The first half of the year is now over and, as we enter the second semester, there is opportunity for reflection from our boys on their efforts these past six months. Perhaps they achieved their goals, perhaps not, but the process of looking back is a valuable one and I urge parents to have a chat to their son(s) about the time passed and perhaps to revisit future goals. Of particular importance is the Form IV and V year group. The Form Vs have ten weeks of formal schooling left, three of which will be taken up by examinations. For them, the fourth term begins with the customary farewell ceremonies and then the process of final external examining begins. The Form IVs know full well by now that their final Form IV exams are as important if not more so than Matric results as a good set of results in Form IV can set up a university application and even conditional acceptance.
These coming holidays are a good time for a rest but also give some of our boys an opportunity to catch up and revise in areas where urgent attention is needed. We finished our examinations on Thursday to enable us to contact parents of boys at risk on the Friday. This gives parents the opportunity to use the three-week holiday for remedial action as opposed to having to wait for the start of the third term. Only parents of those boys who are at risk will be contacted. All other parents will receive a full report card within the first two weeks of the new term.
I remind our Form V boys and parents that it is our desire to achieve 100% pass rate and a Bachelor rate in excess of 90%.
The past three weeks have seen all of our boys writing their first set of exams for the year and I wish them well for the upcoming results.
Apart from a very successful 99th annual Old Boys Dinner, at which the Head Boy delivered an excellent address, I have visited various branches of Old Boys around the country including Nelspruit, Cape Town and Hermanus. I always enjoy catching up with past pupils and telling them about the school – its successes and its challenges – and the opportunity for fellowship is wonderful. I will be expanding this to include three places in Australia in the July holidays. I am attending an international conference and thought it would be valuable to speak to Old Boys in Australia to bring them up to date on events at the school.
The speaker at Founders' Day was Mr Vincent Ramantsima, School House Head Prefect in my first year, 2010. He gave an excellent address which the boys enjoyed and set the tone for the weekend of festivities marking our 117th birthday.
As mentioned previously I have been appointed as one of two Trustees from Africa to the IBSC Board. This organisation does sterling work in boys' schools around the world and it will be fascinating to attend the annual conference of the IBSC in the Gold Coast early in July. This will be a great opportunity for learning and benchmarking our school against the best in the world and I am looking forward to the event. Those who are interested in the programme can access the website www.theibsc.org and follow the conference link.
The annual production this year was, as many know, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic musical "Pirates of Penzance". I was delighted with the performances and the obvious enjoyment that the boys got from participating. My compliments go to the staff who made this happen – Mesdames van Zyl, Hornsveld, Fincham and Fratini-Mentz for their tireless efforts. The boys and girls in the cast, backstage, the orchestra and behind the scenes are also to be highly commended on an excellent run. Some have questioned the relevance of staging such seemingly outdated shows but we felt that the enjoyment factor of those who took part and those who watched made it all worthwhile and a valuable exercise.
The annual Pipe Band gathering was another resounding success and my thanks and compliments go to Mr James Orr and his group of loyal pipe band parents for their sterling efforts. Our boys performed very well indeed and are to be complimented for their hard work.
Congratulations to Mrs Joni Jones on the birth of her second daughter, Lake, to Mr Mario Maartens and Ms Corli Janse van Rensburg on their marriage and also to Mr Glen Botha on his marriage to Caylee.
We bid farewell to Mrs Melanie Haward, our resident expert on procurement, who has worked in our admin department for the past six years and thank her for her consummate professionalism and friendly demeanour.
Mr Cornelius Smit is relocating to Australia and we wish him and his wife Zenia all the very best for this new chapter in their lives. Mr Smit has been an outstanding member of staff, Senior Housemaster, teacher and coach and will be sorely missed.
We congratulate Mr Erlo Rust on his appointment as Senior Housemaster of Rissik House and Mr Nick Adendorff on his appointment as Senior Housemaster of Arcadia House. We wish them both well as they start this new challenge.
The application process for Grade 8 2019 began on 16 April when all parents wishing to apply at our school were required to use the GDE online system. This year the system worked much better than last year but there are still some processes that require attention and are a cause for concern. Meetings are being held in this regard. Potential parents were given until the 28th May to apply online and then submit documentation to the school. We received approximately 1,300 online applications and approximately 500 forms were submitted to us. This does not include our boarder applications. We only have approximately 220 dayboy places available. This process has shown us the importance of applying as soon as the system opens and not to leave it until the last minute. The parents whose applications are successful will receive an SMS from the GDE from 18 – 25 July and they should then accept the place offered to them using the GDE system on which they applied. I felt that I should share this process with you as I am sure many of you are getting numerous enquiries from friends and family.
When your child tells you that he has had one of his possessions "stolen" such as a sports bag or shoes, there is a very strong possibility that this is not the case and he has lost that item or forgotten where he put it. The volume of lost property that is collected is completely unacceptable and represents a very poor attitude amongst our boys. They either expect parents to replace the item or claim that someone stole it when quite often it was their own fault.
In future, we will not be storing lost property. Items that are marked can be returned and the boy's name will be read out at the end of assembly. Unmarked items will be given to the School Shop for resale if they are branded in the school colours. Items that are not associated directly with the school will be sold by the RCL or donated to charity.
This will take place at the end of every term and the shelves will be cleared. Please make sure that your son's possessions are marked and please do NOT assume his items have been stolen. There is a far greater possibility that he misplaced them and that they are lying in the mountain of lost items in our laundry!
I would like to bring to your attention the term dates for the end of this year and the start of 2019. Our December/January holidays are much shorter this year. We return to school on Wednesday 9 January 2019 so please take this into account when making any holiday arrangements. Boarders will return on the Tuesday, 8th January 2019.
I am extremely grateful to the vast majority of parents who are so supportive of the school. They show their boys, through their actions, that they endorse what is being taught at the school and are working in close partnership with the teachers. They give us advance warning of difficulties and challenges and show support for any disciplinary process, should one be required. It also reaffirms your decision in choosing this school. The lessons learned by the boys in these circumstances are invaluable and they will grow as a result thereof. Just as both parents are in agreement with the manner in which their son is to be brought up and disciplined, we need to support each other.
We all want the same thing – for our children to develop their unique skills and qualities – to be the very best human being they could possibly be. The school has the authority to lead your child in certain circumstances and as parents, you lead him in others. Let us support each other in our separate roles with common goals.
I wish you all a wonderful mid-year break if you are fortunate enough to have one. Thank you for a good first semester and best wishes for the final six months of the year.
Table Tennis – Storm Speranza (Form II) achieved Gauteng North colours and will be participating in the SA Championships during the school holidays.
Climbing – Mel Janse van Rensburg (Form IV) and Daniel Cloete (Form IV) (U17 Male category) and Tony Flynn (Form V) (U19 Male category) were selected to represent Gauteng at the SA National Climbing Federation Boulder finals in June. These three boys were selected for the IFSC World Championships in the Lead Discipline division. Mel and Tony were selected for the Boulder discipline. They have all made the SA National Climbing team.
Swimming – Three of our boys have qualified to participate in two swimming championships being held in Italy during June. They are Gabriel Gibberd (Form III), Jonathan Horn (Form V) and Christopher Pretorius (Form I).
Baseball – Joshua Mitchell (Form II) has been selected to participate in the U15 World Baseball Softball Confederation World Cup which is being hosted in Panama in August this year.
Paintball – Liam Hind (Form IV) will represent South Africa at the U19 Paintball World Cup in Paris in September.
Fencing – Jesse Ndjeka (Form IV) will represent South Africa in the Junior Commonwealth Games to be held in the UK in July.
Model Aeroplanes – Joshua Bakker (Form II) flies large scale model aeroplanes in the aerobatic class and won the overall SA Champion in the intermediate class at the SA National Championships. He also won the best SA Junior for 2018 in the Large Scale Aerobatic championships.
Robotics – The Boys High team comprising of Dylan Wills (Form V), Jayden Wills (Form II), Keegan McKenna (Form II) competed at the Open European Robotics Championships in Hungary and received first place in the Project Presentation category.
Football – Ingoma Mwanza (Form V) has been selected to compete in the Paris World Games in France and the Gothia Cup in Sweden. He will be representing Tuks Football.
Pentathlon – The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises of five different events: Fencing, swimming, equestrian show jumping and a final combined event of pistol shooting and cross country running. Ettienne Theron (Form V) received a bronze medal in the SA U19 division and Jason Visser received 5th place in the U15 boys division.
Diamond Entrepreneur Challenge – Arnold Magezi (Form V) was part of the team that made it through to the semi-finals of this challenge which was held at the University of Delaware in USA. This team was selected out of more than 2000 international teams.
Athletics – Matthew Forrester (Form IV) competed at the Southern Regionals (10 Southern African countries competed) and received a silver medal in the U18 3000m.
Rotary Inter-School Quiz Competition – The Boys High senior team consisting of Keaton Urquhart (Form IV), Joshua Meisie (Form IV), Christiaan Pretorius (Form IV) and Darryl Nyamayaro (Form V), won this competition. They competed against 13 schools and 31 teams.
Judo – Brendan Pretorius (Form V) achieved first place at the National Ranking Judo tournament held in Port Elizabeth in the age category 18-20 years old and U90kgs.
Basketball – Ketan Behari (Form IV) will be representing the Gauteng Province at the Tri Colour Games in Italy in the code of Basketball.
Soccer – Gianpierro Signorelli (Form IV) has been selected to represent South Africa at the Tri Colour Games in Italy in the code of soccer.
Tennis – Kganya Ranamane (Form IV) represented the Gauteng North U19 team at SA Schools and Lamine Jeppie (Form I) and Iloke Alusala (Form I) represented the Gauteng North U15 team at the SA Schools Inter Provincial tournament.


Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card- Go out and read this book right now. My roommate had been telling me over and over how I just had to read this book and I finally bought it at the airport on some recent trip and I finished it by the time we landed. It's that good. So good that when my roommate first started dating her now boyfriend, one of the reasons she listed for liking him so much was that he had read Ender's Game. And I thought she was weird. But now I completely understand. Also, they are making it into a movie this year and you know how I feel about movies based on books... so read the book first or I will be so mad at you. And then once you read it we can stand in line together for the midnight showing!
Ender's Shadow- Orson Scott Card- Basically as soon as I finished Ender's Game I went into a bit of a depression because it was so good and I missed it. Fortunately there are a bunch more books in the Ender series. This one is written as a parallel novel. The action takes place during the same time as Ender's Game but focuses on one of the peripheral characters, Bean, instead. It's hard for me to say which one I enjoyed more. Both were wonderful.
Shadow of the Hegemon- Orson Scott Card- And once I'd finished Ender's Shadow I continued with the "Bean series" and immediately started the next book. Another amazing story! Can you tell I'm hooked?
World Without End- Ken Follet- So I'm technically not finished with this book but I am over 600 pages (a little over half way) through it. It's just too darn big and heavy to carry in my purse which means I can't read it on the metro or during my lunch break, just at bed time. It's the "sequel" to The Pillars of the Earth -sort of. It's set in the same town around the same cathedral but it's set 200 years later. I love Ken Follet's characters. He knows how to make you hate a "bad guy." They are so subtly malicious and deceitful and you instantly rally around and the "good guy." It's taking me forever but I am loving this book almost as much as the first one!
I am SO excited that you are so into OSC's books! (and excited that you recommended them to me too, even though I had already read them - something about someone recommending you a book you already love is SO cool) We'll have to have some chats about them - especially if you like Bean's series or Ender's better!
Haha, I am TOTALLY with you on the whole read the book before you see the movie thing. I am usually a nice person, but I can get kind of snotty about it :) Read the book first, people!
I have heard really good things about Ender's Game, I definitely need to give it a shot!
I loved OSC's books as a teen! I'll have to get them again and reread. :) I'm also a big fan of Ken Follett, but I haven't gotten around to finishing World Without End. My "to be read" list/stack is so long as it is!
I want to read Ender's Game... need to just buy them soon!


It's hard to believe Above & Beyond and Armin van Buuren have gone this long without collaborating on a track together, aside from their remixes. Thankfully, the wait is almost over.
The massive dance acts have kept their collab "Show Me Love" fairly quiet until now. Just one play of the track and fans are in a complete frenzy — rightfully so. The world premiere took place during A&B's set at A State Of Trance 900 in Utrecht and the feedback couldn't have been more positive.
The track has since popped up for pre-order on Beatport (get it). Even the description is giving us chills.
Show Me Love" is set to release March 1st via Armind (Armada). Watch the epic world premiere right here!
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Wilson, Gibbs lead Observer staff in KCM awards wins
Sterling College journalism garnered recognition recently by securing 18 victories in the 2022 Kansas Collegiate Media Contest.
Junior Taya Wilson, of Sterling, and sophomore Shaylee Gibbs, of Amarillo, Texas, came away as individual winners.
Also, the Sterling College Observer newspaper, which is in its third year as the campus newspaper, received a Gold designation in the overall category. In that category, publications can earn one or none of three overall honors within their classifications that are based upon the type of publication and institution. The top publication across classifications receives the All-Kansas Award.
Gold is the highest designation within a classification, and Sterling faced off against other four-year, private college publications that were judged based on three issues produced during the academic year.
"I'm extremely happy with how things turned out. Getting a Gold after a couple of years where we earned Silver is fantastic, and it still gives us room to improve as we try to achieve All-Kansas status," said adviser Todd Vogts, assistant professor of media at Sterling College. "More importantly, though, Taya Wilson and Shaylee Gibbs did great. They are wonderful ambassadors of our publication and program. I'm lucky to have them involved."
Wilson, who is the editor-in-chief of the Observer, earned 16 individual awards, and Gibbs, who is the managing editor of the Observer, earned one individual award. The entire staff shares the overall victory.
"I'm especially proud of the Observer's Gold designation because I believe it's a reflection on all the time and energy put into this paper," Wilson said.
Gibbs agreed.
"I was ecstatic about the Sterling College Observer receiving gold in the competition," she said. "Taya puts a lot of work into our paper, and our writers strive to get the best stories each month for our readers. I'm glad that others can see the diligence in the Observer as well."
Competing against other four-year, private schools, Wilson brought home first and second places, as well as an honorable mention, in the sports/action photography category.
She also secured second place, third place, and two honorable mentions in the news/event photography competition.
In addition to her photography skills, Wilson showcased her design ability as she took first place, second place and an honorable mention in front page design and honorable mention in newspaper inside page or spread design.
Wilson writes as well.
She took first place in feature writing and sports feature writing, second place in column writing, third place in sports news/game writing, and an honorable mention in profile writing.
"I am very blessed to have received these awards," Wilson said. "They are a testament to all the hard work and improvements I've made over the years, specifically in writing."
Wilson credited her mentors for her success.
"As always, I want to thank my mom, Rene Wilson, for the solid foundation she gave me as a journalist and for always encouraging me in my writing," she said.
Gibbs joined Wilson on the podium by earning an honorable mention in column writing.
"Receiving recognition for my work is always an honor, especially when I am competing against so many other journalists," Gibbs said.
The awards were announced during the KCM Spring Conference on April 9-10.
Students placing in the contest received certificates touting their success, but Vogts said the judging feedback all the students get is even more important.
"There are usually a lot of great suggestions in those comments," he said. "In some cases, they reiterate things I've been saying, which is great because sometimes students need to hear it from someone else for it to sink in. In other instances, the judges say things we hadn't considered, and that allows us to really grow. I love the competition aspect of contests, and winning is great. However, learning and improving from it is the most important aspect."
Both Wilson and Vogts said they were thankful for the paper and the reception it's had on campus.
"I'm thankful for the students and faculty at Sterling College who support the Observer and are willing to share their stories with us," Wilson said.
The Sterling College Observer publishes seven times per year on the first Monday of the month during the fall and spring semesters. It is a student-led and student-produced newspaper that strives to be a timely resource of information about the Sterling College community. It reports on news, issues, activities, academics and athletics. It also offers a forum for discussion, reviews and commentary. It serves as an effective learning experience for students, who have the final authority over what is published. To read a digital version of the Observer, please visit https://warriorstudentmedia.wordpress.com.
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Thus begins the ambitious manifesto behind Theo Croker's newest album, issued as a preface to the trumpeter, producer, arranger, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's most personal project yet, due outMay 17 from Sony Music Masterworks. Available now for preorder, Star People Nation finds Croker at the helm of production, songwriting, and performance, resulting in an intimate exploration of "the everyday rituals of blackness." A translation of Theo Croker's personal, spiritual and creative experience, Star People Nation is a self-reflective collection of provocative, powerfully passionate and boundary-busting compositions that speak to our greater, shared human existence.
Arriving alongside album preorder is a new track from the forthcoming album, "Understand Yourself," a politically charged track featuring vocals from Jamaican musician Chronixx, who adds a distinctive Black, folkloric flair as the music merges African percussion, American horns, and Caribbean flavor. "Understand Yourself" is a culmination of much of the album's themes, carrying a message of death and rebirth – a powerful missive to let your old self die so that you can move on to be your higher self. The song originally made its debut via AFROPUNK, who praise Croker's "new cool approach," describing his latest effort as a necessary "upheaval" that allows for the genre "to keep breathing" – read more here.
"It's taken me thirty years of analyzing my own identity as an artistic black man to finally fit all of this into my interpretation of Black American Music," explains Theo Croker of his newest album. As the grandson of the late, venerable, GRAMMY® Award-winning trumpeter Doc Cheatham, former student of legendary jazz trumpeter/composer Donald Byrd and protégé of three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, Croker is an artist steeped in the sociopolitical implications of his art. While deeply rooted in the historical cannon of jazz, Croker reached new levels of transcendence in preparing for Star People Nation.
"I'm embracing my own multicultural-ness within my blackness," says Croker. "I'm embracing my instrument, my story, and who I am as a player and composer for the first time." Through artful conversation with the past, both personal and universal, Star People Nation offers listeners a new interpretation of the future, with Croker joining the ranks of contemporary artists redefining the plurality of cultural identity.
It was during this time that he made his first foray into the world of hip-hop, exposing him to "an entirely different form of creation" in the process. Rap superstar J. Cole enlisted his talents on the platinum-certified No. 1 opus 4 Your Eyez Only, with Croker acting as producer, arranger and performer on multiple tracks. GRAMMY® Award-winning rapper Common also sought out Croker's talents on his critically acclaimed album Black America Again, co-executive produced by Croker's Afro Physicistcollaborator and producer Karriem Riggins [Kanye West, Paul McCartney, J Dilla].
Star People Nation's lead single, "Subconscious Flirtations & Titillations," illuminates the newly broadened scope of sound. A syncopated drumbeat fuels a simmering groove punctuated by passionate piano. At the center, the trumpet emanates pulses of emotion. Its ebb and flow commutes a moment of sonic seduction, an approach that speaks to the album as a whole. "It's a very sensual and sexual song," he explains. "The sound and composition were completely electronic. I transferred it to a band, mixed those elements together, and placed my trumpet in the role of narrator." Meanwhile, "The Messenger(feat. ELEW)" hinges on smoky blues piano over a rhythm that conjures the spirit of traditional swing, locking into the pocket to showcase "the power of swinging the quarter note." It's an authoritative statement from Croker, reminding listeners that this music's essence remains in the swing and that no amount of production, backbeat or harmonic sliding can replace the true authenticity of those able to master it.


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Disney introduces seasonal pricing at theme parks
by Frank Pallotta @frankpallotta February 28, 2016: 2:50 PM ET
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The "Happiest Place on Earth" now comes with seasonal pricing.
Starting Sunday, Disney's Walt Disney World resort in Florida and Disneyland in California will charge different ticket prices for its parks depending on the time of year, the company announced in a blog post.
The calendar will be divided into Value, Regular and Peak periods. The new pricing plan will apply to one-day tickets.
A one-day park ticket at Orlando's Magic Kingdom during a Value period will stay at current levels of $105 for those aged 10 and above.
But tickets during Regular season days (most of April, for example) will rise to $110. The price will then shoot up to $124 for Peak days. That includes holidays like the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
At Disney World's three other parks (Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom) one-day tickets will be $97 for Value, $102 for Regular and $114 for Peak.
Tickets to Anaheim's Disneyland will cost $95 for Value, $105 for Regular, and $119 for Peak.
Related: Disney stock slips despite record quarter
Disney (DIS) said it's trying to find "ways to help spread out visitation."
"The demand for Disney Parks continues to grow, particularly during peak periods," the company said. "At the same time, we have an unwavering commitment to exceeding the expectations of all our guests."
Disney notes that the seasonal demand prices are posted in advance.
Disney is introducing surge ticket pricing for Walt Disney World resort in Florida and Disneyland in California.
The price change comes at a time where the company is planning major expansions based on popular brands like "Star Wars," "Toy Story" and "Avatar."
CNNMoney (New York) First published February 28, 2016: 11:39 AM ET


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Il Grand chambrier de France era uno dei grandi uffici della Corona di Francia durante l'Ancien Régime; era una fra le cariche che dal giorno dell'entrata in funzione comportava il conferimento della nobiltà ereditaria di primo grado.

Era il capo della camera del re, e sotto i primi Capetingi gestiva il tesoro reale con il grand bouteiller de France, prima che la Camera dei conti, creata da Filippo il Bello e il sovrintendente alle finanze venissero a prenderne le funzioni nel 1311.

Questo ufficiale aveva uno dei cinque grandi incarichi della corona. Egli non solo si distingueva dal gran ciambellano, ma ne era in qualche maniera superiore per l'estensione del suo potere; firmava infatti le leggi e le lettere reali più importanti, precedeva il connestabile durante le cerimonie e sedeva in giudizio coi pari di Francia; aveva inoltre giurisdizione sulle Corporazioni delle arti e mestieri che dipendevano solo da lui e godeva di diritti signorili, censi e rendite nella città di Parigi e nei dintorni.

La carica venne soppressa nel 1545 da Francesco I, e i feudi riuniti al dominio della Corona; parte dei suoi compiti furono assorbiti dalla funzione di gran ciambellano.

Elenco dei Grands chambrier
 Vandalmaro, durante il regno di Gontrano
 Talto, durante il regno di Dagoberto I
 Reginardo (817)
 Tanculfo
 Bernardo I di Tolosa, conte di Barcellona (829-830)
 Enguerrand (875)
 Teodorico (878-879)
 Renaud (1060)
 Galeran de Senlis (1065-1085)
 Guy de Senlis (1106-1121)
 Alberico (1128)
 Manasse (1130)
 Ugo (1134)
 Mathieu I de Beaumont-sur-Oise (1139)
 Albéric de Dammartin (1162)
 Mathieu II de Beaumont-sur-Oise (1174)
 Raoul (1186)
 Mathieu III de Beaumont-sur-Oise (1190-1207)
 Ursion de Merville (1209)
 Barthélemy de Roye (1209-1234)
 Jean Ier de Beaumont-Gâtinais, alla morte del precedente
 Jean de Nanteuil (1240)
 Alfonso di Brienne (1258)
 Alardo di Valéry (1271-1277)
 Roberto II di Borgogna (1277-1278)
 Jean II de Dreux
 Luigi I di Borbone (1312-1314)
 Pietro I di Borbone ( -1356)
 Luigi II di Borbone ( -1410)
 Filippo di Nevers (1410-1415)
 Jean III de Chalon-Arlay (1415-1418)
 Guillaume de Châteauvillain (1419), per i Borgognoni
 Ralph de Cromwell, III barone Cromwell (1434-1435), per i Borgognoni
 Giovanni I di Borbone (-1434)
 Carlo I di Borbone (1434-1456)
 Giovanni II di Borbone (1456-1488)
 Pietro II di Borbone (1488-1503)
 Carlo III di Borbone-Montpensier (1503-1527)
 Enrico, duca d'Orléans e duca d'Angoulême, poi sovrano col nome di Enrico II (1527-1536)
 Carlo II d'Orléans (1536-1545), alla sua morte l'ufficio fu soppresso.

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 Camerlengo (Repubblica di Venezia)
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One I started as a sketch and finished in oils. Unable to be around much but hovering in and out.
There are no foot prints in the snow....does anyone live there now? Great painting Neal, and a little spooky with the big old house in the dead of winter.
Hi Neal, wonderful calm scenery. Really like the paintings perspective and style.
I think such an approach was particularly successful too. I like very much this artpiece too. Your cold yellows and warm blues are contrasting wonderfully in the building!
Very fine image. You have this style knocked. I like it very much.
One comment about the ultramarine shadow on the house to the left -- it pulls the eye there owing to the saturation and it none of the rest of the shadows in the snow having the same color save for the more neutral one below by the fence. It yanks my eye to the edge of the picture because it's loud in this comparatively relaxed landscape. It's as if you are making a point out of the house's shadow for some unclear reason.
But I love the technique/style you have and this is a really wonderful painting of a town. It creates a very interesting mood.
Just enough time to say thanks all. I'm hoping to be able to fix some of the problems relating to the comments made and which I agree with. Pardon my grammar.
Love the character in the buildings, excellent work.


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Robert Putnam on the Am Dream
We just got back from hearing Robert Putnam speak, author of Bowling Alone, American Grace, Our Kids, and many others. In discussion with the audience he mentioned two things that had struck me in the book: that kids' chances seem to improve dependent on WHO they go to school WITH, rather than family background, school quality, etc. And what Blacks went through, which was attributed to characteristics within the Black community and even inherited in the gene poo,l Whites are now going through for the same reasons: poverty and isolation.
I had two chances to chat with him and he was quite delighted to meet a fellow Port Clintonite b/c Our Kids uses our mutual hometown of Port Clinton, OH as a template for general income and social equality compared to what we have now all over the country as well as in Port Clinton. Hearing the facts and figures on P.C. was startling b/c my memories of the town are only what it was like in the 50s. There were audible gasps in the audience as Putnam recounted both stats and anecdotes. He said the young woman his granddaughter's age who experienced a not unusual but nevertheless horrific childhood voted for Trump b/c no one loved her and she trusted no one and her response, embodied by Trump, was…….. and he raised his middle finger to the audience. No minorities or other betes noires in her life, just pure shit.
Putnam laid out the realities facing us and then suggested things that might be done to reverse this downward spiral for two thirds of Americans, pointing out we have been here before, at the end of the 19th century, and had reversed it in part by inventing the American high school. That had both economic and social effects for the betterment of America, something economists say cannot be done: you have to choose one or the other, you cannot have both.
Incidentally, I got to talking to an ASU professor of community development who was fascinated that I remember stopping in at a hole-in-the-wall (literally, an office space in a broken down wall of a derelict building on Buckeye Road in Phoenix) chatting with two guys. They were working on a project they called Chicanos Por La Cause. I knew it went on to become a major element in the development of Phoenix, but this professor said their model has spread world-wide. Amazing.
It got us to recalling how strange to look at the house we lived in in the 60s in the segregated area of South Phoenix and how the house is still there, though with the neighborhood more deteriorated than it was then but still with nice homes that were there then. Blacks with money could not build outside of South Phoenix so there would be a nice street and then a more run-down block. But across the street was White and it wasn't until the late 60s that a few well-off Blacks built nice homes across that road (Roeser Rd.). Then fair housing became law and many of us left. That area across the street is now gentrified with Whites and Blacks living there. These spots are within yards of each other.
Putnam emphasized the need to bridge the social/political gap, something I am unable to do at this point.


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Q: How to modify multiple databases structure simultaneously? I have multiple databases on the same server which have the same structure as each other. whenever I want to modify a table or a procedure or add, edit or delete something on one of them I should run the modifications manually on all the others too!
Is there a way to modify the structure of all of the databases simultaneously and preferably automatic?
I use MySQL workbench tool to connect to my databases.

A: It's the job of your app. Database Schema Migration frameworks help you with that.
For Java based Apps Flyway is an example tool. For PHP based Apps Laravel Database: Migrations

Migrations are like version control for your database, allowing your
  team to easily modify and share the application's database schema.
  Migrations are typically paired with Laravel's schema builder to
  easily build your application's database schema. If you have ever had
  to tell a teammate to manually add a column to their local database
  schema, you've faced the problem that database migrations solve.

such Frameworks exists for every language and is the state of the art way to DDL statements in an automated and versioned fashion.
simple example with Flyway and Grails howto deploy a procedure:
path .../grails-app/conf/db/migration/V1_0_7__remove_service_ref_from_service_instance.sql
DELIMITER //

CREATE PROCEDURE normalize_service_instance()
  BEGIN

    SET @col_exists = 0;
    SELECT 1
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
    WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'service_instance'
          AND column_name = 'service_id'
          AND table_schema = database()
    INTO @col_exists;

    IF @col_exists = 1
    THEN
      ALTER TABLE service_instance
        DROP FOREIGN KEY FK_c2o824f4t90lp1v2df5dxp2r8;
      ALTER TABLE service_instance
        DROP COLUMN service_id;
    END IF;

  END//

Other popular tool for Java land is Liquibase

Liquibase is an open source database-independent library for tracking,
  managing and applying database schema changes. It was started in 2006
  to allow easier tracking of database changes, especially in an agile
  software development environment.

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There are two paths to self-worth.
becomes an adult, he or she has to decide to have something which was never fostered or nurtured.
This is difficult to overcome because there is a false belief that if one's parents didn't love them, the two people who should have the most and knew them the most, then how could anyone who truly knew them, love them.
Challenges are: letting people in, becoming comfortable with the vulnerability that is love.


The Healthy Diné Nation Act (HDNA) was signed into law in 2014, mandating a 2 percent tax on all "foods of little-to-no-nutritious value" purchased in Navajo Nation retail stores. The law was designed to promote health and combat high rates of overweight and obesity—along with diseases such as heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. The tax applies to high-fat baked goods and high-sugar items with little or no nutritional value, including sweetened beverages, chips, candy, frozen desserts, pastries and fried foods.
In 2017, a team of officials from the Navajo Tribal Epidemiology Center (NTEC) and the Navajo Nation collaborated with faculty members of Northern Arizona University's Department of Health Sciences—professor Tim Behrens, associate professor Dirk de Heer and associate professor Priscilla R. Sanderson—to study the implementation of the tax. Leadership from the Navajo Nation included NTEC director Ramona Antone-Nez and epidemiologist Del Yazzie; Shirleen Jumbo-Rintila, legislative specialist from the Navajo Division of Community Development; Martin Ashley, executive director of the Office of the Navajo Tax Commission; Herbert Benally from Diné College; and Moroni Benally, vice president for Government Affairs and Public Relations at Diné College. Representatives from several chapters on the Navajo Nation and Kristen Tallis, a student in NAU's new Master of Public Health program, also served as key contributors to the project.
During this initial one-year study, which was funded through a $225,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the team gathered data to understand how the funds were collected, distributed to tribal chapters and invested to improve the health of tribal members.
Now, with a new $1.4 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the team will embark on a four-year project to determine the impact of the HDNA.
"We will build on the work we started during the original project expanding this project with new collaborators and new data to gain insight into chapter wellness projects funded by the tax, the food store environment and nutrition-related health behavior," de Heer, the principal investigator, said.
In addition to NAU assistant professor Sean Gregory, NTEC project manager Simental Francisco will join the team. Francisco and the NTEC team led the development and implementation of the Navajo Nation Health Survey, and they will develop a follow-up survey as one of the key tools for gathering data for this project.
The team will also partner with Sonya Shin, director of Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE), a community organization located in Gallup, New Mexico, that is affiliated with Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Shin, co-principal investigator of the project, will study the food environment in stores on and around the Navajo Nation.


Drinking coffee isn't exactly a "dirty" habit like smoking, using your phone in the bathroom, or watching Showgirls every time you're on an airplane.
But if you consume that sweet, smooth, chocolate-y brown elixir of the rush hour gods every day -- like I do -- it almost becomes a leash; you will become dependent on your daily coffee to function. It turns out those awful mugs might hold a kernel of truth. Regular coffee drinkers can certainly experience low-level withdrawal symptoms when they go cold turkey. We're talking sluggishness, headaches, irritability, lack of motivation... basically, you turn into that 30-year-old who wouldn't leave his parents' house till they sued him.
So, because I don't want to be dependant on any chemicals (that don't rhyme with schmalcohol), I decided to wean myself off my three-to-four cups a day habit. But, because I have the willpower of a Saudi Prince's toddler, it wasn't as simple as just renouncing caffeine entirely and calling it a day at 9am. I selected seven well-known and at least partially respected coffee substitutions and tried each of them. One per day. Seven days. Plenty of irritability. Sorry for the spoiler.
Depending on the (I don't know... strain?), green tea will have approximately ¼ of the caffeine of a cup of coffee. Considering this, and the relative familiarity I have with green tea (I like to hang out in Chinese restaurants), I thought it would make an ideal starting substitution.
Over the course of my casual Sunday, I had about three glasses of green tea. Which, our math-checking department has informed me, equals about .75 of a cup of coffee. Not only did it fail to satisfy my caffeine cravings, but it also did not deliver on the Zen-like peace of mind that was promised to me by the product's elaborate packaging. Green tea is one of those things that you feel like you should enjoy -- like playing chess, or spending time with your grandparents. But as much as I try, I simply couldn't bring myself to enjoy that bittersweet, swampy aftertaste that lined my mouth. I think most Americans who drink this stuff are just pretending to like it, because we feel like it's the cultured thing to do. It's the Downton Abbey of hot beverages. There, I said it.
Verdict: Not a good substitute.
Kombucha has made the full slide from an ancient fermented Manchurian beverage to something my mom buys at Trader Joe's, because her friend Patty told her it got rid of her hemorrhoids in three weeks.
While the exact health benefits of kombucha are murkier than an unshaken bottle of kombucha, it does have a slight amount of caffeine, usually about 1/10th of a cup of Joe, and enough holistic ingredients to possibly compensate -- because placebos are effective, too.
I honestly have not had that much kombucha previously and was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed drinking it 10 minutes after I woke up (the brand was GT's Synergy Trilogy, by the way… and yes, that was really the name). It was fizzy, slightly tart, and had a layered, complex taste that reminded me of a cocktail. I'm actually now a kombucha fan! But sadly, I could only stomach a cup of this stuff. And it certainly did not fill that coffee-shaped hole in my daily routine. I am still getting headaches. I am still feeling tired. I am still getting the shakes whenever I spot a co-worker hovering around the Keurig. I think I need to call my sponsor. Also, I should get a sponsor.
I decided to make my third substitution a Tech Bro Tuesday by swapping in the caffeinated version of the meal replacement wunder-drink (that is definitely not made of people, I checked), Soylent (if you say it in a robot voice, it's more satisfying). In this surprisingly thick liquid breakfast, there is just about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. So for the first time in three days, my cravings were actually sated.
This was the good news.
The bad news was that it was too filling -- and I would compare the flavor notes to what I imagine the embryonic liquid Neo was floating in before he red-pilled tasted like: kind of sweet, and fully unsettling. I had it with a bagel, and it was like expanding foam was poured into my stomach. This is a true meal replacement, not a coffee replacement. There's no way I could drink more than one of these in a work day, so even though the caffeine levels were equitable, it just wasn't the same.
The last time I drank mushroom coffee, I was 21, headed to Bonnaroo, and definitely didn't have a 3pm meeting with my boss later on that day.
Obviously, this coffee uses different (read: legal) shrooms as part of its shtick. And really, this almost seems like cheating: they use black instant Arabica coffee mixed with a medley of mushrooms touted as having amazing nootropic components. So, it's almost like coffee-plus... on paper, at least. While the benefits of shroom-coffee have been touted by the likes of Tim Ferris and have been subject to countless, derivative "The Rise of Mushroom Coffee" articles, obviously, I just felt like I was drinking instant coffee with a mild, silky aftertaste that gave me the faintest earth tone. It definitely gave me a considerable caffeine buzz, but any tingly limbs were likely a result of my body adjusting to the lower doses of the stimulant I was regularly consuming.
In the end, it wasn't magic. It wasn't bad. It was just... meh.
Aside from boosting energy, the powdery, pungent dandelion root tea allegedly stabilizes blood pressures and blood sugar, detoxifies your kidneys and liver, and "cleanses your blood."
Bitter. No caffeine. Made me pee a lot. Made my pee smell weird (might be coincidental). I quit after one cup. Do not recommend. Do not try at home. I am questioning my choices. Thursday is bad. Did I forget my dry cleaning? This didn't help. Thursday is bad.
My blood cannot be cleansed.
On Friday, I decided to get weird. Postum has been considered a "coffee substitute" for more than a century. Just check out this odd, fear-mongering ad from 1910. What is Postum? To be blunt: it's just as gross as its gross name. Postum.
The powder itself, to be mixed with boiling water, is made of roasted wheat bran and molasses. It's like the kind of thing a cartoon Grandpa in the '90s would slurp down and chase with prune juice, as if it exists only to facilitate a joke about smelly old people.
It smelled like a closet full of wet peacoats filled with old walnuts.
It tasted like a slice of retirement home sofa.
I think it actually made me grow hair out of my ears.
I was finishing lines on Murder She Wrote.
The glow from the slight bumps of caffeine I consumed earlier in the week had faded, and my headache was back. I hate Postum.
My final coffee-less day began with a simple premise: I'd drink a shitton of water to gain more energy, and see if the simplest answer, could be the most effective. I think they call that Postum's Razor. I even threw some cayenne pepper in there because that I know is some cleansing/dieting/cry-for-help health trend and I was running out of options.
For a while, maybe an hour or two, the spicy water did stick a subtle spring in my step. Though, it was probably just the water part.
Then, I did the inevitable. I drank my first cup of coffee in over a week, a few hours early. And you know what? I didn't regret it. I felt great. I went out. I had energy and pep and maybe my breath smelled a little bit like Postum still, but I was alive, dammit.
In the end, maybe I was supposed to come to some type of revelation. Maybe, for the reader, it would provide a better sense of closure if I had found a coffee substitution, embraced it, and then ran with it for the rest of my allegedly better life.
But I didn't. Nothing lived up to coffee. There's a chance that nothing ever will. Perhaps it's why we have been drinking it for thousands of years. Maybe I'm just a dude who is stuck in his ways. Or maybe coffee is just one of life's simple pleasures -- and to deny myself coffee would be denying myself one of the little things that makes my life a tick more enjoyable.
And what a valuable lesson that is.
Verdict: I'm sticking with coffee. Forever.


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Ion Zangor () a fost un bober român.

Carieră
S-a apucat mai întâi de schi și sanie și a devenit campion național la schi alpin, slalom uriaș și combinata alpină din 1963. Apoi a trecut la bob.

Împreună cu pilotul Ion Panțuru, Nicolae Neagoe și Dumitru Pascu a câștigat medalia de bronz la Campionatul European din 1970 de la Cortina d'Ampezzo în proba de bob de patru persoane. Anul următor, în 1971, boberii români au cucerit titlul european la Innsbruck-Igls.

În anul 1972 Ion Zangor a participat la Jocurile Olimpice de iarnă. La Sapporo a luat startul în proba de bob de două persoane. Cu pilotul Ion Panțuru a ocupat locul 5, cel mai bun rezultat pentru România la această ediție a Jocurilor Olimpice. La bob-4 sportivii au ocupat locul 10.

Distincții
Ion Zangor a fost numit maestru emerit al sportului.

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Legături externe

Nașteri pe 5 iulie
Nașteri în 1938
Decese în 1973
Boberi olimpici români
Schiori români
Competitori la Jocurile Olimpice de iarnă din 1972
Medaliați europeni cu aur români
Medaliați europeni cu bronz români
Oameni din Azuga


After a quiet start to 2018 and a significant contraction in the middle of the year, there is a considerable increase in Korean won (KRW) cryptocurrency trades. Despite this increase, the "kimchi premium" that existed in 2017 has yet to surface in cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea.
Since the start of October 2018, the cryptocurrency trading volume in South Korea has spiked. A chart by CryptoCompare shows KRW trading volumes on certain days in October a ccounting for almost 50 percent of the total market share.
This recent trend is a marked departure from the norm established at the beginning of 2018. For most of the year, KRW cryptocurrency trading volume remained stagnant until the middle of the year when it contracted significantly. From June all the way to September, virtual currency trading volume in the country appeared to shrink.
Image courtesy of Finder.com.au / CryptoCompare.
This significant shrinkage in KRW cryptocurrency trading volume came after a series of hacks against virtual currency exchanges in the country. In June 2018, both Coinrail and Bithumb suffered cyber-attacks leading to the theft of millions in cryptocurrency.
Some observers believe that one primary reason for the upswing in KRW cryptocurrency trading is the current turbulence in the stock market. Investors are reportedly moving to Bitcoin, which appears a lot more stable than the more traditional assets.
In mid-2018, the country recognized virtual currency exchanges as legal entities. This move, in many ways, legitimized the burgeoning cryptocurrency economy in the country â€" seeing as these platforms constitute a significant portion of the digital currency ecosystem.
While the country continues to be a haven for virtual currency commerce and blockchain technology, financial regulators remain resolute on the ICO ban. Earlier in October, Bitcoinist reported on comments made by the FSC chairman to Parliament. According to the FSC chief, the unc ertainties surrounding ICOs makes regulating them potentially problematic. The comments from the top financial regulator come despite persistent calls for a reversal of the ICO prohibition.
Do you think an increase in trading volume in South Korea could provide enough liquidity to spark the next significant Bitcoin price rally? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Randy Pausch, who recently died of pancreatic cancer, gave a lecture on achieving one's childhood dreams.
It's a wonderful experience to watch that much optimism, energy, and intelligence embodied in one human being. Facing imminent death, he chose to celebrate his wife's birthday, give his children a vital lesson in how to succeed, and inspire millions of us ordinary mortals.
We'll look for you in the NFL in your next life, Randy.
Under the pretense that he is maintaining political neutrality, the Washington Post reported today, State Department Undersecretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy has interpreted the Foreign Affairs Manual in the most restrictive way, claiming that he is ensuring that foreign service officials will remain untainted by a "partisan political act." (Spouse and family members, however, have generously been excluded from this ruling.) The U.S. embassy, which is headed by ambassador Robert Timken, a businessman and crony of George W. Bush's from Ohio, who is widely reviled in Germany for his ignorance of foreign affairs, has instructed officials not to attend the rally. The American Foreign Service Association has complained about the edict but there's not enough time to dispute it. Funny that.
Somehow I doubt that any State Department personnel will ever be barred by Bush Junta appointees from attending a John McCain speech.
UPDATE: Guess what — it was the Pentagon that, under orders from John McCain, reclassified Obama's planned Rammstein and Landstuhl visits as beyond the pale, even though they'd cleared the visits earlier, and allowed McCain to make similar visits.


Check out this amazing selection of tasty potato recipes all presented in a speedy video format! Yes, these dishes are simple and speedy but they're also full of intriguing flavours and varied ingredients ready to delight the taste buds. Get involved and get inspired by these beautiful potato.ie creations below.


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Ford Aspire Review
Aspire is subcompact hatchback from Ford's stable in the Indian car market. It shares the same engine with its smaller sibling Ford Figo.
Simmer loves vintage vehicles and always stays inquisitive about happenings in the auto sector. Apart from writing on automobiles, she loves hiking and watching movies.
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Ford Aspire is the company's four-meter compact car. Aspire was updated in late 2018 to add more style, a refurbished cabin, and a new petrol engine. The company introduced the 2020 BS6 Aspire sedan in the Indian Market at Rs 5.99 lakh (showroom price). Its BS6 petrol engine variant makes the same 96PS and 119Nm, while the diesel version produces 100PS and 215Nm of torque. Most features are still the same. The Aspire comes with six airbags, a touchscreen display with navigation possibility, upgraded wipers that can sense rain, hail, and showers. Automatic headlamps in the top-variant that comes for around Rs 8.34 lakh (showroom price).
Every inch of Aspire has been designed to add comfort and fun to your ride while driving to your destination. What makes this car different from its competitors is its unique exterior features; it knows how to attract viewers on the road. Its stylish design knows how to impress buyers. Lightweight Alloy wheels add smoothness to your driving experience. Rain-sensing windscreen wipers, Smart Trunk opener, Tubeless tires, and many more exterior features that will become your perfect driving partner while you progress from one station to another.
The approx. size of this car is (L x W x H) is 3995mm x 1704mm x 1525mm with a wheelbase 2490mm.
The Interior upgrade is more comprehensive. The all-new dashboard with the touchscreen infotainment system looks classy and elegant. The seats are comfortable but the cabin space is small as compared to its competitors.
Ford Aspire comes with the latest technologies and safety features that will keep you comfortable and safe while riding. Touchscreen with Navigation feature helps you to go to unknown places. High-resolution Rear-View Camera provided for easy driving. Its boot size is 359liters. There is plenty of space for 5 adults to sit without any hassle. Dynamic fuel capacity of 40L allows you to travel to your favorite place without any worries of fueling it again and again.
The Ford Aspire comes in Petrol-Manual, diesel-Manual, or Petrol-CNG on offer. The Diesel engine is 1498 cc while the two Petrol engine variants are 1194 cc with the Manual & 1497 with Auto transmission. The CNG version comes with an 1194 cc engine. The 1497 cc Petrol engine version generates a power of 94.93bhp and a torque of 119Nm. The 1194cc Petrol engine generates a power of 94.93bhp and a torque of 119Nm. The 1498 cc Diesel version generates a max. power of 98.96bhp and 215Nm Torque. The 1194 cc CNG generates the power of 82hp and 102Nm. The Aspire rides smoother at slower speeds.
From these Engine specifications, we can say that this car is one of the powerful and compact sedans that can make your journey fun-filled.
It has been years that the company Ford is assuring to give a comfortable and safe drive to everyone. The Ford Aspire has 6 Airbags on Driver, Passenger, and side fronts for the utmost safety of the passengers. Anti-Lock Brakes, Electronic Brake force Distribution, Speed-sensing Auto-door lock, Child-Safe Lock, Central Locking, Automatic Headlamps, Automatic wipers, Adjustable Front headrest, Height-adjustable driver seat, Rear Seat Armrest, Adjustable Read Headrest, Keyless entry, and many more safety features to its list.
Touchscreen with Navigation feature has been added for extra safety. This feature allows drivers to drive to the new location without any worries of watching directions on phone. This minimizes the rate of accidents due to careless driving.
Ford Aspire's price begins at Rs. 6.20 Lakh (on-road price) and go up to Rs. 9.81 Lakh (on-road). Aspire is available in 15 variants. The price of the Petrol variant starts from the Ambiente version at 6.20 Lakhs and goes up to 9.60 Lakhs for the Titanium AT variant. The price of the diesel version starts from the Ambiente version at 7.47 Lakhs and goes up to 9.81 for the Titanium +. The prices of the two models of CNG variant are 7.10 lakhs and 8.12lakhs.
In simple words, Ford Aspire is a perfect amalgamation of the exterior, interior, engine, and safety features with prices for people of all-income-group. It is a great car designed for car lovers.
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It is a well-known fact that very few of us enjoy visiting the dentist. The array of metal implements, harsh lights, the clinical environment and the pain of dental surgery means that many people have been afraid of the dentist from childhood.
Holistic dentistry aims to change this notion, and make trips to the dentist a place for healing and knowing that you are in the good hands of someone who cares about your health. If you are one of the many people who put off visiting the dentist due to fear, it may be a good choice for your dental health to find an alternative practice, like the Seattle holistic dentist. Taking care of your teeth is highly important for your overall health – these dentists recognize this fact and take a different approach so that everyone feels comfortable in their practice.
Below, we lay out a short explanation of what holistic dentistry is and all the benefits of going to a holistic dentistry practice.
Also known as natural or biological dentistry, this form of dentistry cares about patients' whole-body health, encompassing physical, emotional and mental health. Natural therapies are used as often as possible in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of oral health issues. A true holistic dentist can be defined as doing what is best for the whole body, starting with the teeth and gums.
Where possible, holistic dentists aim to reduce their use of harsh drugs, chemicals, and anesthetics on their patients. A new method called Laser Dentistry is often used, which is shown to reduce healing time, is virtually pain-free and eliminates the need for metal dentistry tools like drills, which can cause trauma to unaffected teeth and tissues of the mouth. It requires no anesthetic, which means no unnecessary chemicals enter the patient's body. Holistic dentists are typically against their patients ingesting fluoride.
Holistic dentistry aims to solve the patient's complaint by using the least invasive method possible, preserving the health of the unaffected teeth and tissues. These dentists understand their patients' wishes to undergo the least amount of surgery as possible and treat their patients' mouths as if they were their own.
This type of dentistry isn't about rushing as many patients in and out of their doors as possible – it's about taking it slow, doing things precisely and making the patient feel comfortable. These dentists aim to listen to their patients and work according to their needs and wishes in co-operation with the patient for a greater outcome. The principles that holistic dentists follow mean that they work slower but the result has a better effect on the health of the patient.
When drilling is necessary, holistic dentistry follows a slow-drilling method which is gentler and results in less of a need for pain-killing drugs or anesthetic. This kinder method means inflammation of the teeth and gums is less likely and reduces the need for root canals later down the line.
Many people are sensitive to mercury and nickel, commonly used in dentistry. Holistic dentists use metal-free compounds for fillings, inlays, crowns, implants and tooth restorations, often using ceramic instead. In accordance with the biological dentistry beliefs, biocompatible materials like porcelain are preferred to replace mercury and nickel. If you have been administered with dental restorative implants containing these metals before, a holistic dentist can remove them and replace them with gentler materials for you.
Holistic dentists see the mouth as the gateway to the entire body. The blood flowing through your heart and organs also flows to the mouth, which means that oral diseases quickly spread disease through the whole body in the bloodstream. Gum disease and tooth decay have been linked to heart disease, strokes, and even cancer, meaning that holistic dentists see it as imperative that everyone is prevented from developing any oral problems. See your holistic dentist for advice on taking naturally preventative measures against gum disease.
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Étréchy és un municipi francès, situat al departament de Cher i a la regió de . L'any 2007 tenia 421 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet d'Étréchy era de 421 persones. Hi havia 188 famílies, de les quals 56 eren unipersonals (28 homes vivint sols i 28 dones vivint soles), 64 parelles sense fills, 48 parelles amb fills i 20 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 249 habitatges, 186 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 35 eren segones residències i 28 estaven desocupats. 242 eren cases i 2 eren apartaments. Dels 186 habitatges principals, 138 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 42 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 6 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 2 tenien una cambra, 8 en tenien dues, 42 en tenien tres, 55 en tenien quatre i 80 en tenien cinc o més. 156 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 90 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 82 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 240 persones, 182 eren actives i 58 eren inactives. De les 182 persones actives 172 estaven ocupades (99 homes i 73 dones) i 10 estaven aturades (2 homes i 8 dones). De les 58 persones inactives 20 estaven jubilades, 17 estaven estudiant i 21 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Étréchy hi havia 182 unitats fiscals que integraven 409,5 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 17.461 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 17 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa extractiva, 1 d'una empresa alimentària, 1 d'una empresa de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 5 d'empreses de construcció, 3 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 2 d'empreses de transport, 1 d'una empresa immobiliària, 1 d'una empresa de serveis, 1 d'una entitat de l'administració pública i 1 d'una empresa classificada com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 5 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era una oficina de correu, 1 guixaire pintor, 2 lampisteries i 1 electricista.

Dels 2 establiments comercials que hi havia el 2009, 1 era una botiga de menys de 120 m² i 1 una llibreria.

L'any 2000 a Étréchy hi havia 22 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 2.618 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques d'Étréchy a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades d'Étréchy a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis del Cher


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England braced for return to bushtucker trials as Ashes with a difference loom
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Time for Joe Root's men to set aside their baggage and take on the old enemy once again
Andrew Miller06-Dec-2021
Wood hopes England can learn from India's Gabba win (0:56)
Until Covid struck, it was a long-standing tradition for British TV executives to dispatch a team of personalities down to Australia for the festive build-up, to perform daft tasks for the delectation of their armchair viewers, under the permanent gaze of the all-seeing TV eye.
It soon transpired that English cricketers - well used to the strange combination of terror and boredom on their more conventional visits to Australia - were unusually well disposed to the dynamics of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. In its second season, way back in 2003, Phil Tufnell romped to victory through a combination of sardonic wit, enthusiastic bug-eating, and an ability to sleep his troubles away.
Nearly 20 years later, it is as if England's cricketers have been transported en masse back to that Queensland rainforest, given the extraordinarily soggy build-up to Wednesday's first Test at the Gabba. But the conditions for this contest - for Joe Root's men as well as their equally disorientated opponents - may have rather more in common with the plot from The Hunger Games or The Running Man: a dystopian battle of wills in which one team or other is liable to meet a gruesome end.
There's simply no precedent for the contest that is about to unfold. Teams are well used to going into Test series with little or no preparation - for several home summers until the ECB finally deigned to grant a window for the IPL, the Lord's Test in May was renowned for being a crap-shoot for visiting teams. But for both host and visitor to emerge blinking into the Gabba sunlight, desperately trying to orientate themselves before the other swings in with the first of innumerable haymakers, is both extraordinary and, for we bloodthirsty onlookers, a savagely compelling prospect.
If England don't start well, Australia could run away with Ashes
Robinson hopes to 'unsettle' Australia after stop-start build-up
Joe Root: 'Ashes will define my captaincy'
And yet, far from feeling sorry for the men in the middle of these invidious circumstances, you can't help but presume that - for both teams but most especially England - there's actually no place that they would rather be right now. The build-ups for both squads have been plagued by off-field mayhem, over and above the inconvenience of quarantine and the weather, but here's a chance to live in the moment, and breathe in the heat of battle. Who has time for the sort of worries dogging English cricket right now, when Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood are whistling an unfamiliar red orb around your lugholes?
For Root in particular, the Ashes is his release. This should be his moment - he's in the form of his life (or, at least, he was the last time he held a bat in anger four months ago) and on a personal level, he ought to have had nothing on his mind but his bid for redemption, after a last tilt at glory Down Under ended in a bout of heat exhaustion at Sydney and a long, miserable dreamless sleep as Australia paraded the Ashes on that infamous, antagonistic, four-fingers-and-clenched-fist podium.
Events, however, have conspired against any sort of zen-like focus. Twice so far, Root's been required to address the shocking revelations at Yorkshire; twice his responses have been evasive and insubstantial, leading Azeem Rafiq - English cricket's man of the moment - to tweet his disappointment at his former team-mate's failure to corroborate claims of racial mistreatment at the club.
Now Root's focus is sure to have been rocked once more by Friday afternoon's dramas, with the purging of 16 members of Yorkshire's back-room staff - many friends and confidantes doubtless among them - and talk of mass exoduses of the playing staff in solidarity.
To give Root the leeway that Rafiq himself admitted earlier in the saga he was due, to address these claims head-on - right here, right now - would have done him, his Ashes mission and the hope of a conciliatory end to the Yorkshire crisis no good at all. No doubt the time will come in the new year when Root sits down with the likes of Rafiq and Gary Ballance, his former housemate, to thrash out their differences and find the common ground. But, right now, he is 10,000 miles away on the wrong side of the world, as far away as it is possible to be from the sort of face-to-face explanations that a situation of this gravity demands.
For the time being, however, Root has a team to pick, a toss to win, a first over to negotiate, an unusually friendless Ashes crowd to tame. And a 2021 Test haul of 1455 runs at 66 to fall back on as proof that - in spite of all evidence to the contrary - this is the time of his life, and this is the stage that will define him.
From a standing start, Stokes is no less prepared than anyone else - and if that means that the Gabba Test becomes a battle of mentality giants, he has an ability to tower over opponents that few contemporaries can match
And what of Ben Stokes, another man well used to life in the goldfish bowl, after his ascension in 2019 to bona fide superstar status? He too has a pile of baggage to bring into this first contest - not least, his residual guilt at not being there for Root four years ago, when the fall-out from his Bristol brawl left his career, and briefly his freedom, in limbo.
Until October, Stokes was resigned to missing his second Ashes tour in succession - a potentially crushing void in the record of a man who knows, like Root, that he's now marching into his prime years as an athlete. But then came that crucial second finger operation, and the removal of the scar tissue that had been causing him such agony after the original break had healed. In an instant the pain evaporated, and with it the mental toil that led to him sitting out the prime months of the English summer.
And now, here he is, arguably the single biggest beneficiary of the rain-wrecked Ashes build-up, in that the preparation he might have obtained from seven days of clear weather is nothing compared to the setbacks it will have caused the men whom he'll be coming up against this week. From a standing start, he's no less prepared than anyone else in the contest. And if that means that the Gabba Test becomes a battle of mentality giants, then - as Stokes demonstrated in that epic summer of 2019 - when his mind clicks into gear, he has an ability to tower over opponents that few of his contemporaries can match.
And how about a penny for Ollie Robinson's thoughts too. Six months ago, he thought his career was crushed, as the revolting details of his historic tweets came to light on the opening day of his debut Test at Lord's. Leaving aside the rightful condemnation he received, it required untold mental fortitude for Robinson to plough on through that contest, picking up a haul of seven wickets and a gutsy 42, when lesser individuals might have allowed the ground to swallow them up there and then.
He rose to the challenge against India too, and comes into the Gabba swinging from the hip about Australia's "horrendous" attempts at sledging, and his determination to boss his battles from the outset. It might all prove to be talk - most of this Ashes build-up, by definition, has been talk. But then, when you've felt that sinkhole forming beneath your feet, and not only survived, but thrived, you're probably entitled to believe that no circumstances can ever again prove so daunting.
Ben Stokes is readying for another Ashes engagement Getty Images
James Anderson and Stuart Broad might have appreciated a bit more actual game-time in this build-up, given that time is forever marching on and their dodgy calves are unlikely to get more robust with age. But if you had to pick a pair of operators to send into an Ashes series with next to no prep, then two men who are embarking on their fifth and fourth tours respectively would doubtless fit the bill. Much has been made of the addition of Troy Cooley to England's coaching ranks, to give the lowdown on his former Australian charges. But when it comes to imparting the vital intel about lines and lengths for the Gabba, there's not a lot that these two won't have already gleaned - even if, it should be acknowledged, it's been more than a decade since either man played any part in a Test victory Down Under.
For Australia's line-up is replete with similarly hungry combatants, albeit they've not been seen in Test action for 11 months and counting. If the circumstances of Cummins' accession to the captaincy veer towards the sub-optimal, then the optics of the clean-cut, thinking-man's fast bowler could hardly be more tantalising, while Steven Smith's return to an official leadership role, three years after Sandpapergate, is barely less intriguing. He comes into this campaign with the small matter of 1461 runs at 121.75 in his last nine Ashes Tests - about the only batting statistic that can make Root's current form feel inadequate.
There's David Warner too, who has already proven once this winter how his mind can triumph over matter in scorching Australia to a preconception-busting T20 World Cup triumph. Who cares that he made 95 runs in ten innings in 2019, and fell to Broad on seven of those occasions, when he's got 18 of his 24 Test centuries in Australia and nine wins and a draw in ten Ashes contests on home soil.
Then there's Nathan Lyon, stuck on 399 Test wickets for the best part of a year, and perhaps still quietly stewing about that extraordinary act of "champing" after India's win at the Gabba last year, when Ajinkya Rahane presented him with a 100th Test signed shirt at the precise moment he would rather have been anywhere else in the world. He might be eager to move on from that fumble too...
All of these and more will be packaging up their memories - good, bad and distinctly ugly - and launching them into the maelstrom come Wednesday morning. The sport has been through the mill for all manner of reasons in recent months. But it would not be a newsworthy endeavour were it not for occasions such as these. The Ashes are back, but not as we know them. Settle into that armchair, and load up on the bushtucker. Because who knows where this one is headed.
England in Australia
Andrew Miller is UK editor of ESPNcricinfo. @miller_cricket


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EU reaffirms its support to peace and security in Africa with €300 million
European Commission The European Commission has decided to replenish the African Peace Facility (APF) with €300 million to support African peace and security actions both at regional and continental levels. The funding will be available to the African Union and African Regional Organisations for the period 2011-2013 in order to support relevant, targeted, continental and regional initiatives in the area of conflict prevention, management and resolution, and peace building.
The Peace Facility provides substantial and predictable funding to African-led peace support operations and relevant capacity building activities for African organisations. It constitutes the major financing instrument of the Africa-EU strategic partnership in Peace and Security.
EU HRVP Cathy Ashton said: "The EU is sparing no effort to support the African Union's work to bring peace to the continent, as this additional contribution demonstrates. We applaud those countries that have mobilised troops for missions supporting peace, such as Amisom in Somalia. However, more effort is still required. We encourage other African countries to step forward and support the AU in this endeavour. And I call on the whole international community to step up their contribution to help build peace and stability in Africa."
"It is estimated that in Africa more than 200 million people currently still live in conflict zones, which prevents efforts to alleviate poverty" said EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, adding: "Security and stability must be ensured to lay the foundations for sustainable development in Africa. The Peace Facility has supported a number of African peace support operations in recent years. Today's decision confirms EU's steadfast support to African organisations in their actions to prevent conflicts and to maintain peace in critical zones ".
In addition to peace operations, the APF supports the African Peace and Security Architecture, which focuses on the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts. In this area, approximately €100 million have been earmarked since 2004 for activities aimed at strengthening capacities of African institutions at the continental and regional level.
Operations financed through the African Peace Facility
Ongoing operations, financed through the APF, are the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Mission for the consolidation of peace in Central African Republic (MICOPAX) and the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM).
In Somalia, the APF funds the African Union Peace Support Operation (AMISOM) which provides support to the Somali Transitional Federal Institutions in their stabilisation efforts and in the pursuit of political dialogue and reconciliation. AMISOM is also mandated to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid and to create the necessary conditions for reconstruction, reconciliation and the sustainable development of Somalia.
Since the deployment of AMISOM, the EU has been one of the main funders of the operation both through the African Peace Facility and through bilateral contributions of its Member States. The overall APF contribution to the mission amounts to €208.4 million and covers costs such as allowances, medical care, housing, fuel and communication equipment.
Another example of mediation actions funded through the Facility is the support to the AU High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) on Sudan. The initiative has contributed to the mediation process in Sudan and has allowed the inclusion of civil society in the negotiations. The work of the panel has been instrumental in contributing to resolving the conflict in Darfur. The AU mission in Sudan has so far received the largest share of EU funds, with a contribution of €305 million.
Originally established by the EU in 2003 in response to a request of the African Union, the APF is an instrument of EU support to the Africa Peace and Security agenda. Over the years it has provided funding to African-led peace support operations (€607 million) and provided significant contributions to the strengthening of African institutional capacities in peace and security at continental and regional level (€100 million) as well as supported a number of mediation activities (€15 million).
The facility is also a major financing instrument of the joint Africa-EU strategy, in particular the partnership on peace and security, adopted in Lisbon in December 2007.
European Commission: Speech by José Manuel Durão Barroso President of the European Commission 'Peace, prosperity and partnership – the European Union's relations with Africa'
European Union: 'The African peace and security agenda'
Africa and Europe in Partnership: 'The EU increases its support for conflict prevention and resolution in Africa with EUR 40 million'
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Dates: 14 Apr
Several Indian festivals coincide with the harvest time and Baisakhi is one of them. Baisakhi is celebrated by the people of Punjab with vigor and joy. It is celebrated by different names and with different rituals almost all over India, when the Rabi crop is ready for harvesting. Baisakhi is also the day when the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, founded the Khalsa Panth over three hundred years ago.
The Vaishakha period of April and May is filled with festivals of fun, frolic and merry-making and Baisakhi, derived from the word Vaishakh, falls in this auspicious period. Based on the Indian solar calendar, this festival falls on April 13 every year and on April 14 once every 36 years.
Baisakhi is a harvest festival and the tough agricultural operation of harvesting is rendered into a lighter occupation by many community festivities such as the Bhangra dance by men, who pound the ground with vigorous steps to the accompaniment of traditional music. Women too, break into the revelry of dances, principally the Gidda dance, executed with fervor and rhythmic exactitude. On these occasions, men and women adorn themselves with gay colored clothes and traditional jewelry. Generally, the sites of these festivities are the banks of rivers, which have their sacred import with myths and legends woven around their origin and names.
A combined birthday for all the Sikhs, they celebrate this day by visiting gurudwaras and distributing kada prasad among all. Processions led by the Panj Piaras or the five religious men are taken out. Children, dueling youths and musical bands are a must for these enthusiastic processions. Kirtans and recital of passages from the Granth Sahib are also organized in gurdwaras, where people line up to receive the delicious kada prasad and perform kar sewa. Kar sewa is offering physical labor to help in the daily chores of the gurdwara and is a traditional symbol of humility for all Sikhs.
Basically a farmers' festival, Baisakhi is a time to enjoy before beginning the hard work of harvesting and as such, its celebration requires no prayers or fasting. However, people do go to temples after taking a bath in the nearby river.
The Sikhs offer prayers in gurudwaras to commemorate the founding day of their religion. The Granth Sahib, which was designated the eternal guru of Sikhs by Guru Gobind Singh, is taken out in procession and kirtans are organized in gurudwaras.
Baisakhi has a special meaning for the Sikhs. On this day in 1699, their tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, organized the order of the Khalsa. He discontinued the tradition of Gurus in Sikhism by declaring the Granth Sahib to be the eternal Guru of all Sikhs. To form the Khalsa Panth he asked his followers to volunteer to be ready to lay down their lives to save others. Five volunteers of five different castes were made the Panj Piaras, who would lead the rest. On this day also, Guru Arjan Dev was martyred by the Muslim rulers who, in barbaric cruelty, threw him alive into a cauldron of boiling oil. Again, on this day in 1875, Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj-a reformed sect of Hindus who are devoted to the Vedas for spiritual guidance and have discarded idol worship. This day is of immense religious import to the Buddhists because Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment or Nirvana under the Mahabodhi tree in the town of Gaya on this auspicious day. The day is also known, as Buddha Purnima is some parts of the country.
Regional Celebrations
Baisakhi day is observed as the Naba Barsha (New Year) in Bengal. On April 14, the people take a ritual bath in the River Ganga or any other river or a nearby tank and decorate their houses with rangoli (floral patterns) drawn at the entrance of their homes with a paste made of rice powder.In Assam, this is the day for the Rongali Bihu, which is a chance for the young people of the state to dress up in their traditional finery and dance the night away. There too, this is the harvest festival, which allows the farmers to relax and enjoy before they take up the task of harvesting their crop.
Baisakhi festival is celebrated twice a year in Himachal Pradesh in the honor of Goddess Jwalamukhi. In the months of Vaishakha (April-May) and Kartika (November), the Himachalis worship the Goddess whose image near a hot spring issues forth flames.
In the South, Baisakhi is celebrated to mark the Tamil and Telugu New Year. In a ceremonial march, people take out wooden chariots in a procession. The temples in Kerala celebrate Pooram festivals usually in honor of Vishnu at this time. Among them, the Pooram observed in the Vaddakunathan Swamy (Shiva) temple of Trichur is famous.
The state of Bihar state celebrates a festival in Vaishakha (April) and Kartika (November) in honor of the Sun God, Surya, at a place called Surajpur-Baragaon. This is essentially a village where, according to an ancient practice, people bathe in the temple tank and pay obeisance to the Sun God while offering flowers and water from the sacred river Ganga.
Though most of the states celebrate this time of the year, to witness the rich tradition and colorful festivities of Baisakhi, Punjab is the place to be. The traditional bhangra and gidda, the procession of the Panj Piaras and the taste of the kada prasad can be experienced only in Punjab.


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