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Who's Afraid of the Dark?
29th October 2015 / Abigail / 0 Comments
A suitably blasted heath – or rainy cemetary
I've always loved reading ghost stories at this time of year. Nothing else seems to hit quite the same spot the wind is roaring like a lost soul outside and the rain is battering against the windows in truly biblical fashion. As the nights draw in there's always that primeval part of us that draws closer to the fire but is mindful of the fury outside. This is something that writers have always understood and those writing before homes were lit with the flick of a switch understood it by far the best. My favourite ghost stories always seem to date from the mid-19th to early 20th century, when the gothic imagination was at its height. I grew up reading M.R. James and E.F. Benson, first discovered in the volumes that made up part of my dad's Everyman Library – hundreds of uniform cloth covered books with matching paper jackets that lived in special glass fronted bookcases in the dining room.
It was in those bookcases I discovered the Brontes and Dickens, Tacitus and Gidden's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The Everyman mission was always to provide a world class library of classics accessible to the ordinary men and women. The Everyman collection taught me about the gothic imagination and it was from there I first discovered the pleasure of reading to be scared. There were other horror compendiums around the house, one Welsh Tales of Terror compiled by the great Chetwynd Hayes left a particular impression with a story of man eating rats, but there was something about the heft of the Everyman books that was special.
Back then, happy in my reading nook, I never really noticed that all the stories I read were written by men. When I started to collect my own horror compilations I found a few female writers – Edith Nesbitt and Edith Wharton for example – but I suppose I just assumed it was a genre that women didn't write – even though, as a little girl who would grow up into a writer, I devoured horror stories and tales with a twist in the tale more voraciously than almost any other genre. As I grew up I kept an eye out for female writers in this area, and particularly in my favourite period. It was only last year when I really started to make headway, largely thanks to my husband's discovery that Wordsworth Editions' Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural, included several volumes of stories by female writers. Some are well known names, others should be and I'm going to run through some of them, in case you have been on a similar quest.
Marjorie Bowen
For me, the stand out discovery. I'm only sorry that it's taken me so long to discover her. I'd heard her name before as a novelist but had no idea about her ghost stories. She's a fascinating character. A writer from necessity, she supported her family, including her absolute liability of a mother who was an aspiring writer herself. Bowen received no formal education but taught herself French, Italian and a little Latin. She wrote under a variety of pseudonyms – in fact Marjorie Bowen was one of them, her real name was Gabrielle Campbell – many of them male. Her writing style is fluid and lyrical and her stories should be among the best known in the genre. My favourite of her stories is the extraordinary Florence Flannery, a wonderfully dark Wandering Jew type story. The collection I have is The Bishop of Hell & Other Stories and Florence is in that in all her glory.
Edith Nesbit
I grew up reading E. Nesbit's children's stories but it was only as an adult I discovered her ghost stories, again in the Wordsworth edition. It's well worth reading the introduction to that edition actually. It gives a great insight into Edith's unconventional life, her unusual home life and founding membership of the Fabian Society. The story that really stayed with me was From the Dead , a tragic story of love, betrayal and forgiveness, but I don't want to say any more, I don't want to spoil the story. Nesbit's stories are good, old fashioned shockers. She uses physical horror particularly effectively, her stories are told more bluntly than Bowen's, though that doesn't limit their effectiveness. Track them down – the collection is called The Power of Darkness.
May Sinclair
Another formidable woman as well as an excellent writer. May Sinclair, or Mary Amelia St Clair, was an active member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League (now there's an organisation to resurrect). She also wrote a fine line in chillers with a distinctively Freudian edge. The Flaw in the Crystal is more of a novella than a short story, telling the story of a female telepath who must live with the consequences of her benevolently meant actions, while Where Their Fire is not Quenched is a deceptively simple tale of lovers locked in an endlessly repeating, ever unfulfilling affair. Sinclair is writing a bit later than Nesbit and Bowen so her stories inhabit a less obviously gothic world. She is firmly 20th Century in her writing and her subject matter. The collection I have is Uncanny Stories and you will find both stories I've mentioned in there.
D.K. Broster
Dorothy Broster was a best-selling historical novelist, like Marjorie Bowen. She was a nurse during the First World War and afterwards worked as secretary for the Regius Professor of History at Oxford, where she had studied herself. Her stories are also somewhat later than the first two examples but Couching at the Door which gives the collection I have it's name, is as good a creeping menace story as any devised by M.R. James. I can't help but note that it says a lot that Broster, despite her literary success, was a mere secretary, while James was famously a career academic. Would more doors be open to her these days? It's hard to know if she would have ventured through though, since she was a very private individual and little is known about her – although I'd be happy to be corrected on that, if you know of anything, let me know in the comments.
Lucy M. Boston
Another favourite author from childhood, I only discovered that Lucy M. Boston wrote ghost stories in the last couple of years. I loved the Green Knowe books, and you can see a lot of the same author in her stories Curfew and The Tiger Skinned Rug, possibly because both these stories feature young protagonists and indeed, both appeared in children's anthologies. While I'll let you track down copies of the other collections yourself, Wordsworth editions are relatively easy to track down in bricks and mortar bookshops as well as online, I'll link to the stunning edition of Curfew and Other Eerie Stories from Dublin based Swan River Press, as it might be more difficult to track down. Boston is the latest of the writers I'm writing about today, and one of the things I love about her story is that she was a late starter. Her first book was published in her 60s which gives hope to anyone out there still trying to make it as a writer. She wrote ghost stories throughout her life and it's obvious from reading those published that like me, she was someone who had always loved the genre and had grown up reading M.R. James and the rest. You can see echoes of these in her stories but they more than stand up on their own.
One thing that's struck me, reading all these female writers take on the ghost story is that there is a difference from the stories I read growing up. I hesitate to say there's a male type of writer and a female type as we all know where that kind of thinking can lead (pink covers anyone) but on a very personal level I've noticed that these writers tend to give their characters more depth. Maybe it's because I'm reading them as an adult, and as a writer myself, whereas I would have read all the others from childhood but I don't remember feeling that before. The stories I remember tend to have very few female characters. Protagonists are invariably male and women only appear as wives, sisters or mothers. Now a lot of that could be because I'm thinking particularly of M.R. James who wrote the world he knew and consequently writes a lot about solitary, male academics. In the stories written by women the protagonists are often female, or children, but even when the story revolves around a man they tend to be less secure, more aware of the world and the relationships around them.
Most of male protagonists I remember reading about growing up were academics, or ex army or naval men. They work in the city or meet someone on a journey. I suppose that's because that is the male experience. Just as female writers are sometimes criticised for focusing too much on the domestic, so male writers take their protagonists out into the impersonal world. Since so many of these uncanny stories focus on something that disrupts the ordinary, that disruption is going to occur in vary different places depending on the life experience of the writer. Personally I can't help feeling that the stereotypical male life in this context, with it's day to day work in an office of some kind, the home, a distant beacon rather than a natural focus, can put the horror at a remove. It doesn't make me love these stories any less but when you read stories that bring that horror right into the home, into the safest of safe harbours, then that gives the story a totally different impact. I wonder if the female experience actually opens up the world more. Maybe we should be looking at all those male writers as the limited ones…
But that's just an idea I've been playing with, not one I've any major thesis about. I hope these suggestions give you some ideas if you're on the lookout for something spooky this Halloween. I'm planning another round coming up to Christmas, because that to my mind is an even better time for ghost stories. Do let me know what you think in the comments.
Dublin Stories 1: The Haunted Dustpan
16th March 2013 / Abigail / 0 Comments
Today I'm trying something a little bit different. Since I've stopped writing from the courts the blog has been in need of an injection of alternate subject matter. Since I've been spending most of my time up to my eyes in history books for the years pop culture didn't really seem like a good fit. So instead, you lucky, lucky people, I give you this…
This is the first post in a series. Well, as you can tell that from the title. You can probably also tell that I'm not planning an exhaustive account of the social history of Dublin Town. This local history is going to be much more relaxed. Since I moved to Dublin over twenty years, I've loved living in a city with such a rich history. I want to tell some of my favourite Dublin stories. This isn't a history of checks and balances, of historical facts and figures. I'm interested in the stories that have lived, that find their way into the fabric of the city itself, that have bent and flexed into the collective consciousness – in other words, the nitty gritty history of them might have gone lost in the telling. The Ireland's Eye murder is one of these that but I'm not starting there. I'm starting my stories with a ghost in a castle. It's one I know particularly well.
Back in the early 90s I was working as a tour guide in Drimnagh Castle. If you don't know the area Drimnagh is a suburb in the south west of Dublin. The modern streets have crept right around the 12th century castle that stands on the Long Mile Road. It's still got its moat and until the 50s it was the longest inhabited castle in Ireland. When the last family to own it, dairy farmers by the name of Hatch, died out the castle passed to the Christian brothers. They turned it into a school but as the school grew the pupils were moved into new buildings next door and the brothers moved out. Slowly but surely, over the next few decades, the castle began to decay. By the 70s it was a shell. Somewhere where local kids would sneak in to go drinking.
In the 80s, conservationist Peter Pearson started up the Drimnagh Castle Restoration project and FÁS were brought in to provide manpower for the restoration work. The work was all done using traditional methods. I used to draw visitors' attention to the wooden pegs used to hold the roofing joists together and the fact that the figures of medieval workmen carved at the bottom of those joists had the faces of those involved in the restoration, some of whom still worked on the site. We were very proud of the work that had been done so far. The foreman Godfrey, in pride of place at the end of the hall, had been carved wearing a digital watch. Just to make the point. Legend had it that even our resident ghost knew Godfrey's name. A few years later, when I'd started working in radio, I met someone who'd recorded a show out there, talking about ghosts for Halloween. I even heard the master. It could have been a woman's voice. But then, standing next to Godfrey's wooden form, you'd also be rather close to the window, and the chimney. They can be draughty places, medieval castles.
We all believed in the castle ghost, Eleanora. Supposedly one of the Norman Barnevale family who had built the place, Eleanora was reputed to slope around the castle sighing, as she looked at the mess her love life had ended up. She had been supposed to marry her cousin Edmund, we used to tell the tourists, but as is often the case in these kinds of tragic love stories her heart belonged to another. Unfortunately for all concerned the particular other in this case was Sean O'Byrne, the younger son of the Irish clan that had been making it their mission to make the Barnevale's feel less than welcome in their chosen domain. The wedding day arrived and the wedding party made their way by carriage to St Patrick's Cathedral. They never made it. After a savage battle both Sean and Edmund lay dead and Eleanora was somewhat persona non grata. Her uncle, you see, had an inkling of her fondness for the O'Byrne lad and blamed her for the whole fiasco. Eleanora was brought back to Drimnagh Castle and locked away but she made her escape and pined herself to death on her lover's grave. We all knew the story of Eleanora off by heart – it was one of the chief selling points of the place after all. None of us ever heard any heartbroken sobs but our younger cleaner swore blind that one day as she was cleaning the Great Hall her dustpan stood up on its handle all by itself. Who knows, it might have.
The rest of us were more worried about the Man in Black who was supposed to haunt the 17th century tower. Back then the tower hadn't been restored and was kept locked as it was still a building site. According to the story the Man in Black had been an alchemist who made a deal with the devil. Before I sat down to write this post I went looking for the notes I had kept from my tours. Unfortunately they've been lost somewhere across the intervening years so my remembrance of this particular story is a little hazy. I remember I used to have fun telling it. There was a crow involved and a mysterious disappearance. It used to scare young school children, that story, and that was the simplified version. Of course those of us working there had other details that were completely unverified so had never made it into the tour. We heard the local story that a tramp, finding the derelict tower in the 60s or 70s, had been found dead with an expression of abject fear on his face. One of the other tour guide claimed he had seen a dark figure there one night when he had been closing up after an event. Personally I never liked turning my back on that locked door whenever I was turning out the lights after a late night gig (the castle hosted TV shows and concerts even in those days).
Drimnagh Castle was a wonderful place to work on hot summers' days. Sitting in the courtyard waiting for tours to arrive you could hear the bees in the herbs growing near the sun dial. There was a very irascible, balding peacock there too who would wander over to you and peck your ankles. He'd outlived three hens at this stage. We wondered if he was depressed at his habitual single status. I remember one Saturday in the old church on Andrews Street in the city centre helping to tear up the floor. The church was being turned into the tourist office it is today and they had donated the tiles to the castle. I have a tile from that floor and a couple left surplus from the Great Hall. They've come with me to various flats and houses over the years. A physical reminder of a memorable time. That year the sun always seemed to be shining although this being Ireland that simply can't be true. I had wanted to write a proper account of the ghost stories to sell to visitors and one of the other other tour guides was an artist who was going to illustrate it. On the slow, hot days we spent more time sitting on benches avoiding the peacock. The artist sketched me, the only long haired female present and years later I visited and saw the Eleanora mural that now decorates the yard. Something in the eyes still looks like me, I think. I'd like to think I'd left a little something there.
Painting of Eleanora at Drimnagh Castle
The castle's still open for tours though the restoration work's stopped now. You can even hire it out for weddings or filming – even book launches. You can find them here. Though I presume the peacock's long dead by now.
Do let me know in the comments if you like the piece. I've lots more in the pipeline


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NQ producers look into value adding to horticulture crops
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VALUE: A group of Tableland growers stopped off at Barrier Reef Brewery, Stratford, as part of a value-added study tour.
A group of North Qld growers have investigated value adding options.
THE potential for vegetable and fruit crops from far north Queensland to become value-added products has been explored on a growers tour.
FNQ horticultural producers recently took part in a FNQ Growers-led excursion to several food service businesses on the Tablelands and Cairns,
Funded by the State Government's Training in Emerging and Innovative Industries Fund (TEII), the tour took in the Far North Food Incubator, Malanda Dairy Centre, Coffee Works, Mareeba, and the Barrier Reef Brewery, Stratford.
TEII project manager, Leanne Kruss, said adding value to raw agricultural products was one way of achieving increased profitability.
Refrigerated produce trial from Port of Townsville to Asia
Chocolate industry in North Queensland to get boost
Opening up new ag export opportunities for Far North Queensland
"The current consumer trend of preference for locally produced and Australian foods fits with creating value," Ms Kruss said.
"It can be in the form of marketing a unique product, filling a market niche, simplifying the supply chain or providing a service or lowering costs."
Ms Kruss said value adding required growers to take a different approach but it was vital producers were well informed before making the change.
"Turning farm products into food products adds significant value but before starting down this road, producers should understand where the road will lead them," Mr Kruss said.
"This involves risk and requires a new skill set.
"Creating alliances that can combine resources to achieve common goals reduces this risk."
FNQ Food Incubator founder and developer of Fang's Chilli Sauce, Clinton Fang, said there was huge potential for the region's horticultural producers in the value-adding space.
Mr Fang, who started the incubator with the aim of establishing a shared facility that other people can use to produce value added products, encouraged the region's producers to set aside some of their produce to value-add.
"If you are doing something completely different or value added, even if it's two to five per cent of your business, then this gives you an opportunity to look at different markets - like the 640 million people in Asia," Mr Fang said.
Ms Kruss said the study tour was a resounding success and allowed producers to make connections at the incubator.
"The team of business and marketing advisers and food technologists at the incubator offer an ability to reduce the expense, anxiety and personal financial risk to growers who have an innovative idea for a new food product and want a state-of-the-art facility to trial and plan before large scale up," she said.
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Cane growers from Cairns to Mackay will be better able to monitor nitrogen run-off and regulate fertiliser use accordingly with a new app.
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Upon your arrival in Jodhpur, check into the hotel. Located in the western region of Rajasthan, Jodhpur is one of the most popular cities in the state of Rajasthan. It is also known as the 'Blue City' because it has many houses painted in blue.
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Today, check out of the hotel and drive to the next destination 'Jaisalmer'. Founded by Maharana Jaisal Singh, a Rajput Singh in 1156 AD, the city derives its name from the ruler itself.
A part of the Great Indian Thar Desert, the city is dotted by several Havelis that were built by the royal merchants of the city.
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Today, in the morning, embark on a sightseeing tour of Jaisalmer. The city is quite famous for the Jaisalmer Fort, also known as Sonar Quila. The town bustles with various shops, hotels and ancient havelis and is considered as the only living fort in India. Inside this fort, visit the Raj Mahal (royal palace), the Laxminath Temple and several Jain temples. The palace museum has a huge collection of the items belonging to the royal era.
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Later, visit Jantar Mantar- an observatory, where you will find a good collection of complex instruments that were once used for astronomical studies. It is one of the largest observatories built by Maharaja Jai Singh II and also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
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by Ian Round5:47 pmApr 7, 20200
Hogan orders Maryland Health Department to report race data for coronavirus cases
After two consecutive days of data show the virus spreading more slowly in Maryland, the question is asked: could social distancing be working?
Above: A playground in Hampden warns people to follow the governor's stay-at-home order. (Fern Shen)
The Maryland Department of Health will begin publishing data on the race and ethnicity of coronavirus patients this week, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday.
"[He] wants the department to be as proactive as possible with this," Kata Hall, Hogan's top speechwriter, wrote on Twitter.
Hogan's directive follows data showing the virus disproportionately affects poor and black communities, which have higher-than-average rates of underlying health conditions. On its coronavirus site, the Health Department currently lists the home jurisdiction and age range of all known cases, as well as the statewide number of deaths and the gender breakdown.
However, Hogan said the data won't be comprehensive, since some out-of-state labs conducting tests for Maryland patients don't keep track of race and ethnicity.
"We do anticipate having significant gaps in the data that will be available to us," said Hogan, speaking after a tour of the Baltimore Convention Center, where the Maryland National Guard has set up a 250-bed field hospital for non-urgent patients.
Could Distancing be Working?
As of Tuesday morning, 4,371 Marylanders have known cases of the novel coronavirus, and 103 have died, according to the Maryland Department of Health. Baltimore County has 652 positive cases, and Baltimore City has 459.
For two days in a row, the number of new cases has been lower than the day before, meaning the virus has spread more slowly. On Monday, when 326 cases were reported, Maryland saw the lowest number of new known cases since March 31.
Hogan and the medical experts advising him said that may mean social distancing is working.
For two days in a row, the number of new cases in Maryland has been lower than the day before.
"If confirmed over time, it would be a very good move in the right direction," said Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, one of Hogan's advisers during the pandemic.
"We do hope our peak day will be sooner and there are some encouraging signs," Inglesby said.
"These actions and sacrifices are making a huge difference," Hogan said. "We believe that we have dramatically lowered the potential of [a worst-case scenario]."
Mitch Schwartz, chief medical officer of Anne Arundel Health System and a Hogan adviser, said "All the actions taken by the Governor have depressed the peak of case volume, and that saves lives."
But, they said, flattening the curve also means extending the curve.
"It's gonna take a longer period of time but not be as bad," Hogan said.
That bit of good news had some asking whether the state would ease social distancing guidance. Hogan said he would open the state back up gradually. He said his goal is to avoid trying to return to normal too quickly, allowing the virus to spread quickly again.
"It won't be like we'll flip a switch and everything's back to normal," Hogan said. "We're gonna be really cautious."
Other Annapolis News
Also today, thanking the Trump Administration for "sincerely listening to our concerns," Hogan announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave 200 ventilators to Maryland.
The White House declared the Baltimore-Washington corridor an "emerging hotspot," a designation that gives the area priority in receiving federal resources over areas where the virus is not as prevalent.
The governor also announced that he hired former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb to join his coronavirus task force.
Hogan said 90 nursing homes now have residents or staff with known COVID-19 cases, up from 81 this weekend. His office has not said which facilities have COVID-19 cases, nor the number of cases or deaths.
And he announced he had signed an executive order allowing local health departments and law enforcement agencies to enforce social distancing guidelines.
Rainy Day Fund, or no?
Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young said he didn't support City Council President Brandon Scott's proposal to use $25 million of the city's rainy day fund for coronavirus relief.
"We have a lot of other things the council is asking for and none of them are responsible for the budget," Young said at a press conference outside City Hall. "They really don't know what the budget looks like… The budget is drained."
Henry Raymond, Young's finance director, echoed his boss, saying, "We have to be very judicious about the use of the rainy day fund."


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Also, due to the nature of the task, it needs to be done dynamically using C#, not with Xaml.
I appreciate any help!

A: The answer in that post is about WPF. It returns an ImageSource. WPF's Image class handles that just fine using the Source property.
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'Zain has a right to life'
The Hashmis say they draw strength from their son
Raj and Shahana Hashmi are fighting through the courts for their son Zain's right to have a controversial, but life-saving, treatment.
The couple want to use an embryo screening technique so they can have another child who is an exact tissue match for four-year-old Zain, and who could be the bone marrow donor he desperately needs.
Zain has the rare blood disorder thalassaemia and urgently needs a transplant, but no suitable donors have been found.
He can be kept alive through blood transfusions but over time, the amount of iron in the body can build to dangerous levels.
This week, Raj and Shahana faced the media once again.
They are remarkable
Dr Simon Fishel, CARE at The Park Hospital
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They are going to the Court of Appeal in a bid to overturn a block on the treatment imposed by the High Court last year.
Mrs Hashmi, who runs the Zain Bone Marrow Foundation, said for Zain, said they are inspired by their son's personal battle against his illness.
Shahana Hashmi said: "Zain has a right to life and we want to ensure that he gets that right."
"He's very bright and knows what's going on. He's a real live wire."
But she added: "How is one child supposed to deal with so much in his short life?"
The couple from Leeds, who have four other children, aged three to 18, are united and unshakeable in their determination to tackle whatever obstacles are placed in their path, despite also having to cope with the normal demands of family life.
Their eldest child is currently studying for her AS levels, while her 16-year-old brother is set to take his GCSE's this year.
Mr Hashmi said this latest court battle was simply another challenge to overcome.
"It's another block that's been put in our path, another bridge to cross."
'Very close'
The Hashmis have found themselves as the spokespeople for other parents in their situation.
Mr Hashmi said: "Since we came into the spotlight two years ago, numerous other couples have come to us.
"We know of at least seven."
Mrs Hashmi said she spoke at a meeting recently, where there was a roomful of parents in the same position as them.
She said: "They put us on a pedestal. But we are just parents desperately seeking to save our son's life."
After Zain was born, the couple did have another child naturally. But Harris, now three, is not a match for his brother.
Zain Hashmi with his mother Shahana, who says he is 'a real live wire'
Mrs Hashmi then fell pregnant again, but the baby was diagnosed as having thalassaemia, and the couple decided to terminate the pregnancy.
Her husband said: "That was the most heart-rending decision we've had to make."
After the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority gave the go-ahead for the embryo screening treatment, in February last year, the couple underwent two cycles of treatment.
In the first, no embryos were a match for Zain. They were frozen, and the Hashmis say they will donate them to couples needing fertility treatment.
The second produced five healthy embryos, two of which were perfect tissue matches for Zain.
But the first failed to develop before it could be transferred into the womb and Mrs Hashmi failed to become pregnant with the second.
"It was very close. We could almost touch it," she said."
No other option
If they fail in their court case, the Hashmis say they will continue to fight, and will take their battle to be allowed to have the treatment in the UK to parliament and the European Court.
But they may not be able to wait for the outcome of the UK legal process.
Shahana, 38, knows her fertility is declining because of her age, so the couple would also consider going abroad for treatment.
Mr Hashmi said a failure to persuade the court would mean Zain's very painful treatment would have to continue, but there is no other option which could provide a cure except a bone marrow transplant.
"As parents, we would try to alleviate his suffering, but we would just have to watch him die."
IVF expert Dr Simon Fishel, director of CARE at The Park Hospital in Nottingham who has been treating the Hashmis, told BBC News Online: "The Hashmis call themselves a normal family. In one way, they are normal. But in another, they are remarkable."
But he added: "We should not underestimate how difficult it is to have some group take up a judicial review to stop them in their tracks."
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2014 Panini National Treasures - Some of the Dodger Relic Cards
I am finally getting around to putting up photos of some of the Dodger cards that can be found in boxes of 2014 Panini National Treasures. The set was released last week and features many current and old-tyme Dodger players. As always, this Panini product is unlicensed by MLB, so there are no team logos or emblems. Go here for a complete checklist of this set. Below are some of the Dodger relic cards that can be found. Next week I'll have more.
Colossal Jersey
#29 Yasiel Puig #36 Dee Gordon
#47 Hyun-Jin Ryu
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Blog Kiosk: 1/9/2014 - Dodger Links - Mattingly, Rollins and Pedro Martinez
Let's hope we get to experience one of these later this year - a World Series version. Featured above is a vintage ACME press photo dated October 4, 1949 that I ran into on eBay. Go here to check out the auction. Per the captions attached to the reverse:
"DODGERS' VICTORY PARADE. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Motorcade bearing members of the National League Champion Brooklyn Dodgers makes its way down Flatbush Avenue to the cheers of thousands of fans. The baseball heroes received an official welcome at borough hall on the eve of the World Series."
Below are some links to check out:
Tommy Lasorda is now on instagram. Go here to follow him: @tommy2lasorda.
Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, "Mattingly: LA 'more of a team' after roster turnover."
"I just feel it's more of a team," said Mattingly. "The club last year won 94 games. We were a little crazy, but that's who we were. Nothing wrong with that. But I think the pieces will fit together better [in 2015]."
Via Matthew Moreno at Dodgers Nation, "Jimmy Rollins Answers Questions From Fans On Twitter."
Via Ron Cervenka at Think Blue LA, "Clubhouse leadership top priority for Dodgers shortstop Jimmy Rollins."
"My first question [to Dodgers manager Don Mattingly] was about leadership; What was the leadership in the clubhouse? Who does what? Who's quiet? Who speaks out?" Rollins said. "And he gave me the run down and pretty much there letting me know how he wants me to fit in and what my role should be, not on the field but in the clubhouse, and trying to be the glue that holds everything together."
Via Ian Browne at MLB.com, "Brotherly bond helped Pedro on path to Cooperstown."
"Well, Ramon was my hero," Pedro Martinez said. "I used to carry Ramon's bag to the different fields where he played before he was a pro. I just wanted to see my brother play. My brother was a super, super player."
Via Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Corey Seager tops 2015 Dodgers top 10 prospects list at Baseball Prospectus."
Awesome! Via Mike Oz at Big League Stew, "Yasiel Puig acknowledges he's the Bart Simpson of baseball."
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Cal State Bakersfield doesn't expect to shut down Buddy Hield.
Oklahoma's senior guard, who ranks among the short list of favorites for National Player of the Year, averages 25 points per game and has scored at least 30 points 10 times this season. Whether Bakersfield can at least slow him down will largely determine if the 15th-seeded Roadrunners can beat No. 2 seed Oklahoma and become one of this year's surprise teams.
Hield, a likely lottery pick in the NBA draft later this year, scored 46 points at Kansas in a triple-overtime loss. He drained seven 3-pointers in the second half of a comeback win at LSU and got the best of a showdown with projected No. 1 overall NBA draft pick Ben Simmons. He hit a game-winning 3-pointer against Texas and scored 39 points against Iowa State in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinals.
Bakersfield (24-8), the Western Athletic Conference tournament champion, prides itself on its defense. The Roadrunners have held opponents to 63.2 points per game and 39.1 percent shooting. Bakersfield looks forward to the challenge of dealing with Hield.
''The defense we play, I mean, I think it's going to be a good matchup because he can get off at any time, and it's going to be very exciting to see what's in front of us,'' Bakersfield guard Dedrick Basile said.
Hield was held to six points on 1-for-8 shooting in his previous outing, a loss to West Virginia in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals. He had scored at least 12 points in every previous game this season. Bakersfield coach Rod Barnes said West Virginia set the precedent for how you should guard him.
Barnes is concerned about Oklahoma's other weapons, too. Ryan Spangler, Isaiah Cousins and Jordan Woodard each average at least 10 points per game. Oklahoma (25-7) averages 80.4 points and shoots 45.9 percent from the field, including 42.6 percent from 3-point range.
Bakersfield's offense starts with center Aly Ahmed. The 6-foot-9, 250-pound senior center leads the team with 12.9 points per game, and he is second with 6.2 rebounds per contest.
Ahmed has help. Mays, Basile, Damiyne Durham and Jaylin Airington all average at least 10 points.
The Roadrunners have won 10 of 11 and avenged their only loss during that stretch by beating top seed New Mexico State in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament final on a last-second 3-pointer by Basile. They believe they can defeat Oklahoma, too.
This version corrects the name of the conference in the second to last paragraph.


Over the weekend, Kashyap had put out a statement in which he had said that that he had "named and shamed" Bahl in the film circles for behaving inappropriately with a Phantom Films employee during a trip to Goa in 2015. "I can not name people I am talking about, but I will tell you stories as I know it", the Luck star said as he began narrating an incident that happened right in front of him. "They assault them, they harass them, they should also be punished".
She then made this revealing statement, "People who keep their wives as trophies and keep young girls as their mistresses should also be punished".
With Hrithik Roshan and the Super 30 team planning to drop Vikas Bahl's name from the promotions and perhaps from the credits too, Kangana has now targetted the lead actor himself in his new statement. The two have been at loggerheads for nearly two years with their separate versions of the story and have even taken each other to court over it.
Actress Kangana Ranaut also backed the woman's claims and gave her own account of how Bahl had misbehaved with her on the film sets of "Queen". She had said, "Whatever is happening with Vikas Bahl is absolutely correct. He'd say "I love how you smell K". There have been times when I wanted to speak out.
On the other hand I vehemently deny to have stayed silent on the issue & not doing anything about it for years.
The armed men were foreigners, the Swahili Times reported on Twitter, citing Police Commander Lazaro Mambosasa. It is has not been established why the businessman, 43, was abducted. "This kind of incident is new here".
Possibly thousands of people are buried in areas where the force of the quake liquefied the soil and sucked houses into the earth. After a rare appeal for global assistance, Indonesia is now trying to limit foreign involvement in the disaster relief effort.
Khan is expecting a backlash for this interview considering Bahl has already planned a defamation case against Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. The Indian Film And Television Directors' Association or IFTDA on Tuesday sent a show-cause notice to Vikas Bahl. However, she said nothing came out of it and the issue wasn't taken seriously till two years later.
The HuffPost article on Bahl appeared before a host of women journalists accused M. J Akbar, a well-known former editor and now a junior foreign minister in Narendra Modi's government of sexual harassment.
After the accusations came to fore, Hrithik, who has worked with Vikas in his next film, Super 30, said it is impossible for him to work with any person "guilty of such grave misconduct". I am away and have access to only sporadic information. This is not to be hushed or brushed under the carpet.


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La finale de la Ligue des champions de l'UEFA 1997-1998 est la  de l'histoire. Il s'agit d'un rencontre de football opposant le Real Madrid et la Juventus le  à l'Amsterdam ArenA. Ce match est le dernier de l'édition 1997-1998 de Ligue des champions, compétition majeure du football européen.

La Juventus, finaliste de l'édition précédente et tout juste championne d'Italie pour la , est la favorite de la rencontre. Mais le Real triomphe (1-0) et remporte son septième titre de champion d'Europe.

Histoire des clubs dans la compétition
Avant le match, le Real Madrid détient le record de victoires avec six titres européens conquis entre 1956 et 1966. Depuis, le club espagnol ne participe qu'à une finale de C1, perdue en 1981.

La Juventus participe à sa troisième finale de C1 consécutive. La première remportée puis une défaite ensuite.

Parcours des finalistes

En phase de poule, la Juventus se qualifie lors de la dernière journée. Elle se retrouve second meilleur deuxième grâce à l'égalisation de l'Olympiakos face à Rosenborg (groupe D) à deux minutes de la fin du temps réglementaire (2-2). En quart-de-finale, la Vieille Dame se fait peur à l'aller face au Dynamo Kiev (1-1) avant de se rassurer en l'emportant nettement en Ukraine (4-0). Au tour suivant, le champion de France se dresse à présent les Italiens. À l'aller au Stadio delle Alpi, un triplé d'Alessandro Del Piero et un but de Zinedine Zidane (4-1) scellent le sort d'une rencontre polémique dont les Monégasques sortent s'estimant lésés par l'arbitrage. Le match retour (3-2) ne permet pas de retourner la situation. C'est la Juventus qui disputera sa troisième finale de C1 consécutive.

Le Real Madrid termine premier de son groupe avec la co-meilleure attaque tous groupes confondus, avec l'AS Monaco (quinze buts). Les Madrilènes éliminent ensuite les représentants allemands avec le Bayer Leverkusen en quart-de-finale puis le Borussia Dortmund en demie.

Note : dans les résultats ci-dessous, le score du finaliste est toujours donné en premier (D : domicile ; E : extérieur).

Match

Résumé de la rencontre
Le début du match est fermé, la Juventus se livrant en premier à l'offensive. Néanmoins, le trio offensif Zidane-Inzaghi-Del Piero subit des ratés. Le Real Madrid résiste à se faire aspirer par l'offensive pour ne pas s'exposer aux contres efficaces des Italiens. Le dispositif espagnol reste en place, Sanchís et Hierro nettoient les schémas offensifs anticipés d'une Juventus aphone quand Mijatović et Morientes partent en éclaireurs à l'orée de la surface italienne. À la , Mijatović s'échappe sur la gauche. Son centre tendu est repris par Raúl qui manque le cadre de peu.

Au retour des vestiaires, les Turinois éprouvent les mêmes difficultés à apporter le danger sur le but madrilène. À la , Mijatović profite d'un centre de Roberto Carlos et d'une erreur de Torricelli pour devancer Peruzzi. Il s'agit du  de l'histoire des finales de C1. Les derniers assauts désorganisés de Davids et les ultimes chevauchées de Tacchinardi ne changent rien au score.

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Compétition de football à Amsterdam
Face-à-face de la Juventus FC
Face-à-face du Real Madrid
Football en 1998
Sport aux Pays-Bas en 1998
Sport en mai 1998

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The West Bengal became the first state to opt out of Centre's National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) announced in Union Budget 2018-19. According to State Government, it has already made hospitalisation and medical treatment free for its citizens and has already enrolled 50 lakh people under its Swasthya Sathi programme.
NHPS (Ayushman Bharat Scheme) dubbed 'Modicare' seeks to provide health insurance of Rs 5 Lakh to 10 crore poor and vulnerable households. Under it, up to Rs 5 lakh insurance cover will be provided to each family per year in secondary and tertiary care institutions.
NHPS will have 50 crore beneficiaries, making it world's largest government-funded healthcare programme to provide quality health cover to population larger than combined citizenry of US, UK, Germany and France.
The Centre had drawn up health plan for the scheme in which 40% of fund for the scheme has to come from state. Under it, the central government will contribute Rs 2,000 crore to scheme out of a total cost of Rs 5,500-6,000 crore – the remaining amount is to be paid by the state governments.


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Eastern Europe is not Racist, but…
2016, Articles, Issue 33
Racism, as such, is not too difficult to find anywhere in Europe. What is peculiar to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is the adamant refusal to admit racism or even to talk about race. This produces a corresponding weakness of antiracist or multicultural advocacy movements. The difference between CEE and other Western European countries has most recently manifested itself over the course of the so-called 'migrant crisis'. The former Soviet satellite countries formed an unusually firm political bloc against the proposals for refugee quotas that sought a fairer share of the economic costs of providing for larger number of asylum seekers.
Political conflicts over an EU policy are not rare, nor is it surprising that the former socialist states would find themselves united by advancing common interests. However, more seems to be at stake in this instance, because this is not simply a conflict of narrow political interests – real or perceived – but a clash of widespread attitudes. Attitudinal surveys indicate that, on this issue, the positions of the CEE governments are aligned with the thinking of their constituent populations. The low percentage of positive evaluation of immigration from outside the EU (and the correspondingly higher proportions of people expressing negative feelings) are at odds with the actual experience of most of the CEE countries (with the notable exception of Hungary) concerning the actual number of asylum seekers.
The explanations offered for this phenomenon are various. The social and economic justification depends on the idea that the poorer CEE countries cannot share their limited resources with the incoming refugees. The political explanations revolve mostly around the idea of the EU's encroachment on the sovereignty of national states and their immigration politics. Some populist politicians do not shy away from citing irreconcilable cultural differences or even, as born-again Christians (in fairly secularist countries, apart from Poland), refuse to accept Muslim immigrants on religious grounds. In the latter attitude, it is not very hard to detect religion as the weakly disguised proxy for race. Without denying various social and economic motivations, all of these explanations and their multiple versions betray an underlying racism, or a strong tendency to 'Other' asylum seekers, whose claims on the rights enjoyed by local populations governments refuse to recognize.
I suggest that the reasons behind this inability to recognize claims and equal rights of immigrants from the Middle East should not be reduced to the more or less coherent rationalizations espoused by CEE politicians. The united front of post-socialist countries on the issue of immigration is hardly a coincidence and the racist undertones, in official politics or public opinion, can be also traced back to the particular colonial and post-colonial experience that these countries have shared as parts of the former Soviet bloc.
Scholars of nationalism have often remarked upon the ethnic basis of nationhood in Eastern Europe, where there had long been a gap between the political state and its population. Communities of language and perceived ethnicity thus became dominant in expression of political union within the state. However, the current manifestations of racism in CEE should not be treated as a return of the repressed, but as a continuation of the modernizing programme of the state-socialist era. The history of state socialism did not signify a complete break with the original ethnic nation-building, an aberration that could possibly weaken the ethnic stance. The home-brewed nationalism managed to merge with the politics of proletarian internationalism in unexpected ways and, I claim, vastly contributed to the current situation and the particular brand of the "I'm not a racist, but" racism.
The emergence of racism out of the professedly equalizing societies of socialist states certainly was not a straightforward process. The rhetoric of a New Soviet Person contrasts strongly with racialized discourses and this new type of human was meant to be not only classless, but also blind to – and herself invisible to – racial distinctions. Yet, a universal humanity based on this ideal failed to emerge. "Contrary to popular understanding, the Soviet Union did not simply suppress such [ethnic and national] sentiment but reified the national principle into a fundamental organizational device, one that contributed to its own downfall. 'Nationalities' were both reinforced and created […]. Each major nationality had its own republic, and each republic's minor nationalities often enjoyed some administrative autonomy" (Chari and Verdery 2009: 17). It would be a simplification to argue that oxymoronic socialist nationalism came into existence due to a stark disjuncture between the ideology and practice in the actually existing socialisms. Instead, I want to argue that it was precisely the deployment of the very ideal of the New Soviet Person that promoted a spread of racist stereotypes of a particular Eastern-European variety.
As I have argued elsewhere (Hladík 2011), despite effective and often ruthless Russification pressures within its realm, the Soviet Union differed from other colonial empires in that it enabled individuals of various ethnicities and nationalities to participate in the top echelons of administration on the periphery, and, occasionally, even in the metropole. In their survey of the ethnic composition of four generations of the Soviet Politburo, (Lane and Ross 1999: 35) show that the pre-1980 Politburo included 14 non-Russian members out of its total of 33, and despite the subsequent drop in numbers, there were still always around 7 non-Russians out of roughly the same total over the 1980s. Whether this is a lot or not depends on the interpretation. But the permeability of the periphery/metropole borderline for career trajectories distinguishes the Soviet bloc from other imperial administrations. It "only" asked of the ethnic representatives to dispose of any marks of their ethnicity – which they willingly did, apart from the one fatal aspect, that of their racialised bodies. While the ethnic and national minorities strived to (or were forced to) assimilate to the Russians, the latter were preoccupied with becoming the New Soviet Persons.
Despite all the rhetoric, despite the Soviet worldwide interventions in favour of national liberation struggles, state socialism was not colour-blind. But because of the rhetoric and because of its patronage over the claims of colonial subjects elsewhere, the notion of race under state-socialism remained unavailable for a discursive deconstruction and criticism. In this regard, it became more reified a concept than in other parts of the world, where it could become a contested matter.
To understand the workings of rigid socialist ideological language, it is useful to turn to Alexei Yurchak's (2006) groundbreaking book on everyday life under state socialism, in which he demonstrates that, actually, the late socialist public sphere was a porous environment that allowed for many issues to be brought forth. Yurchak claims that after the demise of a leader figure, embodied by Stalin, who could speak and act outside of the bounds of ideological discourse, the official ideology of the Soviet bloc became petrified and its language became a necessary performative speech act; that is, it became a form with which people had to comply in order to gain access to the public arena. Yurchak argues that the ideological language became a productive tool, one that could be used to advance and carry out various agendas in the public sphere. Life under state socialism, consequently, was nowhere nearly as dull and constrained as it would appear to those who would take seriously (as dissidents did) the language of power. He shows that the citizens of the socialist world were actually able to actively engage in public affairs once they had mastered the way of speaking required by the ideological language. To decry such use of language as morally despicable, as was done most famously by the Czech dissident, Václav Havel, fails to grasp the performative shift that had occurred in the language of power, whose words no longer referred to the world, but served as formulas, genres, ways of speaking rather than as meaningful utterances.
What is missing in Yurchak's analysis is the consideration of the constraining effects of ideological language. Although it was enabling in many respects, it is the very character of a genre that it is difficult to question the meanings of the words – however hollow – of which it is made up. The impossibility to discuss and negotiate race in CEE countries during the reign of state socialism hence did not spring from a purposeful marginalisation of the issue, but on the contrary, from its central position among the tenets of the official ideology. Race – and racism – were, actually, often talked about and denounced, but only in connection with other criticisms of the First World.
Race slipped into the state socialist govermentality through a backdoor of a teleological notion of history and modernization imperative; unacknowledged, it served a pervasive power mechanism and a signifier of ultimate difference. At the same time, the delimitation of the public discursive field under the ideological regime of language made race an indisputable concept. What may appear as a mere hypocrisy – the denial of racism alongside effectively racist policies – is, rather, a contradiction that has been waiting to emerge. To address and redress the problem of racism, CEE countries need to vindicate the vocabulary of race and admit to the racist underpinning of the Cold War ontologies, much like an alcoholic needs to admit to having a problem before undergoing a therapy.
The prospects for this direction, however, are dim. At present, it seems as though the former state-socialist countries of CEE have, at last, reached their quarter of century old goal, to establish political systems on par with their Western European counterparts. However, in 1989 few expected that this rapprochement would take a post-democratic form and the two parts of Europe would be united under a tide of populism eschewing the values upon which the hoped for democratic political programmes was thought to have been built. Populism's rejection of debate over fundamental values sits well with the undercover racism buttressed by the state socialist history of Central and Eastern Europe.
Chari, Sharad, and Katherine Verdery. 2009. "Thinking Between the Posts: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism, and Ethnography After the Cold War." Comparative Studies in Society and History 51 (01): 6–34.
Fanon, Frantz. 1986. Black Skin, White Masks. London: Pluto Press.
Hirsch, Francine. 2005. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Hladík, Radim. 2011. "A Theory's Travelogue: Post-Colonial Theory in Post-Socialist Space." Teorie Vědy / Theory of Science 33 (4): 561–90.
Lane, David Stuart, and Cameron Ross. 1999. The Transition from Communism to Capitalism: Ruling Elites from Gorbachev to Yeltsin. Palgrave Macmillan.
Yurchak, Alexei. 2006. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Radim Hladík is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, and the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences.


The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a nationally syndicated radio personality and financial advice author for spreading misleading information about his "Buckets of Money" strategy at a series of investment seminars that he and his company hosted for potential clients.
The SEC's Division of Enforcement alleges that investment adviser Ray Lucia, Sr. claimed that the wealth management strategy he promoted at the seminars had been empirically "backtested" over actual bear market periods. Backtesting is the process of evaluating a strategy, theory, or model by applying it to historical data and calculating how it would have performed had it actually been used in a prior time period.
According to the SEC's order instituting administrative proceedings against Lucia and RJL, they held the seminars highlighting their Buckets of Money strategy in an effort to obtain advisory clients who would be charged fees in return for their advisory services. They promoted the seminars on Lucia's radio show and on Lucia's personal and company websites.
According to the SEC's order, a backtest must utilize actual data from the time period in order to get an accurate result. Lucia and RJL have admitted during the SEC's investigation that the only testing they actually performed were some calculations that Lucia made in the late 1990s – copies of which no longer exist – and two two-page spreadsheets.
According to the SEC's order, the two cursory spreadsheets that Lucia claims were backtests used a hypothetical 3 percent inflation rate even though this was lower than actual historical rates. Lucia admittedly knew that using the lower hypothetical inflation rate would make the results look more favorable for the Buckets of Money strategy. These alleged backtests also failed to account for the negative effect that the deduction of advisory fees would have had on the backtesting of their investment strategy, and their "backtesting" did not even allocate in the manner called for by Lucia's Buckets of Money strategy. The slideshow presentation that Lucia and RJL used during the seminars failed to disclose the flaws in their alleged backtests and was materially misleading.
According to the SEC's order, Lucia and RJL also failed to maintain adequate records of the backtesting as they were required to do under an SEC rule. The pair of two-page spreadsheets was the only documentation of their backtesting calculations, and those spreadsheets failed to duplicate their advertised investment strategy.
The SEC's order finds that RJL violated Sections 206(1), 206(2) and 206(4) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and Rule 206(4)-1(a)(5) thereunder. The order finds that Lucia willfully aided and abetted and caused RJL's violations of Sections 206(1), 206(2) and 206(4) of the Advisers Act and Rule 206(4)-1(a)(5) thereunder. The SEC's Division of Enforcement is seeking financial penalties and other remedial action in the proceedings.
The SEC's investigation was conducted by Peter Del Greco of the Los Angeles Regional Office. John Bulgozdy will lead the litigation. Bryan Bennett and John Kreimeyer conducted the SEC examination that prompted the investigation.


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Q: Start the pipeline only after approval and merge I have a problem that pipeline is starting immediately after the merge request and it does not wait for the approval and merge.
I want the pipeline to start or show the manual deploy option only after the user
clicks approve. Is it possible?

A: You need Premium Tier for Required Approvals.
With Approval Rules you can configure that a Merge-Request needs Approvals before it can be merged and optionally which user should do the approving.


I've been researching for a main camera replacement for my Nikon D90. "Go full frame" is what I hear from a lot of photographers, but I don't want to spend the $$$ to get there. A few days ago the Nikon D600 was announced. The description I've heard over and over again is that it is a mixture of the D800 and D7000. Oh yeah…and the lower price point makes it more appealing for a full frame camera.
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PLB or Personal Locator Beacon is a type of distress radiobeacon.

PLB may also refer to:
 Physics Letters B, a scientific journal covering nuclear physics, Particle physics, and astrophysics.
 Processor Local Bus, a bus used for IBM's PowerPC processors
 Programming Language for Business
 Public light bus, a form of public transport in Hong Kong
 Pursed lip breathing, a breathing technique used in medicine
 Premier League of Belize the highest competitive football league in Belize
 Clinton County Airport's IATA code
 Phospholipase B
 Phospholamban


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Notre Dame to host Indiana gubernatorial debate
Author: Bridget Doyle
The University of Notre Dame will host one of three Indiana gubernatorial debates in October, the Indiana Debate Commission announced today.
Three candidates for Indiana governor will take the stage in Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 (Wednesday) to debate the issues in front of a live audience.
Libertarian Rupert Boneham, Democrat John Gregg and Republican Mike Pence will answer questions submitted by Indiana residents. Questions are vetted by members of the commission, and those who submit questions may be invited to ask the candidates in person. To submit a question for the gubernatorial candidates, go to the commission's website or visit its Facebook page.
"One of the great benefits that a university offers to its community is to bring prominent people to campus for lectures and other presentations that are open to the public," said Timothy Sexton, associate vice president for public affairs at Notre Dame. "We have always tried to do that here at Notre Dame with political, business, religious, educational and other leaders, and we are certainly happy to be selected to host one of the gubernatorial debates this fall."
The debate at Notre Dame will be streamed live on the commission's website and is expected to air on Indiana public television and radio stations. Ticket availability, moderators and formats will be announced soon on the commission's website.
Two other debates are scheduled in October: the first is Oct. 10 (Wednesday) in Zionsville, Ind., and the last is Oct. 25 (Thursday) in Fort Wayne, Ind. Both are at 7 p.m. EDT and will be streamed live.
The Indiana Debate Commission is a nonpartisan, statewide group dedicated to promoting open, unbiased and transparent debates for Indiana voters.
Originally published by Brittany Collins at news.nd.edu on September 11, 2012.


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Thomas Grantham (1641–1718) was an English tobacco trader and sailor.

Thomas Grantham may also refer to:

Thomas Grantham (died 1592), MP for Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency)
Thomas Grantham (died 1558), MP for Lincoln
Thomas Grantham (died 1630)
Thomas Grantham (Parliamentarian) (1612–1655)
Thomas Grantham (Baptist) (1634–1692), English minister


What sets Pro Gamble apart from many other horse racing services is their portfolio and network of professionals who all like to gamble for a living, or at the very least make a second income.
These guys are on the road most of the time and so their bets are not found by hours of form reading – but, instead, by racing professionals and contacts within the industry that keep them and their members well informed.
This approach is a bit different to the successful pro-punters and proven champion tipsters we have at Tipster Platforms, but this method has also shown it can reap consistent monthly profits, maintain an impressive return on investment and above all provide a winning strike-rate that their members love.
To be honest, when they first contacted us we thought we've heard this all before – another person who claims to have coat and dagger contacts – but we gave them the benefit of the doubt and let them proof their selections and they have impressed…….to say the least!!
Their strike-rate is excellent and they nearly all shorten-up, so they are without doubt fancied – meaning their information is spot-on.
They are often contacted with information throughout the day and when they are at the tracks. This way, once they hear something and have also collated information about other runners at the course, they are then in a position to send this info on quickly to their members mobile phones – so it makes sense to have this new text-based approach. NOTE: they may give you a bet in the morning and update you with a later bet as and when they get it.
Their predominant interest lies on the flat and, therefore, mainly gain their information from the HQ of the flat turf scene – Newmarket.
Though, here at Tipster Platforms, we take a dim view to people claiming to be 'in the know' at Newmarket or gallop watchers in general or getting tips from stable lads – you've heard it all before and so have we!
These guys probably never see a horse on a gallop, just people and well-connected people, plus bookies and the racecourses – they like to bet!
But they bet big and, more importantly, selectively and they will provide a staking plan ranging from 1 – 10 pts on their chances. Often they will have an each-way fancy at 20/1 which might be advised at 2pts each-way (total points 4) Or a Banker bet at 10pts being the maximum stake. Don't worry, it's not a numbers game for them by throwing out hundreds of selections and hoping a few stick but having a consistent strike-rate they know will return a profit. At the end of the day Newmarket is flat racings HQ so there is lots of information coming out of there each and every day – their job is to sort through the wheat from the chaff and only pass on the very best!!
Sometimes there might be two or three horses fancied in the same race, but if one is possibly held in VERY high-regard and doing the best speed figures they might go with it and pass it on to members. However, if that information has come from one of their reliable sources with a proven track history it will add to their decision – if not, then with 2 or 3 horses in the same race they would more often than not just leave that race alone …………….At the end the end of the day they are selective punters who like to win and know the pros that can help them and their members do just that!
That works out at only 90p a day to get their info delivered direct to your phone.
So – each time they've got something to pass on, members will receive a text message at no extra cost outlining what horse (s) to back.
A simple and very affordable new approach to delivering the best info – Yes, it couldn't be easier – so even if you are out and about, in the office or away from your computer then as long as you've got your phone to-hand (and who hasn't these days) you'll never miss out!!
Plus – there is no need to reply if you want the selections anymore as once a member you'll simply be added to the daily text service and receive top info through the month.
Run by two individuals, that bring over 40 years racing experience to the table and being based near horse racing's HQ in Newmarket, they have a network of professionals that has seen them bring impressive returns for members.
Yes, there are no certainties in the world of horse racing – but they believe they have the edge with information coming from reliable sources.
Horses are animals, not machines – things don't always go to plan – but overall, they win.
However, these two experienced individuals come to the playing field having had bookmakers closing their accounts or restricting their bets, but now have a desire to let punters cash-in for the very first time – therefore, they certainly limit the times when a freak of nature, lady luck or a horse running below-par impacts what should happen!
Forget about missing another winner with Pro Gamble as for a one-off MONTHLY FEE of only £27 members get full access to all their selections. This new approach means members will get every bit of advice given to the Pro Gamble team, plus it keeps things simple with customers not having to dip-in-and out with unpredictable costs and – most importantly – never missing a winner.
Bearing in mind, the results have also been proofed to us here at Tipster Platforms over several months, and during that time this service has produced a very high strike-rate with long winning runs and some great gambles delivered.
This service truly is high class. You will get a stream of winners from approx. 5-7 bets per week. Yes, there will be days of No Bets, but this is because they are truly selective.
If you are looking for a stream of winners and want to join in some proper gambles then you need to get on board NOW.
Places will be limited to only 300 members to help protect the prices.
Sign Up to Pro Gamble Here!


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Marty Brennaman Is Still Coming In Loud and Clear
Marty Brennaman has been the voice of the Reds for more than four decades. But his most impressive feat has been keeping a voice of his own.
Craig Fehrman
His name is Franchester Martin Brennaman Jr. But you can call him Marty.
For the last 44 seasons, he's handled the play-by-play on Reds radio broadcasts, and he's always done it pretty much the same way. Each night, he eases into one of the best seats in the house. (At Great American Ball Park, the radio booth hovers just above home plate on the first base side.) He opens his score book, kept with an idiosyncratic system of symbols and tidbits and notes, and lines up the tools for maintaining that system: red pen, blue pen, highlighter, No. 1 pencil, white-out pen, plus backups of each. He stacks the pieces of paper containing his in-game promos. He slips on his chunky Sony headphones. And then Marty watches the game closely—the action and the possibility, the successes and the screw-ups—and tells you exactly what he sees.
The Cincinnati Reds, after some stops and starts, began consistently broadcasting games on radio in 1931. That means the franchise has now passed more years with Marty on the radio than years without him. And he's still the team's biggest nightly interpreter. According to Nielsen, Reds games on Fox Sports Ohio have drawn between 30,000 and 40,000 nightly television viewers in recent seasons. Marty's broadcasts reach more than twice that many fans—and that's just in Cincinnati, before you factor in the Reds' other 109 radio affiliates or WLW's near-national signal.
Given Marty's longevity and ubiquity, he's arguably the franchise's most famous employee, even including the guys in the dugout. "Think of how many different incarnations the team has had over the last 44 years," says Mo Egger, a sports talk host on ESPN1530 and WLW. "You knew they were going to fire the manager and the general manager soon enough. You knew they were going to cycle through more players. But Marty was the guy who was going to be there. There's something comforting about that."
Read Full Story Here: http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/sports-3/marty-brennaman-loud-and-clear/


Dole Photograph Collection, 1900-2009 Series 4: Senate, 1969-1996 Sub-Series 1: Congressional Service Sub-Series 2: Constituent Relations Box 24 Folder 24: Chanute, Kansas Reception and Parade (19 images) Item 1: Senator Dole waving from car in parade. 6/29/1991. Dole, Robert J., 1923-; Senator Dole sits on the back of a convertible car waving to crowd in Chanute, KS parade; Written on back: My wife took this picture as well as others. Mayor Bill Morlan.
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Q: Approach for Load Menu from Json/XML file with good memory utilization I have a menu file "navigationMenu.json" for my asp.net MVC application. Here is how i read the json file
public static class NavigationMenu
{
 public static List<NavigationMenuViewModel> Get()
        {
            string jsonMenu  = File.ReadAllText(HostingEnvironment.MapPath("/navigationmenu.json"));

            var menu = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<NavigationMenuViewModel>>(jsonMenu);
            return menu;
        }
}

So now when a page loads this method NavigationMenu.Get() called everytime and used in the view to display the menu.
My concern is, if this is the right way. Should i be using a static List Object to store the menu and use the list instead of reading everytime from the file? Also any changes in the menu file needs to show up instantly too.

A: It can depend on various things. If this file is accessed by 4 people every hour, there's no point over-engineering. Reading from a file is acceptable.
If you can ensure a single point of access to the file which is from your application (no other process touches it, like notepad), you can easily cache the contents and invalidate/refresh when accessing from said single point of access.
If there's a lot of traffic and can't ensure controlled access, you could also have a cache with a few seconds of expiration. I assume the users can live for 3 seconds with stale data. Also if the app only requests the navigation at the initial load, a lot of users will miss out on the update until they do a full-page refresh.


Rayma Jenkins is the President of Bed & Breakfast Association New Zealand, a nation-wide association that works to help and support bed and breakfast operators.
"Design – the word has different connotations depending upon the field in which it is being used. In the accommodation industry, we would most commonly think of design in relation to the layout and interior of the rooms the guests use.
The objective of good design in accommodation should be focused on the guest's experience and comfort. Products and spaces designed well, work better, make us feel better and hence enhance the guest's experience.
Historically in the bed and breakfast industry in New Zealand, bed and breakfast accommodation was offered in an existing home, so the rooms used were first and foremost rooms that had been designed for a family. As many of the first New Zealand bed and breakfasts were located on farms, the rooms used had probably accommodated the children from the time they were a baby to adulthood. Adapting these rooms to suitable accommodation for discerning travellers must have been a challenge but one our original hosts embraced, and as a result, their guests enjoyed the 'real' New Zealand experience.
However, over time the demands of the guests have become more sophisticated, and now, of course, most at the very least expect a private bathroom but probably an ensuite so adapting the family home has been a challenge. Now we have many purpose-built bed and breakfasts that are able to employ elements of good design that are guaranteed to give the guest a premium experience – or does it?
Have these purpose-built B&Bs started to look like just another hotel room, lacklustre and offer "same old same old" or do they still offer refined, bespoke options which guests love? Are they still offering an exhilarating experience that is a feast for the senses? Is the layout unexpected, are the colours distinct, are there stand out bed covers and cushions or art and rugs and is there the smell of fresh flowers or unique toiletries?
The joy of the traditional bed and breakfast is its individuality, and most are an authentic experience for the guests. Members do meet requirements ensuring a degree of comfort. For example at least one opening window with clear glass to provide natural light and fresh air or bedside reading lights placed at a suitable height for reading and controllable from the bed, as well as adequate space to place and store luggage. No two members meet our list of basic requirements in the same way, and we encourage them to keep their uniqueness.
Something bed and breakfasts have as a strength is now being recognised by the hotels. There are many where 'limited and lacklustre' is being challenged. Inspired interiors are coming to the fore. A particular establishment may be both loved by our guests and loathed by some; however, it does elicit a response, and as long as websites reflect the property accurately there should not be cause for complaint.


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La tour de la cloche de Nankin, dans le Jiangsu, en Chine, est un élément traditionnel chinois de type tour de la cloche, généralement associé à une tour du tambour.

Description
Située non loin de la Tour du tambour de Nankin, il s'agit d'un pavillon hexagonal à double toit, couvert de tuiles grises, de  de haut, contenant une énorme cloche. La structure actuelle date de 1889. Tout autour se trouve un joli jardin.

La cloche, qui date de 1388, mesure  de haut,  de diamètre et pèse .

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Article Library / 2016
Recommended Policy Directions
Legislative Initiatives Against BDS
American Jewish Orthodoxy
2016 Integrated Net Assessment
Bonds between Jewish Communities
Identity and Identification
People of the Book
Part 2: Dimensions of Jewish Well-Being
The International System and U.S. Standing
The Relationship with the United States and the Triangle's Resilience
Summary: Has Israel's Strategic Position Improved or Worsened?
State-Level Anti-BDS Legislative Initiatives – Overview and Recommendations
Overview of the Legislative Initiatives
Behind the Scenes – Advocates and Opponents
Seeing the Bigger Picture – the Limitations of anti-BDS Legislation
Policy Recommendations
Annex: Breakdown of Current State-Level Legislative Initiatives (as of September 2016)
Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Index on anti-Semitism in Europe
The Need for an Integrated Indicator
A Three-Dimensional Indicator
Implications – Comparing French Jewry's discomfort with British Jewry's confidence
India and Israel
Two Years since Narendra Modi's Election Victory
One Man's Whim – or Long-Term Forces of History?
Why is India important? The Numbers
India's Soft Power Assets
India's Quest for Great Power Status
Fast Growing Links with the Middle East
Energy and Economic Links with the Middle East
Islam: India's Historical and Cultural Bonds with the Muslim Middle East
Steady Growth of Indo-Israeli Relations
A Dearth of Information and Cultural Links
The India-Israel-Jewish People Triangle
Selected Indicators of World Jewry – 2015-2016
The Population of Israel
Size and Composition
Fertility, Mortality, and International Migration
Geographic Dispersal and Mobility
The Population of Jerusalem
Discussion and Policy Implications
Bonds Within and Between Communities
Looking at Jewish Pluralism in Israel
Identity Formation and Expression
What are the Main Components of Jewishness? Results of JPPI Surveys
What are the Main Components of Jewishness? (younger vs. older)
After the Zionist Revolution: Patterns of Jewish Collective Identity among Israeli Jews
Zionism and Jewish Identity
Analysis of PEW Findings
"Absolute Hilonim" and "Somewhat Traditional Hilonim"
Integration among Israeli Jews
Israeli Jews and American Jews
Religious Zionism in Israel Today: Toward the Center
The Drive Toward Political and Moral Leadership
The Disengagement from Gaza and the Face-to-Face Project
Integral Nationalism
The Historical Antecedents for the Contemporary Jewish Home Party
Religious Zionists in the Likud
Jewish Home Control of the Ministries of Education and Justice
Religious Zionists in the Army
Religious Zionists in the Mainstream Electronic Media
The Reduction in Religiosity
Being Less Sectarian and Religious Increases the Impact and Appeal of Religious Zionism
Jewish People Ways and Means, 2015-2016
The Development and Uses of Israel's Natural Gas
Israel: A Tale of Two Economies
Generational Change and Jewish Philanthropy in North America
The Heritage of Jewish Literacy and Educational Achievement and the State of Education in Israel
Tradition of Literacy
The State of Education in Israel
Part 3: Feature Articles
Orthodox Jews in the United States
Varieties of Orthodox Judaism
The Hasidic Community
The Yeshivish Community
Heimish Jews
The Modern Orthodox Community
The Sephardic Community
Chabad-Lubavitch
The Challenge of Orthodox Growth to Mainstream Jewish Organizations
French Aliyah: Governmental Efforts and Recommendations
Successful absorption is the key to encouraging Aliyah
Assessing the potential: 200,000 French Jews are considering immigration to Israel
Socio-Cultural Profile of French Olim
Employment prospects and Aliyah
Implementing Government Resolutions
Employment and businesses
Housing and Communal Life
Austrian Jewry 70+ Years after the Shoah
Communal Framework
From "Sitting on Packed Suitcases" to "Feeling at Home"
External Representation – Changing Relationship with the Gentile Surroundings
Changes in the Austrian Shoah Introspection
Jewish Group Identity
Infrastructure and Jewish Life
At the end of World War II, there were fewer than 4,000 Jews in Vienna (about 2 percent of the prewar Jewish population). Most surviving and returning Alt-Wiener2 Jews identified with Orthodox Judaism at all levels of observance, while a minority was distant from such religious identification. They were joined in the early 1950s by some 3,000 Jewish displaced persons (DPs), who stayed in the country after the closure of the allied DP camps. By and large, these DPs, who came mainly from central and eastern European countries, were observant, and some even Haredi. In the late 1950s and in the 1960s a wave of immigration to Vienna of Jews from those countries,3 particularly Hungary, led to the diversification of the IKG by the presence of significant numbers of Jews committed to different streams within Orthodoxy ranging from the Modern Orthodox and Zionist Mizrachi to the Haredi and fervently anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidim. In the 1970s and 1980s, further diversification occurred with the immigration and settlement in Vienna of some 3,000 Jews from the Soviet Union – mainly from Bukhara and Georgia. The majority of these Jewish immigrants maintained a traditional way of life.4 Due to this immigration, new elements of Sephardi Jewish identity and tradition were introduced into Vienna's postwar Jewish community, which for three decades had remained almost exclusively Ashkenazi.
Thus, over the past few decades, the Jewish population in Vienna has become more observant (even if the majority is more traditional than strictly observant) and diverse in terms of Orthodox practice and ideology, and more heterogeneous in terms of ethnic origin. Accordingly, there are nine Orthodox congregations in the IKG and another two religious groups outside the IKG framework (the Haredi Chabad-Lubavitch and the Progressive Or Chadasch5).
Today 7,787 Jews are registered members of the IKG6, most of whom are under the age of 40. Until the 1980s, it seemed the Vienna Jewish community was doomed to simply fade away, due to emigration, low birth rates, and high mortality rates due to demographic ageing. Thanks to immigration from the Soviet Union, in 1990, for the first time since 1945, the IKG registered more births than deaths, and average age dropped to below 50. In 2016, half of IKG members were under the age of 40, and over 60 percent under 50.7 This demographic development stands in contrast to the skewed age pyramids in most European Jewish communities – small and large (e.g. in Germany, 40.3 percent of the members are under the age of 508). It is mainly due to the high birthrate among Haredi Jews (about 20-25 percent of the IKG members9), the relatively high birthrate among (traditional) Sephardi Jews compared to the non-Haredi Ashkenazim, and the increasing birthrate among the latter. Additionally, the crumbling of ethnic barriers within the Jewish community resulted in broader local marriage prospects. Increasingly accepted Ashkenazi-Sephardi "mixed marriages" helped reduce the emigration of younger Jews.


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Staphyliniformia (vernáculo: estafiliniformes) é uma grande infraordem de insectos coleópteros, que contém cerca de 60 mil espécies que ocorrem em todo o mundo. A maioria das espécies ocorre em habitats húmidos, vários tipos de restos vegetais, fungos, esterco, carniça e muitas vivem em água doce.

Descrição
A maioria dos estafiliniformes tem um corpo pequeno a médio. É um grupo diverso com poucas claras apomorfias. Têm primitivamente antenas com 11 segmentos, um pescoço estreito relativamente bem espaçado dos olhos. O pronoto possui uma borda lateral grande e bem definida. As patas das larvas possuem 5 segmentos e o 10º segmento abdominal possui muitas vezes espinhos ou ganchos. Os urogomphi (cornos na ponta posterior do abdómen das larvas e pupas) possuem articulação basal.

Sistemática e evolução
Os estafiliniformes pertencem à subordem Polyphaga e normalmente é colocada ao nível de infraordem ou série. Contém 3 superfamílias:

Histeroidea
Hydrophiloidea
Staphylinoidea

Alguns estudos recentes também incluem a superfamília Scarabaeoidea (infraordem Scarabaeiformia), fomando a denominada linhagem hidrofilóide. Uma relação de grupo-irmão entre Hydrophiloidea e Histeroidea tem um apoio forte.

Registos fósseis não ambíguos datam do Triássico, e uma origem cedo no Mesozóico é provável.


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BOAS, Harold Collection
Contains a single series of biographical documents related to the career of Harold Boas. Includes an Indenture for his time as an articled architectural pupil in 1899; a reference and CV for Boas from 1904; a curriculum vitae from 1975; and his reminiscences from 1965. Before Architecture became a subject for University education, potential architects were apprenticed to practising architects. The indentures were a legal document binding both parties to complete the education of the apprentice. Donated by Mrs Marjorie Luno, daughter of Harold Boas.
Start date: 14 Feb 1899
End date: 01 Apr 1975
Harold Boas
Boas, H 2017, BOAS, Harold Collection, University of South Australia, viewed 18 January 2021, retrieved from <https://researchoutputs.unisa.edu.au/11541.1/e4c1d22c4dd64596ba20ac1750aaf567>.