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While covered for health originally by my spouse, now that I am self-employed, I am covered independently. We do have top-up insurance which covers most of what the government doesn't. However, that is only 125 euros a month for both of us, a very far cry from what we would have to pay in the United States, an amount which would total in the thousands and exclude any additional deductibles.
If you're following along, you know that I had an appointment with a general practitioner this past week. The first comedy was in setting the appointment. I actually did alright asking for a rendezvous on the "trois Novembre" at "trois heure"…but when I hung up the phone, I realized that I might have misunderstood the receptionist because the French don't say "trois heure"; they would say "quinz" heure which is 3PM. So, was my appointment actually at treize heure, which would be 1PM, since I might have misunderstood "treize heure" for "trois heure"?
I had to call back to clear this up the next day, but it was a bank holiday. When I did get back with the receptionist and asked the time of my appointment, she said, "quatorze" which meant 2PM. Now that that was clear as mud, we decided to show up 1PM just to make sure I didn't inadvertently arrive late.
The doctor was running a little late, but only by a few minutes. She invited both my husband and myself into her office. We talked about my concerns, and she ordered blood tests, the first thing any doctor in France orders…so I am told.
We then went through to her examination room where she asked me to disrobe. My husband remained in the office just an open door away. I found this a bit odd. I had to fight the impulse to close the door. Everything happens behind closed doors in the US and privacy is sacrosanct.
Now, in the US, there are stirrups for these kinds of procedures and plenty of gowns and massive tissue papers with which to preserve one's dignity…sort of. Not so here. Neither was there an ice-cold stainless-steel stirrup in site. Only now do I realize that stirrups are an absolutely unnecessary and somewhat alien addition to medical tables anyway.
The most awkward aspect of my appointment was just hanging out and talking with the doctor, me undressed and uncovered, as if it were something that happens every day. Ah, but of course, for the doctor it DOES happen everyday. Now, some might think how terribly uncomfortable that would be, but if it didn't bother her, why should it bother me? The fact that the French are so incredibly comfortable with their bodies is something to be admired and adopted, in my opinion. The overprotected privacy measures in the states would seem to only reinforce body shame and neurosis. Still, I will need more time to adapt in this regard.
The cold is another matter, though, which I'll never get used to. I find no difference in that when comparing exam rooms in the US and France. If I can't have on socks and wrap myself in a blanket, I'm going to be cold!
I filled in no paperwork (which any American knows is the whole point of going to a doctor!) other than something called a Choix de Medecin Traitant, handed over my Carte Vitale (or health card), paid my 23 euros, and was done.
I was given a long list of vitamin prescriptions (yes, paid for by the system – see my next post), my blood test request, an echogram order, and a referral to a cardiologist. This was all give without ceremony, resistance, or a hidden mental process undertaken by the doctor on how this might affect her salary, quite unlike what would have happened in the US.
It was all very easy.


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Squabble between Ankara, Berlin leaves Turks wavering ahead of elections
by Yunus Paksoy
BERLIN, GERMANY Sep 19, 2017 - 12:00 am GMT+3
Recent research has exposed that the latest rift between Turkey and Germany has led to a shift in the political orientation of Turkish-Germans.
by Yunus Paksoy Sep 19, 2017 12:00 am
The diplomatic rift between Berlin and Ankara, coupled with German politicians' anti-Turkey rhetoric, has made Turks in Germany hesitant about who to vote for
Hopping on the subway from the center of Berlin, it takes less than 10 minutes to jump into another universe within the same city. The climate abruptly takes an unprecedented turn after climbing the stairs of the Kottbusser Tor train station. Istanbul Supermarket stands on the corner like a welcome sign as one gradually embarks on a new adventure, while a mixed-language with interchangeably used Turkish and German words emerge.
Kreuzberg, a district in the German capital city of Berlin, harbors thousands of families with Turkish roots. Wandering around the district, one must strive very hard not to bump into a person of non-Turkish origin. The streets are inundated with Turkish style coffee shops, kiosks and of course döner shops.
Having set out on a perilous journey to Germany decades ago as Gastarbeiter (Guest Workers), the Turkish community has enormously grown in numbers rather than recede in just a couple years. Today, three million Turks call Germany home though integration issues still loom.
More than 60 million German voters will head to ballot boxes on Sept. 24 to fulfill their duty by expressing their opinion in regards to who or which coalition should run the country for the next four years.
In such an ambiance, the Turkish community has not necessarily had to be too attentive in the election campaigns.
Until recently, the everlasting deteriorating ties between Turkey and Germany over the course of the last six months have dragged the community into the strife more often than not. News stories and TV programs on "how Turkey steers into authoritarianism" and "a dictator consolidates his power" have never vanished before the eyes of Germans and Turkish-Germans.
On the other side, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's recent call on his fellow citizens living in Germany to not vote for the enemies of Turkey on Sept. 24, namely Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Social Democratic Party (SPD), The Left (Die Linke) and The Greens (Die Grüne), baffled the already-mystified community.
In that community, Hamza Öztürk has had a remarkable past. Having moved to Germany more than 30 years ago, he made Kreuzberg his new home. Still feeling like an Ausländer (Foreigner), the café owner dreams of reuniting with his beloved Turkey.
"They [the Germans] have never liked us. They still make you feel like an outsider. 'You are dark in your minds,' they tell us," Öztürk said.
The 54-year-old is not eligible to vote in the upcoming elections because he is not a citizen. His children, however, are German-born and have passports.
"I have two sons. They will cast their votes next Sunday. I will have them vote for the ADD [Allianz Deutscher Demokraten] after our president told us to not vote for the others," he said.
The ADD has made a name for itself after the party hanged placards on streets emblazoned with Erdoğan's photographs. The party was founded by Turkish-Germans and follows a pro-Turkish agenda.
Not every Turkish-German is a die-hard Erdoğan fan. Orhan, 29-years-old, is an outstanding example. Making a living as a taxi driver, Orhan drives around with his dashy Mercedes-Benz on the streets of Berlin and wears a Beşiktaş [a Turkish football team] jersey all the time. As the conversation kicks off about the German elections, so does Orhan with his utterly harsh criticism of President Erdoğan.
"I do not listen to what Erdoğan says. Why would I? We owe a lot to the Germans. I will vote for the Left Party because I like what they have to say on the placards," says Orhan, adding that his friends sometimes denounce him for shielding the Germans. "But, as I said, we owe them a lot."
The rupture within the community has deepened in the recent period. Research by the Turkish European Foundation for Education and Scientific Studies (TAVAK) found that the latest enmity between Turkey and Germany led to a shift in the political orientation of Turkish-Germans.
The SPD, which used to be renowned for championing the rights of the working class until most recently, squandered the votes of citizens with Turkish roots. Backing for the socialist party dropped to 45 percent from a record 67 percent back in 1987, per the TAVAK survey.
Turkish-Germans have had a burdensome history in the country. Mustafa Yeneroğlu, a lawmaker for the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), has vivid memories. Born in Turkey and raised in Germany, the AK Party deputy lambasts Germany for alienating the community due to spats between the two states.
"A large majority of the Turkish community is no stranger to the alienation towards them by the great majority of German politicians in Germany," Yeneroğlu contended. "The difference nowadays is that the Turkish society, due to inter-state tensions, is portrayed and oppressed as the 'other'."
While the likes of Öztürk and Orhan stand firm on their sides as the elections near, there is another side to the story.
Yusuf, 27-years-old, was born and raised in Germany. Opting to converse in German rather than Turkish, he dives into the dilemma of whom to give an ear and what reaction to display with less than a week left.
"One feels lost between his emotions and logic," Yusuf says, exemplifying how a considerable number of Turkish-Germans feel.
The young programmer elaborated, saying, "Yes, you may feel proud and patriotic by not voting 'for the enemies of Turkey,' but we are living here not in Turkey."
The young Turkish-German falters for a moment, gazes high and heaves a sigh.
"I have to find who is the most suitable for the seat taking into consideration my prosperity and the welfare of my future children," he said.
The AK Party politician argues it is difficult for Turkish-Germans to find a party to vote "in terms of their own life realities and interests beyond the inter-state tensions."
Yeneroğlu believes issues troubling the Turkish community, such as voting in local elections, dual-citizenship, multilingualism, visa-free travel, the fight against xenophobia, sorting out the NSU case and putting an end to discrimination in social services, still loom.
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Coronavirus: Nationwide Screening For Infection In Hungary Produced Only Two Positives From Over 8,000 Tests
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A nationwide representative screening for infection by the novel coronavirus has produced just two positives from 8,276 tests so far, Béla Merkely, the rector of Semmelweis University, who is heading the project, said.
Semmelweis University, Hungary's three other medical schools and the Central Statistical Office (KSH) started the screening of almost 18,000 people on May 1 with the support of the innovation and technology ministry.
Merkely said the numbers so far would suggest that there are between 243 and 7,230 people with Covid-19 over the age of 14 in Hungary.
The screening is also testing for coronavirus antibodies in people who have been infected and recovered.
The number of people showing signs of previous infection and recovery are nine from a sample of a 1,524, Merkely said.
That would put the total number of such Hungarians over the age of 14 between 22,399 and 92,624 or between 0.27% and 1.1% of the population.
Merkely said that the full results of the screening would be announced at the end of May. He said more screenings would follow, spaced at least one month apart. If there isn't a big change in the daily numbers, the next screening could take place in September, he added.
A total of 17,787 people were invited to participate in the screening. Tests have been conducted on 8,744 of those people, and a further 2,113 have said they will travel to testing sites for the screening, while 354 have asked to be tested at home.
No response was received from 1,589 people who got invitations, 505 are abroad or have died and 1,875 could not be reached.
The screening is being carried out with the help of 1,500 doctors, nurses, medical school students and PhD students.
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Bat pollination
Bat-pollinated flowers tend to be large and showy, white or light coloured, open at night and have strong odours. They are often large and bell-shaped. Bats drink the nectar, and these plants typically offer nectar for extended periods of time. Sight, smell, and echo-location are used to initially find the flowers, and excellent spatial memory is used to visit them repeatedly.[14] In fact, bats can identify nectar-producing flowers using echolocation.[14] In the New World, bat pollinated flowers often have sulfur-scented compounds, but this does not carry to other parts of the world.[15] Bat-pollinated plants have bigger pollen than their relatives.[16] Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera (pron.: /kar?pt?r?/; from the Greek - cheir, "hand"[2] and - pteron, "wing"[3]) whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, can only glide for short distances. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread-out digits,[4] which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium. Bats represent about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with about 1,240 bat species divided into two suborders: the less specialized and largely fruit-eating megabats, or flying foxes, and the more highly specialized and echolocating microbats.[5] About 70% of bats are insectivores. Most of the rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters. A few species, such as the fish-eating bat, feed from animals other than insects, with the vampire bats being the only paras
tic mammalian species. Bats are present throughout most of the world, performing vital ecological roles of pollinating flowers and dispersing fruit seeds. Many tropical plant species depend entirely on bats for the distribution of their seeds. Bats are important in eating insect pests, reducing the need for pesticides. The smallest bat is the Kitti's hog-nosed bat, measuring 29–34 mm (1.14–1.34 in) in length, 15 cm (5.91 in) across the wings and 2–2.6 g (0.07–0.09 oz) in mass.[6][7] It is also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, with the Etruscan shrew being the other contender.[8] The largest species of bat are a few species of Pteropus and the giant golden-crowned flying fox with a weight up to 1.6 kg (4 lb) and wingspan up to 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in).[9] Echolocation, also called biosonar, is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals. Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. They use these echoes to locate and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation and for foraging (or hunting) in various environments. Some blind humans have learned to find their way using clicks produced by a device or by mouth (see Human echolocation). Echolocating animals include some mammals and a few birds; most notably microchiropteran bats and odontocetes (toothed whales and dolphins), but also in simpler form in other groups such as shrews, one genus of megachiropteran bats (Rousettus) and two cave dwelling bird groups, the so-called cave swiftlets in the genus Aerodramus (formerly Collocalia) and the unrelated Oilbird Steatornis caripensis.
Biological dispersal
Animal dispersal mechanisms
Dispersal range
Types of dispersal
Evolutionary history of plants
Asteroxylon and Baragwanathia
Colonization of land
Evolution of life cycles
Evolution of morphology]'
Evolution of photosynthetic pathways
Evolution of plants
Evolution of secondary metabolism
Evolution of the MADS-box family
Factors influencing floral diversity
Factors influencing leaf architectures
Mechanisms and players in evolution of plant form
Origins of the flower
Tree form
Attraction methods
Flower specialization and pollination
Flower-pollinator relationships
Flowering transition
Organ development
Parthenocarpy
Plant sexuality
Plant stem
Pollination mechanism
Pollination syndrome
Bee pollination (melittophily)
Beetle pollination
Bird pollination
Criticisms of the syndromes
Fly pollination
Moth pollination
Water pollination (hydrophily)
Wind pollination (anemophily)
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#206 Preincarnate by Shaun Micallef
January 12, 2011 in Aliens, Alternate history, Book, Comedy, Crime, Fiction, Futurism, History, Humour, Murder, Mystery, Post-Modern, Review, Satire, Sci Fi, Science Fiction | Tags: absurdism, aliens, alternate history, Australian television, black comedy, blade runner, book, book review, cloning, comedy, conspiracy fiction, crime, Dan Brown, fiction, Free Masonry, futurism, history, humor, humour, Jack the Ripper, murder, mystery, Oliver Cromwell, P. G. Wodehouse, philip k dick, post-modern, Preincarnate, review, satire, sci fi, science fiction, Scientology, Shaun Micallef, Spicks and Specks, TAIG, Talking About Your Generation, time travel, Tom Cruise | Leave a comment
He gestured to the fireplace, over which hung a large framed photograph of the billionaire Da Vinci Code author, signed personally to Jean-Noël. "Look at that chin – it is the chin of a genius." He ran his finger down the cleft of his own and mourned its inadequacy. "Mind you, I thought Digital Fortress was a piece of shit."
Way back in 2008, when folks asked me why I intended to move to Australia, I would mention an assortment of reasons, such as the good food, sturdy economy, availability of jobs – but also another factor which caused some consternation. Namely Australian television. I am not talking about Neighbours, or Home and Away, but panel shows such as Spicks and Specks, a very funny programme that's half music trivia quiz, half mad-cap variety hour (half hour!).
It was the good humoured content that surprised me. I grew up with Irish sarcasm and cutting British wit. Satire is the currency of my home's entertainment, with a fair dollop of black comedy and schadenfreude. Australia seemed to me to have embraced an entirely different comedic ethos, fair dinkum banter and harmless absurdism.
Which was how I first discovered Shaun Micallef. His delivery of lines, whether it be as a comedic player, or host of the show Talking About Your Generation, seems initially quite poised, until you realize he's speaking utter nonsense. When I discovered he had written a novel, I had to investigate what genteel gonzoism he had served up this time.
So what is the book about? Well our omniscient narrator is attempting to tell us the story of Alexander Pruitt, murdered in 2005, only to be reborn in Cromwellite Britain in 1657. Which, through a series of plot contrivances involving time travel and the etymology of the word 'twig', it turns out is the period most suitable to him.
Of course as history itself is warped by the events described, our trusty narrator might not even get to finish the book we are reading, or sell the rights to Hollywood, with the maniacal Tom Cruise playing him in an eventual movie. So we have two races to the finish line here, Alexander Pruitt desperately seeking out the meaning of his existence, while torn between two periods in history (as well as a brief cameo in a third); and our narrator hoping to sell out as quickly as possible before his intellectual property is unwritten.
Throw in some Masonic conspiracies, a nice hefty dig or two at Dan Brown's expense, badgers and Blade Runner, and we have ourselves a novel. Oh and just to top it off the secret identity of Jack the Ripper is also revealed.
If this book were to suffer the indignity of a high concept, I would describe it as P. G. Wodehouse meets Philip K. Dick. It is fitting that the head of Philip K. Dick has reappeared as an A.I. oracle. Perhaps someone should ask it what it thinks of Micallef's novel. It is manic, absurdist fare, that doesn't take itself seriously for even an iota of a second. Conspiracies are revealed to be vapid plots without rhyme, or reason. History itself is a mutable, simultaneous projection without purpose. And Tom Cruise is a very scary individual.
The narrator's Hollywood adventure feels like a random digression, but by that point you have become used to the editorial spats asterisked at the bottom of pages, as well as parenthetical asides to the reader, assuring them that it will all make sense in the end. I laughed out loud when Cruise himself begins to interrogate the narrator as to his peculiar 'omniscience', over the proceedings of the plot. It's a brilliant moment.
If I go any further I fear this review will collapse into a puddle of sycophantic loquaciousness. Needless to say, I quite liked it.
#183 The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
December 20, 2010 in Book, Cinema, Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Review, Satire | Tags: absurdism, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul McCartney, Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, satire, so it goes, Terry Southern, The Beatles, The Magic Christian | 1 comment
It was along towards the end though that Grand achieved, in terms of public outrage, his succes d'estime, as some chose to call it, when he put out to sea in his big ship, the S.S. Magic Christian…the ship sometimes later referred to as "The Terrible Trick Ship of Captain Klaus."
One of my favourite movies is the Peter Sellers/Ringo Starr spectacular The Magic Christian. It's just as ridiculous as that sounds. Here's Roman Polanski getting seduced by Yul Brynner in drag.
So I am delighted to finally have the opportunity to read something by Mr Terry Southern, even though it turns out the book itself is quite different.
Firstly of course the story is set in the United States and not the Pythonesque Britain of the Sellers film version. Secondly there is no 'son', role, played by Starr in the film (a Beatles connection that also unleashed Paul McCartney's unremitting soundtrack). Finally Guy Grand in Southern's novel is a large overweight, red-faced man, with a convincingly sincere smile and not the rakish eccentric played by Sellers.
In other respects, however, the book is quite similar. For one, there is no plot to speak of. Instead Southern introduces a series of anecdotes revolving around Guy Grand and his love of "making it hot for [people]". He enjoys pricking pomposity and taking advantage of the gullibility of mobs, mainly through bribing officials and hiring actors to create scenes of mass hysteria, or confusion.
In one adventure he offers a man several thousand dollars to eat a parking ticket. In another he bribes two prize fighters to act in an exaggeratedly effeminate manner when in the ring. His idea of safari is dragging bloodthirsty Westerners into the African veldt and then scaring off any animals in the area by randomly firing off a high-powered howitzer.
Guy Grand's wealth is apparently limitless and his curious sense of humour allows him to amuse himself by exploiting the greed of his fellow man. Bigots, ignoramuses and the nouveau riche are his preferred targets. Southern introduces each chapter with an ongoing dialogue between Grand, his two elderly aunts and a shrieking socialite named Miss Ginger Horton. Unbeknownst to the fourth party, Grand and his aunts are engaged in an absurdist series of exchanges based on a very private sense of humour. Miss Horton, and her wailing dog, are much like everyone else Grand encounters victims of a unintelligible joke.
In a very real sense, Guy Grand has chosen to be living proof that everyone has their price and as the last of the 'big spenders', he is fully entitled to buy and sell people as he sees fit.
Southern's satirical tone is both incisive and completely surreal. The degree of humiliation endured by the people Grand encounters is worryingly believable, even if his limitless wealth stretches credibility at times. Most chapters end with a variation on the same line – 'it did cost him a good bit to keep his own name clear'. The refrain becomes as casually absurdist as Kurt Vonnegut's 'so it goes'.
I imagine this book is not for everyone. For one it does read like a series of short sketches that happen to revolve around one figure. Still I personally found it very amusing, with the climax of the maiden voyage of his luxury liner the S.S. Magic Christian a fitting cap to his adventures investigating the extent of man's inhumanity to man.
Satirical, humourous and very wicked, I look forward to reading more of Terry Southern's work.
#151 The Cave by José Saramago
November 18, 2010 in Alternate history, Book, Fiction, magic realism, Philosophy, Poetry, Political, Post-Modern, Romance, Satire | Tags: absurdism, artisans, Blindness, capitalist critique, consumerism, José Saramago, Plato's Cave, Seeing, The Cave | 1 comment
Perhaps we would be justified by proclaiming that the Centre writes straight on crooked lines, and what it takes away with one hand, it gives with the other, If I remember rightly, that business about crooked lines and writing straight used to be said about God, remarked Cipriano Algo, Nowadays, it comes to pretty much the same thing
I went to a preview of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later at the Dublin Horrorthon, for Halloween 2002. As the producers were trying to build up positive word of mouth for this pseudo-zombie pic – and it is instructive to remember that the current horror glut had not yet washed up on the shores of the mainstream – the screening I attended was followed by a Q&A session featuring the director and stars Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris. One member of the audience commented that the film reminded her of a novel by José Saramago.
I had never heard of the book before, so this proved to be my introduction to the Portuguese author. The novel Blindness does have broad similarities to Boyle's film. A mysterious ailment causes the collapse of society, although in Saramago's tale marauding zombies are not the cause, with the entire population of an unnamed country suddenly losing their sight. The novel has a sequel of sorts in Seeing, a political satire that is essential reading and not dependent on the previous book, although it does reveal the fate of the previous book's protagonists.
Today's book is once again a satire of sorts predicated on a surreal hook. Cipriano Algo is a potter whose business is dependent on the nearby monolithic Centre, a commercial/residential complex. Living in the shadow of the Centre, not only is Cipriano just barely making enough money from selling clay pottery to its residents, he is legally forbidden from selling his wares to anyone else.
The small business is run by Cipriano and his daughter Marta, whose husband Marçal enjoys an uneasy relationship with his father-in-law. Partly this is due to the young couple intending to move to the Centre, where Marçal works as a security guard. Cipriano resents that his daughter will eventually be pulled away from him by the Centre. Disaster strikes when his goods are finally rejected by the head of the buying department, with insult added to injury by the order to remove the surplus stock of clay crockery from storage.
Desperate to attempt to stay in business, Cipriano and Marta attempt to innovate by producing clay figurines instead. The Centre agrees to accept an initial order on a provisional basis, with the buying department head secretly enjoying the philosophical badinage he engages in with the quick-witted, but humble potter. Another addition is made to the small family by the arrival of a dog, named Found by Cipriano, who inserts himself into the lives of the struggling artisans. Meanwhile Marçal feels increasingly pressurized to achieve a promotion so he can earn the right to live in the Centre with Marta and Cipriano discovers a second chance at love with the widow Isaura.
Once again Saramago delivers an amazing combination of political satire, absurdism and philosophical inquiry. The callousness of the Centre towards desperate labourers such as Cipriano is masked by false niceties, symbolizing the double-edged sword of consumer culture. Issues of family loyalty are also dealt with, as Marçal finds himself goaded by his resentful father-in-law on one side and then being criticized sharply by his own parents for not agreeing to allow them to live with him in his promised future apartment in the Centre. Saramago also in a wonderful feint introduces us to the thought processes of the dog Found and its gratitude to the Algo family for taking him into their home.
Beneath all of the above, we also have several allusions to Plato's parable about the Cave and the nature of reality. Saramago, I feel, was one of the most incredible literary stylists of the late twentieth century. Sadly the author passed away recently, but he was always fearless in describing thoughts and ideas that proved too controversial for his Catholic homeland. Reading his pages can sometimes feel like staring at a morass of words, with run-on sentences and absent punctuation increasing the feeling of alientation. Should the reader persevere, however, a natural flow to the language Saramago uses emerges, almost like poetry.
An incredible book, by an incredible literary visionary. Need I say it is strongly recommended? I thought not.
#137 The Brief And Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
November 4, 2010 in Comedy, Fiction, Futurism, Humour, Political, Post-Modern, Satire, Sci Fi, Science Fiction | Tags: absurdism, Augmented Reality, book, book review, comedy, fiction, futurism, George Saunders, humour, In Persuasion Nation, memes, Minority Report, Monty Python, philip k dick, political, post-modern, review, Richard Dawkins, satire, sci fi, science fiction, short stories, Steve Aylett, Steven Spielberg, Terry Gilliam, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, William Burroughs | 1 comment
'I've been thinking about our beautiful country! Who gave it to us? I've been thinking about how God the Almighty gave us this beautiful sprawling land as a reward for how wonderful we are. We're big, we're energetic, we're generous, which is reflected in all our myths, which are so very populated with large high-energy folks who give away all they have! If we have a National Virtue, it is that we are generous, if we have a National Defect, it is that we are too generous! Is it our fault that these little jerks have such a small crappy land? I think not! God Almighty gave them that small crappy land for reasons of His own. It is not my place to start cross-examining God Almighty, asking why He gave them such a small crappy land, my place is to simply enjoy and protect the big bountiful land God Almighty gave us!'
I think Steve Aylett inoculated me. Like Burroughs, once you read him your brain changes by increments. This is why I always liked Richard Dawkins' theory of memes. Actually Daniel Dennett gave it much better expression, describing memes as a host of larvae in your brain that grow and develop into new viral ideas. This astonishingly disgusting image nails the idea behind 'infectious culture'.
Welcome to my long-winded digression! Aylett infected me and now I am ready for George Saunders' own invocation of manically surreal humour.
My edition is actually features the title novella, as well as a collection of short stories gathered under the banner In Persuasion.
The initial story describes the rabid assent of the eponymous Phil, a tyrant in waiting whose hatred of the bookish and weak-limbed 'Inner Hornerites', leads him to form a border militia of 'Outer Hornerites', who enforce an ever shrinking border surrounding their neighbours, demanding more punitive taxes each day. While the number of patriots called to his cause do not outnumber the Inner Hornerites, they are strong and tall, having been raised in the wide open spaces of Outer Horner.
They are also not strictly speaking human. While never fully described the peoples of Inner and Outer Horner are mentioned to have vents, or exhaust shuts, or in the case of the senile President, several moustaches. Phil himself is given to loud, stentorious speeches about patriotism and values and the threat posed by the limp wristed Inner Hornerites, especially when his brain slides down a large rack affixed to his body. What manner of beast is this?
George Saunders is dealing with overt political satire here, but in a refreshingly pretension free, absurdist manner. The story feels like a depressed Terry Gilliam run amok on the Monty Python opening credits. There is anger expressed, but couched in deceptively manic and lurid imagery.
This is a style that Saunders continues to employ in the following short stories in this edition. my flamboyant grandson features an elderly grandfather just trying to give his grandson an entertaining evening on Broadway, but frustrated by run a gauntlet of invasive holographic advertising. I remember Steven Spielberg's Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority Report featured a similar scene of Tom Cruise finding himself assaulted by images of products and brands. The difference being Spielberg's depiction seemed almost excited at the prospect of such augmented reality tech. Saunders portrays it as an affliction.
jon also tackles the increasingly dominate role advertising culture plays in our lives, once again depicting a future society ruled by images of comfort and excess. Here two lovers question whether their lives as commercial role models as any future for them as a family, as a part of a system that has no interest in the young life they are hoping to create. brad carrigan, american goes even further again, where television shows feature live action participants, at the mercy of reality altering 'programmers'.
Throughout the collection there can be found a weary absurdism, a low mocking tone that fails to disguise a growing sense of despair at the future waiting for us.
I recommend a crash course in Burroughs, or Aylett first, however. Make sure you take your memetic shots.


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Trump leaves office on all-time low approval rating - but Republicans do NOT blame him for MAGA riot or accept Joe Biden as legitimate, new polls reveal
Revealed: Hillary Clinton's State Department refused to classify Boko Haram as a 'terror group' even after it threatened to 'murder the U.S. ambassador' to Nigeria
Boko Haram vowed in February 2012 to assassinate Ambassador Terence McCulley if the U.S. helped Nigeria with terror-fighting efforts
'We know his house ... We know his vehicle and the time he leaves his house and the time he returns,' the group said in a communique to media
The warning was similar to Ansar al-Shariah's pledge to kill U.S. officials in Benghazi, Libya, three months before the deadly 2012 terror attack there
Despite clear threats, Hillary Clinton's State Department fought efforts to officially designate the mass-murdering Nigerians as a terrorist group
A former State Dept. official said naming new terror groups 'sent the wrong message' about al-Qaeda and its allies as Barack Obama ran for re-election
By David Martosko, U.S. Political Editor
Published: 07:24 EST, 15 May 2014 | Updated: 12:36 EST, 15 May 2014
Boko Haram, the African Islamist terror group whose April kidnapping of nearly 300 young girls has united the civilized world in anger, promised to assassinate U.S. ambassador to Nigeria Terence McCulley in February 2012, vowing to murder him if America signed a terrorism-fighting Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the government in Abuja.
McCulley, now the U.S. ambassador to Ivory Coast, was not harmed. But the threat, coming amid a years-long bombing campaign that killed more than 1,400 Nigerian civilians, didn't move then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to fast-track the addition of Boko Haram to the U.S. government's official list of international terrorist groups.
Independent media outlets inside Nigeria first reported on February 9, 2012 that an unnamed Boko Haram leader issued a statement promising that 'we will murder the U.S. Ambassador if the MOU is signed.'
The revelation provides a stark parallel with assassination warnings issued by Islamist groups in Benghazi, Libya in the months before the September 11, 2012 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American personnel.
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In 2011 and 2012 the Islamist terror group Boko Haram detonated a bomb nearly every day for 15 months, including this December 2011 blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church outside the Nigerian capital Abuja
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) met with Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan (R), Nigerian ambassador to the U.S. Ade Adefuye (2nd L) and Nigerian Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru (2nd R) in Abuja on August 9, 2012, but despite threats to U.S. interests she refused to declare Boko Haram a terrorist group
In June of that year, Ansar al-Shariah – the al-Qaeda-linked group that carried out the Benghazi attack – held a parade, two days of rallies and a press conference in central Benghazi. With dozens of military vehicles and heavy arms on display, the terrorists held what an intelligence analyst later said was 'a team pep rally before the game, only for jihad.'
The Clinton State Department infamously ignored that event, even though the first attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi followed two days later – a bombing at the compound's gate that left a hole big enough for 40 men to walk through.
Later requests for additional armed guards at the Benghazi station also fell on deaf ears. Ansar al-Shariah ultimately returned to finish the job.
A September 2013 report from the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee ominously speculated that McCulley's fate in Nigeria could be the same as Stevens' in Libya.
'The danger that Boko Haram may try a similar assault on diplomatic personnel there, as they [Ansar al-Shariah] did in Libya, is a terrifying possibility.'
Then-U.S. Ambassador Terence McCulley, spoke at a mining and oil-production conference on Feb. 8, 2012, the day before Boko Haram threatened to assassinate him in retaliation for U.S. cooperation with efforts to fight terror in Nigeria
The threat against Ambassador McCulley's life in Nigeria had come three months before the Benghazi parades.
'We have had him under surveillance for a while and if the MOU is signed, we will carry out a premeditated attack on him,' Boko Haram had said in a separate statement, according to Nigerian media.
'We know his house in Maitaima [a northern district of Abuja], We know his vehicle and the time he leaves his house and the time he returns.'
Nigeria's civilian government, the group added at the time, would be making a grave mistake if it joined America in an 'unholy marriage' to fight 'our men.'
The Daily Post Nigeria in Lagos confirmed the report on February 10, 2012, adding that Boko Haram had also threatened 'several suicide attacks on American targets' as part of an 'international jihad.'
It's not clear why the State Department resisted adding Boko Haram to its Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list for so long.
A former State Department official who served in a legal capacity under Secretary Clinton told MailOnline on Wednesday that one component of the decision was undeniably political.
'Bulking up the FTO list was not what anyone in leadership wanted,' the former official said. 'At some point it became as much about how things looked as what needed to happen.'
The George W. Bush administration added 17 such groups to the FTO list in eight years. Obama's State Department had added 11 by the time he stood for re-election in 2012.
During the election season, the Benghazi attack threatened to simultaneously unravel both of Obama's foreign policy victories: the undoing of al-Qaeda through the death of Osama bin Laden, and the promised stabilization of Libya following the overthrow of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, both in 2011.
Bringing attention to the expansion of Islamist terror in Nigeria, an important U.S. trading partner, would have counted against Obama as he campaigned to keep his job, according to the former State Department official.
'We all understood, as the State Department does today, that al-Qaeda is far from being defeated,' he said. 'But no one wants to say that in a swing state, right?'
Revealed: Hillary Clinton's State Department refused over... British-born Boko Haram ringleader 'arrested' as Nigerian... 'All options are open': Nigeria considers releasing jailed... Paraded by a blood-crazed fanatic, the terrified schoolgirl...
'In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters':...
The Memorandum Of Understanding between the U.S. and Nigeria was inked six months later, after Clinton visited Abuja personally on August 9, 2012.
In it the U.S. offered Nigeria's government assistance 'in forensics and post-attack inspections,' according to a Voice of America report, as well as help improving their methods of tracking and arresting militants – but no direct special-forces or other military assistance.
Clinton also proposed to help Nigerian security forces set up an 'intelligence fusion cell' to professionalize the way they shared information, similar to how U.S. military and law enforcement agencies routinely cooperate.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan thanked Clinton in 2012 for America's 'moral support' and 'technical support' during the 2010 elections that brought him to power, but didn't address any American cooperation with his attempt to crack down on Boko Haram.
When Clinton arrived, the group was detonating a bomb nearly every day, racking up a death toll that approached 1,400 – mostly Christians.
But the State Department resisted adding Boko Haram to its list of designated terror groups until John Kerry, Clinton's successor, pulled the trigger in November 2013
That same month, McCulley left his post in Nigeria for Ivory Coast.
Just another day in Nigeria: Boko Haram destroyed the Gamboru central market on May 5, 2014 in the Ngala district of Borno State in the northeastern region of the country
First lady Michelle Obama launched her bid at 'hashtag diplomacy' after Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped nearly 300 Nigerian girls in April
Clinton fought pressure to regard Boko Haram as a threat to U.S. interests throughout President Barack Obama's first term, as it morphed from a Muslim religious study group in 2002 into a hard-line regional Islamist terror organization by mid-2009.
Its militants bombed the United Nations building in Abuja in 2011, bringing new terror-designation pleas from the CIA, the FBI, the Justice Department and more than a dozen members of Congress.
The Clinton State Department did add three Boko Haram leaders – as individuals – to its list of terrorists on June 21, 2012.
In a press briefing that day, then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that 'there is always this question of whether designating individuals within an organization is the most effective strategy or whether the designating the whole organization is the most effective strategy. So we're continuing to look at the question of a broader designation.'
'More broadly,' she added, 'we are working with the government of Nigeria and encouraging it in its dialogue with forces in the north, to promote a unified, multi – pluralistic Nigeria where the rights of all people, no matter their religion, no matter where they live, are protected in its own security efforts, that it examine its tactics, it look more at policing, and that it begin a real dialogue about some of the roots of the dissatisfaction in the north, which are primarily economic.'
More than a year later, on July 31, 2013, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf was asked for an update after Boko Haram killed 45 people in a series of coordinated attacks.
In a May 12, 2014 video released by Boko Haram, a man claiming to be its leader Abubakar Shekau said hundreds of missing Nigerian schoolgirls had converted to Islam and would not be released until the terror group's militants were freed from Nigerian prisons
'Can you comment on why Boko Haram hasn't been designated as a foreign terrorist organization?' a reported asked, according to the briefing transcript.
'I don't have anything for you on that,' Harf replied.
Officially designating a foreign organization as a terror group allows the U.S. to freeze bank assets belonging to the group and its members and add them to no-fly lists. It also permits American law-enforcement agencies to prioritize their resources toward fighting the organizations.
'Boko Haram' is a loose translation of the Hausa-language phrase 'Western education is sinful.'
But that phrase is more of a nickname for the organization whose official moniker is 'Jama'atul Alhul Sunnah Lidda'wati wal Jihad,' or 'people committed to the propagation of the Prophet's teachings and jihad.'
The Obama administration has responded to the group's April kidnappings, and to its threat to sell the captured girls into slavery if a prisoner swap isn't agreed to, with what detractors call 'hashtag diplomacy.'
First lady Michele Obama appeared in a photograph that quickly circled the globe, holding a placard reading '#BringBackOurGirls.'
She followed with a Saturday radio address expressing her outrage over Boko Haram's kidnap spree, but never mentioning its status as a radical Muslim sect, or the Nigeria-wide conflict between northern Muslims and southern Christians that has fed its rise to power.
The U.S. Embassy in Abuja has issued repeated warnings about threats to American citizens in Nigeria, including some after the September 2012 Benghazi attack.
Intelligence analysts told MailOnline that Boko Haram has been behind a long string of kidnappings since 2010, mostly of Westerners, and largely at the direction of al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
In January 2012 the United Nations Security Council reported that Boko Haram had sent militants to train in AQIM camps in Mali, and Niger's foreign minister said days later that there was credible intelligence the group had trained at AQIM camps across central Africa.
Benghazi part II: Hillary Clinton's State Department ignored Boko Haram terror group's 2012 threat to 'murder the U.S. ambassador' to Nigeria
Betty White turns 99! Celebrities pay tribute to the legendary actress on social media as the comedienne jokes she can now 'stay up as late as I want'


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Q: filter check current date between two dates I have custom collection and I want to check current date available or not between start_date and end_date.
$currentDate = date("Y-m-d 00:00:00");

$collection = Mage::getModel('test/validity')->getCollection()->addFieldToFilter('start_date',array('gteq'=>$currentDate))
->addFieldToFilter('end_date',array("lteq" => $currentDate));

But this above code is not work.what I do ?

A: ->addFieldToFilter('start_date',array('gteq'=>$currentDate))
->addFieldToFilter('end_date',array("lteq" => $currentDate));

Adding two filters like this translates to "start date >= today AND end data <= today", while what you want is OR.
To combine filters with "or", do it like this in a single call:
->addFieldToFilter(
    ['start_date', 'end_date'],
    [['gteq' => $currentDate], ['lteq' => $currentDate]]
);

A: @fschmengler
Pretty sad that your ignorance gave me a thumb down. Here you have the correct code:
$fromDate = '2016-08-01 00:00:00';
$toDate = '2016-08-31 23:59:59';

$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()
->addFieldToFilter('start_date', array('from' => $fromDate, true))
->addFieldToFilter('end_date', array('to' => $toDate, true));

Your code example is not in the current Magento syntax, which isnt fine. I wouldnt use it. Hope you give me a thumb up now.

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Be it a backpack, a pair of skis, or a jacket that's too small, almost everyone at Colorado College has some old gear lying around. We all know how it works: you get a new piece of equipment and the old one, while still functional, gets pushed into the closet or stowed away in the basement. Why should our used gear sit abandoned and unused in dark corners when it could be recycled into someone's waiting arms?
Seniors Gabe Patterson and Grace Brofman, Gear House managers, have just the solution: the biannual Colorado College Gear Sale, which is scheduled to take place on Nov. 30, the first Friday of fourth block. During past years, the gear sale has traditionally taken place during eighth block, just before Llamapalooza. According to Patterson, the Outdoor Education Department added this fall sale last year in preparation for the ski season.
The event is scheduled to occur right after Thanksgiving Break in hopes that students who return home can collect some of their old gear and bring it back to school. In order to participate, students simply bring apparel and equipment they don't need anymore to the Gear House, fill out a form describing its condition and name a price, after which they can sit back and hopefully make a sale. Ten percent of every sale will go towards the Outdoor Education Department.
Two days before the event, on Nov. 28, Patterson and Brofman will host what Patterson calls a "promo day" on the Worner Quad, tentatively complete with live music and food from the Carnivore Club. The sale itself will also have live music and a free ski-tuning clinic hosted by REI. Gearonimo and other local gear recyclers will shop the event, so your old ski pants stand an even better chance of being sold.
This year's promo day and actual sale are unique in that they take on a distinctly humanitarian tone. Outdoor Education plans to team up with First Ascenders, a program designed to get inner city kids out into wilderness settings that they wouldn't normally be able to access. Senior Rachel Gips will represent First Ascenders with a tent and further information on the promo day. In addition, the event staff will work with the Office of Minority and International Students (OMIS). Students trying to sell gear can check a box on their forms agreeing to donate their equipment in the case it doesn't sell to both First Ascenders and OMIS. This will hopefully help out "minority and international students who want to be involved in the outdoors but can't spend 200 dollars on a jacket," Patterson said.
So if you have some gear lying around that you'd like to get rid of, go ahead and bring it into the Gear House during the first week of fourth block to be sold at the Gear Swap on Nov. 30.


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When Unit Corporation, an oil and natural gas company, decided to relocate their Tulsa, Oklahoma headquarters to a new, state-of-the-art facility, Crossland was on the short list for the project. Bids came in for review, and, as low bidder, Crossland was awarded the $47+ million contract. Located on the edge of Highway 75, the premier facility sits on a landscaped 30 acre site. The building is six stories high, with a separate four story, 700-stall parking garage.No stone was left unturned in the structure's design. Accounting for Oklahoma's often unpredictable and dangerous spring and summer weather conditions, the Owner wanted to create a structurally sound, easily accessed storm shelter. Therefore, an underground, concrete tunnel was constructed to reach from the office building to the parking garage, where a storm shelter waits, capable of withstanding the total collapse of the above-ground parking structure and its contents.
Industry Sector: Commercial – Retail & Office
Size: 196,000 SF
Delivery Method: Design-Bid-Build / Hard Bid
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Architect: KKT Architects


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Fishery edges forward as season winds down
In Featured News, Ocean Life, Oil Spill Facts, Politics, Recovery, Research, Safety, Spill Damages, Testing
HOUMA – Eight months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster claimed lives and livelihoods, one of south Louisiana's most affected regions is toddling toward normalcy as the shrimp season winds down.
An estimated one-third of Louisiana's shrimp fleet has actively fished since the deepwater well 50 miles off the coast of Venice began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Shrimp harvesters and processors, as well as those involved with oysters, crabs and other seafood, are still picking up the pieces. But some reasons for hope are emerging, slowly and quietly.
Large numbers of white shrimp are appearing in some waters, which has caused the state's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to extend the 2010 season in some waters to Tuesday. There are plans to review whether other waters – which have a planned closure in March – will close on that date as well.
Marty Bourgeois, the biologist who runs the state's shrimp program, said the closure of waters east of the Mississippi River is due to "tremendous numbers" of small white shrimp in the area.
"The object is to protect them and allow them to grow to a marketable size," Bourgeois said. "We can all look into the spring and see the benefits of that."
The large shrimp population is good news for a fishery whose participants didn't know for months what effects the Deepwater Horizon spill would have on their crop.
Ernest Cheramie, a 49-year-old fisherman from Galliano, had good luck in recent weeks aboard his 49-foot double-rigger, the Jaia Marie.
"We were catching a good bit, enough to make some money," he said. "But they didn't hardly have any boats out there."
He has been changing how he sells his catch, offering the biggest shrimp direct to consumers from the boat itself. The rest are sold to a dock.
The spill has had a marked effect on Louisiana shrimp production. In 2009 the state's fishermen landed 96.7 million pounds, with a dockside value of more than $103.4 million between January and October. During the same period this year, nearly 53.2 million pounds were caught, valued at a little less than $85.6 million.
Some fishermen are taking steps to make their effort more efficient, with an eye toward next year's spring season. James Blanchard of Houma is considering a new type of net on his boat, the Waymaker.
"I have heard a little bit of a different type of webbing that is supposed to create less drag through the water," said Blanchard, who sits on the board of the eight-state Southern Shrimp Alliance representing Louisiana. "With the lighter webbing it would cut down on the fuel consumption."
Blanchard said he and other fishermen who worked the oil spill cleanup communicated with each other on two-way radios while out on the water. "We were always in contact with a lot of guys we wouldn't normally be in contact with," Blanchard said. "We always had something to chatter about and discussing different things, gear types, other things. It was like we had a meeting of the minds."
Changes are in store for how Louisiana markets its shrimp, with some of the most optimistic thinkers exploring how to set up export markets. Louisiana shrimp, some say, could sell well in Europe.
"We are still going forward with plans for the certification program and gear technology," said Julie Falgout of Louisiana SeaGrant, the state's cooperative extension for fisheries. "The fact that we are going forward and investing the time and the energy and the money in this tells me we have something to look forward to. My personal opinion is that they are not going to let us spend money for something we are not going forward with."
The certification program, Falgout maintains, will have a positive effect on how much consumers will pay for shrimp that earn the grade. Shrimp given the certification are caught under conditions that maximize quality, such as shorter drags of the net and optimal chilling conditions, as well as handling to keep them from bruising.
"It's a great product already and the program certifies that it has had the best kind of handling," Falgout said, explaining that not all shrimp would qualify as "Louisiana Certified." "Black Angus beef is an example of how this can work. Only 7 percent of all beef is Angus. But the Angus program helped bring up the price of beef. It's saying that the certified shrimp is the best of the best and that is going to help everybody."
Fishermen interviewed Thursday said they're not certain about all that. But they do know that something needs to be done, because as the fishery recovers from the spill, pre-existing problems with low prices will return as an issue.
"You go to Burger King and it costs you $7 for a meal now," Cheramie said. "You buy a pound of shrimp for $1 and it can make you a meal. But shrimp should never be $1 a pound."
While prices stay low, Cheramie said, the cost of catching the shrimp continues to rise.
"Three weeks ago I took 100 gallons in fuel and three blocks of ice and it was $302," he said.
Conditions on the water changed and the shrimp Cheramie had been catching were gone. Cheramie returned home.
"That's a loss right there," he said. "That's what it was, a loss."
Still, fishermen acknowledge they are keeping their eyes on the future rather than dwelling on losses of the past.
Tony Thibodeaux of Chauvin worked the oil spill for most of this year with the trawler Brandon James. But he's readying for next year's season. He is building a new metal building with an eye towards next year's catches.
"Eventually I might want to retail some shrimp," said Thibodeaux, who is also planning to have a freezer installed on his boat. "I'm talking about jumbo shrimp, a nice product presented the right way will sell." Not all fishermen or processors are viewing next year with optimism, however.
With few fishermen on the water, prices are staying low, hovering at a dockside price of about $1 on average.
If most or all of Louisiana's fishermen hit the water in May, when the season begins, there could be an overabundance of shrimp that could make prices fall farther.
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Matthew Baker was born in Sydney, Australia. In 1997 he completed a bachelor's degree with honours in Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney. His musical background was in liturgical singing and oratorio and in 2000 he moved to Ireland to be a Lay Vicar in the choir of St. Patrick's National Cathedral, Dublin. Since then he has specialised in Baroque performance, receiving the degree of Master of Music (Early Music Singing) from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2005. His teachers included Michael Chance, Jill Feldman, Marius van Altena, Barbara Pearson and Diane Forlano.
Matthew appears frequently in oratorio and opera performances in the Benelux and France with directors Jos van Veldhoven (Netherlands Bach Society, Utrechts Barok Consort), Jos Vermunt (Residentie Bach Ensemble), Françoise Lasserre (Akadêmia) Paul van Nevel (Huelgas Ensemble) and Christina Pluhar (L'Arpeggiatta). He is also regularly a soloist or ensemble member in performances in the early music festivals such as Utrecht, Antwerp, Bruge, Vezelay and Saintes. In England he has performed as soloist with the City of London Simphonia and the St Albans Bach Choir and in Germany with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. In 2005 he performed the role of Sylvandre in Campra's L'Europe Gallante under the direction of William Christie in the Ambronnay Academy. In 2006 he sang the roles of Giove and Nettuno in the first modern performance of Zamponi's Brussels opera Ulisse al Isola di Circe in the Spring festival in Brussels. Also in 2006 Matthew won the prize for the bass arias in Handel's Messiah in the Concorso Internzionale di Canto Solistico of the Fondazione Seghizzi in Gorizia in Italy. In 2008 Matthew sang Apollo in a Baroque staging of Handel's Apollo e Daphne in the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe during the Handel Festival.
His recordings include the role of Aeneas in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with director Jed Wentz (Brilliant), Christus of the St Matthew Passion by Heinrich Schütz (Zig-zag), and Anima Dannata in Cavallieri's La Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo (Alpha). With Dutch ensemble Le Nuove Musiche, Matthew recorded the complete madrigals of Monteverdi for Brilliant classics.


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Q: Cannot fetch data from two tables having one to many relationship using Asp.Net MVC 5, Entity Framework 6, AngularJS and OracleDB I am using Entity Framework Database First approach to retrieve data from two Models using ASP.NET MVC 5 and AngularJS. The models are as follows:
Course Model
public partial class COURSE
{
    public short COURSEID { get; set; }
    public string TITLE { get; set; }
    public Nullable<short> CREDITS { get; set; }
    public short DEPTID { get; set; }

    public virtual DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT { get; set; }
}

Department Model
 public partial class DEPARTMENT
{
    public DEPARTMENT()
    {
        this.COURSEs = new HashSet<COURSE>();
    }

    public short DEPTID { get; set; }
    public string DEPTNAME { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<COURSE> COURSEs { get; set; }
}

DBContext:
public partial class StudentEntities : DbContext
{
    public StudentEntities()
        : base("name=StudentEntities")
    {
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        throw new UnintentionalCodeFirstException();
    }

    public virtual DbSet<SAMPLESTUDENT> SAMPLESTUDENTs { get; set; }
    public virtual DbSet<STUDENTMANAGEMENTUSER> STUDENTMANAGEMENTUSERs { get; set; }
    public virtual DbSet<COURSE> COURSEs { get; set; }
    public virtual DbSet<DEPARTMENT> DEPARTMENTs { get; set; }
}

CourseController.cs
public class CourseController : Controller
{
    IGenericRepository<COURSE> repository = null;

    public CourseController()
    {
        this.repository = new GenericRepository<COURSE>();
    }

    public CourseController(IGenericRepository<COURSE> repository)
    {
        this.repository = repository;
    }

    // GET: /Course/
    [NoDirectAccess]
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

    public JsonResult GetAllCourses()
    {
        List<COURSE> courseList = (List<COURSE>)repository.GetAll();
        return Json(courseList, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }
}

GenericRepository.cs
public class GenericRepository<T> : IGenericRepository<T> where T : class
{
    private StudentEntities db = null;
    private DbSet<T> table = null;

    public GenericRepository()
    {
        this.db = new StudentEntities();
        table = db.Set<T>();
    }

    public GenericRepository(StudentEntities db)
    {
        this.db = db;
        table = db.Set<T>();
    }

    public IEnumerable<T> GetAll()
    {
        return table.ToList();
    }

    public T GetById(object id)
    {
        return table.Find(id);
    }

    public void Update(T obj)
    {
        table.Attach(obj);
        db.Entry(obj).State = EntityState.Modified;
    }

    public void Insert(T obj)
    {
        table.Add(obj);
    }

    public void Delete(object id)
    {
        T existing = table.Find(id);
        table.Remove(existing);
    }

    public void Save()
    {
        db.SaveChanges();
    }
}

AngularJS CourseController
app.controller("courseController", function ($scope, courseService) {

GetAllCourses();

function GetAllCourses() {
    var getCoursesData = courseService.getCourses();
    getCoursesData.then(function (course) {
        $scope.courses = course.data;
    }, function () {
        alert('Error in getting course records');
    });
};

});
app.service("courseService", function ($http) {
this.getCourses = function () {
    return $http.get("/Course/GetAllCourses")
};

});
Index.cshtml

Course Information

                        <input type="text" placeholder="Search Course" class="form-control" ng-model="searchCourse">

                    Title
                    Credits
                    Department
                    Action

                        {{course.TITLE}}

                        {{course.CREDITS}}

                        {{course.DEPARTMENT.DEPTNAME}}

                        @*Edit*@

I couldn't identify what's the problem. Any kind of help will be appreciated.

A: create a db context and change the GatAll method to
    public IEnumerable<T> GetAll()
    {
        return context.DEPARTMENTs.Include(x => x.COURSEs).ToList();
    }

A: Modified the GetAllCourses() method like below :
public JsonResult GetAllCourses()
    {
        List<COURSE> courseList = (List<COURSE>)repository.GetAll();
        var collection = courseList.Select(x => new {
            courseId = x.COURSEID,
            title = x.TITLE,
            credits = x.CREDITS,
            deptId = x.DEPTID,
            deptName = x.DEPARTMENT.DEPTNAME
        });
        return Json(collection, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }

and it works like a charm


An Australian under 23 international, Buhagiar joined the Sky Blues on a two-season deal in June 2018. 20-year old Buhagiar is famed for his pace and will provide an added attacking option for the Sky Blues ahead of another busy Hyundai A-League season and AFC Champions League campaign in 2019. He is also a product of the International Football School on the Central Coast.
Still in the formative years of his promising career, Trent Buhagiar believes the move to the Sky Blues is one that will serve him well moving forward and hopes to add plenty to the squad.


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Looking Back on Jan. 16: 'Crews continue to gain'
Sun Journal for Jan. 16, 2023
Read more about Jan. 16, 1998, in the SunJournal.com archives.
Twenty tables of auction were enjoyed Monday afternoon at St. Margaret's Guild of St. Michael's parish. The high score was won by Mrs. Howard Mann and the consolation went to Mrs. Herbert R. Coffin. Refreshments were served on the small tables after the game and a social hour passed. Mrs. Willis P. Atwood and Mrs. Chas. B. Carter were in charge
Five wood sculptures by an Auburn artist will be among the items to be exhibited at Thomas College's Mariner Library, through Jan. 31.
Sculptor Dennis Saindon is presently a senior at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham, where he is majoring in industrial arts education. Saindon, who began wood carving while in high school, teaches wood carving at Bayside for Kids, Portland.
His sculptures will be exhibited, along with paintings by Denny Winters of Rockport in the Art Gallery. The public is welcome to view the items.
Faces showing signs of weariness glanced at the motorcade as it passed by. Quickly, most turned back to the task at hand, clearing debris remaining after last week's devastating ice storm.
It was what the dignitaries, led by Vice-President Al Gore, had come to see. But not all was gloom and doom.
Earlier Thursday, Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport manager Paul Karlowitz said he hadn't seen as much hubbub of a visiting dignitary since 1976, when Walter Mondale, then only the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, flew in to campaign.
Karlowitz stood in the terminal next to the wood stove that was dedicated by Mondale nearly 22 years ago, as Secret Service agents and press coordinators delivered instructions to the dignitaries and media on how to watch the arrival of Vice-President Al Gore.
The Secret Service came in last night," Karlowitz said. "They do this so often that they can do it in their sleep. They just tell us what they need, and we can make it work."
Less than two dozen people braved the frigid temperatures to greet Gore, who was flying in by helicopter from Augusta. The man, considered by many as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000, was on the second leg of the Brunswick to Augusta, Augusta to Auburn tour to view the damage done by the ice storm of 1998.