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Bôa (souvent écrit sans l'accent mais à ne pas confondre avec l'idol pop sud-coréenne BoA) est un groupe de rock alternatif anglais, mené par Jasmine Rodgers, la fille du musicien Paul Rodgers.

Ils sont connus grâce à leur chanson « Duvet » qui fut utilisée comme générique d'ouverture pour la série de japanimation Serial Experiments Lain. Cela les a surtout rendus populaires auprès des fans d'animation japonaise. Ils ont organisé un concert lors de la convention Otakon de 2000.

Biographie

Bôa s'est formé à Londres en 1993, sous l'initiative de Ed Herten.

Bôa était à l'origine un groupe noise pop formé en 1993 par le batteur Ed Herten, le claviériste Paul Turrell et le musicien Steve Rodgers à la guitare et au chant.

Alex Caird, qui a joué avec Ed Herten dans un autre groupe, Draggin' Bones, est bientôt recruté à la basse. La sœur cadette de Steve Rodgers, Jasmine Rodgers, est invitée à chanter les chœurs dans leur première chanson « Fran » et devient rapidement la chanteuse principale du groupe. Ben Henderson, qui a joué avec Alex Caird dans le groupe Doctor Sky, est recruté peu de temps après pour jouer du saxophone.

Leur première performance en direct a lieu en janvier 1994 au London Forum avec le soutien du père de Steve et Jasmine, Paul Rodgers. Cet été-là, Ed Herten décide de quitter le groupe pour se concentrer sur ses études ; ils recrutent alors un nouveau batteur, Lee Sullivan. Il apporte une touche plus rock au groupe, s'éloignant lentement du funk, tandis que le saxophone est remplacé par la guitare de Ben Henderson.

Bôa agrémente ses performances en direct par des concerts dans le sud de l'Angleterre et, en 1996, ils acceptent un contrat d'enregistrement avec une compagnie japonaise, Polystar. Bien que l'album soit enregistré et produit en Angleterre, Jasmine et Steve voyagent vers le Japon en 1998 pour promouvoir leur album The Race of a Thousand Camels, édité uniquement dans ce pays.

Leur premier single, "Duvet", sort juste avant l'album, et il est utilisé comme générique d'ouverture d'un nouvel anime de l'époque appelé Serial Experiments Lain. Le succès critique de Lain auprès d'une frange de spectateurs séduits par l'approche cyberpunk et "anticipative" du dessin-animé introduit Bôa auprès des fans de japanimation du monde entier.

En 2000, Ben Henderson quitte le groupe pour se concentrer sur un autre groupe, Moth, avec sa femme Tina, auteur-compositeur. Alors, Bôa signe auprès de Pioneer Music, désormais devenu Geneon, et qui distribue Lain aux États-Unis. Ils participent à un concert à la convention Otakon la même année au Japon, Polystar sort l'EP Tall Snake, qui inclut quelques chansons dont un remix de "Duvet"

En 2001, Bôa ressort son album aux États-Unis via le label Pioneer Music, cette fois sous le titre Twilight, avec un tracklisting différent incluant une partie des chansons de The Race of 1000 Camels et de nouveaux titres. Ils font leur premier mini-tour à Los Angeles pour promouvoir cet album. Mais cette année marque un nouveau départ : Paul Turrell quitte le groupe pour vaquer à d'autres intérêts.

Le groupe commence à enregistrer son troisième album en 2003. Pour le sortir, ils décident cette fois de monter leur propre label indépendant, "BoA Recordings".

Après une longue période d'attente pour leurs fans, "Get There" sort le  février 2005. Le son, moins pop qu'aux débuts du groupe, se tourne vers des pistes un peu plus expérimentales avec des compositions plus complexes, tout en proposant aussi des morceaux de rock dans la veine des premiers albums. Il présente également plus d'éléments acoustiques que dans leur premier album. Il est en vente sur le site officiel du groupe et sur l'iTunes Store.

En 2007, Jasmine et le groupe ont communiqué sur le site du groupe, ils préparaient du nouveau matériel à enregistrer en studio. Mais depuis, les occupations de chacun ont mis le groupe en pause et aucune véritable information n'a filtré. Le site internet du groupe est désormais hors-ligne.

Cependant, au début de l'année 2012, le groupe a ouvert une page internet JustGiving (organisme de donation online) et annoncé qu'ils allaient tenter de récolter des fonds pour AAR Japan, une ONG qui opère au Japon à la suite du séisme et du tsunami survenus en 2011. En échange des dons, le groupe envoie aux donateurs une nouvelle version de leur chanson « Daylight », un enregistrement resté inédit jusque-là.

Membres

Membres actuels

 Jasmine Rodgers – chant, guitare acoustique, percussions
 Steve Rodgers – guitare électrique et acoustique, chant
 Alex Caird – basse
 Lee Sullivan – batterie, percussions, claviers

Jasmine et Steve sont les enfants du chanteur anglais de classic rock Paul Rodgers, que l'on retrouve dans les groupes Free, Bad Co. et actuellement Queen + Paul Rodgers.

Anciens membres

 Paul Turrell – compositeur, claviers, arrangements, percussions, guitare électrique et acoustique - présent sur les albums Race of a Thousand Camels et Twilight
 Ben Henderson – compositeur, guitare électrique et acoustique, saxophone et percussions - présent sur les albums  Race of a Thousand Camels et Twilight

Musiciens

 Sue Baker – premier violon
 Jude Gonella – second violon
 Kate Wills – alto
 Hannah Birch – violoncelle

Discographie

 Duvet (1998)
 The Race of 1000 Camels (1998)
 Tall Snake EP (2000)
 Twilight (2001)
 Get There (2005)
 Jasmine Rodgers EP (2010) (EP six titres de Jasmine Rodgers seule)

Liens externes
  Page MySpace de Jasmine Rodgers
  Page de donation Just Giving du groupe

Notes et références

Groupe anglais de rock alternatif
Groupe musical de Londres
Groupe musical formé en 1993

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Announcing plans to leave a job and then deciding to stay because of a counteroffer is usually a mistake, said Kelly Kay and Michael Cullen at Harvard Business Review. Senior executives and human resource leaders surveyed on the topic estimated that accepting a current employer's counteroffer "will work out well in only 5 percent to 25 percent of cases." Nearly 40 percent said it would have an adverse effect on one's career. The biggest consequence: "diminished trust and compromised reputation," both at the employee's current company and at the spurned company whose offer was initially accepted. Other consequences include "a boss who may feel blackmailed and colleagues who resent what they see as special treatment."
In search of deep-pocketed donors, a growing number of nonprofit hospitals are examining patients' finances along with their medical conditions, said Phil Galewitz at Kaiser Health News. Many hospitals conduct patient wealth screenings, using software that mines public data such as property records. Promising targets might get a visit from a hospital executive, or be granted amenities. At some hospitals, doctors and nurses are trained to "identify patients who have expressed gratitude for their care, and then put the patients in touch with staff fundraisers." Some find so-called grateful-patient programs troubling. "Getting physicians involved in philanthropy is something fraught with danger," said Mark Rothstein, a bioethicist at the University of Louisville.
Amid the cold and flu season, offices are rife with "sick shaming" aimed at colleagues who insist on coming to work while ill, said Chip Cutter at The Wall Street Journal. Academics even have a name for working when you really, really shouldn't: "presenteeism." Now "the healthy have had it" with being forced to work alongside sneezing co-workers, especially those eligible for paid sick days. Tactics include spraying disinfectant, taking to Twitter to complain and solicit advice, offering cough drops, and more aggressive measures. Michelle Bowden, a consultant in Canberra, Australia, has "followed snifflers and nose blowers around with disinfectant" and once persuaded a flu-stricken colleague to don a hazmat suit. All is fair, said one proud sick-shamer: "If one person gets sick, we all get sick."


Over the weekend, the Varsity Blues swim team competed against multiple schools, including Western University, Brock University, and the University of Ottawa in the Winter Invitational at the University of Toronto's Varsity Pool.
The first day of the tournament kicked off without delay at 6:00 pm, following a 5:45 pm warm up.
Hundreds of swimmers and spectators lined the decks and stands as family and friends of swimmers from all over Ontario supported the teams. The pool was so full that it was hard to find seats, which, for a Varsity Blues game, is an impressive turnout.
The night started off with 16 heats of women's 50 metre freestyle. The competition was fierce and prepared for the night ahead; swimmers such as Charis Huddle from the Western Mustangs displayed their athleticism with swift turns and fluid, speedy movements. The Varsity Blues fared well, taking second and third place in this event.
Chris Ruus of the Blues also impressed, placing first in his heat of the men's 200 metre backstroke. Going up against very strong swimmers from Brock and Guelph, the Blues swimmer accentuated his fluid arm strokes and strong leg kicks to take first place in his heat and seventh overall. The U of T men continued to show that their training has paid off, claiming top spots in the men's 200 metre freestyle and 50 metre breaststroke.
U of T swimmers finished off day one with nine first-place finishes out of 16 events. Multiple top-five finishes followed.
The second day of the meet started strong with a win from Varsity Blue Jess Yu in the women's 200 metre butterfly. Her strong arms and graceful kicks brought her out on top, with Laurentian Voyageurs' Riley Konrad and Ottawa Gees-Gees' Claudie Richard falling short of victory and claiming second and third place respectively.
In the middle of event 22, the pools were cleared due to an emergency. A male swimmer was taken away on a stretcher and the decks were cleared for the emergency medical technician. All spectators were moved to the lobby as the swimmer who looked to be in distress was taken out. About half an hour later, spectators were allowed back in, as the competition started again, picking up at the sixth heat of event 22. Mitch Ferraro of the Varsity Blues took second place in the event followed by fellow teammate Cameron Kidd, who claimed third.
The women's 100 metre breaststroke event was a strong one for the Blues, with Rachael Parsons winning the first heat. Her ability to maintain long strokes while still keeping her immense speed pushed her to first. Nicole Demirov came second in the following heat of the same event, showing the strength in the training of the U of T women.
The day started to wind down with a win from Varsity Blues swimmer Rachel Rode in the first heat of the 50 metre butterfly. The intensity of her arm strokes pushed her to her winning position.
What's next for the Varsity Blues? The team has continued to improve over the length of the season and will give their best efforts at the OUA Championships in London, Ontario as well as at the U Sports Championships held at Varsity Pool from February 22–24. Come out to support the Blues and experience some world-class swimming competition.


If your pregnancy has suddenly changed from normal to complex, you want to have the right experts by your side. Our team at Valley Children's includes maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) specialists and registered diagnostic medical sonographers (RDMS) specially trained in maternal-fetal health.
We can accommodate urgent referrals.
Our maternal-fetal medicine specialists also provide inpatient services at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael, with consultation services for the Dignity Health Hospitals (Mercy General Hospital and Methodist Hospital in Sacramento). We work closely with neonatologists and Mercy San Juan to provide you and your family the best care possible.
Valley Children's physicians coordinate care for pregnant patients with diabetes. We have a Diabetes in Pregnancy program with a full team, including a certified diabetes nurse educator, dietitian and medical assistants to provide teaching and management of diabetes care during pregnancy and early postpartum.


This is the second time in the same month Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City have sued big corporations.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that the city is pursuing legal action against the manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioid drugs. This action is part of a national campaign that seeks to make these companies accountable for their role in the United States' opioid epidemic.
This strategy is nothing new for Mayor de Blasio. Earlier this month, his administration detailed its plan to sue several of the biggest oil companies in the US, including BP and ExxonMobil, citing the damage they've done to the environment by continuing to burn fossil fuels despite knowing the harmful effects.
New York's lawsuit contends that the present crisis was a direct result of drug companies misrepresenting their product, and distributors flooding the city's market with opioids. Purdue Pharma, Teva, Cephalon, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, Endo, Allergan, Watson and various subsidiaries were all manufacturers named in the lawsuit.
More than 90 Americans a day die of an opioid overdose, according to data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that opioid adduction, abuse, and overdose cost the nation $78.5 billion in 2013. A more recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) concluded that the opioid epidemic cost the U.S. economy more than $500 billion in 2015. New York City alone has spent millions on healthcare, law enforcement, and treatment programs directly linked to opioid addiction. The legal action aims to recoup some of those expenditures.
New York City is one of many major metro areas that are taking opioid drug companies to court. Chicago was among the first to do so in 2014; the lawsuit is yet to be resolved. In January 2018 both Philadelphia and the state Delaware also filed suits, and Oklahoma became the first state to set a trial date after filing its initial claim seven months prior.
Bill de Blasio and his staff compared their efforts to the string of lawsuits leveled against major tobacco companies by state officials in the late 1990s. In the end four tobacco manufacturers were forced to pay out over $200 billion in settlements, and a similar scenario could play out for the currently accused drug companies.
In the aftermath of the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, companies were forced to commit to changing their marketing practices. The money states received from the legal settlements was used to offset medical costs and fund anti-smoking campaigns.
The lawsuits that are now being filed against prescription opioid companies could perhaps lead to a similar outcome, but it depends on how these legal battles shake out, and how quickly. At least two of the companies named in the suit — Janssen and Purdue Pharma — have already denied the accusations, so this litigation could certainly be a long, uphill battle that may not yield any dividends.


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Rockies' Oh Seung-hwan extends scoreless streak to 12 games
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- The scoreless streak for the Colorado Rockies' South Korean reliever Oh Seung-hwan has now reached 12 games.
Oh tossed a perfect inning out of the bullpen against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Thursday (local time), preserving the Rockies' 2-1 lead in the seventh.
The Rockies lost the game 3-2 on a two-run, walk-off single by Jose Martinez in the bottom of the ninth, with closer Wade Davis blowing his fifth save opportunity of the year.
Oh lowered his ERA from 2.52 to 2.47 in 51 innings, across 52 appearances. He's not been scored upon in four straight outings since joining the Rockies in a trade from the Toronto Blue Jays on July 26, though Oh did allow two inherited runners to cross the plate in his previous game Tuesday.
Dating back to his Blue Jays days, Oh has held opponents to one earned run in his last 16 2/3 innings, with 18 strikeouts against two walks.
In Thursday's game, Oh struck out pinch hitter Dexter Fowler swinging on a 1-2 fastball. Oh then retired Matt Carpenter, named the Player of the Month in the National League for July after hitting a Major League Baseball-leading 11 home runs, on a flyout to right field.
Yadier Molina grounded out to shortstop against his former batterymate, as Oh picked up his 16th hold of the year.

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In Pakistan more than 50,000 women are estimated to have GDM
Islamabad: (Parliament Times) 14th of November is World Diabetes Day. This year's focus is on diabetes affecting women during pregnancy (Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, GDM). 1 in 7 women are affected by GDM which causes high blood pressure, large birth weight babies and complications during delivery. More than 650,000 women in Pakistan are estimated to have GDM. Many women with GDM further go on to develop type 2 diabetes.
An estimated 8.5 million persons over the age of 20 have type 2 diabetes in Pakistan (IDF 2015) and 1 in 2 people do not know they have diabetes. This can lead to serious consequences such as blindness. There is a strong need to proactively identify persons with diabetes early to limit complications and provide services with comprehensive care.
For World Diabetes Day 2017, three health service networks are collaborating to provide integrated diabetes screening and care: Indus Health Network (IHN), Layton Rahmatullah Benevolent Trust (LRBT), and Community Health Solutions (CHS).
IHN is Pakistan's largest network of general hospitals offering tertiary and primary care for free through 12 hospitals in Sindh and Punjab.
LRBT is Pakistan's largest provider of free eye care with 19 eye hospitals, 52 community eye-care centers and 4 outreach clinics country-wide.
CHS is Pakistan's largest social enterprise working with General Practitioners (GPs) to make quality care affordable in low-income neighbourhoods through 58 Sehatmand Zindagi Centers.
IHN, LRBT and CHS manage over 15,000 patients with diabetes in Karachi alone. Efforts are underway to expand access to integrated diabetes care to manage 40,000 patients in Karachi during 2018. Similar expansions will follow in other districts in 2019-2020.
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KS&EW contributes in making Navy's future bright
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One killed in firing at Judicial Complex in Peshawar
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Pakistan rendered great sacrifices in war on terror for regional peace: President
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84 Pakistanis died in a day by Corona virus
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Ooh, That Feels So Good!
THE FIRST OF MARCH. NO MORE FEBRUARY and I am glad about that. March is the month when spring officially starts. It is when Baseball Season begins. All of that nicely wrapped up inside the fact that it is the end of Winter. YAYYYYYYYY!
There is that zoological adage about March, "In like a lion, Out like a lamb." I think of it more like, "In like an Ice Tray, Out like a Wet Mop." I agree that the "Lion and Lamb" thing is more poetic, but mine is more realistic and I never claimed to be a poet. I am just a semi-literate Geezer with bad knees.
I know that I can no longer play golf like I used to, and that is a blessing, because I was a terrible golfer. People always claim that it is such a sociable game. Well, the way I played it I was always off by myself somewhere. So – No more golf, no great loss.
A lot of the things that I can no longer do, I really don't care about: golf, tennis, tap dancing (scratch that. That's a lie. I never tap danced in my life).
I have had to use my imagination to add things into my life that give it spark and entertainment value while eliminating the need for special equipment – This blog being one of those things. Another being high-impact people watching.
Being a writer, in one way or another, I have always been a people watcher, but now I do it with the enthusiasm of Michael Phelps looking for a fresh bong.
This trip to Texas has presented me, the people watcher, with a target rich environment – The Airport!
DESPITE MY CURMUDGEONLY REPUTATION I really do try to be a helpful sort of person. Like yesterday afternoon when a stranger asked me for directions. He was passing through town and wanted to have lunch at his favorite restaurant – "Chili's" and he needed help finding it.
I was proud that I could give him simple and accurate directions. Follow my directions and an imbecile could find that restaurant.
Simple, not too complicated, and absolutely accurate.
WHILE THE CALENDAR SAYS THAT IT IS NOVEMBER 12 we in this country are thinking of today to honor and remember November 11th.
November 11, 1918 at 11 AM – that was when the fighting stopped by the terms of the "Armistice" marking the end of World War One.
NOT LONG AGO WHILE KILLING TIME waiting for a plane in Houston we were seated near a family – Mommy, Daddy, and three Kids. The kids were glued to their phones, oblivious to anything else. Daddy was sitting there engrossed in a book, but Mommy was busy keeping an eye on her brood and doing her best to keep her Hubby looking civilized.
She was combing his eyebrows.
I'd never seen anyone do that to another human being before. It must be something that they do a lot in that family. Mommy was combing Daddy's eyebrows, but he never missed a beat with his book. He kept right on reading while she did her eyebrow thing.
WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. Some are pretty obvious from the outset. With others it can take some time before we realize that we have stuck our foot in it. I have been collecting a few examples of some wildly errant boo-boos that deserve retelling.
One of my favorites dates from 1959. The fine folks in Ottawa, Ontario were gathered to celebrate the grand opening of a new modern terminal at the Canadian Capital's Airport. Everyone was having a great time…until it all fell apart.
Today's blog is originally from the Koolkosherkitchen: A blog that is about both Food and Life. I am sure that you will enjoy it – even if you don't take the recipe into your kitchen.
This story was shared by Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson, a fantastic public speaker with a great sense of humor. A renowned psychologist was giving a lecture on his theory of the flood. According to him, a myth about the flood of catastrophic magnitude has been present in every culture and religion in the world. He postulated that it was primitive people's way of expressing their insecurities and fears for the future. He unequivocally stated that there has never been an actual flood. One of his listeners asked permission to comment.
"And what if there really was a flood? What if it isn't a myth?" he asked.
There are several different locations where Noah, a righteous man in his time, supposedly parked the Ark when flood waters receded. Amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt, among others, claimed that he found the remains of the Ark and some artifacts to prove the veracity of his findings. His discovery has been highly disputed, but the location is spot on: Mount Ararat, as it is identified in ParshasNoah (the view is from Armenian capital Yerevan). The following video is shot by a drone flying over Wyatt's discovery.
Take it with a grain of salt, if you will, but today hardly anybody disputes the flood itself. "Now the earth was corrupt in G-d's sight and was full of violence" (Genesis 6:11), He got outraged, and set out to obliterate everything. It was a total immersion: "The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth… and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered" (Genesis 7:18 and 7:19). We can't help but reflect upon the Biblical flood as thousands of people in (sic) Huston are trying to cope with a disaster of the same nature, torrential rain that flooded the city, leaving its inhabitants, human and animal alike, homeless and in need of help.
Among many photographs of immersed buildings and drowned cars, there are quite a few of "modern Noahs," righteous among the people of our times, boating four-legged friends to safety. As the waters are receding now in Huston, and relief is pouring in, this Immersion Pie might serve as a reminder to love and care for each other and all His creatures.
The idea is to imitate earth boiling under torrential water, so there is no crust. You mix spelt or gluten free flour with soy or almond milk, add some brown sugar and cinnamon, a little baking powder, and a pinch of salt.
You can immerse any berries or diced fruit, but blueberries are still in season, huge and juicy, so first I immersed them into a mix of vanilla extract and brown sugar. They should sit and contemplate their fate, while you are mixing the rest of the stuff. After all, Noah spent 120 years building the Ark, to give people a chance to abandon their corrupt ways and make corrections, so give your blueberries a chance for 10 – 15 minutes.
Since my first rule of dessert clearly states that it's not a dessert if it doesn't have chocolate, I also mix in unsweetened cocoa powder. It looks like mud already!
The process of immersion is about to start! Melt Smart Balance or any butter substitute of your choice and pour it into a pie baking form. Pour your mud – batter, that is! – into it and spread it evenly. Empty your blueberries, juice and all, on top of batter and also spread them evenly.
Let it bake at 350 F for an hour or so, and the immersion will occur naturally while you are not even looking – the batter will rise and cover most of the berries. There is another, much more positive meaning of the term total immersion. It is one of the most effective methods of language acquisition: drop a person into target language environment where nobody speaks his native language or any other language he knows, and, according to S. Krashen's Natural Language Acquisition theory, he'll start communicating in target language. It's a sink-or-swim method, and Krashen is right: in about three months, give or take, they start swimming, i,e, talking. By the same token, I choose to believe that dropping a person into a loving environment full of kindness will force him to acquire the same behaviors. From there – Existence Precedes Essence! – is only one step from behaviors to attitudes, and from attitudes to values!
So sprinkle some more cocoa powder on top – the more chocolate, the better! – add some crushed walnuts, if you like, and cut yourself a nice juicy piece of the Immersion Pie – total immersion in love and kindness!
Mix berries with 1 tablespoon brown sugar and vanilla extract, put aside for 10 – 15 minutes.
Mix flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cocoa powder, salt, and cinnamon, add soy or almond milk. Do not over-mix.
Melt Smart Balance, pour into the bottom of baking pie form. Pour batter over melted Smart Balance, spread evenly. Spread berries, including juice, on top of batter, spread evenly.
Bake for 1 hour or until golden brown and crisp around the edge.
Remove, sprinkle with cocoa powder and crushed walnuts. May be served warm or cold.
Meet The Candidates Then Rinse.
My wife trusts me. She knows that I will behave myself in public and not truthfully answer any questions asked of me by the candidates.
We have gone to events like this before. I smile and I shake hands with people I wouldn't ordinarily touch without wearing a Hazmat Suit. I quietly sip at my plastic cup of Diet Coke.
TODAY'S POSTING IS A BIT OF A DETOUR from the usual stretch of pavement that is this blog. On most days I just write about the speed bumps in my life and my encounters with people who either fascinate, entertain, or appall me. Today I am going to talk about a book I am reading. How exciting, No? A book that really doesn't rely on pictures, Super heroes, or the secret to quick elimination of Belly Fat. It is a book filled with and about Words. I love it.
To oversimplify it "Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries" by Kory Stamper is about how Dictionaries are written and it is not as simple as one would think. I would classify this book as a Love Letter to Language.
Where Was Sacagawea When We Needed Her?
WE HAVE BEEN SPENDING A FEW DAYS OUT IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. It is a lovely city with a great climate. I was, however, feeling a serious lack that needed filling.
My wife, the lovely and actively involved, Dawn, and I have been attending an annual church meeting/conference. While she is working hard I am here mainly to serve as "Arm Candy." I can handle that.
Because my function is not really needed in Meetings, Seminars, and Committee sessions I have a fair amount of time on my hands. That is when things began to go south in a figurative sense. I needed some coffee and I was a stranger in a strange land.
Google Mars told me that there were several oases of coffee nearby – one of them a scant 0.2 miles away. One of the other conference attendees said that she walked there in 9 minutes – and she uses a cane.
I stopped at the front desk of the Marriott Something Hotel and asked for directions. The young lady on duty smiled constantly as she gave me specific instruction to steer me to the 0.2 miles away Starbucks.
She must have had one of those Yeti gizmos stashed behind her desk. I took a raincheck on her offer. I wanted the real thing. All I had to do was to remember to "Go out of the front door here and turn left." I could do that. I am a college graduate.
Those were the words that greeted me this morning when I went for my usual coffee transfusion.
One of the Usual Suspects spent ten minutes bemoaning the fact that the day before he had jumped into a swimming pool with his cellphone on his hip. Goodbye cellphone.
It is a sure thing that ten minutes in the pool will kill your cellphone. Putting it in a bag of rice won't do anything except suggest what to have for lunch.


Invicta FC 28 took place last night in Salt Lake City, Utah and we've got all the results for you below.
In the main event of the evening, Virna Jandiroba claimed the vacant strawweight title with a split decision victory over Mizuki Inoue.
Jandiroba appeared to dominate much of the fight with her grappling, so the fact that the judges weren't unanimous in their decision did raise some eyebrows, though in the end the right person one and the Brazilian fighter extends her perfect MMA record to 13-0.
Check out all the Invicta FC 28 fight results below.


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f you're concerned about paying for your pet's healthcare bills, or have an expensive procedure coming up, you may want to consider asking someone to buy you a Vet Voucher. This innovative scheme, the first of its kind in the UK, was launched by horse enthusiast, Tammie O'Leary in 2015. She developed the concept in response to concerns that some pet parents, whilst wanting to provide the best care for their pets, could not necessarily afford to commit to ongoing, often preventative, vet treatment for anything from vaccinations to dealing with fleas, worming regimes and tick protection.
Having worked for pharmaceutical company, MSD Animal Health, for 12 years in Practice management services, Tammie witnessed first hand how cost could be a key factor limiting compliance and commitment to animal wellbeing. "During the annual National Vaccination Month, vets and nurses would take the opportunity to discuss routine annual healthcare with pet owners. One reason clients declined further treatments was cost, not that they did not wish to do the right thing, but not everyone could afford to do so."
One reason clients declined further treatments was cost, not that they did not wish to do the right thing, but not everyone could afford to do so
Tammie O'Leary, Founder of Vet Vouchers
Operating in much the same way as a digital gift service, purchasers go to the Vet Vouchers website, select from a list of vets who accept the vouchers, decide on the value that they want to buy (£10, £20, £50 or a custom value) and opt to have the voucher emailed to the recipient or printed off.
Currently, 22 veterinary clinics, largely based in Norfolk, have signed up to the scheme. However, with a potential market of some 5,000 surgeries in the UK, the concept has plenty of potential uptake with Tammie hoping for nationwide distribution. For vets to be affiliated to the programme, they need to register on the site and pay a small fee to be listed. Vet Vouchers will then assist in supporting their marketing efforts.
To further promote animal wellbeing, Vet Vouchers donates 30% of its annual net profits to small animal charities and has a donation page for people who wish to contribute towards the vet care of horses rehabilitated by World Horse Welfare.
Regular trips to the vet will help to maintain the health of your pets and could avoid preventable, costly illnesses
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With vet bills typically costing £300 (Money Supermarket), but often more, depending on the procedure or treatment needed, many owners struggle to pay for treatment of an injured or sick pet. The situation is made worse with some 70% of pet owners not being insured (Association of British Insurers). As responsible pet parents, we welcome any initiatives which help to provide the best possible care for our furry companions.
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*Early Modern Reception of Shakespeare on the Continent in Context*
[this and the previous via the LRS list ...]
An international seminar**
Masaryk University (Faculty of Arts), Brno, Czech Republic
As early as 1585, professional English travelling players started performing in Europe, an activity lasting well over a century and one that turned out to be crucial for European drama. Shakespeare's plays occupied an important position in the itinerant repertory, complementing the collateral literary influences that Shakespeare's works had on early modern Europe. This crucial moment in cultural, literary and theatre history has been studied by a number of influential scholars since the middle of the 19th century, most importantly by Albert Cohn, Anna Baesecke, Ernest Brennecke, Otto G. Schindler, Adolf Scherl, Bärbel Rudin, Jerzy Limon, and M. A. Katritzky. It may also be illustrated that the influences were reverse, and moreover, that originally Continental matter was later brought back by the English travelling players and by books to the Continent.
The seminar, consisting of invited lectures as well as incoming papers, is aimed at presenting new findings as well as the current state of knowledge of the early modern continental influence of Shakespeare, the context in which these processes take place, and offering possible approaches and research opportunities in further investigation of the field – papers on the diaspora of Italian and other travelling actors and performers are welcome, as well as on literary and intellectual influences. Relating to the current research in transnational theatrical exchange (the Theater Without Borders research group, the EuroDrama research team) and early modern theatre history of Central Europe (Theatre Institute, Prague), the seminar is envisioned to stimulate further academic interest, especially in the Czech lands where the topic has not yet been sufficiently addressed.
*Invited lecturers* (confirmed to date): M.A. Katritzky, Richard Andrews, Christian Billing
*Call for papers*
The papers may address a variety of topics that corroborate a contextual perspective of the early modern European theatre, performance, literature and culture that are relevant to the reception of Shakespeare's (and other English) dramatic works. Of interest are also dramatic and literary works that were not influenced by Shakespeare but deal with the same material (story, plot elements), thus preparing a way for the reception. As the seminar will be oriented both towards the scholarly participants as well as students, contextual papers are welcomed.
*Deadline for proposals* (200 words): *31 **August** 2009*
*Deadline for auditors' applications*: *15 October 2009*
*Seminar languages*: English, German (detailed synopses of papers in English/German will be provided)
*Seminar convenor*: Dr Pavel Drábek (drabek@phil.muni.cz)
*Accommodation*: accommodation will be arranged in a partner hotel nearby for approximately 40 EUR/night (incl. breakfast)
*Seminar fee*: 75 EUR (students 50 EUR)
CALL FOR PAPERS: MEMORY - RECOLLECTIONS OF THE RENAISSANCE
The Journal of the Northern Renaissance (www.northernrenaissance.org) invites submissions for our second issue on the theme of memory and the Northern Renaissance.
Under the term 'Renaissance', the early modern period has often been described in terms of a process of recovery, rebirth and remembrance – words which invoke their shadowy counterparts, loss, death and forgetting. The preoccupation with the past runs right through the culture, from notions of nationhood to ideas about the body and the self, from antiquarianism to translation as a means of recovering and storing information. We would welcome submissions thinking through the uses and abuses of memory in and of the period, and as ever would be especially interested in articles exploring the temporal and geographical boundaries of the Renaissance in the North. Themes may include such matters as:
/Acts and Monuments, age, amnesia, anecdote, antiquarianism, archives, autobiography, beginnings, childhood, chronicle, classics, collective memory, cultural memory, commemoration, death, decay, depository, discovery, dreams, editing, education, epitaphs, etymology, evidence, example, forgetfulness, forgiveness, foundations, generations, ghosts, glossary, historiography, imagination, inscription, labour, lament, law, learning, Lethe, library, loss, madness, manuscript, martyrdom, melancholy, memoir, monuments, myth, nostalgia, oblivion, obscurity, origins, pardons, past performance, popular memory, posterity, precedent, preservation, publication, rebellion, record, recollection, recovery, reformation, rehearsal, relics, remembrance, repetition, repository, roots, salvation, scripture, speeches, storehouse, texts, time, traces, translation, travel, vision and youth./
Submissions should be sent to the journal by *1st September 2009*. Potential contributors are advised to consult the submissions page of our website for details of the submissions procedure and style guidelines.
Controversy, Protest, Ridicule, Laughter, 1500-1750
The University of Reading Early Modern Studies Conference 9-11 July 2010
This three-day conference at the University of Reading aims to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines working on areas related to the themes of controversy, protest, ridicule, and laughter in the early modern period.
Controversy, protest, ridicule and laughter are means to register more than disagreement: they convey contemptuous opposition to an opponent. How can the study of their uses advance our understanding of the nature and development of public debate in the early modern period?
How were new media (theatres, newsbooks, periodicals) and traditional forms (sermons, proclamations, disputations) used by the two (or more) sides in early modern controversies? What were the connections between 'low' literary forms (pamphlets, ballads, satires, libels), and the learned seriocomic tradition of, for example, Erasmus's Praise of Folly?
What were the sites of protest: Parliament; stage; university; alehouse; Inns of Court - and what connections, if any, existed between these spaces?
What role did ridicule have in religious and political controversy, from Martin Marprelate to John Milton's anti-prelatical writings? How were the conventions for mocking one's opponent refracted by variables of class and gender?
Laughter might be a marker of intellectual achievement (distinguishing the human from the animal), or it might be condemned as a sign of brutality. If laugher was both elevating and debasing, what strategies were used by writers of satire, comedy and polemic to control its connotations? How can we write a history of laughter? How useful is more recent psychological and philosophical work on laughter - by Freud or Henri Bergson, for example - for work on early modern culture?
Possible topics include:
Humanism, learning, wit, and laughter; gender and class; classical ideas of laughter and ridicule; disputation and debate in education; ridicule, stereotyping and national identity; European models of controversy and ridicule; popular radicalism and the public sphere; conduct manuals and the etiquettes of laughter; the Putney Debates; clowns and jesters; new media and popular radicalism; the Spanish Match; burlesque, parody, scatology and obscenity; Jonson's comedy of humours and satirical comedy; popular print (pamphlets, ballads) and 'low' literary forms; urban and rural forms of controversy; Rabelais and discourses of the body; legal controversy: sedition, libel, slander; the Marprelate Tracts; jokes and jests on the stage and page; Milton's Defensio pro populo Anglicano; the Oath of Allegiance controversy; mimicry and impersonation; Civil War religious radicalism; the carnivalesque; Jacobitism; traditions of complaint, satire and invective; the decorum of ridicule, controversy, and ideas of ethical restraint; the 'Glorious Revolution' and 'godly revolution'.
We invite papers that consider any or all of this year's themes. Proposals (max. 300 words) for 30 minute papers and a brief CV should be sent via email attachment by 4 December 2009 to: Dr. Chloë Houston, School of English and American Literature, University of Reading, c.houston@reading.ac.uk
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
Society for Renaissance Studies National Conference, 16-18th July 2010
The 4th National Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies will be held in the historic city of York on 16-18 July 2010. The conference will follow immediately after the 2010 International Medieval Congress in Leeds and will coincide with the final weekend of the York Early Music Festival--which will feature The Sixteen performing the music of Tallis and others in the York Minster, a major new performance of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers, and a partial performance of the York Mystery Plays in the streets of the city. Participants will be offered tickets for all of these events along with tours of the city and outings to historic sites. The conference will also feature workshops on publishing and research funding (including a presentation by Shearer West, Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Confirmed plenary speakers include Iain Fenlon (Cambridge) and Penelope Gouk (Manchester).
We now invite proposals for panels (max. 90 minutes) on any aspect of Renaissance history, art, literature or culture, and for individual papers (max. 25 minutes) on one of the following themes:
* Rethinking the Medieval/Renaissance Divide
* At the Boundaries of Science
* Soundscapes and Landscapes, Environments and Ecologies
* Possessions and Collections
* Between Spirituality and Materiality
* Cultural Encounters
Proposals (max. 400 words) are welcome from both established scholars and postgraduates. They should be sent by Friday 25 September 2009 to the conference organiser:
Professor William Sherman
Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies
Heslington YO10 5DD
E-mail: ws505@york.ac.uk
For further details, please visit the Society for Renaissance Studies website at www.rensoc.org.uk
THE GASCOIGNE SEMINAR 2009
There are only a few places left for the Gascoigne Seminar on Friday 18th September at Lincoln College, Oxford.
There are three places for postgraduates, with the conference fee generously funded by the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS), so if you are a postgraduate and would like to attend please email Gillian Austen off-list (gillian.austen@lincoln.oxon.org). For everyone else, the fee is £35, or £30 for members of the SRS, which just covers costs, but includes a good lunch, teas and coffees throughout the day and the private viewing at the Bodleian. Please email Gillian as soon as possible to book your place as spaces are extremely limited.
The speakers are Susan C Staub, Rob Maslen, Elizabeth Heale, Jayne Archer, Syrithe Pugh, David Trim, Andy Kesson and John Burton. Other participants, some of whom will be session chairs, include Roger Pooley, Cathy Shrank, Elizabeth Goldring, Katharine Wilson, Mike Pincombe and Arthur Kinney.
Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, c1500 – c1700
A postgraduate and post-doctoral conference
Chawton House Library, 16-17 February 2010
Keynote speaker: Dr Peter Beal FBA,
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London and
former Director and English Manuscript Expert at Sotheby's.
This two-day conference will bring together postgraduate and early career researchers working on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English manuscript sources. Many of the sources from this period are multi-authored and contain strikingly disparate materials, posing a serious challenge to scholars working within traditionally defined disciplinary boundaries.
The primary aim of the conference is to address this challenge: to provide an opportunity for genuine interdisciplinary discussion, and to create new networks between researchers which will enable them to share both theoretical perspectives and practical approaches to working with early modern manuscript materials.
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers that address any aspect of the conference theme but, in particular, those focused in the following areas:
Studies of individual manuscripts that contain a range of diverse materials
Manuscripts as emblems of social bonds (e.g. family, friendship, or patronage-based
networks)
Manuscripts as spaces for private reflection
Manuscripts as objects for public display
Manuscripts as commodities in a gift economy
The relationships between manuscript and print culture
The role of new technologies in manuscript studies:
Project reports and/or practical demonstrations of existing electronic resources
Conceptual and theoretical models – how can emerging technologies shape the future of manuscript studies?
Representing non-textual material in electronic editions
300 word abstracts for proposed papers should be sent by email to both conference organisers by October 16th 2009:
Michael Gale: mdg@soton.ac.uk
Louise Rayment: L.Rayment@soton.ac.uk
Please include contact details and indicate your institutional affiliation and professional status (i.e. doctoral candidate, post-doctoral researcher etc.) in your submission.
New art history blog
Announcing a new art history blog dealing with the early modern era.
Please encourage your students and fellow faculty members to visit, as
it is intended as a learning/teaching tool. The address is:
http://notesonearlymodernart.blogspot.com
THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
NEW SCHOLARS PROGRAM
The Bibliographical Society of America each year invites three scholars
in the early stages of their careers to present twenty-minute papers on
their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as
members of a panel at the annual meeting of the Society, which takes
place in New York City in late January. The New Scholars Program seeks
to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of
bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with
the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception,
transmission, and subsequent history of texts as material objects (print
or manuscript). Papers of New Scholars are published in the December
issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America as part of
the proceedings of the annual meeting.
Junior (i.e., untenured) faculty and graduate students at the
dissertation level are eligible, as are professional librarians, members
of the book trade, and book collectors who are at the beginning of their
careers. Candidates should submit a letter of application, an abstract
of not more than 250 words, and a curriculum vitae. Graduate students
should also submit a letter of recommendation from their dissertation
director. For submissions to be considered for the following January,
materials should be received by July 31. Please address and send
applications (preferably via email) to:
Bibliographical Society of America
Lenox Hill Station
email: bsa@bibsocamer.org
New Scholars selected for the panel receive a subvention of $600 toward
the cost of attendance at the annual meeting and a complimentary
one-year membership in the Bibliographical Society of America. For
further information on the Society, see http://www.bibsocamer.org.
Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to John Buchtel at
Forum III: Sex and the Early Modern Woman
*CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*
/Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal/ (/EMWJ/) invites submissions to an interdisciplinary Forum on */Sex and the Early Modern Woman/*, slated for publication in Volume V (2010). We encourage= contributors to the forum to explore the intersection of sex and early modern women and girls from different socioeconomic levels and from regions across the globe. How did Early Modern women view their own sexuality and that of others? How did moralists view women=92s sexuality? How did women resist and subvert the dominant ideology of sexuality? Which spaces were associated with sex? What can we learn about the sexualities of wives, nuns, single women, adulteresses, witches, virgins, prostitutes, and lesbians?
We invite submissions of about 1200 words that address these issues, and especially welcome innovative approaches. Analyses in all disciplines are welcome, but those that cross disciplines and national borders are especially welcome.
The deadline for forum submissions is *September 22, 2009.*
*Early Modern is defined as the period 1400-1700.
*Please visit=20
http://www.emwjournal.umd.edu/Forum%20Volume%205-%20Sex.pdf for the full text of the Call for Submissions prompt. Any inquiries about the forum posted below may be sent to emwjournal@umd.edu.*
PhD Studentship: Religion, Politics and Print Culture in England, 1660-1725
University of Worcester, Early Modern Research Group
Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts
Applications are invited for a fully-funded, full-time, three year studentship to undertake research examining political, religious and social developments in England from 1660 to 1725 and the extent to which print material both reflected and promoted such change.
The student will carry out a research project that will lead to the award of a higher research degree (MPhil/PhD) and will be expected to conceptualise and research an individual study under the direction of Dr. Paddy McNally and Dr. Andreas Mueller.
Detailed information about the Early Modern Research Group and the Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts can be found at: http://www.worc.ac.uk/departments/663.html.
Applicants must have a good first degree (upper second or first class) in History or History and English Literature and should normally possess or be near to completing an MA qualification.
The successful applicant will receive a tax free bursary of £12,300 per annum plus an expenses budget. Fees will be paid in full at the UK/EU rate for home and EU citizens. Overseas students are welcome to apply but will need to fund the balance of fees for Overseas Research Students.
For further details and an application form visit: http://www.worc.ac.uk/research/studentships.
For an informal discussion about the studentship please contact Dr. Paddy McNally on +44 1905 855285 or by email at p.mcnally@worc.ac.uk.
For questions regarding the application process contact Mrs Helen Tabinor, Graduate Research School Manager (tel: 01905 855012, email: research@worc.ac.uk).
Closing date for applications is 27 August 2009.
Candidates will be invited for interview on 7th September 2009.
Early Modern Dis/Locations
An Interdisciplinary Conference, Northumbria University, 15-16 January 2010
On 15-16 January 2010, Northumbria University in Newcastle (UK) will host an interdisciplinary conference on Early Modern Dis/Locations.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers include:
Tim Cresswell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)
Bernhard Klein (University of Kent)
Greg Walker (University of Edinburgh)
The organisers invite scholars and students working in literary and cultural studies, history, geography, philosophy, and related disciplines to submit 200 word abstracts for 20-25 minute papers relating to any of the following themes and questions by July 31st 2009 (please note this is an extended deadline). Contributors are free to interpret and address these as broadly as they deem appropriate:
What were the significant locations for and of early modern cultures, and why? How might we re-think and problematise constructions of court, city (or particular cities, real and imagined), 'suburbs', 'country', the 'nation', the 'home', 'private', 'public', the marketplace, the streets, 'landscape', colonies and plantations?
To what extent were locations conceived and constructed as gendered, rank-specific, desirable, or disgusting?
How were all such locations experienced (and by whom), and represented in literature, art, and philosophy?
In what ways did locations condition, inhibit, or compel political agency and cultural production and consumption?
How were locations demarcated, policed, transgressed and jeopardised in the period?
How was dislocation caused, theorized and represented in the period? What were the realities and representations of placelessness, homelessness, and dispossession? Where, how and why did 'mobilities' occur, and in what forms?
How have early modern cultural products and locations - like The Globe -been relocated into and appropriated by later historical and cultural positions?
How can modern theories of 'space', 'place', and 'placelessness' develop our understanding of early modern locations and dislocations?
Please submit 200 word abstracts for 20-25 minute papers by email to Dr Adam Hansen (adam.hansen@northumbria.ac.uk) by July 31st 2009. Please note this is an extended deadline.
If you have any questions please contact Dr Hansen by email or at this address:
Division of English and Creative Writing
126, Lipman Building
School of Arts and Social Sciences
NE1 8ST Tel: 0191 243 7193
These include three places reserved for postgraduates, with the conference fee generously funded by the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS), so if you are a postgraduate and would like to come please email Gillian Austen off-list (g.austen@bristol.ac.uk). For everyone else, the fee is £35, or £30 for members of the SRS, which just covers costs, but includes a good lunch, teas and coffees throughout the day and the private viewing at the Bodleian. Please email Gillian as soon as possible to book your place as spaces are extremely limited.
The speakers are Susan C Staub, Rob Maslen, Elizabeth Heale, Jayne Archer, Syrithe Pugh, David Trim, Andy Kesson and John Burton. Other participants, some of whom will be session chairs, include Arthur Kinney, Roger Pooley, Cathy Shrank, Elizabeth Goldring, Katharine Wilson, and Mike Pincombe.
9.30 - 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.15 Introduction and Welcome by Dr Gillian Austen (University of Bristol)
SESSION ONE. Chair: TBC
10.15 - 10.45 Dr Jayne Archer (University of Wales at Aberystwyth):
"'A notable kinde of rime': Gascoigne's Certayne Notes of Instruction and Theories of Metrical Composition in Elizabethan England"
10.45 - 11.15 John Burton (University of Wales at Lampeter):
"'Sorted', 'Wrote', 'Compiled'; Gascoigne as Father of the Sonnet Sequence"
SESSION TWO. Chair: TBC
11.45 - 12.15 Dr Syrithe Pugh (University of Aberdeen):
"Gascoigne's Ovidian Masks"
12.15 - 12.45 Dr Elizabeth Heale (University of Reading):
"Spenser and Gascoigne"
12.45 - 1.30 BUFFET LUNCH
From 1.30pm-2.15pm there is a private viewing at the Bodleian Library of selected Elizabethan editions of Gascoigne's work, including Gabriel Harvey's copy of the Posies(1575).
SESSION THREE. Chair: TBC
2.15 - 2.45 Andy Kesson (University of Kent):
"Palaces, adventures and anatomies: Gascoigne, Lyly and print story-telling in the 1570s"
2.45 - 3.15 Prof Susan C Staub (Appalachian State University):
"'Pretty conceits as pleased her peevish fantasy': the 'Manling'
Secretary in The Adventures of Master F.J."
3.15 - 3.45 TEA BREAK
SESSION FOUR. Chair: TBC
3.45 - 4.15 Dr Robert Maslen (University of Glasgow):
"Gascoigne, Piccolomini, and the Demilitarisation of the Siege of Troy"
4.15 - 4.45 Dr David Trim (Newbold College):
"Gascoigne the soldier: reality and rhetoric"
4.45 - 5.30 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION/FAREWELL


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Torill Mortensen IT University of Copenhagen Department of Digital design Center for Games Research Culture and Technology
Emma Witkowski RMIT University School of Design
Claus Toft-Nielsen School of Communication and Culture Aarhus University
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Q: Filtering a objects in objects for ReactJS I tried to filter objects value. But, I don't know how to approach an object in an object value to filter. For example, I want to find specific data which includes the user's name value called James who is the winner. I tried to use "match.win.user.name.match(regex)". It doesn't work. please help me. Thank you.
    case FILTER_MATCH:
      return {
        ...state,
        filtered: state.matches.filter(match => {
          const regex = new RegExp(`${action.payload}`, 'gi');
          return (
            match.date.match(regex) ||
            match.game.match(regex) ||
            match.win.user.name.match(regex) <-- error!
          );
        })
      };

    object match: {
    matches: [
      {
        _id: '5d4d0796b60bd206cc8e72d8',
        win: [
          {
            _id: '5d4d0796b60bd206cc8e72d9',
            user: {
              _id: '5d4942777a26a8df93097ef5',
              name: 'james',
              email: 'james@gmail.com'
            }
          }
        ],
        lose: [
          {
            _id: '5d4d0796b60bd206cc8e72da',
            user: {
              _id: '5d4942ea7a26a8df93097ef6',
              name: 'rob',
              email: 'rob@gmail.com'
            }
          }
        ],
        draw: [],
        game: 'Tic-Tac-Toe',
        date: '2019-08-09T05:41:42.494Z',
        __v: 0
      },

Error message

Unhandled Rejection (TypeError): Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
(anonymous function)
src/reducers/match.js:42
  39 | ...state,
  40 | filtered: state.matches.filter(match => {
  41 |   const regex = new RegExp(`${action.payload}`, 'gi');
> 42 |   return (
     | ^  43 |     match.date.match(regex) ||
  44 |     match.game.match(regex) ||
  45 |     match.win.user.name.match(regex)

A: You are accessing the user incorrectly. By calling match.win.user you try to access the object user from win, but as seen in your data object win is an array with one user object. If you remove the [] brackets around user, it should work.
 win: [
      {
        _id: '5d4d0796b60bd206cc8e72d9',
        user: {
          _id: '5d4942777a26a8df93097ef5',
          name: 'james',
          email: 'james@gmail.com'
        }
      }
    ]

to
 win: {
        _id: '5d4d0796b60bd206cc8e72d9',
        user: {
          _id: '5d4942777a26a8df93097ef5',
          name: 'james',
          email: 'james@gmail.com'
        }
      }

If you need to have win as an array (you should call them wins then), you can access the user like this:
match.win.length !== 0 && match.win[0].user.name.match(regex)

Hope this helps.

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PARIS — French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said late Tuesday he felt "philosophically uncomfortable" with the idea of stripping convicted terrorists of their nationality, in a fresh public disagreement with his boss.
"I am, on a personal level, philosophically uncomfortable with the importance this debate has taken," Macron told the France-Israel foundation. "One does not treat the evil (terrorism) by expelling it from the national community; we need to prevent and punish."
The statement appeared to contradict the government's line on nationality stripping — adding fuel to talk of a rivalry between Macron and Prime Minister Manuel Valls, just as a cabinet reshuffle shapes up.
The Socialist government is under fire over its plan to strip French nationality from convicted terrorists with dual citizenship. It wants to change the Constitution, in a largely symbolic gesture, to punish terrorists in the wake of the November 13 attacks in Paris.
This mechanism exists in other European countries, but critics on the French right and left say it would create second-class citizens. Valls and President François Hollande are sticking to their guns and pushing parliament to pass the reform.
Asked about Macron's statement, Valls told reporters that the minister did, in fact, support the measure.
"Everyone [in government], Macron and the others, supports this measure," he said. "There can be no other way."
Hours later, Macron sought to play down the spat by telling French media that he supported the constitutional reform project, and President François Hollande.
"My deepest wish is that this reform is carried out, as the President of the Republic wanted, because I am loyal to the president," he told iTELE, adding that he nevertheless felt the debate had taken on too much importance.
But the prime minister's statement was the latest in a series of public rebukes targeted at Macron, a minister 15 years younger than Valls, more popular and rumored to be mulling a presidential bid in 2017.
Macron previously prompted Valls' irritation over comments he made about the status of civil servants and France's 35-hour work week — and most recently over his intrusion into France's taxi-Uber war.
The economy minister has denied that he plans to leave the government. But his public disagreement with Valls echoed a similar spat with former justice minister Christiane Taubira, who resigned last month over the nationality stripping issue, saying she could not support the move.
Leftist critics of the Hollande government — including those who have been kicked out — rejoiced at Macron's criticism, hinting that he could soon join them.
"In the past, several of us expressed doubts about the executive's policies, and every time the result was an expulsion, not from the national community but from the governmental community," former culture minister Aurelie Filippetti told France Info radio. "We'll see what happens in Macron's case."
An unnamed Valls loyalist lashed out at the young minister, saying he would "cut the balls of that little s***," according to Le Figaro daily.


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Q: HTML5 How to call image in Canvas I have design a canvas now I want to call a image in that canvas. I have gone through the tutorials but I don't know how to implement that. My image is high resolution but I want to reduce that image size and resolution with javascript. Anybody will help me.
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="600" height="400" style="border:1px solid #d3d3d3;">
Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.</canvas>

<script>
var c=document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctx=c.getContext("2d");
ctx.beginPath();

ctx.moveTo(8,200);
ctx.lineTo(8,308);
ctx.moveTo(259,76);
ctx.lineTo(259,308);
ctx.moveTo(259,308);
ctx.lineTo(8,308);
ctx.moveTo(8,200);
ctx.lineTo(259,76);
ctx.stroke();
var imageObj = new Image();

  imageObj.onload = function() {
    ctx.drawImage(imageObj, 69, 50);
  };
  imageObj.src = 'img/logo.jpg', height='42', width='42';
</script>

I am not able to call image. Anybody will help me how to convert this javascript in jquery?
Thanks

A: You need to use the following syntax if you want to resize the image too.
context.drawImage(img,x-Position,y-Position,width,height);

Here is an Updated JSFiddle as an example.
You can read more about drawImage function in this W3CSchool's article.


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Warden to present 10th annual Oxford Stewardship Award
Oxford County Warden David Mayberry will present a local landowner with the 10th annual Oxford Stewardship Award at the November 28 meeting of County Council. The award recognizes County landowners who have made exemplary contributions to the preservation and enhancement of natural features and areas, such as woodlands, wetlands, streams and meadows.
Award presentation to take place at approximately 7:00 p.m.
Oxford County Administration Building – Council Chambers
21 Reeve Street, Woodstock
David Mayberry, Warden, County of Oxford
Paul Michiels, Manager, Community Planning, Oxford County
Cher Sprague, Stewardship Oxford
Award recipient: To be announced
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Ian Matheson, Zorra Township
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Lynn and Leslie Sage, Norwich Township
Mark Janssen, South-West Oxford Township
The Oxford Stewardship Award builds on the legacy of the former Landsaver Award, which was granted between 1982 and 2003 to recognize outstanding contributions toward the conservation of land, water and air by the farming community. The Oxford Stewardship Award recipient is chosen by Stewardship Oxford and the Oxford Soil & Crop Improvement Association from the previous year's pool of applicants to Oxford County's Clean Water Program. The Clean Water Program, administered by the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, helps to fund the conservation and enhancement of natural heritage resources in Oxford County. In 2017, a total of 81 Clean Water projects were funded in Oxford County. This reflected over $439,000 in total project value and $115,000 in grants. Oxford County committed $70,000 to the program.
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Donna Kemp | Strategic Communication & Engagement
519.539.9800, ext. 3158 | dkemp@oxfordcounty.ca


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Three fraternities at Boston University have been suspended during the 2014-15 academic year, prompting campus officials and the Greek life community to speak more about problematic behavior and steps for moving forward.
Sigma Chi, Delta Tau Delta and Kappa Sigma have all lost recognition as BU student organizations within the past academic year. Some of the issues that have led to their suspensions include hazing, underage drinking and promotion of questionable parties, said Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore.
Elmore said the number of fraternity suspensions this academic year is not typical.
After members from Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Oklahoma were caught on video singing a racist chant in March, Elmore said he met with fraternity and sorority presidents and their advisors to talk about behaviors and attitudes in Greek life.
A few weeks after the conversation occurred, Elmore said his office received an allegation about members of a fraternity who participated in hazing. Due to the ongoing investigation, the name of the fraternity hasn't been released, he said.
"We serve as a governing body, assembling judicial hearings to investigate allegations against any member chapter, and set rules, deadlines and standards for our recruitment period each semester," Lugo, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote in an email.
IFC works only with university-recognized fraternities, Lugo said. Once suspended, IFC cannot work with a chapter.
Abby Myette, associate director of the Student Activities Organization and advisor to Greek councils, said SAO offers guidance for Greek organizations.
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Maureen Mahoney, director of BU's Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center, said the center coordinates with SAO and the Dean of Students office to host educational programs.
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SHS takes a "harm reduction approach," taking into account the fact that drinking is part of college culture and colleges need to teach students the best way to stay safe, Mooney said.
Several students said it's unfortunate to hear about the fraternity suspensions, but they understand why the university made the choices they did.
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Jasmine Fuller, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said BU may be acting too strictly when it comes to managing the chapters.
Armina Petrescu-Tudor, a sophomore in CAS, said stopping questionable behavior draws attention to the greater issues in the Greek life community.
Ellen Cranley contributed to the reporting of this article.
While I appreciate this article as a member of Greek life, I'm not sure how the students interviewed are connected. We do care about our reputation throughout the whole university, but it seems remiss to write an article about Greek misconduct without interviewing any Greeks or chapter presidents other than Mr. Lugo.
I also think it's remiss of BU to address problems in Greek life without involving the problematic chapters. It's important to manage the risk of University-sanctioned chapters, but the risk of non-sanctioned chapters is still there. A suspended chapter (hopefully) wants to regain University recognition, but its leaders should be involved in meetings like that with Dean Elmore described.
Moreover, I think scrutiny should also be applied to GLO's not within the IFC/Panhellenic system. Personally, I have heard more hazing stories connected to those groups than the ones with campus-wide governing boards.


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