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A Passage To India – written and directed and edited by David Lean. Colonial Drama. 244 minutes Color 1985.
The Story: A young woman and her Aunt travel to India to visit, and India takes hold of them with a mortal attraction.
David Lean's last film, now a DVD whose extras are as interesting as the film itself. For you would never imagine how it was made in India back in the day. So take a look at the second DVD.
A couple of problems with the picture sully the experience, and some have to do with Lean's mishandling of the material, for the ending is badly edited and does not fadge with the bones of the story. I can't remember how E.M. Forster actually ends the book, but it can't be like this.
Other difficulties have to do with his handling of what happened in the cave. E.M. Forster never told what happened there. And the reason he didn't is because he did not know. In any case, it is clear that Miss Quested has a brain wave of some kind, becomes unhinged, and proclaims that Doctor Aziz has molested her.
In fact we are shown Miss Quested with lust in her eyes wanting Dr. Aziz in the cave. He does not see her and looks into other caves for her. He never goes into her cave at all. But Lean does not have the psychological imagination to cinematically envision what goes on inside Miss Quested that produces the catastrophic result. Lust for Dr. Aziz? Shame when he doesn't come in? Remorse? Flight? Embarrassment? Revenge? We get none of this. All we get is some cactus scratches on her from running away downhill. So what is supposed to hang over the story as a mystery, becomes a mere opacity.
Part of the trouble is that the preparation for the cave scene is inadequate. For the excursion Miss Quested makes beforehand, coming upon pornographic statues on a bike ride, does not show the male side of sex, and because we hardly see anything risqué, we are not shocked, so how can she be shocked, and how can we gauge the statues' effect on her? Lean has no sense of such things.
Another trouble is that we have in Judy Davis an actor who may be miscast. For Judy Davis is a young female none of this would shock. She is not the swooning sort. She is not a foolish virgin. She is Australian-earthy, not a female given to fantasies, derangements, traumatic shames, or unhingings. Of course, it would be interesting were all this to happen to as strong a personality as Judy Davis's – but Lean's treatment as scenarist and director go nowhere near this. He doesn't seem to know what he has in her. It is as though the film – which is a female story – does not understand the language when entering female territory.
In a way, Lean's film, and all his films, are about the male characters. The character of Mrs Moore, for instance, is never fully realized. Peggy Ashcroft, in a yeowoman effort, drags Mrs Moore not into clarity but into light. Clarity is not to be had. She and Lean argued badly as to how to perform her. Ashcroft was right. Ashcroft won because she had the part and went ahead and did what was right, else nothing at all would have been there, and Ashcroft won the Oscar. Judy Davis also locked horns with Lean, and lost. Lean did not have a clue about women. He would not have been married six times if he had.
The picture is ravishing in its scape. We see an India whose immensity of effect is always present, always beguiling, always seething We see wild crowds, marshalled armies in parade array, markets, mountains, rivers, structures, distraught railway trains, and placid colonial dwellings. It almost gives us a balanced canvas of Indian and English characters and points of view.
And all the male characters are superbly realized and performed, save, of course for Alec Guinness. He's as ridiculous here as he was in Lawrence Of Arabia. Why he hypnotized David Lean to cast him to pad around as a Hindu sage only a real Hindu sage would know. Crazy. It's counter-productive to the balance the film strives to achieve.
The three other male actors do fine work. First, Nigel Havers as the potential fiancé of Judy Davis. He plays a young magistrate in the British Colonial judicial system, and he is the perfect young man, is he not? Havers gives a lovely, easy performance as Ronny, making us thankful for the thankless role. Ronny knows not what he does as a character, but Havers as an actor does.
James Fox as the local schoolmaster, friend to both sides of the ship, rules half the film largely because his acting of Fielding is so thorough that it engages our interest and bias from start to finish. Grand work.
The co-star of the picture is Victor Banerjee, making his character full of life and optimism and love and curiosity and good will. Again, terrible reports have come down about Lean's treatment of him. Banerjee's performance grounds the film in the fluidity of a wonderful madness when he takes Mrs Moore and Miss Quested on the trip to the Marabar caves.
The temperament of the movie is spectacle-as-narration. It contains no scene which is not visually telling, rewarding, or essential. Every detail frees the camera to our eye. Its direction retains great respect for our ability to tell a story through what we see, through the placement of character, and particularly to the painted elephant called India in whose howdah all visitors cannot help but be shaken back and forth. One of Lean's wives was Indian, and he had lived there a good while. He had a strong sense of its place, style, and potential as a vivid film subject.
Hidden within this vast national impression is actually a closet drama, involving only five characters, Mrs Moore, Miss Quested, Doctor Aziz, Fielding, and Ronny. The opera Aida comes to mind, a closet drama surrounded by a huge military display and a vast dynasty. Many curious and unusual relationships venture into its spectacle. But the material of A Passage To India is one thing and the direction is quite another. Even unrealized, the material is more interesting than the director's execution of it. To witness them, A Passage To India is still worth seeing, or, in my case and maybe in yours, worth seeing again.
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Posted in ACTING STYLE: INTERNATIONAL REALISTIC, Alec Guinness, DIRECTED BY: David Lean, Filmed in India, James Fox, JUDY DAVIS: SCREEN GODDESS; ACTING GODDESS, MIDDLE-CLASS DRAMA, Peggy Ashcroft
Lawrence Of Arabia – directed by David Lean. BioPic. 217 minutes Color 1962.
The Story: An English cartographer, archeologist, and linguist sets out on a mission to free Arabia by inducing it to fight for the British their WWI Turkish enemy.
The impression of spectacle is awe. The desert of the Middle East in color delivers that impression, but it does not deliver anything more internal than awe, such as danger. The smooth systems of color deny the desert its peril. Color comes at you. It blinds, it beguiles, it pleases. All those are real in their way. But color also excises certain levels of engagement which black and white grants. The desert is pretty, even in its mazy peril. But as a wild animal it is never real. Only as a spectacle.
Thinking of color and spectacle, then, as possible narrative tools, we find that in Lawrence Of Arabia spectacle is never reserved for battle, but rather for the charges before battle, the marches to battle, the preparation for battle. David Lean was, at this time, not a maker of great films, but he was a great editor of long films. So the genocide of retreating troops is actually designed to illustrate to the audience the degradation of Lawrence rather than the awesome nature of manslaughter.
The story is so odd. Because T.E. Lawrence was odd. His and its oddity hold us to the story. Peter O'Toole as Lawrence does not stand in the way of the character, but he does not hold us.Peter O'Toole is so obvious. His acting is conventional theatrical, arch, unfelt. He doesn't seem to have any body, muscle, blood under his djellaba. He seems barely able to walk or to hold up his arms. But we put up with all this and let it pass, because the story of Lawrence, as the film gives it us, is that of an extraordinary feat by a man extraordinary in another realm – as a radical idealist. You don't see this sort of thing much in movies.
Peter O'Toole's acting aesthetic was ham. Was then and, if we watched his work as he aged, to see if he got over that, we find evidence that he did. But here he is at the inattentive ignorance of a director who has no sense of the craft of acting at all. With actresses he was even worse. So, spectacle was Lean's outlet for his addiction to directing films. He had to move away from his defects and into his attributes. Good for him.
Is anyone any good in this movie? Anthony Quinn plays the same dumb brute he played since La Strada and Viva Zapata and Streetcar. He has all the tropes for it in place and releases them all to our unsurprised eyes.
The great Claude Rains plays the British liaison with his usual attentive sophistication, and one waits for a great scene or moment, and it never comes because he is never given it.
José Ferrer brings his stunning enunciation and insect aspect to the role of the sadistic homosexual Turkish commander who violates, beats, and debases Lawrence. A small part for an overwhelming talent.
Alec Guinness plays Prince Faisal, a wily Arabian desert shark and is just silly. It's a character manufactured out of studied convention, and you don't believe in it for a moment.
Arthur Kennedy writes his own ticket playing the only American in the story, a photo-journalist based on Lowell Thomas. He's really good, because his Americanness is out of place, his acting technique among the English is out of place, and his character itself, in The Middle East, is out of place. I love how he takes advantage of all this, and uses it to free himself to act.
Poor Anthony Quayle plays the military liaison officer with a regimented mind; I say poor, because his role need not have been so thankless as the author, Robert Bolt, wrote it. See him in The Tales Of Hoffman to see him at his best.
Jack Hawkins, as General Allenby the head of the British Army in The Middle East has the best part of all, that of a man who is always convincingly fair, and always spoken of as ruthlessly unfair. He brings riches of voice and masculinity to us, and a sense of vitality and power in reserve. What a pleasure to be with him!
Omar Sharif is quite bad. His readings and the script and the music by Maurice Jarre sound bastardized on a Maria Montez movie sired by Rimsky-Korsakov. It is a great part which he fails to stifle with his overacting. Because you can't help but like Omar Sharif, he became a big star in Lean's subsequent film, Doctor Zivago. But here he is at first. His moonlight madness eyes gleam. Ah, we had waited a long time for a Muslim to arrive as a matinée idol. A Muslim? Well, whatever he was, he certainly wasn't a Presbyterian.
Lawrence was a man men intrigued themselves by. He was actually not intriguing, but enigmatic. George Bernard Shaw and his wife later adopted him, and he took Shaw's name, and Shaw wrote a play about him, Too True To Be Good, which I saw on Broadway with Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Robert Preston, Glynis Johns, Cedrick Hardwick, Cyril Richard, and David Wayne as Lawrence. That's a lot of attention.
When he enlisted as a private in His Majesty's service, thrice, Lawrence did so under pseudonym. He loved to play recordings of Delius. He wrote a beautifully written and printed book, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom about his Arabian adventure and its failure. Then he hid out. Everyone in the world knew him, except himself.
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Posted in ACTING STYLE: INTERNATIONAL REALISTIC, ACTION ADVENTURE, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, BIOPIC, Claude Rains, DIRECTED BY: David Lean, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole
A couple of problems with the picture sully the experience, and some have to do with Lean's mishandling of the material, for the ending does not match with the bones of the story. I can't remember how E.M. Forster actually ends the book, but it can't be like this.
Other difficulties have to do with his handling of what happened in the cave. E.M. Forster never told what happened there. And the reason he didn't is because he did not know. In any case, in the film at least, it is clear that Miss Quested has a brain wave of some kind, becomes unhinged, and proclaims that Doctor Aziz has molested her.
In the film, we are shown Miss Quested with lust in her eyes wanting Dr. Aziz in the cave. He, looking for her, of course, looks into her cave, does not see her, and looks into other caves for her. But Lean does not have the psychological imagination to cinematically envision what goes on inside her that produces the catastrophic result. What would the ingredients be? Lust? Shame when he doesn't come in? Remorse? Flight? Embarrassment? Revenge? We get none of this. All we get is some cactus scratches. So what is supposed to hang over the story as a mystery, becomes a mere opacity.
Part of the trouble is that the preparation for the cave scene is inadequate. For the excursion Miss Quested makes beforehand, accidentally coming upon pornographic statues in the wild, does not expose enough of the male side of sex to count with the audience. Because we hardly see anything risqué, we are not shocked; so how can we gauge the statues' shock on her? Lean has no sense of such things.
Another trouble is that we have in Judy Davis a young female none of this would shock. She is not the swooning sort. She is Australian-earthy, not a female given to fantasies, derangements, traumatic shames, or unhingings. She is not a foolish virgin. She is a powerful and fascinating actress. Either she is simply miscast. Or it would be interesting were all this to happen to a strong personality, such as Judy Davis's – but Lean's treatment as scenarist and director go nowhere near this. It is as though the film's story – which is a female story – is speaking a foreign language when entering female territory.
In a way, Lean's film, and all his films, are about the male characters. The female character of Mrs Moore, for instance, is never fully realized. Peggy Ashcroft, in a yeowoman effort, drags Mrs Moore not into clarity but into light. Clarity is not to be had. She and Lean argued badly as to how to do her. Ashcroft won, else nothing at all would have been there, and Ashcroft won the Oscar. And Judy Davis also locked horns with him. Lean did not have a clue about women. He would not have been married six times if he had.
And all the male characters are superbly realized and performed, save, of course for Alec Guinness who pads about playing an Indian Fakir. Why he hypnotized himself to cast himself as a Hindu sage only a real Hindu sage would know. Crazy. It's counter-productive to the balance the film strives to achieve.
The three other male actors do fine work. First, Nigel Havers as the potential fiancé of Judy Davis. He plays a young magistrate in the British Colonial judicial system, and he is the perfect young man, is he not? Havers gives a lovely, easy performance as Ronny, making us thankful for the thankless role. He knows not what he does as a character, but as an actor he does.
James Fox as the local schoolmaster, friend to both sides of the ship, rules half the film largely because his acting of Fielding is so thorough it engages our interest and bias. Grand work.
The co-star of the picture is Victor Banerjee, making his character full of life and optimism and love and curiosity and good will. His performance grounds the film in the open fluidity of a wonderful madness when he takes Mrs Moore and Miss Quested on a side trip to the Marabar caves.
The temperament of the movie is spectacle-as-narration. It contains no scene which is not visually telling and rewarding, or essential. Every detail frees the camera to our eye. Its direction retains great respect for our ability to tell a story through what we see, through the placement of character, and particularly to the painted elephant called India in whose howdah all visitors cannot help but be shaken back and forth. One of Lean's wives was Indian, and he had lived there a good while. He had a strong sense of its place, style, and potential as a vivid film subject.
Within this vast national impression, the drama is actually a closet drama, involving only five characters, Mrs Moore, Miss Quested, Doctor Aziz, Fielding, and Ronny. The opera Aida comes to mind, a closet drama surrounded by a vast dynasty and huge military display. Many curious and unusual relationships venture into being before us. To witness them A Passage To India is worth seeing, or, in my case and maybe in yours, worth seeing again.
Posted in ACTING STYLE: INTERNATIONAL REALISTIC, Alec Guinness, DIRECTED BY: David Lean, DRAMA, James Fox, JUDY DAVIS: SCREEN GODDESS; ACTING GODDESS, Peggy Ashcroft, PERSONAL DRAMA
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers – directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Gangster Comedy. 91 minutes Color 1955.
You gather your friends about you, and you set them up with some shortbread and whisky or a spot of brandy or something convivial, and you watch this gooseberry pie of a comedy together, for you don't want your neighbors to hear you guffaw alone. It stars Katie Johnson, a tiny little actress who steals every scene she appears in with Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Jack Warner, Peter Sellers, and Alex Guinness. They don't have a chance, because she keeps everything she does as small as toast and jam. If you watch her analytically, you see a performance of such subtlety, experience, and skill that it forces you to eat out its hand handily. She'd been acting since 1894. She is 77 years old and pretty and her cheeks are pink as a rose teacup. She is well spoken and has beautiful manners. She presents her character as perfectly intelligent and considerate to a fault. But she is more than beautifully cast. She plays the part as a miniature Napoleon hiding in a rose. Not one of these gangsters dare disobey her. The story is beautifully set up by the writer and director with scenes in her local police station, whose chief pacifies her reports of a friend's sightings of alien invaders, and she goes back to her lopsided house and rents out one of its rooms to a weird lodger played by Alec Guinness, who is clearly doing an imitation of Alastair Sim. This is disconcertingly funny at first because of the match of Sim's buck teeth, watery eyes, sleazy hair, and drooling, delirious starvation, but Guinness's performance fades somewhat as the film progresses because it is an imposture facing off against the real thing, Katie Johnson's Mrs Wilberforce. The same is true of the others, who tend toward the cartoon. They are all entertaining, of course, except perhaps for Peter Sellers, an actor who was not inherently funny, whose comedy depended upon prop gags. You'd rather watch Katie Johnson sleep than watch him fumble with a gun. The only one who matches Johnson shot for shot is Danny Green as One-Round, the ignorant palooka strongman, because what he is doing as an actor is real. The look on Katie Johnson's face as it dawns with the truth of what these bums are up to in her house is a sight to rejoice in. So gather your friends around like a tea cozy. You will all be pleased to be pleased. This film is vacation from the crude, a recess from the explicit. And when it is over you will have a discussion on what the word "entertainment" actually means. Although, of course, you don't have to, because as with this film, entertainment frees us for a time into Liberty Hall, where, as Sean Kelly once told me, nothing is forbidden and nothing is required.
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Posted in ACTING STYLE: ENGLISH COMEDIC, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Crime Comedy, FAMILY FILM, Gangster Comedy, Herbert Lom, Katie Johnson, Light Comedy, Peter Sellers, SCREWBALL COMEDY


To continue long-term measurements of the Sun's incoming energy, NASA has powered on a new instrument installed on the International Space Station (ISS).The instrument, Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), became fully operational with all instruments collecting science data as of this March, NASA said."TSIS-1 extends a long data record that helps us understand the Sun's influence on Earth's radiation budget, ozone layer, atmospheric circulation, and ecosystems, and the effects that solar variability has on the Earth system and climate change," said Dong Wu, TSIS-1 project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.TSIS-1 studies the total amount of light energy emitted by the Sun using the Total Irradiance Monitor, one of two sensors onboard.
This sensor's data will give scientists a better understanding of Earth's primary energy supply and provide information to help improve models simulating the planet's climate. The second onboard sensor, called the Spectral Irradiance Monitor, measures how the Sun's energy is distributed over the ultraviolet, visible and infrared regions of light. Measuring the distribution of the Sun's energy is important because each wavelength of light interacts with the Earth's atmosphere differently.For instance, spectral irradiance measurements of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation are critical to understanding the ozone layer -- Earth's natural sunscreen that protects life from harmful radiation."All systems are operating within their expected ranges," said Peter Pilewskie, TSIS-1 lead scientist at the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in the US.


It was reported in Iraq today that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, had been killed in a shootout. There has been no confirmation, however, from either Iraqi or American military sources. The circumstances of the encounter are murky; the attack has variously been attributed to a rival insurgent group, another al Qaeda group, and to local tribesmen. In any event, no one seems to be getting very excited, as the organization has seemed to bounce back from the demise of past leaders, including Zarqawi.


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Celebrities Social Media Jack Lee: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About Instagram Star
Jack Lee: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About Instagram Star
Jack Lee (Instagram Star) was born on the 20th of October, 1980. He was born in 1980s, in Millennials Generation. His birth sign is Libra and his life path number is 3. Jack's birth flower is Marigold and birthstone is Opal and Tourmaline. What does this all mean? Let's find out!
Discover all the facts that no one tells you about Jack Lee below ↓
NAME: Jack Lee
REAL NAME: Jack Lee
PROFESSION: Instagram Star
BIRTHPLACE: China
Jack Lee, best known for being a Instagram Star, was born in China on Monday, October 20, 1980. Prolific Chinese social media star who is widely known for his MeJack Instagram account. He has gained popularity there for his scenic nature and lifestyle photography.
Family: He has featured his mother and father on his Instagram account. Jack Lee father's name is under review and mother unknown at this time. We will continue to update details on Jack Lee's family.
Dating: According to CelebsCouples, Jack Lee is single .
Net Worth: Online estimates of Jack Lee's net worth vary. It's easy to predict his income, but it's much harder to know how much he has spent over the years. CelebsMoney and NetWorthStatus does a good job of breaking most of it down.
2. Jack Lee's zodiac sign is Libra
Jack Lee zodiac sign is a Libra. Dates of Libra are September 23 - October 22. The zodiac sign Libra is thrives when their needs of balance, justice, and stability are met. They are charming creatures that somehow always surround themselves with a sense of beauty and harmony. They are charming, harmonious, diplomatic, and easy-going nature. Although, they can be indecisive, superficial, hypocritical, gullible, and passive aggressive.
BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE: Monkey
The American instagram star has been alive for 15,061 days or 361,483 hours. There were precisely 511 full moons after his birth to this day.
Jack Lee was born on a Monday. People born on Mondays are motherly, sensitive, adaptive, and kind.
Countdown to Jack Lee's next birthday.
Jack Lee will be turning 42.
4. On Jack Lee's birthday
The world's population was 4,458,411,534 and there were an estimated 125,148,676 babies born throughout the world in 1980, Jimmy Carter (Democratic) was the president of the United States, and the number one song on Billboard 100 was "Woman In Love" by Barbra Streisand.
1097 – 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade.
1603 – Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed.
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6. The Year of the Monkey
Jack Lee was born in the Year of the Monkey. People with Chinese zodiac Monkey according to Chinese zodiac have are smart, clever and intelligent, especially in their career and wealth. They are lively, flexible, quick-witted and versatile. Their strengths are being enthusiastic, self-assured, sociable, and innovative. But they can also be jealous, suspicious, cunning, selfish, and arrogant. Their lucky numbers are 1, 7, 8 and lucky colors are white, gold, blue.
7. Jack Lee's life path number is 3
Life Path Number 3 represent 'The Socializer '. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 3 have unlimited creativity and almost superhuman abilities. 3 reminds us that we are born both Human and Divine Spark. Its energy is that of the Bringer of Change. The values are creativity, self-expression, fun. The challenges are to remain optimistic — yet realistic — in the face of difficulties.
Jack Lee was born in the middle of Millennials Generation.
9. Jack Lee's birthstone is Opal and Tourmaline
10. Jack Lee's birth flower is Marigold

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Hamilton inks three-year Merc deal
The Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team has, as predicted, confirmed the much-expected news that reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton has signed a three-year contract extension to remain in its line-up.
"Mercedes is my home and I couldn't be happier to be staying here for another three years," Hamilton said of his contract extension, believed to be worth a record £100m a season.
"This is a company filled with real passionate racers, from the board room to the factory floor, and an incredible hunger to win. Even after the success of last year, that hunger is greater than ever – and it's the same for me, too. The Mercedes car I am driving right now is the best I have ever had in my career; it's just so much fun to be out there every weekend, on the limit and fighting to win at every track."
The Englishman joined the Brackley squad from McLaren on a three-year deal at the start of 2013, going on to secure his second Drivers Championship title in his sophomore season with the team last year.
His contract was not renewed during the off-season, and the ongoing negotiations – including their exact terms – had been a topic of frenzied speculation for some months since the start of the season. Hamilton had hinted as recently as the previous Spanish Grand Prix that his contract renewal would be announced in the lead-up to this weekend's race in Monaco.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff added his delight at re-signing his star driver.
"Continuity is one of the key factors for delivering success in Formula 1 and we now have that in place," he said.
"Lewis enjoyed an historic World Championship season with Mercedes-Benz last year and it was a priority for this season to renew his contract for the next term. We have taken the right amount of time with the process and not rushed ourselves.
"The result is a strong agreement that will enhance Lewis' association with the Mercedes-Benz brand, and that recognises and respects the market value of Lewis and of Mercedes in Formula One. Lewis' sporting track record speaks for itself and he is a great personality for the company."
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Aston Villa are in fine form right now and are making a push to win promotion from the Sky Bet Championship.
Dean Smith's side have began to find some real consistency, winning four games heading into the international break.
That's coincided with the return of Jack Grealish, with the 23-year-old in fine form since shaking off a shin problem that kept him sidelined for three months.
There's no denying that in this kind of form, Grealish is the best player outside the Premier League, but still, an international call-up hasn't presented itself.
Gareth Southgate has addressed that recently in the media, telling Sky Sports in an in-depth interview that the fact Grealish plays in the Championship is working against him as he looks for his first England cap.
"Jack worked with us in the U21s briefly," he told Sky.
On the face of things it is really disappointing for Grealish, but he should be taking the positives.
You'd expect that one way or another, Grealish will be a Premier League player again next season.
Villa can still get there this season, whilst someone from the top-fight would surely pay big money to sign the 23-year-old if they missed out.
That opens doors for Grealish.
"He's a player we know all about, he's a player we track" – Southgate knows all about Grealish and worked with him at under-21 level too.
This isn't an English manager picking players on reputation, he's picking players on form.
That means he will know how impressive Grealish has been this last month.
Ultimately, this is a very talented player we are talking about and he will back his ability on any stage.
Grealish is only doing it in the Championship, but he will be a success in the Premier League when he gets back there.
From that point, anything can happen and his international dream is still alive.


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Q: R Barplot: Re-Order X-Axis Labels I have created a Barplot that displays the number of incidents per hour. However, it looks like R sorts the X-Axis labels as characters and not as numeric. I would like have my X-Axis ordered as 0, 1,2,3,4,5,..., 23. Is there anyway I can explicitly specify the order?
Update: More generally, if I want a specific order, what do I need to do? I have not found any options for the barplot() function in the documentation that allows to specify explicitly the order of the labels of the barplot.
# 5. Bar Plot for the Time (Hour) of Incidents
barplot(xtabs(~sample$Time),
        main="Number of Incidents per Time Slot",
        ylab="Frequency",
        col=rainbow(nlevels(as.factor(sample$Time))),
        las=2,
        # cex.lab=0.50 This is for the x-axis Label,
        cex.names = 0.80
)

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La Derbi 98 fou un model de motocicleta de turisme fabricat per  durant la dècada de 1950. Dotat d'un motor de dos temps monocilíndric refrigerat per aire de 98 cc i canvi de tres velocitats amb accionament al peu, era estrictament parlant un velomotor, ja que no arribava als 100 cc (límit a partir del qual un vehicle de dues rodes es considerava legalment una motocicleta). Aquest model tingué una bona acollida al mercat i esdevingué un dels puntals comercials de l'empresa durant anys.

A causa de la peculiar forma del seu conjunt de far i comptaquilòmetres, la Derbi 98 es coneixia popularment com a "Cap de formiga" (malnom que s'aplicava també a la Derbi 95 i a les primeres Derbi 125).

Història

La Derbi 98 fou una evolució reeixida de la Derbi 95 de 1953, una motocicleta equipada amb motor de dos pistons amb doble biela al mateix cigonyal (compartint cambra de combustió), que s'inspirava en l'eslovaca  M-90. Cal dir que els tècnics de Derbi havien projectat inicialment aquella moto amb un motor de 90 cc i n'havien creat fins i tot el prototipus, però a l'hora de la veritat es fabricà en la cilindrada de 95 cc.

Poc després del llançament de la Derbi 95, veient que malgrat ser una moto moderna per a l'època era massa lenta (el motor tenia força però no corria gens), el tècnic Jaume Pahissa decidí de treure-li el sistema de la doble biela amb dos pistons i simplificar-la tot deixant-la amb el sistema convencional d'un sol pistó. També va afegir-hi petites correccions i va apujar el motor de cilindrada, canvis que convertiren la nova 98 en una moto molt superior a l'anterior, amb excel·lents prestacions, bona potència i una gran estabilitat.

La Derbi 98 donà lloc a diversos models derivats, com ara l'escúter Scooter Masculino de 98 cc i la Derbi 4 Cilindres de 392 cc experimental que construí Jaume Pahissa tot unint quatre cilindres de 98 cc (ambdós models varen ser creats el 1954). El 1955, per encàrrec de l'empresa, Paco Tombas va transformar la 98 a 125 cc, posant-li un pistó de 54 x 54 mm, una suspensió millor al darrere i un selló de dues places. La 125 fou un altre encert comercial i tant l'una com l'altra es varen comercialitzar durant anys, mentre la inicial Derbi 95 fou arraconada des del moment en què es llançà la 98.

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L'excel·lent estabilitat de la Derbi 98 li atorgava una gran versatilitat i la feia òptima per a competir en tota mena de modalitats motociclistes. Un dels pilots que més èxits esportius hi va obtenir fou Pere Pi, ja des dels seus inicis en les gimcanes a 15 anys, pels volts de 1955. Segons Pi, la Derbi 98 «anava millor que la 125 [...] era única, extraordinària, semblava feta especialment per a les gimcanes». Més endavant, Pi i quatre companys de Derbi (Jaume Torrents, Josep Montleón, Toni Palau i César Ruipérez) es prepararen sengles Derbi 98 per a motoball i, havent-s'hi entrenat, guanyaren per golejada el millor equip del moment, de Manresa. Pi ha dit que mai no va trobar cap moto, ni tan sols les Montesa Cota, que tingués l'estabilitat de la Derbi 98 dins un camp de futbol.

La Derbi 98 anava bé també per a ral·li, regularitat i motocròs. El 1956, competint a Martorelles contra nombrosos pilots oficials de  en una de les primeres curses de motocròs disputades a la península, Pere Pi va guanyar l'absolut amb la mateixa Derbi 98 que feia servir a les gimcanes, tot i ser la moto de menys cilindrada entre les participants. Fins i tot en curses de velocitat demostrà ser una moto fiable: el 1959, amb una Derbi 98 que li preparà Paco Tombas, Pi va guanyar el primer campionat estatal de la seva carrera esportiva, el Campionat d'Espanya de velocitat en la categoria de 100cc.

"La Rata" de Jaume Pahissa
El 1954, Jaume Pahissa construí un prototipus destinat a les pujades de muntanya que resultà molt competitiu, més i tot que la Derbi 250 (de fet, s'ha dit que era una de les motocicletes més reeixides del moment). La moto era coneguda amb el malnom de "La Rata" perquè «era negra, petita i molt ràpida». Malgrat que la cilindrada del seu motor no s'ha pogut documentar, diverses fonts apunten que era el d'una Derbi 98 (basant-se, per exemple, en el fet que sempre es classificava en les categories de fins a 100cc); d'altres addueixen, però, que era d'una Derbi 125, especialment considerant que a les fotografies de l'època s'hi aprecia com la sortida del tub d'escapament pertanyia a aquest darrer model.

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Introduce the activity by saying this is a way for people to learn some fun things about each other that don't come up in everyday conversations. Each person should think of three statements about themselves that no one else in the room already knows. It helps to jot down notes. Two must be true statements and one should be a lie. The more subtle or believable the better. Take turns in the group having each person share their three statements and voting on which one was the lie... e.g.


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El escarpe es un zapato compuesto generalmente de láminas articuladas que cubría el calzado grueso del hombre de armas, desde la garganta del pie hasta los dedos inclusive; o sea, el empeine. Son la versión armada de las cracovianas o poulaines.

También se usaron de malla, con el extremo de acero y algunos con punta larga, afilada y hasta partida para herir al caballo del enemigo y dejársela dentro.

Los escarpes no parecen remontarse hasta más allá de principios del siglo XIV. El primer escarpe conocido es el puntiagudo y se aproxima a los llamados a la poulaine que equivocadamente se creen del siglo XV, pues esta moda existía ya en el XIII y desapareció a mitad del siglo XIV para ser sustituida por la forma ojival llamada media poulaine. Volvió á estar en boga a fines del mismo y duró sin interrupción durante el XV aun cuando ya a fines de este se usaba también el llamado de pie de oso'', seguido en el XVI por el de pico de pato que fue reemplazado más tarde por la bota.

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The first waterfront 83 sections have gone on the market in the gated WeitiBay community at the former Weiti Station, in the south-eastern corner of Rodney, just over the Okura Estuary from the old North Shore City boundary.
The whole development area, between Long Bay & Stillwater, comprises 850ha of what was pine forest planted by NZ Forest Products Ltd. It's being developed into a huge private park, with 150 large lots between 1500-2000m².
The first of those lots are priced now between $795,000-1.05 million. Building of individual homes won't start until titles are issued, expected to be around October next year. The Weiti development will also ultimately include 2 villages with 1050 residential lots, and an expansion being sought. These villages will lie further back from the gated waterfront 150-lot community, but will have access to the oceanfront.
Facilities to come include a racquets club, fitness centre & swimming pool, equestrian centre & stables, a 20ha mountain bike club, 12km of new public walkways, a marine centre & 20ha of conservation gardens.
Mr Williams said WeitiBay, a joint venture between Williams Land & the family that has owned the land for 30 years, had a very strong ecological focus: "We're a private group with a lot of experience in a number of coastal properties such as Mataka Station in the Bay of Islands and BreamTail at Mangawhai, and we believe in working with great landscapes.
Mr Williams said people on the North Shore had thought of Weiti as a green belt because more than 80% of it had been covered by production pine forest, but much of the forest has been cleared, with 300,000 tonnes of wood cut.
WeitiBay is accessed from East Coast Rd – and, if the Penlink route to the Whangaparaoa Peninsula is built, directly from State Highway 1. Because of the current development of the land, buyers interested in viewing need to be accompanied into Weiti Bay. That's being handled by Bayleys North agents Michael Guy & Kirsty Stevenson.
Mr Williams is a former managing partner & chairman of law firm Chapman Tripp, and has been a partner in developing Denarau Villas in Fiji and Mataka Station in the Bay of Islands.


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Positive conversation could create positivity in the world, and in your group.
She made some excellent points.
Speak the truth Mr Honor!!!!


Carolyn K. London is a beauty product line which produces nail paints that are created, produced, packaged and distributed in the UK. They are 100% British. Their goal with this new branding was to introduce a British product into the US market, selling to high-end beauty salons as well as stores like Sephora.
Luko Designs created a branding which reflects the line's British heritage with a bold reference to the Union Jack. The logo has a grunge look to it to pronounce the essence of the line which is cool and funky and nods to their philosophy and statement: "Life's too short to wear the same colours every day!".


At over 300 Max Spielmann stores throughout the country we can take guaranteed passport photos, visa, green card, driving licence, bus pass and ID Photos while you wait. There's no need to worry about what is required for a specific country. Our store colleagues will advise you and make sure you have the correct sized photo with the required background needed.
We'll take time with you using professional lighting; backgrounds and cameras so your ID Photos will be correctly taken and sized to meet the latest specifications from the home office, IPS, international Embassies and DVLA.


The pros: Trader Joe's Kung Pao Tempura Cauliflower is tasty and can be reheated so as long as you don't put the sauce on it.
The cons: There were 13 pieces of cauliflower in my bag which means a serving size is about 2 pieces. Those two pieces were 150 calories. Compare that to a bag of Trader Joe's Riced Cauliflower and this can be a diet buster.
If you are in the mood for something spicy and have 20-25 minutes to make something then Trader Joe's Kung Pao Tempura Cauliflower is a good choice to go for. The cauliflower tempura was nice and crisp and the breading wasn't overly greasy. The cauliflower was crisp on the outside but tender on the inside. The heat was medium, so if you are sensitive beware. If you are enjoying this over some rice, then the rice will absorb some of that heat.
I do have a few complaints about this product. I wish this were packaged differently. I would have preferred a resealable bag whether it was for the cauliflower and the sauce. While 150 calories per servings does not sound that bad, there were only 13 pieces of cauliflower and 6 servings in a bag. So for 2 pieces of cauliflower I thought the calorie count was very high especially compared to other products that contain cauliflower.
I'm very fortunate that near NYC we have some phenomenal Asian restaurants. However, this item is a bit usual. Usually tempura is served with sauce on the side. This wants you to put the sauce on it like Trader Joe's Kung Pao Chicken. Here is my advice: If you think you aren't going to eat it, then leave off the sauce (because the packaging isn't resealable). These can be reheated at 425F for 7 minutes without ruining them. For $4.99 this is reasonably priced for a pound and a half of cauliflower with sauce. I would consider buying this again.
Would I buy this again? As an occasional treat, I would buy this again, but due to the calorie count it won't make the weekly list. Not a bad choice to reach for if you like cauliflower.
Want to see more items I've reviewed from Trader Joe's? Click on Thoughts & Reviews of Trader Joe's for an alphabetized list.
Most of the calories come from the sauce on this item if you look at ingredients and priority. I found that if I was content dipping my cauliflower (which I was, and preferred), that I only needed about 1/3 of the bag of sauce at most. Considering a whole head of cauliflower with nothing else is only approx 200 calories, I suspect this cut back the calories significantly.
Much agreed Annie. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this!


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Zemacies lividorupis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Description

Distribution
This extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand and was found in Lower Miocene strata.

References

 Laws, Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Z., vol. 65, p. 35, pi. 5, fig. 12.
 Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp. 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

lividorupis
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1935


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The latest broadcast by Rivers State Governor, Ezebuwon Nyesom Wike, CON, GSSRS in which he named and placed cash ransom on certain 32 verified notorious cultists, kidnappers, terrorists and murderers in 12 local government areas is a mere smokescreen to cover the failure of his regime to protect the people he swore to an oath to protect.
That speech is nothing but an attempt by Wike to massage a people already traumatised, who daily bear the marks of their bruised pride. The agony of this situation is exacerbated by the knowledge that while Rivers burnt and roasted, Wike cared less.
In his Monday speech, Wike made claims that need further interrogation to actually determine their validity, or, it was an arm of a state propaganda.
The first that needs scrutiny is Wike's allusion that because he visited the families of the bereaved in Omoku and pledged N200 million ransom on the alleged killers on New Year Day, the chief suspect, Johnson Onyedibia, aka Don Wani, was gunned down. The fact is that in a state where a sitting governor values the lives of subjects, such calamity would have warranted a visit same day. But it took Wike days and that was after he had been informed that President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, was sending the Interior Minister to visit Omoku. So, in the face of this even Wike's visit to Omoku belies sincere grief for the families.
As always, rather than own up to obvious failure, Gov. Wike made an unsubstantiated allegation against an unnamed "former governor and his ilk", claiming they had interfered with the state government's amnesty programme. Lies, no matter how long told, will never cover the truth which in this instance is that Wike's Amnesty programme was not planned to end insecurity in Rivers State but to offer state cover to designated criminals for purposes known to their patrons.
In his warped understanding of governance, Wike believes that offering financial baits would turn his page of complicity in this whole saga around. Rivers people cannot be fooled by this display of ineptitude. Wike's offer of another tranche of cash on criminals is no remediation for the pains, loss and agony caused families.
Leadership is humane. This is an attribute grossly lacking in the man who oversees the once-sought-after Rivers State. How can Wike face families whose breadwinners and loved ones were gruesomely murdered by the criminals to tell them that oil companies, other politicians outside his fold, Federal security agencies were liable for the murder of their loved ones? How can Wike stand against good conscience and the families of the 23 massacred on New Year's Eve in Omoku, to absolve himself of their death being the state Chief Security Officer of the state? Has Wike bothered to empathize with Egbeda community for the gruesome murder of her mothers, father, sons and daughters a few days back? The situation in Andoni is no less worrisome. Can Wike in good conscience, absolve himself in the bloodbath that has turned the state into "Rivers of Blood"? Good conscience would not absolve the guilty.
Would he as the Chief Security Officer of the state, with unhindered access to daily security statistics, feign ignorance of black spots and flashpoints in the state he was expected to be governor?
Wike cannot deny that there existed a functional security architecture the previous Administration had instituted that secured the state and made it inhabitable. Being a key player in that Administration, at least, in its early days, offered him huge access into that structure. But Wike, rather than strengthen it, blew all away in his attempt to erase records of his predecessors. In the face of this, if anybody played bet with the lives of Rivers people, it was Wike.
Wike's speech was a warped absolution that presented those persons named as the reason the state had collapsed right in his hands. Nothing can be farther from the truth than that.
The governor had a lot of grace period to have moved to save the several lives of innocent, law-abiding Rivers people and residents lost to the carnage and orgy of bloodletting imposed on Rivers State by criminals and their sponsors.
What Wike has done, therefore, amounts to submitting to an admittance that he reneged on his oath of office, and so, had failed Rivers people.
If not, how could it take Wike over 30 months to admit in public that the real governors of Rivers State were criminals?
Rivers State is already flat. The statistics say so. In its recent listing, a verified agency listed the state as the most miserable state to live in Nigeria at 79.37% rate. With unemployment and underemployment rate at 61.4, the highest in the country, and inflation at 18.01%, the state is already broken.
The best that Wike can do for the state at the moment, is to end this blame-game and sincerely, for the sake of the state, and for the memory of those whose lives had been brutally ended due to the state's siddon-look, work with the Federal Government to end this tragedy.
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When a mention of rosemary oil is made, it would be natural for your mind to wander to just how right this makes your potatoes and lamb (roasted, of course) taste. However, that is not the only thing that the organic oil can do for you.
Over the years, there have been various discoveries to mark the importance of rosemary oil over other synthesized products, and it has stood its ground. There have been verified claims on the use of this natural oil for purposes such as soothing of digestive cases, muscle relief and improvement of memory. However, of recent, rosemary oil joined the league of such natural supplements that improve the state and health of both skin and hair.
Due to the increased cases of pollution, a lot of which has impacts on the health of our hair and skin, we need to have enough antioxidants to combat this problem. It has been medically proven that the amount of antioxidant in rosemary oil – which is even more than the quantity which can be found in the likes of thyme, peppermint, and spearmint – is at an optimal level. That being said, rosemary oil can prevent hair loss, combat the effects of harsh chemicals being used on the hair and make the hair grow even faster.
Rosemary oil comes with its original provision for antimicrobial action. Not only would the oil guard against the occurrences of infections which emanates from the presence of bacteria, but it is also more than capable of eliminating threats from other dangerous microbes too. With rosemary oil, the user can kiss problems such as dandruff, scalp acne, and flaky scalp goodbye.
One of the problems with an oily scalp is that it can quickly catch, and retain dust and dirt particles. This would lead to the blockage of the hair follicles, which could, in turn, cause the incidence of infections and limitations in hair growth. Rosemary oil would loosen up the hair follicles, restore balance to the oil production in the scalp and give way for an overall healthy hair and scalp.
Rosemary oil is that useful. The same oil acts as a stimulant for hair growth and prevents inflammation, to mention but a few more. Now that we have established its importance, let's take a look at how you can make use of this organic option to improve the health of your hair too.
For a massage session, add three to four drops of the rosemary oil into a carrier oil of your choice and massage it gently into the hair. Leave for about 30 minutes before you wash it off. This would help in the stimulation of new hair growth.
While anyone can go for this, it is usually recommended for those with a naturally dry scalp. You would need to mix a few spoonsful of rosemary oil with your favorite carrier oil, after which you seal the mixture in a bottle and allow it warm. You could warm the content of the container by placing it in a pot of water and gently heating the pan. When you have achieved the desired temperature, massage the oil into your hair and scalp. Afterwards, cover it up with a damp, warm towel.
Rosemary oil is a holy grail in the organic hair care industry. From the prevention of hair problems to the repair of hair faults, it can address them all. Probably the best thing about the solution is that it is all natural, so that is amazing.


Film study programs emphasize theoretical approaches and techniques of interpretation contained in film stereotypes of classic cinema and television. Similarly, they emphasize entertainment technologies that provide the basis for helping students to experience film in the application of knowledge, theories and contextual frameworks must be learned with total mastery and perfection.
A degree in film and video can lead to a career as a director, producer, film editor, or cameraman. Opportunities for professionals graduated from an for film and video educational program are many and varied, ranging from makeup and storyboard to 3D animation as well as directing and producing.


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Q: Getting the email message in the form it was written(in english,not binary or any other encoding tech) in apex I am writing a trigger on attachment  where I need to check whether the value of a   field of the parent  custom object  is  contained in  the email subject line of the email  added as an attachment to the custom object .
Here I  tried converting the attachment blob to string ,but unfortunately its throwing UTF 8 error.I used other methods of EncodingUtil ,but it couldn't help much .
My intention is to decode the email content as a  string without any alteration,then comparing.
Say, field value='Hello'
and the email subject ='RE:Hello'
I want  attachment email blob to  convert into  'RE:Hello'.
(Inbound email handler is outta  context as here email message is added as an attachment  to custom object.I am trying to get the email message in the form it was written(in english,not binary or any other encoding tech) in apex .I am just creating a scenario so that it can be more clear: I have an email to case set up created in my org.When  a case is opened  in some xyz ticket management system,an email is sent to my org and corresponding case record is created.Now when this case is closed ,the requestor is notified that the case is closed.If this requestor replies back,his email  message is attached to the case (one which was earlier created) as an email attachment. I  want to compare the case subject with this  email's  subject line,if the case subject is contained in the email subject line or body,case status would be set to 'Re-opened'.).


I have an obsessive love of arugula, and I just added watercress to that greens obsession. I have eaten it so many times, but I had the best watercress salad in New York a couple of months ago, and it inspired this gorgeous Avocado Peach Manchego Salad! It was a super simply dressed side salad, and I wanted to dress my version up just a bit. It's crazy beautiful Ca avocado season, the peaches are sweet and juicy, pretty much to die for, and Manchego cheese tastes good on everything. Even a shoe, it's that good.
It's a fresh ode to Summer and it's gorgeous bounty.
I'm super duper excited because I'm going to the Bay to see the one and only Grateful Dead tomorrow!!!!! About twenty years ago I went to several shows with my brother and his friends. I was a freshman in high school, and my Mama said I could go with my brother. Her and her friend waited in the parking lot for us, which is comical. I wish I had a picture of them in the parking lot. They are the cutest little Mexican ladies ever! Picture two short, happy Mexican ladies walking the parking lot filled with hippies, nag champa, and dead heads in happy land. Having that support for the music we loved was priceless. We went to shows in Sacramento and Shoreline in the Bay area, I remember them so well. I also remember my homemade tie dyed converse, and flowy dresses. I still have all of my Grateful Dead shirts and Birkenstocks from that time in my life!
Fast forward to now… I still wear them. Lol! OK, I have new pairs of Birks, but I wear the old ones around the house. I totally wear my Dead shirts. So I'll be purchasing a new tshirt from the show this weekend. And I'll be going with my brother, and Brian to both shows. It's a historic event, they have not played in twenty years since Jerry Garcia passed away. It's called the 'Fare thee Well' shows, a fifty year anniversary celebration goodbye. I am so happy and grateful to be able to go to these. Music is a huge part of my life, and always has been. While my brother and I are freaking out in excitement, Brian is going to be supportive. How amazing is he? I am so happy!!! Now that has nothing to do with this salad, it has everything to do with what I am doing this weekend. So you know where I'll be, hippie dancing in the Bay, and enjoying good eat from that area, wearing my Birks.
1. Place olive oil, lemon, honey, salt, and pepper in a jar fitted with tight lid, shake vigorously to combine.
Place arugula or watercress in a large bowl, toss with dressing, leaving a little bit in the jar for the peaches and avocado. About 2 teaspoons.
2. Place arugula or watercress on a large platter to serve. Place sliced peaches and avocados in the bowl where the greens were, add remaining dressing, toss to combine very gently. Place fruit on top of the arugula or watercress. Sprinkle cheese over top. Serve immediately.
Some of my other favorite salad recipes from NJB!
Salad recipes from my blogging friends!
Those work as well! Manchego is the under utilized cheese, and so perfect for salads.
I'm with you on the arugula! This combination of flavors totally works for me Fabiola!
I love all the fresh flavors and mixed textures in this salad! Peaches, Manchego, and Arugula sound heavenly together.
I'm gonna marry this salad! DI-VINE!
Ha! Thank you so much!!


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The Eurovision Children's Drama Series is a production of high-quality, original dramas for an audience of 6 to 9 year olds.
The Smart Water for Green Schools (SWGS) project, which Green Cross started in 2010 to provide access to water and sanitation for communities in need around the world.


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Q: Helmholtz decomposition of a vector field on surface Does it make sense to do Helmholtz decomposition of a vector field defined on a surface or on a manifold? I am mostly interested in the surface case. I was trying to find a reference for this and found only a handful of them mostly from electromagnetics literature. e.g.
Scharstein, Robert W. "Helmholtz decomposition of surface electric current in electromagnetic scattering problems." System Theory, 1991. Proceedings., Twenty-Third Southeastern Symposium on. IEEE.
On the related note, is there a well defined curl operator for a (tangential) vector field defined on a surface?

A: The presence of a curl term in the Helmholtz decomposition is very much a three-dimensional phenomenon. While it is reasonable to define the curl of a vector field tangent to a surface, what you get is either a field normal to the sphere or a scalar field, so it's not going to help us decompose tangent vector fields.
The Hodge decomposition tells us that any vector field on a surface can be decomposed as $$ X = \nabla f + J  \nabla g + \sum_{i=1}^m c_iY_i$$ where $f,g$ are functions, $J$ is rotation by $\pi /2$ in the tangent plane, $c_i$ are some real coefficients determined by $X$ and the $Y_i$ are some finite collection of curl-free, divergence-free vector fields (independent of $X$) which describe the relevant features of the topology of the surface.
Very roughly, there is one field $Y_i$ going around each independent "loop" in the surface - so a plane or a sphere would have none, an infinite cylinder would have one and a torus would have two. If you're interested in some search terms to learn the details: the $Y_i$ are vector fields dual to a basis of the space of harmonic one-forms, which provide representatives of every cohomology class.
In three-dimensional manifolds you get the more familiar
$$ X = \nabla f + \operatorname{curl} V +  \sum_{i=1}^m c_iY_i. $$
In higher dimensions, scalar fields and vector fields no longer suffice to describe the whole de Rham complex, so it's necessary to switch to talking about differential forms.


How long does it take for me to be able to call non giff gaff numbers after I buy a goody bag?
mikwal has a question about In order to save on data I need to turn off auto-update of apps. How do I do that with Android?
Does anyone have any idea why E mails fail to come through to my phone?


The Eastern Freestate area can be reached within an hour and a half's drive from Bloemfontein and has some of South Africaâs most magnificent scenery and a multitude of different activities that can be enjoyed there.
There is a wide variety of accommodation from guest farms to five star hotels. There are hiking trails and rock climbing, white water rafting and canoeing, Historical walks and horse back trails, fly fishing and golf, birding and 4 x 4 trails.


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/**
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 * Since: 2017
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namespace Praxigento\Accounting\Service\Account\Balance;

use Praxigento\Accounting\Api\Service\Account\Balance\Calc\Request as ARequest;
use Praxigento\Accounting\Api\Service\Account\Balance\Calc\Response as AResponse;
use Praxigento\Accounting\Repo\Data\Type\Asset as ETypeAsset;

/**
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class Calc
    implements \Praxigento\Accounting\Api\Service\Account\Balance\Calc
{
    private const DEF_DAYS_TO_RESET = 2;

    /** @var \Praxigento\Accounting\Repo\Dao\Type\Asset */
    private $daoTypeAsset;
    /** @var \Praxigento\Core\Api\Helper\Date */
    private $hlpDate;
    /** @var  \Praxigento\Core\Api\Helper\Period */
    private $hlpPeriod;
    /** @var \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface */
    private $logger;
    /** @var \Praxigento\Accounting\Service\Account\Balance\Calc\A\ProcessOneAccount */
    private $ownProcessOneAcc;
    /** @var \Praxigento\Accounting\Service\Account\Balance\Calc\A\ProcessOneType */
    private $ownProcessOneType;

    public function __construct(
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        \Praxigento\Accounting\Repo\Dao\Type\Asset $daoTypeAsset,
        \Praxigento\Core\Api\Helper\Date $hlpDate,
        \Praxigento\Core\Api\Helper\Period $hlpPeriod,
        \Praxigento\Accounting\Service\Account\Balance\Calc\A\ProcessOneAccount $ownProcessOneAcc,
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If you can peel your eyes away from the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek's dramatic new chandelier—made with 175 hanging pendants and part of a top-to-bottom lobby and bar refresh—you'll notice the mountain view isn't half bad either. Photo courtesy of Park Hyatt Beaver Creek
Steal These Design Ideas From Park Hyatt Beaver Creek's Gorgeous Renovation
For the resort's 30th birthday, it gifted guests with a major update that takes alpine-chic to new elevations. The best part: The designers are sharing their top tips so you can incorporate these beautiful details into your own home.
By Daliah Singer • January 15, 2020
There's nothing like a birthday to encourage a personal refresh. New year, new you, right?
Park Hyatt Beaver Creek certainly took that idea to heart: In honor of its 30th anniversary, the ski-in, ski-out resort unveiled a top-to-bottom lobby and bar renovation. "Part of our inspiration for the space was to create a sense of place, a sense of luxury—something that felt like a high-end mountainside home you would find in Beaver Creek," says Leslie Wynne, senior interior designer with Premier Project Management, the Dallas hospitality-project-management firm behind the updated look.
In short, the goal was to make the lobby—or "living room," as the Park Hyatt team refers to it—feel residential and welcoming. A faux fireplace (the flames are created by LED lights and water vapor) surrounded by a cantilevered, live-edge wood bench invites guests in the front door, and two additional fireplaces in the bar area encourage people to sit and après. Chairs were added to the relocated reception desk so guests can relax during check-in. Much of the lighting is on a dimming system so the brightness can be adjusted throughout the day. And a bar situated in the center of the room offers a social space reminiscent of a kitchen island—where everyone gathers, no matter where the party actually is. (Equipment, glassware, and bottles are concealed below the bar to preserve the mountain view.)
Thankfully, you don't have to empty your bank account and spend the entire ski season at the hotel to enjoy the design updates. We chatted with the Premier team to get some tips on how to bring the elegant mountain style into your own home.
Tip: Dark colors don't have to be scary.
The knotty pine covering many of the lobby's walls already existed, but Premier re-stained it all with a black and brown layered finish. "It changed the space without costing a fortune," Wynne says. By using the new coloring as a trim—as well as on the eye-catching ceiling—the Premier team was able to frame the lobby's focal point: the view. Look at the photo that tops this article; the darker features guide the eye toward the scenery without overwhelming the room.
Courtesy of Park Hyatt Beaver Creek
Tip: Enliven your neutral color palette with pops of color from pillows—that you crafted yourself.
Wynne encourages people to make their own pillows by perusing vintage and specialty textile shops to find fabrics. Or, she suggests, add appliqués, accents, or trims to store-bought pillows for some personal flair. Bonus: Pillows are easy, and not super costly, to swap out when you need a change.
Tip: Be selective with your decorations.
The Premier team intentionally left some of the shelves empty and filled others with thoughtful accessories that matched the setting and vibe of the space. "Find your favorite pieces of art, or accessories or pieces you've collected on travels or at your favorite shop, and make those items stand out and be special," Wynne advises. "It creates a more meaningful collection."
Tip: Use lighting to set the mood.
LED lights placed at the back of the metal-framed floating shelves make the wall appear to glow. Recreate the effect at home using LED tape lighting.
Tip: Mix metals and other materials—but be deliberate about it.
Antique brass accents can be spotted throughout the Park Hyatt's lobby. The metallic material gets a starring role on the chandelier and the reveals on the fireplaces, but also pops up more subtly in the legs of the bar stools and on table lamps. "It's about the balance and not overdoing it one way or the other," Wynne notes. "If all of your finishes are brass, it becomes too much."
Tip: Change your focal point to change your room.
"Changing a light fixture can drastically alter the overall feel of an existing space," Wynne says. Premier replaced the 12-foot antler chandelier that once adorned the lobby with something more modern and artsy (and added LED lights for energy-efficiency). The new 10-foot-by-10-foot canopy was designed to evoke falling ice crystals, an homage to the landscape beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows.


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I gaze around in vain for one who will question my equal humanity, claim me as his slave, or offer me an insult. Douglass described her as a kind and tender-hearted woman, who treated him "as she supposed one human being ought to treat another".
But the sorrows of childhood, like the pleasures of after life, are transient. Douglass described her as a kind and tender-hearted woman, who treated him "as she supposed one human being ought to treat another". I knew many other things before I knew that.
His opinion as the prominent editor of the paper likely carried weight, and he stated the position of the North Star explicitly: Despite opposition from Garrison, Douglass started his own abolitionist newspaper in in Rochester, New York, under the name North Star.
Douglass angered Garrison by saying that the Constitution could and should be used as an instrument in the fight against slavery.
In Baltimore, especially, Douglas enjoyed relatively more freedom than slaves usually did in the South. Travels to Ireland and Great Britain Douglass inaround 29 years of age Douglass' friends and mentors feared that the publicity would draw the attention of his ex-owner, Hugh Auld, who might try to get his "property" back.
Eastern Shore men usually pronounce the word took, as tuck; Took-a-hoe, therefore, is, in Maryland parlance, Tuckahoe. At the time, some skeptics questioned whether a black man could have produced such an eloquent piece of literature.
In this sense, Douglass distinguished between the "Christianity of Christ" and the "Christianity of America" and considered religious slaveholders and clergymen who defended slavery as the most brutal, sinful, and cynical of all who represented "wolves in sheep's clothing". He thought that all men, great and small, bond and free, were sinners in the sight of God: There are exceptions, and I thank God that there are.
The book received generally positive reviews and became an immediate bestseller. From toDouglass traveled extensively with Garrison and others through the Northern states, speaking nearly every day on the injustice and brutality of slavery. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe.
Her free status strengthened his belief in the possibility of gaining his own freedom. Douglass remarked that in England he was treated not "as a color, but as a man. They encouraged Douglass to tour Ireland, as many former slaves had done.
With the Narrative, Douglass demonstrated his ability to be not only the teller of his story, but its interpreter as well. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today.
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He was successful on both fronts: Stanton argued that American women and black men should band together to fight for universal suffrageand opposed any bill that split the issues.
Within three years, it had been reprinted nine times, with 11, copies circulating in the United States. The name of this singularly unpromising and truly famine stricken district is Tuckahoe, a name well known to all Marylanders, black and white.
He said that full inclusion within the educational system was a more pressing need for African Americans than political issues such as suffrage.
He was the most photographed American of the 19th Century, self-consciously using photography to advance his political views. Douglass published three versions of his autobiography during his lifetime and revised the third of theseeach time expanding on the previous one. He further asserted, "in speaking of the American church, however, let it be distinctly understood that I mean the great mass of the religious organizations of our land.
He traveled in Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine was beginning. The sixteen-year-old Douglass finally rebelled against the beatings, however, and fought back. How did the relationship commence. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on December 31,and Congress authorized the enlistment of black men inthough they were paid only half what white soldiers made.
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What are the clinical features of Thyroid Cancer?
Thyroid cancer can occur in all age groups, but is more common over the age of thirty. It is three times more likely to occur in women and most patients present with a nodule in their thyroid. The clinical features vary depending on the time of presentation. An early presentation may be just a neck lump with no symptoms. A late presentation may have additional features of hoarseness (due to pressure on the recurrent laryngeal nerve) or difficulty in swallowing and eating. It is important to realise that thyroid nodules are common, and it has been estimated that about 10% of the population will have them. Less than 5% of all thyroid nodules are malignant.
What is the prognosis of Thyroid Cancer?
The overall prognosis of thyroid cancer is better than most other cancers. The most common types of thyroid cancer (Papillary and Follicular) have the best prognosis. The cure rates of these cancers in the young are as high as 95%.
Age at the original therapy is a critial predictor of patient outcome. Patients under 40 years old have a good prognosis and low recurrence rates. By the age of 60 years these rates are much worse.Children tend not to be diagnosed early and present with positve lymph nodes in the majority of cases. Despite this the prognosis of papillary cancer is exellent in adolescence.There is an exception, children diagnosed less than 10 years old can do badly. Gender effects risk. Men are at greater risk than women of extrathyroidal invasion and locoregional lynph node involvement. Delay in treatment greater that 12 months is associated with a 2 times increase in mortality at 30 years. This has implications in patients with false negative fine needle aspirations of the thyroid where correct treatment is known to be on average delayed by 28 months. The extent of surgery has a profound effect on prognosis in moderate to high risk patients. Total thyroidectomy reduces mortality and recurrence rate. This is not true for low risk cases where more conservative treatment does not go hand in hand with poor results. Radioactive iodine is known to reduce recurrence and mortality in high risk tumours but there is little evidence of this effect in low risk tumours. Thyroid hormone suppression therapy has an important role in management. TSH suppression is associated with a reduction in recurrences. This effect is only seen in stage 111 and 1V disease when the TSH was suppressed to less than 0.1mIU/L.A similar effect is seen with stage 11 disease with a TSH suppressed to between 0.1 to 0.5 mIU/L. The prognosis of stage 1 disease is so good that TSH suppression has no added bebeficial effect.!
Medullary cancer is rarer than papillary and follicular cancers, but has a worse prognosis. It is more aggressive and tends to spread to lymph nodes at an early stage.
Anaplastic thyroid cancer has the worse prognosis of all the thyroid cancers as it often presents after it has spread. Rarely can an operation remove the entire tumour.
Why does Thyroid Cancer occur
Types of Thyroid Cancer
Symptoms and prognosis of Thyroid cancer
Papillary Cancer
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Game review: The Eyes of Ara (Switch)
The Eyes of Ara is a first-person point and click puzzle game that was initially released in 2016 to Steam and mobile phones. The game was highly received by fans, which made it a really exciting Nintendo Switch port.
In The Eyes of Ara, you play as a technician who is sent out to a castle in order to investigate a strange broadcast signal that is affecting telecom devices for locals. We learn that the last owner of the castle has been gone for a while, which makes the entire thing more of a mystery.
The player must solve puzzles that unlock the entrances and exits of the castle, by going from room to room collecting hints and clues and investigating notes left behind from others who have been inside, before trying to piece the whole thing together.
The puzzles in The Eyes of Ara are what made the game popular on other platforms. The puzzles vary in difficulty from easy, straightforward puzzles to ones that extend across multiple rooms and make you want to use a walkthrough guide. The difficulty gradually increases the deeper you go into the castle.
Some puzzles require you to notice a pattern or two on the wall and then put them together, which feels quite rewarding. Others are bit trickier with answers placed on random collectibles. This resulted in some guessing, but that is the fun of puzzle games.
The game is designed really well, and the visuals are beautiful. The castle has lots of details put into it. Each room feels full of furniture and details. This keeps the game interesting, as you would have to click on many items trying to find the right one to press on.
Where it all goes wrong
Sadly, as exciting an amazing this girl is in concept, it wasn't the greatest Nintendo Switch port. At its core, the game is a point and click thrives with a mobile touchscreen or a PC mouse, but the way the controls are adapted to the Switch is strange.
I like to play all my games in docked mode so that is how I first tried the game. In docked mode, you use the Joy Con as a pointer, so you have to move it around to click in different places.
The pointer is poorly calibrated which becomes stressful quickly. If you manage to master pointing the Joy Con at your TV, the next step is to be able to use that mechanic to solve puzzles. Some puzzles require you to twist and turn objects, which proved to be impossible to do in docked mode.
After cooling off for a couple of hours to get over the trauma of playing the game that way, I picked it up in handheld mode and it was a completely different experience. It felt so much better to be able to touch the screen and twist items and interact with them like the developers intended.
The Switch's screen is quite small, and the game is designed in a way that doesn't really tell you what items you can or can't interact with. This meant that in some rooms, you end up trying to press every pixel on the small Switch screen trying to find the right item that will give you that clue you really need.
Overall, The Eyes of Ara is a great game with top notch puzzles. It is a great addition to the Nintendo Switch library if you exclusively play it in Handheld mode.
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Title: Development of a molecular spaceframe. Study towards the synthesis of molecular building blocks for this new material concept.
Authors: Van Dijk, Joachim
Advisors: Vanderzande, Dirk
Abstract: There is a permanent need for the development of new concepts and routes towards new and advanced material systems. Sometimes the macroscopic world can be used to inspire us for such new concepts. Dr. Ing. Roelof Marissen (DSM Research and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) suggested in 1998 investigating whether the principles of macroscopic mechanical engineering could be translated to molecular scale, provided that sufficient analogy was present between the type of molecules and the type of macroscopic structure. A very efficient macroscopic structure for mechanical strength and low density is a space frame. Space frames consist of rods, connected to each other with knots. Our ultimate interest is in the use of these molecular rods and knots as modules in the controlled construction of molecular networks and scaffolds. The construction of such structures, consisting of rigid bars (rods) which are connected via functionalized comers (knots) should result in a stiff and very strong entity as we can see, for example, in the construction of hoisting-cranes. Translation of this macroscopic principle to the molecular level should result in an isotropic polymeric material, which is very strong and stiff, and which possesses a low density. A possible advantage of this polymeric construction is its self-restoring and potentially self-healing property. Molecules, in contradiction with metal tubes, possess high elasticity, so they can return to their original structure after being twisted or buckled. The use of molecular rods as construction elements depends critically on the ability to adjust the length of the rod to a desired value, to attach the desired terminal connectors, and to ensure sufficient rigidity. Molecular rods offer the opportunity to position two knots at a known distance apart and connect them by a medium whose properties can be controlled at least to some degree. The degree of interaction between the knots can be studied and provides information about the coupling of the knots to the rod, ultimately contributing to the theory of chemical bonding. Interest in these rigid rod molecules is a phenomenon of the past decade. If we limit our horizon to well-characterized and pure individual molecular structures, very few rigid rod molecules were known before the Nineties1 ' 2 • It has been primarily driven by interest in two areas; firstly in long-distance interaction phenomena such as electron and energy transfer, magnetic coupling of transition metal atoms, etc ... and secondly in the use of molecular rods as connectors for the construction of supramolecular assemblies and giant molecules3 • Since the intention of this work was to construct a rigid molecular spaceframe, we exemplify their uses and potential uses by considering them as spacers and construction elements in giant molecules and supramolecular assemblies. To realize the purpose described above, development of some well defined monodispers rods and knots which possess high rigidity and high stiffness is essential. For this reason molecular rods may not possess flexible bonds along their axis. Flexible chains are only attached as side chains for increasing the solubility of the molecular rods. The molecular rods must also have the ability to attach in high numbers to the multifunctionalized molecular knots. Of all rigid rods known at present, oligo-p-phenylenes (A) and bisterpyridines (B) seem to be the most accessible and convenient rigid rods that could be used as rigid linkers between molecular knots.
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Brawl Stars is a real-time battle game frome the developers of Clash of Clans и Clash Royale in which two teams of three participants have to fight in the environment with obstacles and different interactive elements. The stats for Brawl Stars stats available in PLINK from the registration.
The main goal of the game - to beat another team. Managing your hero in the game is really easy, even one finger will be enough if the device is in a vertical position. All you need to push and drag your finger across the screen to move your hero and attack. In the same way, you can use a hero's special abilities that is necessary if you want to win in Brawl Stars.


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Basic repairs using existing boards and spine. Includes repair of endpapers and first two leaves.
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Additional costs for hand-made endpaper, marbled paper, gold leaf tooling for the spine and boards.
Modern Flat Spine Bibles - With use these flat spines become concave. If the spine is adhesive bound then we do not attempt to restore the original flatness, as this may cause major structural damage to the adhesive. If the spine is sewn then we can restore more of the lost flatness. However in both cases with use, the spine will once again revert to it's concave shape.
Modern Round Spine Bibles - In both cases we can restore the majority of the round, especially with the sewn spine.


Greek Jeweler Ilias Lalaounis originally studied economics before joining the family tradition of jewelry manufacturing in 1940, and later opening his first salon in Athens in 1968. Inspired by ancient Greek art, the pieces from the house of LaLaounis are distinctive and easily recognizable. Ilias Lalaounis became internationally known when Aristotle Onassis bought pieces for Maria Callas and later Jacqueline Kennedy. The daughters of Ilias Lalaounis have continued the tradition of making very fine jewelry and run the firm consisting of 13 boutiques worldwide. Today the Lalaounis empire includes boutiques in Paris, New York, Hong Kong and London in addition to the flagship in Athens.
In 1993, the Lalaounis Jewelry Museum opened in Athens.


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Life Stages Review Redux
By U of M Press
Cree/Métis educator Kim Anderson will be coming to Winnipeg in late October.
While in town, Kim will be giving a lecture at the U of M on Friday, October 25 at 10:30 am at Migizii Agamik (The Aboriginal Student Centre).
Since the publication of her UMP title, Life Stages and Native Women, in 2011, Kim has begun work on the Biidwewidam Indigenous Masculinities (BIM) project, which is "committed to building research capacity around Indigenous masculinities and identities with the intent of contributing to the health and wellness of Indigenous communities and peoples."
We're excited about touching base with Kim about this new research, but in the meantime, thought we'd share three recent reviews of Life Stages and Native Women.
See you at the event!
"Life Stages is an accessible text and can serve as a practical empowerment manual for the hearts, minds and lives of Métis, Cree, Ojibway and Saulteaux women and communities. It is filled with important insights on the leadership of these women at all ages and on the inner workings of their communities prior to and during colonization in the mid-20th century. There are lessons to be learned from these stories, from their anecdotes and from their teachings that relate to feminist, intergenerational and inter-gender respect in all anti-patriarchal efforts and movements. This is highly recommended reading." – Deanna Radford, Herizons Magazine
"A welcome contribution to the literature on decolonization and indigenous women's health. Both an exploration of her personal experience as a native woman and an academic discussion of the multifaceted roles of women in northern Algonquian cultures, Anderson's work complements the existing body of Canadian work on aboriginal Canadian women's health. Moreover, her use of oral histories and her work with elders expands the existing literature on indigenous methodologies." – Sally E. Mennill, University of British Columbia, H-Net Online
"These stories can reconnect generations and provide the basis for the recreation of ceremony, societal roles, and life stages that can help to heal from colonization and create healthier communities by imagining a stronger way of life that connects the past to the present." – Cutcha Risling Baldy, University of California Davis, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
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At the Cleveland Public Library, patrons can use the library's 3D printer to print out their own designs, paying just a small fee for the plastic used. As 3D printing becomes more popular, yet machines remain inaccessibly expensive for the average American, services like this have become more common. The Cleveland library also offers workshops in 3D printing to introduce the technique to people with no previous experience.