Let's toast Annemarie, guest poster of the day!
Hello swooners!! We have the lovely Annemarie of the blog I brunch with every morning, Brunch at Saks, hanging out in Studio Swoon today. Annemarie is an absolute sweetheart and we are thrilled to have her! She's been blogging away since 2008 and I'm always amazed at her ability to provide swoon worthy posts, whether it's party planning, fashion, or the latest trending topic, Annemarie is on top of what's hot. Get out your journal and take some notes, because today she is giving away her secrets to planning the most fabulous Spring Soiree.
With the warmer weather nearly upon us, now is the perfect time to gather family and friends to kick off the season in style. Whether you have dreams of a low-key backyard gathering under the stars, or envision a bustling, 1950's-inspired cocktail hour, these 5 steps will help you get your party in full swing and surely make your spring soiree the talk of the town for months to come.
1. The two L's: List & Location. Guests are the most important aspect of the event (of course!) but keep in mind your event space and location while creating the list. If you'll be hosting a mellow get-together in your backyard, consider bringing in extra seating such as rented couches or benches to accommodate a few more people. If an indoor cocktail hour is more your style, then feel free to invite 5-10 more guests than your space calls for in anticipation that not everyone will show. If you're including, say, both friends and family, or friends and coworkers, but your designated area isn't large enough for all, consider scattering the arrival time on the invitations by about 30 minute intervals.
2. Invites. The first impression your guests will have of your gathering is the invite, so why not take the time to set the mood for your party right off the bat. If your affair will be a bit fancier, a paper or card invite sent via the mail is the way to go, however, something as simple as an evite is perfect for a lighter party (like those consisting of only drinks and hors d'oeuvres).
3. Menu. Speaking of drinks and hors d'oeuvres, it's easiest to determine the menu based upon the size of your guest list. For parties with 8-10 or fewer, consider a meal that includes a simple appetizer, main course, and dessert. If you will be hosting more than 10 people, consider skipping a full course meal in lieu of cocktails, a stationery appetizer table, and possibly a few passed hors d'oeuvres. When selecting foods, keep in mind things that are easy to assemble and easy for guests to eat while talking.
4. Decor. Now that you've picked a location, invited your guests, and created a delicious menu, it's to make this party pretty! If your space speaks for itself and doesn't need much decor (like a city loft or terrace with views) then maybe try adding just a few extras, like strands of twinkling lights and candles. Indoor parties, or those in a space that has been cleared out to make room for guests, may need considerably more decor, but don't feel obligated to cover every surface. Candles (unscented) in glass votives, a table runner or two for the food area, fresh cut flowers in vases or jars, and paper lanterns/ pom poms all make for gorgeous decor without breaking the bank.
5. Entertainment. Another aspect of your party that can be as simple or detailed as you like is that of the entertainment. A nice mix of mellow music via an iPod or computer is certainly more than enough to keep a lively mood throughout the entire evening, but if you're looking for something with a little more pizazz, consider tried and true favorites like a photo booth or games with fun prizes.
Planning a party can often end up being stressful, but try to keep in mind that that guests are going to be more than delighted just to share in an evening of good company, yummy eats, and much needed laughter. While details make a party come to life, it's the time spent together that makes the memories last a lifetime.
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What an amazing post — beautiful and so well-thought out. Such a great guide. The menu sounds out of this world! Love the easy decor tips. I have several playlists on my iPod for entertaining, but most often it ends up on my Bossa Nova mix that's versatile for brunch, cocktails, dinner, whatever!
I so want to plan a soiree now!!
Bookmarking for my next soiree!!
So pretty and posh! This color story alone's got me swooning for summer already! Gorge!
Love the tip about staggering guest arrival times – genius!
Great post… I love her & her fabulous blog! Happy Friday!
Fantastic tips! It just might give me the motivation to actually *host* a soiree of my own!
Bookmarked for my next party! I love how simply everything is laid out. Seems so much less stressful this way. Thank you!
Anything made from scratch with fresh fruit juice is ok in my book! Makes me want to plan a party STAT!
Mmm these photos are gorgeous and your advice is gold!
That beverage concoction looks amazing!!
this girls is fabulous and truly has some amazing style!
what an amazingly thorough guide. love this!
Great post! I'd love to throw a spring soiree and now I know exactly how to do it.
I love this post… hope you're having a fantastic weekend my dear!
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When professional Surfing came to the fore in the late 70's, physical preparation for surfing was…just more and more surfing. This was consistent for many sports of the time, until the Sports Scientists and Exercise Physiologists presented information that could help us all improve. More surfing is always the first option for upcoming surfers, but science can play its part. This is also quite relevant for the beginner and intermediate surfer.
Over the years of coaching beginners and intermediate surfers, it is common for a physical limitation to hinder surfing progression. For example, not having sufficient shoulder power to catch a wave means that surfing independently will be difficult! You can't stand up on a wave, if you can't catch it! Shoulder endurance (ability to paddle slowly for a long time) is relatively easy to acquire by surfing often, but adding a sudden burst (power) requires improving strength in the upper body, which then translates to power. The limitations of lower body body power means being unable to bring your feet through the landing quickly. A similar scenario applies for the lower body. Develop lower body strength, and then power.
In the middle of all this, is our mid-section, or to use the buzz word "CORE". Our midsection includes abdominals, lower back and sides to allow us the maximal and efficient power between upper and lower body movement. Im sure there will be an uproar if I didn't mention "FLEXIBILITY", but it needs to be put into perspective.
Yes FLEXIBILITY, but we should use the broader term of "MOBILITY". Poor flexibility will hinder and impair our ranges of movement, but not cause it! We need as much mobility as we need, without spending hours and hours on it! And yes, YOGA is a great practice to improve MOBILITY, and reset your focus.
A few good reasons…1) ensure you don't fatigue on the days when the surf is pumping 2) you have strength and endurance to keep you healthy and injury free, 3) prolong your surfing life 4) just improve your general health and wellness!
Best look for an experienced, and qualified Exercise/Sports Scientist, or an Accredited Strength and Conditioning Coach.


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Il campionato europeo di calcio Under-19 2018 è stata la 66ª edizione del torneo organizzato dalla UEFA. Al torneo hanno potuto partecipare solo i giocatori nati dopo il 1º gennaio 1999.

Svoltosi in Finlandia dal 16 al 29 luglio 2018, si è concluso con la vittoria del , che ha battuto nella finale disputata al OmaSP Stadion di Seinäjoki l' per 4-3. Il Portogallo si è laureato così campione d'Europa Under-19 per la quarta volta.

Le semifinaliste e la vincente dello spareggio tra le terze classificate ai gironi hanno avuto accesso al campionato mondiale di calcio Under-20 2019, in programma in Polonia.

Città e stadi

Squadre qualificate

Regolamento
Le prime due squadre di ogni girone si qualificano alle semifinali del torneo e al campionato mondiale Under-20 2019, le terze classificate invece accedono ad uno spareggio di qualificazione alla già citata rassegna mondiale.

Se due o più squadre dello stesso girone sono a pari punti al termine della fase a gironi, per determinare la classifica si applicano i seguenti criteri nell'ordine indicato:
 maggior numero di punti nelle partite disputate fra le squadre in questione (scontri diretti);
 miglior differenza reti nelle partite disputate fra le squadre in questione;
 maggior numero di gol segnati nelle partite disputate fra le squadre in questione.

Se alcune squadre sono ancora a pari merito dopo aver applicato questi criteri, essi vengono riapplicati esclusivamente alle partite fra le squadre in questione per determinare la classifica finale.
Se la suddetta procedura non porta a un esito, si applicano i seguenti criteri:
 miglior differenza reti in tutte le partite del girone;
 maggior numero di gol segnati in tutte le partite del girone;
 migliore condotta fair play al torneo, calcolata partendo da 10 punti per squadra, che vengono decurtati in questo modo:
 ogni ammonizione: un punto;
 ogni doppia ammonizione o espulsione: tre punti;
 ogni espulsione diretta dopo un'ammonizione: quattro punti;
 sorteggio.
Se due squadre che hanno lo stesso numero di punti e lo stesso numero di gol segnati e subiti si sfidano nell'ultima partita del girone e sono ancora a pari punti al termine della giornata, la classifica finale viene determinata tramite i tiri di rigore, purché nessun'altra squadra del girone abbia gli stessi punti al termine della fase a gironi.

Fase a gironi

Girone A

Classifica

Risultati

Girone B

Classifica

Risultati

Fase a eliminazione diretta

Semifinali

Finale

Qualificate al mondiale Under-20 2019

Spareggio per l'accesso al Mondiale Under-20 2019

Qualificate al mondiale Under-20 2019

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Calcio nel 2018
2018
Competizioni sportive a Vaasa
Competizioni sportive a Seinäjoki

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There is an explicit need for ministerial responsibility on co-ordinating agencies dealing with rural development in Ireland.
According to the Report of the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (CEDRA), which was launched today by the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, all indications are that it was this lack of explicit responsibility in previous policy frameworks that resulted in a less than effective approach to the economic development of rural areas to date.
The report goes on to say that the current local government reform process, which is currently underway, offers a unique opportunity to ensure that rural Ireland has a distinct voice at regional, local and community level. The report was jointly commissioned in September 2012 by Minister Phil Hogan, and Minister Simon Coveney, in recognition that a number of commitments relating to economic development contained in the Programme for Government, in particular, commitments to encourage job creation and sustainable enterprise development, are reliant on the ability of all parts of Ireland to contribute to economic growth going forward. Chaired by Pat Spillane and consisting of a range of experts in both rural and economic development the Commission have now produced this very interesting and informative report that addresses not only the frameworks required at national level to support rural economic development but also the human and resource potential in rural Ireland.
The report contains 34 recommendations and is the culmination of a large body of work throughout 2013.
Meanwhile, figures from the Department of Social Protection show that counties along the western seaboard make up the majority of recipients of Farm Assist.
In total, there are currently 9,940 farmers in receipt of farm assist payments. Farm Assist, which is a means-tested income support scheme for farmers, accounted for €99.5 million of Government spending last year, according to figures released recently by Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton. Western counties make up the majority of the recipients with some 6,042 recipients in counties on the western seaboard representing 60% of the total number of claimants.
Donegal, Galway and Mayo alone account for almost a third of the recipients in the country. The Farm Assist scheme is based on jobseeker's allowance. It was introduced in 1999 and Farm Assist recipients retain all the advantages of the jobseeker's allowance scheme such as retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. Teagasc last week released a report highlighting the plight of rural towns. Some of the report's findings run contrary to department figures on Farm Assist with Teagasc finding that many towns in the west of Ireland are thriving. It found that Offaly and Carlow are have the economically weakest towns in the country. While the Midlands, South-East and West have the highest concentration of the weakest towns, the South West and West have the highest concentration of the strongest towns.
Although there are a higher proportion of farmers in western counties in receipt of Farm Assist, these same counties do feature the highest amount of farmers with the lowest Single Farm Payment (see table below).


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Princess Charlotte Saluted The Royal Air Force And It's Too Cute For Words
Princess Charlotte was seen saluting the RAF in an adorable photo during the flypast.
As thousands watched a flypast of the Royal Air Force outside Buckingham Palace, Princess Charlotte and her brother Prince George watched from inside the palace. The three-year-old princess was seen giving a salute during the flypast, an incredibly adorable moment which was caught by photographers below. Princess Charlotte also seemed giddy, as others caught her sticking her tongue out while her brother was all smiles. Charlotte wore a sweet blue dress with white collars, while George sported a classic navy blue polo shirt, detailed E! News.
Little did the youngsters realize, that their antics were catching the eye of photographers below. The two were photographed with their nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and Kate's secretary Catherine Quinn, reported People.
The amazing flypast had 100 aircraft to commemorate the RAF's past 100 years of achievements. A highlight was when three F-35 Lightning stealth fighters and 22 Typhoons spelled out a huge "100" in the air, according to the BBC. Another amazing moment was when the planes streamed red, white, and blue smoke.
Squadron leader Mike Child said that "It has been difficult because it is the biggest formation we have ever done as a Typhoon force." The pilots practiced over the North Sea, but the actual flying over land was harder than when they practiced over the water.
RAF was created April 1, 1918, when the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service came together to join forces. The Queen said that "Tenacity, skill and gallantry have been your hallmarks as you helped safeguard freedom and security in many parts of the world….I remember the Battle of Britain being fought over the skies above us and we shall never forget the courage and sacrifice of that time," according to the Telegraph.
Princess Charlotte is known for her strong personality, even at such a young age. The other day after Prince Louis' christening, Charlotte boldly told the paparazzi that "You're not coming," referring to the private tea for royals that she was heading to, said Insider. Charlotte has also become known for being outgoing and waving at the paparazzi.
Earlier during the christening when she first arrived, Charlotte was also seen giving some great handshakes to a bishop and Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Perhaps due to the formal and serious nature of most royal events, the princess' antics offer a window into the family's "normal" side of life. Her royal waving is especially adorable, which was exhibited quite freely after her baby brother Louis was born. She was also seen waving sweetly at Prince Charles when they left Kensington Palace, said Vanity Fair.
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Provide authentication using OpenStack Keystone

:depends:   - keystoneclient Python module
'''

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
try:
    from keystoneclient.v2_0 import client
    from keystoneclient.exceptions import AuthorizationFailure, Unauthorized
except ImportError:
    pass

def get_auth_url():
    '''
    Try and get the URL from the config, else return localhost
    '''
    try:
        return __opts__['keystone.auth_url']
    except KeyError:
        return 'http://localhost:35357/v2.0'

def auth(username, password):
    '''
    Try and authenticate
    '''
    try:
        keystone = client.Client(username=username, password=password,
                                 auth_url=get_auth_url())
        return keystone.authenticate()
    except (AuthorizationFailure, Unauthorized):
        return False

if __name__ == '__main__':
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        print("Authenticated")
    else:
        print("Failed to authenticate")

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Wanted to mention that i'm going on vacation tomorrow to california to visit my sister! so excited. I probably wont post much, but i'm sure ill be taking tons of photos and will post them as soon as im back!


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Francistown city council in search of partners to build central business district
The mayoress of Francistown, Sylvia Muzila has appealed to the private sector to partner with Francistown City Council (FCC) to a 42 hectare piece of land into a Central Business District. Speaking during a Public Private Partnership (PPP) seminar hosted by Barclays Bank in Francistown, Muzila said the city council is currently facing dire financial problems, hence the need to partner with the private sector.
"We have a 42 hectare business plot which is lying idle and is currently being used as a golf course. Our vision is to develop this plot into a Central Business District by building modern offices, a convention centre, hotels, offices and even a mall as part of our efforts to transform Francistown into an investment hub by 2022. We are currently in the process of bush clearing the area. The only problem we have is lack of funding and we are appealing for partnership from the private sector," said Muzila
She further pleaded with the private sector to also partner with the city council in developing the Francistown abattoir which is currently being operated by a private company. She said the abattoir would have been very successful if it was operated through a partnership between the city council and the private sector.
"We feel that the abattoir can be refurbished and become a success once the city council partners with the private sector," she said
the Francistown abattoir was closed in 2011 after a damning report from the Department of Veterinary Services, which stated that it was unfit for use as it did not comply with the Livestock and Meat Hiegine Act. After the city council failed to refurbish the abattoir, it was then leased to a private company early this year.
Muzila said Public Private Partnerships (PPP) are important as they can help build much needed infrastructure such as roads, dams, street lights and sanitation. She added that communities look up to the local government for creation of employment and eradication of poverty.
"Public Private Partnerships are very important as they can help all of us improve our country's economy and alleviate poverty. Our communities look to us as local authorities to create employment and eradicate poverty," she said.
For her part, Barclays Corporate Director, Lesley Bradly said it was high time the private and public sector made a mark by playing a role in the sustainable development and growth of Botswana. She added that the infrastructural development gap that exists in the country cannot be closed by the local government alone.
"PPP's facilitate and contribute to the funding landscape in Botswana as a solution to the already existing challenges. This initiative will serve as the building block to improving and developing infrastructure in Botswana. The government in partnership with the private sector is now able to provide needed skills sets that mutually benefit the parties," she said.
She further said Barclays Bank views the PPP initiative as an opportunity to rise to the occasion and play a role in the development of local economies. He urged local governments to create space and attract the private sector to actively participate in the delivery of services and building of infrastructure.
In his presentation, the Barclays Bank Africa PPP's financial expert, Andre Kruger said that although PPP's are important in bringing in developments, local government and the private sector need to take caution before signing the PPP agreements.
"Most of the times failure of projects is a result of making decisions without adequate information. Options are not properly considered and project selection and designs end up not being optimal," he said.
He further said the main reasons for failure of PPP's seem to be unwillingness to invest sufficiently at the project design stage as well as poor feasibility studies. He also said at times business case development and contracting is rushed often to meet political objectives, while environmental and social impacts are frequently being glossed over, which also leads to failure.
GCC in search of business partner to run abattoir
Francistown councilors to approach Tsogwane over lack of developments in the city
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Have you ever been to a wedding where you just can't help but think, "wow, those two are just SO happy together!"? Hopefully you can say that about all of the weddings you've been to! But still, there are some where the couple's joy just stands out far above and beyond any of the other wonderfully beautiful aspects of the day. Beyond the gorgeous dresses and decor… … beyond the fun their bridal party is having… … beyond the beautiful relationships you see thriving all over the place… … and beyond the stunning setting it's all happening in. That's how Kelsey and Steven's wedding was… … the wedding where their joy trumped it all! It was apparent that they couldn't wait for this day to come and when it finally did, they soaked it all in and didn't miss a second of the emotions that accompanied it. Kelsey and Steven, your relationship together and the wedding you had to celebrate it all, was the kind of stuff that little girls dream about! It was a fairytale wedding if there ever was one and I know that you two will live happily ever after! Congratulations! Click to see the rest of the photos from Kelsey and Steven's Happily Ever After Wedding!


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Q: Managed to fetch API and display JSON in console, need help displaying data

var url = 'https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=talksport&apiKey='YOUR_API_KEY';

var req = new Request(url);
fetch(req)
    .then(function(response) {
        var results = (response.json());

    console.log(results);

    })

Using a News API i am using this code to try and fetch articles based around sports for my website. So far from what I've tried I've managed to console.log the JSON file that I am fetching from the API. This returns an object with 10 articles inside which is what I was looking for. I however want to be able to console.log the data inside of the JSON object. I've looked at several YouTube/written tutorials to try and find my answer as well as the actual website that I got the API from, but they don't give out any more information and i'm at a loss. Any help here would be appreciated!
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A: response.json returns a promise. You need to chain one more promise to get the data you are looking for.
Here is the code:
var url = 'https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=talksport&apiKey='YOUR_API_KEY';

var req = new Request(url);
fetch(req)
    .then(function(response) {
       return response.json()
    }).then(function(jsonResponse){
      console.log(jsonResponse)
    })

A: @Akshay Milmile  is right. You have to resolve your promise
see the code:

var YOUR_API_KEY = "";
var url = 'https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=talksport&apiKey=' + YOUR_API_KEY;

var req = new Request(url);
fetch(req)
    .then(function(response) {
        return response.json();
        console.log(results);

    }).then(function(jsonResponse){
      console.log(jsonResponse)
    })

But your error came from another line:
var url = 'https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?ources=talksport&apiKey='YOUR_API_KEY';
If you want to keep it, you have to change it to:
var url = 'https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=talksport&apiKey=' + YOUR_API_KEY;

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Marty Erickson, tuba « Back
Saturday, January 29, 2022 (7:30 pm)
Location: Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Scott L. Hines (b. 1958): Starfire (Commission, World Premiere)
Commissioned by Dr. Kevin Sütterlin and April Ann Brock as a gift to the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra.
Mary D. Watkins (b. 1939): Soul of Remembrance (From "Five Movements in Color")
Arild Plau (1920-2005): Concerto for Tuba and Strings
I. Prolog
II. Canzone
III. Finale
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Symphony No.5 in D Minor, op.47
I. Moderato
II. Allegretto
III. Largo
IV. Allegro non troppo
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(Program notes by Erik Leveille, FVSO Violin I.)
Scott L. Hines: Starfire (2021)
At age fifteen, Dr. Hines began a career in radio broadcasting as a DJ on several stations in Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana. After 15 years of broadcasting, he returned to school to earn his BM, MM, and eventually, his DMA in composition. Scott L. Hines received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from The University of Memphis in 2008. He was a student of John Baur, Kamran Ince, and James Richens. He has received commissions from Ballet Memphis and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra among others. He received his bachelor and master's degrees from Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he studied with Frank Stemper, Kathleen Ginther and Eric Mandat. Dr. Hines is on faculty in the theory department and teaches composition and sound design at The University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music. The fanfare "Starfire" was commissioned by Dr. Kevin Sütterlin and April Ann Brock as a gift to the Fox Valley Symphony in 2020. Dr. Hines comments, "I'm honored to receive the commission from the symphony. Dr. Suetterlin requested a fanfare for this performance, and I wanted to write something exuberant. I hope I was successful. After several false starts, the opening trumpet fanfare came to mind, and the Starfire was off and running."
Arild Plau: Concerto for Tuba and Strings (1990)
Norwegian pianist, bassoonist, and composer Arild Plau was educated at the Oslo Conservatory of Music. He took a position as bassoonist with the Norwegian Opera Orchestra after WWII, during which time he was a POW held captive by German forces. The Concerto for Tuba and Strings was written in 1990 but did not receive its premiere until 2001, after which time the work has been embraced by tubists as a vehicle for demonstrating the instrument's lyrical and virtuosic capabilities. The Prolog-Allegro opens with dialogue: a repeated sighing, descending minor third figure in the strings, to which the tuba replies with discursive phrases of gradually increasing length. The Allegro proper is characterized by a moto perpetuo accompaniment in the strings and a lively theme in the tuba characterized by rhythmic groups of fives and threes. The more expressive second theme finds the soloist exchanging phrases with solo violin. The Canzone is an elegy that was written as a response to the loss of Plau's wife to cancer. The soloist sings out a doleful melody over a pulsed two-note figure in the ensemble. A more impassioned theme follows, and the reprise of the lament takes an unusual turn as both the tuba and strings begin a new, lighter, more agile theme that fades into ghostly silence. The brief Finale opens with a lively rhythmic theme in the strings which is taken up by the tuba and contrasted by a theme featuring chromatically descending triplets. A cadenza and the brief coda give the soloist the opportunity to display a particularly nimble, light-footed dexterity before arriving home on the final chord.
Mary D. Watkins: Soul of Remembrance
Hailing from Denver, Colorado, composer Mary D. Watkins began piano lessons at the age of four, and then pursued a career in music as she transferred from Pueblo Community College to prestigious HBCU Howard University. She later moved to Los Angeles and worked for the Olivia Records Collective, a lesbian and feminist record label founded in 1973. She founded a jazz ensemble there and Olivia Records released her album "Something Moving" in 1978. She has gone on to compose within the genres of orchestral music, jazz, and music for film and theater. Her composition "Soul of Remembrance" is one movement of a suite composed in 1994, Five Movements in Color. Watkins described the movement in Arts Work Blog in 2016: "A melody floats over a march...I saw my own people in their long march to fully express themselves as fully human—it's bittersweet and nostalgic, a song of sorrow and a song of hope."
Dimitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor
"The whole audience leapt to their feet and erupted into wild applause—a demonstration of their outrage at all the hounding poor Mitya had been through. Everyone kept saying the same thing: 'That was his answer, and it was a good one.' [Shostakovich] came out white as a sheet, biting his lips. I think he was close to tears."
The music of Dmitri Shostakovich, perhaps more than that of any other composer, is inextricably bound with the socio-political conditions of his time, and the work that has generated the most controversy and discussion about its extra-musical meaning is the Symphony No. 5, composed in a mere three months during the Stalinist terror of the 1930s. The young Shostakovich, already a piano virtuoso, burst upon the Soviet artistic scene at the mere age of nineteen with his brilliant and brash First Symphony. Success after success followed, including his witty and sparkling First Piano Concerto and satiric opera The Nose, based on a story by Gogol. In 1934, his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, an avant-garde masterpiece based on a tale of adultery, betrayal, murder, and imprisonment was hailed the greatest Russian opera since those of Tchaikovsky. In 1936, however, Shostakovich's fate was altered in a moment when Josef Stalin decided to attend a performance. Bewildered by the music and offended by the frankly sexual tone of the opera (amazing how mass murderers can be such bluenoses), Stalin stormed out in a rage and saw to it that a denunciation, entitled "Muddle Instead of Music" was published in Pravda. The music wasn't merely bad, it was a threat to the values of Soviet society, and the article ended, "This is a game that could end very badly." Less than two weeks later, his ballet music for The Limpid Stream was similarly savaged. Shostakovich knew what this meant—friends, relatives and colleagues had been shot or disappeared for less. He began sleeping in the stairwell with a packed suitcase so that his family would not be disturbed when the state police came to arrest him. That arrest never came, as the official in charge of Shostakovich's 'interrogation' himself became a victim of the purges.
Shostakovich had been working to complete his Fourth Symphony, a huge, tragic, complex work, but thought better of it and tabled it (this work would not receive its premiere until years after Stalin's death). He could have taken the easy way to public rehabilitation by writing some bombastic patriotic cantata or ode to Stalin, but Shostakovich, a man both shy and nervous and yet possessed of fierce resolve, decided that he would compose a new symphony. He deliberately chose to eschew the avant-garde and instead employ more traditional harmonic language and structure. Working at an incredible pace, Shostakovich produced a marvel of directness and clarity that overwhelmed the audience at the premiere in 1937. It bears enough of the trappings of a narrative of adversity-to-triumph that satisfied the powers that be and yet it bears fierce witness to the horror, the absurdity, the despair, and grief of those crushed under the weight of a totalitarian state that pierces the heart and soul of listeners and performers to this day.
The first movement is a model of classical economy—every note is derived from the opening four measures, which features a jagged, alternately rising and falling figure in dotted rhythms that evokes both the baroque French Overture style as well as Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, followed by a linear descending figure and three repeated notes. This encompasses the long-breathed, oddly disjunct, "high wire act" melody over the violins as well as the dactylic pulse that underpins it, the increasingly frenetic and menacing march and its violent, shattering climax, and the icy, eerie solos for piccolo, violin and celesta that bring the movement to an uncertain conclusion. The giddily sardonic second movement is a waltz and trio that owes much to Mahler—the tone of the waltz veers from gruff good humor to the almost macabre, as the horns whoop and the fiddles chatter and glissando up and down the fingerboard. The trio opens with playful wit and grace, with solo turns for the violin as well as for flute and harp, and yet things turn increasingly crass and burlesque. Good manners are temporarily restored as the waltz returns in a more delicate guise, with the strings employing pizzicato, but the conclusion is utterly wild, with the oboe intoning the trio melody in a halting manner that sounds for all the world like a winding down music box, followed by final fortissimo outburst. The third movement, which Shostakovich completed in three days, is the emotional heart of the symphony. He eschews the brass but adds extra richness to the strings by dividing the violins into three parts and the violas and cellos into two each. A sorrowful chorale emerges in the strings, then encompasses the winds. Over shuddering, hushed tremolos, the oboe, followed by the clarinet and flutes, intones the loneliest, most bereft music in the entire work. One can well imagine Shostakovich alone, isolated, on those sleepless nights awaiting the worst. The chorale returns and builds to a peak of impassioned grief. The lonely theme becomes a wail of anguish in the cellos as they cry out in their uppermost register. Finally spent, the chorale returns and concludes on a note of calm and tentative hope. The fourth movement engenders the most controversy—did Shostakovich give Stalin what he wanted, with blazing, swaggering brass, thundering timpani, and an irresistible march that is Russian to its marrow? Or does the triumph carry an air of coercion and threat about it? And what of the long, expressive interlude that carries more than a hint of sorrow? Testimony, the 'memoirs' of Shostakovich 'as related to and edited by' Solomon Volkov has much to say about this finale, but the credibility of this work has been so much challenged since its original publication in 1979 that the last word here is given to Shostakovich's friend and colleague Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered the Cello Concerto No. 1 and championed his friend's symphonies from the podium:
"The applause went on for nearly an entire hour. People were in uproar and ran up and down through the streets of Leningrad until the small hours, embracing and congratulating each other on having been there. They had understood the message... of the Fifth Symphony: the message of sorrow, suffering, and isolation; stretched on the rack of the Inquisition, the victim still tries to smile in his pain. The shrill repetitions of the A at the end of the symphony are to me like a spear-point jabbing in the wounds of a person on the rack. The audience of the first performance could identify with that person. Anybody who thinks the finale is glorification is an idiot."


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A climate limit to economic growth
June 30th, the city of Lytton in western Canada broke the record of the highest temperature ever seen in the country: 49,5°C. A record which had already been broken twice in the preceding days with 46,6 et 47,5°C, respectively. The heat wave which struck the northwestern part of the USA and Canada was then followed by massive wildfires. At the same time, Finland had its hottest month of June. Those events would have been impossible in the absence of global warming caused by the massive release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by human activities. In 2018, global emissions amounted to 58 billion tons of CO2 equivalent.
Because of its speed and magnitude, climate change could have serious adverse effects, such as excessively high humidity and temperature making large regions on Earth uninhabitable, sea-level rise, more frequent and extreme weather events, and large reductions in biodiversity. It is important to remember that the average global temperature is already 1.2°C higher today than what it was during the preindustrial era, and that current national pledges, assuming they are fulfilled, will induce a warming of at least 2.4°C by the end of the century.
Consequences on the world economy are hard to estimate
While all these effects will certainly have an impact on human societies in one way or another, there is no consensus on what the implications on the world economy will be. To try and estimate those effects, so-called "integrated" models combine an economic framework with a description of the climate evolution: economic activities produce greenhouse gases that affect the global climate, which in turn affects the economy. The most famous of such models was developed by William Nordhaus, the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science.
They are meant to provide policy-makers with quantitative arguments from cost-benefit analyses of the effect of climate change on the economy, notably to determine what is known as the social cost of carbon. It evaluates the cost, in dollars, of economic damages caused by the emission of one ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and consequently the benefits expected from investment in emission reduction.
The economic impact of global warming is typically described by the response of the Global Domestic Product (GDP) to a climate variable, usually the average global surface temperature change. Several methods exist to estimate this response, in most cases by extrapolating from effects already observed in past decades. Very different extrapolations have been proposed giving strongly differing results for a given level of warming. For example, for a 4°C warming some estimates foresee a global GDP a few percent lower than its expected value without climate change while other models estimate that the GDP will be halved. For 8°C, the most optimistic models foresee an impact of hardly 10% while large regions of the world will become uninhabitable. Such low damage levels are used by climate-deniers to claim that the cost of climate actions is not justified, and that humanity should rather focus on more pressing issues.
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Anita Bratt, ND
Once a rare childhood disorder, with a prevalence of 1 in 10,000 20 years ago, autism now affects one out of every 150 children. Classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder and diagnosed by psychological testing, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often perceived to be a genetically based mental disorder. However, current research has shown it to be a complex medical condition involving dysfunction in the brain and nervous system, as well as the gastrointestinal, immune, endocrine and detoxification systems.
A primary goal in treating autism is to address underlying physiologic imbalances that may be contributing to the disorder. There has been a surge of interest concerning methylation deficiencies, and treatment protocols to correct metabolic impairments continue to evolve. Since information is widely available through the Internet and conferences, parents have challenging questions about biochemistry, enzyme deficiencies, genetics and treatment options. It is important to be aware of current issues and address these concerns to help better serve our patients.
Biochemical Pathways
A key area in the study of autism involves environmental toxicity and deficient detoxification, with one of the main biochemical pathways of interest being the methylation cycle (see Figure 1). This pathway regenerates methionine from homocysteine via vitamin B12-dependent methionine synthase. Methylation is a critical process for DNA synthesis and repair; protection of DNA and RNA against insertion of viral genes; neuronal myelination and pruning; glutathione production; homocysteine regulation; control of gene expression; metabolic detoxification; and formation of the neurotransmitters melatonin and serotonin, as well as formation of creatine and phospholipids.
Recent studies have shown that methylation in children with ASD differ in their metabolic profiles from control children. Significantly lower serum methionine, s-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and homocysteine levels were found in autistic children, pointing to reduced activity of methionine synthase and the decreased turnover of the methionine cycle (James et al., 2004). Elevated s-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) and adenosine levels evident in ASD further indicate a reduced methylation capability.
Neurodevelopmental toxins, including lead, mercury, copper and aluminum, are known to potently inhibit methionine synthase enzymatic activity, leading to the interruption of growth factor signaling and DNA methylation (Waly et al., 2004). The inhibitory effects of toxic metals are directed at the glutathione-dependent synthesis of methylcobalamin, which is required for methionine synthase activity.
Deficiency of methylation products has a downstream metabolic impact on glutathione production. Consistent with decreased methionine levels, considerably decreased levels of cystathionine, cysteine and glutathione have been shown in more than 80% of autistic children, indicating oxidative stress and reduced antioxidant capacity (James et al., 2004).
Genetic deficits involving the methylation pathway may result in chronic metabolic impairment impacting neurodevelopment. Although autism is not strictly a genetic disease, numerous genes (20+) have been implicated in susceptibility to the disorder. Monozygous twins have a 90% concordance rate, and siblings of autistic children have an incidence rate 50-100 times that of the general population.
Genetic polymorphisms in methylation cycle enzymes have been identified in children with ASD. Increased frequency of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene are seen, which significantly decrease its function and reduce methionine turnover (Geier and Geier, 2006). Increased incidence of polymorphisms in transcobalamin II and catechol-o-methyltransferase are strongly associated with autism (James, 2005). Autistic children having these genetic variants may have deficient intracellular methylcobalamin, resulting in reduced methylation potential as well as dopamine-induced neurotoxicity. Specific combinations of SNPs present in an individual may prove to be related to the severity of autism.
The frequency of autism is greater in males than females by a ratio of 4:1. Females are known to have higher methionine cycle regeneration and increased glutathione levels compared to males. The increased methylation and antioxidant ability may be a mechanism of protection and contribute to the gender difference in ASD. Recent research has found that children with autism have significantly elevated DHEA and testosterone levels relative to normal reference ranges (Geier and Geier, 2006). Clinical assessments have demonstrated 33% of ASD children exhibit signs of precocious puberty (Baron-Cohen et al., 2005). Testosterone influences the methylation cycle by blocking the formation of cystathionine and thereby reducing total glutathione, with estrogen promoting the conversion (Geier and Geier, 2006). Studies have found that neurons pre-incubated with estrogen demonstrated substantial protection against thimerosal-induced cell death, whereas addition of testosterone caused a significant loss of neurons exposed to thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative (Haley, 2005). The tremendous enhancement of thimerosal toxicity by testosterone may impact mercury-sensitive methylation enzymes, such as methionine synthase, and influence the gender disparity in ASD.
Treatment is directed at correcting the metabolic impairment involving methylation. Key cofactors, including betaine, folinic acid and methylcobalamin, can be supplemented to support deficient pathways and improve ASD symptoms. Standard laboratory tests are of limited use in assessing need for supplementation, since the issue is more with a functional metabolic imbalance rather than a classic vitamin deficiency.
Betaine (trimethylglycine, TMG) upregulates the enzyme betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase (BHMT), which increases methionine by a pathway independent of folate and vitamin B12. Methionine synthase requires folate and methylcobalamin to produce methionine. Folinic acid can enter the folate cycle directly while bypassing several conversion steps, and avoid possible difficulties creating the active form of folate. Care must be taken when supplementing betaine, as approximately 20% of ASD children experience increased hyperactivity. If the side effects with TMG are intolerable, DMG (dimethylglycine) can be used as an alternative.
In one study of autistic children (James et al., 2004), supplementation with folinic acid (800µg bid) and betaine (1000mg bid) for three months normalized methylation cycle metabolites, including methionine, SAM, SAH, adenosine and homocysteine. Antioxidant markers cysteine, glutathione and oxidized glutathione also improved, but did not reach normal range. With addition of methylcobalamin (75µg/kg) two times per week given subcutaneously for one month, the study found levels of plasma methionine increased further, and cysteine, total glutathione and oxidized glutathione values were brought into normal range. In addition to correcting the metabolic profile, improved speech and cognition were noted clinically.
The current recommendation for methylcobalamin dosing is 62.5µg/kg of 25mg/mL solution by subcutaneous injection every three days (Neubrander, 2006). This route is thought to provide a more sustained release of methylcobalamin into the bloodstream from the adipose tissue compared to intramuscular injection. Oral or sublingual forms are problematic, since many autistic children have significantly disturbed digestion and absorption of nutrients, relating to yeast overgrowth, Clostridia spp. and other bacterial infections, gastrointestinal inflammation, dysfunctional digestive enzymes and food allergies. With methyl B12 injection therapy, the most commonly noted changes include improved speech, language expression, socialization, emotional control, personal awareness and mental processing (Woeller, 2007). Positive changes occur within five weeks in 80%-90% of ASD children, according to clinical evaluation and parental reports. The main side effects are hyperactivity (most common), sleep disturbance (especially when given at night) and increased mouthing of objects, all of which normally resolve within four to six weeks of starting the therapy. Compliance is another major issue, as parents are often reluctant to administer vitamin B12 injections.
A relatively new alternative is methylcobalamin via metered dose nasal spray. Advantages are easier administration, increased compliance and rapid results. General dosage guidelines are 625µg of methyl B12 (12.5mg/ml) per spray, one spray in one nostril once per day or every other day for children (Kurtz, 2007). Folinic acid (1mg/ml) can be added; the standard dose is 50µg per spray. Side effects are similar to the injections, with transient hyperactivity most often noted.
Studies show vitamin B12 is directly transported from the nasal cavity into the cerebrospinal fluid after nasal administration and, in fact, plasma levels after nasal delivery equal those after intravenous infusion (Van den Berg et al., 2003). Intranasal application of hydroxycobalamin in cobalamin-deficient patients resulted in fast nasal absorption and sustained increased serum concentrations one week later (Slot et al., 1997). A case experiment using quantitative electroencephalography showed that methyl B12 nasal spray quickly normalized brain wave activity of a patient with attention deficit disorder (Kurtz, 2006). In another case trial involving a mother with two autistic children and fibromyalgia, pre-treatment scans revealed significantly decreased blood flow in the brain. After methylcobalamin nasal spray administration, there was improved temporal lobe perfusion and normalization of blood flow in the frontal lobes (Kurtz, 2007).
By using targeted interventions in treating the methylation issue, I have found methyl B12 and folinic acid nasal spray to produce the most significant responses. Parents commonly notice changes remarkably soon after giving a dose, including better eye contact, being more engaged and "with it," increased awareness, more social interaction, reduced restlessness, improved speech and language, and more attempts at communication. A noticeably increased frustration level is frequently observed, along with heightened awareness of self and the environment, which is an indication that the child is becoming more neurotypical.
Correcting methylation deficits is a promising area of treatment in ASD, as its effects are far-reaching. Treatment can improve detoxification systems, restore antioxidant capacity, support enzymatic function and allow proper DNA and gene expression, resulting in reversal of autistic symptoms.
In my experience with autistic children, I have found they can be very sensitive to supplementation and frequently have paradoxical reactions. It is critical to support the body's natural metabolic and detoxification pathways to allow proper assimilation of nutrients and medicines. I encourage clinicians to implement interventions gradually, be patient and approach children with autism gently.
Anita Bratt, BSc, ND has a family practice focusing on ASD and ADHD/ADD. She attended NCNM and Bastyr University before graduating from the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine. Dr. Bratt has an 11-year old autistic son, and held the first outreach clinic for autism and ADHD in Western Canada in March. She currently practices in Vancouver, B.C. and can be contacted at info@drbratt.com, or visit www.drbratt.com.
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Lack of input worries panel
By TONY BOOM,Mail Tribune
A committee charged with collecting public comment on wildfire protection in rural Jackson County has gathered little information
Nobody has offered comments on decisions being made to determine who will be bound by tighter wildfire protection measures in Jackson County.
That worries the chairman of a committee designated to make the choices under tighter state regulations.
I'm a little concerned that the five of us on the committee are making the decisions on what areas should be covered without any public input, said Reeve Hennion. He heads the Lands Classification Committee selected to decide which land is in and which is outside forested urban interface areas covered by the rules. Two meetings have been held so far.
Hennion is well aware of fire dangers. His Applegate property is little more than a mile from last's summers Squires Peak fire. It's six miles from the 2001 Quartz fire.
— That's really made us aware of what the problem is, said Hennion. I have woodland property, and I'm well under way in cleaning that up. Many neighbors are doing the same thing.
Hennion's committee works under Oregon Department of Forestry rules adopted in September to implement Senate Bill 360 ' 1997 legislation designed to reduce the spread of wildfire. Fines up to &
36;100,000 could be levied if a fire spreads because a landowner didn't clean up his land. Work required under the act will focus on reducing fine fuels, such as needles and leaves. Tree thinning and structural changes will have less emphasis, ODF officials say.
A public hearing will be held when the committee completes its classifications. It will send a recommendation to the forestry board, which would adopt the classifications. Notices would then be delivered to property owners, who would have two years to comply.
Notices may go out as early as June, says Brian Ballou, public information officer with ODF. Previous mapping in Jackson County may speed the classification, he says. But Ballou admits basically everything is running long in the process that started nearly six years ago.
Committee members hope to hear from property owners at future meetings.
Now when we are starting is the time when we appreciate hearing whether we are headed in the right direction, said Hennion. You can't have too much advice and information.
Land west of Ashland from Timberlake Drive to Ashland Mine Road was classified at the committee's April — meeting. Hennion estimated several hundred properties were evaluated. Up to 20,000 tax lots may be reviewed.
It was kind of slow. We did a lot of debating, said Dan Thorpe, a committee member and ODF's Medford Unit forester. Some (properties) are obviously in and some are obviously out.
Once classifications are adopted, owners can self certify that their land meets the requirements. Trained assessors also will be available. ODF won't second-guess an owner's certification, Ballou said.
Maps of areas already classified will be available at future meetings, Hennion said.
Future meeting dates are May 5, May 14, June 11 and July 9 at the ODF office at 5286 Table Rock Road, Central Point. All meetings are at — p.m. For information contact Jim Wolf at 664-3328.
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Q: How to turn off access logging for json requests, using nginx/uwsgi I have an nginx.conf file that has
location / {
     # see http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Nginx.html
     uwsgi_pass uwsgi_devcluster;
     include uwsgi_params;
}

and I want to make sure that json requests to this uwsgi server are not logged, as loads are made per minute. So I tried
location / {
     location ~ \.json$ {
        access_log off;
     }
     # see http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Nginx.html
     uwsgi_pass uwsgi_devcluster;
     include uwsgi_params;
}

but that gives 404 errors for those pages. How should I set this up?

A: location blocks do not work like that. See this document for details.
You could define two locations block, both with the necessary uwsgi_pass directives. The simplest solution would be:
location / {
    uwsgi_pass uwsgi_devcluster;
    include uwsgi_params;
}
location ~ \.json$ {
    access_log off;
    uwsgi_pass uwsgi_devcluster;
    include uwsgi_params;
}

Alternatively, you could use a map directive to set a variable to set the if=condition of the access_log directive. See this document for details.


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Man Charged in Connection with Jefferson Park Shooting That Wounded 2, Including 11-Year-Old Boy
A Northwest Side man is facing two felony gun charges in connection with the shooting Friday night of two people, including an 11-year-old boy, in Jefferson Park.
Tyquan Scott, 23, was arrested shortly after the shooting about 11:35 p.m. in the 5400 block of North Austin Avenue, Chicago police said.
The boy and a 25-year-old man were in a second floor apartment when someone opened fire, striking each in the right leg, police said. They were in good condition after treatment at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
Scott was charged Friday with two felonies: aggravated unlawful use of a loaded weapon and reckless discharge of a firearm, according to police. He has not been charged with wounding the boy or man.
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Insurtech Firm Tractable Gets $25M Fund for AI Tech
Tractable, a company specializing in insurance technology, acquired $25 million during the recently concluded Series C funding Round, said Tech Crunch. The fund will be used to develop artificially intelligent claims processing systems that will use machine learning and computer vision.
The funding round was led by Canada-based investment fund Georgian Partners and participated by known investors such as Insight Partners and Ignition Partners. The Series C acquisition came as an addition to the startup company's existing fund, bringing the total up to $55 million.
Tech Crunch noted that the startup will use the capital to "[expand] its market footprint." It aims to enter other markets in Asia. Moreover, the company also seeks to use the new fund to further develop its existing product, which incorporates AI with claims processing.
According to Georgian Partners principal Emily Walsh, the investment fund is looking forward to working with the insurtech firm because of its "sophisticated approach to computer vision." Venture Beat explained that computer vision is a technology that lets customers send photos of damages which the AI system will analyze and make estimates from. It will scan the damages and compare the customer-uploaded image to a photo of an undamaged version.
Co-founder and CEO Alexandre Dalyac told Tech Crunch in 2028 that Tractable is committed to providing improved insurance service to clients. Primarily, the firm aims to offer a fast response to coverage and claims-related incidents, which would be 10x speedier.
Currently, the London-based insurtech firm has been working with various insurance companies across the globe such as Agea from the United Kingdom, Tokio Marine from Japan, Covea from France and Talanx-Warta from Poland. According to the company, its clients have been using their tech systems to conduct an effective and efficient analysis of vehicle damage during car accident-related claims.
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) announced that it will plead guilty to selling junk consumer credit insurance to customers from 2011 to 2015. The announcement comes after the largest lender in Australia has been hit with more than 30 criminal charges for its fraudulent actions and misconduct, states...
California Wildfire Insurance Policy Poses Difficulties To Property Owners
The California wildfire that occur repeatedly drive several property owners in fire-prone zones to pay increased insurance premiums. Insurers are becoming more hesitant to renew insurance policies because of the rising quantity of wildfires, as well as their severity. And when offered, the coverage rates frequently increase twice or more. Many...
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APOLLO Insurance, Canada's leading global insurance company, has teamed with LetUs by RentMoola to provide tenants and landlords with quick access to digital insurance solutions that are specially customized to the thousands of visitors to their website every month. Through brokers and integrated relationships like this one, APOLLO Insurance, which...
Breeze Brings New Life to the Sluggish Disability Insurance Industry
Breeze, an insurtech business located in Omaha, has raised $10 million in a Series A round to further its objective of protecting Americans during their most financially difficult stage. Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, M25, Fiat Ventures, and Invest Nebraska are among the investors in the round, which...
Shepherd Insurance Gains $6.15 Million Fund For Construction Industry
Shepherd Insurance, a construction-focused insurtech firm, has raised $6.15 million in a seed round sponsored by Spark Capital. Shepherd's newest financing update comes after the firm secured a pre-seed funding round headed by Susa Ventures. Shepherd aims to use technology to assist underwrite clients in the construction industry's middle market,...
Certain Travel Insurance Policies Have No Self-Isolation Coverage
Cancellation expenses of tourists who are instructed to self-isolate due to a close Covid-19 contact will not be covered by several travel insurance policies. According to Defaqto, analysts of insurance data, the expense of vacations that are canceled if the client tests Covid-19 positive are paid by 9 out of...
MetLife Announces New Pet Insurance Product
MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, has introduced new pet insurance intending to expand pet insurance coverage and meet the diverse financial demands of pet owners. MetLife's pet insurance provides a variety of benefits at very low prices for dogs and cats of any breed and age. It offers unique...
Bolttech InsurTech Earns Unicorn Status with $180 Million Series A
Bolttech, a global InsurTech firm, has raised $180 million in a Series A funding round. The company, which debuted in Asia in 2020, now values over $1 billion, putting it on unicorn status. Tony Fadell, Future Shape Principal, B. Riley Venture Capital, Dowling Capital Partners, Tarsadia Investments, and Alpha Leonis...
RUSI Research Reports Disadvantages of Cyber Insurance
To protect companies from the cyberattack's financial consequences, including the expenses of addressing the issues, cyber insurance is created. However, critics claim that insurance enables victims of ransomware to just make payments for the ransom instead of having proper cybersecurity to discourage hackers since the money will be reimbursed by...


It has been awhile since I last reported on the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). This update will attempt to catch the reader up on what has been taking place.
On 3/22/06, an article was disseminated on Region8pygmygoats@yahoogroups.com by Stacy Atkinson, which was provided to her by Bill Sanda, Executive Director of the Weston A. Price Foundation. This article was written for the Winter 2005/Spring 2006 issue of Wise Traditions Journal. The article describes the development of NAIS, USDA's role in its development, the USDA's intent to identify premises, animals and their movements, NAIS' implementation schedule, USDA's claim of confidentiality of any acquired information, and finally, a variety of arguments on why NAIS should be opposed. Since I am a member of the Region8pygmygoats group, I have a copy of the whole article, some 9 pages in length. For further information including a copy of the article, contact Stacy Atkinson (formerly Hamilton) at stacy@lonepalmetto.com.
• http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/index.shtml - This is a short, 2-page article describing USDA's position on NAIS. It is the latest one on their website.
• http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/audiences/goats/index.shtml - This page describes the establishment of "working groups," and provides a link to the listing of Goats Work Group members. It should be noted that NPGA is represented on this group.


BEND, OR (Tuesday, February 6th, 2018) For the last beer in the Secret Stash Experimental IPA series, we wanted to really blow your mind with the use of hops and experimentation. We hadn't jumped on the haze craze, but the brewers were adamant that they'd created one of the best Secret Stashes yet.
Secret Stash Hazy IPA will be available for distribution in Oregon, Washington and Idaho in draft only starting today!
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Description: Twenty subtugs had been lost in the attempt to bring back oil from the undersea fields on the enemy's borders. A brilliant psychologist-electronics expert is planted in the crew of the subtug Ram to find out what is happening. And theory becomes terrifying reality when, miles deep under the ocean, the minds of the crew begin to crack...
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A good ol' subtug story couched in continuing war (although Russia is only alluded to), and hissing, whistling vintage cassettes. I love the premise here - nicking oil from the enemy's fields under the sea. Thoroughly enjoyable. 3.5*
No, not that Captain Sparrow, but any excuse...
From wiki: The Dragon in the Sea (1956), also known as Under Pressure from its serialization, is a novel by Frank Herbert. It was first serialized in Astounding magazine from 1955 to 1956, then reworked and published as a book in 1956.
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He was the father of fellow author Brian Herbert.
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Miracle Noodles: What's with the Hype?
whole-food,
gluten-free,
BY: SHANNA MALLON | 01.02.2017
If you haven't heard of miracle noodles, these gelatinous Japanese noodles resemble pasta and are quickly moving beyond low-carbohydrate diets and into the mainstream. Made from vegetable fiber, they have a lot to offer restricted diets because they're gluten-free, vegan, and have no carbohydrates or calories. Could these trendy noodles be a good fit for you and your diet? To help you answer that question, here's a look at what you should know about the noodles that everyone's talking about today.
What Exactly Are They?
Miracle noodles, which are also known as shirataki noodles, are translucent noodles that are made from vegetable fiber. The fiber comes from the konjac yam, which is a Japanese vegetable that goes by a number of other names including devil's tongue, voodoo lily, or elephant yam. These noodles are vegetarian, and almost free of carbohydrates and calories. Thanks to their fiber content, they encourage slow digestion and slow glucose absorption, making you feel fuller longer. That full, satiated feeling is also part of why miracle noodles can mimic the feel of pasta in various dishes, especially when they're roasted and combined with sauce.
How Do You Prepare Them?
To make these gelatinous noodles for dinner, simply take them out of their package, rinse them under cold water for a minute, boil them for three minutes, and finally, dry-roast them on the stove for one more minute. Then they're ready to be used however you like. Combine them with sauce, mix them with roasted vegetables, or use them in whatever recipes sound good to you. While these noodles are not the same as pasta, they can mimic the al dente texture of cooked pasta noodles. For best results, however, The Huffington Post says, "When cooking with shirataki, remember texture: It's more like the glass or cellophane noodles you find in Asian stir fries, soups, and dumplings."
What Benefits Do They Offer?
Nobody has to tell you that, whether you can't eat gluten or are trying to cut calories, foods that offer big flavor without compromising your health are lifesavers. Miracle noodles are a perfect example of this. Not only are they quick and easy to prepare, but they provide a way to enjoy noodles without consuming a lot of calories and carbohydrates. They also slow down digestion in order to leave you feeling full for longer.
The bottom line is that anyone who's looking for a healthy, whole-food alternative to traditional noodles should consider trying miracle noodles. Whether you're making a stir-fry or simple noodles with sauce, this low-calorie ingredient is easy to make and just might be your new go-to pasta substitute.
Spaghetti Squash: A Noodle Alternative
Despite its name, spaghetti squash isn't a noodle, but you can treat it like one.
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The Voters' List is a list of eligible electors (people who can vote) in the 2018 Municipal Election. The List of eligible electors within the Township of Puslinch will be available to view on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at the Clerk's Office. Voters may inspect the list to ensure their names are on it as well as make inquiries regarding the status of their school support at the Clerk's Office, 7404 Wellington Road 34. Alternatively, individuals may call the Township Clerk's Office commencing on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 during regular business hours at 519.763.1226.
A notice advising electors of where and when to vote will be sent to all eligible electors. Electors who are not on the Voters' List will not receive a card, however, any person completing an application to amend the Voters' List will be advised of where and when to vote. Electors may also fill out the relevant documentation when voting, however, this will make the voting process more lengthy.
between September 4, 2018 and October 19, 2018, Monday to Friday, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Clerk's Office; or on Voting Day, October 22, 2018 at the location designated for you to vote.


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Home Centre The Straw Bale Studio – Eco-friendly tutorial space
In 2013 we successfully raised the funds to support the build of our eco-tutorial studio after generous grant funding from Creative Scotland, The Gannochy Trust, The CPF Trust and The Robertson Trust. The construction of the studio has also been made possible through the kind support we received from individual donations.
View from the Straw Bale Studio
The space is heated by wood burning stoves.
The unique roof construction
One-to-one tutorials and evening readings are held in the studio.
The studio sits within the community garden
The eco-friendly studio is for one-to-one tutorials, workshops and readings. Outwith these times, the studio can be used as quiet writing space or for any other purpose. Yoga mats are available.
The project has environmental sustainability at its very heart, utilising a passive solar heating system, solar powered 12 volt electricity system, turf roofing and straw bale insulation. Steve James of Envisioneer.net was our project manager and builder for the construction.
plans for the structure of the studio
The eco-friendly construction is unique and uses traditional materials
The studio will have a turf roof
inside, it is possible to divide the room in two by use of a heavy theatre curtain
Please look through the current design drawings and pledge your support by donating and sharing our plans!
windows open out to the magnificent view from Moniack Mhor
cosy day and night, the studio can be used for evening readings too.
The studio stands in the community garden
If you would like to pledge your support by donating, your donation will go towards the upkeep of this unique building.


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Peter Doherty in Conversation: A Bendigo Writers Festival Bookmark Event
Professor Peter Doherty AC in conversation with Dr Julie Rudner
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Way back last century, when only immunology researchers such as Peter Doherty had the faintest idea of how a viral pandemic could occur, this Australian scientist shared the Nobel Medicine Prize and was the 1997 Australian of the Year.
That all changed in early 2020, and Professor Peter Doherty was back at the forefront of working on what needed to be done to control Covid-19.
In An Insider's Plague Year, Peter Doherty recounts his response to the pandemic as it developed from January 2020-February 2021. How did health experts deal with the complex medical issues facing the entire world? What helped, what hindered the science? What's ahead now?
In his wonderfully conversational style, in books such as The Knowledge Wars and The Incidental Tourist, Peter Doherty has helped us find a way through the maze of misinformation. Now, he takes us behind the scenes of the race to control the pandemic to show us once again the importance of research and science.
Professor Peter Doherty AC
A graduate of the University of Queensland School of Veterinary Science, Professor Peter Doherty AC shared the 1996 Nobel Medicine Prize for his immunology research and was the 1997 Australian of the Year. Since then, he has gone in to bat for evidence-based reality, relating to areas as diverse as childhood vaccination, global hunger and anthropogenic climate change. So far, he has published six books on science including The Incidental Tourist and his latest, An Insider's Plague Year.
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Campus Director at the Bendigo campus of La Trobe University, Julie's research interests include how to improve people's knowledge of risk, safety and belonging in community spaces.
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Steelers' T.J. Watt Named Top 5 Player From 2017 NFL Draft By NFL.com Analyst
By Josh Carney
Posted on August 21, 2021 at 2:00 pm
It's no secret that Pittsburgh Steelers' outside linebacker T.J. Watt is one of the best players in the entire NFL. At this point, Watt is a perennial contender for Defensive Player of the Year, is on pace to be the Steelers' all-time sacks leader, and is currently on a pace for a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Ahead of the 2021 season, Watt continues to receive praise and overall attention, this time from NFL.com's Brian Baldinger, who named Watt one of the top 10 players in the NFL for the upcoming season from the 2017 NFL Draft, which — in hindsight — is a loaded draft class overall.
Watt, who was the 30th pick of the 2017 NFL Draft, has recorded double digit sacks in each of the last three seasons with the Steelers, is in line for a massive extension with the Steelers prior to the start of Week 1 and will become the highest-paid defensive player in football.
Though he is not practicing at this time as he stages a sort of "hold in" with the Steelers until a deal is done, Watt is going to be a force every single week for opponents. Knowing that, Baldinger placed him at No. 4 overall in his top 10 list of players from the 2017 NFL Draft class ahead of the 2021 season.
Watt placed behind New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara, Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Baldinger focused on the field only, which is why Watson appears here at the moment, but No. 4 feels a bit low for Watt, considering what he's done the last three seasons.
"The 30th overall pick and eighth edge rusher taken in 2017, Watt has set himself apart when it comes to sheer destruction," Baldinger writes. "His back-to-back first-team All-Pro nominations show he is receiving the respect he covets. When it comes to consistent dominance, he can perhaps only be overshadowed by what we saw from his older brother, J.J. Watt, during his three-year Defensive Player of the Year run. T.J. Watt can win on the right or left side, standing up or with his hand in the dirt, or when in a roaming position (which he is prone to be in). With 49.5 career sacks (third-most in the NFL since 2017), Watt must be game-planned for on all important downs."
Knowing the problems Watt causes for offenses, it's hard to understand how or why Baldinger would place Watt behind someone like Kamara, who is great in his own right. Regardless, the Steelers were lucky to have Watt fall to them at No. 30 overall in 2017, becoming the eighth edge off the board.
Could you imagine a world in which Watt isn't a Steeler and instead the Steelers had one of these names at OLB? Hassan Reddick, Derek Barnett, Taco Charlton, Charles Harris, Takkarist McKinley, Tyus Bowser or Ryan Anderson? Yikes.
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The DCC may query sites for data indicated to be "Unavailable/Not Applicable" in cases where having the data would be highly beneficial.
Avoid selecting "Unavailable" for WF10 38.5 or 38.7 ("Does the participant now exhibit Stricturing/Fibrostenotic / Internally Penetrating disease behavior ?") as this will prevent changes to the disease status status in future visits.
1) Click on the "Follow Up Data Capture" link.
2) Select WF1 "Follow Up Visit Registration".
3) Select the Site and Subject.
4) In the first page of WF1 ("Risk Stratification: Visit Information") click on the study visit that is due/outstanding. (i.e. the visit that cannot be performed because the patient is lost to follow up).
5) Select "Yes" for "Was this follow-up review performed?" Add the date of review (when the review/visit should have happened), and click through to the end of WF1.
6) Click on WF2 "Confirmation of Diagnosis at Follow Up", select that same study visit, and click through the rest of that WF.
7) Click on WF3 "Clinical Data at Follow Up" and select that same study visit.
8) For 33.1 "Are these data taken from a clinic visit?" select "No data are available on this participant for this review".
9) For 33.2 "Has this Participant been permanently lost to follow-up?" select "Yes".
à Participants that have been indicated to be "lost to follow up" in this way will no longer show up as "outstanding" in our data cleaning queries.
4) In the first page of WF1 ("Risk Stratification: Visit Information") click on the study visit that is due/outstanding (i.e. the visit that was skipped).
5) Lastly, select "No" for "Was this follow-up review performed?"
à You will not be able to fill in any other WFs for that particular visit for that patient (but the data will be carried forward from the previous visit to the next visit correctly).
à Skipped visits recorded in this way will no longer show up as "outstanding" in our data cleaning queries (although this was a problem previously, the problem has now been fixed).
9) For 33.2 "Has this Participant been permanently lost to follow-up?" select "No".
à Some coordinators have been recording skipped visits this way even though no data is expected to surface for that visit. This method is also fine, but it requires more work since you have to click through all the WFs for that skipped visit to make sure that the data is carried forward to the next visit correctly.
Every time you enter new data into Clinipace, please make sure you click through the entire WF for which you enter data (to make sure it saves correctly and is correctly carried over to future visit WFs). (For example, you open WF3 and enter the study visit month on the first "Visit Information" page and click "Next". Scroll to the bottom of the verification page and click "Next". Then answer all the questions and click "Next". Lastly, scroll to the bottom of the verification page and click "Next".) Try not to click "Back", as this may result in some of the data carried forward from a previous visit being lost. (For example, you open the 18 month WF3 "Clinical Data at Follow-Up" and enter the current diagnosis and you also note that the 12 month visit's diagnosis has been correctly forwarded beneath the statement "At the last review, the subject's diagnosis was recorded as:" You then click "Back" by accident, which takes you to the "Visit Information" verification page. When you click "Next" on that page to return to the "Clinical Data at Follow-Up" page to enter in the height, weight, tanner, etc., the forwarded previous diagnosis under "At the last review, the subject's diagnosis was recorded as:" has now been blanked out..) If a field does not carry forward the data from the previous visit, then the only way to correct it is for the DCC to void the visit WF and the data to be entered again. Note that this method may not prevent all cases of misinformation carry-over.
For follow-up data, sometimes you cannot edit information entered into a WF# after it has been saved. In that case, you need to ask the DCC (risk_dcc@prokiids.com) to void that WF# for that visit (please provide the subject ID, visit month and WF# for such cases).
Any changes to data entered into WF1 requires the WF to be voided and the data re-entered.
1) Open WF13f, check-mark "Supplemental Other".


Shaken from my slumber; I hear alarm bells all round.
Yet all I feel is serenity in my soul; peace and harmony I resound.
A soul aligned with galactic knowledge can ease past the tempest, unconfounded.
Is it true our origins are beyond our earthly skies?
Can this knowing lead those spiritually aware to shed a suit of earth disguise?
To be a beholder of this knowledge is to know a mission has been set.
It's time to be a force for light great courage is called for still yet.
And the mission of these 'light' workers is to reawaken every soul on earth to source!
Yet the third dimension reality is reaching a point where on earth it's time has run out.
At our essence is love that motivates us all; is our natural state of being; is our original energetic vibrations!
All light-workers are now emboldened to bring this awakening message to all nations.
May all of us welcome, with equanimity, this new Earth that is dawning!
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• To analyze the causes for the low level of scientific output and the low level of innovation in developing countries and promote course corrections as required.
• To ascertain the bearing of culture on innovation and scientific output and forge new areas in Cultural Anthropology to promote course corrections.
• To undertake basic research in pedagogy to boost scientific and intellectual output from developing countries and other parts of the world.
• To benchmark the education system in developing countries with the best education systems worldwide and seek course-corrections wherever required by creating public awareness.
• To put pressure on authorities to modify the education system if required taking into account best practices around the world.
• To quantify the effects of Racism on Scientific objectivity.
• To quantify the effects of Anti-racism on Scientific objectivity.
• To seek to understand the effect of language policy and language teaching on scientific output.
• To seek to understand how the 'Globalization of science' can impact scientific method and epistemology itself.
• To publish assessment reports on the state of innovation in India and other developing countries from time to time and seek course corrections wherever required.
• To interact with other institutions wherever necessary to promote the cause of science in India and other under-represented regions.
• To form a consortium of like-minded individuals to promote the cause of science, innovation and research in India and other developing countries.
• To educate other researchers about how the Globalization of science can help avoid systemic biases in scientific endeavour, and can lead to a plethora of new areas of study.
• To organize seminars and road shows in educational institutions to convince students and researchers to take up careers in science and contribute to research.
• To present papers in conferences worldwide pertaining to the other fields.
• To launch journals whenever required to promote the cause of science and innovation worldwide.
• To lobby with various governments to promote the cause of science and increase scientific output.
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Q: How is RegEx handled differently in VBA and JavaScript? I'm using a regular expression in Excel VBA to parse the results of a swim meet.  The code reads a row of text that was copied from a PDF and outputs the important data into individual cells.  Since the format of the string varies throughout the source PDF, the regular expression is quite complicated.  Still, I'm able to parse 95% of the data at this point.
Some of the rows that are not being parsed are confusing me, though.  VBA is clearly not able to find a match with the regular expression, but when I copy the exact same regex and string into this website, JavaScript is able to find a match without a problem.  Is there something different in the way VBA and JavaScript handle regular expressions that might account for this?
Here's the string that VBA refuses to match:
12. NUNEZ CHENG, Walter 74 Club Tennis Las Terr 3:44.57 123

Here's the function I'm using in Excel (mostly successfully):
Function singleLineResults(SourceString As String) As Variant
    Dim cSubmatches As Variant
    Dim collectionArray(11) As String
    Dim cnt As Integer
    Dim oMatches As MatchCollection

    With New RegExp
        .MultiLine = MultiLine
        .IgnoreCase = IgnoreCase
        .Global = False

        '1. JAROSOVA, Lenka 27 Swimmpower Prague 2:26.65 605 34.45 37.70 37.79 36.71
        .Pattern = "(\d*)\.?\s?([^,]+),\s([^\d]+)\s?(\d+)\s((?:[A-Z]{3})?)\s?((?:(?!\d\:\d).)*)\s?((?:\d+:)?\d+\.\d+)(?:\s(\d+))?(?:\s((?:\d+:)?\d+.\d+))?(?:\s((?:\d+:)?\d+.\d+))?(?:\s((?:\d+:)?\d+.\d+))?(?:\s((?:\d+:)?\d+.\d+))?(?:Splash Meet Manager 11, Build \d{5} Registered to [\w\s]+ 2014-08-\d+ \d+:\d+ - Page \d+)?$"

        Set oMatches = .Execute(SourceString)
        If oMatches.Count > 0 Then
            For Each submatch In oMatches(0).SubMatches
                collectionArray(cnt) = submatch '.Value
                cnt = cnt + 1
            Next
        Else
            singleLineResults = Null
        End If
    End With

    singleLineResults = collectionArray()
End Function

A: Could you add more examples to what actually matches? E.g. the surrounding lines that matches, and better yet, examples that are not supposed to match if any?
I've tried "cleaning" up a bit in the regex, removing groups that are not used to match that particular line, to make the error more obvious, and changed how one of the groups works, which might actually fix the issue:
(\d*)
\.?\s?
([^,]+)
,\s
([^\d]+)
\s?
(\d+)
\s
(
  (?:[A-Z]{3})?
)
\s?
(
# OLD SOLUTION
#  (?:
#    (?!\d\:\d)
#    .
#  )*

# NEW SOLUTION
  .*?
)
\s?
(
  (?:\d+:)?
  \d+\.\d+
)
(?:
  \s
  (\d+)
)?
$

See example on regex101.
The group that puzzles me the most, however, is this one:
(?:[A-Z]{3})?

Why the 3 character limit, when it only matches the first 3 letters in the street name?


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