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Annie Smith is a Bay Area based performer and teacher. She holds an MM in voice from San Francisco Conservatory and a BM in voice from Boston Conservatory. Recent operatic roles include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. She performs regularly with Oakland based hip-hop chamber group Ensemble Mik Nawooj, who recently made their east coast debut at the Apollo Music Cafe in Harlem.
Jennifer Wu earned her Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Voice, and Bachelor of Education from Wilfrid Laurier University, and is currently in the midst of completing her Master of Arts in Community Music. She is an alumna of the Royal Conservatory of Music and a member of the Ontario College of Teachers. As a performer, Jennifer's credits include, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Laurier), and Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Opera Laurier), as well as solo and collaborative recitals.
Joyce Ting - Program Director
Joyce Ting holds a Bachelors and Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from Wheaton College (IL) and Boston University, as well as a Masters in Education for Middle School Humanities from Lesley University. She debuted with the Boston Lyric Opera as La Charmeuse in Massenet's Thais, went on to sing in multiple productions with BLO, and performed in Opera Boston's Boston-based premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar. She is a graduate of Luna Dance Institute's SI program, and has also taken part in Alameda Department of Education's Integrated Learning Specialist Program. She looks forward to continuing her mission to bring arts and creativity access to every child.


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Don Pardo: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Frank Sinatra!
Frank Sinatra: Thank you very much. You're marvelous. Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. This is Francis Albert reminding you that it is time, it's time that — for all of us to start buying and driving American cars. Recently I visited the Motor City, and I have to be quite honest with you, that I did not like what I saw. Capisce? Thousands, thousands and thousands of beautiful guys and chicks out of work because you are not buying American cars. Now I'd like you to meet one of the guys America forgot, if you'd be so kind, please welcome, from the United Auto Workers of America, Jerry Hemphill, ladies and gentlemen!
Jerry: Thank you, tha – good to be here, Frank. Well Frank, I-I used to work for Chrysler, and uh, I was installing power seat assemblies, until I got laid off, uh … well it's bad enough for me and my old lady, you know, but uh, it's hard to see the kids staying at home, just uh, starving.
Frank Sinatra: (points to the camera) You hear that, America? Because you do not care enough to drive and buy American cars.
Frank Sinatra: We're talkin' foreign labor here. We're talkin' Japs, ladies and gentlemen.
Jerry: This is a Japanese beer can, right here, Fred. Now you see how they're cheap, thin aluminum.
Jerry: Now your, your American cars, your American cars are built solid, like a J.C. Higgins bowling ball! You follow me, Frank? Huh?
Frank Sinatra: I got you, Jerry.
Frank Sinatra: Thank you very much. Jerry Hemphill, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much, Jerry.
Frank Sinatra: Thank you so much. And now I'd like uh, viewers to meet someone that wasn't so lucky, ladies and gentlemen.
Frank Sinatra: Tell us your name, sweetheart.
Frank Sinatra: Melissa, tell the people your story.
Melissa: (speaking quickly) Well, my dad got one of those cheap, Japanese cars, you know, and we were going to my grandmother's house you know for dinner, and um, and my dad ran into this cow, and he hurt the cow real bad, and I had to go to the hospital — (sobs) — and now I can't play with the other children.
Frank Sinatra: God bless you, sweetheart.
Frank Sinatra: … like the rows upon rows of simple white crosses that mark the graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
Frank Sinatra: I take you back to December 7th, 1941. And the story of a young gunner aboard the USS Arizona.
Frank Sinatra: Ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed my honor to introduce to you, Harold Duffy, US Navy, retired.
Frank Sinatra: (points to the stump) Okay chief, tell 'em how it happened.
Harold: Oh, I remember, I was playin' the harmonica and laughin' it up with some of my buddies 'board the USS Arizona n' then … from outta nowhere came them Jap planes … them machine guns spittin' death … I lost my best buddy that day, Frank.
Frank Sinatra: I know what you mean. When we were shooting "From Here to Eternity," I had to leave the set every day because of the tears in my eyes.
Harold: Frank … when you think of that, the next time you see a friend or neighbor drivin' one of them Jap mobiles, you tell them that the same tuna-heads, that put together the assembly of that, that durn thing are, probably the same people who're responsible for jammin' bamboo chutes under these — (holds up his stump, then holds up his right hand) — THESE fingernails.
Harold: Well who can understand the Oriental mind, Frank? I tell ya, the … you-you're talkin' about a people who build their houses out of paper. People who, who build their uh, who — they call their planes Zeroes … they call their boats JUNKS!
Frank Sinatra: Wait, wait — for the record, chief, I think the Junks are Chinese, not Japanese.
Harold: … one of THESE in here?!
Frank Sinatra: Thank you very much. Harold Duffy, ladies and gentlemen, US Navy, retired, from the USS Arizona.


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I've always been honored and proud to perform the national anthem and last night I wanted to try something special for the NBA. I'm a risk taker artistically, but clearly this rendition didn't strike the intended tone. I love this country and honestly tried my best.
Let's be real, #Fergie gave the U.S. the anthem it deserves right now.


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Stuart Hood Part II
By Marc Karlin, James Leahy and Julian Petley
Stuart Hood gives voice to a tradition, in conversation with Marc Karlin, James Leahy and Julian Petley. Edited by James Leahy with Stuart Hood.
This is the second instalment of Vertigo's interview with Stuart Hood, which took place last autumn. The first instalment appeared in Vertigo No. 1. At the BBC, Stuart Hood was successively Head of the General Overseas Service, Editor of Television News, then BBC Television Controller of Programmes. Now a freelance programme-maker, he is also the author of the classic study On Television, and of a volume of war memoirs Pebbles From My Skull (revised as Carlino). He has also published several novels of which, A Den Of Foxes, a critical memory of war and the Left, is the most recent.
Understanding the present
Julian Petley: Why is it, do you think, that young people today have so little sense of the past? Is it to do with our living in the eternal present that Kundera talks about in The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting? Is it that there's been a deliberate attempt actually to stop history at a certain point? We know that the Tories don't want history taught in schools beyond a certain historical moment.
Stuart Hood: Nowadays, even more than when I was many years ago a kid at school, history is taught as a number of disconnected and inexplicable phenomena. Kids will do a project on the Vikings, and do another one on the Great Wall of China, another one on the Aztecs, and there is no connection between any of these things whatsoever; they're not presented with any sort of time-scale, any sort of continuum. There's no sense of a continuum of history, problematic as that concept may be, but still there is a quite fundamental notion that, from the year dot to last year, something did happen, in some kind of sequence. That concept has gone from the thinking. They've scuppered that.
This reaction is also encouraged, as you say, by the presentation of history, at least in schools, as something that stops at some point. Well, if history stops at some point, then what's the relevance of it to us today? That's what young people go on to say. It's out of our ken. And we are caught in a present which we'd better come to terms with, as that's all we've got.
And that leads to a kind of immanence at present. The other things they find very difficult to see. What they do see is that the generation before the present one felt that they had something hanging over them, and that was the Bomb. What I think the present generation is thinking about is ecology, what's going to happen to the planet. These are the things that they do engage in, and obviously for very proper reasons. Now how you then cope with such immense topics is actually another matter. And as far as I'm concerned it's quite clear that one can't really understand the present unless one goes to the past and deals with the legends of the past, engages with history.
James Leahy: Some people have suggested that the very instantaneous nature particularly of TV reporting rather encourages this kind of lack of awareness. This week it's Bosnia, next week it's Somalia, the week before it was Southern Africa, where there's going to be a famine which has been aggravated by civil war, and so on. This continuous flood of images, giving no space for reflection, does, it seems to me, discourage understanding.
SH: In a curious and I think quite reactionary way, [John] Birt was trying to do something about this with his idea of contextualisation. However, if as an audience you've got no kind of general view of how societies work and how the economic structures of our societies are set up and what the great moments and the great pressures are, you can't begin to put things together at all.
Marc Karlin: But surely the responsibility is on the viewer to come to terms with the images? You can't blame the information, you can't just say it's because we've got a surfeit of images. We have to learn how to deal with this surfeit. So how do you encourage that sense of responsibility?
SH: The problem seems to me that as a result of our educational system and the attitudes of people who hold the power in our society no attempt is made to fit people with the kind of tools that might enable them to do this. I don't blame the people for not being able to deal with it – how can they? First of all, there's the imposition of a view of society and social change that denies the possibility of people making any kind of sense of what they're shown and told. How then do you expect people to cope with all this flow of images? If you look at the question, for instance, of the rise of racism in France, the question of their resistance and that of other governments to taking refugees from the South – that can only be understood in the context of a situation in which perhaps in the next five to ten years we're going to see a whole shift of people from impoverished countries into Western Europe. And why the hell shouldn't they? People went from impoverished Europe to America in the 19th century, and to Australia and elsewhere. They did not ask permission from the indigenous peoples. The same thing's going to happen in Europe. And that is one of the roots of racism here. People say; 'We've got to defend ourselves against that.'
It eventually comes back to an educational problem. And my own view is that if one is a teacher and an intellectual, what one has got to try to do is interest people in knowing where they came from and why they got where they are. This runs counter to the present idea of what history should be taught in schools. It seems to me that it would be extremely important in this country to have in the teaching of history a large section devoted to explaining how black people came to be here at all. How they got to the Caribbean, how they came here; how the Indians and Pakistanis came here, where they came from. The latter question raises the whole issue of indentured Indian labour in East Africa, the whole question of slavery in the West Indies. All that is part of our history, and yet it is totally neglected. It would, I think, be of extreme importance not only for young black people, young Indians and young Pakistanis to understand and come to grips with it, but for young whites as well. And for our society to admit to all that, because it's hidden away. That is why I think that a sense of history is of extreme importance. What I'm asking for, and this is probably very difficult to achieve, is that, in the history curriculum the role of Empire should be honestly discussed. And of course you should include Ireland. The kids in Kilburn, down the road from here, ought to know what went on in Ireland.
JL: This seems precisely the kind of engagement with history that our current society and our current bureaucrats and administrators and political leaders encourage us not to produce and not to have.
Not long ago, I met up with someone I knew at university who's not in the DES, and involved with the teaching of history in the National Curriculum. He dismissed the idea that the government should support the British film industry – not on economic grounds, but because he didn't believe someone like me would ever be involved in a film which was likely to be good for this country's image abroad!
SH: I was asked back to Italy in the spring of this year, to the town of Prato in Tuscany, and I found myself with some very distinguished people on a platform in a big secondary school, with a very large fifth and sixth form. The headmaster, and a representative of the Town Council, made a short statement saying: 'History is not simply read about in books. History is living. You young people are living through a very difficult moment in history right now. And these people on this platform are going to talk about how the Republic was founded out of the Resistance. Where it came from. The ideas on which it was based.'
And the kids all sat there and listened, and they came up afterwards and asked questions. It was a very interesting attempt by educationalists to expose these children to what we thought the Resistance had been about, what the Italian Republic had been founded for and what needs to be stressed and reinforced today. I thought it was amazing. It was very good.
JL: What are the factors in Italy which allow this to happen?
SH: The short answer is that this was a Communist municipality. The Resistance was very strong there, and it's still strongly felt. There are still people there who were part of the Resistance.
There is, of course, the whole question of the mythology of the Resistance, which is another chapter altogether. One of the problems I experience when I go back to Tuscany is that they make me fit into a history, and into a legend. I have to be careful what I say so as not to trample on too many people's toes. So it's not unproblematic.
JL: How far is the existence of such alternative centres of power – Communist municipalities and so on – reflected in the Italian media?
SH: The Italian media are subject to that process they call lottizazione. That is a dividing up of the spoils, so that TV1 is Christian Democrat, TV2 is Socialist and TV3 is Communist. And that extends right through Italian life, and has become very hierarchical, very schematic and in many cases an obstacle to progress of every kind. It's become a very conservative mode of operating. In Italy this summer, however, I was struck that in every small town and large village the names of great figures of the Left have not been removed. Gramsci's name is still there. There's a Karl Marx Strada and so on. So that tradition is still being celebrated. Then, in every one of them there was a Festa del Unità, celebrating the Communist Party newspaper and both communist parties were taking part in celebrations separately. But one had a feeling that there was some kind of political life at a grassroots level. It may not be quite sure where it's going at the moment, but it's there, and it won't be shaken by all the shifts in the hierarchies of the Communist Party.
JL: What about history and national identity? Look at the horror story about the Carthage Film Festival last year: a collection of work by black British film-makers was invited, including Young Soul Rebels and Playing Away, which is about a cricket team! The Foreign Office refused financial support to freight them out. They justified themselves with comments such as: 'Not likely to be representative of the British cinema... Would possibly give a bad image of Britain to outsiders... After all, they're not exactly Howard's End'! Apparently no-one had troubled even to look at any of the films. So for me the idea that we should take a clear look at ourselves and our history in the schools or in the media sounds almost naïvely utopian.
SH: But I think that one of the functions of intellectuals, on the Left in particular, is precisely to have utopias. Things which may not be totally possible, but which one strives towards, as a goal. And to keep these utopias alive. Like Marx's saying that humankind has always had a dream of something. And to keep that dream alive, and to give it body and objective being. This seems to me the function of intellectuals
Negotiating the '90s
MK: Where concretely do you see node of the question of public service broadcasting?
SH: That is an extremely difficult question to answer. Where does the BBC have friends and supporters in places of power? That's one question. Another is: where does the BBC have friends and supporters outside the areas of power, but inside civil society, who might root for it in the big debate over the Charter? I think, with the disappearance of Thatcher as Prime Minister, that within the Conservative Party the element which has tended to approve of the BBC is probably dominant at the moment. Major went out of his way to compliment the BBC on the coverage of the Gulf War. We might have arguments about the nature of that coverage, but Major is not one, I think, for a root and branch attack on the BBC. That is for Conservative reasons. The BBC can be seen from that point of view as a supporter of the establishment, as a solid part of civil society.
The other support can come from a very different direction. That is from people who have worked in the media, who are interested in the media and who, to put it in a crude way, are intellectuals involved in media studies, in media activities. They, I think, see in the current debate a possibility of trying to stiffen the resolve of the BBC, to make it stand up for the need for a public service broadcasting system, to argue the case for it to be funded properly, and for be funded safely and securely, and not commercialised. Now where one then goes outside into what one might call the general public's domain, is quite another matter, because here one really does run up against the powers of the press and the BBC goes back to the very origins of the Corporation.
The press saw the BBC as a threat in the 20s and 30s, and it has to be said in Reith's favour that he consistently fought for the right of the BBC to report the news, to cover events and to have a proper news service. Originally, you may remember, BBC news bulletins were assembled only from tape services, and at the end of each bulletin was an acknowledgement which said that this bulletin comes to you from three tape services, three named press agencies. The BBC was not allowed to make its own news in any shape or form. Reith fought for the ability to cover events, to broadcast things like the Derby, outside broadcasting, and to have the BBC's own newsroom, which made its own newscasts.
There's always, I think, been a tension at certain levels between the BBC and the press in general. Not only the popular press but largely the popular press. It sees in the BBC some kind of enemy, and it attacks on various fronts. One is what you might call the populist attack, which is that the BBC is an elitist organisation, it's way above the heads of the ordinary people, and therefore no good to anybody. That's one level of attack. Another level is that of bureaucracy, that the BBC is a bloated and over-staffed organisation. The third level is that of public service. This links up with the idea that public service is a concept which is outmoded, it's condescending and generally out-of-date. And the BBC should really be utterly and thoroughly reformed. Quite apart from the fact that the BBC is accused from time to time of being a nest of radicals!
I think these are the main lines on which the BBC is depicted by the press, the popular press in particular, as something to be censured, something to be attacked. Something to be discredited in the mind of the readers. This, of course, links up quite clearly with Murdoch and his whole stance. I think that he is very anti-BBC and this shows, certainly in his papers. It has shown right through the big debates which have taken place in the past few years.
Nevertheless, there is the possibility of a debate arising, perhaps rather like the debate that arose when Channel 4 was first proposed. This might help to rescue what is rescuable and what is worth supporting in the concept of public service broadcasting. But it would need to be a big and strong lobby to do that.
MK: Given the fragmentation of society, do you still see any reason or future for public service broadcasting? What deserves to be rescued?
SH: This is addressing the problem from another angle, isn't it? There is no doubt that the public has been fragmented in a variety of ways. One is that very many families now have more than one TV set. So the idea of the family as a group, or a number of people inside one domicile as a group, has gone. However, there is still a group of people who severally and distinctly watch programmes, who might come together to work in situations or other situations, with some kind of sharing experience on that level.
The other way in which the public has been fragmented is, of course, by niche broadcasting, which is the preferred method of the advertisers. And then, without indulging in conspiracy theories, one has to ask oneself to what extent the splitting up of the audience is done with perhaps some deliberation, in order to loosen the ties between the citizens and the make them less liable to expand in a common way, or in an area of shared experience, which might have political consequences.
I think one's got to be very careful about conspiracy theories. But this does fit in with the Thatcherite concept of there being no society. If there's no society, then you can chop 'society' up into many little bits and it doesn't matter. It's a good thing to do so.
JL: Many of the things which conspire towards this kind of change in social behaviour operate, it seems to me, at a totally unconscious level, with structures and ideologies competing for space and exerting their dominance when they have it. And perhaps as a result making permanent and substantial, even structural changes.
SH: I think this raises the question of hegemony, and how it operates in our society today. I think that you could argue that at one time the BBC was crucial to the establishment and the government in maintaining hegemony. It still tries to do that but it's more difficult for it now. What it is unable or unwilling to do is recognise that its role now might not be that of hegemonic support, but in fact to reflect difference inside our society. This might be more fruitful than trying to be the mouthpiece of some cult of consensus in society.
JL: That seems to me to be a very important idea. But of course as soon as one operates as a reflector of difference inside society one is open to all the populist or demagogic attacks from those who only like difference to be articulated within certain very confining limits.
SH: That is the big problem, and it raises the whole question of the spectrum of opinion that you allow to be expressed in public service broadcasting. The question of censorship, where you draw lines, becomes quite immediate and difficult.
JL: We've had some very striking examples of that in recent months. The subtitling of Bernadette McAliskey seems to me a very real extension of such censorship, and one which was perpetrated by the BBC itself.
SH: Yes. I find that quite a monstrous event. It was interesting, however, that the BBC then said that it would like the rule to be changed, did it not? Maybe they saw the absolute idiocy of the situation. But whether they'll be able to get the politicians, the Conservatives, to agree to any change in that rule is quite another matter. It'll be difficult. I don't think they did it in an attempt to show up the system. Having done it, and been confronted with it, somebody said: 'Look, this really is idiotic.' It's a bit like the attitude the BBC used to have to the vetting of its staff. Many people inside the BBC knew this was idiotic, but it required somebody outside to say so before they could then say: 'Maybe you've got something there. We ought to change the system.'
MK: Hans Magnus Enzensberger says that we should be pleased to live in an age of mediocrity and that intellectuals should stop bleating about lack of standards. He praises Mr Pooter, who never killed anybody. How do you see yourself, and intellectuals for that matter, in this valueless age?
SH: This is the million-dollar question, isn't it? Well (laughs) I am a self-confessed intellectual, and have been a teacher for quite a part of my life. I think that, as intellectuals, we have got a certain inheritance, which we have got to look at critically, to try and pass on that inheritance to further generations, other generations, encouraging them to look at it critically as well. I think that's the most important function we can perform in society, to examine ideas, to present ideas, and not to present them dogmatically, but rather to say: 'Look. These are interesting ideas. Important ideas. Think about them and engage with them.' That seems to me to be crucial.
And I think that for Enzenberger, who's an intellectual par excellence, to say this really is quite ridiculous actually. Quite apart from the fact that the economic infrastructure underpinning Mr. Pooter's harmlessness was derived, in great part, from the often ruthlessly violent economic exploitation of colonial territories over several centuries. Enzensberger doesn't in fact himself, I think, enjoy living in mediocrity.
It's this kind of jumping overboard into a curious kind of populism that I find deeply depressing at the present time. If one can engage in dialogue with people, and discuss whether football team A is better that football team B, which one certainly can, I don't see why one can't engage in a debate which says that author A is better than author B, or that, in his own field, musician A is better than B. It seems to me that it is possible to make judgements of this kind, and that it is necessary to make judgements of this kind. People may disagree with you, but I think one has, again, to provoke a debate on this subject, and not accept a sort of whitewash over everything which really says: 'Well, nothing matters. It's all a great soup of mediocrity. Let's just accept the soup.' I don't actually do that.
MK: What stance do you think Pasolini would have taken if he were alive today?
SH: Pasolini, of course, was a very odd character and, I think, very much of his time. It would be curious to see which way he would have gone, where he would have ended up in a postmodern world. He was very much not postmodern, I think, and he was living out a particular paradox or enigma, which was that on the one hand he would define himself as Marxist, on the other had he was undoubtedly a Catholic. And the attempt to resolve that contradiction lay at the heart of much of his work and thinking.
He was a supporter of the Italian Communist Party at a period when, in my view and the view of many Italians, it had become the party of law and order. I think that is another great paradox that ought to be explored.
JL: Going back to teaching, and the role that we both have as teachers, I accept your analysis of the situation, and of the role of the intellectual as teacher. On the other hand, I'm very aware that we're only a small minority even within higher education, attempting to articulate the importance of an awareness of history, the past, and so on. Often the kind of value judgements that are articulated in relation to the artistic and cultural past are very conservative and narrow-minded. Perhaps less so than 20 years ago, but they still exalt the traditional élite corpus. Anne Karpf recently pointed out in the Guardian how the term 'politically correct' has now become a term of condemnation, used to dismiss arguments or works, as if studying a book by a black woman which has just been put on the syllabus in the States is ridiculous, a threat to civilisation as we know it!
SH: I think that is one knot that one has to try and unravel. And clearly what one has to be open to is the concept of a spectrum, a cultural spectrum, not a number of cultural separate boxes. And that one must discuss with the same seriousness Heavy Metal, any cultural manifestation.
One of the problems attached to what I would call a spectrum view is that sometimes there's this sub-text which says it's all equally important. Equally good. And I take the view that it's not all equally good. It may be equally important sociologically, but some of it is better than others. Within the various genres there are good and bad examples, in cinema as anywhere else. Therefore, one has to encourage one's students to be critical. And they are. Very critical, in fact. They make great distinctions.
One has also to suggest that one can't write off the past entirely. One has to look at it in different perspectives, and be open to alternative syllabuses, alternative reading lists, to put it in the crudest possible way. And that the old canon is really outmoded, and has to be thought over again.
JL: What for me is a more fundamental point in relation to teaching is the fact that not only are people of our way of thinking perhaps in a minority in higher education but that we are reaching only a tiny, and in some sense élite, fragment of society. I agree that is important and meaningful to engage with these critical and historical concerns in that area where we can operate a practice, but I sometimes get depressed in terms of relating more generally.
SH: Yes. I can make a parallel. I was talking last year in Germany to some people who had been in the German Left in the 60s. The SDS, all that left-wing movement that went across into the Baader Meinhoff.
We were having discussions about the role of the politics of it. And I posed the question to one person who'd been very active at that time: 'What do you think came out of it all?' And he said: 'Well, we clearly did not achieve our aims in the terms they were expressed at the time. And it may be that Habermas was right in thinking that they were wrongly posed. However, throughout German society today in all kinds of positions – as teachers, as administrators, in very many levels and ranks of life – there are people who went through that experience, and took on board certain ideas about anti-authoritarianism, about thinking critically, about how one deals with children, about how one deals with relationships with women. That's a kind of leaven, a general leaven in German society, which has had a big effect.'
So I think that one's got to say to oneself that I've been talking to students, who may then become teachers. Or I've taught teachers, and they've gone away, perhaps, with ideas which they will carry on and which will act as a leaven inside society. I think that's as much as one can hope for, but maybe that's quite a positive thing to do.
JL: When you mentioned anti-authoritarianism, perhaps because I'm becoming cynical about this country specifically, I felt that anti-authoritarianism here seems to be becoming more and more right-wing anti-authoritarianism.
SH: Yes, I think that may be true. I think one fairly interesting and instructive phenomenon is the way in which the Right in this country has stolen the clothes of the Left. For their own reasons. And that's very difficult to cope with. Things like the criticisms of the BBC, and of the educational system. All kinds of things. There are echoes there which they have grabbed and taken. The same has happened in Italy, and all over the place. There is a right radical element inside European thought at the moment which has adopted in some cases the vocabulary and in other cases the actual thought, the building blocks of left-wing thought. I think that where this is important and dangerous is that, if you go back into the origins of fascism, it Italy and in Germany, that's precisely what they did. A right radical element which was critical, but which in the last analysis was for the status quo.
If one thinks of a very pessimistic scenario, a deepening economic crisis, a deepening social and political crisis, I see a real danger of a very nasty situation. People reacting to deprivation and alienation in violent ways, which might be directed against intellectuals, against minorities. That's my real fear. I'm frightened of that.
MK: You're frightened?
SH: I am.
MK: And when you talk to your students, are they frightened of it, or aware of it?
SH: Yes and no...
MK: Or are they part of the anomie?
SH: No, no... They're aware of racism: racism and sexism are the things they're very aware of: they're all issues that they talk about. Whether they then consider going on to take action is another matter. But they have no home to go to. No political home. That's their problem.
Vertigo Volume 1 | Issue 2 | Summer-Autumn 1993

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Q: HTTP WCF Service via HTTPS I have a C# Web Application project that is secured using Forms Authentication. Managing the Authorization of various pages using the default Role Manager is working well.
I've recently added a number of WCF (*.svc) services to the project which I call using Javascript from the browser using ASP.NET AJAX (adding a ScriptManager referencing the service). This all works fine using HTTP.
I have now added a HTTPS binding to IIS with a certificate and am attempting to use the application via HTTPS; however the pages that reference the service throw up a '401 Unauthorized' error when they try and load the js proxy class (service.svc/jsdebug). From what I've gathered I need to change the configuration in my web.config file to make it work, but I can't find any settings that will get it working. I need it to be accessible via HTTP protocol (enableWebScript), but via HTTPS. It also needs to use the identity of the currently authenticated Forms user.
Any general advice on configuring the endpoints in web.config would also be appreciated - or a pointer to a good tutorial. Thanks
Here is the services section of my web.config file at present
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <wsHttpBinding>
        <binding name="WsHttpBindingConfig">
          <security mode="Transport">
            <transport clientCredentialType="None" />
            <message clientCredentialType="UserName"/>
          </security>
        </binding>
      </wsHttpBinding>
      <webHttpBinding>
        <binding name="webHttp">
          <security mode="None">
          </security>
        </binding>
        <binding name="default"/>
      </webHttpBinding>
    </bindings>
    <behaviors>
      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="webScriptEnablingBehavior">
          <enableWebScript/>
        </behavior>
        <behavior name="scorelink.groups.Risk">
          <enableWebScript />
        </behavior>
        <behavior name="scorelink.tests.Benchmarks">
          <enableWebScript />
        </behavior>
        <behavior name="default">
        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="DefaultBehaviours">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpsGetEnabled="true"/>
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
          <serviceCredentials>
            <userNameAuthentication userNamePasswordValidationMode="MembershipProvider" membershipProviderName="SqlProvider"/>
          </serviceCredentials>
          <serviceAuthorization principalPermissionMode="UseAspNetRoles" roleProviderName="SqlProvider" />
        </behavior>
        <behavior name="">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpsGetEnabled="true" />
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
    <services>
      <service name="scorelink.groups.Risk">
        <endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="scorelink.groups.Risk"
          binding="webHttpBinding" contract="scorelink.groups.Risk" />
      </service>
      <service name="scorelink.tests.Benchmarks" behaviorConfiguration="DefaultBehaviours">
        <endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="scorelink.tests.Benchmarks"
          binding="webHttpBinding" contract="scorelink.tests.Benchmarks" />
      </service>
      <service name="scorelink.services.user" behaviorConfiguration="DefaultBehaviours">
        <endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" behaviorConfiguration="default" bindingConfiguration="WsHttpBindingConfig" contract="scorelink.services.Iuser" />
        <endpoint address="http" binding="webHttpBinding" behaviorConfiguration="webScriptEnablingBehavior" bindingConfiguration="webHttp" contract="scorelink.services.Iuser" />
      </service>
    </services>
  </system.serviceModel>

It might be a bit confusing since I've tried so very many things. I am only focusing on user.svc at the moment, but once it's working I'll apply the configuration to all the services.
EDIT
I updated my config to one suggested but now get the following error:
The endpoint at 'https://localhost:44300/_assets/code/services/user.svc' does
not have a Binding with the None MessageVersion.
System.ServiceModel.Description.WebScriptEnablingBehavior' is only intended
for use with WebHttpBinding or similar bindings.

I assume that this is because it is using an endpoint behaviour that specifies <enableWebScript />. The problem is if I take that away then the service doesn't generate a javascript proxy class so I can't call it from js.
EDIT 2
Here is a dump of the js proxy class that is generated by ASP.NET in response to the EnableWebScript flag. It is accessible from http://uri/service.svc/jsdebug:
Type.registerNamespace('scorelink.services');
scorelink.services.Iuser=function() {
scorelink.services.Iuser.initializeBase(this);
this._timeout = 0;
this._userContext = null;
this._succeeded = null;
this._failed = null;
}
scorelink.services.Iuser.prototype={
_get_path:function() {
 var p = this.get_path();
 if (p) return p;
 else return scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.get_path();},
CreateUser:function(FirstName,LastName,Username,DateOfBirth,Roles,succeededCallback, failedCallback, userContext) {
/// <param name="FirstName" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="LastName" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="Username" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="DateOfBirth" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="Roles" type="Array">System.String[]</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
return this._invoke(this._get_path(), 'CreateUser',false,{FirstName:FirstName,LastName:LastName,Username:Username,DateOfBirth:DateOfBirth,Roles:Roles},succeededCallback,failedCallback,userContext); },
UpdateUser:function(username,firstName,lastName,dateOfBirth,roles,succeededCallback, failedCallback, userContext) {
/// <param name="username" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="firstName" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="lastName" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="dateOfBirth" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="roles" type="Array">System.String[]</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
return this._invoke(this._get_path(), 'UpdateUser',false,{username:username,firstName:firstName,lastName:lastName,dateOfBirth:dateOfBirth,roles:roles},succeededCallback,failedCallback,userContext); },
DeleteUser:function(Username,succeededCallback, failedCallback, userContext) {
/// <param name="Username" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
return this._invoke(this._get_path(), 'DeleteUser',false,{Username:Username},succeededCallback,failedCallback,userContext); },
GetUserDetails:function(Username,succeededCallback, failedCallback, userContext) {
/// <param name="Username" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
return this._invoke(this._get_path(), 'GetUserDetails',true,{Username:Username},succeededCallback,failedCallback,userContext); },
ChangePassword:function(oldPassword,newPassword,succeededCallback, failedCallback, userContext) {
/// <param name="oldPassword" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="newPassword" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
return this._invoke(this._get_path(), 'ChangePassword',false,{oldPassword:oldPassword,newPassword:newPassword},succeededCallback,failedCallback,userContext); },
ChangeLockoutCode:function(password,symbol1,symbol2,succeededCallback, failedCallback, userContext) {
/// <param name="password" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="symbol1" type="Number">System.Int32</param>
/// <param name="symbol2" type="Number">System.Int32</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
return this._invoke(this._get_path(), 'ChangeLockoutCode',false,{password:password,symbol1:symbol1,symbol2:symbol2},succeededCallback,failedCallback,userContext); }}
scorelink.services.Iuser.registerClass('scorelink.services.Iuser',Sys.Net.WebServiceProxy);
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance = new scorelink.services.Iuser();
scorelink.services.Iuser.set_path = function(value) {
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.set_path(value); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.get_path = function() {
/// <value type="String" mayBeNull="true">The service url.</value>
return scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.get_path();}
scorelink.services.Iuser.set_timeout = function(value) {
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.set_timeout(value); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.get_timeout = function() {
/// <value type="Number">The service timeout.</value>
return scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.get_timeout(); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.set_defaultUserContext = function(value) {
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.set_defaultUserContext(value); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.get_defaultUserContext = function() {
/// <value mayBeNull="true">The service default user context.</value>
return scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.get_defaultUserContext(); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.set_defaultSucceededCallback = function(value) {
 scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.set_defaultSucceededCallback(value); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.get_defaultSucceededCallback = function() {
/// <value type="Function" mayBeNull="true">The service default succeeded callback.</value>
return scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.get_defaultSucceededCallback(); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.set_defaultFailedCallback = function(value) {
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.set_defaultFailedCallback(value); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.get_defaultFailedCallback = function() {
/// <value type="Function" mayBeNull="true">The service default failed callback.</value>
return scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.get_defaultFailedCallback(); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.set_enableJsonp = function(value) { scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.set_enableJsonp(value); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.get_enableJsonp = function() {
/// <value type="Boolean">Specifies whether the service supports JSONP for cross domain calling.</value>
return scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.get_enableJsonp(); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.set_jsonpCallbackParameter = function(value) { scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.set_jsonpCallbackParameter(value); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.get_jsonpCallbackParameter = function() {
/// <value type="String">Specifies the parameter name that contains the callback function name for a JSONP request.</value>
return scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.get_jsonpCallbackParameter(); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.set_path("http://localhost:5584/_assets/code/services/user.svc");
scorelink.services.Iuser.CreateUser= function(FirstName,LastName,Username,DateOfBirth,Roles,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext) {
/// <param name="FirstName" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="LastName" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="Username" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="DateOfBirth" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="Roles" type="Array">System.String[]</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.CreateUser(FirstName,LastName,Username,DateOfBirth,Roles,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.UpdateUser= function(username,firstName,lastName,dateOfBirth,roles,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext) {
/// <param name="username" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="firstName" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="lastName" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="dateOfBirth" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="roles" type="Array">System.String[]</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.UpdateUser(username,firstName,lastName,dateOfBirth,roles,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.DeleteUser= function(Username,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext) {
/// <param name="Username" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.DeleteUser(Username,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.GetUserDetails= function(Username,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext) {
/// <param name="Username" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.GetUserDetails(Username,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.ChangePassword= function(oldPassword,newPassword,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext) {
/// <param name="oldPassword" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="newPassword" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.ChangePassword(oldPassword,newPassword,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext); }
scorelink.services.Iuser.ChangeLockoutCode= function(password,symbol1,symbol2,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext) {
/// <param name="password" type="String">System.String</param>
/// <param name="symbol1" type="Number">System.Int32</param>
/// <param name="symbol2" type="Number">System.Int32</param>
/// <param name="succeededCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="failedCallback" type="Function" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
/// <param name="userContext" optional="true" mayBeNull="true"></param>
scorelink.services.Iuser._staticInstance.ChangeLockoutCode(password,symbol1,symbol2,onSuccess,onFailed,userContext); }
var gtc = Sys.Net.WebServiceProxy._generateTypedConstructor;
if (typeof(scorelink.services.UserDetails) === 'undefined') {
scorelink.services.UserDetails=gtc("UserDetails:http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/scorelink.services");
scorelink.services.UserDetails.registerClass('scorelink.services.UserDetails');
}

A: I think there are few things which you need to confirm :

*

*You have self signed certificate.

*You have required SSL checked.

*You    have Edit Bindings -> Type is Https -> Port is 443(default
port).

*Security Mode.

*endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpsBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"

*some custom code in Page.aspx.cs    where you are accessing service.

A: Based on a brief review of the information provided, the configuration file does not seem to define the security correctly.  For example, the following snippet:
    <binding name="WsHttpBindingConfig">
      <security mode="Transport">
        <transport clientCredentialType="None" />
        <message clientCredentialType="UserName"/>
      </security>

... should probably look like:
  <wsHttpBinding>
        <binding name=" WsHttpBindingConfig">
            <security mode="TransportWithMessageCredential">
                <message clientCredentialType="UserName"/>
            </security>

The following links provide good background information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648840.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/59927/WCF-Service-over-HTTPS-with-custom-username-and-pa
Regards,

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Q: Как в хеш-таблице указать несколько значений к одному ключу? C# Читаю книгу "Грокаем Алгоритмы" - Адитьи Бхаргавы.
Там такой момент.

Попытка:

Вопрос: Как в хеш-таблице указать несколько значений к одному ключу на С#? Целесообразно ли изображать Граф через Хеш-Таблицу в дальнейшем?

A: используйте в качестве значения коллекцию элементов, например
table["key"] = new []{"val1", "val2", "val3"};

По поводу графов - если вам нужен константный доступ к ребрам узла по ключу (и массив - не ваш вариант), то имеет смысл пользоваться таблицей или лучше словариком (Dictionary<>), если такой доступ не нужен - то нет смысла использовать таблицу.


Britannia Mining, Inc. announced today, that Britannia has begun developing 'next phase' capacity planning, to meet demand from its customers.
On the heels of unabated demand, the Company's ambitious plan to grow its gemstone trading division, has become the catalyst to develop active hubs in Africa. The Company believes that the ability to trade directly with local suppliers and establish closer communication, is important to foster lasting relationships. In turn, management believes this will assist Britannia in continuing to deliver quality gemstones on a timely basis to its Buyers.
A small, 'test parcel' (<300 Carats), of rough, uncut diamonds, was delivered in January. This set the pace for an additional $1.2 Million+ in trade contracts anticipated for the year. The Company is now sourcing as much as 4,000+ Carats destined for the U.S. and Europe, "completely augmenting our original trade plans," stated Roberts.


Perhaps one of the most common kinds of home improvement projects is the bathroom. In reality, it is an almost a tie between the toilet or the kitchen as the most typical updated rooms of a home! And like any home improvement project, a bathroom remodel – especially one that is located off the master bedroom – means there are always a variety of choices to be produced from the kinds of flooring and fixtures to features such as the bathroom vanity and lights. Most of us have been around in that situation when you're moving into a new home, or simply renovating an existing home, and you will need to purchase a fresh bathroom sink. You could not be certain in regards to the kinds of bathroom sinks available, or what is important to think about when buying bathroom sinks. In this article, we shall consider a few of the factors you need to consider, as well as briefly discussing a few of the other factors you must think about before buying a sink. You can find almost uncountable kinds of bathroom shower ideas around the world. Mostly people such as for instance a little flair within shower style, so for this purpose we've placed some of the best type of shower ideas below.
So what type of elements does one consider whenever a bathroom remodel is being planned? After all, there are so many selections! But perhaps first thing to accomplish is to really have a plan. Make sure to keep things such as for instance budget and useable space key determinants in the process so that you can move forward. Obviously, in the event that you utilize a skilled team of remodelers, then you may be sure that they may know to plan the room so that you get probably the most boost for your budget. The Aluminum Glass Shower. The very first form of bathroom shower design, which I am going to share with you, is a kind of Aluminum and glass shower with an enclosure. This enclosure is established using glass panels, which is attached with a metal frame. This shower enclosure is then surrounded with walls fitted with metal grey tiles, the mixture of the metal with the tiles and clear glass gives a slightly new look.
As you begin considering upgrades, don't forget about choosing a bathroom vanity that complements your style. No longer is one relegated to boring Formica countertops for the restroom! Today's homeowners can decide from a number of surfaces such as inlaid tiles, natural stone or even custom pieces that add depth and beauty. But all these bathroom vanity tops offer a variety of features or options of customizing. As you make your choice, remember these basics of bathroom vanity choices. One of the most crucial factors to consider is space – what are your special restrictions when buying and fitting a fresh sink. There's no point choosing your dream bathroom sink, only to locate that it doesn't easily fit in, or alternatively that it looks too small within your bathroom. Look at the design of the area – will the bathroom sink go in the corner of the space, or are you wanting it to function as centrepiece of the room.
The Seaside shower. One bathroom shower idea is that most people would first think twice before implementing this idea. The theory uses a simpler form of shower attached on aside of a wall and the shower may be moved as it is associated with a pipe. To improve the effect, dark grey tiles will be attached only on the floor, as the walls will undoubtedly be covered with sea blue colored checkered tiles. To incorporate more effect a sitting area is likewise manufactured in the shower, that will be connected, that will be covered with light grey tiles and the general shower area will undoubtedly be covered with glass panels. This sort of bathroom shower idea is indeed one of its kind because it reflects a serious sophisticated design with a little reflection of the sea. The bathroom vanity you choose should: Be crafted to allow for the keeping the sink to be wherever you'll need it to go. Be either an entire match to the bathroom vanity material or either a deliberate contrast that still complements the colors and design of the room. Coordinate with the selection of commode and shower/bathtub. Have the ability to accommodate and assist whatever fixtures you have chosen within the remodel. Bear in mind that the faucets are typically either widespread designs that need at the least 3 drilled holes to be manufactured or center spread faucets might have 1 to 3 holes to be drilled.
You should also think about the design of the toilet, and the style of the sink that you want to put in. Many people are fans of a glass sink, which can look extremely classy in the best bathroom, but look out of invest a differently styled bathroom. Do you wish to go for a contemporary look, versus a functional look? Perhaps you are less concerned with style, and more about the lowest priced, viable option. All of these factors are important, and you must pick the right choice for your bathroom. The Classy Shower. That is another kind of bathroom, that may have a straightforward, but a classy look. The contrast could have a bright and grey colour and have grey colored cabinets, white colored sink and a stool. While the shower is likely to be attached on the roof of the toilet and the shower, area is going to be give covered with glass panels and with only a little mixture of black and white tiles. The bathroom will overall be covered with white tiles.
In terms of the various types or styles, of bathroom sinks that you can get, there are always a wide variety of sinks. These generally include pedestal, countertop, wall mounted, corner, inset, semi-recessed, space saving / en-suite or undercounter basins. Always remember that your choice is really a personal decision, based on your own tastes and the room in that you need to work with. The Rainfall Shower. If your favorite area for remove your stress may be the shower than you will certainly love this type of idea. The theory include a rainfall shower head adjusted on the ceiling and the whole shower area covered with grey tiles which can be a fantastic combination for a rainfall form of look. This can definitely have a very refreshing and a fresh type showering experience for you.
When you make your decision which sink to buy, you should also consider other factors such as for instance installation. Whether you will have the ability to install your own personal sink depends on your personal DIY skills. Some bathroom sink companies will include installation within their prices, whereas others will not. In this case, if you are not experienced at DIY, you might be best advised to hire a plumber in the future and fit the sink for you. This would not be an overly expensive investment, however, it is obviously important your sink and water pressure is properly fixed. The Luxurious Shower. A more recent and modern method utilising the inspiration of palaces is this luxurious bathroom, the concept is always to decorate the shower area with multicolored tiles and the use of a free of charge stand tub having a dual shower and the bathtub placed just beside a screen a beautiful and natural look. The flooring will be of light hardwood floor, gives a great finish to the overall look of the shower.
When you yourself have determined which sink to get, you will need to choose where to purchase the sink from. Among the deciding factors can sometimes be what warrantee each company is willing to provide. Always do your research to locate a reputable company, and try to ensure that the organization features a good reputation within the and they've positive reviews. The Beige Shower. This type of shower uses alcove shower head on the ceiling while the entire bathroom walls are covered with beige walls using large granite looking tiles and a rock slab by having an under mount sink and cabinets attached on the side of the sink. The shower area will undoubtedly be covered with curtains and a glass door to boost the wonder of the shower.


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Q: R (statistical) scoping error using transformBy(), part of the doBy package I think I'm getting a scoping error when using transformBy(), part of the doBy package for R.  Here is a simple example of the problem:
> library(doBy)
>
> test.data = data.frame(
+  herp = c(1,2,3,4,5),
+  derp = c(2,3,1,3,5)
+ )
>
> transformData = function(data){
+
+  five = 5
+
+  transformBy(
+   ~ herp,
+   data=data,
+   sum=herp + derp + five
+  )
+ }
>
> transformData(test.data)
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'five' not found

When I run transformBy() within a sub-scope (non-global scope) no local variables or functions seem to be available for use in transformBy.  If, on the other hand, I define those variables or functions globally, they become available.  Here is a slightly modified example that works:
> library(doBy)
>
> test.data = data.frame(
+  herp = c(1,2,3,4,5),
+  derp = c(2,3,1,3,5)
+ )
>
> five = 5
>
> transformData = function(data){
+  transformBy(
+   ~ herp,
+   data=data,
+   sum=herp + derp + five
+  )
+ }
>
> transformData(test.data)
  herp derp sum
1    1    2   8
2    2    3  10
3    3    1   9
4    4    3  12
5    5    5  15

Am I misunderstanding something about how transformBy is supposed to work or is something broken?
Versions:

*

*ubuntu: 8.04 (x64)

*R: 2.10.1

*doBy: 4.0.5

A: This is a problem that is raised in a variety of ways. Apparently, something strange is going on with the scoping in R.
edit :It's not the scoping in R that is working different from what I naively expected, but the one of transformBy(). See the answer of Erik.
I get around it by assigning a temporary environment in the global environment, something like :
transformData = function(data){

  temp_env <<- new.env(hash=T) #hashed environment for easy access
  temp_env$five = 5

  out <- transformBy(
   ~ herp,
   data=data,
   sum=herp + derp + temp_env$five
  )
  rm(temp_env,envir=.GlobalEnv) # cleanup
  return(out)
 }

A: I would consider this a bug in the transformBy function.  If you look at the source of transformBy, it creates a subfunction called transform2 which evaluates the last argument first in the context of the dataframe, with the parent.frame() as the enclosing environment.  It then calls lapply on transform2.
Since R uses lexical scoping semantics (see http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#Scope), the effective scope hierarchy is data then lapply then global.  I think the right fix is to add a statement of the form pf <- parent.frame() outside of the transform2 definition and then reference pf in the eval statement.

A: This is clearly documented in the ?transformBy help page, and therefore
not a bug.
Details:
 The ... arguments are tagged vector expressions, which are
 evaluated in the data frame data. The tags are matched against
 names(data), and for those that match, the value replace the
 corresponding variable in data, and the others are appended to
 data.

Simply make the object "five" a part of the data.frame "data", and
it will work as you expect. Currently the function is trying to
evaluate "five" in the "data" data.frame, which fails of course.


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Q: How to list all files on all hard drives with output in MS-DOS batch? How can I list all files (including system and hidden) on all hard drives (not removable drives)?
I think in something like a:
dir -a -h *.* /s > file.txt

but this is for the specific drive where I'm.
How can I do something like that but with C:, D:, etc,
but I don't know the DOS's name of the drivers, and i need a .bat to do this (an automatic listing). Implementer can't also know the names of drivers.

A: There is a program that can detect CD drives (FINDCD.EXE) that comes on some boot disks (including the Windows 98 Emergency Boot Disk) which you can use in a batch file to skip them:
@echo off
findcd.exe
if (%1)==() goto start

:dirit
if not exist %1:\*.* goto done
if (%1)==(%CDROM%) goto done
dir /a/s/o %1:\*.* >> c:\Files.txt
goto done

:start
for %i in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do call %0 %i
goto done

:done

I just threw this together off the top of my head (with no testing since I am currently in Windows), but it should do the trick for the most part. Note that floppy drives are always assigned a drive letter starting with A while hard-drives always start at C, so this skips A and B.
There is also a program that can detect RAM drives (FINDRAMD.EXE) which you can use to detect and skip RAM drives if you have those, but that requires more work (and a separate batch file). Look at SETRAMD.BAT which is usually included for an example.

A: If you are only using DOS then here is a way to detect the type of drives attached:
http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeSnippets.php#Snippets.DrivesAndTypes
This doesn't work from Windows 7 Command Prompt so I have been unable to expand it further but it shouldn't be too difficult to add a loop to test for fixed disks and perform the dir.

A: You're very lucky.  I still had my old DS.BTM script (a cut down and modernized version of a SYSINF.BAT that I picked up many years ago) on one machine, from which this is an excerpt.  This requires JP Software's 4DOS, which is now freeware.  As you can see, it picks up the LASTDISK value from DOS, and explicitly avoids removable and network drives.
@echo off
loadbtm on
do d = %@ascii[A] to %@ascii[%_lastdisk]

   iff %@ready[%@char[%d]:] EQ 1 then

       iff %@removable[%@char[%d]:] NE 1 .AND. %@remote[%@char[%d]:] NE 1 then

           dir /s /a: %@char[%d]:\

       endiff

   endiff

enddo
The people who have mistaken DOS for Windows in other answers will be pleased to know that this 4DOS script — taken from a twenty year old SYSINF.BAT script for 4DOS which I updated to newer versions of 4DOS and then ported to 4OS2 — still works, just the same as on 4DOS, with JP Software's TCC/LE on Windows NT 6.1.

A: so here is a command line method. Just use %% instead of % in a batch
for %d in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do (ifexist %d: (dir -a -h %d:\*.* /s > %d.txt))

A: This can do the trick to check removable drivers without medias!
http://www.ericphelps.com/batch/samples/adrive.bat.txt.
It's a not documented function!

A: My answer requires administrator rights.  But in a BAT file run this:
echo list volume | diskpart

or if you want only the hard drives run this:
echo list volume | diskpart | Find /I "Partition"

In my script I needed a list of removable media so I could update all of my thumb drives at once.  The nice thing about this is each drive is updated at the same time concurrently.
@echo off
setlocal

ECHO Searching for removable media. . .

for /f "usebackq tokens=3 delims= " %%a in (`ECHO List Volume ^| DISKPART ^| FIND /I "Removable"`) do call :Launch %%a

GOTO:EOF

:Launch
  set USB=%1:
  ECHO Checking drive %USB%
  IF NOT EXIST %USB%\MDT.bat ECHO Drive %USB% NOT MDT drive && GOTO:EOF
  ECHO Found thumb drive starting Synch...
  start %~dp1\Local_MDT_to_USB.bat %USB%
GOTO:EOF


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"The Music Man" from Mason City, Iowa won Grammy, Tony for his "salute to his home state"
Browse Song Catalog: ASCAP
1902 1984 Born/Died
1982 Inducted
Wrote "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" among many pop hits
Meredith Willson was born in Mason City, Iowa on May 18, 1902 He learned to play piccolo and flute while still in high school. In 1919, at age 17, he enrolled in New York's Institute of Musical Art, where he studied the flute under Georges Barrere, Henry Hadley, Mortimer Wilson, Bernard Wagenaar and Julius Gold.
Between 1921 and 1923, he toured the U.S., Cuba, and Mexico as the flutist with John Phillip Sousa's Band. In 1924, he worked briefly in New York's Rialto theater orchestra, under the leadership of Hugo Riesenfeld. From late 1924 to 1929 he was flutist in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the New York Chamber Music Society.
After serving as a Major in World War II, Willson returned to the States and continued songwriting while concurrently working as music director of ABC radio and television networks.
Throughout his diverse career, Wilson contributed scores and librettos to several Broadway scores including The Music Man, which earned him the New York Drama Critics, Tony and Grammy awards in 1958, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Here's Love.
Acting as lyricist and composer for most of his career, Willson wrote memorable standards including "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas", "My the Good Lord Bless and Keep You", "You and I", "Two in Love", "76 Trombones", "Goodnight, My Someone", "Till There Was You", "Trouble", "My White Knight", "Lida Rose", "I Ain't Down Yet", "Belly Up to the Bar, Boys", "The Big Clown Balloons", "Pine Cones and Holly Berries", "My Wish", "Iowa Fight Song", "I See the Moon", "Ask Not" and "Symphonic Variations on an American Theme."
Meredith Willson died in Santa Monica, California in 1984.
Top radio network star in 1940s
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An algebra is congruence modular (or CM for short) if its lattice of congruence relations is modular.
A class of algebras is congruence modular if each of its members is congruence modular.
Congruence modularity holds for many 'classical' varieties such as groups and rings.
Congruence n-permutable for $n=2$ or $n=3$.


Whether it's representing SERVPRO of Virginia Beach at charity golf tournaments and industry trade shows, participating in the Virginia Beach Holiday Parade at the beach or accepting donations during Z104's Stuff the Bus our Marketing department is always out in the community with smiles on their faces.
Being part of the Storm Team means that SERVPRO of Virginia Beach responds to emergencies outside of our local area. Following Hurricane Florence in 2018, SERVPRO of Virginia Beach crews were called to help out on a large loss in North Carolina.
This was the aftermath of storm damage from a hurricane that caused significant damage to this residential building. Our SERVPRO technicians had to remove all wet flooring, remove wet drywall and also set drying equipment. Please give SERVPRO of Virginia Beach for any residential mitigation you may need.
This was the aftermath of storm damage from a pipe burst that caused significant damage to this commercial building. Our SERVPRO technicians had to remove all wet flooring, remove wet drywall and also set drying equipment. Please give SERVPRO of Virginia Beach for any commercial mitigation you may need.
This is a picture of the aftermath of a water damage that took place in this home. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
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Residential mold remediation being done at local home in Virginia Beach, VA. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
Electrical fire burned down whole home. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
Photo of HVAC Leak in Attic. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
This is a picture of the aftermath of a pipe burst under the sink before any mitigation was performed. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
This photo is the aftermath of a house fire that took place early this year. It is still unknown what caused this to happen. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
This customer had a slow leak for months and didn't know there was mold until after the pipe finally burst and a plumber went to fix the leak. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
Here is a picture of a water damage that took place at a local Medical building. This is before any mitigation was completed. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
Our franchise traveled to Louisiana to help out with the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
Aftermath of a home in Louisiana that was affected by hurricane Matthew. SERVPRO of Virginia Beach went out there to help them in this time of emergency. Please keep SERVPRO in mind for all commercial water damage, residential water damage, fire restoration, mold remediation and bio hazard clean up. Give us a call at 757-431-1400.
Because mold can produce allergens and irritants, you will want a professional that has training and experience to properly resolve the mold infestation. If you suspect that your home or business has a mold problem, SERVPRO of Virginia Beach can inspect, assess and remediate your property.
Attic fire in Virginia Beach caused damage to the entire structure. Here are pics of the initial inspection done by our production manager.
This house caught fire from a downed power line. Luckily the family came out safe and unharmed. We were able to salvage some of the belongings and clean them as well.
Society of American Military Engineers November 14, 2017.
This is a photo from a water loss that we did at a local retirement home in Virginia Beach, VA. This water damage was the result of a fire that happened in one of the residences room that trig erred the sprinkler to go off...affecting multiple units.
This mold was caused by a slow pipe leak in crawlspace that went on for months. The pipe finally ruptured and when flooring was removed all of the mold that was on the sub-floor was found and remediation was done according to IICRC standards.
This is from a snow storm that we had last year in Virginia Beach,VA. There were a lot of homes effected by this and a lot of frozen pipes.
This photo was after Hurricane Irma. Virginia didn't get much winds from the storm but we did get significant rain damage and flooding in some areas. Our crew was able to get this building back to its pre-water damage state in just a matter of days.
This photo is of a water damage that took place at a local aerospace building in Virginia Beach VA. The cause of loss was a pipe burst which affected the whole building. The building owner was very pleased with our crew and how fast we were able to get them back open and ready for business.
This is a photo of mold damage that we did the mitigation on at a local store in the area. The property management company was very pleased with our crew and the work performed.
This photo is of a mold job that we did for a local restaurant. We were able to complete and remediate this mold damage properly and in a timely manner for the restaurant owner to open back up his business. They were very impressed.
This mold was found after this local family called us for a pipe burst that happened behind their wall. Our technicians saw this after doing demolition and wanted to get this tested before resuming to make sure this was mitigated properly. After confirming with the industrial hygienists that this was indeed mold we performed the proper mitigation. Such as wearing the correct PPE, setting air scrubbers, sanitizing, and also doing tear out as needed to ensure that it was gone.
This photo is of the ICON Hardhat event that took place on 11/9/2017. This event was very interesting and informative. SERVPRO of Virginia Beach was so happy to be apart of this.
For any commercial restoration that anyone may have please give us a call at 757-431-1400.
This was the after math of a water damage that happened a Virginia Beach home. The homeowner was impressed at how fast we got his home dry and also did the rebuild. We literally made it "Like it never even happened."
This was the aftermath of storm damage from a hurricane that caused significant damage to this commercial building. Our SERVPRO technicians had to remove all wet flooring, remove wet drywall and also set drying equipment. Please give SERVPRO of Virginia Beach a call for any commercial mitigation you may need.
This was the aftermath of a fire that occurred from a downed power line. We were able to remove all damaged contents in the home and also clean the soot off the walls to prepare for the rebuild. So we could make it "Like it never even happened."
This photo is from September 2017 at the Mermaid Cup. One of our awesome marketing reps (Corey Doe) is seen in the photo working the tournament. We had so much fun at this event. Don't forget to call SERVPRO of Virginia Beach at 757-431-1400 for all of your restoration needs.
Don't have a truck or vehicle large enough to hold the ladder you need? SERVPRO of Virginia Beach offers FREE ladder assists. Just give us a call at (757) 431-1400 to schedule one of our property managers to assist you at no cost.
We were happy to sponsor the Hampton Roads Realtors Association seminar given by Chip Dicks to local Realtors and Property managers. As always, we love providing education and answering questions!
Keep Your Bedroom Doors Closed at Night -- Could Save your Life!
Do you sleep with your bedroom door opened or closed? Here is an actual photo of 2 bedrooms in a home that burned. One door was opened and one was closed. Most people don't realize that modern interior doors can keep flames out for up to 20 min. Fire Departments everywhere warn the public to sleep with your doors closed at night!
Our emergency services crews at a three condo water loss after hours. SERVPRO is available 24/7 to respond to your emergencies whether it is a fire, water or even a board up after a storm!
SERVPRO of Virginia Beach had a great time at the 61st Annual Boardwalk Art Show this past weekend! We met lots of people (visitors and residents) and enjoyed the beautiful weather. Thank you for coming out to see us!
Dainan Gibson, one of our Restoration Consultants, had a great time at the HRCVC Social at AMPLITUDE Karaoke (Amplitudekaraoke.com), a Korean-fusion karaoke bar/restaurant at Town Center in Virginia Beach. She enjoyed wonderful food and drinks, and talked with members about how our company can give back to the Hampton Roads nonprofit community and grow through HRCVC. Go to volunteerhr.org/hrcvc to learn more about this important group.
This commercial trailer houses a 5000 CFM Desiccant, capable of drying a large commercial building, and it's own 150kw generator. Together, this equipment can save both time and money.
Looking forward to the HRCA Golf Outing this Wednesday May 25, 2016 at Red Wing Golf Course.


Would you like to have the brightest, whitest teeth out there? Most of us would answer in the affirmative. The fact of the matter is that our teeth can have an incredible impact upon our appearance as well as our self-confidence, and it is not strange to encounter individuals who would really like to change the way that their teeth look. This is the case even with teeth that are perfectly healthy! You can later the appearance of your teeth even if there is nothing wrong with them. This is known as cosmetic dentistry, and it can be used to help create the smile of your dreams.
Much of the dentistry profession focused on keeping your teeth healthy and free from decay and infection. This is an important part of leading a healthy life, in fact, and we believe that it's something for which everyone should strive. That doesn't mean that there is nothing else to do apart from clearing out decay and filling cavities, however, or that there's nothing to be done to your teeth aside from keeping them healthy.
Cosmetic dentistry is a form of dentistry that ensures that the appearance of your teeth is exactly what you'd like to see. Many of us can find something with our teeth. Whether you think that the color is too dull, the spaces between your teeth are too big, or the shapes of your teeth are simply a bit "off", there is a cosmetic dental procedure that can be completed in order to correct the issue.
Cosmetic dentistry is kind of like cosmetic surgery, but for your teeth! If you have the time and the patience, you can create your idea of the perfect smile. We can help you get there.
Do I have to treat all of my teeth?
One of the misconceptions about cosmetic dentistry is that you either have to treat all of your teeth, or none of them at all. This is perhaps because many patients think that in order to create the appearance of uniform teeth, every tooth must be altered in the same way. The fact of the matter is that sometimes, only a few teeth really need to be changed to achieve the look you want to have. While we can certainly look at treating multiple teeth, keep in mind that if there is just one tooth that is really catching your attention in a negative way, we can always work on fixing just that particular issue.
There are certain procedures that can be rather expensive. If you decided to have porcelain veneers placed over all of your teeth, for example, the cost would probably add up relatively quickly. With that said, however, there are also options that can create a beautiful smile without the high cost that is associated with certain complex procedures. Cosmetic bonding, for example, can help perfect your smile for an incredibly affordable price.
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Built into parents's nature is an innate desire to protect their children from harm. Therefore, it is especially painful for a parent if their child takes deliberate steps to harm their own health. Bad breath and stained teeth are only an example of some of the immediate side effects that smoking can cause; its' long-term affects can be deadly.... It is the parents' responsibility to prevent children smoking. You CAN guide your kids to steer clear of the tobacco habit, and other unwelcome habits such as drugs, alcohol, and so on.
There grandparents have a huge influence in my childrens lives. I have asked them to stop smoking around my children as my 3yr old daughter now picks any thing that is long like a cigarette and pretends to smoke it. When i asked them stop and gave them this example they did try for a while and it... Smoking is glamorized in movies, television shows and online, but parents are the most important influences in their children's lives. Tell your children honestly and directly that you don't want them to smoke cigarettes, use e-cigarettes or use any type of tobacco product.
How do i get Grandparents to stop smoking around my children?
See more What others are saying "No-smoking sign to prevent smoke damage" "Remove Strong Odors from Walls" "These days, nearly everyone is aware of the adverse effects of smoking on the body,"
If your cold turkey effort to stop smoking failed, then get some extra help via products like nicotine patches or gum. These substitutes are OTC medications that replace some of the nicotine your body is used to getting from smoking.
Smoking is glamorized in movies, television shows and online, but parents are the most important influences in their children's lives. Tell your children honestly and directly that you don't want them to smoke cigarettes, use e-cigarettes or use any type of tobacco product.


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KANYE WEST LEADS BET AWARDS WITH 17 NOMINATIONS
Rapper Kanye West has 17 nominations at the BET Awards coming up on Friday, September 29, 2012 at Atlanta's Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Centre. The highest so far.
KATE HENSHAW, DAN FOSTER AND YIBO KOKO UNVEILED AS JUDGES FOR NIGERIA'S GOT TALENT SHOW
The producers of Nigeria's Got Talent show have unveiled the judges for the first season of the show, they are Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw, Radio personality Dan Foster and film maker, director, dancer, choreographer and set designer Yibo Koko. TV personality Andre Blaze will anchor the show.
WOMAN REFERRED TO AS "THE WORLD'S UGLIEST WOMAN" BECOMES AND INSPIRATION
What an inspirational story. For her to get past all the hurtful words and make a life for herself, then she is the world's most beautiful woman. Read her story below;
"When she was in high school, Lizzie Velasquez was called "the world's ugliest woman" in an 8-second-long YouTube video. Born with a medical condition so rare that just two other people in the world are thought to have it, Velasquez has no adipose tissue and cannot create muscle, store energy, or gain weight. She has zero percent body fat and weighs just 60 pounds.
CHIOMA OBIKEL NWOSU LAID TO REST
She is the 23year old 400level medical student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University who was shot dead by armed robbers on Friday August 31st. They buried her yesterday in her home town.
OMOTOLA JALADE EKEHINDE ON THE COVER OF SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF TW
She kinda looks different on this cover. Not her best cover.
GUYS, WHICH OF THE EVAs WILL YOU RATHER?
Eva Longoria Eva Mendes
Oya, over to the guys.
MEET EVA LONGORIA'S NEW MAN
The 'Desperate Housewives' star is currently dating New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez. The actress divorced her NBA player husband, Tony Parker, last year after she caught him cheating on her.
They kinda look good together, don't you think?
KATE MIDDLETON SUES FRENCH MAGAZINE + SEE THE TOPLESS PICS OF HER
Kate Middleton and Prince William have filled a lawsuit today against the French Magazine that published naked photos of the future Queen of England while on vacation in a private location.
A rep for St James's Palace released a statement saying that "legal proceedings for breach of privacy have been commenced today in France" by the royal couple.
See the pics after the cut....
FRENCH MAGAZINE PUBLISH TOPLESS PICS OF KATE MIDDLETON
A French magazine Closer has published topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. The pictures show kate taking off her bikini top while hanging out with William last week at a chateau owned by the Queen's nephew.
The Royal Family has issued a scathing statement saying "Their royal highnesses have been hugely saddened to learn that a French publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner."
The Royal Family is threatening to sue the magazine.
Husband and wife are getting all snugly in bed. The passion is heating up.
But then the wife stops and says, "I don' t feel like it. I just want you to hold me."
The husband says " WHAT???" The wife explains that he must not be in tune with her emotional needs as a woman.
The husband realizes that nothing is going to happen tonight and he might as well deal with it.
So the next day the husband takes her shopping at a big dept. store. He walks around and had her try on three very expensive outfits. And then tells his wife, We 'll take all three of them. Then goes over and gets matching shoes worth $200 each.
And then goes to the jewelry Dept. and gets a set of diamond earrings. The wife is so excited (she thinks her husband has flipped out, but she does not care). She goes for the tennis bracelet.
The husband says "but you don 't even play tennis, but OK if you like it then lets get it.'
The wife is jumping up and down. So excited she cannot even believe what is going on. She says " I am ready to go, lets go to the cash register. "
The husband says, " no no no, honey we're not going to buy all this stuff." The wife face goes blank.
" No honey - I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while."
Her face gets really red she is about to explode and then the husband says " You must not be in tune with my financial needs as a MAN!"
KELLY OSBOURNE'S HAIR KNOT; HOT OR NOT?
What do you think? E get as i bi sha.
DEAD BABY FOUND NEAR DUMPSITE
The new born baby pictured above was found dead near a dump site at about 5:30 this morning at Sadiku Bus Stop, Ilasamaja, close to the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.
Dear God, why is the heart of man so desperately wicked? Even if this baby died of natural causes, he/she deserves a proper burial.
MTN DONATES N500,000 NEEDED FOR SHOT ONE YEAR OLD'S TREATMENT
MTN has paid for the N500,000 needed for treatment of the one-year-old baby Taiwo Lawal, who was shot by armed robbers in the Gbagada area of Lagos on Sunday. This was announced yesterday in Lagos by the company's Public Relations Manager, Mr. Funsho Aina. He said the company had paid the money into the account of the baby's family member.
That is great news. Others should emulate them.
KATE HENSHAW, DAN FOSTER AND YIBO KOKO UNVEILED AS...
WOMAN REFERRED TO AS "THE WORLD'S UGLIEST WOMAN" B...
OMOTOLA JALADE EKEHINDE ON THE COVER OF SEPTEMBER ...
KATE MIDDLETON SUES FRENCH MAGAZINE + SEE THE TOPL...
FRENCH MAGAZINE PUBLISH TOPLESS PICS OF KATE MIDDL...
MTN DONATES N500,000 NEEDED FOR SHOT ONE YEAR OLD'...


I wanted to thank you again for the complementary job search strategy call that we had last Wednesday afternoon. I already updated my LinkedIn and Biospace profiles, and I am starting the strategy that you recommend for targeted networking.
Your website is a great resource of information that I will use.
Hopefully I find the dream job soon, and one day I will be able to return the help that you provided with my own network.


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Cevins est une commune française située dans le département de la Savoie, en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Géographie

Zonages Agricoles

Urbanisme

Typologie
Cevins est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction d'Albertville, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols
L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des forêts et milieux semi-naturels (94,9 % en 2018), une proportion sensiblement équivalente à celle de 1990 (96,4 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (50 %), espaces ouverts, sans ou avec peu de végétation (27,5 %), milieux à végétation arbustive et/ou herbacée (17,4 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (3,2 %), zones urbanisées (1,9 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie

En francoprovençal, le nom de la commune s'écrit La Rtse, selon la graphie de Conflans.

Histoire

Politique et administration

Intercommunalité
La commune de Cevins appartient :
 à l'arrondissement d'Albertville ;
 au Albertville-1 ;
 au Schéma de Cohérence Territoriale (SCOT) de Arlysère ;
 au territoire d'Albertville Ugine ;
 à l'Établissement Public de Coopération Intercommunale (EPCI) : CC de la Région d Alberville ;
 aux intercommunalités :
 Cte de Com. de la Region d'Albertville (Communauté de communes (CC),
 S. Departemental Energie Savoie (Syndicat intercommunal à vocation unique (SIVU),
 SI des Vernays (Syndicat intercommunal à vocation unique (SIVU),
 SI Gestion Materiel Forestier ONF La Bathie (Syndicat intercommunal à vocation unique (SIVU),
 SI ramassage scolaire du secteur d'Albertville (Syndicat mixte fermé (L.5711.1),
 SIMX l'Arlysere (Syndicat mixte ouvert (L.5721.1).

Liste des maires

Population et société

Démographie

 Taux annuel de variation de la population municipale de 1999 à 2008 : -0,24 % par comparaison avec la CC de la Région d Alberville : 0,83 %
 Taux annuel de variation de la population municipale de 1990 à 1999 : 0,55 % par comparaison avec la CC de la Région d Alberville : 0,11 %
 Densité de population (en 2008) : 20 habitants/km. Cevins n'appartient ni à une unité urbaine, ni à une aire urbaine.

Manifestations culturelles et festivités
 Découverte gourmande : Cevins, saveurs et vins : Parcours du coteau de Cevins pour la découverte de son vignoble, dégustation de ses vins et repas autour des produits locaux.

Médias
La télévision locale TV8 Mont-Blanc diffuse des émissions sur les pays de Savoie.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Marcel Perrier (° 1933), fut curé de Cevins avant de devenir évêque de Pamiers de 1988 à 2008.

Culture et patrimoine

Monuments et lieux touristiques

Monuments Laïques
 la Maison forte de Cevins, sur la colline du Calvaire, ruines d'une maison forte. Elle est citée en 1447 et en 1542, puis disparait des mémoires ; le comté de Cevins subsistant.
 le château de Chagnay, ruiné en 1794.

Monuments religieux

 l'église Saint-Nicolas, inscrite sur la liste des monuments historiques depuis 1976, de style néoclassique sarde.
 la chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Neiges et la colline du calvaire (août 1837).

Gastronomie

Le territoire de la commune connait une gastronomie de terroir traditionnelle. On y produit de nombreux fromages parmi lesquels on peut citer le beaufort. En effet, la commune se situe au sein d'une aire d'appellation (AOP) qui l'autorise à produire ce fromage. On y produit également du vin. Le vignoble de Savoie est presque exclusivement implanté sur des sols caillouteux, cependant quelques parcelles sont plantées sur des sols schisteux, comme à Cevins ; ce genre de sols a la particularité d'emmagasiner plus facilement la chaleur du jour et de la rendre à la plante durant la nuit et donne aussi des vins avec une richesse en minéralité.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de la Savoie

Liens externes

 Site de la mairie

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
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 Cartes

Références

Commune en Savoie
Commune en Tarentaise
Aire d'attraction d'Albertville
Massif du Beaufortain

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