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Blending Scenes from WWII into Present Day
Blending Scenes from WWII into Present Day (14 photo)
Sergey Larenkov is a Russian-based artist/photographer who was deeply impacted by World War II. On his Live Journal blog, the Saint Petersburg native has put together a tremendous set of collages of historic World War II photographs blended into the same locations as they currently look today.
Through collaboratiion with the the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg and the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive, in Krasnogorsk; Sergey then travelled to various battle scenes from World War II, snapping a picture in present day for his blended collages. Sergey has travelled to Paris, Berlin, Prague and around Russia, revisiting historic war sites. By snapping these locations from a similar angle as the original war photographs, we get a chilling glimpse into a very different and scary time.
1. Storming the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany (1945/2010)
2. Paris Occupation (1940/2012)
3. Berlin (1945/2010)
4. Defense of Moscow (1941/2009)
7. Seige of Leningrad – Saint Petersburg, Russia (1941/2012)
9. Tiergarten Park – Berlin, Germany (1945/2010)
10. Defense of Moscow (1941/2009)
12. Seige of Leningrad – Saint Petersburg, Russia (1941/2012)
13. German Cavalry in Paris (1940/2010)
14. Storming the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany (1945/2010)


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El Castell de Puigarbessós és un castell del municipi de Cercs (Berguedà) inclosa en l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya. Es troba al cim de Puigarbessós, situat en l'aiguabarreig de la riera de Vilada i el riu Llobregat, a l'extrem oest de les canals de Sant Miquel, molt a prop de la Baells. Fortalesa prou important per la seva situació estratègica, dominant la vall del Llobregat des de Cercs fins a Pedret.

Descripció
Del castell de Puigarbessós queden molt poques restes mig amagades entre la vegetació, la qual fa impossible veure quina va ser l'estructura del castell. Són visibles alguns llenços de mur, el més gran dels quals fa 8 metres de llargada per 5 d'alçada, està construït amb carreus de mides molt diverses i en ell s'obren 4 espitlleres. Aquesta construcció devia constituir part del sistema defensiu del castell juntament amb altres fragments de murs que l'envolten.

Història
La primera referència documental que es té del castell és del , quan el comte de Barcelona Ramon Berenguer IV cedí a Hug de Peguera el lloc de Puigarbessós i d'altres del Berguedà com a feu. El dia 21 de juny de 1309, el castell fou objecte d'una permuta entre Sibil·la, comtessa de Pallars i senyora de Berga, i el rei Jaume II. En aquesta permuta la comtessa cedí al rei aquest castell i d'altres del Berguedà. «...castrum meum et villam meam de Berga...castrum meum de Merola et castrum de Puigarbessos...».

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Enllaços externs
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This link was originally only going to appear in the Islay blogging roundup, but as a few people have pointed it out yesterday I decided to give it a mention here as well: Pat Hartman, news editor on The Blog of Kevin Dolgin (who also has a travel column on McSweeney's and recently published a travel book The Third Tower Up from the Road), wrote a post about Islay. It's called Distilleries and Nature Coexist on the Isle of Islay and praises Islay. Well, and this blog, which is why I was reluctant to link to it.
But then there's more to it and it really is more a praise of Islay, the people, the landscape and of course the whisky. It complements Kevin's own report in McSweeney's, Drunken Angels: Islay, Scotland. Which is kind of what I'm trying to do with this blog as well, with the help of all the direct and indirect contributors: Point out interesting websites, videos, pictures and whatever else I can find in the wide expanses that is the internet.
I'd like to close for today with that thought and something I found earlier this evening, this lovely picture of a Rainbow at Ardnave, Islay.


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Howard Lee has led UHA Health Insurance as President and Chief Executive Officer since May 2011. Howard is a proven leader, overseeing UHA's overall growth and profitability, while moving the company toward a wellness-driven culture. He has been a key driver in bringing workplace wellness solutions to market for Hawai'i employers. As a result of this focus on workplace wellness, Howard was instrumental in launching UHA's subsidiary, the Hawaii Health at Work Alliance (HH@WA) in 2013. HH@WA brings together Hawai'i employers of all sizes and industries to learn from each other's knowledge and experiences in the area of workplace wellness. This collaborative group is working toward the shared goal of a happier, healthier more productive workforce for the state.
Howard joined UHA Health Insurance as Chief Financial Officer in 1997 and served in that role until 2005. He was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2003 and then was named Executive Vice President in 2004. In addition, Lee has served on the UHA Board of Directors since 1999 and served as Treasurer from 2004 to 2011. Prior to joining the company, Howard served as Vice President and Controller with Magoon Estate, Limited and Guenoc Winery, in Hawai'i and California, from 1991 to 1997, and served as an Audit Manager with Coopers and Lybrand International, CPAs from 1984 to 1991.
Howard serves on a number of community boards, including the Hawai'i Association of Health Plans (Director), the Hawai'i Divison of the American Heart Association (Director), the March of Dimes Hawai'I Chapter (Director), Mid-Pacific Institute (Trustee) and the St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawai'i (Director).
Howard is supporting the American Lung Asociation in Hawaii because "we need to bring to attention the importance of clean air. It is essential to our survival and a common resource to all humans."
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By Robin Goldsmith
FeaturedFood & DrinkMagazine Excerpts
The Unique Wines and Vineyards of the Canary Islands
The Canary Islands are a favorite vacation destination and cruise ships regularly head there. Yet not many visitors know that this sun-kissed archipelago with its beautiful beaches, volcanic landscapes, and busy bars, 60 miles west of the coast of Morocco, is also a haven for wine lovers.
Wines of the Canary Islands
Wine has been made in the Canaries since the 15th century, when Europeans conquered the islands. For many years after, British merchant and Royal Navy ships carried sweet, fortified Canary wine to mainland Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. Millions of gallons of sack or malmsey, as it was called, were exported to the UK each year during the 16th and 17th centuries and enjoyed by royalty, aristocrats, and writers, including Shakespeare.
As desire for French and Portuguese wines began to grow in the 18th century, demand for Canary wine declined and most of the islands' industry collapsed. Now, with interest growing in more unusual, fresh, and savory styles, the islands' vineyards offer something new for the modern wine lover. They are completely different from anywhere else on Earth and none moreso than those found on the moon-like island of Lanzarote.
Literally Erupting onto the Wine Scene
Lanzarote is the oldest and the furthest northeast of the seven major Canary Islands. It is thought to owe its name to a Genoese sailor, Lancellotto Malocello, who arrived there in the 14th century.
In 1730, a series of volcanic eruptions began which lasted six years. They destroyed the crop-producing central plains and created the lunar landscape we see today. Around one third of the island (77 square miles) became covered with lava and ash, called picón.
Despite this devastation, the volcanic debris was found to have special properties. It proved particularly good for growing wine grapes.
Harsh climate, ingenious solutions
Lanzarote has a subtropical, semi-arid climate. There is very little rainfall and no bodies of fresh water either. However, moist Atlantic trade winds (alisios) blowing in from the northeast keep humidity levels on the island high, except during the occasional calima, a hot, dry wind blowing over from the Sahara. The nutrient-rich picón is great at absorbing this scarce moisture, so can feed growing vines in otherwise impossible conditions. Consequently, the islanders devised ingenious methods of viticulture, which remain to this day.
Many vines are planted in the center of crater-like pits called hoyos. These are dug deep into the soil, past the thick layers of picón and solidified volcanic lava. The hoyos are surrounded by semi-circular stone walls called socos. These protect the vines from wind and daytime heat while trapping humidity.
Alternatively, some growers use zanjas — rows of vines dug in trenches, protected by long stone walls — and some vines are planted in chabocos, naturally occurring volcanic fissures in the lava.
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Kalvin Phillips banged his head and now we know Bamford's okay
Photograph by: Lee Brown
The Telegraph's 'exclusive' news that Kalvin Phillips scraped his head at the team Christmas party and needed 'treatment' (a plaster?) for a 'head injury' (a cut?) helps my theory that modern Premier League players are becoming more wholesome over time. 'England international needs bruise kissing better scandal!'
Some top level players are being paid so much their wealth could eventually outstrip their employers, but they can't fritter their money like earlier waves of nouveau riche in the Premier League. To compete you've got to be booze-free, plant based, monitoring your sleep and taking care of your mind. It's harder and harder to get away with a night on the town two nights before a game, and besides, Wayne Rooney is shambling around the Championship basement like one of Scrooge's ghosts, and no modern player wants to take the route he's taken when they could be James Milner, washing his Champions League medal in Ribena. The money won't go away on its own, though, so inspired by their favourite US athletes, young players are turning to charities and activism to get rid of their cash. On £200,000 a week with a ten year playing career ahead of him, Marcus Rashford is one of the best resourced campaigners around. We're beyond the days of Frank Lampard Junior boozing it up in an airport hotel.
The risk with all this clean living is that it turns the players into lightweights. Back in 1974 Jimmy Armfield had the hardest of the hard, Billy Bremner and Norman Hunter, dressed up doing a pantomime at City Varieties, but they were also sharing a bottle of whiskey at the side of the stage. That's how you used to do wholesome. Who knows what went down during LUFC's 2021 Christmas bash at London nightclub Cirque Le Soir after the Spurs game, but looking at photos of the venue I'm not seeing many low-level beams or head-height lamp fittings for Kalvin to bounce his bonce off. Then again, after combining two halves of lager with a Bielsist body mass, anything could have happened. His Instagram account also got hacked and started puking out crypto adverts, so with a hangover, a bleeding head, Marcelo Bielsa waiting for him at Thorp Arch and the newspapers sniffing round ready to bring an England player down, he didn't have a good start to the week. He only wanted to party!
It could have been worse. Leeds United's history with booze and blood is well known, although the Mill Hill assault that derailed everything, including an innocent lad's life, wasn't a Christmas party, it was Lee Bowyer's birthday do. They weren't dressed up, Bowyer wasn't even wearing socks. The real festive fun started two years later, just as the Bowyer and Woodgate trial was coming to its end, when the players in their wisdom went out around York Place dressed as soldiers holding toy guns, and Robbie Fowler was arrested at a service station in Rothwell after fighting with paparazzi trying to snap him sleeping in a passenger seat. Manager David O'Leary had held a pre-drinks meeting with all the players to stress good behaviour and wasn't impressed, maybe because it happened too late to go in his book. Chairman Peter Ridsdale reckoned Robbie hadn't done anything wrong and took no action. No such leeway from taskmaster Kevin Blackwell in 2004, when John Oster's one month loan from Sunderland was cancelled for 'misbehaviour' at a Christmas party (online whispers have this down as anything from punching barstaff to running Jamie McMaster over on a quad bike in a karaoke argument), a week after he'd been arrested on suspicion of assault outside a nightclub in Durham. "Enough is enough, whilst I am in charge I will not have players besmirching the club's reputation," said Blackwell. We were about to get Ken Bates for that! "When people write about my players on the back pages I want it to be for what they're doing right on the pitch and not for anything else," he added, and, eh, I'm not sure how likely that was. "Leeds United will not put up with shenanigans from any players."
Mild as Kalvin's shenanigans seem — unless he turns up to the Brighton game with his whole head bandaged, his eyes peeping out — it still needed some urgent media management from Leeds United, and rather than despair at his antics we can be grateful it got us some good news. Not only were the Telegraph dragging him at teatime, but Socios were doing their imbecilic thing, promoting a poll for their audience of quasi-crypto marks to pick music to replace Marching on Together before a game, according to one tweet, or to be played during the warm-up, according to another tweet I think they sent after Leeds United Football Club politely inquired about what the actual fuck Socios thought they were doing. Anyway, Leeds Twitter needed some good news, and it just so happened the club socials had a video of Robin Koch doing some ball exercises at Thorp Arch ready to drop. Not only that, but he was doing them with Pat Bamford! A two-for-one, and a bit of urgent online message massaging I absolutely endorse.
👊 Back on the training pitch! pic.twitter.com/3NL6msFrQW
— Leeds United (@LUFC) November 23, 2021
Things got even better on LUTV, an Inside Training video showing Rodrigo and Raphinha alive, well and running about, and Firpo and Shackleton too.
Now show us Kalvin's camera reel from Sunday night! ⬢


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Q: Is there a way to know if a ruby method has been redefined? I want to know if a method on a class gets redefined.
use case: in version 1 of ruby-clock, defining a method on an object was part of the API. In version 2, doing so will break behavior, and a different API should be used.
what I ended up doing: https://github.com/jjb/ruby-clock/pull/28/files

The best would be if I could use some sort of metaprogramming to notice when it happens.:
# this is example code which does not work
class MyClass
  def my_method
    puts "hello"
  end

  # this is not real! it's an example of what i hope is somehow possible
  def self.method_defined(m, *args, &block)
    if :my_method == m
      raise "you should not redefine my_method!"
    end
  end
end

Also acceptable would be if I could check back later and see if it has changed.
# this is example code which does not work
class MyClass
  def my_method
    puts "hello"
  end

  @@my_method_object_id = get_method_object_id(:my_method)
end

# later, when app initialization is done, check if the user redefined the method
# this is not real! it's an example of what i hope is somehow possible
def self.method_defined(m, *args, &block)
  if MyClass.get_method_object_id(:my_method) != MyClass.my_method_object_id
    raise "you should not redefine my_method!"
  end
end

n.b. that MyClass.method(:my_method) is a real thing in ruby, but it always produces a new object.

A: This sounds pretty much like XY problem. I don't think you should go this way - if you find yourself fighting with the Ruby object model, you most probably picked the wrong tool for the job.
But for the sake of completeness... There are a couple of callbacks in Module that can help with the ideas as crazy as this one. In particular, there is Module#method_added which is called each time some instance method is defined. So we can do smth. like this (very dirty example):
class C
  @foo_counter = 0

  def self.method_added(name)
    if name == :foo
      @foo_counter += 1
      if @foo_counter > 1
        raise "Don't redefine foo!"
      end
    end
  end

  def foo
    "foo"
  end
end

now if one tries to open C and redefine foo the following happens (pry session as an example):
pry(main)> class C
pry(main)*   def foo
pry(main)*     "bar"
pry(main)*   end
pry(main)* end

RuntimeError: Don't redefine foo!

So you can do what you want to (to some extent - it's Ruby, so what stops one from redefining the annoying hook first? :)), but please don't. You'll get nothing but troubles...

A: You could use the callback BasicObject#singleton_method_added.
class C
  @class_methods = []

  def self.singleton_method_added(m)
    puts "Method #{m} was just redefined" if @class_methods.include?(m)
    @class_methods << m
  end

  def self.c
    puts 'hi'
  end
end

C.c
  #=> "hi"

class C
  def self.c
    puts 'ho'
  end
end
Method c was just redefined

C.c #=> "ho"

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Heavenly Father we come to You today with an open heart and a renewed mind. We worship You this morning!!! Hallelujah!!! God we know that You are the only God we serve. We desire to know You more. We want to be pleasing to You in all areas of our life. Help us to love each other like You love us, Father. Forgive us today Jesus as we renew our minds and our hearts in You today. Help us continue to seek You Father and see answers in Your word today. Thank You for healing us, Jesus!!! Thank You for giving us life in You. We celebrate our lives today!!! We know that You have us here for a reason and we celebrate, knowing that You are a purposeful God!!! Father guide us as we go through our day to day activities. Show us the opportunities we have to help one another and areas of our lives that we can be more like You in. Show us how to forgive ourselves and one another, Lord. We are inperfect being and we know that there is nothing good in us without You, Father. There is nothing good we can do apart from You. God give us more of You and less of ourselves. We know that we have to work at bringing our flesh under control. Your words says You will not tempt us past our ability to resist temptation. Glory to God!!! Give us the strength to step out in faith and grab hold of Your will for our lives today!!! We thank You for Your grace and mercy!!! We know that through You all things are possible. God, we thank You for watching over our loved ones today!!! Father continue to mold and shape us to who You have intended us to be. We know that You are a providing God and You know our needs before we can even ask You. Thank You for already providing what we need. We lack nothing in You, Jesus!!! We bless and love You Lord!!! In Jesus Mighty name we pray!!! AMEN!!!


LEXINGTON, Ky., (Jan. 17, 2017) – Producers face challenges and opportunities when applying poultry litter to cropland. The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Food and Environment will host a forum to help producers learn best management practices to apply poultry litter.
The forum, titled Poultry Litter Lessons from the Delmarva and the Ohio Valley, will begin at 1:30 p.m. CST Jan. 25 at the Owensboro Convention Center and again at 9:30 a.m. CST Jan. 26 at the Christian County Extension office. They are sponsored by the Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board and the Kentucky Corn Promotion Council.
The forums will feature Kentucky producers who use poultry litter as well as two producers who face strict environmental regulations like those in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
For more information on the program, contact Shockley at jordan.shockley@uky.edu; Edwin Ritchey, UK soil extension specialist, at edwin.ritchey@uky.edu; Clint Hardy, Daviess County agriculture and natural resources extension agent, at chardy@uky.edu; or Jay Stone, Christian County agriculture and natural resources extension agent, at jstone@uky.edu.
Growers are considering planting soybean after soybean, especially full season soybean after full season soybean, over some acreage in 2017. Many growers have little experience with second year full season soybean, having kept with their existing crop rotations. Other growers, experiencing problems like soybean cyst nematode in some fields, have avoided soybean after soybean on all acres they manage. I observed two extension agricultural economics presentations modeling profit/loss to different crop rotation options, and where second year soybean yield loss relative to first year soybean was set at either 5 or 10 %, in the absence of field data.


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Human Behavior And The Social Environment: Family Challenges&nbspChapter
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Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Family Challenges
Human interactions are guided by the ability of every player to get close to the other in such a manner that allows each of them to handle the issues that affect them. This is mostly witnessed in a family setup, where the people are made to understand the best of what can upset them at all times. This is where the players in a family setup have to consider making up with their desires and addressing everyone's concern for the sake of the family unity. In most instances, the people who must be accommodated are the children because their happiness is premised on the guidance from parents (Papero, 2010). The two most essential theories used to foster our understanding of family relationships are the family systems theory and the attachment theory.
Attachment theory explains how the human beings in every setting have to interact and handle their relationships for helping each other stay comfortably. In the case study, Alice and her daughter Maria are seen to be engaged in a relationship challenge....
Alice is full of irresponsibility and lacking the ability the parental instinct that a mother must have. Evidently, she has been mishandling her daughter by failing to give her the much-needed attention and due care (Slade, 2014). The behavior of involving herself in drug abuse has affected the child and has consequently forced the authorities to prevail on her. As the attachment theory presents, the relationship between the parents and their children ought to be protected at all costs. This also applies to all the players in any form of relationship, other than the family unit. All that is needed in any family arrangement or any form of human interaction is the arrangement where all the players respect themselves and respect each other well.
In Alice's case, the family system had totally failed. As a result, this had to be handled with caution and care with the intention of protecting the interests of the child and other related parties. The government always has a plan that is meant to tame whatever is happening in a family setting. In all cases, the interests of the child come first. The government will always be expected to protect these interests by enabling the players in the system to respect each other.
Family Systems Theory
The theory holds that each player in a family system has to ensure that he or she handles the challenges facing him or her through respect and understanding. In this system of interrelations, it is important to note that whenever people interact with each other, they have the basic mandate to handle the emotions…
Ackerman, N. (2009). A Theory of Family Systems. New York: Gardner Press.
Papero, D. (2010). Bowen Family Systems Theory. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
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Osoby:
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For other uses, see Council (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with counsel.
A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state or national level are not considered councils. At such levels, there may be no separate executive branch, and the council may effectively represent the entire government. A board of directors might also be denoted as a council. A committee might also be denoted as a council, though a committee is generally a subordinate body composed of members of a larger body, while a council may not be. Because many schools have a student council, the council is the form of governance with which many people are likely to have their first experience as electors or participants.
A member of a council may be referred to as a councillor or councilperson, or by the gender-specific titles of councilman and councilwoman.
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Notable examples of types of councils encountered in politics include:
Allegiance Council, also known as the Allegiance Commission or Allegiance Institution is the body responsible for determining future succession to the throne of Saudi Arabia.
Borough council, a form of local government
Catholic Ecumenical Councils, ecclesiastical gatherings for ordering the Catholic Church
City council, a form of local government
Community council, the most local official representative body in Scotland and in Wales
Council of Europe, a political, intergovernmental organization with 47 member countries
Council of the European Union, the upper house of the European Union
Council of State, an organ of government in many states
County council, a council that governs a county in the British Isles
District council, a unit of government in various jurisdictions
Ecumenical Councils, pan-Christian discussion bodies
European Council, the body of heads of states or of governments of the European Union
Labour council, an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area
Municipal council, a form of local government
National Security Council, an executive-branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues
Parish councils in England, a form of local government in part of the United Kingdom
Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a country
Provincial council, a governing body for a province
Regional council, a local-government body in various countries
Shire Council, an entity of local government in Australia
Shura Council, the formerly upper house of the Egyptian parliament.
Town council, a democratically elected form of government for small municipalities or parishes
UK Research Councils, government agencies responsible for an area of research in the United Kingdom
United Nations Security Council, a decision-making body at the United Nations
Vatican Council, a high-level policy-council of the Roman Catholic Church
Village council (Palestinian Authority), a local-government body in Palestine
Workers' council, a council composed of working-class or proletarian members
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Types of councils encountered in other spheres include:
Arts council, a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts
Bar council, a professional body that regulates the profession of barristers together with the Inns of Court
Buddhist councils, important historical events in the history of Buddhism
Council (Boy Scouts), a non-profit private corporation within Boy Scouts of America
Ecumenical council, a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice
Student council, a student organization present in many elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities
Synod in a Christian church
University Council running a university
Works council, a body representing the workers of a plant, factory, etc., elected to negotiate with the management about working conditions, wages, etc.
Youth council, an example of youth voice engaged in youth-led decision-making
Military council
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I'm using zk 7.0.2 EE and I'm testing web app on android phone, but combobox has some problems. when I click on button for open combobox the popup is open out of the phone screen and so is impossible to select velue.
Are there same configuration or special component to resolve this?
Have you tried with <listbox mold=select"> instead of <combobox>?
and let us know which device has problem, it works fine with nexus 7.


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Q: What is the best way to fetch data only once in react? so let's say I have a react dashboard application, which has several different routes. Now, one of those routes is Analytics route, and I was wondering, if is, what is the best way to fetch the data rendered in Analytics route only the first time you visit it and then pull it from somewhere.
I've been thinking about using Redux for it, but I've never used it, so I have no idea, OR if I should store it in localStorage. But that has a problem though, because on different route, I would like to fetch images the same way.
The reason I'm asking this is because I use Firebase Firestore as my DB and it could get quite costly, because I would have to do 4 read operations i.e. on the Analytics route each time it is rendered. Or, is it the normal approach?
Is it a good idea to use React Context and useContext hook in this case?
Thanks in advance.

A: use redux for state management, where you can store the application state and the components who need data. You can call Api in order to fetch data only first time in the root component of the app.

A: use react-query you can do exactly this in a much simpler way as compared to context or react-redux.

A: you can use a useEffect hook and do an api call each time you visit that page and you don't have to store it anywhere and it will only get you the date you need i recently made an app and this way actually helped me alot


San Diego sports fans don't have much to be excited about these days. When the Executive Chairman of the Padres Ron Fowler comes out and calls the teams recent play "pathetic and embarrassing" and overall "miserable failures" it's hard to hold out hope. Fowler doing his best Ray Kroc impression expressed the sentiment of all Padres fans. It was a breath of fresh air to hear such candor from men at the top. Which led to the Padres are making the wrong kinds of national headlines.
The Padres sitting at 26-38, 12 games out of the National League West and firmly entrenched at the bottom of the NL along the likes of the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds. Like many last place teams, the Padres have been frustrating to watch. One day they'll deliver spectacular pitching with no offense and the next an offensive explosion with terrible pitching. Not being able to string it all together has cost them dearly this season. The high note of the season was taking 2 out of 3 from the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley. This was during the Cubs hot start where they went 25-6, with the Padres handing the Cubs their first back to back losses all season. The Padres returned to the real world in the coming weeks while the Cubs bounced back to their winning ways. The Padres have also shown an inability to close teams out on the series finale falling to 1-20 after their most current loss to the Rockies. In the year they're hosting the All Star Game for the first time in decades it would have been a sweet treat for the fans to have fielded a good team. At this point expect only the mandatory one player to represent the team come the All Star game.
Though it is not all doom and gloom there have been some bright spots for the Padres this year as long as some pleasant surprises. A couple which deserve All Star considerations. Wil Myers and Jon Jay are paying dividends both currently hitting .287 with Myers hammering 13 home runs thus far. Look for Jay to be involved in trade talks with Myers a possibility. Though don't hold your breath on the latter as he's under team control for a couple more years. Yangervis Solarte has also been a pleasant surprise despite his recent struggles this past week hitting .284 on the season. Melivn Upton Jr's bloated contract makes him hard to trade though up until his recent struggles last month was hitting around .270 and supplying superior defense patrolling the expansive outfield that is Petco Park. On the pitching side of things Fernando Rodney and Ryan Buchter have been nice surprises though Buchter has struggled as of late. The brightest spot in the rotation has been Drew Pomeranz (5-6 2.44 era) showing signs of brilliance after some rough years in Colorado with the Rockies. No one could have guessed at the start of the season Pomeranz would be leading the pitching staff. While on the subject of the pitching staff, it's disappointing to see once again this year so many padres pitchers on the disabled list. Tyson Ross, Robbie Erlin, Cesar Vargas and Andrew Cashner joining them this past week. The Padres are enduring one of the worst streaks in recent years of pitchers going on the DL. They must find an answer if they wish to compete in the coming years.
The future is all fans can look forward to this year. This team has some pieces to build upon with the likes of Myers and Pomeranz. If the Kansas City Royals can win a World Series as a small market team it lends hope to teams like the Padres. Build from the ground up and make smart transactions in the free agent market. The risky experiment General Manager A.J. Preller attempted last year failed miserably. Trading James Shields even though it meant eating half of his contract was a good move. More high priced contracts like Matt Kemps and Upton Jr's are needed as are getting returns from prospects. Which might mean brighter days ahead for America's finest city. In the meantime enjoy the All Star Game.


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As I have already mentioned in a previous article, article in which most probably I haven't been too original, opinion you may share only by reading the article, web has changed the world. But how did this change happen? What process did it activate? What changes will follow? Maybe if we try to analyze the dynamics which have brought the net to the attention of our society, it will be easier to realize or simply to guess what the future will bring or at least a part of it.
I would like to start from one consideration: the first web or web 1.0 whose diffusion took place in the 1990s offered static contents that hardly changed as the days went by, with graphics package similar to that of the newspapers. The pages were columns structured with a title or a subtitle and a text. The images applied were a few as well as the colors, but the difference which strikes more than all, is how the contents were rarely put through an updating. It surely looked alike with the good "old newspaper", but being on web, it turned out to be of no use, not even fit to wrap the fish in. It is not hard to find online "old web pages" which describe an event or a service or even disused old blogs whose last, and sometimes the only post, is dated 1995 or 1996.
The biggest limits were of technical nature, the creation of the web pages was often delegated only to the computer technicians, sometimes even to improvised technicians. The action of publication had to submit to a wearing "braid" which considerably slowed down the updating of the contents, to not mention the editing of macroscopic grammatical errors.
I dare to compare these first pages to the first prehistoric icons carved in stone. They have many aspects in common! First of all, they are hard to cancel or even change, second, they were created by using primitive tools and last but not least, there was no awareness from the maker regarding the importance of his creation, the conception of a rough and primitive product from the communicative point of view even though of inestimable value.
Therefore the stone age of the web coincides with the web created in the twentieth century and the "stonepages" have been the direct expression of it. A good web expert has in his drawer a list of stonepages links, web pages designed at the end of the 1980s and in the early 1990s.
The electronics and the computer science have certainly given a conclusive contribution by proposing new tools, simple to use and affordable to everyone.
So, the new Web has its genesis in the innovation, but such a mass and a transversal process cannot be limited to some extra bit and chip, the step-change took actually place from the very moment when the persons, the people, the vulgo, took knowledge of these tools and begun to use them daily.
This excessive use, not only has immediately determined new forms of communication, of social exposure, but above all, it has induced new requests of use, clearer.
Being an experienced computer scientist I know that the good result of a project, of a software programming service, depends very much on the actual use/ liking of the internet user as well as on the quantity of suggestions actually applied by him to the software.
The stage two of 2.0 is characterized by the users' ability in over stimulating the means at their disposal finding sometimes innovative and original ways of use, sometimes even suggesting new developments.
The stage three of 2.0 has been even more important because it had turned millions of individual web users into a virtual society and some of the web tools into social networks, in other words, it has been created the first de facto virtual agorà. The stage three surprised everybody, even the most optimistic employees for its intensity, but above all, for the course of the phenomenon. As I already mentioned a few pages ago, there was some billion of people who felt alone, who had that tribal necessity to exchange two words, to feel each day alive by bringing in one's own small way his fast and precious contribution.
The society is caught by this network and it won't succeed in going out of it.
The second and the third stage have had a massive impact on the tools proposed by web, bringing new stimuli and a lot of money to those people able to plan and succeed in innovation.
The stage four of the new web is nothing but a second turn of field: further innovation, greater use and identification from the individual as well as further borders' extension of an already mass phenomenon.
If you are not cooperative, if you don't want to take a challenge, if you think it's better to communicate using ways and slang typical of last century, or if you are just too slow, you don't live the real-time web, or perhaps you are not fit at all for the innovation, then my friend, you are out of web, you exist "only "as a real person, but from the virtual point of view, you are simply meaningless.
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A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. A divorcee with a young child to care for, Ruth works in the kind of nightclubs where there's more than just a drink on offer. The girls work hard, play hard and dream of a movie-star life. Then she meets the wealthy, womanising David, a racing driver with whom she becomes obsessed. Fame comes – but not in the way she imagines. Why does their relationship end in murder? Why does she plead not guilty but offer no defence? Why does she show no remorse? And who is she trying to protect?
The Thrill of Love dramatises the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and takes a fresh look at the woman behind the headlines. The club staged the production in the beautifully atmospheric setting of All Saint's Church in Huntingdon's Market Square.
Premiered in 1953 Miller's dramatization of the Salem witch trials is a metaphor for Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunts that rocked America in the 1950s. Miller's play (though lukewarmly received on its premiere) has gone on to become his most-performed piece, revived regularly around the world, including recent productions in London at the Old Vic in 2014 and on Broadway in 2016 with British actor Ben Whishaw in the role of John Proctor.
The Club staged the play in the historic Court Room in Huntingdon Town Hall, which was built on the site of the 16th century trial of the 'Warboys witches'. Alice Samuel and her family from the nearby village of Warboys were accused of witchcraft by a neighbouring family in 1589 & by 1593 had been tried & executed in Huntingdon. The intimate wooden court room lent itself perfectly to an atmospheric 'in the round' interpretation of the play where audience members were just inches from the action, over the course of 5 sold out performances.
Shakers Cocktail Bar is THE place to be! After work, before a club, to meet the blokes, to pick up the girls, to drink to celebrate or drown your sorrows, for birthdays and parties and romance and sin, this is the place to be seen.
And in 'Shakers' the four young waitresses reveal the lives of its staff and customers and offer an insight into their hopes, dreams and disappointments. John Godber's sparkling writing builds on the success of his earlier 'Bouncers' to create a richly absorbing yet tellingly revealing modern comedy.
Three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral in a bitter-sweet play that deals with the themes of memory and family. As they attempt to organise her funeral, the memories of their childhood run together and the secrets of their separate lives are revealed. Teresa, owner of an alternative therapy business, is angry that she was left to care for their dying mother. Mary, a doctor, is still struggling with a deep loss from her past & torn over a relationship with a married man. Youngest sister Catherine seeks attention through a succession of short-term partners. Memories fade & blur as the sisters bicker, watched over by the ghost of the mother to whom they are preparing to say goodbye. 'The Memory Of Water' is in equal measures hilarious, touching & poignant. It was originally performed at the Hampstead Theatre in London before a successful West End run which starred Alison Steadman, Samantha Bond & Julia Sawalha.
Brother and sister Martin and Hilda Massie live together, leading a quiet, Christian existence in the confines of the Bluebell Hill Development. Just as they are preparing for a housewarming gathering, their peace is shattered by a young trespasser in their garden. The Massies' neighbours congregate in their living room and together they agree to form a neighbourhood watch group to safeguard against further incidents. But after the Massies' beloved garden gnome Monty is thrown through their window, matters swiftly escalate, complicated by Martin's burgeoning romance with Amy, wife of Gareth, who was formerly involved with Luther, husband of Magda… What begins as a well-intentioned scheme for a safer community ends in violence and acrimony.
Described as "elegant & poignant" & a "powerful, riveting drama", Breaking the Code is a play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a founder of modern computer science.
Neil Simon's hilarious comedy tells four different tales in one hotel room. It premiered in Los Angeles in 1976 & was later filmed by director Herbert Ross. The cast included Maggie Smith who ironically won an Oscar for her performance playing an actress who is nominated for, but does not win.
Peter Whelan's moving & powerful play is set in Accrington during the early years of World War One. It tells the story of the young men who enlisted to fight on the front line in France and the women they left behind to face a country in the midst of great social change.


At an initial advisory hearing, 47-year-old Scott Ostrem was told he is being held on investigation of first degree murder.
The Denver sheriff's department is looking at how it communicates with immigration officials after Ever Valles was arrested on suspicion of murder last week.
Police in the state's largest city admit many families of homicide victims may never get justice.


Go to Hurley's Restaurant & Bar across the street. Or go to Celadon or Allegria in Napa. Or Mustard's when they re-open. I'm sad to say, however, that the new-ish, restaurant Bottega in Yountville couldn't care less if you were there…and they act like it. Last night, my friends were trying to give Bottega a second chance having had such a mediocre experience previously. It was my first visit. We enjoyed bubbles and appetizers outside by a blazing fire where the restaurant offers "no service". We ordered at the bar and carried our own drinks, napkins, flatware, plates outside. That was fine as the three of us were steeped in conversation and warmed fireside on a lovely, fresh, Napa spring night. Our mistake was going inside. A table in the bar opened up and we wanted to try a couple of the appetizers…with service. Have I mentioned that Bottega is not cheap…not by a long shot.
I asked for a tawny port. They gave me a ruby port…and told me it was a tawny port. We ordered a salumi platter. When we asked for details about what was on the plate (my friend has an allergy to cow meat…the kind that brings on vertigo and nausea, occasionally followed my temporary hearing loss), the server/bartender (?) said she didn't know, identified half the plate and went to find out the rest. When she returned, she had mis-identified the pork and cow which my friend had already tasted. Ugh! Is it just me, or does it seem like too many places don't seem to care at all about Word of Mouth, or customer service, or hospitality.
The restaurant was busy, but not packed. No one else working there, the host, the other bartender or server, ever spoke to us. It is too bad. The ambiance was warm and friendly. The service was so bad that our conversation was hijacked into sifting through the short list of restaurants in Napa that consistently offer good (or better) service. Frankly, for the experience, we could have had similar service, (basically self service) at Taylor's Refresher, with a smile, great food and at much less cost! Disney has service right. If only Napa hospitality took the Disney Training Program. Extraordinary, personal, friendly, helpful and non-overbearing service is, such a breath of fresh air, and hard to find in Napa… But I can't resign myself to such mediocre hospitality where I live! For now, I will take my friends' offers in Sonoma & Calaveras counties to visit their wineries and remember the pleasure of good customer service. And when I'm in Napa, I'll visit the few places that care to have you there.
We have all had an experience at a winery, restaurant or hotel where everything was technically right: we were greeted, we were taken care of and served as expected…but were left feeling flat. It was hard to put my finger on what was missing, but a conversation with a winery friend that makes hospitality the cornerstone of their customer experience put the word to it for me. It is the difference between just doing your job and creating a sincere, personal and heart-felt connection. Heart is what elevates the experience from good to great. The kind of great that makes you send your friends and family back for the same experience. The kind of great that makes you go back over and over as well. Chino Yip had it at First Squeeze when he owned that restaurant on First Street in Napa. You couldn't help but know he cared. Greg Cole has it at Celadon. The folks that work at the Roger Smith Hotel have that heart in their hospitality too. You don't have to be the owner, you just have to have ownership in your work.
Heart. I say it is easier said than done. Others think it is very easy once you know that heart or sincerity or the personal touch (whatever you call it) is the answer. I wonder how much the people who train staff in hospitality talk about heart. What has made the difference in a customer service experience in your world?
These are people who care, they are great at what they do and are down right passionate about it. It is hospitality. And it is the greatest investment any business can make in customer loyalty. On the heels of my experience last weekend, this is even more breath taking to me. The Roger Smith Hotel didn't spend an outrageous amount of money or time…and this gesture pictured below meant the world to me. This photo they e-mailed me a week after I left was a brilliant stroke of follow up. Simple, sincere, sweet. I'll continue to sing the praises for my permanant New York City hosts, the Roger Smith Hotel. Thank you gentlemen.
Jamile and Paul work at the Roger Smith Hotel in mid-town Manhattan. They were part of the extraordinary team of hosts for me weekend there in early February. This was not a singular experience. Roger Smith Hotel is hospitality.


…instead of looking below the surface?
People judge appearances as though somewhere in their minds an ideal beauty of the human form exists, a form they would recognize if they saw it, though they do not expect they ever will. It exists in the imagination.
The human image has been subjected to all manner of manipulation in an attempt to create an ideal that does not seem to have a human incarnation. When Zeuxis painted Helen of Troy he gathered five of the most beautiful living women and represented features of each in the hope of capturing and depicting her beauty. There are no actual descriptions of Helen, nor of other legendary beauties such as Dante's Beatrice.
In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.
Thanks for sharing Kev. It is true we spend a lot of time on superficial things but when we look inside of our bodies or minds we find that that initial ugly appearance is part of something quite marvelous- and it is there where I think we have to spend more time. Best E.


When word spread this summer that Halo: Anniversary would include Kinect support, gamers fidgeted nervously, wondering just what the hell 343 Industries had in mind for the franchise. Calm down, they're not introducing motion control to the HD remake. They're letting you switch between the game's high-definition and standard-definition graphics using your voice.
343 was trying to keep the functionality under wraps but the development director Frank O'Connor told 1Up that someone accidentally blurted out the magic words during another demonstration. The words are "Classic" (for low-def) and "remastered" (for HD).
O'Connor said "there is some other functionality that we haven't talked about that is not core to the gameplay," that has yet to be revealed. 343 will probably discuss it sometime in October. "We dont want to oversell it," he said.
For more on the Halo: Anniversary high-definition remake of Halo: Combat Evolved see Luke Plunkett's impressions from Tokyo Games Show 2011.


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Playwrights continue work without festival
LARA JO HIGHTOWER
lhightower@nwadg.com
When the University of Arkansas Department of Theatre produced the first ArkType New Play Festival in 2018, department chairman Michael Riha said it was a natural progression for the ever-growing and evolving department. The program, which offers an MFA in playwriting to UA students, was established in 1996, and more recent curriculum changes include a playwriting requirement for all students, including undergraduates.
"After revamping our curriculum within our performance concentration, playwriting is being required for the first time, and it's blowing up," noted Riha in a previous interview. "Students are showing great interest in developing 10-minute plays, one-acts and full-length plays. Also, this is really how you start your career — you have to invent your own work. You can't wait for someone else to do it. We're trying to develop that entrepreneurial sense — it's not just about talent, it's about how do you make this happen?
"We feel that writing is a serious strength of our students and faculty," added Riha. "With [playwrights] Les Wade and John Walch on our faculty, we thought we would do something that honored what we think is a growing interest at the University of Arkansas Department of Theatre."
In what would have been its third year, the festival has been canceled — as have so many other events — due to the covid-19 pandemic. But, says Walch, who is head of the playwriting program, that won't stop the department from doing what they can to foster the growth and success of these new works.
Spotlight on Playwright Brendan Beseth
Playwright Brendan Beseth made a pretty radical culture shift when he moved to Fayetteville to start the playwriting MFA program two years ago. Before that, he was working as a screenwriter in Los Angeles "Luckytown,", a 2000 movie starring James Caan and Kirsten Dunst, is one of his credits.
"We are proceeding with development of all the pieces [planned]," says Walch. "Guest resource artists (directors/dramaturgs/composers) had been identified for each project, and the Department of Theatre is committing to continuing to support their work with each playwright over the next month so the playwrights can at least move the play forward with their principle collaborators. The metaphor I use is that all writers had just started doing some serious rewriting renovation on their plays in conversation with their collaborators — tearing out walls, moving plumbing lines, reframing windows, etc. Then it all just stopped, and they are now standing in a mess. We're hoping to help them find ways to finish the renovation with their collaborators (remotely), even if we were unable to throw the public party (the new play festival) in their newly rearranged worlds."
Walch adds that a John Steinbeck quote that's been "floating around" says it best.
"'The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive,'" Walch quotes. "As I like to say, theater is the original social media that's been around longer than Christianity. It survived the Dark Ages. I trust it will again."
The 2020 ArkType New Play Festival plays included:
'Wild Eden'
By Lauren Ferebee
About the Play: A family of three arrives for their annual summer vacation at an ancient lagoon turned theme park turned wetlands in the aftermath of an oil spill.
About the Playwright: Lauren Ferebee's plays have been developed across the United States. Most recently, her play "Brilliance" was featured as part of Boomerang Theatre Company's First Flight Festival in New York City, and "Every Waiting Heart," which had a reading at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, will premiere with Chicago theatre Artemisia in the fall of 2020. She also writes original music and collaborates as a founding member of Scrappy Shakes, a theater collective out of Spartanburg, S.C. She holds a BFA from NYU/Tisch and is a current MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas.
'Thrift Store Junkie'
By Brendan Beseth
About the Play: Henry makes his living sifting through thrift stores for used books and other detritus to resell on eBay. Constantly seeking validation by trying to grow his eternally meager profit margin, he's lost touch with any sense of self-worth — until he's pulled into a spiritual journey that gives him the opportunity to see what really matters in life.
About the Playwright: Brendan Beseth is an MFA candidate in playwriting at the University of Arkansas. Most recently, his play "Bookshop" was featured at the 2018 William Inge Theatre Festival, and his play "A Vegas Kind of Love" was a finalist for Rogue Machine's Premier Award for best new play at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival. A screenplay he wrote was made into a feature film starring Kirsten Dunst and James Caan, but his true love is writing plays. He is a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights and Directors Unit in Los Angeles and of the Dramatists Guild.
'Underneath'
By Adrienne Dawes
About the Play: After the brutal murder of family members by law enforcement, Mom decides to raise her surviving son Devin in a secret bunker built underground. The arrival of a New Commander complicates the precarious balance Mom tries to maintain between her full-time job as an emergency dispatcher and the strict homeschool curriculum designed for her son. When new neighbor JaBen disrupts Devin's routine, he challenges everything Devin's been taught about survival above ground.
About the Playwright: Adrienne Dawes is an award-winning playwright and producer originally from Austin, Texas. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ScriptWorks and a company member of Salvage Vanguard Theater. Follow her work online atwww.adriennedawes.com.
Two years ago, Michael Riha, chairman of the University of Arkansas Department of Theatre, was getting ready to show off the new Global Campus black-box facility on the Fayetteville square during the ArkType New Play Festival. This year's event was canceled due to covid-19 concerns.
(NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)
'Dairy Queen'
By Sarah Loucks
About the Play: Karen and Lee are employees at the local Dairy Queen, where they're stuck working on the Fourth of July. As fireworks explode in the street and the night drags on, the two teenagers begin plotting a future neither of them expected. Reigning over an empty Dairy Queen, a large quantity of ice cream and some hidden vodka, they imagine adventure, salvation and America beneath the florescent lights.
About the Playwright: Sarah Loucks is a playwright and theater maker. She produces her plays under the name MouthRadio in Austin, Texas, and is currently an MFA candidate in playwriting at the University of Arkansas. Most recently, Sarah produced a performance festival dedicated to Dolly Parton called DOLLY FEST 2019 in Austin. She often writes about class, labor and American entropy.
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Sabaton Open Air: Carolus Show
I already linked to DT, but I'm just gonna post the Youtube video right here. The whole Carolus Show from Sabaton Open Air, for you to watch! This is the show I talked about a few days ago. Ahhh. This is epicness. Epicness.
// Sara
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3 Responses to "Sabaton Open Air: Carolus Show"
No doubt that Sabaton is a great live band BUT somehow I'm a little "disappointed" in this performance..
– I think the sound is kinda crappy (or the fans are just bored, what I don't think)
– I miss the tank on stage
– There are really no other songs beside the ones from "Carolus Rex"; don't get me wrong, I love that album! It's only that I'm not such a big fan of the Swedish versions.. + I don't go to see a show where only songs from one album are played
But still I think that the idea with those Caroleans on stage is just freaking awesome! ❤
And I can imagine that this show must be something really special to Swedes – So, I'm glad that you were able to see this 🙂
Sara Hammerzmith Says:
I can explain the last thing to you!
For Rockstad Falun they always do special gigs, not just the avg Sabaton gig and this year, the first part of the show was to do the whole Carolus Album in Swedish, and this is what is filmed. However, there is a second part of this show, that wasn't filmed, where they play a lot other material, like premiering "Night Witches" live and such.
This is similar to when they started Rockstad 6 years ago, and they first played The Art of War in it's whole (I was there!) and after that they played a few other songs. They didn't record the second part, as that was "only" so to put it, for the fans that was there. It's been announced the whole time that they were gonna do this, so this was no surprise to the people there 🙂
These are the songs played after the stream ended:
Night Witches (First time live)
Soldier of 3 Armies
Resist and Bite
Primo Victoria
Ghost Division
Swedish Pagans
Metal Crüe
And it's all cool! I do think I love this album and era so much solely because I'm Swedish myself, and it's all cool not to like it. However, I have people that would go to the show live and then when I express that I wished I had been there, they be like "ah, it wasn't that great". Well, that isn't exactly your thing to say as you don't care for the era you know 😀 Stupid people, if you ask!
Ah okay, that makes a lot of sense then!
Woah, they played "Night Witches"? I fucking love that song and would have loved to see that too! 😮
It's really too bad that they didn't stream the second part of the show too.. 😦
All of this just drives me nuts – Why do I have to wait until February to see them?
I absolutely understand that you love it and that's perfectly alright with me. Those people are really just stupid!
They simply don't have this special connection with that band then, or they simply don't understand why it's so special to some fans.


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