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Cartonera text by: 16 imprisoned men from HMP Nottingham (United Kingdom)
Cartonera Publishing
This collection is the result of a Prisoner Publishing pilot project inspired by the work of nine imprisoned writers from Puente Grande prison in Jalisco, Mexico. The Puente Grande project was facilitated by DIY publishers Sergio Fong (La Rueda Cartonera) and Israel Soberanes (Viento Cartonero), who encouraged participants to put their pens to paper and taught them to make their own books by hand, using recycled cardboard to produce unique, colourful covers.
This practice, a way of making low-cost books in resource-poor, imagination-rich contexts, is known as cartonera publishing. Cartón refers to the cardboard used to bind the books through participatory community workshops. Cartoneros are the waste-pickers who first inspired a group of young artists and writers to set up their craft book-making workshop in 2003 in the aftermath of a deep economic crisis that left vast numbers of people unemployed, and picking waste as a means to make ends meet. Since Eloísa Cartonera, over 250 cartonera collectives have cropped up across and beyond Latin America.
Inspired by the cartonera model, and the work of Sergio and Israel in Puente Grande, we decided to trial a new 5-day prisoner publishing programme at HMP Nottingham, in response to the high turnover of prisoners in this Category B, short-sentence prison. Rather than taking a pre-established programme to the prison, we designed a loose course that one participant, Mick, later referred to as "creative writing with a twist of art". As the week progressed, the programme took shape, guided by the participants and their interests.
Over these four days, we facilitated structured and less structured activities, from writing sense poems and rap lyrics to discussing what it would take to have a world without prisons. Unlocked is result of a process that brings together learners and teachers on a horizontal plane of co-production; a process whereby participants learn new skills and techniques, but also get the opportunity to share their existing skills and knowledge; a process that encourages self-reflection and team work; a process that fosters self-confidence and mutual trust; a process that unlocked creativity, vitality, and imagination.
"Unlocked" is a selection of poems, raps, micro-fiction, biographical snapshots, and short discursive pieces. The themes around which the texts are structured came from both real and imagined experiences from the participants' lives inside and outside prison – burgers and curries, cells and cell toilets, gangster movies and prison radio, deportation and abuse, vulnerability and strength, faith and god, childhood trauma and neglect, family and bereavement, mothers and children, love and loss, imagination and desire, forests and silvine spirits.
More important than the end-product, though, was the participants' experience of the process. Out of of the 13 respondents to our feedback questionnaire:
100% enjoyed the experience of painting their own covers, making their own books, and writing in prose.
90% reported that they enjoyed the poetry exercises, and that the Unlocked project brought them closer to other participants, and improved their self-confidence / self-worth.
82% found that the project provided them with the opportunity to share their stories, and to be heard; to improve their literacy and communication skills; and helped express themselves creatively.
We hope that reading Unlocked will give you a special insight into the world as these men have experienced it – a world tarnished by violence, pain, and abandonment but also one transformed by determination, faith and love. We also hope it might inspire you to try out your own community publishing programmes.
Lucy Bell and Joey Whitfield
Go to Community and meet all the collaborators of the project or go to About the Project


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New York Comic Con gives anti-harassment top billing
By Paul St John Mackintosh -
The New York Comic Con, just kicking off at the Javits Center, has given very prominent billing to its anti-harassment policy. As you can see from the billboards snapped at the event.
The NYCC site states in detail that "New York Comic Con has a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for harassment of any kind, including but not limited to:" stalking, intimidation, offensive verbal comments, physical assault and/or battery, harassing or non-consensual photography or recording, sustained disruption of Panels, signings, and other events, bathroom policing, inappropriate physical contact, unwelcome physical attention. And it warns,"if a person engages in harassing behavior, New York Comic Con (NYCC) Staff will take prompt action in any form they deem appropriate, including expulsion from NYCC with no refund. Our policy applies to EVERYONE at the convention." Plus, "Be nice, be cool and respect each other" has got to be one of the most inoffensive, commonsensical policy guides ever issued for a con.
Since we've seen, sadly, harassment entrenched at the highest levels of comicdom, this kind of approach is all too necessary. And it's good to see major cons giving it the prominence it deserves.
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Paul St John Mackintosh is a British poet, writer of dark fiction, and media pro with a love of e-reading. His gadgets range from a $50 Kindle Fire to his trusty Vodafone Smart Grand 6. Paul was educated at public school and Trinity College, Cambridge, but modern technology saved him from the Hugh Grant trap. His acclaimed first poetry collection, The Golden Age, was published in 1997, and reissued on Kindle in 2013, and his second poetry collection, The Musical Box of Wonders, was published in 2011.
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Don't worry, I saw some scantily clad cosplayers on the new (7) extension where harassment is still perfectly acceptable.

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In todays Illinois and NW Indiana job market, many bartenders have relayed their corporate horror stories to us. Job layoffs, downsizing, reduced benefits, longer hours, no appreciation by the company, reduced wages and a general dissatisfaction with their chosen career.
Many have told us that they just couldn't take it anymore! The kids are getting older and college tuition is coming up, or the kids are gone and it's time to do something that they would enjoy.
A professional bartender with schooling and experience can usually find work within a week of looking and can start making tips right away.
There is no starting at the bottom and working your way up in bartending. A bartender can earn $100 to $300 a day in wages and tips right out of school.
An experienced bartender can switch jobs easily if they want a change of environment or different pace. Switching jobs is the norm for our industry and is not frowned upon so long as the bartender quits with a notice for a good reason.
Where Do You Want to Work Today?
In addition, many larger bars and restaurants offer full benefits for employees, and bartenders working for major hotels or airlines often receive additional perks like greatly reduced lodging and air fare.
A bartending career allows people the freedom to choose a work environment that matches their personality. A good bartender can work anywhere in the country, or in the world.
Some bartenders might prefer the hotel or country club environment, while others enjoy the charm of neighborhood bars, or the excitement of nightclubs. Whatever your preference, bartending can offer fun & profitable surroundings.
Bartending is a skill that once it's achieved, will be remembered throughout your life. It's like riding a bike, driving a car or knowing how to swim. Once you learn the skills they will be forever embedded in your memory and can be called upon regardless of your age or where you live around the world.


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Q: Setting listener on a Glide image load only captures local variable once I'm using Glide to load an image and I'm setting a new listener on it each time I call it. I expect the anonymous "new RequestListener" to capture the local variable "x" each time, but it only appears to capture it the first time. It's almost like Glide is ignoring my request to set a new listener and reusing the original listener. Here is the code to reproduce it:
public void loadImage(int x) {
    GlideApp.with(getContext()).load("http://url.to/image.png").listener(new RequestListener<Drawable>() {
        @Override
        public boolean onLoadFailed(@Nullable GlideException e, Object model, Target<Drawable> target, boolean isFirstResource) { return false; }

        @Override
        public boolean onResourceReady(Drawable resource, Object model, Target<Drawable> target, DataSource dataSource, boolean isFirstResource) {
            Log.d(TAG, "Value of x: " + x);
            return false;
        }
    }).into(imageView);
}

Calling loadImage(0) results in:
Value of x: 0
Subsequent calls to loadImage, no matter what value of x I pass in, will always result in:
Value of x: 0
Does anybody know what's going on here?

A: I had this exact problem today. glide kept using the old listener. It some how caused the same setOnClickListener to keep being used, so basically all my buttons would display the same view. It was fixed once I added:
.apply(RequestOptions.skipMemoryCacheOf(true))

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Quantum dots are gaining recognition not just in the physics and chemistry community, but in the public eye as well. Quantum dot technologies are now being used in sensors, detectors, and even television displays. By exciting quantum dots with light or electricity, they can be made to emit light, and by altering the quantum dot characteristics the wavelength can be finely tuned. The light emitted can be also be made more intense by an increase in the excitation energy. The excitation light can be increased via plasmonic enhancement, leading to increased luminescence. Aside from the relatively steady-state response, quantum dots also have several time-dependent behaviors – blueing, blinking, brightening, and bleaching. Brightening has several factors which affect it and is the focus of this work. This dissertation explores one of the factors which contributes to the photobrightening, namely the intensity of the excitation light, and examines the possibility of enhancing the emitted light via a range of plasmonic geometries. Gold nanoparticles come in many shapes and sizes and are ideally suited for enhancing light in the visible wavelength. By combining gold nanoparticles with cadmium selenide quantum dots, it is possible to enhance the photobrightening effect, potentially leading to better, more effective quantum dot technologies.
French, David Alan, "Plasmonic Enhancement of Photoluminescence and Photobrightening in CdSe Quantum Dots" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 3053.


On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Alameda County Water District, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the ACWD Website.
For more than one hundred years, our primary mission has been to provide our customers with a high quality, reliable supply of water at a reasonable cost. Over those years we have used different means to communicate with our customers on issues of current interest. Our newly redesigned website is the latest link in the longstanding effort to make your water district accessible to you, the customer.
We hope you will enjoy browsing our website, find it to be a useful source of information, and that you will use it to communicate your comments, questions, and concerns back to us. ACWD staff is available via email and, of course, during business hours by telephone.
ACWD looks forward to providing for your 21st century water needs.
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Edamam has developed a site to easily calculate nutritional data. You can do this via the web or a downloadable phone app. Anyone can easily use the site which is as simple as copy + pasting a recipes ingredient list, entering the number of servers and voila! Get full nutritional breakdown of your a meal. It counts calories, carbs, and protein your vitamins and minerals too.
It also offers healthy substitutions and instantly assesses whether a recipe is appropriate for those keeping a paleo, vegan, low-sodium, or gluten-free diet. You can save and print the recipes and their analysis.
Edamam Nutrition Wizard allows users to track and calculate all their recipes. for a low monthly fee.
Sure, there are WordPress plugins out there to add nutritional information to your sites. But each additional WordPress plugin you add to your site slows it down. Plus, if you are using a plugin and they stop updating it, you will be left having to find another solution. And worse than that, having plugins that aren't updated frequently can leave your site vulnerable to hacking.
The best way to avoid situations like this is to either having this coded into your website, which can be quite costly, or use some sort of web based app, that allows you to generate the content you need and either download or take a screen grab of the content and upload it to your site.
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Although 2019 is still fairly young, federal budgets are already being formed for 2020 and beyond. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking authorization for its Space Force in the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), hoping to streamline current aerospace defense efforts and maintain American dominance in the silent skies.
For centuries of human history, any country's defensive forces needed to cover only three arenas: land, air, and sea. Within the last half century, cyberspace was added to that list, posing brand new opportunities (and threats) for hundreds of different departments of defense.
But space has indeed remained the "final frontier" when it comes to modern espionage and warfare. Satellite (and satellite-killing) technologies can disrupt a country's electronic infrastructure like utilities and internet connectivity, monitor communications and see license plate numbers or the smallest hand movements from the other side of the globe, and even launch missiles. If the U.S. doesn't stay ahead (or at least keep pace) with new technologies in this arena, it runs the risk of being left behind in a new age of military technology.
Some of America's most powerful adversaries have been working on their own space capabilities. Both China and Russia are able to search, track, and categorize just about any satellites in the Earth's orbit, placing U.S. satellites at risk of breach or sabotage. Keeping pace with these developments will broker an uneasy peace, as none of these countries want the risk that comes from being the first to strike.
What Space Force Authorization is Needed?
In April 2019, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan and several high-level DoD deputies testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in support of their push for a fully funded and authorized Space Force.
Right now, there are five Senate-confirmed DoD officials who are responsible for overseeing more than 10 different organizations focused on space defense efforts, with no central standards or information-sharing protocol. This approach is inefficient and may eventually cause the U.S. to fall behind in international space defense, DoD officials warned.
Over the next few years, the DoD will continue establishing and organizing the U.S. Space Command for full operational control of each of these discrete efforts, but further funding is required. DoD officials hope that once funded, this Space Command will soon be transformed into the U.S. Space Force, complete with all the recruitment and technological capabilities as the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.


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Ramon Ang is the Only Filipino in Bloomberg's List of the Most Influential of 2019
The tycoon was lauded for "remaking the Philippines."
By Anri Ichimura | Dec 6, 2019
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Billionaire tycoon Ramon Ang is the only Filipino to land on The Bloomberg 50, a list of the most influential people of 2019 by business network Bloomberg. The president of San Miguel Corporation was lauded by Bloomberg for "remaking the Philippines" as one of the "people who defined 2019," according to the media company.
Ang has been making headlines for his venture into infrastructure, a departure from San Miguel's traditional interests of food and beverage. Under Ang's leadership, which began in 2002, San Miguel has expanded into electricity, oil, construction, and now, infrastructure after San Miguel purchased 86 percent of Holcim, the country's largest cement maker, for $2.15 billion (P108.7 billion). The purchase was a strategic move to help San Miguel as it embarks on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the Philippines—the construction of the $14.4 billion (P731.2 billion) Bulacan airport.
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San Miguel Food and Beverage was recently recognized on Forbes Asia's Best Over a Billion list for having the second-highest market value of the Philippine companies on the list. San Miguel is currently valued at $11.9 billion (P619.98 billion). On a global scale, San Miguel Corporation's holding company Top Frontier Investment Holdings, which Ang also chairs as President and CEO, was ranked 1,198th on Forbes Magazine's annual Global 2000, which lists the world's largest, most valuable, and most powerful publicly held firms. Top Frontier was the third Philippine company to land on the list, beating Ayala Corporation and Metrobank in the rankings.
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Ang himself is currently the eighth richest individual in the Philippines according to Forbes, with a net worth of $2.8 billion.
Other awardees in The Bloomberg 50 include Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, rap-country phenomenon Lil Nas X, and the pro-democracy protestors of Hong Kong.
The honorees of this year's The Bloomberg 50 list will be recognized on December 9 during an awarding ceremony in New York City.
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Q: Empty kubernetes VPA recommendations I have the following manifest:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: my-rec-deployment
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: my-rec-deployment
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: my-rec-deployment
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: my-rec-container
          image: nginx

apiVersion: autoscaling.k8s.io/v1
kind: VerticalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
  name: my-rec-vpa
spec:
  targetRef:
    apiVersion: "apps/v1"
    kind:       Deployment
    name:       my-rec-deployment
  updatePolicy:
    updateMode: "Off"

When I run it with (kubectl get vpa my-rec-vpa --output yaml), I have the following output for recco:
status:
  conditions:
  - lastTransitionTime: "2022-05-17T11:10:32Z"
    status: "False"
    type: RecommendationProvided
  recommendation: {}

What is the problem with recommendations?


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The purpose of endowed and long-term investments is to provide support to beneficiaries now and into the future. The Catholic Foundation is proud to be entrusted with managing 97 endowed and long-term funds from committed donors, and as stewards of the legacy gifts so generously given, is committed to transparency and accountability. With that commitment, the 2021 Impact Report is now available online.
The online report provides information pertaining to fund growth and performance, support for beneficiaries, and year-over-year comparative reporting for the 2020-2021 fiscal year through June 30, 2021, and a link to the 2020-2021 audited financial statements, which includes an overview of the Foundation's operational expenses and revenues. Other report highlights are Board member responsibilities and current roster, and a list of members in our Mater Dei Giving Society of the Diocese of St. Petersburg. More information is also provided in the printable version of the report.
"The gifts our investors have entrusted to us are being well-utilized to save lives for Christ, both now and into the future," said Meegan Wright, Executive Director of the Catholic Foundation. "But we know our work is not done. We stand ready to assist generous benefactors in establishing their faith legacy so that together, we continue bringing ministry to life in our five-county diocese and beyond."
To request a printed version of the report, please email the Catholic Foundation at foundation@dosp.org.
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Viola Davis Delivers Deeply Emotional Acceptance Speech At 2015 SAG Awards [VIDEO]
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Viola Davis was brought to tears tonight as she accepted her well deserved trophy at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
We all knew that Viola was going to be collecting some statuettes this award season as soon as she sauntered into our Thursday nights on "How To Get Away With Murder." This notion was only solidified by moments like the one where she removed all of her makeup to appear completely natural in front of the camera before asking her on-camera hubby why his package was "on a dead girl's phone."
YASSS! She did that! So it couldn't have come as a surprise that she snagged the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Drama Series. The actress, who rocked a long white gown with a halo of curls, gave a stirring speech about how much it meant to her to win the honor.
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The actress, who rocked a long white gown with a halo of curls, gave a stirring speech about how much it meant to her to win the honor. For Viola, it's not just about being recognized for her talent. It also means that she can insert herself in a narrative that once did not include women that look like her.
"When I tell my daughter stories at night, enviably a few things happen. Number one, I use my imagination. I always start with life and i build from there," Viola began. "And then the other thing that happens…she always says, 'Mommy can you put me in the story?'"
She added, "I'd like to thank Paul Lee, Shonda Rhimes, Besty Beers…and Pete Nowalk…for thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old, dark-skinned African-American woman who looks like me."
Viola also made sure to thank everyone that loves her exactly the way she is (no matter how "classically beautiful" the New York Times deems her to be).
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The centerpiece of this community is The Stone Canyon Club and its spectacular 18-hole championship golf course designed by Jay Morrish. Designed to compliment the natural desert arroyos and dramatic rock outcroppings, this magnificent layout is already one of the best desert courses in the country. In addition to world class golf, there is a sports facility featuring tennis, swimming and fitness center.
Encompassing nearly 1,400 acres, estate-sized Stone Canyon Community Arizona home sites have been planned to maximize the stunning views and an oasis of green created by the The Stone Canyon Club Arizona golf course.
Stone Canyon has been thoughtfully planned in concert with the Arizona environment. Majestic, age-old saguaro cacti, arms raised in welcome to a cobalt-blue sky, dot the landscape. Massive outcroppings of rock are surrounded by yellow flowering brittlebush, purple verbena and Arizona desert lavender. Petroglyphs from ancient civilizations link the past to the present.
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Bad Dinosaur, a software development company founded in Edinburgh, has opened a Glasgow office.
The expansion to Glasgow follows a period of growth for the business which says it has worked for more than 40 companies over the last 18 months.
The two founders have expanded to a team of six full-time staff and are now recruiting for more staff including a business development manager, lead developer and a junior designer.
The agency has taken a serviced office in Savoy Tower, Renfrew Street in Glasgow city centre.
He said the company plans to grow its Scottish business before expanding to serve a greater geographical footprint across the UK.
Bad Dinosaur was founded by Kyle Whittington in 2013 to fill a specific gap in the market. He believed that big agencies worked too slowly and were not responsive to clients in the development process.
In 2016 Russ Peterson joined the business to focus on business development and diversify the range of services offered by the business.
The two directors now want to continue the growth of the business and in the process particularly work with start-ups and early stage businesses.


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Discover "the Holistic Alternative" For Fast
Naturopathic or Holistic Wellness is thoroughly grounded upon the whole well-being of the whole individual, thoughts, frame and spirit. Unlike Traditional Medicine, Holistic Wellness follows and integrates each historical (time-tested) commonplace health and recuperation awareness with the current discoveries in cutting-edge biology, genetics and quantum physics. This is completed by means of bring out our bodies into a kingdom of stability and wholeness using thoughts (superb psychology), body (meals, drink and herbs) and spirit (ideals, creativity and connection). This commenced with the "fathers" of modern medication, which might be Hippocrates and Paracelsus.
Hippocrates inside the 4th century B.C.E. Who practiced holistic well-being by way of discovering the source of any imbalances in a person and then lightly influencing them back their natural nation of homeostasis (wholeness or holistic kingdom) the use of both tremendous psychology, as we name it nowadays, and herbal holistic natural treatments.
Later Paracelsus in fifteenth century C.E., originator of modern-day chemistry, regarded the universe and everything in it as one coherent complete. He taught the need of human beings (microcosm) being in harmony with their surroundings (macrocosm) and that every one of lifestyles is pervaded by way of a existence giving spirit. He additionally recommended herbal foods, herbs and intellectual states that were conducive to restoration and bring lower back the harmony between the character and their surroundings.
Modern biology has demonstrated that although we are inspired by our genetic trends and familial dispositions, we can consciously select to override our "genetic programming" to arrive on the nation that we truely choice to be in. In fact, present day genetic research has certainly shown that our surroundings, and extra importantly, what we accept as true with about our surroundings controls what genes liberate or specific themselves in our revel in. This is called gene transcription, and it could be in large part be managed with the aid of clearing unquestioned inherited beliefs, or the ones which might be no longer serving our first-class pursuits. The historic physicians somehow knew about this at an intuitive level, as they did now not have the technology as we are aware of it to virtually peer into our cellular biology.
Modern technological know-how also indicates that our hearts, in addition to our entire frame has inherent intelligence "a non-neighborhood mind" that offers off lively waves that can be measured with digital gadget. This is called the "Wisdom of our Body." Ancient cultures knew this and sought to offer our bodies with a balanced method to wellness. Kirlian pictures has been around for over one hundred years now, and simply suggests that all residing life paperwork have an lively area surrounding that envelops the lifestyles form in its entirety. This power area even shows the complete blueprint of the frame or life form (plant, leaf, animal, and so forth.) even if part of the physical frame or plant leaf is reduce completely off and thrown away! Acupuncture meridians have also been these days scientifically verified (thanks to NASA device) to exist precisely as the Traditional Chinese and Indian Ayurvedic physicians have said MILLENIA ago!
Hippocrates is called the "Father of Medicine," and all cutting-edge physicians take the oath to "Do no harm." He taught the holistic version of medicine, or even used astrology to see past the bodily to the real source of the imbalance, and educate the purchaser of potential difficult energies that can have an effect on the affected person's future fitness. His foundation was based upon nature (sunlight, workout, and healthy meals) in addition to clean air and easy water. Paracelsus extensively utilized metaphysics and alchemy in his successful healing practice. These foundation of holistic wellbeing are still very relevant nowadays (as may be seen by means of few humans clearly experiencing complete recovery of something), but now not being accompanied by using most people of Allopathic (Modern) medicinal drug's physicians. They do take the Hippocratic Oath to first do no damage; alas an awful lot damage is performed, even though normally by chance, I sincerely hope. Paracelsus, the great health practitioner, turned into also a metaphysician like Hippocrates and Galen before him. Naturopathic (referring to nature) and Holistic (referring to wholeness and balance) remedy must be the cornerstone of any intelligent physician's exercise as it's miles, and has constantly been, the start or beginning of optimum health and wellness.
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The Syracuse CoWorks is taking over the 3rd floor of 201 E Jefferson!
CoWork Hard, CoPlay Hard! National Tabletop Day came to Syracuse CoWorks!
CoWork Hard, CoPlay Hard! Join us for National Tabletop Day (Saturday, April 29th) for some friendly competition! Noon - 8pm.
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Spring Break! Such a time of excitement for kids, but also stress for working parents who need a way to keep their kids out of trouble while they get work done. We had the solution!
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From beer and waffles to awesome art, the Syracuse CoWorks has it all!
April Event: Paint Your Own Poster Project Poster!
The Syracuse CoWorks and Syracuse Poster Project teamed up to bring out the artistic side of CoWorking!


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Q: Segmentation fault (core dumped) in Qt5 application I have a Qt5 application that runs fine in the qtcreator, but if I try to run in by the executable created through terminal I get
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I've tried in debug mode in Qt but no errors.

A: If a program crashes when run outside of a debugger, but doesn't crash when run inside the debugger, it might be a sign that you are using uninitialized data. More specifically, an uninitialized pointer.
Debuggers generally clears all data, including local variables. That means that e.g. a pointer will be NULL when run in the debugger. But if you don't initialize some local variable, its contents will be indeterminate when run outside of the debugger, and your check against NULL will say "this is not NULL, please continue", and you will reference this uninitialized pointer and enter the territory of undefined behavior.
You need to go through all local variables, especially pointers, and make sure you initialize them before using them.


Slice onion into thick slices or wedges. Place half of the onion into the bottom the slow cooker. Crush or mince garlic clove and place in slow cooker with onion. Add beef broth to slow cooker.
Remove corned beef from package. Discard seasoning packet. Rinse well to remove brine. Trim fat and discard. Place into slow cooker on top of onion and broth.
Top beef with black pepper, a pinch of red pepper flakes and remaining onion.
Cover, cook on low for at least 8 hours.
When tender, remove to a platter and slice about ½ inch thick, against the grain.
*Packaged corned beef comes in two cuts: flat cut and point cut. They are labeled on the top of the package. You will want to ensure you have the flat cut for the best results.
Weight Watchers Info: Each 3 ounce serving is 6 SmartPoints.
WW Freestyle Info.: Each 3 ounce serving is 6 points.
We love the packet flavors – can the packet spices be used (despite instructions stating not to use them)?
Thanks so much! I may try it as he recipe states first, sounds delicious!


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All air-conditioned rooms at Ivory Seminyak Bali feature an in-room safety deposit box, minibar with refrigerator, IDD telephone, LCD TV with cable television channels, coffee and tea making facilities and hairdryer.
Complimentary wifi internet access is available in all rooms and throughout the hotel.
All rooms have a small private terrace with day bed.
Family room features two bedrooms; a master bedroom with queen bed and a second bedroom with two twin beds together with a living room with satellite TV.
Family Policy: Child under 11 years old sharing parent's bed - stay free.


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Matthias Warnig (nacido 26 de julio de 1955) es un ejecutivo empresarial alemán, y el director gestor (CEO) de Nord Stream AG, una compañía para la construcción y operación del gasoducto submarino Nordstream, de Rusia a Alemania. Antiguamente se desempeñó como oficial en la Stasi.

Warnig, a quien el ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores estadounidense considera ser "un aliado de Presidente ruso Vladimir Putin", sufría sanciones de los EE.UU., pero la administración Biden se las quitó en mayo del 2021.

Biografía
Nació Warning el 26 de julio de 1955 en Altdöbern, Baja Lusatia, Alemania del Este.

En 1974 Warnig empezó su carrera en el Stasi, la policía secreta de la comunista Alemania el Este. Warnig presuntamente trabajó con el agente de la KGB  Vladímir Putin. Los dos colaboraron en reclutar ciudadanos de Alemania Occidental para lal KGB. Warnig, empero, ha negado esto, alegando que se conocieron por primera vez en 1991, cuando Putin dirigía el Comité para Relaciones Externas de la alcaldía de San Petersburgo.

Warnig aparentemente habría espiado al Banco Dresdner AG, de Dresde, en Alemania Occidental, antes de empezar a trabajar allí.

Warnig devino Presidente del Consejo de Administración de Banco Dresdner ZAO, la filial de rusa de Banco. En 2004–05, el banco asesoró en la venta forzada polémica venta de los activos de Yukos.

Entre 2012 y 2018, Warning lideró la junta de accionistas de Rusal, pero se vio forzado a renunciar cuando el gobierno del Presidente Trump impuso sanciones a la compañía en abril de ese año.

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Enlaces externos

 Nord Corriente, Matthias Warnig (codename "Arthur") y el Gazprom Lobby Eurasia Volumen de Monitor Diario: 6 Asunto: 114
 Matthias Warnig: "Qué es bien para Rusia es bien para Alemania" por Irina Reznik, El Vedomosti 11 octubre 2006 (traducción en el sitio web de Nord Corriente AG, incluye biografía de Matthias Warnig)
Personas vivas
Nacidos en 1955

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When light strikes certain light-sensitive materials, it may cause them to give off electrons, it may change their ability to conduct electricity, or it may cause them to develop an electrical potential, or voltage, across two surfaces. Devices that rely on these effects for their operation are called photoelectric devices.
Photoelectric devices can be adapted to a variety of applications. As an optical switch that senses the interruption of a light beam, a photoelectric device can open doors automatically or activate a counter on an assembly line. Because the electric current put out by photoelectric devices varies with the intensity of the incoming light, the devices can be used as sensors to turn lights on at night and off during the day. Photoelectric devices can be made sensitive to certain wavelengths of incoming light and used in photographic light meters. They are also used in the reproduction of movie sound tracks.
Photoelectric units can also be made to operate in the infrared and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum (see radiation). The light beams in burglar alarms, for example, are usually outside the visible spectrum.
Photoelectric devices can be classified according to how they react when they are struck by light. They may be photoemissive, photoconductive, or photovoltaic.
A photoemissive cell, commonly known as a phototube, makes use of the photoelectric effect, the phenomenon whereby light-sensitive surfaces give off electrons when struck by light. Photoemissive cells are sometimes called photocells or electric eyes. A phototube consists of a vacuum tube, housed in glass or quartz, containing two electrodes: a curved surface called a cathode and a slender rod called an anode. The cathode is made of a photoemissive material, so that when light strikes the cathode, it emits electrons.
All light can be considered as being made up of separate packets of energy called photons (see light; quantum mechanics). When photons strike the cathode, the electrons in the light-sensitive substance absorb their energy. The electrons thus acquire enough energy to escape from the surface of the metal. If the anode is positively charged, the electrons are drawn to it. This movement of electrons from cathode to anode constitutes electric current, which can be used as a source of power.
In a vacuum phototube, the brighter the light that strikes the cathode, the greater the number of electrons that are released and the greater the current that flows through the tube. Thus any change in the brightness, or intensity, of the light falling on the tube instantly results in a change in the flow of electric current. Many photoelectric devices depend on a changing light intensity to operate. The electric current may be increased if the tube is filled with an inert gas, such as helium or argon. The response of a gas-filled phototube, however, is not uniformly proportional to the light intensity. As a result, such units may be unsuitable for certain applications.
The current that flows through a phototube is very small, especially at low light levels, and cannot be used to operate any device directly. It must first be amplified. For this purpose, a device called an electron multiplier may be used in the phototube. In this case, the phototube is known as a photomultiplier tube. A photomultiplier tube has a series of anodes, called dynodes, enclosed in a glass envelope. Electrons from the cathode strike the first dynode at high speeds and knock out electrons from the dynode. These released electrons (called secondary emission electrons) are attracted to the second dynode, which has a higher positive voltage. Each electron again knocks out more secondary electrons, and this process continues as the electrons strike one dynode after another. Up to ten dynodes are used in a photomultiplier tube. The current from the last dynode, which may be up to 2 million times stronger than the initial current, can be used to operate various devices.
An alternative method of amplifying the current is to use a channel electron multiplier, a C-shaped hollow glass tube coated with a material capable of releasing a large number of secondary emission electrons. In effect, it has one long dynode surface instead of separate dynodes.
An electric field is set up in the tube, so that electrons from the cathode are swept along to the other end. The electrons strike the dynode surface several times as they round the bend, and each time they do, more electrons are emitted.
Phototubes are commonly used in alarm systems and automatic door openers. Photomultipliers are used in astronomy to measure the intensity of faint stars and in nuclear studies to detect and measure minute flashes of light.
These cells, also known as photoresistors, contain a thin film of certain semiconductor materials deposited over a ceramic. When these semiconductor materials are exposed to light, their electrical conductivity is increased. Typically the film is made of lead or calcium sulfides or tellurides.
The materials used to make the films in photoconductive cells are generally poor electrical-current conductors because their electrons are unable to move freely within the material when an electrical voltage is applied. Light directed on such materials is absorbed by some electrons, however, freeing them to pass more easily from one atom to the next. When photoconductive materials are removed from the light, the freed electrons return to their more tightly bound state.
Photoconductive cells may be used in alarms, door openers, digital tachometers, and production-line counters. They are also a component in supermarket scanners that read the Universal Product Codes on grocery items (see automation).
In photovoltaic cells a small voltage is generated when light strikes the junction between a metal and a semiconductor or a junction between two different semiconductors. These devices are also called solar cells when they operate with light from the sun.
The term photovoltaic effect is given to this process in which two dissimilar materials in close contact act as an electric cell when struck by light. As with the materials used in photoconductive devices, the electrons in the photovoltaic materials are usually not free to move from atom to atom. It has been proven with experiments that when light strikes electrons, however, it provides the energy needed to free some of them from their bound condition.
Free electrons cross the junction between the two materials more easily in one direction than in the other, giving one side of the junction a negative charge and the other side a positive charge, just as one electrode of a battery has a negative voltage with respect to the other (see battery). The photovoltaic cell can continue to provide voltage and current as long as light continues to fall on the two materials.
The voltage generated from a single photovoltaic cell is typically a fraction of a volt. By connecting many thousands of individual cells together, however, as in modern solar batteries, more than 1 kilowatt of electric power can be generated.
The energy efficiency of most present-day photovoltaic cells is only about 7 to 11 percent—that is, only that fraction of the incoming radiant energy is converted to electric energy. Since the intensity of solar radiation is low—about 125 watts per square foot (1,350 watts per square meter) above the atmosphere and less at the Earth's surface—huge and costly assemblies of such cells are required to produce even moderate amounts of power.


And that calls for a celebration toast!
Not that I hate my job. In fact, since I got back into the "swing of things" with a more conventional job and got to drop the cash shifts at [insert nationwide awful retail establishment name here], things have been looking on the up and up. I actually don't mind crawling out of my bed at around 7 30 8 15 and sprinting out the door at 8 45 (ish) to make work. Why?
Welcome this little girl into the land of adulthood. Hello, fiscal responsibility! Good bye, childhood hopes and dreams!
It's definitely sweet, but not in an obnoxious way. I kind of taste apples (cider-y) and mixed berries, like a fragrant jam, but there's that subtle undertone of a heavier red grape right at the end.
Bright pink cherry, intense and persistent aroma, fruity with small red fruit scent (strawberry). Medium-bodied, balanced, intense and with a great persistence. We suggest to drink it young.
That "drinking it young" part is a little creepy, right? But when it comes to this wine, I have to admit yes, the fresher the better. It'll get too heavy and that fruity quality will be more syrupy than pleasant. But wtf do I know? Try it yourself and tell me what you think. It's seasonal, so enjoy it while supplies last (don't say I didn't warn you).


The email address of Samsung Jaipur service center is sandeepbarala@gmail.com.
Samsung Group working together under the brand name "Samsung" is a worldwide combination of various associations and is situated in South Korea. The association was established by the diligent works of Lee Byung-chul in the year 1938 as a small trading organization and with the movement of time developed its areas of operations. Samsung Group was initially into the food processing business.
Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Heavy Industries, Samsung C and T, Samsung SDS, Samsung Techwin, Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance, and numerous others are the different subsidiaries of Samsung Group. As indicated by the reports of the Financial year 2013, the association had a Total assets of approximately 100.4 billion U.S. Dollar's. Samsung Group has hired more than 427,000 representatives to give moral, and expert client services. Samsung Group owns its headquarters at Samsung Town, Seocho District in Seoul in South Korea.
The association is engaged in the designing, manufacturing, development and marketing of various models of cellular phones in various classifications for example, Multimedia Phones, QWERTY, Smart Phones, single SIM, Dual SIM, Tablets, FM to High-end 3G Android based, Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) to Code division numerous access, (CDMA) to Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) telephone with various features for example, WIFI network, TRACK PAD and many others.
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Jasmone is an organic compound, which is a volatile portion of the oil from jasmine flowers.  It is a colorless to pale yellow liquid.  Jasmone can exist in two isomeric forms with differing geometry around the pentenyl double bond, cis-jasmone and trans-jasmone.  The natural extract contains only the cis form, while synthetic material is often a mixture of both, with the cis form predominating.  Both forms have similar odors and chemical properties.  Its structure was deduced by Lavoslav Ružička.

Jasmone is produced by some plants by the metabolism of jasmonic acid, via a decarboxylation.  It can act as either an attractant or a repellent for various insects.  Commercially jasmone is used primarily in perfumes and cosmetics.

References

Enones
Cyclopentenes


Koknaroglu, H.; Harrington Jr, John; Mader, T. L.
The objective of this study was to conduct cultural energy analyses on feedlot cattle production in Turkey. The comprehensive climate index (CCI) model was used to predict DMI, ADG, and feed efficiency of feedlot cattle in 15 locations in Turkey. The CCI enables one to quantify beef cattle performance for a number of breeds based on environmental conditions (temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation) at any time in the year. Because mostly dairy breed calves are placed into the feedlot in Turkey, the Holstein (dairy breed) option in the CCI was chosen to calculate the maintenance energy requirement. Based on previous feedlot feeding studies conducted in Turkey, it was assumed that calves would be placed on feed at 250 kg and be marketed at 520 kg and that the diet would have 2600 kcal/kg metabolic energy and would have DMI of 2.31% of the BW. It was assumed that cattle would receive 2 kg/d straw and that the concentrate mixture would consist of 52.65% barley, 26% corn, 19% cotton seed meal, 1.5% limestone, 0.25% vitamins, 0.5% salt, and 0.1% minerals. Cultural energy inputs were calculated by multiplying the amount of inputs and their corresponding cultural energy based on values from existing literature. Cultural energy used for feed was derived from DMI of cattle and corresponding values for each feed ingredient. Transportation energy was also included in the analysis, including costs for shipping calves from animal market to the farm, shipping yearlings to slaughterhouse, and shipping feed ingredients to the farm. Cultural energy expended for feed made up more than half of the total cultural energy and differed among cities (P < 0.05). Cultural energy for feed was highest for the coldest places and lowest for hot locations. Cultural energy of transportation constituted the second highest cultural energy expenditure. Cultural energy expended per kilogram live weight gain (defined as total cultural energy expended divided by kg live weight gain) was highest for the coldest location and lowest for relatively hotter cities (P < 0.05). Cultural energy use efficiency (defined by kcal input/kcal output) followed the feed efficiency ranking with cattle having better feed efficiency also have better cultural energy use efficiency. Results showed that cattle having higher ADG did not mean that they would also have better cultural energy use efficiency.


The Hanover Airpark is home to over 380 businesses, including an airport, and is strategically located in central Hanover County near the intersection of, and easily accessed from, I-95 and I-295.
Recently, what was the Hanover Airpark Business Association gladly announced that their member businesses have become an official divis ion of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce. This new partnership will allow for more support of businesses inside the airpark and help create an even stronger local Chamber. The Hanover Chamber is happy to welcome HABA businesses, many of whom have been duel-members the past years, and find new ways to support this key geographical and business area within our County.
Any chamber member business located within the geographical area of the airpark can participate in this Division. Members pay only one membership and receive all the same perks and privileges as other chamber members, with the addition of events and community involvement within the service area. The division is represented on the Chamber Board of Directors with a voting board seat. The Division Director chairs a Committee of airpark businesses to oversee the division's special offerings.
Airpark Events Luncheons for 2019 to be released soon!
View the complete 2018-19 Board of Directors listing. For more division information, contact Executive Director Melissa Miller.


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The perfect Stormy
Have the latest Stormy Daniels revelations put President Trump in legal peril?
AP Photo/The Advocate,Travis Spradling
byPaul Waldman
With the impeccable strategic insight and forethought we've come to expect from those working for President Trump, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen issued a statement this week that appeared to implicate him in a crime. "In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford," Cohen wrote, referring to the adult film actress who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels. "Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly."
Why does that implicate him in a crime? Because since the $130,000 was intended to buy Daniels' silence just weeks before the election about an affair she allegedly had with Trump in 2006, it almost certainly constituted an in-kind campaign contribution. And you aren't allowed to donate $130,000 to someone else's campaign, no matter how much you admire his gold-plated apartment and luxurious, flowing mane. The payment wasn't reported on the Trump campaign's filings to the Federal Election Commission, which would mean that laws on both contribution limits and reporting were violated.
But that's not the whole story, because Cohen may have an out. You'll notice he said that he used his personal funds to facilitate the payment, not that he paid it — which could mean that he used his funds to establish the Delaware shell company he set up to make the payoff (yes, he did that), but that the $130,000 came from somewhere else. Perhaps from Trump himself, which would make sense, since while "toady" would be a far too generous term to refer to Cohen's relationship to Trump, that's a lot of money to ask your lawyer to put up on his own.
And it gets better. Once Cohen made this admission — whatever it is exactly that he admitted to — Ms. Daniels decided that by doing so he had violated the terms of the non-disclosure agreement she signed in exchange for the $130,000, and she is therefore free to say whatever she wants. "Everything is off now, and Stormy is going to tell her story," said her manager.
You go, Stormy.
Cohen's strange sort-of admission may have you wondering whether anyone actually goes to jail for this kind of thing. The answer is that it's rare, but it can happen. Let's look back at the case that may offer the closest analogy, that of former Sen. John Edwards.
Back when Edwards was running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, a videographer named Rielle Hunter caught his eye. They began an affair, which eventually resulted in a child. Edwards' wife Elizabeth was suffering from a recurrence of breast cancer at the time; she died in 2010.
But the story didn't come out during the campaign, and one reason was revealed when the government indicted Edwards and an aide in 2011 for conspiring to violate campaign finance laws. Among other things, Edwards was charged with convincing a supporter, heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, to provide Hunter with $200,000 in living expenses, presumably to keep her quiet.
Many people considered the case a weak one, and in 2012 a mistrial was declared; the defendants were found not guilty on the charge of violating campaign finance laws, and the jury deadlocked on the conspiracy charges. The fact that Bunny Mellon's payment to Hunter came after Edwards dropped out of the race (but while he was still hoping for a spot as Barack Obama's running mate or attorney general) seemed to play a large part in the decision.
So does that suggest that Cohen and Trump don't have anything to worry about? Not necessarily. The facts in the Stormy Daniels case are different: Her payment was arranged just weeks before the election, so they'd be hard-pressed to argue that it was just a personal matter unrelated to the campaign. And if it's revealed that Trump himself put up the $130,000, he'd be in violation of reporting rules at a minimum (candidates have to report to the FEC any contributions they make to their own campaigns, including the payment of hush money to quell embarrassing stories).
What may get them off the hook, however, is the fact that the government doesn't prosecute cases like this one all that often. They have almost nothing to worry about from the FEC, which Republicans have turned into an utterly toothless regulator. Last year one of the Democratic commissioners, Ann Ravel, resigned in disgust, saying that "[a] bloc of three commissioners" — that would be the three Republican appointees, who serve alongside three Democrats — "routinely thwarts, obstructs, and delays action on the very campaign finance laws its members were appointed to administer." So the odds are heavily against the FEC going after Trump and Cohen, and even if it did, all it could do is demand a fine.
That would leave it to the Justice Department. And while it was an Obama appointee who made the decision to prosecute John Edwards, does anyone think that the Trump DOJ is going to go after him and his lawyer?
Probably not, at least not for this. But if I were Cohen I wouldn't breathe easy, given the fact that his long relationship with Trump was from the beginning built on Cohen's connections to shady characters in the former Soviet Union — something Robert Mueller may be interested in.
We already know many of the details of the relationship Stormy and Donald had, because some years ago she gave a long interview to In Touch magazine about the affair, which they published this January. It was hardly steamy at all; the most interesting part was her description of Trump's seething hatred of sharks.
In other words, the whole scandal is as Trumpian as could be: sordid, crooked, banal, silly, and driven forward by Trump's own stupidity and that of people around him. What more could we expect?
Did Trump prove Obama wrong about America?
MS-13 is Republicans' new Willie Horton
Jeff Flake's 2020 kamikaze mission
How Democrats should tackle Trump in the midterms
George Santos campaign changes treasurers amid scrutiny of campaign loans
Things that make you go hmmmmm...


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Дрофа́нь Анато́лій Па́влович (17 листопада 1919, м. Прилуки, нині місто Чернігівської області, Україна — 25 травня 1988, Київ, УРСР) — радянсько-український письменник. Член Спілки письменників УРСР від 1958.

Біографія

Анатолій Дрофань народився в родині залізничника. Через кілька днів після того, як він народився у Прилуках, його батька перевели на роботу до Ічні. Оскільки він не встиг оформити документи про народження сина, то зробив це уже в Ічні.

1935 року закінчив Ічнянську семирічну школу, після чого продовжив освіту на робітничому факультеті при Ніжинському педагогічному інституті. 1938 року вступив на філологічний факультет Київського університету. У зв'язку з війною закінчив його тільки в 1945 році.

Працював у редакціях республіканських газет «Молодь України», «Колгоспне село» та журналі «Україна».

Друкуватися А. П. Дрофань почав з 1945 року. Першу книжку видав у 1956 році.

З російської мови переклав низку творів Віталія Біанкі, Михайла Алексєєва.

Окремі твори Дрофаня перекладено російською, білоруською, казахською, німецькою мовами.

Основні видання

 Збірка оповідань для дітей середнього шкільного віку «Журка із Сонцеграда» (1956).
 Збірка сатиричних оповідань «Іменини» (1957).
 Книжка для дітей «Про барона, Мавру і мале вушко» (1959).
 Документальна повість «Коли ми красиві» (1962).
 Збірка оповідань «Троянди» (1963).
 Книжка для дітей «Коли я виросту» (1963).
 Книжка для дітей «Янехо» (1965).
 Збірка оповідань «Альбіон» (1967).
 Збірка оповідань «Земля для квітів» (1968).
 Повість «У кожному камені — іскра» (1971).
 Книжка для дітей «Загадка старої дзвіниці» (1971).
 Повість «Біла криниця» (1975).
 Історичний роман із часів гайдамаччини «Таїна голубого палацу» (1978).
 Збірка оповідань «Сонцелюби» (1979).
 Історико-біографічний роман «Буремна тиша» (1984) — про Степана Васильченка.

Література

 Письменники Радянської України. — К., 1970. — С. 136—137.
 Письменники Радянської України. — К., 1981. — С. 78.
 Міщенко Д. О. Дрофань Анатолій Павлович //  — С. 114.

Примітки

Українські письменники
Українські перекладачі
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This week I'd like to introduce you to Caroline McCulloch, a podiatrist, physiotherapist and designer behind FRANKIE4 Footwear—a range of fashionable shoes that are comfortable to wear. Not only are they often seen adorning my feet (stay tuned to meet their latest shoe, BETH) but they also released a pair named BROOKE last year, named after yours truly).
Named after Caroline's former fox terrier Frank, the brand started with a run of 200 pairs of shoes in 2010 and has since earned a cult following for its comfy, fashion-forward designs, with more than 100,000 pairs produced in last 12 months.
My husband Al; son Max, 6; daughter Rose, 4; the dogs Bill and Benny; four chickens—Booster, Hetty, Cookie, Monster; and two random bush turkeys that the kids count as their pets!
How and when did FRANKiE4 begin?
Despite my health professional background I've always had a love of fashion. When treating patients it was difficult to refer them to comfort footwear styles I wouldn't want to wear myself, it felt hypocritical. But it was undeniable, footwear with the right support and cushioning alleviated foot symptoms, patients always reported better treatment results with the right shoes under their feet. As a Podiatrist & Physiotherapist, footwear could not be separated from my treatment if I was to provide the best care to my patients I needed to get their foundation (footwear) right. But the options of comfort shoes were….ghastly.
It was the day a patient nearly cried when I was showing her some comfort shoes that would be great for her treatment that I made the decision to look into if it was possible to design my own styles.
I'd run a footwear store within our podiatry clinics for seven years prior to developing FRANKiE4, so had a good handle on footwear. I had heard that there was a shoe manufacturer in Sydney, I called him, told him my ideas and met him the following week. About 10 prototypes later and lots or wear testing, I was signing off on my first two styles to sell in our Podiatry clinics to our patients.
How do you go about your design process?
An occupational hazard I have is that I'm ALWAYS looking at women's feet. So market research really is an everyday occurrence for me; finding women that present confidently and seeing what type of styles they are wearing help me consider my next styles. Then comes drawings, blueprints , prototypes and LOTS of video calls with my supplier a few trips a year to them too and sampling sampling sampling until the style is just right.
What inspires and engages you?
My mum. She is a huge inspiration to me. She really ran the show when her and dad had a wheat and cotton property outside of Goondiwindi. All businesses have to overcome or accept adversities, but in my opinion farming is one of the toughest industries. My parents work ethic, adaptability and resilience has taught me a lot of skills managing my own business hurdles.
Would you say your collections have changed since you first launched FRANKiE4? Is so, how and why?
YES! Each season the range gets better and better. With the growth we've experienced, our numbers reflect each season we get stronger.
I cringe when I see my very early styles. Al gets angry at me because I won't keep a sample of any discontinued styles. He thinks we should be collecting at least one of any style we have launched on the market for memories sake. But I can't look back. For some reason I just can't and I don't know if that is a good or bad thing…?
I feel I have so much more to give our customers. Many more styles they will love the look and feel of. The day I feel a season isn't better than the previous season… I'll quit. My heart is in this, I truly love what I do, and I'm very motivated to keep giving our customers styles they will love.
Do you have a favourite piece within your Summer collection?
I'm finalising fitting samples for next summer and a couple of new styles for high summer … so truth be told I'm rocking a lot of mismatched shoe samples at the moment. One style on my left foot and a completely different style on my right. It's the most efficient way for me to keep the ball rolling with development.
I can never really have a favourite shoe for the season, because I work 12 months ahead of the current range so am always wear testing samples. And I do wear mismatched shoes in public, only last Friday I picked up Max from school and I was wearing a size trial sandal on one foot and a new derby style I'm working on on the other foot.
I don't think people even notice, or if they do I doubt they think twice about it, and that's why I don't feel self-conscious.
What's your favourite go-to outfit for summer?
I just can't get enough of Zimmerman at the moment. I have a variety of their dresses on high rotation this summer, they are just too easy to dress up or down.
I'm reading 'Skroo the Rules' by Darryl Blake. It's about Graham 'Skroo' Turner, Brisbane based founder of Flight Centre and how manages his workplace. Amazing amazing guy.
I'm really proud of the team we've built. I just can't do this without really good people backing me. We have over 40 staff now and it keeps growing. I'm always looking for ways we can improve, so this is my type of book.
What's your favourite way to spend a Sunday?
With Al, Max and Rose. Chilling at home, doing our best to make time slow down.
What is the best holiday you've been on and why?
December 2016 we went to London to spend Christmas with my sister, my brother in law and my nephews. My parents came too so that made it extra special. We all just hung out together, not sightseeing, just simply being together.
What are your hopes for 2018 – for both yourself and FRANKiE4?
I started running again in 2017, I want to also find time to add swimming to that. I know swimming will be good for my fitness (and head space). Professionally, I want build our brand awareness in NZ, and to have stockists in Europe.
Follow FRANKiE4 on Instagram, Facebook and check out their online store here.
Caroline with Max and Rose.


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"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" intrigues audiences
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"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" proves to be a successful second installment to the first Kingsman movie, Kingsman: The Secret Service.
By Jake Herman, News Editor
Packed with nearly two-and-a-half hours of thrills, plot twists, over-the-top action, and edgy humor, "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" is an entertaining, albeit flawed, second installment of Matthew Vaughn's spy universe.
Directed and co-written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, the film picks up where its predecessor "Kingsman: The Secret Service" left off.
Charming street-kid-turned-spy and main protagonist Eggsy (Taron Egerton) is living with his new wife Tilde (Hanna Alstrom) in the estate of his old mentor, Harry Hart (Colin Firth). Harry was a Kingsman who was shot in the eye and left for dead at the end of "The Secret Service." Eggsy bears the alias of his old mentor within the Kingsman underground spy organization disguised as tailors based in London.
Within seconds of the opening credits, Eggsy finds himself under attack from his nemesis and Kingsman reject Charlie (Edward Holcroft) who is working for Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore), the leader of a drug cartel known as the Golden Circle. Calling the shots from a 50's-themed hideout in South America, Poppy's plan is to achieve economic domination by holding the world hostage with a deadly virus implanted in her widely-sold drugs.
Using data obtained from Charlie's attack, Poppy sends missiles to annihilate the homes of the Kingsmen all over the world. Once the dust settles, the last Kingsmen standing are Eggsy and the cold yet brilliant former technology specialist of the Kingsman, Merlin (Mark Strong).
Eggsy and Merlin's quest to stop Poppy leads them to rural Kentucky, where they discover an american counterpart to their spy organization disguised as a whiskey distillery: The Statesmen.
Led by agents Tequila (Channing Tatum), Whiskey (Pedro Pascal), Ginger (Halle Berry), and Champ (Jeff Bridges), the Statesmen are holding a valuable and surprising asset: Agent Harry Hart. Harry is alive but struck with frequent unconsciousness and fitted with an eyepatch to cover his wound.
The choice by Vaughn and Goldman to bring Harry back from the dead is a controversial one, especially because the film invented an egregiously powerful technology seemingly out of thin air to revive him. To me, the execution of this 'big reveal' was puzzling from a creative standpoint. If the Kingsmen have access to a plethora of high-tech disguised weapons, hologram-glasses, and futuristic cars, why wouldn't they also possess this simple-looking technology to repair dead cells that their American counterparts have?
As the film progresses, Firth's nuanced performance makes a strong case in favor of the writer's choice because the story thrives on his adapting dynamic with Taron Egerton's Eggsy. However, given the profound impact that Harry's death had on Eggsy in the first film, to bring Harry back to nearly the same level of gravitas and combat skill as before detracts from the emotional impact and significance of the first movie beloved by so many fans.
One thing that "The Golden Circle" nails, however, are its action sequences. Full of close-ups, changes of pace, and energizing music, the fight scenes build on the iconic sequences of "The Secret Service." The fight scenes are a tad predictable in their overall outcome, but each maneuver flows seamlessly and oozes creativity and originality.
The movie features an astonishingly high number of well-known actors and actresses, which is both a blessing and a curse. Mark Strong's Merlin shines as he comes to the forefront more than than he did in "The Secret Service," Julianne Moore's Poppy is a devious and psychopathic spark, and Elton John plays himself in a hilarious cameo where he is kidnapped in Poppy's 50's-themed stronghold. Halle Berry also adds to the film as Statesman's foil of Merlin who seeks to become a field operative.
Channing Tatum as agent Tequila and Jeff Bridges as agent Champ are introduced dramatically and grandly, only to be woefully underused throughout the film. It's possible that Vaughan and Goldman have a third installment up their sleeve. However, Pedro Pascal's agent Whiskey was largely disappointing as the member of the Statesmen who got the most screen time. I believe this was no fault of Pascal's, but rather a fault of Vaughn and Goldman who wrote in a plot twist involving agent Whiskey that was superficially suspenseful, but ultimately hollow.
Some questionable plot choices in "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" are outweighed by the film's overall cleverness, charm, and excitement. After all, it is only natural that a movie as jam-packed and lengthy as "Kingsman" that takes so many swings for the fences, will inevitably whiff on a few.
"Kingsman: The Secret Service" is a solid twist on a spy film and an intriguing addition to the "Kingsman" universe. At its core, the movie is an entertaining, fast-paced and fun story that is worth a trip to the theaters to see.
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End the year with the Observer Staff's favorite movie and television shows
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Best "Hallmark" movies to watch this Christmas
"Grand Army" is a realistic portrayal of high school
"Happiest Season" blazes new paths for LGBTQ+ representation in romantic comedies
"Remote" by Wallows shows how powerful virtual connections can be
Glenstone museum provides a safe place to view art during the pandemic
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Movie and TV sets adapt to find ways to continue filming during COVID-19
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Bush, Kerry Share Commitment to Israel
WASHINGTON – John Kerry (search) didn't wait to see if his presidential ambitions were realized before sending an emissary of sorts — his brother — to Israel. Fealty to Israel's security is so deeply embedded in both parties that symbolic touches may be the most that sets them apart.
In Kerry, Middle East analysts see a candidate who has indicated a willingness to return to the deep activism of the Bill Clinton (search) years in trying to win an Israeli-Palestinian peace. In President Bush, they see a steadfast friend of the Israelis who has only fitfully put the weight of his presidency on ending the conflict.
In practice, any shift in policy is more likely to be driven by what happens in the region than who wins the U.S. election, they say. And with both Bush and Kerry pledging a single-minded focus on global terrorism, Clinton's zeal as a would-be peacemaker seems firmly of another time.
"The differences among Democrats and Republicans are not about the size of the commitment to Israel," said Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the University of Maryland. "It is more about what the commitment means, and what policies to pursue to help Israeli and American interests."
That small country has a huge American audience: not only Jews and Arab-Americans, but Christian conservatives who take a pro-Israel line. Candidates mess at their peril with the precarious balance of supporting Israel while reaching out to Palestinians.
"The support and commitment for Israel run deep in the blood of the body politic of Americans," said Judith Kipper of the Council on Foreign Relations. "It is the one issue in foreign policy that has a genuine domestic constituency."
Kerry's rhetorical shifts have brought him closer in line with Bush, even as he accuses the president of abandoning the honest-broker traditions of his predecessor.
Many point to Bush's strong embrace of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a hard-liner with a history of supporting Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas, as an example of the difference in emphasis between the two candidates. But Kerry, just like Bush, now calls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "irrelevant," only months after declining to count Arafat out in negotiations, and after having once called him a "statesman."
When it comes to Israel, the broad strokes of U.S. foreign policy give way to paint-by-numbers particularity. America takes positions on narrow slices of land, concerns itself with the fine print of tortured agreements between foes, and probably gives more thought to the West Bank security barrier than it gives to some countries.
The Middle East planks of the Democratic platform are threaded with language that means little to the average American voter but is keenly understood by Israelis, Arabs and the U.S. groups that support them.
"It is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice line of 1949," the platform says, for example. To those who are alert to the nuances, that means the party supports some Israeli claims to the West Bank.
The platform avoids the debate over the 425-mile-long security barrier Israel is building on the West Bank — a topic so sensitive that much is read into whether someone calls it a fence, as Israel does, or a wall, as Palestinians do. In reality it is a combination of high concrete walls, razor-wire fences and trenches.
Both Kerry and the Bush administration have supported its construction as a necessary component of Israel's security and struggle against suicide bombers while urging that it be routed in the least repressive way for Palestinians living there.
Those complexities aside, Kerry's brother Cameron met top Israeli leaders this week on what was described as a goodwill visit organized by a pro-Israel group in the United States. Cameron Kerry, a political adviser to his brother and a Boston attorney who converted to Judaism in 1983, was said to be representing the Democratic candidate on the trip, and stressed his brother's "deep personal connection to Israel."
Jews strongly vote Democratic, but the party also has liberal activists sympathetic to Palestinian grievances. However, it has no wish to alienate far larger groups of voters with tectonic shifts in Middle East policy.
"The only question for Mr. Kerry has been the size of the Jewish minority that would vote for Bush," Telhami said. "I think he has worked hard to make sure that it would remain small.
"At the same time, Arab and Muslim voters — many of whom voted for Bush last time — are now much more inclined to vote against Bush" because of what they perceive as heavy-handed unilateralism in the region, Telhami said.
He said Kerry's challenge is to dissuade them from sitting out the election in close states such as Michigan or, worse for him, voting for independent Ralph Nader, who is Lebanese-American.


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How Lucille Ball Helped Star Trek Become a Cultural Icon
The actress and her studio helped bring The Original Series to life.
November 27, 2019 5:00 AM PST
The journey to get Star Trek: The Original Series on television was a long and arduous one, but series creator Gene Roddenberry had help from an unlikely heroine. Without the help of this woman and her studio, the franchise may have stalled and never seen the light of day. And so, as we spare a thought today for "The Cage," the original pilot for The Original Series shot on this day in 1964, we must also remember to think fondly of the incomparable Lucille Ball.
Ball is, of course, most familiar to the world as the comedic star of I Love Lucy, the show she produced and starred in alongside her husband Desi Arnaz. The success of the sitcom, which ran for six years, allowed her and her husband to purchase their own studio, Desilu Productions. When Arnaz and Ball divorced in 1960 she took over the studio herself, making her one of the most powerful women in Hollywood.
Four years later, Roddenberry came to Desilu with an idea for a pilot that would grow into Star Trek. Ball bought the series, even if she didn't quite understand it; allegedly, she thought the title referred to a group of traveling USO performers during WWII. Author Marc Cushman wrote of the actress in Inside Star Trek: The Real Story that, "She may have initially misunderstood the Star Trek concept, but TV's 'wacky redhead,' known for playing a character that had always had a harebrained scheme up her sleeve, had learned well from Desi Arnaz. He had been called crazy many times by Industry insiders, but always proved his critics wrong."
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz outside the gates of Desilu.
Still, she supported his space western vision, even as some board members were resistant to the idea. It was thanks to her that "The Cage" was produced in the first place. Ball stood by the show through two pilots being shot and a massive budget, and the rest is history. A studio accountant named Edwin "Ed" Holly is on the record as saying "If it were not for Lucy, there would be no Star Trek today."
Without the support of Ball, "The Cage" would have been the end of Star Trek. Second pilots are rarely commissioned, not without someone with some power backing them up. NBC could have passed on Trek overall, but Ball, who believed in the project, stepped in and saved the day in a move that would've made every Starfleet captain proud. The comedian is one of many talented women who are among the many reasons that the Star Trek has endured into the 21st century. Ball is simply one of the first.
Her belief in Star Trek is why we have Star Trek as it stands today. Ball was more than just a comedian and a beloved television icon, she was a savvy producer who deserved credit for her work behind the scenes, including helping to achieve Roddenberry's vision. For this, we can all love Lucy.
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South Korean Ratings Board Rates GTA 5 "Premium Edition"
We recently reported on an Amazon listing that appeared for a version of Grand Theft Auto 5 subtitled "Premium Edition", and now a new official rating seemingly confirms that this new release is coming. The product page was for the PS4 release of this new version of the game, though no description was found as to what this Premium Edition would contain, and the listing was taken down swiftly.
Now, the South Korean Ratings Board has put out ratings for both a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of "Grand Theft Auto V Premium Edition".
The rating itself was filed on the 7th of March, while the Amazon listing which was the first possible leak about this unannounced version indicated a release date of the 25th of March. Since Rockstar is known to announce things last minute, or outright release games with zero notice in advance, this doesn't mean that the preliminary release date was necessarily incorrect or a placeholder.
After the Amazon listing was first spotted, speculation instantly began regarding what this Premium Edition might entail. Since GTA 5 hasn't received any paid DLC at all, it couldn't be some kind of analogue for "game of the year editions" or "complete editions" that some other titles get years after launch.
The most likely explanation is that it is a version of the game which includes the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack, a paid in-game "shortcut" for the multiplayer mode, GTA Online, that grants players a number of items and some currency. All of this can be acquired through gameplay, but would take a lot of grinding.
Other theories have popped up as well.
It is possible that this is just a kind of re-release for the Collector's Edition, which contained a number of unique items for players. Since this edition was only available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and is now a rarity with an inflated price and since character transfers have been ceased there is no way to get those items to current-gen accounts, a rebranded re-release could be worth it for players who want access to them.
Another possibility, though the least likely of them all, is that due to the continued success of GTA Online, Take-Two wants to broaden its player base further by separating the single player portion and Online into two different products, selling each for a lower price, whilst rebranding the combined, gestalt product as this Premium Edition. However, there are no ratings up for any variant subtitlings of GTA 5, which would be the separate product versions of story mode and Online.
Nonetheless, this official rating practically confirms that this new version is going to be released sometime soon. This week did see Rockstar missing their usual DLC schedule for the first time in a while, meaning there might be something brewing behind closed doors which requires a lot of attention from the team.
Chances are we'll get some further news regarding this GTA 5 Premium Edition in the coming weeks.