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title: sqlalchemy.orm relationship Example Code
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sidebartitle: sqlalchemy.orm relationship
meta: Python example code that shows how to use the relationship callable from the sqlalchemy.orm module of the SQLAlchemy project.

`relationship` is a callable within the `sqlalchemy.orm` module of the SQLAlchemy project.

ColumnProperty,
CompositeProperty,
Load,
Mapper,
Query,
RelationshipProperty,
Session,
SynonymProperty,
aliased,
attributes,
backref,
class_mapper,
column_property,
composite,
interfaces,
mapper,
mapperlib,
object_mapper,
object_session,
query,
session,
sessionmaker,
and strategies
are several other callables with code examples from the same `sqlalchemy.orm` package.

## Example 1 from graphene-sqlalchemy
[graphene-sqlalchemy](https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-sqlalchemy)
([project documentation](https://docs.graphene-python.org/projects/sqlalchemy/en/latest/)
and
[PyPI package information](https://pypi.org/project/graphene-sqlalchemy/))
is a [SQLAlchemy](/sqlalchemy.html) integration for
[Graphene](https://graphene-python.org/), which makes it easier to build
GraphQL-based [APIs](/application-programming-interfaces.html) into Python
[web applications](/web-development.html). The package allows you to
subclass SQLAlchemy classes and build queries around them with custom
code to match the backend queries with the GraphQL-based request queries.
The project is provided as open source under the
[MIT license](https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-sqlalchemy/blob/master/LICENSE.md).

[**graphene-sqlalchemy / graphene_sqlalchemy / tests / models.py**](https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-sqlalchemy/blob/master/graphene_sqlalchemy/tests/models.py)

```python
# models.py
from __future__ import absolute_import

import enum

from sqlalchemy import (Column, Date, Enum, ForeignKey, Integer, String, Table,
                        func, select)
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.ext.hybrid import hybrid_property
~~from sqlalchemy.orm import column_property, composite, mapper, relationship

PetKind = Enum("cat", "dog", name="pet_kind")

class HairKind(enum.Enum):
    LONG = 'long'
    SHORT = 'short'

Base = declarative_base()

association_table = Table(
    "association",
    Base.metadata,
    Column("pet_id", Integer, ForeignKey("pets.id")),
    Column("reporter_id", Integer, ForeignKey("reporters.id")),
)

class Editor(Base):
    __tablename__ = "editors"
    editor_id = Column(Integer(), primary_key=True)
    name = Column(String(100))

## ... source file abbreviated to get to relationship examples ...

    pet_kind = Column(PetKind, nullable=False)
    hair_kind = Column(Enum(HairKind, name="hair_kind"), nullable=False)
    reporter_id = Column(Integer(), ForeignKey("reporters.id"))

class CompositeFullName(object):
    def __init__(self, first_name, last_name):
        self.first_name = first_name
        self.last_name = last_name

    def __composite_values__(self):
        return self.first_name, self.last_name

    def __repr__(self):
        return "{} {}".format(self.first_name, self.last_name)

class Reporter(Base):
    __tablename__ = "reporters"

    id = Column(Integer(), primary_key=True)
    first_name = Column(String(30), doc="First name")
    last_name = Column(String(30), doc="Last name")
    email = Column(String(), doc="Email")
    favorite_pet_kind = Column(PetKind)
~~    pets = relationship("Pet", secondary=association_table, backref="reporters", order_by="Pet.id")
~~    articles = relationship("Article", backref="reporter")
~~    favorite_article = relationship("Article", uselist=False)

    @hybrid_property
    def hybrid_prop(self):
        return self.first_name

    column_prop = column_property(
        select([func.cast(func.count(id), Integer)]), doc="Column property"
    )

    composite_prop = composite(CompositeFullName, first_name, last_name, doc="Composite")

class Article(Base):
    __tablename__ = "articles"
    id = Column(Integer(), primary_key=True)
    headline = Column(String(100))
    pub_date = Column(Date())
    reporter_id = Column(Integer(), ForeignKey("reporters.id"))

class ReflectedEditor(type):

    @classmethod
    def __subclasses__(cls):

## ... source file continues with no further relationship examples...

```

## Example 2 from sqlalchemy-datatables
[sqlalchemy-datatables](https://github.com/Pegase745/sqlalchemy-datatables)
([PyPI package information](https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-datatables/))
is a helper library that makes it easier to use [SQLAlchemy](/sqlalchemy.html)
with the jQuery [JavaScript](/javascript.html)
[DataTables](https://datatables.net/) plugin. This library is designed to
be [web framework](/web-frameworks.html) agnostic and provides code examples
for both [Flask](/flask.html) and [Pyramid](/pyramid.html).

The project is built and maintained by
[Michel Nemnom (Pegase745)](https://github.com/Pegase745) and is open
sourced under the
[MIT license](https://github.com/Pegase745/sqlalchemy-datatables/blob/master/LICENSE).

[**sqlalchemy-datatables / tests / models.py**](https://github.com/Pegase745/sqlalchemy-datatables/blob/master/./tests/models.py)

```python
# models.py
import datetime

from sqlalchemy import Column, Date, DateTime, ForeignKey, Integer, String, func
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.ext.hybrid import hybrid_property
~~from sqlalchemy.orm import backref, relationship

Base = declarative_base()

class User(Base):

    __tablename__ = 'users'

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column(String, unique=True)
    created_at = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow)
    birthday = Column(Date)
~~    address = relationship('Address', uselist=False, backref=backref('user'))

    def __unicode__(self):
        return '%s' % self.name

    def __repr__(self):
        return '<%s#%s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.id)

    @hybrid_property
    def dummy(self):
        return self.name[0:3]

    @dummy.expression
    def dummy(cls):
        return func.substr(cls.name, 0, 3)

class Address(Base):

    __tablename__ = 'addresses'

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    description = Column(String, unique=True)
    user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('users.id'))

## ... source file continues with no further relationship examples...

```


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Storytelling That Moves People
A Conversation with Screenwriting Coach Robert McKee
DIFFERENT VOICE - Storytelling That Moves People
Emmy Award winner Brian Cox portrays McKee in the 2002 film Adaption, which follows the life of a screen- writer trying to adapt the book The Orchid Thief. McKee also serves as a project consultant to film and television production companies such as Disney, Pixar, and Paramount as well as major corporations, including Microsoft, which regularly send their entire creative staffs to his lectures.
McKee believes that executives can engage listeners on a whole new level if they toss their PowerPoint slides and learn to tell good stories instead, in his best-selling book Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screen- writing, published in 1997 by Harper- Collins, McKee argues that stories "fulfill a profound human need to grasp the patterns of living-not merely as an intellectual exercise, but within a very personal, emotional experience." What follows is an edited and abridged transcript of McKee's conversation with HBR.
Why should a CEO or a manager pay attention to a screenwriter? A big part of a CEO's job is to motivate people to reach certain goals. To do that, he or she must engage their emotions, and the key to their hearts is story. There are two ways to persuade people. The first is by using conventional rhetoric, which is what most executives are trained in. It's an intellectual process, and in the business world it usually consists of a PowerPoint slide presentation in which you say, "Here is our company's biggest challenge, and here is what we need to do to prosper." And you build your case by giving statistics and facts and quotes from authorities. But there are two problems with rhetoric. First, the people you're talking to have their own set of authorities, statistics, and experiences. While you're trying to persuade them, they are arguing with you in their heads. Second, if you do succeed in persuading them, you've done so only on an intellectual basis. That's not good enough, because people are not inspired to act by reason alone.
The other way to persuade people - and ultimately a much more powerful way-is by uniting an idea with an emotion. The best way to do that is by telling a compelling story. In a story, you not only weave a lot of information into the telling but you also arouse your listener's emotions and energy. Persuading with a story is hard. Any intelligent person can sit down and make lists. It takes rationality but little creativity to design an argument using conventional rhetoric. But it demands vivid Insight and storytelling skill to present an idea that packs enough emotional power to be memorable. If you can harness imagination and the principles of a well-told story, then you get people rising to their feet amid thunderous applause instead of yawning and ignoring you.
So, what is a story?
Essentially, a story expresses how and why life changes. It begins with a situation in which life is relatively in balance: You come to work day after day, week after week, and everything's fine. You expect it will go on that way. But then there's an event-in screenwriting, we call it the "inciting incident" - that throws life out of balance. You get a new job, or the boss dies of a heart attack, or a big customer threatens to leave. The story goes on to describe how, in an effort to restore balance, the protagonist's subjective expectations crash into an uncooperative objective reality. A good storyteller describes what it's like to deal with these opposing forces, calling on the protagonist to dig deeper, work with scarce resources, make difficult decisions, take action despite risks, and ultimately discover the truth. All great storytellers since the dawn of time - from the ancient Greeks through Shakespeare and up to the present day-have dealt with this fundamental conflict between subjective expectation and cruel reality.
How would an executive learn to tell stories? Stories have been implanted in you thousands of times since your mother took you on her knee. You've read good books, seen movies, attended plays. What's more, human beings naturally want to work through stories. Cognitive psychologists describe how the human mind, in its attempt to understand and remember, assembles the bits and pieces of experience into a story, beginning with a personal desire, a life objective, and then portraying the struggle against the forces that block that desire. Stories are how we remember; we tend to for- get lists and bullet points.
Business people not only have to understand their companies' past, but then they must project the future. And how do you imagine the future? As a story, you create scenarios in your head of possible future events to try to anticipate the life of your company or your own personal life. So, if a businessperson understands that his or her own mind naturally wants to frame experience in a story, the key to moving an audience is not to resist this impulse but to embrace it by telling a good story.
What makes a good story? You emphatically do not want to tell a beginning-to-end tale describing how results meet expectations. This is boring and banal. Instead, you want to display the struggle between expectation and reality in all its nastiness.
For example, let's imagine the story of a biotech start-up we'll call Chemcorp, whose CEO has to persuade some Wall Street bankers to invest in the company. He could tell them that Chemcorp has discovered a chemical compound that prevents heart attacks and offer up a lot of slides showing them the size of the market, the business plan, the organizational chart, and so on. The bankers would nod politely and stifle yawns while thinking of all the other companies better positioned in Chemcorp's market.
Alternatively, the CEO could tune his pitch into a story, beginning with someone close to him - say, his father - who died of a heart attack. So nature itself is the first antagonist that the CEO-as-protagonist must overcome. The story might unfold like this: In his grief, he realizes that if there had been some chemical indication of heart disease, Ms father's death could have been prevented. His company discovers a protein that's present in the blood just be- fore heart attacks and develops an easy- to-administer, low-cost test.
But now it faces a new antagonist: the FDA. The approval process is fraught with risks and dangers. The FDA turns down the first application, but new re- search reveals that the test performs even better than anyone had expected, so the agency approves a second appli- cation. Meanwhile, Chemcorp is running out of money, and a key partner drops out and goes off to start his own company. Now Chemcorp is in a fight- to-the-finish patent race.
"If you can harness imagination and the principles of a well-told story, then you get people rising to their feet amid thunderous applause instead of yawning and ignoring you analyze their companies, and amazing dramas pour out. But most companies and executives sweep the dirty laundry, the difficulties, the antagonists, and the struggle under the carpet. They prefer to present a rosy - and boring - picture to the world. But as a storyteller, you want to position the problems in the foreground and then show how you've overcome them. When you tell the story of your struggles against real antagonists, your audience sees you as an exciting, dynamic person. And I know that the storytelling method works, because after I consulted with a dozen corporations whose principals told exciting stories to Wall Street, they all got their money.
What's wrong with painting a positive picture? It doesn't ring true. You can send out a press release talking about increased sales and a bright future, but your audience knows it's never that easy. They know you're not spotless; they know your competitor doesn't wear a black hat. They know you've slanted your statement to make your company look good. Positive, hypothetical pictures and boilerplate press releases actually work against you because they foment distrust among the people you're trying to convince. I suspect that most CEOs do not believe their own spin doctors- and if they don't believe the hype, why should the public?
The great irony of existence is that what makes life worth living does not come from the rosy side. We would all rather be lotus-eaters, but life will not allow it. The energy to live comes from the dark side. It comes from everything that makes us suffer. As we struggle against these negative powers, we're forced to live more deeply, more fully.
So acknowledging this dark side makes you more convincing? Of course. Because you're more truthful. One of the principles of good story- telling is the understanding that we all live in dread. Fear is when you don't know what's going to happen. Dread is when you know what's going to happen and there's nothing you can do to stop it. Death is the great dread; we all live in an ever shrinking shadow of time, and between now and then all kinds of bad things could happen.
Most of us repress this dread. We get rid of it by inflicting it on other people through sarcasm, cheating, abuse, indifference - cruelties great and small. We all commit those little evils that relieve the pressure and make us feel better. Then we rationalize our bad behavior and convince ourselves we're good people. Institutions do the same thing: They deny the existence of the negative while inflicting their dread on other institutions or their employees.
If you're a realist, you know that this is human nature; in fact, you realize that this behavior is the foundation of all nature. The imperative in nature is to follow the golden rule of survival: Do unto others what they do unto you. In nature, if you offer cooperation and get cooperation back, you get along. But if you offer cooperation and get antagonism back, then you give antagonism in return-in spades.
Ever since human beings sat around the fire in caves, we've told stories to help us deal with the dread of life and the struggle to survive. All great stories illuminate the dark side. I'm not talking about so-called "pure" evil, because there is no such thing. We are all evil and good, and these sides do continual battle. Kenneth Lay says wiping out people's jobs and life savings was unintentional. Hannibal Lecter is witty, charming, and brilliant, and he eats people's lives. Audiences appreciate the truthfulness of a storyteller who acknowledges the dark side of human beings and deals honestly with antagonistic events. The story engenders a positive but realistic energy in the people who hear it.
Does this mean you have to be a pessimist? It's not a question of whether you're optimistic or pessimistic. It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic - someone who believes nothing at face value. Skepticism is another principle of the storyteller. The skeptic understands the difference between text and subtext and always seeks what's really going on. The skeptic hunts for the truth beneath the surface of life, knowing that the real thoughts and feelings of institutions or individuals are unconscious and unexpressed. The skeptic is always looking behind the mask. Street kids, for example, with their tattoos, piercings, chains, and leather, wear amazing masks, but the skeptic knows the mask is only a persona. Inside any- one working that hard to look fierce is a marshmallow. Genuinely hard people make no effort.
So, a story that embraces darkness produces a positive energy in listeners? Absolutely. We follow people in whom we believe. The best leaders I've dealt with - producers and directors - have come to terms with dark reality. Instead of communicating via spin doctors, they lead their actors and crews through the antagonism of a world in which the odds of getting the film made, distributed, and sold to millions of moviegoers are a thousand to one. They appreciate that the people who work for them love the work and live for the small triumphs that contribute to the final triumph.
CEOs, likewise, have to sit at the head of the table or in front of the micro- phone and navigate their companies through the storms of bad economies and tough competition. If you look your audience in the eye, lay out your really scary challenges, and say, "We'll be lucky as bell if we get through this, but here's what I think we should do," they will listen to you.
To get people behind you, you can tell a truthful story. The story of General Electric is wonderful and has nothing to do with Jack Welch's cult of celebrity. If you have a grand view of life, you can see it on all its complex levels and celebrate it in a story. A great CEO is someone who has come to terms with his or her own mortality and, as a result, has compassion for others. This compassion is expressed in stories.
Take the love of work, for example. Years ago, when I was in graduate school, I worked as an insurance fraud investigator. The claimant in one case was an immigrant who'd suffered a terrible head injury on a car maker's assembly line. He'd been the fastest window assembler on the line and took great pride in his work. When I spoke to him, he was waiting to have a titanium plate inserted into his head.
The man had been grievously injured, but the company thought he was a fraud. In spite of that, he remained in- credibly dedicated. All he wanted was to get back to work. He knew the value of work, no matter how repetitive. He took pride in it and even in the company that had falsely accused him. How wonderful it would have been for the CEO of that car company to tell the tale of how his managers recognized the falseness of their accusation and then rewarded the employee for his dedication. The company, in turn, would have been re- warded with redoubled effort from all the employees who heard that story.
How do storytellers discover and unearth the stories that want to be told? The storyteller discovers a story by asking certain key questions. First, what does my protagonist want in order to restore balance in his or her life? Desire is the blood of a story. Desire is not a shopping list but a core need that, if satisfied, would stop the story in its tracks. Next, what is keeping my protagonist from achieving his or her desire? Forces within? Doubt? Fear? Confusion? Personal conflicts with friends, family, lovers? Social conflicts arising in the various institutions in society? Physical conflicts? The forces of Mother Nature? Lethal diseases in the air? Not enough time to get things done? The damned automobile that won't start? Antagonists come from people, society, time, space, and every objecting, orany combination of these forces at once. Then, how would my protagonist decide to act in order to achieve his or her desire in the face of these antagonistic forces? It's in the answer to that question that story- tellers discover the truth of their characters, because the heart of a human being is revealed in the choices he or she makes under pressure. Finally, the storyteller leans back from the design of events he or she has created and asks, "Do I believe this? Is it neither an exaggeration nor a soft-soaping of the struggle? Is this an honest telling, though heaven may fall?"
Does being a good storyteller make you a good leader? Not necessarily, but if you understand the principles of storytelling, you probably have a good understanding of your- self and of human nature, and that tilts the odds in your favor. I can teach the formal principles of stories, but not to a person who hasn't really lived. The art of storytelling takes intelligence, but it also demands a life experience that I've noted in gifted film directors: the pain of childhood. Childhood trauma forces you into a kind of mild schizophrenia that makes you see life simultaneously in two ways: First, it's direct, real-time experience, but at the same moment, your brain records it as material-mate- rial out of which you will create business ideas, science, orart. Like a double- edged knife, the creative mind cuts to the truth of self and the humanity of others.
Self-knowledge is the root of all great storytelling. A storyteller creates all characters from the self by asking the question, "If I were this character in these circumstances, what would I do?" The more you understand your own humanity, the more you can appreciate the humanity of others in all their good-versus-evil struggles. I would argue that the great leaders Jim Collins de- scribes are people with enormous self- knowledge. They have self-insight and self-respect balanced by skepticism. Great storytellers-and, I suspect, great leaders - are skeptics who understand
Their own masks as well last be masks of life, and this understanding makes them humble. They see the humanity in others and deal with them in a compassionate yet realistic way.
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The piece is called "Storytelling That Moves People".
This is a conversation with Screenwriting Coach Robert McKee. The person is related to screenwriting and feels that his profession is connected somehow to business and that CEOs need story writing skills. The significance of the piece is that it is tries to connect storytelling to the role of communication in business. The objectives of the author are to emphasize that storytelling is essential for business communications. The article is in the form an interview or questions and answers and this makes ...
This answer provides you an excellent discussion on Storytelling That Moves People
Hatim Baxamusa, MBA
BSc , University of Calcutta
MBA, Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management
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STORIES ARE A SERIOUS BUSINESS TOOL
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Annotated bibliography for organizational development and change
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Roundabouts sometimes send even the most experienced drivers into a panic. But never fear: IAM RoadSmart's head of driving standards Richard Gladman is here to help you out.
Many riders take to roads without realising they are putting themselves in danger, wearing the incorrect clothing. This week's tips offers advice on clothing to all riders from IAM RoadSmart's head of driving and riding standards, Richard Gladman.
Many new drivers will take to the road this summer after successfully passing their driving tests. You may have some hiccups along the way and not know how best to cope. Statistics show that the first six months of solo driving are when you are most at risk. This week's tips give advice to new drivers from IAM RoadSmart's head of driving and riding standards, Richard Gladman.
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You may be a first time car buyer or just in the need for a new ride. This week's tips offer advice on buying a used car from IAM RoadSmart's head of technical policy and advice, Tim Shallcross.
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Welcome to West Hardin! It is said that "teaching creates all professions". Here at West Hardin we believe this to be true. I am Carmen Blankenship and this is my first year as principal of West Hardin Elementary. It is exciting to be a part of a school that has such a rich history and a promising future! We have a firm foundation because of the hard work and dedication of former board members, county commissioners, community leaders, parents, students, faculty, and staff. As we rise to the future, the visions and dreams of current board members, county commissioners, community leaders, parents, students, faculty and staff members will see that the best years of West Hardin are ahead of us!
-Carmen Blankenship, Principal at West Hardin Elementary
Enhancing Our Culture Inside and Out
Over the last several years, we have witnessed new renovations at West Hardin and this year we welcome our new Principal, Dr. Duane Eliff who is also an alumnus of West Hardin Elementary. Our school is best exemplified by the wonderful servant leaders, teachers, and staff who are student-focused and are willing to demonstrate their service on a daily basis. Our students enjoy a great teacher-to-student ratio in the classroom while preparing for the next course of their journey.
Community, Culture, and Commitment
Stability and Experience
This year we are celebrating 40 years of accomplishments and milestones as a school.
The majority of the teachers have taught for 5 years or more. A third of our teachers have taught for more than 10 years at West Hardin.
Seven of our present teachers attended elementary school at West Hardin Elementary.
With an enrollment of just over 200, West Hardin Elementary serves children in grades Pre-K through 5 in the communities of Crump, Saltillo, Milledgeville, and Morris Chapel. Located on State Highway 69, the current campus was completed in 1976, consolidating several smaller schools in surrounding communities. Mr. Kenny Harris has served as principal since 1999 and works with county-level administrators to provide a smooth academic path. West Hardin offers the complete state-mandated academic coursework as well as Related Arts classes that enhance academic lessons for a complete, student-centered curriculum. After-school and summer school programs are also provided for students that include tutoring and enrichment activities. West Hardin also offers extracurricular activities that include basketball and bowling teams as well as a Student Council and Beta Club.
West Hardin works to provide a quality instructional program that develops the academic, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of its students. West Hardin believes that parents are a child's first teachers and that education does not stop when the child enters school, therefore parents are strongly encouraged to be actively involved in their child's education. Parents are always welcome and encouraged to visit the campus and participate in school activities. There is a Parent Involvement Coordinator who organizes events to provide parents with learning and informative opportunities.
Reading is strongly encouraged at West Hardin. Through efforts of librarian Ms. Melanie Murray, the Accelerated Reader Program provides readers with an opportunity to read books, take tests, and earn rewards. Each week, any student who earns 3 AR points is allowed to eat lunch in the library with Ms. Melanie while enjoying some entertainment. Readers are excited to have this opportunity for a break in routine.
West Hardin was awarded the Blue Ribbon Award in 2009 for improvement in achievement scores.
West Hardin was awarded the Bronze Award in 2015 from the Healthy School Program.
We believe it is our duty to set a great foundation for our students at an early age. Being located in a rural community does not limit student achievement and academic success. We carefully challenge our students in a safe, fun learning environment while nurturing their social and academic growth.
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Adamsville, TN 38310
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The five-time Oscar winning 1991 film Silence of the Lambs, which focuses on an FBI agent who enlists the help of one serial killer in order to stop another, is one of the creepiest movies ever made while the 2005 musical parody of the film, Silence! The Musical, plays the entire show for laughs. Stray Cat Theatre presents the local premiere of this show and...it is still 90 minutes of silly fun with numerous laugh out loud moments and a cast who throw themselves into recreating these iconic cinema characters.
...the enthusiastic Stray Cat cast, under Louis Farber's fairly inspired direction, throw themselves into their roles, which helps bring plenty of hijinks, tomfoolery, and a big dose of malarkey to the production. As Clarice, Brandi Bigley has the accent, determination, and fierce dedication that Jodie Foster brought to her Oscar-winning film portrayal down to a T. Scott Schmelder is superb as Dr. Hannibal Lecter and incorporates the same speech pattern and accent that Anthony Hopkins used for his Academy Award winning performance. Both have wonderful singing voices and Schmelder adds a nice amount of creepiness and unease to Lecter.
With a bravura performance that borders on sheer insanity, David Chorley is a comic gem as Buffalo Bill. As the senator, Cassie Chilton's performance of "My Daughter Is Catherine," in which she repeats her daughter's name over and over again, is a huge crowd favorite, and Vinny Chavez, Hector Coris, Ayanna Le Andre and Devon Mahon round out the supporting cast with each of them getting a character or two to show off their comic chops. They also all make an incredibly cute chorus of Lambs. Ballet dancers Priscilla Campa and Nicholas McEntire add a moment of comic delight as the dream ballet Clarice and Hannibal.
Director Farber manages to get good comic performances from the cast and keeps the show moving along at a fairly fast clip...Musical director Alicia Ferrin does well with the small band and choreographer Nicole Olson adds several hilarious steps, including sheep-inspired movement for the ensemble and a fun tango for Clarice and Hannibal for "Quid Pro Quo." Aaron Sheckler's static two-story set incorporates several small set pieces and great photo projections and media design from Dallas Robert Nichols (who also supplied the spooky and effective lighting design) to quickly establish the many locales in the show.
...fans of the film will most likely find much to laugh at and enjoy. Plus, the Stray Cat cast add plenty of inspired insanity to the mix. For anyone who hasn't seen the film I'd suggest watching it first in order to be able to appreciate some of the show's more inspired moments.


Rohingya migrant women, who recently arrived in Indonesia by boat, are seen inside a temporary compound for refugees in Aceh Timur regency, Indonesia's Aceh Province, May 21, 2015.
Southeast Asian nations agreed to intensify search-and-rescue efforts for thousands of migrants adrift at sea, but a statement released at the end of a regional meeting failed to mention the Rohingya minority, whose members fleeing Myanmar constitute the majority of the migrants.
Countries affected by the crisis agreed Friday at a one-day meeting in Bangkok to set up an anti-trafficking task force, and they also made a commitment to address the "root causes" of the migration, including improving living conditions of those fleeing.
However, the agreement was carefully worded to avoid upsetting Myanmar, also known as Burma. Myanmar refuses to recognize the Muslim Rohingyas as an official minority and denies most of them citizenship, saying they are foreigners from Bangladesh.
Also Friday, Myanmar said its navy seized a vessel off its coast with more than 700 migrants aboard. It identified the migrants as "Bengalis" — a reference to Bangladesh. The seizure came about a week after Myanmar found a similar vessel that it said carried around 200 Bangladeshi migrants.
Following Friday's meeting, the United States said it expected to begin surveillance flights in Thai airspace to help search for boat people stranded in Southeast Asian seas.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard told reporters in Bangkok that the thousands of migrants adrift in Southeast Asian waters needed quick assistance.
"We have to save lives urgently," she said. "We have to develop better ways of discussing and meeting on these issues and taking action when people are setting to sea in the boats, and we need to go and look at the root causes of why people feel they have no alternative but to flee their own countries and take such a dangerous, dangerous trip."
While the Rohingya mostly are looking to escape discriminatory treatment by Myanmar's Buddhist majority, most of the Bangladeshi migrants are seeking to escape poverty in their homeland, primarily targeting jobs in in Muslim Malaysia and Indonesia.
Representatives of some 17 countries at Friday's conference were told that more than 4,000 migrants have landed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh and Myanmar since Thailand launched a crackdown on human trafficking gangs this month. About 2,000 are believed to be still adrift.
Representatives meet at the "Special Meeting on Irregular Migration in the Indian Ocean" regarding the Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrant crisis at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 29, 2015.
Patimapragorn urged all countries and groups, "first, to address the immediate humanitarian situation of stranded migrants; second, to combat the long-term problem of people smuggling and human trafficking to prevent further irregular movements; third, to address the root causes from origin."
Thai officials later said Myanmar had agreed to the meeting's concluding statement, which included a sentence saying countries agreed to promote full respect for human rights and invest in economic development.
But the issue of Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya was a contentious issue during the day.
Volker Turk, assistant commissioner for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said Myanmar needed to address "root causes" of the crisis, especially the issue of Rohingya citizenship.
"Among other things, this will require the full assumption of responsibility by Myanmar to all its people. Granting citizenship is the ultimate goal," he said, adding that Myanmar must allow Muslim Rohingyas access to identity documentation and the ability to lead normal lives in their own country.
Myanmar Foreign Minister Htin Linn countered the remarks, claiming Yangon's sovereign right to deal with internal challenges.
Bangladesh was represented at the meeting by Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque, who said more cooperation was forthcoming.
"With Myanmar, we have initiated a process for setting up a border liaison office," Haque said. "We have also proposed a [memorandum of understanding] on security cooperation and dialogue with Myanmar that includes trafficking in persons, drugs and arms smuggling."
Thai Foreign Minister Thanasak sought to play down tensions, saying the aim is to avoid pressuring Myanmar on its own policies that would undermine progress in dealing with the crisis.
William Lacy Swing, director of the International Organization of Migration, said the most urgent action needed was to bring boat people stranded at sea to dry land. He said he had hoped the meeting would lead to concrete steps.
Rights groups say binding agreements are urgently needed to save people, and that it is crucial for Myanmar officials to make efforts to end repressive policies that force Rohingya to risk their lives with human traffickers.
Activists say as many as 100,000 Muslim Rohingya and Bangladeshi nationals have taken to the seas in boats since 2012. The sharp increase in boat people came in the wake of sectarian violence between Muslims and majority Buddhists, with many deaths and 140,000 displaced and forced to live in refugee camps.
On Thursday, the Dalai Lama urged fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to speak up for her country's persecuted Rohingya minority in an interview with The Australian.
Ron Corben contributed reporting from Bangkok. Portions of this report are from Reuters.


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Last month, meanwhile, saw SECI calling for a 42-megawatt-hour battery system to go with 14 megawatts of solar in Ladakh in northeast India. The corporation also requested bids for a 20-megawatt floating PV plant in Lakshadweep, an archipelago off the southwestern coast of India, with 60 megawatt-hours of battery storage.
The SECI auctions come on top of seven storage tenders in the last year, Bridge to India, a New Delhi-based analyst firm, said last month. Those tenders were issued by SECI and the utilities NLC India and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), and amounted to 84 megawatt-hours of capacity, tied to 78 megawatts of solar PV.


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Borisoglebsky District () was an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the 32 in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.  As of the 2021 Census, its population was 70,407.

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Administrative divisions of Voronezh Oblast

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Districts of Voronezh Oblast

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Label: PROFIL
Catalog: PH19040
Startz, Drago; Heybalova, Valeria; Belgrade National Opera Chorus; Sinajew, Ivan; Vukicevic, Stepan; Ninkovich, Dragomir; USSR State Academic Grand Theatre Orchestra; Pivnicki, Branko; Dimitrievich, Vladeta; Reizen, Mark; Nebolski, Wassili; Dimitrievich, Drago; Murgaški, Ivan; Cvejic, Zarko; Marinkovich, Alexander; Jankovich, Sofiya; Gligorievich, Ilya; USSR State Academic Grand Theatre Chorus; Koslowski, Ivan; Miladinovich, Militza; Glavachevich, Maria; Cvejic, Biserka; Baranovic, Krešimir; Yugoslav Army
This Edition presents the "Magnificent Seven" and the "encore" in optimum technical quality. In the mid-Fifties of the last century, with the Cold War freezing relations between East and West, the English record label Decca decided to record a series of Russian operas with the Belgrade National Opera. Belgrade in the Yugoslavia of those days under Josip Tito was more open to "the West" than the Warsaw Pact countries gathered under the wing of the Soviet Union. The deal had been struck by former Decca manager and successful promoter of east European folklore in the USA, record executive Gerald Severn. Thanks to his excellent contacts, Decca director Arthur Haddy eventually obtained a visa and travelled to Belgrade to find a suitable recording venue, which turned out to be the cinema in the House of Culture in the city centre. These were the early days of stereophony and so recordings were usually made both in stereo and in mono. The stereo LP made its first official appearance in 1958 (by which time the shellac disc was effectively obsolete, having been displaced by mono LPs since their introduction in 1948) and it would be many years before there was a mass audience for stereo listening.


We report differential cross sections for electron impact excitation of the a 1Πg, C 3Πu, E 3Σg+, a″ 1Σg+, b 1Πu, c3 1Πu, o3 1Πu, b′ 1Σu+, c4′ 1Σu+, G 3Πu, and F 3Πu electronic states in N2. The incident electron energies are 20, 30, and 40 eV, while the scattered electron angles are 10° and 20°. These kinematic conditions were specifically targeted in order to try and shed new light on the worrying discrepancies that exist in the literature for the a 1Πg, C 3Πu, E 3Σg+, and a″ 1Σg+ cross sections, and in general the present measurements confirm that those from the more recent results of the University of California, Fullerton, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are reliable. In addition, we provide a rigorous cross-check for the remaining seven electronic states, where the only recent comprehensive study is from Khakoo and colleagues. Here, however, some of those cross sections are confirmed and others are not, suggesting that further work is still needed.


Mall of Europe presents a new series of videos in which Emma van der Put observed the Brussels Expo area. Ideologically and systematically, this location was formed by the world exhibition that took place in Brussels in 1958. As the first World Fair held after World War II, it was designed on the basis of ideas and wishes of those times. Western Europe was recovering from the war with help from the United States through it's Marshall Plan. High hopes were set on technological progress to be the way to a prosperous and peaceful future. As a part of Expo '58 a model neighbourhood, named 'De Modelwijk / Cité Modèle', was build on site that would give visitors of the fair a concrete example of the ideals about modern living.
The model neighbourhood is still inhabited, but only a few of the pavilions of the bygone Wold Fairs still exist today. With an observing gaze, Van der Put shows the area of the world exhibitions, with a preview of the future. The plans to fully 'modernize' this part of the city in the coming years, will add a new chapter to the wishful thinking about an ideal society.
The exhibition Mall of Europe plays with the different rooms of Tale of a Tub; both the ground floor, loft and basement are incorporated within the presentation. With its focus on wishful thinking about an ideal society, it addresses the architecture of the Justus van Effencomplex in which Tale of a Tub resides, built at a time with its own ideals about modern living and public housing as well. Music that is specially composed for this project adds a more abstract and at the same time architectural element. The various parts of the presentation slowly unfold an image of historical and contemporary future thinking.
Emma van der Put (1988) studied at AKV St. Joost, 's-Hertogenbosch (2006-2010) and was a participant at De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2010-2012). She worked as an artist in residence at Lokaal 01, Antwerp (2014) and at WIELS, Brussels (2014). Recent shows and screenings include: Foreign Places, WIELS, Brussels (BE); Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (NL); LOOP, Barcelona (ES); Tribute to an Avenue, Sculpture International Rotterdam (NL); IDFA Paradocs, EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam (NL) and Lo schermo dell'arte Film Festival, Villa Romana, Florence (IT). Solo shows include: Rincé Alien, Museum De Pont, Tilburg (NL); Room Fountain Token, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam (NL) and Token, Lokaal01, Antwerp (BE). Emma van der Put is represented by tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam (NL).
Since government funding for the visual arts has been continuously diminishing for a number of years, a group of eight collectors came together and initiated the foundation Collectors of Contemporary Art (C.o.C.A.). The foundation awards a grant to a young, promising artist on an annual basis.


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Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley (England, 1945) started out in the local Manchester music scene in the 1960's.
Having met Lol Creme in art college, they played in various bands together, most notably 10cc and later as musicians and video directors Godley & Creme.
Godley's first video experience, co-directing with Crème, was their own single An Englishman in New York, which quickly led to work for Visage, Duran Duran, David Sylvian, The Police, Herbie Hancock, Lou Reed and Peter Gabriel.
Since splitting from his creative partner Creme, Godley went on to direct music videos and films on his own. His music videos include Erasure's "Blue Savannah", U2's "Even Better Than The Real Thing", "Numb", "Sweetest Thing" and he directed TV commercials for Habitat, Toshiba, Audi and Pepsi among others.
He's worked with Gavin Friday on videos for "In The Name Of The Father" (1994), "You, Me and World War III" (1996) and "Able" (2011).
Godley, a resident of Ireland where he moved in 2008, has recently recorded songs with another former 10cc member, Graham Gouldman. They have recorded songs together as GG/06. He is also involved in the WholeWorldBand app.
Give Me 10ccs Of Creativity – Irish Times interview (2011)
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Georges Plassat, né le  à Bollène, est un homme d'affaires français, expert de la grande distribution. Il a notamment dirigé le Groupe Casino, Vivarte (anciennement le Groupe André) et le groupe Carrefour.

Biographie

Formation et débuts
Georges Plassat naît à Bollène, dans le Vaucluse. Il grandit et passe son baccalauréat à Moulins dans l'Allier. Georges Plassat rejoint ensuite l'École hôtelière de Lausanne dont il sort diplômé en 1975. Il a également suivi l'Advanced Management Program de l'Université Cornell aux États-Unis, promotion 1973.

De 1975 à 1979, il est directeur général adjoint de l'hôtel Hilton de l'avenue de Suffren à Paris. Il entre alors chez Eurest France dont il est directeur des ventes jusqu'en 1983.

Groupe Casino
Georges Plassat devient directeur marketing de la branche restauration du groupe Casino en 1983, puis directeur général en 1988, nommé par Antoine Guichard, petit-fils du fondateur du groupe de distribution.

En 1990, il est nommé directeur général de Casino France et dirige les enseignes Géant Casino et Casino. Durant ce mandat, il pilotera l'acquisition du distributeur La Ruche méridionale, ainsi que la fusion entre Casino et le Groupe Rallye de Jean-Charles Naouri.

De 1992 à 1994, il est gérant du groupe, et de 1994 à 1996, vice-président du directoire.

En 1996, Antoine Guichard le nomme président du directoire, devenant le premier dirigeant du groupe non issu de la famille Guichard, fondatrice du groupe Casino.

L'année suivante, il quitte la direction du Groupe Casino en raison de divergences sur les orientations stratégiques et du projet de rapprochement avec Promodès.

Carrefour Espagne
Georges Plassat rejoint le Groupe Carrefour en 1997. Il dirige pendant trois ans la branche espagnole de l'enseigne.

Présidence de Vivarte
En 2000, il est nommé président du directoire de Vivarte (anciennement André), groupe de distribution de prêt-à-porter et de chaussures.

Deux ans après son arrivée, le groupe retrouve la profitabilité grâce au travail de fond mené sur le marketing, la logistique et la distribution. Après un départ provoqué par les actionnaires en 2002, l'OPA du fonds d'investissement PAI partners lui permet de revenir au sein du groupe en tant que Président-directeur général.

À son retour, il développe le groupe grâce aux acquisitions de Naf Naf, Chevignon, Beryl et Accessoires diffusion. Entre 2004 et 2006, le chiffre d'affaires passe de 2 à 2,3 milliards d'euros et le résultat opérationnel passe de 220 à 365 millions d'euros. En 2007, un second LBO après celui de 2004 augmente l'endettement de Vivarte. Georges Plassat quitte la présidence de Vivarte pour le Groupe Carrefour en 2012 avec un bilan positif en termes d'expansion, de marge et de chiffre d'affaires, mais avec un endettement important. Georges Plassat détient alors toujours 10 % de Vivarte.

En 2017, l'opération de LBO est critiquée par la CFDT de Vivarte pour avoir absorbé une partie importante du résultat.

Présidence du groupe Carrefour
Georges Plassat revient au sein du groupe Carrefour en  en tant que directeur général délégué, avant d'être nommé président-directeur général par le conseil d'administration lors de l'assemblée générale des actionnaires du . Il succède à Lars Olofsson.

Dès sa prise de fonction, il revoit la stratégie de l'enseigne en France et à l'international et fixe quatre axes de développement :
 Redonner du pouvoir aux magasins en décentralisant la prise de décisions ;
 Redevenir compétitif sur les prix ; sans confondre compétitivité et guerre des prix ;
 Investir pour rénover des magasins vieillissants ;
 Céder certaines participations pour augmenter la capacité de financement du groupe.

Au cours de ce premier mandat, Georges Plassat obtient d'excellents résultats. Toutes les zones sur lesquelles le Groupe Carrefour opère poursuivent leur croissance ou la retrouvent, à l'exception de l'Asie.

En , son mandat est renouvelé avec près de 90 % des voix.

Sa stratégie s'oriente alors autour de trois grands axes :
 Le développement des magasins de proximité, notamment en Asie ;
 L'accélération de la stratégie multiformat (hypermarchés, supermarchés, magasins de proximité…) ;
 La numérisation de l'entreprise et de la distribution (rachat de Rue du Commerce, transformation numérique du groupe…).

En décembre 2016, plusieurs médias annoncent que le cabinet de recrutement Egon Zehnder a été chargé de trouver un successeur à Georges Plassat à l'issue de son mandat qui court jusqu'à mi-2018. Georges Plassat aura alors atteint la limite d'âge de 70 ans. Le , le conseil d'administration du groupe Carrefour choisit Alexandre Bompard pour devenir président-directeur général de Carrefour à compter du . La cession ou la fermeture des anciennes implantations DIA fait partie des premières initiatives.

Sous le mandat de Georges Plassat, le groupe Carrefour a ouvert  magasins et connu quatre années de croissance organique pour atteindre  d'euros de chiffre d'affaires TTC.

Polémique à propos de sa rémunération au sein du groupe Carrefour
La rémunération de Georges Plassat à la tête du groupe Carrefour se compose de :
 un salaire fixe annuel de 1,5 million d'euros ;
 une rémunération variable dont le maximum atteint 150 % du salaire fixe, soit 2,25 millions d'euros, là encore supérieure à celle de son prédécesseur ;
 une attribution de  options d'achat d'actions Carrefour au cours de l'exercice 2012 ;
 une adhésion au régime de retraite des principaux cadres du groupe ;
Sa rémunération globale s'élève à près de 10 millions d'euros en 2016. L'écart entre sa dernière rémunération (2017) et ses conditions de retraite d'une part et la situation dégradée dans laquelle il laisse le groupe a l'issue de son mandat d'autre part donne lieu a une polémique à l'occasion de l'Assemblée Générale de . La polémique est unanimement relayée et appuyée par la presse économique, la presse internationale, le Haut Comite de Gouvernement d'Entreprise, le Ministre Français de l'Économie et des Finances et une partie des organisations syndicales. Malgré un vote en Assemblée Générale approuvant à hauteur de 68% sa rémunération 2017 et ses conditions de départ, Georges Plassat renonce au paiement d'un montant compensatoire d'une clause de non-concurrence à hauteur de 3,9 millions d'Euros.

Distinctions
 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
 Trophée d'honneur du Conseil National des Centres Commerciaux (CNCC)
 Prix du leadership, décerné par le Cercle du leadership, en 2014
 Classé dans le All-Europe Executive Team 2016 du magazine Institutional Investor

Autres mandats
 Membre du conseil de surveillance du groupe de restauration Flo de 2003 à 2009
 Membre du conseil d'administration de l'organisation professionnelle Procos de 2003 à 2012
 Membre du conseil d'administration du Consumer Goods Forum.

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Liens externes

Naissance en mars 1949
Naissance à Bollène
Étudiant de l'université Cornell
Homme d'affaires français
Groupe Carrefour
Vivarte


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I'm setting up automatic case creation from email in Dynamics 365–what is the expected outcome if someone sends an email to my queue that has an attachment that exceeds my attachment file size limits in Dynamics?
Not finding any official documentation about what the expected result should be, I set up a simple test to find out how this scenario would be handled. I was confident that the attachment would not be created in Dynamics (because of the limit in file size), but would the email and associated case record still get created?
I set up a queue and kept the default file size limitation of 5 MB. Note that for most real world deployments using Exchange Online, I would probably increase that to 15-20 MB.
I then sent myself two emails, one with a small attachment, and one with a large attachment.
The result was that two cases were created in Dynamics 365–the small attachment case included the attachment, the large attachment case was created, but no attachment was created.
The takeaway is that you don't have to worry about losing cases should an email arrive that exceeds your attachment file size limitations; however, you may get cases referring to attachments that are not included in the case. If this is a concern, you should probably increase your attachment file size limitations to match the file size limitations of your email server.


U.S. giant Walgreen announced a close-to-£6 billion ($10.1 billion) cash and shares deal to buy the remaining stake in U.K. drugstore chain Alliance Boots on Wednesday morning.
The company confirmed the long-anticipated purchase of 55 percent of the company, a U.K. high street staple, which Walgreen does not already own, for £3.13 billion ($5.27 billion) in cash and 144.3 million Walgreen shares, on Wednesday.
What's surprising is that it will not make the deal part of a controversial tax inversion. Walgreen had been tipped as the next big U.S. company to try and cut its tax bill by taking over a European company and relocating its headquarters. However, it said on Wednesday it was going to keep its headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois.
The company said it had considered an inversion structure, but "concluded it was not in the best long-term interest of our shareholders to attempt to re-domicile outside the U.S."
Close to 200,000 people signed an online petition pledging to boycott Walgreens stores, which get the overwhelming majority of their sales from the domestic U.S. business, if it relocated overseas for tax reasons.
The new company will be called Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Walgreen bought 45 percent of Alliance Boots in 2012, and aims to complete its full takeover of the company between February and April 2015. It will gain a stronger international presence, and possibly the largest pharmaceutical distribution network in the world, as a result.
Frankfurt-listed shares of Walgreen traded around 4.1 percent lower ahead of Wall Street's open on Wednesday.


1. The average perennial blooms for three to four weeks. When buying perennials, ASK an experienced, knowledgeable gardener EXACTLY when that plant blooms in your area. For specific information on perennials in southern Connecticut, please refer to the Natureworks catalog or the Natureworks Succession of Bloom book.. Do not be fooled by fancy color catalogs that proclaim every plant "blooms all summer". Very few plants do.
2. If you base your purchases on plants that are in flower at the time of purchase, you will tend to have a very unbalanced garden. Most people buy a majority of their plants in the spring and early summer and buy only what is in flower. This leads to a late summer and fall garden that is green, devoid of color, and often cut back and unsightly. If you must buy plants only when in color, plan to do so EVERY month of the growing season from March until late October or early November!
3. It is important to realize that the species and varieties of plants within a genus vary greatly in their habits and bloom time. For example, not all Veronicas bloom in June and early July. Some begin in July and bloom until hard frost in late fall. Explore the specific bloom periods of the specific cultivars to expand your season of bloom possibilities.
described in the book The Well Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy Disabato-Aust.
2. If you have an existing garden, chart all of the plants in your garden on the Season of Bloom chart, showing when they start and finish blooming. If they take a break and repeat bloom later in the season, use a dotted line for the non-blooming periods.
3. Try using erasable colored pencils to record the color of each flower so that you can better see how the colors combine.
4. Feel free to write in brief descriptions under each plant name (height, shape, texture, form, etc.) to help you remember what they are.
5. If you are designing a new garden, use the process described above to track all of the plants as you add them to your plan.
6. At any time, you can run your finger down any month, or any week of any month, to see what will be blooming at the same time.
7. You may want to include foliage plants at the bottom of the chart. This will be quite useful if you use colored foliage, as they will add to the color palette in your garden.
1. If you simply focus on color, you will still find that your garden looks unsightly at various times during the growing season. This is because you will be deadheading and cutting back plants, leaving "eyesores" in various places. It is important to learn just what to expect from each perennial before, during, and after bloom. Thus, the down times in a perennial's life cycle can be dealt with by directing the eye to other plants.
2. Learn which plants go completely dormant after blooming (i.e., completely disappear) and which plants sprout late in the season. Both of these types of plants leave big gaps in the garden.
3. Foliage is your best friend when planning for color every month. As perennials go in and out of bloom, those with excellent foliage structure will hide the gaps left by cutting the plants back. Even better are plants that have variegated or colorful foliage as they add constant color.
4. When a plant is going out of bloom, going dormant, getting cut back, or hasn't sprouted yet, draw the eye away from that unsightly area by placing other perennials or groupings of perennials nearby that are just coming into peak bloom. Thus, YOU, as the garden planner, can lead the viewers eye away from the eyesore right to a display of beauty.
5. Get extra color in your garden by embellishing with bulbs. Tuck clusters of spring, summer, or fall blooming bulbs in between the crowns of the perennials. That way, you can fit twice as much color in the same space.
6. Allow self-sown annuals, biennials, and perennials to appear amongst the plants, especially if you embrace the cottage garden style. Caution should be used to thin these "free gifts", so that they don't take over the garden. This is especially important as your garden matures.
It is important to analyze how your garden is doing on a regular basis. Keep a garden journal. In it, take notes about the color gaps that you see. If you are missing early color, write down that you need to add spring blooming bulbs the following fall! If one plant is taking over, make a note of it so the garden can be rearranged in the early spring or in the fall when the weather is usually cool and moist. If you can correct color gaps right away, the problem is solved. Often, however, the corrective planting or rearranging has to wait for many weeks or months. Writing down your observations assures you will remember when the time comes.
3. Your local library may also have it.


Breakthrough Technology Group is leveraging legacy expertise in enterprise network connectivity and managed services to offer a midmarket cloud alternative.
For obvious and legitimate reasons, many technology solution providers with a history in the traditional IT services world are centering their cloud integration and migration initiatives on private cloud infrastructure.
There are two big reasons: first it allows them to leverage existing expertise and skills, and second, many of their existing clients are reluctant to jump right into the public cloud. For some of those businesses, it's simply a matter of audit requirements. Others are concerned about the lack of management visibility that they might have within a public cloud environment, still others are seeking better isolation across a shared infrastructure.
The latest example I've come across of an integrator willing to oblige these concerns is Breakthrough Technology Group, a Morganville, New Jersey, managed service provider (MSP) that has been AT&T's top revenue-generating solution partner for the past three years.
"The discussion has been the same for the past four or five deals," said Jeff Kaplan, CEO of Breakthrough Technology. "Two of them in financial, one in manufacturing, and one in insurance. It's the same story: we are building them a private cloud in our datacenter."
Breakthrough Technology's solution is called BTG OneCloud and it includes virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), along with enterprise servers and storage area network infrastructure capacity that is fully redundant across two AT&T datacenters. "It's a little bit of a cross between public and private capabilities," Kaplan said.
One of the MSP's biggest point of differentiation for customer prospects is its long-time close relationship with AT&T. "Connectivity is a huge credibility factor for us," he said.
Costs are down, performance is notably higher, and around the world our team is empowered with secure, remote access from any device they choose.
That's a more traditional service, of course, but it gives you a sense of Breakthrough Technology's capabilities. Aside from its AT&T relationship, Breakthrough Technology is allied with Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft, and it uses NetApp as the foundation for its storage strategy, Kaplan said. Trend Micro services sit behind the MSP's antispam, antivirus, and other core security services.
Another reason to give the company a look is the people behind its cloud strategy: Joey Widener, vice president of business development, was previously a virtual desktop services product manager for AT&T; its chief technology officer (CTO), Adam Shapiro, was formerly a vice president of client architecture at Citigroup; and CIO Travis Sales was a VMware senior engineer and principal at ThinApp (prior to its acquisition by VMware).


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Common Law and the Law of Reason
August 23, 2021August 22, 2021By James Stoner
Like cousins who resemble one another, common law and natural law are sometimes confused. There is in fact a deep affinity between common law and natural law, but it is better at the outset to describe their differences, and best to do this historically.
This essay is part of a week-long series drawn from the Witherspoon Institute's project on Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism. Click here to read PD Editor-in-Chief R.J. Snell's introduction to the series.
Like cousins who resemble one another, common law and natural law are sometimes confused. Both are unwritten law; both claim to be anchored in reason and to discern principles of right and wrong; both have been invoked by judges to confine (if not simply void) acts of positive legislation, and derided by others who oppose such action. There is in fact a deep affinity between common law and natural law, but it is better at the outset to describe their differences, and best to do this historically. Indeed, starting from the past rather than from nature is already a characteristic means of distinguishing common law from natural law.
Common law is first and foremost the customary law of England, as applied in the courts of law. In its classic era (the seventeenth century) and in its classic text at the time of the American Founding (Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England), the common law was said to exist "from time immemorial," that is, so long that "the memory of man runneth not to the contrary."[1] Historical research eventually showed that most of its rules and rights had an origin in time; for a while it was settled that a custom would be accepted as valid if it were in place in 1189, at the end of the reign of Henry II, whose reform of the royal courts established the framework for administering justice in England that was to remain in place until the late 19th century. As written records came to be made of the decisions of the royal courts, judicial precedents, seen as the most authoritative evidence of a custom, were held to have the force of law: not because judges willfully made law, but because of the principle of natural justice that similar cases ought to be similarly decided.
Common law judges decide cases on the basis of the specific facts in light of all applicable law. Actually, the determination of the facts is characteristically by a jury, traditionally "twelve good men and true," who issue a verdict upon a unanimous vote, following instructions of the judge as to the law that governs the case. Due process, in a criminal trial, requires a formal accusation, the right of the defendant to call witnesses and not to be forced to be a witness against himself, the right to a jury trial and even the right to play a role in the choice of his jurors, the presumption of innocence until proven guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt," and more. Before a trial, the accused is ordinarily entitled to be released on bail and in general to have the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, guaranteeing that there be no imprisonment without a trial. After a trial, he cannot be tried again for the same offense nor punished in any way except as specified by law, and he has, besides, a right to appeal his verdict. In civil trials at common law, many of these rules are altered, because both parties are equal before the law and either might have initiated proceedings in a dispute. The standard of judgment in civil trials is preponderance of the evidence, and the judgment typically awards monetary damages. Juries were traditionally involved in civil cases as well as criminal ones, though they are increasingly less common in the former. Still, the right to appeal remains intact, and even more than in criminal cases, where crimes are now defined by code rather than by precedent, similar civil cases typically establish the parameters for decision in subsequent cases, unless there is in the circumstances something genuinely new.
There is much about common-law due process that is not strictly speaking a requirement of natural law: no one today would say that justice is impossible anywhere a jury is not composed of twelve, or if its verdicts are not unanimous, or even if some facts are found by a judge or a panel of judges rather than by a lay jury, and so on. Nevertheless, in at least three ways natural law seems particularly evident in common-law thinking. First, while from the point of view of natural-law theory, common-law due process is one among many "determinations" a society might choose in establishing a system of justice, by settling on a particular and stable legal process, the common law forms a felicitous package that minimizes the role of political power and maximizes the role of both individual liberty and community assent in the administration of justice, thus serving the demands of the natural law. For instance, though due process does not ensure that courts exert, in Alexander Hamilton's phrase, "neither force nor will, but merely judgment,"[2] the various checks and balances built into common-law formalities—from the distinction between judge and jury, to the adversarial nature of proceedings, to the right of appeal—have seemed to its proponents to make it more likely. Moreover, the centrality of the jury at common law suggests deference to common sense at the center of the system and thus constitutes a restraint on elite theorizing and on partisan will.
A second natural-law moment in common law appears in the process of reasoning by appellate courts. In most legal disputes that are appealed, both sides can argue precedents in their favor; the issue is which set of precedents forms the better analogy to the pattern of facts in the case at hand. For example, is an exchange of instant messages more like a phone conversation, which sometimes cannot alter a written contract, or is it like an exchange of written documents, which can? Is a motor home more like a house, and thus entitled to constitutional protection from warrantless searches, or more like a motor vehicle, searchable upon reasonable suspicion? It is no accident that these examples involve technological change, for that seems to be a common source of genuinely new cases. Where, by contrast, the issue suggests a reinterpretation of established precedent, the common law presumes in favor of the tried and true over innovation. Natural law, though in principle anchored in immutable human nature, does not forbid all change in positive law and may even command it: for a law to remain just when the circumstances in which it arose are altered, the law itself might have to change. The ability of common law to develop in the light of reason as a series of precedents unfolds has led scholars to allude to the "open texture of law" in such a system.[3] Its unwrittenness allows judges to adjust the law without exerting raw power, while the formal process of judging—hearing arguments from both sides, focusing on a precise issue in dispute, settling only the case at hand and thus effectively changing the law only as the new rule becomes widely respected and adopted—ought to dampen the arbitrariness of such adjustments.
The third natural law moment in common-law judging appears in the adage that "nothing that is against reason can be lawful," even while the presumption in the common law is for the tried and true. The basic idea is that the law will brook no contradiction within itself, not that judges need be set up as philosopher-kings to ensure the rule of abstract reason; common law judges try first to reconcile apparent contradictions and accommodate all the various sources of law that apply to a particular case. Nevertheless, since at least Sir Edward Coke's opinion in Doctor Bonham's Case (1610), it has been argued that "when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void."[4] English practice eventually held that parliamentary sovereignty overrode the claim of reasonableness, but in America this idea helped to birth the practice of judicial review: the power of courts to strike down statutes or executive actions that contradict written constitutions. American courts invoke a written constitutional text rather than abstract "reasonableness," but the rule that unconstitutional acts can be voided by courts is itself not written in any constitution. In Alexander Hamilton's words, the principle relies upon "the nature and reason of the thing," or in the words of John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, on the "theory…essentially attached to a written constitution." Like natural law itself, the common law maxim that "nothing that is against reason can be lawful" is hardly adequate to generate a whole jurisprudence on its own, but it serves case by case to weed contradictions out of the law and thus to make the law a reasonable whole.
Part of the reasonableness of common law is that its judges traditionally did not see their jurisdiction as unlimited; on the contrary, judges can rule only in cases properly presented before them, and the remedies they can impose for the injustices they find are likewise defined and limited by law. In England and in some of the states, separate courts of equity were established for special circumstances where the operation of strict law was thought to work an injustice; in federal law, the same judges were made responsible for law and equity, but until the 1930s the process for filing a case at law and that for moving a bill of equity were entirely distinct. Moreover, although common law courts are courts of general jurisdiction, they have usually co-existed with other specialty courts responsible for distinct areas of law (such as admiralty or martial law). In England, where there is an established church, ecclesiastical courts were likewise separate, while the American tradition of religious liberty allows ecclesiastical law to operate within denominations without state interference, provided civil law itself is not breached. Constitutional law was always more closely entangled with common law. The unwrittenness of the British constitution might be attributed to England's common law tradition, and the American choice for written constitutions might be construed as a rejection of common-law constitutionalism. But the Americans also inherited from the British the tradition of declaring constitutional principles in writing—a tradition that extended back at least to Magna Carta and forward to the English Bill of Rights—and not a few provisions of the latter appear in almost unaltered form in the early American constitutions and in the Bill of Rights that figures so prominently in American constitutional law today.
In discussing common law in relation to natural law, more has been said about common-law process than about substantive rules of law, many of which—for example, the law of coverture in marriage, or various tenures for the holding of real property—have been radically changed, often by legislation. American judges never held the common law to have been imported intact, but rather only insofar as applicable to American circumstances and as unaltered by local legislation. The English themselves, as long ago as the 17th century, used the analogy of the Argo—the ship of the ancient hero Jason whose planks were replaced one by one while at sea—to explain how the common law can remain constant even as its particular rules are altered to adapt to changing circumstances.[5] More impressed by the change than the continuity, legal theorists in the 20th century began to refer to common law as "judge-made law," and they were led in this reinterpretation by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who also belittled natural law as the drunken dream of the self-deluded.[6] To refute Holmes's interpretation would go beyond the bounds of this article, but it is perhaps enough to note the link between his redefinition of common law as purely positive and his rejection of natural law per se. In seeking to discover law in the context of settling rights in particular cases, looking to established rules and precedents while keeping in mind the basic maxims of justice, common law judges did not make natural law their only point of reference, but they also did not treat it as something they were free to ignore. This is not the only way a legal order can respect natural law, but it is a legitimate way, and one that has contributed to keeping natural law a living force in the English and American constitutional traditions.
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[Protest of Army Award for Meals, Lodging, and Transportation for Recruits]
B-234668: Jun 30, 1989
A firm protested an Army contract award under a small business set-aside for meals, lodging, and transportation for recruits, contending that the: (1) other two bidders were not eligible for award, since they were large businesses; (2) Army was not compelled to make award to the incumbent; and (3) Army prejudiced it, since the scheduled bid opening was only 5 days before contract commencement and did not allow sufficient time to protest to the Small Business Administration. The Army contended that the protester was not sufficiently interested to protest, since it would not be in line for award even if its protest were sustained. GAO held that the protester: (1) was sufficiently interested to protest, since it was third in line and would be eligible for award if its protest were sustained; (2) failed to show that the Army's award determination was unreasonable; and (3) untimely filed after bid opening its protest against alleged solicitation improprieties. Accordingly, the protest was denied in part and dismissed in part.


Chiefs planned to change stance on controversial measure before meeting with HM Inspector of Constabulary, it is claimed.
Chief officers have been accused of a U-turn by giving their full backing to compulsory severance – after receiving a private briefing from Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor.
It has been claimed that at a meeting of its Chief Constables' Council on July 17 – attended by all the country's chiefs – the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) was considering withdrawing its support for police officer redundancy.
But it has been asserted that the chiefs – whose views feed into the Official Side of the Police Negotiating Board – changed their mind after meeting Mr Winsor, the man who recommended the introduction of compulsory severance in his second report on police pay and conditions.
Merseyside Police Federation claimed that the Council had listened to Mr Winsor's arguments and had been convinced that a U-turn was not in its interest.
It claimed the alleged move was a "betrayal" by chief officers, "who we look to protect us and lead us in the best interests of policing".
However ACPO has denied the claim – saying the main reason chief officers stuck with the measure was due to the likelihood of further funding cuts from central government. It said compulsory severance could be "reluctantly" needed to make savings.
An ACPO spokeswoman confirmed that Mr Winsor did speak to chiefs at the gathering "on a range of policing issues".
She said: "Tom Winsor's views on compulsory redundancy are well known and were laid out in his report.
"It was not surprising that he should maintain that his recommendation should be implemented.
The spokeswoman told PoliceOracle.com that "chiefs recognised the strength of feeling among police officers about compulsory severance" and that it "would be a matter of extreme last resort".
Recommendation 46 of the Winsor II review into pay and conditions proposed that "the Police Regulations 2003 should be amended to create a system of compulsory severance for police officers with less than full pensionable service".
On July 24, a week after the Council meeting, the Police Negotiating Board registered a "failure to agree" over compulsory severance. The controversial issue will now go to the Police Arbitration Tribunal later this year, likely to be in the Autumn. Home Secretary Theresa May will then have the final decision.
Chief Constables' Council is the senior operational decision-making body for ACPO. It meets around six times a year and is chaired by President Sir Hugh Orde.
Speaking after the John Harris Memorial Lecture in July, Mr Winsor said having compulsory severance in the Police Service would not be "inconsistent" with the office of constable. However he said the power should be "used sparingly" when it came to experience.
HMIC told PoliceOracle.com that Mr Winsor had attended the Council meeting.


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PoemTalk Podcast #118, Discussing M. NourbeSe Philip's "Zong!", feat. Alexandria Johnson, Tracie Morris, and Amber Rose Johnson
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Reading for Belladonna*, Poets House, New York City, June 1, 2019
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In conversation with Q (a.k.a Kyoo Lee), Kelly Writers House, December 5, 2017
Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, 2016
Episode #342 Philip, January 20, 2016
Philip returns to read and discuss a second of her books, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press).
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Episode #341 Zong!, January 20, 2016
Philip reads from and discusses the literary and legal epistemology of her long poem Zong! (Wesleyan University Press).
Reading as part of the Contemporary Writers Series at Mills College, March 29, 2011
Introduction (with Juliana Spahr) (6:35):MP3
Zong #2 (1:55):MP3
Zong #10 (1:15):MP3
from Sal (4:30):MP3
from Ventus (5:22):MP3
from Ratio (11:52):MP3
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Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, March 8, 2011
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Presenting and Reading at North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival, Kelly Writers House, January 20-21, 2011
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Reading with Rachel Zolf at the Friends Meeting House, Toronto, ON, April 23 2008
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Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 17, 2007
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