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ERNEST T., aka TAROOP & GLABEL, aka LES ARTISTES HEUREUX
Presentation of Ernest T. by the Cabinet du livre d'artiste, Université de Rennes2:
(…)."The artist who wants to make a name for himself has found nothing better than to paint his name (12)", declares Ernest T. His name being "T.", since March 13, 1986, Ernest T. realizes the zero paintings, having as a model the geometric patterns of the Arab culture (other than the arabesque) in which a form (in this case the letter "T") repeats and composes with itself by completely filling a surface. Painted in red, yellow and blue, which is reminiscent of Mondrian's painting (to which, moreover, he also devotes the attention of a collector...), this letter gives rise to geometric abstract paintings, a flagship practice of the modern painting. But with Ernest T., these paintings often appear in the second degree, as confronted with incredulity, and this in particular through the printed matter, the paintings being either integrated into satirical drawings or photos, or accompanied by various printed comments, etc. This set of elements of Ernest T.'s pictorial project therefore questions the origin and status of abstraction in modern art, where two traditions of modernity clash. One, largely absent from the history of art, that of the Incoherents, which systematically favored failure over idealization (Ernest T. makes null paintings), is particularly rich in an impressive number of monochromes, whose justification was always anecdotal: abstraction needed a joke or a Witz to exist. The other tradition, that of the avant-gardes, begins in 1911 and systematically seeks to legitimize abstraction through very serious theories and refined conceptualizations, not hesitating to flirt for this with theology (as with Malevich or Mondrian). Do the avant-gardes therefore renew or betray the modernity that was gradually built up during the 19th century? (…)."
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ERNEST T., alias TAROOP & GLABEL, alias LES ARTISTES HEUREUX
ERNEST T.
The First Text in Voynich
Artist's book.
Completely unreadable book (unlesss speaking Voynich).
Author and publisher names, title, text, publication place name and date written in "Voynich".
The only readable, understandable text is in English, printed on a strip of paper surrounding the book with the text: "The first text in Voynich".
15 pp. Text printed in black on white paper.
Stapled.
Self-published, n. p., n. d. (c.1978)
As new.
Ernest T.:
"18-page brochure in unlisted characters, in an unknown language. Circa 1979. Mentioned in the catalogue of the Rouen artists' book exhibition, 1982."
Littérature, Censure (Literature, Censorship)
Artist's books.
Three small artist's books with white cardboard covers included in a white cardboard slipcase.
On each of the booklets, the title, author and publisher names on the front cover are printed in an unknown language and font (Voynic).
The text, printed in this same font and language, has its lines more or less obliterated, except for one book, whose "text", still in this font and language, is not "censored".
Voinic Diffusion, AL-Iskandarïyah, Bergama, Berlin, Paris, Roma, n. d.
"Three books in voinic under slipcase. Same text on all three books. The 2nd is page after page, erased by a silkscreen passage in white ink. The 3rd is redacted by an offset passage in black ink. Mention (fictional?): the offset diffusion of the vionic, Alexandria, Bergamo, Berlin, Paris, Rome. Around 1980. In catalogue Livres d'Artistes, Rouen, 1982."
Ghislain MOLLLET-VIEVILLE Catalogue des œuvres de Ernest T. disponibles chez Ghislain MOLLLET-VIEVILLE, marchand d'art contemporain à Paris. (catalogue of works by Ernest T. available from Gallery Ghislain MOLLLET-VIEVILLE, contemporary art agent in Paris)
Arist's book.
(18)pp. including the cover.
Printed in photocopy in black on white paper.
Small bump to the upper right corner of the page serving as the front cover but in very good condition overall.
LES ARTISTES HEUREUX (ERNEST T.)
Les Artistes Heureux Exposent leur Point de Vue (Happy Artists Express their Point of View)
10pp. 4 full-page black and white reproductions.
Staple binding.
Self-published, (Paris), 1987.
(ERNEST T.) CLOACA MAXIMA 1985 – 1988 (All published.)
Artist periodical. Monthly.
Each issue consists of a sheet of yellow paper printed in brown on one side only.
21 issues in 26 sheets (+ 5bis, 5ter, 9bis and no.10 in 2 sheets).
1st issue: December 1985; last issue January 1988, i.e. 26 publications (24 + 2 bis).
2 sheets of white paper printed in black, one, title page, with this text "CLOACA MAXIMA", the other, in fine, errata page.
In total 27 sheets, loose, slipped into a yellow-orange cardboard folder with flaps with a large label of white paper affixed on its front side, with the title printed black.
Sheets: 29.7 x 21 cm.
Cardboard folder: 32 x 23.9 cm.
Self-published, 1985-1988, (Paris).
All published.
Unspecified edition size, certainly very limited.
Under the direction of Ernest T., each issue is generally designed in collaboration with Ernest T: with Dorothée Fraim (no.1) December 1985; Ernest T. alone (no.2) February 1986l; with Georges Psalman (no.3) March 1986; with Claude Georges (no.4) April 1986; with A.-L. Plurabelle (no.5) April-May 1986; with François Guinochet (no.bis) May 1986; with Guy Maréchal (no.6) June 1986; with Philipppe Cazal (no.7) September 1986, with Hans Lechner (no.8) October 1986; Ernest T. alone (no.9) November 1986; with Claude Rutault (no.9bis) November 1986; Ernest T. alone (no.10) December 1986; Ernest T. alone (no.11) January 1987; Ernest T. alone (no.12) February 1987; with Noëlle Charbaud (no.13) March 1987; Ernest T. alone (no.14) April 1987; with Guy Maréchal (no.15) May 1987; with René Mettler (no.16) June 1987; Daniel Bosser/Michel Tournereau only them both (no.17) September 1987; Ernest T. alone (no.18) October 1987; Claude Rutault alone (no.19) November 1987; with Sylvain Depoorter (no.20) December 1987; with Sylvain Depoorter (no.21) January 1988.
"Documents about art that deserve to be known or highlighted. The title, the choice and the juxtapositions take the place of comments; however, Cloaca Maxima" absolutely refuses to make morals".
Reference: CDLA, Ernest T. inv. 467 12/1 - 28.
Art Dept. 77 Selected Goods, catalogue 1990
Exhibition catalogue/Artist monograph.
45pp. Text in French and English.
Soft cover, pictorial cover.
B/w and color reproductions.
Gabrielle Maubrie Gallery, Paris; Eric Franck, Geneva, 1990.
Exhibition at the galleries Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris and Éric Frank, Geneva.
A true retrospective, selection of all genres of works by Ernest T.
"In the art department, 77 selected artistic goods. Various works from 1978 to 1990.
Quad. French-English 48 p. 1990.
Galerie de MM. Pereire, Résumé du catalogue de Tableaux Anciens et Modernes (...) Annoté par un Témoin Gallery of Messrs. Pereire, Summary of the catalogue of Ancient and Modern Paintings (...) Annotated by a Witness)
Facsimile of the original catalogue of the sale of paintings, with handwritten results and annotations, at the Galerie Pereire, sale on March 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1872, reproduced in photolithography.
Le Comique de Répétition and ERNEST T., (Paris), 1990.
CDLA, inv. 422 12.
Untitled (Il ne faut rien comprndre ...)
Artist's publication.
12 sheets, loose, printed in black on one side only.
Text in French.
One text a sheet.
Each text page has a thumbnail header, with a small mounted gold paper chip pasted over the thumbnail.
Each sheet: 29.7 x 21 cm.
Self-published, n. d., (Paris).
Unspecified edition size.
Anticlerical, scatological, anti-religious, anarchist, bawdy, derision, ironic, provoking texts. Very French spirit although Belgian. Each text has a different editor, such as "L'Église de l'Unité Scatologique et Apostolique", La Centrale Scatologique des Journalistes", "l'Association des Familles Scatologiques", "La Renaissance Scatolgique" (the "Church of Scatological and Apostolic Unity", The Scatological Central of Journalists", "The Association of Scatological Families", "The Scatological Renaissance") and others.
Premiers Dessins; Treize Dessins Dialogués de 1963; Dessins Légendés de 1963; Dessins sans Légende 1964-1974; Dessins Improbables 1989-1994; Dessins avec Légende de 1995 (Early Drawings; Thirteen Dialogued Drawings of 1963; Captioned Drawings from 1963; Drawings without Caption 1964-1974; Improbable Drawings 1989-1994; Drawings with Caption from 1995)
6 artist's books.
6 notebooks.
Each: Unpaginated.
10.5 x 14.8 cm (or 14.8 x 10.5 cm),
16pp. of offset full-page black and white drawings.
Self-published, Le Moteur à Éponges, Paris, c. 1995.
SUnspecified size of the edition, certainly very limited.
"Premiers Dessins", "BAGIRÖE"; "Treize Dessins Dialogués de 1963", "MÉTÉO 1993"; "Dessins Légendés de 1963", "Le Comique de Répétition"; "Dessins sans Légende 1964-1994", "AFFENARSCH 1994"; "Dessins Improbables 1989-1994", "TVMVLVS"; "Dessins avec Légende de 1995".
Galerie Sémiose, Paris: "Through detour, manipulation of images and even plagiarism, enhanced by language games and caricatural drawings, the artist examines the art world from the perspective of its turpitudes, greed and other pretensions" Galerie Sémiose, Paris: "Through detour, manipulation of images and even plagiarism, enhanced by language games and caricatural drawings, the artist examines the art world from the perspective of its turpitudes, greed and other pretensions". .
"the 'graphic work of Ernest T'. 6 small self-published formats. The jokes of calendars that we peel off as works of graphic art (French drawing), the anonymous vignettes to illustrate a catalogue of pranks and catches (small rash things).
CDLA, inv. 439-444 12.
TAROOP & GLABEL
Multiple.
Flask for alcohol in the shape of an ancient bound book, very possibly in papier-mache.
Spine with 3 nerves, with cork stopper and cord connecting it to the flask.
14.8 x 10.5 x 4.6 cm.
Edited in X copies, this one n. V/X, size of the edition and signature "T&G" engraved in the tall bottom also wearing an original small drawing in black ink.
TAROOP & GLABEL, compilateurs, présentent (TAROOP & GLABEL, compilers, present THE BOOK OF TAXES)
LE LIVRE DES TAXES
Title printed in red on title page.
Wrappers, printed dust jacket.
Éditions à Bruit Secret, n. p., 1993.
Colophon:
"Of this work, printed on May twenty, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three (...) 150 copies were printed. The first hundred and fifty were numbered from 1 to 50 and bearing the stamp of the Santa Frottola Library and the seal of the auxiliaries of purgatory and the following hundred from 51 to 150. The whole constituting the original edition".
This copy is one of the 100, numbered by hand in black pencil in the colophon.
"Le Livre des Taxes is a catalogue of rates to be absolved of all sins. This could range from the most trivial things (wearing shoes "à la poulaine") to the most serious acts (premeditated assassinations). All these exemptions and absolutions were still practiced at the beginning of the 15th century. The adversaries of the papacy used this book as a formidable weapon. The Roman curia tried in vain to destroy the existing copies. There are several editions, very rare, and one, published in Paris in 1520, with privilege of the king.
An edition of 300 copies was made in 1879. Taroop & Glabel, acting here as compilers, have had this surprising work reissued."
Éditions Domestiques et Autres (Domestic Editions and others)
Invitation card.
Invitation to opening of the exhibition "Éditions Domestiques et Autres" (Domestic Editions and Others by Taroop & Glabel at ARCHIVES', 52 rue Mazarine, 75006, Paris.
Letterpress on heavy white laid paper, on one side.
Self-published, Paris, 1999.
Exhibition of all editions, artist' books, multiples by Taroop & Glabel. A real retrospective.
Exhibition on Thursday May 6 from 5 to 8 p.m., "Evening dress desired".
BRUNNER, Manfred; SOMMER, Peter-Jurgen. Henri Rousseau der Zöllner (1844-1910). Bilder aus der Sammlung Ernest T.
"Exhibition catalogue". Artist's book.
48pp. Bilingual French-German text (30pp) by Manfred Brunner and Peter-Jurgen Sommer: "Offene Verstecke - Gespräche über Henri Rousseau / Badly Kept Secrets - Interview on Henri Rousseau"; 12 full-page color illustrations.
Soft cover with dust jacket.
Zentrum für offene Kulturarbeit, Mönchengladbach; Hiltrud Jordan Galerie, Köln, 1994.
Edition of unnumbered 1,000. Fine.
Cabinet du livre d'artiste, Université de Rennes2:
"(…) The third example fr<q<sqzer§trseqom the work of Ernest T. is his interest in Henri Rousseau, an emblematic artist of naïve painting, but whom he undoubtedly considers as an exemplary figure of modernity. It was Ernest T. who brought together in his old collection a series of lost paintings by Douanier Rousseau, made according to their titles and dimensions, and which were exhibited in 1994 in Mönchengladbach. The interview published in the catalogue of this exhibition allows us to better understand the reasons for the choice made by the artist to present the missing part of Rousseau's work. His "sketches clearly show that he had an alternative in terms of pictorial rendering", asserts Manfred Brunner, a position which corresponds to the definition of the modern artist proposed by Peter-Jürgen Somme: "a modern artist knows that he can, if he wants to, master perspective, but if he gives it up, it's because his work doesn't need it"; same thing for color: "One could say that Rousseau already uses color freely - and in the modern spirit - according to its own value". And Sommer adds that Rousseau "developed [...] a personal pictorial language that is completely removed from naturalism)". If there is a conclusion in this interview, it is announced from its beginning, in the words of Manfred Brunner: "Rousseau was spontaneously a modern rather than a naive artist"; and more developed: "I think that Rousseau never had a notion of modern art, that he understood nothing of these revolutionary changes that were taking place in his time. He was and remained deeply naive. His naivety imposed certain limits which he was incapable of overcoming […] But he also had considerable freedom to choose his means and develop them.) In other words, to be a truly modern artist is not so much to follow a movement, be it historical, to have this freedom and this spontaneity that Henri Rousseau had, and which allowed him to develop his own language. The same could be said of Marcel Duchamp."
TAROOP & GLABEL, Collectif Vitaly Glabel / Joan Taroop (Ernest T.)
Nourrissons des Muses. (Let's feed Muses. Or Muses' babies?).
Soft cover, square-back, sewn.
Pink matte coated paper jacket, white printing.
White bulky paper pages.
Éditions Voix Richard Meier, Paris, 1995.
Edition of 300 signed and numbered 1 to 300, + 30 numbered I to XXX with an intervention by the author.
This copy is signed an numbered, no. 28 in black pencil in the colophon.
This book presents the poems: Taroop et Glabel: "Apostrophes et renvois (Apostrophes and referrals)"; Vitaly Glabel: "Le divin et les succédanés (The divine and the substitutes)"; Joan Taroop: "Apostrophes et renvois (Apostrophes and referrals)", reproductions de panneaux de texte découpé réalisés avec du plastique adhésif; Joan Taroop: "Quelques petits calligrammes (A few small calligrams"; Viatly Glabel: "Donner son (Give one's)".
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Ah Dieu! Que la guerre est jolie" at the Synagogue of Delme, contemporary art space from January 14 to February 18, 1995.
Presentation text in French by Ralph Strondlak on the dust jacket flaps.
This title "Nourrissons des Muses" could very possibly be in French a play of words by Taroop & Glabel, which, if translated literally into English, would render this: "Let's feed the Muses" or "The Babies of Muses".
"Catalogue published for their first exhibition in France in 1995. Presentation of their works "drowned" in a book of poems, to cover their tracks."
Nourrissons des Muses. (Let's feed Muses).
This copy is unnumbered and has, added in the colophon page, the mention handwritten in black pencil: "And 9 corrections", signed by "T. & G.".
Presentation textin French by Ralph Strondlak on the dust jacket flaps.
"catalogue
published for their first exhibition in France in 1995. Presentation of their works "drowned" in a book of poems, to cover their tracks.
HISTOIRE NATURELLE no.1. Le Pape et le sapin de Noël ont cette particularité d'avoir
des boules uniquement décoratives.
(NATURAL HISTORY No.1. The Pope and the Christmas tree have this particularity of having only decorative balls)
Artist postcard from the "Natural History" series.
Printed in black, heightened by hand in gold ink pencil on the recto.
Both sides.
Text on the verso, handwritten in gold ink, signed: "My secretariat reports that I am in the Southwest until Sunday. Blessings, Ernest".
Posted to Jean-Dominique Carré, June 17, 1999.
Collection "Collect the Beautiful Images of Taroop".
Top corner bumped. Fine nonetheless.
TAROOP & GLABEL Décorateurs
Bank check given to Ernst T. by ARCHIVES LIBRAIRIE in payment for one of their book Archives Library sold, which TARROP & GLABEL returned with several black ink rubber ink stamps, thus transforming the check into a work of art. Black ink rubber stamps, in black ink: "TAROOP & GLABEL"; "ST-LEU PARISH, DIOCESE OF PARIS"; "TAROOP & GLABEL Decorators"; "SECT OR RELIGION?"; "ASSOCIATION OF PAINTERS PAINTING WITH THE HAND"; "PROFIT-PROFIT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF THE POOR".
"So that the humanist tradition continues this year again"
Handwritten by Taroop & Glabel on the verso in black ink: "So that the humanist tradition continues this year again".
10,5 x 15 cm.
Illegible date.
Signed by the black ink rubber stamp "Taroop & Glabel".
Postcard from the collection "Chefs d'œuvres de tous les temps sélectionnés par Taroop & Glabel" ("All-time masterpieces selected by Taroop & Glabel").
L'Équipe Nationale Chinoise de Football (The Chinese National Football Team)
Greeting letter.
A sheet of white paper, printed in black.
On the recto:"The Chinese national football team having been unable, after five successive years, to qualify for the 1998 World Cup, it has just presented its apologies to the people." We are overwhelmed with remorse and berate ourselves. We want to say sincere forgiveness to everyone," the Chinese XI told him.
Black ink rubber stamp "Religion or Sect?" in the lower right corner.
On the verso, handwritten text in black ink and signature "Taroop & Glabel" (rubber stamp)::
"After the ultra-liberal liberalism, the dictatorship of the bowl game. With the best wishes from Ernest T. and kind regards from TAROOP & GLABEL".
Folded in three for mailing purpose.
"Signed" by Taroop & Glabel with a black ink rubber stamp.
In its mailing envelope.
Mailed on the 01/07/1998 (postmark).
Vitaly GLABREL
Sur deux Rouleaux
19pp.+1.
Text in French printed in black on white paper.
Self-published, sl. n.d. (presumably 90s).
Short texts presented in the form of free verse poems. 80 € As new.
TAROOP & GLABEL CDLA: L
CROIRE RIRE CROIRE BOIRE (
(BELIEVE, LAUGHTER, BELIEVEE, DRINK)
Collage.
Under frame liner and framed under glass.
Collage, unframed: 17.8 x 26.2 cm.
Framed: 31.5 x 41.5 cm.
"Signed" on a paper label glued on the back:
"TAROOP & GLABEL believe in the virtue of collage".
("Taroop & Glabel", black ink rubber istamp and "believe in the virtue of collage", handwritten in blue ballpoint pen).
Dated 17-09-1999.
Gift of the artist.
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #115): Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker
Home / American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #115): Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker
In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry through the post-War years restores that era in all its astonishing beauty and explosive energy.
This first volume of the set, organized chronologically by the poets' birthdates, takes the reader from Henry Adams (1838–1918) to Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), and in the process reveals the unfolding of a true poetic renaissance. Included are generous selections from some of the century's greatest poets: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H.D., Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot. Here they are seen as part of an age that proposed new and often contentious definitions of what American poetry could be and fresh perceptions of a society undergoing rapid and often tumultuous change.
The multifarious aesthetic influences brought to bear—Chinese and Japanese poetry, the African-American sermon, the artistic revolutions of Cubism and Dada, the cadences of jazz, the brash urgencies of vernacular speech—resulted in a poetic culture of dynamic energy and startling contrasts.
The poets of this era transformed not only style but traditional subject matter: there are poems here on a silent movie actress, a lynching, the tenements of New York, the trench warfare of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the landscape of Mars. Here too are folk ballads on events like the assassination of McKinley and the sinking of the Titanic; popular and humorous verse by Don Marquis and Franklin P. Adams; the famous "Spectra" hoax; song lyrics by Ma Rainey, Joe Hill, and Irving Berlin; and poems by writers as unexpected as Djuna Barnes, Sherwood Anderson, John Reed, and H. P. Lovecraft. Included are some of the century's most important poems, presented in full: Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Eliot's The Waste Land, Steven's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.

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Paying and earning!
The situation is decidedly delicate. Governing a country such as France is never easy, but sometimes it is France that decides and, above all, sometimes governs. Growth is not as strong as expected and pay-as-you-earn or withholding tax has become an issue, even a problem, and possibly a key debate. Meanwhile, the president is scoring low on approval ratings and is no doubt asking himself plenty of questions. We could talk about the future of the world and future solutions, but having reading Le Figaro économie, our focus here will be on the financial situation. So what exactly did we read and what is our focus?
The current financial situation? " 'Just as dangerous' as when the US bank Lehman Brothers fell in September 2008, according to former ECB Chairman Jean-Claude Trichet, a first-hand witness of the financial meltdown ten years ago. 'It is now an admitted truth that the massive over-indebtedness of advanced economies was a key factor in the triggering of the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008,' Trichet told the AFP press agency." The financial daily goes on to explain: "Yet today, 'the growth of debt – and private debt in particular – in advanced countries has slowed, but that slowdown is offset by an acceleration of debt in emerging countries. This is what makes today's entire global financial system at least as vulnerable if not more so than in 2008,' said Trichet, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) from 2003 to 2011."
What we have to do, then, is listen to the words of people in the know, such as Jean Tirole, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and President of the Toulouse School of Economics, who has sought to learn the lessons of the subprime crisis. "Ten years ago, the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy plunged the global economy into turmoil. The Nobel prizewinner stresses the role played in 2008 by flaws in financial regulation and gives us a few pointers on how to firm up regulation. He also warns against the potential formation of new bubbles and the effects of low interest rates, which, he says, are a 'drug' for nation states."
A strange end to the summer, a passable economic harvest, and problems supervising the management of the government: as Emmanuel Macron heads into his second autumn as president, the least we can say is that the issue is absolutely not about back-to-school supplies but about men and women able to lead reform.
As for withholding tax, we need to go back to the origins of the initiative. A heady agenda for the autumn, one that will pay only if earned...


#Nassau, November 7, 2018 – Bahamas – At a special presentation at the Coral Harbour Base, RBDF organizers and team members who participated in the inaugural 18th Annual National Public Service Week Fun, Run Walk and Health Screening Day event presented Commodore Tellis Bethel, Commander Defence Force, with the coveted Floating Trophy for having the most participants and winning the most medals.
The inaugural event was one of many activities being coordinated by the 18th National Public service Week Committee in recognition of those persons, who have retired from the Public Service within the past year. The 6- mile race commenced at the Botanical Gardens and culminated near Melia Resort Hotel, Cable Beach. Other groups and organizations from various government and non-government agencies throughout the island participated in this event.
Participants from the RBDF included Marine Seaman Troy Seymour and Able Seaman Ryan Ferguson who placed 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Male Under-30 category; Leading Seaman Devon Sands won the Male 30-49 category; and Able Woman Marine Aniska Bonaby and Leading Woman Marine Denise Oliver finished 1st and 2nd in the Female 30-49 category. Able Woman Marine Stephanie Darville came 1st in the Female 50 and Over walk category.
Photo Caption: Senior Lieutenant Elvis Bullard, RBDF Public Service Liaison Office, Lieutenant Elizabeth Simms, Training Executive Officer, Able Seaman Ryan Ferguson, Able Woman Marine Aniska Bonaby, Commodore Tellis Bethel, Leading Woman Marine Denise Oliver, Leading Seaman Devon Sands, Woman Marine Erica Longley, Force Chief Petty Officer Oral Wood, Command Force Chief, and RBDF Training Officer (Acting), Senior Lieutenant Origin Deleveaux.


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Q: Avoiding multiple If statements Is there a better way in Apex to have multiple If Statements? I know that multiple if statements will slow performance, and my scenario would require me to have 36 different scenarios.
Ex:
I have 2 objects with 2 fields each on them.  Each of those fields has 3 possible values (0,X,Y). So line 1 of the 36 lines I'd need would look like :
if(obj1.field1 == 0 && obj1.field2 == 0 && obj2.field1 == 0 && obj2.field2 == 0){
  ///////scenario 1 logic
}
if(scenario 2 conditions){
  /////scenario 2
}

and so on until all conditions are covered. Is a switch statement my only real option, or can this be solved in a different way?

A: Let's assume that all tests are equalities
You could create a simple two-level map. Note that map keys can be sobjects. The map key will be an sobject possessing only the fields+vals for a given combination to evaluate.  I chose a two level map to make it easier to setup as there are two sobjecttypes involved in the OP.
// define map (most likely static) of all 36 branches.
// Map is a map of maps where the leftmost key is the first SobjectType and
// and the rightmost key is a map of the second sobjecttype
static Map<Object1__c,Map<Object2__c,Boolean>> evaluator =
  new Map<Object1__c,Map<Object2__c,Boolean>> {
   new Object1__c(F1__c = 'a', F2__c = 'b') =>
     new Map<Object2__c,Boolean> {
        new Object2__c(G1__c = 'x', G2__c = 'y') => false,
        new Object2__c(G1__c = 'w', G2__c = 'y') => true,
        ... enumerate all possible combos of G1 and G2 in Object2 (6 total)
     },
   new Object1__c(F1__c = 'a', F2__c = 'c') =>
     new Map<Object2__c,Boolean> {
        new Object2__c(G1__c = 'x', G2__c = 'y') => true,
        new Object2__c(G1__c = 'w', G2__c = 'y') => true,
        ... enumerate all possible combos of G1 and G2 in Object2 (6 total)
     },
   ... for remaining combos of values F1, F2 in Object1 (4 more)
};

Then your code to evaluate for false/true is simply
private Boolean evaluate(Object f1,Object f2, Object g1, Object g2) {
 // Build lookup keys from inputVals to method
 Object1__c primaryKey = new Object1__c(F1__c = f1, F2__c = f2);
 Object2__c secondaryKey = new Object2__c(G1__c = g1, G2__c = g2);

 return evaluator.containsKey(primaryKey) // entry for Object1 ?
    ? evaluator.get(primaryKey).containsKey(secondaryKey) // yes, entry for Object2 ?
      ? evaluator.get(primaryKey).get(secondaryKey) // yes, get result t/f
      : false // nope, default to false
    : false;  // nope, default to false
 }

and you would invoke by
evaluate(10,'abc',67,'xyz');  // args would of course be vbls populated
                             //  from some input like json or VF controller or trigger

Code coverage is trivial although it would be a good idea to test that you set up your evaluator map with the expected results; The test method merely needs to generate 36 inputs and verify against an expected results list
This could be generalized to put the evaluator map in custom metadata as a JSON object that you could at runtime deserialize (or as a list of custom metadata that you read and build the evaluator dynamically)
N.B. if tests are inequalities or the range of fields used to test are not consistent, then the above pattern breaks

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Blockchain technology has gone beyond a buzzword. With its innovative characteristics and potential to revamp the complete industrial era, the technology has become the hottest topic of the time, with every second business leader looking forward to incorporating the technology into their business processes and earning higher revenue.
As a consequence, the demand for blockchain development skills has risen in the market.
These numbers and the daily headlines regarding adoption of blockchain in different streams is a clear indication that blockchain holds a profitable future.
Considering this, what is your perspective toward entering the blockchain market? Are you looking forward to becoming part of blockchain world? If so, this will be a good read for you.
Here, I'll share the different types of blockchain jobs you can apply for in 2019 and the skills required.
A bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or other such qualification or experience in the technical environment is the foremost requirement to get into the blockchain market. This will sharpen your technical skills and help you to easily understand and work in the vast world of technologies and tools.
To enter the blockchain world, you need to have a comprehensive knowledge of the basics of blockchain programming along with familiarity with decentralized blockchain, dApp development, smart contracts, or cryptocurrency.
To understand, write, and improve code in the blockchain development environment, you need to have a knack for C++, Solidity, and associated programming languages.
With security as the prime factor behind the booming market for blockchain, it is also mandatory that you know the basics of data structure and data security and the theories related to them.
To embrace blockchain in the business world, it is necessary that you see the bigger picture of using blockchain for startups and established businesses. You are supposed to know when, why, and how blockchain technology will upgrade business and have the best blockchain use cases at your fingertips.
With blockchain still in its nascent stage, there are developers in this field with little-to-no experience. You might struggle with finding the right resources, reusable code, and support from other developers, implying you will have to handle all the challenges single-handedly. You will have to think beyond typical dimensions to understand each problem and find the right solution. You will be required to experiment with your code and strategies, face the related challenges, and revise your code to launch more effective solutions.
When it comes to blockchain, the foremost job choice that hits our minds is becoming a blockchain developer. No doubt blockchain app development is the most popular career opportunity in the blockchain market, but it is not the only one.
Here are six different blockchain career option you can go with in the year 2019.
As depicted by the job title, the role of blockchain project manager is to handle all the blockchain-related business needs. They have to act as an intermediary between business professionals and blockchain app developers, helping the two understand each other's needs, challenges, and other factors and thus, enjoy a streamlined blockchain development process within the predetermined budget and resources.
Since this job title is that of a manager who connects tech persons with nontech persons, you need to have strong managerial skills along with a knack for easily converting technical terms and jargon to simpler layman's language and vice versa. This means you need to have robust communication skills and, of course, knowledge of blockchain technology.
Just like any other quality engineer, the role of a blockchain quality engineer is to maintain a standard in the blockchain development environment. They have to unveil and test different scenarios within a blockchain environment using distinct automation frameworks, testing tools, devices, platforms, network speed, etc.
To apply for this job, one has to be well-versed in the basics of the blockchain environment and testing standards in addition to an engineering degree.
Since many small and established businesses are turning toward harnessing the potential of blockchain and cryptocurrencies for trading/payment process, there's a rise in the demand for blockchain web developers who design customer-centric websites and pages and assist the businesses to let their customers know what they offer and how to leverage the benefits of their offering.
Though many digestible guides to blockchain app development are present in the market, various firms are still grappling with how to integrate the technology into their existing solutions, especially on the legal front. This is where the need for blockchain legal consultants or attorneys is coming into existence.
These legal consultants provide the business owners and their teams with sound legal advice on how to build legal partnerships and contracts (smart contracts), how to put their money in initial coin offering (ICO) development effectively, how to handle transactions in a blockchain-based program, and much more. In this way, they aid these organizations to take a bigger slice of the benefits associated with blockchain development.
A person applying for the job of blockchain legal consultant should have a thorough knowledge of blockchain technology as well as a law degree to make legal terms understandable to these business holders.
Blockchain app developer is the most popular and highly paid job in the blockchain market. Here, the candidate has to design and develop blockchain-based solutions and apps, which can bring some value to the business or customer fronts, or both.
They need to have extensive knowledge of blockchain-based concepts like smart contracts and Hyperledger and expertise in C, C++, HTML, CSS, C#, SQL, XML, jQuery, Go RESTful, Solidity, etc.
While the aforementioned career options are for somewhat experienced professionals, this is an entry-level job position that provides you with an opportunity to understand all the other career options, polish your skills in each field, and determine which is the right direction to take your career in.
Ready to Dive Into the Blockchain Arena?
With this information, you know what it takes to enjoy a brighter future in the blockchain market and the different ways to step into it. So, what is your next move?
Are you ready to invest your time and effort in embracing the blockchain technology and learning these skills? Share in the comments section below.
Holding a Bachelor's degree in Technology and 2 years of work experience in a mobile app development agency, Bhupinder is focused on making technology digestible to all. Being someone who stays updated with the latest tech trends, she's always armed to write and spread the knowledge. When not found writing, you will find her answering on Quora while sipping coffee.


A Republican lawmaker wants the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to turn over more documents for a House probe into the bailout of American International Group Inc.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says the New York Fed must share additional documents to satisfy a subpoena from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Issa is the committee's top Republican.
The committee is investigating why officials didn't demand concessions from big banks that were owed money by AIG. Lawmakers are asking why officials wouldn't name the banks that benefited from AIG's "backdoor bailouts."
The AIG bailout was managed by the New York Fed under now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Geithner is scheduled to testify at a committee hearing next week.


Cooling the surrounding environment of astronauts has been turned into a major concern due to NASA's serious planning to send astronauts to the Mars.
For this purpose, a group of Mechanical engineers in Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts State, headed by Jamal Yaqoubi as a top and prominent Iranian researcher, managed to design a new electric cooling system that lacks any moving part, MNA reported.
This electro-hydrodynamic system, which has successfully been tested at the International Space Station (ISS), uses some liquids with an electric charge to cool the environment. The mentioned fluids pass through the narrow pipes to keep the heat away from the surrounding area of astronauts without creating noise or shaking.
Heat is one of the greatest threats to space travel which constantly causes problem for astronauts. Although the space outside the Earth is very cold, but when a spacecraft is exposed to the sunlight, it suddenly becomes very hot and its temperature reaches to a boiling point unless the spacecraft's surface has a reflective property.
Moreover, it should be kept in mind that electrical, electronic and mechanical systems and even body of astronauts generate heat and activity of all of these devices in vacuum condition causes no air to transmit or convert heat, so that accumulation of this heat can be problematic.
According to Yaqoubi, this system was successfully tested in International Space Station (ISS) in 2017, so that a more complex and advanced sample of it will be constructed by 2021, costing $10 million.


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Brisbane launches Parish Giving app as a new way to offer something up while Masses are suspended
byEmilie Ng
15 May 2020 - Updated on 1 April 2021
New giving app: "It just gives another opportunity for people to offer something to the parish, which we appreciate especially at this time."
COLLECTION plates around Brisbane have been collecting dust instead of coins and notes for the past eight weeks but a new app is giving parishioners a chance to donate to their parish once more.
The Parish Giving app for the Archdiocese of Brisbane was released at the end of April, several weeks after parishes were told to suspend Masses and close churches until further notice.
Retired grandmother Marie Shea, 74, is a parishioner and cantor at St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley, but due to COVID-19, is housebound in her Clayfield apartment.
"I decided I was sort of feeling that I needed to do something because we weren't going to Mass on a Sunday," Mrs Shea said.
"I had had an envelope to do the collections – of course I wasn't using them because we weren't going to Mass.
"I was thinking, 'This isn't right – the church needs the money somehow'."
Mrs Shea registered to use the Parish Giving web app and within minutes was set up to give a monthly donation.
She had more success using the new app than trying to join a video call with her four children on her iPad.
To date, 27 parishes have registered to use the Parish Giving app in Brisbane.
In the Logan suburb of Regents Park, St Bernadine's Church parish secretary Christy Gracias said the Parish Giving app answered a need in the community to give back to the Church.
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The number of people who take up the app in Regents Park was irrelevant.
"Whether one or 50, it's one or 50 more people who are able to give us money," Mrs Gracias said.
Despite the parish losing 50 per cent of their income, Mrs Gracias said it was putting the needs of families first.
"Very much, if you're family needs (money) first, look after your family," she said.
Mrs Gracias said the funds would be used to continue building community through virtual resources.
This includes video calls with Catholics going through their sacramental programs, including primary school children and adults who had planned on becoming Catholic at Easter, and virtual youth group meetings.
On Brisbane's northside, parish priest of Little Flower Church, Kedron, Franciscan Father Mario Debattista said the app was "another opportunity for people to give if they want to give".
"It just gives another opportunity for people to offer something to the parish, which we appreciate especially at this time," Fr Debattista said.
Fr Debattista acknowledged that older parishioners might "prefer the old-fashioned way" of giving to the parish but said "it is definitely a help".
The Parish Giving app was developed free of charge by Webgate Technology and supported by the Archdiocesan Development Fund, which was established in 1969 to finance the expansion of the Brisbane archdiocese.
ADF manager Cheryl Caughley said they had begun work with a developer one year before the pandemic "to look for alternate options and cash free alternatives" for parishioners to give to their parish.
Mrs Caughley said although it was initially developed for the Brisbane archdiocese, the app had the potential to be rolled out nationally.
"The App was designed with other dioceses in mind, so it can potentially be rolled out to other dioceses within a short amount of time," she said.
"Currently, Archdiocese of Perth is looking to introduce the app to its parishes."
The Parish Giving app is available on Android, Apple and through a web application at https://parishgiving.brisbanecatholic.org.au/.
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Just curious if anyone here has done two things..
And... If anybody has done the above using a 802.11b(or other) wireless link between the two 4801's, and what speeds they got during testing.
I need to assist in implementing a wireless link between two buildings, Must be over an IPsec encyrpted tunnel, and looking for the best solution.  I would use net4501's, but the most I get from those in testing (using a crossover cable) using a ipsec tunnel is about 3mbit/sec(without the vpn1211 card before you all ask).


Business debtors under financial duress have two alternate remedies under the Bankruptcy Code. If they believe that they can rehabilitate their affairs by proposing a plan of reorganization which can be confirmed by the court, they will generally file under Chapter 11. Upon the filing, the debtor becomes a debtor-in-possession and retains control of the business, albeit under the watchful eyes of the United States Trustee and its creditors. If a debtor does not believe that it has a likelihood of rehabilitation, then it can file for liquidation under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. In that case, a trustee is appointed to take control of the remaining business assets, liquidate them and distribute the proceeds in accordance with law. Since the debtor loses control of its assets immediately upon filing a Chapter 7, most debtors with any prospect of rehabilitation (and some that do not) elect Chapter 11.
If a debtor files under Chapter 11, in most circumstances it can later convert its case to Chapter 7 and liquidate its assets. In addition, the Bankruptcy Code has a special provision which permits any creditor to apply to have a case converted from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 "for cause." A wily debtor who has frustrated a lender, often for years, and who believes he is going to retain control of his property in a Chapter 11 can be devastated by an involuntary conversion to a Chapter 7. When the criteria for conversion are met, conversion by a creditor can be a spectacularly successful maneuver. The court will consider whether or not there is a reasonable likelihood of rehabilitation and whether or not the estate is continuing to shrink due to losses or other causes.
Under this test, the court will look at the entire financial picture of the debtor, including its actual prospective income, its assets and the liens on those assets, and will determine whether or not after proceeding through the reorganization process a viable company is likely to emerge. If the debtor has little income or the ability to generate income, there is little to rehabilitate.
The courts have held that where the purpose of the Chapter 11 filing was only to obtain time to either sell or refinance a parcel of real estate, then the case should be converted to Chapter 7. The rationale is that debtors should not be allowed to "speculate at the expense of their creditors while remaining in possession of the property without having to pay rent, real estate taxes or insurance premiums." Absent income to meet these ordinary expenses, generally speaking, the debtor will have little reasonable likelihood of rehabilitation.
Here, the court looks at the actual cash flow and potential depreciation of assets. Post-petition negative cash flow is the principle evidence of continuing losses. Likewise where the current cash flow is insufficient to service accruing interest, taxes, insurance, and other costs, the creditor's position would weaken as a Chapter 11 continued. Deferred maintenance is also evidence of continuing shrinkage of the estate.
While not required by the Bankruptcy Code in order to obtain a conversion, the courts have held that Chapter 11 is only for debtors who are motivated by a legitimate reorganization purpose and not principally by the desire to prevent foreclosure. Thus, with a single-asset debtor which has little or no equity and which is facing a foreclosure, a court might very well find that a Chapter 11 filing is in bad faith. Lack of good faith is, in and of itself, cause for converting a case to Chapter 7.
Debtors use numerous ploys in the state courts to delay a lender's realization upon collateral. While most lenders dread a bankruptcy filing, it often can serve as an opportunity to improve a lender's position. An involuntary conversion to a Chapter 7 can be a rude shock to a debtor and may result in a lender being able to realize upon its collateral more quickly than it would have in state court.


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Do you have a qualification passion for English? Are you looking for a new role for January or maybe some day to day supply work?
Protocol Education are working with secondary schools across the London borough of Lambeth to find dynamic English Teachers of Key stages 3 and 4. We have a fantastic team in place who are in regular contact with our schools, assisting with their staffing for the new winter term. This is a brilliant opportunity to join a new school at the start of their academic year.


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Phillies decline 2017 option on Ryan Howard
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Phillies have officially declined the 2017 option on Ryan Howard's contract.
This makes Howard a free agent after 12 seasons with the Phillies.
Philadelphia Phillies baserunner Ryan Howard, left, is safe at home after Cincinnati Reds catcher Corky Miller, right, had dropped the ball in the second inning, Sept. 15, 2004.
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On October 3rd, a special pre-game ceremony honored the team veteran, who was the only remaining member of the 2008 World Series Championship team.
His wife, Krystal, joined him on the field. Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt presented him with a commemorative plaque. For Howard, it was hard to keep back the tears.
"My family has grown with all of you," Howard told the crowd at Citizens Bank Park.
Philadelphia Phillies star Ryan Howard was honored Sunday at Citizens Bank Park prior to what is believed to be his final game for the team.
Howard's accolades include National League Rookie of the Year in 2005 and the National League's Most Valuable Player in 2006.
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How to align existing and upcoming innovation policy and R&D activities by operating in transnational structures to respond to the challenges at large? Within the framework of our joint conference with the Baltic Science Network we would like to discuss with you the benefits of joint research policies and strategies as well as cooperation in the frame of research and science. We will explore how innovation can be unlocked by strengthening collaborative actions and securing a workable framework of macro-regional collaboration between science and industry, and what actions are needed to better link research expertise to concrete industrial needs. Finally, we will investigate how public and private sectors can join forces to enhance regional prosperity and growth. The event aims to gather representatives of the EU Commission, national and regional science ministries, science community, parliamentarians, regional development agencies, innovation intermediaries, representatives of analytical research facilities, knowledge institutions, industry and business representatives. The conference will be held in the charming premises of the Solvay Library, Brussels.


Officer Clint Corvinus; Photo: Alamogordo Police Dept.
An Alamogordo, NM police officer was shot and killed Friday morning during a foot pursuit.
The incident occurred after Officer Clint Corvinus, 33, contacted suspect Joseph Moreno, 38. Moreno fled on foot and gunfire was exchanged.
Officer Corvinus was struck by gunfire and transported to a local hospital for treatment; however, he died of his injuries. Moreno was also shot and died on scene.
Officer Corvinus was a four and a half year veteran of the force and is survived by his 8-year old daughter.


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The Frau Erica Project
Muellers in America:
The first 154 years
Contact the archivist
Ur-Muellers
Index of texts
The Mueller lexicon
Back to family tree
Family in Freedom
Emanuel Lutheran Church, Freedom Township, Janesville, Minnesota, photographed June 7, 2007, by Joel Nickel
Helen Hedder: Oma bails them out
While there is no smoking gun in the archives, the suspicion builds that Wilhelm and Frau Erica tended toward the high-maintenance side — complaining, demanding, confident in their Fifth Commandment entitlements. Around the turn of the century, they cadged what would have been a $45,000 loan in today's dollars from their new daughter-in-law Helen Hedder Mueller. Helen waited almost 30 years — a decade after Wilhelm and Frau Erica had died — for repayment.
At some point later in their adult lives, Wilhelm and Adelheid Mueller, Opa's parents, found themselves in dire straits financially. Their new daughter-in-law Helen Hedder, right, helped them out with a substantial loan.
Nothing in the archives suggests why a loan was necessary or whether the elder Muellers or their son Ernst first broached the subject. The only artifact is a cover note for a payment dated June 17, 1930, sent by William Mueller of LaGrange, Illinois, on behalf of all his siblings. That would have been about the time the Mueller children received the first Erbschaft and long after Wilhelm and Adelheid were dead.
William's cover note sets the amount of the loan at exactly $2,075.50. It does not mention when the loan was made, only that $2,075.50 is "the amount of the principal you loaned to our parents years ago when they were hard pressed." The repayment idea may have originated with Helen's husband Ernst, who, William wrote, had provided information about the loan.
Opa and Oma married in 1899. If the loan was made between 1900 and 1910, it would have been worth between $40,000 and $44,200 in 2004 dollars, according to CPI-based conversion tables from the University of Oregon. It is possible that the early 1900s were difficult for Wilhelm and Adelheid. They would have had at least three children living with them, aged 7, 14 and 16, with other children in school. Adelheid did have some health problems, including gall stones ("Wiederholt hat sie schwere Krankheiten durchmachen müßen, wiederholt mußte eine Operation [Gallensteinen] vorgenommen werden," according to her obituary in Die Abendschule), although the archives do not have information about the timing of these problems.
Helen Hedder, while not significantly wealthy, did come from a family of merchants in Chicago. Her father, Hermann Hedder, owned his own fuel business (coal and wood); he died in 1897. Her mother, Louise Luecke Hedder, bought a house for herself near Humboldt Park in Chicago after Hermann's death. She lived until January 1905. Helen had only one surviving sibling, her brother Paul. Helen and Paul would have received their inheritance from the Hedder estate in 1905 or 1906, which may have given the elder Muellers an opportunity to broach the idea of a loan.
William's check in 1930 made no allowance for interest or inflation. It was worth $23,585 in today's dollars — about 60 percent of the value of the original loan in constant dollars.


The other day, for the first time I made kibbeh, the Lebanese version of kefta or croquettes. A key ingredient in kibbeh is bulgur (cracked wheat), which was a revelation to me. I was afraid the bulgur would add a mealiness to the croquettes, but in fact it remained firm, adding a satisfying bite (and crunch when pan fried) to the ground meat. I liked this combination so much I decided to try it in a stew with tomatoes, white wine and plenty of spices. The bulgur slurped up the liquid producing a thick and dense ragout. While it could easily have been served in bowls as a hearty stew, I spooned it over roasted eggplant to lighten it up a bit. The results resembled a deconstructed dolma or vegetable stuffed with ground meat and grains, typically served in Turkish and Middle Eastern cuisine. All that was needed was a bit of crumbled feta and fresh mint to freshen up this lovely dish, and I know I'll be making it again.
Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a pot or Dutch oven. Add the onion, garlic and lamb. Cook until the onion softens and the lamb browns, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes. Add the wine and deglaze the pan, stirring up any brown bits with a wooden spoon. Add the tomatoes, stock, bulgur, paprika, cumin, cinnamon, and coriander. Simmer, partially covered, until the bulgur is tender, about 20 minutes. The stew will have thickened at this point. If desired, add more water or stock to thin to desired consistency. Add the salt and black pepper and taste for seasoning. Stir in the chickpeas and cabbage and cook over medium-low heat until the cabbage is wilted, 10 to 12 minutes.
While the stew is simmering, arrange the eggplant slices in one layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Brush on both sides with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Broil on the top rack of the oven until golden brown on both sides, turning once.
To serve, spoon the ragout over the eggplant. Sprinkle with feta and garnish with mint. Serve warm.
It's that time of year when the vegetables sneak up on you. A month ago, summer squash were elusive, appearing in the markets in small groups at a price. In the garden they were merely a hint of themselves peeking from their flowers. Purchases felt premature, tasting a little bitter, and costing too much for something you knew would soon be prolific.
Then, before you know it, a month has passed and squash are teeming everywhere. The garden is lobbing them to you like tennis balls, the market shelves are stacked with zucchini, crooknecks, and patty pans, ripe and ready for consumption. With the bounty, it's time to get creative, because, ironically, it's easy to tire of this abundance, and that is a shame. So, yesterday I was determined to use my imagination to celebrate summer squash. Instead of a traditional ratatouille, I made a gratin. And before I made the gratin, I played a little bit with my food and made Ratatouille Stacks.
The ingredients are identical, only the arrangement is different. Serve the gratins as side dishes or a light vegetarian meal. The stacks are fun appetizers.
Try to choose squash and eggplant of a similar diameter. This recipe makes enough for an 8 to 9-inch square or round pan. Alternatively, you can arrange the vegetables in smaller individual gratin dishes.
3. Arrange the eggplant, zucchini, squash, and peppers in one layer on an oiled baking tray. Brush the tops with additional oil and lightly season with salt and black pepper. Broil on the top shelf of the oven until the vegetables are tender, but not mushy, and brown in spots, 8 to 10 minutes, turning once. Remove and cool to the touch.
4. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly oil an 8 or 9-inch square or round gratin dish. Arrange the vegetables, alternating and slightly overlapping, in rows or a circular pattern. Tuck the basil between the vegetables in a random pattern so that it is evenly distributed. Scatter grape-size amounts of the goat cheese evenly over the vegetables.
5. Bake the gratin in the oven until the cheese is soft and light golden in spots, about 15 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature, garnished with extra basil if desired.
Grilled Salad? You bet. This version of ratatouille is perfect in the summer when the season is lobbing a kaleidescope of Provençal vegetables our way. Instead of simmering eggplant, squash and peppers with tomatoes on the stove in the traditional Niçoise fashion, try grilling all of them on the barbecue. Bright, colorful, and pleasantly charred, Grilled Ratatouille Salad is a healthy, summery side dish or salad. Serve as an accompaniment to grilled meats and fish or as a smoky, crunchy stand-alone salad with crusty pain paysan. Alternatively, head further south in the Mediterranean for inspiration and add feta cheese and kalamata olives for a twist on Greek salad.
Soak skewers 30 minutes before grilling. Prepare grill for a medium-heat. Thread tomatoes on skewers. Arrange the vegetables and tomato skewers on a large baking sheet. Lightly drizzle with olive oil, and toss to coat thoroughly. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Transfer to grill (or broil in oven). Grill vegetables over medium direct heat, turning, until lightly charred and tender. Transfer to platter; allow vegetables to cool slightly. Remove tomatoes from skewers and place in large bowl. Cut eggplant, onions, zucchini, squash and peppers in 1 inch pieces. Add to bowl with tomatoes. Toss vegetables with 2-3 tablespoons olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, parsley, basil. Serve warm or at room temperature, garnished with extra parsley and basil leaves.


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Heard of the Kraken?
Well, this may be the one who started all the rumors. The frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) is one of two sharks in the Chlamydoselachidae family, mainly found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in scattered locations.
This primitive-looking shark has changed very little, coining the nickname "living fossil." Some refer to it as an eel or snake, but it's anything but. It's a poor swimmer, first of all, unlike the graceful eel/snake. These small animals also pack 300 smaller, razor-sharp teeth in 25 rows of teeth, with jaws ending at the end of the fish's head.
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It gets its name from the frilled gills on its head (sort of looks like a mudpuppy, to be honest, and those are adorable), and gets no bigger than 2 m (6.6 ft). It is dark brown, helping it camouflage into its preferred environment: the dark, deep ocean. It has been caught as deep as 1,570 m (5,150 ft).
In Suruga Bay, Japan it has been commonly found at depths of 50–200 m (160–660 ft). It has rarely been seen on the surface. In 2007, fishermen caught a species, alive, and moved it to a nearby marine park. However, it died hours afterwards.
Unlike its South African relative, C. africana, it sports more vertebrae (160–171 vs. 147) and more turns in the spiral valve intestine (35–49 vs. 26–28). It also has a longer head, shorter gill slits, and larger overall size.
It's extremely flexible jaw allows it to swallow its food whole, its teeth making it impossible to escape. It mainly prefers cephalopods, bony fishes and other sharks. It may capture its prey by lunging forward... just imagine a snake attacking. Due to its diet, it is hypothesized that these animals vertically migrate up the water column every night, taking part in one of the largest migrations in the world. No worries, though, it's highly specialized for such a trek, and for life in the deep ocean. It has a reduced, poorly calcified skeleton, and an enormous liver, which helps it maintain neutral buoyancy with little effort. It has an "open" lateral line, where the mechanoreceptive hair cells are exposed; it's one of the few sharks with this "open" line.
Like many sharks, it probably is preyed upon by bigger sharks. Parasites also plague this shark, the most common being a tapeworm in the genus Monorygma, the fluke Otodistomum veliporum, and the nematode Mooleptus rabuka.
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Not much more is known about this species, but it does practice viviparity with yolk-sac, and may have a gestation period up to three and a half years. Be glad you aren't a frilled shark, pregnant moms. Otherwise you'd be carrying that little bean around for years... literally. Their litter size varies from two to fifteen, and no breeding seasons has been determined.
They are occasionally caught as bycatch, but due to their small size have no economic value. In fact, they are rarely encountered alive, and thus pose no danger to humans... except some scientists have been known to cut themselves on their sharp teeth. The IUCN has assessed this animal as Near Threatened (NT).
did you know about this species of shark?
Bays: A body of water connected to an ocean or lake, formed by an indentation of the shoreline.
Bycatch: The part of a fishery's catch that is made up of non-target species.
Calcified skeleton: A skeleton that has been hardened by the accumulation of calcium salts.
Cartilaginous: A skeleton made of cartilage.
Cephalopods: The most intelligent, mobile, and largest of all molluscs. These include: squid, octopuses, cuttlefish, the chambered nautilus, and their relatives.
Flanks: Side of an animal.
Gestation: The period in which a fetus develops, beginning with fertilization and ends at birth.
IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Lateral line: A system of sense organs found in fish that detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water.
Vertebrae: Any of the bones or segments composing the spinal column.
Viviparous with yolk-sac: Also known as aplacental viviparous and previously known as ovoviviparous/ovoviviparity; it is the production of eggs that are fertilised and hatch inside the female shark but the embryos lack a placental connection to the oviduct or uterus and so do not feed off the mother.
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TFUI Founder Melissa C. Marquez is author of all animal bios and "Behind the Fins" segments.
A proud #LatinainSTEM, Marquez is a marine biologist who focuses on shark habitat use and movements; she is also a science communicator (follow her on Twitter) who focuses on diverse Chondrichthyan education and who focuses on the media coverage of sharks. You can learn more about her on her website.
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COVID-19 Coverage Litigation Update: Will Your Claim Be Batched with Others for Resolution? ‒ Part 2
Alliant September 8, 2020
Last month we advised that a group of policyholders that have filed COVID-19 business interruption lawsuits against their insurers, asked the federal courts to consolidate all COVID-19 lawsuits that have been or will be filed in federal court.
They argued that the issues between these cases are so similar that they can and should be grouped together for resolution into one or a few multi-district lawsuits ("MDL"). Insurers fought hard against this MDL effort. So too, did many policyholders that did not want to give up control of their own lawsuits filed in the strategic jurisdictions that they preferred, with the counsel they chose making the arguments they believe best suit their particular COVID-19 insurance claim. Others agreed with the consolidation concept, but instead sought that cases be batched on a state-by-state, regional, or insurer-by-insurer basis.
During the pendency of the MDL proceeding, policyholders considering COVID-19 coverage litigation needed to make a judgment call about where and when to file suit. Many policyholders who pursue litigation against their insurer believe that it is strategic to file suit in the state courts where the policyholder operates its business. Frequently, however, policyholders and insurers are from different states and, therefore, are "diverse" for purposes of triggering federal court jurisdiction. Thus, policyholders that want to best protect their chances of litigating in the state where they operate often will file in their state's federal court and proceed from there.
Before the MDL proceeding resolved, filing in federal court in any state had its risks for policyholders (and even their insurers)—if the MDL court granted the consolidation requests, all federal court COVID-19 coverage cases were at risk of being transferred to that consolidated federal lawsuit(s). Thus, policyholders that decided to file suit in advance of an MDL ruling either filed in federal court and crossed their fingers that the MDL would be denied or, to avoid all risk of consolidation, policyholders considered filing suit in the state court where the insurer resides: defendants in litigation have no right of "removal" to federal court in their home state.
On August 12, the MDL court ruled. For most policyholders the ruling ended the "where to file suit" quandry: the court concluded that "the industry-wide centralization requested by movants will not serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses or further the just and efficient conduct of this litigation." The court stated that the parties seeking consolidation identified three core common questions:
do the various government closure orders trigger coverage under the policies;
what constitutes "physical loss or damage" to the property; and
do any exclusions (particularly those related to viruses) apply.
The court observed that these three questions "share only a superficial commonality," and the cases "involve different insurance policies with different coverages, conditions, exclusions, and policy language, purchased by different businesses in different industries located in different states These differences will overwhelm any common factual questions." As a result, the court denied the request for an industry-wide consolidation of COVID-19 coverage suits. The court also denied alternative requests for "regional and state-based MDLs."
For many policyholders this ruling means that they no longer need to worry about the creation of an MDL that would undermine their COVID-19 coverage litigation strategic considerations.
For some, however, the conversation continues. In fact, the court expressed some interest in insurer-specific MDL's for policyholders with policies issued by Hartford, Cincinnati Insurance, Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London and Society Insurance and ordered the parties to "show cause" why those actions should not be centralized. The court reasoned that centralization "may be warranted as to actions involving those insurers "to avoid duplicative discovery." The court is expected to hear oral argument on this issue as to these four insurers on September 24. We will provide a further update after the court rules on the consolidation question as to these insurers.
"COVID-19 Coverage Litigation Update: Will Your Claim Be Batched with Others for Resolution? ‒ Part 2," by Robert N. Lane* and Linda Kornfeld was published by Alliant on September 8, 2020. Reprinted with permission.
Part 1 was published on August 7, 2020, and is available here.
* Robert N. Lane, Esq. serves as executive vice president of Alliant Specialty Group.
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CHALLENGEALMERE-AMSTERDAM presents Zone3 as their Official Swim Partner
One of the world's most top-rated triathlon brands, Zone3, will be the new official swim partner of CHALLENGEALMERE-AMSTERDAM. Thanks to this partnership, participants of the second oldest race in the world will benefit from a wide range of specially designed endurance products for the next three years. ,,We are very pleased to present our partnership with a well-known and trusted triathlon brand", says CHALLENGEALMERE-AMSTERDAM Commercial Director Jort Vlam in a first comment.
Sam Chapman, International Marketing Manager at Zone3, commented: ,,It's great to be working with CHALLENGEALMERE-AMSTERDAM as their official swim partner for the next three years. It's an exciting opportunity to support one of the oldest triathlons in the world and one of the most iconic races in Europe, as we continue on our quest to become the world's leading triathlon brand. This partnership is also a natural extension of our global swim partnership with CHALLENGEFAMILY as official merchandise partner and we look forward to working with them in the years to come."
CHALLENGEFAMILY just recently signed a partnership with Zone3 and therefore the partnership with CHALLENGEALMERE-AMSTERDAM is a natural continuation to work even closer together. Jort Vlam continues: ,,At our race, there will be a large selection of wetsuits and further swim apparel available for beginners, intermediate and pro athletes. There will be some exciting, exclusive offers for Zone3 products and we truly believe this will be amazing for our athletes. There also will be an opportunity to hire wetsuits, so this will give our participants the chance to test and get familiar with the latest Zone3 models before purchase."
About Zone3
Born from a spark of initiative during training sessions at a university campus, the Zone3 brand was founded in 2007. Zone3 has organically grown to become the world's highest rated triathlon brand, with more award-winning reviews across the range than any other brand in the last 8 years. The original concept was drawn from a deep-rooted passion for endurance sports and an unwavering desire to create market-leading pro0ducts, offering unparalleled performance redefining functionality.
About CHALLENGEALMERE-AMSTERDAM
Almere is a renowned name in triathlon history. After Hawaii, CHALLENGEALMERE-AMSTERDAM (former Holland Triathlon) is the oldest triathlon in the world. Striking winners were pioneers like Axel Koenders, Gregor Stam but also Gerrit Schellens, Frank Heldoorn and Georg Potrebitsch. Yvonne van Vlerken, Heleen bij de Vaate and Chrissie Wellington were all on the podium in recent years. Several European Championships and World Championships were held in Almere. The fastest race, finishing in 7:55:44, was achieved by Jaroslav Kovacic in 2018. In 2019, CHALLENGEALMERE-AMSTERDAM will host the ETU Long Distance European Championships and in 2020 the ITU Multisports World Championships.
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Adam Brody and Leighton Meester engaged
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November 21, 2013 | 9:18am
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Actors Adam Brody and Leighton Meester have confirmed they are engaged.
Former 'The O.C." star Brody and former "Gossip Girl" star Meester have been dating since earlier this year, People reports.
The pair met on the set of film "The Oranges" in 2011 and began spending more time together earlier this year, before confirming they were dating. The low-key couple, who have rarely been spotted together, are set to star in upcoming comedy "Life Partners," US Weekly reports.
Brody, 33, previously dated his "O.C." costar Rachel Bilson, while they starred as adorable on-air couple Seth and Summer. Brody and Bilson split in 2006.
Meester dated fellow "Gossip Girl" actor Sebastian Stan for two years before the couple went their separate ways in 2010.
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