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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Fever finally found a way to beat the Chicago Sky, just in time to prolong their season.
Tamika Catchings scored 22 points to help the Fever hold off the Sky 89-82 Saturday night and force a deciding Game 3 in their Eastern Conference semifinal series.
The Fever lost all four regular season meetings with the Sky and the opener of this playoff series.
Catchings scored six points down the stretch as Indiana outscored Chicago 12-4 over the final 5:35 to even the best-of-three series.
"Our focus down the stretch was magnified," Catchings said. "We executed offensively and defensively. Everybody zoned in. You could see it in their eyes. The first game we were so tense, like we wanted win the game so bad and everybody individually wanted to win it and down the stretch we just kind of fell apart a little bit.
"(Tonight) it looked like everybody was just loose and looked like everybody was just focused. We were energized."
Catchings also helped limit WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne to 11 points on 3-for-9 shooting from the field. Delle Donne, who averaged a league-best 23.4 points during the season, has been held to a total of 25 points while shooting 8 for 24 from the field in this series.
Chicago coach Pokey Chatman was more concerned with her team's defensive lapses than with Delle Donne's offensive struggles.
"Let's face it. You're not going to win giving up 89 in the playoffs," she said. "You have to give yourself a chance on the defensive end."
Shavonte Zellous had 16 points and Briann January added 14 for the Fever.
January's jumper gave Indiana a 79-78 lead with 5 1/2 minutes left. Catchings made two free throws and Marissa Coleman added a jumper to put the Fever up 85-80 with 3 minutes remaining.
Vandersloot's layup pulled the Sky within three, but Catchings had a basket and then made two free throws with 24.9 seconds left to close the scoring.
Indiana now has a postseason victory for the ninth straight year, extending its WNBA record.
Catchings deflected some credit for the victory to Zellous, who scored seven points in a 1:22 stretch late in the first quarter to help Indiana break out of its early offensive funk.
"When she's playing like that," Catchings said, "nobody can stop us."
Courtney Vandersloot scored 19 points and Allie Quigley had 14 for the Sky. Erika De Souza also scored 11 points.
Game 3 is Monday night in Chicago
"These are the pressure moments you live for," Fever coach Stephanie White said. "You do all the preparation in the preseason and you go through a grueling season to live for this moment. Now you've got to take advantage of this moment."


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Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 120 pgs / 50 color.
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Cecil Beaton's Cocktail Book
Drink like one of the Bright Young Things with Cecil Beaton's Cocktail Book
Cecil Beaton (1904–80) was one of the most celebrated British portrait photographers of the 20th century, so renowned for his images of celebrities and high society that his own name has become synonymous with elegance, glamour and style. In the 1920s and '30s, Beaton used his camera, his ambition and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with a flamboyant and rebellious group of artists and writers, socialites and partygoers whose spirit and style cut a dramatic swathe through the epoch. Canonizing the era's "Bright Young Things" in his distinctive brand of opulent studio portraiture, Beaton worked his way up from middle-class suburban schoolboy to glittering society figure.
This miniature cocktail book features a delightful array of recipes inspired by the decadent drinks of Beaton's youth, and the fabulous friends and celebrities whom he photographed. Period classics such as the Hanky Panky, Manhatten, Negroni and Sidecar are given contemporary twists by the Head Bartender and Mixologist of the world famous Claridge's Hotel in London, which played host to some of the most extravagant Bright Young gatherings. It is illustrated with the artist's own photographs and the witty and distinctive drawings he produced throughout his life, recording people, travels and experiences, which were featured in Vogue magazine. A must-have for every well-appointed bar cart, Cecil Beaton's Cocktail Book brings to life a deliriously eccentric, glamorous and creative era.
Above: a spread with recipe for St. Bernadette from 'Cecil Beaton's Cocktail Book.'
This Is the Ultimate Roaring 20s Cocktail Book.
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The book features classic and tweaked cocktail recipes, contributed by Claridge's bar manager Denis Broci, which were inspired by Beaton's social sphere (tag line: "mixing with the bright young things"). The book also includes Beaton's photographs and archival Claridge's illustrations, so you can almost feel like you were there to bear witness to the original revelry.
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If you're feeling thirsty rather than hungry, this is a glamorous creative option.
This new cocktail book by London's Claridge's hotel is inspired by the decadent Roaring 20s and chock full of recipes for the era's most famous drinks. Photographs by the iconic 20th century photographer Cecil Beaton, who documented the high society Bright Young Things of the Jazz Age, run alongside the recipes, making this book as useful as it is collectible.
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Eat, Drink, Play: Some weekend suggestions for the age of social distancing
How strange it is to have so much time these days, and yet so little. How full our minds are, and yet how empty! With each day blending into the next and an overwhelming awareness of the chaos that has come to surrounds us, we wanted to acknowledge the welcome, stabilizing force of the weekend. Here are three "recipes" (and a playlist) for an evening of light-hearted fun during the age of social distancing.
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La dynastie des Bellonides (en catalan Bel·lònides et en espagnol Bellónidas) était une dynastie wisigothe puis occitane et catalane : les descendants du Goth Belló ou Bello, qui fut comte à Carcassonne, Urgell, Cerdagne, Conflent, Barcelone… Il est la souche de nombreuses autres dynasties dans les comtés de la Septimanie, à partir du  et dont le plus célèbre fils fut Wilfred le Velu, qui fonda la dynastie régnante de Barcelone. qui a duré jusqu'en 1410, depuis la mort de Martin  d'Aragon.

Généalogie

Branche de Carcassone
Bello, comte de Carcassonne, avant 812
Gisclafred († 821), comte de Carcassonne, fils du précédent.
821-837 : Olibia  († 837), comte de Carcassonne, frère du précédent.
837-879 : Olibia II († 879), comte de Carcassonne, fils du précédent.
879-906 : Acfred Ier comte de Carcassonne, frère du précédent
 marié à Adélinda d'Aquitaine, deux enfants :
 Guillaume II d'Aquitaine, duc d'Aquitaine
 Acfred d'Aquitaine, duc d'Aquitaine
906-908 : Bencio († 908), comte de Carcassonne, neveu du précédent.
908-933 : Acfred II († 933), comte de Carcassonne, frère du précédent.
Arsinde, fille d'Acfred épouse Arnaud de Comminges († 957), comte de Carcassonne, frère de Roger , comte de Comminges.

Branche de Barcelone
Dans ses recherches, l'historien Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals identifie Bello comme le père de  Olibia  de Carcassonne et de Sunifred de Barcelone, le père de Guifred le Velu, premier comte héréditaire de Barcelone. Selon cette thèse, la maison de Barcelone est donc dans la lignée directe des Bellonides. Une autre hypothèse suggère que Sunifred serait le beau-fils de Bello par son mariage avec Ermisenda de Carcassonne. Dans ce cas, la maison de Barcelone serait liée cognativement.

Sunifred de Barcelone, fils ou beau-fils de Bello, comte d'Urgell et de Cerdagne, marquis de Septimanie.
878-897 : Guifred le Velu, fils de Sunifred , également marquis d'Espagne et comte de Besalu, de Cerdagne, de Gérone, d'Ausone et d'Urgell.
À partir de Guifred le Velu, les comtés de Gérone et d'Ausone sont considérés annexés au comté de Barcelone et ne sont plus rappelés dans les titulatures.
897-911 : Guifred II Borrell, dit aussi Borrell , fils de Guilfred le Velu
911-948 : Sunyer , frère du précédent, également comte de Besalú
948-992 : Borrell II, également comte d'Urgell, ne se considère plus comme le vassal des rois de France depuis l'avènement de la dynastie capétienne. Les rois de France ne renoncent pour autant pas à leurs droits sur le territoire.
992-1017 : Raymond Borrell
992-1021 : Ermessende de Carcassonne, règne conjointement avec son époux. Après la mort de Raymond Borrell, exercé la régence au nom de son fils, Bérenger Raymond Ier.
1018-1035 : Bérenger Raymond  le Courbe
1035-1039 : Ermessende de Carcassonne, Après la mort de son fils, exercé la régence au nom de son petit-fils, Raimond-Bérenger Ier.
1035-1076 : Raimond-Bérenger  le Vieux, règne conjointement avec son épouse Almodis de La Marche.
1052-1071 : Almodis de la Marche, règne conjointement avec son époux.
1076-1082 : Raimond-Bérenger II Tête d'Etoupe, règne conjointement avec son frère jumeau Bérenger-Raimond II qui finit par l'assassiner.
1076-1097 : Bérenger-Raimond II le Fratricide, il règne conjointement avec son frère jumeau Raimond-Bérenger II, puis avec son neveu Raimond-Bérenger III
1082-1131 : Raimond-Bérenger III le Grand, également par son deuxième mariage comte de Provence (1113-1131), vicomte de Millau et de Carlat (1112-1131), seigneur de Laurac et du Lauragais, également comte de Besalú en 1111 et de Cerdagne en 1117
 À partir de Raimond-Bérenger III le comté de Besalú est considéré comme annexé au comté de Barcelone et n'est plus rappelé dans les titulatures.
1131-1162 : Raimond-Bérenger IV le Saint, également vicomte de Millau et de Lauragais, devint prince d'Aragon par son mariage avec Pétronille d'Aragon en 1137 et comte de Cerdagne
1162-1196 : Alphonse  le Chaste (1157-1196). Originellement prénommé Ramón, succède à son père en 1162 comme Ramón comte de Barcelone, de Gérone, d'Osauna, de Besalú, de Cerdagne et de Roussillon. Succède à sa mère en 1174 comme Alphonse II le Chaste ("el Casto") roi d'Aragon.
1196-1213 : Pierre  le Catholique, également roi d'Aragon (sous le nom de Pierre II). Premier témoignage écrit de la langue catalane. Il meurt lors de la bataille de Muret, le , pendant la croisade des Albigeois.
1213-1276 : Jacques  le Conquérant (1208-1276), succède à son père Jacques  en 1213 (âgé de 5 ans) comme roi d'Aragon, comte de Barcelone, de Gérone, d'Osauna, de Besalú, Cerdagne et Roussillon (son grand-oncle Sancho est régent pendant sa minorité). Également seigneur de Montpellier par sa mère Marie de Montpellier, nièce de l'empereur de Constantinople. Conquérant de Majorque (31 déc. 1229), de Valence (28 sept. 1238) et d'Ibiza (janv. 1266). Par le traité de Corbeil (1258), le roi de France Louis IX renonce de iure à ses droits de vassalité sur la Catalogne, indépendante de facto depuis 875.
1276-1285 : Pierre II d'Aragon (1239-1285), appelé ensuite  Pierre III le Grand. En 1241 lui est promise la succession des Îles Baléares, de Valence et de Montpellier en 1241. Reçoit le Roussillon et la Cerdagne après la mort de Nuño Sancho de Aragón en 1242. En 1244 une nouvelle répartition de la succession de son père intervient, par laquelle lui est attribuée la Catalogne en héritage de son père. Nommé procureur de Catalogne en 1257. Encore une autre répartition de l'héritage de son père en 1262 lui dévolue l' Aragon, la Catalogne et Valence. Il succède à son père en 1276 comme Pierre III "le Grand" roi d'Aragon et comte de Barcelone, et comme Pierre I roi de Valence. Conquérant de la Sicile (1282) et s'en déclare roi sous le nom de Pierre I, mais cette conquête cause son excommunication en  par le pape Martin IV (qui soutient les Angevins). Renonce à la Sicile sur son lit de mort pour le prix de sa paix avec l'Église.
1285-1291 : Alphonse II le Libéral (1265-1291), également roi d'Aragon (sous le nom d'Alphonse III) et de Valence (sous le nom d'Alphonse I), conquérant de Minorque.
1291-1327 : Jacques II le Juste (1267-1327), frère du précédent, également roi d'Aragon et de Valence, comte d'Empuries, conquérant de la Sardaigne (sous le nom de Jacques I), auparavant roi de Sicile (sous le nom de Jacques I).
1327-1336 : Alphonse III le Benin (1299-1336). Envahit la Sardaigne en 1323, Pise renonçant à ses droits sur la Sardaigne (en sa faveur) en 1326 ; roi de Sardaigne (sous le nom d'Alphonse I). Succède à son père en 1327 comme  roi d'Aragon (sous le nom d'Alphonse IV) et de Valence (sous le nom d'Alphonse II), et comte de Barcelone.
1336-1387 : Pierre III le Cérémonieux ou celui avec la petite dague (1319-1387), également roi d'Aragon (sous le nom de Pierre IV), de Valence (sous le nom de Pierre II) et de Majorque, comte de Roussillon, de Cerdagne et d'Urgell sous le nom de Pierre I. Création de la Généralité de Catalogne.
1387-1396 : Jean  le Chasseur ou l'Amateur de la gentilhommerie (1350-1396), également roi d'Aragon, de Valence, de Sardaigne et de Majorque, et comte de Roussillon et de Cerdagne.
1396-1410 : Martin  l'Humain (1356-1410), frère du précédent, également roi d'Aragon, de Valence, de Sicile (sous le nom de Martin II), de Sardaigne et de Majorque, et comte de Roussillon et de Cerdagne.

Arbre généalogique

Notes et références

Histoire de la Catalogne
Dynastie de Barcelone
Personnalité du haut Moyen Âge par nom
Bellonide

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BLT Week 3 - Crisis in the Middle East?
28-Oct-2013 - 6:45pm
Neil Lazarus spoke at Bushey Synagogue as part of the BLT learning programme
Neil Lazarus spoke at Bushey Synagogue as part of the BLT learning programme. He is a motivating speaker who gave the most interesting assessment of the current state of the region. To be able to make a very confusing issue more understandable to people who may have or may not some knowledge of the region but are very confused due to the different factions fighting for power is a great attribute to him. The packed hall were spell bound by his presentation and explanation of the current state of play.
For once Israel is not at the centre of the disputes. The civil wars between the various factions of the Islamic world have taken over the stage. The Western countries seem to be powerless and Russia and China seem to have gained a bigger foothold on the region. The real enemy who are pulling the strings according to Mr Lazarus is the Iranian government and the Clerics behind them who are causing the revolutions in most countries in the region.
Mr Lazarus was in full swing when the fire alarm sounded and we had an orderly evacuation of the building. When we returned after 10 minutes, thankfully a false alarm, Neil explained the difference between the response in Israel and the response in the UK to an alarm. In Israel you have 15 seconds to get into a shelter, while we left the building in a calm manner without rushing, taking a much longer time. (The odds of a missile being aimed at Bushey were a little on the low side at this time.) The lesson was not lost because it did make us think about how at anytime Israel can be targeted by missiles from the various borders.
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Fungus 'may cause symptoms of Parkinson's disease'
Written by Honor Whiteman on November 16, 2013
New research has suggested that a compound often exuded by fungus could be linked to symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The investigators say Parkinson's has previously been linked to exposure of human-made toxins, but their findings show that biological compounds also have the potential to set off symptoms of the condition.
Through the use of fruit flies and human cell lines, researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey and Emory University in Georgia found that a compound emitted by mold, called 1-octen-3-ol but more commonly known as mushroom alcohol, may be linked to defects in two genes involved in the creation and transportation of dopamine.
Researchers say a compound often emitted by mold, called 1-octen-3-ol, may be linked to symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
The findings of the study were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dopamine is a chemical that is released by nerve cells to send messages to cells situated in the brain.
When these dopamine-releasing nerve cells die, lack of dopamine causes parts of the brain to become abnormal, leading to the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
According to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, up to 1 million Americans suffer from Parkinson's disease and around 60,000 people in the US are diagnosed with the condition every day, emphasizing the importance of determining the triggers of this disease.
Co-author of the study Joan Bennett, of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, says the idea that fungus may play a part in causing illness stemmed from a personal experience of house flooding following Hurricane Katrina, which left her property infested with mold.
"I felt horrible – headaches, dizziness, nausea. I knew something about 'sick building syndrome' but until then I didn't believe in it. I didn't think it would be possible to breathe in enough mold spores to get sick," she says.
Bennett took samples of the mold and looked to determine the connection between the symptoms she experienced in her home and the fungus.
Fungus compound 'attacks dopamine genes'
When fruit flies were exposed to the fungus samples, it was found that the 1-octen-3-ol compound caused the flies to experience movement disorders similar to what they experience in certain pesticides.
The fungus compound also caused reduced dopamine levels and dopamine neuron degeneration in the flies.
Further experiments in human cell lines revealed that the compound attacked two genes involved in the creation of dopamine – the human plasma membrane dopamine transporter (DAT) and the human VMAT ortholog (VMAT2).
The researchers note that previous studies have suggested the incidence of Parkinson's disease is on the increase in rural areas, and this is attributed to pesticide exposure.
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Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association Hall of Fame Class of 2019 Announced
By Damali Thomas, 07/30/19, 11:45AM EDT
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Baltimore, MD – The Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association Board of Directors recently approved the nominations from the Hall of Fame Committee for the induction class of 2019. Inductees include Don Leet (St. Lawrence University), Tom Postel (C.W. Post), William Schmeisser (Johns Hopkins University), Cliff Stevenson (Oberlin College, Brown University), Dick Watts (Kenyon College, University of Maryland, Baltimore County), and Chuck Winters (SUNY Cortland).
IMLCA president, J.B. Clarke, head coach at Limestone College recently said: "The Class of 2019 is responsible for many inaugural championships at their respective institutions and were instrumental in mentoring countless young men. The IMLCA is eternally grateful for their contributions to our great sport."
The ceremony will take place on Friday, December 6, 2019 at the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.IMLCACoaches.com/
More about the inductees:
Don Leet was the Head Coach at St. Lawrence University where he racked up 251 victories in his illustrious career. His 1979 team was the last team to beat Hobart before it went on a run of 12 straight NCAA championships as the Saints upset the Statesmen 12-11 in Geneva, New York. Leet was also honored as a 1993 inductee to the Upstate New York Chapter of US Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Thomas Postel played lacrosse at C.W. Post where he also coached for 20 years. As a player, he set multiple offensive school records and as a coach won the national championship in 1996. Postel was also a player and coach for Team USA. He was inducted as a member of the National Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame.
William Schmeisser was a defenseman and player-coach at Johns Hopkins University where he won eight national championships and compiled a 57-15-1 record beginning in 1900. Schmeisser was instrumental in establishing the Mount Washington Lacrosse Club in 1904. The USILA honors the top NCAA Division I defenseman in Schmeisser's honor.
Cliff Stevenson attended Springfield College where he played lacrosse for the first time. His coaching career began in 1952 at Oberlin College where he complied a 56-12-4 record. Stevenson then spent 20 seasons at Brown University compiling a 168-81 record with two Ivy titles.
Dick Watts started the first team at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he accumulated a 178-148 record in 23 seasons. His 1980 team won the national championship. Prior to UMBC, Watts spent three seasons at Kenyon College, earning a 20-15-1 record. Watts began coaching at the Friends School in Baltimore after graduating as an All-American defenseman at Johns Hopkins University. Watts was also instrumental in guiding the physical education, intramural, and intercollegiate athletics programs at Stevenson University during his 23 years as the Director of Physical Education.
Chuck Winters coached SUNY Cortland from 1973-1983 compiling a 94-55 record while winning two national championships in 1973 and 1975. Prior to SUNY Cortland, Winters played collegiately at Bowling Green State University and served as a graduate assistant coach in 1970. Winters was inducted into the Ohio Lacrosse Association Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Bowling Green State University Hall of Fame in 2004. He also served as Vice President of the USILA from 1990-92 and received USILA's Lifetime Service Award in 2007.
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Coventry's twin towns and cities
1) Caen, France (228.43 miles)
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Caen is the capital of the French department of Calvados in the region of Normandy and has a population of about 130,000. The link was established in 1957 when the Lord Mayor of Coventry attended the opening of Caen University.
An unofficial link of friendship with Caen dates back from December 1946, when the BBC arranged an international Christmas Day Broadcast and attempted to link Coventry with Caen, Arnhem, Stalingrad and Warsaw. As a result, the contact between the Mayors became even more frequent.
Caen is a city located in Normandy on the River Orne and linked by canal to the English Channel. Caen is the capital of the department of Calvados, and it retains several fine buildings despite suffering heavy damage during World War II. Especially noteworthy are two examples of 11th-century Norman Romanesque architecture. William the Conqueror founded the Abbaye-aux-Hommes, and William's wife, Matilda, founded the Abbaye-aux-Dames. Other landmarks in Caen include a 16th-century mansion, an 11th-century castle, and the Church of Saint-Pierre, a chiefly Gothic structure with Renaissance embellishments.
The city is the site of the University of Caen, founded in 1432 by Henry VI of England. It is also a seaport, an agricultural centre, and a manufacturing city. Local products include iron and steel, textiles, lace, electronic equipment, and processed food, and much iron ore is mined nearby.
http://www.ville-caen.fr/
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2) Cork, Ireland (297.01 miles)
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Cork is the capital of County Cork in the Republic of Ireland and has a population of about 120,000. This twinning link was established in 1958.
Cork, Ireland's second largest city, is located on the Lee and is an important seaport. It is also a distribution centre for the surrounding agricultural region. Industries include two breweries, distilleries, software production, and chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Cork has an international airport, and the port has ferry services to Roscoff in France and Swansea in Wales.
Cork has a keen sense of its own identity—one national newspaper is based in the city, rather than in Dublin, and University College, now part of the National University of Ireland, was founded in 1845. Amongst other notable buildings are the 19th-century Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland cathedrals, St Mary's and St Finbarr's. The city started as a religious settlement founded in AD 622 by St Finbar and has been a major trading centre since Viking occupation in the 11th century.
http://www.cork.ie/
3) Arnhem, Netherlands (314.84 miles)
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Arnhem is the capital of the Dutch region of Gelderland and is also known as Arnheim. The city has a population of about 135,000 inhabitants. This link started in 1958 when Coventry invited Arnhem to send a delegation to the city.
Arnhem, the capital of the region of Gelderland, is an industrial and commercial centre, with a large trade in grain. Major manufactured items include precision instruments, paper, mirrors, and wood products. Among the principal places of interest in Arnhem are the Groote Kerk (Great Church), dating from the 15th century, and the 16th-century town hall. In medieval times Arnhem was a member of the Hanseatic League, a group of German trading communities.
In 1944 intense fighting left most of the city in ruins, including the since-restored 15th century Eusebiuskerk (Church of St Eusebius). Arnhem has been comprehensively rebuilt since World War II.
http://www.arnhem.nl/english/
4) Kiel, Germany (497.3 miles)
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Kiel is the capital of the German Bundesland (State) of Schleswig-Holstein and has a population of about 250,000. This link was established in 1947.
The link between Coventry and Kiel was officially formed when Mr Williams, a British service man from Coventry based in Kiel to help the rebuilding process after the Second World War, made contact with the City Authority in Kiel.
Like Coventry, Kiel was heavily bombed during the War and Mr Williams could see the common experiences of the two post-war cities. Then the Mayor of Kiel, Andreas Gayk sent a letter to the Lord Mayor of Coventry, Councillor George Briggs in 1946 proposing a friendship link, Coventry was already developing a reputation for an active international peace and reconciliation policy and so reacted positively to the message of friendship and reconciliation.
In 1947, the Friends of Coventry Society was founded, which later became the Deutsche-Britische Gesellschaft Kiel (German British society). In the same year a delegation from Coventry, which included the Lord Mayor, presented a cross of nails to Kiel, made out of nails from the destroyed Coventry Cathedral.
Kiel is the capital of the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. Situated at the eastern entrance of the Kiel Canal in north central Germany, it faces a tideless fjord of the Baltic Sea. Because of this excellent harbour the city has been a major port since the 10th century. The chief industries, aside from fishing, shipbuilding, and naval maintenance, are the manufacture of soap, food products, machinery, and woollen goods. The city has a university and is a popular centre for pleasure boating.
http://www.kiel.de/
5) Saint-Etienne, France (550.24 miles)
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Saint-Etienne is located in the French department of Loire, in the Rhône-Alpes region in the East of France and has a population of about 250,000. This link was established in 1955.
Saint-Etienne is situated in a major industrial and coal-mining region. Armaments, now an important modern industry, and silk ribbons, for which Saint-Etienne is famous, have been manufactured in the city since the 16th century. Other products include steel, bicycles, and machinery. The University of Saint-Etienne and the Museum of Art and Industry are located in the city. Saint-Etienne developed into an important economic centre in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The City of Saint-Etienne is situated in the department of Loire, in the region of Rhône-Alpes in the East of France. The city is the third largest in the region, after Lyon and Grenoble and has a population of 205 000, this figures rises to 440 000 when the population of the surrounding communes are included. Rhône-Alpes is the second most highly populated region of France after Paris and the Île de France.
The city of Saint-Etienne dates from the 12th Century; it was fortified during the 15th Century, increased considerably in wealth during the 16th Century, and industrialised during the 19th Century. Previously the prosperity of the city depended on the local coal mining and metal working industries. The first railway in France was constructed in Saint-Etienne. The last mine closed approximately 25 years ago and traditional industries have had to adapt, a major economic transformation has been achieved. Today Saint-Etienne is a regional centre for manufacturing and has become a renowned location for high-tech industries.
http://www.saint-etienne.fr/
6) Dresden, Germany (657.84 miles)
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Dresden is the capital of the German State of Saxony and has a population of about 505, 000. This link was established in 1959.
The common fate of the two cities during World War II and their many years of efforts for reconciliation and understanding among people resulted in the twinning of the two cities. Nowadays, both cities seek to build on the twinning relationship to promote the economic prosperity of the two cities by developing opportunities for partnership projects.
Dresden lies on the River Elbe in east central Germany, near the border with the Czech Republic. The economy of Dresden is based primarily on port activities and the manufacture of high-tech items, including specialized optical and medical equipment, computers, musical instruments, machinery, and tools.
'Dresden is a city in which history, architecture and landscape come together in harmony.' This was first remarked by Erich Kästner and is still very much the case today.
One of Europe's foremost cultural centres before World War II, Dresden suffered greatly from Allied bombing raids in 1945. Indeed much of the 'Florence on the Elbe' was rebuilt after the war. Among the reconstructed or meticulously restored edifices are the 18th-century Zwinger Palace, which houses several important museums; the Dresden State Opera House; and a number of churches, such as the rococo Hofkirche and the Kreuzkirche, in part dating from the 15th century. The reconstruction of the 'Frauenkirche', or Church of Our Lady has also recently been completed, indeed Coventry Cathedral also presented the Church with a Cross of Nails to mark its reopening.
Dresden Technical University, the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy of Dresden, the Friedrich List University of Transportation of Dresden, and a school of music are located in the city.
http://www.dresden.de/index_en.php
7) Lidice, Czech Republic (694.73 miles)
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Lidice is a small village in the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic and has a population of about 500. This link was established in 1947 when representatives from Coventry were present at the laying of the foundation stone of the new village. In 1954 Coventry sent 1000 roses to be planted in the memorial rose garden.
The village of Lidice is known throughout the world. In June 1942 the civilian population was killed in an act of revenge by the Nazi occupiers.
A new village was built near to the site of the previous one, separated only by a memorial to those who died, the international rose garden, to which many towns and cities around the world made contributions.
The village is located approximately 20 km west of Prague near the city of Kladno.
8) Bologna, Italy (801.84 miles)
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Bologna is the capital of the Bologna and Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy and has a population of about 372,256. This link was established in 1960.
Bologna is situated on a fertile plain at the foot of the Apennine Mountains. A major transport centre and agricultural market, Bologna is the meeting point for the principal roads and railways connecting northern Italy with the Tyrrhenian and southern Adriatic coasts.
Major industries include the manufacturing of farm machinery, steel, processed food, motor vehicles, and chemicals. Bologna is also the home of the University of Bologna, various publishing houses, and museums of painting, archaeology, and Etruscan artefacts.
The city was a great centre of learning and culture during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. In the medieval heart of Bologna are buildings of warm-coloured brick and stucco, arcades lined with small shops, cobbled streets, and numerous piazzas. San Petronio, the most imposing church in Bologna, fronts onto the main plaza, the Piazza Maggiore. It was begun in 1390, but the exterior was never finished. Other notable churches are San Domenico and San Francesco. Modern suburbs surround the old inner city.
http://www.comune.bologna.it/english/
9) Graz, Austria (839.13 miles)
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Graz is the capital of the Austrian province of Styria and has a population of about 250,000. This link was established in 1957.
Links between the two cities under the aegis of the Educational Interchange Council went back as early as 1944. A civic visit in 1957 formalised the link. Councillor J D Berry supported the link at civic level since his visit to Graz in 1975 as Lord Mayor (he also participated in the 1957 visit as a Councillor), again visiting Graz in 1986.
Graz, the capital of Styria Province, lies on the River Mura, surrounded on three sides by the Alps. Steel, railway equipment, automobiles, chemicals, leather goods, and precision instruments are among the products manufactured in the city, which is the centre of a considerable trade in wine, fruit, and cereal grains.
The old town, on the west bank of the river, is connected with the new town, on the east bank, by seven bridges. The old town is built around the Schlossberg Park, which until 1809, when its fortifications were destroyed by the French, was a strongly fortified hill.
Important buildings in Graz include an 11th-century castle, the 13th-century church of the Teutonic Knights, the 15th-century Gothic Domkirche, and a 16th-century parish church with an altarpiece by the Venetian artist Tintoretto. Among educational institutions in the city are Graz University, founded in 1585, and Graz Technical University, founded in 1811. These traditional buildings are also complemented by more modern architecture such as the new 'Kunsthaus' art gallery, which is in stark contrast to its more traditional surrounds. This particular building has been internationally acclaimed and was recently nominated for the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize.
Graz is known to have existed in the 9th century AD and is thought to occupy the site of a Roman town. In the 15th century it was a residence of the Holy Roman emperors.
http://www.graz.at
10) Ostrava, Czech Republic (873.78 miles)
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Ostrava is the largest city in the North Moravia region of the Czech Republic and has a population of about 330,000. This link was established in 1959.Ostrava suffered under occupation during World War II and was keen to make links with Coventry, a city famous for its wartime suffering.
In 1965 a civic delegation from Coventry led by Alderman George Hodgkinson and Councillor Roy Hughes cemented the link. They visited Ostrava's celebrations to mark 21 years of liberation from the Nazis.
Ostrava is a transport hub and a leading metallurgical centre situated in the Ostrava-Karviná coalfield. It has iron- and steel-rolling mills, boiler and power plants, and railway yards. Aluminium alloys, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, synthetic gases, plastics, petroleum products, building materials, clothes, ceramics, furniture, and food products are also manufactured here. Founded in the late 1200s, Ostrava is the capital of Severomoravský.
11) Warsaw, Poland (947.27 miles)
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Warsaw is the capital of Poland and has a population of 1,650,000. This link was established in 1957.
http://warsawtour.pl/en
12) Dunaujvaros, Hungary (982.54 miles)
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Dunaujvaros is located in Fejer County in Hungary and has a population of about 49,000. This twinning link was established in 1962.
This industrial town has developed greatly since the end of World War Two. The industrial life of the town is centred on the huge Danube Iron and Steel Works which was started in 1950. In addition to the steelworks there are paper mills and textile factories and the town is a busy river port.
Although this largely industrial town has few historical buildings which remain, during redevelopment a number of Bronze Age settlements and the remains of a Roman frontier town, Intercisa, were unearthed. The finds are now on display in the Dunaujvaros museum.
An unusual feature of the town is that the central heating for many buildings is provided by the surplus hot water produced at the iron and steel works. A belt of Canadian and Swedish pine trees divide the steelworks from the town. There is a pioneer railway, an amusement park, an open-air theatre and a number of sports grounds.
Wheat, maize, barley and sugar beet are grown in the surrounding countryside and the cultivation of rice had started in recent years.
http://www.dunaujvaros.com/
13) Kecskemét, Hungary (1016.75 miles)
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Kecskemét is the capital of the Bács-Kiskun region of Hungary and has a population of 85,000. Coventry has been twinned with Kecskemét since 1962.
The agricultural city of Kecskemét lies next to some major road and rail arteries about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Budapest. It is the capital of Bács-Kiskun, and has marketing and processing facilities that serve the whole region. The sandy area around Kecskemét produces about one-quarter of the fruit in Hungary. The area is well known for the locally produced apricot brandy that carries the city's name. Residents are also employed in factories producing leather goods, textiles, and agricultural implements.
Originally the site of a Magyar settlement, Kecskemét was founded in the 10th century and by the Middle Ages was a thriving market town. It was spared by Turkish invaders in the 16th century because of protection granted by Ottoman rulers. Peasants planted large vineyards and orchards in the area in the 19th century, and by the early years of the next century these were the economic backbone of the growing city.
The city's architectural heritage reflects these periods of prosperity and good fortune. A Franciscan church dating from the Middle Ages still stands near the centre of Kecskemét, and the Ornamental Palace, with its plunging windows and colourful ceramic trim, is one of the best examples of Hungarian art nouveau in the country.
http://kecskemet.hu/?r=3&l=en
14) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1084.47 miles)
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Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina and has a population of about 250,000. This twinning link was established in 1957.
Sarajevo is situated on the River Miljacka and was settled in the 14th century. From 1429 to 1878 it was part of the Ottoman Empire, and numerous examples of Turkish architecture still remain in the city. Until recently, Sarajevo was an important commercial and cultural centre, and several educational and cultural institutions were located here. In 1984 the Olympic Winter Games were held here.
Following Bosnia and Herzegovina's secession from former Yugoslavia in April 1992, fierce fighting among Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims took place in Sarajevo. As a result of the fighting and a siege by the Serbs, much of the city has been destroyed.
http://www.sarajevo.ba/en/
15) Belgrade, Serbia (1127.62 miles)
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Belgrade (Beograd) is the capital of Serbia, and has a population of around 1.6 million. It is situated in South-Eastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula, at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers. It is one of the oldest cities in Europe and has since ancient times been an important focal point for traffic, an intersection of the roads of Eastern and Western Europe.
Belgrade is the capital of Serbian culture, education, science and economy. As a result of its tumultuous history, Belgrade has for centuries been home to many nationalities, with Serbs of the Orthodox Christian religion making up the majority of the population (90%). The official language is Serbian, while visitors from abroad can use English to communicate.
Coventry was twinned with Belgrade in 1957.
Belgrade was, like Coventry, rebuilt after WWII, but this was certainly not the first time the city had been destroyed. The City of Old Belgrade had been fought over by innumerable nations and had been partially destroyed 38 times.
Although twinned with Belgrade in 1957, the link actually goes back to 1953 when the Yugoslav Ambassador visited Coventry and offered a gift of timber from his native country for use in the new Civic Theatre, which when finished was named The Belgrade Theatre.
Built on the site of an ancient stronghold, Belgrade means "white fortress
http://www.beograd.rs/en/
16) Galati, Romania (1413.46 miles)
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Galati is located near to the world renowned Danube Delta in Romania and has a population of about 330,000. This link with Coventry was established in 1962.
In 1962 a Minister from the Romanian Legation in London visited Coventry to meet the lord mayor and see the post-war development of the city. During the visit the possibility of finding a twin in Romania was discussed and the Minister assigned staff at the legation the task of finding a Romanian twin for Coventry. The city decided upon was Galati.
Galati is Romania's largest inland port and is situated approximately 80 miles from the sea on the river Danube.
During the 1960s the city and surrounding countryside were in the forefront of development in Romania, with the greatest volume of industrial investment in the whole of the country taking place here. In a relatively short period of time there were rapid developments in the ferrous metallurgy, power and thermal energy, machine building, metal processing building material, textile and food industries.
The surrounding countryside provides rich harvests in cereals, vegetables and fruit. In recent years the wine industry has become established and the wines from the region have gained in international recognition.
In addition to the industrial heart of the city new residential areas have been built and now successfully blend with the city historic past. Educational facilities include the University of Galati and the Pedagogic Institute.
http://romaniatourism.com/galati.html
17) Volgograd, Russia (2000.54 miles)
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Volgograd is the capital of the Volgograd Oblast in southern Russia and has a population of 1,011,417. This link was established in 1944.
The friendship between Coventry and Volgograd, former Stalingrad, was cemented as a result of both cities experiencing the devastation of the Second World War. The battle of Stalingrad was one of the key turning points during the Second World War. The epic battle for the city raged from spring 1942 to February 1943. More than 1,000 tons of bombs were dropped on the city, but Stalin initially forbade any evacuation from the city, even of children. The fighting in the city was ferocious, hand to hand combat taking place within the city itself.
At the time of the onslaught on the Russian City, women from Coventry sent messages of hope to the women of Stalingrad having experienced the Coventry Blitz just a few years earlier. The first message from women of Coventry to the women of Stalingrad saying "From this city scarred and ravaged by the arch enemy of civilisation, our hearts go out to you, who now face slaughter and suffering even more fearful". During the devastating Battle of Stalingrad 900 Coventry women signed their names (which were then embroidered) on the tablecloth and sent with a message of sympathy to the women of Stalingrad. This tablecloth has an honoured place in the Panorama Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad.
During wartime the people of Coventry also sent aid (supplies and medicines) to the people of Stalingrad.
Volgograd, the capital of Volgograd Oblast, is an important industrial, commercial, and trans-shipment centre of Russia. A railway centre and a major River Volga port, it is linked to the River Don by the Volga-Don Canal, constructed between 1950 and 1957. A large hydroelectric power dam is located just north of the city. Among the main industries in Volgograd are petroleum refining, shipbuilding, and the manufacture of aluminium, chemicals, processed food, farm machinery, iron and steel, and forest products. The University of Volgograd is located in the city. Volgograd was founded in 1589 as Tsaritsyn, a fortress on the south eastern frontier of Russia.
Previously known as Stalingrad, during World War II the city was a strategically located industrial centre, and a vital German objective. A large German force mounted an assault on the city on August 20, 1942, after a period of heavy air raids. A successful Soviet counter-offensive began on November 19, and on February 2, 1943 the Sixth German Army surrendered, so ending the German advance into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). German casualties alone totalled more than 300,000, and the Soviet city was almost completely destroyed. Rebuilding began immediately after the war. The city was renamed Volgograd in 1961.
http://www.volgadmin.ru
18) Granby, Canada (3137.01 miles)
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Granby is located in the Canadian province of Quebec and has a population of 47,637. This twin city link was established in 1963.
The twinning link with Granby (and Windsor) came in a proposal from the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. A letter suggested a town twinning between each of the towns (Granby, Windsor, Saint-Etienne and Coventry). The twinning of the four towns took place in Coventry in June 1963.
Granby is a busy town located in the province of Quebec. Founded in 1842 as a mission the first settlers began to arrive around 1855. Today Granby is a flourishing manufacturing city. It produces textiles, rubber goods, confectionery, chemicals, wood, furniture and tobacco.
Granby is known as a great holiday centre, being surrounded by picturesque countryside. The zoological gardens are one of the outstanding attractions and there are more than 300 species of animal to be seen. The Automobile Museum is another major attraction and the city also has an extensive collection of fountains, brought from all over Europe. Nearby resorts offer excellent fishing, skiing and canoeing.
All local news events are reported in the local newspaper, La Voix de l'Est. In more recent news, a local referendum was held in 2007, when the citizens of Granby and Granby Township approved a merger of both areas.
http://www.ville.granby.qc.ca/
19) Cornwall, Canada (3230.63 miles)
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Cornwall is located in the Canadian province of Ontario and has a population of about 45,965. This link was established in 1972.
Cornwall link was formed in 1972 at request of Cornwall when Lord Mayor of Coventry visited during visit to American and Canadian twin towns.
Situated in the thriving St. Lawrence Valley, Cornwall boasts among its better known industries, paper manufacturers, chemicals, clothing, transparent cellulose film, conduit and sewer pipes, metal plating, electronic equipment, carpets and recording discs and tapes.
Served by several airports, two freeway companies and the St Lawrence river, Cornwall offers the traveller plenty of scope for getting around quickly. It is 70 miles from Montreal, a one-hour drive from Ottawa and only 15 minutes from New York State.
Cornwall is also the headquarters of the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority.
http://www.cornwall.ca/
20) Coventry, Rhode Island, USA (3249.51 miles)
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Coventry is located in the state of Rhode Island in the United States of America and has a population of about 33,000. This link was established in 1971.
Coventry Rhode island is one of America's oldest towns, incorporated in 1741 and named after Coventry, England, by settlers to America.
Coventry was incorporated in 1741 and is today still one of the largest towns in the small state of Rhode Island. It is a residential town with a number of small businesses but many of the people derive their livelihood from manufacturing industry situated in other parts of Rhode Island.
During the early days of Coventry's existence agriculture and timber industries provided most of the work, these were followed by the cotton and woollen mills which sprang up along the Pawluxet river and remained the main industry for the area for over 125 years. Today, most of the mills have gone but branches of some well-known American corporation and the Star City Class Company remain.
As one of America's oldest towns, Coventry is rich in historical landmarks. Among the best known are the 1770 homestead of General Nataneal Greene, an Independence War veteran, overlooking the Pawluxet river and the village of Anthony.
https://www.ri.gov/towns/view/coventry/
21) Coventry, Connecticut, USA (3271.63 miles)
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Coventry is located in the state of Connecticut in the United States of America and has a population of about 10,000. This twinning link was established in 1962.
The Coventry, England – Coventry, Connecticut exchange began in 1962 when several dignitaries from Coventry, England crossed the Atlantic to help Coventry, Connecticut celebrate its 250th anniversary.
Coventry is a dormitory town for Hartford Connecticut, one of the major industrial centres in the United States.
Even as late as 1940 Coventry was a small town of only 2,000 people but it grew rapidly during the war years as a suburban community for Hartford then a developing city with a rapidly growing aircraft industry.
Coventry today covers an area of over 24,000 acres and was originally part of tract land of used by the Mohican Indians as hunting and fishing grounds. The first record of its history is 1706 when a small committee was appointed "to divide the area into house, church and school lots and highways, and to admit inhabitants".
At one time, because of the abundance of local waterpower, Coventry was an important manufacturing town specialising in silk and textile products but this century it had become primarily residential.
http://www.coventryct.org/
22) Coventry, New York State, USA (3381.61 miles)
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Coventry is located in Chenango County in New York State in the United States of America and has a population of about 2,000. This link was established in 1972.
Coventry NYS is a small town, one of the smallest Coventry is linked to. The association with the Coventry, UK, came as a result of travellers who arrived in America and named their homestead after the town they had left behind in the UK.
Coventry New York State is Coventry, UK smallest twinned town. It is situated near the southern border with Pennsylvania, some 5 miles east of Greene. The nearest large town is Binghamton. But its association with the United Kingdom started with its first settlers who came from Coventry and named their new homestead after the town they had left years before they crossed the seas.
With a population of approximately 2,000 living in two hamlets named Coventry and Coventryville, it is far removed in size from it's UK partner city.
http://www.co.chenango.ny.us/
23) Windsor, Ontario, Canada (3670.43 miles)
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Windsor is the southern most city in the Canadian province of Ontario and has a population of 216,473. This link was established in 1963.
The twinning link with Windsor (and Granby) came in a proposal from the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. A letter suggested a town twinning between each of the towns (Granby, Windsor, Saint-Etienne and Coventry). The twinning of the four towns took place in Coventry in June 1963.
Windsor, a port of entry on the United States-Canada Border, is connected to Detroit, Michigan, by bridge and tunnel. The city is an industrial and distribution centre situated in a rich agricultural region. A base for US automobile companies from the beginning of the 20th century, Windsor remains a major centre of auto industry employment and manufacture. Other major manufactured goods include metal products, machinery, pharmaceuticals, processed food, and printed materials.
The University of Windsor, the Hiram Walker Historical Museum, and the Art Gallery of Windsor are located in the city. Windsor's economic and geographic relationship to Detroit is celebrated with an annual week-long international festival. The community, settled in 1701, was renamed in 1836 after Windsor, England.
There are a number of sports teams within Windsor, with some of them playing over the US border, in Detroit. The kinds of sport played include ice hockey, lacrosse, football, rugby and athletics. Some of the teams include the Windsor Spitfires (Ontario Hockey League - www.windsorspitfires.com), Windsor Border Stars (Canadian Soccer League - www.borderstars.ca) and the Windsor Lancers (Canadian Interuniversity Sport - www.golancers.ca).
It is interesting to note that within Windsor's Reaume Park, the Coventry Gardens can be found. Every Summer, Windsor co-hosts a fortnight-long freedom festival with Detroit, called the Windsor-Detroit Freedom Festival, which culminates in the respective Canada Day and American Independence Day holidays. One of Windsor's most famous citizens is the Country singer, Shania Twain.
http://www.citywindsor.ca/
24) Kingston, Jamaica (4623.08 miles)
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Kingston is the capital of Jamaica and has a population of 651,880. This link was established in 1962.
The south-eastern shoreline of Jamaica curves inwards and creates a sheltered nook for the capital city of Kingston. The largest city and chief seaport of Jamaica, Kingston extends along the coast of the Caribbean Sea at the base of the Blue Mountains. Its harbour is protected to the south by the Palisadoes, a long spit, and is large enough to accommodate all the cruise ships beckoned by Jamaica's reputation for fun and fair weather.
Kingston has boomed as a port of call for Caribbean tourist and trading vessels, and the city was thoroughly modernised in the 1980s when old wharves were torn down and replaced with hotels, shops, and other amenities. However, Kingston's economy is not solely dependent upon tourism. The city exports large quantities of sugar, coffee, rum, and molasses. In addition, manufacturers in the city produce textiles, petroleum products, and clothing.
Founded in 1692 after the old capital of Port Royal was destroyed by an earthquake, Kingston succeeded Spanish Town as the island's capital in 1872. The partly submerged ruins of old Port Royal are still visible near the city at the entrance to the harbour. Other places of interest include the 17th-century moated fortress Rockfort, and the 18th-century seat of government, the Headquarters House. The University of the West Indies is also located in Kingston.
The New Kingston area of the city is the principal business area, which combines modern town planning with the backdrop of the nearby Blue Mountains. For enthusiasts of reggae music, the Bob Marley Museum is worth a visit.
25) Jinan, China (5258.67 miles)
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Jinan is the capital of the Chinese province of Shandong and is the centre of politics, economy and culture for the province. The population of Jinan is about 7,000 000. This link was established in 1983.
A decision was made by the City Council in 1981 to approach the Chinese Embassy with a view to finding a twin city in China. This was recognised as being an effective way of accessing the Chinese market. The Chinese Embassy in London identified Jinan as having a similar economic profile to Coventry. The link was formalised in autumn 1983. A series of delegations followed, but with hindsight it is possible to see that neither city was able to maximise commercial opportunities as Deng Xiaping's Open Door policy was in its earliest stage (initiated in 1978).
Jinan is an ancient city with a long history and a rich culture. Over 2600 years ago it was already a walled city called 'Lo'. In the Han Dynasty (2100) years ago it was renamed Jinan, meaning 'South of the River Ji'. The successive dynasties of Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan and Qing have established their respective administrative systems of state here. The municipal administration was set up in 1929 and Jinan was liberated in 1948, which makes the 1998 the 50th year since the liberation.
Jinan is one of the 20 largest cities in China and is located in the mid-west of the Shandong peninsula. It is close to one of the country's most famous mountains, Mount Taishan, listed as a world heritage site. The Yellow River, the cradle of Chinese national culture flows across the City's north. Communications and transportation facilities in Jinan are well developed and it is the hub of communications in the Shandong Province.
Jinan has been rapidly developing its economy since the reforms and the opening up of China. It has developed its export-orientated sectors and in recent years has achieved an average annual foreign investment of US$300 million. By the end of 1996, 2200 foreign investment enterprises had been established and the accumulated foreign investment was US$1.1 billion. The annual average export value is US$1 billion. In the 1990's the annual economic growth rate was more than 12%.
26) Parkes, New South Wales, Australia (10428.13 miles)
View full details of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
Parkes is located in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia and has a population of 11,700. The link with Coventry was established in 1956 when a plaque was sent to Parkes illustrating the birth-place of Sir Henry Parkes.
A gold rush in 1860, when 10 000 gold seekers organised a tented town known as Bushman's was the origin of the town of Parkes. The town was renamed to honour Sir Henry Parkes, after the Coventry-born Australian statesman visited the town in 1871.Today Parkes is a quiet, yet thriving town whose main industries are brick-making, steel fabrication and agriculture.
The town's historical museum commemorates Sir Henry Parkes and has over 2 000 relics and artefacts from Australia's past.
Situated in New South Wales, the town is a centre of a prosperous agricultural area where wheat production, and sheep, cattle and pig rearing are big business.
Parkes is perhaps most famous for the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, which is one of the world's largest radio-telescopes, second only to Jodrell Bank. The Telescope or "Dish" as it is affectionately known, is a scientific instrument of great renown, having been involved in countless astronomical discoveries since it's commissioning in 1961. It is best remembered however, for it's lasting relationship with NASA, evolving from the Apollo Moon landing by Neil Armstrong in 1969. The Parkes Radio Telescope relayed pictures to an estimated TV audience of 700 million people that day and forever forged it's association with one of man's greatest achievements.
Parkes hosts an annual "Elvis" festival, which commemorates Elvis Presley's birthday, each January, which brings in tourism, thereby boosting the local economy.


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"…The images are shocking, witty and mordent."
The Chico Enterprise-Record
Washington Post review about 2017 exhibition, Pursuing Invisible Reflections, at the Washington Printmakers Gallery. Scroll down to the second review in the section. Note the "selling my soul" part.
Artist profile from Nashville Arts 2016. DAVID AVERY: ABSTRACTING THE QUINTESSENCE (PDF file)
Essay by Madeleine Viljoen, Curator of Prints, The New York Public Library, for a 2014exhibition at the International Print Center New York discusses Avery's work.
http://www.ipcny.org/sandbox/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/NewprintsAutumn2013.pdf
"There are a few artists in the show who are primarily committed to printmaking. David Avery, for example, created a series of small, Neo-Gothic style illustrations for Grimms' fairy tales that are crammed with magical details rendered in eye-straining miniaturism."
From "Politically Charged Prints Cause Talking in the Library", Ken Johnson, New York Times, Dec 4, 2007
God's Food or Der singende Knochen
by DeWitt Cheng
Connoisseur of the picturesque and recherché? Devotee of the rare and exquisite? Curiosa fashion victim? If you have a sweet tooth for symbolism and surrealism, and a weakness for Brueghel, Ensor, Chirico, Magritte and the other sly fabulists of Old Europe, then David Avery's enchanted prints at San Francisco's Meridian Gallery, a veritable Wunderkammer (Cabinet of Marvels) of meticulously executed magic realism, will restore your soul.
The series, God's Food or Der singende Knochen, takes its title from one of the stories of the Brothers Grimm, those preservationists of German folklore, and each of the eight images comprising the series is the artist's imaginative response —improvisation revised and refined— to the title of a story selected by a friend.
"I found these [titles] to be marvelously evocative and suggestive. Who could resist the imaginative provocations of such titles as The Singing Bone, One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes, and The Glass Coffin, not to mention one of my favorites, The Straw, the Coal and the Bean? … The imagination could spin its own tales."
The titles sufficing, Avery chose not to read the stories, and his unfettered imagination has spun its own strange tales, enigmatic and visually compelling, generating multiple interpretations. While the fairy-tale source material and motifs—bones, quill pens, disembodied hands and eyes, serpents, flowers—suggest narratives to the engaged viewer, or even symbolic or allegorical readings, no single interpretation prevails. These images demand narrative but also defy it. The allusive clues that we are given are partial truths, which never lead to definitive interpretations or airtight CSI-style forensic reconstructions; they never quite reveal their mysteries. The first image in the series, God's Food or Der singende Knochen, opens the cabinet of marvels, revealing treasures—a decapod spider made of a pair of hands, disembodied peacock's-tail eyes, burning hands, a fluttering, sublimating book—from a lost magical realm: think of the enchanted castle in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, with its helpful human appurtenances. (Fans of Edward Gorey may discern a hidden bonus tribute in this piece as well.) Der Bauer und der Teufel (The Peasant and the Devil) similarly eludes analysis: a smiling peasant, half-buried in a field amid crows and scarecrows, holds up a gourd or fruit from which a small horned skeleton emerges, while disembodied hands, winged lights and a spermatic airborne earthworm fill the portentous sky. In Die Boten des Todes (Death's Messengers), a horde of winged hands grasps or stacks branches or sticks, while a radiance in the sky burns off the fog, revealing cast-off insect wings on the ground.
The frustration of tantalized logic is amply compensated for, however, by the visual feast set out for the imagination. The Austrian visionary artist Alfred Kubin spoke of "the universal life that mysteriously intermingles in men, animals, and plants, in every atom, in every created or uncreated thing." Avery's images similarly conjure up a teeming, magical, panpsychic world of beauty, mystery and metamorphosis, with "mind-stuff" pulsing through people, animals and objects, all dancing in a secret conspiracy (etymologically, a breathing together) of existence. Sometimes this irrepressible vitalism takes on a sinister cast, with objects quickening to life, dumb and blind like sprouts from tubers*, as in Jan Svankmajer's stop-motion fantasy films. Die weisse und die schwarze Braut (The White Bride & The Black One), is an image of completely convincing (if baffling) symbolism, with its veiled bridal egg, dark, chthonic serpent, exploding flowers, and ambiguous windblown landscape implying dangerous secret lore — perhaps conjugal? In other images we find a bawdy, slightly grotesque sexual humor** reminiscent of medieval illuminators, Bosch, Crumb, and Freudians dating back to prehistory. In Des Herrn und des Teufels Getier (The Lord's Animals and the Devil's), we join a gaggle of animal-headed humans crowded around a circular picture or mirror or window —it's ambiguous—, scrutinizing the activities of human-headed animals in poses of erotic abandon. It's funny, but also disturbing, and recognizing the allusions to Brueghel (the luxuriantly tressed butterfly) and Munch (the sperms at the rim of the picture, drawn irresistibly inward***) does not quite restore us to our full status and confidence as God's primate of choice and instrument of the divine will.
Certain species of fish migrate up and down the water column daily, governed by fluctuations in light and temperature. Birds migrate yearly across whole continents and oceans. People waver every day almost moment to moment between reality and fantasy, logic and imagination. In politics today we suffer seemingly from a lack of logic and a superfluity of rhetoric, but the real problem is a paucity of imagination governing our behavior. Dualities, like the Taoist male and female principles, require an admixture of the opposite element. The best, most creative thought and work, like Avery's carefully worked out lucid dreams, use logic and imagination to enrich each other and present a microcosm of our swarming planet and our human condition, torn between fear and hope, necessity and desire.
Copyright DeWitt Cheng 2005
*The deadly dodder is a parasitic plant that behaves like an animal. Having abandoned roots and leaves for scales, it "advances toward its host-prey …like a very slow snake with fangs in its "stomach" instead of in its "head." When the dodder sprouts from the ground, its tendril-like stem seems to sniff and listen for a few hours, then somehow sensing the presence of its victim (probably through the light-sensitive cells…), it turns its tip and
grows rapidly toward it — and often, by the end of the second day, has coiled itself firmly around it and started
sinking its rootlike fangs (called haustoria) straight through the cambium layer into the sap channels."
— from Guy Murchie's The Seven Mysteries of Life, p. 370)
** On seeing Ensor's comical and risqué drawing The Baths at Ostend, King Leopold II, the scourge of the
Congo, commented, "Monsieur Ensor has done the subject very well; he has not exaggerated, this is exactly how one bathes in Ostend. The sea and bathing so sometimes hold pleasant surprises in store for us."
— from Ulrike Becks-Malorny's Ensor, p. 55
*** Sperms swarming an egg seeking unio mystica (mystical union) are hilariously parodied in John Barth's story,
" Night-Sea Journey."
We seem to live in an age where words, images and objects have been looted of meaning. So I have come to think of the etchings I make as being miniature Rorschachs, acting upon the experiences and senses of both the careful viewer and the artist. The associations and perceptions thus provoked belong to the viewer, and override any preconceived intentions I may have had. However, the tonalities and depth that can be achieved with the medium of black and white etching can be made to heighten the viewer's perceptual receptivity, awakening unforeseen and unlikely associations. Where do my ideas come from? The same place as everyone else's—the brain. Or more precisely, the interaction between experience and imagination that takes place within the brain. In pursuing a perhaps excessively detailed image, I am using an almost hyper reality to work towards an inward goal, rather than trying to make an inner vision tangible. Even a simple nursery rhyme, once you start picking at it, can reveal layer upon layer of associations and further meanings. And so, I find myself both consciously and unconsciously striving towards images receptive to being endowed with meaning, able to release a capacity for wonder.


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namespace draco {

// Shared declarations used by both edgebreaker encoder and decoder.

// A variable length encoding for storing all possible topology configurations
// during traversal of mesh's surface. The configurations are based on visited
// state of neighboring triangles around a currently processed face corner.
// Note that about half of the encountered configurations is expected to be of
// type TOPOLOGY_C. It's guaranteed that the encoding will use at most 2 bits
// per triangle for meshes with no holes and up to 6 bits per triangle for
// general meshes. In addition, the encoding will take up to 4 bits per triangle
// for each non-position attribute attached to the mesh.
//
//     *-------*          *-------*          *-------*
//    / \     / \        / \     / \        / \     / \
//   /   \   /   \      /   \   /   \      /   \   /   \
//  /     \ /     \    /     \ /     \    /     \ /     \
// *-------v-------*  *-------v-------*  *-------v-------*
//  \     /x\     /          /x\     /    \     /x\
//   \   /   \   /          /   \   /      \   /   \
//    \ /  C  \ /          /  L  \ /        \ /  R  \
//     *-------*          *-------*          *-------*
//
//     *       *
//    / \     / \
//   /   \   /   \
//  /     \ /     \
// *-------v-------*          v
//  \     /x\     /          /x\
//   \   /   \   /          /   \
//    \ /  S  \ /          /  E  \
//     *-------*          *-------*
//
// TODO(ostava): Get rid of the topology bit pattern. It's important only for
// encoding but the algorithms should use EdgeBreakerSymbol instead.
enum EdgeBreakerTopologyBitPattern {
    TOPOLOGY_C = 0x0,  // 0
    TOPOLOGY_S = 0x1,  // 1 0 0
    TOPOLOGY_L = 0x3,  // 1 1 0
    TOPOLOGY_R = 0x5,  // 1 0 1
    TOPOLOGY_E = 0x7,  // 1 1 1
    // A special symbol that's not actually encoded, but it can be used to mark
    // the initial face that triggers the mesh encoding of a single connected
    // component.
    TOPOLOGY_INIT_FACE,
    // A special value used to indicate an invalid symbol.
    TOPOLOGY_INVALID
};

enum EdgeBreakerSymbol {
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_C = 0,
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_S,
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_L,
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_R,
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_E,
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_INVALID
};

// Bit-length of symbols in the EdgeBreakerTopologyBitPattern stored as a
// lookup table for faster indexing.
constexpr int32_t edge_breaker_topology_bit_pattern_length[] = {1, 3, 0, 3,
                                                                0, 3, 0, 3
                                                               };

// Zero-indexed symbol id for each of topology pattern.
constexpr EdgeBreakerSymbol edge_breaker_topology_to_symbol_id[] = {
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_C,       EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_S,
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_INVALID, EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_L,
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_INVALID, EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_R,
    EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_INVALID, EDGEBREAKER_SYMBOL_E
};

// Reverse mapping between symbol id and topology pattern symbol.
constexpr EdgeBreakerTopologyBitPattern edge_breaker_symbol_to_topology_id[] = {
    TOPOLOGY_C, TOPOLOGY_S, TOPOLOGY_L, TOPOLOGY_R, TOPOLOGY_E
};

// Types of edges used during mesh traversal relative to the tip vertex of a
// visited triangle.
enum EdgeFaceName : uint8_t { LEFT_FACE_EDGE = 0, RIGHT_FACE_EDGE = 1 };

// Struct used for storing data about a source face that connects to an
// already traversed face that was either the initial face or a face encoded
// with either topology S (split) symbol. Such connection can be only caused by
// topology changes on the traversed surface (if its genus != 0, i.e. when the
// surface has topological handles or holes).
// For each occurrence of such event we always encode the split symbol id,
// source symbol id and source edge id (left, or right). There will be always
// exactly two occurrences of this event for every topological handle on the
// traversed mesh and one occurrence for a hole.
struct TopologySplitEventData {
    uint32_t split_symbol_id;
    uint32_t source_symbol_id;
    // We need to use uint32_t instead of EdgeFaceName because the most recent
    // version of gcc does not allow that when optimizations are turned on.
    uint32_t source_edge : 1;
};

// Hole event is used to store info about the first symbol that reached a
// vertex of so far unvisited hole. This can happen only on either the initial
// face or during a regular traversal when TOPOLOGY_S is encountered.
struct HoleEventData {
    int32_t symbol_id;
    HoleEventData() : symbol_id(0) {}
    explicit HoleEventData(int32_t sym_id) : symbol_id(sym_id) {}
};

// List of supported modes for valence based edgebreaker coding.
enum EdgeBreakerValenceCodingMode {
    EDGEBREAKER_VALENCE_MODE_2_7 = 0,  // Use contexts for valences in range 2-7.
};

}  // namespace draco

#endif  // DRACO_COMPRESSION_MESH_MESH_EDGEBREAKER_SHARED_H_

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Artist Leon Kossoff, who painted post-war London, dies at 92
Posted: Jul 6, 2019 / 08:18 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 6, 2019 / 01:12 PM EDT
This image provided by Annely Juda Fine Art shows a painting by the artist Leon Kossoff. British artist Leon Kossoff, who painted his home city of London in all its moody glory, has died. He was 92. Los Angeles' LA Louver gallery, which represents Kossoff, announced his death Friday, July 5, 2019. No cause was given. (Annely Juda Fine Art via AP)
LONDON (AP) — British artist Leon Kossoff, who painted his home city of London in all its moody, rough-edged glory, has died. He was 92.
Annely Juda Fine Art, which represents Kossoff, said he died Thursday after a short illness. Another of the artist's galleries, LA Louver in Los Angeles, also confirmed his death.
Born in London in 1926 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Kossoff grew up in the city's tough East End and served in the army during World War II before studying at St. Martin's school of art.
He is considered a member of the "School of London" group of post-war artists — alongside Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach — who pursued careers in figurative painting regardless of changing artistic fashions.
Inspired by the Old Masters, Kossoff painted portraits of friends and family, but is best known for his urban landscapes of a gritty, war-scarred London. Streets, churches, swimming pools, subway stations and railway bridges were all rendered in dark-hued, thickly layered oil paint. Kossoff would often paint all day and then scrape off most of it in frustration, repeating the process day after day.
Annely Juda said in a statement that Kossoff "saw beauty in everything and everybody."
"His death robs us of one of Britain's greatest painters, but his work reminds us of the continuing potency of painting to comprehend the world in which we live," the gallery said.
Though never as famous as Bacon or Freud, Kossoff's works have sold for six and seven figures. A 1971 painting of London's Willesden Junction railway interchange fetched 1.39 million pounds ($1.74 million) at a Christie's auction last year.
Kossoff represented Britain at the 1995 Venice Biennale, and had a major show the following year at London's Tate gallery. His work has been shown around the world, including at London's National Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Funeral details were not immediately available.
by Russell Falcon, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 18, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KXAN) -- President-elect Joe Biden's star-studded January 20 inauguration just got a little more starry.
Country music icon Garth Brooks announced Monday he'll help ring in the Biden presidency with a performance at the Washington, D.C., ceremony on Wednesday.
'Saved by the Bell' star Dustin Diamond diagnosed with cancer
by fox8webcentral, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 15, 2021
(WJW) -- "Saved by the Bell" star Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his team confirmed on his Facebook page Thursday.
A post said, "At this time we can confirm that Dustin does have cancer. Dustin will disclose more information once it is available and a plan moving forward is made."
Siegfried Fischbacher of famed magic act 'Siegfried & Roy' dies of pancreatic cancer at 81
by Wilson Wong NBC News / Jan 14, 2021
LAS VEGAS (NBC NEWS) - Siegfried Fischbacher, half of the world-famous Las Vegas magic and entertainment act Siegfried & Roy, died of cancer eight months after the death of his long-term business partner Roy Horn. He was 81.
A spokesperson for Fischbacher told NBC News on Thursday that the renowned illusionist died on Wednesday evening at his home in Las Vegas from pancreatic cancer.
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1 Top 7 Oscars 2016 Snubs | This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere?
It is that time of the year again, when we patiently wait to see whether our favorite movies and movie makers have made it to being nominated at the Oscars. This is usually followed by a couple of disappointments. This year, the Oscars 2016 snubs include a couple of actors, directors and screenwriters, but also some motion pictures that deserved to be there instead of some unknown movies. Here are the biggest surprises we had when we heard the Oscars nominations announcement.
Some Oscars 2016 snubs happened because of the apparition of a completely unknown contender, as it happens each year. Based on a book that few have heard of, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared movie is nominated in the Makeup and Hairstyling category.
Although Sylvester Stallone received a well-deserved Golden Globe and might be on his way to win an Oscar, the rest of the cast and crew of Creed have been left in the dark. Many are wondering why director Ryan Coogler or Michael B. Jordan did not receive any nominations, as their work was crucial in the making of the Rocky homage movie.
Mad Max: Fury Road has an astounding amount of ten nominations at the 2016 Oscars. However, as the voters appreciated the visual effects, sound editing, makeup and hairstyling, costume and production design, cinematography and editing, they were not very impressed by the performance of Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. At least, not as impressed as we viewers were. Unfortunately, many failed to see that the action-packed movie had more substance to it than just the action sequences and visuals, thus landing the actress among the Oscars 2016 snubs.
The next one among the Oscars 2016 snubs is Idris Elba, who had a great chance at being nominated for his performance in Beasts of No Nation, a movie produced by Netflix. It was not meant to be, even though critics hailed Elba as being intense and titanic in his role as a warlord. The fact that he was completely ignored might have happened because of the conflict Netflix has with movie theaters. Many chains refused to show the movie because the company wanted to release it on the same date in both cinemas and on video on demand. The explanation could be that the older voters of the Academy simply think Netflix is a studio, or just do not understand it.
After winning a Golden Globe, everyone expected Aaron Sorkin to at least receive an Oscar nomination for the brilliant screenplay of the new Steve Jobs movie. However, he lost out in front of other screenwriters such as Ethan and Joel Coen, Matt Charman or Drew Goddard. On a brighter note, he did get nominated at the Writers Guild Awards.
The Oscars 2016 snubs list would not be complete without Ridley Scott, who did a wonderful job on The Martian. Even though many predicted he would get a nomination, we found out with surprise that this was not the case. Well, at least The Martian won Best Comedy or Musical at the Golden Globes.
Quite possibly the most beautiful movie of last year, Carol did receive six nominations, for music, costume design, cinematography, screenplay, and the wonderful performances of Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. However, many of us also expected it to be taken into consideration for Best Picture and Best Director (Todd Haynes) too. In the light of the fact that the 2016 Oscars only have white nominees, Vanity Fair also pointed out that a movie about a gay love story might not be successful. Remember when Crash won instead of Brokeback Mountain? There you have it.


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Q: Is it possible to create a text field phone number mask which is not disappearing when user inputs, in flutter? Is it possible to create phone number mask like this in flutter: mask example
When user input numbers, mask is staying, and numbers of the mask are replacing with user's input.

A: Stack 2 TextFields one for the hint and one for the user input and remove the string in hint when the user inputs some values like this
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  // This widget is the root of your application.
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: const MyHomePage(),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  const MyHomePage({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  State<MyHomePage> createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  TextEditingController hintController = TextEditingController();
  static String hintVal = "987654321";
  @override
  void initState() {
    // TODO: implement initState
    super.initState();
    hintController.text = hintVal;
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: Center(
          child: Stack(
        children: [
          IgnorePointer(
            child: TextField(
              controller: hintController,
              style: TextStyle(color: Colors.grey),
            ),
          ),
          TextField(
            onChanged: (val) {
              String newHint = "";
              for (int i = 0; i < hintVal.length; i++) {
                if (i < val.length) {
                  newHint += val[i];
                } else {
                  newHint += hintVal[i];
                }
              }
              hintController.text = newHint;
            },
          ),
        ],
      )),
    );
  }
}

A: you can use prefix widget or into onChange textField method like below code handle it:
final c = TextEditingController();
bool x = true;

TextFormField(
      controller: c,
      onChanged: (val) {
        if (x) {
          x = false;
          c.text = '99'+val;
        } else if (val.length == 0) x = true;
      },
    )

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