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Herculano (en italiano, Ercolano) fue una antigua ciudad romana de la región de la Campania, sur de Italia. En su tiempo era más pequeña, pero sus más mundanos comerciantes y mercaderes eran más ricos, cultos e intelectuales que la élite de la vecina Pompeya.
Fue declarado Patrimonio Mundial de la Unesco, junto con Pompeya y otros yacimientos arqueológicos de la zona, en 1997.

Erupción del 79 d.c
Es conocida por haberse conservado, al igual que Pompeya, enterrada en las cenizas de la erupción del volcán Vesubio del 24 de octubre del año 79 d. C.
Muchos de sus habitantes perecieron debido al flujo piroclástico de la erupción. Como la ciudad estaba más cerca del volcán que Pompeya, el flujo piroclástico la alcanzó a una temperatura superior, estimada en 400-500 °C, por lo que las víctimas fueron reducidas al instante a esqueletos abrasados, mientras que en Pompeya, por el contrario, la ceniza se endureció alrededor de los cuerpos que conservaron la carne, que al pudrirse dejaba la forma hueca; desde 1860 empezaron a rellenarlas con yeso para crear los famosos moldes.

Como Pompeya, Herculano desapareció en el olvido bajo una capa de 25 m de ceniza por más de un milenio.

Descubrimiento
En 1709 Emmanuel Mauricio de Lorena, Duque de Elbeuf, mientras construía su residencia en la costa de Portici, oyó hablar de un hombre que había descubierto mármoles y columnas antiguas mientras cavaba un pozo en la cercana ciudad de Resina. El duque compró su granja y comenzó a cavar pozos y galerías subterráneas y excavó estatuas, columnas y mármoles que utilizó para su residencia de Portici, que también regaló a sus amigos, familiares y monarcas de toda Europa.

Las excavaciones, realizadas por Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre (Zaragoza, 16 de agosto de 1702 - Nápoles, 14 de marzo de 1780) comenzaron en la actual Ercolano, un suburbio de Nápoles, en 1738. La elaborada publicación de Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte ("Las antigüedades de Herculano expuestas") bajo el patrocinio del rey Carlos V de las Dos Sicilias tuvo un importante efecto en el incipiente neoclasicismo europeo. A finales del  comenzaron a descubrirse en Herculano una gran diversidad de objetos, como pinturas murales, trípodes, braseros, estatuas de bronce, botellas de perfume y cerámica.

Se encontraron en 1980 cientos de esqueletos de habitantes que se habían refugiado en los cobertizos para barcas. Estas excavaciones realizadas en el área del puerto de Herculano permitieron hallar más de 200 esqueletos de diversas edades y condición social.

La más famosa de las lujosas villas herculanas es la Villa de los Papiros, identificada como el fastuoso retiro con vistas al mar que Lucio Calpurnio Pisón Cesonino, suegro de Julio César, mandó construir.

Edificios públicos

Los Fornicis

Se trata de una serie de estructuras abovedadas frente a la playa que servían como almacenes portuarios y para resguardar las barcas de pesca. Sobre ellas se encuentra una gran terraza. En 1980, Giuseppe Maggi encontró aquí trescientos esqueletos humanos. Se piensa que durante la erupción del Vesubio, los habitantes de Herculano trataron de refugiarse en estos almacenes con sus objetos más valiosos tales como joyas y monedas, y murieron intoxicados por los gases y las altísimas temperaturas producto del flujo piroclástico que descendió desde el Vesubio.
En 1982, en esta misma zona se encontró, en buen estado de conservación, una embarcación romana de 9 metros de longitud, en la que se hallaba un remero y un soldado con dos espadas y una bolsa de monedas. También en la playa frente a los almacenes se encontraron esqueletos de varias personas más y de un caballo.

En época romana, el mar se encontraba mucho más cerca de la ciudad que en la actualidad. Los materiales arrojados por el Vesubio le ganaron al mar una franja de tierra de unos 400 metros de ancho.

La terraza de M. Nonio Balbo

Una rampa adosada a las murallas conduce a una amplia plaza rectangular frente a las Termas suburbanas. Aquí se encuentra un altar funerario de mármol en honor al senador Marco Nonio Balbo, pretor y procónsul de la provincia de Creta y de Cirene, tribuno de la plebe en el año 32 a. C. Este senador era mecenas de la ciudad de Herculano y mandó edificar numerosos edificios públicos para la misma. Por esta razón, le erigieron al menos diez estatuas y a su muerte, le tributaron grandes honores, según consta en una inscripción de este altar. En la base de mármol, a un lado del altar, estaba la estatua con coraza del propio Nonio Balbo. Se descubrió su cabeza durante las excavaciones de A. Maiuri.

Termas suburbanas
Estas termas, una de las mejor conservadas de la antigüedad, se construyeron en el  entre las murallas de la ciudad y el mar. A través de un portal con semicolumnas y tímpano se accede a un vestíbulo con impluvium y cuatro columnas. De la herma de Apolo fluía agua sobre una fuente circular. El vestíbulo, a través de un corredor, conduce a una sala de espera y al praefurnium, el horno para calentar el agua.

Las salas termales son:
 El Frigidarium, la sala de baño frío, con un suelo de baldosas de mármol blanco y frescos en cuarto estilo.
 El Tepidarium, la sala tibia, con un suelo de baldosas de pizarra y estucos en las paredes que representan guerreros.
 El Caldarium, la sala de baño caliente, cuyas paredes están decoradas en cuarto estilo y la huella del labrum, piscina de las abluciones.

En la zona oriental de las termas se encuentra una sala rematada por un ábside con una piscina, cuya agua se calentaba con un sistema de samovar. Además el complejo termal cuenta con un laconicum, la sala de baños de vapor, con un suelo de piezas de mosaico negras sobre fondo blanco.

El gimnasio

El Gimnasio o Palestra era un extenso complejo dedicado fundamentalmente a las actividades deportivas. Se construyó durante la época de Augusto (27 a. C. al 14 d. C.). Su planta se organiza en torno a dos terrazas. Solo una parte del edificio fue excavada. Desde la entrada, por el cardo V se accede a un monumental vestíbulo realzado por dos columnas. La terraza inferior consta de una gran área con pórticos en tres de sus lados y un Criptopórtico en su lado Norte, sobre el que descansa otra terraza. Un largo estanque rectangular, que servía de vivero de peces, bordeaba el criptopórtico, pero fue reemplazado por una gran alberca cruciforme, con una fuente de bronce que representa a la Hidra de Lerna, mítica serpiente monstruosa de siete cabezas, cuyo original se conserva en el Antiquarium.

En el lado oeste del pórtico encontramos una serie de habitaciones entre las que destaca una amplia sala rectangular con ábside, de unos 10 metros de altura, con una hornacina y un altar de mármol destinado a las ceremonias y ofrendas religiosas.

Las termas masculinas
Estas termas principales, se encontraron en 1873 y fueron excavadas completamente en 1931. Su trama presenta la división habitual en los sectores masculino y femenino. Su construcción se remonta a la segunda mitad del  Originariamente eran abastecidas por un pozo de grandes dimensiones.

A las termas masculinas se accede por el cardo III. Un pasillo conduce al vestuario (apodyterium) con hornacinas donde depositar la ropa. Desde aquí y hacia el oeste encontramos la sala fría de forma circular, con las paredes pintadas de rojo, con cuatro hornacinas de color amarillo y una cúpula azul celeste. Hacia el este encontramos la sala tibia adornada con un mosaico blanco y negro que representa a Tritón entre delfines, un pulpo, un calamar, y un amorcillo con un látigo. A continuación está la sala caliente rematada en un ábside.

Las termas femeninas

Se accede a ellas por el cardo IV. Después de una sala de espera con bancos de obra adosados a las paredes, se encuentra el vestuario (apodyterium), cuya bóveda de cañón está decorada con estrías onduladas. Aquí se encuentra el mosaico con el Tritón. A continuación está la sala tibia con repisas para guardar la ropa. El suelo es un mosaico con meandros. La sala caliente, con una cubierta abovedada, posee dos asientos suntuosos, uno de mármol blanco y el otro de color rojo. Detrás de estas estancias se encuentran los hornos donde se calentaba el agua y el pozo que permitía recoger el agua a 8,25 metros de profundidad.

El lado sur de las termas conecta con la Palestra a través de un patio abierto, circundado por pórticos cuyas columnas de ladrillo están revestidas de estuco.

La sede de los Sacerdotes Augustales
Para los esclavos liberados, convertirse en un sacerdote augustal era una forma de ascender en la escala social. Su Colegio, dedicado al culto al emperador Augusto, estaba ubicado en las proximidades del Foro, donde se desarrollaba la vida religiosa, política y social.

Es un edificio de planta cuadrada, con cuatro columnas centrales y arcos ciegos en sus paredes. El suelo es de opus signinum mientras que el de la planta alta es de opus spicatum. Con posterioridad se construyó una cella, en eje con la entrada, que conserva parte de su suelo y rodapié original así como los frescos en cuarto estilo: en la pared izquierda se observa la entrada de Hércules en el Olimpo acompañado de Júpiter, metamorfoseado en arco iris, Juno y Minerva; en la pared derecha en cambio vemos la lucha de Hércules con Aqueloo. Al fondo, a la derecha del sacellum, está la habitación del conserje, cuyo esqueleto se encontró tendido en la cama.

Todavía se conserva una inscripción en la pared que recuerda que el edificio fue consagrado a Augusto, en vida del emperador, y que fue construido por voluntad de los hermanos A. Lucio Próculo (A. Lucius Proculus) y A. Lucio Juliano (A. Lucius Iulianus), quienes el día de la inauguración ofrecieron un almuerzo al que invitaron a los miembros del Senactum (senado municipal) y a los sacerdotes Augustales.

Teatro

El edificio, cuya estructura se apoyaba sobre un doble orden de arcos y pilastras, tenía una capacidad de 2 000-2 500 espectadores y estaba decorado elegantemente. El muro en lo alto de la cavea estaba ornamentado con una serie de estatuas de bronce de grandes dimensiones, representando a personalidades de Herculano y miembros de la familia imperial. Riquísima era también la decoración del escenario, recubierta de mármol, con columnas de mármol africano y de amarillo antiguo. A pesar de ello, el teatro se encuentra hoy totalmente espoliado. Manuel Mauricio de Lorena, príncipe de Elboeuf primero y Carlos de Borbón después se ensañaron con tenaz vandalismo con este monumento, llevándose toda obra de arte y cada placa de mármol, desmembrando así irremediablemente aquello que de otra forma habría sido el teatro mejor conservado de toda la antigüedad.

Casas

Casa del mosaico de Neptuno y Anfítrite
Esta casa destaca debido a la rica decoración del triclinio que se puede observar a través de la ventana del tablino, en eje con la puerta de entrada. El nombre de esta casa se debe al mosaico mural que decora la pared oriental de la habitación. Realizado en pasta de vidrio representa a Neptuno y Anfítrite.

En el lado norte hay un ninfeo revestido por un mosaico también de pasta de vidrio con conchas y espuma de lava, coronado por unas máscaras teatrales de mármol. Sobre la zona de las hornacinas se instaló el tanque que abastecía la fuente. En el larario del atrio se descubrieron los fragmentos de dos placas de mármol con pintura roja. Una de ellas lleva la firma del artista griego, que dice: "Alejandro, el ateniense, lo pintó".

Casa del Gran Portal
Se la conoce así por su portal con columnas, platabanda y cornisa de ladrillo, edificada tras el terremoto que asoló la ciudad en el año 62 y donde se reutilizaron los capiteles procedentes de otros edificios.

Su anómala planta es fruto de la expansión de la casa, a la cual se anexó el peristilo de la vecina Casa Samnítica. En su vestíbulo de entrada están embebidas en las paredes los fustes de unas columnas estriadas de toba y dos pilares con semicolumnas, que todavía se encuentran en su posición original. Destacan sus frescos en cuarto estilo y el pequeño patio a la izquierda de la entrada. Para crear la ilusión de un espacio verde, en sus paredes pintaron un jardín. En una pared del triclinio está representado Sileno, sentado entre dos sátiros, que observa a Ariadna y Dioniso.

Casa de los Ciervos

La casa, con un balcón corrido, y con un pequeño atrio sin compluvium tiene una planta alta para la servidumbre. A la derecha, el pasillo conduce al triclinio, a la cocina y a un dormitorio, donde se conserva una decoración mural en cuarto estilo y el suelo de mármol. A la izquierda se encuentran las amplias estancias de representación. El criptopórtico con ventanas posee un suelo de mosaicos blancos y escamas de mármol de varios colores, mientras que las paredes están decoradas con frescos. Este delimita el gran jardín donde se encontraron unas mesas de mármol circulares y unas estatuas de unos ciervos perseguidos por una jauría de perros, una estatua de un sátiro con un odre y de Hércules borracho; las piezas originales están en el Antiquarium.

En eje con el jardín se encuentra un gran salón, remarcado por un tímpano, en el que hay un mosaico de pasta de vidrio azul celeste, que representa a unos Amorcillos montados en animales marinos y la cabeza de Océano. El suelo de este amplio salón es de opus sectile y los frescos de cuarto estilo. Tras cruzar varias habitaciones se encuentra una terraza panorámica con vista al mar.

El hallazgo de un sello de Celer, esclavo de Quinto Granio Vero, liberado antes de la erupción del Vesubio, permitió identificar al dueño de la casa.

Casa del Atrio Corintio
De tamaño medio, es una de las casas más antiguas de la ciudad. Fue ampliada con una planta alta. La entrada está adornada con columnas pareadas de ladrillo y el atrio con tres columnas corintias de ladrillo a cada lado. El suelo de opus signinum está decorado con un mármol polícromo. Un plúteo bajo corre entre las columnas y delimita el impluvium, que tiene una fuente con estanque de mármol.

A la derecha de la entrada, una habitación contiene un mosaico con una muralla almenada y torres. En la sala de estar (diaeta) se conserva la cubierta con artesonado pintado en cuarto estilo, al igual que las paredes del resto de habitaciones.

Casa del Esqueleto
Su parte delantera fue excavada por C. Bonucci entre 1830 y 1831 el cual halló un esqueleto en el piso alto. Las excavaciones las completaría A. Maiuri en 1927. El trazado actual reúne tres casas anteriores, de forma alargada. La central posee un atrio cubierto. La pared del fondo del ninfeo, que surge a la izquierda de la entrada, está revestida con lava imitando un trabajo en opus quadratum y posee un friso de mosaicos. En un patio pequeño se halla un lararium. Algunas habitaciones poseen suelos de opus sectile y paredes decoradas con frescos.

Casa del Albergue
Edificada durante la época de Augusto, descansa sobre estructuras abovedadas y contaba con una terraza panorámica con vistas al mar. En estas bóvedas se construyeron habitaciones, con suelos opus signinum y opus sectile. La primera excavación de la casa la hizo C. Bonucci en 1852, y fue completada en los años treinta por A. Maiuri. Debido a sus grandes dimensiones, 2150 m², y a la presencia de unas termas, los expertos creen era un albergue. En sus termas encontramos los elementos más antiguos, sus frescos en segundo estilo tardío y suelos de mosaicos en blanco y negro. Cuenta con un extenso peristilo y el pórtico que está detrás del jardín se apoya sobre unos sólidos pilares de opus vittatum mixto.

Casa de la Columnata Toscana
Vivienda que se remonta a la época de la República cuyo núcleo original se centra en el atrio, con pavimento en opus signinum. Fue reformada durante el reinado de Augusto y probablemente entonces se le añadió el peristilo con la columnata toscana, integrando la casa contigua. El impluvium fue revestido de mármol y algunos pavimentos se renovaron con mosaicos o bien con opus sectile. La paredes fueron decoradas con frescos en tercer estilo. En la sala de estar (oecus) se conservan dos cuadritos que representan uno a una Ménade sentada y el otro a un Panisco o Silvano junto a dos mujeres que conversan. En el despacho del cabeza de familia o tablino, que fue renovado después del terremoto del 62, hay unos paneles rojos y azul celeste con un Apolo en la parte superior. En el triclinio o comedor se pueden observar frescos en cuarto estilo así como en un dormitorio (cubiculum). En la planta superior de esta casa se descubrieron 1.400 sestercios y un sello de bronce.

Casa de la Herma de Bronce
Esta pequeña vivienda esta organizada en torno a un atrio de tipo toscano con un pavimento de opus signinum, estanque central de toba y paredes decoradas con frescos del tercer estilo. En esta casa se expone el vaciado de la herma de bronce del dueño de la casa. Destaca el tablino, por su pavimento opus sectile y el triclinio que se encuentra detrás. En este último, se conservan unos frescos que fueron renovados durante el periodo del cuarto estilo. De estas pinturas destaca una de ellas con un paisaje marítimo.

Casa del Armazón de Marcos de Madera

Se trata de una casa de alquiler en cuya planta alta vivían varias familias. La construyeron utilizando opus craticium, aparejo económico cuya estructura era un armazón de marcos de madera. Este no se consideraba muy sólido y se incendiaba con facilidad. Este aparejo no se utilizó en paredes portantes en Pompeya, sin embargo sí que lo ensayaron en Herculano, ciudad más de vanguardia, muy influenciada por las innovaciones procedentes de la cercana Neápolis (la actual Nápoles).

El balcón que da a la calle descansa sobre columnas de ladrillo y se corresponde, en parte, a una habitación de la vivienda del primer piso, cuya entrada independiente está en el número 13. Por las entradas de los números 14 y 15 se accede a la vivienda en planta baja y a la tienda anexa. De esta casa proceden numerosos restos de madera carbonizada de las camas, los armarios e incluso de un retrato.

Casa del Tabique de Madera

La entrada de esta vivienda está flanqueada por dos asientos de fábrica donde esperaban los clientes, es decir, los protegidos de la familia (gens). Se denomina así por un tabique de madera que, a modo de puerta corredera, separa el atrio del tablino para preservar la intimidad. Las hojas del tabique poseen unas argollas y unos soportes de los que se colgaban unos candiles (lucernae). El atrio, de grandes dimensiones, destaca por el pavimento de opus signinum, adornado por teselas blancas, que se remonta a la época más antigua de la domus. Durante una reforma que se llevó a cabo a mediados del  se realizó el revestimiento de mármol del estanque del impluvium, las pinturas murales y el mosaico geométrico de la habitación a la derecha de la entrada. Detrás del tablino se encuentra la zona del peristilo que alcanza hasta el extremo oeste de la manzana (insula) del cardo III.

Casa del Patio Bonito

El trazado actual se remonta a mediados del , aunque en la entrada y en una habitación a la izquierda del tablino se conserva la decoración mural en segundo estilo de una época anterior. La planta de la casa es anómala, el atrio fue reemplazado por un patio interior, decorado con mosaicos, por el que se accede a las habituaciones que lo rodean. En este patio encontramos la escalera, con balcón corrido pintado con motivos ornamentales, que conduce a la planta alta. La casa debió ser reformada al cambiar su función. Por ello se volvió a pavimentar el tablino y la habitación adyacente, con mosaicos y las paredes se repintaron en tercer estilo. En la pared del fondo del gran salón, cuya sala debía utilizarse para dar comidas colectivas, hay dos bajorrelieves de mármol, de estilo Neoático, que representan a la Aurora y al Ocaso. Los mismos se encontraron en pedazos, a lo largo del cardo V.

Casa del Genio
A esta casa, excavada entre 1828 y 1850, solo se puede acceder por la entrada trasera, que tiene un pórtico pequeño que da al cardo III y lleva el número 3. La entrada principal probablemente daba al cardo II, que aún no se ha excavado, ya que una parte de la vivienda sigue sepultada bajo el moderno callejón Mare. Se denomina así debido a una estatuilla que aquí se encontró, la cual representa a un Genius (numen tutelar de personas, lugares o actividades), parte de un candelabro de mármol. Destaca el amplio y elegante peristilo, con la fuente central, revestida de mármol y el pavimento de opus signinum y mosaico.

Villa de los Papiros

Otras casas
 Casa de Argo
 Casa del Salón negro
 Casa del bicentenario
 Casa samnita
 Casa del Atrio con mosaico

Tiendas y tabernas

El Thermopolium
Los Thermopolia eran establecimientos donde se vendían bebidas y comidas calientes, de aquí su nombre griego. La gente común solía hacer la comida del mediodía (prandium) fuera de casa. La estructura de estos establecimientos era simple: un mostrador de obra que da a la calle decorado con placas de mármol donde se empotraban unas cubas (dolia) que contenían las mercancías. A veces, en el interior, había un espacio donde la gente se podía sentar y comer. En la trastienda de alguna de ellas se encontraron numerosas ánforas de vino y tinajas con frutos y legumbres.

La panadería de Sexto Patulco Félix era la principal de la ciudad. Aún permanecían en su lugar unos moldes para tortas de trigo y, junto a los dos molinos para triturar el cereal, el esqueleto del asno que los hacía girar.

La tienda del Vendedor de Paños
Años antes de la destructiva erupción del Vesuvio, en las habitaciones laterales de la Casa del Tabique de Madera se construyeron unas tiendas. Destaca la tienda del vendedor de paños (lanarius) en cuyo interior se puede admirar el único ejemplar existente de prensa con tornillo de madera (torcular o pressorium) que se empleaba para planchar la ropa. Una escalera conducía a la casa del artesano, la cual contaba con dos habitaciones que se edificaron sobre el vestíbulo de la Casa del Tabique de Madera.

Véase también

Notas

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 (en inglés) Herculaneum, sitio digital 'Revolvy'.
 En busca de la biblioteca perdida. La Villa de los Papiros en Herculano, sitio digital 'TERRAE ANTIQVAE', 8 de mayo de 2005.

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Transposing a chic downtown Japanese restaurant to a Williamsburg side street could easily hit all of the wrong notes. But Cherry Izakaya manages to strike the right balance with whimsical décor and exquisitely prepared small plates. Cherry Izakaya is the new Brooklyn outpost of Jonathan Morr, whose prior ventures include Cherry in the basement of the Dream Downtown Hotel in Chelsea and NoHo'sBondst.
The latest jewel-box dining gem to open in Williamsburg (which has a seemingly endless supply of them) is Cherry Izakaya, a warmly-designed spin-off of the Meatpacking District hotspot Cherry at the Dream Downtown. The restaurant's pretty interior is supposedly inspired by 1970s Tokyo, but it also fits right in here in 2014 Williamsburg, with ample reclaimed wood, hand-painted murals by a local artist, a glowing bar, and a vintage Pachinko machine in the foyer.
Last Friday, which was also the start of opening weekend for Lucy, her latest movie, Johansson and fiancé Romain Dauriac joined friends for the opening of the new Cherry Izakaya in Brooklyn, which is the sibling to the more upscale Cherry restaurant in Manhattan's Dream Downtown hotel.
New York's perplexing obsession with dearly priced small plates shows no signs of dying down. But the tide definitely appears to have turned in recent months, veering away from Spanish tapas and Mediterranean meze, in favor of sleek Japanese izakayas; casual drinking establishments serving diminutive snacks, ideally paired with light beer and sochu.
But the main event at Cherry Izakaya, of course, is the food. And it is superb. The menu itself reads like a list of every delicious light morsel you might fancy of a summer's eve.
New Yorkers love a buzzy culinary trend (cronuts, anyone?). The latest craze that has the city'sfood nerds swooning? Izakayas. Traditionally thought of as modest Japanese watering holes serving tapa-sized bites, izakayas have been popping up all over the city recently. Jonathan Morr and Eugene Morimoto's new spot, Cherry Izakaya, opening Friday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the latest.
Make it happen at Cherry Izakaya, the late-night-friendly new outpost of Dream Downtown's Japanese spot, opening later this week in Williamsburg.


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The Works in downtown Newark will host its annual "No Nog Days" from noon to 4 p.m. on Dec. 26 and 27.
Tickets are $7 general admission; $5 seniors; and $3 for children. Members of The Works will be admitted free.
Live science shows and hands-on activities based on a non-holiday theme will be featured. Saturday's theme is "Fancy Flight;" Sunday's is "Circus Science."
The event is described by events and volunteer coordinator Ben Clemons as a way for families to escape the "holiday hoopla."
The Works will be closed Dec. 24, 25 and 31 and Jan. 1.
American Stars in Concert for the Holidays, featuring former "American Idol" finalists, brings a festive holiday show to the Midland Theatre at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20.
To purchase tickets, call (740) 345-LIVE (5483) or stop by The Midland box office at 36 North Park Place in downtown Newark. Tickets also may be purchased online at www.midlandtheatre.org.
The Licking County Coalition for Housing recently held its annual luncheon, followed by the board of directors' monthly meeting. Officers were elected for new one-year terms. The Rev. Jeff Gill will continue as president; Siobhan Clovis was elected vice president; Roger Lossing was elected treasurer; and Sharon Bolen was elected secretary.
During the luncheon portion of the event, Sue Chen and Carl Dugan were recognized for being 10-year agency employees.


The Canucks beat the Panthers, 3-2, in Florida on Saturday, after beating the Lightning in Tampa on Thursday. It was the first time the Canucks have swept the two Florida teams in Florida since the 2002-03 season.
Elias Pettersson scored a goal in the win over Florida, giving him eight points (5g, 3a) in his first five NHL games. Since the 2004-05 lockout, only three other players have gotten 5+ goals and 8+ points in their first five games -- Auston Matthews, Tomas Hertl, and Evgeni Malkin.
Since the 2013-14 season, these teams have met twice each season, and one team has swept both games in every year -- Pittsburgh in 2013-14, 2015-16, and 2016-17, and the Canucks in 2014-15 and 2017-18.
The Penguins fell to the Canadiens in a shootout, 4-3, in Montreal on Saturday. Last season, the Penguins played in just four shootouts all season, going 2-2. Only five teams played in fewer.
Kris Letang had a goal and an assist in the loss to Montreal, giving him six points (3g, 3a) this season, third on the team. He also had 32:00 of ice time, the first time that any player has had at least 30 minutes in a game this season.
Derick Brassard has won nine of his 10 offensive-zone faceoffs this season, the best mark among any player with at least 10 such faceoffs. Bo Horvat has been Vancouver's best offensive-zone faceoff man, winning two-thirds of his draws (32/48).


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This is the sixth year in which the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has detailed the key humanitarian concerns in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The purpose of the report is to provide a trend analysis of some of the key indicators underlying humanitarian vulnerabilities in the oPt in a given year.
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the underlying causes or drivers of the humanitarian vulnerabilities in the occupied Palestinian territory in 2015. During this year, the situation continued to be characterized by violations of international humanitarian law by all parties, the systematic denial of Palestinian rights and continuing conflict, punctuated by frequent outbreaks of violence.
The year 2014 was a traumatic one in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). In the Gaza Strip, 1.8 million Palestinians endured the worst escalation of hostilities since 1967: over 1,500 Palestinian civilians were killed, more than 11,000 injured and some 100,000 remain displaced. In the West Bank, increased confrontations between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli forces resulted in the highest casualty levels in recent years, while settlement expansion and the forced displacement of Palestinians in Area C and in East Jerusalem continued. Overall, some 4,000,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip remain under an Israeli military occupation that prevents them from exercising many of their basic human rights.
This is the third year in which the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has outlined the key humanitarian concerns in the occupied Palestinian territory in one Humanitarian Overview document. This annual report aims to provide a comprehensive overview or 'snapshot' of the humanitarian situation in the oPt in a given year, to monitor trends and developments, and to inform policy and programming.
This is the second year in which the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) has outlined the key humanitarian concerns in the occupied Palestinian territory in one Humanitarian Overview document. This annual report aims to serve as a comprehensive overview or the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory in a given year, to monitor trends and developments, and to inform policy and programming.
and NGO partners in the oPt.
Nations organisations working in the oPt to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, a committee of key international donors. Based primarily on a compilation of UN agency findings and OCHA field work, this report reviews the humanitarian needs in 2004 and the international humanitarian response. It also provides a brief overview of some causes of the humanitarian crisis and the role of humanitarian assistance in the oPt.


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Q: Drawing perfect circle in java Is threre a way to draw "perfect" circle in java. What I mean is that when I use drawOval()(I don't want a filled oval)and make it thiker it shows something like this:

but I want it like this:

Is there a java method who can do the job and if there is, who is it and how to use it?
EDIT: I found answer on another question in Stack Overflow. The link of that question is in the comments!

A:  g.drawOval(25, 35, 25, 35);
 g.drawOval(25, 35, 25, 25); → circle
 drawOval(int x, int y, int width, int length)

Used to draw an oval inside an imaginary rectangle whose upper left corner is at (x,y).  To draw a circle keep the width and length the same

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Q: Ruby on Rails: associations I'm pretty new to ROR so I'm stuck at the moment with this problem.
I'm setting up an application with articles and templates.
I want to create templates with many articles, and the same articles can be assigned to several different templates.
So when you create a templates I want to assign articles to it. You will think directly use a has_many association but I don't think this grasps my problem.
I want to assign articles to multiple templates so I thought using a linking table of some sort would be at place here.
But I don't know how to do it in rails! Or what kind of solution I should look for.
Is there anybody who could advise me with this problem ?

A: You can create linking model articles_template
rails generate model articles_template

with references to article and template
class CreateArticlesTemplates < ActiveRecord::Migration
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      t.references :template
      t.timestamps
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  end
end

and then set the association in model articles_template
class ArticlesTemplate < ActiveRecord::Base
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end

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
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  has_many :templates, :through => :articles_templates
end

class Template < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :articles_templates
  has_many :articles, :through => articles_templates
end

IMHO this is the best practice because you can add some extra functionality right into the linking model and table. (more about this here)

A: Are you looking for has_and_belongs_to_many association?
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#the-has_and_belongs_to_many-association

A: Try checking out stuff on has_and_belongs_to_many
Essentially, go to the console and type

$ rails g model article title:string body:text
$ rails g model template name:string some_other_attributes:type etc etc
$ rails g migration create_articles_templates

Then edit the create_articles_templates with:
class CreateArticlesTemplates < ActiveRecord::Migration
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===# How to Record video from the Google Chrome browser with max available FPS with VCatcher Video Recorder?
The task: record video from Chrome browser with max FPS and resolution.
Disable the option "Use hardware acceleration when available". Note, that Chrome uses hardware acceleration for video playback. Playing video, unlike recording, is not resource intensive.
Relaunch Chrome browser (to avoid black screen problem that appears when hardware acceleration using for video playback).
Click on the Chrome tab with the video you want to record (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon... ANY).
Check "Window" radio button to put VCatcher Video Recorder into the program's window recording mode (in this mode VCatcher can record any protected for downloading videos directly from Chrome browser with max framerate) and then select the Chrome tab window with the video you want to record in VCacther Video Recorder.
Start recording with this button or even better toggle Chrome into the full-screen playback to get a max available resolution and then use an F10 hotkey to start recording. To stop recording press F10 once again.
This tutorial that shows you how to Record video from the Google Chrome browser with max available FPS refers to VCatcher Video Recorder that is a part of VCatcher software. Install VCatcher right now for downloading any videos from the web, for converting videos to any format and for any device, for recording your desktop (with web camera and microphone), for recording TV-shows, webinars, webcam sites, skype calls, games, phone screen and much more.


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Simmons Name Appears on Arkansas' Tallest Building
The new logo of Simmons First National Bank appeared over the weekend on the south side of Arkansas' tallest building in Little Rock, an installation timed specifically so that a photo of the high-profile branding could be shown at the Simmons First National Corp. annual shareholders meeting Tuesday night at the Pine Bluff Convention Center.
The dinner meeting hosted by the company's new CEO, George Makris Jr., was mostly perfunctory, without the fanfare of last year's final production under retiring CEO J. Thomas May. The Simmons First Foundation, the creation of which was announced at last year's meeting, revealed the first two recipients of the Tommy May Make-A-Difference grants: $25,000 to Juvenile Court Judge Ernest E. Brown's "Family Engagement Program" and $22,910 to the Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson County.
New branding was evident in videos shown to the audience and in the new signage on the 40-story Simmons Tower, which was the Metropolitan Tower until Simmons acquired Metropolitan National Bank last fall. The corporate name and the official name of the flagship bank still contain the words "First National," and the logo still has a "1" across the "S," but new branch-level signage says only "Simmons Bank."
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Today turned out to be a big day. We started off with the pre-closing house inspection, which is basically just ensuring that the property is in the condition we expect it to be. The house is in the same condition as before. We did find out the actual paint colour (Benjamin Moore HC-104) on the walls if we want to do touch-ups, repaint in that colour, or find a co-ordinating colour.
The only item of dispute was that the seller didn't know how to change the key pad for the garage remote and didn't want to give us the PIN they use there. I understand why they wouldn't want to give us their PIN but we want to be able to use that keypad. Fortunately, we were able to find instructions online on how to change the PIN without knowing the current PIN. I think the sellers are going to reset the keypad to its factory defaults which will be fine.
Later in the afternoon we met with the lawyer to sign the plethora of documents associated with the transaction. It only took about fifteen minutes to sign all of the documents and chat with the lawyer. We didn't read the documents all that carefully - there were a lot of them and it's expensive to pay the lawyer to sit there while you read them - but I was able to skim them and everything looked ok.
So everything is in place now for us to pick up the keys on Friday. Eeep! I'm excited but also feeling a bit unsettled. I never thought I'd own a house and the idea of home ownership is a little scary. Aside from the money involved - which is huge, and is definitely the biggest purchase of our lives so far - the house ties us down. Well, it does in my head, anyways. Even though I think of myself as this free-wheeling gypsy type, I'm really not like that. I'm more of a homebody these days.
I also feel a bit weird at the idea of taking out a 25 year mortgage. I've been so lucky to have four stable years with the sternal mets and I'd love for that luck to last. But in the back of my mind I wonder whether it's smart to make such a long-term commitment, given my life expectancy. Of course no one really knows if they'll be around tomorrow or next year or however many years from now, do they?
Someone told me that it's important to live my life in whatever way makes me happy and not to live "as if" the cancer will progress. After all, life isn't going to be fun or enjoyable if I'm constantly scared of serious progression. Still, I do feel better about this purchase knowing that I'm not doing it alone and that Ian's by my side, come what may.
Just a thought that I'm sure your professionals have mentioned, but I'll mention it to be safe: have you considered taking out life insurance for both of you in case one of the other doesn't make it for 25 years?
Thanks - that's a very good question, and I appreciate you bringing it up.
AFAIK, Ian has life insurance through work and I think I'm the beneficiary so I should be covered there. Ian can actually afford the mortgage by himself so it's not such a big deal if I don't make it the whole time.
I will check with Ian abut this in case I'm wrong. It might be a good idea for there to be some kind of disability insurance for Ian.
With any luck, we won't have the mortgage for the entire 25 years, either. The mortgage payment isn't that much over our current rent payments (although we don't currently pay taxes). We're allowed to increase our regular payments if we want and can go back to the base amount anytime, if we need to. We can also do a lump-sum payment each year.
By paying more in the early years, we'll have less to pay later on - even if interest rates rise - and it's possible that we can pay it off over a shorter time period.


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Blindess, Donmar Warehouse at the Shakespeare Theatre Company
In early modern theatre studies, "shared light" is one of the defining features of William Shakespeare's stage. Audiences could see the actors, naturally, but the actors could also look out into the audience and see them just as clearly. Going to the theatre meant being in the same light, breathing the same air, hearing the same sounds and feeling the swell of a reaction from the crowd be received on stage and volleyed back out through the energy of the performances. The collaborative beauty that gives theatre life turns out to be exactly what has made it so dangerous over the last year, even as we all craved its presence in our lives.
Photos from the Donmar Warehouse's 2020 production of Blindness by Helen Maybanks.
Enter, last fall, London's Donmar Warehouse, which opened Blindness in the fall of 2020 and which is now on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. The production, which plays in the margins of traditional theatre, is adapted by playwright Simon Stephens from the novel by José Saramago of the same name, and unsurprisingly, suits the constraints of the present moment perfectly. Instead of live actors, the piece is performed as an audio play performed by actress Juliet Stevenson and directed by Walter Meierjohann. Blindness was originally slated to come to DC last fall, but had to reschedule due to the pandemic, and nine months without live theatre became a year and more. As the months dragged on, I idly wondered if Blindness, when it finally could come to town, even counted as theatre; I initially concluded that I didn't care, I just wanted to be in a theatre again with art.
But when I found myself getting on the metro for the first time in over a year, stepping out at Gallery Place and walking up to Sidney Harman Hall... it still didn't matter. I had been watching a woman walking in the same direction as I was towards the theatre, and I realized with a thrill that she was going to the same place I was, that we would be there together. She paused outside the theatre and lifted up her phone to take a picture of the building, to share with friends, perhaps, and show that she was at the theatre again, or maybe just to savor for herself. I think so many of us have shared that sense of anticipation, that sense of, please, just let me in that empty box again so we can fill it with life together.
The lobbies of the Harman are still familiar, but audiences aren't brought into the house for Blindness; rather, all the seating is carefully arranged and distanced on the stage itself. The performer might be inside a pair of headphones instead of in front of us, but when a square of red light illuminated my seat, it felt like theatre: light blooming in a space at just the right time for an audience to see and appreciate it. Designers and artists worked together to create an experience that I shared with others around me—Ben and Max Ringham as sound designers, Lizzie Clachan as designer, and Jessica Jung Han Yun as lighting designer, but also there was the woman across from me who checked her phone in a blackout (!), the elderly couple who held hands during the final twenty minutes, and the young woman who sat almost without moving, quiet and still for the entire 75 minutes. Artists and audience came together and made a unique experience, made theatre again.
It should also be said, of course, that's it's quite good. Beyond the context of a public hungry for a beloved and vital art form, it's a skillful translation of a novel into a theatrical experience, and Stevenson is wrenchingly tremendous. The piece moves from her detached narration of an impossible, life altering epidemic of blindness as it spreads from person to person into a gripping narrative of a woman surviving a lawless quarantine. The sound engineering is impeccable and the performance is arresting, combining light and sound and space to transform an empty theatre into its own art.
I do think there is a conversation to be had about the selection of a piece that undoes a lot of the good that happened in this last year for theatre lovers with disabilities. In Blindness, deaf patrons are by necessity excluded from the fundamental experience taking place at the Harman, and blindness itself is turned into a creeping horror. It's a metaphor, sure, but—oof.
As the piece ended and we waited to carefully and safely exit the theatre, I heard the sound of theatregoers excitedly dissecting a performance again for the first time in over a year. What worked for them, what didn't work, remember that one moment when—? I was still stuck on the audacity of someone thinkng it was time to check her phone in a blackout—a blackout!! Imagine, after a year spent living alone in your tiny apartment, surviving on Zoom calls and solitary walks, the joy, the privilege of grumping over basic theatre etiquette.
It almost doesn't matter that the show is good, but it is. It almost doesn't matter that the first theatre I've seen in a year in DC didn't feature any DC actors, but it does, a bit. The American theatre as a whole is long overdue for a reckoning, and I hope that the Shakespeare Theatre engages sincerely and deeply in that process. For now, though, I'm grateful that I had the chance to be back in a theatre, sitting with strangers and hearing a play.
Blindess, Donmar Warehouse at the Shakespeare Thea...


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Orioles to Drop Aramark as Concessionaire
The Baltimore Orioles are ending their relationship with Aramark, the concessionaire at the team's Camden Yards ballpark since it opened in 1992. The Maryland Stadium Authority, which owns the park, says it is in negotiations with another concessions provider who would begin operating at Camden Yards next year, but would not name it because a contract has yet to be signed. This season, Aramark operated at a dozen Major League ballparks, the most of any concessions company.
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Homepage : News : UN urges $2.4 billion to help Yemen cope with war and coronavirus
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UN urges $2.4 billion to help Yemen cope with war and coronavirus
Coronavirus has hit Yemen [Getty]
The UN has urged for billions in aid to help Yemen cope with the war and coronavirus.
Yemen, Covid, war
The UN humanitarian chief urgently appealed for $2.4 billion to help millions of people in Yemen cope with the conflict and coronavirus, saying programs are already being cut and the situation is "alarming."
Mark Lowcock told a UN briefing Thursday that the UN received $3.2 billion last year for Yemen because countries in the region — including Saudi Arabia and the UAE who are involved in the conflict — stepped up.
This year, the UN has appealed for about $3.4 billion but as of Wednesday it had only received $516.6 million, just over 15%. The Saudis pledged $525 million in early April and Lowcock said he hopes it will quickly be turned into cash.
The United Nations and Saudi Arabia are co-hosting a video pledging conference for Yemen on Tuesday and Lowcock said he has been on the phone with Persian Gulf leaders in recent days but doesn't know what they're going to do. The collapse in oil prices because of the pandemic may be spurring internal discussions, he said.
Lowcock said he expects high-level representation at the conference, and asked: "Is the world ready simply to watch Yemen fall off the cliff?"
Yemen's conflict started with Houthi Shia rebels backed by Iran capturing the capital, Sanaa, in 2014. The following year, a Saudi-led coalition backing the government intervened to battle the rebels and curb Iran's influence in what has turned into a stalemated regional proxy war. Since then, more than 100,000 people — fighters and civilians — have been killed.
Lowcock and the heads of 10 other UN agencies and several U.N. officials and humanitarian organisations issued a joint statement Thursday saying "Covid-19 is spreading rapidly across the country already experiencing the world's largest humanitarian crisis."
"Tragically, we do not have enough money to continue this work," they said. "Of 41 major UN programs in Yemen, more than 30 will close in the next few weeks if we cannot secure additional funds."
"This means many more people will die," they warned.
The 17 signatories said they have the skills, staff and capacity to meet the difficult challenges of delivering aid in Yemen but no money and time is running out.
Muhannad Hadi, the World Food Program's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, told the video briefing that the UN agency needs about $200 million a month to provide assistance to 12 million Yemenis. But unfortunately, they've had to start cutting back to try to stretch their money and the food they have in the country, he said.
Henrietta Fore, head of the UN children's agency UNICEF and one of the signatories, told the briefing that its funding is very low and urged donors to be generous.
More than 12 million children across Yemen need humanitarian assistance and nearly half a million require treatment for severe acute malnutrition and "could die if they do not receive urgent care," she said.
"We are confronting a crisis on top of a crisis – a pandemic on top of a brutal conflict," she warned. "Today, the pandemic is pushing Yemen even closer to the brink of collapse."


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Pearl Binder, Baroness Elwyn-Jones (pronounced ; 28 June 1904 – 25 January 1990) was a British writer, illustrator, stained-glass artist, lithographer, sculptor and a champion of the Pearly Kings and Queens.

Binder was a well-known character who had a lifelong fascination with the East End of London, where she settled in the 1920s. In 1974, she became Lady Elwyn-Jones, when her husband, the politician and lawyer Elwyn Jones, was appointed Lord Chancellor and made a life peer, taking the title Baron Elwyn-Jones.

Early life
Pearl "Polly" Binder was born in Salford in Greater Manchester. Her father was Jacob Binderevski, a Jewish tailor who came to Britain in 1890 and shortly afterwards became a British citizen. Her mother's name, origins and profession are not recorded in any of the artist's biographies.

Career
Binder moved to London after the first world war and studied art at Central School of Art and Design, with a focus on lithography. In this time Binder drew scenes from everyday life in London that she made into lithographs. She published a series that illustrated "The Real East End" by Thomas Burke, a popular writer who ran a pub in Poplar at the time. Binder's illustrations are an intimate, first-hand portrayal of grimy London life in that era. In 1933 Binder was one of the founders of the left-wing Artists' International Association.

In 1937, Binder was involved in the earliest days of television broadcasting for children. That year, she co-presented Clothes-Line with the fashion historian James Laver. This live six-part series was the first television programme on the history of fashion. As she did not give birth to her daughter Josephine until 6 January 1938 – less than a month after the last episode transmitted – Binder could well have been the first heavily pregnant woman to appear on television.

In the course of her life, Binder travelled extensively in Russia and China, designed a musical, designed costumes for a theatre company, wrote stories for children, designed a Pearly mug and plate for Wedgwood, and instigated and executed a series of armorial windows at the House of Lords.

Personal life
In 1937, she married Elwyn Jones. They had three children: fashion historian Lou Taylor, artist and activist Dan Jones, and the children's author Josephine Gladstone, whose books she illustrated. After her death, her son-in-law, Joe Taylor recalled, "She was a woman who had great concern for others, especially women - she was a very keen supporter of women's rights", always keeping the name Pearl Binder next to her husband's name on the plaque outside their flat.

Death
Binder died in Brighton on 25 January 1990 aged 86, seven weeks after the death of her husband.

Publications

As illustrator

As author and illustrator

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 Artwork by Pearl Binder at the Ben Uri site

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When people find out what I do for a living, the first response is most often something along the lines of "That must be so hard." (That's when they find out I'm a pediatric emergency physician; when they hear I'm also an administrator, it's more of a sneer.) My reply is typically that most kids are pretty healthy, and most of what I see is fortunately not that serious or ends well. Which is true. But the fact is, sometimes it is hard. All of us in medicine have ways of coping with those difficult times, with patients who suffer and whom we can't help as much as we'd hope to, with the child that dies. But, as discussed in a recent New York Times article, too often that coping mechanism is to distance ourselves. This detachment – which can cross over into callousness or cynicism, as documented famously in Samuel Shem's novel The House of God – is contrary to the various oaths we take when entering the medical profession, in which we pledge to be compassionate and empathetic to the sufferings of those we care for. It can play out in several ways. Some physicians focus on the intellectual aspects and science of medicine. For others, emotional detachment along with time and economic pressures can lead to burnout.
For all of us, underemphasizing the humanism and altruism, combined with the increasing emphasis on medicine as a business, can lead us to feel like we are in an occupation, rather than a profession – a calling. We can forget what it is about medicine that gives it real meaning. Work hour restrictions, preauthorizations, shared savings and pay-for-performance: these are some of the reasons why many long-practicing physicians say medicine has changed for the worse, and they wouldn't recommend it to their children.
Perhaps we need to be reminded of the old-fashioned commitment to the well-being of a patient, to being a healer, as a counterweight to economic and administrative pressures to be efficient. Lest we get too nostalgic, however, let me put in a plug for the administrators. As noble as the sentiments expressed in the Oaths of Hippocrates and Maimonides are, the singular focus on the individual patient can blind to the equally real needs of others, and more importantly, the fact that those needs must be balanced. There is only so much health care to go around. While we like to think that when we are sick, we want everything done and money is no object, that sentiment is typically expressed when we are not paying for it. The decrease in health care utilization that accompanied the economic downturn of 2008 and beyond shows that money is, in fact, an object, at least for many people. And with a few extraordinary exceptions, not many of us providers are willing to work without pay (and quite decent pay at that). In a world of limited resources, we need to balance our commitment to healing the person in front of us with the commitment to the health of society as a whole.
Those who provide the care and those who manage it need to understand each other better. We need to recognize the filters through which we see the world, accepting that a diversity of views is the best way to see the big picture. I believe as a provider, I may need to err on the side of connecting with and advocating for my individual patient. The administrator may need to be more vigilant about the efficient use of resources. But we must appreciate that we are all working toward a common purpose – serving our patients and their families – and a common vision of having the healthiest kids in the country here in our own community. Each of us can find meaning in what we do, and have an impact in our own way.
It shouldn't be surprising, in a time of shrinking payments to providers, that turf battles among those providers are increasingly common. But we need to make sure that we don't just hurt ourselves in the rumble. Or worse, forget about what is best for our patients.
Round 1 in the gang war seems to be between physicians and advanced practice providers. Many see APPs as an important part of addressing both the excessive cost of healthcare and the access issues that arise from an inadequate supply (or maldistribution) of physicians. On the one side are the APPs, who are advocating for changes in state regulations that place limitations on their scope of practice. Currently, 17 states and DC allow independent NP practice, 21 (including Wisconsin) require a collaborative agreement with a physician, and the rest require direct physician supervision. Although the evidence is mixed on whether expanded scope of practice contributes to lower cost or better access, there is no evidence that it leads to worse outcomes.
Yet lined up on the other side is organized medicine. The AMA, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Academy of Family Practice have all issued reports decrying expansion of scope of practice for NPs. (The politics indeed makes for strange bedfellows. For example, both the AAFP and AAP emphasize the additional years of training for physicians compared with NPs. Yet the total pediatric training for family physicians is far less than that for pediatricians, and is likely very comparable to the duration of pediatric training for a pediatric NP. And certainly, a PNP with several years of experience after training has seen a whole lot more pediatrics than a new FP residency grad.) In addition to lobbying state legislatures to maintain practice restrictions, the medical associations pressure insurers to limit payments for NP services. Even when permitted by state law to practice to the full extent of their license and training, NPs are frequently not credentialed by insurers to bill directly. In response, nurses are lobbying for a requirement that NPs be included in any plans offered in the new health insurance exchanges.
There is a real discussion to be had about how we develop a workforce to meet the medical needs of children in the evolving healthcare environment. But can we call a truce and focus on the real issues? Let's be honest: this is not primarily about patient safety, or quality of care – it's about preserving jobs and incomes. One (not normally extreme) columnist went so far as to call the medical profession's efforts to limit NPs "a protection racket." That's harsh. But it doesn't serve us or our patients for health professionals to be rumbling with each other. It seems clear that there is a legitimate role for advanced practice providers in meeting the primary and specialty care needs of children, and that role includes independent or collaborative practice in many cases. That doesn't mean NPs and MDs are interchangeable. But the two disciplines need to acknowledge the filters through which they see the world and come to agreement on how we can ensure the right provider for the right patient in the right circumstance. Or our patients may get caught in the crossfire.
When even a child of the 60s and 70s like me is connected via texting, Twitter, Facebook, etc., it's safe to say that the digital revolution is over, and digital won. The last holdout, it seems – the analog equivalent of the tsarist White Army – is health care. Sure, we have robots for surgery, telemedicine for remote diagnosis, and an increasing use of electronic health records by hospitals and providers, but it still feels very old school. Sort of like education: even if you take notes on an iPad, attending a lecture is still a very traditional method of learning. Health care is still very provider- and facility-centric. To paraphrase the NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman, the world of health care has still not gotten very flat. Yet there are some steps toward leveraging new modes of communication that have the potential to disrupt the model of health care delivery.
Many people today use texting as their primary means of communication, but it is seldom used in medicine. Expanding its use would not only be more patient-centered, but may really improve efficiency. We recently ran a trial of texting appointment reminders to patients in our sickle cell clinic, which has a traditionally high no-show rate. The day after text reminders were sent, only 1 of 14 patients did not come for their appointment. Anyone who has ever dealt with a teen knows that this is a group where texting may provide a particular opportunity to vastly improve provider-patient communication. Providers and staff appear to be open to the idea of greater electronic communication, but some barriers are apparent. One is reimbursement: under current payment systems, electronic communication is a service for which it is difficult to collect a fee. Another concern is confidentiality, though some progress has been made to ensure that texts or other electronic messages are secure, such as a HIPAA-compliant messaging app.
Texting of course, while seemingly radical by the conservative standards of health care, is not exactly a disruptive technology. But some providers are pushing the envelope with "virtual clinics," where almost all interaction is electronic. Check out, for example, these examples in New York and Minnesota. Experience is limited, especially regarding outcomes, but these experiments suggest that at least two elements of the triple aim – lower cost and better experience – can be met.
Medicine is clearly moving toward being a true team sport. Many of the proposed innovations in care delivery and payment depend on a collaborative approach, with individuals from multiple health professions playing a role. Perhaps the clearest example is the patient-centered medical home. Which all sounds great, until you start to ask different people what they mean by a "team." Many physicians have a, well, physician-centric concept of a team, where the doctor serves as "quarterback" or "captain." And while teams generally need leadership, you can imagine that a nurse, social worker, or pharmacist might have a less enthusiastic embrace of a team where she or he can, by definition, never be the leader. It's not that physicians are trying to be uncollaborative. However, medicine has traditionally been structured hierarchically (e.g., doctors write "orders," not "requests"). And this is reinforced throughout the training not only of doctors, but other health professionals as well.
To move toward a truly comprehensive, collaborative team approach, this approach needs to be embedded into the education of all potential team members, right from the beginning. By the time medical and nursing students have completed their four years of school, patterns of thought and behavior – cultural constructs – are already developed. This is why there has been an increased interest in interprofessional education, defined by the WHO as occurring when "students from two or more professional learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes." MCW's Community Medical Education Program is exploring the possibility of incorporating interprofessional education into the curricula at the regional campuses, in conjunction with the other health professional schools in those communities.
Dr. Melanie Dreher, Dean of the Rush University School of Nursing, recently gave a presentation sponsored by the CMEP on interprofessional education. She noted some of the dominant cultural constructs about medicine as a hierarchy that need to be revised, and the potential for interprofessional education to do so. I'll call out two. The first is what I mentioned above, the idea of a team revolving around a single leader (typically a physician). She offered the counterexample of situational leadership, where leadership of the team is flexible depending on the issue being addressed. For example, if the issue is one of polypharmacy, then a pharmacist might assume the role of leader; if it is one of support services, perhaps the social worker. An analog is the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, a group in which the role of conductor is shared and rotated among all members, depending on the piece to be performed. As they see it, it is not the conductor who is the center, nor even the musicians – it is the audience. The other cultural construct is that of how we measure contributions to the team. It can't be by RVUs generated, or papers published, or referrals received, which ignores equally important roles played by many of the members. Dr. Dreher offered the basketball example of Shane Battier of the Miami Heat, whom Michael Lewis referred to as the "no stat All-Star." He is considered one of the best defensive players in the league. But he has few points, rebounds, or assists –the conventional measures of success – and is therefore undervalued compared with high scorers, although statistics suggest that there is a stronger correlation between Battier's playing time and the team's record.
A true team approach means we need to fully utilize and recognize the unique knowledge, talents, and approaches provided by every member of that team. Engendering that attitude, and teaching the actual skills of teamwork (which are separate from the skills inherent in being a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist) means we need to break down the silos in which health professionals learn. It's not a terribly new concept: when I was in medical school, the physician assistant students and medical students took several of their preclinical classes, such as anatomy, together. It fostered a sense of collegiality and mutual understanding. But is has not become widespread. As we evolve toward a more collaborative model of health care, the way we educate health professionals must adapt as well.
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Sarah Szymanski (CO '18) loves teaching because of the committed network of adults around her: "[They] work together each day for the betterment of children." She teaches second grade at Soaring Eagles Elementary School in Colorado Springs.
We all know the story of the little girl, the old man, and a beach full of stranded starfish on the shore. The girl throws a starfish into the sea, and the old man asks, "Why are you doing this? You can't save them all!" "Well, I can save this one!" she replies. He proceeds to join her in her task.
My mother told me this story at the start of my teaching career and gave me a glass starfish keychain. It was to serve as a reminder of those special children that we teach each year, the ones we "save." Why do I love teaching? I love it not just for the starfish we save, but also for the starfish still on the beach, the starfish that are already in the water, and those who help us learn how to throw them back in.
When children struggle in school, there are a multitude of causes. Children may experience poor prior instruction, transiency due to parents' jobs, unstable home lives, learning and behavioral disabilities, and so much more. It is our job to be diagnosticians—to determine the root causes, create a plan of action, analyze results, and then reevaluate. It is our job to teach our starfish how to grow in all areas of need so they can get back into the water.
The charge is intimidating. Some children will leave our classrooms not yet ready to get back into the water. It's an uncomfortable feeling when our children are stuck on the proverbial beach. But did we get them closer? Are they proud of their progress? Are they now prepared with the skills needed to continue moving closer to the water without our hands to guide them? If so, then we have done our job. There is simply no better feeling.
As educators, we mustn't forget the starfish who are already in the water when we find them. They may be blessed with gifts of critical thinking and problem-solving, or possess impressive background knowledge. Standard curriculum may seem easy for them. But things are not always as easy as they appear, and those waters can become choppy below the surface. Finding these students' growth areas and helping them reach their full potential is as critical as it is inspiring.
When I think about the old man helping the little girl throw starfish back into the sea, I think about how many more starfish were helped because of his influence. Without their collaboration, so many more would have remained stranded and struggling. One of the reasons I love teaching is because of the passionate network of women and men who work together each day for the betterment of children. When teachers, counselors, support personnel and administration put the development of the whole child first, we can grow and support children via growing and supporting one another.
Whether our starfish students are in the sea, approaching it, or in the dunes far from the shore, there is no better feeling than playing an integral role in getting our little ones as far as they can go. We're here for you, little starfish, every day. We've got you. It's why we love teaching.


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Joseph Kibre is a 1975 Order of the Coif graduate of the UCLA School of Law. He received his B.A. Degree from UC Berkeley with distinction in general scholarship and completed an honors program in political science with distinction. Mr. Kibre was an NDEA Graduate Fellow at UCLA, where he received M.A. and C.Phil. Degrees in European and American history before attending law school. Mr. Kibre was admitted to practice law in California in 1975 and began the private practice of law in Los Angeles. He is a member of the bars of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Central and Eastern Districts of California.
Mr. Kibre joined his current firm, Kibre & Horwitz LLP, in 1985, where his practice has been devoted to family law and business litigation. Mr. Kibre has handled complex and high profile cases, including the successful defense of prominent family law attorney Marvin Mitchelson against a civil rape action brought by one of his former clients and made public on CBS' 60 Minutes, Sondra Locke's action against Clint Eastwood for "palimony" and infliction of emotional distress, and an action brought by Mohamed Al Fayed against a group of individuals for attempting to sell him forged government documents concerning the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. Mr. Kibre has handled hundreds of family law cases, including matters for actors, directors, producers and other prominent people, including Sandra Bullock, Dick Wolf (Law & Order), Bruce Helford (Drew Carey, George Lopez), former California State Controller Kathleen Connell, pianist/composer George Winston, actors Pat Morita and Julie Brown, and the spouses of Joe Eszterhas, James Brolin, Christopher Lloyd, and Ronald Meyer (co-founder of Creative Artists Agency), among others. (All of the foregoing were cases filed in courts as a matter of public record; the names of clients in matters in which there was no such public filing, including numerous premarital agreements, are not listed to protect their privacy.) Mr. Kibre has also handled sophisticated and often high profile business litigation matters for Sony Music and such "mini-major" independent motion picture production companies as Carolco Pictures Inc., Cinergi Pictures Inc., C-2 Pictures LLC, New Regency Productions, Inc. and Hyde Park Entertainment, including litigation on major motion pictures such as L.A. Confidential, Terminator 2, Rambo 3, Evita and others. Mr. Kibre has also handled numerous appeals, including one resulting in a published opinion reversing a trial court, Lefton v. Kessler, 141 Cal. App. 3d 94; 190 Cal. Rptr. 109 (1983). He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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The Troy men's basketball team picked up two wins over the weekend, beating Toccoa Falls and Eastern Illinois in Trojan Arena.
The Trojans (2-0, 0-0 Sun Belt) gave fans a high-scoring game in the opener Friday as they routed Toccoa Falls 135-76 before winning a thriller Monday night, edging Eastern Illinois 70-67.
"It was a good way to start to give our guys some confidence," Head Coach Phil Cunningham said after the wins.
On Friday, fans witnessed an offensive showcase not seen since 2007 as Troy dropped 135 points on the Screaming Eagles of Toccoa Falls. Just seconds into the game, Troy took the lead and didn't look back.
Over five minutes into the game, Troy held a commanding 22-5 lead, and it took a 63-38 score into the half.
After passing the 50-point mark in the first half for the first time since 2014, the Trojans went right back to work. Troy, having four players listed at 6 feet 8 inches, made its presence known in the paint, where it dropped 61 points.
The Trojan offense was firing on all cylinders, shooting 60 percent from the field.
Sophomore Shawn Hopkins paced the offense with 19 points and six rebounds. Juniors Kevin Baker and Juan Davis Jr. chipped in 17 points each to round out the top three Trojan scorers.
On Monday, Troy and Eastern Illinois fought right down to the final buzzer as a jump shot by sophomore Jordan Varnado put the game away with 3.4 seconds remaining.
After a slow start, Troy held a 38-27 lead at the half, only to see the Panthers chip away at the lead in the second half. Although Troy never trailed in the second half, EIU hung around until time expired.
After shooting a bleak 39 percent from the field, the difference maker for the Trojans was the points in the paint. Thirty-nine of Troy's points came from inside the paint, compared to 20 for EIU.
Along with the game winner, Varnado went 9-for-14 from the floor, racking up 22 points. Following Varnado's performance were junior Wesley Pearson and sophomore Alex Hicks, who scored 14 and 11 points, respectively.
The Trojans will return to action on Thursday, Nov. 17, when they take on UAB. Tipoff in Birmingham is set for 7 p.m.


Being inherently lazy, I am always a sucker for shortcuts, neat tricks to cut my work and, most important, not to do the same thing again and again. Here is a tip I find useful.
This is a cool way to protect important variables.
The other day, we had a serious issue in the ASM diskgroups - one diskgroup refused to come up because one disk was missing; but it was not clear from the message which of the 283 devices was missing. This underscores the difficulty in diagnosing ASM discovery related issues. In this post, I have tried to present a way to diagnose this sort of issues through a real example.
We had planned to move from one storage device to another (EMC DMX-3 to DMX-4) using SRDF/A technology. The new storage was attached to a new server. The idea was to replicate data at the storage level using SRDF/A. At the end of the replication process, we shut the database and ASM down and brought up the ASM instance in the newer storage on the new server. Since the copy was disk level, the disk signatures were intact and the ASM disks retained their identity from the older storage. So, when the ASM instance was started, it recognized all the disks and mounted all the diskgroups (10 of them) except one.
While bringing up a disk group called APP_DG3 on the new server it complained that disk number "1" is missing; but it was not clear which particular disk was. In this blog the situation was diagnosed and performed.
Note: the asm disk paths changed on the storage. This was not really a problem; since we could simply define a new asm_diskstring. Remember: the diskstring initialization parameter simply tells the ASM instance which disks should be looked at while discovering. Once those disks are identified, ASM looks at its signature on the disk headers to check the properties - the disk number, the diskgroup it belongs to, the capacity, version compatibilty and so on. So as long as the correct asm_diskstring init parameter is provided, ASM can readily discover the disks and get the correct names.
--- just found this one. I wrote it in Jan 09 and didn't publish it: I think I planned on adding a lot of links and ran out of time. Publishing it under the original date, but if you've been here before, you didn't miss it the first time. I slipped it in ... oh no! I've cheated on the version control system !! :)For the past month, my work has been somewhat disconnected from the database.


Astrologyzo.com: Your Moon sign is Pisces. Today Moon is transiting through Cancer. During this period the Moon passes through the Nakshatras belonging to Saturn and Venus. The effects of this transit are favorable.


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Georgia native, Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields declares for NFL Draft
Man pleads guilty to raping teen in Macon
He allegedly stabbed the girl's family members in Newnan and drove off with her until he ran out of gas near Rivoli Road
Published: 3:46 PM EDT August 1, 2019
Updated: 3:46 PM EDT August 1, 2019
MACON, Ga. — A Georgia man will spend 30 years in prison, and is facing more time on other charges, after raping a teenage girl in Macon.
According to a news release, Adrian Garcia-Zamarroon pleaded guilty Thursday to raping a girl that he allegedly kidnapped from Newnan.
After his release, he must abide by sex offender terms for the rest of his life and he could also face deportation due to his immigration status.
Prosecutors say Garcia-Zamarroon and the then 16-year-old girl knew each other. On Aug. 24, 2018, Garcia went to a business in Newnan where the girl and her family worked.
He then allegedly stabbed four people with a knife before taking the girl and driving off. He drove down I-75 until the car ran out of gas in Monroe County.
They say he walked the girl to a home under construction on Rivoli Road and raped her while staying there that night.
Law enforcement found the car and later spotted the pair walking down Rivoli Road the next morning, and he was taken into custody.
Garcia-Zamarroon still faces charges in Coweta County and charges filed by the US District Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
Man sentenced to 100 years for injuring Centerville officer in shootout
Man on the run after allegedly killing girlfriend, shooting DeKalb officer multiple times
Macon man sentenced to life in prison for molesting 11-year-old boy


I have been asked about my thoughts on financial reform so let me put down some thoughts. First, I was supportive of the bailout efforts in 2008/2009 not because I cared about Wall Street banks, but because a multi-decade economic collapse was going to be bad for everyone. As difficult as it was to 'save the banks', I thought (and still do) that it was the best of a bunch of lousy options. I think the recovery reinforces that view, but since we did not experience the alternative, that is difficult to argue.
Close the Casino I heard Michael Lewis say this and I think it is a good guiding principle and excellent talking point. No more highly levered, off-balance-sheet, exotic, black-box trading operations. You can be an investment bank or you can be a hedge fund. Make your choice. If you are going to be a primary dealer of the Federal Reserve and take deposits from citizens and conduct investment banking operations, you cannot run a hedge fund in the basement. You also cannot trade the securities that you make a market in. Too many ethical issues for ultra smart 20-something's to make.
Regulation We had a lot of regulations removed in the 90s and 00s that did not need to be removed. A reasonable limit on leverage ratios ( well below 30-1 or 40-1 ) make obvious sense. An up-tick rule on shorting is simple enough. Everyone says it is ineffective, so no reason to not do it. Some limit on why a person might buy CDS as something other than a speculative bet might make sense. It also makes sense that if you are going to buy or sell a derivative which is essentially an insurance policy, that you hold either an offsetting position or a sizable reserve to cover the eventual payment (AIG clause). I remember well the circular linkage between buying the CDS, shorting the stock, wait for the credit agencies to downgrade the company, rinse/wash/repeat. In a fractional banking system, a perfectly healthy bank is still susceptible to a run on the bank. In our markets, we should put up barriers to it occurring, not encourage this behavior.
Exchange/Transparency This is a no brainer. One of the obvious problems throughout the crisis is nobody seemed to know the exposure of any bank's books. It should be very simple at the end of each day – or intraday – to know the exposure of each financial institution. Open exchanges make sense, and anything that trades in the billions to trillions of dollars should be on an exchange.
What are the decoys? I am not overly concerned about Too Big Too Fail from a balance sheet size standpoint. I do not think size in and of itself caused the problem. Canada's banks perfectly illustrate this. It was caused by complexity, leverage, inadequate reserves, and lack of regulatory oversight. Compensation is another non-starter. I see no way for regulators to control private sector compensation, nor should they. I am supportive of changes to corporate boards, but not in this initial legislation. I am a supporter of term limits as I realize the only way elected officials will do what is right, which is often unpopular, is if they are not running for re-election.
We suffered the downturn. We backstopped the recovery. We deserve reform to prevent it from happening again for at least another 80 years. Tell your elected officials to make it happen. If they do not, vote them out of office.


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