Thank you for coming to say hello to us at the London Coffee Festival - we had a blast! In a sea of double espressos, we hope we were able to share a little of the magic of the little green leaf. To help your Dragonfly journey take flight, we're giving you the chance to win all of our delicious organic teas.
Entrants must be 18 years or older to enter. No purchase necessary, entry is only available online. Competition closes at 11:59pm Sunday 7th April 2019, entries received after this time and date will not be entered into the draw. One winner shall be selected at random and notified by email. The prize includes 18 packets of tea from Dragonfly Tea's Organic Range. No cash alternative and prize non-transferable and non-refundable. Only open to residents of the UK. Employees of Tea Times Trading Ltd are excluded from entering this competition.
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Yesterday, a high concept comedy that asks what the world would be like if The Beatles never formed or recorded an album, is a genial, engaging enough crowd pleaser, but only if you don't stop to think about it for even a nanosecond or take into account that it's made by a filmmaker punching well below his weight class.
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Well executed and performed, but ultimately hollow and meaningless, filmmaker Joe Berlinger's look back at the crimes of serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is a distressingly passive exercise to behold.
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To the Bone wants to be two very different things at once: one of them noble and important and the other hackneyed and clichéd. The feature directorial debut of television veteran and screenwriter Marti Noxon, To the Bone offers a deeply personal look at the struggles of anorexia through the lens of a filmmaker who once struggled with the disease herself. That aspect is the noble, well meaning, and imperfectly delivered one. It's just unfortunate that about half of To the Bone is a turgid, chaste, thoroughly unconvincing teen romance that bogs down a lot of good and necessary conversations that could be had from the material.
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During our NJ rehab center's over 40 years experience in addiction recovery, we have developed an addiction treatment program (including rehabilitation and detox coordination) that has proved successful for many clients and their families. Below is a description of our NJ rehab addiction recovery process and links to more information about our team, therapies, New Jersey rehab facilities and aftercare.
Intake is often the first interaction between a client and us and takes place over the phone. During intake, our admissions team conducts an interview to determine the severity of the client's addiction, current substance use, substance history, and family history. These factors help to determine the best addiction treatment plan. At this time we also begin to coordinate the insurance process and make financial and insurance arrangements.
Once a client is admitted to one of our addiction recovery programs, the alcoholism treatment or drug addiction treatment part of the recovery process begins. The average length of stay in one of our rehabilitation treatment centers in NJ or PA is from 30-90 days. During addiction treatment, clients learn to identify the underlying causes driving their addiction, and to address these issues in a constructive manner. The goal of rehabilitation treatment is to teach a new way of living, without alcohol or other drugs.
Each client is assigned to a counselor for individual therapy. The counselor will help identify and address the client's underlying addiction drivers, provide relapse prevention strategies, and create a sustainable long-term recovery plan.
In addition to individual therapy, Advanced Health and Education NJ rehab center offers group counseling sessions. Among other things, group counseling lets clients know that they are not alone in their struggle to recover from addiction. Group therapy can provide inspiration and a network of support, both of which are critical to the addiction recovery process.
Our rehab center in NJ also offers a program specifically designed for families of those suffering from addiction. A family's desire to see a loved one succeed and live a healthy life is a significant source of encouragement for the client. In our family therapy sessions, members discuss how they have been impacted by a loved one's addiction, and work to resolve issues so that they don't resurface when the client leaves rehabilitation treatment.
Recovery is a daily process that does not end with the completion of a treatment program at our rehab facility. Continued recovery support is essential to avoid relapse. Our counselors work with each client to establish an effective aftercare plan. Counselors and clients discuss a variety of aftercare strategies, including 12-step groups, sober living homes, continued therapy sessions, and sober life coaches.
Outcome studies reveal that clients who participate in "ongoing monitoring" programs after addiction treatment have the greatest chance of maintaining abstinence from alcohol and other substances. These services are mandatory for clients in certain professions, including healthcare, pilots, and transportation workers. Ongoing monitoring provides an added incentive and a much-needed boost in relapse prevention. At Advanced Health and Education NJ rehab center, we believe that these services should be incorporated into an aftercare plan for clients who are serious about recovering. We offer these services through our Alumni Association and certified case managers with whom we have relationships.
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Here's a commercial for ConnectiCare, a health insurance provider covering Connecticut and parts of Massachusetts, founded in 1981. Its headquarters are located in Farmington, CT. The commercial aired in April 1986.
This is a very good commercial.


I use my computer, BlackBerry, Cannon D10 camera and sometimes a tripod but 99% of the time my husband ;D Now, you may be wondering, why the D10? …such a random camera, right? Well, I originally purchased it for our honeymoon to Hawaii (the camera is waterproof) and well, my other camera died so I use this one. As a point and shoot, it's actually pretty amazing. I especially love how great detail shots in natural light turn out. It's not ideal for blogging but really, for now it gets the job done.
I swear by WordPress and I'm also an Adobe CS5 addict. For blogging, I primarily use Photoshop to edit tone, color, brightness and contrast as well as lens correction options. Since I use WordPress, I store all my photos there as well. I also love their BlackBerry app; it makes approving comments and quick new posts extremely easy.
What is your process for taking pictures?
It's not exactly the best process to say the least but it's efficient. Photos usually occur right before we leave for wherever we're heading to. That's why all my shots are on our stairs 🙂 lol sheer convenience.
When it comes to backdrops for your photos what do you consider? Do you scout locations or shoot the same spot daily?
I've been shooting at the same spot regularly, as I mentioned in the previous answer, our staircase. I would take the photos indoor but our décor is pretty dark; lots of dark cherry wood, grays and blacks (I swear it looks nice though lol just not great for blogging outfits). Our staircases obviously offer a nice light background so that my look/outfit is the focus. I actually vented to my husband the other night about how boring it seems so he brought up the idea of scouting locations. We'll probably try this out however; it really depends on our time and availability. Snapping a few shots before we leave is convenient and efficient… scouting out locations and setting time aside to take photos will probably be a process we'll need to work on and schedule in.
If you could splurge and get one new piece of equipment what would you be buying?
I'm determined to get a DSLR soon. I've had it on my wish list for years now (since the D40 was new on the market!) but plopping thousands of dollars down for a good camera (+ lenses) to blog with hasn't been a priority. I've had my eye on the D90, so we'll see 🙂 keeping my fingers crossed that I can get it sooner than later!
*the photo above really has nothing to do with this post 😛 and if anything, contradicts my writing seeing as it's indoors, taken with a tripod in front of a blank wall. Why don't I take more photos here? It's no longer blank… boo!
great q&a! i didn't invest in an slr til a little later in my blog, but now that i have one i really love it!


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Q: Is there a more precise approximation to $\frac{\sin(\pi y/360)}{\sin(\pi x/360)}$ than $\sqrt[90^2]{\frac{\pi}{2\sqrt2}}^{(x^2-y^2)}\frac{y}{x}$? If we have $s$ semicircle with the diameter $AB$ (with length $1$) and the center $O$, then we can approximate
$$\frac{\operatorname{chord} AC}{\operatorname{chord} AD} \;=\; \sqrt[90^2]{\frac{{\pi}}{2\sqrt{2}}}^{(x^2-y^2)}\cdot \frac{y}{x} \tag1$$
where $x$ represents the value of the $\angle AOC$, and $y$ represents the value of the angle $\angle AOD$, in degrees.
For example, if $x=60$ and $y=120$, we will get $1.7386\ldots$.

Is there formula with a more precise approximate value for $\dfrac{\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{360}y\right)}{\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{360}x\right)}$ than $(1)$?

A: Written in a more traditional way, your formula write
$$z_1=\dfrac{\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{360}y\right)}{\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{360}x\right)}=\frac y x\left(\frac{\pi }{2 \sqrt{2}}\right)^{\frac{x^2-y^2}{8100} }\tag 1$$ where $x$ and $y$ are in degrees.
Using Bhaskara sine approximation formula which was proposed more than $\color{red}{\large 1400}$ years ago, it would write
$$z_2=\dfrac{\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{360}y\right)}{\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{360}x\right)}=\frac y x\,\,\frac { (360-y)  }{ (360-x)  }\,\,\frac{y^2-360 y+162000 } {x^2-360 x+162000 }\tag 2$$ Applied to your case $y=120$ and $x=60$
$$(1) \implies \frac{8}{\pi ^{4/3}}=1.73870\implies \text{error }=0.38\text{%}$$
$$(2) \implies \frac{64}{37}=1.72973\implies \text{error }=0.13\text{%}\qquad \text{( 3 times better)}$$
Suppose now that $y=x+\epsilon$. Expanding as series, your formula would give
$$z_1=1+  \left(\frac{1}{x}-\frac{x \log (\pi )}{4050}+\frac{x \log
   (2)}{2700}\right)\epsilon+O\left(\epsilon ^2\right)$$ while
$$z_2=1+\frac{324000 (x-180) }{(x-360) x \left(x^2-360
   x+162000\right)} \epsilon +O\left(\epsilon ^2\right)$$ wile the exact would be
$$z= 1+\frac{1}{360} \pi  \cot \left(\frac{\pi  x}{360}\right) \epsilon +O\left(\epsilon
   ^2\right)$$ and this always favor $(2)$ compared to $(1)$.

A: (Note: You can read the last part 1st if you only want to get the better approximation.)
Let $$f(x, y) = \frac{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} y}{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} x}$$ to be the function we want to approximate.
We begin by observing that for all $u \in \mathbb{R}, n \in \mathbb{Z}$
$$\sin \left(u + n\frac{\pi}{2}\right) = \begin{cases}
\sin u \text{ when } n = 4k \text{ for some } k \\
\sin \left(\frac{\pi}{2} - u\right) \text{ when } n = 4k + 1 \text{ for some } k \\
-\sin u \text{ when } n = 4k + 2 \text{ for some } k \\
-\sin \left(\frac{\pi}{2} - u\right) \text{ when } n = 4k + 3 \text{ for some } k
\end{cases}$$
where $k \in \mathbb{Z}$.
Therefore,
$$f\left(x + 180n, y\right) =
\begin{cases}
f(x, y) \text{ when } n = 4k \text{ for some } k \\
f(180n - x, y) \text{ when } n = 4k + 1 \text{ for some } k \\
-f(x, y) \text{ when } n = 4k + 2 \text{ for some } k \\
-f(180n - x, y) \text{ when } n = 4k + 3 \text{ for some } k
\end{cases}$$
and
$$f\left(x, y + 180n\right) =
\begin{cases}
f(x, y) \text{ when } n = 4k \text{ for some } k \\
f(x, 180n - y) \text{ when } n = 4k + 1 \text{ for some } k \\
-f(x, y) \text{ when } n = 4k + 2 \text{ for some } k \\
-f(x, 180n - y) \text{ when } n = 4k + 3 \text{ for some } k
\end{cases}$$
where $k \in \mathbb{Z}$.
Hence we only need to care about the value of $f$ inside the square $(0, 180] \times [0, 180]$. We've excluded $x = 0$ because $f$ is not defined there.

By Taylor's theorem, we know $\sin \frac{\pi}{360} u$ has Taylor polynomial
$$T_{2n + 2}(u) = \sum_{k = 0}^{n} \frac{(-1)^k}{(2k + 1)!} \left(\frac{\pi}{360} u\right)^{2k + 1}$$
with remainder
$$|R_{2n + 2}(u)| \le \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360}\right)^{2n + 2} |u|^{2n + 2}}{(2n + 2)!} \le \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360}\right)^{2n + 2} 180^{2n + 2}}{(2n + 2)!} = \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)^{2n + 2}}{(2n + 2)!}$$
on the interval $[-180, 180]$.
Now the obvious thing to do is to let $$f_n(x, y) = \frac{T_{2n + 2}(y)}{T_{2n + 2}(x)}$$ be a sequence of approximations for $f$.
To show $f_n$ is a better approximation than your original one for large enough $n$, we need to prove uniform convergence of some kinds. Unfortunately, $(f_n)$ does not converge to $f$ uniformly on $(0, 180] \times [0, 180]$ because for large enough $n$ and $y = 180$, we have $\lim_{x \to 0^+} f_n(x, y) - f(x, y) = \pm \infty$. Instead, we will show that outside a strip of fixed width $\delta > 0$ near $x = 0$, we can approximate $f$ by $f_n$ as good as we want by choosing a large enough $n$.

Lemma
For any $\delta > 0$, no matter how small, $(f_n) \to f$ uniformly on $[\delta, 180] \times [0, 180]$.
Proof
Let $\delta, \varepsilon > 0$. WLOG assume $\delta, \varepsilon < 1$.
Choose $N \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $$\frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)^{2N + 2}}{(2N + 2)!} < \frac{\varepsilon \sin^2 \frac{\pi}{360} \delta}{4}$$
This is possible because $\lim_n \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)^{2n + 2}}{(2n + 2)!} = 0$. The same inequality also for holds for all $n \ge N$ because $\frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)^{2n + 2}}{(2n + 2)!}$ is increasing.
Now for each $n \ge N, x \in (0, 180], y \in [0, 180]$, we have the following:
As $\sin$ is increasing on $[0, \frac{\pi}{2}]$, we know $\sin \frac{\pi}{360} x$ is increasing on $[0, 180]$. Therefore, $$\sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta \le \sin \frac{\pi}{360} x$$ and hence $$\frac{1}{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} x} \ge \frac{1}{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta}$$ on $[\delta, 180]$.
Also,
$$\begin{align}
T_{2n + 2}(x)
&= \sin \frac{\pi}{360} x - R_{2n + 2}(x) \\
&\ge \sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta - |R_{2n + 2}(x)| \\
&\ge \sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)^{2n + 2}}{(2n + 2)!} \\
&\ge \sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta - \frac{\varepsilon \sin^2 \frac{\pi}{360} \delta}{4} \\
&\ge \sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta - \frac{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta}{4} \\
&> \frac{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta}{2}
\end{align}$$
and hence $$\frac{1}{T_{2n + 2}(x)} \le \frac{2}{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} \delta}$$ on $[\delta, 180]$.
Combining everything,
$$\begin{align}
|f_n(x, y) - f(x, y)|
&= \left|\frac{T_{2n + 2}(y)}{T_{2n + 2}(x)} - \frac{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} y}{ \sin \frac{\pi}{360} x}\right| \\
&= \left|\frac{T_{2n + 2}(y) \sin \frac{\pi}{360} x - T_{2n + 2}(x) \sin \frac{\pi}{360} y}{T_{2n + 2}(x) \sin \frac{\pi}{360} x}\right| \\
&\le \left|\frac{\sin \frac{\pi}{360} x \left(T_{2n + 2}(y)  - \sin \frac{\pi}{360} y\right) + \sin \frac{\pi}{360} y \left(\sin \frac{\pi}{360} x - T_{2n + 2}(x)\right)}{T_{2n + 2}(x) \sin \frac{\pi}{360} x}\right| \\
&\le \frac{\left|T_{2n + 2}(y)  - \sin \frac{\pi}{360} y\right| + \left|\sin \frac{\pi}{360} x - T_{2n + 2}(x)\right|}{|T_{2n + 2}(x)| \left|\sin \frac{\pi}{360} x\right|} \\
&\le \frac{2 \cdot \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)^{2n + 2}}{(2n + 2)!}}{|T_{2n + 2}(x)| \left|\sin \frac{\pi}{360} x\right|} \\
&\le 2 \cdot \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)^{2n + 2}}{(2n + 2)!} \frac{2}{\sin^2 \frac{\pi}{360} \delta} \\
&< 2 \cdot \frac{\varepsilon \sin^2 \frac{\pi}{360} \delta}{4} \frac{2}{\sin^2 \frac{\pi}{360} \delta} \\
&= \varepsilon
\end{align}$$

Let's apply the above to finally get our better approximation :) Say we set $\varepsilon = \delta = 0.0066445 < |f(60, 120) - 1.7386... |$ and choose $N = 8$ such that
$$\frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)^{2N + 2}}{(2N + 2)!} < \frac{\varepsilon \sin^2 \frac{\pi}{360} \delta}{4}$$
Then from the above,
$$f_8(x, y) = \frac{\frac{\pi}{360} y - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} y\right)^3}{3!} + \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} y\right)^5}{5!} - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} y\right)^7}{7!} \\ + \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} y\right)^9}{9!} - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} y\right)^{11}}{11!} + \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} y\right)^{13}}{13!} - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} y\right)^{15}}{15!}}{\frac{\pi}{360} x - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} x\right)^3}{3!} + \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} x\right)^5}{5!} - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} x\right)^7}{7!} \\ + \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} x\right)^9}{9!} - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} x\right)^{11}}{11!} + \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} x\right)^{13}}{13!} - \frac{\left(\frac{\pi}{360} x\right)^{15}}{15!}}$$
satisfies $|f_8(x, y) - f(x, y)| < 0.0066445$ on the rectangle $[0.0066445, 180] \times [0, 180]$. Therefore, $f_8$ is a better approximation than your original one on the rectangle $[0.0066445, 180] \times [0, 180]$, which is nearly all of $(0, 180] \times [0, 180]$. As an example, $|f_8(60, 120) - f(60, 120)| = 0.0000081535... < 0.0066445$.

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Breadcrumb LinksHomeTrine University News2020 NewsWebsite ranks TrineOnline programs eighth best in the nation
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Trine University's online degree programs are the eighth best among colleges and universities nationwide, according to a college ranking website.
CollegeTotal placed Trine, which offers associate, bachelor's and master's degrees through TrineOnline, eighth in its list of the 100 best online colleges and universities in the United States.
The website ranked public four-year universities and private four-year, not-for-profit colleges using academic, affordability and online learning criteria including graduation rates, retention rates and degrees offered.
"With online learning gaining so much attention this spring due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it is gratifying that Trine University is gaining more recognition as a leader in this area," said Keirsten Eberts, assistant vice president for TrineOnline. "We expect and hope that more people and organizations will take notice as we continue to add and develop academic programs."
TrineOnline programs have received national rankings by multiple organizations including U.S. News & World Report, Best Value Schools, Optimal Group, College Choice and Study.com.
For more information, visit trine.edu/online


The president preparing his car for the very first Segny-Monte Carlo rally.
Checking the levels of the Lancia Delta Integrale 16v.
Almost forgotten, the Champagne for the winners. Some things never change.
The Caterham still looking randy-dandy.
What was the question here, Roger? Pee down the cliff and estimate the hight?
Crossing the first of the many nice cols that would follow in this and the next rally's.
Reference point, hotel in a hairpin corner.
In front of the mythical hotel in Castellar.
Saturday before the race, visit to the Cannes film festival (no idea who she is).
What is wrong with this picture.


Standard rules for cleaning laminate don't apply when it comes to germs; passing a wet rag with dish detergent over the flooring will remove the grime, but a generic cleaner like this won't cut through the germs that produce it. Bacteria like mildew and mold are common in bathrooms and kitchens, but to get rid of them, you need to give them special treatment.
Here's how to clean laminate floors to give germs the boot and keep your household safe.
Although standard cleaning steps won't get to the root of germs, that doesn't mean you should bypass them completely. Start off with a vacuum and use the brush bar or attachment tool to remove dirt you can also sweep the laminate floor or use a dry mop. Then, apply an oil soap to tackle dirt and grime, as this item can get into the tiny grooves laminate often has on its surface. You can also use a Soft Wipe to get into the dusty corners and crevices of a room, or attach it to a sweeper mop. Once the floors are clean, you can move on to removing the germs themselves.
Kitchen sponges and dishcloths harbor bacteria that can get onto other surfaces if you reuse them frequently. Sinks routinely harbor this bacteria from dirty dishes and food leftovers. Bathroom moisture is a breeding ground for mildew and mold, as well. These two rooms are inviting of laminate for its stain resistance, and typically contain more germs than anywhere else in the home. Therefore, it's important to use the right cleaners on your floors to keep germs at bay. Here are a few.
Vinegar is a natural solution for getting to the bottom of germs. You can use a spray bottle with a mixture of water and vinegar, working your way slowly over the floors, one section at a time. Spray the area and then wipe with a moist rag. Or, fill a bucket with warm water and about half a cup of vinegar. Choose a mop you can wring out well and pass it over each section of the floor to remove germs that may have lingered for more than a few days.
Lemon works well on germs, too. Because laminate is so stain-resistant, germs can be more difficult to isolate in one spot on the floor. For this reason, it's important to use an effective agent that targets germs. Lemon is naturally acidic, as well, and can effectively break down the toughest bacteria.
Baking soda is ideal for getting at grease and grime, but it also functions as a deodorizer. Mix a little into your bucket of clean, warm water, and use it to mop the floor a final time once you've cleaned it with oil soap, vinegar or lemon.
Even though you don't have to follow the same precautions for limiting moisture on laminate floors while cleaning, Better Homes And Gardens advises homeowners to avoid wet mopping. Too much water on the floor can eventually damage the laminate's baseboards.
With the right cleaner in hand, you can learn how to clean laminate floors in a way that gives germs the boot each time. Prepare to never again worry about what's festering unseen on your kitchen and bathroom floors.


Obituary for Sophie A. (Greco) Ferrara | DeMarco-Stone Funeral Home Inc.
Sophie Greco Ferrara passed away peacefully on January 24, 2019 surrounded by her loving family. She was predeceased by her husband of 47 years, Thomas J. Ferrara, President and Founder of Genesee Bakery Supply Company, Albany, NY. The eldest daughter of Anthony and Anna (Castellano[KB1] ) Greco, Sophie was raised in Amsterdam, NY. She graduated from the College of Saint Rose, class of 1942, and enjoyed a long and successful tenure as a high school business teacher in both Amsterdam and Syracuse. In her early career, Sophie served as the Administrative Assistant to the Mayor of Amsterdam and spent several years during WWII in the Business Office for the US Army.
Devoted to her faith, Sophie was a communicant of St. Gabriel's Parish and a long-time member of the Saint Rita and Saint Sofia Societies affiliated with Saint Michael's Parish in Amsterdam. She was a proud member of the New York State Retired Teachers' Association and the Schenectady Alumni Chapter of the College of Saint Rose, and also served as an alumni volunteer at St. Clare's Hospital. In her free time, Sophie enjoyed sewing, knitting and teaching others the lost art of tatting. Most of all, Sophie treasured her time spent with family and friends. On Sundays, you could find her in the kitchen, cooking dinner to share with loved ones.
Sophie was born into a loving Italian family that maintained strong values centered on an outstanding work ethic, a strong faith and a dedication to family. She exemplified those values in every aspect of her life and has truly left a remarkable legacy for her children and grandchildren to follow.
Sophie is survived by her three children, Carmine Ferrara (Patricia) of Rotterdam, daughters Marianne O'Connor (James) of Westborough, MA, and Rita Dillon (James) of Guilderland, NY; brother, Daniel Greco of Amsterdam, NY; sister Olga Greco of Amsterdam; as well as her six beloved grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her brother Louis Greco, formerly of Rotterdam.
A calling hour will be held on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 from 10:15 – 11:15 am at St. Madeleine Sophie Church, 3500 Carman Rd., followed at 11:30 by a Mass of Christian Burial.
Burial will be in the spring at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Johnstown.
The family would like to extend their gratitude to the staff at Ingersoll Place, especially to Dr. Roberta Miller [KB2] for her kind care and compassionate support, and to Sophie's caregiver, Donna Connell, who brought laughter and positivity to each day they spent together. Sophie will always be loved, missed and remembered by her family and friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes memorial contributions made in honor of Sophie's life and legacy to the Thomas J. and Sophie G. Ferrara Memorial Scholarship C/O The College of Saint Rose, Office of Institutional Advancement, 432 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203.


Raw Loops has released Expressive Synths, a sample pack featuring over 160 bass, leads, percussive and sustained synth loops.
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Deze lijst van voetbalinterlands is een overzicht van alle officiële voetbalwedstrijden tussen de nationale teams van Bermuda en Saint Lucia. De landen speelden tot op heden een keer tegen elkaar. Dat was een kwalificatiewedstrijd voor de Caribbean Cup 1990 op 13 mei 1990 in Castries.

Wedstrijden

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Wedstrijden bepaald door strafschoppen worden, in lijn met de FIFA, als een gelijkspel gerekend.

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The debate over the best running form has gone on for many years. The best way to run is a style that employs good posture, conserves energy, and avoids injuries. Maintain a relaxed, upright position without leaning forward or back, which can strain your neck and core muscles. Keep your shoulders and arms loose—don't tense up and don't clench your hands. Avoid twisting your body as you run, and don't stretch your legs too far out with each step. Your gait should feel natural. As your running improves, your cadence, or number of foot strikes, should increase as well.
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Want to be Space Command's new home? Here are the criteria.
By Aaron Mehta
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has officially reopened the competition for cities that want to become the home for the new U.S. Space Command, with a self-nomination process that could allow dozens of localities to throw their hat in the ring.
Interested parties must make their submissions by June 30, and the Air Force plans to make a final decision in "early 2021," according to a letter signed by John Henderson, assistant secretary of the Air Force for installations, environment and energy.
Wherever Space Command lands will become home to roughly 1,400 military and civilian personnel, plus a likely number of well-paid contractors and industry representatives — a potential economic boom for which a number of locations are prepared to fight.
There are three minimum criteria that any location must meet:
The location must be within one of the 150 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S., based on 2019 population estimates from the Census Bureau.
The location must be within 25 miles or less of a military base.
The location must have a livability index score of at least 50 points out of 100, based on statistics kept by AARP's Public Policy Institute.
Any area that meets those requirements can make an attempt at landing Space Command, but then it will be individually graded on a 0-100 scale, with points broken down by four categories:
Mission related (40 points): This assessment will look at the "available qualified workforce, proximity to mutually supporting space entities, and ability of the eligible locations to provide emergency and incident response requirements, and enable mobility," per the release. Locations that already have a space-focused workforce would seem to have an edge here.
Infrastructure capacity (30 points): Everything from parking spaces and communications bandwidth to security requirements fall under this category, with a special emphasis on judging how well the closest military base will meet requirements for service members' medical care, childcare and housing needs.
Community support (15 points): Essentially, this is how judges will rank the local community in terms of school quality, cost of living and access to military support programs, among other factors.
Costs to the Department of the Air Force (15 points): How much will this cost to set up? One-time infrastructure costs, how much construction will cost in the area and the rate of basic housing allowance factor in here. As with the first category, a preexisting infrastructure for space issues could be a benefit.
A leaked 2019 memo of potential bases listed four locations in Colorado — Buckley Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Peterson Air Force Base (the command's temporary home as of now) and Schriever Air Force Base — as well as the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Alabama and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. That list angered a Florida delegation, which began a heavy push to reenter consideration.
The options seemed locked until March, when Space Force Vice Commander Lt. Gen. David Thompson told the House Armed Services Committee that he received instructions to reopen the competition. Days later, Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., challenged Defense Secretary Mark Esper on whether the decision to restart the process is based in trying to win votes for Republicans in the November elections.
Esper denied that politics played a role in the decision to take another look at the process, telling Jones at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in March: "I'm the one who did it. It was my initiative, simply to make sure that [there's] transparency and buy-in and consent with the process."
In a statement, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said the revised approach "considers the newly established U.S. Space Force emerging organizational structure and analyzes its effects on the limited number of highly specialized personnel and infrastructure required to support both the Space Force and Space Command. Additionally, the approach expands the number of locations eligible for consideration to host the permanent U.S. Space Command headquarters, and provides a comprehensive and transparent analysis before selecting a final location."
About Aaron Mehta
Aaron Mehta was deputy editor and senior Pentagon correspondent for Defense News, covering policy, strategy and acquisition at the highest levels of the Defense Department and its international partners.
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In aquaponics – the integration of aquaculture with hydroponics – the nutrient mass balance is an important aspect to consider and monitor. Generally most attention focuses on nutrient deficiencies. However, unbalanced excess amounts of nutrients in general and sodiumchloride (NaCl) in particular may lead to accumulations and affect plant productivity. We are looking for PhD or early career postdoctoral researchers (less than 8 years since the award of the PhD) who are motivated, committed to innovative research and who are interested in conducting an in-depth experiment focusing on nutrient level evolution and plant (tomato and lettuce) production in aquaponics by integrating aquaculture water and aerobically mineralized manure from our pikeperch RAS.
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Blue Valentine: Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams portray characters at both the beginning and end of a relationship.
Career Girls: A strange but masterful film by Mike Leigh about two college students still forming themselves as people and their meet-up many years later. Like all Mike Leigh films, the naturalistic acting makes you realize how stylized most movie acting really is.


Melinda joined CNDC in September 1999 as the first president of the organization. With over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, she has served on a number of boards and committees across the state, including the Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships, the Governor's Commission on Community Service and the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors Steering Committee. Prior to leading CNDC, Melinda served as the executive director of Partners, Inc., an association of Colorado mentoring programs for at-risk youth. She has also served as the coordinator of the Center for Service Learning at Regis University. Melinda is a 2001 graduate of Leadership Denver and El Pomar Foundation's Nonprofit Executive Leadership Program. She is also a 2006 recipient of a Johnston R. Livingston Fellowship, an initiative of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. Melinda received her master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver. Away from CNDC, Melinda enjoys spending time with her daughters, friends and family, yoga and hiking.
Kevin brings 15 years of experience in banking, finance and accounting to his role as CNDC's Chief Financial Officer. He is a licensed CPA and CGMA with a background in auditing and consulting in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Additionally, Kevin has an extensive background volunteering with and serving on boards and committees for non-profit organizations, including serving most recently as the President of the Board of Trustees for Holy Names Music Center, a non-profit community music school in Spokane, Wash. Kevin considers himself a lifelong Kiwanian and has held various leadership positions within the broader K-Family since his initial involvement in the Key Club at his high school in Montana. His affiliation with Kiwanis has allowed him to touch a number of nonprofit organizations and helps to fulfill his desire to give back to the community. A graduate of Gonzaga University, Kevin has also completed Comer & Associates' ADVANCE management and leadership effectiveness program.
Angela has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 10 years, most recently as the executive director of the Denver Regional Mobility and Access Council (DRMAC), a Project of CNDC. During her four years at DRMAC, Angela helped grow the organization from one to five employees, created new programs, and more than doubled the Project's budget. Prior to DRMAC, Angela was the Heartland Tree Alliance Manager at Bridging the Gap in Kansas City, Mo. She has served on a number of board and committees throughout her career, and now volunteers with several local organizations, including the Whittier Neighborhood Association, where she resides. Angela has also completed the Mountain States Employers Council Executive Leadership program, and has a master's in Public Administration with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management. Away from work, Angela enjoys gardening, hiking and traveling.
Since 2006, Rachel has worked in various accounting and finance related roles in the nonprofit sector in and around the Denver metro area. Beginning with a neighborhood youth organization, Rachel's work has supported missions including bird conservation research, educational system development and specific health concerns. She joined CNDC in 2018 as a Staff Accountant. In addition to her interest in accounting and finance, she spends her free time with family and friends.
Sandi joined CNDC in March of 2018, and is excited to work with nonprofit communities in Colorado. She holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting and most recently worked as compensation analyst for Comcast Business. Sandi has a diverse background including human resources, payroll, and management. She recently served as President on the Board of Directors for a local community band, and enjoys playing French horn and trombone. In her free time, Sandi also enjoys golfing and spending time with family and friends.
Debbie started working for CNDC in July 2017. Debbie brings over 20 years of broad HR experience, starting her career with Mobil Oil, working for engineering services companies (ENGlobal and Willbros Upstream Engineering), a Defense Contractor that supported IT services for the Air Force and a PEO in their benefits department. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Metropolitan State University. Debbie is looking forward to working in the nonprofit sector to meet purpose driven individuals and be to be a part of what they do. Outside of the office she enjoys spending time with her daughter, friends and family, the outdoors, and traveling.
Linda comes to the CNDC team bringing significant accounting experience working with both for profit and nonprofit organizations. Since joining CNDC in 2014, Linda has enjoyed using her talents to help CNDC and its Projects contribute to Colorado communities. Her passions outside of work include bicycling (she has participated in a number of bicycle tours, both international and domestic), travel and theater. Linda is a native of Washington and a graduate of the University of Washington.
Will joined CNDC as an Office Assistant to help ensure everyday operations run smoothly for our staff and partnering Projects. Prior to working for CNDC, Will was a substitute teacher with Denver Public Schools and an expedition leader for an adventure travel company. Originally from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Will graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a B.A. in Communication. Away from the office, he enjoys snowboarding, honing his golf game and following the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Peregin has worked in accounting/finance roles for over a decade, including time with Denver Public Schools and work as an underwriter. In her role with CNDC, Peregin works with a number of our Projects to provide feedback and guidance on questions surrounding Project financials and grants. She finds the altruistic nature of the work CNDC does to support nonprofits particularly gratifying, as it aligns with her own beliefs and values. Peregin has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. She is originally from Erie, Penn. and is a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan. In her spare time she enjoys reading historical fiction and staring at the stars. She is also the proud mother of two daughters and two cats, Jabba The Hut and Lulu.
Liz began as a staff accountant at CNDC in 2014 and was named senior staff accountant in 2016. She holds a degree in Accounting from Strathmore College in Nairobi, Kenya, and has nearly a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector. Liz was previously the Business Manager at Royal Pal Academy in Naples, FL. In addition to her business background, Liz brings a passion for volunteering to her role at CNDC, including mentoring with the Boys and Girls Club as well as time spent volunteering with Rural Community Development Program where she worked with disadvantaged children in Southeast Asia. Aside from keeping in touch with her large family in the United States, Kenya, and Europe, Liz also enjoys reading, watching sports, and enjoying the outdoors. She was drawn to work at CNDC because of her interest in making a positive change in the community by providing Projects with the support they need to develop their individual communities.
Tammy has enjoyed a long career in Finance. Prior to joining CNDC, she served as a financial analyst at companies including Fluor and Kiewit Corporations, Level3 Communications, and American Truck Business Services. Tammy deeply values her role in the nonprofit sector and particularly appreciates CNDC's role in positively impacting children, schools and communities here in Colorado. Outside the office, she enjoys walking and hiking with her dogs, going hunting and fly fishing, and is an avid Steelers fan.
Rebekah joined CNDC in 2018 and is thrilled to be working for a nonprofit and being able to help communities throughout Colorado. Prior to working at CNDC, Rebekah worked for a travel company where she discovered her interest and passion for accounts payable. Rebekah recently relocated from Wisconsin where she graduated from the University Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Outside of the office Rebekah enjoys exploring Denver and the nearby mountains with her husband and dog.
Emma joined CNDC in May 2017 as Program Coordinator. In her current role as Program Manager, she manages the AmeriCorps VISTA program, supports the grant submission and award process, and advises Projects on nonprofit best practices. Emma previously worked for an organization that promotes women's leadership in professional services and a nonprofit advocating for the increased participation of women in politics. Emma holds a bachelor's degree in International Affairs from James Madison University and is an alumna of the Elevate Denver leadership program. Outside of the office, she enjoys yoga, travel, and taking advantage of all the outdoor activities Colorado offers.
Mike joined CNDC in November 2018 as Senior Program Manager. He brings over 30 years of nonprofit experience to this role, most recently serving as the Executive Director of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA). Prior to IMBA, Mike implemented chapter and affiliate programs and capacity building efforts for both the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the American Diabetes Association. Originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mike has resided in Colorado since 1983 with his wife and three grown children. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. An outdoor enthusiast, Mike enjoys much of what Colorado has to offer – cycling, camping, hiking, hunting, fishing, skiing, and most especially, mountain biking.
Nina started with CNDC in 2018 Nina moved to Colorado this year from Washington DC and wanted to continue her career in the non-profit sector. As the Office/HR assistant Nina helps keep the office running smoothly and processes employee data. Outside of the office Nina enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and dog, reading historical fiction, and finding fun places to eat.
After finishing a year of service with the Colorado Reading Corps, Riley joined CNDC as a VISTA Leader in July 2018. She believes in the AmeriCorps pledge to keep "getting things done," and is ready to support VISTA members as they complete their own terms of service. Riley is a poet and spends any available time writing, reading, or editing. She's inspired by the weird, the hardworking, and anyone who can be on time when their alarm goes off half an hour late.
Dale works exclusively with CNDC's Nonprofit Support Services clients. He holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Iowa State University. Dale previously worked as a staff accountant in the skincare industry. As bookkeeper with CNDC, Dale's role involves working with our Accounting clients to provide services including maintenance of accounts, payroll, and preparation of annual financial statements and tax documents. He says that his work, as well as the people and positive culture in the CNDC office, have him looking forward to coming to work each day. Outside the office, Dale is an active volunteer with Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue and is also a certified Massage Therapist.


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Economy: Privatization can stimulate FDI, Teriba tells Nigerian Government
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A leading economist and the Chief Executive Officer of Economic Associates, Dr. Ayo Teriba, has called for the opening of the Nigerian economy through privatisation which stimulates foreign direct investment(FDI).
"Privatisation is the tool which most countries use to check their liquidity issue and beef up the economy and Nigeria can also do the same by privatising some of her key sectors", Teriba stated, adding that a macro-economic approach to privatisation is ideal.
Speaking as a Guest Lecturer at a two-day retreat with the theme Rediscovery and Repositioning organised by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) in Abuja on August 18-19, 2017, he explained that illiquidity is the country's main challenge. Said he: "To solve Nigeria's liquidity problem, she needs foreign exchange inflow. Nigeria's annual export revenue has been halved. Nigeria's problem is that other problems are symptoms of the (liquidity) problem. Recession is reflecting a liquidity shortage."
He pointed out that privatisation is now the trend the world over; citing Saudi Arabia and India which plan to privatise some of their critical sectors to raise funds to develop their economies. Teriba explained that Saudi Arabia avoided recession because of its huge foreign reserves. Saudi Arabia plans to raise about $200 billion through the privatization of 16 sectors ranging from healthcare and airports to education.
The renowned economist noted that Nigeria relies almost exclusively on volatile export revenue and neglected opportunities to attract massive and more stable diaspora and FDI inflows, whereas "non-resident Indians and Chinese invest massively at home to fund economic recovery and growth efforts of their respective countries." He queried why it did not occur to Nigeria to do the same before now.
Teriba recalled that Nigeria used to attract more FDI than India, South Korea, South Africa and UAE but noted that these countries have now overtaken Nigeria. He called for the opening up of the vents for investment to flow by breaking all government monopolies as has been done in telecommunication and power sectors.
"China's inward FDI stock rose from $20bn in 1990 to $1.08trillion in 2015 and Nigeria held nearly half of what China held in 1990 but held only nine percent of what China held in 2015. Where did we go wrong?" he asked.
Teriba further revealed that although Nigeria has about N100 trillion in her economy, it was not evenly distributed and suggested that instead of the present agitation for political restructuring, those in its vanguard should agitate for sectoral, resource and revenue restructuring.
Declaring the retreat open, the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mr. Alex A. Okoh, said the aim is to help the Bureau in applying a different kind of thinking by involving every member of the BPE family in a strategic episode where "we can together build a bridge between the dream of a new BPE and the actions that we must collectively take to make that dream a reality".
This new vision for the Bureau is hinged on the two pillars of the new vision of the Bureau—Rediscovery and Repositioning. The rediscovery pillar, the DG said would lead the Bureau to retrace and redefine its core values and reclaim its culture of professionalism, knowledge, competence, integrity and transparency. The repositioning pillar, on the other hand, aims to set the Bureau on a path that would help it engage with the future effectively and with confidence, to guarantee that its objectives are achieved.
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What Does Liberation Look Like?
First published on Slate, June 24, 2015. Read the original here.
Walk along Waverly Place in New York City's West Village and you'll hit the narrow end of Christopher Park, a sharp shard of public land inhabited by four lovely but melancholy figures. Covered in white plaster, they are clustered in pairs: two men, standing, and two women, seated. They're called "Gay Liberation"—but there's nothing liberatory about them. With their mournful expressions and restrained physical contact, they seem more like a vision of gay tolerance, liberation's anemic shadow.
The artist who made them, George Segal, was known for creating these white plastered sculptures, which made for powerful silent monuments to the Holocaust and the Kent State Massacre. But that quiet solemnity fails here. These pairs of gay men and lesbians seem more depressed than liberated. Their mild physical affection seems at most avuncular, like the firm yet inhibited shoulder squeeze you might give a co-worker who just found out they have cancer. This is liberation of the most limited kind, the sort that frees you to live alone with your cat or your collection of Broadway cast albums.
But often, this is the only publically acceptable face for homosexuality: neutered, safe, and perfectly indistinguishable from a straight person. I'm not saying that nattily-dressed, "proper" men and women have no role in gay liberation. If you want to see some respectable revolutionaries, just look at the photos of Kay Tobin Lahusen, the letters of Lorraine Hansbury, or the protests of the Mattachine Society. After decades of being told they were inherently disordered or intrinsically immoral, their very normality was, in and of itself, a radical act—a way of announcing "we are everywhere."
But those statues sit in Christopher Park to commemorate the Stonewall Rebellion, an anti-police-harassment riot led by nelly chorus boys, outspoken trans women like Marsha P. Johnson, and old-school butch dykes—the people black lesbian feminist scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs calls "the never straight." At Stonewall, as is often the case in moments of police violence, it was those with the least social capital (the poor, the genderqueer, and the people of color) who fought back. They are the ones who can't (or won't) pass, assimilate, or hide. They are the most likely to be abused and the least likely to be memorialized. They are the ancestors who paid the price for our freedom—and they're still paying it today (or perhaps you haven't heard about the string of murders and suicides that have rocked the trans community this year).
The movement for LGBTQ rights has spent decades tacking between two poles, one that asks for tolerance and another that demands liberation. Tolerance means being accepted based on how convincingly you can wear the drag of the mainstream; liberation means being accepted on your own terms. It is dangerously easy to confuse one for the other—indeed, it seems many of us make that mistake daily. Today, gays can serve in the military, and very soon the Supreme Court is likely to legalize same-sex marriage across the country. I won't argue that these rights aren't important, but look at what we still don't have: In 28 states, discrimination based on sexual orientation is still legal, and in 31 states, it's legal to discriminate against transgender people. This is the line between tolerance and liberation: Whether you have the freedom to be like everyone else, or the freedom to be yourself.
At a time when our country is once again rocked by riots demanding justice from a broken system, it's critical that we celebrate not just the sterile concept of liberation, but its messy reality. Chains don't break themselves, and they don't go quietly. By reducing the shouts of gay power to the whispers of tolerance, we prevent ourselves from understanding what it takes to actually make change in this world. If, in the West Village in 1969 liberation looked like a quiet conversation, as Segal's statues suggest, how can we understand Baltimore or Ferguson or even Zuccotti Park? How can we be prepared for the next time we need to take to the streets—or even know when that moment arrives? How can we prevent ourselves from being held up as the new "model minority" and used as a stick against communities that are fighting for their freedom today?
Public memorials should help us remember and understand our history, so that we can use it to guide us to a better future. Segal's sculpture was controversial in its day; so much so, in fact, that it took years to overcome protests and have it installed. But now it sends the wrong message. Where is the sculptor who will show us what liberation looks like today? Where is the monument that will guide us toward more freedom, for more people? It is no easy task to physicalize the joy and power that come with freedom, while simultaneously leaping over the pitfalls of representation to speak broadly to the LGBTQ community—but surely some sculptor is up to the challenge.
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Q: Does Magento 2 always transliterate product url keys or only when generating it? In our Magento 2.2.9 shop when updating a products url_key it has been transliterated automatically to remove spaces, umlauts, etc.. We now updated to 2.3.3 and this behavior stopped working.
I checked with vanilla 2.2.9 and 2.3.3 instances and when updating a url_key for a product it is not transliterated. So it seems this has never been a feature of Magento but we do not recall implementing such a feature.
I do know Magento transliterates the url_key when generating it based on the product name but has it ever been (or is) a feature of Magento that the url_key is always transliterated e.g. when updating or saving it manually?

A: Until Magento versions 2.2.9 and 2.3.3 Magento did always transliterate the url keys of products, whenever the event catalog_product_save_before was called. The responsible code can be found here (observer) and here (here the transliteration is called).
In this commit it has been changed and it only transliterates the url key if it's not null. If you save a product with a url key, e.g. when you want to update it, it will not be transliterated.
In my opinion this is a bug so I opened an issue on github.


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The World's End
(SPOILERS) It's perhaps inevitable that The World's End should be the Pegg/Wright/Frost film where the hype finally catches up with them. They've been in the vanguard of can-do nerds for a long while based purely on past glories; the third part in their Cornetto trilogy has assumed a status of legendary anticipation. And, for many, they can do no wrong (hey, as a collective they had a three-for-three success so I was buying into it). The problem with that assumed weight is that they've decided they're not just funny guys but artists too, so they need to make sure there's a commentary in their movie; it's about something. It can't just be a witty genre riff with lip service to an emotional undertow. So they find themselves testing their mettle like never before, and the result is a bit of a mess.
The ever-expanding status of Wright and Pegg as uber-geeks du jour in the States has embedded them in fan consciousness as a duo that can do no wrong. Their every pronouncement is nursed as the most sage erudition ever on any given (geek) subject and they will concordantly be forgiven the gravest of sins as they're "one of us" (Scotty, anyone?) The cult appeal of Shaun of the Dead across the Pond ignited a retrospective slavering over Spaced, which felt not a little tiresome for anyone who'd caught it at entrance level more than five years earlier. Then Hot Fuzz came out, just as Pegg (in particular) was on the receiving end of fledgling endorsement from the geek empire builders (Tarantino, Abrams, Spielberg). In the six years since, there's been Star Trek and Wright's confirmation as cult miracle-doer in the everybody-loves-it flop Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Frost had to make do with ever-so-slightly-grumbling third man status, lacking the creative flair of Wright or the easy-going charisma of Pegg. Still, he co-wrote Paul with Pegg; a crude, fellatory love letter to the country that has taken them to its bosom. The irony is that Paul, as lacking in flair and wit as it is, may be a more satisfying movie than The World's End. At least it knows what it wants to be, and firmly rests on those self-congratulatory laurels. Wright's new film strains to make a serious point so ends up looking faintly ridiculous, guilty of the same lack of self-awareness that the trio used to mock.
And surely going to the sci-fi well twice in a row was a sign of creative drought? It doesn't matter that E.T. isn't Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or that the violence inflicted on not-humans recalls Shaun. There's a sense that they aren't really trying very hard. There's nothing wrong in writing what you know (ask Woody Allen), but there's a danger that eventually it may expose you as having very little to say. Probably Wright and Pegg are aware of this; they're nothing if not savvy. So World's End is really about recognising (or not) that you're growing up.
We've heard their sound bites about 40 being the new 30, and commenting on man-child comedies that fail to make their hero pay a price. But I don't really think that Gary King (Pegg) is such a break from that. The norm is that the protagonist will eventually learn that he needs to take responsibility, and reflect the felicitations of his long-suffering (would-be) amour. He might even endorse the idea of starting a family. Wright and Pegg make King an out-and-out jerk; he's not a faintly loveable schlub, even though he comes out with many of Pegg's usual one-liners. He's a tiresome twat. One might argue that's a bold move, and it can work if you're a charm machine beneath it all (Nicholson in As Good As It Gets) who just needs a bit of poking to show his good side beneath it all. Even bolder, one might argue, to include no such journey. But where does that leave the audience?
Again, Pegg and Wright must be aware of this to some extent, which is why they turn Gary into a hero despite himself. Not an anti-hero of the Bruce Campbell Evil Dead variety; Gary has neither the self-awareness nor the screwball charm of Ash (though he's clearly the goal, as the epilogue shows). It doesn't compute; if it all ended in self-sacrifice it might give him validation. Instead, the fantasy apocalypse of Garyreliving his youth nurses two opposing impulses. Look, say Pegg and Wright, Gary can't grow up; how sad is that? But visually they are saying the opposite. Look, Gary can't grow up; how cool is that? I don't think this is born out of great cleverness on their part, it's because they fumble the ball they're attempting to run with. It was too much for them, and they retreat to a safer ground.
It's no doubt an honourable intention to mix things up by having Pegg play the dickhead and Frost the straight man, but in Shaun of the Dead Frost wasn't playing the central character. You could get away with him being an obnoxious arsehole as comic relief. In theory, the first half of the film should have been the best part as it's all relationship comedy, but Pegg is such an (intentional) annoyance to be around that much of it falls flat. I could feel the scenes stretch out deathlessly. We, the audience, are put in the position of his reluctant childhood friends, wondering why on earth we've spent good money to sit in his company. It's not that this kind of ingratiating comedy can't work, but if all the character amounts to is a cock (as Frost's Andrew Knightley puts it) it's difficult to cast about for a rich vein of comedy. If you're Mike Leigh, aiming for a bittersweet™ affair, that's one thing, but maudlin character dissection isn't this duo's forte. The movie finds itself caught between two stools; it isn't clever or insightful enough to be affecting (Gary is a much less intricate character than Bradley Cooper's in the no less fantasyland but much more charming Silver Linings Playbook) and not funny enough to really lift off.
Many of the ripostes to such naysaying will be that I don't want Wright and Pegg to try something different, that I just want Shaun, or the Paul dynamic between Pegg and Frost, reheated again and again. But it's not that; I want them to play to their strengths, and it's very clear that they have a very narrow field to play in outside of the straightforward geek-matey comedy that made them such successes. Indeed, I increasingly suspect that the lack of Jessica Stevenson/Hynes in the creative mix spotlights all their shortcomings. She brought an emotional sincerity to Spaced (at its best) that is absent from everything the lads together have done, even when it's a straightforward paean to the value of friendship.
So, when the plot switches to science fiction (at a point beginning with a replay of the "Too orangey for crows" scenario from Spaced), Gary's aptitude for genuine heroics feels wrong. Suddenly he's a fully equipped and capable action man. Yes, he's a dick, but he's a dick to get behind. Is that what Pegg and Wright are saying? Many of the "real" moments during this section just don't play because they are shoehorned in with shocking lack of finesse. Quite apart from doubt over whether Andrew has progressed to the point where he would forgive Gary, the climactic heart to heart between the two falls flat because Frost isn't nearly a good enough actor. And there's a repetitiveness to the arguments and labouring of the sci-fi tropes (the obligatory "Are you one of them?" scene is an opportunity for comedy gold, but falls curiously flat, even aside from the need to undercut it by telling us –yet again – how fucked up Gary is). Both gags (Gary's mum) and emotional beats are overly telegraphed (the bandages; but without provoking empathy for Gary along the way) and the fight between Gary and Andrew over the final pint is tiresome and pointless (is it supposed to be a homage to They Live!)?
If there were any real substance to the characters, or progression, there'd be no need for the sci-fi hook at all. But the result is that the mid-section, with full-on dismemberments and blue lubricant flying everywhere, is by far the most entertaining. Wright achieves a sense of breathless escalation even if there's never the claustrophobia of Shaun. He even muddies his usual clean, precise shooting style by opting for Bourne-esque handheld camera (the stunt work, from Brad Allan, is delightfully choreographed, but you want to be able to see it clearly). Maybe he thinks he's maturing by becoming less distinct (although you couldn't argue that of Scott Pilgrim, a visual feast) but often Wright lacks the playfulness and wit with his visual grammar seen in earlier work. Has he cast off childish things? If so it's a shame, as he frequently resembles one of the crowd here. Even Bill Pope's cinematography is variable, while the climactic effects extravaganza is unnecessary and unconvincing.
Frost's at his best during the midsection, becoming a one-man war machine, and his action set pieces in particular are frenetic and invigorating. The other main players are all good fun; it's particularly nice to see Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan in such sympathetic roles, but they're only really filling out walking clichés (the guy who could never tell the girl he love her, the bullied boy who takes revenge – and is then punished for it, or is he?) Martin Freeman has some fun with his anal estate agent and Rosamund Pike fits in well with the lads, even if she has little to make her character distinct. There are some nice little guest spots from regulars of Pegg & co (Mark Heap, Michael Smiley) and Pierce Brosnan and David Bradley make the most of their guest spots. I was amused to see that no attempt is made to disguise the fact that Pegg's younger counterpart is considerably taller than him.
If the Body Snatchers-on-a-pub-crawl section elicits a consistent run of chuckles and hoots, it all falls apart in the final act. The writers settle for a Douglas Adams-on-the-piss confrontation with the alien infiltrator (voiced by Bill Nighy) that only succeeds in producing a tiresomely familiar but uncouth version of the "gloriously individual thing about humans" speech we've heard a thousand times before (usually from Captain Kirk). It's resonant of a bad episode of Red Dwarf (not hard to find) and has a disappointingly "That'll do" quality.
Things get worse with an epilogue that's not only a cheap rip-off of the best of the two endings of Army of Darkness but makes Pegg's character even less sympathetic. As noted, it could be read as an admirable break from the standard move on one level (his emotional journey is one of retardation) but it actually serves to make him reprehensible for the sake of a cool endnote. What, are he and his robot chums going to slaughter a bar full of humans and we're supposed to think it's great? And if we're not, what was the point of shooting it in such an exulting fashion? In general, the epilogue fails through trying to wrap everything in a bow. It provides closure to even the "fallen heroes" in a way Steven "Everybody lives" Moffat would be proud of, but confirms how shot away any attempts at depth are (it shouldn't need to be a conversation in a Pegg-Wright comedy, but they're inviting the brickbats this time). That said, Freeman with half a football on his head is hilarious.
A few other aspects gave me pause. There seems to be a slightly queasy undercurrent of revelling in the excuse to beat up (blue-juiced, robot) women that reaches its peak point when the doppelganger of Andrew's childhood lust object invites him to stick it in her and he pushes his fist through her guts. It's a celebratory moment that leaves an unpleasant aftertaste. Further adding to the lack of sound judgement is Steven Price's score, which has all the subtlety of Murray Gold Overdrive. It floods over every scene, making the meaningful exchanges unbearably cloying and false. It's as if Pegg and Wright have been possessed by the lowest common denominator of the broadest US comedies, where every intention has to be broadcast loud and clear. Compared to the lightness of touch they started out with, it's alarming to see them weighed down by the self-importance of assuming they are saying something profound.
If you've reached heady heights, it can only be all the more disappointing when you falter. It just happens to be Pegg and Wright's turn. Nothing in The World's End quite feels spontaneous; there's never a sense that they really want to be telling this story. Purely conceptually, the science fiction plot never fits as seamlessly as the zombie one did in Shaun. Maybe because the alienation one is so obvious (both Pegg and Pike come out and say it) that the writers didn't spend enough time making it stand on its own two feet. And, in terms of the lead protagonist, having everyone recognise what a tool he is only goes to underline that his antics are fairly insufferable. This may all sound churlish, as there are a lot of good laughs in the pot they've brewed. And it may knit together better on repeat viewing. But The World's End takes a far distant third place in the Cornetto Trilogy.
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AWS Lambda and the Evolution of the Cloud
For several years, cloud adoption by developers, tech companies, and enterprises has been gaining momentum. Global cloud spending is accelerating and market forecasts are impressive. The cloud is often thought of as a collection of remote data centers. It's generally used that way by organizations when they first experiment with it—or even when they move whole applications to it.
Not surprisingly, cloud service providers offer familiar topologies of services for folks conversant with the data center: virtual machines and containers, virtual networks, load balancers, etc. But, these really are metaphors rather than the traditional things they resemble on data floors. They are useful abstractions in composing applications with semi-traditional architectures. The metaphors nevertheless are imperfect. Compared with their on-premise equivalents, the cloud forms of these services have different behaviors, semantics, and best practices associated with them. However, those cloud forms are relatively easy to wrap your mind around if you're already familiar with the concepts.
We're in a transitional period with cloud computing, where metaphors are needed to conceptualize what is offered. This period doesn't represent an end-state by any means. It's likely that we are still in an invention phase of the cloud and will be for several more years at least. Ultimately, perhaps the cloud is better imagined as our first, planet-scale distributed computer. Services like AWS Lambda arguably are starting to demonstrate this idea.
Lambda and Serverless Infrastructure
If you're unfamiliar with Lambda, it's what has been termed a "serverless" computing service from AWS, which uses events to drive resource allocation and computation. Lambda is named after functions from lambda calculus and programming. Those functions act as a good analogy for the service. In Lambda, you write a function and connect it to other services, such as API Gateway, S3, Kinesis, EC2, etc., in order to compose part of an application. These functions must be internally stateless. They are billed on a 100ms basis, meaning you only pay for what you really use, which is the principal economic benefit of utility/cloud computing. Lambda also scales to whatever is needed for your service, making architecting for scale significantly easier than with provisioned compute instances or containers.
You may be wondering whether Lambda is similar to Heroku or even Google Application Engine. Not really. There are some key differences that make it unlike a PaaS service. Lambda is an opinionated service regarding application architecture in a way that traditional PaaS offerings aren't. It doesn't pretend to be a traditional computer or cluster of traditional computers. Instead, Lambda is event-driven by nature and imposes statelessness at the function level. This means you'll need to think a little differently about how to compose an application. You gain near infinite scalability and very low cost compared to compute instances or containers. As a trade-off, you commit time to learning, but may very well invent some new patterns during your experimentation and inquiry.
Let's first dig into the fact that Lambda is event-driven. This means thinking of your application as a collection of functions that are triggered by events, either from users of the system or from changes to state in the system. Events from users are easy to relate to—a user performs an action and an event is fired. Events from changes to system state are something like a database trigger, in that changes to the persistence services fire events for functions that are registered to them. This event-driven style of architecture effectively allows for infinite scaling when coupled with stateless functions.
Second, Lambda is stateless in that no data is preserved on the instance once the function is run. As state isn't maintained in the Lambda functions, other services such as DynamoDB are used in a Lambda application. This divides the application architecture between state and computation. In the past, we have tended to mix these more liberally and have separated concerns more around business functions. If you're used to object-oriented programming, this merger of data and logic is the central compositional pattern in most cases, so designing and programming with Lambda might feel pretty alien. But keep in mind the huge benefits.
Microservice or Lambda Patterns?
While this post isn't a tutorial, it might be useful to describe how a traditional set of functions in a web application could map to Lambda at a high level. Imagine that you have a shopping cart on your web application. In a microservice web app, you might have an add-to-cart operation running on the same machine as the cart-status and display-cart operations. When a user adds an item to the cart, the add-to-cart operation is called, which puts a record into the database. The cart-status operation is then called to show that the cart now has an item in it. If the cart is clicked on, the display-cart operation is called to show the contents. The data flow is within the EC2 instance or container that has the shopping-cart service, in-memory in this simplified example shown here:
With Lambda, the three operations are written as Lambda functions, with a slightly different data flow. API Gateway is used to route the user interactions with the system to the appropriate Lambda functions, so when a user adds an item to the cart, API Gateway routes that request to the add-to-cart Lambda function, which writes a record into a DynamoDB table. The cart-status function is notified of the change to DynamoDB with an event, and the UI responds with a change showing there are items in the cart. When the cart is clicked, the API Gateway routes a request to the display-cart Lambda function. The Lambda data flow is illustrated here:
In the microservice app version, all three operations are scaled based on the overall load across them, and state is transferred in-memory, creating complication around caching and/or routing sessions to instances in order to maintain state. In the Lambda version, each function scales individually and as-needed. All state is in DynamoDB so there is no cluster coordination of any sort, at the cost of a small increase in latency.
While this is a trivial and oversimplified example, the key benefits (mentioned briefly above) to the Lambda approach are quite profound as the application scales. Remember, you are only paying for actual requests. Instantiating an EC2 instance or a container is actually pre-provisioning, which pushes the need to predict load onto you and off of AWS. At low scales, this means you can put up a system on Lambda for a trivial amount of money, but the benefits really accrue at higher scales. With microservices on compute instances with or without containers, you are making choices regarding how to combine or separate services for scaling. As your app grows, you'll almost certainly discover that you were wrong in some way in terms of separating the concerns for scaling purposes or on which metrics to scale. So, you'll be discovering where you were wrong via bad user experience or wasted resources and you'll end up correcting via refactoring. With Lambda, each function scales independently, which puts the burden on AWS to scale the functions. You needn't concern yourself with it. The cost is in both doing things differently and spreading your application across many functions and events. That can be hard to model and manage without a system like Fugue to organize and operate the application as a whole.
When designing Fugue, we spent a lot of time reviewing and studying the history of operating systems and hardware architectures—their intricacies and their interrelationships. Lambda is the first service offering to really illustrate that the cloud is a global, general-purpose computer with a particular architecture. EC2 will be around for a long time, but services like Lambda show the potential of the cloud, especially when combined with an OS above them like Fugue. It's going to be an interesting year or ten.
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John H.'s review of Hotel California - Senior 67, classic fan, noted great craft in performance!
Senior 67, classic fan, noted great craft in performance!
Saw the show last night in Oshawa. I am old classic guy...a love of playing music too. We took our band(Bent Fenders) to see you guys. We were totally blown away by the sound and the harmonies. The work of both guitarists was beautiful . You said, your bass guy Al had just played his first gig? Hard to believe..he was great. Your drummer made me believe he was DH when I close my eyes. All tunes were good...but End Of The Innocense...very solid.


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Rabbi Kravitz Announces His Upcoming Retirement
Adath Jeshurun Rabbi Harold Kravitz
Rabbi Harold Kravitz to be Installed as President of Rabbinical Assembly
A role in leadership at the Rabbinical Assembly is nothing new for Rabbi Harold Kravitz; after all, he's held four of the five officer positions in the organization. On Tuesday night March 29, Adath Jeshurun's senior rabbi will hold the final position when he is installed as the organization's president.
The RA, which is the international association of rabbis that are in the conservative movement, holds its officer installation in Los Angeles. The event starts at 7 p.m. and can be livestreamed here.
Kravitz was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary and has served the congregation since 1987, including as co-chair for the RA's strategic planning and implementation process, as well as its chief executive search. He served for 18 years on the RA's Va'ad Hakavod (Professional Ethics Committee), which he chaired for six years, as well as on the Rabbinic Advisory Committee of the Center for Contemporary Mussar. He is a former Board Chair of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
"It's been a progression over the course of years, since 2012, that I've gotten personally involved in a serious way and been pulled into the work ever since," Kravitz said earlier this month. "I've said numerous times in the past that I don't have any need to be president. It's not a problem. At some point, they said, 'Stop. It's happening.'"
The transition comes at an interesting time for Kravitz and Adath. Kravitz announced last year that he was going to be stepping down as the synagogue's senior rabbi in June 2023, where he will be succeeded by current Adath Rabbi Aaron Weininger. Kravitz will transition to the role of rabbi emeritus. Kravitz's elevation to the president of the RA was known to him before the announcement of position changes at Adath.
"The timing works out really well," he said. "Sometimes rabbis at the end of their careers start to feel like nobody was paying attention to them anymore. That could happen, but I don't think I'm going to have a problem. There's plenty to keep me busy and hopefully, be able to be supportive of Aaron, but not be meddling."
Among the officers being installed Tuesday is the RA's new financial secretary, Rabbi Aaron Brusso. Brusso, the senior rabbi at Bet Torah in Westchester, NY, since 2009, served at Adath for nine years under Kravitz.
"We get to work very closely in this area, and people have so much respect for Aaron. We all loved him and respected him when he was here," Kravitz said. "He has gone on to just be a phenomenally talented rabbi. He is so respected by his colleagues."
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This is the third set of lectures we have assembled. These recordings are a compilation of tapes from Fall 1974 with the exception of Key 15 which is from Spring 1975. There are three additional Spring 1975 recordings (Keys 0, 1, and 21) available at the Original Series page.
Key 2: The High Priestess (Fall 1974)
Key 3: The Empress (Fall 1974)
Key 4: The Emperor (Fall 1974)
Key 5: The Hierophant (Fall 1974)
Key 6: The Lovers (Fall 1974)
Key 7: The Chariot (Fall 1974)
Key 8: Strength (Fall 1974)
Key 9: The Hermit (Fall 1974)
Key 10: The Wheel of Fortune (Fall 1974)
Key 11: Justice (Fall 1974)
Key 12: The Hanged Man (Fall 1974)
Key 13: Death (Fall 1974)
Key 14: Temperance (Fall 1974)
Key 16: The Tower (Fall 1974)
Key 17: The Star (Fall 1974)
Key 18: The Moon (Fall 1974)