happy Friday, guys! I feel like every time I write one of these, I want to start with "it's been a week" but that's fully the truth. Good things from this week: getting a haircut, chocolate caramel oreo pie, Olympics figure skating, and nice weather for walks. Let's get the weekend going with some book reviews in fifteen words or fewer!
Frank, funny, and touching discussion of sexuality, family history, and how we cope with illness.
Ishiguro's perfect combination of a restrained narrator and emotional anguish, set against post-WWII Japan.
A great sequel to Cinder; Scarlet's voice captured me and I fully ship Scarlet/Wolf.


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 Maskerbloem, een geslacht van planten


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Former Hofmann Students
Hans Hofmann, Sic Itur Ad Astra (Such is the Way to the Stars), 1962, oil on canvas, 60 1/8 x 72 1/8 inches (152.7 x 183.2 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, (95-08), gift of Mrs. Louisa Stude Sarofim. Photo: George Hixson, Houston. © 2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Award-winning Finalist,
Best Interior Design category,
International Book Awards, 2011
Design: John Hubbard / Eson
Color by IOcolor
Printed in China
424 pages, 9 x 11
40 color, 148 b/w illustrations
Color Creates Light:
Studies with Hans Hofmann
by Tina Dickey
Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann brings together the man, the schools, the painting, the ideas, and the teaching. Jed Perl of The New Republic calls this book "enormously important... nothing less than the missing chapter in the history of the period," for Hofmann's decade of painting in Paris prior to World War I, combined with his observations of the masters of all cultures, enabled him to explain Cubism to the avant-garde and catalyzed the later Abstract Expressionism.
In the ateliers of German emigrant Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in Munich, New York, and Provincetown, talented students later to become some of the most significant artists and educators of the time rubbed shoulders with critics, collectors, and curators, who in turn transmitted and transmuted Hofmann's ideas across Europe, America, Canada, and beyond.
From how Hofmann taught to what he taught, artists talk shop about the inner workings of the visual language, a discussion essential to the contemporary dialogue in the arts and required reading for those engaged in creative composition, whether visual, verbal, musical, architectural, cinematic, or choreographic.
Tina Dickey, artist and author, studied painting with former Hofmann students prior to conducting an oral history now in the Archives of American Art, and exhibited with them at Copenhagen City Gallery in 1993 (USA on Paper). During her nine years as Editor of the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné (1997-2006), she was chief research consultant for the PBS documentary Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist (2002), while editing the journals of painter Myron Stout (Midmarch Arts Press, 2005). She has contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogs related to Hofmann and his former students in the United States, Canada, Spain, and Germany.
"I think it's amazing that you were able to capture the feeling of what it was like to be at the Hofmann School – exactly – without having been there."
– Robert Henry, painter, Hofmann Alumnus, Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College
"What a book— informative, moving, and clarifies so much that was always unclear to me. One revelation after another, and it reads beautifully. Detailed, but with broad perspectives, all in the context of other important events. I hated to put it down. An amazing achievement! I was especially gratified to see both of the Hofmanns from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Fiat Lux was my last acquisition for the museum, and was met with stony silence except by the few who knew painting. A stormy picture, and it matched my mood at the time, so I was taken with Hofmann's comment, in the book, that it was painted in a mood of 'negative ecstasy'— exactly!"
– William C. Agee, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History, Hunter College
Author; former director (MFAH, Pasadena Art Museum) and curator (MOMA and Whitney)
"An artist who 'ate color not with a teaspoon but with a shovel,' Hofmann brought European modernism and abstraction to art students of mid-century America with the same Kraft (power, life force) that imbued his own work. With sensitivity, style, and exemplary use of sources, Tina Dickey recreates the man, his work, his teaching, and the lost ambience of that idealistic era when art changed lives, before there was a mass media or international art market, and before cynicism and irony saturated the art world. In an era that regards sincerity and integrity as old-fashioned, irrelevant, and even embarrassing, Hofmann's belief that art can generate 'forces of creation equivalent to forces in the physical world' (from Harold Rosenberg's eulogy) makes clear what is lost when the importance of art is reflected in its cost rather than its value."
- Ellen Dissanayake
What Is Art For?
Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why
Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began
"Hofmann's teaching ... was crucial to a number of Canadian abstract artists, including Joe Plaskett, Hortense Gordon, Alexandra Luke, Jock Macdonald, Takao Tanabe, William Ronald, Don Jarvis, and Margaret Peterson. ... Between his arrival in America in 1933 and his death in 1966, his passionate teaching based on strong principles inspired a generation of teachers and artists. This exhaustive book not only outlines Hofmann's biography but aims to impart his teaching, as conveyed by those who studied with him. ... Hofmann's influence on hundreds of painters was a vital part of the scene and is at last brought to light."
– Robert Amos, Times Colonist
("Treat your mind's eye to painterly tomes," Victoria, BC, February 5, 2011)


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Tropical fossil forests unearthed in Arctic Norway
New discovery could be the cause of a massive reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels hundreds of millions of years ago
UK researchers have unearthed ancient fossil forests, thought to be partly responsible for one of the most dramatic shifts in the Earth's climate in the past 400 million years.
The fossil forests, with tree stumps preserved in place, were found in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago situated in the Arctic Ocean. They were identified and described by Dr Chris Berry of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Prof John Marshall, of Southampton University, has accurately dated the forests to 380 million years.
The forests grew near the equator during the late Devonian period, and could provide an insight into the cause of a 15-fold reduction in levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere around that time.
Current theories suggest that during the Devonian period (420-360 million years ago) there was a huge drop in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere, thought to be largely caused by a change in vegetation from diminutive plants to the first large forest trees.
Forests pulled CO2 out of the air through photosynthesis – the process by which plants create food and tissues – and the formation of soils.
Although initially the appearance of large trees absorbed more of the sun's radiation, eventually temperatures on Earth also dropped dramatically to levels very similar to those experienced today because of the reduction in atmospheric CO2.
Because of the high temperatures and large amount of rainfall on the equator, it is likely that equatorial forests contributed most to the drawdown of CO2. Svalbard was located on the equator around this time, before the tectonic plate drifted north by around 80° to its current position in the Arctic Ocean.
"These fossil forests shows us what the vegetation and landscape were like on the equator 380 million years ago, as the first trees were beginning to appear on the Earth," said Dr Berry.
The team found that the forests in Svalbard were formed mainly of lycopod trees, better known for growing millions of years later in coal swamps that eventually turned into coal deposits – such as those in South Wales. They also found that the forests were extremely dense, with very small gaps – around 20cm – between each of the trees, which probably reached about 4m high.
"During the Devonian Period, it is widely believed that there was a huge drop in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, from 15 times the present amount to something approaching current levels.
"The evolution of tree-sized vegetation is the most likely cause of this dramatic drop in carbon dioxide because the plants were absorbing carbon dioxide through photosynthesis to build their tissues, and also through the process of forming soils."
The new findings have been published in the journal Geology.
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Janice Patricia "Jan" Lehane O'Neill OAM (née Lehane; born 9 July 1941) is a former Australian female tennis player. She was the first leading female player with a double-handed backhand.

She won the singles title at the New South Wales Championships in 1959 after a three-sets victory in the final against Mary Carter Reitano. In 1960, she successfully defended her title by winning the semifinal against world No. 1 ranked Maria Bueno and the final in straight sets against Margaret Smith.

At the Australian Championships, Lehane reached the singles final four consecutive years (1960–1963) but lost to Margaret Smith each time. She had a similar experience in women's doubles, reaching the final twice (in 1961 with Mary Bevis Hawton and 1963 with Lesley Turner Bowrey) but losing each time to a team that included Smith (with Mary Carter Reitano in 1961 and Robyn Ebbern in 1963). Lehane had more success in the mixed doubles, twice winning the title (in 1960 with Trevor Fancutt and 1961 with Bob Hewitt). However, Mike Sangster and Lehane lost the 1964 mixed doubles final to Smith and Ken Fletcher.

She had an operation on her right knee in January 1965 and did not play any of the Grand Slams that year.

She was part of the Australian Fed Cup team that reached the final in 1963 and won all three of her singles rubbers.

According to Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, O'Neill was ranked in the world top 10 in 1960, 1963, and 1964, reaching a career high of World No. 7 in 1963.

Lehane married James John O'Neill on 19 February 1966.

In 2018, she was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame.

On Australia Day 2019, Jan was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her service to tennis.

Grand Slam finals

Singles (4 runners-up)

Doubles: (3 runners-up)

Mixed doubles (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.  O'Neill participated only in the January edition.

See also
 Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

References

External links

Australian Championships (tennis) champions
Australian female tennis players
1941 births
Living people
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
Tennis people from New South Wales
Australian Championships (tennis) junior champions


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Ángela María Orozco Gómez
Minister of Transport, Republic of Colombia
Ángela María Orozco Gómez is a Barranquilla lawyer from Universidad Javeriana with a Master's degree in Comparative Jurisprudence from the University of Texas (United States), a specialist in Economic Law from the Externado University of Colombia and a Fellow at the Yale World Yale University (2003). She was designated as one of the 100 global leaders of tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (2000), as one of the 10 outstanding young people of Colombia by the Junior Chamber of Colombia (2000) and as the year's Foreign Trade executive by the Association of Foreign Trade Directors 2001). She has worked in the public sector as Minister of Foreign Trade (2002), President of Proexport (2000-2002) and Vice Minister of Foreign Trade (1998- 2000). She excelled in positions such as General and International Manager and Vice President of the Colombian Association of Flower Exporters (Asocolflores, 1995-1998), Head of the legal office of the Superintendency of Securities, where she was also an advisor (1994-1995), Associate Lawyer in Araújo Ibarra & Asociados (1993-1994); Economic Advisor to the Embassy of the United States (1993), Deputy Director of Trade Promotion Instruments (1992-1993) and Head of the Legal Division of the Commercial Practice of Incomex (1990-1992). She has also served as a member of international trade dispute settlement panels within the framework of the WTO (2015-2016) and ALADI (2004).
Financing infrastructure connectivity


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Merna is a city in Nebraska. So far we have accumulated 50 streets in Merna and on these streets we have added 6,412 real estate properties.
Merna is a village in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 363 at the 2010 census.


"Jimmy Breslin" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News' Sunday edition. He has written numerous novels, and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City. He served as a regular columnist for the Long Island, NY newspaper Newsday until his retirement on November 2, 2004, though he still publishes occasional pieces for the paper.
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I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something.
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
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News Roundup February 4th
by Huey Chewwy in News
Respawn drops Apex Legends onto players today and the new Lunar Year means another sale on Steam.
Surely another battle royale title is what everyone wanted
If you're fans of Respawn Entertainment, makers of Titantfall 1 & 2, you'll be happy to know that they dropped a new title that is available today. The slightly dissapointing news is that it is not Titanfall 3 but set in the same universe so maybe that helps.
Apex Legends is a battle royale title with a slight twist that everyone is picking Legends to play as. Think of them as heroes from Overwatch as they all have different perks and abilities. As it is set in the Titantfall universe (apparently 30 years after the second title) you can expect to see plenty of familiar themes and styles. The player count is current 60 with 20 teams of 3 so choose your two best buddies and go take on the best of the Frontier. On the downside though, there are no Titans to be seen. This could explain why they call the game Apex Legends rather than Titanfall…fill in the blank.
That all being said, Apex Legends is free-to-play on the Xbox One, PS4, and PC. How will fans react to a Titanfall game set in the Titanfall universe without…titans. For those wondering where Titanfall 3 is at, Eurogamer has a report that at a press event Respawn said that they are NOT working on Titanfall 3.
A new year, new sale
With the celebration of the new Lunar Year, it is appropriate for Steam to continue tradition and have another big game sale. Discounts end in a week on February 11th with several titles up for sale such as Warriors Orochi 4, Dark Souls III, and Nioh to name a few.
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Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, the city of Garland is situated in the northeastern region of Dallas County in the state of Texas.
Garland, TX was first inhabited in the 1850s, although a cohesive community didn't exist until the 1870s, when the two competing settlements of Embree and Duck Creek emerged. In 1887, a post office between the two towns was established, a move which united the residents of the two communities and gave birth to the town of Garland. The new community was formally incorporated in 1891.
Today, more than 234,000 people live in the modern city of Garland, TX. Its residents benefit from the city's thriving, stable, and diverse economy.


This week AMC announced that Chris Hardwick would be reinstated as a host of Talking Dead, the Walking Dead aftershow that follows new episodes of the series and the spin-off Fear the Walking Dead. He'd been put on hiatus following ex-girlfriend Chloe Dysktra's essay on Medium detailing the emotional and sexual abuse she suffered under an ex-boyfriend others inferred to be Hardwick.
Following the accusation where Hardwick wasn't specifically named, he denied the claims made about him but chose not to moderate Comic-Con panels amidst the controvery. It seemed like Hardwick might be finished until AMC announced Hardwick's return this week in press release saying they concluded an investigation into Dysktra's accusation.
Update: The Wrap reports that Chris Hardwick will not moderate the Warner Bros. panel at Comic-Con this year. He previously moderated the studio's Hall H presentation in 2017 and 2014.
In 2012, Screenwriter Max Landis (Chronicle, and upcoming American Ultra, Victor Frankenstein) released a short film called The Death and Return of Superman which starred Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Ron Howard, Chris Hardwick, Simon Pegg and more. The short, described as "an educational parody," told the hilarious, literal, insider version what happened in 1992 when DC Comics decided to kill, then resurrect, Superman. The video became a viral hit, watched by over 2.6 million people. Tonight I got contacted by Max, who has released a teaser video announcing The Death and Return of Superman sequel Wrestling Isn't Wrestling. Watch the announcement teaser trailer and I'll attempt to get more details out of Landis, after the jump.
Last year we featured a cosplay music video from the 2013 edition of Comic Con. SneakyZebra has returned a year later with another great music video showcasing some of the best cosplayers he came across at San Diego Comic Con International 2014. This years video even features some notable attempts by Stan Winston School & LegacyFX, some of the stars of SyFy's Heroes of Cosplay television series (Yaya Han, Chloe Dykstra, Riddle), Chris Hardwick of Nerdist and more. Watch the Comic Con 2014 Cosplay music video embedded after the jump.