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The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.
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Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.
Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.
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After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was… trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
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'Record-breaking' GCSE results at Portishead's Gordano School
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Gordano School achieved 'brilliant' GCSE results today.
Gordano School has achieved record-breaking GCSE results today (Thursday), with the number of passes at an all-time high.
Four in five grades at the Portishead school were a 4 - the baseline pass grade - or better, putting Gordano 13 per cent ahead of the national average.
Almost 30 per cent of grades were a 7 - the equivalent of an A in the old marking system - or above, again significantly better than the national average.
Three quarters of the year group earned five 9-4s including English and maths, which is widely deemed the gold standard to progress into further education.
Almost 30 pupils received eight or more 9-7 grades, with Alex Southern, Sophie Chambers and Lauren Vine at the top of the class.
Science exams were a particular area of success, with 80 per cent of students receiving at least two 4s.
Headteacher Tom Inman said the results had exceeded the school's previous records.
He said: "I am immensely proud of our students for this brilliant set of results for Gordano, with some measures showing this as our best ever performance. Achievement has been very strong across the year.
"This cohort has worked incredibly hard and deserves all the success that they have achieved.
"They have been a wonderful year group to work with and I am delighted these results will support them to move on to their next steps in education or training with such a strong set of qualifications already in the bank."
Many of the school's pupils will return to study A-levels at its sixth form next month, and Mr Inman wished students well in their future endeavours.
He added: "Whether they are staying with us, moving onto college or progressing to apprenticeships, we wish them every success in their bright futures.
"Congratulations to them and a huge thank you to our staff and parents who have supported them to such success."
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A rainbow rose at the end of the fields. When Peter Bok was growing up in Ngau Chi Wan, the farmland just south of his village was where he played hide and seek with his friends. Sometimes they would run into painters who had set up their easels to paint Lion Rock, the craggy mountain whose feline profile looked particularly distinguished from that point of view.
But then, in 1962, the fields were replaced by the largest public housing estate Hong Kong had ever seen: Choi Hung, whose name is Cantonese for rainbow (coi2 hung4 彩虹). Huge slabs of concrete rose 20 storeys above the ground. The colourful paint gave them a cheerful appearance, but still – for the residents of Ngau Chi Wan, it meant an end to a rural way of life. "The villagers had to accept the new reality," recalls Bok.
For the thousands of people who moved into Choi Hung, though, the estate represented safety, security and a modern, affordable new home. This was one of Hong Kong's first low-income housing estates, designed to be a permanent home for families whose only other options were squalid tenements, rooftop shacks or fire-prone shantytowns.
Today, more than half a century after its construction, Choi Hung has come to represent something else. Every day, dozens of people flock to a basketball court on top of one of the estate's car parks to take photos against the backdrop of rainbow-coloured buildings. It has become at once a symbol of mid-century progress and a photogenic destination for a generation of social media users who don't so much pass through a landscape as they do consume it.
It's also a reminder how just how much public housing remains an integral part of the Hong Kong experience. In many other cities, public housing estates are marginal, underfunded and feared by those who do not live in them. That makes the sight of snap-happy tourists wandering through Choi Hung all the more remarkable.
One reason is that more than 50 percent of Hong Kong's population lives in some kind of public housing. But the real reason may come down to design – and the design of Choi Hung in particular.
When the Hong Kong Housing Authority began planning Choi Hung in 1958, it had been less than five years since a fire ripped through the shantytowns of Shek Kip Mei, forcing the government to quickly rehouse those displaced by the inferno. The resettlement estates were crowded and unpleasant – entire families squeezed into 100 square foot flats, with outdoor kitchens and shared toilets. Choi Hung was part of a new generation of estates — including So Uk Chuen, North Point Estate and Wah Fu — that were meant to offer those families a safe, comfortable place to plant roots.
What P&T came up with was a city within a city. Most of the housing in the estate consists of 20-storey slab blocks. "The slab buildings allowed for creating these kinds of public spaces in the middle," says Natalia Echeverri, an adjunct assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Seven-storey walkup blocks snake around the slabs, framing public amenities like playgrounds, plazas, schools, shops and a wet market. A bus terminus provided a crucial link to the rest of Kowloon in the years before the MTR opened in 1979.
"When Choi Hung was built there was nothing there, just villages and agriculture around, so you needed to incorporate all these public uses inside – and it needed to be incorporated into a good public transportation network," says Echeverri.
The estate became a point of pride for Hong Kong's colonial government, which showed it off to visiting dignitaries such as Richard Nixon, who played a game of badminton with residents in 1964, and Princesses Margaret and Alexandra, who toured the estate in 1966 and 67, respectively.
Choi Hung set the tone for the public housing estates built in the 1960s and 70s, which were at once self-contained but well integrated into the city through public transport. When New York-based urban planner Matthew Arancio visited Hong Kong for the first time, he was amazed by the contrast between public housing estates here and in his home city. "[New York public] housing often has no embedded commercial uses – perhaps a dreary community room or educational space, but certainly no supermarkets, dollar stores, and other small shops where someone can just run downstairs to pick something up," he says. The city's public housing is often surrounded by fences, cut off from surrounding streets, whereas Arancio was stuck by the "dignity and lack of perimeter" in estates like Choi Hung and Wah Fu.
But things began to change over the years. Whereas Choi Hung's shops were located on the ground floor, creating a lively street life, subsequent estates began clustering shops in malls. Wo Che Estate, which opened in 1975, shifted its commercial spaces onto above-ground walkways, creating the vertical landscape that is so common in Hong Kong today. By the time the 1990s rolled around, government planners had begun to abandon Choi Hung's self-contained approach, creating estates with few shops or services. "Estates like Sau Mau Ping South don't have any public facilities – they just have a 7-Eleven or something like that," says Echeverri.
Meanwhile, Choi Hung is enjoying a second life as a tourist attraction – one of a number of local landmarks that have suddenly become famous on Instagram and other social media. The land where Choi Hung stands once attracted painters; today, it draws in photographers. That has led to some conflict with estate residents – when Hui was reporting her story, she spoke to a group of basketball players whose ball accidentally hit a pair of mainland visitors who sat on the court in the middle of a game to pose for photos.
But Hui also came across a man taking photos with his family who had grown up on the estate. "He didn't see a problem with people coming – he thought it was good that they were coming to an estate that is ageing, to spend money and spread some vitality," she says.
And yet Choi Hung's future is unclear. The estate's population has dwindled as its residents have aged, dropping to just 18,000 in recent years. Families entering public housing for the first time are directed to newer estates on the fringes of the city. And other estates of Choi Hung's era are disappearing. So Uk Chuen has been completely rebuilt; North Point Estate was wiped off the map to make way for a luxury housing development; and Wah Fu is also slated to be redeveloped in the near future, likely into luxury housing, given its high-value seaside location.
Choi Hung's newfound popularity may end up being its saviour. Echeverri thinks that its fame on Instagram may lead the government to rethink any potential plan for redevelopment, and its design by a famous firm such as P&T may one day earn its heritage status. Still, just as Choi Hung replaced the farm fields on which it was built, change in Hong Kong can come quickly and unexpectedly. It's hard to say what lies in store for one of the city's most important estates.
Choi Hung changed the way Hong Kong built public housing – and its unique appearance has given it a second life as a tourist attraction.


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This year is the 50th anniversary of the activation of the Arpanet project. The first packet switches (called Interface Message Processors or IMPs) were installed at UCLA,
SRI International [then Stanford Research Institute], UC Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. Host computers at UCLA and SRI made their first connection through the Arpanet on October 29, 1969.
Tom Standage's book, The Victo-
rian Internet,a highlights the drama
of the arrival of the telegraph in the
mid-19th century. In its earliest incar-
nation, telegraph operators coded text
messages in Morse Codeb and sent
them to the next operator whose re-
ceiver was connected on a dedicated,
point-to-point wire. The transcribed
message was then re-sent by the re-
ceiving operator to the next one, pro-
ceeding hop-by-hop until it reached
the final operator who transcribed
the message and delivered it to the re-
cipient, typically by courier. This was
called a "store-and-forward" message-
switching system because at each hop,
messages were temporarily stored at
the intermediate telegraph operator's
office until they could be re-sent to the
next operator.c
When teletype machines were in-
vented, they punched holes in paper
tape coded with 5 bits to represent up
to 32 characters or symbols. Eventu-
ally an 8-bit coding scheme was used
to expand the available character set
to include uppercase and lowercase
a T. Standage. The Victorian Internet. Walker &
Company, 1998; ISBN-13: 978-162040592, ISBN-
10: 162040592X, ISBN 0-8027-1342-4 (hardcov-
er), ISBN 978-0-8027-1604-0 (paperback).
b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
c For more information, see my June 2019 Cerf's
Up column.
as well as other special characters. An
operator would enter a message on
the teletype and a paper tape would
be punched. The operator would tear
off the paper tape and hang it on a
peg next to the teletype that would be
used to send the message to the next
hop. This was called a "torn tape" sys-
tem since the punched paper tapes
would be torn from the originating
teletype and fed into a teletype that
would automatically read the tape
and send the signals to the next tele-
type. The receiving teletype, which
was connected by a dedicated circuit,
would then punch out a copy of the
message on a tape which would again
be torn from the machine …
Interestingly, the telephone emerged
from research attempting to allow
one wire to carry more than one tele-
graph message at the same time.
Telephone circuits were built manu-
ally with patch panels to connect the
caller to the called party. Eventually
automatic switching was possible
and circuits were built automatically
from source to destination. This al-
lowed teletypes to be directly con-
nected end-to-end without requir-
ing intermediate queueing. No more
store-and-forward was necessary as
the two end-points were directly con-
nected by a circuit.
Returning to the Arpanet, the chal-
lenge there was to find an alternative
to connecting the machines by way
of dial-up circuits. Such a process
would have been painfully slow since
each connection would take seconds
to complete while the computers,
The subsequent Internet made
use of circuits running at a minimum
of 1. 5 megabits/second in the early
1980s and today at 100–400 gigabits/
second. The transmission delays are
negligible, per hop, and are domi-
nated by speed of light and/or queue-
ing delays in the event of congestion.
So we have come full circle back to
the store-and-forward days of the
telegraph, but at sub-nanoseconds
of transmission delay per bit. We've
gone back to the future!
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. He served as ACM president from 2012–2014.
DOI: 10.1145/3338516 Vinton G. Cerf


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Harlem Council Member Levine And Others Demand Lower Income Apartments And Inclusionary Housing
The City Council held its first day of hearings Tuesday on mandatory inclusionary housing, a major citywide policy that will mandate affordable units in all new developments planned on rezoned land. Several council members grilled Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, HPD Commissioner Vicki Been, and City Planning Director Carl Weisbrod on the program, railing about the lack of low-income units and union labor and demanding better protections against tenant harassment and displacement.
"We hear economic diversity, but our residents are worried about displacement," said Council Member Donovan Richards, a Queens Democrat and the chair of the zoning subcommittee running the hearing. At least a dozen council members said the plan didn't offer enough apartments that residents in their neighborhoods could actually afford. Under the lowest income tier of MIH, developers only have to rent to families who make 60 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI), or $46,620 for a family of three.
Council members Jumaane Williams, Vanessa Gibson, Inez Barron, and Harlem's Mark Levine all said that apartments for families earning $20,000 or $30,000 a year should be included in the policy, as did Public Advocate Letitia James.
Council Member Antonio Reynoso, a Democrat who represents Bushwick, said that nearly half his constituents make less than $31,000 a year (40 percent AMI). Council members Jumaane Williams, Vanessa Gibson, Inez Barron, and Harlem's Mark Levine all said that apartments for families earning $20,000 or $30,000 a year should be included in the policy, as did Public Advocate Letitia James.
But the top housing officials didn't budge. If the city makes affordability rules too strict, it could choke off development in marginal areas like East New York, eastern Queens and much of the Bronx. "If we push too hard, we get zero housing," said Been. "30 percent of zero is zero."
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That's why they've created some escape routes for builders who might not be able to include affordable units in the same building as market-rate ones. Those measures include a hardship waiver from the Board of Standards and Appeals, which would allow developers to reduce their number of affordable apartments, or in some cases, build entirely market-rate. And developers will have the option to build affordable apartments at a different location. Also, buildings with 10 units or less won't have to include below-market units at all.
Richards and a few other pols wondered how the city will regulate projects where developers choose to build their affordable apartments off-site. Builders who develop in newly rezoned areas like East New York will have to rent at least a quarter of their apartments at below-market rates. They can put those units in a separate building, either on- or off-site, to satisfy the requirements for MIH.
"Off-site is only justifiable if you're getting considerably more units," said Councilmember Mark Levine, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side and West Harlem.
"Off-site is only justifiable if you're getting considerably more units," said Councilmember Mark Levine, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side and West Harlem. "Now that we're living without 421-a, won't that open the flood gates to off-site development?"
Glen responded that only 10 percent of affordable units were built off-site under the Bloomberg administration's voluntary inclusionary housing program. She explained that developers rarely used it, but the administration had to include it for MIH to "pass constitutional muster."
Several members wondered about what would happen if the 421-a tax abatement was really dead. (Gary LaBarbera, the president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, even said so in an email on Monday.) But Glen tried to reassure the council, explaining that "a 421-a like exemption that will surface as we go through the legislative process." The city needs a tax break like 421-a to encourage developers to build rentals rather than condos, she added.
Related: Huge Harlem Development With Affordable Apartments
Union groups and their allies have pushed for the revamped 421-a program to require that builders use union construction workers in exchange for getting the tax break. Since those 421-a talks in Albany have failed, politicians from union-heavy districts in Queens and the Bronx want a prevailing wage requirement to be written into the text of MIH.
"A living wage can't be built into housing regulations," said Glen, because courts won't consider it constitutional.
The City Council will hold a second day of hearings on Wednesday on its other new zoning initiative,Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA). The Council will vote on both policies next month to wrap up the six-month-long public approval process. Most community boards voted down both proposals, as did the Borough Boards. The City Planning Commission has already green lighted the two zoning initiatives, and the City Council vote will be the final step before they become law.
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Bounced Checks Could Land You On A Banking Blacklist
"NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Bounced checks and forgotten overdraft fees can happen to anybody. But now, some banks are using those money mistakes against customers. [...] Consumer advocates said that some of the people being shut out have records that were dinged accidentally." (Video and print story available)
An $18 Million Lesson in Handling Credit Report Errors
"Even after sending more than 13 letters to Equifax over the course of two years, Julie Miller could not get the big credit bureau to remove a host of errors that it inserted into her credit report. [...] So she tried suing. That worked. [...] "Big punitive penalties may help force the bureaus to upgrade their 20th-century algorithms and incompetent dispute reinvestigation processes," said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at the United States Public Interest Research Group. "But C.F.P.B.'s authority to supervise the big credit bureaus is one of the most significant powers Congress gave it."
FTC to hotels: Nuisance add-on fees deceptive | Ed Mierzwinski
The FTC has warned 22 hotel chains that add-on fees, such as resort fees, may be deceptive. Meanwhile, air passenger groups are asking consumers to petition the White House to require that the Department of Transportation's FAA require full disclosure of airline fees.
Survey Finds Dangerous Toys on Store Shelves
Dangerous or toxic toys can still be found on America's store shelves, according to U.S. Public Interest Research Group's 27th annual Trouble in Toyland report. It reveals the results of laboratory testing on toys for lead, cadmium and phthalates, all of which have been proven to have serious adverse health impacts on the development of young children. The survey also found small toys that pose a choking hazard, extremely loud toys that threaten children's hearing, and toy magnets that can cause serious injury.
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The 2012 Trouble in Toyland report is the 27th annual U.S. Public Interest Research Group survey of toy safety. In this report, U.S. PIRG provides safety guidelines for consumers when purchasing toys for small children and provides examples of toys currently on store shelves that may pose potential safety hazards.


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The Archbishop of Canterbury's Final Speech in the House of Lords
December 16, 2012 UncategorizedMatthew
Older People: Their Place and Contribution in Society
The Archbishop of Canterbury: My Lords, I am most grateful for the opportunity afforded to raise the pressing and still largely ignored question of the well-being of older citizens in our country. I doubt very much whether, in your Lordships' House, I need to underline the fact that those over, say, 62 are readily capable of making a contribution to society. I think that we may take as read declarations of personal interest in this regard; though I must also declare a specific interest as a patron or vice-president of practically all the voluntary agencies I shall be mentioning in the course of thesen remarks. Yet the fundamental issue which has prompted this debate is the undoubted fact that we are becoming dangerously used to speaking and thinking of an ageing population as a problem, a burden on public purse and private resources alike. My hope for this debate is not so much to strengthen support for particular initiatives, although I shall be mentioning some, as to plead for a change in attitude that will appropriately recognise the dignity of older citizens, whatever their condition.
As things stand, more than half the over-60 population are involved in some sort of formal and structured voluntary work; over half the population in general believe that this is part of what they should aspire to in later life; and a third of the population declare themselves willing to take part in informal volunteering. These facts are of basic importance. They mean, quite simply, that a majority of the older population are ready to do what they can, unpaid, to support the fabric of society; in other words, people are doing exactly what we expect responsible citizens to do. And a majority of us see this as a goal for our own later years. A conservative estimate of the value of the voluntary work already done in caring and family maintenance alone by the over-60s is in the region of £50 billion.
The first question we must address, therefore, is what can be done by government and other agencies to harness most effectively this resource, not just as a way of solving problems that require such resources, but as an affirmation of positive models of living for older citizens. If we live in a society that expects its older citizens to continue to support the fabric of their society and values them for doing so, we shall at least put to rest the damaging stereotype of older people as being essentially passive in relation to society at large. And that means in turn that we may stop seeing the older population as primarily "dependants" on the goodwill of family or neighbourhood or state. As we have seen, a majority of the population expect that there will be positive opportunities in their later years; we need to work with that perception and reinforce it strongly. The Equality Act 2010 has laid clear foundations in this respect, but more needs doing to build some solid embodiments of the principle. For example, we need to ask how businesses not only prepare employees for such a future, but how they foster a continuing relationship with older citizens in their own exercise of corporate responsibility. A vigorous dialogue between business and local advocacy groups is essential here.
It is only against such a background that we can usefully address the questions that do arise in relation to dependency, because it is of course a fact that advancing age is likely to decrease physical independence in various ways. But rather than taking this as the core issue, we should see questions of dependency as basically about how our public policy and resourcing seek to preserve both dignity and capacity among those who may be increasingly physically challenged, but who remain citizens capable of contributing vital things to the social fabric. There is a lot to learn in this regard from the work done by disability rights and advocacy groups. We must recognise that it is assumptions about the basically passive character of the older population that foster attitudes of contempt and exasperation, and ultimately create a climate in which abuse occurs.
Shockingly, Ruth Marks, the Older People's Commissioner for Wales, estimates that one in four older people report one or another form of "elder abuse" ranging from patronising and impatient behaviour to actual physical mistreatment. In passing, it is worth considering whether the model of an older people's commissioner is one that Wales might helpfully lend to other parts of the United Kingdom.
Delivering Dignity, the February 2012 report of the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People, sets out a comprehensive picture of what older citizens have a right to expect in terms of care and respect, with far-reaching implications as to the training of professional carers and care managers in and out of the NHS. It recommends, for example, that the Government's Nursing and Care Quality Forum should expand to include healthcare assistants and those working in care homes, and significantly, that the status of such care workers should be promoted by means of a "college of care".
One of the less recognised results of a dismissive attitude to the needs of older citizens receiving care is a view of carers for the elderly as a sort of proletariat among health and care professionals. There is a vicious circle at work here that needs dismantling. It is worth mentioning that some hospices, such as the pioneering St Christopher's, have blazed a trail in defining first-rate care standards. Needless to say, the same applies where we are talking about more than merely physical incapacity. Dementia and depression are painfully familiar challenges -I would guess that a good many in this Chamber have experience at first hand of caring for family members living with such conditions. The Alzheimer's Society, in co-operation with the Prime Minister's challenge on dementia, has an initiative aimed at creating dementia-friendly communities, and more needs to be done once again in challenging those attitudes that lead to stigma and increased isolation.
This returns us to the challenge of the commission's report, which flags up the need for integrated care, drawing together home, hospital and care home. The commission recommends that hospitals perform a full assessment of older people's care needs before they are discharged, with a named staff member taking ongoing responsibility for liaison with patient and family. Once again, many hospices have developed increasingly extensive and sophisticated ways of involving the wider community in their work, in a way that impacts constructively on general attitudes towards the older population.
All this also underlines the importance of the intergenerational relationship. As family structures become looser and more scattered geographically, it is vital that there be regular opportunities for interaction between younger and older people, not least between children and older citizens, whether through schools arranging visiting and befriending or through formal and informal oral history projects, which have been a very significant aspect of the life of some schools in creating and developing liaison with older members of the community. It is here, too, that the contribution of churches and faith communities may be particularly significant. In a good many contexts, these are simply the most robust and effective promoters of intergenerational contact and formal or informal volunteering opportunities for older people.
Much more could be said about specific questions and proposals. We have had two extremely important contributions in recent years to the overall policy landscape in the shape of the Dilnot report and the Delivering Dignity document, to which I have already referred more than once.
In conclusion, I return to the matter of attitudes to the elderly. A great deal of our culture is frenetically oriented towards youth-notably in entertainment and marketing. Up to a point, this is perfectly understandable: people want to put down markers for the future as they see it and to capture the attention of a rising generation. However, the effect of all this can be to ignore the present reality of responsible, active people in older life, who are still participants in society, not passengers. Its effect can also be to encourage younger people to forget that they are ageing themselves. To speak of an "ageing population" is, in one sense, simply to utter the most banal of all cliches, because ageing is something that we are all doing whether we like it or not. Younger people may forget that they are ageing themselves and will be in need of positive and hopeful models for their own later years. We tolerate a very eccentric view of the good life, or the ideal life, as one that can be lived only for a few years, say, between18 and 40. The "extremes" of human life-childhood and age, when we are not defined just by our productive capacity and so have time to absorb the reality around us in a different way-are often hard for our society to come to terms with. Too often, at the one end of the spectrum, we want to rush children into pseudo-adulthood; too often we want older citizens either to go on as part of the productive machine as long as possible or to accept a marginal and humiliating status, tolerated but not valued, while we look impatiently at our watches waiting for them to be "off our hands".
The recovery of a full and rich sense of human dignity at every age and in every condition is an imperative if we are serious about the respect we universally owe each other-that respect which, for Christians, is grounded in the divine image discernible in old and young alike. I beg to move.
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Q: GooglePlayServicesClient and ConnectionCallbacks Im init LocationClient and LocationRequest
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A: Use isGooglePlayServicesAvailable, it checks the availability of the service.

A: Are you instantiating GoogleApiClient anywhere?  Like:
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Regardless of how fair and neutral you are about anything, there is always going to be someone who doesn't like you, for any number of reasons. In the Internet era, blogs and social media have become virtual soap boxes for people to vent their frustration on. Just from being around people who blog, and from my own experiences, I've learned a few lessons that I want to share with you.
Almost everyone uses the web to some degree; this includes the people you work with, family, and friends. Remember that once you write something and post it on the web, it is there forever. Sure, you can delete the post, but there are numerous ways your posts are recorded: cache memory, web archives, and RSS feeds are just a few. If you want to post something negative about your boss, you have to assume he will read it eventually by finding it himself or being told about it from other co-workers (maybe someone with a grudge?) Murphy's Law is a real stickler, these things have a way of coming back on you. It is best to not talk about anyone at work, whether it is good or bad, because the risk is simply not worth it.
This is a rule that I stick by religiously no matter what happens. When you get angry at someone, for whatever reason, and want to return fire immediately, write out your response to this person. Then, instead of sending or posting it right away, come back to it 24-hours later and send it. I have done this at least 5 times since I thought of this concept, and every single time I came back and deleted the email or post. This is just an implementation of the "cooler heads prevail" anecdote. Once the anger dissipates, we often see the situation for what it really is; which is something we usually can't do when angry.
Have you ever been working with a group of people on a project or task, and two people start arguing with each other non-stop? While it may be a little entertaining at first, it quickly gets old and annoying. Well, a blog's comment sections are no different. Depending on what type of blog you have, most people are not reading it to watch two people tear each other apart. Engaging in flame wars on your own blog, or any blog really, looks horribly unprofessional. It also perpetuates the whole issue too, when what you really want is for the person to go away instead. If you really want to discuss the matter further, attempt to do so privately. In the end, people will respect you for it.
For a number of reasons, there seems to be a denser population of nutjobs in the world. To see my point, just read or watch the news any time. You never know who you are dealing with, especially in an environment that makes anonymity possible. Life is difficult enough without enemies, so it is only in your best interest to avoid making any if you can help it. You never know if your angry words might be the last straw for the person on the receiving end. Overall, just remain aware that everything you post on your blog is going to be read by real people, most of whom you really don't know from a hole in the wall.


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Rachid Troyat () est un footballeur tunisien.

Il évolue au poste de défenseur au sein du Club africain.

Biographie

Carrière
 1929-1939 : Club africain (Tunisie)

Palmarès
 Club africain
 Championnat de Tunisie (1) :
 Champion : 1937 (promotion d'honneur).

Références

Footballeur tunisien
Joueur du Club africain (football)
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)
Lieu de naissance inconnu
Date de décès non renseignée (XXe siècle)
Lieu de décès inconnu

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Going to SA anytime soon? Your friends and relatives might ask you to bring back loads of small appliances – enough to fill extra suitcases – as the European Union (EU) is planning to clamp down on energy consumption at home by cutting the wattage across a wide variety of electrical devices.
High performance vacuum cleaners are already barred as of this month but hairdryers, electric kettles and lawnmowers might be next in line. The EU plans to publish a comprehensive list of all appliances that will be affected by the changes next spring; these will all be banned in accordance with the respective energy consumption targets set by the EU in a bid to address climate change concerns. Over 30 kinds of electrical devices have been identified in a study, and the new regulations will reportedly target at least 20 from the shortlist.
Electrical appliances are intended to save up to 30 percent of the energy which they are currently using, as energy bureaucrats in Brussels have decided to introduce the new guidelines governing energy efficiency. Whether the plans will actually be useful or not is yet to be seen, as critics of the scheme have argued that cutting energy consumption by a third would typically result in people using their appliances for longer to achieve the same result – as in the case of electric kettles and hair dryers (should these be affected by the next set of guidelines in spring 2015).
In the lead-up to the new ban, sales have soared for vacuum cleaners, which will no longer be allowed to have motors going above 1,600 watts. On the long-run, the practise may cause unhappy consumers to import smaller appliances from travels abroad (outside the EU) in the future – although the practise would be technically deemed illegal and devices might be confiscated at your port of entry if your luggage was searched. However, wholesale imports from countries that maintain appliances with higher wattages will not be allowed.
Whether or not South Africa might catch up with the trend is currently unknown. However, SA is by no means behind the times, with the country gradually introducing its own set of electricity safety guidelines.


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Ellen Page Doubles Down On Chris Pratt 'Anti-LGBTQ' Criticism
by : Lucy Connolly on : 10 Feb 2019 21:22
Ellen Page calls out Chris Pratt PA
Ellen Page has doubled down on her criticism of Chris Pratt failing to acknowledge his church's 'infamously anti-LGBTQ' attitude.
The Juno actor is a leading gay rights activist and recently criticised Pratt after he appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and discussed his religious beliefs.
Pratt has been vocal about his faith in the past, making it known that he attends the Zoe Church and Hillsong – a Christian 'megachurch' that is popular among A-list celebrities.
So when The Hollywood Reporter put a tweet out about Pratt's 'spiritual side' last week, Page wasted no time in making people aware of the church's 'anti-LGBTQ' stance.
Page, who recently made a documentary series called Gaycation, retweeted the post alongside a message of her own, calling out the interview for failing to discuss the negative connotations of Pratt's chosen place of worship.
Oh. K. Um. But his church is infamously anti lgbtq so maybe address that too?
And now the actor has doubled down on her criticism of the Guardians of the Galaxy star, saying he should 'not be surprised' if people question his belonging to the organisation.
Page was clear in her message that Pratt should be called out for his actions, implying the actor's church 'hates' LGBTQ people and ending by saying she sends love to everyone.
If you are a famous actor and you belong to an organization that hates a certain group of people, don't be surprised if someone simply wonders why it's not addressed. Being anti LGBTQ is wrong, there aren't two sides. The damage it causes is severe. Full stop. Sending love to all
While the church says LGBTQ people are welcome to worship at Hillsong, it has made clear in the past they cannot 'take an active leadership role'.
Brian Houston, Hillsong's leader, said in a 2015 statement:
Hillsong Church welcomes ALL people but does not affirm all lifestyles. Put clearly, we do not affirm a gay lifestyle and because of this we do not knowingly have actively gay people in positions of leadership, either paid or unpaid.
I recognise this one statement alone is upsetting to people on both sides of this discussion, which points to the complexity of the issue for churches all over the world.
So if you are gay, are you welcome at Hillsong Church? Of course! You are welcome to attend, worship with us, and participate as a congregation member with the assurance that you are personally included and accepted within our community.
But (this is where it gets vexing), can you take an active leadership role? No.
This won't make everyone happy and to some, this stance may even be seen as hypocritical. We are a gay welcoming church but we are not a church that affirms a gay lifestyle.
Pratt is yet to respond to Page's criticism, and did not comment on the church's LGBTQ stance during his interview.
If you have a story you want to tell send it to UNILAD via [email protected]
Lucy Connolly
A Broadcast Journalism Masters graduate who went on to achieve an NCTJ level 3 Diploma in Journalism, Lucy has done stints at ITV, BBC Inside Out and Key 103. While working as a journalist for UNILAD, Lucy has reported on breaking news stories while also writing features about mental health, cervical screening awareness, and Little Mix (who she is unapologetically obsessed with).
Topics: Film and TV, LGBT
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@THR
Gaycation
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@EllenPage
Do I Love Gay People?


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Fares, Ticketing & Routeing
Fares Advice & Policy
Off peak not valid at all on Fridays - GWR
Thread starter Aasimuk
Start date 10 Oct 2021
Aasimuk
For the past few weeks, I've been traveling from Bristol Temple Meads to Dawlish Warren on a Friday evening, coming back Sundays with the family (amazing holiday park in that neck of the woods!)
When using the ticket machines, it tells me that the off peak return ticket is not valid for Fridays, so have been buying peak returns (not a huge difference in price)
Decided to buy from the manned ticket office this week, and was sold an off peak return for travel on Friday. Were they right to do this, or could I have been penalty fared?
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That text is nonsense and it would breach fares regulation for GWR to charge an Anytime fare for travel on any weekday evening, including a Friday.
If you've been paying extra due to misleading information, you should seek a refund and an apology from GWR as well as a promise they will rectify the misinformation.
Wallsendmag
Wallsend or somewhere on the ECML
That looks like the old Supersaver restriction
alistairlees
The restriction text is ten or more years out of date. It is valid on Fridays. It's also valid from 08.10 from Stapleton Road.
Also worth noting that, even if you'd bought the "wrong" ticket, you couldn't receive a Penalty Fare. You would simply have to pay the difference ("excess") to the appropriate fare, e.g. the Anytime ticket.
If in doubt, you can just buy the cheaper ticket and excess it later.
WelshBluebird
Looks like the text actually just says the return portion isn't valid for Friday travel. So even if the text is accurate (which based on above posts sounds like it may not be), it isnt saying you can't travel down to Dawlish on the Friday, but instead that you can't return a Friday.
WelshBluebird said:
There's no "if" about the accuracy of the text. It is very wrong.
Starmill
Associate Staff
Watershed said:
This is correct, however there's a strong likelihood of being issued an incorrect Penalty Fare for various reasons, and this is one such in some areas of the country. For example, Northern's internal guide to revenue protection says to issue a Penalty Fare for using an otherwise valid Off Peak Day ticket at a barred time.
That's how I read it too, but the OP should still complain and be refunded the difference for each of their journeys purchased from such machines.
BTW I presume the machine at Stapleton Road at least shows 08.10 along with the rubbish text
Thank you to all of you for your advice on this - It actually says this restrictions for all stations in the Exeter area, so will definitely raise this with their customer services, but how far I get will be another thing!
Aasimuk said:
If you don't get very far l would suggest that you threaten legal action for the total of the overcharges.
The restriction code is WG (may be worth referencing) so the error may well affect a large number of destinations. It is however shown correctly on NRE, BRFares, and presumably online retail sites.
DorkingMain
Starmill said:
That's incredibly poor (especially when NRCOT 9.5 explicitly states should be charged an excess) but then many TOCs treat NRCOT as guidance rather than a specific set of terms they agreed to.
DorkingMain said:
They generally seem to me to take the view that they can pick and choose which parts of the NRCoT to apply.
Only the Courts can dissuade such an attitude. Probably why some of the apologists on here decry anyone involving them.....
swt_passenger
I read it as section 10.2.3 applies in penalty fare areas, so that overrides 9.5.
Section 10 is also referred to within section 9.
I still think it could be better explained though.
Penalty Fares cannot (lawfully) be charged for travel on a time restricted ticket at an invalid time, though in this case the ticket is valid on Fridays except during the morning peak.
Here is a thread for when this debate cropped up in early 2019: https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...t-at-a-time-an-anytime-should-be-used.176186/ and here is one from 2017: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/penalty-fares-from-colchester.148448/
Here is a thread where someone travelled on an Off Peak Return at a valid time, but Avanti deemed it invalid and charged for a new Anytime fare: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/penalty-for-travelling-in-peak-on-off-peak-ticket.195101/
swt_passenger said:
My reading was precisely the opposite. Which is a key reason why a judge is probably required to actually decide.
I think 10.2.3 needs to be understood as referring to situations such as travelling on an Advance ticket on the wrong time train. The fact that 9.5 specifically sets out the penalty that may be applied for travelling on an Off-Peak ticket at a barred time makes clear that such a ticket isn't fundamentally invalid, but rather requires payment of an excess.
It is somewhat of a mess though, as you say.
robbeech
This is simply because they've done that for years and got away with it. There's literally nobody to stop them. Including :
Wolfie said:
The courts won't really stop them either. It'll never get that far because the operators will pay up to make the problem go away allowing them to keep acting the way they do. It's the inverse of 'pay when challenged'
This situation has clearly been going on for a while. It's possible (but realistically unlikely) that the operator has made thousands in additional revenue from this so there's clearly no incentive to change it. It's possible other people have already been through this ordeal with them, obtained a refund snd the operator has brushed it under the carpet and not done anything about it. It's possible you can fight for refunds for all historic transactions (though they'll conveniently be able to ask for proof which may be difficult) and succeed in getting sone money back. The likelihood of them changing it is low because nobody will stop them although I always like to think a thread on this forum increases the chances of something getting done.
robbeech said:
Sounds about right, sadly.
Even in court it can be hit or miss. The railway are usually the good and the passenger the bad and it can be challenging to get the court to see it any differently.


A season ticket covers all green fees for you during the year. Our season ticket is valid from January 1 through December 31st unlike most of the public courses in the area. With a season ticket at Newton Commonwealth comes other great benefits such as unlimited play at our other managed golf courses which include: Norwood CC, Chelmsford CC, Maynard GC, Rockland GC, and The Shattuck in Jaffrey, NH. Season ticket holders have the ability to make a tee time up to 7 days in advance. The Public can only book up to 5 days in advance online or over the phone 2 days in advance.
Junior Season tickets are available to kids under the age of 21 years of age and who are Newton Residents. A Junior Season ticket is valid Monday – Thursday and Friday – Sunday and Holidays after 3pm. Junior season tickets are valid only at Newton Commonwealth.
If you are currently a college student you can purchase a college season pass for Newton Commonwealth. The pass costs $500 and is valid from January 1 through December 31st valid Monday – Friday anytime excluding holidays and Saturday, Sunday and Holidays after 3pm. Must show a valid student ID in order to qualify for a college pass. Does not allow for play at other Sterling Golf Management golf courses.


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Q: How to stop renderPlot from running when another renderPlot is called after a numericInput changed? The transitions of my Shiny app are very long when I change a numericInput value by clicking on the button "quickly" several times in a row .
How can I stop the previous code from running once a new numericInput has changed ? I don't know if I explained my problem clearly. Is it possible to put a GIF in a StackOverflow post ?
Try to play with the button to understand my problem

# USER INTERFACE
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  output$plot<- renderPlot({
    x <- seq(-1, 1, length.out = 50000)
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A: You can't cancel a computation once it's started without setting up some sort
of subprocess processing. However, even that would not help in this case,
because the time-consuming operation is the actual graphics rendering. You'd
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Likely the best you can do here is to debounce() the input, so that you
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Or if changing inputs too quickly is still a problem even when debounced, accept that and use a submit button to explicitly trigger the plotting.


Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan | News and Features | Style Weekly - Richmond, VA local news, arts, and events.
McClenahan died Jan. 16 in the comfort and grandeur of her Westmoreland home. She was 87.
Beloved by untold friends and acquaintances, and known as Richmond's eternal optimist and social advocate, McClenahan spoke with Style in November 2003 about her life's work and passions. She stitched a pattern, illustrating what it meant to be cultivated and progressive: to transcend the social mores of Richmond life in the '20s and '30s and to embrace women's expanding roles in the community. She had laced this, too, in a manuscript she wrote decades ago. With the help of her close friend Carter McDowell, it became the impetus of her first book, "Southern Civility: Recollections of My Early Life," published last year.
A cover photograph by Dementi of McClenahan at age 16 shows her as she has always appeared: as a woman in search of herself, her place in the world and her ability to affect the lives of others. McClenahan possessed what many in her position either forsake or naively think they can achieve: humility. She had a social conscience and listened to it; she had privilege and used it judiciously. Most of all, she held convictions that endured.
This is evidenced in how she willfully sank her heart and hands into the city.
Proof is everywhere. In her years spent as a civic leader, she left her mark on Richmond in her efforts to improve race relations, provide affordable housing and social services, preserve history and the arts, stimulate urban renewal, and advance higher education. She was the first woman to serve on the board of Richmond Renaissance. She founded the Richmond Urban Forum and, along with McDowell, the Better Housing Coalition. In 1990, Style named her Richmonder of the Year.
The eldest daughter of an accomplished pianist mother and Pulitizer Prize-winning father, McClenahan graduated from St. Catherine's School and Vassar College. In 1939, at 22, she married Leslie Cheek Jr., an architect who would become director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. They had four children and were married until he died in 1992. A year later, she married Dr. John McClenahan, a radiologist from Philadelphia. They were married happily for more than a decade and began each day by reading to one another.
Veritably, McClenahan never met a stranger. She extended her hand to everyone, with heartfelt smiles and compliments. She did so with this reporter a little more than a year ago. Dressed stylishly in a brilliant cerulean sweater and black crepe skirt, she sat in the loggia at a glass table topped with purple poppies and pansies. Dozens of thick books were stacked neatly on a table behind her. The glass-enclosed room overlooked gardens glinting in orange and gold. It was quiet and serene. Occasionally and almost imperceptibly, a member of her staff would emerge then disappear. It seemed then as it does now — a stolen moment, one made precious by company and time.
Invariably, when asked about her accomplishments, McClenahan credited others — family, for instance, or any number of her treasured friends. "I'm the flimsy person in the middle," she would insist. "They are my wings."
But even an outsider quickly observed that her wings, her insight, were extensions of an incomparably independent and deliberate mind.
"My father's belief was that opportunity should be extended to everyone and dignity in government should provide it," she said of her father, historian and editor Douglas Southall Freeman. "Virginia has this inheritance like an underground river. We have the finest piece of real estate in the world. We should have the highest standards of government. And it's my belief that good government needs good people developing the laws."
Likewise, McClenahan was a stickler for propriety. By her definition, good manners were, simply, good citizenship — "concern for other people, being aware of their feelings," as she explained.
She had been thinking about her life, she said, in relationship to her calling as a person of faith. "What is the joy in baptismal living? Will you strive for justice and peace among all people and respect the dignity of every human being?" she asked, reading from a folded piece of paper. "I will, with God's help," she responded. She looked up above her reading glasses and exclaimed: "There you go!"
Not all of her efforts produced the kind of results she expected. Like Richmond Renaissance's push to build 6th Street Marketplace as symbolic of racial unity. Or her exhaustive attempts to get City Council and the state legislature actively engaged in the Richmond Urban Forum, a 15-year-long project she started to get blacks and whites to socialize. For a while it flourished, but in the end, she said, "nobody showed up." In a tangible sense, the forum failed. It dissolved because of lack of participation. But who knows how it may have had a subtler impact, having been before its time.
"I think it's very important to recognize it's a great mistake to keep something going that doesn't grow wings," she said.


You're able to find the perfect look for your whole party at Gracyn Elizabeth Bride! We have bridesmaid dresses in flattering styles and gorgeous colors from some of our favorite designers. Let your crew pick their favorites or find something everyone loves. Whatever you do, they'll all look amazing!
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Aquariums can make an attractive decorative addition to any room; however, taking care of one can be time-consuming and expensive. An alternative to maintaining an aquarium full of fish is to set up a fake aquarium. Fake aquariums will give you the look you want without the work or the responsibility of keeping live creatures healthy. You can make your fake aquarium fun and whimsical or very realistic, depending on your preference.
Remove the lid from your cardboard file box. Use a ruler and a pencil to mark a large square or rectangle on each side, leaving only a ½-inch border edge on all sides. Make sure the lines are straight. Cut out the shapes with a utility knife.
Take the box outdoors or to a well-ventilated area. Place it on top of a drop cloth or newspapers. Spray paint the box both inside and out with an acrylic paint in the color of your choice. Spray paint the top of the box black.
Glue sheets of clear acetate to the inside of the box, one on each side. This will make each side look like a glass panel.
Mold two or three lumps of air-drying clay into a flat, ½-inch-thick disk. Push the ends of some silk or plastic plants into the clay, and arrange them to your liking. Allow the clay to dry, and arrange the disks inside your cardboard tank.
Pour gravel into the tank to cover the bottom and the clay lumps. Add some pretty stones, crystals, corals or other undersea decorations to the bottom of the box.
Use a dab of glue to affix a piece of fishing line to fake fish. You can use paper fish, plastic, rubber or gummy fish sprayed with a clear acrylic sealer. Affix the other end of the fishing line to the inside of the box lid. Place the lid on top of the box so that the fish attached to the fishing line hang down and appear to be suspended in midair inside the tank.
Purchase a fish tank or use a clear bowl of your choice. Place colored gravel in the bottom of the container.
Place an air pump in the tank if you would like to generate bubbles. Add a cover with a light if you want illumination.
Decorate the tank with fake flowers, coral, stones, driftwood and other items. You can purchase these from a pet store or use items you find elsewhere. You don't have to worry about toxicity, as there will be no live fish in the tank. Arrange the items to your liking.
Fill the tank three-fourths of the way up with water. Add artificial floating fish, if desired.
Add a couple of tablespoons of chlorine bleach to water in your tank to keep it from getting slimy. Remove about 50 percent of the water every week and replace it with the same amount of fresh water. Add another tablespoon of bleach.
Never put real fish in a tank if you have added bleach.


While strolling through Impressionism in the Age of Industry: Monet, Pissarro and more, are you feeling inspired by the amazing works of Degas, Monet and Pissarro? Us, too. And to help satisfy your urge to create, we've designed a series of art courses to help bring out your inner Impressionist.
We've all been there. While chatting with friends or researching a project, we instinctively open Wikipedia to start our search – after all, it's the world's largest and most popular online reference tool with editors contributing new content every day. But did you know that only 10% of those editors are women?


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A criminal case initiated against Suleiman Kadyrov
Earlier, the FSB officers raided the home of the member of the Feodosia regional Mejlis.
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Following the search of Suleiman Kadyrov's home in Feodisia on October 5, a criminal case was initiated against him on charges of separatism under Part 2 of Art. 280.1of the RF Criminal Code, lawyer Emil Kurbedinov posted on Facebook.
According to him, the FSB investigator did not give the lawyer a copy of the decision to institute criminal proceedings and wanted to take away from Suleiman Kadyrov the "pledge not to disclose investigation data."
"At present, after the first interrogation, Suleiman Kadyrov does not have a decision to institute proceedings against him. This fact significantly violates his right to the protection! Not everything is clear about searches of Kadyrov's house, which was held under the auspices of some operational activities," Kurbedinov wrote.
On September 29, 2016, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dismissed the appeal of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people against the "decision" by the so-called "Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea" of April 26, 2016 to recognize the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people an "extremist organization" and ban its activity in the territory of the Russian Federation.
Ukraine and the world community has not recognized and firmly condemned the retaliatory decision of the Russian court.
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Beverly Johnson is a model, actress, singer, and businesswoman who in 1971 became the first African American woman to appear on the cover of a major magazine. Johnson was born on October 13, 1952, in Buffalo, New York to middle class parents. Her father was a machine operator and her mother was a surgical technician.
Ambitious and successful even as a child, she was a competitive swimmer who nearly qualified for the 1968 Olympics in the 100-meter freestyle. She grew up wanting to be an attorney. She attended Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts on a full scholarship where she studied criminal justice in preparation for law school.
Johnson had never considered modeling until her friends at Northeastern suggested she explore possibilities in the industry. While on summer break in 1971, at the age of 19, Johnson and her mother visited Madison Avenue in New York to interview at various modeling agencies. After she was turned down by a number of prestigious agencies, she was hired on the spot to model for Glamour Magazine. Her initial success with Glamour persuaded Johnson to leave Northeastern to focus on her modeling career.
Johnson's first cover for Glamour in 1971 set records for sales and circulation. She would appear on the cover of Glamour six more times in the next few years. Her appearance on the cover of the fashion magazine broke a number of racial barriers in the modeling world at the time. Developing what modeling critics called the "supergirl next door" image, the 5 foot 8 inch model's success was richly rewarded. In 1975 at the age of 23 Johnson's annual income exceeded $100,000.
In 1974, Vogue approached Johnson to be on its cover. Johnson readily accepted, becoming the first African American woman on the cover of one of the largest magazines in circulation in the world. Her cover was so popular that Vogue placed her there again in its special June 1975 "American Woman" edition. Johnson's popularity became global as she became the first African American woman on the cover of Elle, a leading French magazine.
Johnson used her modeling success to branch out into film, television, and music. She also started a successful business, the Beverly Johnson Hair Collection, which makes wigs and hair products. Johnson has married and divorced twice, first to Billy Potter, a real estate agent, and later to businessman Danny Simms. She and Simms have one daughter, Anansa.
Beverly Johnson, Guide to a Life of Beauty (New York: Times Books, 1981); http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2005-Fo-La/Johnson-Beverly; http://www.mademan.com/chickipedia/beverly-johnson/.


In September 2011, Menard Oceania (MO) was engaged by Mac Mahon John Holland Joint Venture (MJHJV) to provide ground improvement solution for the $34bn Ichthys LNG development. With close to 400,000m2 of mangrove swampland set to be reclaimed and improved, this project was a great opportunity to showcase the technical, commercial and environmental benefits that Dynamic Replacement (DR) ground Improvement technique can provide. The ground improvement works involved complete design and construction for the Ichthys LNG site located at Blaydin Point on a low lying peninsula in Darwin Harbour. Dynamic replacement and stone columns technique were selected to treat intertidal mangrove mud to achieve required bearing strength, stability and limit settlement to an acceptable levels. The site is underlain by a 3m to 5m thick layer of highly organic mangrove muds with very soft shear strength ranging from 0kPa to 12kPa at depth. The site is exposed to daily sea water level tidal variations of up to 8m, which created significant constructability constraints and slope instability risks. This paper presents the design philosophy, the process involved in the selection of the construction methods, the site constraints encountered during the works and a review of the results achieved, quality control and post constructions performance.


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No musician of our time is more closely associated with the Brahms piano concertos than Rudolf Buchbinder. The patrician Austrian pianist, who even possesses copies of the composer's autograph scores and piano parts, stated that "it requires a whole lifetime to become intimate with Brahms's sound world and achieve the maturity that gives you new freedom as a performer". He represents the living proof of that assertion. Buchbinder's interpretations are further claimed to be "a modern-day point of reference" to quote the leading American critic Jed Distler on his first recording of Brahms's piano concertos in the late 1990s. ...
Rudolf Buchbinder is firmly established as one of the world's foremost pianists and is frequently invited by major orchestras and festivals around the world. His comprehensive repertoire encompasses numerous 20th century compositions. Rudolf Buchbinder's emphasis lies in his meticulous study of musical sources. He owns 35 complete editions of Beethoven's sonatas and has an extensive collection of autograph scores, first editions and original documents. In addition, he possesses copies of the autograph scores and piano parts of both Brahms concertos. More than 100 recordings document the scope and diversity of Rudolf Buchbinder's repertoire. Notable recordings to his credit include Haydn's complete works for piano, which caused a stir and earned him the Grand Prix du Disque, as well as "Waltzing Strauss", a CD featuring piano transcriptions. Today Rudolf Buchbinder favours live recordings, a preference which has resulted in a CD with the Brahms piano concertos (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Nikolaus Harnoncourt) and in two DVDs featuring six Mozart concertos with Buchbinder as pianist and conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic at the 2006 Vienna Festwochen. Another live recording of the two Brahms piano concertos, released in 2010, was made together with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta. In May 2011, Rudolf Buchbinder's performances as pianist and conductor in Beethoven's five piano concertos at Vienna's Musikverein together with the Vienna Philharmonic were released on DVD and Blu-ray. In November 2012, Rudolf Buchbinder presented a live recording of Mozart concertos with Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The interpretation of the "new testament" of the piano repertoire has developed into a core interest for Rudolf Buchbinder. He continues to set standards with his performances of the complete 32 sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven in more than 40 cities, among them Vienna, Munich, Zurich, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Beijing and Milan. In the 2012/13 concert season Rudolf Buchbinder performs his entire Beethoven cycle in Berlin. Throughout the 2010/11 season he maintained a particularly close cooperation with the Staatskapelle Dresden as the orchestra's first Artist in Residence. His cycle of all Beethoven piano sonatas at the Semperoper in Dresden was recorded live and released in May 2011 as a CD box by Sony/RCA Red Seal. In 2012 it won the prestigious Echo Klassik Award in the category "Instrumentalist of the year" and the Choc de l'année 2012. Rudolf Buchbinder is the founding artistic director of the Grafenegg Music Festival near Vienna, which has quickly gained its rank among the major orchestra festivals in Europe since its foundation in 2007. In his biography "Da Capo" (which includes an introduction by German music critic Joachim Kaiser), Rudolf Buchbinder offers insights into his life as one of today's most distinguished pianists.
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Claire Parsons was commissioned to create a dance piece for the Carl von Linné jubilee in 2007 in Sweden. Gertrude Stein's famed quote about flowers was a perfect match for this outdoor performance. The performance was in residency in Lidköping (SE) in 2007.
Roses, dancing and garden clippers. Baroque dancing wrestles with the botanist Linné.
A flower turns into a surrealist costume, in a performance where humour and dancing meet science in natural elements.
A dance for parks, castles, museums and outdoor festivals.


Liam Pitchford was the hero for England as the men's table tennis team took Commonwealth Games silver in Delhi this evening, beaten to gold by a powerful Singaporean side.
The 17-year-old from Chesterfield got England off to a brilliant start with a fighting five-game win in the opening match that seemed like prime inspiration for the team to take an exciting victory.
But defeats for Paul Drinkhall and the experienced Andrew Baggaley meant England had to settle for second.
Losing 3-1 was a disappointing end to a great tournament for the men, but a big step up from fifth in Melbourne four years ago.
"At the moment it feels like a defeat," said Drinkhall, the 20-year-old from Middlesbrough who was gutted to go home empty handed from his Games debut four years ago.
Gold would have better, however, and that seemed distinctly possible after the first game.
Getting off to a good start is always important on such tense occasions and Pitchford gave England the perfect send-off, defying his youth to come back from two games down against Gao Ning to win 4-11, 6-11, 11-8, 11-9, 13-11.
It was a thrilling opener as both players clipped the table edge seemingly at will. Pitchford, looking all of 13, showed the guts of a seasoned pro to drag himself back into the match and hold his nerve in the final game after missing two match points.
Then up strode Drinkhall. Four years ago he was in Pitchford's shoes, a 16-year-old at his first Games. Now he's a man who leads from the front.
He took the first game from Yang Zi 11-9, but Yang got into the match in the second, which he won 11-7, and ran away with it from there, taking the third and fourth, 11-9, 11-1.
It needed Andrew Baggaley to get England back on track and he won the first game 11-8. But by now it was beginning to look like this wouldn't be England's day.
Singapore's Ma Liang had too many shots up his sleeve for the Northampton man and he took the match in four games, 8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-6.
Drinkhall came out fighting in the fourth tie and roared to the first set 11-9. But increasingly Gao forced him onto the back foot and despite some desperate defence it was the Singapore team who were celebrating at the end.
"It's a strange feeling to have picked up a silver medal after losing the game," said Baggaley, who won two Commonwealth titles in Manchester.
Drinkhall was also able to look forward, saying, "This is only the start of the tournament, there's still the doubles and singles.


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by Sophie Pollock
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.–Loyola Marymount University swept Santa Clara in a three-game series this past weekend. In the final game, the Broncos lost 6-0.
Senior Micaela Vierra started for Santa Clara, allowing three runs on six hits, a walk and two strikeouts. Four Broncos posted hits, including sophomore Eleni Spirakis and firstyear Lauren Schiek with doubles.
The Broncos are headed to play the University of the Pacific this Saturday at noon. The team will return home on May 11 against Saint Mary's College.
MALIBU, CALIF.—Men's Tennis is headed to the West Coast Conference tournament after a 4-3 victory over Pepperdine University.
Junior Connor Garnett sealed the win when the match was tied 3-3, winning against Pepperdine's Brian Berdusco. Garnett and his partner junior Kamran Khan took the only win as a doubles team for Santa Clara against Dennis Uspensky and Scotland Garapedian.
Santa Clara will go into the conference tournament in Claremont, California as the fifth seed of six. The team will play the fourth seed University of Portland on Thursday, April 26 in the WCC tournament.
PULLMAN, WASH.—Santa Clara finished a three-game series with a no-hit game against Washington State University. The Cougars got an early lead by scoring three runs in the bottom of the second inning in this non-conference matchup.
Sophomore Michael Praszker took his first start of the season, allowing five hits and five runs. Junior Luke Martin-Resnick took over, striking out four Washington State players and allowing for two hits and a walk.
The Broncos return to Schott Stadium this week to play California Polytechnic State University in their final home game. Santa Clara will then travel to San Luis Obispo on May 1 to continue the series, but not before a three game series against the University of San Francisco April 27-29.
Women's Beach Volleyball
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.—Beach Volleyball finished out their season with a defeat at the WCC Championship. Loyola Marymount University swept Santa Clara, winning the top three positions. Santa Clara had to forfeit their fifth game due to injuries.
The Broncos then moved on to the University of Portland, where they posted two wins with one in the first position. Senior Kirsten Mead and junior Hailey Lindberg came back to win the last two sets over Tani Stephens and Cali Thompson.
Santa Clara also won fourth with senior Erin Reineking and sophomore Michelle Gajdka.
As the beach season comes to an end, the Broncos are beginning to train for the indoor season coming up in the fall.
Contact Sophie Pollock at spollock@scu.edu or call (408) 554-4852.


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The church was renovated in 1862-63 but contains elements of the early 12th century stone moulding and a Norman tub font on an octagonal base. There are wrought iron lamp brackets and holders in the nave. The chancel which is partly 14th century has a Sedilia (priest's seat) in the south wall and an aumbry (sacred vessels cupboard) in the north wall.
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New Century Resources has successfully completed a share placement to raise about $40 million towards the restart of operations at the Century zinc mine in the lower Gulf.
The company says its offer was significantly oversubscribed, with strong support from major institutional investors.
managing director Patrick Walta said.
The company says it is on track to begin producing in the third quarter of this year, at an initial processing capacity of 8Mtpa.
A restart feasibility study into the planned tailings reprocessing placed the initial start-up cost at $62.5 million.
Once in production, the company plans to invest a further $63 million over a 15-month period to ramp up to 15Mtpa.
The company is undertaking an expansion prefeasibility study, looking at the potential to mine other mineral resources on the lease in addition to the tailings reprocessing activities.


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At this point, Pedro Almodóvar truly seems incapable of making a bad movie. I can't think of any other great filmmaker working today about whom I can say that. Who would have figured on that in the early 1990s, when Almodóvar was a Spanish wild man whose desire to shock people frequently outran his talent? His current film Broken Embraces doesn't rank with his best work, but it's a nice hunk of soap opera brimming with the craftsmanship and grace that have become hallmarks of this filmmaker's mature style.
The film begins in Madrid in the present day with a blind writer (Lluís Homar) whose given name is Mateo Blanco but who prefers to be addressed as Harry Caine, the pseudonym under which he writes movie scripts. One day a wannabe filmmaker calling himself Ray X (Rubén Ochandiano) shows up at his office and pitches a highly autobiographical movie idea. Absent from the meeting is Harry's agent Judit (Blanca Portillo). She freaks out in front of her twentysomething son Diego (Tamar Novas) when she hears about it but won't explain why. Weary of his mother hiding things from him, Diego – who's also Harry's personal assistant and an aspiring screenwriter – asks Harry about it. After that, the film flashes back repeatedly to 1994, as Harry tells Diego the story of his former life as Mateo, when he had his eyesight and directed successful movies under his own name until he fell disastrously for Lena Rivero (Penélope Cruz), the lead actress on a comedy he was filming called Girls and Suitcases. Judit and Ray X both figure in the love triangle of Harry, Lena, and the movie's producer (José Luis Gómez), an abusive old financier whose possessiveness destroyed them all.
Like Almodóvar's other films, this is spectacularly photographed. Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (the fantastically gifted Mexican who did Frida and Brokeback Mountain but has never worked with Almodóvar before) gives us a breathtaking sequence late in the film when Mateo and Lena flee to a vacation spot in the Canary Islands. The story is skillfully crafted, though it's somewhat regrettable that Almodóvar resorts to the hoary device of critical information being captured by a creepy kid who videotapes everything he sees.
This might be a smooth piece of hack work were it not for the impassioned performances by the entire cast. The 52-year-old Homar (who played a pedophile priest in Almodóvar's Bad Education) holds the center well here, and Gómez creates a villain seething with insecurities and neediness. Cruz tends to shine brightest under Almodóvar's direction, and here she's not only moving as the doomed, beaten mistress but also gets to show off her talent for farce in the long excerpt from Girls and Suitcases at the end of this movie. (By the way, the resemblance that Girls and Suitcases bears to Almodóvar's own Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is surely no accident.)
I'd be remiss without mentioning Broken Embraces' biggest laugh, a piquant comic interlude when Harry and Diego start brainstorming an idea for a vampire movie. Diego suggests that the vampires be "like the Chinese in Spanish society — they're everywhere, but they don't draw attention to themselves." I traveled in Spain recently. He's so right.
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Léglise Saint-Michel de Laćarak (en serbe cyrillique :  ; en serbe latin : ) est une église orthodoxe serbe située à Laćarak, dans la province de Voïvodine, dans le district de Syrmie et sur le territoire de la de Ville de Sremska Mitrovica en Serbie. Elle est inscrite sur la liste des monuments culturels de grande importance de la République de Serbie (identifiant SK 1321).

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L'église de Laćarak, près de Sremska Mitrovica, a été construite au milieu des années 1770. De style baroque avec des éléments classicisants, elle est constituée d'une nef unique prolongée par une abside demi-circulaire ; la façade occidentale est dominée par un clocher massif surmonté d'un bulbe aplati, d'une lanterne et d'une croix. Les façades sont rythmées horizontalement par un soubassement peu élevé et par une corniche moulurée courant en-dessous du toit et, verticalement, par des pilastres encadrant les ouvertures, surmontés de chapiteaux. La zone supérieure du clocher est ornée de niches ; trois portails donnent accès à l'église, à l'ouest, au sud et au nord.

La décoration intérieure de l'édifice a commencé dès la consécration de l'église en 1766. L'iconostase, le chœur et le trône de l'évêque, tous de style baroque, ont été réalisés par le sculpteur sur bois de Novi Sad Marko Gavrilović en 1769. Les peintures de l'église ont été confiées en 1786 à Grigorije Davidović-Opšić. Opšić est également l'auteur des fresques de la zone de l'autel et des deux premières travées de l'église ; son travail a été achevé en 1803 par Kuzman Kolarić.

Des travaux de conservation et de restauration de l'édifice ont été effectués en 2006.

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