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Dodgers Show That Even in a Global COVID-19 Pandemic Revenge is a Dish Best Served with Some Chin Music
Earlier this week the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros faced off for the first time since the Astros were caught cheating with their hands in the proverbial trash can.
The cheating goes back to the 2017 season when the Dodgers lost to the Astros in the World Series. Looking back at those games, an argument can definitely be made that the Dodgers could have added another oversized World Series Ring to their plaza of honor at Dodger Stadium had it not been for a video camera, a bat, and a trash can.
With many people thinking that the Astros players got off way too easily in terms of punishment for their cheating, the 2020 season was expected to be a season long opportunity for players and fans who felt wronged by the Astros to show their displeasure.
As I noted a few months back, the fan-free season during COVID-19 made the Astros the biggest winners of 2020, since fans cannot boo them when they come to town. On can only imagine how loud a completely full Dodger Stadium would have been with fans booing in unison with every Astros at bat.
A year after being cheated out of their first World Series title in nearly 30 years, a lone trash can is seen in front of a mural commemorating the titles the Dodgers have won. It is quite possible that were it not for the sounds coming off of a trash can, the Los Angeles Dodgers would have a fresh coat of paint on the World Series title mural, as well as a new entry for 2017. Instead, they are left with wondering what might have been had the playing field been level.
While fans in Ballparks have been limited to cardboard representations, the players for the other teams are still free to enforce the unwritten rules of the game, which made the Astros versus Dodgers game must see TV.
After Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly threw a pitch in the area of the head of Alex Bregman, and later taunted Carlos Correa in the sixth inning in game one of a two game series, a good old-fashioned bench clearing brawl occurred.
For his part in the somewhat masked, but totally not socially distanced melee, Kelly was suspended for eight games by MLB. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts received a one-game suspension.
The Dodgers ended up with the last laugh as they won both games of the series by scores of 5-2 and 4-2, respectively.
While the Dodgers won the series, they also exposed the mismanagement of the cheating scandal by MLB. Yes, to be fair, three MLB managers lost their jobs due to ties to the scandal, and the Astros fired their General Manager. But many fans and players maintain that the punishment did not go far enough since former Astros skipper, A.J. Hinch, wasn't the one playing a trash can in the dugout like a bass drum to let hitters know what pitch was coming.
Just to make sure this point comes across, players who were caught cheating for an entire season were given zero suspensions for their actions, but a pitcher for the team that many argue was cheated out of the 2017 World Series title is given an eight-game suspension. To put that in perspective, eight games equates to around 13 percent of the shortened season. Kelly has appealed his suspension.
Jose Altuve, and his 2017 Astros teammates, were found by MLB to have benefited from an intricate cheating technique that involved a camera, a bat and a trash can. While the world will never know whether the cheating is why the Astros won the World Series, the world does know that none of the players were punished for their actions during that season. That fact, as a lot of fans and players from other teams mad enough to kick a trash can.
These truly are strange and mysterious times, and show that in many ways MLB is just making things up as they go along. More on that thought in a bit.
The rules for the 2020 season outlaw bench clearing brawls. However, writing something in a health manual, and actually following what is written, are two entirely different things; as demonstrated by the fact that the dugouts and bullpens emptied in a fan-free Ballpark.
Besides the benches clearing brawl, players have been breaking the guidelines involving walk off celebrations, and high fives among other things.
But while MLB seems quick to enforce the rules for what it sees as retaliation pitches, it is downplaying the wildfire of COVID-19 that is inching closer to bringing the 2020 season to a screeching halt.
The Miami Marlins were suspended for an entire week after a COVID-19 outbreak impacted nearly 20 players and staff, however the teams not impacted by games against the Marlins were left to continue to play ball. Of course, nothing happens in a vacuum.
The St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers became the latest teams to have games cancelled after two Cardinal players tested positive for COVID-19. The Cardinals and Brewers join the Marlins, Blue Jays, Phillies, Orioles, Nationals, and Yankees as teams who have had games either postponed or played with different opponents than scheduled.
That means that at the time of this writing, nearly a third of all MLB teams have been impacted by COVID-19.
In response to the growing list of games that will need to be rescheduled, MLB has decided that all doubleheaders will be 7-innings, instead of 9-innings, in order to cram as many games as possible into the schedule in their drive to crown a World Series Champion. Nothing like changing the rules of a season after the season has started.
While they are at it, why not just have all games decided by a home run derby? The Sugar Land Skeeters are using home run derbies to settle extra inning games in their four-team, fans in the stand independent baseball summer league.
If MLB needs to crown a champion in order to call the season a success, why bother with the games? Just line the teams up for a home run derby to decide who the best team is? After all, launch angles and the long ball seem to be all the rage these days.
I will take it a step further and say that a home run derby approach can even eliminate team travel. Just have retired pitchers travel to the Ballparks and throw batting practice to decide the games. Teams can choose from a selection of retired pitchers and the same pitcher has to pitch to both teams to make it fair.
Of course, with different ballparks having different outfield dimensions considerations will need to be made for how to assign a weight to each home run.
Maybe, teams can be reward style points for launch angle.
Prior to the start of the 2020 MLB season, Washington Nationals Pitcher Sean Doolittle, aka Obi-Sean Kenobi Doolittle on Twitter, weighed in on the wisdom of playing baseball in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The remarks below appeared in USA Today in early July, and are chilling when looked at through the lens of hindsight after a week of MLB action.
"We're trying to bring baseball back during a pandemic that's killed 130,000 people," said Doolittle. "We're way worse off as a country than where we were in March when we shut this thing down. And look at where other developed countries are and their response to this. We haven't done any of the things that other countries have done to bring sports back. Sports are like the reward of a functional society, and we're just like trying to bring it back even though we've taken none of the steps to flatten the curve or whatever you want to say. We did flatten the curve for a little bit, but we didn't use that time to do anything productive. We just opened back up for Memorial Day. We decided we're done with it.
"If there aren't sports, it's going to be because people are not wearing masks, because the response to this has been so politicized. We need help from the general public. If they want to watch baseball, please wear a mask, social distance, keep washing your hands. We can't just have virus fatigue and think, 'Well, it's been four months. We're over it. This has been enough time, right? We've waited long enough, shouldn't sports come back now?' No, there's things we have to do in order to bring this stuff back."
Since Doolittle made that statement in early July, the COVID-19 death toll in America has risen by 23,000 to over 153,000 dead and counting, with no signs of slowing down.
Sadly, there are those who will say, "But hey, at least two thirds of the MLB teams haven't missed any games yet, and the MLB has shown that it is going to come down hard on pitchers who throw at members of the trash can symphony club."
Yes, there are live sports to watch now, and the NCAA seems determined to ensure that college football returns in the fall despite us not acting anything like a functional society. Why worry about a global pandemic when there are sports to watch?
Sometimes, real life truly is stranger than fiction.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to see if my seeds from China arrived. As crazy as the world is getting, they may grow a magic bean stalk. But that is a story for another day.
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Genetic Legacy And Family History–Do We Really Want To Know?
Genealogy is among the most popular searches on the Internet. Americans have a renewed interest in discovering or validating their family history, and have recently turned to DNA markers for a more accurate identification of their ancestors.
Needless to say there are a lot of surprises. Any old, revered family, known for its rectitude, culture, and philanthropy will still have black sheep, ne'er-do-wells, brigands, and unsavory characters in its past; and despite decades if not centuries of a storied family history, new sophisticated search engines and genetic advances have opened the books. Most people go on the hunt in the hopes of turning up illustrious relatives – a First Family of Virginia, links to the Cabots and Lodges of Boston, the John Adams family; or even more importantly earls, dukes, viscounts, and courtiers of England – but most are disappointed. Not only do they have no ancestors of any note; but their family history is littered with the mentally-deficient, morally suspect, and unremarkable.
For some families the discovery of a mixed race ancestor is particularly troublesome. People who have all along believed that they have been descended from pure white, aristocratic and noble European families have a surprise coming.
There is the famous case of the French count whose forbears fought in the First Crusade may have married a marchioness but fathered children by a Haitian slave during his service to Napoleon. These mulattoes made their way to New Orleans, sired quadroons and octoroons, all of whom prospered. A young woman in Washington, DC had always stopped her genealogical research in France, satisfied with her direct link to the Rochefoucauld family. She was particularly impressed with the illustrious Francois VI de la Rochefoucauld and kept a portrait of him in her study.
When DNA searches turned up the New Orleans quadroons, she was shocked. The image of nobility, cultural renown, and historical importance was forever tarnished. Her ancient relative who went to Haiti pure and unsullied left the father of four illegitimate colored children – her direct ancestors. As much as she tried to trace other strands of the family, there was no escaping the conclusion that he was the one. Her spirits picked up after she read Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom – the story of Thomas Sutpen who left Virginia for Mississippi, cleared and farmed Sutpen's 100, and despite his intent to be a rich white American with a rich white family, he married a New Orleans octoroon whose son later comes to haunt him. At least she was not alone.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has generated a lot of interest thanks to his DNA charting of prominent black American families. Not surprisingly, most of these African Americans had a lot of white blood. So much, in fact, that if racial categorization were a function only of genetics, then they would more properly be called white rather than black. Some subjects were upset by the news, for they had staked their reputations on the black experience. Whether actors, musicians, or political activists, they had either embraced the Blues, Paul Robeson, or Josephine Baker; or made a career on attacking white privilege, white racism, and white exploitation. What did this DNA evidence do for their self-image?
A well-known lawyer recently discovered that he was descended from Virginia slave owners. A life-long progressive who had never wavered in his commitment to civil rights and black empowerment, he was shocked by the evidence. Not only was his not-so-distant relative a slave owner, but one of the biggest in Virginia. The fact that most wealthy Englishmen who had settled in the colonies bought up large tracts of fertile Tidewater land, planted tobacco, and made fortunes with slave labor made no difference to him. The bloodline he thought was pure American – that is the blood of New England Puritans and Virginia gentlemen – was no such thing.
Not surprisingly given his Southern lineage and the large family of the slave-owning ancestor, my friend found that he also had the blood of Confederate officers in his veins. Rather than be proud of these men who had trained at West Point with Grant and Sherman and gone on to be courageous and often brilliant soldiers, he wanted to expunge them from his family record.
A woman in the small New England town of New Brighton was proud of her family's history. She did not need to go back generations for the source of this pride – she neither claimed nor sought noble ancestry – but was satisfied with her parent's family and their parents'. Her grandfather and grandmother, great aunts and uncles and all the many sisters and brothers of her parents had all turned out well. They had been artists, bankers, scientists, and professors; and the cousins of her generation were all on the same track. Everyone married well, and all became respected members of their communities.
All but one. Cousin Robert Macklin Augur was a 'bad seed' as the old folks used to call irreparably antisocial offspring of the family. Bobby had pulled the wings off fireflies, tortured frogs, and hoed cats to death. He was insolent, disrespectful, and rude. He liked or loved no one, had a total disregard for church, community, or family; and as far as the family was concerned would end up dead or imprisoned before he made it out of his twenties.
As much as Bobby Augur shamed and discredited the entire family, his relatives were obsessed with only one thing. Where did this monster come from? Rumor had it that he was actually a bastard, born out of wedlock; and his parents for the sake of propriety, status, and repute kept the illegitimacy a secret. He couldn't possibly be their natural son.
Yet Mr. and Mrs. Augur were a model couple. Although they were both fit and attractive, never had either one of them been seen in even the occasion of sin. Of all couples in New Brighton, they would be the last to stray. The rumor, although entertaining and novelistic, soon died; and the mystery of Bobby's behavior, character, and personality remained.
Had the New Brighton matron had any interest in genealogy, she would have discovered Randall Theodore Parsons, a maternal ancestor of the Augurs who over 150 years ago had been hunted, jailed, and executed for horrific crimes in Massachusetts. The newspaper accounts of the day recorded a reign of terror throughout the Commonwealth while he was at large. No one would be safe, the articles said, until the miscreant was dangling from a rope.
It doesn't take much DNA to effect the course of family history. Mendel's laws were there for everyone to see; and despite the prominence of parents' genetic package, there is no accounting for the bits that come down the line from the likes of of Randall Parsons.
More and more, scientists are agreeing that genetics accounts for at least fifty percent of human appearance, behavior, intelligence, and personality; so those Augurs who had previously championed nurture over nature – i.e. Randy's genes were fine; it was his terrible infancy and childhood which had corrupted him – had to recant. He probably was indeed a bad seed.
Genealogy, therefore is a two-edged sword. For all the luminaries discovered in one's past, there are just as many misfits, layabouts, idiots, and deranged outcasts. Genetics is a crap shoot; and you take your chances.
"What's the point?", asked a colleague who said she had enough to deal with in her own immediate family rather than root around ancestry. Everyone is dealt a hand of genetic cards, she said, and all you can do is play them. In other words, searching for a pedigree or turning up nasty business is irrelevant. No amount of investigation into genetic antecedents is going to change Uncle Henry or Aunt Bernice.
Hawthorne was a big believer in family destiny, and wrote about it in both The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Old Hepzibah Pyncheon could never dismiss the legacy of the many generations of her house which her great ancestor Colonel Pyncheon had built. She cannot get over the similarity between her cousin, the Judge, and her original forbear; nor could she stop looking for past influence in the virginal, beautiful, childlike Phoebe. Destiny was painted in the portraits of the Pyncheon family which Hepzibah refused to take down.
There is a bit of both. There is no denying the persuasive influence of family, especially if it is one of importance, nobility, or renown; and there's no getting away from the nasty bits of DNA passed down through the centuries. Yet, the hometown wife was right. Play the cards you're dealt and be done with it. There's enough to worry about right here and now.
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This article explains the concept of Gamification in a practical way. After reading, you'll understand the basics of this powerful psychology and motivation tool.
Gamification is the use of elements from games and the implementation of playful methods in real-life situations to stimulate involvement, change or motivation in the user. Gamification is a neologism, a relatively new language element, which entered the context of computer software in 2008. However, it only became known and widespread after 2010. In Africa, for example, Gamification was applied by placing small toys in soaps. These toys only appeared after prolonged use of the soap. As a result, children were more likely to wash their hands, which resulted in fewer diseases and infections.
In business, Gamification is the process through which game theories, visualisations or methodology are used to improve business processes. Gamification is also used for marketing, sales and customer service, but if used with enough creativity, it can be applied almost anywhere within the company. The essence of Gamification is to control and change the use, natural instincts and behaviour of people.
In addition to social applications, companies also use Gamification in vying for customer loyalty. It's not surprising, therefore, that a number of companies have developed Gamification platforms. Companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Deloitte use Gamification in various applications and processes. In 2013, a Gamification event was held at the University of Waterloo Stratford. Will Wright, designer of the 1989 video game "Sim City", was the main speaker.
This motive or driver is about the belief that the user contributes to something larger than himself or is chosen to take action. An example of this is Wikipedia. Volunteers who update information on the site don't receive any reward or compensation, but they believe that what they do contributes to something greater that will help increase human knowledge.
One of the drivers of motivation is the desire to progress, develop skills and face challenges. Many Gamification systems focus on this motive, such as the ability to score points and compare them to other users' on scoreboards.
Creativity includes the desire to invent new things and try out different combinations. The results play an important role in people's motivation. Take the example of Lego. When something is designed well or beautifully, this makes the user happy and intrinsically motivated to design even more fun things.
This driver is about the user who owns something and wants to remain the owner of it. Asset accumulation plays an important role in this. An example of this is the purchase, maintenance, and customisation of an avatar in a particular system.
This driver includes all the social elements that motivate people in social contexts. This includes: mentorship, social acceptance, social involvement, company, competition and jealousy. A person can be motivated to do something due to the fact that a friend or colleague excels at a certain skill, and this person also wants to excel.
This driver is about wanting something that is not immediately available. Many games have implemented such a motivation technique where users are asked to return to the game within hours to claim a reward.
Unpredictability and involvement are closely related because the user doesn't know what will happen in the future. The curiosity that ensues makes the user more inclined to keep a close eye on developments. This is also one of the drivers behind a gambling addiction.
Avoidance is a motive that motivates people to prevent something negative from happening. Examples include marketing promotions with limited validity periods and speculative investments where a late entry may lead to the loss of a once in a lifetime opportunity. A commonly used term to describe this motive is 'the fear of missing out'.
In marketing, Gamification is known as Gamification Marketing, or Game Marketing. Starbucks, for example, makes use of this. Customers can check in at multiple locations and earn points in this way, which they can then exchange for discounts.
While Gamification can be used for business purposes, i.e., making a profit, it can also be used to alter people's routines with the goal of making them healthier. In Copenhagen, a staircase next to an escalator was equipped with piano keys. The result was that more people took the stairs, in order to play with the piano keys, which in turn encouraged movement. As mentioned earlier, in Africa, the use of toys in hand soap encouraged more frequent hand washing, which in turn raised awareness about hygiene.
Health and business can also go hand in hand, as evidenced by the huge increase in popularity of the game Pokémon Go. Users are encouraged to move about in order to collect Pokemon. One can clearly see how this game plays on one's drive for property and possession, as well as social influence and solidarity.
Gamification is also used in education. For example, the New York Department of Education, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, established a school called Quest to Learn. This school focuses on game-based learning with the aim of making learning more attractive to children.
Although Gamification can be an excellent tool in engaging customers and attracting their interest for a particular purpose, it is not without criticism. A frequent criticism of Gamification is its manipulative nature. Developers often research human psychology, but this is also the reason why many people also like gaming.
Another point of criticism is the extrinsic motivation that reinforces Gamification. If the only driving force behind the medium is a reward, to what extent will Gamification be effective in permanently changing routines and practices, in a positive sense, if the rewards are removed?
What do you think? Are you familiar with the explanation about Gamification? Do you recognise game elements in systems, apps or situations in everyday life? To what extent do you think that Gamification can be used to solve social problems?
Deterding, S., Sicart, M., Nacke, L., O'Hara, K., & Dixon, D. (2011, May). Gamification: using game-design elements in non-gaming contexts. In CHI'11 extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems (pp. 2425-2428). ACM.
Lucassen, G., & Jansen, S. (2014). Gamification in Consumer Marketing-Future or Fallacy?. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 148, 194-202.


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Renaissance of the Heart – Part 3
November had come and gone and December had slipped in unnoticed by the time I was due to go to Europe. It was an odd feeling. A huge task lay ahead when normally I was winding down, ready for the Christmas break. While I would usually be thinking of dusting down the sled, I was headed for one of Europe's most beautiful cities in all its autumnal glory.I sent a text to Elizabeth from the airport, a final call to keep her fingers crossed for the hurdles that were to follow. My only regret was that I couldn't take her with me. I could only imagine the wonderful time we could have together, but we both knew it wasn't a vacation. The 'sale' of the painting had got her out of the immediate threat of bankruptcy and a holiday now would only pile on a profligacy that we could ill afford. I needed to be focused on the task in hand. If I took in some culture along the way, then that would be my reward for a little dedication to my art.It had occurred to me some time back that I might be challenged over my taking the painting on the plane. It wasn't exactly big, but with the wrapping it was the size of a decent pizza. I made representations to the Chamber of Commerce and with a little smooth talking got them to issue a waiver. I was fearful of what might occur if it went in the hold, and I had visions of someone's suitcase cutting it in two. This way, I had the necessary documentation, which said it was 'valuable merchandise' and needed to be hand luggage. If I didn't have enough bridges to cross, stumbling over bureaucracy was something I could do without, but at least the painting would only have to make the journey twice.I can't say that I relish flying. It's a necessity but I do get the jitters from time to time. I was just happy that it wasn't a long-haul. The flight to southern Italy takes the scenic route, crossing the snow-capped mountains of the Alps and the lake district of Switzerland. I had taken first class for that little extra comfort and because I could afford it. After breaking through the clouds, I was up and away, relaxing in my reclining chair, a glass of wine on my tray and a tub of Pringles on my lap.The wine and the gentle hum of the engines had a soporific effect. I hadn't slept well the night before. I never can when something's going to happen and I nodded off, occasionally experiencing momentary periods of wakefulness as a little turbulence rocked the plane.I wasn't entirely surprised to be the only passenger in first class but I was surprised by the Stewardess. As far as I knew Elizabeth was in telesales, so what was she doing working on a plane? I watched as she trundled the drinks trolley up to my seat, her uniform snugly accentuating her hourglass figure. Her skirt seemed to be a size too small, so that her panties bit into her bum cheeks."Would you like something else, Madam?" she asked."Eh? Elizabeth?""I'm your sexy stewardess for the flight. Would you like a little massage?""Won't the Captain mind?" I asked."The Captain's flying the plane, Cindy. What he doesn't know, eh?" Elizabeth winked and licked her lips."I'll have a glass of Champagne then please. And a punnet of strawberries, like in that film with Julia Roberts.""I'll give you more than strawberries, Cindy. You can have my lips if you like."Elizabeth removed her stewardess's cap and shook her hair, allowing it to flow naturally over her shoulders like a waterfall of silk. She stood in front of my seat and gave me one of her smouldering looks, her brown eyes giving me a little rash of goose bumps and a tingle down my spine. I dipped a strawberry into my Champagne and sucked the sparkling wine through the tender flesh of the fruit as she undid the buttons on her top. I lay back in my seat as she planted a knee between my legs and then she looked into my eyes, as if she was reading my thoughts. I pulled her towards me, my right hand caressing her breasts through her top as my other hand ran around the smooth outline of her sweet derriere"Yes?" she said, sweetly."I…" Before I could speak she planted a kiss on my lips. It was a kiss like honey on my lips – her tongue making little darts into my mouth. I opened my legs and bursa escort lifted a knee, my thin skirt riding along my thigh as I pressed my tongue into her mouth. I could feel her fingers popping open the buttons on my blouse. I began to draw down the zip on her skirt, easing the material over her hips until I could feel the smooth flesh of her bum under my fingers. I was so wet, so aching for her tongue and her fingers…I woke up with a start. The seat belt sign was illuminated and the tone of the engines indicated our descent. I looked out of my porthole and the countryside was close enough to make out roads and individual fields in a patchwork of greens and browns. I was aching after the dream, my heart beating hard and in need of some love and affection.***************Italy was everything I had imagined. I wasn't one for winter holidays, but the sunshine in Rome was like a cuddle for the soul.After going through the formalities at the airport and checking in at my hotel, I made it a point of getting my bearings before I ventured farther. The immediate vicinity was a confusing criss-cross of streets, where everywhere looked the same. It wasn't until I got onto the main thoroughfare that a meaningful landmark appeared. I was very close to both St. John's Basilica and the Coliseum. It was as if the latter had been lowered randomly into the middle of an intersection and occupied a space, where every square metre was being competed for by a pillar or an archway. It was hard to believe that there could be so much archaeology in one place. Ancient, crumbling ruins competing for space among mediaeval buildings; museums on the corners of quaint little tree-lined avenues. It was beautiful and humbling.My first mission was to check out the place on the letter, which had accompanied the painting. Try as I might I hadn't manage to track it down, so I decided to head for the Tourist Information Centre, hoping someone there would know. I could see from my map that it was only a couple of blocks away but involved the traversing of a couple of arterial roads. Crossing main roads was a nightmare, there being no point to the zebra crossings as far as I could tell. At one place I actually took a longer route to avoid getting mown down by the traffic. The alternative involved my walking through a park, where there was a pond and a few quacking ducks and a forlorn-looking summer house. I could have lingered there, but I began to feel guilty having no bread and walked on, trampling the piles of leaves under foot.After my detour, I reached the second main road but failed to see a way of navigating my way round. Crossing a busy road, with 200 motor cars bearing down on you in a foreign city was intimidating. Watching a couple of fellow pedestrians narrowly miss a serious accident wasn't encouraging. I was about to summon up the courage to cross during a slightly less treacherous period when a couple of nuns breezed by and proceeded to cross, causing the traffic to halt. I followed them, in the wake of their holy protection, and arrived at the other side in one piece.I reached a river and dropped down, taking some steps to the bank where the autumn leaves had been blown into little brown piles and were now being scattered randomly in the breeze. The Tourist Centre was set back, above the east bank of the river. After involving a couple of the members of staff, they were unable to locate my street. I retraced my steps and, in trying to avoid the main road, got hopelessly lost. I consulted my map and somehow oriented my way back to my hotel via a completely different route.My first big appointment loomed and, taking no chances, I got the hotel to call me a taxi. The painting under my arm, I instructed the driver to take me to the National Institute of Art. It was a huge gothic affair, along a street with other important looking buildings, with the Italian flag waving above each entrance.I entered through the heavy front door and entered the cool, stone entrance where a guy in a kind of uniform greeted me at the desk. He raised his cap, revealing his slick, black hair."Buongiorno, signorina! Come posso bursa escort bayan essere di aiuto?""Oh. Ummm do you speak English?""A little bit. How may I help you, please?""I'm looking for Elanora di Rosso.""Certamente! Second floor, is from the first door and is on the left.""On the left?""Si signorina. Her name is on the door.""Multo gratzie!" I said in what little Italian I had.Inside, the institute was an odd mish mash of sterile rooms in a crusty edifice, with age worn paintings and old wedding cake ceilings. On the second floor I emerged in one such area, which had a modern appearance, with blank white walls and little stain glass windows at the top of the stair well. It was as if you were constantly reminded that you were in Rome. No matter how advanced the science was, you were nudged in the ribs by culture.I picked my way along the corridor, noseying through the little, fire-proof windows where white-coated workers were looking through microscopes and using all sorts of cutting edge instruments. At last I arrived at the door marked Dr E di Rosso. I knocked once and entered cautiously. A slim, attractive dark-haired woman of thirty or so looked up from a book that she was reading."Cindy Lucina?""Yes. That's me!""You're younger than I had imagined," she said, offering her hand.Elanora had long auburn hair, tied in a ponytail. She had a light Mediterranean complexion with sharply defined features, which were relieved by a pair of rimless silver spectacles. They were perched on an aquiline nose that made her look alert and intelligent."You have something for me?" she said. She spoke perfect English through a thick Italian accent."Yes, it's here. It's hardly left my side for two weeks.""We will take care of it. Don't worry.""Thank you, it means so much to me for you to do this.""You know the odds against it being a Michelangelo…""Are a million to one, yes. But when you see…""I'm not an expert in art, but I hope for you that is one."I unwrapped the painting and placed it on the heavy wooden table where she was working. She raised her glasses and looked at it closely."It is a remarkable painting. It is beautifully painted.""When will you begin the tests?" I asked inquisitively."The carbon dating will begin tomorrow. And then we will see.""What's the accuracy of the test?""If it's an uncompromised sample, then for the last half millenium, about one hundred years.""Uncompromised?""Yes, if there are more recent sources of cross contamination or much older elementals, it can give a false reading.""Oh!""But we will take a sample from behind the frame and it's prepared specially The preparation is the hard part, the test is an hour. Don't worry Cindy, we'll get a good sample, I'm sure. If it's something that's been buried in the ground – well that's tricky.""There's a painting just like this one in the Sistine Chapel. That one is a Michelangelo.""Well, the subject was very popular during the Renaiassance."Elanora listened as I enthused over my confidence in the painting and then I remembered the letter. Maybe she would be able to throw a little light on the address."Elanora, I have something to ask you. About a street in Rome…""Go ahead."I pulled the letter out of my pocket and read the address."Via Azzo Gardino. Do you know where that is?"Elanora looked blank and shook her head."I've never heard of it, but Rome is a big place.""I know. It's not on my map.""Ah, that means nothing. I will check the directory. May I ask the relevance of Via Azzo Gardino?"Elanora's pronunciation of the name, her stress of the syllables made me smile. Her speaking voice was as near as one gets to singing as I had heard."Apparently it was in a sale there, in 1934," I confirmed. "I thought if I could trace the records for that sale, it would add to the provenance. Maybe it had an attribution."Elanora ran her finger down the large green-covered A to Z. She looked up at me and held out her hand."Let me see the letter.""Hmmm… it's odd there is no street with this name in Rome.""There must be!""Okay, let's not give up, but some would say using Google is a last resort, but we will do it."Elanora escort bursa tapped at the keyboard of her laptop as I waited impatiently."Ah!""What?!""Oh. No. I can only see one Via Azzo Gardino and it's in Bologna. Maybe the sale was there?""No, Elizabeth's great uncle was in Rome. The sale was in Rome, I'm certain of that.""Well, I don't know what to say, it's not in the directory, which is very unusual. Anyway, you can leave the painting with us.""Thank you, Elanora. I appreciate it.""That's okay. Oh by the way, if you're interested, I'm playing in a little recital tonight, if you want to come. A few friends and I are playing some Vivaldi and Scarlatti.""Domenico or Allesandro?" I asked."Oh! so you are a lover of the music? Allesandro, we are playing. I will give you the address, there is a bar and we have a little following. The atmosphere is good.""I wouldn't miss it for the world, thank you!"I left Elanora to her work and headed back into the centre of Rome for a coffee, relieved that I had set the ball rolling but feeling more than a little trepidation. Drawing a blank on the earlier sale was a bit of a blow. A text to Elizabeth confirmed what I already knew, that the sale was in Rome, without doubt. Maybe this Vincenzo had written down the wrong street, though that didn't seem particularly plausible.I picked my way back to my hotel, now recognizing certain features, which enabled me to build a good mental map of the city. The opportunities to linger around places of interest and beauty were endless. Entrance fees to places were very reasonable. I passed an hour or three wandering around a huge museum that consisted of statues of various Roman Gods. There was Neptune and his trident, Mercury with his winged hat and the boss of them all – Jupiter, who posed reclining, with one finger pointing into the distance, no doubt summoning a bolt of lightning. I was struck by the fact that these and other notable characters like Hercules were sculpted with very small genitalia. Maybe some kind of antiquarian political correctness forbade a realistic anatomical likeness. Who knows?There seemed to be something to look at on every corner. There was a museum, which was full of every kind of musical instrument from primitive pianos and lutes to guitars and trombones. There were inviting little restaurants and cafes, which I made mental notes of, though I hardly could guarantee to pass the same way twice with the network of streets and alleyways.As arresting and absorbing as it was, I was missing Elizabeth and couldn't help think how much more I would have enjoyed it, in her company. It was all the more frustrating now that the painting was out of my hands. All I could do was wait.The evening brought both entertainment and an encouraging development. I took a taxi to the address that Elanora gave me. It was in a kind of wine bar that was attached to an old hall that had polished floors and intricately carved wooden gargoyles around the interior. She was just tuning up as a few people were arranging chairs and others were mingling at the bar. Elanora came towards me with a look on her face that said she had something important to say."Cindy! I'm pleased you could make it. I'll introduce you to the others in a second. Anyway I have some news!""What is it?""My friend Giuseppe is a cartographer at the La Comune di Roma and he did some digging. It turns out Via Azzo Gardino changed in 1960 when they did some restructuring of some crumbled buildings. For some reason it was renamed Via dei Greci and the auction house is still there!""Wow! Thank you so much. I'll go there in the morning!""No worries. And they open at ten."I ordered a white wine and blackcurrant before taking a seat as Elanora and her cohorts struck up a series of Baroque numbers. The acoustics in the hall were amazing. The bouncy, vivacious cords of the harpsichord morphed into the dancing notes of the violins and cello. It was beautiful and relaxing. I was enchanted by the music and totally impressed by how talented Elanora was, having both scientific and artistic leanings.Afterwards I was introduced to two of Elanora's closest friends, including Mima. Mima was a petite and cute mousy-haired girl of 21 or so. She had a distinctly impish smile and sparkling blue-green eyes. She was lovely in every way and seemed to take an immediate fancy to me. She was dressed in a brown suede jacket and black leather skirt.
Dating Kelly Part III-Parents out of Town Part 1


Emma Hill, creative director of Mulberry, started 2012 in Tulum, Mexico. "The most sublime place to unwind... It has endless beaches that stretch for miles and miles." The picture shows Mayan ruins overlooking Tulum's coast.


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Geology Lab for Kids Book Review
July 20, 2017 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment
My middle daughter loves rocks. She's said she wants to be a geologist for as long as I can remember
Geology Lab for Kids: 52 Projects to Explore Rocks, Gems, Geodes, Crystals, Fossils, and Other Wonders of the Earth's Surface by Garret Romaine is an amazing book with fun projects to learn about geology!
Geology Lab for Kids is a great introduction to all things geology!
The book includes twelve units with an introduction, a section on Identifying Rocks and Minerals, and a Resource List. At the beginning of each unit, there are jokes, stories, and information about the topic. Each unit has between three and six labs to reinforce the learning topic.
Geology Lab for Kids offers 52 simple, inexpensive, and fun experiments that explore the earth's surface, structure, and processes. Learn about the wonders of geology: the formation of crystals and fossils, the layers of the earth's crust, and the eruption of geysers and volcanoes. Readers will learn about how crystals form; how insects are trapped and preserved in amber; how water shapes mountains, valleys, and canyons; how a volcano forms and erupts; how a geyser uses heat beneath the earth's surface; and more.
Garret Romaine is an award-winning journalist and technical writer hailing from Portland, Oregon. His grandfather, Harold Banta, was an attorney in Baker, Oregon specializing in mining law, and his grandmother Floy ran a rock shop in Baker. As a boy, Garret visited many collecting areas, mines, and ghost towns in the Baker area, and was hooked for life on field work. He earned a geology degree from the University of Oregon, studying under stalwarts such as Dr. Ewart Baldwin, Dr. William Orr, and Dr. Allan Kays, and followed that up with a master's degree in geography at the University of Washington and an MBA from Portland State.
Garret has written for multiple publications in the Portland area, and has managed technical writing teams for several technology companies. He has taught technical writing at Portland State since 1997, and serves on the board of directors for the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals and the North America Research Group, devoted to fossil hunting.
Garret authored a regular column entitled "Mining the Internet" for the Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA). He has written features, product reviews, personal interviews, field reports, and research compilations for many locales across the west. He wrote Gem Trails of Washington, updated Gem Trails of Oregon, and wrote Rockhounding Idaho. He has also written a series of rock & gem identification books, plus handbooks for rockhounds and prospectors. He has written gold panning guides for the Pacific Northwest and California, and is working on Colorado next.
We looked through the book and found a couple fun projects to try.
Most of the ingredients are household items. Color photos illustrate the project and the geology term it represents.
Tori had her heart set on making crystal geodes and we attempted that, after trying to remember three different times to buy superglue! It's at least a two-day project, so we'll see if crystals form in a couple days.
We made lava cakes for dessert.
Those were a big hit!
We learned about lava flow and brittle crust.
We love the simple but information labs to learn about geology. This will be a book in our science repertoire for years to come!
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In this example, we do a single division of infinite space. With this division, we create a solid object called halfspace. So, let's try to define the object using x, x, x.
Let's try the following halfspace program and polygonize with hfp.
So, x is the location on the x axis dividing infinite space in the yz plane. So, x is the location on the y axis dividing infinite spcae in the xz plane. So, x is the location on the z axis dividing infinite space in the xy pane. For example, x + 5 or x - 5 moves the location of the yz plane - or + 5 on the x axis respectively.
How can we know what is the inside and the outside of the halfspace solid object? We can not understand from viewing the image, because in this object, we only see one plane. We can know the inside and the outside of the halfspace solid object by revealing the normal vectors (normals) of the polygonized surface of the plane (see Change the display mode of an object). You may reveal the normals by selecting the seventh choice of the "Display Mode" in the "View" menu. Normal vectors are perpendicular vectors to the outside of an object.
Let's try to consider +/-y >= 0, +/-z >= 0.
Let's try to write xyz >= 0 in HyperFun.
Let's try to write 100 - x^2*y^2 - y^2*z^2 - z^2*x^2 >= 0 in HyperFun.
Let's try to write other equations variously.


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Stale Cake
Posted on August 10, 2016 August 10, 2016 by Genna Rivieccio	Posted in Short StoryTagged fiction, genna rivieccio, literary bitch, literature, Stale Cake
The last thing Aurora wanted to serve Broderick was stale cake for his birthday. She had intentions of greeting him with a fluffy chocolate mousse confection that would make his eyes wide and his mouth water. He loved sweet things, like all men who could be bought with aesthetics. Aurora had secretly gotten two liposuctions and five injection procedures alone during their two and a half year stint together. She knew he was susceptible to wander (more mentally than physically, which is often worse) if things weren't a certain way–not perfect, but close to it.
That he assumed Aurora naturally looked as thin, plucked and stuffed as she had become over their time together was a testament to just how in denial he was about reality. The only time he ever remarked on her appearance was if he disliked something about it. "Is that dress from a thrift store–or just, like, old?"
"Neither, why?"
"It looks threadbare, are you really going into work like that?"
"It's a linen cotton blend, it's just thin," Aurora would defend. She worked as a florist's assistant in Sunset Park, and walked there each day while Broderick worked on a graphic novel tentatively titled The Raging Narcissist. He had been "finishing up" on it since before Aurora even met him. But still, Broderick was not without his charming points. He could cook an orgasm-inducing Bolognese pasta and, more importantly, he could induce an orgasm with his mouth that was unlike any Aurora had ever experienced. Funny how food and sex can be so influential in our decision-making processes. In any case, it was in these moments of ecstasy that Aurora felt it was worth it to endure some of Broderick's more unfavorable characteristics: surliness, ingratitude, etc.
For the second time Aurora would be celebrating his birthday since knowing him, she wanted to exceed what she had done last year, which was shlep all the way to the Coney Island Carvel to pick up a custom image cake with a childhood photo of him on it because, for some reason, the Financial District location was closed for renovations that particular mid-June week. She carefully secured a "hot bag" a.k.a. the thing pizza delivery men (rarely women) use to transport the goods without showing up to present a cold pie. Because of its insularity, it would keep Aurora's prized ice cream cake cold for the long Q train journey back. But alas, it turned out to be a stalled N train journey that left Aurora panicked over the East Coast delicacy's potential melting from so much time spent out of the freezer.
When the train finally arrived at 36th Street, Aurora sprinted with the careful control of a cheetah back to their apartment. She knew Broderick would be out with his mother, Pauline, in the city, who relished taking him shopping in SoHo for "special occasions" that tended to include just about any event: Labor Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July–whenever she made the trek from South Jersey to visit. It was in this and many other ways that Broderick was never permitted full access to adulthood. He couldn't even buy his own clothes; and it wasn't just because he didn't want to spend his money on them, but because he had no concrete style with which to express a sartorial opinion. But for now, Aurora was grateful for Pauline's overzealous mothering as it meant she could safely stash the cake.
Glancing at the inside of the box to make sure everything was still intact, Aurora looked at Broderick's eyes as reflected in the image of the cake. They seemed colder to her than she remembered; though she had seen many a childhood photo of Broderick in the past, this particular one harbored an essence that suddenly came across as altogether sinister. The sound of the door unlocking shocked her out of her contemplation, and she slammed the freezer door shut just as Pauline entered the room with two handfuls of shopping bags. Mercifully, her bombast was distracting enough to keep Broderick from suspecting any "funny business" on Aurora's part. Or maybe he was too wrapped up in himself to notice either way.
"Aurora, can you take these and put them in Broderick's closet?" She handed Aurora the shopping bags and then discretely slipped her a small box, whispering, "This is for you to give to Broderick."
Pauline had often made Aurora feel uncomfortable about the way she treated her only son, as though she should be doing more to cater to him. Aurora assumed this present Pauline had bought so that Aurora could give it to him under the pretense of having purchased it herself was just another successful attempt at a subtle undermine. Ignoring the pressures of overbearing matriarchy as best as she could, Aurora retreated into the bedroom to stash the supply. All the while, Broderick had barely said a word to her. Had they always been this passionless toward one another?
She arranged his shirts in their proper place in the closet, bristling when she heard Broderick come up behind her. He slid his hands up her shirt and squeezed her breasts. "Is everything ready for tonight?"
"Of course. You think I'm a novice at party-throwing?"
He removed his hands from her and pecked her on the cheek. "You're the best, Aurora."
It was these brief instances of encouragement and appreciation that always reeled Aurora back in, kept her latent doubts about Broderick at bay. But before she could fully wash in the moment, Broderick had flitted back to his mother like a hummingbird to another flower.
The events of that night went off without a hitch, though Broderick would later complain that Aurora had gotten too drunk and everyone could tell. Other than that, however, there was no other stain Broderick, or even Pauline, could besmirch the party with.
This year, with Pauline detained in New Jersey after dealing with the details relating to the death of her half-sister, Aurora was determined to make Broderick's birthday better and more memorable than the last through an unapologetic dose of intimacy. She had planned a night "in" for them. He was turning thirty-one, a "quiet year" in terms of celebration. Broderick, who had been frustrated by the challenges of his "work," of late, had agreed to do whatever Aurora suggested. As Aurora cleaned up the apartment, she thumbed through the pages of The Maniacal Egoist, the latest title of his graphic novel. From what she could tell, no new illustrations or plot points had been added since the last time she had glanced at it months ago. What had he been doing all this time, she wondered. Ruminating? Masturbating? Both simultaneously?
Before she could over examine it, the timer in the kitchen dinged. Her cake was ready. Or rather, his. She opened the door to the oven to find that the cake was as fluffily pristine as she had envisioned it to be while going through the motions of the recipe. She put on an oven mitt, one of the only ones they had designed to look like a gingerbread man, and pulled the rectangular pan out.
With the delicate dent of a fork, Aurora watched the steam rise out of the center of the cake like some sort of sensual volcano. This was going to be Broderick's kryptonite, the taste that would melt the icy barrier that had recently formed around his heart. Though she secretly hated herself for continuing to believe in the 50s proverb, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach," she knew it was true.
Broderick entered the room and brought with him the black cloud he had been carrying around outside. He sat down at the table and said in a surly tone, "So what's for my birthday dinner?"
It was then Aurora knew she would not serve him the cake. This cake was what the gods would want to feast from when they asked for a sacrifice. This cake could cure cancer. This cake, in short, was too wonderful to be consumed by someone who loved his mother with Norman Bates-esque creepiness, made derisive comments about her wardrobe and painted narcissists as superheros. She would instead endure the river of criticism that would come her way upon telling him that she burned the cake, it was inedible.
It takes but one millisecond to have an epiphany, and about a day to revert back to remembering why a pre-enlightened state was preferable. Thus, in the morning, when Aurora went to the kitchen to make coffee, she couldn't help but fish through the depths of the trash where she had shoved and hidden the cake at the bottom. Pulling it out in fragments and feeling its ruined texture, she assembled it back together and set one piece on the fanciest plate they had, a white earthenware one with ornate floral-inspired designs along the rim. She placed it on the table and poured two cups of coffee, picking up her own and taking a sip from it as she leaned against the counter and waited for Broderick to emerge.
Groggily, and within minutes, he did.
"I wanted to apologize and make up for not having a dessert for you last night. It was your birthday and I should have made it perfect."
For the first time since she could remember, Broderick smiled. "That's so sweet Aurora."
He took his seat in front of the cake and excitedly delved into it with the fork Aurora had provided next to the plate. His brief enthusiasm melted into manic depression after biting into it.
"It's stale."
"Just like this relationship."
The Replacement
Fly Trap Homosexuelle


There's something quite beautiful about the fact that almost any old dresser can be turned into your own personal work of art. They're essentially a blank canvas waiting for an inspired transformation. Often, the hardest part is seeing beyond the chipped paint and missing hardware to where you can take that thing. Whether it's plain or fancy, painted or stained, here are 10 statement making dresser makeovers to inspire (well, only nine fit in my collage so you'll have to read on through to see the tenth one).
Re-doing a flea market dresser (or a plain white Ikea number, as pictured) doesn't have to be a time-sucking drag. If you've got two measly hours and a few feet of interestingly patterned wallpaper, you're halfway there.
Did you know that you can use everyone's favorite decoupage medium to screen print? Yup. And it seems pretty easy too. Mod Podge Amy gives us all the deets as well as a list of supplies to get started.


I thought Kathryn McKenzie's article on death with dignity (A Good Day to Die) was spot on. It captured the benefits and the shortfalls of this new law, especially the anxiety and waiting involved with finding a physician willing to help. The people who really fall through the cracks are patients with Alzheimer's. By the time their disease has progressed, they cannot express their will.
My mother was a vocal proponent of the right to die on one's own terms. She was a member of the Hemlock Society and was very clear that she did not want to linger after life held no quality for her. However, linger she did, and we did our best to make her last months as comfortable and loving as possible. Instead of a last act of personal agency, the disease made the decision when to let her go. This article raised a lot of good questions. Thank you for sharing the story.


'Dear H' by Diane Guntrip is a children's book written in diary form. It follows the story of 12-year-old Amanda as she endures bullying due to her weight and appearance. On top of the bullying, Amanda just doesn't feel like she can confide in her parents. She writes to her imaginary friend 'H' to help her cope with her insecurities and the relentless bullies at her school, the worst of which is a girl named Cassandra who will not let Amanda forget how 'fat and frumpy' she is. However, she might have just one trick up her sleeve to make the bullying stop. You'll have to read this book to see what that trick might be.
This is an amazing book with a great lesson. Amanda is a character that many children and young teens could relate to, especially if they have experienced bullying. This book teaches what some of the effects of bullying can be. I love that it does this in a light-hearted way that isn't too serious for such a young group of readers. Even though it is light-hearted, you really can't miss the message because it is coming straight from the character who is being bullied. Bullying is a very relevant topic in society today, especially for those close to Amanda's age, and this book did a great job bringing the problem to light.
The style of writing sounded just like a 12 year old girl who is confiding in her diary. It is very believable, and I found myself hanging on every word. Amanda was dramatic at times and vulnerable at others, and she reminded me quite a bit of myself at that age (frumpiness included). There were even a few parts I found myself laughing at. This inclusion of humour really broke up the seriousness of the book, which I think is important since it is intended for a young audience. As a whole, I think it is perfectly written for that audience.
'Diane Guntrip's first novel Dear H is written in diary form by the main character, 12 year old Amanda. She is an overweight, bullied and depressed girl plagued with self doubts and hatred.
Her diary covers a period of approximately 18 months where her life changes dramatically. After the miseries of being bullied verbally and by text messages from Cassandra and her gang of girls, Amanda manages to forge strong bonds with her grandmother. The turning point in her life occurs when her grandmother buys Amanda singing lessons for her 13th birthday. When Amanda wins a singing scholarship at a distant boarding school, her parents realise that they have been far too self absorbed with their own busy lives and hobbies. Neither knew of their daughter's victimization at school.
Written wholly in diary form with a print style resembling handwriting, this novel should be read by all parents of young teenage girls as well as the children themselves. It effectively portrays Amanda's fears, panic attacks and later her triumphs.
Diane has drawn on her considerable experience in teaching primary school children to realistically convey the agonies of an isolated and bullied teenage girl. With just 185 pages, this novel is easy to read and engages the reader throughout the process of reading it.
'This was a delightful book that explores a teen's struggle with low self-esteem, bullying and being over weight. She finds her way to a better self via two keys to adolescent well-being - a 'lighthouse' and finding a spark. Quietly inspirational and empowering.
'A must read for every teenage girl who is being bullied. Loved the book, written with feeling about the problems of bullying.
'Absolutely brilliant! A book well overdue!
'I didn't read the first book, 'Dear H', but found I could read this and pick up the gist of the first story.
"Bullying as a social issue and injustice in homes, schools and workplaces is a topic that piques the interest and attention of children and adults all over the world.
Diane's sequel to 'Dear H' - 'The Daisy Chain' was a beautiful read and clever exploration of the internal and external repercussions of bullying. Using the concept of developing a bullying support group to explore the long term psychological scars of bullying, Diane explores the complexities of the wounded internal voice driving self-protective behaviours in various characters. Whilst some, like Amanda, find healthy ways to understand and restore themselves after serious bullying, others have less well adapted behaviours that result in long term life fall out - like unwanted teen pregnancy, self harm and mental illness.
I loved that Diane kept the narrative real and true to the ramifications of bullying. Is it always comfortable reading? No - but that is exactly why this wonderful novel should be on the reading list for all our young teens. Bullying has a serious impact on those who have experienced it, for their families and their friends. It is a daily reality for some children and at some point in life, it will be the reality for almost everyone.
Knowing that building a strong support network is part of a solution is the greatest learning that Diane's novel imparts. Overcoming the shame, the isolation and the lingering psychological scars requires reaching out and developing a strong and supportive safety net of people.
Diane, congratulations on an engaging, deep, confronting, warm novel that does the difficulties associated with bullying justice. You have remarkable insight and have captured it so beautifully in 'The Daisy Chain'. It is certainly a worthy read that I would recommend - in fact, encourage. Thank you for sharing with me - I eagerly anticipate the sequel."
'Diane Guntrip's second novel, The Daisy Chain' is written in diary form. The main character, Amanda, is a 14 year old teenage girl who boards at St Celia's Academy of Music. She keeps a diary of the major events of her life by writing to an imaginary friend Dear H. With a very readable style the novel is a sequel to 'Dear H' which explored Amanda's problems when she was bullied at primary school.
Teenage pregnancy, bullying, pressures with school work as well as the stresses of being away from parents are all topics which are addressed in this novel. Several students form an anti-bullying support group called the Daisy Chain. Clear guidelines are given to readers as to how to combat bullying if they are exposed to this. Much of this novel could be used as discussion points for students experiencing bullying at home or online.


Chicken in Red Wine Sauce - ChisMAX!
When I came across this recipe, it originally called for a full cup of sugar which I thought would make it way too sweet. I figured the purpose of the sugar was to create the glaze but I cut it back to just one tablespoon anyway. I am very happy with the result but you may want to experiment with more sugar.
Heat oil in a large skillet over a medium high heat.
Pour red wine around chicken.
Cover, and simmer about 15 to 20 minutes; lightly baste chicken with wine sauce while cooking.


Description: New in bag Nighthawk Custom Agent 2 chambered in .45 ACP. Meticulously crafted and designed down to the last detail, the Nighthawk Agent 2 is the next evolution of collaboration between Nighthawk Custom, Agency Arms, Railscales, and Hillbilly 223. Utilizing the "One Gun, One Gunsmith" approach, Nighthawk has taken the 1911 platform to an all-new level of innovation with the same hand-crafted quality and beauty, synonymous with Nighthawk Custom.
The Agent 2 was designed to push the boundaries of what is possible with the 1911 in both form and function. Combining gunsmith craftsmanship with modern machining techniques, the resulting pistol speaks for itself.


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The 1913 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the fifth staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board.

Redmonds won the championship following a 5-3 to 1-0 defeat of Cloyne in the final.

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Zynga Announces FarmVille 2, Zynga With Friends, and The Ville
Published on July 31, 2012, by Lindsey Weedston - Posted in General News 0
The makers of the Facebook phenomenon FarmVille have been busy of late, perhaps because its stock price began to flounder back in April. The results arrive today, as they have revealed three new titles – each more social than the last.
FarmVille 2 will be stampeding onto Facebook over three years after the original was released, complete with a totally revamped engine and more detailed, rotating 3D graphics. The gameplay and social aspects will also be improved, according to Zynga's chief technology officer Cadir Lee. "The game also has more social elements and a lot more crafting: the crops that you harvest are what you use in the game to make things which you then use to make other things, like on a natural farm," says Lee.
In addition to this, Zynga has announced its own social network: Zynga With Friends. Zynga's social network will focus on gaming and multi-platform access, being available through Facebook, Google+, iOS, or Android. The developer has also come up with its own API, allowing others to adapt their own games to Zynga With Friends. Majesco, Konami, and Atari have already signed up, among others. Members of the network will enjoy such features as activity feeds, a sparkly new chat interface, and multiplayer leaderboards.
Just in case that wasn't enough to wow shareholders, Zynga has also announced The Ville. This game, based on Yoville, is speculated to be the company's "most social game to-date." Players of this title may be reminded of The Sims as they build a home for themselves and use it to host parties for their friends, all to build up their "happiness meter." Some people might also be interested in the fact that The Ville will feature virtual sex. Apparently, once two players become very good friends, they will begin to undress and little hearts will appear over the bed.
According to the Facebook page, FarmVille 2 is coming "soon," while The Ville appears to be coming very soon, and Zynga With Friends is already up and running.
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Round 1 of the ARA National Championship
Salem, Steelville, & Potosi Missouri
2019 Countdown
Supplementary Regulations
What is Rally?
Press Release: Local manufacturer sponsors the service park
St. Louis, MO (February 18, 2013)
Contact: Mark Huebbe
Organization: 100 Acre Wood Performance Rally Group
Email: mark@null100aw.org
Website: www.100aw.org
Ace Manufacturing, a clutch manufacturer based in Sullivan Missouri, is proud to announce that it will sponsor the service park for the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood. Ace will have a booth at both service parks in Salem and Steelville to display their line of clutches designed specifically for competition vehicles.
Ace Manufacturing and Parts Company is a family owned company that has been in business for over 45 years and is known in the industry as an innovative leader in clutch technology. Ace offers clutches for high performance street cars, drag racing, circle track, truck and tractor pull, diesel pickup trucks, heavy duty over the road hauling, and many other applications.
For rally car applications, Ace pulls from the wealth of technology and experience gained from 20 years of making racing clutches for professional drag racers and circle track racers worldwide. The new line of rally car clutches are designed utilizing a one‐piece billet aluminum cover with a unique profile. This design provides superior strength, and a lower polar moment of inertia for faster acceleration and more power to the wheels. Ace also offers a complete line of discs, floaters, and clutch accessories that will help get drivers to the finish line first.
Ace is the only clutch manufacturer that also produces its own proprietary friction materials in house. Along with superior friction materials, Ace's O.E. style discs are also made with patented cryogenically processed springs that ensure durability and longevity. Ace Manufacturing is an ISO certified company with a commitment to superior quality and production control systems.
Sanctioned by Rally America, the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood will cover over 120 racing miles that will test rally teams from all across the country (and several foreign countries) on a variety of gravel road surfaces. Set in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, this rally contains some of the most scenic roads on the Rally America calendar. Each day will begin with a rally car show and opening ceremony. On Friday, February 22nd, the cars and competitors will be on display at the Lions' Club Park in Potosi, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM. The cars will then drive to Steelville for a single service, located near the Meramec Music Theater, from 4:15 PM to 5:45 PM. Saturday's activities kick off at 8:45 AM on Fourth Street in downtown Salem.
The public is invited to join in the festivities, see the cars up close, pose for photos, get autographs,
and meet the teams at the start of each day and at the service areas in Steelville on Friday and the Dent County Commons on Saturday. Teams will compete throughout each day, passing multiple spectator points, before returning to Salem Saturday night at the Dent County court house at 8:45 PM. There is no admission charge for any of these events.
Spectator Guides will be available at various community locations and online at the rally website, http://www.100aw.org. The guide will include detailed maps and directions to each spectator location and a full event schedule.
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The Sabres might be going back to the Winter Classic.
Newsday in New York is reporting the NHL is close to finalizing an agreement to take the Winter Classic to New York City for the first time.
Citi Field, where the Mets play baseball, would host the Sabres and Rangers in the annual New Year's Day game.


The humble jellyfish has been around for at least 500 million years. It has survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, a feat which that makes them older than trees – even older than leaves.
Science writer Juli Berwald calls them "a ghost from our true garden of Eden", and ghost-like they are, with their transparent, brainless, spineless, eyeless, bloodless bodies.
Their propensity to breed fast and prolifically, means they can disrupt ocean eco-systems in a flash. Some scientists think their numbers are increasing as the climate change.
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Q: Aggregate key column and multiple value columns to JSON object I have this table:
CREATE TABLE my_table (
    id uuid PRIMARY KEY,
    name text NOT NULL,
    key text NOT NULL,
    x int NOT NULL,
    y int NOT NULL,
    UNIQUE (name, key)
);

With this data:

id                                   name key x y
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789000 foo  a   1 2
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789001 foo  b   3 4
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789002 foo  c   5 6
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789003 foo  d   7 8
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789004 bar  v   0 0
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789005 bar  w   1 1
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789006 bar  z   2 2
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789007 baz  a   8 7
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789008 baz  b   6 5
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789009 baz  c   4 3
12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789010 baz  d   2 1

I have this query:
SELECT name, json_build_object(key, json_build_object('x', x, 'y', y))
FROM my_table;

With this result:

name json_build_object
foo  {"a" : {"x" : 1, "y" : 2}}
foo  {"b" : {"x" : 3, "y" : 4}}
foo  {"c" : {"x" : 5, "y" : 6}}
foo  {"d" : {"x" : 7, "y" : 8}}
bar  {"v" : {"x" : 0, "y" : 0}}
bar  {"w" : {"x" : 1, "y" : 1}}
bar  {"z" : {"x" : 2, "y" : 2}}
baz  {"a" : {"x" : 8, "y" : 7}}
baz  {"b" : {"x" : 6, "y" : 5}}
baz  {"c" : {"x" : 4, "y" : 3}}
baz  {"d" : {"x" : 2, "y" : 1}}

What I'd like to have:

foo {"a" : {"x" : 1, "y" : 2}, "b" : {"x" : 3, "y" : 4}, "c" : {"x" : 5, "y" : 6}, "d" : {"x" : 7, "y" : 8}}
bar {"v" : {"x" : 0, "y" : 0}, "w" : {"x" : 1, "y" : 1}, "z" : {"x" : 2, "y" : 2}}
baz {"a" : {"x" : 8, "y" : 7}, "b" : {"x" : 6, "y" : 5}, "c" : {"x" : 4, "y" : 3}, "d" : {"x" : 2, "y" : 1}}

I know I need to GROUP BY name and aggregate the other columns, but couldn't find a suitable combination of functions. Is this even possible with a single query?

A: Your query should be:
SELECT
    name,
    json_object_agg(key, json_build_object('x', x, 'y', y))
FROM data
GROUP BY name

demo:db<>fiddle
json_object_agg does exactly what you want.

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More than 180 million people in countries affected by conflict and instability do not have access to safe water, the United Nations Children's Fund reported on Tuesday.
"In countries beset by violence, displacement, conflict and instability, children's most basic means of survival - water - must be a priority," said Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF's global chief of water, sanitation and hygiene.
In a statement released to mark World Water Week, held this year from Aug. 27 to Sep. 1, Wijesekera asserted that "children's access to safe water and sanitation, especially in conflicts and emergencies, is a right, not a privilege".
A recent UNICEF analysis, conducted with the World Health Organization (WHO), found that in 2015, out of some 484 million people living in fragile situations, 183 million lacked basic drinking water services.
"In 2016 alone, there were at least 30 deliberate water cuts - including in Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, Raqqa and Dara, with pumps destroyed and water sources contaminated," the UNICEF statement said.
It also underscored the case of northeastern Nigeria, where conflicts have damaged or destroyed 75 percent of water and sanitation infrastructure, leaving 3.6 million people without basic water services, leading to malnutrition and diseases.
"When children have no safe water to drink, and when health systems are left in ruins, malnutrition and potentially fatal diseases like cholera will inevitably follow," Wijesekera said.
In Yemen, more than 53 percent of the 500,000 cases of suspected cholera and acute watery diarrhea have been recorded in children so far.
UNICEF also warned of the threat of famine in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, where nearly 30 million people, including 14.6 million children, urgently require access to safe water.


YoungInnovations in collaboration with Open Nepal is organizing Open Data Day 2016 in Kathmandu College of Management (KCM), Gwarko, on March 5, 2016 (Saturday) from 8:00 AM onwards.
Open Data Day is a yearly event celebrated across the globe that brings together organizations and citizens to write applications, liberate data, create visualization and publish analysis using open public data. The event is organized to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by local, regional and national governments. The theme for this year is 'Using Data to Solve Real Problems in Nepal'.
The main objective of this event is to assist tackling challenges like; migration, procurement/contracts, public health, government budget, earthquake, renewable energy in Nepal.
Participation is free of cost but you need to Sign up for the event to participate in hackathon and know more about it.
If you are not willing to participate you can always visit and observe the activities on the day. So don't miss out a chance of being part of it, be it as a participant or an observer! For more information, visit the website.


Ableman v. Booth occupies a significant place in constitutional history for upholding the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and presenting the antebellum Supreme Court's theory of federalism. This note presents a new interpretation of the states' rights movement in Wisconsin that necessitated the Supreme Court's ruling in Ableman and argues that, viewed in this historical context, the decision was a complete failure. When a fugitive slave was captured in Milwaukee, Wisconsonites wished to reject the principles of the Fugitive Slave Act in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act but were not yet willing to violate the law.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin enabled social change by providing the people with states' rights as a legal basis to reject the Fugitive Slave Act. Federal attempts to vindicate the Fugitive Slave Act, culminating in Ableman, created a backlash that transformed states' rights into a popular movement. Party politics exacerbated this backlash, as Republicans opportunistically used states' rights against the more moderate Democrats. As a result, states' rights controlled every major election in Wisconsin and nearly precipitated a civil war. Moreover, Ableman nearly pushed other states to use states' rights to challenge the federal government, as national antislavery leaders hoped to use the theory for their own goals. Conflict was averted only because the theory became inconvenient for Republicans in the 1860 presidential election, not because of federal coercion resulting from Ableman.
Document is made available for download by permission of the Virginia Law Review Association. The Virginia Law Review can be purchased here. Link to article on publisher's website.
Schmitt, Jeffrey M., "Rethinking Ableman v. Booth and States' Rights in Wisconsin" (2007). School of Law Faculty Publications. 34.


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The Salem press. (Salem, Mass.) 1936-193?
Salem register. (Salem, Mass.) 1906-19??
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If you have a round face, always look for a hairstyle that will hide the roundness of your face. The hair style will conceal the shape of your face and will create an illusion of having the perfect shape of the face. There are different hairstyles to choose that will suit the shape and features of your face.
A long straight hair is one of the perfect hairstyles for round faces. The longer hair can make a round face appear long. The straight hair stays flat and will not create volume, which can emphasize the roundness of the face. A long hair with choppy layers is another hairstyle for round faces. The layers should fall below the chin and should not be cut above the earlobe so that it will not create volume on the sides of the face.
For shoulder length hair, which has natural waves or curls, it is best to cut in the layers at the edge so that it will not create volume. It is also best to have the length a little longer below the chin. Hairstyles for round faces also feature a shoulder length hairstyle that has natural curls. The hairstyles will look good with side-swept bangs which can create an angle which gives the best result of a round face. An uneven cut is one of the best cuts of hairstyles for round faces that will really compliment the shape of the face.
The hairstyles for round faces are also the right hairstyle for women who have thick, coarse hair. The hair should be cut in layers around the face to get rid of its thickness.
Some Pixie hairstyles will be the best hairstyles for round face shape. The hairstyle adds lift at the top of the head, making the face appear elongated.