Flexible setup for writing a book as an assembly of chapters in DocOnce markup.
wiki (if you do not need mathematical typesetting).
Chapters can be flexibly assembled into a traditional LaTeX-based PDF book for a traditional publisher, or a fancy ebook.
The book and the individual chapter documents may have different layouts.
Active use of preprocessors (Preprocess and Mako) makes it easy to have different versions of the chapters, e.g., a specialized version for a course and a general version for the world book market).
DocOnce has support for important elements in teaching material: eye-catching boxes (admonitions), quizzes, interactive code, videos, structured exercises, quotes.
Study guides or slides can easily be developed from the running text and stored along with the chapters. These can be published as LaTeX Beamer slides, reveal.js slides, and IPython notebooks.
These features have the great advantage that a book can evolve from small documents, thereby making the barrier for book writing much smaller. Also, several appealing ebook formats can be produced, both for the book and the individual chapter documents. The chances that your students read a chapter on the bus becomes larger if the chapter is available as attractive, screen-fit Bootstrap pages on the smart phone than if you just offer the classic LaTeX PDF which actually requires a big screen or a printer.
Implementation of point 1 and 2 is not trivial and requires some rules that might not feel natural at first sight in the setup. Writing a book soon becomes a technically and mentally complex task, just like developing a software system. For the latter people have invented a lot of sophisticated technologies and best practices to deal with the complexity. The present setup for books is a similar collection of my own technologies and best practices, developed from writing thousands of pages. In particular, the setup has been successfully used for the large-scale 900-page Springer book "A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python" by the author (individual chapters of this book can be examined online in "various ebook formats": "http://hplgit.github.io/primer.html/doc/pub/looplist/index.html") as well as for books in the works.


With the massive growth companies have experienced in this sector we are finding that clients simply do not have the space to store the vast amount of paperwork that comes with such business growth. Our clients in this sector range from digital set top box providers, broadband providers and telecommunication solutions.
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At Eltham Lewis we provide many businesses in South Wales with a range of document management solutions including document scanning, indexing, quality enhancement of documents, document storage and document disposal. Within the IT & Communications industry we have found that the requirements are often to clear all surplus paperwork in their offices and then make regular collections to avoid a re-occurrence. This definitely helps our clients to focus on growth and takes the worry of lost paperwork and shrinking office space away from them.
We only use our own vehicles and our own drivers to make collections, allowing us to give fast effective service to our clients. To ensure we can maintain these high levels of service, none of our functions are outsourced.
We collect, scan, store and shred.
Some companies like to offer a suite of products to customers and we are happy to work in partnership with companies and act as their document scanning provider.
Our current partnerships have meant that our partners can not only concentrate their efforts on their main business but also supply a complimentary service as part of their contract. This saves their client the hassle of looking elsewhere and means that similar criteria and service levels have been met with no major effort or implications to the customer.
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Changes To Business Lending Underway At India's PSU Banks
India's state-owned banks are going through changes that could mean an overhaul in business lending, The Economic Times (ET) reported on Friday (Jan. 3).
For decades, public sector undertaking (PSU) banks have largely been responsible for handling the working capital loans that many firms need for daily operations. Based on net current assets, the system for corporate borrowers was considered flawed, having loaned too much money to some businesses and too little to others.
India's biggest lender, the State Bank of India (SBI), is now considering a move to a cash-flow-based lending model from the current asset-based model. Under the proposed change, borrowers would have to regularly share cash-flow statements with lenders.
Madhav Kalyan, CEO of JPMorgan India, has been tapped to lead a panel to evaluate the proposal, two sources told ET.
"The matter was mentioned at a meeting of the Indian Banks' Association in December. Though proposed by SBI, it has to be a collective decision by the industry," one source told the news outlet.
PSUs calculate a borrower's working capital requirements by looking at the difference between assets and liabilities. Generally, a company covers 25 percent of a working capital gap, with banks funding the rest.
"Assets don't help companies to repay loans. It's their cash flow that makes a difference. It's high time [that] state-owned banks migrate to a cash-flow-linked system to finance working capital. … Private and MNC banks have been doing it for over a decade now," a senior banker told ET.
Cash-flow-based lending relies on the inflows (sales and capital) and outflows (payroll and taxes).
"India is probably the only country with [a] cash-credit system of funding working capital requirements of commercial borrowers," said veteran banker PH Ravikumar.
At the start of the decade, 35 percent of Indian adults had bank accounts. In 2014, that figure had improved to about 53 percent. It was at that point that the nation instituted the first of what would be many efforts in building a national digital financial infrastructure.
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Here you'll learn the basic words and phrases of Mandarin Chinese that you'll need to say hello or to start a conversation. This is your essential starting point for your understanding of the Chinese language.
Like many Asian languages, Chinese is a tonal language. This means that a word can have various meanings depending on the tone used to pronounce it. There are four tones in Mandarin Chinese which are represented by the four tone marks over the vowels in pinyin.
Here you'll learn how to order a coffee or tea at a café. You'll also learn how to point to any snack item that you might want, even if you don't know what it's called in Mandarin Chinese! You'll see that communicating with a waiter or waitress need not be too difficult in China.
Here you'll learn the essential words and phrases in Mandarin Chinese for meeting someone at the airport. You'll learn how to ask whether a flight is late, or where your bags are. You'll even learn how to ask one of the most essential questions - where are the toilets?!
Here'll you learn how to grab a taxi and ask the taxi driver to take you to your hotel. You'll also get a chance to learn the remaining pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. You'll learn some more useful verbs such as to go and to arrive.
Here you'll learn how to check into your hotel, including how to confirm how many rooms you booked and the duration of your stay. You'll learn the essential words and phrases in Mandarin Chinese for communicating with the hotel receptionist when checking in.
Now is a good time to recap the numbers you already know and learn the remaining numbers from one to ten in Mandarin Chinese. This will also enable you to tell the time of day, and arrange to meet someone at a given time.
The hotel breakfast buffet is the setting for an early Mandarin Chinese lesson where you'll learn how to say 'Good morning'. You'll also learn the words you'll need to order the breakfast dishes of your choice, including bacon and eggs, naturally!
Here you'll learn how to ask a shop assistant can you try something on in Mandarin Chinese. You'll also learn about the currency called RMB or Yuan, and you'll learn how to haggle for a bargain.


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Bring back paper ballot to save democracy: Mamata
IANS / June 3, 2019, 8:10 pm
Kolkata: Accusing the BJP of winning the Lok Sabha polls by misusing muscle, money and government power, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday called for bringing back the system of paper ballots that was in use prior to electronic voting machines (EVMs) to save democracy.
"We have gone through the elections fighting against all the muscle, money, government, institutional power which were misused. Our workers fought boldly. We were discussing how money was looted and how money power destroyed democracy, as it is a true fact," she said after a meeting with here party officials, MPs and MLAs at the state secretariat.
"They (BJP) got 18 seats (in Bengal) with money, muscle, government, communal and media power. They had targeted 23 seats and maybe EVMs were pre-programmed in favour of them," Banerjee said.
"The verdict was not spontaneous and the BJP's victory was not based on people's support. It was through an artificial mechanism, that is why they have been trying to capture party offices."
She also said the party would organise "public relations" marches across the state ahead of the Trinamool Congress' annual Martyrs' Day rally on July 21.
"The July 21 rally originated from our movement which was for 'No Identity Card, No Vote'. Our 13 workers were shot dead by the then CPI (M) government," she said.
"We are starting a movement 'Save Democracy, Bring Back Ballots'. We do not want (electronic voting) machines but want ballots to save democracy," she added.
Appealing to opposition parties to raise their voices for bringing back ballots, Banerjee vowed to start the movement from the state that would spread across India.
The Chief Minister also said that she "does not consider the poll results based on EVMs to be the people's verdict".
"How do you prove that there was no pre-planned programming? The Election Commission should supervise this but they did not. You allow only two per cent votes to be counted and what about 98 per cent votes in the machine?" she asked.
"Several machines were replaced as many of them started malfunctioning during poll day. Mock polls were not conducted in case of new machines. How can one prove that the substitute machines were not pre-programmed?" she said.
Accusing the BJP of defaming Bengal's dignity by circulating fake news which only present the state as a place of violence and hooliganism, she said state government would soon start campaigns to showcase the state's culture.
Noting that there are differences between Lok Sabha, Assembly, municipal and gram panchayat elections as their characters are different, she accused a section of the media of highlighting "inflated data" regarding the state Assembly segment-wise results of the recent Lok Sabha polls.
"Your arithmetic was not right. Despite all this, we had clean majority in 164 Assembly segments in this Lok Sabha elections. Our vote per cent also increased," Banerjee said.
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Nephites In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. Zenos In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 4. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. Jews In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Signs In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Book of Mormon Personalities In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Canon In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Stick of Joseph In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Works In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 4. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "The Challenge of the Book of Mormon." In The Book of Mormon: The Keystone Scripture, edited by Paul R. Cheesman, S. Kent Brown and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 1-20. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "The Message to the Jews with Special Emphasis on 2 Nephi 25." In The Book of Mormon: Second Nephi, The Doctrinal Structure, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 241-257. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "The Title Page." In The Book of Mormon: First Nephi, The Doctrinal Foundation, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 19-33. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "The Title Page." In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 97-111. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "I Have A Question: Shouldn't Moroni's promise in the Book of Mormon (Moroni 10:4) always work?" Ensign 16, no. 3 (1986): 50-51.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "I Have a Question: Why do we say that the Book of Mormon contains the fulness of the gospel when it doesn't contain some of the basic teachings of the Church?" Ensign 15, no. 9 (1985): 17-19.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "A Priceless Possession: How to Gain a Testimony of the Book of Mormon." New Era 16, no. 10 (1986): 46-50.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "The Book of Mormon Was Written for Our Day." The Instructor 101, no. 7 (1966): 265-266.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "The Future of the Holy Land." Ensign 2, no. 5 (1972): 96-103.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "Could you explain the meaning and use of the term "prophetess" as it's used in the Bible?" Ensign 10, no. 12 (1980): 31-32.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "Of the House of Israel." Ensign 21, no. 1 (1991): 51-55.
Ludlow, Daniel H.. "What laws governed the inheritance of birthright in the Old Testament?" Ensign 10, no. 9 (1980): 52-53.


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With a national lockdown currently in place, and government guidance to stay at home, now is the perfect time to start planning your future journey along the Great West Way - for a Spring or Summer 2021 staycation. We look forward to welcoming visitors once again very soon.
Whilst we are endeavouring to keep all information on the website up to date, we would advise you to check directly with the relevant venue for the most up to date information.
Checking into a lovely hotel room for the night, after a busy day exploring the Great West Way, feels like a special treat. Especially if you've been exerting yourself in active pursuits - hiking, biking or kayaking the touring route's tempting trails and waterways.
You know you'll be well looked after in a hotel, and all the little (but fundamental) things will be taken care of. The beds will be made with freshly-laundered sheets. The bathroom will be gleaming and decked out with luxurious lotions and potions, ready for you to sink into a soothing bubble bath. And a delicious dinner - maybe with a nice glass of wine on the side - will be waiting for you in the restaurant.
Along the Great West Way you can be as pampered as you like. If you really want the star treatment, there are 5-star hotels frequented by royalty. There are also unique boutique hotels you won't find anywhere else, mid-range chain brands you know you can rely on and cheap and cheerful stops that are ideal if you're just looking to get your head down for the night. You could probably even find your own Fawlty Towers if you like a lot of laughs with your late night cocoa… but with such an abundance of choice, you'd definitely don't have to.
As well as being a carefree option, hotels can also be a destination in themselves. Heritage townhouses, with storied pasts. Opulent country manors with 4-poster beds. Hip city hangouts, where each hotel room has been decorated by a different artist. You could build an itinerary around these fabulous stays.
Each hotel from London to Bath and Bristol will offer you a different experience of people and place - simply pick the one that best suits you and your interests.
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Places to Stay in the Cotswolds
Spread across 6 counties, the Cotswolds takes time to truly explore. So please, stay a while… Cotswolds villages such as Castle Combe, Lacock, Badminton and Malmesbury all make idyllic bases.
Places to Stay in Bristol
Accommodation in Bristol is as colourful and varied as the city itself. From a city centre hostel attached to a vintage bowling alley to a luxurious lodge in the grounds of a zoo, you'll find somewhere special to suit you.
Places to Stay in the East of the Thames
With so many absorbing things to see and do along the Royal River Thames, from watching the historic tradition of Swan Upping to splashing about in boats, you may well wish to stay longer than a day.
Places to Stay in the Royal County of Berkshire
You're bound to feel at home staying in Berkshire - one of the 'home counties' surrounding London. Whether you explore its royal connections with a posh hotel stay in Windsor or cuddle up in a cosy village pub, you'll be glad you stopped by.
Places to Stay in Bath
Places to Stay in Wiltshire
Looking for somewhere wonderful to stay in Wiltshire? How about retreating to a traditional English country house or sleeping just a 10-minute drive from Stonehenge?
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Take a look at the best places to stay with the kids.
The Best: Luxury Hotels to spend the Night
The best recommended luxury hotels to spend the night along the Great West Way.
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Bailbrook House, Bath
London Road West, BATH, BA1 7JD
bailbrookhouse@handpicked.co.uk
Price £92.00 Per room (breakfast included)
AA Four star silver hotel set in 20 acres of parkland just minutes from central Bath. Easy access to M4 J18 and only 1 1/2 by train from London. There's 94 bedrooms including 13 features rooms and Cloisters, a 2 AA Rosette restaurant.
Crown and Anchor
Ham, Wiltshire, SN8 3RB
bm@crownandanchorham.co.uk
Price £120.00 to £130.00 Per room (breakfast included)
The Crown & Anchor is your traditional country Inn, set in the picturesque village of Ham, Wiltshire. With a welcoming wooden panelled bar area, restaurant and private dining room. Offering excellent food and drink with the emphasis on local and…
Henley Greenlands Hotel
Henley Business School, Greenlands, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 3UA
reception@henley.com
Henley Greenlands Hotel is set within the Henley Business School estate in the Oxfordshire countryside; this magnificent Grade II listed building is steeped in history and provides well-appointed accommodation by the River Thames, the perfect…
No.15 Great Pulteney
15 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4BR
enquiries@no15greatpulteney.co.uk
To be found at the heart of Bath's fashionable society, No.15 Great Pulteney is an elegant and vivacious townhouse hotel on the very grandest street in Bath. Comprising 40 bedrooms, a cocktail bar, restaurant and boutique spa, No.15 exudes…
Hampton by Hilton Bristol Airport
Bristol Airport, Bristol, BS48 3DY
BRSHX_Hampton@hilton.com
This is the ultimate hotel in terms of design, comfort and convenience, being on the doorstep of Bristol Airport – the only hotel within walking distance of the terminal.
Find yourself steps from the airport and close to popular attractions at the…
The Black Swan in Devizes
25-26 The Market Place, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1JQ
blackswan@wadworth.co.uk
Come in for a delicious pint, a bite to eat it and a warm welcome!
The George Inn in Norton St Philip
The George, High Street, Norton St Philip, Somerset, BA2 7LH
georgeinn@wadworth.co.uk
Norton St Philip
The George Inn, Norton St Philip, is a Grade One listed building situated in an idyllic setting with beautiful views across the local village green and 14th Century church.
Best Western Angel Hotel
Market Place, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3HD
reception@angelhotelchippenham.co.uk
Price £79.85 to £144.85 Per room (breakfast included)
Five miles from the M4 between Bath and Swindon, this 400 year old coaching inn has been extended to include a gym, indoor pool, courtyard garden, bedroom wing and stylish new brassiere, bar and lounge, the hotel has car parking onsite.
Donnington Grove
Grove Road, Newbury, West Berkshire, RG14 2LA
gm@donnington-grove.com
Hotel, wedding venue and golf course in Newbury, Berkshire. Donnington Grove Hotel is a stunning country house hotel nestled in the tranquil countryside near Newbury. Set in 500 acres of gorgeous countryside, the hotel boasts unrivalled views of…
Cricklade House Hotel
Common Hill, Cricklade, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 6HA
reception@crickladehotel.co.uk
Price £65.00 Per person (breakfast included) to £199.00 Per room (breakfast included)
Standing in over 30 acres of peaceful, secluded grounds on the edge of the Cotswolds, Cricklade House Hotel offers a traditional, warm and friendly welcome for those in search of tranquility, comfort, good food and wine, with extensive recreational…
The Langley
Uxbridge Road, Iver, Slough, SL3 6DW
info@thelangley.com
Sitting in a former royal hunting ground and with landscaping originally designed by England's greatest gardener, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the setting of this grand country manor amidst acres of formal gardens and parklands, offers an escape…
Great Northern Hotel London
King's Cross St Pancras International Station, Pancras Road, London, N1C 4TB
Great Northern Hotel, a Tribute Portfolio by Marriott is a life style hotel with 88 rooms which is located in the heart of London's King's Cross St Pancras, 25 metres from the Eurostar terminal offering an unforgettable accommodation, high-energy…
The Crown at Tolldown
Tolldown, Dyham, Wiltshire, SN14 8HZ
Dyham
The Crown at Tolldown is set amidst acres of stunning countryside.
Monkey Island Estate
Bray-on-Thames, Bray, Maidenhead, SL6 2EE
enquiries@monkeyislandestate.co.uk
Following YTL's Hotels' superb renovation, Monkey Island Estate is beautifully situated on a private island in the River Thames at Bray, near Windsor. Guests can once again enjoy its luxury accommodation, acclaimed dining and their very own private…
Guyers House Hotel and Restaurant
Guyers Lane, Pickwick, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 0PS
enquiries@guyershouse.com
Guyers House Hotel & Restaurant is the first choice for those looking for a charming, traditional country house matched by friendly customer service.
The Gainsborough Bath Spa
Beau Street, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, BA1 1QY
reservations@thegainsboroughbathspa.co.uk
Price £220.00 to £229.00 Per room (room only)
The five-star Gainsborough Bath Spa with its 99 guest rooms is located in the very heart of Bath. Its Spa Village has the exclusive privilege of having access to Bath's natural thermal waters. The Hotel boasts a three AA Rosette restaurant, Dan Moon…
Apex City of Bath Hotel
James Street West, Bath, BA1 2DG
enquiries.bath@apexhotels.co.uk
Apex City of Bath Hotel is just 200m from Bath Thermae Spa. You'll find stylish bed rooms and large conference facilities.
Sir Christopher Wren Hotel & Spa
Thames Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1PX
wrens_reservations@sarova.com
Price £95.00 to £145.00 Per room (room only)
Sir Christopher Wren Hotel & Spa is a 4-star riverside hotel comprised over several characterful buildings.
The hotel is located right on the River Thames, within easy walking distance to Windsor's two train stations and bus stops, making it easy to…
Castle Hotel, Windsor - MGallery Hotel Collection
High Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1LJ
Located in the heart of central Windsor, the Castle Hotel, Windsor - MGallery Hotel Collection is directly opposite the Sir Christopher Wren's Guildhall & The Queen's weekend getaway Windsor Castle. The Castle Hotel sits majestically on the Windsor…


Awhile back I posted a recipe for kale chips. Kale chips are a delicious and healthy snack that my son absolutely loved. I was eager to find more recipes that were just as simple, tasty, and nutritious. I recently used the same seasoning and cooking technique with roasted fennel and had fabulous results. These roasted fennel fries were absolutely addicting. My son and I could not stop eating them! We didn't even waste time getting out a plate. I kid you not, we were eating the pieces straight off the baking sheet. They were that good! Think french fries, but without the calories and even more flavorful. Roasted fennel fries are not only a great snack but they also make a great side dish for any dinner. Just be sure you make enough because these fries will go fast!
Cover a large baking sheet with parchment paper and place the fennel slices in a single layer.
Place in the oven and cook for 30–45 minutes flipping once halfway through.
Bake until the fennel is fork tender and a golden brown.


I'm just not into reading about people being tortured. I enjoy most forms of horror, but any kind of torture scenes just kind of disgust me.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against religions or religious people. I am just not too into reading about religion unless it is supernatural a la the show Supernatural.
I am just not that into middle grade books. The only ones I've really read are the Harry Potter books. I want to like it though. If anyone has some good middle grade suggestions I would love to give it another go.
I cannot read anything with animal cruelty even if it's a book about revenge or something like that. I cannot read about animals being abused. I just can't stand it.
I feel the same way about this topic as animal cruelty. I know some books are written as true stories or to spread awareness, but I just can't handle it.
I just can't get into any kind of military books. I'm sure there are amazing ones out there, they're just not my cup of tea. I think I just don't know enough about any kind of military to really understand or get into a story or book about it.
Once again I'm sure there are some amazing self-help books that help people, but it's just not for me.
I just don't really go for westerns. I've seen a few western movies that I like, but I have yet to find a western book that I really loved.
I guess starvation is similar to torture, but I'm giving it it's own category. I have no desire to read about people starving.
I hate a book that is just plain depressing. I need at least a little happy in my books.
I think that any topic that is just depressing is sooo hard to read, especially animal cruelty and child abuse. It is just so wrong! And I agree about religion, I have nothing against religious things, but I really don't like to read about it! Great list!
Good list, I also don't like reading westerns or about starvation. I also get why it'd be hard to read about child abuse because it's just so horrible but I tend to be interested in were the kids head is but it's also hard to read about the actual abuse. I'm not a big animal person but I also don't see anything appealing about reading animal cruelty. Some middle grade books I'd recommend are the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and it's sequel series The Heroes of Olympus series and The Kane Chronicles, I personally love all three of those series and I don't think an adult would have a hard time getting into them at all.
I completely agree with all the above.


a Dog, no Suds: a dog's life is a ball!
No comment was found (yet) as to the dog's teeth!
Some if not most of those "foul balls" come along Very Fast!
Makes one think twice before reaching out to pet one of these.


Head coach Tom Herman entered a cramped multipurpose room inside the Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletic Center for his National Signing Day press conference Wednesday afternoon. He wore a visible smile.
Herman and the Longhorns had just wrapped up the No. 3 recruiting class in the country, but his tone didn't reflect an attitude of excitement. He made one thing clear: This is how things should be at the University of Texas.
And that starts with recruiting the state of Texas. There's no hiding it — the Longhorns lost the recruiting battle last season in their own state. Only two of 247 Sports' top 25 players chose to come to the 40 Acres.
Herman knew that needed to change. One year later, it did. At the end of National Signing Day on Wednesday, Texas secured 12 of the top 25 players in the state of Texas, including seven of the top 10.
Of the 27 members in the 2018 recruiting class, seven come from outside the state, including two quarterbacks — Cameron Rising (Newbury Park, California) and Casey Thompson (Newcastle, Oklahoma) — as well as Ryan Bujcevski, a punter from Sydney, Australia.
But much of this is old news, as 19 of Texas' 27 commits made their decision during the early signing period, which allows high school prospects to commit from Dec. 20-22.
That's when the two five-star safeties in Caden Sterns and B.J. Foster committed to Texas, as well as defensive backs Jalen Green and DeMarvion Overshown — the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the state.
The eight remaining players broke the news today, including the state's No. 1 running back — Keaontay Ingram from Carthage — as well as four pivotal defensive pieces: defensive linemen Daniel Carson (Independence, Missouri), Keondre Coburn (Houston), Moro Ojomo (Katy, Texas) and linebacker Joseph Ossai (Conroe, Texas).
Herman said he expects the class to climb to 28 or even 29 players with transfers. He also said junior quarterback Shane Buechele underwent successful surgery and is expected to be back for spring football, which begins March 20.
As for now, Herman and the Longhorns get to boast the third-best recruiting class in the nation, and easily the best class in the state of Texas and the Big 12. Herman acknowledged that one top-five class won't win a championship, but it's a start.


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Clearing class XII with good marks is great. Having a good score reflects your studious nature in the mark-sheets. Most of the time, your further studies depend upon the scores you get. After the declaration of results, nearly after a month, mark-sheets come to school. Students belonging to CBSE Board can collect their mark-sheets along with the passing certificate and migration certificate from their schools. Various schools receive the certificates at varied time. During admission time, if you haven't received your passing certificate, you can have an application duly signed with the principle of your school and submit it to the admission authority. Kindly be in touch with your school management for collecting the certificates.
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import unittest
import ddlib as dd

class TestDDLib(unittest.TestCase):

  def setUp(self):
    self.words = ["Tanja", "married", "Jake", "five", "years", "ago"]
    self.lemma = ["Tanja", "marry", "Jake", "five", "years", "ago"]

  def test_materialize_span(self):
    span1 = dd.Span(0, 3)
    materialized_span = dd.materialize_span(self.words, span1)
    self.assertEqual(list(materialized_span), ["Tanja", "married", "Jake"])

  def test_tokens_between_spans(self):
    span1 = dd.Span(0, 2)
    span2 = dd.Span(3, 5)
    words_between = dd.tokens_between_spans(self.words, span1, span2)
    self.assertEqual([words_between[0], list(words_between[1])], [False, ["Jake"]])
    words_between = dd.tokens_between_spans(self.words, span2, span1)
    self.assertEqual([words_between[0], list(words_between[1])], [True, ["Jake"]])
    words_between = dd.tokens_between_spans(self.words, span1, span1)
    self.assertEqual([words_between[0], list(words_between[1])], [False, []])

if __name__ == '__main__':
  unittest.main()

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Here, on the eastern edge of Spain's Sierra de Gredos mountains, a renowned Madrid doctor named Vincente Alvarez-Villamil purchased land in 1923. The site, which at that time was a full day's travel from Madrid, spoke of its Celtic past, with ancient bears carved from boulders to mark forests dedicated to the hunt goddess.
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But in 2006, two of Vincente's great-grandchildren, Juan Diez Bulnes and Santiago Matallana Bulnes, vowed to fulfill their ancestor's dream. The estate's vineyards were now 80-years-old, and there were Granacha vineyards to purchase from neighboring properties as well. Rejecting current fashions in Spanish wine, the cousins resolved to make wines of purity and expressiveness that were in harmony with the beauty of their ancestral land.
Juan and Santiago's ambitions were well supported by the terroir. The vineyards are more than a half mile above sea level, with warm days but cool nights, and with poor, sandy soils. The resulting wines have ample ripeness, but also astounding bouyancy and freshness.
The cousins wanted, above all, to protect the unique personality of their estate, and they hired consultant Raúl Pérez, a master of cool-climate winemaking, to help them develop the project.
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How to fix our schools
Report • By Richard Rothstein • October 14, 2010
Issue Brief #286
Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City public school system, and Michelle Rhee, who resigned October 13 as Washington, D.C. chancellor, published a "manifesto" in the Washington Post claiming that the difficulty of removing incompetent teachers "has left our school districts impotent and, worse, has robbed millions of children of a real future." The solution, they say, is to end the "glacial process for removing an incompetent teacher" and give superintendents like themselves the authority to pay higher salaries to teachers whose students do well academically. Otherwise, children will remain "stuck in failing schools" across the country.{i}
Klein, Rhee, and the 14 other school superintendents who co-signed their statement base this call on a claim that, "as President Obama has emphasized, the single most important factor determining whether students succeed in school is not the color of their skin or their ZIP code or even their parents' income — it is the quality of their teacher."
It is true that the president has sometimes said something like this. But in his more careful moments, he properly insists that teacher quality is not the most important factor determining student success; it is the most important in-school factor. Indeed, Mr. Obama has gone further, saying, "I always have to remind people that the biggest ingredient in school performance is the teacher. That's the biggest ingredient within a school. But the single biggest ingredient is the parent."{ii}
There is a world of difference between claiming, as the Klein-Rhee statement does, that the single biggest factor in student success is teacher quality and claiming, as Barack Obama does in his more careful moments, that the single biggest school factor is teacher quality. Decades of social science research have demonstrated that differences in the quality of schools can explain about one-third of the variation in student achievement. But the other two-thirds is attributable to non-school factors.{iii}
When the president says that the single most important factor is parents, he does not mean the parents' zip code or income or skin color, as though zip codes or income or skin color themselves influence a child's achievement. Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee's caricature of the research in this way prevents a careful consideration of policies that could truly raise the achievement of America's children. What President Obama means is that if a child's parents are poorly educated themselves and don't read frequently to their young children, or don't use complex language in speaking to their children, or are under such great economic stress that they can't provide a stable and secure home environment or proper preventive health care to their children, or are in poor health themselves and can't properly nurture their children, or are unable to travel with their children or take them to museums and zoos and expose them to other cultural experiences that stimulate the motivation to learn, or indeed live in a zip code where there are no educated adult role models and where other adults can't share in the supervision of neighborhood youth, then children of such parents will be impeded in their ability to take advantage of teaching, no matter how high quality that teaching may be.
President Obama put it this way: "It's not just making sure your kids are doing their homework, it's also instilling a thirst for knowledge and excellence….And the community can help the parents. Listen, I love basketball. But the smartest kid in the school…should be getting as much attention as the basketball star. That's a change that we've got to initiate in our community."
Of course, there are exceptions. Just as not all children flourish with high-quality teachers, not all children fail to flourish just because their parents can't help with homework or because they live in communities where athletes are the most prominent role models. Under any set of circumstances, there will be a distribution of outcomes — that's human nature. And on average, disadvantaged children who have high-quality teachers will do better than similar children whose teachers are less adequate. But good teachers alone, for most children, cannot fully compensate for the disadvantages many children bring to school. As we noted, differences in the quality of in-school experiences can explain about one-third of the differences in achievement.
Even the president's more careful statement — that teacher quality is the most important in-school factor — is actually without solid foundation in research. It is true that some studies have found that variation in teacher quality has more of an influence on test scores than do the size of classes or average district-wide per pupil spending. In other words, you are better off having a good teacher in a larger class than a poor teacher in a smaller class. But that's it. It is on this thin reed that Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee are mounting a campaign to make improving teacher quality, and removing teachers whose students' test scores are lower, the centerpiece of national efforts to improve the life chances of disadvantaged students.
There are plausibly many other in-school factors, not quantified in research, that could have as much if not more of an influence on student test scores than teacher quality. Take the quality of school leadership. Would an inspired school principal get better student achievement from a corps of average-quality teachers than a mediocre principal could get from high-quality teachers? Studies of organizations would suggest the answer is yes, but there have been no such studies of school leadership. Take the quality of the curriculum. Would average teachers given a well-designed curriculum get better achievement from their students than would high-quality teachers with a poor curriculum? A very few research studies in this field suggest the answer might be yes as well.
Or take another in-school factor, teacher collaboration. Even when elementary school students sit in a single classroom for most of the day, several teachers influence their achievement. Teachers can meet to compare lesson plans that worked well and those that didn't. Teachers in lower grades can successfully align their instruction with what will be most helpful for learning in the next grade. Teachers of the arts can reinforce the writing curriculum, and vice-versa. Will average-quality teachers who work well together as a team with the common purpose of raising student achievement get better results than higher-quality teachers working in isolation? Plausibly, the answer is yes. Will promising to pay individual teachers more if their students get higher test scores than the students of another teacher reduce the incentives for teachers to collaborate? Again, a plausible answer is yes.
Of course, schools should try to recruit better-quality teachers and should remove those who are ineffective. After all, the quality of teachers is an important part of the one-third share of the achievement gap that can be traced to the quality of schools. But before making teacher quality the focus of a national campaign, school systems will have to develop better ways of identifying good and bad teachers. Using students' test scores as the chief marker of teacher quality is terribly dangerous, for a variety of reasons: it encourages a narrowing of the curriculum because only test scores in one or two subjects (math and reading) can be used for this purpose, and teachers who will be evaluated mainly by these test scores will have incentives to minimize attention to other subjects; it creates pressure to "teach to the test," that is, emphasizing topics likely to appear on our existing low-quality standardized tests rather than other equally important but untested topics; and it is likely to misidentify teachers — labeling many good teachers as poor and many poor teachers as good — because test scores can be influenced by so many other factors besides good teaching.{iv}
The necessary task of identifying good teachers and removing those who are inadequate requires more than student test score data. It requires a holistic approach, in which qualified experts observe teachers' lessons, evaluate the quality of their instruction, and examine a wide range of their students' work and how teachers respond to it. This requires a bigger investment of qualified supervisory time than most schools are prepared to make. Using student test scores as a shortcut will do great harm to American education.
Making teacher quality the only centerpiece of a reform campaign distracts our attention from other equally and perhaps more important school areas needing improvement, areas such as leadership, curriculum, and practices of collaboration, mentioned above. Blaming teachers is easy. These other areas are more difficult to improve.
But most important, making teacher quality the focus distracts us from the biggest threat to student achievement in the current age: our unprecedented economic catastrophe and its effect on parents and their children's ability to gain from higher-quality schools.
Consider the implications of this catastrophe for our aspirations to close the black–white achievement gap. The national unemployment rate remains close to an unacceptably high 10%. But 15% of all black children now have an unemployed parent compared to 8.5% of white children. If we also include children whose parents have become so discouraged that they have given up looking for work, and children whose parents are working part-time because they can't find full-time work, we find that 37% of black children have an unemployed or underemployed parent compared to 23% of white children. Over half of all black children have a parent who has either been unemployed or underemployed during the past year.{v} Thirty-six percent of black children now live in poverty.{vi}
The consequences of this social disaster for schools are apparent, and include:
Greater geographic disruption: Families become more mobile because they can no longer afford to keep up with rent or mortgage payments. They are in overcrowded housing; they often have to double up with relatives in apartments that were already too small. Children have no quiet place to study or do homework. They switch schools more often, fall behind in the curriculum, and lose the connection with teachers who know them well enough to adapt instruction to their individual strengths and weaknesses. Inner-city schools themselves are thrown into turmoil because classes must frequently be reconstituted as enrollment rises and falls with family mobility. Even the highest-quality teachers cannot fully insulate their students from the effects of this disruption.{vii}
Greater hunger and malnutrition: When more parents lose employment, their income plummets and food insecurity grows. More children come to school hungry and/or inadequately nourished and are less able to focus on schoolwork. Attentive teachers realize that one of the best predictors of how their students will perform is what they had for breakfast, if anything at all.{viii}
Greater stress: Families where parents are unemployed are under greater psychological stress. Such parents, no matter how well-intentioned, often become more arbitrary in their discipline and less supportive of their children. Children from families in such stress are more likely to act out in school and are less able to progress academically. The ability to comfort and support such students may be a more important indicator of a teacher's quality than her students' test scores, which may still be lower than the scores of students coming from stable and secure homes.
Poorer health: Families where parents lose employment are also more likely to lose health insurance.{ix} Their children are less likely to get routine and preventive health care and more likely to miss school days because of illness. They are less likely to get symptomatic treatment for illnesses like asthma, the most common cause of chronic school absenteeism. Children with asthma, even when they attend school, are more likely to come to school irritable, having been up at night with breathing difficulty.{x}
All these consequences of unacceptably high unemployment rates for disadvantaged parents contribute to depressing student achievement for their children. It is obtuse to expect to narrow the achievement gap in such circumstances. It is fanciful for national policy makers to pick this moment to raise their expectations for academic achievement from children of families in such stress and to single out teacher quality as the culprit most deserving of their public attention.
It would inappropriately undermine the credibility of public education if, in such an economic climate, educators were blamed for their failure to raise student achievement of disadvantaged children. Indeed, educators should get great credit if they prevent the achievement of disadvantaged children from falling further during this economic crisis.
Meanwhile, our political system is paralyzed, unable to take meaningful steps to reduce unemployment. Corporate profits are healthy, but an unjustified fear of short-term deficits prevents public spending from putting low-income parents back to work. Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee, and the other superintendents who signed their manifesto are influential in states whose national and state leaders contribute to this paralysis. These school leaders should raise their voices in protest against economic policies that doom children to failure.
Of course, the superintendents should continue attempts to improve teacher quality. They should work on developing ways to identify better and worse teachers without relying heavily on the corrupting influence of high-stakes test scores.{xi} In addition to teacher quality, they should pay attention to school leadership, curriculum improvement, and school organization. They should consider what initiatives they can take, either themselves or in partnership with other community organizations, to improve children's opportunities to come to school in good health and with enriched experiences in early childhood and out-of-school time.{xii}
But they will have to embed all of this work in an insistence on broader efforts of economic and social reform if they hope their school improvements to make any difference.
Otherwise, their manifesto might appear to be more an example of scapegoating teachers than a reflection of serious commitment to the futures of our children.
—Richard Rothstein (RRothstein@epi.org) is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute.
{i} "How to Fix Our Schools: A Manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and Other Education Leaders," Washington Post, October 10, B01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100705078.html
{ii} Barack Obama, Remarks by the President in Arnold, Missouri, Town Hall. April 29, 2009. Emphasis added. Pauses and word repetitions omitted. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-arnold-missouri-town-hall.
{iii} The 2/3 — 1/3 breakdown between family background and school influences was the core finding of the 1966 federal study, the "Coleman Report." But this interpretation of the report overstates its finding about the influence of schools, because Coleman and his colleagues considered the influence of a child's schoolmates ("peer effects") to be a school factor, not an out-of-school factor. (Coleman, James S., and Ernest Q. Campbell, Carol J. Hobson, James McPartland, Alexander M. Mood, Frederic D. Weinfeld, and Rober L. York, Equality of Educational Opportunity, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Government Printing Office, 1966.) Yet the only way to affect the composition of peers in the neighborhood schools he studied would be to change the composition of neighborhoods, with housing integration policies, for example. Of the in-school influences, the Coleman Report identified teacher quality (defined by teacher characteristics such as their educational attainment and experience) to be most important.
In a more recent study, Meredith Phillips and colleagues analyzed data from a federal longitudinal study, "Children of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth." They controlled for factors such as whether anyone in the family subscribed to magazines or newspapers or had a library card, grandparents' educational attainment, a mother's own cognitive ability (test score) and educational attainment, how often a mother reads to her child, the size of a family and its income, single parenthood, parenting practices, child birthweight, and others. They concluded that "{e}ven though traditional measures of socioeconomic status account for no more than a third of the {black–white} test score gap, our results show that a broader index of family environment may explain up to two-thirds of it." There are other differences, for example health and housing, not considered by these analysts that might explain even more of the gap. (Meredith Phillips, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela Klebanov, and Jonathan Crane, "Family Background, Parenting Practices, and the Black–White Test Score Gap," in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, eds., The Black-White Test Score Gap, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.)
{iv} Eva L. Baker, Paul E. Barton, Linda Darling-Hammond, Edward Haertel, Helen F. Ladd, Robert L. Linn, Diane Ravitch, Richard Rothstein, Richard J. Shavelson, and Lorrie A. Shepard, Problems With the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers, Economic Policy Institute, 2010. http://www.epi.org/publications/bp278
{v} These data are for 2009, and have been calculated by analysts at the Economic Policy Institute from the Current Population Survey. Current overall unemployment is slightly higher than it was in 2009 (9.7% vs. 9.3%), so it is unlikely that the differences in family unemployment for black and white children are now appreciably different from a year ago. Tables from which these data were drawn are available from the author upon request.
{vi} Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz, A Lost Decade: Poverty and Income Trends Paint a Bleak Picture for Working Families, Economic Policy Institute, September 16, 2010. http://www.epi.org/publications/a_lost_decade_poverty_and_income_trends
{vii} In 2009, 18% of African American children lived in households that had moved at least once in the previous year, compared to 11% of white children (U.S. Census, Current Population Survey, calculated from http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/migration/cps2009/tab01-02.xls and http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/migration/cps2009/tab01-03.xls). A national survey of nearly 2,000 school districts finds substantially growing numbers of homeless students, largely due to parental unemployment and home foreclosure (Barbara Duffield and PhillipLovell, The Economic Crisis Hits Home: The Unfolding Increase in Child & Youth Homelessness, National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY) and First Focus, December 2008, http://www.naehcy.org/dl/TheEconomicCrisisHitsHome.pdf). A controlled study of homeless and stable children in New York City found that "homeless children perform at a lower academic level and have a higher rate of grade repetition…compared with housed children {otherwise similar demographically} in New York City, despite our finding no difference in cognitive functioning" (Donald H. Rubin, Candace J. Erickson, Mutya San Agustin, Sean D. Cleary, Janet K. Allen, and Patricia Cohen, "Cognitive and Academic Functioning of Homeless Children Compared With Housed Children," Pediatrics 97(3):289-294, 1996).
{viii} From 2007 to 2008, the percentage of black children who lived in households without adequate food ("food insecure households") jumped from 26% to 34%, while the percentage of white children in such households jumped from 12% to 16%. From 2008 to 2009, the percentage of black children who at least some time were hungry, skipped a meal, or did not eat for a whole day because the household could not afford enough food nearly doubled, rising from 1.8% to 3.2%, while the percentage of white children in this category grew from 0.5% to 0.6% (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (ChildStats.gov) http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/eco3.asp). By age 15, 85% of all black children have lived in a household that used food stamps at some time during their childhood, compared to 33% of white children (Mark R. Rank and Thomas A. Hirschl, "Estimating the Risk of Food Stamp Use and Impoverishment During Childhood," Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 163(9):994-999, November 2009). The U.S. Conference of Mayors surveyed 27 cities and reported an overall increase of 26% from 2008 to 2009 in the number of requests for emergency food assistance, with unemployment by far the most significant causal factor (U.S. Conference of Mayors, Homelessness and Hunger Survey: A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: A 27-City Survey, December 2009 http://usmayors.org/pressreleases/uploads/USCMHungercompleteWEB2009.pdf).
{ix} In 2009, 11.5% of black children had no public or private health insurance, up from 10.7% the previous year. For white children, the percentage grew from 6.7% to 7.0% (Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement, http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032009/health/h08_000.htm and http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032010/health/h08_000.htm).
{x} Another Conference of Mayors report summarized the situation as follows: "When a child is unable to concentrate because they haven't eaten in days and misses a week of school because they could not fight off a simple cold, they cannot succeed in school. Lacking a solid education, they cannot find high-paying jobs. Ultimately, they are forced to remain in poverty, eventually placing their own children in the same situation" (U.S. Conference of Mayors and Sodexo, Childhood Anti-Hunger Programs in 24 Cities, 2009, http://www.usmayors.org/pressreleases/uploads/20091116-report-childhoodantihunger.pdf).
{xi} The accountability statement of the "Broader Bolder Approach to Education" campaign (www.boldapproach.org) describes the outlines of appropriate school accountability.
{xii} The initial call for a "Broader, Bolder Approach to Education" (www.boldapproach.org) elaborates on these points.


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Detroit architect Gunnar Birkerts dies at 92, created Domino's Farms
Among his best-known works: Domino's Farms in Ann Arbor and the 1300 Lafayette residential tower near downtown Detroit.
Detroit architect Gunnar Birkerts dies at 92, created Domino's Farms Among his best-known works: Domino's Farms in Ann Arbor and the 1300 Lafayette residential tower near downtown Detroit. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2x1Vx4X
John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press Published 4:39 p.m. ET Aug. 15, 2017 | Updated 5:45 p.m. ET Aug. 15, 2017
Tributes were flowing in Tuesday for the late Gunnar Birkerts, a Latvian-born architect who over half a century of practicing in Detroit designed some of Southeast Michigan's most notable buildings. John Gallagher/Detroit Free Press
Birmingham architect Gunnar Birkerts carved a tiny, private office suit into a hillside off Telegraph Road in Southfield. 1991 photo(Photo: Free Press archives)
Tributes were flowing in Tuesday for the late Gunnar Birkerts, a Latvian-born architect who over half a century of practicing in Detroit designed some of southeast Michigan's most notable buildings.
Among his best-known works: Domino's Farms in Ann Arbor, the 1300 Lafayette residential tower near downtown Detroit, the orange-hued Calvary Baptist Church near Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, the University of Detroit Mercy's Fisher Administration Building and the University of Michigan Law School's underground library.
Birkerts also taught architecture at the University of Michigan from 1959-90.
Birkerts, 92, died Tuesday at his home in Massachusetts, where he had moved a number of years ago after maintaining his practice in Birmingham for decades.
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He was born in Riga, Latvia, but fled the advancing Russian army near the end of World War II. He studied architecture in Germany, then came to Detroit to take part in the vibrant Mid-century Modern movement of the day. Birkerts worked for famed Detroit architects Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki before starting his own firm.
Although a thorough modernist, he could not be pinned down to a single style. For Domino's Farms, where Domino's founder Tom Monaghan championed the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Birkerts crafted a modern updating of Wright's signature prairie style. But for Calvary Baptist in Detroit, he created an orange-hued design likened by some to a Howard Johnson's restaurant.
The exterior of the Domino's Farms in May 2009 in Ann Arbor. (Photo: Rashaun Rucker, Detroit Free Press)
His 1300 Lafayette, UDM's Fisher Administration Building and other works seemed to spring from a new and different stylistic source, each one unique to its site and purpose.
In a 2003 interview with the Free Press, Birkerts explained his preference for angular, irregular shapes over straight lines.
"Straight-line geometry is very man-made," he said. "The angle is what we find in nature. And if I can work with a form that moves, I can express the nature of the building."
Anthony Gholz, a longtime friend and a partner in Birkerts' firm, recalled the intense creative atmosphere that flourished in the office.
"Once you signed on to Gunnar's team, there was no turning back, no looking back, and nothing less than all-out effort," Gholz said. "Those of us who bought into that philosophy felt we were part of a long heritage of great design. As part of his team, we went down the road together, each trying to create the best design possible."
Architect Gunnar Birkerts designed the building known as 1300 East Lafayette in Lafayette Park in Detroit. Photograph from February 2007. (Photo: Mary Schroeder, Special to the Free Press)
Besides his work in metropolitan Detroit, Birkerts designed notable buildings elsewhere, including the the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the University of Iowa College of Law and the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela.
Late in life, Birkerts realized a decades-long dream of seeing his design for the National Library of Latvia in his native Riga completed. He had worked on the project at least since the 1980s, shaping the overall design from a Latvian myth of a magic mountain.
He used some of the same motifs of a rising set of jagged peaks in works locally, too, including some of the imagery for the renovations at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament on Woodward Avenue in Detroit.
"The final built creation was the only thing that mattered," Gholz said. "I couldn't be prouder to have been part of the team that Gunnar assembled over the years and the variety and quality of the work we produced."
Contact John Gallagher: 313-222-5173 or gallagher@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @jgallagherfreep.
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A carer who suffered a fatal brain bleed after allegedly being struck by a patient with dementia had to call police on the elderly man previously, an inquest heard.
Molly Frank, 61, rang 999 on February 1, 2017 after locking herself in the bathroom at Sidi Ahmed Sedikki's Holloway home, claiming he had chased her.
The 95-year-old, who was reportedly "quite strong" for a man of his advanced years, was allegedly known to become very aggressive.
The following year, on May 24, Molly suffered "catastrophic and inoperable" bleeding after she allegedly suffered a blow to the head.
Molly died the following day and a jury inquest into her death began at St Pancras Coroner's Court on Monday (April 8).
Among those to give evidence was Pamela Mbeta-Buhika, Molly's colleague and friend for four years, who had spent the last year working three night shifts a week caring for Mr Seddiki and his wife, Fatima.
She told paramedics who were called to the pensioner's home in Papworth Gardens last spring that Molly had been hit to her head by Mr Sedikki, although the inquest heard she did not actually see this happen.
The court heard that Mr Sedikki cannot walk without his zimmer frame and Ms Mbeta-Buhika told the jury she had heard other carers complain of him hitting them with it, although she was not aware of the company having done anything in response to multiple reports.
She said: "If he's fine he will be very happy and good to you and talk to you nicely but other days he can just be something else.
"It's dependent on his moods, you do not know when it will happen."
She added that they had not expected him to be in a bad mood as the shift had started "peacefully" with both husband and wife asleep, allowing the carers to watch Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding on a phone.
However, describing violence from patients, she said: "That's the thing we go through every day, it's nothing new."
Mr Seddiki, who the women called "Papa", would reportedly sometimes calm down if they played music or called his daughter but another carer, Paula Blanco, said she had even seen him attack his own children in his confusion.
Molly's partner of more than 20 years, Patrick Thompson, claimed in a written statement read aloud by assistant coroner Edwin Buckett that, from what he had heard, it seemed Mr Seddiki "had no respect for women" and his wife Fatima slept in a separate bedroom.
When the two carers went to change him at around 4am on May 24, the inquest heard that he repeatedly told them to "get out or he would call the police", as he done on previous occasions, and they were forced to put a mask on him after he began spitting.
Ms Blanco explained in her written testimony that, due to his confusion, partial blindness and recurring nightmares, Mr Seddiki often woke "thinking people were trying to kill him" and was unable to recognise his carers.
She added that he had previously had a male carer, who was better able to cope with his aggression, but had dismissed him after becoming "worried he would sleep with Mrs Seddiki".
Ms Mbeta-Buhika said they had not been instructed on how to restrain a patient's arms in their formal training but that another member of staff had told them to do so when he came to assess him.
Detective sergeant Simon Cormack, who also gave evidence during the first day of the inquest, told the court that Molly had "only recently gone back to caring for" Mr Sedikki after calling the police on him and had insisted on working with another colleague present.
He added that, "nothing really happened" during the incident and that no further action was taken.
Molly took medication for high blood pressure and suffered from migraines, which on one occasion required her to lie down for 45 minutes during a shift.
Ms Mbeta-Buhika said: "Sometimes she would have to lie down on the floor but if you do not work, you do not get money.
"If she had called in sick, she would not get paid, that's why we work so hard to get money to pay the bills.
"I told her she needed to think about looking after herself in terms of exercise and I was worried about the amount of energy drinks she drank.
"Sometimes I would take them away from her and hide them."
Ms Mbeta-Buhika was standing at Mr Seddiki's feet and had her back to Molly as she attempted to change him, while her colleague, who was only four foot nine, held down both his hands over his stomach.
Molly was said to have walked away clutching her head and her colleague described giving her a pillow so she could lie down.
Ms Mbeta-Buhika continued: "She did not want an ambulance but I could see that she was changing.
"They told me to keep talking to her and she was talking to me but then she stopped. I was lost."
Pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said it was impossible to say whether Molly's aneurysm had burst spontaneously or as a result of a mild impact to the head or stress raising her blood pressure.
She indicated there was "no evidence of traumatic brain injury" and no signs of other injury to the head other than mild abrasions, including one to the cheek.
She added: "I cannot completely exclude that some minor trauma caused the rupture but I think it's more likely that a rise in blood pressure caused it.
"Whether the occurred naturally or because she was pushed or shoved, I cannot say."
A camera in Mr Seddiki's room would have recorded the incident but police found that it, and six others in the house, sent a live feed to the elderly couple's daughter without recording anything.
DS Cormack explained to the jury that, following the medical examination of Molly's brain and despite his arrest, no further action was taken against Mr Seddiki as he was deemed "not to be detained", interviewed or to come to a police station.
Mr Thompson described how much she had loved her 12-year career providing care for the elderly.
He said in his statement: "She enjoyed visiting a variety of different people and took pride in her job.
"She had a close-knit family and, because she was the oldest, lots of things revolved around her."
The inquest, which is expected to conclude on Wednesday (April 10), continues.


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Brendon Urie and the Panic! At The Disco boys (Spencer Smith, Dallon Weekes) are back with a rockin' summer anthem destined to rule the airwaves leading up to the release of their fourth studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen), due October 8th. The Butch Walker (Weezer, Fall Out Boy, The All-American Rejects) produced "Miss Jackson" is just the right amount of dark and moody, words which also describe the trippy, From Dusk Till Dawn (minus the vamps)-esque Jordan Bahat-directed video. "Miss Jackson" features guest vocals from an artist I'm particularly fond of by the name of Lolo.


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Walgreens: This particular moneymaker will only work today, but you can get free candles all month long.
FREE with $1.80 overage after coupons — remember, Walgreens will not hand you cash, so make sure your final balance is at least $.01. Combine this with another deal or buy something you immediately need.
I did the Glade Candle deal tonight at the 82nd & Johnson Creek Walgreens. I made $0.91 on each candle. SWEET!
My cashier at Walgreens already "knew" about this and adjusted everything so it wasn't a money maker. Bummer.
When I tried to print the coupon it said I had printed it already! I tried my info and my hubby's and it wouldn't print!
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