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Plus Size Lingerie: A Fat Femme Shopping Guide
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Being fat or plus sized, it can be hard to find clothes that fit your body, let alone sexy lingerie to make you feel beautiful and desired.
I got really into lingerie in 2016 when a vintage lingerie shop opened up in a neighborhood near mine. I was a couple of years out of college and had gained a ton of weight that I had lost back. I was also embarking on a new relationship, and was desperate to feel sexy again. This lingerie shop had beautiful, lacy, and silky babydoll dresses and body suits. I would take dates there and spend money I didn't have on one-of-a-kind items.
Now, my lingerie shopping has moved online, and as a size 20, I'm slightly outside the range for most vintage, small-batch lingerie shops. But there are a few that make pieces that are either in larger ranges or custom pieces that
Shopping and Craft in Millersburg, Ohio
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Driving into Millersburg, visitors are greeted by laundry waving from clotheslines like streamers. The Amish, after all, don't use electricity — not even to dry their petticoats.
Millersburg, halfway between Cleveland and Columbus, is the seat of Holmes County — home to one of the largest Amish populations in the world. It's a real-deal agrarian fantasia: hitching posts tether horses in parking lots; green velvet hills rise from the horizon; and the pie is very, very good. (Stop by Hershberger's Farm & Bakery for that.)
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The beauty of the area has created a sort of boomerang effect — folks often move to larger cities, but can't stay away for long. Many, like Alyssa Eliot, run stores on downtown's West Jackson Street that peddle more than baked goods and tea cozies. Eliot grew up in nearby Sugar Creek, moved to Pittsburgh for
Community supports back-to-school shopping spree for kids in need in Elk Grove
The Elk Grove community held a special back-to-school shopping spree for kids in need on Saturday. One hundred students and volunteer chaperones took part to make sure kids don't go without when they return to the classroom. "I think it's really great that they did that for us," said 10-year-old Zoey Jimenez, who added that the shopping spree will help her start fifth grade with confidence. "I got a lot of shirts and dresses, shorts and jeans."Students from the Elk Grove Unified School District were each given $175 by the Optimist Club to buy anything they needed for school. Many chose the basics over high fashion. "A lot of these kids probably wouldn't have new clothes they would have hand-me-downs or whatever and so now they are going to school with new clothes, and they can feel proud," said John Shook, president of the Optimist Club. Young shoppers also got …
The Unpredictable Consumer Strikes Again
This summer, American parents are expected to spend $34.4 billion, or about $661 per child, on back-to-school shopping, according to a Deloitte survey. A big portion is going toward fashion: apparel sales are predicted to jump by 18 percent from the same period in 2021. It's a 180-degree turn from last year, when parents splurged on laptops and other technology, while clothing spending remains roughly flat. In 2022, their kids may not need another new tablet, but they've outgrown last year's shirts, shorts and sneakers.
The unusually unpredictable back-to-school shopping season is just the latest example of how the pandemic has radically changed what people want to buy, and when. Last year, consumers abruptly dropped their sweatpants obsession for going-out clothes and work-from-home wardrobes. Now they're splurging on travel, luxury goods and children's clothing.
Retailers are still catching up — and bracing for more surprises this fall.
Inflation is
Report: Philadelphia Phillies Shopping for Playoff Caliber Starter, Tyler Mahle and Noah Syndergaard Trade Deadline
According to the great Jayson Stark of The AthleticThe Philadelphia Phillies are placing more emphasis on their pursuit of a playoff-caliber starter.
Tyler Mahle and Noah Syndergaard are explicitly mentioned within the context of Stark's tweet, but there is reason to believe the Phillies could also look at arms like the Marlins' Pablo Lopez, Giants' Carlos Rodon, Red Sox' Nathan Eovaldi, and more of the potential frontline arms prior to the August 2 deadline.
Any of the aforementioned arms would be a big get for the Phillies, shoring up their rotation for what looks to be a playoff push. Plus, in Tyler Mahle's case, they would be able to reunite him with his former assistant pitching coach from Cincinnati in Caleb Cotham.
Stark also went on to detail what has become a relatively public stance for the Phillies of late: they're not looking to move their


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The museum house of Enzo Ferrari Modena is a museum complex that aims to celebrate motorsport and tell the world the story of a great man, man, driver and manufacturer. The exhibition complex built in the ruins of the house in which Enzo Ferrari was born in Modena in 1898, has been preserved intact over time is that the body of the building to the workshop, and the construction of a new building with a futuristic design, the famous "hood" in aluminum yellow color symbol of the city of Modena and color chosen by Enzo Ferrari as the background of the Horse, the brand of the company that bears his name. The book documents the design process that led to the construction of the new museum: the draft competition in which they took part imported internationally renowned architects and rewarded the work of the Anglo-Saxon studio Future Systems - which he held Jan Kaplicky - upon completion by Andrea Morante, the relationship with the customer, from the technological aspects and structural issues that make executive of the museum a new visual symbol of the city of Modena. Monument to the dialogue between past and present, between passion and creativity, research and innovation, courage and challenge the museum identified by the profile of its automotive coverage affirms its identity by combining audacity of its architectural charm of dream cars that is called to guard.


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Gender-Identity Conversations Don't Have to Be Scary
Preston Sprinkle gives guidance on thinking biblically and listening in love.
Interview by Rachel Gilson| March 16, 2021
Image: Illustration by Rick Szuecs
Of the many books concerning Christianity and LGBT topics, most have addressed the front end of the acronym, leaving the back end woefully neglected. Yet questions of gender identity are growing in volume and urgency, both within and outside the church. In his latest book, Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say, Preston Sprinkle, president of the Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender, provides guidance on addressing these questions constructively and lovingly. Author and Cru leader Rachel Gilson spoke with Sprinkle about his book.
Why this book, and why now?
There are two emphases woven together in the book: a people strand and a conceptual strand. I'm focused, in other words, on loving people well while also thinking biblically, logically, and scientifically on all the topics that gender-identity conversations stir up: male and female sexual embodiment, relationships between body and soul, and gender stereotypes surrounding masculinity and femininity. We can't just do one without the other. Thinking carefully without loving well leads to damage just as surely as loving well without thinking carefully.
Did any of your views change while researching and writing?
I certainly gained a stronger appreciation for some of the finer nuances of these conversations. For example: One common question is whether someone can be born in the "wrong" body. My hunch going in was: no. Having wrestled with that question from several angles, I haven't changed my mind. But I can better understand why some make this claim.
How much of your personhood is due to your brain, and how much to your body? That's a complex question! It brings in neuroscience, philosophy, theological anthropology, and other perspectives on human nature. There are more complexities than our culture-war framework acknowledges.
In conversations about gender, intersex people often get used as mascots. Sometimes they're lumped in with the trans populations, and on other occasions they're ignored entirely. How can we care well for people whose bodies aren't fully male or female in a conventional sense?
Intersex people are often like the kid caught in a divorce, pulled in different directions and utilized in service of one argument or another. As several intersex people have pointed out, this feels dehumanizing.
If we're going to discuss the subject of intersex conditions, let's make sure we're not doing so in passing, as a stepping stone toward something else. There are important questions, in their own right, about newborns whose sex is ambiguous: Should they be operated on right away? And who gets to determine which sex is the preferred outcome? These are big concerns within the intersex community. There are overlaps, of course, with conversations on transgender identity, but the point remains that we can't just employ intersex conditions in service of a broader ideological argument about gender and sexuality.
For those who don't identify as trans or intersex, how do we enter into this conversation? What are some dos and don'ts?
First, listen to actual trans people—especially if you're coming from a more conservative Christian environment. Sometimes that environment can harden our hearts toward those who have been marginalized, shamed, or shunned by the church, and the trans population often fits that description. To shave off the harsh edges of our posture, we need to maintain genuine relationships with trans people.
Second, we need to learn the right language—understanding, for instance, the difference between sex and gender, what gender identity means, and why words like "transgenderism" can be a turnoff. As one of my trans friends told me, "'trangenderism' feels like a nameless, faceless concept that people can vilify." To many people, it can sound uncomfortably like a disease. Certain words convey certain unintended meanings, and that's important to get clear.
Many people use sex and gender interchangeably. What is the difference?
It's beyond dispute that humans are sexually dimorphic: We reproduce only when a male impregnates a female, and these categories are basic to our humanity. Scripture attests to this, stating that God created human beings as male and female (Gen. 1:27).
Gender, by contrast, deals with our psychological and social response to biological sex. Under that umbrella, you can identify three categories. Gender identity is our internal sense of who we are—whether we resonate with being male or female. Gender expression is how we manifest inward identity, typically with clothing or mannerisms that suggest masculinity or femininity. And gender roles refer to societal expectations for males and females. These concepts are related but still distinct.
Some Christians might hear your answer above and think, "That sounds reasonable, but the Bible doesn't speak in those categories. What am I supposed to do with them?"
While the Bible doesn't have a term like gender that's used in distinction to sex, I think it does speak to the differences those words signify. It recognizes, of course, that humans are created male and female. And it does depict behavior that we might consider masculine or feminine.
In the Greco-Roman world, there were certain expectations that came with being male or female. You might be a biological male, but if you were kind to the marginalized, say, or washed people's feet, you might be stigmatized as unmanly. While the Bible celebrates sex difference, it also challenges certain cultural stereotypes. Take someone like King David: He was a great warrior and cut the head off Goliath, but he wrote poetry, played the harp, and cried a lot. Or take the Book of Judges, where women like Deborah or Jael play crucial roles in military battles. Scripture has a more expansive vision, then, for what it means to live out our male and female identities.
We both have friends who identify as trans or nonbinary Christians. What would you say to believers who are suspicious about those labels?
Terms like trans or transgender can mean different things to different people. I have a biologically male friend, for instance, who calls himself transgender because he identifies as a woman. That's the kind of usage that comes to mind most commonly. Another friend of mine is biologically female, and believes she's female, but calls herself trans because she experiences gender dysphoria. So while some people use these terms to speak about their fundamental personhood, others use them mainly to describe their subjective experience.
Sometimes, it's as simple as feeling like you don't match a particular set of gender stereotypes. Often enough, that's all nonbinary means—not that you don't believe you're biologically male or female, but that you don't completely resonate with either masculinity or femininity. In the end, the only way to avoid confusion is getting to know the people themselves—and learning why they use the words they use.
What should trans readers take away from your book? And what about non-trans readers?
For my trans readers, I want them to feel seen and understood. I would never presume to tell them about their own lived experiences, but conceptually, I hope they find greater clarity about what science and Scripture do and don't say. After all, many trans friends will remind me that they aren't experts on these matters. They don't necessarily have an airtight grasp of a biblical theology of gender—or even gender dysphoria itself.
As I say in my preface, however, my primary audience is non-trans people. I hope they'll come away no longer scared of this conversation. Because if you're scared of this conversation, you'll likely be scared of trans people themselves. And that's not a posture any Christian leader should have.
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Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say
Preston Sprinkle
288 pp., 19.63
Bible | Compassion | Fellowship and Community | Gender | Gender-Inclusive Language | Love | Relationships | Science | Sexuality and Gender | Transgender
April 2021, Vol. 65, No. 3, Pg 60, "Truth, Love, and Gender Identity"
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Q: How to impliment Cross-Origin Resource Sharing ( CORS ) in play-framework 2.5.x I am trying to get   json data by hitting a Restful URL from localhost using Angularjs-1 application.
I am getting this error
http://localhost:9000/mlm/user/all Failed to load resource:
the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

index.html:1 XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:9000/mlm/user/all.

Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

Origin 'http://localhost:63342' is therefore not allowed access.

The response had HTTP status code 404.

I am using play-framework 2.5.4 (java).
Edit 1 : Added CORS settings to app.conf
    play.filters {
    cors {
    # Filter paths by a whitelist of path prefixes
    pathPrefixes = ["/"]

    # The allowed origins. If null, all origins are allowed.
    allowedOrigins = null

    # The allowed HTTP methods. If null, all methods are allowed
    allowedHttpMethods = ["GET", "POST"]

    allowedHttpHeaders = ["Accept"]
    preflightMaxAge = 3 days
  }
}

A: Finally this worked for me.
According to official docs
Filter.java is (didn't worked) :
import play.mvc.EssentialFilter;
import play.filters.cors.CORSFilter;
import play.http.DefaultHttpFilters;

import javax.inject.Inject;

public class Filters extends DefaultHttpFilters {
    @Inject public Filters(CORSFilter corsFilter) {
        super(corsFilter);
    }
}

But it dint worked.
What worked is :
Filter.java(worked)
import play.mvc.EssentialFilter;
import play.filters.cors.CORSFilter;
import play.http.HttpFilters;
import javax.inject.Inject;

public class Filters implements HttpFilters {

    @Inject
    CORSFilter corsFilter;

    public EssentialFilter[] filters() {
        return new EssentialFilter[] { corsFilter.asJava() };
    }
}

thanks to this answer ,similar question on stack-overflow.
But why the Filter.java code of official docs for 2.5.x is not working is question of million dollar?

A: Seems like it's a bug in the framework with the cast to DefaultHttpFilters.java
https://github.com/playframework/playframework/pull/6238
Make sure you follow this guide: https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.5.x/CorsFilter
But don't use the default implementation of DefaultHttpFilters instead, use the following:
package filters;
import play.http.*;

import java.util.Arrays;

import play.mvc.EssentialFilter;

/**
 * Helper class which has a varargs constructor taking the filters. Reduces boilerplate for defining HttpFilters.
 */
public class MyDefaultHttpFilters implements HttpFilters {

  private final EssentialFilter[] filters;

  public MyDefaultHttpFilters(play.api.mvc.EssentialFilter... filters) {
    this.filters = Arrays.stream(filters).map(f -> f.asJava()).toArray(EssentialFilter[]::new);
  }

  @Override
  public EssentialFilter[] filters() {
    return filters;
  }
}

Your Filter class will then have to look like this:
import javax.inject.*;
import play.mvc.EssentialFilter;
import play.filters.cors.CORSFilter;
import filters.MyDefaultHttpFilters;

public class Filters extends MyDefaultHttpFilters {
    @Inject public Filters(CORSFilter corsFilter) {
        super(corsFilter);
    }
}

A: I think you have to put a CORS allow header in your server:
response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");//cross domain request/CORS

Don't know the framework you are using, but somewhere you should have access to the response object and then write something like this.
Additionally, most clients do a http OPTIONS request before the actual request is made, to check for supported options and access to the server. You don't have to process the full request if you see that the http method is OPTIONS. Just write out the headers and close the socket / connection.

A: It's very documented.
The filter can be configured from application.conf. For example:
play.filters.cors {
  pathPrefixes = ["/some/path", ...]
  allowedOrigins = ["http://www.example.com", ...]
  allowedHttpMethods = ["GET", "POST"]
  allowedHttpHeaders = ["Accept"]
  preflightMaxAge = 3 days
}

play.filters {
    cors {
    # Filter paths by a whitelist of path prefixes
    pathPrefixes = ["/"]

    # The allowed origins. If null, all origins are allowed.
    allowedOrigins = null

    # The allowed HTTP methods. If null, all methods are allowed
    allowedHttpMethods = ["GET", "POST", "OPTIONS"]

    preflightMaxAge = 3 days
  }
}

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Bridget Joann O'Neill
Bridget J. O'Neill, 47, passed away on November 18, after a 15-year courageous battle with cancer. She was born, November 11, 1974, to Mary Ellen (Molly) and Kevin Farley in Janesville, WI. She attended St. Mary's grade school and Craig senior high School, accumulating many lifelong friends along the way. She was a proud member and captain of the high school pompom squad and the official pompom girl of the state champion cross country team. She graduated from Edgewood College in 2006. In September 1999, she married Kevin O'Neill. With Kevin, they lived in Janesville, Madison, Alabama, Pennsylvania and finally ending up in the Minneapolis area. In February 2009, they welcomed their daughter, Haley Rose, into their family. Bridget's gift was her talent to be incredibly nice to everyone she met. She had that never faltering smile, even when times got tough. That explains the outpouring of love she received from near and far, from family, neighbors, and friends. Bridget loved being Haley's mom and Kevin's wife. She babysat and nannied over the years and loved her work at Children of Tomorrow daycare but being a mom was her true passion. Her second passion was her love of reading, which is why she either volunteered at or was known well at the libraries of all the towns she lived in and was the very best person to recommend a great book. She will also be remembered for her great strength and courage she showed us all in her fight against her cancer. Bridget is survived by her loving husband Kevin and daughter Haley. Her mother Molly Ryan and stepdad Matt Ryan, her father Kevin Farley; siblings Patrick (Jenifer), Tim (Stacy) and Maggie (Eli Burke); nieces and nephews, William & Nicholas (Pat & Jen) and Nora (Tim & Stacy). And of course, being from a big Irish family, Bridget has many aunts, uncles and cousins. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, uncle Matthew Kelly and cousins Susan and Matthew. The family would like to thank everyone who came to see her, called her, wrote her, sent her flowers, and gifts. The outpouring of love was never ending and extremely touching. Funeral services will be held on December 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM with visitation 1 hour before at St. Hubert Catholic Church, Chanhassen, MN. Visitation at Washburn-McReavy Albin Eden Prairie Chapel, 7625 Mitchell Rd., Eden Prairie, MN on Friday 12/3/21 from 4 to 8PM. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to one of the following: Friends of the Chanhassen Public Library, St. Mary's school endowment (Janesville, WI), or Park Nicollet Hospice or Frauenshuh Cancer Center. (St. Louis Park, MN).
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Minute Book of the Frances E.W. Harper Literary and Social Circle, 1915-1929 Share I have always been fascinated by African American women who organized themselves into literary, social, and service organizations during the early to mid-twentieth century. Many of these clubs were founded within 50 years of emancipation and mark a thirst by African…
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Rachel Brazeale completed an internship with the Rose Library during the Summer of 2019. Rachel recently completed a Masters in Archival Studies from Clayton State University. Walking into Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library, there is a display featuring cardboard boxes, floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, and old computers with a big blue cloud above...
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Earlier this month, we posted photos of the new "two-scoops" hood which the 2019 Challenger SRT Hellcat will sport. But it looks like it's not the only member of the automotive world's favorite satanic clan that's getting an update — because Ma Mopar just released a new teaser for the 2019 Charger Hellcat.
To us, it looks a hair skinnier than the outgoing model's, and sports and least one additional intake in the grille. We'd imagine that intake will have a symmetrical match on the other side, but whether it's going to take the place — or augment — the 2018's hood scoop remains to be seen. One thing that hasn't changed is the prominent Hellcat badge, as it looks as wicked cool as ever.
In our opinion, the only way to improve on the badge would be to make it bigger. How's that for constructive criticism?
Now, it might seem a little silly to wonder about more power, given that 707 horsepower is more than enough for anything you can legally take to the grocery store. But we wouldn't be surprised if the mad scientists at Dodge have managed to eek a few more ponies out of that monster mill.
As you might expect, our resident muscle car expert, Mike Musto, came away pretty impressed when he got to take the 2018 model for a spin recently, calling it "part Abrams battle tank, part top-fuel dragster , and part 'take the kids to school' machine." For the record? He also opened his review with "Buy this car." What can we say? Subtlety isn't really Mike's thing.
Like anything sporting the Hellcat engine, the 2019 Dodge Charger Hellcat is sure to fly off the lot of your local AutoNation Dodge dealer, so if you're looking to put one in your garage, we'd recommend putting your order in now — come hell or high water.


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Q: What is the proper way of doing partial matches in Scala? I have a Properties object, and want to do something if the configuration contains a specific key. If this key does not exist, I simply want to ignore it. I tried it the following way:
myProps getProperty "foo" match {
  case v if v != null => doSomethingWith v
}

but this causes a MatchError if the properties object does not contain foo.
I can think of two ways to tackle this. Approach 1 is:
myProps getProperty "foo" match {
  case v if v != null => doSomethingWith v
  case _ => // ignore if foo does not exist
}

Approach 2 is:
if(myProps containsKey "foo") doSomethingWith(myProps getProperty "foo")

Personally, I like approach 1 better because it queries the Properties only once and the comment tells that a non-match is intentionally ignored, but this is also quite verbose. Approach 2 has the flaw that, besides from querying the Properties twice, if in the near future the key is changed, it has to be changed at two places here which is a source of bugs.
So, is there a better way to do it like approach 1, but shorter, or is this the way it is done?

A: Try wrapping your function in Option.
Option(myProps getProperty "foo").map {
    v => doSomethingWith v
}

Option(myProps getProperty "foo") will return either Some(propertyValue) or None. Only if the result is Some(propertyValue),  doSomethingWith (v) in the code will be executed. If it is None, it will be ignored.
You can also have a default value in case the result is None by using getOrElse function on the Option.
As mentioned in comments by @VladimirMatveev, map is not the right thing to do, if the method doSomethingWith has side effects. Use foreach instead.


If the deer had guns too, then, and only then, would hunting truly be a sport.
Lewis Grizzard (October 20, 1946 - March 20, 1994) was an American writer and humorist, famous for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the U.S. Southern states.
You ain't from around here are you? Don't lie and say you're from Florida, that accent says New Jersey.
I am the only person in the history of Moreland, Georgia to ever be on the New York Times' Best Seller list. I'm the only person in the history of Moreland, Georgia who ever heard of the New York Times' Best Seller list.
Lewis Grizzard's advice to Atlantans in case of nuclear war: If you live on the south side of Atlanta (read: "Et-lanna"), get on I-75 and go south. If you live of the north side of Atlanta get on I-75 and go north. If you are a Yankee get on 285.
Yankees ain't real sure how smart we are. Cause we talk slowly, and move slowly. They don't know we thinkin' all that time.
Yankees...ain't real sure how smart we are. See, cause we...talk...slowly...and...move...slowly. They don't know we thinkin' all that time.
The most effective form of birth control known to man is a Bronx accent.
In North Carolina, they put slaw on barbecue and God sent them Jesse Helms as punishment.
Nobody actually lives in North Dakota.
Elvis Presley actually IS alive.
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At the last general election in September 2014 the Moderate Party led Alliance lost its mandate to govern. That passed to the Red/Green combination of the Social Democrats and the Environmental Party who still needed the support of the Left (Communist) Party to become a viable minority government.
Currently the Swedish Parliament has 349 members from 8 parties.
Social Democrats – 113, Moderates – 84, Sweden Democrats – 49, Environment Party – 25, Centre Party – 22, Left Party – 21, Peoples Party – 19, Christian Democrats – 16.
In December 2014, the Moderate led Alliance entered into a "collusion of the cowardly", called the December agreement, promising to allow the Red/Green group to govern. The Alliance was dominated by fears of getting the unwanted support of the right wing Sweden Democrats and they had a new party leader in Anna Kinberg-Batra. She was still finding her feet, which meant that the cowardly wing of the Moderates (in my perception led by Tomas Tobé) got their way.
Fortunately one of the smaller alliance parties, the Christian Democrats, refused to ratify the December Agreement at their convention in October 2015, and that finally killed it. Though the Moderates now lead the Social Democrats in the polls, the establishment still prefers to abdicate its responsibilities as an opposition.
Even though – and probably because – the Sweden Democrats have indicated that if the Alliance present their own combined autumn budget this year they will – without preconditions – vote for it to ensure its passing, the Moderates are still vacillating about presenting such a budget which could actually be passed and remove the Red/Green government from power. They seem to prefer to present separate party budgets which will surely lose than to present a combined Alliance budget which might well win. They are just too scared to be seen to rely on support from the Sweden Democrats, officially or not and even without preconditions.
My definition of cowardice is when actions are subordinated to fears. Courage is when fears are subordinated to purpose.
The December Agreement and the present vacillation of the Moderates is an almost classical case of cowardice. It is time they grew a backbone and started opposing the Red/Green/Communist nonsense that they are letting go through by default. It is time for Anna Kinberg-Batra to put her foot down and exhibit a little bit of courage.
I pay my membership dues to the Moderate Party – even if I am not very politically active beyond voting.
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Damn... If only ONE of Capua's Favorite Married Couple were to survive, I would've preferred it to have been John Hannah's character. -- Nephele
Spartacus The 2004 Mini-series
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No, everyone in this particular thread is talking about the 2004 miniseries with the Croatian actor playing Spartacus that is still alive. -- Nephele
I'm currently watching this 2004 television miniseries on DVD. There was one scene in particular in this miniseries that I absolutely don't remember reading in the original Howard Fast novel, and I also don't remember reading about in any Roman history accounts. So I thought I'd ask for the expertise of my Roman history friends here to either verify or debunk this. (UNRV is the Snopes.com of Roman history, if you ask me. ) The scene in question involves a point where the Roman Senate feels it is necessary to "send a message" to the slave army that's running rampant in the countryside. And what they do is this: They pick 200 slaves at random from households in the city of Rome, and then burn them alive in what I presume was the city's forum. Did the Romans actually resort to this extreme and (by Roman thinking, I should imagine) wastefully expensive measure in an attempt to frighten Spartacus & Co. into capitulating? Note: I dug up this old topic, because I see that Decimus Caesar here made a comment about the mass immolation scene, and the overall consensus seems to be that this series was pretty lame. So can we dismiss this mass immolation scene as something that historically "never happened"? Or, was never likely to have happened? -- Nephele
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I'm late to my own party! Thanks, everyone! I can't believe I'm already 5 years old! -- Nephele
Bestiality in Roman Civilization-Fact or Myth?
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Skywatcher, you are a member of the Paterclii, a Roman family whose sole claim to fame may be that a certain Paterclius was mentioned in an epigram of the poet Martialis (Book XII, Epigram LXXVII) as being the owner of some public latrines. Your cognomen of "Tyrrhenus" was bestowed upon you because of your family's ancient Etruscan connections (Tyrrhenus in Etruscan legend having been one of the founders of the Etruscan Federation of Twelve Cities). Your praenomen is "Gaius," traditionally abbreviated with the letter "C." Your full Roman name is: C. Paterclius Tyrrhenus = PrptcyhHnecaErkeltir (swapping the letters ehkp for usus) ********************************************** Wicked Tiff and Noricum, I was bit rusty the other night while doing your names, and didn't do a straight swap of letters (as in a proper blanagram). So I'm doing your names again. WickedTiff, you are a member of the Strabonii, a modest Roman family that includes in its ancestry a physician of some note. You originally came to this family as a slave, and they named you "Elethyia" (after the goddess of childbirth, because you were especially helpful to the mistress of the house when she gave birth to the master's heir). Because of your loyal service, you were granted your freedom. As was customary, you retained your slave name as your cognomen, and adopted the family name as your own. Your Roman name is: Strabonia Elethyia = Tafahlerntysbhfei (swapping the letters bfh for aio) ****************************************** Noricum, you are a member of the Staberii, your father being Lucius Staberius, a known friend of Pompey who was put in charge of the Greek city of Apollonia. Your parents named you "Regiola," because of your imperious nature even as an infant. You are the family's "little queen." Your full Roman name is: Staberia Regiola = Goaarrbtilberes (swapping the letters br for ia) -- Nephele
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Sorry I got behind on these! WickedTiff, you are a member of the Trebii, a Roman family that included one of Caesar's officers in Gaul (M. Trebius Gallus), as well as a consul under the emperor Hadrianus (Trebius Sergianus). Your parents named you "Festina" because you were a quick child, always scurrying about. Your full Roman name is: Trebia Festina = Tafahlerntysbhfei (changing the y to an i, and removing the letters f,h,h,l) ****************************************** Noricum, you are a member of the Sertorii, a Roman family which included the military leader Quintus Sertorius. Your parents gave you the additional name of "Belgia" because your father (also a military leader), was an admirer of the ancient leader of the Gaulish army, Belgius, who defeated the Macedonians (in 280 BCE). Your full Roman name is: Sertoria Belgia = Goaarrbtilberes (adding an i, and removing the letters b,r) -- Nephele
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R. Walsh, you are a member of the Orchii, a plebeian gens which traces its lineage from that notable Gaius Orchius who not only distinguished himself as a tribune of the plebs in the third year after the consulship of Cato in 181 BCE, but who was also infamous for authoring a law which limited the number of guests to be present at entertainments. Macrobius tells us in his work, Saturnalia, that, when attempts were made to repeal this unpopular law, Cato defended it. Your cognoman is "Adrianus," as your family came from the town of Hadria in Picenum. Your praenomen is "Lucius," customarily abbreviated as "L." Your full Roman name is: L. Orchius Adrianus = ridashowanjrlchh -hhjw +iuus *************************************************************** Waterdragon, you are a member of the Salonii, a family of humble origins yet nevertheless proud of the fact that they are descended from Marcus Salonius, who was the father of the second wife of Cato the Censor. You happen to be the younger of two daughters in your family, and so your parents call you "Secunda," as is customary. (Your elder sister is called "Prima.") Your full Roman name is: Salonia Secunda = scoalusjneanmd -jm +ia -- Nephele
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A New DC Bakery Will Also Serve As a Training Ground for Disabled Vets and Their Spouses
Dog Tag Bakery will open in a building with a culinary history.
Written by Carol Ross Joynt
| Published on July 16, 2013
Father Rick Curry with COO Meghan Ogilvie and development director Adam Mortillaro outside the new Dog Tag Bakery on Grace Street in Georgetown. Photograph courtesy of Dog Tag Bakery.
A quaint building on a side street in Georgetown with an interesting culinary history
is about to be remade as a food venue very much of our time. Dog Tag Bakery, when
it opens next year, will serve as a training ground for disabled veterans and their
spouses. According to the founder, Father
Rick Curry of Georgetown University, during the day the student bakers will work at the shop
at 3206 Grace Street, and at night they'll be on campus, taking a course in entrepreneurship
in the School of Continuing Studies.
"We want to give the disabled vets and their spouses the full experience of running
a business," says Father Curry, himself a baker for 51 years and the author of
The Secret of Jesuit Breadmaking. He did not give away any of his secrets,
but he did say his favorite item to bake is "simple peasant bread. It's the easiest
thing to learn how to bake, and also one of the tastiest."
The program will train 12 veterans and their spouses each year. "We're recruiting
from Walter Reed Medical Center and from the [Veterans Affairs Medical Center]," says
Father Curry, adding that anyone who is interested in joining the program should contact
him through the Dog Tag Bakery website.
The small, flat-roofed building has been on the market for quite some time. Its last
tenant was Grace & Bamboo restaurant. Before that it was a French restaurant and before
that a notable bakery, Pâtisserie-Cafe Didier, owned by
Dieter G. Schorner, who teaches at the Culinary Institute of America. During his extensive career, Schorner
served as pastry chef at some of the world's most acclaimed restaurants and is credited
with the revival of crème brûlée during his time at Le Cirque in New York. Before
Didier, around the mid-1970s, the building was home to Hudson Brothers, an ahead-of-its-time
market that was a boutique version of the big markets we take for granted today, with
separate sections for a fromagerie, charcuterie, a butcher, and fresh produce.
Learning of the building's history, Curry says he felt "good spirits."
Dog Tag bought the building for $2.7 million; the sale closed last week. Demolition
starts next week on a renovation that Curry expects will run another $1 million. His
partner in the project is another successful entrepreneur, philanthropist
Connie Milstein, who owns the Jefferson Hotel. She also has a history with a brand of cookies—Connie's
Cookies—which will be for sale in the new bakery and through mail order. The cookies
will be part of the store and mail-order menu that will include croissants, pastries,
and breads, as well as dog biscuits. The business will be open seven days a week from
early morning into the evening. The building comes with a liquor license, but Curry
says, "We don't quite know how we're going to manage that." He assures they do plan
to put it use.
Curry is optimistic for the future. "I think we're going to do very well and we're
going to help a lot of disabled veterans."
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Are you planning to build LegalTech infrastructure for your department? Xakia is excited to bring you an inside look at the approach to LegalTech initiatives adopted by the in-house legal team at BlueScope North America.
At the beginning of August we hosted a webinar with Sean Power, General Counsel of BlueScope North America, and Mishca Waliczek, Senior Legal Counsel of BlueScope Buildings North America. A recorded version is available here.


Facebook is slowly moving closer to rolling out Facebook Live, it's nascent live streaming tool, to a wider audience, as TechCrunch first reported today.
Facebook Live was recently introduced with an elite pool of celebrities that included notables such as Serena Williams, Martha Stewart and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, but the platform will soon be making the feature available to users with verified accounts. While that's still a relatively rarified pool, it's considerably wider than the small roster of select stars who were chosen to pilot the new feature. While many verified accounts belong to actors and celebrities, their ranks also include business leaders, journalists, politicians and other public figures of less than super-star status.
At this point, there's no word on when Facebook Live might become available to the general public, but this latest development is step toward wider availability. Unlike its competitors in the space such as upstart apps Periscope and Meerkat, Facebook can offer the average user more value in live streaming because, while other apps require users to build a following or recruit an audience from another social platform, most users have a built-in audience on Facebook that will make live streaming more engaging civilians.
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January 2011 brought in a lot of buzz questioning the openness of Google's Android OpenSource marketplace. While Apps getting 187'd from the iTunes App Store ad nauseum was common place and Apple holding controlling rights over their products were able to enforce rules adhoc, it was surprising to see Google blocking Kongregate App from the Android marketplace. While Kongregate has established itself well as a games App developer, even positioning themselves on social networks like Facebook, with over 1000 games available, it appeared surprising that Google removed it from official Android App market place with not a very strong supporting alibi.
This app removal act along with Kongregate CEO Statement's set tongues wagging on the veracity of Google's decision. Kongregate claimed that the App was pulled due to the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement terms and the "claim you can't use their App store to distribute another App store." Google pointed out that "Application in violation of Android Marketplace policies are removed from the market." Where does this argument stand? Is this the true picture? The developments of the next couple of days proved otherwise. Maybe Google was right in their own way.
After being removed, Kongregate modified their App for resubmission. Earlier the App would be explicitly downloaded on the phone's SD Card and managed from there. Now the modified version uses a WebKit browser's cache to store its offline files. Secondly the App now shows the Browser address bar before jumping to the full screen playing in Flash.
Prior to this episode also, Android has been removing Apps but only those that were really bizarre and crossed all limits or fraudulent banking Apps. As a tradition Google avoided dabbling with all other Apps approvals methods unlike Apple. Apple has been sneered at for this attitude, but, on the other hand, Google's careful handling has won it a lot of appraises.
At this juncture, it is prudent to say that the Kongregate view is questionable. With the App still available for side loading from Kongregate's website, the possibility of malware, Trojans, Cyber-security, Viruses getting embedded into the phone's SD card is a serious point of worry. If users do not block the side loading features on their phones, severe security issues could arise. With various PC operating systems having had faced severe attacks in the past, from hackers and malware, the PC industry has taken fairly exhaustive measures by way of firewalls, anti-virus plus anti-phishing plus anti-spam features and have tried to focus themselves against many an attack. Although the smartphone market is a much softer target for cyber criminals and the vulnerabilities could reach typical dangerous levels, the present situation isn't as bad yet.
With the Android and iPhone explosion in the market and jail-breaking as a practice allowed in the US, it is not too far that smartphone users could face similar vulnerability situations. The last week of 2010 already saw Trojans like "Geinimi" piggybacking pirated third party Apps, primarily China based, allowing a remote server taking control of the smartphone. But the original versions on the official App market place did not have this problem.
Was Google right in taking a bit of additional security into their own hands? Maybe, YES.


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Tovatt Architects & Planners är ett Stockholmsbaserat arkitektkontor med filial i Eskilstuna. Kontoret drivs av Johannes Tovatt, David Neuschütz och Stella Lindstam. Sedan 1 juli 2019 är det ett helägt dotterbolag till Sweco.

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Tovatt Architects & Planners tillkom genom ett namnbyte 1999, från Erskine Tovatt Arkitekter ur firman Ralph Erskine Architect & Planner. Efter Erskines  död 2006, fick företaget sitt nuvarande namn. Vid det laget hade även David Neuschütz, också han tidigare anställd under Erskine, blivit delägare.
Under slutet av 1990-talet och fram till 2004 var nära 90 procent av kontorets uppdrag i utlandet (Nederländerna, Irland, Storbritannien, Italien, Tyskland, Kroatien med flera) och kontorets enskilt största projekt var under den tiden Greenwich Millennium Village i London. Sedan 2004, i samband med vinsten i stadsbyggnadstävlingen om Annedal i Stockholm har antalet inhemska projekt ökat i Mälardalsregionen och ofta med fokus på bostäder. 2007 vann kontoret den internationella stadsplanetävlingen om Wiens sjöstad Seestadt Aspern, ett projekt som kontoret mer än tio år senare fortfarande arbetar med.
2015 gick kontoret samman med Modellera i Eskilstuna och Stella Lindstam gick in som delägare. Med sammanslagningen breddades kontorets verksamhet med större inslag av byggnadsprojektering och fler offentliga byggnader som skolor, förskolor och vårdboenden. Sedan den 1 juli 2019 är företaget ett helägt dotterbolag till Sweco.

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Stadsplaner
 Greenwich Millennium Village, London (Erskine Tovatt Arkitekter) 1997–2005
 Annedal, Stockholm, 2004–2013
 Seestadt Aspern, Wien 2005–
 Kiruna stadsomvandling (tävlingsförslag) 2012
 Barkarbystaden, Järfälla kommun, 2015–

Byggnader
 Greenwich Millennium Village, Phase 1 (Erskine Tovatt Arkitekter) 1998–2005
 Tornet, Linköping 1999–2009
 Hörsal m.m. Sånga-Säby, Färingsö 2005–2006
 KullaGulla/Mattisborgen, Annedal, Stockholm 2007–2011
 Kvarter D10, Seestadt Aspern, Wien 2010–2015
 Astrid Lindgrens Näs, Vimmerby 2013–2014
 Vulkanen 8, Eskilstuna 2012–2016

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