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To her clients Jenny appeared to lead a perfect life. At her annual Christmas party they marveled at her changeless glossy dark hair, trim figure, and vigorous stride. Each looked around and compared her to those of themselves of the same age with less hair, increased girths, and gaits beset by limps and minor tremors. Some even imagined how good her life appeared and that Christmas had surely showered her with gifts. Although she did feel blessed her story was more complex than they could have imagined. It proved the adage that it is not what life throws at you that is important, but what you do with it.
At forty-five, Jenny had met the man of her life and came to believe that the years ahead were to be effortlessly full of joy. A year later, right before Christmas, while he was on a business trip to Chicago, he had a sudden, fatal heart attack as he ran through O'Hare airport to catch a plane back home. Jenny was shattered; although her innate courage enabled her to conceal the hurt within and to maintain a cheery façade. The truth was that she had lost all faith in the purpose and meaning of life. The only things, which kept her from taking her own, were her concern for her pack of rescue dogs, and the knowledge that, if she died, she would leave no legacy, nothing good that she had contributed to the world. Due to her thinness and years of marathon running she had already passed menopause but for some reason hormones kicked in and she began to long for a child.
At first she tried to staunch her longing through the adoption of more dogs. Her pack grew from three to six. She walked them twice a day and slept with them at night. They gave her unconditional love, and wagged their tails in her presence. To her surprise her longing for a child seemed to increase with each new dog; so when she saw a Compassion commercial, she called and sponsored two children. Their photographs arrived in the mail and she put them on her refrigerator. Their images also only served to intensify her longing. She searched everywhere and wrote numerous letters and confirmed, what she suspected, that the only way for a forty-six year-old spinster to adopt a child is through foreign adoption. She collected brochures and submitted application forms and money, lots of money, and waited.
Over six thousand miles away, in a Varna Bulgaria orphanage on the west shore of the Black Sea a small, silent boy sat, abandoned, in his crib. The white walls of the room were bare and the floor concrete, so that if he had made a noise, it would have echoed loud off the reflective surfaces. The only sounds were distant children's voices and a fly buzzing at the high window panes. His skin was mahogany colored and his hair black which had earned him, the probably accurate, but spurned label, of "gypsy". No-body knew for sure where he came from as he had been dropped off on the orphanage steps, a one day-old infant in a make-shift swaddling blanket.
The orphanage staff was not cruel, but they were short-handed and so, while they were able to keep all the children fed, clothed and clean, they had to be selective on those with whom they played. They preferred the light skinned Arian children who responded with smiles, while they disliked Boris's dour features.
As time went on Jenny's longing increased and she started to become desperate as nothing seemed to be happening. She maintained her search through reams of forms, and numerous "fees" and "tariffs". She was excited when, at last she found an agency that was willing to take up her quest. They identified struggling Bulgaria as a country which needed, and were willing to accept, assistance in caring for their orphans. They narrowed the search down to the Varna orphanage, but she still didn't have a name. As time passed she saw that her hope of having a child was slipping away into the money-hungry bureaucratic mire surrounding foreign adoptions, so, in the spring, she decided to go to Bulgaria.
Her long trip was rewarded, and after thirty six hours in transit she saw the gypsy-child, Boris, the child that no one would adopt, for the first time. He was almost four and she was forty –six. He had been spruced up and readied for her visit. She took him to the seashore but he merely sat, stiff in the sand, as though his clothes prevented him from movement. He showed no interest in the roaring waves, the hopping sea birds, the damp sour smelling seaweed, or the sideling crabs on the sand. When she offered him food he took it, smelled it carefully, and ate. He showed no emotion. His emptiness and need inspired Jenny. She recognized her own desperation mirrored in this child's withdrawal from human contact. She went home with a mission and a new photograph for her refrigerator. Now she knew that he needed her more than she needed him, and she determined to continue to battle through the paperwork until she was able to go back to Bulgaria to bring him home, to a new life.
Months passed and, in early December, Jenny knew that the time had come for her last important, life-changing, trip to Bulgaria. The agency undertook to transport Boris to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, where the final adoption paperwork was to be executed. They volunteered to arrange accommodation and to meet her at the airport; but when she emerged into the cold afternoon sun outside the airport, no-one was waiting for her. She nervously pulled out her agency documentation and waited. Half an hour later, just as she was becoming desperate, an elegantly dressed young woman approached her and, introduced herself as Rosa, her agency contact. She escorted Jenny to an old van with sullen-looking driver and they whirled off into the heart of Sofia.
Jenny was now in post-communist Bulgaria which hadn't seemed oppressive during her previous whirlwind trip to Varna but now was stifling in its dour negativism and almost hopeless stagnancy. Her accommodation was a converted room in private row-house residence with a shared bathroom down the hall. It faced onto a street lined with parallel-parked, broken-down cars. When Boris was delivered to her the following morning, the four year-old boy, in diapers, showed no emotion and no interest in his surroundings. Rosa was business-like in her review of the necessary paperwork and left as quickly as possible.
Jenny was abandoned to launch, alone, with only Boris at her side, into the seas of bureaucracy between her and Boris's final adoption, the papers which would legalize his status and allow her to take him back to America. She had to have official photographs taken, official forms signed, have his health certified, and she even had to register herself with the police in this country, newly emerging from the mantle of the USSR.
She decided that her first appointment should be a visit to a lawyer who was to assist with the paperwork. His address seemed prestigious, a few hundred feet from the main governmental buildings. She walked there carrying Boris when he became too tired to walk. When she arrived she found that addresses can be deceptive. The lawyer's office was a one small shared furnished with two enormous desks which faced each other, leaving just enough room between them for a couple of visitor chairs. It was on the second floor accessed by sparse stairs without heating. Ivan Dimitrov, their lawyer, a tall lanky individual, stood up to shake hands stretching his long arms across his huge desk. He was friendly enough and quickly undertook Jenny's business before launching into a long monologue about his son who played basketball with an aspiration to be noticed by an American scout, and to be drafted onto a professional American NBA team. For his fees he asked for dollars and a pair of studded size 17 basketball shoes to be mailed to his office.
Jenny had been on the trail over two weeks when she made it to the government clinic to get Boris's immunization and other medical documents. She waited three hours in a tiny waiting room watching patients come and go. Her assigned doctor must have known that she was the last obstacle between Boris, and his adoption and emigration to America. When Jenny was ushered into her office she gave a sullen scowl indicating with her body language that she did not approve of Boris's planned future. In a begrudging, business-like manner, she made it through his records.
When Jenny stood to shake hands and say 'thank-you," the doctor remained seated and looking Jenny in the face as she spoke in English, "You realize, of course, that Boris is still in diapers and without speech because he is severely retarded!" The words seemed to give her pleasure as she riveted her eyes on Jenny's face to evaluate her reaction.
If Jenny was horrified or upset she didn't show it, her face maintained its smile and she responded, "That means that he needs me even more!" At this response the doctor slumped back in her chair and reluctantly reached up her hand for that all-telling good-bye hand shake.
Rosa visited them a last time on the evening of their departure. As always her expensive fur coat and elegant clothing were in stark contrast to everything else that Jenny had encountered during her stay. Then she offhandedly asked Jenny whether she would be so kind as to transport a bag of "video equipment' to the States for her. Jenny drew back adamant that she could not carry anything other than her own bags and the boy.
The following day saw Jenny and Boris on the long flight west. They stopped in London where they had a long enough lay-over to spend the night in a hotel. Here Jenny luxuriated in hot water, showers and a comfortable bed with clean white sheets. The boy, Boris, showed no emotion letting himself be bathed and fed. In the morning as they prepared to leave Jenny placed him on the floor with his socks before him and an instruction to put them on. He sat and stared at them without movement. Every time that Jenny walked past she indicated the socks to him and pointed at his bare feet. Suddenly he moved, and with a rapid motion faster than Jenny had ever seen him move, he picked up both socks and hurled them across the room. Jenny stopped and smiled, her joy was great for this one action indicated that there was hope for this boy.
Years later when Boris was grown up Jenny still gave her annual 'thank-you' Christmas party. Its meaning was tied to Boris's arrival as well as her business successes. Her clients continued to admire her changeless demeanor as they listened to Boris flawlessly playing the Moonlight Sonata accompanied by Christmas carols on her piano. At moments like this they marveled at her luck and even questioned her about her son. She answered with an enigmatic smile while, egging them on to talk about themselves, even as she silently reminisced back to a Bulgarian doctor and a pair of socks sailing across a London hotel room.
© Copyright, Jane Stansfeld, December 2013
Posted in Short story
Tagged adpotion, Suicide
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A well told tale of redemption and life – for both Jenny and Boris. Looks like Rosa has something going on the side – quite intrepid.
Can't add to what Cynthia and Ian have already said – so, best to keep mum 🙂
All good wishes,
Thank you for your faithful visit, it always makes my day when you have been and left your card and comments.. Yes, I agree that Rosa must have had something else going on the side perhaps transporting goods, more valuable than children's clothing along with the orphans. But, surely, that is another story unto itself! They keep popping up, I'll be writing for ever – what a joy! Cheerio, Jane
I do not cease to be amazed by your quiet (sneaky) gift for keeping a reader in wonderment from start to finish. Not to mention the poetic turns of phrase and the astute characterization in such economy of words. This was indeed redemption given and received by both Jenny and Boris. I'm very glad to have met them.
HI Cynthia: Thank you for your visit and kind comments. It is such a pleasure for me to read your comments, in addition to your lovely words on your own blog. Your are my poetess of the year!. Cheerio, Jane
That's a great story! Your description of places and attitudes in Bulgaria brought back memories of similar unhappy places I've had to do business in my working years. It is so interesting to move from one country to another. One can be vibrant and forward looking and another surly and focused on the past and present. It all depends on the leadership of the country and chosen environment of the people doesn't it?
I agree Ian; Somehow the all encompassing USSR domination and then their rapid departure left people stagnated and inert. I understand that it is better now, although I haven't been back for many years. Cradle-to-grave succor seems to foster lethargy. I often worry about what our US welfare state is doing to our people. This dialogue could become very lengthy, I thank you for your insight!


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I got my first exposure to the brilliant Karl Urban when I watched Dredd earlier this year and ended up enjoying it a lot. The film was great, visually engaging – and although Urban didn't get much in the way of facial expressions he delivered a pretty impressive Judge Dredd. So Urban was one of the main reasons why I tuned into Almost Human, and he delivers the role with a great performance and is easily going to be one of the things that I can see carrying the show.
It is the year 2048, and Detectives now are required by law to work with androids, much to the disdain of Detective John Kennex (Urban), who has survived a devastating Police ambush now finds himself working with an Android named Dorian (Michael Ealy, FlashForward) who is an older model of Androids that suffered from the flaw of becoming 'too human'. The episode itself delivers a great, well paced introduction into the near future world of crime solving, even if it's basically like every robot film you've ever seen before blended with a dash of buddy cop drama for good measure. I can imagine fans of Robocop, I, Robot and Dredd enjoying this one – it's slick, pacey and entertaining enough to get the audience on board regardless of its flaws.
The show deals with the premise very quickly – within the first five minutes. Urban nails the role of Detective John Kennex in a pretty strong way and Michael Ealy isn't bad as well, delivering some strong performances. Elsewhere across the board there's Minka Kelly (Charlie's Angels, Parenthood), as Valarie Stahl, Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean, Game of Thrones) as Rudy Lom and there's also Lili Taylor (Hemlock Grove) as Captain Sandra Maldonado. There aren't really any actors or actresses who I felt didn't really fit the tone of the episode and it was good to see them playing their roles well with some engaging scenes between the characters. It's great to just sit back and enjoy the entire episode – because I think the best thing about this series is that it's fun. It may not be the most serious and well developed show ever, but Almost Human is a damn fine show and far from a bad one. Heck, it could even end up taking over spots from Sleepy Hollow, The Blacklist, Orphan Black, Peaky Blinders & The Escape Artist as my favourite new shows of 2013 given time – because it's certainly very promising with some great potential.
Aside from the fact that this show is full of clichés, there are a few more weak spots here and there. The future doesn't really look that much like the future. Aside from the odd CGI shots of futuristic transport and androids and advanced methods of communication there isn't many things that are different – even the cars still look pretty much the same. Then again, Almost Human is set in 2048, and not the 41st Millennium. There's also the fact that the MX's (androids) look way too creepy for standard human interaction, so their design is a bit flawed in that respect.
However, one thing that this show does succeed in doing is surprising the audience – I expected Kennex's dislike of Dorian to be dragged out for the entire first season but it's quickly and smoothly wrapped up within one episode. This leaves the show open for a fresh new dynamic – hopefully it won't be a boring case-of-the-week drama like so many other shows before it, but instead take new and interesting leaps. Given time I'm sure Almost Human could become the next best sci-fi thing, and I'm certainly going to be sticking with it for sure.


LEWISBURG " A former Bucknell University wrestling coach and star wrestler have sued Bucknell alleging defamation, and are seeking unspecified damages.
The trial started earlier this week. Michael Garcia of Mount Carmel and former coach Richard Ferraro of Winfield have sued the university in Union County Court.
Ferraro left Bucknell University in April 1997 after a university investigation into allegations that he violated recruitment rules. He had coached at the school for 24 years. School and athletic association officials said Ferraro helped set up improper internships and financial aid positions to Garcia's benefit.
When Ferraro resigned, university officials issued a press release on which the suit hinges. Ferraro and Garcia allege that it defamed their character.
Garcia came to Bucknell as a two-time Class AA state champion from Mount Carmel High School. He won the East Coast Wrestling Association 150-pound championship as a sophomore.
Bucknell barred him from the wrestling team midway through the 1996-97 season, but he sued and won, completing the season. He left school the following year.
The NCAA also conducted an investigation and placed the school's wrestling program on probation for four years.
The NCAA Division I infractions committee also placed sanctions on the school's off-campus recruiting and awarding of financial aid in wrestling, while ordering Bucknell to complete reports on its recruiting process for NCAA approval.
The NCAA's sanctions followed an internal investigation. The school had already placed itself on probation for two years.


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Orgasms and Choosing a Mate
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Do Orgasms Prevent Humans From Selecting Their Best Possible Mates?
The idea of whether a man or a woman deliberately seeks out a partner based on sexual prowess or the ability to deliver a resonating orgasm is not fictional. And the thought of sex has probably crossed someone's mind with regards to entering or exiting a relationship. But the factors involved that determine a suitable mate include more than just sexual relations.
Human beings, as emotional creatures, crave emotion. It is the bread and butter of life that makes up the human condition. Sex is a means to experience and satisfy emotions of pleasure. The orgasm itself is the zenith of intercourse. There are countless studies on it's effects physiologically and mentally. And sex has become such an omnipresent part of society that it is hard not to acknowledge its power and influence. But is the orgasm so powerful that it causes us to disregard reason? Can sex compel us to act against our best interest? Because we crave emotion so much, it's possible for us to value and depend on certain gratifications. In some cases, this dependency can cause negative consequences in a person's life. A sex addict is a term used to describe an individual who cannot control their sexual behavior or urges. Sexual desires and impulses become a controlling factor.
Most individuals understand there is more to life than sex though. Sex is just one facet of a relationship. Companionship, support, love, etc. are all necessary qualities for a healthy relationship. For many couples, the existence of these qualities makes sex much richer and meaningful. This is because the chemistry that goes into sexual attraction and orgasm starts in the mind. Ultimately, each individual has to determine their own values in a relationship. And they need to communicate these values (including sex) with their partner. If a couple is having trouble sexually, it doesn't necessarily mean it's time to throw in the towel. Not every person has an orgasm every time they have sex. There may be physical or mental circumstances that prevent an orgasm. For women, it is statistically more difficult to achieve orgasm than men. One sex study showed about seventy-five percent of all women never reach orgasm from intercourse alone (without the help of sex toys, hands, or tongue). Ten to fifteen percent never climax or orgasm under any circumstances (anorgasmia). While this information could support women choosing their mates on orgasmic results, its likelihood is less than credible. Where does the idea of sex start again? It doesn't take a "Don Juan" between the sheets to learn technique. Many couples have sought sexual counseling and not only discovered new ways to satisfy one another, but have also learned many of their roadblocks to fulfillment were more mental than physical.
There are individuals in this world who probably base their relationship choices on sex and orgasms. But given the dynamic nature of sex and the other values that go into a relationship, those individuals would appear a minority. Orgasms and great partners or mates can be found together. It may take patience, communication, and even outside help. But in the end, what is a relationship all about? Why not have your cake and eat it too?
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Gwendoline Neligan (* 1906; † 1972) war eine britische Florettfechterin.

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Gwendoline Neligan wurde 1933 in Budapest im Einzel Weltmeisterin und gewann außerdem mit der Mannschaft die Silbermedaille. Im Jahr darauf sicherte sie sich in Warschau im Mannschaftswettbewerb Bronze. Von 1934 bis 1937 wurde sie viermal in Folge britische Meisterin im Einzel.

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Typhina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Typhinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

It was first described by Félix Pierre Jousseaume in 1880.

Species
Species within the genus Typhina include:
 † Typhina alata (Sowerby, 1850 )
 Typhina belcheri (Broderip, 1833)
 Typhina campbelli (Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976)
 † Typhina canaliculata Landau & Houart, 2014
 Typhina carolskoglundae (Houart & Hertz, 2006)
 Typhina clarki (Keen & G. B. Campbell, 1964)
 Typhina clarksoni Houart, Buge & Zuccon, 2021
 Typhina claydoni (Houart, 1988)
 Typhina coronata (Broderip, 1833)
 † Typhina cryptica Merle & Pacaud, 2019
 Typhina expansa (G.B. Sowerby II, 1874)<ref></ref>
 Typhina gabonensis (Garrigues, 2021)
 Typhina grandis (A. Adams, 1855)
 Typhina lamyi (Garrigues & Merle, 2014)
 Typhina latipennis (Dall, 1919)
 Typhina neocaledonica (Houart, 1987)
 Typhina nitens (Hinds, 1843)
 Typhina pallida (Garrigues, 2021)
 Typhina puertoricensis (Warmke, 1964)
 † Typhina radulfiensis Merle & Pacaud, 2019
 † Typhina rutoti (Cossmann, 1882)
 † Typhina subburdigalensis Lozouet, 1999
Synonyms
 Typhina pavlova Iredale, 1936: synonym of Choreotyphis pavlova (Iredale, 1936) (original combination)
 Typhina ramosa (Habe & Kosuge, 1971): synonym of Typhis ramosus Habe & Kosuge, 1971
 Typhina riosi Bertsch & D'Attilio, 1980: synonym of Siphonochelus riosi (Bertsch & D'Attilio, 1980) (original combination)

References

 Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
 Houart, R, Buge, B. & Zuccon, D. (2021). A taxonomic update of the Typhinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae) with a review of New Caledonia species and the description of new species from New Caledonia, the South China Sea and Western Australia. Journal of Conchology. 44(2): 103–147.

External links
 Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338
 Jousseaume, F. (1882). Etude des Purpuridae et description d'espèces nouvelles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 7: 314-348

Muricidae
Gastropod genera
Gastropods described in 1880
Taxa named by Félix Pierre Jousseaume


THE new series of The Crown is promising to show a side of Princess Margaret that we've never seen before - as the Swinging 60s backdrop shows off her party girl side.
In scenes set to air in the second season, Margaret - played by Vanessa Kirby - is seen embracing her frivolous side as she begins a romance with Antony Armstrong-Jones.
In one scene, the socialite Princess is seen dancing around her bedroom in her underwear as she prepares for another evening with the fancy photographer, whom she later marries.
Other moments will see Margaret and Antony, who is played by Matthew Goode, go against the monarchy's wishes and pursue a romantic love affair together.
In steamy photographs ahead of the series release, Margaret can be seen in a clinch with Armstrong-Jones, as her party-loving nature is constantly against her duty to the crown and country.
The upcoming series will see Claire Foy take on the role of Queen Elizabeth for the final time - before Olivia Colman takes over the role in the years that follow.
Show creator Peter Morgan has previously suggested that the show might tackle the controversial topic of infidelity within the Royal Family.
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GUITARIST / BACKING VOX FOR SLUDGE BAND WANTED
Dissociation Plight is looking for 2nd guitarist and backing vocalist (desired) to complete our thunderous ensemble. We're recording the follow up release to our single 'Jupiter' in the next month and will be looking to do shows shortly after.
The 2nd guitarist will be tackling more melodic parts and sharing the load when it comes to solos. It's not technically difficult, but your musical chemistry with the band will need to be on point. You'll need to have a good 'feel' for heavy music. We're talking slow, massive, down-tuned annihilation.
Vocally, you will need to be able to harmonies (think Alice in Chains) and do death growls. This isn't going to be too demanding but keep this in mind. Give our single 'Jupiter' a listen to give you an idea of the harmonies.
We play slow, but our upcoming release is going to be quite varied in terms of tempo and 'feel' (even ballads!). There is one common theme though - the songs are riff driven. This is a riff band. All hail the riff. Also nearly every song will be roughly 10 - 15 minutes long (we'll probably play 3-4 songs per show).
- Your own gear: we play loud, you'll need at least a 50w (the more the better) amp and a 4x12 cab. Some modulation pedals will also help for our spacey sections.
- A guitar tuned to C
- A car: I'd love to be able to drive you around but I'm playing tetris in my own car atm and it stopped being fun a while ago
- A good attitude! The band gets along really well and we need someone reliable and down to earth
If you like bands like Sleep, Yob, Black Sabbath, Alice in Chains, Tool etc., this is for you.
We have tabs and demos for all of our music (incl unreleased content). We rehearse and are based in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne.Shoot me (Johnny) a message if you're interested at dissociationplight@gmail.com. Cheers!
Here's our debut single:
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Q: RMSEA confidence interval interpretation Using Amos for a multi-group path analysis, my model of choice, the "measurement weights" model has an RMSEA value of .033 a LO value of .000, a Hi value of .065, and PCLOSE value of .784. Is it an issue that this interval includes 0 as the LO value? Or how is this interpreted?

A: Welcome to CrossValidated.
RMSEA is a measure of approximate fit - if it's below a certain value, the fit is considered OK. Trouble is, it's a sample statistic, like the mean, and we'd like to know about the population parameter, not the sample statistic.
In a regular null hypothesis test, we're usually trying to test against zero - zero means no effect. For RMSEA, we're not trying to test against 0 - we'd usually be happy with that, as we'd be happy with 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, etc.
What we wouldn't be happy with is values (much) above 0.05. The upper interval goes about 0.05, which isn't great (but is OK, because the actual estimate is below). PCLOSE provides the p-value of the null hypothesis that the estimate (0.033) is below 0.05. This is clearly not approaching significance - you can therefore not reject the null hypothesis that your RMSEA is below 0.05 - which is a good thing.
(Note: I don't know what value AMOS uses -I'm guessing 0.05).
(Also note: This is rarely reported.)

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El Greco, les ténèbres contre la lumière (El Greco) est un film biographique hispano-hungaro-grec, réalisé par Yannis Smaragdis, sorti en 2007.

Sorti en Grèce les 11 (en Crète) et  (le reste du pays), il est présenté le  au cinéma des Cinéastes, dans le  de Paris, lors de la  du Panorama du cinéma grec contemporain ; il sort sur les écrans français le .

Ce film biographique est une adaptation de la biographie romancée El Greco: o Zografos tou Theou (El Greco : le peintre de Dieu), de Dimitris Siatopoulos.

Le  à Madrid, le Prix Goya des meilleurs costumes est attribué à Lala Huete.

Synopsis
Le film narre la période, de 1566 à 1580, de la vie du peintre Domínikos Theotokópoulos, célèbre sous le nom de El Greco, de ses premiers succès comme peintre d'icônes dans son île natale, Crète, à son activité de peintre maniériste et sa production de ses plus importantes œuvres à Tolède, et dont le point culminant (et totalement fictif) est sa relation conflictuelle avec le cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara, Grand Inquisiteur d'Espagne.

À Tolède, El Greco, emprisonné dans les geôles de l'Inquisition dans l'attente de son jugement, commence la rédaction de ses mémoires. À l'aide de retours en arrière, le réalisateur relate la vie du peintre. Né dans l'île de Crète, alors possession de la République de Venise, El Greco, farouche partisan de l'indépendance de l'île, noue cependant une idylle avec Francesca, la fille du gouverneur vénitien. Puis, et pour fuir la répression et conscient que sa formation de peintre nécessite des études à l'étranger, il quitte la Crète et sa bien-aimée et se rend à Venise. Dans la cité des doges, il fréquente l'atelier de Titien où il rencontre un prêtre espagnol, Niño de Guevara, le futur Grand Inquisiteur.

Il s'installe ensuite à Madrid, puis à Tolède où il retrouve Niño de Guevara. Ce dernier éprouve des sentiments homosexuels pour El Greco, non réciproques et, s'il apprécie son talent, est de plus en plus critique à l'égard du style de ses peintures religieuses. Les relations se détériorent entre les deux hommes jusqu'à la découverte de son portrait peint par le Gréco, qui provoque la colère de Niño de Guevara...

Commentaires autour du film

Le film passe sous silence le séjour du peintre à Rome et la commande, par Philippe II d'Espagne, du tableau destiné au palais de l'Escurial et finalement refusé, Le Martyre de Saint Maurice.

Le réalisateur s'arrange avec la date du tableau Portrait du cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara ; dans le film, la colère du cardinal à la vue de son portrait intervient en 1580 alors que la date de sa réalisation est vers l'année 1600.

Fiche technique
 Titre : El Greco, les ténèbres contre la lumière
 Titre original : El Greco
 Réalisation : Yannis Smaragdis
 Scénario : Jackie Pavlenko et Yannis Smaragdis, Dimitris Siatopoulos (roman)
 Musique : Vangelis
 Direction artistique : Oriol Puig et Damianos Zarifis
 Costumes : Lala Huete
 Photographie : Aris Stavrou
 Montage : Iannis Tsitsopoulos
 Producteur : Giorgos Fragos • Raimon Masllorens • Eleni Smaragdi • Dénes Szekeres
 Production : Alexandros Film et 16 sociétés ou organismes en coproduction
 Distribution pour la France : Accattone Distribution
 Pays :  •  •
 Langues de tournage : anglais, espagnol, grec et italien
 Genre : Biopic
 Durée : 119 minutes
 Classification :  : 13
 Format : Couleur • 1,78:1 • Dolby Digital
 Société de distribution : Accattone Distribution (pour la France)
 Dates de sortie :
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Distribution
 Nick Ashdon : El Greco
 Juan Diego Botto : Niño de Guevara
 Laia Marull : Jerónima de las Cuevas (épouse du Greco)
 Lakis Lazopoulos : Nikolos
 Sotiris Moustakas : Titien
 Dimitra Matsouka : Francesca

Récompenses
 Prix du meilleur acteur, au Festival international du film du Caire 2008, pour Juan Diego Botto
 Goya 2009 des meilleurs décors
 Prix du meilleur son (compétition du cinéma grec), au Festival international du film de Thessalonique, pour Marinos Athanassopoulos

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Film grec sorti en 2007
Film espagnol sorti en 2007
Film hongrois sorti en 2007
Film biographique grec
Film biographique espagnol
Film biographique hongrois
Film historique grec
Film historique espagnol
Film historique hongrois
Le Greco
Film biographique sur un peintre
Film biographique sur un sculpteur
Film se déroulant au XVIe siècle
Film se déroulant en Crète
Film se déroulant à Tolède
Film avec une musique composée par Vangelis
Adaptation d'une œuvre littéraire au cinéma
Film en grec
Film en italien
Film en espagnol
Film en anglais


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Wray Castle
In the 1840s a surgeon and an heiress from Liverpool began building a castle with panoramic Lake District views that would only ever have to defend itself from the Cumbrian weather. With all the furniture and artwork long gone and the last family moving out in the 1920s, the castle has had mixed uses and first opened to visitors in 2011. The castle has church-like interiors but it's a work in progress and the National Trust is continually learning about its past. Discover more of the castle's colorful history by joining one of the daily talks or tours. Families can explore the activity rooms, where there's plenty of space for a creative play inspired by the story of Wray Castle.
Bamburgh Castle
Located on the north east coast in Northumberland this grade 1 listed castle dates back as early as 420 when it was first built as a Celtic britonic fort. It came under Anglo Saxon control in 590 but was subsequently destroyed in 993 by Vikings. Later a new castle was built by the Normans and was acquired by the monarch in 1095. The castle from that period has all the core elements of the one that stands today. It did under go renovations in the 18th and 19th century and was then bough by a victorian Industrialist called William Armstrong who completed the renovations. The castle to this day still belongs to the Armstrong family and is open to the general public as a visitor attraction.
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We begin practices in February and play in club tournaments and the Piedmont-Coastal Lacrosse League throughout the entire year. We also compete locally in the Atlanta Lacrosse League in spring and summer.
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Illinois Criminal Assault
If you have been charged with assault in Illinois, you may not know what steps to take next. Regardless of the circumstances surrounding your assault charge, the team of criminal defense attorneys at Dolci & Weiland are here to help protect your interests and obtain fair results. If you have any questions about assault charges in Illinois after reading our page below, contact us in Chicago or DuPage County today.
Elements of Simple Assault and Battery
While the definition of assault may seem rather intuitive, you may be surprised to learn the legal definition of the action. Assault and battery in Illinois are governed by 720 ILCS 5/12-1 of the Illinois Criminal Code. The statute states that "[a] person commits an assault when, without lawful authority, he or she unknowingly engages in conduct which places another in reasonable apprehension of receiving a battery."
The code further elaborates to define a battery as an act that an individual carries out "when he or she knowingly without any legal justification by any means (1) causes bodily harm to an individual or (2) makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with an individual."
Assault and battery, are two separate offenses but are often used interchangeably. When you think of what constitutes an assault, you might think of someone punching, stabbing, or otherwise attacking another person. However, an assault isn't the physical act of harming an individual. Instead, an assault involves a person's actions which instill fear in an individual that he or she is about to be harmed.
Take, for example, a fight between two patrons at a bar. One patron says or does something to anger the second patron, leading the second patron to cock his fist and say, "now you're going to get it," followed by that person punching the other patron, breaking his nose. Whereas we might initially believe that the punch constituted an assault, this physical act was actually a battery. The assault, in this case, was the threat and cocking of the fist which created a reasonable apprehension of harm in the victim.
Aggravated Assault and Battery
As stated previously, the Illinois criminal code section listed above provides the definition for simple assault and battery. This is not the only form of assault and battery which exists in Illinois, however; a person can also be charged with "aggravated assault" and "aggravated battery."
710 ILCS 5/12-2 of the Illinois Criminal Code states that a person can face a charge of aggravated assault for one of two reasons: the location where the assault was committed, and the status of the victim who faced the assault.
Location-Based Aggravated Assault
In Illinois, "a person commits aggravated assault when he or she commits an assault against an individual who is on or about a public way, public property, a public place of accommodation or amusement, or a sports venue."
Victim-Based Aggravated Assault
If you have committed an assault, you may also be charged with aggravated assault for performing an action that would otherwise be classified as a simple assault because of the status of the individual you are assaulting. You may be charged with aggravating assault for assaulting:
A person with a physical disability;
A person over the age of 60;
A teacher or school employee on or adjacent to school grounds;
A park employee on or adjacent to a park;
A police officer, security officer, or correctional officer while on the job;
An Illinois state employee or transportation driver;
A sports official or coach; or
A process server.
Aggravated Assault Based on Weapon or Other Factors
You may also be charged with aggravated assault if any of the following situations apply to your form of assault:
Use of a deadly weapon or "any device manufactured and designed to be substantially similar in appearance to a deadly weapon;"
Discharging a firearm;
Discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle;
Wearing a hood, robe, or mask in order to conceal your identity;
Shining a laser gun sight in the vicinity of the victim;
Using a firearm against a police officer, fireman, EMS personnel, or other similar officer;
Driving a car in a manner that makes the victim think you are going to hit him or her; or
Videotaping or recording the assault with the intent to spread the recording.
If you have been charged with assault in Illinois, the potential punishment that you face depends on the form of assault you were charged with.
Simple Assault
If you face a charge of simple assault, which is a Class C misdemeanor, you may face jail time for up to 30 days and/or a fine of up to $1,500.00. In addition to this penalty, a person who is convicted of simple assault can be ordered by the court to perform between 30 and 120 hours of community service if a community service program is available in your area.
In some cases, aggravated assault is a Class A misdemeanor. In Illinois misdemeanor cases, an individual who is convicted can face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.00. Certain forms of aggravated assault can be categorized as a Class 4 felony. If you are convicted of a Class 4 felony aggravated assault, you could be sentenced to up to 3 years of imprisonment, as well as being fined up to $25,000.00. Previous convictions of aggravated assault can further enhance the penalties that you may receive.
Defenses to Assault
In certain circumstances, you may have a defense to the assault which you are accused of committing. Such a defense could lessen the penalties you face for your charge, or could even result in a dismissal of your case.
The most common defense in an assault case is self-defense; in other words, you committed an assault on a person because you were protecting yourself from that same person committing an assault on you. If you were accused of assaulting someone in a fight, for example, and the other person started the fight, your attorney may be able to prove that the only reason that you assaulted that person was to keep from being assaulted yourself.
Facing an Assault Charge? We're Here to Help
If you are facing a charge of assault in the State of Illinois, you deserve competent representation from a team of criminal defense attorneys who know the ins and outs of Illinois assault laws. The attorneys at Dolci & Weiland are dedicated to providing the representation you deserve in order to obtain the best possible outcome for your case. Don't wait until it is too late--to schedule a consultation to speak with an attorney about your case, fill out an online contact form or call the office closest to you today; for our DuPage office, call (630) 261-9098, or for our Chicago office call (312) 238-9007.


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Who knows, maybe Burger IM will upset the current San Jose top spot for a burger….which is….
When the San Jose Mercury News tried to determine our best burger in the South Bay, they had The Counter and Kirk's in their top 32, but not Armadillo Willy's! Whaaaaat?!!!!
The Merc had Brown Chicken Brown Cow and Super Duper as a tie for 1st place.
Many people like Super Duper and In-N-Out too, but none of them come close to the medium-rare-cooked-just-right at Armadillo Willy's. I prefer their Mushroom Swiss burger – maybe I'll see ya there!
These Lobster Claws Are Insane!


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The adventures of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect.
Arthur Dent never could get the hang of Thursdays, which might be why when his best friend (Ford Prefect) reveals that he is an alien and that the Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, that Arthur suspects that it is Thursday. Fortunately his friend Ford has a 'thumb' and they hitchhike off the planet and into a series of adventures.
Originally a BBC radio play, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy is one of the iconic series in science fiction. If you haven't heard it, or read it, you are missing out.
Satirical and imaginative, the adventures of Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect take us across time and space as they encounter strange extra-terrestrial species and corporations.
Adams' interest in music is evident in the recordings of the series.
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape the Earth, are thrown out of an airlock only to be rescued by Zaphod Bebblebox (Ford's two headed semi cousin), Trillian (Trisha McMillan) and Marvin the Paranoid Android.
Moments after their supposed death our heroes appear at The Restaurant at the end of the Universe where one of the guests is dead for tax purposes, and the universe explodes as apres vie entertainment.
Twenty years later Arthur Dent and Trillian's daughter, Random, discovers the guide. Random journeys to the "mostly harmless" planet.
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Douglas Adams, his life and work up to Autumn 1992; written by sf & f writer Neil Gaiman.


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Der Durham County Cricket Club repräsentiert die traditionelle Grafschaft Durham in den nationalen Meisterschaften im englischen Cricket.

Geschichte

Die Anfänge als Minor County
Spiele von Mannschaften mit dem Namen Durham sind seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts dokumentiert. Der County Club wurde im Mai 1882 gegründet. Das erste Spiel wurde gegen Northumberland am 12. Juni 1882 ausgetragen und mit vier Wickets gewonnen. Mit Einführung der Minor Counties Cricket Championship 1895 nahmen sie an dieser teil und waren auch sofort erfolgreich. Den ersten Titel mussten sie sich 1895 mit Norfolk und Worcestershire teilen. Gleiches passierte 1900, als der Titel mit Glamorgan und Northamptonshire geteilt wurde. Im Folgejahr gewann man den Titel als alleinige Mannschaft. Der nächste Titel wurde erst nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg 1926 erzielt und konnte 1930 wiederholt werden. In der Folge dominierten die Zweit-Vertretungen der First-Class Counties die Minor-Meisterschaft und so dauerte es bis 1976, ehe der nächste Titel gewonnen werden konnte. Im Jahr 1973 gelang ihnen im One-Day Cricket eine aufsehenerregende Überraschung, als Durham als erstes Minor County im Gillette Cup 1976 mit Middlesex eine First-Class-Mannschaft schlagen konnte. Nach 1976 dominierten sie die Minor Championship nach Belieben, als sie zwischen 1976 und 1982 keine Niederlage hinnehmen mussten. 1981 und 1982 reichte es mit dieser Leistung dann wieder zu Meisterschaften und 1984 wurde die insgesamt neunte Meisterschaft gewonnen. Nur Buckinghamshire hatte zum Ende der 1980er Jahre genau so viele erringen können. Mit diesem Argument versuchten sie ab 1989 den Aufstieg zu beantragen, denn in der Vergangenheit hatten gute Spieler wie George Sharp, Colin Milburn und Bob Willis Durham verlassen müssen, um in der höchsten Cricket-Klasse spielen zu können.

Aufstieg zum First Class County

Am 6. Dezember 1991 wurde dem Antrag stattgegeben und Durham zum First-Class County erklärt, der erste Aufstieg einer Mannschaft, seit Glamorgan diesen Schritt 1921 getan hatte. Der Verband erhoffte sich dadurch neuen Schwung in die County Championship zu bringen und auch die Anzahl von 18 First-Class-Mannschaften war einfacher in Turnieren in Divisionen aufzuteilen. Auch wollte man im Nordosten Englands neue Märkte eröffnen und motivierte so Durham, ein neues modernes Stadion zu bauen, den Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street. Dieser Neubau bedeutete für Durham zunächst, dass ihnen in den ersten Jahren in der obersten Spielklasse kein Stadion zur Verfügung stand. Daher tourten sie mit ihrem Teams durch verschiedene Spielstätten im County, bis der Riverside Ground ab 1995 bespielbar war. Die Teamführung holte neue Spieler in den Nordosten Englands, um den Übergang vom Minor County zum First-Class County besser überstehen zu können. So kamen beispielsweise Ian Botham und Dean Jones, jedoch waren viele dieser Spieler am Ende ihrer Karriere und die Ergebnisse waren zunächst nicht überzeugend. In den ersten sechs Saisons platzierten sie sich unter den letzten dreien der Meisterschaft, 1992, 1993 und 1995 sogar als Tabellenletzter. 1999 gelang ihnen ein achter Platz, doch die gleiche Platzierung ein Jahr später bedeutete den Abstieg in der nun aus zwei Divisionen bestehenden County Championship. Jedoch konnten im Team neue Talente reifen. 2006 hatten drei ihrer Mitspieler, Steve Harmison, Paul Collingwood und Liam Plunkett den Sprung in die englische Nationalmannschaft geschafft. Auch stieg man wieder in die erste Division auf. Ihren ersten Titel gewannen sie 2007, als sie im Finale der Friends Provident Trophy Hampshire mit 125 Runs schlagen konnten. Davon inspiriert, gelang ihnen im Folgejahr unter Kapitän Dale Benkenstein der Gewinn der 2008. Auch gelang ihnen 2008 der Halbfinaleinzug im Twenty20 Cup. Unter dem neuen Kapitän Will Smith gelang ihnen im Jahr darauf die Wiederholung des Gewinns der First-Class Meisterschaft. Durham verblieb in der ersten Division und konnte 2013 zum dritten Mal, nun unter dem Kapitän Paul Collingwood, die County Championship gewinnen. Im Jahr darauf standen sie im Finale des Royal London One-Day Cups und gewannen dort gegen Warwickshire mit drei Wickets. 2016 erreichten sie im Twenty20 Cup ein weiteres Finale, verloren dort jedoch mit vier Wickets gegen Northamptonshire. Zum Ende der Saison 2016 war Durham gezwungen finanzielle Hilfe vom ECB anzunehmen. Als Konsequenz wurde Durham ein Zwangsabstieg in der County Championship, sowie Punktabzüge in allen drei Wettbewerben für die Saison 2017 auferlegt.

Stadion
Das Heimstadion des Clubs ist das Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street.

Erfolge

County Cricket
Gewinn der County Championship (3): 2008, 2009, 2013

One-Day Cricket
Gilette/NatWest/C&G Trophy/FP Trophy (1963–2009) (1): 2007

Sunday/National/Pro40 League (1969–2009) (0): –

Benson & Hedges Cup (1972–2002) (0): –

ECB 40/Clydesdale Bank/Yorkshire Bank 40 (2010–2013) (0): –

Royal London One-Day Cup (2014-heute) (1): 2014

Twenty20
Twenty20 Cup/Friends Life t20/NatWest t20 Blast (0): –

Statistiken

Runs
Die meisten Runs im First-Class Cricket wurden von den folgenden Spielern erzielt:

Wickets
Die meisten Wickets im First-Class Cricket wurden von den folgenden Spielern erzielt:

Weblinks

Offizielle Webseite

Einzelnachweise

Cricketverein (England)
Gegründet 1863
Sport (County Durham, Unitary Authority)
Organisation (County Durham, Unitary Authority)
Sportverein (North East England)


Trump fired FBI Director James Comey and now Republicans want to make sure they find a good replacement.
The problem is the Comey 'firing bell can't be unrung.
Any director can be fired by the president, which leaves the bureau's independence fatally compromised.
The country is obviously better off if James Comey is replaced as FBI director by someone who is good at running the FBI — it's a large and important government agency that carries out many crucial functions.
But in terms of the immediate obstruction of justice crisis kicked off by President Donald Trump's decision to fire Comey, it's important to be clear. Choosing a new FBI director, no matter how well-qualified or how sterling his reputation for independence and integrity, doesn't fix the problem. The problem is that the president can, legally speaking, fire the FBI director if he wants to. And he just fired the FBI director for pursuing investigations into the president's ties to Russia with excessive rigor.
For Senate Republicans, the idea of the Good Comey Replacement serves a critical psychological and political role. It allows them to acknowledge that there was something alarming and suspicious about Comey's dismissal without committing them to a fight with the Trump administration. They simply need to convince the White House to nominate someone well-qualified and then move on to cutting taxes.
Trump just picked a fight with the FBI. The FBI can punch back — hard.
But the Comey firing bell can't be unrung. The independence of the FBI is now inherently compromised. And faced with a White House that's willing to violate the norms governing presidential involvement in the investigative process, either there will be the forceful pushback from the legislative branch that most Republicans want to avoid or else oversight of the Trump administration will be woefully lacking. There's no middle path.
The FBI has operated, since its inception, with a greater degree of independence from the White House than your average federal agency. The director is a presidential appointee, but in practice the FBI as an institution has worked more like the uniformed military than like other parts of the administration. The president is statutorily permitted to fire the FBI director, but the statute also states that the director will serve a 10-year term, indicating a presumption that he will not be fired at the president's whim.
This is in part a question of law, but it's largely a question of norms.
Nobody says that Trump "fired" former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew because the new president always brings in a new Treasury secretary. The FBI isn't like that. Jimmy Carter appointed William H. Webster to the job in 1978, and he ended up serving almost through to the end of Ronald Reagan's administration. George H.W. Bush only served one term in office and ended up not appointing a new FBI director at all. The only previous firing of an FBI director, by Bill Clinton in 1993, happened in response to specific allegations of financial wrongdoing that were made by the Bush administration's attorney general, not as a post hoc pretext ginned up at the behest of the West Wing.
The upshot of these norms is that the president is not supposed to be in a position to tell the FBI what it can and can't investigate. Trump has changed that norm by firing Comey on a thin pretext out of anger over the Russia investigation. The fact that the cover story isn't remotely plausible — and that the White House immediately began leaking to the effect that it was false — is crucial here. Whoever is chosen as Comey's successor, and all of that person's subordinates, will know the truth about what happened and will have to behave accordingly.
It would be convenient for Republicans for Trump to pick a reasonable nominee for FBI director, thus allowing GOP members of Congress to draw a line under the Comey matter and move on to focus on the confirmation of Comey's replacement. An ideal scenario would be a nominee who, though well-qualified, some Democrats object to, which would let Republicans have a normal partisan food fight. They might be able to tell themselves that having induced Trump to pick a solid candidate, they have solved the problem and discharged their moral and constitutional responsibilities, all without a big fight with the White House.
Whoever succeeds Comey will know that he will either follow Trump's directive to downplay the Russia investigation or himself be fired.
With the FBI's independence compromised, the only option is for Congress to do its job: launch a thorough, credible investigation of the Russia situation and, in parallel, launch a thorough, credible investigation of media reports that the White House has been lying about why Comey was fired. Congressional investigations on their own are not a full substitute for a functioning FBI — congressional committees typically rely on FBI resources to do their job — but they are a partial substitute.
And more importantly, in some ways, launching serious investigations would show that Trump is paying a price for violating norms around FBI independence. That, in turn, would give the new director some chance of successfully standing up to Trump. Otherwise, he'll have fired Comey without paying a price — leaving Comey's successor fatally compromised no matter how individually well-qualified.
Commentary by Matt Yglesias, a writer at Vox. Follow him on Twitter @mattyglesias.


I completed the Global Reading Challenge with a few weeks to spare. I only took on the easy level this year, meaning one book for every continent, and that was the right level for me. I could spend enough time trying out books set in different countries without feeling like I was scrambling to meet the requirements. For my "seventh continent" I chose a historical crime novel.
And here are my reads. I'll save my favorite reads of the year for a separate post.
It took quite awhile for me to find a translated crime novel from Asia I'd like to finish for the Global Reading Challenge– a problem I ran into last year as well. First of all, there aren't so many crime novels written by Asians that are translated into English. Secondly, I tried a few novels I just wasn't in the mood to read because their tone was too noir (Yoshida) or or something I can't quite label (Higashino).
Despite the very disturbing cover, I liked this book. The story centers on a missing persons case: injured and recuperating police detective Honma investigates his cousin's son's fiancee's disappearance, and the story revolves around overextended consumer borrowers who are harrassed by legal and yakuza bill collectors. From the description, the cover image seems a little on-the-nose.
The story is a bit slow and the plot relies a bit heavily on coincidences, complaints I feel like I make with other missing-persons novels, but Honma is an engaging character. Since he's on leave from the police department, the book doesn't get into office dynamics and instead focuses on his homelife with his young son and nanny (he was widowed a few years before the novel takes place).
Two aspects of the story make it feel particularly Japanese, one major and one minor: first is the background of the Consumer Finance Scare of the 1980's, and second is Honma's reliance on bullet trains. The easy credit part of the story is crucial to the missing persons case, and it sounds an awful lot like the housing bubble of the 2000's. And the existence of bullet trains and the communities that grow around them stands out for me since I live in a part of the world without widespread train service.
Other reviews appear in Complete Review, Petrona, and Black Plume.
I'm a bit ambivalent about reviewing this book because I nearly gave it up after the first 200 pages (there's a big shift in tone then), but ultimately I decided to finish it to see what the book was trying to do as a whole. I think Roncagliolo intended the book to be so brutal for a reason, but it made for an uneasy read.
I chose to read this book because it's hard to find books about or from Peru translated into English, because it's won a couple big literary awards, and because it was billed as a sort of crime novel. Conspiracy thriller actually seems a bit more accurate because the murder near the beginning of the novel seems like a small part of the story until the final section of the book.
But this is most definitely not crime novel. The main character is a prosecutor who willingly left Lima for a provincial town of Ayacucho, and he deals with a stifling bureaucracy to investigate a murder in an area where Shining Path is supposedly inactive. This book is about the crimes perpetrated by the terrorists and the government trying to quash them, and along the way there are also a series of murders in the region.
The novel is horrifying in terms of the bureaucratic obstacles to Chacaltana's investigation into the murders, it's horrifying in terms of the remnants of the 20 year conflict between Shining Path and the Peruvian government, and it's brutal in terms of the series of murders that Chacaltana investigates. The action is a bit strange and unbelievable, but the aura of violence feels real. I think my real ambivalence about the book comes from the fact that I didn't expect there to be any hope at the end, and my assumption was correct. I'm glad I read it, but I'm ready for something less serious and brutally violent next.
Other reviews appear in Novel Insights and Reading Matters.
I chose to read the second Inspector Sejer novel because I wanted to try a new-to-me author of a well-reviewed series, and I'm glad I did despite being burnt out by police procedurals in general in the last several months. The first novel in the series, Eva's Eye, also published as In the Darkness, was published in 2013 in the US, but I've had book 2 waiting on my shelves for awhile so I chose to read it first.
Sejer is a widower still mourning the loss of his wife to cancer, and in this novel he works with Skarre, a young policeman half his age. Their district is large, covering a population of over 100,000 people, while the scene of the crimes at the heart of the novel take place in an incredibly small mountain town.
The subject matter of the book is pretty off-putting: a very young girl is missing in the first chapter of the book but found safe, and in the second chapter of the book a teenage girl is found dead by a mountain lake. Because the crimes took place in such a small community, there's a bit of a locked-room feel, and there's a bit of peeling away of people's facades as Sejer and his colleague Skarre interview lots of residents. The stories Sejer and the rest of the police uncover are quite sad, and they lend emotional depth to the investigation.
Despite the sadness of the story, Sejer himself doesn't seem overly gloomy, which is appealing in a protagonist. He feels empathy for the people he interviews not only because they were touched by the crimes at the center of the novel but because of their lives together in their small town. I'm glad I have several more novels in the series to get to soon.
Other reviews appear in Confessions of a Mystery Novelist and Reactions to Reading and The Crime Segments.
I'm joining the 2014 Global Reading Challenge at the easy level (one book from each continent), and I'll try to read from as many countries as I can throughout the year, regardless of the continent. I've added a countries visited page to keep track of how diverse my reading is by setting. Now I need to get to updating the page.
I'm also joining the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge, and I've added a states visited page to track my progress over the coming years. My main goal for this challenge is to read books that don't take place in New York and California.
My two reading challenges for the year are perpetual challenges for me because I'd like to add a bit more flexibility to my reading choices than I had last year. I'd like to return to some favorite authors I've discovered since I started blogging and reading crime blogs, I'd like to dig into my own bookshelves a bit more, and, like I mentioned last summer, I really want to read more books published for 2000.
So what can you expect over the next few months? Lots of translated crime novels, the occasional non-crime novel because I'm getting a bit burned out by crime reading, some authors I first read in 2012, and nothing too noir.


Big Four accountant EY, entertainment conglomerate Disney and phone maker Huawei are reported to be among the worst offenders in a newly launched index tracking secrecy in corporate lobbying.
The UK arm of Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation that campaigns against corruption, ranked 104 multinational companies, finding that four in five firms had "poor standards" in disclosing lobbying activities.
Only one of the 104 companies analysed, the pharmaceutical company GSK achieved a top rating on the A to F scale for transparency of political engagement.
None of the companies analysed – ranging from US tech firms, to FTSE 100 multinationals to Asian manufacturers – reported their global spending on lobbying in 2017.
David Cameron, the former prime minister, said in 2010 that corporate lobbying would be the "next big scandal waiting to happen". However, little has been done to enforce tougher standards, leading to a continuous stream of lobbying scandals.
Facebook scored in the second-worst band, E, but was one of the worst performers with regards to "responsible lobbying", which includes the visibility of activities and its values when lobbying. The US social media firm on Thursday admitted it had hired lobbyists to attack George Soros, the financier and philanthropist.
Amazonand Google were both rated as having poor standards on lobbying transparency. Apple achieved a C, meaning its standards are fair.
EY, Disney and Huawei all fell in rank F, as did digger maker JCB, software firm Sage and chemicals firm Ineos, which is run by Jim Ratcliffe, Britain's richest man.
Car manufacturers scored particularly badly, with Ford, Honda, Nissan and Toyota all in the bottom rank.
The report is highly critical of the "revolving door" between government and business, with 97 out of 104 of the firms ranking poorly on issues such as "cooling off" periods for former government ministers taking up employment in the private sector.
MPs and anti-corruption campaigners have repeatedly criticised the weak controls on former politicians exercised by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which is tasked with reviewing politicians' job moves.
The revolving door is not limited to the UK, however. Members of the European parliament have no barriers to lobbying immediately after they leave politics, while the report highlights figures cited by author Mark Leibovich that in 2012 half of all retiring US congressmen went into lobbying, compared with only 3% in 1974.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy held the most meetings in 2017 with the firms monitored within government. The Department for International Trade, which was founded only in 2016, was second on the list, followed by the Treasury, according to Transparency International's open database.
Transparency International said almost a third of companies improved their political engagement policies after being approached for data, and another 17% pledged to do so. The organisation plans to repeat the review biannually.
"Companies are increasingly realising that transparency [on lobbying] is the future," said Higgs.
Honda said in a statement: "Our engagement with local and international governments and political organisations is carried out in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations. Honda will continue to work closely with industry groups and political stakeholders in this spirit.
Toyota, which also ranks in the lowest category, said it wanted to be "a good corporate citizen" and build "positive relationships with all stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, business partners, local communities, and employees".


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The Incredible Story That Inspired The Iconic Canadian, TX Dinosaur
Charlie Published: August 11, 2022
Not too long ago I wrote about the dinosaur that sits way up on a hill overlooking a certain stretch of highway in the Texas panhandle. That dinosaur keeps an eye on travelers who are making their way into Canadian, TX.
It wasn't until recently that I discovered the reason why that big green dinosaur is there.
The Dinosaur Has A Name, And It's Beautiful
The last time we talked about the Canadian, TX dino on 83 most of the conversation was about the dinosaur's creator. Gene Cockrell poured a lot of love and labor into building and maintaining his dinosaur.
The dinosaur was named Aud, after Gene's wife Audrey.
That was where we left it. We didn't do a lot of digging into the obvious question.
Why a dinosaur in the first place?
How A Life Or Death Situation Gave Birth To Canadian's Dinosaur
According to a social media post from Gene's daughter, the inspiration came from the time that Gene spent aboard a merchant marine ship. The ship was the USS Mobil, and they were hauling gasoline.
Supposedly, Hitler's subs were blowing these gasoline hauling ships out of the water left and right. It was a bad time to be hauling gas in the North Sea.
Gene was down in the bottom of the boat, and out of a porthole he could look and see the flag ship, USS Sinclair, with the green dinosaur painted on it.
The story goes that Gene would look out and see it, and swore he would pay tribute to the thing that gave him hope while making those trips.
At least, that's how the story goes according to the post that was made.
A green dinosaur keeping watch. Sound familiar? It's been said that Gene placed Aud up on the hill so that kids could look up and see that they were almost home.
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by: MyValleyTributes Staff
Posted: Dec 23, 2021 / 08:37 PM EST
Updated: Jan 6, 2022 / 09:16 AM EST
WARREN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – Hazel F. Morgan, 78, passed away Tuesday afternoon, December 21, 2021 at Trumbull Regional Medical Center.
Hazel was born on June 6, 1943 in Black Lick, Pennsylvania, a daughter of the late Clarence and Margaret Shirley.
She loved reading, puzzles and spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.
Hazel will be deeply missed by her loving daughter, Michele (David) James; grandchildren, Nathaniel and Madison James; brothers, Jerry and Wayne Shirley and sister-in-law, Diane Shirley.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Roger Morgan, whom she married on June 5, 1965; her son, Roger; sister, Betty Prince and brother, David Shirley.
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Fifty decades back this city was nearly nothing at all much more than a small village on the Mexican coast. There was some little company correct listed here and most of the little organization was centered on agriculture. Then some film makers from the United States took detect and major variables started to happen to this little village. John Huston fixed to make "Night time of the Iguana" in the area of Puerto Vallarta and many stars commenced to make standard excursions right in this article. It wasn't quite very long right right before Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor expert acquired Casa Kimberly in Puerto Vallarta and John Huston professional a dwelling created in the in the compact cove of Caletas wherever he lived until finally inevitably his dying.
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Just some pictures from the recent London trip. We took a trip with college on Tuesday to London with the intention of doing research for the final major project. I decided to go to the National Portrait Gallery to see the Vogue exhibition. It was honestly incredible and so relatable to my project. Unfortunately you couldn't take pictures inside which really upset me because I wanted to feature them here but what can you do. Looks like you're just getting a little snippet of London today. It was such a wonderful day, sunny and the atmosphere outside the National Gallery was so calm.
There were musicians playing their guitars, artist painting on the pavement and even a guy breakdancing. I was also surprised by another person tapping on my shoulder to give me a flower, as he said, "for the pretty lady".
I love the atmosphere in London, it's always going to be the goal, move to London and work for Vogue hehe. Big goals, I know. Maybe one day.


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'All About Presentations' by Jazz Factory: Is your presentation immortal?
Another example, take your own corporate presentation (which shares the corporate profile to clients) which was uploaded on your website 5 years back. Is it still relevant and alive? Has it not died? What are your thoughts on this? How long can you keep using the same sales presentation or corporate presentation or for that matter any presentation?
I believe presentations are mortal. They have a useful life. Presentation being a form of communication is highly contextual. With time the environment (context) changes and your presentation begins to die. And one day... thud! it is a vestigial organ. It becomes useless.
Do all presentations have the same life?
No. The life (how long a presentation is useful and relevant) differs from case to case. For a real estate company the sales presentation needs to change every month because the speed of construction will change and hence your content will change. Once the project is sold out, the presentation is meaningless.
For a corporate presentation, the case is different. Some content will never change (history, philosophy, etc) but the company might itself be transforming.
Talking of mortality reminds me of an investor presentation I made for a client last year. He was starting a company and he needed an investor presentation to raise funds. So we made a presentation. After ten months, when nothing much had changed, he came to me and said, "the presentation does not seem so great now, can we make a new one?" I relooked at the presentation, had a round of discussion with him to understand the context and said, "Yes." The next day we were ready with a presentation which made him jump off his seat. It was just what he wanted. It was just what he wanted then. Context is what determines the effectiveness of a presentation.
1. A presentation's life is limited.
2. To keep it alive you need to revisit it constantly.
3. One day, you need to scrap it and build a new one from scratch. Yes, right from scratch.
4. This is because, presentation is made during a certain time to cater to a certain need. As times change, needs change.
What do you think? The presentation you made last year, is it still relevant?


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Q: Issue with generated primary keys when using INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE I'm developping an application in JSF 2.0, as DBMS I'm using MySQL.
I'm having an issue with the INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statement, it generates a new primary key every time a row gets updated. This is the query I'm using.
INSERT INTO aanwezigheid_i (jongereId, datum, aanwezig, aankomstTijd, vertrekTijd, alternatiefKamp, redenAfwezig)
VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)
ON DUPLICATE KEY
UPDATE aanwezig = ?, aankomstTijd = ?, vertrekTijd = ?, alternatiefKamp = ?, redenAfwezig = ?

The table 'aanwezigheid_i' has got the following columns:

aanwezigheidId (INT(11), PRIMARY KEY)| jongereId| datum| aanwezig| aankomstTijd| vertrekTijd| alternatiefKamp|  redenAfwezig

If I insert a first row, the primary key 'aanwezigheidId' has got the value 1.
If I UPDATE this first row 10 times and insert a second row afterwards, the primary key value of the second row is 12 and not 2. What am I doing wrong?
Any help would be appreciated.

A: If you use an AUTO_INCREMENT key, be aware, that calculating the new AUTO_INCREMENT value is done before attempting the INSERT. If the INSERT is converted into an UPDATE the new AUTO_INCREMENT value is lost.
This is by design, nothing you can do about it, apart from NOT using AUTO_INCREMENT

A: You're not sending aanwezigheidId - the primary key - into the INSERT, that's why a new row is created. The ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE clause only takes effect when a record with existing key is inserted.


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Tokayev: Kazakhstan has no plans to slow down its integration in EAEU
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
BISHKEK, 9 December (BelTA) – Kazakhstan has no plans to scale down its integration in the EAEU, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said at the expanded meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Bishkek, BelTA has learned.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that Kazakhstan is interested in closer integration in the EAEU and intends to make every effort towards it.
"It is important to adhere to the institutional foundations of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union. I would like to emphasize once again that Kazakhstan is sincerely and substantively interested in promoting integration. There can be no slowdown of integration processes on the part of Kazakhstan. On the contrary, Kazakhstan is making every effort to improve and optimize the economic integration process in full compliance with the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union in the interests of all member states and, of course, taking into consideration the national interests of our country," the president of Kazakhstan noted.
At the same time, he noted that Kazakhstan is concerned about the lack of progress in certain areas. "In particular, this pertains to the digital agenda of the union," he explained.


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Unimpressed and untouched by the glorification of individuals so typical for the music business, the Alan Parsons Project proved that even without spectacular light shows, rock celebrities in the band or self-composed songs it was possible to rise to stardom. Alan Parsons, who first took up an apprenticeship as a sound engineer at EMI and was later responsible for several Paul McCartney productions and the Pink Floyd album 'Dark Side Of The Moon' at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, drew upon his experience in order to further his solo career. While the co-producer Eric Woolfson wrote songs, Parsons – who had an uncanny feeling for sound – conjured up a lush mélange of synthetic and natural sounds.
As with all albums from the early years, 'Eye In The Sky' is inspired by important topics of the times. True to the 'no-future lifestyle' of the 80s, the songs impart a somewhat depressive character which serves as a stark contrast to the steely rock rhythms, free from electronic gimmicks. In addition one finds addictive harmony in the vocal polyphony ('Gemini'), blaring brass with a Spanish rhythm ('Silence And I') and a velvety string sound ('Old And Wise'). All in all a great achievement by the British wizard of sound at the mixing console.
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4. Gemini
5. Silence and I
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9. Step by Step
10. Old and Wise


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