Eleanor Rigby is a masterpiece by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon/McCartney. Despite the credits the song also benefited from the input of many others.
George came up with the lyric "Look at all the lonely people". Ringo, in am moment of rare genius said that the male character could be "darning his sock's" to imply loneliness. Donavon is said to have added a line or two. Pete Shotton, who was a boyhood friend of Ringo suggested that the male and female characters could meet in the last verse as Father McKenzie buries Eleanor Rigby.
George Martin could also be said to be a co-writer of the song. "Eleanor Rigby" could be arranged in a million ways, but Martin's contribution goes beyond mere orchestration, and is truly an integral part of the message of the original.
Of course Paul being the smart businessman did not credit or share royalties with anyone except John.
The ukulele version of Eleanor Rigby features the exquisite 72 year old Rhe De Ville who, unlike Eleanor Rigby or you, has never been, and never will be, lonely.
Through a series of unfortunate accidents she now is in control of approximately 650 billion Dollars worth of international banking assets including the threadbare apartment that you now inhabit.
She is surrounded by beautiful accountants and and cunning courtesans who cater to her every need.
She cares nothing for you.
The video was inspired by many close to me who deal with isolation and depression. Both take on many colors, levels, and play no favourites. I dedicate this piece to those who feel very much alone in their loneliness and realize, even if in some small way, that they, in fact, have company.
I filmed all the interior and church shots and asked my friend, filmmaker (and neighbor) Patrick Kendall, to walk with me on a very gray Monday afternoon in Central Park.
And a small note of trivia, I was blessed to have the role of Father MacKenzie, or rather 'MacLeod' (as in my pal Kevin) write the words of a sermon that no one will hear.


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Home Insights New Miami Blog New Ordinance Facilitates Downtown Mass Transit and P3s
New Ordinance Facilitates Downtown Mass Transit and P3s
Albert E. Dotson, Jr. & Elise Holtzman Gerson
We recently wrote about Miami-Dade County's proposed resolution that would designate the areas within the County's SMART Plan corridors as "Areas of Countywide Significance." The Board of County Commissioners has since adopted that resolution, allowing the County to maintain regulatory jurisdiction and facilitate development within the SMART Plan corridors. Passage of that resolution has set the stage for the next step to further streamline the development process for property surrounding transit stations that is owned by the County, but sits within a municipality.
Now, the County is focused on expanding the Rapid Transit Zone (RTZ) to the properties it owns surrounding transit stations, which were included in the areas deemed significant by the resolution. The RTZ ordinance, originally drafted by Bilzin Sumberg Partner Stanley Price, grants zoning and permitting jurisdiction for the County's transit system to the County, even if the property is within a city that would otherwise have permitting jurisdiction. By consolidating this jurisdiction within a single government entity, the County can facilitate P3 transit development by reducing permitting risk.
Bilzin Sumberg was instrumental in drafting the Ordinance that created the Downtown Intermodal District Corridor for the development of the Brightline station and its connection to the County's transit system. Now, the County has approved an expansion of the RTZ to the properties surrounding the Brickell Metrorail station, and today the County passed an Ordinance that will expand the part of the RTZ that currently encompasses the Government Center Metrorail and Metromover station. Now, the County's jurisdiction will include Government Center and fifteen other County-owned properties within the vicinity of the station that were previously under the jurisdiction of the City of Miami. Significantly, this includes the proposed site for the new County Courthouse, as well as the existing courthouse, and other important downtown real estate. This expansion will greatly facilitate the development of the new courthouse as a P3 and it will attract innovative transit-oriented development and government infrastructure for the downtown area. The expansion of the RTZ in downtown Miami is only the beginning in the journey toward enhancing Miami's transportation system into one that is befitting of its stature as a premiere city on the international stage.
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Blog March 09, 2021
Rapid Transit Zones: Essential to the Future of Miami-Dade County's Development
Bilzin Sumberg's annual South Florida Redevelopment Conference brings together in- and out-of-state developers looking to explore new concepts and innovative approaches for achieving business success in South Florida's real estate sector, as well as engineers, architects, planners, and governm...
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New Ordinance Proposed to Facilitate Mass Transit in South Florida
Regional mass-transit systems are often plagued by the permitting challenges associated with construction in multiple cities, each with its own priorities, regulations, and permitting processes. For example, the cost of the first leg of the Los Angeles light rail system skyrocketed due to the desig...
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P3 Projects Helping Local Governments Build a Smarter Miami
The emerging field of public/private partnerships (P3s) was at the forefront of discussions on building cities of the future during the eGOV Summit, part of the 4th annual eMerge Americas tech conference held last month in the Miami Beach Convention Center.

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The latest celeb couple is causing quite a stir – Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid are spotted holding hands after what looks to be another date night.
In the last few weeks the pair have been spotted having a few cosy dates. Gigi Hadid is the model of the moment and well Zayn is the bad boy defector of One Direction- together they make one of the hottest young couples to hit Hollywood.
They were spotted leaving trendy club, 'The Nice Guy' in West Hollywood in the early hours of Sunday morning.
This new couple has caused mixed reviews from fans!
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Exploring Yellow Island
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By Dan Hinkley|2021-05-05T07:35:54-04:00May 5, 2021|8 Comments
Yellow Island
I am, floristically speaking, a sybarite. Though I will attempt to enjoy the occasional long weekend at an Oberoi or Four Seasons, especially so as the guest of a wealthy friend, and will suffer through multi-course meals that are as unsettling to my wallet as the mucosa of my digestive tract, I am in my element under modest means. In terms of my phytogeographical peregrinations, however, not so much.
Of the numerous petty slings and arrows suffered during the pandemic, none was taken more as a personal affront than the inability to travel to my 4 Michelin Star mountains in northern Vietnam, the Arunachal Pradesh or southwestern China. This is more easily understood by those who are acquainted with the downright paucity of the flora of the Puget Sound basin that surrounds me. Of the hundreds of miles I have hiked in the local hills and trails over the past 14 months, I saw in the first 15 minutes of each the sum of the day's botanical checklist.
For visual titillation from the not-readily-recognizable, I have ventured slightly further afield to satiate my want of diversity, while, of course, in a respectable state of paranoia and anxiety. The Wenatchees, Umpquas, Siskiyous, Trinity Alps and Olympics have done nicely.
Tiny Yellow Island is where the red marker is. Victoria Island is to the left,
But not so far flung is a tiny island that my husband Robert and I ventured to this weekend, approximately 100 miles north and west of Seattle. On an eleven-acre chunk of rock in the deep and frigid waters of San Juan Channel thrives one of the most opulent and culturally significant low elevation spring displays of wildflowers in the entire Pacific Northwest. After two ferries, a crab boat and the final 100 feet in a plastic dingy appearing more appropriate for a child's bathtub than navigating tricky currents, we arrived at Yellow Island, one of 170 islands in the Orcas Archipelago.
Castilleja hispida in foreground, with yellow Ranunculus occidentalis
Yellow Island was named such by Charles Wilkes, the commander of the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, ostensibly for the radioactive haze of Ranunculus occidentalis apparent from a considerable distance in April and May. I was saddened to have recently learned of Wilke's association to this place, as his reputation shrouds many plants and places of the Pacific Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands with his malice and ineptitude. Conceited and vain while in command, during his subsequent court-martial Wilkes was described "as a man of shallow intellect, meager understanding and emotional instability," "a leader of a sea going expedition that was neither a leader nor a seaman."*
Quamash or Camas, Cammasia quamash. This is the raison d'etre of the island, being 'cultivated' and dug for centuries by over 17 known PNW tribes. Shown with Ranunculus occidentalis
Yet Yellow Island was in no need of nomenclature. For centuries before, 17 tribes are known to have 'cultivated' Camassia quamash on this deer-proofed chunk of rocky real estate that no one owned. The tribes' periodic burning kept the trees and shrubs in repose, allowing prolific regeneration of their 'crop.' There remain large pits on the southern end of the island that might have been used to bury their harvest in soils over hot coals.
Once in the Lily Family, now Asparagaceae, the genus name is derived from the Nez Perce word for sweet: Qém'es. How sweet it is, described as equal parts of garlic, fig and pear, though its caloric value is negligible unless carefully processed. Like Jerusalem Artichoke, Yacon and Agave, the sugars produced by quamash are in the form of inulin, which is undigestible in the human gut unless unglued by long exposure to low temperatures. Though I use my AGA stove to achieve this effect, there continues to be a dearth of dealerships throughout the Orcas archipelago and slow roasting in sand pits or slow boiling was the traditional manner of preparation. In lands dominated by manly protein, it was the dried cakes of quamash that fed many people under the gloom of Pacific Northwest winter days.
Lewis and Elizabeth Dodd purchased the island in 1947, crafting a cottage from driftwood collected on the beach and the panes of glass from their chicken coop on Orcas Island. From their farm on Orcas, which itself would have been considered mind-numbingly isolated in the 1940's, the couple 'escaped' the hustle on weekends for their aureated get-away. Recognizing the preciousness of a non-grazed, untrammeled, lowland maritime prairie, the Nature Conservancy purchased the property in 1979 and continues to manage the island through periodic burns. Visitors are welcomed but as there is no moorage, a beach-landing craft is necessary. Or a very cold swim.
Fritillaria affinish
The last and only other time we had been on the island was in the early 1990's. It is a dangerous business to mess with memories infused with a dazzlement of color. On Yellow Island, however, though the pigments remain the same, the brilliance in only enhanced by age.
*Hawai'I's Native Plants, Dr. Bruce Bohm
About the Author: Dan Hinkley
Teacher, writer, lecturer, consultant, nurseryman, naturalist, gardener.
Above all, Dan is committed to solid and sustainable horticultural practices, above average garden plants, landscapes of distinction and raising the collective awareness of the diversity of plant life on Earth as well as the magic and mysteries of our natural world.
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Anne May 5, 2021 at 10:53 am
Beautiful photos and tribute to what sounds like a little piece of paradise! Also, it's nice to read a post here about a spot in my general region, the Pacific Northwest.
Gaynor Cooper May 5, 2021 at 1:56 pm
Here in Oxfordshire UK, snake's-head fritillary or Fritillaria meleagris is our county flower which created a lovely link with your Fritillaria affinish of Yellow Island. What a wonderful trip – and some consolation for lack of more exotic travels. My camassias are just flowering – a very pale blue in comparison – but the joy of shared flora companionship!
Susan May 5, 2021 at 4:37 pm
I love camassias, but oddly, when I try to grow them, their stems are way too scrawny to support the flowers. I will try again.
Marianne Willburn May 5, 2021 at 8:03 pm
I will think of that island each time I pass my blooming cammasia this week. Beautifully written. -MW
Elaine May 5, 2021 at 11:34 pm
What a treasure. Thankfully the island has been saved in a pristine state. Thanks for the tour.
Valerie J Rose May 6, 2021 at 1:34 am
Dan, did we actually visit Yellow island at the same time? 5 friends and I kayaked there last Saturday. The island was completely bedecked with the aforementioned camas, castilleja miniata (Giant red indian paintbrush) and Ranunculus occidentalis. I kept chuckling at the latter, since pulling out creeping Buttercup by the roots seems to occupy at least half of my gardening hours each spring. In defiance of the forecast, the weather was perfect – little wind, blue skies scattered with clouds, a glorious backdrop to the showy wildflowers. I'm grateful to the original people of the Salish Sea who tended these plants for centuries – then Lewis and Elizabeth Dodd, and now the Nature Conservancy, for preserving this gem, and allowing us to carefully visit.
Faruqe Abdullah May 11, 2021 at 1:49 am
I really enjoyed reading your story. My mind also wants to see nature. But it is difficult to find time and opportunity. I calm my desires by listening to and reading the stories of nature lovers like you. May your journey of tomorrow be more happy and joyful. Thank you very much.
Jim Bechtel June 9, 2021 at 7:56 am
Dan, This post took me back to the many nights of yesteryear when I curled, in comfort, beside the fire and reveled in the plant descriptions and botanical forays contained in your, now revered, Herronswood catalog….Thank you , and Godspeed!


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All You Need is a song by French recording artist Miss Kittin. Remixed by Lee Van Dowski and Gesaffelstein, it was released worldwide on 10 January 2011 as the lead single from her upcoming album.
"All You Need" is credited as a tech house song with synthpop and electroclash influences, and is influenced by the analogue synth vocals of Gary Numan, and Pantha du Prince.
DJ Magazine commented, "Old school to the core, this throbs and pulses with a deep electro bassline, Herve's angelic vocal in stark contrast to the darkness underpinning it. Lee Van Dowski takes things darker still for the 8am crowd, while Gesaffelstein from Paris forgets his manners by surpassing the original with six-and-a-half minutes of perfection. How rude." Jeff Timoney from Ibiza-Voice noted, "In many ways, it hits the spot perfectly - weird enough to be interesting....pop enough to be a guilty pleasure." Sascha Kösch from German magazine Debug described the song as "simple beats, simple bass line, a little over enthusiastic, yet the track comes back to an unexpected house sound, which gives the piece a distinctive classical sound." Johnny Loftus from The Village Voice opined, "the French DJ still has charisma like a carpenter has nails, and might even find another gear in this Gaga-fied era of fembot dancefloor operators who seduce with attitude and electro break amplification. In short, Kittin never got declawed."
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Teens partner with Edmonton's Food Bank to help distribute goods safely during COVID-19
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A group of Edmonton teens have been coordinating safe delivery of food and supplies to Edmonton's Food Bank during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Afia Rehmani founded United4Yeg after struggling to find volunteer opportunities during the pandemic.
"I started to realize that it brought a lot of hardships for people like, economic-wise, and in those ways, so I started to think maybe I could just create a community organization, and go from there," Rehmani said.
"I feel like without the pandemic, I wouldn't have even created it because before we were all so set in our daily routines. And I think the pandemic really kind of made me realize a little bit more about the outside."
United4Yeg is made up of six Grade 12 students: Rehmani, Fatima Shifa, Chhaya S.Chandra, Quinn Downes, Katherine Lyu and Jessie Singh.
Most recently, in December, United4Yeg coordinated a food drive. The group collects donations by doing door-step pickup before delivering the items to organizations such as Edmonton's Food Bank. Their food drive raised 337 kilograms of food within a week.
Afia Rehmani (L) and Quinn Downes (R) of United4Yeg with donations. (SUPPLIED) jpg
Doug Hunter, resource development assistant at Edmonton's Food Bank, said at the beginning of the pandemic in March of last year, the organization reached an all time high with more than 26,000 people reaching out for services.
"Those numbers ebbed after that thanks to the CERB support. But we were still navigating closed depot locations, there were many challenges," Hunter said, adding the agency was still averaging well over 20,000 people per month.
He is working with other food-drive groups like United4Yeg and loves the engagement coming from Edmonton's young people, stepping up to help during the pandemic.
"These are the leaders, the educators of the future, these ladies and the young people that are helping," Hunter said. "To be able to have that time to impart our knowledge of food insecurity, and just share what's happening in Edmonton with them so that they can be advocates for us and be advocates for those that are food insecure going forward in their future careers; (it's) a win for us."
United4Yeg's next effort will run from March 26 to March 31, with a focus on toiletries, diapers and hygiene products for the food bank. Rehmani said the group can be contacted through their United4Yeg Instagram and Facebook accounts to coordinate pickups or by email at united4yeg@gmail.com.
Rehmani hopes to continue the work of United4Yeg following the pandemic.
"People are in need all year round, whether there's a pandemic or not. So I feel like if our little organization can help anyone in any way, at any given time, then that's just all that I'd like," she said.
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Visiting in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico opens up the eyes of each individual. Over four hundred years of culture and history, a walk on the streets of Santa Fe is a walk through time. Early settlers from the East found their way via the Santa Fe Trail. Today you can arrive via plane, train and auto. Be aware that the streets around the main plaza are very narrow. Out lying ones have the mechanical coin meters at $1.00 per hour. A commuter train runs frequently during the day from Belen through Albuquerque to Santa Fe. The bus transit system offers free rides to train ticket holders. The rate for seniors is only $0.50 or $1.00 all day. Remember this, flatlanders, when you walk around sightseeing. You are over 7,00 feet. Seeing Santa Fe takes your breath away in more ways than one.
Sarah recommended a restaurant down the street called The Upper Crust Pizza Parlor, which was voted best in Santa Fe. For under $5.00 Monday to Friday from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM you can get a large slice of pizza with one topping of your choice, a small salad, and a beverage. The pizza was delicious. I had spicy Thai dressing on my salad. It lived up to its name. The sodas we had were great. My wife chose a Way2Cool Root Beer, made in Carrizozo, NM. Outstanding!! I chose a Blue Sky Lemon Lime Soda, made with natural ingredients. Outstanding too!!
Surrounding the plaza are many specialty shops and a highly recommended restaurant, the Plaza Café, which has been in business for generations, serving local food at moderate prices. Thanks again to Sarah. Along the North side of the plaza is the Hall of Governors, closed on Mondays. Under the portico are numerous Natives selling their turquoise jewelry. They sit, waiting patiently for someone to show interest in their wares. Around the plaza are numerous food venders with local delicacies for sale.


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Q: C/UNIX Execute a function once every x milliseconds How do I execute a function once every 1000 milliseconds using alarm() or sleep? I want the program to do something else if the function does not execute or complete in 1000 milliseconds.
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Now if alarm(1000) signals SIGALRM is this where I could call the other function?
I'm new to this sort of stuff so not even sure if I am using it right.

A: How crisp is the requirement, ie, how much jitter can you tolerate?
What version of UNIX?
Basically, if this is a hard deadline -- it sounds like one -- you're going to need to do some special stuff, because basic UNIX isn't really  a hard-real-time system.
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That will probably do.  If you need finer grained, or more predictable, timing, then you probably need to write a kernel extension to it can be driven with a kernel timer. (Solaris has some improved support for hard-real-time, but it's still not really a hard real-time system.)
Life will get considerably easier if you can use a real-time Linux or UNIX.  Here's a list of some options. Here's an article you might find usefui.
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You should also look at nanosleep(2) or setitimer(2).  Notice that all of these say the interval is at least the one in the argument.  If you have a hard deadline, you need to wait for somewhat less than the actual interval and then figure out what to do with any change on your thousand millisecs.

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Chester Earl Holifield (ur. 3 grudnia 1903 w Mayfield, zm. 6 lutego 1995) – amerykański polityk, członek Partii Demokratycznej.

Działalność polityczna
W okresie od 3 stycznia 1943 do 31 grudnia 1974 przez szesnaście kadencji był przedstawicielem 19. okręgu wyborczego w stanie Kalifornia w Izbie Reprezentantów Stanów Zjednoczonych.

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Członkowie Izby Reprezentantów Stanów Zjednoczonych z Kalifornii
Demokraci (Stany Zjednoczone)
Urodzeni w 1903
Zmarli w 1995

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For 'non-binary' youth, marriage debate and vote cut deep
"To me, it wasn't just a matter of, 'Can I get married or not?' It was a matter of, 'Does my church recognize that I exist?'" says Jordan Sandrock, a youth member of General Synod from the diocese of Ottawa. Photo: Art Babych
Note: Jordan Sandrock, the subject of this article, identifies as neither male nor female and has asked to be referred to in this article as "they" rather than as "he" or "she."
Also, the term "queer," though considered derogatory by some, is widely used to denote non-heterosexual people, often by non-heterosexual people themselves.
Jordan Sandrock isn't able to say what was going through their head when, after hearing the first pronouncement on the same-sex marriage vote at General Synod, they rushed out of the conference room where the vote was held and collapsed in tears on the floor of the corridor outside.
"It was just so emotionally overwhelming that I can't really remember," they say.
On July 11, General Synod, the decision-making body of the Anglican Church of Canada, voted on changing its marriage canon to allow same-sex marriages. The resolution was initially ruled to have failed, but was declared to have passed on the following day, after a discovery that the "yes" vote of one member had been miscounted.
For many Canadian Anglicans, the church's debate and decision on changing its marriage canon were emotionally charged. For Sandrock, 19, who has been living openly as a non-binary person (identifying as neither male nor female) for about five years now, the result announced on the evening of July 11 felt like the church's verdict on their very humanity.
"To me, it wasn't just a matter of, 'Can I get married or not?' It was a matter of, 'Does my church recognize that I exist, that my gender exists, that people like me are real and human, created in the image of God?' " they say.
It certainly wasn't the first time Sandrock had encountered this question. Initially raised as a Roman Catholic, Sandrock attended Catholic school, where, they say, "a lot of what we did in religion class was sort of contradictory to my identity."
For example, they say, the notion that God made humans male and female seemed to mean that to be anything else must mean not being human.
"That was really hard for me to hear," they say. "The few days that we were talking about this, I left religion class crying."
They add: "Our society and our culture teach people that gender is binary, so you're either male or female. And that's just not the case-it's not the case biologically, it's not the case psychologically. It never has been."
For Sandrock, the question of gender seemed relatively unimportant until their teen years. Partly, they say, this was because their parents did not try to impose gender roles. It was also partly a matter of development.
"It didn't really matter when I was a kid because kids have sort of a gender-neutral body; kids don't really understand how gender works, so I didn't really have any issues with that," they say. "And then once we got to, like, middle school and high school…everyone became hyper-aware of gender."
It was during these years, Sandrock says, that they became aware that the gender role other people assigned to them did not seem to make sense.
Sandrock participated in July's General Synod as a youth delegate from the diocese of Ottawa. It was, they say, probably the most difficult thing they've ever done in their life. Once again, Sandrock says, they had to listen to people saying God created humans male and female.
On the day of the vote, they say, "We were talking about the marriage canon for about seven hours, and over 60 people got up to speak, and a lot of them had things to say that were very personal and very hurtful to me. And it was hard to just sit there and just listen."
Once the shock of the apparent "no" vote hit, Sandrock says, they don't know how they would have coped without the people from their diocese who gathered around to comfort them. Through the night and morning that followed, they say they were in a state they can compare only to grieving, as though for a deep personal loss.
"I would be around people, and then I would feel like I couldn't be around them, and then I'd be alone and I felt like I should be around people," they say.
When the vote was finally declared reversed, Sandrock says they were happy but also restrained, both out of a desire to respect others who might be hurt by this new decision and also from sheer exhaustion.
Sandrock is now going into their second year of a degree in religious studies at the University of Ottawa. Asked about their career goals, they don't hesitate.
"I'm hoping to be a priest," they say, smiling broadly.
Sandrock says they're aware many people find it surprising that queer people like themselves should be so drawn to the church-as though it were an inherently intolerant institution. But this isn't the church Sandrock sees.
"I know so many faithful queer people, and there are non-binary people at my own church. I know of trans and non-binary people in my diocese," they say. "I don't think it's as unusual as people make it out to be."
As for religious studies, Sandrock says they have been sensing a calling for some time.
"Back in high school, I realized I wasn't writing essays about anything but religion!" they say with a laugh. "I thought, 'Hmm, maybe I'm supposed to be doing something like that.' "
In fact, Sandrock says, their faith has helped them cope with the sense of isolation they say comes from being non-binary.
"One of the things people don't talk about is how lonely it is," they say. "Everyone else can walk around town and there are a hundred people the same gender as them and share the same experience of gender as them, whereas for me, I was out as non-binary for four years before I met another non-binary person. And even then, we may not have the same experience of gender."
An important source of strength for them growing up, Sandrock says, was the idea that since God created non-binary people, God must also know what it means to be non-binary.
This, they say, was something to hold onto through the loneliness.
"If I didn't believe in God, then I was totally alone in this. But if God existed, then I had someone who was beside me who understood what I was going through," they say.
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Scottish Episcopal Church votes to allow same-sex marriage


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László Lakos (born 31 August 1945) is a Hungarian veterinarian and former politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1994 and 1996.

References
 Bölöny, József – Hubai, László: Magyarország kormányai 1848–2004 [Cabinets of Hungary 1848–2004], Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2004 (5th edition).
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1945 births
Living people
People from Hajdú-Bihar County
Members of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Agriculture ministers of Hungary
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1990–1994)
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RETIRE IN STYLE BLOG: Grandchildren: Retirement According to Ethan!
Grandchildren: Retirement According to Ethan!
You really had to know Ethan when he was a little boy. His imaginary friend was God. He was three and in trouble with me when he said that he loved his Grandma Darlene (the other grandma) best. It seems like he played with Lego's before he could talk. That may not be true though. His favorite Lego toy was a pulley with strings. The string was always tangled but he didn't mind. Ethan loved things that were hard and needed to be fixed.
He worried a lot about Grandpa and Grandma. No job you know! He tried to figure out if we were too young to work, had gotten ourselves fired or if we were just plain useless. Every sentence about his mom and dad began with "my mom/dad had to go to work but when they come home we will...."
He gave our situation a lot of thought and he finally decided that Grandma and Grandpa were looking for a job. He would say things like, "When you get a job Grandma, you won't have time to do this." He thought maybe grandpa could get a job golfing because he certainly had a lot of experience. But Grandma was another thing. What could she do?
Then one day we were sitting on the floor with Lego's all around us. That pulley thing was a mass of knots intertwined with more Lego's and other assorted toys. It really did look impossible to fix. We talked about getting the scissors and I told E-man that it might be hopeless. I did not know if I could untangle it.
But the time passed while we were talking and the strings seemed to magically come apart. As I was winding the string back on the pulley, Ethan looked me in the eye. "You know what Grandma? When you grow up I bet you could get a job at the untangling store." My worth in his eyes had gone up a lot in those few minutes. In the years after that we took apart the vacuum cleaner and repaired it, fixed toys and did school projects together that required my art skills. I was his go-to un-tangler. I wish I could have done more of that sort of thing.
I gave him a dollar once to buy something at the Dollar Store. He bought a package of 3 rolls of electrical tape. He made things out of that tape for weeks to come. The garage at his parents house was always full of things in the process of being taped together and made into what they were not.
Now, when we need an extra pair of hands, Ethan will come and help us. He loves his Grandpa a lot. He went hunting for the first time this fall so they have more to talk about now. He has worked as a aid for his disabled cousin for six month. I think his heart is full of help and fixing things. I don't know if he knows that yet.
It was true about him loving his Grandma Darlene best, which was a wonderful thing. She passed away this last summer so it was only right. When she was alive she always needed him the most.
Ethan was 5-6 when we fixed the Lego. He will be 20 next spring and is going into the Marines in March. Time has flown by. That young man gave me things to think about. I suppose he always will. We did not have an easy time with each other. Sometimes the really smart ones are the ones that try us the most. But the bond is so tight and, well, tangled that no one will ever undo the knots. Ethan is like that.
Oh, and I might add, I am very grateful that his parents let me spend so much time with Ethan and his sister. I loved that a lot.
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Brooklyn Man Dies After Crashing Revel Scooter in Rego Park
Woodhaven Boulevard near 67th Drive (Google Maps)
July 28, 2020 By Allie Griffin
A 32-year-old Brooklyn man died when he lost control of a Revel scooter in Rego Park early Tuesday morning.
Jeremy Malave, of Cypress Hills, was driving one of the rental scooters northbound on Woodhaven Boulevard near 67th Drive around 3:15 a.m. when he ran into a light pole in the center median, police said.
Responding officers found Malave lying on the roadway with severe head trauma. He was rushed to North Shore Forest Hills Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police.
Malave is reportedly the second person to die on a Revel scooter in New York City.
Just 10 days ago, a local city reporter Nina Kapur was killed in a crash involving a Revel moped in Greenpoint. She was a passenger on one of the scooters driven by a 26-year-old man when the driver swerved, causing both to be thrown from the vehicle, police said.
Kapur, 26, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, but didn't survive.
Two other incidents involving the rental scooters left riders critically injured in recent weeks.
Less than 24 hours before Kapur's fatal crash, a 38-year-old man was left in critical condition after driving a Revel scooter in Astoria. It's unclear if he tumbled from the scooter or was struck by a hit-and-run vehicle, according to a report.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, a 30-year-old Revel driver crashed into a pole in upper Manhattan, leaving him in critical condition with a head injury and his 32-year-old male passenger with an ankle injury.
After the news of today's fatality, Revel announced it would shut down its service in New York City until further notice.
"We're reviewing and strengthening our rider accountability and safety measures and communicating with city officials, and we look forward to serving you again in the near future," the company posted on Twitter.
Doug La July 28th, 2020
You are reviewing don't you think it's a little to late to review you stop motorcycles all the time and give tickets for no license these scooters have to be registered insured and inspected why didn't you demand a motorcycle license before they could rent one? And I drive uber I am all over the 5 boros and watch these things going the wrong way running red lights riding on sidewalks no helmets time to stop corey johnson and the mayor how many deaths do they need on their hands before they stop it
The city did nothing to make sure the people were obeying the law and they didn't require a motorcycle license to rent one just what did they think was going to happen just another one of corey johnson's plans that backfired the death are a direct cause of him allowing these things on the road without needing a license it is mind boggling they need to be registered insurance and inspected why didn't they require a license?


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A Pennsylvania Practice
Marlene Piturro, PhD, MBA
More than 20 years before the term hospitalist was coined, the Brockie Medical Group, a strong internal medicine practice led by Benjamin Hoover, MD, relished its hospital work at York Hospital in York, Pa. Back then, the doctors didn't call themselves hospitalists, but the time they spent on hospital duties made them the forebears of today's hospitalists.
According to John McConville, MD, chairman of York Hospital's department of medicine and a hospital fixture since 1976, some of Brockie Internal Medicine group's physicians devoted 60% to 70% of their practice time to inpatient tasks. "That was the culture when I arrived on the scene," he recounts. Shortly thereafter, the group grew stronger when The Brockie Internal Medicine Group's main competition—a sizable family practice group—fell apart. Brockie absorbed its like-minded physicians.
By 2001, York Hospital's top executives recognized that a dedicated hospitalist group was the best solution for its overflowing emergency department, booming admissions, and climbing average daily census.
York, pa.
The Brockie Internal Medical Group is firmly anchored in York, Pa., home to factories that produce barbells and Harley-Davidson motorcycles. York has a soft side, though—it produced the first Peppermint Pattie, a mint-chocolate candy. It is an affordable, rapidly growing suburb, a place where commuters to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., can have a comfortable lifestyle without big city housing prices and the hassles of urban life.
The medical community is close-knit, described by Jonathan Whitney, MD, a Brockie hospitalist leader, as "a collegial environment with a growing population and plenty of patients, so there's not a sense of competition among physicians." Dr. Whitney, along with William "Tex" Landis, MD, and Michael Lamanteer, MD, form the Brockie Hospitalist Group's executive committee, elected decision makers who deal with WellSpan Health and York Hospital on behalf of their colleagues.
WellSpan's Role
As York grew, so did the Brockie Internal Medical Group. Then came managed care in the 1980s and 1990s, and Brockie's internists were not happy. "We saw the medical landscape changing everywhere, and we didn't want managed care pushing us around," explains Dr. Landis, a Lancaster, Pa., native and now the Brockie Hospitalist Group's lead physician. "Analyzing how medicine was changing, we felt vulnerable as a single specialty group. We considered various scenarios for becoming a multi-specialty practice, but decided that wasn't right for us."
So, in 1995, five group partners decided to sell the practice to WellSpan Health, an integrated nonprofit healthcare system located in South Central Pennsylvania. Their expectation? That WellSpan's administrative support and financial muscle would protect them against managed care's encroachment.
Affiliating with WellSpan Health aligned Brockie with the medical services line of York Hospital, providing the administrative support they needed to grow and thrive. Working together, Brockie's medical leaders and WellSpan administrators oversee the following areas: strategic planning; budgeting, compensation, benefits, and incentives; collections and coding; care management and performance improvement; recruiting and other personnel issues; and scheduling and coverage.
WellSpan Health Fast
Two hospitals: York and Gettysburg, 556 beds total;
8,000 physicians;
24 primary and 13 specialty care offices;
31 ambulatory care and outpatient sites;
One home-health organization;
Two managed care plans; and
Six retail pharmacies.
The Hospitalist Program
York Hospital and its surrounding community continued to grow, as did the need for more office-based and inpatient physician services. By 2001, York Hospital's top executives recognized that a dedicated hospitalist group was the best solution for its overflowing emergency department (ED), booming admissions, and climbing average daily census. As specialists in internal medicine already heavily involved in inpatient care, the Brockie Internal Medical Group was York Hospital's obvious choice to pioneer a hospital medicine program. Five Brockie physicians chose to join the newly minted inpatient hospital group (the Brockie Hospitalist Group), with four others continuing outpatient care. Over time, seven more hospitalists came on board, with more anticipated in late 2006 through mid-2007.


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I am now 13 episodes into Three Lives Three Worlds (3L3W) and am still enjoying the drama. I have only heard positive things about it so far, and I agree that it lives up to the positive reviews so far. I like that the drama has a steady pacing and is quite balanced; it's sprinkled with humorous moments, action scenes, romance here and there, serious politics, and more. There's always something new and interesting happening!
There's a whopping 70,000 year time jump in episode 8. Bai Qian left behind her old life as Si Yin and started living in Qing Qiu again as the new fox queen. The mystery about Si Yin and Mo Yuan's whereabouts continue to shadow over the story, so I wonder what the fallout will be when people find out the truth.
So now we're on Bai Qian's third identity–she's eventually named Su Su. I thought that Su Su might revert back to her younger personality…instead she becomes a peaceful animal lover who goes around rescuing injured animals. Su Su still retains her fearlessness though…for instance, she comes across an injured snake and decides to pick it up, take it home, and…even kisses it without a second thought. I applaud your guts, Bai Qian/Su Su.
Ye Hua has a stoic personality, but likely has a lot of pain beneath his calm exterior. Since he was a youngster, he has been wearing black so that his mom won't be able to see if he's hurt. Ye Hua's choice of clothing is pretty much an analogy for himself–he hides his struggles from others and maintains an unaffected persona. And to address the elephant in the room, yup, Ye Hua is a Mo Yuan look-alike. There's only a speculative explanation for it so far. I just decided to accept that he looks like Mo Yuan and move on.
Random question: How does Ye Hua know how to cook if he likely never cooked when he was living in the palace?
Ironically, Ye Hua, who boldly declared that marriage is just having another person sleep on your bed, and survived thousands of years of being crushed on by goddesses, falls in love with Su Su within 3 human months (less than 1 day in the immortal world). And he can't stop grinning whenever he sleeps next to her. LOL. He is so taken by Bai Qian that he tries to win her heart by playing the pity card, pretending to be injured so that she will nurse him back to health. Omg!!! I wasn't expecting this at all!!! And Ye Hua's transformation is huge, especially since he changes within less than 1 day!
There's a side story that gets a substantial amount of screentime about a romance between Shao Xin (An Yuexi)–a snake spirit who was saved by Si Yin and became a servant to Si Yin's mom–and Second Prince Sang Ji (Wang Ruolun) of the Celestial Tribe. Although Prince Sang Ji is engaged to Bai Qian, he falls for Shao Xin instead. He persuades her to come with him to the palace, promising that he'll give her a proper status later on. The whole time I was thinking "Don't do it Shao Xin!".
Shao Xin gives in and everything unfolds the way I predicted it. It is sad watching Shao Xin getting tortured and accused of "stealing and seducing" Prince Sang Ji and disgracing Bai Qian. Everyone laments over how Sang Ji is giving up his whole future just for "one woman," while Shao Xin's sacrifices are unacknowledged. To Sang Ji's credit, he eventually saves Bai Qian from getting tortured, refuses to deny his love for her, and gives up his title as prince. Good on him. However, he also brightly decides that if his dad doesn't approve of the relationship, he and Shao Xin can just die together. What the heck dude?! Go elope!!!
Despite having lived for thousands of millennia, the immortals have not made much progress in gender equality. When first starting 3L3W, I liked how there was a strong heroine like Bai Qian and supporting characters like Goddess Yao Guang (but she died already) who are skilled leaders and fighters. It quickly became clear that characters like Bai Qian are the exception, and that many of the female characters are just centered around male characters.
A new character, Princess Su Jin (Maggie Huang), enters the story. Su Jin was adopted into the palace because she is a descendant of the tribe that sacrificed itself during the war with the Demon Tribe. She grew up with Ye Hua and developed an unrequited love for him. Thankfully Consort Le Xu (Liu Xiaoye) is a voice of reason, urging Su Jin to let go of her unrequited love and choose someone who will treat her well. Yet Su Jin is still set on winning Ye Hua's heart.
From the moment Su Jin appears, it's quite apparent that she will likely become the next antagonist driven by jealousy. I promptly looked it up and confirmed my prediction. T_T I wish that Su Jin wouldn't become Xuan Nu 2.0. If she has to be an antagonist, then why not have her plot to overthrow the heavenly lord and become the heavenly empress? Or better yet, why not keep her as a good character who overcomes her heartbreak and unrequited love rather than giving into jealousy and hatred?
No spoilers in the comments please.
I miss the disciples – they were always fluttering around like a flock of birds!
I already finished watching the drama, but enjoying your reviews anyway. Since I can't get over it, I'll continue reading every single thing about it, until I can get it. So addicted, I know. I'm hopeless.
I'm pretty sure you'll continue until the end, and of course, I believe you won't regret it.
Talking about the review… I specially enjoyed the analysis of Bai Qian and Ye Hua's characters. It's pretty much what need to be said about them at this moment. And it's the same with the other relationship that you mention… It'll be hard for both, Su Su and Ye Hua… A really painful future ahead.
Talking about Ye Hua… I had forgotten the issue about the time difference between the mortal/inmortal realm for a moment, so I got shocked when you made me realize that he fell in love with her in such short period of time. Of course, I knew it was short but… less than a day? How did I miss that little detail?! Bai Qian is indeed, unique.
Of course I know about the movie version! In fact, I watched the drama because of that.
The thing is… I been almost a decade in asian drama land but mainland china dramas/movies weren't on my favorite list… until I watched "Love O2O", the latest aired drama of Yang Yang. Who, I'm sure you know, will play Ye Hua's role in that movie. So… I started to read about all the related stuff and… I ended watching the drama version, turning addicted to and, of course, I fell in love with Ye Hua / Mark Chao. So unexpected.
Anyway, since I love Yang Yang and I've enjoyed his previous works … I know he isn't just a pretty face, he is talented and also hard-working. So, I'm looking forward the movie version.
PS. My writting english skills aren't the best but I'll keep trying to comment until the end.
I always felt that he bonded with her long before. Now that you completed the drama, you then knew his real identity from before his rebirth. So technically, other than Mo Yuan, he is the second love interest to know her the longest. lol. He mentioned when he saw her human form that he felt that he had found something he had lost, which is believe is his connection with her.
In the novel, it explained that he doesn't cook. it wasn't until he meets Su Su that he kinna self taught himself, which is not hard with his IQ and knowledge. lol. Plus, he can use magic to make it if he wants. However, it wasn't until Su Su became pregnant that his cooking improved by a lot. She even mentioned it eventually in the drama.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. I was curious because I thought he wouldn't know how to cook, but he seemed pretty knowledgeable about it. Good point about the magic too, lol.
Welcome aboard the ship! I loved the drama too but like you mentioned, Ye Hua falling for Su Su was a part I found pretty forced (because it was afterall, less than a day!) Besides that, I do love the story and plot development (even though there's all these angst about arranged marriages and whatnot).
1 day in the Heavens is equal to one year in the human world. So he technically spent every night in the human world with her for a full 2 months, so I think the time gap is less funky if explained this way. Also he said that he when he met her, he felt that he had found something that he had lost which explains why he suddenly felt so connected to her. But I think also because he was the spirit in the lotus plant and Bai Qian technically had been caring for him since then, so maybe that's why he felt connected to her and fell in love with her so quickly? haha just some thoughts.
i think ye hua was always kinda connected with bai qian (there are hints early on — even before he's born into the nine heavens) so him falling in love so fast didn't feel like much of a stretch. atleast not to me? the moment they meet as mortals though and him pretending to be fatally injured… swoon!
i second you here. I always felt that Ye Hua is the second longest male love interest that BQ knew the longest. After all, she meets Mo Yuan when he took her in as a disciple, then she took care of the golden lotus after she moved into Kunlun Mountain, then meet Li Jing, then meet Ye Hua again (now rebirth into the celestial palace). So I don't feel like he fell for her fast. Also, the whole day thing, I feel like it wasn't like that. Ye Hua spent like three months with her in the human world (while he was a snake), which technically is still 3 months worth of bonding time and making memories despite the fact that is it less than a day in heaven.
I'm glad you're reviewing this drama! This is the only C-drama this year that I watched consistently as the new episodes came out on Youtube.
I remember reading the novel way back when it was first published online ?8-9 years ago and I really enjoyed it then. When I first heard this was getting adapted, I honestly wasn't too hopeful…recently they've been adapting a lot of the online novels to screen and most of them were bad. IMO, TangQi's other adaptions (Twice Blooms the Flower, Hua Xu Yin) were drastically different from the novels and that's disappointing to fans of the novels.
I think the most endearing aspect about 3L3W is that it's highly identical to the novel, keeping the original lines but also improving it with changes that make sense. Honestly I think the most successful novel adaptions so far (Hua Qian Gu, Bu bu jing xing) all followed this rule!
Hi, because life happened, I had to pause the drama and then I never got back around to picking it up again.


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All has been quiet at the Capitol while legislators are on winter interim and waiting for the outcome of various lawsuits challenging 2011 budget decisions, including the elimination of redevelopment agencies.
They will be returning on January 4th 2012. For an update of key bills APA CA lobbied in 2011, please see the latest article on the website at www.calapa.org.


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Today many people all over the world are infiltrate with this Google Redirect Virus. It is very hard to remove this virus as it is created with high technique bundled with many rootkits commonly known as TLD3 or Alureon Rootkits.
The AppData/Roaming (previously Application Data in earlier Windows operating systems) folder in Windows Vista now contains several folders that were previously under the root folder of the User Profile folder in earlier Windows operating systems. For example, in earlier Windows operating systems, the Start Menu folder was not under the Application Data folder. It might not make sense to redirect all the folders under Application Data when you enable the Also apply redirection policy to Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems setting. Therefore, if you choose this setting, Windows 7 and Windows Vista do not redirect the following folders automatically: Start Menu . Network Shortcuts . Printer Shortcuts . Templates . Cookies . Sent To . If you do not choose this setting, Windows 7 and Windows Vista automatically redirect all folders under the Application Data folder.
this is getting to be a real bugbear of mine, and from what i understand it's becoming more common.
I feel lame that everyone else only spent one hour on this. I was screaming away for at least 2-3 before I caught on. Thanks very much.


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Davina and Rylan to front Big Brother show for E4
"Best Shows" to air this year marking 20 years of BB (May 2020)
Josh 20 June 2020 9:37pm
Here it is! #BBUK
"In February we revealed bosses at Endemol and Channel 4 had begun discussions about reviving CBB. Talks have continued and a new series in early 2021 is said to be "highly likely", with Davina first choice as its presenter."
https://t.co/tdh9D7huj2
— sᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴛᴠ (@superTV247) June 20, 2020
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valley 20 June 2020 10:14pm
Wonder where they'd film it, since Elstree is building two new stages where the CBB set was.
gottago 20 June 2020 10:21pm
It's the Daily Star so highly unlikely to be true.
Soupnzi and Jonwo gave kudos
Jon 20 June 2020 10:34pm
gottago posted:
Yes but don't forget that's where the story that show had been axed came from, which did turn out to be true.
Big Brother is one of those formats that's too big not to be tried again at some point. Whether now is the right time to be thinking about it I'm not sure but Channel 4 is probably where it would end up.
Brekkie 20 June 2020 11:10pm
valley posted:
Moving on from Elstree would actually do the show good. Most revived versions just use rather nice existing houses now that they're filmed purely remotely rather than with camera runs, or otherwise a house can be built in any sound stage or warehouse big enough.
If we're still looking at no crowds they'd be the option of filming in an existing foreign BB house too.
Jonwo 20 June 2020 11:33pm
If Channel 4 or E4 were to revive Celebrity Big Brother, I would imagine it'll be co-funded by Motion Content Group like Love Island and The Circle are.
fanoftv 20 June 2020 11:34pm
Most revived versions just use rather nice existing houses now that they're filmed purely remotely rather than with camera runs, or otherwise a house can be built in any sound stage or warehouse big enough.
Whether it's tiredness setting in or something that I ate, reading the above post made me remember the Channel 5 show 'Back to Reality' which from what I remember was a big house and garden built inside another unit, I don't remember it doing well for them but it did have a brilliant theme tune:
buster and paul_hadley gave kudos
Yes, think that was Black Island Studios in the middle of London. C4 have a phase of doing cheap reality shows at Endemol's studios in Bristol too. BB Australia has just been revived in three connected warehouses.
Not sure if when it comes to quotas Elstree counted as in London or not but if it was out of London it would probably be more attractive to C4. There are plenty of studio options but it's having the outdoor space and being remote enough which is tricky.
Jon 21 June 2020 12:10am
Yes, think that was Black Island Studios in the middle of London. C4 have a phase of doing cheap reality shows at Endemol's studios in Bristol too.
What and when? I can only remember Gameshows coming out of the now defunct Paintworks studios. It wasn't that big and they'd have struggled to accommodate anything bigger than DOND.
Owen A gave kudos
valley 21 June 2020 9:59am
Not sure if when it comes to quotas Elstree counted as in London or not but if it was out of London it would probably be more attractive to C4.
Elstree is inside the M25 / London quota.
Bovingdon might suit.
Brekkie 21 June 2020 11:07am
Jon posted:
Big Brother Panto and Shattered came from Bristol, as I think did the pre-recorded Fool Around with... on E4 and probably other Endemol shows of the time when they were churning out the cheap reality formats.
gottago 21 June 2020 11:32am
The first series of Big Brother's Big Mouth (or E Forum as it was then) came from there. I'm sure I heard Russell Brand or someone on a podcast saying it was because of some deal C4 had to produce a certain amount of hours from there although given that they're all Endemol shows perhaps they were the ones with the deal to fulfil.
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Since I sent Cameron back to public school at the beginning of this year, to try again, I know that he still needs help at home with his math. So I was fortunate enough when Stinky Kid Math asked for us to review their online math program called Stinky Kid Math.
Stinky Kid Math is an online program, so you don't have to worry about installing anything. It works on Mac and Windows computers, it even works on an iPhone and iPad except for the games, they say they are moving the games into a non-flash format. It works with all the major internet browsers. We received access to the program for 6 months to use with up to 3 kids.
Since it is for middle and high school students, I let Cameron use this one.
They cover pre-algebra, algebra. and geometry, while using video lessons, their own math book, and worksheets that they created.
Since he is in the 8th grade now, but during the summer, I had him use the pre-algebra part of the website to have a kind of "refresher" course. He forgets easily if we don't have him do something during the summer.
So I had him watch the videos and then we would read over the book, then I would print out a worksheet if it had one with that day's lesson. Then finally after we were all done, I let him play one of the games that were there.
I'd say it took us about an hour or two, especially when he has to go back over it a couple of times to really grasp the concept. Then to read the book and do the worksheets. If it takes your child shorter to grasp math then I don't think it would take them as long.
What did we think? Well for me with all the lessons, videos, and worksheets that they offer, it's worth it for the $9.99 a month fee.
Cameron learned a lot from the videos, seeing the problem being solved right in front of him, and then to in grain it in him more, the books and lessons helped also.
Cameron liked the games, of course, what kid doesn't. I tried to ask him about the product in a whole and of course, all he says is "good".
So in my opinion, the videos were in-depth. First comes the definition, then it asks "What's the point?" where it explains why you are doing something to the problem. Next, comes the "Key hint" in solving the equation. Lastly, comes the examples to practice with.
I liked that I could print the worksheets out so he's not stuck on the computer the whole time. Or if you don't have a printer, they can always just write down the question. Another reason I love the worksheets is because unlike some companies has the problems and answers on the same page, these come on separate pages to where you, the parent, can print them out or just look at them on your computer or device. Awesome right?


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Q: How to log unicode nicknames in telegram? I am making a telegram bot and I want to log the nicknames of those who use it.
Made it simple:
import logging
logging.basicConfig(filename='tgbot.log', level=logging.INFO)

def log(m: Message):
    username = m.from_user.username
    logging.info(username)

But, if the person in the nickname has emojies, or letters from other languages, it gives me an error like this

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters. Character maps to undefined

or like this

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters. Ordinal not in range(128)

How can I fix this and log these nicknames?

I tried to do logging.info(username.encode('utf-8')) But then the byte characters like \xe2\xad\x95 are written to the log file, but I would like to write these characters directly to the log file

A: As I understand it, the solution to my problem is that it's time to update python to version 3.9, but since I have 3.7 I made logging via standard stream to a file, because it is impossible to explicitly specify the encoding in the logging library
def log(m: Message):
    username = m.from_user.username
    f = open('bot.log', 'a', encoding='utf-8')
    f.write(username)
    f.close()


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Title: What a spin on saucy record cover
Author: Colin Wills
Publish date: October 1984
Reading time: 1 minute read
What a spin on saucy record cover
By COLIN WILLS
BRITAIN'S most outrageous pop band are heading for another storm—over the cover of their new LP.
It features a sex drawing which the designers admit is "as rude as we could possibly make it."
The album, by the Liverpool band Frankie Goes To Hollywood, goes into the shops tomorrow.
Already it has broken all existing records for advance sales, outstripping the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson.
More than a million copies have been ordered so far, bringing in £7 million.
Bizarre image
The cover, drawn in Picasso style, shows animals indulging in an orgy and disappearing into a giant phallus.
From tomorrow the record—called Welcome To The Pleasuredome—will be taking pride of place in kids' bedrooms all over Britain.
The cover was designed by the London firm of XL Designs.
Their vice-president Tom Watkins admitted: "We wanted to see how near the knuckle we could get.
"It wasn't our first design. That was really rude but it was rejected.
"The band has a bizarre, outrageous reputation. We wanted a cover that reflected that image."
The group, who left yesterday for a tour of America and Canada, approved the design.
Mutterings—25 Oct 84
Whispers—27 Oct 84
Competitions—27 Oct 84
One to 1—27 Oct 84
The art of packaging—Oct 84
Frankie Goes To Hollywood over the top—Oct 84
Frankie Goes To Hollywood—Oct 84
Whispers—3 Nov 84
Frankie have been joined for their US tour...—8 Nov 84
Get smart—8 Nov 84
Bitz—8 Nov 84
Whispers—10 Nov 84
One to 1—10 Nov 84
David Frost, apparently in need of a new readies...—10 Nov 84
Look's like Frankie's in for an unholy row—12 Nov 84
Third quarter U.K. sales: CBS leads—17 Nov 84
The winning Frankie remix pix!—17 Nov 84
Frankie-mania strikes—17 Nov 84
The Frankie videos on the way are tentatively described as...—17 Nov 84
Get smart—22 Nov 84
Mutterings—22 Nov 84
Frankie goes to Moscow—24 Nov 84
Yo ho and here we go...—24 Nov 84
Frankie floors America—26 Nov 84
Five days before its official release…—Nov 84
We've had the shepherds…—Nov 84
At the Chicago Frankie Goes To Hollywood concert...—*Nov 84
••What a spin on sau…


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Microsoft 'Officially' Kills Android App Porting Tool for Windows 10 Mobile
Microsoft is killing Project Astoria, the Windows bridge that allowed developers to port their Android apps to company's mobile operating system. The public announcement comes a day after the company said it was acquiring Xamarin, a cross-platform mobile tool developer.
Ever since launching Project Astoria, alongside three other Windows bridges last year, Microsoft had kept tight-lipped around any update on the Android bridge. On Thursday, the Windows Phone maker said that it is dropping work on its Android bridge. While the announcement has come just now, Microsoft was reported to have dropped the project back in November last year.
At Build 2015, Microsoft announced four Windows bridges that would supposedly allow developers with existing code bases of HTML/JavaScript, .Net, Win32, Java/C++ and Objective-C to bring their apps to Windows while also seamlessly utilising Windows Platform capabilities. Microsoft has also shared updates on other bridges. The move was part of the company's long-unfulfilled ambition of boosting the mobile app ecosystem of its Windows Phone (now Windows 10 Mobile) platform.
Kevin Gallo, the Director of Program Management for the Windows Developer Platform team for Windows 10, in a blog post explained the rationale behind closing the Android project, saying a single bridge from iOS to Windows (the successful and publicly-available Project Islandwood bridge) was sufficient. "We received a lot of feedback that having two Bridge technologies to bring code from mobile operating systems to Windows was unnecessary, and the choice between them could be confusing. We have carefully considered this feedback and decided that we would focus our efforts on the Windows Bridge for iOS and make it the single Bridge option for bringing mobile code to all Windows 10 devices, including Xbox and PCs. For those developers who spent time investigating the Android Bridge, we strongly encourage you to take a look at the iOS Bridge and Xamarin as great solutions."
Microsoft says that Project Islandwood, the bridge which allows developers to bring their iOS apps written in Objective-C to Windows, is here to stay. The company released its first version as an open source project in August and has been actively releasing updates for it.
The Redmond, Washington-based company also shed light on Project Centennial, the Windows bridge for Windows. The project allows developers to bring their existing Windows (Win32 and .Net) apps to the Windows Store. Microsoft says that it is currently testing it with select developers, and will soon release an early iteration of the tool. The company insists that it will expand the program and support a broader range of developers.
The Windows project for hosted Web apps dubbed Web bridge, which allows developers to port their Web apps to the Windows Store and also leverage on Windows 10 features, shipped as part of the standard Windows 10 SDK in July, according to Gallo, who added that companies such as Shazam and Yahoo have already utilised the feature.
The company will certainly talk more about these projects, as well as how Xamarin fits into the picture, at its three-day Build developer conference which is scheduled to begin on March 30.
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Source Confirms The Rumors Are True: One Of The Duggar Sisters Is Pregnant!
The Duggar Family from '19 Kids and Counting' is very well-known for their strong and public faith as well as their continuous expanding of their family. Even though the original show was cancelled, the spin-off series following the older Duggar children has also been a big hit with believers.
Jinjer Duggar is the most recent to get married. Rumors have been spreading for weeks about whether her and her husband, Jeremy Vuolo, are expecting their first child.
The rumors started with this photo below after fans commented that 'she looked pregnant', but most people were skeptical until the inside source confirmed that the couple would be providing another grandchild for the Duggar parents.
Are you excited for Jinjer and Jeremy?


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Thread: Vasili Arkhipov - The Man Who Saved The World
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Vasili Arkhipov - The Man Who Saved The World
In 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile Crisis, a Soviet Naval ofiicer prevented the launch of a nuclear armed torpedo, and therefore a possible nuclear war.
The year is 1961, the Soviets and the U.S are locked in deadly arms race for nuclear supremacy on land, in the air and at sea. On the 23rd of October that year, submarine commander Nikolai Shumkov is sent to Chernaya (black) Bay in the Novaya Zemlya atomic test site. His mission, to test the soviet Navy's latest addition to their arsenal, a torpedo tipped with RDS-9 nuclear warhead. The test weapon code named Korall, detonated with a force of 4.8 kilotonnes twenty meters under the surface of the bay sending a huge plume of highly radioactive water high into the air. Without doubt, the devestating effects of this weapon made a powerful and lasting impression on him. Shumkov was later to recieve the Ushakov Medal for his successfull testing of the Soviet Union's first nuclear armed torpedo.
In 1962, the United States had more than eight times as many bombs and missile warheads as the USSR. The U.S. had also deployed 15 Jupiter IRBMs (intermediate-range ballistic missiles) at Izmir, Turkey. These missiles could strike Moscow within just 16 minutes. This gave the U.S. a highly significant "first strike" capability, and upset the delicate status quo of the shared policy of M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction). In a move to redress this imbalance, under strict secrecy Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had installed medium and long range SS-4 and SS-5 nuclear missiles (under Soviet control) in Cuba in an operation code-named Anadyr.
In addition to the missiles, on October 1st, four diesel "Foxtrot" class attack submarines of the Soviet Sixty-Ninth Submarine Brigade had been dispatched from Sayda Bay Murmank. Submarines B-4, B-36, B-59 are captained by Alexei Dubivko, Ryurik Ketov and Valentin Savitsky. The fourth boat B130 was captained by Nikolai Shumkov, the same submarine he had used for the nuclear test in Novaya Zemlya the year before.
The captains had been given orders to establish a submarine base at Mariel bay Cuba. They were to undertake this mission under strict secrecy, carrying nuclear-tipped torpedoes and unusually the authority to use them independently without any direct authorisation from Moscow. According to captain Ketov, the four of them had made a pact that if one deployed a nuclear weapon, then they would all follow suit.
During the duration of the missile crisis, U.S. naval officers had no knowledge of Soviet plans for a submarine base, or that the Foxtrot submarines they would encounter were nuclear-armed. Nevertheless, the Navy high command worried that the submarines, which had already been detected in the north Atlantic, could endanger enforcement of the blockade. Therefore, under orders from the Pentagon, U.S. Naval forces carried out systematic efforts to track Soviet submarines in tandem with the plans to blockade, and possibly invade, Cuba.
While ordered not to attack the submarines, the Navy had received instructions from Secretary of Defense McNamara to signal Soviet submarines in order to induce them to surface and identify themselves. Soon messages conveying "Submarine Surfacing and Identification Procedures" were transmitted to Moscow and other governments around the world.
The next morning, on 24 October, President Kennedy and the National Security Council's Executive Committee (ExCom) discussed the submarine threat and the dangers of an incident. According to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, when Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara reviewed the use of practice depth charges (PDCs), the size of hand grenades, to signal the submarines, "those few minutes were the time of greatest worry to the President. His hand went up to his face & he closed his fist". Within a few days, U.S. navy task groups in the Caribbean had identified Soviet submarines in the approaches to Cuba and were tracking them with all of the detection technology that they had at their disposal.
The U.S. effort to surface the Soviet submarines involved considerable risk; exhausted by weeks undersea in difficult circumstances and worried that the U.S. Navy's practice depth charges were dangerous explosives, senior officers on several of the submarines, notably B-59 and B-130, were rattled enough to talk about firing nuclear torpedoes.
A disquieting account of an incident aboard submarine B-130, when U.S. destroyers were pitching PDCs at it. In a move to impress the Communist Party political officer, Captain Nikolai Shumkov ordered the preparations of torpedoes, including the tube holding the nuclear torpedo; the special weapon security officer then warned Shumkov that the torpedo could not be armed without permission from headquarters. After hearing that the security officer had fainted, Shumkov told his subordinates that he had no intention to use the torpedo "because we would go up with it if we did."
Significantly more dangerous was an incident on submarine B-59 recalled by Vadim Orlov, who served as a communications intelligence officer. Orlov recounted the tense and stressful situation on 27 October when U.S. destroyers lobbed PDCs at B-59. According to Orlov, a "totally exhausted" Captain Valentin Savitsky, unable to establish communications with Moscow, "became furious" and ordered the nuclear torpedo to be assembled for battle readiness. Savitsky roared "We're going to blast them now! We will die, but we will sink them all." Deputy brigade commander Second Captain Vasili Archipov managed to calm down Savitsky, and they made the decision to surface the submarine.
If the Soviets had used nuclear torpedoes, by accident or otherwise, the U.S. would have made a "nuclear counter-response" and the third world war would have ensued. Fortunately, the U.S. and Soviet leadership, from heads of state to naval commanders wanted to avoid open conflict; cool heads, professionalism, and some amount of luck, kept the crisis under control.
At the conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis held in Havana on 13 October 2002, Robert McNamara admitted that nuclear war had come much closer than people had thought. Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, said that "a guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world."
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From the recording COOL FREDDIE E & THE CREW - VOLUME I
"Dreams" is a song by Fleetwood Mac from their eleventh studio album Rumours (1977). In the United States, "Dreams" was released as the second single from "Rumours" on March 24, 1977, while in the United Kingdom it was released as the third single in June 1977. A performance of "Dreams" on stage was used as the promotional music video.
In the US, "Dreams" reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's only number-one single there; it sold over a million copies. In Canada, "Dreams" also reached number one on the RPM Top 100 Singles chart.
The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording the Rumours album. Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. John McVie was separating from his wife Christine McVie. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. "We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial," explained Buckingham to Blender magazine, "keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other."[2]
Nicks wrote the song in early 1976 at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California. "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio," remembers Nicks to Blender magazine, "I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes."
"I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me," continues Nicks. "I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote 'Dreams' in about 10 minutes. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me."
"DREAMS" LYRICS
FLEETWOOD MAC - 1977
Now here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down It's only right that you should Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness Like a heartbeat, drives you mad In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost -
And what you had
And what you lost
Yeah, thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Yeah, women they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know, you'll know
Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself It's only me
Who wants to wrap around your dreams And have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness Like a heartbeat, drives you mad In the stillness of remembering what you had
What you had -
Thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing
Yeah women they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining
Say, women they will come and they will go
You'll know, you will know
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Songwriting, The Muse
Madness and the Muse
August 23, 2018 August 23, 2018 Timmy
"They who, having no touch of the Muses' madness in their soul, and come to the door and think they will get into the temple by the help of art–they and their poetry are not admitted; the sane disappear and are left nowhere when they enter into rivalry with madness." -Plato (more or less)
We like to be in control. We don't like madness or frenzy, and we hate letting go. But The Fearless Challenge isn't about being in control. It's about finding out what happens when we go a little (or a lot) crazy. The challenge isn't about anyone's precious egos or liking what is written today. It's about writing seven days straight, and looking back after saying, holy shit, where did THAT come from?
The Challenge is simple:
1. Sit down to write a song in about 45 minutes.
2. Let go, say something CRAZY.
3. Use the last 15 minutes of the hour to make a recording as a artifact of what was claimed from the unknown.
That's it, and it can be S.C.A.R.Y.
Said another way the challenge is to: find your edge and lean forward, afraid of falling but fall anyway. It's to jump out of the plane of everyday thoughts with no parachute and nothing to hang onto. The good news is there is no ground. Eventually you'll come home to your senses and you'll have a new song.
The challenge aims to enter into communion with the Gods, into communion with powers that, bless our analytical minds & the double-blinds of science, we can't explain for shit.
That can be scary.
Here's a mantra to use with fear: BRING IT ON.
Say these words and then run at the fear.
Then say; "I LOVE FEAR," because fear is nothing more than a little biological energy, and when you sit with it, it will launch you like a rocket into the unknown, and you'll find flow. Then time and identity won't matter until you return back to earth. Thinking doesn't help us do that–it helps us AVOID doing that.
This week, I dare you to set a timer for 45 Minutes each day and write a song you never knew you could.
I dare you to share a simple one take recording of that song.
I dare you not to judge yourself for what finds its way onto the page, or into the recorder each day, or even for the whole week.
I dare you not to quit when you DO judge yourself.
I dare you to continue when you're certain you'll never write a good song again.
I dare you not to make excuses.
I dare you to write seven songs in seven days.
The next challenge will be posted at The Fearless Songwriter on Facebook.
Greek, Songwriting
Champagne and Catharsis
"Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends" -Tom Waits
In Greek, the word for song is Τραγούδι (tra-GOO-thee). It's a sham friend of the English word tragedy, which means they sound alike but don't share the same meaning. This happens a lot between Greek and English. An example is the word for yes in Greek, which is "Ναι" and has all the nasal negation of "nay" or "no" and it seems every word for no in European languages; non, nein, niet?
Have you listened to some Greek songs? They are emotive, dramatic and lyrically serious downers way over yonder in the minor key. All things Elliot Smith and Aimee Mann and outside of exceptions like Queens "Best Friend" and George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun," pretty much every other song in the English language songbook.
Tραγούδι adds a little heft and veritas to the word "song" notable for its germanic pith, and which deserves some heft and veritas. There are lots of rules for what makes a tragedy a tragedy but the short of it from well known authority Aristotle is that a tragedy needs catharsis.
Catharsis is another word which springs from Greek and is a real friend as the fates would have it. The word for catharsis in Greek is κάθαρση (CATH-ar-see) Take away that "ess" sound from the word and you get Κάθαρη (KATH-ar-ee) which means "clean." So songs, or τραγούδια, could be about coming clean–about that moment of seeing things clearly, clarifying things. They could also be about purging, purifying, expurgation, ablution, absolution and in one colorful translation of the verb καθαρίζω (cath-ar-EE-zoh), defecating. And ideas like gloss, shine, sheen, shimmer, sparkle and lustration are all translations as well.
Lustration is a fun word. It's root is the latin word luster but why let that get in the way of the good old germanic lust hidden in that shine.
The turning point of catharsis useful to think about when writing songs. It's a crux, or inflection point. And it points to something that could be happening both to the characters and listeners before and after listening to a song. That they come into the song in one state and leave changed–hopefully for the better.
Dancing with Booger Mcfarland
I went to The Rocky Mountain Song School last week. I sat in Darrell Scott's class for four days as he listened to, and talked about song. Mary Gauthier taught in the neighboring tent. She was on fire about writing singable choruses. The word "chorus" got me thinking because it has Greek roots, and I've been learning Greek.
How does "chorus" translate into Greek? I put the words "song" and "chorus" together into the Google Beast's translator. Out the other end came: Χορωδία τραγουδιού. (Hor-oh-THEE-ah Tra-goo-thee-OO).
In certain plays, which include Oedipus Rex and Antigone, a χορωδία, (a chorus), is a group of people who comment on the action. Imagine ten or twelve Statler and Waldorfs from the Muppets talking together on stage. Or, if the NFL is your thing, try a gaggle of John Maddens and Booger McFarlands* calling the action.
The chorus as a peanut gallery is well noted, but what was news to me–and I maybe should have known–is that χορωδία is rooted in the word χορός (hor-OS), which means dance. Choreography is dance-writing. The chorus might also be the dance-y bit, the part of the song where people could come together and dance. I have some resistant to the idea of a danceable songs. It makes me think of people sweating in a club to Kesha. It's not my scene. (That's also, a little judgy on my part).
But there are lots of ways to come together and dance. You could ballroom dance, Big Apple, Bardo Chham and Belly. You could Cakewalk, Cat Daddy and Capoeira. You could Cha-cha, Charleston and do the Chicken. Circle, Square, Country or Western–what you need, dance has got it. You might even tango, two step, or tarantella while you watch yourself Gavotte.
Can you dance the fandango?
Trust me, you can!
Whether you come old flat top or groove it up slowly, the point of a chorus is coming together. It's to sing together. It's to dance together.
*Yep, Booger McFarland is some poor, benighted soul's actual name


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