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DiaryR.W. Johnson
Vol. 8 No. 8 · 8 May 1986
Alan Taylor, Oxford Don
R.W. Johnson
When I became a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, the fact that my vote at college meetings counted the same as that of A.J.P. Taylor seemed to me, as it still does, a glorious democratic quirk of the Oxford collegiate system. I was just 26 and the youngest fellow; he was probably the most famous historian in the world. I was not long to think of him by his initials, for Alan was the least standoffish of the senior fellows, the least likely to stand on his dignity. He loved talking – and being listened to. One could safely bring any guest to dinner and place them near him. They would be bound to come away delighted with a stream of funny stories, historical anecdotes and sly shafts of perspicacity. Some of this was due to his courtesy and gregariousness, but he also simply loved performing for an audience. If you provided the audience, he provided the performance.
Partly because of this love of an audience, he has lived a far more public life than most Oxford dons do. So successful was he in this respect that, no doubt to his own pleasure, he was probably not often popularly thought of as an Oxford don. The media have their own not very likeable stereotype of the Oxford don, and Alan clearly didn't fit that (though, to be fair, Oxford is full of people who do). So he wasn't 'an Oxford don'; he was AJPT. But the fact is that he has been a fellow of Magdalen for half a century, and a fifty-year membership of a closed little world like an Oxford college is likely to leave its mark on any man – and on any college.
There was, for a new young fellow like myself, no shortage of AJP stories, by no means all apocryphal. How, at one college meeting, Alan had proposed that the chapel be turned into a swimming-pool. How Alan had loathed the loathsome Dylan Thomas. How Alan had crossed swords with C.S. Lewis, Magdalen's Fellow in English, on this or that occasion. How, on being asked as a young man at interview whether it was true that he had strongly-held left-wing views, he had replied: 'No. I have extreme views, weakly held.' How Alan had been invited to give the main address at the speech day of one of Magdalen's schools and had regaled the boys with a history of the major benefactors of the college (and thus of the school), showing that all of them had acquired their wealth by foul means and had had enough left over to buy themselves indulgences through their benefaction: the moral being that if you hear that 'crime never pays,' don't believe it.
Such stories blended all too easily with the myriad anecdotes of which Magdalen is full – more so, perhaps, than any other Oxford college. How C.S. Lewis had insisted on starting his lectures punctually on the hour but had seldom managed to get to the lecture room in time, so that he would begin his lecture while strolling up the High Street and enter the hall already well into his third paragraph. The Dean of Divinity who was alleged to have committed the only Magdalen murder, and how it had been decided not to call the police in for fear of scandal. How Harry Weldon, leader of the more progressive fellows, turned down every single Etonian applicant for entry on meritocratic grounds and how the Etonians already up at the college demonstrated in the quad against Weldon, 'the Red Dean'. How Weldon had worsted Lewis, who was generally on the reactionary side, and how Lewis had retaliated by using Weldon as his model for the Devil in some of his writings.
At the same time, one was conscious of the towering intellectual distinction of that earlier generation of fellows: not just AJPT and Lewis, but Bruce McFarlane, John Morris, Rupert Cross, Cyril Darlington, J.Z. Young, Sir Peter Medawar, Gilbert Ryle ... the line stretched on. No doubt it was all more humdrum in reality, but one was left with the impression of great intellectual giants inhabiting a world of mad English eccentricity: an older world of indulgence, scandal, fun and wit. It was quite intimidating.
But there were echoes, too, of an older Magdalen of the 1920s and before, stretching back to the time when Oscar Wilde was an undergraduate, a world of rowing hearties, intellectual mediocrity and foppish wealth. The most ancient scouts muttered darkly about buckled shoes, Masonic links, a Young Octobrist cell, and the college having once been full of beautiful, aristocratic young men who wore make-up, walked hand in hand, and wouldn't be seen dead with a woman. Old members, now great bankers or industrial magnates, confirmed this picture, swore that Brideshead Revisited's Oxford scenes had been based on Magdalen, and spoke of a law tutor who used to hide in his rooms to avoid his pupils, pretending not to be there when they knocked. Those had been the days when the later Duke of Windsor had been an undergraduate, as also Prince Chichibu, the son of the Japanese Emperor. On his first day in the college Chichibu, following custom, had called on President Warren – well-known as an incorrigible lover of blue blood. What, asked Warren, did the name Chichibu actually mean? 'The Son of God' came the reply. 'Oh well,' said Warren, 'you'll find we have the sons of many famous men here.'
Against this shadowy myth-laden background, Alan stood out as representing the modern college. He had not merely written books, but was equally at home in the worlds of journalism and television, was a prominent supporter of the Labour Party and CND, had a wide range of outside contacts, was mondain to a degree. But he had also borne the normal, crushing load of the Oxford tutor, served in college offices and on college committees, lectured to huge audiences, supervised dozens of graduates, and got divorced from and married to a smaller, though still considerable number of wives. Marvelling at this heroic – and sustained – energy, I once asked one of Alan's closest colleagues what, then, had Alan stinted on? 'Nothing, really,' he said. 'He simply had a wonderful economy of effort. He never wasted a minute.' The proof of this was clear for all to see in the Finals results gained by his pupils, for in the decade after the war he, McFarlane, Leyser and Stoye took the Magdalen History school to the very top of the Oxford league table. He stood out, too, as almost the last of a powerful group of fellows who, marshalled behind Harry Weldon, had been responsible for transforming Magdalen from a snobbish, reactionary and intellectually undistinguished backwater into a progressive – though still agreeably eccentric – institution. It was, by all accounts, a long, hard struggle, but bit by bit a more open, egalitarian and meritocratic dispensation was achieved – to such effect, indeed, that after the war Magdalen became the first college in over a century to surpass Balliol's academic results. By the time I arrived Weldon and most of his followers had disappeared – indeed the conservative Old Guard had made a somewhat surprising (though temporary) comeback. But Alan fought on. His great cry at college meetings was for the admission of women. Year after year he put the motion until at last it was passed. But it wasn't quite the same: Alan missed that old vanguard. Once, talking to me over coffee, he glanced at the Smoking Room door and said: 'You know, I'd give more than anything else in the world if only Harry Weldon could walk through that door right now.' Alan's other causes seldom won: I can't remember him finding a single taker for his doughty defence of Beaverbrook's reputation, or for the proposition that Michael Foot would make a great prime minister.
For many people mention of Alan's name immediately brings to mind the great brouhaha over the Regius Chair in History. His friends, perhaps not entirely discouraged by Alan, have tended to treat this as a sort of crime of the century: in the latest of the Taylor festschrifts,* Michael Foot goes banging on about it in much the same way that he banged on about even more distant events during the 1983 Election. This is all quite disproportionate. Of course Alan was the better candidate for the Chair, and of course the grounds – his popular journalism – given for his disqualification were scandalous: but the fact is that this sort of thing happens all the time in Oxford and is always liable to occur in the case of a chair which specifically lies within the political patronage of a prime minister. It is the existence of such a thing as a Regius Chair which is the real monstrosity. But in any case Oxford is still, in general, a somewhat inbred and reactionary place (especially in a subject like History), and decisions like the slight to Alan reproduce themselves fairly regularly. It would indeed be possible to draw up a long list of distinguished historians turned down for jobs in Oxford – Namier, E.H. Carr, and a number still living whom it would be unfair to name.
The real point is surely rather different. In terms of the prevailing Oxford norms, Alan was a maverick. At any one time the reputation of the university rests quite heavily on such mavericks, so that outside it they are even taken to be representative. The truth is the opposite: they are hugely outnumbered by the tutorial drones, the committee bores, the self-consciously Great and Good, and the peculiar tribe of Oxford man-boys. This more mediocre majority is alarmed by the sheer ability of some of the mavericks and, even more, by their habit of truth-telling. This means that they are 'not sound', that their names will be greeted with knowing chuckles, and that whatever their merits they will not get their deserts. This in turn makes the description of 'maverick' self-fulfilling, for those thus treated are torn between righteous indignation at not being allowed their deserts and a predictable contempt for such baubles: all of which leads them to live up to their maverick image. It is not an uncommon story and it applies beyond the mere confines of Oxford, to a great deal of English life.
There was, though, one considerable extra injustice about the Regius Professorship affair. Given Alan's public prominence it was inevitable that the case should attract enormous newspaper attention. Given, too, Alan's wide range of journalistic contacts, his perfectly reasonable consciousness of his own worth, and his justified sense of slight, it was also quite inevitable that Alan should have been widely thought to have helped foment the press campaign on his own behalf. Alan has always denied this. One part of that campaign was, however, monstrously unfair. The suggestion was repeatedly made (and has lingered in many minds ever since) that Magdalen was somehow conspiring to add insult to the university's injury by ejecting Alan from his fellowship there. Such stories generally began with 'A.J.P. Taylor's Magdalen colleagues, jealous of his public success ...' The truth was quite the opposite. Indeed, the college rallied round its own in quite spectacular fashion. Not only was Alan's tutorial fellowship never in question, but when Alan decided to resign it the college elected him, uniquely, to a Senior Research Fellowship. Fellows of Magdalen have since felt a little exasperated that they have mysteriously managed to come out of this affair with a bad press.
There were strange echoes of the affair when, ten years ago, Alan retired from his Research Fellowship. The college was, in effect, bound to elect him to an Emeritus Fellowship, but it quickly became clear that there was overwhelming support for his election to an Honorary Fellowship – the highest honour in the college's gift. Shortly before the election there was a sudden spate of stories in the popular press that A.J.P. Taylor's Magdalen colleagues, jealous of his popular success, were once again conspiring against him – this time to deprive him of the Honorary Fellowship which was his by virtual right. Once again, Alan denied that he had fomented such stories, even the ones in the Beaverbrook press. The college thus found itself in an unenviable position, so that even if it went ahead with the election as it had always planned, it would look as if it was cravenly bowing to a press campaign, perhaps even tacitly accepting the characterisation of itself which was a part of that campaign. It was decided to regard the Beaverbrook press as beneath contempt and to elect Alan to the Honorary Fellowship he so richly deserved.
The publication of this festschrift has been accompanied by press reviews in the Observer and the Guardian, written by Alan's former pupils in both cases, which have taken up the joint refrain that it is something of a scandal that Alan has not received at least a knighthood, though one of the reviews hurriedly added that, of course, as a radical socialist, he would have refused any such bauble. Telepathy, no doubt, accounts for the similarity in these reviews. Personally, having heard Alan doughtily defend the public schools, I was a little surprised by the 'radical socialist' epithet. Talk of a knighthood seems a little odd too, for to the best of my knowledge Alan long since took a wager with Harry Weldon that neither of them would accept any title less than a hereditary earldom. Perhaps, if Michael Foot had become prime minister, even this might have come to pass: Foot has been nothing if not a determined defender of the unreformed House of Lords, after all. And Alan certainly deserved recognition ahead of such other ennobled historians as Lords Blake, Dacre and Briggs. But again, that is to miss the point. In England men who offend against taboos do not get offered knighthoods, let alone peerages. This rule was sufficient to ensure that the greatest Englishman of the 19th century, Charles Darwin, ended his days as plain 'Mr'. It is not a scandal, it is quite the opposite of a disgrace, to fall within the same tradition as Darwin. Probably none of our other leading historians – Christopher Hill, E.P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Keith Thomas – will gain such dubious recognition either.
Alan's style of narrative history has drawn criticism in recent years from young historians seeking a more 'fundamental' history in social, economic, familial and demographic factors. I well remember Alan questioning one fellowship candidate after another as to who they regarded as the greatest living historian. This persistent question, which brought amused mutters about egomania from some colleagues, elicited one or two mentions of Fernand Braudel and more general protestations that there was no one then alive to whom such a title belonged. Both of the criticisms implied here are, I think, misdirected. First, writing is a solitary, hard and lonely business. To pour out a succession of books, lectures and articles over more than half a century one has to be driven by some muse or devil. There is, in a word, such a thing as a creative and necessary egomania. Secondly, I have no doubt that Alan, with his energy and omnivorous grasp, could well have written superbly in social, demographic or economic history if he had wanted to. He simply chose not to, was happier with what amused and interested him more. As one surveys his achievement, it is difficult to believe that anyone has anything to complain about or that anyone could have wished him to have written otherwise.
It is fitting that this new festschrift, his third, is principally concerned with diplomatic and international history, for it is in this field that his mastery of the narrative style has worked best. His greatest work, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1914, will surely be read well into the next century. It is no small tribute that this book, though containing many judgments with which the Russians must surely disagree, is still used as a basic text in Soviet colleges. Alan's histories have been best-sellers not only throughout the English-speaking world but in Japan, Germany and innumerable other countries besides the USSR. Alan is, indeed, probably our only historian with a truly world reputation. In that respect he has simply left his peers standing, made them seem parochial figures by comparison. The fact that both the educational and political arms of the British Establishment have chosen to recognise Alan's peers ahead of him is merely a sign of its own parochialism and should be no great surprise. If our Establishment was in the habit of recognising merit rather than 'soundness', England would be a very different place.
R.W. Johnson is an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught politics and sociology for many years. His most recent books are How Long Will South Africa Survive? and Look Back in Laughter: Oxford's Postwar Golden Age. He lives in Cape Town.
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NatPhil Reveals 2020-21 Lineup With Orchestral Premiere of Amore
The National Philharmonic announced its 2020-21 season lineup, including a special Valentine's Day program called "Amore & Mozart!" It kicks off with the orchestral premiere of Henry's new love song, Amore, which he composed for his friends Jennifer and Eddie's recent nuptials in Florence Italy. Amore will be sung by husband-and-wife duo Kerry Wilkerson and Danielle Talamantes, who sang it at the wedding!
The full title, Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa, translates to "Love and the gentle heart are one and the same." The lyrics are from a love sonnet from La vita nuova by Dante, the revered Florentine poet. It is Track 12 of Henry's new album, At That Hour: Art Songs by Henry Dehlinger, which will be out October 16, 2020 on the AVIE Records label.
Composed as a chamber setting for string quintet and piano, Amore premiered at the Summer 2019 High Peaks Music Festival in Great Barrington, MA in the Berkshires. Henry later orchestrated the work especially for NatPhil's Valentine's Day 2021 concert. The program will also feature Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds in E-flat Major. A piano-vocal version, which can be adapted for organ, is also available.
From the Music Center at Strathmore, NatPhil Music Director and Conductor Piotr Gajewski is presenting streamed concerts that feature a mix of classical masters you love, side-by-side with contemporary composers. Their principal players, who never fail to impress, are taking center stage along with a carefully curated collection of the Mid-Atlantic region's best soloists and musicians.

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I threw in a handful of dairy-free chocolate chips because the kids like seeing chocolate chips in almost everything, but the brownies don't need them. They have tons of protein so they're filling. You'll use a whole jar of amend butter. You don't feel like you need to eat the whole pan to be satisfied.
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In this exploratory workshop, led by Dr Stephen D. Smith (Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation) and Dr Matthew Boswell (University of Leeds), participants will be invited to respond to short 'provocations' that will allow us to explore how new technological innovations will shape Holocaust memory in the digital age and the key debates that are likely to ensue. Addressing the subject in both practical and theoretical terms, key questions will include: What new projects are on the horizon for organisations such as the USC Shoah Foundation? How will Holocaust memory be affected by the emergence of major new technologies such as Virtual Reality? What debates will play out in the decades to come in areas such as ethics? How do interactive forms of testimony link to testimony from earlier periods? What new forms of historical understanding are emerging in these immersive environments? What experiences or histories are being left out? How are artists and writers responding to these shifts? How are the technologies of memory being adapted in different global contexts?
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There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic.
A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident—but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.


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Jon Snow may know nothing, but did you know that Kit Harington—the actor who plays him—is related to the guy who created the first flush toilet? It's true! As is the fact that one of Game of Thrones's most notorious villains was actually almost cast as the heroic, straight-and-narrow Jon Snow. You're probably wondering: Which notorious villain? Well, you'll just have to watch and see.
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Firemen from at least two departments are battling a blaze at the Alberni Pacific Division Mill in Port Alberni.
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Typography papers 6
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This occasional, book-length work is edited and produced at the Department of Typography, University of Reading, and is now published by Hyphen Press. It publishes extended articles on its subject, exploring topics to the length to which they want to go. Its scope is broad and international, its treatment – serious and lively.
Nicolete Gray:
The Newberry alphabet and the revival of the roman capital in fifteenth-century Italy
The Newberry alphabet
with a note on provenance by Paul F. Gehl
Giovanni Mardersteig:
Leon Battista Alberti and the revival of the roman inscriptional letter in the fifteenth century
Paul Stiff:
Brunelleschi's epitaph and the design of public letters in fifteenth-century Florence
James Mosley:
Giovan Francesco Cresci and the baroque letter in Rome
This issue focuses on the reconstruction and reinvention of the classical letter in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It includes a previously unpublished article by the late Nicolete Gray. This reproduces, in 26 full-page illustrations, an unsigned and undated (late fifteenth century) manuscript of an alphabet of capital letters, presently in the Newberry Library, Chicago, and provides the first analysis of this important document. Other articles here are the first English translation of the late Giovanni Mardersteig's seminal essay of 1959 ('L.B. Alberti e la rinascita del carattere lapidario romano nel quattrocento'), and James Mosley on Giovan Francesco Cresci's formative influence on the form of Western handwriting, and hence on typefaces, and on the inscriptional capitals which appeared on new buildings in Rome between 1585 and 1590. Paul Stiff contributes a piece on 'Designing public letters in fifteenth-century Florence'.
The title of 'Typography papers' is misleading, since its interests range far beyond the worlds of typography and type design to encompass letterforms of all kinds – whether calligraphic, inscriptional, mechanical, or electronic – and their uses. It should be of interest to paleographers, epigraphers, art historians, graphic designers, and all others whose work involves visual language. The current issue is a perfect example of this.
Paul Shaw, Renaissance Quarterly, 2007
Typography papers
A view of early typography:.
Harry Carter / Introduction by James Mosley
Fragments of utopia:.
David Wild
Typography papers 7.
Human space.
O.F. Bollnow
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The Republican People's party (CHP) leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, was taken to a nearby house by security forces for his protection, the state news agency Anadolu said.
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Top 10 Models Turned Actor
Top 15 Most Hated Reality TV Stars
Max Giroux
Acting is an ability you can't quite put your finger on. It can come from anywhere, and as we're gonna show you with this list, talent can come from unlikely places. These actors were models before making it big and they were able to transform their success into more creative career paths. Perhaps it's no surprise that power behind a camera translates to power on the big screen. These people have found success in the eyes of the public. While it may be true that they were given a healthy start, it's impossible to argue with where they are today. Of all the pretty looking people in the world, they are the ones who rose to the top, and used their looks to maximum effect. Some people have all the luck – looks, and talent.
10. James Marsden
Most well known for his portrayal of Cyclops in the X-Men movie series, James Marsden is a classic pretty boy. His high cheekbones, boyish good looks and chiseled jaw have allowed him to model for Versace when he left college to pursue his acting career. After leaving college he got his big break on the TV show "The Nanny". It seems he made the right choice.
9. Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone has had an engaging life. From being academically gifted at a young age, and having been scouted out for her looks, to giving it all up in the hopes of becoming an actress. She only started getting recognition in her early 30s, which is considered late when compared to some other people on this list. It goes to show that even with a great head-start, everybody goes at their own pace.
8. Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich started modelling at the age of nine! Her mother had dreamed of being an actress, so she did her best to give her daughter the opportunities she never had. Soon after her start in modeling, at the age of 10 years old, she began taking acting classes which would lead to her becoming the science-fiction and action movie star she is today. Believe it or not, she was also signed to a record label at a very young age, which goes to show you that her talent shines beyond her looks.
7. Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron was discovered while making a desperate scene to a bank teller who wouldn't cash a check. Before fame, her life in South Africa wasn't easy. Her father was an abusive alcoholic who ended being shot and killed by her mother. At 16 she got her first modelling contract which lead her to travel the world and end up in the United States where she eventually developed herself as a top actress, going on to win an academy award.
6. Josh Duhamel
Josh Duhamel had planned to attend dental school, but dropped out of university a few credits shy of his undergraduate degree. After working various odd jobs and high fashion modelling, he eventually got a start in acting through a music video. His big break came when he was hired for the television series Las Vegas which introduced his likability to the public. As of now, he is happily married to Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie with whom he has one child.
5. Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum didn't need much practice when he played a male stripper in the movie Magic Mike. In fact, he began his career as a stripper which eventually lead to modeling. Spending almost a decade in the high fashion industry, his work on a music video as a dancer opened his eyes to the film and acting industry. He slowly gained more roles until he could fully transition to acting. These days, he's successful enough to be his own producer and to have played a wide variety of roles in films of different genres.
4. Halle Berry
Halle Berry is the only black woman so far, to have an academy award for best actress. Before her major industry breakthrough in the romantic comedy 'Boomerang', starring Eddie Murphy, Berry was a professional model and beauty pageant contestant, though life wasn't so glamorous. When she first moved to New York for modelling, she had been homeless for a few weeks, sleeping in shelters and at the local YMCA. Looking at where she is now, we can see that her hard work and dedication paid off.
3. Mark Wahlberg
Being born good looking isn't everything. Our first model-turned-actor had a rough childhood and serious issues with drugs and violence, but a stint in prison taught him about honing his body and lifting weights. With his newfound physique, Mark Wahlberg, a.k.a. Marky Mark went on to be famous as a rapper, and modeling agencies took notice of his body. From Calvin's to mega-blockbusters, he's found repeated success and a productive outlet for his demons.
2. Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz is the second highest grossing actress of all time. From her start as a model at the age of 16, she became a modern Hollywood leading woman, landing her first major role in her early 20s without any acting experience, and she has kept the ball rolling since then. She has credits in over fifty features, and she has worked with some of the best actors and directors.
1. Ashton Kutcher
From model to actor, from actor to social media figure, from social media figure to start-up investor. Our top model-turned-actor is Ashton Kutcher, originally famous for comedies such as the TV series That 70's Show, the film Dude Where's My Car, and eventually the self-produced prank show Punk'd. He began as a model, entering a competition and placing second to Josh Duhamel. Small world. Did we mention that he was studying biochemical engineering before quitting school to become a model? And now, he is a successful venture capitalist who has invested in the likes of Skype and Airbnb. Who said brains and beauty have to be separate?
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Tennis Scholarships
The sport of tennis has made quite a racket with famous athletes like Roger Federer, Venus Williams, and Andre Agassi. While you may not be planning to play in the U.S. Open or Wimbledon, you could have the chance to earn college dollars with these tennis scholarships. Both men and women who play singles and doubles can earn money for school with their skills on the court — as well as their academic achievements, financial need, volunteer service, and more. Like other sports awards, NCAA scholarships are competitive, so broaden your scope to find awards offered from your college, alumni groups, and tennis organizations like the United States Tennis Association (USTA). Our tennis scholarship directory is a great place to start your search!
Foot Locker Scholar Athletes Program
Applicants must be entering college in the Fall of 2021 as a Freshman at an accredited four-year institution for an undergraduate degree; Applicants must also be currently involved in high school sports, intramural sports, or community based sports and have a minimum GPA of 3.0.
Total: $500000
Daniella Altfield-Moreno Scholarship
This scholarship is available for Latino/Latina youth under age 25 with a preference for students involved in athletics and students committed to LGBT equality.
Total: $12000
Violet McIntyre Scholarship
The Violet McIntyre Scholarship is available for high school seniors in Pinellas County, Florida who have a grade point average of 2.5 or higher and a demonstrated passion for writing.
Lynch Family Legacy Scholarship (Hillsborough)
This scholarship is available for current high school seniors residing in Hillsborough County, Florida. Applicants must have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and participate in a varsity sports team.
Buddha Memorial HCC Scholarship
This scholarship is available for high school seniors in Hillsborough County, Florida who are planning to attend Hillsborough Community College. Applicants must have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and must qualify for free or reduced-cost school lunches.
Columbia College of Missouri Talent Award
This award is for U.S. students who are planning to attend or are currently attending Columbia College of Missouri. Students must demonstrate talent in art, music, or athletics to be eligible for this award.
Deadline: February 01, 2021
Jean Fitzgerald Scholarship
This scholarship is available for female high school seniors who are residents of Hawaii and have a grade point average of 2.7 or higher. Students must be active tennis players; preference may be given to USTA/Hawai'i Pacific Section members.
UNF Dorothy G. Johnson Family & Friends Endowed Scholarship
This award is available for Florida resident students who will be enrolled in a University of North Florida College of Education and Human Services teacher certification program as a junior or senior at the time of award. Students must have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Preference will be given to UNF student athletes.
Margaret Parsons 'Porky' Moss Scholarship Fund
This award is for U.S. female students who are graduating from South Charleston High School. The applicant must have a 2.5 grade point average or higher and an ACT score of 20 or higher to be eligible. Click here to learn more and apply today!
Donald S. Groves Scholarship Fund
This award is for U.S. high seniors graduating from Nicholas County High School who are athletes and current residents of West Virginia. The applicant must have a 2.5 grade point average or higher and an ACT score of 20 or higher to be eligible.


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Q: How to plot labels in the matrix diagonal? I would like to know if it is possible to transfer the vertical labels in this heatmap plot to inside its diagonal indices.
tmp <- matrix(rnorm(100),10,10)
tmp <-dist(tmp)
heatmap(as.matrix(tmp), Rowv = NA, Colv = NA,scale='none')

I would like to get something similar to this:

A: You can use image and text:
tmp <- matrix(rnorm(100),10,10)
tmp <-dist(tmp)
image((as.matrix(tmp)))
text(0:9/9, 0:9/9, 0:9)

For better control you should use heatmap.2 from gplots package:
library(gplots)
tmp <- matrix(rnorm(100),10,10)
tmp <-dist(tmp)
heatmap.2((as.matrix(tmp)),dendrogram = "none",
          cellnote=round(as.matrix(tmp),2),notecol='black')

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In the final match of the Friday, Karolina Plíšková took on Agnieszka Radwanska for the sixth time in her career, facing a daunting task; she'd never taken a set off of the Pole in their previous meetings. Once again, the play on court followed the script that had been laid out over the course of the past encounters, even if Plíšková came very close to turn it into a late-night affair. This is the fourth and final dispatch of Stuttgart Express from quarterfinal Friday in Stuttgart.
After defeating Ana Ivanovic for the fifth time in five tries in the previous round, Karolína Plíšková suddenly found herself on the opposite side of the table in the quarterfinals: facing an opponent she had struggled with massively in the past — someone she had never taken a set off, in fact.
During the initial stages of the first set, the Pole and the Czech went back and forth with several breaks, but as the set progressed, Radwanska was able to pull ahead — very much following the expected storyline of the match.
Radwanska broke the Plíšková serve for a third time in the opener to wrap the set up, 6-2, and it seemed for all the wold that the Czech had again run out of ideas in the matchup. The second set, however, saw a completely different match compared to the first 30 minutes, as Plíšková began to dictate play more and miss less frequently. While the Czech took the lead with a break midway through the second set, Radwanska soon came back to level the score at 4-4.
One of the crucial moments of the match was a marathon game late in the set, with Radwanska serving at 5-5, when Plíšková had seven break points but couldn't convert any of them. The encounter then concluded in a dramatic tiebreak which saw the Czech save three match points in a very calm manner — with a rare destruction job on her racket thrown in between for good measure. At the end, however, it was Radwanska who prevailed in the tightest match between her and Plíšková thus far, when the Czech buried a forehand in the net to pave Radwanska's way into the semifinals, 6-2, 7-6(8).
Something between, good anyway — but definitely a great second set from both of us and she played also very good tennis and very solid, not many of quick points. The tiebreak was also crazy. So, you always appreciate this kind of matches, especially the ends.
Yes, well after the game when it was 5 all we all were relieved, especially also after the tiebreak. It was one of the best tiebreaks I played and some amazing shots from her as well, especially when I had the match points. Well, another great match, so, I'm just very happy to win that one.
Well, I know I have a good record against her. But the record does not apply, every match is a different story, here it could have been a third set, you never know what would have happened in the third set. Maybe when you go on court but I try not to think about it. It goes on both side, even if I lost to someone a couple of times, it doesn't really matter, especially every match is on a different surface, different circumstances, different day; sometimes you have a bad day, a worse day then you have a great day. That's tennis. So, everything can happen. But, even if I won against her six times, that for sure didn't help me today. I had to play from the beginning.
They were two very tight matches [this week]. I'm happy to win both of them. I think I play very good tennis even on clay. Well, I just hope I can play the same tennis tomorrow. I was really preparing for the tournament very well. I think I did everything I could to play really good tennis here. I had some good rest as well. I'm just happy I could bring everything I was practicing to the match court.
Yes that was probably the biggest mistake, even – anyway I had chances in the tiebreak but if I would do this game then I'm serving for the set. I held my serve game quite easy afterwards, even after this tough game. So, that was probably the biggest mistake. I had like five or six break points and she always served good but I always did a mistake. So, that was just not good.
I think it was of the best matches I played against her so far. So, at least now I have a chance in the future if I keep playing like this. But I have to play like this from the first point and not from the second set. Because even if there would be a third set, it's still not easy to beat her you know because it's going through the long rallies and she's not going to give you the easy points and easy mistakes. So, I still have to improve and maybe improve the serve. The serve percentage is very needed with her, the first serve, and also the game on the net because there were so many – not so many – but a lot of important points which I was pushing from the back and I was aggressive from the back but you cannot always kill it from the baseline You have to come forward and I was doing mistakes from that.
That concludes "Stuttgart Express" — a unique look at the four quarterfinal matches from Stuttgart — stay tuned for more content from championship weekend!


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Abortion rights wins victory in Massachusetts House
BOSTON MA. – MAY 21: Jane Marcus of Medford joins demonstrators as they rally in support of the right to abortions outside the State House on May 21, 2019 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
Expansion of abortion access in Massachusetts took a first step forward on Thursday when House lawmakers overwhelmingly approved an amendment to their proposed state budget.
"In the wake of the threat to reproductive rights for women on the national level, I'm proud of the House vote to remove barriers to women's reproductive health options and protect the concepts enshrined in Roe v. Wade," House Speaker Robert DeLeo said in a statement after the vote.
Members passed the amendment 108 to 49 — a hair above the two-thirds majority the Legislature would need to override a likely veto by Gov. Charlie Baker.
The move comes 47 years after the Supreme Court ruled women have a constitutional right to safe, legal abortions without excessive government interference in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and after state legislative leaders voiced a new sense of urgency following the confirmation of President Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett.
Fears the conservative-leaning Supreme Court could overturn the long-standing Roe v. Wade ruling have spurred a flurry of legislation in states seeking to protect abortion access.
If successful, the amendment would enshrine the right to abortion in state law as well as expand access to abortions after 24 weeks in cases of fatal fetal anomalies — not just when necessary to save a woman's life. It would also no longer require women under age 18 to gain permission from a parent or judge to get an abortion.
The ROE Act Coalition, which includes the ACLU of Massachusetts, Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts and NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, called the move a "critical first step in removing medically unnecessary barriers to abortion."
The amendment mirrors a bill — "An Act to Remove Obstacles and Expand Abortion Access" — that has been stalled in the Legislature's Joint Committee on the Judiciary since spring of 2019.
The amendment was submitted by Committee on the Judiciary Chairwoman Claire Cronin who called on lawmakers to "act on something that may be contrary to the teachings of… faith."
Bellingham Republican Rep. Michael Soter shared personal stories and spoke in opposition of removing parental consent saying, "Yes, I am pro-life, but that's not why I'm speaking to you tonight."
It's the first in a series of positive votes the measure must earn to become law before the current legislative session ends on Dec. 31.
Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/11/12/abortion-rights-wins-victory-in-massachusetts-house/?fbclid=IwAR3yhF4sn7CYTYy82S2BtUg-l53AhiHQlcGSbMqe9c6tyTAYGxIcTj2ecSY


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Home Entertainment Suryavanshi, starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in the lead roles, has...
Suryavanshi, starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in the lead roles, has been re-released in Gujarat theaters.
Rohit Shetty's action drama is now available on OTT. (Photo credit: Twitter / IMDb)
Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif starrer Suryavanshi has been re-released in Gujarat on Makar Sankranti. The film was originally released nationwide on November 5 last year and was a box office success despite a post-pandemic theatrical release.
Taken by Trade Analyst Twitter To share the re-release of the film on January 14 in Gujarat. 'Suryavanshi' will be re-released in Gujarat tomorrow … On the auspicious occasion of #Sankranti festival, #Suryavanshi will be re-released in 30 non-national multiplexes in #Gujarat tomorrow … this move will be grounded simultaneously. When there is a shortage of new content in movies (sic), "he tweeted.
According to industry tracker and analyst Manobala Vijayabalan, the co-action drama has grossed over Rs 250 crore by the end of its third week. He smashed the daily box office collection and the weekly box office collection and shared the official figures of the film on Twitter. "#SuryavanshiWW Box Office, Week 1 – 190.06 cr, Week 2 – 66.66 cr, Week 3, Day 1 – 4.31 cr, Day 2 – 5.20 cr, Day 3 – 7.37 cr, Day 4 – 2.19 crore, Day 5 – 2.3 crore .c, day 6 – 1.96 crore. Total – 280.09 crore (sic), "he tweeted.
Rohit Shetty's co-action thriller directed by Singam series starring Ajay Devgn and Simba starring Ranveer Singh-Sarah Ali Khan is well known. With his latest film Suryavanshi, the director has added a fourth film to his police franchise. In the latest film, Ajay Devgn and Ranveer reprized their police roles.
Recently, Ranveer Singh revealed that the sequel to his 2018 film Simba will "definitely" happen.
Speaking to India.com, the actor said, "If God is willing, it will definitely happen. It has always been meant to be a franchise. I think Rohit Sir will be my favorite character whenever he wants to make Simba 2 because Simba is my nickname. He has cracks, one-liners and games, and is extremely luxurious, lovable and at the same time tough … I love being Simba, "India Today reported.
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Pushed to the Brink: What Families Need Right Now
The last ten months have been incredibly difficult for families and children at the schools we support in NYC. Your purchase of a gift card will help provide relief from food insecurity, financial strain, and more. Please join us by making a gift.
By Angie Vega, Site Manager, Healthy and Ready to Learn Initiative
Every day, I hear from families in New York City who have been pushed to the brink by this pandemic. I want you to hear about them too.
One family of five used to live in a single room in another family's apartment. But when COVID hit, they were asked to leave. That would have been difficult enough, but then the father lost his job. Because he is an undocumented immigrant, he didn't qualify for unemployment or any other benefits. The mother's salary didn't pay enough to provide for their essential needs. During one of the most dangerous times in New York City, this family suddenly had nowhere safe to live. They were forced to move into a hotel, and then into a homeless shelter. The anxiety of waiting to get placed in an apartment exacerbated the trauma they had already experienced, and their future health and safety are still uncertain.
A family of six was already struggling financially before the pandemic. Again, the father of the family lost his job when the pandemic hit. It then became even harder to pay their bills or ensure their children would have internet access for remote schooling.
Another family lost everything they had in a fire. On top of existing financial strain, they also needed a new place to live and all their possessions replaced.
Buy a gift card to help families purchase food, clothing, and other essentials.
These are stories of just some of the families I work with every day as the site manager at schools in the Bronx for the Children's Health Fund Healthy and Ready to Learn initiative in NYC. Thankfully, with the support of donors like you, we were able to provide each of these families with gift cards, which they used to purchase food, buy essential household items, and pay to keep the lights on and maintain internet access.
But several other families I work with are experiencing threats to their long-term health and safety: food insecurity, homelessness, lost learning, and trauma. Many are living in shelters, and most are in need of food, warm clothing, shoes, and school supplies.
Here in New York and elsewhere around the country, families who were already the most harmed by social injustices are now stretched beyond their means. They are resilient and do everything they can to provide for their children and to create joy and happiness in their lives. But it's unacceptable that any child or family should have to experience this level of hardship. Please help parents provide for their children today. Thank you for supporting children.
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The Scottish Government said on Tuesday that a consultation has been launched on a potential replacement to a £780 million European funding programme — if Brexit goes ahead.
"The UK Government has committed to rolling out a successor programme to the Structural Funds called the UK Shared Prosperity Fund," said the Scottish Government.
"However there is as yet no detail on how this fund will operate."
The current funding programme has invested in key areas such as modern apprenticeship schemes and the Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme.
Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation Ivan McKee said: "Scotland must have a full say in the development of a replacement for this vital funding, which is benefitting communities across the country.
"It's only right that Scotland's needs and ambitions are fully reflected in future funding arrangements.
"This consultation provides an opportunity to contribute views on how any replacement funding vehicle can best meet the needs of our people, our businesses and our communities.
"In 2016 Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union.
"However, as a responsible government we will continue to do what we can to prepare in so far as we can, for all exit scenarios."
Professor David Bell, Chair of the Steering Group overseeing the consultation added: "Scotland has benefitted significantly from European Structural Funds in the past.
"With no clear vision from the UK government for their future development, this consultation seeks to gather views from across Scotland on the design of their replacements."
Delivered through the European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund, the funding helps to address economic and social disparities across Scotland by investing in job creation, promoting a sustainable and inclusive economy, and funding projects to support the environment.


The Big Question: Should high earners bear the burden of economic recovery?
Should high earners bear the burden of economic recovery?
I contemplated this while preparing a scathing damnation of over-paid bankers, who, many argue, have brought the economy to its knees. Many are no doubt squealing that it is not their fault and they should not have to bear punitive taxes on their bonuses.
Neil Roden, group director of HR at the Royal Bank of Scotland, seems to agree it is not the fault of the bankers as individuals. He is quoted in the media as saying that the bank's problems were because of a financial issue rather than a people issue, and that borrowers should take some responsibility for their decisions.
However, I think the banks themselves are to blame. It is their reward managers who have created the reckless, bonus-fuelled culture through ill-thought-out incentive programmes and their remuneration committees who have approved them. And some of them, as the Chancellor puts it, "still believe their priority is to pay substantial bonuses to their already highly paid staff [when] their priority should be to rebuild their financial strength and increase their lending".
It is the team that is at fault, not the hapless youngster squealing at the bottom of the ruck.
The Chancellor's pre- Budget report confirmed what we already knew – the public finances are in a mess and the fat years are over. Who should bear the burden of what economists call fiscal consolidation?
The first point to make is that returning the economy to growth and reducing unemployment must be the top priorities. If people are earning and spending, if companies are making profits and if the economy is growing, then tax receipts will rise. That is the painless part of the equation.
More painful, of course, is whether taxes on incomes should be increased and public spending cut. All the major political parties have accepted the necessity for tax rises and the government has already announced a package of measures to raise more revenue.
As the Chancellor made clear, those at the top are being asked to make a bigger contribution. His desire is to ensure that the burden is shared equitably. Progressive taxation is founded on the following principles: that each additional pound earned above a certain level is of diminishing marginal utility; that the rich have a moral obligation to the society in which they live, because they depend for their comforts on the efforts of others; and that a civilised society cannot be sustained without a strong welfare state.
Paying tax can be just as much of a moral act as making regular donations to charity. It is only fair that those who can afford to do so pay a little bit more.
The pre-Budget report presented worse news on public finances than expected – a predicted £178 billion deficit in 2009/10, or about £6,000 per working person. It does not get any better when you look at national debt, which will be £1.5 trillion by 2014/15, or about £50,000 per working person.
When the average take-home pay is about £20,000 a year, it is unrealistic to assume that the majority of the UK workforce can make a significant contribution to getting the economy back on track. High earners have to take a disproportionate burden, but there have to be substantial reductions in overheads (the cost of the six million-strong public sector).
The challenge is to achieve balance. Excessively high rates of income tax (including national insurance) are inefficient for bankers or regular human beings – they drive away talent and keep consultants like me employed in designing clever tax-efficient solutions. The predicted 52% by 2011 is high enough. The attack on high earners in the public sector is purely political and potentially counter-productive. They represent a tiny fraction of public sector spending and we need capable people to transform what is a hugely inefficient system.
Limiting tax relief on all pension benefits for high earners is madness. No senior employee will remain in a pension plan and this reduction in management interest will result in a continued reduction in pension value for all employees.
High earners need to take it on the chin and help us out of this mess, but the government needs to start behaving rationally, rather than politically.


A while back, Jane Go of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice asked if she could feature the contents of my bag on her blog.
I thought it would be fun and would actually give me a reason to finally clear out all the mess I've accumulated from my travels the first half of the year. Lol!
OMG. I found so many restaurant business cards, receipts, half-eaten snacks and chocolate wrappers (just because there were no trash bins at those times and I hate to litter).
I also found a small bottle of Bonne Maman Strawberry Jam. Don't even ask!!!
So, without further ado, here it is, the contents of my bag, sans the empty wrappers, pieces of crumpled paper, and a lot of crumbs. Hahaha!


What parties you could have in this kitchen? Heck you could have a meeting of King Arthur and his knights (of course the island is not round).
The focal point of this kitchen is the massive central island with abundant counter space, the range top, and a mini bar that seats 5.
The color contrasts for this featured kitchen is light brown and white.
The flooring is beige, the cabinets are a very light oak, the countertops are beige-ish granite, the walls are slightly darker than white, the ceiling is white, and the appliances are stainless steel with black trim. The black door and drawer handles complete the color contrast. This all creates a visually pleasing effect with mostly lightly contrasting colors.
Ambient lighting is provided by the numerous recessed can lights in the ceiling and task lighting for the island is provided by four pendant light fixtures above the mini bar.
If you have to sit your kids down to supervise their homework efforts while you make dinner, this kitchen is more you, even if (especially if) you have a lot of kids. Line them up by age and make the older ones help the younger ones (we can dream, can't we?).
Whether your main focus is a large busy family, regular entertaining, other, or any combination of all of the above, this kitchen is laid out to make those activities easier.


With two midterm election races in Florida likely headed toward recounts, President Trump on Friday suggested the federal government could intervene, and vowed to expose what he described as a conspiracy to benefit Democrats.
On Thursday, the two top races in the state — for governor and for senator — appeared headed for recounts. According to state law, if less than 0.5 percent of the total vote separates the candidates, a recount is mandatory. If the difference is less than 0.25 percent, the recount must be conducted by hand rather than by machine.
In the Senate race, Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, is ahead of incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson by 0.18 percent. In the race for governor, former Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis leads Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum by 0.44 percent.
According to the Miami Herald, thousands of ballots remain uncounted, including in the Democratic stronghold of Broward County, where officials have yet to disclose early voting and absentee totals. Since Tuesday, officials in the county have added to the number of ballots received, triggering a firestorm among Republicans, including the president, intent on preserving modest gains in the Senate.
Trump endorsed and campaigned heavily for both Scott and DeSantis.
The Nelson campaign has hired veteran election law attorney Marc Elias to navigate what is sure to prove a highly contentious recount process reminiscent of the 2000 presidential election battle in the state between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush.
"A significant number of ballots have not yet been counted and, because of the size of Florida, we believe the results of the election are unknown and require a recount," Elias said in a statement Wednesday.
The Scott campaign called Elias a "hired gun from Washington, D.C., who will try to win an election for Nelson that Nelson has already lost," in an email Thursday. The soon-to-be-former governor has also called on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the election, and echoed the president on the effort by Democrats to prevent the race from being called.
"No rag tag group of liberal activists or lawyers from D.C. will be allowed to steal this election from the voters in the state of Florida," Scott tweeted Friday.
The night before, however, Scott and the National Republican Senatorial Committee filed lawsuits against election officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties, alleging that the supervisors are hiding information about the number of votes that have been cast and counted there.
As the margin separating the Senate candidates continues to narrow, Nelson contends that his campaign simply seeks an accurate accounting of how votes were cast in the midterm election.
Elias also challenged Scott about his call for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate Democratic officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Florida election officials have until Saturday to count the votes and assess whether a recount is mandated.
Aboard Air Force One late Friday morning, Trump said he would also mount a legal challenge.
The president also floated conspiratorial claims about vote counting in Arizona and Georgia, where races for the U.S. Senate and governor are also inching toward possible recounts that would threaten what the president described at a Wednesday news conference as a "big victory" in the Senate midterms for Republicans. That may explain why Trump spent much of Friday on Twitter.
Nationwide, millions of votes remain to be counted — not "found" — leaving the outcome of a number of elections still in doubt, including some where Democrats are leading.


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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, with his wife Pam at his side, said at a news conference in the Executive Mansion on Saturday that he is not the person in the racist photo in the EVMS yearbook and he will not resign.
Northam has refused to step down so far – he says he's not in the photo. But the pressure he faces highlights his party's insistence on policing its own when it comes to wrongdoing related to race and, in some cases, sexual misconduct. As the Republican Party has frequently shied away from disciplining or expelling its own members, Democrats have largely embraced a hard line.
"We can't call out Donald Trump, we can't call out Steve King, if we're not walking the talk," said Karine Jean-Pierre of MoveOn, a group founded in the late '90s to fight impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton over his affair with a White House intern.
When it comes to Trump, a 72-year-old white New York billionaire, contrast is everything for Democrats. On Tuesday, they'll answer his State of the Union address with a response from Georgia's Stacey Abrams, a 45-year-old who narrowly lost her bid last year to become America's first black female governor. They'll invite guests who represent key Democratic agenda items – climate and the environment, immigration, LBGTQ rights, the plight of federal workers – to watch from the gallery.


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Claudia Altman-Siegel is an independent curator, writer, and private dealer. She was formerly the senior director of Luhring Augustine, New York. Altman-Siegel has organized numerous museum and gallery exhibitions.


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"Fatty Acid Composition: Comparative Analysis of Emu, Ostrich, and Rhea Oil"
Emu (Dromicelus novae-hollandiae), ostrich (Struthio camelus) and rhea (Pterocnemia pennata) are large flightless birds. The oil from the emu is currently being used in the cosmetic industry because of its skin-softening and penetration properties, and there is interest in commercial use of oils from the ostrich and rhea as well.
Previously, we had reported the fatty acid composition of emu oil ([NFORM 6: 450, 1995). The purpose of this study was thus to determine the fatty acid composition of ostrich and rhea oil and compare it to the composition of emu oil.
The predominant fatty acid in ostrich oil (n=20) and rhea oil (n=23) was palmitic acid at 34.9 +or- 3.6% o total fatty acids and 34.4 +or- 2.8%, respectively, whereas the predominant fatty acid in emu oil was oleic acid (41.8 +or- 3.8%). 0leic acid was 30.5 +or- 3.4% in ostrich and 30.6 +or- 2.9% in rhea, and palmitic acid was 21.4 +or- 2.4% in emu.
Other fatty acids in ostrich and rhea, respectively, were: myristic 1.6% and 1.3%; palmitoleic, 7.4% and 4.596; stearic 5.7% and 5.4%; linoleic 16.0% and 21.0% and alpha-linolenic 2.196 and 1.9%.
Thus, in general, the ostrich and rhea oils have similar fatty acid compositions, and both have more palmitic acid and less oleic acid than emu oil.


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You may have noticed that the We Are Cardiff website features some rather wonderful photography. We've decided to run a series of posts introducing you to our photographers, who volunteer their time to keep this website looking as amazing as possible. For our first post, please meet the lovely Ffion Matthews!
There are so many reasons Cardiff is great, but the one thing everyone always tells me, and I completely agree, is that it is such a friendly city!
Oh gosh! There's so many to choose from Mezza Luna on City Road to Bayside Brasserie. But one food that I just can't resist is Mexican, and thanks to Las Iguanas (Centre and Bay) I can feed my addiction at any point! But Cardiff has so many great places to eat, I hope to go to Patagonia (Canton) soon as I hear such fantastic things about it.
I don't often go shopping, but when I do, I head straight to our historic arcades, losing myself in all it offers, and can't resist visiting and playing dress-up in A Vintage Affair. Upstairs there is a whole playground of hats, shoes and other amazing vintage clothes, I could spend all day there!
I have a couple of favourite venues for different reasons. Gwdihw is great for an intimate (and sometimes crazy) gig, which also offers board games, comedy nights and great beer. Ten Feet Tall offer a mean cocktail. And Undertone right next to it for a long night of dancing – great things come in small packages!
I think one of my fondest memories is before I moved to Cardiff. For my 16th birthday, my brother bought us tickets to see Incubus at the then called CIA, he lived in Splott at the time so I stayed for the weekend and loved ever minute of it!
At the moment I am swamped in research for a piece I'm writing, all regarding the phases of postmodernism, feminism and female artists. I think you'd all rather me not bombard you with my readings 😉 Go Girl Power!
I'm usually a bit of a film buff, but I haven't watched many recently (now with all my feminism books taking over), and certainly not many good ones. I have Sin Nombre lined up though, which I have high hoped for!
After going to a gig at 10 Feet Tall to see Golden Fable, a friend of mine who performs as Elephant and Soldier was supporting them. Having never seen him perform before, I was absolutely blown away by his voice. So if you are into acousticy, gruffly voice that you can lose yourself in, check him out.
What's your one Cardiff secret you'll let us into?
I'm still searching for my secret spot. Having lived her for about three and a half years now, I'm actually still finding my feet to an extent. Every new place I go feels like a hidden gem, I always ask myself "How did I not know of this place before?" and then often it becomes a favourite; like Gwdihw, Undertone, the arcades, the beautiful surrounding villages and towns. I adore the fact that I can go from the busy city centre, to a fantastic quiet country walk around Garth Woods, stopping off at Gwaelod Y Garth Inn for a cheeky pit stop. So I think there is more to Cardiff than I know, I'm still learning, and loving this place more and more as I go along.
Any projects you're working on at the mo you want to big up…?
At the moment most of my time and focus is being put into my degree, which leaves little time to manage my own work. But I will be displaying my latest project at an Exhibition at the Riverfront, Newport from the 23-25th of May.
What camera do you use? Any favoured lenses for portrait photoshoots like the We Are Cardiff shoots?
At the moment I have a Canon 450D which I mainly use, but looking to upgrade it soon. I also have a beautiful Mamiya RB67, and Nikon FG-20 that I don't use as often for the simple reason of that in this digital world it takes precious time to develop/print/scan nowadays. Although I do still love using them, but more for personal projects than anything else.
I have enjoyed every single shoot I have done for We Are Cardiff; it is always so interesting to meet such a variety of different people. But I think my most memorable has to be photographing the lovely burlesque dancer, Cherrie Pips at 10 Feet Tall. Never had I shot a burlesque dancer before, and she was such a pleasure to be around, and made even more interesting with my lighting equipment failing and having to think on my feet. Luckily for me she was fantastic about the whole thing and I don't think we stopped laughing the whole way through!


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The iptables rules that are rejecting my traffic are at the host itself.
Can you check your host iptables configs?
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15 February 2012, 00:12 a.m.
Since his interview highlights a lot of the things that we feel AppsGeyser developers need to know, we're sharing it here.
AppsGeyser has over 100.000 apps made in 200 different countries. Our top app categories are entertainment, TV and radio, blogs, and news.
Q: What are the key lessons your company has learned about launching and marketing a mobile app?
A: Basically what our company has succeeded with is that we have analyzed the 'long tail' of apps. We've examined the whole process, all the way from app creation to acquiring a stable, loyal audience.
App 'crowding' is an issue in US and UK markets. It is really hard to get beyond app noise, but we've devised a strategy to get around this. We call it casting a net. Basically, you launch multiple apps that cross-promote each other.
With the high volume of apps in the US and UK markets, regional markets are a crucial part of any app marketing plan.
Android is very popular in South Korea and Japan. While it's less popular in China, because Android Market is blocked in China, it's important to use local Chinese app stores.
Q: Based on what you've learned, what factors do the ranking algorithms in different app storefronts take into account?
A: According to our experience the most important factor is app ratings and the speed at which those ratings are earned. Apps that grow fast gain momentum and growth is exponential. The way to get past this is to have an app rated by your other app's loyal audience. A good way is to boost distributions of your new app through other apps or pay-per-download resources as it gives you an initial boost and spike in ratings.
There is also a tactic that we call App Search Optimization (ASO), which is similar to SEO but in a different form. You launch multiple apps and see which one is growing fastest and then build on that growth by making all your other apps promote your single successful one.
Q: Is there an ideal timing – in terms of calendar months or weeks, weekdays, or even hours – to publish a mobile app?
A. There is no ideal timing, unless you're launching something that is event related. For example, if you're making a St. Valentine Day app, it would need to go live a few weeks before that event.
Do not wait. Launch as soon as possible! The odds of your app being on top in a given category are getting lower and lower. According to our statistics, apps launched in January 2011 had 5 % chance of getting 50000 downloads within 6 months of launch. Today, that number is less than 0.2%.
Launch an Android version first to do 'app search optimization' (launch multiple apps, cross-promote, and even use pay-per-download to build initial momentum). The next stage is to build a Windows Mobile Version and acquire a loyal user base (since the competition is still building, it's easier to get your foot in the door with Windows Mobile.) and then, finally, launch on iPhone using all the knowledge and popularity you've gained from other platforms.


LAS VEGAS (AP) It's July, and it's the NBA Summer League.
But Saturday night the Thomas and Mack Center felt more like a playoff game, with a near-capacity crowd taking in the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers, as the game featured the top two picks from last month's NBA Draft.
No. 1 pick Ben Simmons, who made his Summer League debut with the 76ers last week in Salt Lake City, had his first run-in with second pick Brandon Ingram.
While Simmons seemingly won the battle on the stat sheet, it was Ingram's assist with 1.8 seconds left in the game that led to D'Angelo Russell's buzzer beater that lifted the Lakers to a 70-69 victory.
Simmons finished with 8 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. Ingram had just seven points and four rebounds.
Though the Sixers played in Salt Lake City's Summer League, and the Lakers played incredibly Friday night in their league-opener, both teams appeared rattled from the opening tip, in the national spotlight for a matchup that has been hyped since last month's draft.
Both Simmons and Ingram came out aggressive early on feeling they needed to impress a national television audience as well as those in attendance. Nevertheless, with the Salt Lake Summer League under his belt, Simmons said he wasn't bothered by the crowd or the ballyhooed showdown between him and Ingram.
Russell created the first exciting moment of the game when he drove past the 76ers' defense to the right side of the basket, and stuffed a left-handed slam dunk at the 4:38 mark. It sparked a little bit of ribbing between him and Simmons, as the two were teammates at Montverde Academy in Florida. At one point in the first half, Simmons got in Russell's ear after Lakers' power forward Larry Nance Jr. collected his fourth foul, while Russell pawed at the ball before Simmons was able to inbound under the basket another time.
Though this was Russell's second year at the Summer League, the 6-foot-5 guard said even he had jitters in front of the raucous crowd. Last year's single-day attendance record of 12,422 was shattered with a reported 16,208 in attendance on Saturday.
Lakers coach Luke Walton was all smiles, as well, with a packed house to cheer on his team, which is now 2-0 after the first two days, and how it persevered both nights.


AstraZeneca and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, US (known as MSD outside the US and Canada) today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for selumetinib, a MEK 1/2 inhibitor, for the treatment of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).
The potential benefit of selumetinib in NF1 is being explored in the US National Cancer Institute-sponsored Phase I/II SPRINT trial in paediatric patients with symptomatic NF1-related PNs. Phase II trial results are expected later in 2018.
The FDA's ODD programme provides orphan status to medicines that are defined as those intended for the safe and effective treatment, diagnosis or prevention of rare diseases or disorders that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the US.
In addition to NF1, selumetinib is being investigated in the Phase III ASTRA trial of patients who are diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) following surgery and treatment with radioactive iodine. Selumetinib was granted ODD by the US FDA for the adjuvant treatment of stage III/IV DTC in 2016. It is also being explored as a monotherapy and in combination with other treatments in Phase I trials.
Selumetinib is an investigational MEK 1/2 inhibitor licensed by AstraZeneca from Array BioPharma Inc. in 2003.
In July 2017, AstraZeneca and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, US, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced a global strategic oncology collaboration to co-develop and co-commercialise Lynparza (olaparib), the world's first PARP inhibitor, and potential new medicine selumetinib, a MEK inhibitor, for multiple cancer types. The collaboration is based on increasing evidence that PARP and MEK inhibitors can be combined with PD-L1/PD-1 inhibitors for a range of tumour types. Working together, the companies will develop Lynparza and selumetinib in combination with other potential new medicines and as a monotherapy. Independently, the companies will develop Lynparza and selumetinib in combination with their respective PD-L1 and PD-1 medicines.
[i] Ghalayani P, et al. Neurofibromatosis Type I (von Recklinghausen's Disease): A Family Case Report and Literature Review. Dent Res J. 2012;9(4): 483–488.
[ii] Dombi E, et al. Activity of Selumetinib in Neurofibromatosis Type 1–Related Plexiform Neurofibromas. N Engl J Med. 2016; 375:2550-2560.
[iii] Evans DGR, et al. Reduced Life Expectancy Seen in Hereditary Diseases Which Predispose to Early-Onset Tumors. Appl Clin Genet. 2013; 6:53–61.


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package org.apache.druid.query.search;

import com.google.common.base.Supplier;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import org.apache.druid.java.util.common.ISE;
import org.apache.druid.java.util.emitter.EmittingLogger;

public class SearchStrategySelector
{
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  private final SearchQueryConfig config;

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Home Newsroom Press Releases Wegmans Hiring for Nearly 900 Positions Ahead of 2 Spring Openings
Wegmans Hiring for Nearly 900 Positions Ahead of 2 Spring Openings
RALEIGH, NC, November 16, 2020 – With 2021 right around the corner, hiring for Wegmans Food Markets' next two North Carolina stores is underway. They mark the company's third and fourth stores in the state since it opened its Raleigh store in September 2019. Wegmans is looking for nearly 900 employees to join their Chapel Hill and Wake Forest teams.
With an opening date set for late February, store manager Rick Walters and his team are preparing to hire nearly 300 part-time positions for the 99,000 sq. ft. store located at 1810 Fordham Boulevard, Chapel Hill, NC. These openings span a variety of positions across every department in the store, from chefs to customer service representatives. Hiring for 165 full-time jobs began in August and select openings remain, such as cooks and overnight grocery. In total, the Chapel Hill store will employ nearly 450 people, some of whom will be internal, transferring from Raleigh and West Cary.
"While our opening is still a few months away, we have already met many great applicants and are excited to continue building our team," said Chapel Hill Store Manager Rick Walters. "Wegmans has a long-standing reputation of being a great place to work and that comes from hiring employees who demonstrate the values our company is based on, such as respect, empowerment, and high standards."
Located at 11051 Ligon Mill Road, Wake Forest, NC, hiring has begun for nearly 200 full-time positions for the 104,000 sq. ft. store, set to open in May. Available full-time positions include everything from entry-level management to culinary professionals.
"As our company expands in North Carolina, there is a big opportunity for employees to advance their careers," said Wake Forest Store Manager Patrick McGuinness. "My team is looking for candidates who share our passion for food and are eager to learn and grow with us. We have many employees who begin in one position and move into different roles depending on their interest."
Employment at Wegmans offers competitive pay and benefits, flexible scheduling, and a workplace known for a caring, family atmosphere. The Wegmans Employee Scholarship Program is a unique point of pride for the family company. Since the program began in 1984, more than 40,000 Wegmans employees have been awarded scholarships totaling $125 million.
Interested applicants, 16-years and older, for either store can apply online at jobs.wegmans.com. Applications are not accepted at the store construction site. Interviews are conducted at an off-site hiring office.
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a 104-store supermarket chain with stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts and North Carolina. The family company, recognized as an industry leader and innovator, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016. Wegmans has been named one of the '100 Best Companies to Work For' by FORTUNE magazine for 23 consecutive years, ranking #3 in 2020. The company was also ranked #1 for corporate reputation among the 100 most visible companies, according to the 2019 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient® study.
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Ops show their flexibility in offsite kitchens
Steve Coomes 1 | Oct 13, 2008
Think you're up for an operational challenge? Strap on one of these.
• Fly halfway across the nation to serve thousands in someone else's restaurant while using that shop's staff. Then do it again one week later.
• Set up a tent restaurant and cocktail lounge beside a bustling circus and feed scores amid unseasonably heavy rain falling outside and flowing inside.
• Get really crazy about farm-to-table initiatives and serve a fresh-harvest meal in the middle of rough-mown, plumbing-free farm pasture.
Who needs a Gordon Ramsay show when you can create your own Hell's Kitchen, right?
Truth is, the restaurateurs who operated in these venues this summer say the experience was far more heaven than hell. All called those challenges stiff, but a heck of a lot of fun. The events even were highly profitable for some.
Early this year, CNN asked the Hudson Yards Sports and Entertainment arm of Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group to produce a CNN Grill both at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. That required Meyer's minions to take over an existing restaurant in each city near the convention and where CNN posted its crews for live broadcasts.
Completely new menus were drawn up, and in just days, nine key people from HYSE had to train each restaurant's existing staff to perform to USHG's exacting service standards.
"We created a brand-new restaurant out of town—twice," said David Swinghamer, president of USHG's Growth Business Division. Swinghamer called the experience "great training for some of our key people who will open restaurants out of town for us in the future."
The Denver venue, known 51 weeks out of the year as Brooklyn's, seated 750. Since delegates and media personnel followed similar schedules, crowds stampeded in for meals. Though smaller, The Eagle Street Grille in St. Paul met the same dizzying pace.
"The biggest challenge was adapting to a new setting quickly," Swinghamer said. If kitchens lacked the equipment needed, it was ordered, shipped to Denver first and then to St. Paul. Food was served from 6 a.m. to midnight for five days. "That meant the staff got out between 1 and 2 [a.m.] and then back up at 6 to serve breakfast."
Swinghamer acknowledged that the costs of overtime and kitchen equipment were fairly substantial. But he said HYSE knew it could build a large budget to accommodate those costs and maintain generous margins.
Compared to HYSE's staffs, which worked inside for a mere two weeks, Jon Bloostein's Heartland Breweries crews toiled for three months in a mobile kitchen serving thousands in a tent restaurant and bar at Manhattan's South Street Sea Port. The crowds were drawn to Spiegelworld at the Seaport, an annual combined concert-cabaret-circus running from late July to October.
"This is a serious investment in infrastructure for us," said Bloostein, CEO of Heartland. "We used a 40-foot mobile kitchen, a 20-foot refrigerated trailer, a 40-foot cargo container for food, and we put in a $50,000 point-of-sale system every year for this."
Despite the annual set-up and tear-down, Bloostein, who owns six restaurants, said the effort isn't harder than opening a permanent facility. But as usually is the case in New York, acquiring operating permits was a headache.
"We have to get new liquor licenses every year," he said. Meeting the legal requirements for cooking fuel was even more difficult. "Since the fire department doesn't allow propane tanks larger than those for home barbecue, we decided to retrofit all our equipment for natural gas and run a hard-pipe gas line from the [South Street Seaport] mall to our trailer."
Great idea, if you're Bloostein. Bad idea if you're the fire inspector. At the eleventh hour, the city regarded the gas line request as one for a new rather than temporary restaurant. Worse, until that was approved, inspectors wouldn't sign off on the fire suppression system.
"We still don't have that sign off, so, honestly, we were cooking in violation," Bloostein said.
In this, the third year Heartland has served the festival, Bloostein expects only a modest profit, which he blames mostly on inclement weather that dampened attendance. The first year he didn't make much because of the investment require, "though last year it was lucrative for us."
Jay Denham planned for a modest profit when he cooked a farm field dinner for 85 in late September. A huge proponent of farm-to-table initiatives, the executive chef at Park Place on Main in Louisville sees such efforts as a way to further that agenda rather than a means of realizing financial gains.
Yet that doesn't dampen his love of rustic cooking—in this case, catering a buffet in the middle of an historic working farm near the city's edge. The child of a farm family, Denham didn't need natural gas and refrigeration to produce his meal. He had a barbecue pit fire, a lot of coolers and a ridiculously long extension cord running from a nearby home powering a food warmer.
"This is actually pretty easy tonight; we did a wedding rehearsal out here last night," said Denham. "I like to take on any challenge like this."
Even without modern conveniences, Denham said working in the tent is a pleasant departure from the clamor of the kitchen.
"It'd be even better if you could take your shoes off," said Denham, referring to the grass "floor" in his work area. "Doing things like is one reason I'm in the restaurant business. It's always new, which keeps it exciting. I'm a junkie for stuff like this."
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