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Wyoming ->
CHEYENNE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ->
CHEYENNE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 214 EAST 23RD STREET CHEYENNE, WY 82001 July 3, 2012
VIOLATION: PATIENT RIGHTS: ADVANCED DIRECTIVES Tag No: A0132
**NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY**
Based on medical record review, policy and procedure review, staff and patient interview, and observation, the facility failed to ensure 3 of 10 sample patients (#5, #8, #9) had information provided for advanced directives/or known advanced directives filed in the medical record. The findings were:
Review of the facility policy and procedure titled "Advanced Directives: Living Will, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, or Do Not Resuscitate Order" showed it was revised on April 2007, and according to the quality manager it was a facility wide policy. The policy showed information about the patient's right to form advanced directives was to be provided at or before each time of admission. In addition, if the patient had an advanced directive, the patient was encouraged to provide a copy to be filed in the medical record, and the document would then be accessible through the electronic medical record for the current and future visits. Furthermore, if the patient had an advanced directive but did not have it with them at the time of admission, the location of the advanced directive should be added to the nursing staff notes, and the social worker would make 3 attempts to obtain the advanced directive documenting all three attempts in the patient's open chart. The following concerns were identified with failure to follow the policy:
1. Review of the medical record for patient #5 showed s/he was a patient at the hospital emergency department (ED) on seven occasions from 10/20/11 to 6/18/12. On each of these visits, record review showed the patient signed a consent for treatment, and code status was determined. On the 10/20/11 and 6/18/12 visits, the patient was admitted to the hospital for further observation/treatments. Review of a grievance filed on 3/20/12 showed the patient complained of being treated contrary to his/her living will. With the complaint, s/he provided a copy of the living will. Review of the facility response in a letter dated 3/22/12 stated there would be no adjustment because the patient had consented to treatment, and the living will would be scanned and placed on the patient's medical record. The following concerns were identified:
a. Review of the medical record showed there was no evidence of the living will. Interview with the quality director on 7/3/12 at 1:42 PM verified the document had not yet been scanned into the patient's medical record, and this should have been done in March.
b. Review of the medical record for visits dated, 10/20/11, 10/24/11, 11/7/11, 11/29/11, 12/18/12, 6/4/12, and 6/18/12 failed to show any question of the patient to inquire about advanced directives.
c. Interview with ED nurse manager #1 on 7/3/12 at 2:20 PM revealed when patients came in through the ED, they were sometimes asked about advanced directives; however, it depended on what symptoms they were presenting with, and who was doing the triage. It was not standard to ask every patient. The nurse manager stated a question related to code status was asked for all ED patients; however, he acknowledged this was not the same as an advanced directive. Subsequent interview with this nurse manager on 7/3/12 at 2:30 PM revealed the patient had provided a copy of the living will on 12/24/12 to the ED department. The nurse manager presented a copy and stated it was scanned in as an attachment to the patient's ED record on that date. However, the system used in ED was different from the permanent medical record, and the attachment was not available in the other system.
d. Interview with the quality manager on 7/3/12 at 2:09 PM verified there was not any specific policy and procedure for inquiring about advanced directives for ED patients.
2. On 7/2/12 at 2:05 PM patient #9 stated s/he did not receive information on patient rights. The patient further stated s/he came in through the emergency department (ED) on 6/23/12, and the code status while in ED was listed as "Full Code." Review of the "Critical Condition Directives DNAR [Do Not Attempt Resuscitation]" dated 6/25/12 showed DNAR was checked, but a sticky note was attached to the form. The note read "This is not valid at this time. Please see chart for current orders. This pt [patient] is full code Thanks, Nursing." Full review of the chart showed the only acknowledgement of the patient's wishes was an unnoted telephone order dated 6/25/12 to "cancel DNR at this time per pt request to be full code." On 7/2/12 at 11:38 RN #1, the charge nurse, and RN #2, who cared for the patient that day, both stated they were unaware of the note. RN #2 thought the patient chose to be DNAR during a biopsy procedure.
On 7/2/12 at 3 PM, the quality manager stated the Patient Rights pamphlets were given to all patients, even those in ED. She also stated a "Guest Services" book containing information on advance directives was located in each patient's room.
Review of the patient's admission form showed the area for initialing receipt of patient rights information was blank. A second interview with the patient and observation of his/her room on 7/3/12 at 9 AM revealed the patient wished to be resuscitated but "has not signed anything." However, the patient also stated "...no ventilator...does not want to be a vegetable...doesn't yet understand." Observation of the patient's room showed no evidence of the "Guest Services" book. Observation of the patient's room and of an additional vacant room, #7222, by RN #3 at 9:12 AM showed the "Guest Services" book was not in either room. The RN stated it "should be out and visible."
3. Review of the admission information showed patient #8, who was admitted on [DATE] for surgery and discharged on [DATE], indicated s/he had advance directives; however, the location was documented as "n/a [non-applicable]." Review of the medical record showed the "Critical Condition Directives DNAR" form was blank. On 7/3/12 at 8:53 AM the quality manager and RN #3 stated they had no idea why "n/a" was written in for the location of the directive. At 10:38 AM that day RN #3 stated the question of advance directives was asked when staff provided education for surgery. However, if the patient did not bring the directive, then it was not in the facility. Review of the record showed no evidence the facility made any further attempts to obtain the directive during the patient's hospitalization .
VIOLATION: NURSING CARE PLAN Tag No: A0396
Based on review of medical records and staff interview, the facility failed to develop care plans for 2 of 10 sample patients (#8, #10) that addressed issues impacting each patient's care. The findings were:
1. According to the admission information, patient #10 was admitted on [DATE]. Review of the admission assessment and the 7/1/12 nursing documentation showed the patient had redness and excoriation of the skin under both breasts and in the perineal and rectal areas. Review of the care plan showed this issue was not addressed. After reviewing the care plan on 7/2/12 at 2 PM the charge nurse, RN #1, stated the patient's impaired skin integrity should have been addressed on the care plan.
2. According to the medical record, patient #8 was admitted on [DATE] for a surgical procedure that day. Review of the 6/20/12 post-anesthesia care unit discharge summary showed the patient received two autologous units of packed red blood cells (PBRCs), four units of leukoreduce PRBCs, two units of leukoreduce fresh frozen plasma (FFP), and 1 unit of either FFP or PRBCs, for a total of nine units in two hours while in surgery. Review of the postsurgical care plan and nursing documentation showed no evidence staff were aware of the amount of blood the patient received or that a delayed reaction was possible.
"Clinical Nursing Skills Basic to Advanced Skills," Smith, Duell, and Martin, Seventh Edition, 2008. "CLINICAL ALERT Most clients can tolerate a flow rate of one unit of packed cells in 1 1/2-2 hours."
"Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills" Elkin, Perry, and Potter, 4th Edition, 2007. According to this reference, there is always the possibility of a delayed reaction to a blood transfusion.
VIOLATION: VERBAL ORDERS Tag No: A0408
Based on medical record review and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure staff handled verbal orders appropriately for 1 of 10 sample patients (#9). The findings were:
According to the medical record, patient #9 was admitted through the emergency department (ED) on 6/23/12, and the code status while the patient was in ED was listed as "Full Code." Review of the "Critical Condition Directives DNAR [Do Not Attempt Resuscitation]" dated 6/25/12 showed DNAR was checked, but a sticky note attached to the form indicated this was not correct and the patient was actually a "full code." Detailed review of the chart showed the only acknowledgement of the patient's wishes was a telephone order dated 6/25/12 to "cancel DNR at this time per pt [patient] request to be full code." The order had not been noted by 7/2/12. Further review of the record showed two additional telephone orders were also present, one dated 6/23/12 and the other dated 6/27/12; neither had been noted. In addition, the 6/23/12 order for the initial Bipap setting per the cardiopulmonary protocol had not been noted. On 7/2/12 at 12 noon, RN #3 stated all orders, including verbal orders of any kind, should be noted. On 7/3/12 at 4:30 PM the quality manager stated the facility did not have a policy and procedure for noting orders.


It's important to live in the moment, but all of the noise in our lives can make it feel impossible at times—the beeping horns, ringing cell phones, and constant chitchat can become more and more difficult to tune out.
We know it's important to be present, but research also indicates that mindfulness actually keeps us healthier (and saves us money). If you've ever doubted the importance of injecting your life with mindfulness, chances are being happier and financially fit will sway you. Although it may seem daunting to add more rituals to your already jam-packed day, we promise it will pay off in the long run.


When will the UK get Sony PlayStation Now cloud-based streaming gaming?
Sony has announced PlayStation Now, a cloud-based system that promises to do for home gaming what Netflix did for movie rentals.
Games will be streamed from the company's servers and will eventually do away with the need for an expensive console under your TV set.
Initially it'll only be available on Sony's 2014 smart TVs before rolling out to Sony devices including the just-released PlayStation 4, the last-gen PlayStation 3 and Sony tablets and phones.
The long-term plan is that other non-Sony connected devices will be able to tap into PlayStation Now, in the same way that you can get Netflix, Lovefilm, Now TV and others on a multitude of devices.
Launch titles haven't been confirmed yet but we can expect some classics from the PlayStation back catalogue which stretches to almost two decades.
Other details such as controller support, game save states and customers profiles haven't yet been revealed. But if the idea of streaming games like God of War: Ascension and The Last of Us to your TV isn't interesting enough, then this probably isn't for you.
Sounds good. So, when is it coming to the UK?
The short answer is, we don't know yet. Sony has announced that trials of the service will take place in the US this month, with a view to launching a full service by Summer 2014.
As for gamers on the other side of the pond, we've got a wait on our hands. In a blog post, SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)'s Fred Dutton says: "When it comes to broadband provision, Europe is a considerably more complex region [than the US], with a huge number of different providers and varying connection speeds from country to country.
This echoes previous comments from Sony. SCEE's president and CEO Jim Ryan, last year described Europe's broadband situation as a 'speed bump'.
Gaikai, a company which provides technology for streaming high-end games, was bought by Sony in 2012.
While many countries in Europe such as the Netherlands, Switzerland and Estonia enjoy speeds above that of the US average, that's not the case everywhere. In Italy, superfast broadband is currently available to roughly 20 per cent of the population.
By contrast, 73 per cent of the UK can currently get access superfast broadband, according to the latest figures from Ofcom.
While broadband connectivity continues to improve in the UK, it could be the case they we need to wait for other countries in Europe to catch up before Sony commits to a region-wide launch of PlayStation Now.


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Ability to reach all types of consumers key to success
Photo: Julia's Table
Nate Fisher, chief executive officer of Salt Lake City-based Julia's Table, a producer of gluten-free baked foods, remembers growing up in a family where his mother Julia had celiac disease and whose one wish was "to eat just like everyone else."
Years ago, he said options were sparse. Mr. Fisher recalled how his father would bribe him by promising fast food later if he ate the gluten-free meal now. Today, Julia's Table sells gluten-and allergen-free bread, rolls, cookies brownies and wraps that are co-manufactured and sold across the nation. To reach a broader audience, the company creates gluten-free products also made without other top allergens. Mr. Fisher said the brand's objective is to be more "inclusive."
Specifically, Julia's Table's consumer target audience consists of moms with families seeking nutritional choices and healthy lifestyles. Overall, millennials and Gen X families make up about 80% of its social media and subscriber audience. Creating allergen-free baked foods that taste more like their conventional counterparts has been a long time coming. Reaching out to a greater number of consumers allows manufacturers to produce gluten-free snacks and baked foods more profitably and offer a wider array of options to those who suffer from allergens and just want to enjoy food like everyone else.
Business Corporate Strategy Gluten-Free
Knowing your consumers is the key to success
Administration's ability to adapt remains key to future growth
Delivery key to success of bakeries

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
from numba import cuda
from numba.cuda.testing import unittest
from numba.tests.support import captured_stdout

class TestCudaDetect(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_cuda_detect(self):
        # exercise the code path
        with captured_stdout() as out:
            cuda.detect()
        output = out.getvalue()
        self.assertIn('Found', output)
        self.assertIn('CUDA devices', output)

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

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


HERE we have to do with the third tale of the Dizain of Queens. I abridge, as heretofore, at discretion; and the result is that to the Norman cleric appertains whatever the tale may have of merit, whereas what you find distasteful in it you must impute to my delinquencies in skill rather than in volition.
In the year of grace 1298, a little before Candlemas (thus Nicolas begins), came letters to the first King Edward of England from his kinsman and ambassador to France, Earl Edmund of Lancaster. It was perfectly apparent, the Earl wrote, that the French King meant to surrender to the Earl's lord and brother neither the duchy of Guienne nor the Lady Blaunsh.
The courier found Sire Edward at Ipswich, midway in celebration of his daughter's marriage to the Count of Holland. The King read the letters through and began to laugh; and presently broke into a rage such as was possible only to the demon-tainted blood of Anjou. So that next day the keeper of the privy purse entered upon the household-books a considerable sum "to make good a large ruby and an emerald lost out of his coronet when the King's grace was pleased to throw it into the fire"; and upon the same day the King recalled Lancaster, and more lately despatched yet another embassy into France to treat about Sire Edward's second marriage. This last embassy was headed by the Earl of Aquitaine.
The Earl got audience of the French King at Mezelais. Walking alone came this Earl of Aquitaine, with a large retinue, into the hall where the barons of France stood according to their rank; in russet were the big Earl and his attendants, but upon the scarlets and purples of the French lords many jewels shone; as through a corridor of gayly painted sunlit glass came the grave Earl to the dais where sat King Philippe.
The King had risen at close sight of the new envoy, and had gulped once or twice, and without speaking, hurriedly waved his lords out of ear-shot. His perturbation was very extraordinary.
"Fair cousin," the Earl now said, without any prelude, "four years ago I was affianced to your sister, Dame Blaunsh. You stipulated that Gascony be given up to you in guaranty, as a settlement on any children I might have by that incomparable lady. I assented, and yielded you the province, upon the understanding, sworn to according to the faith of loyal kings, that within forty days you assign to me its seignory as your vassal. And I have had of you since then neither the enfeoffment nor the lady, but only excuses, Sire Philippe."
With eloquence the Frenchman touched upon the emergencies to which the public weal so often drives men of high station, and upon his private grief over the necessity—unavoidable, alas!—of returning a hard answer before the council; and became so voluble that Sire Edward merely laughed, in that big-lunged and disconcerting way of his, and afterward lodged for a week at Mezelais, nominally passing by his lesser title of Earl of Aquitaine, and as his own ambassador.
And negotiations became more swift of foot, since a man serves himself with zeal. In addition, the French lords could make nothing of a politician so thick-witted that he replied to every consideration of expediency but with parrotlike reiteration of the trivial circumstance that already the bargain was signed and sworn to; and, in consequence, while daily they fumed over his stupidity, daily he gained his point. During this period he was, upon one pretext or another, very largely in the company of his affianced wife, Dame Blaunsh.
This lady, I must tell you, was the handsomest of her day; there could nowhere be found a creature more agreeable to every sense; and she compelled the eye, it is recorded, not gently, but in a superb fashion. And Sire Edward, who till this had loved her merely by report, and, in accordance with the high custom of old, through many perusals of her portrait, now appeared besotted. He was an aging man, near sixty; huge and fair he was, with a crisp beard, and stalwart as a tower; and the better-read at Mezelais likened the couple to Sieur Hercules at the feet of Queen Omphale when they saw the two so much together.
The ensuing Wednesday they hunted and slew a stag of ten in the woods of Ermenoueïl, which stand thick about the château; and upon that day these two had dined at Rigon the forester's hut, in company with Dame Meregrett, the French King's younger sister. She sat a little apart from the betrothed, and stared through the hut's one window. We know nowadays it was not merely the trees she considered.
Dame Blaunsh, it seemed, was undisposed to mirth. "For we have slain the stag, beau sire," she said, "and have made of his death a brave diversion. To-day we have had our sport of death,—and presently the gay years wind past us, as our cavalcade came toward the stag, and God's incurious angel slays us, much as we slew the stag. And we will not understand, and we will wonder, as the stag did, in helpless wonder. And Death will have his sport of us, as in atonement." Here her big eyes shone, as the sun glints upon a sand-bottomed pool. "Ohé, I have known such happiness of late, beau sire, that I am hideously afraid to die." And again the fringed eyelids lifted, and within the moment sank contentedly.
For the King had murmured "Happiness!" and his glance was rapacious.
"But I am discourteous," Blaunsh said, "to prate of death thus drearily. Let us flout him, then, with some gay song." And she cast Rigon's lute toward him.
He caught it up. "Death is not reasonably mocked," Sire Edward said, "since in the end he conquers, and of the very lips that gibed at him remains but a little dust. Nay, rather should I who already stand beneath a lifted sword make for my immediate conqueror a Sirvente, which is the Song of Service."
'Midst twittering ghosts lamenting life and love.
And get no grace of him nor any love.
And tricks his wisest counsellor—"
"True, O God!" the tiny woman murmured that sat beside the window yonder. And Dame Meregrett rose and in silence passed from the room.
The two started, and laughed in common, and afterward paid little heed to her outgoing. For Sire Edward had put aside the lute and sat now regarding the Princess. His big left hand propped the bearded chin; his grave countenance was flushed, and his intent eyes shone under the shaggy brows, very steadily, like the tapers before an altar.
And, irresolutely, Dame Blaunsh plucked at her gown; then rearranged a fold of it, and with composure awaited the ensuing action, afraid at bottom, but not at all ill-pleased; and always she looked downward.
The King said: "Never before were we two alone, madame. Fate is very gracious to me this morning."
"Fate," the lady considered, "has never denied much to the Hammer of the Scots."
"She has denied me nothing," he sadly said, "save the one thing that makes this business of living seem a rational proceeding. Fame and power and wealth she has accorded me, no doubt, but never the common joys of life. And, look you, my Princess, I am an old man now. During some thirty years I have ruled England according to my interpretation of God's will as it was anciently made manifest by the holy Evangelists; and during that period I have ruled England not without odd by-ends of commendation: yet, behold, to-day I quite forget that excellent King Edward, and remember only Edward Plantagenet—hot-blooded and desirous man!—of whom that so excellent King has made a prisoner all these years."
"It is the duty of exalted persons," Blaunsh unsteadily said, "to put aside such private inclinations as their breasts may harbor—"
He said: "I have done much for the happiness of every Englishman within my realm saving only Edward Plantagenet, and now I think his turn to be at hand." Then the man kept silence; and his hot appraisal daunted her.
"Lord," she presently faltered, "lord, in sober verity Love cannot extend his laws between husband and wife, since the gifts of love are voluntary, and husband and wife are but the slaves of duty."
"Troubadourish nonsense!" Sire Edward said; "yet it is true that the gifts of love are voluntary. And therefore— Ha, most beautiful, what have you and I to do with all this chaffering over Guienne?" The two stood very close to one another now.
Blaunsh said: "It is a high matter." Then on a sudden the full-veined girl was aglow with passion. "It is a trivial matter." He took her in his arms, since already her cheeks flared in scarlet anticipation of the event.
And thus holding her, he wooed the girl tempestuously. Here, indeed, was Sieur Hercules enslaved, burned by a fiercer fire than that of Nessus, and the huge bulk of him visibly shaken by his adoration. In the disordered tapestry of verbiage, passion-flapped as a flag is by a wind, she presently beheld herself prefigured by Balkis, the Judean's lure, and by the Princess of Cyprus (in Aristotle's time), and by Nicolette, the King's daughter of Carthage,—since the first flush of morning was as a rush-light before her resplendency, the man swore; and in conclusion, by the Countess of Tripolis, for love of whom he had cleft the seas, and losing whom he must inevitably die as Rudel did. He snapped his fingers now over any consideration of Guienne. He would conquer for her all Muscovy and all Cataia, too, if she desired mere acreage. Meanwhile he wanted her, and his hard and savage passion beat down opposition as with a bludgeon.
"Heart's emperor," the trembling girl more lately said, "I think that you were cast in some larger mould than we of France. Oh, none of us may dare resist you! and I know that nothing matters, nothing in all the world, save that you love me. Then take me, since you will it—and not as King, since you will otherwise, but as Edward Plantagenet. For listen! by good luck you have this afternoon despatched Rigon for Chevrieul, where to-morrow we hunt the great boar. And in consequence to-night this hut will be unoccupied."
The man was silent. He had a gift that way when occasion served.
"Here, then, beau sire! here, then, at nine, you are to meet me with my chaplain. Behold, he marries us, as glibly as though we two were peasants. Poor King and Princess!" cried Dame Blaunsh, and in a voice that thrilled him, "shall ye not, then, dare to be but man and woman?"
"Ha!" the King said. He laughed. "The King is pleased to loose his prisoner; and I will do it." He fiercely said this, for the girl was very beautiful.
So he came that night, without any retinue, and habited as a forester, a horn swung about his neck, into the unlighted hut of Rigon the forester, and found a woman there, though not the woman whom he had perhaps expected.
"Treachery, beau sire! horrible treachery!" she wailed. "For presently comes not Blaunsh but Philippe, with many men to back him. And presently they will slay you. You have been trapped, beau sire. Ah, for the love of God, go! go, while there is yet time!"
Sire Edward reflected. Undoubtedly, to light on Edward Longshanks alone in a forest would appear to King Philippe, if properly attended, a tempting chance to settle divers disputations, once for all; and Sire Edward knew the conscience of his old opponent to be quite invulnerable. The act would violate all laws of hospitality and knighthood—oh, granted! but its outcome would be a very definite gain to France, and for the rest, merely a dead body in a ditch, not a monarch in Christendom, Sire Edward reflected, but feared and in consequence hated the Hammer of the Scots, and in further consequence would lift not a finger to avenge him; and not a being in the universe would rejoice at Philippe's achievement one-half so heartily as Sire Edward's son and immediate successor. Prince Edward of Caernarvon. So that, all in all, ohimé! Philippe had planned the affair with forethought.
What he said was, "Dame Blaunsh, then, knew of this?" But Meregrett's pitiful eyes had already answered him, and he laughed a little.
thus he scornfully declaimed, "and as yokefellow with Dan Merlin in his thorn-bush, and with wise Salomon when he capered upon the high place of Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin within the net of Mulciber. Rogues all, madame! fools all! yet always the flesh trammels us, and allures the soul to such sensual delights as bar its passage toward the eternal life wherein alone lies the empire and the heritage of the soul. And why does it so impede the soul? Because Satan once ranked among the sons of God, and the Eternal Father, as I take it, has not yet forgotten the antique relationship,—and hence it is permitted even in our late time that always the flesh rebel against the spirit, and always these so tiny and so thin-voiced tricksters, these highly tinted miracles of iniquity, so gracious in demeanor and so starry-eyed—"
Then he turned and pointed, no longer the fanatic, but the expectant captain now. "Look, my Princess!" For in the pathway from which he had recently emerged stood a man in full armor like a sentinel. "Mort de Dieu, we can but try," Sire Edward said.
"Too late," said Meregrett; and yet she followed him. And presently, in a big splash of moonlight, the armed man's falchion glittered across their way. "Back," he bade them, "for by the King's orders no man passes."
"It were very easy now to strangle this herring," Sire Edward reflected.
"But scarcely a whole school of herring," the fellow retorted. "Nay, Messire d'Aquitaine, the bushes of Ermenoueïl are alive with my associates. The hut yonder, in effect, is girdled by them,—and we have our orders."
"Concerning women?" the King said.
The man deliberated. Then Sire Edward handed him three gold pieces. "There was assuredly no specific mention of petticoats," the soldier now recollected, "and in consequence I dare to pass the Princess."
"And in that event," Sire Edward said, "we twain had as well bid one another adieu."
But Meregrett only said, "You bid me go?"
He waved his hand. "Since there is no choice. For that which you have done—however tardily—I thank you. Meantime I can but return to Rigon's hut to rearrange my toga as King Cæsar did when the assassins fell upon him, and to encounter whatever Dame Luck may send with due decorum."
He shrugged his broad shoulders. "In the end we necessarily die."
Dame Meregrett turned and passed back into the hut without faltering.
And when he had lighted the inefficient lamp which he found there,Sire Edward wheeled upon her in half-humorous vexation. "Presently come your brother and his tattling lords. To be discovered here with me at night, alone, means infamy. If Philippe chance to fall into one of his Capetian rages it means death."
"Nay, lord, it means far worse than death." And she laughed, although not merrily.
And now, for the first time, Sire Edward regarded her with profound consideration, as may we. To the finger-tips this so little lady showed a descendant of the holy Louis he had known and loved in old years; small and thinnish she was, with soft and profuse hair that, for all its blackness, gleamed in the lamp-light with stray ripples of brilliancy, as you may see a spark shudder to extinction over burning charcoal. The Valois nose she had, long and delicate in form, and overhanging a short upper lip; yet the lips were glorious, and her skin the very Hyperborean snow in tint. As for her eyes, say, gigantic onyxes—or ebony highly polished and wet with May dew; too big for her little face they were: in fine, they made of her a tiny and desirous wraith that moved nervously through life, very strange and brightly colored, and always thrilled with some subtle mirth, like that of a Siren who notes how the sailor pauses at the bulwark and laughs a little, knowing the outcome, and does not greatly care. Yet now her countenance was rapt.
And Sire Edward moved one step toward her and paused. "Madame, I do not understand."
Dame Meregrett looked up into his face unflinchingly. "It means that I love you, sire. I may speak without shame now, for presently you die. Die bravely, sire! die in such fashion as may hearten me to live."
The little woman spoke the truth, for always since his coming to Mezelais she had viewed the great conqueror as through an awful haze of forerunning rumor, twin to that golden vapor which enswathes a god and transmutes whatever in corporeal man had been a defect into some divine and hitherto unguessed-at excellence; and I must tell you in this place, since no other occasion offers, that even until the end of her life it was so. For to her what in other persons would have seemed but flagrant dulness showed, somehow, in Sire Edward as the majestic deliberation of one that knows his verdict to be decisive, and hence appraises cautiously; and if sometime his big, calm eyes betrayed no apprehension of the jest at which her lips were laughing, and of which her brain very cordially approved, always within the instant her heart convinced her that a god is not lightly moved to mirth.
And now it was a god—O deus 'certe!—that had taken a woman's paltry face between his hands, half roughly. "And the maid is a Capet!" Sire Edward mused.
"Never has Blaunsh desired you any ill, beau sire. But it is the Archduke of Austria that she loves, beau sire. And once you were dead, she might marry him. One cannot blame her," Meregrett considered, "since he wishes to marry her, and she, of course, wishes to make him happy."
"And not herself, save in some secondary way!" the big King said. "In part I comprehend, madame. And I, too, long for this same happiness, impotently now, and much as a fevered man might long for water. And my admiration for the Death whom I praised this morning is somewhat abated." He took up Rigon's lute.
ay, the song ran thus. Now listen, madame—listen, while for me Death waits without, and for you ignominy."
And grief and ecstasy of life and love?
Running about the world to waken love.
In that unending sleep our present love.
Follows the wind so would I follow Love."
He put aside the lute. Thus ends the Song of Service," he said, which was made, not by the King of England, but by Edward Plantagenet—hot-blooded and desirous man!—in honor of the one woman who within more years than I care to think of has attempted to serve but Edward Plantagenet."
"I do not comprehend," she said. And, indeed, she dared not.
But now he held both tiny hands in his. "At best, your poet is an egotist. I must die presently. Meantime I crave largesse, madame! ay, a great largesse, so that in his unending sleep your poet may rehearse our present love." And even in that dim light he found her kindling eyes not niggardly.
So that more lately Sire Edward strode to the window and raised big hands toward the spear-points of the aloof stars. "Master of us all!" he cried; "O Father of us all! the Hammer of the Scots am I! the Scourge of France, the conqueror of Llewellyn and of Leicester, and the flail of the accursed race that slew Thine only Son! the King of England am I that have made of England an imperial nation and have given to Thy Englishmen new laws! And to-night I crave my hire. Never, O my Father, have I had of any person aught save reverence or hatred! never in my life has any person loved me! And I am old, my Father,—I am old, and presently I die. As I have served Thee—as Jacob wrestled with Thee at the ford of Jabbok—at the place of Peniel—" Against the tremulous blue and silver of the forest she saw in terror how horribly the big man was shaken. "My hire! my hire!" he hoarsely said. "Forty long years, my Father! And now I will not let Thee go except Thou hear me."
And presently he turned, stark and black in the rearward splendor of the moon. "As a prince hast thou power with God," he calmly said, "and thou hast prevailed. For the Eternal Father was never obdurate, m'amye.
"Child! O brave, brave child!" he said to her, a little later, "I was never afraid to die, and yet to-night I would that I might live a trifle longer than in common reason I may ever hope to live!" And their lips met.
Neither stirred when Philippe the Handsome came into the room. At his heels were seven lords, armed cap-à-pie, but the entrance of eight cockchafers had meant as much to these transfigured two.
The French King was an odd man, no more sane, perhaps, than might reasonably be expected of a Valois. Subtly smiling, he came forward through the twilight, with soft long strides, and made no outcry at recognition of his sister. "Take the woman away, Victor," he said, disinterestedly, to de Montespan. Afterward he sat down beside the table and remained silent for a while, intently regarding Sire Edward and the tiny woman who clung to Sire Edward's arm; and always in the flickering gloom of the hut Philippe smiled as an artist might do who gazes on the perfected work and knows it to be adroit.
"You prefer to remain, my sister?" he presently said. "Hé bien; it happens that I am to-night in a mood for granting almost any favor. A little later and I will attend to you." The fleet disorder of his visage had lapsed again into the meditative smile which was that of Lucifer watching a toasted soul. "And so it ends," he said. "Conqueror of Scotland, Scourge of France! O unconquerable King! and will the worms of Ermenoueïl, then, pause to-morrow to consider through what a glorious turmoil their dinner came to them?"
"You design murder, fair cousin?" Sire Edward said.
The French King shrugged. "I design that within this moment my lords shall slay you while I sit here and not move a finger. Is it not good to be a King, my cousin, and to sit quite still and to see your bitterest enemy hacked and slain—and all the while to sit quite still, quite unruffled, as a King should always be? Eh, I never lived until to-night!"
"Now, by Heaven," said Sire Edward, "I am your kinsman and your guest, I am unarmed—"
And Philippe bowed his head. "Undoubtedly," he assented, "the deed is a foul one. But I desire Gascony very earnestly, and so long as you live you will never permit me to retain Gascony. So it is quite necessary, you conceive, that I murder you. What!" he presently said, "will you not beg for mercy? I had so hoped," the French King added, somewhat wistfully, "that you might be afraid to die, O huge and righteous man! and would entreat me to spare you. To spurn the weeping conqueror of Llewellyn, say ... but these sins that damn one's soul are in actual performance very tedious affairs, and I begin to grow aweary of the game. Hé bien! now kill this man for me, messieurs."
The English King strode forward. "O shallow trickster!" Sire Edward thundered. "Am I not afraid! You baby, would you ensnare a lion, then, with a flimsy rat-trap? Not so; for it is the nature of a rat-trap, fair cousin, to ensnare not the beast that imperiously desires and takes in daylight, but the tinier and the filthier beast that covets and under darkness pilfers—as you and your seven skulkers!" The man was rather terrible; not a Frenchman within the hut but had drawn back a little.
"Listen!" Sire Edward said, and came yet further toward the King of France and shook at him one forefinger; "when you were in your cradle I was leading armies. When you were yet unbreeched I was lord of half Europe. For thirty years I have driven kings before me as Fierabras did. Am I, then, a person to be hoodwinked by the first big-bosomed huzzy that elects to waggle her fat shoulders and to grant an assignation in a forest expressively designed for stabbings? You baby, is the Hammer of the Scots the man to trust a Capet? Ill-mannered infant," the King said, with bitter laughter, "it is now necessary that I summon my attendants and remove you to a nursery which I have prepared in England." He set the horn to his lips and blew three blasts.
There came many armed warriors into the hut, bearing ropes. Here was the entire retinue of the Earl of Aquitaine; and, cursing, Sire Philippe sprang upon the English King, and with his dagger smote at the big man's heart. The blade broke against the mail-armor under the tunic. "Have I not told you," Sire Edward wearily said, "that one may never trust a Capet? Now, messieurs, bind these carrion and convey them whither I have directed you. Nay, but, Roger—" He conversed apart with his lieutenant, and what he commanded was done. The French King and seven lords of France went from that hut trussed like chickens.
And now Sire Edward turned toward Meregrett and chafed his big hands gleefully. "At every tree-bole a tethered horse awaits us; and a ship awaits our party at Fécamp. To-morrow we sleep in England,—and, Mort de Dieu! do you not think, madame, that within the Tower your brother and I may more quickly come to some agreement over Guienne?"
She had shrunk from him. "Then the trap was yours! It was you that lured my brother to this infamy!"
"I am vile!" was the man's thought. And, "In effect, I planned it many months ago at Ipswich yonder," Sire Edward gayly said. "Faith of a gentleman! your brother had cheated me of Guienne, and was I to waste an eternity in begging him to restore it? Nay, for I have a many spies in France, and have for some two years known your brother and your sister to the bottom. Granted that I came hither incognito, to forecast their immediate action was none too difficult; and I wanted Guienne—and, in consequence, the person of your brother. Mort de ma vie! shall not the seasoned hunter adapt his snare aforetime to the qualities of his prey, and take the elephant through his curiosity, as the snake through his notorious treachery?" Now he blustered.
But the little woman wrung her hands. "I am this night most hideously shamed. Beau sire, I came hither to aid a brave man infamously trapped, and instead I find an alert spider, snug in his cunning web, and patiently waiting until the gnats of France fly near enough. Eh, the greater fool was I to waste my labor on the shrewd and evil thing that has no more need of me than I of it! And now let me go hence, sire, and unmolested, for the sake of chivalry. Could I have come to you but as to the brave man I had dreamed of, I had come through the mirkiest lane of hell; as the more artful knave, as the more judicious trickster"—and here she thrust him from her—"I spit upon you. Now let me go hence."
He took her in his brawny arms. "Fit mate for me," he said. "Little vixen, had you done otherwise I had devoted you to the devil."
Anon, still grasping her, and victoriously lifting Dame Meregrett so that her feet swung quite clear of the floor, Sire Edward said: "Look you, in my time I have played against Fate for considerable stakes—for fortresses, and towns, and strong citadels, and for kingdoms even. And it was but to-night I perceived that the one stake worth playing for is love. It were easy enough to get you for my wife; but I want more than that. ... Pschutt! I know well enough that women have these notions: and carefully I weighed the issue—Meregrett and Guienne to boot? or Meregrett and Meregrett's love to boot?—and thus the final destination of my captives was but the courtyard of Mezelais, in order I might come to you with hands—well! not intolerably soiled."
"Oh, now I love you!" she cried, athrill with disappointment. "But you have done wrong, for Guienne is a king's ransom."
He smiled whimsically, and presently one arm swept beneath her knees, so that presently he held her as one dandles a baby; and presently his stiff and yellow beard caressed her burning cheek. Masterfully he said: "Then let it serve as such and ransom for a king his glad and common manhood. Ah, m'amye, I am both very wise and abominably selfish. And in either capacity it appears expedient that I leave France without any unwholesome delay. More lately—hé! already I have within my pocket the Pope's dispensation permitting me to marry the sister of the King of France, so that I dare to hope."
Very shyly Dame Meregrett lifted her little mouth toward his hot and bearded lips. "Patience," she said, "is a virtue; and daring is a virtue; and hope, too, is a virtue: and otherwise, beau sire, I would not live."
And in consequence, after a deal of political bickering (Nicolas concludes), in the year of grace 1299, on the day of Our Lady's nativity, and in the twenty-seventh year of King Edward's reign, came to the British realm, and landed at Dover, not Dame Blaunsh, as would have been in consonance with seasoned expectation, but Dame Meregrett, the other daughter of King Philippe the Bold; and upon the following day proceeded to Canterbury, whither on the next Thursday after came Edward, King of England, into the Church of the Trinity at Canterbury, and therein espoused the aforesaid Dame Meregrett.


To all of the faithful readers of No Fenders, I hope Santa has brought Y'all everything desired... As Santa decided to bring us a white Christmas for the first time in several years, before we'll go back to our traditional and much desired (?) dousing of the wet stuff better known as precipitation, while I've enjoyed furiously scribblin' about the various guises 'O motorsports this year... But, as the chief bottle washer &head scribe of No Fenders I've decided a break is needed and therefore will take the rest of the year off in order to go play in the not-so fast disappearing SNOW!
So once again, Merry Christmas everyone!
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We enjoyed our stay in this condo. For the most part it has all the amenities required but some of them could be updated. i.e. Pots & pans. Not having to buy things like dish soap, salt & pepper would be nice but we know that next time to bring those sort of things with us. The outdoor furniture and balcony could have been cleaned because of the pigeons but all in all the experience was great. Will be returning, hopefully in the spring.
We checked in just a few days after Hurricane Florence came through. No problems or worries. The condo was GREAT! Beautiful beach, easy access, great location. We are planning a return trip this summer! If I had one suggestion it would be that the kitchen could use a new set of pots and pans so if you cook alot you may want to bring some of your own until they replace what is there! We loved our stay and Garden City Realty was fantastic to work with!
This condo was exactly as the pictures and in very good condition. The bed was comfortable and everything worked as it should except for the living room tv. I made Garden City Realty aware that the picture would go away but the sound would be on periodically and you could turn it off and back on in 30 minutes and it would be ok. I only made them aware the day we left. If my husband and I came back just us we would definitely book this condo again. My family has used Garden City Realty for over 20 years. Always a great experience!


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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Bon Voyage, Bob… at Sadler's Wells
by Anna Zanetti
• 26th February 2019
Picture Credits: Uwe Schinkel
As the show begins, a dancer stops the clock on stage, so that the hands are frozen on 7.09pm. From there, the audience is catapulted into a non-narrative time-suspended vortex of loss, death, and nostalgia, mixed up with hilarious absurdity. Alan Lucien Øyen's Bon Voyage Bob… is so imbued with the memory and reverence of Pina Bausch that it sometimes struggles to stand on its own two feet – it dwells (too much?) on the sense of absence, without offering much "substance".
At the core of the piece is the deliberate and obsessive juxtaposition of life and death (reminiscent of what one sees in Alfonso Cuarón's Roma). However, while in Roma the pathos is generated by the prolonged holding back of emotions, and their subsequent release all in one go, Bon Voyage Bob… throws at the audience one stark contrast after the other, seemingly without a cohesive plan.
From a funeral carer laughing out loud at a woman's suicidal brother, to an old lady gloriously celebrating the beauty of old age (a bit like in Pirandello's essay On humour), to a man writing "I'm still here", only to be used by a squad of men to wipe it off. Particularly emblematic is the moment when we play Hangman: the audience shouts out letters, is puzzled, tries to guess and enjoy the game, but in reality what's being revealed is a dead man on a gibbet. Similarly, Bon Voyage Bob… feels like a grotesque meditation on death as our common destiny, interspersed with moments of dark humour and lacerating laughter. One for all, Nazareth Panadero can be outrageously funny and frivolous, but also deadly serious, threading death into the weave of everyday life.
The piece features more dance than Dimitri Papaioannou's Since She, the other full-length work newly commissioned by the Tanztheater Wuppertal company. The moments of dance have the quality of Russell Maliphant's vaporous pieces, though one wishes they were more dynamically integrated into the acted bits. There are a few highlights, where the contrast between acting and dancing emerges as fruitful, for instance in a spoken-and-danced duet that is both a confrontation and a moment of intimacy.
Length-wise, the show is in-line with Bausch's extended routines. But already challenging in content, the length of the piece (three hours and a half with an interval) creates a deflating effect. A few members of the audience left halfway-through, which was a shame. In the second act, though, things do slow down considerably: the sequences drift more and more apart from each other, ending up in a pastiche of snapshots with questionable meaning. While the first half does have some inspiring moments, as the work proceeds the experience is not an entirely positive one for the audience.
One strength that must be acknowledged is the mesmerising set design by Alex Eales. By keeping twisting slowly, solemnly, scene after scene, it opens up endless possibilities and gives an infinity of backdrops to a limited stage.
The empty chair at the end stands clearly for Pina's absence, but one wonders whether instead of making her memory a daunting one, it might have been better for the company to move onto more productive, explorative, and stimulating work.
Bon Voyage Bob… played at Sadler's Wells 22 – 25 February 2019.
About Anna Zanetti
Anna graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA (Hons) in Classics, specialising in Literature, Aesthetics and Ancient Art. Currently based in London, she has eclectic interests, including avant-garde art, cycling, reading, contemporary dance, opera, (watching) rugby, and anything to do with Latin. She writes for The Oxford Culture Review, Theatre Bubble and A Younger Theatre, as well as keeping a personal blog about arts and culture.
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*Other Mission Pages: California LDS Missions.
Here's a recent address for the California Irvine Mission. We try to keep this info up to date, but it's a good idea to check the address with several sources, including your mission packet or the mission office.
Mission President: President Samuel W. Clark Jr.
Here's a list of LDS missionary blogs for the California Irvine Mission. This list includes the missionary's name, URL and when their blog was updated.
Here are California Irvine Mission Groups- for LDS missionary moms, returned missionaries, mission presidents and other alumni of the Irvine Mission.
Here are T-shirts for the California Irvine Mission!
Shirt designs include California Irvine Mission logo/emblem shirts and Called to Serve shirts. The shirts make great gifts for pre-missionaries, returned missionaries and missionaries currently serving. LDS Mission shirts come in all sizes: Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large, up to 4XL. The mission designs are printed on white shirts and are shipped to you.
*Simply click on a shirt design to view the details and submit an order. The designs on mission t-shirts may also be printed on other LDS mission gifts, including: California Irvine missionary aprons, Christmas stockings, ties, pillow cases, teddy bears and Christmas ornaments.
Here's a list of current and past Mission Presidents of the Irvine LDS Mission.
2016-2019, Samuel W. Clark Jr.
Here are survey responses from California Irvine RMs, to give you a snapshot into what it's like to live in the mission.
What are some interesting facts about the Irvine Mission?
Any advice/testimony for pre-missionaries going to Irvine?
The Anaheim and Carlsbad missions gave up pieces to form the California Irvine mission. The principle cities are Irvine, Newport Beach, San Clameni. and Laguna Beach. I served as a Mandarin speaking missionary. The majority of the Asian and Mandarin population lived in Irvine itself. The southern part of the mission was primarily Hispanic and White.
There are about 6 or 7 stakes in the Irvine mission, and each one has about 2,000 or more members. When I left the mission, there were a little over 200 missionaries because of the age change.
I really miss the weather in Irvine. The weather is warm and sunny almost year round, although in the winter it could get a bit chilly. The areas are generally biking areas, with missionaries only having cars in the areas that are more spread out. Each ward would generally have two companionships of missionaries.
We were very fortunate to have the Newport Beach temple within our mission boundaries. We got to attend the temple every other transfer. The church is growing a lot in the Irvine area. There are a lot of members, and the youth especially are very strong. Try to build a strong relationship with them, and you will see a lot of miracles as they reach out to and share the gospel with friends. The languages in the Irvine mission are English, Spanish, Mandarine, and Marshallese. A new Marshallese branch recently was opened in the Newport Beach Stake.
The Irvine mission is composed of six stakes. From South to North you have San Clameni, Mission Viejo, Lagoon Legal, Rancho San Margarita, Irvine, and then Newport. We cover much of Orange County, and the majority of the residents were middle and upper class. It was a very mainstream place of California, right along the beach.
The Languages spoken in the mission were English, Spanish, Mandarin, and a new branch of Marshallese. The amount of diversity made the region very unique, and it was interesting to see the melting pot.
Church History does exist in the area. The Mormon Battalion actually marched through San Juan Capitano. Every year, the members will participate in a parade that commemorates their march. The wards in California comprise of 150-250 active members, with a similar amount of less actives in each area. The church is definitely a known presence in California, and many will recognize the missionaries before you even talk to them. But, because of the amount of diversity and immigration, there's a lot of people who've never heard of the Church.
One of the biggest emphasis on my mission was finding people. One of the most important skills was striking up a conversation with people. When you're going from appointment to appointment, don't just stay on your car or bike, but stop and talk to everyone you see. As a missionary, you should pray for families to teach, or the opportunity to build families at least. Families are the Lord's plan for us, so that is your purpose as a missionary.
The California Irvine mission is one of the smallest in the world. It doesn't take long to travel across, but it's full of people. The boundaries go from Costa Mesa, which is just North of Newport, down to a little bit of Camp Hamilton, which is a military base.
The Newport Beach temple has been there for about 10 years. It's interesting because the members actually paid for it themselves. Local communities didn't want the temple to be built there, so the members and the church had to work a lot with residents to help it be built. It was nice to have a temple in our mission and be able to go every other transfer. You could tell that the members in the area love the temple and they used it a lot.
In the Orange County area there are a lot of different churches. I remember driving down a single street and seeing five or six different religions or churches. We had diversity all the way from Atheists to Born-again Christians. This range played a huge role in missionary work. Some people felt they were already religious enough and didn't want to change. People were more receptive when we could connect with them and then show them what was unique about the Gospel of Christ.
The Irvine Mission was taken from the Carlsbad and Anaheim missions. Our mission president, Von Orvile had served as president of the Polynesian center, and he brought with him a lot of the Hawaian and Polynesian culture. Polynesians have a lot of love and charity, and he helped the mission to feel like a family. You could see this light about him, and you could tell that he was a disciple of Christ.
Finding was one of the most important, and difficult parts of the mission. Even if you already have investigators close to baptism, you need to find more. What helped the most was working with the members. If you don't work with the members, nothing is going to get done. You have a lot of members who are pretty well off, and even if they're not, they're happy cause they're close to the beach. It was hard for non-members to trust two random guys in white shirts, but if the members talked to their friends, people were a lot more open. Member missionary work was key, but it was also important to try other finding methods like contacting new people or helping less active members come back.
I was called to serve English speaking, but I learned some Marshallese as well. My mission was from 2013 to 2015. I served in Irvine, Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa, Forester Ranch, and San Juan Capistrano. Irvine was my only inland area, and the rest of my areas were all on the coast.


The Government of Canada has published an interim report on the operation of its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) law, which was enacted in June 2016. In the six months from June to December 2016 803 Canadians died under the terms either of the MAID law or of Quebec's separate euthanasia law. The number of deaths under the MAID law (ie excluding Quebec) is reported as 507, of which 504 were from physician-administered euthanasia (PAE) and 3 from physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Under Quebec's law, the report states, only PAE is allowed. On this basis it would appear that virtually all deaths reported so far in Canada as a result of legalisation of 'assisted dying' are euthanasia deaths - ie from doctors administering (as distinct from supplying) lethal drugs.


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Niger: What price human dignity?
Hani Issa wants to pack up and leave for good: with the wild leaves she feeds her family Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN
Small farmers in Oullam District in Niger's western region of Tillaberi, faced with their third drought in seven years, are being forced to consider bundling up their few possessions and leaving for good the villages they have lived in all their lives.
To better understand what is happening, IRIN visited two villages in Oullam District which has the highest proportion of its population classified as severely food-insecure, according to a multi-agency survey in December 2011.
In Talkadabey, ("poor person's home" in the local D'jerma language), the Oullam local authorities say 75 percent of residents do not have enough to eat; and in Banemate ("health or prosperity must come") the figure is 90 percent.
Grandmother Hani Issa was born and brought up in Talkadabey, where the residents are mainly D'jerma and small farmers. Poor rains followed by an attack by caterpillars in September 2011 had snuffed out any hope of a decent harvest. The men in Issa's home left the village four months ago in search of work, leaving Issa to look after seven grandchildren.
"I have to find food for the children for another four months [until the next rains]… I don't think I can go on like this. I will have to pack up, take the children and leave," she told IRIN.
Ousseini Idrissa, an official in charge of Oullam town and nearby villages, said: "There are hundreds of people leaving," adding that everyone had been aware that villages in Oullam would run out of food soon.
Yacouba Mainassara, the village chief, said they had fared better during the last drought in 2010, when the government had provided wages for short-term environmental services jobs.
Dabey reckoned agriculture in Niger missed military ruler Seyni Kountché who died in 1987. Kountché had invested heavily in agriculture and health services thanks to the discovery of uranium at a time when global prices were high. But when the uranium boom ended in the early 1980s, Niger's ability to fund development slumped.
"We need an irrigation system, good seeds and cheap fertilizer and then we can have enough to feed ourselves," said Dabey. Most of the residents get by on remittances from family members who have migrated to neighbouring countries. According to the World Bank, in 2010, 2.4 percent of Niger's population had migrated and sent US$70 million home that year.
When IRIN visited Banemate village in Dinghazi Commune, the children seemed reserved; some were exhibiting signs of malnutrition – bloated bellies, listless eyes and discoloured hair.
There was plenty of millet and sorghum available in the local market in Dinghazi, but affordable only for those who had remittances to fall back on.
Locals explained that some people migrate seasonally – between planting and harvests. Droughts and a rapidly growing population have forced many to leave their homes for neighbouring countries to support their families. "It is part of our way of life now," explained the local official. But this year there have been families who have left seemingly for good, he added.
Underfunded appeal
Despite early signs in 2011 that Niger – and particularly people in Tillaberi, Diffa and Agadez regions – were going to need help, as of 15 April only 41 percent of the more than US$229 million appeal for assistance had been covered. Aid insiders say the appeal is now being revised upwards to more than $400 million.
Donors and aid agencies have yet to figure out how to respond between the time an early warning is sounded and when a crisis requires an emergency response, explained Peter Gubbels, who authored the multi-agency 2010 study Escaping the Hunger Cycle: Pathways to Resilience in the Sahel.
Early response, such as cash transfers or fodder for livestock, can help to stop people's livelihoods from collapsing and prevent people from fleeing.
Nigeriens nourish Nigeriens (3N)
People in Niger, the world's second least developed country, have been hit by a series of shocks: regular droughts; four coups since independence in 1958; Tuareg rebellions; the Libyan crisis which affected remittances; and fluctuations in the price of the main export, uranium.
In 50 years since independence, Niger has been in a food deficit situation for half of them, says the 3N programme (Nigeriens nourish Nigeriens), the new government framework to make Nigeriens food secure for good. At the moment, 60 percent of households can only cover their food needs for three months, says the government.
"Our vision is to help ourselves become food secure. We were inspired by the previous military government's initiative [which set up the Higher Authority of Food Security in 2010 to develop a food strategy for the country]," said Barkire Gabdokoye, the government's technical adviser on 3N.
The five cornerstones of the plan, he said, were: develop production (land, fisheries and livestock); build infrastructure; improve drought preparedness; focus on nutrition; and create an enabling environment including legislation to make it all possible. Details of the framework are still being worked out. But Gabdokoye shared some of its features.
3N has all the ingredients of a respectable sustainable food security strategy in a land under immense climatic and population pressure.
Eighty percent of the population lives on agriculture and only about 12 percent of the land is arable. Most famers depend on rain. 3N has highlighted the need to develop irrigation based on the Kandadji Dam (under construction) on the River Niger, which provides the country's only reliable source of water.
The dam is expected not only to help reduce Niger's dependence on energy imports from Nigeria but provide irrigation to 45,000 hectares by 2035. In the next five years, Gabdokoye said they hoped the dam would be able to irrigate 10,000 hectares of land.
3N focuses on sustainable agriculture practices such as harvesting water; use of conservation techniques to grow drought-resilient millet, sorghum and vegetables; and the provision of subsidized fertilizer, seeds and fodder for livestock.
A big impetus will be on getting pastoralists to diversify ("but we don't want them to give up on pastoralism").
"We want to build roads, improve infrastructure in the rural areas, make it mandatory for all villages to keep aside a communal reserve of cereals; have kitchen gardens," said Gabdokoye. "We do not want people migrating to urban areas, which cannot sustain them. We are looking at value-added businesses such as cheese-making, handicrafts in the rural areas."
Lack of funds
But 3N needs US$2 billion over five years. The government has put in $200 million. Niger's main sources of revenue are foreign aid (which finances 40 percent of its budget), uranium exports and remittances.
In light of the European debt crisis the World Bank says it does not expect any substantial increase in funding for development in Niger. The reality on the ground is that it is hard to raise funds for long-term projects, said Oxfam's Gaelle Bausson. "More funds are allocated to emergency response/relief programmes which are more visible, more in the media."
Revenue from uranium is not adequate to fund 3N, said Gabdokoye. The outlook for uranium prices is uncertain in the wake of the nuclear accident in Japan in March 2011, with uranium prices down $20 a pound since 2011, said the World Bank, which also estimates the shortfall in remittances d ue to the Libya crisis to run at about $42 million.
In 2011 Niger also had to cancel a deal to sell a stake in the state-owned telecommunications company, Sonitel, to Libya, which has left a $60 million gap in its budget.
Meanwhile, scientists' climate warnings are getting louder. Since 1970, West Africa has experienced one of the most abrupt changes in climate since weather data began being recorded in 1896, say scientists Gil Mahe and Jean-Emmanuel Paturel in the 2009 peer-reviewed journal Comptes Rendus Geoscience.
Mahe and Paturel, who studied rainfall patterns in the Sahel 1896-2006, concluded that drought was still continuing in the region even if annual rainfall had increased since the very dry period in the 1970s and 1980s.
Source: IRIN News – 18 April 2012
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Building upon 50 years of experience engaging in complex and remote construction and infrastructure projects, Canstruct has diversified its service offering to provide a multidisciplinary approach to difficult projects. The company holds itself to the highest quality execution of service and continues to be spearheaded by the leadership of the Murphy family.
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Questions about cost? We have the answers.
Confused about what insurance covers? Wondering if you or your loved one will be able to afford the necessary services? Trying to figure out the different avenues of paying for everything? You're not alone. We're here to help you through it.
Although every situation is unique, here are answers to some of the most common questions people have about the costs associated with assisted living, rehabilitation and long-term care.
The cost of assisted living depends on the community you choose, as well as the apartment type. In general, Genworth Financial estimates that the 2019 average monthly cost of a Columbus, Ohio assisted living community is $4,295.
At MacIntosh, the monthly cost of an assisted living apartment depends on two factors: the apartment rate and the level of care rate, which is determined by an assessment that is completed prior to moving in. It varies by resident, but the monthly rate at a MacIntosh assisted living community can range from around $4,000-$5,000.
Will Medicare or Medicaid cover assisted living?
Medicare does not cover assisted living.
When it comes to Medicaid, some assisted living communities accept the Ohio Medicaid assisted living waiver, which can help with the cost of assisted living. Whetstone Rehabilitation Center, Skilled Nursing & Assisted Living is one such community. However, the resident must first have completed two or more years of private pay before this option is available.
Will my insurance cover assisted living?
Most assisted living communities are private-pay. Most private health insurance plans do not cover the cost of assisted living.
If you have a long-term care insurance plan (which is different from traditional health insurance) that will likely cover assisted living. Coverage varies by plan, so you will need to ask your provider if you have any questions.
Will I or my loved one be able to afford assisted living?
Many residents worry that they will not be able to afford assisted living or that they will run out of funds while living at a MacIntosh community. Rest assured, we do our best to financially qualify each resident to make sure that doesn't happen.
We collect a financial application prior to move-in and go over a resident's finances with them to determine if they are a good fit and will be able to afford the cost of assisted living.
What is included in the cost of a MacIntosh assisted living community?
Residents at MacIntosh assisted living communities have everything they need to live fulfilling, healthy lives. We offer private suites, delicious dining, housekeeping and linen services, medication management, health and wellness monitoring, assistance with bathing, dressing and grooming, social programming, recreational activities, community spaces and more.
The cost of long-term care varies with each resident. However, to give you an idea of cost, Genworth Financial estimates that the 2019 average cost of a Columbus, Ohio long-term care community is $248 per day ($7,550 per month) for a semi-private room and $289 per day ($8,803 per month) for a private room.
Will Medicare or Medicaid cover long-term care?
Medicare will not cover extended stays in long-term care. However, if you have recently been hospitalized for 3 or more nights, Medicare may cover all or part of the cost of skilled nursing for up to 100 days.
Medicaid does cover long-term care services at Medicaid-certified communities as long as the patient meets certain eligibility requirements.
Will my insurance cover long-term care?
It depends on the policy. Check with your provider if you have questions about your coverage.
If you have a long-term care insurance policy, it will likely help cover room and board at a long-term care community.
Will I or my loved one be able to afford long-term care?
Before you come to stay with us in a MacIntosh care community, we do our best to financially qualify you and go over the costs associated with long-term care to make sure you're able to afford it. Our experts will be able to answer your financial questions specific to your individual situation so you don't have to worry.
What is included in the cost of a MacIntosh long-term care community?
The cost of long-term care at one of our care communities includes rooms with in-room amenities, personal laundry and linen service, activities and outings, dining, community spaces, personal billing assistance and more.
How much does rehabilitation cost?
Most rehabilitation centers charge a daily rate. Genworth Financial estimates that the 2019 average cost of a Columbus, Ohio skilled nursing and rehabilitation center is $248 per day for a semi-private room and $289 for a private room.
Will Medicare or Medicaid cover rehabilitation?
Most Medicare plans cover up to 100 days of rehab if you meet the guidelines.
If you qualify for it, Medicaid does help cover rehabilitation needed due to injury, disability or illness.
Will my insurance cover rehabilitation?
Your private insurance may cover your rehabilitation, but the time periods they cover will vary by plan. If you are unsure of what your plan will cover, you can contact the MacIntosh community you're interested in and we can reach out to your insurance provider to obtain the necessary information.
Will I or my loved one be able to afford rehabilitation?
Each MacIntosh care community has financial service resource coordinators to help you or your loved one explore options for paying for inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation.
What is included in the cost of a MacIntosh rehabilitation community?
While receiving inpatient rehabilitation services at a MacIntosh care community, patients have access to therapy and nursing services, meals and activities. They'll also be able to enjoy personal laundry and linen services, activities and outings, transportation and more.
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If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us. One of our experts will help you with questions specific to your individual needs and financial situation.


A Curious Friendship tells the story of two wonderfully unlikely friends and allies during the years between the wars. Moving, thoughtful, entertaining and magnificently researched, Thomasson's account of a bohemian art student and sharp-witted - sometimes comically snobbish - spinster is an outstandingly accomplished and original first biography from a writer for whom we can predict a very bright future.
Anna Thomasson has uncovered a remarkable story and brings these two fascinating but forgotten figures and their brilliant world vividly to light. An impressive debut.
A vibrant, admirably researched debut, tinkling with famous artistic names. A sort of non-fictional Brideshead Revisited, it's piquantly evocative of that lost aesthetic echelon of 1920s & 1930s society which dissolved amid the shadows of war; and the convention-defying friendship threaded through it is enthralling.
Anna Thomasson is a wonderful writer, with a pitch-perfect ear and a marvellous sense of style. I was also impressed by the thoroughness of her research. I really felt she had come to know her characters intimately with the result that one completely trusted her judgment every inch of the way. She has, too, a brilliant visual sense so that one really sees Rex's paintings and those magnificent houses.


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Regional cerebral metabolism and microcirculation during hypotensive cardiopulmonary bypass in pigs
J. Waaben, H. R. Sørensen, U. Andersen, K. Gefke, J. Lund, S. Aggestrup, B. Husum, H. Laursen, A. Gjedde
Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
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Waaben, J., Sørensen, H. R., Andersen, U., Gefke, K., Lund, J., Aggestrup, S., Husum, B., Laursen, H., & Gjedde, A. (1994). Regional cerebral metabolism and microcirculation during hypotensive cardiopulmonary bypass in pigs. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia, 8(3 SUPPL. 2). https://doi.org/10.1016/1053-0770(94)90427-8
Regional cerebral metabolism and microcirculation during hypotensive cardiopulmonary bypass in pigs. / Waaben, J.; Sørensen, H. R.; Andersen, U. et al.
In: Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia, Vol. 8, No. 3 SUPPL. 2, 06.1994.
Waaben, J, Sørensen, HR, Andersen, U, Gefke, K, Lund, J, Aggestrup, S, Husum, B, Laursen, H & Gjedde, A 1994, 'Regional cerebral metabolism and microcirculation during hypotensive cardiopulmonary bypass in pigs', Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia, vol. 8, no. 3 SUPPL. 2. https://doi.org/10.1016/1053-0770(94)90427-8
Waaben J, Sørensen HR, Andersen U, Gefke K, Lund J, Aggestrup S et al. Regional cerebral metabolism and microcirculation during hypotensive cardiopulmonary bypass in pigs. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia. 1994 Jun;8(3 SUPPL. 2). doi: 10.1016/1053-0770(94)90427-8
Waaben, J. ; Sørensen, H. R. ; Andersen, U. et al. / Regional cerebral metabolism and microcirculation during hypotensive cardiopulmonary bypass in pigs. In: Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia. 1994 ; Vol. 8, No. 3 SUPPL. 2.
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On Saturday, May 20, 2006, Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC.
On Friday, May 26, 2006, Michael Greco delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of Boston College Law School in Newton, Massachusetts.
On Thursday, May 25, 2006, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty held a news conference at the Department of Justice about the verdict in the trials of Enron Corporation executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.


Bexhill Amateur Boxing Club is set to hold its first open show this coming Saturday.
A hard-hitting night's action lies in prospect at Pebsham Community Centre. Doors will open at 7pm and the boxing will start at around 7.30pm.
We've got eight of our boxers matched and some of them it's their first bouts.
Twenty-one bouts were scheduled on Tuesday morning and the club is hoping that around 15 or 16 of them will remain in place come the night itself.
Boxers will be travelling to the Seabourne Road venue - which was Bexhill ABC's former base before moving to Bexhill Squash Club - from as far afield as London and Southampton.
Boxing clubs from Crawley and Eastbourne will also be represented, while Hastings West Hill ABC ace Ben White will be boxing for a vacant championship belt.
Admission is £10 in advance (call Terry on 07840 914432) or £12.50 on the night.


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Descriptive Genre Novels
Guy Anthony De Marco
Authorial Trust Guy Anthony De Marco Setting and Milieu World-building No Comments
Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, novels were suddenly available to the general public at greatly reduced cost. The paper wasn't always the best quality and plagiarism was rampant between different countries — sometimes even between regions or states. People didn't travel much and there was no Internet to bring rich, colorful multimedia presentations to someone's eye at a whim.
Literature was their window to the world and beyond. The descriptions and eloquent language had to give the reader an understanding of places they'd never been to and most likely would never actually see. In a way, the genre novels were a combination of travel books combined with a fascinating tale.
Take, for example, the best-selling author Marie Corelli. She was read by the masses more than HG Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — combined. In her book, Vendetta, she introduces the Italian landscape with intricate detail and flowing prose. Everything is richly described that let the readers "see" through the text. Colors, sounds, smells — all were documented to bring the landscape to life.
This method of novel-writing remained active and at the top of the best-sellers list until the 1980s. James Michener's doorstopper novels included when the Earth was forming from dust up until the actual story took off. This detailed understanding of the environment was just as important to his novels because the landscape was an important character. Alaska, one of his last novels, explained volumes of how life was like in the frozen, snowy wastelands. Without that understanding, the story would be missing something important for the reader to incorporate in their thinking.
Post-1980's, the writing landscape changed. People had less time to spend on reading and publishers pushed for stories that started when the action began. Michener and James Clavell would have a tough time getting published these days without their extensive bookselling record.
One of the reasons for this sea change can be blamed on the Internet. Instead of having an author interpret and describe an exotic location, people can fire up their favorite search engine and watch travel videos and see pictures of daily life in far-off lands. We no longer need the words. For some genres, this is a sad thing.
With the hustle-and-bustle of daily living, coupled with the constant barrage of time-absorbing activities as far away as the cell phone in your pocket, nobody has the time for a beautifully written novel. They want to jump in, read the good parts, and jump out. The older readers are the ones who miss the prose the most.
Probably the one spot where this is less apparent is the speculative fiction markets. Science fiction and fantasy are based in places beyond our experience, so the author still has to do some worldbuilding. The details, alas, are typically lacking because the publishers want the action and not the description. Sometimes it is a good thing to take a break after a wild chase and a fierce battle to rest — both the characters and the reader — by delving into some more history or landscape description. At least, it's something I miss these days.
Guy Anthony De Marco is a disabled US Navy veteran speculative fiction author; a Graphic Novel Bram Stoker Award® nominee; winner of the HWA Silver Hammer Award; a prolific short story and flash fiction crafter; a novelist; an invisible man with superhero powers; a game writer (Sojourner Tales modules, Interface Zero 2.0 core team, third-party D&D modules); and a coffee addict. One of these is false.
A writer since 1977, Guy is a member of the following organizations: SFWA, WWA, SFPA, IAMTW, ASCAP, RMFW, NCW, HWA. He hopes to collect the rest of the letters of the alphabet one day. Additional information can be found at Wikipedia and GuyAnthonyDeMarco.com.
Guy Anthony De Marco James Michener Marie Corelli Worldbuilding writing description
You Can Ride My Rocket…(Wink Wink)
I Just Love a Good Mystery: The Mystique of the Genre


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Free update now available
Audio effects developer Soundtoys have announced the immediate availability of Soundtoys 5.3.8, which includes VST3 support for both Windows and macOS, as well as native compatibility with both Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M-series) and Intel processors.
The update is free for all users who own Soundtoys version 5 or later plug-ins, with installers now available from the downloads page on the Soundtoys website.
Soundtoys have stated that they will continue to support both VST3 and VST2 formats for all of their products for the time being.
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The Five and Under League is open to curlers with 5 or fewer season's experience. This league gives newer curlers the opportunity to develop teams, gain experience playing back end, and/or receive coaching. Teams are assigned as determined by the league chair.


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Q: Addig a second samba server to windows domain I'm trying to add a second samba server (stand alone) to our windows domain, managed by a Samba server, but we've had some problems, we see the server and the shares, but cannot access the shares. We decided to start with  minimal configuration.
[global]
    netbios name = GINGER
    wins server = 192.168.0.2
    workgroup = DOMAIN1
    os level = 20
    security = share
    passdb backend = tdbsam
    preferred master = no
    domain master = no

[data]
comment = Data
path = /home/data
guest only = Yes

Again trying to access the share gives permissions error.
Thanks,

A: I would start enabling verbose logging level; put this under [global] group:
log level = x

where 'x' is 2 or 3; it could be up to 10, but increase it with caution. (http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch04_08.html)

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Does anyone have LDAP configuration details they can share? I'm trying to set up the LDAP configuration on our MEG, and testing the built in queries returns the error "The LDAP query failed: Referral". Searching McAfee's knowledgebase does not find any mention of this error.
The Irommail we have running 6.7.2 has working LDAP queries, so we know the account and server details are correct.
And ten minutes later I see what the problem is. Our Active Directory name is a different name that our email domain, the LDAP wizard uses the email domain instead of asking for the AD domain.


Travel back in time to Fleetwood Mac's inception as a blues band & walk down memory lane through their iconic albums & all of their greatest hits. The members of The Fleetwood Mac Experience bring many years of musical chemistry to each song portraying the essence that has made Fleetwood Mac one of the most iconic bands in history. Two time winner of the Buffalo Night Life Music Award for Best Tribute Band, FMX plays the very best of Fleetwood Mac throughout the USA & Canada at Venues such as the University of Buffalo, Hard Rock Cafe, The NY State Fair & many more. Please Note: The Triad has a 2-beverage minimum per person.


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Q: SSIS Package that removes or ignores multiple rows in flat file I'm learning how to develop SSIS packages for ETL systems this week. One of my first objectives is to discover different ways to import flat files into a database. As this is pretty straight forward for the most part, I've been playing around with different flat files that contain a variety of data.
One issue I ran into today was with a Excel document that contained data in the first row, the header information in the second row and foot information in the last couple of rows. What I want to import into the database is the header and all the rows leading up to the footer. I do not want the first row and I do not want the footer.
My current solution is to create a Data Flow task in Advance Settings and OpenRowSet with "Sheet1$A2:I20000". This allows me to open the sheet I want, select the second row (where my header resides) and then select all other rows that are between A2 and I20000.

This solution also allows me to read the header information (which I want) and all the rows that follow for importation. Unfortunately, this also selects the footer rows and doesn't seem optimize for good performance as the package has to scan a massive range of rows regardless if there is data in those rows or not.
The screenshot below contains the Excel sheet that I'm trying to import based on the MS SQL sample database. The rows I want to remove or ignore are circles with the red box. Everything else not circled is what I want to import.

Any thoughts on how I can ignore the first row, read the second row for my header information, read the rows that follow the header for my data set and then ignore the last couple of rows that I'm deeming as the footer?
Addition Information About This File

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*The first row will never change.

*The header row will never change.

*The data set after the header will change values, not data types.

*The first column of footer will never change.

*The second column of footer will change values, not data types.

*The rest of the footer columns will never change.

A: I figured out the solution to my own question.
I used the Conditional Split as shown in my diagram to filter out the rows I didn't need. For example, I put a condition that checks if the first column of data (member_no) was < (less than) a number. If TRUE, it goes to my OLE DB. If False, it goes nowhere. This prevented the "SUM TOTAL" from being passed to the database.
I also edited my start range with 'Sheet1$A2:I' as opposed to 'Sheet1$A2:I20000'. That way the package scans until there is no records to scan and stops (I assume).


Team 1899 was 20-33-0 in official play in 2019.
As a member of the Pacific Northwest district, Team 1899 ranked 60 having earned 75 points.
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At the end of the year in which the art historian and curator Igor Zabel would have celebrated his sixtieth birthday and upon the tenth anniversary of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory, which acknowledges exceptional achievements in the field of visual art in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe, a series of various events dedicated to Igor Zabel's heritage and the significance of contemporary art will take place in Ljubljana.
22 Nov. - Documentary film: "The Curator's Room"
28 Nov. - Presentation: "On Contemporaneity of Contemporary Art"
A presentation of the thematic section of Šum #10 on defining contemporary art at the turn of the 1990s with lectures by Kaja Kraner on some of the key concepts of the contemporariness of contemporary art and by Sergej Kapus on how Igor Zabel defined contemporary art.
This event is organized by ŠUM Journal in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association.
6 Dec. - International conference: "Art - How Much is it Still an Idea for the Future?"
The conference focuses on the concept of contemporary art, especially on the question of how much it is able to shape ideas for the future. If modernism was to a large extent oriented towards the future and postmodernism towards the past, then we would like to know which temporality determines contemporary art. Further on, we will discuss what it actually means when we say that contemporary art is global art. Is it a concept co-shaped by subjects from different parts of the world or a construct of the global art system that has boomed after 1989?
18:00 / The Curator's Room: Igor Zabel – How to Make Art Visible?
English premiere of the documentary film.
The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory acknowledges the exceptional achievements of cultural protagonists whose work supports, develops or investigates visual art and culture in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
The award has been conferred biennially since 2008 in cooperation with ERSTE Foundation (Vienna) and the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory (Ljubljana). With prize money totalling 76,000 EUR, it is one of the highest and most prestigious prizes for cultural activities related to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
The 2018 winners will be presented at the award ceremony on 7 December in Ljubljana.