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Biografies:
Sant Roc, sant del  de l'àmbit occitanocatalà
Roc Boronat i Font, polític i escriptor català
Roc Brasilià, pirata neerlandès del .
Roc Casagran i Casañas, poeta i novel·lista català
Roc Chabàs Llorens, religiós i historiador valencià.
Roc Fuentes i Navarro, advocat i polític català
Roc Llop i Convalia, mestre, poeta i anarquista català
Roc Monllor Boronat, arquitecte valencià.
Roc Oliva i Isern, jugador d'hoquei sobre herba català
Roc d'Olzinelles i Miquel, monjo benedictí i historiador català
Roc Pifarré i Florejachs, metge català
Agustí Roc i Amador, esquiador i corredor de muntanya català
Tit Romili Roc Vaticà, magistrat romà del .
 Genealogia:
 Nom masculí de persona, de vegades usat també com a cognom.
 Geografia:
Lo Ròc (o Le Roc), municipi francès del departament de l'Òlt.
 Geologia:
 Tros de pedra o de roca. Forma part de multitud de topònims com a sinònim de muntanya, pic o turó.
 Heràldica:
Roc, moble o figura heràldica que simbolitza la torre dels escacs.
 Informàtica:
 ROC (o OCR), sigla del reconeixement òptic de caràcters.
 Aeronàutica:
 Règim d'ascens o ROC (Rate Of Climb).
 Jocs i esports:
 Antic nom de la torre dels escacs.
 Comitè Olímpic Rus als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 2020
 Mitologia: Roc''', ocell gegant de la mitologia persa i àrab.

Vegeu també
 Sant Roc (desambiguació)

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Saint Paisios the Athonite - Biography
Saint Paisios the Athonite
By the Holy Hesychasterion "Evangelist John the Theologian"
Size: 6" x 9" (15.2 x 23 cm)
Binding: Softcover
From the Prologue:
"With the help of God, and after the work of a great many years, our Sisterhood, propelled by our sacred obligation toward the Saint, who for twenty-eight years had guided and benefited us in so many ways, presents the publication of the Biography of Saint Paisios the Athonite.
We also had the great blessing of gaining some insight into the immeasurable love the Saint had for God, his monastic exactitude, his absolute self-denial and the power of his fervent prayer. Having lived in such close proximity to him, we personally experienced his holy simplicity and his profound humility, his God-illuminated discernment, his noble love for each person, but also his deliberate efforts to conceal his virtues.
We therefore deemed it our obligation to utilize all the materials - both information and knowledge bequeathed to us in order to compose, to the best of our ability, the biography of the saintly Elder. The contents of this Synaxarion stem primarily from our communication with the Saint - from the notes we had kept during the gatherings of the Sisterhood and the private conversations we had had with him; from his letters not only to the entire Sisterhood but also to each Sister; from the numerous verbal and written testimonies which had been entrusted to us by clergy, monks and lay-people who had met the Elder' as well as from information that had been gathered from the on-site research we had conducted in some of the areas where the elder had lived and struggled. Understandably, it was impossible to include the enusuing material in its entirety, as it amounted to thousands of pages, and we wanted to avoid an overly extensive volume of biography. As a result, it became necessary to carefully..."
From the Contents:
- Prologue-
- Chapter One: From Pharasa to Homeland of Greece
- Chapter Two: The Years of his Childhood and Youth
- Chapter Three: Military Service
- Chapter Four: Preparations and Temptations
- Chapter Five: At the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou
- Chapter Six: At the Holy Monastery of Philotheou
- Chapter Seven: At the Holy Monastery of Stomion
- Chapter Eight: At God-trodden Mount Sinai
- Chapter Nine: At the Skete of Iveron of Saint John the Forerunner
- Chapter Ten: At Desolate Katounakia
- Chapter Eleven: At the Kelli of the Precious Cross
- Chapter Twelve: At the Kelli of Panagouda
- Chapter Thirteen: From Earth to Heaven
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Reston Then and Now: Reston
Vernon Miles April 12, 2019 at 1:45pm
Reston in 1937 (photo via Fairfax County Historic Imagery Viewer)
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For the final Reston Then and Now — a series where we've used Fairfax County's aerial photography to track changes in the area — we're looking at the area overall and at how far it's come since its founding.
Reston was founded in 1964, but some of the paths that are roads today — like Baron Cameron Avenue — are still visible in photography from 1937. Reston's iconic man-made lakes are also absent, leaving most of the area that's Reston today just open fields.
By 1976 though — 10 years after Reston was founded — the region was starting to take shape in the neighborhoods around Lake Anne and Lake Thoreau. The village design envisioned by founder Robert E. Simon is still apparent in those early aerial photographs showing retail and residential areas clumped together.
But over the years, those isolated communities start to become increasingly interconnected to the point of being almost indistinguishable from above. By the mid-1990s, the only major patch of green space around Reston is Colvin Run near Lake Fairfax and southeast of Lake Anne.
After the Reston Town Center starts showing up in aerial photography in 1990 (construction began in 1988) the development starts to shift west of the original area and more toward major transit routes.
In the photography from 1990, construction also starts to bunch around the Dulles Toll Road in the Reston Station neighborhood. The Toll Road was built in 1982, and by the early 2000s, the urban centers of Reston shift away from the villages to the north and south and more towards the developments along the major highway. This density starts to ramp up in 2011 as the area builds up for the Silver Line's opening in 2014.
The density continuing to focus around the Silver Line is poised to continue as developers plan new mixed-use buildings near Woodland Park by the planned Herndon Silver Line Metro station.
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Yichud by children: Do the laws of Yichud apply towards children? May a male and female child who are not siblings be alone together?
Do the laws of Yichud apply towards children? May a male and female child who are not siblings be alone together?
Example: May a mother go shopping if two cousins of the opposite gender are left alone at home, and both are below the age of Mitzvos?
The reason: As although the children themselves are permitted from the letter of the law to be together with each other, nevertheless, this is no different than any other Mitzvah of which we are obligated to educate our children once they have reached the age of Chinuch. [Shraga Hameir ibid] Vetzaruch Iyun on why this was omitted from Dvar Halacha ibid. Perhaps, however, one can say that until a child reaches the age of puberty he is not considered to have reached the age of Chinuch for Yichud, as the age of Chinuch of a Mitzvah only begins when one reaches the age of understanding of that Mitzvah. [see 343:3] On the other hand, however, the age of Chinuch for negative commands, such as Yichud, should begin as soon as the child understands enough to be told that it is forbidden to do so [see 343:3]. Accordingly, the Mitzvah of Chinuch for Yichud by children with other children would begin at a very young age [from 3!], something which is unheard of. Thus, one must say that Yichud is not similar to other Mitzvos of Chinuch that begin as soon as the child understands the Mitzvah or understands the warning against doing so, as the Sages initially never enacted a Yichud prohibition towards children [which are mainly all below puberty] the same way they did not enact a Yichud prohibition when Baalah Bair, and hence this matter is not relevant to Chinuch at all. Vetzaruch Iyun.


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The Strait of Dover, the narrowest section of the English Channel
The English Channel is a stretch of sea between England and France. At its shortest width, it is only 21 miles wide. The English Channel appears in a scene in the 2004 Godzilla film Godzilla Final Wars.
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Manda battling the Gotengo in the English Channel in Godzilla Final Wars
Swimming along the English Channel, the giant sea serpent Manda approached Normandy when he was confronted by the Gotengo. During the battle, the Gotengo lured Manda above an undersea volcano, where he was seemingly burned to death by the eruption. However, Manda survived, and burning red-hot, headed straight for the Gotengo. The Gotengo's captain, Douglas Gordon, used the ship's Absolute Zero Cannon to freeze Manda solid, and then destroyed him by ramming him with the ship's drill nose, shattering the serpent into chunks of ice.
Despite the English Channel being relatively shallow, in Godzilla Final Wars it is apparently deep enough to support an underwater volcano. In addition, no volcanoes exist anywhere near the area in real life, making the inclusion of one somewhat bizarre.
It's erroneously stated in Godzilla Final Wars that the English Channel is in an ocean off the coast of Normandy, with the area Manda appears in being described as the 'ocean floor'. This is incorrect, because the entirety of Normandy is on the southern side of the English Channel, with the entrance to the Atlantic Ocean being over 100 miles to the west.
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A Shepherd of the Plains. The life of William Bashford
by F W Gunning
ISBN 978-0-85905-787-5, (2020), A5, 11 pages, $10.00*
Bushman, pastoralist, of Moora, Dandaragan.
Saddle in the Kitchen
by Enga Smith
ISBN 0 85905 191 9, (1993 reprint of 1979 edition), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 91pp, illustrated, 150grams
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Saddle in the Kitchen will appeal to people of all ages who value a happy home and the simple pleasures of country life.
Enga Smith's 'Memories of a Childhood' evokes an atmosphere of love and tranquillity, while filling the days with a sense of wonder and adventure.
Sailor & Commando
by A.E. (Ted) JONES
ISBN 0 85905 253 2, (1998 new), Soft Cover, 182pp, illustrated, 245grams
As a young Royal Australian Navy sailor, one of just one hundred and twenty, Ted Jones trained at a secret base in New South Wales to become a Special Service Beach Commando. He saw active service in the Netherlands East Indies and Borneo with the Australian and American armies.
Sailor and Commando is a story of extraordinary training and active service. It includes a nominal roll of personnel.
Sailor, Soldier, Surgeon
The life of George W. Barber
by Simon Doyle and Jenny Mills
ISBN 978-0-85905-823-0, (2020 New), Soft Cover, French flaps, 240pp, illustrated, 590grams, $40.00* + Post
An exceptional medical officer during World War I, George Walter Barber had a wayfaring early life. As a teenager he worked as a merchant marine on a clipper serving the England – Australia route. He went on to study medicine and after graduating became a P&O ship doctor sailing the England-India-China route. He met his wife Jess on his final voyage, and they moved to the Kalgoorlie goldfields at the commencement of the goldrush. At the outbreak of the war he was mobilised to assess the fitness of Western Australian recruits. In 1916 he became Assistant Director Medical Services of the 4th Australian Division and in 1918 was appointed Deputy Director Medical Services, Australian Corps. He ran a venereal disease hospital in Egypt and served on a number of gruesome hospital ships during the Gallipoli campaign. As DDMS he was in charge of medical administration for the Australian troops in France and through his Standing Orders enacted a number of significant innovations which reflected the shift towards mobile warfare. He then went on to becomeDirector General Medical Services in Australia after the war (1925-1934).
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Sailors In Slouch Hats
From a Sea of Memories
Recorded by the Men of 42 Australian Landing Craft Company RAE, AIF
edited by W.W. Rice
ISBN 0 85905 299 0, (2001 reprint of 1999 edition), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 168pp, illustrated, 245grams
This story of the men of 42 Australian Landing Craft Company is a stirring and fitting tribute to the magnificent soldiers who risked and often gave their lives in Operation Porton in 1945. In the true tradition of the ANZACs these are stories of ordinary men who did extraordinary things. Operating in the very real danger of battle, the men of 42 ALC faced unpredictable seas and sustained enemy fire to land, support and then evacuate the soldiers of a company of 31/51 Bn. These stories are told with a frankness and affection in aw way that only a soldier can. 'Sailors in Slouch Hats' is a superb collection of personal experiences of mateship, ingenuity, larrikinism and bravery. We are fortunate to have this record of some of our heroes.
Lieutenant General P.J. Cosgrove, AC, MC
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Samuel Grau Hubbe and the South Australia to Western Australia Stock Route Expedition 1895-1896.
SG Hubbe. Edited by Andrew Guy Peake.
(WAEDP series.)
ISBN 978-0-85905-680-9, (New, 2018), casebound, section sewn, illustrated, maps, indexed, 296 pages, .855 kg
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Contains the official and private journals of Hubbe and John Mahar. Biographical notes on the men of the expedition.
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Pt 1. Colonists and Convicts
Pt 2. Pastoralists and Prospectors
By Kevin Moran
ISBN 978-0-85905-572-7, ISBN 978-0-85905-573-4, (2000, 2013), A4, 730 pp, Soft cover, illustrated, indexed, 2kg.
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A magnificent overview of the colony from a police perspective. Contains a great deal not available elsewhere.
Sand and Stone – Cattle and Conflict
ISBN 978-0- 85905-449-2, (2010, new), illust., A4, 436pp, 2Vols, 1.2kg
NB. This book is in two parts, of 232 and 204 pages respectively. The parts will not be sold separately. Matching numbers are printed and there will not be any extras available for replacements if a volume is loaned and lost
Sand and Stone continues to chronicle the story of the violent hidden history of Western Australia's Kimberley Region in this two part volume 'Cattle and Conflict'.
Sand and Stone – Foreign Footprints
Police in the Kimberley 1880–1890s
ISBN 978‑0‑85905‑447‑8, (2009), fully indexed, A4, Soft Cover, 271pp, 735grams
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The author retired from the West Australian Police Force as Superintendent in 1994 when acting Chief Superintendent Perth Region.
Following on from his earlier Sand and Stone volumes, the author has systematically combed the police files to uncover these Kimberley stories. They are absolutely essential for all interested in the area. This is the first of 3 volumes on the Kimberley.
Sand and Stone – Pigeon
by Kevin Moran (With a Foreword by Peter Conole)
ISBN 978-0-85905-448-5, (2011, New), 126pp, illustrated, 360grams
This is Pigeon's story and of those who suffered his reign of terror and the men who hunted him.
It is without academe historians' fashionable fabrications and elaborations, which in recent times have dissembled the past to rewrite history as they would like it, not as it was. They attack any historical writing that questions their spurious promotion of utopian aboriginal culture. They will not welcome this work.
Savagery on the Swan River Settlement:
The aboriginal murder cycle and the 1839 killing of Sarah Cook
Collected and edited by Peter J Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-246-7, (New 2010), A4, 36pp, 135grams
This report draws on material that has been suppressed or has been 'disappeared'.
Savagery on the Swan River Settlement has two primary threads.
That the government and media of 1839 suppressed the publication of the true facts of several vicious murders of Europeans to protect the native tribes from the retaliation of concerned settlers.
Save the Union
ed. by John C. Rice.
ISBN 978-0-85905-853-7, (c1920 R 2020), 160x240, illustrated, 80 pages, 150 grams, $30.00*
A very small reprint of a Franklin G. Rice's memoir of life, and death, in the Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War of 1862-65.
Scarlet Pillows - an Australian nurse's tale of long ago
by Mrs Arthur H. Garnsey
ISBN 978-0-85905-039-5, (2009 reprint), 151pp, illustrated, 220grams
Mrs Garnsey was a nurse at Coolgardie amidst the rush and typhoid. A bush classic
T he Scarlet Stain
Harlots, Harridans and Hellholes of Old Kalgoorlie
edited by Sheryl Milentis and Peter J. Bridge
ISBN 085905 350 4, (2004 new), Soft Cover, 188 pages, illustrated, 255grams
By the late 1890s the Kalgoorlie brothels had become a byword for degradation and the most flagrant in the English-speaking world.
The Sun newspaper campaigned against the outrageous displays by the prostitutes, the activities of their bludgers and the vested interests of the landlords and sly grog traders.
Separate Pathways
by R. Rolfe
ISBN 978-9-85905-552-9, (New, 2013), A4, 102pp, 300grams
A study examining the attempts at assimilation of Aborigines within the larger white society in Western Australia during the administration of A.O. Neville.
Shark Repellant
by George Herbert Payne.
ISBN 978-0-85905-815-5, (1947 R 2020), A4, 13 pages, 80 grams, $15.00*
RAAF research at Shark Bay in WWII with descriptions of the area and a biography of GH Payne.
She's No Milkmaid
by Rica Erickson & Rona Hayward
ISBN 0 85905 152 8, (1991 new), Soft Cover, 96pp, illustrated, 178grams
The biography of Dame Raigh Roe, President of the Country Womans Association, and the story of her fight for the rural women of Australia and the World.
The Shearers' War
by Stuart Svensen
ISBN 978-0-85905-434-8, (1989, 2008), 325pp, illustrated, 550grams
The first exhaustively researched history of the legendary strike, and the definitive history of one of the most significant industrial disputes in Australian history. The book breaks new ground by disproving accepted myths, such as the commonly accepted view that pastoralists were motivated to take action because of falling wool prices.
The Shrew and the Horsethief
by Peter J Bridge & Sheryl Milentis
ISBN 978-0-85905-538-3, (new, 2012), A4, 88pp, illustd., 270 grams
James Cody was a charismatic young WA bushranger in the 1880s. He was shot by the police at Esperance. Research showed a strange colonial background with his mother hung for murder in the old Perth gaol. A long forgotten but interesting story.
Signaller at the Front
by Arthur G. Howell, MM (Edited by Dr John Coe)
ISBN 0 85905 305 9, (2001 new), A4, 82 pages, 250grams
The war diary of Gunner Howell, 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade and his impressions of the Great War 1915-1918.
Sir James Mitchell
Premier and Governor of Western Australia
By Bruce Devenish
ISBN 978-0-85905-528-4, (2014), 227pp, Soft Cover, French flaps, illustrated, 550 grams
Available direct from the author at 60 Dyson street, Kensington, 6151, Tel 93676531, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This first definitive biography of one of the State's notable historical figures is well overdue. Foremost in promoting the wheat industry, Sir James Mitchell served his State wearing many hats, being at various times banker, farmer, parliamentarian, Premier, Lieutenant Governor and universally acclaimed Governor.
Six Black Murderers
by WC Charnley
[ISBN 978-0-85905-884-1], (1935, 2021), A4, 17 pages, illustrated, 105 grams. $22.00*
Tribal natives murdered Japanese fishermen on the NT coast in 1932. A great manhunt followed to capture the murderers.
The Six-Mile Murder
Rifles and Rotgut, Mary Jane Wain and James Conley
Peter J Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-669-4, (New, 2017), 41 pages, illustrated, A4, 115 grams
The murder and trial that created a sensation in WA in 1897.
Sketches from the South West
Louis Cox in Peace and War
Ed. by Peter J Bridge & Gail Dreezens
ISBN 978-0-85905-439-3, (2015, New), A4, 74pp, illustrated, 230grms.
Louis Cox (1878-1975) was a returned soldier of the 16th Bn, who had, after working as a survey hand, started clearing a block near Kojonup. His reminiscences about the land and its people together with his own drawings make this a delightful read. More sombre is the second part where as a soldier, he was captured and imprisoned in Germany in 1917.
Slash and Burn - Flint or firestick: Subincision and kindred rites of the Australian Aboriginal.
by Herbert Basedow.
ISBN 978-0-85905-850-6, (1927 R 2020), A4, 39 pages, illustrated, 150 grams, $30.00*
Those who survived the initiations could survive anything.
Small Scale Underground Mining
by F.W. Bojesen
ISBN 085905 292 3, (2003 new), A4, wire spiral bound, 170 pp, illustrated, 480+grams
Appendix (Reopening Old Mines) in PDF DOWNLOAD
Frank Bojesen has worked in underground mining in Australia and overseas for more than thirty years. He has prospected and worked his own mines as well as other people's - taught, supervised, managed and lectured, and spent years as a machine miner, carrying out every type and phase of underground development and production. He is still hunting for gold in the Eastern Goldfields, where he lives.
Some account of the New Colony of Western Australia etc.
by William Milligan.
An important colonial description of the colony and the natives.
Some Ghosts Some Not
by Eloise I Sharp
ISBN 978-0-85905-503-1, (1979, R2011), 225pp, illustrated, 420 grams
This book was first published privately in 1979 and has never been easy to obtain. Now a new edition with minor updates and with the colour photos on a gloss paper is available.
Eloise and her husband were post war English migrants who took to the Australian bush as the proverbial duck to water. They lived in many places - Dirk Hartog Island and Deepdale Station being just two, and Eloise's passion was bush history. She would stop anywhere to talk to bush people and enjoy a cup of tea, a characteristic passed on to her daughter, Mary Taylor of Northampton, who has produced several local histories and Volume 1 of The Bushman's Directory.
Some Ghosts was the first of a series of books written by Eloise. This one covers the histories of an area in the Pilbara region - Deepdale, Yarraloola, Mardie, Chinginarra, Warramboo, Red Hill, Yathala, Yalleen, Mt Enid, and Millstream are the stations and their people in this book.
Some notes on scientific travel amongst the black population of tropical Australia, 1904-1906.
by Hermaan Klaatsch.
ISBN 978-0-85905-861-2. (1907 R 2020), A4, 43 pages, heavily illustrated, 160 grams, $35.00*
A valuable, interesting and entertaining work.
The Spanish Settlers of Yoongarilup
by Alejandro (Andrew) Torrent
ISBN 0 646 16939 4, (1993 new), Soft Cover, 74pp, illustrated, 105grams
This is the story of seven Spanish families who came to Australia between 1906 and 1909.
"I came in 1907 with my mother and grandfather when I was four years old. I am the only survivor of the originals, as I was the youngest born in Spain."
We settled in Yoongarilup, eight miles from Busselton and developed our farms, being known as the 'Spanish Settlement'."
Spear and Club, Rifle and Revolver.
The Noltenius murders in the NT and the native killers. Wild Toby and Burketown Peter of North Queensland.
Ewan K. Patterson.
ISBN 978-0-85905-858-2, (New 2021), A4, 19 pages, 90 grams, $16.00*
Historical essays on native murderers in the North of Australia. Ewan Patterson was a Queensland journalist and publisher whose work, like that of many writers, is almost forgotten. This collection of articles and biographical notes on the author seeks to change that, and to bring to light the savage depredations which are now being hidden.
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Nation Almost all teens needing ICU care for COVID are unvaccinated
Almost all teens needing ICU care for COVID are unvaccinated
Clinicians re-position a COVID-19 patient into the supine position at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients at the hospital and across Southern California on Jan. 6, 2021, in Apple Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/TNS)
Robert Langreth Bloomberg News (TNS)
Almost all teenagers who needed intensive care for COVID-19 were unvaccinated in a study that bolsters the use of the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE shot in youths.
The vaccine prevented 98% of ICU visits and 94% of COVID-related hospitalizations in the real-world study of more than 1,000 adolescents ages 12 to 18 in 23 states published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
While adolescents can develop severe COVID-19 complications, it's relatively rare that they do, making it harder to study vaccine efficacy than among older adults, and leading to some controversy about the use of the shots in younger people. For example, the trial data Pfizer submitted for authorization of its shot for 12- to 15-year-olds didn't include enough cases to assess efficacy in preventing severe COVID-19.
The research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a network of 31 hospitals is one of the most detailed yet showing that vaccines can prevent severe COVID-19 complications in teenagers.
The results show that "nearly all hospitalizations and deaths in this population could have been prevented by vaccination," Vanderbilt University Medical Center pediatrics professor Kathryn Edwards wrote in an editorial accompanying the study.
The study compared 445 adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 with a control group of 777 admitted for other reasons, including those with COVID-like symptoms who tested negative. It ran from July 1, 2021 through Oct. 25, 2021, when the Pfizer shot was widely available for adolescents and the delta strain was dominant. Most of the kids hospitalized with COVID-19 in the study were in the South, where the delta wave first hit the U.S.
Overall, the researchers found that 96% of the adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 and 99% of those who received life support had not been fully vaccinated. All seven patients who died of COVID-19 and all of the 13 patients who received a last-ditch treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were unvaccinated, according to the findings.
Some 74% of the adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 in the study had at least one underlying condition, such as obesity.
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Christine Lagarde Is Picked as E.C.B.'s New President. What Does the Bank Do?
On Tuesday, European officials nominated Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund's current leader, to succeed Mario Draghi as European Central Bank president. Here's a primer on the institution Ms. Lagarde has been chosen to lead.
[After grueling negotiations, the E.U. selected its top leaders on Tuesday. See who they are.]
What is the European Central Bank?
The European Central Bank, which has its headquarters in Frankfurt, sets monetary policy and supervises banking for the 19 countries that use the common European currency, the euro. In many ways, it operates much like the Federal Reserve in the United States, printing money, setting benchmark interest rates and encouraging people to spend or save depending on the needs of the region's economy. A key element of its job is to maintain price stability and keep inflation in check across a swath of Europe that stretches from the Nordic nations to the Mediterranean.
How big is the eurozone economy and which countries participate in it?
If the eurozone were a country, it would have the world's second-largest economy after the United States. Its 19 member states account for 340 million people. Membership is open, meaning that, if other European Union countries wanted to join and met the relevant criteria, they could. The current members are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
What was the central bank's role in the eurozone debt crisis?
As an economic malaise in Greece and other European countries threatened the euro's future in 2012, Mr. Draghi said he would do "whatever it takes" to save the currency. That pronouncement established the E.C.B.'s commitment to preserving the euro, a significant moment for the bloc and for the global economy.


Mothers around the world are referred to by their children with word sounds which are strikingly similar, despite speaking in totally unrelated languages. The word for mother: mom, mum, mama, ma, however familiarly or formally it is said, is a universal linguistic thread throughout the world. This is widely believed to be due to the fact the vowel and consonant sounds used in the many variants of this word, are among the very first to be mastered by children whatever their origin.
32 International names for MOM. Languages include: American, French, Danish, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Catalan, Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Czech, Hebrew, Greek, English, Arabic, Esperanto, Urdu, Spanish, Serb, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swahili, Hindi, Latin, Estonian, Polish, Dutch, Tibetan, Irish Gaelic and Italian.
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'French Lieutenant's Woman' at Classic Book Club
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The Palmdale City Library's Classics Book Club will discuss the novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles, Monday, May 20, at 7 p.m., at the library, 700 E. Palmdale Blvd.
Written in 1969, the novel is set in the mid-19th century and tells the story of Sarah Woodruff, a woman who fell in love with and was then abandoned by a French lieutenant. While living in disgrace in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, Sarah meets Charles Smithson, an orphaned gentleman engaged to the daughter of a wealthy tradesman, who falls in love with her while listening to her story.
The novel was transformed into a popular 1981 motion picture starring Meryl Streep.
The Classics Book Club typically meets on the fourth Monday of every month from 7 to 8 pm but will meet on the third Monday in May due to the Memorial Day holiday. New members are welcome to attend.
The Palmdale City Library is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
For more information, all the Palmdale City Library at (661) 267-5600, TDD 267-5167, or visit www.cityofpalmdale.org/library.
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'The Great Society' review: Lyndon B. Johnson play an action-packed drama
Marc Kudisch and Brian Cox star in the political drama "The Great Society." Photo Credit: Evan Zimmerman
Marc Kudisch and Brian Cox star in the political drama "The Great Society." Photo Credit: Kambri Crews
If you go: "The Great Society" runs through Nov. 30 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 150 W. 65th St., greatsocietybroadway.com.
Turbulence takes over and a president's ambitious domestic agenda gets derailed by overwhelming racial prejudice and an out-of-control foreign war in "The Great Society" — a long-winded but action-packed roller-coaster of a historical drama by Robert Schenkkan examining the final years of the presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson, from his 1964 election through the inauguration of Richard Nixon four years later.
"The Great Society" is a follow-up to "All the Way," which dramatized the yearlong period between the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, making LBJ president, to the 1964 election.
Whereas Bryan Cranston played LBJ in "All the Way" on Broadway in 2014 and in a subsequent HBO film adaptation, Scottish actor Brian Cox (who is currently playing media baron Logan Roy on the HBO series "Succession") has taken over as the 36th president. Bill Rauch, who directed "All the Way," is also at the helm of "The Great Society."
Compared to the relatively narrow focus of "All the Way" on the difficult passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "The Great Society" delves into not just LBJ's domestic agenda (including voting rights, Medicare, poverty relief and education reform) but also the March on Selma, urban race riots, the escalation of the Vietnam War and the rise of a strengthened Republican Party.
Most of the 19 actors in the cast play numerous characters. David Garrison alone plays Richard Nixon, Alabama Gov. George Wallace, Sheriff Jim Clark and Norman Morrison (who lit himself on fire in protest of the Vietnam War).
Other historical figures in the play include Martin Luther King, Jr. (Grantham Coleman), Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (Marc Kudisch), Robert F. Kennedy (Bryce Pinkham), Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Richard Thomas), Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen (Frank Wood), Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (Matthew Rauch), FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Gordon Clapp) and Lady Bird Johnson (Barbara Garrick).
Taking advantage of the thrust stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, David Korins' set resembles a circular arena, in which the actors observe the action while sitting on benches. Above them are three large screens (plus rows of smaller television screens) which show, among other things, FBI surveillance photos and updates on the number of dead and wounded soldiers in Vietnam.
"The Great Society" is not unlike an epic Shakespearean history play and tragedy, in which the protagonist undergoes a painful loss of power and falls victim to paranoia and hubris. Running just under three hours, it would probably benefit from further editing and trimming, but still makes for an engaging, educational and critical-minded theatrical experience.
It should be noted that Schenkkan does not shy away from having the characters use language that would be considered extremely inappropriate by today's standards or depicting troubling instances of police brutality.
Cox, who takes on LBJ's distinctive Southern accent, gives a high-intensity performance in which he devolves from swaggering pomp to pleading for help. However, he avoids exaggeration and excessive imitation and remains focused throughout. Other standout performances include Thomas' alarmed but supportive Humphrey, Kudisch's brusque and unapologetic Daly and Coleman's wearying and downbeat MLK.
To commemorate LBJ's commitment to voter equality, the producers of "The Great Society" have set up private voting booths in the lobby where theatergoers can vote for who should be the Democratic or Republican Party presidential nominee in the 2020 election. Perhaps one of them will soon be the subject of their own historical drama.


Most people dream of going to an unfamiliar area. They imagine themselves walking into a seemingly normal bar and discovering that it's the coolest place near the hotel. Unfortunately, a regular rooftop bar in Singapore doesn't share the same vibe and whimsy as other bars. If you ever go on a vacation, here are a few ways to help you find the best place in the area.
Most bartenders usually have an extensive social media connection. They often have connections with other sommeliers, chefs, and other people who work in the hospitality industry. Even if you don't work in the industry, you can try befriending a hometown bartender on social media. Esquire says that bartenders will be more than happy to send you their top choices for the best bars. They can even connect you with other bartenders within your area.
Most often, people who leave their comments on these sites don't base their opinions on any relevant or specific criteria. If you notice, they don't comment too much on the drinks itself. Instead, they usually give lower stars because they didn't like a few things in the bar that's often not related to the cocktail drinks at all.
These kinds of people have become so pervasive for the past few years that they can change the experience of the places they shower in their applause. When you often go to any one of these places, it's usually overrun by travellers who you don't get the chance to feel why they got the praise in the beginning.
There's no better way to get the best bars in the city than asking the locals. You can ask anyone from the hotel to know the best bars and clubs within the area. Bloomberg advises that you can go inside a bar on a slow night and introduce yourself. Sit down for a while and talk to the bartenders and chat with them a little. A little act of friendliness can lead you to the best bars without doing any research.
A few people believe that giving tips works like karma. You might even be surprised at how many doors will open for you with just a little money. You might even get to skip the line on a Friday night just because the guy you tipped a few days ago remembered you. Although it may sound simple, people usually remember the ones who were friendly to them. Even though you're in a non-tipping country, giving out a small tip can work wonders.
Singapore is safer than you might think, so rest assured that you'll have a fun night with fewer worries. It's best to ask the locals for recommendations so you can have a great night while you're in the city. You can always check the Internet for the country's best bars. There are a few bars with magnificent urban gardens atop some of the best towers in downtown CBD.


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Q: Evaluate $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \left( \frac{\pi}{6} - \int_{0}^{n} \frac{\sqrt{3} (2x+1)}{(x^2+x+3)^2+3} dx \right)$ While I was taking some mathematics competition, I faced following problem, but I couldn't solve it.
The problem was:

Let $\displaystyle f(x) = \frac{\sqrt{3} (2x+1)}{(x^2+x+3)^2+3}$. Evaluate the sum:
  $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \left( \frac{\pi}{6} - \int_{0}^{n} f(x) dx  \right).$$

I tried to solve this problem by first evaluating integral of $f$.
Then, I obtained following sum, but I couldn't evaluate it.
$$ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \left( {\pi \over 2} - \arctan({n^2+n+3 \over \sqrt{3}}) \right)$$
It would be very thankful if someone give me hint or solution to this problem.
Note: This problem is from Korean College Mathematics Competition.

A: I heard the solution from another person. So I post it here.

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*It is equivalent to compute $\displaystyle \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \arctan \left( {\sqrt{3} \over n^2+n+3} \right)$

*Use identity:
$$ \arctan \frac{n}{n+4} \sqrt{3} - \arctan \frac{n-1}{n+3}\sqrt{3} = \arctan \frac{\sqrt{3}}{n^2+n+3} $$
to prove that it converges to $\arctan( \sqrt{3}) = \pi/3$.

A: As you mentioned, the sum is equivalent to $$\sum_{i=1}^\infty \arctan\frac{\sqrt{3}}{n^2+n+3}$$
because $\arctan x+\arctan\frac{1}{x}=\frac{\pi}{2}$.
To compute series containing $\arctan$ terms, usually we use the identity
$$\arctan x-\arctan y=\arctan\frac{x-y}{1+xy}$$
to turn the sum in telescopic form.
Specially, we look for a sequence $p_n$ such that (in this case):
$$\arctan\frac{\sqrt{3}}{n^2+n+3}=\arctan p_n-\arctan p_{n-1}=\arctan \frac{p_n-p_{n-1}}{1+p_np_{n-1}}\qquad(*) $$
and in this case we need to consider $p_n$ in form $\frac{an+b}{cn+d}$ and look for coefficients $a$, $b$, $c$ and $d$ to satisfy $(*)$.

A: You may avoid the evaluation of the arctan series. Note that
$$f(x) = \frac{\sqrt{3}(2x+1)}{(x^2+x+3)^2+3}=g(x)-g(x+1)$$
where
$$g(x)=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{x^2+3}.$$
Moreover
$$G(x)=\int_0^x g(t)\,dt=\arctan\left(\frac{x}{\sqrt{3}}\right).$$
Hence, since $G(1)=\frac{\pi}{6}$, it follows that
$$\begin{align}
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \left( \frac{\pi}{6} - \int_{0}^{n} f(x)\, dx  \right)&=
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(G(1)- \int_{0}^{n} (g(x)-g(x+1)) dx) \\
&=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (G(1)-(G(n)-(G(n+1)-G(1)))\\
&= \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(G(n+1)-G(n))\\
&=\lim_{n\to +\infty}G(n)-G(1)=\frac{\pi}{2}-\frac{\pi}{6}=\frac{\pi}{3}.\end{align}$$

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Q: Why does it take more time when I fetch an info from more than two tables? It's regarding SQL Devloper. Suppose I have three tables Table1, Table2 and Table3. When I run below query
select * from Table1 where coustomer_id in (select custmoer_id from Table2 where city='Pune');

Above query fetches the result in less than 2 seconds.
But when I try to fetch the info from more than two tables it takes too much time. For example:
select * from Table3 where building_name in (select building_name from Table1 where customer_id in (select customer_id from Table2 where city='Pune'));

So in this case it takse more time in comparison to above query.
Why does it take so much time and is there any solution for this?

A: There's no way to know for sure without seeing the structure of your tables (and it's not clear what "more time" means).  But the most likely reasons are:

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*Table3 does not have an index on building_name.

*There are a lot more records in Table3 than Table1.

*Table3 has many more columns than Table1.


Anna Mae Shaw, 71, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, at her home in Flushing.
The daughter of Dewey and Annie Edwards Shaw, she was born on March 14, 1940, in Alton.
Anna Mae was educated in Alton before moving to New York. She was employed at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., for 30 years until her retirement.
Anna Mae is survived by two sons, Ralph Anthony Shaw of Flushing and Kevin Shaw; two brothers, Eugene Shaw and Robert and Carole Shaw, all of Alton; two sisters, Ethel Gatling of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., and Evelyn Holloway of Milwaukee, Wis., and a host of other relatives and friends.
Anna Mae was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Dewey Shaw Jr., Granville Shaw and James Shaw; and one sister, Wanda Shaw.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, Nov. 18, at Arlington Benson Dowd Inc. Funeral Home, 83-15 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, New York 11432 and the burial will follow at Springfield Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, N.Y.


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Indian Navy fires missile as part of military drill in Bay of Bengal
Article Posted on : - Nov 02, 2020
NEW DELHI (PTI): The Indian Navy on Friday successfully test fired an anti-ship missile from its guided missile corvette INS Kora in the Bay of Bengal as part of a drill that reflected its combat readiness in the strategic sea lanes around India, officials said.
The Navy said the missile hit the target at maximum range with precise accuracy.
"Anti-ship missile fired by Indian Navy's Guided Missile Corvette INS Kora hits the target at max range with precise accuracy in Bay of Bengal. Target ship severely damaged and in flames," the Navy tweeted.
Last week, the Navy released a video of an anti-ship missile destroying a sinking ship with "deadly accuracy" somewhere in the Arabian Sea.
The missile was fired by frontline corvette INS Prabal as part of a mega drill involving aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya and a number of warships, attack helicopters, aircraft and other assets of the Navy.
The Indian Navy has significantly increased its deployment in the Indian Ocean Region in an attempt to send across a message to China in the wake of escalation in tension between the two countries over the border standoff in eastern Ladakh.
The Indian Navy has participated in a number of joint maritime exercises in the last few weeks, including a three-day drill with Japanese navy from September 26-28.
Last month, Indian Navy also carried out a two-day mega exercise in the Indian Ocean Region with the Australian Navy that featured a range of complex naval manoeuvres, anti-aircraft drills and helicopter operations.
In July, the Indian Navy carried out a military exercise with a US Navy carrier strike group led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the coast of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The USS Nimitz is the world's largest warship.
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This is the classic Tuscan bread salad made at the height of tomato season. Tuscan bread goes stale very quickly so there are lots of recipes to use it up in flavorful ways. The success of the dish depends on using really flavorful, ripe tomatoes and a good olive oil. And you can use fresher bread if you don't have stale—see directions below. You do need basil for this, though you can certainly add some chives as well, so I hope you have some in your garden or pick some up.
I know that when you order Panzanella in restaurants in the US you get toasted chunks of bread more like croutons, tossed with tomatoes, etc. This version is what I learned and ate in Tuscany. Please give it a try. The texture is completely different than what is served here but much more integrated and I think much better. Would love to hear reports if you make it.
If the bread is quite stale, soak it in water for 15 minutes (Tuscan bread gets much harder than the bread we typically have here) If it's not terribly stale you can just sprinkle it with a bit of water to moisten it slightly.
Combine the vegetables, basil and garlic in a large salad bowl. When ready, drain the bread cubes (if you soaked them) and squeeze all the water out of them using your hands. Crumble the bread over the vegetables. In a small bowl, combine the oil, vinegar, salt and pepper and stir well. Pour over salad and toss to combine really well. Adjust seasoning to taste. This salad should have a good vinegary kick and be strongly flavored with the basil, capers and garlic.
Wash and drain the beans and put them in a saucepan. Cut up the pasilla pepper (or jalapenos, if using them) and add to the pot. Make the pieces large so you can retrieve them later. Cover the beans with water by 1" in a saucepan, bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook until tender, but not mushy, maybe 15-20 minutes. Drain and remove the peppers from the beans. Dice the poblano, red peppers and onions all to about 1/2 inch pieces. Rinse the onion in a strainer under cold water to remove some of the sulfurous bite. In a dry skillet, roast the corn until it browns over high heat, stirring and tossing frequently, but don't burn it. Take the corn out when you have some nice brown spots on most kernels. Mince the garlic and put it in the skillet with a teaspoon of olive oil for about two minutes over high heat - just enough to soften it up, not enough to burn it or caramelize. In a small pot, combine one cup of quinoa with a cup and a half of water. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and cook until all the water is absorbed - maybe 12 minutes. Mix the corn, peppers, onions, quinoa, garlic, and beans together and toss well. Add the olive oil, cheese, lime juice, cumin, and cliantro. Salt and pepper to taste. Put in a refrigerator to cool for at least an hour before serving. If you'd like, add diced avocado, tomato, mango, or papaya as mentioned earlier.
Heat the oil and saute the onion a few minutes, then add the garlic and cook until softened.
Stir in the flour, cook 2 minutes, then slowly add the stock. Add the chile, tomato and cumin.
Add water or stock if sauce gets too thick. Add salt to taste. Makes about 3 cups.
Lettuces this time of year are so tender and crisp and perfect. The summer heat hasn't made them bitter yet and this salad is perfect for them. It includes eggs in two forms (hard-boiled and in the aioli)! And the salad is begging for adaptations. Add some chopped tarragon if you have it or other herbs (mint, parsley, basil, chives). You could add canned tuna for an even heartier version.
Put the lettuce, eggs, capers, onion and croutons in a salad bowl. Mix the dressing ingredients in a small bowl and then toss well with the lettuce, etc. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Aioli is basically garlicky mayonnaise. Green garlic lends itself very well to this technique since it's milder and sweeter than mature garlic. Traditionally it's made with mature garlic so use whatever you have. Homemade aioli takes about 5 minutes to make and keeps well for a week. I've always made it by hand but I know it works really well in the food processor too so by all means use that if you want. It's so delicious and endlessly useful and adaptable. Potato salad, deviled eggs, egg salad, sandwiches, spread for grilled fish, dressing for anything.
about 1 ½ cups oil. I use a combo of two thirds neutral oil like Sunflower and one third good tasting olive oil. If you use all olive oil it tends to be too bitter and strong.
Mince 2-3 stalks of green garlic (the tender parts—trim off anything that seems at all fibrous) as finely as you can with a sharp knife for mince in a food processor.
Whisk the garlic into the eggs yolks with the lemon juice, mustard and salt and pepper. Then very slowly start adding the oil, almost drip by drip for a bit until you things get nice and emulsified. Then you can start adding the oil in a thin stream, whisking all the while (or do the same in the food processor).
Traditionally aioli is served as a dip with raw and steamed vegetables. This week it could be carrots and turnips and radishes – raw or quickly blanched or steamed. It's good with chickpeas, potatoes, asparagus, etc. It's also wonderful with grilled foods, in a sandwich or spooned in soup or pasta or used instead of mayonnaise in deviled eggs.


Message from the Chairman_Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.
The CPC Central Committee and the State Council have made a strategic decision from a historical and macro perspective to establish Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC) in order to develop large commercial aircraft with a view to promoting China's scientific and technological progress and improve the comprehensive national strengths. Since the incorporation of COMAC, entrusted with this sacred mission and carrying a great dream and passion of "making Chinese large airliners fly in the blue skies soon", we have been making unremitting efforts to develop the C919 and ARJ21 programs. Thanks to more-than-three-year innovation and development, COMAC has stepped onto the track of rapid growth, with increasing talent pools, improved competencies, a better-fledged commercial aircraft industry system, and a well-rounded corporate culture.
Looking back, we are very thrilled. State leaders such as Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang, and Zhou Yongkang have given important directions which enhanced our confidence. The great support from Central Government and relevant Ministries and Commissions, and local governments as well as warm care from all social sectors have created a favorable environment and provided a strong power base for COMAC. On behalf of COMAC, I would like to express heartfelt thanks to the leaders, experts, and people from all walks of life for their generous help and support to COMAC.
Looking into the future, we are full of pride and enthusiasm. The decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to develop large commercial airplanes, plus the increasing demand for commercial airplanes in the Chinese market, provides an excellent opportunity for COMAC to develop. We will certainly cherish the existing good foundation and seize new opportunities. Based on the new starting point, we are prepared to meet new challenges, inherit and innovate, in order to enable safe, stable and rapid development of COMAC.
We will always uphold independent innovation, determinedly adhere to the path of developing civil aircraft with Chinese characteristics and technological progress, and establish a market-oriented technological innovation system, which features enterprises as key players in conjunction with integrated manufacturing, education, research and end uses. Benchmarking with world-class, we shall advance forward-looking innovations, manufacturing innovations and competitive innovations, to comprehensively promote the core competencies of COMAC as an airframer. We are determined to grasp some key technologies, build an indigenous brand recognized internationally.
We will continue to follow the open and cooperative principles. On the platform of aircraft programs, we shall strengthen strategic cooperation with suppliers, and leverage international and domestic markets and resources. COMAC shall contribute to the construction of civil aircraft supply chain and industrial system, and promote the continuous upgrading of the industrial structure, product structure, ownership right structure and organizational structure.
We will always act in the scientific spirit and strive for excellence. By constantly strengthening the "global, thorough and total" quality management awareness, airworthiness management awareness and cost management awareness, we shall establish and improve an effective operating system and supervision system. Based on the principle of safety first, we are committed to creating exquisite products, and endeavor to build safer, more economic, more comfortable and more eco-friendly commercial airplanes for customers.
We will always give priority to talents, establish a scientific approach to develop talents, implement our strategy of building the company through talents. We shall continue to innovate the mechanism of developing talents by means of attracting talents, making good use of them, and cultivating them, with a view to building COMAC into a "special zone" and "dream land" for talents and into a "stage" for their career.
We will continue to carry on the fine spirit of the past and count on our employees to develop the company, and give full play to their intelligence and wisdom. Guided by the advanced culture, and acting in the spirit of "indigenously-developed atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb and satellite", manned space, and aeronautical patriotism, we are prepared to "struggle, overcome technical difficulties, meet challenges and dedicate ourselves to the company for a long period of time moving forward". We shall foster a "Spirit of Chinese Large Commercial Airplanes", and let the corporate culture drive the sustainable development of COMAC.
Standing on the new starting point and keeping our mission in the mind, with iron-like perseverance and unswerving efforts, we shall shoulder great responsibilities to build the large commercial aircraft program into a landmark project for the national reform and opening up campaign in the new era and for building an innovative country. We also vow to build COMAC into a world-class aviation company and let China-made large commercial aircraft fly in the blue skies soon.


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I'm sure you have a few goals in your mind that you want to achieve, yet can't seem to gain any forward traction or end up giving up together. As I tackle a few goals of my own, there's a formula I ran across that is helping me reach for the things that I want to accomplish in a more comfortable way than I had ever done before.
There have been a few things in the works for me, from writing more articles on this site to building a few small websites. I'm doing this on top of my already-existing responsibilities and habits like having a full-time job, going to the gym and spending time with loved ones. Admittedly, wanting to do all these things can get overwhelming rather quickly.
Lately, I've been studying how I could manage all of the things I want to accomplish without sacrificing the things that are most important things (spending as much time with my wife as I can) and beneficial (getting enough sleep to function well the next day without insane amounts of caffeine). I've been reading books and listening to podcasts and trying out bits and pieces of what I've learned. The purpose was not to flood my brain with hundreds of people's advice on what has worked for them, since that kind of defeats the whole purpose. It was to see what resonated with me and then trying out a handful of those tips for myself.
Stand up, take a step, repeat.
That's it. I said it was simple, right? The formula is to decide you're going to do something, take a step towards your goal, and do it again and again until you reach your desired goal. Doing this simplifies both the task you need to tackle right now and the longer-term goal by allowing you to remain consistent. Consistency is indeed the key to achieving the success you want in your life.
As I thought about it more, I realized that I was already doing a version of this formula. I suspect almost everyone who has set a goal for themselves has done a similar version, whether consciously or unconsciously. However, I'm sure we've all fallen into the same traps that makes this formula not work as well as we'd like. The main pitfalls are that we aren't specific enough in any of these steps, the steps are too massive to accomplish, and that we only focus on the result without checking our progress along the way. These traps lead to discouragement and eventually giving up on the goal altogether because it makes things unnecessarily complicated. The key here is to make your steps small and specific so that you can be encouraged to do the things you need to do every single day until you reach your goal.
Stand up: Go to the gym.
Repeat: Go again to the gym and exercise until I lose 20 pounds.
This breakdown would be useful as a very high-level view of what you want to do. But this can't be used as our daily reminder of what we want to do. For one, just simply saying "Exercise" is a very open-ended question. Having an open question like this requires you to think and use your brain's willpower reserves, which can lead to losing one's motivation and making excuses to not go to the gym because we don't have a clear picture of what we need to do today. Also, if we keep reminding ourselves every day that our goal is to lose 20 pounds, eventually we begin to think that every day we haven't lost 20 pounds we have failed. Thinking this way ultimately leads to discouragement and abandoning the goal.
Stand up: Go to the gym at 9:00 AM.
Take a step: Lift weights for 45 minutes and spend 30 minutes on the elliptical machine.
Repeat: Check my weight and go again to the gym tomorrow / in a few days.
Here, we're focusing on what we can do right now to move closer to our goal of losing 20 pounds. We're not reminding ourselves every day that we want to lose 20 pounds. We know it won't happen instantly, so we don't need to have it in our heads all the time. We should remind ourselves occasionally of the end goal just to make sure we're right on track, but that's it. Instead, we can tell ourselves to go to the gym at a specific time and do a particular group of exercises, checking our progress and going again tomorrow. This way we focus on smaller actions that you can do quickly, and it makes the task so much easier to do over and over again. You can take it further by making the "Lift weights" portion even more specific (3 sets / 10 reps of bench presses, 2 sets / 20 reps of kettlebell squats, etc.).
Stand up: Read tutorial on iPhone app development.
Take a step: Follow tutorial's coding examples on my laptop.
Repeat: Keep doing it until I build an app.
Stand up: Watch 2 videos from iPhone development course from Udemy.
Take a step: Spend 30 minutes on my laptop coding examples to reinforce what I learned.
Repeat: Watch next set of Udemy videos tomorrow.
I've found that you can apply the "Stand up, take a step, repeat" formula to just about any goal you would like to achieve. Again, the key is to make things small and easy to repeat as much as you can, preferably daily. One of the best resources that I've found for this is the book Mini Habits by Stephen Guise. This book completely transformed the way I looked at my goals and has made me achieve more than I ever expected to be possible. I highly recommend this book for everyone who wants to accomplish any goal in their life.
The "Stand up, take a step, repeat" formula is the most straightforward path to reach your goal, whatever it is that you want to do. Often, our brains seem to discard the simple things right in front of our very eyes and over-complicates stuff along the way. I genuinely believe that you are more than capable of applying the formula to what's on your mind, keeping things simple and repeatable, and seeing the results happen right before you. This is why I wanted to share this. It has worked so well for me, and I hope it does for you as well.


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import mimetypes
import os

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from unittest.mock import Mock, patch

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.files.uploadedfile import SimpleUploadedFile
from django.urls import NoReverseMatch
from django.test.client import RequestFactory
from django.test.utils import override_settings
from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes

import pytest

from pyquery import PyQuery

import olympia

from olympia import amo
from olympia.amo import urlresolvers, utils
from olympia.amo.reverse import set_url_prefix
from olympia.amo.templatetags import jinja_helpers
from olympia.amo.tests import SQUOTE_ESCAPED, TestCase, reverse_ns
from olympia.amo.utils import ImageCheck

ADDONS_TEST_FILES = os.path.join(
    os.path.dirname(olympia.__file__), 'devhub', 'tests', 'addons'
)

pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db

def render(s, context=None):
    if context is None:
        context = {}
    t = utils.from_string(s)
    return t.render(context)

def test_finalize():
    """We want None to show up as ''.  We do this in JINJA_CONFIG."""
    assert '' == render('{{ x }}', {'x': None})

def test_slugify_spaces():
    """We want slugify to preserve spaces, but not at either end."""
    assert utils.slugify(' b ar ') == 'b-ar'
    assert utils.slugify(' b ar ', spaces=True) == 'b ar'
    assert utils.slugify(' b  ar ', spaces=True) == 'b  ar'

def test_page_title():
    request = Mock()
    title = 'Oh hai!'
    s = render('{{ page_title("%s") }}' % title, {'request': request})
    assert s == '%s :: Add-ons for Firefox' % title

    # Check the dirty unicodes.
    s = render(
        '{{ page_title(x) }}',
        {'request': request, 'x': force_bytes('\u05d0\u05d5\u05e1\u05e3')},
    )

def test_page_title_markup():
    """If the title passed to page_title is a jinja2 Markup object, don't cast
    it back to a string or it'll get double escaped. See issue #1062."""
    request = Mock()
    # Markup isn't double escaped.
    res = render(
        '{{ page_title("{0}"|format_html("It\'s all text")) }}', {'request': request}
    )
    assert res == f'It{SQUOTE_ESCAPED}s all text :: Add-ons for Firefox'

def test_template_escaping():
    """Test that tests various formatting scenarios we're using in our
    templates and makes sure they're working as expected.
    """
    # Simple HTML in a translatable string
    expected = 'This is a test'
    assert render('{{ _(\'This is a test\') }}') == expected

    # Simple HTML in a translatable string, with |format_html works
    # as expected
    expected = 'This is a test'
    original = '{{ _(\'{0}\')|format_html("This is a test") }}'
    assert render(original) == expected

    # The html provided in the translatable string won't be escaped
    # but all arguments are.
    expected = 'This is a <h1>test</h1>'
    original = (
        '{{ _(\'{0}\')|format_html("This is a
test
") }}'
    )
    assert render(original) == expected

    # Unless marked explicitly as safe
    expected = 'This is a
test
'
    original = (
        '{{ _(\'{0}\')'
        '|format_html("This is a
test
"|safe) }}'
    )
    assert render(original) == expected

    # Document how newstyle gettext behaves, everything that get's passed in
    # like that needs to be escaped!
    expected = '<script></script>'
    assert render('{{ _(foo) }}', {'foo': ''}) != expected
    assert render('{{ _(foo|escape) }}', {'foo': ''}) == expected

    # Various tests for gettext related helpers and make sure they work
    # properly just as `_()` does.
    expected = '5 users'
    assert (
        render(
            "{{ ngettext('{0} user', '{0} users', 2)" '|format_html(5) }}'
        )
        == expected
    )

    # You could also mark the whole output as |safe but note that this
    # still escapes the arguments of |format_html unless explicitly
    # marked as safe
    expected = '<script> users'
    assert (
        render(
            "{{ ngettext('{0} user', '{0} users', 2)"
            '|format_html(""
            '&baa=that'
        },
    )
    assert string == (
        'http://url.with?foo=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27awesome%27%29%3C%2Fscript%3E'
        '&baa=that'
    )

    string = render(
        '{{ "http://safe.url?baa=that"|urlparams(foo=unsafe_param) }}',
        {'unsafe_param': ""},
    )
    assert string == (
        'http://safe.url?baa=that'
        '&foo=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27awesome%27%29%3C%2Fscript%3E'
    )

def test_isotime():
    time = datetime(2009, 12, 25, 10, 11, 12)
    s = render('{{ d|isotime }}', {'d': time})
    assert s == '2009-12-25T10:11:12Z'
    s = render('{{ d|isotime }}', {'d': None})
    assert s == ''

def test_locale_url():
    rf = RequestFactory()
    request = rf.get('/de', SCRIPT_NAME='/z')
    prefixer = urlresolvers.Prefixer(request)
    set_url_prefix(prefixer)
    s = render('{{ locale_url("mobile") }}')
    assert s == '/z/de/mobile'

def test_external_url():
    redirect_url = settings.REDIRECT_URL
    secretkey = settings.REDIRECT_SECRET_KEY
    settings.REDIRECT_URL = 'http://example.net'
    settings.REDIRECT_SECRET_KEY = 'sekrit'

    try:
        myurl = 'http://example.com'
        s = render('{{ "%s"|external_url }}' % myurl)
        assert s == urlresolvers.get_outgoing_url(myurl)
    finally:
        settings.REDIRECT_URL = redirect_url
        settings.REDIRECT_SECRET_KEY = secretkey

@patch('olympia.amo.templatetags.jinja_helpers.urlresolvers.get_outgoing_url')
def test_linkify_bounce_url_callback(mock_get_outgoing_url):
    mock_get_outgoing_url.return_value = 'bar'

    res = urlresolvers.linkify_bounce_url_callback({(None, 'href'): 'foo'})

    # Make sure get_outgoing_url was called.
    assert res == {(None, 'href'): 'bar'}
    mock_get_outgoing_url.assert_called_with('foo')

@patch(
    'olympia.amo.templatetags.jinja_helpers.urlresolvers.linkify_bounce_url_callback'
)
def test_linkify_with_outgoing_text_links(mock_linkify_bounce_url_callback):
    def side_effect(attrs, new=False):
        attrs[(None, 'href')] = 'bar'
        return attrs

    mock_linkify_bounce_url_callback.side_effect = side_effect

    res = urlresolvers.linkify_with_outgoing('a text http://example.com link')
    # Use PyQuery because the attributes could be rendered in any order.
    doc = PyQuery(res)
    assert doc('a[href="bar"][rel="nofollow"]')[0].text == 'http://example.com'

@patch(
    'olympia.amo.templatetags.jinja_helpers.urlresolvers.linkify_bounce_url_callback'
)
def test_linkify_with_outgoing_markup_links(mock_linkify_bounce_url_callback):
    def side_effect(attrs, new=False):
        attrs[(None, 'href')] = 'bar'
        return attrs

    mock_linkify_bounce_url_callback.side_effect = side_effect

    res = urlresolvers.linkify_with_outgoing(
        'a markup link with text'
    )
    # Use PyQuery because the attributes could be rendered in any order.
    doc = PyQuery(res)
    assert doc('a[href="bar"][rel="nofollow"]')[0].text == 'link'

def get_image_path(name):
    return os.path.join(settings.ROOT, 'src', 'olympia', 'amo', 'tests', 'images', name)

def get_uploaded_file(name):
    data = open(get_image_path(name), mode='rb').read()
    return SimpleUploadedFile(name, data, content_type=mimetypes.guess_type(name)[0])

def get_addon_file(name):
    return os.path.join(ADDONS_TEST_FILES, name)

class TestAnimatedImages(TestCase):
    def test_animated_images(self):
        img = ImageCheck(open(get_image_path('animated.png'), mode='rb'))
        assert img.is_animated()
        img = ImageCheck(open(get_image_path('non-animated.png'), mode='rb'))
        assert not img.is_animated()

        img = ImageCheck(open(get_image_path('animated.gif'), mode='rb'))
        assert img.is_animated()
        img = ImageCheck(open(get_image_path('non-animated.gif'), mode='rb'))
        assert not img.is_animated()

    def test_junk(self):
        img = ImageCheck(open(__file__, 'rb'))
        assert not img.is_image()
        img = ImageCheck(open(get_image_path('non-animated.gif'), mode='rb'))
        assert img.is_image()

def test_jinja_trans_monkeypatch():
    # This tests the monkeypatch in manage.py that prevents localizers from
    # taking us down.
    render('{% trans come_on=1 %}% (come_on)s{% endtrans %}')
    render('{% trans come_on=1 %}%(come_on){% endtrans %}')
    render('{% trans come_on=1 %}%(come_on)z{% endtrans %}')

@pytest.mark.parametrize(
    'url,site,expected',
    [
        ('', None, settings.EXTERNAL_SITE_URL),
        ('', '', settings.EXTERNAL_SITE_URL),
        (None, None, settings.EXTERNAL_SITE_URL),
        ('foo', None, f'{settings.EXTERNAL_SITE_URL}/foo'),
        ('foobar', 'http://amo.com', 'http://amo.com/foobar'),
        ('abc', 'https://localhost', 'https://localhost/abc'),
        ('http://addons.mozilla.org', None, 'http://addons.mozilla.org'),
        ('https://addons.mozilla.org', None, 'https://addons.mozilla.org'),
        ('https://amo.com', 'https://addons.mozilla.org', 'https://amo.com'),
        ('woo', 'www', 'woo'),
    ],
)
def test_absolutify(url, site, expected):
    """Make sure we correct join a base URL and a possibly relative URL."""
    assert jinja_helpers.absolutify(url, site) == expected

def test_timesince():
    month_ago = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=30)
    assert jinja_helpers.timesince(month_ago) == '1 month ago'
    assert jinja_helpers.timesince(None) == ''

def test_timeuntil():
    a_month_in_the_future = datetime.now() + timedelta(days=31)
    assert jinja_helpers.timeuntil(a_month_in_the_future) == '1 month'
    a_week_in_the_future = datetime.now() + timedelta(days=14, hours=1)
    assert jinja_helpers.timeuntil(a_week_in_the_future) == '2 weeks'

def test_format_unicode():
    # This makes sure there's no UnicodeEncodeError when doing the string
    # interpolation.
    assert render('{{ "foo {0}"|format_html("baré") }}') == 'foo baré'

class TestStoragePath(TestCase):
    @override_settings(ADDONS_PATH=None, MEDIA_ROOT='/path/')
    def test_without_settings(self):
        del settings.ADDONS_PATH
        path = jinja_helpers.user_media_path('addons')
        assert path == '/path/addons'

    @override_settings(ADDONS_PATH='/another/path/')
    def test_with_settings(self):
        path = jinja_helpers.user_media_path('addons')
        assert path == '/another/path/'

class TestMediaUrl(TestCase):
    @override_settings(USERPICS_URL=None)
    def test_without_settings(self):
        del settings.USERPICS_URL
        settings.MEDIA_URL = '/mediapath/'
        url = jinja_helpers.user_media_url('userpics')
        assert url == '/mediapath/userpics/'

SPACELESS_TEMPLATE = """

outside

    tag   is fine
    {% spaceless %}

not

    space    between

    {% endspaceless %}

outside again

"""

SPACELESS_RESULT = """

outside

    tag   is fine

not
space between

outside again

"""

def test_spaceless_extension():

    assert render(SPACELESS_TEMPLATE) == SPACELESS_RESULT

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Coach John Leonard
2015 ASCA Hall of Fame Inductee
Coaching Since: 1970
ASCA Executive Director
John Leonard began his 45 year coaching career in Syracuse New York where he was a co-founder of the Syracuse Chargers, a joint venture between the city (where JL was Aquatic Director) and Syracuse University. John was fortunate enough to coach world ranked athletes Robin Butler, Jeff Noury, Kelly Hopkins, Mickey Webb, Lou Walker and 1976 Olympian Janis Hape. He also coached numerous top 16 nationally ranked age group swimmers and the Charger Team was a perennial NY State Champion in Senior and Age Group Swimming, as well as top ten senior national finishes.
Coach Leonard coached the Lake Forest Swim Club and College Team from 1978 through 1984 and worked with gifted athletes like national team members Stacy Cassidy, Kim Tesch, Patty Schultz and multiple senior national scorers and national age group record holders. In 1985, John began his current position at the American Swimming Coaches Association where he has worked for 30 plus years.
John says, "I was honored and fortunate that the ASCA Board selected me for this ASCA Hall of Fame honor despite the fact that I do not qualify according to our performance standards as a Coach. I am deeply appreciative. I believe that all honors are indeed TEAM honors, so this belongs equally to me and all the assistant coaches I have been fortunate enough to work with and all the ASCA employees, coach and non-coach, that have allowed me to enjoy 30 years of work in the ASCA office. I am humbly grateful for all of their efforts. This would not be possible without all of their help. Thank you!"


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Deal of Death: U.S. willing to offer Maduro guarantees he'll be left alone if he leaves Venezuela
By RUSSIAN TROLL on 07/23/2019
With no resolution in sight for Venezuela's leadership six months after the leader of the national assembly declared himself president, the Trump administration appears willing to offer guarantees to Nicolas Maduro that the U.S. will leave him alone if he leaves Venezuela.
A senior Trump administration official suggested that the U.S. would consider not indicting Maduro if he leaves power.
"I think Maduro perhaps is looking for an exit, but he doesn't know what it looks like, he does not know if there are guarantees to that. I believe he still thinks that if he goes to, let's say, the Dominican Republic, we are going to come in and indict him and go after him," the high ranking official told the Miami Herald. "I think that's the concern and that's the only thing there's room for negotiation with Maduro."
The official urged the Venezuelan leader to take advantage of the offer before it is too late, citing a critical report written by Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report detailed human rights violations in Venezuela under Maduro, and could be used to charge him in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The United States does not recognize that court, the official said, but other governments in the region do.
"The time has come to say, this is the opportunity you have, and we are willing to negotiate to close this chapter, but your opportunity is closing because now even the United Nations has created a case that could be used against you at The Hague," the official said. "My concern is that it becomes a disincentive for him to find a way out. What we want to offer is … this should be your chance to turn the page, now, before it's too late. "
The official requested anonymity to speak frankly about U.S. foreign policy towards Venezuela.
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Eating Our Way to Extinction' Will Change the Way You Eat, Forever
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If mother earth manifested into a human, it would be Kate Winslet," says Otto Brockway, director of new documentary Eating Our Way to Extinction. The Academy Award-winning actor, beloved for her roles in blockbusters like 1997's Titanic and 2006's The Holiday, narrates Brockway's feature-length film, which focuses on the link between the climate crisis and the way we eat.
Winslet is joined by billionaire and vegan investor Sir Richard Branson, marine biologist Sylvia Earle, philanthropist Tony Robbins, and some of the world's most respected scientists, doctors, and academics. Together, they lead viewers through a deeply poignant journey of cinematography (shot by Brockway's brother Ludo), solid science, and shocking facts to face a hard truth: animal agriculture is destroying the planet, and with it, humanity's future.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation around the globe. It also contributes to water pollution, soil degradation, ocean dead zones, and emits 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gases, according to the United Nations. The picture looks bleak. But we can turn things around. Eating Our Way to Extinction intends to be a wake-up call to the public that there is true power in changing what's on our plates.
It's a message backed up by multiple scientific studies. A 2020 environmental report found that replacing just 10 percent of animal agriculture could save the equivalent of 2.7 billion trees in CO2 emissions. Two years prior, the biggest-ever food production analysis found that eating plant-based was the single-most effective way of tackling climate change. (The lead author of that report, Oxford University's Dr. Joseph Poore, appears in Eating Our Way to Extinction.)
We spoke with Brockway about his inspiration for the film, the power of incremental change, and why he believes documentaries have a unique power to change the way people think and act.
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Space agencies around the world are looking for ways to do more with less. In the US, NASA has spent the past few years emphasizing smaller, faster, cheaper missions. Since taking over as the agencyis director in 1992, Daniel Goldin has pushed managers to cut back, and has developed a policy that axes any mission spilling more than 15 percent over budget.
With shrinking or stagnant space budgets, agencies in other parts of the world are developing similar programs. Most of its member states strapped for cash, the European Space Agency has come up with its own version of faster, simpler missions. Japanis National Space Development Agency has cut back on budgets for several satellite programs in a long-term effort to bring costs down by 20 percent.
But it canit all be about the bottom line. Money or no money, space agencies are struggling to keep the missions meaningful, explore new realms, and keep a new generation interested in scientific endeavors.
And sometimes it takes money to save money. Space agencies are spending more on advanced technologies, hoping that they will show the way to smaller (and significantly cheaper) spacecraft in the long run. Photonics n a high-tech area often skipped over because of its high costs n is beginning to gain serious recognition as an enabling technology. While such technologies as optical communications and remote sensing must still prove that they are cost-effective alternatives, they are achieving this like never before.


I loved this modern take on the romancing royalty trope -- I haven't read any modern royal romances, actually so I didn't know what to expect -- and now Cole has set the high water mark all other authors will need to reach. Sorry not sorry!
Our heroine Nya is used to being a wallflower, finding love through phone app games and watching her friends find their happily ever afters. Our hero Johan is used to being notorious even though his behavior hides more altruistic drives. A flight to a wedding throws them together and, well, things get good.
This great piece from Love in Panels explains why Cole's books are so particularly exciting and delightful for me. I love reading romances featuring heroines of color, penned by a woman of color, because there's no othering or exoticizing of marginalized people. While Cole's heroines touch on racism -- usually a note of apprehension by her heroines on meeting the white relatives of their beaux -- the heroine's identity is never part of the conflict between our lovers.
At this point, Cole is an automatic buy for me (I'm pretty much averaging at least one Cole romance a month now and I'm loving that) and I can't wait for what else she's got coming.
Ahhhhh I can't wait to read this! I have it on hold at the library and I cannot WAIT, even though obviously I have plenty of stuff to read in the meantime. Too much, one might say. :p I love love love Alyssa Cole.
I'm not a bit romance reader, but I like having titles to recommend to my friends!


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Last week I made home made jam. It was so good, I gave it away. Except I gave too much away and didn't save any for myself. Isn't that the rule. If you make something to share it turns out great. If you make it to store it becomes that food item you have to pay your family to eat. At least that's how it works at my house.
Since I ran out, I thought the jam would make perfect mother's day gifts. Hey, I'd be giving it away and I'd save a couple jars for myself. Actually the jam story is a couple blogs, so this story will be told in a couple blogs in reverse order. I thought, the keyword here is thought, that I had all the necessary supplies. To find out I was missing some lemon juice. This entailed a 5th trip to the store today. I thought to myself, this is a sign. This will probably be the best jam EVER.
Eerily, the store was empty. Usually on Sunday evenings the store is packed with last minute get ready for the week shoppers. Another thing, the people that were there were checking me out. I had put on a couple of pounds lately and was a little worried about it. I was happy that it made me look more feminine or curvy but that number on the scale hurts my feelings. By the way people were looking at me, the weight gain was probably something I needed. They couldn't hide their stares.
So as they gandered my way, I smiled back. The Teen Challenge guy couldn't take his eyes off of me. Needless to say I went home with my lemon juice, 10 gatorades, crackers and 8 boxes of cereal feeling like supermom and supermodel. "I still got it!" I thought to myself.
Straight, my naturally curly hair touches the bottom of my shoulderblades. Meaning this teacher girl has a lot of hair. My curls are spiral, so when it's curly, it barely touches my shoulders. The wind had got a hold of my hair without me realizing it, and my spiral curls were sticking straight up. At least a good twelve inches straight up. And if a strand of hair didn't have the strength to stick up, it stuck out. Buckwheat had nothing on me.
Did my husband, the love of my life, say anything before I left? Awww no he didn't. Then I thought about all those people smiling at me. Let's just say I will be doing a lot less thinking and a lot more mirror looking in the future.


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