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Q: Sorting array doesn't work properly when some items have unknown values Say I have array of objects
[
  {
      "name": "John",
      "height": "172",
      "weight": "87"
  },
  {
      "name": "Tom",
      "height": "167",
      "weight": "67"

  },
  {
      "name": "James",
      "height": "156",
      "weight": "uknown"
  },
  {
      "name": "Jeremy",
      "height": "unknown",
      "weight": "85"
  },
]

Now if I want to sort them by height I can do persons.sort((a, b) => b.height - a.height); likewise if I want to sort them by weight I can do the same but with weight persons.sort((a, b) => b.weight - a.weight);
So far this would work fine, however some of the values are unknown, and if I'm holding this array in some state and sort them by either the unknown values mess it up and it doesn't sort properly. In a case where there are alot more objects that 4, it sorts to some point but as soon as it hits an object with an unknown property it messes it up and the rest of the array is then not sorted properly. How can I overcome this? Perhaps doing something pushing the items with unknown value at the bottom?

A: All you have to do is handle the specific cases when height/weight is unknown and return the appropriate value
For example:

const items = [
  {
      "name": "John",
      "height": "172",
      "weight": "87"
  },
  {
      "name": "Tom",
      "height": "167",
      "weight": "67"

  },
  {
      "name": "James",
      "height": "156",
      "weight": "uknown"
  },
  {
      "name": "Jeremy",
      "height": "unknown",
      "weight": "85"
  },
    {
      "name": "Jeremy2",
      "height": "162",
      "weight": "85"
  },
    {
      "name": "Jeremy3",
      "height": "unknown",
      "weight": "85"
  },
];

items.sort((a,b) => {
  if(b.height === 'unknown' && a.height ==='unknown') return 0;
  else if(b.height === 'unknown') return -1;
  else if(a.height === 'unknown') return 1;
  else return a.height - b.height;
});

console.log(items);

The comparator function compare(a, b) works like this:
if return value sort > 0, sort b before a.
else if return value sort < 0, sort a before b.
else if return value === 0  keep original order of a and b.

MDN Link
Edit:
If one is dealing with comma seperated strings, one convert to number first:
items.sort((a,b) => {
  if(b.height === 'unknown' && a.height ==='unknown') return 0;
  else if(b.height === 'unknown') return -1;
  else if(a.height === 'unknown') return 1;
  else return parseFloat(a.height.replace(/,/g, '')) -
parseFloat(b.height.replace(/,/g, ''))
});

Source

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To back up for a bit, in general my life is pretty awesome. I've been married for fourteen years now to my best friend and biggest supporter. We have two fantastic kids. We live in warm sunny California, and own our own home. I love my job, and have an employer I consider a friend and mentor who is supportive of my quest.


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Poetry Women Authors
A Generous Latitude
by (author) Lenea Grace
ECW Press
Women Authors, General, Canadian, Places
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Lenea Grace's debut collection maps a series of relationships within a greater exploration of Canadiana, barreling through shield and crag, river and slag. A Generous Latitude is not afraid of beer, bears, internal rhyme, David Hasselhoff, sediment, or sentiment. It does, however, eschew sliding down lampposts, CBC sitcoms, McGarrigles, and the sentimental. Taking humor in the human condition, A Generous Latitude toys with juxtapositions of the serious with the silly, the irreverent with more somber realities. Music both teases and generates the poems within the collection. Here, Guy Lafleur's hockey-disco hybrid album is on par with the Righteous Brothers and Fleetwood Mac. Here, "I'm not smoking and it's not analog, / but at 2 a.m., it is always 1979." A Generous Latitude takes a wild, peculiar joy in supplanting the expected with rich imagery that lights the mundane and "strips the Atlantic bare."
Lenea Grace's profile page
Contributor Notes
Lenea Grace's work has appeared in Best New Poets, The Fiddlehead, Washington Square Review, CV2, Riddle Fence, Grain, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of McGill University, University of Maine at Presque Isle, and The New School. Lenea is a founding editor of The Mackinac poetry magazine. She grew up in Texas and Oklahoma, spending her summers at Long Lake and John Island in northern Ontario. She lives in Gibsons, British Columbia.
"Grace reads like an experienced pro in the debut collection, her grit shines and she has some panache . . . A Generous Latitude burns like the best." — Today's Book of Poetry

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Stephen Connolly
Born in Canada, Stephen grew up in Scotland and the Republic of South Africa.
His short stories have been published in various magazines, anthologies and broadcast on local radio. His stage and radio scripts have been performed at the New Venture Theatre, Brighton, the Alma Tavern Bristol, the Actors Guild in London and on the Bath, Salisbury and Stroud Fringes.
In 2015 Stephen graduated with an MA in Scriptwriting for Film, Theatre, Radio and TV from Bath Spa University. His radio play 'Sky Pilots' was joint winner of the BBC Solent Radio Playwrights competition and was broadcast on BBC Radio Solent in April 2018. His radio play 'The Destiny of Shoes' was broadcast by Off the Rock Productions in January 2019.
In November 2018 his first full length stage play 'Parzival' was selected by Bristol Old Vic for the Open Session Writers 2018 program for a year of support and development. It will be produced in the Weston Studio Theatre in Spring 2020.
His blog can be found here
I have included two short pieces, A Traveller's Tale and News from the North.
A collection of my short stories, Remember My Name and Other Stories, is available as an eBook on Amazon and iTunes.
A Traveller's Tale
Anton Göbler made his last voyage today, a distance of not quite two miles. Short compared to the journeys that made him famous and also slow, Anton weighing several tonnes, once you included the granite base. With the help of a dozen large men (plus van) from the city's Parks Department, Anton left the dusty square in which he was placed a hundred years ago. By evening his bronze face, green with age, was gazing at our city's main train station, surrounded by late commuters.
It was Anton's wealthy family who made his adventuring life possible. Anton grew up reading tales of Stanley and Livingstone, Burton and Speke: red blooded men who discovered vast tracts of land while facing down recalcitrant natives. Young Anton dreamt of becoming an explorer himself and fixed on the goal of discovering the legendary Lake Alph, reputedly the source of all the waters of sub-Saharan Africa.
As soon as he came of age, Anton ignored the advice of his family and used his inheritance to finance an expedition. Six months later he disembarked from his ship on the East coast of Africa, instantly falling in love with his first sight of the country. Six weeks later a party of Sukuma porters deposited young Anton on the shores of what was probably Lake Victoria. Sadly, the light dancing on the water was the last thing Anton ever saw. For during the journey up country – having a delicate constitution – he had unfortunately succumbed to some of the most devastating vermin and virulent infections known to man. He was dead within the hour.
At first the porters did not know what to do with his body. It had been a long and tiring journey and there was now nobody to give them orders. Eventually, their headman had an idea.
Being all too familiar with the Lake (the reason he had been hired in the first place), the headman persuaded his fellows that they were now free to do some exploring of their own. After a day's rest they picked up their burdens – including the late Anton – and set off to visit the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, which they had heard of but never seen. After a day or so exploring the ruins, they handed over the remains of young Anton to some local Matabele and headed home. These Matabele also felt a sudden desire for exploring. They picked up young Anton's remains – now beginning to look the worse for wear – and set off for the mysterious Mapungubwe, on the banks of the distant Limpopo river, a place they had heard of but never visited. After spending some time there they handed over the body to some local Venda and turned for home. The Venda, intrigued in their turn, took charge of young Anton and began planning their own expedition.
And so it went on. As the months and years went by, Anton – his body undergoing a slow, natural mummification – criss-crossed the continent in fits and starts, passed from tribe to tribe, nation to nation.
What inspired each tribe, each clan to begin their journey? We can never know. But it remains a fact that no sooner had anyone set eyes on Anton's body than they were seized with a desire to visit far away places. Perhaps his death provoked a sense of guilt, a reminder that he had given his life to do something they had never bothered about, driven by curiosity about a landscape they themselves took for granted.
Whatever the true reason the late Anton had soon visited more glorious and mysterious places than he could ever have imagined while alive. And while he never reached the legendary (and in fact non-existent) Lake Alph, the places he did visit more than made up for it: the lost pyramids of the Sudan, the rock paintings of the Amahaggar, the ruins of Kör, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, the terrifying source of the Green Nile.
Over the years rumours of his wanderings reached Western ears and slowly the story was put together, for Anton's remains have never been seen by a European since the day he left the coast all those years ago. And who knows? Perhaps even now Anton continues his eternal voyage, at the head of some band of cheerful explorers, inspiring everyone he meets with a thirst for travel.
So, Anton Göbler's statue completed its last journey and now stands (appropriately enough) opposite the city's fine new train station. A fine tribute to perhaps the greatest ever African explorer, although (so far) nobody who has seen it has been inspired to travel any further than the out of town supermarket, some 5 miles away.
She stops exhausted at the top of the hill, the North Wind slapping her face as she clears the ridge. She has no breath left to continue: the ascent and the North Wind have taken it all.
She looks back down the sun-bleached hill at the two figures and realises they will reach her soon. Furious, tears running down her face, she stumbles on aching legs towards the final ridge, towards the sea itself; whose voice she can hear, whose voice blots out every other thing but the North Wind and the gulls wheeling above.
And when she gets there, when she looks down over the precipice, the sea leaps at the sight of her, tossing foam like lace.
A gull screams in her ear, shocking her into movement. She tears at her clothes with icy fingers, leaning into the North Wind. She tries to stay calm, to ignore the sounds behind her, the cries that do not come from the gulls. It is unbelievably cold. Already she is numb, the pale sun powerless to warm her. Naked, she stumbles towards the very edge of the cliff, the black rocks tearing her feet, making her bleed, making her gasp with pain.
There's almost no time left: they will be there any moment.
She takes a deep breath, but the North Wind snatches the air from her lungs, slaps her face, screams in her ears.
But she is not deterred. The North wind is why she is here. Her goal, ever since hearing the news of his death, ever since the realisation that she was not going to see him again; that he was lost forever in some icy hell at the roof of the world.
To come to this place and seek out the North Wind, at as close a point to him as possible; the hope that after breathing enough of the North Wind, feeling it on her skin, tasting and smelling it, she will one day recognise some trace of him, some spark of his existence.
I'll know, she tells herself. I'll know!
They have almost reached her, but she carries on, laughing and crying and breathing in and out. Standing tall and proud, taking one deep breath after another, her aching arms spread wide in welcome, gazing into the North.
The North Wind stills, caresses her skin like a lover, sighs in her ear.
Her parents stand behind her, old and confused. Breathless from the climb, they clutch each other in their misery and incomprehension. Do they suppose that she means to kill herself, perched like a gull on this sheer face?
Kill herself, when there is so much news to listen to?
And the North Wind gives another shout, rubbing its words like salt into all their faces.


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Dawn of the Decline: Page Nine
Drake could hear movement in the hallway. The bulk of his armor made turning around to see what was behind him, a frustrating effort. The enclosed space continued to rub against the well worn suit, but Drake was taught to always face his enemies. He found it curious though that after running and hiding, anyone would come back to confront him. Thinking to himself, he considered the situation, 'was it a mistake, or did someone think they could best a veteran Marine?'
Two people stood in front of James, and just as before, neither were armored well. One was a pale looking stick man, and the other was a bulky dark man. The contrast amused him.
Sparks flew from the shattered remains of the deck. Both men fixed their gaze on James' helmet. They seemed to be considering their options. Lunging outwards, Sergeant Drake grabbed at the thin white man, only to watch as he moved out of his grasp before he could close his fist.
"Fast little man, you'll die like the rest!"
Worf had already moved in and tried to shoot a maximum power phaser blast at point blank range, right at the neckline of the armored suit. Hoping for any sign of weakness, Worf was surprised both by the limited effect, and by how quickly James had been able to get a grip on him.
With his fingers wrapped around the ridges of Worf's skull, Drake began to squeeze.
Letting out a strong howl, James Drake started to smirk inside his protective armor. Data moved in quick and tried to pry the metal hand off his friend. Finger by finger, James could feel his grip weakening.
Shifting slightly, he was able to re-draw his bolter, and with the pale, strong man distracted, he placed the end of the gun just under his chin, where Worf had attempted to open Drake's armor. Pulling the trigger, the android's head separated from his shoulders, and his neck was obliterated in such a way that the shoulders and body fell to the ground, cleanly severed from the head.
Worf let out another battle cry but this time, it was for his fallen comrade, and not for the pain he was still experiencing. Now free from Drake's grasp, Worf grabbed both phaser rifles and leaping through a hole in the nearby wall, he tried to go around behind.
The tracking computer on James' armor highlighted his target as it moved off slightly. Shuffling again, Drake tried to turn, but as he started, the wall that the darker man had escaped through collapsed on his shoulder, pinning him in place. He could move slightly, but it was at great effort. His right arm was mostly immobilized.
James Drake could hear the footsteps of the man behind him, and shortly after kicking some scrap metal, Worf was shooting both rifles, quickly draining their power as he hoped to not only stop this menace but avenge all of his fallen friends.
Drake's armor absorbed the blasts, some heat was transferred through the armor, but was nothing compared to the heat he had felt on desert worlds. James taunted his foe, "you'll have to do better than that…"
So enraged, Worf's common sense left him. Leaping onto the back of the armor, he slammed the butt of the rifle into the armor, over and over, leaving barely a scratch, the rage clouded his vision and opened an opportunity for Drake to end their confrontation.
← Brutal Heat: Laziness and Bad Eating are the Result
→ Dawn of the Decline: Page Ten


Art on a utility box by campus.
THE MORNING AFTER MY SON'S recent graduation from Tufts University in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, life was back to normal.
Construction workers labored on a campus building project while a police officer stood nearby to stop traffic if needed. His Boston accent matched every preconceived notion I held of a Boston accent. Thick. Unpronounced "r's." Perfect Boston diction to my Minnesota ears.
On this Monday morning while my son attended appointments, my husband and I walked around his neighborhood and lunched at a campus coffee shop on a busy street corner. I people-watched. The construction workers. The cop. A young woman who pulled a water bowl and water bottle from her backpack to hydrate her dog on a street corner.
After lunch we walked around the neighborhood, skirting smelly garbage cans on the narrow sidewalk while also surveying the broken furniture, rolled rugs and assorted goods emptied from college students' apartments. Parents filled car trunks and U-Hauls. A college co-ed carried boxes from campus to a new off-campus apartment.
And, in the street, a woman rolled a cart bulging with can-filled garbage bags and assorted loot from all the graduation parties the day prior.
I noted the residue of those celebrations—a stray napkin, a congrats banner stretching across a porch, a commencement banner still hanging from a post.
And, etched into the bark of a hillside tree, I noticed names. Knifed there by college students, I suppose. Not just this year. But through the years.
The day sparkled with the kind of light that is bright and sharp and new, as in this is spring, your kid has finished college, new.
If I'm remembering correctly, that stately house is owned by the college.
FYI, that woman pushing that cart full of cans… each can is worth $.05 and she is likely to be earning a very comfortable (tax free) living by doing just that. Each community has them (some have quite a few) and none of them are begging for handouts at busy intersections, or in front of convenience stores. These are hard working entrepreneurs who have figured out a way to beat the system while providing a free "service" to the community.
I think it's great when individuals do this. I agree 100 percent with you. And, yes, it beats standing on a street corner expecting a hand-out. I praise her entrepreneurial spirit. Five cents, huh? Guess I should have been poking around for cans on the day after graduation.
Especially at Tufts. Could not have afforded it otherwise.


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Forging Relationships, One Class At A Time
Luba Kruglikovskaya, Lifestyle Pass Member
The challenge: Luba Kruglikovskaya immigrated to America from Ukraine with her husband in 1998 and didn't speak a word of English. Her husband has since passed away, and, while Luba has learned some language, she tended to feel isolated. Living in Longmeadow, she had few opportunities to socialize with other older adults.
Our assist: Luba became a Lifestyle Pass member last year. Her daughter, Yelena Litvinov, says her mother now visits Glenmeadow several times a week to take a fitness class or swim in the pool. Last year in December, Luba was invited to our holiday party, and, while here, she connected with our resident Adele Citron, who provided Luba's weekly English lessons when Luba first arrived in this country.
The result: Convenience, a sense of community, and the chance to boost Luba's physical fitness. "My mother has a lot of problems with mobility, so using the swimming pool and taking fitness classes give her good exercise," Yelena says. "She needs activities to keep her healthy. Any kind of social life is good for her. I am grateful there is a place like Glenmeadow for her to go. She's building relationships."


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NO POGBA But Jose To Unleash Rashford And Rooney Upfront Against Man City Whilst Slamming Jones And Smalling Again
Red Devils boss Jose Mourinho is set to use Man Utd prodigy Marcus Rashford and Wayne Rooney upfront in the crunch derby clash with Manchester City on Thursday.
The Man Utd manager is busy preparing his side for the derby clash and used Rashford upfront in the training. Rooney, who had returned to action against Burnley and scored United's second in their 2-0 win, is set to keep his place but Paul Pogba will not be available for the high-octane clash due to injury.
Mourinho heaped praise on his Manchester United 'fighters' – but criticised his defensive pair – Phil Jones and Chris Smalling.
Ahead of Thursday's derby clash, Man Utd boss Mourinho aimed another dig at his defensive duo for not showing enough determination to fight the pain the barrier.
Jones will return back to action after nursing a broken toe and on the other hand Smalling had a knee problem.
After clinching a 2-0 win over Burnley on Sunday, Mourinho had insisted that the defensive pair should prepare themselves to be available for the crunch derby clash – and now the Portuguese boss has branded them too 'cautious'.
He said: "It's not just about them. It's about the philosophy and mentality around them."
Asked what that was, Mourinho added: "Cautious. Cautious. Just a cautious approach."
When asked whether it was problem with the modern players, who do not put their bodies on the line, he added: "Professional football at a high level, yes."
And it is now understood that such comments from the manager is sure to work as a wakeup call for English defenders Jones and Smalling.
Mourinho cleared the air and explained that he does not want the pair to leave the club but accentuated that they might face an uphill task to find a way back.
Man Utd have already won the Community Shield and EFL Cup this term and now the Red Devils are aiming to win the Europa League along with a top-four finish in the Premier League.
A win over Guardiola's Man City on Thurday could provide huge boost to Man Utd's chances of finishing in the top-four – that would see them moving into the Champions League spot.
Mourinho is elated with the passion and determination of his stars such as Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial, who were out of action but used full use of their opportunity – coming from the cold and scoring crucial goals at Burnley.
He said: "We go with what we have, we fight with what we have."
"I trust the boys and we go with everything — our fighters — and we hope."
"They know they are important, let's follow the example of Wayne and Martial."
"They came into a game we really needed to win and they gave more than we expected. For Wayne, I didn't think he could go for 90 minutes but he did."
"The fact we are fighting for important things is good motivation. It keeps people together, to make an extra effort."
United have Antonio Valencia back but will be without midfielder Paul Pogba, who limped off towards the end of the game at Turf Moor.
Mourinho added: "Paul played two hours against Anderlecht — and then 90 minutes against Burnley two days later."
"So there are injuries, especially the muscular ones, a consequence of accumulation of fatigue."


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#1 St. Cloud State Wrestling Complete Regular Season at MSU on Feb. 16
The #1 ranked St. Cloud State Huskies (20-0, 6-0- NSIC) will complete the regular season on Feb. 16 with a 7 p.m. dual match at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn. This will mark the end of the NSIC dual season for the Huskies and a victory at MSU would provide the Huskies with the regular season title in the NSIC. This would be SCSU first regular season conference title for the Huskies since 1977-78.
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The #1 Huskies set a team record by winning their 20th dual match of the season with a huge 19-12 win over #3 Upper Iowa on Feb. 12 at Halenbeck Hall. In front of a big Senior/Alumni Day crowd, the Huskies fell behind early in the match by a tally of 9-3 but then recovered to gain the win, which include bout victories at 165-pounds, 174-pounds and 184-pounds. The old SCSU season record of 19 dual wins in a season was set in 2010-11.
SCSU remained in the #1 spot in the latest DII coaches' poll released on Feb. 7, ahead of #2 Newberry and #3 Upper Iowa. Merritt (165) and Kahnke (285) are both ranked #1 in this week's national poll, while O'Grady (174), Skala (184) and Munkelwitz (197) are all ranked #3. Jacob D. Horn is ranked #5 at 157 in the poll, while Dylan Wright is ranked #7 at 125 and Andy Pokorny is ranked #4 at 133. SCSU is also ranked #1 in this week's DII Super Region 3 poll.
Tad Merritt leads the Huskies with 29 wins this season (29-2) and he also has 15 pins. Jake Kahnke is 28-1 this season, while Luke Munkelwitz owns a 21-4 record this winter. Others of note include Derek Skala at 22-2 and Josh Howk is 22-13 this year with a team-high 16 pins. Merritt currently has 135 career wins, and he needs eight more wins this season to tie the SCSU career record of 142 wins set by Dustin Darveaux from 1999-03. Of note, Howk needs just one more pin to tie the team record of 17 pins set by Tad Merritt in 2008-09.
Steve Costanzo ranks second in the SCSU records with 78 dual match wins as the Huskies' head coach after six seasons at the helm. He only trails Husky legend John Oxton, who had 167 wins from 1967-87 at SCSU.
St. Cloud State University (19-2, 6-1 NSIC) set a new team standard by capturing 2nd place at the 2011 NCAA Division II championships on March 11-12 in Kearney, Neb. This is the best finish at a national championship for the Huskies since the program started in 1949-50. The previous best efforts for the Huskies were 3rd place finishes at the NAIA tournament in 1963 and 1965. In NCAA Division II action, the best finish prior to 2011 was a 7th place finish in 2010 and 1983. SCSU scored 90.5 team points at the NCAA championships, while Nebraska-Omaha won its third consecutive team title with 102.5 points. This was the most points scored at a national meet by the Huskies in team history. The previous high was 50 points scored at the NCAA tournament in 2010.
SCSU's John Sundgren captured 1st place at the NCAA championships in the 157-pound bracket. He was the first Husky to win a national title since Gene Hanemann won his title in 1995. This was the 12th individual national title for a Husky wrestling since 1958, and it was just the 2nd NCAA Division II individual national title for a Husky wrestler.
The Huskies bring back the following All-Americans from the 2011 championships: Jacob Kahnke (2nd at 285), Tad Merritt (3rd at 165), Shamus O'Grady (4th at 174) and Jacob D. Horn (5th at 149). Senior Derek Skala was a redshirt last year but he has earned All-America honors at previous NCAA meets.
The top finish at the 2012 NWCA DII National Duals was the best finish for the Huskies at that prestigious tournament. Last year, SCSU finished in third place at the NWCA DII National Duals.
The Huskies clinched a share of first place in the NSIC regular season dual meet standings with the win over Upper Iowa. The Huskies will finish their NSIC dual season on Feb. 16 with a match at Minnesota State in Mankato…if the Huskies can collect a win at Minnesota State, it would mark the first time since 1980-81 that the Huskies have finished their conference dual meet schedule with an undefeated record. SCSU charted a 6-0 record in the NIC under the leadership of Coach John Oxton that season…a victory over Minnesota State would also mark the first regular season conference title for the Huskies since they won first place in the NSIC back in 1977-78 (then called the NIC)…a victory over Minnesota State would also mark the first time that the Huskies have finished their dual meet season with an undefeated record.
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At 77 years old, CrossFit was the first time Constance Tillet had ever worked out. Ten months later she had lost 50 pounds.
The odds were not in her favor, but Constance Tillet had the grit to do something extraordinary. "Get up and do it. Stop with the whining. Stop with, 'You got to take care of me.' Take care of yourself." This is Tillet's message to senior citizens. It's the message she's adopted for herself and she's turned her life around in South Brooklyn's CrossFit gym.
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Along with her consistency in working out, Tillet has also become a life force in the CrossFit community. She fist bumps with everyone and lights up the room when she comes in. Osorio calls Tillet his adopted mother. Everyone at the gym went to Tillet's late husband's funeral when he passed away suddenly. It's this kind of encouragement and her obvious progress that keep Tillet working hard.


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Craft Distilleries Are More Numerous Than Ever. The Pandemic Looks To Have Helped.
by Keith Schneider June 22, 2021 June 23, 2021
The Log Still Distillery tasting room opened on May 11, 2021, honoring the Dant family that has been
making Kentucky bourbon since 1936. (Photo/Keith Schneider)
GETHSEMANE, KY. – Conditions last year could hardly have looked worse for craft distilling in Kentucky or any other state. Built on the intimacy of locally-produced spirits, virtually all of the more than 2,000 craft distilleries that operated around the country were imperiled by state health directives that closed tasting rooms.
Yet while the virus produced financial pain, it did not lead to many distillery deaths. Federal pandemic-related aid, consumer demand, important changes in state distribution regulations, and a reduction in federal liquor taxes converged not only to prevent failures, but actually led to more growth. The American Craft Spirits Association, a trade group, found in its annual 2020 report that the number of craft distilleries climbed to 2,265 last year, a nearly 11 percent increase. Annual national sales reached $6.1 billion in 2019 and are expected to have increased in 2020.
Here in the Knob Hills of central Kentucky, the industry's resilience was celebrated last month when one of the state's most prominent bourbon-making families opened the tasting room of the Log Still Distillery, the state's newest craft distillery.
With its big glass windows and views of expansive farm fields, the 4,600-square foot tasting room has attracted more than 2,000 customers in its first month. John Wallace Dant 3d, whose family first distilled whiskey in a poplar log seven generations ago in 1836, anticipates hundreds of thousands more.
That's because the distillery is more than an emphatic statement about the economic virtues of good liquor, inviting design, and entrepreneurial ingenuity that has distinguished craft distilling since it really took off in the United States a decade ago when craft distilleries numbered less than 300. As the centerpiece of Dant Crossing, a $30 million recreation, food, lodging, and entertainment destination on 350 acres of Nelson County's finest forest and farmland, the Log Still Distillery is setting new trends in the business, say industry authorities.
"If I've been waiting for anything it's a family friendly destination where I can also enjoy bourbon," said Gov. Andy Beshear at the May 11 ribbon cutting
for the Log Still Distillery tasting room. "After 14 months of a pandemic I think we all can." (Photo/Keith Schneider)
When it is completed next year, Dant Crossing will encompass a 7,300-square-foot restaurant, a 22,000-square-foot events venue, bed and breakfast lodging, a 2,000-seat amphitheater, a trail around a 12-acre lake, a station stop for a scenic rail line, a 21,000-square foot distillery capable of producing 15,000 barrels of bourbon annually, and rickhouses to store barrels of the family's Monk's Road bourbon (named for the road that leads to the distillery from the 173-year-old Abbey of Gethsemani here, the Cistercian monastery of Thomas Merton fame). Mr. Dant, the president, anticipates hiring 130 people.
Call it a whiskey resort dedicated to drinking, eating, and hanging out. "It's the first like it in Kentucky with this vision and scale," said Seth DeBolt, director of the James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits at the University of Kentucky. "Making bourbon. Drinking bourbon. Staying overnight. Going to a concert. A handful of others are moving in that direction to capture an experiential opportunity around this space."
Or as Kentucky's Governor Andy Beshear told a small gathering at the May 11 ribbon cutting, "If I've been waiting for anything it's a family friendly destination where I can also enjoy bourbon," said the first-term Democrat. "After 14 months of a pandemic I think we all can."
Though there is no federal definition, and states differ in their guidelines, craft distilleries are generally distinguished by 1) producing on-site smaller batches of bourbon, vodka, gin, and other spirits than commercial distilleries, and 2) selling them at premium prices in and outside of tasting rooms.
When it started last year, no one knew how much damage the pandemic would cause to the sector, which employed 40,000 people. The revenue numbers were worrisome. Liquor production typically provides half or more of annual revenue. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a trade group, reported that craft spirits sales dropped $700 million in the first six months of 2020, a 41 percent decline.
Bottling whiskey by hand at the Hard Truth Distillery in Nashville, Indiana. (Photo/Keith Schneider)
Almost half of the distilleries lost at least a quarter of their sales. The Distilled Spirits Council identified 8 craft distilleries in as many states that closed.
But many craft distillers in the other half reported having a highly profitable year in part due to assistance from the federal and state governments. Federal pandemic rescue bills in 2020 and 2021 helped. In interviews, distillery owners said Paycheck Protection Program loans and other aid t0 businesses kept core production and marketing staffs in places. After years of consideration and debate, Congress approved legislation that helped small producers by lowering the federal tax for the first 100,000 gallons of alcohol from $13.50 per gallon to $2.70.
Kentucky permitted craft distillers to ship directly to customers. New York and seven more states approved temporary measures to make it easier for craft distillers to market their spirits to consumers, bypassing stricter licensing and distribution requirements that had been in place since the end of Prohibition in 1933.
Challenged by the virus, and assisted by the government, craft distillers developed ingenious pandemic business strategies to not only survive, but thrive. In many instances, craft distillers reported record revenue in 2020. In effect, the pandemic and government's response to it prompted some of the most significant changes in alcohol production and distribution ever in the United States.
Premium whiskey sold at premium prices at the Hard Truth Distillery. (Photo/Keith Schneider)
Everybody has a story. In northern Michigan, Iron Fish Distillery in Manistee County received a $130,000 PPP loan to cover operating costs for three months. It also spent $30,000 to move retail sales of spirits and food from the tight quarters of its tasting room to tents and fire pits outside. One of seven craft distilleries in the region around Traverse City, Iron Fish is located on a 120-acre farm that harvests wheat and rye for its labeled whiskies. The $2.5 million project started with a 4,800-square-foot distillery, renovating a barn for an event venue, oak barrels that cost $300 to $500 each, and equipment to run the farm.
The switch outdoors produced the five-year-old distillery's strongest annual sales. "Our guests loved it," said Richard Anderson, chief operating officer and one of the distillery's four founders. "At night in the winter they were outside, drinking bourbon, staying warm, looking at the stars."
Iron Fish Distillery in Thompsonville, Michigan. (Photo/Keith Schneider)
In western Kentucky, Thomas Bard and his wife, Kim Bard, paid $45,000 in 2015 for the three buildings of the long-shuttered 60,000-square-foot Graham High School in Muhlenberg County into The Bard Distillery, a $5.2 million craft distillery, tasting room, and event venue.
In December 2019, the couple opened the tasting room in the nearly 90-year-old school building. In March it closed under state order. A federal disaster loan and a separate federal restaurant revitalization grant paid expenses and enabled the couple to market their branded Cinder & Smoke Bourbon and Muhlenberg line of whiskies and liqueurs.
The tasting room reopened in June and the event venue is scheduled to open in the fall. "In a way we were lucky," said Mr. Bard. "We bootstrapped most of our project, so we hadn't yet taken on a lot of debt or overhead expenses."
The newest trend in craft distilling is allegiance to the get-big-or-get-out business strategy. Hard Truth Distillery, in Nashville, Ind., is a $25 million, 325-acre, three-year-old distillery that includes a tour center, tasting room, restaurant, outdoor amphitheater, event venue, and rickhouses for its rye whiskey and bourbon barrels. A $1.2 million rickhouse, a smokehouse, and a larger amphitheater are under construction. An 80-room lodge is planned.
A 2,000-seat amphitheater under construction at the Log Still Distillery. (Photo/Keith Schneider)
By expanding its outdoor seating spaces, Hard Truth served 400,000 customers in 2020, 100,000 more than in 2019, said Jeff McCabe, one of the distillery's four partners. "One objective is for our distillery to be a destination for our brand," said Mr. McCabe. "Experiences are fundamental to establishing our brand identity."
Log Still is another craft distillery that thinks big. Mr. Dant, the president, noted that Maker's Mark, one of the 18 commercial distilleries on Kentucky's famed Bourbon Trail, the heart of the state's nearly $9 billion bourbon industry, is up the road six miles away and attracts more 100,000 visitors annually.
Kentucky tourist agencies also promote a bourbon trail for 19 craft distilleries. Mr. Dant plans be the trail's 20thfeatured distillery. "When it comes to bourbon in this part of Kentucky, all roads lead to the same destination," he said. "We think we're in the right place."
A version of this article was posted by the New York Times on June 22, 2021.
A 2,000-seat amphitheater under construction at Dant's Crossing in Kentucky. (Photo/Keith Schneider)
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What would you do if everyone in the world hated you? Would you run? Would you fight? Or would you try to make them laugh?
Donald Robertson has no mates and he isn't funny. But with guidance from his new mentor Gary, he hopes that this is all about to change.
Writer/performer Gary McNair's acclaimed monologue weaves a classic coming-of-age story with a pinpoint deconstruction of the darker side of stand-up comedy. Donald Robertson Is Not A Stand-Up Comedian was an award-winning sell-out hit at the Traverse Theatre at last year's Edinburgh Festival. Directed by Gareth Nicholls.
The theatre is set up like a comedy club. Or, more accurately, like a cartoon of a comedy club, complete with a fake brick wall and orange lampshades above us. And a man comes on stage and does about as well as anyone could do at being awkward and terrible at stand-up.
It's a bold start, and it gets my attention straight away. The following show is only just over an hour long, but holds me completely. It's a balancing act between being a poignant piece of theatre about bullying and stand-up comedy about stand-up comedy.
Gary McNair is explaining the unusual story of his tutelage of loser Donald Robertson in the ways of being funny. Along the way he deftly deconstructs the art of making a joke, often making asides to the audience to explain what he's doing and why. I liked these in particular, and could have sat for more.
McNair is a compelling stage presence, and easily captivates the audience. Occasionally we are wrong-footed by the sudden changes between comedy and talking-about-comedy, and it's not completely obvious how much audience-participation is expected, but ultimately McNair is composed enough that this doesn't matter.
My only criticism would be that the show is, in some particular ways, a little mild. Dealing with the issue of bullying, McNair's character frequently explains that in comedy you either kill or be killed. He refers to killing a lot. But in the end, the taunting of his characters is just that; taunting. If the jibes had sharper teeth I would have felt a stronger sense of pathos and empathy with young Donald.
However, this is at the end of the day a personal preference, and the fact that I could've taken my mother-in-law to watch this without feeling like I was dumbing down is itself an accomplishment.
This remains a well-acted, beautifully-crafted piece of theatre, which kept me watching, kept me laughing, and kept me happy on a horrible, rainy night.


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Conflict of civilizations between liberalism and Islam or "fundamentalism of freedom of expression"? Salman Rushdie and his detractors by means of the eyes of Western intellectuals | Tradition
by viral Techno August 29, 2022, 1:36 pm
The stabbing incident of British-American author and novelist Salman Rushdie sparked a flurry of reactions, after which among the massive names in American literature, similar to Paul Auster and Man Thales, gathered on the steps from the New York Public Library within the Manhattan district, to arrange a studying of extracts from the works of Rushdie, in assist of the Indian author significantly injured two weeks in the past in a stabbing assault.
Rushdie, the creator of the novel 'The Satanic Verses', was about to provide a lecture on August 12 in upstate New York when a person burst into the theater and stabbed him repeatedly to the neck and stomach. , and the incident drew widespread condemnation around the globe.
On February 14, 1989 – a date which Rushdie sarcastically described as "the unfunny Valentine's Day" – Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to shed Rushdie's blood that made headlines around the globe, and likewise been pressured into hiding for a lot of the Nineties.
Following the latest incident, French thinker Bernard-Henri Lévy mentioned the Nobel Prize in Literature – which will likely be awarded subsequent October – ought to go to author Salman Rushdie, taken to hospital in essential situation after been stabbed in the USA.
Talking of Rushdie, Levy wrote – in an article revealed by the newspaper "Le Journal du Dimanche", "I can not think about some other author who has the audacity, at this second, who deserves it greater than him. The marketing campaign begins now."
Freedom of expression in a liberal world
and in article On the "Dialog" web site, educational Daniel O'Gorman wrote that the Rushdie incident had been broadly and unconditionally condemned, however some feedback about it resorted to framing the incident in a colloquial means within the dualism of freedom of expression versus fundamentalism.
O'Gorman, a researcher in English literature at Oxford Brookes College, mentioned the assault was undoubtedly an "assault on free speech" and added: "Nevertheless, it warns us Research trendy On Islamophobia, the unbridled want to give attention to Islamic extremism is giving solution to a reductionist and simplified conception of the world, through which Western-style liberalism is opposed to what's known as "non secular barbarism", particularly Islamic. Teachers additional warn that this type of worldview can result in a rise in Discrimination in opposition to Muslims".
The author continues: 'Though this incident is horrific, misrepresentation in regards to the conflict of civilizations needs to be averted, and warning must also be exercised earlier than adopting this type of 'free speech fundamentalism"Exploited by far-right French personalities like Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen, within the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo assaults in 2015, "as he put it.
The time period "free speech fundamentalism" is used to discuss with absolutely the dedication to free speech solely with out listening to different ideas and values, similar to fact-checking, figuring out sources and the excellence between details and lies.
The author added: "Media research scholar Gavan Tetley has argued, this The invocation of "free speech" in latest liberal discourse has typically strengthened racism."
He wrote that the very excessive emphasis on the difficulty of "Muslim integration" is offered as tantamount to "taking a stand in opposition to the Catholic Church within the nineteenth century, or a stand in opposition to Stalinist totalitarianism". presents Darsaw writings Rushdie –Since A protracted intervalThe necessity to assist freedom of expression with out decreasing it to a distorted/caricatured picture.
Amongst Darcy Rushdie is Pankaj Mishra, creator of "The Mild Zealots.. Liberals, Race and Empire", of which she considers the Indian British author as one in every of her examples and criticizes his disregard for the nuances revealed by political details and historic and his imaginative and prescient of "the irrationality of Islam".
Mishra evaluation – en extract From his e-book revealed by the American Huff Put up – Rushdie's insistence on "French-style secularization, nonetheless tough to implement even in America and far of Christian Europe", and refers to his insistence to compel Muslims to the "secular ideas of the trendy world", whereas he distrusted the youth of the Arab world. Those that embraced precisely these ideas in 2011 throughout the Arab Spring occasions in Egypt and Tunisia, and by "elected Islamist events within the largest nation, Indonesia, oversaw the transition from army authoritarianism to democracy electoral", in accordance with the creator.
The e-book "The Mild Zealots.. Liberals, Race and Empire" by Pankaj Mishra (Al Jazeera)
The creator believes that Rushdie's contradictions and descriptions of "irrational lots" can't clarify the nice complexities of the up to date world, however belong to a less complicated mental age, as she places it, the place "non-Western and politically unimportant might be judged by their success or failure in following the nice sample. for the secular and humanist West.
"Writing literary fiction can appear to be sufficient to really feel such as you're on the fitting aspect of a world ethical and political battle," she provides, quoting British critic and novelist Tim Parks' evaluation of Rushdie's The Land Beneath Her Ft.
"Cultural betrayal"
In his e-book "Cultural Forces in International Politics", the late Kenyan thinker Ali Al-Amin Mazrouei denounced what he known as "cultural betrayal and censorship between two worlds", through which he expressed his break up between his identification Islam and its perception in a society.
Whereas – the director of the Heart for African American Research on the College of Michigan – rejected all types of capital punishment within the trendy period and strongly reserved the difficulty of censorship and prevention, he noticed that the West didn't perceive the idea of betrayal of somebody from the "nation" because the Muslims say, whereas they simply perceive the betrayal of the state and legislate legal guidelines which can be punished.
The scholar – Binghamton College in New York – thought-about the Quran itself to be a murals and essentially the most broadly learn e-book in its authentic language within the historical past of mankind (that is what what non-Muslims normally say), however slightly relates extra to its trace that the Quran was created by Devil, and likewise to its development by mocking its rulings and making issues up that aren't there.
Mazrouei says the Salman Rushdie controversy includes one other cross-cultural concern: defamation. Within the West, libel regulation tends to give attention to the person, not a sect or group of individuals, however Western writers can't stroll in favor of a author who portrays the Virgin Mary as a "prostitute" or contemplate the Supper as a "collective intercourse get together", This might be the actual equal of blaspheming the narration of the Satanic Verses and fascinating within the honor of the wives of the Prophet (might God bless him and grant him the peace).
The creator says there's a Western ambivalence within the remedy of speech rights; He was personally banned and censored in the USA. Within the third episode titled 'New Gods' of the tv sequence – which was produced by the late BBC scholar, 'BBC' titled 'Africans: A Triple Legacy' – a part of his speech was deleted within the model broadcast in the USA, whereas the identical half was broadcast in different European international locations.
The late Kenyan thinker Ali Al-Amin Mazrouei (1933-2014) labored in US universities and analysis facilities (Getty Pictures)
Author discusses literature's accountability for inflicting chaos and says it precipitated violence and unrest within the subcontinent through which Rushdie was born, the place 20 individuals died following violent protests which the novelist didn't care, stating that Indian intellectuals warned Rushdie and the writer – who printed his novel – of the character of his explosive motion, Penguin Home councilor Kushwant Singh warned that the e-book may result in unrest in India, which is thought for quite a few riots with non secular and nationalist backgrounds.
The creator says the Indian authorities's ban on the e-book has discovered assist from many Indian intellectuals – together with Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and Muslims. Quite the opposite, we are attempting – as onerous as we are able to – to construct a free India through which we are able to all breathe freely, however to do that we should protect the India that exists."
Mazrouei believes that the controversy of the novel "The Satanic Verses" will not be a query of "artwork for artwork's sake", however its creator has positioned the anger of Muslims at their insult under that of tickling readers Westerners, and no tradition might be reformed by insulting it, and as Westerners wrestle to soak up the anger of Muslim protesters Based on the novel, Muslims wrestle to know what they see as "betrayal tradition" of the author in change for a big sum of cash.
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Coal train passing under the Missoula North Side Pedestrian Bridge. Photo by Chad Harder.
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On December 17, 2012, two months after submitting an application for a new rail line, and after all of the public hearings, the Tongue River Railroad submitted a new application to the Surface Transportation Board. The new application makes it perfectly clear, this coal is intended to go through the proposed west coast terminals and off to Asian markets.The newest route would build the railroad from Otter Creek to existing rail lines in Colstrip. MEIC and EarthJustice Comments on new route.
The proposed Tongue River Railroad and Otter Creek Mine are dependent on each other. Arch Coal leased 1.3 billion tons of coal in the Otter Creek area. It has told the state it wants a permit for an even larger area, over 18,000 acres in total. If that coal is dug up and hauled off, the inevitable burning of the coal will result in over 2.6 billion tons of greenhouse gases going into an already overloaded atmosphere.
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» Napassaporn "Eem" Chamnansit, the first Thai woman to climb Mount Everest, announced last week that she had made it to the top of the highest mountain in North America.
First Thai woman to climb Everest summits Mount Denali
Chaiwat Satyaem, Published on 04/07/2019
» Doctor Napassaporn "Eem" Chumnarnsit, who became the first Thai woman to summit Mount Everest in 2016, announced last week that she made it to the top of the highest mountain in North America.
Villager badly hurt in wild elephant attack
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: A villager guarding a rubber plantation near Kui Buri national park was badly hurt when he was attacked by a wild elephant foraging for food late on Tuesday night.
Three hurt in Phetchaburi drive-by shooting
» PHETCHABURI: Three pub-goers were injured when an unknown number of attackers opened fire on them near a pub in downtown Muang district just two weeks after a fatal gunfight in the province.
2 killed, 1 wounded in Phetchaburi gunfight
» PHETCHABURI: Two security guards were killed and another man injured in a fight between two armed rival groups of customers, most of them teenagers, in front of a restaurant early on Sunday, police said.
Foreign man found dead on beach in Hua Hin
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Police are looking for a Russian couple who found the body of a foreigner floating near a beach in Hua Hin and then pulled it ashore to seek further details.
Swiss man found dead in Hua Hin
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32 illegal migrants arrested in packed pickup truck
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Fire ravages Hua Hin resort; all tourists, staff safe
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Fire engulfed four villas at a famous resort in Hua Hin district, but all staff members and guests are safe.
Myanmar migrant caught with 112kg kratom powder
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: A Myanmar illegal migrant was arrested along Tanaosri mountain range in Muang district with 112kg of kratom powder to be sold to Myanmar crewmen, police said.


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