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package io.trino.plugin.bigquery;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import io.trino.plugin.bigquery.BigQueryQueryRunner.BigQuerySqlExecutor;
import io.trino.testing.AbstractTestQueryFramework;
import io.trino.testing.QueryRunner;
import io.trino.testing.sql.TestTable;
import io.trino.testing.sql.TestView;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import java.util.stream.Stream;

import static com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet.toImmutableSet;
import static io.trino.testing.sql.TestTable.randomTableSuffix;
import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.util.Locale.ENGLISH;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

// With case-insensitive-name-matching enabled colliding schema/table names are considered as errors.
// Some tests here create colliding names which can cause any other concurrent test to fail.
@Test(singleThreaded = true)
public class TestBigQueryCaseInsensitiveMapping
        // TODO extends BaseCaseInsensitiveMappingTest - https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/7864
        extends AbstractTestQueryFramework
{
    protected BigQuerySqlExecutor bigQuerySqlExecutor;

    @BeforeClass(alwaysRun = true)
    public void initBigQueryExecutor()
    {
        this.bigQuerySqlExecutor = new BigQuerySqlExecutor();
    }

    @Override
    protected QueryRunner createQueryRunner()
            throws Exception
    {
        return BigQueryQueryRunner.createQueryRunner(
                ImmutableMap.of(),
                ImmutableMap.of("bigquery.case-insensitive-name-matching", "true"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testNonLowerCaseSchemaName()
            throws Exception
    {
        // Ensure schema name starts with a letter and is prefixed with a random string to make sure LIKE 'schema%' returns a single result
        String fixedRandom = "a" + randomTableSuffix();
        String bigQuerySchema = fixedRandom + "_NonLowerCaseSchema";
        String trinoSchema = bigQuerySchema.toLowerCase(ENGLISH);
        try (AutoCloseable ignore1 = withSchema(bigQuerySchema);
                AutoCloseable ignore2 = withTable(bigQuerySchema + ".lower_case_name", "(c string)");
                AutoCloseable ignore3 = withTable(bigQuerySchema + ".Mixed_Case_Name", "(c string)");
                AutoCloseable ignore4 = withTable(bigQuerySchema + ".UPPER_CASE_NAME", "(c string)")) {
            assertThat(computeActual("SHOW SCHEMAS").getOnlyColumn()).contains(trinoSchema);
            assertQuery("SHOW SCHEMAS LIKE '" + fixedRandom + "%'", "VALUES '" + trinoSchema + "'");
            assertQuery("SHOW TABLES FROM " + trinoSchema, "VALUES 'lower_case_name', 'mixed_case_name', 'upper_case_name'");

            assertQuery("SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata WHERE schema_name LIKE '%" + trinoSchema + "'", "VALUES '" + trinoSchema + "'");
            assertQuery("SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '" + trinoSchema + "'", "VALUES 'lower_case_name', 'mixed_case_name', 'upper_case_name'");

            assertQueryReturnsEmptyResult("SELECT * FROM " + trinoSchema + ".lower_case_name");
            // TODO: test with INSERT and CTAS https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6868, https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6869
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testNonLowerCaseTableName()
            throws Exception
    {
        String bigQuerySchema = "SomeSchema_" + randomTableSuffix();
        String trinoSchema = bigQuerySchema.toLowerCase(ENGLISH);
        try (AutoCloseable ignore1 = withSchema(bigQuerySchema);
                AutoCloseable ignore2 = withTable(
                        bigQuerySchema + ".NonLowerCaseTable", "AS SELECT 'a' AS lower_case_name, 'b' AS Mixed_Case_Name, 'c' AS UPPER_CASE_NAME")) {
            assertThat(computeActual("SHOW TABLES FROM " + trinoSchema).getOnlyColumn()).contains("nonlowercasetable");
            assertEquals(
                    computeActual("SHOW COLUMNS FROM " + trinoSchema + ".nonlowercasetable").getMaterializedRows().stream()
                            .map(row -> row.getField(0))
                            .collect(toImmutableSet()),
                    ImmutableSet.of("lower_case_name", "mixed_case_name", "upper_case_name"));

            assertQuery("SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '" + trinoSchema + "'", "VALUES 'nonlowercasetable'");
            assertQuery(
                    "SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema = '" + trinoSchema + "' AND table_name = 'nonlowercasetable'",
                    "VALUES 'lower_case_name', 'mixed_case_name', 'upper_case_name'");

            // Note: until https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/17 is resolved, this is *the* way to access the tables.
            assertQuery("SELECT lower_case_name FROM " + trinoSchema + ".nonlowercasetable", "VALUES 'a'");
            assertQuery("SELECT mixed_case_name FROM " + trinoSchema + ".nonlowercasetable", "VALUES 'b'");
            assertQuery("SELECT upper_case_name FROM " + trinoSchema + ".nonlowercasetable", "VALUES 'c'");
            assertQuery("SELECT upper_case_name FROM " + bigQuerySchema + ".NonLowerCaseTable", "VALUES 'c'");
            assertQuery("SELECT upper_case_name FROM \"" + bigQuerySchema + "\".\"NonLowerCaseTable\"", "VALUES 'c'");
            // TODO: test with INSERT and CTAS https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6868, https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6869
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testNonLowerCaseViewName()
            throws Exception
    {
        String bigQuerySchema = "SomeSchema_" + randomTableSuffix();
        String trinoSchema = bigQuerySchema.toLowerCase(ENGLISH);
        String namePrefix = format("%s.Test_Case", bigQuerySchema);

        try (AutoCloseable schema = withSchema(bigQuerySchema);
                TestView view = new TestView(bigQuerySqlExecutor, namePrefix, "SELECT 'a' AS lower_case_name, 'b' AS Mixed_Case_Name, 'c' AS UPPER_CASE_NAME")) {
            String viewName = view.getName().substring(bigQuerySchema.length() + 1).toLowerCase(ENGLISH);
            assertThat(computeActual("SHOW TABLES FROM " + trinoSchema).getOnlyColumn()).contains(viewName);
            assertEquals(
                    computeActual("SHOW COLUMNS FROM " + trinoSchema + "." + viewName).getMaterializedRows().stream()
                            .map(row -> row.getField(0))
                            .collect(toImmutableSet()),
                    ImmutableSet.of("lower_case_name", "mixed_case_name", "upper_case_name"));

            assertQuery(
                    format("SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '%s'", trinoSchema),
                    format("VALUES '%s'", viewName));
            assertQuery(
                    format("SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema = '%s' AND table_name = '%s'", trinoSchema, viewName),
                    "VALUES 'lower_case_name', 'mixed_case_name', 'upper_case_name'");

            // Note: until https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/17 is resolved, this is *the* way to access the tables.
            assertQuery("SELECT lower_case_name FROM " + view.getName(), "VALUES 'a'");
            assertQuery("SELECT mixed_case_name FROM " + view.getName(), "VALUES 'b'");
            assertQuery("SELECT upper_case_name FROM " + view.getName(), "VALUES 'c'");
            assertQuery("SELECT upper_case_name FROM " + view.getName().toLowerCase(ENGLISH), "VALUES 'c'");
            // TODO: test with INSERT and CTAS https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6868, https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6869
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testSchemaNameClash()
            throws Exception
    {
        // Ensure schema names start with a letter
        String random = "a" + randomTableSuffix();
        String[] nameVariants = {random + "_casesensitivename", random + "_CaseSensitiveName", random + "_CASESENSITIVENAME"};
        assertThat(Stream.of(nameVariants)
                .map(name -> name.toLowerCase(ENGLISH))
                .collect(toImmutableSet()))
                .hasSize(1);

        for (int i = 0; i < nameVariants.length; i++) {
            for (int j = i + 1; j < nameVariants.length; j++) {
                String schemaName = nameVariants[i];
                String otherSchemaName = nameVariants[j];
                try (AutoCloseable ignore1 = withSchema(schemaName);
                        AutoCloseable ignore2 = withSchema(otherSchemaName);
                        AutoCloseable ignore3 = withTable(schemaName + ".some_table_name", "(c string)")) {
                    String trinoSchema = schemaName.toLowerCase(ENGLISH);

                    // listing must not fail but will filter out ambiguous names
                    assertThat(computeActual("SHOW SCHEMAS").getOnlyColumn()).doesNotContain(trinoSchema);
                    assertQueryReturnsEmptyResult("SHOW SCHEMAS LIKE '" + trinoSchema + "%'");
                    assertQueryReturnsEmptyResult("SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata WHERE schema_name LIKE '%" + trinoSchema + "'");
                    assertQueryReturnsEmptyResult("SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '" + trinoSchema + "'");

                    // queries which use the ambiguous object must fail
                    assertQueryFails("SHOW CREATE SCHEMA " + trinoSchema, "Found ambiguous names in BigQuery.*");
                    assertQueryFails("SHOW TABLES FROM " + trinoSchema, "Found ambiguous names in BigQuery.*");
                    assertQueryFails("SELECT * FROM " + trinoSchema + ".some_table_name", "Found ambiguous names in BigQuery.*");
                    // TODO: test with INSERT and CTAS https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6868, https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6869
                }
            }
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testTableNameClash()
            throws Exception
    {
        // Ensure schema name starts with a letter and is lowercase to only test table name code path
        String schema = ("a" + randomTableSuffix() + "_tpch").toLowerCase(ENGLISH);
        String[] nameVariants = {"casesensitivename", "CaseSensitiveName", "CASESENSITIVENAME"};
        assertThat(Stream.of(nameVariants)
                .map(name -> name.toLowerCase(ENGLISH))
                .collect(toImmutableSet()))
                .hasSize(1);

        for (int i = 0; i < nameVariants.length; i++) {
            for (int j = i + 1; j < nameVariants.length; j++) {
                try (AutoCloseable ignore1 = withSchema(schema);
                        AutoCloseable ignore2 = withTable(schema + "." + nameVariants[i], "(c string)");
                        AutoCloseable ignore3 = withTable(schema + "." + nameVariants[j], "(d string)")) {
                    // listing must not fail but will filter out ambiguous names
                    assertThat(computeActual("SHOW TABLES FROM " + schema).getOnlyColumn()).doesNotContain("casesensitivename");
                    assertQueryReturnsEmptyResult("SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '" + schema + "'");

                    // queries which use the ambiguous object must fail
                    assertQueryFails("SHOW CREATE TABLE " + schema + ".casesensitivename", "Found ambiguous names in BigQuery.*");
                    assertQueryFails("SHOW COLUMNS FROM " + schema + ".casesensitivename", "Found ambiguous names in BigQuery.*");
                    assertQueryFails("SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema = '" + schema + "' AND table_name = 'casesensitivename'", "Found ambiguous names in BigQuery.*");
                    assertQueryFails("SELECT * FROM " + schema + ".casesensitivename", "Found ambiguous names in BigQuery.*");
                    // TODO: test with INSERT and CTAS https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6868, https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6869
                }
            }
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testDropSchema()
            throws Exception
    {
        String schemaName = "Test_Drop_Case_Sensitive_" + randomTableSuffix();
        try (AutoCloseable schema = withSchema(schemaName)) {
            assertUpdate("DROP SCHEMA " + schemaName.toLowerCase(ENGLISH));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testDropSchemaNameClash()
            throws Exception
    {
        String schemaName = "Test_Drop_Case_Sensitive_Clash_" + randomTableSuffix();
        try (AutoCloseable schema = withSchema(schemaName);
                AutoCloseable secondSchema = withSchema(schemaName.toLowerCase(ENGLISH))) {
            assertQueryFails("DROP SCHEMA " + schemaName.toLowerCase(ENGLISH), "Found ambiguous names in BigQuery.*");
        }
    }

    private AutoCloseable withSchema(String schemaName)
    {
        bigQuerySqlExecutor.dropDatasetIfExists(schemaName);
        bigQuerySqlExecutor.createDataset(schemaName);
        return () -> bigQuerySqlExecutor.dropDatasetIfExists(schemaName);
    }

    /**
     * @deprecated Use {@link TestTable} instead.
     */
    @Deprecated
    private AutoCloseable withTable(String tableName, String tableDefinition)
    {
        bigQuerySqlExecutor.execute(format("CREATE TABLE %s %s", tableName, tableDefinition));
        return () -> bigQuerySqlExecutor.execute(format("DROP TABLE %s", tableName));
    }
}


A motorist in Great Yarmouth has been labelled "disgraceful" after they were arrested on suspicion of drink driving following a collision with street furniture on Sunday night.
A tweet from Great Yarmouth Police said: "Motorist off the road after giving a breath test reading of 103 ugs on the roadside and 128 ugs in custody!!!
"Also hit some road furniture on the travels. Absolutely disgraceful!


CRASH: Police assess the scene of the crash on Rattray St.
UPDATE 11AM: A MAN who was transported to hospital in a critical condition after a single motorbike crash this morning has died.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman confirmed the tragic news.
Multiple paramedics and police crews were called to the scene of the crash which happened at about 7.30am on Rattray St in Avenell Heights.
Paramedics worked to help the man, 57, for some time before transporting him to Bundaberg Hospital, where he later died.
The spokeswoman said initial investigations indicated a medical condition could have been the cause of the crash.
Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the incident or has any dash cam footage which may have recorded drivers on Rattray St around the time.
The Forensic Crash Unit investigations are continuing.
CRASH: Paramedics tend to a motorbike rider after a crash in Avenell Heights.
EARLIER: A MOTORBIKE rider is in a critical condition after crashing his bike in a suburban Bundaberg street this morning.
Emergency services crews rushed to the scene at Rattray St, Avenell Heights at about 7.30am to find a 57-year-old man on the road unconscious and not breathing.
Paramedics worked on the man for some time before transporting him to Bundaberg Hospital.
Police were also called to the scene and are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.
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Search the developer's guide for max-upload-size.
Thank you,The problem has been solved.
Yes,it's right to get file size.
but when i upload a file (The File type isn't wma or jpg). the following error is encountered .is causing it. not sure why? thanks for the help.
How can I get file size from Fileupload.get()?
Use getByteData instead because it is in memory (inMemory returns true).
I'll wrap an input stream on top of the binary array for getStreamData, but have to wait for next nightly.


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techniques is the low rate of multiplication.
Kuniyuki, 1984; McGranahan ef al., 1986).
and juvenile nodal segments of walnut.
for 8 wk before excising the nodal segments.
al., 1988) to induce vigorous growth.
covered the solid medium surface.
medium containing 1 °!° activated charcoal.
25 mg/I. Antibiotic solutions were filter sterilized.
Paradox (Driver and Kuniyuki, 1984).
effect on the juvenile shoots.
from embryonic material produced roots.
Meynier (1985) for hybrid walnut.
necrosis and death of all the explants.
new growth of bacterial contamination.
McGranahan G.H., Leslie C.A. & Driver J.A.
m6rist6mes de noyers hybrides. C.R. Acad.
Young P.M., Hutchins A.S. & Canfield M.L.
shoot cultures of woody plants. Plant. Sci. Lett.
Received: February 27, 2012 / Published: June 20, 2012.
leaves/explants (3.7, 8.2) respectively. While the highest length of shoot (4.7 cm) in MS medium supplemented with 3 mg L-1 Kin.
and a high rooting percentage up to 60% at MS medium supplemented with 1 mg L-1IBA (Indole-3-butyric acid) was obtained .
Key words: Micropropagation, walnut, single-node explants, cytokinins.
largely depends on trees originated from seedlings.
other beneficial components like plant protein (e.g.
only represents 5% of the fruit weight [4, 7, 8].
efficient methods for faster propagation of walnuts.
to be used in further studies.
leaves/ explants and average of shoots length (cm).
mg L-1 of IAA and IBA alone for in vitro rooting.
and average of roots length (cm).
shoots were found to develop during subcultures.
MS + 2 mg L-1 BA after 3 weeks.
establishment stage after 4 weeks of culture.
induction as well as shoot proliferation in walnuts.
medium at multiplication stage after 4 weeks of culture.
Multiple Range Test (P ≤ 0.05).
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increased gradually with the age of the culture (Fig. 2).
concentrations of BA and NAA.
+ Kin 1 mg L-1 produced 3.8 shoots/explant.
BA + 1 mg L-1 Kin. Only a limited number of shoots are observed in this medium.
multiplication stage after 4 weeks of culture.
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Q: Table tr and td have weird click events I have a table like the following snippet shows.

$(function(){
  $('.table-price td.go-to-price').click(function(){
    console.log($(this).attr('data-link'));
    goToLink($(this).attr('data-link'));
  })

  $('.table-price tr.go-to-product').click(function(){
    console.log($(this).attr('data-link'));
    goToLink($(this).attr('data-link'));
  })
})

function goToLink(url) {
  location.href = url ;
}

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The tr has a data-link attribute and the last td has a different data-link attribute, but when I click on the tr element, the website navigates to url of td element, instead of the tr element.

A: You need to stop the click event from bubbling when you click on the td using stopPropagation(), like :
$('.table-price td.go-to-price').click(function(e){
  e.stopPropagation();

  console.log($(this).attr('data-link'));
  goToLink($(this).attr('data-link'));
})

Hope this helps.

$(function(){
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      console.log($(this).attr('data-link'));
      goToLink($(this).attr('data-link'));
  })

  $('.table-price tr.go-to-product').click(function(e){
      e.stopPropagation();

      console.log($(this).attr('data-link'));
      goToLink($(this).attr('data-link'));
  })
})

function goToLink(url) {
  location.href = url ;
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Last Saturday, I went to the Zoological Gardens in Melbourne, sometimes called the "Melbourne Zoo". It's a place where they keep animals in captivity, and the public can look at them. Another way to see animals would be to see them in the wild, but that would be not as fun, because the animals would either run away or they'd run towards you and bite you. And besides, some of the animals in the zoo can only be found in other countries, so you'd have to pay a lot of money to fly to the other countries to see them. Someone must have captured these animals and brought them across the oceans in planes and boats, to put them in the Zoo – I don't know who it was, but they must have been very smart.
You also have to admire the people who designed the Zoo. They had to take all kinds of things into consideration, and ask themselves questions like, "Does it look nice? Can we do something to the animals to make them more interesting? Will the animals die, if we feed them the wrong fish? Will the children die, if they stick their little arms through the wires on the lion's cage, and how much money will their parents want as compensation?" You see a lot of stuff in cartoons and other comedy shows about animals attacking people at the Zoo, but when you visit a real Zoo you realise that it couldn't really happen. That's why Zoos are cool – they make the scary things safe.
I saw some bison and some koalas and giraffes, and then I went into this really big, long enclosure where there were heaps of birds flying around, and there were trees and water-features to make it look like a natural environment, and I could watch the birds going about their birdly business just as if I wasn't there. Then I saw this elephant walking around, and he was all big and stuff. After that, I went into this air-proof cage which was really hot like a tropical rainforest, and there were butterflies everywhere. Some of them flew around me and landed on the hand-rails and the floor, and even on people's heads and clothes. They were very pretty colours – it was like a beautiful dream. I had to be careful not to step on any.
Then I saw this one butterfly that was sitting on a hand-rail, and I looked at it very closely. My friend Cat was there – she put her finger next to it and let the butterfly crawl onto her finger. There was a little girl, with her father nearby, who also had a butterfly on her hand, and Cat talked to her, and the little girl said to Cat, "The butterfly stayed on my hand for a long, long time."
And I thought to myself, "This is even better than the elephants."
The little girl who talked to Cat.
I saw some other bugs like spiders and caterpillars and praying mantises, then I went to this place where I could see a tiger pacing about behind a glass screen. Then Cat said, "Let's go and see the monkeys!" So we did.
We got to see some monkeys swinging in the trees, but some of the cages were less interesting because the animals were hiding and we couldn't see them. Cat was a bit disappointed at not seeing any orang-utans. We saw some gorillas, but only from a distance. The mandrills were cool, at least – some of them came right up to the glass and I could see them just a few inches away. It was around this time that I went to the take-away shop and bought a muffin. It tasted very nice – it had blueberry filling, or maybe it was rasberry. I ate it while I looked at the small cats.
me with porcupine
Cat said, "Oh, no – we're running out of time. The Zoo will close soon. Let's go and see the lions and stuff, before it's too late."
So she asked some directions from a zoo-keeper, and we went to this part of the zoo where they keep the big cats. I saw these two lions without manes sitting in a big open-air enclosure, they were just sitting there looking a bit bored, maybe with a hint of contempt in their eyes as if they hated me. I thought, "Wouldn't it be scary, if the fence just disappeared somehow?" But it didn't. Then, I went to this part of the zoo which was like a jungle with the trees growing thickly overhead, and I saw some leopards and panthers.
Then Cat said, "What's that sound?"
It was an animal sound – we followed it and it got louder, then we realised it was a lion roaring. He was right next to the fence so we could see him clearly – he was looking all upset. I could see the hot air coming out of his mouth because the weather was so cold. After a while he calmed down a bit. I looked at Cat – she had that look in her eyes, like she was in awe and she was in her own little heavenly universe of animal appreciation. We went on to see some snow leopards and maned wolves. "It seems a bit sad," said Cat, "to keep them in such small confined spaces. But it's so amazing to see them!" And she was right.
me with cat
The sun was going down behind the trees and it was almost time to leave the zoo, even though we hadn't seen the seals or the penguins. But we had just enough time, before we left, to see the reptiles. They were in a round building and we walked around the inside of it. We saw this huge lizard on a branch, staring at us – and we saw snakes and crocodiles. I saw this one turtle, or maybe a tortoise, waving its feet underwater and he was right next to the glass. He was so interesting, I could have stayed for several minutes just looking at him. But there was no time for delay – towards the end the zoo-keeper was looking at us like he wanted us to leave, 'cause it was about that time. So we left, and the zoo was closed.
Cat asked me if I'd like to go home to her house, and I said yes. We caught a tram to the city. I was thinking about trams, and this led me to wonder, "Should I tell Cat about that incident that happened last night, after I was coming home from a gig by that band Bidston Moss at the Empress, and it was after midnight, and the tram was stopped for a while in St Kilda, and some guy climbed up on the roof of the tram and then he clambered down the front of the tram and broke the windscreen? And should I also tell her how the guy ran away and the tram driver didn't do anything at first but then he called the authorities on his radio and gave them a description of the guy? Should I tell her that? No, I won't." But later, while we were waiting for another tram in the city, I did.
In reaction, Cat told me that she had also seen some weird things on public transport. Like one time, she had seen this guy take off all his clothes on the tram and then he just urinated. And I thought, "That really is weird." And she said, another time, she had seen someone's head being chopped off by accident. And just a few days ago, she saw some guy fall eight floors, past the window where she has her office in the city, and maybe it was a suicide attempt but he didn't die. And I looked at Cat as if to say, "How shocking!"
We went back to Cat's house and watched some funny things on DVD, for an hour or two. Then it was time for Cat to go to a party at a friend's house. Cat's other friends arrived to pick her up, and she said "Can we give Stephen a lift to the city, and drop him off there?"
Cat's friends said "Yes."
She asked, "Can we also go to the supermarket to buy some of those lollies that are shaped like snakes? I really like those."
Cat's friends said "Yes." They went on to ask her what brand of snakes she was going to buy, and they had a bit of a good-natured argument when they heard she was going to buy some "Natural Confectionary Company" snakes. I listened to them and smiled because it was kind of funny to hear the way they talked to eachother. Cat did end up buying her favourite brand of snakes and she shared some of them with me in the car on the way to the city, while her friends discussed their favourite popular television programmes. It was a cold night but I felt warmed by the vibrant personalities of those people around me, especially Cat herself whom I like the best.
The next day, I went out again, alone this time. I went to see a band named Architecture In Helsinki, but what I remember most about the gig was the support band The Brunettes who are from New Zealand, and what I remember most about them was that they had this beautiful lead singer who played keyboard and xylophone and her voice was always right on the mark. They were a "fun" band, also with intelligent lyrics and catchy happy little melodies – there were four vocalists in the band and sometimes they sang all together, other times alternating in complex vocal arrangements. The crowd just loved them and they played an encore, even though they were the supporting band.
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I stuck around for Architecture In Helsinki, 'cause they were good too – this time they were accompanied by a lady next to the stage who was blowing bubbles – I don't know if she was a friend of the band trying to help the visual effect, or if she was just some weirdo who blows bubbles everywhere, but bubbles are always cool. They reminded me of those butterflies, the way they floated around us. But I was a little concerned because I'd forgottten my watch and I wasn't sure if I'd be on time for the last tram or not.
So as soon as the music ended I left the venue (which was called the "Rob Roy") and I ran down the street, and then walked, and then ran, for about twenty minutes, partly so that I could catch the earliest possible tram, and partly because I wanted to keep warm in the chilly midnight air. As it turned out, I was too late to catch the most direct tram but I caught a similar one that took me some of the way home, and I had to walk the rest of the way.
Tuesday night I worked on my painting some more. It's coming along pretty well, and I think it will be finished next week, it just needs something extra.
There's a show on Channel 9 once a week at 3am, it's called The Oblongs. It's an animated comedy series about this family who are all dysfunctional. The mother is an alcaholic who has no sense of responsibility, the father has no arms or legs and he has no wheelchair, he just sort of bounces around – and the children, well, two of them are conjoined twins, and the others have little quirks of their own and they're very funny-looking. This show is funny 'cause it has a lot of good jokes and the characters are so extreme, like if they were real people they would be regarded as seriously disturbed mental cases. Like, this week, when the children were in danger from drowning, the parents tried to save them, but they didn't try very hard and they were easily distracted.
Karaoke:
This Wednesday I went to the karaoke and I sang the song "When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going" by Billy Ocean. When I sang it at home with the tape it seemed like fun, but when I sang it on stage it seemed too low and I couldn't really release all my enthusiasm, I should have transposed it up a bit. But it didn't matter, because the audience on Wednesday night didn't mind – they were dancing to everything. It was another wild night with lots of large groups of revellers – the air was thick with the smell of sweat and cigarette smoke, and people were spilling their drinks all over the floor like they couldn't control themselves.
The band Radiohead often make sad music. It's very touching – when I hear it, I think, "Oh, how sad – but what beautiful musical notes." And sometimes, when they're not being beautiful and touching, they're being experimental and adding things that we don't understand, just to make us wonder, "What's that all about?" I heard their album "Amnesiac" for the first time last week, and I didn't really appreciate it fully. But if it's anything like Radiohead's other work, I will like it a little more after I listen to it a few times, and later I will like it a lot.
I just finished reading the book Something Happened, by Joseph Heller, and I'm so glad, 'cause I've been dying to say something about this book. I wouldn't call it a great book, but I will say it's unlike any other novel I've ever read. It's about this guy, and he's kind of a normal middle aged American guy with a family and a job in an office, and the book is a description of his life. There is no plot – nothing really happens throughout the whole book, except near the end where someone dies, but that's not a very important plot-development, 'cause it doesn't seem to have much effect on him – and it doesn't happen until page 552, of a 560 page book. So there's 551 pages in which nothing much happens, and somehow throughout the whole thing he doesn't tell us what his job actually is, and he manages to discuss his wife and two of his children in depth without ever mentioning their names.
What I couldn't understand is what motivates this guy to do the things he does. He's never happy – he doesn't enjoy anything – he doesn't love his wife – he's always scared of his superiors at work – why doesn't he try to change his life, to improve it? I got the impression that he's been brainwashed by society, that he's just doing what everyone else expects him to do because he doesn't know any better. And this guy has a normal life – I'll bet there are millions of people who feel the same way as he does. I'm glad I'm not one of them. This book carries a strong message – that modern society is wrong, wrong, wrong – the business world, the social customs, the way we raise our children – it all combines to make us unhappy and drain the fun out of life. And the author does not propose any solutions. If I had read this book when I was an impressionable teenager, I would've thought, "Oh, it's all hopeless! We are doomed." But the main problem with this book is that it's too long. He could have got his point across just as well in a book half this length. I got bored with it – the only thing that motivated me to keep going was the knowledge that there were other, better books on the horizon.

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Sir Padamji Pestonji Ginwala (23 September 1875 – 18 April 1962) was a noted Parsi barrister, economist and public figure based at Bombay, later at Rangoon and lastly at Calcutta.

Early life
He was born in Ankleshwar in Gujarat to Pestonji Nusserwanji and did his early education from Ahmadabad from government school.

Lawyer
He completed his study of Law from University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall) and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1897. Two years later in 1899, he moved back to India and started practice as Advocate at Bombay High Court.

Teacher
Also gave his service as a professor of History and Economics at Elphinstone College, Bombay from 1899–1900.

In Burma and British India
In year 1900 he shifted to Rangoon, Burma, where he practised as advocate at Chief Court of Lower Burma and also served as Editor of Burma Law Times from 1907–1910.

In 1916, he served as Secretary to the Burma Legislative Council. He was member of Legislative Assembly of India from years 1921–23. He was the President of Rangoon Municipal Corporation for years 1921–22. Later he served as a member of Indian Tariff Board 1923–30 for which he served as president in 1926. He was knighted on 1 January 1927. He was also a delegate to Imperial Conference in 1930. He was one of the members of Second round Table Conference of India in 1931, Ottawa Conference of 1932 and World Monetary and Economic Conference in 1933. He was one of the experts on fiscal and tariff affairs and headed many committee. He published an essay on Railway Electrification and Industrialization, which work was later published by Indian Chamber of Commerece in 1945 In January 1945, an Iron and Steel (Major) Panel was set up by the then Government to recommend measures for the expansion of the steel industry, which was headed by him.  Later, he was Chairman of Tarminal Facilities Committee in 1947.

Here is his speech in the Indian Legislative Assembly on 5 March 1923, it is about system of taxation:-

Later life
In 1945 before independence of India, he settled in Calcutta. During 1949–1952, he served as Director of Indian Iron & Steel Co. promoted by Calcutta-based industrialist, Sir Ranjen Mookerjee of Martin Burn. He also served as President of Calcutta-based, the Indian Institute of Metals

Death
He died in Calcutta, aged 86.

Memorials
In 1963, a gold medal was established by Indian Institute of Metals in his memory. The Sir Padamji Ginwala Gold Medal is awarded to recognise a candidate securing the highest marks in the Associate Membership Examination (Part-l) of the Institute.

Family
His son Peston Padamji Ginwala (1919–2008) was also a senior barrister working at Calcutta High Court.

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Premier League: Other Predictions
Post author By Gurjot Thind
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Gurjot Thind and Phil Smith
After examining countless hours of pre-season and World Cup footage, we've come up with some predictions as to what will happen over the next few moths. Which teams will struggle with the competitive nature of the league? Which players will rise to new heights or fall to the lowest corners of the football world?
Relegation predictions:
Burnley – When the Clarets were promoted to the top flight of English football in 2009, Burnley became the smallest town to ever home a premier league club. Sean Dyche is a very impressive young manager and Burnley are without doubt in good hands. Their squad however, just looks to be a little bit lacking, and their transfer business has not been inspiring. Unfortunately, you have to think they'll struggle.
Aston Villa – Adding Premier League experience to their young squad seemed like a very good strategy, but the players that have come in are unlikely to arrest what is becoming a long-term decline. Add to this uncertainty over the club's ownership and you have a melting pot for disaster.
West Ham – the board at west ham have seemingly been undermining Big Sam for some time now, with the desire to bring more flair to the Hammers ahead of their move to the Olympic Stadium. Expect a stubborn Allardyce to struggle to maintain authority, and there are serious fears of the fitness of their attacking players; a potential disaster waiting to happen.
Most likely flop:
Leonardo Ulloa – This prediction is a cheat, really, because we've seen this happen before. On a Football Manager save with Sheffield United, I, like Nigel Pearson, was convinced Ulloa would have the firepower to keep me in the Premier League. He didn't. I resigned after five games. Leicester, you've been warned.*
We can't really include Aly Cissokho of Aston Villa here, because we all know already how that will end.
Player of the Year: Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal)/ Nemanja Matic (Manchester City)
Aaron Ramsey –
The young Welshman had a fantastic season last year, epitomised by a well-worked goal in the FA Cup final at Wembley. With 10 goals in 23 Premier League appearances, Ramsey's incredible performances led to rumours about a possible transfer to fellow tiki taka enthusiast Barcelona. In preseason, he looked as fresh as ever, gliding passed midfielders and bursting into the penalty box just at the right time. If he can remain free of injury (and that's a big if), I'm sure another successful season is on the cards for the twenty-three year old.
Nemanja Matic – Having being flooded with players of his ilk, the Premier League now appears to have a surprising dearth of genuine defensive midfielders. Nemanja Matic, a real beast of a footballer, is comfortably the best. The archetypical Mourinho midfielder, he will destroy teams in the centre of the park. Especially in the top 4 clashes, he could be the difference.
Golden Boot: Diego Costa (Chelsea)/ Edin Dzeko (Manchester City)
Diego Costa –
Chelsea, or should I say Mourinho, have been busy this summer, securing some of the best players in Europe. Last season, the only thing holding Chelsea back was their lacking of a convincing striker. Both Torres and Samuel Eto'o looked passed their best and were unable to take advantage of Chelsea's formidable midfield. The signing of Diego Costa could very well prove to be the final piece of the puzzle for Mourinho. If Costa can adapt quickly to English football, he'll score plenty. If not, then he'll go down as yet another continental footballer that Chelsea have ruined.
Edin Dzeko – For Dzeko, it's simple. We think he'll either score millions or not very many at all. We've tossed a coin and it has suggested the former.
By Gurjot Thind
Gurjot Thind is a 4th year History student and former Editor-in-Chief at The Student. His dream job is to either write for The Game or be the guy who plays the trumpet for Rudimental.
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Raymond L. Jones, one of Salem's enterprising and progressive citizens, was born in this city, Nov. 14, 1885, the son of Richard and Emily (Beddis) Jones.
Richard Jones was born in England, as was his wife He came to the United States at an early age and settled in Salem, where he has resided since 1884. He has been in the employ of the Mullins Body Corporation during his entire residence in this city and is among the highly esteemed citizens of the community. Raymond L., the subject of this sketch, was the only child born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones.
Raymond L. Jones has always lived in Salem. After completing his schooling he entered the employ of the American Steel & Wire Company and since 1913 has been chief order clerk of the local plant.
In 1911 Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Miss Clara McLaughlin, of Salem, and they have a daughter, Ruth, born in 1916.
Mr. Jones is a Republican and is affiliated with the Masonic and Elk lodges. He has a wide acquaintance in the community and is representative of the county's best citizenship.


Motorcycle tyres are a safety-related feature of every motorcycle. The tyres must fit not only to the bike, but also to the season. This is the only way to get from A to B. The registration of the motorcycle gives information about which motorcycle tyres are approved for the respective model. Among other things, motorcycle tyre sizes are explained there as well.
However, the best motorcycle tyre is worth nothing if it is in the bad shape. Therefore, it should be checked regularly for damage and the tread depth. The air pressure is also crucial. Before every journey you should do a corresponding check.
Corresponding profiles ensure that even in heavy rain riding can be fun and not a security risk - caution is of course nevertheless offered. Good motorcycle tyres offer good grip on wet roads and move safely through bends. Anyone traveling by motorcycle in winter also needs winter tyres or opt for year-round motorcycle tyres to save themselves from having to switch each season. Almost every manufacturer offers tyres for all-seasons, because many bikers love their machine so much that they want to be weather-independent on the go.
Depending on the types of motorcycle tyres you need for your bike and on the nature of your riding, it is best to go with the tyre size and type recommended by the motorbike manufacturer. For instance, for a scooter you commute to work every day and want to use for longer rides on weekends, choose motorcycle tyres that have maximum contact patch and tread that allow for rain evacuation but tough enough to carry heavy loads over long distances, as cruiser and sport tour tyres are capable of doing. Dunlop motorcycle tyres have been purposely built to be used on the country roads and byways, while Bridgestone tyres have shown versatility and durability in on-road driving conditions.
For a safe and enjoyable ride on your bike, you have to choose motorbike tyres that address the kind of riding you do and the ground conditions where you will be driving most of the time. Usually, the 80/20 rule applies: Where will you use your motorcycle 80% of the time? If you have a bike you like to take on long rides through the countryside, while at the same time cruise city streets to go get something to eat, a set of Cruiser tyres makes a better choice than enduro tyres that may have good grip on uphill and downhill rides and long service life but little contact patch on paved roads. Michelin tyres and Continental motorcycle tyres work efficiently under those driving conditions because they have a wide selection of tyres that are designed specifically for off-road and highways.
If you want to spend 20% of your driving time in a track, you have to compromise with the fact that you won't be the rider to finish first on track day. On the other hand, if you have to tackle a lot of obstacles and take a lot of punishment from jumping, then motocross tyres are suited for that riding condition. For this purpose, choose the more race-oriented Pirelli motorcycle tyres and Metzeler tyres because they are engineered for the race course and have both been on the road for more than 100 years, benefiting from their rich legacy of championship records.
How to Choose Motorcycle Tyres?
Choosing motorcycle tyres based on how good they look on your bike and how easy they are on the pocket is recipe for ineffective driving. Like the vehicle they are used for, motorcycle tyres are made for a specific purpose, and while cheap tyres may work under conditions that are not originally intended for their built and profile, they are going to wear faster, affect your driving performance, putting you and your passengers in peril.
Before buying a new set of tyres, you need to consider to which conditions it will be exposed to later. Asphalt or terrain, short, fast or long journeys? When making a purchase decision help yourself with reviews from trade magazines or other bikers, because no matter how different the target groups and areas of application are - safety always comes first. One of the options is to buy two sets of motorcycle tyres to suit your driving demands. Others opt to go for dual compound tyres that allow easy turning on paved roads but are durable enough to withstand the rigors of a dirt trail.
Buy your motorcycle tyres conveniently online and benefit from our very attractive prices. At Tirendo.co.uk you can expect a comprehensive range of tyres and first-class customer service. Find the right motorcycle tyres for your bike and experience your next spin soon.


Tin flask for your best liquors.
This tin flask is handcrafted in Sheffield, England, following the same technics as used in the 18th century. Its slightly arched rectangular shape and round edges offer a perfect grip. It is easily slip inside any pocket.
As the British Lords of the 18th century you will be able to carry your best beverages during your holidays. It will be your reward after a beatifull drive. No need to precise that we strongly advise you not to drive after using it… ! Made from a leadless tin, this flask doesn't alter its content and offers exceptionnal conservation properties. To clean it : some polish to preserve the shiny aspect and some detergent to clean the inside.
- Capacity : 12 cl.
- Size : 11 cm x 8 cm ( HxL).
- Delivered with its storage box and cotton pouch.


Here are 5 (of many) great games you can see on the Striv Network. Some big District matchups tonight!
This one should go a long way in determining a district champion.
District 6 in Class B is loaded, and this is the first week they start beating each other up. Should be a precursor to more great district games.
Another matchup that could determine a district title. Bison are coming off an emotional win over Kearney Catholic, and their only loss is to #2 Scotus.
THE BIG GAME to watch tonight. GINW offense lead by QB Christian Ellsworth matches up with maybe the best defense in Class B. The atmosphere in York should be able to be felt through whatever screen you're watching on!


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TheatreWorks 'The Lake Effect': More Rajiv Joseph magic (Review)
Like North Pool and Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo, the characters of Lake Effect take a heightened form of the imperfect journey we all take when crossing into uncomfortably different worlds.
Cy Ashley Webb
4.5 out of 5 stars - 'Right on the Money'
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto
By Rajiv Joseph
Review by Cy Ashley Webb
Bernard (Jason Bowen) argues with Priya (Nilanjana Bose) and Vijay (Adam Poss) in Rajiv Joseph's new play The Lake Effect presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto March 4 – 29.
For many, Rajiv Joseph is the dramatic equivalent of the novelist whose works line your shelves – the author you're always hoping is working on a new one. Eagerly awaited, Joseph's The Lake Effect just opened at Stern Theatre in Palo Alto.
Press materials for this TheatreWorks' production say that The Lake Effect is about the son and daughter of a recently deceased Indian restaurant owner, who try to unwrap the mystery of their father's bookie. However, those words don't begin to unwrap the magic of a Rajiv Joseph play, let alone that of this one. While each of Joseph's plays is about very different things, a few threads travel through all of them. Since these speak to why his plays are so darn good, one particular thread explains why The Lake Effect is so very special.
Like North Pool and Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo, the characters of The Lake Effect take a heightened form of the imperfect journey we all take when crossing into uncomfortably different worlds. This imperfect journey gives The Lake Effect a rich texture, with big shadows and multiple perspectives – including characters not in this corporeal world.
The characters in The Lake Effect end up in places different – not necessarily better, or worse, or resolved – from where they started. This ambiguity is entirely okay because it's informed by all the ambiguities in the dialogue that preceded it, those same ambiguities that make room for the characters to navigate that distance.
Nilanjana Bose stars as Priya
Here, the first of those characters is Bernard (Jason Bowan), an African-American 20-something whose utter guilelessness places him up there with Steinbeck's Lenny in Mice and Men. However, while Bernard shares Lenny's natural sweetness, he lacks those traits that made Lenny and his darn rabbits so annoying. Bernard becomes the truth teller.
Priya (Nilanjana Bose) and Vijay (Adam Poss) are part of the second generation Indian brat pack, whose pseudo-sophistication and self-absorption make crossing any divide nearly impossible, especially one that their father seems to have crossed automatically.
How these three come together, and how they agree to move forward, forms the basis of of this story.
Set design by Wilson Chin is not only notable for its graceful beauty as it is for effectively tracing the course of the play. Your eyes are irresistibly drawn to an impossibly deep area on the streets outside the restaurant where snow falls under the street lamps seen through smoked glass – a metaphor if there ever was one for the characters themselves.
Playwright Rajiv Joseph
This show was so fast paced, that in the audience many blinked at the show's end, hoping it was only intermission so they could return and spend more time with these characters.
The Lake Effect plays the Stern Theatre in Palo Alto through March 29.
Cy spent the '80's as a bench scientist, the tech boom doing intellectual property law, and the first decade of the millennium, aspiring to be the world's oldest grad student at Stanford where she is interested in political martyrdom. Presently, she enjoys writing for Stark Insider and the SF Examiner, hanging out at Palo Alto Children's Theatre, and participating in various political activities. Democracy is not a spectator sport! Cy is a SFBATCC member.


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Barry Obama Gets Mad And Warns Russia Will Face "Action" Over Election Hacking
ByEnchanted Lifepath
Dec 16, 2016 Action, Election, obama, russia
President Obama says the United States will respond to Russian cyberattacks that the intelligence community has concluded were part of an effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.
In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep that will air Friday on Morning Edition, Obama said,
"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections, that we need to take action and we will — at a time and place of our own choosing.
"Some of it may be explicit and publicized, some of it may not be,"
"There are still a whole range of assessments taking place among the agencies," Obama told NPR, referring to an order he has given the U.S. intelligence community to conduct a full review of the cyberattacks before Inauguration Day.
"And so when I receive a final report, you know, we'll be able to, I think, give us a comprehensive and best guess as to those motivations.
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The Yavapai Amateur Radio Club (YARC) of Prescott, AZ, will operate a special event station November 17, 2015, from 10 AM to 7PM EST (1500Z -2400Z) in celebration of the NRA's 144th birthday.
The special event station will operate from Gunsite Academy's 2,000-acre campus in Paulden, AZ, north of Prescott with a special event call sign will be K7NRA. Operations will be conducted on 7.250, 14.040, 14.250 and 21.335 MHz. All amateur stations, especially those operated by NRA members and Gunsite alumni, are urged to participate. Click here to sign up or renew your NRA membership today and save $10 on dues.
A special certificate will be awarded to those stations making contact during the event. Additional details and QSL information is available on the YARC event page and on p92 of the November issue of American Rifleman.


Introducing the Sunday Hannah Sweater. Made from 100% Cotton and features a custom ilustration by Australian artist Hannah Rae Powell. The illustration is from the series 'Cosmos' and which looks at intertwining relationship and mental health issues.
This winter we want to cosy up with our favourite artists. This season we teamed up with Aussie illustrator Hannah Rae Powell to create this gem of a jumper.


Do you wish you could cycle your journey but not confident of your skill on the road or perhaps you've never learnt to ride and think its too late?
Do you join a traffic queue to do just five miles and see a passing cyclist getting there sooner?
Perhaps you would like to do the school run by bike but not sure of your ability to keep them safe?
We offer personalised road skills cycling tuition for all ages and abilities to National Standard in and around Southampton and Dorset.


There is a funny idiom in France where they call Maggi Arome Saveur seasoning sauce "Corrige-Madame". This translates to "madame corrects" OR perhaps a more deliberate translation would be "to correct the wife's food". Yawza! I'd say COURAGE monsieur for being so overtly upfront. But it turns out that there are the occasional French women who do not enjoy spending time in the kitchen for the French [out of all the people] to have Christened a Maggi sauce [out of all things].
While some of us still play conventional roles at home where the men buy the groceries and the women do the cooking, a lot of us, men or women, don't necessarily enjoy either task. And if you don't enjoy something it very quickly turns into, well, a task. But I never judge people who simply do not enjoy the process of cooking as my mother is one of them. Although she did love feeding us like most mothers do, with the cooking being a strenuous task the food in our house often required a "corrige madame" or two.
So here is where condiments can be a thing of beauty. A densely flavored sauce, with just a dash in the dish, can add or change the flavors entirely. Condiments can quickly spice up your food, sweeten dishes, add a subtle sourness or simply enhance the flavors. In India we have an array of freshly made pickles and chutneys that add an abundant amount of fun flavors to an otherwise mundane Indian meal. In many Asian countries there are beautifully fermented condiments like soy sauce and kimchi to mention a few. Then there are western condiments like mustards, relishes, tomato sauce, barbeque sauce, jams and compotes that have become largely global and sadly commercial.
Today we can get a variety of commercialized condiments from the stores. They certainly are handy to have in the pantry, but to me, fresh condiments from local markets or Asian stores may not last as long but always taste better.
So in conclusion, weather cooking is a task or a pleasure, there is no shame in having an assortment of corrige–madame's in your kitchen to liven up your food.


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Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (; 11 November 1866 Moulins, France – 21 September 1936 Châteaumeillant, France) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. He began his studies at the Sorbonne University, where he was influenced by Michel Bréal, Ferdinand de Saussure and the members of the L'Année Sociologique. In 1890, he was part of a research trip to the Caucasus, where he studied the Armenian language. After his return, de Saussure had gone back to Geneva so he continued the series of lectures on comparative linguistics that the Swiss linguist had given.

Meillet completed his doctorate, Research on the Use of the Genitive-Accusative in Old Slavonic, in 1897. In 1902, he took a chair in Armenian at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and took under his wing Hrachia Adjarian, who would become the founder of modern Armenian dialectology. In 1905, he was elected to the Collège de France, where he taught on the history and structure of Indo-European languages. One of his most-quoted statements is that "anyone wishing to hear how Indo-Europeans spoke should come and listen to a Lithuanian peasant". He worked closely with linguists Paul Pelliot and Robert Gauthiot.

Today Meillet is remembered as the mentor of an entire generation of linguists and philologists, who would become central to French linguistics in the twentieth century, such as Émile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, and André Martinet.

In 1921, with the help of linguists Paul Boyer and , he founded the Revue des études slaves

Historical linguistics
Today, Meillet is known for his contribution to historical linguistics. He is notable for having coined and formalized the concept of grammaticalisation (influential but still controversial today) to denote what he viewed as the process of innovation by which autonomous words ended up as "grammatical agents". Subsequent to the further development and popularization of the concept by Jerzy Kuryłowicz and further development in the late 20th century, it would become a significant element of functionalist linguistics.

Homeric studies
At the Sorbonne, from 1924, Meillet supervised Milman Parry. In 1923, a year before Parry began his studies with Meillet, the latter wrote the following (which, in the first of his two French theses, Parry quotes):

Meillet offered the opinion that oral-formulaic composition might be a distinctive feature of orally transmitted epics (which the Iliad was said to be). He suggested to Parry that he observe the mechanics of a living oral tradition to confirm whether that suggestion was valid; he also introduced Parry to the Slovenian scholar Matija Murko, who had written extensively about the heroic epic tradition in Serbo-Croatian and particularly in Bosnia with the help of phonograph recordings. From Parry's resulting research in Bosnia, the records of which are now housed at Harvard University, he and his student Albert Lord revolutionized Homeric scholarship.

Language controversies

Meillet has been accused of meddling politics with his observation of languages. He had negative views on German and especially on Hungarian. Hungarian, he claimed, was too difficult a language full of loanwords and not capable of being a culture bearer (in a way that he claimed other Finno-Ugric languages were unable to become such). His views on Hungarian provoked a critical response from the Hungarian writer Dezső Kosztolányi.

International languages
Meillet supported the use of an international auxiliary language. In his book La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta nella Cultura Europea ("The Pursuit of the Perfect Language in the Culture of Europe"), Umberto Eco cites Meillet as saying, "Any kind of theoretical discussion is useless, Esperanto is functioning". In addition, Meillet was a consultant with the International Auxiliary Language Association, which presented Interlingua in 1951.

Works
1902-05: Études sur l'étymologie et le vocabulaire du vieux slave. Paris, Bouillon.
1903: Esquisse d'une grammaire comparée de l'arménien classique.
1903: Introduction à l'étude comparative des langues indo-européennes.
1908: Les dialectes indo-européens.
1913: Aperçu d'une histoire de la langue grecque.
1913: Altarmenisches Elementarbuch.
1917: Caractères généraux des langues germaniques (rev. edn. 1949)
1921: Linguistique historique et linguistique générale.
1923: Les origines indo-européennes des mètres grecs.
1924: Les langues du monde (co-editor with Marcel Cohen). (Collection linguistique, 16.) Paris: Champion. (2nd edn. 1952)
1924: Le slave commun
1928: Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine.
1925: La méthode comparative en linguistique historique (The comparative method in historical linguistics translated by Gordon B. Ford, Jr., 1966)
1932: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine.

See also
 Meillet's law
 Pierre Chantraine

References

Bibliography

External links

Balticists
1866 births
1936 deaths
Writers from Moulins, Allier
French philologists
Indo-Europeanists
Linguists of Germanic languages
Linguists of Indo-European languages
Linguists from France
University of Paris alumni
Academic staff of the University of Paris
Slavists
Armenian studies scholars
Scholars of Ancient Greek
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Academic staff of the Collège de France


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CFP semifinal preview, COVID comes for the bowls
Dan Wetzel and Pete Thamel
December 22, 2021, 10:12 p.m. ·1 min read
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Willie O'Ree, who broke the NHL's colour barrier in 1958, got a long-overdue honour in Boston on Tuesday night.
Mikheyev scores with 3:15 left to lift Leafs past Blues 6-5
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Should Christians Be Pole Dancing?
CP Current Page: U.S. | Monday, September 28, 2015
Pole Dance Workouts May Be Popular but It 'Hurts Children and Our Culture,' Says Dance Ministry Director
By Ray Nothstine, Christian Post Reporter | Monday, September 28, 2015
Diana Douglas (C) helps to instruct an intermediate pole dancing class at Flirty Girl Fitness in Chicago February 17, 2009. As the economy struggles, the club has partnered with other business to offer discounts to members, in order to drive business to both the gym and its affiliates. | (Photo: REUTERS/John Gress)
As hypersexualized dance programs like pole workouts become increasingly popular among women of all ages, especially young girls, one Christian woman is battling against the trend while others defend it merely as a form of physical fitness, not sexual exploitation.
"We are allowing children as young as 3 and 4 to use their bodies and movements in a way that really hurts them and hurts the culture," said Mary Bawden, who directs a dance ministry at the Evangelical-Free Trinity Church in Redlands, California, during an interview with The Christian Post.
"Instead of the beauty of dance this is the misuse of dance," she asserted, warning parents that "many forms of dance are now pushing young children toward adult-oriented themes and choreography."
Bawden added that parents "need to carefully evaluate the cultural choices that entice young children to be viewed as adults. [And] need to produce healthy boundaries in dance so that little girls are protected relationally."
Pole dancing world champion Reiko Suemune strikes a pose for a photograph at her 'Luxurica' pole dancing studio in Tokyo June 9, 2007. Pole dancing is gaining popularity among Japanese women as a new form of exercise. | (Photo: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao)
Seeking to reclaim and promote the art of dance for Christian worship within the Church, an objective which she believes is her calling, Bawden suggests Christians should use their whole body during worship, as it "connects all parts of us as we worship Jesus. Visually, I think it imparts a tremendous truth and impact as they see the whole person.
"First of all, we have to know God and His Word and out of that foundation build a dance ministry that presents embodied faith," she said. "Anytime we do that, the opposite, of course, is being taught and is occurring in our culture. That has happened to dance. It has been twisted."
Kerilyn Reynolds, an instructor at the New York Pole Fitness Academy, has been teaching pole dance fitness for 15 years and told CP she doesn't see any conflict with Christians participating in pole fitness and said her classes "have nothing to do with stripping."
"We wear yoga pants that come down to our ankles," she asserted, noting that people from all walks of life have joined her pole dance fitness classes. "I have teachers, judges, healthcare workers, secretaries."
Reynolds emphasized that pole dancing originated in the circus, not bars, and said she even trains men as well as girls as young as 8, who are active in cheerleading, so as to help them with their flexibility.
"It depends on how you want to portray yourself," she said, explaining that she doesn't focus on sexualizing her students, but is focused on fitness.
In 2011 ABC News reported on Christians who said pole dancing helped them get closer to Christ. And in 2013, the Daily Mail reported on the growing trend among young girls who are getting involved in the activity, which some might find alarming.
Bawden, who has directed dance ministries for over 20 years, has a petition on her website Soul to Sole Choreography that parents and concerned citizens can sign to counteract and fight back against what she calls hypersexualized dance routines and programs that are pushing sexually suggestive content onto children.
"At an early age young children are often being taught how to approach relationships and how to approach intimacy in the wrong way. The art of dance should not be used to divert young girls from healthy sexual development," she wrote on the site.
Bawden's website also links to a 2009 article titled "The Sexualization of Children and Adolescents Epidemic," which concerns the over-sexualization of girls in every aspect of culture.
A segment of that article reads: "If you don't believe me, just try and go shopping for children's clothes and underwear that aren't too tight, body-fitting, low-cut, too short, 'sexy,' with messages and sexualized images that say things like 'eye candy,' 'So many boys, So little time,' ... "
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Julia's Last Years
It is unclear what became of the marriage of James Shiland and Julia Achard. They were married 9 March 1901, but in the 1902 city directory for San Francisco there is no listing for James Shiland, only a listing for "Achard J.A. Mrs., widow, midwife, 415A, 3d."[1] As I mentioned earlier, even while she was married to Edward Matthews she appears in public records under the name Achard which she appears to have uses in her midwifery practice. James Shiland died 24 August 1905 in the City and County Almshouse in San Francisco. There is no mention of Julia in his obituary.[2]
Julia lived in San Francisco for a few more years, moving to Oakland perhaps after the 1906 earthquake. In August 1904 her son, Louis passed away in Oakland at the home of his brother, David Monroe.[3] In 1907 she hosted an anniversary dinner party for the first anniversary of David and his wife, Henriette.[4]
Julia returned to Lodi where she was married to husband number six, Allen Denison, on 30 May 1908. Her son, Fred Wermuth, was one of the witnesses at the wedding.[5] In the 1909 city directory Julia is listed under the name Julia Denison with both a residence listing and a business listing under MIDWIVES. She is living at 853 Center and Allen is listed at 865 Center in 1909.[6] By 1910, Julia is living as Julia A. Achard again at 865 Center and Allen does not appear in the directory.[7] For the 1910 census, Julia goes by Julia A. Achard and is listed as head of household with no mention of Allen Denison.[8]
For the next two years Julia appears in the directories as a midwife in Oakland, widow of Milton. From 1913 to 1916 she resides in Lodi, and appears to live near David and Henriette Monroe. By late 1917 Julia has moved back to Oakland, where she is listed as a physician in the 1918 Oakland city directory. She passed away at Oakland Central Hospital 26 January 1918. As much as was printed about the events in the lives of Julia and her family in the newspapers, her death went entirely unnoticed. I have found no obituary in Oakland, San Francisco or Stockton.
[1] Fold3.com, City Directories for San Francisco, California, 1902, H S Crocker Company, page 164, accessed 5 March 2013
[2] San Francisco Chronicle, 26 August 1905, page 13, col 7 "Deaths"
[3] Oakland Tribune 2 August 1904, page 3, "Death of Louis Monroe"; Husted's Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley Directory, 1904, page 328, listing for Monroe, David H.
[4] Oakland Tribune 23 May 1907, page 7, "Society Gossip"
[5] Familysearch.org, California, County Marriages, 1850-1952, 005686492, Image of 699 event date: 30 May 1908, event place: San Joaquin, California, United States, film number: 1411586, digital folder number: 005698097, image number: 01653
[6] Husted's Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley Directory, 1909, page 301, listing for Denison, Mrs Julia, and page 1498
[7] Husted's Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley Directory, 1910, page 55
[8] US Census, 1910, Year: 1910; Census Place: Oakland Ward 4, Alameda, California; Roll: T624_70; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0112; FHL microfilm: 1374083, line 87. Author's note – I question this census as far as Julia Achard's marital status is concerned. It says she has been married 6 years in the current marriage (an identical number to the man and woman immediately below her on the census page) but the person above her, a 1-year-old girl is listed as W(idowed). I suspect the W(idowed) designation should refer to Julia Achard.


Cordoba, we visited sites used during Argentina's 'Dirty War'. In almost every country we've been to, we've found unspeakable horrors visited on the population in the recent past – and this was no exception.
In 1976, a bloodless coup once again put the military in charge of Argentina. At the time, there were a number of prominent left wing opposition groups, filling the full spectrum of approaches from political party to violent guerrilla terrorists. With popular (albeit not democratic) support from the press and a population whipped up into a fear of the extremist leftist terrorists, the military set about destroying these groups, in a 'National Reorganisation Process', known less euphemistically as the 'Dirty War'.
Between 1976 and the end of the military's reign after the Falklands war in 1983, it is believed that as many as 30,000 people were 'disappeared' – kidnapped, tortured, and in almost every case, killed. What is perhaps most chilling is that this happened in plain sight, in a modern and civilised society with a functioning press – and with support from other western nations, particularly the US as part of its global fight against the threat of Communism.
In other places we've visited, it has seemed possible to attribute the horrendous actions of those in power down to a form of madness or at least a lack of awareness, and that lack of logic made it easier to digest and understand. Mao had his swirling, vindictive personality cult, and held the view that progress was only possible through violent revolution. The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia swept in with absolute blood-filled insanity, tearing society apart at the seams to achieve the same goals as Mao but in a matter of days – and given the pace at which it was imposed, it's no wonder that there was little organised opposition. And on the other side of the political spectrum, through the 'Vietnam War', the USA unleashed hell on the people of not only Vietnam, but also Cambodia and Laos – with a hell in chemical form to follow for decades later.
I think what hit me hardest in Argentina was how the actions of the military were so clearly calculated, part of a logical, forceful political strategy, and it was conducted in full view of the public – or at least as much visibility as for example the German public had under the Nazis. Did we learn nothing?
People who were considered opponents of the regime were kidnapped, sometimes in the street in broad daylight, and then taken to interrogation centres, where information was extracted under torture. Once they had served their useful purpose, they were generally then killed – through military 'death flights', where the unconscious victims were dropped into the sea from a plane, having been told they were being transferred to a prison and to be given a 'vitamin injection' which was in fact a sedative. Even in this respect there was a stark contrast in organisation to what we'd seen in Asia: the Khmer Rouge had avoided using even bullets to kill their victims due to the cost; dropping people from planes is an expensive way to massacre a population.
Amid this utter horror of systematic torture and murder, you then have this bizarre notion of ethics – for example, a priest blessed the plane from which people were then dropped to their death. I think this really shows how some of those involved really did think they were doing the right thing in order to fight the threat of the extreme left, or at least found cover in the support of the church. "We are not monsters" is the phrase apparently used at the time.
Another situation where these uncertain moral lines show is when pregnant women were among the disappeared. The interrogation centres had special areas to care for such women until they gave birth; our guide explained to us that the interrogators felt that the baby should not be punished for the actions of its parents and so should be allowed to live. However, they also felt that the child should not be given back to the remaining family who had been associated with such leftist views, and so the child was secretly adopted by a new family who supported the regime, many of whom were in positions of power. Argentina now has a movement 'The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo', representing those who lost their children but still have grandchildren out there somewhere. They encourage those who were born during this period to verify their heritage; it is believed that some 500 children were appropriated by the state and given to new parents – to date 105 have been identified. One can only imagine the anguish that those now-adults go through to discover their true parents were killed, and that their adopted parents with whom they have grown up were likely complicit in what happened.
And there's so much more; the Trade Unionists in factories working for well known multinationals like Ford who were disappeared en-mass and held in camps in the factory grounds; the secret island owned by the Catholic Church to which prisoners were relocated when the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights came to inspect the interrogation camps on the mainland; the two different estate agents run by the navy to sell off the appropriated houses from those they had killed. This was clearly a systematic and widespread process for purging those who disagreed with the regime, with the support of the church.
All this happened at a time when through Operation Condor the USA was providing support to South American nations fighting communism. Through the 'School of the Americas', many of the Argentine naval officers involved in these atrocities were taught techniques of interrogation and torture, and how best to tackle the threat of the left. Given this, it is not surprising that there is so little trust of US foreign policy interventions now in South America.
I got the sense that this whole period is something Argentina is still very much trying to come to terms with – to find a way to justify what had been allowed to happen and why, and to find justice for so many victims. Few records were kept about those who were taken, and those involved at every level are still refusing to talk about it, so there is a huge gap in knowledge about what happened. But there is one thing our guide said again and again that really stuck with me : 'nunca más', 'never again'. As she reiterated, everyone, everywhere has the right to a fair trial and transparent justice, even if they are being accused of mass murder or terrorism. I think we all would say the horrors of Nazi Germany or of the Dirty War should never be allowed to be repeated, but it's a slippery slope. She drew parallels to Guantanamo bay, extraordinary rendition and the various processes going on right now around the world where people are being held, punished and sometimes killed without trial. In that context, one really has to ask oneself when we will ever truly mean those words 'nunca más'.
Today is the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War. Appropriately, we're in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We've been here for a few weeks of Spanish lessons, dancing and culture, and will soon be heading off to pastures new in the form of Bariloche in the mountains.
Yesterday I paid a visit to the war memorial here in BA. A continually lit flame stands beside the rolecall of the Argentinian dead on a grassy slope, with two cermonial soldiers standing guard motionless, apparently happy to appear in tourists' posed photos much like those at Buckingham Palace back home.
The monument stands in a wide open square where curiously the other structure of significance is in fact a gift from the British, a large clock tower nicknamed 'Big Ben' but looking nothing like it. It's perhaps somewhat symbolic of the mixed relations between the two countries – in spite of the increased right-wing rhetoric featured on the news in the build up to the anniversary, people here have been warm and friendly when we've mentioned we're from the UK; there is a clear acceptance that Britan and Argentina can and should get along side by side.
However, that's not to suggest that Las Malvinas (as they call them here) aren't a hot topic and seen as the symbol of national identity. When we were going round the Casa Rosada, the Presidential Palace, one of the centrepieces was a large map on a wall depicting a collection of islands – we tilted our heads and tried to make out South America, or perhaps some alternate suspicion of the world. It was only later we realised what they were. I found it a little embarrassing given that I'd expect most folks in the UK (ourselves included until recently) couldn't place them on a map, and it's probably fair to say don't know much about them. We've heard various views here: that they're becoming a big issue because of oil drilling rights; the historic nature of Argentina's claim to the islands; the nationalism whipped up at the time by a military dictatorship on the brink of collapse, and the Thatcher government with domestic troubles of its own; and of course the counterpoint that's all over the news back home: the right of the islanders themselves to self determination – and that they want to be British.
It goes without saying that we're keeping our heads down today – we decided to leave our matching Union Jack kazoos at home for once, and we won't be visiting the 'Malvinas' empanada joint where we experienced the sole racist comment of our travels so far – the staff behind the counter repeating something along the lines of "The Malvinas are ours and we will take them back" believing that we couldn't understand their Spanish.
It will be interesting to see where the debate goes on the Malvinas. Our Argentinian friend Javier pointed out today that the issue is deep rooted and has become fundamental to Argentine identity in its post-dictatorship democracy – but clearly the UK isn't going to let go any time soon. Either way, we've decided Port Stanley (that would be Puerto Argentino to those here) will be one place left off our itinerary this time round.
PS. We've fallen a bit behind with the blog! I'll be adding in some updates from the past month or shortly – we haven't become hermits, and there's much to talk about!