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Interview with Gino Van Begin, Secretary General of ICLEI
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How important is technology in metropolitan solutions?
G. Van Begin: Technology is absolutely essential. But I get the impression that cities don't want to hear companies talk about their technical solutions anymore. Problems are no longer singular. They're multifaceted. The mayor of Dar-es-Salaam, for instance, was reelected on his record of building infrastructure such as hospitals and roads. But the population there may have tripled during the time he was in office. So even with new roads, the city is still just as congested. It is my aim to see companies anticipate these trends and offer not just technology but solutions, and even capacity-building. In the end, cities are demanding industry best practices.
Creativity is surely a big part of it.
G. Van Begin: Definitely. For mobility, one good idea I've seen is to use cable cars as mass transit for informal settlements. In Bogotá, Colombia, for instance, people live in the hills, and these people need to get to the city. In Copenhagen, one out of two commuters cycles to work. Since the cycling paths are congested, Copenhagen is trying to get employers to allow people to work at different times and to provide showers at work. To build a cycling path is not the creative part anymore. The innovation is in taking it one step further, as Copenhagen did, and working with employers to change behavior. I've also seen great ideas in urban agriculture that cut down on food transportation, such as seafood farming in large vertical basins in a building.
What keeps you up at night, Mr. Van Begin?
G. Van Begin: When I look at the map, I see that some cities just won't exist anymore as the global temperature rises, glaciers melt, and sea levels rise. Some cities will sink underwater. This requires a whole new way of thinking and planning. Imagine that we had to relocate Bonn to another place. How do you plan and execute that?
Which areas will be affected first?
G. Van Begin: The small islands of this world and low-lying countries like Bangladesh. First comes flooding, then problems with drinking water. And on it goes. There's also the problem of the build-up and release of methane gas from thawing permafrost in the Arctic. That is very dangerous; if the methane is released, it will be as if we had done nothing at all about global warming. Cities are trying to get a head start, particularly by creating a green infrastructure. Some cities will need more trees to provide shade when temperatures rise. This is a much better alternative to air-conditioning. Others will need to deal with flooding, perhaps by building water squares, which are plazas that can be used for collecting heavy runoff.
These are situations no one wants to face.
G. Van Begin: That's right, but those scenarios are not science fiction. There's no time to waste. In developing countries and emerging economies, it's incredible to see how fast cities grow. Today, some 3.5 billion people live in urban areas. That's half of the world population. They'll be having children, so another 3.5 billion people will join our cities in the next 40 years. And they'll live longer. That means we have 40 years to provide the same amount of water, energy, electricity, houses, jobs, infrastructure, etc. over again, in addition to what we already have today, for these 3.5 billion new people. We have 40 years to do what took us almost 4,000 years to achieve.
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Final lessor creditor agrees to Malaysia Airlines' restructuring
The final lessor creditor under Malaysia Airlines' scheme of arrangement has given consent to that scheme as well as the carrier's wider restructuring after previously facing challenges getting approval from its financiers.
Justice Richard Snowdon, a judge at the High Court of England and Wales, said in a judgement dated 23 February that he received evidence that one creditor which did not vote at a 10 February meeting has now "been able to resolve the communication difficulties with its financiers that prevented it from participating in the scheme process and has consented to the scheme".
Creditor turnout at that 10 February meeting was approximately 95.9% by value, with only one creditor (out of 44) failing to vote. That meeting was convened so that operating lessors could vote on the carrier's restructuring plan. Finance lessors are in a separate creditor class – there are seven creditor classes overall – and did not participate in the 10 February vote.
"Accordingly, there was overwhelming support for the scheme," Snowdon said.
That scheme of arrangement relates to its liabilities to lessors under operating lease agreements for 52 aircraft all of which are governed by English law, the court judgement shows. These are 44 737-800s, three A330-200s and five A330-300s.
Ahead of the 10 February meeting, Malaysia Airlines invited creditors in the scheme of arrangement to sign a lock-up agreement to support the scheme and the restructuring. All but one of the 44 creditors signed this before the meeting. However, the same outlying creditor has now also signed the lock-up agreement.
"At the sanction hearing [on 22 February] I was also told that the final scheme creditor which did not vote in favour of the scheme at the scheme meeting has since signed the lock-up agreement," Snowdon said.
Within three business days of the scheme becoming effective, the creditors under that scheme were required to choose between four options.
One is a termination option that allows a creditor to terminate its operating lease agreement, recover its aircraft and receive a one-off payment. The payment will be 115% of the amount the creditor would be entitled to claim from the airline in the event of liquidation, multiplied by "the upper end of the range of percentage of recovery in a liquidation of the company".
If a creditor does not want to terminate its lease, then a "different regime" will apply. Under this regime, all creditors will be paid rent on a by-the-hour basis during 2021.
"This means that the rent during 2021 will be calculated by reference to the amount of time that each aircraft is used, subject to a floor and a cap. Following the market position, the rates and the floors and caps differ depending on the category of aircraft," Snowdon said.
"The PBH [power-by-the-hour] structure is designed to reflect the fact that, during 2021, passenger demand will likely remain very depressed, the usage of the fleet of aircraft may be very limited indeed and it would be unaffordable for the company to pay the contractual rates of rent for aircraft which are not being used."
That by-the-hour structure will end on 1 January 2022, from which date the rent payable under the operating lease agreements will be reset to market rent.
Snowdon adds in relation to the remaining options: "There are then variants of this basic deal available under which an enhanced rent, with a lease extension mechanism, is available in return for the company having an option in certain circumstances to defer rent and pay an enhanced rent available depending on the company's performance."
Malaysia Airlines was approved to strike arrangements between its leasing entity MAB Leasing and most of its lessors at a 22 February sanction hearing. This paves the way for the company to embark on a wider restructuring plan that is expected to complete in early March.
Aspects of the wider restructuring include arrangements to defer principal payments and reduce interest payments under the group's finance leases, as well as Malaysian law credit facilities and hedging agreements it has entered into.
It also concerns amendments to aircraft lease agreements that it will implement bilaterally with lessors, as well as measures to amend engine lease agreements and maintenance and service contracts to "align with market rates, the group's cashflow requirements and its revised long-term business plan".
Furthermore, this involves arrangements with Malaysian government entities and an equity injection from Khazanah Nasional.
Back in October when the airline first proposed a restructuring, things got off to a rocky start when most lessors objected to what the carrier proposed. However, after months of what the airline's parent Malaysia Aviation Group says were "intense" negotiations, the airline and its advisors were able to mollify lessors and convince nearly all of them to agree in principle to a restructuring.
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Wine And Cheese
By Megan Wetherall
Published on August 1, 2009
One morning, at 4 a.m., I go to Rungis with Bernard Noel, the daytime chef at Chez Denise, to shop for tete de veau—calf's head. Our long, leisurely stroll through the tripe pavilion, full of pale, ghostly cows' heads staring gloomily down from the walls, cavernous laundry trolleys brimming with hearts, and great licking tongues swaying back and forth on hooks, leaves me in need of a reviving tonic—and I decide this would be the ideal moment to take up a long-standing invitation to visit À la Cloche des Halles, a charming wine bistro owned by Serge and Annie Lesage, and sample their prized J.-M. Boillot 1994 Meursault.
That is how I come to find myself propped up against their bar at 8:30 in the morning, raising a glass to sip the buttery richness of the wine. To accompany it, they offer me a small but perfect cheese plate, including brie, st-nectaire, cantal, camembert, fourme d'ambert, and chevre frais. As the kitchen is tiny at À la Cloche (named for the bell that was once rung to mark the start and finish of market commerce every day), the Lesages specialize in cheese and charcuterie plates, quiches, and fruit tarts. Serge is responsible for the endearingly homemade character of the chunky, rustic chicken liver terrine as well as the ham, which he poaches in a court bouillon, while Annie's domain is pastry, both sweet and savory. Slightly more elaborate cooked dishes are sometimes served on special occasions—like the Petit Sale that traditionally accompanies the first beaujolais nouveau of the season every November.
There are also about twenty wines offered by the glass—and considerably more by the bottle. The vintages of Beaujolais, the Loire, the Rhone, and Burgundy are Lesage's passion, and he often buys these directly from small producers, has them transported to Paris, and bottles them himself in back of the bistro.
"We don't have a huge menu," admits Lesage (whose family used to deliver produce to Les Halles from their farm in Normandy), "but what we offer is all based on the freshest and most flavorful ingredients. The enthusiasm with which a customer will polish off a cheese plate and a good glass of wine is satisfaction enough for me."


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Fade Like a Shadow è il primo singolo estratto dal quarto album in studio, Tiger Suit, della cantante scozzese KT Tunstall.

Il singolo è stato pubblicato per il mercato statunitense, per il mercato britannico è stato scelto il brano (Still a) Weirdo.

La canzone
La canzone è più ottimista rispetto a (Still a) Weirdo. La cantante ha scelto questo singolo per il mercato nordamericano perché pensava che la canzone fosse più adatta al pubblico degli Stati Uniti. La canzone parla di una persona che ha ossessionato KT per molti mesi. Ha raccontato a Music Remedy: "La persona in questione è ancora viva, ma la mia interazione con essa mi ha portato a scrivere la canzone".

Accoglienza
Sara Anderson da AOL Music ha dichiarato che "il titolo del brano può sembrare triste, tuttavia, gli accordi che tracciano la progressione sono del tutto il contrario, sostenuto da accordi tastiera.".

Video musicale
Il video è stato distribuito il 20 agosto 2010. È stato diretto da Paul Minor.

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11-year-old spayed female Japanese domestic, Felis cattus.
2008.3.25 This cat showed diarrhea lasting for one month and gradual weight loss for one year from 4.82kg to 3.76kg. Diarrhea disappeared immediately after general treatment with an anti-diarrheal drug.
2008.5.12 Repeated vomiting appeared from recent two weeks with complete loss of appetite. A mass lesion was found in the abdominal cavity by X-ray examination and echography.
2008.5.13 Intestinal obstruction was confirmed in the small intestine by barium contrast study.
2008.5.14 The mass was surgically removed. The enlargement of the mesenteric lymph node was observed during a laparotomy.
The affected part of the small intestine was a mass lesion and consisted of severely thickened intestine wall with narrowing of the lumen.
Lymphoid cells proliferated throughout the entire intestinal wall from the mucosa to the serosa and resulted in severe thickening of intestinal wall. Numerous lymphoid follicles of varying size were formed in the muscular and serosal layer among the severely infiltrated tumor cells. Some follicles had clear germinal centers and incomplete mantle zones. The tumor cells other than follicle-forming cells had small to medium-sized nuclei that are round to irregularly indented and a have thick nuclear membrane. The nuclei had dense chromatin with multiple small distinct nucleoli (or with a small distinct nucleolus). The cytoplasm was pale and abundant. Mitotic figures were observed at rate of 7 cells per 10 high power fields. Small number of eosinophils infiltrated among the tumor cells and fibrous stroma was slightly increased in some areas with proliferated tumor cell.
Immunohistochemically, the majority of tumor cells were positive for CD3 and TIA-1, negative for CD79a and CD20. In the muscular layer where the lymph follicles formed, many cells forming the follicles were positive for CD79a and CD20 and negative for CD3 and TIA-1, whereas a few cells of germinal center were positive for CD3 and TIA-1.
Based on immunohistochemical findings, tumor cells have a T-cell phenotype in this lymphoma but lymph follicles formed in the tumor mass consisted of B-cells.
Small intestine: Malignant lymphoma, T cell lymphoma.
Fine needle biopsy findings: Comparatively uniform lymphoblast-like cells were observed on the smear from needle biopsy of the mesenteric lymph node.
T-cell lymphoma
Hematopoietic tumors (lymphoma and mast cell tumors) are the most common type of neoplasia in the feline intestine.(7) In alimentary lymphoma, the tumors are usually of the B-cell origin, with few being T-cell origin.(4,7,11,15) B-cell lymphoma arises from the germinal center of the gut, MALT, and drainage lymph nodes.(6,7) In contrast, T-cell type of multicentric lymphoma proliferates from the paracortical area,(6,7) and T-cell lymphoma of the intestine usually involves the lamina propria with epitheliotropism to the mucosal epithelium.(2,8,15)
The present case was characterized by formation of lymph follicles in the mass of tumoral proliferation. These lymph follicles were not original lymphoid tissue, because they were formed in muscular and serosal layers where there is no lymphatic tissue in the normal condition. In addition, this lymphoma had a T-cell phenotype and the follicles were composed of B-cell phenotype. Therefore, it was likely that lymphoid follicles were formed due to the reactive response to tumor cells or immunologic stimuli by the altered environment resulting in proliferation of tumor cells. The neoplastic cell proliferation forming lymph follicles was similar to lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma) in morphologic growth pattern. MALT lymphoma and marginal zone lymphoma are B-cell lymphoma,(14) and the tumor cells encircle follicles outside the mantle cell layer in these types of lymphoma. Cytologically, T-cell lymphoma consists of smaller cells with low mitotic rate as in the present case. However, MALT lymphoma is usually composed of small lymphocytes with indented nuclei, or there may be a more mixed pattern with some larger lymphoid cells similar to the centrocytes and centroblasts of benign germinal centers.(14)
Intestinal T-cell lymphoma is characterized also by epitheliotropism of tumor cells.(2,8,15) Neoplastic lymphocytes usually are small round cells that resemble mature lymphocytes. However, epitheliotropism was not seen in the tumor cells of the present case. In a report of canine intestinal T-cell lymphoma, approximately 25% did not show epitheliotropic behavior.(14) In addition, in humans, MALT lymphoma usually forms lymphoepithelial lesions and tumor cells invade between mucosal epithelium. Lymphoepithelial lesions resemble epitheliotropism, but are characterized by centrocyte-like cell invasion and destruction of the epithelium. Therefore, epitheliotropism is not specific for T-cell lymphocytes and formation of lymph follicles is also not specific for B-cells.
Intestine, ileum: Lymphoma, intermediate size, low grade, transmural.
The cellular morphology and epitheliotropic behavior presented in the small intestine of a cat is distinctive for T-cell lymphoma (TCL). Intestinal lymphomas can be further classified as mucosal or transmural based on depth of invasion. Epitheliotropism can occur in both types, and occurs most commonly in the villous epithelium. Mucosal T-cell lymphoma closely matches the WHO entity enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATCL) type II. Transmural T-cell lymphomas more often can lead to intestinal obstruction and perforation and closely match the WHO entity EATCL type I.(9)
The most common presentation of lymphoma in cats has evolved as the success of FIV/FeLV testing and vaccination programs have been realized. In the 1970s, 70% of feline lymphoma cases in the U.S. were attributed to FeLV infection which dropped to less than 15% twenty years later.(1) Interestingly, as the prevalence of these known oncogenic viruses have diminished, the incidence rate of lymphoma in cats appears to be increasing.(1,9) Retroviral-associated lymphomas commonly presented as mediastinal or multicentric forms in young cats.(3,12) The majority of lymphomas in cats now occur in the gastrointestinal tract.(9) Recent literature has also described a shift in prevalence from B-cell to T-cell lymphomas in intestinal lymphoma in cats.(9,12) Diffuse large B-cell lymphomas are considered most common in the stomach of cats.(9) Other subclassifications of significance in cats include large granular lymphocyte lymphoma which also occurs in the intestinal tract but often with more systemic involvement and is associated with a poor prognosis. T-cell rich large B-cell lymphoma is an indolent type with a mixed cell population to include bizarre giant or multinucleated cells and typically presents in a single lymph node.(3)
Conference participants were interested in the unique histologic presentation of lymphoma in this case, with the formation of multiple lymphoid follicles dispersed throughout all levels of the muscularis mucosa. Theories regarding their formation were exchanged, including immune stimulation by antigens or toxin absorption through the disrupted mucosal epithelium.
1. Beatty J. Viral causes of feline lymphoma: retroviruses and beyond. Vet J. 2014;201:174-180.
2. Carreras JK, Goldschmidt M, Lanb M, McLear RC, Drobatz KJ, Sorenmo KU. Feline Epitheliotropic intestinal malignant lymphoma: 10 cases(1997-2000). J Vet Intern Med. 2003;17:326-331.
3. Chino J, Fujino Y, Kobayashi T, et al. Cytomorphological and immunological classification of feline lymphomas: clinicopathological features of 76 cases. J Vet Med Sci. 2013;75(6):701-707.
4. Gabor LJ, Canfield PJ, Malik R. Immunophenotypic and histological characterization of 109 cases of feline lymhosarcoma. Austrarian Veterinary Journal. 1999;76:725-736.
5. Gabor LJ, Malik R, Canfield PJ. Clinical and anatomical features of lymphosarcoma in 118 cats. Austrarian Veterinary Journal. 1998;76:725-736.
6. Head KW, Cullen JM, Dubielzig RR, Else RW, Misdorp W, Patnaik AK, et al. Histological classification of alimentary tumors of domestic animals. In: Histological Classification of Tumors of the American System of Domestic Animals. 2nd Series. Vol. X, Washington, DC: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology/ American Registry of Pathology and the Worldwide Reference on Comparative Oncology; 2003:87-100.
7. Head KW, Else RW. Other tumors of the alimentary tract. In: Menten DJ, ed. Tumors in Domestic Animals. Fourth ed. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State Press; 2002:467-8, 471-3.
8. Krecic MR, Black SS. Epitheliotropic T-cell gastrointestinal tract lymphosarcoma with metastasis to lung and skeletal muscle in a cat. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2000;216:524-529.
9. Moore PF, Rodriguez-Bertos A, Kass PH. Feline gastrointestinal lymphoma: mucosal architecture, immunophenotype, and molecular clonality. Vet Pathol. 2012;49(4):658-668.
10. Ozaki K, Yamagami T, Nomura K, Narama I. T-cell lymphoma with eosinophilic infiltration involving the intestinal tract in 11 dogs. Vet Pathol. 2006;43:339-344.
11. Patterson-Kene JC, Perrins Kugler B, Francis K. The possible prognostic significance of immunophenotype in feline alimentary lymphoma: a pilot study. J Comp Path. 2004;130:220-222.
12. Pohlman LM, Higginbotham ML, Welles EG, Johnson CM. Immunophenotypic and histologic classification of 50 cases of feline gastrointestinal lymphoma. Vet Pathol. 2009;46:259-268.
13. Vail DM. Hematopoietic tumors. In: Ettinger SJ, Feldman EC, eds. Veterinary Internal Medicine. 7th ed. Vol 2. St. Louis, MO: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:2149-2150.
14. Valli VE, Jacobs RM, Parodi AL, Vernau W, Moore PE. Histological classification of hematopoietic tumors of domestic animals. In: Histological Classification of Tumors of the American System of Domestic Animals. 2nd Series, Vol.Ⅷ. Washington, DC: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology/ American Registry of Pathology and the Worldwide Reference on Comparative Oncology; 2002:28-47.
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Welcome to the matriarchy.
The Rumpus Review of Birdman
By Kenny Ng
And did you get what/you wanted from this life, even so?
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
The epigraph that opens Birdman serves to ease the audience into the more ethereal aspects of the restless film, a reminder that beneath the entertainment value in art of any kind, its true form always flickers with the burning questions of an examined life. The words come from the final poem of Raymond Carver's A New Path to the Waterfall, the writer's last collection before his death—a reflection on human life as he neared the end of it, with the kind of bare-boned clarity that comes from impending doom.
We are then quickly introduced to Riggan Thomson [Michael Keaton], and a healthy dose of magical realism. But the idea of life rolling towards its inevitable death—and the choices we make in between—still twirls through the viewer's mind. At its core, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is about a man trying to leave behind more than his own memories, grasping for significance in an overpopulated world, and asking, do you see me, do I matter? Though the particulars seem to step away from director Alejandro González Iñárritu's work in Amores Perros, 21 Grams, or Babel, the film is in his tradition of telling stories from very specific lives, often as they are unraveling, to dig through to the parts that we unknowingly share.
The film wrestles with its questions at a frantic pace, brimming with ideas and tangents and world-building that dances with spurts of the supernatural, balanced by the mortal sadness of a forgotten life. Riggan is a washed-up actor once famous for his iconic comic book role as Birdman, trying to reclaim his spotlight, as well as his long-lost dignity as a serious actor, by directing and starring in a self-penned Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." As the play heads closer to opening night, the personal and professional stress riding on such an undertaking begins to chip away at Riggan's grasp on reality. Though Carver's style of "dirty realism" was known for its focus on the suffering and secrets of ordinary lives, Iñárritu seems to be inverting the subject towards the troubles of society's most glamorous by engaging with the underbelly of modern fame and the endless circles of an ambitious life.
What do we talk about when we talk about fame? Is it the work, the access, or just the social status of being on the public stage? In a globalized world, how has the nature of it changed? Human motivation has a way of always normalizing new heights, so with more people than ever watching each other with viral eyes, it also provokes more potential for dormant attention to chase. Our need for validation in our ability to impact the ripples in the ocean tide expands, as well, to wider waves. Throw in the pseudo-celebrity platform of reality television and it numbs our idea of what constitutes notice and acclaim.
"Farrah Fawcett died on exactly the same day as Michael Jackson," Riggan tells his ex-wife, Sylvia (Amy Ryan), in a panic backstage. The subtext being that for all her success and place in American pop culture, her death, and thus her life, was totally eclipsed by the shifting politics of fame. "You always confused adoration for love," she tells him. The recurring motif of flowers in the dressing room almost certainly symbolize the fickle lifespan of stardom, pretty in bloom, but by nature, grown to wilt.
At one point, Riggan's daughter, Sam (Emma Stone), fresh out of rehab and begrudgingly working as his assistant, unleashes a tirade on her father's narcissistic tendency to disengage from modern life, refusing to release his grip on bygone conditions around past glory. It hits on the suffocating cruelty of aging out to pasture in a world transformed by technology, like a forever falling dream. The way Stone's face settles after the fury leaves her body is a miracle. He stares back sheepishly, knowing what she said is true, but without the faintest capacity to break the cycle. Bright lights, big city, and goodbye to all that's sane.
It's difficult to understand what that effect of worldwide attention must be on the human brain. One of the points of Carver's story is that we can never, from the outside, really know someone's situation. Certain things must be experienced from the inside to be understood, as much as they can be discussed in detail around a small table and a bottle of gin. As the film keeps reminding us, a thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
Birdman looms over the psyche of Riggan Thomson, acting as the vessel for his own disembodied thoughts, and the slipping manifestation of his mental health. In a time when make-believe can appear so real, when the things actors pretend to be are so much more extravagant than ordinary life, the mind may not be built to withstand that kind of schizophrenic breach. Riggan flies through Manhattan, his coat like wings, to the entrance of the theater, and yet we see a cab driver run out after him, presumably for the fare left unpaid.
In a definitive scene towards the end of the film, Riggan is hustling through Times Square in his underwear, mobbed by starstruck tourists who just want to bear witness to his being. He looks unhinged; he has some place he needs to be, but in a weird way, in some place deep, he feels the rush of superhuman feeling he once knew, like a junkie just granted one more hit. He has always confused adoration for love.
Birdman is a movie that exists in the world of movies. When films now have to contend with global markets, when China is one of them, how do the things we make as a culture bend towards the dollar, or the yuan? DC Comics has its ten-picture filming schedule set through 2020, beginning with the upcoming Batman v Superman, and just this week, Marvel announced a competing schedule through 2019.
As Riggan's best friend and producing partner Jake (Zach Galifianakis) notes when they need to find a new actor at the last minute, the franchise model has taken over the industry—Woody Harrelson is in The Hunger Games, Michael Fassbender is in X-Men ("the sequel to the prequel"), Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man, and Jeremy Renner is one of The Avengers. Instead, they find Mike Shiner (Edward Norton), a pretentious and revered theater actor, available after being fired from his last project, who says hilarious things like, "Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige." He joins the play through the referral of his girlfriend Lesley (Naomi Watts), an insecure actress looking for her big break in Riggan's play, and they both represent archetypes of different kinds of performers.
The film's casting plays with, or at least winks at, its actors' previous real-life roles. Norton, known as an actor's actor, was the Hulk (a role he was more or less reportedly fired from for being difficult before the start of The Avengers), Emma Stone co-headlined The Amazing Spider-Man reboot, Naomi Watts is in the next three installments of the Divergent series, and there is no escaping the cape of Batman to the inside lane of the movie's knowing grounds. Keaton, who turned down a fifteen million dollar deal to continue the role of Bruce Wayne in the original Tim Burton series, plays an actor trying to make amends with the same decision to walk away twenty years ago. His Birdman voice even sounds like the Christian Bale version of the Dark Knight, and Riggan has a fixation with being upstaged by George Clooney, who stepped into the role Keaton vacated in the '90s. Though Norton is great, as he usually is, Keaton has the more subtle role, cycling through all these silent layers in his head as it all swirls around him.
Birdman is a high-wire act. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, whose work includes Children of Men, The Tree of Life, and that 14-minute opening sequence in Gravity, works to make the whole film seem to unspool as one single take. Without the moviemaking safety of broken segments edited together, when an actor misspoke, or a camera operator missed his exact cue eight minutes into rolling, it was back to the beginning. There are few strategic, darkly-lit cuts that go without notice to the untrained eye, and the elaborately staged effort and meticulous preparation by the cast and crew in these long, extended scenes is stunning. Iñárritu sent a photo to the cast before filming began of Philippe Petit, the tightrope walker famous for his Twin Tower feat, with the message: "Guys, this is the film you are doing. If you fall, you fall." In that way, the poles of theater and motion pictures collapse into one.
Shot in New York City's St. James Theater, the conceit is a cinematic trick of urgency, that helps to capture the intimate echo of a Broadway play, with its gazing eyes, and majestic stage. The camera weaves around the actors and the action with nimble buoyancy, a wandering insight into the subjectivity of Riggan's perspective. It allows us to see the world as he feels it, and decide for ourselves where lies the truth.
The almost exclusively drum score by Antonio Sanchez keeps the anxious pace of Iñárritu's glitch-filled dream. Visually, the film is free jazz (like a tonal cousin of Louie), floating between propulsive fun and moments of serious isolation in the streets of New York City. The musician's music, its attempt was to bring jazz back to its intended roots, without the template for convention, fitting for a film geared towards cinephiles as an antithesis to the vogue of blockbuster-driven craze. Everything surrounding the film seems to brings us closer to the internal life of Riggan Thomson—the increasingly narrow corridors, the unsettling icepick score, and the punishing filming techniques all create a tension that keeps bending, until it breaks.
So what do we talk about now when we talk about life? Is it the pursuit of success, to be fully known, and the allure of public praise? Setting goals for a better life is good, but maybe not when it short-circuits our interest in the everyday. "How did we end up here?" Birdman scowls in the opening scene. Through the prism of his super-ego, Riggan wonders if he's better than his circumstances suggest, and it plays to the common feeling of falling shy from your own imagined life.
Though there are lots of questions to unpack, Birdman boils down to the same essential question of how we spend our days, and how those days add up to our years. How we make our story matter, and whether legacy is the point of existence, in how we measure the worth of our lives. If we can find a way in our brief time here to get closer to these questions, and in turn, closer to what feels like answers, then that seems to be, no matter the shape, the work we are here to do.
Perhaps it rests not on reputation, or flashing lights, but how we approach our encounters with other people's lives, however big or small, and that we try to make them good. It's not about how impressive it looks on the page, or how much influence we can amass over a hundred years, but to live in such a way that at the end of it, no matter what you have, you may look around at your life with an exhale, and say, I was here for it, I was really here, so that whether anyone else knows about it or not, you may rest your head on the pillow in peace.
Kenny is a freelance writer and editor living in Los Angeles. He is the chief editor of Quit Mumbling, a music publication on hiatus. He tweets things at @kennethjng, and you can find more of his writing at kennethjng.com. His last name is pronounced "ing." More from this author →
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Date published: September 4 2015
A devastated Jenson Button has admitted that he has had a change of heart over the use of closed cockpits in F1 following several tragedies in recent years.
Former Formula 1 driver Justin Wilson was killed in August after he was hit by debris from another accident during an IndyCar Series at Pocono. It came just a month after Jules Bianchi died from the severe head injuries he suffered when he crashed into recovery vehicle at the Japanese GP last year.
Henry Surtees, son of former World Champion John, lost his life in 2009 after he was hit by a loose wheel during a F2 race while Felipe Massa was seriously injured when he was also struck by debris from another car.
In the wake of these incidents, the FIA has confirmed that they are exploring the possibility of using closed cockpits and Button believes the time has come to introduce them.
"It's very sad to see what happened and I think we're all pretty devastated by it. One, because you know the guy, you've raced against him in karting, raced against him in Formula One as well, but also because this just shouldn't happen at this time in motorsport. It's not the Seventies, we should know better," the 2009 World Champion said.
"I was one of many drivers that said this is open cockpit racing and it should stay as open cockpit racing, but I think we've all had enough now. It's time to do something serious about it, not just changing the headrests on the cars and things, I think you've got to get a canopy on the car of some sort because we can't have this happening as much as it has over the last few years.
"Since Henry Surtees there's been a lot of head injuries that have ended up with death, so it's got to be changed."
Button believes "a canopy is the way to go", but he admits IndyCar will probably introduce them before Formula 1.
"A canopy I think works. Having blades around your head – obviously they're not supposed to break but from an unusual impact possibly they could, I don't know. A canopy is probably the way to go. Obviously that takes time, I can't see it happening for next year in Formula One.
"I personally think it has to happen sooner rather than later and I think in IndyCar it has to happen because they seem to have a lot more issues than we do. Because of the speeds they're travelling as well and every accident there's debris because you can't get away from the banking when you crash. So I think it would be good if we could see canopies sooner rather than later."
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How to make a big city Form-Based Code? An important effort is underway in Cincinnati, where the city's new code was adopted in May. Although citywide, the code depends on neighborhoods to take charge of their own development. It is intended to apply to 42 neighborhoods throughout the city, making it one of the largest applications of a FBC.
The new regulating plan is helping the neighborhood to focus on developing a mixed-use business district, and community leaders will work with the city to interview developers in 2014. Opticos Design, Inc. helped city and neighborhood leaders to understand form-based codes, draft the citywide code and manage neighborhood charrettes to implement the new code in the neighborhoods.
Opticos has a 2-page article with photos describing the Cincinnati approach. An article on the Building Cincinnati website gives background on the city's coding initiative. Form-based coding in Cincinnati was spearheaded by former mayor Roxanne Qualls, who is an advisor to FBCI.
Alan Mammoser AICP is Program Director for the Form-Based Codes Institute.
No Cincinnati Neighborhood Adopts Form-Based Code classes are currently scheduled. Contact FBCI to learn more about upcoming classes, or browse recorded webinars for learning opportunities available online anytime.


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Does Homeopathy Work?
A recent study at Bristol Homeopathic Hospital of over 6000 consecutive patients with chronic illnesses revealed that 70% experienced improvement in their symptoms.
Another study in Nottingham found that a significant number visited their GP less often and were able to reduce or stop their conventional medication.
There is further evidence for the effectiveness of homeopathy emerging from India and America.
Lab tests in America have also shown encouraging results.
For a comprehensive summary of some of the emerging evidence and the campaign to discredit homeopathy go to What Doctors Don't Tell You by clicking here
click here to read an article by scientist trained as homeopath
click here to read about more research on homeopathy
What conditions do patients who consult a homeopath suffer from?
Most conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome and other digestive problems, chronic fatigue, skin problems, candida (thrush), migraines, asthma, bronchitis, cystitis, recurrent colds, sinusitis, joint pains, childhood illness, women's health, depression, insomnia, anxiety, stress, low energy, bereavement and many others.
Why come to a homeopath?
Perhaps you just can't use conventional medicine because of other medical conditions, pregnancy, side effects, sensitivity to medication or because of interactions with other drugs which you are already taking.
You may be seeking to enhance your general health without having anything specific or serious enough to warrant seeing your doctor.
It may be that despite thorough testing conventional methods have been unable to find anything wrong even though you feel unwell.
A homeopath works with what the body is saying by producing symptoms and matches a remedy to the whole patient rather than trying to treat a particular illness label in isolation. That means I don't need a label for your symptoms (a diagnosis) but I do need to listen to you and find out more about you as well as your symptoms.
Homeopathy seeks to improve the body's innate ability to heal itself.
Is homeopathy safe?
Homeopathic remedies contain little or none of the original substance from which they are made by a special process. This means:
they are safe to use with conventional medicines as they work at an entirely different level
they do not produce side effects in the way that conventional medicines can
it is impossible to become addicted to them.
What ages are patients who come to a homeopath?
Homeopathy is suitable for all ages from pregnancy, birth and through to old age.
How do I know that my homeopath is properly qualified?
Registration with the Society of Homeopaths is denoted by the letters RSHom and indicates that the practitioner has trained at a recognised school (usually a four year course) and has been further assessed or examined by the Society to ensure they are competent to practise. Members must also adhere to a code of ethics. CLICK HERE to visit the Society of Homeopaths website.
When do you have Clinics?
Tuesday: Exeter
Wednesday: Exmouth;
Friday: Exeter
I also do early evening appointments in Exeter on Tuesdays and Fridays.
I am available for home visits for those unable to come to appointments.
In Exmouth I have a clinic Exmouth Osteopathy Clinic in High Street. The nearest car park is behind the Magnolia shopping area. Walk back to Rolle Street, cross over and walk up High Street in the direction of The Beacon. You will find Exmouth Osteopathy Clinic on the right about three quarters of the way up just before the Oddfellows.
In Exeter I work at 24a Gandy Street - turn down the narrow covered lane at the side of Sea Salt and take the first door on the left. I am at the top of the stairs.
I also work at Massage and Wellbeing, 18 Gandy Street - opposite the Phoenix Arts Centre, the entrance is by Moko, go into the courtyard and the door is on the right - press the intercom.
Phone or email to make an appointment.
Find out more or make an appointment by phoning me on 07986 157854 or 01392 412767 or email me by clicking on the link at the top left of this page.
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What are the effects of divorce?
Rodgers and Pryor suggested divorce alone did not cause the above problems but occurred in association with other factors which affected the outcomes when divorce occurs.
According to Rodgers and Pryor those children whose parents managed to avoid the above were largely unlikely to suffer from a divorce. The above was also found in US longitudinal research conducted by Hetherington (2002) who concluded that for 75% of children divorce has few negative effects and concluded that 'divorce is a reasonable solution to an unhappy and acrimonious marital relationship'.
In contrast Jon Bernardes (1997) studies concluded divorce may be less damaging to children than living with parents in constant conflict.
In contrast to New Right perspectives feminist balk at the idea of any restrictions to divorce laws. As it is through these laws women have found the freedom, independence and a greater social equality.
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I've spent the summer working my way through a huge tome called "And Ladies of the Club" by Helen Hooven Santmyer and my version has 1433 pages (there are some more recent versions that have a few less pages). I recently likened it to an American version of War and Peace. That off-the-cuff comment made me think about the real War and Peace by Tolstoy (which is far, far better than 'And Ladies..'). I once spent the summer reading W&P as one of the 'must reads' on my list. In the subsequent years I have tried and abandoned other books on my must read list (ie Lord of the Rings and Ulysses) but I loved War and Peace. The characters are compelling, story lines authentic and the writing is of course magnificent. After all this time, it has stayed with me as a challenging but worthwhile read. I see that there is actually a book out now called "Give War and Peace a Chance" (a nice nod to another great writer – John Lennon) by Andrew Kaufman. I agree. This book is well worth the effort, but I wonder how many of today's readers will bother. In an age of instant gratification and a time where it seems that to compress written communication into the smallest possible package that can be sent with two thumbs is the norm, I suspect that Tolstoy will find fewer and fewer readers as time goes on. I don't mind new great works of literature replacing the old in popularity, but will we really see the likes of War and Peace again in these modern times? Do give it a chance. Meet the Rostov family. Celebrate and commiserate with Pierre Bezukhov as his fates move him from innocence to disillusionment. Get to know a little about Russian history. There is so much going for this book, that I hope it continues to make personal 'must read' lists for generations to come.


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Step 3: Soften the gelatine sheets in cold water, squeeze out any excess water and then whisk into the hot Sparkling Ruby Cabernet mixture. Set aside to cool.
Step 4: Trim the rhubarb into approximately 10cm pieces, place onto a lined baking tray, sprinkle with the caster sugar and then place into the oven to roast for 15 mins until cooked through and "collapsed" but still holding their shape. Then remove and set aside to cool slightly.
Step 5: Place the rhubarb into a 500ml glass mould and then pour over the jelly mixture and place into the fridge for at least 4 hours or overnight to set.
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Performances of the week
An outstanding victory in the English Women's Amateur Championship takes Curtis Cup player Bronte Law to number two on this week's World Amateur Golf RankingTM. Law successfully defended the title she won last year with a runaway 16-shot victory.
Law took control with an opening 9-under-par 63 at Hunstanton Golf Club. Further rounds of 69, 69 and 74 gave her a 13-under-par total of 275. She moves up one spot this week to sit behind world number one Leona Maguire.
Tardy not sluggish in North & South
American Bailey Tardy advances 88 places this week after winning the North & South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst, North Carolina. Tardy, who will play college golf for the University of Georgia in September, came from two down with two to play to defeat Bethany Wu at the 20th hole. Tardy becomes the world's 36th best amateur. Wu climbs five places to fourth.
Park wins South African Match Play
Carrie Park is the new South African Women's Match Play champion after taking the title at Kloof Country Club. Park defeated Ivanna Samu with a birdie at the 23rd hole. Park advances 27 rankings to 115th, while Samu improves eight places to 96th.
Top 20 movers
Americans Nelly Korda and Emma Talley, and Luna Sobron Galmes of Spain join this week's top 20. Korda moves three places to 18th. Sobron Galmes becomes world number 19 after a jump of seven spots. Talley is the world's 20th best player with an advance of two rankings.
Biggest ranking improvement
England's Harriet Allsebrook takes that honour with a move of 653 rankings to world number 2,054 after finishing 14th in the English Women's Amateur Championship.
Big rises for Open quintet
The five amateurs who starred in the Open Championship at St Andrews are rewarded with improved status on this week's World Amateur Golf RankingTM.
Jordan Niebrugge of the United States makes the biggest improvement after winning the silver medal for low amateur. His 6th place finish after an 11-under-par 277 sees him jump 101 places to world number 24.
Former world number one Oliver Schniederjans and Ashley Chesters of England finished equal 12th on 9-under-par. Schniederjans moves to world number four, an improvement of four spots, while Chesters climbs eight rankings to fifth.
Ireland's Paul Dunne led the Open Championship after 54 holes before slipping to equal 30th. He advances 42 places to 38th.
Reigning Amateur Champion Romain Langasque improves his status by three spots to 17th after finishing joint 65th.
Shelton finishes third on PGA Tour debut
Robbie Shelton of the United States moves inside the world top 20 after finishing third in the Barbasol Championship, his first PGA Tour event. Shelton becomes the world's 18th best amateur with a move of four rankings.
Funk wins Southern Amateur
American Taylor Funk jumps 334 rankings after winning the Southern Amateur Championship at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi. Funk, son of Tour player Fred Funk, returned an 11-under-par total of 273 to win by a stroke. He is now the world's 143rd best amateur.
Robbie Shelton is the only player to break inside the top 20.
American Hank Lebioda joins Niebrugge and Dunne in the top 50 with a move of nine places to 48th.
Japan's Keita Nakajima is this week's most improved player with jump of 1,972 places to world number 3,128.


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When the huge cauliflower arrived in this week's box (05.05.12) I would have happily made another cauliflower cheese. But with some leeks to use from the previous week I tried a bit of an experiment, and it turned out so well I'm happy to share it!
Serves 3-4 depending on how hungry you are.
Bring two large pans of salted water to the boil. Put the pasta in one and cook according to the pack instructions for al dente pasta; put the cauliflower and leek in the other and simmer for 5 minutes. Once they're cooked, drain and place in a large ovenproof dish.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in another pan and then add the flour, stirring continuously to stop it becoming lumpy. Once it's smooth, add the milk, stirring continuously and allow to simmer for a minute or two. Add the cheese and once it;s melted pour the sauce over the pasta & vegetables.
Season generously with black pepper and bake for 15 mins (until the top has browned). Serve immediately and enjoy!


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Bhreus is a very very minimal browser engine. So far all it does is parse a subset of HTML and build a DOM tree thereof.

Named after the Proto-Indo-European root of the English verb "to browse."

## Installation

You can install Bhreus by cloning the repo and running

    sudo pip install bhreus

## Usage

Make a parser (initialized or not):

    >>> p = bhreus.parse.Parser()
    >>> q = bhreus.parse.Parser(html)

Give it some markup to parse:

    >>> p.set_html(html)

Get a DOM tree out of that markup. `Parser.parse()` returns the root node of the tree.

    >>> tree = p.parse()

Check out that tree with the DOM element prettyprint function:

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       	   Thunderbolts and lightning!

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Or poke at an individual node.

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      Very very frightning!

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    [("id", "second-line"), ("class", "line")]

## Tests

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Nigerian troops kill 5 gunmen in northern state
LAGOS, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian troops have killed five gunmen in a recent encounter in north Nigeria's Kaduna state, a state official said on Monday.
Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for internal security and home affairs in the state, said in a brief statement troops based in the state received credible intelligence reports on the movement of the gunmen near the town of Kwanan Bataro in the Giwa local government area of the state.
The troops were mobilized immediately to engage the gunmen in the area and killed five of them in the encounter, said Aruwa, without mentioning when the encounter happened.
There have been a series of gunmen attacks in northern Nigeria in recent months, leading to deaths and kidnappings.
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TABLOID: Jerry Springer Hosts New Investigation Discovery (ID) Show – TV NEWS
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Scandalous headlines. Surreal true-life stories. Who doesn't scan the supermarket tabloids in the checkout line? Investigation Discovery (ID) introduces TABLOID, a new weekly series guaranteed to satisfy inquiring minds. Hosted by the Emmy Award-winning king of tabloid television, Jerry Springer, TABLOID peels back the curtain to probe the most bizarre larger-than-life stories you can't possibly imagine. With an initial run of ten, one-hour episodes co-produced by Radley Studios and Espiritus Productions, TABLOID will premiere on ID in 1Q 2014.
"There really was no other choice for this series other than the king of daytime talk himself, Jerry Springer, to complement ID's incredible stories of revenge, betrayal and real-life drama," said Henry Schleiff, president and general manager, Investigation Discovery. "A credit to his overwhelming appeal to our largely female audience, Jerry's syndicated series is in its 22nd season and still going strong. We are thrilled to welcome him to the ID family, and excited to have him guide our viewers through the twisted turns behind the eye-catching headlines in TABLOID."
Springer, who's no stranger to the sensational, brings more than 20 years of experience working with over-the-top characters. Baring all of the twists and turns, and macabre motivations behind eye-catching headlines, TABLOID unearths the most mind-blowing, headlines in the supermarket tabloids, exposing the biggest stories of the day.
"The thing I like best about television is the opportunity to tell stories…stories that cover the entire range of human experiences and emotions," said Springer. "TABLOID gives me another chance to do just that, and I can't wait to get started."
TABLOID is produced for Investigation Discovery by Radley Studios and Espiritus Productions. Brandon Hill and Chad Itskowitz are executive producers for Radley Studios, and Bill Katz is executive producer for Espiritus Productions. For Investigation Discovery, Pamela Deutsch is executive producer; Sara Kozak is senior vice president of production; Kevin Bennett is general manager; and Henry Schleiff is president and general manager.
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Investigation Discovery (ID) is the leading mystery-and-suspense network on television and America's favorite "guilty pleasure." From harrowing crimes and salacious scandals to the in-depth investigations and heart-breaking mysteries that result, ID challenges our everyday understanding of culture, society and the human condition. ID delivers the highest-quality programming to nearly 82 million U.S. households with viewer favorites that include On the Case with Paula Zahn; Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda; Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?; Disappeared; Stalked: Someone's Watching; and Redrum. For more information, please visit InvestigationDiscovery.com, facebook.com/InvestigationDiscovery, or twitter.com/DiscoveryID. Investigation Discovery is part of Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the world's #1 nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers in 218 countries and territories.
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History of the Lakewood Democratic Club
The following commentary on Democratic Club history was prepared by Secretary Matt Kuhns for the September 26, 2019 meeting.
The story of this organization began nearly 100 years ago.
Before I go further than that, I have to pause here and acknowledge some uncertainty about details of how people actually organized, further back than we have living memory to consult. Veteran Lakewood Dems with whom I have spoken are very clear that Lakewood began the 1970s with four distinct ward clubs. By the middle of the decade, these merged, and those involved are proud of founding the Lakewood Democratic Club.
Without taking away the credit for that genuine reorganization, I have concluded that at least part of the decades beforehand was somewhat more complicated.
When researching newspaper archives, two broader discoveries emerged. One, the Democratic Club made it into news many times over the years. Two, news accounts often referred to "the Lakewood Democratic Club" as far back as the early 1930s.
I can't pinpoint a precise anniversary, but I will put it this way: Lakewood Democrats were organizing locally by 1920. The obituary of James Novak credited James and his wife Mary with starting the Lakewood Democratic Club in the early 1920s. Another article suggests that their group was up and running in 1920, almost a full century ago.
Whether the club divided up at some point, or there's some other origin of the four ward clubs which people have described, I do not know so far. A 1928 article refers to the Fourth Ward Democratic Club of Lakewood. But most other news mentions during the intervening decades just refer to the Lakewood Democratic Club. Maybe that was shorthand. Maybe the ward clubs had some kind of consortium like West Shore Democrats, at least for a while.
But just for practicality, I'm going to refer to the Lakewood Democratic Club like the news did—having let you know in advance that the picture from news archives isn't 100% complete or consistent.
It is pretty clear that Lakewood Democrats were organizing locally, from 1920 onward, and that the results had more than one form. In addition to the mentions of ward clubs, a women's auxiliary club also held meetings for a number of decades.
Women were also participating at the center of things, though. Notable early leaders among Lakewood's Democrats included Alice Minarik, suffragist Bernice Pyke, as well as Grace Spalding, another early organizer and later a member of city council.
In 1931, the news described the first-ever picnic of Lakewood Democrats. The article quoted club president Neil McGill of Abbieshire, noting that "Though Lakewood used to be considered five to one Republican… McGill called attention to the fact that last year the Democratic candidate for governor carried Lakewood for the first time in history."
In other words it was tough going for the early organizers. Bernice Pyke declared at the picnic that Lakewood "can and must elect a Democratic mayor." But the article didn't mention whether or not she was promising any specific deadline.
A couple of years after this came the interesting notice that the city's "precinct committeemen" voted to nominate Ford Myers for mayor. The 1933 article also claimed that "His candidacy marks the beginning of an effort by Lakewood Democrats to unite their strength behind a candidate who can put the Democrats into Lakewood City Hall, held for more than a decade by Republicans."
The next year saw a mention of the "Lakewood Woman's Democratic Club" meeting at the YWCA which operated on Detroit. 1934 also included Senate candidate George White, with an evergreen quote if ever there was one, about Republicans: "They assail government dictatorship but their only purpose in that is to restore the dictatorship of financial pirates who wrecked the country when it was under Republican rule."
The 1940s may have been a high point for Lakewood Democrats in some ways. How they were faring at the ballot box I am not certain, although given the national politics it was probably not bad. But articles refer to hundreds of people at Lakewood Democratic events. A pot-luck in 1947 planned for only—only—175 at most, had more than 300 people show up. A 1942 rally at the Masonic Temple, which was also a meeting space around this time, brought out 200 people. The American Legion Center, at Detroit and Warren, also played host to club events. News from 1940 described a rally there with "several hundred members" attending.
Lest we feel awful at the state of our decline, I want to suggest that this was probably around the heyday of the civic organization in the United States. The Elks Lodge, the Masons, the Odd Fellows were active in every town, and they also had membership which might as well be mythical compared with today's.
From here let's skip through a few decades fairly fast. Mayor Celeste's years in office after mid-century were probably another high point. In 1963, news described him addressing the "ward leaders of the Lakewood Democratic Club," bringing us back to some indication of organization by ward. The next year, club leaders organized a kind of draft-Celeste campaign to change his mind about retiring. But it failed, and Democrats were back out of the mayor's office for some while.
Despite this, great things were on the way. From here I'm going to borrow freely from Stan Austin, who has provided many recollections about the transformation of the club from what may have been more of a concept, into an organized campaign."
It became increasingly clear," he says, "that Lakewood Democrats were becoming increasingly important within the County and … an important resource for campaigns. However, the four small ward clubs just didn't cut it in terms of clout." Particularly in comparison with Parma. "They," Stan and others couldn't help noticing, "had 9 wards but one Club and were a powerhouse within the Party." Candidates liked "one stop shopping," also.
So around 1974, the active Democrats of Lakewood reorganized, and dispensed entirely with ward-based organizing in favor of one Lakewood Democratic Club.
Quoting Stan again, "We rented a headquarters on Detroit at Ethel and were able to staff phone banks and volunteer activities for the 1974 campaigns. Incidentally, we chose Thursday as a meeting day because this enabled our representatives in Columbus to speak to our meetings because they ended their week on Thursday and came home."
The rest as they say is history.
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Marko Kallio has been invited to join Intersearch Finland as a partner consultant, starting in the beginning of February 2019. His areas of focus will consist of executive search and in-depth psychological personnel assessments.
Marko Kallio's expertise in HR management is versatile. Prior to his career in consulting, he spent 10 years working as the HR and ICT Director of Jujo Thermal Ltd., a member of the Nippon Paper Group. Before this, he acted as an HR Specialist at the Finnish technology company Teleste Oyj. He is also familiar with the Finnish job market and public employment services. He worked for several years in developing the regional employer services of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. In addition, he is experienced in board work.
Marko Kallio completed his master's degree in psychology at the University of Turku. Later, he has supplemented his studies with the leadership program of the Robert Kennedy College, and by completing the ABM (Approved Board Member) training program of the Finland Chamber of Commerce.
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Why Scientists Tried to Measure All of the Starlight That Ever Shone
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Astronomers this week announced that they'd attempted to measure all of the starlight in the universe.
You might wonder why. Ultimately, they're trying to tell the universe's story.
"We wanted to know how star formation history proceeded," Kari Helgason, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, told Gizmodo.
The entire universe is diffuse with "extragalactic background light" or EBL, photons emitted by all of the galaxies' stars in infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths. Going back in time, this light is the sum of all of the light emitted by stars from the Big Bang up until the moment and distance you look—remember, distance is the same as time in space, so looking at a farther region of space means looking at fewer stars. The EBL can weaken gamma rays. So, scientists measured the gamma rays coming from distant quasars to see whether they carried the signature of a shadow from this starlight. With this information, the scientists can make a statement about the rate of star formation over time.
Researchers analyzed gamma rays from nine years of data collected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Specifically, they looked at 739 blazars, which are black holes spewing jets of matter pointed at the Earth, and one gamma-ray burst. These objects dated back 200 million to 11.6 billion years. They applied an equation to all of the data that calculated the total background light, according to the new study published in Science.
The results were consistent with past attempts to measure the extragalactic background light, showing that star formation hit its maximum around 10 billion years ago.
The extragalactic background light is exciting for other reasons, though, wrote Elisa Prandini, astroparticle physicist from the University of Padova in Italy, in a commentary for Science. The measurement provides a limit to how many faint galaxies there were around 12 billion years ago. These galaxies are thought to have caused a "reionization era," an important time in the history of the universe when, after the first atoms formed from protons combining with electrons, energy from the new galaxies split them back up. But very few sources were used to make that specific measurement, she wrote, so more observations of distant gamma-ray sources could clear things up.
On top of that, the extragalactic background light could provide a new way to hunt never-before-seen particles, said Prandini.
The study has its caveats, said Helgason—they assumed all of the background light came from starlight, but powerful black holes, too, can spew radiation into space. Current estimates suggest they aren't a huge contributor, but they're worth a deeper look just in case.
So, no, you don't just go adding up all the universe's starlight for nothing.
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(6) setting mandatory retirement age policy, which in most cases is per se illegal.
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Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known part of the world to life in haunting, vivid detail.
Peer tells stories from his youth and gives gut-wrenching accounts of the many Kashmiris he met years later as a reporter. He chronicles a young man's initiation into a Pakistani training camp, a mother forced to watch her son hold an exploding bomb by Indian troops, a poet finding religion when his entire family is killed. He writes about politicians living in refurbished torture chambers, idyllic villages rigged with land mines, and ancient Sufi shrines decimated in bomb blasts.
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir
is a tale of a man's love for his land, the pain of leaving home, and the joy of return — as well as a fierce and moving piece of reportage from an intrepid young journalist.
"A passionate and important book — a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore." — Salman Rushdie
"The story of Kashmir has never been told before so evocatively and profoundly. Peer writes with the skill of a novelist, the insight of a journalist and the evocative power of a poet."
— Ahmad Rashid, author of The Taliban and Descent
Curfewed Night is the finest book I have read on the contemporary Kashmir conflict — literary, humane, clear-eyed, and reliable. Basharat Peer has given voice, unforgettably, to a generation of Kashmiris who have never been heard in the United States, but who should be."
— Steve Coll, author of The Bin Ladens, Ghost Wars, and On the Grand Trunk Road
"Describing the ruin of Kashmir, Curfewed Night doesn't only shock, it challenges our most cherished beliefs––in democracy, rule of law, and the power of individual conscience. Everyone should read it."
— Pankaj Mishra, author of Temptations of the West
"Peer's Curfewed Night is an extraordinary memoir that does a great deal to bring the Kashmir conflict out of the realm of political rhetoric between India and Pakistan and into the lives of Kashmiris." Kamila Shamsie in the Guardian.
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Unlike Neil, I have not been awarded a Medal of Excellence from Columbia University, or a NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. But in 2011, I played Kirby Reed in the film Scream 4, which took place largely at night. Night, as we know, is where space lives. At age 10, I appeared in the Disney feature film Remember the Titans. And of course, my name is similar to the name of the facility, so it was a natural fit. You will find a list of my additional qualifications in the "About Us" tab.
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Q: Elongation of rod If a force is applied on a unconstrained body lying on a smooth floor ,will it elongate?
My thoughts-as force is applied on body ,it moves with some acceleration,but as it is not constrained it will not expand

A: If the rod is accelerating to the right, and we arbitrarily divide the rod in half, the net force exerted on the right half is equal to the applied force F to the right minus the tension that the left half applies on the right half $T_{1/2}$:
$$F-T_{1/2}=\frac{m}{2}a$$So $$T_{1/2}=F-\frac{m}{2}a$$So the rod is under tension (at least at the middle), and it must be stretching.  More generally, the tension on rod at an arbitrary location x measured from the left end is:$$T(x)=F-m\left(1-\frac{x}{L}\right)a=F-F\left(1-\frac{x}{L}\right)=F\frac{x}{L}$$So the tension in the rod increases linearly from 0 at the left end to F at the right end.  The tension in the rod causes it to expand (although not uniformly).

A: Yes the rod will definitely elongate. Think about about a crossection of width dx and at an distance x from the end then as tis particle is not in equilibrium it will have a net force of tension  that tries to stretch it and increase it's length

A: The rod's length will increase if the force pulls it, but the length will decrease if the force pushes it.

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Now Asia's Richest man, Jack Ma
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Do you know who currently the richest man in Asia is? If you think it's Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of India's Reliance Industries Ltd., then you are wrong. According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires' Index, now the richest man in Asia is Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
As per the index, Ma (55) now has got wealth estimated net worth of $44.5 billion, overtaking Mukesh Ambani (62) as the richest person in the region.
According to Bloomberg Index, Ambani's wealth decreased by $5.8 billion from last year due to tumble in crude oil price globally, which has removed him from the richest man status in Asia.
Though the deadly coronavirus has had huge impact on Jack Ma's Alibaba Group, the demand for cloud computing apps has restored some parity and thus helped increase his wealth. With $44.5 billion wealth, Jack Ma is now the 18th richest man in the world while Mukesh Ambani slided one spot and now the 19th richest man in the globe with an estimated net worth of $41.8 billion.
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Last year, Mukesh Ambani had added $17 billion to his wealth, which was the most in Asia. On the other hand, Jack Ma had added $11.3 billion to his wealth. Source : TOI
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