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package com.directions.route;

import android.util.Log;

import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.LatLng;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class GoogleParser extends XMLParser implements Parser {

    private static final String VALUE = "value";
    private static final String DISTANCE = "distance";
    /**
     * Distance covered. *
     */
    private int distance;

    /* Status code returned when the request succeeded */
    private static final String OK = "OK";

    public GoogleParser(String feedUrl) {
        super(feedUrl);
    }

    /**
     * Parses a url pointing to a Google JSON object to a Route object.
     *
     * @return a Route object based on the JSON object by Haseem Saheed
     */

    public final List<Route> parse() throws RouteException {
        List<Route> routes = new ArrayList<>();

        // turn the stream into a string
        final String result = convertStreamToString(this.getInputStream());
        if (result == null) {
            throw new RouteException("Result is null");
        }

        try {
            //Tranform the string into a json object
            final JSONObject json = new JSONObject(result);
            //Get the route object

            if(!json.getString("status").equals(OK)){
                throw new RouteException(json);
            }

            JSONArray jsonRoutes = json.getJSONArray("routes");

            for (int i = 0; i < jsonRoutes.length(); i++) {
                Route route = new Route();
                //Create an empty segment
                Segment segment = new Segment();

                JSONObject jsonRoute = jsonRoutes.getJSONObject(i);
                //Get the bounds - northeast and southwest
                final JSONObject jsonBounds = jsonRoute.getJSONObject("bounds");
                final JSONObject jsonNortheast = jsonBounds.getJSONObject("northeast");
                final JSONObject jsonSouthwest = jsonBounds.getJSONObject("southwest");

                route.setLatLgnBounds(new LatLng(jsonNortheast.getDouble("lat"), jsonNortheast.getDouble("lng")), new LatLng(jsonSouthwest.getDouble("lat"), jsonSouthwest.getDouble("lng")));

                //Get the leg, only one leg as we don't support waypoints
                final JSONObject leg = jsonRoute.getJSONArray("legs").getJSONObject(0);
                //Get the steps for this leg
                final JSONArray steps = leg.getJSONArray("steps");
                //Number of steps for use in for loop
                final int numSteps = steps.length();
                //Set the name of this route using the start & end addresses
                route.setName(leg.getString("start_address") + " to " + leg.getString("end_address"));
                //Get google's copyright notice (tos requirement)
                route.setCopyright(jsonRoute.getString("copyrights"));
                //Get distance and time estimation
                route.setDurationText(leg.getJSONObject("duration").getString("text"));
                route.setDurationValue(leg.getJSONObject("duration").getInt(VALUE));
                route.setDistanceText(leg.getJSONObject(DISTANCE).getString("text"));
                route.setDistanceValue(leg.getJSONObject(DISTANCE).getInt(VALUE));
                route.setEndAddressText(leg.getString("end_address"));
                //Get the total length of the route.
                route.setLength(leg.getJSONObject(DISTANCE).getInt(VALUE));
                //Get any warnings provided (tos requirement)
                if (!jsonRoute.getJSONArray("warnings").isNull(0)) {
                    route.setWarning(jsonRoute.getJSONArray("warnings").getString(0));
                }

                /* Loop through the steps, creating a segment for each one and
                 * decoding any polylines found as we go to add to the route object's
                 * map array. Using an explicit for loop because it is faster!
                 */
                for (int y = 0; y < numSteps; y++) {
                    //Get the individual step
                    final JSONObject step = steps.getJSONObject(y);
                    //Get the start position for this step and set it on the segment
                    final JSONObject start = step.getJSONObject("start_location");
                    final LatLng position = new LatLng(start.getDouble("lat"),
                            start.getDouble("lng"));
                    segment.setPoint(position);
                    //Set the length of this segment in metres
                    final int length = step.getJSONObject(DISTANCE).getInt(VALUE);
                    distance += length;
                    segment.setLength(length);
                    segment.setDistance((double)distance / (double)1000);
                    //Strip html from google directions and set as turn instruction
                    segment.setInstruction(step.getString("html_instructions").replaceAll("<(.*?)*>", ""));

                    if(step.has("maneuver"))
                        segment.setManeuver(step.getString("maneuver"));

                    //Retrieve & decode this segment's polyline and add it to the route.
                    route.addPoints(decodePolyLine(step.getJSONObject("polyline").getString("points")));
                    //Push a copy of the segment to the route
                    route.addSegment(segment.copy());
                }

                routes.add(route);
            }

        } catch (JSONException e) {
            throw new RouteException("JSONException. Msg: "+e.getMessage());
        }
        return routes;
    }

    /**
     * Convert an inputstream to a string.
     *
     * @param input inputstream to convert.
     * @return a String of the inputstream.
     */

    private static String convertStreamToString(final InputStream input) {
        if (input == null) return null;

        final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input));
        final StringBuilder sBuf = new StringBuilder();

        String line;
        try {
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                sBuf.append(line);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e("Routing Error", e.getMessage());
        } finally {
            try {
                input.close();
                reader.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                Log.e("Routing Error", e.getMessage());
            }
        }
        return sBuf.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Decode a polyline string into a list of GeoPoints.
     *
     * @param poly polyline encoded string to decode.
     * @return the list of GeoPoints represented by this polystring.
     */

    private List<LatLng> decodePolyLine(final String poly) {
        int len = poly.length();
        int index = 0;
        List<LatLng> decoded = new ArrayList<LatLng>();
        int lat = 0;
        int lng = 0;

        while (index < len) {
            int b;
            int shift = 0;
            int result = 0;
            do {
                b = poly.charAt(index++) - 63;
                result |= (b & 0x1f) << shift;
                shift += 5;
            } while (b >= 0x20);
            int dlat = ((result & 1) != 0 ? ~(result >> 1) : (result >> 1));
            lat += dlat;

            shift = 0;
            result = 0;
            do {
                b = poly.charAt(index++) - 63;
                result |= (b & 0x1f) << shift;
                shift += 5;
            } while (b >= 0x20);
            int dlng = ((result & 1) != 0 ? ~(result >> 1) : (result >> 1));
            lng += dlng;

            decoded.add(new LatLng(
                    lat / 100000d, lng / 100000d
            ));
        }

        return decoded;
    }
}


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We had 40 entries in our contest, a lot of unique and chilling takes. The only contest requirements were a 1500 word limit, a paranormal theme, and Wisconsin as a backdrop. Our top three stories were separated by a mere one point margin. Here is our first place contest winner.
Forgive me for saying that the following events occurred when I was young, only fifteen in the autumn of '64, living with my family a twenty-minute drive from Platteville. I suppose it was October of that year when these things happened, as I sat alone on our front porch, waiting for my father to come in for the night. The moon was low, casting an awkward, amber brightness upon the purple clouds, and the scarecrow that stands in the nearest cornfield was a dark, gaunt thing against the sky.
I noticed a bright light eclipsing the clouds and moon, swallowing up my vision. As it cleared away, I saw a black car parked down by the barn, and a man, I thought, standing there next to the scarecrow, another shadow on the face of the horizon. It certainly was an odd thing, for we expected no visitors, and seldom had passers-by. Still, I wandered over to him. If I had been in more of a mind to think, I would have thought it strange how tall he was – for the scarecrow stands exactly seven feet high, and this stranger was at most three inches shorter than it.
He only stood there, gazing deep into the stitched-up eyes of the scarecrow, and I took the opportunity to more fully study him. As I said before, he was tall and spindly, his pant legs several inches short, while his sleeves hung almost to the knuckles of his spider-like hands. It was his face, though, that struck me the funniest; his nose and chin were exceedingly narrow and pointed, in contrast with his large, globe-like cranium and huge dark eyes. It was a full minute before he spoke.
"Did your father vote for the current president?" he droned.
"No," I said, and explained that it was the Kennedy assassination that put him in office.
"Who lives in your house?" he grinned.
It was at that question the terror struck and I, forsaking politeness, ran full tilt away from him and into the house. Looking out the kitchen window, I scanned the horizon for the black-garbed man, but saw only the scarecrow, pointing at nothing.
I didn't tell anyone about him.
It was early November that the change first happened – in the empty cornfields, it was as though the land was being burnt in giant patterns of dots and spirals. My father thought it was strange, but, since no harm was really done, didn't inform anyone about it.
Lights began to appear in the sky over our farm, from pulsating blobs of purple iridescence to metallic, flashing things that spun and disappeared. The house itself, too, developed a mind of its own; objects were stacked, shattered, and shifted almost everyday. My mother referred to it as a poltergeist, and urged us not to discuss it for fear of giving it power. On the other hand, my father, who up until then had been nothing but practical in his life, said he heard voices from outer space, friendly travelers who told him he had been chosen. My brother and sister responded, for the most part, with silence.
Winter that year brought terror – my brother came tearing into the house one afternoon, screaming incoherently about the angel of death, the plague of Egypt. Piecing together where he had been, my father and I walked out to the cow pasture in the new snow, unprepared for what we would see.
Every last cow was dead, their empty ribcages yawning at the sky, all their organs stolen with surgical precision. The unnerving thing, though, stalking amid the carcasses in the fresh snow, was the complete lack of blood – from the snow, from the bodies, from anything, like something had taken it before performing its unspeakable robbery. Things only disintegrated from there.
How can I explain a decade of hell? Every year, the new crops were burnt in the strange radial designs, every new animal was slaughtered and bloodless weeks after its arrival. The house was turned into a representation of madness, items constantly moving, meaningless messages scrawled across walls and tables, doors ceaselessly slamming. One day, a window, not just the pane, but the actual window, the opening in the wall, moved over two feet.
My family, too, was shattered. Shortly after the mutilations of the cattle my father, convinced men from Venus had chosen him as the leader of a new age, ran off with a young blonde that called herself Astraix. I don't know where they went. My brother over the course of years descended into a paranoia of things he called the bright doctors that, he claimed, took him in the night. One morning I woke with bizarre burning on my face, and that same morning, he was gone. My mother, inconsolable with the loss of her son, and convinced that demons were to blame, made the mistake of discussing the matter with a local priest. She was promptly sent to the institute at Mendota.
My sister and I were the only two left. She claimed no visions, no visitations, as a matter of fact, she never spoke a word of what she thought about anything. We lived this way, silent in the face of insanity for two years, when, without warning, she left me, one July day, to live with an uncle of ours. Before she left, I asked her why.
It was October of that year, 1974, and I was then 25 years of age, that I wandered the empty cornfields alone. I had half a mind to jump off the bluff, but didn't. I looked up at the night, burning iridescent purple, heard the doors slamming in the empty house, and then I saw it – the scarecrow, still standing, still beating at the sky. I stood next to it, gazed in its faded face, and saw myself in it, a thing thrashing at the unseen, beaten by the unknown, and I remembered that night ten years prior, that strange, grinning man that I had refused to let in my house, and I screamed.
He walked over to the house, and stopped at the open doorway.
There was a flash of light, and I woke up in my bed the next morning.
You will forgive me for saying these things happened when I was just a young man, for the truth is I am only fifteen, and it is only autumn of '64, and I live with my parents and brother and sister twenty minutes from Platteville. And this is where I am confused, for I fell asleep alone in '74, and woke up to my family in '64, and I have lived ten years that are forgotten, and have seen a future that is no more.
What I do know, is that if I ever see that thing, that man, that devil in the cornfield, he is welcome in my house, for I feel now that he did not cause the evil that came, only was prevented from preventing it.


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IKEA's holiday campaign taps the magic of old furniture
The retailer continues to makes sustainability a core part of its brand promise by showing the joy it can bring.
By Justin Dallaire
In September, IKEA Canada entered year two of its "Beautiful Possibilities" platform by putting increased focus on sustainability and debuting "Lamp 2," a classic brand spot that was, not coincidentally, given a second life.
Now, the brand has debuted "Magic Man," a holiday ad that aims to show that it's not just new products that can make magical gifts.
The campaign spot tells the story of a young boy who wants to become a great magician, but appears to be having some difficulty mastering his tricks. With the help of caring grandfather who transforms a dusty old "Kallax" shelving unit into something entirely new, the boy is able to perform his first successful trick in front of family and friends.
The spot will run for six weeks, supported by a holiday media plan that includes TV, online video, OOH, digital, social and email marketing.
"Magic Man," by IKEA's Canadian agency Rethink, embraces the spirit of the season by adding a touch of "holiday magic" and emphasizing the value of the home during the holidays, says Lauren MacDonald, the retailer's Canadian CMO. It also reflects the nature of Canadian households today by exploring a day in the life of a multi-generational family, she says.
The campaign's overarching message aligns more broadly with the holiday season, typically a period of mass consumption and expense in Canada. While there are many insights at play in the creative, according to MacDonald, one of them is that "we've been conditioned to think that a good gift must be new and expensive, when it fact, it's back to the old adage that it's the thought that counts."
Since its launch, "Beautiful Possibilities" has aimed to give life to IKEA's optimistic point of view and to showcase its values-led brand promise, an all-encompassing commitment to sustainability, human rights, diversity, inclusion – in short, to creating a better life for its customers, says MacDonald.
The release of "Lamp 2" in September coincided with the company shifting the emphasis to its "People + Planet" strategy, launched last June. That promise included a range of commitments on sustainability, from the elimination of single-use plastics within its stores to the more ambitious goal of becoming an entirely circular business come 2030.
Whereas "Lamp 2" used a classic IKEA spot to show the value of giving products a second life, the new holiday campaign takes a slightly different tack by emphasizing the importance of prolonging an item's life through reimagining its fundamental purpose, says MacDonald.
IKEA just recently soft-launched a sell-back program that give customers the chance to sell gently-used goods back to the company in return for an IKEA gift card. Within its first week, the company received more than 1,000 online submissions from customers looking to give their products a second life. The program is part of a long-term play for the company, as part of the IKEA Family loyalty program. For now, it plans to continue testing the program before rolling it out more widely.
MacDonald says that while there are no plans for a full campaign dealing with the sell-back program specifically, it is expected to receive ongoing support going forward.
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The Joint Union of Plateau State-owned Tertiary Establishments (JUPTI), has issued a 48-hour ultimatum, threatening to embark on an indefinite strike motion if the state authorities failed to handle its varied calls for, which the union had put earlier than it.
The union maintained that authorities had over time given deaf ears to its calls for; therefore, needs to compel it to embark on an indefinite strike motion.
The union's place was made in a discover of strike signed by its Chairman Paul Dakogol and Secretary, Solomon Ayum; and was addressed to the State's Head of Service, Izang Azi.
The letter dated April 10, entitled "Discover of Resumption of Indefinite Strike" was issued to journalists on Thursday in Jos the State capital on Thursday.
It might be recalled that in a letter dated January 28, 2019, and addressed to the Head of Service, the union had requested the federal government to handle amongst different pertinent points; the paucity of instructing and non instructing employees on the varied establishments, non launch of subvention to the establishments, 24-months pension arrears for retired employees owed by authorities, cost of peculiarity allowances, exemption of the establishments from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) and the non-payment of two months excellent salaries owed employees in 2011.
The union within the discover additionally expressed fear over the current withholding of the a part of salaries of employees for the months of February and March, by the workplace of the Accountant Normal of the state with out tangible purpose.
"Arising from our assembly held April 10, JUPTI noticed with concern the shortcoming of presidency to handle points raised in our letter dated January 28 and even rising ones.
"Consequently, we hereby challenge a 48-hour ultimatum to the federal government to handle all of the excellent points we now have put earlier than it.
"Failure to satisfy up with these calls for, the union will likely be left with no possibility than resume our earlier suspended strike on the expiration of this ultimatum," the union warned.
It might be recalled that the Union had in September 2018, launched into an indefinite strike over identical points raised, however later suspended it after a lot plea by authorities who promised to handle all of the calls for; however until date has failed to take action.


The Castle with its magnificent cross-shaped keep crowns a hilltop above the River Coquet. Once home to the powerful Percy family who now reside in Alnwick Castle, Warkworth was and remains one of the largest and most impressive fortresses in North East England. It was once home to 'Harry Hotspur', hero of many Border ballads and the bane of Scots raiders.
Half a mile from the Castle, tucked away beside the Coquet and accessible only by boat, stands a much more peaceful building, the late medieval cave Hermitage and chapel of a solitary holy man.


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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as of Oct. 31, 2016
LEAWOOD, Kan. -- November 1, 2016 -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. (NDP) today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2016, the company's unaudited total assets were approximately $291.3 million and its unaudited net asset value was $229.5 million, or $15.81 per share.
As of Oct. 31, 2016, the company was in compliance with its asset coverage ratios under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act). The company's asset coverage ratio under the 1940 Act with respect to senior securities representing indebtedness was 478 percent. For more information on calculation of coverage ratios, please refer to the company's most recent applicable prospectus.
Set forth below is a summary of the company's unaudited balance sheet at Oct. 31, 2016 and a summary of its top 10 holdings.
Top 10 holdings (as of Oct. 31, 2016)
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Cimarex Energy Co. XEC 9.8 3.4%
Devon Energy Corporation DVN 9.8 3.4%
Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C. is an investment manager specializing in energy investments across the energy value chain. As of Sept. 30, 2016, the adviser had approximately $15.6 billion of assets under management in listed closed-end funds, mutual funds, private funds and separate accounts. For more information, visit www.tortoiseadvisors.com.


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Owen Murray – brytyjski akordeonista, profesor Królewskiej Akademii Muzycznej w Londynie.

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Owen Murray pochodzi ze Szkocji. W 1982 roku ukończył Królewskie Konserwatorium Muzyczne w Kopenhadze. Królewska Akademia Muzyczna z Londynie poprosiła go w 1986 roku o zorganizowanie wydziału gry na akordeonie, którego został pierwszym profesorem. W 1993 uczelnia nadała mu tytuł honorowego członka ().

Muzyk występował m.in. z: Orkiestrą Symfoniczną BBC, Londyńską Orkiestrą Filharmoniczną, czy londyńską Philharmonia Orchestra. Brał udział w krajowych i międzynarodowych festiwalach, m.in.: Międzynarodowym Festiwalu w Edynburgu, The Proms, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Festival d'automne à Paris, Festiwalu w Salzburgu, Międzynarodowym Festiwalu Akordeonowym w Pekinie.

Klasę Owena Murraya w Królewskiej Akademii Muzycznej ukończył w 2016 roku polski akordeonista Bartosz Głowacki.

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Before you build a product, you need to verify you're designing based on the right data and whether you can successfully market the business. The best way to do that is to run an early user test. Here's how I did that and what happened.
The first real test of every new product is putting it in front of users, but you don't need a finished product to do it. I launched a teaser landing page to see what people thought of the concept and test whether I could successfully market the product. Here's what happened.
First, I set a goal for 500 newsletter signups, which is a reasonable goal for me compared to past launches.
Of course email signups aren't proof that users are motivated to purchase, but it's a strong signal of interest. When I designed the teaser page, I made sure there was no incentive to sign up other than getting to try the product early. No ebook, freebie, etc. I'm not trying to collect email addresses; I just want to see if people want this app.
And, when people sign up, they get a welcome email requesting feedback. This way, I can gather early reactions to both the brand and the product details, and begin conversations with potential users.
Incredibly, more than 500 people signed up without me doing any other marketing work beyond that first teaser page launch day. I had thought I'd need to do a lot more to reach 500, so this is very encouraging. Further, a huge portion of those people emailed me feedback.
Because I reached that goal so quickly and the feedback has been so positive (more on that in a sec), I'm going to proceed with Mod&Dot. It's happening. There is a market for this product, and it's on track to becoming the right fit.
The landing page was also supposed to help me figure out which use cases the audience responds to. The copywriting intentionally mentioned a variety of use cases, and I hoped to hear via email replies which ones people found most compelling. This was a huge success. I learned that overseeing design implementation, not optimization, is the core reason designers open up devtools. The secondary use case is sharing design ideas, not long-term product design work. So I can focus my marketing and product around these. This is really wonderful information to have so early on.
Surprisingly, I also found many developers interested in the product. Many emailed and said "I'm not a designer, but I would definitely use this." So from now on, my audience includes anyone who works on websites, and while the purpose of the product is design-related, I'll be careful not to exclude anyone.
However, I also discovered an area where my work really fell short.
Being the one who makes all the decisions can come back to bite you in so many ways. But the most common trap I've faced (and seen in past bosses) is self indulgence.
For Mod&Dot I chose a brutalist design style (see examples in update #2), which I was really excited about. Extreme color contrast, partially clashing brand colors, very bold typography, and heavily manipulated photos. I was trying to design something a little different than the same boring UI styles you see in every SaaS interface.
This new visual style proved to be very divisive; I got both very positive and very negative reactions. Nobody said "meh". It was either "I adore this" or "Not to be rude, but this made my eyes water." (Real user feedback.) The site was featured on Typewolf, which was extremely cool and I am super proud of, while at the same time I was getting emails from other designers advising me to tone down the color scheme.
It certainly got people's attention, and that alone is a partial success. But as feedback began rolling in, I started to think I might have made a mistake. Choosing between Creative vs Safe concepts is always a struggle, and clearly I was seeing the downside of choosing a challenging and provocative design style: some people didn't like it, and those people were my potential users. Worse, the design style was so limited that people couldn't tell decorative elements apart from product screenshots—a major issue.
The pitfall of being a solo founder (or even just being the person in charge) is using yourself as the audience. Just because it's fun to you doesn't mean it will be a successful business. Truthfully, I designed the Mod&Dot brand more for myself than people who would use it. And because of it, I probably scared off a bunch of potential users.
The landing page test helped me to catch this critical error early on before it really caused any serious damage. There was no money on the line yet. That's what's so great about getting early user feedback: it helps you identify all the areas where your concept, approach, and/or data are incorrect.
But, because of that early mistake, I already have to redesign the product—before it's even launched.
It's time for the first redesign. Before I've even built the product. Does that seem wasteful? Here's why it's not.
The whole point of getting a concept in front of users early is to catch those major mistakes that could steer the entire product off course. If you're not willing to act on what you learn from user tests, why do them in the first place?
The goal for my design is to appeal to my audience, and losing half of them at first glance is really bad. So I need to redesign the brand and app.
So I spent this 3rd week on a redesign. Here's the new approach, which preserves some of the styles but softens the brutalist/antidesign elements in favor of a more "flat" style that feels less imposing.
The new logo uses a simple nod to the brand name—an M with a dot completing the stroke that forms the letter. It looks like a bouncing ball, which I might get the chance to animate someday. Having a logo mark and not just a logotype makes the brand look more official. It also allows me to stop using the ampersand so heavily for favicons, social media profiles, etc, which I always felt was a bit cliché.
Oh, and I really want to put it on a t-shirt, but that will have to wait for now (remember, that self indulgence trap?!).
The first change I made was darkening the neon brand colors so they clash less. I also removed most of the thick dark borders, so that the result is a more pleasing balance of color contrast. Overall the design is much less challenging and intense.
I added new copywriting that uses phrases from user feedback. As I mentioned, I learned a lot from conversations about which use cases resonate most. So the page is focused around those and a more clear demonstration of how the app works in the context of browser screenshots.
I also broadened the design language on the site overall—fewer constraints so I can use illustrations, icons, and more playful layout elements rather than such narrow, repetitive brutalist elements.
During this redesign, I realized that the browser extension should work differently than I'd planned. Having the extension live inside a sub-panel in devtools is frustrating because it couldn't be open at the same time as the elements panel while the user is making changes.
So I redesigned the extension to live inside the browser extension "popup" which should make it much more convenient to use.
Last, I designed a simpler version of the web app using the new brand elements, and removing a couple features that I—again, self indulgently—thought were important but really weren't after seeing user feedback.
I haven't built the new site design yet, and I'm not quite sure yet when I will, but I needed to define the new design system before I start development.
Sharing the concept I've been working on and seeing what others think is always really enjoyable. The positive reception surprised me—maybe I'm too much of a pessimist—I expected people to be more hesitant to try a new tool like this that doesn't really have an established market or competitor. That enthusiasm is proving contagious, at least to me.
Deciding to take the leap and commit to the product is always a bit scary. It's a risk. The future is unknown. This could fail. But I feel my little landing page test showed there's maybe just a little less risk in this product than there was last week, and it's worth trying. So here we go.
Creating the new design was a lot of fun—even though I tried not to have too much fun and repeat the same mistake. 😉 While it's maybe not quite as challenging or unique as the original teaser page, I think it will be more successful overall. It was worth the extra work to give my new product the best chance for success I can.
Next, I will start learning all the new coding techniques I need to build this thing. If you think the early redesign was crazy, just wait and see what it's like to build an entire app as a solo founder.


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You'd think the long-awaited film adaptation of one of the classics of old-school science fiction would leave more of a mark on the public's pop culture psyche, but John Carter (adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' wildly influential1912 novel A Princess of Mars) was in one ear and out the other, much like Avatar. I forgot about it completely until someone brought up in passing at a party, and I had actually made the effort to see it in theaters!
It is, as of this writing, the eighth-most expensive movie ever made, costing around $263 million dollars. For perspective, that's less than Avengers: Endgame and more than Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It also ranks as one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, likely thanks to a scattered marketing campaign — not to mention the challenge of trying to make material that inspired decades of classic science fiction to seem fresh to modern audiences.
So what did John Carter manage to accomplish? Let's telegraph across the stars right to Barsoom and find out.
1. I'm a sucker for logo gags, even a simple one like tinting the Disney production logo red.
2. "Zodanga: the predator city." I knew it wasn't going to be a moving city full of Predators but, for one moment, I dreamed.
3. I'm a simple fantasy nerd: I love hearing people with great voices say borderline-camp made-up names and the word "Goddess" with hard consonants. I could listen to Mark Strong read The Silmarillion.
4. ... Is that the boy from Spy Kids?
5. Oh wow, Guillermo Del Toro's house looks amazing.
6. John's palatial tomb only opens from the inside? BRB, adding this to my Pinterest board "what is dead may never die".
7. The post-Civil War American "frontier," which means Ravenous is happening very close by.
8. Just in case we missed the subtlety of zooming in on John's wedding ring while he intones about what he's lost, here's a flashback to make sure we know he had a wife and a child and THEY ARE DEAD AND IT IS SAD.
9. John keeps calling what is OBVIOUSLY a sun symbol a "spider" and now I'm not sure if he's ever seen a spider.
10. I'd just like to remind everyone that in the original novels, nobody wears clothes on Mars. Everyone is naked. Everyone is united in exposure!
11. You will believe a man can jump!
12. Okay, folks, brace yourself for the terrible makeup choices for the red Martians. In direct sunlight, we get believable Oompa-Loompa; in dimmer lighting, it legitimately looks like brownface. IT'S REAL BAD.
13. Dejah Thoris is one of the original sci-fi damsels in distress, so I do like updating her to be Regent of the Royal Helium Academy of Science.
14. Wait, that's James Purefoy? I thought he was playing the villain Sab Than. Can I not tell James Purefoy and Dominic West apart? As a lesbian, am I going dude-blind as I get older? Is that a thing?
15. Honestly, the effects on the Tharks still hold up after seven years; I wonder if they're easier to buy since the lighting is already so high contrast in the desert?
16. Just imagine Willem Dafoe recording all of this wild dialogue, shark teeth shining in the studio lights.
17. I really appreciate that, since the Tharks lay eggs, that Thark ladies just don't have boobs. V. nice change of pace in alien design to have it reflect the fantasy biology and not other fantasies about biology, hey-ooo.
18. ... can other people see Mark Strong as he feeds Purefoy all this evil counsel? Or is he just talking to himself?
19. PRO-TIP: If you are making an adaptation of a piece of speculative fiction that you have to recommend with heavy caveats about its racial politics, you can just… not bring that stuff with you to the present. I promise you are creative and smart enough to make a story work without, say, having your characters spew a slur like "the red man" all over the place for flavor. You shouldn't need a sensitivity reader to figure that one out, buddy, but if you do, pay them appropriately for their labor.
20. Okay, John calling Dejah Professor is cute. I like that.
21. John, how did you just only notice now that there are two moons? It's been nighttime for a while!
22. ... shouldn't John slowly dying of thirst be kind of… a concern?
23. Dominic West is making a MEAL of this part. "Prudence demands you take an escort," says one of his cronies. "Oh yeah?" he sneers. "WELL PRUDENCE CAN EAT MY SAND-ENCRUSTED LEATHER SHORTS." That's not the line, BUT IT SHOULD BE.
24. Oh, so the way sidekick Sola finds out that her leader Tars Tarkas is also her dad is only when John is trying to convince her to ditch a pilgrimage to help him? NOT COOL, JOHN.
25. I wonder if Edgar Rice Burroughs ever dreamed of John refusing to cheat on his dead wife with a scientist warrior princess in the innards of a 3D printer.
26. Are John's ankles made of adamantium? I know they're dense, Professor Thoris said so, but they are taking some heavy damage with those jumps.
27. I'd say we didn't need a very long action scene where John massacres untold amounts of Tharks via jumping and swords, but what we really didn't need were the flashback shots of John discovering and then burying (sans coffins!) the bodies of his wife and child interspersed throughout the carnage. I know this is meant to be John relieving his guilt, BUT I DO NOT FEEL RELIEVED.
28. John has been captured, washed, and sent to someone's quarters unless this is the nicest prison cell on Mars.
29. "Zodanga: where the men are as limited as the menu and the women are as hard as the beds." I choose to believe James Purefoy's character rolling back into this film with that line means he's a bi legend.
30. So the Therns are helping Mars burn itself down sociopolitically as part of their galactic-level game of Dungeons and Dragons as the universe's worst Dungeon Masters.
31. Mmm, you can really taste the compositing in this flying sequence.
32. The power of Willem Dafoe is that you can really taste the "I GAVE YOU ONE EFFING JOB JOHN" in the back of your sinuses in this scene.
33. Okay, so the "good" Tharks are the ones who reject their traditional communal family structure for a traditional Earth family structure okay, mmhmm, MMHMMM
34. The arena sequence is GROTESQUE. People have their heads cut off! A woman gets RIPPED IN HALF! John cuts through and then PUNCHES HIS WAY THROUGH THE GIANT CORPSE OF A WHITE APE. Just because the blood is tampon commercial blue doesn't mean it's not blood, people!!!
35. How many monologues by a white dude new to town does it take to convince the locals to ride to the aid of their historical oppressors? Just one, apparently!
36. Whose bright idea was it to make the load-bearing pillar for the fancy platform THE HOLY FONT?
37. Did Sab Than have rocket boots THIS ENTIRE TIME? My God, what self-control, I'd be zipping around in those things 24/7.
38. You know what, yelling "I'm getting away!" at your escaping doppelganger is a solid joke.
39. Fellas, is proposing to your new bride with your old wedding ring disrespectful to your DEAD WIFE?
40. Also: y'all have known each other for a week, calm down.
41. Oh my god, Bryan Cranston's skeleton is picked clean: Ravenous really did happen not too far from here!!!
42. Wait, so if Edgar Rice Burroughs was just writing about his uncle's adventures on Mars and we just saw that everyone was clothed… does that mean Edgar made the executive decision to make everybody naked?
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Women of Scotland Lunch
Celebrating the great achievements of women in Scotland
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2015 Lunch – Elaine Sherlock
Elaine has worked with BT for over 34 years, starting off as a Clerical Assistant in 1980 then moving into Sales where she spent the largest part of her working career before joining People Development where she currently leads on a number of BT Customer Service and Coaching Programmes.
Kidney Research impacted Elaine from an early age, losing her Dad to kidney failure in December 1977 when she was just 13 years old. In the years that followed Kidney Disease became a very important part of her family's lives. Elaine is one of 8 people in her family to have received a Kidney Transplant and very recently her younger cousin has been diagnosed with the same condition and is now preparing for dialysis.
Given this backdrop Elaine has been an active Fundraiser and Lay Committee Member for Kidney Research UK for many years, organising and taking part in many varied activities to raise funds and awareness. Elaine has set herself some big personal challenges to raise funds such as climbing Ben Nevis 3 months before she started her dialysis treatment, followed by walking the full 97 miles of the West Highland Way the year after her transplant. Over the years, together with massive support from her family friends and colleagues she has helped to raise over £35,000 towards Kidney Research.
Support and understanding from her employer BT and her colleagues has been very significant, which really aided Elaine's time on dialysis and her post-transplant recovery, allowing her to continue to work whilst on dialysis and return to work following her kidney transplant. BT's Chairman Sir Michael Rake recognised Elaine in 2013 with a "Personal Inspiration" award for all of her fundraising activity and he also awarded Kidney Research UK £3000.
Elaine received her Kidney via the "Paired Donor Programme" which meant that although she was unable to directly receive a Kidney from her cousin Peter (who was a brave and willing donor) owing to her antibodies, Elaine received her Kidney from an unknown donor via a "3 way swap". So Peter's kidney was given to someone who also had a donor who did not match them and in this scenario there were 3 kidney patients all with donors. Theatre was booked for the same day, and the Kidneys were all flown to their destinations Glasgow, Leicester and Oxford and all transplanted successfully. This would not be possible were it not for the great work that Kidney Research does.
When not working Elaine spends time with her partner Alex and her daughter Lauren (age 19) who were both overjoyed to see her restored to full health following her transplant.
Elaine has a passion for walking and spending time with her family and friends enjoying life to the full and giving back to Kidney Research is incredibly important to her as she has experienced and benefited first hand from the life- saving/prolonging work that they do.
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2015 Lunch – Dame Sue Bruce
Learn more about Kidney Research UK here
If you would like to advertise in our programme or support or sponsor the Women of Scotland Lunch please email: hello@wosl.co.uk
It is with regret that the committee has agreed to postpone the 63rd Women of Scotland Lunch which was to be held on 24th April due to Coronavirus concerns. It is our intention to hold the lunch on 23rd April 2021 – please put that date in your diary. We will be supporting the same worthwhile charity, Bowel Cancer UK, with the usual excellent line up of speakers and our superb prize draw. Regrettably Bowel Cancer UK will lose out this year however if you would like to make a donation our Just Giving page will remain open. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/women-of-scotland-lunch-2020
We are so grateful to Joseph Bonnar for once again kindly giving us the top prize in our prize draw – a pair of rose gold hoop earrings set with one carat of brilliant cut diamonds. They are simply stunning! You can get a ticket for the prize draw, even if you can't make the lunch.
So pleased to announce that this year's charity is Bowel Cancer UK in Scotland. All funds raised from the 2020 Women of Scotland Lunch will directly fund Bowel Cancer UK's 'Improving Surgery, Saving Lives Appeal'. This appeal will establish Scotland's first-ever Colorectal Cancer Surgical Research Chair in partnership with the world-renowned Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd).
We were delighted to hand over a cheque for £25,000 to Mental Health Foundation Scotland, as raised at our lunch in April. Here our Chair Laura Lambie (centre), with the 2019 Chair Ann Garvie, hands the cheque to Michael Wilson, Chief Exec of MHF Scotland. Thanks to all those who came to the lunch and donated so generously on the day and before and after the lunch.
Congratulations to Anna Brown who won the Investec hamper. The footsie closed at 7440.6 on Mon 29th April and she guessed 7442 so was the closest.
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Congratulations to all the winners of our prize draw. The Joseph Bonnar vintage star pendant was won by Lorraine Wilson; the Arisaig House 2 nights DBB was won by Nicola Easson; Debbie Butler won the Nyetimber Vineyard tour; Fiona Leslie won the Denzil Skinner & Partners voucher; the Sheana Stephen Necklace, Brooch and Earrings was won by Claire McCready, the Sheila Fleet Orkney Design Jewellery was won by Fiona Martin, the night at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Glasgow was won by Ann Westwood and the 2 nights at Four Seasons Hotel, St Fillans was won by Elizabeth Warnock. Thanks to our very generous prize draw sponsors.
Our 62nd lunch was a huge success raising over £25,000 for Mental Health Foundation Scotland with 430 attendees. This will provide much needed funds for a new project to start work with adolescent mothers living in Scotland. This is one area that is under resourced but remains a serious gap in both policy and service provision in Scotland. The prestigious line-up of speakers entertained the guests expertly with anecdotes and moving sentiments. Thanks to all who came and supported it and to all our generous sponsors.
The 2019 lunch is on 26th April at the Radisson Blu Hotel, 301 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8DL. Guests can arrive from 11am, the reception begins at 12 noon and lunch starts sharp at 12.30pm. It should end about 3.30/4pm.
Welcome to Laura Sinclair who has just joined our committee. Working as a solicitor for Turcan Connell in Edinburgh, Laura trained in London and her legal and organisational skills are a huge asset to the team.
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Kidney Research UK
The charity for the 2015 Lunch was Kidney Research UK
Bobath Scotland
The charity for 2014 was Bobath Scotland.
Spinal Injuries Scotland.
The charity for 2013 was Spinal Injuries Scotland.
The charity for the 2012 lunch was MND Scotland
Tenovus Scotland
The charity for the 2011 Lunch was Tenovus.
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Children 1st
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Marie Curie Cancer Care
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Jennifer Waters's Consumer Confidential
Could you pass a Facebook background check?
Published: July 25, 2011 at 5:58 p.m. ET
Employers are running social-media searches on job applicants
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — The next time you apply for a job, don't be surprised if you have to agree to a social-media background check. Many U.S. companies and recruiters are now looking at your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other accounts and blogs — even YouTube — to paint a clearer picture of who you are.
"Almost all employers do some form of background screening because they have to avoid negligent hiring," said Max Drucker, chief executive of Social Intelligence, a consumer-reporting agency. "An employer has an obligation to make the best effort to protect their employees and customers when they hire." Listen to audio: Your Facebook page is part of your resume.
And now the Federal Trade Commission has decided that companies that research how you spend your personal time and what your passions and hobbies are do not violate your privacy. The agency recently investigated Social Intelligence, which scours the Internet for the information, pictures and comments you freely share with the world and sells that data to your potential employers. The FTC found the company compliant with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In other words, the Internet is fair game.
"When someone puts their public life out there publicly, it's there to be evaluated," said Kim Harmer, a partner at Harmer Associates, a Chicago-based recruiting firm. "You find out lots of things about people just by Googling them."
It's not the party photos
You can breathe a sigh of relief about those party pictures plastered all over your Facebook — most employers and consumer-reporting agencies will look past them, unless, of course, you're underage.
"I look at their Facebook and see how they approach what they put on it," Harmer said. "Is it immature? Appropriate or inappropriate? I'm not judging their activity but looking at how they communicate what they do and their thoughts and their judgments to the public as a reflection of what they will do with clients and team members."
Drucker said he only searches for what the companies direct him to find and stays away from giving employers information that might be considered discriminatory to the hiring process. Employers, for example, cannot legally make hiring decisions based on race, religion, marital status or disability. But they can make decisions based on whether or not they like your attitude or your ethics.
A Social Intelligence report to a company would include racist remarks, sexually explicit photos or videos, or flagrant displays of weapons or illegal activity, Drucker said. And your decision to post a naked picture of yourself might not go over well with a potential employer.
"That might not be relevant to the job, but an employer gets to determine if that's the kind of person he wants representing his company," Drucker said."We don't make the decisions. We just generate the reports."
He said he has been surprised by how many racist comments and flagrant displays of drug use people post online. "It's not just smoking marijuana. It's snorting cocaine, talking about doing Ecstasy on Twitter or a forum or message board, showing it in photos or video-sharing sites," he said.
Some companies are mining photo- and video-gathering sites using facial-recognition software. If you were among those rioting in the streets of Vancouver after the National Hockey League championship, for example, a potential boss could find you the same way the police tracked down those responsible for some of the bedlam — in the pictures.
"We are going from the Web being a place of extraordinary anonymity to a place where your every movement could be traced if someone's taking pictures of you and posting them," said John Challenger, chief executive of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement-consulting firm. "Job seekers need to be careful because of that," so they don't make a mistake and lose a job as a result, he said.
They also need to know that not all companies use reporting agencies like Social Intelligence. Some take a hodgepodge approach to mining your data.
"People are slowly becoming aware of the consequences of posting too much information on the Web," Challenger said. "But they shouldn't wait until they make a mistake and lose a job because of it."
Make every effort to find out what's out there about you. Anything that may be taken out of context should be taken down.
Be concerned about the accuracy of what's gathered. Drucker said his company looks at layers of social media to determine if the John Brown it is looking at is the same John Brown that the company is considering hiring. If his identity was stolen, John Brown's information could be "correct" but inaccurate.
Remember that bits and pieces of you are at a number of other sites, like LinkedIn, Craigslist or Foursquare, not to mention blogs, forums and wikis that you might visit.
Check — and frequently recheck — your privacy settings on social-media accounts like Facebook and Twitter.
Create a positive online presence by putting up your résumé on a site with your domain name or getting it on forums of charitable organizations that you support.
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Dying is your latest fashion (traducido como Morir es tu última moda) es el álbum debut de la banda post-hardcore de Las Vegas, Escape the Fate. El título del álbum proviene de una línea en el coro de la canción Situations. Mandy Murders aparece en la portada del disco, así como en el video de Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliché. Es el único álbum con el vocalista Ronnie Radke.

Producción y lanzamientos
El álbum fue lanzado el 26 de septiembre de 2006, por Epitaph Records, producido por Ryan Baker y Michael Baskette. El álbum contiene un sonido post hardcore, pasado por filtros y melódias screamo y emo. Las pistas 2, 7 y 10 fueron lanzadas originalmente en el EP Escape The Fate EP, el año 2005, luego se regrabaron para este álbum. Las pistas 4 y 5 fueron lanzadas originalmente el EP There's No Sympathy for the Dead, el año 2006, las canciones cuentan con los teclados de Carson Allen, se destacan que en esas pistas especialmente, se aprecia un metalcore, con guitarras y voces bien elaboradas, cabe destacar que Radke usa constantes Deathgrowls en The guillotine. Las demás canciones fueron pistas nuevas, nunca lanzadas antes. Se destaca la canción My apocalypse, por el solo de guitarra de Money. Make up es un bonustrack en la edición japonesa del disco, originalmente se grabó el demo de este para el Escape The Fate EP, la canción no contiene screams.

Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliché se lanzó como primer sencillo de este álbum, el 26 de septiembre, también cuenta con su video musical, donde la banda toca en un restorant abandonado. Situations se lanzó como segundo sencillo, el 20 de noviembre de 2007, también cuenta con un video musical, en el que la banda toca en una secundaria, similar al video Hot for Teacher de Van Halen. The Webs We Weave iba a ser lanzado en el 2008, como tercer sencillo, pero jamás se lanzó, por la salida de Ronnie Radke de la banda.

Listado de canciones

Personal

 ETF
 Ronnie Radke - voces
 Bryan Money - guitarra principal, coros
 Omar Espinosa - guitarra rítmica, coros
 Max Green - bajo, coros
 Robert Ortiz - batería, percusión, coros

 Producción
 Michael "Elvis" Baskette - producción, masterización, mezcla
 Ryan Baker - producción, masterización, ingeniería de sonido, otros

 Músicos adicionales
 Michael "Elvis" Baskette - teclados, sintetizadores, coros
 Karen Schielke - programación
 Lynn Lauer - chelo (en "There's No Sympathy For The Dead")

Posicionamiento

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Letras de Dying Is Your Latest Fashion

Álbumes de Escape the Fate
Álbumes de 2006
Álbumes debut de 2006
Álbumes de Epitaph Records
Álbumes producidos por Michael Baskette
Álbumes en inglés
Álbumes de post-hardcore
Álbumes de metalcore


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NCI users set to benefit from latest round of ARC funding
Over 60 users of the National Computational Infrastructure have been granted a share of over $333 million in funding from the Australian Research Council.
Announced by Education Minister the Hon Simon Birmingham, the latest funding round will directly benefit NCI users across a wide range of scientific disciplines, including earth sciences, economics and astronomy. NCI is pleased to see such a strong level of government support for critical scientific research.
Recipients of the ARC funding include Professor Kylie Catchpole of The Australian National University, who is currently the Lead Chief Investigator on a project assessing the technical challenges in designing the next generation of solar cell technology. An engineering breakthrough in solar cell technology could one day lead to even cheaper large-scale generation of solar electricity.
Long-time NCI user Professor Maria Forsyth from Deakin University has also received funding, for a project aiming to design new coating systems for steel in marine environments. This research has the potential to significantly improve the lifetime of critical marine infrastructure.
Dr Andrew Valentine, an early career researcher at The Australian National University, is currently developing new approaches for tsunami and earthquake early warning using state-of-the-art geophysical modeling combined with machine learning and artificial intelligence.
A full list of successful projects can be viewed on the ARC website.
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Lily Safra, One Of The World's Richest Women, Dies at 87 – TheTealMango
One of the worlds richest women, Lily Safra has died aged 87. The Brazilian billionaire passed away on Saturday, 9th July in Geneva, Switzerland. The socialite had a fortune of more than R$ 5 billion, i.e. roughly US $1.3 billion as per the annual list of Forbes magazine.
Lily was the widow of banker Edmond Safra who died in 1999. The cause of her death has not yet been revealed by her family. Read on to know more about the billionaire and her life.
Lily was born on December 30th, 1934 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her father was a railway engineer from the Czech who had moved to Brazil for the electrification of Brazils railway. She grew up in Rio de Janeiro, before moving to Uruguay with her family.
She was married four times throughout her life. She met her first husband, Mario Cohen at the age of 17. Cohen was an Argentine hosiery magnate, with whom Lily had three children in the early 1960s.
She then went on to marry businessman Alfredo Monteverde in 1965. Alfredo committed suicide in 1969 and left all his assets to his wife. Edmond Safra was her late husbands banker whom he dated for a while, but their relationship ended because Safras family did not approve of it.
In 1972, she married another businessman Samuel Bendahan, but ended up divorcing him only a year later.
Lily finally married Edmond Safra in 1976. Edmond founded the Republic National Bank of New York. In 1999, he died in a fire accident in Monaco that was ruled to be murder. Because of his riches and position, his death piqued the curiosity of the media. Edmond Safra allegedly felt so protected here that when he slept in Monaco, he did not have his security remain the night.
Ted Maher, a former Green Beret, was suspected of lighting the fire in order to obtain Edmond Safras acceptance when he would eventually rescue him, but it quickly became out of hand. Ted was found guilty of the crime and sentenced to eight years in prison.
Lily somehow managed to save herself from the accident. She inherited $800 million from the late bankers assets.
The billionaire was known for her generous donations to charities. She founded the International Sephardic Education Foundation along with Edmond Safra and Nina Weiner in 1977. She was also the chairperson of The Edmond J. Safra Foundation which works for humanitarian relief and medical research.
Lily supported the American Red Cross Organization. In 2009, she was presented with the An Enduring Vision award by the Elton John AIDS Foundation for her long-term association with the foundation.
In May 2012, she proposed to auction 70 pieces from her jewelry collection to Genevas Christie. The money raised by the auction was donated to 32 charitable institutions around the world in the fields of education, healthcare, religion and culture. The same year, she donated $16 million to Edmond and Lily Safra Childrens Hospital in Tel Hashomer.
In 2019, she pledged 10 million for the restoration of Notre Dame de Paris after it was damaged due to a fire.
Lily will surely be remembered for her charitable work. For more news and updates, keep watching this space.
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The Beautiful and Strange Appeal of Quito
Good Friday hood and tunic, Quito, Ecuador
By Jim Ferri
We continued our tour of Ecuador with a visit to Quito, the capital, arriving during Semana Santa (Easter week). We had originally hoped to see its spectacular Good Friday procession in which men carry large crosses through the old city, preceded by other devotees wearing purple hoods and tunics. Unfortunately, though, we had to leave on Friday morning to catch a flight to the Galapagos (more about that adventure next week) so we missed the whole thing.
Courtyard of St. Francis Church and Convent
That picture of the guy in the purple hood above is actually a mannequin in the museum of the church of St. Francis (take a look at those glass eyes!) a beautiful church in the center of the old city. If you visit, ask someone to show you the stairway to the choir loft (it's off the courtyard) for a magnificent view of the church, although you're not supposed to take any photos in it. I've never been anywhere in the world where it's forbidden to take photos in so many churches.
At the tourist office in the old city
But the most interesting experience we had in Quito wasn't in St Francis, nor in the beautiful St. Augustine (totally painted from floor to ceiling) with its wooden altars covered in gold, but in the courtyard of St. Augustine Monastery. It's something you can do also if the funding doesn't run out.
Discussing the restoration work at St. Augustine Monastery
Our guide took us inside the courtyard where we found a small group of artistic restorers working on the restoration of 42 huge paintings that had been severely damaged over time due to neglect. What they were doing was exactly what Sony had done in its restoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
My wife Marjorie and I spent a fascinating hour alone with Veronica, the head conservationist, who showed us how her team was doing the restorations. She allowed us to freely wander about the work area, up very close to the paintings and the ongoing restoration work, showing us her xrays of different fragments and answering our many questions. The team is working on several massive paintings but have only finished one at this point and are concerned that their government funding will run out. If you're in Quito you can do the same thing we did at the St. Augustine Monastery – the cost is only $2 for the "tour," $1 if you're a senior.
Guards at the Presidential Palace
Nearby is the Presidential Palace, which we walked over only to see its toy-soldier looking guards, quite unlike any others we've ever seen.
Indian women and tourist in Quito's old city, Ecuador
Along with the church of St. Augustine, there seem to be more churches in Quito than you can count, including an out-of-place looking gothic basilica whose gargoyles are Ecuadorian animals such as huge tortoises, jaguars, giant sloths and crocodiles. It's all pretty strange. And weird looking. And they wouldn't let me in because I had a camera in my pocket.
The hills of San Francisco de Quito
Quito is a Old-World colonial city whose actual name is San Francisco de Quito since it was named after St. Francis. Like its Californian counterpart it's also a very hilly city but there the geographic resemblance ends. Quito is at an elevation of 9600 feet on a high plateau that's only four or five miles wide and more than 30 miles long.
Quito shopkeeper
It's also a city where just about every inch of sidewalk seems to be bordered by a shop, many selling food. In the old city those same sidewalks are filled with indigenous people who are colorful, industrious and don't beg as they often seem to do in other countries.
Plaza de la Independencia, Quito
On Thursday of Semana Santa we had planned to have dinner in a well-known restaurant not far from our hotel. It was closed for the holiday though, and the only other good place we could find open was a French restaurant in the nearby Hotel Plaza Grande. We were seated at the widow overlooking the Plaza de la Independencia and it was a great little dinner, complete with a mid-meal fireworks display a block or two over.
Arias in the restaurant of the Hotel Plaza Grande
Towards the end of our meal two actors in costume came out and serenaded us with arias, which along with dessert and espresso was the perfect way to end the evening.
If you go:
St. Augustine Monastery
Adjacent Plaza de la Independencia
Open Monday – Friday 9am to 12:30pm and 4:30pm to 5pm; Saturdays from 9am to 1pm.
Church of St. Francis
Hotel Plaza Grande
García Moreno y Chile
Tel: 593 + 2 2510 777
Basilica of the National Vow
San Juan, Quito, Ecuador
Tel: +593 2-228-9428
Carla Marie Rupp says
Jim, that sounds like so much fun being serenaded with arias at the meal table! I love it. What a great story! Thanks.