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Ian Redpath: The man who could kill to play for Australia
Ian Redpath, born May 11, 1941, was one of the mainstays of the string Australian side of the early seventies and one of the most difficult batsmen to dismiss.Arunabha Senguptalooks back at the Victorian opener who, according to Greg Chappell, could kill to play for Australia.
He was the last amateur of Australian cricket and perhaps the first hipster.
He sported the Ned Kelly beard way before it became fashionable. He gave Slam Poetry readings and still paints watercolours. He rode vintage track bikes before they became vintage. He ran an antiques business. And with long sideburns and George Harrison looks, he was an instant hit with the ladies.
In spite of all this, he was one of the dourest customers at the wicket. Greg Chappell once said that Ian Redpath would kill to get into the Australian team. And once he was in, he was perhaps the most difficult Australian batsman to dislodge.
Greg Chappell remembers his own Test debut. "My first innings in Test cricket was, as you might expect, a trying experience, but proved to be one of the best cricket lessons of my career, thanks to Ian Redpath. I came to the wicket with Australia reeling at 107 for five to join Redders [Redpath], who had watched three quick wickets fall at the other end. The English left me largely untouched while zeroing in on Redders— just about the toughest batsman to dislodge. They figured if they got him the tail would capitulate. John Snow put all his energy into trapping Redders down at his end and bombarding him. They picked the wrong bloke. Snowy would follow through right in Redder's face. After each bouncer that he evaded with his trademark Redpath sway, he'd look at Snowy and mouth 'Get f@#%ed'."
Redpath scored 171 in that innings, adding 219 with Chappell. John Snow admitted, "I liked bowling to him the least. He was a nuisance batsman."
Better with age
Off the field he was perhaps the most affable of cricketers. Yet, he had that burning pride, passion and intensity as one of the top batsmen of the country. In 1975, the Australian cricketers were in the midst of a pay dispute with the Board, precursor to the chasm brought about by Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket. Plagued by ridiculously poor compensation, amajority of themhad threatened to go on a strike during an Ashes Test. At that moment, the ACB secretary, Alan Barnes, had remarked to The Australian, "There are 500,000 cricketers who would love to play for Australia for nothing." A fuming Ian Chappell had gone out to toss. When he had walked back to the dressing room, he had been witness toa curious scene.Redpath had grabbed Barnes by the shirt and tie and had pinned him against the wall, saying, "You b***y idiot, of course 500,000 people would play for nothing, but how b****y good would they be?"
Sadly, for someone who could kill to get in the Australian side, Redpath ended his career with plenty of cricket left in him. He declined the Ashes tour of 1976 when he decided that he could no longer afford to neglect his antique business in Geelong.
Hence he did not play after the final Test of the 1975-76 series against West Indies. As Australia completed a famous 5-1 win, Redpath amassed 575 runs with three hundreds, ending his career with 101 and 70 at Perth. The previous match at Adelaide had been his 65th Test. He had scored 103 and 65. He had never hit a six in his 64 earlier outings. In this Test he had charged down the wicket and lofted Lance Gibbs over long-on. And then he had promptly followed it up with another.
Like vintage wine, Redpath seemed to get better with time. He started his Test career with 97 against South Africa, adding 219 with Bill Lawry. Yet, he did not score a hundred till his 28th Test.
After 33 Tests, the exact halfway point of his career, he had 1876 runs at 36.07 with just that one hundred. Then came the amazing second wind. His final 33 saw 2861 at 50.19 with seven centuries. When he called it a day at 34, he had notched up 4737 runs at 43.45. If the Don Bradman-influenced Australian Cricket Board (ACB) had not been so tight fisted, Redpath could have matured even further into an indisputable all-time great.
Lucky breaks
Redpath was educated at the Geelong College, an institution that had seen the likes of Lindsay Hassett, Jack Iverson and Paul Sheahanwalk out of their doors. According to Redpath's own admission, his first steps were helped along with more than a heavy dollop of luck in the cricketing mix.
Redpathrecounted to The Age about South Melbourne committeeman Bob Price watching him make a half-century for Geelong College and asking him down to training. "If he'd seen me in the previous three games, when I didn't get to 20, I wouldn't have been invited." After a stretch in second and third elevens, "batting like I had the diver's boots on" he made the firsts and. And finally he made the Victoria side as an opening batsman.
On his First-Class debut in 1961-62 against South Australia, Garry Sobers had him caught behind for two. He was dropped and suffered a double failure on recall. On his third opportunity, he faced a New South Wales team featuring Richie Benaudand Alan Davidson. The latter "did me the greatest service of all time" by tearing a hamstring.The first-innings was another disappointing failure, but in the second he was once again graced by the much-needed benevolence of fortune.
"I've danced down the wicket to Richie, played a be-ewe-ti-ful cover drive, which went between the keeper and Bobby Simpson at first slip!"Redpath reckons that it was the only catch Simpson never got a hand to in his career. He finished with an unbeaten 40 and kept his place in the side Half-centuries followed at Adelaide and Perth, and then he hit 261 against a Queensland attack that included Wes Hall. It was just his tenth First-class innings and he was on his way.
The stonewalling barnacle
His Test debut came in 1963-64 — on Boxing Day at Melbourne against the South Africans. Eager to continue his amateur football career, Redpath refused his match fees — thus becoming the last of the amateurs in the Australian team.
Initially Redpath's tall, gangly form and long neck had led his teammates to call him 'Gandhi'. However, his very first overseas tour was of India. Many voiced concern that the nick would be inappropriate and he became Redders.
A lovely timer of the ball, and initially a dasher of sorts, Redpath started out as inconsistent. The occasional promising outings were punctuated by strings of low scores. He kept getting into the side, being dropped and hovering on the fringes, without cementing a place for the next five years. By that time he had metamorphosed into a stonewalling barnacle of a batsman.
It was perhaps the Test at Adelaide against the West Indians in 1969 that transformed him. In the second innings, with the Australians requiring 360 to win, Redpath came in at No 4, after Lawry and Keith Stackpolehad opened the innings. He had proceeded to score nine when Charlie Griffith ran him out after he had backed up too far at the non-striker's end.
Perhaps this incident gave rise to the steel within him. The next match at Sydney saw him score his first-ever Test hundred. He never looked back. After a fairly decent tour of India, he went over to that disastrous South African odyssey of 1969-70, and managed to emerge with his reputation forged stronger by the fire, scoring 283 runs at 47.16. During the tour he hit 32 runs in an over at Blomfontein against Orange Free State while scoring 152. It is still an Australian record.
He went on to score five hundreds in his final 15 Tests, including a bat-carrying effort of 159 against New Zealand at Auckland.
When he retired, Redpath had been vice-captain of the Australian side for two seasons, to both the Chappell brothers.A superb fielder at slip or short leg, he finished with 83 catches from his 66 Tests.
Redpath returned to cricket once more during World Series Cricket. Austin Robertson, the lieutenant of Kerry Packer, paid a personal visit to Geelong to sign him in spite of rumoured misgivings of Packer himself.South Melbourne Club, which he had represented for over two decades, disowned him after his dalliance with Packer. However, years later, Redpath was accepted back into the fold and appointed as the coach of Victoria.
But, during the WSC itself, the Victorian batsman snapped his Achilles tendon in an early match at VLF Park in 1977-78 and could not continue. Packer announced that regardless of his injury, he would be paid for the full season.Redpath played a handful of games in 1978-79, but without too much success.
But he did stand up to the hostile West Indies attack at Sydney with characteristic defiance, scoring nine in 143 minutes, absorbing the ferocious bouncers on his body and largest of hearts, helping David Hookes put on 71 in a 10-wicket victory for the Australian XI.
Till his very last day in cricket, he was as usual one of the most difficult batsmen to dislodge.
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Sharing a Duet and a Dream: George Benjamin at 60
09/03/2020 by Christopher Sallon
United Kingdom Knussen, Messiaen, Benjamin and Janáček: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), James Hall (countertenor), Philharmonia Voices (Ladies), Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir George Benjamin (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 5.3.2020. (CSa)
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Knussen – Choral
Messiaen – Le Merle bleu from Catalogue d'oiseaux
Benjamin – Duet for piano and orchestra; Dream of the Song
Janáček – Sinfonietta
Sir George Benjamin chose to celebrate his 60th birthday at London's Royal Festival Hall in the company of pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, countertenor James Hall, voices and players from the Philharmonia and a near capacity audience, in a programme simply entitled George Benjamin: A Duet and A Dream. The 'duet' in question was a reference to his delicate but potent Duet for piano and orchestra, and the 'dream' his darkly sensuous song cycle Dream of the Song.
Written in 2008, and dedicated to Aimard, Benjamin's Duet maps out a musical landscape which is both austere and intricate. Scored for piano, timpani and harp (all positioned to the left of the platform), and cellos, double basses, and brass (grouped together to the right), orchestral forces conversed with piano in an uneasy and carefully uncoordinated 14-minute dialogue. Tension was ramped up by fragmentary bursts from quivering cellos, intermittently soothed by throaty, fluttering asides from the clarinet. Aimard dramatically contrasted to great effect the stark lyricism of the piano's lonely soliloquies against a canvas of elaborately brilliant orchestral passages.
Duet, which occupied the first half of the concert, was preceded by works written by two of Benjamin's musical heroes. The first was by his friend and father figure, the late Oliver Knussen, who wrote Choral for wind, percussion and double basses between 1970 and 1972. The piece opens with a dark primordial fanfare from trombones, suggestive of the vision experienced by Knussen, in which he saw 'several funeral processions converging onto a point in the distance'. To an accompaniment of chirruping flutes, plaintive woodwind, gongs and chimes, the mournful cortege moved in slow procession to its dissonant conclusion and seemed, somewhat eerily, to anticipate the composer's own untimely death two years ago.
The second work was by Benjamin's revered teacher, Olivier Messiaen. Le Merle bleu from the famously chromesthesic composer's Catalogue d'oiseaux for solo piano, is as joyous a composition as Knussen's piece is solemn. Aimard, whose playing ranged from hammer blow precision to airy expansiveness, skilfully evoked the Mediterranean call of the Blue Rock Thrush flying, as Messiaen noted, 'above overhanging cliffs above a sea of Prussian blue and sapphire blue.'
Benjamin's haunting, lingering Dream of the Song played out after the interval. This song cycle for countertenor, chorus and orchestra, is a mixture of English translations of poems by medieval Spanish Jewish scholars Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Shmuel HaNagid and pieces by Frederico Garcia Lorca. Composed shortly after his opera Written on Skin, Benjamin claims to have been obsessed with 'the image of ornate countertenor lines revolving in an orb of choral sound' and has tried to capture 'a silvery tone for the piece'. His choice of poetry which 'abounds in imagery of stars and moonlight' proved to be the perfect vehicle for James Hall whose crystal diction, velvet toned middle register and almost steely purity of voice in the upper register, brought voluptuous beauty and metallic edge to the music.
The concert concluded with a glorious performance of Janáček's Sinfonietta. Like heralds manning the ramparts of Brno's hilltop castle, 11 trumpets, two bass trumpets and two euphoniums from the Philharmonia's Own Troop positioned themselves high in choirstalls above the orchestra to sound the famous introductory Fanfare. Leading his fine orchestra with linear economy through the Sinfonia's five movements, each depicting one of Brno's famous landmarks, Benjamin took us on a suitably rollicking, celebratory birthday journey, ending in a compelling final coda at the steps of the City's Old Town Hall.
Chris Sallon
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I shall list all the powers that I find myself constructing during both my Wild Cards and Herolike conversions.
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Planning Capers: This a variation on the Tactics skill that deals specifically with criminal activities rather than battlefield manoeuvres.
Crime Network: This skill allows you to know the right person for the wrong job. They feel no great loyalty towards you (hence this isn't the Contacts Background) but they will work for you if paid enough.
This is my ongoing project to convert "That Game" over to the Godlike system rather than the other way around. Comments will be gadly accepted.
Parry Rules: Written by Greg Stolze and Shane Ivey. This is a link to the home of these rules on the official Godlike site.
Disarming: Tweaks to the disarm rule to better suit the heroic genre.
Published by arrangement with Dennis Detwiller and Greg Stolze, AKA the GODLIKE Group. The intellectual property known as GODLIKE is TM and © the GODLIKE Group, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this document are © Dave Blewer, excepting those elements that are components of the GODLIKE intellectual property.


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Xi Jinping vows no stop in reform, opening up
By China Times on December 11, 2012 No Comment
Xi Jinping, the new leader of China's ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), vowed, "No stop in reform, and no stop in opening up," during his trip to south China's Guangdong Province from Dec. 7 to 11.
Xi, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said the 18th CPC National Congress issued "a new declaration" and "a new mobilization order" for deepening reform and opening up.
He called on the entire Party and people from all ethnic groups to unswervingly adhere to the path of reform and opening up and focus more on pursuing reform in a more systematic, whole and coordinated way.
Xi said he chose Guangdong, which served as the testing grounds for reform and opening up policies more than 30 years ago, as the destination of his inspection tour because he wanted to "conduct an on-site retrospective of the history of reform and opening up and declare the resolve to continue to push forward the policy."
On the morning of Dec. 8, Xi laid a wreath upon the statue of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Lianhuashan Park in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.
"We came here to revere the statue of Deng Xiaoping to show that we'll unswervingly push forward reform and opening up and strive to achieve new progress, new breakthroughs and new steps in boosting reform and opening up and the country's modernization drive," he said.
During his trip, Xi reiterated, "Reform and opening up was a great awakening in the CPC's history."
This "great awakening" gave rise to both the theories and the practices of the new era, he said.
Xi hailed reform and opening up as "the source of vitality" in the development of modern China, as well as "a magic tool" for the Party and the Chinese people to keep pace with the times.
"Reform and opening up is the only route which must be taken to adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics," he said.
During his inspection tour, Xi visited villages, enterprises, communities, offices of the armed forces and research institutions in the cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan and Guangzhou.
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// Licensed under the MIT License.
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package com.azure.resourcemanager.sql.models;

import com.azure.core.annotation.Fluent;
import com.azure.core.annotation.JsonFlatten;
import com.azure.core.util.logging.ClientLogger;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.util.Map;

/** An managed database update. */
@JsonFlatten
@Fluent
public class ManagedDatabaseUpdate {
    @JsonIgnore private final ClientLogger logger = new ClientLogger(ManagedDatabaseUpdate.class);

    /*
     * Resource tags.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "tags")
    private Map<String, String> tags;

    /*
     * Collation of the managed database.
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    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.collation")
    private String collation;

    /*
     * Status of the database.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.status", access = JsonProperty.Access.WRITE_ONLY)
    private ManagedDatabaseStatus status;

    /*
     * Creation date of the database.
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    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.creationDate", access = JsonProperty.Access.WRITE_ONLY)
    private OffsetDateTime creationDate;

    /*
     * Earliest restore point in time for point in time restore.
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    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.earliestRestorePoint", access = JsonProperty.Access.WRITE_ONLY)
    private OffsetDateTime earliestRestorePoint;

    /*
     * Conditional. If createMode is PointInTimeRestore, this value is
     * required. Specifies the point in time (ISO8601 format) of the source
     * database that will be restored to create the new database.
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    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.restorePointInTime")
    private OffsetDateTime restorePointInTime;

    /*
     * Geo paired region.
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    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.defaultSecondaryLocation", access = JsonProperty.Access.WRITE_ONLY)
    private String defaultSecondaryLocation;

    /*
     * Collation of the metadata catalog.
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    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.catalogCollation")
    private CatalogCollationType catalogCollation;

    /*
     * Managed database create mode. PointInTimeRestore: Create a database by
     * restoring a point in time backup of an existing database.
     * SourceDatabaseName, SourceManagedInstanceName and PointInTime must be
     * specified. RestoreExternalBackup: Create a database by restoring from
     * external backup files. Collation, StorageContainerUri and
     * StorageContainerSasToken must be specified. Recovery: Creates a database
     * by restoring a geo-replicated backup. RecoverableDatabaseId must be
     * specified as the recoverable database resource ID to restore.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.createMode")
    private ManagedDatabaseCreateMode createMode;

    /*
     * Conditional. If createMode is RestoreExternalBackup, this value is
     * required. Specifies the uri of the storage container where backups for
     * this restore are stored.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.storageContainerUri")
    private String storageContainerUri;

    /*
     * The resource identifier of the source database associated with create
     * operation of this database.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.sourceDatabaseId")
    private String sourceDatabaseId;

    /*
     * The restorable dropped database resource id to restore when creating
     * this database.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.restorableDroppedDatabaseId")
    private String restorableDroppedDatabaseId;

    /*
     * Conditional. If createMode is RestoreExternalBackup, this value is
     * required. Specifies the storage container sas token.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.storageContainerSasToken")
    private String storageContainerSasToken;

    /*
     * Instance Failover Group resource identifier that this managed database
     * belongs to.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.failoverGroupId", access = JsonProperty.Access.WRITE_ONLY)
    private String failoverGroupId;

    /*
     * The resource identifier of the recoverable database associated with
     * create operation of this database.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.recoverableDatabaseId")
    private String recoverableDatabaseId;

    /*
     * The name of the Long Term Retention backup to be used for restore of
     * this managed database.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "properties.longTermRetentionBackupResourceId")
    private String longTermRetentionBackupResourceId;

    /**
     * Get the tags property: Resource tags.
     *
     * @return the tags value.
     */
    public Map<String, String> tags() {
        return this.tags;
    }

    /**
     * Set the tags property: Resource tags.
     *
     * @param tags the tags value to set.
     * @return the ManagedDatabaseUpdate object itself.
     */
    public ManagedDatabaseUpdate withTags(Map<String, String> tags) {
        this.tags = tags;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the collation property: Collation of the managed database.
     *
     * @return the collation value.
     */
    public String collation() {
        return this.collation;
    }

    /**
     * Set the collation property: Collation of the managed database.
     *
     * @param collation the collation value to set.
     * @return the ManagedDatabaseUpdate object itself.
     */
    public ManagedDatabaseUpdate withCollation(String collation) {
        this.collation = collation;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the status property: Status of the database.
     *
     * @return the status value.
     */
    public ManagedDatabaseStatus status() {
        return this.status;
    }

    /**
     * Get the creationDate property: Creation date of the database.
     *
     * @return the creationDate value.
     */
    public OffsetDateTime creationDate() {
        return this.creationDate;
    }

    /**
     * Get the earliestRestorePoint property: Earliest restore point in time for point in time restore.
     *
     * @return the earliestRestorePoint value.
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        return this.earliestRestorePoint;
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    /**
     * Get the restorePointInTime property: Conditional. If createMode is PointInTimeRestore, this value is required.
     * Specifies the point in time (ISO8601 format) of the source database that will be restored to create the new
     * database.
     *
     * @return the restorePointInTime value.
     */
    public OffsetDateTime restorePointInTime() {
        return this.restorePointInTime;
    }

    /**
     * Set the restorePointInTime property: Conditional. If createMode is PointInTimeRestore, this value is required.
     * Specifies the point in time (ISO8601 format) of the source database that will be restored to create the new
     * database.
     *
     * @param restorePointInTime the restorePointInTime value to set.
     * @return the ManagedDatabaseUpdate object itself.
     */
    public ManagedDatabaseUpdate withRestorePointInTime(OffsetDateTime restorePointInTime) {
        this.restorePointInTime = restorePointInTime;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the defaultSecondaryLocation property: Geo paired region.
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     * @return the defaultSecondaryLocation value.
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    public String defaultSecondaryLocation() {
        return this.defaultSecondaryLocation;
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    /**
     * Get the catalogCollation property: Collation of the metadata catalog.
     *
     * @return the catalogCollation value.
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        return this.catalogCollation;
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    /**
     * Set the catalogCollation property: Collation of the metadata catalog.
     *
     * @param catalogCollation the catalogCollation value to set.
     * @return the ManagedDatabaseUpdate object itself.
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        this.catalogCollation = catalogCollation;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the createMode property: Managed database create mode. PointInTimeRestore: Create a database by restoring a
     * point in time backup of an existing database. SourceDatabaseName, SourceManagedInstanceName and PointInTime must
     * be specified. RestoreExternalBackup: Create a database by restoring from external backup files. Collation,
     * StorageContainerUri and StorageContainerSasToken must be specified. Recovery: Creates a database by restoring a
     * geo-replicated backup. RecoverableDatabaseId must be specified as the recoverable database resource ID to
     * restore.
     *
     * @return the createMode value.
     */
    public ManagedDatabaseCreateMode createMode() {
        return this.createMode;
    }

    /**
     * Set the createMode property: Managed database create mode. PointInTimeRestore: Create a database by restoring a
     * point in time backup of an existing database. SourceDatabaseName, SourceManagedInstanceName and PointInTime must
     * be specified. RestoreExternalBackup: Create a database by restoring from external backup files. Collation,
     * StorageContainerUri and StorageContainerSasToken must be specified. Recovery: Creates a database by restoring a
     * geo-replicated backup. RecoverableDatabaseId must be specified as the recoverable database resource ID to
     * restore.
     *
     * @param createMode the createMode value to set.
     * @return the ManagedDatabaseUpdate object itself.
     */
    public ManagedDatabaseUpdate withCreateMode(ManagedDatabaseCreateMode createMode) {
        this.createMode = createMode;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the storageContainerUri property: Conditional. If createMode is RestoreExternalBackup, this value is
     * required. Specifies the uri of the storage container where backups for this restore are stored.
     *
     * @return the storageContainerUri value.
     */
    public String storageContainerUri() {
        return this.storageContainerUri;
    }

    /**
     * Set the storageContainerUri property: Conditional. If createMode is RestoreExternalBackup, this value is
     * required. Specifies the uri of the storage container where backups for this restore are stored.
     *
     * @param storageContainerUri the storageContainerUri value to set.
     * @return the ManagedDatabaseUpdate object itself.
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    public ManagedDatabaseUpdate withStorageContainerUri(String storageContainerUri) {
        this.storageContainerUri = storageContainerUri;
        return this;
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    /**
     * Get the sourceDatabaseId property: The resource identifier of the source database associated with create
     * operation of this database.
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     * @return the sourceDatabaseId value.
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    public String sourceDatabaseId() {
        return this.sourceDatabaseId;
    }

    /**
     * Set the sourceDatabaseId property: The resource identifier of the source database associated with create
     * operation of this database.
     *
     * @param sourceDatabaseId the sourceDatabaseId value to set.
     * @return the ManagedDatabaseUpdate object itself.
     */
    public ManagedDatabaseUpdate withSourceDatabaseId(String sourceDatabaseId) {
        this.sourceDatabaseId = sourceDatabaseId;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the restorableDroppedDatabaseId property: The restorable dropped database resource id to restore when
     * creating this database.
     *
     * @return the restorableDroppedDatabaseId value.
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    public String restorableDroppedDatabaseId() {
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Resisting negative emotions is not the solution.
How often do you say or do things without much thought and regret them later? Do you frequently feel confused about what you feel? Have you been snapping at people lately? How would you say you have been managing your emotions this last month?
Dealing with emotions is not so simple and most of the times we run away, push down, suppress or try to get rid of the annoying ones. I personally don't like to experience emotional discomfort; who does? But when we consciously resist negative emotions, we simply make them worse. For the sensitive ones amongst us – those who I call; "super-feelers" – this is especially hard because these emotions are so intense they can completely overwhelm you in the moment.
Super-feelers are not broken, they're just wired to feel a lot. They may struggle with daily tasks because their emotions get activated so quickly, their natural strengths, talents, and abilities to manage conflicts and challenges get hindered by the emotional roller coasters they go through day by day.
Natasha was doing her best to manage her intense feelings but what's the reality? Imagine, what would happen if every time she feels something intensely she drinks or act as if she's on the phone? Those responses may work in the short-term, but what happens in the long-term? Is Natasha really learning to deal with those emotions? Quite likely not.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), teaches super-feelers better skills to tame their emotion machinery and learn to manage all situations that come along with high stress and high emotional arousal.
ACT asks super-feelers to identify their personal values and use them as guides for each step they take. Within ACT, values are not goals, feelings, wants, or needs, but rather life principles that a super-feeler wants to stand for.
Check your go-to actions; what is your emotional machinery pushing you to do?
Check the workability of those go-to actions: Do they take you closer or further away from your values?
Check what's truly important for you each particular situation. Step back and ask: Who do you want to be in these moments?
Choose a values-based behaviour. Take a step towards what actually matters.
Life is for living. No matter how strong your emotions, you can live your life by making the best use of the limited amount of time you have by doing what really matters to you. No one can make that choice for you: it's really up to you.
Founded by Louise Chunn at the end of 2013, welldoing.org is devoted to helping you get better in mind and body by connecting with the best people for you. We have gathered a wide range of information, tips and advice about all aspects of mental health and wellbeing, alongside our innovative directory of therapists – professional mind and body practitioners from across the UK.


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The Guide To Romance Novels January 5, 2023 January 5, 2023 2023 Review's, 5 STAR, Best Friends Romance, Dual POV, Friends-To-Lovers, Insta Love, January 2023 Reviews, No Epilogue, Novella, Sizzling, Small Town Romance, SWOONY HERO
11 amazing authors to bring you an all-new mini-series. Meet the residents of the fictional town Charmed Cove, NC.
Each month there will be a new short story released based in the same small town.
RELEASE DATE: Jan 5, 2023
Not my first read by the author, LOVE all her books and she is a insta-read for me! This is part of a smalltown romance mini-series. A new short story will release at the beginning of each month. I am excited for all of them but of course especially for my insta and fav authors. This was…i need more that's all I am going to say!
Talk about something so short packing a punch, the SWOON punch that is. Great start to this cute idea of small town and each month a new author is introduced in the same world. These two are long time friends since high school, crushes and everything. Now that the hero is back in town, he is back for more than the job he just secured. Even if she doesn't know it yet.
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At the beginning of class the students turned in their vocabulary "flashcards" from Friday. Then they worked on a bellringer. Afterwards I reviewed The Canterbury Tales vocabulary list 1 that they received on Friday. Next they took notes on Medieval life and Geoffrey Chaucer. We will finish these notes tomorrow. For the last 20 minutes of class we watched a video clip (last slide of the powerpoint) on the worst jobs in Medieval history.
At the beginning of class the students completed a bellringer. Then we completed our vocabulary association activity to help the students find ways to remember the terms and their definitions. Next we finished up the Middle Ages notes that we began yesterday. After that the students looked at the first 18 lines of The Canterbury Tales prologue on pg. 97. I played a recording of the lines being read in middle English. We then looked at the translation to see what a modern reading would look like. Lastly I explained the character chart (a 4 column chart labeled: Pilgrim, Physical Traits, Negative Qualities, and Positive Qualities) that we will be completing on EACH of the characters found in the prologue. We will begin reading tomorrow, so students will need to bring their textbooks.
At the beginning of class the students completed a bellringer. Then I reviewed The Canterbury Tales vocabulary list 1 in preparation for the quiz tomorrow. Next we read The Canterbury Tales prologue lines 1-166 and completed the character chart for the knight, the squire, the yeoman, and the nun (pgs. 97-101). I then checked these off as completed on their charts. Lastly I returned graded work to the students and we had time to discuss any questions they had about their progress reports.
3. BRING YOUR TEXTBOOKS EVERY DAY!!!!
At the beginning of class the students completed a bellringer. Then they turned in any bonus flashcards they had for The Canterbury Tales vocabulary list 1. Afterwards they took the vocabulary quiz. Next they read The Canterbury Tales prologue lines 167-318 (pgs. 101-105) and completed the character chart for the monk, friar, merchant, and cleric. These boxes will be checked tomorrow.
Today the students copied down their new vocabulary terms. The quiz over these words will be on 9/24. Then they worked in partners to read lines 319-397 (pgs. 105-107) and complete the character chart for the sergeant of law, the franklin, the guildsmen (the haberdasher, dyer, carpenter, weaver, and carpet-maker), and the cook. The charts will be checked on Monday.
HW: Character charts will be checked on Monday!
THE CANTERBURY TALES VOCABULARY LIST 2: Quiz on Thursday, September 24th.


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Edouard Bugnion
Vice-President & CIO, EPFL; Professor, Department of Computer and Communication Sciences
«The (accelerated) digital transformation»
Edouard Bugnion joined EPFL in 2012, where his focus is on datacenter systems. He is also the academic co-director of the Swiss Data Science Center, a national initiative to accelerate the use of data science throughout Swiss academia. Since January 2017, he is also the Vice-President ad Interim of Information Systems of EPFL. Before joining EPFL, Edouard spent 18 years in the US, where he studied at Stanford and co-founded two startups: VMware and Nuova Systems (acquired by Cisco). At VMware from 1998 until 2005, he played many roles including CTO. At Nuova/Cisco from 2005 until 2011, he helped build the core engineering team and became the VP/CTO of Cisco's Server, Access, and Virtualization Technology Group, a group that brought to market Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) platform for virtualized datacenters.Together with his colleagues, he received the ACM Software System Award for VMware 1.0 in 2009. His paper Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors" received a Best Paper Award at SOSP '97 and was entered into the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award in 2008. At EPFL, he received the OSDI 2014 Best Paper Award for his work on the IX dataplane operating system. Edouard Bugnion is also an independent Board member of Logitech and of Innosuisse.
Roland Dietlicher
Program manager «Scientific Information» for swissuniversities
«Welcoming address»
Since 2013, Roland Dietlicher is the program manager for the funding program "Scientific information: Access, processing and safeguarding" of swissuniversities (www.swissuniversities.ch/isci). The program promotes the development of national solutions in the field of digital scientific information. It is intended to build a service network for Swiss Academia, which provides easy access to publications and data, and at the same time offers tools for their processing and storage. In addition Roland Dietlicher is a member of the management board of the ETH IT Services department and works on strategic projects. Prior to his mandate as program manager, he headed the User Services section. His area of expertise includes IT service management and operations.
Patrik Schnellmann
Project manager «SCALE-UP» project for SWITCH
«Infrastructure and services to SCALE UP your research to the next level!»
Patrik Schnellmann is currently working as Cloud Project Manager at SWITCH. obtained a Master of Sciences in Computer Sciences as well as a Master of Advanced Studies in Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich. Before he joined SWITCH in 2004, he worked in the financial services industry as well as the federal government.
Jens-Christian Fischer
Team leader «Infrastructure and Data» for SWITCH
Jens-Christian Fischer is the Team lead for the "Infrastructure and Data" team at SWITCH and the product owner of SWITCHengines. He has worked on the original architecture of both SWITCHdrive and SWITCHengines. Experienced Application Architect and Implementor with strong development and sysadmin skills. Worked as CEO and CTO of various startups.
Pierre-Yves Burgi
Deputy CIO, in charge of the Information, Communication, and Educational Technology (ICET) Unit at the Information System Division of the University of Geneva, DLCM project director.
«Manage your research data: it's worth it !»
The ICET unit focuses on Teaching and Learning, Research, and Collaboration. Pierre-Yves Burgi received the B.S. degree in computer engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Geneva in 1992. Pierre-Yves Burgi's interests include innovation in learning/teaching technologies (from 2012 to 2016 he chaired the Swiss Educational Technology Working Group), digital copyrights in education (he is an active member of the Swiss CCDL project), research data life-cycle management (he is heading the Swiss DLCM CUS P-2 project), and digital humanities (he is part of the Bodmerlab team).
Hugues Cazeaux
Senior software engineer at the university of Geneva.
He writes: After an engineering degree in Computer Science, I worked in different software companies during the last 20 years. I used to introduce and to use agile methodologies in developing software. In the last decade, I acquired a good expertise in archiving & record management domain. Today, I'm participating to DLCM project (ww.dlcm.ch) to design and build the solution to preserve Swiss research data.
Sergio Mafioletti
EnhanceR project director, University of Zurich
«Enhancing research through IT expertise»
Sergio Maffioletti is the EnhanceR project director. He works as Infrastructure and Application specialist at S3IT: Service and Support for Science IT unit at the University of Zurich. He has more than 10 years of experience in providing specialized IT support and solutions for the swiss academic community.
Prof. Dr. Dirk Engelke
HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
«geodata4edu.ch»
«geodata4edu.ch – Establishing a national service for the central access to geodata for research and teaching at Swiss universities»
Dirk Engelke is professor for spatial development at HSR. One focus of his research is the impact of digitization on spatial development. He is project leader of HSR Webservices for geodata4edu.ch.
Vittoria Rezzonico
Executive Director - Scientific IT and Application Support, EPFL
«c4science – Tools for reproducible in silico research»
Graduated in mathematics at EPFL after having spent one exchange year at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, she decided to engage in a PhD thesis in scientifing computing at EPFL. While doing her PhD studies, she took care of the computing facilities in her lab, including the administration of the cluster of the Analysis and Scientific Computing Institute. She is founder and former president of the GNU Generation, a student association promoting free software. After her PhD she obtained a position as HPC expert and assistant manager at the Basic Sciences Faculty at EPFL and then as the HPC Coordinator for EPFL. She is now the Executive Director of the Scientific IT and Application Support Center at EPFL.
Olivier Verscheure
Executive Director Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
Olivier Verscheure received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), in June 1999. In July 1999 Olivier joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY as a full member of the research staff, and managed the Exploratory Stream Analytics research group from 2007 to 2010. In July 2010 Olivier transferred to the IBM Research lab in Ireland, where he played a major role in the formation of the new lab. He led a large team of research managers, researchers and software engineers in the multidisciplinary field of Data Science, working on challenging real-world problems in close collaboration with the industry at large and the public sector. Since May 2016 Olivier is the Director of the newly created Swiss Data Science Center. Olivier received two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, published over 100 research papers in top international venues, two of which were awarded Best Paper, and invented more than 40 US and international patents.
Gabriella Paolini
Coordinator of the training and e-learning activities of GARR, Italy
«Providing e-learning services for Ital»
Gabriella Paolini coordinates the training and e-learning activities of GARR, the Italian NREN. She's coordinating GARR's activities in the European project "UP2University" and managing relationship with the community of schools connected to the GARR network. She coordinated the activities of the "Progress in training" training project. She is also a digital literacy trainer. In particular, she's handling the "Conoscere Internet" initiative, carried out by GARR in collaboration with the AssoProvider Association. She is an ICT technician, a digital arts and entertainments enthusiast and a mom.
www.garr.it / www.up2university.eu / www.progressintraining.it / www.conoscereinternet.it
Sofiane Sarni
Program Manager at the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
«Scientific Datapools for computation in the cloud»
Sofiane Sarni, next to being the Program Manager at the Swiss Data Science Center, is also a senior member of the research staff. Sofiane received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), in May 2006. He has previously occupied positions at the border between management and science and led many projects applied to domains as varied as medicine, finance, environmental sciences, and scientific computing. His expertise and research interests include: stream processing, large scale data management, scientific and data visualization, cloud computing and information technology.
Sigve Haug
Coordinator Faculty Science IT Support / Dozent, Mathematisches Institut, University of Berne
«High Performance on SWITCHengines for High Energy Physics»
Sigve Haug studied physics in Germany, Spain and Norway. He has been involved in neutrino physics experiments and high energy frontier experiments, often with main focus on the computing challenges related to the large and distributed data from these experiments. Today he is working for the University of Bern, coordinating science IT and data science support, trainings and projects.
Alain Dufaux
Manager of Operations, MetaMedia Center (MMC), EPFL
«The Montreux Jazz Digital Project»
Alain Dufaux's field of expertise is in Digital Signal Processing for audio, with a dual profile in both academic (PhD in automatic sound recognition in 2001, lecturer & co-director for PhD students since 2007) and industrial worlds (low-power DSP specialist in the hearing aid industry during 6 years). He presently acts as the Operation and Development Manager at the Metamedia Center of EPFL.
Find out more about Alain's rich and varied career at https://people.epfl.ch/cgi-bin/people?id=175547&op=bio&lang=en&cvlang=en.
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This conference will strengthen the personal ties and supply chains between builders and designers and Maine's far-flung network of wood producers. Architects, engineers, builders and developers would have opportunities to meet directly with a variety of wood producers and key players in the development of next generation wood products. Presentations are planned on mass timber and other engineered timbers; panelized design, construction and renovation; air-tight, prefab construction; and forestry. This would be an opportunity to strengthen and clarify Maine's potential for championing a carbon light/neutral future through sustainable construction, while simultaneously demonstrating a market for Maine's sustainably-managed forests and next generation forest products.


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Police charge man they say videotaped McDonald's brawl
By Crimesider Staff
May 20, 2015 / 3:57 PM / CBS/AP
NEW YORK-- Police have arrested the man who they say shot video of last week's brawl at a Brooklyn McDonald's, reports CBS New York.
Amir McCants has been charged with inciting a riot. Police say McCants, 24, is the man heard in the video repeatedly yelling "kill him," referring to a man who tried to break up a fight in the fast food restaurant.
The confrontation began around 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 14. Teenage girls can be seen on the video punching and pulling each other's hair and rolling around on the floor for several minutes.
A man is then seen stepping into the fray trying to break it up.
"Back up. Do not fight," he says.
That's followed by some back and forth shoving, and the man appears to throw a punch, at which point the crowd turns on him, and he is mobbed by teens throwing punches.
The man, 43-year-old Iver Whittingham, runs out of the McDonald's, and the voice on the video, which police say is McCants, can be heard shouting: "Kill him! Why're you not killing him? Y'all gotta kill that old n---! Y'all gotta kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him right now! Kill him right now! Kill him!"
"If you are encouraging a certain number of people to commit violent acts, then you're potentially committing the crime," explained criminal defense attorney Stuart Slotnick.
Three other suspects have been arrested in connection with the brawl. Kendale Hamilton, 18, and two teenage girls face charges related to the incident.
Police said they're still looking for another suspect.
First published on May 20, 2015 / 3:57 PM


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Troschelia is een geslacht van weekdieren uit de klasse van de Gastropoda (slakken).

Soort
 Troschelia berniciensis (King, 1846)

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The joys of being a 40-something single British female in New York
Observations from the wagon: day 8
So sobriety is finding my a little less irritable overall, my mood has gone from "extremely murderous" to merely "very murderous" - practically zen for a New Yorker - in just 8 short days, as proved by my subway ride this morning where I did not have the urge to kill ANYONE, not even the man who decided he could not possibly go one stop without reading his free Metro paper, which he held about an inch from my face, putting me at serious risk of a paper cut. Tsk!!! Admittedly I did passive aggressively get out my Kindle and reclaim my personal space, but still….I did not have the urge to push him violently from the car!! Success!! Just imagine how mellow I will be in 3 more weeks.*
*Probably so desperate for wine I'll be snatching glasses of Chardonnay out of the hands of customers seated at outdoor restaurant tables.
On the wagon
After a particularly boozy couple of weeks while my parents were visiting from England I've decided to give my liver and kidneys a bit of a break and abstain from alcohol for the next 4 weeks. Today is day 7, not that I'm counting you understand. Ahem!!
I was talking to my friend Melissa at dinner on Friday - where I consumed nothing more potent than a San Pellegrino with my tasty upscale tacos - and mentioned that by my calculation I've probably been drinking more than I probably should for about 6 years now, having slowly fallen into the habit of having a glass or two - occasionally 3 - every night with dinner.
"I feel the same way," she said, "it's probably been about 6 years for me too. Somehow its become much more socially acceptable to drink, I can't tell you the number of times I've seen that photo of the woman with the massive glass of wine posted on Facebook."
Now we New Yorkers generally seem to like our booze quite a bit, so when you tell people that you've decided to give up drinking for a month the typical response tends to be "but...but...why would you do that?"
Me: Because I feel I've been drinking too much and I want to break myself of the habit
Them: But you don't drink too much, you drink the same as me!!
Which says it all really.
Not that I'm judging my heavier drinking friends if they are fine with their habits, I don't feel that things are so bad that I need to stage an intervention for any of them, but my personal drinking habits don't sit so well with me, so I'm making an effort to do something about it. So far it's not been as bad as I anticipated, I have not been tempted to snatch up a glass of Chardonnay from someone's table at an outdoor cafe and glug it down, so in my book I'm doing pretty well, even though life has tested my resolve a few times this week by:
Giving me the gift of persistent insomnia. Joy!!
Having my laptop crash and die while I was working from home on Labor Day, resulting in the loss of about 12 hours worth of weekend work (aaaaiiiieeeeeeeee!!!)
The agency where I work coming close, but ultimately losing yet another new business pitch (NB: must update resume)
A favorite work colleague resigning
Having to walk through Times Square to get to my Pilates class
Admittedly there have been times when I've reached for chocolate - don't tell me I don't know how to eat my feelings - but so far I've resisted opening any of the wine I have at home, so big pat on the back for me.
Only 21 days to go!!
Jellyfish Alert
I'm at home drinking wine this fine Saturday evening, feeling a little blue after having brunch with a friend that I haven't seen in about 8months.
She turned up in a figure hugging cocktail dress and about 20lbs lighter than the last time I'd seen her - super skinny with tiny twig arms, since she wasn't what you'd call even slightly overweight before - and said to me....
"Oh you look great, have you put on weight? It really suits you."
What the fuck!! Who says that to someone?
For the record I have NOT put on weight!!
I was reminded of the scene in Bridget Jones where she says of someone "Talking to her is like swimming in a sea and being stung repeatedly by an enormous jellyfish."
Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh. I think it will be another 8months before we brunch again!!
A Fool & Her Money: Cronut Edition
I frequently read in the media that New York is in the grip of a Cronut frenzy, seemingly the bastard offspring of a croissant and a doughnut; a concoction dreamed up in the twisted brain of pastry mastermind Dominique Ansel.
http://dominiqueansel.com/cronut-101/
Lines form before 5am at his Spring St bakery which opens at 8am. Recently Huffington Post blogger, Andy Campbell, posted this photo of the Cronut queue to his Twitter.
https://twitter.com/AndyBCampbell/status/352393845000007680/photo/1
Demand has been so high that cronuts have been limited to 2 per person. I find all of this to be completely mind boggling, but then I hate doughnuts, so as far as I'm concerned the cronut is a good croissant ruined.
Anywayyyyy this afternoon I was chatting with one of our Account Planners and she told me that yesterday one of the Asst. Account Execs lined up for cronuts to bring them in for a client meeting. At 5am she was the 10th person in line and said that the first 3 people in the queue looked as if they were homeless. As it got close to opening time there were at least 200 people waiting. The homeless guys went to the back of the line in turn and sold their places for $300 a piece. Apparently one woman bought all 3 spots, which netted her a total 6 cronuts for $900!!
SIX CRONUTS FOR NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!
I'm told Dominique Ansel charges $5 per cronut!!
Fair play to the homeless guys!!
Blurred Lines With Puppets
Much as I enjoy the song - at least when I don't pay too much attention to those spurious lyrics, "You know you want it?" Um...no, I don't thanks, get the f**k away from me - the video is just tired. I mean seriously, using naked women to promote your product. How original. Pht!! This version below, which a friend sent to me today, is soooooo much better!!!
Paris: A Few More Photos From Day 2
I woke up at 5.30am on my second day in Paris, which surprised me, because usually when I am in the UK visiting family the time difference makes it hard to get up before 10am. Melissa was awake about an hour later and we readied ourselves to head for breakfast at Bread & Roses at 7 Rue De Fleurus/62 Rue Madame.
http://www.breadandroses.fr/boutiques.php
After sating ourselves with coffee and croissants we walked the 2.5miles to the St Paul Metro station to join with a Paris Walks tour of the Marais.
We arrived about half an hour too early for the tour so we killed time by pottering around the Place Des Vosges - the oldest planned square in Paris, built by Henri IV between 1605-1612 on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles, a former royal estate - and the Carnavalet Museum; a free museum dedicated to the history of Paris.
At 10am on Saturday morning the square was very peaceful, but when we returned at the end of the tour, around noon, it was full of French families enjoying picnics with many an open bottle of champagne. "I like how the French picnic," said Melissa.
The picnics explained the proliferation of hugely fat pigeons, like these two enjoying a morning shower in one of the fountains.
As pigeons go they were quite photogenic in the Place Des Vosges
One of the first stops on the tour was the Hôtel de Beauvais former home of Catherine Bellier, wife of Pierre de Beauvais, who was a lady in waiting to Anne of Austria. Apparently Catherine and Anne were very close with Catherine administering the Queen Mother her colonics. Yikes!!! A 38-year old Catherine was also rumored to have shown Anne's son, the 14 year old Louis XIV, a very good time - at Anne's request - by providing him with a practical demonstration of the facts of life. Louis and Anne were lovers for 2-years after which time she was awarded an estate and a pension by the dowager Queen Anne, using the money to commission architect Antoine Le Pautre to design and build the Hôtel de Beauvais in 1657. Today the building is used as an administrative court.
Hotel de Beauvais, 68 rue Francois-Miron, Paris
One of the benefits of the Paris Walks tour, led by Oriel, is that we got to go inside the courtyard. The home was built on the site of a 13th Century mansion, which Catherine had knocked down, although she left the cellars intact for the servants. Nice of her eh!! The facade of the building is in the French Baroque style, the name given to French architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII, Louis XIV and Louis XV (1610-1774).
Despite not being blessed in the looks department Catherine was purportedly not short of lovers, it being fashionable at the time to imitate the king, and she was very much in demand in the bedroom department, counting the Archbishop de Sens, Henri-Louis de Gondrin, among her lovers. This carved stone figure, or grotesque, in the courtyard of the Hôtel de Beauvais is supposedly of Catherine.
According to Leonard Pitt in "Walks Through Lost Paris:A journey into the heart of historic Paris," Catherine grew ugly and heavy as she aged, although never lost her strong sexual appetite but was reduced to paying for sexual favors. When her husband died in 1674 she was saddled with huge debts and became a pauper. In the end she lived destitute at the Hôtel de Beauvais as merely a renter.
Catherine wasn't the only notable resident of the townhouse. In 1763, when the building was in the possession of the Bavarian Ambassador he was visited by Mr. Leopold Mozart and family, including a 7-year old Wolfgang. During his stay the young prodigy performed for the royal family at Versailles.
Further along the Rue Francois-Miron at the corner of the tiny, pedestrian only, Rue Cloche Percé stand wood framed houses whose construction dates back to the 14th Century. The pitched roofs allow rainwater to drain down the sides of the buildings. The wooden frames of these buildings meant they were a serious fire risk with fires jumping quickly from building to building and in 1607 Henri IV ordered the buildings to be covered with plaster of Paris to prevent the spread of fire.
11 & 13, rue Francois Miron
"I'm told it's now a swingers club" said our guide, Oriel. A quick look at Google confirms that the building at number 13 does indeed now house the Au Pluriel Club, which describes itself as "Adult swingers Club in the 4th district of Paris." Enter at your own risk.
After a quick tour around a Saturday market we made our way to the Church of St Gervais et St Protais, one of the oldest churches in Paris whose existence in this location is mentioned as early as the 4th century. The present church building is in the Gothic style and was begun in 1474 and completed in 1578. Since 1975 the church has been the headquarters of the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem, who are devoted to monastic life within an urban context with most of it's members working part-time jobs.
The Church of St Gervais et St Protais
At the back of the church are a number of misericords, also known as a mercy seat, a small wooden shelf used for support when having to stand for long periods, since prayers in the early medieval church were said standing with uplifted hands. The old or infirm could use crutches or, as time went on, a misericordia, which literally means "act of mercy". According to our guide, Oriel, the seats in St Gervais et St Protais were used by the priests and would typically be shielded from the view of the standing parishioners by a rood screen, an ornate partition between the chancel and the nave, so that they wouldn't be able to see the priests having a break. The seats could be turned up to expose a small shelf underneath which could be leaned against. They were often beautifully carved with detailed scenes, despite being hidden underneath the seats.
Misericords in the church of St Gervais et St Protais
The church at St Gervais et St Protais has 21 mid-16th century misericords (dating from 1556) and 21 from the early 17th century. Most Parisian churches had their carvings removed and burnt during the fuel shortage that resulted from the siege of Paris (1870-1871).
A woman cavorts with a fool. Supposedly a damning indictment of women, but women more often than not cavort with men so....I'm just saying!!
The next stop on the tour was the Shoah Memorial. According to TripAdvisor the memorial "opened in 2005 as a bridge between contemporaries of the Holocaust and those who have not experienced it" and also houses the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (YSC) founded during the Second World War to gather documentary evidence of the destruction of European Jews.
Outside the museum is "le mur des justes", a wall of names of those who helped the Jews in France during World War II. Apparently the wall is featured in the fictional film Sarah's Key, an adaptation of the book by Tatiana de Rosnay, which follows an American journalist's present-day investigation into the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of Jews in German-occupied Paris in 1942. Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise also tells a story of being a Jew in Nazi occupied France.
I'm going to end this here as I feel it's getting lengthy, but I'll continue reporting on the tour in a day or two, but below is the tour route so far, beginning on the far right at the St Paul Metro station.
Tour of Le Marais, Paris
Paris: A few photos from Day 1
One of my favorite things about my recent trip to Paris was the way the street cafes make absolutely no pretense about blatantly facilitating people watching. I wish New York cafes would take note.
On our first day we covered about 6 miles as the crow flies. I felt as if we walked much further, but all in all not bad considering we were sleep deprived after taking the red eye from New York.
I suspect we realistically walked a couple of miles more than that as we got lost once - took a wrong turn out of Jardin Du Luxembourg and ended up back in the vicinity of our Montparnasse hotel instead of by the Seine - and retrod our ground a few times. We didn't really have a destination in mind, beyond our curiosity concerning the Paris Plages, or beaches, and my curiosity about a public pool on a barge in the Seine named for Josephine Baker.
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It wasn't the most picturesque route, although initially it did take us past Notre Dame.
Before all that though we headed for Montparnasse Tower, which is a great spot for taking in an amazing view of Paris that includes the Eiffel Tower.
During our walk we saw this amazing public art on the quai d'austerlitz. Apparently it's the work of street artist IDEM who was looking to give the impression of a giant over flowing paint pot.
After crossing the Pont de Bercy we walked up the Qual de la Rapee to Avenue Ledru Rollin and headed to Le Bistrot du Peintre for an early dinner, which I'd read about in Eloisa James's Paris In Love. I think I ordered badly. I was a bit over faced by the circular cake of salmon in fromage frais topped with layers of smoked salmon served with a side salad. Not that it was bad, not in the least; it was just too much salmon for me, but Melissa loved her dish of roast chicken on a bed of ratatouille.
We took the metro back to the hotel after dinner and I was snoozing by 8pm, 2pm New York time. Come to think of it we never did see Paris Plages!!
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A common strategy to prevent a property tax reassessment event, and the resultant higher property tax, is for a third-party lender to loan money directly to a trust or estate prior to distribution, thus placing debt on the property to adjust the value of assets being distributed to beneficiaries. The per-year savings can be enormous.
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Botswana's diamond producer Debswana on Wednesday announced the discovery of a 1,098-carat diamond in the southern African country, the third largest of its kind ever found in the world, it claims.
The stone, discovered on June 1, was shown to Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi in the capital Gaborone. It is believed to be the third largest of its kind found on the planet, said Lynette Armstrong, the director of Debswana, jointly owned by the government and South African diamond dealer De Beers.
This discovery "brings hope to a struggling nation", she added.
The largest known diamond is the "Cullinan", weighing more than 3,100 carats, unearthed in South Africa in 1905.
The second, of 1,109 carats, was discovered in 2015 at the Karowe mine in northeastern Botswana.
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Review of The Captain Is Dead—Part III: Final Thoughts
This game is really fun. I've played it solo mode many times and had a ball. Just this last Sunday, I had an amazing game where I just barely stopped a Red Alert then was able to Warp out for a out an win. So satisfying! I have also played with a group and everyone had the same reaction: That was fun and I'd play it again.
A Few Negatives
There's just a few very minor negatives. First, I'm already a little worried about the cards: I've been playing a lot and they are showing just a touch of wear and tear. My friend Charlie says "That's a Great Problem to Have! You play some much the game starts to show!" True enough, but if the cards were linen-coated, I think the game would last longer.
In general, the game has tremendous replayability: there's 18? different roles, and every role does something very different. The cards come out differently, which means you have to decide what to handle and what to attack based on what cards you have and what Alerts have come out. So, there seems to be a great deal of replayability there. My only complaint is that there seem to be two things I do every game, and I have to because they make all the difference! Get the torch and put out the upgrade that reduces shield damage by 10%. Every single game, it's been clear that I had to do both of those things or I would have lost. The other tools aren't quite as useful, and the same with the other upgrades. So, that cuts into replayability a little.
Sometimes the blocky art on the standees is hard to distinguish, especially in a game with more players. I like the art of the aliens, but they also seem to blend together. I wish the characters were easier to distinguish on the board. But you know, the clear standees is very thematic and cool. I do like it overall.
In spite of the few negatives, this is probably my favorite game of the year. I like the theme (Yes, we all know it's Star Trek), it's a fun co-op with a good amount of replayability, the game is good solo (esp. if you use my rules from Part II), and everyone I have played with likes it as a group game (it even played well as a 5-player co-op!). The components are pretty good: I do like the look of the aliens and the standees feel very thematic. I wish the cards were linen-coated.
And there is a lot of strategy here. You don't always do the same thing on your turn. You have to decide as a group how to proceed.
A game that plays well solo and a co-op, especially 5 players is a win. This game gets an 8/10 for me on BoardGameGeek. It may still go higher! I really like this game.
After thought: Expansions
There are some expansions available for the GamesCrafter version of the game, but they are not yet available for the AEG version. Just be careful, if you get an expansion (there are 3? for the GamesCrafter version, none yet for the AEG version) to get the right one.
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Brian McFadden was quizzed by Australian police after reportedly becoming abusive on a flight from Los Angeles to Sydney.
The former Westlife star - who is engaged to Australian singer-and-actress Delta Goodrem - was reportedly drinking heavily and smoking on the Journey and verbally abused flight attendants and fellow passengers on the Virgin plane.
After landing, Brian - who was travelling with his fellow 'Australia's Got Talent' judge Kyle Sandilands - was asked by reporters if he'd been smoking on the plane and answered he "did not smoke" while holding a cigarette in his mouth.
Australian Federal Police confirmed that officers had received a request from Virgin to meet the inbound flight when it landed and revealed they interviewed two men although no charges have been brought against anyone.
However, 'Australia's Got Talent' star Brian has played down the incident, saying: "I had a couple of drinks on the plane, I'm not going to lie about that. But I definitely wasn't causing a scene or causing any problems for anybody.
"I 100 per cent did not smoke. (I didn't joke about smoking). If I was gonna smoke on the plane, I would hardly go around telling people I'm gonna. It takes a lot more than a couple of drinks to get me drunk, I'm an Irishman."
He also tweeted: "Wasn't arrested! Didn't smoke on the flight. And the Virgin staff were very nice. I did have a few drinks but I was not smashed and abusive.
"If reports were true then I would have been arrested, fined and wosrt! Banned from my favourite airline V Australia. Storm in a tea cup. (sic)"
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The original author is unknown and this story could not be confirmed. However, as Veterans, we all know that HR Transport is common on civilian planes thereby making this story potentially authentic.
My Lead Flight Attendant came to me and said, "We have H.R. on this flight." (H.R. stands for human remains.)
"Are they Military?" I asked. 'Yes', she said. 'Is there an Escort?' I asked. 'Yes, I've already assigned him a seat'. 'Would you please tell him to come to the Flight Deck. You can board him early," I said…
A short while later a young Army Sergeant entered the flight deck. He was the image of the perfectly dressed Soldier. He introduced himself and I asked him about his soldier.
The Escorts of these fallen soldiers talk about them as if they are still alive and still with us. 'My Soldier is on his way back to Virginia,' he said. He proceeded to answer my questions, but offered no words.
I asked him if there was anything I could do for him and he said no. I told him that he had the toughest job in the Military, and that I appreciated the work that he does for the families of our Fallen Soldiers. The First Officer and I got up out of our seats to shake his hand. He left the Flight Deck to find his seat.
We completed our pre-flight checks, pushed back and performed an uneventful departure.
About 30 minutes into our flight, I received a call from the Lead Flight Attendant in the cabin.
'I just found out the family of the Soldier we are carrying, is also on board', she said.
She then proceeded to tell me that the father, mother, wife and 2-year old daughter were escorting their son, husband, and father home. The family was upset because they were unable to see the container that the soldier was in before we left.
We were on our way to a major hub at which the family was going to wait four hours for the connecting flight home to Virginia.
The father of the Soldier told the flight attendant that knowing his son was below him in the cargo compartment and being unable to see him was too much for him and the family to bear. He had asked the flight attendant if there was anything that could be done to allow them to see him upon our arrival. The family wanted to be outside by the cargo door to watch the soldier being taken off the airplane.
I could hear the desperation in the flight attendants voice when she asked me if there was anything I could do. 'I'm on it', I said. I told her that I would get back to her.
Airborne communication with my company normally occurs in the form of e-mail like messages. I decided to bypass this system and contact my flight dispatcher directly on a secondary radio. There is a radio operator in the operations control center who connects you to the telephone of the dispatcher. I was in direct contact with the dispatcher. I explained the situation I had on board with the family and what it was the family wanted. He said he understood and that he would get back to me.
Two hours went by and I had not heard from the dispatcher. We were going to get busy soon and I needed to know what to tell the family. I sent a text message asking for an update. I saved the return message from the dispatcher and the following is the text:
'Captain, sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. There is policy on this now, and I had to check on a few things. Upon your arrival a dedicated escort team will meet the aircraft. The team will escort the family to the ramp and plane side. A van will be used to load the remains with a secondary van for the family.
The family will be taken to their departure area and escorted into the terminal, where the remains can be seen on the ramp. It is a private area for the family only. When the connecting aircraft arrives, the family will be escorted onto the ramp and plane side to watch the remains being loaded for the final leg home.
Captain, most of us here in flight control are veterans. Please pass our condolences on to the family. Thanks"
I sent a message back, telling flight control thanks for a good job. I printed out the message and gave it to the lead flight attendant to pass on to the father. The lead flight attendant was very thankful and told me, 'You have no idea how much this will mean to them.'
Things started getting busy for the descent, approach and landing. After landing, we cleared the runway and taxied to the ramp area. The ramp is huge with 15 gates on either side of the alleyway. It is always a busy area with aircraft maneuvering every which way to enter and exit. When we entered the ramp and checked in with the ramp controller, we were told that all traffic was being held for us.
'There is a team in place to meet the aircraft', we were told. It looked like it was all coming together, then I realized that once we turned the seat belt sign off, everyone would stand up at once and delay the family from getting off the airplane. As we approached our gate, I asked the copilot to tell the ramp controller, we were going to stop short of the gate to make an announcement to the passengers. He did that and the ramp controller said, 'Take your time.'
I stopped the aircraft and set the parking brake. I pushed the public address button and said:'Ladies and gentleman, this is your Captain speaking: I have stopped short of our gate to make a special announcement.We have a passenger on board who deserves our honor and respect. His Name is Private XXXXXX, a soldier who recently lost his life. Private XXXXXX is under your feet in the cargo hold. Escorting him today is Army Sergeant XXXXXXX. Also, on board are his father, mother, wife, and daughter. Your entire flight crew is asking for all passengers to remain in their seats to allow the family to exit the aircraft first. Thank you.'
We continued the turn to the gate, came to a stop and started our shutdown procedures. A couple of minutes later I opened the cockpit door. I found the two forward flight attendants crying, something you just do not see. I was told that after we came to a stop, every passenger on the aircraft stayed in their seats, waiting for the family to exit the aircraft.
When the family got up and gathered their things, a passenger slowly started to clap his hands. Moments later, more passengers joined in and soon the entire aircraft was clapping. Words of 'God Bless You', I'm sorry, thank you, be proud, and other kind words were uttered to the family as they made their way down the aisle and out of the airplane. They were escorted down to the ramp to finally be with their loved one.
Many of the passengers disembarking thanked me for the announcement I had made. They were just words, I told them, I could say them over and over again, but nothing I say will bring back that brave soldier.
I respectfully ask that all of you reflect on this event and the sacrifices that millions of our men and women have made to ensure our freedom and safety in these United States of AMERICA.
I know everyone who reads this will have tears in their eyes, including me. Prayer chain for our Military… PLEASE SHARE THIS! Please send this on after a short prayer for our service men and women.
They die for me and mine and you and yours and deserve our honor and respect.
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When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world… There is nothing attached. Just send this to people in your address book. Do not let it stop with you. Of all the gifts you could give a Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and others deployed in harm's way, prayer is the very best one.
GOD BLESS YOU!!!
Thank you all who have served, or are serving. We Will not forget!!!
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