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Vol. 4, Issue 2 - Jun 2017
People Are Everywhere
May 17, 2017 / J.A. Field
Ever since the snow cleared—months ago, now—they've been out there. Diane stands at her big bay window, hand tight around the pulled-back curtain, and watches. They stand on the pedals of their bikes, chests thrown out like charioteers, and zoom down the middle of her street. They careen down the sidewalk on their scooters. She has had to wait for them to pass before she could back out of her own driveway. They have ridden down her driveway! She has had to glide down the street after them, foot suspended over the brake until they ran out of speed at the bottom.
Sometimes they abandon their bikes and scooters and they run. They run in a line like the cars of a train, one followed by one followed by one, the youngest lagging like an errant caboose. They emerge from between her forsythia bushes on the left, chug across her carefully maintained lawn, and disappear into her arborvitae on the right. She counts—one, two, three, four—and there he is, the caboose, someone's annoying little brother, legs churning under his patch of shorts, bare chest milky blue like the belly of a fish. They circle around again, enter her view now from the arborvitae, chug-chug across her lawn, disappear engine-car-car into the forsythia. She counts—one, two, three, four—and here he comes, grimy little legs pumping. She imagines grabbing him by the wrist, her thumb and second finger cinching his splintery little bones, and pulling him to the side of her house. She'd like to turn her hose on him and give his legs a good scrubbing.
In the evenings and all day long during her weekends she has to listen to the zoom of their bikes, the clank of their scooters, the pounding of their feet. Wherever she is in the house she can hear them. She has tried sitting in her armchair with the pretty cabbage rose pattern, pulling a soft blanket over her lap, closing her eyes. But then she is back at her job in child protection and children are running through the hallways, having broken loose from their social workers and using all the power in their inadequate little bodies to get to the door that separates them from the visiting rooms. She hears them keening—mummamummamummamumma—as they scramble at their forlorn task, and the noise in her head is worse than the noise on her street, and she opens her eyes and throws aside her blanket and pushes up from her chair, making a bitter sound with her mouth. She likes children, she really does, but children are meant to be manageable.
At the window again, she sees the two girls, so similar and close in age they look like twins, leggy as spiders, wild messes of hair like something discounted after Halloween. When they run they let loose screams so sharp they cut right through her Andersen double-paned windows. Diane flattens both hands against her big bay, as though she can hold it together. The girls scream, she thinks, because they can, because their parents don't tell them not to, don't tell them anything, since they never come out of their house—their ugly eyesore of a house right next door to hers, with its cheap, chipped, mustard yellow vinyl siding—not once all day while their children block access to the street and run back and forth across well-kept lawns and scream and disturb their neighbors.
Diane turns away from the window and goes into her bedroom. She keeps the air in the bedroom cold to help her sleep at night, and she shivers a little as she undresses. She puts on her black swimsuit, khaki shorts, white polo shirt. She tucks the shirt in and adds a braided leather belt. She pulls her beach towel from the linen closet, takes her wallet from her purse and car keys from their flower-shaped hook, slips her phone into her pocket. She stops inside her front door, listens. Nothing. They must have gone into one of the houses to scavenge for their lunch. Dirty little scavengers. She pulls her sunglasses down over her eyes, takes a deep breath, and marches to her car.
It's a short drive through town, past the boutiques and coffee shops, the bookstore with its half circle of armchairs in front of the fireplace, the swaths of blooming flowers in the park and in front of the restored old homes. It is entirely worth it to her to devote the bulk of her salary to her mortgage, so that she can live in this town. Every night when she drives home, she comes to a place where the town lies in front of her and the city is only in her rearview mirror, and as she crosses over she feels the burden on her head and neck and shoulders lighten, as though gravity weighs less where she lives.
The pond is tucked away in a residential area where almost no one ever finds it. As Diane drives the winding streets, she glimpses broad white houses flanked by drystone walls, their roof lines fluttering under the arches of trees. Her breath deepens and evens. She pulls up to a bicyclist, sleek and trim in his black and neon Spandex, helmet bent in concentration. As he passes, his wheels make a slight sound, no louder than the thrum of a hummingbird. She makes the turn, parks near the unobtrusive sign. Standing on the street, towel around her neck, she smiles her first full smile of the day. Everything is quiet, hushed. The houses, set far apart, each in its own landscape, are remote and picturesque as snow globes.
She walks along the edge of the road looking for the trail to the pond. So few people use it—it gets overgrown quickly and can be hard to find. She moves some branches aside, sees it. Within a few steps she has left the bikes and scooters, the screaming Halloween-haired girls and the dirty-legged boy behind. She hears insects buzzing and sees bees floating in the pink and white flowered bushes. As she dips her body, she anticipates the feel of the water, warmed by the sun on the surface but cooler underneath. Through the trees she sees the corner of one of the two wooden benches in the small clearing. She could sing.
Diane steps onto the sand and is caught up so short she almost trips and has to grab the back of a bench to steady herself. Directly in front of her is the back of a man. Hair hangs from his shoulders. Above his waistband rides a bulge of fat plugged with bristles like the side of a pig. The strands of hair sticking out from under his foam and mesh cap are black and stringy. Tattoos spread down from his neck like an oil spill. He is up to the fringe of his cut offs in the water.
Diane takes a step back and notices a kid sitting on a towel. The girl looks about twelve, is plugged into the screen on her lap and barely flicks her eyes up at Diane. Dark bangs clump together in thick bands across her forehead, which is red and rough with acne. She's wearing black short-shorts, a black t-shirt featuring a pink skull and crossbones, black canvas hi-top sneakers with pink laces. As Diane is taking in the sight of what must be his daughter, the man looks back over his shoulder. Diane sees a fishing pole jutting out in front of him. He's fishing! In this pond!
"Hey, isn't this a great place! You from around here?"
Yes, I live here. She smiles tightly and nods once, hoping no verbal response from her will mean no conversation. She considers turning around, but doesn't want to go home to the noise and chaos. She isn't going in the pond with him standing there, though. She takes a second look at the girl, notices that the bottom half of her face is moving. Gum! Diane hates gum—the smell of it, the stickiness, the exposure of an intimate item left in the dirt like a used condom. Disgusting.
Lying open beside the girl is a small black canvas shoulder bag. On the front is a butterfly, embroidered in different shades of pink. The bag is unzipped, and from it trail pink things—a pink plastic hairbrush foaming with hair, a pink notepad with a snap closure and a strangely large-eyed kitten decorating the front, a strand of pink and black-checked earbuds, balls of pink tissues. Diane's eyes narrow and harden. She knows this girl—this kind of girl. This is the kind of girl she would have to deal with at work, the kind of girl who would start out nice and chummy, trying to get things from Diane, and would end up screaming fuck you, you bitch at her when she had to tell her she couldn't give her what she wanted. This kind of girl should not be making herself comfortable here, on this beach, at this pond.
The man is facing the pond again, reeling in his line. He's still talking to Diane. "Not too many people know about this pond, but I've been coming here for twenty-eight years. I was just thinking about it this morning and I figured it out. Twenty-eight years." He looks back over his shoulder at her.
"Oh?" She makes her voice cold, as cold as the air in her bedroom. She's glad she hasn't met him sooner.
"Yeah," he nods solemnly. His fingers are paused on the handle of the reel.
Can't talk and wind at the same time?
"Since I was the age of my youngest over there." He tilts his chin at the girl. "Thirteen. That's when I started fishing." He turns back, starts reeling in the line again. Diane thinks about the kind of people who fish. She pictures a group of men standing in a circle, legs spread, beer cans tilted toward their mouths, caps advertising Budweiser and John Deere. She imagines a knife in a man's thick hands, slicing open the belly of a fish. Her mind flashes a picture of someone's little brother's milky blue chest. Her lip curls.
The girl leans forward and turns on a radio Diane hadn't noticed. It's tucked between the spill of the butterfly bag and a faded red and white cooler and looks like a veteran of twenty-eight years of fishing trips. A rap beat blasts into the air. Diane's body tenses. The kids she has to transport to visits and appointments listen to music like this through their earbuds in her car. That music, in this place! She crosses her arms in front of her chest. She opens her mouth to tell the girl to turn it off, realizes she has no authority, makes a face and looks away. As she does she sees the path that circles the pond and practically leaps down it.
She walks fast. When she is in a place where she can't be seen from the water or the sand, she stops. The path is very close to the edge of the pond. She can look back across the water and see the man. She watches and realizes that he is fly-fishing. She sees the yellow fishing line swoop through the air like a lariat. She watches. A flick of his wrist and the lariat scribes the air. She hears the zip of the line. It's an under-sound, a sound that would make a dog sit up and take notice, cock his head; it's the sound of something coming, a train still miles down the track, its warning bell yet un-rung.
Diane continues to follow the path. She listens for the sound of the fly line. Sometimes she hears it and she stops. Sometimes she thinks she hears it and she stops. It vibrates through the air like a tuning fork. Every time she stops she looks across the pond at the man. Nothing changes. He stands in the same place. He flicks his wrist and the line circles above him like music. Like music? Him? She is halfway around the pond, standing on the spongy edge, the toes of her sneakers dipping into the water, her elbow hooked around a slender birch, leaning toward him, when his line goes tight. Her heart catches on his whoop of delight and rises up out of the water with the silver fish. It plummets as he unhooks it and throws it back into the water.
Back into the water! In the brief moment after it was caught she had imagined him eating it for dinner with his family, a black-and-pink wife and several black-and-pink children sitting around a table, towel-bibbed, knives and forks like soldiers at-the-ready in their fisted hands. But no, he is fishing for sport, he is wasting the fish! Does he think he's done no damage to the fish, does he think that the fish can just slip back into the water and back into its swimmy fish life? That the gaping hook hole in its mouth is miraculously healed? Does he think of the fish at all?
Diane makes a sound with her tongue on the roof of her mouth. She shakes her head, turns away from the edge, returns to the path. She heads back the way she came, walking fast again. He doesn't live in this town! He doesn't care about our fish! He thinks he can come here and do whatever he likes in our pond! Twenty-eight years! He's been throwing back fish for twenty-eight years! She pictures a pile of fish, dead fish, rotting fish, a mountain of tortured and discarded fish rising up from the bottom of the pond, the top cresting the surface and at the bottom, fish skin sloughing off in the flux of the water, scales and flesh coagulating and floating off in gluey, glinting blobs.
She breaks out into the clearing, opens her mouth to shout at him, and a sudden sharp pain bursts from the side of her face. She screams, a high-pitched Aiiiiiiii then puts her hand to her face, runs her fingers along her cheek, something pointy is there, the corner of her mouth is pulled back hard, something is stuck, she can't figure out what it is, what's happened—another sharp pain, a tug, her face is being pulled, she takes an involuntary step forward, she screams, again, louder. She understands: there is a fish hook in the side of her face and she is being reeled in.
Out of the corner of her eye she sees movement on the beach. The girl is up off her towel, she is running into the water, yelling, grabbing her father's arm. He stops reeling his line in and the pain in Diane's face reduces by a fraction. They run toward her, big galumphing splashes in the water, him holding the pole out in front of him with two hands, trying to keep it steady, the girl behind him.
When they reach her, the man says, "I didn't know you were there! I didn't know you were there, I thought you were—" and then he stops, reaches into his pocket and takes out a knife.
Diane's eyes go wide and she steps back, her eyes flit left and right, she makes another strange sound.
The girl rolls her eyes, says, "He's going to cut the line."
Diane stands still. The man reaches toward her face with the knife. She flinches and steps back again, even though now she understands. He reaches, makes a loop of the line about a foot from where the hook enters her mouth, and swipes through it. His hand on the line is steady, his hand on the knife quick. Despite his efforts, pain sears through her face like a comet. She makes that noise again.
"I'm not going to be able to get it out," he tells her. He has led her over to one of the benches, sat her down, and peered into her mouth while her breath comes in quick gasps. He has given her the ice pack from their cooler, which she can't bear to press against any part of her face and is turning it over and over in her hands. "I have a pair of pliers but it's too, um, embedded. I wouldn't be able to reach the barb—you snip the barb off and push the hook back through, to get it out. But the way it's in there—I can't do it. You're going to have to go to the emergency room."
She can taste blood in her mouth and feel a stream of wet on her chin. Inside her mouth she feels something like hair, bristles. She brings her fingers up beside her face, tentatively pats the air around her cheek. No bristles there, but a jolt of pain makes her jerk. She knows she can't drive to the hospital. Can they go in his car? But she doesn't remember seeing another car on the street. Inside her mouth, she inches her tongue toward the feeling, determines that the hair and bristles are part of the hook. The feeling of something wet and hairy in her mouth makes her stomach lurch.
"I don't think you should drive. We can't all go on my bike, and I'm not leaving my daughter here."
"I don't feel great about leaving my Harley here either, but I don't see any other way. I'll have to drive your car. Tara can come with us."
Diane puts the ice pack down beside her on the bench and with her hands mimics punching numbers, putting a phone to her ear. The man shakes his head. "No service." He must have a cheap phone, like her clients, always running out of minutes. She stands carefully, reaches into her pocket, pulls out her phone. The man watches her. She looks at the phone. No service. She slips the phone back into her pocket, turns toward the path that leads to the street. The girl is standing there, at the end of the path, waiting, her towel around her neck, her black bag, presumably with every pink and black thing piled back into it, over her shoulder, cooler in hand. Her father's fishing pole and tackle box are at her feet, ready for him to pick up. They fall into step behind her.
When they reach her car the man suggests they put their things in the trunk. Diane pats her pockets for her keys, pats them again. Her heartbeat quickens. Where are her keys? She left her wallet under the driver's seat, but her keys should be in her pocket. Where are her keys? The man steps from the back of the car to the driver's side window. He bends down, shades his eyes against the glare. "Yup," he says, "They're in there. In the ignition." He straightens up again, let's out an involuntary little sigh, looks toward the nearest house. Across the street and up a hill, it's a quarter mile away. "Do you think you can you make it to that house?" He tilts his head toward it. "We can use their phone and call an ambulance."
She doesn't want to walk to the house but doesn't want to sit on the side of the road, bleeding, either. She's embarrassed about the keys. She begins walking. They follow her. They walk in a line like the cars of a train. She is the engine. The girl is the caboose.
As they make their way up the long driveway, the only noise is the scuffling of their feet. Under the trees, it's cooler than it was on the street, or even at the pond. The lawn stretches before them, flowing green. Flowers are arranged at intervals like stadium seating. Roses cascade from an arbor in the back. Beyond the arbor, a sparkling pool, and beyond the pool, a smaller house, a house Diane could live in—aches to live in—the pool house.
As they walk she allows herself to imagine living in the little house, being cared for by the bigger house. She would have everything she needed—plates that matched those used in the big house, silverware that balanced on her fingers, silk sheets with the family's monogram, peace, contentment. She imagines lying on a chaise lounge beside the pool, reading a book, a woman in a grey dress with a white apron coming toward her across the lawn, carrying a picnic basket. She imagines the woman opening the basket, taking out a wedge of cheese, a cluster of grapes, a section of bread, and setting them on the square of white linen she has laid for a tablecloth. She sees her lift a clear-stemmed glass out of the basket, sees it catch the sun.
They've reached the side door of the house and the man reaches in front of Diane and rings the bell. They hear it echo inside. They wait a long time and the man rings the bell again. Diane's face throbs. She can't close her mouth and she's having difficulty keeping her eye open on the side where the hook is. Her face must be swelling. She wonders what she looks like. Inside her mouth the hook is a clump of pain and—Thread? Feathers? Synthetic hair? Not synthetic hair? She sees the curtain in the window next to the door move slightly, but still no one comes to the door. Of course not. Why would the people who live in this house open their door to them, to the man and the girl, looking like who they are, or to her, looking like she must now?
"No one's coming," the girl says.
"We'll have to try another house." The man turns away from the door. Diane follows him, the girl comes last. They are just starting down the driveway when a boy opens the door, yells, "Tara! Wait!" They all stop and turn. The boy comes out of the house, hurries down the driveway toward them. He is the same age as the girl, is wearing black skinny jeans, a black t-shirt, old-fashioned flip flops with dark pink rubber thongs. Diane stares at him. How can he possibly know this girl?
"Hi, Tara. Hi, Mr. Waters. I didn't know it was you until I saw you leaving, then I saw Tara's bag. I like your butterfly, Tara." He looks at the girl, blushes a little. "I'm not supposed to answer the door when my parents aren't home." He shrugs.
"Hi, Bryan," the man—Mr. Waters!—says. "We're trying to help this lady here. I accidentally caught her with my fish hook. Can we use your phone? We don't seem to have any service."
"Sure, Mr. Waters, you can come in. We have a land line. The service is really bad around here."
As she's being loaded into the ambulance, Diane hears the snorting pig sound of a motorcycle being started. The man and the girl are leaving, going back where they came from, somewhere far from her, from her pond, her town. Back where they belong. She sinks into the stretcher, into the pain medication the EMT's have administered. The siren whirs, the ambulance heads down the hill, the pig sound fades and is gone.
At the hospital, Diane is wheeled into one of the rooms in the ER, transferred from the stretcher to the bed, raised and adjusted so she's sitting up. She is so grateful for the crisp cool sheets, the clean sleek tile, the orderliness of the room that her eyes fill. She takes deep breaths in through her open mouth. After a while, a nurse comes in, puts a hand on her arm and bends close to peer at her wound. "How are you doing, honey? Is it hurting right now?" Diane shakes her head, slowly from side to side. There's just a clotted feeling in her cheek, her mouth, like being stuffed with gauze at the dentist.
"You're our second fish hook today. Must be a good day for fishing."
Diane looks at the nurse, blinks.
"My boys love to fish." She pats Diane's arm, straightens, sticks a thermometer in her ear. "When they were young their dad took them. Now they're teenagers, they go on their own." The thermometer pings, she takes it out, checks it. "Normal. I always tell them, be careful when you're casting, there are people everywhere." She wraps a blood pressure sleeve around Diane's arm, begins to pump, pauses, lets the air out, turns to the counter behind her to write down the numbers. "Even where you don't want them to be. Even where you least expect them."
The nurse puts down her pen, bends to pull a blanket out of the cabinet below the counter, unfolds it and lays it over Diane. "You look a little cold, honey." She smoothes a crease in the blanket with the flat of her hand, straightens, looks around the room. "Okay, I'll let your friend come in now. The doctor will be in soon to get that out for you, and then you can go home."
Her friend? She hadn't thought about getting home, only about getting to the hospital.
The man walks into the room. Diane's eyes widen. She jerks her head back against the pillow and a spark of pain bursts in her cheek.
"Hi," he says, waving his hand a little. He's wearing a shirt now, and jeans, no hat. "I brought your car. I got a buddy of mine to unlock the door so I could drive it over here. I figured you'd need it to get home."
Well. Yes.
"I left Tara at home. We don't live too far from there, from the pond." He settles in the chair beside her bed. He gives a little laugh. "That's how Bryan knows Tara, I guess. They ride the same bus to school. He's got a crush on her, I think. Not sure how she feels about him. Tried to ask her but she just said Daaad! You know how they do that?" He pauses, looks at Diane. "Well, I don't know if you have kids, if you're familiar with kids at all. But kids around that age—twelve, thirteen—that's what they do. They act like their parents are ridiculous. Stupid." He shrugs. "Oh well. They get over it soon enough. Eventually, anyway. My older kids and I get along great now. And Tara, well, she still goes fishing with me, at least. That's why I go so much, really, because she'll still go with me. Keeps us connected, you know?" He looks at Diane again, maintains eye contact. "I'm real sorry about what happened today, though. I should have been more careful. I should have looked where my line was going." He pauses. "I'm Jerry, by the way."
Diane waits a second. She thinks about it. Then she smiles, as much as she can, her lip pulled back a fraction on one side, and she lifts her hand and waves a little, Hello.
No one is on the street when Diane drives down it and pulls into her driveway. She opens the door and gets out of the car slowly, holding her face still. The place in her mouth where the hook was still feels open, torn, although she's got a couple of stitches. As she turns to push the car door shut, someone's little brother glides up to her on a miniature bike so new the color still looks wet. "Hi!" he says, planting his two small sneakered feet on her driveway. She looks down at him.
"I got a new bike."
Diane hasn't spoken yet, not since the accident and the repair of her face, her mouth. She parts her lips to answer him, but nothing comes out.
He looks up at her. "What happened to your face?"
Carefully, carefully, bracing herself with a hand on the car, Diane lowers herself down to him. When she is eye level and her mouth is inches from his ear she tries again. "I got caught by a fish hook," she whispers. The stitches pinch, inside and out.
"Oh," he whispers back. He leans forward a little and examines the gauze over her cheek. "You got stitches? How many?"
She holds up two fingers.
"That's not so many. My sister had way more than that when she fell off her scooter." He stops whispering. "Want to hear my bell? It's really loud."
Attached to the bike's handlebars is a shiny round metal bell. His thumb, the size of a bean, is poised on the lever. He looks at her face, waits for her signal. Diane closes her eyes. She imagines the clatter, the reverberations. She tilts a bit on her heels. Water sways this way and that inside her. The under-sound of the fly line hums in her head. She tastes the metal snap of the hook as it was released from her mouth. "Yes," she says. And the raucous noise rings out over the neighborhood.
J. A. Field lives in New England. Other work has been published in East Coast Literary Review, Poetry Quarterly, and Common Ground Review.
"People are Everywhere" is J.A.'s first published short story.
May 17, 2017 / J.A. Field/
J.A. Field
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Cape Ann is een rotsachtig schiereiland omgeven de Atlantische Oceaan, gelegen in het noordoosten van de Amerikaanse staat Massachusetts. De kaap ligt ruim 45 kilometer ten noordoosten van Boston en vormt de noordgrens van Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann omvat de plaatsen Gloucester, Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea en Rockport. Aan de noordzijde van het schiereiland ligt het natuurgebied Halibut Point State Park.

Etymologie
Cape Ann werd voor het eerst in kaart gebracht door ontdekkingsreiziger John Smith. Hij noemde het Cape Tragabigzanda, naar zijn maîtresse in Istanboel.

Toen John Smith zijn kaart toonde aan koning Karel I van Engeland, stelde Smith voor dat de koning zich vrij moest voelen de ´barbaarse´ (vooral Indiaanse) plaatsnamen op de kaart te wijzigen in Engelse plaatsnamen. De koning veranderde vele plaatsnamen, waarvan slechts vier naamswijzigingen bewaard zijn gebleven. De plaatsnaam Cape Ann bleef bewaard, dit was een eervolle verwijzing van Karel I naar zijn moeder Anna van Denemarken.

Koloniale geschiedenis
De Engelse kolonie is in 1624 gesticht. Dit betrof de vierde poging om een permanente nederzetting te vestigen in Nieuw-Engeland, na de Pophamkolonie, de Plymouth Colony en Nantasket Beach. Twee schepen van de Dorchester Company brachten 32 kolonisten naar de nederzetting, waarbij John Tylly en Thomas Gardner de toezichthouders waren voor respectievelijk het plaatselijke visserijbedrijf en de plantage. Aangezien deze kolonie voorafging aan de Massachusetts Bay Colony, werden de kolonisten ´old planters´ genoemd.
De naam Cape Ann was omstreeks 1634 reeds in algemeen gebruik. Dit blijkt uit de kaarten in William Woods New England Prospect, dat in dat jaar verscheen.

Halverwege de 19e eeuw stond Cape Ann bekend om de productie van graniet, dat vooral gebruikt werd als plaveisel voor straten en wegen doorheen de gehele Verenigde Staten.

Populaire cultuur
Cape Ann staat tegenwoordig bekend om de vissersdorpen en kunstenaarskolonies. Ook speelt de film Manchester by the Sea uit 2016 zich grotendeels af op Cape Ann.

Geografie van Massachusetts

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West Harlem #RockThoseReads Community Service Project
On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., on the southeast corner of 125th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, Total Equity Now (TEN) will once again engage an intergenerational team of volunteers in promoting reading as a key component of who we are and what we do here in Harlem.
For 90 minutes we will:
hand out Literacy Across Harlem Day flyers;
ask passersby about their reading habits;
tell folks why we love reading and why it's so important; and
encourage others to carry their "reads" outside of their bags!
On September 1, 2012, Total Equity Now launched the Literacy Across Harlem Day movement. Every Literacy Across Harlem Day (the first day of each month), TEN and our community partners encourage all Harlemites (and folks who work, study, and visit here) to "#RockThoseReads," to carry reading materials publicly, conspicuously, and proudly–everywhere they go.
On February 1, 2014, a community-minded group of middle-school students and parents from PS/MS 57 in East Harlem joined TEN and partners for a #RockThoseReads "street team" project at 110th Street and 3rd Avenue in El Barrio. That effort was so successful and empowering that we decided to replicate it in a different part of Harlem each Literacy Across Harlem Day.
On March 1, 2014, we took the #RockThoseReads message to 135th Street & Malcolm X Boulevard in Central Harlem, just outside the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which joined forces with the Studio Museum of Harlem that day to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Ralph Ellison.
Up next, 125th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in West Harlem!
Help Promote Reading in Harlem
If you're affiliated with a school, youth-development organization, civic group, small business, or other entity and would like to join us for this fun, rewarding community-service project, please email info@totalequitynowharlem.org by March 18th.
Other Ways to #RockThoseReads on Tuesday, April 1st
Tweet or Instagram a photo of your "read" of the day to @TotalEquityNow with the "#RockThoseReads" tag.
Visit one of our Literacy Across Harlem Day partners–the community-minded, literacy-loving establishments listed below–and "swap those reads" (leave a gently used book and take one that another Harlemite dropped off).
Central Harlem
*Astor Row Cafe (404 Lenox Ave. at 130th)
*La Casa Azul Bookstore (143 E. 103rd St. btwn Park and Lexington)
*East Harlem Cafe (1651 Lexington Ave. at 104th)
West Harlem
*Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center (1942 Amsterdam Ave. at 156th)
*Cafe One (1619 Amsterdam Ave. at 140th)

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Если обозначить D['i1'] = 0
     price     k1        k2           i1
0    21931.37  0.266667  0.733333     NaN
1    21976.18  0.266667  0.733333     5860.314667
2    21983.26  0.266667  0.733333     5862.202667
3    21967.10  0.266667  0.733333     5857.893333
4    21883.39  0.266667  0.733333     5835.570667

Значение равно произведению цены с первым коэффициентом без суммы с предыдущим значением строки.
Помогите, только начал вникать в работу с pandas.

A: Вы используете в вычислениях колонку, которой у вас еще нет. разумеется, получаете ошибку.
df["i1"] = (df["price"]*df["k1"]+df["price"]
            .shift(1)*df["k1"].shift(1)*df["k2"]).fillna(df["price"]*df["k1"])

df:
      price        k1        k2            i1
0  21931.37  0.266667  0.733333   5848.372644
1  21976.18  0.266667  0.733333  10149.126648
2  21983.26  0.266667  0.733333  10159.777502
3  21967.10  0.266667  0.733333  10156.852698
4  21883.39  0.266667  0.733333  10131.369823

A: если хочется уложиться в одну строку, то можно еще вот так "изпитониться":
df.assign(i1=df.price * df.k1).assign(i1=lambda x: x.i1 + x.i1.shift().fillna(0) * x.k2)

>>> out
'''
      price        k1        k2            i1
0  21931.37  0.266667  0.733333   5848.372644
1  21976.18  0.266667  0.733333  10149.126648
2  21983.26  0.266667  0.733333  10159.777502
3  21967.10  0.266667  0.733333  10156.852698
4  21883.39  0.266667  0.733333  10131.369823

A: Решил проблему. Создал столбец со значением нуля и перезаписал значение через цикл.
df['i1'] = 0
for i in range(len(df)):
    if i == 0:
       df.loc[i, 'i1'] = df['price'][i] * df['k1'][i]
    if i > 0:
       df.loc[i, 'i1'] = df['price'][i] * df['k1'][i] + df['i1'][i-1] * df['k2'][i]

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Russia defender Ilya Kutepov has claimed he has no fear about the prospect of defending against Uruguay striker Luis Suarez - and has promised to "bite him myself" if need be.
Kutepov is set to line up for the host nation in their match against the South Americans on June 25 in Samara in their last Group A match, where he will be tasked with marking the livewire Barcelona hitman.
At the previous World Cup in Brazil in 2014, Suarez received a four-month ban from all football matches after he bit defender Grigorio Chiellini during Uruguay's group game against Italy.
It was the third time Suarez had been punished for such behaviour, having previously sunk his teeth into opponents while playing for Ajax and again at Liverpool. But Kutepov has said Suarez's reputation of gnawing at defenders will not cause him sleepless nights.
"Am I afraid of Suarez? Of course not. If need be, I can bite him myself," Kutepov said at a press conference on Wednesday, following his team's 1-1 draw with Turkey in Moscow.
Kutepov then turned his attention to Suarez's successor at Anfield, Mohamed Salah. Despite receiving a serious shoulder injury in the Champions League final in a tussle with Sergio Ramos, Salah has expressed belief that he could be fit to face Russia on June 19 in St. Petersburg.
"Does Salah's game worry me? No. How can you stop him? Like Sergio Ramos did for instance. He showed us one way. I will not say, that I was upset when Salah got injured in the final, but I wish him a quick recovery," Kutepov said of the Premier League Player of the Year.
"I will be happy if he plays at the World Cup. When you play against such a genius, you grow," he added.
Russia go into their home World Cup the lowest-ranked team in the competition at 70th in the latest FIFA ratings. They take on Saudi Arabia at Luzhniki Stadium on Thursday in the tournament opener.


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Combined and simultaneous endoscopic endonasal and transorbital surgery for a Meckel's cave schwannoma: technical nuances of a mini-invasive, multiportal approach
Alberto Di Somma, Cristobal Langdon, Matteo de Notaris, Luis Reyes, Santiago Ortiz-Perez, Isam Alobid, and Joaquim Enseñat
Over the years, Meckel's cave pathologies have been judged off-limits because of high rates of morbidity. Even though several studies have defined various surgical routes with tolerable morbidity and mortality rates, controversies related to the optimal avenue to treat different categories of Meckel's cave and cavernous sinus neoplasms persist.
With unceasing energy to cultivate minimally invasive neurosurgical approaches, the endoscopic endonasal route has been tested, and the approach effectively performed, to provide a valid surgical window to these areas. In this dynamic and challenging scenario, another ventral endoscopic minimally invasive route—that is, the superior eyelid endoscopic transorbital approach—has been very recently proposed, and used in selected cases, to access the cavernous sinus and Meckel's cave regions.
The authors report the technical nuances of a combined and simultaneous endoscopic endonasal and transorbital surgical treatment of a patient with a Meckel's cave schwannoma. The operation involved collaboration among neurosurgery, otorhinolaryngology, and ophthalmology (oculoplastic surgery). The patient recovered well, had no neurological deficits, and was discharged to home 3 days after surgery.
The multiportal combined route was proposed for the following reasons. The endonasal approach, considered to be more familiar to our skull base team, could allow control of possible damage of the internal carotid artery. From the endonasal perspective, the most inferior and medial portion of the tumor could be properly managed. Finally, the transorbital route, by means of opening the lateral wall of the cavernous sinus via the meningoorbital band, could allow control of the superolateral part of the tumor and, most importantly, could permit removal of the portion entering the posterior cranial fossa via the trigeminal pore. Simultaneous surgery with two surgical teams working together was planned in order to reduce operative time, hospital stay, and patient stress and discomfort, and to ensure "one-shot" complete tumor removal, with minimal or no complications.
This study represents the translation into the real surgical setting of recent anatomical contributions related to the novel endoscopic transorbital approach and its simultaneous integration with the endoscopic endonasal pathway. Accordingly, it may pave the way for future applications related to minimally invasive, multiportal endoscopic surgery for skull base tumors.
In Journal of Neurosurgery Volume 134: Issue 6 (Jun 2021)
Quantitative versus qualitative blood amount assessment as a predictor for shunt-dependent hydrocephalus following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Sergio García, Ramon Torné, Jhon Alexander Hoyos, Ana Rodríguez-Hernández, Sergio Amaro, Laura Llull, Antonio López-Rueda, and Joaquim Enseñat
Reliable tools are lacking to predict shunt-dependent hydrocephalus (SDHC) development after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). Quantitative volumetric measurement of hemorrhagic blood is a good predictor of SDHC but might be impractical in the clinical setting. Qualitative assessment performed using scales such as the modified Fisher scale (mFisher) and the original Graeb scale (oGraeb) is easier to conduct but provides limited predictive power. In between, the modified Graeb scale (mGraeb) keeps the simplicity of the qualitative scales yet adds assessment of acute hydrocephalus, which might improve SDHC-predicting capabilities. In this study the authors investigated the likely capabilities of the mGraeb and compared them with previously validated methods. This research also aimed to define a tailored mGraeb cutoff point for SDHC prediction.
The authors performed retrospective analysis of patients admitted to their institution with the diagnosis of aSAH between May 2013 and April 2016. Out of 168 patients, 78 were included for analysis after the application of predefined exclusion criteria. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to evaluate the use of all 4 methods (quantitative volumetric assessment and the mFisher, oGraeb, and mGraeb scales) to predict the likelihood of SDHC development based on clinical data and blood amount assessment on initial CT scans.
The mGraeb scale was demonstrated to be the most robust predictor of SDHC, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.848 (95% CI 0.763–0.933). According to the AUC results, the performance of the mGraeb scale was significantly better than that of the oGraeb scale (χ2 = 4.49; p = 0.034) and mFisher scale (χ2 = 7.21; p = 0.007). No statistical difference was found between the AUCs of the mGraeb and the quantitative volumetric measurement models (χ2 = 12.76; p = 0.23), but mGraeb proved to be the simplest model since it showed the lowest Akaike information criterion (66.4), the lowest Bayesian information criterion (71.2), and the highest R2 Nagelkerke coefficient (39.7%). The initial mGraeb showed more than 85% specificity for predicting the development of SDHC in patients presenting with a score of 12 or more points.
According to the authors' data, the mGraeb scale is the simplest model that correlates well with SDHC development. Due to limited scientific evidence of treatments aimed at SDHC prevention, we propose an mGraeb score higher than 12 to identify patients at risk with high specificity. This mGraeb cutoff point might also serve as a useful prognostic tool since patients with SDHC after aSAH have worse functional outcomes.
In Journal of Neurosurgery Volume 131: Issue 6 (Dec 2019)
Endoscopic endonasal control of the paraclival internal carotid artery by Fogarty balloon catheter inflation: an anatomical study
Andrea Ruggeri, Joaquim Enseñat, Alberto Prats-Galino, Antonio Lopez-Rueda, Joan Berenguer, Martina Cappelletti, Matteo De Notaris, and Elena d'Avella
Neurosurgical management of many vascular and neoplastic lesions necessitates control of the internal carotid artery (ICA). The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of achieving control of the ICA through the endoscopic endonasal approach by temporary occlusion with a Fogarty balloon catheter.
Ten endoscopic endonasal paraseptal approaches were performed on cadaveric specimens. A Fogarty balloon catheter was inserted through a sellar bony opening and pushed laterally and posteriorly extraarterially along the paraclival carotid artery. The balloon was then inflated, thus achieving temporary occlusion of the vessel. The position of the catheter was confirmed with CT scans, and occlusion of the ICA was demonstrated with angiography. The technique was performed in 2 surgical cases of pituitary macroadenoma with cavernous sinus invasion.
Positioning the Fogarty balloon catheter at the level of the paraclival ICA was achieved in all cadaveric dissections and surgical cases through a minimally invasive, quick, and safe approach. Inflation of the Fogarty balloon caused interruption of blood flow in 100% of cases.
Temporary occlusion of the paraclival ICA performed through the endoscopic endonasal route with the aid of a Fogarty balloon catheter may be another maneuver for dealing with intraoperative ICA control. Further clinical studies are required to prove the efficacy of this method.
In Journal of Neurosurgery Volume 126 (2017): Issue 3 (Mar 2017)
The "suprasellar notch," or the tuberculum sellae as seen from below: definition, features, and clinical implications from an endoscopic endonasal perspective
Laboratory investigation
Matteo de Notaris, Domenico Solari, Luigi M. Cavallo, Alfonso Iodice D'Enza, Joaquim Enseñat, Joan Berenguer, Enrique Ferrer, Alberto Prats-Galino, and Paolo Cappabianca
The tuberculum sellae is a bony elevation ridge that lines up the anterior aspect of the sella, dividing it from the chiasmatic groove. The recent use of the endoscopic endonasal transtuberculum approach has provided surgeons with a method to reach the suprasellar area, offering a new surgical point of view somehow "opposite" of this area. The authors of this study aimed to define the tuberculum sellae as seen from the endoscopic endonasal view while also providing CT-based systematic measurements to objectively detail the anatomical features of such a structure, which was renamed the "suprasellar notch."
The authors analyzed routine skull CT scans from 24 patients with no brain pathology or fractures and measured the interoptic distance at the level of the limbus sphenoidale, the chiasmatic groove sulcal length and width, and the angle of the suprasellar notch.
Indeed, the suprasellar notch was defined as the angle between 2 lines, the first passing through the tuberculum sellae midpoint and perpendicular to the cribriform plate, and a second line passing between 2 points, the midpoints of the limbus sphenoidale and the tuberculum sellae. Moreover, the authors performed on 15 cadaveric heads an endoscopic endonasal transplanum transtuberculum approach with the aid of a neuronavigator to achieve a step-by-step comparison with the radiological data. The whole CT scanning set was statistically analyzed to determine the statistical interdependency of the suprasellar notch angle with the other 3 measurements, that is, the sulcal length at the midline, the interoptic distance at the optic canal entrance, and the interoptic distance at the limbus.
Based on the endoscopic endonasal view and CT imaging analysis, the authors identified a certain anatomical variability and thus introduced a new classification of the suprasellar notch: Type I, angle < 118°; Type II, angle of 118°–138°; and Type III, angle > 138°. They then analyzed the surgical implications of the endoscopic endonasal approach to the suprasellar area, which could be affected by each of these structural types.
The new classification identifies 3 different types of suprasellar notch and, accordingly, their surgical relevance. Above all, the authors found that the different types of suprasellar notch can affect the osteodural defect reconstruction technique, namely the positioning/wedging of the buttress in the extradural space. A precise endoscopic anatomical knowledge of the neurovascular and bony relationships—especially in cases of a less pneumatized sphenoid sinus—is crucial when approaching the anterior skull base via a transtuberculum transplanum route.
Defining the lateral limits of the endoscopic endonasal transtuberculum transplanum approach: anatomical study with pertinent quantitative analysis
Alberto Di Somma, Jorge Torales, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Jose Pineda, Domenico Solari, Rosa Maria Gerardi, Federico Frio, Joaquim Enseñat, Alberto Prats-Galino, and Paolo Cappabianca
The extended endoscopic endonasal transtuberculum transplanum approach is currently used for the surgical treatment of selected midline anterior skull base lesions. Nevertheless, the possibility of accessing the lateral aspects of the planum sphenoidale could represent a limitation for such an approach. To the authors' knowledge, a clear definition of the eventual anatomical boundaries has not been delineated. Hence, the present study aimed to detail and quantify the maximum amount of bone removal over the planum sphenoidale required via the endonasal pathway to achieve the most lateral extension of such a corridor and to evaluate the relative surgical freedom.
Six human cadaveric heads were dissected at the Laboratory of Surgical NeuroAnatomy of the University of Barcelona. The laboratory rehearsals were run as follows: 1) preliminary predissection CT scans, 2) the endoscopic endonasal transtuberculum transplanum approach (lateral limit: medial optocarotid recess) followed by postdissection CT scans, 3) maximum lateral extension of the transtuberculum transplanum approach followed by postdissection CT scans, and 4) bone removal and surgical freedom analysis (a nonpaired Student t-test). A conventional subfrontal bilateral approach was used to evaluate, from above, the bone removal from the planum sphenoidale and the lateral limit of the endonasal route.
The endoscopic endonasal transtuberculum transplanum approach was extended at its maximum lateral aspect in the lateral portion of the anterior skull base, removing the bone above the optic prominence, that is, the medial portion of the lesser sphenoid wing, including the anterior clinoid process. As expected, a greater bone removal volume was obtained compared with the approach when bone removal is limited to the medial optocarotid recess (average 533.45 vs 296.07 mm2; p < 0.01). The anteroposterior diameter was an average of 8.1 vs 15.78 mm, and the laterolateral diameter was an average of 18.77 vs 44.54 mm (p < 0.01). The neurovascular contents of this area were exposed up to the insular segment of the middle cerebral artery. The surgical freedom analysis revealed a possible increased lateral maneuverability of instruments inserted in the contralateral nostril compared with a midline target (average 384.11 vs 235.31 mm2; p < 0.05).
Bone removal from the medial aspect of the lesser sphenoid wing, including the anterior clinoid process, may increase the exposure and surgical freedom of the extended endoscopic endonasal transtuberculum transplanum approach over the lateral segment of the anterior skull base. Although this study represents a preliminary anatomical investigation, it could be useful to refine the indications and limitations of the endoscopic endonasal corridor for the surgical management of skull base lesions involving the lateral portion of the planum sphenoidale.
In Journal of Neurosurgery Volume 130: Issue 3 (Mar 2019)
Endoscopic endonasal medial-to-lateral and transorbital lateral-to-medial optic nerve decompression: an anatomical study with surgical implications
Alberto Di Somma, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Matteo de Notaris, Domenico Solari, Thomaz E. Topczewski, Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen, Joaquim Enseñat, Alberto Prats-Galino, and Paolo Cappabianca
Different surgical routes have been used over the years to achieve adequate decompression of the optic nerve in its canal including, more recently, endoscopic approaches performed either through the endonasal corridor or the transorbital one. The present study aimed to detail and quantify the amount of bone removal around the optic canal, achievable via medial-to-lateral endonasal and lateral-to-medial transorbital endoscopic trajectories.
Five human cadaveric heads (10 sides) were dissected at the Laboratory of Surgical Neuroanatomy of the University of Barcelona (Spain). The laboratory rehearsals were run as follows: 1) preliminary preoperative CT scans of each specimen, 2) anatomical endoscopic endonasal and transorbital dissections and Dextroscope-based morphometric analysis, and 3) quantitative analysis of optic canal bone removal for both endonasal and transorbital endoscopic approaches.
The endoscopic endonasal route permitted exposure and removal of the most inferomedial portion of the optic canal (an average of 168°), whereas the transorbital pathway allowed good control of its superolateral part (an average of 192°). Considering the total circumference of the optic canal (360°), the transorbital route enabled removal of a mean of 53.3% of bone, mainly the superolateral portion. The endonasal approach provided bone removal of a mean of 46.7% of the inferomedial aspect. This result was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.05). The morphometric analysis performed with the aid of the Dextroscope (a virtual reality environment) showed that the simulation of the transorbital trajectory may provide a shorter surgical corridor with a wider angle of approach (39.6 mm; 46.8°) compared with the simulation of the endonasal pathway (52.9 mm; 23.8°).
Used together, these 2 endoscopic surgical paths (endonasal and transorbital) may allow a 360° decompression of the optic nerve. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first anatomical study on transorbital optic nerve decompression to show its feasibility. Further studies and, eventually, surgical case series are mandatory to confirm the effectiveness of these approaches, thereby refining the proper indications for each of them.
In Journal of Neurosurgery Volume 127: Issue 1 (Jul 2017)
Endoscopic transorbital surgery levels of difficulty
Alberto Di Somma, Doo-Sik Kong, Matteo de Notaris, Kris S. Moe, Juan Carlos Sánchez España, Theodore H. Schwartz, and Joaquim Enseñat
In Journal of Neurosurgery Volume 137: Issue 4 (Oct 2022)
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The Australasian Institute of Medical Nutrition was set up to provide the best available training for doctors and their practice nurses in the theory and practice of administering injectable nutrients for preventative medicine and treating disease. The training is given in 3-day workshops in which experts present theory and biochemistry along with discussion on the supportive medical literature and case histories; this is interspersed with participants gaining hands-on experience in preparing and giving nutrients by injection and infusion.
The training presents a detailed overview of the expanding current medical research around injectable nutrition and the direction research is taking. Doctors working in the field discuss cases and the typical experiences seen in clinical practice.
Graduates of AIMN training may participate in ongoing clinical forums, video presentations and Skype discussions as well as ask questions of the Institute's medical advisors.
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ATLANTA -- Zagat has compiled what the restaurant guide says are its "Most Hotly Anticipated" restaurants opening in Atlanta in 2015. The restaurants include new projects by popular Atlanta chefs and expansions of restaurants popular outside of Georgia.
Zagat says that with Krog Street Market "mostly" up and running, Ponce City Market is the next big milestone in the city. Zagat is looking forward to restaurants that will open there starting this spring and then staggered throughout the year. Highlights according to Zagat: a new spot from chef Hector Santiago, an Atlanta outpost of Minero (Charleston chef Sean Brock's Mexican restaurant), an H&F Burger location and a seafood-focused eatery from Anne Quatrano, among others.
ATLANTA -- Two restaurants opening in Atlanta are on Eater.com's list of 48 of the nation's most anticipated restaurant openings this summer.
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The tenth French hotel group, Maranatha, created a non-profit fund of 35,000 euros. The objective: to raise funds to invest in solidarity actions contributing to "Helping men to recover." Since November 2015, Maranatha experiments in six of its locations, the originality of the funding. For every euro paid by a client by night, the sum is tapped by 25% for Maranatha. Several thousand have already been collected. Since early 2016, the fund is supporting a first project to benefit the « Apprentis d'Auteuil" Foundation. This is helping children from 6 to 11 years to academically reintegrate through learning a musical instrument.
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Last week, I had a trip to Oahu with 3 friends. We ate, drank, shopped, played, and relaxed during the 5-day stay. It's been a few years since my last visit to Oahu, and I found some new places, too.
First night, we had dinner at Cafe Miro. This place has been around for years and makes me feel nostalgic coming here. The food is consistently good here, and I enjoyed it ver much.
Both Chinatown and Downtown Honolulu is becoming more exciting with new cool shops and restaurants. One of the most popular restaurants in Chinatown is The Pig and the Lady. It's a modern Vietnamese restaurant. We got there as soon as they opened for lunch, and soon after the spacious restaurant was packed!
Here is another popular place in Chinatown. It's called Lucky Belly. We had a great time dining there. Both the food and service were excellent! Aloha hospitality.
We also hit some very classic places in Waikiki. Lunch at Veranda at Moana Surfrider was elegant and nice. And, yes, had some Mai Tai at Mai Tai Bar at Royal Hawaiian.
Dinner at MW Restaurant was wonderful, too. I loved my Kanpachi dish. And, another fun place (I didn't get to take photos...) was Izakaya Naru. It's an Okinawan izakaya, so there are many classic Okinawa-style dishes (lots of pork belly!) and other dishes. They have a good Okinawa awamori shochu (Okinawa-style spirit), too.
On Saturday, we went to a farmers market at KCC. This is the largest one in Oahu and the venue was so crowded both locals and tourists. I got some fresh macadamia nuts, etc.
I found this poster at a shopping center. There is such a thing as Saimin Burger...Really?!
Something really amazing happened in this trip. On one morning, while I was jogging near Diamond Head, I immediately recognized another jogger who quickly passed me by from the other direction...it was Haruki Murakami, an internationally renowned author, whom I have been admiring since I was a low teenager! In the same afternoon, I got news that the donabe cookbook manuscript I've worked so hard on the past so many months was officially accepted by the publisher. So, I feel the encounter was a good luck sign!! Mahalo.


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WNBA Rookie Maya Moore Faces Seattle Storm For First Time On Thursday
By Nate P.@NateP_SBN Jun 8, 2011, 1:23pm PDT
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The last WNBA rookie who entered the league with as much hype as Minnesota Lynx rookie Maya Moore was Los Angeles Sparks forward Candace Parker.
And in the 2011 WNBA season opener that was billed as a head-to-head between the two - even though they don't actually guard each other - Moore was as impressive as one might expect from a WNBA rookie, as described by James Bowman of SB Nation's women's basketball site Swish Appeal.
Maya Moore Follows Rookie Superstar Rule: "Be Good Early!" - Swish Appeal
Maya Moore should be happy with her 21 point debut, even though her Minnesota Lynx lost to the Los Angeles Sparks in their home opener in the 2011 season.
All and all, six out of eight players who were #1 WNBA Draft picks and who have scored at least 15 points in their rookie debut have won Rookie of the Year.
Of course, with 6-foot-8 Tulsa Shock rookie Liz Cambage also impressive out of the gate, the Rookie of the Year award is certainly not a done deal although playing for a more successful team will certainly work in Moore's favor in the minds of some voters.
But if this is indeed the first year since 2004 that the Lynx make the WNBA playoffs, Moore won't be the only reason - on paper, the Lynx are arguably the most talented team in the league top to bottom. And after an injury-plagued season last summer, they're off to a good start this season.
In addition to Moore, the Lynx have this year's fourth overall draft pick in forward Amber Harris, outstanding point guard Lindsay Whalen, last year's second overall pick in Monica Wright, and Seimone Augustus, who has one of the sweetest mid-range games in all of basketball.
Yet thus far, Lynx writer Paul Crary suggests that none of those talented players has even been the most impressive on their team in their first three games.
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Lynx forward Rebekkah Brunson has been a catalyst for that fast-break offense as she has dominated the boards. Brunson has put up some amazing stat lines in her first three games this season. Brunson leads the WNBA in rebounds with 42 boards, while Shock forward Liz Cambage is in second with 25 rebounds. Last season Brunson set a Lynx franchise-record with 12 doubles-doubles in one season. So far in 2011 it's been no different for Brunson, as she has recorded a double-double in each of the first three games.
Two advantages that the Storm will have over the Lynx entering this game are being rested since beating the Phoenix Mercury on Saturday and their experience playing together - whereas the Lynx are still figuring out rotations and each other, the top of the Storm's rotation is a carryover from last year and off-season acquisition Katie Smith who seemed to blend in seamlessly against the Mercury.
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Situation
L'église se trouve dans la commune de Chassignolles, au sud-est du département de l'Indre, en région Centre-Val de Loire. Elle est située dans la région naturelle du Boischaut Sud. L'église dépend de l'archidiocèse de Bourges, du doyenné du Boischaut Sud et de la paroisse de La Châtre.

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Description
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 Liste des édifices religieux de l'Indre
 Liste des monuments historiques de l'Indre

Lien externe

 Site de l'Église catholique en France

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Amazon is Making Moves to Update, Expand Grocery Delivery
By Jennette Rowan
Amazon's Prime service is a major pillar of its business, and when the e-commerce company acquired Whole Foods Market late in 2017, everyone knew the two services would somehow be integrated. In February, Amazon announced the latest way it would be incorporating its Prime membership and Whole Foods Market products, with two-hour delivery, and it is now expanding that service to more markets.
Amazon expanded its free two-hour delivery of products from Whole Foods Market through Prime Now to Atlanta, GA, and San Francisco, CA. Prime customers can shop for items across fresh and organic produce, bakery, dairy, meat and seafood and everyday staples. Select alcohol is also available for delivery to customers in San Francisco.
In addition to free two-hour delivery for orders over $35, customers have the option for delivery within one hour for $7.99 on orders over the same threshold. Delivery from Whole Foods through Amazon Prime is now available in six cities after initially launching last month in Austin and Dallas, Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Virginia Beach, Va. Expansion to more U.S. cities is expected in 2018.
In another possible sign that the company will be expanding and reinventing its grocery delivery service, Amazon filed a patent to use robotic refrigerators at its fulfillment centers to speed up deliveries of perishable foods. The refrigerators would eliminate the need for workers to walk up and down aisles, giving them more time to pick a higher volume of orders, reported Puget Sound Business Journal (March 5).
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Despite these developments, Amazon's VP of Prime Greg Greeley announced he is leaving the company after 18 years. During his time at Amazon, he held a number of senior leadership positions and is credited for helping create Amazon Prime and building Amazon's European business, reported TechCrunch (March 6).
Recently, Greeley began shifting his focus to Whole Foods, which analysts believed suggested Amazon would make Prime a part of the Whole Foods customer rewards program. Greeley did not say what his next move will be, but said "the time has come" for him to "take on a different challenge."
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Carrie Fisher Is In Star Wars Episode VIII, Here's What We Know
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Today is a terribly depressing day for movie fans around the world. To close out a year of terrible losses in the entertainment industry, the legendary Carrie Fisher passed away after suffering a heart attack last week. We will definitely be spending time mourning the loss and remembering her for her amazing contributions to cinema -- but we will also hold on to the fact that she will be back on the big screen this time next year playing General Leia Organa in Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII.
While the untimely death of an actor has affected film productions in the past, the passing of Carrie Fisher seemingly won't affect the next Star Wars movie, primarily because principal photography came to an end months ago. The blockbuster started shooting in early February of 2016, and wrapped in July, with the official Twitter account for the franchise documenting the news:
Final slate of the final shot. VIII is officially wrapped. Cannot wait to share it with you all! -@rianjohnson pic.twitter.com/l4Apk0Ro4i
— Star Wars (@starwars) July 22, 2016
This certainly suggests that director Rian Johnson got all of the footage he needed in the first half of the year, and as such Star Wars: Episode VIII shouldn't be affected by Carrie Fisher's passing. That being said, it should be noted that there is also a probability that this isn't the case, as blockbusters do need reshoots and pick-up shots all the time. There may be a point in post-production when Johnson discovers that he needs something extra from General Organa, and they will have to come up with some kind of work around. Obviously we're hoping that doesn't wind up being the case.
Because everything Star Wars related is played incredibly close to the vest (basically inside the vest), we don't know much of anything about the size of Carrie Fisher's part in Episode VIII -- but we do know that The Force Awakens positioned her as a very important character in the future of the sci-fi saga. As we wrote about at length yesterday, General Organa a.k.a. Princess Leia is simultaneously the leader of the fight against the First Order; the mother of the primary antagonist, Kylo Ren; the widow of a fallen hero (Han Solo); and the Force-attuned sister of the fabled Luke Skywalker. She's basically at the center of everything in the Star Wars universe right now -- and as such there will be a lot of extra curiosity now regarding how Star Wars: Episode VIII passes the baton to Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars: Episode IX.
We track the Star Wars saga very closely here on Cinema Blend, and obviously will continue to follow this story as it develops -- as we really don't know right now how Carrie Fisher's incredibly sad death will affect the future of the franchise. Stay tuned.
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I believe the original concern was related to Flash and how a user could unknowingly enable their webcam and microphone so the attacker would have access. There are some other examples shown here: http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-168.htm.
Adobe resolved this issue in October of last year with a new release of Flash Player. Obviously this only offers protection for that particular exploit – gaining access to webcam/microphone; other more rudimentary techniques still work perfectly today.
Using the basic technique of positioning an iframe over a button coupled with Twitter's 'status' URL parameter I have created a small demo which shows you just how serious (and annoying) this could be!
Go to Twitter, make sure you're logged in.
Go to your Twitter page; look at your latest status!
What does this mean? It means anyone can update your Twitter status without you knowing! Actually, it's YOU that's updating it, you just don't know at the time.
This is a pretty harmless example but I can imagine it being used for more sinister endeavours!
Clickjacking is a dangerous malicious technique; take it seriously! It cannot be halted with a quick browser fix here and there because the problem lies within the CSS/frame implementation itself; it's not a software bug! If you're fortunate enough to use Firefox then install NoScript, otherwise explore the other measures I described above.
Wow… excellent example here james. I heard of this problem awhile ago, but never really got to see an example.
nice example but user can realize that his cursor change into "hyperlink hand" instead of "button arrow" while moving the cursor onto invisible iframe.
@Gman, the cursor is dependent on what you're getting the user to click on. It might be a button, a hyperlink, a checkbox or an image. I reckon most users wouldn't notice that anyway. Plus if I had put a regular looking link under the iframe instead of that button then the average user would be none the wiser. And I'm sure you're not suggesting that a user's intuition is suitable protection against something like this?
This is very interesting indeed. Is there anything twitter can do to prevent this?
e.g. Use a simple frame breaker script to break out of iframes?
@Wesley, sorry, I should've included that within the post.
return d.defaultView && d.defaultView.getComputedStyle ?
// Note, this, if it works, will remove _ALL_ iframes with less than full opacity.
Ive noticed this lately and i just ignore it not knowing that its the so called clickjacking. lol Thanks for the info James.
Thank you for spreading the word about the seriousness of clickjacking. For those interested in the original clickjacking video demo that shows how to hijack a webcam and mic.
Chrome seems to thwart this exploit — neither the original "don't click" or the test above ended up in my (logged in) Twitter stream.
FYI the "Don't Click" that's going around right now is not clickjacking — it's XSRF which is simpler. It results from the fact that Twitter allows posting status updates (and possibly other things) using a simple GET request with no authentication beyond a cookie.
Don't get all high and mighty, Sean O. I was unable to do it on Firefox (logged into a junk twitter account to test it) 3.1 nightlies.
Wanna see a Mozilla employee fall for it?
Oh, ignore me please (or drop my comment in moderation) — I was misunderstanding the complete nature of the attack.
@Glenn, it's NOT XSRF, it's clickjacking! 🙂 – if I send you to this URL (http://twitter.com/home?status=Hello%20Glenn) nothing is submitted to your Twitter timeline, the GET request will simply pre-fill the 'status' textarea with the text specified in the 'status' GET parameter.
To make it work you have to knowingly click on the 'update' button within Twitter. My exploit (and the new _copy_ flowing around Twitter at the moment) both use the clickjacking method to make you unknowingly click on the 'update' button.
@Sean, it's not only Chrome that fails. I get very inconsistent results with FF3.1 and Opera.
@Tom "High and mighty"? LMAO, I was relating my experience and nothing more. Scroll up and search for the word "seems". Many others are reporting that Chrome has prevented the unwanted tweet as well.
BTW, I still use (and love) Firefox + Firebug for development.
Thanx for posting this information!
As of right now (12:45pm CST) Twitter's saying they've patched this to stop someone from doing it.
This causes the toplevel frame to redirect away from the Don't Click page, hopefully before the unsuspecting user's had a chance to click and submit the viral text.
This is not an "Iframe" issue, this is a "Stupid network parlor trick" issue.
The links that say, "CLICK HERE" don't tell you what is on the other side, what it does when you click it, or anything else other than, if you are lucky, the actual destination page.
How is that different than a link that says, "SEARCH GOOGLE", but it actually takes you to yahoo, through a google-request, or directly taking you to a yahoo search page?
How is this different than a full-size transparent gif that is a link, overlapped across your whole screen?
These are designs by nature. Stupid, yes… but hardly exploits. (Stop calling every "bad use", an exploit.) In that case, the writer here exploited a blog program to utilize googles addiction to search. No iframes required, and just as dangerous and malicious as the twitter-gitter. It brought you here, didn't it!
@JasonD, are you confused because the demo no longer works? (Twitter fixed it after this exploit was used maliciously a few months ago.) This is completely different from a link that claims to go somewhere but goes somewhere else; the problem with clickjacking is that you can fool unsuspecting users into doing something functional on another site without letting them know about it. In this instance it was just a tweet but it could be used for far more malicious endeavors.


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Discussion in 'Pyra News' started by EvilDragon, May 27, 2018.
Whew - finally, I find the time to sit down and update you on what's going on with the Pyra devlopment / production.
Time to start with the case.
So, what has happened in Greece during the last few weeks?
While it seems at first not much has happened, they have made some important progress.
According to my contact, they have fixed the remaining two issues (shoulder buttons and stylus) and he personally went there regularly to check the shoulder buttons and told them if it needs more changes or not.
After he approved them everything, they made a small test run of 50 parts to test the tolerances during production.
Producing ONE case with working shoulder buttons doesn't mean that they will all work with 50 different mass produced parts!
So they had to produce them... and then test the functionality of the shoulder buttons with all those 50 case.
Quite a lengthy but very important process if we don't want to have any bad surprises when we finally start the mass production!
The final result is on the way to me - but I'm on a short holiday trip from Tuesday to Sunday next week, so I won't be able to test it before I get back.
You can be sure it'll be one of the first things I do though!
Unfortunately, I didn't receive an answer to my question what exactly is included in the package so far (well, it's weekend and my contact also wants to have some free time ).
I hope that it will have the logo glued in as well and the aluminium plate for cooling, as that would mean I can build a full Pyra!
We're still waiting for the mainboards, but they shouldn't be too far away now.
Well, unfortunately, a quick test by Nikolaus didn't show much improvement, it was still running unstable.
You can probably imagine how much that demotivated me... however, after sleeping over it for one night, I was able to think properly again.
First, Nikolaus test doesn't say much. We played around with a LOT of parameters trying to get the 4GB RAM to work with the previous PCB version - including some that noted "Do not use for in live mode" in the datasheet.
Nikolaus just put in his testing card from back then, he didn't change or review any parameters, so it could be the setup is completely wrong and therefore the RAM is unstable.
For further testing and debug, some of the CPU boards have been sent to Tony Lindgren (an expert in OMAP things). He received the boards but didn't have time yet to work on that yet, but I can't wait for results!
We also wanted to send some of the PCBs to zmatt, but he hasn't replied to any of our emails yet. I sure hope he's doing fine and just incredibly busy - hopefully, nothing has happened to him... you never know on the internet. Though he's still idling around in IRC, which is a good sign.
There's still quite a few things which should be done before the release. We don't have proper powersaving, the TILER implementation needs to be tidied up, 3D is not yet implemented, Audio needs a better setup, etc.
It seems there are less and less kernel developers having the time to work on such things in their spare time.
That's why I decided to hire freelancers to help out as well!
We already have one who has knowledge of the OMAP series and is working on the AM-series from TI at the moment. He's a friend of Nikolaus and has already done work on the GTA04.
I know we've got quite a lot of OpenSource fans around here. Maybe some know some good kernel developers, who are able to include and improve hardware support and fix various issues.
We can provide a test unit as well as the needed datasheets - but it needs someone who is capable of debugging and fixing low-level things.
I am fine paying for the work as well.
Well, let's assume everything is working and ready except for the 4GB RAM version.
In this case, I'll start the mass production - with 2GB RAM boards. No need to wait further if everything is ready!
Quite a few of you have signalled they will be happy with 2GB RAM for a start. And 2GB RAM will eat a bit less battery as well.
Of course, we will continue to work on the 4GB RAM boards so we'll have them available some time later. We already own the RAM chips - it would be a waste of 30k EUR not to use them!
There's a company in Munich (so round the corner) who claims they can get ANY RAM chip to work (and so far, they did, according to our memory distributor).
They have measurement devices that go inbetween the RAM chip and PCB and monitors EVERY signal.
So if something fails, they will EXACTLY know what.
We'll get that to work, even if we start with 2GB RAM first.
So much for now. I really had hoped to post better news than that (you can imagine how happy I would be with better news!) but that's life. And everything Pandora-related ALWAYS had been hard work instead of good luck.
But as usual, I'll keep going forward! No way to give up!
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Thank you for the update ED. Enjoy your holiday trip.
Thanks for the update, ED.
2GB would be okay with me if necessary, depending on upgrade options.
I'm willing to accept 2GB now if I can get 4GB board later!
If I pay the full 4GB price now, will I be able to get a discounted 4GB board later on? Because I already bought the vouchers.
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It's more like a new Pandora Device for me..
Thanks for the update and have a relaxing vacation!
Regarding the developers Sebastian Reichel (http://elektranox.org) comes into my mind. But I guess that Nikolaus has already asked him and he might be busy, too.
I have said before I can do 99.99% of what I want to do with the Pyra on the 2GB version.
It's a really depressing update if you ask me. It feels to me that we are a year away still.
Thanks for keeping us update. I really appreciate the effort of ED and everyone involved.
If I can give my opinion: give up on the 4GB board, assume losses and put the effort into a totally new cpu board (I mean soc and all).
edit: just to clarify, assuming losses may mean also price increase for preorders. I would accept it.
Wow the legendary Pandora Santoryu technique! tl;dr: Pun related to Once Piece Manga.
No, it's more like a Zelda RPG, where you almost-almost finished the level, but not yet (because you went left, instead of right). Instead of actually just starting the level.
That probably wouldn't be too good for the back..
Your princess is in another castle, I'd have thought. But in any case, thanks for the update ED - forewarned is forearmed and all that.
Unfortunately, I don't know any kernel devs nearly well enough to ask any of them to help out in this. I'd hope with more videos from prototype users and even end users, it'd be easier to drill up a bit of excitement about this project again.
I never planned to use the 4G modem anyway and can live nicely with only 2 GB of RAM.
My Olimex Teres I has 2 GB of RAM and it's not that bad.
And I very much prefer to have a Pyra with 2 GB over having no Pyra with 4 GB of RAM.
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Best of news is you take vacation. I was getting tired of updates saying the team was overstressed (well, EvilDragon, mainly).
I doubt I'd take a 2GB Pyra. I'd probably cancel, but I can wait for that to be sorted out, and I'm not at the front of the queue anyway.
timing issue, or any configuration. Keep up the good job, EvilDragon, Niklaus, and now Lindgren.
just didn't find it important enough to mention.
Hope cases work ok next week or whenever you can test them.
Have a good holiday, you overwork yourself way to much.
As much as I love your dedication to get the 4GB ram working at some point it might be time to give up on getting it working and to move on working on a brand new SoC upgrade and maybe give those who ordered a 4GB Pyra a discount on that upgrade to make up for not being able to deliver on 4GB versions of the OMAP5. But it's your call at the end of course.
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I'm wondering if doing a 2GB first batch could be a useful demand-management tactic, as well as a sensible time-saving measure.
Many of the people who'd be put off by "only" 2GB of RAM are the same people who would baulk at unpolished software, long shipping times, and all the other teething problems associated with this sort of release.
We should do more to stress the resource-frugality of the Linux desktop environment, too. There are very few tasks which need more than 2GB of RAM, but are otherwise sensible on a palmtop. Zealous web caching seems to be the main one, these days.
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Normally, a new year brings an organization new opportunities to examine and reorder its priorities, to make new commitments, and to launch new projects. In 2017, U.S. secular organizations will do all that, but they also have to reassess their missions and their strategies in the wake of the presidential election. The American Humanist Association is not immune to that need.
This week, Executive Director Roy Speckhardt joins us to talk about how AHA has stepped up post-election and about plans for the coming year. We talk about how the organization is getting more political and more activist. We also talk about how AHA can help us all get more involved to protect this Humanist world we've been building.