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I know what you mean about The Girl In The Ice but it didn't bother me so much, it seems to be the norm! As is lead female detectives who are amazing at the day job but can't make their personal lives work.
I guess you're right; most female detectives seem to have to be 'bitchy' and have a complicated personal life to become good at their job… It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it did stand out a bit too much in The Girl In The Ice for me. The plot is excellent though; I didn't see it coming who was the murderer until the very end!
Yeah the ending did come out of nowhere which was great. There were so many suspects though at least you could try and have a calculated guess..
Very true! I actually thought the father might have done it at one point haha, although Igor was the best candidate throughout the book… I always like a surprising ending though.
Good call reading the Shades of Magic books before Smoke and Bone because they're much better! I found Smoke and Bone disappointing because until about two thirds of the way through it was all kinds of awesome… and then something occurs and it all went downhill for me 😦 Hopefully the same won't happen for you and you'll love it.
I managed to finish it today and I still think the characters and constant bitching put a slight damper on an otherwise excellent read… The plot was really good and the plot twists even better!
I really want to read The Girl in the Ice though dissapointed to see that the characters are not all that. I will wait to read your full review though. Crossing my fingers too that Maybe Someday will turn out to be as good as November 9. Enjoy your books.
The characters might not be all that likeable, but the plot itself is really good and mostly makes up for it. I've decided to start Maybe Someday next now I've finished The Girl In The Ice and the first pages sound really promising!
Oh you are already done with The Girl in the Ice? I can't wait to read your review on it. I hope you enjoy Maybe Someday.
I managed to finish it yesterday yes… Like I said, the plot is really well done and the plot twists definitely surprising, so that does kind of make up for the 'bitchy' characters. And I'm loving Maybe Someday so far!
I got impatient waiting for library's on-order copies of A Gathering of Shadows to finally arrive, so I've bought myself a copy, too. I've got a few things to finish before I get to it, though. Good luck finishing the review of A Darker Shade… I'm currently trying to write a review that isn't just fangirling as well, so I feel your pain.
Haha I can definitely understand why the wait would have felt too long… I really want to start reading A Gathering Of Shadows as well; hopefully I will be able to write down something somewhat coherent about A Darker Shade Of Magic tonight. 😉 So far it's mostly fangirling, saying the book is brilliant and to just read it haha. Good luck to you as well!
I will definitely try to pick those up next! Daughter Of Smoke And Bone is 100% sure my next fantasy read after finishing A Gathering Of Shadows….
That's too bad about The Girl in the Ice. I hate when a good portion of the book is characters 'bitching' at/to each other. It ruins the story for me.
I'm glad you enjoyed Out of My Mind! I love that one!
I'm definitely excited to read A Darker Shade of Magic for all of the reasons you mentioned above. In my opinion, Maybe Someday was definitely better than November 9! I loved it.
I hope you'll enjoy it as much as everyone did (including me now! 😉 ), it's SUCH a good read! I've just started Maybe Someday and the first two chapters look definitely promising. Happy reading!
Being at Disneyland would definitely help with the atmosphere! I really liked her other novel, but The Beginning Of Everything just was a tad too cliche for me… The fact that I didn't like the characters didn't really help either. I'm glad you enjoyed it though!
Interesting to read about The Beginning of Everything. I was wondering whether to check it out.
If I have to pick one, I would definitely recommend her other novel Extraordinary Means over The Beginning Of Everything. The plot is a lot more original and I liked the characters a lot better.
I totally agree; when either the plot/plot twists or characters don't work it can definitely ruin a story for me… I still enjoyed reading The Girl In The Ice and the plot was excellent, but the bitchy characters did slightly ruin it for me. The Beginning Of Everything just was way too cheesy/cliche for me and I didn't like the characters either… Her other novel was way better. A Darker Shade Of Magic is SUCH a good book though!
I'm glad you liked A Darker Shade of Magic so much. I really liked it too but haven't been able to find the sequel available yet. Soon I hope. Happy reading and thanks for participating in WWW Wednesday!
I hope you will be able to find the sequel soon! I finally managed to get a review together so I will continue reading the sequel tomorrow. Happy reading and thanks for hosting!
I'm so glad you enjoyed A Darker Shade of Magic. It's definitely been one of my favorite new reads this year.
Good to hear you enjoyed it as well! Such a brilliant book; I already know it will appear on my list of 2016 favorites. Happy reading!


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From Innovation to Biorhythms: The Making of a 'Great Place to Work'
John P. Muldoon / January 30, 2011
Innovation, communication, commitment and even biorhythms are all part of the leadership mix that has seen Abbott Ireland remain as one of Ireland's best places to work for seven years in a row.
The annual surveys are conducted by the Great Places to Work (GPTW) Institute. Previous posts from the lecture series can be found here, here, and here.
Speaking at DIT's Leadership Forum Series, Abbott Ireland's General Manager of Pharmaceutical, Sales and Marketing Operations, Craig Skelton, spoke of the challenge of managing the company's 4,000-strong workforce in 14 locations in Ireland. (The other speaker on the day was John Kennedy of Diageo. His talk can be found here.)
Based in Chicago, Abbott's employs around 90,000 worldwide and had revenues of almost $31 billion in 2009. Meanwhile, Skelton is a transplanted New Zealander who sees many parallels between the Irish and Kiwi health systems.
Although Skelton mentioned economic challenges, layoffs did not figure in his talk. Instead, he spoke of the challenges faced by the company as it sought to re-organize. One of the isses Abbott discovered a few years ago was that it needed a strategy on talent management. The company found it hard to hold on to operations staff and they were hard to replace in the more remoteWestern facilities.
Meanwhile, there was a very large sales force that dealt with GPs, Gen X and Gen Y workers. They bring different attitudes and motivations to their work, and they also expect to be a part of decision making, Skelton said. The company's review also found that a number of functional experts in areas such as government affairs were needed.
Abbott itself was organized around silos and was shifting to a matrix-based system. "We needed to change our organization because the environment was going to change," Skelton said.
From Left: Craig Skelton, Sean McEwen, John Frels and Liam Curley. Picture by Colm Mahady / Fennells.
With change in the air, Skelton said it was important to communicate. Some was done personally and some via company intranets. "What we try to do is open up communication channels all over the place," he said. To measure the effectiveness of their efforts, Abbott relied on the GPTW surveys.
Communications became evident in the promotions process, Skelton said. Although the company had a process in place for developing and rewarding talent, it was unknown to most employees who thought "you touched someone on the shoulder and they were mysteriously annointed."
This is important information in a company that likes to promote from within. Now the it's criteria of 70% experience, 20% assessment and feedback, and 10% education are known to workers interested in climbing the corporate ladded.
On innovation, Skelton saw the Irish operation moving faster and being more nimble than the American HQ. He encourages people to think differently. Some people fear if "they step out of their comfort zone they might get whacked," Skelton said. He wants them to overcome that fear.
Innovation is required to be competitive and happens in many areas across the company, Skelton said. With a motto of "See, Feel, Live the Customer," he said Abbott has developed some new approaches. Examples include:
The Rediscover Life Waste Collection initiative. Patients with syringes found they were unable to return them to the pharmacy or hospital for disposal. Abbott give them a box and picks the used equipment up every six months.
Talking to the Gardaí and traffic experts to see how they manage traffic flow. Abbott has "appointment angels" that optimize everyone's use of time while patients are moving through the health system.
Changing injections of Synagis, a drug for premature babies, to be done at home. Previously, up to 30 infants and parents would be scheduled for dosage. This wasted a lot of time since the fathers often took work off to help bring the child to hospital. And it increased the risk of the healthy babies picking up infection if one of the others was sick.
Under Abbott's "Life Navigation" program, employees were told about time management and other personal tools to help them improve their work/life balance, Skelton said. This one has been such a success that the company's GPTW scores in that category went from 55% in 2008 to 92% in 2010, he said. Asked in the Q&A session what else it had done, Skelton said people are more productive — the initiative had paid off for both company and worker.
Fitting in to that is a recognition that people function differently at different times of the day, Skelton said. Some like to be on to go at 7 am. Others are horrified at the thought. An early riser himself, Skelton said he plans his day so that, knowing he will flag after lunch, he has meetings at that time. However, there is a conscious effort across the company to match the rhythm of the person with the rhythm of the organization.
Summing up, Skelton said he tries to lead by personal example. He wants people to be innovative so Abbott will have a competitive advantage, and he promotes a common vision and strategy across the organization.
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Bette Davis the Hollywood bitch
SHE seduced her leading men and left her rivals quaking with fear. Here, to mark the centenary of her birth, we unravel the extraordinary lives of BETTE DAVIS.
By Neil Norman
STAR: Bette was famous for her mood swings
When Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was born on April 5 100 years ago, her mother screamed: "Take it away! It's horrible!" So much for maternal feeling.
But it set the seal for the infant who grew up to be Bette Davis – a woman for whom it might have been predicted: "Fasten your seatbelts – it's going to be a bumpy life."
When Bette died in Neuilly, France, at the age of 81 from metastasised breast cancer, many of her fans refused to believe it. Of all the actresses ever to stalk the Hollywood screen, Bette seemed immortal.
She had weathered the storms of disfavour, flops and lawsuits – not to mention seeing off a quartet of husbands – resurrecting herself time and again to the point where she became a living legend. Death was not an option.
Bette in The Working Man with Hardie Albright
As things turned out, Bette was only human – just.
Born with none of the advantages that assist most budding young movie actresses (looks, malleability) and one that was relatively unimportant to the Hollywood suits (talent), Bette learned from an early age that the key to success was to fight for it. And if the fight had to be dirty, so be it.
After her parents divorced, Bette and her mentally unbalanced sister were raised by their strict mother Ruthie. From the very beginning, Bette demanded attention. She was misdiagnosed as frivolous and spoilt when in fact she was just cantankerous, demanding and highly precocious.
Anyone who says that life begins at 40 is full of it.
She was also sexually naive. Unlike her arch-rival Joan Crawford, whose famously indiscriminate and voracious sexual appetite knew no bounds, Bette was repressed and anxious around men.
When a young actor called Henry Fonda kissed Bette chastely on her 17-year-old cheek, she thought she was pregnant. A few days later, Fonda was alarmed to receive a letter from Bette saying: "I've told mother about our lovely experience together in the moonlight. She will announce the engagement soon."
Not surprisingly, Fonda ran for cover and avoided her for years.
Not that he should have worried. By the time Bette had turned up in Hollywood with a six-month contract with Universal Studios, she was determined to become a star at the expense of everything else – marriage, children, happiness.
By the age of 32 she drank for America and had had three abortions to avoid interrupting her punishing work schedules. A variety of husbands – with the exception of her second, Arthur Farnsworth, who died mysteriously of a brain haemorrhage as the result of a skull fracture – simply threw in the towel when they realised they couldn't compete. Of her last husband, Gary Merrill, Bette said: "Gary was a macho man but none of my husbands was ever man enough to become Mr Bette Davis."
At the Academy Awards
Psychoanalysts could make their careers exploring Bette Davis. Her mother was a tight-laced Victorian wannabe actress who projected her aspirations on to her daughter. Bette was only too willing to be pushed and ended up being the family breadwinner.
She pretty much supported all of her husbands, as well as her mother, sister and her daughter Barbara, who was born when Bette was 39. Barbara's 1985 account of life with her, My Mother's Keeper, makes Mommie Dearest (Joan Crawford's daughter's venomous memoir) read like Little Women in comparison. Bette never forgave her for dishing the dirt.
FACE OF A LEGEND: Bette refused to grow old gracefully
Bette has made excuses for her appalling behaviour by claiming that she was battling against all odds to do the best work that she could. Certainly, the legend lives on in such films as Now, Voyager, The Letter, All About Eve, Jezebel, Dangerous and Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Not blessed with conventional beauty she was happy to play grotesques, either internally or externally, applying layers of make-up and expressing extreme emotions. From the falling-apart woman in Mr Skeffington to the blinding and bizarre performance as a former child star in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, Bette was fearless in her approach to unsympathetic characters.
Unlike many actors who exhibit a need to be loved by the audience, Bette seemed to relish the reverse – the less sympathetic the role, the keener she was to play it.
Her reward was two Best Actress Oscars (for Dangerous and Jezebel), and eight other Academy Award nominations; in 1999 she was placed second behind Katharine Hepburn in the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time. Undoubtedly she would have had something pithy to say about that.
Waspish and witty, capricious and violent, Bette could swing from mood to mood with mercurial ease – a facility that made her a great actress if an unpredictable co-star.
Once she had discovered sex, ("God's biggest joke on human beings"), she set about looking for the love of her life. She found him on the set of Jezebel in 1937. But director William Wyler, with whom she began an affair, was married and refused to leave his wife.
By the end of the Forties she had a reputation for being difficult. When Joseph L Mankiewicz announced that Bette would take over the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve, fellow director Edmund Goulding (who directed her in four films, including Dark Victory) wrote to him: "Dear boy, have you gone mad? This woman will destroy you, she will grind you down to a fine powder and blow you away. You are a writer, dear boy. She will come to the stage with a thick pad of long yellow paper. And pencils. She will write. And then she, not you, will direct. Mark my words."
She was not above physical violence. During the shooting of the 1964 film Where Love Has Gone, she tore off her wig and began whipping her co-star Susan Hayward with it, screaming insults.
She wrested control from the writers and directors she considered too weak to do their jobs but it was her fellow actresses who suffered most. At times, Bette exhibited all the worst traits of Margo Channing, the jealous actress who would stop at nothing to get a role.
Bette, however, had a different view: "Margo Channing was not a bitch," she said. "She was an actress who was getting older and was not too happy about it. And why should she? Anyone who says that life begins at 40 is full of it. As people get older their bodies begin to decay. They get sick. They forget things. What's good about that?"
Bette's most notable rival was Joan Crawford – an actress of a similar age who was everything Bette was not. While both had a certain artificiality when unchecked, Bette could lose herself in a role; Crawford took a character and moulded it around her own personality.
"She and I have never been friends," said Bette. "I admire her and yet I feel uncomfortable with her. To me, she is the personification of the movie star. I have always felt her greatest performance is Crawford being Crawford."
That was the nicest thing she ever said about Crawford. There are legions of quotes ("I wouldn't p*** on her if she was on fire," "She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie") that make for rather more hair-raising reading.
The genius of casting these "two old broads" opposite each other in Baby Jane paid huge dividends, even if the actual shoot was alarming. Stories about the production have passed into Hollywood legend: the tale that Crawford, as the crippled sister, used to fill her pockets with lead weights so that Bette had to struggle to drag her across the floor; and that Bette didn't hold back when her character delivered several vicious kicks to Crawford's prone body.
The suggestion by Ed Sikov, in his biography Dark Victory, that their life-long feud began when Bette rejected Crawford's advances is tremendously tantalising.
Vulnerable and vitriolic, friendly and ferocious, Bette Davis was the perfect example of the craziness that often afflicts great talents. She had a remarkable self-knowledge and knew better than anyone where she stood in the eyes of the world.
Having once remarked that when she died they would probably auction off her false eyelashes, she would have been amused to know that she was absolutely right. They fetched £300.
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TopDog filed a motion for partial summary judgement against GuideOne, asserting that GuideOne breached its contract and failed to timely pay TopDog's claim as required by the Prompt Payment of Claims Act (PPCA). GuideOne filed a motion for summary judgement asserting because GuideOne paid the appraisal award, TopDog could no longer maintain any of its claims against GuideOne.
In its traditional motion for summary judgment, GuideOne asserted that (1) it did not breach the contract because it paid the amount of loss determined by the appraisal process, and (2) TopDog had not sustained any damages. In its no-evidence motion for summary judgment, GuideOne contended that TopDog presented no evidence of breach and no evidence of damage by any breach.
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difference between the appraisal award and the amount of damage GuideOne initially found, GuideOne paid that difference following appraisal. Because the benefits available to TopDog under the policy have already been paid, the court concluded that TopDog did not offer evidence sufficient to create a material issue of fact on the element of damages.
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The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers serve to witness the call to mission with the poor and those most suffering around the world in concert with the rest of the Maryknoll family:
Maryknoll Sisters give witness to God's love and devote their lives in service overseas helping the poor, the ailing and the marginalized. Today the Maryknoll Sisters have approximately 423 Sisters serving in 24 countries worldwide.
We welcome U.S. Catholics – single people, married couples and families – to respond to the call of mission. The Maryknoll Lay Missioners serve communities in Africa, Asia and the Americas, helping create a more just and compassionate world.
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Is there any documentation on supported version?
Thank you

A: So, after contacting google cloud support to be sure about the possibilities, I will answer my question:
You can use any version of Django in appengine, you can install it to a lib module and then add the file appengine_config.py with the lines:
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President Trump! I am certainly excited that the Clinton corruption machine has been dethroned… that new Supreme Court justices will presumably honor biblical values… that we have a president that is presumably not controlled by the Luciferian elite… that WWIII with Russia is off the table…. that the US will stop supporting Islamic terrorist organizations like ISIS. There is a lot to be excited about. Unfortunately, I'm not so excited about Trump's economic policy initiatives. It is a mixed bag.
The SDR world currency is in our future. It is insidious in nature. It will start as a currency that is only used in international trade transactions. There will be a US dollar, a Euro, a Yen; and unless you are in the import/export business or an executive at a multinational corporation, you wouldn't ever use it. Most won't understand it. Many won't even know it exists.
In the end, world government control will be implemented not through the barrel of a gun, but through the ink of a proverbial printing press.
China is old news. Financial commentators are speaking in past tense about the China crisis. It was a whole bunch of worry that amounted to nothing. The Chinese economy is going to grow at 7% forever into the future, worst case 4%-5%. Nothing has happened, and nothing will happen.
That analysis is totally wrong. China is in the midst of the largest, most acute private sector debt bubble in the history of the world (and that is not an exaggeration). China will have its "Lehman moment" at some point; it is just a matter of time.


Frame grabbers are used to deliver images from a machine vision camera's output to the memory of a computer to be further processed and/or displayed. The development of frame grabbers has run on course with the development of computer technology. PCI and AGP ports in modern PC's allow real-time display of images via a frame grabber without the previous need for additional graphics hardware.
There is a huge range of frame grabbers available and can basically be split into three main categories – Standard, Advanced and Intelligent. We will explore each of these categories and where applicable the sub-categories within in a moment. First lets look at the processes which can take place within a frame grabber, a simplified version of which is shown in the block diagram below.
The incoming signal from the vision camera is sampled at an rate specified by a fixed frequency pulse, which can be generated in the frame grabber itself or received from the camera. If the signal is not already digital it passes through an analogue to digital converter, and stored in the buffer until a full image has been converted/received.
We begin exploring the different level of frame grabbers by first looking at Standard Frame Grabbers which are low cost devices with a high enough level of intelligence and software support for inspection applications. They can only be used with standard analogue interlaced video sources, non-standard video sources (i.e., progressive scan, mega pixel, non-standard cameras and digital sources) are not supported.
This type of grabber often does not include memory to buffer images on so the video data is sent to the CPU via the PCI-bus line by line which is processor intensive. Top of the range standard frame grabbers can include some memory and are preferable in applications where each frame must be displayed.
Standard grabbers can be triggered to grab the next image although their response is not instantaneous and there will be a random delay of up to one frame, which remains satisfactory for most applications. They also contain a multiplexer allowing more than one camera to be connected and used in turn.
Advanced Frame Grabbers are high performance frame grabbers which support non-standard cameras and therefore are dominant in most machine vision applications. Apart form increased accuracy, the distinct feature of an advanced frame grabber which sets it apart from standard level grabbers, is the ability for asynchronous image capture. This is achieved via the use of synchronisation mechanisms between the grabber and camera resulting in instantaneous capture also known as an asynchronous reset operation. This operation interrupts the sampling clock and resets the exposure and readout cycle so that a full image can be generated at any time.
The first three variants of advanced frame grabber can be considered the same in terms of processing mechanisms as the RGB and multi-channel grabbers have a number of the single channel operations on board. Therefore we will simply look at analogue advanced frame grabbers in general followed by digital advanced frame grabbers.
The analogue advanced frame grabbers utilise very high quality components to acquire highly accurate images from any type of analogue video signal received from standard and non-standard camera formats. They reach very high clock speeds and can contain an abundance of on board memory for buffering DMA (Direct Memory Access) transfers for standard and high pixel count cameras. The software on board these grabbers is comprehensive allowing maximum control flexibility.
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Q: Spark Dataframe from a different data format I've this data set. for which I need to create a sparkdataframe in scala. This data is a column in a csv file. column name is dataheader
dataheader
"{""date_time"":""1999/05/22 03:03:07.011"",""cust_id"":""cust1"",""timestamp"":944248234000,""msgId"":""113"",""activityTimeWindowMilliseconds"":20000,""ec"":""event1"",""name"":""ABC"",""entityId"":""1001"",""et"":""StateChange"",""logType"":""type123,""lastActivityTS"":944248834000,""sc_id"":""abc1d1c9"",""activityDetectedInLastTimeWindow"":true}"
"{""date_time"":""1999/05/23 03:03:07.011"",""cust_id"":""cust1"",""timestamp"":944248234000,""msgId"":""114"",""activityTimeWindowMilliseconds"":20000,""ec"":""event2"",""name"":""ABC"",""entityId"":""1001"",""et"":""StateChange"",""logType"":""type123,""lastActivityTS"":944248834000,""sc_id"":""abc1d1c9"",""activityDetectedInLastTimeWindow"":true}"

I was able to read the csv file -
val df_tmp = spark
                    .read
                    .format("com.databricks.spark.csv")
                    .option("header","true")
                    .option("quoteMode", "ALL")
                    .option("delimiter", ",")
                    .option("escape", "\"")
                    //.option("inferSchema","true")
                    .option("multiline", "true")
                    .load("D:\\dataFile.csv")

I tried to split the data into separate columns in a dataframe but did not succeed.
one thing I noticed in data is both key and value are enclosed by double double quotes ""key1"":""value1""

A: If you want to get the field inside the data field, you need to parse it and write it into a new CSV file.
It's obviously a string in json format


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Jun 11: Curtains came down on the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Iconic Week of the Ministry of Finance, with the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt, Nirmala Sitharaman, launching a slew of innovative communication and outreach products aimed at spreading financial and tax literacy and explaining contributions of different Departments towards nation's development.
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Louis Frédéric Ancillon, auch Ludwig Friedrich Ancillon (* 21. Mai 1740 in Berlin; † 13. Juni 1814 ebenda) war ein preußischer französisch-reformierter Theologe.

Familie
Ancillon stammte aus einer bedeutenden Familie der preußischen Hugenotten. Sein Vater Frédéric Luc Ancillon (1698–1758) war reformierter Theologe, seine Mutter Judith Naudé (1705–1780) eine Tochter des Mathematikprofessors Philipp Naudé, sein Großvater Charles Ancillon preußischer Jurist und Diplomat, sein Urgroßvater David Ancillon der Ältere Prediger der Hugenottengemeinde in Berlin sowie preußischer Hofprediger. Aus seiner 1767 geschlossenen Ehe mit Marie Mathis (1743–1817), Tochter des Gewürzhändlers Daniel Mathis, ging u. a. der preußische Minister Jean Pierre Frédéric Ancillon hervor.

Leben und Werk
Ancillon wurde 1761 Katechet in der Berliner französisch-reformierten Gemeinde und 1765 Prediger an der auch als Klosterkirche bekannten Friedrichswerderschen Kirche. 1796 trat er daneben in das preußische Oberkonsistorium ein und wurde Geheimer Rat im consistoire supérieur des communautés réformées françaises.

1780 hielt er die Trauerrede auf Prinzessin Luise Amalie von Preußen, 1786 auf König Friedrich II., 1797 auf dessen Witwe Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern. Auch weitere Predigten von ihm wurden gedruckt.

Neben seinen Amtspflichten beschäftigte Ancillon sich vor allem mit philosophischen Fragen. Für seine Abhandlung Quels sont outre l'inspiration les caractères qui assurent aux livres saints la supériorité sur les livres profanes erhielt er 1782 den Preis der Akademie von Rouen. 1786 wurde er als ordentliches Mitglied in die Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften aufgenommen, wo er sich in Veröffentlichungen vor allem mit dem aufklärerischen Skeptizismus auseinandersetzte. Besondere Beachtung fand sein fiktiver Dialog zwischen George Berkeley und David Hume.

Literatur

 S. Charles, J. C. Laursen u. a.: Hume and Berkeley in the Prussian Academy. Louis Frédéric Ancillon's "Dialogue between Berkeley and Hume" of 1796. In: Hume-Studies 27 (2001), S. 85–97 (PDF-Datei).

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Q: Using Lets Encrypt certificates with openLDAP I've been running an openLDAP server for several months now and we use it to authenticate for a number of applications.  A previous staff member set up the server and it doesn't seem to be a standard installation but it's pretty straightforward.
Recently one of our CA certificates expired and the decision was made to replace it with Let's Encrypt.  My manager replaced the certificate on the server.
It works for the web application (LDAP Manager, self-service password changing), however no clients can authenticate against it.  For example, if I try to test a Redmine LDAP configuration, I get a message saying "Unable to connect (SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read server hello A)"
Testing Nexus authentication against it it just doesn't connect.
Frustratingly there is nothing in the logs either on the LDAP server or those with the applications to indicate why this is failing. My investigations lead me to believe that it is something to do how the certificate/key are configured but I have tried everything I can think of and everything I can find online and nothing works.
Environment details are:
Debian 8
openLDAP openldap-2.4.40
My config is as below:
/etc/ldap/ldap.conf
# LDAP Defaults
#
# See ldap.conf(5) for details
# This file should be world readable but not world writable.
#BASE   dc=example,dc=com
#URI    ldap://ldap.example.com ldap://ldap-master.example.com:666
#SIZELIMIT      12
#TIMELIMIT      15
#DEREF          never
# TLS certificates (needed for GnuTLS)
TLS_CACERT      /etc/letsencrypt/live/myserver.com/fullchain.pem

/etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif
dn: cn=config
objectClass: olcGlobal
cn: config
olcArgsFile: /var/run/slapd/slapd.args
olcLogLevel: none
olcPidFile: /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid
olcToolThreads: 1
structuralObjectClass: olcGlobal
entryUUID: c6dd9e40-9dc2-1035-8c03-add74f928a5e
creatorsName: cn=config
createTimestamp: 20160423171552Z
entryCSN: 20160423171552.629347Z#000000#000#000000
modifiersName: cn=config
modifyTimestamp: 20160423171552Z

If I test the connection:
admin@ldap:~$ sudo openssl s_client -connect localhost:636 -showcerts -state -CAfile /etc/letsencrypt/live/myserver.com/fullchain.pem
CONNECTED(00000003)
SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
140394818631312:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s23_lib.c:184:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 289 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE

Does anyone had any idea what I am missing?
EDIT
As per suggestion from @84104 I have edited the tls.ldif file to read as follows:
dn: cn=config
changetype: modify
replace: olcTLSCACertificateFile
olcTLSCACertificateFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/myserver/fullchain.pem
-
replace: olcTLSCertificateFile
olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/myserver/cert.pem
-
replace: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/myserver/privkey.pem

Then run the command:
ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f tls.ldif

However the output I now get is:
SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
SASL SSF: 0
modifying entry "cn=config"
ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80)

I found suggestion this may be due to permissions on the certificate or key files but I changed these to match exactly with the ones on the previously used files and still got this message.
Again I apologise for my lack of general knowledge on the topic but can anyone suggest anything else?
EDIT
As per the suggestion I altered tls.ldif and changed all the commands from replace to delete, then ran the ldapmodify command again.  There is another error.
    admin@ldap:/etc/ansible_ldif_work$ sudo ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H   ldapi:/// -f tls.remove.ldif
SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
SASL SSF: 0
modifying entry "cn=config"
ldap_modify: Inappropriate matching (18)
        additional info: modify/delete: olcTLSCACertificateFile: no equality matching rule

A: Do you have any extra security measures enabled (like apparmor) which restrict read access to your certificates? I got the same error message ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80) because apparmor did not allow access for openldap to the let's encrypt certificates:
The following steps resolved the issue for me:

*

*Add line to /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.slapd: /etc/letsencrypt/** r,

*service apparmor restart

A: Your OpenLDAP server doesn't appear to have TLS configured.
Your /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif should have something like the following:
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/ldap/ssl/ldap.key
olcTLSCACertificateFile: /etc/ldap/ssl/ldap_ca.cert
olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/ldap/ssl/ldap.cert
olcTLSCipherSuite: HIGH:!aNull:!MD5:@STRENGTH
olcTLSProtocolMin: 3.1

You should add that in via ldapmodify.

A: There is a beautiful blog post about this topic. It works for me https://www.dahlem.uk/display/deb/Configure+and+enable+TLS+for+OpenLDAP
Update (blog backup on archive.org):https://web.archive.org/web/20161023210915/http://www.dahlem.uk:80/display/deb/Configure+and+enable+TLS+for+OpenLDAP
My system is this:
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 (jessie)
Release:        8.8
Codename:       jessie

# slapd -V
@(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd  (Jul 16 2017 19:57:41) $
        Debian OpenLDAP Maintainers <pkg-openldap-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Here a quick run through. Handle file system access to letsencrypt ...
useradd letsencrypt
chown openldap:letsencrypt /etc/letsencrypt/ -R
usermod -a -G letsencrypt openldap

Activate services ...
# /etc/default/slapd
SLAPD_SERVICES="ldap:/// ldapi:/// ldaps:///"

And tell openldap about your certs ...
# /root/add_ssl.ldif
dn: cn=config
changetype: modify
add: olcTLSCipherSuite
olcTLSCipherSuite: NORMAL
-
add: olcTLSCRLCheck
olcTLSCRLCheck: none
-
add: olcTLSVerifyClient
olcTLSVerifyClient: never
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add: olcTLSCACertificateFile
olcTLSCACertificateFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOURDOMAIN/fullchain.pem
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add: olcTLSCertificateFile
olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOURDOMAIN/cert.pem
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add: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOURDOMAIN/privkey.pem
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add: olcTLSProtocolMin
olcTLSProtocolMin: 3.3

Read in the ldif file ...
ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f add_ssl.ldif

Finally restart and check slapd.
systemctl restart slapd.service
systemctl status slapd.service

A: I had the same problem setting up certifications from Lets Encrypt with OpenLDAP
The error:
~ # ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f add_ssl.ldif
SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
SASL SSF: 0
modifying entry "cn=config"
ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80)

The log files contain:
... apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="/usr/sbin/slapd" name="/etc/letsencrypt/archive/your.domain.tld/fullchain1.pem" ...

I have found the following solution:

*

*Edit file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.slapd

*Add line: /etc/letsencrypt/archive/your.domain.tld/* r,

*Restart *apparmor*:service apparmor restart`

*And now execute ldapmodify again

A: I had the same problem and after a few hours found the easiest solution to be: copying the pem files to /etc/openldap/certs and using the fullchain.pem for olcTLSCACertificateFile. (The root CA doesn't seem to be necessary).
Also important: olcTLSCertificateFile and olcTLSCertificateKeyFile access rights should be 644 ldap ldap and 600 ldap ldap respectively.
An ansible playbook to do this would look something like this to make this easy to automate:
- hosts: ldap
  gather_facts: false
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: Copy cert.pem
      copy:
        src: "/mnt/data/main/ansible/letsencrypt/config/live/appdev.elabs.svcs.entsvcs.com/cert.pem"
        dest: "/etc/openldap/certs/olcTLSCertificateFile"
        backup: yes
        owner: ldap
        group: ldap
        mode: '0644'
    - name: Copy fullchain.pem
      copy:
        src: "/mnt/data/main/ansible/letsencrypt/config/live/appdev.elabs.svcs.entsvcs.com/fullchain.pem"
        dest: "/etc/openldap/certs/olcTLSCACertificateFile"
        backup: yes
        owner: root
        group: root
        mode: '0644'
    - name: Copy privkey.pem
      copy:
        src: "/mnt/data/main/ansible/letsencrypt/config/live/appdev.elabs.svcs.entsvcs.com/privkey.pem"
        dest: "/etc/openldap/certs/olcTLSCertificateKeyFile"
        backup: yes
        owner: ldap
        group: ldap
        mode: '0600'

A: The fullchain.pem file is NOT a concatenation of the certificate chain above the cert.pem file, it is a concatenation of the chain.pem and cert.pem file.
The chain.pem file and the root authority file must be concatenated into the file you will present to slapd as olcTLSCACertificateFile
The privkey.pem file must be presented to slapd as olcTLSCertificateKeyFile.
The simple cert.pem file must be presented to slapd as olcTLSCertificateFile.
I am uncertain if the order of concatenation matters, but this is the order I used:
cat chain.pem root.pem > ca.merged.crt
The openssl test you used shows everything is OK when set up like this.
The root authority file can be found here:
https://www.identrust.com/certificates/trustid/root-download-x3.html
Test:

[root@█████ ssl]# openssl s_client -connect [REDACTED]:636 -showcerts -state -CAfile ca.merged.crt
CONNECTED(00000003)
SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
depth=2 O = Digital Signature Trust Co., CN = DST Root CA X3
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = Let's Encrypt, CN = Let's Encrypt Authority X3
verify return:1
depth=0 CN = [REDACTED]
verify return:1
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server certificate A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server key exchange A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server done A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client key exchange A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write finished A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 flush data
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read finished A
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/CN=[REDACTED]
   i:/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
[REDACTED]
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
 1 s:/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
   i:/O=Digital Signature Trust Co./CN=DST Root CA X3
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
[REDACTED]
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
 2 s:/O=Digital Signature Trust Co./CN=DST Root CA X3
   i:/O=Digital Signature Trust Co./CN=DST Root CA X3
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
[REDACTED]
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
---
Server certificate
subject=/CN=[REDACTED]
issuer=/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
---
No client certificate CA names sent
Server Temp Key: ECDH, secp384r1, 384 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 4417 bytes and written 405 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Server public key is 4096 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
    Session-ID: [REDACTED]
    Session-ID-ctx:
    Master-Key: [REDACTED]
    Key-Arg   : None
    Krb5 Principal: None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    Start Time: 1487882605
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---

A: OpenLDAP with LetsEncrypt certificates on Linux Mint 21.1 (Ubuntu)
I spent so many hours over the last couple of weeks reading articles all over Stack, blogs, and forums, and finally I found a combination of changes that made it work for me. Hoping this will help others.
Based off of this blog post and so many others.
Requirements:

*

*Working OpenLDAP/slapd without ssl.

*Working LetsEncrypt (certs in
/etc/letsencrypt structure).

Set the correct access permissions for the LetsEncrypt directories and files in two steps.
setfacl
$ sudo setfacl -m user:openldap:r-x /etc/letsencrypt/live
$ sudo setfacl -m user:openldap:r-x /etc/letsencrypt/archive

apparmor
Create /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.slapd with the following content.
/etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain.here r,
/etc/letsencrypt/archive/your.domain.here r,
/etc/letsencrypt/archive/your.domain.here/** r,

Restart apparmor.
sudo service apparmor restart

These TLS settings may be necessary to add, or you may already have set them.
# /root/add_ssl.ldif
dn: cn=config
changetype: modify
add: olcTLSCipherSuite
olcTLSCipherSuite: NORMAL
-
add: olcTLSCRLCheck
olcTLSCRLCheck: none
-
add: olcTLSVerifyClient
olcTLSVerifyClient: never
-
add: olcTLSProtocolMin
olcTLSProtocolMin: 3.3

If you want/need them add them with:
ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f add_ssl_options.ldif

Add the LetsEncrypt certificates to your openldap by adding the following information to add_letsencrypt_ssl.ldif.
# /etc/ldap/add_letsencrypt_ssl.ldif
dn: cn=config
changetype: modify
add: olcTLSCACertificateFile
olcTLSCACertificateFile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
-
add: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain.here/privkey.pem
-
add: olcTLSCertificateFile
olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain.here/fullchain.pem

and run this to import it:
ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f add_letsencrypt_ssl.ldif

If you haven't already enabled ldaps in /etc/default/slapd do that now.
SLAPD_SERVICES="ldap:/// ldaps:/// ldapi:///"

Restart openldap
sudo service slapd restart

Reload certificates when they are renewed
Put this in the /etc/ldap directory, so we can re-use it when the LetsEncrypt certificate is renewed).
# /etc/ldap/add_letsencrypt_ssl.ldif
dn: cn=config
changetype: modify
replace: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain.here/privkey.pem
-
replace: olcTLSCertificateFile
olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain.here/fullchain.pem

Then put this in /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/reload_le_certs_in_slapd
#!/bin/sh
do
        if [ "$RENEWED_LINEAGE" = your.domain.here ]
        then
                ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f /etc/ldap/add_letsencrypt_ssl.ldif
        fi
done

Make it executable.
sudo chmod +x /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/reload_le_certs_in_slapd

(Idea borrowed from @cram in an earlier answer.)

A: I managed to do it when I changed "live" path to "archive":
dn: cn=config
changetype: modify
replace: olcTLSCACertificateFile
olcTLSCACertificateFile: /etc/letsencrypt/archive/SOMEDOMAIN/fullchain1.pem
-
replace: olcTLSCertificateFile
olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/letsencrypt/archive/SOMEDOMAIN/cert1.pem
-
replace: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/letsencrypt/archive/SOMEDOMAIN/privkey1.pem

and allowing openldap user to read those files using for example:
setfacl -m "u:openldap:r" /etc/letsencrypt/archive/SOMEDOMAIN/{fullchain1,cert1,privkey1}.pem

A: you don't need to configure the CA at all when you got a fullchain.pem, because this file contains the root ca, intermediates and the Server Certificate already.
Use fullchain.pem as olcTLSCertificateFile and privkey.pem as olcTLSCertificateKeyFile.
If you get error 80 =>(Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80)):

*

*It is important to modify both Attributes with one ldapmodify (it will not work if you set first olcTLSCertificateKeyFile and then olcTLSCertificateFile and vice versa)

*check if privkey.pem file mode is 600, owner is your SLAPD_USER and that SLAPD_USER can read the file over the full path.

*check if fullchain.pem file mode is 644, owner is your SLAPD_USER and that SLAPD_USER can read the file over the full path.

*check if apparmor, selinux etc. block the access for SLAPD_USER

write a ldapmodify file - ssl.mod:
dn: cn=config
changetype: modify
replace: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /path/to/your/letsencrypt/privkey.pem
-
replace: olcTLSCertificateFile
olcTLSCertificateFile: /path/to/your/letsencrypt/fullchain.pem

apply the configuration:
ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f ssl.mod

And the cool thing is you can use the last command as certbot --deploy-hook and rotate the cert without slapd restart on renew's.

A: Many people here and elsewhere on stackexchange have pointed out that permissions and order of stanzas are important, but ultimately what helped me was:

*

*split the one .ldif file containing three stanzas into three .ldif files each containing one stanza (they do not need to be all loaded in one go!)

*try loading them one by one (e.g. load #1: fails; load #2: fails; load #3: succeeds)

*repeat all the failed ones again (e.g. load #1: fails; load #2: succeeds)

*repeat all the failed ones again (e.g. load #1: succeeds)

By that third loop I knew what order they had to be loaded in.


The Ohio Cattlemen's Association (OCA) and Weaver Leather Livestock have teamed up to recognize individuals that are exceptional leaders, no matter their age. Any OCA member or BEST participant or their parents may nominate other cattlemen, breeders and exhibitors for any of the Character Traits to be awarded at the end of the nomination period.
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I have this little game I play. I collect loose change that I find on countertops, dressers, in pants pockets, on the floor when it fell out of said pockets. When I reach $2.41, I take a little trip to Starbucks and purchase my favorite food item there: dark chocolate graham crackers. The milk chocolate version will do in a pinch, but I've been known to walk away without purchasing any, rather than settle.
A few weeks ago, I realized that I was having difficulty allowing myself this purchase. As I sat with this for the day, I came to the conclusion that the struggle was deeper than whether I should indulge myself this small purchase. I was having trouble justifying ANY purchases. The thought of buying groceries paralyzed me, but knowing I needed to assess my wardrobe (since spring began here WAY WAY WAY too early) in order to make some needed additions was debilitating.
This was not a new recognition for me. For as long as I can remember, I've made an effort not to be a burden to anyone. I don't know if I was influenced by the frugal, conservative culture of the Midwest or if I overheard a conversation that created a misperception about the amount of money my family had (we were solidly middle class and I never had a financial crisis of any kind). Whatever the reason, I internalized very early that it was bad to have needs or desires. So I tried very hard not to ask for things.
I'm not good at being good to myself. What other women have no problem doing--buying a new outfit, getting a mani pedi, going out for lunch, or picking up the latest book by their favorite author--I have never been able to do without justifying it first. As a result, it has just become easier not to, rather than to go through the analysis.
In the end, I usually don't think I'm worth what it costs.
I want to backpedal from that last sentence and explain that I don't struggle with self-esteem issues. I think my words betray something else, though. Lately, I am more aware that I am not as self-confident as I used to be. I'm more fragile than I'd like to admit. Those who are fragile are burdens.
When this has surfaced before, I've denied it was even a struggle, spinning it instead as a badge of honor even as I secretly judged as frivolous those who could spend freely. Other times, though, I wished I could be as carefree, mindless.
I don't know how to get to the root of my issue. It seems so multi-faceted, so complicated. When I've talked about it with friends, they tell me I'm overthinking it and that the solution is to begin practicing a new way of thinking by spending. My husband has told me that all of the earnings from my most recent freelance project are available for me to spend however I want. The very thought strikes fear in my heart. I have bought things before and had buyer's remorse. I'm afraid of making more mistakes, even though undoing them is as simple as returning the purchases. I don't know what I'm even looking for, since I don't have a good sense of style or what would be good foundational pieces to have in my closet. Ack! Deliver me!
That day when I didn't think I could, I bought the graham crackers. They were a quiet declaration of war--my way of saying NO to the lies I've believed, even though I couldn't name them all in the moment. I am going to get to the bottom of this dysfunction, and I am going to be free.
A few weeks ago, I began volunteering with a local food pantry. I wanted to put myself in a place where I could rub shoulders with people who live in my town that I wouldn't normally run into or have occasion to meet.
Two weeks ago, one of the other volunteers wondered aloud how the pantry's upcoming relocation to another part of town would impact those who live in the tent city.
Excuse me? There's a tent city in my town?
When I asked where it was, she casually mentioned that a group of people live in the woods behind the Walmart on Marketplace Blvd, just a mile from the pantry.
My town does not have a homeless shelter. From what I can gather from some online research, efforts to bring one to the city have been the work of a coalition of churches, not the county.
They have not, as yet, been successful.
Now that I know about these people, I can't pretend I don't know they're there. When it rained buckets in the wee hours of the morning earlier this week, I thought about them. As night fell yesterday and I knew the temperature would drop to 25 degrees for the first time since January, I thought of them.
My problem? I don't know how to engage them or help them. I don't want to throw money or a meal or a blanket at them in order to ease my discomfort.
As I wrestle with this, it is Lent. I didn't grow up giving up something or having ashes placed on my head to remind me of my humanity. I decided that I would participate this year. Today, part of The Lent Project experience involved reading Scripture and listening to a song.
God didn't pretend not to know about the situation humanity was in. He began making a plan--as soon as our circumstances separated us from Him--to come for us, to dwell with us, to associate with us. To die for us.
God's inviting me to follow His example. Can I set aside my discomfort, my desire to have all the details worked out ahead of time, and just seek a way to enter into their world?
Too bad it took 50 years for their stories to be told to acclaim and accolades.
Too bad it took years working in a system with incredibly smart people before they could be seen as intellectual equals.
Too bad people are still referring to people by the color of their skin or by their ethnicity instead of seeing them for their character.
It's easy to believe, from what I read, that our country seems to be repeating history even as we celebrate its heroines. Saturday I read about four young men in Rocky Mount, NC, and wondered again what I am supposed to do about what continues to happen in my country.
I thought about what I should do, how I could get involved, for most of 2016. I have been influenced by thought leaders I read online, yet I wonder if I am responding emotionally or intellectually to what I can no longer pretend I don't see.
Do I want to align myself with those thought leaders or walk with those who are hidden? It's hard to know.
Having just admitted that, I want to exonerate myself from the guilt of inaction I feel by sharing with you the different opportunities that are presenting themselves and those that I'm investigating. Still, my privilege feels like a shield I'm hiding behind because I know getting involved will get messy. I don't like messes.
Just because I don't like mess doesn't mean our country isn't one, and doing nothing won't change anything. I am going to do something this year. There are people like Dorothy, Katherine, and Mary worth knowing, and I don't want to hear about their lives 50 years from now through some story on the silver screen.


Chris Salomone put together this simple and easily customizable picture wall in his dining room with the help of his HP ENVY Photo Printer (Pssst: watch this one until the end to see something magical ). He installed a few wooden bars that serve as shelving for photos. This way he can easily add and remove photos to freshen the room. When he completed the project, he even printed one of his most memorable photos ever to share a special moment with loved ones … congrats to Chris and his family!


NY Magazine's photos of holiday feasts in their Nov. 14th issue seemed inspired by 18th century Dutch masters. What could be more apropos this time of year than thinking about food? In France, there's a famous saying that one is always either eating a wonderful meal or talking about the next one. I've decided to assemble a charming holiday gift list revolving around food.
For your favorite food lover, a Panier Cadeau from Dean & Deluca, containing a curated selection of comestibles from France.
For those who might prefer to read and discuss food, Penguin Books has released a charming series called, Great Food. It's comprised of 20 adorable books including, Alexander Dumas' From Absinthe to Zest; Agnes Jekyll's A Little Dinner Before the Play; and Alice B. Toklas' Murder in the Kitchen. Nate Waxman, of Kitchen Arts & Letters Bookstore, will be happy to wrap up a selection from the series for you.
Ladurée, one of the most famous Paris pastry shops and creator of the Macaroon, has now opened a shop in NYC.
Sadly, it's not the tea room we had all hoped for, but you can buy beautiful boxes of macaroons. To fully bathe in the Ladurée experience, you could also give the gift of one of their most charming suede-covered cookbooks, Savory or Sweets.
For your film lovers, you can give a copy of the most charming film about food, Julie & Julia. Watch it with your closest friends and then take them to your favorite restaurant to enjoy a feast together.
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, by Michael Pollan & Illustrated by Maira Kalman. A slim volume of wisdom that has changed how we think about food.
The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food, by Adam Gopnick. Everything you ever wanted to know about why the meal is so important in France explained by my favorite Francophile.


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I was looking down through the grate as I walked past the Harriet Tubman memorial at 122nd and St. Nicholas, when I heard a big "Hello!" There in front of me was a smiling African American woman in her fifties, examining the carrot tops spilling out of my grocery bag. "What a beautiful plant!" she said. "I have a plant like this at home. People think it's ugly, but you just have to take care of it. How did you choose this plant?"
"Because it looked healthy," I said.
"Is it potted?" She peered into the paper bag, where she found my scarf hiding the bundle of carrots. I smiled, said something about plants, and walked away. I failed to tell her it was a carrot, and I failed to ask her about her plants. Worst of all, I failed to make a new friend in my neighborhood.
Photos by Claire Pienaar.
I'm an urban planner. As part of my job with MIT's Community Innovators Lab, I spent four months interviewing residents of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill neighborhoods with the goal of understanding what gentrification means for the longstanding community, at a time when that community is being threatened by swanky glass-faced co-op buildings and hordes of new residents fleeing high Manhattan rents.
The night I ran away with my carrots, I re-listened to hours of audio recordings and found what I knew was already there: tape after tape of Bed-Stuy stalwarts lamenting that the new people moving into their neighborhood, specifically the new Caucasian people, were un-friendly. My interviews revealed that the arriving gentry didn't say hello on the sidewalk, didn't hold doors open, and didn't try to meet their neighbors.
The personal connection was abysmally obvious: the woman I met at the Harriet Tubman statue could be one of these interviewees, and her anecdote could be about me. I went to bed feeling very, very white.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, commonly called Bed-Stuy, formed in 1930. It is a historically black community, one of many northern urban neighborhoods that became home to African Americans who left the South between the end of Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movements.
Mr. James Grant, my oldest interviewee at age ninety-five, moved to the area from South Carolina in 1935. "Everybody was leaving then," he said, "coming to New York. You could make a lot of money. At that time, you weren't making anything in South Carolina, or any of those states." This generation of African Americans, as they moved north, was only 70 years older than the Civil War.
Ms. Inez Pitman, age seventy-five, moved to New York from Alabama in 1950. She too brought a vibrant history. She remembers hiding in her mother's bed, praying that her father would come home alive, while he was out organizing for desegregation. Ms. Pitman was nineteen when she moved to New York, where cousins welcomed her. She eventually got a job with the which union, served a full career, and is now retired. On nice days she sits on her front stoop and talks with her neighbors. A few years ago she noticed that the college students living next door to her were passing her by. "Don't walk by me and don't say hello!" she said to them. "I'm sitting here! I'm somebody! Say hello!" The students began to say hello.
Ms. Catherine Arline, who came to Bed-Stuy in 1953, remembers a constant flow of neighbors at her mother's stoop in North Carolina, seeking help and advice. It was this experience that inspired her to become a social worker. Ms. Arline was only sixteen years old when she came to New York. She found a position as a housekeeper, a job she returned to every summer until she finished high school. She used her earnings to support her sister's college tuition. "I loved Brooklyn because there was a southern peace to it I had known."
Many of the subsequent generation did not know that southern peace, as they were born and raised in the city. Rachel Spivey, born in 1957, has only ever called Brooklyn home. She recalls a wholesome childhood on Washington Avenue, where everyone's mother and father kept an eye on everyone else's children. She still reunites with her grade-school classmates each August in P.S. 11 park. But it's a different neighborhood now. Parents don't watch one another's children, and the people she passes on her childhood streets now don't say hello. "How can you want to live in the neighborhood with me, but you really don't want to live with me? Because living with me would mean, to me, interacting with me. Not to say that you have to interact with me, but can't we just say hello and goodbye and smile at one another? Because it brings about a different feeling about the neighborhood when we don't do it like that."
Christopher Bloodworth, also raised in Bed-Stuy, but in his mid-20s (like me), sees the same changes. "One of the things I've always known about growing up in Bed-Stuy, is that you know your neighbors and you speak to your neighbors, 'Hey, how are you doing?' and different things like that." Some of the new residents on Bloodworth's block greet him with silence every day. "It's very frustrating to know," said Bloodworth, "that somehow Ralph Ellison's words still ring true, that you can still be invisible."
When Bloodworth was a child, the woman renting the apartment above his was a long-term tenant who watched him grow up and talked with him on the stairway. She was like a second mother to him. Today, as a property-owner and landlord in Bed-Stuy, Bloodworth maintains stable rents despite the profits he could reap as neighborhood rents rise. His priority is to keep tenants for the long-term, as his parents did.
Once the norm, Bloodworth is an anomaly in the new central Brooklyn. Gentrification, as it works its way down Myrtle Avenue and the neighborhood's other prominent streets, brings visually satisfying things, like quaint storefronts and clean sidewalks. Real estate developers tout an "up and coming" neighborhood. Houses that were once securely in Bed-Stuy are now advertised as Clinton Hill, since the latter is more fashionable. New glass-faced buildings are windows into a life that many long-time Brooklynites cannot afford. Gentrification is made to look and feel like a Renaissance. But under the surface of new glass walls, New York is experiencing something much less innovative than a rebirth.
Gentrification is a re-shuffling. It's part of a relentless American history of moving populations en masse from one location to another when their presence becomes inconvenient. This country moved Native Americans out, and brought slaves in. In more recent history, it drew middle class people to the suburbs, and redlined African Americans into urban ghettos. It tore down and displaced whole neighborhoods with Urban Renewal in the 1950s and 60s. Hope VI, the most recent iteration in American housing policy, was meant to build mixed-income communities, but in practice displaced thousands of low-income people from functional homes and neighborhoods. Gentrification, in many ways, feels like a new name for an old game. At least we now have a multi-racial gentry class.
In my twenty interviews, one wish came through stronger than friendliness. People want diverse neighborhoods, including different races, ages, and sexual orientations, with an array of careers, representing different socioeconomic classes. Brooklyn native Tyrone Harris said, "The diversity in the neighborhood is so good, that we can learn about the whole world in just one neighborhood, because we have Chinese, African American, Latino, and White. We have everything here. Puerto Rican, Spanish—you name it, we got it. But the thing is, are we using our assets? Or are we just sitting back saying, 'We don't like this or we don't like that.' See, it's easy to complain, but the question is: What do you want to do?"
I thought that if I could change my behavior and say hello, that some small but important change would take place. I wanted to write this article telling other people like me, white folks living in historically black neighborhoods, that they needed to get to know their neighbors. Maybe friendliness would lead to people learning some of the history I learned, and maybe that would spur the kind of mutual understanding that characterizes unified communities.
But saying hello, of course, doesn't un-displace people who can no longer afford their homes. Affordable housing does the work of un-displacing people. Good policies create stabilized neighborhoods. Funds that support community institutions, such as churches and arts centers, facilitate local networks.
Saying hello is good, but it's acting within a given structure. The bigger battle is to fight for better structures, which isn't a one-person battle.
"We want a neighborhood where we are all together," said Ms. Pitman. "You want the people to get together. Some people don't care if they pass by, but I'm not that type of person."
Alexa Mills
Alexa Mills is a researcher at MIT's Community Innovators Lab.
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971
By Phyllis Tuchman
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is jam packed with treasures and revelations. At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, you'll find film clips, movie posters, historical photographs, scripts, film scores, cameras, costumes, artworks by boldface names, and even miscellaneous objects, such as tap shoes worn by the remarkable Nicholas Brothers, as well as one of Louis Armstrong's trumpets. They've all been brought together to tell an unfamiliar story. This astonishing, well-paced journey through seven-plus decades of movie history suggests that this fledgling institution, only a year old, has already emerged as a significant place for film aficionados to discover the past, present, and future of moving pictures.
From March to May
By Tatiana Trouvé
SEPT 2021 | Critics Page
In March 2020, the world began to close its doors, first in China, then in Italy… Everywhere, uncertainty was growing. In France on March 15, 2020, the day before what would later be called the first confinement began, the front page of the newspaper Libération was headlined: "Coronavirus: Le jour d'avant" (Coronavirus: The day before). This uneasy title is a reference to Nicholas Meyer's film The Day After. A question emerged from this mirroring game: when would be the day after? And, above all, what would that day be like?