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Song to a Seagull
The Ultimate Music Guide - Joni Mitchell
by Jim Wirth
This article originally appeared in the first edition of the Ultimate Music Guide published on May 19, 2017.
David Crosby knew what he had found within minutes of stumbling into a Joni Mitchell show at the Gaslight Cafe in autumn 1967. The disaffected Byrd had come to Florida in search of a new start, but found a different kind of break from the norm. "I went looking for a sailboat to live on- I wanted to do something else, find another way to be. I was pretty disillusioned," he recalled years later. "I walked into a coffeehouse in Coconut Grove, and she was standing there singing those songs, and I just was gobsmacked. I fell for her, immediately. It's a little like falling into a cement mixer. She's kind of a turbulent girl."
Mitchell was, at that stage, a 23-year-old whose songs were living a life of their own. Country singer George Hamilton IV had made a hit of "Urge For Going", Buffy Sainte-Marie had recorded "The Circle Game" and "Song To A Seagull", with a trickle of versions of her other early works soon to become a torrent.
She was also a divorcee, an art-school drop-out, and the mother of a child she gave up for adoption, three turbulent years having given her enough source material to last a lifetime. Her debut record, recorded with on-off partner Crosby's help at the back end of 1967, and released in March 1968, documented only a few fragments of a story still in flux: a few months in New York (Side One, subtitled "I came to the city") and a few more on the West Coast (Side Two: "Out of the city and down to the seaside").
Song To a Seagull (or 'Son To A Seagu' as it appeared on original copies, Mitchell's felt-tip frenzy sleeve art being badly mangled at the printers) is a quietly audacious debut. The least user-friendly of all of her early records (her best-known songs of the time were largely omitted), its spartan production job was true to Mitchell and Crosby's determination to get these songs down in their purest form, without psychedelic curlicues or morn-and-pop-friendly string sections.
"If I'd recorded a year ago, l would have used lots of orchestration," she told Rolling Stone in May 1968, alluding to how the success of her songs had enabled her to call the shots. "No one would have let me put out an acoustic album. They would have said it's like having a whole paintbox and using only brown."
"We did get the actual songs down without a bunch of other crud on it, and that made me happy," Crosby remembered. "That's the thing I'm proudest of."
Crosby's production job was not uncontroversial, though; his quest to capture Mitchell's voice in all its wild seagull swoops picked up plenty of extraneous hiss, requiring slightly brutal surgery in the final mix. The finished product sounds like it was recorded behind glass, but given Mitchell's tendency to view both her songs' subjects and herself here as slightly baffling museum exhibits, that is oddly fitting.
"She's brilliant and tough and opinionated and slightly crazy and incredibly talented," Crosby said as he looked back on their time together, his opinion of Mitchell's gifts having only intensified overtime. "She's the best singer-songwriter that we've had in the past 100 years. She's as good a poet as Bob [Dylan], and away better musician."
However, while Dylan talked in riddles, Mitchell's brilliance here hinged on close - often uncomfortably close - observation. Song To A Seagull begins, uncompromisingly enough, with the forbidding "I Had A King", a matter-of-fact account of her divorce from sometime singing partner Chuck Mitchell. When she left their Detroit apartment to head for New York in early 1967, he reportedly changed the locks, a detail that informs the song's chorus: I can't go back there any more, you know my keys won't fit the door." However, while there is a note of distress in Mitchell's voice, and in the upside down guitar chords she picks out, there is a quiet determination, too. She does not give in to despair, merely boxes the emotions up, labels them and quietly moves on.
Marrying Mitchell in his native Michigan on June 19, 1965 was one of a series of early stumbles (he "carried me of his country for marriage too soon," as she put it in "I Had A King"), the former Roberta Joan Anderson having dropped out of the Alberta College of Art after just one year, 1963-'64, to pursue a career as a folk singer - a shocking decision for her relatively strait-laced parents.
She had spent her childhood tracking her Royal Canadian Air Force flight lieutenant father's moves from base to base before settling, aged 11, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where her father opened a grocery business. Her unconventional gift for language had first been recognised by her seventh-grade English teacher, Mr Kratzmann; Mitchell credits him for having "taught me to love words" on the sleeve of Song to a a Seagull.
Equally taken with music, she learned ukulele and then guitar, unconventional tunings helping to compensate for weakness in her fingers - a legacy from a childhood bout of polio - and went on to play in folk clubs in Calgary, and later Toronto, after dropping out of college.
However, her musical career took a significant detour when she fell pregnant by boyfriend Brad MacMath, giving birth to a daughter, Kelly Dale Anderson, in Toronto in spring 1965. While she wanted to keep the child - apparently marrying Chuck Mitchell with a view to creating a stable family unit - her daughter was fostered and then put up for adoption (a story that remained a secret, despite being explicitly addressed on Blue's "Little Green" in 1971, until an old college roommate sold it to a scandal sheet in 1993) [Ed note: not true, she discussed it in 1983]
Aiming to make the best of a bad marriage, the newlyweds paired up onstage for awhile, but it never worked out, with Mitchell well aware that she - and her songs - deserved better. In "I Had A King" she suggests that Chuck was a good deal less groovy than he seemed. "He lives in another time/Ladies in gingham still blush while he sings them of wars and wine/But I in my leather and lace/I can never become that kind."
The quest for a world that could handle her as she was underpins Song To A Seagull, "Michael From Mountains" the next potential partner to catch Mitchell's eye and ultimately come up short.
"He was a child-man; he was always showing you his treasures like a boy," she told the Toronto Daily Star about the song's real-life inspiration. Teasing and trepidatious, the song does its best to trap the elusive Michael, not to possess him, but to inspect him closer ("Know that I will know you," Mitchell maintains doggedly in the chorus), and while he gets away at the end ("You want to know all, but his mountains have called so you never do"), amid the excitement of New York, there are so many more exciting specimens to be had.
Underpinned by a spring-heeled bassline from Stephen Stills (who was recording next door with Buffalo Springfield), and Mitchell's jaunty bar-room piano, "Night In The City" captures some of that country-mouse sense of the metropolis' infinite possibilities. A delirious yodel celebrating a life that can never come fast enough ("Must you get ready so slow?" she asks herself), it is an unalloyed joy.
The main protagonist in "Marcie" is anything but, allowing her best years to go to waste as she awaits a letter of intent from an absentee suitor ("Dust her tables with his shirt and wave another day goodbye," Mitchell sings). "Is Marcie Joni?" asked Melody Maker in September 1968. "I suppose so, really," said Mitchell. "Marcie is a real girl, she lives in London. I used her name, because wanted a two-syllable name. But I'm the girl in all these songs."
It ends with Marcie vanishing from the scene: "Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket and went out west again," Mitchell sings with a shrug, and within minutes ahe is heading the same way. The "I come to the city" side ends with her trip to airport in the company of the protagonist in "Nathan La Franeer" - in her own words: "a New York cab driver who really exists, who drove me to the airport one day". Over an abstract acoustic doodle occasionally interrupted with an electrified whine, Mitchell depicts a man whose emotional circuits have been burned out by overexposure to humanity (as Mitchell sings, he "hated everyone who paid to ride and share his common space"). Mitchell feared the same might happen to her. "New York has left a big impression on me: good and bad," she told Broadside in February 1968. "It's made me very paranoid, which is a thing I never was. I've always been sort of naive and completely trusting."
However, if the laid-back West Coast promised a radically different way to be, it was one Mitchell found equally problematic. Side two begins with her rubbing shoulders with California's new smug bohemian aristocracy in "Sisotowbell Lane" (Sisotowbell a Mitchell acronym for 'somehow, in spite of troubles, ours will be ever-lasting love'). The sun-blasted Renaissance Fayre atmosphere may be pre-lapsarian bliss on the surface ("Sweet well water and pickling jars"), but the repeated. "we" highlights the worrying conformity beneath the surface. She spots the fakery too; the Marie Antoinette country folk, and the pop singers desperate to pass themselves off as artists; "A poet can sing," she sings, with absent-minded malice. The irascible Crosby, in such company, seems like a romantic hero. "The Dawntreader" - which Mitchell described at the time as her "one really true love song" - captures the renegade Byrd on the deck of his yacht. "He stakes all his silver on a promise to be free," Mitchell sings, idly pondering their future together "and a dream of a baby". Their romantic relationship was already dissolving by the time it was recorded, though.
A fever delirium Gilhert & Sullivan, one-woman operetta "The Pirate Of Penance" paves the way to Song To A Seagull's frosty title track, an anguished minor-chord tiptoe along the cliff edge where Mitchell clocks the follies of life on both coasts, and ultimately throws her lot in with the birds.
Finally, "Cactus Tree" - the most musically simple and yet lyrically radical of all of these early songs. A gentle but purposeful stroll through a series of romantic adventures where Mitchell leaves a sequence of would-be suitors hanging on while "she" - observing herself from her usual seagull distance - focuses on the challenge of "being free". Crosby and 'Michael' get a verse each, others just a few words ("There's a drummer and a dreamer, and you know there may be more,"Mitchell sings, simultaneously pitying her cast-offs and marvelling at her own "full and hollow" coldness). "She's not unattainable; I attained her pretty good," Crosby joked, but the giant cultural leap here is the no-regrets separation of sex and commitment. Twice shy, conventional monogamy seems horrifying ("She fears that one will ask her for eternity"), and the "Cactus Tree" Mitchell is quietly amazed that any lover would want more of her than she is prepared to give. "She will love them when she sees them," she adds in a luminous final verse. "They will lose her if they follow."
"I have yet to meet a woman who doesn't feel that Joni speaks for her," wrote Crawdaddy's Paul Williams in mid-1968, but as much as Song To A Seaguii shows seismic social changes, Mitchell's speaking only for herself. Not a big seller, it is a record that seeks neither to be liked, or pursued, or even understood, but simply to document intensely lived experience. "I had to wait a long time for people to let me have my own opinions, and it was hard," Mitchell told Toronto's Globe And Mail in May 1968. "But now I can tell everybody." Soon enough, the world would listen.
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Carly Fiorina Was Never The Female Republican Candidate We Needed
By Emily Shire
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With GOP presidential candidates now falling faster than Chipotle's popularity, it's not exactly surprising that Carly Fiorina exited the Republican race Wednesday after she followed her disappointing Iowa performance with another bad showing in New Hampshire. When the former HP CEO announced that she was quitting, it was only a formality. Her campaign had long been straggling, with little signs of momentum for months. She couldn't even muster 2 percent of support in the Iowa caucus. The writing was on the wall, in block letters and permanent ink: It's over.
Fiorina stood out from the massive pack of GOP candidates mostly because she was a woman. Since she announced that she was seeking the Republican presidential nomination last May on ABC's Good Morning America, her campaign has been fairly unremarkable. Granted, at one point there were more than a dozen GOP contenders. (Remember when George Pataki and Bobby Jindal were running?) Between the cornucopia of candidates and the deluge of debates, it was especially challenging to make more than a flash-in-the-pan impression. Unfortunately, even when we look back at her campaign, Fiorina's most memorable moments were pretty disappointing to those of us who would like to see a dynamic woman one day win the Republican nomination.
The first moment came before Fiorina officially announced her candidacy, when she spoke at the Freedom Summit in Iowa in January 2015. Her jab at Hillary Clinton stole the show:
Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something. Mrs. Clinton, flying is an activity not an accomplishment.
Her other memorable came at the CNN Republican Debate last September, when she denounced Planned Parenthood and propagated the false fears over fetal tissue sales provoked by the anti-abortion group the Center for Medical Progress and their infamous "undercover" videos. "As regards [to] Planned Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes ... Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain,'" Fiorina stated, describing a gruesome scene which is not actually in the videos at all.
So spreading lies to limit women's reproductive rights and taking some snarky jabs at Clinton are the legacy of Fiorina's presidential campaign. That's a shame for American voters, especially Republicans. Yes, Fiorina certainly tried to paint herself different, even as she quit the race. In her statement announcing her exit, Fiorina made a pointing of talking about feminism:
To young girls and women across the country, I say: do not let others define you. Do not listen to anyone who says you have to vote a certain way or for a certain candidate because you're a woman. That is not feminism. Feminism doesn't shut down conversations or threaten women. It is not about ideology. It is not a weapon to wield against your political opponent. A feminist is a woman who lives the life she chooses and uses all her God-given gifts. And always remember that a leader is not born, but made. Choose leadership.
Her argument that feminism should not box or confine a woman into a role or opinion she does not want to have is a powerful and articulate one. Unfortunately, the sentiment is too little, too late. There are Republican women with actual political experience and concrete policies (whether or not you agree with them) who could help the GOP's image as a party of old white men. Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers all come to mind as Republican women who would better serve their party than Fiorina did. It's no secret that Republicans have a "woman problem," and they need a woman to fix it. But Fiorina wasn't the right one.

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Review of 'White Bird'
Megan Daley|October 9, 2019
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Title: 'White Bird'
Author: R. J. Palacio
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Age Range: middle grade*, YA
Themes: bravery, kindness, courage, World War II, survival, family, found family, friends.
Inspired by her blockbuster phenomenon 'Wonder', R. J. Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with an unforgettable story of the power of kindness and unrelenting courage in a time of war.
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'White Bird' expands upon the story of Julian, Auggie's chief bully in 'Wonder' (read my review here). It begins with Julian on a facetime chat to his Grandmère, as part of a family history school assignment. Unwilling at first to talk about her traumatic history, Grandmère decides that 'it is time' and she begins to relate her wartime story as a Jew in France during World War II. The 1943 German occupation saw her Jewish peers and family arrested by soldiers and taken away, while she was hidden by a student from her school, who, like Auggie in 'Wonder', has spent a lifetime being bullied for his differences.
I could have read 'White Bird' in one long sitting but the emotional weight of the story was heavy and so I took the time to read it carefully over several days. The story, and the perfect melding of illustration and text, invites slow and thoughtful reading and this is certainly not a book one should rush.
As with all of the very best graphic novels, the reader is required to work hard at making meaning from the words and images and in the case of 'White Bird', the form fits the story perfectly, enhances it even. The digital drawings and ink drawings, particularly the extreme facial close ups, depict the trauma (and often deep love) of the situation perhaps better than words could and the reader will find themselves staring deeply into the eyes of the many of the characters pictured.
Told in several parts and moving back and forwards between time, Palacio begins each new part with relevant quotes from people such as Muriel Rukeyser, Anne Frank and George Santayana, which will introduce younger readers to the important writing of others in this area.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (page 209)
In the Author's Note (from page 209) R.J. Palacio talks about writing this book as someone who is not Jewish and considers if this is even her story to tell, but feels that it is the responsibility of many to tell these stories – and she has worked with Jewish experts in the writing of this story. Her husband and children are Jewish, and the book is dedicated to her Jewish mother in law. She has also included an extensive glossary, reading list, organisations and resources list, bibliography and photographs – such a help for young readers of today or for those who have gaps in their knowledge.
'In these dark times, it's those small acts of kindness that keep us alive…they remind us of our humanity (page 117)
*All readers are different so please consider the themes in this book and their suitability for your child. I'm going with 11+/middle grade/YA readers but if your child has read stories of World War II at a younger age this may be suitable for them. The complexities of Vichy France, the burgeoning relationship between Sara and Julien and the immense grief make this book, for me anyway, one best enjoyed from around 12 years of age and older.
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Could Yankees trade BOTH Gardner and Miller?
We've heard it over and over; the New York Yankees will not be active in the high-priced free agent market in a season in which big money is not coming off the books.
Instead, they will follow a strategy which got aggressive last season in which the club traded from surplus and from their major league roster to acquire MLB-ready players tagged with the "upside" label. The effort paid off in 2015 with pitcher Nathan Eovaldi and shortstop Didi Gregorius playing important roles to the Yankees wild card berth.
This offseason began much the same way as last, with general manager Brian Cashman pulling off a trade of his backup catcher (John Ryan Murphy), this time nabbing a promising 26-year-old outfielder in Aaron Hicks. Cashman immediately touted Hicks as a potential full-time player (though he never said in 2016) and just as quickly the rumor mill surrounding Brett Gardner heated up.
The team also has Jacoby Ellsbury in the outfield, meaning two players with much the same style of play. Trading Gardner is the more reasonable option for the Yankees because he has three seasons and $38 million left on his deal. Meanwhile, Ellsbury is under contract for five more seasons with close to $110 million left on his pact.
So far, Gardner has been linked to the Seattle Mariners (who seem to be out now after trading for Leonys Martin) and the Cleveland Indians. The Yankees want another starter and the Indians have a surplus; namely Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar. Each pitcher would necessitate more from the Yankees, but both pitchers fit the Yankees' desires for hard-throwing young pitchers. Most recently, Gardner was connected to the Chicago Cubs for infielder Starlin Castro according to New York Daily News reporter Mark Feinsand.
Now, if the Yanks cannot find a suitable partner for Gardner, the rumor mill has also been hot around the team's 2015 closer and the American League Reliever of the Year, Andrew Miller. Miller has three years and $27 million left on the deal he signed last offseason. The Yankees, seeing what the San Diego Padres received for closer Craig Kimbrel, might pull the trigger on a deal that nets the club some prospects to fill any perceived voids in the system.
The Yankees have the luxury of being able to move BOTH Gardner and Miller because of what's currently on the roster and in the farm system, along with who they might receive in return.
If Gardner goes, the Yankees could slide Ellsbury to left field and place the better-fielding Hicks in center. Or, the Yankees could dip in the wallets earlier than expected and go after a free-agent outfielder to play left, keeping Ellsbury in center and making Hicks a very versatile fourth outfielder. A right-handed hitting bat would be a nice addition for the Bombers and there are a few available.
The Yankees still have players like Mason Williams and Slade Heathcott, both of whom received time in 2015, and performed well, when Ellsbury was hurt. But, they hit left-handed and also have similar styles to Ellsbury. Aaron Judge, the mammoth outfielder is likely a full season away, but in a pinch the Yanks could call upon the 23-year-old to provide assistance. The point is there is some depth at Triple-A.
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The bullpen might take a bigger step back as a whole if Miller was dealt. Dellin Betances could surely take over the closer role, and if used properly (three outs, maybe four every once and while) he could flourish. But, after Betances things become a little murky.
Justin Wilson was perfectly fine pitching in the seventh inning in 2015, but would a bump to the eighth inning be smooth? Wilson was used for one inning on average per appearance, so the club essentially loses Betances' ability to lock down more outs. Outside of Wilson, who do the Yankees turn to?
Chasen Shreve was great for most of the 2015 season, but he folded over the final month-plus of games. Adam Warren has been told to prepare to compete for a spot in the rotation. But, if Miller is gone and they do not sign another reliever, can the Yankees afford to utilize Warren as a starter? Warren could be every bit as productive as Betances where it concerns high-leverage performance for more than one inning of work. Plus, Warren might not be as needed in the rotation IF the Yankees acquire a starter either in a trade for Gardner, or via free agency.
The Yankees do have a handful of young relievers who were shuttled back and forth last season to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre – Jacob Lindgren, James Pazos, Branden Pinder and Nick Rumbelow among others could have a chance to make the 25-man roster depending on the whereabouts of Miller.
I look at the entire circumstance in this way.
Any deal with Gardner would likely necessitate a top prospect or even two for the likes of Carrasco or Salazar, or a similar pitcher on another squad. The Yankees have been hesitant to deal from their top prospects of late, but if a young, peaking and controllable pitcher is dangled in their face they might jump on what they consider a solid option.
And that type of scenario could push the Yankees to refill the coffers of the system by trading Miller. The package the Red Sox gave away to San Diego included two of their top-10 prospects. This would certainly interest the Yankees if they had to package top prospects in a Gardner deal.
Also, do not underestimate the importance of the 2016 salaries here to getting involved in the high-price free agent market. Gardner's salary ($13 million) and Miller's ($9 million) provides plenty of room for a player like right-handed hitting Justin Upton (expected to make about $120 million over six years according to FanGraphs' crowdsourcing).
The Yankees do not need to make one or both of these moves, but the chances of improving their club in multiple ways are certainly possible if they do. By trading both players, the Yankees get younger, fill immediate voids and potentially allows the club to maintain a prospect level similar to what they have now.
Salary information courtesy of Cot's Baseball Contracts.
Christopher Carelli is a freelance baseball writer. Besides his work here, Christopher is a featured Yankees writer for SNY.tv. His baseball commentary has also been published on The Cauldron, Yahoo Sports and linked multiple times on MLB Trade Rumors' Baseball Blogs Weigh In. He is a member of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance and the BYB Hub.
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Labels: Aaron Hicks, Andrew Miller, Brett Gardner, commentary, Dellin Betances, Jacoby Ellsbury, Justin Wilson, New York Yankees, news, rumors


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Swami Purnachaitanya is a Director of Programs and Senior International Trainer with the Art of Living Foundation. He travels worldwide teaching people of all backgrounds, cultures and religions how to effectively manage their mind and emotions, eliminate stress, live in harmony amid diversity and bring greater peace and joy into their lives through simple yet profound Yoga techniques. He also oversees various service projects of The Art of Living in the North Eastern Region of India, such as rural development and educational initiatives, and is Senior Trainer with the Sri Sri School of Yoga.
Over the past ten years with the Art of Living Foundation as a full-time faculty and trainer, Swami Purnachaitanya has taught extensively in India, as well as in Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and various countries in Europe. Apart from teaching a wide range of Art of Living programs, he specializes in training teachers in Sri Sri Yoga, a balanced and thorough design of yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditation and yogic knowledge, designed to help yoga aspirants remove self-imposed limitations, realize their full potential and offer their talents in service to the society.
Swami Purnachaitanya was born and brought up in The Netherlands, and his mother being from India, spiritual values and meditation were an important part of his upbringing. From an early age he showed a keen interest in the spiritual practices, cultures and philosophies of the East. This initially led him to practice a wide range of Eastern martial arts, such as judo, taekwondo, ninpo bujutsu, wushu (kung fu) and aikido. Over the years he realized, however, that it was not the fighting skills, but human values, philosophies and meditation that attracted him.
Meeting Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar during a program in The Netherlands in 2000, Swamiji knew that he had found the spiritual Master he had been looking for. He started doing some of the programs of The Art of Living, as well as organizing programs as a volunteer with the organization. After completing his studies at the acclaimed Leyden University in The Netherlands, Swamiji came to India in 2007 to dedicate his life to service and his Master's vision of a violence-free, stress-free world, through the re-awakening of human values in society. Since then Swami Purnachaitanya has been traveling extensively, conducting various programs, already personally reaching out to more than 500,000 people.
Swamiji oversees many projects and activities of The Art of Living in the North Eastern Region of India, where he has also worked in areas affected by insurgency, as well as West Bengal, as a Regional Director. He looks after 93 Art of Living schools that are providing free value-based education in rural and tribal areas in this region, and also conducts trainings to empower rural youth, women and other sections of the society. As a member of The Art of Living Council for Yoga, Swamiji also oversees programs and activities to spread the ancient knowledge of Yoga in these regions, and he also works for the preservation and revival of ancient Vedic practices and indigenous traditions in the region.
He has represented The Art of Living at various national and international forums, seminars and conferences, and has also addressed audiences at various national and international educational institutions on a wide range of topics. He has taught yoga, pranayama and meditation to people from a wide range of cultures and backgrounds: from indigenous people in jungle areas to corporate executives, from villagers to prison inmates, and from urban youth to militants. Many have experienced profound transformation and experienced healing on various levels.
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A swami is a spiritual guide, who, having dedicated his life to serve the society, plays different roles at different times, including leading various service projects, conducting different workshops for self-development, giving discourses, and conducting padayatras (peace walks), blessing programs (anugrahotsav) and pujas and havan.
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Purnachaitanya is the name given to him by his Guru, or spiritual Master, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. It means one whose consciousness (chaitanya) has the quality of fullness (purna).
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Derby County are waiting for clearance from the EFL for the transfer of Maikel Kieftenbeld.
The Rams agreed a deadline-day deal with Birmingham City for the midfielder, for an undisclosed fee on a two-year deal.
A deal was done before last Thursday's night's transfer deadline, one which would see Gary Rowett reunited with a player he worked with at St Andrew's.
But the club have now announced a hold-up in the transfer – although they hope it is finalised today (Thursday).
"We are still waiting for clearance from the EFL with regard to the transfer of Maikel Kieftenbeld," a club spokesman said.
"Hopefully, we will get a resolution to this today.
"We have been in contact with the EFL all week. It's a timing issue.


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With the rest of the world calling it football, the USA calls it soccer. To distinguish it from American football, players use only their feet. Soccer in the US has taken a slow pace in terms of attracting players, fans and sponsors. This is when in comparison with other mainstream sporting activities such as basketball, ice hockey, American Football and baseball, which have millions of ardent followers. However, with the intervention of FIFA, the USA National Soccerteam is now among the crème de la crème of soccer playing nations in the world. Given the popularity of the game in the world, soccer is the fastest growing sport in the country in terms of fans and players. In 2014 the FIFA world Cup will be held in Brazil.
The professional league in the US is Major League Soccer, formed in 1993. The league has 19 teams, with 16 coming from the US, and three from Canada. The teams are in either the Eastern or Western Conference. The team with the highest points at the end of the regular season takes the Supporter's Shield. This is followed by a 10-team playoff that culminates in the MLS cup final. Its popularity continues to grow, as evidenced by the arrival of some of the world's best footballers such as David Beckham, Thierry Henry and Robbie Keane among others. It has also produced some of the most revered soccer names in the world such as Landon Donovan, Brian McBride, Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey among other household names. Some of the best teams in Major Soccer League include the New York Red bulls, DC United, Red Salt Lake and Los Angeles Galaxy.
The other league in the US is the North American Soccer League, a second tier. Below the second tier is the USL pro. The fourth tier is the USL Premier Development League, a semi professional league featuring teams in the US, Canada and Bermuda. Women in the US also play professional soccer under the Women's Professional Soccer banner. It consists of seven teams. They also have two-second tier leagues, the W-League and WPSL.
Soccer in Germany
Germany and England are the mothercountries of soccer - they call it "Football" - "Fussball" . That's the reason you can find some german-speaking stuff here! EM 2016 - the unofficial page | The German Away Shirt 2012


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The Scientist Automatic annotations of the human genome will produce different interpretations
"To translate the billions of sequenced bases of the human genome into meaningful information, investigators in the private and public sectors continue to use computer prediction to automatically annotate the human genome--to attach biological footnotes about genes, the proteins they encode, and the ailments to which they may be linked. But as with any translation, there's potential for multiple interpretations. Annotation projects could present geneticists with significantly different genome schematics.
"I think that for the moment scientists are going to have to revel in the variety," maintains Robert Waterston, director of the genome sequencing center at Washington University in St. Louis. A joint effort in the United Kingdom from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the Sanger Centre, U.S. efforts at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and commercial efforts will present different annotations based on the data available, algorithms employed, and weight given to different data points. "
Guardian Unlimited Genome project recruits the world
"Bioinformatics is the science of life as a software problem. An international co-operation called the Human Genome Project is about to finish putting the human DNA blueprint on the internet.
And a team working closely with them is about to distribute a software package that will turn the world of biology into a co-operative research laboratory. The exploration of the human software will become a kind of global interactive game, with a new tool called Ensembl."
Tools The Ensembl Project
"Ensembl provides complete and consistent annotation across the human genome. It will soon also process mouse, (in conjunction with other projects, hopefully people like the Jackson Lab). To understand how Ensembl fits into the human genome project, please read EnsemblHGP"
"A central element of the Ensembl project is openness: all data is freely available; all code is freely available. You can read about the EnsemblSoftwareDesign and about how to DownloadEnsembl software and data and how to go about InstallingEnsembl on your own site in our developers area. You can follow Ensembl announcements, user discussion or development issues via a number of mailing lists as well as view previous emails here."
Eurekalert! Genome annotation experts take standardized test
"Now that the age of the genome is upon us, scientists must find a way to spin mountains of DNA code into biological gold. To do it, they are building their own Rumpelstiltskins: powerful computer programs that automatically scrutinize the code and decipher its genetic elements. The April issue of Genome Research reports a new enterprise to test the state of the art in computer "genome annotation." Organized by a team from University of California, Berkeley, 12 international groups compared the power of their computer programs to predict gene elements within a 3 million base pair stretch of Drosophila DNA.
The groups compared the results of their programs against each other and against the results of an exhaustive experimental and computational effort to locate all the genes in this region (not available to the participants during the test).
When the results were in, many programs had detected the genes in the region with 95% accuracy compared to the experimental effort. Furthermore, the programs made predictions of genes that had not been found in that effort, which researchers are now investigating. However, the programs were less accurate in defining the exact boundaries of the genes within the code, and groups that attempted to find elements controlling gene activity (e.g., promoters) made a large number of false predictions."


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Q: how to find root parents in tree using neo4j? I have a tree, I would like to get all nodes at every level. The depth of tree could be anything.
node(1)<-[PARENT]-node(2)<-[PARENT]-node(3)<-[PARENT]-node(4)
node(1)<-[PARENT]-node(5)<-[PARENT]-node(6)
node(2)<-[PARENT]-node(7)
node(5)<-[PARENT]-node(8)
node(2)<-[PARENT]-node(9)

How to find root parent? (nodes who have no parents) please explain cypher query

A: I would go with this:
MATCH (root)-[:PARENT]->()

WHERE NOT exists( ()-[:PARENT]->(root) )

RETURN root

If you want to allow isolated nodes, then go with this:
MATCH (root)-[:PARENT*0..1]->()

WHERE NOT exists( ()-[:PARENT]->(root) )

RETURN root

or even simpler:
MATCH (root)

WHERE NOT exists( ()-[:PARENT]->(root) )

RETURN root

but this might run afoul if you have other relationship types.

A: The following will return all nodes that do not have an outgoing PARENT relationship. The *0 syntax means that you want 0 PARENT relationships (that are outgoing, in this case).
This will match even an isolated node. But, be aware that this will also match all nodes that are not even in the tree (if you have any of those).
MATCH ()<-[:PARENT*0]-(p)
RETURN p;

If you also have non-tree nodes, you should give all tree nodes a label, say Tnode, in which case the query will be:
MATCH ()<-[:PARENT*0]-(p:Tnode)
RETURN p;

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Murfreesboro, TN: U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday, March 11th, 2019, that Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc. has been awarded the contract for ASR (Advanced Sniper Rifle) in support of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) with its MRAD (Multi-Role Adaptive Design) Rifle. USSOCOM announced in 2016 they were in search of a modular, multi-caliber bolt action sniper rifle capable of converting between 7.62x51mm, .300 Norma Magnum (NM) and .338 Norma Magnum (NM) through a "full and open competition." The Barrett MRAD is designed with precision and modularity in mind and will serve the U.S. special operations teams in their efforts. "I remember Chris telling me that 'this is what all precision rifles will look like one day!' and he was right. However, aesthetics is not all that makes this rifle; as his development persisted, he was able to achieve more than I ever thought possible. I genuinely believe this is the most accurate rifle in the world." Ronnie Barrett, Founder and CEO. There has never been a time in US History that both a father and son have each fielded a military-designated rifle system until now: Ronnie with the M107 and Chris with the MRAD. "This feels like the highest honor I could ever achieve professionally to have a rifle adopted by the US Military, and especially USSOCOM," Chris Barrett, President.
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What better way to spend an entire day on planes than writing your next blog post? I am headed to Austin, Texas, where I will be visiting/touring/interviewing/being interviewed by the University of Texas at Austin. This is my first choice school, so I want you all to think good thoughts for me so I'll be accepted! In case you are wondering – if I got into UT, I'd be researching paleoclimate. Science is cool!
Today's fun TSA story: For the first time ever (and I have flown more than the average American, I think) I was told to remove my NYLON belt, and I had my hair patted down. My SHORT hair. What kind of weirdo would hide stuff in their hair? How would that even work? I looked at my hair in the mirror after this, and was like "Really? They thought I could possibly be hiding something in there?" Go home, TSA, you're drunk.
This week I'm going to tell you how I feel about outlines.
I never really used outlines until a couple months ago. I would often start outlines, then they'd fall apart completely, and I'd just start writing, and then the outline had no meaning. Sometimes I'll get stuck on something, and go back and try to write an outline. This, too, often ends in failure. I've tried to use outlines for novels, essays, research papers. It pretty much never worked for me.
Now, however, I swear my revision outline is probably going to save my story faster than any number of rounds of editing.
I started with an idea. I wrote a few random scenes here and there. By my second year at university, I had a couple chapters, which had been re-written once or twice. I was happy with them. Then my hard drive crashed, and I lost EVERYTHING. I was devastated, as I'm sure any of you writers can understand. I had another NaNoWriMo novel that I'd been working on lost in that crash too (and had a lot more chapters than my urban fantasy novel). It was a dark time.
I re-started the novel, with yet another new beginning. I started writing random scenes – whatever I felt like writing on any given day. I still wasn't totally happy with the beginning, so I kept tweaking it. Somewhere around this time I found my writing partner, which has proven to be more of a help than anything I have ever done in my writing career. The beginning was tweaked more, I was beginning to fill in the gaps between all the major scenes I'd already written.
Finally, over a year ago now, I completed the first draft in time for NaNoWriMo 2011. After NaNo, I printed it, read it, and wrote notes and edits all over it with a shiny new fountain pen with red ink.
I have begun major edits for the first few chapters, and the beginning has changed twice since being printed. For no reason at all, I decided to try to write an outline a couple months ago. I use Storyist to write my manuscripts, and that program organizes words into chapters and sections. So I decided to write a scene-by-scene outline of my entire novel. I made a list of all the scenes, and for each scene I make a list of what has to happen. I have filled nearly all of the major plots holes by doing this – it's like magic! Of course, I have also found some new ones, but by going through this process for my entire novel, I have been able to adjust scene notes, rather than having to sift through the entire manuscript again to fix something. I'm not finished yet, but I am very close to the end. As soon as I have a solid outline, I'm going to go back and do revisions for the whole novel all at once. In theory, this will make for a much stronger second draft than if I hadn't outlined at all.
So, here is my advice to you if you feel like you're struggling with revisions: try writing an outline organized by scene. Ignore chapters, they're not really important until you figure out how you want to pace the novel. Figure out what needs to happen in each scene to make all the other scenes flow together and make sense. You might be surprised at how much it helps fill all those nasty plot holes.
Currently reading: Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest. I'm enjoying it so far, but I always like a little bit of romantic conflict/possibility in the novels I read, and this has zero so far (33% of the way in, still hoping). Right after Richelle Mead's The Indigo Spell, Boneshaker feels terribly lacking in this department.
Listening to: the sounds of air rushing over the wings of the plane as the engines spin.


Mumbai: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex rose by almost 65 points in opening trade today on the back of selective buying by funds and retail investors. The 30-share barometer, which has lost 310 points in the previous four sessions, bounced back by 64.48, or 0.33 per cent, to 19,356.50 in the first few minutes of trade today. Stocks of refinery, realty, healthcare, consumer durable and banking firms led the recovery. In a similar manner, the wide-based National Stock Exchange Nifty index rose by 18.85 points, or 0.32 per cent, to 5,804.30. Brokers said selective buying by funds as well as investors in fundamentally strong stocks of refinery, realty and healthcare firms mainly supported the market.


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Erich Bederke (ur. 3 czerwca 1895 w Grönbergu, zm. 19 kwietnia 1978 w Getyndze) – niemiecki geolog, profesor Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego.

Życiorys
Uczeń Hansa Cloosa. Studia na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim zaczął w 1913, początkowo z chemii i fizyki, jednak w 1917 przeniósł się na kierunek geologiczny tej uczelni. Tuż po studiach wszedł do zespołu badawczego profesora Cloosa, badając budowę geologiczną Sudetów, zwłaszcza masyw granitowy kłodzko-złotostocki. Następnie koncentrował się na badaniach dewonu sudeckiego oraz tektoniki Sudetów. Wysunął hipotezę, że najważniejszą dla powstania orogenu sudeckiego była orogeneza kaledońska. Stwierdził też, że gnejsy Gór Sowich są starsze od kaledonidów, a w Sudetach Wschodnich przeważała orogeneza waryscyjska.

W 1931 został wybrany na dyrektora Instytutu Geologii i Paleontologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, które to stanowisko piastował do końca wojny w 1945. Doprowadził do ewakuacji znacznej części zbiorów mineralogicznych i geologicznych przed oblężeniem Wrocławia, przyczyniając się do ich uratowania. Ewakuowany z Wrocławia w styczniu 1945, udał się do Getyngi, gdzie został profesorem tamtejszego uniwersytetu.

Lista publikacji Bederke
 Bederke, E. 1924. Das Devon in Schlesien und das Alter des Sudetenfaltung. Forschritte der Geologie und Paleontologie 2, 1-50.
 Bederke, E., 1927. Zum Gebirgsbau der mittleren Sudeten. [O budowie Środkowych Sudetów] Geol. Rdsch., 18, 225-229.
 Bederke, E., 1929. Die varistische Tektonik der mittleren Sudeten. Fortschr. Geol. Und Paläont., H. 23, 1-150.
 Bederke, E., 1934. Sudetenrand und Eulengneisproblem. [Zagadnienie brzegu Sudetów oraz gnejsów Gór Sowich] Veröff., Schles. Ges. Erdk., 21, 351-366.
 Bederke, E., Fricke, K., 1942. Das Niederschlesische Gebiet (Innersudetisches Steinkohlenbecken). Essen, Dtsch. Steinkohlenbergbau, T. 1, 227-242.

Był też współautorem szeregu map geologicznych Sudetów.

Bibliografia
 M. Mierzejewski, M. Sachanbiński & Z. Wierzbicki, 2003: Zarys historii nauk mineralogicznych i geologicznych na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim w latach 1811-1945. W: A. Grodzicki (red.): Historia nauk geologicznych na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Wyd. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. ISBN 83-229-2419-4

Niemieccy geolodzy
Urodzeni w 1895
Zmarli w 1978

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AMC Announces The Walking Dead Season 10 Premiere Date
Full Carjacking Scene From The Amazing Spider-Man
By Al Donato 7 years ago
While the trailers have hinted an intricate web of plot and character development, Wal-Mart's Amazing Spider-Man sneak peek clip has revealed Peter Parker's signature wit in action. Today, the video surfaced online and it shows Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, stopping a carjacking in progress, then proceeding to escape from a police officer. This is the same scene that was hinted at through various trailers and now we have it in full.
Personally, I think I've finally been swayed to watch this movie. Andrew Garfield's casual movements with his webbing and hilarious laidback quips add some much needed easygoing poise to this adaption of Peter Parker. Watching the suit in motion isn't as tacky at first glance as well, and a moment where Peter checks the carjacker's wrist has been speculated to suggest that Uncle Ben may have died by this point.
The Amazing Spider-Man whips into theatres on July 3rd and you can check out the clip below.
Tags: Andrew Garfield, Marc Webb, Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man


Vegetables and cooked shrimp are combined with beaten eggs then fried and shaped into patties. Served with a thick and hot sauce made with chicken broth and soy sauce.
In a mixing bowl, combine the bean sprouts, shrimp, eggs, mushrooms, scallions and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Mix thoroughly.
Heat a deep skillet over high heat until 1 or 2 drops of water bubble when sprinkled in. Add oil and turn heat back to Medium-High. Pour in 1/2 cup of egg mixture into pan. Push cooked egg up over shrimp with a spatula to form a patty. Fry until golden brown, turning once, about 4 minutes.
Repeat with remaining egg mixture. If you need to, add more oil. Keep patties warm.
In a saucepan over medium heat, combine chicken broth, soy sauce, 1/4 teaspoon salt and white pepper to taste. Bring to a boil. Mix cornstarch and water; stir into broth mix. Cook and stir until thickened (about 10 seconds). Pour over patties.


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Politics @ Surrey
The blog of the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey
Of Maelstroms, Diaries and Awards Ceremonies: The Hadfield-Surrey Maiden Blog
It's a bit odd to have one's maiden blog at a new institution deal with diary dates. But there we are. I joined the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey in January, and it's been a marvellous maelstrom ever since.
So, with apologies, I am overdue a blog or ten, on everything from EU relations with its neighbours, to upcoming European Parliament elections, to yes – the dreaded B-word. Those familiar with my work know I rarely pull my punches, and I'm looking forward to contributing more regularly in the coming weeks and months. Do check out last month's submission to The Conversation on top tips for the European Parliamentary elections: https://theconversation.com/five-things-to-look-out-for-in-the-european-elections-117531
To return to diary matters, I've been buzzing about between Guildford, Brussels and Florence, in the past couple of weeks, supporting both new initiatives, and historic anniversaries in EU studies.
Newbie Spinelli?
The new initiatives are the Spinelli Awards for Outreach, launched in 2017, with the first prizes doled out last year, and a second batch this year. The 'Spinelli' was initially a 2-year Pilot Project initiated by MEP Luigi Morgano, but it gained support quickly from other MEPs, and was given to DG EAC (Education and Culture) of the European Commission to implement.
The Spinelli Awards are awarded to outstanding works that enhance citizens' understanding of the European Union and widen the ownership of the European integration project. In the June 2018 inaugural ceremony, of which I was privileged to the mistress of ceremonies (sounds grand, I know), a full 22 Prizes (!) were awarded for a wide range of ground-breaking projects helping to promote both engagement and critical awareness of the EU. The prizes were conferred by MEP Luigi Morgano himself, EP Vice-President Mairead Mc Guinness (PPE), by Director-General Christophidou and by Prof. Pier-Virgilio Dastoli (Spinelli's former assistant). It was a real privilege to be part of that first ceremony, and to become familiar with the wide range of projects on offer.
This year, streamlining was the order of the day. 5 larger awards were given, and a range of nominees invited to Brussels to discuss their work, and be celebrated for their energies. I was delighted to reprise my role as MC. It enabled me not just to be part of the prize-giving to a range of creative and committed prize-winners, but to announce that the 'Spinelli' had been voted by the European Parliament to continue for another 3 years. Great news, all around.
More info on the Spinelli, its background, winners, and objectives can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/education/news/winners-of-the-2018-altiero-spinelli-prize-for-outreach-celebrated-in-brussels_en.
Erasmus: 30 Years Young
The pillars of EU studies are the Erasmus programme (30 years last year) and the Jean Monnet programme (30 years this year). Erasmus celebrations have been held the length and breadth of Europe, and far beyond, to celebrate this most cherished of mobility and exchange programmes. There's a huge amount of info on Erasmus (or Erasmus+ as it's now known), and I'd encourage you to check out the very real impact that this has had on legions of students and scholars from every part of Britain, Europe and the wider world.
Erasmus is focused on students – university students, and increasingly secondary school. Youth, in a nutshell. Recent offshoots include European Youth Week, which the Department of Politics celebrated in fine style on 2 May, at the new MySurreyHive, with a variety of fun, interactive games on Europe, bite-sized 'in conversation with' staff and students working directly on European issues, a mini-hustings of Politics students running in the local elections, and an overview of disability issues and responses. Here, staff and students demonstrates their expertise on Europe in general (like, where actually is it), the range of images on the Euro coin (clues available for those who can read clockwise), and the proactive nature of our students and staff in supporting events that celebrate all things Britain and Europe:
Check out the brand-new European Youth Week website here: https://europa.eu/youth/week_en#eyw-youth-events
UniSurrey is a strong supporter of Erasmus, promoting student and staff exchanges across a wide range of disciplines and faculties, with innovative ways for both undergraduate and postgraduate students alike to get involved. More info available here: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/student-exchanges/study-abroad/erasmus-exchange
Jean Monnet: Foundations of Knowledge
Finally, Jean Monnet. Where Spinelli remains a lesser known initiator of European integration (possibly because of his abiding communist affiliations), Jean Monnet abides as an acknowledged founding father of the entire European project. He was creative, far-sighted, boundlessly energetic, willing to try any number of different angles to arrive at a solution, and wholly dedicated to the peace-making, prosperity-generating ideals of a working Europe. Much of his vision has materialised in terms of integration, inter-locking institutions. Much has not, with serious divisions over policy sharing, the borders of Europe and the future of the continent as a community.
Education, above all, provides information, knowledge and the basis for sound judgement; Jean Monnet believed in the transformative power of key structures including higher education. That thousands of of modules, Chairs, Centres and networks have since blossomed across Europe in his name would, I suspect, delight him no end. Education means critical awareness: weighing up the pros and cons, thinking about what works in Europe, and what doesn't.
Only the highest quality teaching is able to tackle something as complex as the EU and teach it clearly, engagingly and judiciously, and that's what Jean Monnet awards do: recognises the highest possible calibre teaching, learning, research and now, outreach on all aspects of Europe. It's no mean feat to be awarded a module for a new course on Europe; a Chair for a group of related teaching and activities in a given area like security, law or gender; or a Centre of Excellence that produces a critical mass of teaching, research, and engagement with university communities, civil society and policy-makers alike. I'm honoured to have had Jean Monnet affiliations for the majority of my teaching career in HEIs in the UK and Europe, and am proud to support the work of the Jean Monnet Chair, here in the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey. Watch this space, because there's more planned in this respect…
I'll end with a personal thrill, and that was chairing a truly eminent group of Jean Monnet scholars, young and (ahem) young at heart, at the beautiful European University Institute in Florence, as a side activity of the annual EUI State of the Union Conference, in mid-May.
Celebrating its own 30th anniversary, the key theme was celebrating the historical importance of Jean Monnet activities, including the very real practical benefits achieved by the Jean Monnet programme in supporting teaching, research and policy debates across an ever-widening field of European studies. Together with fabulous panellists including Professor Renaud Dehousse, President of the EUI, Martina Lubyová, the Slovakian Minister for Education, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Vice Minister at the Italian Ministry of Education, Paola Sartorio, Director, Fulbright Schuman Program, Professor Alberto Alemanno, Joao Pinto, President of the Erasmus Students Network, and the wonderful Professor Andrej Zwitter, Dean of University of Groningen, we explored for a solid 2 hours the legacy that the Jean Monnet activities have created in young people across the continent, and in countries far beyond. We concluded that 21st century education is bound to change. Innumerable pressures are making it daily more difficult for young people in Britain, Europe and world-wide to figure out who they are within their communities. As educators, we have a duty of care to use all provisions at our disposal to provide a clear-sighted, critically aware view of the role of Europe in short and long term. It's a worthy challenge, so let's get busy!
Amelia Hadfield
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Nadia and Bart have no idea what a great champion I was :)
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Man, this is like a bomb: I was a gymnastics champion!!!
When I had the privilege to take a picture with Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner, I didn't mention anything to them. Because they would have laughed much more than they laugh in this picture J)).
Yes, I was a gymnastics champion, BUT… in a movie!
When I started playing in it, it was just a TV movie, and I was just a kid.
"Out of Sight" – produced by Romanian Public Television. With actors I knew since I was a little child, but also with young actors, whom I met at the time.
We were 4 brothers, me – the youngest of the girls. A gymnast. A competition gymnast! Having Nadia Comaneci as an idol.
The right role, I could say, considering that, as a child, I was a real Nadia on the carpet bar behind the block…
I liked the idea, I liked the role and I liked a lot that the producers and the director sent me to have real training in the gym, where I used to learn how to make movements, gestures and simulate starts and landings for the floor exercise. Moreover, on the balance beam, I learned to do various things, even some spins, which for me was a real trick!
Don't ask me about the uneven bars and the vault, because the screenwriter, after all, did not mean to kill me.
Of course my number on the floor/uneven bars/balance beam/vault was done in the movie by a real gymnast. With me they filmed only the beginnings and the endings, the start and the stops…
When I was going to training, I was fascinated by the work of the gymnasts in the gym. They were just children full of marks on their bodies, with their hands and feet always bandaged, but all the girls were bold, man!
After its success as a television film – it was awarded, in 1986, the Grand Prize at the International Television Film Festival in Prague, they decided to develop it into a series.
The cast underwent some small changes, but I stayed, still playing the role of child of the family and the sportsgirl of the nation.
I was in the national gymnastics team. A great hope of Romanian gymnastics, a miracle, what can I say, the future sounded really good with me J.
For authenticity, we filmed even in Deva town, running with the "colleagues" on the hill, towards the fortress, until we couldn't breathe anymore.
I even went with the team to some international competitions. Well, we went to the plane, we filmed a sequence, after which we got off…
I was also a gold medalist, climbing on the highest step of the podium. Well, the podium was just… a cube, nothing more, in an empty gym, where we were filming the award ceremony.
The greatest thing was that I got the medal from none other than Maria Simionescu – the famous international referee and federal coach, the woman who, together with her husband, laid the foundations of the gymnastics school in Onesti – I understand that it was the first school in the world with this profile! Cool or what???
I remember that I was really excited about the meeting, because I knew her from TV, from the big international gymnastics competitions. We saw her there, in the area of the "judges" who were increasing the pulse of us, the viewers.
As the film went ahead with the production, I got older. From a child, I had already become a fluffy teenager with a woman's silhouette.
I had become taller, so I had surpassed my older sisters in the movie.
I no longer looked like a gymnast, although that was still the role. For the gymnastics scene, the costumes girls used to press down my boobs, wrapping them in some sort of a bandage, as there were no young gymnasts with boobs J)). And my hair – at that time very long and thick – was often hidden at the back, if it was not tightly tied in a ponytail.
The actress who played the middle sister had the role of a teenager in high-school when, in reality, I was in high-school and she was an adult already.
To solve the situation, the writer began to put some failures of mine as a sports person, to get me out of the role of a gymnast slowly-slowly.
First, I broke my leg in a mountain camp. There, I had "skied" with my colleagues.
I really liked this role of a victim, because my make-up was all white, I was suffering on the hospital bed with my leg in plaster and I was already thinking about my first Oscar J.
But, beyond the role in the film, I was glad to have the opportunity to witness a real leg operation, performed on a skier who had really seriously injured himself on the slope.
I didn't faint…
My idol was still Nadia, but no matter the angle the cameras would film, I would have embarrassed the gymnastics caste.
Well, and what do you know, while filming, the Romanian '89 Revolution happened. The real one…
Naturally the filming was interrupted. Time did not flow in my favor, because, with its passing, I did not become any smaller or any thinner J.
So, the screenplay solved the problem: the gymnastics national team arrived victorious from some great international competition, but they had a black sheep: me. I went down the stairs of the plane looking down in shame, because I had lost all the medals.
And so, my career as a gymnast ended…
Not long after, so did my role in the film, because my character, from a loser gymnast, becomes a beautiful lady sexy, rebellious, older than I was in reality. And she was rightly called Manuela Harabor, the actress.
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Din câte știu filmul Campioana realizat în 1989-1990 este singurul film artistic cu subiect gimnastică. Nici despre Nadia nu s-a realizat vreun film nici în S.U.A. și nici la Buftea la noi, nu-i așa ? Eu pot să mă mândresc cu faptul că sunt născut cu numai 2 zile înainte de prima notă de 10 primită de Nadia la Montreal, în ajunul Festivității de deschidere a jocurilor din 1976 ! Pe atunci comenta pentru TVR festivitățile de deschidere și concursul de gimnastică nu Alina Alexoi, ci domnul Cristian Țopescu (pe care am avut onoare să îl cunosc personal în 1996) !
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L-am vazut acum cateva luni pe TVR 2 sau ceva de genul. Dar nu stiu daca e singurul film artistic cu gimnastica.


This comes as something of a follow up to a recent post where newly forged Wizards and their ilk need some sort of old man teaching them all the right moves until they "get" it. The idea that you're going to spend a LOT of time learning wizardly things really delves into the territory of Proficiencies as far as time and effort required to learn them. Spellcraft exists as-is, the vanilla 2e description is as follows.
Although this proficiency does not grant the character any spellcasting powers, it does give him familiarity with the different forms and rites of spellcasting. If he observes and overhears someone who is casting a spell, or if he examines the material components used, he can attempt to identify the spell being cast. A proficiency check must be rolled to make a correct identification. Wizard specialists gain a +3 bonus to the check when attempting to identify magic of their own school. Note that since the spellcaster must be observed until the very instant of casting, the spellcraft proficiency does not grant an advantage against combat spells. The proficiency is quite useful, however, for identifying spells that would otherwise have no visible effect. Those talented in this proficiency also have a chance (equal to ½ of their normal proficiency check) of recognizing magical or magically endowed constructs for what they are.
Gives the ability to recognize when a spell is being cast, and a general knowledge of most common spells. A character with spellcraft lore can also identify materials used in spells, various symbols and identifying marks. They are familiar with all the different schools of magic and would know where to find someone that could train potential magic users. A second rank in Spellcraft allows a Wizard to teach from his known schools of magic.
My descriptions are a bit more vague as I enjoy players finding ways to leverage proficiencies into odd situations. Spellcraft however is getting some friends! The following covers the schools of magic and adds a layer of required proficiency for arcane classes. It doesn't make sense to me how a Wizard would have time to rack up as many proficiencies as they're given when they're so dedicated to studying magic and doing research. 8 schools of magic means 8 additional (and required) proficiencies if they want to learn spells from each of the schools. It's not a complete nerf however, as each proficiency aslso comes with an at-will cantrip, which aren't terribly powerful, but all useful in their own way and do a lot more than the vanilla 2e "Cantrip" descriptor of uselessness.
These new proficiencies means finding new spells in a book can easily become finding new scrolls if you're not willing to delve into that school. It also focuses the spell selection of low level wizards, with an expansion of power into later levels. Players can certainly dump additional proficiencies into more schools at low levels, but the payoff wouldn't necessarily be worth it since they only cast a few spells per day as is.
Grants access to learn spells from the Abjuration school. Can only be taught by a Wizard with a second rank in the base Spellcraft proficiency. This proficiency also grants the following Cantrip that can be used as a minor action at-will.
Minor Shield – Blocks the next 3+1/lv points of damage to self or touched target.
Grants access to learn spells from the Conjuration school. Can only be taught by a Wizard with a second rank in the base Spellcraft proficiency. This proficiency also grants the following Cantrip that can be used as a minor action at-will.
Summon Minor Elemental – Creates a 1/2 HD elemental which will follow a single command and blink out of existence in two rounds.
Grants access to learn spells from the Divination school. Can only be taught by a Wizard with a second rank in the base Spellcraft proficiency. This proficiency also grants the following Cantrip that can be used as a minor action at-will.
Shift Fate – Re-roll the next immediate skill check, attack, or saving throw if desired.
Grants access to learn spells from the Enchantment school. Can only be taught by a Wizard with a second rank in the base Spellcraft proficiency. This proficiency also grants the following Cantrip that can be used as a minor action at-will.
Arcane Touch – Grant a +1 magical bonus to an item for 4 rounds.
Grants access to learn spells from the Illusion school. Can only be taught by a Wizard with a second rank in the base Spellcraft proficiency. This proficiency also grants the following Cantrip that can be used as a minor action at-will.
Animate Image – Add movement to an existing image while concentrating.
Grants access to learn spells from the Invocation school. Can only be taught by a Wizard with a second rank in the base Spellcraft proficiency. This proficiency also grants the following Cantrip that can be used as a minor action at-will.
Grants access to learn spells from the Necromancy school. Can only be taught by a Wizard with a second rank in the base Spellcraft proficiency. This proficiency also grants the following Cantrip that can be used as a minor action at-will.
Rotten Wound – Cause a wound on a target within 20' to become unhealable (1 HD) until dispelled.
Grants access to learn spells from the Alteration school. Can only be taught by a Wizard with a second rank in the base Spellcraft proficiency. This proficiency also grants the following Cantrip that can be used as a minor action at-will.
Natural Enhancement – Grant a temporary +2 bonus to an ability score for 4 rounds, cannot exceed 18, does not stack. One enhancement can be active per target.


This story was updated at 7:30 p.m. with information from the burial and additional details from the funeral.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia — In life, Botham Jean's dream was to change the world.
In death, his family and friends vowed, he will.
Mourners in Jean's home country on Monday paid tribute to the 26-year-old, who had aspirations to one day become prime minister here, during his final service and burial. They also called for answers and consequences for the Dallas police officer who shot him in his Cedars apartment after she said she mistook it for her own.
"We demand justice for Botham. Botham's life matters," his uncle Ignatius Jean said in a eulogy. "We are in the house of the Lord where it is appropriate to kneel for Botham."
The three-hour service was filled with tributes and songs for the loss of one of this country's sons. Nobody mentioned the name Amber Guyger, the officer who shot Jean. Guyger was fired Monday, hours before the service began and 11 days after North Texas mourners honored him in his first funeral service.
Ignatius Jean said he hoped Botham's killer would find "peace of conscience" and tell "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" about his nephew's death.
His words were met with raucous applause. His comments echoed those from other members of Jean's family who believe what actually happened Sept. 6 at South Side Flats has yet to come out.
Guyger shot and killed Jean in his apartment after, she said, she believed him to be a burglar in her own apartment, which was a floor below hers. Still in uniform but off duty, Guyger fired twice, striking Jean once in the chest. Guyger is facing a manslaughter charge. She's free on a $300,000 bond.
An attorney for Jean's family said Botham Jean, a PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant, was sitting at home watching a football game when Guyger barged in.
The shooting prompted protests and outrage as another example of a white officer killing an unarmed black man. On Monday, Dallas protesters staged another rally outside Dallas Police Department headquarters, which is just blocks from Botham Jean's apartment.
Speakers at the funeral encouraged those in Dallas to keep marching and protesting as long as they remain peaceful and nonviolent. They said that is what Jean — who Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings had previously said once gave out water to immigration policy protesters at DFW International Airport — would have wanted.
A lecturer from Sir Arthur Lewis Community College — which Botham Jean attended before Harding University in Arkansas — recalled his interest in social justice issues and how his love of singing showed in the way he spoke.
"His voice has been interrupted, but his cadence will continue in our hearts," said Nathalie Jolie-Fancis. "He's now a champion for justice."
Jean's father, Bertrum Jean, said the outpouring of love after his son's death proved Botham Jean belonged to no country. People all over the world mailed cards offering condolences, he said. Bertrum Jean said he received so many that his hands hurt from opening them.
"All night, I have been reading cards," he said. "It was just tremendous."
Bertrum Jean then broke down sobbing as he recounted the last time he spoke to his son, two weeks before he died. They often chatted by text.
"Daddy, am I a bad son?" the younger Jean asked.
"I said, 'No Botham, you are good boy,'" the father told mourners as two men rushed to hold him up.
Jean's parents last saw him alive in March when his mother had surgery in New York.
"I can't believe my boy is now dead," the father said through tears.
The service was in the capital city at the 100-year-old Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the largest church on the island and the only one that could handle a large number of mourners. The Catholic church sits on the city square named for Derek Walcott, a St. Lucian who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A block away is the the country's Department of Justice. Its nearness and the idea of justice loomed in the service and on the island of 180,000 residents.
Before the service, Jean's parents walked in behind the casket. His mother, Allison, who visited Dallas after her son's death, remained steady as she passed through the crowd. His father wiped his eyes with a red handkerchief.
Across the street, white chairs sat in a shaded, grassy area of the square for mourners who couldn't fit into the church. Speakers broadcast the service outside.
On sidewalks, entrepreneurs sold popcorn and bottled water. An icy cold 24-ounce bottle of water went for $2.50.
Miles from the funeral, at the education office for the Ministry of Education, Human Resource Development & Labour, two photos of Jean hung on each side of a banner with cerulean blue, black and gold stripes — the colors of the St. Lucian flag. Jean's mother was once an official with the department.
"I Stand For Botham!" was written under one photo. "Justice For Botham!" was under the other.
During the sermon, as the service neared the three-hour mark, West Dallas Church of Christ minister Sammie L. Berry asked mourners to stand during his sermon. The head of the church Botham Jean attended led them in chanting "Stand up for Botham, Stand Up for Botham" as they raised their right fists in the air.
Mourners in black and red dress clothes and shirts bearing Jean's smiling image filed past the open casket inside the church. His family passed out red carnations with his name name and "Sunrise 9/21/91 -- Sunset 9/6/18."
Schoolchildren in collared orange shirts and plaid pants or jumpers sat near the front of the church in one of the eight rows of pews.
Open doors and stained-glass windows provided the slightest of breezes inside the high-ceiling church, which didn't have air conditioning, where the funeral programs doubled as handheld fans.
Several members of Jean's childhood choir created a video tribute of them signing "Lean on Me" from all over the world because they could not attend.
After the video, Brother Thaddeus Bruno said "there comes a time when we are all in need of a friend."
"And today is quite appropriate."
As the family filed out, Allison Jean carried a framed photo of her son, nodding to those on each side of the aisle, thanking them for coming. As she left the church in an SUV with another photo of her son on the hood, woman after woman reached in through the open window of the back seat to hug her.
Tears again filled Bertrum Jean's face when he arrived at Choc Cemetery, a short drive from the church, near the smaller of the island's two airports. Hundreds sang "Bring It To the Lord in Prayer" as the father walked through the sand to his son's grave. Botham Jean's final resting place looks out over the ocean.
Bertrum Jean stood at his son's grave watching as sand was strewn over his son's coffin.
"Oh, son," he called out at one point. Allison Jean cried as she buried her face in her husband's shoulder.
Cemetery workers covered the cement block hole in the sand with small concrete slabs and sealed it with wet cement as the singing turned to "Amazing Grace."
The songs ended. The sun set, leaving only wisps of light over the water.


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This station blankets an area with Excellent (20) ranked radar pulses, which it can use to track targets on the surface or in the air at like rank. The data it collects is displayed on a small, oscilloscope-type display on the back of the unit for all to see.
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The twin guns on the double machine gun can be fired to inflict Good (10) Shooting damage when firing a single shot, Excellent (20) Shooting damage when fired semi-auto, and Remarkable (30) Shooting damage when fired fully automatic. It offers no inherent bonus to hit its targets.
The mine sweeper is a small, remote controlled robot that the GI Joe team can use to seek out mines - it beats putting a live human at risk, especially when an EOD operative is unavailable. It can detect mines with Excellent (20) ability, and has these vehicular characteristics:
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It can be loaded with shells that will inflict Incredible (40) Edged Attack (fragmentary) damage to everything within their target area. It has a significant range as well; the mortar launcher can hit a target within 2 miles (80 areas) of its position.
No, really. The tank car is neither a tank nor a car, but is a small, four-wheeled vehicle about the size of a go kart. It has a machine gun mounted on the front, which can be fired to inflict Good (10) Shooting damage in a short burst, raised by +1 CS when fired full auto.
The tank car has these vehicular characteristics:
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Want to know all about Dotty?
At Scala Days New York, PhD student at EPFL, Guillaume Martres tells us how Dotty comes built-in with IDE support to make it easy to use, learn the technologies used to implement this and how it will continue to improve in the future!
A great programming language should provide a great developer experience! This is why Dotty comes built-in with IDE support that is designed to be easy to use, robust and extensible.
In this talk, I'll describe the technologies used to implement this. I will also describe some of the planned future improvements: ultimately, we would like the compiler to become much better at helping you write correct programs instead of just complaining when you make mistakes.
This talk was given by Guillaume Martres at Scala Days New York 2018.


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Q: How to create a line by passing two points and save in feature class in arcobjects using vb.net I want to create a line from two points in acrobjects. but i don't know how to save that line to a feature class
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Keywords you need to be searching on the ArcObjects API help page are IFeature, IFeatureClass, IFeatureCursor
There are many code examples on the help page, here is just one to help you. Half the battle with ArcObjects is learning to navigate the help file.


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Lyon still struggling to defy PSG
Taimoor Khan September 24, 2019 8:00 am September 23, 201912:17 pm
Lyon invested heavily in the transfer market this summer with the goal of ending PSG's dominance but things haven't gone to plan.
After a good first impression early on in the Ligue 1, Olympique Lyon are now going through a period of extreme turbulence. Sylvinho's men started the season with two thumping wins over the likes of AS Monaco and Angers.
Since then, goals and wins have tried up as Les Gones struggle to mount a serious assault for the Championnat. Many expected the team to put pressure on PSG this season following an excellent summer transfer window which saw some really great acquisitions.
As the league matures, worries are becoming bigger for Lyon!
Both collectively and individually, mistakes are being made and the team lacks a lot of things. The manner of Sunday night's defeat at the hands of PSG has plunged the residents of Groupama Stadium into further doubt.
Is this the team that is finally going to end PSG's era of dominance in France?
Many wanted Les Gones to be that team but it appears that the road isn't an easy one. After being held to a 1-1 draw against Zenit St Petersburg on the first day of the Champions League, Lyon needed to do well against Thomas Tuchel's men.
Granted the game was going to be a tough one but PSG were missing the likes of Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani. Those two absences were big ones but the home team simply didn't take advantage of the situation.
It was a bad night out for Lyon who did not have any shots on targets. And when Neymar scored late on, the Rhone giants remained out of ideas and struggled to create the sort of scoring opportunities they are capable of.
As things stand, Lyonnais are in 9th place in the Ligue 1 Conforama standings and have 8 points on the board.
Eight points after six games is definitely not the sort of output Jean-Michel Aulas was looking for when he put Sylvinho and Juninho in charge of the team's affairs.
But then again, you cannot completely put the blame on the coaching staff given the fact that they are dealing with a very young group of players.
While alarm bells aren't ringing, Sylvinho and co. should be worried about falling further behind the league standings.
Next up, the Rhone giants face Stade Brestois on Wednesday before hosting Nantes. Both games are pretty much winnable for the Ligue 1 giants but in order to ensure that they do return to winning ways, a change in attitude is in order.
From now on, Lyon must be playing every game to win it. There is already a lot of distance between them and teams in the top three places so more hiccups cannot be afforded. The likes of Moussa Dembele, Memphis Depay and others are expected to rise to the occasion.
While they didn't do so on Sunday night, the talent Lyon has in the squad urges the team to put the disappointing last few weeks behind them and start afresh.
Free agency beckons for Thiago Silva
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The Dodge City Planning Commission was created as per Ordinance No. 3551 on February 4, 2013, pursuant to legislative authority from KSA 12-741 et seq. and an interlocal planning and zoning agreement between Ford County, Dodge City, and other municipalities within Ford County approved by the City of Dodge City by Resolution No, 97-14. The Dodge City Planning Commission replaces the Zoning Board and the Board of Zoning Appeals and takes on their duties.
The duties include the preparation, administration, and enforcement of zoning and subdivision regulations for the city, and other duties as prescribed by the governing body. The board also grants relief from technical requirements of the zoning regulations.
The seven members meet as needed on the 2nd Tuesday of each month to conduct public hearings on changes to the zoning ordinance and plans for future growth of the community. Special meetings may be called as necessary. Members are appointed for 3 year terms.


This is the professional that you just hire to wash your carpets. They may work for a carpet-cleaning business or be self-employed. To be able to act as a carpet cleaning tech they must really have a number of skills. They must understand how distinct carpeting react with knowledge of all of the different kinds of carpet fibers and distinct chemicals.
Many of them work for small firms that clean residential homes. To do this work you must have the technical abilities for cleaning all types of carpeting. In addition, you have to have great customer care abilities. Typically when you do residential carpet cleaning you work by yourself since this is a dwelling and will visit your home. The company might require which you sell additional services if possible such as upholstery cleaning. It's important that you're physically fit because you'll be hauling carpet then moving it about on the carpeting and cleaning equipment from your company van or truck to your home. These machines could weigh just as much as fifty pounds. You may also have to navigate stairs. Determined by the area of the carpet cleaning job, you might do even more or three jobs a day. You'll also be required to push and pull gear, bend, stoop, stand, and lift and move furniture for at least eight hours a day, possibly more if other jobs took longer than expected.
Some carpet cleaning technicians could also work in commercial spaces like offices, restaurants, or shops as soon as they are not open. This might necessitate then to work after midnight if cleaning carpeting in restaurants. They might also work evening and weekend hours instead of during the daytime. These occupations may utilize teams of a couple of technicians because they may be many offices or shops to clean. When working for a tiny business a carpet-cleaning technician may also answer telephones, sell total paperwork, book appointments, and additional services. They may have to take care of regular upkeep of their business vehicle.
There are classes they are able to take for customer sales, various sorts of carpet fibers, and specialized learning substance treatment and services. Their technicians will be sent by some companies to the classes or they'll need to take these classes independently. Although a certification that is professional isn't necessitated having one may lead into a higher rate of pay. In the United States, the certifying body is the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification. To get this certification you have to take courses and pass an assessment.