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Published on June 30th, 2018 | by Chris O'Connor
Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood Blu-ray Review
Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood Blu-ray Review Chris O'Connor
Summary: Madam Lilith runs a bordello on the edge of town that people are dying to get into.
Bloody Sin
The 80's and early 90's were an interesting time in the entertainment industry… many movies were swinging for the fences… going all out and over the top. Realism wasn't so much the focus as a kind of larger than life representation of the story. This was the era that brought us such classics as American Werewolf in London and The Nightmare On Elm Street series.
Needless to say, horror films frequently balanced their gore with laughs… not like today's ultra realistic "torture porn" approach in which every visceral detail is there for the viewer to see and squirm through. Nope, the 80's and 90's gave us horror humour and who better to cast as your lead for that style of movie than Dennis Miller?
But let's back up a moment here… Tales from the Crypt was a TV series based on a comic series of the same name. The television series being based on a "premium cable" television channel was allowed to put more or less what they wanted in the show without concern about censorship and so graphic violence, nudity, profanity and sexual activity were all on the cards. The series did so well that movies followed and Bordello of Blood was the second of those movies.
Bordello of Blood features Angie Everhart as Madam Lilith, Erika Eleniak as Katherine Verdoux and as mentioned Dennis Miller playing private eye Rafe Guttman. Katherine's brother has gone missing so she tried to enlist the help of the local police but they have so many missing people to investigate that her case will be more or less lost in the pile. Rafe overhears her story and offers to look into the disappearance, perhaps against her better judgment Katherine accepts his offer and the search begins.
There's nothing overly special about the story but that's not really what you watch these films for… it's the witty one liners (The Crypt keeper is famous for them… but Miller does his best to throw in a few good ones), the over the top gore and, certainly in this case, the excessive amounts of skin on display. This is schlock exploitation film making and it doesn't hide away from that… the big difference is that at the time these sorts of films were "cool" and so you get plenty of actors appearing who likely would steer clear of the "low budget" schlock. In addition to the previously mentioned stars, we have Corey Feldman as Katherine's brother, Chris Sarandon as Reverend Current, Aubrey Morris as McCutcheon along with some other familiar faces in cameo roles.
Visually this is a respectable transfer… there's nothing special about it, but it's holding up pretty well for it's age. There are the usual semi muted tones in some of the colours which is not uncommon for the time but the clarity is pretty good and certainly better than the VHS copy that some fans may still have sitting around in their collection somewhere. Unfortunately there are no extra features on the disc… it jumps straight into the film and that's it.
I suspect this is mostly due to the fact that electronic press kits and the like didn't really take off until the advent of DVD, the notion of filming behind the scenes material was far more rare. It's a shame though because the animatronics of the Crypt Keeper hold up quite well and though some of the special effects and makeup are a bit obvious these days… seeing how they put them together would have made for some interesting supplemental material.
Final Thoughts?
If you are a fan of the over the top horror with giggles mixed in… this should be right up your alley. Not so much yelps of fright as groans of "eww gross".
Director – Gilbert Adler
Actors – Angie Everhart, Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak
Film Genre – Horror
Label – Shock
Audio – English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Running Time – 87
Region Coding – B (Blu-Ray)
TV Standard – HD
Rating – MA15+
Consumer Advice – Horror theme, nudity, sexual references
Primary Format – Movies/TV – Blu-Ray
Chris O'Connor Father of four, husband of one and all round oddity. Gaming at home since about 1982 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Moving on to the more traditional PC genre in the years that followed with the classic Jump Joe and Alley Cat. CGA, EGA, VGA and beyond PC's have been central to my gaming but I've also enjoyed consoles and hand helds along the way (who remembers the Atari Lynx?). Would have been actor/film maker, jack of many trades master of none.


It has been a little more than two years since we were last time in Asia. And this time we went to explore the Philippines. They were our wish destination for quite a while, mainly for natural beauty, turquoise sea, white beaches and wonderful marine animal world, which really thrilled us.
Our travel to Philippines lasted 24 days, which is not much but is enough to feel the country and its lifestyle. I must admit that sometimes it was hard, especially due to travel around Philippines, because they are big. Also we had some health issues – three out of four family members got ill – but luckily for only a short amount of time which hasn´t affected our travel plan, it just made a few more concerns and a little uneasiness because you never know what else is waiting for you. But that´s how it is with travels – many beautiful things and among them always some that you don´t like to remember. The most beautiful things always happen outside of comfort zone – that is what we already learned and experienced. That´s why we know – even when it is hard – that sun always shines after the rain and in the end it is worth it.
Our health issues didn´t affect our itinerary but typhoon that crossed Philippines at that time, did a little. We hadn´t really feel it or – as Peter wrote to comfort loved ones at home – at night the wind became stronger but not enough to dry our wet towels 🙂 .
But because of somewhat worse weather on north we decided to leave out an island Bantayan on north of Cebu. Do we regret it? I think not – to adjust to situation at the moment is part of traveling experience and part of life learning, as well as paying attention to good stuff. Moreover our trip was so full that we would be insolent and ungrateful if we would dare to claim or expect even more.
After a long time we had a flight directly from Ljubljana airport, which is total luxury for us. But Peter found really good offer on plane tickets with flight connection almost from our courtyard, which we hadn't disapproved.
To Manila, city with few millions inhabitants, we came at the evening and it was a shock. Before our morning flight to paradise island Palawan we had to spend the night in Manila and it was rough, partly because of jet leg and seven-hour time lag.
After we came to Palawan in after adrenalin drive to first paradise place of our trip – to Port Barton – we forgot about all of that and got a good rest. Afterward we enjoyed on north part of Palawan, around cult and really special El Nido.
What to say about Palawan? I will write more about it because it deserves it. This is certainly one of the most beautiful and authentic part of Philippines and if I am going to go to Philippines once more I will spend more time there. From Palawan we flew to Cebu and went on nearby island Bohol, which was nice but was a little disappointment compared to Palawan. People were less friendly (don´t understand that wrong – they were still very friendly) and there is much more tourism. This is in opposite proportion everywhere around the world. I can´t say that it wasn´t beautiful – it was. We just picked wrong sequence 🙂 .
After we moved further from Bohol island we experienced stunning things. We were swimming with whale sharks in Oslobo and Apo Island – pearl of Philippines with wonderful marine life and many turtles that swim by the sea shore. It was magnificent and we will never forget it.
One of the peaks of our Philippine travel was waiting for us for the last part of trip – one of world´s wonders and on Unesco Worl Heritage List of cultural landscapes – mountain rice terraces on north of Luzon, Banaua, Batad, Hapao … I am speechless.
It was insanely hard nine-hour night bus ride from Manila and after a few days back again, and we almost froze on it, but it was worth it. There was so beautiful. I think that no other rice terraces can compete with those. Top traveling experience and wonderful end of our trip to Philippines.
We were thrilled about food in Philippines and we didn´t have any major problems. We were less thrilled about cash machines where we expected to work – in civilized Manila. Well, don´t count on it, we lost some nerves, time and peace on Manila airport due to non working cash machine. Luckily everything ended well.
What more can I say about our first impression of our trip to Philippines?
I know, you can´t have it all at once. That´s why there are different paths – thousands of them that wait for us travelers to see their specifics and their own beauty. If you are thinking about Philippines – don´t think too long. You should pack your backpack and hit the road. You won´t be sorry!


How can the Alexander technique help yoga practioners?
There are lots of somatic techniques out there which have gained some following amongst us yogis. I've come across Feldenkras, Body Mind Centring, Somatics, the Franklin method and the Alexander technique.
Why do yogis, particularly yoga teachers, start getting interested in other disciplines? Surely yoga is a complete method that doesn't need the help of another technique which may just confuse?
Speaking from my own experience, I've found yoga to be incomplete in terms of custom and practice. Yes, in theory, all you need is access to a good translation of Patanjali and off you go. In practice, I'm influenced by everyone around me. Yoga when it came to the West both influenced us in the West and also was influenced by the West. One of the influences that was a mixed blessing was the adoption of an anatomical model of movement.
The anatomical model of movement has quite a few assumptions behind it, one of the most pervasive is the disconnect between body and mind. That we can describe our movements in a purely pragmatic, functional way. No need to examine thoughts and feelings. And if a small stretch is good, then surely a big stretch is even better.
I've done the Alexander technique for most of my adult life, first as a student and now as a teacher trainee. I've applied it to a lot of the activities that I do in daily life and have found it to be transformational.
Alexander teachers have done a lot of experimenting was done over the last 100 odd years into how to pay attention to that very delicate and easily upset connection between head and spine without disrupting ground support, breath or connection to environment and the people in it.
What they discovered is that a small movement in your head relative to your spine produces a global release right the way through your whole body. That release goes beyond that to put you into a different orientation and relationship to the ground and the environment. They discovered that the head / spine relationship is a key relationship in our body that not only helps movement but also is a reliable guide to general human health and happiness.
There are many such key relationship in our body, our hara centre (our centre of gravity) is another one.
Alexander teachers excel in creating what I refer to as "tensegral support." It's the support system that creates the hallmark experience of kinesthetic lightness, the sense of suspension.
And it's this emphasis on the how as well as the where, when and what that can help yoga practioners. If your head is free and coordinated with your spine, the foundation kind of takes care of itself. This can be very freeing for someone who has spent a long time worrying about their foundation and solely working from the ground up.
Then there's the value of just having another perspective. If you are a painter and just do oil paintings, it will sometimes be interesting to talk to painters who are specialists in water colours. Most of us benefit from another somatic perspective, particularly when we doing something engrossing and compelling as yoga.
And lastly, it offers a way of having an informed thoughtful discussion about the 3 dimensional complex interactions between mind and body which makes movement in general an interesting human activity to think about. And yoga has lots of movements which are really interesting to practice, discuss and generally be fascinated by!
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In the last article, I looked some of our assumptions about where our brains are and what cultural assumptions we might be buying into when we start an inquiry into how our brains function.
In this article, I look at two ways of using somatic enquiry that allows us to get our brains working a little easier. I have a lot of practices which are around helping my brain function a little easier, but these are the two that I can really recommend as they are a little more accessible than other practices.
The first is to do with the relationship between our head and our body. We can't see directly what's happening in our brains, we can only guess and infer by what's happening in our bodies and in our relationship with the world. Take a look at this famous sculpture. He's doing something, but it's interesting that Rodin put his sculpture in this pose to indicate thought. What might be happening in his brain? Is he happy? Is he tense?
What about Michelangelo's David? Is his brain happy? These can seem like odd questions, yet how can we start to figure out what is happening in another person's brain until we allow ourselves to ask the question 'is their brain happy?' and look at them.
When I look at Michelangelo's David, I see a certain relationship between his head and the rest of his body. His head looks like it has support from the front of his body as well as the back and sides.His head is tilted slightly forward on the top of his spine. To me, that gives him poise.
With Rodin's thinker, he may be thinking but he looks tense to me. I'm picking up on his head being slightly retracted on top of his spine giving him the impression of someone who is bracing against something. Perhaps the full title of this sculpture gives us the clue 'Thinker at the gates of hell'.
For me, brains need to be supported fully by the body they live in. After all, there hasn't been a thought expressed in the world without a body that goes along with it. That support needs to be from all the different parts of our body, from our contact with the earth and from all the different types of support within our body.
When I look at this video, I'm always struck by how dynamic the relationship between our heads and our bodies are, and just how a small and delicate touch can begin to restore it. It's both simple and complex. Simple because it's one movement of our heads and complex because it profoundly changes the rest of our body and how we are in the world. Our bodies begin to fill from the inside.
It's both a relationship and a subtle internal movement at the same time. Can you find this movement in your own head? It's a movement of your head in space relative to your body, backwards, upwards and over. Can you allow yourself to be delicate and yet clear in this movement? Can you be emotionally available with acceptance and compassion for all the hidden hurts and slights, often going back a long way in time, that lead you to go into survival mode and fix your neck or other part of your body?
The other practice that I do is about my brain's orientation to the world. I've found that brains like to be in contact with the world in a way that make sense to them. Peter Grunwald, a natural vision teacher, gives 3 states our brains can be in relationship to the world. They are underfocus (mind wandering in a stressful way), overfocus (mind clear but unable to relax) and presence (mind with a quality of relaxed alertness). These states are quite similar to the Body Mind Centring (Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen) ideas of collapse / prop and yield in their effects on the body but explicitly include states of mind.
So, how do we get to our brains being present and with us well oriented to the world? Well, there's a very simple investigation that Peter Grunwald does called the line movement. This is about orienting our brains to our environment using the light going into our visual systems. We see with our brains, not our eyes. Our eyes are just there to receive and focus the light waves. It's our brains that interpret and process the light coming in.
The line movement is simply finding a line in the environment and then bringing your awareness to the upper part of your neo cortex (it's where you would have your hair spiral or top knot). Then with the intention of presence – so that you start releasing chronic states of under / over focussing – you look either from the close distance to the middle distance, to the far distance and back again without jumping.
I've done this investigation for the last 5 years and it's been a really interesting practice. What I noticed when I first started doing this was that I really bored by it. I wanted something flashier, more complex. Then I noticed that my eyes and my visual system were in such a chronic state of tension that I could only do the line movement once because it was so uncomfortable. Then I noticed that my eyes just couldn't stop jumping around. I would either be staring really hard at something or barely registered that the object was even there.
What will I learn in yogaground's 6 week yoga class?
So, you've signed up to my 6 week class or you're thinking about it. What are you to learn and how will that happen? If you haven't read about my approach to classes (What poses will I do in the yoga classes) then that could be a good start.
I structure the classes so there's quite a bit of repetition. Creative repetition is at the heart of any practice and yoga is no exception. I want to create an optimal learning environment, so taking an exploratory / investigative approach seems to be the best way to do this. It means there are poses but they are ways to explore how you are in your body rather than a routine that you have to get right.
I use a combination of verbal instructions, examples, guided meditations and guided touch to teach. If one teaching method is not working for you, then we can experiment with others. Some students find verbal instructions confusing and learn by looking at examples and receiving guided touch. Some students have sensitivities around touch and prefer verbal instructions. Generally, it's about trying things out and then letting me know if something doesn't work.
The overall themes of the 6 week class are breathing, standing, lying down and sitting.
We take a look at the breath and how it works. Another theme in this class is learning to relax when you lie down as we do a lot of poses lying down. I want you to come away with a basic understanding of how breathing works in your body. Then we'll explore how we can stop interfering with this natural mechanism. You'll come away with a couple of ideas about breathing a little easier in your day to day life.
We'll looking into your relationship to gravity, the space around you, within you and the environment. Do you hold yourself up or do you tend to collapse? Maybe a bit of both? Another theme to this class is (un)learning how to stand with ease as many of the poses are done standing up. This introduces the idea of yield, how to give yourself to the earth and receive support from the earth.
We'll return again to the breath and to yield as ongoing themes underlying and structuring the movements that we do in the class.
As well as breathing and yield, the other theme of these weeks is getting to know your spine better. It's also about your spine's relationship to your arms and your legs. We'll look into head and tail integration. You'll do some sitting poses to encourage you to sit better. You'll also start doing a simple sun salutation where you move from one pose to another so you'll get a sense of what it's like to yield in a more fluid and dynamic setting.
Which students do well in these classes?
I've found it doesn't matter what size or shape you're in as to whether you do well in the class. What seems to matter most is that you're willing to experiment with ideas and movements which might help you grow as a person. A sense of perspective, a degree of self acceptance, a willingness to communicate with me about what's happening in your body and a bit of humour is also helpful.
Which students don't do well in these classes?
I've had a couple of students come to my class hoping for a really strong and sweaty workout. I'm afraid I'm not set up for that. I will do these classes at some point, but not right now. Some students would like to relax but only if they can do it without letting go. I sympathize, letting go is scary. If you're not willing to let go, even a little bit, then it's unlikely that you will relax. Some students are very attached to a particular teacher or method. I make use of a variety of methods and ideas based on my current understanding.
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What poses will I do in the yogaground classes?
Yoga in the West developed from the work done by the Indian yoga masters. Many of them were faced with a familiar problem to most spiritual teachers, how to reach an audience unfamiliar with meditative practices? The way chosen by most was to focus on virtuosic asanas. The type of poses which go for the wow factor. It proved very effective in generating interest and all of us who practice today owe a debt to these early pioneers.
The implicit promise was: do yoga and you too can do these amazing poses. However, what they forget to mention is that virtuoso poses are the realm of the few. In much the same way, there are very few violinists of Nigel Kennedy's ability, so there are few yoga practitioners who can do the really difficult poses. And the ones who can, have done many years of preparation as well as having the fortune to be born with a body with an extraordinary range of movement.
The practice of focussing on the most difficult poses and calling the ability to do difficult poses an advanced practice has caused a lot of problems for yoga teachers. On the one hand, it has drawn people to the practice. On the other hand, it has generated unrealistic expectations and has lead to many yoga practices being less enjoyable than they otherwise might be. Very few students think about what the pose requires and what preparation needs to be done before attempting it. Most just show up to the class and assume that if the pose is being taught, they can somehow power their way through it.
So, when I teach the poses, I am somewhat cautious.
Firstly, it is possible to strain or injure yourself if the poses are done incorrectly.
Secondly, most people lack the kinaesthic awareness that allows them to build the pose from the inside.
Thirdly, very few people ask themselves what the poses do. If yoga is to help you with your everyday life, then the question must be asked: what is the problem you are having in your life that requires a pose as a solution? If you spend your life working at a desk then what poses will support this and help you sit with ease?
Lastly, a pose done badly will often have worse effects on your life than not doing the pose at all. I know many colleagues and teachers who have irreparably damaged themselves trying to do a difficult pose.
So, I'm interested in creating class which deals with these issues. I want to teach a class that is rooted in everyday life. A practice which has to be got off the mat was never really on the mat to begin with. So that means that whatever is in your life is also brought on to the mat. There is no special 'yoga' attitude. Just a willingness to be present. A class that is rooted in everyday life needs to deal with the fact that most people are under extraordinary stress. So the mat needs to be a place of restoration, not a place where you once again fail and feel terrible about yourself.
I want to create a class which generates safety and trust in your own body. This will help you be present and begin to deal with the stress in your life. Central to this is that you listen to your own body and you are faithful to the intuitions and experiences which arise from this. This means that are you entitled to modify a pose or come out of it early without feeling judged or criticized. It means that you prioritize the subtle nuanced internal awareness of where you are in relationship to the earth and the space around you over achievement of the pose. If you do this, how far you can go will change effortlessly when you are ready.
Most of the yoga students that I have taught who have been unhappy in their practice have prioritized the end result over the process of getting there. If you accept that each release will follow it's own path and that trying to pre judge this path will only block it, you will be more willing to allow your body to intelligently lead you into the pose.
The journey into the pose involves constraints. In understanding the pose, we are often specifying what we don't want, what we are seeking to avoid. It is only then that we can let go of the habits that blind us to what is truly happening in our bodies when we are in the pose.
Even with this approach, there are risks. So, it should be understood that no pose is risk free, but the risks can be consciously undertaken. The risks I want to take are one of integration of mind and body, being more present.
Standing, sitting and lying on the ground. Then there are the transitions between them.
If yoga is to benefit you in every day life, that's all you need. The rest are just fun. Since I like having fun, I throw in lots of other asanas. But I do so because I want to have fun.
I'm not interested in doing asanas because they are good for me (or my students). The world is full of grim faced yogis who are doing the pose because they think it is doing them good. And the less fun they are having, the weirder their philosophy as to why they should suffer. It is not unique to the yoga world, my local park is full of people speed walking with absolutely no enjoyment of the act because their doctor told them that walking is good for them.
So, maybe you get to do headstand. There again, maybe not.
You will probably do forward bends, downward dog, lunges, triangle and the warrior poses. But it depends on where you're at and sometimes it also depends on where I'm at as well.
So finally, you're not going to the class to learn the poses. You're going to the class because you are learning to trust a natural process that allows you to be effortlessly present no matter what pose you are in during your daily life. You'll be put in places in your body which require you to be inventive, creative and above all, adaptable. And then whatever pose you do will be an antidote to whatever ails you.
In the process, we all get to have fun!
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Leonard Cohen is on the Avenue
Oak Bay's Avenue Gallery celebrates spring with its second exclusive showing of artwork by legendary Canadian singer, writer and artist Leonard Cohen. The exhibition and sale will feature a select grouping of the many pieces that make up Leonard Cohen: Art Work collection.
This visual record of 40 years is an exhibit of works from Cohen's archive of drawings and journals. The artist has maintained a visual art practice since his early days in Montreal and Hydra. Until now, his drawings have been private visual records of things, places and people captured in his sure and modest hand. Later, these drawings found their way onto CD covers and most recently into the pages of Book of Longing.
The exhibit runs from March 1 to 9, with an opening reception planned for March 1 from 5 to 7pm.
Fans also have the chance to see Cohen live this spring when he brings his Old Ideas World Tour to the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre March 6. For details, visit www.saveonfoodsmemorialcentre.com
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The playhouse continues in the vein of dark comedies in April with its production of George F. Walker's Better Living, April 25 to May 11. Joining Nora as she jackhammers her way to a safe haven in the basement of her eccentric Toronto home, theatre-goers will wonder "what next?" at every plot turn of this action-packed farce.
Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre adds a little star power to Victoria's spring theatre scene, welcoming Canadian stars Bruce Greenwood and Janet Wright to star in A.R. Gurney's Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama Love Letters.
Greenwood is known for his appearances in Star Trek, Double Jeopardy, The Core, Thirteen Days (in which he played president John F. Kennedy), Capote, and, most recently, alongside Denzel Washington in Flight. He will be joined by Wright, a stage, TV and film star whose resume includes Ontario's Stratford Festival, her successful wonderful portrayal of Emma Leroy on CTV's Corner Gas, Robert Altman's film McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Bordertown Cafe, and A Perfect Storm, starring George Clooney.
Love Letters runs for seven performances only at the McPherson Playhouse from March 26 to 30.
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East Coast folk-pop favourite Great Big Sea returns to Victoria for a March 9 concert at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.
This East Coast powerhouse rocked the arena last time they played the Capital Region and as they return in support of their recent "best of" album, XX, long-time fans and new converts alike are sure to find this musical kitchen party is the place to be.
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The Juno Award-winning band has become one of the most-loved Quebec folk outfits in the world, with songs ranging from traditional folk to original compositions. These four friends light up the stage, sharing their energy and enthusiasm with audiences. Le Vend du Nord know how to deliver music that will move any crowd – to their feet and in their hearts!
Canadian-born Jeremy Hotz, a veteran of Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival who sold out across Canada in 2009 and 2010, returns to Victoria this spring with his all-new Magical Misery Tour.
The critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning comic performs at the McPherson Playhouse March 20.
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Historia
Bondemedborgarrörelsen grundades oktober 2019 av journalisten Caroline van der Plas, som svar på stora nationella demonstrationer bland bönder tidigare samma månad. Den 17 oktober 2020 valdes van der Plas till partiets lijsttrekker (förstanamn)  inför det kommande parlamentsvalet 2021.

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Under valrörelsen för parlamentsvalet 2021 så fokuserade partiet mycket frågor som ansågs viktiga för väljare på landsbygden, bland annat införandet av ett Landsbygdsdepartement, minst 100 kilometer från Haag, och upphävandet av förbudet mot neonikotinoider. Partiet gick ut med ett lagförslag att jordbrukare skulle få större möjlighet att påverka frågor gällande jordbruk. Detta kunde ses som ett svar på den opposition mot gris- och getgårdar som bestreds av hälso-, miljö-, och jordbruksskäl.

Caroline van der Plas har uttryckt att partiet Partij voor de Dieren och djurrätsorganisationen Wakker Dier är två av partiets största rivaler.

Valresultat

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The same glass of scotch whisky equally affects its powers of drunkenness on all people, regardless of their age. Yet, some people learn to relish the whisky—lingering in its bouquet and attending to its distinct flavors. The following short story by Haim Watzman invites us to savor a few movements of an exotic scene. This meditation on the force of nostalgia begs us to slow down and digest its details. However, just as metaphors of consumption risk rendering people into objects of desire, sometimes an embrace of these imaginary conceits shows us how to overcome them.
~Lonnie
Posted on July 11, 2021 | by Haim Watzman
(Illustration by Avi Katz)
The Green Woman by Haim Watzman
The rock had a red stripe on the south side and a blue stripe on the north side. But they were fresh and bright, painted not long ago, so they couldn't be the same ones he remembered from thirty-odd years before. Perhaps it wasn't even the same rock. Yet the parting of the paths was the same parting, here on the trail that ran a short way up the slope from the channel below. The waters of early winter rains ran swiftly and noisily in the bed that had awaited them all summer. A breeze from the west wafted the mist, drawn from the water by the first rays of the rising sun, up the slope to chill his cheeks, and the steel pressing at his waist.
He stopped, breathing harder than he had that other morning so many years ago. Glancing back, he could see before him new neighborhoods on the surrounding ridges, which then had been crowned with trees and lined with venerable terraces. Jerusalem had encroached on its enveloping forest, but he could see that only if he faced what he knew. If he turned to the unknown behind him, as he had resolved to do when he woke in the dark an hour earlier, he could see only the grove close around him, the oak to his left below, the olive to his right above, and the spreading branches of the carob tree, weighted down with fruit, obscuring the trail marker below to anyone who did not seek it. And now, looking again, he made her out. It was not a dream or a vision. She stood there, where he had seen her decades before, where perhaps she had been stationed at the dawn of time. The green woman.
He felt a delight that only the young and untouched feel, a happiness that coursed through his aging body and made him want to leap in the air or sprint down the path or climb the oak and shout through the stillness. The chill left him; his body glowed. Gazing at her, he slipped off his backpack, pulled off his sweatshirt, pulled down his t-shirt, and stuffed the outer garment into his bag. The sun appeared over the peak above him and a ray fell on his face. Leaving the backpack where it had fallen, he strode toward her. Her gaze fell on him but her face revealed no emotion. She raised her hands to her sides, so that one arm pointed to the red south and one to the blue north.
Then it had been early spring, not the start of winter, and she had not been standing. She lay on the ground then, on her side, on mat of cane, so that he had not seen her until, map in hand, he had stood flush by the painted rock and considered which way to go. Even when he had lowered his map he had not at first made her out, the curves of her olive-hued skin blending almost faultlessly into the undergrowth. Then no clothing concealed her body. Now her arms and torso and legs were covered by a gown of jade.
He'd felt the same delight that first time, but he'd been young then, and it was not an unfamiliar feeling. He had felt it already several times that earlier morning, in that hour when he'd locked his bicycle to a lamppost and set out at first light into the forest, when he had gazed up at the morning star and smelled the aroma of the dew-damp earth and spotted the reds and yellows of spring flowers. The contours of her body were just one more elation of the newfound day.
Then, too, she had said nothing. She'd looked into his eyes boldly but, it seemed, indifferently, as if she cared little whether he went on or remained. No, that passion had not been like the undulating peaks of euphoria he had felt this later morning, for this rapture burned with passion, with a desire toward the woman in his gaze that, rather than spreading out from his groin to his entire body, flowed inward from his limbs toward the weapon bound at his loins that demanded to break free.
Perhaps, back then, decades ago, he would have joined her under the carob and accepted what she was offering him. He might have done that had her flesh been the same color as the three other unclothed women he had known at that point in his life. But this woman, like the leaves of the tree above her and the grass she slowly stroked with her feet, was green. And she lay at a crossroads. Instead, on that earlier morning, he had had considered the two paths before him, the red one heading south, the blue one going north and, unable to see where they went, had turned his gaze away from her and looked back to consider the known path from which he had come.
He had come to seek her out again now, decades later, because one of those human-hued women, the one he had turned back to then, was gone. Her place in their bed was empty, and the space she had filled in their home was a dark abyss that loomed before him by day and swallowed him by night. And in the darkness came doubt. What had been a source of joy, the children and grandchildren and talks over morning coffee and lovemaking at night, all that hurt now, and the pain was so great that he grew ever more certain that the choice he had made back then had been mistaken, that he should have stepped forward and lain with the green woman, and then followed her south, or north, as she led him.
So he resolved to rehearse that long-ago morning and make that other choice. Perhaps it was not too late to change course, to repair his error. And the cold winter desire of the adamant metal where delight once resided would be the surrogate for the lust of spring. He told no one, of course, just as he had never told the woman he had joined to him about that other woman, the one at the crossroads.
He no longer had a bicycle, so he left his car in the parking lot of the zoo that had not been there then, and walked along a path that was now paved with asphalt, past the springs and onward on to the earthen path that curved around the high hill.
He strode toward her until only the rock with its two stripes separated him. She did not flinch. The slightest of smiles played on her face, the barest intimations of an invitation. Feeling as he had felt then, he reached out and touched her waist. She let him lift the gown up over her head. Her skin was as verdant as it had been then.
She ran her hands under his t-shirt, on his chest. He took off the shirt and felt her hands undoing his belt. The pistol fell and hit the rock and fired, the bullet rocketing over the river.
The breeze chilled his torso. He shivered. The green woman knelt on her mat and grasped his hand to pull him down to join her. From here, at the crossroads, he could see a little way down the red trail that headed south along the side of the hill and even less of the blue trail that headed north and upward. Holding his pants up, he turned and placed the two paths, and the green woman, behind him. He rebuckled his belt and retrieved the t-shirt and backpack from the ground. He found delight on the way back, not the passion of youth but the comfort of the familiar, the path he knew and the memories of walking it long ago back to the woman he had then realized he loved.
Haim Watzman
Haim Watzman is the author of three books and has published more than 150 short stories. He has translated more than fifty books from Hebrew into English. A full archive of all his stories can be found on his website: http://southjerusalem.com/haim-watzman/. He lives in Jerusalem.
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May 3, 2011 / 6:23 PM / 8 years ago
Portugal agrees on a 78-billion euro EU/IMF bailout
Axel Bugge, Andrei Khalip
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal has agreed a three-year, 78-billion-euro ($116 billion) bailout with the European Union and IMF, caretaker Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on Tuesday.
People enjoy the view along the Douro river in Porto April 8, 2011. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro
Socrates' government collapsed last month, sparking a sharp rise in borrowing costs which forced Lisbon to seek a bailout — the third euro zone country after Greece and Ireland to do so.
Socrates, who now faces a snap parliamentary election on June 5, hailed the package as a victory, saying it included more lenient terms than those imposed on Greece and Ireland.
The deal gave Portugal more time to meet budget goals which it had previously agreed to.
"The government has obtained a good deal. This is a deal that defends Portugal," said Socrates, who had resisted a bailout for months.
Socrates provided few details of what terms the bailout included, saying only "there are no financial assistance programs that are not demanding."
Filipe Garcia, head of Informacao de Mercados Financeiros consultants in Porto, said: "He showed us the bright side of the moon, it is the dark side that remains to be seen, and that includes the interest rate."
Socrates said Portugal would now need to cut its budget deficit to 5.9 percent of gross domestic product this year, compared with a previous goal of 4.6 percent. The deficit will have to be cut to 4.5 percent in 2012 and 3 percent in 2013.
"Some of the parameters look a little softer than expectations such as the higher deficit target and longer time line," said Vitaly Serebryakov, currency strategist at Wells Fargo in New York.
Officials from the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank have been in Lisbon for almost a month to hammer out the agreement with Portugal.
"We have reached staff-level agreement with the government on a comprehensive economic program that could be supported by the EC, the ECB and IMF," said European Commission spokesman Amadeu Altafaj in a statement.
Socrates said the agreement still has to be presented to opposition parties. Opposition Social Democrat leader Pedro Passos Coelho said earlier he was ready to meet the lenders.
"We have said from the beginning that it is important that any programme should have broad cross-party support and will continue our engagement with the opposition parties to establish that this is the case," said Altafaj.
Instant view: Portugal agrees to terms of EU, IMF bailout loan
An EC source said what was presented was what had already been agreed. The source said the interest rate on the loan will be decided at a meeting of euro zone finance ministers in mid-May, when the bailout is expected to be approved.
Agreement is needed by June 15, when Portugal has to meet a bond redemption of 4.9 billion euros.
A new government after the June election will have to enact the terms of the bailout. Socrates said the loan agreement would not require any changes to the constitution.
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Michelle is the producer, project manager and creative director of ANIDOX. She is an artist, filmmaker and producer based in Denmark.
A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has recently won the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Immersive Work at Venice International Film Festival. Awards for previous works include the FIPRESCI Prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, a place on the Academy Awards® Shortlist, and the Danish Arts Foundation award.
Together with her partner and co-director Uri, The Kranots are the founders of TinDrum, a research and development studio. They started the ANIDOX programme in 2006, now a part of The Animation Workshop / VIA University College, Denmark. www.tindrum.dk
Michelle Kranot
Creative director, producer and mentor
Director, animator, filmmaker, teacher. Born 1975. Graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Master of Fine Arts from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest.
Kranot is behind numerous award-winning animated shorts and VR projects, co-directed with his partner Michelle. Prominent titles include 'Hollow Land' (2013), which was on the Oscar shortlist for best animated short, and 'How Long, Not Long' (2016), which won the FIPRESCI prize at Annecy. Michelle and Uri Kranot are also behind the VR projects 'Nothing Happens' (2017), 'Songbird' (2019) and 'The Hangman at Home' (2021).
Uri holds various positions at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. Working with the Bachelor education, professional training and in research & development.
Uri Kranot
ANIDOX main tutor and moderator
Jury and panel guest
Peter is the Co-founder of Khora, an award winning XR production studio based in Copenhagen. Khora creates cutting edge content within multiple application areas and has produced more than 300 XR applications. Khora is exploring the value potential of XR through meaningful collaborations.
Peter Fisher
Co-Founder, director, Khora, DK
Guest panel
Abner is a story-teller and his work is rooted in personal aspirations to give one hope in a situation that seems hopeless, to transfer the ability to laugh at sadness, and to seduce viewers into seeing beauty in bleak objects by offering compositions that play to emotion before aesthetics. With his research, sensitivity and awareness, he provides the simple and extremely complex facility to tell a story with visuals that can be felt before they are understood.
Abner Preis
Director and researcher
Maria is the founder of the award-winning XR studio MANND (Aarhus), which specializes in creating innovative experiences that pushes the limits of XR storytelling. MANND has exhibited at A-ranked venues such as Cannes- and Venice Film Festival.
Maria Herholdt Engermann
Virtual Reality Experience Designer, DK
Consultant, jury and guest speaker
Simon Løvind is head of the unit for Games & Digital Media at the Danish Film Institute. He functions as a commissioning editor and has been running and defining the cultural support scheme for games at the Danish Film Institute in more than 10 years. He has a work background in interaction design a well as game design and have also produced interactive installation art. Simon has been shaping and taking part in ANIDOX since 2012.
Simon Løvind
Head of Games & Digital Media at the Danish Film Institute
Consultant and guest tutor
Emmy Award winning Klara Nilsson Grunning is a freelance content, production, distribution, financing consultant and executive producer for film, TV and cross media world-wide. Currently she is a film commissioner at the Norwegian Film Institute, previously she has been the documentary consultant at the Swedish Film Institute. Before which, she worked five years as the commissioning editor for documentary feature and short films at the Royal Danish Film Institute. Klara has been shaping and taking part in ANIDOX since 2012.
Klara Nilsson Grunning
Film commissioner, Norwegian Film Institute
Cecilie is the film and games commissioner for Viken Filmsenter – the largest regional film fund in Norway. She has worked for a long time also in Sweden and Denmark. She has been particularly focused on new media and project management for creative industries, and has also, for several years, been in management of the Nordic Panorama festival in Malmö.
Cecilie Stranger-Thorsen
Games and film commissioner, Viken Filmsenter, Norway
Consultant and guest speaker
Ane Mandrup is Head of Documentary Film at The Danish film Institute. She has an M.A. in French and Film Studies. Producer of documentaries and shorts, she has also worked as a freelancer and, at the Danish national broadcaster DR as a producer and marketing consultant.
Ane Mandrup
Head of documentary, Danish Film Institute
Consultant and tutor
Juan Pablo Libossart is Documentary Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute.
Juan Pablo Libossart is film producer, director and script writer, born 1978 in Argentina. He received a European Master in Audiovisual Management at MEDIA Business School and completed European Producers Workshop (EAVE) 2013.
Juan wrote and directed the short film Amalimbo which competed in Venice 2016 and was nominated for a European Film Award. Most recently, he worked as producer at Fasad (SE).
www.filminstitutet.se
Juan Pablo Libossart
Film commissioner, Swedish Film Institute
Guest tutor
Charlotte de la Gournerie is a producer and co-owner at Sun Creature Studio.
A graduate of the Gobelins production department, Charlotte worked as a production manager for various projects, before joining Sun Creature in 2014. She is currently producing several major animated projects (both feature films and series), and has experience in crowd-funding, sales and distribution.
Sun Creature Studio is an international animation production company, that is based in Denmark, and France. Delivering a wide scope of projects, including both indie and mainstream TV and web series, feature length fiction and documentary films.
www.suncreature.com
Charlotte de La Gournerie
Producer, Sun Creature Studio
International consultant with 25+ years experience developing concepts, strategies & projects within the cultural, public & corporate sectors.
He was nominated for a BAFTA (2005), BBC Creativity Award (2004) and Association of Online Publishers award (2005), and went on to win the Prix Jeunesse (2006) web award.
2006 he moved from London to Copenhagen where building on his twelve years of BBC television & digital production experience and four years of touring theatre, he started working with international companies that were developing concepts, campaigns, digital media, films and TV series. Since 2012 he's helped over 500+ projects across 20+ countries.
Paul holds a BSc. (Hons) Physiology with the History and Theory of Art & Design.
www.paultyler.dk
Paul Tyler
Story consultant
Abigail Addison is Director of Animate Projects, an arts agency that champions creative animation practice. She is also a freelance producer working with cultural organisations such as Lupus Films and individual artist filmmakers like Chris Shepherd, Lizzy Hobbs and Samantha Moore, on developing, producing, promoting and distributing moving image projects.
Abigail has produced more than 30 films, including 15 shorts for Channel 4's Random Acts, which have screened at international festivals including Annecy, Holland Animation Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Most recently, Abigail produced Silent Signal, a Wellcome Trust supported project, bringing together animators and scientists to produce six short animations for exhibition at UK galleries and multiple festival screenings.
Abigail Addison
Producer, Animate Projects
Erik Gandini is an acclaimed Swedish film director, producer and writer. Born in Bergamo, Italy, Gandini moved to Sweden at the age of 19.
He has made several films including: Amerasians (1998), Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara? (2001), Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers (2003), Gitmo (2005) and Videocracy (2009). Videocracy has gone on to win awards at Toronto Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Golden Graal Awards and the Tempo Documentary Award 2010. Erik Gandini is one of the founders of Swedish production company Atmo and Fasad.
Erik Gandini
Filmmaker and Producer, Fasad Cine
I am an animator and writer who creates short films, comics, zines, performances and installations. I make inventive use of animation illustration, puppetry and kinetic art to present unique and interesting stories. I identify as queer, autistic and neurodivergent. My performance work has been staged in the UK and Australia and my animation work has screened at international film and arts festivals.
Website: https://stevenfraserart.com/
Steven participated in ANIDOX:LAB 2016 with the project What It Feels Like
Steven Fraser
The swirl of life brought Irina Rubina to this world as a Muscovite. In 2011-2018 she studied animation and documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, where she created several award winning short films. The diversity of media and art forms and their intersections are a great source of inspiration to her: interaction of dance and film, music and poetry, documentary and animation.
Irina participated in ANIDOX:LAB 2020 with the project Osja
Director / Producer
French, Born in 1983. Graduated from Emile Cohl's School in Lyon (France) and La Poudrière in Valence (France), he went to Denmark to develop different projects such as TV series, experimental film in the Animation
Workshop in Viborg (Denmark). He regulary teaches there and in developing countries in Africa and South America. In 2017, he is at the initiative and drives the Andimation Program with the support of the Unesco. Works as Animation Director on independent animated shorts, animating on feature length or tv series for Lego, Zentropa and with SunCreature studio.
Denis Chapon
Animation Director and teacher
Martina is an Italian film maker based in Denmark.
Martina holds a BA in Fine Art from "Accademy of Brera" in Milan, and a BA in Animation from "Experimental Center of Cinematography", Turin. Alumna of Animation sans frontiers, ANIDOX:LAB and the Open Workshop residency. Martina's short film Egg was awarded with a crystal for first film at Annecy, a Golden Dove at Dok Leipzig, Golden Horseman at Filmfest Dresden. The film, supported by the ANIDOX:RESIDENCY in 2016, was nominated for best short film at the European Animation Awards 2018 and shortlisted for the 2020 Cesar Award.
Project: Egg
Animation Director and Producer
Tim is the leader of talent and Skills Development, as well as Director of Open Workshop residency at The Animation Workshop / VIA University College. After working as a projects and events coordinator at Cartoon AEFA in Brussels, Tim joined The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, in 2003, where he since then leads The Animation Workshop's Professional Training departments. Besides organising The Animation Workshop's vocational animation/CG/VFX courses and master classes for European and international professionals, Tim runs the school's talent development and independent production activities, supporting between 100 and 150 young talents and their projects every year.
Tim Leborgne
Department leader, The Animation Workshop
As Project manager and coordinator at The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, I organize semester courses, professional training and masterclasses for the European animation and VFX industry. I hold a Master of Arts in English and Film & Television from Aarhus University (2010).
Per Kristensen
Project manager, professional training


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PS5 is almost twice as thick as PS4 Pro
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EA doesn't seem to be working anything meaningful on their new games. The year before 2020, they seem to be only rewriting old code from previous game releases, and introducing fresh character concepts at best. As such there isn't much development on their end of the spectrum that I've realised.
Nintendo lawsuit | Will all Flash card sites be blocked?
I can't believe what I'm hearing right now. Of course, Nintendo has always been speedy to find a way to stop all of this from occuring. We know for sure they're strict in terms of copyright, just look at the likes of YouTube, for example.
What's your favorite Mario Bros. series?
My dream Mario title is still a Super Mario 64 version. Once Mario 64 was launched, and then with those graphics, I didn't think there could be something greater. The whole 3d Digital world and independence to walk around was one of my most favourite aspects of the title. It was a game that I...
Steam or Epic Games Store?
What video games do you all have through Epic Games? How much would you say that you've spent on titles through Epic? Right now, I only have two purchases, one of which is installed. I was hoping to install both however my Laptop doesn't have enough hard drive memory. GTA 5 and Fortnite, with...
Does anyone still play Tetris?
Haven't heard the "Tetris" name for a long time, memories came back from the olden days. To be frank, I don't play retro games anymore as often as I did. The last time I played a game like Pacman or Tetris, I can't even recall. I could attempt to discover a decent Tetris app to play on my mobile...
What horror games genuinely scared you?
With myself, it can only be Resident Evil: they had a few frightful scenes in Apocalypse 2 and in The Last of Us. Unforeseen moments that cause you to spring definitely caused me to be scared. The clickers were always the individuals that were overwhelmingly horrifying when you attempted to...
How do professional eSports gamers make money?
With CS: GO pro players, for instance. Individuals who stream and get cash from donations, memberships, bits, and so forth. Content creators also upload their videos on the internet, where they're getting paid ad revenue from Adsense. They have companies sponsoring them at the tournaments and...
PS5's June 4 event has been postponed
Heartbroken that we're going to be waiting longer to find out more about the PS5, however with the Global Pandemic going on across the world, I feel this is for the betterment of the people. Waiting longer means I will just build up more and more excitement! I can't wait for the release.
Does anyone play browser games?
Both of the browser games you mentioned are the two that I play aswell! Years have passed and I still pass time with Slither.io and Agar.io, they're two of my most favourite ones to play. I really enjoy playing these video games because you constantly have a goal to achieve. It's frustrating...
How much have you spent on video games so far?
As a result of the economic situation globally, I have not really spent that much money on computer gaming. To be honest, it's been a long time since I really spent anything on Gaming. Usually, I will pay around £100 - £200 on games in one year, at most. My technique for achieving my budget is...
What was your first gaming console?
Nintendo released a Wii in 2006 and this was my first ever gaming console. On my Wii, some of my video games included, Wii Fit, Skylanders, and Mario kart. Mario Kart has to be my absolute favourite out of my whole collection. Playing on this platform brings back so many good memories.


Are you a spelling champ? Adult Spelling Bee with the Madison Friends of the Library! Straight To Ale Brewing will be there with special beers and prizes. $5 donation.
Workshops, programs, bird watching hikes and more. Admission applies.
Board gaming convention with tournaments, play-to-wins, game demos, and tons of open gaming with a curated library of 500 games. $35 weekend pass.
Showcasing the displays and collections of local art enthusiasts, with the goal of inspiring you to grow your collection of art, support local artists and re-envision your spaces. $20 at the door.
Finding Neverland tells the incredible story behind one of the world's most beloved characters: Peter Pan. Tickets start at $40.


• Promotes A Sense Of Calm In Animals Exhibiting Fear, Fretting, Anxiety Or Any Unwanted Behavior.
• Caused By Fear Of Travel, Motion Sickness, Relocation.
• Reduces Upper Respiratory Problems Including Sinus Infection and Inflammation.
• Alleviates Red, Wet Eyes and Nasal Drip.
• Safe, Gentle and Clinically Effective Homeopathic Remedy.
• Relief From Fear Of Thunderstorms, Fireworks, Wind, Loud Noises, Gunshots, Hurricanes, Tornados.
• For Dogs 20 To 80 Pounds.
• Caused By Fear Of Thunderstorms, Fireworks, Loud Noises, Windstorms.
• Provides Relief From Allergies and Airborne Pollutants That Cause Skin Irritation and Scratching.
• Typical Symptoms Are Constant Chewing, Itching, Scratching, Licking and Gnawing.
• Caused By Being Left Alone/Separation, Kenneling, Shows, Vetvisits, Grooming.
• Formulated For Removal Of Hook, Round and Tapeworms.
• For Prevention By Reducing Susceptibility To Infestations.
Specifically for urinary incontinence or leaking.
• Helps With Bites, Burns, Cuts, Wounds, Healing, First Aid.
• Cream Seals In Moisture.
• No Steroidal Or Other Anti-Inflammitory Effect Thus Speeding Healing.
• Can Be Used Externally On Open Or Bandaged Wounds.


text:
import { Component,
		ViewEncapsulation,
		Input,
		Output,
		EventEmitter,
		ChangeDetectionStrategy } from '@angular/core';
import { CourseService } from '../../../core/services';
import { FilterPipe } from './../../pipes';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';

@Component({
	selector: 'search',
	templateUrl: './search.component.html',
	styles: [require('./search.component.scss')],
	providers: [FilterPipe],
	encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None,
	changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush
})
export class SearchComponent {

	@Input() public searchString: string;

	@Output() public searchStringOutput = new EventEmitter();

	constructor(
		private courseService: CourseService,
		private filter: FilterPipe,
		private router: Router
	) {}

	public redirectToAdd() {
		this.router.navigate(['add-course']);
	}

	public clickFind(model: string) {
		this.searchStringOutput.emit(this.searchString);
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
package locks

var lockRequests = make(chan *lockRequest)

func init() {
	go locker()
}

type Locker interface {
	Lock() Unlocker
}

// Unlocker Interface for unlocking a key that was provided to Lock()
type Unlocker interface {
	Unlock()
}

type nopLocker struct{}

var theNopLocker = &nopLocker{}

// NopLocker returns a Locker which always works but does nothing: it's used to effectively skip locking.
func NopLocker() Locker {
	return theNopLocker
}

// Lock method of *nopLocker always succeeds but does not actually do anything.
func (nl *nopLocker) Lock() Unlocker {
	return nl
}

// Unlock method of *nopLocker does not actually do anything. It is here to satisfy the interface.
func (nl *nopLocker) Unlock() {
	return
}

type keyLocker struct {
	key interface{}
}

// KeyLocker provides an application-wide locker on the specified key.
func KeyLocker(key interface{}) Locker {
	return &keyLocker{key: key}
}

// Lock method works like this: if the lock is obtained, it will return an Unlocker.
// If the lock is not successfully obtained, nil will be returned.
func (kl *keyLocker) Lock() Unlocker {
	lockRequest := newLockRequest(kl.key, LOCK)
	lockRequests <- lockRequest
	return <-lockRequest.response
}

// Lock function provides a backwards compatible API for application-wide locking on a key
func Lock(key interface{}) Unlocker {
	return KeyLocker(key).Lock()
}

type operation int

const (
	LOCK operation = iota
	UNLOCK
)

type lockRequest struct {
	key      interface{}
	op       operation
	response chan Unlocker
}

func newLockRequest(key interface{}, op operation) *lockRequest {
	return &lockRequest{
		key:      key,
		op:       op,
		response: make(chan Unlocker, 1),
	}
}

type unlockerImpl struct {
	key interface{}
}

func (u *unlockerImpl) Unlock() {
	lockRequests <- newLockRequest(u.key, UNLOCK)
}

func newUnlocker(key interface{}) *unlockerImpl {
	return &unlockerImpl{key: key}
}

func locker() {
	// note: bool value is meaningless. This is a set
	lockedItems := make(map[interface{}]bool)
	for lockReq := range lockRequests {
		switch lockReq.op {
		case LOCK:
			if _, locked := lockedItems[lockReq.key]; locked {
				lockReq.response <- nil
			} else {
				lockedItems[lockReq.key] = true
				lockReq.response <- newUnlocker(lockReq.key)
			}
		case UNLOCK:
			delete(lockedItems, lockReq.key)
		}
	}
}


text:
Q: Back button is being shown with no fragment in backstack using Navigation Component I have two fragments FragmentA and FragmentB, FragmentA is the start destination and I am going from FragmentA to FragmentB with popupTo like the following,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<navigation xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/main_nav_graph"
    app:startDestination="@id/fragmentA">

    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/fragmentA"
        android:name="com.example.myapplication.FragmentA"
        android:label="Emergency Application" >
        <action
            android:id="@+id/action_fragmentA_to_fragmentB"
            app:destination="@id/fragmentB"
            app:popUpTo="@+id/fragmentA"
            app:popUpToInclusive="true"/>
    </fragment>
    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/fragmentB"
        android:name="com.example.myapplication.FragmentB"
        android:label="Emergency Contact" />
</navigation>

Now, I am expecting no home button in the actionbar. My MainActivity is,
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    private lateinit var navController: NavController

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        navController = findNavController(R.id.main_nav_host_fragment)
        setupActionBarWithNavController(navController)
    }

    override fun onSupportNavigateUp() =
        navController.navigateUp() || super.onSupportNavigateUp()
}

And the outcome is

There is no fragment in the back stack and if I press the system back button, it ends. but if I press the action bar's top-left arrow, it instantiates the app. Basically, I expect no icon in the action bar as there is no fragment in the back stack.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


This launched a little while ago but it is still cool if you haven't seen it. Nike launched a new area on their online store called Photo ID that lets you use your mobile phone to turn your photos or surroundings into a custom pair of Nike shoes. It is just for Nike customers in the U.K., Germany, Italy and Finland and they can use whatever visual inspiration they find, snap a shot with their phone and text the word "DUNK" to specific number. The site takes the dominant colors from the photos and matches it to the Nike color options. The final shoes can then be saved as mobile wallpaper, sent to a friend, and most importantly purchased so you can wear your creation. Right now the site is only offering the Dunk which is a classic basketball shoe originally launched in 1985 but there are promises of more in the future.
This is probably one of the most unique uses of mobile I have ever seen because it takes the channel beyond taking a picture and posting it to your Facebook page and ties into a brand, their products and product personalization. It is that combination of the unique use of the media and the personalization that makes it so special. The uniqueness of the execution gets your attention but the personalization gives you a sense of investment into the product. It is that investment that makes the product feel special to each person and they feel like they have been part of the design process of one of the world's best brands. Getting consumer invested at a such core emotion level into your brand is a trick everyone is trying to capture so I am sure this site will it's copycats before too long.


Kate and David are at secondary school in Edinburgh. David is struggling to come to terms with his new stepmother, and Kate is being expected to take more responsibility for her younger brother. But time never stands still for long. They soon become involved in a race to prevent the Lords of Chaos from tricking Erda, the Stardreamer, into losing her power. Even with help from Morgan the Hunter, can they prevent the barriers between times being blown away forever? The thrilling sequel to The Chaos Clock.
For what seemed like eternity she hung in the void between the stars, blown by the winds of time and space, fire sparking around her. In the space of a thought, stars were born and died, galaxies spun, huge clouds of stellar dust formed, toppled and reformed. She drifted on the currents of space, always edging imperceptibly closer to the tiny, insistent voices that called to her. An age passed for her in the time it took for a drop of water to fall from a leaf tip.
The voices caught at her now, a frail net of shining, unbreakable sound. She twisted this way and that, but could not escape it. It drew her inexorably towards a tiny world, that hung like a pearl against the endless velvet night.
Nearer and nearer she was pulled, struggling, until she hurtled down, fiery as a meteor, down into darkness and was extinguished.
In the Underworld, The Great Ones watched the sky. The lights that people sometimes called the Dancers flamed across the night, blue and green and finally, red.
It is done, said the Queen of Darkness.
The lights – the Northern Lights – burned in Edinburgh too, even though it was May and much too late in the year. A great display, people said, so rare at any time of year, never mind now. A few of the old ones remembered the ancient stories that foretold disaster, but no one believed such things nowadays, not here.
In the Wildwood, Morgan the Hunter stooped to drink from a stream. The endless woodland summer stretched off in all directions, seemingly limitless. Against it, still as he was, he could scarcely be seen: brown hair and tanned skin, eyes the colour of beech leaves, brown clothes, bow the colour of birch bark.
The sounds of the wood were all around, the rustlings and whispering of the trees, the calling of birds, water dripping from Morgan's hand, the drone of bees and small insects.
Morgan looked up sharply, hair pricking on the back of his neck. There was a moment of poised silence, as though the world held its breath and then chaos broke loose in the wood, birds exploding from the boughs, rabbits, mice and weasels running together in fear, the black deer of the deep wood bursting from the trees, eyes wide in terror. Morgan watched them run until they were lost to sight among the trees and the Wildwood quietened around him once more.
He half expected the Summons and it came almost immediately.
He stepped into the Empty Place between worlds and times and felt the presences gathered there already. Since they would not speak, he broke the silence.
What has happened? All the creatures of the wood felt something. What was it?
"The Stardreamer has been called down."
The Stardreamer? I thought that was nothing more than a tale.
"You should know the truth of tales, Morgan the Hunter."
"The Stardreamer must be found and brought to the Heart of the Earth."
But how? He cannot be commanded.
"No, but he can be persuaded, or tricked, or trapped."
"Yes. But first he must be found. You are a hunter. Use your skill to track him down."
Gordon Syme looked at the open suitcase on the bed, then at the towering pile of clothes beside it. The case would fit into the pile right enough, but it wasn't going to work the other way.
He sighed and started to cull the clothes. He was no good at packing, not enough practice probably. This was the first proper holiday he'd have had in, what, five years? And even now it was his sister in Spain who'd arranged the whole thing for him.
Come and stay in May before the weather gets too hot, she'd said. You can afford it now you don't have to pay rent on a flat. I'd enjoy the company, you and Joe can have a few rounds of golf and the kids would love having their favourite uncle around for a while.
She'd been very persuasive, but then he'd wanted to be persuaded. Now all he had to do was pack. He managed to shut the case at the third attempt and lugged it downstairs ready for an early start in the morning. His clubs were already there. He looked hard at them and took out his second-best putter and propped it against the wall beside the table in the hall. What was he thinking, taking two putters?
Before he went to bed he went round all the rooms, checking that windows were locked and everything was where it should be. He wasn't quite sure why he bothered. He'd got used to the weird way the house behaved. That was how he thought of it now, as a sort of living thing. Windows that he left locked when he went out would be open when he came in and objects seemed to wander between rooms. But the really strange thing was that far from finding this scary, it didn't even seem surprising. He knew this was nothing to do with ghosts or poltergeists; it was something to do with time and with John Flowerdew, who had left him, albeit temporarily, this house.
Then there were the visitors. People turned up on his doorstep every so often, calling him by name, explaining that they had known John Flowerdew. They'd stay for a few hours, or a night, then leave. Or sometimes they wouldn't leave, they'd just be … gone. At first, he used to look for them, convinced they must be in the house somewhere, but even the strangest things could become routine and now he didn't bother. He just let them in, like it had said he was to do in Mr Flowerdew's will.
At first they'd come round often, as all three of them tried to come to terms with what had happened, but the visits had tailed off as real, ordinary life had taken hold of them again. They had keys to the house; that too had been specified in the will, not that their parents knew. A place of refuge, the old man had called it in the instructions whenever one should become necessary.
Occasionally he would come in and find one or the other of them in the kitchen, or more likely in the old man's study, staring into space, thinking.
He'd hardly known them when the battle with the Lords of Chaos had taken place that autumn, but after going through that, there were bonds between them that no one else could ever understand.
Kate seemed to have come through it fine, but he found himself worrying, sometimes, about David. He'd made such a sacrifice for them to win. Gordon doubted that he could have done as well if he had been put to the test. Although most of the time David acted as though everything was fine, he had periods when melancholy gripped him and it was then that Gordon would find him huddled in one of the big chairs in the study under the eaves. He'd learned that it was best to leave him alone to deal with it – even Kate couldn't lift these moods from him. He was marked by what had happened, what he'd done.
Gordon roused himself from his reverie and locked the back door, then made himself a cup of coffee and went up to bed to read about Spanish golf courses.
David Fairbairn was walking with his mother in Princes Street Gardens, eating ice cream, while around them snow fell, soft and quiet as feathers. It was warm and they had taken off their shoes to cool their feet in the snow that was already lying.
I've got a Geography test tomorrow, he said to her, and I don't know the work.
She smiled. Don't worry, the answers are all in your teeth.
He nodded. Of course, he should have realised that himself. They strolled on, watching the children in the playground, then his mother looked up at the sky and stood as though she was listening and the ice cream dropped, un-noticed, from her hand. She looked back at David, her expression a mixture of fear and wonder.
You must go now, she is coming.
He lay quite still for a moment, trying to fall asleep and find his way back inside the dream. There had been a time of course when he'd dreamed of his mother every night – at least, it was easier to deal with if he thought of it as dreaming – but such dreams were infrequent now and he always hated it when one ended.
That had been a strange one. It had all made sense while he was asleep, of course, the ice cream and snow and the bare feet, but the last things his mother had said had seemed out of place, not part of that dream at all.
Kate Dalgliesh's dreams that night were haunted by howling. She tossed in her sleep, her dreams fragmented, but though she could never see them, the cold and lonely voices of the wolves always pursued her. The night seemed to last an age, and she woke bad tempered and unrefreshed.
Why the wolves again? Why now? Surely all that had died with Mr Flowerdew?
She woke in darkness, suddenly, surrounded by the smell of the crushed leaves and stems she lay on. For a long time, she lay quite still, absorbing the sensations of the leaves against her bare skin and of the movements her body made as she breathed – both quite new to her. Eventually a different sensation, unpleasant this time, replaced that of touch.
Cold, said the words in her head. She waited for the feeling to go, but instead it got stronger. She tried curling up tightly and for a little time, that helped, but the cold would not leave her alone.
Shelter, said the words and now she understood. Shelter. Find shelter away from the cold.
She rolled over and got up. There was a shape of yellow light against the darkness a little way off.
She made for it on uncertain feet.
The house put words into her head. Door, it said as it closed out the world of cold and leaves and dark. She stood inside the door listening to the quiet breath of the walls and waiting for the words to settle themselves in her head. They flew at her from all around, whirling about her in confusing patterns that gradually resolved themselves into a kind of order and she knew that she stood in a kitchen – a place for preparing food – and that she needed food, but not yet; first she needed warmth … clothes.
She wandered slowly through the rooms on the ground floor, picking things up and putting them down again, knowledge of the house seeping into her. There was nothing that served her purpose on the ground floor, so she went upstairs.
It was dark up here and she put a hand out to the wall to help feel her way. Her fingers brushed something and suddenly there was light blossoming above her. She stared fascinated, then looked away, half-blinded, to see what her hands had touched and pressed it again. The light disappeared.
PressPressPressPress.LightDarkLightDark. Delighted, she played with it for a minute before moving on to open a door.
A small room with shiny walls and silver-shiny metal and white tubs. Bathroom, said the house. She waited to understand.
Aaah… She twisted a piece of metal and water poured from it. She cupped her hands and drank, then moved around the room sniffing things, feeling them.
She saw herself in the mirror, but did not yet understand that it was her. She moved her head from side to side and so did the being in the mirror. She reached out a hand and placed it flat to the glass and so did the other, but they did not touch. She turned back to the water to drink again, but now it was hot, puffs of cloudy vapour billowing up. She listened to the words in her head for a moment, then found the thing to stop the water going away and climbed into the tub and watched it fill around her. In the hot water she blossomed like a flower, the tightness of bracing herself against the cold floating out into the vapour around her. She slid down under the water as the bath overflowed.
Kate turned her key in the lock. Hello! Anyone home?
Be a surprise if there is, said David, behind her.
As they had expected, there was no answer and they shut the door behind them, gathering up letters from the hall floor.
Doesn't look like there's anything very interesting, said Kate as they examined the envelopes. Gordon seemed to lead a very dull postal life.
What would you do if there was? asked David.
Dunno. Steam it open? That's what they do in books.
David shook his head. Doesn't work. I tried it once. Wanted to see my school report before Dad did, but all that happened was that the ink ran and I had to pretend I'd dropped it in a puddle.


The Career Kickstart Programme commenced on the 13th of March 2018 with participants in attendance, representatives of the Skills Development programme (EdoJobs) as well as the training team from GidiJobs. The programme is targeted at tertiary institution graduates who require an edge to stay competitive and attractive in an ever evolving labor market. Participants were given a general orientation on the program and what to expect at the end of the programme. There was accreditation for all participants. The participants are being trained on Self-Awareness, Goal Setting, Problem Solving and Use of Initiative, Team Building, Impression Management and Dress Sense, Business Model, Attitude and Behaviour, Work Place Ethnics, Business Plan, Business writing Etiquette amongst others. Participants have been divided into work groups and each group was asked to come up with a business plan.
For example: chioma_269 and the default password is password. Also note that the login credentials are case sensitive. This means that the username and password received must be entered in lower case / small letters. The user name cannot be changed but an applicant can change his / her password after logging in to the portal. I hope this helps.
Hi Ibrahim, are you registered on EdoJobs? Please let us know what exactly you need help with.
Hi Mary, thanks for your interest in EdoJobs. Kindly apply for a desired job / programme from the available opportunities displayed on the portal.
When will the interview hold on?
Pls I nid a response on my earlier question.


How Does A Photocopier Become A Trumpet?
Did any of you guys know that they use recycled photocopiers to make trumpets and other musical instruments? Well, thanks to The Science Channel, now you do. You learn something new every day.