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using System;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using Dotless;

namespace DotlessTest.ListLess
{
    [TestClass]
    public class UnitTest_ListLessSlicing
    {
        private static int N = 100;

        #region [ POSITIVE DIRECT SLICING ]

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_DirectEmptySlicingFirst()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[0, 0];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 0);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_DirectEmptySlicingMiddle()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[N / 2, N / 2];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 0);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_DirectEmptySlicingLast()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[N, N];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 0);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_DirectSingleSlicingFirst()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[0, 1];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.First() == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_DirectSingleSlicingMiddle()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[(N / 2), (N / 2) + 1];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.ElementAt(N / 2) == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_DirectSingleSlicingLast()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[N - 1, N];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_DirectFullSlicing()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[0, N];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == x.Count());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.First() == sliced.First());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.Last());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_DirectPartialSlicing()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[N / 2, N];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == (N - N/2));
            Assert.IsTrue(x.ElementAt(N / 2) == sliced.First());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.Last());
        }

        #endregion

        #region [ POSITIVE REVERSED SLICING ]

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_ReverseSingleSlicingFirst()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[1, 0];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.First() == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_ReverseSingleSlicingMiddle()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[(N/2)+1, (N/2)];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.ElementAt(N / 2) == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_ReverseSingleSlicingLast()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[N, N-1];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_ReverseFullSlicing()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[N, 0];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == x.Count());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.First() == sliced.Last());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_ReversePartialSlicing()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[N, N/2];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == (N- N/2));

            Assert.IsTrue(x.ElementAt(N / 2) == sliced.Last());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.First());
        }

        #endregion

        #region [ NEGATIVE DIRECT SLICING ]

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_NegDirectEmptySlicingFirst()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[-N, -N];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 0);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_NegDirectEmptySlicingMiddle()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[-N/2, -N/2];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 0);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_NegDirectEmptySlicingLast()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[-1, -1];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 0);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_NegDirectSingleSlicingFirst()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[-(N+1), -N];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.First() == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_NegDirectSingleSlicingMiddle()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[-(N/2+1), -(N/2)];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.ElementAt(N / 2) == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_NegDirectSingleSlicingLast()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[-2, -1];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == 1);
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.First());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_NegDirectFullSlicing()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[0, -1];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == x.Count());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.First() == sliced.First());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.Last());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test_NegDirectPartialSlicing()
        {
            var x = new ListLess<int>(Enumerable.Range(0, N));

            var sliced = x[-(N/2+1), -1];

            Assert.IsNotNull(sliced);
            Assert.IsTrue(sliced.Count() == (N - N / 2));
            Assert.IsTrue(x.ElementAt(N/2) == sliced.First());
            Assert.IsTrue(x.Last() == sliced.Last());
        }

        #endregion

    }
}

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est un chef d'orchestre japonais.

Il dirige aujourd'hui l'orchestre philharmonique d'Osaka, depuis 2003, ainsi que l'orchestre symphonique de Barcelone, depuis 2006. Il a dirigé l'orchestre symphonique du Minnesota entre 1995 et 2002.

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Currently in Pennsylvania, there are two methods in which a driver maybe issued a ticket for a red light. The first of these is what you and I would consider the more traditional way where police officer has seen the actual violation and pulled you over. For violations such as this, currently three points are assigned. There are several technical defenses to these citations and an experience traffic lawyer may well be able to assist you and either outright winning this claim or by discussing the potential faults in the case with the prosecution, negotiate a favorable resolution on your behalf.
75 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3116 indicates that automatic red light enforcement systems are available in first class cities such as Philadelphia. Please note that our office WILL NOT ASSIST IN THE DEFENSE OF THESE MATTERS. The reason why?
Quite frankly, our office is here to help you. We feel as though we would be doing you a disservice by accepting your money when we know that you can pay a ticket for a hundred dollars and no points will result. Additionally, please note that you would have the opportunity to fight this with the parking authority if you chose to. But due to the lack of point, many people realize that it is simply cost effective to pay the fine. Additionally, in the overwhelming majority of these photographs which clearly shows the violation.


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Maria Echeverria-Torres
Maria Echeverria-Torres - Head of Legal & Compliance, Nokia
Maria is recognized as a legal and compliance expert at international transactions and operations and as a leader of legal teams working at European jurisdictions and UK & Ireland. She has spent much of her career advising high tech and telecommunications companies on legal, governance and compliance topics. She started her career in private practice as legal attorney in the IP department at the law firm Uria Menendez. She joined Nokia in January 2010 where she serves the company in the position of Head Legal & Compliance. In her current role Maria is responsible to lead a team of legal professionals based in different jurisdictions who are accountable to provide legal and compliance support to the business operations. She acts as advisor to the senior management team on legal, compliance and regulatory matters.
Maria has acted as faculty and has written reports for the General Council of Spanish Advocacy and the Madrid Bar on compliance and the future of the in-house legal profession. She serves Women In Compliance as judge and she has cooperated as faculty in the anti-corruption annual forums.
Prior to Nokia Maria has held various in-house legal roles at General Motors, Hewlett Packard (formerly Electronic Data Systems) and Nortel Networks.
Maria has been widely recognized externally with the Gold Award Best Counsel, Best Legal Team, and she has been selected as Top 50 Women Lawyers Leading Change by InspiraLAw, Top Women Lawyers by InspiralLaw 2020, and Gold Award Best Counsel in Global Compliance 2016.

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literary event
Phillip Hoose – ATTUCKS!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
Featuring Phillip Hoose
Event: Apr 17, 2019 6:00pm
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 – 6:00pm
Octavia Books – 513 Octavia Street – New Orleans, LA 70115
Please join us when National Book Award-winning author, musician, conservationist, and now New Orleanian Phil Hoose comes to present and sign his new book, ATTUCKS!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City.
The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.
A rousing rags-to-riches episode, a tale of youth power, and a scarcely told chapter in African-American history, Attucks! charts the rise of the legendary Crispus Attucks High School Tigers in the 1950s. By winning the Indiana state high school basketball boys' championship in 1955, ten teens from a school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana shattered the myth of their own inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty, anchored by the astonishing player Oscar "The Big O" Robertson. The Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from the city of Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament.
Recommended for ages 12-18, and anyone else!
Phillip M. Hoose is the author of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, a National Book Award winner and a Newbery Honor Book. His other books include Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; The Boys Who Challenged Hitler, a Sibert Honor and Boston Globe–Horn BookNonfiction Honor Winner; and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award finalist. Mr. Hoose lives in Portland, Maine and New Orleans, Louisiana.
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using System;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;

namespace YuYan.Domain.Database
{
    [Table("ip2location_db3")]
    public class ip2location_db3
    {
        [Key]
        public double ip_from { get; set; }
        public double ip_to { get; set; }
        public string country_code { get; set; }
        public string country_name { get; set; }
        public string region_name { get; set; }
        public string city_name { get; set; }
        public Nullable<double> latitude { get; set; }
        public Nullable<double> longitude { get; set; }
    }
}


Intense, released earlier this year by Armin van Buuren features the unmistakably hypnotising violin strings of Miri Ben-Ari, and classical melodic trance elements which the legenday Dutch DJ is known for. The single has profoundly lived up to its name... "Intense".
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Trump appointee at DOJ eyed scandalous Georgia election scheme
A Trump appointee at the Justice Department wanted to send Georgia Republicans a plan to overturn election results. It didn't work - but it could have.
Maddow to Justice Department officials: Wake up! You have to fix this.
Aug. 4, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC
In the wake of Donald Trump's defeat last fall, the then-president created a political crisis at the Justice Department, as the White House explored ways to use federal law enforcement to reward Trump with power he hadn't earned. The details of the crisis are still coming into focus.
ABC News ran this striking report yesterday, which is an amazing piece of a larger puzzle.
Top members of the Department of Justice last year rebuffed another DOJ official who asked them to urge officials in Georgia to investigate and perhaps overturn President Joe Biden's victory in the state -- long a bitter point of contention for former President Donald Trump and his team -- before the results were certified by Congress, emails reviewed by ABC News show.
According to the materials, which have not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, Jeffrey Clark -- at the time, the acting head of the Justice Department's civil division -- wrote emails that would urge Georgia Republicans to take the Big Lie seriously.
The emails were dated Dec. 28, 2020 -- exactly one week before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol -- and Clark apparently wanted a green light from then-acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and then-acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue.
Clark's message intended to tell officials in Georgia that the Justice Department was investigating "irregularities" in the presidential election and wanted state legislators to go into a special session "pertaining to the appointment of presidential electors."
The same letter went on to suggest that if Republican legislators appointed their own slate of electors -- backing Trump, despite the fact that he lost in Georgia -- they theoretically could be accepted as legitimate.
Or put another way, the acting head of the Justice Department's civil division late last year, created a map of sorts that GOP officials in Georgia could follow to overturn the will of the state's voters.
We now know, of course, that the plan didn't work. Georgia Republicans never received such a message from the Justice Department because Clark's draft was rejected out of hand by Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general at the time, and Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy AG.
"There is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this," Donoghue said an hour after Clark sought approval for his draft.
If we were to stop here, it would still be a stunning report about one of the most important scandals in American history. But the larger context makes matters even worse.
If Clark's name sounds at all familiar, it's probably because of this report in the New York Times, published less than a week after President Biden's inauguration.
The Justice Department's top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the department's power to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results.
As we discussed soon after, when Rosen wouldn't help try to overturn the election results, Trump considered Plan B: a gambit in which he'd fire Rosen and replace him with Clark.
The then-president backed off, not because the plan was stark raving mad -- though it certainly was -- but because the Justice Department's senior leadership team threatened to resign en masse if Rosen was ousted. Trump decided such tumult would "eclipse any attention on his baseless accusations of voter fraud."
This wasn't just some random thought experiment. The Times' report added that there was a "bizarre" presidential meeting in January in which Rosen and Clark made competing presentations, which "officials compared with an episode of Mr. Trump's reality show 'The Apprentice,' albeit one that could prompt a constitutional crisis."
The same article noted that Trump began lobbying Rosen as far back as mid-December, telling him "he wanted the Justice Department to file legal briefs supporting his allies' lawsuits seeking to overturn his election loss." The then-president also urged Rosen "to appoint special counsels to investigate not only unfounded accusations of widespread voter fraud, but also Dominion, the voting machines firm." The lobbying continued, with phone calls and in-person meetings.
In other words, Trump told the acting attorney general to side, not with the rule of law, but with his bizarre legal team, which filed dozens of failed and embarrassing anti-election lawsuits. It was after Rosen balked that Trump considered the plan to fire him and replace him with a lawyer who intended to use federal law enforcement to try to overturn election results the White House didn't like.
This unfolded, of course, as Trump privately urged Rosen and Donoghue to declare that the election was corrupt. The Justice Department's top two officials at the time knew there was no evidence to substantiate such an assertion, but Trump nevertheless pressed Rosen and Donoghue to lie.
"Just say that the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me" and to the White House's Republican allies in Congress, Donoghue wrote in his notes, quoting Trump.
That was on Dec. 27. It was on Dec. 28 when Clark circulated the ridiculous message he wanted to send to Georgia.
I continue to believe the country has not yet come to terms -- or really even tried to come to terms -- with how close we came to what can fairly be described as a coup.


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The Temple Called Love
by PostScriptor
Copyright© 2011 by PostScriptor
Romance Story: In 1910, Two people realize that they need to renew their love. A story about the nature of true love, and how that love evolves over time. Romantic and spiritual, providing us all hope and a way to look at out relationships.
Tags: Romance Religion
"Grandma," I heard my young granddaughter calling.
"Yes, dear. I'm here in the family room," I replied.
I heard the sound of feet rushing down the stairs and towards my temporary refuge from the hustle and bustle of life, followed by Sarah arriving breathlessly in the room, as only a 10-year-old can.
As she plopped herself down on the old brown overstuffed couch next to me, I looked at her, with her golden blond hair, and her sky-blue eyes, and was reminded so very much of my mother, after whom Sarah was named.
"Sarah, you look so much like the photos of my mother when she was young!" I said by way of explanation to her.
Her eyes rolled around their sockets, and she rocked her head, making fun of me and laughing.
"Grandma, you tell me that ALL the time."
I had to laugh a little too. She was right about that, I did say it quite often.
"Just because I say it often doesn't mean it is any less true," I insisted, smiling, "So there!"
It was obvious that Sarah was not just 'passing through' on her way out to play, so I set aside the book I was reading, and got up, walked across the room to the television and turned it off. I hadn't really been watching; it was just President Kennedy giving a speech at some university or another. The television was nothing more than noise in the background to me when I was deeply engrossed in a book, although the whole concept of seeing someone speaking thousands of miles away, in color, in our own living room was still amazing to these old eyes.
When I sat back down again, Sarah tucked herself under my arm, snuggling up to me. I welcomed her affections, and knew I should take full advantage of them now, because in a year or two she probably would regard herself as 'too grown up' to be caught being overtly loving towards her Grandmother.
"Tell me the story," she demanded.
"Heavens, child, haven't you heard it enough times?"
She shook her head, now with a completely serious look on her face.
I smiled down at her, and truthfully, I couldn't blame her for wanting to hear 'the story' again. It was one of my most treasured memories of my life as well.
As I closed my eyes, my mind was going back in time, back to the year 1910, back to the farm where my parents, my three younger brothers and I lived.
I could almost smell the pungent, earthy smell that rose from the ground after a rain shower on the freshly turned fields that my father still plowed with his team of Belgian horses. The smells of my mother baking bread for the family. See the pristine blue skies above vast fields of golden ripe wheat, dotted here and there with white clouds.
As I recall it turned out to be a day shortly before my sixteenth birthday and only days before my parent's eighteenth wedding anniversary.
That period in a young woman's life is so fragile and so fleeting. A time when she is no longer a child, but not completely a woman. She develops physically, and is beginning to feel the needs of adulthood, yet, at least in my case, is still happiest and most comfortable in the warm bosom of her family where she is protected and cared for. She looks out at the world, and is both attracted and repelled by what she sees.
For me, my choice in books illustrated the point. I had begun reading books like "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights", and "Ivanhoe", but I had also just finished "The Emerald City of Oz", which was the sixth book in the Oz series by Mr. Frank Baum.
My fantasy life was divided between Dorothy and the creatures of Oz, and increasingly with thoughts of dark, romantic and mysterious men like Heathcliff, or Mr. Darcy.
In other words, thoughts of romance and love, and of a future that in an abstract way involved men, were becoming central to my imagination.
That Saturday morning, I was looking for my mother, but as I roamed from room to room, she wasn't there. In the front room, I found my brother, Daniel, who was thirteen at the time, looking out the window at the road that crossed in front of our farm.
"Have you seen mother?" I asked, almost sure that I wouldn't get any useful information from him. My brother, when he was at home at all, and not out with his friends from the adjoining farms, almost always had his nose in a 'Tom Swift' boy's novel or a Zane Gray western. I think it was 'Tom Swift and his Submarine Boat' that I'd seen him reading most recently.
"Nope," he answered succinctly, "but Doc Haldermann just drove by in his new automobile. It's a Ford." He made a dismissive sound. My brother was very opinionated about motor cars, and thought that Buicks were vastly superior to Fords.
After confirming to myself that mother wasn't hiding somewhere in the house, I went out to the barn. It only took a minute to conclude that she wasn't there either. There was really only one other place that she would possibly be.
Our farm was 160 acres, made up of two adjacent 80 acre parcels, one parcel from each of my grandparents. It was their wedding gifts to my mother and father. Of the acreage, 120 acres were flat and tillable; there was about twenty acres of timber that could be harvested for lumber, and the remaining twenty acres had large rock outcroppings and a pond. That was the most beautiful part of our farm because it was left wild. It was slightly higher than the surrounding land, and was isolated enough that you could feel like you were completely alone there.
As I expected, my mother was sitting on top of one of the rocks that stood above the pond, something she would do when she wanted to be alone to think.
I wasn't sure if I ought to interrupt her reverie, so I hung back a little, in the shade of the green canopy of the trees that sheltered the path up to the rock bench.
"Come on up, Lizzie," my mother said, without even turning around. "Come and sit with me." I guess I hadn't walked as quietly as I thought!
Without further ado, I came up the remaining steps, and sat beside my mother on the rock, and the two of us sat there, silent, appreciating the warmth and beauty of the mid-morning view.
We could look down at the pond and see where bugs landing on the water attracted the hungry attention of fish in the pond, followed by the slight 'plop' sound as the fish rose from below to feast, leaving nothing more than an ever expanding circular pattern on the smooth surface of the water.
After a time, I looked at my mother, who even in her mid-thirties remained a comely woman.
I returned to the present, long enough to look at my granddaughter again, "like you, my Sarah, with golden hair and the bluest of blue eyes."
Mother seemed to me to have a sadness, a weight on her, when she looked back at me. But, she put that aside, and smiled at me.
"Well, Lizzie, I know you didn't come all the way out here just to sit and look at the pond with me," she smiled again, and put her arm around my shoulder, bringing me closer to her. "Do we need to have a mother/daughter conversation today?"
I just nodded my head in the affirmative. But I didn't really know how to bring the subject up so I just started.
"Mother, I've been wondering about ... I've been reading these books on, well, you know — love and romance, and people falling in love and getting married. Anyway, I wanted to know what you thought about it. And it made me wonder how you and father fell in love and got married."
My mother sighed and took her time before she replied.
"It's funny that you should ask, Lizzie, because I was mulling over questions of my own on that subject before you came up to me."
The frown that had been part of her general demeanor when I first arrived, briefly reappeared on her face.
"Perhaps I should tell you about your father and I, first, before I share what I perceive to be the truth about romance and love," she started.
"Because our parents lived on farms that abutted one another, your father and I have known of each other as long as we've lived. Since I'm five years younger than David — your father — most of the time when we were growing up, we had little to do with each other. He spent his time with the boys his age, while I spent my time with other young girls. But, I have a secret to tell you: even when I was small, I was smitten by David. It was so obvious to my sisters, that they teased me unmercifully about it.
"Nevertheless, I thought that he was very handsome, and he was well-formed, tall with broad shoulders. As he grew, I watched the muscles in his arms become like a mans. When he started to grow a sparse beard, the girls his own age thought it quite amusing. I wasn't amused. I thought it was very manly.
"I always convinced myself that he treated me in a special way, although I understand now that he was just being kind and polite to me, as he was towards all of the smaller children. I would dress for church in a way that I imagined would meet David's approval, that would catch his eye.
"When I overheard some older girls saying that men were attracted by women who were shy and demure, for awhile I would lower my eyes and not say a word when he was close by," Mother laughed at that. "I was about nine-years-old at the time. It was completely silly of me, because the reality was, David was hardly aware that I existed. I was just another of the children in the neighborhood, not one of his contemporaries.
"David had been a quiet boy, and he became a quiet man. Each year as I grew older I fretted day-in-and-day-out that one day he would marry some other girl from the town, and I would be alone. In my fantasies, I would bravely remain a spinster the rest of my life, spurning suitors, breaking the hearts of men who wanted me, but couldn't have me. But their efforts would be for naught, for David possessed my heart.
Mother looked very serious now, and paused again before she spoke.
"What really happened was different than anything I would have imagined.
"For whatever reason, David wasn't interested in the young women who had populated his circle of friends. Perhaps because they had all known each other for so long, he perceived their flaws and was too familiar with them to find them attractive. For some time it was thought around the township that David at twenty-one would never marry; that he would remain on the farm, working with his father and the hired help, but without a wife or family."
Then a grimace of pain passed over Mother's visage.
"One day, when I was a little older than you are now, on a Sunday afternoon after church, my parents told me to stay in my church clothes because I would not be playing that day. I had no idea what was happening, and no one explained it to me then. I stayed in the house until I was called from my room, and my mother brought me into the parlor. When I entered the room, David, still dressed in his Sunday best, and his parents were already seated, and mother was about to serve tea.
"Our parents were already engaged in a discussion, that mystified me for a time. There was talk of each family contributing land, of constructing houses and barns, and of acquiring horses.
"David's father was praising his abilities as a farmer — he understood the crops, he was strong and able to plow and till, to plant and harvest. My parents made me blush as they spoke of my skills in cooking, sewing, baking, cleaning and washing. I was hard working, they said. They almost brought me to tears when they described my hips as wide and ready for bearing children. It was as if they were describing a brood mare or a prize cow!
"It suddenly dawned on me, that this discussion was about David and I marrying!
"I was quite shocked, and looked at David, who hadn't said a word. I was trying to keep from crying. David said nothing to me, but was looking at me as I was being 'sold' by my parents to be a farmers wife.
When they had talked about it enough, David's father looked at him and asked, 'David, is Sarah an acceptable bride?' to which David, speaking for the first time, said, 'Yes, father.' Then my father looked at me and asked, 'Sarah, do you have any objections to marrying David?', to which I said, 'No.' And that was that. Two weeks later, on the Sunday after church service, David and I were wed."
There was another extended pause, as my mother and I sat together that day.
"Now I don't want you thinking that what I'm saying is anything against your father. He is, and has always been, a good, solid, moral man. He has always been there to protect and defend us; he has been a good provider and we have never suffered want. We are lucky to have him as the head of our household. He has been a good, kind husband to me.
"But we are farmers, and I guess that is another way of saying, we are practical and realistic people. Maybe things are different for rich folk, or members of the aristocracy, as they always are in those novels you've been reading.
"I read all of the books that you like so much when I was your age, and filled my head with notions of romantic love and passion. I expected to have a white knight come, sweep me off my feet and carry me away. I would be awakened with the kiss of true love by my handsome prince, who would put me on a pedestal and love me from afar with a pure heart.
"In the real world, all of those romantic notions are just that: notions, dreams, the wishes of silly young girls. In the real world, they are so much falderal, ideas of some ideal 'love' that, if you believe in them, will only serve to confuse and disappoint you through your life."
In the pause that followed, the silence was deafening.
"You know that tomorrow, your father and I will have been married for eighteen years," she quietly said.
I snuck a peek at my mother after she'd said her piece, only to see tears rolling down the side of her face. With the back of her hand, she brushed them away, still looking out at the pond below us.
"Well, Lizzie," she said as she began to stand, "I've got to get back to work. Can't spend all day thinking on things we can't do anything about."
She took my hand, and we walked back down the path and back to the house.
At this point, as I always did when telling 'the story', I stopped and looked at Sarah.
"That's probably enough for today, isn't it?" I asked.
Sarah shook her head violently back and forth.
"No, you need to tell it all the way to the end," she firmly declared, knowing that I didn't really intend to stop.
I nodded my agreement.
"Alright, since you insist," I replied.
My mother had given me a great deal to think about. I was actually shocked and upset. My parents, I realized, didn't have the kind of perfect relationship that I always taken for granted. I wondered if there was something — one of those 'grown-up' things — wrong, that I was just becoming old enough to understand.
But I couldn't quite see it. So I decided to speak to my father as well.
On Saturday afternoons, instead of working in the fields, my father worked making repairs on the house or equipment, and on preparations for the following week. We all gathered for lunch that Saturday, and when he returned to the barn, I followed him. He had gone into the tack room, where he was repairing some piece of leather harness or another. But when he saw me enter, he set it aside.
"You're joining me in the barn? To what do I owe this singular honor," he asked, teasing me as he was wont to do.
He was a fine figure of a man, as my mother described him — tall, with wide shoulders, but lean of body. He had arms that were muscled like a blacksmith's, and a well trimmed beard. In that, he was a little behind the times, as beards had been going out of style for several years, but my father was no follower of fashion. His overalls were held up by their straps over an off-white long-sleeved shirt made of muslin.
He was sitting at his workbench, with his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. And though he teased me as he greeted me, his piercing eyes were telling me he wasn't fooled, that he knew that I had come on a mission. He waited for me to speak.
"Father, I know that this may seem like a strange question to pose to you, but I was wondering if you ever thought about love and romance and those sorts of things?"
He smiled at me.
"Love and romance?" he ran his fingers back through his hair, "You're doing some pretty serious thinking. Is there something I should know about? Or maybe, I should ask, someone I should know about?"
"Oh, Pa. No, there isn't anyone specific. I'm too young to be thinking like that, anyway!"
He laughed out loud.
"Lizzie, darling — your ma was only a little older than you when we were married. I grant you that was awhile ago, and it was a different time. It will be eighteen years ago, tomorrow, that your ma and I were wed."
"I know," I told him, very seriously, "but that was a long time ago, and things are changing now. At school, one of the teachers said that today women aren't getting married as young anymore, sometimes not until they are even twenty-years-old!"
My father nodded sagely, no doubt smiling to himself when I said that eighteen years was a long time.
"Perhaps you ought to talk to your mother about 'romance', because that is a concept which is more familiar to women than men. I think much of a woman's notions of 'romance' come from reading books and listening to other women talk about it.
"For men, 'romance' seems to be less important. I'm not sure we understand it much."
He seemed to expect that this might be a long discussion, so Father stood up from his wooden seat at the workbench, and cleared off an area on one of the tack boxes. He threw a clean horse blanket atop the box and sat down, tapping his hand on the space next to him, indicating that I ought to sit there with him.
As I sat down next to him, it was if my senses had suddenly become sharper than ever before. I remember the warmth of the day, the sun filtering into the barn through the spaces between the boards, the motes of dust that could be seen where the beams of light came through, and the flies, flying silently in circles in the still afternoon air.
I waited expectantly, looking up at Father's profile that day, while he, that man of few words, contemplated how to answer my question.
"Lizzie," he began, "I have at times pondered about 'love'." He smiled and then looked in my direction. "A man has plenty of time to think while he is working the fields, when his attention isn't completely taken up by the task at hand.
"I've often wondered if we even think of 'love' correctly. The Greeks had four words for love — Eros, their term for 'physical love', Philia — what they called 'brotherly' or 'friend-like' love, Agape — the word for 'divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, thoughtful love', and 'Storge' which was more like 'affection' between family members. That, you probably know, as Preacher sometimes speaks of this, when he is discussing love at church. I only bring these up to point out that a lot of people, for a long time, have understood that 'love' is a complex matter.
"But I think even four words is short-changing the concept of love.
"Love doesn't seem to me to be a simple, single emotion. You can say that someone is 'happy' or 'sad', or 'angry' and those are rather short-lived expressions of a single feeling. And it doesn't take a person hardly any time to go from one of those states to another. Lord knows that folks can be 'happy' one minute, and some little thing happens, and they can be 'angry' the next. Just think about your brothers when they come in from playing baseball, and find out that we are having spinach with dinner!" Father rolled his eyes as he mentioned that.
I had to laugh — the boys weren't so much 'angry' as 'horrified' by Mother's spinach.
Father continued, "I've always thought of 'love' as being sort of like a house — or better, think of it like that Greek temple, oh you know..."
"The Parthenon?" I piped in.
"Yes, that's it, the Parthenon. So you have this big Temple that we'll call 'love', which is unified under a heavy roof. But to keep the roof up and solid, you need all of those columns that go around the entire outside of the temple. And in the kind of love that a marriage should be, those columns are made up of attitudes, feelings, values, of responsibilities, of mutual obligations to each other, respect for each other — a lot of different things.
"And understand something: the Temple of Love isn't built quickly or easily, and what it's made of changes over time."
I'm sure that I looked confused at what Father had just said. So he tried to clarify himself.
"Lizzie, when a couple first comes together, 'falls in love', and gets married, the Temple that they build isn't very stable. But it does have some strong columns to hold the roof up. One of the first and strongest is physical love. Now you're old enough, I guess, that your ma has talked to you about what 'physical love' is?"
I nodded in affirmation. Mother had told me about physical love, although at the time it wasn't a very attractive notion to me. It seemed to me to be too much like what I'd seen when the bulls were with the cows, or when the stallion serviced a mare. No thankee!
"OK," Pa continued, "Maybe we could even call that column 'lust', and let me tell you, among young people, that is a big, important part of 'love'. But usually there are already other columns in place as well, such as 'friendship' — usually two youngsters won't get married if they truly can't abide one another.
"Another column early on is 'family'. You may be together with your spouse, but especially when you're young, the families try to help out and give you support. That's how we got the farm, for example, from our families. And that support helps glue two people together. Without it, a couple can drift apart fairly easily.
"But there are also columns like 'pride', that are there to hold the roof in place. I was proud that your ma was my wife, and she was proud that I was her husband.
"So there are a lot of columns that support the 'love' right from the start. But without enough supports, or if the supports that are there aren't strong enough, then the roof that holds the whole structure together can fall apart. That's what happens when people 'fall out' of love, and because they haven't made the effort and spent the time to establish enough support columns yet. That seems to me to be why younger people, who haven't been together for long, are more inclined to split apart.
"As I said, though, over time, the columns continue to change and evolve. Some of the supports that were the mainstays of love early on, like physical love, are still strong, but even if they get weaker over time, it doesn't cause the structure to collapse, because other columns have grown that pick up the slack. Things like 'trust', 'respect' and 'loyalty' can't be there at first, because it takes time for them develop, to prove themselves.
"And as time goes on, certain feelings and values can actually grow, things like 'friendship' and 'companionship'. In a healthy love relationship, they continue to grow until one of the partners passes.
"Mutual obligations and responsibilities are like that too. Even early on two people know that they are responsible for each other — that's what the 'in sickness and health' and the 'for richer or poorer' means in the wedding vows. Another example is that right from the start, a man has an obligation, and is responsible, for protecting his wife and his family. And in a healthy love relationship, there are more obligations and responsibilities that develop over time. But you know what, Lizzie?"
I shrugged my shoulders not knowing what he was going to tell me.
"Even though there are more columns in our Temple, and, yes, they become more complicated, they tie two people together even more over time.
"The obligations and responsibilities, the attitudes, the values, the feelings. They become easier, because you grow to understand that when you support that roof that covers the person you love, you are not just covering and protecting them, you are covering yourself as well."
To tell you that I was surprised by what my Pa had just said would be an understatement. I couldn't remember him ever saying that much at one time, for one thing. But even more amazing was how much he seemed to have thought about the nature of love.
It just proved to me that you could never know what an adult was thinking about. It was amazing to realize how smart my Father was. And as I got older, he was getting more so!
"That was a joke, Sarah!" I explained.
"I don't know why," she sniffed.
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Can Krell and MartinLogan raise the iPod to audiophile standards?
We can see the ElectroKID springing up in the playrooms of the well-heeled, who want their commuting music buddy in the home too. That it delivers, via the iPod, genuine hi-fi sets it head, shoulders and a fair amount of torso above the rest.
Depending on your viewpoint, the £3,740 ElectroKID system is either a serious and successful attempt at wringing the best possible sound out of an Apple iPod, or a rich audiophile's folly.
Actually, it's both, and we should love it for being both.
The ElectroKID is formed of two products from two different American high-end manufacturers - Krell and MartinLogan.
The connection is Absolute Sounds, the UK distributor for both products. Ricardo Franissovici, Grande Fromage of Absolute Sounds, realised that the combination of iPod 'interface' and active loudspeakers could deliver the sort of sound quality that even Apple might not have expected from the ubiquitous iPod. And so, the ElectroKID was born.
The name itself is a portmanteau of 'electrostatic loudspeaker' (the MartinLogan Purity) and 'KID', which is itself an acronym for 'Krell Interface Dock'. Technically, it should be 'KIDelectro', but that sounds way too 1980's!
Incidentally, if you type 'electrokid' into Google on the interweb, you get a lot of DJs before you get to this system.
The Krell Interface Dock was the big audiophile controversy of 2007, because it was the first iPod-related product from a big name high-end brand. And, like all controversy, it has set the trend; at the CES 2008 we saw products like the Wadia 170 iPod transport follow in the footsteps of the KID.
The £1,350 Krell Interface Dock is essentially an iPod dock combined with line preamplifier. It has both balanced and single-ended inputs, a composite and S-Video connection for video, and an RS232 port for those using high-end Crestron/AMX-style remote control systems.
It also has an auxiliary line-level input mini-jack on the front panel, for those wanting to use a digital audio player that is not of the iPod family.
Krell has been canny with the universal docking connector. Inset into a silo on the top of the KID, this has four little clear Perspex rods that wheel back and forth to make a snug fit for the iPod. So, you can guarantee an iPod Nano will sit just as robustly as an iPod Classic.
The KID does not crack the digital code within the iPod, but instead has mild filtering in post processing to help give the signal the best possible start in life (there's also subtle treble and bass tone controls, which are useful when trying to improve a lot of compressed audio sources).
Strangely, given the fact that every single company in the audio industry has latched onto the iPod as potential saviour of their business, precious few exploited the fact that the iPod actually delivers a differential output. This means it's a doddle to run balanced outputs from the Apple player, but the KID is the first product to take advantage of this.
Applause for Krell and dumb points all round to everyone else for missing an obvious trick. Krell runs its differential amplifier circuitry in Class A, so the KID runs warm - not hot enough to reach for the Calpol, though.
Incidentally, Krell is considering a second iPod product - a full preamp with docking capability, called Papa Doc, although presumably not named after the possibly insane mid-20th Century Haitian dictator, Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier.
The KID is joined by the MartinLogan Purity loudspeaker, to form the ElectroKID system. Last year, MartinLogan launched two entry-level speakers - the passive Source and active Purity. You could be forgiven for expecting the only difference between the two speakers to be the amplifiers, given that they were launched so close to one another.
In fact, the two have significant differences, especially in the bass. Yes, both share the same CLS Generation 2 electrostatic treble/midrange panel, housed in ML's rigid 'AirFrame' curved aluminium housing, and both have a broadly similar footprint, but where the Source features a single 200mm bass driver, the Purity sports a pair of 165mm units, driven by a built-in 200-watt amplifier.
There's a three-position bass control at the rear of both speakers, for +3dB, flat and -3dB, and its best to experiment. There's even a set of speaker terminals for those who want to drive the stators from an amplifier and that turns the internal amp into a subwoofer driver, although that's effectively irrelevant in this case.
As ever with MartinLogan speakers, the Purity needs a lot of air - a good metre from the rear wall and half a metre from the sides.
As a high-end partnership, the two fit snugly together, although there's one small sacrifice in reality - the MartinLogan speakers don't accept a balanced input, so although the Krell KID takes advantage of the differential output of the iPod, that advantage is not passed on here.
Still, unless you have to use more than 5m runs of interconnect cable 'twixt KID and Purity, it's doubtful you would gain much by going balanced anyway.
Part of the issue with any dock is the quality of the recordings made to your iPod.
These can be so variable that they can make or break a sound, and many's the time low-fi systems actually do better than their high-end brethren in this context because small, cheap speakers are less demanding and thus, do not highlight the parts where data has been sacrificed at the altar of disk space.
In contrast, a full-range audiophile-grade system can throw the limitations of data compression into sharp focus.
So, if you are planning to use a take-no-prisoners replay system, you need to be just as resolute in your choice of format; AIFF or WAV give you bit-for-bit transfers, but with the concomitant disk-eating properties of storing 650MB or more per CD, Apple Lossless (as the name suggests) works like a zip compressor and does not interpolate the music itself.
You are still looking, however, at nigh on 300MB per CD.
Then, there's AAC and MP3; consider 160kbps AAC and 192kbps MP3 files as a bare minimum for use with the ElectroKID and if you can go higher (both go up to 320 kilobits per second), do so. You still get hundreds of hours on a single iPod (400 hours of music on a 60GB model sounds about right), but at least they are all listenable.
There's even the choice of iPod to consider. Naturally, your iPod has to be second generation or later to sport a docking port. But there are also some who reject the iPhone and iPod Touch on audio grounds.
There's a symbiosis between the two non-Apple products that bespeaks quality. In other words, the KID and the Purity sing together beautifully. The Krell KID is more of a preamp than a dock and the improvement that it brings to the Apple sound is quite remarkable.
You get a vivid, exciting and clean sound with a surprisingly fine soundstage... something far better than the flat, pinched 2-D sonic disappointment that comes when you usually hook your iPod to the hi-fi. All this without even tangling with digital code must mean Krell is doing something right.
The sound is perhaps drier than typical Krell products, but is still an excellent presentation.
The MartinLogan side of things is not too dissimilar from the performance heard in the Source loudspeaker we recently tested.
The extended, smooth treble, the open mindrange, that effortless sense of disappearing loudspeakers and the well-integrated dynamic bass are all re-issued here.
The big difference between this speaker and the passive version is even better bass control, depth and integration; having that 200 watts on tap really brings the speaker to life and helps bring out the best in the KID. It gives the iPod sound a cohesiveness that it seems to so sorely lack in other settings.
Even the bass and treble controls - usually so alien to any Krell-loving audiophile - have a place here. Unlike most modern CD recordings, it seems that those squeezed into the iPod comfort zone are compressed at the bottom end and over-emphasised at the top.
Worse, this seems to have become the norm for modern pop and rock releases, perhaps to make them sit more comfortably in tinny little iPod headphones. The mild degree of tone shaping that goes on thanks to the KID helps shape this.
That the iPod can be controlled by the credit card remote is good, but the logic driving the remote is pure Krell - it's not confusing, but neither is it the genius iPod interface.
We've heard many aspiring high-end iPod-based systems, but this is the best of them (it's also currently the most expensive of them too, these things may be related).
In some respects the Purity speakers are perfectly made for the iPod, if using good-quality sound files - the openness of the midrange and smooth, clean and extended treble fit the Apple sound perfectly, where cone-and-dome systems (especially metal dome tweeters) can sound brash and hard.
Also, because electrostatics take the emphasis off dynamic range, this helps take the edge off very mild compression, which always sounds too compressed on dynamic box speaker systems. The Purity designs do have a dynamic bottom end and that also fits the iPod profile.
If there's a limit, it's in the video output.
In fairness, this is as much the fault of the Apple device as it is from the Krell KID, but composite and S-Video connections are relatively weak in today's HDTV world.
Others have shown (although not, as yet, launched) upscaling docks that bring the iPod video quality a nudge toward DVD-grade video goodness, but here the picture quality is indistinct and blocky, on both outputs.
those who invest in it, and many will be considering the ElectroKID as a useful adjunct or complement to their existing high-end hi-fi.
In that context, the ElectroKID is a remarkable pairing.


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In order to reassess any skill after the unit is done, you must take initiative and correct your mistakes. You have one week to do so. After you successfully correct your mistakes, you will make a reassessment appointment with me after school or by mutual agreement.
1. produce a video demonstrating your knowledge of the skill. Find a problem or make up a problem that asks you to explain it's solution using the skill(s) you want to reassess. You may NOT use a quiz problem to base your video explanation on.
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Polina Semjonovna Žemčužinová (, rodným jménem Perl Semjonovna Karpovská, ; 11. března 1897 – 1. duben 1970, Moskva, SSSR) byla představitelka komunistické strany Sovětského svazu. Původem byla z židovské krejčovské rodiny. Od roku 1910 pracovala v továrně na cigarety v Jekatěrinoslavi, v roce 1917 jako pokladní v lékárně. Roku 1921 se provdala za Vjačeslava Molotova. Během Velké vlastenecké války roku 1942 byla aktivistkou Židovského protifašistického výboru. Po válce se dostala do nemilosti, kvůli Stalinovu postoji vůči Židům. Manželství bylo na Stalinův nátlak rozvedeno, v prosinci 1948 byla vyloučena ze strany a počátkem roku 1949 uvězněna. V žaláři setrvala až do Stalinovy smrti v roce 1953.

Zemřela v Moskvě dne 1. dubna 1970, pochována je na Novoděvičím hřbitově.

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Background: The mid-term election has come and gone, or, has it? Despite the fact it is nearly ten days since voters went to the polls across the country on November 6, in a number of races , results may still be weeks away. This is attributable to a variety of local and state level isses associated with ballots, voter access to polls, and the process in place for counting ballots. The counting process is a virtual maze of differentiation in the ways ballots are managed and counted, e.g., electronically or by hand, suggests the overall system needs an verhaul in many jurisdictions.
While we await final data on results in key U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, it is noteworthy to acknowledge impressive and historic wins of 125 somen representing diverse backgrounds, faiths, and experience. This will enrich the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in years to come. The potential impact of this new group of legislators is, of course, unknown. However, for girls and young women in our country, this is an exciting and memorable time.
The mid-term results signal another valuable opportunity for Chronicle readers to learn about your new representatives and/or senators, who their staff members are and their roles with respect to youth issues. Reach out in the coming weeks and introduce yourself to them soon. We are less than three months 'out' from the 2019 National Mentoring Summit so this is a good time to get acquainted with new people on the Hill. In addition, be aware of whether your current House member and/or Senators might now be transitioning into a chairmanship on a key Committee overseeing appropriations or policymaking in juvenile justice, education, workforce development, and STEM. These are just a few of the countless changes that will occur in the coming weeks.
ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, has a new database which highlights findings from a project called Miseducation. The project compiled federal education data in a way that makes it easy to compare schools and districts. While some of the statistics are discouraging, at best, some new initiatives have been launched in cities and states that are encouraging. A few are described below.
Colorado: The state's unusually high percentage of new classroom teachers means schools that serve poor students are perpetually staring from scratch. This has the potential for making long-term and positive changes as long as districts can 'hang-on' to the teachers and keep them in the profession.
"Fostering Youth Transitions, a new report from the Casey Foundation, casts more illumination on the challenges of foster care youth as they mature and move into adulthood. The report is based on findings from all 50 states in the country and sheds disturbing circumstances regarding educational attainment and financial security confronting the youth.
Leslie Gross, director of the Casey Foundation's Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative.
According to the report, by the age of 21young people who experienced foster care reported significantly lower rates of high school graduation and employment. Than all young people overall. The rates for black youth in foster care are even more marginalized. They study's authors hoe the data will lead to changes in local, state, and federal policies affecting foster care youth. The also suggest there is room for improvement in all of these different policy levels to be stronger advocates for foster youth.
Chronicle readers will perhaps be attracted to a recent work by Francis Fukuyama "'Identity' – The Demand for Dignity and The Politics of Resentment." This book could be considered a sequel to the books on civility shared with everyone earlier this month. Grab a few rare and quiet moments over the Thanksgiving Holiday, truly an elegant celebration in our country, and gain the perspective of Fukuyama who has posited in recent years that there are some remarkable challenges and strengths in this great country of ours. Perhaps they need to be revisited and use the 'silver cleaning cloth' to think about what we, as individuals can contribute to the revitalization of all good things that are American.


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BP unveils management shake-up
Published: Feb. 1, 2016 at 12:06 p.m. ET
Sarah Kent
LONDON-- BP PLC Monday announced a management shake up, promoting the head of its exploration and production arm, Lamar McKay, to the new position of deputy chief executive.
The company pitched the executive reshuffle as part of a broader plan to reorganize and bolster its executive team's capacity amid one of the worst price slumps in the industry's history. A company spokesman said the change is "not about succession."
BP and its peers are struggling to contend with a steep fall in oil prices over the last year-and-a-half that has eroded earnings and forced the world's biggest oil companies to slash jobs and delay projects. BP has already outlined plans to sell as much as $8 billion-worth of assets over the next two years, while significantly reducing spending and staff in a bid to cover its costs with free cash flow by 2017. The reshuffle comes a day ahead of BP's fourth-quarter and full-year results, which are expected to show a sharp drop in profits.
"These changes simplify, focus and better align accountabilities within our experienced and versatile senior team," Mr. Dudley said in a statement. "In particular Lamar's new role will allow us to further concentrate our attention on BP's highest priorities through this challenging time for our whole industry."
Mr. McKay--a 35-year veteran of the company--will take on some of Mr. Dudley's responsibilities and also focus on the company's long-term strategy. It is an area where BP has only been able to focus in recent months after it finalized a $20.8 billion settlement with the U.S. government for its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, removing significant financial uncertainty.
Mr. McKay will also be responsible for safety and operational risk, technology and corporate governance. He will be succeeded by the company's current chief operating officer for its production arm, Bernard Looney.
The reshuffle is part of a broader reorganization of the company's executive team that will follow the retirement of Katrina Landis, the head of the company's corporate business activities, on May 1.
Write to Sarah Kent at sarah.kent@wsj.com
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The first underwater photographs in history were taken in Vigo – CVBJ
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A great discovery made in France by the 1870 Vigo historian and journalist Eduardo Rolland, who found the first underwater photographs in history, taken in the estuary of Vigo in 1870. Rolland will soon show them to the public in a large format exhibition that he is preparing with the Galicia town hall.
It's a collection of photographs that represent the oldest portraits of the Vigo estuary, the first underwater archeology images in world history and the portrait of Hippolyte Magen's campaign to save Rande's galleons, the same that inspired Jules Verne to publish the novel '20,000 Travel Leagues submarine ', where he devotes a chapter to' The Bay of Vigo '.
"We are faced with a few photos which are a treasure at all levels," said Rolland after going public with his happy discovery, which took place last summer while diving into Gallica, a French digital library and one of the largest in the world, in search of information for his research on Jules Verne .
Really, the photographs appeared "by chance & rdquor; in 2020, when a French granary was emptied of a noble family and everything in it was auctioned in lots.
In one of these lots, without further identification, were these photographs, which were acquired by the French commune of Angers, in the department of Loire, where Ernest Bazin was born, engineer inventor of a bell submarine, but they were not able to analyze in their full context as they were taken in Vigo.
This Bazin Underwater Bell was a world revolution at the time and was thrown on this expedition to Vigo, and now for the first time it can be seen depicted in actual images, not in drawings or engravings that appeared in the press at the time.
Hippolyte Magen's expedition to save Rande's galleons. |
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"There is so much context in this photo, the Rouquayrol respirator they are wearing divers is the first time they are photographed, a photo taken three years before its presentation at Paris Expo & rdquor ;, explains Roland.
The author of the photographs was the painter and photography pioneer Henri Durand-Brager, hired for the 1870 galleon Rande rescue expedition.
In them you can see the divers in action, images of the wrecks of Rande's galleons, the protagonists of the campaign or the ship 'Le Vigo' which was in charge of the investigations.
The true meaning of this photographic treasure is obtained by comparing these photos with the memories of Hippolyte Magen's expedition, during which technical advances such as electric lamps for underwater lighting, or the new Rouquayrol respirators for the aforementioned diving, were created in Vigo. in addition to the revolutionary underwater bell, inside which several of the portraits were taken.
Until now, only the engravings in French magazines on this expedition were known., and this is the first time that we see in a photo the protagonists of this legendary campaign, such as engineer Ernest Bazin.
Rolland, after discovering these images, cataloged and described them in detail by delving into the existing documentation, which he gathered in a publication which also included the reproduction of the photographs and which could serve to initiate new historical investigations.
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From Peter Ackroyd's biography of Charles Dickens, describing the period in the 1840s when Dickens was working on "Hard Times". Cited in Paul Griffiths' article "Scholasticism: The Possible Recovery of an Intellectual Practice" (in: José Cabezón, "Scholasticism: Cross-Cultural and Comparative Perspectives", 1998, Albany, SUNY Press).
The above quote is adduced to give one example where mnemonic techniques were, even in European modernity, still in use, and where something like an "oral textuality" was perpetuated. Griffiths uses this to argue that composition and storage of texts is not necessarily bound up with writing and print, and – he doesn't say this, but it's what it boils down to – against a deterministic view of technology which claims that the character of certain technological tools itself fully dictates the mode of textual production, storage, and reception regardless of sociocultural factors.


Even among business leaders, a majority think Goldman Sachs is getting what it deserves.
The case has not even been heard in court and the company denies all the allegations. Almost every business publication has carried commentaries by insiders who say the government may have a hard time prevailing, and dismissing all the Sturm and Drang.
And yet the public seems to be delighted if not outraged by the SEC's charges against Goldman Sachs, the opulent investment bank that many Americans see as the poster child of those causing the financial crisis. Even in the world of business where dislike of government crackdowns is dominant, a new poll shows that a majority believe Goldman is getting what it deserves.
Argyle Executive Forum conducted the survey electronically among its senior corporate leadership community.
An earlier poll of the citizenry found that 82 percent in our highly polarized country wanted a "crackdown" on Wall Street. A public that seems to oppose bailouts has a different attitude towards a jailout.
The public marketing and secret short-selling of junk assets was a common practice carried out by virtually every major Wall Street firm. It was part of a colossal fraud perpetrated on the American people. The banks lured people into taking out mortgages they knew the purchasers could not afford. They then packaged these toxic loans into securities–collateralised debt obligations–and made billions in profits by selling them to investors around the world, including pension funds, 401(k) plans, insurance companies and private investors. Those involved knew very well they were running the equivalent of a giant Ponzi scheme–a fraud far more massive and destructive than the criminal operation headed by Bernard Madoff.
Madoff's sins preceded the meltdown by years diverting attention from how Wall Street itself had become a far more sophisticated crime scene, not of lone con men but of institutions that had successfully lobbied to loosen laws and regulations and build an industry on a bedrock of fraud and deception.
This environment was promoted through the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars for lobbying legislators and campaign contributions. There was extensive collusion between the financial services industry and politicians of both parties.
Cutbacks in government monitoring of financial practices became the norm, with fines and "settlements" in (with some exceptions) replacing vigilant oversight and the prosecution of wrongdoers at the federal and state level. Fraudsters were primarily punished with fines businesses paid as a cost of doing business.
These practices, aided and abetted by cutbacks in the budgets of agencies that monitored and enforced laws, meant that an open season on homeowners and investors had been declared. In 2004, the FBI warned of an epidemic of mortgage fraud, but also acknowledged their own white-collar crime squads had been downsized when fighting "the war on terror" became the priority.
"This was criminal in any serious definition of criminality, but all perfectly legal in the lawyer-crafted vermin-nourishment clauses under which our economy was looted…. The way that the banking industry recently gutted foreclosure-protection indicates the thieves are still running the show, with the help of a thoroughly corrupted government."
This deeper story was also not as media accessible because it revolves around an unsexy finance-industrial labyrinth–of savvy computer-tethered mathematicians ("quants") and financial magicians devising complex and hard to understand structured and bundled financial vehicles: derivatives, CDs, CDOs, credit default swaps and tranches etc.
This army of nerds was rarely flamboyant or even public about its endeavors despite the mansions and Maseratis they bought with ill-gotten gains. For years, their convoluted schemes were perceived as insider baseball, as exciting as a graduate economics seminar.
And yet, as former federal bank regulator William Black explains, as quoted on the financial website Naked Capitalism, "massive fraud is what caused the economic crisis. As one example, he explains that everyone involved knew that the CDOs that packaged subprime loans were not AAA credit-worthy (which means that they are completely risk-free). He also said that the exotic instruments (CDOs, CDS, etc.) that spun the mortgages into more and more abstract investments were intentionally created to defraud investors." His conclusion: "The entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts." This enterprise was also complicated because it connected several separate industries into a chain of criminality stretching from community-based mortgage brokers and appraisers to investment bankers and ratings agencies to insurance companies like AIG skilled in the arts of leveraging a housing bubble into a global crisis that led to losses of trillions.
For my film on financial crime, I turned to a convicted white-collar criminal for insight, Sam Antar, once the CFO of the long-closed Crazy Eddie, an infamous New York electronics chain. He admits he and members of his family stole millions until they were caught.
"This crime has been ten, fifteen years in the making. It's been going on. We're only finding out about it for one specific reason: the tanking economy. Imagine if the economy didn't tank? Imagine if this was allowed to go on for four or five, six, seven years? Imagine how big it would've gotten then?"
"How did they get away with it?" I asked.
"The white-collar criminal has no legal constraints. You subpoena documents, we destroy documents; you subpoena witnesses, we lie. So you are at a disadvantage when it comes to the white-collar criminal. In effect, we're economic predators. We're serial economic predators. We impose a collective harm on society."
Moreover, he said many "legitimate" businessmen are, at heart, opportunists and will break the law when they think they can get away with it or when they are feeling pressure to drive up revenues.
What are some of the crimes they commit?
• Fraud and control frauds. Control frauds start at the top with CEOs seizing control of their companies from Boards and then driving up share values with speculative investments while increasing their own compensation and bonuses.
Financial frauds and other crimes are on the rise in the United States, reports The Economist: "Over 730,000 counts of suspected financial wrongdoing were recorded in America last year, according to recent data from the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Institutions such as banks, insurers and casinos are required by law to report suspicious activities to federal authorities under twenty categories.
No wonder Senator Ted Kaufman insists fraud is behind the whole crisis but, so far, the financial reformers in Washington, The White House, most of the media and even the progressive movement have downplayed the issue even as far more Banksters went to jail in the S&L years than now.
Today, some on Wall Street are calling for justice. In an interview with the New York Observer, billionaire Jim Chanos said, "I don't know why there haven't been any [perp walks] yet, but it's amazing that it's taken them this long. We've known about Lehman's books since late 2008, but we just needed it confirmed by someone who wasn't a short seller, since we're not to be trusted…. We've known something was wrong with their books since the collapse."
Writes financial blogger Edward Harrison at Credit Writedowns, "Three years after the subprime crisis first hit and eighteen months after Lehman's bankruptcy there haven't been any arrests, any indictments, nor any convictions at major banks. How do you lose trillions of dollars in the most lax regulatory environment without somebody, somewhere, at some time lying or stealing? It makes no sense."
Danny Schechter"News Dissector" Danny Schechter, executive editor of MediaChannel. org (dissector at mediachannel.org), directed the film In Debt We Trust (InDebtWeTrust.org) and has finished a new book on this crisis, Plunder.


From 80s fashion to grunge.
As 2018 rolls to a close, Google has looked back at what we've all been searching for over the past 12 months. In terms of fashion, the royal family and nostalgia peaked our curiosity with the Duchess of Sussex and Cambridge ranking alongside the 90s, 00s and grunge. For a look ahead to see what trends will dominate in 2019, read our definitive guide.
Kate Middleton might not be the official title of the Duchess of Cambridge, but it is the term most people use to search for her. The Duchess of Sussex may have attracted more international headlines this year, but Kate's popularity - in Google search terms, at least - shows no sign of waning.
Hipsters may have a bad rep, but the world is still curious to see what they're wearing. While the stereotype of plaid shirt-wearing bearded men on a fixie bike might feel a little staid, the hipster look has evolved - 90s sportswear prevails, the kind that looks like it's been found in a charity shop, but has actually been bought from an over-priced vintage shop in Peckham or Dalston.
Characterised by wild, cartoonish and often child-like styles, Harajuku fashion was named after the district in Tokyo around 20 years ago. While it's an ever-evolving aesthetic, it's still rooted largely in a girly-glam look that street style photographers can't get enough of.
As menswear continues to expand and thrive, search for it as a market was high in 2018.
Unsurprisingly, with the royal wedding and consequent baby news, the world was obsessed by Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex. In fashion terms, she has broken royal tradition with her polished, yet modern approach to style.
Well, no one saw this coming - low-rise jeans, tiny bags, bootcut jeans, slinky party tops, Matrix-style narrow sunglasses and even cargo pants made a slow return, with Bella Hadid leading the charge. Not everyone will be sold, but clearly a lot of us were interested.
90s style has been a pervasive look for the past few years now - think slip dresses with T-shirts and utility boots; baggy jumpers and hoodies teamed with midi skirts; crop tops and high-waisted, stone-washed jeans. Winona Ryder, Kate Moss and Courtney Love were, of course, the original pioneers of this look, with the Hadid sisters, Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin taking on the baton.
Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain offered a defining look in the mid-80s that peaked in the 90s and continues to inspire the fashion world today, be it plaid dresses, tea cloth florals, band T-shirts and chunky boots. There's an insouciant coolness to grunge that refuses to die.
The 80s made a comeback this year, led by Marc Jacobs, Saint Laurent and Isabel Marant. Big shoulders, bold colours, mini-length and bold silhouettes came thick and fast on the catwalk, and, as reviled as this decade might be in the style stakes, Google users round the world were still curious to see how a modern 80s incarnation might look.


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Q: Problems with a while loop (python basis) I'm new using Python and I need a little help with this while loop:
List=[]
x=str(input("name: "))
y=int(input("mark: "))
List.append(x,y)
while x!="0":
    x=str(input("name: "))
    y=int(input("mark: "))
    List.append((x,y))

The problem of this while-loop is that, when I put '0' after 'name: ' to break the loop, the program does not break immediately: on the contrary, it asks me for y ('mark: ') and in the Output it also prints me the tuple ('0',0)
I'll try to be more clear:
***Expected output:***

name: Lisa

mark: 6

name: John

mark: 8

name: 0

[('Lisa',6),('John',8)]

***My actual output with my code:***

name: Lisa

mark: 6

name: John

mark: 8

name: 0

mark:0  #I put 0 because the program asks me for another int (wrong)

[('Lisa',6),('John',8),('0',0)]

I also tried with this code, same identical problem:
while True:
    if x=="0":
        break
    else:
         x=str(input("inserisci cognome: "))
         y=int(input("inserisci voto: "))
         List.append((x,y))

A: while loops don't end when the condition becomes false anywhere. The way that while loops work is that they check the condition and if it is true they run all the lines within the loop, then recheck the condition. You set x to be 0, but the other two lines will still run (asking for Y and appending to the list) before the while loop gets checked. This is a hacky solution but you can try it.
name_list=[]
x = ""
while x!='0':
    x=str(input("name: "))
    if x == '0':
        break
    y=int(input("mark: "))
    name_list.append((x,y))

Hope that helps!
P.S. it's also probably good practice to not call lists List

A: You should sort it the other way around:
List=[]
x=str(input("name: "))
while x!='0':
    y=int(input("mark: "))
    List.append(x,y)
    x=str(input("name: "))

A: This is an easy example. I assumed you wanted to append a tuple into the list.
The while will run forever in this example unless x does not equal "0".
List = []

while True:
     x=str(input("inserisci cognome: "))
     if x == "0":
         break
     y=int(input("inserisci voto: "))
     List.append((x,y))

A: Why not input y after checking x is 0 or not?
List = []
x = str(input("name: "))
while x!='0':
    y = int(input("mark: "))
    List.append( (x,y) )  # Make Sure you insert only one argument in List which is a tuple (x, y)
    x = str(input("name: "))

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Thursday, January 7
BodyWorlds Exhibit at Discovery Place See the human body in all its stages across the arc of aging and in all its conditions in this all-new exhibition. Featuring more than 100 real human specimens preserved through the process of plastination, discover the complexity, vulnerability and resiliency of the human body.
Monster Jam 7:30pm at Time Warner Cable Arena Watch monster trucks face off in racing and freestyle competitions
Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 – 2 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 9
Discovery Place Boy Scout Merit Badge Workshops: Electricity and Chemistry 10:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. and 1:45 - 5:30 Boy Scouts ages 12-17 collaborate with other Boy Scouts and Discovery Place educators to earn your badges. Cost: $35 for one class or $55 for two classes. Includes Museum admission.To register, call 704.372.6261 x300.
Store Grand Opening at Reid's SouthPark Mall Stop by the store for local tastings, Reid's Specialty Food Tastings, Beer Tastings, BBQ Sandwich special and drawings for giveaways.At 4 pm a Free Oyster Roast begins on the patio until the last oyster is shucked!
Shabutaso presents Munekera at Children's Theatre of Charlotte See amazing skill, energy, and drums – a fiery combination. These master drummers and dancers bring you the fire of the djembe (drum), the dance, and all the music and drama that bring the African spectacle alive. Recommended for ages 6+
Monster Jam 2 p.m. & 7:30pm at Time Warner Cable Arena Watch monster trucks face off in racing and freestyle competitions
Civil War Winter Quarters Living History at Latta Plantation 10am - 4pm The American Civil War was no easy time for soldiers or civilians, especially during the long cold winter months. Learn of illnesses that plagued the camps and ways civilians passed time while loved ones were away at war.
Russian Speaking Children's New Year Celebration 11 a.m. All are invited to the annual celebration of Russian holiday traditions. Dana Auditorium, Queens University, 1900 Selwyn Avenue. Tickets are $10 at the door.
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Clemson coach Dabo Swinney previews 2019 season