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I first heard Calicoco's 2018 album in March of 2019. I made the comment that if I had heard Float when it was released it would have definitely made my top 10 of 2018. This year I heard Underneath on time and it's my #1 album of 2021. Underneath combines two of my favorite styles of music. Giana Calioli's vocals still embody that 1950's style crooner sound, but on this new album they are put over giant indie rock epics. The album starts off with "I Hate Living With Me," an absolute monster of a song that just swirls and swirls and swirls around itself with fuzzy and hypnotic guitars while Calioli's vocals somehow command your attention above all of the chaos. This is what sets an album like Underneath apart from so many others. Music this noisy or loud isn't usually this beautiful, and with such compelling vocals. It's almost like early 90's Sonic Youth mixed with early Smashing Pumpkins and a little bit of when Tori Amos started playing with a full band. There are also some songs of just quiet, simple beauty like "Cuore Mio" and "I Was the Devil" just to give you a sonic break. But Underneath is one of the best indie rock albums of the century.
Songs of note: "I Hate Living With Me," "Strangers," "Heal Me," and "I Was the Devil"
Labels: best of 2021, calicoco, Ken Sears, ken's best of 2021, underneath


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STONE ANGEL (article first published : 2008-07-5)
My first show of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown was, appropriately, a KZN one: Kobus Moolman's Stone Angel directed by Clare Mortimer and featuring two of Durban's finest actresses, Janna Ramos-Violante and Josette Eales.
Kobus Moolman has made his name at the festival before with his first play, Full Circle which received critical acclaim. He reaches the same strong standard of drama with Stone Angel which was joint winner of the 2007 NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Contemporary New Writing.
It's about two women. One is living at the time of the Boer war and considered by her family as a freak, because she is allergic to the sun and therefore rarely ventures outside in the daytime. The other is a modern day good-hearted albeit dysfunctional soul who tries to earn a pittance as a car guard but is also battling with an abscess on her foot which is slowly turning gangrenous. One thing the two women have in common is their eyes – clear and all-seeing.
Death, decay, exploitation and manipulation seriously impinge on these inherently trustworthy souls.
Clare Mortimer has done an excellent job in directing this sensitively-written play and Janna Ramos Violante (Poppie) and Josette Eales (Dollie, based on a real character) explore the many levels of the characters to produce two strong-minded women. Iain "Ewok" Robinson provides recorded vocal back-up such as the letter from the British soldier and vehicle noises. Josette Eales is not Afrikaans-speaking but, after working under the tuition of actor Thomie Holtzhausen (a regular personality at the Grahamstown festivals), she has produced an accurate accent.
Stone Angel is a compelling drama reaching across the span of over a century. My poor knowledge of Afrikaans meant I missed much of the storyline from Dolly's point of view but I could follow enough to believe that this play could be developed still further. Perhaps the introduction of two more characters - the soldier and Poppie's mother? – Caroline Smart

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SCUFFLING PHILLIES SLIDE 1 1/2 GAMES OUT OF WILD CARD!
Jeff Samardzija pitched eight innings of two-hit ball, Evan Longoria and Kevin Pillar each homered, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Phillies 3-1.
Samardzija (9-9) gave up one run, struck out five and walked none. He retired 20 straight after giving up a solo homer to Corey Dickerson with two outs in the top of the first inning. Samardzija's streak ended with Cesar Hernandez's one-out single in the eighth.
Samardzija was facing the Phillies for the second time in less than two weeks. He pitched six shutout innings of three-hit ball in a 5-1 win at Citizens Bank Park on July 31.
The 34-year-old right-hander is 5-2 with a 1.95 ERA in eight starts since July 1. He's 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA and 19 strikeouts over his last four starts.
Vince Velasquez (4-7) gave up three runs in five innings of three-hit ball. He struck out three and walked one.
Pillar homered leading off the fifth off Velasquez to give San Francisco a 3-1 lead. Pillar golfed an 0-2 slider below his knees for his 15th homer and career-high 60th RBI.
The Giants took a 2-1 lead on Longoria's two run homer to left off Velasquez in the second. His 14th homer came on a hanging slider.
Dickerson's seventh home run was Samardzija's only mistake on the day – a 90-mph fastball he left over the middle of the plate. It was his third homer since coming over from the Pirates in a July 31 trade.
"He has a fastball-cutter combination," Phillies manager Gabe Kapler said of Samardzija. "It's difficult to pick up which is which, and he does a really good job of changing eye levels."
Will Smith worked around a hit and walk in the ninth to notch his 28th save in 30 tries. The Giants closer struck out Dickerson swinging with the tying runs on base.
The Phils lost for the fourth time in five games.
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I've talked before about choosing a quality daycare for your child (read that here) and also about why I refuse to apologize for taking my child to daycare (read that here). However, I think it is time I address my decision to continue working now that I have a child. I am not doing this to justify my choices to anyone, but simply to help others understand the decision that I made. And be warned, I am going to borrow some Leslie Knope quotes (Parks and Rec! Woot!) to help me express my feelings on this.
I changed jobs in the early stages of my pregnancy, due to my previous workplace becoming toxic and stressful. (read my post about dealing with difficult bosses here) My new job is a much better fit for my family and myself. I always had the intention of coming back after maternity leave, but I stressed over this choice for my entire pregnancy.
Personally, I am just trying to find balance. I'm trying to keep myself mentally healthy. I work for me, and for my family, no one else! I can't take care of my son if I am depressed, or anxious, and that is how I find myself when I have too many days at home. My son deserves to have a happy and healthy mom, and with the way I am wired it is just not possible for me to be that for him without working. For some moms, they wouldn't be able to work and be away from their children without it adversely affecting their happiness. We are all different people, and you know what? That is perfectly acceptable! And our differences are one of the things that make life so exciting.
It is also important to note that my husband will start grad school this fall, and I don't want him to have the burden of working to support our family financially on his own while attending full-time year round school for 3 years. Some people choose to handle education with kids differently, but this our decision. However, when he is done with school I do plan to continue working.
One last word from Leslie Knope!
I have been incredibly lucky to run into minimal judgment with my decision. I know that it is a very personal choice for every mom. Do what you need to FOR YOU And YOUR FAMILY. Don't worry about what is expected by those around you. Do what you need to for your own mental health, your own sanity, and your own life! Be sure to give those around you the same understanding. We are all moms, just trying to take care of our families and ourselves.
Yes! We do what we need to do and we do our best at it all. Love this!
I"m a huge fan of the "let's not judge others' decisions for their OWN life" thing. Good for you Hailey, don't let those people get you down. Their opinions obviously are not important enough to give it a second thought!
Thank you Davina! You are absolutely right, we have no need pay attention to people who don't respect our life choices :).


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introduction • family, early life & religion • the Royal Institution & Humphry Davy • electro-magnetism • communicating science & engineering • the practical application of science • lighthouses • the electro-magnetic field • influence
In 1826, Faraday founded the Friday evening discourses at the Royal Institution. These, though mainly for members, rapidly became an important vehicle for widely diffusing knowledge of the latest scientific and technological developments through reports of them published in the newspapers.
Originally they were fairly informal lectures but by the 1840s they had become very formal affairs indeed. In total, Faraday delivered 123 discourses. They were not all on his own scientific work: he discussed the work of others. For example, he was a champion of the Thames Tunnel and delivered three lectures about it on behalf of Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) in the 1820s. He also lectured on Marc Brunel's block making machinery and many other practical technologies.
Faraday also helped to establish, in late 1825, the Christmas lectures for children, of which he gave 19 series, including his Chemical History of a Candle which was published and still remains in print after nearly 150 years.
In addition, from 1827 onwards he delivered an annual series of Saturday afternoon lectures on chemical or physical topics.
Though most of Faraday's lectures were delivered at the Royal Institution, in early 1827 he also delivered a course of 12 lectures on chemical manipulation to the London Institution. Later that year he turned these lectures into his only book conceived as a single entity, Chemical Manipulation.
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These commercial approaches all recognize that world in general has migrated to the Internet and our most active hobbyists have followed. Publishing information on paper is static. The world is dynamic and interactive. The post baby boomer generations have grown up with computers and have moved on to laptops, smart phones and tablets and will continue to migrate to the most seamlessly interactive platforms. We need to be somewhere they can find us. A website can be broadly viewed as having three main aspects: static, dynamic and interactive. The static portion is the framework that changes very little from one day to the next: the layout of the home page, the pull down menus, the side bars and the quick link buttons, to name a few. Once we look at a website a few times these aspects become almost invisible, just a tool to get us somewhere. Google has one of the most simple and static homepages in existence. They have fun with their logo but the only item of significance is the search box. Type in your search terms and instantly you are interacting with the digital universe.
Not many websites omit the dynamic aspect of the Internet. Every day MSN has the same basic framework, but the content of all the information in the news stories, the finance section and so forth changes by the minute. This is the dynamic aspect of the Internet. When we use MSN Finance we also enter the interactive portion as soon as we obtain quotes by stock symbol. It becomes even more interactive if we go to a message board or blog and read and respond to posts. Ebay has a static structure that they update from time to time, a dynamically changing list of items for auction or immediate purchase and an interactive auction with feedback about buyers and sellers.
As we attempt to use the Internet more broadly to promote our hobby, we have to realize that barriers to access to content make us invisible. Today the world searches through Google or a close clone. If a philatelic publication has just what someone is looking for and it exists in a book or periodical at the APRL, the searchers are unlikely to find it since to them the APRL does not exist and almost nothing in the APRL is immediately accessible from Google. Until we have a method for all philatelic libraries and websites to share data across an open platform we will remain nearly invisible and irrelevant in the digital age. People have argued against digitizing things because storage media and formats change. That is a false objection. Digitizing produces zeros and ones. Migration from one format to another is trivial. We have gone from switches and lights to paper tape and punch cards to tape and giant disks to large floppies, small disks, CDs, DVDs, internal and external hard drives, thumb drives, SSD and the cloud. Captured data has migrated from one to another and will continue to do so.
The APRL is working to expand the Philatelic Union Catalog in cooperation with several major libraries, but there is much to be done. A précis of every major holding, easily accessed by a Google search without any reference to the APRL, will be needed as a start. This will take enormous input from all major societies. One proposal for linking philatelic data has come from the Philatelic Information Network (PIN). Their website (www.philinfonet.org) outlines a method for creating a standard for linking all philatelic data. There is no way to know, at the moment, what method will work the best, or at least well enough to be implemented. It is critical that the conversation begins in earnest and that we devote significant efforts and resources to mastering the Internet and committing ourselves to the digital age.
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Great post 🙂 I'm glad that there are others trying to increase the visibility of stamps.


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NCAA Regional Site
Run for the Bobcats
Bobcat Women's Cross Country Remains at No. 9 in the USTFCCA Regional Poll
by Brian DeCandia, sports information graduate assistant
>>>Poll
NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced the week one regional cross country polls Wednesday Sept. 22, with the Georgia College & State University women hanging on to the No. 9 spot.
Georgia College has placed third in two races thus far in the young 2010 fall season. Senior Dani Destiche (Snellville, Ga.) led the way for the Bobcats in both races, finishing seventh in the Bobcat Classic with a time of 21:37 and finishing ninth in Mercer's RunFit Invitational with a time of 20:40.
The top three remain the same with Peach Belt Conference (PBC) champions Columbus State University taking top honors in the Southeast Region. Queens University (N.C.) and Lenoir-Rhyne University (N.C.) round off the top three, with PBC foe Augusta State University falling to No. 5.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/GCSUBobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Thomas Minor Pelly (August 22, 1902 – November 21, 1973) was a U.S. Representative from Washington.

Pelly was born in Seattle to Elizabeth Montgomery (née Minor), daughter of early Seattle mayor Thomas T. Minor, and English-born Bernard Pelly. He attended public schools, the University School in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Hoosac School in Hoosick, New York. He was employed in real estate and the banking industry from 1921 to 1930, after which he was an officer of a printing and stationery company until 1955.

A Republican, Pelly was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Seattle-based first district. He served in Congress for twenty years and did not run for re-election in 1972. Pelly voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He died in Ojai, California and is interred at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park.

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External links
Biography at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park

1902 births
1973 deaths
20th-century American politicians
American people of English descent
Businesspeople from Seattle
Politicians from Seattle
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Washington (state)
20th-century American businesspeople

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import simuvex
from simuvex.s_type import SimTypeString

import logging
l = logging.getLogger("simuvex.procedures.libc.strtok_r")

class strtok_r(simuvex.SimProcedure):
    #pylint:disable=arguments-differ

    def run(self, str_ptr, delim_ptr, save_ptr, str_strlen=None, delim_strlen=None):
        self.argument_types = {0: self.ty_ptr(SimTypeString()),
                               1: self.ty_ptr(SimTypeString()),
                               2: self.ty_ptr(self.ty_ptr(SimTypeString()))}
        self.return_type = self.ty_ptr(SimTypeString())

        if self.state.libc.simple_strtok:
            malloc = simuvex.SimProcedures['libc.so.6']['malloc']
            token_ptr = self.inline_call(malloc, self.state.libc.strtok_token_size).ret_expr
            r = self.state.se.If(self.state.se.Unconstrained('strtok_case', self.state.arch.bits) == 0, token_ptr, self.state.BVV(0, self.state.arch.bits))
            self.state.libc.strtok_heap.append(token_ptr)
            return r
        else:
            strstr = simuvex.SimProcedures['libc.so.6']['strstr']
            strlen = simuvex.SimProcedures['libc.so.6']['strlen']

            l.debug("Doin' a strtok_r!")
            l.debug("... geting the saved state")

            saved_str_ptr = self.state.memory.load(save_ptr, self.state.arch.bytes, endness=self.state.arch.memory_endness)
            start_ptr = self.state.se.If(str_ptr == 0, saved_str_ptr, str_ptr)

            l.debug("... getting the lengths")
            str_strlen = self.inline_call(strlen, start_ptr) if str_strlen is None else str_strlen
            delim_strlen = self.inline_call(strlen, delim_ptr) if delim_strlen is None else delim_strlen

            l.debug("... STRTOK SLOW PATH (symbolic-length delimiteter and/or string)")
            l.debug("... calling strstr")
            where = self.inline_call(strstr, start_ptr, delim_ptr, haystack_strlen=str_strlen, needle_strlen=delim_strlen)
            write_length = self.state.se.If(where.ret_expr != 0, delim_strlen.ret_expr, 0)
            write_content = self.state.se.BitVecVal(0, delim_strlen.max_null_index*8)

            # do a symbolic write (we increment the limit because of the possibility that the write target is 0, in which case the length will be 0, anyways)
            l.debug("... doing the symbolic write")
            self.state.memory.store(where.ret_expr, write_content, size=write_length, strategy=["symbolic_nonzero", "any"], limit=str_strlen.max_null_index+1)

            l.debug("... creating the return address")
            new_start = write_length + where.ret_expr
            new_state = self.state.se.If(new_start != 0, new_start, start_ptr)

            l.debug("... saving the state")
            self.state.memory.store(save_ptr, new_state, endness=self.state.arch.memory_endness)

            l.debug("... done")
            return new_start

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Asante Network is currently assisting women's groups in East Africa. The women who range in age from 20 - 60 are married and single mothers, widows, students, and grandmothers. These enterprising artisans all have similar goals. They want their children and grandchildren to have a better life! They know that education for their children is the roadmap out of poverty and into a more prosperous future.
The women enjoy working together and this gathering time yields many benefits. The primary benefit is that meeting in unison provides a "social" outlet. Collectively they learn new skills, critique each others work, solve common challenges, exchange ideas for new products and support the goals of the group.
In most cases, life is difficult. Their homes are small, usually two rooms and in some cases built by the women themselves. Around their houses may be small plots of land where they grow their own food. Some may own a goat, cow, pig, or a few chickens. Most have no running water or electricity. Water has to be carried from the communal well and gathering firewood for cooking is a daily chore. Children are trained early in life to help with these ongoing tasks.
And yet, as difficult as circumstances are the women find much joy in life. They laugh often, sing joyfully and are willing to share what they have with others. Their reservoir of hope is inspirational.
By purchasing their artisan crafts, you are helping them earn money to feed, shelter, clothe, and educate the people for whom they are responsible, including many HIV/AIDS orphans. Asante (thank you in Swahili) for purchasing products that make a difference!
The city of Moshi and village of Mwika, Tanzania,near the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, are home to Miichi Women's Group. Mt. Kilimanjaro and the abundant animal and plant life of the region are reflected in their beautiful crafts. These are the women who design, batik and tie-dye stunning textiles and textile products. Their handiwork includes waxed and soft picture batiks as well as uniquely designed fabrics for sewing and quilting. The group seamstresses sew table linens, bed linens and clothing. The clothing, African and western style, includes floor and street length dresses, blouses, shirts and one of a kind women's jackets. All are of 100% cotton, grown and milled in Tanzania.
Ketumbeine, located in northeastern Tanzania, is home to this group of Maasai artisans. These talented, fiercely proud women are the crafters of beautiful bracelets, earrings, necklaces, napkin rings, Christmas ornaments, clergy stoles and Essos-beaded, collar necklaces. The art of beading is part of their heritage and culture. Their lifestyle, though no longer nomadic, still revolves around livestock. During the 5-month dry season when there is no grass, there is likewise no milk for the children and many simply stop growing until it rains. Sale of their crafts has become a critical lifeline for these women and their families.
Three small villages, located at the base of the Rwenzori Mountains (also called the 'Mountains of the Moon'), western Uganda, are home to these basket weavers. The weavers use village grown plants and roots to make the dyes for the baskets. The results of using natural dyes are warm earth tone colored baskets. The baskets, place mats and hot pads are woven from millet straw, palm raffia, papyrus and banana leaf fiber. Rwenzori Mountain baskets include a range of shapes and sizes from mini baskets with lids to large plant holders. An ongoing delight for these women is to design and weave innovative and useful baskets.


Sales figures don't reflect the full extent of his dominance.
Last week, Drake set yet another new streaming record, becoming the first artist to surpass 50 billion global streams. It's the Toronto rapper's latest victory lap following the release of Scorpion, his eighth straight project to go to No. 1. Each of Drake's releases since 2016's Views has put up historic streaming numbers and broken Billboard records for simultaneous singles on the charts.
This week, Travis Scott managed to move more hard copies of his new album Astroworld—doing 270,000 in physical sales—while Drake's Scorpion only moved 160,000 copies. Travis was able to outsell Drake (even though Drake is still the bigger artist) thanks to his use of merch bundles. Drake could have easily done the same, selling shirts with his OVO logo to boost his hard copies and perhaps push his first week numbers over a million, but he didn't.
While Drake's continued success could be attributed to his perceived mastery of the music industry's shift to streaming, it's actually the latest proof that he's simply too big to fail, topping the chart in spite of business decisions that have actually cost him first week numbers. When you add up all the numbers, and take into account all the stats he may have missed out on, it turns out Drake's impressive figures may actually undersell his dominance in the streaming era.
Before streaming came into the picture, Drake established himself as an upper echelon artist, topping the Billboard 200 with each of his first three studio albums: 2010's Thank Me Later, 2011's Take Care, and 2013's Nothing Was the Same. Drake achieved these results despite experiencing leaks ahead of each release and being one of the most pirated artists on torrent sites. These illegal downloads undoubtedly impacted his first week numbers, especially back when album sales served as the sole metric for calculating chart position on the Billboard 200.
In 2014, the chart was revamped to factor in on-demand streaming and digital track sales. Under the new system, 1,500 song streams equated to one album unit and 10 digital track sales converted to one album sale. As the most-streamed artist in the U.S. on Spotify in 2013, Drake was well-positioned to benefit from the new metric.
For whatever reason, the release strategy for Drake's next project, 2015's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, didn't take advantage of the newfound sales potential. For one, he surprise-released the mixtape in time for the weekend instead of giving it a full week to rack up streaming numbers. Despite being limited to three tracking days on the Billboard 200, the project still debuted at No. 1 and collected a record-setting 17.3 million Spotify streams. As the streaming service's most streamed artist that year, it's clear that he would have garnered many millions more.
Drake gave up hundreds of millions of Spotify streams and YouTube views in order to build up Apple Music.
Drake's next move, a highly lauded 2015 partnership with Apple Music, lined his pockets with a reported $19 million, but similarly handcuffed his album sales. By providing Apple with an exclusive window to his albums and music videos, Drake gave up hundreds of millions of Spotify streams and YouTube views in order to build the new platform. Perhaps the opportunity to set a whole new batch of streaming records—and the payday that came with it—made the sacrifice worth it.
His OVO Sound Radio show debuted shortly after the launch of Beats 1 that June and was later used to premiere his collaborative project with Future, What a Time to Be Alive. But that did more to boost the profile of Apple Music than benefit either artist. With Future also coming off his own No. 1 album, DS2, WATTBA was a given to top the Billboard 200—and it did—but the project could have debuted with more than 375,000 equivalent album units had it been available on Spotify.
The Apple Music partnership also hindered Drake's pursuit of his first solo No. 1 hit with 2015's "Hotline Bling." Originally billed as the remix to DRAM's "Cha Cha" when it debuted on OVO Sound, the track found a life of its own despite seemingly being released as a throwaway single at the height of Drake's Meek Mill feud. The song's viral music video featuring Drake's goofy dance moves should have boosted it to the top.
Of course, that didn't stop Drake for long. Soon enough he was enjoying the success of "One Dance," his first solo No. 1 single which built hype for his next album Views. The project moved 1 million album units its first week and set an Apple Music record with 245.1 million streams. As impressive as those numbers were, it was still an Apple Music exclusive, so there's little doubt that the 20-track effort would have raked in even bigger sales had it been available on Spotify. For the second straight year, Drake was the most streamed artist on Spotify, proving that listeners were already seeking out his music without it being pushed on them as exclusive content.
With that in mind, Drake released his 2017 "playlist" More Life without any sort of exclusivity to Apple Music. With the project available on all streaming services from the start, Drake broke Ed Sheeran's Spotify record for most first-day streams for an album, and far surpassed his previous streaming record by recording 384.8 million streams during its first week. While these numbers were boosted by More Life's 22-track length, the project's success was indisputable evidence that moving away from Apple was the right strategy for Drake.
In the lead-up to his latest album Scorpion, Drake continued to distance himself from Apple Music. He surprise-released the project's singles to all streaming services rather than premiering them on OVO Sound Radio. The lead single "God's Plan" broke one-day streaming records on both Apple Music and Spotify, and he later became one of the handful of artists to replace himself at No. 1 with "Nice For What." Although there was some question about how the album would be impacted by Billboard's adjusted sales weighting metric giving more value to subscription streams, Scorpion hit No. 1 upon its release. As expected, it topped the chart based on streaming volume alone, setting new records on both Apple Music and Spotify.
During Scorpion's first week, the album racked up 732,000 album units with a record-shattering 745.92 million streams—but it turns out Drake lost out on even bigger numbers by opting not to release a CD copy right away. A Billboard report estimates that a CD version would have sold an additional 250,000 to 300,000 during its debut week—meaning he could have done a million in a week. Why Drake chose to delay the CD release is unknown, but one Billboard source speculated that he is more interested in being the top-streamed act than going platinum in a week.
And that's really Drake in a nutshell. With the full knowledge that any album he releases is guaranteed to hit No. 1, he has been able to make business decisions that cut into his total album sales, whether it's been for a truckload of cash upfront or the bragging rights that come with collecting 50 billion streams.
Editor's Note—An earlier version of this article said Drake was the first artist to replace himself at No. 1, when in fact he joined a handful of artists including Justin Bieber, The Black Eyed Peas, and Katy Perry.


Bust of the Virgin holding the Child. Sigla: μ̅|θ̅ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Along the circumference on either side, an invocation. Border of dots.
Inscription of five lines, preceded and followed by a row of pellets. Border of dots.
Θεοτόκε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικολάῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυσοτρικλίνου, χαρτουλαρίῳ καὶ ἐξάρχῳ.
Mother of God, help your servant Nicholas imperial protospatharios epi tou Chrysotriklinou, chartoularios and exarch.


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Lynne Olson
Lynne Olson is the New York Times bestselling author of Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War, Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939–1941, and Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour. Among her five other books is Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England. She lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.
To inquire about booking Lynne Olson for a speaking engagement, please contact the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com.
Madame Fourcade's Secret War
Author: Lynne Olson | Narrator: Kimberly Farr
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island&ldqu...
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Dimitri Danilovich Leliushenko (, ;  - 20 de julio de 1987) fue un destacado comandante militar soviético, comandante de tropas blindadas del Ejército Rojo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde alcanzó el grado militar de general del ejército (1959). Así mismo, fue condecorado dos veces con el título de Héroe de la Unión Soviética (7 de abril de 1940 y 5 de abril de 1945), Héroe de Checoslovaquia (30 de mayo de 1970). Fue miembro del PCUS desde 1924 y candidato de Ciencias Militares (1951).

Biografía

Infancia y juventud

Dimitri Leliushenko nació el 2 de noviembre de 1901, en la granja Novokuznetsovka, en el pueblo de Mechetinskaya (actualmente raión de Zernograd del óblast de Rostov). En el seno de una familia de campesinos pobres procedentes de un pueblo vecino. Era el hijo menor de una familia numerosa (siete hijos). De origen ucraniano. Desde los nueve años trabajó como peón en verano, y estudiaba en invierno, en 1912 se graduó en la escuela rural de su pueblo natal.

El 28 de abril de 1919, Leliushenko se alistó voluntario en las filas del Ejército Rojo - luchó en el 21.º Regimiento de Caballería de la 4.ª División de Caballería como parte del 10.º Ejército, y desde noviembre de 1919 - como parte del  Ejército de Caballería. Participó en batallas en el área de Tsaritsyn, además combatió en la contraofensiva de agosto del Frente Sur (14 de agosto - 12 de septiembre de 1919), en la Operación Voronezh - Kastornoye (1919), en la región ucraniana del Donbass, en la Operación Rostov - Novocherkassk (6 al 10 de enero de 1920), en la Operación del Cáucaso Norte (1920), en la Batalla de Egorlyk (25 de febrero - 2 de marzo de 1920), en la guerra soviético-polaca, en la Operación Taurida del Norte contra el Ejército Blanco del barón Piotr Wrangel y en el asedio de Perekop (1920) en la península de Crimea, contra los restos del Ejército Blanco de Piotr Wrangel, así mismo, tomó parte en batallas contra el Ejército Negro de Néstor Majnó.

En el curso de todas esta operaciones Dimitri Leliushenko fue herido y dos veces recibió una descarga eléctrica, y dos de sus caballos murieron en combate.

Período de entreguerras
Al final de la Guerra Civil, Dimitri Leliushenko permaneció en el servicio militar. Sirvió en el mismo 21.º Regimiento de Caballería, que pasó a formar parte del Distrito Militar de Petrogrado (Gátchina). En 1925 se graduó de la Escuela Político-Militar de Engels, en Leningrado, posteriormente regresó a su 21.º regimiento de caballería como instructor político de un escuadrón de ametralladoras. En 1927, aprobó los exámenes para el curso completo de la 2.ª Escuela de Comando de Caballería de Leningrado como estudiante externo, continuó sirviendo en el 21.º  Regimiento de Caballería: en 1928 trabajó como comisario político de una escuela de regimiento, posteriormente fue comisario de un escuadrón independiente de caballería, y en 1929 fue comisario de un regimiento.

En 1929, Leliushenko ingresó en la Academia Militar Frunze, en 1933 se graduó de ella. Desde 1933 se desempeñó como subjefe del departamento operativo de la sede de la  brigada mecanizada «K.B. Kalinovsky» acantonada en el Distrito Militar de Moscú, después de lo cual fue sucesivamente comandante de una compañía de tanques, jefe del departamento operativo de la 13.º brigada mecanizada del  cuerpo mecanizado, y comandó un batallón de tanques de entrenamiento (Kaluga).

En 1937, fue jefe del departamento de entrenamiento de combate de las fuerzas blindadas del Distrito Militar de Moscú, desde 1938, comandante del  regimiento de tanques de entrenamiento (Riazan). Desde 1939, estuvo al mando de la 39.ª Brigada Independiente de tanques de la Reserva del Alto Mando. Al frente de la brigada en septiembre de 1939, participó en la Invasión Soviética de Polonia. Luego, al frente de la brigada, participó en la Guerra de Invierno contra Finlandia. Durante las batallas con los finlandeses, los tanquistas del coronel Leliushenko ayudaron activamente a las unidades del 23.º Cuerpo de Fusileros a romper las defensas finlandesas en la Línea Mannerheim. Al final de las hostilidades, se le otorgó el título de Héroe de la Unión Soviética, además su brigada recibió la Orden de Lenin.

Después de la Guerra de Invierno fue nombrado, comandante de la 1.ª División de Fusileros Motorizados proletarios de Moscú del 7.º Cuerpo Mecanizado, que se estaba formando en el Distrito Militar de Moscú. En junio de 1940, la división participó en la ocupación de las repúblicas bálticas por las tropas soviéticas, en septiembre fue devuelta a su lugar de despliegue permanente en Moscú. En marzo de 1941, el mayor general Dimitri Leliushenko asumió el mando del 21.º Cuerpo Mecanizado del Distrito Militar de Moscú. A principios de junio de 1941, el cuerpo fue trasladado al área de las ciudades de Idritsa y Opochka.

Segunda Guerra Mundial
Al inicio de la invasión alemana de la Unión Soviética, Dimitri Leliushenko continuaba al mando del 21.º Cuerpo Mecanizado. Esta formación soviética típica de las primeras fases de la guerra consistía, en ese momento, en dos divisiones de tanques y una división de fusileros motorizados. Los tanques del cuerpo eran todos de los modelos BT-7 y T-26; los nuevos modelos T-34 y KV-1 que más tarde causarían tantos problemas a las fuerzas alemanas aún no estaban disponibles en cantidad suficiente. Con el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el cuerpo fue transferido al Frente Noroeste y participó en la operación defensiva estratégica del Báltico.

Operación Barbarroja

Entró en combate cerca de Daugavpils el 28 de junio de 1941, tras recibir la orden de lanzar un contraataque contra las tropas alemanas que habían capturado la ciudad. Al pasar a la ofensiva, las unidades del cuerpo, en ausencia de apoyo de infantería y aviación, hicieron retroceder al 56.º Cuerpo Panzer alemán entre quince y veinte kilómetros, irrumpieron en Daugavpils y lucharon en las calles de la ciudad durante varias horas. Los tanquistas no pudieron hacerse un hueco en la ciudad, pero la ofensiva alemana en dicha zona se detuvo hasta el 2 de julio.

Durante la batalla, el cuerpo sufrió grandes pérdidas en tanques, pero las tropas alemanas sufrieron pérdidas significativas. Luego, las unidades del cuerpo comenzaron una retirada escalonada, y a mediados de julio de 1941, participaron en un contraataque cerca de Soltsí. En agosto, el cuerpo perdió sus últimos tanques y se disolvió.

A finales de agosto de 1941, fue convocado por Stalin y nombrado jefe de la Dirección de formación y reclutamiento de fuerzas blindadas, y subdirector del GABTU (Dirección principal de blindados del Ministerio de Defensa). Encargado de formar veintidós nuevas brigadas de tanques, un nuevo tipo de formación blindada más pequeñas y manejables, que iban a estar armadas con tanques T-34 y K-V1. En esta posición, tenía bajo su mando a numerosos futuros «líderes» soviéticos de las fuerzas blindadas, como Pável Rótmistrov, Mijaíl Katukov, Alexei Solomatin, entre otros.

Batalla de Moscú
A finales de septiembre, la situación en el sector de Moscú era crítica, la Stavka encargó a Leliushenko la formación de un nuevo  Cuerpo de Fusileros de la Guardia Especial, este cuerpo de ejército incluían dos brigadas de tanques, la 4.º (Mijaíl Katukov) y la 11.º y dos brigadas aerotransportadas que acababan de llegar por aire. Este cuerpo de ejército en realidad, debía formarse tan pronto como fuera posible, cerca de la línea del frente, para defender los accesos al sur de Moscú y específicamente la carretera principal de Orel.

Su propia evaluación fue que las fuerzas del área de retaguardia, como la 36.º Regimiento Motorizado y la Escuela de Artillería de Tula, estarían mejor empleadas para avanzar hacia el avance alemán, recolectando fuerzas en retirada a medida que avanzaban. Esta estrategia fue aprobada y, tras la pérdida de la propia ciudad de Orel, Mtsensk, en el río Zusha, se convirtió en la «línea roja» más allá de la cual la retirada no estaba permitida. El Cuerpo recién formado se desplegó allí el 4 de octubre de 1941.

Si bien la fuerza de bloqueo de Leliushenko no solo era una nueva estructura organizativa sino una compuesta en parte por formaciones recién formadas, sin embargo, algunas de ellas estaban notablemente bien equipadas. Por ejemplo, la 4.ª Brigada de Tanques de Mijaíl Katukov estaba completamente armada con el nuevo tanque T-34, que en ese momento era posiblemente el mejor tanque de batalla que existía.

El cuerpo recién formado tenía la tarea de detener el 2.º Grupo Panzer de Guderian, que había atravesado las defensas soviéticas del Frente de Briansk y avanzaba hacia Orel. Durante nueve días, los soldados del  Cuerpo de Fusileros de la Guardia lucharon heroicamente en los campos de la región de Orel. En las batallas en el área de la ciudad de Mtsensk, los tanquistas de la 4.ª brigada de tanques del coronel Mijaíl Katukov, que formaban parte del cuerpo, se distinguieron especialmente. El avance del enemigo se detuvo. Stalin le agradeció personalmente por esta acción que supuestamente salvó la capital soviética. Las memorias de Guderian señalan que en esta etapa para los alemanes «la perspectiva de rápidas victorias se estaba desvaneciendo».

El 8 de octubre, recibió la orden de asumir el mando del 5.º Ejército, que se suponía que debía mantener las defensas en la región de Mozhaisk, sobre la histórica vía que conduce a Smolensk y a Polonia. Sin embargo, no estuvo al mando del 5.° Ejército durante mucho tiempo: en la batalla del 17 de octubre resultó gravemente herido y fue enviado al hospital en la ciudad de Gorki (actual Nizhni Nóvgorod).

Una vez recuperado, el 18 de noviembre de 1941, fue nombrado comandante del 30.º Ejército del Frente Oeste. Durante la batalla de Moscú el 9 de diciembre de 1941, el ejército de Leliushenko, ubicado en el ala derecha del Frente Oeste, llevó a cabo una tenaz defensa durante la operación defensiva Klin-Solnechnogorsk. Y el 6 de diciembre de 1941, los soviéticos estaban en condiciones de lanzar una fuerte contraofensiva (Véase Contraofensiva soviética del invierno de 1941-1942), con el objetivo de rechazar a las tropas nazis de los alrededores de Moscú. Durante la operación ofensiva Klinsko-Solnechnogorsk, rompiendo la feroz resistencia de las tropas alemanas, cortaron el ferrocarril Moscú-Klin y luego, aprovechando su éxito, junto con las unidades del  Ejército de Choque bloqueó una gran agrupación de tropas enemigas en el área de Klin. Aumentando el ritmo de la ofensiva, ya el 15 de diciembre de 1941, unidades de los ejércitos de choque 30.º y 1.º con un golpe por ambos flancos ocuparon la ciudad, infligiendo grandes pérdidas a dos divisiones motorizadas y una de tanques alemanas.

A lo largo de 1942, al frente del 30.º Ejército, participó en la batalla de Rzhev. En enero-abril de 1942, el ejército libró intensas batallas ofensivas en el curso de la primera Ofensiva de Rzhev-Vyazemsk. Durante la operación ofensiva Rzhev-Sycheventre, entre julio y octubre de 1942, el ejército bajo el mando de Leliushenko con gran dificultad «mordió» la defensa alemana, moviéndose lentamente hacia Rzhev. Aunque logró romper la primera línea de defensa, pero en batallas posteriores, las tropas sufrieron graves pérdidas y no pudieron cumplir con la misión asignada. Rzhev no fue ocupada, aunque partes del ejército llegaron a sus afueras y en el curso de un feroz asalto se precipitaron hacia la ciudad varias veces, pero cada vez fueron rechazadas por el enemigo con fuertes pérdidas.

Batalla de Stalingrado

En noviembre de 1942 fue nombrado comandante del  Ejército de Guardias del Frente Suroeste, liderado por el general Nikolai Vatutin. Durante la Operación Urano, al norte de Stalingrado, partes del ejército rompieron las defensas alemanas y crearon un frente externo para rodear al sexto ejército alemán.

El 5 de diciembre de 1942, el  Ejército de Guardias se dividió, y su ala izquierda pasó a llamarse  Ejército de Guardias del Frente Suroeste, con dicho ejército Leliushenko participó en la Operación Pequeño Saturno. Esta operación consistió en un movimiento de pinza que amenazaba con cercar las fuerzas de alivio alemanas enviadas para auxiliar al 6.º Ejército alemán cercado en Stalingrado (véase Operación Wintergewitter) y aislar a las fuerzas alemanas en el Cáucaso. El  Ejército de Guardias ahora al mando del teniente general Vasili Kuznetsov y el  Ejército de Guardias del teniente general Lelushenko atacaron desde el norte contra las posiciones ocupadas, al otro lado del río Don, por el 8.º Ejército Italiano, rodeando a 130.000 soldados italianos en el Don y avanzando hacia Millerovo. Los italianos resistieron el ataque soviético durante casi dos semanas, aunque superados en número por 9 a 1 en algunos sectores, pero con enormes pérdidas. Manstein envió a la 6.º División Panzer en ayuda de los italianos: de las 130.000 tropas rodeadas, solo 45.000 sobrevivieron después de sangrientos combates para unirse a los Panzer en Chertkovo el 17 de enero.

Después de destruir al 8.º Ejército italiano, el  y el 2.º Ejércitos de Guardias continúan su avance hacia el suroeste, en dirección a Millerovo, primero y después hacia Voroshilovgrad y luego se dirigirían al sur, al mar de Azov para rodear a los Grupos de Ejércitos A y del Don. En el curso de esta operación el 24.º Cuerpo de Tanques al mando de  Vasili Baranov perteneciente al  Ejército de Guardias de Leliushenko, realizó una incursión profunda en la retaguardia del frente alemán, en dirección a Morozovsk, al este de Tatsinskaya. La incursión tenía como objetivo el aeródromo de la Luftwaffe en Tatsinskaya, desde donde se llevaba a cabo una gran parte del puente aéreo de socorro de Stalingrado. En Nochebuena, el 24 de diciembre de 1942, capturaron el aeródromo destruyendo en el proceso unos 300 aviones alemanes, aunque las cifras alemanas reducen esta cantidad a unos setenta y dos aviones perdidos (véase Batalla de Tatsinskaya).

Por su participación en la Batalla de Stalingrado y en la segunda ofensiva de invierno soviética, recibió la Orden de Suvórov, de  grado.

Ofensivas en Ucrania

Luego, el ejército libró intensas batallas defensivas durante la tercera batalla de Járkov durante la cual, el 18 de marzo de 1943, resultó gravemente herido nuevamente. Durante su ausencia, el ejército fue comandado temporalmente por su jefe de estado mayor, el mayor general Georgi Jetagurov.

En agosto de 1943, regresó al servicio y nuevamente asumió el mando del 3.º Ejército de Guardias. Como parte del frente sudoeste, posteriormente renombrado como Cuarto Frente Ucraniano, dirigió al ejército en la Ofensiva del Dniéper-Cárpatos (24 de diciembre de 1943 - 17 de abril de 1944), principalmente en las operaciones ofensivas de Donbass, Zaporozhye y Níkopol-Krivói Rog. Tras está ofensiva el Ejército Rojo desalojó a las fuerzas alemanas y a sus aliados rumanos y húngaros de la mayoría de los territorios de Ucrania y Moldavia, alcanzando la frontera con Rumanía.

El 29 de marzo de 1944, asumió el mando del 4.º Ejército de Tanques, que, como parte del 1.º Frente Ucraniano (comandado por el Mariscal de la Unión Soviética Gueorgui Zhúkov) participó en la Ofensiva Leópolis-Sandomierz (13 de julio - 29 de julio de 1944), en el curso de esta ofensiva el 4.º Ejército de Tanques en cooperación con el 3.º Ejército de Tanques de la Guardia de Pável Rybalko avanzó contra el Grupo de Ejércitos Ucrania Norte alemán. El 27 de julio, dos semanas después de iniciada la ofensiva, estas fuerzas tomaron Lvov y el ejército de Leliushenko cubrió posteriormente 200 kilómetros hacia la cabeza de puente del Vístula a mediados de agosto. Sin embargo, las bajas fueron muy altas y el Ejército tuvo que ser retirado del frente para reequiparse. No volverían a combatir hasta el año siguiente.

Posteriormente, participó en la Batalla del paso de Dukla y en la Ofensiva del Vístula-Óder (12 de enero - 2 de febrero de 1945). Por sus sobresalientes éxitos en combate y el heroísmo masivo del personal a sus órdenes, el ejército, en marzo de 1945, recibió el rango de Guardias y pasó a llamarse 4.º Ejército de Tanques de Guardias. El propio comandante del ejército fue galardonado con el título de Héroe de la Unión Soviética por sus excelentes acciones en estas operaciones por el Decreto del Presídium del Sóviet Supremo de la URSS del 6 de abril de 1945.

Batalla de Berlín

En las primeras horas del amanecer del 16 de abril, el Primer Frente Ucraniano del mariscal Kónev iniciaba, con una poderosa barrera de artillería, el cruce de los ríos Nisse y Óder, dando inicio así a la Batalla de Berlín, en un principio el cometido de las tropas de Kónev era secundario, debían avanzar hacia el río Elba y tomar contacto con el Primer Ejército de Estados Unidos, un segundo ataque más al sur, con los 52.º Ejército al mando del coronel general Konstantin A. Koroteyev y el  Ejército polaco del teniente general Stanisław Popławski, debía avanzar hacia el suroeste en dirección a Dresde.

Al contrario que las tropas del Primer Frente Bielorruso de Zhukov, que estaban estancadas en duros combates en los altos de Seelow (véase Batalla de las Colinas de Seelow), las tropas bajó el mando de Kónev, rompieron rápidamente las débiles líneas de defensa del 4.º Ejército Panzer y avanzaron profusamente en la retaguardia alemana. Al día siguiente (17 de abril) unidades de vanguardia de sus dos ejércitos blindadosː el  Ejército de Tanques de Pável Rybalko y el 4.º Ejército de Tanques de Leliushenko comenzaron a vadear el río Spree. En ese punto Stalin dío permiso a Kónev para dirigir sus dos ejércitos blindados hacia el norte, en dirección a Berlín, para apoyar a las tropas de Zhúkov que seguían combatiendo en la zona de Seelow.

El 18 de abril el 3.º y el 4.º Ejército de Tanques del Primer Frente Ucraniano comenzaron un imparable avance en dirección a los suburbios del sur y del oeste del Berlín, cercando en el proceso a la mayor parte del 9.º Ejército alemán de Theodor Busse entre el Óder y los ejércitos acorazados soviéticos. El 20 de abril el  Ejército de Tanques de Pável Rybalko, tomaba el antiguo cuartel general del estado mayor alemán, OKH, en Zossen a solo 30 km al sur de Berlín. El día 22 las unidades de vanguardia de Kónev alcanzaban los barrios del sur de Berlín y comenzaban a avanzar hacia Potsdam y completar el cerco de la capital nazi. Finalmente el día 24, la vanguardia del 8.º Ejército de Guardias del coronel general Vasili Chuikov se encontró con un unidad del  Ejército de Tanques de Pável Rybalko, cerca del aeropuerto de Schönefeld, en el borde suroriental de la capital alemana, completando el cerco de Berlín.

Inmediatamente después de la captura de Berlín, Dimitri Leliushenko y su ejército de tanques se encargaron del asalto a la ciudad de Praga, que se había alzado en armas contra los ocupantes nazis (véase Batalla de Praga). A las 3 a.m. del 9 de mayo, las puntas de lanza del 4.º Ejército de tanques de Dimitri Leliushenko penetraron en Praga por el noroeste; unas horas más tarde se le unían las vanguardias del  Ejército de Tanques (Pável Ribalko). A las 10 a.m. las tropas del Primer Frente Ucraniano de Kónev comenzaron sistemáticamente a limpiar la ciudad de las últimas tropas alemanas.

El 10 de mayo, unidades del Segundo Frente Ucraniano al mando del mariscal Rodión Malinovski y del Cuarto Frente Ucraniano de Andréi Yeriómenko, penetraron en la ciudad desde el este y el sur, cercando en una gran bolsa a la mayor parte del  Ejército Panzer alemán de Walther Nehring. Posteriormente tropas soviéticas avanzaron hacia el oeste en persecución de las tropas alemanas que habían escapado del cerco.

El 11 de mayo, el combate acabó cuando las fuerzas soviéticas penetraron por toda la ciudad y precipitaron la rendición de las tropas alemanas, que no habían podido escapar del cerco. Solo unos pocos miles de los 600.000 soldados del Grupo de Ejércitos Centro alemán alcanzaron las líneas del Tercer Ejército de los Estados Unidos del general George Patton la abrumadora mayoría de ellos tuvieron que rendirse a los soviéticos. Esta fue la última acción de combate que vio durante la guerra.

Ese mismo día, elementos de vanguardia del 4.º Ejército de Tanques establecieron contacto con el Tercer Ejército estadounidense al este de Pilsen, lo que supuso el fin efectivo de los combates en Europa.

Período de posguerra

Al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, continuó al mando del 4.º Ejército de Tanques de Guardias, que pasó a formar parte del Grupo de Fuerzas Central. Desde octubre de 1946 , fue comandante del 4.º Ejército Mecanizado de Guardias. De agosto de 1947 a abril de 1948 se desempeñó como comandante de las fuerzas blindadas y mecanizadas del Grupo de Fuerzas Soviéticas en Alemania.

En 1949 se graduó con una medalla de oro de la  Academia Militar del Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas Armadas de la URSS. Desde marzo de 1950 hasta abril de 1953, fue comandante del  Ejército Independiente Bandera Roja en el Lejano Oriente. Desde julio de 1953 fue el primer subcomandante de las tropas del Distrito Militar de los Cárpatos, y desde noviembre del mismo año comandó el 8.º Ejército de Tanques en el mismo distrito. Desde enero de 1956, comandó las tropas soviéticas acantonadas en el Distrito Militar del TransBaikal, y desde enero de 1958, el Distrito Militar  de los Montes Urales. En 1959 se le concedió el rango de general del ejército.

Del 26 de mayo de 1960 al 9 de junio de 1964, ejerció como Presidente del Comité Central de la sociedad paramilitar DOSAAF, la «Sociedad Voluntaria de Ayuda al Ejército, Fuerza Aérea y Marina» (). Durante varios años fue miembro del consejo editorial de la Revista de historia militar. En junio de 1964, fue nombrado inspector asesor del Grupo de Inspectores Generales del Ministerio de Defensa de la URSS.

Fue diputado de las I, V y VI convocatorias del Sóviet Supremo de la Unión Soviética(1938-1946, 1958-1962, 1962-1966). Diputado de la III Convocatoria del Soviet Supremo de la RSFS de Rusia (1951-1955). Falleció el 20 de julio de 1987 a los 87 años, en Moscú, y fue enterrado en el cementerio de Novodévichi de la capital moscovita.

Fue nombrado Ciudadano honorario de las ciudades de Sverdlovsk (1979), Mozhaisk (1941), situada en el óblast de Moscú, y Slavyansk (1967) en el óblast de Donetsk, en la parte oriental de Ucrania.

Ascensos

 Mayor (25 de diciembre de 1935)
 Coronel (29 de octubre de 1939)
 Kombrig (1 de abril de 1940)
 Mayor general (6 de abril de 1940)
 Teniente general (2 de enero de 1942)
 Coronel general (11 de mayo de 1944)
 General del ejército (8 de mayo de 1959).

Ensayos y artículos
Dimitri Leliushenko es autor de varios libros y artículos sobre su experiencia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial

 Leliushenko D. Dimitri. Moscú - Stalingrado - Berlín - Praga. Notas del comandante del ejército. - Moscú: Nauka, 1987.
 Leliushenko D. Dimitri  Amanecer de la victoria. - M.: Military Publishing, 1966. - (Memorias militares). - 144 p.
 Leliushenko D. Dimitri. Mariscal de la Unión Soviética Kostantín. K. Rokossovsky (Con motivo de su 90 cumpleaños). // Revista de historia militar. - 1986. - No. 12. - P.53-58.

Condecoraciones
A lo largo de su dilatada carrera militar recibió las siguientes condecoraciones

Unión Soviética

 Héroe de la Unión Soviética, dos veces (7 de abril de 1940, 6 de abril de 1945)
 Orden de Lenin, seis veces (7 de abril de 1940; 2 de enero de 1942; 21 de febrero de 1945; 1 de noviembre de 1961; 30 de octubre de 1981; 31 de octubre de 1986)
 Orden de la Revolución de Octubre (2 de noviembre de 1971)
 Orden de la Bandera Roja, cuatro veces (15 de enero de 1940; 25 de julio de 1941; 3 de noviembre de 1944; 20 de junio de 1949)
 Orden de Suvórov de  grado, dos veces (28 de enero de 1943; 29 de mayo de 1945)
 Orden de Kutúzov de  grado, dos veces (17 de septiembre de 1943; 25 de agosto de 1944)
 Orden de Bogdán Jmelnitski de  grado (19 de marzo de 1944)
 Orden de la Guerra Patria de  grado (11 de marzo de 1985)
 Orden del Servicio a la Patria en las Fuerzas Armadas de  grado (30 de abril de 1975)
 Medalla de veterano de las Fuerzas Armadas de la URSS
 Medalla del 20.º Aniversario del Ejército Rojo de Obreros y Campesinos
 Medalla del 30.º Aniversario de las Fuerzas Armadas de la URSS
 Medalla del 40.º Aniversario de las Fuerzas Armadas de la URSS
 Medalla del 50.º Aniversario de las Fuerzas Armadas de la URSS
 Medalla del 60.º Aniversario de las Fuerzas Armadas de la URSS
 Medalla del 70.º Aniversario de las Fuerzas Armadas de la URSS
 Medalla Conmemorativa por el Centenario del Natalicio de Lenin
 Medalla por la Defensa de Moscú
 Medalla por la Defensa de Stalingrado
 Medalla por la Conquista de Berlín
 Medalla por la Liberación de Praga
 Medalla por la Victoria sobre Alemania en la Gran Guerra Patria 1941-1945
 Medalla Conmemorativa del 20.º Aniversario de la Victoria en la Gran Guerra Patria de 1941-1945
 Medalla Conmemorativa del 30.º Aniversario de la Victoria en la Gran Guerra Patria de 1941-1945
 Medalla Conmemorativa del 40.º Aniversario de la Victoria en la Gran Guerra Patria de 1941-1945

Otros países

 Héroe de la República Socialista de Checoslovaquia (30 de abril de 1970)
 Orden de Clemente Gottwald (Checoslovaquia)
 Orden del León Blanco de  grado "Por la Victoria" (Checoslovaquia)
 Orden Virtuti Militari de  y  grado (Polonia)
 Orden de la Cruz de Grunwald de  grado (Polonia)
 Orden Polonia Restituta de 3er grado (Polonia)
 Orden al Mérito de la Patria de  grado (RDA)
 Medalla por el fortalecimiento de la amistad en armas de  grado (Checoslovaquia)
 Medalla de la Victoria y la Libertad 1945 (Polonia)
 Medalla por el Oder, Neisse y el Báltico (Polonia)
 Orden al Mérito Militar (Mongolia)
 Medalla del 50.º aniversario de la Revolución Popular de Mongolia (Mongolia)
 Medalla del 50.º aniversario del Ejército Popular de Mongolia (Mongolia)

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Orden de Lenin
Héroes de la Unión Soviética
Sepultados en el cementerio Novodévichi
Unión Soviética en la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Militares soviéticos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Fallecidos en Moscú
Miembros del Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética
Orden de la Bandera Roja
Militares de la Unión Soviética
Rusos del siglo XX


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Q: Are three word phrasal verbs always inseparable? I found this sentence from the internet

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to keep up on the news while I was away on vacation.

I understand that it (keep up on) is inseparable.
However, I wonder about other three word phrasal verbs.
Can other three word phrasal verbs be separable?
Could you give me some examples?
And three word phrasal verbs always must to have an object, right?

A: This website lists about two dozen three-word phrasal verbs. As I looked through the list, they all seemed "inseparable" to me.
However, have said that, I think there is some wiggle room for a few of these, due to the flexibility of prepositions.
For example, consider talk back to. That form may be the preferred version, but one might see talk back at used instead:

When you're in school, don't talk back at your teacher.

Also, there are times when one of the three words can be cut out altogether, resulting in the use a two-word phrasal verb instead. For example, the website lists check up on as a phrasal verb meaning "examine" or "investigate," with the example:

The boys promised to check up on the condition of the summer house from time to time.

I think one could remove the up and retain the same general meaning:

The boys promised to check on the condition of the summer house from time to time.

As for your example, the preposition could probably changed from on to with, and the result would be a more common way of writing it:

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to keep up with the news while I was away on vacation.


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Why Shake Shack and Super Duper have great Service. And what that means for tech.
Thanks to Keila Fong, Michael Dempsey, Lauryn Isford, Eugene Wei, and Sam Hinkie for discussing this topic with me and their help with this essay.
Also thanks to Dan Romero for helping refine edits to this essay.
Finally as a note. Danny Meyer and the Union Square Hospitality Group are a good example of how we often discuss the first order cause of things, without understanding the structural systems shaping them. People reading Setting the Table often talk about being more customer focused. But they don't understand that it's not about trying harder. It's about setting up a their business model to align with prioritizing customer service. And identifying spaces where that can happen.
We see this problem too often in many areas. For example, US politicians have often spoken about spreading democracy around the world. But without helping build the institutions that make democracy functional first, we often see countries have 'democracies' that are even worse and more corrupt than their prior governments. We must understand the underlying structural alignments of any area in order to understand how to build the right improvements to them.
Similarly, I recently read a question by Jack Altman on advice. My personal view on advice is that most people suffer from the same first order mistake. They say what they did that worked. But they don't elaborate on the underlying structural features of their situation that would need to be true for their advice to be applicable in a new situation. Everything is topologically equivalent–so as long as the structural dynamics are the same advice would be useful to apply. But we often see people say advice isn't useful, because nobody is discussing these structural alignments. It's like watching someone try to uproot a plant to the desert–without paying attention to what soil, sun, and watering conditions it thrived in. And then be shocked it died.
When we try to understand systems that work, we need to talk more about the systems that support them. Both in markets and within companies.
And this model also allows for another of USHG's less appreciated advantages, real estate. Many of USHG's original restaurants were opened in neighborhoods that were fast appreciating in value, like Union Square and Flatiron. These created a macro tailwind to his business. And while that cannot always be predicted, by building many restaurants under one group, they've been able to take advantage of their strong brand to get prime real estate. Many developer groups bring in restaurant groups with demonstrated quality and customer awareness to their new developments at preferential terms. Some of these include the multiple restaurants USHG has in Battery Park City or in the Modern Museum of Art in New York City. Similarly, Back of the House often opens their locations in fast rising areas of SF, like Nopa.
This model is a company loop, because as these restaurant groups trains better employees who stay longer and are able to improve the business, they increase their profits and brand and are able to reinvest in continuing to invest further in their employees.
Another advantage of the USHG and Back of the House conglomerate model is cost of capital. Conglomeratization provides access to more and cheaper capital for new restaurants. Investing in the average restaurant has a poor expected return. Investing in proven restaurateurs improves the odds. Even better if they have an established brand and operations that can improve the likelihood of success. Being a larger conglomerate also gives the groups more sources of capital they can raise from.
By having a shared base of capital, these firms are able to pursue a portfolio diversification model with established higher end restaurants providing more stable capital base, strong consumer branding, and career growth opportunities, while experiments in fast casual business models are higher risk but can provide outsized returns when they work (Shake Shack).
As an example from another industry, consider Costco. Their median tenure is 4.8 years, an incredible outlier within retail. For comparison, this is much higher than Target (2.2), Walmart (3.3), Walgreens (2.8), or the abysmal Ross Stores (1.2). They have a 5% annual attrition vs the 59% industry average. This is buttressed by their business model. Unlike all other retailers, they sell everything roughly at cost, and make the majority of their revenue from annual subscription fees customers pay to be able to shop at Costco. Customers love this model with 90%+ renewal rates. And with their limited number of SKUs they are able to handle more throughput with less people, earning $600k+ per employee, around three times more than competitors like Wal-Mart or Target.
With their subscription revenue, high customer retention, and high revenue per employee, they're able to invest considerably in employee training and compensation. Costco employees make an average of $22 per hour, significantly more than the industry average of $12 per hour. The result is a very loyal employee base that stays for years, if not decades. This high employee retention allows them to have a very high quality of service and unusually knowledgeable staff.


It has been argued that social class, if not dead, is at least a 'zombie category' in contemporary Western society. However, epidemiological evidence shows that class-based inequalities have either persisted or widened, despite overall improvements in the health of Western populations. This article presents an exploratory qualitative study of the individualisation of class identity and health conducted in a southern English city. Findings are presented in consideration of two competing argumentative positions around which participants worked to negotiate class identity and health. The first of these positions denied the significance of class for identity and health and was associated with the individualised heroic and stoic narratives of working class identity. The second position acknowledged the reality of class relations and their implications for health and identity, being associated with structurally and politically orientated narratives of middle class identity. In sum, resistance to class was associated with talk about individual, private experience whereas the acceptance of class was linked to discussion of health as a wider social or political phenomenon. This evidence lends qualified support to the individualisation thesis: inequalities in health existing on structural or material levels are not simply reproduced, and indeed in some contexts may even juxtapose, accounts of social identity in interview and focus group contexts. Class identity and health are negotiated in lay talk as participants shift argumentatively back and forth between competing positions, and public and private realms, in the attempt to make sense of health and illness. The promotion of greater awareness and interest in health inequalities within wider public discourse may well help support attempts to tackle these injustices.


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Beaches, ensaymadas, and one hell of an airport
Well actually, not just one airport. They all kinda sucked.
But we'll get there.
Mid-February marked travel time. And, as described in one of my previous posts, this trip was long-anticipated and well-planned.
Travel day! Trevor and I headed for the airport in the afternoon. We were both freezing our butts off while waiting for the bus (and also during subway transfers) – we wore the least amount of warm layers we could brave, as these would just become unwanted extra luggage for the next 10 days. By a little after 21:00, we were on our plane and headed for Manila.
We arrived in Manila just after midnight, and joined the many other passengers who settled all over the terminal to catch some shut-eye. Our next flight was at 7:00. There was some floor napping, after which we headed to the massage suite, where we had mediocre, but relaxing massages before dozing off in the comfy lounge chairs. When it was time to check in, we realised that the domestic terminal was in a whole different part of town! So in our exhausted states, we headed outside, only to be bombarded by taxi drivers. I'm not even kidding. People say that that's what happens, but you don't know what to expect until suddenly they're all fighting over you and grabbing your bags.
Anyway, without any further thought, we got into one of the taxis and set off to the next terminal. Long story short, this guy saw some suckers coming, and made bank. We spent as much on the 10 minute taxi ride as one would to take a taxi from Hongdae to Paju at midnight – more than ₩60000 (a good R500). I was completely unprepared for this and didn't think to ask how much he was going to charge until we were moving. But such is life, and I'll never make that mistake again.
The domestic terminal was not what I expected, but very similar to places I've seen on The Amazing Race. I was most amused by the sign above the check-in counter with, get this, the "estimated time of departure" for our flight to Kalibo. This was over 90 minutes later than the time on the tickets. Sigh. It was hot and sticky, there was no air-conditioning, and there were people everywhere. It was more intimidating than I'd anticipated. We were hungry, but there were only kiosks with snack-type foods available. None of our devices could pick up the wi-fi that was advertised all over the waiting room. The seats were so uncomfortable. Urgh, it was a less than ideal situation all round.
Eventually, after a delay of more than two hours, we set off for Kalibo. From the flight, we had to still take a 90 minute bus ride to the ferry terminal and board a 30 minute ferry to the island. Thankfully we pre-booked with a charter company, as the bus/ferry booking procedure seemed even more intimidating than getting the taxi.
And then the tipping started. As soon as we started moving, someone would grab our bags and carry them to wherever we had to be next (the bus, then the ferry, then the shuttle), and then these guys would hover and wait for a tip. We were handing out banknotes like it's nobody's business. I think we just lost track of the exchange rate and we were too tired and overwhelmed to care. Living in a first world country can spoil a kid! Thankfully, I managed to sleep through most of the busride, which made it feel much shorter.
I'm glad I'm not scared of water or being on it, as the ferry would then have prevented me from ever reaching Boracay. But we were on it, and in almost no time (y'know, compared to every other leg of the journey so far), we were on Boracay. We made it onto the shuttle and got dropped off at our accommodation.
The accommodation, sadly, was a disappointing experience. A friend of mine recommended The Lazy Dog Bed & Breakfast, and that's where we booked. Because the smaller rooms were booked out, we even shelled out to get a family room. However, when we arrived to check in, we had been moved to a self-catering lodge across the road. This was both disappointing and endlessly frustrating, but what can you do?
Trevor and I settled in, and in the evening, we headed out to explore D'Mall, an outdoor shopping complex on the beachfront. And finally, the weekend picked up! We had burgers, arbed around the little shops and found White Beach.
This was the only full day we'd have in Boracay, and it was an easy decision to commit to spending a lazy day on the beach.
The morning started off with some souvenir shopping, after which we grabbed our beach gear and reading material and headed for the beach.
First, we took to exploring Bulabog Beach, which was practically right where we stayed. Bulabog Beach is on the "windy" side of the island, and it is famous for windsurfing and kiteboarding. After some photo ops and oohs and aahs at the impressive abilities of the surfers, we set off for White Beach, which is the quiet, white-sand-palm-trees-perfect-for-lazing-all-day kind of beach, over on the other side of the island (like, an entire 10 minute walk away!). On the way, Trevor was really amused at being able to find bottled Coke at one of the kiosks.
At White Beach, we walked along the shoreline until we found a spot further off that was a little quieter and less bustling. Many of the beachfront lodges have reserved areas on the beach, with deck chairs and umbrellas and lots of guests. These areas were busy, and noisy, and just not "island beach"-y enough. Now, if you haven't figured it out yet, White Beach is named after the endless stretch of white sand, which perfectly complements the crystal clear waters. Once we found a spot, Trevor settled into some reading under the palm trees, and I worked on my suntan. I had no intention of swimming, but I couldn't exactly go to a beach, on an island, in my swimsuit… and not test the water! And it was lovely. Even though it was hot out, it was nowhere near the sticky humidity I so enjoy complaining about in Korea. The water the ideal temperature to provide relief from the sun. And yes, of course I napped under the palm trees! Would you have it any other way?
Throughout the day, I was overcome with a sense of… happiness? comfort? invisibility? at the sight of all the different cultures, ethnicities and languages represented on the island. On a superficial level, it felt good to not be stared at for not being Korean, but on another, deeper level (one that I didn't really consciously know I possessed), it felt… right. Coming from a "rainbow nation", I've evidently taken for granted just how good it feels to be a part of something bigger. For the first time in almost a year, I didn't feel like "the foreigner", and it was a welcome feeling.
At the end of our beach day, we hung around long enough to watch the sunset (totally worth it!) and headed back to shower and change before finding some food.
Food. Of course, a big part of this vacation was about escaping Korean cuisine, and we made good on this. We had a buffet breakfast (thankfully the B&B still made good on feeding us) and after much deliberation decided on pizza for lunch. And I hear you saying, "but there's plenty pizza available in Korea". Well, we wanted the good stuff, not the sweet, corn-laden Korean version. And we weren't disappointed. In the evening, we opted for Spanish Tapas and lamb chops. Yum! (Who knew that during my time in Korea and surrounds, I'd try more different cuisines than I ever had at home?) In the course of the day I also tried some mango from a street vendor (I'm not a fan of mango, but this was something else!), and after discovering a bakery that sold ensaymadas, I ate as many as I possibly could. You would too at something ridiculous like 5 pesos a pop! That converts to roughly 125 KRW (1,10 ZAR).
I'd like to pretend this day didn't exist, because it was just tiring and an entire non-event. We got up, got ready, ate, packed, and waited for the shuttle to come fetch us. Shuttle to ferry to land to bus to airport to some more delays to being cashless in a tiny airport with no card facilities to booking in at the airport hotel to braving downtown Manila after dark in search of food to sleeping to waking up to some more terminal confusion to freaking out when I thought I'd lost my bank card to yet another delay to finally (FINALLY) being on our way to Singapore.
So to get back to the title. There were beaches. There were ensaymadas. And there were some sucky airports (or more accurately, airport experiences, but whatever). As a newbie traveller, I made all the mistakes, but I'm ready for a redo. Next time, I'll know what to expect, and I'll have only good things to say. And that's a promise!
Click on the photo below for a collection of photos from the weekend:
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Denim ditching, airport prancing, and other holiday build-up-ness
I've been avoiding this long enough now. I need to write about my holiday. It's been almost two months, and there's so much I want to write down and remember.
This one'll be a dull post about the planning bits.
I knew that coming to Korea would mean having the opportunity to travel, but travelling alone didn't appeal to me at all.
My friend Trevor and I are both public school teachers, so we have a fair amount of vacation time. Unfortunately, our vacation dates don't correspond so travelling together seemed unlikely. When we figured out that our "spring vacation" (it was still snowing then) dates would correspond by all but one day, the possibility of having a travel buddy seemed more and more real. In December, we started circling the issue, neither of us sure what type of travelling the other would be interested in.
One night, we were hanging out and looking at options. Trevor has a friend who is studying in Singapore, so he seemed to favour this destination. My preference was "not Korea", so we agreed to look into it some more.
Flights to Singapore connect through Manila (the Philippines) and in a moment of spontaneity, we entertained the idea of a longer layover. Two countries in one trip? Excellent!
Accommodation in Singapore is pricey, so the reasoning was that we'd literally be saving money by spending part of our holiday in the Philippines. And so a plan was born. The plan was to spend a long weekend on Boracay, an island in the Philippines, and then a week in Singapore.
We had two months of planning ahead of us, and at times it felt so inconsequential. There were days when I got bored of looking at landmarks and tourist attractions online. I had one rule: no set itinerary. We agreed to list things we'd like to see and do, and take it one day at a time. Trevor took to Google Maps to plot everything we wanted to do in Singapore. This would be the main part of our trip and it required a larger investment of time and energy. It was a unanimous decision to see the weekend as total R&R time. Eating and being on the beach were the only things on our to-do list.
Foreign currency! This was probably when the trip started feeling really-real. Having foreign currency and knowing you're going to use it is a flippin' awesome feeling.
Trevor's mom got us in touch with a former colleague of hers. Scott and his wife, Jennifer, and their three children are currently expats in Singapore. Trevor started mailing Jennifer, and she kindly and generously offered that we stay with them during our time in Singapore. Oh my goodness! What an absolute gift! This tremendous saving made me look forward to the trip even more.
Soon all the necessary accommodation in the Philippines was booked and paid for, and all that remained was counting down the days, and packing.
Packing. I only had 15 kg of check-in luggage, so this would be quite the challenge. I knew I'd have to leave room to bring shopping back, and really, I didn't want to be weighed down by luggage (geddit?!) – we had 6 flights and some ferrying ahead of us, so the lighter, the better.
I bought a travel hairdryer and a few travel-size bottles to decant my favourite products into. Korea is not big on variety, and cosmetics are sold in bulk, so it wasn't as easy as back home where I could pop into Dischem and buy a range of smaller sized products. I decanted and repackaged and prioritised like a champ.
About a week before, I summoned my good friend Cindy to help me pack. Cindy is a seasoned traveller – she's travelled to almost 30 different countries. She applied some tough love and my luggage was halved within minutes. And just as I thought we were done, she'd make me shed more. Thankfully, both were tropical destinations so I wouldn't need any heavy/warm clothing.
Now, if you've known me for any period of time, you'll agree that I'm very seldom seen leaving the house without (not make-up, but) denim. Denim is the basis around all my wardrobe choices. I'm just that girl. During the packing process, I decided not to take my jeans. I'd only be wearing them out of and back into Korea anyway. Tights would do. Next up, my denim 3/4 pants were ditched. And when I had to choose between denim shorts and black ones, I chose the more lightweight black pair. At least I'd still have my denim jacket, right? Think again. Cindy gave me one look and pointed at the "reject" pile. No denim. None. How would I make it? (I made it just fine, by the way.)
I settled on two pairs of shorts, three shirts that could be worn with both pairs, a skirt and two dresses. And of course lots of shoes, right? Nope! I wore my trainers and packed one pair of beach sandals and one pair of more smart-looking ones. Singapore is a classy place, so one dressy outfit was necessary.
Proof that I can, in fact, pack light.
All in, my luggage came to a whopping 8 kg (beat that! 10 days in 8 kg, baby!). Next up was hand luggage, which was nothing more than my travel documents, mp3 player, cellphone and a book (I'm yet to embrace this kindle business). Lots of shopping room!
Trevor snuck in this shot of me prancing about.
Cindy helped me pick out a "travel outfit". I'd need something that would keep me warm in Korea (temperatures were still in the negatives), but that I could shed off as we reached warmer destinations. I'd also need to be comfortable while flying, as we were flying with budget airlines. Everything would need to fit into my luggage during our time in the tropics. I'm not an overly experienced traveller (especially not an international one), and I told Cindy that I felt like "one of those seasoned travellers who prances around airports in ridiculous outfits".
And then it was time to go! Trevor and I braved the cold to catch the bus, and then the train, to the airport. It was nice to experience the airport, not as a terrified newbie to a new country, but as a leisurely traveller. As Trevor put it:
"Well, we're out of the cold and neither of us is emotionally traumatising ourselves by moving to Asia."
That summed it up well.
Check-in and customs were a breeze, and soon we were off.
Next stop: Philippines!
Boracay, Manila, Philippines, Singapore, Travelling


I have spoken with many people working in the Health Care sector, who are concerned that the move to university training has changed the opportunities for those born with a vocational calling who wish to provide the crucial core nursing care. The move driven by unions, to establish nursing more as a profession than a vocational calling has meant some thing has been lost in the process.
We should restore hospital-based vocational training, to ensure that a high proportion of our nurses have a vocational orientation. Whilst highly educated and higher skilled nurses are now an integral and vital part of the healthcare team, the all-important core nursing skills need to be restored.
There are certain human elements in nursing that simply cannot be imparted to a nurse through University Training.
This is becoming particularly important in the area of mental health as well as in other areas of care.
Good post. Nursing is about changing bed linen, giving injections and cleaning patients. It seems modern nurses seem to be above all that and these jobs are for someone else. They seem to think they are mini doctors.
There may be some validity in your post, but it will not happen. It would be easier to turn back the tide.
There are certain human elements in nursing that simply cannot be imparted to a nurse through University Training. This is becoming particularly important in the area of mental health as well as in other areas of care.
I've never read such rubbish in all my life.
The world has moved on from the 1950s.
What do you want?. . . Nurses doing a one week FAS course in mental health care?
We have many fine vocationally trained nurses in our Health Service. We need to ensure that we continue to attract a lot of people with a vocational calling to nursing.
What's that got to do with your opening post?
You're actually claiming that nurses, in some way, don't provide care. Have you any idea what you're talking about?
Go down to any major hospital. . .walk along the wards and observe their workload.
That would make sense if nurses were trained in university alone. They're not - they're trained in a combination of university and hospital placements, so have the opportunity to develop both the hard and soft skills needed.
But the idea of returning to an era when nurses were basically hpspital cleaners and carers would not be desirable. Patients benefit when those they interact with most, i.e. the nurses, have basic medical training that allows them to (a) perform more of the routine matters that used to be the sole reserve of doctors, and (b) provide genuine and informed information about medical conditions and processes etc.
And if you imagine that nurses don't change beds or engage in an awful, awful lot of hard graft that you seem to think that university graduates don't do, then you need to actually see a nurse at work.
Precisely. The opening poster does not understand what he's talking about.
You simply don't understand the difference between vocational versus professional nursing.
In what way is my post, above, wrong?
It's just as well that we have you, our modern King Solomon, to show us eejits the error of our ways! Are you a school teacher?
Irish nurses are awsome, I only wish there were more of them , the recent trend in employing lots of agency staff from third world countries has reduced the standard of care on the wards in my experience.
"We should restore hospital-based vocational training, to ensure that a high proportion of our nurses have a vocational orientation. Whilst highly educated and higher skilled nurses are now an integral and vital part of the healthcare team, the all-important core nursing skills need to be restored."
I don't think you realise what you're talking about.
P.ie's very own village idiot has turned up in the form of greengoose. Starts off with a troll and nothing to say on the opening post or subject matter.
The vocational calling to nursing is very important. The move to university training and degrees limit the entry oportunities for many who have a calling to nursing. We are losing out on excluding a lot of people who have that a vocational caring calling.
We have more and more people in nursing who are too concerned by salary levels.
Anyone who is unsuited to nursing does not enter it or would not last in it.
Professionally trained university educated nurses is called applying standards to a very demanding role which once did not exist. This requires nurses to have a wide array of skills to fit the modern demands required by the public in hospitals.
what he wants is a way of preventing nurses from taking up job opportunities abroad, simple as that!
If they haven't recognised qualifications they won't be able to get work abroad and have to remain here and accept Dr James O'Reilly's offer of ************************e pay or "work behind the counter of a take away"
Can I recommend anyone who's been naive enough to climb down underneath the bridge to debate this with Bobcolebrooke come to their senses and come back up from there?
Ah. . . So this is your real reason for posting? You think that by devaluing the role and profession that they should be paid less as a result.
Nurses are underpaid in Ireland.
Perhaps your role or job should be demeaned in some way as an excuse to pay you less and to attract those who have vocational aspirations in your profession?
All dressed up as a more "vocational training".


Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie. She is not happy about this move but she knows her mom wants to follow her new husband who is a minor league baseball player. Fortunately for Bella she is welcomed into Forks High School and makes friends quite easily. The only weird thing about the school that she notices are the five Cullen siblings: Edward, Alice, Emmett, Rosalie Hale, and Jasper Hale. They are all adopted by the town doctor, Carlisle and his wife Esme. The fact that they are all adopted by a young doctor, who looks way too young to have five eighteen year old kids is not the weird part. What Bella finds out of place about them is that they are all unbelievably beautiful, tend to keep to themselves, and are all together together.
Bella walks into biology and she finds that she shares the class with Edward Cullen. She is shocked to realize Edward has taken an immediate dislike to her without even talking to her. After class he pretty much runs out of the room, which she interprets as him trying to get away from her.