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Italy: A Dream You Remember All Your Life
May 2, 2016 12:04 PM by Anna Novikova
Nikolay Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova and their son Lev Gumilev, 1913
"Italy is a dream you remember all your life"
It is a common belief that Italy's charm lies in its apparent, inherent beauty, persisting all over the peninsula. Yet not everything is reserved to the surface alone. The true delight lies in the discovery of unexpected, hidden wonders. Like a beautiful cave full of precious stones, Italy intrigues a sophisticated visitor, becoming the answer that a traveler is looking for. It casts an enduring spell on an open heart and turns into a life-time dream. The dream that shaped two Russian poets, Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilev.
Akhmatova and Gumilev were a wonderfully strange couple. She was long, graceful and untamed like a gazelle; and he loved Africa. She represented a mystery he was looking for; his inspiration. Family couldn't comprehend their union; friends predicted an inevitable divorce.
Soon after having married, a romantic Gumilev, tired of Anna's distant coldness, falls in love with his cousin. Anna has a chance encounter with artist AmedeoModigliani during her honeymoon with Gumilev. At the time she is a celebrated young poet who had just published her first book "Evening", which brought her immense success. Modigliani is a penniless Italian Jew who had just moved to Paris and barely makes his ends meet - "as an artist he doesn't have a shadow of recognition". Nothing could have predicted such a rushed development, but after a winter-long correspondence with Amedeo, Anna travels to Paris in 2011 to be with him.
Paris is in dark mist
And probably again Modigliani
Imperceptibly follows me.
He has a sad virtue
To bring disorder even to my dreams
And be the reason of my many misfortunes.
However, by the beginning of 1912 thoughts of Modigliani abandon her. Their love affair becomes impossible as soon as she learns about his amorous connection with Beatrice Hastings. Anna will never dare reveal her true feelings. It is only through her poetry that we will learn about the sufferings of her heart.
By 1912 Gumilev's cousin and his new muse suddenly passes away. His hopes for a happier life with Anna seem possible now. Sometimes it takes love burdens to ensure a stronger marriage.
In spring of 1912 Gumilev and Akhmatova (at left) are happy as never before. They travel to the land of the beloved and Anna is expecting a child, Lev. Nikolai is full ofsecret hopes that Italy might restore their marriage. And Anna hopes to catch a fleeting shadow of Modigliani, visiting his home land.
To Gumilev, a life time traveler and a dreamer who explored Africa, every journey is and must be an adventure, the overcoming of self and the circumstances, even when there's nothing to be overcome. Their civilized trip to Italy leaves Gumilev almost detached from the reality. The poet glides on the surface of the smooth, flowing shapes of Italy, desperately looking for a mystery to be solved behind the perfectly trimmed cypresses and elegant fountains. In his own mind he develops mythical scenes which simply don't fit with the surroundings. To him, an adventurous free spirit, there's little left to be explored here, in the land so picturesque.
Akhmatova's Italy is tremendously different. Here she is visiting Dante and Leopardi. Every city they visit, whether it is Genova, Pisa, Florence, Bologna,Padova or Venice, is accompanied by the rhythmic sounds of Italian poetry. Travelling through northern Italy, she is easily taken by the particular charms of these cities. The north is dominated with 17th century castles and parks filled with sculptures which seem to remain intact and carry their sophisticated beauty through the centuries. "The impression from Italian art and architecture was immense: it was like a dream that you remember all your life", she will later recall in her memoirs.
It is here, surrounded by the classic Italian beauty, that Anna Akhmatova finds her own hidden garden, a place that her heart will call home. Destiny will have her waiting for more than fifty years to come back to it.
Before that, she is to withstand an inevitable divorce with Nikolai Gumilev, and hisexecution. She is also to withstand a difficult separation from her son Lev, who is to spend almost twenty years in Soviet labor camps. And it is only in 1964 that she will finally travel back to the land of the beloved to receive a prestigious literary prize, "Etna-Taormina". And this time both Gumilev and Modigliani will accompany her in this adventure. But only in her memory.
"Where do you think I am going? In Italy? Or in the year of 1912, when I was only twenty-three?" (Lidia Chukovskaya "Notes about Anna Akhmatova")
Of course, in her perception Italy is a time machine that brings her back to the times where everything she ever loved is still alive. Florence, Venice, Gumilev who is still her husband and a strange aftertaste of Modigliani's love. First on the route is Paris where "so much has changed since the times of Modigliani", then northern Italy (reliving her happiest times with Gumilev), Rome, Naples ("When I woke up in the train I came up to the window and said to myself, "What an enormous, window big postcard with the Vesuvius! Later, it turned out to be the Vesuvius itself"). And finally, mythical Sicily.
German writer Hans Werner Richter describes her visit to Sicily as the coming of Russia to Sicily. "Every poet of Europe – from the West and from the East – waited in line in front of their tsaritsa, bent their knees and kissed the ground. Kissing her hand, they kissed Russian soil and literary tradition". Her speech at Taormina is elegant, worthy of a tsaritsa. She quotes Dante and Leopardi and speaks of her long-lasting love for Italy and its literature.
It is here that she finally opens her heart, revealing that to her being in Italy means connecting to the happiest moments of her life. On her way to Russia she remembers what to everyone appeared to be a fleeting love affair – she writes about Amedeo Modigliani, the Italian Jew whose name always lived inside her."Everything divine in Modigliani only sparkled through a kind of darkness. He was different from any other person in the world. His voice somehow always remained in my memory".
If she dies here, she will reconnect with him, she thinks. The departure is painful.Coming back to the Soviet Union, which took away so much of her, yet shaped her as a poet, is similar to falling into a coma, where dreams of her past happiness will persist as never before. "Italy is a dream", she writes in 1964, "a dream that you remember all your life".


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Labour councillors demand to know if proposed plans for rail line serving Mansfield and Ashfield will actually happen?
Labour councillors at Nottinghamshire County Council are demanding more clarity about proposals for the Robin Hood Line – which serves Mansfield and Ashfield – and Maid Marian Line following last month's Integrated Rail Plan announcement.
The last couple of weeks have witnessed a flurry of announcements relating to improved public transport for Nottinghamshire and train services have been the main focus, following the publication of the Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) on November 18.
It was believed the IRP would include plans to re-open the Maid Marian Line and extend the Robin Hood Line.
However, the report stated the Government would merely 'explore proposals for both lines in the hope of linking them to Toton and East Midlands Parkway'.
Labour councillors will call for more clarity and assurance that plans to extend the Robin Hood Line and re-open the Maid Marian Line will go ahead
And it contained no guarantees at all that either project would be going ahead and this has caused concern among councillors, particularly those in representing areas directly affected by the proposals.
At last month's meeting of the full Nottinghamshire County Council, Coun Mike Pringle (Lab), asked Coun Ben BradleyMP (Con), the council leader, to personally guarantee that services on the Maid Marian Line would be introduced and the Robin Hood Line would be extended to Ollerton.
Coun Bradley said he understood that this guarantee had been made by the fact that these two regional projects were both named in the report.
However, a further report, which went to the council's policy committee on Thursday, December 2, states that the 'proposals' at this stage are to explore the extension of the Robin Hood Line.
But a Labour group spokesperson said: "Much of this exploratory work has already been extensively undertaken, such as in 2009 when the then Labour-led council undertook an initial feasibility study, and then again in 2016, again under Labour, when the scheme costs were estimated and the council's leadership pressed the rail minister for the scheme to be adopted."
Labour councillors are now calling for clarity once and for all on whether these rail projects will happen, and asking for an approximate timeline for completion.
Coun Pringle said: "At the policy committee today we'll be looking for further clarity both to confirm that the Maid Marian and Robin Hood lines will go ahead as promised, but also around how long we can now expect to wait for these important local transport projects to get underway.
"We need to then have further conversations around ensuring that the cost of travel is affordable for our residents.
"No point having a service that people cannot afford to use, and for many lower income residents, who cannot afford to run a private vehicle, we need to be ensuring that taking the train is going to offer a viable option for them financially too.
"Also – in terms of having a main line station through Toton – can we have some decisions made there too, because residents have already had to endure so much uncertainty over these past few years.
"As I've said previously, I'm going to continue working to keep this front and centre, and make sure that our residents get what has been promised to them in terms of improved connectivity to access the best of Nottinghamshire."
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The synopsis for the very last episode of "Gotham" has been released:
PA: Viewer discretion is advised.
THE DARK KNIGHT ARRIVES ON THE ALL-NEW SERIES FINALE OF "GOTHAM" THURSDAY, APRIL 25, ON FOX
Cameron Monaghan Guest-Stars
The series flash-forwards 10 years into the future, as Bruce is set to return to Gotham for the opening of the new Wayne Tower. A series of crimes leads Gordon to believe Penguin and The Riddler are up to their old tricks. However, when Bullock is framed for a murder, Gordon begins to piece together an even more sinister plot targeting the city, and a new figure emerges from the shadows to be the hero Gotham desperately needs in the all-new "The Beginning… " series finale episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, April 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-510) (TV-14 L, V)
Cast: Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Donal Logue as Detective Harvey Bullock, Morena Baccarin as Dr. Leslie Thompkins, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, David Mazouz as Bruce Wayne, Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle/the future Catwoman, Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma/The Riddler, Chris Chalk as Lucius Fox
Guest Cast: Cameron Monaghan as Jeremiah Valeska, Richard Kind as Mayor Aubrey James, Francesa Root-Dodson as Ecco, JW Cortes as Detective Alvarez, Kelcy Griffin as Detective Harper, Jeté Laurence as Barbara Lee Gordon
Source: TheFutonCritic.com
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5×11 – "They Did What?" synopsis
The synopsis for the penultimate episode of "Gotham" season 5 has been released and is available below:
GORDON TURNS TO FORMER ENEMIES FOR HELP ON AN ALL-NEW "GOTHAM" THURSDAY, APRIL 18, ON FOX
Shane West Guest-Stars
As Bane (guest star Shane West) enacts his final plan for Gotham's destruction, Gordon rallies his former enemies to save the city. Meanwhile, Nyssa al Ghul (guest star Jaime Murray) kidnaps Barbara's newborn daughter, with ambitions to raise her as her own. Then, Bruce's decision to leave Gotham points him to his destiny, while devastating Selina in the all-new "They Did What?" episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, April 18 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-509) (TV-14 L, V)
Guest Cast: Shane West as Eduardo Durrance / Bane, Jaime Murray as Nyssa al Ghul, David Carranza as Angel Vallelunga, Kelcy Griffin as Detective Harper, John Bedford Lloyd as General Wade, JW Cortes as Detective Alvarez, Ann Harada as Mayor
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5×10 – "I Am Bane" synopsis
The synopsis for the tenth episode of "Gotham" season 5 has been released and is available below:
BANE IS HERE ON AN ALL-NEW "GOTHAM" THURSDAY, MARCH 21, ON FOX
Shane West and BD Wong Guest-Star
On the precipice of Gotham's reunification, Gordon and Bruce find themselves face-to-face with a newly transformed Eduardo, and discover the real mastermind behind the city's current chaos. Meanwhile, a pregnant Barbara turns to Lee for help in the all-new "I Am Bane" episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, March 21 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-508) (TV-14 L, V)
Cast: Cast: Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Donal Logue as Detective Harvey Bullock, Morena Baccarin as Dr. Leslie Thompkins, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, David Mazouz as Bruce Wayne, Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle/the future Catwoman, Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma/The Riddler, Chris Chalk as Lucius Fox
Guest Cast: Shane West as Eduardo Durrance / Bane, Jaime Murray as Theresa Walker, BD Wong as Hugo Strange, John Bedford Lloyd as General Wade
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5×09 – "The Trial of Jim Gordon" synopsis
Read below the synopsis for episode 9 of "Gotham" season 5:
GORDON RECKONS WITH HIS PAST AS IVY CASTS A SPELL ON BRUCE ON AN ALL-NEW "GOTHAM" THURSDAY, MARCH 7, ON FOX
Written by Series Star Ben McKenzie; Directed by Series Star Erin Richards
After Gordon is shot in an attempt to establish a cease-fire, he hallucinates a trial for his life that could have deadly real consequences. Meanwhile, Ivy (guest star Peyton List) returns and puts her spell on Bruce, leaving Selina to defend herself. Lee has a life-changing moment as Barbara and Penguin consider their next moves in the all-new "The Trial of Jim Gordon" episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, March 7 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-512) (TV-14 L, V)
Guest Cast: Peyton List as Ivy Pepper, Kelcy Griffin as Detective Harper, Anthony Carrigan as Victor Zsasz, JW Cortes as Detective Alvarez, Hunter Jones as Will Thomas, Julian Gamble as Judge
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5×08 – "Nothing's Shocking" synopsis
The synopsis for episode 8 of "Gotham" season 5 has been released and is available below:
BULLOCK'S PAST COMES BACK TO HAUNT HIM ON AN ALL-NEW "GOTHAM" THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, ON FOX
Bullock's past comes back to haunt him when he and Gordon investigate two murders at Sirens. Meanwhile, Bruce and Alfred explore the tunnels beneath the city, and Penguin and Nygma's plans to escape are thwarted by the least likely of suspects in the all-new "Nothing's Shocking" episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, Feb. 28 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-511) (TV-14 L, V)
Guest Cast: Dan Hedaya as Dix
5×07 – "Ace Chemicals" synopsis
JEREMIAH RETURNS FOR HIS MOST TWISTED PLOT YET ON AN ALL-NEW "GOTHAM" THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, ON FOX
Cameron Monaghan ("Jeremiah Valeska") Guest-Stars
Gordon races to uncover the criminal element threatening to end talks of Gotham's reunification with the mainland. A very much alive Jeremiah (guest star Cameron Monaghan) returns and organizes a twisted recreation of the murder of Bruce's parents with the help of Jervis Tetch aka Mad Hatter (guest star Benedict Samuel) in the all-new "Ace Chemicals" episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, Feb. 21 (8:00-9:00PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-507) (TV-14 D, L, V)
Guest Cast: Cameron Monaghan as Jeremiah Valeska, Benedict Samuel as Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter; Francesca Root-Dodson as Ecco
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5×06 – "13 Stitches" synopsis
The synopsis for the sixth episode of "Gotham" season 5 has just been released:
GORDON BUILDS A TEAM TO STOP EDUARDO DORRANCE ON AN ALL-NEW "GOTHAM" THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, ON FOX
Directed by Series Star Ben McKenzie Shane West Guest-Stars
Gordon assembles an unlikely team to protect Gotham from Eduardo Dorrance (guest star Shane West) and his Delta Force. Just as Lee Thompkins resurfaces, Barbara reveals shocking news that will change Gordon's life forever. Meanwhile, Selina and Penguin team up to outsmart fellow villain Magpie (guest star Sarah Schenkkan) in the all-new "13 Stitches" episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, Feb. 14 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-506) (TV-14 L,V)
Guest Cast: Cameron Monaghan as Jeremiah Valeska, Shane West as Eduardo Dorrance, David Carranza as Angel Vallelunga, Sarah Schenkkan as Magpie, and Jamie Murray as Secretary Walker
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Q: psycopg2.OperationalError FATAL: role "ubuntu" does not exist I'm on windows and i installed ubuntu terminal, this is what i'm doing:
https://medium.com/@ryanroline/installing-apache-airflow-on-windows-10-5247aa1249ef
When i run airflow initdb i get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/airflow", line 37, in <module>
    ...
  File "/home/lucas/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 127, in connect
    conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) FATAL:  role "ubuntu" does not exist

But i did create profile and assign the correct privileges:
CREATE ROLE ubuntu;
CREATE DATABASE airflow;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on database airflow to ubuntu;
ALTER ROLE ubuntu SUPERUSER;
ALTER ROLE ubuntu CREATEDB;
ALTER ROLE ubuntu LOGIN;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public to ubuntu;

I don't know why it keeps getting this error.

A: I fix it, in the postgres configuration i have port 5433 and in airflow configuration i had 5432.

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Team Scores March 30th - March 31st Great Lakes Region Tournament
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Q: Why does Spark application work in spark-shell but fail with "org.apache.spark.SparkException: Task not serializable" in Eclipse? With the purpose of save a file (delimited by |) into a DataFrame, I have developed the next code:
val file = sc.textFile("path/file/")
val rddFile = file.map(a => a.split("\\|")).map(x => ArchivoProcesar(x(0), x(1), x(2), x(3))

val dfInsumos = rddFile.toDF()

My case class used for the creation of my DataFrame is defined as followed:
case class ArchivoProcesar(nombre_insumo: String, tipo_rep: String, validado: String, Cargado: String)

I have done some functional tests using spark-shell, and my code works fine, generating the DataFrame correctly. But when I executed my program into eclipse, it throws me the next error:

Is it something missing inside my scala class that I'm using and running with eclipse. Or what could be the reason that my functions works correctly at the spark-shell but not in my eclipse app?
Regards.

A:
I have done some functional tests using spark-shell, and my code works fine, generating the DataFrame correctly.

That's because spark-shell takes care of creating an instance of SparkContext for you. spark-shell then makes sure that references to SparkContext are not from "sensitive places".

But when I executed my program into eclipse, it throws me the next error:

Somewhere in your Spark application you hold a reference to org.apache.spark.SparkContext that is not serializable and so holds your Spark computation back from being serialized and send across the wire to executors.
As @T. Gawęda has mentioned in a comment:

I think that ArchivoProcesar is a nested class and as a nested class has a reference to the outer class that has a property of type SparkContext

So while copying the code from spark-shell to Eclipse you have added some additional lines that you don't show thinking that they are not necessary which happens to be quite the contrary. Find any places where you create and reference SparkContext and you will find the root cause of your issue.
I can see that the Spark processing happens inside ValidacionInsumos class that main method uses. I think the affecting method is LeerInsumosAValidar that does map transformation and that's where you should seek the answer.

A: Your case class must have public scope. You can't have ArchivoProcesar inside a class


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There are no media queries in GroundWork.


ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange provided 19,500 tonnes of beams and around 20,000 tonnes of sheet piles – all produced in Luxembourg – for the Yamal liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Northwestern Siberia. Our steel perfectly matched the requirements for the extreme climatic conditions, where the temperatures can reach -50°C.
The Yamal Project is a long-term development plan to exploit the vast natural gas reserves of the Yamal Peninsula in Northwestern Siberia. The gas produced at the field will be delivered to the international markets in a liquefied natural gas form, thus requiring the construction of a liquefaction plant in Sabetta with 3 production trains, each with an annual capacity of 5.5 million tonnes, and important infrastructure developments.
In 2014-2015, ArcelorMittal mills in Belval - Differdange (Luxembourg) and Dabrowa (Poland) supplied 19,500 tonnes of beams for the project (special steel grades suitable for applications at temperatures as low as -50°C). The beams were mainly used to build the supporting structure of the plant: the gas liquefaction and purification facilities as well as the auxiliary equipment and industrial buildings and halls.
ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange also provided around 20,000 tonnes of sheet piles for the construction of the port of Sabetta. The port, part of the Yamal infrastructure investments, is a new seaport under construction on the western shore of the Ob Bay.
ArcelorMittal's steel was chosen for this project as we can supply hot rolled steel sheet piles with a steel grade matching the requirements for extreme climatic conditions, including installation of the steel sheet piles at very low temperatures.The total scope of this mega project includes in the first stage, 4 quay walls, the South-Eastern Ice Barrier, the North-Western Ice Barrier and 2 loading platforms. LNG production will be launched in 2017. A peak production of 16.5 million tonnes per year is expected to be reached in 2021.


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A Tribune exclusive
Naga talks in top gear; deal to be clinched in Bangkok
Swati Chaturvedi
New Delhi, June 28
In the words of the Prime Minister's Principal Interlocutor "From first gear it has now moved into fourth gear". And unlike the politician's hyperbole it is a cautious bureaucrat, Mr K. Padmanabhiah, describing it as the first breakthrough in the five-year Naga peace process. It is now official.
As reported earlier by The Tribune, the contours of the Naga peace settlement will resemble that of a special Kashmir-type status within the Indian union.
From a demand of absolute sovereignty to the current "open mind'' of the NSCN (I/M) which involves a "special federal relationship with India where Nagaland and India will be inseparably bound together'' is indeed a long walk together for peace.
Sources say the accord with the Nagas will entail changes in Article 7 of the Constitution which deals with relations with the states. At present, this does not apply to Jammu & Kashmir. Articles 151 to 237, a total of 88 articles, are however, reflected in the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir. Similarly while the NSCN wants a separate constitution the government wants to settle for providing a special chapter in the Indian Constitution.
Part six of the Constitution deals with the role and powers of the Governor, the state legislature, the state judiciary and the Advocate-General of India. These provisions do not apply in Jammu and Kashmir and have been incorporated in the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution. Constitutional experts are of the view that a similar arrangement can be made with the Nagas incorporating their unique tribal culture into account either in the shape of a separate constitution like Jammu and Kashmir or as a special chapter in the Constitution.
While, the fine print of the deal will be thrashed out over the next meeting to be held in Bangkok all the midnight oil that Mr Padmanabhiah has been burning studying the constitution of India and Jammu and Kashmir has obviously borne fruit. He and the political team have obviously been able to find a "marketable solution''. For the NSCN to accept anything short of complete independence is in the words of one of the ministers involved in the negotiations, "a remarkable breakthrough''.
Clearly all the prayers led by Isaac Chisi Swu, a devout Christian, before the start of the meetings have paid off. Sources say the settlement will involve giving Nagaland a special status within the Indian Union. It will be largely ceremonial in nature. And, then the more than a decade-long insurgency will stop.
Speaking exclusively to the Tribune, Mr Padmanabhiah stuck a note of cautious optimism. "The talks are on track; Let us hope for the best. We have all worked hard for five years to bring about this situation,'' he said.
The flurry of meetings after the negotiations in The Hague is a pointer that the next meeting could be the clincher. Analysts point out the magnitude of concession "from a demand of complete independence to an inseparable union with India it is a huge breakthrough.''
According to senior officials, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's brief to the negotiators was that "the Constitution is flexible, it can accommodate them. As long as they are part of India... .''
The Naga blueprint may well provide a pointer to other separatist problems.
— The writer is an anchor with Janmat TV and writes regularly for The Tribune.
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"People vary in tastes and flavors, but nobody wants a soft mushy apple," says Brown.
Jason Koski (UPHOTO)
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Crisp, Juicy, Nutritious, and in Demand
Susan K. Brown
Herman M. Cohn Professor of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
SnapDragon™ and RubyFrost™
What Goes into Making High-Quality Apple Varieties?
A Partnership with the Growers
Brown's Apple Breeding Agenda
Ripple effect: Study reveals NYS apple industry's true economic impact
On Cornell's sprawling 900-acre New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, New York, Susan K. Brown, School of Integrative Plant Science, Horticulture and Plant Breeding and Genetics, is developing better apples. What exactly makes a great apple? For examples, just take a bite of Brown's recent creations: SnapDragon™ and RubyFrost™.
SnapDragon™, patented by Brown in 2011 and debuted to consumers in fall 2013, is known for its crispness and spicy-sweet taste. RubyFrost™, patented in 2011 and debuted with SnapDragon™, is a high-vitamin C apple with excellent resistance to flesh browning.
"My breeding objective is to produce high-quality varieties and characteristic crispness," says Brown. "People vary in tastes and flavors, but nobody wants a soft mushy apple. Both SnapDragon™ and RubyFrost™ are very crisp and juicy, and hold up well in storage. The reaction from consumers has been great."
Since their debut, both SnapDragon™ and RubyFrost™ have grown in availability from Cornell Orchard to roadside stands to farmers' markets to retail produce sections. In January 2014, RubyFrost™ hit the shelves at Hannaford and Wegmans' stores in New York State. It did so well that a year later the apple is rolling out to hundreds of major retailer stores throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Wegmans' also began stocking SnapDragon™ apples in November 2014, to great consumer reaction.
These apples didn't just come from Brown's imagination—breeding superior apples involves many years of research and testing. Both the SnapDragon™ and the RubyFrost™ took 11 to 12 years from first making the crosses to commercialization, and most new apple varieties take 20 to 40 years.
The process involves making many crosses between different varieties of apples to test how the genetics of two "parent" apples will interact. The seeds are germinated and planted on their own roots in the orchards. After four years, they fruit for the first time. If a cross looks promising, Brown will do a larger cross and extensive testing.
When Brown tasted the first fruits of SnapDragon™ and RubyFrost™, she knew that she wanted to fast track them for testing. The former is a cross between Honeycrisp, a popular variety created by University of Minnesota, and an advanced breeding selection, which is an unnamed seedling with desirable traits and qualities.
"We wanted to develop an apple with the quality of Honeycrisp without the many Honeycrisp problems," says Brown. "Only 40 to 50 percent of Honeycrisp fruit can be marketed due to disorders, which makes it an economic challenge for growers. We chose a parent with slightly more flavor and aromatics to boost the quality of the fruit and sorted through offspring to select the best quality without the production issues."
Brown's goal in creating RubyFrost™ was to make an apple that is slow to brown, a characteristic important to companies selling pre-sliced apples as well as to everyday consumers. The researchers crossed Autumn Crisp, a Cornell variety, with Braeburn.
From there, Brown's group made trees for further testing at NYSAES and partner grower orchards. "We do more tests than you might imagine," says Brown. The researchers look for qualities such as long-term growth potential, along with physiological disorders in storage. ("One year the plant might be wonderful, but the next it might get a disease," Brown says.)
Once the apples were ready for growers, Cornell partnered with the New York Apple Growers (NYAG), an organization of 140 grower members in New York State. The organization represents around 60 percent of the state's apple production. "What was important to me and Cornell and the growers was that every grower in the state was able to join and have the opportunity to grow these apples," says Brown.
The partnership sped up the commercialization process and reduced the risk to growers. Guidelines for quality were set, and funds were put aside for promotion. The growers provided a critical mass, 900 acres dedicated to growing SnapDragon™ and RubyFrost™.
"This was a really nice way to get some support for the program, and the growers felt it was special that only New York State had access to these two varieties," says Brown. "This partnership benefits the university and the industry, and ultimately consumers by giving them two high-quality apples that are produced locally."
Brown continues to breed apples with specific traits at NYSAES. Her interests lie in developing apples with different flavor profiles, higher nutrient qualities, and disease resistance. She says that she is currently working on patents for five new apples, all of which she hopes to release to the market in coming years.
"Right now, there are established cider varieties, usually French and Spanish hybrids that are susceptible to disease," says Brown. A large apple for hard cider would be a boon to Cornell's apple breeding program and to industry.
In another area of apple research, Brown is testing some advanced breeding selection for use in hard cider. Given Upstate New York's penchant for cider making, it's a venture that could help cider become more local, and with better apples. "Right now, there are established cider varieties, usually French and Spanish hybrids that are susceptible to disease," says Brown. A large apple for hard cider would be a boon to Cornell's apple breeding program and to industry.
Brown's interest in apples is unwavering. A longtime plant enthusiast, she says, "I'm blessed to work on a fruit that is good for you and that appeals to consumers." And as a breeder, she loves that so much variation occurs in apples. Researchers like her can improve not only on the taste and texture of the fruit but ultimately on how the fruit is grown—for example, a gene for plant form allows trees to grow apples on a single trunk similar to how Brussels sprouts grow.
"Our goal is to make sure that we're offering consumers something different, but also something better than what's out there," says Brown. "That's a challenge because Cornell has a lot of great varieties. Cornell's Cortland apple is 100 years old. We have varieties that stand the test of time, and we're creating new varieties that we hope will also have a similar, or better, track record."


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Martin Landau, 1928–2017
By David Hudson
The Daily — Jul 17, 2017
"Martin Landau, the tall, intense, sometimes mischievously sinister actor best known for his role in the television series Mission: Impossible and his Oscar-winning portrayal of Bela Lugosi in the film Ed Wood, died Saturday in Los Angeles," reports Anita Gates for the New York Times. In Mission: Impossible, Landau starred as Rollin Hand, "a versatile covert-operations agent, from its debut in 1966 until 1969. After the show's third season, he and Barbara Bain, his wife and co-star, left because of a contractual dispute. But the series had served its purpose. Because Mr. Landau's character was a master of disguise, morphing into a different character every week, casting people began to think of him for a variety of roles, not only the villains he had so often played earlier in his career."
"The Brooklynite started out as a cartoonist, spending four years with the New York Daily News from 1948-51, then turned his attentions to acting," writes Carmel Dagan for Variety. "He claimed that he and Steve McQueen were the only two among 2,000 applicants whose auditions gained them admittance to the Actors Studio (of which Landau later became an officer)."
"He made his Broadway debut in Paddy Chayefsky's Middle of the Night alongside his idol, [Edgar G.] Robinson," writes Gary Susan for Vanity Fair. "Alfred Hitchcock saw the play and gave Landau his big break in movies, casting him in the 1959 classic North by Northwest. When Landau asked what inspired the director to hire him to play villainous henchman Leonard, Hitchcock told him, 'Marty, you have a circus going on inside you. Obviously, if you can do that part I saw you do in the theater, you can do this little trinket.' In fact, Landau beefed up the role from the way Ernest Lehman wrote it. It was Landau's idea to play Leonard as gay, thinking he'd have a stronger motivation to scheme against Eve (Eva Marie Saint) if Leonard were jealous of Vandamm's (James Mason) attentions toward her. Lehman wrote him a line of dialogue that made Leonard's orientation pretty clear, even in the closeted 1950s: 'Call it my woman's intuition, if you will.'"
"Though the small screen provided the kind of the indelible success some actors dream about, Landau said 'it was a nightmare, too,'" notes Nardine Saad in the Los Angeles Times. "'I'd worked for the giants at the beginning—George Stevens, Hitchcock,' Landau said. 'And then it all stopped because I was a television actor.' . . . TV curse aside, Landau went on to play numerous roles in film, including the wheeler-dealer Abe Karatz in Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) . . . The next year, he was lauded for his role as the philandering Judah Rosenthal, the doctor who has his mistress murdered and gets away with it, in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) [image above]. He was nominated for his second consecutive supporting actor Oscar."
"Arguably Landau's career high point arrived in 1995, when he won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood, the Burton-directed biopic of the infamous director of Plan 9 From Outer Space and other notorious films," writes the Guardian's Andrew Pulver. "In Lugosi, the washed-up former star of 1930s horror films such as Dracula, Landau found a forerunner he could relate to. 'Lugosi . . . had a palpable intensity and a presence that you can't buy,' Landau said, just prior to his Oscar win. 'But this fuckin' town shat on him . . . And I can relate to that. I've seen it happen a lot. I've seen it happen to me.'"
Joe Leydon recalls talking with Landau about working with Steven Spielberg on Savage, a pilot for a projected series that never got off the ground. Last year, Gary M. Kramer spoke with Landau for Salon about his role in Atom Egoyan's Remember. And in January, Landau was a guest on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast (87'26"), talking about "his early days in New York City at The Actors Studio studying under Lee Strasberg alongside fellow students like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean."
Martin Landau was eighty-nine.
Updates: Writing for RogerEbert.com, Dan Callahan dwells a bit on "probably his most demanding role," Judah Rosenthal in Crimes and Misdemeanors. "Point by point, moment by moment, Landau lets us see how a man might put his big toe into the water of evil and then slowly and surely immerse himself in that water until he finds he can swim in it. At the end, Landau carries the shock of the scene where Judah admits that he has no pangs of conscience. This was the same sort of daring that let him play Leonard as gay and in love in North by Northwest thirty years before. . . . He has nearly 200 credits on IMDb, and that was in addition to his work for and championing of the Actors Studio, where he was a respected figure all of his life. He exercised his craft, and this led him to Leonard, Judah, and Bela Lugosi, three performances that can stand as a testament to his work and his love of acting."
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw praises Landau's performances in Tucker and Ed Wood, but he, too, focuses primarily on Crimes: "For me, Judah's criminal plunge, and Martin Landau's performance, are the more unforgettable because they do not appear in a conventional thriller or noir, but because they are in a Woody Allen movie, in a story overtly juxtaposed with the more absurdly comic tale that occupies the film's other half—a filmmaker forced to earn a living by celebrating someone he loathes. Landau's cold-sweat despair at what he has done, his gaze into the abyss, his Dostoyevskian agony: it is all compelling."
"At the Actors Studio," writes Chris Wiegand for the Guardian, "Landau was taught by the best—Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Harold Clurman—and began a relationship with a fellow student, Marilyn Monroe. They split up after several months; Landau found Monroe too complicated and was defeated by her frequent costume changes on their dates. When he became a teacher himself, Landau's students included Jack Nicholson, Anjelica Huston and Harry Dean Stanton. With Mark Rydell, he later ran the Hollywood-based branch of the Actors Studio, set up in 1967."
"When I sat down with Martin Landau in April to discuss his storied career as part of a series of legacy interviews for Film Comment, I had no reason to suspect I was capturing some of his final reflections," writes Steven Mears at the top of an excerpt from an unpublished interview. "Obviously no single scene can sum up a career, especially one as prolific as Landau's, but my mind keeps returning to one near the end of Francis Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream. The once-indefatigable man (Jeff Bridges) is faced with the broken pieces of his shiny automotive dream, and his once-disparaging partner (Landau), by way of a farewell, recalls his mother warning him not to get too close to people, for fear of catching their dreams. Years later he realized he'd misheard—it was their germs you might catch—but the damage was done: he'd stood too close to a dreamer, and despite himself had caught the bug. Anyone who stood close to Martin Landau invariably ran the same risk, and for my part, I will always cherish the brief time I spent catching his dreams."
Updates, 7/20: "I can't even remember not knowing Martin," Ellen Burstyn tells Scott Feinberg in the Hollywood Reporter. "As an actor, he had a real sense of reality—he never seemed to be acting; he was just always one with the character he was playing—something that I got to know better and more deeply when I eventually worked with him [on the 2008 film Lovely, Still]. When you look into the eyes of another actor and you see that he's totally there—that he's not running his lines in his head, he's just completely in the moment—it's a rare thing, and he had it."
"For decades," writes Variety's Owen Gleiberman, "Landau was such a sly, versatile and hardworking actor that it sounds borderline absurd to call him a late bloomer. Yet he was the ultimate late bloomer. What might have been a minor comeback role in Tucker: The Man and His Dream won Landau critical plaudits and an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He was 60, and it added up to a gold-watch moment. What no one guessed is that his career—his real career, as an actor of lacerating greatness—was just taking off."
Updates, 7/21: "When Landau expressed a splintered psyche, he was both chilling and sympathetic, and in some cases he challenged our presumption—making us recognize darker aspects within ourselves," writes Kim Morgan for Sight & Sound. "For an actor, that kind of complexity is much harder than it looks. But for Landau . . . this kind of well-honed but unforced understanding of human behavior (both externally and internally) was important. Don't show it all. Real people hide. As he said in 2010:
People do not necessarily reveal what is going on—only bad actors do. Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to. Only bad actors play drunk—good actors play drunks playing sober! They don't want everyone in the room to know they're drunk, and if you've ever seen a drunk pick up a glass to his mouth at a bar, it's the most studied, controlled thing you'd ever see . . .
NPR's posted Terry Gross's 1990 Fresh Air interview.
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// Copyright 2019 The Chromium Authors
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "chrome/browser/ui/views/sharing/sharing_dialog_view.h"

#include "base/bind.h"
#include "base/strings/utf_string_conversions.h"
#include "build/build_config.h"
#include "build/chromeos_buildflags.h"
#include "chrome/app/vector_icons/vector_icons.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sharing/sharing_app.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sharing/sharing_metrics.h"
#include "chrome/browser/ui/browser_finder.h"
#include "chrome/browser/ui/views/accessibility/theme_tracking_non_accessible_image_view.h"
#include "chrome/browser/ui/views/chrome_layout_provider.h"
#include "chrome/browser/ui/views/chrome_typography.h"
#include "chrome/browser/ui/views/controls/hover_button.h"
#include "chrome/browser/ui/views/frame/browser_view.h"
#include "chrome/browser/ui/views/frame/toolbar_button_provider.h"
#include "components/sync/protocol/sync_enums.pb.h"
#include "components/sync_device_info/device_info.h"
#include "components/url_formatter/elide_url.h"
#include "third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/types/optional.h"
#include "ui/base/l10n/l10n_util.h"
#include "ui/base/models/image_model.h"
#include "ui/base/resource/resource_bundle.h"
#include "ui/color/color_id.h"
#include "ui/gfx/color_utils.h"
#include "ui/gfx/paint_vector_icon.h"
#include "ui/strings/grit/ui_strings.h"
#include "ui/views/border.h"
#include "ui/views/bubble/bubble_frame_view.h"
#include "ui/views/controls/scroll_view.h"
#include "ui/views/controls/styled_label.h"
#include "ui/views/layout/box_layout.h"
#include "url/origin.h"

#if BUILDFLAG(IS_CHROMEOS_ASH)
#include "chrome/browser/ui/views/intent_picker_bubble_view.h"
#endif

namespace {

constexpr int kSharingDialogSpacing = 8;

// TODO(himanshujaju): This is almost same as self share, we could unify these
// methods once we unify our architecture and dialog views.
std::u16string GetLastUpdatedTimeInDays(base::Time last_updated_timestamp) {
  int time_in_days = (base::Time::Now() - last_updated_timestamp).InDays();
  return l10n_util::GetPluralStringFUTF16(
      IDS_BROWSER_SHARING_DIALOG_DEVICE_SUBTITLE_LAST_ACTIVE_DAYS,
      time_in_days);
}

bool ShouldShowOrigin(const SharingDialogData& data,
                      content::WebContents* web_contents) {
  return data.initiating_origin &&
         !data.initiating_origin->IsSameOriginWith(
             web_contents->GetPrimaryMainFrame()->GetLastCommittedOrigin());
}

std::u16string PrepareHelpTextWithoutOrigin(const SharingDialogData& data) {
  DCHECK_NE(0, data.help_text_id);
  return l10n_util::GetStringUTF16(data.help_text_id);
}

std::u16string PrepareHelpTextWithOrigin(const SharingDialogData& data) {
  DCHECK_NE(0, data.help_text_origin_id);
  std::u16string origin = url_formatter::FormatOriginForSecurityDisplay(
      *data.initiating_origin,
      url_formatter::SchemeDisplay::OMIT_HTTP_AND_HTTPS);

  return l10n_util::GetStringFUTF16(data.help_text_origin_id, origin);
}

std::unique_ptr<views::View> CreateOriginView(const SharingDialogData& data) {
  DCHECK(data.initiating_origin);
  DCHECK_NE(0, data.origin_text_id);
  auto label = std::make_unique<views::Label>(
      l10n_util::GetStringFUTF16(
          data.origin_text_id,
          url_formatter::FormatOriginForSecurityDisplay(
              *data.initiating_origin,
              url_formatter::SchemeDisplay::OMIT_HTTP_AND_HTTPS)),
      ChromeTextContext::CONTEXT_DIALOG_BODY_TEXT_SMALL,
      views::style::STYLE_SECONDARY);
  label->SetHorizontalAlignment(gfx::ALIGN_LEFT);
  label->SetAllowCharacterBreak(true);
  label->SetMultiLine(true);
  return label;
}

}  // namespace

SharingDialogView::SharingDialogView(views::View* anchor_view,
                                     content::WebContents* web_contents,
                                     SharingDialogData data)
    : LocationBarBubbleDelegateView(anchor_view, web_contents),
      data_(std::move(data)) {
  SetButtons(ui::DIALOG_BUTTON_NONE);

  set_fixed_width(views::LayoutProvider::Get()->GetDistanceMetric(
      views::DISTANCE_BUBBLE_PREFERRED_WIDTH));

  if (data_.type == SharingDialogType::kDialogWithoutDevicesWithApp) {
    SetFootnoteView(CreateHelpText());
  } else if ((data_.type == SharingDialogType::kDialogWithDevicesMaybeApps) &&
             ShouldShowOrigin(data_, web_contents)) {
    SetFootnoteView(CreateOriginView(data_));
  }

  SetCloseOnMainFrameOriginNavigation(true);
}

SharingDialogView::~SharingDialogView() = default;

void SharingDialogView::Hide() {
  CloseBubble();
}

bool SharingDialogView::ShouldShowCloseButton() const {
  return true;
}

std::u16string SharingDialogView::GetWindowTitle() const {
  return data_.title;
}

void SharingDialogView::WindowClosing() {
  if (data_.close_callback)
    std::move(data_.close_callback).Run(this);
}

void SharingDialogView::WebContentsDestroyed() {
  LocationBarBubbleDelegateView::WebContentsDestroyed();
  // Call the close callback here already so we can log metrics for closed
  // dialogs before the controller is destroyed.
  WindowClosing();
}

void SharingDialogView::AddedToWidget() {
  views::BubbleFrameView* frame_view = GetBubbleFrameView();
  if (frame_view && data_.header_icons) {
    auto image_view = std::make_unique<ThemeTrackingNonAccessibleImageView>(
        gfx::CreateVectorIcon(*data_.header_icons->light,
                              gfx::kPlaceholderColor),
        gfx::CreateVectorIcon(*data_.header_icons->dark,
                              gfx::kPlaceholderColor),
        base::BindRepeating(&views::BubbleDialogDelegate::GetBackgroundColor,
                            base::Unretained(this)));
    constexpr gfx::Size kHeaderImageSize(320, 100);
    image_view->SetPreferredSize(kHeaderImageSize);
    image_view->SetVerticalAlignment(views::ImageView::Alignment::kLeading);

    frame_view->SetHeaderView(std::move(image_view));
  }
}

SharingDialogType SharingDialogView::GetDialogType() const {
  return data_.type;
}

void SharingDialogView::DeviceButtonPressed(size_t index) {
  DCHECK_LT(index, data_.devices.size());
  LogSharingSelectedIndex(data_.prefix, kSharingUiDialog, index);
  std::move(data_.device_callback).Run(*data_.devices[index]);
  CloseBubble();
}

void SharingDialogView::AppButtonPressed(size_t index) {
  DCHECK_LT(index, data_.apps.size());
  LogSharingSelectedIndex(data_.prefix, kSharingUiDialog, index,
                          SharingIndexType::kApp);
  std::move(data_.app_callback).Run(data_.apps[index]);
  CloseBubble();
}

// static
views::BubbleDialogDelegateView* SharingDialogView::GetAsBubble(
    SharingDialog* dialog) {
  return static_cast<SharingDialogView*>(dialog);
}

// static
views::BubbleDialogDelegateView* SharingDialogView::GetAsBubbleForClickToCall(
    SharingDialog* dialog) {
#if BUILDFLAG(IS_CHROMEOS_ASH)
  if (!dialog) {
    auto* bubble = IntentPickerBubbleView::intent_picker_bubble();
    if (bubble && bubble->bubble_type() ==
                      IntentPickerBubbleView::BubbleType::kClickToCall)
      return bubble;
  }
#endif
  return static_cast<SharingDialogView*>(dialog);
}

void SharingDialogView::Init() {
  SetLayoutManager(std::make_unique<views::BoxLayout>(
      views::BoxLayout::Orientation::kVertical));

  auto* provider = ChromeLayoutProvider::Get();
  gfx::Insets insets = provider->GetDialogInsetsForContentType(
      views::DialogContentType::kText, views::DialogContentType::kText);

  SharingDialogType type = GetDialogType();
  LogSharingDialogShown(data_.prefix, type);

  switch (type) {
    case SharingDialogType::kErrorDialog:
      InitErrorView();
      break;
    case SharingDialogType::kEducationalDialog:
      AddChildView(CreateHelpText());
      break;
    case SharingDialogType::kDialogWithoutDevicesWithApp:
    case SharingDialogType::kDialogWithDevicesMaybeApps:
      // Spread buttons across the whole dialog width.
      insets = gfx::Insets::VH(kSharingDialogSpacing, 0);
      InitListView();
      break;
  }

  set_margins(gfx::Insets::TLBR(insets.top(), 0, insets.bottom(), 0));
  SetBorder(views::CreateEmptyBorder(
      gfx::Insets::TLBR(0, insets.left(), 0, insets.right())));

  if (GetWidget())
    SizeToContents();
}

void SharingDialogView::InitListView() {
  constexpr int kPrimaryIconSize = 20;
  const gfx::Insets device_border =
      gfx::Insets::TLBR(kSharingDialogSpacing, kSharingDialogSpacing * 2,
                        kSharingDialogSpacing, 0);
  // Apps need more padding at the top and bottom as they only have one line.
  const gfx::Insets app_border = device_border + gfx::Insets::VH(2, 0);

  auto button_list = std::make_unique<views::View>();
  button_list->SetLayoutManager(std::make_unique<views::BoxLayout>(
      views::BoxLayout::Orientation::kVertical));

  // Devices:
  LogSharingDevicesToShow(data_.prefix, kSharingUiDialog, data_.devices.size());
  size_t index = 0;
  for (const auto& device : data_.devices) {
    // TODO(crbug.com/1368080): Investigate the need to add a desktop device
    // icon.
    auto icon =
        std::make_unique<views::ImageView>(ui::ImageModel::FromVectorIcon(
            device->form_factor() == syncer::DeviceInfo::FormFactor::kTablet
                ? kTabletIcon
                : kHardwareSmartphoneIcon,
            ui::kColorIcon, kPrimaryIconSize));

    auto* dialog_button =
        button_list->AddChildView(std::make_unique<HoverButton>(
            base::BindRepeating(&SharingDialogView::DeviceButtonPressed,
                                base::Unretained(this), index++),
            std::move(icon), base::UTF8ToUTF16(device->client_name()),
            GetLastUpdatedTimeInDays(device->last_updated_timestamp())));
    dialog_button->SetEnabled(true);
    dialog_button->SetBorder(views::CreateEmptyBorder(device_border));
  }

  // Apps:
  LogSharingAppsToShow(data_.prefix, kSharingUiDialog, data_.apps.size());
  index = 0;
  for (const auto& app : data_.apps) {
    std::unique_ptr<views::ImageView> icon;
    if (app.vector_icon) {
      icon = std::make_unique<views::ImageView>(ui::ImageModel::FromVectorIcon(
          *app.vector_icon, ui::kColorIcon, kPrimaryIconSize));
    } else {
      icon = std::make_unique<views::ImageView>();
      icon->SetImage(app.image.AsImageSkia());
    }

    auto* dialog_button =
        button_list->AddChildView(std::make_unique<HoverButton>(
            base::BindRepeating(&SharingDialogView::AppButtonPressed,
                                base::Unretained(this), index++),
            std::move(icon), app.name,
            /* subtitle= */ std::u16string()));
    dialog_button->SetEnabled(true);
    dialog_button->SetBorder(views::CreateEmptyBorder(app_border));
  }

  // Allow up to 5 buttons in the list and let the rest scroll.
  constexpr size_t kMaxDialogButtons = 5;
  if (button_list->children().size() > kMaxDialogButtons) {
    const int bubble_width = ChromeLayoutProvider::Get()->GetDistanceMetric(
        views::DISTANCE_BUBBLE_PREFERRED_WIDTH);

    int max_list_height = 0;
    for (size_t i = 0; i < kMaxDialogButtons; ++i) {
      max_list_height +=
          button_list->children()[i]->GetHeightForWidth(bubble_width);
    }
    DCHECK_GT(max_list_height, 0);

    auto* scroll_view = AddChildView(std::make_unique<views::ScrollView>());
    scroll_view->ClipHeightTo(0, max_list_height);
    button_list_ = scroll_view->SetContents(std::move(button_list));
  } else {
    button_list_ = AddChildView(std::move(button_list));
  }
}

void SharingDialogView::InitErrorView() {
  auto label = std::make_unique<views::Label>(data_.error_text,
                                              views::style::CONTEXT_LABEL,
                                              views::style::STYLE_SECONDARY);
  label->SetHorizontalAlignment(gfx::ALIGN_LEFT);
  label->SetMultiLine(true);
  AddChildView(std::move(label));
}

std::unique_ptr<views::StyledLabel> SharingDialogView::CreateHelpText() {
  auto label = std::make_unique<views::StyledLabel>();

  label->SetText(ShouldShowOrigin(data_, web_contents())
                     ? PrepareHelpTextWithOrigin(data_)
                     : PrepareHelpTextWithoutOrigin(data_));

  return label;
}

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Possible Religious Left activism, influence on fed gov't policy
William J. Barber II, pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, N.C., and social justice advocate. | (Screenshot: YouTube)
Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, there has been talk about a renewed strength for progressive Christian political advocacy and activism.
Emma Green of The Atlantic reported in December 2016 that after the election of Trump, there were indications that left-leaning churches benefited.
"Anecdotal evidence suggests other liberal churches from a variety of denominations have been experiencing a similar spike over the past month, with their higher-than-usual levels of attendance staying relatively constant for several weeks," wrote Green at the time.
"... it suggests that some progressives are searching for a moral vocabulary in grappling with the president-elect — including ways of thinking about community that don't have to do with electoral politics."
However, Daniel Cox, research director with the Public Religion Research Institute, argued in a column published in April 2017 that a rising Religious Left was unlikely.
"The first and perhaps most significant reason for skepticism is that there are far fewer religious liberals today than there were a generation ago," wrote Cox.
"Only 30 percent of liberals report having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in organized religion. Half say that religion's impact on society is more harmful than helpful."
Cox described the average liberal Christian as "pushing 50" and cited statistics showing that almost half of political liberals under 30 are "religiously unaffiliated."
"Religious progressives are fighting for relevance at a time when secular voters are becoming an increasingly crucial part of the Democratic coalition, and their political clout is only going to grow," he added.
With Democrats having retaken the House of Representatives in 2018 and headline-grabbing activism regarding issues like the migrant caravan on the border, will religious liberals hold greater sway on policy debates in 2019, or are reports of a resurgent Religious Left overblown?


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An interview with: Ernie Altbacker
We speak to writer Ernie Altbacker about Justice League Dark and the latest WB animated movie, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
By Rachael Harper	 15-05-20 149,559
How did you get involved with Justice League Dark?
I was a cartoon writer and I had worked with Alan Burnett years earlier on a show called Static Shock. And he knew me since then and we talked. Then at a certain point he was trying to find me stuff. The first Justice League Dark turned up and they needed somebody
So I did the script for that one and it just so happened that Constantine is my favourite DC character. I know it's really easy to go 'Batman's my favourite' or Wonder Woman or Superman or something like that but I've always been drawn to the kind of low life characters with a heart of gold and I just really really like that about him. So, my first animated long forms had him as the lead – I was so psyched.
How much inspiration did you take from the comics for Justice League Dark?
This is kind of bad, but I haven't read [Darkseid War]. When I got on to Justice League Dark, [producer] James Tucker had some specific ideas of what needed to be concluded from this continuity. So I had worked on four of these (three had already been out) and I had watched some of the other ones and he filled in the gaps with [co-producer] Jim Krieg about the overall arc of this thing. So it's its own thing really. I guess it shares part of a title with Darkseid War. But I've heard it's very different. One day I'll have to read it but I'm very behind.
What do you think of the WB animated movies?
They're fantastic, I was a fan of them first, before I ever got a chance to write the first Justice League Dark, I was watching the movies, in continuity and out, I was just a fan of the creative forces that were involved in it. To be a part of it is just frankly an honour.
Earth has been left devastated in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
Had you always known how the Justice League Dark story was going to conclude?
Yeah actually James Tucker, Jim (James) Krieg and [story/teleplay writer ] Mairghread Scott had worked on what I thought was a great solution. So, I always knew I could work to that point and everything would be okay. I just added a couple more twists and turns into it.
How much freedom did you have with the characters and the story?
Justice League Dark, the first movie, was a little more free-ranging than this movie Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. The first one is more of an origin story, while the second one is an original story. There is the Darkseid War comic but other than Darkseid being in it, ours is vastly different because the continuity has all different pieces. So when I got on to this script, they wanted me to amp up the Justice League Dark-ness of it and also since it was going to be so dark, they wanted a lot more humour in it.
So for that I picked out Etrigan and Captain Boomerang as these are the characters that are going to give us some comic relief in addition to Constantine. I think Constantine's always funny, he's just like bitter and sarcastic and that's always great.
Constantine is the comic relief in the movie.
So there wasn't anything that was off-limits?
Nope! No limitations. This was the big ender. It was drawing the continuity to a close. I actually saw a great Tweet by James Tucker that says when he's ending a storyline; he's like a bad tenant being kicked out of the house, he's going to wreck everything! That's exactly what we went into it with. No one's safe. People are going to see big characters go down and be shocked by it. With the ending that we got, everything's open. The sky's the limit. I'm very excited for what's coming next.
Was there a character that you didn't enjoy writing for?
You know what, I can't really say that there's any I don't enjoy writing. Sometimes I'm like 'oh I don't know; I don't think that character's powers or story are that great'. But then you look into the character and you find some sort of corner of 'this I like' and then you're going to do your own version of it so you have to love em all.
If you don't enjoy writing a character it's going to show up on the page. Plus the way they task these things, they get such fantastic [voice actors] in there so I just don't want to be embarrassed at not giving my all, even for the smaller characters. For instance, Captain Boomerang has maybe a dozen lines. I enjoyed Liam McIntyre's version of Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad and I was like, can I put him in? I've never written this character before, but I think he's very interesting. And that turned out great, that seems to be one of the fan favourites along with Etrigan, Ray Chase who was fantastic.
It goes without saying, but there is fantastic work by all the leads: Matt Ryan, Jason O'Mara, Jerry O'Connell, Rebecca Romijn… I'm so happy to be writing dialogue for their versions of the characters.
Was it important for you to add some humour in this dark tale? Etrigan is especially funny in Apokolips War even though he doesn't rhyme…
Yes, it was. And you know what, [with Etrigan not rhyming] that was my kind of solution because I'm really a crappy Etrigan rhymer. If you're not Alan Moore, maybe don't try it. I had to do it in the first one and it was just hard. I still don't know if it worked totally but people seemed to like it. And when am I ever going to get a chance to write an 'emo' Etrigan – Emo-trigan right?!
Things are so dire that Etrigan doesn't even speak in rhyme!
Apokolips War brings in characters from all corners of the DC Universe, was this a conscious decision?
Yeah when James and Jim were thinking about it with Mairghread, I think they made the conscious decision (the right one) to focus on one character from each of the groups that we were going to use in this all-encompassing film. It was going to be Superman from the Justice League, Constantine from Justice League Dark. Then Raven for the Titans and Harley for the Suicide Squad (she's just like a force of nature so that was a no-brainer).
Each of the groups needed one main pillar. That way you had the other people in the group around them in the scenes, but they were all driving forward in the story to where they meet in the end. It all comes down to the same pinpoint of time. What's going to happen? Are they going to win or are they going to be defeated?
There are some great team-ups between characters who we don't usually see team up – what are your favourites?
I do love the Raven and Superman team-up. I also really enjoyed writing the Raven/Damien arc. Talking about a character that I didn't like. Damien, I'm one of the people that thinks Damien's a brat. I'd like to see some other Robins out there and I'd always ask James: can I kill him? Can I be the one that kills him, please?! But the thing is, after I did the [Raven/Damien] relationship in the Judas Contract I was like "ehhhh I kind of like him now". And then when I saw the designs for adolescent Damien, I was like "oh no now I don't want to kill him!".
Even though there's so much death and destruction in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War it's also about love! The love between Lois and Clark and Damien and Raven and also of course my boy, the hell blazer, Constantine and Zatana. Those bonds are the things that prevent them from losing to all of the bitter defeats, right up until the very end. It's really fun to do that.
What's next for you?
I can't say anything yet but I think the fans should be super excited by what's coming up…
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is available now on digital download and DVD, Blu-Ray™, Blu-Ray™ Steelbook, & Blu-Ray™ Minifig from 18 May.
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Jeff Gorton on Rangers' future: Trade deadline, goaltenders, playoff push
By Brett Cyrgalis
December 9, 2019 | 9:12pm
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — It hasn't been perfect, but Rangers general manager Jeff Gorton is pretty happy with the 15-11-3 record that the youngest team in the league has put together thus far. Yet that has not clouded a sober focus on the rebuild, with Gorton knowing there are going to be some very difficult decisions coming up before the Feb. 24 trade deadline, and the future remains brighter than the present.
"Everything becomes clearer when you get closer to the deadlines, no matter what the deadline is," Gorton said here before Monday's practice, his team preparing to face the woeful Kings in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. "We're encouraged with how we're playing. We know that we'll have difficult decisions to make going forward.
"Let's see what happens in the next couple months."
Besides the future of pending unrestricted free agent winger Chris Kreider, the biggest question Gorton faces is with his goaltending. The Rangers are in the enviable situation of having an overcrowding between the pipes, as Alexandar Georgiev has played outstanding — notching two shutouts in his past four starts, including the 5-0 win in Las Vegas on Sunday.
The 23-year-old Bulgarian has now played 57 career games, and when he gets to No. 60, he can no longer be sent to AHL Hartford without clearing waivers (essentially meaning he can't be sent down). But without hesitation, Gorton said "that's not something I'm thinking about" and reinforced his confidence in the young netminder.
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"Obviously Georgie is a big part of our team," Gorton said. "There's a lot written about who's going to be here, and waivers and all that stuff. We're just worried about the team playing well, and let events play themselves out."
Georgiev could be a very attractive piece as the deadline approaches — and the Maple Leafs are such an obvious landing spot that it's hard to miss — and that would create room for Igor Shesterkin, the long-considered heir apparent to Henrik Lundqvist who is excelling with the Wolf Pack during his first year in North America.
"Like we tell all of them, play well and then we'll have to make decisions down the road," Gorton said. "Igor has played really well, but it's still pretty young in his North American pro career. But all signs are good. He's been a real competitor. His teammates like him a lot. He's done everything we've asked. I would expect he continue to do that and understand [to] wait for his opportunity."
As a whole, the Rangers organization is trying to show patience with this rebuild. Coach David Quinn's team is constantly outshot — "we're a difficult team to gauge from a shots standpoint because we don't take them," Quinn said — but they have shown some mental resiliency, along with the ability to bounce back from bad losses.
So with Lundqvist going back into the net on Tuesday night after dealing with a minor back issue and backing up Georgiev for three straight, there actually are expectations for the team to win.
"I think part of developing is learning how to win," Quinn said. "I think it's very important for us to make the playoffs."
This, of course, is not a declaration that the Rangers are all-in on this year. Gorton is still going to approach the deadline looking for deals that are going to make them a perennial Stanley Cup contender, not just a team that makes the playoffs this season.
It is coming up on two years since The Letter declaring the rebuild was sent out, and things are progressing just about as the organization would have hoped. Quinn is trying to drive home accountability without being overly reactionary with the inevitable mistakes of such a young club.
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"We're going to let people play through some stretches they deserve to play through, especially these young players," Quinn said. "If they're making mistakes and have the right intentions, they're going to continue to play. If they make mistakes where they're lazy or their intentions aren't in the right place, they'll sit. So it's a balancing act."
Same for Gorton, balancing the promising start to this season with focus on the future. Big decisions loom before the deadline, and the goaltending situation has to be figured out. But these are good problems to have.
"Like everybody else in the organization, we're all excited that our team is playing pretty well and had a pretty good start," Gorton said. "We'll see how we go forward. But so far, so good."
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Victor Estevez Polo (Barcelona, 29 de gener de 1983) és un cantant barceloní.

En origen, professionalment era lampista i electricista. Va participar en la quarta edició d'Operación Triunfo, on va arribar a la final i va quedar tercer, per darrere de Soraya Arnelas i Sergio Rivero. Això li va permetre iniciar la seva carrera discogràfica. Va treure dos discs al mercat, el primer dels quals, Rock & Swing, va obtenir un disc d'or.

Va fer una de les versions de la cançó Descobreix-te, tema de Ventdelplà, sèrie de TV3 a la qual també va fer aparició. Juntament amb la sintonia va gravar el disc Busca't, amb temes tots ells cantats en català. Alhora va muntar un grup de música per fer versions temes de rock.

El 2013 va iniciar un projecte anomenat Ananda Sananda espiritual i d'autoajuda amb el qual ha gravat dos discs.

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'Yellowstone Live': Baby Animals Are Front and Center in This Year's Ambitious NatGeo Event
From grizzly bear cubs to baby otters, the four-night live TV event is emphasizing new life on its second time out.
Steve Greene
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"Yellowstone Live" finished its debut four-night run on a Wednesday last August. But before the week was over, the team behind the show knew they wanted to take on the ambitious live TV nature event again, and they knew exactly what this year's version needed.
Baby animals. Lots and lots of baby animals.
Beginning Sunday night, Nat Geo will present another quartet of primetime one-hour installments, capturing the activity happening in the park at this summer's opening. Teams of camera crews will be broadcasting live footage of animals and natural phenomena, mixed in with pre-recorded segments to help give audiences at home some context for what they're seeing. Showrunner James Smith said that having this event earlier this year was a direct response to wanting to feature smaller young animals as part of the series' broadcasts.
"July and August gets very dry, but May and June is when it's really lush. All the animals are giving birth," Smith told reporters this weekend. "The bison, the elk, the pronghorn. And all the predators also give birth, because there's food, too. So the theme for this year is 'Baby Boom.'"
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Last year's incarnation of "Yellowstone Live" featured a variety of different animal types. With this new concentrated approach on newborns, there was still an opportunity to grow that variety.
"I actually said in a production meeting the other day, 'It sounds like sacrilege, but have we got too many babies in this show?'" Smith said. "We've got baby beavers, baby bears, baby elk, baby bald eagles, baby otters, baby everything."
Most of the animals on display in "Yellowstone Live" are either from the live feed of various different camera setups or the footage turned around from those various teams in the days leading up to the event. Most times, all it takes is one tiny quick moment to make the difference between simply dropping in on animals and witnessing something that'll also make compelling TV. While there's no guarantee what will be available during those primetime slots, some of the behavior these teams have witnessed so far in the late spring and early summer fall into that category.
"We saw these [badger] babies suckling, which is something people don't get to see often," executive producer Al Berman said. "On the river's edge, a mother otter is picking up one of her pups. She's got it by the mouth. It's hurt, but she's moving it along. Oh man! You never get to see that. And that certainly wasn't planned. So that's part of the magic of all this."
Fitting the entire Yellowstone experience into four days is obviously an ambitious task, but baby animals is one area where this show is trying to present something other than an overly simplistic view of what exists in the wild.
"One of the untold things that you don't appreciate until you're out here speaking to our experts is that while it's a beautiful thing to see all these babies born, romping and frolicking, eating and doing what they do, it's also a really dangerous time. There's a life and death struggle going on." "Yellowstone Live" co-host Josh Elliott said.
It's a struggle that the "Yellowstone Live" production takes great lengths to capture without disturbing this ecosystem. Veteran wildlife cinematographer Jeff Hogan hopes that by showing the immense amount of work it takes for these animals to survive under some occasionally extreme conditions, the resulting awareness can lead to more informed human behavior by everyday park visitors, viewers at home, and those who live near the park's surrounding areas.
"I don't think humans really know how challenging it is for these animals to make a living. If we have a better understanding of our impact on that, we might make simple, easy adjustments in our life that might have a huge, positive impact for them. That way, we're not disturbing them in ways we just didn't realize," Hogan said.
Even if humans were completely absent from Yellowstone National Park, it's still a dangerous time for these newborns. Litters can be quickly thinned by nature's ability to separate all but the most fit youngsters. Not only do many of them face threats from predators within the confines of the park, some even face danger from members of their own species, particularly from aggressive males wanting to control the size and genetic makeup of a herd or group.
One example to look out for in this year's coverage is Mini-Mom, a female grizzly bear who's been attracting plenty of attention from the team as she makes her way through the park with her two cubs. Smaller than an average female in her position, Mini-Mom — whose litter this year was originally three baby bears — is an example of how there is an incredible fight for survival, even as some parts of these animals' journeys haven't fully gone according to plan.
"If the females got three cubs, it's tricky to look after three cubs. She's got to be in an area where she is trying to get as much food as rapidly as possible," animal expert and "Yellowstone Live" co-host Chris Packham said. "It's difficult get three cubs across a river. There's actually a 40 percent likelihood it's going to be killed by another male grizzly, and a pretty much 60 percent chance it's down to starvation, insufficient nutrition at this time of year."
Yet, despite that dire track record for some of these individual bears, one of the overall takeaways from "Yellowstone Live" is that conservation efforts within the park have given these animals their best shot at staying alive. Landmark species like the grizzly and the bison are at or near peak sustainable populations for the 2.2 million acres that the park encompasses. For Packham, this year's constant reminder of resiliency and the continuing of the cycle has been one of this year's biggest takeaways.
"What we don't typically see are great densities of animals any longer. And I think some of the things that have had the most profound effect on me, the thing that gets you fired up, is when you see huge numbers of animals together," Packham said. "It's a place where you come and you can feel good that life still prospers on Planet Earth."
"Yellowstone Live" airs Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET, then Monday-Wednesday at 9 p.m., on NatGeo.
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Delaware's brief, mild sway was always a benediction, in pleasing contrast with the severities of Dale and Argall, who successively governed after his departure. Under Dale, death was the penalty for slaughtering cattle, even one's own, except with the Governor's leave, also of exporting goods without permission. A baker giving short weight was to lose his ears, and on second repetition to suffer death. A laundress purloining linen was to be flogged. Martial law alone prevailed; even capital punishment was ordained without jury. Such arbitrary rule was perhaps necessary, so lawless were the mass of the population. It at any rate had the excellent effect of rousing the Virginians to political thought and to the assertion of their rights. In 1612 a change took place in the Company's methods of governing its colony. The superior council was abolished, its authority transferred to the corporation as a whole, which met as an assembly to elect officers and enact laws for the colony. The government thus became more democratic in form and spirit.


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Swea City, Iowa
Swea City's original name was Reynolds when it was first established. The railroad passed through Reynolds, but they were not granted a Post Office because the nearby town of Swea had one just six miles to the northwest. Residents in the two communities agreed to move the post office in Swea to Reynolds because they knew the town would prosper by the railroad. They renamed it Swea City and it was incorporated in 1895.
The current population of the town is around 600. Reynolds Park is located in Swea City and features a large municipal swimming pool, picnic facilities, playgrounds, and a unique band shell built in the 1930s. There is also a bronze sculpture in the park, which was created and cast by local artist Wayne Thompson.
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Wayne Thompson, nationally known sculptor, has his studio near Swea City. Tour Brand FX, a manufacturer of fiberglass bodies for emergency vehicles. For more information, contact Mayor Bob Baker at (515) 272-4123.
Much of the historical information was taken from Kossuth County history booklet. The information was compiled by Richard Schiek as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Kossuth County and the "Kossuth on State" project, dedicated on July 13, 2001. There is a complete bibliography in the back of the Kossuth County History booklet.
Some of the information used was taken from the Algona Upper Des Moines in its articles on the Communities of the Month. Permission was granted to use this information by the newspaper. The following are the articles from which the information was found.
Buchta, Shari. "March community is Swea City." Algona Upper Des Moines 8 March 2001.


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Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best First Book prize was awarded from 1989 to 2011. In addition the Commonwealth Short Story Competition was awarded from 1996 to 2011.

Beginning in 2012, Commonwealth Foundation discontinued its previous awards and created a new cultural initiative called Commonwealth Writers, which offered two new awards: the Commonwealth Book Prize for the best first book, in which regional winners received £2,500 and the overall winner received £10,000; and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the best short stories, in which regional winners received £1,000 and the overall winner received £5,000. After two years, the Book Prize was discontinued. The Short Story Prize remains the sole award from Commonwealth Writers.

Commonwealth Short Story Prize

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, set up in 2012, is awarded annually for a piece of unpublished short fiction. It is open to Commonwealth citizens aged 18 and over who have had little or no work published and is particularly aimed at those places with little or no publishing industry.

Commonwealth Book Prize (2012–13)
Awarded for best first book, the Commonwealth Book Prize was established in 2012 for writers who were Commonwealth citizens aged 18 or over and who have had their first novel (full-length work of fiction) published in the year of entry. The Commonwealth Book Prize was part of an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation called Commonwealth Writers, which seeks to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth.

Regional winners received £2,500 and the overall winner received £10,000.

The prize was active for two years, 2012 and 2013, and then discontinued.

Commonwealth Short Story Competition (1996–2011)

The Commonwealth Short Story Competition was an annual literary award. It was established in 1996 and administered by the Commonwealth Foundation in partnership with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.

Each year winning stories from different regions of the Commonwealth were recorded and broadcast on radio stations across the Commonwealth. The winner received a prize of £2,000 and there were regional prizes of £500 and highly commended prizes of £100.

In 2011 the competition was discontinued.

Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was established in 1987, as a successor to the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Each year, prizes for Best Book (1987–2011) and Best First Book (1989–2011) were awarded in four regions: Africa, Caribbean and Canada, South Asia and Europe and South East Asia and Pacific. Eight regional winners then competed for the pan-Commonwealth Best Book and Best First Book prizes, awarded at a public programme held in a different Commonwealth country each year.

The award was discontinued in 2011, when the Commonwealth Foundation launched a new cultural programme, Commonwealth Writers, which offered the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (1987–2011)

In the following lists for the Best Book Prize and Best First Book, the overall winners are in bold and in blue background; those not in bold are the winners of the listed regions.

Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book (1989–2011)

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External links
Commonwealth Writers
Commonwealth Writers' Prize

"Commonwealth Writers Prize" (winners 2002-12), www.literaryfestivals.co.uk.
Commonwealth Foundation

Commonwealth Writers awards
Short story awards
First book awards
Awards established in 1996
Awards established in 1987
Awards established in 1989
Awards disestablished in 2011