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Kikuswi Secondary School
What We Built
Project Type: Rainwater Catchment
Regional Program: Southeastern Kenya WaSH Program
Southeastern Kenya WaSH Program
The Water Project's WaSH program in Southeast Kenya aims to restore water access for communities living in a semi-arid environment through the construction of sand dams, shallow hand dug wells, and 104,000 liter rainwater catchment systems. Explore projects in this region to learn about (how you can be involved in) innovative farming, education, hygiene and sanitation training, and reliable access to clean drinking water.
Impact: 114 Served
Project Phase: In Service - Jul 2019
Functionality Status: Current Monitoring Data Delayed
Functionality Data
Install Date: 07/31/2019
Current Status: Monitoring Data Delayed
Last Checkup: 07/06/2020
Checkup History:
08/14/2019 — Low/No Water or Mechanical Breakdown
10/25/2019 — Functional
Rainwater is collected off strategic areas of a roof, enters a custom guttering system (which filters out debris) and leads to a storage tank. Tanks can vary in sizes and are determined by population and average rainfall patterns. Water can be stored for months, is easily treated in the tank, and is accessible through taps. These projects are implemented at schools with proper roof lines and gutter systems to make them successful.
Rehabilitation is not just fixing a pump - it's total community re-engagement.
There's only one thing we can think of that might be worse than not having safe water: having safe water, and then losing it because a project fell into disrepair.
Rehabilitation often proves to be a big challenge, as many wells have sit idle for years and there is typically little information about the specifics of the well. A borehole and dug well rehabilitation involves quite a bit of discovery. First, our teams work to discover as much as they can about the initial project. What materials were used? Was the borehole/hand-dug well properly constructed? Many of these questions can only be answered by diving in, and doing "the work" which makes up a rehabilitation.
Once our teams have found the problem, they find the solution. Then, they reconstruct the well and install a hand pump.
Engagement and training with communities takes into account rehabilitation was needed and alters the program to suit the needs of the community. After all - engaging with this community in the same way which led to the initial, failed project will not bring new results. Our teams work to understand the social and support reasons leading to initial failure, and make those areas a focus of our ongoing engagement with communities.
Local leadership is a lasting investment
Sustainable water projects only occur through the presence of local leaders. The Water Project identifies, develops, supports, and partners with local organizations who share our vision of reliable and verifiable clean water. Together, we build water programs that include responsible community development, lasting local solutions and ongoing monitoring and resolution.
Community engagement is at every step of a water project.
Our engagement is rooted in relationship and includes involving the community in implementation and ongoing support, setting expectations for water point management and ongoing costs, etc. All of this happens before a water project is installed.
We use a term called ABCD: "Asset Based Community Development". This means the community gets a leading seat at the table. Before we seek to bring anything into the community, we first seek to understand and utilize the assets that already exist within the community.
Permanent handwashing stations encourage permanent handwashing habits.
Handwashing with soap at critical times reduces diarrheal disease by more than 40%. All of our projects include hygiene and sanitation training, which (among many things) empowers communities to build their own handwashing stations. When we work at schools, we install permanent handwashing stations and work with the school to make sure they are constantly supplied with soap.
Hygiene and Sanitation Training
Community education and self-discovery about hygiene and sanitation concepts lead to improved health.
Improved health is always the goal. This is why all our projects include hygiene and sanitation training. We utilize many different methods for this training, depending on the community/institution, program and country. Training topics include disease transmission, personal hygiene and cleanliness, proper disposal of waste and proper water storage methods.
Monitoring and Resolution
Water isn't a pump. Water is a service. And, it must be reliable.
The known benefits of water are ONLY true if water can be counted on, over time. We love celebrating when a project is complete and a community has access to clean, safe water. However, the ongoing service of water - making water reliable - is how we know our true impact.
The Water Project continues to monitor our water projects, and we provide continued support to make sure water service continues for communities.
Past water projects and the communities they serve are just as important to us as anything else we might be doing in the future.
To learn more about how you can help with ongoing monitoring, evaluation and resolution, read about our awesome monthly members.
Project Timeline FAQ
We're working hard to make sure your gifts result in a lasting water project for the community it serves. Our engagement with a community begins many months before construction and lasts years after construction. The timeline here is focused on the physical construction of the water project. There is also training and engagement work that has already started.
Water project construction in the developing world is hard work. A lot of things can and do cause delays - which are normal. We attempt to make our best judgment of when construction will be complete, but the circumstances surrounding actual "in the field" conditions are far from our control.
Weather, supply availability, government paperwork, and progress of community involvement are just a few of the variables that can delay (and sometimes speed up) a project's completion.
We will always tell you if anything changes. And, if you get a notice like this – it's actually further proof your gifts are being carefully used towards a water project that lasts.
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Report Submitted by Lillian Mutheu, Monitoring Officer
Lillian's favorite part about working in water, sanitation and health development is interacting with people and hearing their success stories after a project is complete.
Lillian has been a Monitoring Officer since 2017, with ASDF, The Water Project's trusted partner in our Southeastern Kenya WaSH Program.
Report Submitted by
Lillian Mutheu, Monitoring Officer
Kikuswi Secondary School is going broke paying for water that makes its 103 students sick.
For most of the year, the administration at Kikuswi Secondary School has to pay someone to fetch water to meet its daily needs for drinking, cooking, washing, and more. At a cost of $1,200 a month, paying for the water deliveries is a great burden on the school. Worse yet, the water is collected from a river two kilometers away that is open and unsafe for consumption.
Students are at risk of waterborne illnesses that sap their energy and force some to miss class.
"The parent in charge of bringing water to school face a lot of difficulty because the river is very far and once it dries up he has to dig scoop holes to get access to clean water," explained Noel Kikuvi, a 17-year-old student.
"At times, we lack water during lunch time which can really get uncomfortable, especially in the afternoon classes."
The lack of water also hampers the hygiene and sanitation at the school. Latrines and classrooms are rarely cleaned due to the need to ration the daily water supply. Students often do not wash their hands after going to the bathroom – increasing their risk of contracting an illness.
Kikuswi Secondary School is a day school that was established in 2006 as a community school sponsored by the District Education Board. The school has since grown through the community and Constituency Development Funds. It will continue to grow in the coming years, which will result in even greater need for a reliable source of water.
Here's what we're going to do about it:
Students and staff will be trained for one day. Those in attendance will form a school health club that will promote good hygiene and sanitation practices both at school and home. They will learn all of the steps to proper handwashing, how to treat water, and how to keep their environment clean. The school will also be taught how to best oversee and maintain their new rainwater catchment tank and handwashing stations.
Three handwashing stations will be delivered at the project's completion. These are 1,000-liter plastic tanks fitted with four taps. The health club and school management will be responsible for making sure tanks are filled with water and that a cleaning agent such as soap or ash is available.
Rainwater Catchment Tank
We will build a 104,000-liter rainwater catchment tank for this school. This water will benefit the students, teachers, and supplementary staff. Parents will mobilize the materials needed for construction, such as sand and stone. They will also lend some strong arms to help with the actual construction.
The huge capacity of this tank makes the others look tiny in comparison; 104,000 liters should be enough water to carry students and staff through the entire dry season if managed properly. As soon as the tank has time to cure, it can begin to collect rainwater for drinking, cooking, and cleaning!
08/14/2019: Kikuswi Secondary School Project Complete
A new rainwater catchment system was built! Kikuswi Secondary School in Kenya now has the ability to collect 104,000 liters of water – thanks to your generous support. Handwashing stations were installed, and students and staff have received training in sanitation and hygiene. All of these components work together to unlock the opportunity for these students to live better, healthier lives.
Kikuswi Secondary School is affiliated with the Kyamuisu Self-Help Group, since most of its members' children attend here. These parents and school administration approached the self-help group committee and requested their help in alleviating the water shortage at the school.
"The school water tank project is a great achievement in this school," said Principal Mule Katundu.
A meeting with all of the parents and the Head Teacher was then held to plan out the project. Parents agreed to collect construction materials like sand, rocks, and water. On the other hand, we delivered the expertise, tools, lumber, metal, cement, and gutter system.
This tank is a whopping 104,000 liters not because of a large student population, but because of how rarely it rains in Southeastern Kenya. The more water we can store during the seasonal rains, the more water available through the dry months.
Construction for this large rainwater catchment tank is much like the construction of a concrete house. First, the ground is leveled for foundation excavation.
Alternating layers of impermeable rocks are laid upon mortar up to seven feet high, with internal and external diameters of 25 and 28 feet respectively.
A reinforced concrete column is built right up to the center of the tank, which holds up the roof and prevents it from caving in. The walls are then plastered both internally and externally with waterproof cement. After that, several feet of guttering is installed and channeled into the tank. The roofing is made of iron sheets and timber, and has vents to allow rainwater into the tank from the gutters.
"The 104,000-liter tank is a project that we highly value because the academic standards of our school will improve and we will also admit more students over time. Importantly, school hygiene and sanitation standards will improve due to the availability of water," explained Principal Katundu.
New Knowledge
The training was planned by the WASH Officer, Veronica Matolo who coordinated with the area field officer, Rhoda Mwangu and informed her on the scheduled date of the sanitation and hygiene training.
There were 32 males and 37 female students in attendance. The training was also graced by the attendance of a few staff members – 5 male teachers, 2 female teachers, and 2 subordinate staff members. Attendance was not as expected because some students had gone to represent the school in sports activities at a neighboring school. However, the students and staff who participated will share their new knowledge with the rest of the school.
Students learn about proper waste management
The training conditions were bearable due to the provision of shade by trees in the compound. However, there was a bit of distraction from the neighboring primary school with whom the secondary school shares a playing field as the students had come to play during their break time. But we persisted despite the disruptions.
The students were very jovial and interested in the topics of discussion throughout the training. This was observed in their participatory levels as they asked many questions and were also very ready to volunteer during the demonstrative activities such as soapmaking. Boys expressed more interest than the girls.
Handwashing demonstration
"This hygiene and sanitation training that we have had today will change our lives greatly because we will observe the hygiene of not only our bodies but also food, water, and environment," said 17-year-old student Alex Mumo.
We went over topics including:
– Student health club activities
– Disease transmission
– Preventing the spread of disease
– Keeping nails short
– Personal hygiene
– Handwashing
– Water hygiene
– Food hygiene
– Latrine hygiene
– Soapmaking
Student health club members were the ones we taught about soap. Pupils took turns stirring the soap and were very excited about the final product. Local ingredients like ungarol, ufacid, industrial salt, and caustic soda are among the ingredients used to mix this soap. Some of the students told us it was "the most interesting activity" they had ever done. It was interesting to them how the soap formed and how simple it was to produce it. The simplicity of the whole process mesmerized them. Everyone took turns to participate.
"We will make a business out of the knowledge acquired from soap making," said Alex.
"We have learned that we can recycle waste and out of it, make manure that can be helpful to the agriculture students, a practice that we are going to start immediately."
Students portrayed intense seriousness about the training as they also elected some members to chair their health club and ensure hygiene and sanitation are maintained in the school. The health club has a total membership of 13 students and 2 teachers. The teachers will be in charge of the club, and will always guide the students where necessary. The students also agreed that they would plan on the days when they would be meeting to discuss the hygiene and sanitation issues affecting them.
From the look of things, the students and the teachers will implement what they learned during the training.
The new handwashing stations were delivered in time for training so that they could be used for the handwashing demonstration. Each of these has 3 taps so that 6 students can wash their hands at the same time.
Thank You for making all of this possible!
05/21/2019: Kikuswi Secondary School Project Underway
A severe clean water shortage at Kikuswi Secondary School drains students' time, energy, and health. Thanks to your generosity, we're working to solve this issue by building a clean water point and much more.
Get to know this school through the introduction and pictures we've posted, and read about this water, sanitation, and hygiene project. We look forward to reaching out with news of success!
Project Sponsor - Estate of Rebecca Bradshaw


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Estonian and Soviet Grandmaster. World Championship Candidate. Keres burst on the international scene leading Estonia in the Olympiad at Warsaw 1935. No one there was in any doubt that a new megastar had arrived. Keres became a Soviet citizen due to Estonia becoming part of the USSR during World War II. He won the Soviet Championship three times: 1947, 1950 and 1951 and was runner up in the Candidate tournaments of 1953, 1956 and 1962. Paul Keres was one of the greatest players in chess history, but sadly he was never destined to play a match for the World Championship.
Although in the game Keres had the dark pieces the ending above is represented with him having the light pieces. The colours have been reversed. White has a passed b-pawn but the way through is blocked by the enemy King. White makes an advanced point for his Rook at "g7" by advancing his h-pawn, so that he can take control of the 7th rank. The whole ending is very instructive and drew the admiration of tournament victor Botvinnik who wrote a definitive account of the tournament.
Black has no option but to defend passively.
White establishes his strong point at "g7" and now in order to gain control of the 7th he only needs to get the Rook to that square.
A possible continuation is: 9...Re1 10.Rxh7 Ra1+ 11.Kb6 Ke6 12.Kb7 Kf6 13.Rc7 WINS.
Botvinnik: Keres played this ending with great power, displaying a very subtle understanding of the position.
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Quest's new service lets customers request COVID-19 antibody test
Users can fill out an online platform, get blood drawn at a Quest service center, and get results on a digital portal within two days.
By Laura Lovett
This morning behemoth lab test company Quest Diagnostics announced that it will be offering a "consumer initiated" COVID-19 antibody test for $119.
Dubbed Quest Direct, the service will let consumers request the antibody test through an online platform. Once the request is initiated it is sent to a licensed physician, who greenlights the testing order. Patients can then go to a Quest service center to get their blood drawn, and get results within one to two days via an online portal.
Patients can also tap into telehealth services to discuss their results with a doctor.
The antibody testing will be based on tests from Abbott and EUROIMMUN. At the beginning of this week Abbott landed an Emergency Use Authorization for its serology test. EUROIMMUN is still in the process of submitting for an EUA, although the test is still able to be used in CLIA labs under a March FDA policy. According to Quest, Abbott reports a 99.4% specificity for its antibody test, and EUROIMMUN AG is reporting a 98.5% to 99% specificity.
The tests will be specifically aimed at testing for COVID-19 antibodies, which means the test is not meant to be used to determine whether or not a person is positive for the virus.
When the virus first hits, a patient's body is still developing antibodies in the early days of the infection. That means that serology tests can provide negative results if administered too early. The other issue is that test results could be positive if a person was once infected with the virus but is no longer ill, according to the agency.
Quest specifies this test is not intended for those who feel sick or who have tested positive for the coronavirus within seven days.
In many conditions when a patient develops antibodies, it can mean they have protective immunity. However, the CDC said that at this time it is still unknown if having detectable antibodies for the virus can protect a patient from getting it again or for how long.
However, those with the antibodies are now being recruited to help with clinical trials. Plasma has recently come onto the scene as a potential therapy. The CDC is encouraging people who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate plasma, citing the new national efforts to study convalescent plasma.
Just this morning the UK's NHS Blood and Transplant organization announced its plans to solicit blood from recovered patients for plasma-focused clinical trials.
THE LARGER TREND
At the beginning of April, Cellex became the first company to land an FDA EUA for a serology test.
However, the tests haven't been without controversy. The science community has been skeptical of the accuracy of such tests. And in early April, at least one company mistook its response from the agency as an EUA and falsely marketed its service. It wasn't long after that Cellex's test was released.
But this isn't the first direct-to-consumer marketing of tests. On April 21, LabCorp's COVID-19 RT-PCR test became the first diagnostic test for COVID-19 that permits at-home sample collection.
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OBITUARY CECILY MACKWORTH, SISTER OF HELEN MACKWORTH, THE TRAGIC GIRL WHO DIED IN THE DUNMORE CARRIGANS TRAGEDY 1938
Cecily Mackworth
She wove journalism, novels and poetry from her travels and literary friendships
by Anthony Sheridan
The Guardian, Monday 7 August 2006
Cecily Mackworth, who has died aged 94, was a writer, traveller, war correspondent and rebel. Her friendships included Ivy Compton Burnett, Nancy Cunard, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas, Tristan Tzara, Lawrence Durrell, David Gascoyne, Natalie Sarraute, and Conchita de Saint-Exupéry. Life took her from the London School of Economics in the early 1930s through the Reichstag fire, the fall of France and the birth of Israel to the Paris of the 21st century.
Born in Llantillio Pertholey in Gwent, Cecily came from a coal-owner family with military connections. Her paternal great-grandfather, Sir Digby Mackworth, one of Wellington's officers, married Julie de Richepense, daughter of one of Napoleon's generals. Her maternal grandmother was born and brought up in the Victorian English colony in Dieppe. Cecily was four when her father, an army officer, was killed in action early in the first world war. Her mother remarried and moved to Sidmouth.
Cecily managed to get through several governesses. When she was 18 her aunt Margaret, Viscountess Rhondda, editor of the weekly Time and Tide and a governor of the LSE, found a place there for Cecily. She stayed for two years. Her first love was a Hungarian LSE student, Nicky Kaldor (the economist Lord Kaldor), who became a lifelong friend.
Aged 22, Cecily married Leon Donckier de Donceel, a young Belgium lawyer she met at a Swiss sanatorium, where both were being treated for tubercolosis. Widowed at 25, she was left with a daughter to bring up, a role for which she was entirely unsuited. She returned briefly to England. Her first poems were published in the London Mercury, but she found England dull and wanted to travel.
The loveless nature of her family was illustrated when Cecily's sister Helen and her fiancé and his mother were found dead in Donegal from shotgun wounds in mysterious circumstances. Cecily recalled her mother being asked: "What shall we do with her dog?" Her mother blithely replied: "Shoot it as well". Helen was buried in a distant part of a cemetery in Ireland, which none of the family ever went to visit. The dog was apparently buried with her.
Cecily left England, and spent much of the early 1930s in Hungary and Germany, before moving to Paris in 1936. She was in Berlin for the burning of the Reichstag, an account she wrote up but could not get published.
In the summer of 1937 she was taken to meet Henry Miller, then living at the Villa Seurat, in his ground floor studio in the Rue de la Tombe Issoire. He took to her and she became part of his Paris circle. Through Miller she met 25-year-old Lawrence Durrell, newly arrived from Corfu with the manuscript of his novel, The Black Book.
"Send me everything in your jam cupboard," Durrell once wrote on a scrap of paper he slipped under her door. She showed him her poems, which Miller published - Eleven Poems (1938) - as an offshoot of his magazine the Booster, of which three numbers had appeared. The fourth, subtitled Air-conditioned Womb Number, brought it to an abrupt end.
A fraught love affair with an exiled Czechoslovak painter led to two books on his country, which she suppressed from her bibliography. She stayed in France until June 1940 when the German victory necessitated her escape via Spain and Portugal.
Her first big success was in 1941, with a vivid account of that defeat, I Came Out of France. TS Eliot read it and invited her to tea in Russell Square, interested to meet the young woman. She worked for a spell with the Free French in Carlton Gardens in 1940, in the office of Colonel Howard, the head of security.
She was at Carlton Gardens throughout the blitz, and she remembered the restless atmosphere of ill-temper in the building. There was distrust between various factions of the French and British intelligence services. It was there she met Colonel Passy, whose real name was Dewavrin, chief of De Gaulle's secret service. She also became close to the future French foreign minister Maurice Schumann, who was at that time head of the press office. He broadcast twice a day to France, Les Français parlent Aux Français, which included coded messages to Free French agents.
Cecily remained in London for most of the war, where she gave lectures to the army. She contributed poems and articles to the literary magazine Horizon and other reviews.
She moved back to France after the war and published François Villon: a Study (1947) and compiled A Mirror for French poetry 1840-1940: French Poems with English Translation by English Poets (1947) . She also worked as a journalist, visiting many countries as a correspondent. In 1947 she went to Palestine for the journal, L'Aube. She returned in 1948, travelled throughout the Middle East, and wrote an account of this wartorn region in The Mouth of the Sword (1948).
In 1952 she published her first novel, Spring's Green Shadow. Her second, Lucy's Nose, appeared 40 years later. Of her own works she was most fond of The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt (1954). In spring 1950 she had gone to Algeria to follow in Eberhardt's footsteps and travelled alone in the Sahara. Her research led to the first biography of the young woman, who was born in 1877 and brought up by Trophimovsky, a half-crazy former Pope in the Orthodox Church. Eberhardt became a Moslem, lived the life of an Arab nomad, disguised as a man, and was initiated in an esoteric sect of Islam. Eberhardt died, aged 27, in a desert flash flood.
Cecily married the Marquis de Chabannes La Palice in 1956. She had lived in Paris since the 1940s. During the next 30 years she published widely books and reviews. Notably, Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubist life (1961) received the Darmstadt Award. English Interludes, (Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, Valery Larbaud - stays in London 1860-1912) was much praised. Her contribution to Mallarmé studies is substantial.
Of her earlier memoir, Ends of the World (1987), Lawrence Durrell wrote to Cecily: "Just reading, sipping, devouring to prolong the pain/pleasure of your beautiful, cogent and brilliant memories."
She published on various occasions reminiscences of her friendships, of writers and of the literary scene from the 1930s to 1950s: at 93, she embarked upon her candid autobiography. It was typical of her, that in her last weeks, with her autobiography just completed, she was in search of a new project, this time to embark on learning Arabic.
She is survived by her daughter, Pascale.
Cecily Joan Mackworth, writer, born August 15 1911; died July 22 2006
Cecily Joan Mackworth, writer: born Llantilio Pertholey, Monmouthshire 15 August 1911; married 1935 Leon Donckier de Donceel (died 1938; one daughter), 1956 Marquis de Chabannes la Palice (died 1980); died Paris 22 July 2006.
Cecily Mackworth was a poet, critic, novelist, biographer, journalist and globetrotter. In her autobiography, Ends of the World, published in 1987, she explained her restless travelling as a form of self-exploration.
Mackworth was a tall, handsome woman - magnanimous, sociable and gifted. She was one of the few remaining links to the writers and artists - European and American - who flourished in the 1930s, and her work on Villon, Apollinaire and Mallarmé mark her as an authority on French poetry. Although as a child she had been introduced to Thomas Hardy, and later enjoyed friendships with her fellow Welsh poets Vernon Watkins and Dylan Thomas, she made more impact as a travel writer, biographer and critic than as a poet.
She had a delinquent streak, and the urge to travel seized her when young. As a teenager she eloped with a Hungarian. At 22, in Berlin, she watched the Reichstag burn. Later she trekked across the Algerian desert in search of the shade of Isabelle Eberhardt, the Russo-German adventurer and Muslim convert.
Cecil Mackworth was born at Llantilio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, in 1911, a member of the Mackworth dynasty - Welsh coal-owners of the more liberal persuasion. Her father, Francis, died in 1914, fighting in France, her mother was one of the first women to drive a car, her aunt, Margaret, Viscountess Rhondda, was the founding editor of Time and Tide.
She was privately educated, attended the LSE for two years and worked briefly for Time and Tide before escaping abroad. In 1935, she married Leon Donckier de Donceel, a Belgian, by whom she had a daughter the following year, but in 1938 he died of tuberculosis. Mackworth, still in her twenties, settled in Paris. There, in 1937, she had met Henry Miller, frequenting his salon at the Villa Seurat. Through Miller, she met the young poet David Gascoyne, who had published his first book at the age of 16 and A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935) at the age of 19, and the electrifying 26-year-old Lawrence Durrell, then wrestling with his third novel, The Black Book. Gascoyne and Durrell became her lifelong friends. She contributed to The Booster, the magazine Miller and company were intent on destroying with obscenity, and Miller published a collection of her poems (Eleven Poems, 1938).
Paris became her home until the blitzkreig of June 1940. Forced to flee from the advancing Germans, she joined the flood of refugees trudging westwards, strafed as they went by diving Stukas, and finally made it back to England via Spain and Portugal. The account of that dramatic escape appears in her books I Came Out of France (1941) and the later Ends of the World.
Working in London for the Free French (Maurice Schumann, later French Foreign Minister, was her boss) she published two books on Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovakia Fights Back, 1942, and, with Jan Stransky for the Cross-Roads Series, Czechoslovakia, 1943, with a preface by her friend Jan Masaryk). On one occasion during the Blitz, while she was visiting T.S. Eliot in his office in Russell Square, a bomb fell close by, shattering the windows. Eliot, quite unperturbed, brushed the splinters of glass from his desk and carried on as if nothing had happened.
Wartime London brought her the friendships of a number of writers - Arthur Koestler, Nancy Cunard, Stevie Smith, George Barker and Dylan Thomas. Once, at a party, Dylan's wife, Caitlin, stubbed a cigarette out on Mackworth's hand, annoyed, it seems, that she was gossiping too intimately with Dylan.
After the Second World War she returned to a France now in the grip of a new intellectual passion, existentialism. In 1947 she published a well-received short biography of François Villon (François Villon: a study) and edited an equally successful verse anthology, A Mirror for French Poetry, 1840-1940. She became a friend of Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce's biographer and translator, and Samuel Beckett's friends Roger Blin and Arthur Adamov.
Writing commissions took her to Palestine to cover the birth of the State of Israel. She had a haunting encounter with Menachem Begin, on the run from the British, and a curious one with King Abdullah of Transjordan, later assassinated for his moderation. Apart from Clare Hollingworth, the great Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent, Mackworth was the only female journalist covering the event. The book that emerged, The Mouth of the Sword (1949), shows her at ease with both Jewish settlers and the Bedouin whom she especially admired.
The lure of the desert took her next to Algeria in pursuit of Isabelle Eberhardt, who lived disguised as a man among the Arabs. The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt (1954) greatly influenced Paul Bowles, who later translated some of Eberhardt's writings.
In 1956, Mackworth married a French marquis, becoming from that time the Marquise de Chabannes la Palice. Although this was a love-match, she later came to see her marriage as an interruption of her writing career. The Marquis died in 1980 and afterwards she lived alone in Paris, close to the Picasso Museum in the Marais district.
There she lived an interesting double life - Cecily Mackworth to her artistic friends, the Marquise to her aristocratic ones. She was a sociable figure on the Paris scene, a frequenter of bookshops such as Shakespeare and Company and the Village Voice, where she was often to be found attending talks by visiting writers. As a critic she had appeared in Cyril Connolly's Horizon, and she contributed also to Le Figaro, Time and Tide and Twentieth Century - for which she produced the first important review of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet.
As a writer she had great powers of endurance. She published her first novel, Spring's Green Shadow (1952), aged 41, and her second, Lucy's Nose (1992), aged 81 - the latter based on an obscure case of Freud's and a brilliant work of what one critic called "deductive imagination". She worked on her second volume of autobiography, Out of the Black Mountains, until a few weeks before her death.
Her company was delightful and invigorating, and her friendships were enduring; her friends will remember her for her wisdom, empathy and critical insight. She was buried beside her second husband in Normandy.
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Gary A. Boman
Memorial services celebrating the life of Gary Andrew Boman, age 63 of St. Cloud will be 10:00 AM Monday, June 10, 2013 at St. Mary's Cathedral – Lower Church in St. Cloud. Father Jeremy Ploof will officiate. Gary died Wednesday at his home in St. Cloud. There will be a visitation from 4:00-7:00 PM on Sunday, June 9, 2013 at the Miller-Carlin Funeral Home in St. Cloud and again after 9:30 AM Monday at the church. Parish prayers will be at 4pm on Sunday at the funeral home. Arrangements are being made with Miller-Carlin Funeral Home of St. Cloud.Gary was born on September 17, 1949 to Roy and Eva (Brownell) Boman in Brainerd, MN. He was an athlete throughout high school and college, and was the co-captain of the wrestling team at St. Cloud State. Gary married Martha "Marty" Lambrecht on August 21, 1976 and together they raised three children. He worked as a Lieutenant at the St. Cloud Reformatory for 27 years before retiring in 2004. Gary has spent the past 8 years as a Teacher's Assistant in Bowling Green, KY. He loved sports, fishing, and sometimes just sitting on the dock throwing sticks for the dogs. Gary enjoyed his annual hiking treks in Colorado and traveling the world with Marty. He especially loved to be with his three grandbabies. He and his wife are members of St. Mary's Cathedral in St. Cloud.Gary is survived by Marty Boman, his wife of 36 years; his children Timothy Boman, Stillwater; Amy (Jesse) Miller, Blaine; Jennifer (Justin) Humpal, Phoenix, AZ; his sister Diana Boman, St. Cloud; his grandchildren Morgan, Colton, and Logan Miller; and many friends.He is preceded by his parents Roy and Eva Boman.Memorials in lieu of flowers are preferred to the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, the Kelly Autism Program, or the St. Cloud State Wrestling Program.
There will be a visitation from 4:00-7:00 PM on Sunday, June 9, 2013 at the Miller-Carlin Funeral Home in St. Cloud and again after 9:30 AM Monday at the church. Parish prayers will be at 4pm on Sunday at the funeral home.
Miller-Carlin Funeral Home from 4-7 on Sunday
Memorials in lieu of flowers are preferred to the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, the Kelly Autism Program, or the St. Cloud State Wrestling Program.
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Dear Marty,
My heart breaks for you and your family. You are in my thoughts and prayers. I extend my deepest sympathy as you walk this difficult path. May God hold all of you in the palms of his hands and grant you the strength, comfort and peace. Sending my love to all of you from Kentucky.
Sincerely your friend and colleague,
Sharon Thomerson
Please know that you and your family are in our thoughts and prayers. We are so sorry for your loss.
Lynn O'Keefe
My thoughts and prayers for your breaking heart are streaming your way. I will miss seeing Gary by your side at Mass and all the concerts we all enjoyed. I am so sadden by your loss. Sincerely, Lynn
Stephanie Rogers
So sorry about your loss. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
I am deeply saddened for your loss, Marty. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. May you be comforted by God's grace and your loving memories. With heartfelt condolences, Marilyn
Mickeye Murphy
Marty so sorry for your loss. Gary was a wonderful man and he will be missed. our prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time. God be with you. Mickeye
Rosemary Lambrecht
So sorry to hear about Gary's death. You are in my prayers.
Carol and Frank Kersting
Our prayers reach out to you and your family. Gary was a wonderful man, husband, father and friend to many. As our faith promised: May God hold you in the palms of his hand in this time of sorrow.
In prayer and friendship,
Carol and Frank
Linda Johnson Vitale
Don and I were terribly saddened to hear about Gary's passing. We both want you to know that you are in our thoughts and prayers.
All our love…Linda
Betsy Shoenfelt
Marty, My heart goes out to you. May you find peace and comfort in the many good years you and Gary had together. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Betsy
Pat Johnson
Marty, I was so saddened to hear about the loss of your husband. Please know that I'm thinking of you and that you are in my prayers.
Susan Scott
I am so, so sorry to hear of your loss. May God give you and your family peace as you heal. Love, Susan Scott
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Q: Find regex in next line in perl My content is this this form:

    Email
     unique@gmail.com

    Code
    twenty

    Code12
    forty

What regex should i use if i want to extract "twenty" ie data accociated with "Code"
I tried to extract the whole line, but empty response
$c=$m->content();
($a) = $c =~ /Code(.*?)tr>/;
print "$a\n";

A: Do not try to parse HTML with a regex, that way madness and very broken code lies. Instead, use the existing XML tools. For searching in HTML (which can be treated as XML) use XPath. There are many Perl implementations. I would recommend XML::LibXML which uses the fast and well maintained libxml2 C library.
Here's an example of how you'd get the content of the cell next to the "Code " cell.
use v5.10;
use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::LibXML;

# Parse the HTML into an XML::LibXML::Document
my $parsed_html = XML::LibXML->load_html( string => <<'HTML');

    Email
     unique@gmail.com

    Code
    twenty

    Code12
    forty

HTML

# Find all the rows where the first cell contains "Code" ignoring whitespace.
my @code_rows = $parsed_html->findnodes(q{//tr[normalize-space(td[1])='Code']});

# In each of the Code rows, get the value of the second cell.
for my $row (@code_rows) {
    say $row->findvalue(q{td[2]});
}

XML::LibXML and XPath are large but they're well worth the investment if you're going to be working with HTML and XML. It will save you endless hours debugging all those special cases your regexes don't handle. Most of what you need is in XML::LibXML::Node.

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// Copyright (c) Luka Kunic, 2016.

#include "Virtusonic.h"
#include "SongTimeline.h"

/*
 * Adds the given list of actions to the timeline.
 */
void USongTimeline::AddActions(const TArray<UBaseTimelineAction*> &actions)
{
	mActionTimeline.Append(actions);
}

/*
 * Sorts the timeline actions by tick.
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void USongTimeline::SortByTick()
{
	mActionTimeline.StableSort(TimelineSortPredicate);
}

/*
* Returns the last tick on the timeline.
*/
int32 USongTimeline::GetLastTick()
{
	return mActionTimeline.Last()->Tick;
}

/*
 * Returns the list of actions at the given tick.
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TArray<UBaseTimelineAction*> USongTimeline::GetActionsAtTick(int32 tick)
{
	TArray<UBaseTimelineAction*> actions;

	for (int32 i = 0; i < mActionTimeline.Num(); i++)
	{
		if (mActionTimeline[i]->Tick == tick)
		{
			actions.Add(mActionTimeline[i]);
		}
	}

	return actions;
}

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If you've spent any time in Midtown or downtown Detroit lately, you've undoubtedly noticed people riding red bicycles along protected bike lanes or zooming by on electric scooters. For workers, shoppers, or visitors, MoGo and Bird create affordable last-mile solutions to supplement public transportation and private vehicle use.
From autonomous shuttles and bike share programs to "blended" models that combine various transportation methods, Michigan residents have access to more ways to get around than ever before.
But despite their early, enthusiastic adoption, there are still some reasons for caution. While mobility innovations have the potential to create economic opportunity for disadvantaged populations, if social equity isn't a priority during the planning phase, it may just create more options for people who can already afford to get around in traditional ways, says Tierra Bills, assistant professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Michigan.
As transportation options expand, who benefits?
Transportation is key in "social mobility," says Komal Doshi, director of mobility programs at Ann Arbor SPARK.
In a "transportation desert" where transit options are few and the main way to get around is by automobile, low-income individuals either can't afford a car or spend a lot of money on maintaining a car, hindering their efforts to keep a job and "move up the social ladder," Doshi says.
AARP also notes that workers who have access to reliable and efficient public transportation spend about 7 percent less of their budget on transportation, so programs that improve public transit and blended modes of transportation can play a key role in social equity.
To ensure that disadvantaged populations benefit from new transportation plans, they must be included in the planning process, Bills says. If they aren't considered, tech companies are likely to promote the new transportation services and routes that make them the most money, not the ones that best benefit the population they're serving.
"When we have an equitable way of planning for transportation infrastructure that focuses on those with the greatest need, it tends to result in transportation improvements that will benefit a broader range of transportation users," Bills says.
City and county government officials are learning that old methods of transportation, such as fixed-route bus lines, are no longer the best option.
Representatives from the city of Detroit, the state of Michigan, and the business and nonprofit sectors recently collaborated on a Detroit Mobility Innovation Initiative, brainstorming with a consultant over 12 weeks to generate four to eight ideas worthy of implementation.
Garry Bulluck, deputy chief of mobility innovation for the city of Detroit, says they tried to think outside the box. Ideas ranged from systems that maximize parking efficiency by allowing visitors to reserve a parking spot, to infrastructure that would make the existing bus system more efficient.
For instance, if no passenger is waiting at the next bus stop, a bus driver can use an electronic device that communicates with city infrastructure to preempt a traffic signal and hold the green so the bus can continue through, increasing efficiency.
The initiative also prompted an idea for a community-based car share program that would target residents of low- to moderate-income neighborhoods.
Royal Oak in late 2017 launched a Transit Task Force, chaired by former city commissioner Marie Donigan, to review current transit programs, prepare a local transit strategy that would benefit people of all ages and abilities, and investigate funding options.
Two new routes have already been added, with SMART picking up a third of the cost. Donigan says the hope is that, eventually, residents will have to walk a quarter of a mile or less to get on a bus.
Donigan says that the idea of spending $14 million on a parking deck and sitting in congested traffic seems "old-fashioned" in light of news about other cities using scooters and bike share services. She says Royal Oak's transit plan suggests coordinating with bike share or other transportation modes.
While much of the conversation around transportation and social equity revolves around social justice concepts, a business and economic case can also be made for better transportation options.
The most obvious way improved transportation systems impact the economy is that they help people get and keep jobs, and attain skills and education to move on to better jobs.
If a resident of southeast Michigan finds a better job on the opposite side of Detroit from where he or she lives, "transportation should not be the barrier that stops that person from going after that," Bulluck says.
New technologies also create jobs, which contributes to a region's economy. Doshi notes that the company Zambikes has been creating bamboo bicycle frames for export from Zambia since 2008, offering not just a new transportation option but creating jobs and a whole "ecosystem" around biking, and "putting Zambia on the map," Doshi says.
A less obvious impact on the economy comes from the link between transportation and healthcare access. Close to 75 percent of all medical appointments that aren't kept are canceled due to lack of transportation access. This affects the time doctors and nurses have to interact with other patients, and causes inefficiencies, waste, and drives up insurance costs.
To this end, Ford Motor Co. recently launched its new GoRide non-emergency medical transportation service in partnership with Beaumont Health to get patients to and from their medical appointments at more than 200 facilities safely and on time, and may be expanding to serve other healthcare systems in southeast Michigan.
"People ride public transportation to spend money or make money," Donigan says, meaning return on investment in public transportation is good, with each dollar spent on transportation generating an additional $4.


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The Memphis Grizzlies are inviting the fastest babies in the Mid-South to participate in the Grizzlies' annual Infie 500 Diaper Derby at halftime on Sunday, March 10 when the team hosts the Orlando Magic at 5 p.m.
To enter a baby in the race, family members are asked to submit an online entry on grizzlies.com explaining in 50 words or less why their baby should be selected. Entries will be judged based on content creativity. Submissions will be accepted starting today, Monday, February 11 and will close at noon on Monday, February 18. Babies must be between 6-12 months to participate. Babies who can walk are not eligible.
Finalists will be notified by Wednesday, February 20 and will receive four tickets to the March 10 game. Babies selected are required to attend a photo shoot to be held at FedExForum on Monday, March 4.
The fastest baby will crawl away with the grand prize and the Golden Bottle Trophy, a $50 Gift Card from the Grizzlies Den by Fanatics and the priceless recognition of being the Grizzlies' 2019 Infie 500 Diaper Derby Champion.
Babies must be 6-12 months, but cannot be walkers. Crawlers only. No children over the age of one will be allowed to participate.
Two escorts may accompany the baby to the game and will be permitted on court during the race.
Parents/Guardians may use objects (toys, keys, etc.) to encourage babies along the course.
Race Course will extend from the foul line (free throw line) to half court, a distance of approximately 42 feet.
If at any point race participants become uncomfortable with the situation (crying, refusal to move, etc.), parents/guardians may remove their baby from the race.
For more information on the Grizzlies Infie 500 Diaper Derby and a full list of contest rules, visit the official entry page HERE.
Fans who want to support the Memphis Grizzlies and purchase 2018/19 Season Tickets can do so now by calling (901) 888-HOOP or going online to grizzlies.com. Single Game Tickets are available for purchase at the FedExForum Box Office, ticketmaster.com, online at grizzlies.com or by calling 1-800-4NBA-TIX. For more information on the Grizzlies, 'like' Memphis Grizzlies on Facebook or follow on Twitter (@memgrizz).


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As everyone may know, Firefox Quantum is a different Firefox from the one we've known for years now. Many extensions are dead. However there are ways to customize the look and feel of Firefox using userChrome.css file.
This topic intends to provide userChrome.css tweaks for users of ColorfulTabs. Anything that makes life better is welcome.
This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Shivanand Sharma.
1. Click on the Firefox Menu on the top right of the Firefox window.
3. Click on Troubleshooting Information.
5. Open the Chrome folder. Create it if it doesn't exist.
6. Edit the file named userChrome.css (create if it doesn't exist).
Tried this fix with my custom CSS (see the other thread below) to obtain a dark grey background (selecting the appropriate option in the CSS), but it doesn't work (i see that color for just a second after FF startup, then it reverts back to its usual light grey color).
Thanks for this. Glad I can use Color Tabs and still theme FF. Instead of 'initial' I have just used contrasting colors for 'background' and 'color'. I'm not that big a fan of 'Metro' colors in the newer apps, but contrasting metro colors would work well here.
I want the option to have each tab be a different color like in the past.Is there a way to do it in Firefox Quantum ?
But despite of the description and the code written above (that I used) I can not colorize the inactive, white tabs and I couldn't remove the color of the tool-bar background, so I can't observe any change in colors of UI, and it looks like before.
I created the userChrome.css file in my home directory of Firefox 58.0.2 (64 bit) on Linux Mint 18.3 Xfce, and I can not see any change at the colors of the tabs or toolbar background. (If more tabs are open only the active one is colored and the color of the toolbar background is identical with that color, but the other tabs are uncolored (just white).
So if I failed the CSS file, please forgive me, but I'm not versed at all in CSS-coding.
It would be useful the exact list of the code-lines (or the relevant part) of a userChrome.css file which it could be used as a template to make ColorfulTabs work as the good old version of it.
Thank you any help in anticipation.
in your appropriate Profile directory. He did state in the OP that if the "Chrome" folder doesn't exist you must create it.
This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by FluxApex.
and therefore the first becomes redundant and no longer needed.
Thanks, I had forgotten to make the chrome directory, indeed.
So I made it and took the userChrome.css file there (into the Chrome directory). . . But it doensn't work.
I don't know where is the problem, but I will try to investigate it.
Maybe the name of the "Chrome" directory have to change to "chrome", because Linux is sensitive for letters and makes diference between capitals and non-capitals.
On the other hand, you are right, I make a redundancy in my userChrome.css so I made a correction for this reason.
I made a directory in my profile directory of Firefox named "chrome", too. I copied the userChrome.css file to that.
So I have to directories with this css file, one named "Chrome" and another named "chrome". Nothing happened after restarting of Firefox (version 58.0.2 , 64bit on Linux Mint 18.3 Xfce) .
What could be the root of this issue ?
This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by EchoingWolfcry.
"On the other hand, you are right, I had MADE a redundancy in my userChrome.css, so I made a correction after your reply."
Sorry, my English is not too good.
I hope you could understand the essence of my message, even so.
The problem persists, so I would be thankful if you or someone other expert can share with me some tips & tricks to fix it.
This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by FluxApex.
Still trying to tweak my custom CSS: trying to use this trick to emulate the addon bar at the bottom: it works, the only drawback is that the new addon bar is influenced by colorfultabs and has the same color of the active tab.
I need to have it the same color of the address bar (light gray in my case): any info about the lines of code I need to add to my CSS to make it so?
Does anyone have a code that will automatically open a link into a new tab?


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The closing ceremony for Developers' Game Jam by Epiphany Games, curated by Epiphany and supported by Revolving Games took place on the 4th of December, 2020. The closing ceremony marked the end of a two-week rigorous game design and development experience bringing together experts from the local and international gaming industry. The Developers' Game Jam achieved an overwhelming response and engaged 29 community outreach partners, 25 mentors, 13 workshop facilitators, 19 teams and 9 gaming professionals and enthusiasts as judges.
Team Epiphany was thrilled to see the outcome of the game jam.
"We, at Epiphany, are big on community building, inclusion, and harnessing hidden potential. The game jam has been an amazing experience – it brought together professionals from different gaming studios on one platform to support emerging talent from all parts of the country. I'm grateful for the kindness, patience and hard work that the mentors put in; the valuable content shared by workshop facilitators and the flexibility demonstrated by the judges to evaluate entries and for their candid feedback," said Samar Hasan – CEO and Founder at Epiphany
The Game Jam, a 60 hour competition, which took place from November 27-29, was a chance for gaming enthusiasts and developers to build games using Unity, Scratch and other engines. The theme was "cute and colourful" and the games submitted have showcased immense young talent and potential in Pakistan.
"Gaming is my passion and nothing makes me prouder than to see Pakistan's talent pool in this industry. The submitted games were extremely creative and interesting. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to old friends and new from South and Southeast Asia, Europe, Middle East, Australia and North America for their tireless support and encouragement," said Asad Ehmed – Chief Strategy Officer and Micro VC at Epiphany
Emmad Irfani, a well-known model and actor, participated in the ceremony and took out time specifically to give a compelling speech to the young gaming talent of Pakistan.
"It's important to learn from your mistakes. You can have all the talent in the world but if you're not learning from your mistakes, you're not doing anything new. You have to keep inventing yourself," said Emmad Irfani, Model and Actor
The first prize was won by team Gryffindors for their game "Without Miles", second prize by team Dobbers Devs for "Zero Gravity" and third prize by team Play Like Professor for "Pengwing".
Epiphany Games also had awards for the Best Experience, Special Mention, The Hustler, The Lone Warrior, The Survivor and Chotu Pack, won by team Time Travellers, Nineteen, The Delusionals, Maximum Noobs, Mountain Devs and Team Unknown, respectively.
The prizes were generously sponsored by Revolving Games, The Game Storm Studios and Optimum Being
"We are amazed at how Epiphany Games pulled this event off! It is the most thrilling game jam that we have ever participated in and we are hoping to participate in the next Developers' Game Jam as well. Not only did they manage to help us via the cool workshops but they also helped each and every one of us by inviting amazing mentors that added immense value. They provided the optimal virtual environment where all of us displayed our gamedev potential!" – Team Gryffindor
"We were shocked really, we thought we didn't stand a chance, but we have never felt better at being wrong. Thanks a lot to Epiphany Games for organizing this Game Jam. It was an excellent experience and we look forward to more opportunities" – Team Play Like Professor
"Our team of developers, the Dobberz Devz, are extremely humbled by the opportunity and award presented to us. Downloading Unity in our first mentor meeting on Day 1 of the Jam, we did not have any idea about unity scripts or planning that goes into game design, but the idea of learning was fun and unique. It is an honor to be selected as top 3 and we owe it all to our mentors who spent day and night, taking time off their work and leisure to guide and inspire us. This journey was well worth the taking, regardless of prizes, because the experience was educational in a really wholesome and accepting community." – Team Dobbers Devz
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Q: If you roll a fair die six times, what is the probability of getting zero 6's? I know the probability of getting zero sixes on one roll is $5/6$, would I just find $(5/6)^6$ and subtract that from $1$ to get the probability?
Any help would be appreciated.

A: For each roll the probability is $\frac56$ thus for six rolls
$$P=\left(\frac56\right)^6$$
Note that $1-P$ is the probability of the complemantary case with at least one 6 in six rolls.

A: Assuming each dice roll is independent, and denoting the dice roll on the nth throw to be $X_n$, we have $$P(X_1\ne 6,X_2\ne6,\cdots,X_6\ne 6)=P(X_1\ne6)\times\cdots\times P(X_6\ne6)\\=P(X_1\ne6)^6\\=\left(\frac56\right)^6$$
You described subtracting this from $1$. This would give you the probability that at least one of the 6 dice rolls will be a 6. This is different to what you are looking for.


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[Review] Criminal Girls 2: Party Favours (PC, Vita)
It's your responsibility to escort these 7 girls out of hell and have them atone for their sins. Are you up for the challenge?
Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors is the sequel to Criminal Girls: Invite Only (a PSP game that was ported to PS Vita with additional content). The game is created and published by Nippon Ichi Software, who brought us great titles like the "Disgaea" series and "Yomawari: Night Alone".
The game plays similar to the Disgaea series or the early Final Fantasy games on Famicom. You adventure through dungeons fighting whichever Convicts (Monsters) that randomly appear before you. If you are familiar with the previous game then you should be fine with this game, the gameplay hasn't changed much bar a few new additions like "coaching system".
The coaching system is a new mechanic where, in mid-battle, you "coach" your party to perform better in battle. However this is ultimately dependant on how you "motivate" your party beforehand. This mechanic is necessary to learn and use when playing on normal or higher difficulties. You can still coach on lower difficulties but you may not need to use it.
"Motivation" returns to this game in a more interesting way. Motivation is a core game mechanic where you use in-game currency to level up the party by playing sexualized mini games. This mode isn't optional as you need it to progress and gain new moves for characters. I understand that this is one of the factors that make this game series controversial. I feel that if you are actively making the decision to buy the game, you shouldn't have a problem with it.
I do have a few issues with motivation, and how it works with coaching. Each time you level up you are given a choice of skills marked S or M. Meaning you can go back and switch moves according to what moves suit the situation.
Coaching can be successful depending on whether or not characters have more S or M skills. During my playthrough, I didn't use the coach system a lot as, for some reason, the skills I had for my characters rarely gave a majority "good" outcome. The mechanic made me feel as though I was being "punished" for my choice in skills. However your mileage may vary.
Let's talk more about motivation. I find the mini games to be an improvement compared to the previous entry in the series. The mini games are played without the use of The Vita's rear pad. I loved how the first game used the all parts of the vita, but ultimately the first game wasn't able to be played on PS TV. By removing the rear panel games, NIS have allowed for the game to be played by PS TV owners.
The mysterious censorship fog didn't return to the game, which lead to believe I was playing a special uncensored version of the game. I must commend NIS America for sticking with their guns on this one. However the game is still censored from the japanese version to meet ESRB guidelines. For example, during motivation characters do not speak at all and any chains or rope used in the japanese version has been removed. I've also noticed that the girls are consenting to being "motivated"; I cannot confirm if this is the case in the JP version.
Motivation mini games are more creative this time around, as well as far more sexualized. For example there are motivational scenes where you throw slime balls at various body parts of the characters. Honestly, the screenshots say it all.
All the sexualization aside, let's appreciate the game's characters and story. The goal of the game is to fight through various dungeons, and find a way out of hell so that these girls can atone for their sins. This is what I love about the game and why I was excited and honoured to review it.
The game itself touches on some very serious issues - abandonment, depression, bullying, sexual assault, etc. It speaks about these issues in a meaningful way that isn't degrading to anyone. You learn about why the girls are in hell and what wrong doings they did to be there. You see them grow and acknowledge their faults and fight to overcome them and I find that endearing
There were moments during my play through where I cried because I felt for these characters, even the characters I didn't quite like. I am not a fan of how this game gets treated because of its "appearance", it's much more than another sexy anime game set in a dungeon. It's an emotional and heartwarming game if you can overcome the motivation mechanic. And I recommend this game to those who own a vita (or PlayStation TV).
I give this game an 8.5 out of 10 (not as great as the original but still a fantastic game). Criminal Girls 2 is out now worldwide on Playstation Vita with support for Playstation TV. Criminal Girls: Invite Only is also available on Steam and PlayStation Store.
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The wisdom of Neil Armstrong….
Answers From Leadership Episode 31 Steve Armstrong is a Calgary-based speaker, educator, and consultant. Continue Reading… The post Leading In Difficult Times With Steve Armstrong appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
Anyone in the market for a 24" by 36" signed color portrait of Lance Armstrong leading the Tour de France? Over the past several weeks, Armstrong has experienced one of the most dramatic self induced falls from grace ever. Current Affairs General Leadership Personal Presence doping Lance Armstrong leadership LiveStrong New York Times trustI've had one on my office wall for four or five years but I'll be taking it down now.
Better Einstein than Armstrong. When I was younger, a mentor of mine use to say, "Better Einstein than Armstrong." He had no idea, of course, just how lopsided the Einstein/Armstrong contest proved to be. Lance Armstrong doping a Cautionary Tale.
Lance Armstrong once wrote: "I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking and honorable.
It took AOL CEO Tim Armstrong 4 days to apologize for the firing of an employee in front of 1,000 other employees. One has to wonder what took so long. I can only hope he realized the day of the incident that what he did was egregious. Given the delayed response, I'm not so sure.
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Karl''s blog entries Amazon.com Anne Armstrong-Coben M.D. I just finished Harlan Coben's newest novel, The Stranger (Dutton, 2015). I wish I were more enthusiastic. Always a master mystery storyteller, I have always greatly anticipated the release of each of his books. As always, this book hit the fiction best-seller lists, but quickly dropped out. Today, it stands as the 75th best-selling overall book […].
In The Innovation Expedition, Gijus van Wulfen identifies and discusses lessons to be learned from great explorers such as Roald Amundsen, Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus, Yuri Gagarin, Edmund Hillary, David Livingston, Ferdinand Magellan, and Ernest Shackleton.
After more than a decade of vehement denials , Lance Armstrong finally came clean last night in an interview with Oprah Winfrey about his use of performance enhancing drugs. A tough but gentle interview could have been just the right format for Armstrong to win the public back to his side.
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These are the days when the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon (the 20th) and when Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon (on the 21st). 46 years today and tomorrow (as I post this), July 20 and 21st, 1969, are days that everyone my age or older remembers.
The movie opens with an interview with Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer. – Billie Joe Armstrong. I wonder about people like Armstrong. Later in the movie (after some amazing concert footage), Armstrong talks about going on tour as a cure all for life's problems.
As the media awaits Lance Armstrong's taped interview with Oprah Winfrey (airing Thursday on her OWN network), where it's expected that Armstrong will admit to using performance-enhancing drugs, Armstrong's charity, Livestrong — one of the largest cancer charities in the U.S.
So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls. When Armstrong isnt writing books, shes reading. skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome!
According to Business Insider, last week AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong told Wall Street they're cutting Patch – AOL's local news network – websites from 900 to 600. The one out of line was Tim Armstrong. Armstrong owes Lenz a formal apology. Imagine getting fired.
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Ask yourself how you leveraged your successes, advises Sharon Armstrong in The Essential Performance Review Handbook. Write up specific proposals for ideas you wish to pursue, suggests Armstrong. "I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.".
Last week we covered the recent case of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong firing an employee (Patch creative director, Abel Lenz) publically while on a conference call of 1,000 employees. And it wasn't until four days after Lenz was fired that Armstrong sent AOL employees an apology for his behavior.
Armstrong Williams~. "Networking is an essential part of building wealth.". Liam didn't drink, so when his coworkers went to the bar after work, he'd say goodbye and head home. Sure, he was missing out on the chance to socialize, but it wasn't really his scene.
After our break we had three superb panelists; Melissa Warner, Manager of Learning and Development at Canadian Tire, Lori Nemeth, Director of Learning and Development at Seneca College, and Grant Armstrong, Manager Organizational and Leadership Development at Niagara Region.
Thanks to Sharon Armstrong, author of The Essential HR Handbook , for these helpful questions! The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? Describe a situation when these qualities helped you lead others. Give an example of when you demonstrated good leadership. What is the toughest group from which you've had to get cooperation?
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's firing of a Patch employee and subsequent apology. In August 2013, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced that AOL would be reducing the number of Patch websites. Armstrong ended up firing Patch's Creative Director , Abel Lenz, in front of everyone.
Thanks to Sharon Armstrong, author of The Essential HR Handbook , for these helpful questions! The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions : What personal qualities define you as a leader?
Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. That's because you can use the reasons a departing employee provides to gather information about processes, people and departments that might need some redirection to correct situations that may have contributed to the employee's reasons for leaving. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee.
Thanks to Sharon Armstrong, author of The Essential HR Handbook , for these helpful questions! The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader?
Sure, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, but did he get there without a team? Guest post from Chris Lewis : Go on admit it. You're busy, right? Busier than last year. Busier probably than five years ago. In fact, you're busier than you can ever remember being. You're now so busy most people couldn't even begin to understand how busy you are. And you don't have time to tell them anyway. There was a time when life was slower. It all used to be so certain. You could plan. You could predict.
Thanks to Sharon Armstrong, author of The Essential HR Handbook , for these helpful questions The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions : What personal qualities define you as a leader?


On the Feast of the Holy Family we offer all the members of our own families on the altar for God's blessing.
Introduction: On the last Sunday of the year, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family. We are here to offer all the members of our own families on the altar for God's blessing.
Rights and duties of parents and children: Although more emphasis is given in the first two readings on the obligation of children to their parents, there is a profound lesson here for parents too. "Like father like son" is an old saying, and very often true. If the parents fail to do what is right and just in the sight of God, they can hardly complain if their children turn out disobedient to God and to them. The young learn more from example than from precept. If parents give their children the example of a life of obedience to the laws of God and their country, the children will in turn carry out their duties to God, to their parents and to their fellowman.
Exegesis: The context: Today's Gospel describes the presentation of the Baby Jesus in the Temple. The Feast of the Presentation of Jesus (celebrated formally on February 2), is a combined feast, commemorating the Jewish practice of the purification of the mother after childbirth and the presentation of the Child in the Temple. It is known as the "Hypanthe" feast or Feast of the Purification of Mary (by the offering two pigeons in the Temple), the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (by prayers and a sacrifice offered in the Temple to redeem or buy the firstborn male child back from the Lord), the Feast of Candlemas (because candles are blessed for liturgical and personal use) and the Feast of Encounter (because the New Testament, represented by the Baby Jesus, encountered the Old Testament, represented by Simeon and Anna).
Purification and redemption ceremonies: The Gospel describes how Joseph, as the head of the Holy Family of Nazareth, presented Mary and the Baby Jesus in the Temple of God for the mother's purification and the Child's "redemption." The Mosaic Law (Numbers 18:15) taught that since every Jewish firstborn male child belonged to Yahweh, the parents had to "buy back" (redeem), the child by offering a lamb or turtledoves as a sacrifice in the Temple. In addition (Leviticus 12:2-8), every mother had to be purified after childbirth by prayers and an offering made to God in the Temple. Joseph kept these laws as an act of obedience to God.
The encounter with Simeon and Anna: By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the old, pious and Spirit-filled Simeon and Anna had been waiting in the Temple for the revelation of God's salvation. Simeon recognized Jesus as the Lord's anointed one, and in his prayer of blessing he prophesied that Jesus was meant to be the glory of Israel and the light of revelation to the Gentiles. While he blessed Mary, he warned her that her child would be "a sign of contradiction," and that she would be "pierced with a sword." Simeon was prophesying both the universal salvation that would be proclaimed by Jesus and the necessity of suffering in the mission of the Messiah.
Influence of the Holy Family on Jesus: We know that the family of Jesus was steeped in Scripture. Mary's prayer, the Magnificat, is rich in Old Testament quotations. We know that Jesus' family had a deep life of piety that included pilgrimages and prayer to the angels. Both Mary and Joseph received the guidance of Heaven's messengers. From Jesus' adulthood, we can also glimpse the prayer life He learned from His parents. He prayed the morning offering of pious Jews (Mk 12:29-30). He prayed spontaneously. He took time to pray alone. Yet, He also prayed with His friends. Jesus fasted and marked the holy days. All these habits He probably acquired from His home life in Nazareth. We know that work was important to Jesus' family. In adulthood, Jesus was called not just "Joseph's son," but "the carpenter's son." Joseph was skilled in a trade that was highly regarded in his day, and he trained Jesus in the same craft. We can conclude from Jesus' preaching that Mary was industrious and frugal in keeping a house. It was likely from her example that Jesus drew many of His favorite stories: a woman finding just the right cloth to patch a piece of clothing, a woman setting aside leaven for tomorrow's baking, a widow searching her house for a lost coin. Hard work, struggling to pay the bills, taking long road trips, praying simple devotions — all of this we learn from the real Gospels. (mikeaquilina.com).
Life Messages: 1) We need to learn lessons from the Holy Family: By celebrating the Sunday following Christmas as the Feast of the Holy Family, the Church encourages us to look to the Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph for inspiration, example and encouragement. They were a model family in which both parents worked hard, helped each other, understood and accepted each other, and took good care of their Child so that He might grow up not only in human knowledge but also as a Child of God. Jesus brought holiness to the family of Joseph and Mary as Jesus brings us holiness by embracing us in His family. The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives the following advice to the parents: "Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well-suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery – the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the 'material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.'" The CCC adds: "Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children." (CCC #2223).
2) Marriage: a Sacrament of holiness. The Feast of the Holy Family reminds us that, as the basic unit of the universal Church, each family is called to holiness. In fact, Jesus Christ has instituted two Sacraments in His Church to make society holy – the Sacrament of priesthood and the Sacrament of marriage. Through the Sacrament of priesthood, Jesus sanctifies the priest as well as his parish. Similarly, by the Sacrament of marriage, Jesus sanctifies not only the spouses but also the entire family. The husband and wife attain holiness when they discharge their duties faithfully, trusting in God, and drawing on the presence and power of the Holy Spirit through personal and family prayer, meditative reading of the Bible, and devout participation in Holy Mass. Families become holy when Christ Jesus is present in them. Jesus becomes truly present in the parish Church through the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass. Similarly, Jesus becomes truly present in a family when all the members live in the Christian spirit of sacrifice. This happens when there is mutual understanding, mutual support and mutual respect. There must be proper care and respect given by children to their parents and grandparents, even after they have grown up and left home.
3) We need to make the family a confessional rather than a courtroom. A senior Judge of the Supreme Court recently congratulated the bride and groom in a marriage with a pertinent piece of advice: "See that you never convert your family into a courtroom; instead let it be a confessional. If the husband and wife start arguing like attorneys in an attempt to justify their behavior, their family becomes a court of law and nobody wins. On the other hand, if the husband and the wife — as in a confessional — are ready to admit their faults and try to correct them, the family becomes a Heavenly one." Thus, we can avoid the dangers we watch in dysfunctional families as presented on TV in the shows like Married with Children, The Simpson's, Everyone Loves Raymond and Malcolm in the Middle.
4) Every Holy Mass in which we participate is our presentation. Although we were officially presented to God on the day of our Baptism, we present ourselves and our dear ones on the altar before God our Father through our Savior Jesus Christ at every Holy Mass. Hence, we need to live our daily lives with the awareness both that we are dedicated people consecrated to God and that we are obliged and empowered by His grace to lead holy lives.
5) Let us extend the boundaries of our family: The homeless man or woman today in the streets of big cities, fighting the cold and the snow, is part of our family. The drug addict in a den, or living in fear and aloneness this day, is member of our family. The sick person, dying, alone, dirty and maybe even obnoxious, is a member of our family. The person sitting in the prison cell for whatever reason is also a child of God, and as such, according to St. John, is a member of our family. All these, as well as the cherished intimate members of our family, are "family valuables," and, as such, are worthy of safekeeping and reverence.
On the Feast of the only perfect Family that ever lived on this earth, all parents might examine themselves and see how well they are fulfilling the grave responsibility which God has placed on them. As they heard during their marriage ceremony: "children are a gift from God to you." Children serve as the joy of their parents' young years and the help and comfort of their old age, but above and beyond that, they are a gift for which their parents are accountable before God, as they must, in the end, return these, His children, to Him. Let us pray for the grace of caring for one another in our own families, for each member of the parish family, and for all families of the universal Church. May God bless all our families in the New Year. (Fr. Antony Kadavil).


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They nodded at her as she turned and went out of the study, shutting the door as she left. Each of them refreshed their drinks and sat down again to collect their thoughts.
Wolfgang suggested, "Do we need to look a little closer at the new advanced computer arms race that China just took the lead in? We know that they have been pouring money into a program to build the fastest supercomputer in the world and they have made their goal. Their Nuclear Asymmetric Binary Operational Ballistics system, or NABOB, is now the fastest supercomputer among the sovereigns. However internally the Chinese refer to it as the IQ 5678 supercomputer. The United States, by all appearances, is taking a really critical look at their technological capabilities.
Quip stepped into the discussion as he added, "After we found Su Lin's unauthorized hack into ICABOD, we also discovered she used it to then penetrate the cyber-wall around the Chinese's NABOB. Jacob and I both suspect she went nosing around as we found some log files that were missed when she was cleaning that link into NABOB. She must have found some fairly interesting routines because of what she had built.
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A psychoanalytic term for a group of personality traits believed to stem from the anal stage of psychosexual development.Between the ages of two and three, the child's libido is thought to be focused on defecation, and his process therefore provides him with a primary source of pleasure ("anal erotism"). Moreover, his response to his parents' requirements for bowel control are believed to determine many of his future character traits. But there are two aspects involved in the control of elimination—retention and expulsion—and according to the theory, the child's character may be influenced more by one than the other. The child who associates pleasure with expulsion tends to become ambitious, conceited, and generous. The ambitiousness and conceit are attributed to feelings of confidence generated by successful elimination, and the generosity is associated with willingness to "give" when he is expected to do so.On the other hand, the child who derives particular satisfaction from retention tends to develop the more common "anal character," characterized by orderliness, frugality, and obstinacy, which are sometimes termed the "anal triad." The orderliness, which also includes punctuality and propriety, results from obedience to the mother's demand to be clean. The frugality is regarded as a continuation of anal retentiveness—just as the child cannot give up his feces, so the adult saves carefully, has a strong "collecting instinct," and may even become a miser or hoarder. The obstinacy is a carryover of the child's rebellion against the mother's demand to eliminate. Adults who exhibit these traits in extreme degree are described by psychoanalysts as "fixated" at the anal stage. Compulsive characters are frequently termed anal characters, since they tend to be meticulous, controlled, rigid, overconscientious individuals.
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Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "ANAL CHARACTER," in PsychologyDictionary.org, November 28, 2018, https://psychologydictionary.org/anal-character/ (accessed January 7, 2020).
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Bonobo Live at Kirstenbosch, Cape Town.
British Dj / Producer Bonobo will be heading to Cape Town on the 8th of February 2019. According to Web Tickets, Bonobo will perform a one night live show with his 8-piece band at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.
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