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The history of football in Lithuania has been strongly conditioned by political events.
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The history of football in Lithuania, which begins at the turn of the last century, has been strongly conditioned by political events. The country became independent in 1918, was annexed by the USSR in 1940, before regaining independence in 1990.
The first recorded match took place in 1911 in Kaunas between teams representing the cities of Kaunas and Vilnius. In 1923 the Lithuanian Sports League was admitted to FIFA. In the same year Lithuania played their first international as an independent state, also in Kaunas, losing 5-0 to Estonia. This early flurry of activity came to a climax in 1924 when the Lithuanian Football League (LFL) was founded and the national team participated in the Paris Olympics. The LFL became the sole supervisor of Lithuanian football in 1925, organising the first national championship, which featured seven teams, in 1931.
From 1946 Lithuanian clubs competed within the USSR's footballing pyramid. In 1982 FK Žalgiris Vilnius won the first division title to gain promotion to the Supreme Soviet League, where they finished third in 1987. They duly qualified for the 1988/89 UEFA Cup, where they were eliminated in the first round by FK Austria Wien. They qualified again the next season and took the scalp of IFK Göteborg before bowing out in the second round. One standout talent from this era was Viačeslavas Sukristovas, who figured in the USSR team that finished as runners-up at the 1988 UEFA European Championship. Two other players, Arminas Nabekovas and Arvydas Janonis, helped the USSR claim Olympic gold in Seoul in 1988.
When Lithuania re-established its independence on 11 March 1990, it was the cue for clubs such as Žalgiris, FK Atlantas and ASSM Inkaras to withdraw from the Soviet setup following a request by the Lithuanian sports authorities. A Lithuanian championship promptly started in 1991. A Baltic Football Championship was also launched in 1990, involving sides from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Kaliningrad enclave of the USSR.
The national team of the newly independent Lithuania made their debut in a 2-2 draw with Georgia in Tbilisi on 27 May 1990. A bold line was then drawn under the country's international isolation as the Lithuanian Football Federation (Lietuvos Futbolo Federacija or LFF) was readmitted to FIFA on 9 December 1991. As a result, the national side, under Algimantas Liubinskas, played in 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying, picking up their first points with a 2-2 draw with Northern Ireland in Belfast on 28 April 1992. The first victory came against Latvia in Riga on 12 August 1992. Players such as Janonis, Narbekovas and Valdas Ivanauskas went west to ply their trade in the Austrian Bundesliga.
The LFF became a fully fledged member of the European football family at the 1992 UEFA Congress in Gothenburg. Since then, it has worked hard to develop the country's soccer infrastructure with the aim of improving performances at club and national-team levels.
While getting to the final round of a major championship remains a long-term target, the LFF gained valuable experience and recognition by succesfully staging the the UEFA European Under-19 Championship finals in 2013. Progress in the women's game was also apparent when Gintra Universitetas became the first club side – of any gender – to join the continental elite by qualifying for the UEFA Women's Champions League round of 16 in 2014/15.
Tomas Danilevičius
Tomas Danilevičius©Vaidotas Januška
Nationality: Lithuanian
Date of birth: 18 July 1978
• Former Lithuania striker Tomas Danilevičius, who worked in real estate business following his retirement as a player in 2014, was elected to the vacant Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) president's post for a two-year term in September 2017.
• In his nomadic footballing career, Danilevičius played across Europe, in particular for several clubs in Italy. He also spent a short spell in England with Arsenal. A legend in his native Lithuania, he earned 72 caps for his country, scoring 19 goals and becoming the national team's highest all-time scorer.
• A former Lithuania captain and strong proponent of teamwork, Danilevičius says: "I know what it means to be a leader and have the trust of others. I also hope that my experience in Italian football can help complement the football development work being undertaken in Lithuania."
Edgaras Stankevičius
Edgaras Stankevičius©LFF
• Born in basketball stronghold Kaunas, Edgaras Stankevičius took his first steps in the sporting business while studying with a job at university basketball club Atletas. After gaining his master's degree in sports and tourism management, he took up various management roles in basketball-related organisations.
• Stankevičius' ten-year spell in basketball management included working with academies, clubs, media outlets, events and leagues. From 2014 to 2016, he was the project manager at the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL).
• He joined the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) in 2016 as head of the commerce and marketing department, and took on the role of deputy general secretary in the second part of 2017. Stankevičius was appointed as general secretary in October 2018.
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Warren Nicholson joined the Hamilton-Halton branch of ORMTA in June 2000. He has been an active member ever since and contributed to the branch activities as an executive member in capacity of Recording Secretary, Treasurer, V.P., President, Past President, also with the workshops portfolio for the Provincial body of the ORMTA. Past teaching positions have included The W. Ross Mac Donald School for the blind, The Boys Choir of Harlem Inc, Brooklyn College Prep Centre, The Bishop Reading School. He currently maintains a private studio in Oakville and is also an instructor for Arthouse Oakville and for the City of Burlington. He has also guest lecture/concert, at Queen's University on the guitar music of Jacques Hetu.
As a guitar teacher, his students have won Silver/Gold medals in RCM guitar exams at junior intermediate and advanced levels on playing tests. He and his guitar students have collaborated in concert with: The Mississauga Children's Choir, Oakville Symphony, Etobicoke Philharmonic and for Rotary music fundraiser initiatives.
Warren Nicholson is a graduate of McMaster University (BM 91) and Manhattan School of Music (MM 94) with Peter MacAllister, and Manhattan School of Music with Norbert Kraft and Mark Delpriora.
Warren maintains a private teaching studio in Oakville, along with a "junior guitars" programme for Arthouse Oakville, and he teaches guitar courses for the City of Burlington. He is married to his wife Kathleen of 17 years, they live in Oakville and have 2 teenage boys involved in sports.
The 2018 Hamilton-Halton nominee for this honour is our very active and long-time member, Jacqueline Huffman-Krisza. Congratulations, Jacquie and thank you from all of our members for your past and continued dedication and hard work.
University where I completed an Honours B. Mus., and benefited from the tutelage of the late Myrtle Guerrero. I Graduation from The Faculty of Education, University of Toronto with a B. Education followed and eventually a M.Ed.
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has always been to develop musical intelligence in others with a smile and with the joy of what I love to do.
Thank you HH ORMTA for nominating me for the Contribution to Teaching Award third time in the three consecutive years. I joined ORMTA 25 years ago, in 1992, shortly after immigrating to Canada from the USSR. Initially I joined Etobicoke -Mississauga Branch and later Sarnia Branch, where I have held different Executive positions from 1993-2003.
Since 2003, I have been an active member of HH ORMTA and had served on its Executive Board for almost ten years. I was the HH Branch President from 2007-2009.
My musical background comes from the Mussorgsky School of Music for Gifted, where I was raised in the best Russian musical tradition. I continued my Graduate and Postgraduate studies in Moscow and at the University of Western Ontario and had earned Degrees in Performance, Collaborative Piano, Piano Pedagogy and Musicology. I performed as solo and collaborative pianist in Russia, France, Israel, the United States and Canada and have held positions on the Music Faculty at the Ural State University in Russia and the St.Clair County College in Michigan. I am currently teaching at the Redeemer University College and examining for RCM.
In my private teaching studio I have been teaching and mentoring students of all levels and abilities, beginners and teachers, professionals and amateurs. As a teacher, I have been always committed to excellence. In the last three years eight of my students successfully accomplished their ARCT Diploma from RCM.
Every year majority of my students appear on the HH ORMTA Honour Roll and every year my students participate in ORMTA competitions. There were many successful performances at the different Music Festivals and Competitions during more than twenty years of my teaching in Canada. For instance, only in the last 2016 year my student Victor Nguyen won Mike Geryk competition in Hamilton, Peiyao Wang received the Third Prize in Diploma Class at the Provincials and Maximillian MacNeil- Soltysiak has received W. Ross MacDonald ARCT Trophy at the BKMF. I am proud of the fact that many of my former students have become music professionals. Some are enjoying successful careers as conductors, pianists, organists, singers, pop musicians and teachers. Many of my former students have become members of my extended family and they continue their musical endeavours. The greatest satisfaction for me, as a teacher is to know that I sparked their lifelong love and appreciation for music and their lifelong interest in learning.
Besides teaching, my other passion is promoting Classical music to the young audiences. I had initiated and directed a number of educational concert series, including "The Young Peoples Concerts" at the Royal Botanical Gardens and Hamilton-Halton schools in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and the Glen Gould School of Music (2007-2010). I am sincerely grateful to many HH Branch members, who supported and helped me with that project during thoseyears.
Francine, a native of Cochrane in Northern Ontario, began her musical studies at age 11, first of accordion then soon afterwards piano, and eventually, in high school, of many brass and woodwind instruments. By 13 she achieved her RCM Grade 8 and by 17 her ARCT. After several request from parents, she agreed to teach local students, and to her amazement she cherished the experience and found much fulfilment in teaching. She sought out opportunities to perform in festivals and area concerts, both as solo pianist and concert band member. At 17, she decided to pursue an Honours Bachelor of Music at McMaster University, followed by a Master of Arts in Musicology at UBC in Vancouver.
In 1989 Francine founded McIsaac Music School in Hamilton and has been teaching in the area ever since. She specializes in teaching advanced piano students and advanced theory subjects. She has also taught students with various abilities such as autism, schizophrenia, visual impairments and brain injury. Many of her students have won awards for piano, pedagogy, theory and composition as well as numerous scholarships at both provincial and national levels. Mentoring young teachers and helping them establish their own studios are of special interest to her.
Francine has been a member of the College of Examiners at the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) since 1992, examining both piano (and anything else) and marking senior theory & history subjects. She has been a member of ORMTA Hamilton-Halton for over 25 years. In addition, she is actively involved in the church music ministry and festival committees. Francine also works as an independent and RCM workshop clinician, and festival adjudicator across Canada. One of her workshop specialities is "The Art of Painless Playing" and rehabilitating injured pianists.
Francine's relatively new appointment as RCM Ontario West and Ontario North representative has brought her to meet and assist teachers across Southwestern and Northern Ontario , to promote new materials and programs such as the new Teacher Certification program and online pedagogy courses released by RCM in the Fall of 2015, and to act as liaison between existing and new teachers and RCM. She is excited at this new venture and sees it as a marvellous outreach to teachers, parents and students. She continues to explore new ways to promote the benefits of music education through her involvement in various musical organizations.
I am a graduate of The Royal Conservatory of Music in composition and piano performance, studying piano with Keith Hopkins and composition with Roman Toi and Sam Dolin.
I have taught piano, guitar, theory and composition for more than 40 years and am a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association (ORMTA) Hamilton-Halton Branch, for which I served as branch president many years ago! I have presented workshops for the branch, adjudicated student composition competitions and organised teacher performance concerts.
I have been fortunate to have some hard working and creative students who have won both ORMTA and CFMTA awards for their compositions and well as branch awards for fine results in advanced RCM theory exams.
As a former member of the music committee for the Burlington Rotary Music Festival (chiefly as piano lid-lifter for concerts!) and the Keys to the Future fund-raising committee for the concert grand piano purchased for the new Burlington Performing Arts Centre, I was involved in planning numerous concerts featuring local musicians.
I have composed numerous chamber and choral works as well as theatre music, along with music for solo piano, piano four-hands, guitar, violin and flute. Arrangements of mine include material from Renaissance music to popular standards for various instrumental and vocal ensembles. I have received composition awards from both the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Association and The Canadian Composers' Forum and have a number of works in the syllabus of the Alliance for Canadian Contemporary Music.
Along with the owner of Different Drummer Books in Burlington, I run a music series called Music at the Drummer. Going into its 5th season, the series features local musicians performing in the intimate environment of the store, with music ranging from jazz to classical to folk and traditional.
My music performance career has been a varied one: 17 years as music director at a local Presbyterian church; 6 years as principal pianist at a local dance studio; 32 years with branch member Roland Packer performing throughout Southern Ontario in the hammer dulcimer/guitar duo called The Playford Players and in recent years working with branch members Andrea Battista (violin), Catherine Richardson (flute) and Karen Gross (voice) in local concert venues, including the Music at the Drummer series and the Keys to the Future grand piano campaign.
I also have done rewarding volunteer guitar playing for 2 Burlington nursing homes over the past 10 years, for residents with Alzheimer's and dementia.


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Facing acute housing shortage, Adams looks to a policy change
The mayor wants to eliminate costly and time-consuming environmental reviews for many rezonings.
The mayor is looking to exempt proposed developments of roughly 200 units or fewer from a required environmental review, two city officials told POLITICO. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
By Sally Goldenberg and Janaki Chadha
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams readily supports real estate development to combat the city's housing shortage, but he hasn't advanced policies to accomplish that goal. Now, in his 10th month in office, he is preparing to pursue reforms to speed up residential construction.
The mayor is looking to exempt proposed developments of roughly 200 units or fewer from a required environmental review, two city officials working on the plan told POLITICO. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss a policy that is still under review.
The environmental studies, which accompany nearly all applications for zoning and land use changes, determine the impact of a new project on a neighborhood. They estimate how many students would be enrolled in nearby schools, how traffic patterns would be snarled by extra cars on the road and how sunlit oases might be darkened by new shadows.
They also slow down development — something the mayor's team believes it can ill afford. A recent report commissioned by the Real Estate Board of New York trade association estimated the city needs 560,000 new homes by 2030 to keep pace with population growth. Baseline reviews tack about seven months and at least $100,000 onto each project; deeper studies for larger proposals can run developers an extra 18 months and up to $2 million.
"The statistics that underline today's housing crisis — they're chronic, they're acute, they haven't budged," Deputy Mayor for Economic & Workforce Development Maria Torres-Springer, who oversees the Department of City Planning, said in an interview. "Our goal here is to identify the criteria, the threshold that we should be using so that projects that hit that criteria don't have to go through the lengthy, Byzantine, almost Kafka-esque process of environmental review that they have to go through today."
The people working on the mayor's plan said they can make the change without seeking approval from the City Council — a 51-member lawmaking body with tremendous sway over land use changes. They also said a "significant number" of developments the city approves each year would forgo the lengthy reviews under this policy change.
Meanwhile, the citywide housing shortage has exacerbated soaring rents in one of the nation's most expensive real estate markets. A study from online brokerage Zillow found August asking rents in New York City increased by 19 percent over last year, compared with a national spike of 12 percent during that time.
The situation is now confronting a new mayor who has focused his attention most intensely on public safety during his first year in office.
Yet the city's residential shortage, deemed an official emergency by its housing department, poses economic and political problems too great to be overlooked.
Adams rolled out a plan in June to increase the city's stock of affordable housing, without committing to any numerical goals.
"We haven't heard plans yet of sweeping changes or plans that would add supply in a major way," Rachel Fee, executive director of the New York Housing Conference, an advocacy and research organization, said in a recent interview. "[The mayor's] initial plan didn't really give a clear sense on what we could expect on production or affordability."
Without an adequate supply of low-cost apartments to house people sleeping in homeless shelters, those transient facilities remain overcrowded — a problem highlighted by the recent influx of asylum seekers bussed to the city from Texas. People on the hunt for market-rate homes often come up short. And Adams took flak from his left-wing political opponents for enabling price increases to the city's 1 million rent-stabilized apartments — a determination justified by fuel and maintenance landlords have incurred.
City Hall is now entertaining what is likely to be a hotly debated policy change against this backdrop.
The proposal — which would limit the generation of information often reviewed by residents, local politicians and the city itself — follows a disappointing progress report that found city-financed housing production has fallen sharply. During the 12-month period covering the last six months of former Mayor Bill de Blasio's tenure and the first six months of Adams' time in office, City Hall underwrote 16,042 affordable apartments, compared to 29,408 the prior period.
The city's housing agency blamed the 45-percent drop on higher construction costs and staffing shortages, which the New York Post recently detailed in an exposé.
In addition, the Adams administration lowered its goal for future affordable housing production from 25,000 units last fiscal year to 18,000 this fiscal year, which ends in June, according to the annual Mayor's Management Report.
Complicating matters for the mayor was Albany's failure to renew a contentious property tax break that developers view as crucial to multi-family housing production and opponents consider a gratuitous giveaway. Though the state Legislature controls its fate, Adams by many accounts did not adequately push for the measure's continuation.
And while the mayor has supported private rezoning proposals to facilitate developments larger than would otherwise be allowed, the administration has so far shifted away from the neighborhood-wide rezonings that became a cornerstone of de Blasio's housing plan.
"It was really clear that density and rezonings were directly responsible for the neighborhoods with increased production, so I think it matters a lot," Fee said, referring to research that tracked how much housing each community district produced over de Blasio's term.
In fact, Adams' approach thus far marks a change from much of the past eight years.
Despite constantly railing against Wall Street, de Blasio empowered a Goldman Sachs executive to ramp up the city's housing production. Along the way, he took criticism for underwriting too many middle-income homes at the expense of serving the most financially struggling New Yorkers. Still, de Blasio counts his affordable housing plan among his most prized achievements.
Adams appeared ready to follow suit, making clear his penchant for development on the campaign trail last year.
But upon taking office in January, he opted not to include housing in the portfolio of any of his deputy mayors, instead removing it from its traditional role of prominence in the administration's organizational structure and creating a new "chief housing officer" with a smaller portfolio and less prominence than deputy mayors to oversee the issue. This immediately prompted concerns that housing would play a diminished role in City Hall.
He also separated the city's housing agencies from the Department of City Planning, which oversees land use changes that enable more residential construction. Now the agency reports to Torres-Springer.
Adams also reversed his campaign promise to more than double the multi-year capital budget for affordable and public housing, instead committing a much more modest increase of $5 billion over 10 years.
He also has yet to tackle a campaign trail commitment of pursuing rezonings for more housing in affluent parts of Manhattan.
As mayor, Adams has turned his focus from loftier policy changes to reducing bureaucratic hurdles the city puts on private developers. In declining to set an overall housing production target, insisting an emphasis on a "magical number" would get in the way of more meaningful change.
In a recent interview, Katz said rehabilitating dilapidated public housing has been her primary focus, and defended the decision to eschew a numerical goal.
"We really wanted to take a strong stand that our priorities are going to be homelessness and NYCHA, improving administrative burdens and moving people through the process more quickly," Katz said, referring to the New York City Housing Authority. "We just kind of wanted to use a new playbook altogether."
One area in which Adams has exercised some political muscle: Pressuring lawmakers to support more residential construction that needs city approval.
To that end he has suggested significant changes to the city's zoning code to create more housing, but the proposal most closely tied to housing would not enter public review until at least 2024.
He's also championed several private applications under his pro-development "City of Yes" slogan, and last month he rallied in support of a 348-unit plan in the Bronx that was in danger of failing a Council vote. He's now urging the Council to approve a rezoning in Queens over objections from the lawmaker who represents the area.
"We can't continue to acknowledge that we have a housing problem and then every project that pops up, we vote against it," he recently about the proposal, known as Innovation QNS.
Logan Phares, political director of the pro-housing group Open New York, called the mayor's support for the Bronx project "a very positive development, and very important to what happened there."
"But that's a few hundred apartments," she added, "and we need hundreds of thousands of apartments."
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Why Trump Wanted to Hold the G7 at Doral
By Premiere Networks Oct 21, 2019
RUSH: This Doral business, can I tell you what happened with this Doral business? I know Donald Trump. And I know the things that Donald Trump likes to do, and I know the things that make him proud. He announces the G7 is going to be at his place in Miami, the Doral resort. Immediately people in Washington who do not understand the concept of personal achievement, they have no clue who Donald Trump is because they've lived in this world of hatred for so long, they simply hate him because he's there.
They hate him because he ran. They hate him because he won. It would be like somebody trying to buy an NFL team that the establishment didn't want in the NFL and somehow pulled it off. It would be exactly like that. It's exactly what it is. Now, among the businesses that Donald Trump is in is hospitality. And hospitality, it's an interesting business. It's showing people a good time, especially people paying for it, finding a way to make sure people enjoy themselves when you are hosting.
And Trump loves to host people. He loves showing off his properties. He loves people having a good time. I will guarantee you, as far as I can, that the last thing Donald Trump was thinking about was personal profit. Now, it's never out of his mind. He's a businessman. But the primary reason for suggesting and having the G7 at Doral was not personal profit. It was, "Come see my place. Look what I've built here, have a good time here. Let's get something done here."
But people in Washington and all of his Democrat critics will never understand it. If you could have a half hour with 'em to explain it, they wouldn't understand it because they don't have the same kind of humility. They're not interested in people having a good time in things they host. Their mind does not work this way. But Trump's does. They will never understand it.
I'm also guessing here, but I think he was probably deeply disappointed to have to withdraw this. And not because he's pulling himself out of trouble or any of that. He was really looking forward to having the thing. I know some of you cynics out there, "Rush, come on, even if he gave it away," meaning the event, "even if he didn't make a profit, he was going to make a lot of profit because the place will have been used for G7. That's gonna cause bigger crowds to come to it the rest of the year," blah, blah.
Maybe so. I'm just telling you that's not the primary reason. It may be pretty high, but that's not the primary reason. The things that make Donald Trump a human being are the things that they do not understand, don't want to understand, can't possibly understand. They don't have the humility. They don't have the common experiences that Donald Trump does.
How do I know this? Because I've been to several Trump facilities and properties with him. He's so proud of 'em he can't see straight. It's to the point that, you know, you end up laughing, everywhere you go with him if you're at one of his places, it's the best ever, the best forks, the best knives, the best napkins, the best folded napkins, the best floor, the best interior decoration, the best greens, the best water hazards, the best sand traps.
Everything's the best. It's just who he is. The idea that he's trying to sneak some gigantic profit off of a convention, if you will, at Doral. If you look at an aerial photo of the place, you'll see that it is huge. Every delegation would have had its own building that's got anywhere from 50 to 90 rooms in it. It would be the utmost in security and privacy, and everything is right there.
You think these G7s and G8s and G20s haven't been held at opulent -- one of them was held in Puerto Rico at a joint owned by Nelson Rockefeller's brother back in the sixties and seventies. Nobody cared about that. You know what Trump ought to do? I think he ought to pick some slum, some low rent resort in Baltimore or Washington or New York or wherever. I don't want to offend any cities here beyond that by naming them.
But I mean you get my drift. "Okay, if you don't want to go to Doral, I'll find a substitute place and then find a place that makes working difficult to do, the accommodations not the best they can be, "But hey, if you didn't like the kind of money we were going to be spending at Doral, okay, I'll do it on budget. I'll do this, I'll do that." He won't do that because his desire to be the best at hospitality will not permit him. But I would love for him to do that.
It's just they just don't understand, and they don't want to. Folks, they've got the hatred so dialed in and the opposition so dialed in, the fact that he's gotta go so dialed in that it is now humanly impossible for them to even regard Donald Trump in human terms. Simply not possible. And it's they that have the problem. It isn't Trump.
RUSH: This is Vito in Cincinnati. Great to have you, sir. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you very much for taking my call. On the topic of Trump and Doral, I think Trump operates from a position of pride. He's very proud of himself. He's very proud of his accomplishments. He's very proud of the United States of America. He's very proud of us as people who accomplish things in this country. And I think that's what drives his voters, that thrives with the people that love him. He's a very proud person, and he's proud of all of us and what we do.
RUSH: You are very shrewd and very perceptive. That's it, in a nutshell. He's especially proud of the things that he has either built or purchased and renovated. You might even go so far as to say, folks, that he likes showing off, but I don't mean that in an off-putting way. He loves people at his places having the best time of their lives. He loves people experiencing things at his properties that they don't find at home or anywhere else.
Have you ever known anybody like this? Somebody has a party at their house, somebody hosts a party at someplace, they invite you, you show up, they just want you to have a good time. It's how they get their jollies. You having a good time, guests having a good time is more important than them having a good tine. They work very hard at making sure people have a good time. Every detail accounted for.
Trump owns the place. He can have total control over whatever might come up on a moment's notice, something that may not be accounted for in advance planning. It's no more complicated than this. He's a human being. He's proud of what he's built. He's proud of what he's done. He wants people to come see his places. He wants people to have a good time when they're there.
Are they gonna pay? Yes. So what? Until we get Bernie Sanders, that's gonna be okay. When Bernie Sanders gets elected, he's gonna have a tax rate higher than billionaires will earn every year. Do you know that? His tax rate is gonna be higher than what they earn.
When Bernie Sanders is elected president, you can forget about anybody innovating anything because nobody's gonna be able to stay in business to innovative and so we're gonna have to rely on the Bernie Sanders government to come up with the next iPhone or whatever it is because Bernie Sanders is gonna shut 'em all down with his tax policy alone. That is not Donald Trump.
You know what it boils down to? I'll tell you something. It boils down to, in a way, being the exact opposite of selfish. I can't erase the fact that you go to a Trump place you're gonna pay for it. You're gonna pay for your room, you're gonna pay for your round of golf, but since when did that become something that's a bad characteristic in America? People expect to pay when they go to hotels or restaurants or golf courses or whatever it is. But all of this is lumped in with a never ending list of criticisms of Donald Trump the human being.
And this is where his critics are the most wrong about him. I wish everybody could have the chance of being hosted by Donald Trump at an event. You show up, he's there to meet you, smiling the whole time. When you're with him you may as well be a king or a queen. He just loves the hospitality business. You know, it's not an easy business.
A lot of people complain in the hospitality business. A lot of people send food back, a lot of people complain about accommodation. A lot of whining, because people are paying for it. If they expect that it's gonna be top of the top, then it better be.
Trump loves people having a good time at his places and his events, and he loves showing them off. And in this case, I'm not talking about it as a negative character or personality trait. But Mitt Romney doesn't have a place to invite the G7, and nobody else in Washington does, either. And that's part of this deal.
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Piedmont Office Realty Trust Completes Sale of 1901 Market Street in Philadelphia
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Atlanta, GA, June 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. ("Piedmont") (NYSE:PDM), an owner of Class A office properties located primarily in select amenity-rich sub-markets within seven major Eastern U.S. office markets, today announced that it has completed the sale of its only Philadelphia asset, 1901 Market Street, for approximately $360 million, or $450 per square foot. As a result of the disposition of 1901 Market Street, 96% of Piedmont's annualized lease revenue is now generated from its seven core markets, with a majority from its Sunbelt locations.
1901 Market Street is a 45-story, approximately 800,000 square foot building situated on approximately three-quarters of an acre in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. Piedmont has owned the building since 2003 during which time it has been exclusively leased to the buyer, Independence Blue Cross.
Commenting on the transaction, C. Brent Smith, Piedmont's President and Chief Executive Officer, said "The sale of 1901 Market Street concludes a successful recycling story for Piedmont, allowing us to dispose of a long-term, 100%-leased asset in a non-strategic market where we believe the value potential during our ownership has been realized and to fully reinvest the proceeds accretively into our recent purchase of Dallas Galleria Office Towers. The transaction was structured as a 1031 exchange for tax purposes; therefore, no special distribution will be required despite the nine-digit gain on the sale of 1901 Market. Overall, this transaction represents a good strategic move for the purchaser and a phenomenal outcome for our stockholders."
Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: PDM) is an owner, manager, developer, redeveloper, and operator of high-quality, Class A office properties located primarily in select sub-markets within seven major Eastern U.S. office markets, with the majority of its revenue being generated from the Sunbelt. Its geographically-diversified, approximately $5 billion portfolio is currently comprised of approximately 17 million square feet. The Company is a fully-integrated, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) with local management offices in each of its markets and is investment-grade rated by S&P Global Ratings (BBB) and Moody's (Baa2). At the end of the first quarter, approximately 64% of the company's portfolio was ENERGY STAR certified and approximately 40% was LEED certified. For more information, see www.piedmontreit.com.
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The EU said it was highly likely that Russia was behind the nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury and could see no other plausible explanation for it. Speaking shortly after the summit ended, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said Prague would seriously consider expelling a number of Russian diplomats over the incident.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, whose former Soviet state shares a border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, offered her full backing to Britain and said she was weighing whether to expel Russian diplomats from her country over the Salisbury attack.
Moscow charged on Wednesday that Britain either failed to protect a Russian national from what it termed a "terrorist attack" or was itself behind the poisoning of a former double agent in England.
He added: "We respect the decision of European states that want to go further, that take further steps, but there will be some European states that have chose to handle it exactly like us".
Mr Yakovenko's comments came as a United Kingdom judge ruled doctors will be able to take blood samples from the Skripals to send to experts at worldwide watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
He told Radio 4's World At One: "All fingers point towards Russia's involvement in this, and obviously the manufacture of the material was undertaken by the Russian state originally".
Tusk called the bloc's response "unprecedented", and said "more steps are expected at a national level" starting Monday.
Almost two dozen Russian diplomats expelled by Britain over the poisoning of an ex-spy have arrived home.
One senior European Union diplomat said that, for some governments, the lack of direct proof from London about Russia's involvement in the poisoning is a problem.
According to draft conclusions seen by RFE/RL ahead of the summit, European Union leaders are set to ask foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to look into ways to improve the 28-member bloc's strategic communication, counterintelligence, and cyberdefense in the wake of the attack in Britain.
Heads of states attend a meeting on the second day of a summit of European Union leaders at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, on March 23, 2018.
Mr Johnson had escalated the war of words with Moscow by suggesting that Vladimir Putin is hoping for a propaganda boost from this summer's World Cup similar to that which Hitler sought in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
"Britain has expelled 23 Russian diplomats it says were spies and suspended high-level contacts over the incident". According to Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, "EU Ambassador to the Russian Federation recall for consultations in Brussels" out of the Skripal's poisoning.
"This is terminology from British TV shows", he said.
Highlighting the bloc's familiar divisions on how to handle Russia, Slovakia's new prime minister, Peter Pellegrini, said he wanted "constructive dialogue" with Moscow despite the poisoning of the Skripals.
Moscow "regrets" the EU's decision to recall its envoy from Russia, Lavrov said, going on to praise U.S. President Donald Trump's stance toward Russia.
The strong solidarity from the European Union - which Britain is due to leave next year - is a victory for British Prime Minister Theresa May's efforts to muster global condemnation of a chemical weapons attack on British soil.
Fed Raises Rates, Three More Hikes Expected in 2018 However, it marginally downgraded its assessment of the rise in economic activity to " moderate rate" from "solid" in January. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, fell 0.69 percent at 89.745 in late trading.


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Tommy Chong was on Reddit Today
Tommy Chong took to Reddit today because someone, once again, spread a rumor that he was dead...and a lot of morons believed it. It's called a Death Hoax, people.
The questions fans asked were pretty basic.
Here are things we've never heard before.
On what it was like working with Martin Scorsese on the film After Hours.
"One memory is that they had me drive the van recklessly but they didn't tell me where to finish. And so when I careened around the corner there were a bunch of Japanese tourists that had come to watch the shoot right in my pathway... I stopped just inches from them. The look on their faces though, they were taking tourist photos. I learned I'm a pretty good stunt driver that day."
On Led Zeppelin...
"I was once with Robert Plant and I drove a Citroen at the time and he told me "You drive the nicest car in the world, Tommy"
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In 1984, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong present a Special Achievement Award to Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Phil Tippett for the Visual Effects of Return of the Jedi at the 56th Academy Awards. Hosted by Johnny Carson.
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Update on Tommy Chong After Cancer Surgery
Tommy Chong's daughter, Rae Dawn, tweeted an update today on her dad, who had surgery in October to remove a cancerous tumor. She says he's "feeling frisky, golfing and going out to functions..."
Dad is feeling frisky, golfing and going out to functions, it's fabulous. THANK YOU for all the love and prayers... https://t.co/DEFxvMIBkr
— Rae Dawn Chong (@Rae_Dawn_Chong) December 14, 2015
Tommy Chong Feeling Better and Stronger
Tommy Chong's daughter, Rae Dawn Chong, tweeted today that her dad is feeling better and stronger. She thanked everyone for the good vibes.
In October, Tommy underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. Cheech and Chong canceled a number of tour dates, but just recently rescheduled a Reno date for February. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday via the ticket link above.
My Dad is feeling better...stronger. Thanks for all of the good vibes and love. Much appreciated.
— Rae Dawn Chong (@Rae_Dawn_Chong) December 1, 2015
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Sky Lakes sees record number of COVID patients, opens second isolation unit
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Sky Lakes Medical Center leaders today announced that the Klamath Falls hospital's isolation unit for COVID-19 patients reached capacity for the first time ever and that a second unit has been opened.
Seven patients were in the dedicated third-floor COVID unit early this morning, up from four the day before, and three more patients were admitted before lunchtime.
"This morning, Sky Lakes had more COVID-19 patients than ever since the pandemic began," said Sky Lakes President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Stewart. "And with the large number of new positive test results recently reported, we can expect more COVID-19 patients in the very near future.
"Sky Lakes will be ready."
A second isolation unit has been opened on the medical center's second floor to deal with the increased COVID-19 patient volume. There are special accommodations to allow providers and staff to access the units without entering public space.
The rest of the hospital's inpatient care area remains open to care for non-COVID patients.
Stewart issued a warning and a plea to the community. "Our ability to care for non-COVID patients relies entirely on having staff and providers available. If they are required to care for an influx of COVID-19 patients, then we have diminished capacity to take care of other patients.
"Please do all you can to decrease COVID exposure in our community."
Public health experts advise people to wear a mask whenever they're in public – indoors and outdoors – to help prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. They also encourage people to avoid gatherings and to observe physical distancing of at least 6 feet. Coronavirus resources
The record number of COVID patients follows a dramatic increase in the number of positive tests reported locally: 160 new cases last week and dozens more already this week.
"Evidence suggests this surge ties back to at Halloween parties where people were likely not wearing face masks and certainly not observing distancing guidelines," Stewart said. "With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's especially important to heed the experts' advice about masks and gatherings."
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Schizo Sonics
12. September 2020 – 16. May 2021
Exhibition at KINDL Center for contemporary Art Berlin
Nik Nowak (*1981 in Mainz, lives in Berlin) critically examines the use of sound as a weapon and medium of propaganda in his artworks. With Schizo Sonics he has realised a large-scale audio-visual installation featuring two powerful sound sculptures at the Kesselhaus of KINDL Center for Contemporary Art Berlin. A specially produced audio work, focusing upon aspects of Cold War politics, engages with examples of the ideological and acoustic proxy wars such as those played out in Berlin in the 1960s on the border between East and West Germany and then later in Jamaica during the 1970s, and which continue to be waged in the DMZ border area between North and South Korea.
The exhibition is curated by Kathrin Becker.
The exhibition takes place as part of Berlin Art Week (9 – 13 September 2020).
Make a reservation for your visit here.
We 12 – 20 h
Thu – Su 12 – 18 h
KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art
Am Sudhaus 3
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Year in Review: Owning a Nintendo 3DS in 2016
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Following the recent conclusion of a highly controversial year, we review one of the more overlooked platforms many gamers might have already forgotten still exists: The Nintendo 3DS (also 2DS, n3DS, 3DS XL, you get the idea).
After the recent revelation of the Nintendo Switch™, some of you may be wondering if it is still worth anything to own one of these archaic devices in 2017. The Switch is stated to release worldwide a couple of months from now. The 3DS may be on its way out, but rest assured there are still plenty of reasons to own one of these portables.
2016 was a pretty good year for the 3DS, and there was no shortage of great games. We also saw the release of a plethora of different colors and designs for these devices. They also saw a steady increase in sales across all the models, despite the original release being almost 6 years ago.
Let's take a look at some of the notable games from 2016:
The latest installment of the main Monster Hunter series from Capcom. In this iteration, hunters can use incredible skills called "Hunter Arts" that add a dynamic element to the hunt.
Pick your side in this chapter of the Fire Emblem series; Birthright or Conquest lets you choose different routes to resolve the great war between 2 kingdoms. There is also a third path, Revelations, which unveils even more.
Pokemon Sun/Pokemon Moon
Explore the Alolan region with the latest generation of Pokemon in this addition to the well-loved franchise. Sun/Moon really shook up the formula from previous games, and made it friendlier to old and new Pokefans alike.
Bravely Second: End Layer
The sequel to the surprise hit throwback JRPG that took everyone by surprise. This story picks up where the original left off, bringing with it several new jobs, including a necromancer that summons cats: A Catmancer.
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS
The original Wii U Mario game brought designers and players together was also released for the 3DS. Everything you love about Mario returns in this neatly ported package.
This is in no way a list of the absolute best games; These are just a handful of games picked from those released last year. There are still many other excellent titles available last year and even further.
Aside from these games, new designs also add to the allure of owning a 3DS. Nintendo released this official psychedelic Galaxy Style New 3DS to add more options for potential buyers. We also got several game and character-specific special editions just as pretty.
The 3DS family grew quite a bit over the past year. It has all these releases and even more just last year. Not to mention, the 3DS ecosystem in the Nintendo digital store constantly receives new games, classic ports, remakes, indie games, and even some hidden gems.
Before you start pondering whether to get that Nintendo Switch, that 3DS you might own could still have some life to it. There is still some time to dust off that old bauble and boot it up for old times' sake.
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Enric Sanchis i Ros (Valladolid, 1872 - Barcelona, 24 de setembre de 1935) fou un industrial químic i benefactor del barri del Bon Pastor, avui de Barcelona, quan aquesta zona pertanyia a Santa Coloma de Gramenet.

Va fundar una fàbrica de productes químics, documentada el 1907, a l'actual barri del Bon Pastor, llavors encara part del terme municipal de Santa Coloma de Gramenet, dedicada principalment a la fabricació de sulfurs. Els terrenys els havia comprat a Josep Magriñà i a Ferran de Sagarra, propietari de la Torre Balldovina. A prop de la fàbrica es va construir la barriada de cases barates Milans del Bosch el 1929. El 1930 es va iniciar la construcció de 26 cases per obrers de la fàbrica, que va donar lloc a la denominada barriada Sanchis, on les cròniques de l'època diuen que va actuar com benefactor dels sectors més desfavorits.

Va ser membre de la Unión Patriótica, molt vinculat a les posicions polítiques que donaven suport a la dictadura de Primo de Rivera. Durant aquest període, el 22 d'octubre de 1930, va ser alcalde de Santa Coloma, càrrec que va ocupar fins al 21 d'abril de 1931. A més, va ser president del Foment de l'Eixample de Santa Coloma.

En l'àmbit personal es va casar amb Mercè Sans i Vidal i van tenir cinc filles: Ramona, Carme, Rosa, Enriqueta i Maria Lluïsa.

Va morir el 24 de setembre de 1935. En el seu testament ordenava la liquidació d'actius i la venda de la finca de la fàbrica, que va suposar el fi de l'empresa, que amb tot no es va vendre a causa de la col·lectivització durant la guerra civil, i es va orientar a la producció de municions i material explosiu.

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Neon Waltz
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Neon Waltz release brand new track 'The Stranger Things' available now ahead of embarking on tour with DMA'S this month.
Recently recorded in Eastbourne, the track is typical of the band's unique melancholic soaring and poetic songwriting, and demonstrates their authentic and inimitable charm.
Darren says of the track, "In between our live dates in the summer we began serious work on new music. We're still doing that and we could wait until the time is perfect with a record in hand or we could start letting it go sooner. 'The Stranger Things' is about making sure your priorities are inline. Or maybe even just about realising those priorities. It's less frills. More balls. Not enough spring reverb. And too much heart."
Lauded by the NME as "Scotland's coolest new gang" and The Times "A band to get excited about", their debut album 'Strange Hymns' was critically acclaimed on release - "Melodic Beauty … heading ever upwards" **** Record Collector, "Grandiose gorgeousness" DIY, "Majestic" Gigslutz - and the band have enjoyed consistent support from 6 Music and Radio X.
Neon Waltz spent 2018 touring relentlessly and building on their loyal live following. The year started supporting The Sherlocks, with their own 15 date headline tour in the Spring, as well as selling out the iconic King Tut's in Glasgow in May. This was followed by prestigious support dates with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Blenheim Palace's Nocturn Live, Scarborough Open Air Theatre and Greenwich Music Time – while also appearing at festivals through the summer including Liverpool Sound City, Tramlines, All Points East and Glasgow Summer Sessions.
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Building a polyhedron from 4 groups of points - a library to recommend?
Baudoux Roald
Tue, Jan 4, 2022 1:53 PM
Is there some library which could be used to automatically build a
volume from 4 groups of 3D points, each group representing an edge of
the polyhedron?
Here's a caption of the four groups of points (made with BOSL's
polyline). The global shape is a kind of donut with some sinusoidal
modulations.
Hello, Is there some library which could be used to automatically build a volume from 4 groups of 3D points, each group representing an edge of the polyhedron? Here's a caption of the four groups of points (made with BOSL's polyline). The global shape is a kind of donut with some sinusoidal modulations. Thank you.
Torsten Paul
On 04.01.22 14:53, Baudoux Roald wrote:
Is there some library which could be used to automatically
build a volume from 4 groups of 3D points, each group
representing an edge of the polyhedron?
I think the ClosePoints library is specifically meant to do
that. See https://openscad.org/libraries.html for links.
I have not directly used it myself though.
Torsten.
On 04.01.22 14:53, Baudoux Roald wrote: > Is there some library which could be used to automatically > build a volume from 4 groups of 3D points, each group > representing an edge of the polyhedron? I think the ClosePoints library is specifically meant to do that. See https://openscad.org/libraries.html for links. I have not directly used it myself though. ciao, Torsten.
Adrian Mariano
I don't understand what you are trying to do. Perhaps BOSL2 skin()
can do what you need? Or maybe just vnf_vertex_array()? Possibly
also path_sweep() or sweep() may be useful for solving your problem.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 8:53 AM Baudoux Roald roald.baudoux@brutele.be wrote:
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I don't understand what you are trying to do. Perhaps BOSL2 skin() can do what you need? Or maybe just vnf_vertex_array()? Possibly also path_sweep() or sweep() may be useful for solving your problem. On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 8:53 AM Baudoux Roald <roald.baudoux@brutele.be> wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there some library which could be used to automatically build a > volume from 4 groups of 3D points, each group representing an edge of > the polyhedron? > > Here's a caption of the four groups of points (made with BOSL's > polyline). The global shape is a kind of donut with some sinusoidal > modulations. > > Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org
Sanjeev Prabhakar
Wed, Jan 5, 2022 2:12 AM
Attached file has a module named swp().
On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 22:24, Torsten Paul Torsten.Paul@gmx.de wrote:
Is this what you are looking for? Attached file has a module named swp(). On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 22:24, Torsten Paul <Torsten.Paul@gmx.de> wrote: > On 04.01.22 14:53, Baudoux Roald wrote: > > Is there some library which could be used to automatically > > build a volume from 4 groups of 3D points, each group > > representing an edge of the polyhedron? > > I think the ClosePoints library is specifically meant to do > that. See https://openscad.org/libraries.html for links. > > I have not directly used it myself though. > > ciao, > Torsten. > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >
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Ву́стер () — місто () в США, в окрузі Вустер штату Массачусетс. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Свою назву місто отримало від назви англійського міста Вустер. За даними перепису 2010 року в ньому мешкало 181 045 людей, тобто воно було другим за населенням містом Нової Англії після Бостона. Вустер розташований приблизно на віддалі 40 миль від Бостона і на віддалі 38 миль від Спрингфілда. Його неофіційна назва «Серце співдружності», і символом міста є серце.

Раніше Вустер був окремим містом, але дедалі більше зростається з Бостоном. У місті збереглося багато будинків Вікторіанської архітектури, типової для заводських містечок тих часів. Тут розташований один з найбільших художніх музеїв США — Вустерський музей мистецтв.

Географія
Вустер розташований за координатами  (42.269478, -71.807783). За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 99,60 км², з яких 96,79 км² — суходіл та 2,81 км² — водойми.

Клімат

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 1818 осіб/км². Було 74645 помешкань (749/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 4,0 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 20,9 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 22,1 % — особи молодші 18 років, 66,2 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 11,7 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 33,4 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 94,9 чоловіків; на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 92,2 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 22,4 % осіб, у тому числі 31,5 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 14,7 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  особи. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 31,6 %, роздрібна торгівля — 11,8 %, виробництво — 10,0 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 9,8 %.

Відомі особистості
У поселенні народився:
 Льюїс Стоун (1879—1953) — американський актор
 Роберт Бенчлі (1889—1945) — американський журналіст, актор і сценарист
 Роберт Фрейзер (1891—1944) — американський актор
 Артур Кеннеді (1914—1990) — американський актор театру і кіно
 Тер-Ованесян Даяна Ованесівна (1922—2018) — вірмено-американська поетеса, перекладачка і письменниця
 Джим Макговерн (* 1959) — американський політик.

Примітки

Джерела

Міста Массачусетсу
Населені пункти округу Вустер (Массачусетс)
Університетські міста США
Окружні центри Массачусетсу


The frost has really started to come in in the past week. I'm learning which parts of the garden are hit by it the hardest: the sheltered area between shed and house stays frost-free the longest, and the other side of the shed, where the bee house is, also seems to stay fairly sheltered. The middle of the garden, and the prime planting area, get hit the hardest, although so far this winter the perennial plants seem to be largely bearing up. Fingers crossed.
After I planted the garlic, three weeks ago, there were a few small cloves left over from the bulb. Today, I planted those up in the containers that, this year, we grew carrots in. The carrots – more of that free BBC seed – did not really grow very well, possibly because the containers are a little small. We will see how the garlic does: we're starting, in these containers, with the least-viable-looking cloves already, so there won't really be any scientific conclusions we can draw from it.
The three-weeks-planted garlic hasn't appeared above the surface yet. K says I'm being silly, looking regularly, because at this time of year it won't break the surface for months. But, still, I keep looking to see if sprouts have appeared.


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Susan Seubert: National Geographic Photographer
by Colette Greif | Nov 7, 2018 | Arts & Entertainment | 0 comments
Susan Seubert is an award-winning travel photographer who divides her time between Portland and Hawaii. Photo credit: Steven Josefsberg
Susan Seubert is a commercial, travel, and editorial photographer who splits her time between Portland, Oregon and Maui, Hawaii, according to her blog. She is an award-winning travel and editorial photographer and now works as an independent contractor who is hired for her services by photo magazines such as National Geographic.
"I am also a fine artist, which means I maintain a regular studio practice," Seubert says. Her work is often conceptual, and ranges from worldly, to scenery, to representations of subjects such as domestic violence. She has a talent for using color, shadows and camera angles to portray certain tones and emotions she wants to invoke with her photos.
Seubert lectures regularly about her work at Harvard University and the Portland Art Museum. Seubert's work has been well-received. She was nominated for Columbia University's Alfred Eisenstaedt Award and recognized by the North American Travel Journalists Association for excellence in photography. The National Geographic Expedition page describes her as someone who "spends her time traveling the world shooting a variety of subjects and capturing a sense of place through her wide-ranging imagery."
Seubert was born in 1970 and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana with her "perspicacious" parents. Her father was a 0thought that it would be a great job to travel the world and make pictures," she says. She started exploring photography in high school but did not consider herself a professional photographer until mid-1990.
She moved to Portland in 1988 to attend art school at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she majored in fine art with a studio focus in photography. With the support of her teachers, she moved to New York City for an internship at Magnum Photos, as well as a second internship with the artist duo Clegg and Guttmann. Seubert returned to Portland in 1992 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree.
Being a struggling college student, she worked many freelance jobs to get by, such as waitressing, and working as a photographer's assistant, which included production, location scouting, and a bit of teaching.
Although she loves what she does, Seubert admits that photography can be draining and does not come without conflicts, especially when accounting for extra jobs she was balancing at the time. "This career is not for the meek. It was an do-it-yourself career like none other…Can you imagine each time you got up and went to work, you had to reapply for your job?…You had to work and work and work…It was an absolutely terrible way to live."
Seubert met her husband in 1996 at a show at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. The show was called Pushing Image Paradigms and it was a big deal for Seubert because all of the participating artists, besides her and one other photographer, were from countries outside of the United States.
"I was running a fine art photography gallery in Portland (SK Josefsberg Studio)," says Steven Josefsberg, Seubert's husband. "I have always been impressed by her fine art photography, but became very impressed by her editorial photography as well….She is about the hardest working person I know."
During her time as an intern photographer, their first assignment was for Newsweek which was covering the Tonya Harding scandal. Seubert claims the shoot was a disaster, because they were scuffling to be allowed in the courtroom, let alone to get a clear and focused shot of the trial. However, they were able to get in along with the TIME Magazine photographer.
Her first official photo shoot was for a design garden magazine, where she was assigned to take a picture of a dahlia. In her TED Talk on YouTube, published April 3 of 2018, she mentions how she wondered, "Why a flower? I always thought journalism was supposed to be 'breaking news' or some sort of newsworthy event." Seubert received an award for the photo, which catapulted her career into professional photography. She realized the capabilities of the camera, detailed capture of the aesthetic representation of imagery in her work. Seubert continues to travel the world, capturing photos of Thailand, Texas, Canada, the Caribbean, and others for the National Geographic travel magazine, paying close attention to how a shot is taken: the angles, the lighting, and most importantly, the people in them and how they influence the scenery. Ever since the photograph of the simple but impactful cover of the dahlia, Seubert has come to realize the power of photography. "It solidified this idea to me, that what was central to my work, was giving a voice to beauty."


In just 48 hours, PokerStars will debut its newest tournament series, the Turbo Championship of Online Poker. The 50-event all-turbo online festival of events kicks off Thursday at noon ET with a $200,000 guaranteed $22 no-limit hold'em turbo event.
While we were at the PCA last week, we sat down with several members of Team PokerStars Pro to get their thoughts on the upcoming series. Here's what they had to say.
What is your take on turbo tournaments in general?
Ana Marquez: I have been playing more of them recently, and have started to love them because of the action but also it frees you from being in front of the computer for long periods of time. I encourage everyone that has any fear of playing them to give them a chance. Re-think your strategy, on them and I'm sure you'll be as amazed as I am.
Elky: I like playing turbo tournaments, because they let you get into the action much faster, and without all the time commitment. My personal favorite is the Sunday Supersonic - so much money for so little time!
PokerStars is launching TCOOP. Obviously, it's like the regular COOPs, but all turbo events. How do you feel about that?
Jason Mercier: Thats pretty cool. The great thing about a Turbo COOP is you won't have to wonder if you are going to play all day and night. These tournaments are a great chance for you to win a ton of money in a short period of time.
Ivan Demidov: I don't really have time to play 15-hour sessions anymore, so turbo tournaments are the best way for me to participate in big tournaments. I like to play fast, and I love action, and that's what turbo tournaments are all about.
David Williams: Actually turbo tournaments fit my style much better, because you're forced to be more active. Turbo tournaments will be some of the most exciting tournaments out there, and to have a series comprised of solely turbo tournaments is a player's dream. Basically, you don't have to spend a full day for a big score.
Some people used to think turbos were only for the impatient beginner poker player.
Elky: Impatient maybe. Beginner not really. The average stack size is usually much smaller than in normal tournaments, which makes for 'all in and call' action a lot earlier than you might see in a regular tournament. If Turbo COOP was around when I was still grinding daily, I would have loved it. It's a refreshing change of pace to the normal grind.
Ana Marquez: That was me! I didn't used to play turbos because I thought there was a lot less skill involved. I recently started playing them and after a few games I realized that it isn't less skill it's just a different type of strategy.
Not to give anything away, but what would you consider to be the best strategy for TCOOP events?
Ivan Demidov: In turbo tournaments, you can't afford to wait. You have to be very aggressive early, and be willing to make big bluffs early. If a tight player can be profitable in regular structured tournaments, he or she will have to change their style to adapt to turbos, or they won't be successful.
David Williams: You have to go out there and go get those pots. It's important to not be too patient early and get grinded down. You can put yourself in a position where you simply can't win.
Jason Mercier: In turbos, I generally like to play a little tighter at the beginning so that when the blinds are higher, you make sure you have fold equity with your shoves.
Ana Marquez: Now that I have played more turbos, I'm changing my strategy to be more aggressive pre-flop, and play more standard after the flop. The key for me in any tournament is to start accumulating chips early enough so I don't have to put my stack at risk as often as you would if you wait for a hand; and if you get short, you must try to find the best spots to put in your chips all in.
Elky: When playing turbo tournaments, you can't wait for the perfect spot. You have to take into consideration the speed of the blinds, and you'll likely have to speculate much more. I'm more likely to call you down in a turbo tournament, so watch yourself when you're in my pots.


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Q: cant catch androidback event When I press the back button on my android device it closes the activity I'm currently on. I need to prevent this to happen. I found this
question here, also I found this documentation for that event and the naming is different, then I found a third name for the same event here. I tried with all of them, even at the same time like this:
$.currentWindow.addEventListener("android:back",back);
$.currentWindow.addEventListener("androidback",back);
$.currentWindow.addEventListener("windows:back",back);
$.currentWindow.addEventListener("windowsback",back);

none of them worked, also I noticed I have to use Titanium.UI.currentWindow.addEventListener("evt", callback) but Titanium.UI.currentWindow seems to be Undefined. I open my window like this:
var nextWindow = core.createWindow({
    controllerName : "restaurantActivity"
});
nextWindow.open();

Here is my callback function
function back(e) {
    e.cancelBubble = true;
    console.log(e.type);
    if (Ti.App.pplatillo.length != 0) {
        console.log("Confirm before exit.");
        var dialog = Ti.UI.createAlertDialog({
            cancel : 1,
            buttonNames : ["Sí", "No"],
            message : "Tienes artículos en tu carrito y el pedido no se ha concretado, si sales perderás los artículos. ¿Seguro que desea salir?",
            title : "Salir"
        });
        dialog.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
            if (e.index != e.source.cancel) {
                Ti.App.pplatillo = [];
                Ti.App.car = 0;
                Ti.App.totalBill = 0;
                $.window.close();
            }
        });
        dialog.show();
    } else {
        console.log("Just exit :(");
        $.window.close();
    }
}

Any help will be appreciated.

A: If you want to stop your current activity should not close on pressing the android back button. So you have to just remove/comment "$.window.close()" line from your above "back" function.
Thanks,

A: You can try the following approach:
$.MyControllerName.addEventListener("android:back", backCallbackFunctionHandler);

In this case whenever you press the back button, the backCallbackFunctionHandler function will be getting called. Inside that you can show an alert dialog and handle the yes/no button click to perform the required action to close or not to close the window.

A: For future references, I managed solved the problem.
What I did, was add the event listener to the view in the view where I open it before opening it:
var nextWindow = core.createWindow({
    controllerName : "restaurantActivity"
});

nextWindow.addEventListener("android:back",back);

nextWindow.open();

I also had to put the callback function back in the same file.

A: How about handling it inside the app? Using this
 @Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    super.onBackPressed();
}

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St. Angela's College, Sligo is currently exploring the option of becoming a campus of the future Technological University (TU) of the West/North West that is being established by the Connacht-Ulster Alliance (CUA) consortium of Institutes of Technology. The CUA comprises GMIT, LYIT and IT Sligo.
IT Sligo together with St. Angela's College and the Ursuline Union have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and a Data Sharing Protocol to enable a financial and legal due diligence process to commence. Following discussions with NUI Galway, the Higher Education Authority and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, St. Angela's College are now proceeding to consider the process by which it would be incorporated into IT Sligo, in the first instance, and subsequently become one of nine campuses recognised under this new TU.
In welcoming the signing of the MoU, the President of St. Angela's College, Amanda McCloat, noted that 'this is an important milestone in the history of the College, bringing together the two highly reputable higher education institutions in Sligo, which will serve to further enhance the provision of higher education across the region'. President of IT Sligo, Brendan McCormack, adds 'this is a significant development for both institutions as IT Sligo progresses it's plans to become part of the new Technological University, allowing Sligo to become a strong University town'.
St. Angela's College was established by the Ursuline Order in the early 1950's, laying the foundation of a legacy that continues almost seventy years on. Sr. Marianne O'Connor, member of the Board of Directors (St. Angela's College) notes 'the Ursulines are supportive of the incorporation of St. Angela's College into IT Sligo in the context of the College not only contributing to the Technological University but strengthening future developments between both institutions'.
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There certainly is no halachic prohibition, there are however those how say that she should abstain from going to a zoo however other permit it. Regarding a bird house, I haven't seen anything on this, but I don't think the minhag is to be concerned about this..
Vaheyi Bnosoa 7- ftnt 71, in the name of R' T. Weiss shlit"a that it is permitted, andthis is the common practice. This is also the opinion of R' S. Felder shlit"a brought in Ashrei Yilatdito pg. 31 ftnt 25, Bnei Beischa pg. 332. Some say that she shouldn't go to a zoo because she shouldn't look at briyos temeyos, see Shiras Haguf Vhanefesh 237-2, and Invei Hagefen 2-12 (10). Others say because the animals may scare her, see Invei Hagefen 2-12 (10), Migdal Oz chalon tzurey 32 that thus was the opinion of Harav Tuvia Goldstein zt"l. Others say that this is only if she contemplates on the unclean animals.
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Same-sex couples sue Utah over refusal to recognize gay marriages
Jennifer Dobner
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Four same-sex couples sued the state of Utah on Tuesday over Governor Gary Herbert's refusal to recognize gay marriages performed during a brief period while same-sex matrimony was legal in the conservative, heavily Mormon state.
Brothers Riley (L) and Casey Hackford-Peer speak during a rally supporting same-sex marriage at the state capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah January 10, 2014. The boy's mothers Kim and Ruth were married on December 20, 2013. REUTERS/Sallie Dean Shatz
Utah temporarily became the 18th U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage when a federal district judge ruled on December 20 that a state ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. His ruling was put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court, but not before about 1,400 gay couples had tied the knot.
The four couples who sued on Tuesday were married in Utah between December 20 and January 6, and are asking the court to declare their marriages valid and order the state to recognize them. They are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and a private law firm.
"By retroactively stripping plaintiffs' marriages of legal recognition, the State of Utah has put these couples and their families in legal limbo and prevented legally married same-sex couples from accessing critical protections for themselves and their children," said the lawsuit, filed in third district court in Salt Lake City.
No hearings have been set in the case, and Utah has 20 days to respond to the filing.
John Mejia, legal director for the ACLU of Utah, told a news conference that the state's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages had caused a level of uncertainty and confusion that couples shouldn't have to navigate.
Plaintiffs Tony Milner and his husband Matthew Barraza are fathers to a 4-year-old son although only Barazza is considered a parent under the law. Milner said the couple immediately began an adoption process so that both men would become his legal parents, and which may now be put on hold.
"We think that this lawsuit will probably be the quickest answer to that question," Milner said. "Custody is a huge thing. In the eyes of the law, I'm a legal stranger to the child that I've raised from birth."
Little more than a decade ago, none of the 50 U.S. states recognized same-sex marriage. Since then, attitudes have changed rapidly in some parts of the country.
Seventeen U.S. states plus the District of Columbia now recognize same-sex marriage, and federal court rulings would add Utah and Oklahoma to that group if legal decisions overturning gay marriage bans in those states are upheld.
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In Utah, the governor's office has said that as the legal battle plays out, the state cannot officially recognize the marriages that took place before the stay was issued.
Under Utah's policy, the state will not revoke benefits already granted but will not grant new ones. As an example, the governor's office has said that a married same-sex couple that had already changed their names on their drivers' licenses would not see them revoked. But no new changes would be allowed.
"Governor Herbert has said throughout this process that his responsibility is to follow the law," Herbert spokesman Marty Carpenter said. "That is exactly what the administration is doing, and we respect the rights of those who disagree to take their grievances before a judge."
The Obama administration has pledged to recognize same-sex marriages in Utah even though the state will not do so.
Together for nine years, plaintiffs Marina Gomberg and Eleanor Heyborne said they joined the case in part because they don't want to have to leave Utah, where both were raised, to build a life together.
"I felt more human than I've ever felt when we got to sign our marriage license," Gomberg said. "We're loving and committed couples. We just want the protections that other loving and committed couples are able to enjoy."
Even as an increasing number of U.S. states recognize gay marriage, 33 states ban such unions through state constitutional amendments, statutes, or both. Oklahoma and Utah both have voter-approved constitutional amendments on the books defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year issued two high-profile decisions on gay marriage. One ruling struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that denied federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. The other paved the way for gay marriage to resume in California.
Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Bernadette Baum and Ken Wills


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I used a really empty harddisk to install on ( I did: "dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=10 of=/dev/hda").
* Although I did not want to install a bootloader, "clearpart --all --initlabel", kickstart did install the grub bootloader on the system.
* I also told kickstart not to install a mouse, "mouse none", but the autogenerated ks-file on the newly installed system has a mouse configuration line "mouse generic3ps/2 --device psaux". This means a mouse is installed, right??
Are these bugs I should file to bugzilla??