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The first chapter is an intense briefing of Schism, book one, and launches the next step of the saga with the Darracians mourning the loss of their king. As in Schism, Prince V'sair is still struggling with his need to prove himself to the kingdom and he continues to charge ahead with his quest of creating peace and unification between the Darracians and Quyroos. As the new leader, keeping his people safe from an impending attack, which all signs are indicating will be upon them soon, is proving challenging without his family members by his side. He also longs to be reunited with his love, Tulani—their separation creates suspense for those who enjoy romance. When Tulani graces the pages we are reminded of her refreshing feministic strength. Prince V'sair's stepbrother Zayden has, perhaps, the most personal growth throughout the story as he seeks revenge on his double-crossing Uncle Staf Nuen. Zayden brings an almost Han Solo quality of humor to the pages when he engages both his romantic and masculine sides together. It is a guarantee that he will play a strong role in book three.
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"The Clone Wars": Season 7, Episode 8 Review!
Some will not be sorry to see the Martez Sisters story arc conclude this week on The Clone Wars, if it means we can move on to the long-awaited and highly-anticipated Siege of Mandalore. As for me, I have mixed feelings: am I undeniably excited to see if the entire story can wrap up in the next few episodes in an appropriately grandiose and epic fashion? Totally. But am I also very unhappy that the grounded, practical, no-nonsense Martez's won't be part of that finale? Absolutely.
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When this week's episode starts off, the dynamic trio of Ahsoka Tano (voiced by Ashley Eckstein), Trace Martez (Brigitte Kali) and Rafa Martez (Elizabeth Rodriguez) are all locked away once again in a Pyke Syndicate dungeon, awaiting execution – but once again, they make what would otherwise be a boring scenario extremely engaging and compelling: and I firmly believe Ahsoka couldn't have done that alone, without help from these two sassy amateur con-women, who imbue every scene they're in with a bit of their fun, conversational attitude. There's more talking (by which I mean real talking, not exposition) in these last few episodes than I feel like there has been for a very long time in The Clone Wars. Trace and Rafa gave Ahsoka a place to settle down and blend in, and at the same time they gave both her and us, the audience, a welcome respite from warfare, military strategy, and the politics of the Jedi Order.
Has this arc been filler? Maybe. I really can't say for sure until the season is done. But I hope that the lessons Ahsoka has learned from the Martez's will help her in the near future, making her prolonged adventures with them essential to her character arc. Ahsoka was forced to confront some dark truths about herself and her way of life in these last few episodes: worst of which was the revelation that Jedi intervention has only caused pain, misery and suffering for the people they claim to protect – for Ahsoka, who has always positioned herself as a champion of justice and morality, that hit hard. She almost has an obligation to distance herself even further from the Jedi Order: leaving them wasn't enough. Now, she may have to confront them.
If she's going to be doing that, though, I really hope she gets a weapon upgrade. At this point, it feels like The Clone Wars' final season is sadistically teasing us with promises of epic Ahsoka fight scenes – and then snatching them away. I thought it couldn't get worse than last week, but this…this topped it. Surrounded on all sides by Pyke guards, Ahsoka moves into one of her characteristically graceful fighting stances. There's that tense pause. Then, she springs into action…and gets maybe three or four punches and kicks in before being taken out with a stun-gun. Meanwhile, Trace and Rafa, neither of whom is gifted with any Force abilities, take on an entire swarm of aliens on the lower docks and get into some sort of Indiana Jones-esque fight on a wildly-swinging crane. I appreciated giving the Martez sisters a cool action scene, don't get me wrong: but why couldn't Ahsoka get one too?
Now, let's move into SPOILERS! Obviously you'd expect a few, what with the Martez Sisters arc ending and a new one beginning. And thankfully, The Clone Wars delivers.
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Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) is, as we all suspected, the link between the two storylines converging. Though for the majority of the episode she stands on the sidelines watching Ahsoka's various escape attempts backfire, she pops in at the very end to whisk the former Jedi away on a mission to Mandalore – to take on their common enemy, Darth Maul (Sam Witwer). Yes, the Sith Lord has returned: here as a glowering hologram who nearly catches Ahsoka as she wanders through the Pyke citadel, in one of the episode's more suspenseful scenes. But if a confrontation between Ahsoka and an intangible hologram seemed exciting, I can only imagine what the actual fight will be like: just, please, let Ahsoka actually fight. Darth Maul also throws in a shoutout to his criminal organization, Crimson Dawn, which was a crucial element of Solo: A Star Wars Story, and since then has never really proved to be of any importance. Maybe they'll get something to do here.
The episode throws the core trio a bunch of curveballs, which they deflect or evade (or barrel into, head-on) as a group unit. Of course, there was no way the arc could end without Ahsoka revealing her secret identity to the Martez sisters – and though I wasn't too keen on the way that reveal went over so abruptly, I admired how quick Trace and Rafa were to accept her, after everything she's done for them. They even promised to have her bike waiting for her when she returns from Mandalore (will she be able to, though? If I'm not mistaken, we're nearing the time when Palpatine will initiate Order 66, sparking the genocide of the Jedi: so Coruscant, at the heart of Palpatine's Empire, may not be the safest place for Ahsoka to return home to after the war).
What did you think of this week's episode? What do you want to see next on The Clone Wars? Share your thoughts, theories and opinions in the comments below!
Episode Rating: 7.5/10
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Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange Guide
Originally published on April 2, 2013. Last updated July 8, 2015.
Starting in 2014, as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurance coverage for individuals and small businesses will become available through new state health insurance marketplaces.
Massachusetts is no stranger to health care reform, or to offering a state health insurance exchange. In 2006, comprehensive state health reform legislation was signed into law to provide near-universal health coverage for Massachusetts residents.
As part of their state health care reform in 2006, they opened a state health insurance exchange, MA Health Connector (www.mahealthconnector.org). They will continue to offer MA Health Connector to satisfy ACA insurance exchange requirements.
What is the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange?
MA Health Connection, Massachusetts's state-based health insurance exchange, offers the following programs:
Commonwealth Care provides subsidized coverage for individuals with incomes below 300% of the federal poverty level ($33,510 for an individual and $69,150 for a family of four in 2012).
Commonwealth Choice enables those who are not eligible for Commonwealth Care to shop for and purchase insurance offered by private health plans. This will become the state-based individual health insurance exchange, as required under federal ACA law.
In 2010, the MA Health Connector launched the Business Express program for businesses with 50 or fewer employees. This will become the Small Business "SHOP" exchange, required under federal ACA law.
In 2012, 98.1% of all Massachusetts residents were insured, including 99.8% percent of children and 99.6% percent of seniors.
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How was the MA Health Insurance Exchange Formed?
On April 12, 2006, former Governor Mitt Romney signed into law comprehensive health reform legislation designed to provide near-universal health coverage for state residents. The Massachusetts health reform law became the model for national health reform.
In 2012, Governor Deval Patrick enacted two laws affecting the Health Connector. First, the law authorized the Health Connector to be certified as a state-based exchange as defined in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and gave the Connector authority to perform key tasks, such as establishing a Navigator program and administering appeals related to the federal exchange. The second law included a number of provisions related to the ACA, including: designating the Health Connector as the entity to conduct risk adjustment; authorizing the Health Connector to sell stand-alone dental, vision, catastrophic, and child-only plans; and designating the Health and Human Services Department (known as MassHealth) to administer the Basic Health Plan option.
On December 7, 2012 Massachusetts received conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a state-based exchange.
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Regardless of party, Mainers believe in the Second Amendment
Thursday, October 15, 2015 Column, Home2nd amendment, Barry Hobbins, Bill Diamond, Constitutional carry, Cynthia Dill, Danny Martin, Eric Brakey, gun control, Jeff McCabe, John Martin
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Throughout the debate over gun laws in Maine it's worth remembering that, although every death due to violence is a tragedy, statistically Maine does not have a gun violence problem. Only six states have fewer gun murders per capita than Maine, and one of them is Vermont — the first state to implement what is now commonly called constitutional carry. It's important that we put any discussion of gun control in our state into the context of Maine, and what occurs in our state.
However, even on a national level violent crime has been trending steadily downward over the past 20 years. The national rate of firearm homicides is almost half what it was in 1993, even as more and more states have loosened their gun control laws. There has been a recent rise in mass shootings, but that has not caused the overall rate of gun deaths to increase in recent years. They are an aberration, even in terms of gun violence overall, not the norm.
Gun control advocates, of course, would rather you never read the preceding two paragraphs. They would rather prey on your emotions after major tragic events, then pen overly-dramatic, simplistic columns as justification for more restrictive gun control policies, as Cynthia Dill did in the Portland Press Herald recently. In her piece, she attacked Sen. Eric Brakey — the sponsor of Maine's constitutional carry legislation — but instead of rebutting his argument, she simply mocked it as simplistic because of his age. Relying only on ad hominem personal attacks is a sure sign someone is losing an argument, and this attack is especially bizarre coming from a prominent member of a party that relies so heavily on the youth vote.
Not only did she attack the Republican sponsor of the bill, but also her fellow Democrats who supported it — including such party leaders as Rep. John Martin of Eagle Lake, Sen. Bill Diamond of Windham (the former secretary of state), Rep. Barry Hobbins of Saco, and House Majority Leader Jeff McCabe of Skowhegan. She didn't mention any of them by name, of course, preferring instead to label any Democrats who voted for the bill "cowardly," "calculated" and "afraid to confront bullies."
The truth of the matter is that those Democrats who voted to expand individual liberties in Maine rather than restrict them are not afraid: they just happen to have a different point of view on this particular issue. It's a common debate tactic to label those who disagree with you in politics as cowards who are voting for purely political reasons, or who are beholden to evil special interests. However, it is a cheap stunt that is incredibly disrespectful to those with differing opinions. Indeed, were this discussion taking place on the floor of the Legislature, questioning their motives would be considered out of bounds according to the rules of debate.
Of course, votes are sometimes motivated by politics rather than by principle — but in this case it seems a convenient scapegoat rather than reality. John Martin, for example, has a lengthy history of supporting gun rights, and has won re-election many times from his Eagle Lake district. He's no exception: many of the Democrats who voted for constitutional carry are experienced legislators who have consistently supported the Second Amendment.
If Democrats want to reduce themselves to a party that exists mainly in Maine's urban areas, then they ought to purge those who believe in gun rights from their ranks. However, they'd be wiser to embrace Maine's tradition of low crime and responsible gun ownership. That will mean improving our mental health system and policing, rather than imposing more restrictive gun control laws. That's the true Maine way, not embracing blatant partisanship on the issue simply because national special interests say so.
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The rally of the opposition in Tirana (Source: Democratic Party of Albania)
In Albania last Saturday a rally organised by opposition coalition degenerated in violent actions. A group of protesters instigated a confrontation with the police cordon around the government building
18/02/2019 - Gentiola Madhi
Last Saturday, Tirana witnessed the beginning of the new wave of protests organised by the opposition coalition, with the aim to overthrow the 'narco-traffic' government led by Socialist Party leader Edi Rama.
In the past weeks, Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha criss-crossed the country with the aim to personally meet and collect the citizens' dissatisfaction against the government, following allegations on corruption scandals linked to road construction, vote-buying in the 2017 elections, and collusion of politics with crime as well as high unemployment and youth migration.
Together with the leader of the Socialist Movement for Integration Monika Kryemadhi, Basha repeatedly emphasised that the protest of February 16th was going to be Albania's most massive demonstration of the past 30 years.
Last Saturday's protest
Although it was initially announced as a peaceful demonstration, accompanied by the distribution of flowers by a group of protesters, the rally degenerated in violent actions after just 30 minutes from its beginning. A group of protesters instigated a confrontation with the police cordon around the government building by throwing molotov bombs and hard materials. The aim was to enter and symbolically occupy the Prime Minister's Office.
In response, the police propelled tear gas and water against protesters in order to restore order. Pre-registered voice messages were aired by megaphones placed along the boulevard, inviting protesters to keep calm and avoid the destruction of public property, which is a breach of the law.
The 4-hour protest ended in the partial destruction of the front-side of the government building and two art installations, along with burning of decorative trees. Nineteen citizens were hospitalised, including policemen, journalists, and protesters. 16 protesters were arrested. The leaders of the opposition parties have not taken any stance on the use of violence. Instead, they repeatedly accused the state police for inciting citizens to violence and declared their intention to protest again next Thursday, February 21st.
Immediate reaction from the diplomatic corps
All the foreign missions in Tirana issued immediate press releases condemning the violence. Recognising the citizens' right to peacefully assemble and protest for better life conditions and a fully-fledged democratic society, they called for mature and constructive behaviour from all sides.
The EU Delegation and member states urged all sides to show immediate restraint, while the US Embassy "called upon all involved in Saturday's protest, and all of Albania's political leaders, to reject violence and ensure the demonstrations are conducted peacefully and constructively".
"The escalation of street violence represent[ed] a breach of peaceful democratic protest principles. The instigators and the perpetrators bear the responsibility for [the] incidents", stated the press release by the OSCE Presence to Albania. Two days earlier, OSCE had already issued a statement expressing its expectations for a peaceful rally which would not degenerate into violence.
Lack of alternatives
Tirana woke up on Sunday in silence, between the citizens' disappointment and long-lasting fatigue on the 'traditional' degeneration of the protests in violence, flames, and heated political debates.
The general dissatisfaction against the poor living conditions, corruption, and organised crime, accompanied by the lack of hope, still keeps citizens hostage to an uncertain future. Definitely, not all the protesters in Tirana's main boulevard approved this old-style protests and the exploitation of their daily misery for purposes of getting power. From the interviews collected by the media outlets on the day of the protest, a considerable number of protesters expressed their dissatisfaction against the arrogance of the government and did not necessarily see themselves as represented by the opposition leaders.
Unfortunately, at the moment, there are no suitable alternatives available to address the widespread distrust against the current political parties and respective leaders. In turn, the electoral system in force makes it hardly possible for new parties to enter the Parliament. Due to a cross-party consensus at the national level, party leaders hold all the power to designate electoral lists, thus restraining citizens' choices during the elections. There is no real check of the candidates designated to seat in the national parliament for four years with the aim to represent citizens' interests. This gap between the electorate and elected MPs contributes directly to limited accountability and representability, which ends up in a strong government with limited supervision from the parliament.
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Q: JPQL to SQL converter Is it possible to access the SQL which is generated by JPQL?
I would like to use the SQL to later create a view for my purposes.
I am using Hibernate if it matters.

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Is it possible to access the SQL which is generated by JPQL?

You can access the SQL String from an Hibernate Interceptor, more precisely from the method Interceptor.html#onPrepareStatement(java.lang.String)
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If you decide to go this way, the best option is to extends EmptyInterceptor and to override only the methods you want.
You can hook your interceptor using the following declaration in your persistence.xml:
<properties>
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</properties>

A: You can set the hibernate.show_sql property to true, then all the SQL will be shown on the console.
<property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>

A: So you need to write your own JPQL implementation then :-) After all, converting JPQL into SQL for an RDBMS datastore is what a JPQL implementation is. Good Luck!
Sure you could make use of an existing JPQL implementation though, whether Hibernate, or EclipseLink, or DataNucleus ... and since they are all open source you ought to go and dig in their codebase.

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Effective March 1, 2019, Housing and Residence Life will rename Honors House to Keystone House. Honors House, one of three residence halls that make up the Tri-House community, was opened in 1998 and was the traditional home for students in the Honors College. Due to the continued growth of Honors College, the 2019-2020 honors students will find a new home in Cornerstone Hall. While we are excited at the growth, it was evident a new name was needed. The name Keystone, which is a central stone at the summit of an arch and that holds the arch together, was chosen due to the building's continued importance in the UNCW community.
Please make a note of this change and make revisions as needed for your department. A celebration is planned for our Honors House residents at the end of this spring semester to signify them being the last Honors students to reside in what was formerly Honors House.


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Beyond Compliance in the Finance Sector
A review of statements produced by asset managers under the UK Modern Slavery Act
Modern slavery represents a tragic market failure, where some companies maintain competitive advantage and large profits through unethical and unsustainable business practices that rely on the exploitation of approximately 16 million workers worldwide.
The finance sector has not been subject to the same level of scrutiny as sectors that are high-risk for labour exploitation. But financial actors, and asset managers in particular, have the leverage, and increasingly the responsibility, to push for better human and labour rights practices by companies within their portfolios.
In partnership with WikiRate and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre we have assessed the statements produced by 79 asset managers required to report under the UK Modern Slavery Act. This is to understand the level of awareness of modern slavery risks, to identify good practice, and highlight gaps in reporting by asset managers.
failed to meet all minimum requirements of the MSA
failed to disclose policies to address modern slavery in direct operations or supply chains
did not disclose due diligence to address modern slavery risks in their supply chains
conducted some type of risk assessment on their supply chains, but only 30% of these then identified specific risks
disclosed conducting some form of due diligence on human rights or modern slavery in their portfolio
disclosed engaging directly with investee companies to address modern slavery through social audits, self-assessment reviews, filing shareholder resolutions, or training
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Companies meeting minimum requirements
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Modern slavery due diligence processes in investments
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Comply with the UK Modern Slavery Act and improve their modern slavery reporting in meeting the minimum requirements, disclosing risks, and improving transparency of ownership structures.
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Engage and share good practice with industry initiatives and collaborations, such as PRI, Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking and Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking.
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"The report, 'Beyond Compliance in the Finance Sector', produced by Walk Free, WikiRate, and BHRRC is very timely- there remains confusion about the fiduciary duties of investors, and how they can include ESG factors, including modern slavery, in their investment decision-making. The report highlights that investors should recognise the leverage they have to strengthen their efforts to address modern slavery risks in their financial activities, including investment portfolios, and their supply chains.
At PRI, we have highlighted the importance of considering human rights issues in investment decision making. Many investors recognise that preventing and mitigating actual and potential negative outcomes for people leads to better financial risk management and aligns their activities with the demands of beneficiaries, clients and regulators. Our signatories have made it clear that PRI should focus on social issues, including modern slavery, and this reports further highlights the need for social issues to come to the fore in investment decisions in order to deliver on the achievement of the SDGs and the eradication of modern slavery."
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Rights to Not Just For Christmas by Natalie Cox have been snapped up across seven international territories following a clutch of deals signed by Felicity Rubinstein at Lutyens & Rubinstein.
US rights were bought by Margo Lipshultz at Putnam (who will publish as Mutts and Mistletoe) from David Forrer at Inkwell Management, and in the last few weeks translation rights have been bought by Meulenhoff Boekerij in The Netherlands, Penguin Random House in Germany, Aschehoug in Norway, Printz in Sweden, Swiat Ksiazki in Poland and Gabo Kiado in Hungary.
Natalie Cox is the pseudonym for Betsy Tobin (pictured), a bookseller who runs Ink@84 Books in Highbury, London. Clare Hey, publishing director at Orion Fiction, bought UK and Commonwealth rights and Orion Fiction will publish in paperback original in November.
The book is described thus by Orion: 'Charlie hates the holidays, and this year is shaping up to be her worst yuletide ever. Her boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, her flat is out of bounds after a gas leak, and her mother has gone to spend Christmas in Melbourne with her fifth husband. Finding herself single, mildly concussed and temporarily homeless, Charlie hesitantly agrees to dust off her wellies and spend the festive season in Devon, looking after Cosy Canine Cottages, her cousin Jez's dog-care centre.
Hey said: "I loved the warmth and wit of Not Just for Christmas – and everyone loves a dog at Christmas! Natalie Cox has a great future as a brilliant rom com author."
Rubinstein said: "As soon as I started reading Not Just for Christmas I was in a world that I never wanted to leave. Natalie Cox is the real thing."


Described by Chambers and Partners as "a brilliant strategist," Michael Proctor specializes in the difficult case, with a particular focus on complex commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense. He is a trial lawyer who relishes the tough fights on behalf of his clients. The Los Angeles Daily Journal has called him as one of "the state's most renowned criminal defense attorneys," and in 2015 named him one of the Top 100 lawyers in the state of California.
Michael has successfully represented numerous corporate and individual clients in criminal, quasi-criminal, and civil matters. Michael has considerable courtroom experience in litigating cases throughout California. He has particular expertise representing companies and individuals in securities fraud actions and related SEC investigations, an area for which he was singled out in a Top Southern California Law Firms edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Michael has had similar success in defending clients in cases involving RICO, conspiracy, political corruption, campaign finance fraud, and virtually all other manner of white collar criminal matters.
Michael has taught trial advocacy at the University of San Francisco School of Law Intensive Advocacy Program. Michael was formerly a name partner at Caldwell Leslie & Proctor, which he joined in 2002 from the Los Angeles Office of the Federal Public Defender. He was most recently a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner. He began his career at San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest (now Keker Van Nest & Peters).


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Cindy – Episode 55- The B Adventure part 2
30.01.2016 Y is for yellow B-Week
Both of us had been out and about the last few days. Not even a cup of tea we had shared during the week. But today Cindy and I sat down at the kitchen table with a big pot of tea and Cindy told me the most peculiar story I have heard for long.
But please form your own opinion.
Cindy took a nip of the King of Jasmine, put down the cup and started.
"You won't believe, what happened to me at the flea market last Saturday. Such a lovely market with an endless range of Bric-a-Brac, I really looooooove it there. But this time, there was something new. An old bald-headed man with a big nose was sitting on a stool behind an easle painting people, who posed on the other side of the canvas.
Cind had a another sip. "I wondered, why he didn't feel cold in his white and black striped shirt", she continued. "I was wearing my big boots and got already cold feet standing there only for five minutes. So I left him." "Did you buy anything new, Cindy?", I said, but she got furious. " PLEASE, Petra, DO NOT interrupt me! After I had finished my stroll, and no I hadn't bought anything new, he still sat at the same spot. He was looking in my direction and a charming smile appeared on his face. I turned around to look for the person, he was aiming for. But there was nobody besides me. He nodded and made an inviting gesture. Petra, he meant ME. So I sat down in front of him and he instantly started painting me. "I love your face", he rose his voice talking with a nice southeuropean accent, "I live around the corner, why don't you come and see me in my studio and sit for me?"
Cindy paused and grabbed her cup, which gave me the chance to ask her: "So you went to see this stranger?? And sat for him???. "Yes, yes, yes", she got excited,"I spent the last few nights posing for him. He is pretty famous. I googled him. His studio is amazing and all his work, you won't believe it, very funny statues and crazy pictures. But I found it bit irritating, that he had blue paint in use only. But never mind. He is a genius. Last night he finished the last piece and said, I could have it." She jumped up and flew down the hallway to come back a minute later heaving a big parcel into the kitchen. We unwrapped it and here it was.
"Petra, I own an Original Bicasso", she said as proud as a Spaniard," this will fit over my sofa nicely."
For my taste he hadn't really had captured her eyes properly. But Cindy was sooooo happy with her portrait, that I didn't dare to say, that I had never ever heard of Bicasso before.
She urged me to take a photo of her next to her Bicasso. " but wait a for a sec", she said and off she went heaving back the canvas. While I got my camera out, I could hear her rumbling around. "Peeeeeeeeetra", she shouted, " I am ready for the shooting. Come heeeeere, please." I went to her room, finding her in her new bathing suit, Paige had made for her. "Why do you have to wear the bathing suit for this photo?", I tried to find out, "But isn't it B week at Carla girls class?", she said and posed for the picture.
Yes, she is right, it is still B Week and there she is in her yellow bathing suit next to her blue Bicasso.
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3 thoughts on "Cindy – Episode 55- The B Adventure part 2"
carlasonheim says:
So love this!
Petra Ja says:
Did you ever receive Cindys hot tub sachet delivery, Carla? I am not sure, if we had used the old or new address.


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Comic Con 2018: Highlighting Upcoming Epic Superhero Flicks
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What began in 1970 as a humble gathering of 300 comic book fans at "The Golden State Comic Book Convention" has since transformed into the cultural phenomenon we all know simply as Comic Con, an annual event that saw upwards of 130,000 fans (many dressed as their favorite superheroes) in attendance this past weekend.
In addition to this astronomical growth in the audience it attracts each year, Comic Con has also, over the course of its 48 year history, witnessed a significant evolution in its scope; initially focused on comic books and science fiction, Comic Con has since expanded into perhaps the largest American showcase of pop culture at large, hosting guest panels featuring the stars and show runners of movies and TV shows across all genres.
But remaining at the core of Comic Con, as intrinsic to the event as its San Diego setting, is its mystique as a flocking ground for fans to not only celebrate their favorite films, shows and comic books of yore, but also to geek out in anticipation of those yet to come. Indeed, perhaps the most exciting aspect of Comic Con each year comes courtesy of its steady unveiling of trailers for movies and shows to be released in the months ahead.
Here's our look at the trailers and exclusive sneak peaks for the new movies and shows that generated the most buzz at Comic Con this year:
What We Know: In this case, not much! The first trailer for the highly anticipated sequel was screened solely for fans in attendance and has yet to be released online. However, a photo leaked by director Patty Jenkins (returning to the helm) of one of the film's stars Chris Pine donning full 80's garb in a shopping mall provides a few clues, most notably that Pine's character, American WWI fighter pilot Steve Trevor, is not only still alive (his plane appeared to crash and burn toward the end of Wonder Woman) but also hasn't aged! Is Trevor, like Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) herself, immortal?
Outlook: Wonder Woman received universal praise for bringing a refreshing sense of humor and lightheartedness to its proceedings in a way that has eluded its frustratingly brooding contemporaries within the DC Comics cinematic universe. For a sequel looking to maintain its whimsical charm, what better backdrop than the 1980's?! Plus there's Gadot returning to the role that instantly made her a household name, teaming up again with Pine and Jenkins.
What We Know: Not to be confused with the song-identifying smartphone app, Shazam! appears to be another attempt by DC to match its rival Marvel Comics' signature crowdpleasing ability to not take itself too seriously. Based on a lesser known DC comic book character, a foster teen who can transform into an adult superhero (portrayed by Zachary Levi) with a myriad of special powers, Shazam! features a number of genuinely humorous moments stemming from its ripe premise.
Outlook: Shazam! could be proof that DC finally understands that its darkly serious approach to the genre-altering smash hit Dark Knight franchise was the exception, not the rule, for what fans generally want to see in a superhero movie. It could also represent a career renaissance for Levi, whose stardom has cooled off a little ever since wrapping his popular titular television role "Chuck" in 2012.
What We Know: On the heels of his featured supporting role in last year's Justice League, DC's total mess of an effort to match Marvel's insanely popular "Avengers" franchise, long-haired Jason Momoa reprises his portrayal of Arthur Curry/Aquaman. In this, the first-ever movie dedicated solely to Aquaman, the seafaring superhero will team up with Mera (Amber Heard), a sea queen possessing telepathic powers, to extinguish Aquaman's evil half brother Ocean Master's (Patrick Wilson) quest to wage war against the "surface dwellers."
Outlook: One of the few positives that emerged from the wreckage of Justice League was universal recognition of DC's surprisingly cool, edgy take on Aquaman, a character previously considered to be insurmountably vanilla. Now, Momoa will have the opportunity to prove that the invigorating punk rock charm he brings to Aquaman is capable of shouldering a full feature length film.
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Jon Hamm Teases Details About His New Character in the Much Anticipated Sequel Top Gun: Maverick
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Jon Hamm gives us an inside look at his new character Vice Admiral Cyclone in the new Top Gun movie. He talks of 'friction' between his character and Tom Cruise's character, Maverick.
Eddie Vedder Gave Bradley Cooper Advice for 'A Star is Born'
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What better way is there to learn how to play a convincing rockstar on the big screen than to get pointers from the real thing? It was recently revealed on The Howard Stern Show that Bradley Cooper did just that when preparing to play Jackson Maine, the grizzled, deteriorating foil to Lady Gaga's Ally Maine, in 2018's A Star is Born.
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On October 31st, the entertainment world lost yet another icon. Sean Connery, Academy Award winning actor, passed away at the age of 90. Connery leaves behind a staggering cinematic legacy spanning decades and featuring a slew of timeless roles — but there's one franchise in particular that he undoubtedly left his mark on.
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In the movie Young Frankenstein directed by Mel Brooks, there is a point in the story where the Inspector of the local police rallies the townspeople to gather in a mob so that they can go find and destroy the Monster. He declares "A riot is an ugly thing . . . But I think its just about time we had one!"
Although presented as parody, it is a classic recreation of a type of social and cultural event that predates history.
Happily for her, this negative information was deemed sufficient, and a student in astrology, or "white-witch," coming up at the time, the mob, by his direction, proceeded forthwith to Burton in search of all the delinquents. After a little consultation on their arrival, they went to the old woman's house on whom they had fixed the strongest suspicion. The poor old creature on their approach locked the outer door, and from the window of an upstairs room asked what they wanted. They informed her that she was charged with being guilty of witchcraft, and that they were come to duck her; remonstrating with her at the same time upon the necessity of submission to the ordeal, that, if she were innocent, all the world might know it. Upon her persisting in a positive refusal to come down, they broke open the door and carried her out by force, to a deep gravel-pit full of water. They tied her thumbs and toes together and threw her into the water, where they kept her for several minutes, drawing her out and in two or three times by the rope round her middle. Not being able to satisfy themselves whether she were a witch or no, they at last let her go, or, more properly speaking, they left her on the bank to walk home by herself, if she ever recovered. Next day, they tried the same experiment upon another woman, and afterwards upon a third; but, fortunately, neither of the victims lost her life from this brutality.
Many of the ringleaders in the outrage were apprehended during the week, and tried before the justices at quarter-sessions. Two of them were sentenced to stand in the pillory and to be imprisoned for a month; and as many as twenty more were fined in small sums for the assault, and bound over to keep the peace for a twelvemonth."
What is notable about this narrative is that although the incident starts a merely a quarrel between two individuals, once the crowd is formed, it appears to take on a life of its own. It reconvenes for several days in pursuit of more "witches", wherever it might find them. Further, the participants are willing to commit criminal acts in pursuit of the goals of the crowd.
brought them together. From the psychological point of view the expression "crowd" assumes quite a different signification. Under certain given circumstances, and only under those circumstances, an agglomeration of men presents new characteristics very different from those of the individuals composing it. The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take one and the same direction, and their conscious personality vanishes. A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly defined characteristics. The gathering has thus become what, in the absence of a better expression, I will call an organised crowd, or, if the term is considered preferable, a psychological crowd. It forms a single being, and is subjected to the law of the mental unity of crowds.
It is evident that it is not by the mere fact of a number of individuals finding themselves accidentally side by side that they acquire the character of an organised crowd. A thousand individuals accidentally gathered in a public place without any determined object in no way constitute a crowd from the psychological point of view. To acquire the special characteristics of such a crowd, the influence is necessary of certain predisposing causes of which we shall have to determine the nature."
Le Bon's work was controversial, but was widely followed in the early 20th Century by many prominent individuals, including Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Bernays -- the author of Propaganda and godfather of the modern advertising industry -- and various authoritarian leaders (and I don't mean Lord Voldemort). The focus was shifting from how crowds formed and behaved to how they could be influenced or controlled.
As discussed in this post, in the mid 20th Century, Elias Canetti wrote Crowds and Power, where he theorized that people join crowds "because they provide an antidote, albeit temporary, to the typical human trend of differentiation and take people back to a state where they are equal to each other and without any bound." This idea was picked up in the 21st Century by Jonathan Haidt. "Haidt contends that humans behave as if they were 90% chimpanzee, or individualist thinkers, and 10% bee, or collectivist thinkers -- that is, selfish beings striving to belong to a bigger and nobler entity. "People reach ecstasy when they are able to transition to the feeling of "being part of a whole". . . . Haidt identifies three ways by which people can reach this state: awe in nature, drugs, and social raves (e.g. sports, musical, religious and political rallies of any sort)."
"The mob grabbed Farkhunda, pulled her hair, hit her, spit at her, pushed her to the ground, stomped on her body, kicked her in the head, and ripped the veil from her face. Police, seeing the urgency of the situation, attempted to remove her from the crowds by climbing atop a shop roof. Farkhunda lost her balance while fighting to stay conscious, and slipped down the rooftop and back into the crowd.
She was brutally and mercilessly beaten into unconsciousness. The crowd then dragged her motionless body into the street and ran her over with a car, dragging her some 300 feet. They then set her corpse on fire and watched her body burn. They used their own clothing articles (e.g. scarves and hats) to keep the fire alight, because her own clothing and body were so bloodied that they would not catch alight."
Yet U.S. history also recounts such mob violence, whether through the tradition of vigilante lynchings, the Rosewood Massacre of 1923, the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, the 1968 Riots in Washington, DC and elsewhere, or smaller and more recent incidents involving revolts against policing and even celebrations after sporting events that get out of control.
What is particularly interesting about what he says is that he adopts the persona of the crowd -- instead of talking about his own actions and what he might do in the future, he couches his speech in terms of "we" as if he is channeling the "collective mind" that Le Bon posited.
They all described the experience of a politician speaking to a crowd as a symbiotic feedback loop: The politician sets an emotional tone that is picked up by the crowd, which expresses its own emotional state that the politician responds to. On both sides, the emotional mimicry has an influence on behavioral choices. When Trump knows that he's losing his audience and that talking about the wall will bring them back, the interaction could be seen as an expression of emotional contagion in action."
But what do we see when we look at crowd psychology through the Lenses of Wisdom? Some interesting things for sure.
"[W]henever a person's desire is imitated by someone else, she becomes a 'mediator' or 'model'. Girard points out that this is very evident in publicity and marketing techniques: whenever a product is promoted, some celebrity is used to 'mediate' consumers' desires: in a sense, the celebrity is inviting people to imitate him in his desire of the product. The product is not promoted on the basis of its inherent qualities, but simply because of the fact that some celebrity desires it."
In the case of Trump, the desire to eliminate the protestors is one shared between him and his crowd. And while Trump clearly feeds off the crowd, he is ultimately in charge. His Republican political rivals have made a point of defusing such situations to differentiate themselves from him.
But beyond this simple mimesis, we can see the broader archaic sacred mechanism of scapegoating on display in its full theatrical flowering. First, protestors or other outsiders are identified as scapegoats who are deemed unwelcome. Second, they are verbally and sometimes physically abused. Third, comes the culmination with the elimination or expunging of the offender.
To the outside observer, the whole spectacle seems ridiculous -- like a Hollywood re-enactment of a Roman or Aztec ritual or the pitchfork mob that is the staple of many a classic horror movie, as illustrated at the top. Yet to the participants, the experience is deeply and emotionally meaningful, as the video of the Trump protestor above shows. In fact, this is what makes these rallies so popular. As Jonathan Haidt noted, participation in such an event allows an individual to experience a form of ecstasy of becoming part of a greater whole.
The pattern of crowd formation, selection of a scapegoat and expunging is so ingrained that it is a staple of plots of novels and films. In Westernized plots, the Christian ideal is followed -- the scapegoats are innocent and are often the protagonists of the story. Note that this is not the viewpoint from the crowd itself, which follows the archaic sacred ideal of expunging or eliminating the scapegoats to restore peace and order to the community.
There are many variations on this crowd forming and scapegoating theme. Here we see a variation from the cult classic movie The Warriors where a leader is murdered and the scapegoats are selected -- with the remainder of the movie having the crowd chase the scapegoats across the city of New York (in a stylized and cartoonish way).
Looking through the lens at an even wider angle, Mimetic theory states that for societies to maintain order, eventually these outbursts are quelled through the official violence of police action. And so we are familiar in the United States with the concept of "calling out the National Guard" to restore order.
In anarchic societies that lack strong or stable governments, the cycle and escalation of violence among competing crowds or factions can continue for years. This type of situation existed in France in the 1790s, the Balkan countries in the 1990s, and in Syria and parts of Africa today.
THE HALO EFFECT. "This is the tendency to like or dislike everything about a person—including things you have not observed." The warm emotion we feel toward a person, place, or thing predisposes us to like everything about that person, place, or thing. The first to speak their opinion in a meeting can "prime" others' opinions.
This describes the relationship between the crowd and the leader. The effect is so pronounced in crowd psychology that it often does not really matter what the leader is saying, other that instilling group collectiveness and identifying enemies and scapegoats.
COHERENT STORIES (ASSOCIATIVE COHERENCE). To make sense of the world we tell ourselves stories about what's going on. We make associations between events, circumstances, and regular occurrences. The more these events fit into our stories the more normal they seem. Often those explanations involve 1) assuming intention, "It was meant to happen," 2) causality, "They're homeless because they're lazy," or 3) interpreting providence, "There's a divine purpose in everything.""Your mind is ready and even eager to identify agents, assign them personality traits and specific intentions, and view their actions as expressing individual propensities," Potential for error? We posit intention and agency where none exists, we confuse causality with correlation, and we make more out of coincidences than is statistically warranted.
This heuristic allows the crowd to impute guilt upon the chosen scapegoats. In the mob narrative they are not victims, but "witches" or other outsiders, people who are not like us (not American in the video above) or other evil doers that must be excised from the body of the community to restore harmony to the group.
The heuristic also contributes to collectivization of a crowd. The leader presents simple answers to complex problems. "Build a wall" is the one that comes to mind in the Trump campaign and he frequently repeats the same phrases over and over again at his rallies. It becomes irrelevant the proposed action is unlikely to solve the actual economic security/job prospects problems faced by the adherents.
CONFIDENCE OVER DOUBT. System 1 suppresses ambiguity and doubt by constructing coherent stories from mere scraps of data. System 2 is our inner skeptic, weighing those stories, doubting them, and suspending judgment. But because disbelief requires lots of work System 2 sometimes fails to do its job and allows us to slide into certainty. We have a bias toward believing. Because our brains are pattern recognition devices we tend to attribute causality where none exists.
THE ILLUSION OF VALIDITY. We sometimes confidently believe our opinions, predictions, and points of view are valid when confidence is unwarranted. Some even cling with confidence to ideas in the face of counter evidence. "Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it." Factors that contribute to overconfidence include being dazzled by one's own brilliance and affiliating with like-minded peers.
These heuristics also contribute to crowd psychology by allowing individuals to subsume any doubts about what they are saying or doing to the confident will of the group. Both are forms of "social proof", that permit participation in unseemly behavior because "everyone else is doing it."
The power of these seemingly simple cognitive biases in a crowd situation should not be underestimated. It is the anonymity of the collective mind and ecstasy of taking part that makes crowd violence, atrocities and even murder possible. No society is immune from this aspect of human psychology.
Finally, looking through the Fractal Lens, we can gain some insight into when crowd psychologies may be more likely to manifest themselves.
Recall that the view of history and human events through the Fractal Lens is based on the sand or rice pile model. Structures pile up bit by bit until eventually they become unstable. Then a grain of sand or rice comes along that is just "one too many", precipitating a great collapse.
Historically, it is during these collapses that crowd psychology can often return to rear its ugly head. The French revolution was perhaps the modern archetype for this phenomenon, because it was one of the first that was not tied to organized religion. Instead it relied on Rousseau's philosophy of the purity of the natural man. Unfortunately, as we know from the Mimetic Lens, natural man is not that pure of heart. The result was successive waves of crowd violence and reigns of terror that could eventually only be halted by the rise of an authoritarian leader.
This cycle was repeated in the early 20th century collapses of the European empires and the modern collapses in the Balkans, Lebanon, various African nations and currently in Syria.
But this also occurs on a smaller scale within U.S. political parties. In the 1960s, having reached an apex in control of all aspects of government, the Democratic party seemingly suddenly collapsed over an unpopular war and race relations and legislation. A sitting President admitted failure and decided not to run for a second term. Important and charismatic leaders were sacrificed to assassins and violent crowds of ordinarily reliable Democratic supporters took to the streets. But although the collapse seemed sudden, many of these issues had been simmering for some time. The war and the assassinations were the grains of sand or rice that triggered the collapse, but they were not responsible for the build up of the tensions over the prior years.
The same situation appears to be true now for the Republican side. Once reliable Republican supporters are no longer content with the traditional leadership. Thus, the narrative of non-traditional candidates eventually succumbing after early successes in Iowa or New Hampshire has broken down. Trump is, in effect, the grain of sand or rice that triggers the avalanche on the pile. But the precursors -- the smaller landslides -- were already there. The resignation of John Boehner and the defeat of Eric Cantor were mere harbingers of what is unfolding in this election cycle.
That angry crowds or mobs would assemble in this environment should not really be a surprise, at least in a view through the Fractal Lens. Like earthquakes and stock market crashes, collapses and reformations of institutions are inevitable. It is only our propensity to project the calm, linear System 1 narrative of the immediate past into the future that catches us off guard.
And, just as earthquakes come in waves with aftershocks, a Fractalist view anticipates that there will be some more of the same before it gets better.


Sometimes, people want certain politicians to stay in office forever - we keep voting Ted Kennedy in...let's just say its a good thing that Bush and his administration (his background people are scarier than he is) are in their last year.
I won't lie, I didn't watch it, I find State of the Unions depressing - everyone promises these great ideas and then nothing really happens (on both the GOP and Democrats side)...after all, these people have higher priorities than telling us what they intend to do for our country in the upcoming year. Like fundraising so they can make sure to pretend to care all over again.
Let's just hope these economic stimulus packages work out, especially for those who are in major need of saving their homes for their families, and that the troops come home safe.


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This book synthesises the rare indigenous voice with newly discovered archival sources in Spain, Jamaica and the United States. The result is a new and expanded chronicle of the Scottish Panamanian initiative. It broadens what we know about the Company of Scotland beyond British history and into its rightful place in the saga of the multinational, tumultuous seventeenth-century Atlantic world.
Julie Orr offers an in-depth analysis of the complex sociopolitics into which the Scots recklessly inserted themselves through their choice of Darien for settlement. Entanglement with slave-trading interests; the trial of five expedition participants in Spain; the dispatch of Admiral Benbow to the Caribbean with offers of assistance to Spanish governors; the activities of the Scottish spy Walter Herries; and the unintended diaspora of deserters, prisoners and survivors - all are afforded their rightful place in the story of Scotland's attempt to establish a trading colony on the isthmus of Panama.
Julie Orr is an independent scholar who acquired a PhD in history from the University of Dundee following a career in environmental health and science for a series of tribal, state and federal governments.


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New contracts for Senior Academy Six
19-08-2020 Club News - Lewis Hancock
Six Senior Academy players have extended their contracts with Saracens.
Centre Charlie Watson, who made his senior debut this season, has extended until 2023.
The England Under-20 international crossed the whitewash on his first first-team outing in the Premiership Rugby Cup and made his Gallagher Premiership bow in January this year.
Back row Ollie Stonham has also signed for a further three years. He earned a maiden Saracens cap as a replacement in the Premiership Rugby Cup semi-final against Sale Sharks at the AJ Bell Stadium having previously featured in Sarries' successful Premiership Sevens side of last summer.
"We're very pleased to announce six Senior Academy players that have extended their stay at the club to maximise their potential."
Another to commit his long-term future to the club, Theo Dan starred for England Under-20s in the U20 Six Nations and has penned a three-year contract.
The hooker joined the Saracens Academy aged 16 and is currently recovering from knee surgery.
Fellow front rower Sam Crean debuted in the Heineken Champions Cup at Racing 92 and is now tied down until 2022.
The prop scored for England Under-20s in the U20 Six Nations and has six Saracens appearances to his name.
Mink Scharink and Ethan Benson have both extended for another 12 months. The former studied at Stellenbosch University last term while the latter developed his game at the club.
"We're very pleased to announce six Senior Academy players that have extended their stay at the club to maximise their potential," Academy Manager Mike Hynard said.
"Charlie, Theo and Sam all gained England Under-20s honours back in the Six Nations. Charlie also played for Cambridge in last season's winning Varsity match team.
"Ollie Stonham was unlucky the season was cut short as he was starting to attract the attention of the England Under-20s coaching team and was pushing hard for a place in the squad for the Junior World Cup.
"Ethan and Mink have both agreed deals to further their development at the club after a frustrating year with injuries."
Tobias Munday has left the Saracens Academy and will continue studying and playing at Loughborough University.
Everyone at the club wishes Tobias all the best for the future.


While we clearly know the body is a complex system…what we may or may not realize is that our own head and shoulder posture is affecting our scapular mechanics and muscle activity in overhead tasks, causing pain and increasing rates of injury. In order to avoid and decrease the number of incidences of shoulder pain, we each need to take some responsibility for our own posture.
Consider your head and shoulder position when standing alone. How are your shoulders placed in the shoulder joint? Is your chest open with your shoulders rolled back, and your head sitting "tall"? In other words are your shoulders externally rotated and are you retracting your scaps, extending through your cervical spine? Or is there some internal rotation at the shoulder joint with protracted scapulas causing your head to dodge forward?
Clearly what may appear to be a simple minute detail…posture…actually is affecting all things we love and do…CrossFit.