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Jole Blon
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Jolie Blonde is a traditional cajun waltz, often called "the cajun national anthem" because of the popularity it had in cajun culture. The song was then later popularized on a nationwide scale by a series of renditions and references in late '40s country songs. It has been the subject of occasional cover later in the 20th century by cajun and classic country revival bands. Becoming a part of the band's repertoire in 1951, "Joli Blon" became the official fight song of McNeese State University in 1970, and it is played by the "Pride of McNeese" band upon scoring at athletic events.
The original cajun version is a brief address to a "pretty blonde" who had left the singer and moved back in with her family, and is also now in the arms of another man. The singer concludes that there are plenty of other pretty blonde women. The fiddle-based melody dates to before the 1900s.
The earliest recording of the song is believed to be a 1929 version by the family trio Breaux Brothers entitled "Ma blonde est partie", recorded in Atlanta. There is some mystery to its origin. While Amede Breaux is credited with writing the song, it was his sister Cleoma who actually wrote the lyrics and Amede sang the song. Dennis McGee claims the original song was written by Angelas Lejeune as "La Fille De La Veuve (The Widows Daughter)" during WWI and Cleoma rewrote the lyrics, allegedly about Amede's first wife. Lejeune and Ernest Fruge would eventually record this song on November 19, 1929 in New Orleans (Brunswick 558, Melotone M18052). In 1934, Alan Lomax traveled to Louisiana recording artists including the Segura Brothers and their version of "La Fille De La Veuve". Eventually, in 1951, Amede Breaux would form the band Acadian Aces and record the song with the title "Jole Blonde" for J. D. "Jay" Miller's Feature Records (F-1023).
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The Balham Alligators were a band from London that mixed rock 'n' roll, cajun, country and R&B. The band centred on singer and instrumentalist Geraint Watkins.
The band came together by chance at a London pub in 1983. The original line-up consisted of Geraint Watkins, Robin McKidd, Kieran O'Connor, Arthur Kitchener, and Gary Rickard. The Alligators played a hybrid blend of musical styles, including Rock 'n' Roll', Blues, R&B, Celtic Folk, Swamp-Pop, Country, Swing, Cajun & Zydeco.
The Balham Alligators performed in venues around Europe. Early albums included The Balham Alligators and Life In A Bus Lane. The pressure of constant touring began to take its toll with the continued ill-health and eventual death of Kieran O'Connor (d. 1991), the departure of Kitchener and Ron Kavana, and despite the recruitment of Pete Dennis to replace Kitchener convinced the remaining members it was time to call it a day.
The following years were spent pursuing individual projects with Watkins and Rickard working with Charlie Hart as, Rickard, Watkins & Hart, with Watkins eventually leading his own outfit, The Wobblers, in 1992. Robin McKidd formed The Companions of The Rosy Hours a western-swing band. Despite the four years since the original band's demise, McKidd was still receiving offers of work for the Alligators, persuading Watkins and Rickard to try out a few gigs with The Wobblers as a backing band, it became apparent that the Alligators were still a viable concern. Bolstered with morale and momentum they recruited session musician, Bobby Irwin on drums and ex-Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers' bass guitarist Paul Riley and by the latter half of 1995 they recorded Gateway To The South (1996) and followed by Cajun Dance Party (1997).
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FDA Approves Teprotumumab (Tepezza) First Treatment for Thyroid Eye Disease
Miriam E. Tucker
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the monoclonal antibody teprotumumab (Tepezza, Horizon Therapeutics) for the treatment of adults with thyroid eye disease.
Thyroid eye disease is a serious, progressive, vision-threatening autoimmune condition that can cause proptosis (bulging), strabismus (eye misalignment), eye pain, light sensitivity, double vision, and in some cases blindness. The only possible treatments until now have been steroids and surgery.
Believed to occur in about 15,000 to 20,000 Americans annually, thyroid eye disease is most often associated with hyperthyroidism or Graves' disease. However, it arises from a separate process involving autoantibodies that activate an insulinlike growth factor 1 receptor–mediated signaling complex on cells within the eye orbit.
Teprotumumab, given in eight infusions once every 3 weeks, blocks that receptor.
The FDA approval is based on results from two clinical trials previously reported by Medscape Medical News. Findings from a phase 2 study that involved 42 patients with moderate to severe thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy showed significant improvements with treatment with teprotumumab that lasted up to 72 weeks.
In the subsequent confirmatory phase 3 multinational OPTIC trial, at 24 weeks, significantly more of the 41 patients treated with teprotumumab experienced 2-mm or greater reduction in proptosis without deterioration in the other eye (82.9% vs 9.5% of the 42 patients given placebo; P < .001).
Significant improvements were also seen in other measured outcomes, including orbital pain, eyelid swelling, diplopia, and quality-of-life scores.
"Today's approval marks an important milestone for the treatment of thyroid eye disease. Currently, there are very limited treatment options for this potentially debilitating disease. This treatment has the potential to alter the course of the disease, potentially sparing patients from needing multiple invasive surgeries by providing an alternative, non-surgical treatment option," said Wiley Chambers, MD, deputy director of the Division of Transplant and Ophthalmology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a press release issued by the agency.
In a Horizon Pharma statement, Jeff Todd, president and chief executive officer, Prevent Blindness, said teprotumumab "is a much-needed breakthrough for a community of people who have historically had to struggle in pain as their symptoms progress ? risking permanent damage to their eyes and making it extremely difficult to go about their daily lives.
"This approval is meaningful to our organization because we are committed to helping patients with vision impairment and those who are at significant risk," he added.
Graves' Opthalmology: A Rare Disease
In December 2019, the FDA's Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee unanimously voted in favor of approving teprotumumab. It had been granted fast-track status in April 2015 and breakthrough therapy designation in July 2016. It received orphan drug designation on June 19, 2019.
The approval comes ahead of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of March 8, 2020.
"Thyroid eye disease is a rare disease that impacts a small percentage of the population," Chambers noted, "and for a variety of reasons, treatments for rare diseases are often unavailable. This approval represents important progress in the approval of effective treatments for rare diseases, such as thyroid eye disease."
Adverse events of teprotumumab include muscle spasm, nausea, alopecia, diarrhea, fatigue, hyperglycemia, hearing loss, dry skin, dysgeusia (altered sense of taste), and headache. The majority of these events were graded mild to moderate and were manageable in the trials, with few discontinuations or therapy interruptions.
The drug is contraindicated during pregnancy.
Per the advisory panel's discussion, Horizon will conduct a postmarketing study to evaluate safety in a larger patient population and will evaluate retreatment rates relative to treatment duration.
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Facebook to Open Second African Office in Lagos
Five years after opening its first office on the continent, Facebook is expanding its investment portfolio by opening its second office in Lagos, Nigeria.
By Emmanuel Ngwa
Image Credit: Reuters / Afolabi Sotunde
After opening its first African office in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2015 , Facebook is now set to open its second African office in Lagos in the second half of 2021.
It's a move that comes four years after the social media giant's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, visited Nigeria in what was his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa.
Mark Zuckerberg in Lagos, 2016. Image Credit: Facebook
Facebook says the Lagos office will house a cross-section of Facebook teams from sales and policy to communications. This Lagos office will also be the first office on the continent with a team of engineers.
The opening of this office in Lagos is the company's latest commitment to Nigeria - Africa's largest Internet market. In 2018, Facebook opened a hub space in partnership with Co-Creation Hub, Nigeria's leading startup accelerator.
Why Nigeria?
Data from 2016 shows that more people use Facebook in Nigeria than anywhere else in Africa. Nigeria also boasts of a suite of high-ranking executives at Facebook's global offices. But the driving factors for this move extend well beyond a team of Nigerians at Facebook pulling strings.
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Truth is, Facebook is moving closer to where the talent is. And last year, Nigeria ranked among the fastest-growing developer communities in Africa.
Facebook is not the only company moving closer to local talent and key markets.
Over the last decade, both Microsoft and Google have grown their local presence in Nigeria. Microsoft's moves, in the past, have included a $ 100 million commitment to build software development centers in Africa and employ 500 African developers by 2035.
It's not just about talent
Global tech giants are now looking beyond their immediate markets to focus on a largely unexploited market: Africa. A hands-on presence in Nigeria and across Africa is, therefore, a clever move from tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
What's more, Africa's population, the youngest in the world, is expected to triple by 2100 as the rest of the world shrinks. And these giants know well that Nigeria will play a major role in that growth, especially because it's the world's second-most populous country, ahead of China.
Africa's adoption of digital innovations (Mobile Money for instance), has witnessed a boost from the increasing availability of smartphones. More than ever before, smartphones have become more affordable for more people in Africa, thanks in part, to companies like Chinese-owned Transsion .
While there are still issues regarding Internet access and speed on the continent, there are good signs Africa is making some progress .
What's more, tech giants like Facebook and Google are not leaving this to chance. Both companies are developing projects to circle Africa with huge undersea cables that will deliver Internet connectivity and get millions of Africans online.
Five years after opening its first office on the continent, Facebook is expanding its investment portfolio by supporting local talent. The Lagos office will help further expand on this portfolio for the tech giant.
After South Africa and Nigeria, who's next?
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In this verse, the Apostle Paul is encouraging his son in the Lord, Timothy, to carry out the work of the ministry that God had given him. As an uncommon mentor, Paul knew that fulfilling the work of the ministry would include days of suffering for the Lord; therefore, he wanted to make sure that Timothy, his uncommon protégé, was appropriately prepared in his heart and properly focused in his mind for the challenges he would face in the ministry.
To carry out the ministry that God has given me is not easy because it includes the baptism of suffering that all spiritual leaders must go through to become like Jesus and it requires me to keep a focused mind in every situation I encounter on the ministry journey. Loving God with my whole heart, mind, soul, and strength helps me embrace the fellowship of Christ's suffering as a minister of the Gospel. Loving others as myself helps me keep a clear ministry mind in every situation. In doing this with the help and grace of the Lord, I plan to effectively carry out the ministry God has given me in telling others about the Good News of the Gospel.
Heavenly Father, I praise You for You are gracious, merciful, compassionate, and faithful! You know every detail of my life and ministry to others. As You lead me and guide me on every step of the ministry journey, I place my complete trust in You to mold me, shape me, teach me, and keep me as an effective minister of Your grace, truth, and love! Help strengthen my faith in all sufferings and focus my mind in every situation. I love You Jesus! Amen!
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Add to Calendar 2019-07-21 14:00:00 2019-07-21 15:30:00 America/Denver 12 Minutes Max 12 Minutes Max is a monthly experimental performance series featuring short works by local artists in many disciplines. Main Library
12 Minutes Max is a monthly experimental performance series featuring short works by local artists in many disciplines.
One Sunday a month, we present three original pieces in a varied mix, chosen from music, dance, film, theater, performance art, writing, and the like — each 12 minutes or less. The whole event is short and sweet, taking about an hour.
Following each event, we serve coffee and cookies in an informal gathering, a chance for conversation with the artists.
We welcome Junior Mint Prince, an experimental duo consisting of Provo musician Lula Asplund and Naomi Harrison-Clay from New York City, both nonbinary multimedia artists studying electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, California. They will perform a mix of improvisation and open-score pieces. They say of their work: "Blurred distinctions of song-form, performative gesture, and open improvisation serve our core interests, drawing influence from a variety of genres including freak folk, electronic, free improv, texture, and drone music. We also love to incorporate elements of poetry, humor, theatricality, and political satire in our work. We generally perform using various combinations of instrumentation ranging from homemade contact mic'd found object instruments, voice processed through Max MSP, electric guitar, saxophone, and synthesizers."
Local documentary filmmaker Travis Low will present an excerpt of his favorite documentary film ever made, his friend Bill Daniel's Who Is Bozo Texino? The subterranean and uniquely American folkloric practice of hobo and rail worker graffiti is discovered in this gritty and picaresque artist-made film. Who is Bozo Texino? ostensibly chronicles a search for the story behind a legendary boxcar graffiti -- a simple sketch of a blank-staring cowboy character with the scrawled moniker "Bozo Texino." Shot over the course of 16 years of trips across the West at considerable risk from speeding freight trains and in secret hobo jungles, Daniel and his trusty Bolex 16mm camera interviews some of the last remaining old timers who kept the folk art of "monikers" alive. Texas-born, San Francisco exiled, and confirmed tramp, Bill Daniel continues to experiment with survivalism and bricolage in his attempts to record and report on the various social margins he finds himself in. Currently based on the Texas gulf coast, Daniel divides his time between Texas and touring.
Musician and composer Neil Thornock will present his composition for solo marimba Quantasy, performed by Stephen L. Hughes. Quantasy derives from "quantum fantasy." Thornock says "Think of quantum leaps or quantum entanglement or the quanta absorbed and emitted by active electrons. This piece was originally written for bass flute, but it lives much better as a marimba solo." As a musician, Neil Thornock writes much of his music for his own performances as organist, keyboardist, and carillonneur. He teaches composition and theory at Brigham Young University. Percussionist Hughes is also an author, composer and private instructor, as well as acting as an artist/consult for percussion at several Utah Band programs.
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Interview by Andrea Ross
Amy Irvine.
Photo courtesy Torrey House Press.
Writer and teacher Amy Irvine is the author of three books of nonfiction. Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land (North Point Press, 2008) is a memoir about marriage, new motherhood, landscape, and wildlands conservation, and was selected for the 2009 Orion Book Award and the Colorado Book Award. In 2009 she was also awarded the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award. Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness (Torrey House Press, 2018) is a posthumous conversation with Edward Abbey about environmental, cultural, and social issues. Her writing also appears in Pacific Standard, Orion, High Desert Journal, TriQuarterly, and others. She is a sixth-generation Utahn, a longtime public lands activist, and an adjunct faculty member of the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program of Southern New Hampshire University. She lives in Colorado.
I first encountered Irvine's work in 2009, after Trespass was published. I admired its gorgeous prose and identified with the writer's struggles to reconcile the dissonance between life as a 20th century backcountry woman with life as a 21st century mom, between working to protect wildlands while feeling complicit in their overuse, and between battling illness and wanting to be strong.
I interviewed her on January 26, 2019, just two months after Desert Cabal hit the shelves and, as Irvine herself put it, "took on a life of its own." She likens the book to "an unintended pregnancy that resulted in octuplets" because although she sat down to write a 3,000-word introduction to a 50th anniversary limited edition of Edward Abbey's iconic Desert Solitaire, when she looked up from her desk, she had penned 18,000 words—the book. Irvine and I discussed the body of her work, how it ties into her activism and politics, and some possible solutions to the current cultural trend toward tribalism.
Andrea Ross: In 2008 when Trespass was published, Judith Lewis, in a Los Angeles Times book review, opined that it "might well be Desert Solitaire's literary heir." Did a spark ignite in your mind at that time about an essay or book that would respond to Ed Abbey's work?
Amy Irvine: I had never even thought about writing about Abbey. I was so surprised by the thing about Trespass as Desert Solitaire's literary heir because I don't envision myself as having anything in common with Abbey—except that we both love red rock country and we've both come from a place of white privilege. It's hard to admit this, but I think if I had been asked to write Desert Cabal before Trump happened and Kavanaugh happened and #MeToo happened, I don't know that I would have written it quite so frankly. Before, there was something I hadn't made contact with in myself, some part of my own blindness to Abbey's views on women and our views of land use as environmentalists. The opportunity to write Desert Cabal gave me a chance to explore how my perspective is evolving.
I was surprised at how much I needed to say, how many questions I had, how much I needed to push back against the things that some of us find problematic about Abbey's writing: the racism, the sexism. In the past decade, there's a lot that I've been trying to say, but it's been rejected as too fierce or too feminist. Or because it didn't offer a soft, romantic view of nature, or frankly, because it was too complicated. But all of a sudden, we're in this Trump era, and now my writing has a place. People are ready to hear that voice.
Andrea Ross: I view Trump's rollbacks of federal lands in the Desert Southwest, of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, as a "manhandling" of the wilderness and a result of patriarchal male thinking, of which Abbey was also guilty. You talk to Abbey about it in Desert Cabal:
Desert Solitaire framed the American West through your lens . . . the Utah desert is not just a place to explore, not just a resource to exploit. It is a body—both politic and erotic. In every way, it's scandalous. Your claiming of Utah's desert outback taught an entire nation what it means to be in collective possession of a place . . . but those of us who have done our time out there know that . . . it's the rough country, after all, that is in possession of us and not the other way around. [italics mine]
Abbey's notion of "possessing" wilderness has always bothered me, so I was happy to see these concerns mirrored in your words. What do you think is the best way to grapple with the all-too-ingrained notion in our culture of man as conqueror and possessor, and consequently, landscape as inherently female and, therefore, vulnerable?
Edward Abbey.
Photo courtesy Adventure Journal.
Amy Irvine: We all objectify landscape—because we have this idea that it's our church, our refuge, our aesthetic. We feel entitled to use it as a surface for recreation, or entertainment.
Our impacts on public lands is something that I don't think the environmental community has not been very honest about. I want to take this moment to ask: What do we do now? We have to admit that we are loving the land to death. For example, the numbers of people flocking to the Bears Ears: it has no management plan in place. And the government's been furloughed, so even if they could staff it, that's not happening; nothing is in place to protect it. On such vast and vulnerable landscapes, we must better police ourselves.
Making Bears Ears a national monument was a good faith effort because we thought Hillary Clinton would win the presidential election, and the five Native American tribes who have heritage there would be involved in its management in a meaningful way. That didn't happen. Now we have our work cut out for us, and we start by looking at our own behavior, our consumption and objectification of these places. Desert Cabal is very much about making myself complicit and acknowledging where I have also objectified the land as an object of my desires—something to sate my need for refuge, spiritual sustenance, physical adventure.
Andrea Ross: In Desert Cabal, you argue that wilderness lovers "need intimacy with people every bit as much as with place," that "going it alone is a failure of contribution and compassion." Subsequently, you introduce the cabal as a method for tackling social and environmental crises.
I agree that banding together is important, especially in this time of political turmoil and uncertainty, but in banding together, how do we avoid the tribalism that threatens to undo politicians' ability to reach across the aisle, threatens citizens' ability to reach out to non-like-minded neighbors? In other words, how do we band together and make an end-run around the binary wiring of the human psyche: self/other; good/bad; right/wrong?
Amy Irvine: The Left has been good at "eating its own," as Rebecca Solnit says. But the Right is pretty unified around President Trump. No matter what he says or does, there's still a contingency that drives a bigger, anti-environmental agenda. We on the Left are terrible about keeping our eye on the prize—in this case, the land. Instead I get told I'm not a real feminist because I'm wearing a wedding ring, or I'm not a real environmentalist because I still eat meat (albeit far less than I used to). At this point, we need to stop splitting hairs. We have a planet to save!
Andrea Ross: Right, we can't just speak in absolutes. If environmentalists are saying you can't really be an environmentalist if you're eating meat, then we're never going to get anywhere with that kind of thinking.
Amy Irvine: More to the point, the Left has been profoundly complicit in the destruction of public lands: camping, climbing, hiking, we think of them as low-impact activities, but the carbon footprint of those lifestyles is sky-high, and that's a problem. My rural ranching neighbors and family have an arguably lower carbon footprint than my liberal friends do. They don't travel far, they grow/raise/hunt all their own food, and they reuse every piece of baling twine.
Andrea Ross: That's a way of pulling back the curtain to reveal the real cost of wilderness use: there's a huge carbon footprint made by privileged people getting to the wilderness in the first place.
Amy Irvine: Yes. And at the same time, there are native people who need these lands for economic, physical, and spiritual sustenance. In many ways, we're not saving it for them—and that is profoundly selfish. The majority of the people who belong to groups like Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and the Wilderness Society really have a consumptive relationship with the land. At every reading I do, I ask people, "How many of you oppose grazing on public lands in Utah?" Every hand goes up. Then I say, "And how many of you are on the Paleo diet?" Again, many start to put up their hands before realizing the hypocrisy. I don't mean to shame them, but it's like, do you see the problem? We are buying their beef!
If we really love the land that much, we have two questions to ask: First, what is so unsustainable in my own life that I need to escape every weekend to have adventures on public lands? And second, can I care enough to leave it alone? Can I reduce my carbon footprint by not driving to the far reaches of the state to experience the Bears Ears, just because it is all the rage? Can we maybe go once a month instead of every weekend, or can we go a couple of times a year instead of every month? These are questions I dare ask only now—because that's what it will take to save the planet.
Andrea Ross: In your essay, "Conflagrations," which was published before the 2017 and 2018 fires in Northern California, you write,
What was once a five-month fire season now lasts for seven . . . and in just over three decades, the average number of thousand-acre-plus wildfires has nearly doubled. Western landscapes, already parched by years of sustained drought and hotter temperatures—places already deemed monumental tinderboxes due to years of fire suppression on millions of acres of public lands—may all go down in flames.
Given that the recent Northern California fires attracted so much national press, do you think the American public may have finally hit a pivotal point in its thinking about climate change? And if not, what can environmental writers do to effect change? What do you think women writers offer in this arena that male writers do not?
Landsat photo of the Camp Fire approximately 90 miles north of Sacramento, California, on its first morning: November 8, 2018, around 10:45 a.m. local time.
Photo by Joshua Stevens, courtesy NASA.
Amy Irvine: Has there been a change in our reality? Yes. This summer, at the apex of the fires, there was a moment where I said, "Oh my God, it's here." I live off-the-grid in the American Southwest—meaning every day we were scanning every near horizon for smoke. We have a fire plan and the phone stays charged next to the bed at night, in case the county alerts us that a fire is headed our way.
Many folks' wells ran dry, so after we washed our dishes, we carried the dish pan outside and poured the water on a bush. And this wasn't just the treehugger thing to do. Everyone was conserving every drop of water and living very carefully. That's a reality that our more urban friends and family haven't gotten their heads around, but they're getting there.
Andrea Ross: Yes, because it's coming into the more urban areas—Santa Rosa is in the San Francisco Bay Area! And last fall when the Camp Fire happened in Paradise, 90 miles north of where I live, friends from across the country were checking in with me asking if I was in the fire. There was so much national press about what was going on, probably because the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa was the year before. I think there's a head of steam building, more consciousness about the effects of climate disruption. I think people are starting to realize—this could happen to them.
Amy Irvine: Yes. Very quickly we could become refugees in our own country.
Andrea Ross: Right, whether from flooding, or fire, or drought . . .
Amy Irvine: Or if food distribution were halted—even temporarily. We are so dependent on imports, and what we do grow on U.S. soil is no longer sustainable. It would be mayhem for a lot of communities. All of us will have to do with a lot less so that other communities, other species, can survive. What will we become if we don't care for one another? Then what's the point? I always think about that when I watch The Walking Dead. In that series, there's a group that decides they can't afford to lose their humanity, that otherwise they'll be just like the zombies, and that the most heartbreaking and ugly thing, the most monstrous thing, is the other bands of humans who become feral and ruthless, hating and killing indiscriminately. You end up cheering for these people who are trying really hard to retain their humanity in the middle of the apocalypse. Well, we're nearing a real apocalypse, and we're kind of acting like zombies about it. Recycling, toting our own shopping bags, and driving a Prius are not going to save us.
Andrea Ross: In your books, you grapple with issues of religion versus spirituality. In Desert Cabal, you write, "[T]he divine thing we've been given is nature itself—both ours and the land's. Our most precious resource now is wonder." And you argue that wonder paves the way for hope. Can you talk more about human nature and the land's nature as divine and what you are hoping for right now?
Amy Irvine walks the desert line.
Photo courtesy Amy Irvine.
Amy Irvine: What's divine in us is our capacity to wonder and engage in a way that creates empathy, which is our greatest resource: it's renewable and sustainable, and it's where miracles happen. And I don't mean miracles like the parting the Red Sea. It's where we learn to care for one another, and it's where we learn ways to sacrifice for things we care about. We're very good at sacrificing for our kids, so why not for the land? What does that look like? Those sacrifices have to come from a place of love because if they come from a place of fear or deprivation, we'll go feral and things will get pretty scary, pretty fast—and that's not sustainable. The only way we win is if we do it from a place of love and joy and humor instead of pointing a finger and saying, "Look at those horrible people and what they're doing." We need to say, "What am I doing?"
Andrea Ross: We're accustomed to thinking in a binary way, but we need to learn to accept that there are places in between "us and them," between "good and bad."
Amy Irvine: We need to find people who aren't on the same side of the equation and figure out how we can build relationships with them. How can we be curious about why they do what they do and think what they think? For example, most of the ranchers I know are really good people who are really quite conservative with natural resources.
Andrea Ross: And unless we are able to see others as part of our own tribe, we won't see their humanity. We need to understand the logic behind others' ideas and empathize with each other's point of view. It has to happen.
Amy Irvine: They just think we're a completely different species, and in some ways we are, because generally speaking, conservative and progressive brains are wired differently. But both sides get so ensconced in the dogma of "being right." Consider Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Hispanic and Native communities outnumber white ones. That city's citizens must allow multiple truths to exist at the same time. And you're asking about how we break the duality? I think it's through personal relationships, literally just hanging out with people who have different experiences and world views than yours. That's where the curiosity and the wonder come in. The result is a sort of friendship that allows a wider lens on things. Then it's much harder to hate.
In Desert Cabal I write about a very, very privileged group of people that sit at a table in what I call the "Ivory Cabin" and write about wild places and our relationship to them in a very particular way. And there's not really any room at the table for other voices. So, I sent the manuscript to people like Camille Dungy, an African American poet who writes about nature—she's the editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry—she said, "I waited my whole life for this. Thank you so much." Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk, a former councilwoman for the Ute Mountain Ute tribe and one of the founders of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, wrote the afterword for Desert Cabal. She told me, "You have no idea how glad I am to be a part of this because I have had to battle white privilege and sexism since I first stepped in to advocate for the Bears Ears." Regina joined me for much of the book tour, and it's been wonderful to learn about an indigenous female's perspective. We need to open the door to the Ivory Cabin and let all these constituencies in, because it's going to take all of them to solve the environmental crisis.
Photo by Johnny Adolphson, courtesy Shutterstock.
Another way of thinking about including other voices came up in a recent news story: The remains of a high-ranking Viking, an admiral of sorts who had been buried with maps and significant military regalia, was long assumed to be male. But more recent developments in osteology confirmed that the skeleton was female. This is not an isolated incident—meaning across the globe many skeletons once presumed male are turning out to be female. We are entering a new age, which is, in fact, an old age—the age of warrior women.
Andrea Ross: That's great—the age of warrior women. Let's hope so, and not just in the Viking era.
Amy Irvine: And that doesn't mean we're against men. It doesn't mean we're Amazons that killed our sons and ate men for breakfast. It would be very shallow, and silly, to confuse what I'm saying with that.
Andrea Ross: It's another instance of holding both truths at the same time, another piece of evidence that there can be both: male warriors and female warriors.
Amy Irvine: And how lovely that we are fluid enough to move in and out of those realms with one another. To me that is a better kind of relationship with one another and with the land.
Andrea Ross: It opens up a lot of possibilities.
Amy Irvine: Yes, it does. We end the dualities by learning to be fluid. And the most important thing for me is to acknowledge my position of privilege and to use that position to move over, so other voices and experiences are heard. We need the multitudes now, to speak and act on behalf of public lands. Indeed, for the whole planet.
Andrea Ross is a trained wilderness guide and a former National Park Service ranger. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Mountain Gazette, The Café Review, The Dirtbag Diaries Podcast, Going Down Grand: Poems from the Canyon, Raising Mothers, Portrait of an Adoption, Permanent Vacation, and other print and online publications. She is a lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis. Find her online at andrearosswriter.com.
Header photo by Bears Ears National Monument's Valley of the Gods by THoffman, courtesy Shutterstock. Photo of Andrea Ross by Andrew Majeske.
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On January 14, it was reported that recently, there have been endless revelations about Apple's airtags tracking device.
Previously, it was revealed that Apple's airtags will be released together with the MacBook series with M1 chip in November last year, but unfortunately we didn't see it.
According to the disclosure, the search page corresponding to Apple's airtags has been launched first, which indicates that it is not far away from the official appearance of airtags.
Although the page only shows the icons of keys, backpacks and bicycles, it is speculated that Apple's airtags can track a variety of items.
Not long ago, a research report by Guo Mingyu, an analyst at Tianfeng securities, pointed out that Apple plans to update a number of products this year. In addition to airpods, apple silicon Mac and the first mini LED display device, there are airtags tracking devices that have not been released yet.
Based on the information that has been exposed, airtags adopts a round disc-shaped design, which is the same size as coins, and its white shell is embedded with silver metal.
In terms of function, the device can be connected with backpacks, wallets, keys and other easily lost items, and help users track lost items through apple find my function.
It is reported that the positioning accuracy of airtags or built-in U1 chip can be reduced to about 10 cm by using UWB technology to achieve accurate positioning.
Interestingly, recently a Samsung tracking device named Galaxy smart tag has also been exposed. It is even pointed out that the device will appear at Samsung Galaxy new product launch tonight, which is worthy of attention.
Apple 2020 new product outlook: 5g iPhone / iPad / Apple watch series 6, etc
Airtags are said to have waterproof and apple watch like magnetic wireless charging features
The iPhone 12 keynote has been recorded in Apple park
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Twin Bombings Rattle Safest Afghan Province, Kill 14
ISLAMABAD - Officials in Afghanistan say two back-to-back bombs went off Tuesday in central Bamiyan province, killing at least 14 people and injuring 50 others.
The deadly violence in the predominantly minority Shiite Hazara region is the first such attack since the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan 19 years ago and ousted the Taliban from power.
Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian confirmed the late afternoon bombings in the main market of the provincial capital, also known as Bamiyan. He said almost all of the victims were civilians, which included children.
Faroghuddin Ameri, head of the provincial hospital, told VOA that several of the wounded were in "critical condition," and he feared the death toll could rise.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the carnage.
A Taliban spokesman quickly denied the group's involvement, saying it "condemns attacks on civilian targets."
The denial raised suspicions that the violence could be the work of Islamic State, which has routinely admitted bombings and other violent attacks against members of the Hazara community residing in the capital, Kabul.
Tuesday's violence in Bamiyan happened the same day that donor nations met in Geneva and pledged financial assistance for the turmoil-hit South Asia nation.
U.S. troop presence in Iraq, Afghanistan at 2,500, following White House order
U.S. slashes troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to 2,500 each
25,000 troops authorized in DC, more than Afghanistan, Iraq
Mongolia's COVID-19 cases surpass 1,500


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How Many Books Did Ernest Hemingway Write? (Solution)
He wrote seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works in addition to his nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published after his death, as were three of his nonfiction works. Many of his writings are regarded as masterpieces of American literature, and he is a living legend. Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and reared there.
What is considered Ernest Hemingway's best book?
The novel The Old Man and the Sea is often considered to be Hemingway's greatest work. It was written in Cuba in 1951, and it was published the following year in the United States. Hemingway's final major literary work was published during his lifetime, and it was called "The Old Man and the Sea." The tale revolves around a brief period in the life of Santiago, a Cuban fisherman who lives in the United States.
What was the last book that Ernest Hemingway wrote?
The Summer of Dangerous Conditions (1985) The Dangerous Summer, sometimes referred to be Hemingway's final book, is a nonfiction work that was written in 1960 and released posthumously more than two decades after his death.
What all did Ernest Hemingway write?
Ernest Hemingway's works include the novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), which were rife with the existential disillusionment of the Lost Generation expatriates; the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), which is set during the Spanish Civil War; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Old Man and the Sea (1954). (1952).
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What was Ernest Hemingway's most sold book?
One of the reasons that Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, is at the top of my list is that it demonstrates his dependence on his conventional Midwestern ideals while he encounters new experiences and values in post-World War I Europe.
WHAT IS A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway about?
It is set during the Italian campaign of World War I and written by American writer Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms is his first novel. An English nurse, Catherine Barkley, is the subject of the story, which is set against the backdrop of World War I. Henry, an expatriate from France, and Catherine are involved in a love affair.
Did Ernest Hemingway go to college?
For many, The Old Man and the Sea serves as their first exposure to Hemingway, when it should be The Sun Also Rises, as it should be for others. In this timeless tale of the Lost Generation, spiritual collapse, frustrated love, and disappearing illusions are depicted in an achingly beautiful manner.
What was Ernest Hemingway's net worth?
By ROBERT TOMASSON. Ernest Hemingway died in 1939, leaving a gross estate of $1,410,310, of which his widow, Mary, is projected to receive almost $1 million as the sole surviving beneficiary.
How many short stories has Hemingway written?
Hemingway wrote most of his best-known works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was given the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his achievements. He wrote seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works in addition to his nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published after his death, as were three of his nonfiction works.
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What made Ernest Hemingway a great writer?
The writer's style, according to him, should be "direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words plain and forceful." Hemingway well exceeded his own expectations for a fine writer in his own words. His remarks are straightforward and energizing, burnished and one-of-a-kind bright.
How did Hemingway make his money?
For the last five years of his life, Ernest Hemingway was able to support himself solely on the income from his portfolio. Furthermore, his portfolio accounted for around 55% of his annual revenue. He did get $179,135 in royalties and revenues from his books, but that only amounted to 45 percent of his total earnings.
Who wrote empty spaces poem?
For the last five years of his life, Ernest Hemingway survived only on the income from his investments. Furthermore, his portfolio accounted for around 55% of his total yearly earnings. It is true that he received $179,135 in royalties and revenues from his books, but this represented just a 45 percent return on his investment.
What books did Ernest Hemingway write in Key West?
Death in the Afternoon, The Green Hills of Africa, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and To Have and Have Not are just a few of the classic works that Hemingway created while living on the Key West home.
Why do they call Hemingway Papa?
Hemingway desired to be addressed as 'Papa' rather than his given name, which he despised (Ernest). He began encouraging people to call him when he was about the age of 27.
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What were some of Hemingway's favorite themes to write about?
His writings are characterized by recurring themes such as heroic fatalism and disillusionment after war, as well as common motifs such as excessive drinking and ideal masculinity.
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Trinity Transit is operated by Trinity County Department of Transportation. Trinity Transit was originally operated by the Human Response Network (HRN) when service began in 1988.
In 1988, service began with routes to Hayfork, Douglas City, Lewiston, Weaverville and Junction City. After several months of operation, the service to Lewiston and Junction City were discontinued, leaving the Hayfork to Weaverville service, which included Douglas City. Service to Lewiston and Junction City were eventually reinstated. Later, with the procurement of buses through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, intercity service between Weaverville and Willow Creek and Weaverville and Redding were added to the line up of service routes, ultimately allowing passengers to travel from Redding to Willow Creek via State Highway 299 for a very reasonable fare. An A.M. & P.M. service on Tuesdays & Thursdays to Junction City was added on Nov. 1, 2015, but was cancelled on May 1, 2017. Also on Nov. 1, 2015, Trinity Transit added a second Saturday service each month to all routes – running on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays – which ran for two years and was cancelled starting November 1, 2017; as well as cancellation of the mid day service to Lewiston on Mondays & Fridays – now only offered mid day on Wednesdays, but still running Monday – Friday in the A.M. & the P.M.
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If I knew I was going to be wasting hours on getting this AGAIN, I'd have had definitely done something else with my time. Hours of work for 10gp.
Worst part is that this is the second time I've had a repeat rare find. At this rate I should have them all (or maybe just 8) by next year.
Each survey that you do in the area has a chance to find the artifact. I was at around 50% on the completion bar when I got it done. During that time I found 3 Highborne Scrolls. Kind of annoying because of the mobs and elite, but otherwise no worse than any other archaeology. What else would you expect?
Edit: Relogging apparently refreshes the digsite at the location.
I finally looted the item. Went back to the quest giver, and it wasn't there. Tried reloading and exiting the game. He's gone. I arrived at the place a second after the morning reset. Not sure what's going on or how to turn the quest now.
Update: after logging out for an hour or so, when I logged back in - the quest disappeared from my log! I know see archeology dig sites in a completely different zone (Highmountain). When I finished my quest, I still had 9d left from the previous one, so I'm not sure what's going on. I still have a ticket open, hopefully we'll know more soon.
I can't even turn in the Archaeology quest as I already have a Starlight Beacon. I should have looked up the reward this fortnight.
It takes place in a forced PVP zone. The Timeworn Strand cast a buff on everyone in the area called "Anarchy" which puts you into PVP against EVERYONE not in your party. There is no raid warning, like old world PVP zone. The only indication of the transition are the sword/shield icon, and the buff icon. The buff lasts as long as you are in the zone, and for about 10 seconds after you leave it.
The zone is full of hostile mobs, some of which are elites. There's a mini-boss near the centre who can cast a debuff on you that does heavy damage. This doesn't appear to pull the mob, and it may just be randomly cast on a number of people in the zone. The mobs will do their utmost to annoy you while you try to work.
You must survey as you would any archaeological dig site to find the quest item. Have fun with that, as it can lead you all over the marked area, even close enough to bull the elite mobs. The quest item appears to show up on a random survey. It's possible this will reset if you are killed.
Killing mobs may award you with some item called a Time lost Artifact (these are also laying around the zone and can be clicked on to pick up) which will flag you as a target for anyone nearby. These can be turn in to the fake murloc guy. Apparently this gives honor, but mostly it will just get you killed if you hang onto it.
Other players will be hunting you down. Apparently it's not enough for them to just hunt each other, they specifically like to target people on this quest. Generally they will be in groups. Be warned.
If a forced PVP zone wasn't bad enough it's PVP against everyone. Alliance and Horde alike will be killing you off at whim as you try to do a stupid archaeology quest. The idiotic buff flags you as hostile to anyone not in your party. This means if you are a solo player, you're pretty much *!@#ed.
First off, it goes having a forced PVP zone is stupid. For the most part, those of us who play on RP and PVE realms do so because we don't want to PVP. If we did, we'd be playing on a PVP server instead, right? You'd think after what, almost 20 years Blizzard would have figured this out by now.
Secondly, the lack of any significant warning is just awful. Old world zones flag up a raid warning letting you know you are entering a PVP zone. There's also a count-down timer for you to get out. Not Timeworn Strand though. It just flags you up as PVP enabled, and the first time you realise is when you get killed off by some asshat with nothing better to do - probably on your own faction.
Thirdly - Archaeology is a secondary prof, which mean everyone has to go through this idiocy, and suffer at the hands of those who've already been through it. I'm pretty sure the gankers in the area are people who got ganked when they did the quest.This quest is basically a troll that sets you up as a big target for anyone with a mind to kill you for no good reason.
Did the Azsuna one happily.. until I realized this didn't go in the toy box. Why?
Senses dulled after hours of surveying, had to grind out from 9-25 finds tonight. I find out that after all that, I get to go dig in a free-for-all PvP zone! I only got killed once, but still, quite ridiculous to have the quest make you go there and split your attention between surveying and staying alive.
got it after 3 progress bars and a half. Waste of time !
You may safely complete this quest now without any fear of being flagged for pvp.
Vá até o local que Tae'thelan marcou em seu mapa e investigue a área até encontrar o artefato.
Marquei a localização do artefato em seu mapa. É um local um pouco hostil, então eu gostaria que você fosse lá e encontrasse.
Quando recuperá-lo, traga para mim para que eu possa discernir o poder dele.
Talvez possamos usar este artefato para mudar o rumo da guerra em nosso favor.
Vamos ver o que encontrou.
Inútil. Não é nada mais do que um gerador de campo estelar. Provavelmente de alguma academia antes da guerra.
Pode levar de volta, <name>. Não vejo utilidade pra isso.


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We are a group of people living at a community farm close to the Austrian-Hungarian border. We have a vegetable garden and another 4 hectares of fruit garden, vinery and grains. What else keeps us busy? Pruning fruit trees, construction work, political activism, renting out parts of the house to groups & activists for their workshops. And most of us work part time in the city of Vienna.
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Q: Tomcat Clustering with Session Replication Trying to implement tomcat cluster with session replication using two tomcat instances. below are the things which I have done. I am using tomcat 8.0.33
server.xml having below details

<Cluster className="org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster" channelSendOptions="8">

    <Channel className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.GroupChannel">
        <Membership className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastService"
        address="228.0.0.4"
        port="45564" frequency="500"
        dropTime="3000"/>

        <Sender className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.ReplicationTransmitter">
            <Transport className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.nio.PooledParallelSender"/>
        </Sender>

        <Receiver className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.nio.NioReceiver"
        address="auto" port="4002" autoBind="100"
        selectorTimeout="5000" maxThreads="6"/>

        <Interceptor className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.TcpFailureDetector"/>
        <Interceptor className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.MessageDispatch15Interceptor"/>
        <Interceptor className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.ThroughputInterceptor"/>

    </Channel>

     <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.ReplicationValve" />
 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.ha.session.JvmRouteBinderValve"/>
    <ClusterListener className="org.apache.catalina.ha.session.ClusterSessionListener" />

</Cluster>

for another tomcat I have changed port to 4001. both the tomcat instances are on same server.
context.xml
<Manager className="org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager"
   expireSessionsOnShutdown="false"
   notifyListenersOnReplication="true"/>

I am able to access web application but session is getting expired

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Egypt's Weather Over the Century: A Display of Global Warming
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The hottest month in Egypt's history was August 2015, when the weather recorded over 32 degrees Celsius, according to the World Bank.
The second hottest month was August 2010, at 31.78 degrees. Egypt's coldest month came in 1925, when January was at 10.65 degrees. In January 2010, the country's temperature was recorded at 16.29 degrees.
The chart shows how Egypt's weather in general has gotten hotter over the period of 115 years, and how winters have increased from an average of 12 degrees up to around 16 degrees.
The change reflects a global trend of warming weather, which began at the time of the industrial revolution. The global average surface temperature has increased by more than 0.9 degrees.
Global warming is a major aspect of climate change, and its effects include melting of ice, sea level rise, and more frequent extreme weather.
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Martha Wells was already an award-nominated fantasy writer when she found herself unable to sell her latest book—because publishers didn't know how to market it. The book offered an engaging world readers had never seen before—non-human protagonists, complex alien cultures, genre-mixing plotting—but the lack of tropes made it difficult to pigeonhole. Don't worry, it all worked out: that book was The Cloud Roads, and it was eventually published, launching a trilogy that was later extended by two short story collections and yet two more novels. With the last of those—The Harbors of the Sun—new on shelves, Martha joins us to talk about other "trope-less" fantasy novels she finds inspiring.
Fantasy tropes can be great—that's why they become tropes. But sometimes you want to read something you feel like you've never read before. I love secondary world fantasy books in which standard and well-known tropes are either in short supply, or have been transformed into something new and special by wildly original worldbuilding. I've always loved books that combine SF-nal technology and magic (I've done it in my own Books of the Raksura, in which technology is usually both biological and magical, and in the Ile Rien series, in which the magic often has mechanical components), and the one thing the eight books below have in common is that each uses different forms of technology combined with magic to build a fresh, fabulous fantasy world.
The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Series #3) (Hugo Award Winner)
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The Broken Earth trilogy, by N.K. Jemisin
These are probably the first recent books that come to mind when someone mentions magical manipulation of science—it's a key part of this brilliantly original setting. The Orogenes have a hereditary ability to manipulate energy in a world that has been destroyed over and over again. The main character deals with devastating losses as she explores the extent of her abilities and tries to uncover the deliberately erased history that may explain why all this is happening.
Unquiet Land
Sharon Shinn
The Elemental Blessings series, by Sharon Shinn
In this series, the death of a king changes everything as the characters struggle to navigate the danger of political upheaval in a world of everyday magic on the cusp of a unique industrial revolution. The setting and especially the divinatory religion feel deeply real, and the books don't hesitate to show the realities of extreme poverty that coexist with the magic and royal intrigue.
Neon Yang
The Tensorate series, by JY Yang
The beautifully realized, beautifully strange world in this series is controlled by combinations of magic and technology. The Machinists are developing their own mechanical inventions to combat the magical technology of the Protectorate, even as what amounts to fantastical genetic engineers try to find ways to create supernatural creatures with human souls and memories. Plus, there are velociraptors. It's awesome.
Court of Fives (Court of Fives Series #1)
Court of Fives, by Kate Elliott
This series is set in a desert country that has been conquered and colonized by an empire, and tells of one young woman's absolutely gripping struggle to survive and to save her family. One way the Patrons control the rest of the population is the use of spider-like war machines, but they aren't just mechanical devices, and the magic used to animate them has a terrible origin.
Dreaming Death
J. Kathleen Cheney
Dreaming Death, by J. Kathleen Cheney
I love fantasy detectives, and this one offers fantasy detectives using psychic/magical powers to solve serial murders amid a fascinatingly complex society with three very different and distinct cultures—one with advanced technology—living on top of each other. Cultural differences abound (one of the characters is considered a legal adult in one culture, but still a child in another) but they are still able to work together to track down the killer in their city.
Emily Foster
The Drowning Eyes, by Emily Foster
In this novella, the story of an attempt to stop an invasion by retrieving lost magic is made new by gloriously original worldbuilding and deeply engaging characters. The biological magic the Windspeakers use to control the weather and storms around their islands feels unique—and horrific and frighteningly real. I hope Foster writes more in this setting, because one novella is not nearly enough to explore this fascinating world.
The House of Binding Thorns
The Dominion of the Fallen series, by Aliette de Bodard
When angels expelled from Heaven fall to earth in this alternate version of 20th century Paris, their bodies can be harvested for magic necessary to bolster the Houses that control the war-torn city. And the industrial magical pollution in the Seine is hiding an underwater dragon kingdom. It's just as dark, just as vivid, and just as original as it sounds.
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
Kai Ashante Wilson
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, by Kai Ashante Wilson
This novella is set in a lush, brilliantly realized world where the line between magic and science just doesn't exist. Demane is a sorcerer who manipulates magical forces according to scientific principals, and he and his lover are certainly the descendants of gods who departed from earth long ago,—gods that may have come from an alien world. This book sets a new high bar for sword and sorcery, and is one of my favorite fantasies of the past few years.
Martha Wells is the Nebula Award-nominated author of the Fall of Il-Rien series and the Books of the Raksura. Her most recent books are The Harbors of the Sun, the final novel of the Books of the Raksura, and All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries, a science-fiction novella. Learn more at her website and follow her on Twitter @marthawells1.
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package com.microsoft.windowsazure.serviceruntime;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import org.junit.Test;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;

/**
 *
 */
public class Protocol1RuntimeCurrentStateClientTests {
    @Test
    public void setCurrentStateSerializesToEndpoint() {
        final CurrentState expectedState = new AcquireCurrentState(null, null,
                null, null);
        final OutputStream expectedStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        final String expectedEndpoint = "endpoint";
        final AtomicBoolean serializeCalled = new AtomicBoolean(false);

        CurrentStateSerializer serializer = new CurrentStateSerializer() {
            @Override
            public void serialize(CurrentState state, OutputStream stream) {
                assertThat(state, is(expectedState));
                assertThat(stream, is(expectedStream));

                serializeCalled.set(true);
            }
        };

        OutputChannel outputChannel = new OutputChannel() {
            @Override
            public OutputStream getOutputStream(String name) {
                assertThat(name, is(expectedEndpoint));

                return expectedStream;
            }
        };

        Protocol1RuntimeCurrentStateClient currentStateClient = new Protocol1RuntimeCurrentStateClient(
                serializer, outputChannel);

        currentStateClient.setEndpoint(expectedEndpoint);

        currentStateClient.setCurrentState(expectedState);

        assertThat(serializeCalled.get(), is(true));
    }

    @Test
    public void streamCloseFailureThrowsNotAvailableException() {
        final CurrentState expectedState = new AcquireCurrentState(null, null,
                null, null);
        final OutputStream expectedStream = new OutputStream() {
            @Override
            public void write(int arg0) throws IOException {
            }

            @Override
            public void close() throws IOException {
                throw new IOException();
            }
        };

        final String expectedEndpoint = "endpoint";
        final AtomicBoolean serializeCalled = new AtomicBoolean(false);

        CurrentStateSerializer serializer = new CurrentStateSerializer() {
            @Override
            public void serialize(CurrentState state, OutputStream stream) {
                assertThat(state, is(expectedState));
                assertThat(stream, is(expectedStream));

                serializeCalled.set(true);
            }
        };

        OutputChannel outputChannel = new OutputChannel() {
            @Override
            public OutputStream getOutputStream(String name) {
                assertThat(name, is(expectedEndpoint));

                return expectedStream;
            }
        };

        Protocol1RuntimeCurrentStateClient currentStateClient = new Protocol1RuntimeCurrentStateClient(
                serializer, outputChannel);

        currentStateClient.setEndpoint(expectedEndpoint);

        try {
            currentStateClient.setCurrentState(expectedState);
        } catch (RoleEnvironmentNotAvailableException e) {
            return;
        }

        fail();
    }
}


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Taoiseach Micheal Martin to travel to UK tomorrow for meeting with Boris Johnson
The meeting is expected to take place in Chequers at lunchtime tomorrow
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Taoiseach Micheal Martin and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson greet each other with an elbow bump at Hillsborough Castle during the Prime Minister's visit to Belfast. (Image: PA Archive/PA Images)
The Taoiseach is set to make a trip to the UK tomorrow to meet with the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Micheal Martin will travel to London to discuss Northern Ireland, the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, the Irish-UK relationship and the Covid-19 pandemic.
The meeting is expected to take place in Chequers at lunchtime tomorrow.
The Ballymurphy massacre is also expected to be on the agenda.
The latest inquest into the killings found that all those shot dead over three days on August 9, 10 and 11 were "entirely innocent".
Northern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis also made a public apology to the families in the House of Commons.
Mr Lewis said he wanted to put on the record the British Government's acknowledgement of the "terrible hurt" caused.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson walking in the gardens of Hillsborough Castle during the Prime Minister's visit to Belfast. (Image: PA Archive/PA Images)
Yesterday, Mr Johnson apologised to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland - but this apology was an insult to the families of those killed in the Ballymurphy massacre, it was claimed last night.
He "apologised unreservedly on behalf of the UK Government" for the Ballymurphy killings.
In a letter to the Ballymurphy families, he expressed his personal sorrow for the "terrible hurt that has been caused" by their relatives' deaths.
But John Teggart, whose father Daniel was killed, described it as an "insult to the families" as it was provided to third parties and not the families themselves.
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He said: "That's not acceptable to the families and never will be. This is not an apology to us.
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Organic hulled buckwheat is actually not a grain, it is a fruit seed that is related to rhubarb. So...not only is it a suitable nutritious option for wheat or gluten sensitive people, it is popular with people limiting their grain intake.
It is very high in manganese, which is vital for healthy bone structure, bone metabolism and helping in building essential enzymes for building bones. It has been linked to lowering LDL or 'bad cholesterol' and is a natural source of protein and other goodness.


Dec 7,8 We return to West Beach in Adelaide for a 2 day stop which includes a celebratory dinner for our 6th wedding anniversary. The weather is starting to warm up but they should rename South Australia to The Windy State. It never stops blowing !!
Really not drinking again !!!!!