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10 Best Retro Workout Videos To Get You Through Quarantine
Keep your immune system in check with these endorphin boosting workout videos.
A home-based workout routine might be jarring for some but back in the day video workout culture was the way to go when it came to staying fit. With celebs like Jane Fonda and Cher – decked in high cut-leotards; releasing their own VHS tapes, the world of retro workout videos is a gold mine.
Now, with most cities in lock down in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus, gyms and fitness studios have closed their doors but there are ways to cope with the bad news. We took a nostalgic spin through the halls of YouTube to dig up some workout gems to help you get your fitness groove on during isolation.
Whether you're trying to keep active, looking for a new exercise routine or simply passing the time, scroll through our list below to find some of the most entertaining celebrity workout videos to help you keep calm and fit all at the same time
Jane Fonda's Workout (1982)
Eighty and still fit as fiddle, workout video sensation Fonda – the thriving actress, is still fondly remembered for her intense workout videos. Although titled "beginner", six minutes in and you'll realise its anything but. Energetic and quite literally bouncy, Fonda clad in her pink and purple leotard, leg warmers – ET all, makes for a tough but entertaining trainer.
The CherFitness: Body Confidence "Hot Dance" (1992)
Do you believe in life after quarantine? This Cher video might give you some hope. Oscar winner and music legend promises the video to be "38 minutes of fat burning fun". Set to rock music including Springfield and Billy Idol, this is the perfect place to start if you want the confidence to wear Cher's risqué workout outfit.
1. The Marky Mark Workout: Form, Focus, Fitness (1993)
Known as Marky Mark back in the 90's, the rapper/successful Calvin Klein underwear model took advantage of his famously sculpted physique to release a workout video that garnered the attention of women and men all over the world. Chock full of '90s slang, flirting, sweaty abs and nutritional advice that suggests eating "low-fat pasta", we recommend watching this highly entertaining video even if you skip the workout altogether.
Alyssa Milano's Teen Steam (1988)
Released during a time when physical education funding was being cut in many schools, Who's The Boss star and one of the coolest 16-year olds at the time, Alyssa Milano filmed a Jane Fonda inspired workout video for the purpose of – you guessed it – letting off some steam. Of course her version involved low-impact leg stretching and leg lifts accompanied by her lip-syncing to a tune about the pressures of teen life.
Paula Abdul's Get Up And Dance (1995)
Before she became a judge on American Idol, certified dancer and choreographer, Paula Abdul was known for working on music videos for stars like Janet Jackson. This fast-paced, hip-hop style workout was so successful that it had to be re-released as a DVD in 2005. Our favourite part is when the whole crew starts working out to YMCA.
Regis Philbin: My Personal Workout (1993)
It's surprising to see, now 80-year-old Regis Philbin on the list of retro exercise videos but then again the most unlikely stars have churned out some for a quick buck. After encountering some heart troubles, the talk-show host released a video informing us of the lifestyle he adheres to and recommends. He's no professional trainer, but he cares.
Fabio Fitness (1993)
Remember Fabio? Fabio Lanzoni? Okay, maybe not but after watching this you'll never forget the blonde beefy Italian. With guns that don't quit till the scoreboards lit, this video is homage to the awkwardness that defined VHS workout videos. You might not have Fabio's luscious locks – which he flicks through the entire video – but if you follow along, you might just get his rippling muscles. (Not really though)
Dixie Carter's Un-workout (1995)
If you thought Fabio was cringey, you're in for a treat. (Wait for "The Lion") Clad in silk pyjamas, the 53-year-old southern belle in her yoga routine guides you through stretches and breathing exercises without breaking a sweat. The self-deprecating commentary paired with amusing bon mots alone is incentive enough to watch this video.
Young at Heart: Body Conditioning With Estelle (1993)
Golden Girls wise-cracker, Estelle Getty schools senior citizens on how to not shrink and die in this hilarious workout video. With the help of French hunk Raphael Picaud and weights – in this case two cans of lima beans; Getty goes over exercises designed for people in wheelchairs as well as for more active people. She's no Fonda but the laughing alone will add up to calories burnt.
Richard Simmons: Sweatin' To The Oldies II (1990)
The flamboyant, fitness expert Richard Simmons has an impressive line-up of workout videos. This one invites you to 'Pops Diner' for an aerobic concert.
With a live band performing up-beat hits from the 50' and 60's and Simmons vivacious energy, the curly haired guru will have you doing the Locomotion with him. Grab your dolphin shorts and join the party, you won't be sorry.
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Scott is fortunate to live and work in his favorite city in the world: Knoxville, Tennessee. Maybe it's college town pride or maybe it's the unique downtown area and vibrant culture. Either way, Scott is proud to call it home, and he lives for making it a place others love to come visit. As Regional Vice President of Operations, Scott oversees the operations of 15 multi-brand hotels in the Southeast. His goal every day: make every hospitality experience memorable.
Scott joined McKibbon in 2000, and hasn't looked back since. Earning his role as Regional Vice President has been his greatest business accomplishment thus far — that and getting to collaborate with an outstanding team of general managers and the McKibbon corporate team. When he's not working or following UT sports, Scott loves to play golf, travel, and he's passionate about helping find a cure for cancer.


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Gold ring! "Ko Lo Sa" from Oxlade was awarded a gold certificate in France
New Age business does not play and Oxlade proves this because his song "Ku Lo Sa" goes to Gold in France. See details below.
The newly talented Nigerian singer, Oxlade, has opened a new level as his single Ku Lo Sa became certified Gold in France.
Also Read: Oxlade's Ku Lo Sa Has Become The Most Shazamed Song In A Non-English Speaking Country
The singer whose song "Ku Lo Sa" went off like wildfire has gone gold in France, with an online billboard from the music industry, Snep Musique having racked up the equivalent of 15 million streams in the country.
Previously, Oxlade's "Ku Lo Sa" has achieved many milestones from being number one in different countries to being the most popular song in France. Interestingly, Oxlade's song was a collaboration with German music performance platform, Colors Studio.

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Q: god doesn't stop unicorn I have this file
rails_env = ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'development'
rails_root = ENV['RAILS_ROOT'] || "/home/luiz/rails_dev/api"

God.watch do |w|
  w.name = "unicorn"
  w.interval = 30.seconds # default

  # unicorn needs to be run from the rails root
  w.start = "cd #{rails_root} && unicorn_rails -c config/unicorn.rb -E #{rails_env}"

  # QUIT gracefully shuts down workers
  w.stop = "kill -QUIT `cat #{rails_root}/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid`"

  # USR2 causes the master to re-create itself and spawn a new worker pool
  w.restart = "kill -USR2 `cat #{rails_root}/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid`"

  w.start_grace = 10.seconds
  w.restart_grace = 10.seconds
  w.pid_file = "#{rails_root}/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid"

  w.behavior(:clean_pid_file)

  w.start_if do |start|
    start.condition(:process_running) do |c|
      c.interval = 5.seconds
      c.running = false
    end
  end

  w.restart_if do |restart|
    restart.condition(:memory_usage) do |c|
      c.above = 300.megabytes
      c.times = [3, 5] # 3 out of 5 intervals
    end

    restart.condition(:cpu_usage) do |c|
      c.above = 50.percent
      c.times = 5
    end
  end

  # lifecycle
  w.lifecycle do |on|
    on.condition(:flapping) do |c|
      c.to_state = [:start, :restart]
      c.times = 5
      c.within = 5.minute
      c.transition = :unmonitored
      c.retry_in = 10.minutes
      c.retry_times = 5
      c.retry_within = 2.hours
    end
  end
end

I start unicorn with god -c unicorn.god -D -p 8081 and my workers are setup fine. but, sometimes I need do stop unicorn (god stop unicorn -p 8081 in another console) but the server keep up and running.
what am I missing?
Edit
We're moving from unicorn to puma (not because this question, it's a performance thing), and not going to use god anymore...thanks everybody for your help

A: Now we are using foreman and puma right now...this is our initializer:

web: bundle exec puma -q -d -e production -b 'unix:///home/api/shared/web.socket' -S /home/api/shared/web.state --control 'unix:///home/api/shared/web.ctl'

and deploying with capistrano, so that we can stop and restart the server like this
config/deploy.rb
# Puma commands
_cset(:puma_cmd) { "#{fetch(:bundle_cmd, 'bundle')} exec puma" }
_cset(:pumactl_cmd) { "#{fetch(:bundle_cmd, 'bundle')} exec pumactl" }
_cset(:puma_state) { "#{shared_path}/puma.state" }
_cset(:puma_role) { :app }

# Puma
namespace :puma do

  desc 'Start puma'
  task :start do
    run "cd #{current_path} ; bundle exec foreman start web"
  end

  desc 'Stop puma'
  task :stop, :roles => lambda { fetch(:puma_role) }, :on_no_matching_servers => :continue do
    run "cd #{current_path} && #{fetch(:pumactl_cmd)} -S #{fetch(:puma_state)} stop"
  end

  desc 'Restart puma'
  task :restart, :roles => lambda { fetch(:puma_role) }, :on_no_matching_servers => :continue do
    run "cd #{current_path} && #{fetch(:pumactl_cmd)} -S #{fetch(:puma_state)} restart"
  end
end

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1976 as Study Center Supervisor and subsequently worked as Assistant Curator and Associate Curator. She served as Acting Director of the Department from 1980 to 1981 while its former Director was on sabbatical. Ms. Kismaric attended Pennsylvania State University and worked for five years in the picture collection at Time & Life Corporation. She has periodically been a visiting Senior Critic of Photography at the Yale School of Art since the early 1980s, and most recently in the winter of 2008. Recent exhibitions that Ms.Kismaric has organized include: A SHIMMER OF POSSIBILITY. PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAUL GRAHAM (2009), PRESENT TENSE. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOANN VERBURG (2007), FASHIONING FICTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY (2004) and PATH OF RESISTANCE (2000). She is the author of many books and has contributed essays to a variety of major books published by the Museum.


The US Casket is made from semi precious metal with a rounded brushed onyx finish. The inside is a grey velvet. The casket is a half-couch design. The interior also includes a matching pillow and throw. The exterior, meanwhile, is decorated with traditional corners, accessories and full handle bars.
"I spent a lot of time looking for a nice flag display case for the burial flag from my father's funeral service. After searching a number of web sites and seeing the same case for a variety of different prices, this site was the best I could find in terms of pricing. The actual case is beautiful, and the workmanship is superb. For those who wonder what the back looks like, it is solid wood - not as thick as what is seen in the front, but is still nicely finished. Given that the case has hinges to open the front, the back has no small hooks to close the back. It makes a beautiful presentation for storage of a burial flag."


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SUEZ RECALLED
by MONITOR
AT the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 Anthony Eden, then Prime Minister, ordered his chief press officer, William Clark, to instruct the BBC World Service to report only the government's line and to ignore the official opposition's critical views. Mr Clark, recognising the furore that would be created by such an instruction, opted for a policy of "masterly inactivity" and as a result the world learnt that as many people in Britain opposed the use of force against Egypt as supported it. The BBC is now faced with a similar dilemma in all its news coverage - in the UK and overseas - if Britain joins the United States in unauthorised military action against Iraq. The controller of editorial policy has issued guidelines that coverage should reflect "significant opposition to the conflict" and, controversially, has ruled that British forces should not be referred to as "our" troops. Questions in the House of Commons by red-faced Conservative MPs can confidently be predicted. The BBC is in a difficulty. Whereas criticism of the Suez adventure came from Her Majesty's Opposition, objections to the Iraq adventure come from a much wider but unofficial spectrum of opinion, including Labour MPs and party members and a sizeable section of the public at large. The Conservative spokesman on broadcasting matters said yesterday that "The BBC is our national broadcaster and it must make clear why we are asking British forces to risk their lives. A fifty-fifty balance is not good enough." That approach is almost certainly wrong. The government does not fund the BBC; the licence payers do.


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Taliban takes U.S. funds, report says
By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Taliban and Afghan warlords are extorting some of the $2.16 billion the Defense Department has paid to local contractors who transport food, water, ammunition and fuel to U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, according to a House investigation to be released Tuesday.
Trucking contractors say they pay as much as $150,000 a month to warlords in "protection" money, and investigators concluded that payments for safe passage are a significant source of Taliban funding, according to a report by the staff of Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., who heads the House national security and foreign affairs subcommittee.
In a letter to subcommittee members, Tierney criticized the Pentagon for a contract "that put responsibility for the security of vital U.S. supplies on contractors and their unaccountable security providers."
He wrote, "This arrangement has fueled a vast protection racket run by a shadowy network of warlords, strongmen, commanders and corrupt Afghan officials, and perhaps others." He said the payoffs violate the law and appear "to risk undermining the U.S. strategy for achieving its goals in Afghanistan."
Defense Department officials are scheduled to discuss the findings with the subcommittee today. Cheryl Irwin, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said the Defense Department is looking into the allegations.
Eight contractors control about 70% of the transportation business in Afghanistan and serve more than 200 U.S. military bases. They work with Afghan security contractors, who cut deals with warlords and the Taliban to allow convoys to pass, the report says.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., questioned the inquiry's thoroughness, noting that the only record of the interviews is handwritten notes.
The report cites e-mails, interviews with contractors and other documents that indicate payoffs are part of doing business.
A program manager for one trucking company told subcommittee investigators that Commander Ruhullah, a warlord who works with a private security company and controls a critical stretch of road between the capital city of Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar, works closely with the Taliban. Ruhullah denied it.
The report said contractors repeatedly raised their concerns to the U.S. military about payoffs, sometimes as much as $15,000 per truck.
One contractor wrote to the Army unit overseeing trucking contractors, "I also believe that most involved in this contract knew that cash money is often the most effective security, but I do not think it was anticipated how the market would drive these prices and that cash security and special security forces would so often be the only option." Original here
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The DeKalb Public Library staff had so much fun reading the nursery rhymes in last week's column about their bronze egg statue that they want you to take a crack at it.
Get it? Egg? Crack? Eh?
Anyway, next month is National Poetry Month, so library staff is going to celebrate by hosting a Harry Dumpty poetry contest, in which contestants young and old can write poems about Humpty Dumpty's brother.
That's the character artist Brent George, formerly of DeKalb, ascribed to the statue he created in 1997. Harry Dumpty faces Third Street outside the library's children's department entrance and will be moved to the new front courtyard, along with the existing memorial bricks, when the library's massive expansion project is finished. The expanded library's entrance will be where Third Street is now, so the entrance will be visible from Lincoln Highway, library spokeswoman Edith Craig said.
Last week, I suggested Harry deserved a nursery rhyme on par with the one that made his brother famous – and apparently, library leaders agree. They will host a contest next month with separate categories for children, teens and adults, seeking poems about the iconic statue. You can send you entries to Craig at EdithC@dkpl.org; watch for updates on the library's website at dkpl.org and its Facebook page.
The winner will be recognized at the end of April, receive a small prize, and be invited to read the poem at the library expansion groundbreaking, which likely will happen in late spring or early summer.
In the meantime, here's a poem I received from Lawrence Nepodahl of DeKalb. I'm glad he decided to share it with me.
But Harry Dumpty did not have that great fall.
Thinking of the knowledge that books can provide.
Inspired? Sharpen your pencils, or stretch out your typing fingers, and get creative. It might be over easy, but it's bound to be a shell of a good time. Don't let it scramble your brain.


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Jay DeFeo – Aspen
Contemporary Painting
Jun 29-Oct 28 – The Ripple Effect –
Artists are often asked who inspired them. The premise of this show is that Jay DeFeo was an artist who did that inspiring for many. DeFeo created a ripple effect and it flows through the work of about a dozen contemporary artists included in this show with DeFeo.
Jay DeFeo's The Rose, in the collection of the Whitney Museum
This is a bold statement by the curators. Jay DeFeo, born in 1929 and dead since 1989, is a name you might not know, even though her work was shown with Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Louise Nevelson in Dorothy Miller's Sixteen Americans at MoMA in 1959. I try to think if I've ever seen a woman called a mentor, if I've ever heard 'she' was someone who inspired the artists in a major exhibition. Maybe legacy was mentioned in a Niki de Saint Phalle show I saw in France a few years ago, but generally it's men that are doing the mentoring and leaving the legacy – mostly because it had been only men who teach in the art schools.
Male and Female.
Jay DeFeo monochromatic paintings at the Denver Art Museum 2016 with similarly colored museum staff.
Jay DeFeo's work first came before my eyes not in an art history class while she was still alive, but only recently in the Denver Art Museum show called Women of Abstract Expressionism. Before seeing this show most of the women were unknown to me. I'd only seen the work of Mrs. Jackson Pollack (Lee Krasner) and Mrs. Robert Motherwell (Helen Frankenthaler). A third woman in the show curated and presented by Gwen Chanzit, was Mrs. DeKooning. Elaine was her name and I didn't know her work, but knew the surname because of her husband Willem. I had also seen the work of Joan Mitchell, but only a few years earlier.
I don't know if DeFeo was married to someone high up in the art world, or anything about her romantic history, but my first google search to find her most famous painting The Rose directed me to nude photos taken of her by a man for whom I was not searching and didn't know. The Rose was referenced in the current Aspen Art Museum show of DeFeo's work. Thank you Whitney Museum for this image. I need it for educational purposes, to understand the rest of the work in the Aspen show.
DeFeo's name, which I knew thanks to Chanzit, lured me into Aspen from Difficult Campground just a few miles up the pass. Her massive materialistic paintings I'd seen in the Women show stayed in my memory.
The Inspiring Process
What this show does very well is explain the work practices of DeFeo, but it takes a little slow looking to figure out what's going on. First because the work is mostly black and white, and second because a giant wall that might be, but isn't a DeFeo painting, arrests you as you walk in the door.
Second, smaller gallery of Jay DeFeo – the Ripple Effect – at Aspen Art Museum
The second small room is a little easier to walk around with camping friends and see the individual works. I don't mean this as a criticism of the exhibition, more a criticism of myself. You know how it is when you take a walk in the woods with chatting friends, the sun's behind a cloud and the forest is dark. You don't really notice what's interesting until the sun pops out and starts twinkling on some color. The rooftop of the Aspen Art Museum is like the scenic overlook part of the hike, giving you a great view of Aspen Mountain and, right now, a couple of cool, big Larry Bell glass sculptures. Both the galleries above and below the DeFeo show are filled with brightly colored work and you can see a few of the second floor gallery work at the bottom of this post.
Black and white.
To get interested in DeFeo's work, I had to come back by myself, read the brochure, and give myself time to look. Just inside the heavy glass doors of the gallery, the first intro to DeFeo's work is a collection of homages to other artists. The first pair, I assume are to an early surrealist, possibly Giorgio deChirico. In the next two, she calls out Bernini in the title, and then R. Mutt in the next two. Casts for R. Mutt are photos of temporary-looking sculpture that the curators are likely thinking are references to Marcel Duchamp who is credited with making Fountain, a urinal signed R. Mutt. Duchamp found objects, photographed them and called them Readymades and DeFeo's work here seems to be honoring the readymades, and ironically, celebrating a woman.
R. Mutt's Fountain was entered in a 1917 N.Y. independent artists show, rejected although the show was supposed to be open to anyone who paid the fee, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz, published in The Blind Man and elsewhere after Duchamp quit the artists' board because of it. It has been attributed to Duchamp and called the greatest artwork of the 20th Century. Duchamp made and sold replicas of it in the 1960s. But the real creator of Fountain was likely a woman, according to a letter Duchamp wrote to his sister.
DeFeo also gives homage by copying cave painters in the last two images on this wall. One was drawn on tracing paper, maybe even traced somehow from a petroglyph, and then mounted on cardboard that already had drawn lines, marks and texture. I'm not going to show a photograph of this because it is much better imagined. This layering of tracing paper marked with hints of cave painting icons and the visually undulating warm brown cardboard made physically real by DeFeo in 1951 is chronologically and aesthetically way ahead of photoShop. None of the artist mentees in this show are using this technique, but someone should.
The center piece in this wall I am showing. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom #6 is a strong work in black and white and a strikingly feminine, waist-ed pillar. Our photo drapes a nice garland of turquoise blue beads on the piece, but that is just a luxurious coincidence of the reflection of the gallery lights and the camera's sensor being exposed.
Color is minimal in her work, and every other work included in this exhibition. When DeFeo uses color, it models the shapes and brings them out of the flat tradition of Abstract Expressionism that was the emerging style when DeFeo was in art school. What feels new in her collages and paintings is the depth and the realness of the forms she models with the help of these hints of color. The forms feel imaginary and mind expanding in her paintings, but the origins of them become obvious when looking at the silver gelatin prints lined up right beside them in this show. She used the coincidences of the moment of photography, just like the turquoise lights.
Oh, Coffee Cup, where art thou?
The painting photographed with my 3×5-inch notebook is large, much larger than the image I attached to the right of it, which is one of DeFeo's silver gelatin prints. There are several photographs like this one that abstract a shape – in this case a broken coffee cup handle and pointed out to me by the exhibition brochure. The form is abstracted to namelessness by adding scraps of paper, and the shadows and blurs that happen in a photograph. The variants of this Loop image – loop of the broken handle – is complex and very sculptural, and a very interesting series in this show. With slow looking, and patience with the colorlessness of this show, we are rewarded to find this looping form over and over again. The one on the middle of the south wall is followed by photographs, so while visiting the gallery you do get the same effect that I made by putting the painting and photo side-by-side. Scale is a crazy thing. I sympathize with DeFeo for wanting to make these forms big. And, as the story or Bruce Connor's movie The White Rose goes, when DeFeo finished The Rose (above, thanks Whitney), it was too big to get out her studio door.
South wall: Jay DeFeo at Aspen Art Museum, 2018
Next to the painting, Loop #1 (pictured with my notebook) is a painting called Cabbage Rose, followed by several photos of the leaf that was abstracted in the painting.
The beauty of these photos are natural. The beauty of the repetitive photographing of leaves is that each image suggests a different 3-D reality. Some look like a fanned collection of several leaves, but in the best exposed photo of the series it's just one large, full-circle leaf with crazy geometry and crinolinations. This round leaf becomes the symmetrical and measured form that DeFeo paints in Cabbage Rose, and seeing The Rose, it looks like this leaf spawned that too.
Jay De Feo painting called Cabbage Rose
Connections, Legacy or Mentorship?
Gay Outlaw – bronze sculpture
The assertive premise that this woman inspired subsequent artists is one I have not yet corroborated. The curators are from Le Consortium in Dijon, France and, in the past, they dedicated full shows to many of the artists that are included in this show, and may have exposed viewers to more works than those here in Aspen. The Jay DeFeo Foundation of Berkeley, CA, also collaborated with those curators and Aspen to produce this show, and gives additional insight. Including a great photo of DeFeo working on the Rose.
So let's go back to 1966, when The Rose was finished and shown in the Pasadena Museum of Art. In this year, Marcel Duchamp reveals his last work that no one knew existed Étant donnés, David Hockney is painting Peter getting out of a pool, and Yoko Ono shows the conceptual ceiling painting that made John Lennon climb a ladder and eventually met her.
This is the period when physical painting was dead. Andy Warhol was making goofy videos. Hockney persisted by making pretty pictures and he kept doing it. This strategy worked out alright for Hockney in the long run, but at the time many artists were heading in the direction of photo realism. Abstraction was passé. So DeFeo just keep painting, like Hockney. She painted The Rose for 8 years until the paint was so thick it was a sculpture.
You can go to Le Consortium's website to learn more about the artists they connect to DeFeo, because I want to suggest some others. John McEnroe comes to mind. He's a Denver artist whose paintings are just the paint. Honestly, they feel like he's lifted the acrylic, plastic paint off the canvas and carried it flopping like rubber to the wall. He also piles up paint like a squeeze out of a giant paint tube. You can see a red example of McEnroe's sculpture in Denver under the pedestrian bridge that connects LoDo to the Highlands.
You know the photograph of the paper and the coffee cup handle, and how DeFeo loved to paint it huge? Well, Daniel Libeskind did the same thing. He folded a piece of paper, photographed it, imagined it building size, and submitted it as his proposal for the new wing of the Denver Art Museum.
Aspen Art Museum Jun 29 -Dec 16
Cheryl Donegan: GRLZ + VEILS
If we're going to look at people who took off on what DeFeo was doing with layering and use of real images to create imaginary ones, we could start to see this ripple effect everywhere. On the second floor Cheryl Donegan's colorful work attacts the eye all by itself. I don't need to talk about it.
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Take a look at this home in University Park's Volk Estates neighborhood with a three-story rotunda
The home was built in 1959 but extensively restored in 2012.
Take a look at the exterior of the home at 6920 Vassar Ave. in Dallas.(Stephen Reed Photography)
By Mary Grace Granados
Listed for $16.5 million, this home sits in the Volk Estates neighborhood on nearly an acre of property. The home was built in 1959, but the sellers completely restored the home in 2012.
At 14,181 square feet, the spacious home has six bedrooms, six bathrooms and four half-bathrooms. Listing agent Alex Perry describes the home's style on the listing as a "Connecticut Country Estate" with its brick walls, window shutters and columns on the exterior. It has four floors, one of which is a basement, and an elevator that accesses each one.
Perry said it's rare to find such an expansive property in the area. Despite the fact that the home sits in a popular neighborhood, he said it feels private because of the way the landscaping was designed.
He noted that the home's expansive floor plan has a meticulous and thought-out design. "There are a lot of rooms, but each room has a purpose," Perry said.
Design details throughout the home were imported from around the world during the recent renovation. There's a mantle that once belonged to William Randolph Hearst, of newspaper and business fame, and a bar made of material from what was said to be the bed of the last king of Poland, according to information provided by the agent. Even the floors were imported from historic estates in France and Austria.
Custom-carved limestone walls adorn the walls of the foyer. The adjacent living room boasts an abundance of detail work in the design, from the custom wood paneling to the antique fireplace that once belonged to Hearst. Past the entry, the eye is drawn upward to the dome of the three-story rotunda, which is made of stained glass.
A garden room sits nearby, with custom hand-painted Gracie wallpaper, marble floors and views of the outside rose garden. A family room and lounge are on the first level as well.
One bedroom is on the first floor, along with other living rooms, a solarium, an office, a gallery, a dining room, a screened-in porch, a library and the kitchen. There's also a laundry room, a butler's pantry and a catering kitchen for entertaining.
Four bedrooms, including the primary suite, are found on the second floor, and each has an en suite bathroom. The second floor also houses a library (which the sellers have designated as a "children's library"), an exercise room, a theater room and a storage room.
1/26Take a look inside the home at 6920 Vassar Ave. in Dallas, TX.(Stephen Reed Photography)
9/26Take a look at the exterior of the home at 6920 Vassar Ave. in Dallas, TX.(Stephen Reed Photography)
10/26Take a look at the exterior of the home at 6920 Vassar Ave. in Dallas, TX.(Stephen Reed Photography)
12/26Take a look inside the home at 6920 Vassar Ave. in Dallas, TX.(Stephen Reed Photography)
The primary suite has its own separate sitting room, in addition to the bedroom and bathroom. The sitting room features a marble-adorned coffee bar and has access to a balcony. The bedroom is set next to the sitting room and has vaulted ceilings, bay windows, a fireplace and access to a balcony.
The primary bathroom has a separate dressing area, walk-in closets, dual vanities, a large shower and bathtub. An exercise room, which is concealed by hidden doors within the primary suite, can be converted into a sixth bedroom, Perry said.
The third floor of the home has another lounge that includes a small kitchen with a microwave, fridge, freezer and sink. There's also a half-bathroom, two playrooms and a reading nook on that level.
Outside, the home features manicured gardens, patios and plenty of green space.
The home at 6920 Vassar Ave. is listed for $16.5 million by Alex Perry of Allie Beth Allman & Associates.
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<?php
/*!
* WordPress Social Login
*
* http://miled.github.io/wordpress-social-login/ | https://github.com/miled/wordpress-social-login
*  (c) 2011-2014 Mohamed Mrassi and contributors | http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-social-login/
*/

// Exit if accessed directly
if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

function wsl_component_tools_sections()
{
	$sections = array(
		'auth_playground'    => 'wsl_component_tools_auth_playground'    ,
		'diagnostics'        => 'wsl_component_tools_diagnostics'        ,
		'system_information' => 'wsl_component_tools_system_information' ,
		'repair_wsl_tables'  => 'wsl_component_tools_repair_wsl_tables'  ,
		'debug_mode'         => 'wsl_component_tools_debug_mode'         ,
		'development_mode'   => 'wsl_component_tools_development_mode'   ,
		'uninstall'          => 'wsl_component_tools_uninstall'          ,
	);

	$sections = apply_filters( 'wsl_component_tools_alter_sections', $sections );

	foreach( $sections as $section => $action )
	{
		add_action( 'wsl_component_tools_sections', $action );
	}

	// HOOKABLE:
	do_action( 'wsl_component_tools_sections' );
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

function wsl_component_tools_auth_playground()
{
?>

		<?php _wsl_e("Authentication Playground", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

			<?php _wsl_e('Authentication Playground will let you authenticate with the enabled social networks without creating any new user account. This tool will also give you a direct access to social networks apis via a lightweight console', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

		<a class="button-primary"  href="<?php echo wp_nonce_url( 'options-general.php?page=wordpress-social-login&wslp=auth-paly'); ?>"><?php _wsl_e("Go to the authentication playground", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

<?php
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

function wsl_component_tools_diagnostics()
{
?>

		<?php _wsl_e("WordPress Social Login Diagnostics", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

			<?php _wsl_e('This tool will check for the common issues and for the minimum system requirements', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

		<a class="button-primary" href="<?php echo wp_nonce_url( 'options-general.php?page=wordpress-social-login&wslp=tools&do=diagnostics'); ?>"><?php _wsl_e("Run WordPress Social Login Diagnostics", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

<?php
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

function wsl_component_tools_system_information()
{
?>

		<?php _wsl_e("System information", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

			<?php _wsl_e('This tool will gather and display your website and server info. Please include these information when posting support requests, it will help me immensely to better understand any issues', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

		<a class="button-primary"  href="<?php echo wp_nonce_url( 'options-general.php?page=wordpress-social-login&wslp=tools&do=sysinfo'); ?>"><?php _wsl_e("Display your system information", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

<?php
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

function wsl_component_tools_repair_wsl_tables()
{
?>

		<?php _wsl_e("Repair WSL tables", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

			<?php _wsl_e('This will attempt recreate WSL databases tables if they do not exist and will also add any missing field', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

		<a class="button-primary" href="<?php echo wp_nonce_url( 'options-general.php?page=wordpress-social-login&wslp=tools&do=repair'); ?>"><?php _wsl_e("Repair WordPress Social Login databases tables", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

<?php
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

function wsl_component_tools_debug_mode()
{
	$wsl_settings_debug_mode_enabled = get_option( 'wsl_settings_debug_mode_enabled' );
?>

		<?php _wsl_e("Debug mode", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

			<?php _wsl_e('The Debug mode is an internal development tool built to track every action made by WSL during the authentication proces, which can be useful when debugging this plugin but note that it is highly technical and not documented', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

			<?php _wsl_e('When Debug mode is enabled and set to Log actions in a file, WSL will attempt to generate its log files under /wp-content/uploads/wordpress-social-login', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

			<?php _wsl_e('When Debug mode is enabled and set to Log actions to database, will create a new database table wslwatchdog and insert all actions names and arguments', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

			<?php _wsl_e('For more information, refer to WSL documentation under Advanced Troubleshooting > Debug Mode', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

		<form method="post" id="wsl_setup_form" action="options.php">
			<?php settings_fields( 'wsl-settings-group-debug' ); ?>

			<select name="wsl_settings_debug_mode_enabled">
				<option <?php if(    ! $wsl_settings_debug_mode_enabled ) echo "selected"; ?> value="0"><?php _wsl_e("Disabled", 'wordpress-social-login') ?></option>
				<option <?php if( $wsl_settings_debug_mode_enabled == 1 ) echo "selected"; ?> value="1"><?php _wsl_e("Enabled — Log actions in a file", 'wordpress-social-login') ?></option>
				<option <?php if( $wsl_settings_debug_mode_enabled == 2 ) echo "selected"; ?> value="2"><?php _wsl_e("Enabled — Log actions to database", 'wordpress-social-login') ?></option>
			</select>

			<input type="submit" class="button-primary" value="<?php _wsl_e("Save Settings", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>" />

			<?php if( $wsl_settings_debug_mode_enabled ): ?>
				<?php _wsl_e('View WSL logs', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>
			<?php endif; ?>
		</form>

<?php
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

function wsl_component_tools_development_mode()
{
	$wsl_settings_development_mode_enabled = get_option( 'wsl_settings_development_mode_enabled' );
?>

		<?php _wsl_e("Development mode", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

			<?php _wsl_e('When Development Mode is enabled, this plugin will display a debugging area on the footer of admin interfaces. Development Mode will also try generate and display a technical reports when something goes wrong. This report can help you figure out the root of the issues you may runs into', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

			<?php _wsl_e('Please, do not enable Development Mode, unless you are a developer or you have basic PHP knowledge', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

			<?php _wsl_e('For security reasons, Development Mode will auto switch to Disabled each time the plugin is reactivated', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

			<?php _wsl_e('It\'s highly recommended to keep the Development Mode Disabled on production as it would be a security risk otherwise', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

			<?php _wsl_e('For more information, refer to WSL documentation under Advanced Troubleshooting > Development Mode', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

		<form method="post" id="wsl_setup_form" action="options.php" <?php if( ! $wsl_settings_development_mode_enabled ) { ?>onsubmit="return confirm('Do you really want to enable Development Mode?\n\nPlease confirm that you have read and understood the abovementioned by clicking OK.');"<?php } ?>>
			<?php settings_fields( 'wsl-settings-group-development' ); ?>

			<select name="wsl_settings_development_mode_enabled">
				<option <?php if( ! $wsl_settings_development_mode_enabled ) echo "selected"; ?> value="0"><?php _wsl_e("Disabled", 'wordpress-social-login') ?></option>
				<option <?php if(   $wsl_settings_development_mode_enabled ) echo "selected"; ?> value="1"><?php _wsl_e("Enabled", 'wordpress-social-login') ?></option>
			</select>

			<input type="submit" class="button-danger" value="<?php _wsl_e("Save Settings", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>" />
		</form>

<?php
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

function wsl_component_tools_uninstall()
{
?>

		<?php _wsl_e("Uninstall", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

			<?php _wsl_e('This will permanently delete all Wordpress Social Login tables and stored options from your WordPress database', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.
			<?php _wsl_e('Once you delete WSL database tables and stored options, there is NO going back. Please be certain', 'wordpress-social-login') ?>.

		<a class="button-danger" href="<?php echo wp_nonce_url( 'options-general.php?page=wordpress-social-login&wslp=tools&do=uninstall'); ?>" onClick="return confirm('Do you really want to Delete all Wordpress Social Login tables and options?\n\nPlease confirm that you have read and understood the abovementioned by clicking OK.');"><?php _wsl_e("Delete all Wordpress Social Login tables and options", 'wordpress-social-login') ?>

<?php
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Q: using ifstream from a stringstream converted in a string I really don't understand why if I use f.open(filename.c_str(),ios::in) works only if filename is a string defined as a string type, but not if filename is been converted from a stringstream type.
I need stringstream type, because I have to open different folders, so I use the program to create the wanted adresses.
Thankyou your cooperation.
using namespace std;
//c++ -o iso iso.cpp `root-config --cflags --glibs`
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
    int n_gruppo, n_righe;

    cout << "write the number of the folder: " << endl;
    cin >> n_gruppo;
    int num_vol[6]={1,2,3,5,7,10};

    for (int i = 0; i < 6; ++i)
    {
        //combining the string
        stringstream ss;
        ss <<"/home/student/isoterma"<<n_gruppo<<"/pressione_vol"<<num_vol[i]<<".txt"<<endl;
        string filename = ss.str();//conversion sstream in string
        cout << filename << endl;

        double sumsq = 0, sum = 0, s;
        //cicle of reading
        ifstream f ;
        f.open(filename.c_str(), ios::in);//ricorda di mettere '.c_str()' infondo se è una stringa

        for (int io = 0; io < n_righe ; io++)
        {
            f >> s;
            cout << "value N° " << io << " is" << s << endl;
            sum += s;
            sumsq += pow(s,2);
        }
        f.close();

      }
    return 0;
}

A: There are three issues with the code you posted:

*

*In writing to the stringstream, you should not include the std::endl at the end. Otherwise, the resulting string for the filename includes an extra newline character at the end, which most likely caused the file open to fail. Therefore, replace:
ss <<"/home/student/isoterma"<<n_gruppo<<"/pressione_vol"<<num_vol[i]<<".txt"<<endl;

with this:
ss <<"/home/student/isoterma"<<n_gruppo<<"/pressione_vol"<<num_vol[i]<<".txt";

This will most likely fix your problem. Also consider using std::ostringstream instead of std::stringstream here since you are only writing, not reading.

*Your variable n_righe is being used uninitialized. In your actual code, you probably have this initialized to the number of lines in each of your files. However, you should consider using this SO answer to read all the lines in your files.

*You should always check to see if your ifstream is opened successfully before reading from it. See this SO answer for that.


The Fund For Peace's 2017 Fragile States Index paints an alarming, but justified, picture of Turkey: it is declining dramatically in most areas measured by the index. Turkey saw drops in security, fractionalized elites, group grievances, human rights, and refugees and internally displaced persons. Only the last, refugees and IDPs, may be challenged, as Turkey has done well stabilizing a huge population out of Syria. In the other areas, though, the bad grades are warranted.
Overall, Turkey dropped by 3.5 points in this latest survey from 2016, one of the three largest declines in the global inventory, and the largest drop for Turkey in over half a decade. These indicators suggest serious problems in Turkey's social, economic, political, and security situation that deserve further study, given the importance of this country: 18th largest economy in the world and overall strongest state in the broader Middle East.
Recent economic indicators point to a considerable weakening of the Turkish economy, loss of confidence by investors, and growing financial risks beyond the concerns of a generally restrained IMF Country Report issued in early 2017. Some reasons for the significant drop in economic indicators and expectations are the rise in geopolitical risk stemming from the regional security situation; the impact on foreign states, investors, and loan sources of internal political developments; and long-term political and legal challenges to Turkey's economic performance and human capital. Taken together these factors significantly impact performance and enhance risk.
The deterioration of security in and around Turkey has been dramatic over the past three years, with millions of Syrian refugees housed in Turkey, the rise of ISIS and its campaign against Turkey that reached a peak in 2016, the outbreak of a new and more violent phase of Turkey's 30-year war against the Kurdish PKK insurgency, and growing Syrian-Iranian-Russian cooperation, which includes working against Turkey's objectives in the Syrian civil war.
Finally, the last nine months have seen a direct and costly Turkish ground intervention into northern Syria and a serious dispute with the U.S. over policy towards Syria, especially the use by the U.S. of Syrian Kurdish forces from the PYD, a Syrian Kurdish offshoot of the PKK. Russia's more aggressive behavior to Turkey's north from the Balkans through the Black Sea to the Caucasus, and Iran's regional aspirations, which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan termed "Persian expansionism" at the Atlantic Council's April 2017 Istanbul Energy Summit, further darken regional security prospects.
By mid-May, the security threats to Turkey had receded somewhat. It continued its limited rapprochement with Russia, which included the Astana Syrian ceasefire effort. This has partially restored Ankara's relationship with Moscow, which was affected by the shoot-down of a Russian fighter in 2015. Moreover, Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump, in their first meeting May 16, at least papered over their divergent policies towards Syria and ISIS. The deepening engagement by the U.S. in Middle East security and specifically on efforts to contain Iran – manifest in Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia and Israel – should deepen cooperation between Washington and Ankara, and calm the region.
On the other hand, new U.S. engagement against Iran could generate clashes or even a regional conflict. The security situation in and around Turkey has already almost halved Turkey's tourism business, a critically important generator of hard currency, since the 2015 peak. A significant regional conflict could dry up all tourism and potentially drive up oil prices, crippling Turkey, given its almost total dependence on oil and gas imports, the latter mainly from unfriendly Russia and Iran.
More generally, the ongoing diplomatic dispute between Turkey and the EU states could sap the appetite of EU NATO allies to come once again to Turkey's defense (European NATO state militaries have deployed to Turkey three times since 1990 in response to its appeals to the organization). While relations with the U.S. are seemingly much more stable since the White House visit, beneath the surface in Washington, particularly in military circles, there is deep skepticism about Turkey's reliability as an ally, dating all the way back to 2003, when it refused to allow the U.S. to strike Iraq from Turkey.
The domestic political situation also threatens Turkey's relations with outside investors, financiers, and business partners, particularly Europeans. Turkey's economic miracle over the past two decades is largely due to its Customs Union with the EU that has led to the construction of some 4,000 foreign – largely EU –factories and service centers just south of Istanbul. Erdogan's pro-export policies have also benefited mid-sized export firms, many from his political heartland in central Anatolia. Worsening diplomatic relations with the EU over Erdogan's ever more authoritarian policies, including politicization of the court system, are already affecting Turkey's attractiveness for many European entrepreneurs and financiers. A dramatic break with the EU, such as a halt to EU membership talks, perhaps due to Erdogan's interest in restoring the death penalty, would significantly chill outside interest in Turkey as a business partner.
Finally, Erdogan's ever more successful campaign against Turkey's diverse institutional landscape and his assault on personal liberties, freedom of expression, and the media, could discourage many of his more productive workers. Turkey, unlike Russia or Brazil, cannot base its economy on minerals or hydrocarbons extraction; nor, like China, does Turkey have the enormous investment funds, mercantilist economic policies, or huge domestic consumer market to sustain its economic growth.
Like Israel and Singapore, Turkey has had to rely on the competitiveness of its more productive human capital to sustain economic growth in the modern world. However, many of Erdogan's policies, from politicizing courts to banning Wikipedia, strip these workers and their enterprises of the tools they need to prosper. Moreover, the oppressive political climate and Erdogan's efforts against Turkey's Western orientation in favor of a more Islamic Eastern orientation are deeply troubling to a high percentage of Turkey's entrepreneurial and knowledge elite. In most cases, they can find employment outside of Turkey. This kind of brain drain could continue to sap competitiveness.
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RESROUCES
Every aspect of the ranch is geared to building young man of integrity. Men that are emotionally whole and morally complete. Like a giant jig saw puzzle, each activity from ranch work to recreational play is structured to help the young man uncover his potential, understand the consequences his choices (past and future), and discover his desire to become, and give him the tools to achieve the man of integrity.
38000 S Arivaca Ranch Rd, Arivaca, Arizona 85601
P.O. Box 547, Arivaca, AZ, 85601
admissions@arivacaboysranch.com
ARIVACA BOYS RANCH
Ron has worked with young men for nearly 40 years. He spent many years as a high school instructor, administrator, and later 10 years at Arizona State University. He has a bachelor's degree in Family Financial Counseling and an MBA from ASU with an emphasis in Training and Development.
Mr Searle has been a certified Arbinger Instructor for many years. Years ago he discovered a connection between the relationship principles of Arbinger and his love of Natural Horsemanship. It is a powerful combination that helps facilitate true heart change in a person.
After years of working with struggling young men from his home, Mr Searle founded Arivaca Boys Ranch. Since then, hundreds of families have discovered the power of natural horsemanship, ranch living, Arbinger, together with tradition therapy as an experiential combination that creates powerful lasting change in struggling individuals.
Founder & Manager
Ron Searle
Debra hails from back East and is grateful to have called Tucson Home for the past 28 years . She completed her Graduate Work at ASU and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Arizona, a Certified Supervisor and a Registered Nurse.Debra continues to believe in the mission of Arivaca Ranch to heal our boys and provide a transformative experience.
Debra Milner, RN, LCSW
Candace is a proud alumnus of the University of Denver, where she got her Bachelor's degree in Sociology, and Master of Social Work. She is certified in Animal Assisted Therapies and has strong experience in implementing therapeutic curriculum with young adults experiencing a range of mental health challenges including trauma-based dysregulation, relational dysfunction, and maladaptive behaviours. Candace is an active member of the national equine therapy community and regularly attends the Natural Lifemanship Intensive Training Conferences, which teaches Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Equine Therapist
Candace Couper, LMSW
Adriana has been a highly esteemed contributor to community wellbeing her entire life. She has received notable awards of recognition for contributions to the community from both the City of Nogales (2013) and the City of Douglas (2012). She obtained her Master of Science in Psychology in 2008 and is a Certified Behavioral Health Spanish Translator. Adriana is a certified college instructor in psychology and behavioral health services and has helped many young people realize meaningful careers in the human services industry. She spends her spare time doing a broad range of philanthropic work and is also the program director of the Non-Profit Making Connections 4U.
Adriana Romero, DBH, M.S.P.
Shelly is a highly experienced behavioural health professional. She attended one of the top 10 social work schools in the nation at USC and graduated with honours in her field. She is an esteemed veteran of the United States Air Force, having served honourably from 1989-2011, while there she was squadron non-commissioned officer of the year five times and in March 2018 received the Arizona Attorney General Distinguished Service Award. Her volunteer experience includes being a Victim Advocate through Pima County, local police volunteer, Veterans Affairs Advisory Board and involved in her church. She has also been a foster parent with teenage boys as her specialty. She is a certified Clinical Trauma Professional and is highly qualified in Suicide Assessment and Intervention, Grief & Loss therapy, trauma treatments and intervention, PTSD and crisis intervention.
Shelly McCullough-Cruz, LMSW, CCTP
Buirge is a long-time valued member of our therapeutic team and has over 20 years' worth of experience in social services. He earned his undergraduate degree from Metropolitan State University and has a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Naropa University. He is highly experienced in working with kids who struggle with substance abuse and in formulating therapeutic AA frameworks and certified in Autistic Behavioural Analysis therapy. Buirge is also highly specialized in working with children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD).
Buirge Jones, M.A.
Born, raised and educated in her homeland of Australia, Bree has over 10 years of experience working and volunteering with vulnerable and at-risk populations. Earlier in her career she worked in film and television in various advocacy projects. In 2016, she worked as a Documentary & Film Content Producer in Association with the Mongolian Government and The American Centre for Mongolian Studies on a research project about gaming addiction and homeless youth in Mongolia. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology & Human Rights from Monash University, and graduated with a Master of Social Science in Social Change & Development from the University of Newcastle in 2019. Her former experience working with vulnerable and at-risk populations includes participation in the African Visitation and Mentoring Program (AVAMP), working with Corrections Victoria and providing mentoring support to refugees with African origins who have gone into the Australian Prison system.
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Roman Mosaic of Mnemosyne
by Mark Cartwright
A Roman mosaic of the Titan Mnemosyne (Memory), mother of the nine Muses. 2nd century CE, Tarraco. (Archaeological Museum, Tarragona, Spain)
Mark Cartwright
Mark is a history writer based in Italy. His special interests include pottery, architecture, world mythology and discovering the ideas that all civilizations share in common. He holds an MA in Political Philosophy and is the Publishing Director at WHE.
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A Visual Who's Who of Greek Mythology
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In Greek mythology the terrible and powerful Titans were those...
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Theogony
The Theogony is an 8th-century BCE didactic and instructional poem...
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English Lesson Planner | Family and friends. Comparative forms of adjective.
Family and friends. Comparative forms of adjective.
In this lesson, students learn about the comparative forms of the adjective, through reading and speaking tasks . Also there are some controlled practice through completing sentences using information from the reading text .Finally they get the opportunity to practice the competitive through speaking activity.
To provide accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of compering different families from different countries and your life now and when you were a teenager .
I will start the lesson asking the students if this article also about their family and do they have the same problem in Turkey. After that , I will divide the students into small groups . Then I will tell them to discuss and compare their family life with their group.
At this stage I will highlight the grammar,starting with task 1 that I have designed , this task is about filling in the gaps . First , I will give the students instruction about the task. Then I will ICQ . The instructions are : first to fill in the gaps , they have to find the answer individually from the article. Then after finding the answers, they will check their answers with their group, while they are checking the answers , I will write them on the board .
To clarify the meaning of the comparative, I will give them task 2, the task is about two questions to find out the meaning of the sentences that I have given them in task 1. First, I will give the instruction about task 2 and tell them that they have to answers the questions individually next they will check their answers with their group then I will ICQ . After that I will pass the sheets to the students and while they are answering the questions, I will monitor them and if I find any mistakes, I will write them down . After that , i will listen to the students answers and discuss them . Then I will check their pronunciation by reading the sentences from the task 1. If there are any wrong with their pronunciation , I will drill it until they get it.Finally, I will give them task 3 , it is about checking different types of comparative of adjectives' form, again I will tell them the instruction and ICQ before i will hand in the worksheets after answering the task , will write their answers on the board and if there is any mistakes, I will correct and highlight them . If I have some extra time , I will give them exercise 7 page 45 from face2face students' book.
At this last stage , I will give them exercise 9 , it is about compering their life now with their past or about their personality and their appearance, but before this , I will regroup them then I will tell them to talk about it with their new group .


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Lukashenko: the EEU countries have reached agreement on all questions of the summit
MOSCOW, December 21.The EAEU has reached an agreement on all the issues of the summit, including the economic ones, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. "We are happy that we were able to agree on all issues, especially on economic", – the Belarusian leader said when opening a meeting of the leaders of the Eurasian economic Union in an expanded format.
The Belarusian leader, whose country presides over the Union, noted that one of the themes of the summit was Kazakhstan's accession to the WTO. Lukashenka reminded that the related documents have already been ratified. "However, there are also some things that, most likely, at the next meeting in Kazakhstan we will discuss these issues," – said Lukashenko.
Lukashenko noted that all of the EAEU countries and not just Russia, there is serious concern in connection with the entry into force of the agreement on Association of Ukraine with the EU.
The EEU will go for 6 months on electronic Declaration of goods movement across the border, he said.
"In six months we move to a fully electronic Declaration of goods which will move within the framework of the EEU," the Belarusian leader said at the summit of the EAEC.
The EEU about the Association agreement between Ukraine and EU
All of the EAEU countries is a serious concern in connection with the entry into force of the agreement on Association of Ukraine with the EU, Alexander Lukashenko said.
The Belarusian leader called the main issue on the agenda. According to him, due to the fact that 1 January 2016 will start operating a free trade zone between Ukraine and the EU. Lukashenka recalled that Russia has already decided on the abolition of privileges for the import of goods from Ukraine, but noted that expansion of cheap Ukrainian goods may have an impact not only on the Russian market, but also in other countries of the EEU. "We discussed this complex issue. We decided during the first quarter (2016), a number of issues we studied and considered what to do, first of all, Kazakhstan and Belarus, to support our ally Russia", – said the President of Belarus.
According to him, one possible measure may be the electronic Declaration of goods moving between the countries of the EEU. Lukashenko noted that as an example, you can use a similar Declaration system, which operates in the trade of goods between Russia and Belarus.
The EEU budget for 2016 was reduced by 12%
At the summit of the EAEC agreed the organization's budget, which was reduced from initial projections by 12%. About this informed the head of the Board of the Eurasian economic Commission Viktor Khristenko.
"Including next year, employees of the Eurasian Commission will not be indexing on wages," he said.
In addition, in connection with the accession of Kyrgyzstan to the EEU are specified in the program phased reorganization of the cabotage of road transport in the Union. "Kyrgyzstan joins this programme, which covers the period up to 2025 and suggests four stages in the liberalization of the admission of carriers to the national transport markets", – said Khristenko.
He said that an agreement was reached to conduct the coordination between the population census cycle 2020. "I will remind that the previous census cycle we broke up for three years, which gave material misstatement of the information. And we agreed that a maximum of one year period allocated for conducting the census in our countries", – said Khristenko.
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Writing graffiti since 1979, EZO has exhibited in such diverse Art Space's such as the Sidney Janis gallery, The Lyon Biennial, ART BASEL, Black in white in color gallery and the Frick Museum to name a few since 1983.
He recently Curated the Exhibition: GRAFFITI; Spirit of an age 40x 10 at the Longwood arts Gallery.
He began his first comic strip in the Seminal Latino Culture Magazine LATIN NEW YORK magazine in 1984 calledGRAFFITI TALES. He reenergized and reorganized the Graffiti Hall of Fame in Spanish Harlem to its former glory by painting the entire location at once by enlisting the TopNYC Train Era Artists from Stan 153 to Seen to Tats Cru and 30 other artists something not done since it's inception in 1982. He curated from 1996 – 2000 when it counted. He founded one of the first Internet graffiti directories in 1997 The GSpot Colab.com, which is now defunct and founded and ran the gallery of the same name in East Harlem from 1999-2004.
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Jury Waiver Issues Concerning Fraudulent Inducement Claims
I have previously written about the enforceability of contractual arbitration provisions, jury waivers and forum selection clauses in the face of challenges based upon fraudulent inducement. The courts do not always treat these issues entirely consistently. With arbitration provisions, courts require the alleged fraud to relate specifically to the arbitration clause of the contract rather than the entire contract in order to disregard the arbitration agreement. See my post. With jury waivers, courts are willing to disregard the contractual jury waiver based merely upon allegations of fraudulent inducement of the contract as a whole and not particularly concerning the jury waiver. See my post. Although this may seem inconsistent, the different treatment could be explained based upon the courts' propensity to interpret and apply arbitration provisions liberally and broadly to encourage alternative dispute resolution (thus less willing to strike out arbitration provisions), while construing jury waivers strictly so as to avoid depriving the right to trial by jury.
Confusion on Jury Waivers
The decisions on jury waivers alone have not always been a picture of clarity. It does appear that there is a growing trend in the courts to refuse to enforce contractual jury waivers where the contract in which they are contained is being challenged based upon a claim of fraudulent inducement and the remedy sought is in the form of rescission rather than mere damages. This is a bit perplexing given that a claim for rescission of a contract based upon fraudulent inducement would appear to be equitable in nature, and therefore, not triable by a jury in any event.
I lay out this interesting situation below, as recently brought to the forefront by the decision of the Appellate Division, First Department, in Ambac Assur. Corp. v Countrywide Home Loans Inc., 2020 NY Slip Op 00367 (1st Dep't Decided Jan. 16, 2020).
In Ambac, the First Department granted reargument from its earlier decision in September 2019, in Ambac Assur. Corp. v Countrywide Home Loans Inc., 2019 NY Slip Op 06570 [175 AD3d 1156] (1st Dep't 2019), and, among other things, made it even clearer that it considered the jury waiver provision unenforceable based upon a claim of fraudulent inducement:
The motion court properly denied Countrywide's motion to strike Ambac's jury demand on the fraudulent inducement cause of action. Ambac's complaint repeatedly alleges that the insurance agreements were obtained through various types of fraudulent conduct. Thus, because it is clear that Ambac's primary claim is fraudulent inducement, the agreements' provisions waiving the right to a jury trial do not apply (MBIA Ins. Corp. v Credit Suisse Sec. (USA), LLC, 102 AD3d 488, 488 [1st Dept 2013]; Ambac Assur. Corp. v DLJ Mtge. Capital, Inc., 102 AD3d 487, 487-488 [1st Dept 2013]).
On the other hand, the First Department ruled that a jury was not required to adjudicate a different claim that amounted to "equitable relief":
Finally, the court erred in failing to grant BAC's motion to strike Ambac's jury demand for its secondary-liability claim against BAC. Ambac is not entitled to a jury trial on its claims against BAC because the jury demand, regardless of whether or not it is disallowed by the contractual jury waiver, seeks more than "a judgment for a sum of money only" under CPLR 4101(1). It also seeks a declaration that BAC is Countrywide's successor by virtue of a de facto merger, which would render BAC jointly liable for any unpaid "judgment for a sum of money" against Countrywide. This is an equitable remedy, which must be decided by a court.
The Confusing Origin of the Jury Waiver Cases
Interesting, the briefs of the parties on the motion to reargue lay out a nice history of the jury waiver cases from two perspectives. (The First Department rejected the arguments of the moving parties, who were seeking to enforce the jury waiver.)
From the moving parties' memorandum of law:
To the extent that the Court intended to affirm the IAS court's ruling on Countrywide's motion to strike [the jury demand], Countrywide respectfully requests leave to appeal that issue to the Court of Appeals. First, the IAS court's denial of Countrywide's motion to strike rested on Ambac Assurance Corp. v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. ("DLJ"), 102 A.D.3d 487 (1st Dep't 2013). But that decision and others like it depend on precedents and reasoning that are no longer good law. Second, this Court's decisions since DLJ have created confusion about the circumstances when (if ever) a party may simultaneously sue to enforce a contract and seek to void a jury waiver in that contract.
a. DLJ is inconsistent with Court of Appeals precedent
DLJ found a contractual jury waiver inapplicable where the plaintiff's primary claim was for fraudulent inducement of the contract. DLJ, 102 A.D.3d at487–88. The first reported case to apply that rule in the jury-waiver context was Federal Housecraft, Inc. v. Faria, 28 Misc. 2d 155 (2d Dep't 1961). The rule came from arbitration cases holding that general allegations of fraudulent inducement would defeat an arbitration clause. Id. at 157 (relying on Newburger v. Gold, 229 A.D. 572 (1st Dep't 1930), and Horowitz v. Alley Pond Park Apts. No. 1, 2 A.D.2d 762 (2d Dep't 1956)); see also In re Wrap-Vertiser Corp (Plotnick), 3 N.Y.2d 17, 20 (1957). This Court applied Federal Housecraft in later years, including in Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Stargate Films, Inc., 18 A.D.3d 264 (1st Dep't 2005), which was the principal authority this Court relied on in DLJ.
Federal Housecraft, however, is no longer good law. It has not been since 1973, when the Court of Appeals rejected the rule that general allegations of fraudulent inducement defeat an arbitration clause. In re Weinrott (Carp), 32 N.Y.2d 190, 196–99 (1973). Weinrott held that, because arbitration clauses are separable from the substantive provisions of a contract, the party resisting arbitration must show that it was fraudulently induced to agree to the arbitration clause in particular. Id. at 198; see also Rokeby-Johnson ex rel. Sturge Syndicate v. Ky. Agric. Energy Corp., 108 A.D.2d 336, 341 (1st Dep't 1985) (applying Weinrott to forum selection clauses).6
6 As noted in Countrywide's previous submissions, such a rule is consistent with federal precedent and the precedent of sister states. Countrywide Br. 28 (relying on Merrill Lynch & Co. v. Allegheny Energy, Inc., 500 F.3d 171, 188 (2d Cir. 2007); In re Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., 148 S.W.3d 124, 135 (Tex. 2004); L & R Realty v. Conn. Nat'l Bank, 715 A.2d 748, 755 (Conn. 1998)).
To Countrywide's knowledge, no appellate court has considered the impact of Weinrott on Federal Housecraft. Courts, therefore, have continued (incorrectly) to apply the Federal Housecraft rule in dozens of cases.7 The Court should give the Court of Appeals an opportunity to align the law on jury waivers with its current arbitration jurisprudence. Such a ruling also would promote the long-standing equitable principle that litigants "may not at the same time rely upon [a contract] as the foundation of their claim for damages and repudiate the provisions by which they waived their constitutional right to a jury trial." Leav v. Weitzner, 268 A.D. 466, 468 (1st Dep't 1944); accord O'Brien v. Moszynski, 101 A.D.2d 811, 812 (2d Dep't 1984).
7 See Zohar CDO 2003-1 Ltd. v. Xinhua Sports & Entm't Ltd., 158 A.D.3d 594 (1st Dep't 2018); MBF Leasing, LLC v. Han, 57 Misc. 3d 143(A) (1st Dep't 2017); MBF Leasing, LLC v. Goodwin, 57 Misc. 3d 143(A) (1st Dep't 2017); JP Morgan Sec., Inc. v. Ader, 127 A.D.3d 506 (1st Dep't 2015); DLJ, 102 A.D.3d at 487; China Dev. Indus. Bank v. Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., 86 A.D.3d 435 (1st Dep't 2011); D.B. Zwirn Special Opportunities Fund, L.P. v. Brin Inv. Corp., 26 Misc. 3d 528 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty. 2009); Wells Fargo Bank N.A. v. Stargate Films, 18 A.D.3d 264 (1st Dep't 2005); Ferry v. Poughkeepsie Galleria Co., 197 A.D.2d 913 (4th Dep't 1993); Bank of New York v. Cheng Yu Corp., 67 A.D.2d 961 (2d Dep't 1979); Colby v. Ben Constr. Corp., 57 Misc. 2d 850 (Sup. Ct. Onondaga Cty. 1968); Gardner & N. Roofing & Siding Corp. v. Champagne, 55 Misc. 2d 413 (Sup. Ct. Onondaga Cty. 1967); Int'l Roofing Corp. v. Van Der Veer, 43 Misc. 2d 93(Sup. Ct. Monroe Cty. 1964).
b. This Court's recent decisions addressing jury waivers have sown confusion
Independent of the Weinrott rule, the Court's recent decisions have created uncertainty concerning when (if ever) a party may sue for breach of contract and also void a jury demand in the same contract based on alleged fraudulent inducement.
This case is a perfect example. The IAS court relied on DLJ, which allowed a jury demand to stand alongside a breach of contract claim, despite a jury waiver, but DLJ provided scant explanation for that conclusion. DLJ states that where "fraudulent inducement is plaintiff's primary claim . . . the provision of the agreement that waives the right to trial by jury does not apply. It is of no consequence that the complaint does not contain the word 'rescission' or expressly state that it challenges the validity of the insurance agreement." DLJ, 102 A.D.3d at 487–88 (citing Stargate Films, 18 A.D.3d at 265) (internal citations omitted).
Since DLJ, this Court has cut back on DLJ's broad language, but it has yet to articulate clearly when jury demands for fraud claims are permissible and when they are not, in the face of contractual jury-waiver provisions. Zohar CDO 2003-1 Ltd. v. Xinhua Sports & Entertainment Ltd., for instance, held that parties pleading fraudulent inducement could avoid a contractual jury waiver "under certain circumstances." 158 A.D.3d 594, 594–95 (1st Dep't 2018). "[S]uch circumstances," the Zohar Court explained, were "not present" because "Plaintiffs merely seek to enforce the underlying agreements by obtaining damages for fraudulent inducement, rather than rescind the agreements, and do not challenge the validity of the agreements in any manner other than by making factual allegations of fraud in the inducement." Id. (relying on Leav, 268 A.D. at 466). Similarly, in J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. v. Ader, the Court over a dissent limited DLJ to "certain circumstances," and permitted a party to avoid the jury waiver because that party merely "relie[d] on the agreement as a basis for its defense against breach of contract allegations and a claim for reformation to recover overpayments." 127 A.D.3d 506, 508 (1st Dep't 2015). The dissent would have enforced the jury waiver because the party sought reformation and monetary damages rather than rescission. Id. at 508, 511–12 (Andrias, J., dissenting).
If the Court does not grant reargument and clarify its decision, as requested above, it should allow the Court of Appeals to resolve these issues once and for all, ensuring that procedural waivers apply consistently in New York courts.
This was responded to by the party seeking a jury trial as follows:
Nor is there any reason to grant Countrywide leave to appeal the jury-trial issue. As Countrywide has acknowledged (App. Br. 26 & n.3), this Court has repeatedly held that jury-waiver clauses do not apply to "fraudulent inducement cause[s] of action that challenge[] the validity of the underlying agreement." J.P. Morgan Sec. Inc. v. Ader, 127 A.D.3d 506, 507 (1st Dep't 2015); see, e.g., China Dev. Indus. Bank v. Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., 86 A.D.3d 435, 436-37 (1st Dep't 2011). This Court has followed this rule in RMBS cases exactly like this one, where a monoline insurer alleges both fraudulent inducement and breach of contract. See Ambac Assur. Corp. v. DLJ Mortg. Capital, Inc., 102 A.D.3d 487, 487-88 (1st Dep't 2013). And, contrary to Countrywide's assertion (Mem. 37), this Court has not recently "cut back" on that rule; rather, it continues to cite DLJ approvingly, see, e.g., Zohar CDO 2003-1 Ltd. v. Xinhua Sports & Entm't Ltd., 158 A.D.3d 594, 594 (1st Dep't 2018); Ader, 127 A.D.3d at 507.
Even now, Countrywide concedes (Mem. 36 & n.7) that "dozens of cases" have held that contractual jury waivers do not apply to fraudulent-inducement claims. This concession sharply undercuts Countrywide's argument (Mem. 34-36) that In re Weinrott (Carp), 32 N.Y.2d 190 (1973), overruled this line of (far-more recent) jury-waiver cases. Weinrott held only that an arbitration clause applies to a fraudulent-inducement claim unless that clause itself was fraudulently induced; it does not even mention jury-waiver clauses. See id. at 196-99. Indeed, Countrywide itself has recognized (App. Br. 28 n.5) that "there is a policy-based presumption in favor of arbitration and against jury waiver." Compare Weinrott, 32 N.Y.2d at 199 (deciding to "encourage the use of" arbitration by stopping "parties … from using the courts as a vehicle to protract litigation"), with Cohn v. Adler, 139 A.D.2d 481, 483 (2d Dep't 1988) (requiring that parties "clear[ly]" intend to waive their jury-trial right to a claim).
There is no reason to grant leave to appeal on such a well-settled issue.
As noted above, the First Department rejected the argument that jury trial waivers should be interpreted the same as arbitration provisions when challenged based upon claims of fraudulent inducement.
Is Rescission Based Upon Fraudulent Inducement "Equitable" Relief?
Interestingly, the First Department in Ambac (as quoted above) was willing to deny a jury trial of a claim it considered equitable, but did not consider the claim of fraudulent inducement challenging the contract to raise equitable relief. Odd. Although there is nondescript case law indicating the claim of fraudulent inducement can be tried by a jury, see, e.g., Poley v. Rochester Community Sav. Bank, 184 A.D.2d 1027, 584 N.Y.S.2d 690 (4th Dep't 1992)("the essence of that cause of action is that plaintiffs were fraudulently induced into making the contract, an issue that is triable by jury"), logic and case law are to the contrary. See New Media Holding Co., LLC v. Kagalovsky, 118 A.D.3d 68, 985 N.Y.S.2d 216, 224 (1st Dep't 2014) (defendant waived right to jury trial by joining counterclaims for rescission with those for legal relief).
Even if the jury waiver was ineffective based upon a claim of rescission arising from fraudulent inducement, query whether that claim seeks equitable relief for which no jury is allowed in any event.
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