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Home School Akshay Patra's school food project wins BBC World Service Global Champion Award
Akshay Patra's school food project wins BBC World Service Global Champion Award
Akshaya Patra, a non-profit business enterprise running one of the international's biggest school meals project in India, has been awarded the BBC World Service Global Champion Award for the program.
The Award, presented on the BBC Food and Farming Awards in Bristol this week, recognizes someone or assignment converting the manner the sector produces, tactics, consumes, or thinks approximately food for the higher. The Bengaluru-based NGO become decided on through an international panel of judges from nominations sent in with the aid of the World Service target audience from around the arena. "I am clearly moved by getting school lunches paid for inside the States and so to look it being achieved on any such large scale and in such a perfect manner with the aid of Akshaya Patra that became a truly moving and powerful aspect to see," stated Iranian-American author and chef Samin Nosrat, the Head Judge of the panel. "There is nothing more vital to me than getting kids fed. There are such a lot of studies have tested that that is fundamental," she said.
Akshaya Patra's stated project is to ensure that no toddler is deprived of schooling because of starvation. It recognizes that kids can also forego an education to do menial jobs to earn sufficient cash to eat, and even if they do make it to the classroom, an empty belly could make it hard to concentrate. Shridhar Venkat, CEO of Akshaya Patra, stated: "It's a count of superb satisfaction for us to be decided on for this award. I would love to thank the BBC World Service, on behalf of 1.75 million kids whom we serve each day, every day." The charity started its mid-day meal program n for nearly twenty years in the past. Back then, it supplied 1,500 free school lunches every day. Today it feeds 1.Seventy-five million children all over India with hot, freshly prepared food. For many kids, this will be their major supply of nutrition and keep them in schooling.
"Akshaya Patra is a tremendous winner, and we are so glad the opposition has had such guide from the general public and the judges," stated Stephen Titherington, Senior Commissioning Editor, BBC World Service. "They want to recognize the problems for lots of locating sufficient to eat vitally; knowledge the economics and the politics of food is a critical part of know-how the sector," he said. Other tasks at the shortlist for the 2019 award protected UK charity WRAP, aiming to reduce waste across several sectors, and Food four Education, a non-earnings employer that offers closely subsidized food at primary colleges in Nairobi, Kenya. This changed into the third edition of the Global Food Champion. In 2018, chef Jose Andres helped provide three. Four million meals to humans in Puerto Rico inside the aftermath of Hurricane Maria won the award. Libraries generally have as their main purpose acquiring, processing, storing, and disseminating information to which the school library is not an exception. The school library has a vital role to play in the information service. They provide materials relevant to the curricular needs of everybody in the school community. The importance of providing such resources cannot be overemphasized if the school library is to be an instigator of and support for resource-based learning in the school.
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Audeloncourt est une commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Marne, en région Grand Est.

Toponymie
Le nom de la commune pourrait remonter à 1092, Adelini curtis, « ferme d'Adelin » ; Adelin, un nom germanique, venant de Adeling « appartenant à la noblesse », de : adel « noblesse » + suff. -ing.

Géographie
La commune est arrosée par la Meuse, fleuve encore naissant. Le village est situé en bas d'une double cuesta qui se prolonge au nord vers les côtes de Moselle. Son altitude s'échelonne de 350 à 470 mètres.

Localisation

Urbanisme

Typologie
Audeloncourt est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (87,3 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (87,3 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
prairies (57,5 %), terres arables (26,6 %), forêts (12,7 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (3,2 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Histoire

Politique et administration

Population et société

Démographie

Évolution démographique

Pyramide des âges

Économie
En 2008, les seules activités sur la commune étaient 3 exploitations agricoles, 1 charbonnier, 1 transporteur routier.

Audeloncourt a compté la fromagerie Montandon à côté de la salle des fêtes.

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments
 Église Saint Rémy : les trois cloches ont été refondues le 7 février 1920 à Robécourt, elles ont été bénies par  Louvard et ont été endommagées quand elles sont tombées car la foudre s'est abattue sur le clocher en 1910. Elles ont reçu les noms de Lucie, Marie et Camille, 971 kilos, qui donne le Mi, Paul Alice, 668 kilos qui donne le Fa, Huberte Marie, 472 kilos qui donne le Sol. C'est Georges Farnier, décédé le 2 février 1964, qui en est le fondeur

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Louise Michel, grande figure internationale de la gauche libertaire féministe, y a tenu, pendant un an, en 1852-1853, une école libre.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de la Haute-Marne
 Anciennes communes de la Haute-Marne

Liens externes

 Audeloncourt sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
 Audeloncourt sur le site de l'Insee

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Audeloncourt
Localité sur la Meuse en France

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Obama's Easter Non-Message
Obama is unAmerican. He is the Anti-President. Obama is opposed to everything that Presidents are supposed to be. In fact, he goes out of his way to insult everything the country and all its prior Presidents hold dear. And now we have more evidence with his Easter non-message and his hateful new church.
Let's look back on Obama's prior assaults on the Office of President.
1. Proud To Be An American: Presidents are deeply proud of America. Obama is not. His wife slipped up and mentioned this first, when she said the nomination of her husband was the first time she was ever proud of America. But Obama too has provided proof. He described Middle America as bitter clingers to their guns and Bibles. He went to a church for decades whose pastor damned America. Now, he's picked a new church that is damning half of America, with his new pastor choosing Easter to equate Rush Limbaugh by name to the KKK and Republicans to slave-owners. And right after he was elected, he ran to Egypt to apologize for our ignorance and tell the world that we would need to change.
2. The Special Relationship: Britain and America have an historic special relationship. . . until now. Obama returned diplomatic gifts, gave selfish gifts, improperly touched the queen, failed to consult Britain over terrorists he dropped on their soil, betrayed Gordon Brown vis-à-vis Libyan terrorists, and explicitly denied any special relationship.
3. America Bows To No One: Obama has shamefully bowed to everyone from Saudi princes to foreign meter maids.
4. America Takes the Lead: Since Gen. Jack Pershing refused to allow the Europeans to treat the US Army as replacement troops in World War I, the US has always taken the lead in all international actions. . . until now. Obama let the South Americans handle Honduras, let the BRICS handle global warming, let China handle North Korea, let random chance handle Egypt and Tunisia, and now is letting Europe handle Libya.
5. America the Charitable: American has historically taken the lead in disaster aid. But in Haiti, Obama didn't act until he was shamed by CNN. In Japan, he didn't act at all.
6. Healer in Chief: Presidents have always flown to the site of disasters to comfort those hit by hurricanes, tornados, floods and other disasters, and to survey the damage. Not Obama. He went to a campaign rally rather than survey recent tornado damage. He went golfing rather than visit the Gulf of Mexico as it flooded with oil.
7. Commander in Chief: Presidents have zealously guarded the military against attacks foreign and domestic. Not Obama. He tosses them into wars like he tosses golf clubs into golf bags, and he still had the nerve to declare them "non-essential."
8. The Most Powerful Man On Earth: Not a single President in history has ever fantasized about being a dictator of some backward country like China, until Obama did it. . . publicly. And don't forget, he's appointed people who named mass murderers like Mao as their heroes.
9. Defender of the Public: The first thought of every President is to protect the American public. At least, it was. Obama's first thought upon hearing of terrorist attacks has been to warn us not to do anything to upset Muslims or illegal aliens.
10. Workaholics: One of the reasons campaigns are so rugged is that the job of President requires a true workaholic. We have never had a lazy President until Obama, who can't be bothered to do his job even a little bit.
And now we come to Easter. It doesn't matter what religion a President is, they are expected to issue soothing statements on every major religious holiday for every major religion in America. The idea is that the President represents ALL the people of America, no matter what their faiths. So why has Obama issued statements on every single major Muslim holiday, but can't bring himself to issue a statement on Easter? He even went out of his way last week to issue an eight-paragraph statement heralding Earth Day!! Yet, somehow he can't mention one of the most significant holidays in the religion to which the vast majority of Americans belong?
This is a pattern of behavior. Obama has systematically insulted everything Americans hold dear, from our historic relationships, to our place in the world, to our predominant religions, to our military, and even our Office of the Presidency. This man is not only deeply unAmerican, he is anti-American.
Let us hope when he is unceremoniously dumped in November 2012, that he defects to somewhere more deserving of him. . . like Sudan. And let us not forget who his supporters are during this period.
Index: AndrewPrice, Barack Obama, Christianity, Patriotism
I had read about this yesterday where it was noted that Obama had made a statement for Muslim holidays. Jay Carney was trying to bob and weave and talk about the Obama's highly visible visit to church on Sunday. Inexcusable really when you get right down to it.
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Jed, I see it as an intended insult. In fact, I'm seeing a whole pattern of intended insults. Obama could have and should have avoided each one of these, but he didn't. And I think he's sending a message.
Seriously, all Presidents know that on certain days you just read a statement (written by the staff) to celebrate whatever it is -- Easter, Passover, Donut Month. It's just part of the business. And for Obama to selectively pick and choose and then to specifically pick out the ones that represent "traditional American values" has to be an insult -- especially when combined with things like him refusing to say that Britain and the US have a special relationship and him sending Biden to Memorial Day ceremonies.
It's all part of a pattern of intentional slights.
Nice picture! I think it's impossible not to notice that he keeps doing these things. If it's American or Western or Christian, he lets us know he couldn't care less. But if it's Muslim, then he gets all excited about it. He does not represent us and he doesn't want to represent us.
DUQ, That's the way I see it and I'm not sure there is any other way. We could excuse one or two of these things as a misstatement or just a poor start. But by now he's shown that he truly does not care about defending America or it's traditions and he's entirely indifferent to the duties of the Presidency.
Andrew: Obama just doesn't get it, as the liberals love to say. He attended Shiloh Baptist Church on Easter Sunday. As the MSM pointed out, the church was founded in 1863 by freed slaves. So far, so good. But the story doesn't end there, though they would have it that way. The pastor that day gave a typically liberation theology sermon (not typically Baptist).
And the other thing they didn't mention is that in 2009 the same church hosted an Israel-bashing festival led by Associate Pastor Adam Russell Taylor, whom Obama appointed as White House Fellow in the Office of Cabinet Affairs. Like his lack of knowledge of the theology of Jeremiah Wright, I am sure that Obama had no idea what was being preached regularly from the Shiloh Baptist pulpit. That includes regular sermons on the Nakba ("the catastrophe"--the formation of the state of Israel) and the support of the American divestment campaign against Israel and promotion of Palestinian "victimhood," along with support of the intifida.
Meanwhile, over the past year, Obama has issued special proclamations for Ramadan, Eid al Fitr, Eid al Adha, Hajj and Earth Day. But as Obama's press secretary said, "he went to Church on Easter Sunday--isn't that enough?" Answer: "No."
Lawhawk, Isn't it amazing how Obama can keep picking churches that spew hate and yet somehow manages to now have any idea what's going on while he's sitting there throughout the years. "Racist diatribe? I must have been asleep..."
I think the truth is that he knows what he's doing, he's comfortable in the anti-white black liberation movement and just going to lie about it when questioned. And since the media won't follow up with this like they would if it were a Republican being preached to by a klansman, he knows that he can sit back and relax because the MSM has his back.
Andrew: BTW, since Easter Sunday is over, did I mention I hate Obama?
Nope, but I'm pretty sure that's no sin. ;-)
The Easter thing didn't bother me until I heard that he never missed a muslim holiday. What the heck is that? I think you're right that this is supposed to be a slap at us, with us being the American public. 2012 can't come soon enough!
Ed, Isn't that the truth! I'm ready for him to leave tomorrow. I wonder if we can offer him an early retirement? Maybe we can buy out his contract?
pretty certain I agree with you, Andrew. It used to be I'd ask myself the question "to what end? . . what does he gain?" Now, he has shown me his political prowess isn't quite what it was cracked up to, and his ideological nature gets in the way of his line of b.s. The beauty is, he no longer can be the outsider running against Bush. He has to run on his record which includes the insults, and we all are watching.
Jed, I was the same way. That's why I figured his early insults were just rookie mistakes. After all, it made no sense that he would anger the British or whoever. . . he didn't seem to gain anything.
But as the evidence began to pile up that he could have avoided all of this and yet he kept doing it -- this Easter one is entirely inexplicable -- it all started to add up to be a series of intentional insults.
So at this point, I have to conclude that he's either the way most incompetent human being to ever hold the office (and his staff are ALL fools), or it's intentional. I think it's intentional.
And you're right, the problem for him is that he can't run against Bush anymore. It's his record that will be voted on in 2012, and his record is horrible!
Tam said...
his record is horrible, he hates America, he fantasizes about being a commie dictator, he calls us his enemies. I don't give a $&%# where his birth certificate is, I know all I need to know. He's no American.
P.S. I hate Obama.
Tam, I forgot about him calling us "enemies." Yeah, he did that too. Grrr.
I'm with you. I don't care where he was born or what he was born to -- American, Kenyan, jackal -- he is simply not a real American. Americans don't hate America, don't hate our institutions, and don't hate Americans. Grrr.
In terms of hating him, that seems to be a very popular position and I'm thinking we could form some sort of club!
When does he take his televised walk along a beach, clutching a bible as part of his damage control plan?
He certainly isn't behaving as if he wants a second term. Let's hope he gets early retirement.
Writer X, I have my doubts he'll do that kind of damage control, after all, it's not like he really cares what Christians or Americans think! Besides, it would discriminate against Muslims if he was seen with a Bible.
So if he does do a photo-op like this, then I'm thinking he will be clutching a textbook describing the Bible. . . and possibly the Koran as a chaser.
In terms of a second term, no, he really doesn't act like he wants it. Let's hope the public has the same reaction!
I don't think that Obama wanted to encourage those people in 'fly-over country' who cling to God and guns.
But everything Obama does insults me, so why not tack Easter onto the list?
LL, That's true. This is just one more insult for the pile and really doesn't change my opinion of him... which couldn't get much lower.
Good point about not encouraging those evil Americans in fly-over country. . . they're dangerous! They might demand unsafe tax cuts or that the government protect them from minor inconveniences like terrorism.
Grrr.
I should add that I hate him too. Where do I sign up for the club?
Don't worry DUQ, there'll be a sign up sheet come November!
If it makes you feel any better, his statement for Passover didn't go over so well, so maybe the Christians are better off without a statement -
"The story of Passover – which recalls the passage of the children of Israel from bondage and repression to freedom and liberty – inspires hope that those oppressed and enslaved can become free, The Seder, with its rich traditions and rituals, instructs each generation to remember its past, while appreciating the beauty of freedom and responsibility it entails.
This year, that ancient instruction is reflected in the daily headlines as we see modern stories of social transformation and liberation unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa."
Bev, I can't imagine what's wrong with that? Basically he's saying that the struggle by Muslim fundamentalists (who have vowed to destroy Israel and use it as a scapegoat for their own failures) against murderous dictators (who have used Israel as a scapegoat for all the problems of the Arab world) reminds him of a Jewish holiday. What could possibly be wrong with that???
Wow, what an ~ss!
P.S. Bev, I take it that the image of Arabs fighting each other isn't the first thing that comes to your mind during the holidays?
Hmmmm, not really. Though Egyptians do play a central part in the Exodus story. That and gefilte fish...yuck.
Bev, Never had it, but I hear it's not good. I'll stick to heathen foods like steak and french fries! Hmmm. :-)
Yeah, I heard the Egyptians play a minor role in the Exodus story -- at least so says Yul Brynner.... though I don't recall any particular verse about them from Bob Marley. ;-)
On Obama, it could have been worse. He could have tried to tell passover jokes!
This just in: Hubert Schlafly, the inventor of the Teleprompter passed away today at the age of 91 -
I am sure you share good thoughts to go out to TOTUS at this time of sadness...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9MRMGV00&show_article=1
Bev, Wow! The man who made our current president possible?! Well, I won't hold that against him.
So let me join you in wishing our TOTUS well in its time of grief. Perhaps POTUS will give him the day off?
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Andrew, I suppose it goes without saying that I'll join the club too!
Bev, When I first read your comment, I thought you said the TOTUS died. That got me wondering what the POTUS would do to run the country. Then I got your point.
That's pretty cool though to have invented the teleprompter.
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This goon needs to go.
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Sunnyvale Landmark – Collins-Scott Winery
Built in 1881 by the Collins brothers, the Collins-Scott Winery is the oldest brick building in Sunnyvale. In 1889 a private railroad spur was built on the property and more than 300 gallons of wine were shipped daily. In 1927 all of the buildings except the brick distillery were destroyed by fire. In 1965, the present owers, the Duane Heinlen family, remodled the structure as it stands today. This building is a half mile from my home.
This comfortable brick and stucco residence is graced by a gabled roofed, long shed dormer, and classical portico entrance. It was built in the early 1880s as a two story distillery, part of the successful Scott-Collins Winery.
Lemuel and Salvin Collins came to California from New York in the early 1850s. Salvin became a partner in a popular Montgomery Street saloon in San Francisco, and his brother took up farming, in 1862 purchasing 320 acres of land in what is now Sunnyvale. Lemuel died in 1879, and Salvin took over his brother's farm, planting 160 acres in grapes. He soon constructed a four story brick winery and this landmark distillery building. From these he supplied his saloon and "chop house," by this time a quality restaurant known for its "fine wines and liquors."
Salvin died in 1884, and his widow Angelina Russell Collins assumed responsibility for the winery. By 1889 she shipped over 300 gallons of wine daily and brought a private railroad spur on to the property. Angelina married San Francisco importer Emerson Wesley Scott in 1890, and he assisted her in the business. Then known as the Pebbleside Vineyards and Winery, they could produce 550,000 gallons of wine and 2,000 gallons of brandy annually. A ton of grapes results in about 155 gallons of wine, so they had 3580 tons. A low yield of 3 tons per acre would require 1200 acres or grapes. A high yield of 5 tons per acre would require about 700 acres. At San Francisco's 1894 Mid-Winter Fair in Golden Gate Park, Pebblestone won first prizes for its Petit Pinot and Zinfandel, and an 1895 San Jose Mercury souvenir booklet cited Angelina as "one of Santa Clara County's well known winemakers." Angelina died in 1896, and Emerson Scott passed away the next year.
During the mid-1890s, drought accelerated the spread of phylloxera, a root louse that began plaguing Santa Clara Valley vintners in 1892. The Scott estate continued to rent its vineyards, but diminishing productivity made the winery unprofitable. In 1906 the Pebbleside Poultry Farm took over the former winery, and Marianni Orchards leased the buildings for fruit dehydration. A fire in 1927 destroyed the four story winery, and two years later the Ferguson family purchased the old distillery. They converted it to a summer home, adding the shed dormer windows which reflected the popular California Bungalow style. They designed the first floor, although asymmetrical in presentation, in the Georgian Revival style.
This landmark building was spared destruction by real estate development in the early 1960s, and a thick coat of white paint was removed, exposing the original brick construction. In May 1983 the City of Sunnyvale declared it a Landmark.
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Board Game Review: Disney's Enchanted Cupcake Party Game
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With our daycare closed for about a couple of weeks, I decided to pick up some toys to occupy my daughter so I don't lose my sanity. That's when I came across the Disney's Enchanted Cupcake Party Game at Target which was $24.99.
Before making the purchase, I read the description for the game, which stated:
You're invited to a cupcake party with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Elsa, Buzz Lightyear, Winnie the Pooh, and other beloved Disney characters! Collect the ingredients on your recipe cards and make as many cupcakes as you can before the party starts. Mix and match ingredients to make fun new cupcake combinations!
For starters, the game featured many characters she was familiar with, which was a win. The game included 36 mix & match pieces, so I also knew at least 4-5 of them would be gone while daycare being closed.
The game was very simple:
You drew a recipe card that showed a topper, frosting, cake and wrapper that you had to create. Every recipe card had different combinations.
Then you had to dig through the 36 pieces (or 31 if you lose five pieces, like my daughter soon will) and create the combination.
That's it. Open the box, show your kids how to play, and let them occupy themselves for the next 30 minutes before they get bored and want a new game.
For as big as the box was, I was expecting the cupcake pieces to be bigger than they were. Most piece were probably no bigger than a quarter. The toppers were even tinier and could easily get lost if they were to drop on the ground.
On the bright side, my daughter had a blast mixing and matching pieces. After five minutes, she quit paying attention to the recipe cards and just made whatever tickled her fancy.
Worth the $24.99 for a board game? I don't know. There's really not much to the game, but if it gives me at least an hour of quiet, I'll take it.
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Woah! In the last week we've seen a plethora (a PLETHORA!!) of online activity around the iPhone release, which occurs Saturday morning (our time) in the US. Let's take a look at some of the more interesting tidbits.
1. Apple released its official guided tour this week, complete with faux turtle-necked Steve Jobs.
3. Which is vehemently contradicted by the actual reviews, available now that the review embargo has been lifted. My favourite is the hilarious "My iPhone Diary" by New York Times columnist David Pogue. New features uncovered like the fake GPS and real time traffic reports right on the Google map suggest we're only scratching the surface as to what kind of new features we'll see in this breakthrough device.
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, provides a more austere review, yet interestingly vindicates the controversial virtual keyboard: "Three days in I wanted to throw it out the window, five days in I was typing faster than my Treo QWERTY keyboard." However Walt also provides that the greatest drawback at this point seems to be that it is only available on one carrier (AT&T, the USA's largest).
4. The competition responds with the Nokia E65. However, I get the feeling Nokia is to iPhone what PC is to Mac, and right now there would be frantic activity in both the marketing and development labs of said competition. By contrast, Apple are probably readying their "Hi, I'm an iPhone, and I'm a Nokia" ads.
5. What about the plans? US mobile phone plans are somewhat different to Australian plans (they're mainly based on bundled minutes), however here is a really great breakdown of the TCO (total cost of ownership) for the iPhone.
Interestingly, there are myriad plans, which is somewhat at odds with the Apple simplicity ethos, but perhaps the most interesting story in all of this is how other carriers will be brought on as it has a bearing on what networks the iPhone will support in the medium term, and of course how the Australian market will in turn be serviced.


Here's all you need to know about Eric Cantor's stunning loss in the Republican primary for Virginia's seventh congressional district.
For almost as long as I've lived here, which is coming up on 20 years now, the purpose of the seventh district has been to re-elect Eric Cantor every two years. It's a strongly Republican district that spans across a very conservative stretch of rural Central Virginia, from the Richmond suburbs to Culpeper. So what were we going to do, vote for a Democrat? No, we were going to vote for Cantor.
And Cantor knew it. Because he didn't have to worry too much about getting re-elected every two years, his political ambition was channeled into rising through the hierarchy of the House leadership. Rise he did, all the way up to the #2 spot, and he was waiting in the wings to become Speaker of the House.
The result was that Cantor's real constituency wasn't the folks back home. His constituency was the Republican leadership and the Republican establishment. That's who he really answered to.
Guess what? Folks in the seventh district figured that out.
The Republican primary is not a date that is all that well known here, and speaking for myself, there was only one reason I noticed it this year and thought that hey, we should go vote. It was not because I thought challenger Dave Brat was going to win. It was because I thought that he might do well, posting a result somewhere up in the mid-40s, and this might put a little fear into Eric Cantor and maybe even get the notice of the rest of the Republican leadership.
It turns out that a lot of other people felt the same. Enough to give Brat 55% of the vote as a pure protest against the establishment.
This wasn't primarily about Dave Brat. A few people have run primary campaigns against Cantor in the last few years, but they were generally the kind of guys who were running a forklift the day before. I love the ideal of the citizen-legislator, and more power to 'em, but those guys just didn't have the wherewithal to get noticed. Brat was the first challenger who had a well-organized campaign, and as a pro-free-market economics professor, he's the kind of guy who can stand up at a local political meeting and talk intelligently and convincingly about public policy. In short, he was a credible alternative in a district that was really looking for one.
That, ladies and gentlemen, was Eric Cantor: the soul of an establishment machine politician, with the "messaging" of the small-government conservatives grafted uneasily on top of it.


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Q: Possible circular dependency? c++ I have a Vulkan project, that uses a model manager based on the one written by my professor. In this model manager, I have the Model.h #includeing both a Mesh.h, an #include to vulkan/vulkan.h, and an #include to Texture.h. Externally, they all have references to a static, global instance of my wrapper for the rendering portion of my engine. During my google searches, I've come to the initial conclusion that I have a circular dependency. I was hoping someone could point it out for me.
Model.h
#pragma once

#include <vector>
#include <vulkan/vulkan.h>

#include "Texture.h"
#include "Mesh.h"

struct Model
{
    uint8_t                             _inuse;
    uint32_t                            _refcount;
    TextLine                            filename;
    Mesh                                *mesh; //C4430 & C2143
    Texture                             *texture; //C4430 & C2143
    VkDescriptorPool                    descriptorPool;
    std::vector<VkDescriptorSet>        descriptorSets;
    uint32_t                            descriptorSetCount;

void DrawModel(Model *model, uint32_t bufferFrame, VkCommandBuffer
     commandBuffer);
};

class Model_Manager
{
private:
    std::vector<Model>      model_list;
    uint32_t                modelMax;

public:

    uint32_t                swapchainLength;
    VkDevice                logDevice;
    VkPhysicalDevice        physDevice;
    VkDescriptorSetLayout   descriptorSetLayout;

    void Model_ManagerInit(uint32_t maxModels, uint32_t chainLength,
         VkDevice device, VkPhysicalDevice physicalDevice);

    Model* NewModel();
    Model* GetModelByFilename(char *filename);
    Model LoadModel(char * filename);
    void DeleteModel(Model *model);

    VkDescriptorSetLayout* GetModelDescriptorSetLayout(){ return
&descriptorSetLayout; }

    static void CreateDescriptorPool(Model *model, VkDevice device);
    static void CreateDescriptorSets(Model *model);
    static void CreateDescriptorSetLayout(Model *model, VkDevice device);
    static void ModelSetup(Model *model, VkDevice lDevice);
};

extern Model_Manager modelManager;

Texture.h
#pragma once

#include <vector>

#include "gf3d_text.h"
#include "Vulkan_Graphics.h"

struct Texture
{
    uint8_t             _inuse;
    uint32_t            _refcount;
    TextLine            filename;
    VkImage             textureImage;
    VkDeviceMemory      textureImageMemory;
    VkImageView         textureImageView;
    VkSampler           textureSampler;
    };

class Texture_Manager
{
private:
    uint32_t                textureMax;
    VkDevice                logDevice;

public:
    std::vector<Texture>    textureList;

    void Texture_ManagerInit(uint32_t maxTextures, VkDevice lDevice);

    static Texture* LoadTexture(char *filename);
    static Texture* GetTextureByFilename(char * filename);
    static void CopyBufferToImage(VkBuffer buffer, VkImage image, uint32_t
width, uint32_t height);
    static Texture* NewTexture();
    static void CreateTextureSampler(Texture *tex, VkDevice device);
    static void DeleteTexture(Texture *tex, VkDevice device);
};

extern Texture_Manager textureManager;

Mesh.h
#pragma once

#include "gf3d_text.h"
#include "Vulkan_Graphics.h"

struct Vertex
{
    glm::vec3 vertex;
    glm::vec3 normal;
    glm::vec2 texel;
};

struct Face
{
    uint32_t  verts[3];
};

struct Mesh
{
    TextLine        filename;
    uint32_t        _refCount;
    uint8_t         _inuse;
    uint32_t        vertexCount;
    VkBuffer        buffer;
    VkDeviceMemory  bufferMemory;
    uint32_t        faceCount;
    VkBuffer        faceBuffer;
    VkDeviceMemory  faceBufferMemory;

    void MeshRender(Mesh *mesh, VkCommandBuffer commandBuffer, VkDescriptorSet
*descSet);
};

class Mesh_Wrapper
{
   private:
     std::vector<Mesh>                  mesh_list;
     uint32_t                           maxMeshes;
     VkVertexInputAttributeDescription  attributeDescriptions[3];
     VkVertexInputBindingDescription        bindingDescription;
     std::vector<Command>               stagingCommandBuffer;
     VkDevice                           logDevice;
     VkPhysicalDevice                   physDevice;

public:
     Mesh_Wrapper();
     ~Mesh_Wrapper();

     void Mesh_WrapperInit(uint32_t meshCount, VkDevice logDevice,
VkPhysicalDevice physDevice);

    Mesh* NewMesh();
    void DeleteMesh(Mesh* mesh);

    Mesh* LoadMesh(char *filename);
    Mesh* GetMeshByFilename(char *filename);

    VkVertexInputAttributeDescription* GetAttributeDescriptions(uint32_t
  *count);
    VkVertexInputBindingDescription* GetBindDescription();

    static Mesh* LoadMesh(char * filename, Mesh_Wrapper *mWrapper);
    static void CreateVertexBufferFromVertices(Mesh *mesh, Vertex *vertices,
uint32_t vcount, Face *faces, uint32_t fcount);
    static void SetupFaceBuffers(Mesh *mesh, Face *faces, uint32_t fcount);
};

extern Mesh_Wrapper meshManager;

Vulkan_Graphics.h
#pragma once

#include <vulkan/vulkan.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <glm/glm.hpp>

#include "Pipeline_Wrapper.h"
#include "GLFW_Wrapper.h"
#include "Extensions_Manager.h"
#include "Swapchain_Wrapper.h"
#include "Queue_Wrapper.h"
#include "Commands_Wrapper.h"
#include "Mesh.h"
#include "Texture.h"
#include "Model.h"

typedef struct
{
    glm::mat4 model;
    glm::mat4 view;
    glm::mat4 proj;
}UniformBufferObject;

class Vulkan_Graphics
{
private:
    VkInstance                      vkInstance;

    Command                         *graphicsCommandPool;

    VkDebugUtilsMessengerEXT        callback;
    VkSurfaceKHR                    surface;

    uint32_t                        deviceCount;
    VkPhysicalDevice                *devices;
    bool                            logicalDeviceCreated;

    VkQueue                         graphicsQueue;
    VkQueue                         presentQueue;
    VkQueue                         transferQueue;

    VkDeviceQueueCreateInfo         *queueCreateInfo;
    VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures        deviceFeatures;

    VkSemaphore                     imageAvailableSemaphore;
    VkSemaphore                     renderFinishedSemaphore;

    std::vector<VkLayerProperties>  validationAvailableLayers;
    std::vector<const char*>        validationInstanceLayerNames;
    std::vector<const char*>        validationDeviceLayerNames;

    std::vector<VkBuffer>           uniformBuffers;
    std::vector<VkDeviceMemory>     uniformBuffersMemory;
    uint32_t                        uniformBufferCount;

   void CreateVulkanInstance();
    void CreateLogicalDevice();

    void CreateSemaphores();

    void CreateUniformBuffer();

    void SetupDebugCallback();

    bool CheckValidationLayerSupport();

    void PickPhysicalDevice();

    VkDeviceCreateInfo GetDeviceInfo(bool validation);

    VkPhysicalDevice GetPhysicalDevice(){ return physicalDevice; }

    bool IsDeviceSuitable(VkPhysicalDevice device);

public:
   GLFW_Wrapper                 *glfwWrapper;
    Commands_Wrapper                *cmdWrapper;
    Extensions_Manager              *extManager;
    Queue_Wrapper                   *queueWrapper;
    Swapchain_Wrapper               *swapchainWrapper;
    Pipeline_Wrapper                *pipeWrapper;

    UniformBufferObject             ubo;

    Pipeline                        *currentPipe;

    VkPhysicalDevice                physicalDevice;
    VkDevice                        logicalDevice;

    Vulkan_Graphics(GLFW_Wrapper *glfwWrapper, bool enableValidation);
    ~Vulkan_Graphics();

    Command* GetGraphicsPool(){ return graphicsCommandPool; }
    Pipeline* GetCurrentPipe(){ return currentPipe; }
    VkQueue GetGraphicsQueue(){ return graphicsQueue; }

    VkFramebuffer VRenderBegin();
    void VRenderEnd();

    uint32_t BeginDrawFrame();
    void EndDrawFrame(uint32_t imageIndex);
    Command* GetGraphicsCommandPool(){ return graphicsCommandPool; }

    VkBuffer GetUniformBufferByIndex(uint32_t index);

    static int CreateBuffer(VkDeviceSize size, VkBufferUsageFlags usage,
VkMemoryPropertyFlags properties, VkBuffer * buffer, VkDeviceMemory *
bufferMemory);
    static uint32_t FindMemoryType(uint32_t typeFilter, VkMemoryPropertyFlags
properties, VkPhysicalDevice physicalDevice);
    static VkImageView CreateImageView(VkImage image, VkFormat format, VkDevice
logDevice);
    static void CopyBuffer(VkBuffer srcBuffer, VkBuffer dstBuffer,
VkDeviceSize size, VkDevice lDevice, VkPhysicalDevice physDevice);

};

extern Vulkan_Graphics vGraphics;

A: I can't honestly tell you whether or where you have a circular dependency, but the fact that you have .h files including other .h files makes it a definite possibility. I can tell you how to avoid it though.
When you declare a pointer or reference to a class, you don't need the full class definition; a forward declaration will do. In your Model.h it is unnecessary to include Texture.h and Mesh.h. Replace them with forward declarations:
struct Texture;
struct Mesh;

You will need to make sure those headers get included in the source file where you actually try to use those pointers.

A: you have a circular dependency on your files which is supposed to be broken by the #pragma once statement. The statement guarantees that an include file is included only once in the compilation. So, if Mesh.h was include in Model.h, and the Mesh.h was compiled first, then it will not be compiled again though it gets included in your Vulkan_Graphics.h.
The problem though is that this pragma is not the standard one and might not be supported by some compilers. So, the standard way of protecting your file from multiple includes and from possibility of causing circular dependencies, is to protect it with guard macros, i.e.
#ifndef MY_HEADER_FILE
#define MY_HEADER_FILE
... header file contents ...
#endif

The disadvantage is that you have to make sure that the macro name is unique across all compilation files, usually file name is used as a template for it.

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Today's weather is turning out to be patchy light rain. The visibility is going to be around 15 km i.e. 9 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1011 mb . The daytime temperature is going to reach 15 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 10 °c at night. We expect around 9.6 mm of precipitation to fall and cloud covering 60% of the sky, the humidity will be around 83%.
Tomorrow weather is forecasted to be moderate or heavy rain shower. The visibility is going to be around 17 km i.e. 10 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1011 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 13 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 7 °c at night. We expect around 4.7 mm of precipitation to fall and cloud covering 60% of the sky, the humidity will be around 77%.
On Sunday weather will be heavy rain at times with daytime temperature reaching 12 °c. Night time temperature are expected to be 6 °c.We expect around 1.1 mm of precipitation to fall. The visibility is going to be around 18 km i.e. 11 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1015 mb. We expect around 1.1 mm of precipitation to fall and cloud covering 70% of the sky, the humidity will be around 77%.
Monday seems to be partly cloudy. Oosterpark, Netherlands visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1025 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 14 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 5 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 42% of the sky, the humidity will be around 81%.
Cloudy will be the weather pattern for the Tuesday. The visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1024 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 16 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 7 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 41% of the sky, the humidity will be around 84%.
Looking at the weather in Oosterpark, Netherlands over the next 7 days, the maximum temperature will be 16℃ (or 62℉) on Wednesday 1st May at around 1 pm. In the same week the minimum temperature will be 5℃ (or 42℉) on Monday 29th April at around 4 am.
The national weather service for Oosterpark, Netherlands is reporting Friday 26th April to be the wettest day in the coming week with around 3.10mm (or 0.1 inches) of rainfall. Make sure to carry an umbrella if you are out and about in Oosterpark, Netherlands.
The windiest of all days will be Saturday 27th April as wind will reach 16mph (or 26kmph) at around 4 pm.


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An expert's point of view on a current event.
The Petrostates of America
Yes, the U.S. economy is addicted to oil -- selling it.
By Steven R. Kopits
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The United States now faces a daunting challenge: The world's crude oil supply has been flat for years, even as emerging economies demand ever greater quantities. To prosper in this environment, the United States will have to make progress in using fuel more efficiently faster than emerging economies can bid away the oil supply. All of which raises the question: Can we live without oil?
To arrive at an answer, we should start in April 2011, when the global economy suffered an oil shortage in the wake of the uprising in Libya and the price of Brent crude, one of four benchmark varieties traded internationally, soared to $123 a barrel. It was a sharp rise, but not entirely unheralded. While oil had averaged $70 to $80 for most of 2010, prices had begun moving up in October of that year as economic recovery lifted demand. Brent crested the $100 mark in February 2011, just as the Arab Spring was beginning to take shape. Two months later, as unrest swept through the Arab world and Libya exploded into civil war, prices reached levels historically associated with oil shocks in advanced economies. At the time, our firm, Douglas-Westwood, warned of heightened risk of recessions by late in the year.
Our forecast held in the case of Europe, which is now in or close to recession. True, this is largely due to the lingering effects of the financial crisis. But Italy, for example, is reeling more from a lack of growth than either fiscal profligacy or excessive debt. And oil prices have surely played a role in stunting growth, starving the country of the resources to repay its financial obligations.
The United States now faces a daunting challenge: The world's crude oil supply has been flat for years, even as emerging economies demand ever greater quantities. To prosper in this environment, the United States will have to make progress in using fuel more efficiently faster than emerging economies can bid away the oil supply. All of which raises the question: Can we live without oil?
But we were wrong in the case of the United States, which did not succumb to high oil prices, though the situation remained dicey throughout the summer and early fall. The Dow Jones industrial average shed 1,000 points during the summer, and the Occupy Wall Street movement seized Zuccotti Park in New York City, spawning offshoots throughout the country. Negotiations to raise the debt ceiling looked parlous, and the economy threatened to unravel. But, crucially, it didn't.
Instead, as Greeks took to the streets and bond vigilantes assaulted Italy, Spain, and even France, U.S. stock markets began a gradual recovery, and GDP growth stabilized, reaching 3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Curiously, this growth came as Americans consumed less and less oil. U.S. oil consumption peaked for the post-recession period in July 2010, when oil cost $75 a barrel. When Brent hit $95 eight months later, in March 2011, demand was falling in earnest. By January of this year, oil consumption was 4.7 percent lower than at the same time a year earlier and was back at levels last seen at the trough of oil demand during the worst of the recession. In fact, January 2012 proved to be the third-weakest month for U.S. oil consumption since 1997.
U.S. Consumption, U.S. Average Import Oil Price
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, barchart.com, Douglas-Westwood analysis
Falling oil consumption is rare and, in the absence of recession, almost unprecedented. In fact, the United States has only experienced declining oil consumption without an accompanying recession once — during a 12-month period from 1980 to 1981. In every other instance — 1973, 1979, 1981, 1990, 2001, and 2008 — a fall in oil use has gone hand in hand with recession. And, in each case but 2001, rising oil prices were implicated as a cause of the economic slowdown. Oil use is linked to recession through what economists calls the inelasticity of demand, which holds that consumers will resist reducing oil consumption even if prices rise and will only adjust their behavior when forced to do so by a brutal recession.
But not this time.
Why or how the U.S. economy has improved its capability to respond to high oil prices is not well understood. One theory suggests that improvements in fuel efficiency are achieved during the recovery, not during the recession. Thus, when the economy collapses, businesses and consumers lack the capital or economic incentive to invest in more fuel-efficient equipment. During the recovery, however, the prospect of demand growth and increased incomes encourages the acquisition of more fuel-efficient assets. The structural changes in the economy, in other words, occur during the recovery, when the economy is better positioned to replace assets.
To an extent, this theory is consistent with what we witnessed in the aftermath of the 1973 and 1979 oil shocks, when Americans dumped Detroit's gas guzzlers and bought Japanese compacts. But these historical periods are not entirely analogous to the current situation. U.S. oil consumption increased once the 1973 oil shock subsided. And in 1979, Saudi Arabia tried to prop up prices through continuous production cuts, which caused global production to fall by over 6 million barrels per day (mbpd) from 1980 to 1983. Today, by contrast, the oil supply has risen by 3 mbpd since 2008, if we include biofuels and natural gas liquids. But this growth is not nearly robust enough to satisfy the needs of both advanced and developing countries, with the result that oil prices are increasing as emerging countries like China cut into America's oil supply.
Unless the oil supply increases much faster than it has in recent years, U.S. prosperity will fundamentally depend on increasing fuel efficiency. Until 2011, the United States' efficiency progress was abysmal. Measured as the ratio of real GDP to oil consumption, efficiency was only 1.5 percent higher in 2010 than in 2008. Historically, even in the absence of high oil prices, the country's oil efficiency normally improves by 1.2 percent per year. Under the pressure of high oil prices, the rate of change should be even greater — as much as 2 percent per year. But in the two years following the Great Recession, oil efficiency barely budged.
Oil Efficiency in GDP (2008 = 100)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Transportation Department, Douglas-Westwood analysis
Then, in late 2010, the outlook brightened. Oil efficiency started to improve and accelerated following last April's oil shock, ending 2011 up 3.7 percent, or nearly twice the pace previously considered attainable. Rather than falling into recession, the U.S. economy responded to high oil prices by using energy more efficiently — and at a healthy clip.
And it shows in new vehicle purchases. According to the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute, consumers purchased vehicles with an average of 23 miles per gallon (mpg) in January — 0.8 mpg better than the average in December. The change represented the highest monthly increase since the institute began tracking fuel economy in 2007.
Index of U.S. Transportation Fuel Efficiency and Vehicle Miles Traveled (2008 = 100)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Douglas-Westwood analysis
The Transportation Research Institute also notes that average fuel economy was up 0.5 mpg for new vehicles purchased in January compared with a year earlier, and it was up a hefty 2.5 mpg — an increase of 12 percent — since 2007. Consumers, in other words, are beginning to respond to high oil prices by modifying their purchasing behavior, and the pace of change has been accelerating. But people are not necessarily getting back in their cars; fuel economy improvements have not been accompanied by a commensurate increase in driving.
More broadly, the statistics speak to more efficient oil use across an economy whose structure is changing as we speak. New businesses and forms of social interaction have emerged during the recovery that, by definition, are more compatible with higher oil prices. Some of these — such as e-commerce and social networking — are piggybacking on earlier trends. But perhaps no sector has been as transformed by high energy prices as the fossil fuels industry itself, which is experiencing a boom without precedent in the last 30 years. In 2011, the United States increased its crude oil production by a greater volume than any other country, including Brazil, Canada, and the entirety of OPEC, fueling a hiring rush from Houston to North Dakota. New techniques such as hydrofracking and horizontal drilling in shale have stoked natural gas production, reducing energy costs by an amount equal to $1,400 per household and bolstering the struggling economies of rural Ohio and Pennsylvania. Oil and gas production have contributed materially to the growth of the U.S. economy as a whole.
In aggregate then, the U.S. economy is beginning to respond to high oil prices on both the demand and supply sides. On the demand side, the country has ramped up investment in fuel-efficient assets, including fuel-sipping vehicles. On the supply side, the United States is producing more oil — from the Bakken shale formation beneath Montana, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan in the near term and from resumed drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska over time.
But we are running a marathon, not a sprint. To make room in the oil markets for a thirsty China, our analysis suggests that the United States must cut oil consumption at an annual pace of 1.5 percent for the next decade at least. If the country is able to maintain the oil-efficiency growth of 3.7 percent that it achieved in 2011, then GDP growth should reach a tolerable 2.2 percent per annum. But if the rapid pace of efficiency improvements flags, GDP growth will struggle. Economic growth will also stumble if shale oil and gas production — two of the rare bright spots in the U.S. economy in the last two years — sputters.
We have seen this race between efficiency and scarcity in other sectors such as agriculture. Poor countries are facing ever-increasing food costs and accompanying social unrest as China's citizens eat more and more grain-intensive foods. Oil price pressures are manifesting themselves as social unrest as well, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. But the key difference is that while agricultural output can still be expanded, the crude oil supply hasn't budged in the last five years.
So, can Americans live without oil? Or, more precisely, can the United States prosper and reduce its oil consumption at the same time? In the second half of 2011, it briefly did. The U.S. economy responded to a structural scarcity of oil by retooling for a world where it has to share finite resources with an emerging China. America's addiction to oil consumption may not be broken, but its grip on the country is loosening. At the same time, America's addiction to oil production may be growing. Ultimately, if Americans want to grow the economy, they will need oil — if not to consume, then to produce.
<p> Steven R. Kopits manages the New York office of Douglas-Westwood, an energy-business consultancy. Douglas-Westwood assists energy companies with market research, strategy development, and transaction support. His views are his own. </p>
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Sex, Love, and Friendship by Alan Soble Book Resume:
This collection joins together sixty essays on the philosophy of love and sex. Each was presented at a meeting of The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love held between 1977 and 1992 and later revised for this edition. Topics addressed include ethical and political issues (AIDS, abortion, homosexual rights, and pornography), conceptual matters (the nature, essence, or definition of love, friendship, sexual desire, and perversion); the study of classical and historical figures (Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, and Kierkegaard); and issues in feminist theory (sexual objectification, the social construction of female sexuality, reproductive and marital arrangements). Authors include Jerome Shaffer, Sandra Harding, Michael Ruse, Richard Mohr, Russell Vannoy, Claudia Card, M.C. Dillon, Gene Fendt, Steven Emmanuel, T.F. Morris, Timo Airaksinen, and Sylvia Walsh. The editor, who is the author of Pornography (1986), The Structure of Love (1990), and Sexual Investigations (1996), has also contributed six pieces and an Introduction.
Romantic Love by Yolanda van Ede Book Resume:
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Plato on Love
Plato on Love by Plato,C. D. C. Reeve Book Resume:
Plato's works on love—Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis, and Alciabiades in their entirety, with relevant selections from Republic and Laws—with an introductory essay by C. D. C. Reeve.
Love in Excess - Second Edition
Love in Excess - Second Edition by Eliza Haywood Book Resume:
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) was one of the most successful writers of her time; indeed, the two most popular English novels in the early eighteenth-century were Robinson Crusoe and Haywood's first novel, Love in Excess. As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to understand. Love in Excess is a well crafted novel in which the claims of love and ambition are pursued through multiple storylines until the heroine engineers a melodramatic conclusion. Haywood's frankness about female sexuality may explain the later neglect of Love in Excess. (In contrast, her accomplished domestic novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, has remained available.) Love in Excess and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum. For the second Broadview edition, the appendix of eighteenth-century responses to Haywood has been considerably expanded.
Love in America
Love in America by Francesca M. Cancian Book Resume:
In the past twenty-five years, Americans have gained considerable freedom in their personal lives. Relationships are now more flexible, and self-development has become a primary goal for both men and women. Most scholars have criticized this trend to greater freedom, arguing that it undermines family bonds and promotes selfishness and extreme independence. Francesca Cancian is more optimistic. In this book she compares these newer images of close relationships with "traditional" forms of marriage, in which love is seen as the responsibility of women, while self-development is regarded as a male concern. She shows that many American couples succeed in combining self-development with commitment. For them, interdependence, not independence, is their ideal, and love and self-development do not conflict, but reinforce each other. Changes in images of love are documented, in part, by examining case studies, popular magazines of 1900 to 1979 and selected articles in them on how to have a happy marriage. In sum, the author concludes that images of love in America have shifted from polarized gender roles toward more flexible roles and interdependence, thus fostering both love and self-development.
Astrology and Love Life
Astrology and Love Life by Mahan Vir Tulli Book Resume:
This book deciphers the intricacies of the compatibility of zodiac signs, the attraction between people of diverse temperaments and what leads to romantic alliances and conjugal ties.
Love Is a Hot Fudge Sundae
Love Is a Hot Fudge Sundae by Steve Hotchner Book Resume:
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To My Daughter with Love
To My Daughter with Love by Susan Polis Schutz Book Resume:
This elegant new edition of Susan Polis Schutz's most beloved work includes the poems and advice of earlier editions, plus new poems inspired by her daughter growing up into a young woman and leaving home. Steven Schutz's sensitive ilustrations envelop Susan's poetry in an artistic expression of his love for his daughter and her mother. The result is a loving celebration of the joy and pride that all parents feel for their unique, beautiful daughters.
Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood
Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood by Neil J. Smelser,Erik Homburger Erikson Book Resume:
Revised papers from a conference under the auspices of the Western Center of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which was held May 8-9, 1977 at the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California.
What Is Love? by Taro Gold Book Resume:
"Open Your Mind. Open Your Life" author Taro Gold's latest book is filled with practical answers to love's fundamental questions, all based on the principles of Buddhism. Full-color, Far-East inspired watercolor art enhances the Buddhist quotes and proverbs sprinkled throughout.
Love Valley
Love Valley by Conrad Eugene Ostwalt Book Resume:
Love Valley is a small town in rural North Carolina. Its genesis in 1954 marked the fulfillment of a dream for founder Andy Barker. Barker cultivated two visions as a young man—he wanted to build a Christian community, and he wanted to be a cowboy. The result of his vision is Barker's utopian experiment. The town boasts a saloon, general store, hitching posts, and rodeos. Yet, above all of this stands a little church—the heart of what Barker conceived as his Christian utopia. This unique combination has led to more than forty years of philanthropic ventures, controversial events such as the Love Valley Rock Festival, stories and legends, and political ambition. Love Valley: An American Utopia captures the history of this town in narrative form while arguing that Love Valley's founders were motivated by utopian goals.
Invitations to Love
Invitations to Love by Laura M. Ahearn Book Resume:
A discussion of the implications of the emergence of love-letter correspondences for social relations in Nepal
The Disenchantments of Love
The Disenchantments of Love by María de Zayas y Sotomayor Book Resume:
Published in 1647, these ten tales are among the earliest narratives in Western literature to focus on women's experiences and points of view in love relationships.
Love and Hate by David Mann Book Resume:
Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. 'Love and Hate' explores the origins of love and hate from infancy and how they develop through the life cycle.
Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions
Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg Book Resume:
This is the first comprehensive resource on the subject of love in the teachings of the world's major religions, cultures, and philosophies.
Necessity, Volition, and Love
Necessity, Volition, and Love by Harry B. Frankfurt,Harry G. Frankfurt Book Resume:
Essays examining foundational metaphysical and epistemological issues concerning Descartes, moral philosophy, and philosophical anthropology.
Adolescent Sex and Love Addicts
Adolescent Sex and Love Addicts by Eric Griffin-Shelley Book Resume:
A discussion of how teenagers can become addicted to sex and love just as they can be addicted to chemicals.
Love and Friendship by Eduardo A. Velásquez Book Resume:
These collected essays demonstrate that compelling and illuminating discussions of love and friendship do not fall to psychologists alone, but rightly belong among the major thinkers in the history of political philosophy.
The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love
The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg Book Resume:
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Christian Love
Christian Love by Bernard V. Brady Book Resume:
Bernard Brady has given us a rare, delightful, and thought-provoking book—a volume that belongs on the desk or the bed-stand of anyone in search of the rich and varied dimensions of Christian love. Christians are taught that God is love and are commanded to love, their neighbors and their enemies. These truths are not controversial. What is controversial and, indeed, has been controversial throughout the history of Christianity is the meaning of this love. This book explores the tradition of Christian reflection on the meaning, and experience of love, loving, and being loved. Many books have been written about Christian love, but no book has gathered together this kind of primary source material and covered such a wide range of perspectives, allowing the reader to engage directly with the thought and experience of some of the greatest Christian minds on the topic of love. Bernard Brady covers with remarkable clarity the breadth and depth of discussions on Christian love from the Bible to contemporary experience to create this-a survey of how Christians through the ages have understood love. Beginning of course with the Bible, Brady examines the key writings and thinkers on the nature of Christian love: St. Augustine; mystics such as Bernard of Clairvaux, Hadewich, and Julian of Norwich; the great tradition and literature of courtly love, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Sören Kierkegaard, and others. In addition, Brady devotes chapters to several 20th century figures whose lives seemingly embodied Christian love: Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Pope John Paul II. Finally, Christian Love addresses contemporary deliberations over the meaning of love with an analysis of the modern writings of Martin D'Arcy, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jules Toner, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Gene Outka, Margaret Farley, Edward Vacek, and Don Browning. In a synthesizing concluding chapter, Brady offers his own insightful and introspective understanding of the substance of Christian love, suggesting that it is an affective affirmation of another, that it is both responsive and unitive, and that it is steadfast and enduring. As a beautiful contemplative companion to one's own spiritual understanding, or as a thoughtful and meaningful gift, Christian Love is in every sense a treasure to behold, read, and share with those you love.
First Love by Sigi Jottkandt Book Resume:
First Love: A Phenomenology of the One takes seriously literatureOCOs repeated attestations of a One in its stories, poems and plays entitled First Love. With this groundbreaking work, JAttkandt suspends the contemporary philosophical stricture against every idea of a whole to unmask the figure concealed behind the psychoanalytic myth of first love."
Explorations in Love and Sex
Explorations in Love and Sex by Irving Singer Book Resume:
Beginning with a discussion of Kant, Schopenhauer, and others about the morality of sex and the morality of compassion, Explorations in Love and Sex offers a panoramic view of the philosophy of love from its beginnings in Plato up to the present. It examines the nature and limitations of sexual pluralism, and elaborates on Irving Singer's earlier ideas about appraisal and bestowal. The book's chapters are both philosophical and historical, and speak to general readers who wish to better understand the curious set of emotions called love.
Philosophy of Love
Philosophy of Love by Irving Singer Book Resume:
The author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other topics. In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much acclaimed trilogy on love. Trained as an analytical philosopher, Singer first approached his subject with the tools of current philosophical methodology. Dissatisfied by the initial results (finding the chapters he had written "just dreary and unproductive of anything"), he turned to the history of ideas in philosophy and the arts for inspiration. He discovered an immensity of speculation and artistic practice that reached wholly beyond the parameters he had been trained to consider truly philosophical. In his three-volume work The Nature of Love, Singer tried to make sense of this historical progression within a framework that reflected his precise distinction-making and analytical background. In this new book, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love. It is a "partial" summing-up of a lifework: partial because it expresses the author's still unfolding views, because it is a recapitulation of many published pages, because love—like any subject of that magnitude—resists a neatly comprehensive, all-inclusive formulation. Adopting an informal, even conversational, tone, Singer discusses, among other topics, the history of romantic love, the Platonic ideal, courtly and nineteenth-century Romantic love; the nature of passion; the concept of merging (and his critique of it); ideas about love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, Santayana, Sartre, and other writers; and love in relation to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and the possible future of scientific investigation. Singer's writing on love embodies what he has learned as a contemporary philosopher, studying other authors in the field and "trying to get a little further." This book continues his trailblazing explorations.
Love Life for Every Married Couple
Love Life for Every Married Couple by Ed Wheat,Gloria Okes Perkins Book Resume:
This book details the process of rediscovering the joy of marriage through practical counsel involving communication and an understanding of each other in our sexual make-up.
Love Canal
Love Canal by Lois Marie Gibbs,Murray Levine Book Resume:
The inspiring story of a seemingly ordinary woman who led one of the most successful, single-purpose, grassroots efforts of our time.
Love is Contagious
Love is Contagious by Patricia McLain Book Resume:
THE STORY: Takes place in the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Harway, artist, and Robbie Winters, newspaper reporter. Robbie's sister, Sally, wide-eyed and fresh from the farm, unexpectedly arrives in the big city looking for a place to stay,
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love by Roger Clarke,Andy Gordon Book Resume:
This is an excellent guide to 'Enduring Love'. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative, intelligent, and helpful. This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.
Nurtured by Love
Nurtured by Love by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki,Waltraud Suzuki Book Resume:
This book is the cornerstone upon which to build any Suzuki-oriented library. In it the author presents the philosophy and principles of Suzuki's teaching methods. Through the examples from his own life and teaching, Suzuki establishes his case for early childhood education and the high potential of every human being, not just those seemingly gifted.
Love and Saint Augustine
Love and Saint Augustine by Hannah Arendt,Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott,Judith Chelius Stark Book Resume:
Editors Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark make Hannah Arendt's important early work accessible for the first time. Here is a completely corrected and revised English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts, and other documents. "A revelation that may force us to reconsider the traditional interpretation of Arendt's work".--KIRKUS REVIEWS.
A Decision to Love
A Decision to Love by John M. Midgley,Susan Vollmer Midgley Book Resume:
This comprehensive program offers couples the guidance and groundwork necessary to assist them in evaluating their readiness to make a permanent life commitment. Each of the eight chapters deal with critical topics that are addressed in several ways: His and Her pages; Couple and Group discussion questions; Issues of Special focus; and more. Also comes with a complete wedding liturgy planner with Scripture readings.
Love, Human and Divine
Love, Human and Divine by Edward Collins Vacek, SJ Book Resume:
Although the two great commandments to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves are central to Christianity, few theologians or spiritual writers have undertaken an extensive account of the meaning and forms of these loves. Most accounts, in fact, make love of God and love of self either impossible or immoral. Integrating these two commandments, Edward Vacek, SJ, develops an original account of love as the theological foundation for Christian ethics. Vacek criticizes common understandings of agape, eros, and philia, examining the arguments of Aquinas, Nygren, Outka, Rahner, Scheler, and other theologians and philosophers. He defines love as an emotional, affirmative participation in the beloved's real and ideal goodness, and he extends this definition to the love between God and self. Vacek proposes that the heart of Christian moral life is loving cooperation with God in a mutually perfecting friendship.
'Love Your Enemies'
'Love Your Enemies' by John Piper Book Resume:
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Love as Passion
Love as Passion by Niklas Luhmann Book Resume:
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.
The Nature of Love
The Nature of Love by Irving Singer Book Resume:
An analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, and Martin Luther. Irving Singer's trilogy The Nature of Love has been called "majestic" (New York Times Book Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor). In the first volume, Singer begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization. He then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther. After having described the nature of erotic idealization, Singer analyzes the religious idealization in Judeo-Christian concepts of eros, philia, nomos, and agape. Medieval Catholicism sought to combine these four ideas of love in the "caritas synthesis." Luther repudiated that attempt on the grounds that love exists only in God's agapastic bestowal of unlimited goodness upon humanity and all of nature. In relation to the different modes of theorizing, Singer explores the humanistic implications of each.
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love by David Ellis Book Resume:
Although D. H. Lawrence's stock has fallen in recent times there are now signs of a revival. Of all his works, Women in Love is widely regarded as the most complex and rewarding. Apart from the classic essay by Joyce Carol Oates, all the items collected in this volume were published after 1990. Written by scholars from the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Canada, as well as the United States, they illustrate both the way recent theoretical developments in literary studies can be made relevant to readings of Lawrence and the healthy persistence of traditional methods of analysis. They also reveal Women in Love as a twentieth century classic that continues to challenge its readers and refuses to be pigeonholed. College students will find this collection an invaluable aid in their efforts to come to terms with the novel and for those of their elders who admire Lawrence it will provide a convenient and interesting way of discovering the kind of reactions he has provoked in the last fifteen years. The collection also contains a photograph of the statuette that was quite clearly the inspiration of Lawrence's description of Loerke's Lady Godiva, along with a note from the scholar who has only very recently announced its discovery.
The Evolution of Love
The Evolution of Love by Ada Lampert Book Resume:
Lampert presents the story of love: when, why, and how love became a central experience of humans. She sheds new insights as to who we fall in love with, why our sexual life is so full of contradictions, and from where the behavioral repertoire of lovers came. Based upon the most current scientific information, this book is written for every educated person.
Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle
Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle by A. W. Price Book Resume:
This book fully explores for the first time an idea common to Plato and Aristotle, which unites their treatments - otherwise very different - of love and friendship. The idea is that although persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, and as such, helping another person is a way of serving oneself. The author shows how their view of love and friendship, within not only personal relationships, but also the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism. - ;Friendship and desire in the Lysis; Love in the Symposium; Love in the Phaedrus; Perfect friendship in Aristotle; Aristotle on the varieties of friendship; The household; The City; Epilogue; Appendices; Homogeneity and beauty in the Symposium; Psychoanalysis looks at the Phaedrus ; Plato's sexual morality; Aristotle on erotic love; List of modern works cited. -
Love and Justice
Love and Justice by Reinhold Niebuhr Book Resume:
Niebuhr is renowned for his unflinching honesty concerning issues of social ethics, specifically, love and justice. His influence is great both inside and outside the Christian church. Now 64 of Niebuhr's important pieces about the problems of humanity and society are compiled in this single volume.
Falling in Love by Ayala Malakh-Pines Book Resume:
Looks at love and relationships and what goes on in a person's unconscious mind when falling in love.
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Would You Like Fries with that Sweater? Retailer and Restaurant Pairings
by Nancy M. Davids and Jennifer Furey on January 28, 2015
As retailers continue to embrace the omni channel retail experience, our blogging team explores consumer behavior behind the new trends. One topic we have followed lately is the convergence of retail and restaurants. For years restaurants have put roots down in highly-trafficked areas like shopping malls, tempting weary consumers to relax in their comfortable chairs and refuel with appetizing menus. However, it's not just the suburban shopping mall seeing an influx of restaurants snapping up square footage. In the last three to four years, stand-alone retail entities have begun to expand or reinvent their existing space to accommodate the addition of upscale eateries to their portfolio.
As reported in Forbes late last year, retailers are really beginning to woo shoppers with food. Particularly in densely populated urban areas, retailers like Macy's are adding destination restaurants such as the one at their Herald Square flagship store. In addition to a full-service Italian restaurant they offer several Starbucks throughout the store.
Nordstrom has long been offering full-service restaurant options in addition to coffee bars at most of their locations. These establishments are not just afterthoughts: it is not unusual for some of them in more upscale locations to catch the attention of food critics who in turn give them glowing reviews. Last year the Wall Street Journal reported on the decidedly upscale wine offerings at Manhattan department store restaurants.
The idea of breaking from a day of shopping to relax and eat almost harkens back to the glory days of the department store in the early 20th Century, before suburban shopping malls became ubiquitous and when urban centers were still considered an occasion to dress up and plan a special outing.
The well-known travel industry thought leader Fodor's has blogged about its top five retail restaurant destinations, proving that a department store menu is not synonymous with stodgy. With menus that sound as if they have been designed by celebrity chefs, Nordstrom, Bergdorf Goodman, Holt Renfrew and Macys are all well represented as places to recharge after a hard day of shopping.
Offering food is not just an opportunity to feed weary shoppers and send them on their way. An onsite restaurant is a way to further express the retail brand, as evidenced by Café Kristall at Swarovski which features Austrian dishes such as wiener schnitzel. Eating has become an experience, and retailers are embracing the trend and the opportunity to deepen the connection between themselves and the customer. It seems that consumers keep upping the ante on the retail industry. Particularly Millennials, who drive a lot of the innovation, want the same upscale attention to their food as the purchases they make in the stores. It is only natural that they would turn to a brand they already love.
For retailers this trend means paying precise and unrelenting attention to detail and making sure that staff are trained to handle the customers from the retail floor all the way through to the tabletop. It also means designing stores so that the shopping and dining experiences enhance rather than compete with each other.
The day when we visit a store first for the food and secondarily for the merchandise may not be too far away. It is conceivable that customers could enter a store and spend a few minutes looking at a jacket on the floor, then head to their reserved table, and complete the purchase via tableside tablets as they sip Chardonnay and wait for their salads.
The saying "everything old is new again" certainly applies to retail. Yesterday's tea rooms at Wanamaker's and Marshall Fields are evolving into carefully curated, well-designed, highly-promoted restaurants and not a moment too soon, as Millennials are expected to spend $200 billion annually by 2017.
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Harman v. Forssenius, 380 U.S. 528 (1965), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that Virginia's partial elimination of the poll tax violated the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Virginia attempted to avoid the effect of the 24th Amendment by creating an "escape clause" to the poll tax. In lieu of paying the poll tax, a prospective voter could apply for a certificate establishing a place of residence in Virginia. The application had to be made six months prior to an election, a measure expected to decrease the number of eligible voters.

In the 1965 Supreme Court decision of Harman v. Forssenius, the Court unanimously found such measures unconstitutional and declared that, for federal elections, "the poll tax is abolished absolutely as a prerequisite to voting, and no equivalent or milder substitute may be imposed."

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