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/*
 * $Id: UpdateManager.cpp 6232 2014-06-03 20:18:29Z johnsonb $
 *
 *
 * Distributed under the OpenDDS License.
 * See: http://www.opendds.org/license.html
 */

#include "DcpsInfo_pch.h"

#include "UpdateManager.h"
#include "Updater.h"
#include "ArrDelAdapter.h"
#include "DCPSInfo_i.h"

#include "tao/CDR.h"

#include <vector>

namespace Update {

Manager::Manager()
  : info_(0)
{
}

Manager::~Manager()
{
}

void
Manager::add(TAO_DDS_DCPSInfo_i* info)
{
  info_ = info;
}

void
Manager::add(Updater* updater)
{
  // push new element to the back.
  updaters_.insert(updater);
}

void
Manager::remove()
{
  // Clean the refrence to the InfoRepo.
  info_ = 0;
}

void
Manager::remove(const Updater* updater)
{
  // check if the Updaters is part of the list.
  Updaters::iterator iter = updaters_.find(const_cast<Updater*>(updater));

  if (iter == updaters_.end()) {
    return;
  }

  // remove the element
  updaters_.erase(iter);
}

int
Manager::init(int , ACE_TCHAR *[])
{
  return 0;
}

int
Manager::fini()
{
  return 0;
}

void
Manager::requestImage()
{
  for (Updaters::iterator iter = updaters_.begin();
       iter != updaters_.end();
       iter++) {
    (*iter)->requestImage();
  }
}

template <typename T>
class SeqGuard {
public:
  typedef std::vector<T*> Seq;

public:
  ~SeqGuard() {
    for (typename Seq::iterator iter = seq_.begin();
         iter != seq_.end();) {
      typename Seq::iterator current = iter;
      iter++;

      delete(*current);
    }
  };

  Seq& seq() {
    return seq_;
  };

private:
  Seq seq_;
};

void
Manager::pushImage(const DImage& image)
{
  if (info_ == NULL) {
    return;
  }

  // image to be propagated.
  UImage u_image;

  /***************************
  // The downstream image needs to be converted to a
  // format compatible with the upstream layers (Dimage -> UImage)
  // The Uimage cotains a lot of refrences to the complex data
  // types. These are collecetd in several buckets (see below) and
  // passed by reference. Usage of a custom guard class 'SeqGuard'
  // automates memory cleanup.
  ***************************/

  // Participant buckets
  SeqGuard<DDS::DomainParticipantQos> part_qos_guard;
  SeqGuard<DDS::DomainParticipantQos>::Seq& part_qos = part_qos_guard.seq();

  SeqGuard<UParticipant> part_guard;
  SeqGuard<UParticipant>::Seq& parts = part_guard.seq();

  for (DImage::ParticipantSeq::const_iterator iter = image.participants.begin();
       iter != image.participants.end(); iter++) {
    const DParticipant& part = *iter;

    TAO_InputCDR in_cdr(part.participantQos.second.second
                        , part.participantQos.second.first);

    DDS::DomainParticipantQos* qos;
    ACE_NEW_NORETURN(qos, DDS::DomainParticipantQos);
    in_cdr >> *qos;
    part_qos.push_back(qos);

    UParticipant* u_part;
    ACE_NEW_NORETURN(u_part, UParticipant(part.domainId
                                          , part.owner
                                          , part.participantId
                                          , *qos));
    parts.push_back(u_part);

    // push newly created UParticipant into UImage Participant bucket
    u_image.participants.push_back(u_part);
  }

  // Topic buckets
  SeqGuard<DDS::TopicQos> topics_qos_guard;
  SeqGuard<DDS::TopicQos>::Seq& topics_qos = topics_qos_guard.seq();

  SeqGuard<UTopic> topics_guard;
  SeqGuard<UTopic>::Seq& topics = topics_guard.seq();

  for (DImage::TopicSeq::const_iterator iter = image.topics.begin();
       iter != image.topics.end(); iter++) {
    const DTopic& topic = *iter;

    TAO_InputCDR in_cdr(topic.topicQos.second.second
                        , topic.topicQos.second.first);

    DDS::TopicQos* qos;
    ACE_NEW_NORETURN(qos, DDS::TopicQos);
    in_cdr >> *qos;
    topics_qos.push_back(qos);

    UTopic* u_topic;
    ACE_NEW_NORETURN(u_topic
                     , UTopic(topic.domainId, topic.topicId
                              , topic.participantId
                              , topic.name.c_str()
                              , topic.dataType.c_str(), *qos));
    topics.push_back(u_topic);

    // Push newly created UTopic into UImage Topic bucket
    u_image.topics.push_back(u_topic);
  }

  // Actor buckets
  SeqGuard<DDS::PublisherQos> pub_qos_guard;
  SeqGuard<DDS::PublisherQos>::Seq& pub_qos_seq = pub_qos_guard.seq();
  SeqGuard<DDS::DataWriterQos> dw_qos_guard;
  SeqGuard<DDS::DataWriterQos>::Seq& dw_qos_seq = dw_qos_guard.seq();

  SeqGuard<DDS::SubscriberQos> sub_qos_guard;
  SeqGuard<DDS::SubscriberQos>::Seq& sub_qos_seq = sub_qos_guard.seq();
  SeqGuard<DDS::DataReaderQos> dr_qos_guard;
  SeqGuard<DDS::DataReaderQos>::Seq& dr_qos_seq = dr_qos_guard.seq();

  SeqGuard<OpenDDS::DCPS::TransportLocatorSeq> trans_guard;
  SeqGuard<OpenDDS::DCPS::TransportLocatorSeq>::Seq& transports = trans_guard.seq();

  SeqGuard<URActor> reader_guard;
  SeqGuard<URActor>::Seq& readers = reader_guard.seq();
  SeqGuard<UWActor> writer_guard;
  SeqGuard<UWActor>::Seq& writers = writer_guard.seq();

  for (DImage::ReaderSeq::const_iterator iter = image.actors.begin();
       iter != image.actors.end(); iter++) {
    const DActor& actor = *iter;

    TAO_InputCDR in_cdr(actor.transportInterfaceInfo.second
                        , actor.transportInterfaceInfo.first);
    OpenDDS::DCPS::TransportLocatorSeq* trans;
    ACE_NEW_NORETURN(trans, OpenDDS::DCPS::TransportLocatorSeq);
    transports.push_back(trans);
    in_cdr >> *trans;

    DDS::PublisherQos* pub_qos = 0;
    DDS::DataWriterQos* writer_qos = 0;
    DDS::SubscriberQos* sub_qos = 0;
    DDS::DataReaderQos* reader_qos = 0;

    if (actor.type == DataReader) {
      TAO_InputCDR sub_cdr(actor.pubsubQos.second.second
                           , actor.pubsubQos.second.first);
      ACE_NEW_NORETURN(sub_qos, DDS::SubscriberQos);
      sub_qos_seq.push_back(sub_qos);
      sub_cdr >> *sub_qos;

      TAO_InputCDR read_cdr(actor.drdwQos.second.second
                            , actor.drdwQos.second.first);
      ACE_NEW_NORETURN(reader_qos, DDS::DataReaderQos);
      dr_qos_seq.push_back(reader_qos);
      read_cdr >> *reader_qos;

      ContentSubscriptionInfo* csi = 0;
      ACE_NEW_NORETURN(csi, ContentSubscriptionInfo);
      csi->filterExpr = actor.contentSubscriptionProfile.filterExpr.c_str();
      TAO_InputCDR csp_cdr(actor.contentSubscriptionProfile.exprParams.second,
                           actor.contentSubscriptionProfile.exprParams.first);
      csp_cdr >> csi->exprParams;

      URActor* reader;
      ACE_NEW_NORETURN(reader
                       , URActor(actor.domainId, actor.actorId
                                 , actor.topicId, actor.participantId
                                 , actor.type, actor.callback.c_str()
                                 , *sub_qos, *reader_qos
                                 , *trans, *csi));
      readers.push_back(reader);
      u_image.actors.push_back(reader);

    } else if (actor.type == DataWriter) {
      TAO_InputCDR pub_cdr(actor.pubsubQos.second.second
                           , actor.pubsubQos.second.first);
      ACE_NEW_NORETURN(pub_qos, DDS::PublisherQos);
      pub_qos_seq.push_back(pub_qos);
      pub_cdr >> *pub_qos;

      TAO_InputCDR write_cdr(actor.drdwQos.second.second
                             , actor.drdwQos.second.first);
      ACE_NEW_NORETURN(writer_qos, DDS::DataWriterQos);
      dw_qos_seq.push_back(writer_qos);
      write_cdr >> *writer_qos;

      ContentSubscriptionInfo csi; //writers have no info

      UWActor* writer;
      ACE_NEW_NORETURN(writer
                       , UWActor(actor.domainId, actor.actorId
                                 , actor.topicId, actor.participantId
                                 , actor.type, actor.callback.c_str()
                                 , *pub_qos, *writer_qos
                                 , *trans, csi));
      writers.push_back(writer);
      u_image.wActors.push_back(writer);

    } else {
      ACE_ERROR((LM_ERROR, "Update::Manager::pushImage> unknown "
                 "actor type.\n"));
    }
  }

  info_->receive_image(u_image);
}

void
Manager::destroy(const IdPath& id, ItemType type, ActorType actor)
{
  // Invoke remove on each of the iterators.
  for (Updaters::iterator iter = updaters_.begin();
       iter != updaters_.end();
       iter++) {
    (*iter)->destroy(id, type, actor);
  }
}

void
Manager::add(const DTopic& topic)
{
  if (info_ == NULL) {
    return;
  }

  // Demarshal QOS data
  TAO_InputCDR in_cdr(topic.topicQos.second.second
                      , topic.topicQos.second.first);

  DDS::TopicQos qos;
  in_cdr >> qos;

  // Pass topic info to infoRepo.
  info_->add_topic(topic.topicId, topic.domainId
                   , topic.participantId, topic.name.c_str()
                   , topic.dataType.c_str(), qos);
}

void
Manager::add(const DParticipant& participant)
{
  if (info_ == NULL) {
    return;
  }

  // Demarshal QOS data
  TAO_InputCDR in_cdr(participant.participantQos.second.second
                      , participant.participantQos.second.first);

  DDS::DomainParticipantQos qos;
  in_cdr >> qos;

  // Pass participant info to infoRepo.
  info_->add_domain_participant(participant.domainId
                                , participant.participantId
                                , qos);
}

void
Manager::add(const DActor& actor)
{
  if (info_ == NULL) {
    return;
  }

  // Demarshal QOS data
  TAO_InputCDR pubSubCdr(actor.pubsubQos.second.second
                         , actor.pubsubQos.second.first);

  TAO_InputCDR drdwCdr(actor.drdwQos.second.second
                       , actor.drdwQos.second.first);

  std::string callback(actor.callback.c_str());

  TAO_InputCDR transportCdr(actor.transportInterfaceInfo.second
                            , actor.transportInterfaceInfo.first);

  OpenDDS::DCPS::TransportLocatorSeq transport_info;
  transportCdr >> transport_info;

  if (actor.type == DataReader) {
    DDS::SubscriberQos sub_qos;
    DDS::DataReaderQos reader_qos;

    pubSubCdr >> sub_qos;
    drdwCdr >> reader_qos;

    Update::ContentSubscriptionInfo csi;
    csi.filterExpr = actor.contentSubscriptionProfile.filterExpr.c_str();
    TAO_InputCDR cspCdr(actor.contentSubscriptionProfile.exprParams.second,
                        actor.contentSubscriptionProfile.exprParams.first);
    cspCdr >> csi.exprParams;

    // Pass actor to InfoRepo.
    info_->add_subscription(actor.domainId, actor.participantId
                            , actor.topicId, actor.actorId
                            , callback.c_str(), reader_qos
                            , transport_info, sub_qos
                            , csi.filterExpr, csi.exprParams);

  } else if (actor.type == DataWriter) {
    DDS::PublisherQos pub_qos;
    DDS::DataWriterQos writer_qos;

    pubSubCdr >> pub_qos;
    drdwCdr >> writer_qos;

    // Pass actor info to infoRepo.
    info_->add_publication(actor.domainId, actor.participantId
                           , actor.topicId, actor.actorId
                           , callback.c_str(), writer_qos
                           , transport_info, pub_qos);
  }
}

} // namespace Update

int
UpdateManagerSvc_Loader::init()
{
  return ACE_Service_Config::process_directive
         (ace_svc_desc_UpdateManagerSvc);
  return 0;
}

ACE_FACTORY_DEFINE(ACE_Local_Service, UpdateManagerSvc)

ACE_STATIC_SVC_DEFINE(UpdateManagerSvc,
                      ACE_TEXT("UpdateManagerSvc"),
                      ACE_SVC_OBJ_T,
                      &ACE_SVC_NAME(UpdateManagerSvc),
                      ACE_Service_Type::DELETE_THIS
                      | ACE_Service_Type::DELETE_OBJ,
                      0)

//ACE_STATIC_SVC_REQUIRE (Update::UpdateManager)


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We're Wired Platinum
We've always worked extremely hard to ensure our buildings are developed to include the very latest technological features, including providing N+1 fallback systems to the majority of our new buildings. At Fitzroy Place, for example, we were the first residential developer to be able to provide "fibre to fibre" internet for our residents offering internet speeds of up to 350mbs! However communicating our efforts as developers can be difficult and so we're now thrilled that there's a world wide recognised certification now in place to grade buildings based on their digital infrastructure – Wired Certification.
Our first building to be graded by Wired is The Avenue, our building developed in partnership with Ashby Capital. Here we're delighted to have been certified as Platinum, which is the highest rating available .
To achieve this we've provided a number of facilities, including two diverse ports of entry for communications, access to three service providers, and free WIFI available in all common areas. Maybe that's why Skyscanner, amongst others, have made The Avenue their home.
Tottenham Court Road
One Bedford Avenue

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Carly Rae Jepsen is standing up against the Boy Scouts of America.
The singer just pulled out of a MAJOR concert because they don't support gay rights.
She's not the only artist who won't sing for the Boy Scouts because of the organizations anti-gay beliefs.
Train also backed out of the concert, stating, they'd be happy to re-join IF the Boy Scouts of America changed their views.
We think standing up for what you believe in is cool and totally support gay rights too!
2012 American Music Awards — Winners!


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USAF "Tops In Blue" gets canned
The Group's 2012 "Tour From Hell" resulted in two command-directed investigations.
Problems included:
July: Electrocution of a technical sergeant in Kuwait by a temporary power board. He was released in after 24 hours of hospital observation.
October 28th: $71,000 in damage to 7.5-ton tractor jacknifed by the same technical sergeant.
October 29th: Extensive damage to a trailer rented to replace the one wrecked the day before when another driver backed the replacement into a lamp post.
Rampant sexual harrassment, mostly of women, but including a male master sergeant who kept hitting on a male senior airman, "explicitly saying what he'd like to do to him," according to written testimony by a female senior airman.
The same senior airman said an unnamed tech sergeant often bragged to her about beating a first lieutenant with a crowbar, which she said further intimidated and scared her.
The performing group, six decades old, was shut down September 1, according to Air Force Times:
Tops in Blue has become a source of controversy in recent years, with some airmen saying it was a waste of time and money that didn't do much to entertain the rank-and-file. Some airmen claimed their commanders ordered them to attend Tops in Blue performances, a claim backed up by some disgruntled former Tops in Blue members, who also told Air Force Times they felt the show was out of date and wasted money on costumes -- enough for multiple changes -- and musical instruments that sat unplayed and uncared for in storage.
Until late 2015 -- when Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James first launched a survey to find out how airmen really felt about it and then suspended the 2016 tour — Air Force officials maintained the band was a morale-booster and great recruiting tool, beloved by current and former airmen and their families, as well as commanders, and "represents an outstanding value to the Air Force."


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Q: using convereter in a setter of style wpf I have a converter to convert Double.Nan to null.
I need to refer this in resourcedictionary.
I will include my code here

This convereter is triggered. But value is not updating in the UI.
Binding is done like this

A: Local properties are preferred over style properties, so your <Setter Property="Content"> is ignored and only the Content="{Binding Filters_TanksModelObject.RunDown_HeaderPressureDischargeStart ,Mode=TwoWay,UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" is used.
Instead, use

and remove the direct assignment. Or use this binding directly and don't rely on the style.

A: Try this solution:
1 Add your converter as static resource
<UserControl.Resources>
    <local:NanToNullConverter x:Key="nanToNullCnvrt"/>
</UserControl.Resources>

2 Add converter directly to Content property

A: The converter should be applied to the binding itself so putting it in a Style doesn't make much sense I am afraid.
@grek40's solution hardcodes the binding path in the Style which make the Style pretty much useless if your intention was to to create a generic Label style that will work for all bindings.
Forget about trying to include the converter in the Style and apply it to each and every binding:
<Application.Resources>
    <local:NanToNullConverter x:Key="NanToNullConverter" />
</Application.Resources>

The other option would be to create a custom Label control that handles the conversion from Double.Nan to null behind the scenes without using a converter.

A:  <Binding Path="Content" RelativeSource="{RelativeSource Self}">

Using RelativeSource in here, will take Binding as a Source and search for Path "Content" in Binding and that will end as Binding Error.
You can access the Correct path and no source, if you are sure about the type of DataContext.
or,
<Binding Path="Content" RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType={x:Type Label}}>

if it is inside Template,
 <Binding Path="Content" RelativeSource="{RelativeSource TemplatedParent}">

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Harry Reid's retirement is good news for patent reform
By Timothy B. Lee Mar 27, 2015, 1:10pm EDT
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
The big news in politics today is that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is retiring from Congress at the end of the current term, and has endorsed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to succeed him as Democratic leader in 2017. One group that's surely celebrating this announcement is advocates of patent reform.
In 2013, the House of Representatives passed the Innovation Act, which would make it easier for companies to defend themselves in patent lawsuits. The legislation was designed to combat the problem of patent trolls — companies that make their money by threatening patent lawsuits rather than by making useful products. The idea enjoyed the support of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and several senior Republicans in the Senate.
But last May, Leahy announced that he was shelving his patent reform bill, and insiders told me he did this at Reid's request. Reid has a close relationships with trial lawyers' groups, who opposed the bill. Plaintiffs' lawyers were concerned that the bill's "loser pays" provision — which allows winning defendants in patent cases to collect legal fees from plaintiffs — could later be expanded to apply to non-patent cases.
By contrast, Schumer is an advocate of patent reform and was one of Leahy's key allies in the patent fight. That makes sense given his constituency; New York is home to both Wall Street and a lot of technology startups, and both groups are frequent targets of patent trolls.
On a lot of issues, it doesn't really matter who the party leaders are because their caucuses already have strong opinions. Harry Reid was personally pro-life, but he's been forced to reflect the views of his overwhelmingly pro-choice caucus. But patent issues aren't like that. There are Democrats on both sides of the issue, and a number of senators who don't have a strong opinion on the issue one way or the other. So who leads the Democrats can have a big impact.
Of course, if Republicans pass a strong patent reform bill this year — which they might — then this could be a non-issue by the time Reid's successor takes over in 2017. But given how slowly the legislative process moves, there's a good chance this will still be a live debate if and when Schumer takes charge.
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VIDEO + PHOTO ESSAY: London Life, Lagos Living > African Digital Art
LONDON LIFE, LAGOS LIVING
Following the book by Bob Om0tayo ( The Rennainsance Man), this short film documents a week in his life. The documentary follows a series of short stories from his book with the same title. The short film is a great introduction to contemporary Naija culture in the diaspora. If you haven't grabbed your hands on the book, the short film is worth a watch.
This 6-minute documentary, directed by LA-based filmmaker, Francesca Tilley-Gyado, is not so much a story of 'the journey so far' but more a snapshot into what a typical week is like for the author and contributors to the book. This documentary is testament that it is possible for a hopeless dreamer to dream in 'flights of fancy' but yet have his 'flights' for his singular critic.
jepchumba
Founder and Creative Director at African Digital Art Network
Jepchumba is an AFRICAN DIGITAL ARTIST and DIGITAL ENTHUSIAST who works hard to combine her two passions: Digital Media and Africa. Originally from Kenya, she has lived around the world developing her interest in philosophy, art and technology. An African digital artist, Jepchumba loves experimenting with motion, sound and various digital effects and techniques and has an extensive background in digital art, web design and development, audio/visual production and social media strategies.
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HISTORY + PHOTO ESSAY: W. Eugene Smith's Landmark Photo Essay, 'Nurse Midwife' (Maude Callen) > LIFE-com
W. Eugene Smith's
Landmark Photo Essay,
'Nurse Midwife'
GO HERE TO VIEW PHOTO SLIDE SHOW
In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages, and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith' pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in "an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads," as LIFE put it, Callen served as "doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend" to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.
Calling Maude Callen a heroic figure — especially today, when the word "hero" is thrown around like confetti — might strike some as problematic. She was, after all, not really risking her life in her daily and nightly rounds. But how else should we characterize a woman who saved so many others through her work, and who firmly, compassionately delivered into the world so many children who, without her intervention, might well have died at or shortly after birth? What else do we call someone who dedicated seemingly every waking moment to helping others — in a time and place where pain and want were the rule, rather than the exception?
The article in LIFE, titled simply "Nurse Midwife," that chronicled Callen's work and her unique role in her community is a companion piece, of sorts, to Smith's landmark 1948 essay, "Country Doctor." Spending time with the two essays, one gets the sense that Maude Callen and Dr. Ernest Ceriani of Kremmling, Colorado — while physically separated by thousands of miles, as well as by the even broader, thornier barrier of race -— would not only understand one another, on an elemental level, but that each would recognize something utterly familiar in the other. Their lives and the landscapes they navigated might have been as different, in critical ways, as one can possibly imagine; but in the essentials, they were kindred spirits. They were healers.
Here, on the heels of the 33rd annual W. Eugene Smith Grant ceremonies in New York, LIFE.com presents "Nurse Midwife" in its entirety, as well as images that Smith shot for the story but that were never published in LIFE.
The story in LIFE began this way, setting the stage for what one reader called, echoing the numerous awe-struck letters to the editor published in a later issue, "one of the greatest pieces of photojournalism I have seen in years":
Some weeks ago in the South Carolina village of Pineville, in Berkeley County on the edge of Hell Hole Swamp, the time arrived for Alice Cooper to have a baby and she sent fr the midwife. At first it seemed that everything was all right, but soon the midwife noticed signs of trouble. Hastily she sent for a woman name Maude Callen to come and take over.
After Maude Callen arrived at 6 p.m., Alie Cooper's labor grew more severe. It lasted through the night until dawn. But at the end she was safely delivered of a healthy son. The new midwife had succeeded in a situation where the fast-disappearing "granny" midwife of the South, armed with superstition and a pair of rusty scissors, might have killed both mother and child.
Maude Callen is a member of a unique group, the nurse midwife. Although there are perhaps 20,000 common midwives practicing, trained nurse midwives are rare. There are only nine in South Carolina, 300 in the nation. Their education includes the full course required of all registered nurses, training in public heath and at least six months' classes in obstetrics.
Maude Callen has delivered countless babies in her career, but obstetrics is only part of her work… To those who think that a middle-aged Negro [sic] without a medical degree has no business meddling in affairs such as these, Dr. William Fishburne, director of the Berkeley County health department, has a ready answer. When he was asked whether he thought Maude Callen could be spared to do some teaching for the state board of health, he replied, "If you have to take her, I can only ask you to join me in prayer for the people left here."
For W. Eugene Smith, work mattered. Throughout his legendary career, he sought out and chronicled the lives and the labor of people who knew their craft. Whether he was photographing a world figure like Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa or anonymous Welsh coal miners; a doctor in the Rockies or a midwife in South Carolina; Smith saw something noble in hard work, and something profoundly admirable in men and women who cared enough to do their work well.
But one would be hard-pressed to find anyone who ever appeared in LIFE's pages whose humble and necessary work merited more admiration than that of the unforgettable, unbreakable nurse midwife of Smith's 1951 photo essay. After the piece was published, LIFE subscribers from all over the country sent donations, large and small, to help Mrs. Callen in what one reader called "her magnificent endeavor." Thousands of dollars poured in — sometimes in pennies and nickels, sometimes more — until, as LIFE later reported, she was overwhelmed by the response.
"Halfway through a recent day's mail, [Mrs. Callen] said to her husband: 'I'm too tired and happy to read more tonight. I just want to sit here and be thankful.'"
Eventually, more than $20,000 in donations helped to build a clinic in Pineville, where Mrs. Callen worked until her retirement in 1971.
In later years, Maude Callen was still (rightfully) being celebrated for her life's work. She was honored with the Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award in 1984 for six decades of service to her community, and in 1989 the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) awarded her an honorary degree, while the MUSC College of Nursing created a scholarship in her name.
Maude Callen died in 1990 at the age of 91 in Pineville, South Carolina, where she had lived, and served, for seven decades.
— Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com
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AUDIO: Jimi Hendrix Special - The Jimi You Never Knew
Jimi Hendrix, People Hell and Angels Album Cover Art
More than forty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix's music is still relevant today. His new album release, People, Hell & Angels debuted at Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 200 list and the single charted at Number One.
Today's special, "The Jimi You Never Knew" is two hours of incredible music that has surfaced in the last few years. Featuring interviews with Jimi's sister, Janie, his engineer, Eddie Kramer, and his bass player, Billy Cox, the program also has insights and comments from Taj Mahal, Billie Gibbons, Angela Davis, Steve Winwood, Bootsy Collins and dozens of others. "The Jimi You Never Knew" offers fresh perspectives into and examples from one of the 20th century's most influential musicians.
Jimi Hendrix's legacy continues to grow through the efforts of Experience Hendrix/Legacy. The new album contains 12 never-before-released recordings of songs Hendrix was working on for the planned follow-up to Electric Ladyland, and this two-hour World Cafe special showcases Hendrix's creativity in the studio as well as his experiments with different players and styles. Don't miss World Cafe's exclusive look at one of the 20th century's most influential musicians.
Produced by Ben Manilla.
More About Jimi Hendrix
Hendrix was one of the most creative and influential musicians in the history of popular music, and brought an intense and raw emotion to rock during the 20th century that no one ever saw before or has seen since. His innovative use of amplifier feedback, the wah-wah pedal, and stereophonic phasing effects dubbed him a pioneer of mastering the electric guitar. Achieving success first in Europe with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix became immensely popular in the U.S. after his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. He went on to headline the Woodstock Festival in 1969, where his played his famous rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Hendrix died in 1970, at the age of 27, from drug-related asphyxia.
Session Playlist:
Jimi Hendrix "Crash Landing" People, Hell, and Angels
Jimi Hendrix "Somewhere" People, Hell, and Angels
Jimi Hendrix "The Wind Cries Mary" West Coast Seattle Boy
*((Jimi Hendrix Experience "Third Stone From the Sun" Are You Experienced?))
Jimi Hendrix "Earth Blues" People, Hell, and Angels
Jimi Hendrix "Hear My Train A' Comin'" The Blues
Band of Gypsys "Hear My Train A' Comin'" People, Hell, and Angels
((Jimi Hendrix "Lullaby for Summer" Valleys of Neptune))
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Mr. Bad Luck" Valleys of Neptune
Jimi Hendrix "Izabella" People, Hell, and Angels
Jimi Hendrix "Angel" West Coast Seattle Boy
The Ghetto Fighters "Mojo Man" People, Hell, and Angels
Band of Gypsys "Bleeding Heart" People, Hell, and Angels
Band of Gypsys "Changes" The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions
Band of Gypsys "Message to Love" The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions
((Jimi Hendrix "Villanova Junction" People, Hell, and Angels))
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Little Wing" Winterland
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Stone Free" Paris 1967/ San Francisco 1968
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" Winterland
((Jimi Hendrix "Born Under A Bad Sign" The Blues))
Jimi Hendrix "Roomful of Mirrors" West Coast Seattle Boy
Jimi Hendrix "Shame, Shame, Shame" West Coast Seattle Boy
Jimi Hendrix "Valleys of Neptune" Valleys of Neptune
Jimi Hendrix "Easy Blues" People, Hell, and Angels
(( ))interlude music
Recent Release: People, Hell, and Angels
Label: Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings
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VIDEO: Nneka > Okayafrica
Nneka 'Restless'
March 27, 2013 Posted by: killakam
The ever-evocative Nigerian songstress Nneka sums up a relationship split in her LA-shot video for "Restless." Experimental dancers mirror a couple's rupture, while Nneka sings, forlorn, from a chair and splashes paint over the image of a previous love — take out of that what you will. This is the sixth (!) video single off her excellent Soul Is Heavy LP. Watch her previous music videos and see Nneka perform acoustic songs for OKATV.
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Bare Soul Pt.4:
Nneka 'My Home'
(Live Acoustic)
April 19, 2012 Posted by: Swank
We caught Nigerian chanteuse Nneka at Cielo in NYC, where she performed an intimate acoustic set of standouts from Soul Is Heavy — grab the album at Decon. Nneka closed the show with a beautiful rendering of "My Home" (above). This is the last in a four-part Bare Soul series brought to you by Okayafrica and Decon. Below are her alluring versions of "Shining Star," "Do You Love Me Now?," and "Camouflage."
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PUB: Entries Open: The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2013 > Writers Afrika
Entries Open:
The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2013
Deadline: 12 April 2013
Entries are hereby invited for The Nigeria Prize for Literature. The yearly literary prize is endowed by Nigeria LNG Limited [NLNG] to honour the author of the best book by a Nigerian within the last four years.
The prize rotates among four literary genres - prose fiction, poetry, drama and children's literature. This year, the competition is for Poetry. The competition is open only to published works by Nigerian writers irrespective of place of residence. It carries a reward of $100,000.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Six copies of the entry and, if available, an e-copy, together with evidence of Nigerian citizenship (photocopy of Nigerian passport or National identity card), may be submitted either by authors or publishers, in accordance with the genres in competition.
Books should be submitted to Nigeria LNG Limited's External Relations Division, promoters of the prize, by the stipulated deadline. Failure to meet the stated conditions will lead to disqualification of the entry.
No book published before January, 2010 will be accepted.
Complete contact information, including full postal address and/or e-mail(s), phone number(s) and other relevant contact information should accompany each submission.
An author in any competition will enter only one published work. Mere manuscripts will not be considered. No book previously submitted for this competition may be re-submitted at a later date, even if major revisions have been made or a new edition published.
The prize will be awarded for no other reason than excellence.
PANEL OF JUDGES:
A panel of judges shall be appointed for The Nigeria Prize for Literature by the Advisory Board for Literature.
The appointment of judges shall be done to reflect the genre in competition for the year. Persons appointed as judges are those who have wide experience, peer recognition, good public image, and command respect nationally and internationally.
Judges:
Professor Romanus Egudu - Chairman
Professor Abiodun Omolara Ogundipe - Member
Dr. Andrew Abah - Member
International Consultant
Professor Kofi Anyidoho
Professor Emeritus Ayo Banjo - Chairman
Dr. Jerry Agada - Member
Professor Ben Elugbe - Member
LITERARY CRITICISM:
To encourage literary criticism, the Advisory Board for Literature will also reward one critic with not less than N1,000,000.
Since the aim is to promote Nigerian literature in the world, the prize will be open to literary critics from all over the world. Special considerations shall be given to critical essays on new writing in Nigerian Literature.
Contestants shall send in at least three or more critical essays published in a major scholarly journal. Such a journal shall have proven track record of dedication to excellence and shall have an international circulation.
No critical essay previously submitted for this competition may be considered at a later date, even if major revisions of it have been made. Mere manuscripts will not be considered. Entries not submitted by the deadline and according to stated conditions shall not be considered. Only entries published in the year of the competition or in the three years before then shall be considered.
No member of the Advisory Boards or Panels of Judges can enter their essay(s) for the literary criticism award in the year they are serving.
ENTRIES SHALL BE SENT TO:
The Nigeria Prize for Literature
External Relations Division
Nigeria LNG Limited
INTELS Aba Road Estate
Km 16, Aba Expressway
P.M.B 5660, Port Harcourt
Rivers State, Nigeria.
Heron House
10 Dean Farrar Street
SW1H 0DX
For submissions: see the above addresses
Website: http://www.nigerialng.com/
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PUB: CFP: BGHRA Annual Convention 2013: Deadline Extended! > Black German Heritage & Research Association
BGHRA Annual
Convention 2013:
Deadline Extended!
The third annual convention of the Black German Heritage and Research Association (formerly the Black German Cultural Society NJ) will be held on August 8-11, 2013, at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. This year's convention will focus on Black Germans in Diaspora. The conference will feature a keynote address by Maisha Eggers, Professor of Childhood and Diversity Studies at the University of Magdeburg, a screening of the 1952 film "Toxi" at the Amherst Cinema with an introduction and Q & A by Professor Angelica Fenner of the University of Toronto, author of "Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema" (2011), and presentations by guest artists Sharon Dodua Otoo and Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, editors of "The Little Book of Big Visions: How To Be an Artist and Revolutionize the World," published by the Berlin publishers Edition Assemblage in October 2012.
The BGHRA Review Committee invites proposals for papers that engage the multiplicity and diversity of the experiences of Blacks of German heritage and on Blackness in Germany. We welcome submissions for twenty-minute presentations on three academic panels and two sessions devoted to life writing, oral history, and memoir. We are especially interested in life stories by and about Black Germans as well as academic papers. Please send a one-page abstract and a CV or short biographical statement to: bghrassn@gmail.com by April 8.
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PUB: Call for Papers: American Women Writers of Color Conference > Writers Afrika
American Women Writers
of Color Conference
Deadline: 17 May 2013
For more than ten years, Salisbury University proudly hosted the American Women Writers of Color Conference, and we are delighted to reinvigorate this meeting anew. We invite individual, panel, and roundtable proposals on all aspects of scholarship on women writers of color of the Americas (North, South, and Central). We welcome proposals addressing, but not limited to, the following, of any period or genre:
Novels, Graphic Novels, Short Fiction
Memoirs, Autobiography, Biography
Storytelling and Folklore
The Archive(s)
Literary and critical theory
Please include a 100-word biography (noting institutional affiliation and contact information) with your 250-word abstract. Send both via e-mail or postal mail by Friday, May 17, 2013 to
April Logan
Salisbury, MD 21801-6860
E-mail: AWWOC@salisbury.edu
AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS OF COLOR CONFERENCE
Nov. 1 – Nov. 3, 2013
Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel, Ocean City, MD
Keynote Speaker: Daphne Books (Professor of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University; author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910, Jeff Buckley's Grace, and the forthcoming work Subterranean Blues: Black Women and Sound Subcultures—from Minstrelsy through the New Millennium)
Ocean City is within driving distance of the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge and the Charles H. Chipman Cultural Center, the Delmarva Peninsula's first African-American school and church. It is also near two other scenic beach towns: Bethany and Rehoboth.
For queries/ submissions: awwoc@salisbury.edu
Website: http://www.salisbury.edu/english/awwoc.htm
LITERATURE: Aminatta Forna interview: unsilent witness > Telegraph
Aminatta Forna interview:
unsilent witness
Aminatta Forna's father was tortured and then hanged for 'treason' when she was a little girl. But there was no way those responsible were ever going to intimidate her. Nigel Farndale meets a novelist whose life and courage are even more remarkable than her work.
Photo: KATE PETERS
By Nigel Farndale
Talking over her shoulder as she brews a pot of coffee in her kitchen in south-east London, Aminatta Forna tells me she is so hopeless at multitasking she recently answered her mobile while tapping her numbers into a cashpoint, and then walked away without waiting for her money.
It's a surprising admission because the 48-year-old novelist is together enough to have a law degree from UCL, and to have been the founder of a village school and farming project in Sierra Leone, a fellow at Berkeley and a judge of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.
Then again, her life is not without its paradoxes. Although she is, well, a woman – a rather elegant and striking one – she does have a decidedly masculine prose style. The narrator of her new novel, indeed, is a man. And some of his descriptions, such as him feeling 'a tightening in my balls', had me wondering how she knows this stuff.
'Well, I do have a husband,' she says with a laugh. 'But the curious thing is, I do feel more comfortable writing in a male voice and I think it's possibly because I am, actually, a man! Growing up in the 1970s, I was envious of my brother's Action Man, so I made a parachute for my Barbie and threw her out of the window. I was very much a tomboy and passed as a boy for quite a long time, until I was about 14. I wanted to be a boy because life looked palpably more fun that way. Even the clothes boys got to wear were more practical.'
Now framed in the bay window of her sitting-room, Forna keeps looking up the road outside to where the first blossoms of spring are emerging. As she talks she alternates between being in profile in this way to making full eye contact. She's confiding and has an easy laugh, but you can sense the iron in her soul.
Forna in Sierra Leone in 2004 with her late aunt and her cousin, Adama
The Hired Man, her third novel, is set in Croatia, in a small community still living with the memory of war. The narrator hunts deer and there are descriptions of him firing his rifle, which, I suggest, can only have come from first-hand experience. 'Yes, I learnt to shoot as part of my research,' she confirms. 'I went to the range at Bisley in Surrey and I'm now a National Rifle Association member. The man who taught me was a former police marksman. It gave me a whole other view of guns, as well as of my narrator. To shoot, you have to be in control of yourself. The best shots are able to squeeze the trigger between heartbeats.
At first I was knocked off my feet by the gun, but by the end I could hit targets at a kilometre range.' Her husband, Simon, a furniture designer, enters, says hello and tells Forna he is popping out.
'Simon gets invited shooting all the time,' she says when he has gone. 'It's so unfair! Just because he's a man! I discovered that the American military have a lot of female snipers. I think it's to do with their calmness. Certainly, of the couples I took to Bisley it was the women who were the better shots. I would never make a good sniper, though, because the telescope calibrations would defeat me. I'm no good at maths.'
Her research is always this thorough. She also went to the former Yugoslavia to travel the roads she was writing about, as well as to meet the people. For her last novel, The Memory of Love, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, she travelled to Sierra Leone (where she had been partly raised, when not at her English boarding-school) and spent time in the hospital there watching amputations. She also observed the counselling offered by psychologists for post-traumatic stress, another strand of the book (which also has male narrators and shifting time signatures, and deals with the aftermath of war). 'One similarity between the wars in Sierra Leone and Croatia is that they used the weapons they had access to,' she says. 'So in Croatia they had access to hunting rifles, and that's why it was characterised by sniping, whereas in Sierra Leone they had machetes because they were farmers. Low-tech. That's why that war was characterised by amputations.'
If you have a war fought on your land, she reckons, you never get away from the echoes of it. 'The British usually think of war as something fought "over there". For the Yugoslavians and Sierra Leoneans it was "over here", and both were about betrayal.'
The big difference between the wars was that there was no ethnic cleansing in Sierra Leone, she adds. But rape was used as a weapon in both. 'Many of the Yugoslavian women who were raped knew the men who were raping them. And in Sierra Leone they were often connected with personal grudges. When we heard the terrible stories about the war happening in neighbouring Liberia we were sitting there thinking, "We're not like that."'
I notice she refers to Sierra Leoneans as 'we'. Yet she was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother and is married to an Englishman. She tells me that when she is there they don't see her as black and when she's here they don't see her as white. Sounds like she is in a sort of racial limbo, I say. 'Sometimes when I'm talking of both cultures I use "we" for both. I say "we British" and "we Sierra" Leoneans, because I identify with both. I feel black in one place and white in the other, which tells you a lot about human nature.'
Forna with her mother in Scotland, 1968
People who are black would see someone of mixed race as being mostly white, she reckons, whereas someone white would see them as mostly black. 'It always astonishes me that people from either group can't see I'm mixed race, because to me it is obvious. I clearly look half and half. I remember overhearing a black woman in Sierra Leone say, "Yes, you can almost see the black in her." They see I'm different but they assume there are just different shades of white people.'
Her ambition in both books was to write about the silence that defines communities torn apart by war. Breaking the silence was also the theme for the memoir she wrote before she became a novelist – the facts, indeed, she needed to get out of her system before she could write fiction.
Called The Devil that Danced on the Water, it dealt with her father's untimely death. He was a Sierra Leonean doctor who had come to Scotland to do his medical training. When he returned to Africa he was drawn into politics, and the regime tortured and bribed four men into bearing false witness against him. He was hanged for 'treason' in 1975.
Forna was 11 at the time and her memoir was her attempt to find out what really happened to him, because no one would tell her. 'My stepmother [her parents had divorced and remarried] found it too difficult to talk about, so it went unsaid. I think she probably thought we were too young to understand and also, because of the political situation, it was hard to talk about it.'
She named names in the memoir, though; did that make her nervous? 'Boy, did it. The only person I let read the book before publication was my stepmother because she still lives out there. Privately I thought I would change any name she wanted changing but I wouldn't offer it in advance. She just put a tick on it and said, "Very good, darling."'
Actually, she changed one name. 'One of the witnesses at my father's trial who had been paid to lie. He was a nasty character who did it for money and promotion and he complained to me that he was never paid. I changed his name because he was a poor man and vulnerable to the kind of anger and revenge lynchings you get on the streets after a civil war.'
Was that tantamount to forgiveness on her part? 'I don't wish him harm but I can't forgive him. He didn't apologise to me. I protected him because I didn't want his blood on my hands. But forgiveness? No.'
I've read that she is a chronic insomniac; how is she sleeping at the moment? 'I do all the sleep hygiene things – don't drink coffee after midday, earplugs and so on, then – bang! – four o'clock in the morning and I am wide awake. It's all about the nuttiness of making us sleep in this eight-hour period, the Industrial Revolution and working in the hours of daylight. What's annoying about it is that it is useless time when you are lying awake, because you feel too fractured to work, you just want to go back to sleep. I heard of one writer who went to bed at 10 then got back up to write at two. Then went to sleep at four. But I couldn't do that. I don't really like the silence at night. I like the life going on around me. I find absolute silence too eerie.'
She thinks the insomnia and the writing are linked because she doesn't remember being an insomniac when she worked as a journalist at the BBC for 10 years. 'It became chronic when I was writing The Devil that Danced on the Water.'
A psychologist might say there was a connection there. 'I can see why they might. It was such a difficult book to write. I used to dream about my father coming back. It had all been a misunderstanding and he was in hiding. After I wrote that book I did stop having that dream.'
She'd laid him to rest? 'I'm very nervous about anything that looks like psychotherapy in writing. Writing disturbs more than it settles. I teach a course on memoir writing and always start by saying, "It's not therapy. You may come out of it far more upset than you were when you went in."'
Aminatta Forna with her father in Sierra Leone in 1966. He was hanged for 'treason' in 1975
Before she started researching her memoir, her sister warned her to be careful, in case what she found out was worse than what they had assumed had happened. 'And she was right. I went in search of evil and found it. And it was worse than I had imagined it would be. I never imagined that people would have stood by and let such a thing happen. I always assumed it would be more difficult for people to kill him than it was.'
In the 1990s did she find the civil war in Sierra Leone traumatic to follow on the news? 'No, but I was traumatised by the sheer indifference to it here. During the war I was here and my stepmother was there. I would telephone and hear the shells and gunfire in the background. I could hear the advance of the rebels, but the thing that shocked me, and I still haven't got over, is how few of my friends rang me to find if my family were OK. It taught me something about the Western mindset. It was on the news every night yet people couldn't relate those events to the one person from Sierra Leone they knew. People who knew my parents. One close friend rang up during the invasion to tell me her mother's dog had died and she was upset.
I said, "I thought you were ringing me about Sierra Leone." It pretty much ended that friendship.' Last year the Liberian politician Charles Taylor was convicted of crimes against humanity in the Hague for his part in the war in Sierra Leone. Did that give her some closure? 'Not as much as you would think. But writing the memoir did. What came out of it for me was that I had no more questions.'
I cannot say the same, but as our photographer is waiting patiently downstairs we have to draw the interview to a close. A fascinating life story, though. And a fine (and manly) writer.
The Hired Man, by Aminatta Forna, is published by Bloomsbury, £16.99
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VIOLENCE: Rosa Clemente Responds to Rick Ross' "rape lyric" > NewBlackMan (in Exile)
rosa clemente
Peace everyone I want to thank your thoughts, your support of women, your humanity. For the very few that seem to just be nasty, mean, violent, I only wish that your heart will open. As for me I will fight on to stop this, and if anyone reading wants to do something more, please email me at clementerosa@gmail.com. For those who hide behind a computer spewing hate, I suggest you let me/us be. At the end of the day I am a Bronx born Puerto Rican woman, and I will push back. Peace.
Rosa Clemente Responds
to Rick Ross' "rape lyric"
Rosa Alicia Clemente is a community organizer, journalist Hip Hop activist and the 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate with the Green Party. She has been a featured keynote speaker, panelist, and political commentator all over the United States. In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, a speaker's bureau for young people of color.. Clemente is currently working on her first book, When A Puerto Rican Woman Ran For Vice-President and Nobody Knew Her Name. She is a doctoral candidate in African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst.
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CHICAGO, January 29, 2019 — The Society of Architectural Historians has named architect Aymar Mariño-Maza and architectural historian Zachary J. Violette as the recipients of the 2018 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship. The fellowship allows an emerging scholar to travel the world to experience architecture and landscapes firsthand. SAH awarded Mariño-Maza a one-year fellowship and Violette a short-term fellowship for three months of travel. They will begin their fellowship travels in March 2019 and will document their field studies through monthly updates on the SAH Blog.
Mariño-Maza hopes to bridge the gap between architecture and anthropology through an ethnographic study of architecture's role in defining the identity of displaced communities. She plans to visit sites in Greece, Israel, Turkey, Germany, England, Spain and Morocco, countries embedded with a rich history of displaced communities.
Mariño-Maza's research was inspired by her work as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), where she investigated alternative solutions to the reallocation of informal settlements for displaced people in Cartagena, Colombia. She intends to use the fellowship to study architecture through the lens of anthropology and see firsthand the way in which people inhabit and appropriate architectural space.
Mariño-Maza received her B.Arch. from Cornell University in 2015 and her M.Arch. II from Yale University in 2017. She currently works at the Chicago firm HBRA Architects.
Violette's field study will encompass the landscapes of nineteenth and early twentieth century industrialization and modernization, with a focus on residential building types. His travel itinerary will include cities throughout central and eastern Europe, such as Berlin, Lodz, Warsaw, Kiev, Bucharest, Vienna and Prague. He sees the fellowship as an opportunity to advance his academic research, teaching, and writing, as well as broaden his understanding of cross-cultural contexts.
Violette earned his Ph.D. in American and New England Studies from Boston University in 2014. He is currently researching and writing a follow-up volume to his forthcoming book, The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age, for which he was awarded an SAH/Mellon Author Award in 2017.
Founded in 1940, the Society of Architectural Historians is an international nonprofit membership organization that promotes the study, interpretation and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes and urbanism worldwide. SAH serves a network of local, national and international institutions and individuals who, by profession or interest, focus on the built environment and its role in shaping contemporary life. SAH promotes meaningful public engagement with the history of the built environment through advocacy efforts, print and online publications, and local, national and international programs. Learn more at sah.org.
The H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship was established in 2010 by a bequest from noted scholar and architectural historian H. Allen Brooks. It is intended to provide emerging scholars the opportunity to study by travel and contemplation while observing, photographing, writing and sketching, and to acquire knowledge that will contribute to one's profession and to society. Brooks was an active member and past president of SAH. Applications for the 2019 award cycle will open on August 1, 2019. For more information, visit sah.org/brooks. Fellowship reports from past recipients can be found at sah.org/brooks-reports.


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Классик Олл Блэкс (, букв. «Классические все в чёрном») — национальная сборная Новой Зеландии по регби, составленная из звёздных игроков «Олл Блэкс» прошлых лет (в том числе завершивших свою карьеру). Команда не является официальной и собирается только на специальные матчи. Впервые она провела в 2007 году матчи против сборной Японии, клуба чемпионата Англии «Лестер Тайгерс» и сборных ветеранов Франции и Австралии.

В 2013 году команда провела матч против Фиджи по случаю 100-летия регбийного союза Фиджи. 7 октября 2015 года сыграла матч против «Тулона» на стадионе  в память погибшего Джерри Коллинза.

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Заявка на матч 7 октября 2015 года против «Тулона» в память о Джерри Коллинзе. Клубы игроков и их статусы приводятся на момент матча.

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news [NG]Family urges police to wade into Ikorodu community crisis
[NG]Family urges police to wade into Ikorodu community crisis
Members of the Loti Mogun-Oja family of Ijomu in Ikorodu, Lagos State have appealed to the Lagos and Ogun state governments and the police to intervene in their land tussle.
The fight over the large expanse of land located at Igode, a developing community in Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, The Nation gathered, has already claimed two lives.
Speaking with The Nation, the head of the Loti Mogun- Oja family, Alhaji Jimoh Lawal, said they decided to invite the governments and the police to the lingering problem because of its threat to security.
''The row over the disputed 34 hectares of land, began in May 2015, but got to a head in October of the same year, when a member of our family, Rasak Ademoye, with a few others, said they would be collecting land fees from any one who buys plots of land from the family, as well as other residents of the community. They said they had engaged an agent to take charge of the site.
"But because our family is peace-loving, the elders came together and said such a thing should not happen. They claimed that they had also paid N300,000 to the agent. In order to avert the kind of problem which we believed such arrangement would bring, we decided to pay them the money so that peace will reign in the community.
"The family later appointed three representatives each from the three branches that make up the Mogun-Oja Descendants family. Members were drawn from Igu Asemuti, Odunume and Mebude branches to monitor activities at the site."
But rather than bring about peace to the community, matters deteriorated as some people invaded the area, destroying buildings and injuring residents. The invaders also asked all old residents of the community to repurchase their plots of land.
A resident, who declined to be mentioned, said the residents had not known peace since then. He added that many people had fled for safety.
"Since the problem started, two people have been killed. The first person died in a shootout between the two rival groups. They came and demolished houses and threatened to kill whoever dares them. They said all of us should repurchase the land despite that we have been living there for years.
''Many of the residents have already vacated the community because they were chased away by thugs armed with dangerous weapons."
Lawal, who expressed sadness over the incident, said the family had lived in unity for years until recently.
However, in their search for peace, the family has headed to court. Still, it urged the police to intervene.
''After several attempts to settle the issue amicably failed, we have to follow the path of peace. We have served them a court order. We have taken the step in the interest of peace, but are also urging the police to intervene now because we have observed that they are causing crisis in the community, and there is urgent need to curb their illegal actions before it degenerates into loss of lives," a member of the family who pleaded anonymity said.
However, in a telephone chat with The Nation, Rasak Ademoye, who is the allegedly masterminded the tussle, denied the allegations.
Ademoye said the community is peaceful and that the crisis was in Maya in Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area, and not in Igode.
source:The Nation


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The percentage of people registered as unemployed in the United States. The figure is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed individuals in the labor force by the total labor force. Where the headline figure Change in Non-Farm Payrolls generally moves the market upon release, the Unemployment Rate serves as the most popular snap-shot figure for current labor conditions in the US.
The unemployment figure can give insight into the econom production, consumption, earnings, and consumer sentiment. A lower unemployment rate equates to increased expenditure, as more people have jobs and wages to spend. Increased expenditure encourages economic growth, which can spark inflation pressures. Conversely, high levels of unemployment signal economic instability and weakened demand.
Persons are considered unemployed if they are able and willing to work but without a job and have actively sought employment within the last four weeks. The labor force includes all employed and unemployed individuals 16 years and older.
Measures job creation or loss in manufacturing sector. Manufacturing Payroll is reported as the net change in jobs from the previous month figure. The figure is significant as an indicator of the health of the manufacturing sector. A high Manufacturing Payrolls number can signal increased demand for manufactured goods and a subsequent increase in production.


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Kevin Harvick Wins New Hampshire; Punches Ticket to Second Round
By: Jaxson Jacobs | September 25, 2016 September 25, 2016
With the 2016 Chase For The Sprint Cup now in full swing, the Bad Boy Off Road 300 provided the intensity that was expected. The need for a win was front and centre at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Kevin Harvick wins New Hampshire after a strong late restart. He has locked himself into the second round of the Chase.
Kevin Harvick Wins New Hampshire and Punches Ticket to Second Round of the Chase
With 10 laps to go, a late race caution involving Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Reed Sorenson tightened the field for one last sprint to the finish. This provided a chance to be locked into the second round of the Chase. Martin Truex Jr., who already has a win in the Chase, dominated the majority of the race and looked to win yet again. This would have forced fellow Chase drivers to rely on solid points days in hopes of advancing. With Toyota drivers leading the way for the majority of the day, the final stretch of cautions allowed Harvick to close the gap and find himself on the outside of Matt Kenseth. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver was looking to extend his "Magic Mile" winning streak to three.
On that final restart, 2014 Sprint Cup Champion Kevin Harvick got the advantage over Kenseth heading into turn one. Harvick was then able to get out to the lead heading down the backstretch. A late charge from Kenseth fell short as Kevin Harvick wins New Hampshire and a spot in the second round of the Chase. The next round of the Chase will take place on Oct. 2 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Toyota Dominates But Falls Short
As predicted heading into the 2016 post-season, the Toyota Racing drivers of Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards and Martin Truex Jr. showed exceptional speed throughout the entirety of the race. With Truex Jr. leading 141 of 300 laps followed by Matt Kenseth who lead for 105 laps. It was looking like another Toyota driver would add his name to the list of the second round.
As cautions began to fall late in the running, the pressure on pit-road picked up as drivers looked to gain precious track position for the remaining laps. Carl Edwards picked up a pit-road violation penalty with only a handful of laps remaining. This ultimately forced him to a 6th place finish. Martin Truex Jr. struggled on late restarts at a track where track position is a major key to success. He was never able to find his way back to the front which resulted in a 7th place finish.
With 4 drivers finishing inside the top 10, Toyota once again showed that they are a major threat for this years Sprint Cup Championship, however in order to do just that they will need to be able to close races down the stretch.
Chase Order
Martin Truex Jr.
Kyle Larson
Austin Dillon
Chris Buescher
Posted in NASCARTagged 2016 Chase for the Sprint Cup, Bad Boy Off Road 300, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Matt Kenseth, NASCAR, New Hampshire Motor Speedway


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Martin Audio brings MLA to sold-out War on Drugs show at Alexandra Palace
The band's FOH engineer was "convinced" the system would be perfect for the reverberant venue
Martin Audio's MLA system was put to the test in London last week, when indie rockers The War on Drugs played to a sold-out crowd at Alexandra Palace.
Supplied by partners Capital Sound, FOH engineer Bob Strakele was "convinced" MLA would be the right tool to tame the heavily glazed venue notorious for its reverberation.
He said: "I have mixed at Ally Pally before, so when I heard that we would be doing a show there, I immediately asked our production manager [David Scheid] to get in touch with Capital Sound about getting an MLA system."
Capital Sound's operations and development director Paul Timmins said: "We have worked with Bob on a number of shows over the past 10 years, including Billy Talent, Erasure and James. So he contacted me and said he wanted us to do the PA for a band he'd not worked with before, primarily because of the Ally Pally show; then he looped me in with the production manager."
Initially the PA was meant only for the Alexandra Palace tour date, but was subsequently added to two more dates at the Manchester Apollo as part of the band's European tour.
For the main hangs, Capital flew nine MLA and an MLD Downfill enclosure, left and right, and two delay hangs of nine MLA Compact per side. "These were set just behind the PA to keep the sound as evenly distributed as we could and focus the sound on the floor area," Timmins explained.
In addition, since there are limited options to where the PA can be flown at this venue, they added two ground stacks of three MLA Compact per side for infill, with a further six Martin Audio DD12 for front fill.
Subwoofers comprised six stacks of three Martin Audio WS218X, with the bottom enclosure in each stack reversed for a cardioid response.
Strakele added: "What I love about this system is its ability to throw extremely long distances and still remain relatively flat in the frequency spectrum. You don't get that HF roll-off over long distances that most other PAs suffer from."
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The adoption of graph databases is growing rapidly, as applications are managing higher amounts of deeper connected data every day. Graph databases enable developers to leverage these connections at scale.
1. What is this workshop about?
In this workshop you will learn the basics about the Neo4j graph database. We will walk you through some key aspects of graph databases, discuss about data modeling and get to know the basics of Neo4j. We will also do some hands-on practice with the Cypher query language.
After attending this workshop, you will walk away with the necessary skills to start developing apps using the Neo4j graph database.
This workshop is aimed at developers using any language or framework. No previous knowledge of NoSQL databases is required.
Please bring your laptop. You may want to install Neo4j, but it's not required.
4. Schedule: 2pm to 6pm.


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Vancouver is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. Classed as a Beta global city, the city is well known for its majestic natural beauty, as it is nestled between the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently ranked as one of the "best cities to live in" and is certainly a beautiful destination to visit.
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most populous city in Australia, with an estimated population of 2.02 million (as of 30 June 2014) living in Greater Perth. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with the majority of the metropolitan area of Perth located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, a low coastal escarpment. The first areas settled were on the Swan River, with the city's central business district and port (Fremantle) both located on its shores. Founded in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony, Perth became known worldwide as the "City of Light" when city residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the earth on Friendship 7 in 1962.
Kailua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaii, United States, in the North Kona District of the Island of Hawaiʻi. It is the center of commerce and of the tourist industry on West Hawaiʻi. Its post office is designated Kailua-Kona to differentiate it from the larger Kailua located on windward side of Oʻahu island, and it is sometimes referred to as Kona in everyday speech. The city is served by Kona International Airport, located just to the north in the adjacent Kalaoa CDP. Kailua-Kona was the closest major settlement to the epicenter of the 2006 Hawaiʻi Earthquake.
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre (also known as the "Central Business District" or "CBD") is the hub of the greater geographical area (or "metropolitan area") and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater geographical area had an approximate population of four million. In Southbank, the Melbourne Arts Precinct is site of Arts Centre Melbourne – a performing arts complex – and National Gallery of Victoria, displaying Australian and Indigenous art.
Apia is the capital and the largest city of Samoa. The city is located on the central north coast of Upolu, Samoa's second largest island. Apia is the only 'city' in Samoa and falls within the political district of Tuamasaga. Small in size with lovely attractions, Apia is very useful as an initial stop-off point for first time visitors to get their bearings, plan travel around the island of Upolu, organise accommodation on the beach, and recover from jet lag. The vast majority of Samoa's highlights can be found outside this town, although most are within a very short drive.
Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. While Albany experienced a decline in its population due to urban sprawl, many of its historic neighborhoods were saved from destruction through the policies of Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd, the longest-serving mayor of any city in the United States. More recently, the city has experienced growth in the high-tech industry, with great strides in the nanotechnology sector. The city has been a center of higher education for over a century, with much of the remainder of its economy dependent on state government and health care services. Today, Albany is known for its extensive history, culture, architecture, and institutions of higher education. The city is home to the mother churches of two Christian dioceses as well as the oldest Christian congregation in Upstate New York. Albany has won the All-America City Award in both 1991 and 2009.
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. The city central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs), most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. Its positive attitude and creative confidence makes Brisbane a genuine new-world city. Even though the city is rapidly developing and forward-thinking, it maintains a youthful enthusiasm and has what is arguably the most vibrant, laid back and friendliest atmosphere of any east-coast capital city. It is also an energetic river town on the way up, with an edgy arts scene, pumping nightlife, and great coffee and restaurants!
Nouméa is the capital city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and is home to the majority of the island's European, Polynesian (Wallisians, Futunians, Tahitians), Indonesian, and Vietnamese populations, as well as many Melanesians, Ni-Vanuatu and Kanaks that work in one of the South Pacific's most industrialised cities. The city lies on a protected deepwater harbour which serves as the chief port for New Caledonia. Located on the main island, Grand Terre, it's known for its beaches and its blend of French and native Kanak influences.
Suva is a major city, the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in the Central Division, Rewa Province, of which it is the administrative centre. It is the commercial and political centre of Fiji, though not necessarily the cultural centre, and the largest urban area in the South Pacific outside of Australia and New Zealand. It is Fiji's main port city. It's colorful, lively Municipal Market offers a vast range of local fruit and vegetables.
Sydney is the largest and most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. The city is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. It is also the oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world's most beautiful and liveable cities. Brimming with history, nature, culture, art, fashion, cuisine, design, Sydney's set next to miles of ocean coastline and sandy surf beaches. Long-term immigration has led to the cities reputation as one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse cities in Australia and the world. The city is also home to the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, two of the most iconic structures on this planet.
Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia. It is known as "The City of Churches". Adelaide stretches 20 km (12 mi) from the coast to the foothills, and 90 km (56 mi) from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the cultural boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street and in various districts of the metropolitan area. Today, it is noted for its many festivals and sporting events, its food and wine, its long beachfronts, its large defence and manufacturing sectors. It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist Intelligence Unit's World's Most Liveable Cities!
Oahu, known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the State of Hawaiʻi. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast. Including small close-in offshore islands such as Ford Island and the islands in Kaneohe Bay and off the eastern coast, it has a total land area of 596.7 square miles, making it the 20th largest island in the United States. In the greatest dimension, this volcanic island is 44 miles long and 30 miles across. The length of the shoreline is 227 miles. The island is the result of two separate shield volcanoes: Waiʻanae and Koʻolau, with a broad "valley" or saddle between them. The highest point is Mt. Ka'ala in the Waiʻanae Range, rising to 4,003 feet above sea level.
Cairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The city was named after William Wellington Cairns. It was formed to serve miners heading for the Hodgkinson River goldfield, but experienced a decline when an easier route was discovered from Port Douglas. It later developed into a railhead and major port for exporting sugar cane, gold and other metals, minerals and agricultural products from surrounding coastal areas and the Atherton Tableland region. Cairns is a popular travel destination for tourists because of its tropical climate and access to the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, it is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top End's regional centre. Its popular waterfront area has several beaches and green areas like Bicentennial Park. Originally a pioneer outpost, the city itself is built on a low bluff overlooking the harbour. The Darwin region, like the rest of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and a dry season. The city is also noted for its consistently warm to hot climate, all throughout the year.
Seattle is the northernmost major city in the contiguous United States, and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest and in the state of Washington. A seaport situated on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth "Seattle", of the Duwamish and Suquamish native tribes. Seattle is the center of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan statistical area, the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the northwestern United States. Seattle is the county seat of King County and is the major economic, cultural and educational center in the region. The 2010 census found that Seattle is home to 630,320 residents within a metropolitan area of some 3.4 million inhabitants. The Port of Seattle and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport are major gateways to Asia, Alaska, and the rest of the world.
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania. When founded in 1827, Burnie was named Emu Bay but it was renamed for William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. At the 2011 Australian Census Burnie had an urban population of 19,819, making it the fourth largest city in Tasmania. Burnie together with nearby Wynyard had an estimated urban population of 26,869 at June 2015. Burnie is governed by the City of Burnie local government area.
Benoa, on the Indonesian island of Bali, is a cruise port located closely to popular places like Nusa Dua, Sanur, Kuta and Denpasar.
Iceland, a mountainous Nordic island nation, is located between Europe and North America. It is a stunningly beautiful place if you enjoy strange and desolate landscapes. It's vibrant capital, Reykjavik, is relaxed and welcoming, yet possesses a cultural life that holds its own against other European capitals. Many of the country's most popular sights are within easy reach of Reykjavík. Immerse yourself in the spirit of Iceland, at the Blue Lagoon. Then spend a day or two in The Golden Circle, an area which encompasses three of Iceland's greatest natural wonders; Thingvellir National Park, the Geysir Geothermal Field, and Gullfoss!
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How Racist IS Your Porn?
By Eugene S. Robinson
SourceNico Marks/Unspash
Because everything can mean something, especially where porn comes into play.
My Lube Is Too Lubey!
EUGENE, SIR: I'm 62 and we sometimes need to use lube because it gets dry when we make love. I think [it's] an age thing. But we find, and we've been through a few, that most lubricating gels work too long and really too well. The amount of time it takes to get friction so it feels like something is happening, well, it feels long. Are there any lubricants that you could recommend that just offer a little help? Thanks. — Name withheld by request
Dear Traction Action: You know what's going to happen now, don't you? It's sort of a rock and roll fantasy moment, one of those where someone hollers out from the stage, "Can anyone in the audience play the drum break from 'Moby Dick'? Our drummer's passed out drunk!" And one lucky rocker will stand up nervously and raise their hand and history will be made.
Well, this is just like that but instead of one, lone trembling hand we will be inundated by lube manufacturers as a result of your single query saying, "Ooo, ooo, ooo … us … we do! We make the best lube on the planet!" So I'll spare you the forwarded emails and validate your claim immediately: Most lubricants are too lubey.
I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect controlling the amount used from the outset or using it primarily for anal engagements might be the expectation on the part of manufacturers. Of course, for vaginal sex in situations where dryness is an extreme issue, they're probably also very useful. But it sounds a skosh too useful for your tastes.
So for an expert opinion on your query, I've asked an expert, a sponsored adult film star who in not recommending one of their sponsors could jeopardize a welcome source of income so they'll remain nameless, but their answer was simple and perfectly unadorned: "Saliva." Works in a pinch, is free and always at hand. Good luck.
Race Porn
EUGENE, SIR: I don't know if you've seen this, but some of these pornhubs or tube sites are not going to use the term "interracial" as a category to describe porn with black men and white women. Seems like bullshit to me. I mean how does calling it what it is make it racist? —Fred D.
Dear Durst?: Well, words are funny. Depending on which ones we choose at any moment we can create situations where people want to either love us or kill us. Without anything else other than the words, to signal intent. Consequently, we take them very seriously. In the U.S., they're protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. We also have special categories for "fighting words," as well as words you don't scream in a crowded theater. So yeah, words mean a lot.
In regards to the use of the word "interracial" in porn, used to typically describe sex between a Black man and a non-Black woman, this is just the tip of a much more gooned out iceberg. One that involves lots of line stepping — in porn … who'd a thunk it? — that's now gotten significant enough that porn performers/sex workers have gotten justifiably cranky about the business where they ply their trade.
But not to wander too far afield, the Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color Adult Industry Collective agrees with you to a certain degree. "While we sincerely appreciate the gesture, BIPOC-AIC has concerns regarding the elimination of the terms 'IR,' 'Interracial,' and 'Ethnic' from online search engines, copy, and awards shows, which may do more harm than good."
They then put the industry on blast for everything from continued efforts to marginalize minority involvement, poor pay, treatment and language on both sides of the camera. It's a woke moment and this industry too has correctly figured out that no one wants to work at a job that makes them feel bad. While language, and the symbols of language, are really the least of it, because it is the least of it, I think we should all be perfectly comfortable having this conversation.
But look it at this way maybe: Will having to search for "interracial" under whatever new name they choose really slow down your Time to Orgasm?
A Delicate Threesome Query
EUGENE, SIR: I'm invited to a threesome as my friend's wife is having her 40th birthday, and they have decided that they want to do something special. Mostly a DP. I have no problem with the threesome but feeling my friend's penis is not something I don't have a problem with. Is this an issue here and what I mean is if he's in her from the front and I am in the back will I feel him? —Too Close4Comfort
Dear Comfortably Close: Methinks you're thinking about the wrong thing. In fact, you might find if this kind of thing is going to go on a regular menu for you, you might begin to compartmentalize both what you're doing and how you're doing it since, unless I missed something, it seems like you're there for the kink and the other dude is less of an attraction than a feature.
Which is a long way of saying: relax. Then to answer your question after talking to experts: not really. If you all are standing you're either facing her face or her back. And if she's prone, pretty much the same deal.
You could also just send a gift and be done with it. But what would you write me about then?
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Home Regional News British firm affected election outcome says Grenada Opposition Leader
British firm affected election outcome says Grenada Opposition Leader
The newly elected leader of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Franka Bernardine, believes that the former political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica assisted the ruling New National Party (NNP) in their victory in the 2018 general election.
Addressing supporters in a rally on Sunday following the Party's Convention where she was elected, Bernardine said she learnt of the now-defunct political consultancy firm's involvement in the Grenada election through a friend from Trinidad and Tobago.
"Two or three days after our election last year, I get a call from Trinidad hot, hot about 7 a.m. from a lady who called and said, 'you ain't hear the news, it say Cambridge Analytica say the last intervention they made was in Grenada in the Caribbean'," Bernardine shared in her inaugural address.
"I am under no illusion what happened in the last election," said Bernardine who failed to win her seat when she contested both the 2013 and 2018 general elections and served as the Cabinet Minister for Education as an appointed Government senator during the Tillman Thomas administration.
Claiming she knows exactly what happened during the last election, Bernardine, who before her Government appointment was the Chairperson of the Civil Society grouping and was the main spokesperson highlighting matters of concerns on behalf of civil society in the build-up to the 2008 general election, felt that the people should have taken to streets after the NNP won the 2013 and 2018 landslides.
"All manner of fiddling went on but we should have turned around and risen up as a people, They could have never had gotten away with this in Barbados or Trinidad, they could have jumped out in the streets in the thousands, we have to learn to defend our democracy like that, we cannot just stand up and take we death like sheep," she said while the executive on the platform applauded.
The NDC won the 2008, General election after serving in opposition from 2003.
It was governing Grenada for the 2013 general election and was unable to regain a seat in the Lower House parliament and repeated the lost for the 2018 general election.
At present, there is no elected opposition in the Lower House of Parliament.
According to documents issued around 2013 from SCL Elections, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, the British political consultancy firm worked in 32 countries across Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.
Regional countries named in the document which is shared on the company's business news website are Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, St Lucia, Guyana and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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