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RTS Cymru and Edinburgh Festival Nominations
We are delighted to have received nominations for two prestigious awards.
We are delighted to have received nominations for two prestigious awards: the Royal Television Society Cymru's Drama award for 2020 with both Industry and His Dark Materials S2, and the Best Company for New Talent at the Edinburgh TV Festival's New Voice Awards 2022.
The RTS Cymru Awards are designed to celebrate and showcase the range of skills and expertise that come together to make outstanding Welsh television. We are so proud that our teams across His Dark Materials and Industry have been recognised for their hard work and talent.
The Edinburgh Television Festival's New Voice Awards celebrates emerging talent and the companies that give them the best support. The ambition of the awards is to make our industry accessible to an ever-increasing range of people. We feel honoured that we have been recognised among the best companies to give emerging TV talent a stepping-stone into the industry.
Our dedicated team at Screen Alliance Wales plays a huge role in developing the careers of new, ambitious workers from here at Wolf Studios Wales with their educational projects, work shadowing placements, and trainee schemes.
Our partnerships with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the University of South Wales allow us to continue to support individuals in their development and training. We will continue to strive to expand our diverse network of new talent and grow an inclusive, confident Welsh workforce.
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Taxing South Africa's Wealthy More, Won't Reverse Inequality
The argument by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that tightening South Africa's wealth tax regime would rebalance generational inequality has a fundamental flaw: it targets a "flighty" base, says an expert from the African Tax Institute. Economists Isabell Koske and Falilou Fall, from the OECD, make the case that there is scope to reform South Africa's wealth taxes framework, while also advocating for an upward adjustment of the country's value-added tax (VAT) rate. The latest OECD Economic Survey of South Africa says that improving the tax system and reducing spending inefficiencies would help to put public finances on a more sustainable path, while taking action to revive productivity growth would help to revive GDP growth and raise living standards. If needed, the tightening of monetary policy should continue to allow inflation – which disproportionately affects the poorest households – to return to the Reserve Bank's target. It is also vital to intensify efforts to raise the country's low COVID-19 vaccination rate to reduce the health and economic risks from future outbreaks. In parallel with fostering economic activity, the tax system could be made more progressive and efficient at raising the revenues needed to reduce the budget deficit and finance investments. For example, the allowances and deductions in personal income tax that tend to benefit high earners could be reduced while wealth transfer taxes and estate duties could be adapted to limit the transmission of wealth inequality. Once inflation has abated, there is room to raise the relatively low VAT rate, balancing that with increased transfers to low-income households.
Africa Has to Work on Feeding Itself

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Minns A. "Improving medication safety in the geriatric emergency department population." Funded by the UC San Diego Health Sciences Academy of Clinician Scholars, 10/2018 – 9/2019. Amount: $5,000.
Coyne C. "Assessment of an EMR-based Solution to Improve the Management of Cancer Related Pain in the Emergency Department". Funded by the UC San Diego Health Sciences Academy of Clinician Scholars, 10/2018 – 9/2019. Amount: $5,000.
Sundararajan, R. "Expanding HIV testing among Ugandan adults who utilize traditional healers". Funded by the National Institute of Health, 7/2017 - 6/2021. Amount: $731,471.
Tolia V and Chan T. The Gary and Mary West Senior Emergency Care Unit (SECU): Phase 3 – Existing Space SECU Implementation. Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, 3/17-8/18. Amount: $2,405,584.
Sundararajan, R. "HIV-Related Knowledge and Practices Among Higher Education Students in Maputo". UCSD Center for AIDS Research. Amount: $39,450.
Castillo EM and Barash I (ED Leads). Advanced MRI Applications for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI). Funded by the NFL and GE Healthcare.
Killeen J, Chan T and Tolia V. Implementation of Telehealth Services in Assisted Living. Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute. 11/16-10/18. Amount: $2,616,445 Partnered Research Project.
Savaser, D. "Hyperbaric Medicine Video Education Modules – HBOMS (Hyperbaric Oxygen Module Series)." American College of Emergency Physicians. 7/16 - 12/17. Amount: $8,905.
Killeen J. BEACH CCR Sandbox Project. Funded by the Chronic Disease Surveillance Branch of the California Department of Public Health, 7/16-6/17. Amount: $84,397.
Castillo E. The Impact of a Senior Center on Healthcare Utilization. Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute. 7/16-12/16. Amount: $49,055.
Castillo E. OSHPD Healthcare Utilization Studies. Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, 6/16-2/17. Amount: $49,728.
Chan T. The Gary and Mary West Geriatric Center of Excellence (West COE): Phase II – SED Pre-Launch Operational Implementation. Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, 4/16-9/16. Amount: $261,500.
Killeen, J. Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Chan The Gary and Mary West Geriatric Center of Excellence (West COE): Phase 1 Research Development. Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, 9/15 – 3/16. Amount: $243,610.
Killeen, J. Co-Investigator with Edward Castillo (PI) for study entitled, "Acute Home Care as an Alternative to Inpatient Admission from the Emergency Department". Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, 2015 – 2016. Amount: $499,125.
Castillo EM. Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infection (abSSSI) Practice Pattern Assessment." Funded by Durata Therapeutics International B.V., 2014-2015. Amount: $15,000.
Killeen, J. Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Edward M. Castillo. Exploring emergency room physician's knowledge and attitudes concerning the use of appropriate and safe home care as an alternative to hospital admission. Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, 2014-2015. Amount: $123,152.
Vilke, GM. Co-Investigator with Edward Castillo (PI) for study entitled, "Evaluation of downward force placed onto prone subjects." Funded by the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, Inc., 2014-2015. Awarded, contract in process. Amount: $7,500.
Vilke, GM. Co-Investigator with Edward Castillo (PI) for study entitled, "Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infection (abSSSI) Practice Pattern Assessment." Funded by Durata Therapeutics International B.V., 2014-2015. Amount: $15,000.
Vilke, GM. Co-Investigator with Edward Castillo (PI) for study entitled, "Exploring emergency room physician's knowledge and attitudes concerning the use of appropriate and safe home care as an alternative to hospital admission." Funded by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, 2014-2015. Amount: $118,021.
Castillo EM. Literature and Policy Gap Analysis. Funded by the Ministry Community Safety & Correctional Services, Ontario Canada, 2013. Amount: $15,000.
Castillo EM. Point-of-Care Testing for Illicit Drugs and Alcohol Intoxication in an Emergency Room. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse through Seacoast Science, Inc., 2013-2015. Amount: $50,163.
Killeen, J. Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Edward M. Castillo. Integrating Environmental Data into a PHR for Asthma Patients. Funded by the California Health and Human Services Agency, Office of Health Information Integrity, 2013-2014. Amount: $202,079.
Vilke, GM. Co-Investigator with Edward Castillo (PI) for study entitled, "Point-of-Care Testing for Illicit Drugs and Alcohol Intoxication in an Emergency Room". Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse through Seacoast Science, Inc., 2013-2015. Amount: $50,163.
Vilke, GM. Co-Investigator with Edward Castillo (PI) for study entitled, "Diagnostic Evaluation using ClearView in Decision Making in the Emergency Room". Funded by EPIC Research and Diagnostics, Inc, 2012-2014. Amount: $650,840.10 (based on 570 total participants).
Killeen, J. Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Chan San Diego Beacon Community Grant to foster Health Information Technology and Exchange in the San Diego region. Funded by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. 2010-2013. Amount: $15.3 Million.
Chan, T. San Diego Safety Net Health Information Exchange. Project funded by Pacificare/United Healthcare, 2008-2011. Amount: $715,000.
Chan, T, Castillo, EM.. California ED Diversion Project Evaluation. Funded by the California Healthcare Foundation, 05/2008 to 11/2008. Amount $50,990.
Clark, R. Principal Investigator – Bioclone, Inc., "A Comparison of Anavip® [Crotalinae (pit viper) equine immune F(ab)2] and CroFab® (Crotalidae Polyvalent Immune Fab, ovine) in the Treatment of Patients with Crotalinae Envenomation: A Randomized, Prospective, Blinded, Controlled, Comparative, Multicenter Study," 7/08-01/15. Amount $10,000.
Killeen, J. "San Diego Safety Net Health Information Exchange." Pacificare/United Healthcare. 2008-2011. Amount: $715,000.
Chan, T. Impact of the State Mandated Nurse-Patient Ratio on ED Crowding, Flow and Patient Care. EMF/ENAF (Emergency Medicine Foundation / Emergency Nurses Association Foundation) Directed Team Grant, ED Overcrowding Research Award, 2007-08. Amount: $50,000.
Chan, T. Improving Medical Home and Primary Care Access to the Community Clinics Through the ED (IMPACT-ED). Funded by the Alliance Healthcare Foundation, 2006-7. Alliance Grant #06-3114. Amount: $25,000.
Guss, D. C1 Inhibitor in Hereditary Angioedema. 2006-2008. Amount: $105,967.
Killeen, J. "Improving Medical Home and Primary Care Access to the Community Clinics Through the Emergency Department (IMPACT ED)". AllianceHealthcare Grant, 2006 – present. Amount: $25,000.
Chan, T. Emergency Department National Alcohol Screening Day, Alcohol Education Project, funded by NIH, grant #1 R03 AA015120-01. 2005. Amount: $25,000.
Guss, D. REDHOT, Phase II. Funded by Biosite Diagnostic. 2004-2007. $46,400.
Jacoby, I. "Hospital Bed Surge Capacity Training Program for Hospitals in San Diego County". County of San Diego Dept of Health and Human Services, Division of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Medical Response. 2004 – Present. Amount: $45,000.
Snyder, B. "National Emergency Department Safety Study (study examining Emergency department patient safety issues through staff surveys and chart reviews)". AHRQ. 2004 - 2006. Amount - $3,600.
Guluma, K. "Clinical trial of the safety and feasibility of induced therapeutic hypothermia with thrombolytic therapy in the setting of acute stroke". University of California, San Diego. 2003 – Present. (NIH P50N5044148).
Guluma, K. "Acute thrombomodulatory effects of neurotrophic growth factors in acute stroke". University of California San Diego. 2003 – Present. (NIH 5-K12-AG000975-05).
Killeen, J. "Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters". National Institute of Health in junction with University of California. 2003 – 2006. Amount: $4.1 million.
Jacoby, I. "Hospital Bed Surge Capacity in San Diego County". Awarded June 2003 to County of San Diego, Dept of Health and Human Services, Division of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Medical Response. 2003 – Present. Amount: $51,150.
Ly B, Co-Investigator, "GHB Abuse: Motivations, Risk Factors and Medical Consequences" - California Poison Control System - Funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 7/03-3/07 Amount: $27,589.
Snyder, B. Site Principal Investigator for the IMPAACT – Translating Research into Practice Study. An AHRQ funded, multiyear, multicenter study examining antibiotic prescribing, patient education and the use of C-reactive protein in upper respiratory infections. 11/03-7/07. Amount: $60,000.
Ly B, UCSD Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant, from 2/01-3/02. Amount: $10,000.
Guluma, K. "An assessment of cortical spreading depression and its cerebral metabolic effects following experimental traumatic brain injury". University of Michigan. 1999 – 2001.


A content management system is a type of software that a website can run on. It's what allows you to add pages to your site without having to manually code them from scratch.
As with any software, there's lots of different types of CMS. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. Some of them are pretty much unusable to the point that it would just be easier to code things from scratch yourself.
But when they're done right, they're great – a good CMS gives you everything you need to manage and update your digital presence on a daily basis, reducing your reliance on agencies and developers to make every single change for you.
User experience is an essential part of web design and development, but it typically focuses purely on the experience that your customers are having when they use their website. Ensuring they have a good time is obviously what's important.
But some web developers can lose sight of the fact that their client is a user too – in fact, they'll be spending more time with their site than anyone else.
As a business owner or marketing manager responsible for keeping your company's website updated, your user experience is vastly different to someone who only ever looks at the front end.
A good content management system should be giving you the best possible experience while using and managing your own site. How does that experience leave you feeling?
Does it take too long to make changes to your website?
Let's say you want to make a change to your site. Something like adding a new product, or taking off a service you don't provide anymore, or updating everyone's staff photos because they're all sick of them. Or maybe it's something even simpler, like adding a blog – essential for keeping up with your digital marketing plans.
Bit of a worst-case scenario, obviously. But this is an unfortunate reality for users of older sites that either don't have a CMS, or have one that requires more than a little bit of technical knowledge to wrangle effectively, so I'm sure it'll sound familiar to some readers.
…and that's actually it. Sounds good, right?
So, what's the best web content management system out there? Our consensus as an agency should be pretty obvious from the header above – it's WordPress.
Many developers will still have a bit of a gripe about WordPress and CMS systems like it – and to be fair, there are some downsides. For example, you'll need to keep up with software updates to prevent security vulnerabilities – though we provide this as a service for our support clients.
One of the main arguments is probably that it restricts the developer a little bit too much – in order to be efficient, a CMS requires templates and frameworks that ensure consistency and easy of use. It can be difficult to just stick in an extra custom-coded feature wherever you want.
But this point of view is a little bit selfish – it considers the preferences of the developer over the needs of the people paying them to build the website in the first place. When you do actually put the needs to the client first, WordPress is perfect.
When I joined Splitpixel the dev team were still largely custom coding from scratch, and it took some persuading for me to bring them round to WordPress, but now we use it exclusively (the occasional ecommerce site or marketing automation-driven HubSpot site aside). We're WordPress developers, and proud!
After all, there's a reason why it powers about 32% of the internet (and 59% of all websites that use a CMS) – miles ahead of less-practical platforms like Joomla and Drupal. It's easy to use, it looks nice, and it works very nicely out of the box.
But an out-of-the-box WordPress platform will only take you so far – we typically go to great lengths to customise the way things work behind the scenes, so almost every aspect of the site is as customisable and easy to update as you need it to be, giving you much more control over how you can add content to your site.
I mentioned templates above, and these are a key feature of just about website CMS. They set out a page layout that users of the CMS fill out in the back end. Text goes here, image goes here, simple.
It's fine for simple websites, or at least it used to be. Things are changing and getting more complex – websites need loads more features, and loads more flexibility, to provide the best-possible user experience to website visitors, and to give website managers the freedom they need.
For example, we were increasingly running into problems with templates. Clients would ask for a page to do something slightly different – say, for example, they would ask that a page looks 90% the same, but has a change to what's featured in a sidebar menu. Seems simple, but actually requires a whole new template to be built. Clients couldn't do this themselves, taking power away from them, and using up their retainer's studio hours.
More recently, we've started to develop sites in a much more flexible way, creating a customisable pagebuilder for our clients to use.
We design and build a broad range of customisable website modules that can be selected, repeated or removed from your page layouts altogether, filled in with your content, and then dragged and dropped to where you'd like them to appear on a page.
Every single page can have a different layout if you need it do – all while maintaining a consistent look and feel.
It really does give you complete control over how you put together your pages. And if you need an extra feature, an extra module can be added with ease, and then included on existing pages. If we used templates for this, you'd have to rebuild the page from scratch in the new template.
We've had some great feedback from clients on this approach, some of whom have described it as a genuine "gamechanger" for the way they manage their website on a day-to-day basis. If you'd like to find out more about how it works, then don't hesitate to get in touch.


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The cosmopolitan vision of Bayria Eyewear
Maxi and multi-faceted volumes, décor engravings and three-dimensional geometries in the cosmopolitan vision of Bayria Eyewear.
The new collection of the brand enhances the materiality and shapes, made sophisticated by total black and neutral and timeless shades
The new Bayria Eyewear collection is an ode to style.
The new frames, characterized by immediately recognizable but versatile shapes, are objects to be desired, which go beyond mere utility. They are a statement accessory, the piece that gives character and personality to an outfit.
The new collection underlines the brand's mission: to make eyewear a real object of non-verbal communication, a vehicle of expression. Elegant accessories that revisit Hollywood shapes with originality, focusing on the future and multiculturalism.
Graceful and playful, or with a thick frame full of character, the new Bayria Eyewear series is a mix of pop and bold influences, in which we see the timeless cat eye and the round ones, combined with extravagant triangular lenses, up to maxi square frames and flared butterfly shapes. The Bayria Eyewear series has a structure in 80% virgin Mazzucchelli 1849 cellulose acetate, and multilayer processing.
What characterizes each collection of the company is the design applied to aesthetics, through unique and highly recognizable details.
In fact, some models have hand-made engravings on the front that act as a ton sur ton decoration; others, on the other hand, hide a multicolored rod, made up of three different overlapping acetate plates. The material itself is a decoration for Bayria Eyewear: the frames, through 3D processes that simulate a diamond effect, enhance a delicate game of trompe l'oeil in which the lens appears to be set in the front.
Also in this collection the brand mixes the mix between avant-garde and tradition that characterizes the city of Bari, Puglia, this time paying homage to the elegant lines of the buildings of power that rise on the waterfront, architectural examples of Italian rationalism, with a rigorous and linear geometry that, for how clearly modern is flanked by elements of classical art, symmetrical and purely decorative.
A dichotomy that we find in the Bayria Eyewear series of glasses; in which the geometries and material effects define the shapes, made graceful by the expressive use of the workmanship and decorations.
For Bayria Eyewear, design and fashion are a universe to draw from to look to the future, but following the dictates of elegance and quality.
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Press Sec. McEnany Slaps The Leftist Out of Obstructionist Media, Lists All Their Dirty Laundry
November. 20. 2020
Some people, even if they're told the truth about themselves, just don't want to see the reality smacking them in the face. The left, who never accepts blame for anything and piles all of their faults on others, were given a laundry list of their own actions over the last five years on Friday in the White House's first press briefing since October 1.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany gave the left what for during the question-and-answer portion of a noticeably short presser. McEnany went into detail of the hypocrisy of the left and the radical media on the subject of their push to get President Donald Trump to transition his power to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
"We talked a lot about transfer of power in the election and it's worth remembering that this president was never given an orderly transition of power," McEnany told the press. "His presidency was never accepted."
McEnany continued after a member of the press heckled her comment above and transitioned into the list of actions taken against Trump during the transition of power to his administration in 2016 and in the years since.
(Writer's note: For McEnany's comments, check out the transcript at the bottom of the article.)
At the end of the briefing, a member of the media heckled McEnany.
"Do you understand the definition of sedition!" Playboy magazine's White House correspondent and "activist" Brian Karem said. "Do you understand that he lost?!"
McEnany shifted back to the podium and promptly put the man in his place.
"I don't call on activists," McEnany responded before leaving.
NOW: question: "Do you understand what the definition of sedition is?" Also followed it with another question about admitting that they lost. Response... pic.twitter.com/b2hQtTBlH1
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 20, 2020
Some blue checkmarks on Twitter are claiming that McEnany's "activist" comment was directed towards CNN's Kaitlin Collins.
Here's video of McEnany's comments:
For a transcript of McEnany's comments, read below:
We know Crossfire Hurricane by [former FBI agent] Peter Strzok to pursue a baseless allegations about the president's ties with Russia. That's before he was president, trying to subvert the will of the American people.
We know in August, Peter Strzok wrote a text message about an insurance policy against a Trump presidency, once again trying to silence the voice of the American people. In 2016, we know in October that there was a FISA warrant, a FISA warrant taken out to spy on the Trump campaign. And then the American people spoke, and they spoke commandingly in electing President Trump despite all of the odds.
And what happened after he was elected? You had 70 lawmakers say, 'we're not coming to his inauguration" — Democratic lawmakers. You had [Massachusetts Democrat Sen.] Elizabeth Warren saying, 'We're going to attempt to obstruct the Trump transition by urging the Government Accountability Office to investigate the incoming Trump transition.
In January of that year you had President [Barack] Obama have a "by the book meeting," where they talked about the Logan Act, using that Act to go after Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Just before the election, you had BuzzFeed publishing and promoting this bogus Steele dossier that's been widely debunked.
And then for two years, you had the baseless Mueller investigation, which searched for collusion, found none and exonerated President Trump.
While in 2016, President Trump became the duly-elected president, many sought to undermine him, discredit him, delegitimize him and deny his victory. There were no calls for unity. There were no calls for healing.
So while every legal vote is counted, let us not forget the inexcusable transition, or lack thereof, that President Trump had to endure in 2016 and four years into his presidency. Thank you everyone for the very good and substantive questions today.
White House Press Briefing
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
Peter Strzok
Crossfire Hurricane


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The Reason Why
Yiyun Li
Adelaide High School Library, 1947. Courtesy History Trust of South Australia
Why are the parents of these children never around? I asked my writing class during the discussion of a story in which a set of teenagers seemed to live in a dome established entirely for their adolescent existence. The characters, homogenous in their demeanor and desire, reminded me of those mice I used to conduct research on in a science lab: they arrived, six in a cage, and were sacrificed at exactly eight weeks old. "Sacrifice" is a misnomer; there was little to be called sacred in their lives.
A student said, Professor, you must understand that, at our age, parents don't exist for our characters.
I laughed. He was right, in a way. A while ago, when my family checked into a flat at the center of Edinburgh, my elder son said, If only I were here with my friends, not you guys.
Excuse me, I said.
Would you rather holiday with your friends or with grandma? he said.
Touché, I said.
It was the last summer we traveled together. Unlike on our previous trips, he took many selfies with me. Aren't you happy that I'm not as mean to you as a year ago, he said several times. Earlier that summer his best friend had said that she'd found him changed. They were in Tibet then, lying next to a river and looking at the stars. She said I was more settled, he told me. The way he described the moment made me believe that they would both remember it forever.
At the end of the summer, he turned sixteen and then died.
Do you know, in New Zealand, two friends killed the mother of one of them? Someone made a movie out of it.
It was thirty years ago when Xian told me about the girls in New Zealand. We were fifteen then, in a world that seemed complete without adults; occasionally we allowed other classmates into our world, but they were only guests, and we were not often hospitable.
Yes? I said. I didn't know where the conversation was leading us. I rarely did in those days.
Xian said that there was something ominous about those two girls. You know, we could easily be them.
I was shocked, but I took it as one of those shocking statements Xian liked to make. (Have you ever wondered what to do if someone raped you? We would have to pretend it's only a bad experience with a wrong boyfriend.)
We were not murderers. Xian didn't take anything seriously enough to want to eliminate anyone. I was a model student, with pleasing qualities that other parents wished their children possessed.
Years later, I listened to a radio program. Two teenage girls played truant one day, took a walk out of their Midwest town, and eventually lay down on a train track. After a long conversation they fell asleep, only to wake up to the rest of their lives: a train ran over them, and four legs were lost between the two girls.
I shivered when I listened to the girls on the program. They said they had not intended to do anything, though not many people would believe them. They had only been talking, and then dozed off. One girl said, No one will ever understand us as we understand each other.
That, I realized, was Xian's fear—that we had marked ourselves in a way beyond the insipid words of hate or love, affection or loyalty. Such a thing can happen during adolescence, and like sleep, it takes hostage of one's consciousness before one is aware, and if one wakes up again—as one is bound to—something is missing. Irretrievably and irreplaceably: that's what forever is.
Why are you not writing? For many years Xian had asked me, starting when we were fifteen.
Her questions were baffling, as I had never wanted to be a writer. What should I write about? I would ask. Anything, she would reply, and once, she said, Cannibals.
Why cannibals? I asked.
Because I read a story about cannibals in a magazine. Some tribe roasting and feasting on another tribe. It's fiction but not well written. I thought you could do better than that.
I did not ask her where she read the cannibal story. It would be like asking her where she had heard about the murderesses in New Zealand. This was long before internet—this was when neither of us even had access to the high school library. How did she learn so much about the world? I do not remember if it baffled me. I was malleable then, but not curious.
The high school library would soon open its door to us—to me, to be precise. For the first year of high school, I had worked studiously; with perfect scores, I was one of the few chosen students to be granted the privilege of using the library. Others would only be allowed into the reading room, where most books were academically oriented. I had toiled through several of the mathematics and physics books, the best among them written by the Soviets and the Romanians.
I was in a hurry to become an adult. To be old as soon as possible, so I could stop being young.
Xian read the card catalogue, and I walked between the shelves with stacks of borrowing requests. In this way we had found the writers we would read together: Romain Rolland, Albert Camus, Françoise Sagan, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. There were long afternoons on Saturdays when we took turns to read aloud chapters from The Tale of Genji to each other, and then Tender Is the Night, The Garden of Eden. The last had converted us into dedicated readers of Hemingway, and we read The Nick Adams Stories, The Old Man and the Sea, and other Hemingway novels. Our favorite story was called "The Last Good Country." When I say our favorite, I mean Xian's favorite. I did not often have opinions then.
Then we discovered D. H. Lawrence. Sometimes we read side by side, sometimes to each other: Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Rainbow. At an age when everything feels permeable, one friend's obsession easily becomes another's. And obsession can lead even a malleable person to strong opinions. For a while we argued about two Lawrence stories, pitching them against each other as two gladiators, as though in our world only one of them should be allowed to exist.
The two stories: my choice was "The Princess," Xian's, "The Fox." In each story a character is killed: a man who seems to have every right to live but is shot dead after he is thought to have abducted and raped the Princess; a woman whose death is wished for by another character—a man who is in love with her best friend—and is made to happen by the story. Xian did not like the dramatic change of the Princess after a mere sexual encounter with the man. The Princess asked him to make love to her and then decided that she did not like it, Xian said; she did not have to like it, but there was no need for her to pretend that her entire being was shattered. I opposed the perfunctory death of the woman, which does not turn her from an essential character into an extraneous one: death is but only a convenient solution.
Lawrence was the first writer who made life make sense to us. Or, a more precise way to say it is this: Lawrence admitted us into a world more extraordinary than our sensible one. We were living, I now know, in a puritan society then. But Lawrence gave us tortuous riddles and distorting rituals, men and women that we wanted to be our own makings. In possessing us, he granted us possessions: unexperienced desires and wonderments, unwarranted griefs and disillusions.
WHY ARE YOU NOT WRITING? Xian still asked me in high school and, later, when we were in college.
What should I write about?
Strange people, weird happenings, she said. A fox with a pair of wings. A sun frozen in midair. Anything you can make up.
I don't want to write, I said. Why don't you yourself write?
I'm not disciplined, she said. That's why.
I WOULD NOT CALL MYSELF DISCIPLINED. I was only malleable, and for the longest time I considered that a reliable strength of mine. Malleability would never make an interesting person, but it did give me an achievable goal: I wanted a life as solid as a Chekhov story. I didn't mind being called conventional. Or stolid. Or nondescript. A disciple of Chekhov thinks little of those adjectives.
It made me proud, even, to think of myself being as beguiling as a Chekhovian character.
And then, imagine this: one day that character wakes up and finds herself in a Shakespeare play.
O, the horror of being in the wrong story. Ask Constance. Ask Lear. Ask me.
THE GIRLS IN NEW ZEALAND would do well in a Lawrence story or a Shakespeare play. The girls who lost their legs, too. Xian and I—or who we once were—could have become one of those pairs. What saved, or diverted, us? She had thought if one of us could become a writer, the extraordinary would be corralled into stories; I had thought that if I rushed into an ordinary life, I would be free.
After I gave birth to my elder son, Xian called. In no time you'll make yourself into a perfect suburban housewife and mother, she said.
I don't see why that is a problem, I said.
You could've chosen differently.
Like what? I said.
Like writing, she said. Where were the ambition and the wildness we once shared?
I didn't know if I was ever ambitious. I was not wild. Or even young. I was in a hurry to become an adult. To be old as soon as possible, so I could stop being young.
Domesticated, Xian had said of me in that phone call. After that we faded from each other's life.
A FEW MONTHS BEFORE MY ELDER SON'S DEATH, Xian had called me out of the blue. So, you've become a writer, she said.
No offense, but I haven't read any of your books, she said.
I said that I didn't imagine she would like what I wrote.
In fact, I don't read fiction anymore, she said.
The statement, more tragic than all Shakespearean tragedies combined, shook me. What do you read? I asked.
Not much, she said. Reading requires discipline, and you know I'm not disciplined.
MY ELDER SON AND HIS BEST FRIEND next to the Tibetan river: they were young then. I was your age once—this was one of the last things I said to him. Yet that didn't save him. I spent my youth hurrying into adulthood. Unlike me, he would have taken his time to become a Chekhovian character, if at all. Before that he would have all the Shakespearean passions to live through, and many, in Shakespeare's plays, do not flinch when they take their own lives.
Nothing is more fatal than being young. Not all survive, but those who do, they wake up and find something missing, irretrievably and irreplaceably. They then earn that word—forever—which even the most brilliant young minds misunderstand.
WHY ARE YOU NOT WRITING, Xian asked. But perhaps what she said, all those years ago, was this: you will, one day, because I have said so, and that's why.
Yiyun Li is the author of seven books, including Must I Go. Her books have won awards including PEN/Jean Stein, PEN/Hemingway, and many others. She teaches at Princeton University.
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Roofers' workload up significantly after hail storm
It's recommended that homeowner check with BBB before hiring company
By Caitlin Randle, MRT.com/Midland Reporter-Telegram
Published 6:15 pm CDT, Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Roofing crews repair roofs around Midland 05/15/19 like these on a home on Fannin Ave. Tim Fischer/Reporter-Telegram
After last month's hail storm – which caused more than $200 million in damages, according to a previous Reporter-Telegram article – local roofers say they're overwhelmed with work.
Charlie Grimes of Raintree Roofing, who normally averages two roofs a month, said he was working on three roofs on Tuesday.
Grimes estimated his company would make about $5 million this year because of the storm, which he said was the largest he's experienced in 10 years.
RELATED: Insurance agent: Be 'leery' of hail 'pop-up' shops
Dan Nicholas, owner of Roofs by Nicholas, said his business is working on about 400 estimates currently and is receiving "100 calls a day" from people inquiring about their services.
He advised those looking to get their roofs fixed to do their research before hiring a company.
"Check with the Better Business Bureau," Nicholas said. "Make sure they're out of Midland and make sure they've been here a long time."
Grimes echoed this statement.
"Slow down and use a local roofing company," he said, adding that he keeps seeing signs all over town from companies he's never heard of.
Nicholas said after the last major hail storm in 2009, his company had to repair roofs that were already worked on by out-of-town companies, forcing customers to pay for the work twice.
He said customers should be cautious of companies with temporary addresses ending with a post office box.
RELATED: Losses from hail storm is raised to $200 million
"If you get a company from out of town … if the storm's gone, the roofer's gone, too," Nicholas said.
The Midland Office of Code Enforcement provided guidelines for residents looking for a roofing company:
Use contractors that are registered and bonded with the city of Midland.
Have the contractor provide proof of general liability insurance.
Permits are not required unless structural work or major sheathing/decking replacement is required.
Glass skylights should have laminated glass on the lowest layer when repaired.
Code Enforcement also provided guidelines for recovering a roof:
Recovering is allowed when there are less than two layers of roofing already installed and the existing layers are not water-soaked or deteriorated to the point of being inadequate as a base.
If there are more than two layers of roofing, the existing roof must be removed to the deck before the new roof is installed.
The deck is required to have an underlayment installed before the new shingles are installed.


The 3-star Karebosi Condotel offers comfort and convenience whether you're on business or holiday in Makassar. The hotel has everything you need for a comfortable stay. 24-hour room service, free Wi-Fi in all rooms, 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, Wi-Fi in public areas are just some of the facilities on offer. Some of the well-appointed guestrooms feature television LCD/plasma screen, internet access – wireless (complimentary), non smoking rooms, air conditioning, wake-up service. Take a break from a long day and make use of fitness center, sauna, outdoor pool, spa, massage. For reliable service and professional staff, Karebosi Condotel caters to your needs.
Very good hotel. Close to parking areas. Great rooms and fantastic service.
Beautiful view. Comfortable room. Good view.
Nice staff. Excelent service. Great service.
Best location. Parking area free. Great location.
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Yesterday I purchased a new 8GB Secure Digital card (only $21!) in order to free up my current 2GB SD card used in my Vista laptop for use in my new(ish) Canon SD1100 IS.
Curious as to what allocation unit size to choose when formatting for optimal Ready Boost, I read a number of blogs, The Vista Forums, Tom Archer's Blog, Notebook Review Forum and more. But as I browsed, I didn't seem to get the answer I was looking for, so I just experimented.
Most of the articles say to format the card as FAT, but I need encryption on the card to store backup data, so NTFS was needed. After the first formatting at the default size, 4096 bytes, it showed as unusable for Ready Boost. After a couple of tries, I found the winning size was the largest size, 64 kilobyte, which allowed Ready Boost to work and give me the encryption I require. If I get bored, maybe I'll try other allocation unit sizes and do a comparison; okay it'll never happen, I'm never bored.


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Relish the wonderful atmosphere with fun things to do in Singapore with kids this summer vacation
With the clean, lush-green, and modern environment, Singapore is one of the most family-friendly destinations in Asia. With modern public transport coupled with buggy-friendly pavements to spacious areas makes traveling with kids a lot easier and simple. Singapore today has become the mecca capital for arts, culture, fashion, and other top-notch events and there are several things to do in Singapore and during your summer vacation here. You will never be short of places to visit in Singapore, as you will have plenty lined up on your plate. Starting from street vendors to high-end shopping malls to exotic beaches, deciding on what to do in Singapore can be a bit overwhelming considering the choices on your plate.
Popular for its incredible popular tourist attractions, romantic getaway spots, and exotic destinations. Singapore is an ideal place to visit with your family. In fact, Most of the places in Singapore were built keeping the young ones in mind, so Singapore has a lot to offer across all age groups. We have narrowed down some to Singapore points of interest which will act as your Singapore travel guide when you plan a trip to this wonderful holiday destination.
1.Ethnic Quarters of Singapore
Singapore's character is defined by three main ethnicities; Chinatown, Little India, and the Kampong Glam. While the furniture and antique shops in these three-quarters will warrant your attention. The colorful and traditional shop houses will catch the attention of your little ones. There is an extensive use of vibrant colors used in painting these shops. As you move down the streets of these three ethnic quarters, you will see ethnic wears and tons of spices running down in sacks. Be rest assured, your little ones would love the fragrance of the same. Apart from these, there are plenty of top shops and other things where you can purchase something for younger one to fiddle with.
2.Night Safari in Singapore
Well, this is a completely new experience. The Night Safari in Singapore will surely be a hit among adults and kids alike. A tram ride through this park is something which you would have never seen before. Catch the wild animals unfettered and roaming in their natural habitats while you check them out. Travel through the savannah, rainforest, and jungle and explore and discover various exotic creatures. There are several endangered species that have been housed here who live by the night.
3.Sentosa Island
A hot-spot Singapore playground is dedicated to pleasure for all its tourists and visitors. Hop onto a cable car and enjoy spectacular panoramic views of the city, much better than catching a taxi and getting stuck in traffic jams. Sentosa offers a wide range of features which needs at least a couple of days for exploration. There are several family-friendly hotels and accommodations available. The water park is a perfect place to cool off and relax. You can indulge in the adventurous rides and slides. Some of the popular ones include the erupting volcano at Volcano Land. For the thrill seekers and the movie buffs, head straight to the Universal Studios Singapore.
4.Botanic Gardens
You will never be short of lush green environments, no wonder it has been named as the Garden city. There have been green spots in Singapore since 1859. Enjoy a cool breeze from the trees as you relax from the shackles of the city. There are plenty of trees, plants, and flowers to match your exploration powers. You can even shortlist a picnic spot on one of the lawns. Apart from this, you can feed the fish in the nearby ponds. A relaxing atmosphere fit for a perfect family-friendly lunch or evening.
5.Visit the Rainforest Kidz World at the Singapore Zoo
There are several species of animals that are housed in the Singapore Zoo – all captivated in their natural habitats. The Zoo has a dedicated spot for the younger ones where they can splash around in the water slides. You can meanwhile relax or sunbathe from the sidelines as your kids explore the water. Your kids can also spend some time with the farmyard animals and indulge in a rainforest challenge, something which is informational and endless fun. For a fun-loving activity, enjoy a pet animal show showcasing various tricks and trades. For a more thrilling experience, head with your younger ones for a breakfast with the orangutans. Yes! You heard it right, these fun-loving creatures will surely fall in love with them and inspire the younger generation to learn about nature.
6.Battle Box
Nine meters beneath Fort Canning Hill are the bunkers that were built during the battle of Singapore in World War II. A guided tour is arranged which allows you to explore and get a deeper insight about these 26 bomb-proof rooms. Although these have undergone restoration several times in the past, they still carry the charm and authenticity of the past. With animations and audio-visual effects, you will go back the time machine to the fateful days when Singapore surrendered to Japan.
Your family will be over the moon and surely love the holiday in Singapore with the myriad of activities to indulge in starting from theme parks to memorable water rides to awe-inspiring nature outings. With most of the activities in Singapore are both children as well as adult-friendly, so you will never have to leave your young ones to have a good time here in Singapore. Get in touch with our experts to know how you can make this trip a truly memorable one.
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The last time this home sold it sold in less than a week.Highly sought after subdivision with full amenities. Mr Clean lives here. Enter this gorgeous two story foyer with grand vaulted ceilings in family, kitchen and dining room.Open floor plan with unique loft area overlooking family room.A real 5 bedroom home with a seperate full bedroom and full bath on the upper level with its own adorable loft. Granite kitchen with tons of cabinet space, all appliances come with this home including the fridge, washer and dryer.Home backs up to woods with refreshing creek view.


In the last several months, the Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado has made a push to expand its presence and earn greater recognition across the country. One of the ways PPIAC has done this is by being involved and partnering with other associations, whether they are other state associations, regional associations, national associations, or specialty / certification specific associations.
I recently returned from the National Council of Investigative and Security Services Conference which was held in Boston. PPIAC was represented by several PPIAC members, including past Presidents. There are many reasons why Colorado private investigators should consider attending national investigator association conferences and events. With NCISS, for example, you have an organization which provides an effective voice on federal legislative issues. Also, by attending these events, you can network with investigators across the country. These are just two of the many reasons for being members of and attending events such as what NCISS offers. For more information on NCISS, please visit http://www.nciss.org .
I have often heard of local, small investigator agencies wonder how they can possibly be competitive against national investigative agencies which have investigators available in most if not every state in the US. Being a part of investigator associations, some of which have a national presence, provides an answer to this dilemma. By forming networks with investigators in other states, local investigators can expand their reach. You no longer have to wonder how you can pull a record from a court in California if you have an investigator in that region you can turn to. Better yet, if you get to know the board members of the state associations, CALI being the example of California, you are able to expand your reach to cover literally every city and county of California for which you might ever need to fulfill an investigative request.
Last but not least, the PPIAC annual conference is just one month away! Please get your payments sooner than later in if you plan to attend the conference. By doing so, the conference committee can better plan for the total number of attendees. For the latest information on the conference, go to http://ppiac.org/training/private-investigator-conference-colorado-springs . New this year is the Private Investigator Core Curriculum which will be held on October 17th, one day before the start of the conference. This unique program is free to attend but an RSVP is required. Details are on the conference web page. Thanks for your continued support of Colorado's professional private investigator association!


Just four events later, Andrew would go on to win the 50m breaststroke in 27.41, upping his 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series win total to nine. While he's the winningest swimmer of the TYR Pro Swim Series this year, this is the first time in three attempts that he's claimed the 50m breaststroke title. Andrew has now earned at least one 50m title in all four swims in 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series competition.


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Q: Try Catch loop not intercept exception I'm implementing a windows service that synchronizes a SQL database and a DB2 database. To connect to the old DB2 database, I use a DLL.
I have a try catch cycle in which I write from the sql database to the db2.
No exception appears and the service closes automatically.
is it possible that the DLL does not generate any exception and automatically closes the service?
I use this code:
public bool InsertProcessToAS400(iDB2Connection cn, Order order)
{
    bool result = false;
    try
    {
        var code = GetCodeOfDdtConnected(cn, order.Code);
        iDB2Command cmd = cn.CreateCommand();

        cmd.CommandText = $"INSERT INTO PCM00F " +
                          $"(Code)" +
                          $"VALUES(@P1)";

        var p = new iDB2Parameter("@P1", iDB2DbType.iDB2VarChar);
        p.Value = code; cmd.Parameters.Add(p);

        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();   // <- This close the service

        result = true;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        log.Error("An error occurred while Synchronizer (INSERT): ", ex);
        result = false;
    }
    finally
    {
        cmd.Dispose(); cmd = null;
    }

    return result;
}

Is it possible that it closes because the query input parameter is wrong? How can I intercept an external dll error if an exception is not triggered?
thanks a lot

A: I solved it with this code:
public bool InsertProcessToAS400(iDB2Connection cn, Order order)
{
      bool result = false;
      try
      {
          DB2Transaction myTrans;
          var code = GetCodeOfDdtConnected(cn, order.Code);
          iDB2Command cmd = cn.CreateCommand();
          // Start a local transaction
          myTrans = cn.BeginTransaction();
          // Assign transaction object for a pending local transaction
          cmd.Transaction = myTrans;

          cmd.CommandText =$"INSERT INTO PCM00F " +
          $"(Code)" +
          $"VALUES(@P1)";

          var p = new iDB2Parameter("@P1", iDB2DbType.iDB2VarChar);
          p.Value = code; cmd.Parameters.Add(p);

          cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
          myTrans.Commit();
          result = true;
       }
       catch (Exception ex)
       {
           myTrans.Rollback();
           log.Error("An error occurred while Synchronizer (INSERT): ", ex);
           result = false;
       }
       finally
       {
           cmd.Dispose(); cmd = null;
       }

       return result;
}

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Thank you Robin for hosting another awesome party!
Thank you so much for hosting, Robin…..
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Thanks for hosting the party and have a nice week Robin!
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My kids are spending hours a day online. What do you mean they're not digitally literate?!
Results from the latest national assessment round of ICT skills (information and communication technology) show that being a whiz on SnapChat and Instagram won't prepare kids to face a digital future.


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Features / Lifestyle
The Dating Kitchen 2: For Love or Money ?
by Singersroom July 15, 2009
The prospect of landing a financially stable date versus finding true love has been debated for decades. On one hand "love" has always been thought to be the number one priority while, money and the question "what can he or she do for me?" is now, more than ever, considered a valid argument.
Even with trying economic times, is it really acceptable to dump a man or woman because he/she has become financially strapped ?
Yes, everyone from Destiny's Child ("Bills, Bills, Bills") and TLC ("No Scrubs") to Jennifer Lopez ("Love Don't Cost A Thing") and The-Dream have entertained us with the Love Vs. Money argument but, what happens when the one you are "with" instead of the one "you love" starts loosing the extra zeros?
I will never forget an unidentified woman who called into a radio station earlier this year stating "He's got to go. I have kids to feed and I can't support an unemployed man" during a discussion about the recession and its effect on dating. While its unclear if the man, who she had been dating for a few weeks prior to him loosing his job, bounced back. It's safe to say this special woman moved on to the next man with a few coins and dollars to spend on her and the kids.
In 'The Vixen Manual,' New York Times Best Selling author Karrine Steffans says "Never date or marry for money. It will never buy you love and honor."
While Steffans, previously dubbed a 'Video Vixen' due to taking part in numerous Hip Hop music videos, has raised eyebrows and drawn criticism over the years for her tell all book 'Confessions of a Video Vixen,' she likens the advice to personal experience.
"While being a kept woman may sound like fun, I can tell you from personal experience that it very rarely is," says Steffans.
Nonetheless, in flipping back to that radio caller, I wonder what will happen if said "unemployed man" opens his own business and earns six figures in two years… how will she feel then ?
Of course there will forever be multiple angles, sides and ideals when you add money and love to the mix in the complex world of dating.
How do you feel about love and money… Would you drop a date, like the aforementioned woman, if he lost his job or vice versa ?
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Cars we're thankful we drove in 2019
Autoblog's editors drove a lot of cars this year. Here are the ones we're most thankful for
Autoblog Staff
Nov 28th 2019 at 8:00AM
We drove a lot of cars in 2019, and there's still a month to go. We drove them in our home office in Michigan, at our remote offices in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Columbus, Ohio, and throughout the globe on myriad press launches. We could count them, but hey, that seems boastful.
Instead, we want to be thankful. Not only for the opportunity to do this wonderful task some might describe as a "job," but for the new, shiny cars that brighten our days (and most hopefully yours). We asked our fellow editors which car they were most thankful to drive in 2019 ... here are our answers.
2019 Hyundai Veloster N Performance
Senior Editor Alex Kierstein
Every once in a while a car comes along that changes the narrative on a company or its segment, and everyone scrambles to experience it for themselves. This year, for me, that car's the Veloster N Performance, perhaps the most transformative car the company's ever built. Everyone who's driven it, here and elsewhere, says it captures all those intangibles that make great driving hatchbacks great. And I'm thankful that I got a go in it before all of them left the fleet, because it does. It upends the segment long dominated by the GTI, a car that nails its brief. The N is rowdy and loud, sure, but it also has some of the most deftly tuned suspension I've come across in a front driver. My advice: if you're in the market for something fun and unique, go test drive a Veloster N. I think you'll be thankful you did.
2019 Hyundai Veloster N
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2019 Audi E-Tron
Senior Editor, Green, John Beltz Snyder
I'm pleased that I got to drive the Audi E-Tron. That's high praise for a year in which I also drove the stellar Jaguar I-Pace. The E-Tron, while not as sporty as the Jaguar, is excellently executed, and feels like a more refined, polished offering. It's quick, whisper-quiet, comfortable, stylish inside and out, and incredibly sturdy. Some may lament that it doesn't do much to stand out from ICE vehicles, but I don't think it needs to. What it does need to do is win over the electro-skeptical, and I think Audi put its best foot forward with a crossover that can do just that, and more. So, yeah, not only am I thankful that I got to drive it, I'm glad that it's compelling enough that it'll hopefully make potential customers feel the same.
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West Coast Editor James Riswick
My choice totally sucks. It is (and possibly was) a six-year-old rental car in the Azores with 106,000 miles on it. Its interior was peeling away, the T in Peugeot was missing and there was a tiny spider living in the passenger door handle. Even when new, a base-level 508 with a rinky-dink diesel engine wasn't exactly a gem. But you know what? That's the car I'm most thankful for in 2019. Not the LC 500, Porsche 718 Spyder or Polestar 1. Its unique crapiness made my traveling adventure that much better. It enhanced the journey rather than simply being there for transport. And isn't that exactly why we love cars in the first place? Merci ma Peugeot.
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Assistant Editor Zac Palmer
Plenty of fast, new metal passes through the Autoblog fleet every year, but driving the 2020 Toyota Supra was my highlight of 2019. The buildup may have been long and tiresome over the past few years, but that didn't dampen my spirits one iota after seeing the Renaissance Red two-door in our parking lot. We're all car geeks around here, and even though it was about a month ago, spending a few days with the brand-new Supra so soon after it launched is something I'm still geeking out about. To this day, I still haven't seen another new Supra on the roads here in Detroit. Driving one when I did and being able to spill my thoughts about this car to all of our readers is something I'm incredibly thankful for this year. Setting aside the whole BMW controversy, what Toyota ended up with is a superbly capable and comfortable everyday sports car that I'd never tire of looking at. If I could only have one car and bore no responsibility to carry other folks around, the Supra would be high on my list. Only the GT350R I drove on track earlier this year would surpass it, but that car is significantly more expensive than the Supra.
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Managing Editor Greg Rasa
On this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful to have been in this blue BMW M340i. Not because it was a nostalgia trip, a modern version of a BMW 3 Series I owned long, long ago. Not because it's the hottest 3 Series you can get that isn't a full-fat M3. Not for its twin-turbo inline-six with 382 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque, and the growl that accompanies it. I'm thankful for its four-piston M Sport brakes.
I was driving along at 40 mph on the inside lane of a Seattle arterial, with my daughter in the car, when two teenagers in a lifted Ram decided to swerve wildly from the right lane over to a left-turn lane, directly off my bow. They should have seen us — and in Sport mode they could even have heard us — but they didn't, or didn't care. I stood the BMW on its nose and kept us and a beautiful press car safe. If we had been in a lesser vehicle, the outcome could have been worse. Let us give thanks for outstanding brakes.
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Consumer Editor Jeremy Korzeniewski
I drove a handful of truly interesting and noteworthy cars over the course of 2019. I considered the Jeep Gladiator along with the McLaren 600 LT Spider and 720S Spider. I could have picked any of those three and been happy with the choice. But instead of gushing about one of those glorious supercars — and let's be clear, they are both wonderful and perfectly aimed at their intended targets — I'm going to be pragmatic and heap some praise on something much more mundane: the 2019 Mazda3.
The example I tested was an all-wheel-drive sedan in white, and the worst thing I could think to say about it is that I wish the back seat was a little roomier. I'd probably choose the hatchback variant in a more interesting color if I were buying one for myself, like the bright red example just below, but either way the Mazda3 is brilliant. Everything from the handling to the horsepower is just right, and I think we can all be grateful that all of its inherent goodness is available for less than the average cost of a new car in America.
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We had such a great time last week at Adopt-a-Block. The marriage ministry group came and joined us as we went into the blocks to do acts of kindness. They had a fairly large group with them and so as we went through the neighbourhood, we had a significant presence there. It has been awhile since we have had a large group join us as we have gone into the blocks. It felt good to be able to show the community that we care in such a significant way.
It makes such a difference when groups come out. If you are a part of a small group in the church, talk to your group and email me a day that you would like to come.
There is no group coming this weekend, and so if you have not come out for a while, come out this week. Why not even bring a friend of family member with you? Who knows what God will do this week?


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Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en Somalia.

Referencias

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Check out our Empirical Brewery Rare Beer Tapping for Chicago Craft Beer Week!
There will be a meet and greet with the brewer from Empirical, Nevin McCown.
We will be featuring 2-3 beers of theirs on tap including a special barrel-aged Porter!
Tappings are at 5pm, and you can mingle with us and your fellow beer fans all evening. More details coming soon!


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Q: Merging javascript objects into HTML table I have two javascript objects, the contents of which came from these two HTML tables.

Each pre-merge table now has it's own object. The object is structured as follows:

The first array element within the object contains the column headers from the pre-merge tables, and the array elements following that contain the
 data from each table.
Is it possible to merge these two objects together to produce one HTML table? As you can see the in the pre-merge tables the x-value is shared between both, meaning it is common between the two objects too. I thought there may be a way of comparing these values, and then populating the table, but I'm not sure how.
I would like the merged table to look like the following:
x-value: common dates shared between objects
columns: data from each of the pre-merge tables with their headers

Here is my code (you can also see it on this CodePenHere):

$(document).ready(function(){
  gatherData();
  results();
});

function gatherData(){
  data = [];

  tables = $('.before').find('table');

  $(tables).each(function(index){
    table = [];

    var headers = $(this).find('tr:first');
    var headerText = [];
    headerText.push($(headers).find('td:nth-child(1)').text());
    headerText.push($(headers).find('td:nth-child(2)').text());
    table.push(headerText)
    $(this).find('tr').each(function(index){
      var rowContent = [];
      if (index != 0){
        $(this).find('td').each(function(index){
          rowContent.push($(this).text());
        })
      }
      table.push(rowContent)
    })

    data.push({table: table})
  });

  console.log(data)
}

function results(){
  var results = $('.after1').find('thead');

  $(results).append("" + data[0].table[0][0] + "	");

  for (i in data){
    $(results).append("" + data[i].table[0][1] + "	");
    var b = data[i].table.length;
    for (a = 2; a < b; a++){
      console.log(data[i].table[a][0] + " || " + data[i].table[a][1])
    }
  }
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Formatter.js

Before

        x-value
        Operational Planned

        09/11/2015
        0

        10/11/2015
        0

        11/11/2015
        66358

        12/11/2015
        65990

        13/11/2015
        55993

        14/11/2015
        0

        15/11/2015
        0

        x-value
        Something Else

        09/11/2015
        0

        10/11/2015
        0

        11/11/2015
        2552

        12/11/2015
        86234

        13/11/2015
        33623

        14/11/2015
        0

        15/11/2015
        0

After

A: As I understand your issue, you want to merge the tables by the key values in coloumn x-value.
Here is how I would do it:

*

*Collect data from each table into a dictionary with coloumn x-value as key

*Save values for each key as array.

The main part is collecting the data in the dictionary. Here is the part:
var table = {
  header: [],
  data: {}
};

$(this).find('tr').each(function(index) {
  // ignore first row
  if (index === 0) return true;

  // read all data for row
  var rowData = [];
  $(this).find('td').each(function() {
    var value = $(this).text();
    rowData.push(value);
  });

  // key value for dictionery
  var key = rowData[0];

  // add value to array in dictionary if existing or create array
  if(table.data[key]) {
    table.data[key].push(rowData[1]);
  } else {
    table.data[key] = [rowData[1]];
  }
});

By using a simple javascript object as a dictionary we create properties on the fly, just like a dictionary.
See the plunker for the full script. I've written comments on the different parts to make the functionality clear. Let me know if anything is unclear.
As a note on your code. You can use multiple arguments in the jQuery selector to make your selections simpler, so this (see note below)
tables = $('.before').find('table');

can become this:
tables = $('.before table');

Edit
As noted by Mark Schultheiss in the comments, the later, but shorter syntax for jQuery selectors can be slower than the first one on large DOMs. So use the extended syntax on large DOMs. I've updated the plunker to use the better performing syntax.


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The last thing we want is for the redevelopment of Pairc Ui Chaoimh to be delayed unnecessarily. But thankfully Minister Donohoe confirmed that this would receive the fullest possible attention. The Minister and the Department will be working closely with Cork County Board and its representatives to make sure that any questions from Europe will be dealt with in a speedy manner.
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It's wrapped in a paper and it says, "100% all white meat chicken."
This sandwich looked similar to the advertisement but the size of the chicken was much smaller.
There's generous amount of ranch sauce, which I prefer not, so I bit those parts where had the least ranch sauce.
Between buns, there're ranch sauce, lettuce, a slice of Monterey cheese and a crispy chicken from the top.
Buns were soft and chicken was all white meat as it said on the wrap, but it's mushy as it's reformed meat.
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Around a week ago when I posted about the 40,000 mile sign-up bonus on The US Airways® Premier World MasterCard® I mentioned that the card has been hotly debated as to how long it will be around for. With the American Airlines and US Airway merger going through this card will eventually disappear and Dividend miles will be converted to AA miles, making it a wise idea to grab the card before it's gone to earn the 40,000 bonus miles.
Personally I would like to earn the 40k bonus before the card is gone, if I don't use the miles before the merger is complete, I'll look forward to the miles being added to my AA mile account.
It looks like some changes are happening sooner than later with the card, some as soon as 2015. Via The Points Guy, it looks likes some card benefits will be dropped and others will added.
Currently the US Airways MasterCard is offering 40,000 bonus miles after first purchase. This is one of the few cards that one, has a lucrative sign-up bonus without a spending requirement, and two, has a bonus that is worth a round trip flight to Europe from the US.
Note that the card does have an $89 annual fee that is not waived the first year, but the value you'll get from the miles and the perks from the card seem to be well worth it in my opinion. With the current card you'll get perks that include a yearly $99 companion pass that can be used for up to two guests, free checked bags, and a 5,000 mile discount on award tickets.
Come 2015, the card will be converted to the American Airlines AAdvantage MasterCard from Barclaycard that will have different card benefits. Around this time your miles earned on the current card is also likely convert into American Airlines miles.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a fair trade, but some may find the new perks to better fit their needs than the current ones. However the current benefit of a 5,000 discount on US Airways award redemptions is quite nice on low priced awards. Though the new benefits will offer more back on higher priced awards, and you'll get 10% back on award redemptions.
Alongside the loss of the 5,000 mile discount on awards, the annual $99 companion pass will also disappear. This could be a huge blow to people that use the benefit to fly friend or family using the companion pass. Currently using the $99 companion pass benefit can be a valuable perk and mean large savings on more expensive flights. These are sent out fairly quickly (6-8 weeks of first purchase) after making the first purchase with the card, and will come with the free annual club pass. You'll have until the start of 2015 to use them.
Unless you're going for elite status, the loss of the 10,000 Preferred Qualifying Miles shouldn't mean much. Although it's a small perk, the dropping of the free annual Admirals Club pass is a bummer.
On the plus side of things, you'll be able to redeem miles for one-way awards and upgrades. Plus you'll get 25% off any in flight purchases, which could be a nice little perk if you are a regular flyer on US Airways.
With some of these benefit changes slated to occur at the beginning of next year, you may want to apply sooner than later for the The US Airways® Premier World MasterCard® to earn the 40,000 bonus miles. Especially so if you were thinking about grabbing the card and using the companion pass or 5,000 mile discount on US Airways Awards. Having this card awhile ago, it's likely that I'll apply for it one last time before it's gone.
Any news on what will happen if you already have the AA card? Will the balances combine onto the one card?
Chanel, I haven't heard any news of changes on the AA cards. And yes, as the merger completes your US Airways miles should be merged with your AA miles account.


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Q: Is a proof also "evidence"? Can I use the terms proof and evidence synonymously or is there a difference? You usually see mathematicians writing about "proof" while other sciences instead discuss "evidence" - is there a practical difference or do they mean the same, an understanding of the basis for the scientific result and it is that basis that we either call proof or evidence?

A: If you're a 20th-century sort of scientist, you might describe "evidence" for a hypothesis as a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to falsify it—to prove it wrong by showing that it implies something false.
For example, say it's the early 1800s, and you want to test the hypothesis H that Fresnel's wave model accurately describes the behavior of light. You notice that Fresnel's model has a really surprising consequence: it implies that, under certain conditions, the shadow of an opaque disk should have a bright spot at the center! Let's call that surprising consequence I. If the hypothesis I turns out to be wrong—which seems pretty likely—then H must be wrong as well, because H implies I.
Your colleague François Arago sets up an opaque disk under just the right lighting conditions. He sees the bright spot! Against all expectation, the hypothesis I holds. Your valiant attempt to falsify H has failed. Arago's experiment goes down in history as strong evidence in favor of H. The bright spot, to your chagrin, is sometimes named after you.

When mathematicians talk about "evidence," they're talking about the same thing. If you want to test a mathematical conjecture C, you look at its implications. If you're lucky, you discover that C has a really surprising consequence I which is feasible to check. If you check I, and find that it's true, you've found evidence for C.
The generalized Riemann hypothesis GRH, as @BillCook mentions, is an excellent example of a conjecture with lots of supporting evidence, but no known proof.
The generalized Riemann hypothesis is a conjecture about certain functions from the integers to the complex numbers, called Dirichlet characters. I found its statement very intimidating at first glance, but it's not terribly hard to understand if you break it down into bite-size pieces and become very comfortable with complex analysis.
The conjecture GRH has many surprising implications, and quite a few of them have been proven true. Here are some examples, cribbed from an excellent MathOverflow answer by @KConrad. The dagger † marks things I got more or less directly from @KConrad's answer.

PRIMES_P. There's a fast way to check whether a given whole number is prime.

It's notoriously hard to factorize a whole number quickly. Since checking whether a number is prime is the same as checking whether it has more than two factors, it would be very surprising if PRIMES_P were true.
In the 1970s, a graduate student named Miller showed that GRH implies PRIMES_P.† About 25 years later, a series of undergraduate research projects by Pandey, Bhattacharjee, Kayal, and Saxena culminated in a proof, by Agrawal and the newly graduated Kayal and Saxena, that PRIMES_P is true.

WG (weak Goldbach). Every odd number larger than five is the sum of three primes.

This conjecture is a consequence of the infamous Goldbach conjecture, which claims that every even number larger than two is the sum of two primes. The Goldbach conjecture has resisted proof for hundreds of years, so even just finding evidence for it by proving WG would be surprising.
In the 1920s, however, the famous mathematical duo Hardy and Littlewood found evidence that GRH implies WG.† In the late 1990s, Deshouillers, Effinger, te Riele, and Zinoviev confirmed that GRH implies WG.† About 15 years later, Helfgott proved WG.†

SN (Skewes' number). As $n$ grows, the number of primes from $1$ through $n$ will exceed
  $$\int_0^n \frac{dt}{\log t}$$
  before $n$ reaches
  $$10^{10^{10^{964}}}.$$

Littlewood proved in the 1910s that the number of primes from $1$ through $n$ will exceed that integral eventually, but nobody has ever seen it happen. Saying that it has to happen before a certain value of $n$ is pretty bold—like predicting the apocalypse!
Nonetheless, Skewes proved in the 1930s that GRH implies SN.† Then, in the 1950s, Skewes proved SN.†

CN (class number). There are only finitely many imaginary quadratic fields with class number one.

The numbers you can build from the integers and $\sqrt{-43}$ by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing form a consistent number system, called an "imaginary quadratic field." If you start from $\sqrt{-1}$ or $\sqrt{-19}$ or some other square root of a negative integer, you get a different imaginary quadratic field. Every imaginary quadratic field is labeled by a number called its "class number." Imaginary quadratic fields with class number one are special, and they seem to be very rare. The conjecture CN says they're incredibly rare: among the infinite variety of imaginary quadratic fields, there are only finitely many with class number one.
In the 1910s, Gronwall proved that GRH implies CN.† Specifically, what Gronwall proved is that GRH implies a slightly weaker conjecture, WGRH, which implies CN.† Later, Deuring, Mordell, and Heilbronn proved CN.† They did it in a bizarre way: they proved that the negation of WGRH also implies CN!†

A: Hypothesis: $n^2-n+41$ is prime, for all natural $n$.
Evidence: True for $n=1, 2, 3,\ldots, 40$.
That seems persuasive, but for $n=41$ the hypothesis is false.
In general, science typically uses inductive reasoning, i.e. noticing a pattern and claiming it continues forever.  An improvement is the scientific method, i.e. noticing a pattern, making a prediction, and checking if the prediction is true  the next time.  Unfortunately, neither of these is considered a mathematical proof.

A: I'd like to add an aspect to your question, that hasn't been touched by any of the other answers thus far:
Evidence plays a significant role in current day mathematics.
Vectornaut already mentioned one example of this. Let me provide another, that has a different kind of flavour to it.
I'd like to talk about large cardinals, but before I do so, let me provide a definition that is suitable for our purposes. Let us say that $\kappa$ is a large cardinal iff there is a set theoretical formula $\phi$ such that
$$\operatorname{ZFC} + \phi(\kappa) \vdash "\text{there is some weakly inaccessible cardinal } \mu \le \kappa"$$
(Please note that the term large cardinal doesn't have a widespread definition in the literature and there are properties that people (including me) would regard as large cardinal properties but don't satisfy the definition above.)
Using my definition and assuming that $\operatorname{ZFC}$ is consistent, we cannot prove that there is a large cardinal property $\phi$ and a cardinal $\kappa$ such that $\phi(\kappa)$ holds. In fact, the assumption that any large cardinal exists is strictly stronger than the assumption that $\operatorname{ZFC}$ has a model and it seems reasonable to believe that large cardinals have to lead to contradictions. In the past there have been some examples of large cardinal properties that turned out to be inconsistent (see for example Reinhardt cardinals).
However, over the last 40+ years, people intensely studied large cardinals and where able to derive surprising and beautiful theorems from their existence. (For example, the existence of $n$ Woodin cardinals and a measurable above all of them implies that $\bf{\Pi}^{1}_{n+1}$-determinacy holds, for any given $n < \omega$. And conversely, for any given $n < \omega$, $\bf{\Pi}_{n+1}^{1}$ implies the existence of an inner model with $n$ Woodin cardinals.
Since we cannot prove that a given large cardinal assumption is consistent, relative to $\operatorname{ZFC}$, we have to rely on evidence, rather than proof. One way to 'strengthen' this approach is, for a given large cardinal property $\phi$, to study larger large cardinals $\lambda$ such that the existence of $\lambda$ implies the existence of many $\kappa < \lambda$ such that $\phi(\kappa)$ holds. If we can't prove, in this setting, that the existence of $\lambda$ is inconsistent, this is stronger evidence for the consistency of the existence of $\kappa$ such that $\phi(\kappa)$ holds, than just the fact that we weren't able to prove the inconsistency of such $\kappa$. Obviously, this isn't rigorous in the sense that we can be sure that a certain large cardinal assumption is consistent, but the same holds true for $\operatorname{ZFC}$ itself. By pushing its boundaries one merely gathers evidence and - over time - gains some reasonable confidence in its consistency.

A: In mathematics, "evidence" is weaker than "proof".
Mathematicians use the words "proof" and "evidence" differently from the sciences. When we speak of a "proof" that something is true, we mean an irrefutable line of logical implications. When we speak of "evidence" that something is true, we typically mean indications (like many worked out examples or related theorems).
For example, as far as I know, no one has a "proof" that the Riemann Hypothesis is true. However, there is a ton of evidence that it probably is true (examples: there are infinitely many zeros on the critical line, all of the zeros must lie at least "close" to it, many of the theorems that it implies has been proven true). Again even with all of this evidence, this still does not give us "proof" that it is true.
So I guess in a kind of perverse way you could think of a "proof" as "evidence". But "evidence" is not enough to be a "proof".
Yes, science sees these terms as equals. Mathematics holds us to a higher standard. Unlike scientific results, mathematics results are true (not approximately sort of true for today).

A: Proposition: Every real number is less than $1,000,000$.
Evidence: The proposition seems to hold for all numbers in my test set $\{1,2,3,\ldots,100\}$.


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Q: CORS preflight channel did not succeed, already added access-control-allow headers I'm getting an error like this in Firefox, when I make an AJAX call to obtain an access token.
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I setup my CORS configuration to allow almost anything in web.config and I still get this error. Here are my request and response headers.

Any ideas why it's not going through?


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## Treebank Statistics: UD_Naija-NSC: POS Tags: `SYM`

There are 1 `SYM` lemmas (0%), 1 `SYM` types (0%) and 1 `SYM` tokens (0%).
Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of `SYM` is: 17 in number of lemmas, 17 in number of types and 17 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent `SYM` lemmas: power

The 10 most frequent `SYM` types:  power

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: power (<tt>NOUN</tt> 3, <tt>SYM</tt> 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types:  power (<tt>NOUN</tt> 3, <tt>SYM</tt> 1)

* power
  * <tt>NOUN</tt> 3: all power belongs to God //
  * <tt>SYM</tt> 1: government wey dey power dat time < use inside dis oil money take build { better road dem |c # wit correct bridge to match } //

## Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of `SYM` is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.000884).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma "power": power.

`SYM` does not occur with any features.

## Relations

`SYM` nodes are attached to their parents using 1 different relations: <tt>acl:relcl</tt> (1; 100% instances)

Parents of `SYM` nodes belong to 1 different parts of speech: <tt>NOUN</tt> (1; 100% instances)

0 (0%) `SYM` nodes are leaves.

0 (0%) `SYM` nodes have one child.

0 (0%) `SYM` nodes have two children.

1 (100%) `SYM` nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a `SYM` node is 3.

Children of `SYM` nodes are attached using 3 different relations: <tt>advmod</tt> (1; 33% instances), <tt>aux</tt> (1; 33% instances), <tt>mark</tt> (1; 33% instances)

Children of `SYM` nodes belong to 3 different parts of speech: <tt>ADV</tt> (1; 33% instances), <tt>AUX</tt> (1; 33% instances), <tt>SCONJ</tt> (1; 33% instances)

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I rise today with pleasure to pay tribute to a sport that has delivered enormous social good for over a century in communities across our nation. Netball taught me, and thousands like me, the importance of team, the thrill of winning and the lows of defeat from a contest-by-contest as well as game and season perspective. It taught us about fitness and about persistence; it taught us to work hard and to work together. It taught us about volunteering and about community. It provided local role models—women who played hard on the court and ran a very successful and inclusive association, of which I am honoured to say I am a life member. Women like Jenny Toohey, Irene Cooney, Wilma Ryan, Dulcie Harvey and Alison Purdon were involved from their girlhood through to their 60s, and Kerin Flaherty, today in her 70s, is still umpiring multiple times a week.
In the years I grew from junior to senior, netball grew from a sleeping giant to having the highest participation rates of any sport in the country for girls, and with it came more opportunities for those involved. When I was a kid I lived for stories of Melbourne University Blue and North Melbourne. These were serious clubs where state reps learned their craft and donned the Victorian navy blue in the national championships to play arch rivals New South Wales and South Australia. Today we have a trans-Tasman competition with international players from around the world televised weekly, adding to the media coverage of international competitions such as the World Cup, the Commonwealth Games and annual Tests.
I want to pay tribute today to a lady who was critical and pivotal in building the profile of this great sport: the great Joyce Brown. Joyce Brown OAM was a Victorian player, captain and coach. She was an Australian player, captain and coach. She was a double-A badged umpire and developed the national coaching accreditation programs still used today. She is a great Victorian and great Australian. It was women like those in my community and like Joyce Brown who took their love for the game and built what we have today.
What is so special about netball? Let me explain. It is a true team sport. It is a game of specialised positions that are limited to populate only certain parts of the court. It therefore takes more than one player to move the ball from one end of the court to the other. Teams have alternating possession from the centre, so one team cannot dominate the game the same way they can in soccer or hockey or football or basketball. This creates one-on-one contests all over the court for every possession, which means it is about strategy. It is about creating and closing down space and doing it in a cohesive way, using intricate moves and counter-moves all over the court. The uninitiated soon learn that, although the rules say it is a no-contact sport, it is all about contact in the contest, move and counter-move. It is also like dancing—it has a rhythm that is hypnotic and players rely heavily on kinetic awareness and peripheral vision.
For my netball friends and I, who also played lots of other sports together, netball is the only thing—the sport that provides the tightest physical contact with the perfectly threaded pass, the exquisitely timed lead, the crafted moves that open up just the right space and the 'aha' moment, when limbs and mind combine and a great intercept is taken and the player and ball move smoothly through the air. Playing the game is theatre and concert. It is elegant and graceful. It is demanding and exhilarating. It is the most aerial of sports, combining the perfect one-handed passes, the high hard to a leading player and the sweet arch of the lob, these juxtaposed by the double-handed give-and-gos and tight bounce passes delivered around corners at lightning speed.
In a Commonwealth Games year, I wish another great Victorian, Lisa Alexander, and her charges in the national team all the best in their selection and preparation across the next six months and a great tournament in Glasgow. I, like all netball fans, look forward, as ever, to watching the Diamonds play. I also congratulate all involved in the ANZ Championships, particularly, of course, the Vixens. I commend the motion to the House.


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