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"This election will come down to one question: Who do you trust to put more money in your pocket for you, for your family?" said Scheer. "I have a plan for all Canadians to get ahead, starting with families who work so hard while raising their kids."
With the Children's Fitness Tax Credit, a new Conservative government will:
· Allow parents to claim up to $1,000 per child for expenses related to fitness or sports-related activities;
· Make the credit refundable so low-income Canadians benefit most; and,
· Allow parents of children with disabilities to claim an additional $500 per child, per year.
With the Children's Arts and Learning Tax Credit, a new Conservative government will:
· Allow parents to claim up to $500 per child for expenses related to arts and educational activities;
· Make the credit refundable so low-income Canadians benefit most;
· Make it flexible, so children can get extra help studying a language or learning science, math or coding; and,
· Allow parents of children with disabilities to claim double the amount, up to $1,000 per child, per year.
Under Justin Trudeau, Canadian families are under pressure and worried about their future. Half of families are just $200 away from insolvency at the end of each month. Canadian families' net worth declined for the first time in a decade. And because of Justin Trudeau's carbon tax, every day essentials cost more and more.
"Young, middle-class families are the future of this country. Instead of helping the middle class like he promised, Justin Trudeau has made life more expensive," said Scheer. "I have a plan that will put more money in your pockets – for you, for your kids. It's time for you to get ahead."
As Prime Minister, Andrew Scheer will:
· Cut taxes for every working Canadian by implementing the Universal Tax Credit;
· Support commuters with the Green Public Transit Tax Cut; and,
· Support young families by making EI maternity and parental benefits tax-free.
· The Trudeau Liberals cancelled two previously available tax credits (arts and fitness). · In 2017, Trudeau falsely claimed "low-income families don't benefit from tax breaks." In fact, claimants of the two cancelled tax cuts came from all income tax brackets, and from every region of the country.
· Nearly 1.78 million Canadian families claimed at least one of two previously available tax credits (arts or fitness) in 2014 alone.
· That year, more than 698,000 Ontario families, more than 411,000 Quebec families, more than 223,000 B.C. families and more than 217,000 families in Alberta families benefitted from these credits.
· Some 210,000 families making $40,000 or less (i.e., households in the lowest income tax bracket) applied for and received these tax credits
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Censuring Rep. Paul Gosar was warranted. Booting him from committees was a mistake
Opinion: Censure was warranted. But stripping Gosar of committee assignments denies his constituents equal representation and invites retaliation.
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I have no objection to Democrats in Congress censuring Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar for an anime cartoon depicting him slaying Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden.
I wouldn't even have an objection if Gosar had been booted from office, so vile was his offense.
However, if Gosar is to remain in Congress, it was wrong for Democrats to strip him of his committee assignments. That deprives his constituents of equal representation in the body.
And it invites retaliation if Republicans take over the House after the 2022 election.
Congress was right to censure Gosar
Gosar claims that the video is a metaphor for open-borders immigration. According to Gosar, he wasn't figuratively slaying Ocasio-Cortez and attacking Biden. He was slaying and attacking the idea of open-borders immigration, which Ocasio-Cortez and Biden were figuratively representing.
Gosar's defense against censure was two-fold. He has a First Amendment right to make his points the way he wants to make them. And the cartoon was just a cartoon. It wasn't an incitement to violence.
Another view:Republicans' defense of Gosar in censure vote is sickening
But the question before the House wasn't whether the cartoon violated the First Amendment. The question was whether it constituted unacceptable conduct by a member of Congress.
The First Amendment doesn't give Gosar the right to serve in Congress. Or to say anything that might be protected by the First Amendment as a member of Congress, particularly with respect to another member of the body or the president of the United States.
Gosar stepped over a line, metaphor or not
Comity in Congress is pretty much a dead letter. However, even in our hyper-partisan times, it is reasonable to draw lines regarding communications with and about other members. Regardless of where that line is drawn, depicting the killing of a fellow member and an attack on the president would be beyond it. Saying that it was a metaphor doesn't save it.
Nor does saying that it was just a cartoon. Whether the cartoon constituted an incitement to violence, as the censure motion alleges, isn't really the point, or shouldn't be the point. What Gosar did was vile enough to warrant censure, even expulsion, irrespective of whether it motivated, or could motivate, anyone else to do anything else.
Expulsion would have required a two-thirds vote, which, given the GOP defense of Gosar, wasn't obtainable. So, the Democrats, with the support of just two Republicans, decided to censure Gosar.
And, as punishment, strip him of all committee assignments. Gosar previously served on the Natural Resources and Oversight and Reform Committees.
His constituents deserve equal representation
The Constitution provides that each chamber of Congress "may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour … ."
However, the constitutional order assumes equal representation in the House. There is no contemplation of second-class representatives with fewer rights and privileges than others.
In another era, stripping a member of committee assignments would have been much more consequential. The committees used to be the legislative workhorses of Congress, where bills were forged in debates and deliberations between the members.
Today, they are mostly stages for political theater. The members keelhaul people before public hearings. There is no attempt by the members to elicit information or perspective that might inform their lawmaking. Instead, the witnesses are props for pompous speeches and tendentious questions without any true interest in the answers.
Nevertheless, the constituents in Arizona's 4th Congressional District, represented by Gosar, have as much of a right to a House member who fully participates in congressional proceedings as the constituents in New York's 14th Congressional District, represented by Ocasio-Cortez.
A Trumpian GOP will retaliate, hurting the House more
In both chambers of Congress, traditionally committee assignments have been the prerogative of the respective political parties. In the House, however, Democrats have now denied any committee assignment for two Republicans, Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I used to think that the Republican Party would have to undergo a rehabilitation before the body politic would trust it again with power, some sort of purging of the excessive bile of the Donald Trump years.
However, there's a real possibility that an unrehabilitated GOP will take over the House next election.
How Sinema made everyone else at Davos look like sheep Hobbs is wildly out of touch with what Arizonans want Arizona could nix food taxes and hurt the poor even more Bill to ban preferred pronouns is theater of the absurd
Vindictiveness is a Trumpian trademark. If Republicans take over, there will inevitably be a strong movement among Trumpeteers to retaliate by stripping some Democratic representatives of their committee assignments.
Kevin McCarthy, the probable speaker in such a scenario, has neither the conviction nor the spine to stand up to such a movement. If Republicans have the votes, it is likely to happen.
Thus the degradation of the House continues apace.
Reach Robb at robert.robb@arizonarepublic.com.

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If other environmental impacts are to be addressed, JRC PEF and OEF guides and ISO 14040 / 14044 are exclusively applicable, even though they are not specific to the ICT sector.
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Music is a journey. More specific, listening to Music is a journey. Playing it is also quite a ride, but it's different. On one side you are being captivated and transported to another feeling by someone else – passively. On the other you are creating the sensation of emotional movement with your own effort (at the moment or with practice leading up to the moment) – actively. It's an honor really. If you were called anything besides "Musician" (such as "doctor" or "pilot") you would need some sort of license and certified training to alter and transport people's state of being such as we do. But nope. You don't need no ticket to ride this train. Any Joe Blow can pick up an 'ukulele and learn to change the way we feel with Music. That's magic.
If that is indeed the case though, all the thought and effort put into creating the ride really doesn't matter. I know I sure don't care what scale Jake plays if it sounds good. He put in his time because he wanted to be able to take himself and others on a Musical journey with ease, not because he thought fans would appreciate the chords and strums he practiced. People pay money to go to a concert because they want to experience Music in a person to person setting. They don't care how you make them feel like dancing or crying, as long as you do.
There is no math-like, absolute answer to playing great Music or sounding good on the 'ukulele.
I think I can safely say that with absolute certainty. It's like the number 42 being the "Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" in Douglas Adam's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's absurd. That's why it's funny.
Music is infinitely abstract and to attempt to pin it down is selling yourself short of the possibilities. The options are daunting, if not downright scary! How do you make sense of it all, let alone a career out of it like some choose to do? You'll find your way somehow. If you love/need to go on that ride every time you pick up your instrument you will find a way – you have to.
So for those of you searching for the next 'ukulele, or the best strings, or the best chords: save yourself some time and just play Music. Get yourself some decent equipment and go for it! Close out your internet browser and I'll close out mine and let's put our fingers on the frets to find out how each of us can make the most beautiful sounds we can.


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Can software or a block of code under the GPL or a similar license be patented?
Regarding software, can an application or block of code licensed under the GPL (pre version 3), or a similar license requiring the source to be made available under the terms of the license after redistribution or modification, be patented?
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That's one of the reasons why version 3 of the GPL specifically states that you must grant all downstream recipients of a covered work an irrevocable, royalty free license to the patented component, or you can't distribute the software. Redhat reached the first licensing deal that complied with this requirement. That is a good step, but not a solution. Patent threats can pop up like moles in a game of whack-a-mole.
There are a myriad of patents that could potentially apply to any sufficiently complex piece of software, such as a file system, and no license (no matter what version or conditions implemented) can solve that problem. The problem is, parts of complex software are often already patented, but the patents are unknown to the author. It can be just a matter of time before a patent holder discovers a possible infringement and begins to take action - or the 'infringing' parts may remain undiscovered forever.
Remember, you're not patenting code, your patenting what it implements or accomplishes. Thus, you could take that bit of code, re-write it in a completely different language and you still have the patent problem to deal with. The copyright changed because the work is your own (thus the license no longer applies), but the patent remains because the code still implements or accomplishes the same thing.
If no patent exists that could apply to the software, then the software itself would be prior art - but that might not stop the patent from being granted.
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As far as I'm aware, a block of code or a piece of software can't be patented, period. That's strictly copyright territory.
What can be patented is the process that the code implements. And to that end, a program licensed under the GPL may implement a process covered by a patent. GPLv3, however, mandates that you grant all downstream users a license on the patent.
As for GPLv2 and earlier there is no such requirement. That's one of the huge differences between v2 and v3; before that, people just assumed that "free software" meant "free software", and patents were threatening to ruin that. Hence the change.
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Aurora woman finds largest diamond so far this year at Arkansas park
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MURFREESBORO, Ark. — Thinking it was just a piece of glass, an Aurora woman gave a 2.63-carat diamond she found at Arkansas's Crater of Diamonds State Park this month to her son to put in his pocket. It wasn't about an hour later the 71-year-old retiree realized that she made the find of a lifetime.
A 2.63-carat diamond found by a Colorado woman in Arkansas.
The Colorado woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, discovered the ice white diamond weighing nearly three carats about halfway between the East Drain and North Wash Pavilion in the park's 37.5-acre diamond search area.
According to a press release from the Arkansas park, "About one out of every five diamonds registered by park visitors is found right on top of the ground, including many of the largest ever found at the Crater of Diamonds."
The park said the gem is the largest diamond found at the park so far this year. According to a press release, 256 diamonds have been registered at Crater of Diamonds State Park so far in 2018. The largest diamond unearthed in the United States, named the Uncle Sam, was found at the park in 1924. The diamond weighed 40.23 carats.
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For its 2018-2019 season, Shriver Hall Concert Series will present another starry assortment of soloists and ensembles performing a broad range of repertoire.
The subscription series showcases recitals by eminent British pianist Imogen Cooper in her Baltimore debut, playing works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Thomas Ades; and Polish-Hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski, playing a Bach and Beethoven program that just received a rapturous reception in London.
Other exceptional pianists will be featured in collaborations with likewise notable artists. Marc-Andre Hamelin and the Pacifica Quartet will perform music of Beethoven, Schumann and Hamelin; Shai Wosner will accompany violinist Jennifer Koh in works by Beethoven and Vijay Iyer; and Till Fellner will join cellist Johannes Moser for a program of Beethoven, Debussy, Webern and Stravinsky.
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Midway through next season, the subscription concerts will be back at Shriver Hall, which has been undergoing a lengthy renovation project. Before then, the organization will utilize spaces at Goucher College and Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
The free Discovery Series will return next season, highlighting up-and-coming musicians, including the Harlem Quartet, the Rolston String Quartet, and the winner of the 2018 Yale Gordon Competition, cellist Mafalda Santos. Venues for this series are at Towson University, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Baltimore Museum of Art.
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The Mamba Mentality: What We Can Learn From Kobe Bryant
As an observer of his life and career, if I were asked to play word association for Kobe Bryant, the two descriptive terms I would choose would be passionate and resolute. Those are traits that have come to strongly resonate with me, characteristic as they are of the kind of person that I strive to be every day. He inspired me, a point that I have been ruminating on a lot these past few weeks in the wake of his sudden passing. So, while we mourn the tragedy, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on the traits I most associated with him, because they were what in my mind made him great, and what made Kobe great serves as inspiration to maximize our time on this Earth.
I followed his entire career. He was one of those players that I will be talking with fellow basketball enthusiasts about for the rest of my life. When I think about Kobe, his resolute quest for greatness is the first thing that comes to mind, not just in the game of basketball for which he is best known, but in his life in general. His career in the NBA was Top 10 all-time great, of course; it was his transition to his post-basketball life, though, that I admired most. Few players in the history of the game were as passionate about basketball as Kobe, but when his body told him it was time to retire, he listened and then he channeled his passion elsewhere.
To flow gracefully from one phase of life to another, finding new ways to positively contribute to the world, was one of Kobe's skills that all of us could learn. Among other endeavors, he converted the poem (referenced below) that announced his retirement into a documentary short that won an Academy Award, further cultivated his filmmaking interest by opening a production company focused on increasing diversity, developed an academy to help people unlock their full potential, and became a much more engaged father to his kids.
Kobe had his personal controversies, but he always tried to become a better person because of them, and he channeled that energy right back into his passions once re-centered in his life. Such is why perhaps no basketball player this century is as revered by his peers, who he openly embraced once he could turn his level of competitiveness toward them down a notch (or eight). Getting knocked off course, only to respond resolutely and climb to the next peak in life…that's the key to success. To paraphrase Kobe, everything negative in life presents opportunities for us to rise.
I had always quietly hoped that healthcare reform might have become of interest to him. He was arguably the hardest working basketball player of any first-ballot Hall of Famer, relentlessly trying to maximize his physical potential, in the waning years of his prime through making smarter and more innovative health choices. His extraordinarily studious nature and distinguished reputation would have been incredible assets to re-focusing healthcare on health and moving it beyond the dark ages of diagnosing and treating symptoms. He would have picked apart every flaw in the system and made everyone more aware of them, rather sternly based on his leadership style on the court. Fellow warriors in the fight to change the way that people think about healthcare, imagine Kobe Bryant being on our "team."
To win the battle for American healthcare, we will have to overcome a modern dynasty; the allopathic viewpoint renders the holistic movement a comparative expansion franchise much in need of infrastructure and influential support. Essential to our cause will be the eventual equivalent of Kobe lobbing the alley-oop pass that Shaq dunked to push the Lakers toward the 2000 NBA Championship, overcoming the differences in our individual approaches to accomplish a greater collective goal. Until then, we will have to each follow Kobe's approach that won Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals, struggling as we might at times but willing ourselves ever closer to a much-needed healthcare revolution.
The phrase that Kobe invented to describe his famous work ethic was "The Mamba Mentality," defined simply as the daily process of striving to be better. For most of his 42 years, Kobe was consciously passionate about what he was doing in his life, amplifying his successes and contextualizing his failures, while continually earning people's respect. His was a life worth celebrating and emulating.
As the clock winds down to the waning seconds of this reflection, I'll paraphrase from Kobe's Oscar-winning "Dear Basketball." No matter what phase in life we are in, whether seeing the end of the tunnel or still imagining what it would be like to walk out of one, no matter how many "seasons" we have left to give, we should strive to savor every moment, the good and the bad, all that we have, resolute in our passion to optimize our health, our lives, and the world around us. Thanks, Kobe.
Thinking good things for you, as always,
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The pathologist would probably object to this interpretation since no amboceptor is needed for agglutination.
This effect is only produced when two substances are present, the amboceptor or immune body and the complement.
Therefore it is difficult to standardize the serum to get a proper amount of amboceptor for the complement present.
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Pillar's CEO Mike Workman dropped by our office today, and said that while Pillar retains its earlier reservations about SSDs not being best utilized behind a network loop, the company will support them next year. The systems vendor will not have an exclusive partner for the drives, Workman said, though he mentioned Intel as one supplier.
Pillar's Axiom arrays separate disk capacity from the storage controller with components called bricks (disk) and slammers (controllers). Workman says the Axiom will support SSDs in the bricks, and the arrays' QoS features will be updated to support moving workloads to SSDs. This can happen either according to policy or automatically (with prior user approval) when the system is under intense workload.
This is definitely a change in tune, though Workman has always said Pillar's systems were capable of supporting SSDs and probably would. He just thought network latency was too great, and he hasn't retreated from that position. "It's there," he said. "There's no way to get around that."
But Workman says the biggest obstance to SSD now is price. "When we show people how they work, they say, 'Fine,'" he said. "Then we tell them how much it costs, and that's when they keel over."
Despite offering an 80% utilization guarantee earlier this year, Workman said only about 15% of Pillar's customers are at 80%. But the company hasn't been paying out lots of guarantee money, either. The details of the offer are vague to begin with: the terms are negotiated on a case by case basis, "to remediate any issue, as well as financial pain." The terms of the guarantee would have to be negotiated as part of the original sale.
Analysts also said users might be wary of pushing utilization that high given that it requires capacity planning to be precise. "I can't make [customers] write data to the system," Workman said. "The guarantee was not that they will but that they can." He added that the average Pillar customer's utilization currently is 62%.
Gregs - 11 Dec 2008 4:54 PM
Storage I/O Network performance too limited for SSD? Yeh right, maybe with a 10/100Mb based iSCSI network and other congestion among other issues. However on any decent SMB or enterprise I/O network including SAS, FC, iSCSI or NAS, assuming you are talking about Fibre Channel (2G, 4G, 8G) or even iSCSI at 1Gb or 10Gb on dedicated storage networks, or 3G SAS, all are and have been fast enough for SSD in the past, just ask folks like Texas Memory Systems among many others. Think about it for a minute, even if you are talking about SSD in the form of FLASH with a SATA interface, the I/O network is not going to be the typical bottleneck. The most common bottleneck for SSD is usually the controller that sits between the I/O or storage network and the SSD devices (FLASH or RAM) or even disk drives. Many mid to high-end storage systems today are actually back-end constrained meaning that the controllers could do even more I/Os if there were more disks to service the requests. However there are also some storage systems out there that are controller or firmware bound, or, are in the process of being addressed to limit issues to enable full speed of fast disks to occur. Perhaps that what's Pillar is referring to, that internal storage system controllers and their associated internal networks and firmware are too slow. On the other hand, perhaps Pillar has another industry 1st having found a way to eliminate controller and internal storage system network bottlenecks having finally pushed the performance bottleneck out to the I/O network. If that is the case, I along with the rest of the industry would very much look forward to seeing SPC or MSFT ESRP or TPC or some other benchmark results as that would be very exciting news. Meanwhile, back to regularly scheduled programming. Cheers GS


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After a whirlwind of press, accolades, performances and studio sessions with greats, Anderson .Paak took all those experiences and stirred them into his pot to formulate the silky-smooth Malibu album.
The follow up to 2014's Venice features appearances from The Game, ScHoolboy Q, Talib Kweli, Rapsody, and BJ The Chicago Kid. The sonic backdrop to the album was provided by some of today?s hottest producers from 9th Wonder, Kaytranada, Madlib, Hi-Tek, Robert Glasper, DJ Khalil and more. Malibu is sure to make Anderson .Paak a household name very soon.
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While he was working on his album 'Oxnard', the ever-ambitious Anderson .Paak was recording 'Ventura' at the same time. The 2019 record features the singles "King James" and "Make It Better".
Anderson .Paak - Ventura
The rapping, singing, and drumming polymath Anderson .Paak approaches the funk canon from a rap perspective on his new album 'Oxnard', offering a wide-angle portrait of Los Angeles' hedonistic landscape. The record features the singles "Tints" and "Who R
Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
Anderson .Paak knows how to appeal to R&B crowds while fusing his own brand of the genre. With the success of his sophomore album 'Malibu', Paak collaborates with his friend Knxwledge (under the duo Nxworries) to bring audiences 'Yes Lawd!', a deeper look
NxWorries - Yes Lawd!
Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge are back with 'Yes Lawd! Remixes', a new reworking of their debut album as NxWorries. It only made sense for Knxwledge, being the prolific remixer that he is, to remix his own album, adding a new interpretation to the tracks f
NxWorries - Yes Lawd! Remixes
The album '1988' is quintessential Knxwledge; with its soulful vocals and expertly crafted beats that work samples into something far greater than the sum of their parts, it perfectly demonstrates why Knxwledge is so revered by his fellow musicians.
Knxwledge - 1988
Anderson .Paak's eclectic, crossover style and musical chops allow him to effortlessly blend genres on his debut album 'Venice'. The 2014 album features the singles "Drugs" and "Miss Right".
Anderson .Paak - Venice
This is the first release from Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge as Nxworries. The 'Link Up & Suede' EP includes the singles "Link Up," "Suede" and "Droogs," a Knxwledge remake of the Anderson .Paak single, along with instrumental bonus beats.
NxWorries - Link Up & Suede EP
Knxwledge presents 'Hud Dreems', his debut release for Stones Throw Records. Standing out in a sea of producers rising from the L.A. beat scene, the prolific artist and record collector produces his sound by creating a pastiche of soul, jazz and hip-hop t
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'He doesn't have as much popularity as Roger Federer and Nadal', says ATP legend
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The debate over whether to review the scoring system of grand slam tournaments and align all circuit competitions to the best of three sets is bound to divide the world of tennis. One day perhaps we will choose to go in that direction, however the road that could lead to taking this revolutionary path appears tortuous and above all not very justifiable at the moment.
Speaking of best-of-five-set matches, it's interesting to browse through the statistics and analyze the performance of the great protagonists of contemporary tennis when they were forced to face the dreaded fifth set.
Obviously the calculation between the won and lost matches of the big three is positive for each of them, however some ideas are very interesting and help us to retrace some of the most beautiful and at the same time dramatic moments in the recent history of this sport.
Novak Djokovic proved to be the most efficient tennis player among the three phenomena in the final yield in this special and exclusive ranking. His balance sheet is indeed extraordinary: 32 victories against only 10 defeats in the fifth set for the current world number one.
An authentic long-distance specialist, capable of exalting himself like few others in moments of maximum effort. As the statistics remind us, the first game played in five sets by the Serbian ended with a defeat, remedied against the Belgian Olivier Rochus in 2005 in a Davis Cup match (when the team tournament was still played with this formula), while the last match that the Serbian played in five sets is very recent and it is the semifinal of Roland Garros this year, where the Belgrade champion defeated the Greek Tsitsipas in a very expensive match from a mental point of view.
Former French player Henri Leconte believes Novak Djokovic is looking for something extra over rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who are more popular. The Frenchman went on to claim that while Djokovic can come off as awkward at times, he is also incredibly generous.
Leconte on the Big 3
In a recent interview, Henri Leconte pointed out how Novak Djokovic is a unique person who is always trying to do something 'different' from his peers. "Novak Djokovic is a person who needs to be loved.
He does not have as much popularity as a Rafael Nadal or a Roger Federer. Novak is always looking for that little extra over his two rivals. He wants to be different and he is different, he does not have the same thinking and the same vision," Leconte said.
According to Henri Leconte, Novak Djokovic's comments can come off as awkward at times because he tends to speak his mind. Leconte himself has earned plenty of flak for his blunt comments over the years, but the Frenchman doesn't see any problem with that.
"Yes, sometimes he's awkward," Leconte said. "But we all have the right to be clumsy. He is someone who has the audacity to say certain things. He made mistakes that cost him dearly. Afterwards, the way of saying it can be improved and I'm the one who says that.
But he is also someone of incredible generosity when you see what he does for children in Serbia or for his foundation. This is what makes him charming too," Leconte said.


Thought-process: Inspired by the farmhouse look with a touch of gold, I put together a set of building blocks for hosting any dinner party. Meaning I stayed away from holiday specific items and carefully putting together items we could get tons of use beyond Thanksgiving!
3. One 10 piece serving set in Gold stainless steel - $25 (Amazon)Including : 1 piece of each , Cake Server, Fish Knife, Fish Fork, Serving Spoon, Serving Fork, Salad Spoon, Salad Fork,Butter Knife, Ice cream Spoon, Stirring spoon.
This is definitely not all we need. Plan on hitting Crate & Barrel, Homegoods and more to find what we are missing, including a Turkey Platter, Dessert Plates & miscellaneous decor to bring it all together.
As for the food we are outsourcing all but the Turkey thus far. (Thank you Flour for providing delicious sides we can order ahead and pickup. Boyfriend's mom is bringing dessert and stuffing.
Good luck to all first time hosts out there!!
*Edit: The Wayfair Wine Glasses were a fail! We ran to Crate & Barrel and got these Hip Large Red Wine awesome ones!


There are many books written about modern Druidry. There is a saying that where you have three Druids together, there you will have three different versions of Druidry. Yet, despite our differences, much of the core principle is the same, it is just how we do it, who we take as our deity, and how we make our ritual that is different.
It may be of use to compare the Druidry as expressed by Emma Restall-Orr, founder of the Druid Network, Phillip Carr-Gomm of OBOD, and the shamanic approach by John Matthews.
For a serious historical background try "The Druids" by Ronald Hutton. For insights about the Celtic system see Peter Berresford-Ellis's book also called "The Druids".
Much of our old mythology is available for free download via Kindle and other places. The Mabinogion and other Celtic tales are available from Sacred Texts.
To help with pronunciation of Mabinogion characters, whatch Cerys Matthews' production on the Secret Life of Books - The Mabinogion which she recorded for BBC Scotland.
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