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2010 People's Choice Numéro Cinq Novel/Memoir-in-a-Box WINNERS!
The People have chosen.
The winners of the First Annual Numéro Cinq Novel-in-a-Box Contest, by a tie vote, are Rich Farrell for Wondering Where The Lions Are and Shelagh Shapiro for Infinity Falling.
The winner of the First Annual Numéro Cinq Memoir-in-a-Box Contest, after a fierce fight, is Steve Axelrod for his Memoir in a Box.
And the winner of the special Off The Page Peoples' Choice Award is our own Anna Maria Johnson for her Cat-in-the-Box novel-in-a-box.
The winning entries appear below.
Wondering Where the Lions Are
By Rich Farrell
Adam arrives on the shoreline while robed and naked swimmers mill about, shuffling between stations, signing legal documents, waivers. Green's Island looms on the horizon. The starter loads a gun. "Eve," a beautiful woman says to Adam, holding out her hand. He smiles when he says his name. But he hates her, too.
The swim to Green's Island will consume many and Adam worries. Only those filled with desire and stamina survive. Does he measure up? No one talks of doubt. An incantatory speech is delivered. "Hale…glory….victory." The swimmers cheer. Eve drops out of her clothes and stands naked next to him, her nipples erect.
The starter raises the pistol above his head. The gun cracks. Swimmers crash into the waves, flailing through the frigid surf. Adam lags behind. He chokes on turbulent bubbles cavitating from kicking feet. Eve struggles with her goggles in the frothy sea, but he swims past her. The race leaves no time for mercy.
An hour into the swim, Adam considers how all his life he has dreamed of Green's Island. It's closer than ever, but still miles away. Many have already fallen out, plucked by the rescue boat and taken back to shore. Others cling to buoys or float on their backs, waiting for the boat's return. Turtleback Mountain bobs up and down between swells.
At noon, the first sharks are sighted. People scream. Eve swims near Adam again. "Did you see it?" she asks. He flaps her away with his hand. "Dick," she yells as he swims away. The shark snaps a swimmer and pulls him under. Gunshots fire from the rescue boat. The swimmer climbs over the gunwale. A stump stains white planks red and Adam vomits into the sea.
The strongest swimmers reach the shore before the sun drops below Turtleback. They jump and dance on the beach. Fireworks explode in the purple sky. Adam's shoulders cramp. Eve appears again, her eyes nearly closed. She has discarded her goggles and Adam takes her hand. Her naked breasts bob above the water's surface.
The shark's dorsal fin scrapes his leg. Eve screams out. They are only yards from shore, but still outside the reef. They swim faster. The shark circles as a breaker lifts Adam's body. Palm trees and glowing tiki torches litter the shoreline. They splash ashore, nearly on top of each other. Eve kisses him and Adam's heart fills with unspeakable joy!
Late into the evening there is a roasted boar, palm wine, Green's Island drum music. Adam makes love to Eve. He dreams of his children, his wife, while Eve snores lightly beside him. At dawn, another meeting convenes. "The Journey has just begun," an old man tells them. Angry faces search each other for answers, but no one speaks.
The next day, Adam climbs into a row boat. Boxed rations line the stern. "West," says Eve. She waves goodbye and Adam paddles through the surf until the island recedes, Eve shrinking on the beach. He paddles beyond the reef, beyond the azure water until, in all directions, the horizon is an empty, blue line.
Infinity Falling
By Shelagh Shapiro
Buried in snow. Hand in place—good, smart—punching
at the snow, packing it. Black cave around my face. Keep
poking half-inch jabs: more space, more air, more time.
How many minutes, if I do this right? Fifteen? Thirty? Dark.
Can't move. Don't panic, Mitchell. Breathe slow. Don't waste it.
Never heard an avalanche before, but I knew. Slab of snow
cracking, breaking, pouring over me. Skied for the trees, but not
fast enough. No pole in the air. Damn. Maybe one's poking up.
Maybe one got thrown to the top. Or a ski. Enough to help them
find me, maybe. If they dig in the right spot. If up is up.
Tyler was in the trees. Saw it, maybe. Dig! Slow it down. Tight on
air. Should have worn a beacon. Tyler said, "We don't need it."
Pothead, waste of air. Failing 3 classes. Emily was farther down.
Wish we hadn't fought this morning. She called me an asshole. Stupid
fight. Fuck.
Yesterday on the lift, she talked about the trees, how they're covered in
snow and it weighs on the branches, sparkling. Like poetry, the branches
under the snow, so dark the green looks black. Two nights ago, walking
outside the condo, we stopped at a lamp post and looked up. Above the
circle of light, nothing, but inside that circle, snow coming at us like infinity.
How much time? Slow it down. Stay calm. Snow like water and I'm
drowning. It's granite, squeezing me. Knees at my chest—how'd that
happen? Can't feel my feet. Can't tell if my skis released. If they released,
they might poke through. Then Tyler could find me. If Tyler digs me
out, I'll buy him weed for a year. Dig, man. Find me. I'm right here.
I can hear music. My ear buds, somewhere near my face. The Fray.
Her favorite. If I die, she'll feel terrible. Not that it's love. But it's been
okay. She called it temporary. "Just for now." Sometimes it felt like it
could be more, though.
Maybe they'll hear the music. Where's my iPod anyway? Good. Think about
where things are. Something real. Don't panic. Keys, inside right pocket. Burt's
Bees lip balm—outside right pocket. Cell phone and iPod together. Inside left,
I think. And the Dentyne, outside left, because I'm trying to quit smoking.
Which now seems unbelievably pointless! Agony, to think of the last month.
"You asshole," she said this morning. "Why do you always have to be right?"
Last time I saw her, we both shoved off the quad and went in different
directions. Last time I saw her. Don't think about that. How much time?
Where are they? I'm dying here.
Don't think about dying. Don't think about being buried in snow, in granite.
Don't think about being buried at all. Don't think about suffocating—how
long that takes. Don't think about the dark. About drowning. Don't think
about the color of air, gray and fading. Think about light, right there, above me.
Think about seeing it: light on snow on branches. Poetry. Think about poetry.
Memoir in a Box
By Steve Axelrod
One:
It was finally over Didn't I know it already? Wasn't it obvious?
She was right, too – I had no business being surprised. We had been in the middle of the unspoken knowledge for years. It was like living in Chernobyl as desperate Russians were starting to do again now: ignoring the obvious and waiting for the symptoms to show.
Two:
How did I figure out that Ned was sleeping with my ex-wife? I wanted to sell my wedding ring. Nick freaked. Kim said, "I'll keep it until he's older." So I gave it to her, in front of her friends. She called, furious: it was a spiteful thing to do. Ned agreed. Ned? He had to be fucking her. Only one way to be sure: read her diary.
Three:
Why stalk my ex-wife? I wanted to be fully included in my exclusion, in complete control of my helplessness. I found Lisa's diary in her underwear drawer. Reading it was like a Krav Maga demonstration: pulled by the back of neck into a series of blows, the brutal parody of an intimate embrace. The only solution: walk away.
Four:
The agent said: "When are you moving to L.A?" But I had kids. I couldn't leave them and I couldn't take them. But I could resent them and I did.. Then Caity got sick and cleaning her puke off the bathroom walls at two AM I realized: this was what I wanted to be doing. This was where I wanted to be.
Five:
The advantages of divorce: time off, silence. The dishes in the sink are no longer a passive-aggressive statement. They're just dishes. And no more nonogomy. A much needed new word: being sexually faithful to a woman who's not fucking you. Happily married, I was the one guy at a party not smoking weed. Now I'm one of the guys. Pass the doobie.
Six:
Maybe divorced men should be quarantined for eight months. The first relationship is always bad – the first pancake you test the griddle with, and invariably throw out. Sasha was a good Catholic girl, so the more obvious erotic encouragements were out of the question. She didn't want to put anything strange or unusual in her mouth.
"I don't even eat sushi," she said.
Seven:
I was happily alone when I met Annie. Solo flights – that was my kind of flying. Solo cups – that was my kind of cup! Han Solo, that was my kind of corny outer space smuggler with a heart of gold! O Solo Mio – that was my kind of Mio. Then we read each other's work and she kissed me under the Chekhov moon.
Eight:
So we moved in together. She endured Caity's pack of friends she battled Nick over his dirty dishes and won. She went to Grad school and I followed her like a horse clopping after another horse. I was no longer living in the past. It was a physical relief, like taking off a bulky coat I should never have been wearing in the first place.
Nine:
My Mom and my brother Peter came to Nantucket for Nick's graduation. He walked into the house with a bag of groceries. Mom offered to help. He gave her a baffled look, said "I'm fine Mom," and started unpacking the food. I said, "I guess that's a look I'm going to have to start getting used to."
"Yes," she said. "But you never will."
Cat-in-a-Box
By Anna Maria Johnson
NC Magazine
8 Responses to "2010 People's Choice Numéro Cinq Novel/Memoir-in-a-Box WINNERS!"
Anna Maria Johnson says:
Intense stories! It's an honor to be posted among such fine work.
Oh, dear. Did I miss the deadline?
I guess. 🙂
Oh, shit.
Court says:
Congratulations to winners! Some fine stuff posted here.
Shelagh says:
I suppose it would be classier to say nothing at all, be cool. But I've never been cool, and I have to say, I'm totally psyched about this! (Exclamation points aren't cool, either.)
I think my inspiration was that photo of your son doing the handstand. Why the duct tape on his foot, though? Just curious…
Thanks for this. The act of creating a novel in a box was energizing, and I'm probably going to keep playing around with it.
– S.
You wrote a lovely novel-in-a-box. Lots of action and energy. Good stuff.
Four Paintings — Laura Von Rosk 2010 Novel-in-a-Box Contest Finalists


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Teens warned as iPod robberies increase
PICO RIVERA – Sheriff's officials in Pico Rivera are warning teens to leave their iPods at home when they walk alone to avoid being targeted by robbers. Earlier this month, Sgt. Al Leyva started noticing more and more reports of iPod-related robberies – specifically during a two-week time span in mid-April in which six such incidents occurred, he said. After doing a crime analysis of similar reports since January, officials found an overall increase in iPod robberies, although no specific pattern was found. In comparison, last year no iPod robberies were recorded, Leyva said. In all the recent cases, the victims were teenagers walking alone. Most of the incidents occurred during the hours immediately before and after school, he said. "I realize we can't make people change their habits, but we just want them to be aware of their surroundings," Leyva said. "With the earphones on, \ can't hear the thugs rolling up." Many of the reports describe three or four suspects pulling up to a victim in a vehicle. The suspects have all been described as males in their 20s or 30s, he said. Typically they get out and snatch the iPod, sometimes under the threat of violence. In a few incidents, a weapon was brandished, Leyva said. Two iPod thefts happened within 15 minutes of each other and involved the same brown Jeep Cherokee with three males inside. No one has been hurt. Although police said the robberies occurred in different locations, the most common sites were the Rosemead Boulevard corridor and the city's parks, said Sgt. Scott Craig, head of the Problem Specific Policing Team (PSP). Only one arrest has been made in the robberies – that of a juvenile picked up Friday at Smith Park on a separate felony vandalism charge, Craig said. Craig's PSP Team targets a specific problem like the iPod thefts for special attention. "We'll be doing a `random roving surveillance' with undercover officers, where we'll patrol certain areas," he said. "We do that usually for street robberies of this kind. "We just want the public to be aware," he added. Sheriff's Capt. Michael Rothans of the Pico Rivera Station said police were looking into a possible black market for iPods. pam.wight@sgvn.com (562) 698-0955, Ext. 3029160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You're all set!
Wolves complete permanent signing of Leander Dendoncker from Anderlecht
Wolves have completed the permanent signing of Leander Dendoncker from Anderlecht, the Premier League club have confirmed.The 24-year-old joined Wanderers on a season-long loan last August, with the club having an obligation to sign him this summer. JIBE Solskjaer gives Pogba fitness update and calls him world's best all-round midfielder Lampard appears to aim dig at Mourinho for handling of Salah and De Bruyne at Chelsea Dendoncker made 19 league appearances during his debut season at Molineux, netting twice.After two outings in the Carabao Cup in August and September, the Belgian had to wait another three months for his league debut, coming on as a substitute in a 2-1 win over Chelsea.But then became a regular member of the starting line-up in 2019."I believe a lot of the success we had in the second part of the season was down to a big contribution from him," added Thelwell."There was always an obligation to turn Leander's deal permanent, so we're delighted it's worked out the way it has. He has been a welcome addition to the group."Before moving to Wolves, Dendoncker played almost 200 games for Anderlecht after coming through their youth system, making Champions League and Europa League appearances along the way. Arsenal transfer news LIVE: Ndidi bid, targets named, Ozil is 'skiving little git' Liverpool update 'Champions Wall' after ending 2019 as European and world champions Loan ➡ PermanentLeander Dendoncker is now officially a Wolves player after being on loan for the 2018/19 season.🐺 pic.twitter.com/z1UsNfxH1N— Wolves (@Wolves) July 1, 2019 New job Video Player is loading.Play VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 1:50Loaded: 9.01%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -1:50 Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions settings, opens captions settings dialogcaptions off, selectedAudio Tracken (Main), selectedFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.TextColorWhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentBackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparentWindowColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyTransparentSemi-TransparentOpaqueFont Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400%Text Edge StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadowFont FamilyProportional Sans-SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional SerifMonospace SerifCasualScriptSmall CapsReset restore all settings to the default valuesDoneClose Modal DialogEnd of dialog window.Close Modal DialogThis is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.PlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -0:00 Playback Rate1xFullscreen Former Crystal Palace and West Brom manager Pardew takes over at Dutch strugglers Where every Premier League club needs to strengthen in January latest 1 Man United transfer news live: Haaland 'wants a change', two players off in January deals Football's top transfers from the 2019 summer transfer window so far And although it took him time to adjust, the midfielder eventually made a big impression as Nuno Espirito Santo's side reached the FA Cup semi-final and finished seventh in the Premier League."He came in a bit later in the window and took time to settle and get used to the way in which we operate and play," said the club's sporting director, Kevin Thelwell."But since he broke into the team he's been terrific."He's very professional, very honest and very hard-working, so he fits the team perfectly."It is understood the fee Wolves have paid for Dendoncker is £12million, though the club have not announced the length of the deal. TROPHY Getty Images Tottenham issue immediate ban to supporter who threw cup at Kepa LATEST FOOTBALL NEWS The biggest market value losers in 2019, including Bale and ex-Liverpool star targets Dendoncker became an important member of the Wolves first team REVEALED punished Liverpool news live: Klopp reveals when Minamino will play and issues injury update LATEST boost read more
IHSAA Girls Sectional Draw
WSLM broadcast the Indiana High School Girls SectionalsThe tournament begins February 11 and will continue on February 14 and 15th.Admission: $6 per session; $10 all sessions.Sectional 15. Jennings County (6)Game 1: Seymour vs. New Albany.Game 2: Bedford North Lawrence vs. Floyd Central.Game 3: Jeffersonville vs. Winner of Game 1.Game 4: Jennings County vs. Winner of Game 2.Championship: Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner of Game 4. Regionals Date: Saturday, February 22, 2014.Admission: $7 persession; $10 both sessions. Sectional 30. Charlestown (8)Game 1: Scottsburg vs. North Harrison.Game 2: Charlestown vs. Brownstown Central.Game 3: Salem vs. Silver Creek.Game 4: Madison vs. Corydon Central.Game 5: Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2.Game 6: Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner of Game 4.Championship: Winner of Game 5 vs. Winner of Game 6.Sectional 46. Eastern (Pekin) (6)Game 1: Paoli vs. Henryville.Game 2: Crawford County vs. Clarksville.Game 3: Providence vs. Winner of Game 1.Game 4: Eastern (Pekin) vs. Winner of Game 2.Championship: Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner of Game 4.Sectional 61. Orleans (6)Game 1: Orleans vs. Crothersville.Game 2: Springs Valley vs. West Washington.Game 3: Trinity Lutheran vs. Winner of Game 1.Game 4: Medora vs. Winner of Game 2.Championship: Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner of Game 4.Sectional 62. New Washington (6)Game 1: Rock Creek Academy vs. Lanesville. Game 2: South Central (Elizabeth) vs. New Washington.Game 3: Borden vs. Winner of Game 1.Game 4: Christian Academy of Indiana vs. Winner of Game 2.Championship: Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner of Game 4. read more
Busy weekend of club championship action ahead in Sligo and Leitrim
Round three of the Leitrim club championships gets underway this evening; while the club championship action also throws-in in Sligo this weekend.In Leitrim, the heavyweight clash of the champions gets things underway this weekend, as reigning senior champions Aughawillan face reigning intermediate champions Ballinamore Sean O'Heslin's in Cloone at 8.30pm.Tomorrow there is a senior double-header at Pairc Sean, as Dromahair take on St Mary's and Melvin Gaels face Allen Gaels.Glencar/Manorhamilton will look to make it three wins from three when they face Bornacoola in Drumshanbo, while Mohill face Gortmettragh and Annaduff face Drumreilly.In the intermediate grade, Ballinaglera and Aughnasheelin also clash in Drumshanbo tomorrow, while Glenfarne/Kiltyclogher play Cloone in Ballinammore on Sunday, the same day as Drumkeerin face Aughavas in Pairc Sean.The Junior A teams from Glencar/Manor, Drumkeerin and Melvin Gaels are also in round two action on Sunday.In Sligo, Markievicz Park hosts a senior double-header tomorrow as Coolera/Strandhill face St Molaise Gaels and holders Tourlestrane take on Drumcliffe/Rosses Point.Gaels midfielder Cathal Burns says that his side are determined to be competitive at the senior grade…Audio Playerhttps://www.oceanfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Cathal-Burns-Clip.mp300:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.Markievicz also hosts Sunday's meeting of St Mary's and Eastern Harps.But the big game of the weekend could be in Bunninadden, as south Sligo rivals Tubbercurry and Curry go head to head tomorrow evening.Tubber were winners as recently as 2014, and reached this year's league final.Defender Brian Curran believes they can be contenders once again…Audio Playerhttps://www.oceanfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Brian-Curran-Clip.mp300:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.Curry last won the championship in 2012, but midfielder Dennis Coffey says they have come close in recent seasons…Audio Playerhttps://www.oceanfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dennis-Coffey-Clip.mp300:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.In the intermediate championship this weekend, St Michael's play Shamrock Gaels, Geevagh take on Easkey and St John's play Enniscrone/Kilglass on Saturday, while Castleconnor take on Bunninadden on Sunday. read more
Jury finds pilot at fault for Pelee Island crash; only awards fraction of damages sought
The six-person jury in a civil trial about the tragic plane crash off Pelee Island nearly 16 years ago that killed all 10 on board found the pilot, Capt. Wayne Price, as entirely at fault.The verdict, delivered by the jury around 10:30 p.m. Friday after three weeks of testimony before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Chatham, only awarded $345,000 in financial compensation, far short of the $5.8 million in punitive and aggravated damages being sought by the plaintiffs.Londoner Paul Brisco, 71, was suing the estate of Price, airline company Georgian Express and ferry operator Owen Sound Transportation Company on behalf of himself and the estate of his brother Robert Brisco, 46, of Chatham, one of eight area hunters killed when Georgian Express Flight 126 crashed through the Lake Erie ice shortly after taking off from the Pelee Island Airport on Jan. 17, 2004.The other hunters who died in the crash included brothers Ted Reeve, 53, and Tom Reeve, 49, of Chatham; Dr. Jim Allen, 51, of Mitchell's Bay; Ronald Spencler, 53, and Wally Sadowski, 48, both of Windsor; and Fred Freitas, 38, and Larry Janik, of Kingsville.The jury was asked to decide if there was conduct by Price "for which it ought to be punished and deterred by an award of punitive damages."The jury answered yes in deciding to impose a financial penalty of $300,000 against Price's estate, compared to the $1 million the plaintiffs were seeking.The particulars of the jury's ruling included the pilot deciding to fly a plane contaminated by ice that was also overweight, due in part to being over-fuelled by Price.The jury also noted Price had his girlfriend, Jamie Levine, as a passenger on the flight, a decision that was against company policy without making a jump-seat request. The members of the jury also found Price at fault for not taking a company-provided de-icing canister before he departed from Toronto to Windsor, where he would later make two trips to Pelee Island as part of regularly scheduled flights by Georgian Express, which was under contract with the Owen Sound Transportation Company to provide winter air service to the island.An investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada in the wake of the crash determined the plane was 576 kilograms over its maximum allowable weight and contaminated with ice when Price decided to take off.The jury didn't levy an financial penalties against Georgian Express or the Owen Sound Transportation Company, effectively answering no to the question of whether there was conduct by either company that ought to be punished and deterred.The plaintiffs were seeking $4 million in punitive damages against Georgian Express, having produced witness testimony that Price felt pressured to fly during bad weather conditions. Other witness testimony presented evidence the pilot was missing training on the day of the crash and noted the company's failure to provide de-icing equipment or even a ladder for pilots to use to check the plane for ice contamination at the Pelee Island Airport.Both of those safety measures, along with adding a second crew member to the Pelee Island fights, were implemented by Georgian Express shortly after the crash.The aggravated damages by the jury also fell well short of what the plaintiffs were seeking.Paul Brisco was awarded $20,000 for the loss of care, guidance and companionship of his brother Robert after seeking $50,000 for this loss.The jury decided there would be no financial compensation for the mental injury Brisco suffered in dealing with the tragic death of his brother or for the value of his services in wrapping up his brother's property management and real estate businesses.However, the jury agreed with the plaintiffs' request for $25,000 in compensation to the estate of Robert Brisco for the mental injury he would have suffered in the final moments of his life as the plane crashed.There was silence in the courtroom as Superior Court Justice Thomas Carey read the verdict.Members of the Brisco family declined comment immediately after trial ended, noting they wanted time to process the verdict.Bob Love, a lawyer for the defendants, told the jury members during the closing arguments they had the "difficult task" of trying to decide this case without emotion and feeling, based solely on the facts.After the trial, he acknowledged it was challenging to deal with the emotion of the case."It's a very dramatic, tragic event, so it's difficult on all sides," Love said.eshreve@postmedia.com@Chathamnews read more
It Turns Out You Really Were Moving the Thing on the Ouija Board
A new study hooked up eye trackers to people who were using a Ouija board, and the researchers found that, yeah, everyone was pushing it a little bit. Sorry to ruin your first experience with crossovers from the spirit world. Remember that slumber party when you were a kid where someone busted out the Ouija board . . . it spelled out some random stuff . . . and then you took turns accusing each other of pushing the thing to affect the results? Well . . . it turns out you were all guilty.
Brazilians fall for Bloemfontein
17 June 2009The football fans of Mangaung/Bloemfontein are well known in South Africa as being among the country's most vociferous, charismatic, and hospitable followers of the beautiful game.And now the city's warmth and love of the game has received the highest praise, after an enjoyable few days spent in the "City of Roses" by Brazil's superstar Seleçao at the start of the Fifa Confederations Cup.The Brazilians arrived in Mangaung/Bloemfontein on 11 June and held an open training session at the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium the next day, which was attended by thousands of ecstatic fans clamouring to see the likes of Kaka, Robinho, Alexandre Pato and Dani Alves in the heart of the area's Rocklands township.For South Africa's organisers, it has been important to give ordinary football fans a taste of the tournament and its stars. And for the Brazilians, training in a familiar-looking favela and entertaining the football-loving locals was clearly equally important.With the team's welcome matched by good logistical preparations and facilities and the city's first game seeing Brazil overcome Egypt in a 4-3 thriller at the Free State Stadium on Monday, excitement in the city is sky-high."I've really enjoyed being in Bloemfontein a lot," said the team's 2002 World Cup-winning midfielder, Gilberto Silva, after the game against Egypt. "We've had a good experience here. Everyone's very happy with the conditions and the organisation."We had a very good crowd at our training sessions and at the match, and it's been great seeing the passion people here have for the game," Silva added. "They've been singing and dancing all the time."For the decorated former Arsenal player, who now plays for Greek club Panathinaikos, the Confederations Cup – and Brazil – is set to get even better over the next few days."It's been a fantastic competition, and I am sure it will get even better," Silva said. "We are very excited to be playing in a very important competition."One of the biggest names in the game, Kaka, was even more effusive in his praise of the locals."This is exactly the World Cup in Africa we were longing for and that we were expecting," Kaka said. "It's great to see the passion people here have for the game and how they celebrate and enjoy us being here. I am sure the World Cup next year will be even better."The Brazilian team's media officer, Rodrigo Pavia, said his message to the Brazilian press and the team's multitudes of supporters back home was that their reception and experience in South Africa has been "wonderful"."Everything's been great," Pavia said. "The hotels, the structure and the stadium. In Brazil we don't have any stadiums like [Free State stadium]. The pitch was OK and the security perfect."Everyone here in South Africa has been really nice, and our open training session was wonderful, amazing," Pavia added. "The fans danced and sang throughout. We have the same kind of atmosphere and way of life in Brazil, and the players have really enjoyed being here."Having charmed their way into the hearts of Mangaung/Bloemfontein, the Seleçao are now in Tshwane/Pretoria for Thursday's game against the United States at Loftus Versfeld Stadium – and their highly anticipated, sold-out clash against current world champions Italy at the same venue on Saturday.The most popular football team on the planet can rest assured that the reception they receive in Pretoria will be equally warm and friendly.Source: 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa Organising Committee read more
Interview and Interrogation Training: Withholding Evidence
This week's International Association of Interviewers interview and interrogation training tip provided by Wicklander-Zulawski, has Dave Thompson, CFI, discussing the importance of withholding key evidence during an interview or interrogation.The term "withholding" really means keeping the information within the investigative resources, meaning you (and maybe your witness) is aware of that information. By not releasing that information to your subject, it gives you several advantages in the conversation.First of all, the subject does not know exactly what you know, which sometimes leads the subject to admit to crimes that you were unaware of in the first place. If you show them an example of them taking money out of a register on video, they might admit to that one instance, but not to the five other times they've committed the same crime.- Sponsor – The other benefit of withholding a key piece of evidence is that if your subject is able to give you specific details about the crime and about the act, and you never prompted them with that information, that helps you substantiate that information. If they can give you information that only the guilty person would know, it helps you understand they're being truthful—which also helps you validate or vouch for the rest of the story that they're going to provide.Often, investigators will feel frustrated and will want to present the subject with evidence in order to get the admission. Challenge yourself to withhold that evidence or make it more of a gradual release for the reasons discussed here.Watch the video, then let us know what topics you'd like to hear more about in upcoming Tips of the Week: Take the survey.Every loss prevention investigator should continuously strive to enhance their investigative interviewing skills as part of an ongoing commitment to best-in-class interviewing performance. This includes holding ourselves to an elite standard of interview and interrogation training that is ethical, moral and legal while demanding excellence in the pursuit of the truth. The International Association of Interviewers (IAI) and Wicklander-Zulawski (WZ) provide interview and interrogation training programs and additional guidance to investigators when dealing with dishonest employees, employee theft, sexual harassment, policy violations, building rapport, pre-employment interviewing, lying, denials and obtaining a statement.By focusing on the latest information and research from experts in the field as well as academia, legal and psychological resources, these video tips provide interview and interrogation training techniques that can enhance the skill sets of professionals with backgrounds in law enforcement, loss prevention, security, asset protection, human resources, auditors or anyone looking to obtain the truth.To learn more about interview and interrogation training and how you can further develop your professional skill sets, visit www.w-z.com or www.certifiedinterviewer.com.This post was originally published in 2017 and was updated July 9, 2018. Stay UpdatedGet critical information for loss prevention professionals, security and retail management delivered right to your inbox. Sign up now read more
Internet of Things: The World of IoT is already here
We're already living in the world of the Internet of Things (IoT). IDC estimates that there are already 20 billion devices that can connect to the internet and that number will grow to 32 billion by 2020.Tony Olvet, IDC Canada group vice-president, said that "we're not talking about SIMs or sensors. There are lots of different players. It's a fragmented constellation of markets."Two areas where IDC sees rapid IoT adoption are with Healthcare and Retail. The IoT healthcare monitoring market is expected to grow from $8.2 billion in 2014 to more than $12.4 billion i n2018. Similarly, Retail IT IoT is expected to grow from $181 million this year to $223 million in 2018.Other areas of application for IoT technology noted by IDC include personal wellness, smart buildings, remote patient monitoring, food traceability, in store consumer digital offers, air traffic monitoring and smart meters.JP Rangaswami, chief scientist for Salesforce.com, said of IoT that "the net effect will be to reduce waste everywhere: in physical flows and logistics, in the movement of people and goods; in logical flows and logistics, in the movement of ideas and information; decisions will be made faster and better, based on more accurate information. 'Inventory' will be reduced, as will the waste associated with the decay that is an intrinsic part of inventory. This will affect the food you buy and cook and eat; the fuel you use to power yourself, your devices, and your vehicles; the time you take to do things; and, as you learn to live longer, the burden of care will reduce as a result of far better monitoring of, and response to, your physical and emotional state, in terms of healthcare. " read more
Gartner: Next, Social Networks Will Sell Insurance, Become Banks
Cognitive Automation is the Immediate Future of… Tags:#enterprise#Trends scott fulton A recently published business development analysis by research firm Gartner looked into social networks' need for a more structurally sound revenue stream, and came to the conclusion that to maintain viability and competitiveness, they will soon enter the financial services industry. One Gartner analyst, Juergen Weiss, went so far as to predict that by the end of 2014, one of the major social networks – by implication, Facebook – would enter the business of property and casualty (P&C) insurance."Offering insurance products to their communities would be a natural extension of social media providers' financial services strategies," reads Weiss' conclusions, "and would allow them to capitalize on their extensive set of information they constantly collect about their users."The predictions appear in the latest of a Gartner series of "Top Industry Predicts 2012" reports, using data compiled late last November. The report's editor, Kimberly Harris-Ferrante, cited "radical shifts in customer behavioral changes and buying habits… challenging many industries to reinvent their product development and sales and services processes to align with customer expectations and technology use."The train of logic begins with Gartner analysts Stessa Cohen and Peter Redshaw, who cite a rapid increase in the number of online banking transactions. This increase has already driven banks to accelerate the establishment of their social presences through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and yes, if you can believe it, Flickr. (Banks share their family photos with their customers. No joke.)"Traditional banks risk being disintermediated by social media websites that are increasingly looking for additional revenue streams beyond advertising," Redshaw and Cohen write. "This is a natural extension of the rise already seen in comparison and aggregator sites, especially for more commoditized products such as small loans, general insurance and credit cards. Examples of recent activity include the social payments startup Twitpay, the virtual currency Facebook Credits and the acquisition of the U.K. price comparison site BeatThatQuote by Google."This "disintermediation," as Gartner's analysts put it, includes the enablement of online debt management services and peer-to-peer loan pools, all of which happens by way of social networks more than by stand-alone Web sites. To stay competitive, traditional banks (Gartner cites Citibank as the leader here) have launched services that reach their customers through Facebook, and enable them to conduct transactions through a social network rather than a Web site.Here's where Juergen Weiss takes over. Weiss notes Facebook's Timeline feature as conducive for users to share their everyday events – getting married, getting a new job, entering retirement. Financial institutions are already using tools like Salesforce.com's Radian6 to search for these events as social net users share them. Weiss believes this could become the social net proprietors' opportunity to pre-empt those institutions from stealing away their own customers. Within just the next few years, he predicts, the social networks themselves (again, implying mainly Facebook, though perhaps Google also) will offer banking services, and then "naturally," insurance services as well, perhaps initially through joint ventures with existing financial institutions but not necessarily the bigger firms.The Gartner analysts perceive this as a genuine threat to the existing insurance industry. In their report, they advise insurers to plan now for the commoditization of their products and services, implying that they should perhaps be sold through portals the way cloud service customers purchase bandwidth and virtual machines today. A ripple effect from this seismic shift could impact government regulators worldwide, whose inability to adjust to changing circumstances has already been blamed for such events as the collapse of the Central Bank of Ireland, and the sub-prime mortgage loan crisis in the U.S. Related Posts Massive Non-Desk Workforce is an Opportunity fo… 3 Areas of Your Business that Need Tech Now IT + Project Management: A Love Affair read more
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The Sirenades är ett musikalbum från 2014 med jazzsångerskan Lina Nyberg. Det är ett dubbelalbum med skivorna Sirens och Monsters. Den förra med Norrbotten Big Band och den senare med hennes kvintett.

Låtlista
Alla låtar är skrivna och arrangerade av Lina Nyberg om inget annat anges.

Cd 1 Sirens
One Tone Song
The Cyber Song
Lilac Wine (James Shelton, arr. Peter Danemo)
The Monster
The Sirenade
Who Shall Measure (arr. Malene Bay Landin)

Cd 2 Monsters
Who Shall Measure (Lina Nyberg/Virginia Woolf)
The Skin
The Monster
The Song of the Roses (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Lina Nyberg)
The Woodlouse
I Write
London London (Caetano Veloso)

Medverkande
Lina Nyberg – sång
Cecilia Persson – piano
David Stackenäs – gitarr
Josef Kallerdahl – bas
Peter Danemo – trummor
Norrbotten Big Band
Bo Strandberg, Magnus Ekholm, Dan Johansson, Jaçek Onuszkiewicz – trumpet
Peter Dahlgren, Christine Carlsson, Arvid Ingberg, Björn Hängsel – trombon
Håkan Broström, Jan Thelin, Mats Garberg, Karl-Martin Almqvist, Per Moberg – saxofon

Mottagande
Skivan fick ett gott mottagande när den kom ut med ett genomsnitt på 3,9/5 baserat på tolv recensioner.

Källor

Musikalbum 2014
Album av Lina Nyberg

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New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt, with pictorial dust jacket. First (American) Edition, published in the same month as Secker's UK edition, with priority uncertain. KANGAROO is Lawrence's Australian novel; at one time he expressed the desire to write a novel for each of the world's.....
THE LADYBIRD | The Fox : The Captain's Doll.
London: Martin Secker, (1923). Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this collection of three novellas, published eight months before Seltzer's American edition that was titled THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL: Three Novelettes. All three involve relationships during (and affected by) the waning months of the Great.....
THE PLUMED SERPENT (Quetzalcoatl).
London: Martin Secker, (1926). 4 pp undated ads. Original chocolate brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of this 476-page novel sited in Mexico. Lawrence began it in 1923 when he and Frieda lived on Lake Chapala near Guadalajara; they returned to Oaxaca in 1924-1925 so that he could complete.....
ST. MAWR. Together with The Princess.
London: Martin Secker, (1925). Original brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, in the usual primary state (chocolate-brown cloth, with the error on the Contents page); Knopf's American edition, published two weeks later, did not include "The Princess." The heroine of ST. MAWR abandons her husband and post-war England and.....
THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY.
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Original cream paper boards decorated in orange-red, with printed spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition (issued as No. 4 in the publisher's "Lungarno Series"), consisting of 810 numbered copies -- of which this is No. 743. Lawrence had actually written this back in late 1925.....
THE WHITE PEACOCK. A Novel.
New York: Duffield & Company, 1911. Original light blue-grey cloth decorated in white and black and with lettering in white. First Edition of D.H. Lawrence's first book, which he began in 1906 (at age 20) and rewrote several times; it is the tale of a love triangle, between Laetitia (DHL's.....
FARO NELL AND HER FRIENDS. Wolfville Stories.
Illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand. New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, (1913). 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of the sixth and last volume of Southwestern tales sited in Lewis's fictional town of "Wolfville" -- following WOLFVILLE (1897), SANDBURRS (1900), WOLFVILLE DAYS (1902).....
ARROWSMITH.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1925]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Trade Edition, preceded only by a 500-copy limited edition. This was the third of Lewis's great novels of the decade, after MAIN STREET and BABBITT and before ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH. ARROWSMITH won the Pulitzer.....
BABBITT.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1922]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition, first issue, of the second of Lewis's five great satires of the 1920s (following MAIN STREET, and followed by ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH). George Follansbee Babbitt, an enterprising, moral, stereotyped, and prosperous real estate.....
DODSWORTH. A Novel.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of the fifth and last of Lewis's great novels of the 1920s -- preceded by MAIN STREET, BABBITT, ARROWSMITH and ELMER GANTRY. In these novels, Lewis savagely mocked the provincialism, conformism and hypocrisy he saw.....
ELMER GANTRY.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1927]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of Lewis's scathing satire about a fraudulent itinerant preacher (shades of Bakker and Swaggart!) -- since immortalized on the screen by Burt Lancaster. This was the fourth of Lewis's five great novels of the.....
MAIN STREET. The Story of Carol Kennicott.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Original medium-blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of the book that brought fame to Sinclair Lewis -- the first of his five great novels of the 1920s (followed by BABBITT, ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH). Carol Milford, a girl of quick intelligence but.....
London, Charmian Kittredge
THE LOG OF THE SNARK.
Illustrated [with photographs]. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition, third printing (the first two were in 1915 and 1916). This is the log that Charmian maintained when she and Jack cruised to the South Seas in 1907-1908. The front free endpaper.....
THE ABYSMAL BRUTE.
New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green and black, with dust jacket. First Edition of London's prizefighting tale about "a white backwoods giant who would rather read Browning than slug his opponents" [Sinclair], prompted by his coverage of the.....
BEFORE ADAM.
With Numerous Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in brown and lettered in red and white. First Edition of this odd novel written several years earlier, not long after THE CALL OF THE WILD, during London's.....
BROWN WOLF and Other Jack London Stories.
As Chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian, Boy Scouts of America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Original light green-grey cloth. First Edition of this selection of a dozen earlier-published Jack London tales, published four years after his death -- chosen for their appropriateness for reading by boy.....
THE GAME.
With Illustrations and Decorations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 6 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in white and brown. First Edition, which consisted of 26,420 copies. In this prizefighting tale, Joe Fleming tries to convince his fiancée to accept his.....
THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSE.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. 6 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and orange. First Edition of this tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of Jack's death, he had written this during his bad year.....
LOST FACE.
["To Build a Fire"] Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in light green, white and orange. First Edition of this collection of seven tales, which consisted of fewer than 7,000 copies (compared to over 70,000 copies of THE CALL OF.....
LOVE OF LIFE and Other Stories.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt and cream. First Edition, consisting of 7,973 copies, of this collection of eight tales. He needed the money badly, for he had overspent his income to satisfy his various desires. As well as paying.....
MICHAEL BROTHER OF JERRY.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 10 pp undated ads. Original red-brown cloth with dog silhouettes in black. First Edition of this posthumously-published book, published about six months after JERRY OF THE ISLANDS. Though both books were written by Jack in Honolulu as cash-raising hackwork, MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRY was a......
MOON-FACE and Other Stories [inscribed by London].
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in white, green and gilt. First Edition, consisting of 8,400 copies (preceded only by a pre-publication copyright issue). The best-known story in this collection is "Planchette" -- in which the spirit of a woman's dead.....
THE MUTINY OF THE ELSINORE.
London: Mills & Boon, (1914). [4]+32 pp ads. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition. This tale, serialized as "Sea Gangsters," involves a mutinous voyage around Cape Horn. London hoped to explain his own "Snark" voyage's failure by laying the blame on Anglo-Saxons' problems with the tropics (per the theories.....
With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 8 pp undated ads. Original orange cloth decorated in blue and grey. First Edition. This tale, serialized as "Sea Gangsters," involves a mutinous voyage around Cape Horn. London hoped to explain his own "Snark" voyage's failure by laying the blame on Anglo-Saxons'.....
THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG.
With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 6 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of seven socialistic tales. Two of them, "The Dream of Debs" and "South of the Slot," he had written years earlier just after the San Francisco.....


We said goodbye to our wonderful host Theresa tucked away the bison jerky she insisted we take and were on our way.
We stopped off for something cool to drink in the tiny town of Tabor. The town embraced its Czech heritage and advertised that their "Czech Days" which were close at hand.
Jess and I were very excited to calculate our total mileage at the end of the trip and see how much $$$ we would have spent had we completed this trip in a full size vehicle.
We cycled to Lewis and Clark State Park in Yankton, South Dakota. The beautiful park was situated alongside the Missouri River and we were thrilled that Jess' cousin Markie and uncle Kerry were joining us for the camping experience. Plus Kerry promised to cycle with us the following day into Sioux City.


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Great Barrington Declaration Summary
A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy 10/9/20 by Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. The following is a summarized version of an article that appeared in the October issue of Imprimus, a publication of Hillsdale College. The full article can be found at hillsdale.edu.
The COVID-19 Fatality Rate – In early March, the fatality rate was estimated at roughly three percent—I.e., three out of every hundred people who were identified as "cases" of COVID died from it. Today, we know the fatality rate is closer to 0.2 or 0.3 percent. The reason for the inaccurate early estimates is simple: in early March, we were not identifying most of the people who had been infected by COVID. The majority who are infected have very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. These people weren't identified in the early days, which resulted in a highly misleading fatality rate that continues to drive public policy.
Last April, I ran a series of studies to see how many people in California's Santa Clara County, where I live, had been infected. About 1,000 COVID cases had been identified, but our antibody tests found that 50,000 people had been infected—i.e., there were 50 times more infections than identified cases. This was enormously important, because it meant that the fatality rate was not three percent, but closer to 0.2 percent; not 30 in 1,000, but 2 in 1,000. —there are now 82 similar studies from around the world, and the median result of these 82 studies is a fatality rate of about 0.2 percent—exactly what we found.
Who Is at Risk? The single most important fact about COVID-19 is that it is not equally dangerous for everybody. There is a thousand-fold difference between the mortality rate in older people, 70 and up, and the mortality rate in children– for young children, this disease is less dangerous than the seasonal flu. This year, in the United States, more children have died from the seasonal flu than from COVID by a factor of two or three.
Whereas COVID is not deadly for children, for older people it is much more deadly than the seasonal flu. If you look at studies worldwide, the COVID fatality rate for people 70 and up is about four percent: 40 in 1,000 vs. 2 in 1,000 in the overall population — this huge difference in the danger of COVID to the young vs. the old is the most important fact about the virus. Yet it has not been sufficiently emphasized in public health policies.
Lockdowns and Where to Go from Here – Last week I met with two other epidemiologists—Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford and Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard – in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The three of us come from very different parts of the political spectrum, yet we arrived at the same view: the widespread lockdown policy has been a devastating public health mistake. In response, we wrote and issued the Great Barrington Declaration, which can be viewed online at www.gbdeclaration.org. The Declaration includes the following points:
1) As public health scientists we have grave concerns that lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health —e.g., lower childhood vaccinations, fewer cancer screenings, etc., etc.
2) Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice. For children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than influenza.
3) Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable elderly should be the central aim, e.g., nursing homes should perform frequent testing of staff and visitors, retired people living at home should have groceries delivered, etc.
4) Everybody else should immediately resume life as normal with some additional hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick. Schools and universities should be opened and extracurricular activities should be resumed, low-risk adults should go back to work and restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sports, and other cultural activities should resume.
To date, the Great Barrington Declaration has been signed by over 43,000 medical and public health scientists and medical practitioners. It does not represent a "fringe" view within the scientific community.
(A three-minute news show covering the above can be found at: /www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8CbDCjYsxE&t=83s )
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CALO: A Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes
Adam Cheyer, SRI
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Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
CALO is one of DARPA's most ambitious efforts to develop a persistent assistant that lives with, learns from, and supports users in managing the complexities of their daily work lives. A multi-year project that unites some 200+ researchers from 25 academic and commercial organizations, the goal is to produce a single system where learning happens "in vivo", inside an ever-evolving agent that can observe, comprehend, reason, anticipate, act, and communicate.
This talk will provide an overview of CALO: the what, the how, the why. We'll cover CALO's six major functional areas (organize information, prepare information artifacts, mediate communications, schedule and optimize time, manage tasks, aquire and allocate resources) and the kinds of learning that takes place during these functions. We'll also discuss what it's like to interact with CALO and some of the design choices made in building the system.
Adam Cheyer is Program Director of the Cognitive Computing Group in SRI's AI Center. Previously, Adam served as VP of Engineering at Verticalnet (VERT) and at Dejima (acquired by Sybase).
View this talk on line at CS547 on Stanford OnLine
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Plymouth family boast the perfect winter wonderland home
The dazzling house in Plymstock pays homage to the NHS heroes of Derriford Hospital
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A selfless family have put up an incredible display of Christmas lights this year and are raising money for a charity which is close to their hearts.
Theresa Green and son Robert Carter-Lovell, a petty officer for the Royal Navy, have been lighting up their house in Plymstock, Radford Park, with amazing decorations over the years.
And this year their stunning display is to thank the Plymouth Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Derriford Hospital for their tireless efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic.
But the ICU is also close to the family's heart for other reasons - in 2018 mum Theresa was rushed to hospital with sepsis, and was subsequently put into an induced coma.
Theresa said: "I was in intensive care for just over three weeks, and if it hadn't have been for them I wouldn't be here today.
"So with everything else going on with the pandemic, we thought it would be good to actually do the ICU as I don't think they get the support they really need.
The amazing lights are a tribute to the NHS this year
"They're so busy in there, it would be nice to see them receive something. That's the reason we chose it."
Son Robert added: "We try and do a charity every year if we can. We've got the lights up and its a way to advertise the charity, and it's a way to raise some money and for other people to just enjoy the lights.
"There's a fixed tin outside on the railings which we empty every night. On Facebook we've also made a JustGiving for the ICU."
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Q: Sort Json based on multiple values In Java, I want to sort my JSON objects (not a JSON array) based on multiple values. Below is an example of input JSON file content.
{"Name":"John","Age":27,"Gender":"Male"}
{"Name":"Lynda","Age":42,"Gender":"Female"}
{"Name":"Peter","Age":34,"Gender":"Male"}
{"Name":"Sheebha","Age":23,"Gender":"Female"}

I need to sort these objects by Age and Gender. I need an output like below.
{"Name":"John","Age":27,"Gender":"Male"}
{"Name":"Peter","Age":34,"Gender":"Male"}
{"Name":"Sheebha","Age":23,"Gender":"Female"}
{"Name":"Lynda","Age":42,"Gender":"Female"}

I am using GSON to parse the JSON. I just want an approach to do it.  I am able to find solutions to sort a JSON array, but couldn't find one for objects.
Also, let me know the best API to parse JSON; GSON or JSON.simple or anything else.

A: You should essentially have a comparator method like this, in your POJO object.
public int compareTo(Object obj) {
    if(obj == null)
            return 1;
    else if (obj instanceof Person)
    {
        Person p2 = (Person) obj;
        if(this.gender.compareTo(p2.gender) < 0)
            return 1;
        else if(this.gender.compareTo(p2.gender) == 0)
            return this.age.compareTo(p2.age);
        else
            return -1;
    }
    else return 1;

}

It will sort first on the basis of Gender and then age, this is what I understand from your sample output.
From your JSON object convert to POJO object like this.
List<Person> personList = new ArrayList<>();
Person p =new GSON().fromJson(String , yourPOJO.class); // do this for all inputs
personList.add(p);

then you need to sort using
Collections.sort(personList);

hope this helps!
Good luck!

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Cesare Viel – Scrivere il giardino (Writing the garden)
Press release as interview
Pinksummer: Your father for sure wasn't a wet guy. Your artwork Il giardino di mio padre (My father's garden) presented at PAC in Milan during your solo show Più nessuno da nessuna parte (Nobody anywhere anymore) made us think about the last episode of the second season of the TV series The End of the F***ing World. In particular at the end, when James (Alex Lawther), convinced by Alyssa (Jessica Barden), goes with her under a flyover to spread the ashes of his father that he is taking with him since a long time. James clumsily tries to spill what's inside the golden industrial urn, but what comes out is a grey mush that just splatters on the ground. Nothing flies. James justifies the fact without being surprised, considering that his father, when he was alive, was always a bit wet. Alyssa then, in her very flat peculiar way, says that dying is bullshit, because we lose everything.
The area under the flyover was the place where James' father and mother met for the first time, such horribly squalid that Alyssa asks James if his parents were there because they were tailing someone. James answers that that place was a park before being underneath the flyover.
Who knows if being a parent implies any kind of stereotypical position, accompanied, also in some antiheroic cases, by an affectionate negative acceptation. On the other hand, the best parents should hide themselves from their sons and daugthers in order to become role models, the models, just like writing does with words and the nature with us all.
The objects you were taking out of the ground in Il Giardino di mio Padre (My father's garden) don't disguise any sense of aridity in their perception.
Which question would you like to be asked on this work? And then, eventually, how would you answer?
Cesare Viel: I had a very silent relationship with my father, sometimes also very distant. The question could be: What did bring me to imagine and to want making a work as such? A famous verse of the Persian poet Rumi says: "Beyond what is right or wrong there is a garden, we will meet there". Well, maybe, first of all, the desire of a reconciliation. Putting down the weapons, sitting down on the edge of a relationship and finally listen to the silence. And to walk in it. Slowly. If art has any function, that is making us to perceive simultaneously the entire range of emotions and thoughts enclosed in a situation, real or imaginary, that we lived or that we could live.
Ps: If Socrates could be among us as a friend or acquaintance of yours, he would draw you in a very dense dialogue about the title that you chose for your fourth solo show at Pinksummer, Scrivere il Giardino (Writing the garden). They say he was very skeptic about the written word, he used to sustain that once composed, a book is something dead: everyone can interpret a written work as he like and, consequently, that is an illusionary knowledge. He would say that the garden is a privileged location of the philosophic practice expressed in the dialogic form, marked by the rhythm of thesis and antithesis, as they were two nightingales replying from a tree to the other.
The garden is a utopic space par excellence because gardeners live for the future, they have to foresee what could be, something that is not yet.
In this sense, we too feel as we were gardeners and we imagine that your garden, even though written, will never become a book, since your writing doesn't subtend to narrativity, not even to the feeblest and disenchanted of the narrations. In this sense, your sentences are like seeds, and even if words themselves are not so prone to comply to gravity, your phrases are like the seed bombs in green guerrilla. You have always been a polite activist, but as every activist you want a better world. Tell us about your sententious writing and the difference, and also about the future. Imagine what question about tomorrow you would like to be asked.
CV: The garden is a world, the sentence is a world. Garden, world, sentence get intertwined and reflected by each other. I don't know if Socrates was right about writing, but I know that for me that is an infinite dialogue with the surface, on which everything slips away and rolls down. Writing hands out a plan, as a hand passes a plate, in the space. A page, a sheet, a face, a body, a curve, a word, are surfaces of different nature and size. Now writing sentences means to me, mostly waiting for the right calibration and porosity in the thoughts.
Set different planes in mutual contact. And see what happens.
I wait for questions to emerge, little by little from the bottom, as sounds inside the body. There is a different eternal return of sentences written in this garden created for them. Resistant guests, shy and strong just like the flowers, the plants and the memories.
Before starting any project, why do not walking amongst the trees? Let the intentions grow as trees do. This is now my question-whish on tomorrow.
Ps: The spontaneous forest was followed by the orchard, the garden. In Sicily they call "gardens" the orchards. In the Cantico dei Cantici (Song of songs) is written: "As an apple tree amongst the wood my dialect amongst the young people. Closed garden you are, my sister, wife, closed garden, locked fountain. Your buds are a pomegranate paradise, with the most delicious fruits, Cyprus trees with nard, nard and saffron, cinnamon with every species of incense tree, myrrh and aloe with all the best scents.."
Don't you think that our idea of garden, comparable to the idea of Eden, of lost paradise, refers to the failure where the disobedience of original sin brought us?
Do you think we treated the world and all the other human species, animals, plants and minerals badly, to call us outside of beasty attitude for which we thought we didn't suit? For a myth, a belief, a superstition? Is the wall we built to separate from nature the origin of our progress, our garden? Is it still possible to change the direction of the writings?
CV: Hortus conclusus, cloister, orchard.. In the history of garden desires and real needs of reflection and philosophical speculation, plantation, growth and maintenance of the biological cycle resound. The nature and the forms of the garden have changed in time as if they were transformed in our language and in our culture.
As a matter of fact, the garden always asks as us a question about the origin, the starting point and the direction we want to take. Nowadays we are living such a complex and difficult time. Our choices on environment will be crucial to the future. Such important planetary issues, of such a scale, make us quiver. I feel like I was out of scale. A tiny point lost in the sand. Here it comes, then, here, the moment to sit in the garden. Everyone as he can and manages doing. To spend time apparently doing nothing, to rest and prepare the required energies. To allow ourselves some garden moments in our life. Maybe this is the only way we can start thinking at changing the direction of the writings. To act the pause, to develop a different form of activity.
Ps: The important gardener Gilles Clément, author of Le Jardin en Movement (The Moving Garden) conceives the world as a garden, a planetary garden where we all should be careful gardeners.
He states that in every public space, in every garden, we should always leave an uncultivated space, free from any hand, any design, for the pioneer species and for the pollinator insects. To leave the nature a void to develop its own energy. Your attitude of acting the writing reflects sometimes some sort of attitude facilitating immobility and silent enchantment. Does the void you create tend to support the tropism of the unpredicted?
CV: Absolutely. Consciously listening to the training of the garden, with its slow times, its waits, the lights and the shadows. I find fundamental Clément's idea of leaving a portion of free space, uncultivated. To open some crack. Making space. I consider free spaces, and to let them be, vital for any project, relationship, gesture or thought. The void and silence: essential ingredients to accept the unpredictable and support the movement of things. Between my written garden and the "garden in movement" by Clément I feel a very big similarity, an intense resonance.
Ps: When speaking about Monk's House garden, Virginia Woolf, on whom you worked many times, seems to furnish it like Clarissa Dalloway in the same novel prepares, since the early morning, managing fullness and emptiness, her night party.
"Leonard and I bought a field and we are making ambitious projects of any kind to put terraces, kiosks, ponds, water lilies, carps, gold fishes, statues of naked ladies and figureheads of war ships that reflects on shadowed lakes".
The image of the invitation of the exhibition Scrivere il Giardino (Writing the garden) is very beautiful. What are you presenting at Pinksummer?
CV: The invitation is an image taken from an illustrated encyclopedia of 1908, owned by my grandfather.
Leafing thought the pages of those volumes in German and looking at the colored illustrations has been an emotive and mental experience. An entire unpredictable world has been revealing itself to my eyes. I meant to do the same in the gallery. Opening and carrying out a garden world, to walk inside it, to stop, observe, read, meditate, experience. Past, present and future live together and collaborate in this project.
I imagined surface-sentences for an environment that can be experienced now but comes also from other times and affective worlds. Some written parts of this garden on the floor are personal memories of the garden of my family, in Trentino.
Together with the vast and horizontal garden-map, there are some new collages. Sheets from a silent herbarium of modular abstract shapes, that recur identical but always different.
A bicephalous writing on the wall says: "inafferabile si manifesta, la natura ama nascondersi" ("slippery revealing itself, nature loves to hide").
A graft-sentence between Laozi and Eraclito. Secret and mysterious nucleus of the entire exhibition.


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