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Professor E. Sylvester Vizi: "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was the most European moment in recent history"
"All historical deeds motivated by the pursuit of freedom and justice become universal after a while, just like scientific efforts for the benefit of humanity," emphasized Professor E. Sylvester Vizi, former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in his commemorative letter to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The Chair of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, publisher of our portal, added: "the Hungarian people have proved their love of freedom several times in their thousand-year history, but this was unprecedented during the 1956 Revolution, when Hungary 'as a small country, but as a great nation' opposed the Soviet empire."
This article was originally posted on our sister-site, Ungarn Heute.
"Stubborn Hungarian revolutionary forces are continuing to fight the Soviet army in Budapest, according to diplomatic reports received in Vienna. Women and children were said to be fighting alongside the men in a house-to-house struggle…", read the front page of the New York Times on November 7, 1956. And although the Hungarian Revolution had already ended by the time of the New York Times report quoted above, "the heroic sacrifices of the insurgents have set an example for generations to follow," begins E. Sylvester Vizi's recollection of the '56 events.
The professor emphasizes in his letter that "the Hungarian Revolution of October 23, 1956, was perhaps the most European moment in our recent history: its spirit of a European wish for freedom has proved that it will never die out."
Vizi quotes the world-famous French writer, Francois Mauriac, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who said the following about the bravery of Hungarians:
When the stronger side is systematically inhumane, then perhaps the course of history is set by the will of the weaker."
And it is indeed true, says Vizi, that the students of Szeged, Pécs, and Pest were brave enough to fight against the greatest power in the world because of the inhuman nature of Soviet-type totalitarianism. "Moreover, they sacrificed their lives for the enduring European spirit of freedom," adds the professor.
Faces of the 1956 Revolution - with Archived Photos!
There are a couple of 1956 freedom fighters and groups of fighters who became well-known, either by their acts, their martyr deaths, or by archived photographs appearing in international newspapers or domestic publications. Some were even painted on firewalls of the capital. The Széna square group of freedom fighters and the Pest lads are all […]Continue reading
(Vizi became a member of the "Battalion of the National Guard" of the University in Pécs in 1956, led by a fifth-year student. They collected food in Pécs and the surrounding villages for those fighting in Budapest and transported it to the capital under armed escort).
The Hungarian struggle for freedom had been crushed by the Red Army in a sea of blood. The many thousands of deaths of the Hungarian Revolution and the people condemned to death and executed after the Revolution was the moral Stalingrad of world Bolshevism,"
said Vizi.
Furthermore, he quotes the Russian poet and writer, Boris Pasternak, (internationally known mainly for his novel Doctor Zhivago. In 1958 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he could not accept for political reasons. – Editor). Learning about the systematic cruelty committed against Hungarian freedom fighters, Boris Pasternak sent a postcard to Budapest to his Hungarian friend Gyula Illyés, author of the dramatic poem entitled "A Sentence on Tyranny." The Russian wrote to Illyés:
"… I am saddened and shocked by the resurgence of inhuman atrocities which we thought had all gone with the past… How humiliating that this omnipotence of evil cannot be restricted by the good!"
Not only Pasternak but European intellectuals at large were also shocked to learn what had happened in Hungary, Vizi points out, adding that later the European era of Communism ended because the overwhelming majority of European intellectuals had lost faith in it.
That was the time when Albert Camus wrote in his essay, "The Blood of the Hungarians:" "It's hard for us to be worthy of so much sacrifice. Yet we must try. Let us forget our disputes, reconsider our mistakes, multiply our efforts and solidarity in a Europe that will ultimately unite."
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Then the professor makes a leap in time to the Prague Spring of 1968 as well as to the Pan-European Picnic, when "after dramatic days the Hungarian border was opened for Germans from the then GDR," and the Berlin Wall fell. Germany was reunified and Hungary became a member of NATO and the European Union. Nobody believed that the wheel of history could be turned forward so easily and that Francois Mauriac would be right: "All historical deeds motivated by the pursuit of freedom and justice become universal after a while, just as scientific efforts on behalf of humanity gradually become international goods."
According to Vizi, "the Hungarian revolutions have a peculiar fate," since the deathly silence after 1848-49 was followed by the Compromise and a rich, prosperous era, even if many among them, including Kossuth, could not reconcile themselves with what had happened. (Lajos Kossuth was a politician and one of the leaders of the Hungarian Independence Uprising against the Habsburgs in 1848-49. Even after the suppression of the revolution, he continued to advocate for Hungary's independence from the Habsburg Empire while in exile until his death. To this day, Kossuth is considered a Hungarian national hero – Editor).
As for the period after the suppression of the 1956 revolution, the professor believes that the 1970s/80s also saw the development of a consolidated era, so to speak, in Hungary. However, according to Vizi, these were not "happy years of peace" as at the end of the 19th century, "because all the physical and mental sufferings of the stifled revolution were present in the '60s, '70s, and '80s."
During the Kádár regime, more than 200,000 of our compatriots fled the country and left their homes. In addition, the lives of many were embittered by the fact that more than 3,000 people fell victim to the fighting, and 229 martyrs were executed during the reprisals. In addition, more than 4,500 people were locked in prison, many were deported without an official trial, mentally and physically ruined.
Hard to believe, but the number of retributions in Hungary after 1956 was much greater than the number of executions in Germany after World War II.
Vizi goes on to say that the years after 1957 were also marked by a wave of retributions: many martyrs were sentenced to death on the gallows and buried in unmarked graves, while thousands more languished in prisons for many years. The martyrdom of Imre Nagy also belonged to this period.
Three days after Hungary's Prime Minister Imre Nagy proclaimed the country's neutrality and revoked his country's membership in the Warsaw Pact on November 1, 1956, Soviet tanks entered Hungary and bloodily crushed the revolution. Premier Nagy had to flee to the Yugoslav embassy. Later, the new head of the government, János Kádár, promised him immunity from prosecution, but he was arrested by the KGB and deported to Romania and placed in solitary confinement. It was not until a year and a half later that he was convicted in a secret trial.
According to E. Sylvester Vizi, the country "paid a very high price" for the relative calm, for the freedom that came with the regime change, and for the respect of the world. "This can also be illustrated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy's speech at the commemoration on October 23, 1960:"
"October 23, 1956, is a day that will forever live in the annals of Free Men and Free Nations. It was a day of courage, conscience, and triumph. No other day since history began has shown more clearly the eternal unreachability of man's desire to be free, whatever the odds against success, whatever the sacrifice required."
Why did Beethoven's Egmont Overture Become the "Hymn of the Revolution"?
The powerful melody of Beethoven intertwined with the events of the revolution, from the night at the Parliament, to the siege of the radio building and to the point when Imre Nagy announced at noon on October 24 that those who would immediately lay down their weapons would receive amnesty.Continue reading
The professor also commemorates the "boys of Budapest," who "risked their young lives in courageous self-sacrifice. But, equally, we must remember all those condemned to death by a summary court, many of whom were young working lads. What bitter irony is involved here: they had all fought for their fellow workers, and it was an alleged 'workers rule' that took their lives in reprisal."
As for today's situation of a united Europe, at that time, a Europe under one common roof was still a dream, but today it is a reality.
We are in the EU, we are free and now everything depends on us,"
says the professor, who at the same time also emphasizes that as a doctor, brain researcher, and as the Chair of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, he believes that "everything in life depends on the mindset and mentality of people." Precisely for this reason, he considers it "inevitable" that people will remember their past.
"Why does one have to remember?", Vizi asks, and also answers it himself: "To be able to learn from the past. 'Sine preteritis nulla futura' is a Latin phrase. That means, without the past, there is no future. And today we will remember. We remember the past. We must never forget that freedom was defined by the bloodshed on the streets of Budapest."
Finally, the professor emphasizes in his letter that the Hungarian people have proven their love of freedom several times in their thousand-year history, but it was unprecedented in 1956 when they opposed the Soviet empire "as a small country, but as a great nation." "No one can deny us the truth of this statement. Hungary deserves justice!" E. Sylvester Vizi concluded his thoughts.
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Here is what I didn't like about today's market action in light of yesterday's sell off. At first, I favourably viewed the bounce off the low tick in the Spooz printed at around 1:15p. But now for some interesting stats. I wanted to take a look at the movement off the lows following large down days in the market like yesterday. Using a simple market model, I first looked at % off lows following >25 handle down days in the Spooz that occurred in an up market (which I defined as the prior 30d change being >5.5%). Note that today the Spooz closed 62bps off its lows.
Playing around with some additional input parameters, suppose a >30 handle down day. Note that the range yesterday was 32.25 handles.
In either case, % off lows tends to be higher than what we saw today of just 0.62%. So even though we did see aslight bounce in the late afternoon today, the truth of the matter is that this type of move is fairly common. In fact, the numbers above show that we tend to see a larger bounce off the lows following large down days in the market.
As a final piece of colour, I will add that the Spooz closed down today more than the average and median % changes following large down days. To use the worse case, the avg next day change is -0.30%, the median next day change is -0.23%. Today the Spooz closed down about 0.68%. These basic stats of next day percentage off lows and daily percentage changes combined suggest to me that today was actually an uglier day (again, looking at it in the proper context) than it appeared to be.


Image Comics' Die #1 by New York Times bestselling creator Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine) and artist Stephanie Hans is being rushed back for an encore fifth printing due to overwhelming fan interest in the series and to keep up with the series' breakneck growth.
"We felt entirely sure that the fourth printing would be the last, but with another instant sell-out means we just have to go back again," said Gillen. "We'll be trying to print to match this shocking and humbling demand. High fives to everyone who's joining us on this fantasy adventure."
Die #1, 5th printing (FEB198164) and will be available on Wednesday, April 17. The final order cutoff deadline for comic shop retailers is Monday, March 25.


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Reto Berra Net Worth
Known For: Hockey Player
Birthdate: January 3, 1987
Birthplace: Switzerland
Based on my research, I estimate that Reto Berra has an estimated 2023 net worth of roughly $1.3 Million and an estimated annual salary of $170 Thousand.
Reto Berra is a Swiss hockey player who has made a name for himself in the NHL as a member of the Calgary Flames and Colorado Avalanche. Born on January 3, 1987 in Switzerland, Berra has represented his native country at events like the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Berra began playing goaltender at the age of eleven and made his professional debut with the GCK Lions in 2003. He has since gone on to have a successful career in the NHL, and in 2013 he led Switzerland to a silver medal at the 2013 Ice Hockey World Championships, marking the first time the country had medalled at the event in 60 years.
Berra comes from a close-knit family and has an older sister named Graziella. During his time in Colorado, he was teammates with fellow goaltender Semyon Varlamov. Berra has since moved on to the Florida Panthers and is looking to continue his success in the NHL.
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This is Sweden
By Katarina Rosengren
Resistance within fashion – is it possible? Can a field characterized by superficiality and lacking deeper analysis be political? The fashion world in Sweden is small and relatively one-dimensional. Characterized by clean lines and coolness, what white middle class people usually consider "tasteful". But there are those trying out different paths. In the project This is Sweden, fashion designers and siblings Ana and Pablo Londono are working together. The project started out as ways of expressing themselves and a way of talking about racism in their own field. From that, This is Sweden has grown organically through different collaborations and exhibitions. True Womance Lisa Carlsson met Ana Londono for a conversation on fashion, intersectionality and working collectively.
Tell me about how you started out?
We have always been very close, my brother and I, but we hadn't lived in the same country for several years. Pablo studied fashion design at Rietveld in Amsterdam and I attended St Martins in London. During 2013 we found ourselves in a period where we had nothing to do. I had just moved in to my studio in Fruängen when we realised that we had six weeks available respectively and felt that "Shit, now is the time for doing something together". So it started as a project. I had been following the development in Europe with all the extreme right parties gaining ground, but it felt so strange, and completely impossible, that it could happen in Sweden. One morning, going down the subway, the Swedish extreme right party, Sverigedemokraterna, were handing out leaflets. Having looked them up on their website I found it terrifying. On the subway I contemplated that according to statistics at least some of the people in there wanted me to "go home". In spite of having come home from London just recently. Fashion is a huge field that can be used for so many things, working in the right way. Often it's pretty clothes for pretty people, although it could be so much more. So we started collecting headlines, everything written about racism during that time. And we started talking about identity and Swedishness. What ever that is. For a while we felt that, "what the hell, we should have become lawyers or journalists, something really useful". "Here we are making clothes, what good does that do?" But then we started thinking about how we could use our tools to talk about these issues? How we as designers could address the challenging subjects and make our voices heard?
We collected material about Bergman and Carl Larsson, things considered typically Swedish. And things that are Swedish to us, yet questioned by others. From that we started developing different characters. We were sponsored with hightech fabrics from a place in Switzwerland where I had contacts and from that we started sewing a housecoat without considering selling it, but more like a means of communicating about these subjects. We contemplated all the people coming here with higher educations. There a thousands of stories like that, about brain surgeons working as taxi drivers. Not that it's a lesser jobb it's just such a waisted potential and at the same time people are talking about refugeees as an imposition to the Swedish society. We discussed this through the characters we developed. A lot was taken from our own parents that came here and travelled downwards on the social ladder and later on me and my brother climbing upwards again. So we found ourselves there, picking our own brains and trying to interpret our experiences. Both my brother and I being refugee children ourselves. We arrived in Sweden in 1991 och lived at a reception centre in Säter for two years, during the same period when there where rumours about Lasermannen* living opposite to the centre.
So it was a feeling of déjà vu when I came home after seven years in London and was like "shit Ny demokrati** but they're not wearing bomber jackets boots and anymore. They've cleaned up but the ideology is still the same. But Sweden is a nation where we grow older and older, at the same time when we're living in a global world striving forward. The racists can't stop that deveplopment, we are growing from the exchange of cultures and experiences. We touched upon cultural appropriation and white feminism and through diving right down in that sea of knowledge we realised how little we knew. So we started collaborating with other people in projects. We can't represent everybody being racialised or all refugees in Sweden. There's a need for more perspectives and we grow stronger the more we are. We presented our characters to people who had written about the topic and worked with the subject, before we released them publically, because it is a touchy subject. When envisioning multiculturalism and creating racialised characters one too often feel that, ok, they tried but how did it turn out so wrong?
We produced a magazine that Jasmine Stork, who is an amazing fashion photographer, shot. The models had made a conscious choise to participate since we had sent a presentation of the project to Nisch management, who, in turn, sent it to the models. Otherwise the model is just a body and not a human being. They then got to choose which character they wanted to act, together with the stylist. So everyone was contributing. We also included texts with everything from Agnes Braunerhielm, who's a fashion journalist, to Julia working at Migrationsverket with unaccompanied immigrant children and Omar, that works as a human rights lawyer. We then had an exhibition at NAU Gallery with the ambition to give people the opportunity to sit down and think and reflect. We have also, among other places, exhibited in Gamla Linköping, at Mångkulturellt Centrum and at Liljevalchs. Our latest event was at Mall of Scandinavia. The spaces in which we have acted earlier have been very white and middle class. I felt that we have to work more actively to reach outside of those. So that it doesn't end up like Beckmans, Konstfack and other institutions that claim that everybody are welcome but the majority of young people today don't even know they exist. And you can think what you want about a mall and commerce but what Pablo and I envisioned were all these people who were going to come there and experience This is Sweden. So we had pop up gallery there for three months. We sold some T-shirts so as not to lose too much money and invited other artists to exhibit.
How did people react?
It varied, some didn't even dare to come inside. Our colours are yellow and blue like the Swedish flag and there were bomber jackets hanging there with the flag on them. Some people came in and got angry. Then they started reading and understood that it's about reclaiming what is considered racist. So then many people thought it was cool and wanted to buy a sweater. But then again, if you're white and blonde with blue eyes maybe it's not for you to buy one of those bomber jackets. Many people expressed regrets that they weren't able to wear them. Well, one day you may be able to, or, you wear it and face the discussion. Also, people have been commenting on our social media that it's an experience to put on and wear such a jacket. Even Silvana Iman has told us about the looks she gets when she's wearing the jacket in a part of town where people may not know who she is. At the same time, I'm thinking that it's good to do something that blonde and blueyed not easily can pass with. So that whites are forced to consider their position as neutral.
What I got from the ones I talked to was that many of them became aware of the colour of their skin. That their skincolour was percieved as something negative. I told them that you can choose to go home again and take the jacket off an fit right in again. Other people can't undress their skin colour and the beauty industry constantly tries to sell me skin bleach. I think that walking in somebody else's shoes is a good experience, even though it's never ever possible to compare. What we have tried to do is to include everybody. We want to build bridges, which takes a lot more time if we are going to form groups and fight our battles against each other. It's so much more effective if we can agree and do something together. And to be able to experience this feeling might contribute to greater understanding, responsibility and solidarity. To feel that I can't bare to wear this 'cause I don't have the strength to face the issue while another person's mere existence is constantly questioned and challenged. We had a lot of those conversations. They would pick up a sweater and then we would be standing there for half an hour discussing these issues.
We called it This is Sweden Guerrilla Gallery. We consider it a means of conquering spaces. To move the art away from the elitist spaces where there are so many invisible walls for a large part of the population. It's so much more difficult to try to change the institutions. So you have to bring the art to the people who are excluded from those contexts. That's what Guerilla Gallery is about.
My favourite show at This is Sweden's Guerilla Gallery was the collaboration with Unga Romer*** (Young Romanis). We hadn't addressed the issue before because we didn't know anything about it. Talking to a friend, Emir, who is the president of Unga Romer, he told me "Ana, this is the last accepted racism in Sweden". And we decided to clear all the walls at This is Sweden to make room for Unga Romer. So they put up an exhibition that among other things included a timeline of Romani history. Emir came and did a lecture and guided tours where you could learn about the Romani history and about why romanis are such an oppressed group today. For example, it's not that they don't want to work or to integrate themselves (I hate that word, by the way) but about thousands of years of systematically breaking down an ethnic group and never allowing for vindication.
How do you feel about the way the fashion world use political issues as trends?
It's not ok to hijack certain things and it's not ok to be unintelligent because you work in fashion. The fashion industry has started to appropriate things like hoods and realising that it's trendy to be antiracist. It has become suburbian colonialism. They'll go out to the suburbs and think that it's cool to shoot there. This has become far to common in the fashion world for us to be able to lend clothes to just anyone.
How have you been recieved in the fashion industry?
We have distanced ourselves from the fashion industry on purpose. In the beginning we contacted people that works in the Swedish fashion industry when we were planning different projects but the interest has been low. We've chosen not to participate during the fashion weeks. Instead, we try to find new, exciting and progressive alternatives to the business as it is today. We've contacted other designers, such as Minna Palmqvist, that are trying to break their own ways and addressing and criticizing the way the business works today. Also, we're meticolous when it comes to lending our garments to other stylists and magazines. What will the stylist do with this piece of clothing? What will the head line for the job be? There are people getting in touch that are like "yeay, we're going to do this fashion story about norm criticism, do you want to be in it?". If we don't trust them, we say no. It would feel very bad if it landed in the hands of someone that don't understand what we want to do. We work with powerful symbols so it has to be handled with care. And in the fashion world people often think that they have some damned political correctness hall pass we're they don't have to take responsibility and can get away with anything. But as a fashion designer you have to take on a certain responsibility.
We didn't know how it would work for us literally in the fashion industry, considering how it looks today. But Minna has been a role model for me personally when it comes to existing in the industry and at the same time finding one's own path. And of course it's much harder doing that then to follow and already existing path. You have to take out your machete and chop your own way through the jungle. It's a lot more ardous than walking along the trail that's already been trampled but if it isn't in the same level as your values it's the only alternative.
What is the most challenging with the way you work?
We ask ourselves "Why are we doing this?". Not that we're earning any money but are we gaining something by addressing these subjects. Are we making a career out of challenging the racism in Sweden? Where's the line between criticising and profiting on something? In the beginning we wanted to create a platform where our voices were heard. And now, when we're being acknowledged, we ask ourselves why we want to create this platform? Is there a limit? We don't have the answers.
The way you work, multidisciplinary and collectively is connected to intersectionality, I think.
Yes, that's the power of This is Sweden. Gathering strength, inspiration and knowledge from eachother. What we do is not foolproof but we strive to not step on our sisters' and brothers' toes. We made the exhibit about Romani history since the initiative came from Unga Romer themselves, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to do it the right way. We just lent them our platform and then I sat at the front row of the lecture taking notes. It becomes almost like a study circle. We have conversations in our studio. In different stages of our processes we invite different people to the studio. Offer them coffee or wine and discuss what we're doing with them, opening up to criticism, so we can keep evolving. I've learnt so much during these two years. A lot more than what I learnt during my five years at the university.
* Lasermannen is a serial killer that targeted racialised people in Sweden during the early 90-ties.
**Ny demokrati was a Swedish right wing party that were represented in the Swedish parliament 1991-1994 and declared bankrupcy in 2000.
***Unga romer, Young Romer, is a nonprofit national association Roma that works to increase knowledge about Roma history, culture and present. They fight for Roma issues and participate in various debates in order to sensitize society about young Roma's plight, both nationally and internationally.
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Katarina is an academic working on a thesis about the science of war in the 18th century. she has, among other things, been the cultural editor at feministiskt perspektiv. katarina has previously worked as a lecturer at stockholm university (su) and södertörns högskola (sh) mostly with focus on gender studies and masculinities.
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Selling Sunset's Jason Oppenheim and Chrishell Stause Release Statements About Sudden Split
Dec 22, 2021 12:45 pm·
By Beth Shilliday
Selling Sunset stars Jason Oppenheim and Chrishell Stause are speaking out for the first time about their sudden split, and they have nothing but wonderful words for each other.
In an Instagram Stories post on Tuesday, December 21, Jason shared a photo of the pair cuddling and wrote over it, "While Chrishell and I are no longer together, we remain best friends and we will always love and support one another." He then gushed, "She was the most amazing girlfriend I've ever had, and it was the happiest and most fulfilling relationship of my life."
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Jason, 44, confirmed that the pair were ultimately at a stalemate when it came to the idea of starting a family. "While we have different wants regarding a family, we continue to have the utmost respect for one another," he wrote, adding, "Chrishell is an exceptional human being and loving her and having her in my life is one of the best things that has ever happened to me."
That night, Chrishell, 40, shared a lengthier statement to her Instagram, noting she is "choosing to see" their breakup as a "success no matter what label is attached to it publicly."
"Jason was and is my best friend, and other than our ideas for family ultimately not being aligned, the amount of respect and love we have for each other will not change going forward," the former All My Children star wrote.
"Men have the luxury of time that women don't and that's just the way it goes," she continued. "All of that being said, navigating this public terrain is difficult and I am just trying my best," she continued. "Although my initial reaction to a private situation was to not speak on it, sometimes it's easier to just live transparently because we only get one chance at this life. I very much hope to one day have a family and decisions I make at this point are with that goal in mind. Thank you for the kindness and support to those that understand."
Courtesy of Chrishell Stause/Instagram
Chrishell then ended her statement by thanking her now-ex-boyfriend for "the most incredible relationship and for consistently being honest with me even when it hurts."
An insider further explained to Life & Style that "Chrishell really wants to have children, but Jason isn't on the same page so they mutually agreed to end their relationship. They're still best friends." Another source exclusively told Life & Style, "They split up because they had fundamentally different views on where their future was going. No one cheated," adding, "They still love each other very much, and the split is painful and upsetting for both."
The Oppenheim Group president and the actress turned celebrity realtor had been dating for six months, going public with their romance in the summer of 2021. "Chrishell and I became close friends and it has developed into an amazing relationship," he told Us Weekly in a July 28, 2021 statement, confirming their romance, adding, "I care about her deeply and we're very happy together."
The new couple put on a loved-up display amid a cast trip to Italy, where the pair unveiled their romance in an Instagram photo of Chrishell, 40, sitting next to Jason aboard a boat with her arm around him, as he leaned in and nuzzled her neck. Two days later, they were in full PDA mode as Jason and Chrishell held hands while walking through the streets of Rome.
The fact that their split is so amicable seems to stem from the fact that the pair were close friends before becoming romantic. "I think it's always nice if you can get to know somebody as a friend first because then I think you really know who you're getting in bed with at night," the real estate broker exclusively explained to Life & Style in October about his "honest and communicative relationship" with Chrishell.
Chrishell Stause's Impressive Net Worth Proves She Can Do It All
After calling the former All My Children star, "just an exceptional woman in so many ways," Jason added, "I really appreciated that because I think as friends, we had such open and honest conversations, and there's no holding back anything."
Chrishell was previously wed to This Us Star Justin Hartley from October 2017 through November 2019, when the actor filed paperwork to divorce his wife of just over two years. Chrishell later claimed he blindsided her by ending their marriage via text message. Their divorce was finalized in January 2021. The former Days of Our Lives actress joined The Oppenheim Group in 2018 after she got her real estate license.


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The Nights Ahead
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It was later in the morning, and it should have been brighter inside the apartment. Instead, the curtains were drawn fully over all of the windows, leaving a single lamp on the end table to cast its yellow glow across the living room. Sketchbooks were scattered and stacked across the surface of the black coffee table, some of them flipped open – others closed.
Jeremy had not received a response from Shy all morning. It was nearing noon, and he hoped she was resting and hadn't heard her phone as opposed to the idea she might be avoiding him. He still hadn't been able to remember everything from the previous night, and he was far from comfortable with that fact. For now, there was only the patience he had no choice but to muster, his mind which wouldn't stop racing over the facts about Andrea's case, and the sensation that at any moment he may vomit or pass out. He had felt weak since waking up, but his strength was slowly coming back to him – he hoped.
A dwindling bottle of ibuprofen and several glasses of water had helped, but not nearly as much as the coffee and muffin that Sarah had brought over shortly after he had started going through the sketchbooks that Sarah had left in his apartment. He felt as if he hadn't eaten or drank anything for days. It was different from any hangover Jeremy had ever experienced. Now, he and Sarah sat in near silence in his living room – the only constant sound being the shuffling of papers as they flipped through each of the sketchbooks page-by-page. Jeremy was convinced there must be something in one of them – some clue as to who Andrea had been seeing when she disappeared.
So far, there had been nothing except one example after another of Andrea's talent as an artist. Jeremy flipped closed another sketchbook and leaned forward on his couch to stack it with the others he had gone through. As he reached to grab the next book, he glanced over and saw Sarah staring at him. Her eyebrows arched over the soft expression of concern on her face.
"What?" Jeremy asked as he pulled the next sketchbook into his lap and flipped it open.
"Are you okay?" Sarah asked softly from her seat at the opposite end of the couch.
"What do you mean?" Jeremy asked without lifting his eyes to meet hers. He continued to scan through the drawings and notes of the book.
"No offense, but you look like shit," she said flatly.
Jeremy lifted his gaze to meet hers. "I don't look like shit."
"Okay, then why are we sitting in here with only one light on and the curtains closed?" she asked as she set the book she was currently looking through down in her lap.
"I have a headache," he replied. It was short, but he didn't feel like explaining that he didn't know why he was exhausted or that he was becoming increasingly frustrated with everything going on in his life.
"Yeah and you're like two shades lighter than normal," Sarah added.
"It was a rough night." Jeremy could feel frustration building inside him with each comment.
"Yeah, you look like you almost drank yourself into a coma. I'm surprised you're awake and moving around."
"Look, I didn't drink that much. I just don't feel well." Jeremy replied.
"Hence, you look like shit," Sarah responded. She continued to stare at him, accusingly. "Were you drinking alone again?"
Sarah continued to stare at him, disbelief evident in her eyes.
"I was catching up with someone I used to work with," Jeremy replied.
"Someone from the police department?" Sarah asked. Her expression softened at this.
"Yeah." Jeremy nodded. He looked back down to the book in his hand and began to flip back through it – surveying page after page of drawings and sketches. It was a much more recent sketchbook.
"Were you talking about Andrea's case?" Sarah asked.
"A little bit. There wasn't much to be said," Jeremy replied and looked back up to meet Sarah's eyes.
Sarah's expression became more distraught in response, and she finally looked back down at the book in her lap. "I was thinking of checking into the last couple of places that Andrea went," she added.
"I don't think that's a good idea, Sarah," he warned. There was much more to the case than she should know and he didn't want to say anything too detailed to worry her. As he flipped through the pages, he noted that several of them had been incomplete sketches of facial features – individual eyes, lips, and a nose. It was beginning to look like Andrea had given up drawing completed images of her subjects, or maybe she was just practicing.
"Why not?" she asked.
"Even if there isn't much of an update to Andrea's case, I think there's still something off about it," Jeremy said as he shifted in his seat to angle more toward Sarah.
"I'd just prefer if you didn't go looking into this any more than you already have. There's something strange about Andrea's disappearance, and I don't want you getting wrapped up in it." There was another one – a realistic sketch of a single eye, open with a dilated pupil.
A few moments of silence filled the space between them as Jeremy finished reviewing his current sketchbook. He set the book on the coffee table by itself and pulled a new one back into his lap.
"Do you think we'll find her and she'll be okay?" Sarah's voice wavered.
"I hope so," he replied. He didn't want to give Sarah false hope, but he also didn't know what else to say.
Sarah went silent for a few moments, before muttering something Jeremy couldn't quite make out.
"What?" he asked.
"She didn't look much like a cop to me," Sarah repeated herself.
"Who?" Jeremy asked.
"Your friend. The woman in all the leather," she replied.
It took him a few seconds to realize Sarah was most likely talking about Shy. "Oh no, that wasn't my friend."
Sarah's confused expression was quickly replaced with a smile. "Ohhh," she said with a nod. "Must have been a very rough night."
"No, it's not like that. I don't think…" Jeremy let his thought trail off, uncertain as to whether he wanted to bring up the previous night. "When did you even see her?"
"I saw her as I was coming back from hanging out with friends. It's okay to move on. I'm happy for you if that's what you're into." Sarah teased.
"What time was that at?" Jeremy asked.
"It must have been around 3:30 this morning," Sarah replied. "You don't remember her leaving?"
Jeremy sat on the couch, with Sarah looking at him expectantly – as if she wanted to know more. Finally, he decided to just tell most of what had happened.
Jeremy spent the next few minutes going over how he had met Shy at a club and recounted how he remembered meeting with her the night before. He told Sarah how the two of them had spent time together at the bar and how she'd helped him to his apartment as the night started to become a blur for him. He told her about how he had woken up confused and disoriented, feeling ill, and unable to remember part of the night. He felt uncomfortable telling someone else that he didn't remember what happened after he got back to his apartment, and even more so because he was uncertain if something had happened with Shy. He did not mention Shy working at a club that Andrea had been to.
Sarah sat on the far end of the couch with a small pile of Andrea's sketchbooks between them, and Jeremy found himself unable to tell what she might be thinking. She pulled her legs up onto the couch and shifted her position to sit with one leg under her. Something about what he had said bothered her.
"Jeremy," she began. "I don't think you drank too much."
"I didn't either, but something definitely didn't agree with me," he nodded his head in agreement with her.
"Yeah. Hear me out," she paused. "I think you were drugged." Sarah's voice and tone were sincere, and her eyes were focused squarely on him.
"Oh haha," Jeremy mocked a short laugh.
"I'm not kidding," she began. Her voice was energetic and determined as she continued. "Think about it. She made you a drink, and shortly afterward, you started to feel different. You don't remember a significant part of your night and for all intents and purposes – let's go ahead and call you an alcoholic. You even said it didn't feel the same. A lot of what you said sounds like you were drugged."
"I doubt it, I think I must've just gotten sick. Do I want to know how you know about all that?"
"My freshman year of college I took a class, and they talked about preventative measures that women can take like not accepting drinks from strangers," she said sarcastically as she glanced at her phone and started to rise from the couch. "Listen, I have to head into work for a bit, but I'm serious. You should go talk to a doctor or something. At the very least, look around your place – she probably stole something."
Jeremy nodded in silent agreement, while the thought stirred in his mind. Had he been drugged? If Shy had drugged him – why? Had she taken something from his wallet … or worse? It was something brand new for him to be concerned about and try to figure out. Maybe nothing had happened, and he had just gotten sick?
"It shouldn't be too hard to get the big picture of what is missing since most of your stuff is still packed up." Sarah joked. "If you need to talk – I can call into work, or we can talk later."
"Not necessary," he dismissed the idea as he walked Sarah over to the door and opened it for her. Something she had said had started to push his concern of being drugged out of his mind. He needed to see the big picture of things. "Just be careful at work and don't go looking into anything without me."
As Sarah stepped through the doorway and left for her apartment next door, Jeremy shut the door and walked back to the coffee table. He began moving all of the stacks of sketchbooks off the table and quickly flipped through a couple others. After a few minutes, he was confident that the individual facial features that Andrea had been drawing were all of the same individual. Every nose, ear, eye, or lip looked too similar to not be of the same person.
Standing at one end of the coffee table, he now had sketchbooks sorted out on it and turned to a page with a single facial feature. Each of the sketches worked together to create an approximation of a face. Even pages with stray lines seemingly combined with all of the other drawings to give an impression of a chiseled, angular jawline. If Jeremy was right, it was clearly a man's face. He stood and wondered if the features he was looking down on could be the person responsible for the disappearance of Andrea and the other women. It was one more thing to go on.
Jeremy needed to figure out what to do with the drawings but resolved to take a quick shower and get cleaned up. After his shower, while drying off, he noticed Sarah was not understating his pallid appearance. He wrapped the bath towel around his waist and glanced over the stubble of his unshaven face. He didn't have the energy today – he would shave tomorrow. He quickly brushed his teeth, put on deodorant, and out of habit reached for his cologne. After a minute of searching, Jeremy realized the bottle was nowhere to be found.
"Son of a bitch…"
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For the bands third album Warpaint, the art-rock group from LA have made a decidedly more mainstream move amping up the dance quotation, moving from the rock world into disco club land. While Heads Up isn't a raver, it is an interesting mid career re-branding that brings with it some pleasure and a few dull tracks.
Emily Kokal,Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg, and Stella Mozgawa are the four band members and they announced this album would reflect more of the current R&B and Hip-Hop scene and while there are hints here, it just seems the band was angling for more mainstream, catchy, less angular tunes. There was a hinting at this directional shift on the bands last self-titled release as a distance was created to go along with softer, safer songs.
Here the foundation is laid at the beginning with "Whiteout" as the players work with skittering beats, thumping bass and dance vibe. The electric samples and murky backing take over for "By Your Side" while "So Good" has a moaned wordless coda over heart pulsing sounds. Unfortunately this style is all blended together and there are a lot of tracks that don't leave much of a lasting impression and just drip away, such as the bubbling "Don't Wanna" or the soundscape experiment "Dre".
The best effort in their new sound and style comes from the very 80's influenced single "New Song" with its party all the time feel of moving outward and upward. Other positives are the spacey guitars pairing with excellent drums on "The Stall" and the confident "Don't Let Go" which works with an acoustic intro up into dramatic swells.
In the end the album is a fine transition for the band, but not very exciting of a listen. Dipping their feet into the electronica/dance world could make for a more dynamic follow up or maybe they will switch styles again next go round.


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Bush Betrays Life, Betrays Constitution ... Again
Boulder, CO -- In response to the Bush Administration's recent argument before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate the pro-abortion "Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act" (FACE Act) in the case of USA -v- Bird, National Chairman Dan Charles issued the following statement:
"For more than a decade, Pro-Life and Pro-Constitution activists have sought to have the FACE Act overturned. Its purpose is to unconstitutionally single out Pro-Life First Amendment speech and criminalize its expression under an abuse of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Pro-Life activists decried President Clinton's signing of this bill, but now those who supported the President's re-election are giving silent assent to the President's latest attack on the Pro-Life cause.
"President Bush claims to be Pro-Life. He claims to support the Constitution, limited government and the federalist system. He claims these are core principles, for himself and the GOP. On November 2nd, many voters supported him for those reasons.
"President Bush has again betrayed those voters and those principles. He has again betrayed the Constitution and the innocent unborn. Before the election, he tried unsuccessfully to convince the Supreme Court that RICO should be used to criminalize peaceful Pro-Life activists. Since the election, President Bush has again taken sides with NOW and Planned Parenthood to silence Pro-Life activists and unlawfully expand the police powers of the federal government.
"Frank Bird's alleged actions in this case are criminal. Vandalism cannot be tolerated by a civilized society, whatever the motivation. The state of Texas and the City of Houston can and should fine and jail him if he is found guilty, but the Federal Government has no business prosecuting purely local criminal activity.
"The America First Party applauds Judge Kenneth Hoyt's decision to throw out federal charges under the unconstitutional FACE Act. We condemn the Bush Administration for flying a Washington based Assistant to Attorney General John Ashcroft to argue for reinstatement of the charges on appeal.
"Our nation's Founders were deeply concerned about federal police powers. They wanted to ensure that local governments have local jurisdiction over local crimes. The Supreme Court has rightly ruled that the federal government has no constitutional authority to regulate completely local, non-economic conduct that has no substantial impact on interstate commerce, no matter how wrong that conduct may be. Judge Hoyt's ruling is based on that precedent and ought to be upheld.
"Too often, the FACE Act has been used to silence peaceful Pro-Life protesters, to discriminate against speech based solely on its content. The America First Party is saddened, but not surprised, to see President Bush betray those who supported him, and betray the principles this country was founded upon. When will Pro-Life activists realize that voting for most Republicans just makes it possible for them to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?"


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Q: Component based software engineering vs Service Oriented Architecture What is the real difference between component-based software engineering and Service Oriented Architecture?
Clemens Szyperski and David Messerschmitt present the following five principles that a software component should have:

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*Multiple-use

*Non-context-specific

*Composable with other components

*Encapsulated

*A unit of independent deployment and versioning

Erl recognizes the following characteristics for SOAs:

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*Loose Coupling: minimum amount of interdependencies between services

*Service Contract: the interaction between services is based on a communi-
cation and document agreement

*Autonomy: services control the logic they encapsulate.

*Abstraction: services hide their internal logic from the external environment
except those parts that are described in the service contract.

*Reusability: dividing logic to services promotes reuse.

*Composability: services can be assembled from other services

*Statelessness: minimum amount of activity specific information is stored.

*Discoverability: the existence of discovery mechanisms so that services can
be discovered by their users

A good article is http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.111.9582
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As you have noticed, there are already questions about SOA that have an answer. But my question is a little bit more specific, because it looks for a comparison with Component Based Software Engineering.
A similar question to mine is How Service-oriented architecture and Component-based development relate to each other?

A: SOA is about how different systems communicate with each other. It defines various standards for message formats, transport security etc.
Component based software is about how you build and implement a system. i.e. Take the whole system and divide it into smaller more manageable components.


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Metro Responds to FastTrack Criticism: Removing Monthly Fee Opens Budget Hole, Encourages People Outside L.A. County to Purchase, Not Use, Transponders
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Ever since Metro first announced the details of its ExpressLanes program, converting HOV lanes to variable toll lanes on parts of the I-10 and I-110 debate has been fierce. In legacy media outlets, the debate has been over whether or not it is right or ethical for government to charge drivers for access to the lanes. In outlets devoted to transportation coverage, the debate has focused on a $3 monthly fee that ExpressLane transponder holders will incur if they drive in these lanes less than four times a month.
Picking up the argument that the fee "kills" casual carpooling, L.A. County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Zev Yaroslavsky. At the last meeting of the Metro Board of Directors, Yaroslavsky moved that staff prepare a motion and report on removing the fee. For the record, the fee will not go into effect until the I-10 Express Lanes open later this year under current plans.
Yesterday, The Source highlighted a memo written by Metro staff explaining the $3 charge. After first explaining that this fee is consistent with other toll agencies in the state, the staff report offers two major reasons for the fee: it offsets costs associated with maintaining the accounts and it prevents toll lane users from using Metro's "free fee accounts" to get transponders which are only used in other regions.
To make sense of Metro's arguments outlined below, one must first understand that when a driver purchases a FastTrack transponder and account, they're not giving money to Metro. Metro receives money every time a toll is charged, or a user fee.
So what fees are associated with FastTrack accounts? Metro breaks it down.
For a full copy of the proposal, visit ##http://thesource.metro.net/2013/01/16/heres-the-metro-staff-report-explaining-the-fastrak-account-maintenance-fee-for-the-expresslanes/##The Source##
At first glance, it appears that the account fees are being used to offset the cost of having a customer service center. On second glance, the numbers don't make a lot of sense.
Metro basically takes the cost of the service center and divides it by the number of transponders. There is no explanation of what happens when more people purchase transponders. For example, if the number rises to 100,000 transponders does the cost of hosting the service center rise proportionately? It also seems to assume that every user won't be using the transponder four times to avoid the fee. The numbers so nicely fit into a $3 fee that it appears that staff started with a $3 fee and worked backwards to justify it.
Regardless of the shaky math, any profit from the ExpressLanes will go back into supporting transportation options in communities along the I-10 and I-110 corridors where the projects are being completed. Removing the user fees reduces the profit made, and thus reduces the investments that can be made in local transit projects.
The second justification is that by not having a fee, Metro would basically be subsidizing other toll road projects. With inactive or underused user fees in place for toll road projects in San Diego and Orange Counties, irregular users of these systems could purchase through LACMTA passing on the cost of maintaining the account without there being any reduction in local congestion or money generated for supporting local transit.
In the end, staff presented four reccomendations for the Board.
1) Use existing Prop. C funds to close any funding gap left by ending the inactive or underutilized user fee. This could delay other highway projects.
2) Increase the toll rate to close any funding gap left by ending the inactive or underutilized user fee. This could reduce the number of people using the lanes. Besides, the whole point of congestion pricing is to let the drivers set the toll rate by "voting with their pedals."
3) Reduce, but not end the fee. This would decrease the amount of money coming in, but could reduce the controversy
4) Do nothing for 120 days while the impact of the fee and other factors impacts how people use the lanes.
Supervisor Yaroslavsky's office did not respond to a request to comment on their view of the staff report. Streetsblog will continue to cover the issue as it advances.
Filed Under: ExpressLanes, Metro
As ExpressLanes Flourish, Zev Moves to End Transponder Fees
By Damien Newton	| Oct 22, 2013
(Note: According to The Source, I misunderstood the wording of the motion. An earlier version of this article mentioned that staff opposed extending the transponder fee. Apparently they wish to see it extended through the end of the ExpressLanes pilot in February 2014) Metro's two staff reports to the Board of Directors on the progress […]
Metro ExpressLanes and Carpooling: The Facts, the Benefits and More
By Streetsblog	| Oct 2, 2012
(Those of you that follow Streetsblog on Twitter may have noticed the ExpressLanes team at Metro were less than thrilled with our article on the concerns some have with the transponder requirement to access ExpressLanes. We invited them to write a response and Stephanie Wiggins, Executive Officer for the Congestion Reduction Demonstration Initiative, responded. – D) […]
Will Metro Rue the Day It Decided to Require Transponders for ExpressLanes Access
On November 10, the I-110 ExpressLanes, a type of "congestion pricing" or HOT Lane System, will open on the I-110 from just South of the 91 Freeway going north all the way to just South of the I-10. Early next year, the similar lanes will open on the I-10. In both cases, single-occupancy vehicles will […]
ExpressLanes Transponders, Coming to a Store Near You…and to the AAA! (Updated 11:30)
Thanks to a new report being presented to the Metro Board of Directors later this month, a clearer picture is emerging on how drivers will be able to access the variable toll lanes on the I-10 and I-110 as part of Metro's "Express Lanes" program. The plan to turn High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lanes into […]
Congestion Pricing Opens on the I-10, Hysteria on Hold
By Damien Newton	| Feb 25, 2013
This weekend, Express Lanes opened on 14 miles of the I-10 between Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles and the 605 freeway. The lanes converted existing HOV lanes to HOV/HOT lanes during non-peak hours. This means solo-car commuters can buy their way into the carpool lane if they have a FastTrack transponder. Carpoolers will also need […]
Update: Regular Carpoolers Will Not Have to Pay to Use ExpressLanes
One of the major concerns many people have with Metro's ExpressLanes project, which will convert HOV Lanes on parts of the I-10 and I-110 to variable toll lanes, is that the carpoolers who currently use those lanes will lose their incentive to carpool. Metro addressed those concerns when they announced that carpool drivers would be […]


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Q: Bootstrap 3- How to align images above another image with responsive? I am new to Bootstrap. Can someone help me to align and overlap images over another image with responsiveness in bootstrap. I tried as.
HTML:

CSS:
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        width: 100%;
    }
    li {
        width: 49%;
        float: left;
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PROBLEM: Images not aligning to background as shown in fig.Help?
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A: Include an id in this part of HTML, for example:

And then add a CSS for this id with an absolute position:
#background_image {position: absolute}

About the vertical align from the comment:
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