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BALL – "I respect all the players in Portugal, but I prefer those in Uruguay" (Portugal)
Diego Alonso, coach of Uruguay, analyzed Monday's match against Portugal with the second round of World Cup Group H in mind. A meeting of heightened importance for the South Americans, who drew with South Korea in the first game.
"We have already seen the balance that exists in this World Cup and what has happened with Argentina and Germany. [n.d.r. perderam com Arábia Saudita e Japão, respetivamente] and how difficult it was for Portugal to beat Ghana. We don't underestimate the opposition or the result we showed against South Korea, but we are here to win games and keep the dream going," he began with a warning before praising the Quinas teams:
"They have a very good team, with very good personalities, and an experienced coach who knew how to lead a team to titles. They have been playing together for a long time and that makes Portugal a dangerous team. But we also have our own arguments, which also make us a dangerous adversary."
"Portugal have several options: they can play counterattack because they have speed or they can dominate because they have inside play. It's a whole team," he added.
When asked which element of the Portuguese team he would choose to play in "his" Uruguay, Diego Alonso answered bluntly: "With all due respect to the players from Portugal, I prefer everyone I have in Uruguay."
The coach ruled out any advantage for Uruguay, Portugal's "executioner" at the 2018 World Cup, stressing that "all games have a different story."
On Uruguayans with Portuguese football experience – Darwin (ex-Benfica, starting XI against South Korea), Coates and Ugarta (athletes, unused substitutes): "They may have a deeper knowledge, but I don't think that's an advantage. We , of course, talked to them about any doubts, because we all help, but whoever is in the best conditions and in the best football moment will play."
See also LeBron James Leads Dominant Los Angeles Lakers To Western Conference Finals
BALL – Draw in the big show between Spain and Germany (World Cup 2022)
″Enzo deserved the goal, he is an amazing kid″
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About KING OF BAD
Jeff Mean would rather set fires than follow rules or observe curfew. He wears his bad boy image like a favorite old hoodie; that is until he learns he has superpowers and is recruited by Super Villain Academy – where you learn to be good at being bad. In a school where one kid can evaporate all the water from your body and the girl you hang around with can perform psychic sex in your head, bad takes on a whole new meaning. Jeff wonders if he's bad enough for SVA.
He may never find out. Classmates vilify him when he develops good manners. Then he's kidnapped by those closest to him and left to wonder who is good and who is bad. His rescue is the climactic episode that balances good and evil in the super world. The catalyst – the girl he's crushing on. A girlfriend and balancing the Supers is good, right? Or is it…bad?
Available in print or electronic: Whiskey Creek Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble
Jeff admired the growth of the flames as they devoured wads of paper and fast food wrappers in the wire mesh trashcan. He slipped the book of matches into his pocket and sat back on his heels to admire his work. One side of the can merely smoldered so he blew gently to fan the guttering flame. It reminded him of how blowing on Jasmine's neck the night before had resulted in a lovely arch of her back. He growled a throaty sigh, remembering Jasmine's blissful distraction as he'd nibbled her earlobe.
" Hey!"
Jeff glanced over his shoulder. A man, who looked like he belonged behind a desk in a downtown high rise, jogged toward him.
" Ah, the sweet sounds of discipline." Jeff stood, stuffed his fists in the front pockets of his jeans and shook the long bangs out of his eyes. He half expected the guy's slick-soled business shoes to slip as he jogged across visitor parking. This was Jeff's favorite part. Almost getting caught. When the guy was a baseball's toss away, Jeff turned. He walked a couple steps then skipped up into a jog.
" Kid, stop!"
Jeff chuckled to himself and said, "Yeah, sure," and loped across the soccer field.
" Wait a minute."
Jeff stole a look over his shoulder. The guy was close even though he didn't seem to be running very fast. Jeff grinned at him and increased his pace. A seven-foot tall chain link fence ringed in the far side of the field to prevent stray soccer balls from breaking the windows of passing cars on the street below. Jeff leaped onto the fence without slowing down and in two cat-like movements, launched himself over the top. He dropped to the ground, landing on a hill pocked with gopher holes, as easily as if he were jumping around in a bounce house. He smoothly transitioned back into a sprint and dashed across the street, startling a lady driving an SUV.
" Kid, hold up."
Jeff almost tripped; the guy was half way across the street already. He smirked, finally a decent chase, but not for long. With little effort, Jeff stepped up to a blurring speed. He dashed up a peaceful street that ran perpendicular to the school, where kids rode bikes and ran through sprinklers. Jeff recognized one of the "good" kids from school, washing a '57 step-side Chevy.
" Sweet ride," Jeff called out. The kid looked up at him, but then snapped his head to the left. That guy cannot be that close! Jeff looked over his shoulder to find the guy was only a house length behind him. Holy crap, Batman. No one ever keeps up with me!
For the first time in a long time, Jeff worried. But only a little. With a deep, fortifying breath he pumped his thigh muscles harder. He whizzed past houses so fast he doubted anyone would be able to describe him if they were asked to later. Tears streamed sideways from the force of the wind his speed created. He'd only started to breathe a bit more heavily than normal. Jeff was built to run.
" Kid, hold on just a second."
Jeff stumbled, but regained his footing again before becoming road rash. The guy sounded as if he was only a bus length away. How can that be? No one runs as fast as I do. Jeff's lungs constricted. An alien emotion, panic, budded in his chest. Stay focused. Controlled, deep breaths allowed calming oxygen into his lungs and up to his brain and Jeff's airways opened fully again.
Real speed required concentration. Jeff concentrated on his thigh muscles. Usually he only bothered to think about the front muscles in order to ignite his unusual speed, but this time he thought about the sinewy, sleek muscles that wrapped gracefully around the larger front muscles. He envisioned how the smaller muscles provided strength and support to the larger working muscle. He pictured that strength extending into his gluteus maximus to sustain a strong stride. The resulting speed was completely inhuman.
Reviews:I loved the world building! It made me wish I was part of it. Strand does a fantastic job of making the world of King of Bad seem like it's a real thing. -Heather
King of Bad sucks you in from the first page and doesn't let you go. I couldn't put it down! –Amazon Review
About Kai Strand
When her children were young and the electricity winked out, Kai Strand gathered her family around the fireplace and they told stories, one sentence at a time. Her boys were rather fond of the ending, "And then everybody died. The end." Now an award winning children's author, Kai crafts fiction for kids and teens to provide an escape hatch from their reality. With a selection of novels for young adult and middle grade readers and short stories for the younger ones, Kai entertains children of all ages, and their adults. Learn more about Kai and her books on her website,www.kaistrand.com.
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package com.mpush.zk;

import com.mpush.api.Constants;
import com.mpush.api.service.BaseService;
import com.mpush.api.service.Listener;
import com.mpush.tools.log.Logs;
import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFramework;
import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFrameworkFactory;
import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFrameworkFactory.Builder;
import org.apache.curator.framework.api.ACLProvider;
import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.ChildData;
import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.TreeCache;
import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.TreeCacheListener;
import org.apache.curator.framework.state.ConnectionState;
import org.apache.curator.retry.ExponentialBackoffRetry;
import org.apache.zookeeper.CreateMode;
import org.apache.zookeeper.ZooDefs;
import org.apache.zookeeper.data.ACL;

import java.util.*;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class ZKClient extends BaseService {
    public static final ZKClient I = I();
    private ZKConfig zkConfig;
    private CuratorFramework client;
    private TreeCache cache;
    private Map<String, String> ephemeralNodes = new LinkedHashMap<>(4);
    private Map<String, String> ephemeralSequentialNodes = new LinkedHashMap<>(1);

    private synchronized static ZKClient I() {
        return I == null ? new ZKClient() : I;
    }

    private ZKClient() {
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Listener listener) {
        if (isRunning()) {
            listener.onSuccess();
        } else {
            super.start(listener);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void stop(Listener listener) {
        if (isRunning()) {
            super.stop(listener);
        } else {
            listener.onSuccess();
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void doStart(Listener listener) throws Throwable {
        client.start();
        Logs.RSD.info("init zk client waiting for connected...");
        if (!client.blockUntilConnected(1, TimeUnit.MINUTES)) {
            throw new ZKException("init zk error, config=" + zkConfig);
        }
        initLocalCache(zkConfig.getWatchPath());
        addConnectionStateListener();
        Logs.RSD.info("zk client start success, server lists is:{}", zkConfig.getHosts());
        listener.onSuccess(zkConfig.getHosts());
    }

    @Override
    protected void doStop(Listener listener) throws Throwable {
        if (cache != null) cache.close();
        TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(600);
        client.close();
        Logs.RSD.info("zk client closed...");
        listener.onSuccess();
    }

    /**
     * 初始化
     */
    @Override
    public void init() {
        if (client != null) return;
        if (zkConfig == null) {
            zkConfig = ZKConfig.build();
        }
        Builder builder = CuratorFrameworkFactory
                .builder()
                .connectString(zkConfig.getHosts())
                .retryPolicy(new ExponentialBackoffRetry(zkConfig.getBaseSleepTimeMs(), zkConfig.getMaxRetries(), zkConfig.getMaxSleepMs()))
                .namespace(zkConfig.getNamespace());

        if (zkConfig.getConnectionTimeout() > 0) {
            builder.connectionTimeoutMs(zkConfig.getConnectionTimeout());
        }
        if (zkConfig.getSessionTimeout() > 0) {
            builder.sessionTimeoutMs(zkConfig.getSessionTimeout());
        }

        if (zkConfig.getDigest() != null) {
            /*
             * scheme对应于采用哪种方案来进行权限管理,zookeeper实现了一个pluggable的ACL方案,可以通过扩展scheme,来扩展ACL的机制。
             * zookeeper缺省支持下面几种scheme:
             *
             * world: 默认方式,相当于全世界都能访问; 它下面只有一个id, 叫anyone, world:anyone代表任何人,zookeeper中对所有人有权限的结点就是属于world:anyone的
             * auth: 代表已经认证通过的用户(cli中可以通过addauth digest user:pwd 来添加当前上下文中的授权用户); 它不需要id, 只要是通过authentication的user都有权限(zookeeper支持通过kerberos来进行authencation, 也支持username/password形式的authentication)
             * digest: 即用户名:密码这种方式认证,这也是业务系统中最常用的;它对应的id为username:BASE64(SHA1(password)),它需要先通过username:password形式的authentication
             * ip: 使用Ip地址认证;它对应的id为客户机的IP地址,设置的时候可以设置一个ip段,比如ip:192.168.1.0/16, 表示匹配前16个bit的IP段
             * super: 在这种scheme情况下,对应的id拥有超级权限,可以做任何事情(cdrwa)
             */
            builder.authorization("digest", zkConfig.getDigest().getBytes(Constants.UTF_8));
            builder.aclProvider(new ACLProvider() {
                @Override
                public List<ACL> getDefaultAcl() {
                    return ZooDefs.Ids.CREATOR_ALL_ACL;
                }

                @Override
                public List<ACL> getAclForPath(final String path) {
                    return ZooDefs.Ids.CREATOR_ALL_ACL;
                }
            });
        }
        client = builder.build();
        Logs.RSD.info("init zk client, config={}", zkConfig.toString());
    }

    // 注册连接状态监听器
    private void addConnectionStateListener() {
        client.getConnectionStateListenable().addListener((cli, newState) -> {
            if (newState == ConnectionState.RECONNECTED) {
                ephemeralNodes.forEach(this::reRegisterEphemeral);
                ephemeralSequentialNodes.forEach(this::reRegisterEphemeralSequential);
            }
            Logs.RSD.warn("zk connection state changed new state={}, isConnected={}", newState, newState.isConnected());
        });
    }

    // 本地缓存
    private void initLocalCache(String watchRootPath) throws Exception {
        cache = new TreeCache(client, watchRootPath);
        cache.start();
    }

    /**
     * 获取数据,先从本地获取,本地找不到,从远程获取
     *
     * @param key
     * @return
     */
    public String get(final String key) {
        if (null == cache) {
            return null;
        }
        ChildData data = cache.getCurrentData(key);
        if (null != data) {
            return null == data.getData() ? null : new String(data.getData(), Constants.UTF_8);
        }
        return getFromRemote(key);
    }

    /**
     * 从远程获取数据
     *
     * @param key
     * @return
     */
    public String getFromRemote(final String key) {
        if (isExisted(key)) {
            try {
                return new String(client.getData().forPath(key), Constants.UTF_8);
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                Logs.RSD.error("getFromRemote:{}", key, ex);
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * 获取子节点
     *
     * @param key
     * @return
     */
    public List<String> getChildrenKeys(final String key) {
        try {
            if (!isExisted(key)) return Collections.emptyList();
            List<String> result = client.getChildren().forPath(key);
            result.sort(Comparator.reverseOrder());
            return result;
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logs.RSD.error("getChildrenKeys:{}", key, ex);
            return Collections.emptyList();
        }
    }

    /**
     * 判断路径是否存在
     *
     * @param key
     * @return
     */
    public boolean isExisted(final String key) {
        try {
            return null != client.checkExists().forPath(key);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logs.RSD.error("isExisted:{}", key, ex);
            return false;
        }
    }

    /**
     * 持久化数据
     *
     * @param key
     * @param value
     */
    public void registerPersist(final String key, final String value) {
        try {
            if (isExisted(key)) {
                update(key, value);
            } else {
                client.create().creatingParentsIfNeeded().withMode(CreateMode.PERSISTENT).forPath(key, value.getBytes());
            }
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logs.RSD.error("persist:{},{}", key, value, ex);
            throw new ZKException(ex);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 更新数据
     *
     * @param key
     * @param value
     */
    public void update(final String key, final String value) {
        try {
            /*TransactionOp op = client.transactionOp();
            client.transaction().forOperations(
                    op.check().forPath(key),
                    op.setData().forPath(key, value.getBytes(Constants.UTF_8))
            );*/
            client.inTransaction().check().forPath(key).and().setData().forPath(key, value.getBytes(Constants.UTF_8)).and().commit();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logs.RSD.error("update:{},{}", key, value, ex);
            throw new ZKException(ex);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 注册临时数据
     *
     * @param key
     * @param value
     */
    public void registerEphemeral(final String key, final String value, boolean cacheNode) {
        try {
            if (isExisted(key)) {
                client.delete().deletingChildrenIfNeeded().forPath(key);
            }
            client.create().creatingParentsIfNeeded().withMode(CreateMode.EPHEMERAL).forPath(key, value.getBytes(Constants.UTF_8));
            if (cacheNode) ephemeralNodes.put(key, value);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logs.RSD.error("persistEphemeral:{},{}", key, value, ex);
            throw new ZKException(ex);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 注册临时数据
     *
     * @param key
     * @param value
     */
    public void reRegisterEphemeral(final String key, final String value) {
        registerEphemeral(key, value, false);
    }

    /**
     * 注册临时数据
     *
     * @param key
     * @param value
     */
    public void registerEphemeral(final String key, final String value) {
        registerEphemeral(key, value, true);
    }

    /**
     * 注册临时顺序数据
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     * @param key
     * @param value
     * @param cacheNode 第一次注册时设置为true, 连接断开重新注册时设置为false
     */
    private void registerEphemeralSequential(final String key, final String value, boolean cacheNode) {
        try {
            client.create().creatingParentsIfNeeded().withMode(CreateMode.EPHEMERAL_SEQUENTIAL).forPath(key, value.getBytes());
            if (cacheNode) ephemeralSequentialNodes.put(key, value);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logs.RSD.error("persistEphemeralSequential:{},{}", key, value, ex);
            throw new ZKException(ex);
        }
    }

    private void reRegisterEphemeralSequential(final String key, final String value) {
        registerEphemeralSequential(key, value, false);
    }

    public void registerEphemeralSequential(final String key, final String value) {
        registerEphemeralSequential(key, value, true);
    }

    /**
     * 注册临时顺序数据
     *
     * @param key
     */
    public void registerEphemeralSequential(final String key) {
        try {
            client.create().creatingParentsIfNeeded().withMode(CreateMode.EPHEMERAL_SEQUENTIAL).forPath(key);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logs.RSD.error("persistEphemeralSequential:{}", key, ex);
            throw new ZKException(ex);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 删除数据
     *
     * @param key
     */
    public void remove(final String key) {
        try {
            client.delete().deletingChildrenIfNeeded().forPath(key);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logs.RSD.error("removeAndClose:{}", key, ex);
            throw new ZKException(ex);
        }
    }

    public void registerListener(TreeCacheListener listener) {
        cache.getListenable().addListener(listener);
    }

    public ZKConfig getZKConfig() {
        return zkConfig;
    }

    public ZKClient setZKConfig(ZKConfig zkConfig) {
        this.zkConfig = zkConfig;
        return this;
    }

    public CuratorFramework getClient() {
        return client;
    }
}

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Hailey Foster – A teacher's perspective on programming.
One day you come up with a great idea for a little project. You figure you already have all the tools and knowledge you need to get it done in a few hours, settle in with some snacks, and get started.
Calculating the Fibonacci sequence is one of the first programs many people learn to write once they're past Hello World. Of course, there are many ways of solving this problem; for example, it can be solved iteratively, or recursively. I was curious if my intuitive expectations about the performance of a few different methods were correct, so I wrote five different programs that all return the nth Fibonacci number and put them to the test.


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Taylor Swift & Uzo Abuda Are Friends, Which Makes Sense Since Tay Would Totally Fit In On 'Orange Is The New Black'
By Rachel Simon
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If you've been keeping track of Taylor Swift's ever-growing circle of friends, it's time to update the list: at the July 11 stop on the singer's 1989 World Tour, Swift invited Uzo Aduba to the stage during the performance of "Style." The Orange Is the New Black star, alongside Karlie Kloss, Lily Aldridge, and a host of other supermodels, joined the singer just for the one song, but the appearance was definitely memorable for the fact that until now, no one knew Swift was even a fan of the series. It definitely makes sense, though; why wouldn't Swift be drawn to a show about women, friendship, and cooking classes by a legendary chef?
Seeing Aduba show support for Swift's concert tour makes me wonder if the singer is planning to return the favor — could Swift show up on Orange Is the New Black Season 4? It's a long shot, of course, especially if the star was planning to join as a character; even if her acting was Emmy-worthy, no one would ever be able to separate her performance from her real life persona. Yet she could join as herself (she's said that she probably wouldn't do well in prison, but this is the OITNB universe, not real life), as I'm certain she'd make a great addition to the show's ensemble. Here's how Swift would fit in to the Litchfield community:
She'd Totally Be Like Piper
Let's just get this out of the way: Swift is totally like Piper Chapman. Blonde, privileged, and in charge — the two of them have a lot in common. Piper even admitted as much herself.
She'd Be Great At Resolving Feuds
Swift used to get a bad rep for holding grudges too long, but recent events, such as when she made up with Kanye West and started dating once-frenemy Calvin Harris, have proven that she's gotten much more mature in that regard. She'd be great at helping resolve even the biggest Litchfield feuds, whether it was Sophia versus Gloria, or even Piper versus Alex.
She'd Get Cooking Lessons From Red
Viewers of OITNB Season 3 saw Red start to provide cooking lessons and fancy dinners for her friends. Swift, an avid baker, would be all over that, and you know she'd be more than happy to find veggies in the garden or steal silverware from the shelves in order to make things go as smoothly as possible.
She'd Take Soso Under Her Wing
Soso was having a hard time this past season, thanks to a lack of friends and some serious depression. She felt like she had no one to talk to, but if Swift was in Litchfield, she'd have certainly had a confidante in the singer. Even if it was crossing friend group boundaries, Taylor wouldn't be able to resist helping someone in need and providing viewers with some serious #squadgoals.
She'd Be Very Excited For Judy King To Arrive
No one would be more excited for the lifestyle guru to arrive at Litchfield than Swift, who's made her worship for people like Ina Garten very well known.
She'd Be The Group Mom
In Season 3, Taystee was stunned to realize that she was the "mother" of her friends, the one others looked to as responsible and nurturing. Swift, of course, has already earned that title, having been the key to the bonds formed between dozens of Hollywood's most famous women. She'd totally be a prison mom.
She'd Be So Into Those Acting Classes
With no way to get a guitar or a microphone, Swift would have no choice but to vent her emotions through acting — the real kind, not Crazy Eyes' weird, X-rated kind.
She'd Be The Head Of Every Plan
I'm not saying Taylor Swift is a criminal mastermind or anything, but it's pretty obvious that she gets stuff done. She's been responsible for all her own success, and her combination of ambition, determination, and intelligence would mean big things at Litchfield. Maybe she'd start a money-making scheme like Piper (hopefully a less disgusting one), or maybe she'd find a way to get real food into the kitchens; whatever the end result, it's clear that Swift would have no patience for laziness.
I know Swift's been focusing way more on her music than her acting as of late, but if she ever decides to give it another go, here's hoping that Orange Is the New Black is her first stop.
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Using cookie cutters to fry eggs into fun shapes is perfect fodder for Instagram, but also an easy way to make a quick, tasty meal. See examples of the shapes I've tried and a general description of the process below.
Place cookie cutter in the center of a frying pan. Spray pan and cookie cutter with baking spray.
Crack an egg into the cookie cutter. Ideally the egg white will spread out and fill all the space at the bottom of the cookie cutter.
Place over medium heat on the stove. The egg will begin to cook like a regular fried egg, but you won't be able to flip it to cook the top without ruining the shape. So I typically cover the pan with a lid to allow it cook more thoroughly, but I don't cover it for too long because the egg white over the yolk will cook through. This is because I like the yolk to show in my pictures, but if you want to let the top cook more, go for it.
Once egg is cooked as desired, let cool for a minute in the pan, and then use a knife to carefully separate the edges of the egg shape from the cookie cutter. This is why the baking spray was important earlier – without it, the egg sticks to the cookie cutter and your shape will be ruined as you try to scrape it out (a lesson unfortunately learned from experience).
Use a spatula to place your shaped egg onto a piece of toast. Repeat with a second cookie cutter, or the same one, and your second egg.
Take pictures, tag me, and enjoy!


It has been a while since we went for fondue at Kashkaval, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen that takes its name from a sheep's milk Bulgarian cheese. I admit that I thought it was closed as, end of 2013, they announced that their landlord would not renew their lease and that they were launching a petition. I guess it worked out as this place is still there, although very different: it used to be a marketplace selling awesome cheeses, with a tiny dining room in the back. Now, this is a restaurant only and it is fairly big.
I think I probably would have never gone to Tehuitzingo if it was not a suggestion from one of my blog readers who always had great comments or suggestions to my posts. Yes, from the outside, you just see the name, Tehuitzingo Deli and Grocery and would never guess that this place serves great food at reasonable prices, using fresh ingredients. I mean, I had to verify again on my phone the name of address and, when confirmed, entered in that small place.
Opened beginning of 2014 at the corner of 57th Street and 6th Avenue, The Wayfarer defines itself as a purveyor of classic American cuisine. I like the atmosphere of the place that is cozy and modern, with great music in the background and a nice vibe. I should mention that the service was really good: efficient and courteous.
We heard about Blaue Gans, an Austrian restaurant located in TriBeCa, thanks to our friend Tessa and decided to have dinner there one night, as we were in that area. the place was packed for sure and it had a nice atmosphere, a bit artsy, the posters of various exhibits surely playing a role there.
When Jodi has something planned for lunch or dinner, and I end up going by myself or with a friend, I always try to find places where the food would be limited for her, like chicken or lobster places. These places can be of various level, from restaurants to take out. This time, I was at Chirping Chicken, a fast casual restaurant with, as of today, four locations in the City. I went to the one in Hell's Kitchen that was not that crowded but seemed to be a spot for police officers.


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(Sandy) Alex G Plans 2019 Tour Dates: Ticket Presale & On-Sale Info
Indie folk-rocker touring heavily into 2020
by Francesco Marano
Alexander Giannascoli, who goes by the stage name (Sandy) Alex G, has shared 2019 tour dates.
The North American leg is scheduled to begin in October with opening acts Tomberlin, Arthur, Slow Pulp, Indigo De Souza, and / or Corey Flood on select dates. (Check local listings below.) In February of 2020, he will bring his talents to Europe for a 19-date run across nine countries.
Alex is set to release his new album, House of Sugar, on September 13. So far, he has shared music videos for two of the record's singles, "Gretel" and "Hope." The Philadelphia-based musician's most recent studio album, Rocket, was a critic's darling in 2017.
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Aisha Sharma October 10, 2018 Nobel Prize,
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as weapon of war and armed conflict.
Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes.
Also Read:- Nobel Prize 2018 In Chemistry Awarded to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith, Sir Gregory P. Winter
Each of them in their own way has helped to give greater visibility to war-time sexual violence, so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions.
Dr Mukwege, a 63 year-old gynaecologist has been associated with treatment of various sexual assault victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Also Read:- Nobel Prize 2018 In Physics Awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland
Nadia Murad is herself a victim of war crimes. She is a member of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq.
Nadia Murad became the first UN goodwill ambassador for survivors of human trafficking.
Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 Winner:- Denis Mukwege
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Prize motivation: "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
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The Kilgore News Herald has been acquired by M. Roberts Media
The Kilgore News Herald has been acquired by M. Roberts Media, owner of the Longview News-Journal, Tyler Morning Telegraph, The Marshall News Messenger and other newspapers.
The acquisition was announced to employees today. Terms of the deal between M. Roberts Media and News Herald owner Bluebonnet Publishing Co. LLC were not disclosed.
Gary Borders, senior associate with Grimes, McGovern & Associates, represented the seller in the transaction.
"The News Herald, with its long history of support of Kilgore and Gregg and Rusk counties, is a great fit with our family-owned company," said Stephen N. McHaney, president of M. Roberts Media. "The News Herald's strong staff and outstanding local news coverage will provide new opportunities for us to better serve all our East Texas readers, customers and business partners."
In East Texas, M. Roberts Media also owns the biweekly The Panola Watchman in Carthage. In South Texas, it owns the daily Victoria Advocate.
Bill Woodall, managing partner of Bluebonnet Publishing Co., said readers, advertisers and employees of the News Herald would be well served by M. Roberts Media.
"We're extraordinarily proud of the newspaper produced by our staff and proud of the newspaper's contribution to the cities and school districts we cover," Woodall said. "But this is a changing industry and the News Herald needs an owner with the energy and the resources to move it into a new era of local news – an era in which print and digital platforms will merge transparently; M. Roberts Media has both the energy and the resources."
The Kilgore News Herald has roots stretching back to the early days of the East Texas oil boom and has changed hands several times. It represents the 1940 consolidation of the Kilgore Daily News, established in 1931, and the Kilgore Herald, founded in 1935. Then a daily publication, the News Herald was owned by longtime publisher Charles K. Devall, who sold it in 1979 to Donrey Media Group of Arkansas. The newspaper was acquired in 1998 by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. of Alabama and was later acquired by Bluebonnet Publishing.
The acquisition will be seamless for readers, advertisers and the News Herald's other business partners as the combined companies collaborate to ensure all aspects of service are enhanced, said M. Roberts CEO Dick Franks.
Jerry Pye will assume duties as publisher of the Kilgore News Herald. He also oversees The Marshall News Messenger and The Panola Watchman.
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Principal's Desk – 7 November 2019
Our year together is flying by. For some, this may mean that Christmas is but seven weeks away, while others may be amazed to realise that we are in week five of this final term, past the midway mark. The many significant events – farewells to Year 12s, welcomes to Year 7s of 2020, appointment of next year's student leaders, VCE exams, celebrations of sporting achievements, wishing our Victorian Young Leaders to China group safe travel, preparations for the final Year 9 Adventure Camp in the Grampians… tell it all; much is happening at this time for this school community!
I congratulate and thank students who have led the way across these various activities, especially those passing on their wisdom (and tips) to the next school generation. This process of 'handing over the baton' is one well-established tradition, a practice surely sustainable over time.
However, when further considering sustainability in education terms, I was drawn to a recent discussion by Neil Selwyn, a distinguished research professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, who works in an Education Futures initiative. His current article, "Retooling schools for an era of climate change" argues strongly for schools to model sustainability practices as well as ensure that curriculum content prepares students for their future, taking into proper account environmental factors. Most significantly he states that
"Schools also need to educate young Australians how to engage democratically with environmental issues and debates, not least the capacity to participate in collective environment decision-making at local, national and global levels." (SMH, 3 November 2019)
While views abound around protest movements, of left versus right wing views, whether overseas or here in Australia, there is an increasing awareness that the future of democracy demands participation, information sharing and negotiation skills from all citizens… and that schools are in the best position for these to be taught, learnt and embedded.
Fr Chris Ford in his homily for the Year 12s Farewell Mass recognised the gift that we celebrate each day in our schools, young people as learners who are truly the salt of the earth. Young people are priceless for a good future for us all; "the balm of holiness generated by the good lives of so many young people can heal the wounds of the Church and the world. (Pope Francis, Christus Vivit #50). Like salt, they can bring out the best in all of us, preserving truth, adding flavour to life and providing hope in troubled times. Similarly, St Benedict reminds communities to be sure to listen to the voices of the young.
Our Middle Years Program recognises the importance of creating knowledge and building skills of young people for lifelong learning and life itself. Jennifer Cain, Head of Mater Christi Learning Commons expands further in her article, Creating Knowledge Building Skills, recently published in the Canadian School Libraries Journal. She identifies how the Learning Commons (formerly known as the library) at Mater Christi is committed to providing
"challenging learning opportunities, accessible to all students, (to) create and share knowledge, and build skills in a participatory learning environment.
While it is always heartening to celebrate students' efforts in fund and awareness raising activities, it remains the strongest responsibility of teachers and parents to provide clear frameworks and values which support the common good of all. We all know that in many instances, actions speak louder than words. However I would contend that words used effectively, providing an ethical context for human interactions, are of vital importance to ensure an authentic and effective democracy. When Jesus tells us in the parable of the good Samaritan, to 'go and do likewise', he is entreating us to look after others, with as much care and attention as we look after ourselves and our own interests.
So, as we grapple with changing times, social grievances and complex global issues, let's be grateful for our strong-minded, idealistic and enthusiastic students and pray:
May they continue to embrace future possibilities with faith and hope, inspired by our College motto to be Informed, Compassionate, Creative people.
May we, teachers and parents forge new paths in partnership with them, towards a more peaceful, loving, just and sustainable world.
May the God of love and goodness inspire all our hearts and minds to be agents of mercy and human kindness to all, above all.
This is certainly a prayer for all at Mater Christi College at this time and most especially for those leaving this year as they embark on unknown adult futures.
Mary Fitz-Gerald, Principal


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Docker Engine is now freely available to newly launched Windows Server 2016 customers
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A lot of things have been announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2016 event including the announcements of Windows Server 2016 that is now available to consumers.
Windows Server 2016 is a new cloud-ready Windows OS from Microsoft which brings some great new features from Windows Server and new features like Hyper-V containers and new security features. You can use Windows Server 2016 to run your apps and websites on the cloud efficiently.
Microsoft also announced that they are partnering up with Docker and Docker will be freely available to people who are using Windows Server 2016. Docker is commercially supported, and it is used for packaging apps inside a container that they can function in.
You can use Docker to develop apps, to ship and run the apps and this is all made possible and easier by Docker.
Usually, Docker starts at a monthly price of $150 and can go up to a higher price depending on which package you go for. Now that Microsoft has partnered with Docker, the users of Windows Server 2016 will be able to use Docker without any charges and that to commercially.
Docker is a great and simple to use utility for devs and system admins that can be used to package an app into its very own functional container. This container will allow this app to run and function efficiently.
Docker, when coupled with newly announced Windows Server 2016 will definitely bring some great things to the consumers of Windows Server 2016. Docker is a server-side platform, and Windows Server 2016 is an OS by Microsoft built specially to support and run on servers.


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package axo.features.osm;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import axo.core.LongPair;
import axo.core.Producer;
import axo.core.data.ByteString;
import axo.features.osm.model.FileBlock;
import axo.features.osm.model.Osm.PrimitiveBlock;
import axo.features.osm.model.OsmPrimitive;
import axo.test.AxoTest;
import axo.test.AxoTest.SynchronousConsumer;

public class OsmOperatorTest  {

	static AxoTest axo;

	@BeforeClass
	public void createAxo () {
		axo = new AxoTest ();
	}

	@AfterClass
	public void destroyAxo () throws Throwable {
		axo.close ();
	}

	@Test
	public void testReadPbfBytes () throws Throwable {
		final Producer<ByteString> bytes = axo
				.resource ("axo/features/osm/map.pbf", 1024);

		AxoTest.consume (bytes, (consumer) -> {
			consumeAll (consumer);
		});
	}

	@Test
	public void testReadFileBlocks () throws Throwable {
		final Producer<FileBlock> fileBlocks = axo
				.resource ("axo/features/osm/map.pbf", 1024)
				.<FileBlock>lift ((context, subscriber) -> new OsmFileBlockOperator (context, subscriber));

		AxoTest.consume (fileBlocks, (consumer) -> {
			consumeAll (consumer);
		});
	}

	@Test
	public void testConsumeOsm () throws Throwable {
		final Producer<LongPair<OsmPrimitive>> primitives = axo
			.resource ("axo/features/osm/map.pbf", 1024)
			.<FileBlock>lift ((context, subscriber) -> new OsmFileBlockOperator (context, subscriber))
			.<PrimitiveBlock>lift ((context, subscriber) -> new OsmDataOperator (context, subscriber))
			.lift ((context, subscriber) -> new OsmPrimitiveOperator (context, subscriber));

		AxoTest.consume (primitives, this::assertPrimitiveStream);
	}

	private <T> List<T> consumeAll (final SynchronousConsumer<T> consumer) {
		final List<T> items = new ArrayList<> ();
		T value;
		while ((value = consumer.takeOne ()) != null) {
			items.add (value);
		}
		return items;
	}
	private void assertPrimitiveStream (final SynchronousConsumer<LongPair<OsmPrimitive>> consumer) {
		LongPair<OsmPrimitive> primitive;
		while ((primitive = consumer.takeOne ()) != null) {
			System.out.println (primitive);
		}
	}
}


For elderflower vinegar, place ½ cup vinegar in a saucepan and bring to the boil over medium heat. Add elderflower tea and stir to combine, then remove from heat and leave for 10 minutes for elderflowers to steep. Add elderflower mixture to remaining vinegar in a bowl and stir to combine. Elderflower vinegar will keep for up to 3 months.
Using kitchen scissors, snip baby herbs into a large bowl. Add elderflowers and gently stir to combine.
Place 2 tsp elderflower vinegar, mustard, honey and olive oil in a bowl, season to taste and whisk to combine.
Add vinaigrette to salad, toss gently to combine, then serve immediately.


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Sanje Hill is an Iron Ore Project (Kafue) in Zambia owned by Universal Mining and Chemical Industry. General: The mine is intended to supply the steel mill at Kafue with iron ore.
A frica's second largest copper producer Zambia is endowed with a variety of minerals ranging from Cobalt and Iron. One extractive industry that has been ignore much over the years is iron ore mining.
Iron Ore And Steel Mining Process In Zambia. Iron ore, coking coal prices are soaring | MINING. Steelmaking raw materials made strong gains on Monday as Chinese mills, responsible for half the world's steel output, restock ahead of the resumption of full production at the end of winter.
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Stop in the name of ... Honda?
Don Omen doing his best Robert Blake/Electra Glide in Blue imitation on his 1967 Honda CP450 cop bike.
Mechanical siren runs off a friction-drive from the rear wheel.
Extra lever engages the siren's drive — pull harder for a louder wail!
In the mid-1960s, most U.S. police motorcycles were big 74 cubic-inch Harley-Davidsons. But that didn't stop Honda, always looking for new markets, from making a play for a piece of that police pursuit motorcycle pie with the Honda CB450 Police Special.
In 1967, the double overhead cam Honda CB450, which had been introduced in 1965, was still Honda's flagship model, and would remain so until the Honda CB750 burst on the scene in 1969. Given Honda's aggressive pursuit of the American bike market, it's no real surprise to think that Honda, if it were to compete for a share of the police pursuit motorcycle market that year, would choose the 450 as its pitch; but what does come as a surprise is the fact that Honda built a police bike at all in 1967.
Indeed, Honda collector and expert Don Omen confirms that his beautiful 1967 Honda CB450 Police Special, which is designated the CP450, is not even one of the first generation CB450 cop bikes; he says about 25 of them were sent to North America in 1966. That said, Don's CP450 is still a pretty rare find these days — and he has two of them.
The example featured here is one Don has owned for nearly 14 years. "I bought it from a fellow in Rice Lake, Wisc. He was getting parts from me to restore it. He was hosting a 30th birthday party for a biker buddy of his and invited me. I was near his house and called for better directions, and he came on the CP to get me. First time I saw it, he was coming down a hill with red lights flashing and siren blaring. What can I say? The CP went home with me," Don recalls.
Don doubts this example ever saw active duty, at least as a regular road patrol bike. "With less than 6,200 miles on the odometer, it doesn't seem likely it was on regular duty," he says, although it is possible, as many cop bikes end up running short patrols or doing parade duty. The bike's low mileage seems entirely believable, based on the relatively pristine condition of most everything on it, including the cable-driven mechanical siren.
And that siren is loud — very loud, in fact — able to drown out the rather substantial note of my Triumph Bonneville at highway speed, as Don demonstrated as we rode along the Lower Wisconsin Riverway. "I was surprised that the thing still works so well. I thought it might be bound up after so many years and probably very little use, but it hasn't had any problems," Don says as he describes how it works.
Operating the siren is relatively simple. Pulling and holding a second hand lever below the clutch on the left handlebar engages a long, ribbed drive wheel, holding it against the right side of the rear tire. The drive wheel is mounted on a bell crank that pivots when the lever is pulled in, thus holding the drive wheel against the tire. A massive cable, rather like a super-sized tachometer cable, is driven off the ribbed wheel to the back of the siren, where it spins the siren mechanism. If you want the siren to really wail, pull the lever in more firmly and the pitch increases, while letting off the pressure lowers the pitch. Despite drawing its power off the driveline, there is no apparent drop-off in speed when it is engaged.
Unlike the civilian CB450 instrument cluster, which featured a half-moon tachometer and circular speedometer in an oval nacelle, the CP450 came with only a large circular speedometer. But the simple speedometer has a couple of interesting twists.
First, the needle can be "frozen" at any given speed using a button at the left side handlebar grip. This was the method of recording a speeder's violation in pre-radar days, presumably based on the chase bike matching the violator's speed for a time and then locking the needle as the proof.
The speedometer face also has operating speed ranges for each gear, shown as red lines around the inside of the speed marks. Apparently, the guys in the speedometer department knew something the guys in the transmission department didn't, because there are five speed ranges on the speedometer, but only four ratios in the gearbox!
Finally, at the base of the speedometer face there is a notation that "60mph = 2,240rpm." One must wonder if that means in the bike's actual fourth gear, or the mythical fifth gear!
That four-speed transmission is one of the bike's weaknesses, Don says. "The bike really could have used a five-speed. It's got enough torque for a higher top ratio and wouldn't have to rev as high at higher speeds," Don says. Honda heard that from CB — and probably CP owners, too — and eventually responded, adding a fifth gear in 1968.
The left handlebar control also includes the button that activates the large red flasher lights mounted atop the crash bars, one on each side. An indicator light is built in at the top of the housing of each flasher, presumably to make sure an officer wouldn't find themselves riding off after a traffic stop with the lights still flashing.
The mufflers are original, apparently the same specification as the CB450. The exhaust note is subdued until the engine is accelerating hard, when it takes on a robust, yet not particularly obtrusive, high revolution wail. The intake side of the engine is likewise stock appearing, with fueling handled by a pair of 32mm Keihin constant-velocity carburetors.
Starting is handled by either kick starter or electric starter, though Don generally prefers the feel of his boot on the kick starter. In typical Honda fashion, starting is nearly instantaneous, and despite the extra electrical equipment on the Special, Don says he hasn't had any trouble with the electrics.
When I noticed the bike doesn't have turn signals, Don explained: "This model is wired for turn signals, even though it didn't come with them. They came equipped with turn signals in the 1968 model year." Somehow, it seems odd a police bike wouldn't have turn signals, but evidently Honda — or the police department that ordered this bike — decided they weren't necessary at the time.
Brakes are standard CB450, with a mechanical eight-inch twin-leading-shoe drum on the front and a seven-inch single-leading-shoe drum on the rear wheel. The combo is more than adequate in normal use, but in repeated high speed, hard braking, the brakes, though pretty much state-of-the-art for their time, would probably be prone to some fade.
The "60 MPH @ XXXX RPM" refers to the speedometer cable RPM, used as a reference to calibrate the speedometer. It in no way refers to engine RPM at that speed. As motorcycle speedometers of the era typically were driven either by direct connection to the front wheel or to the transmission output or final drive, engine RPM would be irrelevant to the reading.


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Tillsammans (Together) (2000)
Posted on December 11, 2009 by joem18b
Tillsammans is a well-made sorta-comic sorta-serious feelgood ensemble drama about a communish collective located in a Swedish suburb in 1975. The collective, Tillsammans (Together), includes your couple experimenting with an open relationship in a building with thin walls, your newly-minted lesbian, your gay man, some unhappy kids, a woman taking refuge from her abusive husband, neighbors of antithetical mood looking on, politics, a woman airing out her apparatus due to a fungal infection, a man airing out his apparatus because the woman is airing out hers, so forth. Ironically, these folks become less and less together at first, but then the plot does a volte-face, with togetherness increasing amongst the group now on a deeper level than before, new connections made that everyone in the movie, kid and adult, has been missing, wants, and needs. I cannot vouch for the verisimilitude of the representation of this collective; writer/director Lukas Moodysson was only six in 1975, but perhaps he was present at the scene at that age, now revisiting his memories through his script. Perhaps that's the reason for the movie. Perhaps Moodysson interviewed his parents for insights into the 70s.
I've seen Tillsammans three or four times over the past nine years and it holds up. The characterization is paper thin: all that you need to know about each member of the ensemble is sketched in moments as the soapish plot advances. But given that the dreaded staring-off-into-space motif is so often used these days to signify unknowable depths in a protagonist, who needs characterization?
Several quick points about the movie:
– It was made in Trollhättan. Which I thought was located on Discworld or in Middle Earth.
– Trollhättan here is standing in for a Stockholm suburb. It also stood in for rural Washington State in "Dancer in the Dark." Moodysson isn't doing dogme here, but the grainy photography, close-ups, and handheld photography remind of Von Trier and Scandinavian guerilla filmmaking, at least until the humor in the film emerges, a minute or two in.
– The writer/director's first film was titled "F**king Amal."
– A line about Baader Meinhof was left out of the subtitles. Conspiracy???
– It's possible that throughout the 50s and 60s, and maybe the early 70s as well, the only Swedish movies I saw were Bergman's. I skipped "I Am Curious Yellow," reports of boredom outweighing my prurient interest. So now, years later, the sound of onscreen Swedish dialog still triggers Pavlovian expectations in me of conversations that plumb the depths of the human puddle of the soul. So maybe I invested the collective members of Tillsammans with more gravitas than they actually had earned during my viewing. I remember going out on a dinner date once with a young woman who had a strong Swedish accent, and it was the weirdest thing. As I sat across from her, I kept dropping into monologs about winter, Olaf Palme's murder, Fårö, the bare trees with their bare branches, my chilblains, the cold drafts in the empty chapel where I prayed in the face of the stubborn divine silence, after cracking the ice on the water bowl in my bedroom, only to abrade my thighs with a frozen washcloth. And this was at a luau on Kauai, mind.
– I don't recall shopping bags having paper handles yet in the 70s, as depicted in the movie. Also, the VW bus looks like it would look now, not then.
– I've heard it said that Eva, the fourteen-year-old in the movie, is the most adult of all the characters – an opinion that evidently originated with someone who has never lived with a fourteen-year-old girl, and mistakes angst for insight.
– It is not good to hear your partner experiencing her first orgasm when you aren't in the room with her but she isn't alone.
Anyway, a collective is a group the members of which share a common goal. In the case of the Tillsammans collective, the goal is political, or was in some year or other before the action begins. Hence the opening scene of joy at the news of Franco's death. Hence one of the collective's children being named "Tet," after the offensive. Meanwhile, a commune is a group the members of which share a common purpose and join together to be with others who share similar tastes, thoughts, and desires. Tillsammans, though the point is never made explicitly in the film, seems to be transmogrifying from collective to commune as the movie progresses… or no. Now I'm thinking that Moodysson simply chose the collective setting as a convenient way to stage an ensemble drama, or a soap opera. The commune truths that I personally experienced are barely nodded to in the movie. (Moodysson has gone on to write/direct five more movies, none of which I've seen.)… Or no. Now that I come to think of it, many of the interactions in the movie actually do hinge on the facts of collective life. E.g., reassigning the relaxation/meditation room for use by a non-collective outsider; dealing with the group member who won't do the dishes; solidarity in the face of opposing opinions… But hey! Wait a second. I just realized that this movie, made in 2000, presents the 1975 collective as if the whole concept of collective action, born in the 1960s (actually it's been around since humans were fighting off the tyrannosauruses), has past, so that these guys are, well hell, saps for soldiering on, though Moodysson obviously cares for them (music by Abba) and probably didn't mean for them to seem like saps. No, they aren't saps; it's hard to make a Swede look like a sap; a dolt, maybe, but not a sap.
What's the difference between a soap opera and a legitimate dramatic creation based on solid characterization, anyway? The characters in Tillsammans grow and change in the course of the film; most evince conflicting characteristics within themselves, so forget what I said above about their paper-thinness. Most of the characters embody opposing ideas within themselves, automatically making them seem more real. And they deal with emotional issues emotionally, but with enough restraint to avoid bathos. There are plenty of characters, though, so a cinematic lick and a promise must often suffice in defining them via the action.
I was 16 when the 60s began and 26 when they ended. At the time, the creation and growth of communes in the U.S. seemed like a natural development in the cultural evolution of human society – a cultural maturation of 50s on-the-road into 60s pulling-off-onto-the-shoulder-and-then-taking-a-hard-left-out-into-the-Upper-Sonoran-wilderness consciousness.
I began my part in this by sharing peyote at a hot springs with a lot of other naked sojourners, thence moving on to communal life. I take the subsequent history of the togetherness movement, from the 70s to the present, as a metaphor for my life. My time in the commune began with my participation in a triangle-type relationship, but it turned out that the legs of the triangle were of unequal length. Also, it seemed that we kept slipping into two-against-one mode, and for this reason I reached out within the community to transform the triangle into a square – well, a trapezoid really, because once again I didn't properly address the leg-length issue before acting. This caused the two-against-one dynamic to transmogrify into a three-against-one situation. Then, the fifth leg that we (I) added created, switching metaphors, a healthy hearty four-legged beast with an unhealthy unhappy wagging tail. Neurasthenically wagging, a downhearted drooping wag-twitching tail. Long story short, for every individual in the commune, multiple relationships are possible, but for one or two of the individuals it can be difficult finding a grouping that doesn't leave you shucking the damn corn and shelling the damn peas while your groupmates are noisily making the sign of the multi-sided yam out back in the yurt.
So how could communes and ashrams seem so natural, so normal, so necessary to one generation only to then practically evaporate, leaving hardly a trace in the decades that followed. What, it was only a fad? The ideas wore out? Who's to blame? Reagan? The rise of the NFL? The defeat of Communism? How have the young gone about dropping out and rebelling since then? As per mumblecore? Or by scoring high on their SATs and leaving for college, only to return home after graduation to clear the stuffed animals off the bed and move back in until those darned lagging unemployment indicators turn around again? The communes were wiped out by the materialism of the 80s? They were simply impractical? These experiments in cooperative living – all failures? Reagan did turn off the community-action spigot in the first year of his reign; that didn't help, but it didn't surprise anybody, either. And how come we've got to live through yet another set of stupid wars without even getting a summer of love to go with them? It's an outrage.
I googled for area communes and discovered one listed right across town, out beyond the tank farm. I went over for a visit after reading the commune specs online: one man, one woman, one boy, one girl. If I join, we will share labor, take our meals together, start a garden after breaking up the concrete covering the backyard, and share spiritual searchings and mingle our chakras after the kids fall asleep at night. The man asked me if I had a sledge hammer and wheelbarrow. I said yes. The woman asked me about my seeds.
So if you grow up in a decade, does that make it, and the decades just before it, seem special? Do the 50s and 60s just seem special to me because that's when I was young? Do the 80s and 90s seem unique and distinct to you now, dear reader, if that's when you were young? While to me, the years from 1980 to 2009 are mostly an undifferentiated blur? The young, as the communes died out, abandoned free love, extended group families, and radical democracy in favor of what, the blur? Not in favor of the weblike internets, which took a while to arrive; though I did send my first email in 1981. Whole Foods? Drowning polar bears? Facebook as the new commune? Or, wait, did society just subsume everything that used to make a commune seem unique? By Jupiter, am I sitting here in the middle of it? The Big Commune?
How can there be no hippies but the proverbial "aging" hippies? What currently replaces the hippie urge? I googled "internet commune" with high hopes, dashed. The "Internet Collective" is, ugh, incorporated. Drug use? No, that's so high school. Clothing easiness? Hey, I'm at work as I finally write this and you should see me. Those glimpses of commune life in "Into the Wild," are they just Sean Penn's surmise? Times are supposed to be hard; doesn't that mean that there are plenty of post-college youth out there with nothing to do, not to mention boomers flashing back to their youthful roots, and disaffected x- and y-gen unemployed? Are intentional communities and unschooling programs and suchlike anything more than just notions?
And my God, I just realized something else. The greatest literary influence of my youth was "On The Road." I hitchhiked to school every day. I hitchhiked back and forth across the U.S. and Canada multiple times. I hitchhiked up and down Mexico. "Two-Lane Blacktop" resides in my Top 5. But where have all the hitchhikers gone? Not to communes, that's for sure. The only hitchhikers left are the serial killers, and they're just doing it until somebody makes a movie about them after they've been executed. The nation has lost its way.
Why no hitching? Hitchhiking can be an important rite of passage. How many hitchhikers in "Into the Wild"? One. Emil Hirsch. What's getting in the way? Improvements in mass transit? I don't think so. Affordable gasoline? Nope. Rattletraps you can buy for peanuts? They hardly exist anymore outside of Cuba, not like the "iron" you could used to buy. Bicycles? Nope – those helmeted, costumed figures peddling along in the bike lanes are not lapsed thumbers. Freeways? And who is more afraid of whom now, between driver and hitcher? These days, as the hitchhiker climbs into the car or truck that has pulled over and sits idling, with its ominously tinted windows, will that passenger climb out later still in one piece?
An hour later: OK, I called my friend Jane. I've known Jane for ten years and was sort of aware all that time that her living arrangements were somehow out of the ordinary, but I never asked her for details. Turns out that she lives in a house with a name like Glow Lobster Aura or something, owning 1/8 of it and dedicated to a type of community living that involves sharing a variety of things that I for one tend to keep to myself. As I asked her about the current state of collectives, group homes, and communes in the area, she took me on a verbal tour of co-housing and alternative lifestyles locally that amazed me. Turns out that I know more folks involved in non-traditional lifestyles than I would ever have guessed. Dreams endure, though transmuted by time into modern forms. Dreams, but also the reality that living together is not easy, like married life is not easy.
When Moodysson made "F**king Amal," Ingmar Bergman announced that a new master had been born. Tillsammans strengthened Moodysson's reputation. Since then, he's written a TV movie and written and directed five more films. After two additional arthouse flicks, he brought forth a couple of real head-scratchers ("A Hole in My Heart" and "Container"), and most recently, his first English-language effort, the globe-trotting "Mammoth." Tillsammans won various awards, including the Audience Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Moodysson is always interesting, but I'd say that at 40, we all hope that his future still ahead of him.
The movie's lesson: let's all move to Sweden, where everyone, no matter how nutty he or she may sometimes seem (refer to my next review for an analysis of Elin Nordegren), is in fact way saner than Americans are, or at least way saner than my gun-toting, tea-bagging, Palin-lovin American neighbors next door. (But I'm only raggin on the G.O.P. because I'm frustrated trying to find a good big solid incorporated Republican commune with a good big solid commune president who would keep us focused not on the weak sisters in our group but on America, love it or leave it, goddamnit, and on the uranium-mining business that our commune would operate, and on the commune's goddamned bottom line.)
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For most of my life I've been a chronic over-achiever.
I was valedictorian in high school. As well as a state-ranked badminton player and flutist.
I graduated college with major honors (and was 2 classes away from completing TWO more majors) all while dealing with my father's heart attack, stroke, and eventual cancer.
I started a successful career in finance and passed my broker license at 22.
But as soon as I paid my student loans off (by age 24! Still very proud of that!), I knew I had to make some changes to my life. I'd achieved a lot, despite my family tragedies, and yet everything felt so one-dimensional.
I wasn't fanning the "tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement", as Golda Meir would say.
I was achieving but only what I thought I should achieve. Graduate high school? Check. Graduate college on time? Check. Get a job with health insurance? Check. Adopt a crazy dog? Check. Meet and marry a man who I'm head-over-heels for? Check and CHECK!
But much of my creative spirit felt empty. My father and I had successfully ran a photography business together for four years before his death and I missed the rush of creative energy I used to get shooting with him. I felt lost and confused about my purpose.
But now I'm a blogger and a photographer. Each and every day I can come to this website and make it whatever I want to. I LOVE the rush of creating content I love or an outfit I'm really excited about. It feels so good to be creating again.
But the worst part about working for yourself, especially as a blogger, is analyzing your achievements. There are no end-of-year reviews (with bonuses… man do I miss annual bonuses!). There's hardly any feedback (unless internet trolling counts as feedback). And there's almost no basis of comparison you can do with other bloggers than won't inevitably lead to feelings of inadequacy or comparison (the main reason I prefer to ignore what others around me are doing most of the time).
Most of my life I've spent achieving what I thought was expected of me — what I thought I should achieve.
But now that I have this blog, I'm realizing that achievements in my life now are unknowns. I no longer have a blueprint for what success as a blogger looks like. Sure I can look at professional, successful bloggers as a guide. But I KNOW that my success won't likely mirror theirs. My success must be my own. And while I sometimes have a hard time dealing with so few established benchmarks of success in my new industry, I'm learning that all I can really do is trust myself and my instincts.
Success comes in many shapes and forms. It comes in happiness, in wealth, in overcoming obstacles, and in strong relationships with good people.
But most of all success comes from within. From your fierce determination to not let life knock you down.
Trust yourself. Trust that your achievements will start slowly, like a spark in a fire. Trust that doing the things that make you happy will lead to success — even if it's not the kind of success you originally envisioned.


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The Oracle Book
Answers to Life's Questions
By Georgia Routsis Savas
KNOWS YOUR FUTURE
This mysterious book is a do-it-yourself divination tool. Ask a yes-or-no question, and find your answer within...
"What should I do?" is a question that just about every living, breathing human being has asked at some point in his or her life. Some folks ask family and friends for advice, others seek guidance from a therapist, still others call upon a psychic or astrologer to illuminate the situation. No matter the method used in this world of I-wanted-it-yesterday, people want their answers delivered quickly.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of divination techniques available that give pretty near instant answers. They range from the familiar, like Crystallomancy (using a crystal ball), to the more obscure, like Capnomancy (the study of smoke rising from a fire). By using The Oracle Book you'll be practicing a form of Bibliomancy -- the answering of a question by means of randomly choosing a word or passage from a book.
Though the Bible was historically the book of choice for Bibliomancy, people have also used ancient Greek epics, poetry or Shakespearean works. Many believe Bibliomancy is the Western world's answer to the I Ching: The Book of Questions, a divination system developed by the Chinese over four thousand years ago. When people consult the I Ching, they throw yarrow stalks or coins and interpret the way in which they fall as the answer to their question.
Nowadays, most people don't have yarrow stalks handy, or much patience to decipher cryptic messages. That's where The Oracle Book comes in. This handy do-it-yourself divination tool takes its name from the oracles of ancient Greece -- these were humans who acted as divine intermediaries, delivering messages from the gods to their earthbound peers. But the term "oracle" can also refer to the message itself, a magical glimpse into the future, and that's how it's used here. The Oracle Book brings together a wealth of predictions drawn from a variety of ancient and modern divination techniques. Within these pages are predictions drawn from astrology, tarot cards, tea leaves, playing cards, dice, the crystal ball, palmistry and psychic wisdom.
In order to get started, first you're going to have to check your logic at the door and rely on your intuition. The truth is that Bibliomancy and other forms of divination aren't really about predicting the future. They are tools that can help guide you to the answer that already lies deep inside yourself. The answer you pick is determined by the exact moment you, and only you, decide to stop flipping through The Oracle Book. Somehow, the page with the "right" answer just beckons you to stop.
There are some lucky people who already possess finely tuned intuitive skills. They're the ones who always seem to be in the right place at the right time. But if you're one of those highly evolved souls with a, hmm, "deeply buried intuition," don't despair. Chances are your inner guide is safe and sound. Have you ever turned on the radio to find that the song you've been humming all day happens to be on? Or run into an old acquaintance that you've been thinking about just minutes before? If so, you've got what it takes to get your intuition (back) in shape. All it needs is regular exercise, which is what you'll get by using this book.
Copyright © 2001 by Georgia Routsis Savas
Georgia Routsis Savas
Georgia Routsis Savas has been star-struck for most of her life. Her broad-ranging career has taken her from composing advertising copy for Ms. Magazine to reporting on the fashion world for CNN's Style With Elsa Klensch. She writes a popular monthly horoscope column for InStyle Magazine, and in the past has written astro forecasts for an array of national magazines, including Child, The New York Daily News Sunday Magazine and Sassy. She is the author of The Oracle Book: Answers to Life's Questions and Seventeen Magazine's Total Astrology: What the Stars Say about Life and Love. She also does private consultations, chart-mapping and cosmic divination. These days, she gazes at the stars from her home on the North Carolina coast.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (June 11, 2011)
Body, Mind & Spirit > Divination > General
Body, Mind & Spirit > Divination > Fortune Telling
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All snakes are strictly carnivores, and since they can't chew, they swallow their food whole. In areas with high native snake populations, snake-proof fences may be erected to keep the slithery pests away from children in play areas, though enclosing entire yards with snake-proof fencing often proves prohibitively expensive. The virus usually attaches itself to the nervous system and works its way along to the brain. Read about what to do if you are bitten by a bat. Not only do the droppings and urine corrode wood/metal, but the weight of them can collapse the ceiling below the attic - I've seen if a few times. They seek out these areas for warm shelter and safe breeding. Mother raccoons will make their nests and birth their young, caring for them all winter long until spring brings more suitable weather. The presence of bats in your attic is a big enough inconvenience, but when you have a bat problem, it's not just their presence that you need to worry about. The important thing to know is that most snakes are non-venomous, and pretty much none of them are aggressive.
What makes this kind of snake even more dangerous is that the venom can quickly spread through diffusion or through the bloodstream. One of the major concerns is that, bats can transmit rabies to humans. Not only do the droppings and urine corrode wood/metal, but the weight of them can collapse the ceiling below the attic - I've seen if a few times. All of these bats often roost in man-made buildings, and love the attics of homes. Of course, close examination of a snake of unknown type can be dangerous. This is what makes them so dangerous. Despite the unpleasant side effects, lethal snake bites are one of the least common causes of death in the United States. When a cottonmouth injects its venom into the victim the venom begins to eat away at the area where the bite occurred.