Syndicated interview with Tom Barry, author of When the Siren Calls. Permission granted by Tom Barry to repost this interview. For more information please visit his website.
Q: After a long career at the top of your profession, what prompted you to write a novel?
My original plan was to write a business book that distilled down everything I'd learnt about selling over 20 years in the corporate world. But when the opportunity came, I decided that, if I were to be a writer, I'd rather entertain my readers than lecture them! Much more fascinating, it seemed to me, to embody everything I knew about persuasion in a fictional character, in a master persuader.
Q: So, your business career was key to being able to write this story?
Yes. People tell me I'm a salesman by nature and I've spent 20 years in management consultancy, or what I prefer to call the persuasion game. My only tool was my pen, so what I was really selling was hope, hope to corporations looking for salvation. And that is what the master persuader appeals to in my story; to people's hopes and to their dreams.
Q: You've set your story in a fictional luxury tourist development in Tuscany. Where did that idea come from?
Once I had the idea of a character – a master persuader who would use his skills for business and pleasure – I thought about context and setting. I've lived and worked abroad much of my life, and I have bought property in Italy and Spain, amongst other places. I know a lot about the siren call of living in the sun, having answered that call myself, and I've learnt the hard way about the perils and pitfalls of overseas property investment. So I set my story against the background of a dream holiday condominium for expats. It could be anywhere you find Brits in the sun, but I chose Tuscany because I love visiting there, and I knew stereotypical hot-blooded and hot-headed Italians would add plenty of spice to my story.
Q: The master persuader is not your protagonist. What made you give the story a female lead?
I wanted the book to be about the characters and what happens to them, not a case study in selling or in living the expat life. When the Siren calls is the story of two people, Isobel and Jay, but the more the characters came to life as I wrote the story, the more I fell in love with Isobel, and the more I wanted it to be at least as much her story as Jay's.
Q: What is that story?
Isobel is quintessentially English: a modern day Lady Chatterley. When she meets Jay, she imagines a life of excitement outside her stagnant marriage, free of her workaholic husband. When the Siren Calls tells what happens next.
Q: What makes your story different to other romance/thriller novels out there?
Several things. First, I've written cross-genre. My book is a romantic suspense and business thriller brought together around three common threads: seduction, deception and betrayal. Second, it's written from multiple points of view; we don't see the story just through Isobel's eyes and every character is the hero of his own story.
The result is a story with twists and turns that keep you guessing. But more importantly it is fresh and original because it does not follow the formulaic approach that all publishers now demand before they will even consider a manuscript from a debut author. The reader sees characters' actions through the characters' point of view, and the point of view of their adversaries, and it is for the reader to decide who the good guys are.
Q: Does that mean different readers will view characters differently?
Exactly, take Isobel for example. I hope every reader will find her an empathetic character and I think most will be rooting for her. But not everyone will agree with how she behaves.
Q: How difficult was it to put yourself inside the head of a female protagonist?
People seem to readily accept that you don't need to be a vampire to write a vampire novel. And D.H Lawrence was able to put himself inside the head of Lady Chatterley, just as a middle-aged woman was able to put herself inside the head of an eleven-year wizard.
Q: Are you confident that women readers will identify with Isobel?
I know they will because I have fans who have read the Prequel to the novel saying they are going crazy waiting for the full release. And it's not just women. Isobel's situation is universal, and everyone over the age of fifteen will relate to it. We all, at some point, find ourselves in a place, a job or a relationship that is not fulfilling. Isobel's problem is that she lacks the courage to live a life true to herself rather than the one other people expect. Whether she will find the courage she needs remains the issue right to the end of the story.
Q: WTSC is the first book in a trilogy. When can we expect book two?
The second book, Saving Jay, is already written. The timing on the release is something I discuss with my agent regularly. We haven't set a date yet, but hopefully you will see Saving Jay in bookshops late spring 2013.
– one of eight kids, lifestory is the classic immigrant tale of seeking to live up to parental expectations, while working to mark out your own trail.
– I have aspects of an obsessive personality, establishing a work-life balance was a major challenge.
– I gave up on my business career in my mid-forties, I just didn't tell my boss! Find something you enjoy doing, and you'll never work another day.
– I tell my kids education is the best gift I can give them, it's no weight to carry and no-one can take it off you.
– I believe almost everyone has an agenda; explore perspectives outside the mainstream, and beware suppliers bearing gifts.


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"Alla dolce patria": il ritorno in Italia di Filippo de Pisis
Museo Morandi
10 May - 19 July 2009
The exhibition concentrates on the final phase of this Ferrarese artist's paintings, the years between 1940 and 1953, which have never until now been the object of specific critical focus. The choice made by the curator includes 26 paintings and drawings from the Malabotta and Pianori donations and those belonging to the Gallerie di Arte Moderna e Contemporarea di Ferrara.
Following his return to Italy in 1939, Filippo de Pisis' artistic production was deeply marked by growing anxiety and existential unease, revealed in a painting style at first over-elaborate in its expression and then increasingly stark. Bathed in somber tones and invaded by blinding whiteness, these paintings turn their back on the vibrant colours and pictorial glamour that had characterized much of de Pisis' work in the 1930's.
After 1939 de Pisis continued painting for little more than a decade, during which time he inaugurated a new phase, marked by terser and more concise forms. With the decline in his health, this change in direction became increasingly evident. Ritratto di Allegro - Portrait of a Cheerful Man (1940), on display here, for the first time clearly shows this change. The painting, reduced to the bare essentials, leaves large parts of the canvas free (as will happen repeatedly in the future), the structures are leaner, the face is defined by a few summary features, and in the background we find the device of the painting within the painting, recurrent in many of de Pisis' works.
It is in this last phase of de Pisis' career that the artist produced his most cohesive and consistent group of drawings. Many of these remarkable works are housed in the rooms of this museum. In these drawings what is detracted from the form can be found in the material - red chalk, pastel or oil, which clash with the sureness and neatness of the line, as we can admire in the numerous nudes that represent the artist's favourite subject-matter in this series.


SAN MATEO, Calif. — November 10, 2015 — SnapLogic, the industry's first enterprise integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for big data, today announced that its customer SterlingBackcheck has won a Constellation Research SuperNova Award based on the value gained from its use of the SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform. With SnapLogic, Sterlingbackcheck shortened the time it took to integrate data and applications from months to weeks, and therefore drastically reduced the time it took to onboard new customers.
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SterlingBackcheck was using a combination of homegrown and open-source integration tools for automating transactions with customers. The technology was costly and hard to use, so the company had to assign platform engineers to do the integrations, which took several months to build and required heavy customization—meaning almost everything was a one-off with little or no re-use.
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Moving to an enterprise-class iPaaS instead of hand-coding point-to-point integrations instantly transformed SterlingBackcheck's technology strategy, allowing the company to more directly support business and revenue goals. The SnapLogic iPaaS has shortened the time it takes to integrate data and applications from weeks to days and has drastically reduced the time it takes to onboard new customers. Another key return was the ability to put 12 engineers back into higher-value tasks that ensure the company stays competitive and delivers premium customer service. The most important ROI from standardizing on SnapLogic has been faster time to revenue.
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The effects of duration of a static stretching protocol (Intervention) on hamstrings tightness were evaluated. Sixty purposively sampled subjects with unilateral hamstring tightness that had no history of low back and lower extremity dysfunctions that necessitated medical intervention participated in the study. They we re randomly assigned into one of 5 intervention and one control groups. Groups a, b, c, d, e subjects had their hamstrings passively stretched for 120, 90, 60, 30, and 15 seconds respectively, while group f served as control. Th is intervention was carried out on alternate days for 6 consecutive weeks. Knee extension deficit (KED) was measured for all groups at baseline, weekly and 7 days post cessation of the intervention (carry-over). Data were analysed using one-way ANOVA and paired t-test at 0.05 alpha. A significant reduction (P<0.05) was observed in the KED of subjects in all the intervention groups across the 6 intervention weeks. There was no significant difference between the immediate post intervention and carry-over KED values (p>0.05). The study shows that statically stretching tight hamstrings for any duration between 15 and 120 seconds on alternate days for 6 weeks would significantly increase its flexibility. The effect was also sustained for up to 7 days post intervention.


The collective known as Soulection formed roughly 4 years ago as makers and creators of music in various formats. As the official website notes, they proudly proclaim themselves as a record label, radio show, and niche collective of creative music makers worldwide.
From what little I know of SoulChef, he's a producer that hails from New Zealand. His tracks blend hip-hop, jazz, and soul with—at times—really nice runs of instrumental beats.
There are few modern pop/rock bands I keep coming back to, but The 1975 tends to be one of them. Hailing from the UK, the group is only a few years old when it comes to notoriety, with a nice mix of EPs and one full length release, The 1975.
Thinking back to my experiences with instrumental, digital, and ambient music, it begin somewhere in the 90's with The Crystal Method, followed by the introduction of math rock with bands like Minus the Bear and Russian Circles. And more recently, I've started enjoying creators like that of Tycho.
General Ghost is a relatively new band, formed sometime in 2011 by Jon Howard and Kyle Rictor. I stumbled across their album Drifter Painter Drinker Sinner rather innocently after it popped up in an Rdio feed.
I'm always on the lookout for inspiring hip hop with jazzy flair. To my surprise I recently stumbled across this mixtape and haven't been able to stop it from spinning.
I started off as anything but a Childish Gambino fan. A good friend of mine has loved what Donald Glover's been doing for a while, and in passing often mentioned him in hip-hop conversations. I always laughed it off.


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Home / Fascism / Fraud Famine and Fascism - Thomas Walker The Man Who Never Was
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The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler To Harvard
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In 1898 various U.S. business interests, including sugar companies, were anxious for the United States to seize Cuba. A pretext was needed to build up pro-war sentiment among the U.S. public. American press magnate William Randolph Hearst, so the story goes, assigned the noted artist Fredrick Remington to Cuba to find evidence of conditions which would justify a U.S. military intervention. Finding nothing out of the ordinary, Remington cabled back to Hearst:
"Everything is quiet here . . . I wish to return." Hearst replied: '"Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.'"'
In the fall of 1934, an American using the name Thomas Walker entered the Soviet Union. After tarrying less than a week in Moscow, he spent the remainder of his thirteen-day journey in transit to the Manchurian border, at which point he left the USSR never to return. This seemingly uneventful journey was the pretext for one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated in the history of 20th century journalism.
Some four months later, on February 18, 1935, a series of articles began in the Hearst press by Thomas Walker, "noted journalist, traveller and student of Russian affairs who has spent several years touring the Union of Soviet Russia." The articles, appearing in the Chicago American and New York Evening Journal for example, described in hair-raising prose a mammoth famine in the Ukraine which, it was alleged, had claimed "six million" lives the previous year.2 Accompanying the stories were photographs portraying the devastation of the famine, for which it was claimed Walker had smuggled in a camera under the "most adverse and dangerous possible circumstances."
In themselves, Walker's stories in the Hearst press were not particularly outstanding examples of fraud concerning the Soviet Union. Nor were they the greatest masterpieces of yellow journalism ever produced by the right-wing corporate press. Lies and distortions had been written about the Soviet Union since the days of the October Revolution in 1917. The anti-Soviet press campaigns heated up in the late 20s and 30s, directed by those, like Hearst, who wanted to keep the USSR out of the League of Nations and isolated in all respects.
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Thomas Walker's faked stones and photos appeared in the Hearst press 1n February 1935. Other sources claim different photographers, years and seasons tor these laundered pre-1930s photos. which also show evidence of alteration and touch-up. This excerpt from Hearst's Chicago American (February 25 1935) was published as " famine-genocide" evidence in a 1983 issue of the Chicago-based Ukrainian Nationalist Journal EKRAN.)
However, the Walker famine photographs are truly remarkable in that, having been exposed as utter hoaxes over fifty years ago, they continue to be used by Ukrainian Nationalists and university propaganda institutes as evidence of alleged genocide. The extent of Walker's fraud can only be measured by the magnitude and longevity of the lie they have been used to portray.
Horror stories about Russia were common in the Western press, particularly among papers and journalists of conservative or fascist orientation. For example, the London Daily Telegram of November 28, 1930, printed an interview with a Frank Eastman Woodhead who had "just returned from Russia after a visit lasting seven months." Woodhead reported witnessing bloody massacres that November, a slaughter which left "rows of ghastly corpses."
Louis Fischer, an American writer for the New Republic and The Nation, who was in Moscow at the
time of the alleged atrocities, discovered that not only had such events never occurred, but that Woodhead had left the country almost eight months before the scenes he claimed to have witnessed. Fischer challenged Woodhead and the London Daily Telegram on the matter; both responded with embarrassed silence.3
When Thomas Walker's articles appeared in the Hearst press, Fischer became suspicious - he had never heard of Walker and could find no one who had. The results of his investigation were published in the March 13, 1935 issue of The Nation:
Mr. Walker, we are informed, "entered Russia last spring," that is the spring of 1934. He saw famine. He photographed its victims. He got heartrending, first-hand accounts of hunger's ravages.Now famine in Russia is "hot" news. Why did Mr. Hearst keep these sensational articles for ten months before printing them? My suspicions grew deeper .
I felt more and more sure that he was just another Woodhead, another absentee journalist. And so I consulted Soviet authorities who had official information from Moscow. Thomas Walker was in the Soviet Union once. He received a transit visa from the Soviet Consul in London on September 29, 1934. He entered the USSR from Poland by train at Negoreloye on October 12, 1934. (Not the spring of 1934 as he says.) He was in Moscow on the thirteenth. He remained in Moscow from Saturday, the thirteenth, to Thursday, the eighteenth, and then boarded a trans-Siberian train which brought him to the Soviet-Manchurian border on October 25, 1934, his last day on Soviet territory. His train did not pass within several hundred miles of the black soil and Ukrainian districts which he "toured" and "saw" and "walked over" and "photographed." It would have been physically impossible for Mr. Walker, in the five days between October 13 and October 18, to cover one-third of the points he "describes" from personal experience. My hypothesis is that he stayed long enough in Moscow to gather from embittered foreigners the Ukrainian "local color" he needed to give his articles the fake verisimilitude they possess.
Mr. Walker's photographs could easily date back to the Volga famine in 1921. Many of them might have been taken outside the Soviet Union. They were taken at different seasons of the year ... One picture includes trees or shrubs with large leaves. Such leaves could not have grown by the "late spring" of Mr. Walker's alleged visit. Other photographs show winter and early fall backgrounds.
Here is the Journal of the twenty-seventh. A starving, bloated boy of fifteen calmly poses naked for Mr. Walker. The next moment, in the same village, Mr. Walker photographs a man who is obviously suffering from the cold despite his sheepskin overcoat. The weather that spring must have been as unreliable as Mr. Walker to allow nude poses one moment and require furs the next.
It would be easy to riddle Mr. Walker's stories. They do not deserve the effort. The truth is that the Soviet harvest of 1933, including the Soviet Ukraine's harvest, in contrast to that of 1932, was excellent; the grain-tax collections were moderate; and therefore conditions even remotely resembling those Mr. Walker portrays could not have arisen in the spring of 1934, and did not arise.
Fischer challenged the motives of the Hearst press in hiring a fraud like Walker to concoct such
fabrications:
... Mr. Hearst, naturally does not object if his papers spoil Soviet-American relations and
encourage foreign nations with hostile military designs upon the USSR. But his real target is the American radical movement. These Walker articles are part of Hearst's anti-red campaign. He knows that the great economic progress registered by the Soviet Union since 1929, when the capitalist world dropped into depression, provides left groups with spiritual encouragement and faith. Mr. Hearst wants to deprive them of that encouragement and faith by painting a picture of ruin and death in the USSR. The attempt is too transparent, and the hands are too unclean to succeed.
In a pose-script, Fischer added that a Lindsay Parrott had visited Ukraine and had written that nowhere in any city or town he visited "did I meet any signs of the effects of the famine of which foreign correspondents take delight in writing." Parrott, says Fischer, wrote of the "excellent harvest" in 1933; the progress, he declared, "is indisputable." Fischer ends: "The Hearst organizations and the Nazis are beginning co work more and more closely together. But I have not noticed chat the Hearst press printed Mr. Parrott's stories about a prosperous Soviet Ukraine. Mr. Parrott is Mr. Hearst's correspondent in Moscow."
The incredible photographs accompanying Walker's fake stories also aroused the suspicions of James
Casey, an American investigative writer.
Headlined by Hearst as having "just been taken in the Soviet Union," the photographs were, in fact,
"resurrected" and "rejuvenated":
Art department heads of Hearst's newspapers have been instructed to dig up old war and post-war pictures from the files ... pictures taken fifteen to eighteen years ago from the war-torn areas of Europe ... Some of the pictures have been retouched to look like new. In other cases, the old war pictures have been rephotographed. As a result, many of them look like prints .4
Some of the photographs were eventually identified as showing scenes from the old Austro-Hungarian empire. One photograph from the New York Evening Journal (February 18, 1935), was identified by Casey as actually portraying an Austrian cavalry soldier standing beside a dead horse following a World War I military action.5
Similar faked pictures, Casey noted, "are now appearing in the Voelkischer Beobachter, Der Sturmer
and other Nazi papers, and are being circulated throughout Germany." 6
Hearst and Walker were prepared to go to incredible lengths of cynicism and perverse cruelty in exploiting human sentiments of compassion. Famous among the Walker photographs is the "frog child," published with the following caption:
FRIGHTFUL - Below Kharhov (sic), in a typical peasant's hut, dirt floor, thatched roof and one piece of furniture, a bench, was a very thin girl and her 2 1/2 year old brother (shown above). This younger child crawled about the floor like a frog and its poor little body was so deformed from lack of nourishment that it did not resemble a human being. Its mother had died when it was one year old. This child had never tasted milk or butter and only once had tasted meat.7
One might as well say that this photo portrays a relief worker, anywhere in Europe, sitting in a clinic waiting room with a starving or deformed child. There is something unmistakably urban, non-slavic and early l 920'ish about the woman's flapper hat. Furthermore, the woman, who looks perfectly healthy, is dressed for cold weather while "her brother" is naked. The bench has a ribbed back as on old-fashioned office benches, hardly corresponding to the sole household furniture of a "typical peasant."
As used in the Hearst press, this photograph - and other Walker fakes encountered frequently in the famine-genocide campaign - has been retouched and altered. It betrays the appearance of being a doctored copy of a non-primary source, rather than a direct print from a negative. This author has encountered this unforgettable picture in an early 1920s publication of a Russian famine of the period following World War I. In any event, it will be recalled that Walker was never in Ukraine in 1932- 1933.
Thomas Walker's girl with frog-child from Hearst' s New York Evening Journal (February 19, 1935).
Contradictory claims for the origin of this photo were put forward by Nazi propagandists in the 1930s. A scene from the1920s, thisphoto isstillwidelyused asevidenceof " famine-genocide.' ')
Portions of the 1935 Hearst-Walker series, including some of the photos, had in fact appeared the year previous in the August 6, 1934 London Daily Express. Attributed to an anonymous young English "tourist," the story includes a virtually identical account of Walker's "frog child" fabrication. However, chis earlier version of the hoax locates the tale in Belgorod - which is in Russia proper. Subsequent versions of the hoax over the decades politically relocate the story to Kharkov, which is of course in Ukraine.
Thus, at least some of Walker's faked accounts were prepared well in advance of his actual fall of 1934 Soviet visit. It would seem that the Hearst-Walker conspirators decided to come up with an expanded and improved series, including some of the materials published anonymously in Britain. One concludes that Walker's brief Soviet trip was simply an afterthought, a cosmetic gesture for the already planned publication of the series in Hearst's American papers in 1935.
Not only were the photographs a fraud, the trip to Ukraine a fraud, and Hearst's famine-genocide series a fraud, Thomas Walker himself was a fraud. Deported from England and arrested on his return to the United States just a few months after the Hearst series, it turned out that Thomas Walker was in fact escaped convict Robert Green. The Neu· York Times reported: "Robert Green, a writer of syndicated articles about conditions in Ukraine, who was indicted last Friday by a Federal grand jury on a charge of passport fraud, pleaded guilty yesterday before Federal Judge Francis G. Caffey. The judge learned chat Green was a fugitive from Colorado State Prison, where he escaped after having served two years of an eight-year term for forger y." 8
Robert Green, it was revealed, had run up an impressive criminal record spanning three decades. His
trail of crime led through five U.S. states and four European countries, and included convictions on charges of violating the Mann White Slave Ace in Texas, forgery, and "marriage swindle."9
Evidence at Walker's trial revealed that he had made a previous visit to the Soviet Union in 1930 under the name Thomas J. Burke. Having worked briefly for an engineering firm in the USSR, he was - by his own admission - expelled for attempting to smuggle a "whiteguard" out of the country. A reporter covering the trial noted that Walker "admitted that the 'famine' pictures published with his series in the Hearst newspapers were fakes and they were not taken in Ukraine as advertised." 10
The "evidence" of famine-genocide brought to the American public by this "noted journalist" and "witness" lives on in jaundiced historiographiccircles. Walker's material and claims of six million victims are still recognized and issued by history factories like Harvard University's Ukrainian Studies Fund, as well as by the Ukrainian Nationalists' own media. Walker's fake photographs are the most prominently displayed pictorial "evidence" associated with post-war famine-genocide campaigns, despite the fact that this material was exposed as fraudulent immediately following its release in 1935. Apparently it is felt that the risks inherent in duping the public are necessary to further famine-genocide concoctions.11
1. James Creelman in Pearson's Weekly, September 1906.
2. See for example, Thomas Walker, "6,000,000 Starve co Death in Russia"; "Children Starve Among
Soviet Dead"; "Bodies of Soviet Famine Victims Robbed"; "Soviet Drafts Men, Starves Women";
"Starvation Wipes Out Soviet Villages"; New York Eveninf; Journal, February 18, 19, 21, 25, 27,
1935 respectively.
3. Louis Fischer, "Hearst's Russian Famine," The Nation, Vol. 140, No. 3636, March 13, 1935.
4. Daily Worker, February 21, 1935.
5. Ibid.
7. New York American, March 3, 1935.
8. New York Times, July 16, 1935.
9. Daily Worker, July 20, 1935.
10. Ibid.
11. Among the many publications which use Walker's fraudulent materials as historical proof are:
"The Soviet Famine of 1932-1934" by Dana Dalrymple, Soviet Studies, January 1964; The Ninth Circle by Olexa Woropay, Harvard Ukrainian Studies Fund, 1983; The Great Famine in Ukraine: The Unknown Holocaust, Ukrainian National Association (USA), 1983; 50 Years Aio: The Famine Holocaust in Ukraine - Terror and Human Misery as Instruments of Soviet Russian Imperialism by Walter Dushnyck, 1983; Witness: Memoirs of the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine by Pavlo Makohon, Anabasis, 1983; Human Life in Russia by Ewald Ammende, John T. Zubal, 1984 (reprint of the 1936 edition); Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest, University of Alberta Pres , 1986; Famine in the Soviet Ukraine 1932-1933: A Memorial Exhibition prepared by Oksana Procyk, Leonid Heretz and James E. Mace, Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Harvard College Library, 1986.
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'I was informed that they have detected two cases of this new variant Omicron in the United Kingdom, Sajid Javid said
Two cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the UK, the health secretary has confirmed.
The individuals and all members of their households were told to enter self-isolation after one case was detected in Brentwood, Essex, and another in Nottingham. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed the cases, which are both believed to be connected and linked to travel to southern Africa, after genomic sequencing overnight. Health Secretary Sajid Javid ordered targeted testing in the affected areas.
We must 'move quickly' to tackle Covid Omicron variant, says leading scientist
Ministers said non-UK and Irish residents who have been in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Angola in the previous 10 days will be refused entry into England from 4am on Sunday.
"Late last night, I was contacted by the UK health security agency. I was informed that they have detected two cases of this new variant Omicron in the United Kingdom- one in Chelmsford, the other in Nottingham," Mr Javid said.
"The two individuals concerned are self isolating alongside their whole household while further tests and sequencing is carried out".
Essex County Council later clarified the case had been detected in Brentwood, Essex, not Chelmsford.
The prime minister will be holding a Downing Street press conference later on Saturday with Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance to outline "further measures," he added.
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Independents pleased with Gulf of Mexico sale tracts
Independents Thursday said they were pleased with the tracts they won in the Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale the day before. Analysts said companies bid actively for both shallow water tracts with deep gas prospects and deepwater acreage.
By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, Mar. 29�Independents Thursday said they were pleased with the tracts they won in the Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale the day before.
The US Minerals Management Service said apparent high bids in the sale totaled $505.4 million. Ninety companies filed 780 bids exposing $663.4 million for 547 tracts off Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama (OGJ Online, Mar. 28).
Luke R. Corbett, Kerr-McGee chairman and CEO, said, �As the number one independent leaseholder in the gulf, we have built a solid inventory of deepwater leases in high-potential core areas.�
It was high bidder on 32 leases Wednesday, and if all are awarded, Kerr-McGee will hold interests in more than 550 leases in the gulf, with 345 of them in deepwater.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, was the apparent high bidder on 23 tracts, 16 of them in deepwater.
Anadarko spokeswoman Teresa Wong said, �Subsalt is a specialty of ours, and that is why we got some of the blocks.�
Stephen Smith, analyst for Dain Rauscher Wessels in Houston, said the sale was strong compared with those of the last few years although below the record 1997 Central Gulf sale that brought $824 million in high bids.
�It does suggest the companies are financially healthy and trying to focus on deepwater. There also seems to be some companies looking on the shelf for deeper prospects,� particularly for gas prospects in shallow water, Smith said.
For instance, Chieftain International Inc. of Edmonton, Alta., and its partners submitted apparent high bids for 17 blocks, of which 14 are on the shelf and three are in deep water.


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« The many colours of Malaysia
Can Zahid also swear to God that police will commence investigations using the Sedition Act "within 24 hours" of a complaint against UMNO Ministers and leaders, including himself? »
Three reasons why Najib must unambiguously and unconditionally denounce ISIS in his United Nations speech on Friday
There are at least three reasons why the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak should unambiguously and unconditionally denounce ISIS in his United Nations General Assembly speech on Friday.
Firstly, because his first reference to ISIL/ISIS was quite laudatory, exhorting UMNO to emulate what he described as the "brave exploits" of ISIL/ISIS if the party wishes to survive.
Speaking to more than 1,000 Umno members at the Cheras UMNO Branch's 20th anniversary dinner on June 24, Najib outlined six virtues that UMNO needed to survive and flourish in the country, among which bravery as displayed by ISIL/ISIS terrorists was a requisite trait.
Singing praises of ISIL/ISIS' exploits in defeating an Iraqi force outnumbering it, Najib said: "For example, when someone dares to fight to his death, he can even defeat a much bigger team".
Najib said: "Whether we agree or not is another matter, the group ISIL with the strength of just 1,300 people, can defeat an Iraqi army of 30,000 soldiers, until four, five generals with three, four stars run for their lives, jump out of window at night."
Although the Prime Minister's Office later clarified that Najib's remarks glorifying the ISIL/ISIS terrorists had been taken out of context, as the Prime Minister's brief mention and "in passing" of ISIL "in no way indicated any support" for ISIL, Najib himself failed to clarify his own statement until more than two months later – raising the question whether his condemnation of ISIL/ISIS was half-hearted because of his secret admiration for the ISIL/ISIS terrorists.
Secondly, the daily ISIS sadistic and horrific human rights violations, including targeted killings, trafficking, sexual abuse, abductions, forced conversions and beheadings run contrary to the Global Movement of Moderates and Wasatiyah advocated by Najib to reject all form of violence and extremism, whether political or religious.
In fact, the Global Movement of Moderates should be in the forefront of an international campaign against the ISIS terrorists, as Najib had repeatedly made the clarion call in international fora, including twice at the United Nations, for "moderates of all countries, of all religions, to take back the centre, to reclaim the agenda for peace and pragmatism, and to marginalize the extremists".
Or has Najib given up on his conviction that "the real divide is not between East and West or between the developed and developing worlds or between Muslims, Christians and Jews; it is between moderates and extremists of all religions"?
Thirdly, as Prime Minister of multi-religious Malaysia, with Islam as the official religion, Najib should speak loud and clear to lead the world, including Islamic nations, to condemn the terrorism and inhumanity of ISIS, not only as an affront and anathema to Islam as a religion of peace but for its crimes against humanity.
The Indonesian government banned the ISIS in early August as it does not want the terrorist outfit to spread its ideology in the archipelago.
With some 40 Malaysians recruited to become ISIS fighters, with four of them confirmed as having been killed in Syria/Iraq, and the declaration of support of the Abu Sayyaf group for ISIS, it will be most appropriate for Najib to outline Malaysia's national and international role in countering the new ISIS terrorism in his speech at the UN General Assembly on Friday.
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#1 by Bigjoe on Monday, 22 September 2014 - 4:50 pm
I believes sometimes Sdr. Lim just don't get Najib. Najib will have no problem on the international stage to denounce ISIL, its here at home he has a problem doing it.
But that is not even the problem. He is going to make a speech that makes appears he is "statesman" – likely talking about grand unspecific concepts such as education, culture, even alluding to his suppose "focus on tasks" success of MH17 getting the bodies, even Putin and Obama failed thing which he will have no problem milking.
The man is not shy. Shameless yes, shy no – except when it gets really really tough when he becomes the greatest coward.
The real challenge is for Najib to repeat what he will say to domestic audience especially in the heartland such as Pengkalan Kubor right now..
#2 by Noble House on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 - 3:41 am
The Prime Minister's speech is more often well-written, fine-tuned with all the punctuation marks, but as usual it fell short of the scripts on delivery.
#3 by Justice Ipsofacto on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 - 8:21 am
No bigjoe. No.
The real problem lies here: "W". Yeah the shape of things.
In this case, its the shape of that jibby tongue.
Forked and hence double tipped.
#4 by boh-liao on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 - 11:20 am
So, the greatest critic of d last S'gor's MB is now d MB
Better walk d talk n show rakyat his service 2 rakyat
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Kate Hanni | HuffPost , formerly The Coalition for Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights (CAPBOR), the fastest growing airline passengers' coalition in the country. Whether in State Capitols or in the Halls of the U.S. Congress, she has brought the need to enact legal rights and protections for the flying public to the national forefront.
\r\nKate, her family and thousands of airline passengers were stranded on the tarmac of Austin Airport onboard 124 American Airlines flights during the Christmas holidays, December 29th, 2006. For close to ten hours, Kate and the rest of the passengers were given no food, no water, no medical attention and no basic services such as working toilets.
\r\nUnable to deplane and sitting on the tarmac at Austin airport, Kate and other passengers decided to turn anger and frustration into advocacy by creating this Coalition. "Our goal is to ensure that no other airline passenger has to experience what we went through," is the common message of the Coalition as they travel the country seeking support from the general public, travelers, partner organizations and public officials.
Kate Hanni is one of the most passionate and dedicated national figures fighting for safeguards and protections to airline passenger's today. She is the Founder and Executive Director of FlyersRights.org, formerly The Coalition for Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights (CAPBOR), the fastest growing airline passengers' coalition in the country. Whether in State Capitols or in the Halls of the U.S. Congress, she has brought the need to enact legal rights and protections for the flying public to the national forefront.
Kate, her family and thousands of airline passengers were stranded on the tarmac of Austin Airport onboard 124 American Airlines flights during the Christmas holidays, December 29th, 2006. For close to ten hours, Kate and the rest of the passengers were given no food, no water, no medical attention and no basic services such as working toilets.
Unable to deplane and sitting on the tarmac at Austin airport, Kate and other passengers decided to turn anger and frustration into advocacy by creating this Coalition. "Our goal is to ensure that no other airline passenger has to experience what we went through," is the common message of the Coalition as they travel the country seeking support from the general public, travelers, partner organizations and public officials.
Kate has taken her mission on behalf of the flying public to the national airwaves. She recorded a song for Stranded Passengers called "We've Gotta Get Out of this Plane". She is a frequent guest on national television, cable and radio shows. She is a regular guest on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, ABC, Fox News and the major broadcast networks. Kate has been profiled on the Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, CBS This Morning and ABC's Nightline, and Rachel Ray, Dr. Phil, 20/20, Nightline, among countless others. Newspaper profiles include USA Today, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Washington Post…and the beat goes on. In all Kate has completed more thank 3,700 interviews in 3.5 years.


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Linen pants are very practical, comfortable and cool.Often we do not know how the combine correctly or what kind of shoes would go well with this informal and sober style.
On ToutComment, we give you a few tips to knowwhat shoes to wear with pants in linen.
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The Italian style shoes would be a good choice for men, they are classic and sober colours. Always a simple style. However, you can choose these shoes for a formal look.
Another option is to wear sneakers or boots with pants in linen. But this option is very informal and it is best to choose only when you are out in nature.
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Mask violations can come with $1K fine in Northampton
Latisha Rocke, of Belchertown, talks about the Northampton mask mandate on Wednesday, Aug. 11, in downtown Northampton. Gazette file photo '; }
By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — The city's indoor mask mandate carries a $1,000 daily fine for any "person or entity in control of a public indoor space" who flouts the order, and it encourages residents not to confront each other about violations.
The order, approved by the Board of Health last week in response to rising cases of COVID-19 and the coronavirus' delta variant, is in effect until it is rescinded, and it applies to everyone — with limited exceptions — regardless of vaccination status.
"We know that masks slow or prevent transmission of all COVID-19 variants so far," the order reads. "We are committed to preventing transmission, keeping our numbers as low as possible, and (protecting) our most vulnerable from severe illness."
Anyone over age 5 must wear a mask over their mouth and nose at all times when inside a restaurant, bar, event venue, hotel/motel, gym, salon, place of worship or any other indoor space that is open for the public to enter and conduct business. Masks must be secured with ties or ear loops, and may be removed when eating or drinking.
The "person or entity" in control of a public space is responsible for enforcing the mandate, and those who fail to do so "shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 per day," even if they are acting as the "servant or agent" of another person, firm or corporation. State law gives boards of health the authority to impose fines against those who violate "reasonable health regulations."
"Nothing in this order is intended to encourage residents to act as an enforcement authority for the City of Northampton," the order reads. "Residents should not take it upon themselves to approach people in violation of this order. Residents are urged to focus solely on their personal compliance with this order."
Exemptions to the mask requirement include those with a medical excuse, such as difficulty breathing or an inability to remove the mask without help, and children who "compromise mask integrity with frequent manipulations or removals." Singers and those playing brass and woodwind instruments do not have to wear a mask if they are standing 10 feet away from "any members of the public," the order reads.
Enclosed office spaces that have a barrier between workers and the public are exempt when staff is not interacting with the public and the barrier is closed.
Brian Steele can be reached at bsteele@gazettenet.com.
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Serrasalmus gouldingi (engl. Goulding's Piranha, wegen seiner Färbung auch Blue Tiger Piranha) ist eine 1992 erstbeschriebene, im tropischen Südamerika beheimatete Sägesalmlerart. Sie wird auch Piranha Fula oder Caribe Negro genannt.

Beschreibung
Die Fische sind hochrückig und haben eine rhomboide Körperform. Sie gehören zu den größeren Serrasalmus Arten und können eine Körperlänge von bis zu 27,9 Zentimeter SL erreichen. An den silberfarbenen, in metallischen Blautönen glänzenden Körperseiten befinden sich vertikal verlängerte Flecken. Ein deutlicher Schulterfleck fehlt, einige Exemplare zeigen in dieser Region aber vermehrt Pigmente. Der Kopf mit großen Augen ist robust, das Maul moderat groß, die stumpfnasige Schnauze ausgeprägt. Über die Augen verläuft vertikal durch die Pupillen ein dunkler Streifen. Das Ectopterygoid ist mit wenigen (1 bis 3) Zähnen besetzt. Ein präanaler Stachelstrahl ist vorhanden. An der Schwanzflosse (Caudale) befindet sich zum Körper hin (proximal) ein schwarzes Band. Die Rückenflosse (Dorsale) wird von 13 bis 17, die Afterflosse (Anale) von 29 bis 33 Weichstrahlen gestützt. Die Art hat 36 bis 38 Wirbel. Die Schuppen sind klein und zahlreich, die Anzahl entlang der Seitenlinie beträgt gewöhnlich 95 (93 bis 97). Vor dem Beginn der Bauchflossen befinden sich 24 bis 25 und nach dem Beginn der Bauchflossen 8 bis 10 Abdominalzähne (Serrae). Die 25 (23 bis 27) Kiemenreusendornen sind kurz und an der Basis breit.

Verbreitung ud Lebensraum
Serrasalmus gouldingi kommt in Brasilien, Ecuador, Kolumbien und Venezuela im Amazonas und Orinoco Flussgebiet vor. Die Art ist ein typischer Bewohner von Schwarzwasserflüssen und von stehenden Gewässern.

Lebensweise
Über die Lebensweise von Serrasalmus gouldingi ist nur sehr wenig bekannt. Eine Untersuchung im Gebiet des Rio Anapu zeigte, dass die Art dort ein Allesfresser (omnivore) ist, mit Tendenz zum Fischfresser (piscivore). Ein weiterer, größerer Anteil an der Nahrung sind Früchte und Samen.

Literatur
 Antonio Machado-Allison, William Fink: Los Peces Caribes de Venezuela, Diagnosis, Claves, Aspectos Ecologicos y Evolutivos, 1996, Universidad Central de Venezuela, CDCH

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The stars seemed to have been aligned for Avery and Alicia. From the outside looking in, Lady Luck passed their way and left a fortune! They had a whirlwind, fairytale romance filled with all the little things that make dreams come true: a wedding of grace and beauty, and perfectly magical careers that produced almost enough money to burn. They were the picture-perfect couple.
Unfortunately, time has a way of revealing fissures in what appears to the naked eye as impenetrable. The results send this fairytale romance spiraling out of control.
Avery, as perfect and so right as he seemed, struggles to free himself from his demons. He clings to this delicate relationship that he desperately needs as if his last breath depends on it. Alicia, on the other hand, struggles to make the necessary corrections that will release her from a prison of unexpected, agonizing turmoil.
A novel of enduring strength, undeniable empowerment, and the compelling ability to overcome incredible odds, Season of Change is a powerhouse that will impact readers long after the last words have been read.
If you're thinking that you're going to be doing some light reading by picking up Season of Change you thought wrong. This novel addresses some very graphic and sadistic abuse, of varying natures. I found it confronting and disturbing, and was very tempted to stop reading at many points, yet something drew me on. Will Alicia survive? If so, will she stay or leave? Does Avery confront his demons? Will he get the help he so desperately needs?
I found the shift of focus between characters from chapter to chapter a little disconcerting, as I have never read a book written in this manner before. Having said that, it was interesting to see the story from multiple viewpoints.
The story was well written, characters were well developed and subject matter well researched. There is a Christian theme, but it does not become evident until the final chapters.
I do not recommend this book to anyone under the age of 18 years.
I purchased this book from iTunes for the purpose of review at the request of the Author (via a mutual friend), my review is my own opinion and is not required to be positive.


Told in verse (meaning in poems), this book tells the story of Mimi, a seventh grader in 1969 who moves across the country from Berkeley, California to Vermont. Mimi is a strong female character who knows what she likes and what she wants to do. She is comfortable with herself and her mixed-race family, even when others want to categorize her. Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton (Lexile: 790; Interest Level: Grades 3-6) takes on the big social issues of the late 1960s, but as they would really look in the life of a seventh grader, and all set up alongside the major news story of the first men landing on the moon. "One small step" is definitely the theme of this story as Mimi sets off to show that people should be friends with good people, despite what they look like, kindness can overcome fear and hatred, and yes, girls should be allowed to use power tools!


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Anno uno (Year One) è un film commedia del 2009 scritto e diretto da Harold Ramis, nella sua ultima esperienza cinematografica.

Trama
Zed e Oh sono due uomini primitivi e imbranati cavernicoli, rispettivamente un cacciatore e un raccoglitore, che dopo essere stati banditi dal loro villaggio iniziano un lungo viaggio biblico incontrando Caino mentre uccide Abele.

Vengono poi resi schiavi dalle guardie di Sodoma e incontrano Abramo proprio poco prima che questo sacrifichi suo figlio Isacco, e Zed ferma il rito, dicendo di esser un messaggero di Dio: sono così invitati a casa di Abramo e, dopo aver cenato, il giovane Isacco sano e salvo porta Zed e Oh a Sodoma, dove Abramo ha intenzione di circonciderli.

Qui vengono nuovamente catturati ma, appena poco prima di venir sodomizzati dai soldati, accorre in loro aiuto Caino, anch'egli divenuto soldato, che li chiama "fratelli" e riesce a salvarli. Si scusa con loro per averli venduti come schiavi, offre loro del cibo e trova loro un lavoro come guardie: in questi panni per strada incontrano la principessa della zona Inanna, afflitta dal senso di colpa perché la sua città è alla fame. Quella stessa sera vede Zed e lo invita al suo banchetto, per poi portarselo via in disparte.

A palazzo Zed vede Maya ed Eema, ridotte schiave, che servono al banchetto, mentre Oh è costretto a seguire il Sommo Sacerdote per un "rito", quello di ungergli sensualmente tutto il corpo dietro una tenda; più tardi Zed rivede Inanna, che lo porta al Santo dei Santi e gli chiede di entrare, credendolo "il Prescelto". Lì dentro, Zed trova Oh, che si sta nascondendo dal perverso Sommo Sacerdote: vengono sorpresi dal volubile Caino, il quale li imprigiona per essere entrati nel tempio sacro. All'inizio entrambi vengono condannati a morte per lapidazione, ma Zed fortunatamente riesce a convincere le autorità ad avere pietà e a condannarli invece ai lavori forzati fino alla loro morte.

La mattina seguente il re di Sodoma dichiara che sacrificherà agli dei sua figlia e due vergini (proprio Maya ed Eema, secondo Caino le "seguaci del Prescelto").

Ancora una volta è Zed a salvare la situazione, interrompendo il rito; intanto Oh induce la popolazione alla rivolta, col motto "Il Prescelto arriverà!": sul più bello arriva anche Abramo con gli Ebrei, per aiutare a spodestare il re dal suo trono. Finalmente, festeggiando che le due ragazze non sono state sacrificate, Oh ed Eema fanno sesso nel palazzo. Intanto Zed ora comanda i soldati, che hanno ucciso il re.

La folla vuole proclamare Zed leader, essendo il "Prescelto", ma, per rimanere coi suoi amici Oh, Eema e Maya, abbandona il suo desiderio di fare il "Salvatore". Così lascia il regno nelle mani dell'onesta e saggia Inanna, e mettendosi con Maya diviene un esploratore, mentre Oh diventa il capo del suo villaggio natale: qui i due amici si dicono addio e si separano, finalmente liberi e felici.

Produzione

Cast
I protagonisti Jack Black e Michael Cera vengono affiancati da un nutrito cast: tra gli altri, Olivia Wilde veste i panni della principessa Inanna, Christopher Mintz-Plasse interpreta Isacco mentre Hank Azaria ricopre il ruolo di Abramo. Il regista del film Harold Ramis impersona Adamo mentre Rhoda Griffis è Eva, inoltre Kyle Gass è Zaftig l'Eunuco, Bill Hader interpreta uno sciamano e Vinnie Jones il capo delle guardie di Sodoma. Infine Paul Rudd impersona Abele.

Riprese
Le riprese del film, svolte durante il gennaio del 2008, hanno avuto luogo tra Louisiana e New Mexico, nel film considerata "la fine del mondo".

Promozione
Una prima pubblicità del film è stata mandata in onda durante il Super Bowl XLIII, nel 2009; appena due giorni più tardi su YouTube è stata pubblicata una clip del film. Il trailer è invece uscito assieme all'uscita nelle sale del film I Love You, Man, anch'esso con Paul Rudd nel cast, il 19 giugno 2009.

Distribuzione
Il film, prodotto dalla Apatow Productions, è stato distribuito negli Stati Uniti il 19 giugno 2009 dalla Columbia Pictures mentre è uscito nelle sale cinematografiche italiane il 6 novembre 2009, distribuito dalla Sony Pictures.

Accoglienza

Incassi
Il film, guadagnando oltre 19,5 milioni di dollari soltanto nel suo primo weekend di apertura, ha incassato in tutto il mondo un totale $ 62,5 milioni, a fronte di un budget di circa 60 milioni.

Critica
Il film non è stato affatto benaccolto dalla critica: infatti per esempio, sul sito web Rotten Tomatoes riceve solo il 14% delle recensioni professionali positive, con un voto medio di 3,95/10, basato su 173 recensioni; il consenso critico del sito l'ha definito "una commedia scadente e sbrigativa".

Su Metacritic il film ottiene un punteggio medio di 34 su 100, basato su 28 critiche, indicando "recensioni generalmente sfavorevoli".

USA Today ha descritto il film come "sciocco, che spreca il potenziale del suo cast utilizzando un umorismo giovanile osceno", così come il critico Roger Ebert, assegnando soltanto 1 stella su 4, ha scritto che "l'unico traguardo alla fine è finirlo!".

Infine il New York Post ha definito il film "mediocre nella migliore delle ipotesi", offrendo un voto di 1,5 stella su 5.

Riconoscimenti

 2009 - Teen Choice Award
 Candidatura per la migliore commedia a Harold Ramis

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Film commedia d'avventura
Film ambientati nella preistoria
Film girati negli Stati Uniti d'America
Film diretti da Harold Ramis


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The Co-operative's BWS boss has radically overhauled the retailer's drinks range
By Angela Mount
| 11 April, 2016
The Co-operative Group's BWS trading manager, Simon Cairns, has every reason to be in a bullish mood after the retailer increased its share of the wine market from 9.4% to 10% in the past year (Nielsen). It is the first time the Co-op has ever been in double digits and Cairns says this is just the start.
He has just implemented the largest single range review the wine department has seen in years and expects the upturn to continue when its impact is felt. "The Co-op has never been in a better place to capture the increasing trend towards local and convenience shopping," Cairns tells OLN. "We are totally about convenience. We understand our customers and our market. We have a responsibility to energise this sector and now I believe we have the confidence to do it."
It is a bold statement, but spoken with the ebullience that comes with a set of box-ticking, assertive performance statistics. Against a backdrop of recent sliding sales among the grocery multiples, the convenience sector is showing slow, but steady, growth. With more than 4,000 stores, the Co-op leads the way, boasting at least one store in every postcode area in the UK, and is set to maximise on the ever-shifting trends in consumer shopping habits.
But, until recently, ranging for these 4,000 stores has been frustrating for Cairns and his team, as it worked on a simple "scale up" model based on store size that gave minimal consideration to the retailer's diverse and disparate regional and demographic customer base.
All this is now changing, with BWS leading the charge in a company-wide initiative that will see seismic changes to ranging in individual stores across all categories. "To date, we've tried to do the basics really well," says Cairns. "We focused on availability, the promotional plan and kept a tight balance, but we couldn't deliver what many of our customers needed. That's all changed and this is the start of the most exciting evolution the Co-op has ever seen."
Three weeks ago, Co-op stores across the country began to implement range changes to their BWS sections after Cairns' team devised customised, tailor-made range plans for the various different stores across the estate.
"Other retailers are consolidating and reducing range," Cairns says. "We're definitely not. We have a tight range of just under 400 SKUs. We're still finding new, exciting wines. What we're doing now is putting the right wines in the right spaces. It's been a long journey to ensure that we have the right products in the right place."
The newly defined overall Co-op strategy is to get the right products into the right stores. The retailer is testing this with BWS, but aims to roll out a similar strategy into wider grocery later this year.
It has identified 21 different customer clusters, based on need, location, demographics and attitude.
By its very nature the Co-op has an exceedingly fragmented consumer base, ranging from affluent city centre stores, to student communities, through to the highly important stores it calls "rural main shops".
While upmarket but traditional Lytham St Annes in Lancashire might require three different Riojas to suit its affluent but older shopper base, the cartoon-inspired labelling of Grecula – a modern-style Greco di Tufo with a great value price – is better positioned in student communities and city centres.
Throw in petrol forecourts and railway station locations and the picture becomes even more complex. Perhaps the most graphic illustration of the range review is the move of top-notch Château Sénéjac Haut Medoc, retailing at £16.99, from a smattering of stores to more than 800.
For the buyers, range selection and the extent of distribution in convenience retailing is a major challenge.
"Let's dispel the myth that ranging for a small format is easy," says Cairns. "It's about as hard as it gets, since we need to get the right mix to the right customers, without the luxury of space."
On average, a Co-op store will have 8ft of red wine and 8ft of chilled wines, a maximum of 88 reds and 80 whites, plus sparkling and rosé to fit in. With a plethora of options, it makes for a formidable decision-making process.
The new ranging has been determined on the basis of Co-op membership data, regional statistics and Nielsen data, together with insights from key suppliers and the retailer's own insight team, enabling the decision makers to see more clearly through the eyes of a shopper.
"It's all about one core plan," Cairns says. "We started with a blank sheet and looked at each product, at the customer need and where each product ranked within that. We grouped products by need, style and shopper attitude. In small stores, we've had to peel away the layers of duplication in order to give them the diversity they need and make the choice for that particular customer cluster."
The new focus is on providing clear messages and quality at every price level, reinforced by stronger packaging, medal-winning wines and the removal of duplication.
With one of the most experienced buying teams in retail, with stalwarts such as Ben Cahill, Gyles Walker and Edward Robinson on board, the Co-op's wine-buying ship appears to be in safe hands.
But the change meant a new way of thinking for the team. Cairns admits it has forced a volte-face in the way his buyers run their categories.
"We're no longer country targeted," he says. "As a team we have to look at this new plan holistically and it has forced all of us to think in different ways and take a longer-term view.
"Buyers can't look at their individual categories anymore, or work in silos. They are part of the key decision-making process of wines that are right for our fragmented and multifaceted customer base. It's crucial that we work as a team."
Cairns is refreshingly honest in his view of the past six months, admitting he's been obsessed with planograms and individual merchandising plans to get the strategy and implementation right.
"We've all spent a lot of time in the bunker, just nailing down the right ranges for the right stores," he says.
"We've had a complete reset in terms of how we think about range and about our customers, based on the insights we now have. I'm enormously proud of the team, how they have evolved their way of thinking, and how we can now let our wines develop their own personalities
on shelf."
He is also clear on the role of the Co-op in the light of growth in online sales. "It's a different buying need," he says. "Online may be the swiftest growing sector of the wine market, but for distress and convenience purchase, with the majority of purchases consumed within 24 hours, the Co-op is firmly set on fulfilling those needs, in whichever catchment area of the community."
For the first time BWS is being combined as a whole range, and this in itself demonstrates the thinking behind the plan. The convenience shopper is promiscuous and buys according to need that day, rather than embarking on a specific main shop. A key element to success across the alcohol category is the ability to fulfil regional trends, such as cider and local ales, and events. Hence the recent focus on gifts for Mother's Day and now a link into barbecue season.
And what about relationships with suppliers? "We listen to our customers first, not our suppliers," is Cairns' clear message. Having said that, the Co-op demonstrates a refreshing loyalty to suppliers that have worked with it on this recent journey. The suppliers that succeed with the Co-op are those that work in tandem to develop wines customers want, and truly understand the Co-op's business.
The supplier base has not altered a great deal, despite the radical in-store changes. "We need our suppliers to understand the shopper journey and to come on this journey with us. We are all about building long-term relationships with producers and suppliers who understand what we are trying to achieve," says Cairns. "With the current customer trend to convenience, we are finally getting more of a voice, and it also brings us more on to the supplier radar. We're just starting to scratch the surface of what we can achieve, working in partnership with our key producers."
The new range strategy is still bedding down across the country and, with the earlier Easter weekend, it's yet to see a tangible impact.
Cairns is sharp on the team's vision for 2016 and conveys not only an engaging optimism, but also real determination. "We know convenience better than anyone. We now need to show authority in this category. We have a duty to keep the high street alive. This is just the start of our journey."
Wines sales buoyant at the Co-op


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Q: Prolog Query Duplicates I've seen a few questions on this topic, however none of them really answers my question properly. I'll write a small example, here are some facts:
football(john).
football(sam).

tennis(john).
tennis(pete).

netball(sandy).

I want to create a rule that states pete likes anyone that plays football or tennis.
likes(pete, X) :- (football(X) ; tennis(X)), X \= pete.

But obviously when I query it in Prolog, john will come up twice as john plays both football and tennis. I want it to come up with john only once. How can I amend my code to do that?
Thanks in advance - Dan

A: One clean solution is to use your Prolog system's tabling mechanism.
For example, in SWI-Prolog, you can do this by adding the following directive at the top :

:- table likes/2.

With this directive, you get:

?- likes(pete, X).
X = john ;
X = sam.

Whereas without it, you get:

?- likes(pete, X).
X = john ;
X = sam ;
X = john.

Tabling is also known as SLG resolution.

A: Here's the approach mentioned by @DanielLyons in his comment to your question.
It is based on prolog-setof, so it is portable across different Prolog systems.
Using SICStus Prolog 4.5.0:
| ?- setof(t, likes(pete,X), _).
X = john ? ;
X = sam ? ;
no

A: SWI-Prolog offers library(solution_sequences)
likes(pete, X) :- distinct( ((football(X) ; tennis(X)), X \= pete) ).

?- likes(pete, X).
X = john ;
X = sam ;
false.

It's built on the infrastructure that make tabling available, tough, so it has similar requirements on memory storage.


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Q: Python how to convert this type of list to dictionary [["4040", ["4040", "1.04862754", 4]], ["4040.1", ["4040.1", "0.25906621", 1]], ["4040.2", ["4040.2", "0.954", 1]]]

what i want is:
{"4040": ["4040", "1.04862754", 4]}, {"4040.1": ["4040.1", "0.25906621", 1]}, {"4040.2": ["4040.2", "0.954", 1]}

i want to send this data to redis in json format but had a difficulty on converting. Actually i already write this data in dictionary but before sending to redis i need to sort keys so python converts it to a list

A: Using slicing:
print({x[0]: x[1:] for x in lst})

OUTPUT:
{'4040': [['4040', '1.04862754', 4]], '4040.1': [['4040.1', '0.25906621', 1]], '4040.2': [['4040.2', '0.954', 1]]}

OR
print(dict(lst))

OUTPUT:
{'4040': ['4040', '1.04862754', 4], '4040.1': ['4040.1', '0.25906621', 1], '4040.2': ['4040.2', '0.954', 1]}

OR
If you want a list of dicts separated:
print([{x[0]: x[1]} for x in lst])

OUTPUT:
[
   {'4040': ['4040', '1.04862754', 4]}, {'4040.1': ['4040.1', '0.25906621', 1]}, {'4040.2': ['4040.2', '0.954', 1]}
]

OR
(Often things are simple but we complicate them ourselves)
print([{k:v} for k, v in lst])

OUTPUT:
[
  {'4040': ['4040', '1.04862754', 4]}, {'4040.1': ['4040.1', '0.25906621', 1]}, {'4040.2': ['4040.2', '0.954', 1]}
]

A: Edit: Just saw you want three dictionaries, altered the code accordingly.
my_list = [["4040", ["4040", "1.04862754", 4]], ["4040.1", ["4040.1", "0.25906621", 1]], ["4040.2", ["4040.2", "0.954", 1]]]

result = []

for elem in my_list:
    my_dict = {elem[0]: elem[1]}
    result.append(my_dict)

print(result)

Output:
[
  {'4040': ['4040', '1.04862754', 4]},
  {'4040.1': ['4040.1', '0.25906621', 1]},
  {'4040.2': ['4040.2', '0.954', 1]}
]

Or, as pointed out in the comments, use a list comprehension and save yourself a fair amount of lines:
result = [{k:v} for k, v in my_list]

This should do what you want.

A: If you want to convert that list to a list of dictionaries, a list comprehension will suffice:
>>> list_of_kv = [["4040", ["a", "b", 4]], ["4040.1", ["d", "e", 1]]]

>>> [{k: v} for k, v in list_of_kv]
[{'4040': ['a', 'b', 4]}, {'4040.1': ['d', 'e', 1]}]

If you instead want a single dictionary, the builtin dict class can handle it:
>>> dict(list_of_kv)
{'4040': ['a', 'b', 4], '4040.1': ['d', 'e', 1]}

A: Try:
>>> L = [["4040", ["4040", "1.04862754", 4]], ["4040.1", ["4040.1", "0.25906621", 1]], ["4040.2", ["4040.2", "0.954", 1]]]
>>> dict(map(tuple, L))
{'4040': ['4040', '1.04862754', 4], '4040.1': ['4040.1', '0.25906621', 1], '4040.2': ['4040.2', '0.954', 1]}

map(tuple, L) transforms L[0], L[1], ... into tuples. dict converts k, v tuples to dictionary entries.


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MSU international partnerships receive support from 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund
Contact: James Carskadon
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Grants from the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund will support three international partnerships at Mississippi State University.
With the grants, MSU will strengthen exchange programs in Mexico, The Bahamas and Colombia in the fields of engineering, precision agriculture and coastal science. The latest round of grant funding was announced this week by the U.S. Department of State, Partners of the Americas and NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
The Innovation Fund provides higher education grants which strengthen institutional capacity for exchange programs, increase student mobility, provide more student training opportunities, and enhance regional education cooperation and collaboration throughout the Americas. The grants are $25,000 each.
"I am very appreciative of MSU faculty who have tremendous connections in the Americas, and their willingness to share their passions with students," MSU Associate Vice President for International Programs and International Institute Executive Director Rick Nader said. "The catalytic impact of these small grants can lead to more robust student awareness and engagement in less commonly traveled destinations, making these experiences very transformative for students and attractive to their future employers."
In Mexico, Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua II will expand its study abroad program in collaboration with MSU by creating a program to equip low-income students with cultural literacy to compete in the globalized workforce. ITC II and MSU will engage students to participate in learning experiences that closely connect their English/Spanish knowledge to the field of engineering on an international scale. The grant will allow ITC II to formally establish an International Programs Office to develop strong, lasting, bilateral relationships. Students will collaborate on a final project for a virtual manufacturing training cell and will assist professors in simulation laboratories before presenting results to employees at the manufacturing company. This grant is funded by Fundación Televisa.
In Colombia, MSU and SENA Centro Acuícola y Agroindustrial de Gaira will develop a bilateral exchange to implement MSU's first faculty-led, credit-bearing study abroad program in Colombia. The initiative advances the field of precision agriculture by comparing the two distinct geographical and agricultural environments where Mississippi soybeans and Magdalena bananas are grown. The program aims to increase students' comparative knowledge of precision agriculture for decision-making by contrasting each respective region's crop production techniques and promote creative thinking and joint research ideas among students and faculty in this field. Students and researchers will utilize distance technologies to promote language acquisition, appropriate curriculum and to facilitate technology transfer via extension in both countries.
In The Bahamas, MSU will work with the University of the Bahamas and the University of West Indies to develop a bilateral exchange study abroad program that advances coastal and climate sciences. The partnership will enhance existing MSU faculty-led study abroad programs, establish the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network—a climate citizen science program—and create pathways for students to gain deeper understanding of global climate and marine environmental changes and how those processes affect coastal communities.
About 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund
The Innovation Fund is the public-private sector collaboration between the U.S. Department of State, Partners of the Americas, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, corporations, foundations, regional governments, and Embassies working together to inspire U.S. universities and colleges to team up with universities and technical education institutions in the Western Hemisphere to create new student exchange and training programs. Innovation Fund grants build institutional capacity, increase student mobility, stimulate regional education cooperation, and contribute to workforce development. Since January 2014, the Innovation Fund has awarded 126 grants to teams of 246 higher education institutions from 25 countries in the Western Hemisphere region. Innovation Fund grants facilitate partnerships between universities and community colleges in the United States and higher education institutions in the Western Hemisphere to increase student exchange and training opportunities and to strengthen connectivity and collaboration between higher education networks throughout the Americas. Learn more at www.100kStrongAmericas.org.
About Partners of the Americas
The mission of Partners of the Americas is to connect people and organizations across borders to serve and to change lives through lasting partnerships. These partnerships create opportunity, foster understanding, and solve real-life problems. Inspired by President Kennedy and founded in 1964, under the Alliance for Progress, Partners is a non-profit, non-partisan organization with international offices in Washington, DC. Learn more at www.partners.net or via Twitter @partnersamerica.
About NAFSA
With 10,000 members worldwide, NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the largest non-profit professional association dedicated to international education program and policy. Learn more: www.nafsa.org and www.connectingourworld.org or via Twitter @NAFSA and @ConnectOurWorld.
About Fundación Televisa
The main objective of Fundación Televisa is to promote access to better education and to improve the quality of life for the largest number of people possible. It targets its social investments to reach the largest number of people possible, using their media assets to achieve this goal. Fundación Televisa is engaged in a variety of initiatives aimed at improving the lives of Mexico's people, and believes that working with companies, non-governmental organizations, and the federal government allows Fundación to combine resources and multiply its effect for the economic, social, and cultural development of México.


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Auguste Lacôte est un homme politique français né le  à Dun-le-Palleteau (Creuse) et décédé le  à Paris.

Biographie
Ouvrier forgeron, il travaille à Paris comme mécanicien à la compagnie des chemins de fer d'Orléans, tout en poursuivant ses études qui lui permettent de devenir pharmacien en 1864 et médecin en 1869. Conseiller général du canton de Dun-le-Palestel en 1877, il est député de la Creuse de 1881 à 1898, siégeant à l'Union républicaine, puis au groupe de la Gauche radicale.

Sources

 Jean Jolly (dir.), Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, notices biographiques sur les ministres, sénateurs et députés français de 1889 à 1940, Paris, PUF, 1960

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Notes et références

Naissance en août 1838
Naissance dans la Creuse
Conseiller général de la Creuse
Député de la Creuse (Troisième République)
Député de la troisième législature de la Troisième République
Député de la quatrième législature de la Troisième République
Député de la cinquième législature de la Troisième République
Député de la sixième législature de la Troisième République
Décès en décembre 1899
Décès dans le 14e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 61 ans


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Billy Howard's John Lewis
20×16 framed archival pigment black & white print
Edition: n/a, signed on verso
Akin to how the photographic icon Irving Penn created striking portraits of the most notable figures, Billy Howard gives us a pensive, bold, and sharply composed image of John Lewis. This image is a legacy in the making.
John Lewis, waiting to open the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. My work on people with AIDS was displayed on the National Mall during the festival. I was struck by Lewis' almost granite like countenance as he waited to make the keynote speech opening the festival.
Billy Howard is an Atlanta based documentary photographer and writer. He received a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship in Mental Health Journalism and a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Photography Fellowship and holds an honorary doctor of literature degree from St Andrews University in North Carolina.
His work has been exhibited with the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, Vogue Italia, and in a solo five city tour of Japan. He has been interviewed on Good Morning America; CBS This Morning; NPR, and other media on his work with people with HIV/AIDS, children with cancer, the visually impaired, teens battling mental health issues, and the disabled. His images were projected on the stadium JumboTron during the opening ceremonies for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games to accompany a tribute to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Howard produced the first full-length documentary photography book on the AIDS pandemic: Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS. His archives of that project were acquired by Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and his photographs are in numerous public and private collections including the Library of Congress Photography Collection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the Carter Presidential Center, MOCA GA, and the High Museum.
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Government Law College, Ramanagara , came into existence in the year 2007. Today it has grown exponentially and is providing quality legal education to hundreds of students.
The college is ideally located amidst the prestine iconic Sholey Hills with powerful social capital which acts as a strong support system to the institution and the students. As it is centrally situated, it enjoys the privilege of densely interconnected transportation network.
The college has grown under the guidance of many illustrious principals and is poised to achieve great heights under the leadership of the present principal Dr.Venkateshappa.
The college is blessed with the pool of intellectual talent contributing qualitatively towards the Vision and Mission of the institution.
The college adopts learner centric approach through an ideal combination of traditional and innovative teaching pedagogy. The strength of the institution lies in its highly qualified teachers who are actively engaged in research, guidance, publications.
The Excellence of the teachers is totally channelized to enhance the academic standards of the students which are reflected in good results.
The institution strives continuously through its 38 committees and cells to transform students into valuable citizens of society with all the necessary skills. The college is supported by the friendly support staff.


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A tool for consumers, who are able to verify how food is produced and make responsible choices.
By using the toolbox or step-by-step guide, which allows the various subsectors to develop their own sustainability standards under the principles of materiality, completeness, comparability, inclusiveness, reliability, and review.
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Avocados are creamy and delicious, and they tend to be more wallet-friendly when bought in bulk.
It's no secret that avocados are a truly fickle fruit, remaining unripe for days until they suddenly reach peak-ripeness and need to be eaten immediately. It's not the worst problem to have, but there's only so much avocado toast or guacamole one can consume before relinquishing the extra avocado to the trash. But there's another way to use up a glut of ripe avocado that's almost as easy as making avocado toast. Say hello to avocado ice cream.
Avocados are great in ice cream due to their high fat content, which results in a rich and silky end product. There are a number of methods for making avocado ice cream. Some blend the fruit into a standard dairy- and sugar-filled ice cream base, allowing the mixture sit in an ice cream maker to firm up. This method might make for a great sundae, but it's not exactly healthier than a pint of Ben & Jerry's.
If you're after a healthier approach, this vegan recipe from Bianca Haun, the blogger behind Elephantastic Vegan makes a version of avocado ice cream that eschews dairy and refined sugar, but still remains creamy.
In this recipe, whipped coconut cream, avocado, lemon juice and natural sweetener — such as maple, agave or brown rice syrup — are mixed together and placed in the freezer. No ice cream maker required, and the end result is scoopable. Better yet, this version contains less sugar than ordinary ice cream, and the fact that it is dairy-free makes it a great and accommodating dessert for any kind of party guest.
Lastly, if you were wondering, the ice cream does not taste like guacamole. As Haun says, the dessert isn't too sweet and only has a mild avocado flavor, but all of the creaminess.


Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves.
Be kind to yourself. It's impossible to be happy when someone is mean to you all the time.


September 15th: New Activity--Going to see a movie based on a Video Game less than one week after its' premiere in the theater.
With movies being so expensive, I tend to be a bit more selective in what I see now than I did previously. I even try to catch the movies during matinee hours so I can get the cheapest rate.
I am a big fan of horror movies (more old school than the mystery/horror movies), comedy movies (more situational than slapstick), and action movies (those with a plot I can relate to, not just shoot them up or fight movies).
Usually, with movies based on Video Games, I tend to wait until they come out on DVD—they don't call to me to be seen in the theater.
However, my someone special is big into the movies based on video games, movies based on racing (Fast and the Furious) or plots regarding investigation, anti-cop, or vigilante justice.
So with Resident Evil: Retribution coming out on this past Friday, I sensed he really wanted to check it out. I admit I hadn't had a chance to look at all of the previous movies leading up to it but the action shown in the previews intrigued me.
I am very glad the local movie theater reopened. For upon its' reopening, you can go to any movie at any time for $5.00 compared to paying an arm and a leg at AMC.
Sure, the theater itself isn't as fancy, but if you are getting such a great deal on getting in the movie, how worried are you about the fanciness of the theater?
The action in it was top notch. I still was able to somewhat follow it since the first couple of minutes gave a synopsis of what happened in the others. There weren't any moments where the action dragged—you felt like you were in a video game.
So it was definitely worth my $5.00.


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