April 10, 2019 - The second of four Reimagining SPACE creative workshops to revitalize Centennial Park and the Lord Reading property has demonstrated that the community needs and wants a multipurpose centre in a vision of sustainable development and responding to the various needs for space and public facilities in order to support community, culture and leisure activities.
"Following the Diagnostic event and the first workshop, this exchange of ideas was once again a great success with more than 70 citizens participating. This allows us to obtain the expertise and vision of citizens which is most important for us," states City Councillor Robert Mercuri, president of the Reimagining SPACE Committee.
The participants were asked to project the current needs into the future and identify the organizations and resident groups likely to use the public facilities. Focus groups were created to allow people to discuss the possibilities, and define the infrastructure needs to support and enhance the services and offer of cultural activities for the benefit of all.
The collective work from the workshop established the need for a multipurpose centre offering sufficient space, with a view on Lake St. Louis, equipped with adaptable meeting rooms, an open-air auditorium for shows and celebrations, a small restaurant or coffee shop, a library, rooms for seniors and teenagers, relaxation, yoga, etc.
According to the citizens, the need has been demonstrated, and expectations are high. While dreaming of a modern and adapted centre, the participants were concerned about the costs involved in the construction of this building, stating that the required financial resources must be found for the realization of such a project.
The Steering Committee is composed of nine citizens with complementary expertise and experience, as well as City Councillors Robert Mercuri and Karen Messier.
"The citizen participation shows the community's commitment to this flagship project, and the outcome of the workshop will provide solutions endorsed by the population. This is very important. We wish to thank everybody who participated so generously," concludes Robert Mercuri.
The next workshop on the subject of the waterfront, marina and recreational activities will be held at Herb Linder Annex on Wednesday, April 24, at 7 p.m.; all citizens are welcome. For further information please click here or send your ideas via email to imagine@beaconsfield.ca .


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Keyana Cruse
Melody Ellis, Staff Writer
Keyana Cruse is a varsity starter for the girl's volleyball team. She is a junior and this is her third year playing for the varsity team. Cruse always tries her best and is constantly working hard.
What are your strengths while on the volleyball court?
"Being a leader, volleyball skills, and the drive to win"
At the moment, are you receiving any college offers?
"I'm already committed Division 1 to the University Of Nevada Las Vegas. I committed 2 months before my junior year started."
What do you think is the best part of playing volleyball for the Lady Braves?
"The girls I play with."
What team do you want to beat the most this season and why?
"We want to beat Spring Hill on Oct. 10 because they're our biggest competitor and it is also senior night."
Before you go into a game, what are your thoughts?
"I think that I have to play my best and I need to encourage my team to do their best so that our team chemistry is good."
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Joseph Narrative (3): Who sold Joseph?
December 5, 2019 February 2, 2021 by unofficialbible
For the previous stories, see here (1) and here (2)
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As we have seen, Joseph narrative is quite troublesome, and it's only getting worse thereon.
28 When some Midianite traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
29 When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes.
30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The boy is gone; and I, where can I turn?"
31 Then they took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood.
32 They had the long robe with sleeves taken to their father, and they said, "This we have found; see now whether it is your son's robe or not."
33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's robe! A wild animal has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."
34 Then Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35 All his sons and all his daughters sought to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father bewailed him. 36 Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard.
The text above indicates that, after Judah's proposal to sell Joseph to Ishmaelites, strangely Midianite traders suddenly appear and draw Joseph out of the pit. What were the brothers doing at that time? The storyline is mysterious. They were eating their meal in a place far from the pit. Midianites draw Joseph out of the pit and sell him to Ishmaelites.
According to v. 29, as Reuben first planned, he returns to the pit and tries to save him. But it is already after Midianites sold Joseph. From the brothers' perspective, Joseph's whereabouts are in the dark. They don't even know whether their brother is dead or alive. Both Reuben's and Judah's plans came to nothing. The only plan that can be carried out is to dip Joseph's robe in a goat's blood and show it to their father to deceive him. They just have to cover up the case.
The narrative problems keep on coming. According to v. 28, it was the Midianites who sold Joseph to Ishmaelites. But in v. 36, Joseph is still in the hands of Midianites. They bring Joseph to Egypt and sell Joseph to Potiphar. Again, according to v. 28, it must have been Ishmaelites who brought Joseph to Egypt. This line of the story is, in fact, supported by Gen 39:1, in which we are told that Potiphar buys Joseph from Ishmaelites.
In conclusion, we must now know that Joseph narrative is not at all straightforward. As we have seen, there are many points of contradictions and inconsistencies. Much ink has been spilled on this matter, and one of the most important scholarly contributions is probably the so-called Documentary Hypothesis, a part of source criticism. It represented biblical scholarship of the twentieth century in the Hebrew Bible and still is considered to be a significant part of the pentateuchal studies, perhaps one of the most significant parts. What I wish to do here is to let people know what scholars have found in the Bible so that they can think about the Bible, deconstruct and reconstruct their belief system as Christians, Jews, or just non-religious persons if that is necessary.
As I expressed, these three posts are completely based on my memory about Dr. Baden's recent work, the Composition of the Pentateuch.
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A CHARITY for autism is working with two Birmingham restaurants to raise funds.
Autism.West Midlands has joined forces with Bohemia Restaurant in Selly Oak, and Cinnamon Red Indian Restaurant, in Moseley for the campaign which will see money donated to the charity everytime a certain product is bought.
A coffee and brownie at Bohemia will raise 50p, while at Cinnamon Red there will be a number of starters, mains and side dishes which will qualify.
The Birmingham-based charity provides services and support for people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and their families throughout the West Midlands region.


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Album Review: Purr – "Like New"
by Nebraska Lucas
Nebraska Lucas
Single Premiere: Terry's Paradise – "I Told You the Full Moon Makes Sense"
Some may find it ironic that the two twenty-somethings responsible for New York band, Purr, only listen to music "made before 1978." It could be, but it isn't. The duo, comprised of singers/songwriters Eliza Callahan and Jack Steffan, are simply too talented at—and too well-versed in—'60s psychedelic pop to be accused of appropriation.
Their debut album, Like New, suggests numerous influences—from their self-proclaimed similarity to The Mamas and The Papas, to the breathy, Stevie Nicks-esque vocals emphasized in "Giant Night" and "Avenue Bliss". But don't expect Like New to be predictable; Purr incorporates jazz and synth-pop instrumentals on "Take You Back" and "Bad Advice" respectively.
Photo By: Kelly De Geer
The album release coincided with uncertainties that, to Callahan and Steffan, marked the "tide change" that typically accompanies life as a twenty-something. Interestingly enough, Like New does feel like a sneaking wave. Unexpected transitions between different musical genres and vocalists parallel the surprises Callahan and Steffan have experienced in their lives and the "push and pull" they emphasize in their music as a result is powerful and stimulating.
Billy Woods' Aethiopes is maddeningly good.
Fans of '60s folk and pop will find Purr's music familiar, but the band's commentary on the painful pursuit of identity will appeal to all.
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Personal development can be achieved through various means. One of these is through the techniques and methods of neuro-linguistic programming. The term neuro-linguistic programming refers to a group of techniques that are based on the assumption that a person's mind and language are interconnected and that this interconnection helps the person to relate to the world around him. Not only do the mind and language interact and relate, but a person can affect his own behavior or other people's behavior by a technique known as "modeling." According to the proponents of neuro-linguistic programming, a person can "model" his own behavior or another person's behavior in order to effect changes in those areas of his life that he feels less successful. If another person performs exceedingly well on a task, then it is possible to learn that behavior. Neuro-linguistic programming involves techniques like hypno-therapy which can potentially effect and change individual behavior.
The mind and body interact with a person's language to create a perception of the world. When this perception or programming is faulty, the person's feelings and reactions are affected and behavioral problems occur. However, the person can be trained through neuro-linguistic programming techniques, to copy or model certain behavior patterns from his own life which have been successful and use them in areas in which he is lacking. In the same way, a successful person's behavior and actions can be modeled into a format that can be used to emulate his success in certain areas. The model is therefore, transformed into a behavior pattern that can not only be used by one but also taught to others.
Neuro-linguistic programming may be used as a behavioral therapy by itself or in combination with other therapies and practices for personal development. It can be conducted through group sessions and seminars. Private consultations between the practitioner and the client can also be used for effecting personal change through these methods. The techniques of neuro-linguistic programming can be used for more general issues like getting rid of certain phobias, overcoming stage fright and ridding yourself of excessive negativity that saps energy. Neuro-linguistic programming and modeling techniques are also beneficial to those with a history of addiction or depression.
More specifically, neuro-linguistic programming techniques help those in the corporate and sporting fields to excel at targets, attain higher levels of motivation and deal with communication issues. The principles of this critically acclaimed program are often used for training and coaching professionals in various disciplines. In many companies, it is used as part of the motivational training program within the organization, especially in the fields of marketing and management training. In the more than three decades since its inception, neuro-linguistic programming has gone on to become one of the most effective and widely used tools for self improvement. Although its techniques have not been adequately researched and validated, its popularity as a facilitator of personal growth and goal attainment is unquestionable.


CENTRE WELLINGTON - The Heart and Stroke Foundation, in partnership with Guelph Wellington Emergency Medical Services, K&L Health Care Consultants Inc. and Centre Wellington, are making it easy for township residents to become CPR Level-A and AED certified for free.
Free public CPR Level-A & AED (automated external defibrilator) certified training will take place on Nov. 26 from 8:30am to noon at the Centre Wellington sportsplex at 550 Belsyde Avenue East, in Fergus.
To register, call 519-837-4858 or email wdgcpr@gmail.com.
Participants will receive a free Heart and Stroke Foundation CPR Anytime Family and Friends kit (valued at $40). Everyone who completes the course will receive a Heart Saver certificate.
According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, approximately 45,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur each year. In Ontario alone, approximately 7,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually.
For every minute that passes without help, a person's chance of surviving a cardiac arrest drops by 7% to 10%. Learning CPR is easy and inexpensive and it could mean saving the life of a friend or family member. When defibrillation is applied with CPR in the first few minutes, it can dramatically improve a cardiac arrest victim's chance of survival by up to 75%.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada sets the Canadian guidelines for CPR, defibrillation and other aspects of emergency cardiovascular care in Canada.


We recommend six journey sites whose search capacity, easy booking course of, and discount alternatives elevate them above the rest. And whereas my searches are admittedly a tiny sample relative to Kayak's huge choices, I noticed one other hiccup on the very next bundle I selected: the Hyatt Regency 'Hare, advertised at $1,092 whole for two people. Based mostly on our research, we concluded that Travelocity is one of the best total travel web site for most people as a result of you'll be able to mix and match flights with or with out lodges or automotive rentals.
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A worker pool is a very common pattern, and they exist in the standard libraries for many languages. The idea is simple: submit some sort of closure to a service which commits to running the closure in the future in some thread. Normally the work is shared out among many different threads and in the absence of anything fancier, one assumes a first-come-first-served queue of closures.
Erlang, with its light-weight process model is not a language which you would expect would require such an approach: processes are dirt cheap, and the scheduler maps processes onto threads when they are ready to be run — in many ways, the ErlangVM is a glorified implementation of a worker pool, only one that does pre-emption and other fancy features, in a very similar way to an OS kernel. However, we recently found in RabbitMQ a need for a worker pool.
At various points in RabbitMQ, we use mnesia transactions to ensure that state that is held by mnesia (for example, the existence or otherwise of a queue) is updated safely. A client recently informed us that he was creating 10,000 connections, each connection was creating a queue, with exclusive set (which means the queue must be deleted automatically when the connection disappears), and then dropping all the connections at the same time. RabbitMQ would become very unresponsive, for a very very long time. A small amount of head scratching and some quick testing led to the conclusion that this was creating 10,000 transactions, all on the same table, all of which were continuously colliding with each other and thus having to be restarted. Here, the realisation is that there is frequently no good reason to allow more mnesia transactions to go on at the same time than you have cores available — the probability of a collision will rise exponentially with the number of concurrently in flight transactions.
The solution here is to submit all of these transactions to a worker pool which has the same number of workers as there are CPU cores in the system. As a result, the probability of a collision is greatly reduced, and things progress much much faster. In many ways, this is a good example of where hinting to the underlying VM as to how it should schedule different jobs would result in massively improved performance.
One interesting gotcha with this solution is the issue of nested transactions. Mnesia handles these very well indeed, but if we wrap every transaction in a submission to the worker pool, we stop mnesia from knowing that these transactions are nested (which means we lose the unrolling of the inner ones if the outer one subsequently fails), and furthermore, we risk deadlock if every worker in the pool is waiting on another nested transaction to complete. To solve this problem, on submission of a closure, we detect whether or not we are already in a worker pool process, and if we are, we just run the closure in the current process without submission at all. This means that nested transactions are correctly run in the same process as their parent, and we don't reach deadlock.
The code is already QA'd and merged into our default branch and is in the three modules worker_pool_sup (which is the module you just need to start up, it'll then start everything else), worker_pool_worker (the actual workers who do the, erm, work), and worker_pool (which is the module to which you submit your jobs). Note that the submission is synchronous, thus you will be returned the result of your closures. Furthermore, your closures are responsible for catching any errors that might occur and returning them to you as values. Finally, note that you'll also need our gen_server2 module as the worker_pool and worker_pool_worker modules both use this.


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Halberd Corp. & Mississippi State University Discuss Animal Testing as Prelude to FDA Certification
By: Halberd Corporation via AccessWire
JACKSON CENTER, PA / ACCESSWIRE / June 8, 2022 / Halberd Corporation (OTC PINK:HALB) and Mississippi State University (MSU) executed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to explore animal testing as the next step in obtaining FDA certification for Halberd's patented extracorporeal disease eradication processes. Consistent with its press release of May 18, 2022, Halberd commenced its pursuits with mdi Consultants, Inc, an FDA application consulting firm, and the FDA to determine specific animal testing requirements. Animal testing will be planned and executed with FDA certification requirements in mind in order to most efficiently utilize available funding, R&D resources, and planned time-to-market for Halberd's technology. Halberd has already successfully completed proof-of-concept testing of its patented extra-corporeal (outside the body) disease eradication process on bacteria, inflammatory cytokines and other neurodegenerative disease antigens.
FDA related certification is the next logical step following Halberd's historic laboratory accomplishments in successfully eradicating, in vitro, select antigens associated with one or more neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disese, Parkinson's Disease, Epilepsy, and other significant disease states.
Dr. Mitchell S. Felder, Halberd's Chief Technology Officer and a board-certified attending neurologist stated, "We are very pleased to have the accomplished professors at Mississippi State University assisting in this significant step in proving the efficacy of Halberd's technology. Animal testing would further validate Halberd's exciting technology and help in ultimately obtaining FDA approval for effective treatment of these devastatingly debilitating diseases which have plagued mankind for millennia."
William A. Hartman, Chairman, President & CEO of Halberd Corporation, added, "We are anxious to begin substantive technical discussions with experts in animal testing which can simulate our technology's impact on the treatment and potential eradication of these terrible diseases. What we learn in animal testing will be critical in enabling us to fine tune the process so that we can proceed with clinical trials."
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Arts and Culture, Bridgeport, Eats
The People's Butcher
by John Gamino • January 25, 2013
With a hint of sadness in his voice, John Schultz confesses that the heyday of the classic neighborhood butcher shop is past. Gone are the stores you could depend on to just "get a good sandwich, get a good salad, and get some good meats." But Mr. Spanky's, Schultz's sandwich and butcher corner shop on the eastern edge of Bridgeport, hints at a possible second coming. Schultz gets his meat exclusively from local purveyors, and he oversees every step of its preparation with the careful eye of a connoisseur. Whereas most modern butchers only buy specific portions and cuts of meat, Schultz goes for the whole hog. "Butcher shops–they aren't like that anymore," he opines.
Yet Schultz's vision is not quite as aged as his meats. His place is meant to also be "small and cool; small and different." The portions are modest and focused on taste, and Schultz preps them all in small batches, right in front of your salivating eyes. What results is a delectable mix of farm-to-table inventiveness and straight-up nostalgia. Whether it's the old or the new or a little bit of both, Mr. Spanky's method makes for fresh, no-frills, high-quality stuff.
The highlight of the menu is what Schultz calls "the Badass BLT": a Chinese bun stuffed generously with bacon, spinach, and sun-dried tomato aioli. Schultz spent almost six years perfecting the curing process for his bacon, and it shows. Each strip is sliced thick and cooked to a uniform heat: slightly crisp, delectably tender. Moderate notes of sugar and salt complement the natural savoriness of the bacon, but yield the meat its proper respect. This is bacon that's been crafted so well that it would be a disservice to call it greasy. That's pork fat on your fingers, in all of its tantalizing glory. The rest of the sandwich isn't half bad, either: the spinach wilts nicely nestled in with the warm bacon, and the flavorful aioli provides a welcome creamy touch. The whole thing is one very tasty mess, but it's a mess that brings nobility to the BLT genre.
The other sandwich mainstay is the applewood-smoked pulled pork. It's almost as messy and stuffed–and arguably just as tasty–as the BLT. Pickled red onions bring a touch of bitterness, homemade barbecue sauce a sweetness that befits pulled pork. Schultz also offers a different special sandwich every day–Sicilian sausage the day I tried it. The sausage came as one lavish hunk, and each bite offered a mouthful of tender, zesty meat. But the peppers and onions managed only a quiet presence, and they failed to produce the balance of flavors that made the other two sandwiches so satisfying. It didn't help that this particular bun was cold and hard, formidable to chew. After taking a first bite, I left the larger bottom half alone.
To accompany the sandwiches, Schultz offers sides of macaroni and cheese and root beer baked beans. The beans come cooked with bacon, but the flavor is surprisingly hard to discern. What really stands out is the root beer reduction, which gives the usual sweet element of beans a unique and subtle twist. The other flavors you'd hope for are all there: a hint of barbecue acidity, sweet ketchup, and a smoky backdrop. All in all, it's a worthy cup of beans, and the mac and cheese is even better. The Monterrey Jack and sharp cheddar cheeses each pack their own pop-in-your-mouth punch, but they don't overpower. Many of the elbows were well browned and charred around the edges. To top it all off, fresh chunks of Schultz's signature bacon lend their hog-inspired savor to the side. My one complaint is that before I had eaten my way to the bottom of the dish, I had run dry of the bacon. But even that spoke to what was perhaps the dish's most signature achievement: in spite of its richness of flavors, the whole thing avoided coming off as overly heavy.
Even if it turns out that your eyes had been hungrier than your stomach, you'll be hard pressed to fall into a bad mood. The corner space is cozy and inviting; three stools and the L-shaped counter make for the entire seating area, and various posters for meat enthusiasts lend color and friendliness to the walls. Schultz himself is good-humored and affable, and from his place behind the window he exudes cheer. The secret to his success is a commitment to keeping things simple, and making a good time of it. "I went out and had too many drinks last night and I'm still standing here," he told me on my second visit. "You gotta love the daily grind or get out."
Schultz has cooked out of this same kitchen for the past five years–he and a partner are responsible for Foodism, which sends ready-made lunches to locations such as the University of Chicago–and he doesn't want to work anywhere else. Bridgeport is his favorite neighborhood in Chicago, and it's not hard to see why. What Schultz likes about Bridgeport–its down-to-earth attitude and caring people–is exactly what he strives for in his store.
"It's a neighborhood, man," he says simply. "These are real people." John Schultz wants to be their butcher.
Mr. Spanky's Farm Fresh Artisan Foods, 335 W. 31st St. Wednesday-Saturday, 10:30am-9pm. Hours subject to change. (312)450-3059. mrspankys.com
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The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) [The Criterion Collection] - Blu-ray Disc
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starring Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Hirschmüller, Marian Seidowsky
written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
by Jefferson Robbins When beleaguered costermonger Hans Epp (Hans Hirschmüller) shouts his wares in the courtyard well of a grey Munich apartment block, he might as well be shouting into the void. Although his singsong calling of the prices of fruits is mesmeric, it summons practically no customers. Blocky and straining against his own skin, Hans has been humiliated all his life, and the manner in which he makes his livelihood is a further humiliation in the eyes of his family. The word used for "livelihood" in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Merchant of Four Seasons is the German noun Existenz. Clearly, it has multiple edges.
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The knives are pointed every which way in this, Fassbinder's breakthrough film. Take Manfred Wagner, the never-seen friend who follows Hans off to the Foreign Legion in the years just after World War II, and meets his death. Only fleetingly mentioned, Manfred's name melds Germany's national (and nationalist) composer with Byron's mournful hero, who defies conventions and chooses death over conformity.1 Hans's mother (Gusti Kreissl) acidly declares Manfred the Good Son of Germany, the one who should have lived. As Hans and his wife Irmgard (Irm Hermann) negotiate their marriage of last resort, they're confronted at every turn by crucifixes, many of them angled or toppled, and the condemnations of Christian structures follow through all the way to Hans's Last Supper. Fearful of poverty, Irmgard is beckoned by offers of prostitution on a Munich street while standing before store-window displays that promise blissful matrimony and furnished domestic comfort. We can laugh--and do--at the absurd, puppet-like way Fassbinder's performers respond to trauma, but Fassbinder always holds the moment too long for laughter to be a comfort and so indicts the audience as surely as his characters.
That's the point, really, since Fassbinder was a social provocateur of the first order. His target was Germany, and before hitting that mark his arrows had to first thread the needles of class, family, faith, and sex.2 Hans goes from soldier to policeman to merchant--a progression reflecting Germany's own, from bellicose military empire to patrolled state to economic engine of Europe, each condition mortifying in its own way. He only seems to live fully when engrossed in Rocco Granata's "Buona Notte"--sentimental schlager of the kind that transfixed Germany in the 1950s and after. It's the song with which he serenades Irmgard, while she struggles to leave him as a consequence of his abuse. The medical condition that befalls Hans is a ridiculous bit of melodrama in a film full of same, but still it ticks in him like a time bomb. He lives in barrenness, hawking fruit in those courtyards, and the frame only comes alive with passersby and greenery once he turns over the street-vending to a new hire, Anzell (Karl Scheydt), who's already cuckolded him. Slowly-mounting success doesn't agree with Hans; the more he plays by the rules, the deeper his depression. The passive defenses offered by his remote, confident sister Anna (Hanna Schygulla) and the all-seeing blue eyes of his daughter Renate (Andrea Schober) are no succour.
Cunningly, the cinematic signals around Hans are all cockeyed: The one time non-diegetic music arises (uncredited, though presumably from Fassbinder's long-time composer Peer Raben), it's beautiful and pastoral--but it's the moment when he sinks into his deepest funk, unable even to find pleasure in the arms of his "one great love" (Ingrid Caven). Hans and the characters around him assume aesthetically-captivating but nonsensical postures, and hold them for long spells: Anna lying across a couch with Renate, Irmgard's coital contortions with Anzell, the sodden drinking companions who freeze in place while Hans drinks himself to death, his own boneless slump in a parlour chair.
Even with these flourishes and misdirections, Fassbinder is on the side of this wife-beater and drunk, who came near death in wartime (as a prisoner of El Hedi ben Salem) and has yearned for it ever since--maybe even before then. The humour of The Merchant of Four Seasons is blacker than pitch but wrought with pity. Fassbinder gives us a man heaped with horrific expectations, navigating a social system imposed from without and equipped for failure. Hans suffers, and imparts suffering, and by doing so remains part of the machine. He beats his wife and neglects his child, who nonetheless hold out hope for him. When Irmgard leaves Hans or, later, engineers a conflict for him, it is a seizure of control, an ordering of her life to her desires at last, yet she cannot escape the gravity of his self-loathing. Those long silent gazes, more than just aping or homaging Douglas Sirk, emulate the ice of chronic depression, each moment lingered on to evoke the hopeless weight carried by the simplest interpersonal gestures when that veil falls on us.
THE BLU-RAY DISC
Irm Hermann's glycerine tears gleam like icicles in Criterion's excellent 1.37:1, 1080p presentation. From a restoration standpoint, that's a visual achievement; from a stylistic perspective, it's perhaps more visible artifice than Fassbinder himself would have stood for, presuming that film projection would always blur the twinkle. The transfer takes deep pleasure in the colours coaxed out by DP Dietrich Lohmann and in their gradations, too, as in the delirious reds of Hermann's and Caven's hair. Some dark patches banish all contour into their depths, but these feel natural. Grain is so fine it hits a seldom-seen sweet spot, both present and absent at the same time. The enclosed space in the Epps' flat and the arch-framed exterior courtyards all feel like inhabited places, fluidly lit by Lohmann and given life by Kurt Raab's set creation and dressing. (Typical of Fassbinder, cast and crew are largely one and the same here, and Raab plays Hans's disdainful brother-in-law.) The image masterfully displays a wide palette of skin tones, from Klaus Löwitsch's chestnut tan to Hermann's veined ivory. The LPCM 1.0 audio marks The Merchant of Four Seasons for the chamber drama it is: People arguing in small rooms don't need much dynamic range. Yet the clarity is above reproach, and there's room enough for clangour and violence amid the drear and recriminating dialogue.
Fassbinder's peer and friend Wim Wenders speaks highly of the late director and illustrates the background they share in the sole audio commentary, imported from Wellspring's 2002 DVD edition. Both born in the months following the end of WWII, the two men were part of a cadre of directors who more or less throttled the postwar German film industry into being and put its cinema on an international stage. They did so, first, by absorbing all the American movies and music they could--not a tall order, given the occupying presence that brought its pop culture along with it. "It was so much more about fun, about pleasure, than whatever we received from our own German background," he reports. As Wenders characterizes it, his attendance at Germany's early film school was something of a joke--and Fassbinder's hyperachieving presence only made it more so. "We were the first film students in Germany," he says, "and they didn't even know what to teach us." He isolates a faux-Bavarian character in Fassbinder's dialogue--a technique the writer-director employed to further alienate the characters from the audience, but which wouldn't be distinct to a viewer without some German fluency.
I take issue with Wenders's decision to term Irmgard a "monster"--there's nothing terribly monstrous about a woman delicately exerting influence in her home over a man who's done far worse to her. Irm Hermann is right next door on a 2015 interview featurette (10 mins., HD) and can speak for herself, though what she says is a little dispiriting. She characterizes her career as a wholesale creation of Fassbinder, who discovered her working as an office secretary, recruited her to his projects, cajoled her to quit her job, and flooded her like a vessel with his characters and scripts for the next decade. Hirschmüller is likewise freshly-interviewed (14 mins., HD) to discuss the intensive rehearsals on Fassbinder's sets that led to lots and lots of one-take shooting with no variation from the established script and blocking. (A nice way to save money on film, too.) Fassbinder's 1969 Katzelmacher is a point of reference across Hirschmüller's featurette and that of scholar Eric Rentschler (26 mins. HD), where the Douglas Sirk influences are examined in more depth. (Wenders quotes Fassbinder as saying that after discovering the German expatriate's Technicolor weepies, "Suddenly I began trusting myself.") In the keepcase insert, Thomas Elsaesser's inner-leaf essay makes the provocative case that Hans is a witness of sorts even to those scenes where he's not present, with Fassbinder's camera suggesting his viewpoint on Irmgard's adultery, his own funeral, and so on. Perhaps the melodrama, as for so many of us, is all in his head. Follow Jefferson Robbins on Twitter
1. Manfred conjures seven Spirits and asks them to bestow "forgetfulness" and "oblivion" upon him. "It is not in our essence, in our skill," they respond. "But--thou mayst die." return
2. The late historian Tony Judt's massive book Postwar returns again and again to The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) as a touchstone for understanding Germany as it came to be, after launching and then disavowing the bloodiest war in history. Judt writes: "The apolitical, consumerist, American-protected cocoon of the Bundesrepublik was not just imperfect and amnesiac; it had actively conspired with its Western masters to deny the German past, to bury it in material goods and anti-Communist propaganda. Even its constitutional attributes were inauthentic: as Fassbinder put it, 'Our democracy was decreed for the Western occupation zone, we didn't fight for it ourselves.'" return
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Apache tests if file exists really in :
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If founds it serves the generated files,
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Tom Cruise Confirms Jennifer Connelly Is Joining 'Top Gun' Sequel (Exclusive)
By Rachel McRady 4:20 AM PDT, July 23, 2018
Straight from Maverick's mouth!
After it was reported that Jennifer Connelly would be joining the Top Gun sequel, ET's Carly Steel got the official confirmation from none other than Tom Cruise himself at the Mission: Impossible Fallout premiere in Washington D.C. over the weekend.
"Look, she's a great actress, obviously. ...When you see the film, you'll see why she's perfect for it," the 56-year-old actor gushed over his new co-star. "She has such a very talented, very vibrant, and, you know, see we're just going to have a great cast. Gonna be a lot of fun."
Cruise was particularly excited to be back at the Air and Space Museum in D.C., as the location has real significance for him.
"We actually had the Top Gun premiere here," he recalled of promoting the original 1986 film. "But even before that, as a kid, I came through and it was very inspiring as a child to come through this museum."
There's no relaxing for Cruise after he finishes promoting Mission: Impossible Fallout.
"No, we are actually working on Top Gun full-time while I'm doing this," he noted. "Yeah, we'll go right into. I mean, I've started already so I've been full-on. Even when we're on that tour, I've been working."
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Amsterdam, Finding Our Place, Debate Club, and Rethinking RE
Happy Tuesday! I'm a day late because Puja and I spent the long weekend celebrating our second anniversary in Amsterdam.
First, Amsterdam. What an incredible city. Before we went, everyone told us that it's their favorite city to the point that it became almost clichéd, but often, clichés exist for a reason. The architecture was mindblowingly and consistently beautiful. Every new block was more stunning than the last. The food is like a grownup kids menu. We ate fries with mayo, burgers, pancakes, pizza, and stroopwafels, most at least twice. Amsterdam is a peaceful and happy place, and we'll be back.
Then, Puja. I feel so lucky to be married to someone who is multiples smarter and more beautiful than me, who never stops impressing me, who has taught me to love travel, and who is endlessly supportive even when I want to do embarrassing things like send a newsletter that our friends will see or start a debate club. I could go on and on, but I've gotten feedback that my writing is too wordy, so here's to hoping that she doesn't realize how far out of my league she is for at least another two years 🥂
Good news: I think we're all going to start hanging out together more, IRL.
I wrote Parts 1-3 of the series, Finding Our Place, last week to put some structure around my thoughts on why we're coming back offline and why this is just the beginning. You can check them out here:
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Part 1: Why Now?
Part 2: The Rise of IRL Member Communities
Part 3: We're Just Getting Started
In the next week or so, I'll be finishing Part 4, an exploration into what the world might look like when we do what's best done online, online, and what's best done IRL, IRL.
I am going to keep exploring the ideas that I'm writing about in this series, so if you've taken the time to read them: 1) thank you! and 2) I'd love to hear what you agree with, what you disagree with, where you think it doesn't go deep enough, and what you think potential applications could be. Hit me up!
Speaking of hanging out together IRL, Debate Club actually happened, and it was better than I could have possibly hoped for.
This past Wednesday, eight brave souls (plus one intrepid timekeeper and one fearless content guy) screwed in their courage, outlined their cases, and got up in front of other people with only their wits to protect them. They battled it out in our first Debate Club Debate.
And they were awesome. Fueled by pizza and beer/seltzers, each debater brought his or her A game. Everyone was new to formal (or in this case, informal) debate, and I was shocked at how quickly everyone figured out not only the rules, but the winning strategies and tactics.
What made me happiest to see, though, was that everyone had a blast. I caught people looking at each other with "Woah, I'm impressed" faces when someone made a particularly compelling argument, we got to see a philosopher debate a data scientist on whether General AI should have rights, everyone offered suggestions on how we can evolve the format to make it even better next time, and the group hung around just chatting for more than half an hour after it all ended, at 10:30pm on a Wednesday.
Huge thanks and shoutout to Shital, Jon, Joe, Pamela, Kristian, Ben, Dan, Mike, Puj, and Nickmo, for giving this a shot.
Congrats to our first champions, Mike Madonna and Dan McCormick, who beat out Ben Rollert and Kristian von Rickenbach in the finals by winning the Con side of the resolution: Unions are good.
I'm even more excited to keep this going than I was to start it. The next debate will be in a month or so (details to come), with new rules, new topics, and new people - join the list here if you want to get involved!
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Dror gives the reader an understanding of how each of the asset classes - from houses to warehouses - works, frameworks for understanding the impact that technology has on each of them, and insights on how to take advantage of the changes.
Dror didn't ask me to write this, I just really think it's great and that you should go pre-order his book today.
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
You know that voice that all airline pilots make - the matter-of-fact drawl with a slight smug pilot inside-joke slant? Because of The Right Stuff, I know where that schtick comes from: Chuck Yeager.
Yeager was the first pilot to break the sound barrier. Because of his status at Edwards Air Force Base, where he was a test pilot, other pilots there began copying his cavalier drawl. Because of Edwards' status in the flight hierarchy, when its pilots left to go to other bases, the pilots at the new bases began imitating them. And because most commercial pilots at the time got their training in the military, what they picked up at their bases has spread across airlines and decades to become the recognizable pilot voice that we all know.
Like a fighter pilot, Wolfe is comfortable diving in and out of a variety of altitudes at dizzying speed, all while maintaining a sense of control and pace. He zooms all the way in to the emotions of particular pilots' wives and all the way out to the geopolitical causes of the first manned spaceflight, dropping knowledge bombs like the Yeager story the whole time. I'm only a quarter of the way through, but can already recommend it to anyone who's interested in psychology, planes, or American history.
Big week this week. More to come in next week's newsletter!
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Parafia Matki Bożej Nieustającej Pomocy w Żalnie – parafia rzymskokatolicka, znajdująca się w diecezji pelplińskiej, w dekanacie Rytel.

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The value of the European defence industry and its contribution to security and development
Brussels was the location for a European debate on the themes of defence, security and the role of industrial players in the sector. In a Europe shocked by the war in Ukraine and at a time when the majority of countries in the 'old continent' are announcing increased budgets for military spending budgets, companies in the Aerospace, Defence and Security (AD&S) sector are questioning how to develop the capabilities and technologies they need to operate in a totally new international context compared to a few months ago.
Two events stood out yesterday in the Belgian capital. In the morning, ASD, the association that brings together the European aerospace, security and defence industries and represents around 3,000 companies and 880,000 people across 18 countries, released an overview of the state of the industry and its value in 2021. The Association issued two reports: the first an annual publication on the main issues and statistics relating to its member companies, and the second an analysis of the companies' economic and social impact.
Both documents were presented and discussed in a press conference organised by the Association and attended by Chairman Alessandro Profumo, Vice-Chairman Guillaume Faury and Secretary General Jan Pie.
Some striking statistics emerged for the European AD&S sector*, which employs 3.57 million people including those working in direct (942,000), indirect (966,000) and induced (over 1.66 million) roles. In other words, each direct job generates an additional 2.8 jobs. The turnover of the sector amounts to €578 billion, of which €241 billion is direct, €148 billion is indirect and €189 billion is induced. These figures show that every €1.00 of turnover from companies in the sector generates an additional €1.40 overall.
The European AD&S industry contributes €240 billion to the GDP of member states: according to the analysis presented yesterday, every €1.00 of turnover generates €0.99 of GDP, a ratio that puts companies in the sector among those contributing the highest added value to the European economy.
3.57 MN
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€ 578 BN
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total GDP
€ 18.5 BN
total R&D investments
* EU27 plus UK, Norway and Turkey
The Aerospace, Defence and Security sector therefore plays a vital role in enabling the socio-economic development of the countries where it operates and provides national governments with the technologies and tools used by their institutions to guarantee security.
Security - of territories, citizens, businesses and infrastructures - is fundamental. Without it, no growth can be lasting or sustainable. Companies in the defence sector are some of the most advanced in terms of their technological capabilities and are among those that invest the most in research and development. These factors constitute the main drivers in the growth of each nation's gross domestic product.
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The Economic Impact of the European Aerospace and Defence Industry
Towards a European Defence
Following the same themes, Leonardo organised another event in Brussels by Leonardo entitled "The pathway to European Defence between global challenges and technological sovereignty". Among the guests attending were some of the most influential representatives of the European institutions, including the European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni and the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, who spoke via a video message. Closing the evening was a keynote speech by Bastian Giegerich, Director of Defence and Military Analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
In the rooms of the historic Solvay Library, the participants discussed how to raise the level of cooperation between countries, an approach that will become increasingly important if Europe is to achieve strategic autonomy and technological independence in its defence capabilities. There must also be an awareness of the complexity, the costs and the high degree of specialisation that new technologies demand, particularly in the emerging disruptive sector that is so crucial for the platforms and solutions of the future.
Aircraft, helicopters, tanks, ships, submarines: the new context in which these assets must operate is no longer purely an individual domain - air, land or sea - but the combination of all three; and to these must be added the new space and cyber domains, now crucial from a Joint All-Domain perspective. Technological systems and solutions must have the ability to "talk to each other", to transmit data, to analyse it, and to be able to operate rapidly and effectively in any operational scenario, deploying ever fewer people in high-risk situations.
The contribution of the industry
Leonardo is ready to support this process by leveraging the distinctive capabilities that make it one of the few European companies to be a leading player in multidisciplinary technologies across all five domains.
To sustain the technological and industrial base of European defence, it is of fundamental importance to develop a fully integrated cycle of cooperation - based on an agreed definition of priorities and requirements - and to secure an increase in European research funding for defence and the development of joint programmes.
For Profumo "the first step is to identify the professional skills and capabilities that the sector will need in the medium and long term. This is why at Leonardo we have developed a map of critical skills and technologies and invested in the Leonardo Labs, a network of 11 laboratories dedicated to research into emerging disruptive technologies".
The words of Leonardo's CEO were echoed by Commissioner Gentiloni, who pointed out the consequences of Russia's invasion on the global economy and in particular on the European economy, with the combination of soaring energy prices, rising inflation, weak external demand, and extraordinary uncertainty weakening confidence and clouding our economic outlook. According to the latest forecasts, we should expect the European economy to grow by 0.3% next year and 1.6% in 2024.
Paolo Gentiloni also stated that the conflict in Ukraine has strengthened the transatlantic alliance, but at the same time "pushes us towards a more integrated European defence system. We have to take more responsibility at European level, which means significantly increasing defence spending: we come from two decades of underinvestment in which combined defence spending in Europe grew by 20%, when in the same period in the US it grew by 60%, in Russia it tripled and China increased it by 600%.
In her video message, Roberta Metsola reiterated the importance of devoting further resources to Defence in order to achieve European sovereignty. According to the President, guaranteeing access to the key technologies of critical importance to the Defence industry will require investments, new industrial capabilities and international collaboration.
Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament
Closing the event, in his keynote speech Giegerich underlined that, for many players in the sector, the role of export markets has grown over the past 20 or 30 years in comparison with domestic markets. This change that has had the consequence of transforming some buyers into outright competitors, exchanging access to their markets for the transfer of technologies in their favour.
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Fishing is an activity available by interacting with the chair at the end of the pier. A fishing rod is required to play the minigame and it can be found in the attic: take the small key in the home entrance and the stool in the garage, then open the attic door upstairs.
Three different fishes can be caught regularly: sea trout is attracted by worm, snapper by the lure, and mackerel by the special lure. Later, a unique fish named "Tigger" appears, which is also attracted by the last lure. There is no fourth bait despite what the board on the pier displays.
First, choose the right bait depending on the type of fish you want to catch. Then use the arrow keys to line-up the bait. Anticipate the position of the fish, the lower it is, the more it shifts to the right or left before the hook reaches it. Press Enter or tap the screen to drop the line. When the bait hits the fish, validate to bring it up.
Aqua is a monster girl who lives in a lair in the ocean. Its weak point is its attraction for shiny items. Drop the special and golden lure above the hole in the seabed.
Tigger is Terry's archenemy: the fish took his toe years ago. In order to encourage the captain to retire, the main character has to catch him with the special lure.
When Tigger's head just covers the red crab, drop the lure above the sea pearl.
Captain Terry buys each of your fish $80.
Succesfully catching Aqua and Tigger in the fishing minigame allow you to progress in Aqua's route.
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The new president will be Sergei Ivanov Jr, son of Sergei Ivanov, the former chief of the Russian presidential administration and deputy prime minister who also served as defence minister.
The new head of the diamond giant brings a wealth of business and banking experience, and is currently senior vice president of Sberbank. After graduating from prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations, he worked for Gazprom and Gazprombank.
From 2011 to 2016, he headed the board of directors of OJSC SOGAZ.
He replaces Andrey Zharkov as president of Russia's top diamond producer Alrosa, in a change announced by deputy premier and presidential envoy to the Russian Far East, Yuri Trutnev.
There is speculation that differences arose between Trutnev ally Zharkov and senior officials over the sale by the Federal Property Management Agency of the controlling stake in OJSC 'Diamond World', until recently the Russian only custom diamond processing point, and other issues.
Alrosa is a group of Russian diamond producers. It mines diamonds in the Sakha (Yakutia) region of Siberia, the Arkhangelsk region and in Africa.
In 2016, Alrosa's production amounted to 37.2 million carats. Diamond sales totaled 40.1 million carats. The company forecasts production of 39.2 million carats this year.
The largest shareholders of Alrosa are the Russian Federation with 33.02%, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 25%, local districts in Yakutia 8%, with 34% on the open market.
Thanks so much for this post! I love that you included a few pictures of the diamonds! They are so beautiful! I would love to see a close up taken with a mini camera!
he cheapest way is using the old YENISEI river as a waterway. So, the road or railway just has to reach the Northern coast to the sea, and there, the Diamond cargo can be transported by ship to the delta of the Yenisei river and to Krasnoyarsk.
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The coefficient of the recursion is specified, and the sum of the progression is calculated and displayed.
Enter the value p, q, and r and the range and click the button "Calculate sum of progression", and the sum of the progression of the specified range and value between the first term to 20th is calculated are displayed.


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Unvaccinated Washington state employees face their last day on the job
At a news conference on October 14, Gov. Jay Inslee said the state was following science and the law when deciding whether to accommodate employees who received medical or religious exemptions to his COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Monday is the deadline for Washington state employees, healthcare and long-term care workers and those working in the education field to be fully vaccinated. Those who aren't could be out of a job by day's end. Some of the state employees who face termination got exemptions, but not a workplace accommodation so they could stay on the payroll.
For more than 30 years, Charles LeBlanc has served the state of Washington. First as a state trooper, rising to the rank of captain. And, since 2017, as Washington's fire marshal overseeing such things as the state's fire training academy and enforcing fireworks regulations. But now LeBlanc is about to turn in his badge.
"The 18th [of October] will be my last day at work for the state. The 19th I will walk away without further employment, with no medical or dental coverage for my family," LeBlanc said.
LeBlanc is among potentially hundreds, if not thousands, of Washington state employees poised to lose their jobs Monday because they didn't comply with Gov. Jay Inslee's requirement to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The state doesn't expect to know the true "separation" number for several days.
Inslee issued his mandate — which also covers health care, long-term care and educational workers — in August amid skyrocketing COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations driven by the contagious delta variant. The so-called "fifth wave" was often described by hospitals and health care providers as the worst since the start of the pandemic. To date, Washington has confirmed more than 600,000 COVID-19 cases, logged nearly 38,000 hospitalizations and recorded over 8,000 deaths.
Inslee's mandate covered more than 800,000 public and private sector workers, including about 61,000 general government employees. He gave them until October 18 to get fully vaccinated, or be fired.
There was an option for workers to seek medical or religious exemptions. As of October 7, about 6,069 state employees had sought exemptions and roughly 84 percent of those requests had been approved, according to state data.
But just because an employee received an exemption didn't mean they could remain unvaccinated and keep their job. For that to happen, the worker had to get an approved accommodation from their agency. And the Inslee administration drew a hard line on accommodations in the name of health and safety.
For the most part, anyone whose job was public-facing, involved direct care or put them in close proximity to colleagues couldn't be accommodated in their current position — even if they agreed to get tested regularly and take extra precautions like double-masking or wearing an N95 mask.
"Mask and test was the approach used prior to the mandate and resulted in outbreaks for staff and clients who were being served," wrote Mike Faulk, an Inslee spokesperson in an email. "It did not work to meet the safety standards that are owed to our staff or clients."
Instead, to get an accommodation, exempted workers generally had to be reassigned to a "back office" job or one that allowed them to telework.
According to the most recent data available from the state, only about 30 percent of requests for accommodation were being approved as of earlier this month. The final percentage, however, is likely to be higher as more than 1,300 requests for accommodation were still pending.
Still, it's possible that many, if not the majority, of state employees who lose their jobs will be people who got exemptions, but not an accommodation — as opposed to workers who simply refused to get the vaccine and didn't seek an exemption.
Generally, federal law requires employers to provide workers with a "reasonable accommodation" so long as it doesn't create an "undue hardship" on the employer.
By law, employers have a greater obligation to accommodate workers with a medical exemption than those with a religious exemption. In the case of a religious exemption, the agency can say "no" if the accommodation would impose more than a minimal burden on operations.
In LeBlanc's case, he got a letter from his doctor saying he has a "qualifying contraindication" to the COVID vaccine because of ongoing health issues and a history of adverse events, including once going into anaphylactic shock after getting an allergy shot.
With his doctor's letter in hand, LeBlanc said he applied for and received a medical exemption, but was told by the Washington State Patrol, his employer, that he couldn't be accommodated because of the public-facing nature of his job. Given the choice of getting vaccinated or getting fired, LeBlanc chose the latter.
"I think a mandate is very, very dangerous because …. you're taking people like me and basically asking me to play Russian Roulette with my life by taking a vaccination," LeBlanc said.
LeBlanc added that he's confident he has some natural immunity to COVID-19 after contracting the virus this summer.
Recently, LeBlanc became a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by dozens of state and local public sector workers that aims to overturn the governor's mandate. A hearing in that lawsuit is scheduled for Monday in Thurston County Superior Court.
A separate lawsuit was filed in federal court where, on Friday, a judge in Seattle denied the plaintiffs' motion to halt the implementation of the mandate.
Seattle attorney Nathan Arnold, who filed both lawsuits, said the state should have found a way to keep people like LeBlanc, who's one of the State Patrol's few Pacific Islander employees, from leaving state service.
"I would implore the governor to consider some commonsense accommodations," Arnold said in an interview last week. "People like the fire marshal who have antibodies, they should be able to continue doing their job."
In response, Faulk, the Inslee spokesperson, said, "The medical evidence shows vaccination provides a much more robust and longer antibody response than prior infection."
In a statement, a spokesperson for the State Patrol called LeBlanc "a good man and a good friend" and called his imminent departure "a loss."
The spokesperson, Chris Loftis, said the agency reviewed each exemption case individually and followed federal equal opportunity and state workplace safety guides to find "accommodations whenever possible."
"We do not wish to lose a single employee to this situation, but recognize loss will be inevitable given the medical and regulatory complexities of this public health-focused pandemic response," Loftis said.
As of October 6, 90 percent of the State Patrol's staff been verified as fully vaccinated. Of the remaining employees who had not confirmed their vaccine status, 91 were sworn officers and 61 were civil servant employees, according to the agency.
In response to the criticism that the state was being too restrictive in granting accommodations, Governor Inslee at a press conference on Thursday defended his get-vaccinated or get-out policy.
"It is a fair thing not to allow public servants to infect the public. We want to serve the public, not infect the public," Inslee said.
In a 24-page guidance document sent to state agencies, Washington's Office of Financial Management (OFM), which oversees state human resources, said workers could potentially be accommodated through the "implementation of multiple safety measures."
The list of safety measures included requiring the employee to wear a surgical grade mask, staggering schedules or improving ventilation.
But a separate "Vaccine Accommodation Matrix" issued by OFM said safety measures "were not stopping the spread of COVID-19" and instructed agencies to take into consideration the type, frequency and risk of contact when deciding on accommodations.
For congregate settings, like prisons and state hospitals, where the risk of transmission is higher, the matrix offered no accommodation option for jobs that "require unavoidable or unpredictable interaction" unless the worker could be moved to a "back office" position.
At the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), which operates several 24/7 facilities including the state's psychiatric hospitals, a spokesperson said staff with medical or religious exemptions "cannot be provided an accommodation to continue providing direct care."
The Department of Corrections (DOC) took a similar position.
"Anybody that has that direct contact with our population … we've had to remove them from that direct contact with folks, said Assistant Secretary Mike Obenland, who oversees the state's 12 prisons.
On Friday, DOC said it was working to accommodate all 91 employees who had received medical accommodations and was on track to offer accommodations to about 50 percent of the roughly 600 employees with religious exemptions.
Still, the agency was preparing to lose up to 500 of its 8,900 employees.
"That's 500 families who are going to lose access to healthcare and pay and benefits and retirement, good union, living-wage jobs," said Michelle Woodrow, the president and executive director of Teamsters 117, which represents front-line DOC workers.
Woodrow called Inslee's mandate "rushed" and said her union was leaving open the option of pursuing union grievances or even litigation against the state.
Meanwhile, the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE), which represents about 38,000 general government employees , said it's already pursuing union grievances on behalf of 42 non-front-line workers who received exemptions, but were not accommodated by their agencies.
The state's de facto prohibition on unvaccinated state workers continuing to perform front-line jobs stands in contrast to what some school districts in Washington are allowing.
According to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), unvaccinated school employees with exemptions are being accommodated through a menu of options that don't necessarily preclude them from remaining in the classroom or having direct contact with students. That list includes a requirement that they double mask, submit to once or twice-a-week COVID testing and refrain from eating with other staff or students.
"There is no standard approach, OSPI will not be setting minimum requirements, nor will we collect data on the additional health and safety mitigations that you have put in place for your employees who are granted accommodations," said state Superintendent Chris Reykdal in an email to school districts earlier this month.
Some local fire departments are also allowing unvaccinated firefighters who've received exemptions to continue working their regular shifts, but with additional masking and social distancing requirements.
Washington is one of 25 states, including Oregon and California, that have imposed some sort of COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to LeadingAge, a national trade group that represents nonprofit long-term care facilities. But unlike California, Washington did not offer state workers a testing-in-lieu of vaccination option.
Last week, Inslee said he was "extremely encouraged" after the state worker vaccination rate topped 90 percent. While state agencies are making contingency plans in case of staffing shortages, Inslee said he wasn't anticipating "massive disruptions" in state services as a result of the employees leaving because they aren't vaccinated.
"And if people do make a choice to leave service, we will replace them. We will find other people who do decide to become vaccinated," Inslee said.
Union representatives, though, are warning of worker shortages, especially in state institutions, and the potential for unsafe work conditions.
"We have staffing level issues in our institutions already, which is concerning," said Leanne Kunze, WFSE's executive director.
At the Washington State Patrol, Fire Marshal Charles LeBlanc isn't the only employee who will be out of a job after Monday. So will Richard and Celina Thompson, a married couple with two small children who live in Vancouver.
Richard is a sergeant with almost 17 years on the job. Celina is a dispatcher approaching her 15th anniversary. They too are plaintiffs in the lawsuit to overturn the mandate.
In an interview in September, both said they felt the governor's order amounted to government overreach and an infringement on their rights. They also said it was a personal, medical decision to get the vaccine and that they worried about possible side effects, as well as long-term effects.
"I just don't want to put it in my body," Celina Thompson said. "Ask me in five to 10 years when there's been time to see what it does and what it doesn't do and maybe I'll reconsider."
Citing "religious, moral and ethical beliefs" both received religious exemptions from the state patrol but were later told they couldn't be accommodated.
In a follow up interview last week, the couple said they've come to terms with their decision to leave the State Patrol. They've decided to cash out their retirement and purchase a couple of small businesses.
"I do know we'll be OK and I know we'll succeed at anything that we do, but there's some people that are getting fired that won't be OK," Celina Thompson said.
Richard, who has an appointment Monday to turn in his State Patrol vehicle and equipment, said the hardest part will be saying goodbye to the troopers he supervises, two of whom are also leaving the agency.
"It's not fair or right, and neither is the mandate," he said.
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Q: Orleans performance issue with GetGrain and saving to Event Store I'm using Orelans (2.0.3) with SQL database (2017). Database is on the same host where application is located. Currently I'm struggling with performance issue for :
var purchaseGrain = _grainFactory.GetGrain<IPurchaseGrain>(id);
await purchaseGrain.Create(id, command);

Create method for test purposes do nothing and looks like :
public Task Create(Guid id, CreatePurchaseCommand message)
        {
            var @event = new PurchaseCreatedEvent
            {
                Id = id,
                Name = message.Name,
                Type = message.Type
            };

            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }

Time execution of this part takes a long time :
var purchaseGrain = _grainFactory.GetGrain<IPurchaseGrain>(id);
await purchaseGrain.Create(id, command);

Example time execution in miliseconds:
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I have also problem with the following part :
protected async Task Publish(IEvent @event)
        {
            RaiseEvent(@event); //Rise event works very fast
            await ConfirmEvents(); // here is long time execution issue
        }

Example execution time in miliseconds for ConfirmEvents :
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Everything is working on my local machine with CPU intel core i7, 16 GB of RAM.
Please let me know, which configuration should I provide to find the reason of this long time execution.
Thanks for any help !

A: Without directly addressing the performance issues, some background.
Even your Create() method does nothing, Orleans needs to administer a lot of stuff upon the first call: have to locate/create this grain in the grain directory, etc. and this requires some communication and DB access, ie. this is not a few CPU cycle dummy call.
On the event-sourcing side: RaiseEvent() is a cheap call, it stores the event in a queue in the local memory (in some future version this will be renamed to EnqueueEvent() to be clear what happens), and when the grain goes idle (or at least waits in an await) or when you call ConfirmEvents() will Orleans store the events. And storing events also requires some administration, eg. it guarantees strong (linearizable) consistency even if there are multiple instances across clusters.
Without addressing your 100-200ms execution times please note, these algos are designed for 10s, 100s or 1000s of machines, and not optimized for a single machine development environment. And even in live environment, not a single grain call will be fast, but the general throughput (multiple grains and multiple calls distributed across a real cluster) will be high (16.000 req/s/silo (25 x A4 (8core 14GB), 2hop/req, 200kreq/s/cluster, 2*200k/25=16k)).
I way too unqualified to say anything more about Orleans performance. If you have a sample project showing you performance issues, upload it to github, raise an issue, if it takes only a few minutes of the developers to analyse your issue, they will help, but they need at least detailed logs to see what is the real issue.


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Megan Butterworth Returns as HT's Head Softball Coach
HOLY TRINITY SOFTBALL STANDOUT,
MEGAN BUTTERWORTH ('09),
NAMED VARSITY SOFTBALL HEAD COACH
(Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - Hicksville, NY) – Holy Trinity Diocesan High School is proud to announce that Titan alumna Megan Butterworth ('09) has been named the new Head Coach for Holy Trinity Softball. Coach Jackie Lombardi, who headed the program the last two years and is currently HT's Director of Admissions, will stay on as a Varsity Assistant.
During her Holy Trinity career, Butterworth played under Coach Susan Cassidy-Lyke and served as a pitcher and right fielder. She earned NSCHSGAA All-League honors and was a part of the State Championship team in 2007. She continued on to play Division II softball at Molloy College, where her name quickly became synonymous with the Lions softball program. Her collegiate accomplishments include being named All-East Coast Conference First Team all four years, three ECC Championships, two NCAA East Regional Championships, and two appearances in the Division II National Championship. Her senior year earned her ECC Pitcher of the Year, Daktronics East Region Pitcher of the Year, NFCA and Daktronics All-American Second Team, CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team, CoSIDA Academic All-American Second Team, and the E.C.C. Award. She is still the Molloy Softball all-time leader in innings pitched, wins, and shutouts while also holding the second-place spot for strikeouts, ERA, complete games, and appearances. In 2019, Butterworth was inducted into Molloy College's Athletics Hall of Fame.
For the past six seasons, Butterworth was the Assistant Coach for LIU Post Softball. In each of her first three years with LIU Post, she coached the eventual ECC Pitcher of the Year. In 2015, Butterworth coached the pitching staff to end up leading the ECC and ranking in the Top-25 in the nation in earned-run average as well as second-fewest hits and runs, while striking out the second-most batters. In the program's final season, LIU Post made it to the NCAA Division II Championship and was ranked #8 in the NFCA Final DII National Poll.
Butterworth completed her degree in Adolescent Math Education at Molloy College. After teaching for several years at St. Raymond's School in East Rockaway, she returns to Holy Trinity as a member of our Mathematics Department. When asked about coming back to HT, Butterworth stated, "I am thrilled to be returning to Holy Trinity, a school that has made such a difference in my life. I can't wait to be in the classroom and on the field with their incredible teachers, administrators, and students."
Press Contact: Jackie Lombardi | 516-433-2900 x 151 | jlombardi@holytrinityhs.org


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The new space is an 8,000 square foot, column free, two-level storefront.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W announced the opening of its new ground floor space in Tribeca in January 2021. The gallery joins a number of other contemporary art dealers who have recently opened spaces in the heart of the burgeoning Tribeca Art District. The new space is an 8,000 square foot, column free, two-level storefront that will allow P·P·O·W to build on and honor its legacy and expand its current roster of artists. P·P·O·W will open its inaugural exhibition in the new space on January 22nd with a show by Gerald Lovell, the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery and in New York City.
"We are very excited to return to Broadway and to open a ground floor space," said Co-Founder Wendy Olsoff. "This is the first time since we opened our very first gallery in 1983 that we will be located on the ground floor, and it feels like a homecoming of sorts. The new gallery will give us more space to expand our programming and to create opportunities for our artists to stage more ambitious exhibitions. The Tribeca art-scene is blossoming and we are very excited to be an active part of the community."
In its first year of programming, P·P·O·W will present a number of solo, two-person, and group exhibitions which pay homage to the gallery's legacy, while looking forward to the new generations of artists working today. The dynamic exhibition lineup will feature David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Ann Agee, Erin M. Riley, Robin F. Williams, as well as new additions to the program, including Aaron Gilbert, Gerald Lovell, and Guadalupe Maravilla.
The first exhibition, All that I have, will feature new works by Atlanta-based painter Gerald Lovell (b. 1992). Informed by his deep commitment to fostering alternative community narratives, Lovell imbues his subjects with social agency and self-determination, revealing figures whose essential humanity is laid bare. Combining thin flat painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell's portraits are strikingly empathic and uniquely personal, unveiling the lived experience of both the sitter and artist. Influenced by European figurative traditions as well as contemporary artists such as Kerry James Marshall, Kehinde Wiley, and Titus Kaphar, Lovell captures the present moment in order to preserve, honor, and make visible the collective experience of African American millennial life.