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Have you ever shaken a bit of dry parmesan cheese from a can onto your spaghetti and meatballs and mused that it kind of looks like (and maybe even tastes like) sawdust, well, it turns out the parmesan cheese you're putting on your spaghetti might not be cheese -- or at least not all of it. Some cheese factories have been busted recently for marketing "100% real cheese" that, in addition to cheese, contains fillers like wood pulp. Yes, instead of parmesan cheese in your mouth, you have a mouthful of sawdust. It's sometimes hard to tell the real from the fake, and in an era of fake news, this is no surprise.
Jesus reminds us that discerning the real from the phony is a problem when it's people we're talking about. It takes an expert!
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently busted a cheese manufacturer in Pennsylvania for marketing its product as "100% real parmesan" when it actually contained no parmesan at all. In reality, consumers were sprinkling a mixture of imitation cheese and trimmings of other cheaper cheeses like Swiss, white cheddar, Havarti, and mozzarella on their pasta.
As if that weren't sneaky enough, however, the FDA discovered that Castle Cheese, Inc., was also adding filler material to the cheese, the bulk of which was cellulose -- better known as wood pulp.
To be fair, a lot of cheese manufacturers do use cellulose in their parmesan because it acts effectively to keep the cheese from clumping (and saves consumers from taking the time to grate their own cheese). The problem for Castle Cheese and other corner-cutting manufacturers is the percentage of cellulose they actually use. The cheese industry considers 2 to 4 percent cellulose as an acceptable and safe level, but some of the parmesan you might be buying off the shelf at your local grocery store may contain as much as 8 percent. That's way too much filler (though maybe not enough for discerning cheese experts to detect hints of maple and oak in their tasting).
The whole business stinks like Limburger and has cheesed off a lot of consumers who only want the real thing.
Of course, this isn't the first time that we've seen potentially harmful or misleading ingredients mixed in with the real thing. "Extra virgin" olive oil is often mixed with not-so-virginal olive oil. Tea might contain lawn grass clippings, or chopped-up fern leaves. (Go online and see the report yourself! Avila, Jim and Serena Marshall. "Group finds more fake ingredients in popular foods." ABC News Website, January 22, 2013.) The FDA is constantly on the lookout for food manufacturers who cut corners. (At least one government agency is [sort-of] doing something productive!) It also does its best to make sure that foods actually contain what their labels say they do -- no more and no less. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake.
Cheese making was a big deal in Jesus' day, so much so that the Jewish historian Josephus named the ravine between Mount Moriah and Mount Zion in Jerusalem the "Valley of the Cheese Makers." But Jesus didn't tell any parables about cheese, probably because none of those cheese makers ever thought about adding wood to their Gouda.
However, he did say in the Sermon on the Mount, according to Matthew, "Blessed are the cheesemakers." Oh sorry, that was Monty Python. Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers."
The problem of contamination by alien ingredients could not be more serious than the threat it posed to a daily staple: their daily bread. And worse, wheat was one of the most susceptible of the staples of life, and to mess around with it was very serious business.
When Jesus wanted to illustrate the difficulty of separating those who would be part of the kingdom of heaven from those who would not, he turned to the wheat fields where the difference between the real and the fake (and harmful) ingredients was very subtle and took an expert to discern at the harvest.
Jesus sets the parable on a large commercial farm of the period, where wheat was the cash crop. It was common during that time for rival landowners to mess with each other's crops in hopes of increasing their own profits at the market -- a problem common enough that Roman law specifically forbade the sowing of poisonous plants in another's field. The poisonous plant in question here is "darnel," a kind of ryegrass that looked like wheat in its early stages and could only be distinguished from it when the heads appeared on the stalk.
Slaves and field hands normally weeded the fields in the spring before the roots of the darnel became intertwined with the real wheat, but in the story that Jesus tells, a rival enemy snuck into the fields "while everybody was asleep" and intentionally sowed the weeds among the wheat. By the time anyone realized the treachery, the fake wheat had already become entangled with the good stuff, which could lead to disaster for the crop and damage the reputation of the landowner.
So much of the fake crop was present that the slaves were amazed at its proliferation and wondered from whence it came. After all, the master had focused on sowing only the best seed. The landowner knew that this invasion of noxious weeds didn't happen by accident. "An enemy has done this," he told them.
The landowner's staff volunteered to head out into the fields and pull up the counterfeit wheat by the root, thinking of themselves as kind of a primitive version of the FDA. But the farmer understood that this had the potential to do more harm than good. The real wheat could be damaged, given the intertwined nature of the roots. It would be better to wait until the harvest when the real experts, the reapers, could separate the real wheat from the fake.
Actually, it would be fairly easy for the reapers to tell the difference at that point, because darnel doesn't grow as high as wheat when it matures. The harvesters could cut the wheat just below the head and leave the darnel to be cut separately. Even then, the darnel would serve a purpose. In a land where wood was scarce, the weeds would be bundled and used as fuel for actually baking the bread that the real wheat made possible!
This parable, of course, comes in the midst of a rapid-fire series of stories that Jesus uses to illustrate the nature of the kingdom of heaven. It's interesting, however, that Jesus only gives an explanation to two of the parables: the parable of the sower; and this parable of the wheat and the weeds. In both cases, the explanation is given only to the disciples and only after they ask.
In the case of the wheat and the weeds, they ask for a specific explanation and Jesus gives them one in private. We might imagine their confusion. Why wait to uproot evil from among us when we have the chance? Why would we not get rid of the harmful ingredients so that our daily ration of the real bread of life might be pure?
It was tempting for many in Jesus' day to take one of two approaches to the problem of evil in their midst. On the one hand, there were those like the Essenes, who went out into the desert to separate themselves from the culture and set up a "pure" community of faithful people. In their case, the idea was that "the cheese stands alone." On the other hand, there were those like the Pharisees, who saw it as their job to pluck evil by the root by pointing out those individuals who were obviously violating God's law and assigning them to the fire of judgment.
These approaches are still tempting to disciples of Jesus today. In a post-Christendom age, many want to separate themselves from a culture that is increasingly secular and even hostile to people of faith. They'd rather maintain a pure crop, so they'll wall off the field and watch for interlopers who might sow bad seeds among the faithful wheat. It would be better to create their own culture rather than be corrupted by the evil around them.
On the other hand, some Christians have taken the role of judge and jury, pointing out the evil in others and rooting it out publicly.
Both approaches are destructive, however. Communities that try to wall themselves off from the world eventually atrophy in their mission and are not sustainable. The weeds still infiltrate and the sinful nature of humanity is hard to hold at bay. The Essenes eventually died out, as have many other sects that have tried the isolationist approach.
The Pharisaic approach is equally destructive because it can damage the good seed while rooting out the bad. Many are the people who have been harmed by well-meaning Christians on a moral crusade who have led with judgment rather than grace. What we might see as a deplorable orientation toward evil in another person might actually be an opportunity for God's grace to grow within them and change them. If we consign them to the fire before the harvest, we do more harm than good. It is one thing to point a "general error" among the population, but it is another entirely to point to a specific individual and place yourself as their judge!
The point of the parable seems to be that it takes an expert to know the difference between real and fake ingredients, and that difference is only revealed at the time of the harvest. The harvest is often used as an eschatological metaphor in the Scriptures, the time of final reaping of both good and bad. Jesus warns the disciples that it is only at the harvest that the truth will be revealed about each one of us. Until then, the weeds grow with the wheat and some could go either way. It's not up to us to start acting as a spiritual FDA, but rather to be faithful in our own growth, share grace with our neighbors with whom, for good or ill, our roots are intertwined, and trust in the expertise of the master and his reapers to sort it all out in the end.
Jesus will actually demonstrate how this works. Notice that he spends much of his time with people whom the righteous might consider to be "weeds" while offering his critique of those who would go charging off into the fields on a moral crusade to uproot evil. Jesus understood that the harvest was "plentiful" but that the workers who would do the right thing and follow his example were "few". The wheat and the weeds grow together until the harvest, but in the meantime it is up to the workers to maintain the field, nurture the wheat, and offer transforming grace to even the worst of the weeds.
Castle Cheese filed for bankruptcy after it was found to be a manufacturer of fake cheese. Its factory stands empty and shuttered because what they claimed to be selling on the outside wasn't actually happening on the inside.
It's a cautionary tale that Jesus would have certainly embraced. Do our lives reflect the authenticity of a relationship with Christ, or are we harboring our own weed-like tendencies? Are we full of Christ or do we harbor a lot of religious filler that looks and tastes good to the rest of the faithful, but is ultimately not nutritious or satisfying to a world hungry for the gospel?
I think we all could find some ingredients in ourselves that might need to be purged on the inside.
That the church will be a place of mercy freely given where everyone can feel loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the life of the Gospel. We pray to the Lord. (R. Lord hear our prayer.)
That, in a world torn by strife, God's people may shine forth as a prophetic sign of unity and concord. We pray to the Lord.
For refugees and those exiled from their homeland; that they may receive a loving welcome wherever they may go. We pray to the Lord.
For an increase of vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life. We pray to the Lord.
For those burdened by poverty, hardship, oppression, and persecution; that God will rescue them and lift them up. We pray to the Lord.
For our friends and family members who are suffering from various illnesses; that the healing Archangel Raphael will visit them and comfort them. We pray to the Lord.
That those who feel unwelcome, outcast, and have been refused the sacraments in other churches; that they find our humble church and come to us where we strive to welcome all of mankind. We pray to the Lord.
For the grace this week to live by the Spirit of God in every way. We pray to the Lord.
Loving Father, make us faithful in following Your law of love, and bless us with Your peace and mercy. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.


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same plant,just devided by a wall.
if you look at labels it seems most of our so called "fresh milk" is actually remade from powdered milk.....so its been processed twice then bottled..one into powder two rewatered three bottled.
UHT milk has what done to it.....looked at...cooked...stuck in a tetrapack and shipped out the door.
IF the manufacturing and carting process of UHT is the difference (it just CANT be freight) why the hell dont we do it here????
sitting here drinking a 750ml cuppa tea made with REAL MILK that came from our friends jersey cow....put into 2ltr plastic bottle and by morning there is at least 750mls of cream on the top!!!!!!!
rightho you betterer edumacated folks tell me why we have to pay so much for milk here in NZ????
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same as lamb. you can buy it cheaper in oz and see it in way more restaurants than here.
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Quote...rightho you betterer edumacated folks tell me why we have to pay so much for milk here in NZ????
The "gubment" makes it just about illegal to get hold of the REAL stuff - straight from the cow.
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...... ...rightho you betterer edumacated folks tell me why we have to pay so much for milk here in NZ????
Won't try and claim to be more educated but why should the exporters sell it to the new Zealand supermarkets cheaper than they can send it overseas? Just because it is being sold to kiwis? Might make sense ethically but not financially.
the point is HOW can they get more for it overseas if milk from overseas is cheaper here???
there is something very very wrong when imported milk that has had similar amount of processing done to it is cheaper than local product...if its the process itself thats cheaper we should be doingthe same to our local product...ANCHOR used to sell vital (full cream with added fish oil for male vitality) in tetra packs.....it was ok stuff and being able to store in cupboard till opened is a bonus...so the processing plant MUST be here somewhere.
I dont believe for one second the exporters can get more for a litre of milk overseas than they are here....the greed factor is in full swing and they are allowed to get away with it.
Her first argument is rubbish, other species also drink milk as adults.


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The latest on the return-to-play discussions, four Golden Knights test positive for COVID-19, the Bruins sign Jake DeBrusk and more in today's NHL morning coffee headlines.
RETURN-TO-PLAY NEWS
OTTAWA SUN: Bruce Garrioch cited NHL insider Nick Kypreos saying there were no discussions over the weekend between the league and the NHL Players Association for the first time in weeks regarding the 2020-21 season.
Hearing @nhlpa @nhl has no dialogue on weekend for 1st time in weeks. Without knowing repercussions for denying owners request, players tell me they have little choice but to sit/wait. Some say league could threaten to push back start as late as Feb 1st /48 games @Line_Movement
— Nick Kypreos (@RealKyper) November 23, 2020
The league remains focused on a Jan. 1 start but NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly suggested several times that date is flexible and could be pushed back a week or two.
Garrioch believes it's been quiet of late because the two sides have likely retreated to their offices to come up with a plausible agreement acceptable to the owners. Senators owner Eugene Melnyk last week indicated not all the 31 owners are on board with the plan put forward because of the losses they'll face for 2020-21. The players last week rejected two requests from the league for increased escrow and salary deferral rates.
FLORIDA HOCKEY NOW: Jimmy Murphy reported "a prominent agent" said talks are currently at a standstill. Three other player agents wondered when is enough with the constant concessions the players have made since the 2004-05 lockout. One accused league commissioner Gary Bettman and the owners of using the pandemic to squeeze more out of the players. Another agent claims he knows of five or six owners seriously questioning if it makes sense to stage a season.
Murphy feels the longer negotiations drag on, the more NHL and AHL players could head overseas to play in Europe, particularly those on two-way contracts who finished last season in the AHL. He also cites a league source suggesting a Feb. 5 start date for the season remains an option.
ESPN.COM: Emily Kaplan reports Bettman is dealing with a handful of disgruntled owners, with some believing they got a bad deal in the new collective bargaining agreement and a few telling the commissioner they'd prefer not to play if there are no fans because of operating losses.
According to a source, Bettman is "managing" those owners, telling them sitting out the season isn't an option because of the damage to the league's long-term health. However, he is trying to address their concerns, which include an infusion of cash to start the season, hence the league's requests to the players last week.
Kaplan reports sources indicated the players remain willing to work with the league because it's in everyone's best interest to stage a season. If the league is trying to borrow money from the players, the PA could seek concessions such as increased health insurance for players in retirement. Kaplan also notes the NHL owners will be getting $650 million in expansion fees in 2021-22 plus a new U.S. Television deal.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: This stalemate between the league and the PA could stretch on for weeks and put the 2020-21 season into jeopardy. But as long as Bettman and the players remain determined to return to play, the less likely the season will be canceled. There appears a genuine desire on both sides to get this done, though there's no denying the league's recent requests have stalled negotiations.
Barring a significant breakthrough by the end of this week, I think we can forget about the Jan. 1 start date. As Garrioch pointed out, Daly has previously suggested that start date was flexible. It could be anywhere between mid-January and mid-February, though the earlier the better if they hope to stage a meaningful schedule.
OTHER NOTABLE NHL HEADLINES
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL: Four Vegas Golden Knights players have tested positive for COVID-19. The club confirmed their status but declined to identify them. The four are in self-isolation and "recovering well." The club is taking precautionary measures by closing their off-ice training facilities and player areas to players and staff through Sunday.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: This serves as a reminder that the pandemic will still affect the players if the 2020-21 season takes place. Without playing in a quarantine bubble as they did during the 2020 playoffs, they risk exposure to the coronavirus even with increased testing and strict health and safety protocols.
NBC SPORTS BOSTON: The Bruins signed restricted free agent winger Jake DeBrusk to a two-year contract worth an annual average value of $3.675 million.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: DeBrusk had the bad luck to complete an entry-level contract in the midst of a pandemic that adversely affected the NHL salary cap. While his agent had suggested his client was worth $6 million per season, there was no way he was going to get that much from the Bruins or from another club via an offer sheet under the current economic conditions.
It's a good deal for the Bruins because they get DeBrusk under contract at a reasonable short-term deal that also leaves enough cap space for other moves. The young winger still gets a decent raise and a chance for a much better deal in two years times when he'll have arbitration rights in a potentially better economic climate.
MONTREAL GAZETTE: Canadiens center Jesperi Kotkaniemi is leaving Finnish club Pori Assat and returning to Montreal in what's considered a sign the club is preparing to stage its training camp soon. Kotkaniemi will begin a 14-day quarantine upon his return.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: He's not the only player skating in Europe coming back to North America. If more players follow suit it'll signal the league and the PA are close to a return-to-play agreement.
NBC SPORTS CHICAGO: The Blackhawks hired Kendall Coyne Schofield as a player development coach and youth hockey growth specialist. She's the organization's first-ever female development coach. They also hired former NHL player Erik Condra as a player development coach.
WINNIPEG SUN: The Jets hired Dave Lowry as an assistant coach. The father of Jets center Adam Lowry said he doesn't expect any issues with the two working for the same team.
NHL.COM: The Florida Panthers hired Shane Churla as their director of amateur scouting. The former NHL player spent the past seven seasons with the Canadiens scouting staff. He also spent seven seasons as an amateur scout with the Dallas Stars and another five in the same role with the Arizona Coyotes.
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by Lyle Richardson | Jan 24, 2020
PHWA midseason award winners, All-Star Game skills competition participants announced, and more in today's NHL morning coffee headlines.
Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid is the midseason favorite for the Hart Trophy (Photo via NHL Images).
The Professional Hockey Writers Association announced their 2019-20 Midseason NHL Award winners. Among them are Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid (Hart Trophy), Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson (Norris Trophy), Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (Vezina Trophy), and Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar (Calder Trophy). The PWHA also named Toronto Maple Leafs winger William Nylander as their comeback player of the year.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Barring serious injury or a significant decline in performance, McDavid is a lock for the Hart, Carlson for the Norris, and Makar for the Calder. Hellebuyck's had an outstanding first half, but he's struggled of late, which could affect his Vezina chances over the remainder of the season.
Participants for the skills competition for the upcoming 2020 NHL All-Star Game in St. Louis were announced yesterday.
CALGARY SUN: The upcoming All-Star game is a family affair for Flames winger Matthew Tkachuk and Ottawa Senators winger Brady Tkachuk. The brothers grew up watching their father Keith play for the St. Louis Blues in the early 2000s until his retirement in 2010.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: The effects of Kendall Coyne Schofield's participation in the skills competition at the 2019 NHL All-Star Game are examined in a new documentary.
NBC SPORTS BAY AREA: San Jose Sharks owner Hasso Plattner voiced his support of general manager Doug Wilson despite the club's disappointing season. "While we are all very disappointed in the team's performance thus far this season, Doug has a long history of leading our team to success," said Plattner. He pointed to the club's quick turnaround under Wilson after missing the playoffs in 2015.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: I don't doubt Plattner's confidence of Wilson, but I think the Sharks GM is facing the biggest challenge of his management career. He's saddled himself with expensive veterans and doesn't have much to draw upon in the prospect pipeline for trade bait.
TORONTO SUN: The Maple Leafs assigned defenseman Jake Muzzin to their AHL affiliate on a conditioning stint.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Muzzin's imminent return is good news for a Leafs blueline that's struggled in his absence.
CBS SPORTS: The Pittsburgh Penguins activated defenseman Justin Schultz off injured reserve.
TSN: Marc Methot believes his playing career has come to an end. He underwent knee surgery a year ago while with the Dallas Stars, but the knee continues giving him pain. The 13-year NHL veteran spent five seasons with the Ottawa Senators. Methot said he hasn't made an official decision yet on his future.
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NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – February 1, 2019
by Lyle Richardson | Feb 1, 2019
Game recaps, injury updates, and more in today's NHL morning coffee headlines.
NHL.COM: The Philadelphia Flyers extended their winning streak to six games with a 3-2 overtime victory over the Boston Bruins. Travis Sanheim tallied the winner and also picked up an assist. David Pastrnak scored both Bruins goals.
Mika Zibanejad's hat trick carried the New York Rangers to a 4-3 win over the New Jersey Devils (Photo via NHL Images).
Mike Zibanejad's hat trick carried the New York Rangers to a 4-3 win over the New Jersey Devils. Mats Zuccarello collected three assists for the Rangers, who've won five of their last seven contests. Earlier in the day, the Rangers revealed center Brett Howden will be sidelined three-to-four weeks with a sprained MCL.
Third-period goals by Jack Roslovic and Kyle Connor lifted the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Jackets were playing without Cam Atkinson, who was a late scratch after being struck in the face by a puck during warmups. Earlier in the day, the Jackets revealed center Boone Jenner will miss one-to-three weeks with an infected laceration on his ankle. Meanwhile, Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien (lower-body injury) is now listed as day-to-day. He's been sidelined since Dec. 29.
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER: Anaheim Ducks winger Corey Perry could make his season debut on Saturday against the Winnipeg Jets. He's been sidelined for four months recovering from surgery on his right knee.
SPORTSNET: Edmonton Oilers defenseman Oscar Klefbom suffered an apparent setback in his recovery from a broken left finger after being struck on the injured hand during practice.
STLTODAY.COM: Blues winger David Perron (upper-body injury) was placed on injured reserve.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Stars forward Tyler Pitlick (upper-body injury) will be sidelined for two more weeks.
SPORTSNET: The Montreal Canadiens will neither confirm or deny a report claiming defenseman Noah Juulsen may have suffered a career-threatening eye injury. He was struck in the face by a puck during a Nov. 19 game against Washington and his last game was with their AHL farm team on Dec. 27. The club will only confirm he has an upper-body injury that requires rest and is not a concussion.
TSN: The Florida Panthers placed forward Jamie McGinn on waivers.
CBC.CA: Olympic gold medalist Kendall Coyne Schofield defended NBC Sports analyst Pierre McGuire from social media backlash for "mansplaining" hockey to Coyne Schofield. The incident occurred during her appearance with McGuire as a guest analyst in Wednesday's contest between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning.
"I know he respects me as a hockey player, a woman, and a friend and that's why I didn't think twice about our on-air exchange when it happened," said Coyne Schofield. Nevertheless, she added, "If I were watching it at home and saw a man say this to a woman athlete, I would have been offended."
McGuire also issued a statement apologizing for his remarks. "At times my excitement got the better of me and I should have chosen my words better."
THE SCORE: Antoine Vermette yesterday announced his retirement after 14 NHL seasons. In 1,046 games with the Ottawa Senators, Columbus Blue Jackets, Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks, and Anaheim Ducks, Vermette scored 228 goals and 287 assists for 515 points, along with 14 goals and 28 points in 97 playoff games. He won a Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks in 2015.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Best wishes to Vermette and his family in their future endeavors.
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Winners of All-Star skills competition, latest on Nathan MacKinnon, 2020 Winter Classic teams revealed, and a CBA update in today's NHL morning coffee headlines
NHL.COM: Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid won the fastest skater for the third straight year at the 2019 NHL All-Star skills competition at San Jose.
Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid won the NHL All-Star skating competition for the third straight year. (Photo via NHL Images).
U.S. women's hockey team star Kendall Coyne Schofield became the first woman to participate in the skills competition, posting a time of 14.346 to beat Arizona Coyotes center Clayton Keller. She replaced Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon, who'll miss the All-Star Game because of a bruised left foot.
Calgary Flames left wing Johnny Gaudreau was the winner of the puck control event for the second straight year.
Boston Bruins winger David Pastrnak won the accuracy shooting, Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson had the hardest shot, Oilers winger Leon Draisaitl was the premier passer, and New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist made 12 consecutive stops to win the save streak event.
Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews drew some love from the San Jose crowd by sporting the Leafs jersey of teammate Patrick Marleau during the accuracy shooting event. Marleau spent 19 seasons with the San Jose Sharks.
The league announced the Nashville Predators will face the Dallas Stars in the 2020 Winter Classic at the Cotton Bowl.
Executives from the NHL and NHL Players Association remain optimistic over the possibility of working out a new collective bargaining agreement without resorting to another work stoppage.
Both sides claim early discussions have been "cordial and constructive," according to league commissioner Gary Bettman, who once again stressed he's not spoiling for a fight with the players. Neither side would speculate over the possibility of either side triggering their early-out options from the current CBA in September.
THE SCORE: cited TSN's Pierre LeBrun reporting the two sides discussed the prospect of staging a smaller World Cup of Hockey tournament midway through the 2020-21 season.
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George Mulholland to serve as Director of the Chicago IRCI chapter, a local chapter of the ICRI, the only association in the concrete industry devoted solely to repair and restoration, and protection of concrete and other structures. ICRI members consist of contractors, manufacturers, engineers, distributors, owners, and other professionals involved in prolonging the useful life of concrete through quality repair, restoration, and protection. As a Director, he will be responsible for local chapter sponsorships, student outreach and chapter publications.
RRJ Principal, Robert Kudder has been appointed to the Northwestern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering External Advisory Board. This three-year board position provides strategic advice on the department's educational and research activities and is part of the accreditation process for the department. The current 12-member board consists of senior engineering professionals from industry and academia, alumni and non-alumni. Dr. Kudder received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Northwestern University.
RRJ was selected by Mercy Health to provide building enclosure consulting services for their new 532,300 square foot, state-of-the-art regional hospital to serve the Rockford community. This regional medical center consists of three wings featuring two bed towers, a Level III perinatal center, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a Level I trauma center, and cutting-edge operating suites and a specialty physician medical center serving adult and pediatric patients.


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Invisible Ink by Patrick Modiano, review: less whodunit, more who-dun-what
Patrick Modiano is up to his old tricks in a detective story where the real villain is memory itself
The real villain is memory: Paris, 1966 Credit: Keystone-France
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The French Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano has written many detective stories, but with plots so elliptical that they are not so much whodunits as who-dun-whats, with neither question guaranteed to be answered unambiguously.
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His Nobel citation in 2014 praised his contribution to "the art of memory", and the typical Modiano sleuth will spend less time on practical investigation than on assembling an impressionistic identikit portrait of the personality of a murder victim or missing person, from the contradictory testimonies of various witnesses.
Whatever the outcome of the case, the inevitable conclusion is that human memory is sadly inadequate as the means of preserving something so complex as the personality of another human being, in defiance of the comforting truism that the dead or missing "live on" in the memories of those who knew them.
Modiano's masterpiece in this vein is Missing Person (1978), in which the detective and the detectee are the same person, as the hero is an amnesiac private eye searching for the truth about his own identity. Now, four decades on, Modiano has decided to return to that milieu in his latest novel, which is narrated by another employee of the same agency, run by the enigmatic Hutte.
Jean Eyben is a young would-be writer trying his luck as a private eye in the 1960s to gain a bit of life experience. Hutte tasks him with tracking down a missing woman called Noëlle Lefebvre, hinting that Jean might have reason to be specially interested in the case. Jean gets nowhere initially but over several decades sporadically accrues information about Noëlle through a series of monstrously unlikely coincidences, until he finally determines in old age to get to the bottom of her disappearance.
Nobel laureate: Patrick Modiano credit: Reuters
As always, the real villain of the piece is memory, whether because it is leaky – Jean's determination to revisit this ancient mystery is partly an act of atonement for the way in which he has carelessly forgotten so much about his life – or, for another character, treacherously retentive: "these memories were visiting her, like a blackmailer whom you were sure had lost track of you long ago, and who, one evening, knocks softly at your door."
The no-frills, pleasingly old-fashioned diction of Mark Polizzotti's translation proves well-suited to an economical evocation of the changing landscape of Paris, but it is as a delineator of the labyrinths of human consciousness that Modiano excels. You feel the desperation with which the characters tug at the locked doors of their memories, and find yourself becoming more conscious of, and disturbed by, your own memory's lacunae.
This is a slight tale, though, and the central mystery hardly seems to justify the urgency Modiano attaches to his characters' efforts at remembering. There are, however, unignorable echoes here of his non-fiction work Dora Bruder, which described his efforts to patch together the details of the life of a teenage girl who perished in the Holocaust; and one supposes that Modiano, who has always admitted that he rejigs the same themes and stories over and over in his books, is attempting an oblique retelling of that investigation and the self-discoveries it provoked.
But if you read, for example, Missing Person, you may be aware that there are metaphorical implications about the French capacity for wilfully forgetting the inglorious compromises of the Vichy era, yet you feel that Modiano has constructed the central story with sufficient load-bearing capacity to sustain them. This novel, by contrast, ultimately buckles under the strain of the significance with which the author loads it.
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Dmitri Kokarev (en rus: Дмитрий Кокарев; nascut a Penza el 18 de febrer de 1982), és un jugador d'escacs rus, que té el títol de Gran Mestre des de 2007.

A la llista d'Elo de la FIDE del desembre de 2021, hi tenia un Elo de 2582 punts, cosa que en feia el jugador número 44 (en actiu) de Rússia. El seu màxim Elo va ser de 2648 punts, a la llista de març de 2013 (posició 106 al rànquing mundial).

Resultats destacats en competició
El 1999 va guanyar el Campionat del món Sub-18 celebrat a Orpesa. El 2009, va empatar als llocs 1r–8è amb Serguei Vólkov, Ígor Lissi, Aleksandr Rakhmànov, Valeri Popov, Denís Khismatul·lin, Dmitri Andreikin i Dmitri Botxarov a l'obert de Vorónej.
El 2010, va guanyar el torneig Mayor's Cup de Mumbai i empatà als llocs 1r-6è amb Martyn Kravtsiv, Aleksei Dréiev, Maksim Túrov, Baskaran Adhiban i Aleksei Aleksàndrov al II Obert Orissa a Bhubaneshwar.

El 2012 fou tercer al fortíssim obert de Moscou, per darrere d'ígor Lissi i Ernesto Inàrkiev.

El 2013 empatà al primer lloc amb 7/9 punts al fort Memorial Txigorin (el campió per desempat fou Oleksandr Aresxenko). L'octubre de 2015 fou 2-3 del Memorial Txigorin amb 7½ punts de 9, amb els mateixos punts que el campió Kirill Alekseenko i Sandipan Chanda.

Partides notables
 Dmitri Kókarev vs Teimour Radjabov, Campionat del món Sub-18 1999, atac indi de rei (A07) 1-0.
 Dmitri Kókarev vs Ratmir Kholmov, Torneig White Nights 2001, defensa Caro-Kann variant Finnish (B16) 1-0.

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Grans Mestres d'escacs russos
Campions mundials d'escacs de la joventut
Jugadors d'escacs russos de la dècada del 1990
Jugadors d'escacs russos de la dècada del 2000
Jugadors d'escacs russos de la dècada del 2010
Persones de Penza
Jugadors d'escacs russos de la dècada del 2020

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Ambassador Edward Ferguson: Despite all the frustrations of the past four years, I remain optimistic. I have met so many talented young people who want to look to the future, and not to the past. Macedonia is showing us that things can change for the better, and quickly. And change will surely come to BiH as well. I just hope it will be sooner rather than later.
Working as the UK Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina has been the most demanding job I have ever done – always fascinating, often frustrating.
During my time here, I have worked as hard as I could to help to build a better and more prosperous country, in which all its citizens can feel safe, secure and at home.
We have done a lot. But clearly a lot remains to be done, and my brilliant successor, Matt Field, will now continue the work.
As I pack my bags, and head towards the airport, I feel a deep sense of gratitude that my family and I had the opportunity to get to know, and to love, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We have tried to make the most of the opportunity.
We have visited your cities, your mosques, your churches, your museums and your galleries.
We have climbed your mountains, rafted your rivers and swum in your lakes.
We have learned your language… or tried to, anyway!
We have made friends who will last a lifetime.
We have marvelled at the extraordinary richness that lies in your nature, your history, your culture and in your diversity.
As a wonderful British politician, Jo Cox, would have said, there is so much more that unites you than divides you.
Too many of your own leaders talk of your differences. But I haven't found that at all. Wherever we have been, whether we have been drinking Sarajevsko, Nektar or Karlovačko, I have found the same warmth, the same generosity, the same sense of humour.
And if you can laugh together, then you can surely live, thrive and succeed together.
We wish you, from our hearts, the success which you so deserve, but which you have for so long been denied by divisive leaders.
Despite all the frustrations of the past four years, I remain optimistic. I have met so many talented young people who want to look to the future, and not to the past. Macedonia is showing us that things can change for the better, and quickly. And change will surely come to BiH as well. I just hope it will be sooner rather than later.
So thank you for your hospitality and your friendship.
We will always be proud to have a connection to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We will always be proud that our youngest daughter was born in Sarajevo.
I will always be proud to have played a small part in this country's history, and to have helped to deepen the ties between the UK and BiH.
And wherever I go in the world, wherever my job takes me, I shall always be an ambassador for BiH.
So thanks for everything, and good luck! We will see you again soon.


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The story revolves around Elena, a girl with a hypochondriacal mother and an idle father, a retired guards lieutenant with a mistress. On the eve of the Crimean War, Elena is pursued by a free-spirited sculptor (Shubin) and a serious-minded student (Berzyenev). But when Berzyenev's revolutionary Bulgarian friend, Insarov, meets Elena, they fall in love. In secretly marrying Insarov Elena disappoints her mother and enrages her father, who had hoped to marry her to a dull, self-satisfied functionary, Kurnatovski. Insarov nearly dies from pneumonia and only partly recovers. On the outbreak of war Insarov tries to return with Elena to Bulgaria, but tragically dies in Venice. Elena takes Insarov's body to the Balkans for burial and then vanishes.
On the eve: a novel.
On the eve.: Translated from the Russian by Moura Budberg.
1949, Gosd. izd-vo khudozh. lit.
in English - Ill. ed.
in English - American ed. with amendments.
1873, T.Y. Crowell & Co.
October 29, 2015 Edited by Richard Keith Added plot description from Wikipedia.
November 21, 2012 Edited by 188.190.126.73 Edited without comment.


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Q: Simple unicode application? I want to create simple language learning applications to help friends in learning languages. A simple Java console application would do the trick, but the Windows console does not seem to handle Unicode (and I need my software to work with all kinds of special letters at once).
Googling it, I get the idea there might be ways to actually make Unicode work in the Windows console, but it seems a bit overly complex, plus that it requires some effort from anyone running the program. I want to write programs that anyone without computer experience can run easily.
I wanted to try doing this in Python instead, as the IDLE console at least seemed to work with Unicode. But it has its own set of problems (I can't enter certain letters, like the é, without writing it elsewhere and pasting it in)
Now I'm considering building this as a web application or Swing application, to actually be able to make my program work with Unicode. But I feel I'm maybe overlooking something. Is there no easy way to make a Unicode console application that'd work on Windows?

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*Dynamic Language Python is probably a better choice than Java for such an application, given its relative simplicity and less need for boilerplate code and operational middleware. I don't know about the IDLE console for Python 2, but IDLE for Python 3.4 handles Unicode characters well (I just tested it), as does Python 3 overall. Nicer IDEs such as Komodo and PyCharm (both of which have free versions) are great with Unicode characters. There are tutorials and explanations online (e.g. this one from Wikipedia) for various systems how to enter Unicode characters without copy-and-paste.

*Web Application Console apps are simple, but not particularly attractive by modern standards. Much of the world has also moved beyond desktop GUI applications, embracing Web apps. Web apps offer you easier distribution to a wider audience and easier construction for high-polish looks. You will end up needing HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript skills in building the front end to a Webapp, in addition to whatever your app backend is. I recommend that you look into jQuery and its user-interface extensions. It's not the only JavaScript approach to building UIs, but it's very common and widely supported.  While this is more up-front investment, you will end up with a more valuable and forward-looking set of skills for yourself. If you decide on Python and a Webapp, I suggest you look into the Flask Web app framework.

*Dynamic Language, Part 2 Python isn't unique in its ability to build nice Webapps. PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript are other popular options. They all can handle Unicode well. If you decide to try building your entire app in JavaScript, I recommend you look at Meteor.

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I've had a studio at the California Building in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District since November of 2013. When I moved back home from Los Angeles, I was so excited to become part of this vibrant community, and was thrilled that I found a studio. Getting into the artist buildings in this area is not easy to do. The studio was small, but was perfect for my return to the midwest. I loved that little studio. But, when a larger studio in the building opened up, I jumped on the opportunity to grow in square footage. The new studio is 2.5 times larger then the old space. It has a huge window, a sink, a storage loft, a display area, plenty of electrical, and tons of room for me to create!


JoBeth Williams as Diane Freeling in "Poltergeist" (1982). In this scene she is reading Carl Jung's "Man and His Symbols."
Indeed. von Franz, a Christian, who wrote books about alchemy, symbolism and the psyche, was devoted to Jung and his understanding of synchronicity, or the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related and yet have no discernible causal connection.
This I know all too well. Synchronicity is a major part of my life, now that I have a somewhat better understanding of what it is and how it can be useful in connecting human beings and helping individuals - as von Franz discovered in her copious sync research from the 1930s to the 1980s – attain wholeness and emotional balance. Now that is something I think all of us are seeking.
The Buddha sagely said so long ago that "just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." Now, he did not say it would be easy.
Back to Jung's Man and His Symbols book. I read the nearly 400 pages of the book, released in the early 1960's, and shortly after Jung's death in 1961, while on a family trip to Washington, D.C. Now, if there is a city in the United States with more symbols than Washington, I don't know what it is.
Joseph L. Henderson, who was also a American Jungian psychologist (and who lived to the ripe old age of 103, passing away in 2007) also contributed to Man and His Symbols and wrote of Hermes that the Greek god "is a Trickster, in a different role as a messenger, a god of the cross-roads, and finally the leader of souls to and from the underworld. His phallus therefore penetrates from the known into the unknown world, seeking a spiritual message of deliverance and healing." In the ancient world, a "stone herm" would be placed at the "crossroads" acting as "soul-guide" to the next world.
Hermes, in Egyptian mythology, was known as the ibis-headed god Thoth, with his bird form giving him a "transcendent" quality. George P. Hansen has much, much more information on the subject of the Trickster in his remarkable 2001 book The Trickster and the Paranormal, a book I suspect movie director Mark Pellington read while making the film The Mothman Prophecies. The book, which I just read, came highly recommended to me by some friends of mine in southwest Missouri while researching Trickster activity along the 94 degrees west line of longitude. (Check out Gordon White's Rune Soup interview with George P. Hansen here).
I suspect the Trickster follows the person and appears in the form that is most familiar to the culture they are originally a part of. Writer and abductee Whitley Strieber talks of "kobolds," cobalt-blue-colored trolls who seem not unlike the "Woodsmen" from the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks: The Return. These kobolds Strieber talks about in the book Super Natural, that he wrote with Jeffrey Kripal, explains that like Hermes, "they facilitate the journey of souls." Strieber, being of Germanic background, is visited by "kobolds," it would seem, since they are part of Germanic folklore.
In any event, this notion of the "crossroads," that liminal space between our world and the next world and guarded by Hermes or the African "Legba" (associated with the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson fame), has been coming up quite a bit and with my interest in dreams, Jungian psychology and synchromysticism, is all the more interesting as I dig into it. Recall my visit to the crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi and the electrical/railroad link and the experience I had, as noted in "Last train to Clarksdale."
The electrical phenomenon that has followed me, since then, has been ... curious.
Speaking of which … a few weeks back I was tearing up some newspaper to use for a fire I was building in my backyard chiminea. As I ripped up pieces of the October 29, 2018 edition of The Oklahoman, a cutline to an image on one page caught my eye, it read: "Did you know the movie 'Poltergeist' had an Oklahoma connection?" It was accompanied by a headline which read "Grandpa blamed for electrical tricks." Now, that was very interesting. Rather than feeding it to the flames, I tore it out and kept it, to reference later.
The wife told the reporter: "I'm about to crack up," due to the weird events.
It's a pretty wild story, as the Tulsa family witnesses electrical plugs blowing up, a vacuum cleaner aimlessly going around the house, refrigerator motor to blow up repeatedly, and a clock being knocked from its perch on a shelf six times. Their $1,300 electric organ was also damaged in the process.
The husband goes so far as to remove a metal fence in the yard of their home because he believed it caused a "magnetic field," resulting in the weirdness.
A group of 1950's-era "ghost hunters" with the American Society for Psychical Research went to the Tulsa home to check out the "spell" plaguing the Wilkinson home.
The adolescent daughter, Shirley Wilkinson, is said to have placed blame on her dead grandfather, and that gramps was "stealing her fingerprints." She said that she would "talk" to her dead grandfather and ask him to stop causing so much mayhem in their home. The story does not say if the Wilkinsons were successful in getting the poltergeist activity to stop.
And what of the 1982 Steven Spielberg-penned Poltergeist film? As some may recall, the mother in the film, Diane Freeling (played by Houston, Texas native JoBeth Williams, who turns 70 on Thursday) is smoking pot in bed with her husband Steve (Craig T. Nelson) and reading Jung's Man and His Symbols. Curiously, two years earlier, in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, right before ghostly/weird activity begins in the Overlook Hotel, we see a copy of Jung's The Red Book on the desk of Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson). That book was not widely available until 2009.
"EITHER I'M DEAD OR I'M CRAZY"
Well, on October 25, 2013, I wrote a Dust Devil Dreams post titled "Fantasy football at the time-loop hotel." The photo I use with the post is of Washington Redskins football player Doug Williams, who is shown playing in a scene in the 2001 film Donnie Darko, which I discuss at greater length in the post.
What is weird is that while Donnie Darko emphasizes a "time loop" and discusses time travel (and is set in 1988), in Poltergeist (about a home built on a former cemetery which is attacked by "demonic ghosts"), the young girl, Carol Anne, is seemingly doomed due to the mention of a future (1988) Super Bowl game which would be taking place, in the same city (San Diego), where the Super Bowl is taking place between the Washington Redskins and the Denver Broncos. Score? 42-10. Heather O'Rourke (who had a fraternal twin brother who was stillborn) would die a day after that Super Bowl game.
I wrote: "In the 1982 thriller/horror film Poltergeist, a truly chilling prediction is made via a prop poster on the bedroom wall of Carol Anne, played by blonde-haired child actor Heather O'Rourke.
The poster reads: 1988 Superbowl XXII. As Cracked.com notes, there is no mention of the events in the film being set in the future (remember, this is 1982). This poster is fairly prominent in a couple of scenes and in retrospect seems rather odd.
And what makes it's placement in Carol Anne's room is that the little girl, Heather O'Rourke, would get deathly ill on January 31, 1988 in San Diego, California – while Super Bowl XXII was actually taking place between the Washington Redskins and the Denver Broncos.
The score? Redskins 42, Broncos, 10.
Washington's quarterback, Doug Williams (who once played for the Oklahoma Outlaws in the mid-1980's), was the first African-American quarterback to ever start in an NFL league championship game, let alone a Super Bowl, according to Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, across town, Heather O'Rourke is becoming violently ill and is rushed to the hospital, where she dies the following day, on February 1, 1988, just months before the release of Poltergeist III.
Who decided that Super Bowl XXII poster was supposed to go on the wall of that bedroom? Did someone know Heather was doomed to die just six years later? Is there something to the alleged curse surrounding the Poltergeist series of films, involving angry ghosts?
A very sad, sad story. And I have yet to see an explanation offered from MGM as to what that Super Bowl poster was indicating. Did someone involved with the production have foreknowledge of O'Rourke's death in 1988?
And in my last Dust Devil Dreams post, "Corn, no stalks," I noted a staticky TV and a boy of 10 or so, with glasses on, staring out from the screen. It was very creepy and seemed to be the psychic boy with alien DNA named Gibson Andrew Praise (Jeff Gulka) in the original run of The X-Files.
What I found interesting, is that in von Franz's 1968 essay, included in her book Psyche and Matter, in an essay titled "Symbols of the Unus Mundus" ("unus mundus" being Latin for "one world" and describing th econcept of "an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and to which everything returns"), first argued that the mathematical structure of DNA is analogous to that of the I Ching, citing the I Ching's importance in this notable essay.


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Fundi (ital.: Fondi) ist ein Titularbistum der römisch-katholischen Kirche.

Es geht zurück auf einen untergegangenen Bischofssitz in der gleichnamigen antiken Stadt, die in der Landschaft Latium an der Westküste der Italienischen Halbinsel an der Stelle der heutigen Stadt Fondi lag.

Siehe auch
 Liste der römisch-katholischen Titularbistümer

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Fundi
Christentum (Latium)
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Men in White (Mannen in 't wit) is een Amerikaanse zwart-wit speelfilm uit 1934, met Clark Gable en Myrna Loy in de hoofdrollen. De film werd geregisseerd door de uit Polen afkomstige Richard Boleslavsky en is een bewerking van het gelijknamige theaterstuk van Sidney Kingsley, dat een internationaal succes was en dat in 1934 de Pulitzer Prize voor drama won.

Verhaal
De film verhaalt een romantisch drama dat zich afspeelt in en rond een ziekenhuis. Gable speelt een toegewijde jonge chirurg George Ferguson, assistent van dr. Hochberg (Jean Hersholt). George is verloofd met de rijke Laura Hudson (Myrna Loy), maar hij geeft zijn werk de voorrang. Hun relatie bekoelt en hij heeft een korte verhouding met een verpleegster die zijn passie voor de geneeskunde deelt (gespeeld door Elizabeth Allan). Ze raakt zwanger en later komt zij bij hem op de operatietafel terecht; in de film wordt gesuggereerd dat ze moet geaborteerd worden. De operatie wordt toevallig, op uitnodiging van dr. Hochberg, bijgewoond door zijn verloofde Laura. Onder narcose verklapt de patiënte haar geheim, waarop Laura de verloving verbreekt. De verpleegster overleeft de operatie echter niet. Uiteindelijk komen George en Laura toch samen maar accepteert Laura dat George zijn job steeds op de eerste plaats zal plaatsen.

Rolverdeling
 Clark Gable : Dr. George Ferguson
 Myrna Loy : Laura Hudson
 Jean Hersholt : Dr. 'Hockie' Hochberg
 Elizabeth Allan : Barbara Denham
 Otto Kruger : Dr. Levine

Bemerkingen
De film werd opgenomen voor de Hays Code en werd nadien in een ingekorte versie vertoond waaruit alle verwijzingen naar abortus verwijderd waren.

De film werd in de Nederlandse pers goed onthaald bij zijn première in Theater Tuschinski in december 1934. De Telegraaf noemde het "[...] een dier zeldzame films, die u vasthouden van het begin tot het einde en waarop geen vlek te bespeuren is."

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Film uit 1934
Amerikaanse film
Film van Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dramafilm
Film van Richard Boleslawski


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#FFF Fun Fact Friday
by Yağmur Y. 2021-01-15 2021-02-04
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Here are the trivia facts of the week that will blow your mind and you won't believe! No no, be calm. Just interesting facts -and maybe some gossips- about architecture and design. You can keep learning some inspiring stuff during your coffee break and then make a little bit show off with them in your conversations. Now, if you've grabbed your coffee...
Did you know? LEGO Used to Make Special Bricks for Architects.
When Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, son of the LEGO founder, tried to make a Lego model of the house he was building, it didn't come out to scale, because Lego bricks have a 5:6 width-to-height ratio. This led to the creation of Modulex, a much smaller brick that was based on perfect cubes, in 1963. Unfortunately, the bricks were discontinued in the 1970s.
Did you know? "The Sims" Was Originally Designed as an Architecture Simulator.
The Sims, which debuted in 2000, is one of the most popular video games around. But before it became a life simulator, the original concept had the game working more like SimCity: players would design a house, and autonomous characters would test the design's success.
Did you know? Surrealist painter Salvador Dali described Le Corbusier's buildings as "the ugliest and most unacceptable buildings in the world."
After the latter's death in 1965. Dali continued his 'mourning' by saying that Le Corbusier's death filled him with an "immense joy" and calling him a "pitiable creature working in reinforced concrete." However, that never stopped Dali from placing flowers on the late architect's grave: "on the one hand I detested him but on the other hand I am an absolute coward."
Did you know? The "Metabolism" architecture movement was inspired by biology.
Today in Tokyo you'll see a number of sci-fi-looking structures that are reminiscent of a post-war architecture movement called Metabolism. In the most simple of scientific definitions, metabolism is the process of maintaining living cells. Many Tokyo architects, as well as architects throughout Japan, believed that buildings should be able to change and evolve over time, much like living things. On the whole, the concept failed, but there are still buildings that remain, including Nakagin Capsule Tower and the Hillside Terrace.
Did you know? A group of Modern artists signed a letter protesting Wright's design of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Wright produced more than 700 drawings and a total of six sets of plans for the museum before settling upon its inverted ziggurat design. But artists like Milton Avery, Will Barnet and Henry Botkin balked at Wright's proposal, arguing in a 1956 letter to the museum's director that the curvilinear slope indicated "a callous disregard for the fundamental rectilinear frame of reference necessary for the adequate visual contemplation of works of art." Today the museum is recognized as a masterpiece and an architectural icon. In 2008, it was designated a National Historic Landmark and it was nominated to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2015.
Feeling fully-informed? Right?
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Normally, during a parent-teacher conference the teacher would be explaining to parents the progress of the child, but three-way conferences are student-driven and is an opportunity for the child to share about their learning experiences from their perspective, and understanding of themselves after reflection. It is a time for parents to encourage and recognise the child's efforts and to set goals together so the child knows what to work on in the coming term, parents know how to support at home and teachers can also support at school.
Some students are anxious during parent-teacher conferences because they are not in the classroom during the meeting, but for three-way conferences, it can be a different kind of nervousness. Children could be cautious and worried that they may be reprimanded by their parents and teacher at the same time. Please have a talk with your child before Friday about coming to the conference. Let them know that you look forward to hearing about them talk about their learning so you can en-courage and support them in their learning journey and development. The focus is on moving for-ward together.


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Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
12-December-2018 13:31 IST
FAME-India Scheme
In order to promote manufacturing of electric and hybrid vehicle technology and to ensure sustainable growth of the same, Department of Heavy Industry is implementing FAME-India Scheme- Phase-I [Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India] from 1st April 2015. The scheme, which was initially upto 31st April 2017, has been extended upto 31st March, 2019 or till Notification of FAME-II, whichever is earlier.
The Phase-II of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles (FAME-India) Scheme proposes to give a push to electric vehicles (EVs) in public transport and seeks to encourage adoption of EVs by way of market creation and demand aggregation. The draft scheme envisages the holistic growth of EV industry, including providing for charging infrastructure, research and development of EV technologies and push towards greater indigenization. The scheme has not been finalized yet.
Total outlay of Phase-I of the FAME-India Scheme has been enhanced from Rs. 795 Crore to Rs. 895 Crore.
Under Demand Creation focus area, the purchaser of electric and hybrid vehicles is given an upfront reduction in purchase price by the dealer at the time of purchase of xEVs. Since inception of the scheme & till 6th December 2018, the Government has given financial support (demand incentive) to about 2,61,507 electric/ hybrid vehicles. 119 models of vehicles of 27 OEMs got registered under FAME-India Scheme for availing demand incentive.
Since inception of the scheme, several segments have been added to the scheme so as to ensure that more people take advantage of this scheme. In this spirit, support to fully electric buses have been added to the scheme to support electrification of public transport. The positive results of these efforts are borne out by the fact that DHI has so far sanctioned 455 electric buses for 9 cities in a pilot scheme launched on 31st October 2017, which got interest from 44 cities seeking 3144 e-buses.
There is no proposal from Government of India to invest in manufacturing of E-Buses. 100 % FDI by automatic route is permitted in the automobile sector. Further, automobile sector is in deregulated sector and both private sector and public sector are free to carry out investment in the automobile sector, including for manufacturing of Electric Vehicles and E-Buses.
The fund allocation made under this Scheme is given hereunder:
Fund Allocated
Rs. 75.00 Crore
Rs. 144.00Crore
Rs. 165.00 Crore
This information was given by the Minister of State of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Babul Supriyo, in reply to written questions in the Lok Sabha.
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Home News Latest News I See Nnamdi Kanu In A Coffin, IPOB Declared War On Buhari,...
I See Nnamdi Kanu In A Coffin, IPOB Declared War On Buhari, Nigeria In Revenge – Cleric
"I will advise those in power to handle this case carefully because one misstep could trigger the mother of all violence in Nigeria, his group are seriously aggrieved and planning seriously.
I See Nnamdi Kanu In A Coffin, IPOB Declared War On Buhari, Nigeria In Revenge - Cleric
Olatobiloba Peters, the Senior Pastor of Divine Mercy Church, has predicted that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, will die in the custody of Nigeria's secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS).
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According to the pastor, IPOB members then declared war on President Muhammadu Buhari and entire Nigeria in order to avenge his death.
The cleric, on the other hand, urged everyone to pray against the prophecy so that it does not come true, adding that Buhari and the DSS should take Kanu's case seriously.
He warned that Kanu's case could spark the mother of all Nigerian riots.
According to the DAILY POST, Peters stated, "I see his followers declaring war on the president and Nigerians in retaliation." Nigeria is at a crossroads.
"As a man of God, I say Kanu should be treated with care because I see he is currently fragile and his death would have serious repercussions.
"This government should take my words seriously because I see great danger ahead if things are not handled carefully," he added.
Just before Kanu's abduction, Mr Peters stated that the IPOB leader might not live until the end of 2021.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, was kidnapped in Kenya and returned to Nigeria more than a week ago.
Last Tuesday, he was arraigned before the Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Binta Nyako.
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He is currently in the custody of the DSS after an Abuja High Court Judge, Nyaku ruled that he should be held by the secret police until the next hearing on his case on July 26.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs é um livro infantil de autoria do escritor americano Judi Barrett e ilustrador Ron Barrett. Foi publicado pela primeira vez em 14 de setembro de 1978 pela Simon & Schuster marca Atheneum Books, seguido por um 1982 paperback de comércio edição de empresa irmã Aladdin Paperbacks. Com base em uma pesquisa on-line de 2007, National Education Association nomeou o livro como um dos "100 melhores livros para crianças para professores". Foi um dos "100 melhores livros ilustrados" de todos os tempos em uma pesquisa de 2012 do School Library Journal

Uma sequência, Pickles to Pittsburgh , foi publicada em 2000 pela Atheneum Books; uma edição de capa dura foi seguida em 2009. Uma segunda sequência, Planet of the Pies, foi publicada em 27 de agosto de 2013.

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O livro detalha uma história de ninar narrada por um avô a seus netos, descrevendo o cotidiano dos cidadãos de uma cidade imaginária chamada Chewandswallow, caracterizada por seu estranho padrão meteorológico diário.

Com uma população de cerca de 300 habitantes, Chewandswallow era uma cidade típica e muito pequena, que incluía um cinema, uma escola e outras empresas típicas. No entanto, a cidade era completamente desprovida de shoppings e lojas de alimentos, pois eram totalmente desnecessários. O céu forneceu aos habitantes da cidade todas as refeições diárias necessárias chovendo (ou em alguns casos, nevando) alimentos. Diferente do clima típico, o clima de Chewandswallow sempre acontecia três vezes ao dia, no café da manhã, no almoço e na hora do jantar. As únicas coisas que não choveram eram chuva e neve, neve de verdade. Em vez disso, choveu coisas como sopa e suco, purê de batatas e ervilhas verdes. Sempre que as tempestades apareciam, eram geralmente construídas com alimentos como hambúrgueres.

Apesar de não conter shoppings e supermercados para obter comida, Chewandswallow continha restaurantes: restaurantes sem teto, onde os clientes servem basicamente a comida que cai do céu e entra no prédio sem teto (enquanto o livro nunca indica, isso basicamente os torna restaurantes totalmente inútil). As pessoas podiam manter seus alimentos em geladeiras como refeições ou lanches sempre que sentiam fome. A cidade também foi mantida pelo Departamento de Saneamento de Chewandswallow, um serviço público de limpeza responsável por limpar toda a comida restante do clima do dia. Os restos de comida eram usados para alimentar animais de estimação perdidos, bem como criaturas marinhas (incluindo cetáceos e tartarugas marinhas) e vida selvagem em terra. Alguns também foram enterrados para enriquecer o solo. Com a ausência de supermercados e shopping centers,

No entanto, a vida das pessoas da cidade de Chewandswallow era deliciosa. Mas então, depois de alguns milênios passarem (e toda a empolgação da comida no clima havia diminuído), o clima gradualmente (mas inesperadamente) levou os moradores da cidade a piorar. Quando o tempo piorou, as pessoas começaram a perceber que não estavam felizes com o que pensavam. Um dia, não havia nada além de queijo Gorgonzola. No dia seguinte, havia apenas brócolis cozido demais. No dia seguinte, havia apenas couve de Bruxelas, manteiga de amendoim e maionesenojento as crianças na festa de aniversário sempre que eles tinham festas de aniversário. Isso exigia uma festa de aniversário para montar sempre um "bolo" de nojento parecido com um bolo de aniversário feito apenas com ingredientes grosseiros. No dia seguinte, houve uma névoa de sopa de ervilha que praticamente destrói toda a visibilidade possível até uma distância incrivelmente curta.

Mas este foi apenas o começo do desastre de Chewandswallow. Tempestades não apenas desagradáveis, mas também de alimentos perigosamente grandes demais começaram a devastar a comunidade. Um dia, havia tantos pães e pãezinhos que o Departamento de Saneamento levou quatro anos para limpar (resultando em trabalhadores empilhando-os em algum lugar, deixando-os cada vez mais obsoletos). Na manhã seguinte, houve uma tempestade de panquecas (seguida de uma chuva de xarope de bordo pelas panquecas que inundavam a cidade). Uma panqueca gigante cobriu a escola. Depois que todas as tentativas falharam em tirá-lo por causa de seu peso, a escola foi fechada para sempre. Então, um dia, o almoço trouxe trocas de 50 (ou 60) polegadas de sanduíches de creme de queijo e geléia. Todos (que estavam comendo esses sanduíches para o almoço) se alimentavam doentes e o dia terminou com dor de estômago. Finalmente, o pior desastre da história de Chewandswallow ocorreu quando um gigantesco tornado de tomate devastou várias casas, prédios e estradas. As pessoas espirravam bobas (devido a uma terrível tempestade de sal e pimenta que foi acompanhada pelo tornado) e corriam para evitar os tomates.

Por fim, a limpeza do serviço do departamento de saneamento tornou-se inviável. Portanto, como o trabalho era grande demais, o serviço desistia e desligava as operações para sempre. Todo o Departamento de Saneamento de Chewandswallow (locais e toda a mercadoria) foi permanentemente interrompido na cidade. Devido à interrupção das operações, os moradores de Chewandswallow sofreram com a comida devastadora. As pessoas temiam por suas vidas, enquanto pedaços gigantes de comida vinham de Chewandswallow, destruindo casas e empresas. As lojas foram fechadas com tábuas e não havia mais escola para as crianças (devido ao fechamento das escolas para sempre).

Não havia nenhuma dúvida na mente das pessoas da cidade sobre o que fazer em Chewandswallow. Finalmente, os moradores da cidade decidiram abandonar permanentemente a cidade. Eles queriam mudar para um novo local onde o clima adequado (como chuva ou neve) ocorreria. Era uma questão de sobrevivência. Para deixar a cidade para sempre, o povo de Chewandswallow trabalhou juntos para construir navios gigantes. Para fazer os navios, eles usaram o pão velho e os pãezinhos e os colaram em pedaços gigantes de sanduíche de pão velho com manteiga de amendoim e cotão de marshmallow. Isso transformou seu "navio-sanduíche" em um sanduíche gigante de manteiga de amendoim e marshmallow. Eles então partem e partem para uma terra nova e permanente.

Agora a salvo dos perigos apresentados pelas chuvas, os habitantes da cidade se instalam em seu novo lar (que o livro nunca mencionou pelo nome). Embora a vida estivesse agora muito mais pacífica, os habitantes da nova terra estavam agora acostumados com o novo clima (onde a partir de então chovia chuva e nevava). Nada desceu do céu senão o tempo real. A maior mudança para as pessoas conseguirem comida era comprar comida de uma loja (incluindo shoppings e supermercados) e não consegui-la do céu. Além disso, eles precisavam aprender a cozinhar os alimentos antes de servir (em oposição a qualquer carne que descesse "pré-cozida" em Chewandswallow). Ninguém mais foi atropelado por um hambúrguer, nem se atreveu a voltar a Chewandswallow para descobrir o que aconteceu, pois estavam com muito medo. No final, todos viveram felizes para sempre.

Agora voltando aos netos, quando o avô termina a história de ninar, a neta, na narração em primeira pessoa, menciona que ela e Henry ainda estavam acordados; acordado até o final da história do vovô.

Na manhã seguinte, os netos acordam e descobrem a neve. Depois de se arrumar e sair correndo para brincar, a neta imagina que o sol (como manteiga) e a neve (como purê de batatas) são como a comida no clima de Chewandswallow, a partir da história que o vovô havia contado a ela e Henry na noite anterior. Porque parece que ela e Henry quase podiam cheirar purê de batatas. O livro termina com uma foto de uma tigela de neve e sol se transformando (ou convertendo) em purê de batatas com manteiga, que termina no almoço / jantar de purê de batatas com manteiga.

Sequelas
O seguimento da história, Pickles to Pittsburgh , conta sobre as crianças que receberam um cartão postal de seu avô, que afirma estar visitando as ruínas do que antes era a lendária cidade de Chewandswallow. As crianças então dormem e sonham que estão lá com ele, ajudando a reconstruir a paisagem pós-apocalíptica e a restaurá-la para onde é habitável novamente, além de distribuir enormes quantidades de comida para as nações em desenvolvimento e atingidas pela pobreza. abrigos para sem-teto em todo o mundo. Isso prova ser difícil, pois pode haver mais tempestades de comida a caminho.

Um terceiro livro da série, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3: Planet of the Pies, foi lançado em 27 de agosto de 2013. Ele detalha um sonho que o vovô teve sobre a primeira expedição tripulada a Marte, onde a sociedade marciana é dominada diariamente tempestades de tortas.

Adaptações de filmes

Em 18 de setembro de 2009, a Sony Pictures Animation lançou uma adaptação cinematográfica do livro, e o DVD foi lançado em 5 de janeiro de 2010. Um novo elenco de personagens foi criado para o desenvolvimento da trama, enquanto a sinopse foi alterada de comida caindo do céu de meteorologia a ser feita a partir de uma máquina. Bill Hader e Anna Faris deram as vozes dos dois personagens principais. Hader fala de Flint Lockwood, "um jovem inventor que sonha em criar algo que melhore a vida de todos". Faris dá a voz a Samantha "Sam" Sparks ", uma garota do tempo cobrindo a cautela que esconde sua inteligência por trás de um exterior alegre." James Caan, Bruce Campbell, Sr., Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Benjamin Bratt, Al Roker, Lauren Graham, e Will Forte também estão no elenco de voz. Os co-roteiristas e co-diretores Philip Lord e Chris Miller disseram que seria uma homenagem e uma paródia de filmes de desastre como Twister, Armageddon, The Core e The Day After Tomorrow.

Ao contrário do livro em que um avô conta a seus dois netos uma história para dormir sobre Chewandswallow, um inventor chamado Flint Lockwood, que vive em Swallow Falls (nome original de Chewandswallow antes do clima alimentar), inventa uma máquina que transforma o vapor de água da atmosfera em comida. Originalmente, o fenômeno era limitado a Swallow Falls, mas o uso excessivo da máquina faz com que ela funcione mal e o clima dos alimentos melhore, além de espalhá-lo por todo o mundo. Uma sequência do filme, intitulada Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 foi lançada em 27 de setembro de 2013, no entanto, é baseada em uma ideia original, e não em Pickles to Pittsburgh.

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Meggen Lyrae Ryan
June 24, 1960 — September 2, 2022
Meggen Lyrae Ryan, of Evaro, was taken from us on September 2, 2022. She passed away at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, age 62, from injuries sustained in a car crash.
She was born on June 24, 1960, at St. Patrick Hospital, to Marion and Joseph Ryan. She grew up on a rural family homestead in Evaro, helping on the farm with her sisters and brothers. Attending Frenchtown public schools, she was a member of the basketball team in high school and graduated in 1978. She attended the University of Montana School of Forestry, where she graduated early in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry Conservation, specializing in soils science. She would later continue her formal education, completing a Master of Accountancy from the University of Montana in 2012 and becoming a CPA. On December 31, 1981, she married Roy Hartse. They had two children, Caitlin and Kyle, raising the kids in Evaro. They later divorced but remained friends. Meggen had a wide-ranging career. Her first job was at a doughnut shop in the Southgate Mall. She worked as a Forest Service seasonal doing timber stand exams and spent three summers as a fire lookout at Beaver Ridge. She was very fond of her time on the lookout and would take her future kids and grandkids back for visits. She also worked for the Soil Conservation Service, as a grocery bagger at an Air Force base commissary, a bookkeeper for the family business at Sevenar Stores, and as an accountant at Consumer Direct Care Network.
Throughout her life she was heavily involved with the Evaro community, where she served on the Evaro Community Center Board of Directors and later the Evaro-Finley-O'Keefe Community Council. She helped organize the annual Evaro Mountain Challenge fun run, where on race day she would serve as a trail guard and hand out water. She also worked diligently with the Five Valleys Land Trust and North American Packgoat Association, among other nonprofit organizations.
An abundance of hobbies kept her busy, including woodworking, photography, hiking and camping, baking bread, genealogy and family history, board games, cribbage, Irish language studies, local weather record keeping, collecting Forest Service and Smokey Bear memorabilia, caring for animals (especially her beloved goats), and acting as a steward of the forest she called home in Evaro.
She harbored immense love for her family, especially her children and grandchildren. It was not uncommon for her to travel hundreds of miles for a brief day visit. If a visit was out of the question, she would enjoy long phone calls with her family to discuss seemingly any subject, from the day-to-day life of her grandkids to global events. She was driven and hardworking, allowing her to shoulder many responsibilities and lessen the burden for others. Her compassion, selflessness, empathy, and giving nature shone like a beacon in every facet of her life. She was preceded in death by mother Marion Ryan; father Joe Ryan; grandmother Alma Grace Ryan; cousins Kelly Hansen and Jennifer Hansen; and many beloved pets. Survivors include her children Caitlin Parke (Jason) and Kyle Hartse; ex-husband Roy Hartse; siblings Lauren Case (Tom), Kevin Ryan (Pat), Mike Ryan (Gina), Kimberly Ryan-O'Hara (Thom); grandchildren Brianna Parke and Conor Parke, aunts Deloris Hansen and Alice Ryan; cousins Joe Hansen, Heidi Hansen, Holly Hansen, Lonnie Smith, Les Ryan, Tim Ryan and Shawn Ostheimer; nieces and nephews JoAnn Ryan-Moreland (Kenny), Jessica Ryan (Carl), Nateese Benedetti, Brenden Ryan (Paige), Kelly Ryan (Nick), Patrick O'Hara (Trish), Chelsea O'Hara, Shannon O'Hara (Chase); and pets Taffy, Murphy, and Macie.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to a local animal shelter near and dear to you heart. A Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date.
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