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Katie McCabe, née le  à Kilnamanagh, est une footballeuse internationale irlandaise. Elle joue au poste d'attaquante à Arsenal.

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En équipe nationale

Le , elle fait partie de la sélection irlandaise qui se qualifie pour la première fois de son histoire pour une Coupe du monde. L'Irlande bat l'Écosse 0-1 à Hampden Park. Titulaire, McCabe joue l'intégralité de la rencontre.

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Elle est ouvertement lesbienne. En , elle révèle qu'elle et Ruesha Littlejohn étaient en couple et que le football féminin acceptait très bien les personnes LGBT.

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Footballeuse internationale irlandaise
Naissance en septembre 1995
Naissance dans le comté de Dublin
Joueuse du Raheny United
Joueuse de l'Arsenal WFC
Joueuse du Glasgow City FC
Joueuse du Shelbourne LFC
Personnalité ayant fait son coming out

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Delhi bases E2E Networks IPO comprises fresh issue of 2.75 million shares worth Rs 15.67 crore besides an offer for sale of 1.10 million shares. Tech-focused early stage investment firm Blume Venture Advisors is selling about one third of its stake i.e. 743,000 shares in the c ompamny through the E2E Networks IPO.
E2E Networks provides Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Managed Services. It has built its own Cloud Infrastructure and developed its own Technology Stacks, which it claims makes its Cloud Infra offering among the most affordable in the market. Its CloudOps Platform supports 2,000+ public clouds across the world.
The company is in the business of, providing Cloud Infrastructure in India from 2009 and has been providing Cloud migration and Deployment for its clients. It has also launched its hourly billed pure SSD (Solid-State-Drive) public cloud and private cloud.
The company provides its services through Third Party Data Centers situated at Noida, Mumbai and Vellore. It doesnlot own these data centres.
The promoters of the Company are Tarun Dua and Srishti Baweja. They hold, in aggregate 77, 60,695 Equity Shares representing 67.51% of the pre issue Paid-up Capital of the Company.
In 2011, E2E Networks raised a first round of angel investment from angel investors Blume Ventures and Freeman Murray.
Repayment/ prepayment of certain indebtedness.
The Delhi-based E2E Networks has been offering Low latency Dedicated and VPS Servers in India since 2009. It delivers solutions for hosting web and enterprise applications.
Company's Cloud Operations Platform helps clients to focus on services that drive their business, by outsourcing total responsibility for infrastructure operation and maintenance.
E2E Networks clocked a total revenue of Rs 27.2 crore during the 9 months of Fy17-18 and profit after tax stood at healthy 5.26 crore.
E2E Networks revenue and net profit have shown healthy CAGR in last few Financial Years with revenues CAGR standing at 78% and Net profit CAGR standing at 146%.
E2E Networks Cloud Infrastructure is being used by many well-known companies across industries like E-Commerce, Digital Classified, BFSI and other digital businesses. E2E Networks has a good clientele base and the names include CarDekho, Jabong, Medianama, Vccircle.com, Maharashtra Tourism etc.
Changes in government regulations or their implementation could disrupt the company's operations adversely affect its business.
E2E Networks has used most of its reserves to issue bonus shares.
As claimed by E2E Networks , the company specializes in servicing Indian Internet start-ups and start-ups have migrated to its hosting and cloud computing platform from global providers such as Amazon, Rackspace and Media temple etc.
After the E2E Networks IPO, Promoters stake in the company shall stand at 69.94 %.
On the fully diluted post IPO equity shares capital of Rs. 14.25 crore, the stock is being offered at a PE of around 12 based on annualized 9 month FY 17-18 earnings. This looks reasonable.
E2E Networks is backed by Blume Ventures along with angel investor Freeman Murray and few others who while selling shares are noiot making a total exit.
I intend to apply in E2E Networks IPO as the issue is in a sector that could see a good uptick, reasonably priced , company has good profitability metrics and has shown good compounded growth rate in Revenues and Profits. My decision to apply is subject to company getting good response to the IPO. On Day 1, the E2E Networks IPO was subscribed 0.38 times.
This is an SME issue that shall be listed on NSE Emerge SME platform and compared to issues that list on BSE/NSE, such issues carry more risk.


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Real Name: Mark Anthony Myrie
Born: July 15th 1973
Banton was raised in Denham Town and began to learn the craft of the DJ at the age of 13 with the Rambo Mango and Sweet Love sound systems. The name Buju, meaning breadfruit, was given to him by his mother when he was a baby because of his chubbiness. DJ Clement Irie introduced him to Robert Ffrench, who produced his 1986 debut single "The Ruler". In 1987, he worked with Red Dragon, Bunny Lee and Winston Riley, the latter successfully remixing several of his tracks. As his voice matured its rich growl was likened to Shabba Ranks. Several hits that established Banton as the most exciting newcomer in 1991 were written with Dave "Rude Boy" Kelly, resident engineer at Donovan Germain's Penthouse Studio. Some of their lyrics drew controversy, such as "Love Mi Browning", which describes Banton's fondness for light-skinned girls. "Women Nuh Fret", "Batty Rider", "Bogle Dance" and "Big It Up" (the first release on Kelly's Mad House label) set dancehall fashions. Several hits on Penthouse, Soljie, Shocking Vibes, Bobby Digital and Exterminator confirmed Banton's prominence and coincided with the release of Mr. Mention on Penthouse. "Boom Bye Bye" for Shang was certainly the most infamous of these singles because of its aggressive homophobia.
National television exposure in the UK caused a wave of media hostility and criticism. Nevertheless, the reggae charts were dominated by Banton's hits, often in combination with other Penthouse artists, including Wayne Wonder, Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths and Carol Gonzales. Later in 1991, Banton signed a major contract with Mercury Records. By 1993, his lyrics had more frequently begun to address cultural issues. "Tribal War" (featuring star guest performers) was a reaction to Jamaica's political conflicts, "Operation Ardent" took exception to Kingston's curfew laws, and "Murderer" dealt with the shooting of his friend and fellow DJ, Pan Head. This element of harsh reality in juxtaposition with Banton's crude lyrical seduction of women has helped confirm his world-class status. In 1996, Til Shiloh (meaning "forever") was ranked in Spin magazine's Top 20 albums of the year. The album, featuring a full studio band, was instrumental in moving dancehall away from synthesized music. The subsequent Inna Heights and Unchained Spirit received equal praise, helping establish Banton as one of the leading reggae artists of his era.

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Does Elton John Hate the kids of Conservatives? If he praises the actions of Compassionate Conservatives then I think he does.
I like Elton John. I want him and everyone else to be able to Marry whomever they want. I want him to be free to write more great hits like "Sad Songs" and "Tiny Dancer". I'm a fan. But what I am not a fan of is his Collectivist Ideas of praising "Compassionate Conservatives" for using the force of Government to steal property from some, in order to give it to others, even if it is to "Save Lives in Africa". More Government always leads to less freedom, for Elton John, for individuals in America and around the world.
Elton exclaims "think of all the love" that the actions of the Conservative politicians produced, but is taxation and redistribution an act of love?
When property is stolen from "taxpayers" in the form of taxes, they suffer and so do their children. Having children at all for the productive class is an economic decision and taxation and inflation are key drivers in that decision. In effect when Government steals money from a mother and father they are being deprived by force of their resources, which they can spend on their offspring which in effective limits how many children they have. This reduces the "Love" an individual can show to themselves, their living children and the children they choose not to have due to economic reasons.
Stealing money from one to give to another isn't an act of love, either from whom its stolen from or to whom its bestowed upon. Think about the corruption these "Billions of Love dollars" will perpetuate in Africa and here at home. Where is this money going to? Who benefits? I bet it is going to benefit the politicians and their cronies more than any Aids infected individual in Africa. The Drug Companies win, the NGO's win, and the local corrupt chieftains in America and Africa win as well.
Instead of advocating for more Government, I wish Elton and others would be advocating for protecting the Natural Rights of every individual, whether they are gay, straight, live in Africa or America or have AIDS or not. Everyone on Earth has a right to their life, liberty and property. No one has a right to take away anyone's life, liberty or property even if it is to "help" someone else.
The planners in Washington who think they can spend your money better than you can never miss an opportunity to do so. This is just such an opportunity. If individuals want to give to charity that is their business. It is no business of Government to do so.
Elton John doesn't hate the kids of Conservatives but by praising and putting his stamp of approval on Conservative Politicians redistributing the wealth of others, limits the life and "love" of individuals from whom the tax dollars are stolen from. It is a violation of their God-given Natural Rights. If it's okay to take money to help AIDS infected individuals then why shouldn't the government confiscate all taxpayer income and allow politicians to dole the stolen wealth out to the "needy"?
A lot of people who have a cause turn to government for help. But Government has no money of its own. It steals what it has from those who provide a service or product that others voluntarily purchase, whether that be the service of a bank teller or a Master Song writer producing a heart wrenching "Sad Song".
Property should only be taken from someone who earned it on the Free Market through voluntary exchange as a recourse to satisfy a victim after that individual committed a crime. I have committed no crime against any African who contracted AIDS. Why should the government steal money from me that I work for to give to them? That is the crux of the matter. No one has a prior lien on my earnings, no matter how much they are in need.
The misery and poverty of billions of people around the world is terrible. But having the government steal money from taxpayers and then dole it out to the "needy" is not the answer. What keeps people in poverty is Government and specifically the Authoritarian Collectivist Ideas upon which it is based. They are the same ideas that Elton John is unwittingly supporting when he praises and in effect advocates for more of the same Government actions that perpetuate poverty and misery here and around the world.
Individual Liberty and Private Property and the idea that the Individual is sovereign instead of the "Collective" has raised the living standard of Billions and saved the lives of Billions as well. What Elton and others who advocate for collectivism forget is that the wealth that is stolen from productive individuals was created not because of government but because of the voluntary exchanges of the free market. More freedom equals more wealth and because of that more people will be helped. Voluntary Charity is huge in this country and would increase in direct proportion to the decrease in Government theft (taxation).
Taxation is theft and not an act of Love. Love is a personal act and by its very nature can only be voluntary, or it is not Love. It is the willing sacrifice of yourself for another because you want to enjoy the life of that individual. Love is not force, it is the opposite of force. Government is force and as such is the opposite of love. If a thief steals a hundred dollars from you and gives it to someone who "needs" it, does that change the fact that the theft took place? Aren't you still out the hundred dollars? . Taxation for "Good" is still theft.
These "Humanitarian Highwaymen" of the government who steal from you to "help others" remember do so at the barrel of a gun. Just try not paying your share of helping someone over seas. The friendly "Humanitarians" at the IRS will begin a dialogue with you that has the full force of Government behind it. And if you persist in not "paying your humanitarian share" they will come and seize it, and they will do so like the highwaymen of old with a gun. And just like the highwaymen of old they will not hesitate to kill you if you persist in not giving up your property in a timely manner.
All Government Humanitarianism is based upon this model. Give up the loot or give up your life. This is why so many go to the government for the support of their cause. There isn't a better armed "highwayman" in the world.
I think Elton and most people who look to Government to help their cause are trying to do good even though they don't consciously understand that taxation is theft, and in essence armed robbery. I hope that those like Elton instead of advocating for more Government theft will advocate for less, because the more Freedom people have the more prosperous they are the more they are able to help themselves and others.
Do Conservatives Secretly hope Obama Care will Stick?
Who were the Conservatives in the colonies during the Revolution? They were those loyal to the Crown. They were those who supported the status Quo because of the State privileges that they received. Today unfortunately Conservatives do the exact same thing.
The fight today isn't between Conservatives who are interested in Individual Liberty and Liberals who are interested in Socialism. Neither party are interested in more freedom for you. They are interested in Power and Money. The both revel in the sovereignty of the State and the subjugation of the individual. That is no different then the attitude that King George had in regards to his "Subjects" in the American Colonies before the Revolution.
The Revolution of 1776 was the opposite of Conservatism. It was a revolution of thought in which the individual was Sovereign and Government was the servant. Like Judge Nap used to say on Freedom Watch (which was cancelled by Roger Ailes a Conservative) "Does the government work for us or do we work for the government?" That is a fundamental question that the history of Conservatives in this country have gotten wrong.
The victories of the Collectivists in this Country are never Rolled back. The New Deal by FDR and the War on Poverty by Johnson which are typically expounded by the Conservative intelligentsia as the reason why we are living in an increasingly Collectivist society have been cemented into American Society and added to. If you want more Freedom in this coutnry today your best bet you are told is to support Conservatives. Are they the party of Liberty like they claim?
Why is it that after 1960's the Conservatives no longer desired to Rollback Social Security or the major programs of the New Deal? Why is it in less than fifty years from the expansion of Welfare under Johnson did Conservatives create Medicare Part D which added adding massively to the Deficit, Debt and collectivist Growth of the State?
If Conservates were truly the Party of Liberty why is it that even when the Paragon of Conservatism was in the White House, The Gipper, the National Debt continued to grow?
Without Conservatives tacit and outright support of the Collectivist Programs there would be no Medicare, Social Security or Obama Care today. Like Murray Rothbard writes , Conservatives only pay lip service to the principles of Liberty and are only interested in the "Socialism they can control". They are the "Loyalists" of today.
Obama Care today could easily be called fifty years from now "Conservative Care". Because after the people get used to the hand outs and the false security of the smooth hand of government Conservatives will not in any way shape or form take it away. In fact they will do everything to keep it place like they do with Social Security and Medicare today. That is the definition of conserving.
Today the tepid outrage over Obama care is pathetic in the House and Senate. That is because everyone in Washington (with few exceptions) desires power. And the way they gain that power is through the power of taxation and inflation. The more Government that exists the more they can tax and the more they can inflate. Which benefits those who are close to the Levers of power while the rest of us suffer.
The whole idea that there is some ideological battle being waged in Washington between Conservatives and Liberals is ludicrous.
Why is it that no matter who is in office the Debt grows? Why is that when anyone is in Control of the Congress Government Grows? Why is it that overwhelming majority of Americans want to keep Social Security and Medicare? It's because the Conservative core of America likes the Security of Government. That's why they don't support any cust to the Trillion dollar imperialist War Budget. And in a telling poll a few years ago over sixty five percent of Tea Party folks in a poll said they wanted to cut the National Budget but not to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Maybe John Roberts is giving the American People, Conservative and Liberal alike what they want?
I think its ludicrous when I hear Rush or other Conservatives say they are trying to "Conserve" the American institutions and traditions that made this country great. The simple concept that made prosperity possible in this country is "Liberty" and the lack of Government to interfere with that Liberty. It's not the ordered Liberty that Conservatives crave. It's the "Invisible Hand" or the "Market Anarchy" that for over a hundred years laid the foundation of Prosperity of this Society which is now unfortunately increasingly crumbling under our feet.
Conservatives help "conserve" and "concretize" the collectivist programs that the left pushes for. This is tyranny, plain and simple. Conservatives coat the current collectivism in terms of the Revolution but in fact are doing nothing more than supporting the State and destroying Individual Liberty and the prospects of a better life for most Americans.
Conservatives and Liberals are all part of the One Government Party. One pushes forward increasing the Power of the State. One flaps its gums about the "unconstitutionality" of that increase but never repeals any of the "evil socialist laws". In fact once it becomes law the Conservatives fight to keep it because people like free stuff and don't typically vote for people who take away their free stuff. Look at the Income Tax, The Federal Reserve System, Social Security, Obama Care and the 3.729 trillion dollar Federal Budget.
Conservatives are hypocrites if they say they want to repeal Obama Care and do not in the same breath say that Social Security and Medicare should go as well.
Let us not forget it was a Conservative administration in 1913 that ushered in the income tax. And how many Conservatives seek to get rid of the Federal Reserve System? Both of these are anathema to the ideas REvolution of 1776 and Indivdidual Liberty. Without these two Collectivist lynch pins the Welfare State would not exist and the Perpetual War for Peace policy began under Teddy Roosevelt and furthered by every President since including Ronald Reagan could not exist.
Conservatives, conserve the status quo and allow those who have benefited from the system to continue to use the system for their benefit. They only time Conservatives battle with Liberals is when their cronies don't get enough of the taxpayer pie.
Mitt Romney and Barrack Obama are no different. They both have ZERO intention of shrinking the debt. They both will sign off on Spending Increases. They both will increase the size and scope of Government and limit your freedom. At best Romney is a place holder for where we are today. At worst he will grow the government but only slightly slower than Obama. Both believe as King Georgedid back in 1776 that individuals are merely subjects.
The principles are what matter. Either you believe in Individualism where every individual has a God-given right to their life Liberty and Property or you don't. Mitt Romney and Barrack Obama both Believe that you don't have any inalienable rights and that the State administering the Collective will grants you the rights you have and can take them away at anytime.
Maybe John Roberts is right? He wrote that the individual mandate of Obama Care is a tax. He sees that this is just an extension of the principle on which Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are based upon. Maybe his take is that if the people want this, then let them have it. Who is he to prevent the "ignorant masses" from destroying themselves? Or maybe he thinks that Conservatives when they get into office will be able to "manage" this huge new bureaucracy and be able to dole out even more tax payer dollars to their own cronies. Either way he was not basing his opinon on the Ideas of the Revolution. He was simply helping to conserve the principles of Collectivism.
Until there is a fundamental move from Conservatism back Principles of Individualism which the Revolution of 1776 were based upon this country will continue to slide down the road to serfdom. Conservatism is just a "governor" which only slows down the rate of speed at which we travel down the road to serfdom. Make no mistake their destination is the same as the Progressives, Liberals and Socialists, for you, which is more Government control over your lives and less Individual Liberty.
I hope that all Conservatives will drop the idea of "Conserving" the current mess and join with Libertarians, Radical Individualists and Anarcho-Capitalists who seek a Peaceful Revolution to overthrow the current status Quo.
"And by "revolution" I mean the return to the people of that sovereignty which our tradition assumes them to have. I mean the return to them of the power which government confiscated by way of the Sixteenth Amendment".
If Conservatives wanted to Conserve the ideals of the Revolution repealing the Sixteenth Amendment would be a good start. But let us not forget that its only Libertarians who are so bold as to propose that today. All the Conservatives want to do is "simplify the Tax Code". Stated differently they want to "Conserve the Tax Code". Which means conserving the power of the State over the subjected individual.
If you call yourself a Conservative and believe in the Principles of Liberty I urge you to drop that label and not support anyone based upon that label. Look at the fundamental principle behind what people are peddling. It's always a matter of the individual vs. the State. That is the only ideological fight we have.


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LGBT youth of the world unite ! New activist site launched
Publié le 15 janvier 2009 par entr3lles
By PinkNews.co.uk Staff Writer
Two leading gay organisations have joined forces to launch the first
international network to allow young activists from across the world to
work together.
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer
Youth and Student Organisation and the International Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, are behind the LGBT Youth
World List.
The new service is trailed as being open to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer young people," or "LGBTQI."
The site will allow members to share their experiences, ideas and
expertise, and to work together to solve problems and run projects.
The working languages of the list are English, Spanish and French.
Nanna Moe, IGLYO Board Member and Communication Officer, said:
"This will create a global conversation about LGBT rights, allowing
young people to make contact and work together in an international
fight for respect.
"This project is just part of IGLYO's venture beyond Europe.
"The list is very much in line with IGLYO activities this year,
since it is the 25th anniversary of IGLYO, which we are going to
celebrate with a reunion and huge conference with international guest
in Amsterdam in July."
Individuals join by becoming members of an email group, which is
moderated for safety – a feature which could be important for members,
especially those who live in countries where LGBT rights are not
recognised.
To sign up to the LGBT Youth World List visit www.iglyo.com or www.ilga.org.
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The Grosvenor Arms is a stylish coaching inn, found in the heart of the ancient hilltop town of Shaftesbury. It's a stunning property, a Georgian beauty though it roots are far older, dating back to medieval times when it was known as The Red Lion.
Shaftesbury is steeped in Saxon history. It was here that King Alfred built his great abbey. It's the 'Shaston' of Thomas Hardy's novels and we're a stone's throw from the famous Gold Hill which looks out over the beautiful Blackmore Vale.
We've taken very good care of this much-loved treasure, updated where it's been needed, refreshed and enhanced. There are 16 lovely bedrooms. The laid-back bar features sumptuous fabrics of midnight blue and green velvets, butter soft-leather banquettes and crystal lights. The charming restaurant has dreamy, muted grey tones. The Grosvenor Arms has elegance and style with a modern rusticity. Above everything it is welcoming and relaxed.
Restaurants are popular in Shaftesbury and thanks to our exec chef, Tom Blake, The Grosvenor Arms especially so. Tom was head chef at River Cottage and is famed for his network of local West Country growers and producers. He celebrates provenance and the seasons. His menus reflect this: all locally sourced, all traceable and, most importantly, the food tastes fabulous.
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Join us on Friday, April 26 at 7 pm to hear Glenis Redmond and Vera Gomez deliver poems About Place. They will share what they have gleaned from their individual and familial journeys.
A day just for us and people like us! Huzzah! Come down to M.Judson on Saturday, April 27 to celebrate Independent Book Store Day! We'll have special stuff going on all day long. Here's a sample of some of the amazing people who will help us celebrate. We hope you will, too!
Join us on Tuesday, April 30 from 4-6 pm at the store for a unique, fun-filled evening celebrating books and reading and YOU! Mingle with wonderful local authors, meet experts who will "speed date" their top fave recently released books, preview new books coming out, learn about M. Judson's school initiatives to get kids reading and how we can work together and share our resources throughout the year.
It's not every day you can change a life, but Saturday, May 4 is one of the days when you can. Serenity Place will be at M.Judson from 9-12 selling their book Beautiful Recovery. If there's anyone who could write a book with that title, it's the ladies who have found hope, healing, and transformation at Serenity Place, and they are the authors and illustrators of this book.
On Saturday, May 11, our friends from Greenville Literacy Association will be at M.Judson from 10 am to noon to answer questions, tell you about the awesome work they're doing, and provide general good cheer. Come by, say "hi!", and support some of the best readers we know.
Join us for Lunch & Lit on Thursday, May 16, featuring author Margaret Bradham Thornton and her new novel, A Theory of Love.
Join us at M.Judson to meet New York Times bestselling author Michelle Gable on Thursday, May 23 at 7 pm. Michelle will be discussing her book, The Summer I Met Jack. The book is Michelle's beautiful imagining of the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark and the child they may have had. Michelle will read excerpts and answer questions. You just might leave with a perfect beach read for the beginning of summer.
June 6 is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. To honor that significant date, we've invited author Tom Baker to the store on Saturday, June 1 from 10-12 to sign copies of his book, The Hawk and the Dove. Tom is a US Army combat veteran from the Vietnam war. He was a grunt with the 101st airborne division in Vietnam, a parachute rigger, and he spent all of 1968 and early 69 as a door-gunner for the first of the 9th First Cav. Since then, Tom has been a forester and logger in NC for over 40 years.
Y'all! The Lee Brothers are coming back! Run, don't walk. This one is sure to sell out quickly. Clear your calendars for Sunday, June 2 at 7 pm. We're very excited to welcome two of our favorite brothers ever back to the store for our next Sunday Sit-Down Supper: Matt and Ted Lee. We'll be featuring their newest book, Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business. It's their unique take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience. After reading this book, you'll never attend a party―or entertain on your own―in the same way again.
We're partnering with our friends at The Chocolate Moose to organize a book-inspired wine tasting where the qualities of each wine get paired with books that share the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of wine will be for sale at great prices, too. It's a great date or a perfect girls night out. Buy your ticket now and join us on Monday, August 19 at 6:30.
We're closing our doors a wee bit early today so our Furman friends can have the run of the joint for a bit. We'll be back on regular time tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!
We love it when the bookstore becomes a place where different kinds of storytelling get the chance to take the stage. Join us for Songwriter's Circle, in collaboration with some of the Upstate's finest singer/songwriters, to hear music and talk inspiration (because storytelling runs through everything we love). Come join us on Wednesday, April 10 at 7PM. Absolutely free!
Join us on Monday, April 8 to hear acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott talk about her charmingly relatable book, I Miss You When I Blink.
In this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Mary Laura takes on the conflicting pressures of modern adulthood with wit and heart, offering up her own story to remind us that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you don't have to burn it all down and set off on a transcontinental hike (unless you want to, of course).
Mary Laura will be on hand to talk, answer questions, and sign books, and we'll be dining at the hands of the fabulous Chef Shaun Garcia at Soby's (which is hardly ever open for lunch). Join us for a funny, poignant, spot-on reminder that sometimes there might be more to life than a to-do list.
Tickets are $45 and include a three course lunch and a copy of I Miss You When I Blink.
Do you know your GoT houses? Can you keep track of all the characters (alive, dead, in-between)? If you think you know GoT, come out and prove it on Tuesday, April 2 at 7 pm. Can you achieve the Iron Throne or are you destined to join the Night's Watch along the Wall?
Come as a team of 2-6 players. Questions will mainly be based on the TV show. It's free, and there will be prizes!
It's free, but registration is required!
This week, we'll be celebrating the books of Eric Carle. Join us as Miss Debi reads Brown Bear, Brown Bear, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other favorites!
Friends, book lovers, countrymen: lend me your ears! The only person who was supposed to beware the Ides of March was Julius Caesar (RIP, King Jules). The rest of us can make of them what we will, and this year we decree that will make of them a Happy Hour, replete with special M.Judson discounts and free samples of Italian wine. Join us to celebrate the Ides of March together in our store on Friday, March 15 (of course!) from 5-7:30 pm. No toga required.
If you like local history, this is a conversation you won't want to miss! Join us on Thursday, March 14 at 7 pm to hear author William Gravely discuss his book They Stole Him Out of Jail. It's the true story of twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, an African American man arrested for the murder of a Greenville, South Carolina, taxi driver named T. W. Brown. William Gravely is a native of Pickens County, South Carolina and professor emeritus at the University of Denver. We hope you'll join us on March 14 to learn more about an amazing story from an esteemed teacher.
If you're a fan of Maria Semple (Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and others) or Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park and others), you won't want to miss this Lunch & Lit. Join us on Tuesday, March 12 to hear Mary Adkins discuss her book, When You Read This.
Told in a series of e-mails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, legal correspondence, home-rental bookings, and other snippets of our virtual lives, When You Read Thisis a deft, captivating romantic comedy—funny, tragic, surprising, and bittersweet—that candidly reveals how we find new beginnings after loss.
Mary will be on hand to talk, answer questions, and sign books, and we'll be dining at the hands of the fabulous Chef Shaun Garcia at Soby's (which is hardly ever open for lunch).
Tickets are $45 and include a three course lunch and a copy of When You Read This.
Join us on Thursday, March 7 at 7 pm for Book and a Beer with the amazing George Singleton. Facilitated by our friend Brett Barest (who will introduce the beer and the author), George will give a short reading from his new book Staff Picks, a collection of loosely tied stories, followed by a Q&A time. A sample of beer is free, and books are available for purchase. George and Brett will be there - we hope you will be, too.
Join us for an evening In Conversation With Judy Goldman as we discuss her newest book, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap.
Reminiscent of Dani Shapiro's Hourglass, memoirist Judy Goldman paints a portrait of a relationship tested and lives changed in an instant in Together. Faced with an unknown future when her husband of 40 years becomes paralyzed from the waist down after a botched medical procedure, Judy must take on the role her husband had always occupied – that of the provider – and as she tries to envision her family's future, she discovers a new, more resilient version of herself.
Judy is the author of two award-winning poetry collections and two novels – this is her second memoir. Her work has appeared in Real Simple, The Washington Post, and many literary journals.
Come join the conversation with Judy on Monday, February 25 at 7 pm.
We love it when the bookstore becomes a place where different kinds of storytelling get the chance to take the stage. Join us for Songwriter's Circle, in collaboration with some of the Upstate's finest singer/songwriters, to hear music and talk inspiration (because storytelling runs through everything we love). February's event features artists Shaun Williams and Bradley Lindsey. Come join us on Wednesday, February 13 at 7PM. Absolutely free!
Tickets are $40 and include a three course lunch and a copy of The Queen of Hearts.


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Storeria victa, the Florida brown snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. It is endemic to Georgia and Florida in the United States.

References

Storeria
Snakes of North America
Reptiles of the United States
Snake, Florida Brown
Reptiles described in 1892
Taxa named by Oliver Perry Hay


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William Alfred Morrison was a British trade union leader.

Morrison became active in the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, and in 1938 was elected as secretary of its London Central branch, the largest branch of the union.  In this role, he supported C. C. Diels in refusing to work with the Mosley News Letter, a fascist publication put out by Oswald Mosley.  Mosley Publications took the two to the High Court, along with the uninvolved Cyril Watt, arguing that they were guilty of conspiracy to prevent their publications being printed, but Morrison and the union activists won the case.  Later in the year, he was elected as general secretary of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers in 1947, taking 31,515 in the election, compared to 11,290 for Vincent Flynn, and 4,204 for F. A. J. Stickland.

While leader of the Paper Workers, Morrison played a prominent role in various other organisations.  From 1950 until 1952 he was president of the bookbinders' group of the International Graphical Federation, and for many years he served on the executive committee of the IGF.  In 1955, he was elected as vice-president of the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, becoming president in 1956.  In 1955, he was also chair of the scrutineers at the Trades Union Congress.  He retired at the end of 1960, but in 1963 he was appointed to the committee of the Joint Industrial Council for the printing industries.

In 1957, Morrison was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
General secretaries of British trade unions


Clare TD Michael McNamara has been readmitted to the Parliamentary Labour Party. "I will be informing Labour TDs and Senators of this development at the next meeting of the Parliamentary Party," Deputy Emmet Stagg said in marking the formal announcement. Deputy McNamara said, "Labour has a huge amount of work to do in the coming months, and in the run-up to the election and I want to play a full part in that work. I will be making it my priority to seek to reform Dáil procedures to ensure that it reflects the priorities of those who vote at elections. "I am proud of the record of this Government and, in particular, I am proud of the role that Labour has played in this. This government, with Labour at its heart, has turned the economy around. We are now creating 1,300 jobs a week, and we have created fiscal space of some €1.5b for Budget 2016.
Clare Labour TD, Michael McNamara will not support a Government motion in the Dáil this afternoon to sell the State's 25.1% stake in Aer Lingus to IAG. Deputy McNamara's refusal to support the government in the vote will lead to automatic expulsion from Labour's parliamentary party. Suggesting in the Dáil today (Thursday) the IAG takeover is "a gamble he's not prepared to support" he added, "Shannon's current business level is no guarantee that services would not be cut in the future". "I'm not prepared to gamble with what I believe is key to the economic development of this state, all of this state. I don't have confidence in these guarantees at the moment as they stand. On that basis Minister [Donohoe], I regret that I will not be able to support you in this afternoon's motion," Deputy McNamara stated.


Sometimes you come across a quote that sums up exactly what you're looking for in a relationship. Whether they remind you of your own bond, or you're crushing on the feelings they conjure deep inside, these relationship goals quotes will give you serious #RelationshipGoals.
Before you go to such an extreme you really need to ask yourself it is even OK to make your partner have to undergo a liedetectors.co.uk.


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Q: Sorting values in array of objects within array of objects I'd like to sort through all the itemNames and add all the appropriate quantities together to be able to determine which items were ordered the most.
Here is the array of objects below. I want to try to filter and map through the array of objects and list out the itemName and appropriate totaled quantity for each one, just not sure how to chain together.
function OrderRepository() {

return orderLines.filter((itemName) => {
   orderLines.map((quantity) => {
     return
  }
 }
}

Provided array of objects
OrderRepository.prototype.getYesterdaysOrders = function getYesterdaysOrders() {
var yesterdaysOrders = [
    {
        id: 1,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 1 },
            { itemName: "Item 02", quantity: 3 },
            { itemName: "Item 03", quantity: 25 },
            { itemName: "Item 04", quantity: 12 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 2,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 1 },
            { itemName: "Item 08", quantity: 42 },
            { itemName: "Item 09", quantity: 13 },
            { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 37 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 3,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 16 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 4,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 10", quantity: 11 },
            { itemName: "Item 11", quantity: 10 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 5,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 06", quantity: 7 },
            { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 2 },
            { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 14 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 6,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 05", quantity: 17 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 7,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 03", quantity: 5 },
            { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 2 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 8,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 02", quantity: 13 },
            { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 7 },
            { itemName: "Item 09", quantity: 2 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 9,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 4 },
            { itemName: "Item 06", quantity: 17 },
            { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 3 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 10,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 11", quantity: 12 },
            { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 1 },
        ],
    },
 ];

 return yesterdaysOrders;
};

Desired result
{ itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 6 }
{ itemName: "Item 02", ...... }
I'd like the itemName in order with the totaled quantity listed for that item. So the total number of times Item 01 was ordered yesterday was 6.

A: You could count the items with the help of a Map and render the wanted result as an array.

var data = [{ id: 1, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 1 }, { itemName: "Item 02", quantity: 3 }, { itemName: "Item 03", quantity: 25 }, { itemName: "Item 04", quantity: 12 }] }, { id: 2, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 1 }, { itemName: "Item 08", quantity: 42 }, { itemName: "Item 09", quantity: 13 }, { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 37 }] }, { id: 3, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 16 }] }, { id: 4, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 10", quantity: 11 }, { itemName: "Item 11", quantity: 10 }] }, { id: 5, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 06", quantity: 7 }, { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 2 }, { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 14 }] }, { id: 6, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 05", quantity: 17 }] }, { id: 7, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 03", quantity: 5 }, { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 2 }] }, { id: 8, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 02", quantity: 13 }, { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 7 }, { itemName: "Item 09", quantity: 2 }] }, { id: 9, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 4 }, { itemName: "Item 06", quantity: 17 }, { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 3 }] }, { id: 10, orderLines: [{ itemName: "Item 11", quantity: 12 }, { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 1 }] }],
    result = Array.from(
        data.reduce((m, { orderLines }) => {
            orderLines.forEach(({ itemName, quantity }) => m.set(itemName, (m.get(itemName) || 0) + quantity));
            return m;
        }, new Map),
        ([itemName, quantity]) => ({ itemName, quantity })
    );

console.log(result);
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A: This is what you are looking for:
var hashmap = {}
for(var each of yesterdaysOrders) {
    for(var one of each['orderLines']) {
        if (one['itemName'] in hashmap) {
            hashmap[one['itemName']] += one['quantity']
        } else {
            hashmap[one['itemName']] = one['quantity']
        }
    }
}

A: You can use JavaScript's reduce() method to do that.
let result = yesterdaysOrders.reduce((arr, currentValue) => {
  currentValue.orderLines.forEach(order => {
    const index = arr.findIndex(item => item.itemName === order.itemName);
    if (index === -1) {
      arr.push(order);
    } else {
        arr[index].quantity += order.quantity;
    }
  });

  return arr;
}, []);

And sort the resultant array using Array.sort().
// Sorting on item name in ascending order.
result.sort((a, b) => {
    if (a.itemName < b.itemName) {
      return -1;
    } else if (a.itemName > b.itemName) {
        return 1;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
});

Demo:

var yesterdaysOrders = [
    {
        id: 1,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 1 },
            { itemName: "Item 02", quantity: 3 },
            { itemName: "Item 03", quantity: 25 },
            { itemName: "Item 04", quantity: 12 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 2,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 1 },
            { itemName: "Item 08", quantity: 42 },
            { itemName: "Item 09", quantity: 13 },
            { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 37 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 3,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 16 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 4,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 10", quantity: 11 },
            { itemName: "Item 11", quantity: 10 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 5,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 06", quantity: 7 },
            { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 2 },
            { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 14 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 6,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 05", quantity: 17 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 7,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 03", quantity: 5 },
            { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 2 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 8,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 02", quantity: 13 },
            { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 7 },
            { itemName: "Item 09", quantity: 2 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 9,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 01", quantity: 4 },
            { itemName: "Item 06", quantity: 17 },
            { itemName: "Item 07", quantity: 3 },
        ],
    },
    {
        id: 10,
        orderLines: [
            { itemName: "Item 11", quantity: 12 },
            { itemName: "Item 12", quantity: 1 },
        ],
    },
 ];

let result = yesterdaysOrders.reduce((arr, currentValue) => {
  currentValue.orderLines.forEach(order => {
    const index = arr.findIndex(item => item.itemName === order.itemName);
    if (index === -1) {
    arr.push(order);
  } else {
    arr[index].quantity += order.quantity;
  }
  });

  return arr;
}, []);

// Sorting on item name in ascending order.
result.sort((a, b) => {
    if (a.itemName < b.itemName) {
      return -1;
    } else if (a.itemName > b.itemName) {
        return 1;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
});

console.log(result);

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First of all frankly speaking, Gmail Hacker is a hacking tool( or i better call it social engineering hacking tool) which can be used in either way like Hacking someone's Gmail account and at same time loosing your Gmail Account( if not handled with extreme care). So friends which process you all wanna learn first. Hacking one or getting Hacked one.. or both at same time going step by step :P.
Step 3 - Next you need to enter your gmail address where you would receive logs. However I would recommend you to create a fake email address and use it for receiving logs.
Step 4 - Once you have entered your credentials, click on the build button.
Now you need to apply your social engineering skills in order to make the victim enter his/her credentials on to the software. The simplest way of accomplishing this is to tell the victim that the application Gmailhacker.exe is itself a gmail hacking software, You just need to the victim's username, your own gmail ID and your own gmail password, where you would receive victims passwords and click "Hack Them".
Step 6 - Once the victim clicks on the "Hack Them" button, his own gmail credentials that he entered would be sent to you on the email you typed while configuring the software.
Now i hope you all understood which part you need to provide credentials and which part you need to provide the fake account credentials that you have recently created.
Irony Part : The file that is being generated by builder.exe i.e. Gmail Hacker.exe is a advance type of remote keylogger which will sent the credentials you have entered into the Gmail Hacker option menu to the hacker who has build the Gmail Hacker.exe file. So important part never put your original account credential in any of such tools which gurantees that they can hack email accounts or facebook accounts because all are simply fake. They are just cool social engineering stuff which is used to make newbie Hackers or users fool to hacker their Gmail accounts.


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Cleta Mitchell: Identify and Subpoena the Fake Whistleblower
December 14, 2019 December 15, 2019 by Cleta Mitchell	No Comments
There's always talk about the number of attorneys in the U.S. Senate – currently 49.
Now, as we approach a near certain Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in January 2020, one of the three doctors in the U.S. Senate – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) — has offered the most important legal argument about how Republicans should proceed: subpoena the so-called "whistleblower" and make him testify in the Senate.
The guy who lit the fuse of the current Democratic goose chase to undo the results of the 2016 presidential election is not a whistleblower as that term is defined in the federal Whistleblower Protection Act.
Nor is there any legal guarantee of anonymity, despite the fact that the media is treating him like a rape victim rather than as the partisan tattletale that he is.
The Whistleblower Protection Act allows federal employees who believe they have been subjected to reprisal because of protected disclosures may file a petition with the Office of Special Counsel, pursue an individual right of action before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), appeal to the MSPB regarding an agency's adverse employment action against the employee or initiate a grievance proceeding pursuant to negotiated grievance procedures. The goal is for a prevailing whistleblower to be reinstated with back pay, costs, damages, and attorneys' fees.
Articles of Impeachment
Nowhere in the law is there any mention of anonymity and, in fact, the law requires that the whistleblower take advantage of these legal protections in his or her own name.
Under federal law, then, our person-of-interest accuser is not a whistleblower. He is a tattletale and a gossip. But to be polite, let's call him "the Accuser".
There is no assertion or indication that the Accuser has been in any way punished in his employment by virtue of his accusations, such that the WPA is not even applicable to this person or the facts of this case.
The Accuser is allegedly Eric Ciaramella, a holdover from the Obama administration and a registered Democrat with ties to several Democrats, including former Vice-President Joe Biden, Obama's former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, and Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, who led an effort to link the 2016 Trump campaign to the Russian government. Despite the fact that his name has been widely circulated, Mr. Ciaramella has yet to deny that he is the Accuser.
Sen. Paul posits that for the impeachment to be credible, the President has certain rights under the U.S. Constitution, which must be protected, among them, the right to confront his accusers, including the person who provided the fodder for this process in the first place. Since that has not happened during the House proceedings, the Senate can and must ensure that the Senate actually provides to the President the Constitutional protections the House Democrats have trampled.
Barack Obama and Eric Ciaramella
While some lawyers have argued that there is no guaranteed Sixth Amendment right during impeachment proceedings, Dr. Paul understands better than the lawyers that the American people know enough about the U.S. Constitution and American legal process to understand the basic constitutional right afforded to all who are accused in this country:
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."
– Amendment VI, United States Constitution
President Trump's attorneys must be able to cross-examine the Accuser – to explore the actual knowledge, motives, and biases of this person who used his position of trust in the Trump White House to undermine the President and start the latest chapter in the Democrats' crazed assaults against the Trump presidency.
And just as important, the American people deserve to know who this person is, to be able to watch and hear him testify, and to understand how and why this individual managed to ignite our short national nightmare.
The report released this week by the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz regarding the flimsy and inappropriate origins of the Russia-Trump campaign collusion hoax, underscores the significance and importance of Sen. Paul's advice and why the Senate must examine the origins of the impeachment hoax.
Leaders at the very highest level of the Obama Administration involved themselves in a false narrative of Russia-Trump collusion and only now, more than three years later, are we able to understand how it started.
The Senate must ensure that is not repeated in the impeachment trial. The Senate trial must start at the beginning of the impeachment charade.
IG Horowitz
So, to the U.S. Senate.
Please heed Dr. Paul's advice: identify and subpoena Accuser #1. Make him answer for what he has done. Require him to be cross-examined, so we can know who he is, what his background is, why he did what he did, what Democrat members of Congress and their staffs did with and for him, and how he managed to conjure these allegations.
It is not only the President's Sixth Amendment rights that are at stake: the American people have a concurrent interest in seeing this Accuser confronted and cross-examined.
It is the vital first step the Senate must take in the preparations for the impeachment trial. It may not cure the partisan disease afflicting the rabid Democrats, but it will be an important tonic for the American people by underscoring basic rights enshrined in the Sixth Amendment, rights that have been denied the President and the citizenry since the beginning of this impeachment debacle.
Cleta Mitchell is an attorney and partner in the Washington DC office of Foley & Lardner, LLP.
1 There's always talk about the number of attorneys in the U.S. Senate – currently 49.
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Malanka (, or ) is a Ukrainian folk holiday celebrated on 13 January, which is New Year's Eve in accordance with the 31 December of Julian calendar (see Old New Year).  The festivities were historically centred around a house-to-house visiting by groups in costume as characters from a folk tale of pre-Christian origin, as well as special food and drink.  The context of the rituals has changed, but some elements continue to the present.

Origins, name and regional variations

The idea of house-to-house visits during the Christmas season is a pan-European one.  Similar customs are observed in Ireland and England as "mummering", in Winterbräuche or Faslam in Germany, etc.  In the West Slavic lands, even more closely related customs are found, with Poles even using many of the same stock characters in their house visiting traditions.

The ritual is derived from a Christianized folk tale of pagan origin. The story is based on the daughter of the creator god Praboh, whose four sons included Veles (demonized as "the Devil"), Yarylo (identified with St. George), Rai (St. John), and Lad or Mir (Peace). His daughter Lada was mother Earth, who had two children: a son called the Moon and a daughter "Spring-May", later referred to as Mylanka because she was loving (). In a version of the myth of Hades and Persephone, Mylanka's evil uncle (the Devil) desired her presence in the underworld and abducted her one day when the Moon was hunting. While Mylanka was gone, the Earth lacked the rebirth of spring, and once she was released from the vices of the Devil, flowers began to bloom and greenery spread around the world. Ukrainians celebrate Malanka to symbolize the onset of spring.  Another theory regarding the name of the character Malanka relates it to the Christian saint Melania the Younger, whose feast day is December 31 OS (January 13 NS): New Year's Day.

This holiday is also known as Bounteous Evening in much of Ukraine and Belarus, but this name can also be applied to Theophany Eve in Western Ukraine.  A traditional way of referring to the holidays during the Christmas season in the Eastern Slavic languages is by which recipe of kutia (whole-grain sweetened porridge), the most symbolic ritual food, is used.  A lenten (dairy-fee) version (bahata kutia, "ample kutia") is associated with Christmas Eve, schedra kutia ("generous" or "bountiful" kutia) with the Old New Year's Eve or Malanka, hence "bounteous evening", and a second lenten version ("hungry kutia") for Theophany Eve).

Descriptions of this holiday form the nineteenth century mention the folk play with a character named "Malanka".  They frequently also mention the tradition of driving a goat from house to house to bring good luck.  In some regions of Western Ukraine and in Romania, a live goat is replaced by a dancer in a goat costume.

Ukrainian traditions

In some villages of Vinnytsia Oblast, on this day they prepare a traditional festive dish of blood sausage, which is also called "malanka". They also bake special breads which are called "Malanka" and "Vasyl"<

On the morning of this day the second ritual kutia is prepared – the "generous" kutia. Unlike the "bahata" kutia on Sviat Vechir (Christmas Eve), it is made with non-Lenten ingredients. As is done on Sviat Vechir, the kutia is placed in the pokuttia – the corner of the house where religious icons are displayed, opposite the pich (stove). In addition, the women bake mlyntsi (pancakes), and make pyrihs and dumplings with cheese, to give as gifts to the carolers and "sowers".

Food is given a very important role: on Malanka, as it is believed that the more variety on the table that day, the more generous next year will be. The dishes should be very satisfying, but, for example, cooking fish is a bad sign, because happiness can "pour" out of the home. Pork dishes are definitely prepared, as this animal symbolizes abundance in the house. Traditionally, pork is prepared as kholodets (meat in aspic), blood and pork sausages, vershchaky (roasted pork marinated in beet kvas), salo (cured slabs of pork fatback), stuffed whole pig, and more.

In the evenings and until midnight, the carolers stroll by the houses of the village. According to ancient tradition, New Year's caroling by the "malankary", like Christmas caroling, occurs after sunset, that is, when evil spirits rule. Teenaged girls, alone or in a group, run around to their neighbors to carol. They are rewarded with food and sweets.

Young men also go about on Malanka. This is called "leading Mаlanka". Young men in masks express good wishes, and amuse with funny songs, dances, and skits. One of them is usually dressed in women's clothing and is called Melanka.

According to custom, after finishing their ritual rounds, the next morning the young men went to a crossroads to burn the "Did" or "Didukh" – a sheaf of grain that had stood in the pokuttia since Sviat Vechir – and then jumped over a bonfire. This was meant to cleanse them after dealing with the evil spirits all night.

The next day, (St. Basil's Day) when it began to grow light, the young men go to "sow grain". The grain is carried in a glove or bag. First they visit their godparents and other relatives and loved ones, then their neighbors. Entering the house, the sower sows grain and greets everyone with the New Year:
I sow, I sow, I sow, I greet you with the New Year!
Good fortune, and good health in the New Year,
May your fields bear better this year than last,
Rye, wheat and any grains,
Hemp piled to the ceiling in large rolls.
Be healthy for the New Year and Basil's Day!
God grant us this!
The first sower to visit on New Year's day brings happiness to the house. According to popular belief, girls do not bring happiness, only boys do, and therefore it is not appropriate for girls to go "sowing".

Malanka celebrations in North America

Among early settlers
Canadian Folklorist Robert Klymasz identifies the Ukrainian tradition of Malanka as alike to mummering practiced in Britain, Ireland and Newfoundland, but with several differences.  For one thing, Ukrainian Malanka mummerers were typically unmarried and always male and never female and they made a point of visiting houses that had unmarried young women, so the ritual had a function in courtship.  The humour of the ritual came from the fact that the lankiest, most awkward young man was chosen to play the role of Malanka, and then all the song praised Malanka's supposed beauty and grace.  The eligible woman of the house was scrutinized to see to which of the mummerers she gave any gifts of money or food and drink as evidence of who she might like to marry.  According to Klymasz, these house-visits were largely lost after the Second World War, and replaced by a modernized ritual.

Modernized celebrations
In North America, house visits were largely replaced by Ukrainized versions of a Anglo-North American New Year's Eve ball after the Second Wold War. They typically occur a week after Christmas Eve (Old Calendar), but not necessarily falling on 13 or 14 January; they are usually held on an ensuing Friday or Saturday night.  The characters from the mummery are now presented instead as a skit for an audience.

These "Malanky" are mostly pure modernized recreation, but with enough distinctions to indicate their cultural background. The event would typically include a supper, raffles and door prizes, and end with a zabava (dance). At midnight, once everyone cheers for the New Year, individual and pair polka dancing is stopped and the kolomyika begins. When the kolomyjka is finished, everyone resumes to their previous dancing and continue to party the night away. Malanka is often the last opportunity for partying before the solemn period of Lent which precedes Easter.

References

External links
 Mercer Report: Ukrainian New Year
 "The roots of tradition in Ukraine's folk holiday Malanka" on The Washington Post

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German Holiday Web Sales Robust
German Web merchants enjoyed a record holiday season with brick-and-clicks far ahead of pure Internet players.
"We believe that this year's Christmas business was the breakthrough on the Web for traditional companies who are massively entering e-commerce," said Christian Nolterike, CEO of Forrester Germany. "But we expect a sharp reduction in the number of Internet-only firms."
Forrester estimates holiday Web sales at 1.5 billion deutsche marks ($760 million), a dramatic increase from DM 350 million in 1999 (close to $200 million at 1999's exchange rates).
That would be 30 percent of total German Internet sales in 2000. The estimate correlates well with one issued by the German retail trade association, which put Web turnover in 2000 at DM 5 billion ($2.4 billion).
PrimusOnline, the Internet subsidiary of the Metro retail chain, reached daily sales of DM 1 million in November, easily surpassing the 2000 target of DM 100 million ($48 million) and heading for DM 150 million.
"Our Advent and Christmas business has been very good," said Primus spokesman Rene Hingst, "thanks to our concept of putting a string of specialty shops under one roof with a strong customer orientation. Sales were up 300 [percent] to 500 percent over 1999."
DVD players, digital cameras, prepaid cellular phones, scooters, real Christmas trees and espresso coffee machines did especially well, he said. Entertainment electronics and telecoms enjoyed "a small boom."
Quelle, Europe's largest mail-order house, reported Internet sales of more than DM 500 million for all of 2000 with the Christmas season seeing double the number of daily visitors.
The firm mailed 300,000 packages per day.
Otto Versand, the world's largest mail-order house, called holiday business "very good" but declined to give out Christmas sales figures just yet.
Established online stores such as Amazon.de, BOL — Bertelsmann's online bookshop, eBay, America Online and Yahoo said business ranged from very good to satisfactory.
Amazon.de shipped 60,000 packages per day and expects to "easily" triple last year's business volume. BOL said this year's holiday business had risen fivefold. Yahoo is looking at a threefold increase.
But despite Forrester's pessimistic assessment of pure Internet players, some did very well. YouSmile.de, a 1-year-old gift start-up, was 25 percent over budget a week before Christmas and expects orders to be 40 percent higher than planned.
"We think we've become Germany's leading online gift shop," said marketing and sales director Oliver Papavlassopoulos. He credits massive use of television, online discounts and partnerships with leading portals such as AOL and T-online.
YouSmile sells items in three categories — up-market brand goods such as Lindt chocolates, Remy Martin brandy and Steif toy animals; coupons for special events like a camel ride or a ride in a racing car; and "small creative ideas" like a customized front page of a newspaper for a customer's birthday.
Online wine shops also did well. Chateau Online, a French firm, reported shipping 500 to 1,000 daily orders in Germany, compared with 200 a year ago. The week before Christmas shipments hit 2,000.
Winegate.de boosted revenues from DM 2 million in 1999 to DM 12 million ($5.8 million) at the end of November. It was mailing an average of 500 to 600 packages per day with average orders worth DM 300 ($140).
Given this year's holiday season growth, online merchants are firmly established in the German market, according to Michael Mollenhauer at A.T. Kearny consulting. He told the newspaper Die Welt that "virtual traders are becoming a viable alternative" to retail outlets.
He said that the number of buyers among Internet users has risen sharply. But he warned that the solution of logistics problems remained the key to long-term success. Last year too many deliveries were late or lost.
The situation has improved this year, he said, but a lot of bottlenecks remained and will have to be removed. One of them is continued German reluctance to use credit cards online. Volume has doubled, but gross numbers are tiny
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The project is a 1998 total overhaul of a 1980s brutalist lump in Darwin's CBD. The redevelopment ideas were developed with Mike Willesee's Transmedia Group architect, Patrick Nicholas, to respond to the client's intention to create a welcoming hotel with a truly local touch for local people.
The result is a series of redeveloped bar/ restaurants (4), a new garden bar, 'Lizards', and a relocated drive-thru bottle shop - all caried out in Top End style, but catering to different types of clientele. Troppo worked down to the last detail, in part in association with Melbourne's David Lancashire Design for its graphic and signage design, as well as develping bar names and themes... There is a boat-prow pulpit, batwing-inspired lights over pool tables, escarpment waterfalls, billabongs, ironwood handbasins, floating boulders, bushpole fencing, a palm tree mirror and goanna gargoyle... All very touchy, feely, but Top End airy, informal and fun.
The project was developed under a construction management process with staged planning and building approvals; and is a tribute to the Quantity Surveyor's cost-tracking, the Builder's management skills, and the tradesmen's willingness to 'be cretive'.


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EnableX.io empowers new age recruiters to win the talent war with an AI-powered solution
New Delhi, 18 May 2021: EnableX.io, Asia's leading cloud communications platform provider, aims to revolutionise the recruitment industry with its Face Analysis and Emotion Recognition AI solution – FaceAI. With FaceAI, EnableX allows recruiters to drastically improve the interview process, reduce time-to-hire, and make more informed and data-driven hiring decisions. At the same time, it mitigates unconscious biases and stereotypes in hiring, thereby providing a level playing field for the candidates.
The solution, paired with live video, enables recruiters to understand the emotional state of the candidate by detecting over 130 facial expressions and features using Deep Neural Networks. FaceAI has the potential to identify the 7 basic emotions that include anger, disgust, fear, surprise, happiness, sadness, and neutrality, which may otherwise be overlooked by recruiters. It also helps recruiters to measure attentiveness and Arousal Valence – including emotional arousal (degree of engagement) and valence (degree of pleasantness) intensity. It is GDPR compliant, thus, no personal data is sent to any server or recorded by any third party in any way.
EnableX.io equips organisations with the necessary APIs to easily integrate FaceAI, Live Video, and other communication layers, including voice and messaging capabilities, directly into their recruitment platforms, Application Tracking Systems (ATS) talent management solutions, and HRMS systems. Hence, from crafting job descriptions to screening applications – conducting interviews and managing talent, everything can be done within the hiring platform.
Commenting on the same, Mr. Pankaj Gupta, CEO & Founder, EnableX.io said, "We are witnessing a transformation in the hiring processes across industries. Emotion AI aka Affective Computing can aid recruiters in identifying personality trait profiles as well as hard-to-spot soft skills. Our solution not only equips recruiters to assess employees or potential candidates effectively but also helps them in understanding their feelings and emotions better so that their experience could be enhanced and issues get resolved quickly."
There are multiple ways in which FaceAI and Live Video can be used together. For instance, you can adopt the one-way video self-introduction approach where you can ask candidates to introduce themselves via video on the platform. Recruiters, on the other hand, can evaluate these videos with the help of AI and finalise the candidates they want to proceed to the next round. The AI capabilities also quickly alert any identity mischief or unusual activity in a live or recorded video. Moreover, as recruiters assess candidates based on their facial expressions, the possibility of inherent biases in their decision-making is reduced to a minimum. Therefore, the decisions are made objectively and prove to be fruitful in the longer run.
To know more about EnableX FaceAI for the recruitment industry, read here
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EnableX.io, a product of vCloudx, is a communication platform for integrating real-time communication into applications and websites. The scalable and secure global platform provides developers and service providers with powerful APIs to create video, voice, and messaging conversations with ease. From one-to-one chats to large-scale broadcasts, EnableX.io makes communications more flexible and personal, helping enterprises stay ahead in the digital world.
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, EnableX.io has established a strong foothold in APAC countries. Backed by a team of 50+ passionate technologists, it constantly challenges the status quo to empower Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups across the globe with its highly interactive and powerfully engaging customer experience platform.
In the wake of the growing demand for remote communication services globally, the company in March 2020, forayed into the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space by developing a state-of-the-art Video Conferencing Solution. With this, EnableX.io became one of the few global players with a complete suite of services ranging from Communication Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) to Video Communication Software-as-a-Service.


As smartphones continue to dominate, Campus Safety has found a way to make them work even better. Rave Guardian, a security phone app tailored toward colleges, now services Knox College in three main ways: users can call or text suspicious information to Campus Safety, get assistance from Campus Safety or 911 when trouble arises and keep personal "Guardians" alert on safety statuses.
Instead of one-sided communication coming from Campus Safety, the Rave Guardian, or Knox Guardian, app allows students and staff to send text or photo tips to directly to Campus Safety when they spot suspicious activity or call in on-campus emergencies. In off-campus instances, the quick link to 911 can be used.
For the Guardian portion the app, students can create a list of people to contact, whether it be an RA, roommate, suitemate, friend or Campus Safety itself. Students send out regular updates on their status in unsafe or cautionary situations and the phone will alert the Guardians on how the user is doing and if their session expires before they deactivate it, the Guardians are alerted of the potential problem.
In the campus-wide email sent out by Director of Campus Safety John Schlaf, he encouraged everyone to sign up and pointed to the app as an important new tool for the Knox community, both on and off campus.


For the first time, liposomes that imitate cells in the process of natural death have been used to treat diabetes. The next steps are to confirm the efficacy in vivo with cells from patients and to carry out clinical trials to prevent the disease and to cure it.
Two years ago, the Immunology of Diabetes Research Group at the Germans Trias Research Institute (at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona — Campus of International Excellence Sphere) reported a new experimental immunotherapy that prevented the onset of Type 1 Diabetes in mice predisposed to the disease. This work led to more studies with the support of the Spanish Government, Catalan Government and private patrons with a keen interest in it. Thanks to this, the article published in PLOS ONE describes a new step towards the creation of a vaccine, which in the medium-term could be capable of preventing and even curing the disease in humans.
Initially the researchers avoided the destruction of the insulin-producing pancreatic cells (beta cells) in the body by modifying the individual's immune cells, known as dendritic cells. This important step requires the extraction of the subjects' dendritic cells for their subsequent manipulation and re-injection. The process is complex and costly. In a new study with mice researchers have achieved the same effect with a much simpler process. Nanoparticles called liposomes are created in the laboratory; when they are introduced into the body they arrest the destruction of the beta cells and avoid Diabetes development. This technique could be a much better candidate for a human vaccine. The invention is commercially protected and an international patent has been applied for.
Liposomes have been used in several medical treatments. They are not cells, but droplets with an external fat membrane, similar to cell membranes. They can be made using a very specialized process, but one that is easy and safe and also easy to scale up.
To complete this study Germans Trias researchers have worked together with a ICREA group from the Catalan Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2). The ICN2 is a Severo Ochoa Center of Research Excellence located on Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Campus, and its mission is to seek nanotechnology solutions to challenges in the fields of biology, energy or technology. The diameter of the liposomes created for this collaborative work is from half to one micron. They were specifically generated to imitate beta cells of the pancreas that are in the process of programmed cell death (apoptosis). As the researchers showed during the previous studies, this is the way to prevent the body from destroying the beta cells and to allow it to recuperate immunological tolerance. The Catalan researchers are the first group in the world to use liposomes that imitate naturally dying cells to fight against Diabetes. The Universities of Barcelona and Lleida also contributed to this work.
After showing that liposomes prevent the onset of Type 1 Diabetes in mice, the next steps are to test it in human cells in vitro, to start clinical trials on human candidates for preventive vaccination and to cure the disease by combining the vaccine with regenerative therapies. The Germans Trias Institute plans to carry out these steps with patients at the hospital and to optimize the product by dosage and guideline studies. It is also planned to optimize the product for personalization. To achieve these objectives more competitive funding will be necessary from public agencies. The group is also studying collaborations and investment opportunities from the pharmaceutical industry. Private funding continues to be important and the Germans Trias Institute is studying the possibility of organizing a local campaign.
Type 1 Diabetes is an illness where the body does not recognize the beta cells of the pancreas as its own and destroys them. The organ produces less and less insulin, the hormone that allows us to process the sugar we eat. Patients must prick their fingers several times a day to check blood sugar levels and inject themselves with insulin in the stomach or other parts of the body. This constant control is not always easy and having too much or too little insulin can have severe consequences. The most serious is that in the long term hyperglycemia provokes retinal damage that can lead to blindness, renal insufficiency, destruction of nerve fibers or what is called "Diabetics Foot" where ulcers form, leading eventually to the need to amputate.
The causes of the disease are unknown, although there are both genetic and environmental factors involved. About 0.3% of the population is affected and the incidence is increasing by 3-4% a year. It usually appears in children and young adults and it is incurable. This immunotherapy presents a possible solution for Type 1 Diabetes.
The above story is based on materials provided by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.


NIH study suggests the importance of preconception vitamin D in maintaining pregnancy.
Among women planning to conceive after a pregnancy loss, those who had sufficient levels of vitamin D were more likely to become pregnant and have a live birth, compared to women with insufficient levels of the vitamin, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. This study appeared in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
"Our findings suggest that vitamin D may play a protective role in pregnancy," said the study's principal investigator Sunni L. Mumford, PhD, in the Epidemiology Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
The authors note that a few studies have shown that women who have higher levels of vitamin D before undergoing in vitro fertilization have higher pregnancy rates than those with lower levels. However, little research has been done on pregnancy rates and pregnancy loss in women attempting to conceive without assisted reproductive technologies.
The researchers analyzed data collected as part of the Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction (EAGeR) trial, which sought to determine if daily low-dose aspirin (81 milligrams) could prevent miscarriage in women with a history of pregnancy loss. Blood levels of vitamin D were tested for roughly 1,200 women before pregnancy and again at the eighth week of pregnancy. Researchers defined a vitamin D level of below 30 nanograms per milliliter as insufficient.
Women who had sufficient preconception vitamin D concentrations were 10% more likely to become pregnant and 15% more likely to have a live birth, compared to those with insufficient concentrations of the vitamin. Among women who became pregnant, each 10 nanogram per milliliter increase in preconception vitamin D was associated with a 12% lower risk of pregnancy loss. Vitamin D levels in the eighth week of pregnancy were not linked to pregnancy loss.
The authors note that the study does not prove cause and effect. Additional studies are needed to determine whether providing vitamin D to women at risk for pregnancy loss could increase their chances for pregnancy and live birth.