My main handmade gift this year wasn't sewing related, since I ran out of time to make Mr Rat something on our Singer. But I did have time to make a chess set for him out of oven-bake clay and seed beads. We found a chess board earlier in the year at the thrift store, but didn't have any pieces to play on it. When he opened up this particular Christmas box, Mr Rat was really surprised and excited-----which made me pleased that I had spent the time making something personal for him and me that we will use for years to come. I think that the total cost was about $12 worth of clay and about three hours of molding it and another hour and half to bake the pieces.
(In case you are wondering: Ryan's set is the potted cacti collection, and my set is the team of white rats).
Before we make new goals, I'd like to take a moment to see how I did with last year's goals.
-We definitely used a lot of thrifted fabrics, buttons, trims and sheets for our sewing projects. I think we did a good job saving money by continuing to purchase most of our supplies second-hand and sticking to our budget.
-I did sew more skirt sets, and many of the things I sewed mix and match well. I didn't make a capsule wardrobe, per se, but I think that I'm gradually moving in that direction as I increasingly plan and cut out several projects at a time.
-I did challenge my sewing skills with a vintage Vogue and a Folkwear pattern, but I still haven't sewn either of my Jean Muir patterns yet. Still, I learned how to make tucks and pleats, among other things.
-To use what we have: as I mentioned in the last post of year-end reflections, Mr Rat and I already have enough fabric in our cabinet to keep us busy all year long, and many patterns that we haven't tried out yet. I think we are getting better and better about being selective about what we purchase, especially since we don't have a lot of storage space. So this is still a goal for us going forward: to use what we have, and to make minimal purchases that aren't to help us finish projects that we already have the supplies and patterns for. I am interested in learning some basic pattern drafting and adjustments, so I can take patterns that I already know fit well and give them different sleeves or necklines or collars, etc. I have two sewing books that cover some of this information----perhaps 2019 will be the year when I crack them open and give them a try! If you, too, are interested in stash-busting over the next year, I thought that this series of blog posts called "Stash Less," by the Craft Sessions, were really interesting reading.
-Mr Rat wants to make 2019 his year of pants-making. He hasn't found a pattern that he really likes yet, so he is going to focus on trying out his various pants patterns and getting a good fit. He also has some shirts made with tried-and-true patterns planned out (and one in progress).
-I would like to do a couple of slow projects over the next year: the first being my brown wool coat that I've already cut out and need to start sewing. I'd also like to try to make an embroidered blouse, and maybe also some more heavily embellished dresses, with pin-tucks or ribbon trims or eyelet edging. My favorite dresses are monochromatic, or the trims vary only in shade or are simple white on black contrast. I will keep that in mind as I plan out some more complex projects to do alongside my simpler ones.
-Another goal that we have together is to try to be more regular about taking photos of our projects (there were quite a few that never got photographed this past year) and posting. It would be great if we can post once a week, but even twice a month would be a very respectable goal. I think it might also be nice if we tried out some other kinds of posts, as well: sewing and pattern-drafting tutorials, outfit posts where we take a photo of our previously finished sewing projects and how we wear them differently from day to day (and year to year), maybe some more posts about jewelry making (I haven't done any of those in a long time!), inspiration, historical, and discussion posts, how to repair and maintain clothing and accessories, and thrift store/antique store finds.
What are your new year's sewing goals? Do you make sewing goals, or just go with the flow of what the year brings you? Are there any types of posts that you've enjoyed reading here on the blog and wish we would do more often? Or types of posts we've never tried that you would be interested in reading? I can't promise that we will manage to do many different posts than our normal pattern reviews right away, but we are curious about what you are interested in----this blog is a conversation with you, the readers, as well as being a document of our sewing-related endeavors and it's always nice to know what you are thinking about.
All of Mr Rat's projects were successes: his tan linen shirt, his new rayon aloha shirt, and his as-yet-unblogged flannel pajamas.
Muslin peasant blouse – I've lost the vintage pattern that I used, so unfortunately I can't give you the patter number, but I changed the sleeves from a gathered long sleeve to a elbow length cropped sleeve anyway, so it looks rather different than when I first finished it. I like it a lot though, and when this version wears out, I think that I will take it apart and use it to make a pattern for future versions.
McCalls 4038 birthday patchwork maxi prairie dress – this is a beautiful dress, but I doubt I will make this pattern again because the fit is very snug! And the style is not particularly suited to my everyday wear with a shaped and faced hem that is so long that I have to wear heeled clogs underneath to not trip while walking.
Simplicity 8620 white wide collared blouse – this blouse pattern only looks good in softer, more flowing fabrics, and my choice of white cotton was just too crisp. I ended up giving away this pattern this year because despite several tries at sewing it (I did like the shape of those sleeves a lot) I never liked the way the blouses tended to untuck themselves at the sides while I wore them. I think this is because they had no bust darts to give them shape and keep the sides neat.
Butterick 3953 striped top – this pattern didn't have enough ease at the hips to sit nicely over my full skirts. I also haven't been wearing scooped necklines often since we moved to Utah because my skin has become very sensitive in the dry and polluted air of the Salt Lake valley. I ended up giving this blouse away, even though I liked the fabric and the trim.
Simplicity 9486 gingham maxi dress – even though I let the seam allowances out a bit while I was sewing it, this dress ended up being uncomfortably tight around the rib cage. I ended up unpicking the zipper and saving it and turning the bottom of this dress into a skirt, which will probably appear on this blog sometime next year.
Simplicity 7460 v neck floral blouse – I like my second version of this pattern so much better. The v neck ended up being a little too low and because the blouse is so loose, it would shift around as I wore it, which made keeping the neckline modest quite difficult.
Vogue 1231 – this dress was a great learning project: I learned to make a pleated skirt and to do tucks, and I followed the rather complicated and sometimes vague instructions of a vintage Vogue pattern for the first time. But I didn't end up wearing the finished dress very often---the pale blue tended to stain, and I didn't end up liking the big bow on a looser silhouette on me very much----I think it exaggerates my child-like body shape. I'm also not a big fan of elastic waists, even when it is rather well hidden, as this one was.
McCalls 2592 and Simplicity 7880 in green and pink Indian-style cotton. I think I didn't end up wearing this set often because of the color. It looked just fine! But it isn't a color that I turn to often, so I rarely picked it out of my closet, and wore my previous denim version from last year far more often.
Simplicity D0739 1950s skirt in tan twill. This pattern is fine, but I need to start using waistband interfacing and maybe go down to a size 8. I don't much like the way most of my previous versions slide around on my waist after I've tucked my blouse in, and this particular pale tan twill tended to get Gia's hair stuck all over it, which made it hard to wear.
What I've learned from my lists: I've been productive this year! I think I've averaged 2-3 finished garments a month. Mr Rat finished three projects this year---probably not so surprising given that he's had to work long hours and our weekends have been busier than ever with lots of family events to attend. Knowing our average sewing output is really helpful when making sewing plans for next year. Looking over our fabric choices in our sewing cabinet, I can see that Mr Rat and I already have enough fabric for a year's worth of projects. This means that we should be realistic and buy little or no fabric this year if we want to use up most of what we already have.
Knowing our sewing output and also my disappointment that five of my outfits that I sewed I ended up giving away (and that there are another couple of projects that I'm still on the fence about) makes me think that I need to be more organized in the way that I plan projects. Usually I keep a paper in my pattern notebook with a list of things I've learned about my preferences from doing Colette's Wardrobe Architect. This year I was experimental and strayed from my favorite colors, prints (or lack thereof----if I am being honest with myself, I don't wear a lot of prints from day to day) and silhouettes fairly often. While sometimes this worked out surprisingly well, oftentimes it ended up that I made something that I found interesting and pretty but didn't want to wear very often. So I think I need to refocus my color scheme back to my favorites: black, white, navy, grey, brown, blue and cream. And I think it will be helpful if I plan out my sewing projects a month in advance, or even two or three months at a time, 'capsule wardrobe' style. This will help me make garments that are more versatile and worn longer, I hope. I won't give up on experimenting altogether, but maybe I will limit projects that stray from my list to once every two or three months, working on things that I know will be practical and useful the rest of the time.
I've found making this list and pondering it very helpful as I've started putting together a post about Mr Rat's and my sewing goals for next year. I think that I will try to make a year's end list again next December, too. Are there any methods or tools that you've found especially helpful as you plan out your sewing projects? Do you make year end reflections on your sewing, or new year's goals? I'm curious to hear about your process, if you want to share in the comments.


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Dr. Longmore earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He holds his Doctor of Medicine from the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern in Glendale, Arizona. He completed his fellowship training in cardiovascular diseases and outcomes at the St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
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Lenovo Yoga Book Review
Page 4 : Hardware Overview and System Performance
By Tim Schiesser on October 10, 2016
TechSpot score
The Windows Version of Lenovo's Hybrid Tablet
Display, Keyboard and Trackpad
Stylus Input and Software Issues
Hardware Overview and System Performance
Graphics and Storage Performance
Beautiful and Innovative, But Flawed
The Lenovo Yoga Book's main source of performance is the Intel Atom x5-Z8550, which is an entry-level SoC from the company's Cherry Trail line. Built using a 14nm process, the Z8550 features four Airmont CPU cores and four threads, 2 MB of L2 cache, and a "scenario design power" of 2W. This is essentially Intel's competitor to tablet processors from ARM vendors, although, of course, the entire Atom catalogue supports x86 instructions.
The x5-Z8550 is clocked at 1.44 GHz with a burst frequency of 2.40 GHz, while the Intel HD Graphics 400 GPU inside is clocked up to 600 MHz. This processor only supports dual-channel LPDDR3 memory, so we're limited to 25.6 GB/s of bandwidth, and the Yoga Book tops out at 4 GB of RAM. While Cherry Trail processors do support USB 3.0, we're not getting it on the Yoga Book due to the choice of a micro-USB port.
The Yoga Book also supports Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac on 2.4 and 5.0 GHz bands thanks to a Broadcom chip, plus Bluetooth 4.0 support. As for 4G LTE support, the Yoga Book is split into two models: one that supports most EMEA regions, while the other supports the Americas. In either case there is a good smattering of bands for cellular connectivity on the go.
The main issue with the Yoga Book's performance is that the Intel Atom processor is not really fast enough to run Windows 10 applications that you'd normally use on a laptop or desktop. The Yoga Book is fine for running UWP apps like OneNote, Edge, and the UWP Office suite, but it suffers under the weight of more intensive applications like full desktop Chrome, Photoshop, and large Excel spreadsheets.
To me, it seems like the Yoga Book was designed primarily as an Android device, with Lenovo opting to use an Intel Atom SoC so they could also produce a Windows 10 variant. I have no doubts that the x5-Z8550 with 4GB of RAM is plenty for Android apps, but on a Windows machine with clear aims of being a productivity and creativity device, I'd prefer to see faster internals
In the usual range of benchmarks we run on Windows devices, the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S, which uses Intel's Core m3-6Y30, offers almost twice the CPU performance of the Atom x5-Z8550. We're not even looking at a fully-fledged 15W Core processor, but Intel's entry-level Skylake Core M CPU which some people feel is a 'slow'. I don't believe Core M is too slow for everyday tasks, but the x5-Z8550 certainly struggles.
The Microsoft Surface 3, which I reviewed last year with the higher-clocked Atom x7-Z8700, recorded seven percent better performance. A current-generation laptop with an Intel Core i5-6200U clocks in at 140% faster in general.
Next Page Graphics and Storage Performance
Why is my keyboard typing wrong characters
Apple ID Security Alert
How to scan a Huawei smartphone
How to update Android version

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Australia has changed prime ministers five times in the last decade.
Our national leaders have struggled and mostly failed to propose reforms, carry them through, and make them stick.
Journalist Laura Tingle is asking the question: what has gone wrong with political leadership in Australia?
Laura says that leaders must command not only the nation, but also their party, at a time when the parties have come to tolerate a high degree of self-indulgence.
Although more power is concentrated in the PM's office, prime ministers seem to have less authority than ever.


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Pack the Court!
A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion
Stephen M. Feldman
A historical and analytical argument for court-packing
Read the Introduction (PDF)
The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the House and Senate during the Biden presidency, they could add justices to the Supreme Court. But would court packing destroy the Court as an apolitical judicial institution? This is the crucial question Stephen Feldman addresses in his provocative book, Pack the Court! He uses a historical, analytical, and political argument to justify court-packing in general and Democratic court-packing more specifically.
Republicans and Democrats alike profess to worry that court-packing will destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a judicial institution by injecting politics into a purely legal adjudicative process. But as Feldman's insightful book shows, law and politics are forever connected in judicial interpretation and decision making. Pack the Court! insists that court packing is not the threat to the Supreme Court's institutional legitimacy that many fear. Given this, Feldman argues that Democrats should pack the Court while they have the opportunity. Doing so might even strengthen the American people's faith in the Court.
"Stephen Feldman offers a full-throated defense of the proposition that Democrats should pack the Supreme Court when they get the chance. But Pack the Court! is far more than a policy brief. It develops a clear and cogent argument, accessible to nonspecialists, that law and politics always interact with constitutional law, both in the large—as when justices are appointed—and in the small—as in every decision interpreting the Constitution. Feldman shows court packing wouldn't politicize a nonpolitical institution devoted solely to 'law,' but would respond to the form that politicization has taken on the Roberts Court. This book is an important contribution to public debate and the understanding of our Constitution and the Supreme Court."
—Mark Tushnet, Professor Emeritus of Harvard University Law School, and coauthor of Power to the People: Constitutionalism after Populism
"Feldman offers a superb overview of the issues surrounding 'court packing,' the expansion of the Supreme Court. Not only demonstrating that knowledge of American political history is a necessity, Feldman also emphasizes that one must grapple as well with some basic jurisprudential issues—particularly the ostensible separation of 'law' from 'politics.' They are, he shows, inextricably intertwined in what he calls the 'law-politics dynamic.' I cannot think of a better, or more timely, introduction to the ongoing debate about the U.S. Supreme Court and its future."
—Sanford Levinson, Professor at the University of Texas Law School and Department of Government, and coauthor of Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today
" While unabashedly partisan, Feldman's work is a must-read in the present debate. It offers keen analysis of more than a half-century of the court's anti-democratic ideological bent."
1. INTRODUCTION: THE COURT-PACKING CONTROVERSY
2. THE SIZE OF THE SUPREME COURT: A HISTORY
3. FDR'S COURT-PACKING PLAN
Republican Democracy
Pluralist Democracy
4. THE HISTORY OF THE LAW-POLITICS DICHOTOMY
5. THE MYTH OF THE LAW-POLITICS DICHOTOMY (OR, UNDERSTANDING THE LAW-POLITICS DYNAMIC)
The Purists
An Emulsion
Understanding Legal Interpretation: The Law-Politics Dynamic
6. IMPLICATIONS OF THE LAW-POLITICS DYNAMIC
For Supreme Court Justices
For Politicians, Commentators, and Citizens
For Scholars
7. THE ROBERTS COURT'S CONSERVATISM
Judicial Denigration of Democratic Government
Judicial Protection of Wealth and the Economic Marketplace
Lack of Judicial Protection for Women
Judicial Protection for Whites, Not People of Color
Judicial Protection of Christianity
Counterexamples: How Conservative Is the Roberts Court?
8. CONCLUSION: COURT PACKING AND SUPREME COURT LEGITIMACY
Stephen M. Feldman is the Jerry W. Housel/Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of The New Roberts Court, Donald Trump, and Our Failing Constitution; Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History; and Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State, among other titles.
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Unicorn-nation: how Israel became a production line for companies valued at over $1 billion
Israel has become a unicorn hub, with some local companies nearing $10 billion valuations
Sophie Shulman 11:5223.09.21
Rapyd
2021 is not the year of the unicorn, because unicorns no longer garner attention. They are practically everywhere, in every corner like the e-scooters their employees enjoy so much. The real story of this past year is the additional leap forward the Israeli ecosystem took, and the birth of the first Israeli decacorn, the fintech company Rapyd, which reached a value of $10 billion in its first fundraising. Cyber company Snyk is also getting close to the new status with a value of $8.5 billion, and if China's Evergrande will not become 2021's Lehman Brothers, we are likely to see another Israeli decacorn by year's end.
Private companies worth $10 billion or more belong to an exclusive club, with less than 50 globally, including high-profile companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and gaming giant Epic Games, which has recently challenged Apple.
"In the first quarter of 2021 alone, 121 new companies received a valuation of more than $1 billion, compared to 159 new unicorns in all of 2020."
On the other hand, the number of unicorns around the world has already exceeded 800, double than at the end of 2019. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, 121 new companies received a valuation of more than $1 billion, compared to 159 new unicorns in all of 2020. In the second quarter, the number was even greater. Thus, a second look at the chart of Israeli unicorns illustrates well the inflation of unicorns both internationally, and in Israel, in the last two years. One has to look past the top 40 to find the Israeli unicorns trailing behind, those worth "only" $1 billion.
Swallowing unicorns
2021 is also not the year of the unicorn as the number of unicorns in Israel has declined, although it was for good reasons. 17 of them, from ironSource to Cellebrite, ended their role as a unicorn when they became publicly traded companies on Wall Street, each at more than $1 billion valuations. True, it feels less special because there are thousands of such companies in the American market, but in the end, most unicorns want to shed their wings and become a horse that gallops, with the help of the investing public and institutional bodies operating on Wall Street.
Moreover, 2021 is the year in which Israeli companies began to swallow unicorns or almost-unicorns themselves. The first was Taboola, which bought Connexity during the summer for $800 million. Another company, Kape Technologies, which is traded in London, is expected to pay $936 million for ExpressVPN. This trend is expected to continue in light of the large sums raised by Israeli unicorns, exceeding $1 billion in the cases of SentinelOne and ironSource, while becoming publicly traded companies.
How did Israel become a production line for unicorns that manage to fulfill their mission and reach the coveted IPO? Some of the reasons are global and well-known: Covid, the huge cash flows from central banks, the rises in stock markets, which translated into the constant flow of money into private investment as well.
"The Nasdaq index, for example, increased sevenfold between 2010 and 2020, which also led to a doubling of the capital managed in private investment funds and venture capital funds to more than $3 trillion by 2020, and with hedge funds and real estate investment funds, the amount has already reached $10 trillion."
Even before the pandemic, the U.S. stock market was enjoying a prolonged tide, which meanwhile became the longest in history, and so the private money market has been flooded with more and more newcomers. The Nasdaq index, for example, increased sevenfold between 2010 and 2020, which also led to a doubling of the capital managed in private investment funds and venture capital funds to more than $3 trillion by 2020, and with hedge funds and real estate investment funds, the amount has already reached $10 trillion. The amounts of money in the private market were so large that the amount of "dry powder," known in the professional jargon as capital raised but not invested, soared to a record $2 trillion in early 2020. Due to Covid, the American administration infused the markets with another $4.5 trillion and the EU added EUR 4 trillion more.
The Israeli profit
For Israeli high-tech, however, the profound change brought about by the coronavirus was mainly geographic. Suddenly, when everyone is working from home and can not fly, it no longer matters whether you buy software from a start-up company based in San Francisco or Tel Aviv. The location has become transparent and in this reality, the Israeli start-ups have come prepared since they are required to be global from their moment of inception.
If an American or European start-up takes its first steps in the local market because it is large enough, then Israeli companies from the first moment think of the global market and build themselves for it. If you ask venture capitalists from abroad why they invest huge sums in Israeli companies, this is exactly their answer - they are global even when they are small. As the world was shutting down, many start-ups have managed to leverage the new reality and dramatically increase their sales.
Furthermore, it was easier for small and young companies to adapt to the new market requirements and the change in the customers' demands. For example, simple installation of the product without the involvement of the supplier's support team, fast delivery, fast ability to increase users, and establish cloud activity to connect employees remotely. Israeli technology companies were born for just such a moment and on this level, they have a built-in advantage over larger American companies.
Israeli unicorns paying painful price for SPAC fine print
New unicorns in Israel growing at an unprecedented rate
"Israel used to be called a startup nation. We now call it unicorn country"
A fast spike in sales also assisted the dramatic rise in Israeli companies' valuations, but it also brought about another fundamental change with real importance for the local economy. This change is taking place these days across the Israeli market, it is the understanding that the local unicorns no longer need wings to fly away once they grow. It is possible to be a large Israeli technology company that operates mostly from here and is not in a hurry to move to the U.S. as soon as it starts selling on a significant scale.
The headquarters of a large portion of the companies on the list, as well as the managerial staff of the recently publicly traded unicorns, are based in Israel, at least in part, and the activity in Israel is not solely R&D, rather it encompasses all company functions. In the past, sales and support people were based in the U.S. or Europe with Israel serving only as the developing "brain."
The profound change that has taken place in the last two years, including with the support of investors who no longer pressure companies to move their center of gravity out of Israel, has resulted in a great gain for the Israeli economy from being the production line for unicorns. The key to increasing the workforce employed in the high-tech industry from 10% to 15% in accordance with the target set by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, ultimately also rests in this boom of $1 billion companies.


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The Friends of Bromham and Sandy Lane Churches
Charity Registration Number 296477
You might like to know that you do not have to be a member of the church to join, just share an interest in historic buildings and our lovely communities of Bromham, Chittoe and Sandy Lane.
In the middle of the village of Bromham a large stone building has been standing for over 900 years. It has been altered and added to over the years and you will recognise it especially by its spire and all the crenellations and carvings around the outside as well as all the table tombs surrounding it. This is the parish church of St Nicholas. Have you explored inside or attended a service? The church contains many interesting clues to the history of the village and surrounding communities as well as the development of religious worship. Its 15th century chantry chapel is of national importance. Its painted panelled ceiling has a greater area of original medieval paint than any ceiling in our great cathedrals. Anyone is welcome to enter and look around. Information is provided to help you to explore. Tours can be arranged by contacting the telephone number below.
When you drive into the village of Sandy Lane on the way to Chippenham from Bromham, take the first turning on the right (Back Lane) and a little way up on the right you will see a thatched wooden building set back up a slight slope. This is the church of St Mary the Virgin and St Nicholas. It is possibly the only timber and thatch building in the country originally built as a church. It was opened in 1892 as a mission church to counteract the rise in the number of chapels of various denominations being opened nearby. It had close associations with the church in the nearby village of Chittoe and was re-consecrated in 1980 to hold marriage services, baptisms and funerals when the Chittoe church was being closed. As with the parish church, anyone is welcome to enter and look around.
The Friends of Bromham and Sandy Lane Churches was founded as a Charitable Trust in March 1987 to raise and manage funds which will assist in meeting what is the constant need for repair and maintenance of the buildings and grounds of both churches and the improvement of their fittings, furnishings and amenities. Its biggest project has been the conservation of the chantry chapel completed in 2007 at a cost of over £300,000 but other work continues. The Friends also help with the use of both churches as centres of Christian worship and appropriate village and cultural activities for the benefit of the local community.
The Friends invite you to become a member of the charity and support its fund raising by making a donation to its funds each year (usually £10 but more if you can afford it) and supporting any fund raising events that are arranged. If you are interested in donating some time as well, new members of the Management Committee are always welcome. I repeat, you do not have to be a member of the church to join.
For further information please call Carol or John Drew on 01380 850908 or email jc.drew@btinternet.com. Membership forms can be found in both churches
BOOK AVAILABLE
A History of St Nicholas Church, Bromham, Wiltshire its Chantry Chapel and early Patrons
by John Drew 2013.
This book with illustrations, charts the history and development of Bromham and its parish church from the Saxon period to the reign of Elizabeth I. The book looks at political reforms during this period and how they forced change and affected the local community. A section of the book deals with the lords of the manor of Bromham Battle, many of whom were patronised by the Kings and Queens of England and were influential not only locally, but also nationally and in some cases internationally. This book also dispels the myths which have grown around the Bromham monastery and Battle House.
The book is priced at £8.00 and all proceeds from this publication will go to the 'Friends of Bromham and Sandy Lane Churches'. The book is available from the author by ringing 01380 850908 or emailing jc.drew@btinternet.com.


We plan on ordering a new Escape to pick up next year on the way to Osoyoos, so this is just temporary. Delivery can be arranged, depending on circumstances and timing.
The propane tanks are about half, as there is one that was refilled and the other one is original.
I think I speak for many on the forum when I say "LOL"
Great trailer available from an Escape veteran!
I guess the propane tanks need filling ? Good Luck with Sale what's next a 5.0TA or a 17 ??
Is it April 1 again?
Beautiful looking trailer! We are too committed to our build at this point. Wish we had seen this 2 weeks ago.


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Given two integers N and M, calculate N Mod M (without using any inbuilt
modulus operator).

INPUT SAMPLE:

Your program should accept as its first argument a path to a filename.
Each line in this file contains two comma separated positive integers. E.g.

20,6
2,3

You may assume M will never be zero.

OUTPUT SAMPLE:

Print out the value of N Mod M
"""
from sys import argv

def main(infile):
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        for line in file:
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 Marie z Lusignanu (1215 – 1251/1253), dcera kyperského krále Huga I., hraběnka z Brienne
 Marie z Lusignanu († 1260), dcera Radulfa II. z Lusignanu, hraběnka z Eu
 Marie z Lusignanu (1273 – 1319), dcera kyperského krále Huga III., královna aragonská
 Marie z Lusignanu (1381 – 1404), dcera kyperského krále Jakuba I., královna neapolská

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Cultural Prominence of US Cities Over Time
We're taking a break from the Middle East today to post a map that I made with Evan Tachovsky using Google Ngram to chart the literary popularity of different US cities over the course of the last two centuries. The version below uses a crude combination of word size and fonts to display both how frequently a city turns up in the English language today, as well as the era in which it was most talked about. The gif above offers a more precise view of how each city's popularity evolved over time. As explained in our original write-up for the New Inquiry, how surprising you find the results will depend on your preconceptions.
Las Vegas, it appears, carries less cultural weight than nearby Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Boston, having ceded its dominant role in American literary life nearly a century ago, continues to hold its own: with barely 300,000 people, it still looms larger in the language than LA. But more than anything, this map shows the enduring dominance of New York City, towering over the cultural landscape in a way that the map, with its pseudo-logarithmic scale can't even do justice to. Were these letters written according to a more ordinary geometric scale (making Tucson visible to the naked eye) New York would blot out the entire Eastern Seaboard. And though it also proved impossible to show, for most of the 19th century Brooklyn appeared as often as Manhattan. That may in part have been on account of people simply referring to Manhattan as New York.
The map also reveals the unsurprising geography of America's cultural development. New England had pride of place in the late 19th century, not only cities associated with the era's high culture like Boston and Hartford (where Mark Twain moved in his later life) but also, say, Pittsburgh. Portland, Oregon's prominence in this period is most likely the result of its post gold rush high, combined, one suspects, with the fact that its east coast eponym was also enjoying a period of maritime relevance at the time.
Confirming what everyone suspected, interest in the South peaked during the Civil War, with cities like Richmond, Savannah, Nashville and Charleston getting more mentions during the war or shortly thereafter than at any time since. Even Atlanta, one of the few Southern cities to emerge as a burgeoning cultural hub, was mentioned more the year it was burned down that at any point before the 1960s. (Bangor appears in part because it is the one of the few northern cities whose cultural influence also peaked in the 1860s. I can only assume this corresponds with the first telling of the "Bangor? Hardly even know her!" know joke.)
Omaha, Kansas City, Cleveland, and Detroit… these were the towns whose mystique and economic vitality seemed to vanish when the highways reached them. The same goes for Boise, Santa Fe, Salt Lake City and even all of Montana. Even Chicago, which sort of maintains on this map its claim to being the Second City, was never so popular as that moment in the 30s when it truly was hog butcher to the world. America's shift westward is well-documented too, and many of the up-and-coming cities are the ones we would expect from this movement: Dallas, Minneapolis, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle.
Washington's size proved too difficult to calculate on account of their being a state and a George with the same name, but it seems that references to Washington DC took off dramatically around the time of the New Deal, after being virtually nonexistent before, and then rose again with the expansion of the federal government in the 1970s. Needless to say, DC's growth continues today.


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In Advice to the Deaf: The Present State of Aural Surgery (1840), John Harrison Curtis addressed to deaf individuals the importance of seeking out an aurist to receive a through examination of the ear. Acknowledging that some of his distant patients might be unable to find a skilled aurist in the countryside, Curtis describes how he put together a list of 61 questions to better serve distant patients and be able to diagnose them from their answers.
As seen below, the questions were developed in accordance with Curtis' friend, Dr. Schmaltz of Dresden–but as I've discussed before, these questions were also used in Curtis' practice at the Royal Dispensary. Some of the sources I've come across strongly suggest that the answers to these questions would determine the outcome of a deaf patient's treatment. How overwhelming and terrifying it must have been!
P.s. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos–I really should invest in a scanner instead of relying on my iPad camera…
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Alojzy Maria Palazzolo (ur. 10 grudnia 1827 w Bergamo, zm. 15 czerwca 1886 tamże) – włoski ksiądz, duszpasterz młodzieży, założyciel zgromadzeń Braci Świętej Rodziny i Małych Sióstr Ubogich, święty Kościoła katolickiego.

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Jego ojciec zmarł, gdy miał 10 lat. Od bogobojnej matki otrzymał chrześcijańskie wychowanie z naciskiem na opiekę nad ubogimi i chorymi. Wstąpił do seminarium w Bergamo w 1844 roku. 23 czerwca 1850, z rąk biskupa Bergamo, otrzymał święcenia kapłańskie i od razu powierzono mu apostolstwo w parafii św. Aleksandra w Colonni, a następnie kościele św. Bernardyna. W 1855 został ich rektorem. W kilka lat później, wraz z Teresą Gabrieli, założył zgromadzenie sióstr najuboższych  Suore delle Poverelle (Institutum Sororum Paupercularum), którego został pierwszym przełożonym. Konstytucję zgromadzenia zatwierdził biskup Bergamo Guindani, a przez Stolicę Apostolską zgromadzenie zostało zaaprobowane w 1912 roku w czasie pontyfikatu Piusa X.

4 października 1872 Palazzolo założył również zgromadzenie Braci Świętej Rodziny, wł. Fratelli della S. Famiglia (łac. Congregatio a Sacra Familia, CSF) z siedzibą w Torre Boldone opiekujące się osieroconymi chłopcami, ale instytut ten przetrwał tylko do 1928 roku. "Siostry Poverelle" natomiast zakładały kolejne domy w prowincjach: Bergamo, Vicenza i Brescia. Obecnie działają również na terenach: Luksemburga, Szwajcarii, Francji, a także w Afryce. Alojzy Palazzolo był również założycielem szkoły wieczorowej dla młodzieży pracującej.

Zmarł 15 czerwca 1886 roku mając 58 lat. Pochowany został na cmentarzu św. Jerzego w Bergamo. 4 stycznia 1904 jego ciało zostało przeniesione do głównego kościoła Instytutu.

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Został beatyfikowany przez papieża Jana XXIII w dniu 19 marca 1963 roku.

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15 maja 2022, podczas uroczystej mszy św. na placu świętego Piotra, papież Franciszek dokonał pierwszej od czasu pandemii COVID-19 i pierwszej od października 2019 kanonizacji bł. Alojzego Marii Palazzolo i dziewięciu innych błogosławionych, wpisując go w poczet świętych Kościoła katolickiego.

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He came to Milwaukee about 1847, was admitted to the bar in 1849, and entered practice as a partner of Carl Schurz. He was judge of the Milwaukee county court from 1856 until 1859, and an associate justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1859 until 1864. In the latter year he entered the army as lieutenant-colonel of the 43d Wisconsin infantry, serving until the end of the war. Returning to Milwaukee, he entered private practice with another radical Republican, Halbert E. Paine (no relation) until in 1867 he resumed his position on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. From 1868 until his death in 1871 Paine was also a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin.


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She fell into the community college system "like an arranged marriage." But, in her words, it was one of love. It all started when Currie swerved off a career path in engineering, landing into the classroom as a high school math teacher.
"I can't think of a better career than the one I've had," said Currie, 57. "It's about transforming lives for students and making a difference in one classroom level when I was a teacher … to a whole institutional level."
In a Jan. 19 letter to faculty, staff and the Board of Trustees, the chancellor announced that she would retire on June 30 and spend more time with family and friends.
The Coast Community College District encompasses Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Golden West College in Huntington Beach and Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley.
Currie took the district's helm in November 2009 after serving as interim chancellor since January 2009.
Before that the Huntington Beach resident led Coastline as its president for nearly seven years.
"The District is losing a visionary educational leader," said Coastline President Loretta Adrian in an e-mail. "While it is easy to focus [on] what will be lost upon her retirement, I think we should also focus on what she is leaving behind — a legacy of leadership at all levels at Coastline, and a good beginning foundation of genuine and productive collaboration among the Coast colleges."
District Trustee Mary Hornbuckle said Currie is wonderful to work with and very talented, managing to do more with less funding and keeping the district on solid financial ground.
Although surprised to learn of Currie's resignation, Hornbuckle said she understands and respects her reasons. But she still wouldn't object if Currie decided to stay on, she said.
"If there was any way to convince her to stay, we would love to do that," Hornbuckle said.
Before Currie leaves, she said she has projects that need to be completed.
Currie wants to finish the 2020 Vision Master Plan, a blueprint for the entire district, and see the district through what looks to be the hardest-ever budget in the spring, she said.
The district is predicting that a worst-case scenario could leave it with a budget shortfall of more than $21 million, which would mean tough decisions, Currie said.
"I can't leave that to someone else to do the dirty work," she said.
Looking back on her career, Currie said she has "not one bit of regret."
As she prepares to leave her post, Currie said she is proud of how she helped bring the colleges together to collaborate and make the system more user-friendly for students taking classes at multiple schools.
"She has a wonderful way of bringing people together to focus on what the common good is," Hornbuckle said.
At OCC Currie has a reputation as a conduit for building community and moving faculty, staff and administration to serve students and their success across the district, OCC President Dennis Harkins wrote in an e-mail.
Golden West College President Wes Bryan also said she also brings with her a national outlook on community colleges.
Currie serves on the boards of directors of the American Council on Education, the Center for Global Integrated Education and as the immediate past chairwoman for the American Assn. of Community Colleges.
"From that wider view, she's able to garner good ideas and wisdom and bring that back to us," Bryan said.
Although she is retiring, Currie said she isn't walking away from community colleges entirely — just changing how she helps serve them. Instead of from the inside, Currie said she will be serving from the outside.
Community colleges, she said, are a place that mean so much to the community they serve, she said. They turn out nurses and public safety officials, contribute to the number of graduates from four-year universities and offer an affordable and accessible cultural hub, Currie said.
"We are woven into the fabric of every aspect of people's lives in the community," she said.


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Movie Review: "Horse Girl"
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There are many movies that are worth seeing, but there are a lot of stinkers as well. My goal here is to weed out the good from the bad.
Netflix Release: 2/7/2020
Sarah (Alison Brie) is a bit of a loner. Her days consist of working at a fabric and crafts store, and her nights consist of watching her favorite television show alone. Meanwhile, her roommate, Nikki (Debby Ryan), has been trying to get her to have more of a life by setting her up with a friend of her boyfriend. Sarah is a peculiar woman, but her whole world is about to get a lot stranger.
Her grandmother was once labeled insane, as she claimed she was from the future and ended up being put in a mental institution. Her mother suffered from depression, which ultimately took her life. Now Sarah is beginning to experience things that she cannot explain. She has been sleepwalking, and she has been having strange experiences with time (somehow sleepwalking great distances in an impossibly short amount of time). She begins to theorize what could be causing these experiences, but her theories may result in her suffering the same fate as her grandmother.
The Pros & Cons
All movies start with an average score of 75pts, points are then added or subtracted based on each Pro and Con. Each Pro or Con is designated points, ranging from 0-10, to convey how significant these Pros or Cons are.
Alison Brie (+8pts)
Weird (-10pts)
The Mystery (+4pts)
The Plot (-8pts)
Darren (+2pts)
The Ending (-3pts)
Pro: Alison Brie (+8pts)
Alison Brie carried this movie. I had some pretty major issues with this movie as a whole, but Alison Brie's performance in it was very strong. Was it enough to make up for this movie's issues? Absolutely not, but she was enough for me to continue watching. Due to her performance, I was invested in seeing how her character's story would end, despite how weird that ending may have been. This movie was weird, and I will get into that next, but Alison Brie made me connect with her character anyway.
Her character was scared, she was as confused by what was going on as I was, and although she was a bit odd, Alison Brie still made me care about her fate. The character was going through a lot, both emotionally and mentally, and Alison Brie did a really great job with all of it. Her character, on paper, was not relatable, but Alison Brie brought her emotional pain to the screen in a way that made me relate to the character. She also performed really well in the more dramatic scenes, where the character's mental trauma boiled to the surface, as she played these scenes in an impressively captivating way. This was an odd, but very complex character, and Alison Brie did a really great job with it. I just wish there was a better written movie to support her.
Con: Weird (-10pts)
Okay, I am all for movies being a little weird. It can make mysteries such as this one even more mysterious. However, if the filmmakers go too weird, the movie just feels too abstract and confusing, and ends up not making any sense. That was what the filmmakers of this movie ended up doing. There were weird dream sequences, crazy theories, and there was a lack of any real plot to connect the weird stuff in a way that felt coherent.
I will get into my issues with this movie's plot later, but it was relevant to this issue, as the lack of plot (in addition to the incredibly abstract and bizarre imagery) made this movie feel wildly incoherent. If you read the synopsis that I wrote for this movie, then it may sound interesting. However, please be very aware that the filmmakers got really weird with this movie, and it was honestly so weird that it was actually frustrating. Again, being somewhat weird can be a good thing, but the filmmakers went too far with it in this movie, and it made this movie hard to get through.
Pro: The Mystery (+4pts)
Was Sarah crazy like her grandmother, or was she really experiencing what she thought she was experiencing? This was really the question that hung over the entirety of this movie like an umbrella, and her experiences made it a question that I was at least mildly interested in seeing get answered. Sarah experienced some truly weird things. If she was not crazy, then her story is a tragic one, as it would mean that she was a completely sane person whose life could have been destroyed by things that were entirely out of her control. If she was crazy, then her story is also a tragic one, as the character truly believed everything she was experiencing and was terrified as a result of that.
Either way, Sarah's story was a tragic one. Both scenarios were ones that will make you sympathize with the character, and the question that this movie will make you ask yourself is one that will make you curious to see how her story would turn out. The filmmakers also did a great job of planting seemingly countless seeds that could have supported either scenario. Unfortunately, the movie's issues seemed to smother my enjoyment of the mystery, but the mystery element was still there, and I thought the filmmakers did a pretty decent job with it. There were clues everywhere, but the filmmakers cleverly made the clues such that they could have supported either side. I just wish the filmmakers focused more on the mystery than they did on the weird and confusing imagery.
Con: The Plot (-8pts)
My problem with the plot of this movie was that it felt like there was no plot at all. The total runtime of the movie was about an hour and forty minutes. The first thirty minutes were spent following Sarah doing various mundane things. These things included: working at the crafts store, sitting at home watching her favorite show, making lanyards, creeping on a random girl who now rides her old horse, and just doing various mundane things—you get the point.
The first chunk of the movie had no plot and was just spent following Sarah around. The "plot" of the rest of the movie was really just exposing us to the crazy things that she was experiencing, then following her as she tried to hopefully prove to herself that she was not crazy. Unfortunately, there was no cohesive plot to follow. The question of her sanity was raised, then the rest of the movie was spent still following her doing random things, but now there were weird things mixed in with the random things. The plot of this movie was either nonsensical, or absent all together. Either way, it showed that the filmmakers had no idea what they were doing with this story.
Pro: Darren (+2pts)
This character was not in the movie much, and he did not have that much of an impact on the story. Nonetheless, this character was the third best thing about this movie that I could think of—after much consideration. In a story full of characters who seemed to pity Sarah, Darren was one of the few who saw something in her. That is all I can say about this character without spoiling one of the movie's dramatic moments, but I liked where the filmmakers took the character. His relationship with Sarah was an interesting one—at least when compared to the rest of this movie—and the dramatic conclusion to their story was easily one of the more exciting and engaging moments in the movie.
Con: The Ending (-3pts)
The ending of this movie was as weird as the rest of it, but that was not my issue with it. My issue with the ending was that Sarah seemed to be very confident about the outcome of what she was doing, but there was no reason for her to be that way. Through the entire movie, Sarah had either been crazy, or one of her crazy theories of being targeted by something were true. If she was not crazy in the beginning, her experiences certainly drove her there, but by the end of the movie she just sort of randomly got clarity. She learned something that was definitely a clue, but was not enough for her to be as confident as she was—I am not going to say whether she was confident that she was insane, or confident that she was not, but she was unjustifiably confident—which made the ending make little sense.
Grade: D+ (68pts)
I saw the trailer for this movie on Netflix, and it made little sense to me. That being said, I saw Alison Brie was in it, and I know that she can handle both drama and comedy effectively, so I was willing to give it a shot. She was great in it, and saying that her character went through a lot throughout the course of this movie would be an understatement. Sarah endured a ton of emotional and mental trauma, and Alison Brie did a great job with all of it.
Unfortunately, beyond Alison Brie, there was not much going for this movie. It was so weird that it was frustratingly nonsensical and incoherent. It also seemed to be missing any sort of plot, which made for a boring start, and it made the rest of the movie feel random and pointless. This all then led to an ending that did not make much sense (from the perspective of how the main character knew how things would go). The mystery aspect could have worked, and there were some moments when it did, but the mystery felt a flickering candle that was being snuffed out by the overall weirdness and absent plot of this movie. If you watch this movie (or have watched it), maybe you will have a very different experience than I did. However, if you watch it and do not like it at all, do not say that I did not warn you.
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Commemorative artworks by pupils across the UK selected for national exhibition marking 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
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Memorial Flames created by students chosen by judges to feature at official ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day
29 NOVEMBER 2019– Memorial Flames created by school groups up and down the country have been selected by a distinguished panel of judges to feature as part of a national art exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The artworks – from schools including Bennett Memorial School, Tunbridge Wells; Bishop Martin C of E School, Liverpool; The Spires College, Torquay; Coleg Gwent, Wales; and Upholland Roby Mill Primary School, Skelmersdale – make up some of the 75 Memorial Flames chosen to feature in an exhibition set to be unveiled at the official UK Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, at which numerous VIPs are expected to be in attendance.
More than 300 groups from across the country registered to take part in the nationwide competition, launched by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) to encourage more people to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
On the judging panel were: illustrator and children's author Nick Sharratt, famed for his work illustrating Jacqueline Wilson's beloved novels; arts correspondent at The Observer Sarah Donaldson; art curator and broadcaster, Kathleen Soriano; Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Trustee and daughter of Naomi Blake, a sculptor and Holocaust survivor, Anita Peleg; and Chief Executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Olivia Marks-Woldman.
Speaking about the project, Nick Sharratt said: "It's more important than ever not to forget the history of the Holocaust, and this exhibition is a fantastic opportunity to ensure that. I've been very excited to see how many different interpretations of the brief there are, with each group using the central flame idea and making it their own. The number of different artistic techniques used has been very impressive and I can't wait to see all the 75 Memorial Flames come together at the UK Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day."
The primary school submissions were inspired by a range of sources. The Memorial Flame from King David Primary School in Manchester was inspired by the writing of Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel and the lyrics of their favourite popstar, Ed Sheeran. Their piece, Flames for the Future, is a sculpture created from wire and nylon, decorated with acrylic paint and collage. It incorporates passages from Wiesel's book Night and Sheeran's song I See Fire. The pupils' teacher said using texts like these, as well as the poem Butterfly by Pavel Friedmann, is a 'subtle but powerful' way of teaching Key Stage 2 children about the Holocaust.
Students with additional learning needs at Coleg Gwent Crosskeys Campus, in Wales, created a wooden 3D light-up design incorporating the Star of David. Their sculpture Thank You Kitty was inspired the diary of Anne Frank. It features powerful quotations from the diary which are burnt onto the base, above which an image of Anne's face hangs from the star. The piece aims to tell the story of what happened, and uses the symbolism of hands around a flame to depict the hope and strength created by people from different backgrounds coming together to make sure the horrors of the Holocaust never happen again.
The students' tutor, Mary Bradfield, said: "The project has affected the group on a deep emotional level and they have shown great understanding and sympathy regardless of their own challenges in life. It has sparked a genuine interest in what happened during the Second World War and students have gone home and discussed it. Some are now happy to share stories about their family's experiences during the war years. The students have shown maturity beyond their years and are keen to continue with this project. I am so proud of them all."
Chief Executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Olivia Marks-Woldman, said: "It is hugely encouraging to have received so many submissions to this project and from so many different types of groups. The project has truly been nationwide and at a time when we know identity-based hostility is increasing, it is heartening to see so many groups and communities come together and pay tribute to victims of the Holocaust in this way. Holocaust Memorial Day is an important opportunity for us all to learn from genocide, for a better future, and I'd urge everyone to get involved in activities for Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 by visiting hmd.org.uk."
The 75 Memorial Flames project was launched with the creation of a sculpture by artist and survivor of the Holocaust, Maurice Blik, who was liberated from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a child. The project is part of a wider programme of events devised by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to enable people to take part in Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) and learn from the horrors of genocide.
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Political Science |
LGBTQ Social Movements
Hardback By Lisa M. Stulberg
In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people.
LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the US, illustrating the many forms that LGBTQ activism has taken since the mid-twentieth century.
Covering a range of topics, including the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation, AIDS politics, queer activism, marriage equality fights, youth action, and bisexual and transgender justice, Lisa M. Stulberg explores how marginalized people and communities have used a wide range of political and cultural tools to demand and create change. The five key themes that guide the book are assimilationism and liberationism as complex strategies for equality, the limits and possibilities of legal change, the role of art and popular culture in social change, the interconnectedness of social movements, and the role of privilege in movement organizing.
This book is an important tool for understanding current LGBTQ politics and will be essential reading for students and scholars of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, and social movements, as well as anyone new to thinking about these issues.
Publication Date: 15 Dec 2017 Publisher: Polity Press
Lisa M. Stulberg is Associate Professor of Sociology of Education at New York University.
"Adeptly synthesizing decades of research and writing, charting both major events and central dynamics, Lisa Stulberg offers a foundation for understanding LGBTQ movements that is at once accessible and complex, informative and lively." Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco "This is the book we have been waiting for - a comprehensive, concise, and engaging overview of the LGBT movement that is accessible not only to students and general readers, but scholars. Stulberg has managed to condense a vast amount of literature to provide the clearest, best organized, and most up-to-date review of the LGBT movement available." Verta Taylor, University of California Santa Barbara"Lisa Stulberg provides a concise, accessible, and engaging introduction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism… [T]he material that Stulberg presents will appeal to many audiences, including undergraduate and graduate students, emerging scholars, and established scholars."Amin Ghaziani, Contemporary Sociology"Stulberg provides an accessible, well-researched overview of LGBTQ activism, suitable for a wide-ranging audience."Sexualities


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Report: COVID-19 Stalls Regional Home Sales in March, Median Sales Price Rises 3.5%
More than 2,930 homes were sold in metro Detroit during March, 400 more than in February but a 17.4 percent decrease compared to last March, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the monthly RE/MAX Housing Report issued today.
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March home sales decreased 17.4 percent year-over-year due to COVID-19. // Stock photo
"It was a tale of two very different experiences during March," says Jeanette Schneider, executive vice president of RE/MAX of Southeastern Michigan in Troy. "The first half of March showed all the signs of the market ramping up for the spring season. Then came the coronavirus and metro Detroit being a hot spot, leading to our stay-at-home order, which in turn dramatically impacted activity in the market the second half of March."
Wayne County led the way in March with 1,066 home sales, down from 1,367 in 2019. Oakland County was next with 1,030 sales, down from 1,367 a year ago. Macomb County registered 665 sales in March, down from 845 last year.
Detroit real estate agents sold 251 units in March, a decrease from 361 in 2019. Livingston County registered 175 sales during the month, a slight dip from 183 the previous year.
The median sales price of a home in March in the region was $220,600, up 3.5 percent from 2019. Livingston County paced the region at $289,900, which was 3.3 percent lower than last year. The Wayne County median price improved 10 percent compared to last year to $137,500 from $125,000.
Overall, homes spent one less day on the market than in 2019, and there is a two-month supply of homes on the market.
"We are focused on how to safely conduct business moving forward as we anticipate there remains strong interest by buyers and sellers that will drive sales back up over time," Schneider says.
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 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

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This match with Palace is definitely on.
The date, Friday 15th September, at Hassocks, first 4-ball out at 10.30. Cost for 18 holes and a meal after is a mere £27, and £5 of this goes into the fund.
Albion legend, Paul Rogers, will also be there and we hope to have the usual professional photographer in the shape of Roz.
Roz will do her best, but there's only so many pies that can be eaten in a fortnight.
Thanks Ed, I know Roz will do her best.
Friday? Many of us have work, college or school though.


Before we go into the discussion how can artificial intelligence help accountancy, it is essential to know some basics related to AI?
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. It's the ability of machines and software to show cognitive intelligence that promises to give you positive impact and boost up the efficiency of the various sectors.
Moreover, AI is also considered to be a business tool that can enhance the performance of the business and increase the profit margin. It helps in different areas like preciseness, accuracy and of course analytical thinking, decision making.
AI doesn't help only in the businesses or the IT sector; in fact, it is also seen in the field of accountancy. From the manual process and bookkeeping – we have come a long way.
However, how does artificial intelligence helps in the accountancy?
Well, in this blog, we have jotted down points that will give you a clear idea on how does it help?
Businesses are today adopting different technologies and implementing them to gain profit and increase efficiency. One of the main reasons is AI giving a lot of benefits like lessening the cost and time, ability, increasing productivity and so much more.
One of the most beneficial parts of having artificial intelligence (AI) in accounting is that the data managing process is no more a tedious task. By that we mean is that all the data is being automated. Therefore the chances of human errors are also reduced.
Similarly, there is a guarantee of the accuracy and reliability of the data. Besides the bots help in recognizing the data from various sources and helps in dividing them into the different categories.
Some tasks are done by the accountants, like processing of receivables and payables – which AI can perform an effective manner.
One of the major problems that every accountant faces is that the various inconsistencies between the internal accounting and of course the banks. There is software nowadays available that helps in reducing the burden, but there's the hassle going around for accuracy.
With the advancement of AI in the field of accounting, it has learned to read all the reports and bank statements so that it can figure out everything and thereby rectifies the error.
Additionally, it will reunite the process together every month. Another advantage of having artificial intelligence (AI) in the accounting field is that if there are any deceptive errors or transactions, then it will resolve quickly.
Secondly, the problem also arises when one payment is covered up for many bills and vice versa. It primarily holds true for large corporations and companies where thousands of laws are charged every month and money paid to them can run into MILLIONS. Yes, you heard that right!
AI takes off this considerable load from the accountants as it has the ability to find the combination with the numbers and efficiently match the payment of the bills together.
3. Do We Actually Need Accountants If there's Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
The big question that everyone asks with the implementation of AI is will it eliminate the accountants? The answer is NO, and it will not remove accountants.
The standard task of the accountant is to manage and perform the functions like auditing the tax, report generating, and so much more to do for them.
With AI it will reduce the task thereby making it possible for the accountants to become stress-free and focus on advisory services, other areas that are crucial and gainful for the company or organization.
Another area where artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an influential role in preserving the roles and policies of the company.
Though it's the job of an accountant to monitor, artificial intelligence will be considered to be a valuable tool in decision making.
AI (artificial intelligence) is making a significant impact in the industry making it possible for companies to achieve the goal and profit margin.
There's an amplification of productivity and lessening the costs. No matter how much qualified we are but being human, we tend to make mistakes. While computers on the alternative side have AI (artificial intelligence) that can manage the jobs with preciseness and manage everything together.
5. What Skills Accountants Must Have To Work With Artificial Intelligence?
So that was all about how Artificial Intelligence helps in Accounting. Today, from technology to new inventions – we are evolving. The time is not far where there will be methods and innovations that will bring the drastic change in our lives. However, we genuinely hope it's only for the better. If you are someone who belongs to the accounting field, then go ahead and implement AI (artificial intelligence) to reduce all the worries and improve your productivity for the business.


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Le Grand Secret est le titre de plusieurs œuvres :

Littérature
 Le Grand Secret (1921), brève histoire de l'occultisme de Maurice Maeterlinck ;
 Le Grand Secret (1964), roman policier historique de John Dickson Carr ;
 Le Grand Secret (1973), roman de science-fiction de René Barjavel ;
 Le Grand Secret (1996), récit du docteur Claude Gubler, médecin personnel de François Mitterrand, sur l'état de santé et la maladie de celui-ci ;
 Le Grand Secret (1990), album de la série de bande dessinée Les Mousquetaires ;
 Le Grand Secret (1993),  de la série de bande dessinée Donito ;

Cinéma et télévision
 Le Grand Secret (1952), film américain de Melvin Frank et Norman Panama
 Le Grand Secret (1960), film documentaire de Gérald Calderon
 Le Grand Secret (1989), mini-série de Jacques Trébouta, d'après le roman de Barjavel
 Le Grand Secret (2001)

Chanson
 Le Grand Secret, chanson d'Indochine chantée en duo avec Melissa Auf der Maur
 Le Grand Secret, chanson de Nana Mouskouri, écrite par Pierre Delanoë et composée par S. Franklin
 Le Grand Secret, chanson d'Archaia


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Trump's Reelection Is Sitting on a Knife's Edge
The 2020 contest could hinge on one key factor.
By Ronald Brownstein
Matt Rourke / AP
The bitter battle that culminated in last night's House vote to impeach President Donald Trump foreshadows an even more dramatic struggle to come over his reelection. It's a contest that will likely feature a historic mobilization of each party's coalition, and will test widening satisfaction about the economy against widespread unease over Trump's behavior, values, and respect for the rule of law. Indeed, the 2020 result may hinge on whether that tailwind of economic contentment proves more powerful than the headwind of voters' doubts about Trump's behavior—or vice versa.
The starkest message to be gleaned from the impeachment struggle may be that red and blue America have almost completely separated into hostile camps. Polls have shown an almost complete partisan split over impeachment, with 90 percent or more of Democrats supporting it and virtually all Republican partisans in opposition. This continues a pattern of unprecedented unity within the parties—and division between them—that has characterized virtually every moment of Trump's presidency. The gap between presidential approval ratings among Democratic and Republican voters has been widening steadily since the 1970s, but under Trump the trend has peaked. Across a wide array of surveys, Trump routinely receives positive ratings from about 90 percent of Republicans and fewer than 10 percent of Democrats.
Impeachment has vividly captured this polarization. To a much greater degree than Democrats during Bill Clinton's impeachment, congressional Republicans have locked arms around their president. In the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, nearly every Republican defended Trump or tried to discredit the witnesses against him, rather than trying to independently assess the underlying facts of the controversy. Nor have Republicans in either chamber expressed any resistance to Trump's systematic defiance of Congress's oversight requests and his incendiary accusations that treasonous Democrats are staging a coup.
House Democrats showed much more commitment to exploring the evidence and grounding their case against Trump in the findings of the House's investigation. But they, too, supported their party on every key vote, swatting away GOP charges that the process was unfair. An effort by some moderates to explore censure as an alternative to impeachment quickly fizzled. And despite much uncertainty about the intentions of the 31 House Democrats in swing districts that voted for Trump in 2016, all but two of them voted last night to impeach him.
Read: Trump's scarlet letter
The partisan unanimity on all these questions offers yet more evidence that 2020 could see historic turnout from each party's core voters. Some experts have predicted that 2020 could produce the highest participation among eligible voters since the 1908 presidential election, before women had the right to vote.
In this "Battle of the Bulge" between two divergent Americas, small differences in both parties' ability to mobilize supporters may tip the outcome. But in such an evenly matched conflict, small slivers of erosion at the edges of each coalition—or minor shifts in the opinions of any remaining swing voters—could also prove decisive. Recent trends in public opinion offer hints at the competing forces that will weigh on the ambivalent voters who could decide next year's result.
In several polls, Trump's approval rating edged up slightly during the impeachment struggle, though it remained at 45 percent or below in almost all surveys. Those numbers may reflect unease about the unprecedented prospect of Congress removing a president from office: Clinton's approval rating also rose during the deliberations over his impeachment (though Richard Nixon's fell steadily throughout the Watergate investigation).
It's also possible that Trump's approval has edged up for a more traditional reason: More Americans are expressing satisfaction with the economy. This fall, as the stock market ascended and the unemployment rate plummeted to 3.5 percent, Quinnipiac University national polls found that the share of Americans describing the economy as "excellent" or "good" rose from 59 percent in September to 73 percent this month, according to its latest survey.
One of the key dynamics of Trump's presidency, as I've written before, is that he faces more resistance from voters satisfied with the economy than previous presidents ever did. In that recent Quinnipiac poll, just 56 percent of those who described the economy as "excellent" or "good" said they approved of Trump's overall performance as president, while 40 percent disapproved. By contrast, in both 2004 and 2012 roughly nine in 10 voters who said the same about the economy voted for the reelection of the incumbent president. (It's worth noting that while Trump underperforms among voters satisfied with the economy, he still receives positive marks from most of them. As a result, as the share of voters expressing such satisfaction increased during the fall, that inexorably raised his overall approval rating as well.)
The leading Democratic super PAC Priorities USA is spending heavily in swing states with a message that the favorable economy has not translated into tangible improvements in living standards for average families. "I don't think people feel like the economy is strong," says Josh Schwerin, a senior strategist for the group. "They might be told that in the news and by Donald Trump, but when they look at their pay and their bills, they don't feel it."
Still, surveys such as Quinnipiac's undeniably record substantial economic optimism: Roughly three-fourths of voters across multiple demographic groups—including African Americans, Latinos, and young people—say they are optimistic about their economic future. Assuming such attitudes endure through 2020, a key question for the election may be to what degree doubts about Trump personally—exacerbated by the Ukraine scandal—will suppress the gains he could ordinarily expect from such blossoming economic satisfaction.
The Quinnipiac surveys from this fall offer important hints at the answer. While the share of all Americans who described the economy as "excellent" or "good" jumped 14 percentage points from September to mid-December, Trump's approval rating during that same period edged up just three points, from 40 percent to 43 percent. For several key groups, the gap between attitudes about the economy and attitudes about Trump substantially widened during that same period.
For instance, in the September Quinnipiac poll, the share of white college graduates who described the economy positively (66 percent) was 26 points higher than the share who approved of Trump's job performance (40 percent). Now that gap has widened to 36 points.
Read: Donald Trump made his own impeachment inevitable
Similarly, the gap between positive attitudes about the economy and positive attitudes about Trump widened from 14 to 35 points among Latinos; 25 to 39 points among African Americans; 19 to 34 points among young adults ages 18 to 34; and 19 to 35 points among adults ages 35 to 49. Over the fall, each group upgraded its assessment of the economy substantially more than it did its assessment of Trump.
Alan Abramowitz, a political scientist at Emory University, told me that attitudes about the country's economic health have become more entwined with partisanship, with Republicans and Democrats alike more likely to grade it favorably under a president from their own party. But, Abramowitz adds, "with Trump you've also got the added factor that the negative perceptions of his character, personality, style, and also some of the policies that are pretty unpopular may limit any positive effects of an improving economy or a strong economy."
Many groups Trump might hope to woo based on the economy remain deeply troubled by his behavior. Consider college-educated white voters. In the new Quinnipiac survey, fully 80 percent described the economy as "excellent" or "good," and an equal number said they were optimistic about their financial future. But in the same survey, 53 percent disapproved of his job performance, 54 percent said Trump has abused the power of the presidency, and 66 percent said that asking a foreign leader to investigate a political rival is inappropriate. In a September Quinnipiac poll, 57 percent said Trump considers himself above the law. And in both CNN and ABC/Washington Post surveys this week, just under three-fifths of college-educated white voters said Trump behaved improperly in Ukraine. With young adults, the story is similar.
Even among white voters without a college degree, Trump's core constituency, the results on these questions spotlight potential cracks for Trump, especially among women. While four-fifths of non-college-educated white voters express optimism about their economic future, and a clear majority oppose impeachment, about 40 percent say that Trump abuses his power as president and considers himself above the law. Given that Hillary Clinton carried only about one-third of these voters in 2016, these concerns suggest that Democrats could make modest gains with these voters, particularly women, who already moved away from the GOP in the 2018 midterm elections.
In many ways, the impeachment ordeal clarifies a central question looming over 2020: Will Trump's reelection turn more on what is typical about his presidency or on what is unique and even aberrant? Typically, an incumbent president would expect to win reelection in an economy this strong, perhaps comfortably; that's why most academic forecasting models that rely on economic factors project Trump as the winner. But no other modern president, except perhaps Nixon in the final months of his tenure, faced as many doubts about his honesty, ethics, and values. Nor did any other president show himself as determined to relentlessly polarize the electorate.
As the battle over impeachment shifts to the Senate, all of Trump's assets are on display: unchallenged command over his party, passion among his supporters, and the lift from a humming economy. But equally apparent are his unbounded willingness to trample over political, cultural, and legal norms and the ferocious opposition to him that ignites. That's the combination that has placed Trump's reelection on a knife's edge for 2020, despite an economy that might comfortably propel a more conventional president toward four more years.