As always, this love fest is the product of my friends, FAE (never absent in my heart, always in my prayers) and Stephen T. McCarthy (Monkee-ing around enthusiast...). I'm a once a month participant on the 15th, and returning on the 21st with results of YOUR voting, so let's get this show on the road.
In their heyday, my pal Patti and I worshipped the Monkees. You know what's groovy? The records we wore out...far groovier that when they started, quite literally. We loved everything about them: television, Tiger Beat magazine articles, product endorsements, 45s, LPs, lunch boxes (check, check, check...you get the drill). Just say "Monkee" and we were in. Or say grossly-over-promoted-over-saturated-teeny-bopper-market-of-the-60s-and-70s...I'm still in, but that was a nice try.
But soon, the party (as they say) was over and the Monkee men when their separate ways. What does a non-Monkee do with his time? Or, more accurately, who does it BEST? Since we are talking music on this blog event, and solo efforts, I'm picking the two who I think might be more evenly matched.
"It's all so scientific," she said to herself.
Mike Nesmith's biggest hit, to me, was a version NOT sung by Mike. Written in 1965, this little ditty didn't really show its head till "Different Drum" was covered by Linda Ronstadt in 1967 and consequently reached a respectable #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Various artists have covered "Different Drum" in the years since, but it is first and foremost a Mike tune!
Mike rendition is a tad country-rock for me, but I remain Monkee-loyal. So, play, magic fingers!
Davy Jones, what a heartthrob! I'm sure I'm the only one who thought so...ahem. He appeared in a Brady Bunch episode entitled, "Getting Davy Jones." Hey, why didn't I ever think to invite Davy Jones to a dance? Perhaps because I wasn't even a teen yet when it came out (but I would have given him a ride on my bike and that's gotta count for sumthin').
You'll be tempted to give him extra points for the ruffled shirt, but keep this professional people. Now, vote! I know you can - I'm a believer!
Visit these other bloggeroonis and participate in their Battles, too! See you on the 21st with the results.
Flipping out, with a Springtime, pollen laden twist!
Got to give it up for Davy on The Brady Bunch.
I'm a believer and I believe Davy Jones deserves to win this round because he was so darn cute, ruff shirt and all. Did I ever tell you I saw The Monkees during their comeback tour or what ever they called in the mid-80s at the Coliseum? I didn't have plans to go with a group of col-workers when one of them had to back out of the fun. He gave me his ticket so I joined the gang for a fun night of reminiscing with some oldies.
Join me in today's hodgepodge of 4M, Sparks, A2Z, & BoTB. Have a tunetastic week, my friend!
Hey Hey It's the Monkees!
I think both are good in their own rights. I LOVED watching The Monkees back in the day, and I also remember watching this particular episode of Brady Bunch.
Of the two contenders in today's battle, though, I think I'm going to give my vote to Mr Nesmith. The song just seems to have a bit more substance to it.
Maybe it's because I remember The Stone Poneys' version so well, but Mike's version of his own song just sounded off.
"Girl" isn't much better, but it sounded better than "Different Drum." I'll vote for Davy.
Count me for Davy. I just love looking at him. Sometimes it's better not to sing your own song, no?
None other than "Different Drum." Especially the Linda Ronstadt version.
Well, hokey-smoke! DOC MacSIS, I didn't even know this Battle was here until close to 7 PM last night. I kept looking for one on Sunday and then finally figured you had bowed out.
Let's put it this way: Had someone tried to stand in the way of my relationship with Batman or The Monkees in 1966, I would have spit my Astronaut Orange Juice on them (aka "Tang").
Na-Na Na-Na Na-Na Na-Na NA!... DAVY!!!
I mean, c'mon! As the video proved, Davy nailed that song in just one take. I'd bet the farm that Nesmith had to warble that tune of his six to eight times before the producer said, "That's a take, Mike. You can stop now."
Davey wins by a horse's nose:) I had to say that since Davey loved horses and, I think, he became a jockey?? I always had more of a crush on Michael Nesmith because he looked slightly disinterested. I like his song but he did put too much of a country twang into it plus I like the song Girl. I remember this on The Brady Bunch and I used to roll my eyes but I liked watching this bit now. I had to laugh when I looked away for a minute but when I looked back Davey was moving around to the music...too geeky but Davey gets my vote...too bad he died so young.


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VW spends billions more on electric cars in search for mass market
The world's largest automaker by sales said on Monday it would roll out 80 new electric cars across its multi-brand group by 2025, up from a previous goal of 30, and wanted to offer an electric version of each of its 300 group models by 2030.REUTERS | September 12, 2017, 08:24 IST
VW said it would require capacity equivalent to at least four gigafactories to power the vastly increased fleet of electric cars.
By Andreas Cremer
FRANKFURT: Volkswagen is stepping up its shift to electric cars and plans to invest more than 20 billion euros ($24 billion) in zero-emission vehicles by 2030 to challenge pioneer Tesla in creating a mass market.
The world's largest automaker by sales said on Monday it would roll out 80 new electric cars across its multi-brand group by 2025, up from a previous goal of 30, and wanted to offer an electric version of each of its 300 group models by 2030.
The German company had previously said it would spend more than 10 billion euros by 2025 on a move to electric vehicles.
Until it admitted two years ago to cheating on U.S. diesel emissions tests, Volkswagen (VW) had been slow to embrace electric cars and self-driving technology.
But the "dieselgate" scandal has prompted a strategic shift, while major advances in batteries and a global fight against pollution in the wake of VW's scandal have raised pressure on carmakers to speed up development of zero-emission alternatives.
"A company like Volkswagen must lead, not follow," Chief Executive Matthias Mueller told reporters on the eve of the Frankfurt auto show as he unveiled the group's "roadmap E".
"We are setting the scene for the final breakthrough for e-mobility."
VW's so-called I.D. model will compete with Tesla's least expensive car, the new $35,000 base-price Model 3 sedan, for mass-market buyers. VW's electric car offensive mirrors pre-Frankfurt show announcements by German rivals.
Also RFead: Mercedes-Benz to offer electric option for every car by 2022
Daimler said on Monday its Mercedes-Benz luxury brand planned to offer electric motors for all models by 2022, though cautioned the shift to lower-margin electric cars required extra cost savings.
BMW, which launched the i3 electric car in 2013, said on Thursday it was readying its factories to mass produce electric vehicles by 2020 and pledged to have 12 purely battery-powered models on offer by 2025.
Growing restrictions and charges for diesel and gasoline vehicles are spurring the rise of electric cars, although analysts say big investments in charging points and power networks will be needed to serve a mass market.
China, the world's biggest automotive market, is studying when to stop the production and sale of combustion engine vehicles, echoing moves by Britain and France, which have announced bans for conventional cars from 2040.
To cover the needs of "roadmap E", VW has started a tendering process for the selection of partners in China, Europe and North America to provide battery cells and related technology worth more than 50 billion euros.
Tesla in January started mass production of lithium-ion battery cells at its own gigafactory in Nevada, which is aiming for annual battery production capacity of 35 gigawatt-hours.
VW said it would require capacity equivalent to at least four gigafactories to power the vastly increased fleet of electric cars. Mueller told Reuters TV that VW had no need to sell assets to fund the electric car offensive.
"No, not at all," he said. "Although we have suffered financially in the past two years because of the diesel issue, we are positioned well enough in financial terms to be able to shoulder these investments without problems."
VW's electric car programme will centre on the new MEB modular platform developed by its namesake brand, which will underpin all mass-market electric vehicles from across the group. A Golf-style compact model with about 600 kilometers (373 miles) of driving range is due to be built in 2020.
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NYC's Metropolitan Opera Won't Reopen Until September 2021
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will remain dark until at least September 2021, The New York Times reports.
The Met — the largest performing arts organization in the U.S. — had hoped to reopen its 3,800-seat opera house on Manhattan's Upper West Side on New Year's Eve. Its orchestra and chorus have been furloughed without pay since April, shortly after New York City shut down everything beyond essential services to stem the spread of COVID-19.
The Met's closure earlier this year marked the first time in more than a century that New Yorkers have gone without access to the opera. While it has been closed, the Metropolitan Opera lost violist Vincent J. Lionti and assistant conductor Joel Revzen to COVID-19. It's reigning diva, Anna Netrebko, was also hospitalized after getting COVID-19 at a performance at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, The New York Times reported.
When it does reopen in 2021, the Metropolitan Opera plans to experiment with earlier curtain times, shorter performances, and more family-friendly offerings. The first performance it has planned for its reopening, Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," will be its first by a Black composer, according to The New York Times.
But making it to that September opening date will be a challenge for the Met, whose operating budget for a normal season is around $300 million, The New York Times reports. Reduced seating capacity to prevent the spread of coronavirus, combined with an audience who skews older and is more susceptible to COVID-19, makes generating the revenue necessary to pay those bills an even bigger challenge.
To cut costs while seats are empty, Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, told The New York Times that he's looking to negotiate with unions to bring down labor costs. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Opera have taken a similar approach, with San Francisco cutting its orchestra's salary in half this season.
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Q: LaTeX, package documentation look-up I am on OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard) using TeXLive-2011 to typeset a simple .tex file I am editing in Vim and trying to learn. My problem is: how do I...

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*gradually learn about what TeX can do for me

*get detailed information about how I can use a specific command (e.g. get the full "command syntax" of url{...}
An example follows, to be specific and contextual:
A. I discovered there is a "url" command through a Google search, how can I get a "list of commands/packages"?
B. I update my "packages" using TeX Live Utility.app, is this the "right" way to do it?
C. To find out how to use "\url{...}" again I just "Googled", got to this address:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/url
and in a file with an .sty extension, in a comment section, I discovered some usage hints:
Usage:    Conditions:
\url{ }   If the argument contains any "%" or "^^", or ends with
          "\", it can't be used in the argument to another command.
          The argument must not contain unbalanced braces.
\url|  |  ...where "|" is any character not used in the argument and not
          "{" or a space.  The same restrictions as above except that the
          argument may contain unbalanced braces.
\urldef\xyz\url{ }
\xyz      a defined-url: "\xyz" can be used anywhere, no matter what
          characters it contains.
\DeclareUrlCommand\abc{settings}: makes \abc{ } like \url{ }
See further instructions after "\endinput"

Could I have not got to this information in a simpler way?
Just by "somehow asking for help on url"? This is the crux of my problem, really. I wish there was something like "JavaDoc" or a "built-in help system" akin to what I get using Eclipse and installing JavaDoc jars and attaching source documentations. Point-and-click access to documentation about packages. If the Eclipse analogy is foreign to you, think Xcode built-in doc system or even the excellent MSDN-to-VS.NET integration. Is anything like that available for LaTeX? I can pre-generate things like what one does with Sphinx and Python if need be...

A: Besides texdoc, which gives you quick access to packages documentation, there's also a great tool called texdef. Quoting the description on CTAN:

The (Perl) script displays the definition of (La)TeX command sequences/macros. Various options allow the selection of the used class and package files and other things which can have influence on the definition (before/after the preamble, inside an environment, …).

The usage is simple: issuing
texdef --tex latex --package url --source url

gives the source of the definition of the command
% url.sty, line 194:
\DeclareUrlCommand\url{}

which points to the definition of \DeclareUrlCommand, so
texdef --tex latex --package url --source DeclareUrlCommand
% url.sty, line 190:
\def\DeclareUrlCommand#1#2{\def#1{\leavevmode\begingroup #2\Url}}

Check the author's (Martin Scharrer) announcement of the tool in his answer to Where do I find out how a command/environment is defined?. See also N.N.'s answer to Display source for a command.

A: At www.ctan.org you can search for packages by keyword, by a hierarchical characterization and by a text search of the descriptions.
(However, this seems to be little used; that I can tell, everyone just googles.)

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A. I discovered there is a "url" command through a Google search, how can I get a "list of commands/packages"?

The list of packages is on CTAN. But by itself it's not very helpful – there are too many packages. Similarly, there's no list of commands, that's not meaningful since there are simply too many. The easiest way of finding out about a package/command is to google for general typesetting help in its domain (e.g. googling for latex plot) and taking it from there.

B. I update my "packages" using TeX Live Utility.app, is this the "right" way to do it?

Yes. This is by far the easiest and less painful way. If you need to install specific versions of packages which aren't yet available via this interface (e.g. beta versions) you need to use the tlmgr command line interface instead.

Could I have not got to this information in a simpler way?
  I wish there was something like "JavaDoc" or a "built-in help system" akin to what I get using Eclipse and installing JavaDoc jars and attaching source documentations

On the command line,
texdoc url

Generally, every package's documentation can be accessed via texdoc <packagename>. Most packages come with a typeset documentation as a PDF. – Incidentally, I don't know why most LaTeX beginners' guides don't mention this, or only mention it obliquely. This is by far the most useful thing I've ever learned about LaTeX. For instance, all core commands of LaTeX are documented in texdoc source2e (which is highly technical, but complete).
In fact, LaTeX' documentation system is far more complete than JavaDoc or similar systems. Package writers are strongly encouraged to practice literal programming, i.e. they don't comment/document their code. Rather, they write a documentation which contains the code (not the other way round, as in the case of JavaDoc). This usually means that package documentation is very comprehensive. For an extreme example, try texdoc tikz (an awesome package, by the way) – this is a beautifully typeset 700-page documentation with several tutorials and examples throughout.

A: For all those who use OS X and Alfred: I built a plugin that makes texdoc available from the Alfred input window.

Here you can get the extension
alfred-td.zip
Just unzip and drop to Alfred's extension window.
  Note that it only works with Alfred's Powerpack (£12).
Disclaimer: I'm not associated with the application. I'm just a convinced user, who build an extension and like to promote the app :-)

Related question: Use texdoc within a shell script (in Alfred.app) doesn't work

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I am trying to understand how to calculate the energy for the infinite MPS.
After finishing the all the sweep, the energy calculated from dmrgworker corresponds to the energy of the infinite MPS.
I wonder if the way you calculate the energy is equivalent to the recurrence formula in eq.35,36,37 of [arXiv:0804.2509] ? Also, does your method also apply to system with long-range interaction? In the presence of long-range interaction, the recurrence relation becomes more complicated ( [arXiv:1008.4667]). It is not obvious to me that the energy calculated in the idmrg.h is the same as these methods.
Hi, good question so that line of the code which you quote is just subtracting off the energy of the system calculated for the last configuration, thinking of the last configuration as a finite-size system. (So using a "growing" picture of the idmrg algorithm.) The algorithm in the ITensor library doesn't use the more sophisticated Schur form argument you cited, although it might be equivalent to it in certain cases (not sure off hand, I'd have to check).
You could apply the code to along-range Hamiltonian by using an appropriate MPO, but you might find slow convergence given that the algorithm doesn't work with an infinite system from the outset, but grows a longer and longer finite-size system. So boundary effects might persist for a while depending on how long range the interaction is and what the correlation length of the system is.
The energy should have been calculated by taking the overlap of psi and H. Why do we still need to multiply energy again?
So even though it looks like IL contains terms from H, it is actually just "borrowing" the part of each H MPO tensor which contains an identity operator and no other part of H. The reason for doing things this way is so that IL has a compatible tensor structure with HL. I'd like to find a simpler way to do the energy subtraction (or some other appropriate treatment of the energy) in the future.
You start with the end of the finite state machine so all the multiplication of H are just multiplication of identity matrix. By doing so, the Index of the IL are identical to HL.
This is really a smart trick! Thank you for your explanation!
Thanks! Yes actually now that I look back at how IL is initialized, it might be that it does work for any Hamiltonian MPO, regardless of the convention used to construct it. But it at least definitely works for Hamiltonian MPOs following the "lower triangular" convention I usually follow.


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SUN GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS
News that was making news in years gone by:
September 11, 1942:
* Arlington's movie theaters exceeded this week's war-bond quota by 20 percent. In a related story, actress Greer Garson, in town to support the bond drive, was honored at a dinner at Washington Golf & Country Club.
* A new law requires that Virginia drivers stop for school buses that are loading or unloading children.
* Looking on the bright side, the Sun's editor notes that the recent spate of heavy rain will lead to colorful fall foliage.
* Arlington officials are now using radar to catch speeders.
* The vacancy rate for apartments in the county is just 3 percent, but that is higher than the rate a year ago.
* Arlington Public Schools plans to start testing students for color-blindness.
* Yorktown High School will play its first-ever football game, taking on the junior varsity of George Washington High School in Alexandria.
* Groundbreaking is set for the Christian-education building at Arlington Presbyterian Church.
* U.S. Rep. Joel Broyhill (R-10th) says he is "a little disappointed" in Richard Nixon's selection of Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew as his running mate.
* The Sun's editorial page says that no matter what happens to Democrat Hubert Humphrey in the presidential race, Ted Kennedy is clearly the party's "man of the future."
* A 12-hour storm pummeled Northern Virginia, dropping 4 inches of rain and washing out several roadways.
* All three candidates for U.S. Senate say they support construction of Interstate 66 through Arlington.
* The school-bond referendum approved by the County Board includes $4 million to complete the renovation of Washington-Lee High School, and additional funds for improvements at various elementary schools.
* In football action, Wakefield defeated Yorktown, 9-3.
* Northern Virginia is in the midst of its second-worst September heat wave of the century.
* U.S. Sen. John Warner predicts "no clear winner" in the upcoming summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
* Gov. Wilder visited Arlington to pitch his plan for construction of a new Washington Redskins stadium at Potomac Yard.
* County Board candidates James Hunter and Ben Winslow squared off at the Civic Federation forum, with Winslow saying residents are being "taxed out of the county."
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As the towns in western Turkey littoral to the Aegean Sea gain popularity among illegal immigrants seeking to reach Greece, demand for rubber boats and life vests, two vital items in migrants' risky journey, increases.
The boom in the sales of vests and boats is apparently attracting those seeking to strike quick profits with under the table production, which threatens the lives of migrants.
In İzmir, one of the biggest cities on Turkey's Aegean coast, migrants - the majority of whom are from Syria where the ongoing conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people - wait in total darkness to board overcrowded boats to the Greek islands. Migrants walking around with black bags are a common sight in city's Basmane district where migrants concentrate. Closer inspection reveals the bags contain life vests.
Their only lifelines in the risky journey to Greece are their ability to swim and their life vests. Since swimming is of no help during inclement weather, life vests come in handy for migrants.
Defective life vests, however, prove deadly for migrants. Poor-quality vests produced in unregistered workshops are preferred by impoverished migrants because they are cheap. Sait Güderoğlu, owner of a life vest manufacturing company, said life vests must meet international standards for their safety features, but those manufactured under the table do not. "They can't even help a small child keep afloat, let alone an adult. They are made of the fabric that handbags are made of and stuffed with low-quality sponge. Rather than keeping one afloat, they pull the user further down as they absorb water," he said. Güderoğlu stressed that those life vests, unlike the originals that are colored orange, come in black to avoid detection by the Coast Guard, which obstructs rescue efforts in case of sinking of migrant boats. Still, they are wildly popular due to their low prices ranging between TL 20 ($7.40) to TL 30 while the high-quality vests manufactured in line with international standards are sold for a minimum price of TL 75.
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In October 2016 the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) and the National Communications Commission (NCC) will finalise the spectrum re-farming proposal for review and approval by the Executive Yuan. The authorities are eyeing full deployment of 5G infrastructure and further mobile and wireless application. Closer consultation is underway with the incumbent mobile operators looking for harmonisation in the 2017 spectrum swap and transfer (for further details please see "Re-farming 3G spectrum").
The MOTC and NCC plan to allocate between 920 megahertz (MHz) and 928MHz as unlicensed bands dedicated to the Internet of Things, and are considering dedicating between 5,850MHz and 5,925MHz to telematics (eg, connected cars and the Internet of Vehicles). The MOTC has determined that the 800MHz band will be reserved for public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) following Resolution 646 of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015. On the condition that PPDR always has priority, certain frequencies in the 800MHz band used by incumbent mobile operators (ie, 825MHz to 845MHz and 870MHz to 890MHz) will remain a mobile broadband service.
A total of 120MHz bandwidth in the 2,100MHz band currently used by 3G mobile operators will be retrieved by the end of 2018 and released by auction for mobile broadband service. The NCC and MOTC are discussing the proposed improvement to auction rules for the spectrum assignment in the hope that no dispute will occur among the awarded bidders regarding the swap of auctioned frequencies. FarEasTone and Taiwan Mobile (two of the top three mobile operators in Taiwan) have recently entered into a settlement for their disputed spectrum transfer (ie, 1,748.7MHz to 1,753.7MHz and 1,843.7MHz to 1,848.7MHz), which has been long due since the 4G auction on the 1,800MHz band closed in November 2014. It is expected that in the upcoming 2017 auction for 120MHz in the 2,100MHz band and 30MHz in the 1,800MHz band (a total of 150MHz) that the authorities will consider a two-phase approach:
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From The Very Hungry Caterpillar to the Cat in the Hat, Peter Rabbit to Babar, children's books are dominated by male central characters, new research has found, with the gender disparity sending children a message that "women and girls occupy a less important role in society than men or boys".
Published in the April issue of Gender & Society, the study, Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books, looked at Caldecott award-winning books, the well-known US book series Little Golden Books and extensive book listing the Children's Catalog. Just one Caldecott winner (1985's Have You Seen My Duckling? following a mother duck on a search for her baby) has had a standalone female character since the award was established in 1938. Books with male animals were more than two-and-a-half times more common across the century than those with female animals, the authors said.
Although the gender disparity came close to disappearing by the 1990s for human characters in children's books, with a ration of 0.9 to 1 for child characters and 1.2 to 1 for adult characters, it remained for animal characters, with a "significant disparity" of nearly two to one. The study found that the 1930s to 1960s, the period between waves of feminist activism, "exhibits greater disparities than earlier and later periods".
"The messages conveyed through representation of males and females in books contribute to children's ideas of what it means to be a boy, girl, man, or woman. The disparities we find point to the symbolic annihilation of women and girls, and particularly female animals, in 20th-century children's literature, suggesting to children that these characters are less important than their male counterparts," write the authors. "The disproportionate numbers of males in central roles may encourage children to accept the invisibility of women and girls and to believe they are less important than men and boys, thereby reinforcing the gender system."
The authors of the study said that even gender-neutral animal characters are frequently labelled as male by mothers reading to their children, which only "exaggerates the pattern of female underrepresentation". "These characters could be particularly powerful, and potentially overlooked, conduits for gendered messages," they said. "The persistent pattern of disparity among animal characters may reveal a subtle kind of symbolic annihilation of women disguised through animal imagery."
The Carnegie medal-winning children's author Melvin Burgess, whose own novels regularly feature female central characters, pointed to the "truism in publishing that girls will read books that have boy heroes, whereas boys won't read books that have girl heroes".
"Boys are far more gender-specific," he said. "I guess the challenge is to write books for boys that have female characters in, that the boys will relate to. It's a sad fact that books written for boys do tend to fall rapidly into the old stereotypes, and the action figures, baddies etc are generally male, and very straightforward males as well. I try to get away from that. It's a been a while since I wrote an action-type book, but I am working on one now and it does involve four young people – two girls, two boys – and I always try to make my girls really stand out."
But it's not only an absence of female central characters which is a problem in children's books, believes former children's laureate Anne Fine: it's how the women are represented when they do appear. "Publishers rightly take care to put in positive images of a mix of races, but seem not to even notice when they use stereotypical and way out-of-date images of women," she said. "In modern classics such as Owl Babies and Hooray for Fish! it's always the mother, never the dad, whom the child ends up wanting and needing. God forbid each book should try to cover all the 'issues'; but we do need a bit of balance. Children's authors should make an effort to do a bit of role widening. I try. You wouldn't notice, but in every single one of my books, the male can cook. In The Country Pancake, my farmer just happens to be a female. And on and on."
The notion, meanwhile, that boys only read books by and about males does "become a self-fulfilling prophecy", Fine said. "More worryingly, in these new lists of recommended books for boys, there's a heap of fantasy and violence, very little humour (except for the poo and bum sort), and almost no family novels at all. If you offer boys such a narrow view of the world, and don't offer them novels that show them dealing with normal family feelings, they will begin to think this sort of stuff is not for them."
Fine believes that "women should be giving a much beadier eye to the books they share with children ... It's important to balance much loved old-fashioned classics with stuff that evens things up a bit and reflects women's current role in the world," she said.
But Carnegie medal winner Frank Cottrell Boyce feels that "women have an influence in children's literature that belies the numbers".
"I'm sure this is because brilliant women like Edith Nesbitt, who in a fairer society might have gone into politics or science, have instead poured all their brilliance into writing. The result is that over several years, women have produced really important – really, really important – children's fiction that has helped define eras and people," he said. "I'm thinking right back to Little Women – which has provided women with a roadmap of identity for generations– and Anne of Green Gables. But also of the way women from Enid Blyton and Richmal Crompton – incomparably our best prose stylist and paradoxically the writer who defined boyhood – to JK Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson and Stephenie Meyer, have totally dominated popular narrative culture. So never mind the quantity, feel the quality."


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By his mid twenties, Ian Perkins was building his family business Associated Fashion Distributors (AFD) into one of the largest fashion agencies in Australia, representing Table Eight, Dolina, Aero, Stitches, Black Pepper, Sunshades – Just to name a few. After selling AFD, he joined Geiger Enterprises as Managing Director, where he strategically moved all production and distribution of their three brands Geiger, Lavender Road and Blue Skies offshore to China. Thirteen months later he purchased two of the brands and focused on balancing successful wholesale relationships with national department store chain David Jones and in excess of 500 boutiques around Australia and New Zealand, as well as building a key concession business with Harris Scarfe.
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In Leigh's spare time, she set up Brisbane's first major Bridal expo in 1993, starting at the RNA and moving to the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. After 7 years of running this event, Leigh sold this successful venture to 'Queensland Brides Magazine'. Twenty- one years on, Leigh still comperes all of the Bridal parades at each expo.
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Superior Court Denies Motion for Stay Pending Cert Petition
| Oct 21, 2013 | Firm News
The Superior Court has denied defendant's motion to stay the case while it petitions the Supreme Court to issue a writ of certiorari. Defendant requested the stay while it sought Supreme Court review of the Superior Court's decision vacating a dismissal for lack of prosecution.
The Court said the standard for a stay was the same whether a party was appealing a judgment pursuant to Superior Court Rule of Civil Procedure 62 or petitioning for a writ of certiorari pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 8(a). The court should consider whether the movant has made a "strong showing" of these factors: (1) it will prevail on the merits of its appeal; (2) it will suffer irreparable harm if the stay is not granted; (3) no substantial harm will come to other interested parties; and (4) a stay will not harm the public interest. The factors are not prerequisites all of which must be met. Rather the court must consider whether all of the factors, weighed together, favor granting a stay.
In this case, the Court determined that the dismissal for lack of prosecution was improper because the case had not been "inactive…for five years or more." R.I.G.L. 9-8-5(a). Accordingly, defendant was unlikely to prevail on appeal. The Court rejected defendant's argument that the expenses of litigation constituted irreparable harm. Irreparable harm is something that will upset the status quo causing some irretrievable and inequitable action. On the other hand, substantial harm will come to the plaintiff if the stay is granted because his case has already been pending for more than a decade and a stay would further delay the proceedings. The Court said defendant had failed to show a stay would not harm the public interest, though it did not explain this finding.
Lawrence v. Western Mass Blasting Corp., W.C. 2003-0600, slip op., (R.I. Super. Oct. 1, 2013).
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Pālolo Homes is the heart of our valley community. Since moving here with my beloved mother and three siblings, I have had the privilege of calling this special place home and of working with some of the most dedicated women in our community. From these women, I have learned the importance of collaboration in serving the community's needs and fighting lingering stigmas and misconceptions imposed on us.
When exploring the community over the years, I was almost always drawn to the work of the residents' association—especially its president, known affectionately as Aunty Dahlia. From her dedicated service and collaboration with key players, I continue to learn the art of community organizing and the importance of communication and teamwork in sustaining meaningful relationships.
Not long after meeting Aunty Dahlia, I encountered Judith Kirkpatrick, an English professor from Kapi'olani Community College (KCC). I found it strange to see this tall white lady walking freely about the property by herself. For hours on end every Sunday, Aunty Judi worked with the "geeks" (IT students) in the Hale, where they maintained the many computers donated by the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) and KCC. In this humble building, I was first exposed to the idea of "service learning" and slowly began to understand the power of leveraging available resources to create "win–win" situations for all involved.
I was soon introduced to another dedicated woman, an academic from UHM and KCC named Ulla Hasager. Little did I know then that Dr. Hasager would one day be not only my AmeriCorps VISTA supervisor and professor at KCC, but also my life mentor.
Much of the work we do at Pālolo Valley Homes requires a strong understanding of the community's needs, a knowledge of who the players are and how best to serve them in a collaborative way. Thanks to Aunty Dahlia, Aunty Judi, and Dr. Hasager, I have observed first-hand that when all parties properly communicate their questions, needs, and goals, we are able to combine our resources to effect change.
I am now president of the Pālolo Tenants Association, and in the short time since being elected, I have learned much about the role I play in this special place. I can't say enough about the importance of working collaboratively, especially when resources are limited. As the collaboration between Pālolo and its higher education partners continues, the relationships, experiences, and many lessons learned along the way will help us sustain our commitment to serving our families and community and overcome shared challenges together.
Stephen Maybir is president of the Pālolo Tenants Association, leader of several learning center programs, and student at Kapi'olani Community College.


Even if you live in a generally warm climate, winter and the cooler temperatures it brings to most places has a way of making us want to hunker down – or escape the humdrum of our daily commute on the train – with a good book.
The best winter reads transport you to wintry lands, inspire heady thoughts and contain a little bit of magic. This list (and we've thrown in a few recent releases) will put you in the right frame of mind to cherish the cold weather and maybe actually venture out for a winter walk (before the dreaded 4pm sunset).
Join Matthiessen on a five-week-long walk through the Himalayas. It's a voyage through the extreme with a central focus on the act of seeking. In this case, it's the ever-elusive snow leopard that is being sought. Read this one to relive the rigid trek and get lost in a quest that tests the ability to persevere as much as it asks us to question what kinds of snow leopards motivate or complicate our current lives. The best part is the feeling of being transported without leaving your house.
Japanese protagonist Tsukuru isn't especially noticeable – a bit colorless, indeed. He isn't bold and he doesn't shine brightly. When his college friends all abandon him at once and in unison, he doesn't find out why. He doesn't even try to find out why, too possessed by his own mild manners and passivity. He embarks on a pilgrimage years after the rejection from his friends to uncover the truth of why they let him go abruptly. Read this one to get lost in the journey in Japan and the drama and to have a good think on relationships and reflections of ourselves.
We've added this because it's an enthralling read. When a newly minted teenage boy's life is uprooted, he's thrust into the upper class culture of the family that adopts him. His loss, his obsession with art, and his ability to reinvent himself amid his longing are themes that drive this page-turner. Read this one for the New York City scenes and social subtleties.
It's winter in Philadelphia – Christmastime, in fact – and this book follows a young girl, her teacher, and a jazz club owner through a performance-centered plot that unfolds over the span of 24 hours. Read this one not just for the blustery darkness of a winter night and the likeability of the characters, but also for the rekindling of a dream that just won't die.
Humor, whimsy, and imagination tie the stories in this collection together. Your mind will bend to the pressing shapes and stories of recurring dreams and wooly mammoths. Read this one for a blizzard-like blurring of fact and fiction and a great companion to a warm drink.
A powerful bow to a great and daunting expanse of a region, Frazier dissects every Russian detail with enamored obsession. This book will transport you to this faraway place with textured writing and an unbreakable narrative. Read this one for the potent escapism but also for a refreshing course in how to appreciate the moment.
This autobiographical graphic novel that tells a story of the snowy childhood of Thompson in Wisconsin. Laws of attraction, faith, accountability, and commitment are all pulled into question here as readers get to pair drawings with the narrative – one that carries blankets as a motif throughout. Read this for the portrayal of the numbingly cold North Woods as well as for the coming of age tale (best read curled up in a warm blanket).
When you're ready to brave the cold and embrace the fresh air, head out for a winter picnic. Sound crazy? We show you what to bring and what to wear.


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Stalking Jack the Ripper #01: Stalking Jack the Ripper
June 23, 2017 / 05 STARS, KM YA STALKING JACK THE RIPPER
Title: Stalking Jack the Ripper
Series: Stalking Jack the Ripper
Author: Kerri Maniscalco
Publisher: jimmy patterson
Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion... Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world. The story's shocking twists and turns, augmented with real, sinister period photos, will make this dazzling debut from author Kerri Maniscalco impossible to forget.
OKAY STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING. THIS BOOK IS THE BOOK YOU ARE READING NOW.
Being the twisted weirdo that I am, I totally called who Jack the Ripper was. I didn't call all the other stuff that came with Jack the Ripper though.. just that he/she was killing… not why… or what his/her final plan was… holy crap that was a lot to digest…
But I am getting ahead of myself, how about we talk about the female-detective main character who likes to dissect human bodies for science and is 100% a feminine?
Like my word, women had such a restraint life back in the day.
Couldn't do anything and had to always be on it and put on a show. I love the struggle that came with pleasing her father and her aunt and society vs. pleasing herself and doing what brings her heart joy.
Now Aubrey Rose is not like gross or weird when you grow up in the twenty-first century; but with the time period this is set up in (I'm guessing the 1800s.. she had to wear big dresses and wearing "riding pants" was weird for a girl) she was weird and she was never going to grab herself a husband…because what else are girls good for?
Now Aubrey Rose isn't the only feminist in this story. A young, snarky and very forward-thinker Thomas Cresswell (aka Captain Carswell Thorne from The Lunar Chronicles) actually pushes Aubrey to do more than she is willing, but not anything she didn't want to do to begin with. He pushes her to investigate and treats her as an equal (which is probably why she ends up liking him, right?).
Not to mention that Aubrey's Uncle is teaching her to be a
Forensic Pathologist just like him. The very thing that makes him a prime suspect.
This whole book is focused on Aubrey Rose figuring out who is killing all these women and why. They call him Jack the Ripper. He is intrigued.
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The days of the ordinary chair are rapidly becoming a distant memory. The long standing working relationship between Brazilian brothers Fernando & Humberto Campana has been filled with one off ideas. Ideas that are sometimes beyond belief. The creative mind set of the two men is incredible. Why follow sheep when you can create a chair where stuffed sheep toys are the foundations?
Fernando & Humberto Campanas creations stem from items they have found such as scraps of wood, fabric cut offs and, like I said previously, stuffed toys. It seems crazy but the designs speak for themselves. The artistic approach is definitely thinking outside the box.
Neither brother seemed destined for a life of design. In 1953 Humberto Campana was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Whilst studying Law, Humberto began to design furniture in the mid 80's after younger brother Fernando (Born in Brotas, Brazil in 1961) had completed his architectural degree.
Favela chair, constructed piece-by-piece in 1991 from the same scraps of pinewood used to build the slum housing on which it was inspired.
Vermelha armchair, built with 500 metres of bright red cotton cord, hand tied amd weaved through a metal frame.
After looking into the lives of the two brothers in more depth, I will now be following their outstanding work for the foreseeable future. Just think of the creations that could be on the horizon! Café furniture and Café chairs could all be about to change.


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IR Approved Author Tavi Black: "Everyone told me that no matter who your publisher is, you'll have to do your own marketing. And they were right."
Where Are We Tomorrow? received a 4+ star review, making it an IndieReader Approved title.
Following find an interview with author Tavi Black.
What is the name of the book and when was it published?
Where Are We Tomorrow?, published May 31, 2021.
What's the book's first line?
Inside the concrete arena, programmed lights whirred and spun in rhythm; eleven thousand fans watched, mesmerized, as vibrant magenta and violet beams sliced through midnight black.
What's the book about? Give us the "pitch".
Where Are We Tomorrow?, is about four women working backstage on a rock 'n' roll tour, each coming to terms with what it means to be a woman working in a male dominated industry. Alex Evans, a 36-yr old electrician on the tour, discovers through an accidental pregnancy and then the pain of miscarriage that she wants more than anything is to have a baby. But to do so, she'll have to give up both her career and her boyfriend, who, nearing 50, does not want to have any more children.
What inspired you to write the book? A particular person? An event?
The book began as an exploration of miscarriage and the previously taboo nature of speaking about it in our culture, but as the manuscript morphed and grew, several other themes presented themselves:
1) Even if we attempt to run away or bury the past, we all must come to terms with personal and family histories. Trauma can permeate generations, affecting our ability to find contentment.
2) I am interested in definitions of feminine/masculine, what roles we are expected to play. There is a myriad of ways to tap into our power as females. There is no one trait or mannerism that can define us as feminine (and conversely as masculine). The book explores, through all of the women's stories, the gap between feminism and post-feminism, between proving that women are men's equals and women reclaiming traditional gender roles.
3) If the maternal relationship is undernourished or impoverished, a woman's confidence in family and relationships is at risk. Trust in her own instincts—rather than in her mother's voice—is essential to identifying her true self (the woman that exists underneath layers of resentment, fear, bravado, etc.).
4) Our culture's addiction to fame. Proximity to fame generally brings only the briefest of pleasure to the ego, rarely offering any true contentment.
What's the main reason someone should really read this book?
People should read this book because, as A.J. Verdelle, author of The Good Negress, said: "Every so often, you find a book–against all odds–that changes the way you think. A book that you know you might not have found. Where Are We Tomorrow? is just such a book. Tavi Black has written a story about women who are ambitious, who are talented and who are free to their artistry. The main character works backstage in show business: in the dark behind the backdrop, using tools, wearing boots that protect the feet. When I was very young and still startled by the wonders of reading, I found a book that changed my understanding about how women daily contribute to saving society. Valerie Miner's novel about nurses in WWII, a novel that changed me, that I have never forgotten. Books can change your mind about life, about what work you might do, about what kinds of other 'you's might be out there, working in the world. Where Are We Tomorrow? will change some readers, especially girls and young women who need the critical reminder that not all women wear heels."
What's the most distinctive thing about the main character? Who-real or fictional-would you say the character reminds you of?
The main character, Alex Evans, is a sensitive woman who has developed a thick layer of armor in order to steel herself for the work she does. I think many women—or people in general—do this to avoid feeling vulnerable. The most popular character in literature that Alex most resembles is Jo March from Little Women. She's a mix of feminine and masculine, not afraid of pursuing work that is thought of as 'men's', and conflicted about how she can manage to find love and further her career.
If they made your book into a movie, who would you like to see play the main character(s)?
I would absolutely love Michelle Williams to play Alex. It would have to be made soon, though, as I believe Michelle is 40 and Alex is 36 🙂
When did you first decide to become an author?
I was 7 when I wrote my first story, 18 when I first thought writing a book might be a life goal. But I was heavily discouraged early on by a tutor as well as by someone I considered a friend, so I lost the courage to write—at least to share my writing with anyone. It was a long journey towards believing in myself and my writing.
Is this the first book you've written?
No. It's the first book I've published. I have two other finished novels (one historical fiction, one middle grade). I have several other partially finished novels as well.
What do you do for work when you're not writing?
Like many writers, I wear a lot of hats. Pre-pandemic, I was the tour manager for Deva Premal & Miten. I also do the books for my husband's plumbing business and now I'm homeschooling. Previously, I had done a lot of work in the nonprofit sector.
How much time do you generally spend on your writing?
Every spare moment I have, which, honestly isn't that much right now. Mainly because I'm having to learn about book marketing. That in itself feels like a full-time job.
What's the best and the hardest part of being an indie?
Everyone told me that no matter who your publisher is, you'll have to do your own marketing. And they were right. It is a whole different world, one that has a steep learning curve. Especially for someone who has no social media platform or knowledge. But there is lots of help out there—IndieReader is a great place to start.
What's a great piece of advice that you can share with fellow indie authors?
Research, research, research. Start early and decide carefully where to spend your advertising dollars. Ask other authors for advice. And above all, be patient. Publishing a book is a long process, but worth it.
Would you go traditional if a publisher came calling? If so, why?
It would totally depend on the book, on the publisher, on the people involved. I try to follow my intuition on making those types of decisions.
Is there something in particular that motivates you (fame? fortune?)
I am greatly motivated by the pursuit of beauty. I want to be moved and move others by observation, sentiment, and experience. Of course, a small amount of fame and fortune would be nice, but it is art that inspires me, be that in novels, painting, dance or film.
Which writer, living or dead, do you most admire?
Too many to list, but I will limit it to a few: Ann Patchett, Emily St. John Mandel, Lauren Groff, Salman Rushdie, Lily King, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, Charles Baxter. And Padraig O Tuama, a poet and host of Poetry Unbound.
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1935 Mercedes-Benz W25 'Silver Arrow' Grand Prix Child's Car
Bonhams - The Zoute Sale 2022
Le Zoute, 09 October
Lot sold
USD 16 250 - 21 666
EUR 15 000 - 20 000 (listed)
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This stunning evocation of Mercedes-Benz's outstandingly successful W25 'Silver Arrow' Grand Prix car is sure to delight the junior enthusiast. Built to the governing body's new formula, which stipulated a maximum weight of only 750kg, the W25 was introduced for the 1934 Grand Prix season and in 1935 won the revived European Championship with German driver Rudolf Caracciola at the wheel. Caracciola won four out of the 1935 European Championship's seven races, claiming victories in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain, and would be crowned European Champion on two further occasions (1937 and '38) in the Mercedes-Benz W125 and W154 respectively.
Built by an accomplished expert in the field, and carrying Caracciola's number '2', this beautifully crafted child's car is powered by a 125cc four-stroke engine producing 9bhp. Notable features include single forward and reverse gear transmission; electric starter; thick glassfibre bodywork; front drum brakes; fabric/leather seat; and a removable steering wheel. Top speed is between 45 and 65km/h and this 'Silver Arrow' can accommodate children between 5-12 years old.
280cm (L) x 125 (W) x 80cm (H)
101 New Bond Street
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As a national regulatory agency, the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) competently pursues it role in protecting consumers' health through the enforcement of food control laws and the efficient conduct of inspection, monitoring and evaluation of the quality and wholesomeness of meat products available in the market.
The agency encourages the Meat Industry stakeholders in general to continue in their pursuit of excellence in producing quality products that poses value not only for money, but more importantly for health and safety.
Thus, this effort to recognizes industry leaders as examples of producers who prioritize quality and safety of their produce, continue to develop the export potentials of their products and improve their economic ability to be globally competitive.
1. San Miguel Foods, Inc.
President: Mr. Eduardo M. Cojuanco, Jr.
San Miguel Foods, Inc. was the first company to open the export potential of Philippine meat products to foreign trade. By its own initiative, it has pioneered the export of chicken yakitori to Japan. This act has paved the way for other meat processing plants to enter this vast market and have successfully done so. As of date, SMFI has already exported a total of 169,530 kgs to Qatar and Papua New Guinea.
Seeing the potential of trading Peking Duck Meat to foreign market, it has invested in raising Peking Duck and eventually succeeded being the first Philippine Poultry Dressing Plant to export its meat to Japan.
Based in the Philippines, formed in 2009 and now employs individuals with professional experience across all aspects of the food and service spectrum.
The company's expertise lies in the development, sourcing, and supply of products across many food groups on a word-wide basis, including raw, coated, marinated foods.
Our systems and services have been thoroughly audited by suppliers and customers enabling us to partner with all major worldwide retailers and manufacturers.
It is one of the biggest exporters of Yakitori Chicken to Japan.
A poultry dressing plant which was given an opportunity of export of Whole Chicken to Korea. The success of penetrating this market was borne by the hard work it has invested through upgrading of its facility and improving its hygiene and sanitation programs.
LDP Farms is the leading poultry dressing plant exporting Chicken Yakitori to Japan.
Still another meat processing plant that has successfully penetrated the vast need of Japan for Yakitori Chicken.
8. Reitoh Cold Storage, Inc.
It is a meat cutting plant which embraced the opportunity of joining other Philippine companies in exporting Yakitori Chicken to Japan.
9. Aces AMC Integrated Poultry Processing Corp.
10. Silangan Poultry Farm, Inc.


Results from a dozen events over the past week!
Kana and Konami team against Kagetsu and Kaho!
Joshi's Island Podcast #21: Stardom and OZ Academy!
We discuss Stardom Gold May and more!
Kyoko Kimura takes on Hiroyo Matsumoto!
Dynamite has her Retirement Match against Mayumi Ozaki!
A look at OZ Academy's successful 2016!
Shida and Syuri take on Ozaki-gun!


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Book of the week: Henry 'Chips' Channon - The Diaries 1938-43
Edited by Simon Heffer, Channon's diaries are a 'great work of literature' by a less than great human being
by The Week Staff
1. Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries 1938-43 Currently Reading
2. Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
3. Bewilderment by Richard Powers
"It is often said that the best political diaries are written by those who dwell in the foothills of power," said Chris Mullin in The Spectator. This maxim certainly applies to Henry "Chips" Channon – a man of legendary social-climbing abilities, but who never "inhabited the Olympian heights" as a politician. The son of a Chicago shipbroker, Channon arrived in England after the First World War, married the spectacularly rich Lady Honor Guinness, and became Tory MP for Southend. Throughout his life he socialised incessantly – and recorded his activities in remarkably frank diaries. In 1967, nine years after his death, a heavily bowdlerised version was published, but they're now being restored to their unexpurgated glory: this weighty tome is the second instalment of a trilogy (volume one appeared earlier this year). Simon Heffer should be applauded for his efforts, because Channon's diaries are a "great work of literature". Full of "wonderfully bitchy and razor-sharp" pen portraits, they "shed light on a world that has largely passed away".
Book review: Henry 'Chips' Channon - The Diaries, 1918-1938
"I could not help enjoying" these diaries, but their author emerges as hugely dislikeable, said Robert Harris in The Sunday Times. An anti-Semite and a "feather-brained snob", Channon passionately supported appeasement (Neville Chamberlain is "the most miraculous human alive") and absurdly overestimated his own importance. Equally striking is his malice – whether describing Churchill as a "selfish, paranoid old ape" or Queen Marie of Yugoslavia as "evil-speaking and smelling". Nor is his indifference to the War appealing, said Craig Brown in The Mail on Sunday. As London is bombed, he "swans around the city, shopping for bejewelled cufflinks". Even when his own house is bombed, he does not let it "get in the way of his party-going".
These diaries are most fascinating when detailing Channon's private life, "from his partiality to colonic irrigation to his amorous entanglements", said Rupert Christiansen in The Daily Telegraph. After his wife takes up with a "dark, unscrupulous fellow of the yeoman class", he becomes embroiled with various men, including fellow MP Alan Lennox-Boyd, with whom he "visits the Turkish baths and indulges in flagellatory games". Channon is near-peerless as a diarist, precisely because he wrote to "record what happened, not to impress posterity". A pretty dreadful human being he may have been – but his "candour remains admirable and indisputable".
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Q: Webpack relative css url() with file-loader / css-loader Im quite new to webpack/npm and i'm trying to get my head around how to work with css urls in other project dependancies.
Folder structure
src
  fonts/
  scss/
    app.scss
  js/
    app.js
  img/
  index.html

webpack.config.js
var path = require('path');
var extractPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
var cleanWebpackPlugin = require('clean-webpack-plugin');
var htmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
var webpack = require("webpack");

module.exports = {
    entry: './src/js/app.js',
    output: {
        path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
        filename: 'js/app.js'
    },
    devServer: {
        stats: 'errors-only',
        compress: true,
        open: true,
        port: 9000
    },
    module: {

        rules: [

            // ES6 -> ES5 transpiler

            {
                test: /\.js$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: {
                    loader: 'babel-loader',
                    options: {
                        presets: ['es2015']
                    }
                }
            },

            // SCSS to CSS -> Autoprefix -> Load CSS

            {
                test: /\.(scss|css)$/,
                use: extractPlugin.extract({
                    use: [
                        'css-loader',
                        {
                            loader: 'postcss-loader',
                            options: {
                                plugins: (loader) => [require('autoprefixer')()]
                            }
                        },
                        'sass-loader'
                    ]
                })
            },

            // HTML Loader
            {
                test: /\.html$/,
                use: ['html-loader']
            },

            // Image Loader
            {
                test: /\.(jpg|png|svg|gif)$/,
                use: [
                    {
                        loader: 'file-loader',
                        options: {
                            outputPath: 'img/',
                            name: '[name].[ext]'
                        }
                    }
                ]
            },
            // Font Loader
            {
                test: /\.(eot|ttf|woff)$/,
                use: [
                    {
                        loader: 'file-loader',
                        options: {
                            outputPath: 'fonts/',
                            name: '[name].[ext]'
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }

        ]

    },
    plugins: [
        new extractPlugin({filename: 'scss/app.css'}),
        new cleanWebpackPlugin(['dist']),
        new htmlWebpackPlugin({ template: 'src/index.html' }),
        new webpack.ProvidePlugin({ $: 'jquery', jQuery: 'jquery', 'window.jQuery': 'jquery' })
    ]
};

I've successfully included lightGallery in my project like so:
app.js
import 'lightgallery';

app.scss
@import '~lightgallery/dist/css/lightgallery.css';

The light gallery stylesheet references fonts which i'm successfully loading into the fonts/ using the webpack file-loader
My problem is that the built css file is trying to reference the fonts relative from the scss folder instead of my root.
ie: http://localhost:9000/scss/img/loading.gif
I need all assets linked to from css to resolve from my root dir
ie http://localhost:9000/img/loading.gif
Is there anyway i can configure my css-loader to prepend all url's with a / ?
Help!

A: The file-loader respects output.publicPath, but because you've not set it, the resulting path will be a relative path. You can set the public path to /.
output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
    filename: 'js/app.js',
    publicPath: '/'
},

This will affect other loaders and plugins as well, which handle any assets. This is generally what you want and therefore recommended, but if you'd like to change it only for specific files you can use the publicPath option on file-loader.
{
    loader: 'file-loader',
    options: {
        outputPath: 'img/',
        name: '[name].[ext]',
        publicPath: '/'
    }
}


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Martinez, Jules 'Julio': Physical Memories and the Curves of Coincidence
Jules "Julio" Martinez is one of those artists that I stumbled upon on Bandcamp a few months ago. According to his bio, Jules is from France and has been playing guitar since 2010 and he is also a member of the bands Dysmorphic and Convulsive Disorder.
Sound-wise the album is best described as Opeth meets Katatonia. Opeth is particular especially as regards to Jules singing which seamlessly goes from a death metal growl one moment, to a nice pleasing croon the next. In addition the music, while heavy is very prog influenced and would also appeal to fans of bands such as Dream Theater as a result.
All of the songs are well-written however standout tracks for me are the almost jazz-like at times " The Open Door" and "Tomb of the Diver". Where he excels is in making compositions that while aggressive come across as very ethereal and hypnotic at the same time. For a debut EP this is actually quite solid and shows that Jules has a lot of promise. I am interested in hearing future releases by him as well as the other projects he is currently involved in.
1. Sky Father
2. The Open Door
3. Physical Memories
4. Tomb of the Diver
5. Garden of Tuberoses
6. Earth Mother
Added: October 1st 2012
Reviewer: Curtis Dewar
Related Link: Artist Facebook Page


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(ou Heure Limite au Québec) est une série télévisée américaine en treize épisodes de 42 minutes créée par Bill Lawrence et Blake McCormick et diffusée du  au  sur le réseau CBS et en simultanée sur Citytv au Canada. C'est l'adaptation de la série de films Rush Hour.

En Belgique elle a été diffusée du  au  sur La Deux, au Québec, du  au  sur Max, en France du  au  sur TF1 et en Suisse du  au  sur RTS Deux.
Elle est diffusée actuellement, sur Antenne Réunion depuis le .

Synopsis
À la suite d'une collaboration entre la police de Los Angeles et celle de Hong Kong, le détective Lee est transféré dans la ville des anges. Il fait dorénavant équipe avec le détective Carter, grande gueule et catastrophe ambulante notoire, surtout auprès de son capitaine, Lindsay Cole.

Distribution

Acteurs principaux
 Justin Hires  : l'inspecteur James Steven Carter
 Jon Foo  : l'inspecteur Jonathan Lee
 Aimee Garcia  : le sergent Didi Diaz
 Page Kennedy  : Gerald Page
 Wendie Malick  : le capitaine Lindsay Cole

Acteurs récurrents et invités
 Jessika Van  : Kim Lee
 Kirk Fox  : Donovan
 Byron Mann : Fong
 Steele Gagnon  : Derrick
 Greer Grammer  : Destiny Lamb
 Spencer Grammer  : Heather Lamb
 Gabriel Mann : Reginald Mason
 George Cheung : Capitaine Chen
 William Mapother  : le principal Chalhoun
 Version française
 Société de doublage : Deluxe Media Paris
 Direction artistique : Pauline Brunel
 Adaptation : Julien Sibre, David Jacomy et William Coryn
   et Doublage Séries Database

Production

Développement
En , CBS acquiert le projet d'adaptation télévisée de la franchise , avec Bill Lawrence et Blake McCormick à l'écriture du pilote. Ensuite le , CBS valide le projet avec la commande officielle du pilote.

Le , le réseau CBS annonce officiellement la commande de la série. Puis lors des Upfronts, le réseau annonce la diffusion à la mi-saison, au printemps 2016.

Le , la chaîne annonce le lancement de la série au .

Le , la chaîne annonce l'annulation de la série. Après la diffusion de l'épisode suivant, la série est retirée de l'horaire et les cinq épisodes restants seront diffusés en juillet et .

Casting
Le casting a débuté en  avec l'arrivée de Jon Foo dans le rôle du détective Lee, tenu par Jackie Chan, dans la version cinématographique, suivi de Aimee Garcia et Jessika Van.

Le , Justin Hires obtient le rôle du détective Carter, tenu par Chris Tucker, dans la version grand écran.

Le , Page Kennedy obtient le rôle de Gerald, le cousin du détective Carter.

En , les sœurs Greer Grammer () et Spencer Grammer () sont invitées lors d'un épisode.

Épisodes

 Partenaires de choc ()
 Montre en main ()
 Témoin en fuite ()
 Le Boum de l'immobilier ()
 Chasseurs de dragons ()
 Les Profs ()
 Le Flic qui déchire ()
 Sous protection très rapprochée ()
 Tout pour sa famille ()
 Le fantôme d'Hollywood ()
 Opération opéra ()
 La Loi du talion ()
 Réconciliations ()

Accueil

Réception critique
 La série est accueillie de façon très mitigée par la critique. L'agrégateur de critiques Metacritic lui accorde une note de 46 sur 100, basée sur la moyenne de 18 critiques. Sur le site Rotten Tomatoes, elle obtient une note moyenne de 25 %, sur la base de 20 critiques.

 Pierre Langlais pour Télérama trouve la série « dispensable » et « sans intérêt » en raison d'une « intrigue mince et prévisible ».

 Matt Roush de TV Guide estime que la série est « médiocre » car « l'intrigue et les dialogues sont transparents ».

Audiences
Le premier épisode été regardé par 5,06 millions de téléspectateurs et 1.1 % d'adultes de 18 à 49 ans.

Références

Voir aussi
 Liste de séries policières américaines

Saga

 1998 :  de Brett Ratner
 2001 :
 2007 :

Liens externes

Série télévisée créée en 2016
Série télévisée américaine des années 2010
Série télévisée de CBS
Série télévisée de Warner Bros. Television
Adaptation d'un film à la télévision
Série télévisée se déroulant à Los Angeles

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In colonies where there was a large white "settler" presence, the struggle against colonial rule was deeper and more protracted. In others, the colonial metropolis had begun to accept the inevitability of decolonization. As the delegates gathered that day, only Ghana had become independent.
For Fanon it was not enough to celebrate the achievements of decolonization. It was necessary to educate, to strain at the limits of national freedom and provoke debate. The All-African Peoples' Conference was the place to do this, and to learn about other movements on the continent.
For Fanon it was not enough to celebrate achievements of decolonization. It was necessary to educate and provoke debate.
But his warnings were grimly fulfilled. In the mid-1960s a new Black Power movement, principally in the United States, took up Fanon's writings. It interpreted his analysis of racism and his insistence on the necessity of organizing the wretched of the earth, and on the therapeutic effects of violence as defence against oppression, as tools to deploy against the "colonization" of black communities there.
Others who claimed to understand Fanon's legacy were not so generous or hopeful. Critics and fellow travelers alike declared him a prophet of violent revolution, accusing him of championing the detoxifying and cleansing effects of violence without appreciating its destructive and degenerative whirlwind.
The academy's adoption of radical thinkers is always a sanitizing process, turning revolutionary action into passive reflection, analysis into academic pontification. To read Fanon in the 1980s was to cherry pick from a postmodern orchard, divorcing his work on racism, subjectivity and lived experience from its wider revolutionary context and its untidy dialectic.


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NOW Money wins Best Start-Up at the Women in STEM Awards 2016
NOW Money, The UAE's new remittance app, has won the Best Start-Up for CEO Katharine Budd's pitch at the prestigious Global Women in STEM awards.
The awards, which took place at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dubai on 25 October, are in their 3rd year. NOW Money's Katharine Budd was up against seven other companies with female founders on the team, and won the award based on the strength of NOW Money's business plan and their potential to build an ecosystem of innovation.
Katharine Budd, the company's CEO and co-founder, said: "This award means so much to us. Not only because it's our first, but because it's wonderful to see that our vision is coming to life and we're being recognised for what we're doing. We were inspired to create the app by Dubai's 2021 plan – we want to help the country work towards that vision and lead the way for financial inclusion."
NOW Money uses mobile banking technology to provide accounts, financial inclusion and a range of low-cost remittance options to low-income migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council ('GCC') countries, improving their lives and saving them and their families significant money, in a profitable and sustainable manner.


In the Seven Kingdoms, some children are born just a little bit different. Some can swim or juggle better than anybody else and some are blessed with fighting or in the case of Katsa killing. These special abilities are called Graces and although these people are a benefit to many the Graced are shunned and even feared by most people.
Graces are practically impossible to hide, as they cause the eyes of the Graced to turn two different colors. As soon as a child's eyes change, they are given to the king of their land to serve him as he sees fit. Katsa discovers what her Grace is when she is 8-year-old and easily kills a man. She is immediately put to work as her uncle King Randa's enforcer sent to torture and kill those who defy the king.
While Katsa doesn't openly defy the king, she secretly creates the Council carrying out missions to bring justice and safety to the people of the Seven Kingdoms. On one such Katsa meets Po, a prince from one of the other Seven Kingdoms Graced fighter, and the first person to be able to match her in a fight. Soon Katsa and Po, discover a secret that puts the fate of the Seven Kingdoms in their hands and the fight that ensues will make it impossible for Katsa to use her Grace.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore is kind of a polarizing book. It seems to be one of those books you either love or you hate and I honestly? I loved it. The main character, Katsa, is incredibly flawed and because of this you get to see her learn and grow throughout the whole book. I love the setting of the book, the whole premise fascinated me. The idea of Graces and finding out that some Graces are not what they seem was intriguing and page turning.
There is nothing slow about this book. It starts right in with a mission for the Council and keeps going all the way to the end. The characters are fun and engaging. I love the dynamic between Po and Katsa and I love that they are both strong separately and together. I also kind of just love Po.
There is a lot of criticism for the adult themes in this book and to a point I agree. I wouldn't let my young teen read this. Since Kasta is Graced with killing, it can be a very violent book and there is also some sexual content. I wouldn't recommend it to people who offend easily because of a couple of scenes, but the book is not saturated with graphic material.
I think the biggest criticism people have for this book is they don't like a decision that Katsa makes at the end of the book. Honestly? The decision wasn't my favorite either, it wasn't the decision that I would have made, but I didn't hate the character for it, as some did. It stayed in sync with what we knew about her from the beginning and while I was a bit stumped by her decision, it didn't ruin the story for me.
In conclusion, I love this book. I loved the flaws and the failures, as well as the triumphs of the characters. It is a book I will read again.


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Q: Array.From() different results if you run this javascript on this page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/from
you get the following result:
console.log(Array.from([1, 2, 3], x => x + x));
// expected output: Array [2, 4, 6]
> Array [2, 4, 6]

if you run the same code in the chrome console on this page(https://portal.fellowshipone.com/) i get this result:
console.log(Array.from([1, 2, 3], x => x + x));
// expected output: Array [2, 4, 6]

VM2786:1 (3) [1, 2, 3]

Why does this occur?

A: The page you are referring to is using Array.from from the Prototype library. Try to enter Array.from to the console and you will see that this function is declared in an external library which overrides native implementation.


Araucaria araucana Chilean Pine Monkey Puzzle Tree. Popular garden tree, used for the unusual effect of its thick scaled branches with very symmetrical appearance. It prefers temperate climates with abundant rainfall, tolerating temperatures down to about −4 °F. It is far and away the hardiest member of its genus. Great for a coastal plant as it takes to salt spray just fine.
The piñones are similar to pine nuts, but larger; these roasted seeds are edible and harvested by indigenous people in Argentina and Chile. Trees take 30-40 years to produce seeds and trees can live as long as 1000 years.
Prefers full sun in well drained soil.


"Age-related diseases in humans are nearly impossible to prevent, though the search for so-called geroprotectors continues," said the paper's author Aleksey Belikov, who holds a doctorate in natural sciences and is a researcher at MIPT's Laboratory of Innovative Medicine. "The therapies that are being developed now aim to prevent disease progression."
"Investigating the mechanisms behind age-related disease progression, one concludes that by the time the disease has been diagnosed, it is too late to address the triggering factors," the biologist explained. "Apparently the most effective strategy is to interrupt the known vicious cycles by blocking certain stages in them. Drugs doing just that are already being developed."
In his study, Belikov examined the mortality rates of patients with five most widespread diseases that tend to affect elderly people more often, leading these diseases to be widely regarded as age-related: atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Mortality statistics is the most powerful and least biased tool for studying diseases since they account for the natural progression of a disease under various life conditions across a large population.
Exponential, or geometric, growth is observed in nuclear reactions, water freezing, bacterial growth, avalanches, and other phenomena. To use the example of bacteria, one might imagine a bacterium in a test tube that divides once every second, and its offspring divide once every second, etc. Say it takes the bacteria four hours to fill up the entire test tube. The tube will be half-full just one second before the end of the experiment, yet four seconds earlier it's just over 3 percent full. That is, the growth rate accelerates rapidly.
The MIPT researcher investigated the mechanisms of each of the five age-related diseases in the study, identifying the molecular and cellular reactions that result in vicious cycles. He noted that even substances or factors which do not in themselves pose any critical health risks might nevertheless initiate a vicious cycle of reactions. As a result, the amount and impact of the cycle's toxic component are amplified uncontrollably. This means that a lethal effect might stem from an initially noncritical amount of a harmless substance.
For example, nerve cells in the brain contain a small amount of a protein called alpha-synuclein, which is involved in nerve impulse transmission. It may happen that the gene encoding alpha-synuclein is mutated, duplicated, or triplicated in a genome. This leads to multiple protein molecules sticking to one another, forming so-called toxic oligomers, which then grow in size by attaching other alpha-synuclein molecules. This process produces fibrils, which from time to time break up into oligomers, each of which eventually grows into a new fibril, etc. This chain reaction causes the number of toxic alpha-synuclein oligomers to grow exponentially, forestalling the exponential growth of the mortality rate due to Parkinson's disease with patient age. While it is almost impossible to eliminate the oligomers that have already formed, their further growth might be prevented pharmacologically, halting the progression of the disease.
"All the vicious cycles this paper deals with are based on prior studies of age-related diseases," said Belikov. "New studies could complement or even radically change our understanding of what reactions constitute the cycles. The notion of positive feedback loops, or vicious cycles, behind the exponential progression of age-related diseases will most likely remain."


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Louise Johnson began her harp studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music High School, and later studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Salzedo Summer Harp School in the United States with Alice Chalifoux.
At 18, she was appointed Principal Harp of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, a position she held for one year before continuing her freelance career overseas. She lived in London between 1983 and 1985, performing with the London Symphony Orchestra as Guest Principal Harp and Second Harp under the baton of Claudio Abbado and Richard Hickox. She also gave recitals in Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room.
Louise Johnson has performed with all the major Australian symphony and opera and ballet Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australia Ensemble. She also performed with artists such as Cher, Sammy Davis Jnr and the Bee Gees, and has toured Australia with companies such as the Bolshoi and Sadler's Wells ballet. She has also played for the Bolshoi Opera and with Luciano Berio, in a concert of his own works.
Having given her first performance with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the age of 14, she later joined the orchestra as a permanent member, and was appointed Principal Harp in 1985.
She regularly appears as a soloist with the SSO. In 1990 she performed the Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto with James Galway and in 2006 she performed Spohr's Concertante for Violin and Harp with Michael Dauth. In 1996 she performed the Ginastera Harp Concerto in Seattle for the World Harp Congress.
Louise Johnson has taught harp at the Sydney Conservatorium for 24 years. She is in demand as a tutor and teaches regularly at the Australian National Music Camp.
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