That spirit of adventure permeates Merely Players' production of "Man of La Mancha," playing through this weekend at Durango Arts Center. Directed by Mona Wood-Patterson, the musical interpretation of "Don Quixote," by Miguel de Cervantes, is a bold, colorful and gutsy production.
Credit Wood-Patterson and her creative on-and-off-stage teams for taking a deeply layered and complex work and bringing it vividly to life.
The 1964 Broadway musical employs a narrative framing device followed by a series of nested stories. What's at stake is the contrast between reality and fantasy, the very stuff live theater is all about. Further, "La Mancha" burrows deeply into opposing world views. Is life mean and cruel or can it be civil and kind?
"La Mancha" begins in a prison run by the Spanish Inquisition roughly at the turn of the 17th century – near the end of Cervantes' actual life in 1616. When Cervantes, poet, soldier and tax collector (the talented and engaging Jason Lythgoe) enters, angry prisoners attack him. A ritualized trial ensues, but Cervantes negotiates an alternative entertainment – playacting his stories with props and costumes from his theatrical trunk and featuring his rough new group of players.
The challenge for every director is to make clear which storyline is which. Cervantes' narration is cast in words, a play-within-a-play; Don Quixote's tales are set as a musical-within-the-prison-play.
Director Wood-Patterson and company use a variety of theatrical devices to signal which is which. Set designer Charles Ford and his crew have crafted a magical stone prison with staircases, a well and a fireplace. With Monique Cuyler's lighting design, Ford and his technical crew further clarify the braided stories with spotlights and strobes. Suzy DiSanto's contrasting movement styles underscore the shifts, whether realistic, slow-motion or heavily stylized.
Wood-Patterson's solid casting does the rest. Lythgoe leads the way when he transforms Cervantes into Quixote onstage in one of the most magical moments in theatrical history. The actor retains the Quixote look throughout while shifting in and out of his roles plus a side excursion to Quixote's host, Señor Alonso Quijana. With his rich baritone voice, Lythgoe masterfully uses subtle vocal and physical changes to create each character.
As Aldonza, soprano Mandy Gardner is fierce, tragic and endearingly tender when she finally accepts Quixote's vision of Dulcinea. Gardner's immense vocal and dramatic range enable her to eventually transforms harsh reality into hope.
With a servant's pragmatism and ready humor, tenor John Garza charms everyone as Sancho Panza, He's a perfect foil for Lythgoe's Quixote. Jeffrey Kane Graves stands out as the Padre in several solos, both comic and serious. Geoff Johnson slithers between a vicious prisoner and the supercilious Dr. Carrasco, not to mention the spectacular Darth Vaderish demon of the mirrors. Credit the always creative JoAnn Nevils for costumes that range from prison rags to velvet capes.
Count yourself lucky if you have a ticket.
WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 1 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday.


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Land Rover LR3 HSE, 2008: Bill Belew's Car Review
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Magic happens when you drive a Land Rover. I can't say if it's good or bad magic, but it definitely happens. The first thing I looked at when I got in the 2008 Land Rover 3 HSE car was the odometer.
There was an indicator that told me, among other things, how many miles I had left on the full tank. I drove the car about six-tenths of a mile to meet friends for breakfast and the odometer dropped six miles.
"What a gas hog," I thought. "The treehuggers would have a field day if they knew for sure how much this gas guzzler consumed." At that rate, a tank of gas might get me 50 miles and I could refill the 20-plus gallon machine for about $100 or about $2 per mile. (We're $4.53 per gallon where I live in San Jose, Calif.).
But then the "magic" happened. There's a stretch of road between Mountain View and Palo Alto, Calif., I drove for about seven miles and a peculiar thing happened — the remaining distance meter started to increase. The more I drove the more miles I could drive. I thought, "If I just stay on this road, I might be able to drive it forever."
Turns out the car is a great commuter vehicle, too. My wife missed her train so I decided to drive her to work, about 22 miles one way. Seventy miles-per-hour on the highway, 44 miles overall, and the meter didn't move. I had just as many miles left on the meter as I did before I left. It must be magic.
At first, the meter gave me 312 miles to go. When I got back from San Mateo, the car was good for about 325 miles total. I get it — city miles plus highway miles average out, right? I know the car is not the most economical machine on the road. But the Land Roer wasn't the gas hog I was afraid it was going to be.
In a past, pre-Land Rover life, whenever I drove on the highway, or anywhere for that matter, I wondered what was going on ahead. I have never been able to see over or around anything in front of me, including while driving motorcycles.
In the Land Rover, I felt like I was in a real car, a big car. I could see forever. The only thing keeping me from seeing farther was looking from the top of a big hill, any hill. And, I was fully confident the Land Rover could take me up then back down any mountain, unpaved or otherwise, safe and sound, and in comfort, too. The only hill I went up, sadly, was the curb in front of my driveway. Where's some serious snow and mud when you need it?
Not only could I see up ahead, I could see overhead. The in-laws and the baby in the back seat could see overhead, too. Anybody else riding in the two extra seats in the far back could see out the roof as well. There were three, count 'em, sun/moon roofs, with nets that kept bugs and ultra-violet rays out.
The inside of the car felt huge. The back seat was the first I have come across where the baby seat could be strapped in and real people, as opposed to stuffed animals, could sit on both sides and be strapped in. When the baby cried there was an echo. In the far back we could carry the baby stroller, (mini-SUV-size) a motorcycle, a fire truck, a high chair, car seat big enough for a college student, and a table and two chairs for my daughter and her bear Barney. (Barney is big enough to play front line on a little league football team.)
I am easily entertained. When the ignition key is turned in the Land Rover, there is no holding it, the car knows it is supposed to start — and does. How cool is that? When the headlights are turned on, they spin, twirl or just look around before they focus. I've never seen that before. It was fun doing the simple things.
There were more buttons than this techno-challenged driver could handle. I'm one of those guys who reads manuals only as a last resort, directions only after whatever I put together looks like a peach tree instead of a bassinet. Not everything on the gear box and dash was intuitive. I found the manual in the glove box and reluctantly had to read it.
There's a woman at church I attend. She's very professional, very sharp, been around the world many times. She once saw a silver Mercedes in Dubai made of silver. She came up to me and commented, "Nice car. How much is it?"
"$57,950," I said.
"That's not bad," she responded. " I would have thought it to be much more considering."
Indeed. The car was much more than I had expected. It's not just a big four-wheel drive play mobile either. It's a classy machine with appeal. And, if it really can do magic, I am sure it would do something about gas prices.
Safety Features — Eight airbag supplemental restraint system, height adjustable front seatbelts, lower anchor and tether for children (LATCH), front and rear park distance control.
Fuel Mileage (Estimates) — 12 mpg (city) 17 mpg (highway).
Warranty — Bumper to bumper, 4 years/50,000 miles; Complimentary scheduled maintenance; Complimentary, 24-hour roadside recovery service.
Price — $57,950.00
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Q: how to use adodb to write sql queries to select data that is longer than 255 characters I am using ADODB connection to write SQL statements to extract data in excel vba.
My problem is that I have a cell where it contains a string longer than 255 characters.
I am wondering if there is a way for me to continue to use ADODB connection to select data that has longer than 255 characters
This is the function i used.
Public Function QueryRead(sqlArg As String) As Dictionary

    Dim pConnection As ADODB.Connection
    Set pConnection = New ADODB.Connection

    With pConnection
        .Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
        .ConnectionString = "Data Source=" & ActiveWorkbook.FullName & _
        ";Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;"
    '.Provider = "MSDASQL"
    '.ConnectionString = "Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)};" & _
    "DBQ=" & App.Path & "\ExcelSrc.xls; "
        .CursorLocation = adUseClient
        .Open
    End With

    Dim pMap As New ADODB.Recordset

    Dim sql As String
    sql = sqlArg

    Dim resultSet As New Dictionary

    pMap.Open sql, pConnection
    If pMap.RecordCount > 0 Then

        Dim record As Variant

        Dim counter As Integer
        counter = 0

        Do Until pMap.EOF

            Dim resultRecord As Dictionary

            Set resultRecord = New Dictionary

            For Each record In pMap.fields

                resultRecord.Add record.Name, record.value
            Next
            Dim index As String
            index = CStr(counter)
            resultSet.Add index, resultRecord
            counter = counter + 1
            pMap.MoveNext
        Loop

    End If

    pMap.Close
    pConnection.Close

    Set QueryRead = resultSet

End Function

This is how i call it
Set resultSet = model.QueryRead("SELECT * FROM [Database$] WHERE [Level] = 2 AND [Item_No] = '" & itemNo & "'")

My worksheet is called Database and it has columns such as Level and Item_No.
One of the cells under the column Formula has string longer than 255 characters.
Please advise.
UPDATE
I want to emphasize that
a) it is the individual field data extracted out that exceeds the 255 char limit. meaning to say, the * in the "SELECT * FROM "
b) it is NOT my input parameters that exceed 255 characters
c) it is NOT my query string that exceeds 255 characters

A: As you are using the Excel 2003 and earlier connection string, this Microsoft support article applies. If there aren't any values longer than 255 characters in the first 8 rows of your data then all values will be truncated to 255 characters.
A simple workaround may be to ensure that the first data row on the worksheet always contains a value longer than 255 characters - either a dummy row which you later discard or a real data value which you ensure ends up in that row.
You can adjust the number of rows scanned up to 16 but this doesn't really solve the problem

A: I would suggest you to use ADODB.Command and thus data binding to overcome this and avoid unexpected SQL injection.
You'll have to modify your function to use this, so I'm only showing you a demo-like example:
Dim cmd AS ADODB.Command
Set cmd = New ADODB.Command
cmd.AcitveConnection = pConnection
cmd.Prepared = True
cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM [Database$] WHERE [Level]=2 AND [Item_No]=?"
cmd.Parameters.Append cmd.CreateParameter("item_no",adVarChar,adParamInput,512,itemNo)

Dim pMap as ADODB.Recordset
Set pMap = New ADODB.RecordSet

pMap.open cmd
If pMap.RecordCount > 0 Then
'do stuffs...

You can check MSDN for detailed information about CreateParameter and its parameters
Not tested with Excel table, but I once used this method in Classic-ASP for Oracle for a few months, so it should work for you with some tweak.
One downside of this method is you can't just pass one SQL statement as function argument. You may have to accept at least two arguments, with one for SQL statement, and another (maybe a Dictionary object) for the waiting-to-bind data.

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Q: Any easy way to cast List to List At the moment I use List<int> ints = tuple.Item2.Select(s => s.Value).ToList() but this looks inefficient when tuple.Item2 has 1000's of items. Any better way to achieve this? except using a for loop.

A: The built-in way to convert each element in one List<T1> and store the result in another List<T2> is List<T1>.ConvertAll.
List<int> ints = tuple.Item2.ConvertAll(s => s.Value);

Unlike .Select(...).ToList() or .Cast(...).ToList(), this method knows the list size in advance, and prevents unnecessary reallocations that .ToList() cannot avoid.
For this to work, tuple.Item2 must really be a List<int?>. It's not an extension method, it cannot work on the generic IEnumerable<int?> interface.

A: you can simply use Linq Cast<> to achieve this .
List<int> ints = tuple.Item2.Cast<int>();

but if an element cannot be cast to type TResult, this method will throw an exception.you have to consider catching exception.


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Ralph Abernathy at National Press Club luncheon. Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, 1968 June 14.
Ralph David Abernathy (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was an American civil rights leader. Newly married and having recently accepted the call to pastor a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, Ralph and his wife Juanita met and became friends with another young Baptist minister and his wife, Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King. The two couples shared many evenings over dinner together, discussing ideas, sharing inspiration and friendship. Ultimately, plans were laid for the nonviolent civil rights movement began by the two men and led by Martin Luther King.
2 Young adulthood
3.1 Montgomery bus boycott
3.2 Birmingham demonstrations
3.3 First march On Washington
3.4 Tragedy Strikes
3.5 The Civil Rights Movement continues
Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King were best of friends, partners, and colleagues. They initiated the most famous Montgomery bus boycott following the arrest of Rosa Parks, and many marches and protests against the "Jim Crow" segregation laws in the south and discriminatory practices through out the United States. They shared many a jail cell following arrests for their peaceful protests. Abernathy was only a few paces behind King when King's life was cut short by an assassin's bullet in Memphis, Tennessee. Abernathy went on to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that the two had founded together, following King's death.
Ralph David Abernathy was the tenth child of William and Louivery Abernathy, a well respected family of Linden, Alabama. His baptismal name was David, after the biblical figure who conquered Goliath. William and Louivery hoped he would embody the same faith and courage of the biblical David. His maternal grandmother, a midwife who aided in his delivery, sensed he had special potential.
Most of the people in Linden, Alabama, made their living as farmers. The Abernathy's were no exception. William was a stern and hardworking man who believed the way to improve the lot of African-Americans was prosperity gained through hard work. Through practicing this belief, he slowly invested in land until he owned five hundred acres, one of the largest farms in the area. Due to W.L.'s hard work and frugality, the family was better off than most white families in Linden. In addition, William served on the school board for the black high school in the community, as deacon of the Hopewell Baptist Church, and was the first black man to serve on a grand jury in the county.
As stern as his father was, David's mother was kind and loving. She was quiet, gentle, and devoted to God and her family. Through her example of motherly love, Louivery taught her children about love and responsibility.
When the Great Depression hit, the Abernathy family was largely insulated from its effects because the farm produced a bounty of all manner of food. Cash crops like cotton could be sold or traded to meet other needs.
The Abernathy family were comfortable but very thrifty. Young David wore hand me down clothes and played with second hand toys. When he started school, he was given the used books of his older brother William. David longed for new books of his very own. His mother saw his anguish about this and just this once, she intervened and stood up to her husband on David's behalf. New books were purchased for the young student. He knew it was his mother's love and understanding of his need that made this happen.
David's family was very religious, regularly attending church and Sunday school. David absorbed knowledge of Bible stories and the life of Jesus Christ. At a young age, he began to dream of becoming a pastor. When he was only seven years old, he longed for a personal experience with God. His mother told him to spend a day fasting and praying so that he would hear God's voice and have God "grab his soul." One day David skipped breakfast and spent the day outside praying. Mid-afternoon young Abernathy had the experience he was waiting for. "I only know that a sudden peace flooded my soul, and in an instant I was a different human being," he told in his autobiography. Once touched by God, the young boy headed into the kitchen for a meal of biscuits.
Farm life meant hard work for the whole family. David was assigned to help his mother in the house while the rest of the family tended the fields. He rose early to start the fire in the woodburning stove, milk cows, gather eggs, feed livestock, do errands for his mother, and help with meals. He also watched his younger siblings, Susie and James Earl. When he had a free moment, he read or wrote or played ball with his sisters and brothers in the fields. This was a big happy family that enjoyed mealtimes together.
It was when David was twelve that his sister began calling him Ralph David after a teacher she respected. The name held and the rest of the world came to know him as Ralph David.
In addition to the immediate family, many relatives lived nearby. Ralph knew he needed to behave himself when he was out and about because it was likely he would run into someone he knew. He was especially close to his paternal grandfather, George Abernathy, who told stories about his slave years, focusing on the pleasant memories rather than dwelling on bitterness.
Ralph had little contact with whites growing up, so little experience with racism, but his father had warned the children that playing with white children could lead to trouble. He only experienced one dangerous encounter with a hateful white man, but was saved by a storekeeper who knew his father, and spoke up on his behalf.
When Ralph David was just a teenager, his father suffered a fatal stroke. Ralph's grandfather, George, never got over his grief, and passed on several years later.
As World War II began, Ralph's three older brothers left home to serve.
In April 1944, Ralph received orders to report to Fort Benning, Georgia, for his army physical. He was barely 18 years old. He was called to active duty and was sent with other recruits to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for basic training. Abernathy was dedicated to doing his best and worked hard. He was promoted to platoon sergeant and soon afterwards, boarded a ship bound for France with his platoon. Although the war in Europe was all but over by the time they arrived, they traveled through the continent for "mop up" duty. Ralph saw first hand the devastation that war had brought to the cities and the suffering upon the people of both sides. This experience was pivotal in his decision to commit to a life of nonviolence.
One rainy night Sergeant Abernathy was supervising the punishment of two of his soldiers, who had been ordered to dig a deep hole. He got thoroughly soaked and chilled and fell ill with rheumatic fever. When the rest of his unit was shipped to the South Pacific, he was not well enough to join them and was sent home. Many years later, he learned that he and one other soldier in his unit were the only ones to survive the war.
After serving in the army during World War II, he enrolled at Alabama State University, in Montgomery, Alabama, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1950.
Not far into his college work, Ralph's mother's health began to decline due to rheumatoid arthritis. Ralph was home for Thanksgiving in 1947, to see her for the last time. She died two days later. Ralph was overcome by the fond memories of his youth and the grief of losing his mother. Even though he was one of the youngest, his siblings turned to him as the head of the family.
His involvement in political activism began in college while he was a member of student government and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He led demonstrations protesting the lack of heat and hot water in his dormitory and the dreadful food served in the cafeteria. In addition, a civics professor explained the power that voting would have for black people. Abernathy grew so inspired by the idea that he convinced a group of students to go to the Montgomery courthouse and register to vote. His colleagues failed to fill in all the blanks on the long complicated literacy test form and were refused. But Abernathy filled in every blank on the form and was rewarded with a voter registration card.
Ralph became more and more devoted to God and his church. On Mother's Day 1948, he stood up at Hopewell Baptist Church and announced his call to the ministry of Jesus Christ.
It was during these college years that Ralph met and began to spend time with Juanita Odessa Jones, a woman whose quick wit and strong character, he admired a great deal. She would eventually become his wife (even though she was determined not to become a preacher's wife).
In 1951, he earned an M.A. in sociology from Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University). During the year spent in Atlanta, Ralph was given the opportunity to be a guest preacher in many churches in the area. One Sunday, he attended service at Ebenezer Baptist Church to hear another guest preacher, also a student, by the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. He knew immediately that King was an outstanding man.
Following graduation, Abernathy took a job as dean of men at Alabama State University. He also took a part-time pastorship of Eastern Star Baptist Church in Demopolis, Alabama, near his hometown of Linden. Just one year later, when he was only twenty six, the people of the 100 year old First Baptist Church of Montgomery asked him to be their pastor. He accepted the role.
Once settled into the community at First Baptist Church, Abernathy was ready to share his home and life with a wife. On August 13, 1952, he and Juanita became husband and wife. In the several years that followed, they became parents. The first child, Ralph II, died as an infant. Three more children, Juandalynn, Donzaleigh, and Ralph III brought joy and comfort to the family.
Ralph Abernathy was the best friend, partner, and colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the earliest days of the American Civil Rights Movement
The Abernathys enjoyed opening their home and table for guests. One night the young preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. found his way to their dinner table while being considered for the pastorship of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. King was offered the position. Soon Martin and Coretta were regular dinner partners with Juanita and Ralph. The women took turns cooking dinner. A close and enduring friendship and partnership formed between Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
In 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, Abernathy and King organized the bus boycott in Montgomery. After a year, the boycott finally ended when the United States Supreme Court affirmed the U.S. District Court's ruling that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.
Soon after the boycott ended, Abernathy and King met with other African American pastors and formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to organize peaceful marches and protests for achievement of civil rights for blacks in all spheres of life in the South. King was appointed president and Abernathy became the Secretary-Treasurer. The main purpose of the organization was to bring an end to segregation and to bring about the creation of civil rights legislation.
In 1957, Martin Luther King was called to pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He wanted his good friend Ralph to join him in Atlanta, but it took some coaxing, as the Abernathy family had put down roots in Montgomery. Eventually, though, Martin had his way, as Rev. Abernathy received the call from West Hunter Street Baptist Church, the family made the move. This was the church that Abernathy was to serve as pastor for the rest of his ministering career.
Birmingham demonstrations
In the spring of 1963, King and Abernathy and the SCLC leadership orchestrated a massive effort to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama. National media focused attention on the rough treatment of African American protesters by Eugene Connor, Birmingham's director of public safety. King and Abernathy were arrested and jailed along with 3,000 others who were protesting segregated conditions in the city. These demonstrations drew attention to the issue to such a degree that 250 cities of the south initiated desegregation efforts, opening thousands of schools and other public and private facilities to people of all races for the first time.
First march On Washington
The success of this effort also helped embolden President John F. Kennedy to send a civil rights bill to the U.S. Congress. Civil Rights leaders demonstrated their support of this bill by organizing a massive march on Washington D.C. held on August 28, 1963. Over 250,000 people joined the march. This was the moment when Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. Abernathy was behind his friend during the speech and was deeply inspired by what he said. Abernathy insisted that the Holy Spirit had guided King's words that day.
The following summer, the Civil Rights Act (1964) was passed. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act was passed.
Tragedy Strikes
Since the very beginning of the civil rights movement, Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been side by side, planning together and implementing their plans as partners with the greater community. As the strike by Memphis sanitation workers began on April 3, 1968, the two leaders were close together. As they walked, Abernathy was just a few paces away from King. It was no different on April 4. In fact, the two were sharing Room 307 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. As they prepared to go for dinner at a local minister's home, Dr. King strolled out on the balcony of their room. Only moments later, Rev. Abernathy heard a loud crack and soon realized that his longtime friend and colleague had been shot. This was a moment when everything changed. Though Abernathy rode in the ambulance with King, stayed in the operating room with him as doctors labored to save him, it was not to be. Abernathy held his friend in his arms as he passed on.
The Civil Rights Movement continues
Abernathy assumed the presidency of the SCLC after King's death. Less than a week after the assassination, Abernathy continued the march to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis. In May 1968, he, among others including Jesse Jackson, organized the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) March on Washington, D.C. Hoping to bring attention to the plight of the nation's impoverished, he constructed huts in the nation's capital, precipitating a showdown with the police. The settlement was named "Resurrection City." Abernathy slept in a hotel during the campaign. On June 19, he held a speech at the Lincoln Memorial, in front of tens of thousands of black and white citizens.
Eventually on June 24, 1968, the federal government forced the protesters to disband. Abernathy was jailed for nearly three weeks for unlawful assembly.
After the Poor People's Campaign, Abernathy continued to lead the SCLC, but the organization never regained the momentum it had when Dr. King was at the helm and the two had acted as partners. Abernathy resigned in 1977, to run unsuccessfully for a Georgia congressional seat.
This was a time when Rev. Abernathy had more time to devote to his family. A fourth child, Kwame had been born in 1971. Ralph had time to dote on Kwame, making him breakfast and taking him to school. He had not had the time or freedom to do this for his older children when they were young. But he now had time to help them develop their talents and offer them support and encouragement.
In 1980, Abernathy was the most prominent African American to endorse Ronald Reagan, along with Hosea Williams and Charles Evers. Abernathy later said he was very disappointed with the Reagan administration's civil rights policies, and he did not endorse him for reelection in 1984.
In the 1980s Abernathy co-founded the American Freedom Coalition, with Robert Grant. The AFC received major funding from Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and works in partnership with The Washington Times, CAUSA, the American Constitution Committee, and other Unification Church related organizations. Abernathy served as Vice President of American Freedom Coalition until his death on April 17, 1990.
Upon hearing of Abernathy's passing, Andrew Young stated that Abernathy had performed "a silent labor that was very much needed. Abernathy was a jovial, profound, loving preacher who gave his life in the service of others."
Abernathy received many awards, most notably honorary degrees from Long Island University in New York; Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia; Kalamazoo College in Michigan, and his alma mater, Alabama State University. Interstate 20 and Abernathy Road, in Atlanta, are named in his honor. His legacy is represented by the continuing work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and of all who struggle to translate Civil Rights legislation into actual reality, since equality in law does not guarantee equality of opportunity in practice or remove the racial bias and prejudice that still exists in the hearts of many.
Abernathy, Donzaleigh. 2003. Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement. New York, NY: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0609609149
Abernathy, R. 1989. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography. New York, NY: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0060161927
Rediger, Pat. 1996. Great African Americans in Civil Rights. New York, NY: Crabtree Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0865057982
Reef, Catherine. 1995. Ralph David Abernathy. Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press. ISBN 978-0875186535
All links retrieved June 17, 2019.
Ralph Abernathy New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Ralph David Abernathy Encyclopedia of Alabama.
Ralph Abernathy Freedom Riders.
Martin Luther King SCLC President
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My Italian friend from Grandwagoneer.it sent me poor samples to do the 3D scan and drawing. Sent to my supplier. These samples have some default on the shape, and they are out of the box. Big work will be required. No problem, I like that.


Flesh and Bone Cancelled With Entire Season Release Treatment?
More evidence that Flesh and Bone has been cancelled before the dance?
Flesh and Bone Cancelled Or Renewed For Season 2?
From Emmy award-winning Writer and Executive Producer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad) comes a STARZ Limited Series that's sure to keep you on your toes. Premieres November 8.
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The Close-To-Dash mount is an accessory for a Gamber-Johnson console box. It attaches to the sides of your console box, surrounds your electronics, and places your tablet, display or other devices at a comfortable viewing height. The mount is designed specifically to fit the aesthetics and layout of your vehicle and features an extension arm so you can twist and tilt your tablet for easier viewing.


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package pl.edu.icm.crmanager.logic;

import static org.fest.assertions.Assertions.assertThat;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import org.fest.assertions.Assertions;
import org.fest.assertions.Delta;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

import pl.edu.icm.crmanager.diff.CrmShadowService;
import pl.edu.icm.crmanager.model.ContributionTestEntity;
import pl.edu.icm.crmanager.model.FullText;
import pl.edu.icm.crmanager.model.Person;
import pl.edu.icm.crmanager.model.Revision;
import pl.edu.icm.crmanager.model.WorkTestEntity;
import pl.edu.icm.crmanager.model.WorkTestEntity.WorkType;
import pl.edu.icm.sedno.common.model.SednoDate;

/**
 *
 * @author bart
 */
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:applicationContext-changeRequestManager-test.xml" })
public class CrmShadowServiceTest extends CrmDiffServiceTestBase {
	public static final int NEW_INT_VALUE = 34;
	public static final int OLD_INT_VALUE = 17;

	public static final double OLD_DOUBLE_VALUE = 1.;
	public static final double NEW_DOUBLE_VALUE = 2.;

	public static final SednoDate OLD_SEDNO_DATE = new SednoDate(2001,1,1);
	public static final SednoDate NEW_SEDNO_DATE = new SednoDate(2002,2,2);

	public static final Person    OLD_PERSON = new Person("old","person");
	public static final Person    NEW_PERSON = new Person("new","personn");

	public static final FullText  OLD_FULL_TEXT = new FullText("old text");
	public static final FullText  NEW_FULL_TEXT = new FullText("new text");

	public static final WorkType  OLD_WORK_TYPE = WorkType.A;
	public static final WorkType  NEW_WORK_TYPE = WorkType.B;

	Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CrmShadowServiceTest.class);

	@Autowired CrmShadowService crmShadowService;

	private Revision targetRevision;
	private WorkTestEntity w1 = new WorkTestEntity();
	private WorkTestEntity w2 = new WorkTestEntity();
	private ContributionTestEntity contrib1 = new ContributionTestEntity("contrib 1");
	private ContributionTestEntity contrib2 = new ContributionTestEntity("contrib 2");

	@Before
	public void before() {
		 deleteTestWorks(template);

         work  =  new WorkTestEntity();
         dataObjectDAO.saveOrUpdate(work,contrib1,w1,w2);

         dataObjectDAO.evict(work);

         //old (target) state
	     work.setSomeInt(OLD_INT_VALUE);
	     work.setSomeDouble(OLD_DOUBLE_VALUE);
	     work.setSednoDate(OLD_SEDNO_DATE);
	     work.setTestPerson(OLD_PERSON);
	     work.setFullText(OLD_FULL_TEXT);
	     work.setType(OLD_WORK_TYPE);
	     work.addContribution(contrib1);
	     work.addManyToManyWork(w1);

	     targetRevision = crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");
	     Assertions.assertThat(targetRevision.getChangesCount()).isEqualTo(10);
	}

	@Test
	public void testIntChangeRevert() {
		//prepare
	    work.setSomeInt(NEW_INT_VALUE);
	    crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		logger.info("shadow.getSomeInt(): "+ shadow.getSomeInt());
	    Assertions.assertThat(shadow.getSomeInt()).isEqualTo(OLD_INT_VALUE);
	}

	@Test
	public void testDoubleChangeRevert() {
		//prepare
	    work.setSomeDouble(NEW_DOUBLE_VALUE);
	    crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		logger.info("shadow.getSomeDouble(): "+ shadow.getSomeDouble());
		assertThat(shadow.getSomeDouble()).isEqualTo(OLD_DOUBLE_VALUE, Delta.delta(0.1));
	}

	@Test
	public void testEnumChangeRevert() {
		//prepare
	    work.setType(NEW_WORK_TYPE);
	    crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		logger.info("shadow.getType(): "+ shadow.getType());
		assertThat(shadow.getType()).isEqualTo(OLD_WORK_TYPE);
	}

	@Test
        public void testChildModifyRevert() {
            Set<ContributionTestEntity> cs = work.getContributions();
            for (ContributionTestEntity c : cs) {
                c.setContributorName("new contributor");
            }
            crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

            WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

            assertThat(shadow.getContributions()).onProperty("contributorName").excludes("new contributor");
        }

	@Test
	public void testChildAddRevert() {
		logger.info("testChildAddRevert()");
		//prepare
		work.addContribution(contrib2);
	    crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		logger.info("shadow.getContributions(): "+ shadow.getContributions());
		assertThat(shadow.getContributions()).hasSize(1);
	}

	@Test
	public void testChildRemoveRevert() {
		logger.info("testChildRemoveRevert()");
		//prepare
		work.removeContribution(contrib1);
		crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		logger.info("shadow.getContributions(): "+ shadow.getContributions());
		assertThat(shadow.getContributions()).hasSize(1);
		assertThat(shadow.getContributions()).onProperty("work").containsOnly(work);
	}

	@Test
	public void testEmbeddedObjectChangeRevert() {
		logger.info("testEmbeddedObjectChangeRevert()");
		//prepare
		work.setSednoDate(NEW_SEDNO_DATE);
		crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		logger.info("shadow.getSednoDate(): "+ shadow.getSednoDate());
		assertThat(shadow.getSednoDate()).isEqualTo(OLD_SEDNO_DATE);
	}

	@Test
	public void testComplexEmbeddedChangeRevert() {
		logger.info("testComplexEmbeddedChangeRevert()");
		//prepare
		work.setTestPerson(NEW_PERSON);
		crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		logger.info("shadow.getTestPerson(): "+ shadow.getTestPerson());
		assertThat(shadow.getTestPerson()).isEqualTo(OLD_PERSON);
	}

	@Test
	public void testStringPersistedTypeChangeRevert() {
		logger.info("testStringPersistedTypeChangeRevert()");
		//prepare
		work.setFullText(NEW_FULL_TEXT);
		crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		logger.info("shadow.getFullText(): "+ shadow.getFullText());
		assertThat(shadow.getFullText()).isEqualTo(OLD_FULL_TEXT);
	}

	@Test
	public void testManyToManyChildAddRevert() {
		logger.info("testManyToManyChildAddRevert()");
		//prepare
		work.addManyToManyWork(w2);
	    crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		assertThat(shadow.getManyToManyWorkList()).hasSize(1);
	}

	@Test
	public void testManyToManyChildRemoveRevert() {
		logger.info("testManyToManyChildRemoveRevert()");
		//prepare
		work.removeManyToManyWork(w1);
	    crmDiffService.generateRevisionAndAccept(work, "mock");

		//act
		WorkTestEntity shadow = crmShadowService.getShadow(targetRevision);

		assertThat(shadow.getManyToManyWorkList()).hasSize(1);
	}
}

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Implementation is on track for the Colombia Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) NAMA, funded by the NAMA Facility, with financial support from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Safety (BMUB) and the UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).The ultimate goal of the TOD NAMA is to transform Colombia's urban development model from automobile-oriented urban sprawl to Transit Oriented Development that maximizes GHG reductions and the sustainable development co-benefits of investments in public transport and housing.
The CIUDAT Board selected four cities for technical and financial support on catalytic TOD projects: Cali, Manizales, Medellin and Pasto. CIUDAT is currently working with the four cities to refine the scope of the catalytic interventions for potential financial support. Pre-feasibility studies will commence in the spring.
CIUDAT and the national policy staff on the CIUDAT Advisory Committee have identified several opportunities to integrate TOD into national policies to foster replication of best TOD practices across Colombian cities. These include pursuing strategies to promote TOD in Colombia's next National Development Plan (2019-2023) and in the POT Modernos effort to update hundreds of municipal land use plans. FINDETER, the Ministry of Transport and the Department of National Planning (DNP) are integrating TOD concepts into guidelines for the development of Master Mobility Plans for municipalities. FINDETER is also working with DNP on technical CONPES documents (for the National Council for Economic and Social Policy) on sustainable mobility that emphasize the importance of TOD for maintaining transport system sustainability.
As Delivery Organization for Technical Cooperation, CCAP is guiding CIUDAT on the development of the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plan for the NAMA. CCAP conducted a mission to Bogota in December 2016 to work closely with CIUDAT and the Ministry of Transport on the M&E plan. The resulting draft plan includes a variety of indicators that measure progress on the catalytic projects, policy replication, greenhouse gas emission reductions and mobilization of public and private finance.
CCAP and CIUDAT are investigating best practices and practical approaches and technologies for comprehensive measurement of TOD. CIUDAT will reflect this research in new guidance for supported cities on key data that needs to be collected around the catalytic projects (e.g., on travel and land use), as well as opportunities for longer-term monitoring of benefits (economic and social) and transformation.
CIUDAT is becoming a focal point for TOD and sustainable urban mobility in Colombia. The profile of the TOD NAMA has risen among national and international stakeholders and interest is spreading among cities.FINDETER is working to mainstream TOD into their various programs and credit lines. With funding from the French Global Environmental Fund (FFEM), CIUDAT is conducting a study on land value capture as a financial mechanism of TOD projects. FFEM has also provided financial assistance to Cali for planning of its Green Corridor. With funding from Citi Foundation within the Financing Sustainable Cities Initiative (FSCI), the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities is coordinating with CIUDAT to provide technical support in Cali on structuring the financial business model for the Green Corridor TOD project and its implementation. GIZ has been developing the TAnDem NAMA on active transport and demand management, for which CIUDAT would be the implementing entity if/when it is funded. Finally, FINDETER is in discussions with the Ministries of Environment, Transport and Housing about related NAMAs that could be integrated into the CIUDAT umbrella for further financial leverage.
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I was born the village of Cruden Bay, 26 miles north of Aberdeen in 1938.
When I was about two we moved away and I was brought up in a farming community. Left school at fifteen and moved to England to learn a trade.
Most of my life I have been involved in Aero, Auto or general engineering.
While working for myself I designed and built specialist equipment for the disabled, converted vehicles and installed stair lifts.
I live in a small town in Lincolnshire, married to Lorraine, have a daughter and a son, five grand daughters and one grandson, three great grand daughters and four great grandsons.
When I was 69 I was abducted and taken against my will. As a result of the trauma I suffered PTSD, it was suggested, as a therapy, I write about the kidnap incident.
I have written several books, mostly crime thrillers but have not yet been able to write about my kidnap ordeal. I will review and update the books, the first will be available by end of 2017 as an E-book.


In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a deity who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth.
Python (derived from the verb pythein, "to rot") is claimed by some to be the original name of the site in recognition of the Python that Apollo defeated (Miller, 95). The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been Krisa.
His sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 586 B.C. (Miller, 96) athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic (or stephanitic) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics.
Delphi would have been a renowned city whether or not it hosted these games; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the "omphalos" (navel) of the earth, in other words, the center of the world (Miller, 96-7). In the inner hestia ("hearth") of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned.


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Attempts to Deny Wisconsin Workers the Right to Choose a Union — Simply Un-American
February 17, 2011, 1:00am
Robert Creamer – Huffington Post
At this moment the Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker is doing his best to strip teachers and other state workers of the right to choose a union to negotiate their wages and working conditions.
Some on the radical right seem to feel that this is a perfectly legitimate course of action. After all, the State of Wisconsin has a budget gap. But times like these are precisely when workers of any sort are most in need of collective bargaining.
In fact, collective bargaining is not just some procedure that is or is not appropriate depending on the whim of an employer. The right to choose a union — the right to collective bargaining — is a human right every bit as central to Democracy as the right to vote, or freedom of speech.
The right to choose a union is not a Democratic value or a Republican value. It is an American value.
Abraham Lincoln once cautioned that if any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar.
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower said that, "only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice."
Even Ronald Reagan — who was certainly no friend of unions — invoked the universal right to choose a union when he blasted the Polish Government's suppression of Solidarity in 1981. He charged that, "It has even broken the Gdansk Agreement of August 1980, by which the Polish Government recognized the basic right of its people to form free trade unions and to strike."
And the right to choose a union is not just an American right. It is a universal human right — enshrined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, affirmed by the UN General Assembly in 1948. Article 23, Section 4 reads: "Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests."
The right to form a union is critical to a democratic society because it is the only way to assure that employers do not treat their employees as commodities. Competitive markets often work very well as a mechanism for pricing many products and services. But, taken by themselves, they do not work well as a means of assuring that employees receive a living wage.
The right wing likes to claim that when unions negotiate wages and working conditions the wages are "artificial" or "unnatural" — that the competitive market is the only "natural" way to set prices. That, of course, is ridiculous.
Human beings are not "commodities" to be bought and sold. They're the purpose of the economy, not objects to be chewed up and spit out when they're no longer needed. There is a huge population of unemployed workers in the developing world. In rural China alone there are 600 million people that not necessary to produce food and must be integrated into the non-agricultural economy. If we allow the right wing to make supply and demand the sole basis for wage rates and payment for labor, we will see a continued race to the bottom, lower and lower wages and salaries, and the destruction of the American middle class.
In fact, corporate success at undercutting the power of unions has been the principal reason why literally all of the growth in the Gross Domestic Product over the last decade has gone to the wealthiest two percent of the population.
The growth of organized labor after World War II was the critical factor that allowed for the creation of the great American middle class. Attempts by corporate power and their right wing Republican allies to destroy the right of Americans to choose a union would — if they were successful — destroy the American middle class as well. Unions are the only force that can assure that middle class incomes do not stagnate. That also makes them the only force that can assure that the middle class has enough income to buy the products and services that allow a growing economy.
One thing we have learned across the world in the last hundred years: economies achieve sustained growth only when that growth is widely shared — only when large numbers of people can steadily increase their incomes and buy more goods and services.
Unions allow widely shared sustained economic growth. Competitive labor markets, absent unions, do not.
The two-decade effort by big corporations and the radical right to undercut unions has taken its toll.
By August 2006, the New York Times reported that:
Federal Reserve study showed that, "Wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross national product since the government began recording data in 1947; while corporate profits have climbed to their highest shares since the 1960s."
In the third quarter of 2006, wages and salaries represented 45% of gross domestic product, down from about 50% in the first quarter of 2001 and 53.9% in 1970 according to the Commerce Department.
A separate report from Goldman Sachs said: "The most important contributor to high profit margins over the past few years has been the decline in labor's share of national income."
The cause of this decline is not decreased productivity of labor – far from it. From 2000 to 2006, worker productivity rose 166%, but total median compensation rose only 7.2%, according to a report for the Economic Policy Institute.
Wisconsin's Governor Walker announced at the end of last week that he would make a lightning strike in the State legislature to strip public employee unions of their rights to negotiate full packages of wages and working conditions. He hopes to pass legislation this week — to prevent the inevitable, growing outrage that he know would result. He even threatened to call out the National Guard to quell protests.
Walker was unsuccessful at stopping immediate and growing waves of demonstrations.
Now the streets of Madison look like Tahrir Square in Cairo — and for the same reason. Walker has become the Mubarak of Wisconsin — seeking to deny his people a basic human right.
And, like the streets of Cairo, a great deal is at stake in this struggle. Big corporations and the radical right want to destroy the right of collective bargaining in the United States. For years they have successfully prevented the passage of labor law reform that would allow private sector employees to effectively express their right to choose a union. The only portion of the labor movement that has grown over the last two decades is public employee unions.
The battle of Wisconsin is the first volley in a much larger war to destroy public sector unions — which not only represent their workers, but have also become a critical component of the progressive political movement throughout the United States.
So the battle of Wisconsin is about much more than the rights of Wisconsin public employees. If Walker is successful in Wisconsin it will embolden right wing Republican Governors across America to do the same — all with the aim of destroying the organized power of everyday people to stand up for their interests and prevent the masters of Wall Street from converting our American democracy into a private plutocracy.
Across Wisconsin, everyday people of all sorts are standing up for the rights of their neighbors who are teachers and snow plow drivers and medical technicians, and secretaries and the folks who take your money in the toll booth. When the alarm sounded, people of all sorts responded. Now it is time for people across America to join them.
Robert Creamer is a long-time political organizer and strategist, and author of the book: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, available on Amazon.com.


The Warhol welcomes the performance duo, Princess, comprised of Alexis Gideon and Michael O'Neill (JD Samson & MEN), who use music as the backbone of a multi-disciplinary practice that often explores issues of queerness and the concept of masculinity. Simultaneously gay, straight, queer, masculine, and feminine, Princess embodies the fluidity and coherence between the seemingly contradictory. The duo's Out There is a concept video album and live performance. Released song-by-song, each episode stands alone and moves the narrative forward to a conclusion. Out There reclaims the original power of MTV by building on the long legacy of concept albums like Ziggy Stardust and Deltron 3030.


As some of you may know, I'm currently in Michigan playing Skip in The Meadow Brook Theatre's production of Life Could be a Dream. The show is a 50's Doo-Woop jukebox musical written by the same team that brought you The Marvelous Wonderettes. It's pure, fluffy fun; we're a week into rehearsals, and I'm having a great time.
My character sings this song in the show, and we rehearsed it today. While Etta James's version is the one that comes to mind for most people, I actually found this one by The Harptones that's a bit closer to the arrangement in the show.
No offense to Etta, but I actually prefer this one. Etta bares her soul as she always does, but here the simple vocals and adherence to the melody let the plaintive 12/8 phrases do the emoting. And the doo-wop harmonies underneath are just perfect.
Aside from the immediate effect of making me miss my boyfriend, the song got me thinking about schedules. As any civilian will tell you, it's not easy dating anyone in the arts. Musicians, actors, visual artists, writers, directors, etc. may all have different problems associated with their respective fields, but we all have one thing in common: we don't conform to normal schedules. I'm writing this on a Saturday night because I have rehearsal tomorrow, and my day off is Monday (thanks Equity!). And even though the cast was invited to a party tonight, I'm pretty worn out after 8 hours of singing and dancing, so a night of tea and blogging sounded quite nice.
A frequently heard adage among artists of all kinds is "If you think you can be happy doing something else with your life, you should." I had several "real jobs," with a desk and normal hours and benefits and everything, and I was miserable. I'm glad to have learned that, though, because I know I can't conform to a Monday through Friday 9-5 schedule. Even my survival job (teaching and tutoring), has odd hours - I need that kind of flexibility in my life. Normal people need structure, but as Tom Stoppard says in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, "We're actors! We're the opposite of people!"
What strikes me as so interesting about this song is that it seems to play for both teams. A "Sunday Kind of Love," of course, is one that makes it through the weekend. But what's more conventional here? Having a weekend fling or a steady love that will be around "when Mondays are cold"? The song speaks to the fact that weekends are for fun, but yearns for more than that. When you're a working actor, the weekends are work days - particularly two-show-Saturdays, so you're hoping you've got a Sunday kind of love waiting for you at home even if you have to work weekends.
When I moved in with my boyfriend, he told me one of the things he was looking forward to the most about living together was having Sunday night dinners. This caused a some friction at first because I was reluctant to be pinned down to what I felt was a "conventional" schedule, but it's now become one of my favorite rituals. I know come tomorrow night, I'll be missing sitting down to one of his amazing home-cooked meals. Maybe that's what a Sunday kind of love really is: one that makes you feel like you've got someone who's with you no matter what day of the week it is or who has to get up for work the next day.


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TV ReviewsThe Leftovers
The Leftovers offers a satisfying end for a world robbed of one
Carrie Coon and Justin Theroux of The Leftovers (Photo: Van Redin)
Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta
Justin Theroux, Carrie Coon, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Kevin Carroll, Jovan Adepo, Scott Glenn
Sunday, April 16 at 9 p.m. Eastern on HBO
Hour-long drama. Seven episodes watched for review. Reviews by Joshua Alston will run weekly.
"I want fucking closure," Carrie Coon's Nora Durst declares during one of the final eight episodes of The Leftovers, a statement that speaks not only to her years-long quest to move past the sudden, still-unexplained disappearance of her family in the Departure, but to our collective human need for satisfying endings—from our lives and, more self-referentially, from the TV shows that briefly distract us from them. Across two seasons now, we've watched Nora and the other characters of HBO's thoughtful, enigmatic, emotionally draining drama grasping for the kind of conclusion that might allow them to move on, to give meaning to their being left behind by the Rapture-like purge that took their friends, loved ones, and Gary Busey without any explanation or discernible logic. It's a quest that's only grown more pressing in the show's third season, where (thanks to a minor time-jump) the Departure is fast approaching its seventh anniversary—a meaningful omen for those who haven't grown too jaded to believe in them. These faithful console themselves by insisting that all they've suffered has to be leading to something. There just has to be a big, blowout ending to all this. Otherwise, what was the point?
It's an especially poignant question for co-creator Damon Lindelof, who could go on to produce decades more of stories with profound, resonant, eminently satisfying conclusions, yet he will always live in a world where "Lost finale" is a shorthand for disappointment. That show—which presaged The Leftovers in its mélange of spiritual searching, science-fiction gloss, mystical hokum, and emotionally marooned malcontents—famously left many of its diehards enraged with an ending that ultimately valued the journey over providing some detailed, white-boarded explanation, with some of its most fervent fans similarly asking why they wasted their time.
Lindelof has wrested publicly with that backlash ever since—sometimes defensively, sometimes apologetically—and it's also colored nearly every interview he's ever given about The Leftovers, in which he's repeatedly described it, quite pointedly, as "not the mystery-solving show." Nevertheless, we live in an age where, glutted on great television and highly protective of our precious viewing time, a show is too often judged by whether it "sticks the landing"—a bullshit phrase that reduces years of graceful, thought-provoking art to a skateboarding trick, where all that matters is whether your flashy, expert maneuvering ends with you safely on the curb or sprawled on your ass.
Though Lindelof has always been careful in maintaining that The Leftovers isn't a direct reaction to Lost or its disgruntled fans, that desire for finality—can God (or whatever) stick the landing?—has long plagued its world. Its characters have been bedeviled not just by their loss but also by the maddening ambiguity of it. The question of how to go on living—of whether they should go on living, or just don the white garb of the Guilty Remnant, stop wasting their breath, and smoke themselves to an early grave—formed the entire through-line of the first season, which drew directly from Tom Perrotta's novel and concluded with the book's open-ended cliffhanger. It was a meditation on living with grief that, perhaps understandably, left a lot of viewers cold. By continuing the show beyond Perrotta's ellipsis of a final page, relocating the show to a new town and introducing new protagonists with their own miseries and mysteries, The Leftovers' masterful second season widened the door, allowing a new sense of hope for both its characters and its audience, who saw it in the renewed possibility for resolution. But the main question posed by the third season is, do we really want that resolution? What would it even look like?
Happily, there's no answer to that yet. HBO provided critics with only seven of the season's eight episodes, leaving its conclusion, fittingly, just out of reach. Lindelof has also been adamant that critics avoid any spoilers or even too many plot points, to preserve the surprises that—guided by the urgency of the maybe-approaching end times, as well as the truncated episode order—are doled out here more swiftly than ever. But it's not spoiling anything to say that the conversations both about and with God, which have long made The Leftovers one of the few shows to seriously wrestle with religion, are expressed here more directly than ever. As before, these endless dark nights of the soul are spurred on by Christopher Eccleston's meddling preacher Matt, whose faith wavers between the evangelical, the desperate, and the downright blasphemous as he becomes convinced that the many deaths and resurrections of Kevin (Justin Theroux) means he's the key to everything that's happening. "I'm not fucking Jesus," Kevin protests to this, though having thus far survived poisoning, drowning, shooting, and a purgatorial karaoke bar—plus his new, raggedy beard—others beg to differ.
Christopher Eccleston, Jovan Adepo, Kevin Carroll, Amy Brenneman (Photo: Ben King)
Meanwhile, Kevin's father (Scott Glenn) is out in the wandering-friendly deserts of the Australian Outback, sporting his own Old Testament look and fervently convinced that another biblical flood is imminent. Back in Miracle, John Murphy (Kevin Carroll) and his son Michael (Jovan Adepo), still grieving the implosion of their family, have similarly found new purpose in Matt's flock and the belief that they have a role to play in what they believe to be coming. All of them, along with Kevin's ex-wife Laurie (Amy Brenneman), form a backbiting, F-bomb-dropping group of disciples around Theroux's reluctant messiah, who's not entirely convinced his many dalliances with the supernatural—his annoying ghost pals and side trips to the hotel underworld where he's an international assassin—aren't just part of a prolonged psychotic breakdown.
As these dirty-faced angels prepare to face their maybe indifferent, possibly nonexistent maker, Lindelof and Perrotta wisely break them off into single-character-focused episodes, which has always been the show's most effective method. Exploring how each deals with potential Armageddon separately—some more welcomingly than others—the approach pays off in unusually strong showcases from Glenn, Brenneman, and Coon especially, whose flinty yet floundering work as Nora remains one of the most fascinating performances on television. And it serves to make the end of the world feel incredibly personal. Which, let's face it, it is.
It can also be surprisingly funny. The Leftovers has always balanced even its most despairing moments with streaks of mordant humor (one long-running gag in particular gets an incredible payoff in the second episode), and the ticking of the doomsday clock has only intensified its droll sense of absurdity. The music choices from supervisor Liza Richardson are particularly inspired this season, a raft of old spirituals, '60s pop schmaltz, and '90s gangsta rap that comment cleverly on the action, reserving Max Richter's elegiac score for just the scenes where it has the greatest emotional impact. And that sardonic wit undercuts even the most outlandish of the show's many dazzling visual spectacles, which this season includes everything from lion encounters to orgies to nuclear submarines. You'd be hard-pressed to name a work of art, let alone another TV show, that balances such enormity so playfully, without also being glib about the ponderous questions at its core.
But will anyone be around to watch it? For once, it doesn't matter: HBO has granted the critically acclaimed, yet criminally low-rated show these eight episodes to help it find its own closure, with Lindelof promising no loose ends that might leave fans bereft, similarly wondering how they're supposed to move on. Still, for all of his talk of giving it "as satisfying an ending as we can give," it's hard to imagine The Leftovers going out with the sky cracking open and the hand of Gary Busey reaching down to deliver God's final judgment, along with an exposition dump. The show has always seemed to not just shy away from such easy answers, but openly deride them as cons or delusions.
With its final season tailored squarely for those who have stuck with it through all that poignant uncertainty—and if all the posters prominently featuring Theroux's abs haven't drummed up any new viewers, no point worrying about them now—there's little reason to expect it will change that overarching philosophy. The series has always been about how difficult it is just to live in the world, forced to move on, get back to work, keep breathing, even when it seems like death shadows our every moment, and the strange anger it provokes when it fails to hurry up and do it already. We all want closure, but when it comes The Leftovers, it's just good to get a little more time.


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#include <azule/entity/Entity.h>
#include <azule/entity/EntityDatabase.h>
#include <azule/entity/TransformComponent.h>
#include <azule/physics/BoxCollisionComponent.h>
#include <azule/physics/CircleCollisionComponent.h>
#include <azule/physics/EdgeCollisionComponent.h>
#include <azule/physics/PhysicsRenderSystem.h>
#include <azule/utilities/PimplImpl.h>
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

using namespace azule;
using namespace azule;
using namespace azule;

struct PhysicsRenderSystem::Impl
{
	sf::RenderStates state;
};

PhysicsRenderSystem::PhysicsRenderSystem()
{
	const auto factor = static_cast<float>(Configuration::Instance().getPixelsPerMeter());
	this->pimpl->state.transform.scale(factor, factor);
}

PhysicsRenderSystem::~PhysicsRenderSystem()
{
}

void PhysicsRenderSystem::render(sf::RenderTarget& target, std::chrono::microseconds /*x*/)
{
	const auto manager = this->getEntityDatabase();

	if(manager != nullptr)
	{
		for(auto e : manager->getChildren<Entity>())
		{
			if(e->getChild<BoxCollisionComponent>() != nullptr)
			{
				auto box = e->getChild<BoxCollisionComponent>();

				sf::RectangleShape rect;
				rect.setSize({static_cast<float>(box->Width), static_cast<float>(box->Height)});
				rect.setOutlineColor(sf::Color::Green);
				rect.setFillColor(sf::Color::Transparent);
				rect.setOutlineThickness(0.1f);
				rect.setOrigin({rect.getSize().x / 2.0f, rect.getSize().y / 2.0f});

				if(e->getChild<TransformComponent>() != nullptr)
				{
					const auto& t = e->getChild<TransformComponent>();
					rect.setPosition({static_cast<float>(t->Position.x), static_cast<float>(t->Position.y)});
				}

				target.draw(rect, this->pimpl->state);
			}

			if(e->getChild<CircleCollisionComponent>() != nullptr)
			{
				auto c = e->getChild<CircleCollisionComponent>();

				sf::CircleShape circle;
				circle.setRadius(static_cast<float>(c->Radius));
				circle.setOutlineColor(sf::Color::Blue);
				auto blue = sf::Color::Blue;
				blue.a = 100;
				circle.setFillColor(blue);
				circle.setOutlineThickness(1.0f);
				circle.setOrigin(circle.getRadius(), circle.getRadius());

				if(e->getChild<TransformComponent>() != nullptr)
				{
					const auto& t = e->getChild<TransformComponent>();
					circle.setPosition({static_cast<float>(t->Position.x), static_cast<float>(t->Position.y)});
				}

				// target.draw(circle, this->pimpl->state);
				target.draw(circle);
			}

			if(e->getChild<EdgeCollisionComponent>() != nullptr)
			{
				auto edge = e->getChild<EdgeCollisionComponent>();

				sf::VertexArray array;
				array.setPrimitiveType(sf::PrimitiveType::Lines);

				array.append(sf::Vertex({static_cast<float>(edge->Vertex1.x), static_cast<float>(edge->Vertex1.y)}, sf::Color::Green));
				array.append(sf::Vertex({static_cast<float>(edge->Vertex2.x), static_cast<float>(edge->Vertex2.y)}, sf::Color::Green));
				target.draw(array, this->pimpl->state);
			}
		}
	}
}


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Executive Power and Governmental Attorney-Client Privilege: The Clinton Legacy
Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 631-668, Fall 2001
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 02-30
39 Pages Posted: 16 Dec 2002 Last revised: 6 Feb 2008
See all articles by Nelson Lund
Nelson Lund
Douglas R. Cox
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP - Litigation
President Clinton - who at times seemed destined to leave only disrepute in his wake - may actually have strengthened the office of the presidency. Although his administration lost an important pair of cases involving attorney-client privilege for government lawyers (as well as a case in which the administration sought recognition for a presidential body guard privilege), those losses are likely to have little enduring significance. Precisely because of the legal battering that the Clinton administration suffered at the hands of various Independent Counsel, that statutory device lost the political support that had kept it alive for many years. And with the demise of that statute, future Presidents should seldom if ever be faced with grand jury subpoenas from government officials purporting to represent the United States. Even if such circumstances do arise again - as they did for President Nixon even before the Independent Counsel statute came into being - future Presidents will have their hands greatly strengthened by the D.C. Circuit's expansive new exposition of executive privilege. That constitutional privilege will serve many of the same purposes that would have been served by the common law attorney-client privilege, and much more besides. Perhaps most important, the D.C. Circuit decision that gave the Clinton Administration one of its few legal victories will be available to future Presidents who seek to resist congressional investigations, perhaps as early as the pending litigation between Vice President Cheney and the Comptroller General. To the extent that Congress poses a greater threat than the judiciary to the legitimate interests of the Presidency, this may be among President Clinton's greatest legacies to the office he once held.
Keywords: constitutional law, executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, legal ethics
JEL Classification: H11, K10, K19, K41, K49
Lund, Nelson Robert and Cox, Douglas R., Executive Power and Governmental Attorney-Client Privilege: The Clinton Legacy. Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 631-668, Fall 2001; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 02-30. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=358802 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.358802
Nelson Robert Lund (Contact Author)
George Mason University School of Law ( email )
3301 Fairfax Drive
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP - Litigation ( email )
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Verizon wireless Home Internet trial isn't waiting for 5G
Chris Burns - Jul 30, 2020, 9:32am CDT
This week Verizon expanded home internet availability to several new rural areas inside the United States. Added to the mix were broadband Internet service with Verizon's 4G LTE network in TN/VA/KY, Springfield, MO, and Savannah, GA. This expanded system works with what Verizon describes as "easy self-setup" and unlimited data.
Users in these newly opened areas will be able to get wireless Home Internet for $40 a month (for current Verizon wireless customers). If you're a non-Verizon wireless customer, pricing starts at $60 a month. That includes "unlimited data" with data speeds (download speeds) of 25 Mbps "with peaks up to 50 Mbps."
This system works with an "easy-to-install" LTE Home router that'll cost you $10 with a device payment plan. That's assuming you've already got a Verizon mobile plan of $30 or more already on the books.
The release of this expanded 4G LTE home internet network coverage area has no mention of 5G in its official press release. Verizon's certainly not giving up on 5G connectivity spread – but it's just as important to continue to expand coverage for all users with the best-available tech at any given time, especially right this minute.
"With LTE Home Internet, our most awarded 4G LTE network will provide Internet connectivity for customers in more rural parts of America who may not have access to broadband Internet service – a critical need, especially now, when so many are counting on reliable connectivity for remote work and educational needs," said Frank Boulben, Senior Vice President of Consumer Marketing and Products at Verizon.
Take a peek at the timeline of links below for more information on how Verizon's expanding home internet with 5G connectivity in other regions of the United States. The faster, the better, unless there's only 4G LTE, in which case – any internet is better than no internet!
Verizon 5G Home Internet service arrives in select cities on October 1
Verizon flips the switch on its 5G home internet network
T-Mobile Home Internet pilot promises low-cost 5G if Sprint merger approved
Topics 4G5GconnecteddataInternetLTEmobilePhonessmart homesmartphonesVerizonWireless


A China Eastern flight from Sydney to Shanghai was forced to turn around after a hole appeared in one of its engine casings, causing a mid-air emergency.
Passengers spoke of their terror after hearing a loud noise followed by a "burning" smell. The Airbus 330 was forced to circle for an hour before touching down safely.
Images show a huge hole in the Trent 700 engine, designed and developed by Rolls-Royce in Derby.
Investigators are now understood to be examining the role played by part of the "nacelle", the aviation industry term for the casing that surrounds a jet engine.
Issues with the nacelle on the Trent 700 have previously been the subject of an "airworthiness directive" from aviation safety regulators who warned of the potential for "damage to the engine or reduced control of the aeroplane".
The Trent 700 is made by Rolls-Royce but the damaged air intake cowl is manufactured for the British company by Canadian firm Bombardier.
Flight MU736 left Sydney bound for Shanghai at 8.30pm on Sunday evening but pilots reported problems about an hour into the journey. It returned to Sydney where it landed safely and passengers were evacuated with no injuries, according to China Eastern Airlines.
"The moment that we took off the wing to my left just started making a massive amount of noise and they cleared all the seats," a passenger told the Nine Network.
"We went up in the air and all of a sudden ... it kind of smelled like burning," another passenger told Network Seven.
With the majority of announcements on board made in Chinese, English-speaking passengers said they were struggling to find out any details.
"I was scared. Yes. I was really scared. Our group was terrified," the passenger told Seven.
"We were very panicked because we had no idea what was happening," she told Channel 9 television.
"The crew observed the abnormal situation of the left engine and decided to return to Sydney airport immediately. All passengers and crew members were landed safely," said Kathy Zhang, a general manager at China Eastern Airlines.
Passengers were put up in hotels at Sydney airport and were expected to depart for Shanghai later on Monday morning. Despite the havoc, passengers applauded airline staff for their professionalism.
Tony Cable, an engineering aircraft accident investigator, said pictures of the engine did not show "sooting", evidence that might indicate an engine fire. "Another possibility is a foreign object, like a bird or a tool left in the air inlet," he said.
But another industry source said investigators were likely to start by examining the role of the air inlet cowl on the Trent 700. The cowl is part of the engine casing and has previously been the subject of an "airworthiness directive" from the European Aviation Safety Agency.
The directive, issued in May last year, referred to "cracks" in the cowl discovered during routine checks, which Easa said might have been caused by "acoustic excitation and vibration".
The document warned that in some cases it had detected, a part called the "piccolo tube" was also fractured.
"A broken piccolo tube, if not detected and corrected, in conjunction with forward air intake cowl bulkhead damage, could lead to in-flight detachment of the outer barrel, possibly resulting in damage to the engine or reduced control of the aeroplane," Easa said.
It said the issue might affect several Airbus aircraft, although the A330-200 flown by China Eastern was not included among them.
In a separate incident, a Singapore Airlines A330-300 lost power in both Trent 700 engines in 2015 after encountering bad weather, with investigators yet to determine the cause.
Bombardier could not be reached for comment.
Zhang said a comprehensive investigation would involve aviation authorities from Australia and China.
"The engine for the aircraft is a big issue so we need to investigate with the governments, with the Rolls-Royce company and with our headquarters as well," she said.
Several other flights out of Sydney were cancelled on Monday morning before thick fog that blanketed the city cleared after sunrise.
The flight was a code-share with Qantas. A spokesperson for the airline confirmed that a "small number" of passengers were on the Sydney to Shanghai service and said it was "working with China Eastern to reaccommodate impacted passengers onto other services".


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Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards 2019 Stephen Camilleri
Stephen Camilleri
ESSI Earth and Space Science Informatics
The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to Stephen Camilleri for the poster/PICO entitled:
Investigating the relationship between earthquakes and online news (Camilleri, S.; Azzopardi, J.; Agius, M. R.)
Stephen Camilleri is a Masters graduate from the University of Malta, tutored by Dr Joel Azzopardi and co-tutored by Dr Matthew R. Agius. His research made use of text mining tools to automatically map in near real-time earthquake events determined from multilingual news articles published by 23 leading news agencies. His work, which is published in an IEEE AIKE paper entitled "Investigating the relationship between earthquakes and online news", complements the awarded poster at EGU 2019. The poster showcased the complexities involved to retrieve and parse unstructured text (online news articles); to extract and cross-validate extracted information from the news content and; to map the online news with earthquake events extracted from the USGS earthquake catalogue. It also provided an explanation on the tests carried out to validate the method, interesting observations made from this study, and a brief on the graphic user interface of the application. This research paves the way for more in-depth analysis of the spatial and temporal correlation between media reporting and the nature of the event and has potentially important applications in other fields of interest, besides earthquakes including wildfires, floods and tsunamis.
The work builds on the list of past achievements, including the University of London (Goldsmiths) Degree in Computing and Information Systems, where Stephen was awarded First Class Honours. His final dissertation entitled "Equity recommendation technique using fuzzy logic control" included an application, which made use of genetic programming, fuzzy logic control and sentiment analysis to establish the most promising stocks available on the market.


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Key Quotes for 2007
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Last update: Monday 15th July
Mayonnaise is firmly ahead of salad cream as the nation's top choice of dressing.	Sales have risen 10 per cent since 2004 to hit £97 million this year, according to analysts Mintel. By contrast, sales of salad cream have remained static at £49 million annually for the past three years.
Food and Drink The Sentinel - October 5th, 2007
Students in England are among the least hard-working in Europe, putting the reputation of the country's universities at risk. The Higher Education Policy Institute, which conducted the study, said studies courses averaged only about 20 hours of work each week, although medics did 35 hours.
Education The Sentinel - September 25th, 2007
Three-quarters of Britons admit they hide cash around their homes, with the average person having more than £100 stashed away, a survey showed today. Most people have around £127 hidden in their house, but eight per cent said they had between £300 and £1,000 in their home, according to insurer Cornhill Direct.
Money The Sentinel - September 28th, 2007
Children who watch television excessively at a young age are at greater risk of developing behavioural problems and poor social skills. American researchers found that a sustained, high level of viewing in children under five-and-a-half years old increased the chances of them having behaviour problems in the future. Children of five-and-a-half who were watching two or more hours a day were more likely to have fewer social skills, although the study also showed children this young who had a TV in their rooms are more at risk of having behavioural problems. Parents could still avoid their children being at a higher risk if they reduced their viewing by the age of around five, it said.
Media The Sentinel - October 1st, 2007
A new campaign against criminals force trafficked women into the sex trade will be launched today. All 55 police forces in the UK and the Republic of Ireland will take part in the project, named Pentameter 2 after a successful operation last year. Pentameter's initial four-month campaign led to more than 200 arrests and rescued children who had been forced into sex slavery. Officers executed warrants in 515 brothels, massage parlours, homes and other premises during the project. More than 80 women and girls were rescued – about half from a range of eastern European countries and the rest from the Far East, Africa and South America.
Crime The Sentinel - October 3rd, 2007
Cigarette sales slumped by 11.6 in July compared to the previous year, figures have shown. The decrease followed the smoking ban which came into force in England on July 1st. It reflects cigarette sales across Britain from shops, bars, clubs, pubs and restaurants, according to market analysts Nielsen, who collected the data.
Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions The Sentinel - October 3rd, 2007
British people are buckling under the strain of modern life with one in 10 people constantly at boiling point and a fifth feeling stressed before breakfast. The poll for the Relaxation for Living Institute found British people spend five and a half years of their adult life feeling tense.
Health The Sentinel - October 4th, 2007
Scientists today cast doubt on the effectiveness of individually-tailored herbal medicines.	The treatments which are used in Chinese, Ayurvedic and Western herbal medicine, have becomes popular over the past 20 years. But a study published in the Postgraduate Medical Journal said there is no convincing evidence that the treatments work.
Special care baby units across the UK are "near breaking point", a report said today. A lack of funding has left units struggling more than ever to reach minimum staffing levels in the last year, according to the baby charity Bliss. Only a handful of units were able to meet the minimum recommended staffing levels, with many forced to refuse new admissions for considerable periods of time. Mothers and babies may be forced to travel long distances in search of a unit with appropriate facilities, the charity said. Bliss's new study was based on surveys of 195 neonatal units across the UK.
Health The Sentinel - October 11th, 2007
House prices are falling at their fastest rate for two years. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said the cost of UK property fell for the 2nd month in a row during September. The number of people looking to buy a house fell for the 10th consecutive month and at its fastest rate for four-and-a-half years.
Housing The Sentinel - October 11th, 2007
The number of older drivers is growing but senior citizens are as safe behind the wheel as younger motorists, figures from the AA showed today. Three-quarters of men in their 70s now hold a driving license – a 50 per cent increase on 20 years ago. The number of women in their 70s with licenses has soared from just 11 per cent in 1986 to 31 per cent now. Drivers over 70 are as safe as drivers aged 25. Drivers over 80 still have a better record than teens.
The Elderly The Sentinel - October 10th, 2007
A priest in Co. Limerick has criticised a pub in his parish for employing a topless barmaid. Fr Brendan Kyne criticised Browne's Pub in Montpellier for employing topless barmaid Yasmin, saying that it was exploitation of a person which could never be condoned. This behaviour is wrong and you have to ask the question 'where does the development of the business go from here?' he said. He said concerned parishioners did not want a local business to develop in this way. "People are trying to raise families and children in the area and give them a good example," he said.
Work/Employment The Universe - October 21st, 2007
Nearly half of all British young people think that missing out on school trips or not having the correct uniform are the most telling indicator of being poor. The research, commissioned by Dare to Care is designed to underline how individuals can help to combat child poverty in the UK. www.daretocare.org.uk
Young People Youthwork - November 2007
The world will end in the year 2060...at least that's what 17th century genius Sir Isaac Newton reckoned! Famed for discovering gravity, the man who regularly features among Britain's Greatest Men was also deeply religious. And in a paper, written in 1704, he claimed that 2060 was a key date on the calendar declaring "It may end later but I see no reason for it ending sooner." He believed everything would end 1,260 years after the start of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 AD.	The document has been in a Jerusalem library since 1969 and is now included in an exhibition there. The curator, Yemima Ben-Menahem said: "It sees a scientist guided by a desire to see God's actions in the world."
What famous people say The Son - Autumn 2007
Singer and ex-Mis-Teeq star Alesha Dixon felt her world fall apart when last November, her husband Harvey (of So Solid Crew fame) was caught in bed with singer Javine – his co-star in the West End Musical, Daddy Cool. She told The Son, "I like to take positives out of any negative situation – I'm very logical and practical, and I believe whatever happens in life is meant to be. "God has a plan for me and he doesn't give me anything I can't handle."	She continues, "You have to live in the moment. If I dwell on the past or worry too much about the future, I'll miss my life, and I love life too much to let anything like that make me unhappy." The beginning of 2005 saw the end of Mis-Teeq and Alesha Dixon is now aiming for solo success. What the future holds now is yet to be known. "I just want to grab everything while I can. I'll sleep when I'm dead."
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