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April 23, 2015 By toddlingaroundchicagoland
Let's go bowling! Challenge your family to a game (or two, or three) the next time you're looking for something to do. Bowling gets everyone involved and active, and allows for a little bit of fun competition. Whether you love the perks of a bowling alley, like arcade games, billiards, and snack food, or you just want a simple game, there are several places in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs perfect for an afternoon or evening of play.
Waveland Bowl
Waveland Bowl is the largest bowling alley in the city with 40 lanes with features the modern bowler will appreciate – automatic scoring and programmable bumpers available on every lane. Bright wall murals, an arcade with vintage games, a billiard area, and a free kid's theater make Waveland perfect for families. Bowl early on weekdays for the best prices – only $1 per person per game. Prices top out at $5.50 per person per game on Friday and Saturday evenings. Grab a bite at Alley Dogs, or adults can get a drink at one of the two bars. Waveland has adult and youth leagues and offers parties and private events.
Pinstripes is not your ordinary bowling alley. You'll find comfortable couches on your lane and delicious bistro cuisine to enjoy in their dining room or at your bowling lane. In addition to bowling, Pinstripes has a year-round outdoor patio and firepit, and bocce. Pinstripes has Tots Playtime from 10:00 am to noon every weekday where kids bowl for only $5 and parents are free, and a "Kids Eat Free" promotion every Sunday evening. If you're planning a kid's party, a corporate bash, or even a wedding, Pinstripes can help. Pinstripes has locations in Chicago, Oak Brook, Northbrook, and South Barrington.
See my post about our experience at Pinstripes.
If you're looking for some upscale bowling, Lucky Strike is it. Forget the hard plastic seats because each of the 18 lanes has comfy couches so you can lounge while waiting for your turn. With tons of big screens, Lucky Strike is a great place to catch your favorite sporting event, too. There are pool tables and a restaurant, and you can plan a party for adults or kids. There is a dress code, so neat, casual fitted clothing is the way to go. Families are welcome at Lucky Strike, but there are times when age restrictions apply and Lucky Strike becomes 21 and over; check with the location you'll be visiting for specific times. Lucky Strike has locations in Chicago and Lombard.
Diversey-River Bowl
Diversey-River Bowl has been around for nearly two decades, and Cosmic bowling will never be the same after you've been there. You'll feel like you're at a concert with their amazing sound system, black lights, lasers, and digital and LED lighting fixtures. Diversey-River Bowl has leagues, a restaurant, and a pro shop. On Friday afternoons, get a lane for the hourly rate of only $9.95. Book a birthday party for your child and they'll receive their very own bowling pin!
Level 257 is brand new and located at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. The unusual name is a tribute to the classic video game Pac-Man, that had 256 levels of play; Level 257 considers itself the "next level of play." Level 257 takes bowling retro with above ground ball returns and black bowling balls. There's a full dining room with food that's also at the next level, with choices like chicken wings, baked lasagna, and NY strip steak. The Lost & Found Lounge also has a collection of old-school arcade games, modern social games, and board games. Bowling is $5 per person per game, except on Friday and Saturday evenings when it's $40 per hour. Level 257 had a highly-anticipated opening and is pretty busy as people try to check it out, so expect a crowd if you visit soon.
This article originally appeared on MommyNearest.com.


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Federal Government's War on the Fourth Amendment as Bad as Expected
The U.S. Federal Government under the dictatorship of the Democratic and Republican parties, and in partnership with their corporate allies, represent a grave and direct threat against the people and Constitution of the United States. From the Washington Post:
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track one target or trace a whole network of associates, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post. . . .
NSA extracts what it wants, according to the document: "Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple."
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A story that is both true and heart wrenching. From a real and authentic American tragedy, this is tale of thoughtless brutality and ice cold blooded murder. Justice always plays in the mix. This movie covers a lot of emotional ground including, gripping and disturbing. Starring John Savage as Det. Karl Francis Hettinger and James Woods as Gregory Ulas Powell. This film features a stunning attention to detail, The Onion Field is so powerful, intriguing, absorbing, and superbly acted. The Onion Field will have you riveted to your seat from beginning to end.
The story is based on an incident from March 9, 1963, Los Angeles Police Department officers Karl Hettinger, played by John Savage, and Ian Campbell, played by Ted Danson, pull over a car for making an illegal U turn and then find themselves held at gunpoint by two seasoned armed robbers. The two cops are then forced to give up their side arms and drive the car to a deserted road, both of these officers now face the terror of becoming helpless victims in a execution style homicide but only one may able to escape into the bleak darkness of an onion field.


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Q: select dropdown too large (Bootstrap) Ok, so i have a simple thing on my website where users can enter a phone number and text them, so when they enter the phone number they need to select an item in a dropdown list with all country dial codes, the problem is that the dropdown list is as long as my textbox which makes everything look quite awkward, I've done some research and have messed around with it myself without any luck, just for an example here is what i am talking about (btw i use the bootstrap framework so any answer would need to support bootstrap)

As you can see the text box is actually smaller than the dropdown list which makes it look kinda weird, i would like to somehow scale down the dropdown so it looks better along side my text field.
Thanks for reading, any help will be appreciated!
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My current code for this <select> dropdown looks like this
<select class='form-control'>
    <option value='213'>Algeria (+213)</option>
    <option value='376'>Andorra (+376)</option>
    <option value='244'>Angola (+244)</option>
    <option value='1264'>Anguilla (+1264)</option>
    <option value='1268'>Antigua & Barbuda (+1268)</option>
    <option value='54'>Argentina (+54)</option>
    <option value='374'>Armenia (+374)</option>
    <option value='297'>Aruba (+297)</option>
    <option value='61'>Australia (+61)</option>
//There is more countries..... I just cut it here so it won't be too long
</select>

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Opening with Yanya's voice, masked as an automated message, enlightens listeners to the realm they're about to enter; "There is a sense of being watched. There is a sense of being followed." It's a bleak picture, not unlike Black Mirror's foretold vision of mass paranoia. However, Yanya's sonic palette colours anxiety with a comforting array of pastel hues.
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Q: Spacing after a tikz figure I'm trying to add an external link symbol (from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/294990/163482) to href but for some reason the spacing after the symbol is wrong when I redefine the href command. What would the right way to do it (and what would be the right amount of space)?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,hyperref}
\newcommand{\ExternalLink}{%
  \tikz[x=1.2ex, y=1.2ex, baseline=-0.5ex, scale=0.75]{%
    \begin{scope}[x=1ex, y=1ex]
      \clip (-0.1,-0.1)
       --++ (-0, 1.2)
       --++ (0.6, 0)
       --++ (0, -0.6)
       --++ (0.6, 0)
       --++ (0, -1);
      \path[draw=black, line width = 0.5,
            rounded corners=0.5] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
    \end{scope}
    \path[draw=black, line width = 0.5] (0.5, 0.5) -- (1, 1);
    \path[draw=black, line width = 0.5] (0.6, 1)   -- (1, 1) -- (1, 0.6);
  }
}

\let\orighref\href
\renewcommand{\href}[2]{\orighref{#1}{#2}$\,$\ExternalLink}

\begin{document}
\noindent
Some text \href{http://google.com}{link} some more text.\\
Some text \orighref{http://google.com}{link}$\,$\ExternalLink some more text.
\end{document}

A: When you write:
Some text \orighref{http://google.com}{link}$\,$\ExternalLink some more text.

the space after \ExternalLink is ignored by TeX, because \ExternalLink is a control sequence whose name ends with a letter. On the contrary, with:
Some text \href{http://google.com}{link} some more text.

there is a space token after {link}, and it is not ignored. It contributes an interword space to the horizontal list under construction. That is why you see a larger space in the first case of your example (second case here). In order to get rid of this additional space, you can either write:
Some text \href{http://google.com}{link}some more text.

or use \ignorespaces in your redefinition of \href so as to ignore spaces following in the input (\ignorespaces expands tokens from the input stream until it finds an unexpandable token that is not a 〈space token〉, according to the TeX grammar):
\renewcommand*{\href}[2]{\orighref{#1}{#2}$\,$\ExternalLink\ignorespaces}

But actually, you don't want to use any of these suggestions. This is because in your \ExternalLink command, there is a most probably unwanted space:
\newcommand{\ExternalLink}{%

...

    \path[draw=black, ...] ... ;
  } % <------- here, remove the space
}

So, your \ExternalLink command unconditionally adds this space after the icon. I believe this is unwanted when the hyperlink is followed by a comma or a period, for instance. Therefore I'd remove this space; then you don't need \ignorespaces anymore.
Also note that you don't need to be in math mode in order to use \,; it produces a \thinspace when used outside of math mode. So, you can do something like:
\renewcommand*{\href}[2]{\orighref{#1}{#2}\,\ExternalLink}

Other suggestion: you may want to include the icon inside the clickable link:
\renewcommand*{\href}[2]{\orighref{#1}{#2\,\ExternalLink}}

I used \renewcommand* because the arguments of \href most probably shouldn't contain \par tokens; this makes finding errors easier.
Note: there won't be a line break at the \,, because this macro expands to \thinspace in non-math mode, which itself expands to a \kern, and there can be a break at a \kern only if it's immediately followed by glue—which isn't the case here, as \ExternalLink starts with a box: the TikZ picture.
Final remark: your links are going to make TeX work hard on the TikZ picture every time you use this redefined \href (i.e., for every hyperlink). Since the icon is always the same, there is a way to save on compilation time: save the picture once inside a box, then use the box whenever you need it. That is very cheap on computing resources. All in all, here is my suggestion (I added a picture with a caption because of our discussion in the comments—the \usebox command doesn't need to be \protected, as the example shows):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} % 'hidelinks' removes the border around links

\newsavebox{\ExternalLinkIcon}

\begin{lrbox}{\ExternalLinkIcon}
  \begin{tikzpicture}[x=1.2ex, y=1.2ex, baseline=-0.5ex, scale=0.75]
    \begin{scope}[x=1ex, y=1ex]
      \clip (-0.1,-0.1)
       --++ (-0, 1.2)
       --++ (0.6, 0)
       --++ (0, -0.6)
       --++ (0.6, 0)
       --++ (0, -1);
      \path[draw=black, line width = 0.5,
            rounded corners=0.5] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
    \end{scope}
    \path[draw=black, line width = 0.5] (0.5, 0.5) -- (1, 1);
    \path[draw=black, line width = 0.5] (0.6, 1)   -- (1, 1) -- (1, 0.6);
  \end{tikzpicture}% <--- important!
\end{lrbox}

\let\orighref\href

\renewcommand*{\href}[2]{%
  \orighref{#1}{#2\,\usebox{\ExternalLinkIcon}}%
}

\begin{document}

\noindent
Some text \href{http://example.com}{link} some more text. Spacing is also fine
before a \href{http://example.com}{comma}, as you can see. Periods are fine
too, of course---we don't have to do anything special.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  This is the figure contents.
  \caption{A caption containing a \href{http://example.com}{hyperlink}}
\end{figure}

\end{document}


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The Occasional Review
Père Goriot by Balzac - trans. Burton Raffel
I haven't read Balzac until now because I had gotten the impression that, while being an established classic, he was still somehow second rate - like Dvorak, Trollope, Chesterton. Maybe John Updike will be in the same boat eventually. Someone whose talent was undeniable, but who produced too much and with too much apparent ease for his work to be of the highest class.
I only picked up Père Goriot because a friend of mine is a Raffelite - that is, he is enamored with the translator, which I never thought was possible - and insisted that everything the guy touched was worth picking up. Well, I was incredibly glad I did. I haven't been this thrilled by the beginning of novel in ages.
Here's a sample of what was so gripping - a lengthy sample, since Balzac loses all of his charm in snippets:
Monsieur Poiret was more machine than man. Seeing him gliding along the pathways of the Botanical Gardens like a gray shadow, a limp old cap on his head, barely able to hold the knob of his yellowing ivory-headed walking stick in his hand, wind flapping his wilted coattails so loosely behind him that they barely hid trousers that seemed to have nothing in them, his blue-stockinged legs quivering like a drunk, flashing a dirty white vest and shriveled shirt-ruff of coarse muslin that seemed ready to part company from the tie knotted around his turkey-cock neck--seeing him thus, many people must have wondered whether this Chinese ghost truly belonged to the bold white race, said to be described from Japthet, flitting up and down the Boulevard Italien. What could have been the life's work that so shrunk him down? What passion could have darkened a face so bulbous that, had it been drawn by a cartoonist, no one would have believed it? What had he been? Maybe he had worked at the Ministry of Justice, in the office to which executioners report their expenses--how much they'd spent on black veils for the eyes of parricides; how much for straw and chaff, to line the basket where heads drop; how much for twine to tie the guillotine's blades. Maybe he had been the receptionist at a slaughterhouse door, or perhaps an assistant inspector of health or sanitation. In a word, this was a man who looked as if he'd been one of the mules who turn out great social mill wheel, one of those Parisian Rats who pull other people's chestnuts out of the fire but never ever know who eats them, a sort of spindle for public misery and filth to whirl around on--in short, one of those men of whom we say, the minute we see them: We can't do without fellows like that. Their cadaverous faces, stamped by pain--psychological or physical--are unknown to the Beautiful People of Paris. But Paris is as immense as an ocean. Drop in your sounding line and it will never reach the bottom. Have a look, try describing it! No matter how carefully you try to see and understand everything, to describe everything, no matter how many of you there are, trying hard, all of you exploring that great sea, there'll always be places you never get to, caverns you never uncover, blossoms, pearls, monsters, quite incredible things that every literary diver overlooks. And Maison Vauquer is one of those odd monstrosities.
There are a number of serious things wrong with this passage. First of all, it is totally unnecessary; Monsieur Poiret is a minor character who has only one real thing to do in the narrative, and we don't need much convincing to believe that he would do it. There is no real reason to learn so much about him, let alone hypothesize about what he might have done involving twine and guillotines. Second, there are sentences here that are obviously untrue - can anyone really imagine a nose on a human being that would seem unbelievable if a cartoonist drew it? But Balzac cannot stop to think about whether what he is saying makes exact sense - it sounds good, and he is writing as fast as the ideas come. And that, finally, is what is great about this sloppy passage. It gives off the impression of being written at white heat. This writing is alive, and that is more important than anything that might be wrong with it.
Apparently Balzac had the habit, like Proust, of getting back proofs from the typesetters and, when inspiration struck him, basically changing the manuscript - adding pages and pages to a single passage and getting rid of others. I do not get the impression that this is because he was a careful writer - he did not tweak sentence by sentence; something set off an idea, I think, and he followed it wherever it led. That is why this novel, at least, and I'm guessing most of his others, has absolutely no sense of proportion - the narrative is like a roll of dough that has been squished in various random places; there will be pages and pages devoted to minor characters, and what should be major developments in the plot are rushed through. The plot has clearly been planned out, but what should be major dramatic scenes do not come off at all, and scenes of pointless narrative padding - like a group of people eating at the inn - are as wonderful as any scenes in realistic literature. You read this novel and get the sense of a great artist who appears of have no control over his talent.
Another thing: I get the sense that Balzac's genius would have expressed itself best in short essayistic sketches. This is one of those books that starts to suck whenever it becomes concerned with advancing the plot - the basic thread is an ambitious middle-class law student named Rastignac, up from the provinces, with some distant aristocratic relations, who wants to make his way into Parisian society. An old man, Goriot, lives in the pension with him, and is driving himself to bankrupcy supporting his two daughters, who have both made bad marriages to wealthy but stingy and controlling men. There is also a schemer Vautrin who wants to help Eugene acquire a forture by less than moral means. How will all these conflicts be resolved? Balzac's prescription: melodrama.
That is, lots of long speeches, sequences of long, stagy dialogue, and - of course - secret, hidden pasts that get characters conveniently dragged off when they have performed their function in the plot. I noticed something about this book, and I get the feeling that it is representative of Balzac's work as a whole - it is at its absolute best in character sketches, generalization from the mouth of the author, and in large group scenes.
Any time a scene calls for real intimacy between two people, or a small group, it quickly starts to sound phony. But when you get a bunch of people together, engaging in the silly collective chatter that takes up so much of modern life, Balzac is your man - I have never felt a stronger sense of verisimilitude come off a book than in some of these scenes. And for anyone that thinks that, because of television or whatever, modern people speak a more degraded version of language, and are more prone to stupid fads, look no further for evidence that it has ever been so - although in Balzac's time I suspect it was an urban phenomenon and not, as it is now, universal.
The rest of lodgers appeared, one after the other, both those who lived in and those who did not, wishing each other good day and murmuring those empty phrases which, among certain sorts of Parisians, constitute a kind of droll good humor of which stupidity is the main component and whose principal virtue consists only in how the words are pronounced or what gestures accompany them. This sort of jargon is always changing. The jokes that underlie it never last a month: some political event, some lawsuit or trial, a street song, some actor's comic routine, all serve to keep this joke going, since more than anything else it involves snatching up words and ideas as they go flying past, and then hitting them back, as if with racquets.
In this case, the silly joke of the day consists of adding "-rama" to everything, as in "souporama" and "healtharama" (and I checked the French, it is "rama" in English, so apparently we English-speakers were dominating shit culture even in Balzac's time). It is hard to explain what makes these group scenes so pleasing - maybe just their energy, and how accurately they capture a bunch of people sitting around and shooting the breeze. It is easy to see why so many great writers have admired Balzac, despite his obvious flaws, because the flair and ease with which he brings off certain types of scenes is astonishing.
There was a lot in the novel, actually, that reminded me of Proust, although Proust is by far the greater artist. The main similarity, I think, is the impulse - alternately fascinating and maddening - to make every action and event stand for some sort of generalization about society. Nothing can just be what it is: there must be some sort of larger truth behind it. Even when the generalization is apt I'm annoyed to keep having the narrative broken by these essays (Balzac is much clumsier about it than Proust) especially since it seems to keep robbing the characters of their reality.
Both writers, too, despite their love of generalizations, have absolutely no talent for the epigram, because they refuse to ever turn away a clause that might pin down their meaning a little more clearly. I suppose this is a form of honestly, since an epigram always requires that a great deal be ignored. For example, the most famous line in Balzac is probably "Behind every forture lies a great crime." Well, I think it comes from this novel, and here is how it actually reads, with greater accuracy and a lot less punch: "The secret of all great fortures, when there's no obvious explanation for them, is always some forgotten crime--forgotten, mind you, because it's been properly handled." The only generalization I remember being presented with complete simplicity comes out of Goriot's mouth, and from what I have read it is the one thing that Balzac believed with no qualifications: "Money is life. It can do everything."
So: I finally understand why Balzac is usually seen as second-rate (he is) and also why he is still a classic and worth reading and learning from. Regarding Raffel, the translation reads well, although I glanced occasionally at the French and was confused by the odd liberties he took in translating colloquialisms. For example, in the French, Vautrin is talking about killing someone quickly, and says "Et, à l'ombre!" This literally means something like "into the shade/shadows." (See the second volume of the Recherche for a sample usage.) I'm guessing an equivalent English phrase would be "Lights out!" - or, in case this phrase only makes sense with the widespread use of electricity, something quick and brutal like "That's that!" since Vautrin is saying this as he demonstrates a fatal saber thurst. Here's what Raffel chooses: "And he'll do it without any fuss at all!" How he gets this out of "à l'ombre" is beyond me.
Anyway, these are quibbles. The book was thoroughly engrossing, and for all its flaws clearly had the mark of greatness on it.
Posted by Akshay Ahuja at 10:40 PM
Labels: Balzac, Burton Raffel, novels, translations
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In a battle of heavyweight gladiators, two-belt titleholder Anthony Joshua and one-belt titlist Joseph Parker are officially set to fight on March 31 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, where Joshua drew a sold-out crowd of 78,000 for his last fight in October.
The deal was in the works for the last couple of months and was nearly a done deal as of Dec. 28.
"These fights aren't easy because there is a lot on the line, so respect to Team Parker for taking the challenge," Joshua said via ESPN. "And you know me; I love this game. I am looking forward to it. Training camp is underway, and before you know it, March 31 will be upon us."
Parker (24-0, 18 KO's), 26, of New Zealand, won a vacant title by majority decision over Andy Ruiz Jr. in December 2016 in his backyard, and has made two defenses. He told SkySports after arriving in Britain Sunday that he is ready to inflict "a lot of damage" on Joshua.
"I can do a lot of damage. I feel like it's my time," Parker said. "He thinks it's his time, so it's just about who trains hardest, who wants it more, and we're both going to pour our undefeated records on the line.
"May the best champion win."
The unbeaten Joshua, 28, has knocked out all 20 of his previous opponents, including an 11th-round knockout of Wladimir Klitschko in April. The all-time classic bout, which saw both fighters hit the deck, earned FightNights.com's 2017 Fight of the Year award.
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PM to inaugurate All India Mayors' Conference on 17 December
Dec 16, 2021 | Business
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate and address the All India Mayors' Conference, being organised by the Department of Urban Development, Uttar Pradesh in Varanasi on 17 December 2021 at 10:30 AM via video conferencing. Mayors from various states across the country will participate in the conference. The theme of the Conference is "New Urban India".
It has been the constant endeavour of the Prime Minister to ensure ease of living in urban areas. The government has launched multiple schemes and initiatives to address the issues of dilapidated urban infrastructure and lack of amenities. A special focus of these efforts has been the state of Uttar Pradesh, which has witnessed tremendous progress and transformation of the urban landscape, especially in the last five years.
An exhibition is also being organized from 17 to 19 December to showcase the key achievements of the Government of India and Government of Uttar Pradesh in the sphere of urban development.
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs will also be present on the occasion.
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PM to inaugurate भगवान बिरसा मुंडा स्मृति उद्यान सह स्वतंत्रता सेनानी संग्रहालय at Ranchi on 15 November
Government of India has declared that the birth anniversary of Bhagwan Birsa Munda will be celebrated as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas. To mark the occasion, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate भगवान बिरसा मुंडा स्मृति उद्यान सह स्वतंत्रता सेनानी संग्रहालय at Ranchi on 15th November, 2021 at 9:45 AM via video conferencing.
Prime Minister has always emphasized the invaluable contribution of tribal communities, particularly their sacrifices in the cause of the Indian Freedom struggle. In his Independence Day Speech in 2016, he emphasized the role played by tribal freedom fighters in India's freedom struggle and envisaged building museums, dedicated to the memory of the brave tribal freedom fighters, so that coming generations would be able to know about their sacrifices for the country. Ministry of Tribal Affairs has so far sanctioned construction of ten tribal freedom fighter museums. These museums will cherish the memories of tribal freedom fighters from various States and regions.
भगवान बिरसा मुंडा स्मृति उद्यान सह स्वतंत्रता सेनानी संग्रहालय has been built in association with the State Government of Jharkhand at the Old Central Jail in Ranchi, where Bhagwan Birsa Munda had sacrificed his life. It will serve as a tribute to his sacrifice for the nation and tribal communities. The museum will play an important role in preserving and promoting tribal culture and history. It will also demonstrate the way the tribals struggled for protecting their forests, land rights, their culture and would show their valour and sacrifices, vital for nation building.
Along with Bhagwan Birsa Munda, the museum will also highlight other tribal freedom fighters associated with different movements such as Shahid Budhu Bhagat, Sidhu-Kanhu, Nilambar-Pitambar, Diwa-Kisun, Telanga Khadiya, Gaya Munda, Jatra Bhagat, Poto H, Bhagirath Manjhi, Ganga Narayan Singh. Museum will contain a 25 feet statue of Bhagwan Birsa Munda and 9 feet statues of other freedom fighters of the region as well.
Smriti Udyan has been developed in neighbouring 25 acres and it will have a musical fountain, food court, children park, infinity pool, garden and other entertainment facilities.
Union Minister for Tribal Affairs will also be present during the event.
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PM to inaugurate the Infosys Foundation Vishram Sadan at National Cancer Institute in Jhajjar campus of AIIMS New Delhi on 21st October
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Infosys Foundation Vishram Sadan at National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Jhajjar Campus of AIIMS New Delhi, on 21st October, 2021 at 10:30 AM via video conferencing, which will be followed by his address on the occasion.
The 806 bedded Vishram Sadan has been constructed by Infosys Foundation, as a part of Corporate Social Responsibility, to provide air conditioned accommodation facilities to the accompanying attendants of the Cancer Patients, who often have to stay in Hospitals for longer duration. It has been constructed by the Foundation at a cost of about Rs 93 crore. It is located in close proximity to the hospital & OPD Blocks of NCI.
Union Health & Family Welfare Minister, Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, Haryana Chief Minister Minister Shri Manohar Lal Khattar and Chairperson of Infosys Foundation, Ms Sudha Murthy, will also be present on the occasion.
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PM to visit UP on October 20 and inaugurate Kushinagar International Airport
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh on 20th October, 2021. At around 10 AM, the Prime Minister will inaugurate the Kushinagar International Airport. Subsequently, at around 11:30 AM, he will participate in an event marking Abhidhamma Day at Mahaparinirvana Temple. Thereafter, at around 1:15 PM, the Prime Minister will attend a public function to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development projects in Kushinagar.
Inauguration of Kushinagar International Airport
The inauguration of the Kushinagar International Airport will be marked by the landing of the inaugural flight at the airport from Colombo, Sri Lanka, carrying Sri lankan delegation of over hundred Buddhist Monks & dignitaries including the 12-member Holy Relic entourage bringing the Holy Buddha Relics for Exposition. The delegation also comprises of Anunayakas (deputy heads) of all four Nikatas (orders) of Buddhism in Sri Lanka i.e Asgiriya, Amarapura, Ramanya, Malwatta as well as five ministers of the Government of Sri Lanka led by Cabinet Minister Namal Rajapakshe.
The Kushinagar International Airport has been built at an estimated cost of Rs. 260 crore. It will facilitate domestic & international pilgrims to visit the Mahaparinirvana sthal of Lord Buddha and is an endeavour in connecting the Buddhist pilgrimage holy sites around the world. The airport will serve nearby districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and is an important step in boosting the investment & employment opportunities in the region.
Abhidhamma Day at Mahaparinirvana Temple
Prime Minister will visit the Mahaparinirvana temple, offer Archana and Chivar to the reclining statue of Lord Buddha and also plant a Bodhi tree sapling.
Prime Minister will participate in an event, organised to mark Abhidhamma Day. The day symbolises the end of three-month rainy retreat – Varshavaas or Vassa – for the Buddhist Monks, during which they stay at one place in vihara & monastery and pray. The event will also be attended by eminent Monks from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, South Korea, Nepal, Bhutan and Cambodia, as well as Ambassadors of various countries.
Prime Minister will also walk through the exhibition of Paintings of Ajanta frescos, Buddhist Sutra Calligraphy and Buddhist artefacts excavated from Vadnagar and other sites in Gujarat.
Inauguration & laying of Foundation Stone of development projects
Prime Minister will participate in a public function at Barwa Jangal, Kushinagar. In the event, he will lay the foundation stone of Rajkiya Medical College, Kushinagar which will be built at a cost of over Rs 280 crore. The Medical college will have a 500 bed hospital and provide admissions to 100 students in MBBS course in academic session 2022-2023. Prime Minister will also inaugurate & lay the foundation stone of 12 development projects worth over Rs 180 crore.
PM to inaugurate Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at AMA, Ahmedabad tomorrow
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate a Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at AMA, Ahmedabad tomorrow, 27th June, 2021 at 11.30 AM.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, "Tomorrow, 27th June will inaugurate a Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at AMA, Ahmedabad. This is yet another instance showcasing the close bond between India and Japan."
Tomorrow, 27th June will inaugurate a Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at AMA, Ahmedabad. This is yet another instance showcasing the close bond between India and Japan. https://t.co/lU6hICwVvB
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Virginians Win XTERRA Richmond Trail Races
Seven hundred runners from 17 states took part in the race.
June 16, 2011 Duncan Larkin
From: Running USA
RICHMOND, Va. — This past Saturday morning, Ryan Witt and Sarah Breevoort won the XTERRA Richmond half-marathon, but Staff Sergeant Ryan Major (left, XTERRA) won the hearts and spirits of everyone at Brown's Island in Richmond.
Major, a 26-year-old Army veteran, lost both his legs in 2006 when an improvised explosive device was detonated in Ramadi, Iraq. Before he was wounded in combat his ambition was to become an Army Ranger and jump out of planes.
This morning through the efforts of Team X-T.R.E.M.E., a non-profit support organization with an ongoing mission to honor, motivate and empower wounded veterans, Major fulfilled that lifelong dream and jumped out of an airplane with the Golden Nights. He landed right on Brown's Island just before the start of the race, and hollered so joyously it made everyone around smile and cheer.
"That was freakin' awesome! Awesome," yelled Major. "That was the biggest rush I've ever had."
And with that wonderful spirit energizing Brown's Island more than 700 runners from 22 states took off an adventure all their own through the amazing trails around the James River.
No doubt the biggest adventure, and toughest challenge, was tackled by Team X-T.R.E.M.E. founder, Jeremy Soles along with Jim Snyder, Matt Small, Colin Bunn and Ben Dyer who set off on a quest to secure a Guinness World Record by completing a 21K cross country race while wearing Avon Protection's C50 gas mask in honor of Major.
Gas masks create a certain amount of stress for end users, including increased breathing resistance, reduction in field of view and feelings of claustrophobia.
The team dons gas masks as a way to symbolize perseverance in the face of insurmountable odds and overcoming mental and physical obstacles. Challenges experienced in the mask last for hours, while wounded warriors endure their challenges for a lifetime.
Two hours, thirty-five minutes and 51 seconds later Team X-T.R.E.M.E. had done it, and an official adjudicator from Guinness World Records was on hand to present them with their record, which they in turn awarded to Major.
"This meant so much to me. It's truly an honor, and I appreciate what these guys did for me and are doing for all the wounded veterans," said Major.
In the chase for the overall title Ryan Witt, 26, of nearby Midlothian, Va. went out strongly and ended up in a pack of three and ran within himself to see how the race would play out.
"I haven't done a lot of trail races, and I hadn't done this one before so I didn't want to go out too hard and get in front if I didn't have to," said Witt, a former harrier at BYU.
Instead, he settled into a two-man duel with Jason Dowdy, 35, of Richmond until just about a half-mile out. When the finish was in sight he turned on the jets and crossed the line in 1 hour, 29 minutes, 39 seconds, followed by Dowdy just 33 seconds later.
"Loved this course, all the different obstacles made it really fun," said Witt.
In the women's half-marathon, Sarah Breevoort, 26, of Charlottesville, Va. finally won it all. In each of the last two years she had finished runner-up at this race.
"I got in front early and felt really good and was chasing down some of the boys and never saw anybody behind me," said Breevoort, whose winning time of 1:33:10 was more than eight minutes faster than runner-up Meghan Gebke from Portsmouth.
In the XTERRA Fugitive 10K race, Jacob Gustafsson, 27, of McLean sprinted out of the gates and seemed to get faster after that, posting a 36:16 winning time. Gustafsson, an auditor by trade who also ran at BYU, was running in just his first trail race but certainly not his last.
"The variety out here is fantastic – staircases, singletrack, switchbacks, rocks and logs to hop over, brutal stairs, bridges, you name it," said Gustafsson. "I'm hooked."
Jenn Ennis, a University of Richmond grad who just earned her degree in psychology a few weeks ago, hadn't had the chance to run in this race before because her collegiate training schedule was so busy. Ennis qualified for the NCAA regionals in the steeplechase and used some of that agility in the race.
"I'm glad I know how to run and jump because there was a lot of that going on today. This was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be but so much fun," said Ennis. "I run these trails all the time so I know how great they are and how well maintained they are, but the rest of the course is just the epitome of Richmond – so much diversity. It makes you realize just how cool this city is."
Indeed, visitors and locals alike laughed and gasped their way through the myriad of man-made and natural obstacles of the Richmond course, no doubt why it was named among the top 32 trail runs in America by Runner's World magazine.
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Young hero Vishal, made a successful impression in Tollywood, with some decent hits like Palnadu. But there after, he could not sustain the craze, as most of his films did not perform well at the box office. He is now back as a producer with the Tamil flick Naan Singapu Manidan. This film is being dubbed in Telugu as Indrudu, and is slated to hit the screens soon. We caught up with Vishal for detailed chit chat. Let's see what he has to say.
Q) Tell us some thing about your role in Indrudu ?
A) I play the character of a narcoleptic, which who has a sleeping disorder. The story is a revenge drama based on various emotions, and how does a person with such disorder overcomes his goals.
Q) Being a action hero, don't you think you have taken a risk with this film ?
A) When you try something new there is always risk involved. This film also has action but with a different kind. After I heard the script, I found it very challenging to portray a character like this. That is why took the risk and went ahead with this film.
Q) The posters and lip lock scenes have created quite a buzz for this film. What do you have to say about this ?
A) Yes there are some glamorous scenes in the movie. But all of them have a meaning in the film, which you know only when you will see the movie.
Q) The rumours surrounding your alleged affair with Lakshmi Menon have caused quite a stir. How much is this true?
A) Every actor goes though these phases in their career. As we have done two back to back films, these rumours have been created. By the way, Lakshmi Menon is just 18 years old, and I would be put in jail if I marry her now. All this is part and parcel of showbiz, and I don't pay much importance to these.
Q) How is your life as a producer ?
A) Life is so busy and I have no personal time. Both of my productions fared well, and I wish to continue to make films even with different heroes here after.
Q) Any reason for producing this film with UTV ?
A) The experience of my previous film Palnadu, took a toll on me heavily. I was single handedly involved in many activities. So this time around, I thought that a corporate house would deal with all these problems well.
Q) What about your upcoming films ?
A) My next with Shruthi Haasan will go on floor on the 16th of this month.


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Clarissa's first impressions of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
by Clarissa Witt | Nov 9, 2018 | Films & TV | 0 comments
I'm coming up to my 26th birthday (rapidly) so for those of you with the quick maths brains, you've probably already worked out that I was born in the 90's, when Melissa Joan Hart was pretty much all over kids T.V. For those of you that don't know, she was Sabrina, in the lighthearted largely comical 7 years running Sabrina the teenage witch (before that she was in the best-named show ever….. Clarissa explains it all). I remember watching this version of Sabrina all the time! I absolutely loved it! I couldn't wait to see what Sabrina and Salem would be up to this time. So when I hear that Netflix was bringing out a new Sabrina I was super excited, even more so to learn that it would be much darker and from what I've heard more in line with the comics (I haven't read any). So far so good, it's really nothing like the older series at all bar sharing the same characters, so if you were hoping for more of the old show you may be a little disappointed. (Mild Spoilers here on out)
I'm on episode 3 right now and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Kiernan Shipka is an excellent choice for the role of Sabrina, I think she even reminds just a little of A younger Melissa Joan Hart. Shipka plays the role well with obvious passion, this Sabrina is strong-minded and willing to fight for what she believes is right, she's not easily swayed and always comes to her own conclusions. I think she is an excellent role model for young people everywhere.
One of Sabrina's first actions that highlight that she makes her own choices comes in the form of finding her familiar, Salem. In the 90's version, Salem was a short-haired black cat that used to be a witch, He tried to take over the world and was punished and transformed into a cat. 90's Salem had a dark and sometimes sassy humour, and rather importantly, was a puppet. At the time it was quite easy to imagine he was a real cat, but looking back he now kinda looks a bit like a dodgy taxidermy (Sorry Salem). Fast forward, new Salem is played by a real cat and is Sabrina's familiar, Sabrina chose to put a call out into the universe instead of catalog shopping for her familiar and Salam came to her. This new Salem is a strange entity that spends most of its time as a cat, in the episodes so far its been hinted at the amount of power that Salem actually has. Oh, and one more thing, he doesn't talk!!!
Aunt Zelda and Aunt Hilda, of course, are central characters in The chilling adventures of Sabrina. Sabrina lives with them at their house that also doubles up as a funeral home business, her cousin Ambrose also lives with them. The dynamic between Hilda and Zelda is nicely done, it's an age-old good cop bad cop trope, but we still use this arch because let's face it we all love it really. Aunt Zelda is the course of the two and this can be seen in everything from her attitude to her opinion, she appears to love Sabrina but has more of a "we must do our duty" kind of attitude. Aunt Hilda is much softer and kinder, again portrayed in everything from her mannerisms to her attire. She's often sympathized with Sabrina through these early episodes offering the warm motherly type of love in Sabrina's life. The dynamic between Hilda and Zelda is quite rocky and again I think more bound by duty than by love. That's not to say that there is no love there, I get the impression that Zelda would be fiercely protective in some situations.
Of course, there are loads more characters that are really just starting to develop in these early episodes, Michelle Gomez (Of Missy fame amongst others) as Madam Satan is a notable mention, I love Michelle Gomez and can't wait to see what she gets up to. There's Harvey, of course, and the rest of Sabrina's school friends. Then there are the mean witchy girls, that seem to both have Sabrinas back and hate her. So I'm really looking forward to finding out more about these characters!
The overall quality of the show is also very high. The way it's filmed and the various sets are excellent at capturing the much darker tone of this series. Everything is much much darker in atmosphere and lighting (Kind of like when things are going wrong in Riverdale, of which there are plenty of references to spot). The sets are nicely detailed and varied nothing seems to have been overlooked!
Overall I think the series has made a strong start. I like the way they've done the characters and I'm really enjoying the much darker vibes. I think this is just what this generation of fans is looking for, gone are the light-hearted days of the 90's Sabrina. I really think this is going to quickly become a favorite of mine!


Malaysia's ringgit has rebounded from a horror start in the first half of January to overtake the yen as Asia's top performer in 2016, buoyed by a recovery in oil prices and a cooling off in political risk.
Egypt's central bank is weighing tougher regulations on foreign-exchange dealers, part of a broader effort to crack down on the black market and to end a hard currency shortage that's impeding economic growth.
The dollar's third straight weekly decline is triggering signals that U.S. currency weakness may be overdone. The greenback has gone from beating its major peers last year to losses against every one of those currencies this month.
The ringgit continued the uptrend momentum at opening today as traders trimmed dollar positions on a bearish outlook for US interest rate hikes, dealers said.
Businesses and consumers remain wary of the economic outlook, judging from the money supply gauges of M3, also known as broad money, and M1, a narrower definition, used to measure the amount of money circulating in the economy. What is interesting to note is that M3 has shrunk by more than 86% over a span of four years.
The $5.3-trillion currency market is getting harder for traders to make money in as price changes that once took months or weeks now happen more quickly, says Hugh Killen, Westpac Banking Corp.'s head of trading for foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities.
The ringgit opened lower against the US dollar Monday morning on weak demand for the local unit, dealers said.
UOB Malaysia economist Julia Goh said the Ringgit has turned around from being among the worst performing currencies to be one of strongest performers against the US dollar.


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package org.apache.reef.io.network.util;

import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.apache.reef.io.network.proto.ReefNetworkGroupCommProtos;
import org.apache.reef.wake.ComparableIdentifier;
import org.apache.reef.wake.Identifier;
import org.apache.reef.wake.IdentifierFactory;

import java.net.Inet4Address;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Utility class for REEF IO network module.
 */
public final class Utils {

  private static final String DELIMITER = "-";

  /**
   * Parse a string of multiple IDs.
   *
   * @param ids A string containing multiple IDs
   * @param factory An Identifier factory
   * @param <T> A type
   * @return A list of identifier
   */
  public static <T extends Identifier> List<T> parseList(final String ids, final IdentifierFactory factory) {
    final List<T> result = new ArrayList<>();
    for (final String token : ids.split(DELIMITER)) {
      result.add((T) factory.getNewInstance(token.trim()));
    }
    return result;
  }

  public static String listToString(final List<ComparableIdentifier> ids) {
    return StringUtils.join(ids, DELIMITER);
  }

  public static List<Integer> createUniformCounts(final int elemSize, final int childSize) {
    final int remainder = elemSize % childSize;
    final int quotient = elemSize / childSize;
    final ArrayList<Integer> result = new ArrayList<>(childSize);
    result.addAll(Collections.nCopies(remainder, quotient + 1));
    result.addAll(Collections.nCopies(childSize - remainder, quotient));
    return Collections.unmodifiableList(result);
  }

  private static class AddressComparator implements Comparator<Inet4Address> {
    @Override
    public int compare(final Inet4Address aa, final Inet4Address ba) {
      final byte[] a = aa.getAddress();
      final byte[] b = ba.getAddress();
      // local subnet comes after all else.
      if (a[0] == 127 && b[0] != 127) {
        return 1;
      }
      if (a[0] != 127 && b[0] == 127) {
        return -1;
      }
      for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
        if (a[i] < b[i]) {
          return -1;
        }
        if (a[i] > b[i]) {
          return 1;
        }
      }
      return 0;
    }
  }

  public static ReefNetworkGroupCommProtos.GroupCommMessage bldGCM(
      final ReefNetworkGroupCommProtos.GroupCommMessage.Type msgType,
      final Identifier from, final Identifier to, final byte[]... elements) {

    final ReefNetworkGroupCommProtos.GroupCommMessage.Builder gcmBuilder =
        ReefNetworkGroupCommProtos.GroupCommMessage.newBuilder()
            .setType(msgType)
            .setSrcid(from.toString())
            .setDestid(to.toString());

    final ReefNetworkGroupCommProtos.GroupMessageBody.Builder bodyBuilder =
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"Miss Bailey Says…" – Practical Advice for Relief Workers in the 1930s #6
Introduction: In the depth of the Great Depression, the March 1933 issue of Survey Mid-monthly carried the first in a series of columns that would continue for a decade. The subject of the columns — Amelia Bailey — "Miss Bailey" to most people — was a 1930s-style virtual-reality public relief supervisor. She existed on paper only, created at the typewriter of Gertrude Springer, an associate editor at the Survey magazine in New York City. In what became a popular monthly column, Miss Bailey listened to and advised the inexperienced social workers faced with coping with the Depression's desperate unemployed relief applicants. "Miss Baily Says…" columns dealt with issues such as: "When Your Client Has a Car," "Are Relief Workers Policemen?," "How We Behave in Other People's Houses." She gave common-sense advice to questions such as what to do when the relief worker observes situations such as bootlegging, clients with a bank account, a family on relief seen attending a movie, the daughter of a family on relief sporting a new permanent wave. Below is one of her columns.
Gertrude Springer, author, Survey Mid-monthly, August 1933, pp. 277-278.
What can an unskilled home visitor do when she finds that in families where relief is as adequate as conditions permit:
• Children, under threat of parental whipping, are coming to the office to make special pleas?
• Children and grown‑ups too are making a practice of begging?
• Children are being permitted, even sent, to hang around restaurants and explore garbage‑cans?
"It's the little Rossi boy, Miss Bailey, one of Miss Wilson's families, and he says that his father will whip him if he doesn't see you."
Miss Bailey impaled a figure firmly with the point of her pencil and blinked up at her young secretary.
Wife and children of a sharecropper in Washington County, Arkansas. (Circa 1935)
"Rossi? Rossi? Oh, yes, it was the little girl he was going to whip last week, wasn't it? Well, I suppose we'd better write him a note." Regretfully she pushed aside the report that had to be finished by noon and thumbed the card‑file. "Here we are. 'Rossi. Casual laborer. Eight children. Known to social agencies since 1917. See Confidential Exchange report.' Um‑m. How well I know the Rossis. Take this, please:
Dear Mr. Rossi: We have already explained to you the reason why we cannot discuss your affairs with your children. Miss Wilson will call on you at the usual time this week. If you are in a difficulty that will not wait either you or Mrs. Rossi should come here. Please do not send the children. It is useless.
"Type that right away, please, and give it to the child."
"Do you think he really will whip the little boy?" The secretary, who was new on the job, lingered a moment.
"I honestly don't know, Miss Floyd, and even if I did I wouldn't know what to do about it. He's probably been whipping his children every day since they could walk and twice on Sundays, and I suspect that the social workers who have known him since 1917 haven't been able to do much about it either. just sign my name, please, put the carbon on Miss Wilson's desk and get the child out of the office."
"And that," she added to herself as she hunted for the lost figure, "is what they mean by hard‑boiled social worker."
But the Rossis persisted in slipping in behind Miss Bailey's concentration, She remembered the family now. She had gone over the record with Miss Wilson the week before when a glib‑tongued, shrewd‑eyed girl of fourteen had tried her best to stage a scene in the office. Always on the ragged edge of dependency, frequently slipping over, the Rossis had shopped the social resources of the city for sixteen years and then resisted them. Settlements, churches, clinics, family societies had been in and out of the Rossi tenement and were no longer interested.
FSA office, winter attire – A visitor to the office looks intently as the worker helps complete paperwork. Library of Congress (1939)
"And then I expect little Miss Wilson to make a model relief family out of them." Miss Bailey snapped off the point of her pencil and didn't care. "Miss Wilson, who never heard of case work till last winter, and never set foot in a school of social work. But I expect her to pick up the pieces that our gilt‑edged social agencies have dropped. And she is just the kind of a girl who will wear herself out trying, Lord love her."
Reaching for a memo pad she wrote hastily:
Dear Miss Wilson: Don't worry about the Rossis. It's of no real importance if the children come to the office. We can always send them home again. Be sure you take them their food order on the tick, let them talk as much as you possibly have time for, and make the children's lives more bearable in any way you can. I know you'll be kind, but don't worry about them. A. R. B.
"Oh, Miss Floyd, please pin this memo to the Rossi note on Miss Wilson's desk‑and try to give me a clear half‑hour on this report."
There is no doubt that the emergency relief organizations have inherited from the private family societies a good many cases that, alas, are not emergency and never have been, families that have been "on the charities" for years, that have baffled case committees ever since those excellent institutions were conceived. Family societies would be little less than human if in times like these, with "hopeful" cases crowding their doorsteps, they did not shift over to the broad shoulders of emergency relief some of those problems which have denied their best efforts.
"I have no quarrel with the agencies that transfer their chronic dependents to us," said the head of a city department. "I'm not saying that the patient, painstaking methods of skilled case work might not win out at long last, but as a practical person as well as an old case worker I feel that at this time we simply cannot afford to expend that kind of service on what we must admit are unpromising prospects. I do not propose that this department should be made a dumping ground for other people's failures, but when about all anyone can do is to pity and to feed, probably it is our job.
"My quarrel is with thoughtless people who get hold of a story or two of charity-scarred rounders and generalize volubly about the ingratitude of the unemployed. For every family that is demanding, and what my mother used to call do-less, we have a hundred who are responsive and resourceful, incredibly patient with our poor fumbling efforts, and much too grateful for the little we can do for them. But it is the handful of old‑timers that the public hears most about. It is they who write letters to the mayor, or better to President Roosevelt, who pour their grievances into the ears of the newspaper sob-sisters and who dry up the milk of human kindness in the new investigator who hasn't much experience in the infinite manifestations of human nature. "Take begging for instance. One of my good young workers came in yesterday ready to quit her job because two little boys in one of her families were making a business of begging on the street, and she strongly suspects the mother of a similar sideline with the added scenery of a babe-in-arms. She had argued, cajoled, threatened and extorted Bible promises. But the minute her back was turned they were at it again. And she didn't know what to do about it.
Clients listen to a presentation about relief plans for their community. Library of Congress (1938)
"Well, neither did I. Every case worker has known such families. In the old days when community resources were less overtaxed than now, other agencies would have been able to help, but far be it from me to claim that we would have been a hundred percent successful. The best advice I could give this girl was to keep on doing her best, get all the help she could from other agencies, and not to give up. She found this family encrusted with habits which her brief contacts could not possibly change. The best thing she could do, it seemed to me, was to face the thing clearly but unrancorously with the family, to try to find out what they thought about themselves and their situation, and to be everlastingly opportunist in seizing on any opening to exert her influence. To withdraw relief would only make bigger and better beggars of them all and kill a contact which some time may count for something. To strike back at a family that resists us is to be as stupid as the man who kicks his car because it won't start."
The worker who depends on threats and scoldings to stop the exploiting of children by their parents is, supervisors agree, wasting her breath. "If you do that again I'll have the policeman arrest you," just makes the business more exciting. "We can't expect the police to do our bullying for us." To tell parents that "the society" will take their children away from them if they don't behave is to set up a defiance that will frustrate future efforts. There are times when the law must be used, sharply and decisively — the supervisors know when and how –"but a threat of the law which we have no real intention of following up, as our clients probably know as well as we do, only belittles us and weakens our hand."
"We have acquired a philosophy — maybe it's a protective crust about begging," says the supervisor of a midwest city district. "Honestly there is very little we can do about it except to keep on trying. As a matter of fact our most humiliating trouble is not begging but garbage-picking from the dozens of cheap restaurants round about. Here my immediate concern is less with garbage‑picking per se than with our inexperienced workers whose disgust and discouragement with one garbage-picking family is liable to harden their attitude toward all their other families. These people have no right to be classed as unemployed. They are the stubborn sediment of our city life, the perennial despair of social workers. To label them as 'the unemployed' and to mix them up even in our minds with the great mass of upright, cruelly hurt people whom we are trying to keep going is to do a serious injustice. I certainly won't let these people starve, but I won't spend too much time on them nor let them wear down the spirits of my workers.
"Of course, the relief we are giving these families is thin enough, but the fact remains that for everyone that is using its thinness as all excuse for begging and garbage picking, hundreds are managing with such decency and self‑respect that I bow my head before them. Perhaps if we could give more adequate food allowances ‑‑ perhaps if we couId make these families the special chage of our most skilled workers ‑‑ I'm sure I don't know. Our past record with this problem is not very brilliant."
A visitor to the office looks intently as the worker helps complete paperwork. Library of Congress (1939)
In another district which reluctantly admits to a quota of beggars and garbage‑pickers, the supervisor urges the workers to keep on trying to do something about it. "Perhaps a little fresh imagination will get us somewhere," she says cheerfully. "One of our visitors is sure that if she takes the line that the parents hate begging and garbage‑picking as much as she does, and keeps steadfastly on their side, trying to help them find a way to avoid it, that she'll bring them around. And maybe she will. Another always drops casually into every interview a colorful story of someone poisoned by spoiled food, or of some sodden old beggar being dragged off by the police ‑‑ 'Just think, he was once a nice little chap like your Johnny.' A third is trying to work out a sort of visiting‑housekeeper arrangement among her families, getting a woman who manages particularly well on the grocery order to neighbor with the one who can't manage at all, and to show her how to do it. It might work. It's worth trying.
"These approaches seem to me much more hopeful than attempts to treat begging children by 'running them in' or by trying to stop garbage‑picking by removing the garbage. One of our visitors had a brief triumph when she persuaded a restaurant keeper whose refuse barrels were highly popular, to sprinkle them with lime before putting them out. But he was a soft‑hearted soul who made a virtue of his soft‑heartedness. A week later, passing that way, she saw him carefully topping a barrel of scraps with a wedge of quite inviting pie and a couple of not‑so‑very‑spotted grapefruit. And just around the corner were a couple of urchins waiting to pounce."
Social workers came through long and painful experience to the realization that you can't change people's ways by order, by threat or by bribe. But to guide, to lead, to suggest incentives is a slow process which in the pressure of the moment is a practical impossibility even if the patient skills were available.
"We cannot keep people from exploiting their children in dangerous demoralizing ways, but we can try to find out why they do it and perhaps when we know why, we'll be more helpful. We know it is not want alone that makes them so poor in spirit, dire as that want may be. It is something more that we must search for, but while we search we must keep perspective on our whole job of which this is only a small part, we must keep ourselves from getting either emotional or hard‑boiled and most especially we must not try to take the whole world on our shoulders."
Source: Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries: www. special.lib.umn.edu/
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