For more than 30 years, photographer Deborah Feingold has been capturing the spirit of music's biggest names, from Madonna to James Brown to Prince. What started as a hobby, learning to develop prints in darkrooms when she was just 12 years old, quickly turned into a successful career shooting New York's jazz stars, and eventually rap icons and pop divas.
"I've shot everything there is, including food," Feingold told BuzzFeed. "I've had the opportunity to do a lot of different stuff. But if I was going to do a book, this was the book I wanted to do." Feingold's first, Music, a collection of her favorite photographs of musicians, will be released on Sept. 30 via Damiani Books.
In anticipation of Music's release, Feingold shared nine photos from the book, as well as eight rarely seen exclusive outtakes (including a photo of her taken by Prince) with BuzzFeed.
I only had 12 frames. When I had asked to shoot her, I had called up a couple of publications because it was a smaller world then. [David Keeps] was one of the editors at Star Hits magazine and I asked if I could shoot her for it and he said sure. It was just me and a young woman who was assisting me, we shot in my apartment.
There was no makeup artist — she came ready to go. There was no stylist. I have no explanation why I served a bowl of bubblegum and lollipops. She came in and we worked for 20 minutes and she left. It was just two working girls, staying focused, doing it.
When you are in the presence of someone who has a bit of magic in them, or confidence, it's contagious. I don't know if I followed her lead — she certainly wasn't following mine — but it just worked. Every one of the photos is absolutely beautiful to me, and, to me, they show a side of her that I don't think you see of her.
I wanted to give you [the outtake above] because the other one is so posed and staged … but she was adorable. Just imagine what it was like having none of that [interference from handlers]. There was no one there, there was no one telling me what to do.
[I was shooting her for a] cover for Ms. Magazine [and] when the shoot was all over, I didn't really feel like I had anything for myself. I said to her, 'Would you mind if I took a few pictures of you outside?' So that is right outside my studio in SoHo.
Those are the clothes that she wore into my studio, and we are just standing four feet from my doorway. That's daylight, on Crosby Street in SoHo.
The outtake [above] was from what I did for Ms. Magazine. It's not the one that was on the cover, but it's from that series.
I felt like I was from Mars with [The Ramones]. Because who shoots them in a formal studio setting? I don't know… I did! That's what I was really good at. I'm really glad that I did that. I loved that kind of lighting and I didn't realize that I was probably the only one that ever shot them like that. I kind of wish I was at CBGB's with them, but that just never really happened.
It was daytime, a publicity photo session for their record company. I was maybe not that familiar with all the photos of them. Remember, you couldn't go on Google and look at all the images, so what did I know? I saw some pictures in the Village Voice and Soho Weekly News. I thought it would be nice to do a nice portrait of them.
He lived in his grandma's house in Queens and that's where we went. It was August, it was really hot. That's kind of what the place looked like. I'm very neat, so I didn't really know what to do except to get on a ladder and shoot down on him. It would've been inappropriate had I started organizing, which is what I do. I didn't show the bed, I didn't go that personal. But the truth is I only had one lens and that was as much as I could get, and the ceilings were low, so I was right up to the top just shooting down on him.
It was just playful; I mean he's 19 years old! So I was laughing my way through. I always felt like I was kind of goofy, and you wouldn't call me 'cool.' I tried to be what I felt the subject needed.
I don't think I [attached the streamers to the fan], but I turned it on. I don't even know why it's there. We weren't that clever, we weren't that deep. I just thought it was funny for him to fan himself.
These took place in a record label, in an office. That was my challenge: How do I get to own this somehow? Because it wasn't always mine.
We met at her mom's apartment; I think she lived with her mom at that point, somewhere in the city on the west side. I had a car and we drove to Central Park. I was still able to just wing it. That was for People magazine and they always wanted something kitschy and all that.
It's hard to just say to someone, 'OK! Be really loosey-goosey!' So sometimes I would just bring something to be playful with — like the lollipop. Something to work off of. I just bought [the toy piano].
They're all looking so tough, but in the frame before that the young man in the middle is acting like a goofball. One of them breaks the pose — it's really funny.
In the beginning of my career I didn't know what to say. I was as shy as my subjects. It was only with experience and age that I became more comfortable. But that anxiety is what pushes you. There was always a fine line. I never wanted to totally direct. I wanted so much for it to come from them. But it was always a dance. I believed in improvising and I believed in just putting it out there. And you know what? It didn't always work. I didn't want to have everything down so pat that everything always looked the same. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
I was hired by the Soho Weekly News to photograph him at The Bottom Line. They said, 'Yeah, there's this new guy, there's a lot of talk about it, he's from Minnesota. We want you to get some concert shots. And we want you to ask to go backstage and see if you can get a photo.' And I'm like, 'I don't do that.. I… I…. I…' I was really shy.
I get in the room, it's the two of us, it's a really teeny-tiny space. And I think after 12 shots, I didn't know what the hell to do after that. I mean, really, what were Prince and I gonna talk about? After 'Hi, how are you?' What was there to say? He's getting ready to go on stage for his first New York show, and I didn't know what took over me but I just said, 'Would you like to take a picture of me?' So I now have a picture of me taken by Prince.
I didn't know what the hell to do. I didn't even finish one roll of film. Look at the picture of me, I'm just sitting like a dork smiling, and then there's a picture of him all happy walking out the door.
You had to be pushy in that business to get your pictures. It was mostly men — there were a couple of us women, but it was a lot of men — and the last thing you could ever accuse me of was being pushy. To a fault. And I think [my manner] hit a nerve with him and I think he felt like doing something nice in turn. That was kind of always my experience. I was always polite.
Music is out Sept. 30 via Damiani Books. You can pre-order it on Amazon.


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Freddie Gray? Race? Nope, Baltimore Is About Increasing Federal Power
Mac Slavo May 4, 2015
It isn't really about Freddie Gray. And it isn't really about race, either.
It's about federal power over policing in America.
That agenda, which SHTF reported on back in December, is made plain by the latest from the Rev. Al Sharpton.
His march on Washington isn't just an attempt to stir up sympathy points in a divided political landscape. By his own words, Sharpton is trying to use the issue to fight states' rights and have the Justice Department intervene at the federal level with local police affairs:
"We need the Justice Department to step in and take over policing in this country. In the 20th Century, we had to fight states' rights to get the right to vote, and we got to fight states' rights in terms of closing down police cases. Police must be held accountable. I don't think all police are bad; I don't even think most are bad; but those that are need to be held accountable."
In his cynical, opportunistic way, Sharpton is a attempting to recreate the civil rights movement of the 60s, with all the trappings a politically-corrected generation that swarms on Twitter before it gathers on the streets.
How far will things go? Many believe the ultimate goal is to use the strings of federal funding and the threat of civil rights lawsuits to essentially create a national police unit that would trump local and state powers. Does justice spring from that process? The question may be too late.
Violence of police abuse has predictably surfaced once again in Baltimore, with the vast majority Americans (in polls) expecting more violence to spread in inner cities across America in the coming weeks. It could be a long, hot summer.
As the Baltimore Sun reported, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who controversially called for "space" for those who wished to destroy, is in lock-step with Sharpton's federal agenda:
The mayor promised that "we will get justice for Freddie Gray" and defended the steps she has taken to reform Baltimore's policing practices. Rawlings-Blake noted that even before Gray's arrest April 12 she had asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Baltimore Police Department, saying that was the strongest action she could take short of entering into a consent decree.
"Nobody wants the Department of Justice to come in and take over our city," she said.
Nobody, that is, but those involved in President Obama's racially-themed fourth quarter politics.
From Michael Brown in Ferguson, to Trayvon Martin in Florida, Eric Garner in New York and now Freddie Gray in Baltimore, the usual suspects have been working hard not only to link police abuse with race, but to patch it into a larger civil rights case spanning nationwide that requires federal action over local police matters.
Via Twitter, the ACLU declared that the 'Black Spring has begun' and urged cooperation with the Justice Department in efforts to collect data on deaths and abuse in police hands. It references the Arab Spring, in which grassroots uprising ultimately gave way to military dictatorship, at least in Egypt.
#BlackSpring has begun. Protesters, #knowyourrights! pic.twitter.com/zUf8Vofu9s
— ACLU National (@ACLU) May 1, 2015
We need to reform policing. Better data is a good start. Tell @TheJusticeDept now is the time https://t.co/SlTuNkVG1p pic.twitter.com/leFGSZt3U1
— ACLU of Maryland (@ACLU_MD) May 2, 2015
Towards the end of 2014, Eric Holder appointed ACLU racial justice lawyer Vanita Gupta to be Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. Loretta Lynch, recently confirmed as Holder's replacement as Attorney General, is expected to carry the ball forward.
Then-Attorney General Eric Holder filed a civil rights inquiry in the matters pertaining to Eric Garner, just days after violence erupted as a result of a grand jury decision not to indict the officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson. The BBC reported:
Announcing "an independent, thorough, fair and expeditious" investigation into potential civil rights violations in the chokehold case, Mr Holder said he was continuing a review of how to heal a "breakdown in trust" between police and communities.
The justice department, he said, would conduct a "complete review" of material gathered in the local investigation. "All lives must be valued – all lives," he added.
Even though America has a black president and a black attorney general, Eric Holder, this will reinforce the widespread feeling in poor African-American communities that the criminal justice system is weighted against them, and that the law is not colour-blind.
As SHTF pointed out last time, the wave of attempts to improve police-community relations during the Clinton years inadvertently fueled the rise of hyper-policing that has put more people per capita behind bars in America than anywhere else in the world, and with it a higher percentage of black men than any other group.
Reuters just published a report warning of the "unintended consequences" of the Justice Department "fixing" what is wrong with Ferguson and the other cases.
While arguing that the federal government "can and should" influence changes in criminal justice policy, Reuters also points out the drastic damage that has already been done:
One piece of federal legislation, the 1994 crime bill, has played a pivotal role in the incarceration epidemic. The law, which was designed to reduce crime, gave states $9 billion to pass laws that would increase time spent behind bars.
The result, however, was an explosion in state prison populations that has made the United States the world's largest jailor. The United States has 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of its prisoners. This has immense fiscal, economic and social consequences — each prisoner costs taxpayers, on average, $30,000 a year, and inmates with criminal records, even for minor offenses, face significant challenges re-entering society. The racial disparities are also vast. One in three black men can expect to spend time behind bars.
Today, the federal government annually sends states and cities more than $4 billion… What the federal government chooses to fund, however, creates incentives for local police. For example, Washington's funding priorities have supported mass incarceration by concentrating on the number of arrests and seizures police make, rather than tabulating the number of offenders diverted to mental health or drug treatment programs.
However odious the actions of the local and state authorities, beware the consequences of the federal government's solution.
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Dozens killed in Congo protests
At least 42 people have been killed in three days of protests in Democratic Republic of Congo over a proposed legal reform the opposition says would keep President Joseph Kabila in power for years.
Paul Nsapu, secretary general for Africa of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), said most of the victims had been killed by government security forces as they took part in political protests.
The government, which says only 15 people have been killed, said most of the victims were shot by private security guards while looting.
"For the most part these people were killed while they were advancing to protest," Mr Nsapu said, adding that more than 100 people had been injured. "We don't expect the government to act in the same way as a rebel group."
In a third day of protests, police fired teargas at demonstrators at the university campus in the riverside capital Kinshasa,. Clashes also took place in three other areas of the teeming riverside capital,.
In the central neighbourhood of Matete, a witness reported security forces firing live rounds at protesters, who had erected barricades of burning tyres in the streets and responded by hurling rocks.
Cyprus gang-rape case teenager launches appeal against conviction
Canadian newspaper in scathing 'stay away' warning to Duke and Duchess of Sussex
Donald Trump impeachment trial prosecutors unveiled by democrats
Children treated after plane dumps fuel over Los Angeles schools
Seven-billion-year-old stardust in meteorite 'oldest material on Earth'
Iran plane crash: Arrests made as investigation into passenger plane shot down begins
Tributes paid to British backpacker, 21, who died in Sydney cliff fall
Keeping young refugees from their loved ones is inhumane
Vegetables dropped from the sky in Australia for fire-affected wallabies


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The backpack working group met with Dr. Pierce and her staff to discuss our concerns around the weight of the backpacks. See our presentation here.
We hosted a screening of the film "Screenagers" at LWHS where more than 300 parents and kids learned how to control their screen habits and talk about it as a family.
We held a parent coffee with Richard Snyder in the library and learned about all of the clubs and activities he's created for the kids.
We held auditions and started rehearsal for the PTSA sponsored spring play performance of "As You Like It."
We sponsored a competition between A and B lunches during Earth Day to see who could compost more.


A new date has been set for the Def Leppard and Journey show in Albuquerque.
Halfway through Journey's set on Sept. 5, officials postponed the show.
A new date has bee rescheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Isleta Amphitheater.
Tickets for the original show on Sept. 5 will be honored on the new date. Bring the original ticket on Sept. 18 for entry, according to Live Nation.


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Archive for October 12th, 2012|Daily archive page
Artist, Cody Chesnutt, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Howard Theatre, Meshell Ndegeocello, Nina Simone, Plantation Lullabies, Sinéad O'Connor, Singer, To Be Young Gifted and Black, Toshi Reagon, Washington DC
Meshell Ndegeochello's Tribute To Nina Simone…
In Daily Musings on October 12, 2012 at 9:30 am
One of my all time favourite recording artists, Meshell Ndegeochello, has paid tribute to Ms. Nina Simone by releasing a new album titled " Pour une âme souveraine {For a Sovereign Soul}. This disc is a collaboration with artists such as Sinead O'Connor, Cody Chestnut, Toshi Reagon, among other well-known talent.
This venture will consist of covers and adaptations of Nina's most famous songs, such as "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" {fantastic cover by Cody Chestnut}, "Four Women" and "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" I'm loving track 8 with Lizz Wright, "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
Meshell has been one of my favourites from her first album "Plantation Lullabies", when I was working in the Music industry and she was on Madonna's Maverick record label, which was owned by the label I worked for. What I've always admired about Meshell, was she never conformed to record industry standards, but always played to her own tune. She is now with small French indie jazz label, Naive, where I'm sure she's a whole lot happier.
Meshell will be appearing at The Howard Theatre in Washington, DC, October, 14. Catch her if you can.
To hear mini samples of the album via Amazon, click here. or listen to longer samples on iTunes.


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June 2, 2011 / 6:55 AM / 8 years ago
HK court to rule on Tiger hedge fund trading ban within 2 weeks
HONG KONG, June 2 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's high court said on Thursday it will rule within two weeks whether the market regulator is allowed to ban New York-based hedge fund Tiger Asia from trading in the territory and freeze money it says are the proceeds of insider dealing.
Tiger Asia is challenging the Securities and Futures Commission's (SFC) proposed ban and asset freeze, saying the regulator should stick to just pursuing a criminal prosecution.
The SFC says it has to use a two-fold strategy to tackle market misconduct — institute criminal proceedings but also take remedial actions to ensure investor protection and claw back the profits made from insider-dealing cases.
But given that Tiger Asia and all of its employees are based outside of Hong Kong, the SFC has not been able to pursue a criminal case against the individuals it alleges were involved.
In the first case of its kind, the market regulator sought to prevent Julian Robertson-seeded Tiger Asia from dealing in listed securities and derivatives last year.
The SFC alleged that Tiger Asia, its portfolio manager Bill Hwang, and two other executives Raymond Park and William Tomita, engaged in insider trading and market manipulation in the shares of China Construction Bank Corp (CCB) and Bank of China in 2008 and 2009.
SFC has accused Tiger Asia of insider trading in shares of Bank of China in January 2009 after receiving confidential and price-sensitive information regarding two share placements. This was the second such charge levelled against the firm by the SFC.
The regulator has applied to freeze HK$8.6 million ($1.1 million) of Tiger Asia's assets, the amount of notional profit made by the firm in one of the alleged insider-trading transactions in Bank of China.
In August 2009, the SFC applied for a high court injunction to freeze close to HK$30 million of Tiger Asia's assets, equivalent to the profit made by the firm through alleged insider trading in shares of China Construction Bank .	($1 = 7.780 Hong Kong Dollars)	(Reporting by Nishant Kumar and Helen Chan in HONG KONG and Rachel Armstrong in SINGAPORE; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)


Edibe Sozen and Egemen Bagis, deputy chairpersons of Justice & Development (AK) Party, received Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian, Palestinian and Syrian journalists who visited Turkey under a European Commission project.
Representatives of nine media institutions from 5 countries as well as International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) attended the meeting which was held at AK Party HQ.
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On the other hand, Bagis replied questions of the journalists regarding Turkey's EU membership process and Turkey-Middle East relations.
The Middle Eastern journalists arrived in Turkey within the scope of a project as "On the Road to Membership: The Case of Turkey".


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The radicalization of a small American town
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Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, United States of America Published: Oct 24, 2020, 07:54 PM(IST)
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THE CHANGE HAS OCCURRED SO SLOWLY THAT AT TIMES I HARDLY NOTICED IT.
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — For 20 years, off and on, I've lived in this small, blue-collar town about 30 minutes west of Cincinnati. My grandparents, immigrants from Germany, bought my old farmhouse, on 15 acres, during World War II. I've always felt that this town embodies much of what I love about the Midwest: friendliness, a lack of pretension and a prevailing sense of decency among neighbors.
A few weeks ago, I met up with a good friend, an 84-year-old retiree named Frank, who lives nearby. He told me that he'd put up a "Biden-Harris" lawn sign, and within 36 hours it had been stolen. In response, his girlfriend taped another sign to the inside of their ranch home's front window. Frank immediately took it down. "The chair I like to sit in is right there," he explained. "The next time they come, I'm afraid it might be a brick, or a bullet." Just a few years ago, I would have said that Frank was overreacting. Now I'm not so sure.
Over the past four years, my hometown has become radicalized. This is a loaded word, but it's the only way to describe it.
As recently as 2008, I saw Bill Clinton speak at our community center, where the crowd was so large that people had to listen to him from loudspeakers in a nearby firehouse. The mood was electric. "People are broke at the end of every month," he said. "This has to change." He promised that with Democratic leadership, it would. An aggressive new energy policy would bring jobs, with higher incomes.
And this promise was very welcome. At the time, the best job I could find was at a call center, selling home security systems. But I felt hopeful. I stuck an Obama sign in my yard and a campaign bumper sticker on my old Corolla. Like a lot of my neighbors, I believed that Democrats would, in fact, improve the town's fortunes, and on election night, Barack Obama carried the state.
But things didn't improve. Not really. The latest census reports median household income in Lawrenceburg as $30,735, with a little over 32 percent of us in poverty. And in 2014, according to The New York Times, our small county (which is over 97 percent white) sent more people to prison than San Francisco. In January, our hospital cited a "higher number of uninsured patients" as a reason it needed to "right-size" its work force by laying off 31 employees and eliminating behavioral health services.
And there are darker omens. Last fall, my teenage nephew came running into the house, wide-eyed, saying he'd found a human skull in the woods. I followed him until, panting at the bottom of a ravine, I saw the skull trapped in a thicket of sticks and leaves, missing several of its front teeth. The police arrived, and for the rest of the night, I watched from my bedroom window as flashlights swept over the long grass, through the woods, until they were finally swallowed by darkness.
It was an overdose, an officer told me later, the victim most likely another casualty of the nation's opioid epidemic. (In 2017, in this county, there were 80 opioid prescriptions for every 100 residents.) The young man seemed to have died higher up on the hill, where they found more of his remains. The rain must have washed his skull down the slope.
The skull felt like a portent, but also a turning point. Months later, I noticed a vendor at a roadside stand selling Trump flags. "Trump 2020: Keep America Great," one read. Another read "Trump 2020: No More [Expletive]." It was more than half a year away from the election, and I remember thinking: Why flags? A flag was something people fought under, and for; something people carried to war. By the summer, another vendor popped up selling flags with even bolder slogans like "Trump 2020: [Expletive] Your Feelings," "Liberty or Die," "Make Liberals Cry Again." The economy was in the dumps but the flag business was booming.
And not just Trump flags. In the past few months, I have seen three Confederate flags hoisted in neighbors' yards, where previously I'd seen none. Just a few weeks ago, two masked men appeared outside our high school, holding a large KKK flag and fliers, apparently scouting for young recruits.
At times, all of this has felt like a horror movie, where it starts off happily enough — in a sun-drenched, idyllic farmhouse — and then the darkness slowly takes over. The change has occurred so slowly that at times, I hardly noticed it, until one day I barely recognized my hometown.
Last week, I drove down for a closer look at the nearest Trump stand, where alongside the flags hung Trump T-shirts. One read, "I'm a Deplorable." And it reminded me of my grandparents, of how they felt while still in Germany: willing to work as hard as anyone but seeing no way to improve their circumstances. In my more charitable moments, I can see my neighbors' xenophobia and racism and their Trump-loving thuggishness as symptoms of alienation from people who feel forsaken and disdained. This is, perhaps, the part of me that still feels deeply connected to where I live. But I've been appalled by the ugliness I've seen here this past year. And more often, in the dwindling autumn light, I find myself staring at my grandparents' old farmhouse and wondering if it's finally time to pack my bags.
Brian Groh © 2020 The New York Times Company
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Q: Errors on Xubuntu 14.04 Startup I recently changed my Dell Latitude E6440 Board. I am using Xubuntu 14.04.
I get those errors at start up. Here are the errors from the dmesg.
[    2.812926] usb 2-1.8: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[    2.992968] usb 2-1.8: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[    3.245021] usb 2-1.8: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[    3.421065] usb 2-1.8: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[    3.452032] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[    4.005107] usb 2-1.8: device not accepting address 6, error -32
[    4.485193] usb 2-1.8: device not accepting address 7, error -32

Any idea?

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from astropy.utils.exceptions import AstropyDeprecationWarning

def create_asdf_deprecation_warning():
    return AstropyDeprecationWarning(
        "ASDF functionality for astropy is being moved out of the astropy package to"
        " the new asdf-astropy package. Please use this package instead."
        " astropy.io.misc.asdf is deprecated since astropy 5.1 and will be removed in a"
        " future release."
    )


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'use strict';
require('mocha');
require('should');
var assert = require('assert');
var App = require('./fixtures/app');
var cu = require('./');

assert.hasAll = function(a, b) {
  assert(cu.hasAll(a, b));
};
assert.contains = function(a, b) {
  assert(cu.has(a, b));
};

describe('noop', function() {
  it('should return undefined:', function() {
    assert(typeof cu.noop({}) === 'undefined');
    assert(typeof cu.noop('foo') === 'undefined');
  });
});

describe('isObject', function() {
  it('should be true if the value is an object:', function() {
    assert(cu.isObject({}));
  });
  it('should be true if the value is a function:', function() {
    assert(cu.isObject(function() {}));
  });
  it('should be false if the value is an object:', function() {
    assert(!cu.isObject('foo'));
  });
});

describe('identity', function() {
  it('should return the given value:', function() {
    assert.deepEqual(cu.identity({}), {});
    assert.deepEqual(cu.identity('foo'), 'foo');
    assert.deepEqual(cu.identity(['foo']), ['foo']);
    assert.deepEqual(cu.identity([]), []);
  });
});

describe('hasAll', function() {
  describe('object', function() {
    it('should be true if an object has all given value:', function() {
      assert(cu.hasAll({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, 'c'));
      assert(cu.hasAll({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, ['c', 'b']));
      assert(cu.hasAll({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, ['a', 'b', 'c']));
    });

    it('should be false if an object does not have all given value:', function() {
      assert(!cu.hasAll({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, 'd'));
      assert(!cu.hasAll({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, ['c', 'b', 'z']));
    });
  });

  describe('arrays', function() {
    it('should be true if an array has all given value:', function() {
      assert(cu.hasAll(['a', 'b', 'c'], 'c'));
      assert(cu.hasAll(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['c', 'b']));
      assert(cu.hasAll(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'b', 'c']));
    });

    it('should be false if an array does not have all given value:', function() {
      assert(!cu.hasAll(['a', 'b', 'c'], 'd'));
      assert(!cu.hasAll(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['c', 'b', 'z']));
    });
  });
});

describe('has', function() {
  describe('objects', function() {
    it('should return true if an array has the given value:', function() {
      assert(cu.has({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, 'c'));
      assert(cu.has({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, 'b'));
    });
    it('should return false if an array does not have the given value:', function() {
      assert(!cu.has({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, 'd'));
      assert(!cu.has({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, 'e'));
    });
    it('should return true if an array has any given values:', function() {
      assert(cu.has({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, ['c', 'z']));
      assert(cu.has({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, ['a', 'z']));
    });
    it('should return false if an array does not have any given values:', function() {
      assert(!cu.has({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, ['x', 'z']));
      assert(!cu.has({
        a: 'b',
        b: 'c',
        c: 'd'
      }, ['y', 'z']));
    });
  });

  describe('arrays', function() {
    it('should return true if an array has the given value:', function() {
      assert(cu.has(['a', 'b', 'c'], 'c'));
      assert(cu.has(['a', 'b', 'c'], 'b'));
    });
    it('should return false if an array does not have the given value:', function() {
      assert(!cu.has(['a', 'b', 'c'], 'd'));
      assert(!cu.has(['a', 'b', 'c'], 'e'));
    });
    it('should return true if an array has any given values:', function() {
      assert(cu.has(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['c', 'z']));
      assert(cu.has(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'z']));
    });
    it('should return false if an array does not have any given values:', function() {
      assert(!cu.has(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['x', 'z']));
      assert(!cu.has(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['y', 'z']));
    });
  });

  it('should throw an error when the value is not an array or object:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.has('foo');
    }).should.throw('expected an array or object.');
  });
});

describe('hasConstructor', function() {
  it('should return true if a value is an object and has a constructor:', function() {
    assert(cu.hasConstructor({
      a: 'b',
      b: 'c',
      c: 'd'
    }));
    assert(cu.hasConstructor(function() {}));
    assert(cu.hasConstructor(App));
    assert(cu.hasConstructor(new App()));
    assert(cu.hasConstructor(Object.create(new App())));
  });

  it('should return false if a value is not object:', function() {
    assert(!cu.hasConstructor('foo'));
    assert(!cu.hasConstructor(5));
  });

  it('should return false if an object does not have a constructor:', function() {
    assert(!cu.hasConstructor(Object.create(null)));
    assert(!cu.hasConstructor(null));
  });
});

describe('nativeKeys', function() {
  it('should get the native keys of an object:', function() {
    assert.hasAll(cu.nativeKeys({
      a: 'b',
      b: 'c',
      c: 'd'
    }), ['a', 'b', 'c']);
    assert.hasAll(cu.nativeKeys(function() {}), ['length', 'name', 'prototype']);
    assert.hasAll(cu.nativeKeys(App), ['length', 'name', 'prototype']);
    assert.hasAll(cu.nativeKeys(App.prototype), ['constructor', 'set', 'get', 'del']);
    assert.hasAll(cu.nativeKeys(App.constructor), ['length', 'name', 'caller']);
    assert.hasAll(cu.nativeKeys(App.prototype.constructor), ['length', 'caller']);
    assert.hasAll(cu.nativeKeys(new App()), ['options']);
    assert.hasAll(cu.nativeKeys(Object.create(new App())), []);
  });

  it('should return empty array if a value does not have native keys:', function() {
    assert.deepEqual(cu.nativeKeys(Object.create(null)), []);
    assert.deepEqual(cu.nativeKeys(null), []);
  });
});

describe('getDescriptor', function() {
  it('should get the native keys of an object:', function() {
    assert.contains(cu.getDescriptor(App.prototype, 'count'), ['get',
      'set'
    ]);
    assert(typeof cu.getDescriptor(App.prototype, 'foo') ===
      'undefined');
  });

  it('should throw an error when key is not a string:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.getDescriptor({}, {}, null);
    }).should.throw('expected key to be a string.');
  });

  it('should throw an error when receiver is not an object:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.getDescriptor('foo');
    }).should.throw('expected an object.');
  });
});

describe('copyDescriptor', function() {
  it('should copy a descriptor from the provider to receiver:', function() {
    var proto = App.prototype;
    var obj = {};
    cu.copyDescriptor(obj, proto, 'count');
    assert.contains(cu.getDescriptor(obj, 'count'), ['get', 'set']);
  });

  it('should do nothing when the descriptor does not exist:', function() {
    var proto = App.prototype;
    var obj = {};
    cu.copyDescriptor(obj, proto, 'foo');
    assert.deepEqual(obj, {});
  });

  it('should throw an error when name is not a string:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.copyDescriptor({}, {}, null);
    }).should.throw('expected name to be a string.');
  });

  it('should throw an error when receiver is not an object:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.copyDescriptor('foo');
    }).should.throw('expected receiving object to be an object.');
  });

  it('should throw an error when provider is not an object:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.copyDescriptor({}, 'foo');
    }).should.throw('expected providing object to be an object.');
  });
});

describe('copy', function() {
  it('should copy descriptors from the provider to receiver:', function() {
    var proto = App.prototype;
    var obj = {};
    cu.copy(obj, proto);
    assert.contains(cu.getDescriptor(obj, 'count'), ['get', 'set']);
  });

  it('should copy properties from the provider to receiver:', function() {
    var proto = App.prototype;
    var obj = {};
    cu.copy(obj, proto);
    obj.set('a', 'b');
    assert(obj.a === 'b');
    assert.contains(obj, ['get', 'set']);
  });

  it('should do nothing when the property does not exist:', function() {
    var proto = App.prototype;
    var obj = {};
    cu.copy(obj, proto, 'foo');
    assert.deepEqual(obj, {});
  });

  it('should throw an error when receiver is not an object:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.copy('foo');
    }).should.throw('expected receiving object to be an object.');
  });

  it('should throw an error when provider is not an object:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.copy({}, 'foo');
    }).should.throw('expected providing object to be an object.');
  });
});

describe('inherit', function() {
  it('should inherit descriptors from provider:', function() {
    var proto = App.prototype;
    var obj = {};
    cu.inherit(obj, proto);
    assert.contains(cu.getDescriptor(obj, 'count'), ['get', 'set']);
  });

  it('should inherit properties from provider:', function() {
    var proto = App.prototype;
    var obj = {};
    cu.inherit(obj, proto);
    obj.set('a', 'b');
    assert(obj.a === 'b');
    assert.contains(obj, ['get', 'set', 'del']);
  });

  it('should do nothing when the property does not exist:', function() {
    var proto = App.prototype;
    var obj = {};
    cu.inherit(obj, proto, 'foo');
    assert.deepEqual(obj, {});
  });

  it('should throw an error when receiver is not an object:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.inherit('foo');
    }).should.throw('expected receiving object to be an object.');
  });

  it('should throw an error when provider is not an object:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.inherit({}, 'foo');
    }).should.throw('expected providing object to be an object.');
  });
});

describe('extend', function() {
  var Parent;
  var Ctor;
  var proto;

  beforeEach(function() {
    Parent = function() {}
    Parent.foo = 'bar';
    Parent.prototype.a = function() {};
    Parent.prototype.b = function() {};
    Parent.prototype.c = function() {};
    Object.defineProperty(Parent.prototype, 'count', {
      get: function() {
        return Object.keys(this).length;
      },
      set: function() {}
    });
    Ctor = function() {
      Parent.call(this);
    };
    proto = App.prototype;
  });

  it('should add `Parent.prototype` to `Ctor` instances as `_parent_`', function() {
    var extend = cu.extend(Parent);
    var instance1 = new Ctor();
    assert.equal(typeof instance1._parent_, 'undefined');
    extend(Ctor);
    var instance2 = new Ctor();
    assert.equal(typeof instance2._parent_, 'object');
    assert.deepEqual(instance2._parent_, Parent.prototype);
  });

  it('should access `Parent` methods through `_parent_`', function() {
    Parent.prototype.upper = function(str) {
      return str.toUpperCase();
    };

    var extend = cu.extend(Parent);
    extend(Ctor);

    var instance = new Ctor();
    assert.equal(instance.upper('foo'), 'FOO');

    instance.upper = function(str) {
      return str;
    };
    assert.equal(instance.upper('foo'), 'foo');

    instance.upper = function(str) {
      return this._parent_.upper(str) + ' ' + str;
    };
    assert.equal(instance.upper('foo'), 'FOO foo');
  });

  it('should add static methods to Ctor:', function() {
    var extend = cu.extend(Parent);
    extend(Ctor);
    assert(typeof Ctor.extend === 'function');
    assert(Ctor.foo === 'bar');
  });

  it('should add prototype methods to Ctor:', function() {
    var extend = cu.extend(Parent);
    extend(Ctor);
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.a === 'function');
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.b === 'function');
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.c === 'function');
  });

  it('should add descriptors to Ctor:', function() {
    var extend = cu.extend(Parent);
    extend(Ctor);
  });

  it('should copy prototype properties to Ctor:', function() {
    var extend = cu.extend(Parent);
    extend(Ctor, App.prototype);
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.get === 'function');
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.set === 'function');
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.del === 'function');
  });

  it('should add a mixin method to the prototype of Ctor using `extend` function:', function() {
    var extend = cu.extend(Parent, function(Child) {
      Child.prototype.mixin = function(key, val) {
        Child.prototype[key] = val;
      };
    });
    extend(Ctor, App.prototype);
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.mixin === 'function');
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.get === 'function');
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.set === 'function');
    assert(typeof Ctor.prototype.del === 'function');
  });

  it('should mixin methods to the Ctor.prototype using `extend` function:', function() {
    var extend = cu.extend(Parent, function(Child) {
      Child.prototype.mixin = function(key, val) {
        Child.prototype[key] = val;
      };
    });
    extend(Ctor, App.prototype);
    var app = new Ctor();
    app.mixin('foo', function() {});
    assert.equal(typeof Ctor.prototype.foo, 'function');
  });

  it('should throw an error when Parent is not a function:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.extend('foo');
    }).should.throw('expected Parent to be a function.');
  });

  it('should throw an error when Ctor is not a function:', function() {
    (function() {
      cu.extend(function Foo() {})('bar')
    }).should.throw('expected Ctor to be a function.');
  });
});


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WRTA ridership decline is worst in the US
Cyrus Moulton Telegram & Gazette Staff @MoultonCyrus
Jun 26, 2018 at 8:04 PM Jun 28, 2018 at 10:44 AM
WORCESTER - Ridership is down 13 percent at the Worcester Regional Transit Authority so far this year, more than at peer RTAs across the state and nation, according to a presentation to the WRTA Advisory Board last week.
Authorities attributed the decline to last year's fare increase and service cuts, a decline in ridership across the U.S., and a particularly rough winter.
Fixed route bus ridership at the WRTA was down 13 percent in the first three quarters of fiscal 2018 compared with the same period last year, with 2,348,690 riders in fiscal 2018 compared with 2,714,334 in fiscal 2017.
The fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.
The WRTA was the only one of 13 RTAs in Massachusetts examined to experience a double-digit decrease during this time period. The Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority had a 6 percent decrease in ridership, the next highest decrease.
The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, which had schedule cuts in the fall, had a 5 percent decrease in ridership. Meanwhile, the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority and MetroWest Regional Transit Authority have had more riders this year than last, with a 1 percent and an 11 percent increase in ridership, respectively.
Statewide, the average change in ridership among the RTAs was a 3 percent decrease.
Regional and national ridership at RTAs were also down.
According to numbers reported to the National Transit Database, RTAs in New England recorded an average decline of 4 percent during this period.
Nationwide, RTAs were down an average of 5 percent.
But nationally among its peers in size and population served, the WRTA leads the pack in the downward trend.
The Greater Peoria, Illinois, Mass Transit District was down 3 percent, while at the other end of the spectrum the Greensboro, North Carolina, Transit Authority was down 9 percent.
Authorities with the WRTA and the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission attributed the ridership decline to several factors.
Most notably, the decline came after the WRTA raised fares between 15 and 25 percent on July 1 and cut service in late June 2017 to overcome a nearly $1 million deficit.
It was the only transit authority in the state to raise fares last year, according to Nick Burnham, associate transportation planner at the CMRPC and the author of the presentation.
The schedule cuts alone decreased ridership by 3 to 4 percent, according to the presentation.
Mr. Burnham also blamed the weather. He said it was snowier and colder, with notable snowfalls on weekdays, compared with the previous year.
But the winter weather overall wasn't that far from normal, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Nocera.
The mean temperature was a half-degree colder than normal, but the amount of snowfall - 46.6 inches - was actually half an inch lower than average, according to the National Weather Service.
Presented with the statistics, WRTA Advisory Board members nevertheless seemed more concerned about bus performance than the decline in ridership among peer agencies.
"It's hard to compare oranges and apples with the size of the different communities," Advisory Board Chairman William J. Lehtola said of the ridership statistics. He said that with a recent increase in gas prices, the WRTA could see more riders in the future.
And bus performance also raised some concerns.
Missed trips - which occur when a bus has a breakdown or is running more than 30 minutes late - increased 24 percent, from 405 for the first nine months in 2017 to 503 for the first three quarters of 2018.
These generally occurred on weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m. on various city routes, causing a ripple effect on Lincoln Street and Main Street lines, Mr. Burnham said. Missed trips also "skyrocketed" in January through March, he reported.
Preventable accidents also increased 31 percent - from 29 in the first nine months of fiscal 2017 to 38 in the same period this year. James Parker, the general manager of Central Mass. Transit Management, the daily operator of the WRTA, said that reporting requirements may explain this increase.
"We report a lot more accidents, I think, than others do," Mr. Parker said. "I'm fairly confident that none of the preventable accidents were serious."
The transit authority also recorded a 37 percent increase in breakdowns - from 130 in the first nine months of fiscal 2017 to 180 in the first three quarters of 2018.
This decreased the mean miles between breakdowns to 9,060 miles, below the goal of at least 10,000 miles.
Mr. Burnham noted the average age of the fleet is 6.4 years as of March. And with no new buses expected for the next several years, the average age will increase, possibly leading to more breakdowns.
Advisory board members asked that authorities keep them abreast of breakdowns and missed trips to see if any longer term trends develop.
WRTA Administrator Jonathan E. Church said he would recommend going after grants for new buses if any become available, but that money for buses "dried up" after the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.


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Essay on Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
An essay on the general themes and significance of Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play, "A Doll's House." read more
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When Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" premiered in 1879, it caused great controversy for its content. A considerable number of viewers, critics, and moral authorities were outraged that the main character, Nora, should violate the sanctity of marriage and motherhood by abandoning her family. But while many felt indignant in the late 19th century, a close reading of the play today reveals that Ibsen's work was ahead of its time. Indeed, the fact that it remains the subject of intense study and a staple of college essays around the world. More than just bearing the qualities of classic literature, "A Doll's House" was and still is a powerful commentary on the status of women in society through its exploration of female roles, dependence, and liberation.
While the release of "A Doll's House" in 1879 was marked by scandal, there is no denying that it was a powerful commentary on the status of women in 19th century society. As the play itself reveals, women in the 19th century were far from equal to men. They had considerably less freedom to manage affairs on their own, let alone make legal decisions without the consent of male authority figures. For example, in the play, Nora's secret involves her forging her father's signature to borrow money—an action that resulted from the fact that women were not allowed to conduct financial transactions without the consent of a male. And even though Nora committed her crime to save her husband, she is judged by him as immoral. What Ibsen accomplished by writing the play, therefore, was hold a mirror for 19th century society to examine itself in. While it is true that the social and legal conventions of the time considered the curtailing of women's freedom as normal, the injustice that Nora suffers at the hands of her husband forced people to reexamine their view and treatment of women. Ultimately, "A Doll's House" shows that norms are not always just and that injustice results from viewing women as inferior to men and then condemning them for overstepping their boundaries when compelled by circumstances.
Although much has changed since the 19th century, Ibsen's play remains relevant because it still mirrors the status of women today. It is true that there have been great strides toward establishing equality between men and women. Ibsen's homeland of Norway, for instance, consistently ranks among the top countries when it comes to gender parity and development. The same, however, cannot be said about the rest of the world. In various societies around the world, women remain bound by laws that curtail their rights and render them dependent on men. Such dependence, in turn, limits their freedom and leaves them vulnerable. Indeed, inequality remains prevalent even in the West, where societies are presumably more progressive. The gender pay gap, for instance, remains a pervasive issue. In the United States, women of color such as blacks and Latinas earn far less than their male counterparts (Ross). "A Doll's House" is thus still important in advancing progress in places where women are yet to achieve equal standing. Though a work of fiction, the play captures an essential truth about men and women being unequal. And the play, being a bringer of ideas, can help change attitudes and enable social progress.
The play also offers insight into the contribution of gender roles to women's status. Being a wife and a mother is widely regarded as the ideal role for women, and indeed such a role has been the source of so much fulfilment for countless women. "A Doll's House," however, raises an often overlooked yet crucial question: what happens when the traditional roles expected of women overwhelm a woman's sense of duty to herself? Nora's life illustrates this problem. Having devoted her life to the care and security of her family, she finds that she has neglected herself and has failed to see the reality of her relationship with Torvald. She has become a doll living in a doll's house, controlled by others and denied the legal agency that her husband enjoys. As she tells Torvald following her realization, "I have other duties just as sacred…Duties to myself." With such words, Ibsen seeks not to paint the existence of gender roles in a negative light; rather, he seeks to explore the effect of imposing gender roles on personal freedom. In a modern world where traditional gender roles still hold great sway, Ibsen's play prompts people to examine how these influence the status of men and women.
In conclusion, Henrik Ibsen's celebrated play "A Doll's House" offers a compelling look into women's status both in the past and in the present. Though the play ignited scandal when first published in 1879, it nevertheless presented a critical look into women's unequal standing in society at the time. In hindsight, it can be said that Ibsen's play was among the first works in modernist literature to explore subjects of feminism and equality, in the same strand as other renowned works like Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." Like Nora, the protagonists in these works seek to transcend the limitations imposed upon them by society. Though 140 years had passed since, it remains relevant to this day as the play still mirrors societies where there is great disparity between the sexes. Furthermore, the play continues to raise questions regarding gender roles in the contemporary era.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/160/160-h/160-h.htm. Accessed 5 January 2021.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm. Accessed 5 January 2021.
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Ross, Janell. "Black women and Latinas paid so poorly, catching up is almost impossible." NBC, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-women-latinas-paid-so-poorly-catching-almost-impossible-n990231. Accessed 21 June 2020.
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The 23-year-old winger spent the early part of the 2019/20 campaign at Dixon Park following his move from Moyola Park and made such an impact, averaging a goal per game, that Glenavon boss Gary Hamilton swooped to bring him to the Lurgan Blues where he went on to make 23 appearances in all competitions.
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Ponthoile (picardisch: Pontoéle) ist eine nordfranzösische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Somme in der Region Hauts-de-France. Die Gemeinde liegt im ArrondissementAbbeville und ist Teil der Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre und des Kantons Abbeville-1.

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Die an das Ästuar der Somme angrenzende Gemeinde liegt, im Süden vom Flüsschen Dien begrenzt, mit ihren Weilern Morlay, Le Hamel, Romaine, Romiotte  und Bonnelle größtenteils in den Ausläufern der Küstenebene des Marquenterre. Das Gemeindegebiet liegt im Regionalen Naturpark Baie de Somme Picardie Maritime. Durch die Gemeinde verlaufen die Bahnstrecke von Abbeville nach Boulogne-sur-Mer und die Meterbahnstrecke von Noyelles-sur-Mer nach Le Crotoy mit einem Haltepunkt in Morlay, die als Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme als touristische und Museumseisenbahn betrieben wird. Die Autoroute A16 verläuft knapp außerhalb des Gemeindegebiets. Die Gemeinde liegt rund fünf Kilometer westlich von Nouvion.

Geschichte
Ponthoile erhielt im Jahr 1201 von Graf Wilhelm IV. von Ponthieu einen Freiheitsbrief, der die Gemeindefreiheiten garantierte. Im Hundertjährigen Krieg brannten englische Truppen 1346 die Kirche nieder. Von Ponthoile nahm die 1918 eröffnete, aber nach Beendigung des Ersten Weltkriegs 1920 wieder abgebaute strategische Bahnstrecke nach Feuquières ihren Ausgang.

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Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Saint-Pierre anstelle der alten Kirche, die 1836 abgebrochen wurde
 Nachbildung der Lourdesgrotte an der Straße nach Morlay.
 Denkmal für die Brüder Caudron zur Erinnerung an den Flug des Luftschiffs Romiotte I.

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Enrique Alvear Urrutia (31 January 1916 – 29 April 1982) was a Chilean Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of San Felipe from 1965 until 1974 when he was made one of the two auxiliaries for the Santiago de Chile archdiocese. He was a vocal critic during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and braved potential detention and death threats to condemn human rights abuses and other atrocities the regime undertook.

The process for his potential beatification opened in 2012 and he is titled as a Servant of God. He has also been referred to as the "bishop of the poor" for his dedication to the poor and oppressed.

Life
Enrique Alvear Urrutia was born on 31 January 1916 in Cauquenes in Chile as the eighth of eleven brothers to Clorindo Alvear Zurita and Teodorinda Urrutia Pérez; his brother was Eduardo.

He spent his education first in his hometown and then in the Luis Campino Humanities Institute before he pursued a law degree from 1934 in the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile. In one spiritual retreat of Monsignor Carlos Casanueva Opazo he discovered his call to the priesthood and he began his ecclesial studies.

He received his ordination to the priesthood in the Santiago Cathedral on 20 September 1941 from José María Caro Rodríguez and then started pastoral work in archdiocese. He first worked as a professor in addition to being a spiritual director for seminarians. Pope John XXIII appointed him in 1963 as a bishop assigned as one of the auxiliaries for the Talca diocese while making him the Titular Bishop of Columnata. He received his episcopal consecration a month after the appointment from Raúl Silva Henríquez; the co-consecrators were Manuel Larraín Errazuriz and Eladio Vicuña Aránquiz. In 1965 he was appointed as the Bishop of San Felipe; he held that position until he resigned in 1974. But since he was under the retirement age Pope Paul VI named him as one of the two auxiliaries for the Santiago archdiocese as well as the Titular Bishop of Sita. He served as a Council Father in the Second Vatican Council in the second to fourth sessions.

He opposed human rights abuses during the Pinochet dictatorship and defended the regime's victims all the while braving potential detention and death threats. In the evening on 11 September 1973 - against the advice of his aides - he went to prisons to inquire about people who were rounded up in a wave of arrests as part of Pinochet's coup against the sitting President Salvador Allende.  There was also one occasion where bombs were placed in his office in a failed attempt to intimidate him into silence. He later became involved with the Episcopal Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean.

He died on 29 April 1982 and his remains were interred in the Marian shrine Nuestra Señora de Lourdes in Quinta Normal until their transferral on 13 April 2008 to the San Luis Beltrán church. Pope Francis - during his trip to Chile in 2018 - made an unscheduled visit to the late bishop's tomb for some brief moments of reflection.

Beatification process
The beatification process was initiated in the Santiago archdiocese; initial steps towards opening the cause came on 16 December 2011 when the then-Archbishop (now cardinal) Ricardo Ezzati Andrello named the Enrique Alvear Urrutia Foundation as the official actor for promoting the cause. Ezzati later inaugurated the diocesan phase for the cause on 9 March 2012 and closed it later on 3 December 2014; during 2013 the Congregation for the Causes of Saints declared "nihil obstat" (no objections) to the cause.

The current postulator for the cause is the Jesuit priest Pascual Cebollada Silvestre.

Notes and references

External links
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 Catholic Hierarchy
 Official website

1916 births
1982 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Chile
20th-century venerated Christians
Auxiliary bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope John XXIII
Chilean people of Basque descent
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
People from Cauquenes
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni
20th-century Roman Catholic titular bishops
Chilean Servants of God
Roman Catholic bishops of San Felipe, Chile
Roman Catholic bishops of Talca


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There is a point where film noir can be too stylized for its own good. Its traits of small-time crime, femme fatales, anti-heroes, and the underbelly style of all things that creep in the urban dark can be too fictitious and extreme. There's room for film noir that can inhabit real places and plausible people while still having all the necessary ingredients to make them as cool as the genre demands. With a deep homage to noir coupled with a big dose of 1970's-esque conspiracy thrillers, director Jenna Ricker, in her second feature film, presents "The American Side" starring her writing collaborator Greg Stuhr and a notable ensemble cast. Using upstate New York, Ricker has created a living and breathing seedy side out a wholesome American city and tourist destination. As a film, "The American Side" is satisfying and a constantly engaging throwback detective story that surpasses its glitzy and more expensive Hollywood peer "The Nice Guys."
People that seek out Charlie Paczynski (co-writer Greg Stuhr) are quick to judge him as second-rate and stand unimpressed by the fact that he appears to be the only private investigator left in the Buffalo phone book. He sure looks the disheveled part of a nightcrawler. Dressed in bad neckties, riding his wheezing classic car, and pulling off a substandard tough guy look of salt-and-peppered baldness leading to handlebar scruff that holds an ever-present lit or unlit cigarette, he's 100% the gumshoe anti-hero. Not rich and not broke, the guy isn't an arm-breaker and doesn't even carry a gun. He fashions himself as more Mike Hammer than Philip Marlowe. Pinching cheating spouses with hired voyeuristic photographs seems to be the bulk of his business. He even employs a friendly stripper named Kat (Kelsey Siepser) as his bait of choice to help seal the deals.
When Kat is shot and killed on the job by a desperate mark named Tom Soberin (Harris Yulin of "Scarface" and "Training Day"), Charlie's guilt for putting her in that position leads him to seek answers and retribution. Instead of dead ends, each rock he turns over about Soberin, an engineering professor from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, lead to technical and complicated questions and clues above Charlie's pay grade. The low-down seems to be, and this is where the conspiracy thriller vibe kicks in, that Soberin was seeking newly discovered long-lost secret designs of the famed inventor Nikola Tesla from his 1890s time period working out of Niagara Falls.
Several interested and motivated parties are either willing to kill to get that information or kill to protect it. The players spinning the web include the billionaire Borden Chase (Matthew Broderick), his scheming sister Emily (Camilla Belle), scientist Nikki Meeker (Alicja Bachleda of "Ondine"), and the storytelling Sterling Whitmore (Robert Forster). Add in a DARPA federal agent (Janeane Garofalo), a former professor client of Charlie's ("Murphy Brown" favorite Grant Shaud), an oddball senior home resident (screen legend Robert Vaughn), and even a heavy of the Serbian underworld (Joe Grifasi) and the pursuit gets wider and wilder. All of the salacious tangents in "The American Side" tangle and clash with duplicitous twists, turns, and results. It reaches a dynamite peak of a climax in the mist of Niagara Falls.
Come for the mystery and stay for the style in "The American Side." The film was shot on location in Buffalo and Niagara giving it a well-worn authenticity of a noir with plausibility rather than one with makeshift cities, sets, and stages. As aforementioned, none of the bawdy style elements are lost with real (and cheaper) locations. If anything, they are shrewdly amplified. Further, Ricker slyly soaks the film with a conspiracy thriller tribute score from Oscar-winning music man David Shire ("All the President's Men," "Zodiac"), a nice get for a small film like this. "The American Side" bleeds plenty of coolness without cheap gags or pitfalls.
Credit the writing team of Ricker and Stuhr. The clever narrative woven to combine the noir and conspiracy genres is top-notch. The sleazy quandaries and quagmires rarely feel predictable or contrived. The splash of historical connection to Tesla brings more austerity than silliness. Its inclusion as the "MacGuffin" is a clever and shrewd storytelling bonus. The script also juggles its characters well and it comes out in the performances. It is plain to see that the cast all delightfully relish their showy and shadowy roles. No one's talent is wasted and no one is trying to steal the show overplaying their hand. They all glide as oil and water perfectly with Greg Stuhr leading the way trudging through the muck in a star-making performance. Somebody give this character his own TV series.
LESSON #1: EVERY TOURIST DESTINATION HAS A DARK SIDE-- Let the local cop in "The American Side" tell it to you bluntly. Niagara Falls is the home to honeymoons and suicides (as many as 25 a year, in fact). Whenever you have that many out-of-towners in one place with loaded pockets, there will always be schemes, crimes, and exploitation. Remember, crime doesn't have an address.
LESSON #2: NEVER BELIEVE THE FIRST STORY YOU HEAR-- Take it from a private detective like Charlie and the tagline of "The American Side." There are more sides to a story than one, and even two. Corroborate your facts and don't fall for the first thing you hear. Nail down the truth and dig deeper. You can start today with your Snopes-busted social media posts while you're at it.
LESSON #3: THERE ARE PLANNERS AND THEIR ARE DOERS-- Make no mistake, Charlie Paczynski is a doer. He is a man-of-action who gets in faces and doesn't sit on his hands. More often than not, he's up against people that plot, plan, and scheme. Sometimes that puts them a few steps ahead of Charlie. Other times, Charlie gets to be the unpredictable monkey wrench and unplanned variable that ruins the supposedly well-organized plans.
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The Ken Robinson's TED talk "Do schools kill creativity?" is simply wonderful, probably the most enriching talk I've seen in my life. In it Ken speaks about creativity and education, pointing how everyone talks about education, but no one focuses on learning methods. He emphasizes the importance of promoting creativity in education through the diversification of subjects, methodologies and teaching processes, he even suggests the diversification of school tests, only to diagnose and guide the interests and potential of the different types of students, but never to standardize culture.
Facing this challenge as professor of design at CENTRO, I test my ability of passing on knowledge by being diverse, dynamic and above all different — characteristics about intelligence on which Ken makes emphasis and how to address it when educating — and thus promoting the potential of each of my students semester to semester.
The most recent course I taught was "Design II" in which we worked on two totally opposite approaches of the work process through asking questions to gain knowledge. The first exercise focused on the possibilities of a material "Designing by doing", as for the second one, we parted from the premise that everything can be improved "Designing better things" — I'll speak of both exercises below.
What are the different processes of transformation that a designer can rely on to create objects?
Note! – I said transformation processes, not production processes.
How we as designers can transform matter to create things?
1) To eliminate Waste – cutting, engraving, turning, grinding, chiseling; e.g. Removing excess material.
2) To mold – injection molding or rotation, to empty or stretch; e.g. Pouring a liquid material into a mold and removing it when hardened.
3) To create Forms – tilting, pressing, hammering, folding; e.g. Shaping a metal sheet.
4) To assemble – bolting, gluing, riveting, welding; e.g. Joining several parts by any means.
5) To Grow – printing, bloating, thickening, adding materials; e.g. Printing parts of an object.
Using wood as a wildcard, through observation, selection, testing and finally the assignment of function and shape, we created objects by doing hundreds and hundreds of small exercises.
Basically students cut, glued, assembled and painted; some even fried in oil, immersed in aromas and put them on the oven small pieces of wood to see what would happen, finding and exalting different possibilities of the material to create a new texture, a new scent or a new application. They practically sketched into small wood chips to explore ideas and concepts.
Finally the excuse was to create a toy that used at least three of the explorations or exercises done previously in a rational manner, and the results were objects that probably wouldn't have been reached if the initial brief had been "Design a wooden toy".
How I can design better things?
Unlike the previous project, here we started from an existing object, in this case a cooking utensil, and performed reverse engineering to see where the materials came from, how they were produced and how they were transported. Also to understand how they were used, sold and discarded by people.
This research exercise opens up the picture to understand the reasons of the entire chain of production that is behind every object, and to identify small or large areas of opportunity that would later be the design brief to solve throughout the project.
Both exercises, although start completely different, meet at the end of the process and, as expected, some students loved getting their hands dirty and going into the workshop. Others considered very logical and practical carrying out that reverse engineering to understand the situation and to address the project in a logical way.
On a final exercise of introspection, they were able to understand the reason behind both cases. They finished the course with a surprise third exercise, strategically named as "Knowing me as a designer", which encourages students to ask themselves the questions: How do I learn best? What are the processes of exploration in which I perform better? Am I analytical and methodical or I prefer free exploration? What is the best way to encourage my creativity and talent to solve logical problems?
Addressing Ken's speech: "the roll of an educator is to facilitate knowledge", in my case in design education is important to teach students about materials and production process but is important as well to help them to know themselves, to know their creative values and their intellectual strengths in order to become better designers.


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If you have never fired or used a handgun before, you must either attend our Basic Pistol, In Home Personal Protection or Outside the Home Personal Protection classes, or have equivalent verifiable training. You must be completely familiar and comfortable with your handgun in order to attend these courses. All attendees will be asked to provide verifiable experience.
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Sunset Bay Cottage is a welcoming and beautiful cozy cottage that shows as a 10/10 inside and out.
Nightly sunset views and breathtaking reflections off of the calm water in the mornings paint a perfect picture. Situated with 60 feet of a hard sand and stone bottom waterfront that allows children to wade slowly into the crystal clear lake - waterfront doesn't get any better than this! Amazing place to create lasting family memories. Located on stunning Cameron Lake near Fenelon Falls, you can leave this cottage by canoe and get to town in 10 minutes. You can also walk, bike, ATV or snowmobile to town on the Kawartha Rail Trail - one of the best kept secret of the Kawarthas. The flat grassy area from the cottage to the water's edge is great for playing catch and other outdoor games. You can watch the kids splash in the water and play in the sand or just relax and take in the breathtaking views of the lake. And after the sunset falls, families can enjoy this outdoor space with a campfire, roasting marshmallows with the sound of the water against the shore in the background.
Inside the cottage you will be greeted with an open concept design that is perfect for entertaining the whole family. Boasting a fully stocked kitchen, family sized dining table and a breakfast bar for three additional guests, this space is sure to impress. When the nights get chilly, warm up by the fireplace. With the kitchen, living and dining space overlooking the waterfront through wall-to-wall windows, you will feel calm and at peace with the beauty surrounding this property.
The Living Room has a sectional couch; with flat screen Smart TV and satelite. On rainy days we have you covered with Netflix, unlimited wireless internet, an original Nintendo and board games.
Our Master Bedroom is elegantly designed, facing the water for beautiful view -morning, noon or night! The cottage also has two other bedrooms to provide ample room for everyone, one which has a crib for our smallest of guests.
With ability to sleep 10 at this cottage you are sure to fit your family and the in-laws for a family vacation everyone will remember for a lifetime.
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This cottage has so much to offer you won't want to leave!
There is no shortage of things to do at the cottage or in the surrounding town. Looking for a particular activity ask us about it I'm sure you will find it hear!
Note: Located 3 km from downtown Fenelon Falls. A short bike ride, atv, snowmobile or hike will get you to town along the Kawartha Rail Trail or travel by boat to lock 32 for dining, ice cream and site seeing/ shopping in addition to traveling by car.
My family and I thoroughly enjoyed our winter stay at this beautiful cottage. Very clean and fully stocked. Kitchen was well equipped, fire wood was available, many other great amenities.
Wonderful little touches really show the pride in the owner. Stacey was great to work with and provided very quite replies.
My husband and I had a wonderful week at Sunset Bay Cottage. The cottage was clean upon arrival and had every amenity that was promised. We didn't have one problem or complaint. Of course we enjoyed the beautiful sunsets and spent a lot of time just enjoying the view of Lake Cameron. How wonderful to wake up to the view of the lake. We got to see more of the lake when we took the paddle boat out. The cottage is very close to town and only about a 10-15 minute drive to Bobcaygeon. We enjoyed checking out all the shops and antique stores in both towns. We highly recommend this cottage and hope to return in the future.
Our stay at Sunset Bay was a little piece of heaven on earth, and became "our happy place" for two weeks. The cottage provided us a just- like-home feeling without the stress. The completely equipped modern kitchen had a lovely wall unit which looked amazing and offered ample dishes. Very much enjoyed the water view while preparing meals here. The laundry was a nice amenity. Everything in the cottage was found to be cleaned and well cared for inside and out. The cottage offered propane for BBQ; a canoe; paddle boat, and even wood was supplied for our campfires. Sunset Cove offers a lovely sandy beach, and a great dock which we secured our 18' motor boat. We also enjoyed badminton, golf ladder, water sports, fishing, swimming, cycling on the trail, walking to shops and restaurants. The sunsets were to die for!! We have been to Hawaii and this cottage topped our stay there for the picturesque sunsets. Thank you seems inadequate. We enjoyed every last minute of our stay and will definitely return.
Sunset Battery Cottage is a truly magical place, within five minutes of arrival you feel calm and refreshed.
The view is amazing and it changes hourly, one minute the water is still and serine...... wait and loons, ducks,canadian geese swim by sharing your experience.
The amenities are first class, not once did we say oh boy wish we'd brought that, it was already taken care of. The cottage is very clean, comfortable and perfect for entertaining inside and out.
From the moment we walked in the cottage we felt at home! We had everything we needed to kick back with our kids and grandkids. The boys loved feeding the family of ducks that visited us regularly and played safely on the sandy beach with all the diggers. The water was warm and inviting and we have a life's worth of memories watching the boys swimming and running in and out of the waves. The grassy area was a perfect playground for playing ball and hide and seek. At night we sat around the campfire roasting s'mores and watching the epic sunsets. This cottage has too many pluses to mention them all so I will end by saying we could not have picked a better place to vacation! Thanks!