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Ranil y su Conjunto Tropical (Limited Dance Edition) by Ranil
If you travel up the Amazon, past the city of Manaus and past the Brasilian/Peruvian border, you will eventually reach the city of Iquitos. It was here that Werner Herzog filmed Fitzcarraldo, the visionary epic of one man's struggle to drag a ship over a mountain; and it was here, in a city completely cut off from the Peruvian coast, accessible only by air and water, and surrounded by impenetrable forests, that a new, distinctly Amazonian style of Cumbia emerged in the early 1970s.
One of the style's greatest practitioners is Raúl Llerena Vásquez – known to the world as Ranil – a Peruvian singer, bandleader, record-label entrepreneur and larger-than-life personality who swirled the teeming buzz of the Amazonian jungle, the unstoppable rhythms of Colombian and Brazilian dance music, and the psychedelic electricity of guitar-driven rock-and-roll into a knock-out, party-starting concoction. It's cumbia alright, but you've never heard cumbia quite like this before.
Ranil's music came into being far from Lima, the Peruvian capital, where Cuban-style big band and guitar waltzes vied for popular supremacy. On the distant banks of the Amazon, where Ranil spent the early years of his adulthood working as a schoolteacher, the air was full of the criollo waltzes of his youth, carimbó rhythms from nearby Brasil and crackly broadcasts of cumbia from Colombia picked up on transistor radios.
When Ranil returned to Iquitos after several years teaching in small towns, he assembled a group of musicians and prepared to take the city's nightlife by storm. His unique blend of galloping rhythms and trebly, reverberant guitar was so successful that he was soon able to take his band to Lima to record their first record at MAG studios, where many of Peru's most successful psych, rock and salsa bands began their recording careers.
Yet Ranil had no intention of entering into the indentured servitude that comes with signing one's life away to a record company. Instead he established Produccions Llerena – possibly the first record label founded in the Peruvian Amazon – which allowed him to maintain complete control over the release and distribution of his music. His fearsome negotiation skills and his insistence on organising his own tours turned him into one of the central figures of the Amazonian music scene.
Although his records were popular throughout the region, Ranil never sought his fortune in the capital, preferring to remain in his hometown of Iquitos where, in recent decades, he has concentrated his considerable energies on his radio and television stations, and become involved with local civic politics. Yet his legacy has continued to grow among those fortunate enough to track down copies of his legendary – and legendarily difficult to find – LPs.
Ranil's extraordinary output has remained one of the best kept secrets among collectors of cumbia and psychedelic Latin sounds. With the release of Ranil y su Conjunto Tropical it is a secret no longer. Assembled by Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb from original LPs sourced from Ranil himself, this fully-licenced compilation presents 14 tracks – many of which have never seen wide release outside the Amazonian region – by a singular artist at the very height of his considerable powers. Prepare yourself for a guitar groove you won't soon forget.
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Wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim has started a new innings of fatherhood as he became a father of newborn son on Monday morning.
Mushfiqur's wife Jannatul Kifayet gave birth to their first son at a city's hospital at 9:30am.
After the conclusion of the first Test in Chittagong, the 29-year-old Musfiqur boarded on a flight to Dhaka on Sunday evening to stay beside his expected wife.
Earlier, Mushfiqur's father Mahbub Hamid confirmed the news and said Mushfiq's son was born at 9:30am at Square Hospital this morning. Both the mother and the son are sound and healthy.
"His grandson resembles his father (Mushfiq). We, the members of the family, are very happy. His name is yet to fix," Mahbub Hamid told media.
"We'll fix our baby son's name consulting with all the members of the family," he informed.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim has started a new innings of fatherhood as he became a father of newborn son on Monday morning. Mushfiqurs wife Jannatul Kifayet gave birth to their first son at a citys hospital at 9:30am. The cricketer seeking prayers and blessings for his neonatal child gave a status, in where he said, Allah has blessed us with a little Angel and we request you to bless our baby with your warmth and prayer please...JAZAKALLAH KHAYR. After the conclusion of the first Test in Chittagong, the 29-year-old Musfiqur boarded on a flight to Dhaka on Sunday evening to stay beside his expected wife. Earlier, Mushfiqurs father Mahbub Hamid confirmed the news and said Mushfiqs son was born at 9:30am at Square Hospital this morning. Both the mother and the son are sound and healthy. His grandson resembles his father (Mushfiq). We, the members of the family, are very happy. His name is yet to fix, Mahbub Hamid told media. Well fix our baby sons name consulting with all the members of the family, he informed.


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Super Swede: Polestar 1 unveiled
Volvo's in-house tuners have launched their first full car and they're not holding back
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We all know that Volvo is killing it right now. The annoyingly stylish Swedes can seemingly do no wrong. And now, Gothenburg's in-house tuners have knocked it out of the park with their first full car, the Polestar 1.
Set to be built by Volvo's performance brand in China, the Polestar 1 isn't just a pretty face though. And it's pretty good-looking face (with more than a touch of S90 in it).
Acting as a halo car for the Polestar brand, the '1' is a 2+2 coupé with performance to match its GT looks. Sitting underneath the carbon fibre body is a 600hp hybrid drivetrain!
At the front, there's a twincharged four-cylinder petrol engine pumping out 379hp while the rear wheels are powered by a myriad of electric motors, providing an additional 221hp. Oh, and the total torque? 1000Nm. More than enough to uproot your local IKEA. Probably.
"There's one catch though. You can't actually buy it."
Despite the extra weight of hybrid system, it's going to be fast then. Although Polestar hasn't released any performance figures yet, the super Swede's are expecting a 0-62mph somewhere in the region of four seconds.
Yet, the Polestar 1 will also have a fully-electric range greater than any other hybrid currently on the market, with EV power along expected to take you up to 93 miles.
If you want to get really tech-y (go on, you know you want to) the Polestar 1's carbon body panels help to reduce weight compared to the Volvo S90 and improve torsional rigidity by around 50 per cent.
It's also the first car in the world to be fitted with Öhlins' Continuously Controlled Electronic Suspension (CESi). Basically it's a rather fancy active suspension system. Oh, there's also torque vectoring to improve traction and some rather monster 400mm brakes up front to slow the whole thing down.
There's one catch though. You can't actually buy it. That's not because this is some limited edition unicorn that's already sold out though. Instead, Polestar have adopted a new subscription model, allowing you to effectively rent the 1 deposit-free over either two or three years.
It also won't hit the roads until 2019 as the new Polestar factory in Chengdu isn't set to be finished until the middle of next year. Oh well, until then, we'll just keep staring longingly at these photos…
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Monsoon Session of Parliament Day 7: Opposition likely to protest suspension of 6 MPs from Lok Sabha; govt gears up for fight
India FP Staff Jul 25, 2017 09:43:19 IST
The Parliament, on the seventh day of the Monsoon Session, will discuss four bills in Lok Sabha. Rajya Sabha too has four bills on the agenda, including one relating to the Indian Institutes of Managements will be introduced and discussed in the Rajya Sabha.
Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar will move to further amend The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2017 in Rajya Sabha. Collection of Statistics Amendment Bill, Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-third Amendment) Bill, and National Commission for Backward Classes (Repeal) Bill are also listed for discussion.
Opposition Congress members protest in the well of Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Monday. PTI
In the Lok Sabha, Javadekar will move to pass another set of amendments to the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2017 and the The Indian Institutes of Management Bill, 2017.
Union finance minister Arun Jaitley will move amendments to the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2016 and The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Amendment) Bill, 2017.
Although the Opposition is likely to raise protest in the Lower House over the suspension of six of its MPs for disrupting the House on Monday, the government is looking at pushing through its legislative business.
After the first week of Parliament was consumed by fiery debates and protests — little legislative business could be transacted — Monday saw a slew of bills being passed.
Despite Opposition's persistent disruptions in the Lok Sabha — which ultimately led to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspending six Congress members for five days, over their "highly unbecoming behaviour" — the Centre managed to push through the Maritime Admiralty Bill in Rajya Sabha.
In Lok Sabha was adjourned after 2 pm. Earlier, BJP member Nishikant Dubey hit back at the Congress, demanding the reopening of the Bofors case.
The Opposition is going to use the Question Hour to corner the government. After Mahajan did not allow Congress members' adjournment notice for debate on cow vigilantism, members of Opposition have several questions lined up. The issue of farmers' crisis and security situation in Jammu and Kashmir will also be taken up in the Lower House.
Updated Date: Jul 25, 2017 09:43:19 IST
Tags : Arun Jaitley, Lok Sabha, Opposition, Parliaent Of India, Prakash Javadekar, Rajya Sabha, Sumitra Mahajan
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TISSIUM closes a massive €39m Series B funding round
TISSIUM, a privately-owned life science company developing fully synthetic, biomorphic programmable polymers, announced today it has raised €38.75 million ($42.78 million) in a Series B round of funding. This funding round comprises new investors, BNP Paribas Développement, the European Investment Fund (EIF), M&L Investments, ValQuest Partners in addition to TISSIUM's returning investors Bpifrance, CM-CIC Innovation, Cap Décisif Management, Omnes Capital and Sofinnova Partners.
The funding raised in this round will be used to support the Company's global expansion of its platform of polymers across a variety of therapeutic fields, including nerve repair, cardiovascular and gastroenterology, among others.
The TISSIUM platform leverages proprietary technology, initially developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) & Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, that serves as the foundation of a family of fully synthetic, biomorphic and programmable polymers. These polymers are designed to be used inside the body as sealants, adhesives, barriers, plugs or as a vehicle for drug delivery, as well as implantable devices created outside of the body using 3D printing technology.
In addition to supporting the growth of the platform, the funding is expected to support the broader strategy of creating a streamlined clinical development and regulatory process across multiple geographies. While the company remains headquartered in Paris, these efforts will also be focused towards the U.S. out of its newly opened Boston affiliate office.
Streamlined innovation and product development will also be simplified as a result of the completion of TISSIUM's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Lille, France.
In addition, following the completion of the Series B, Jay Watkins, a serial Medtech entrepreneur and executive, is joining TISSIUM's Board of Directors as Independent Chairman.
Press release. Know more about TISSIUM on: https://www.tissium.com
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1The Dog Star Harry has asked Hermione Granger to be his wife. The problem? Hermione won't marry without her parents's permission. Now Harry, along with his two fathers, Sirius and Remus, must have the most perfect Christmas dinner party while also running a gay wizarding club in the basement, creating a werewolf cure all while hosting Severus Snape and 10 psychotic elves. Simple.
Harry Potter, T, English, Humor, words: 4k+, favs: 4, follows: 5, 12/25/2020
4 Call Me By My Name Hermione Granger goes to the Post-War Yule Ball. Charlie Weasley has something to say. Lavender Brown probably should've been in Slytherin. Hermione's Haven Roll-A-Prompt:1st Place Winner: Best Plot Development; 1st Place Winner: Best Surprise Ending; Runner Up: Most Creative Use of Prompt
Harry Potter, K+, English, Romance & Angst, words: 3k+, favs: 14, follows: 7, 10/17/2020, [Charlie W., Hermione G.]
8All the Minister's Men » Summary: Remus, Hermione's sickly father, is drafted into the new blood war. Hermione does what she must to protect him and goes in his place: as Herman Lupin. She and shadow assassin, Harry Potter, will stop this rising evil together through precise slashes or profound love. Mulan Inspired. Battousai Inspired. All the Minister's Men Series.
Harry Potter, T, English, Angst & Romance, chapters: 3, words: 10k+, favs: 23, follows: 30, updated: 10/12/2020 published: 8/29/2020, [Harry P., Hermione G.] Remus L., Luna L.
4Illegitimate » Draco Malfoy discovers his parentage and pureblood status isn't as accurate as he thought. His ensuing blood disorder further calls into question everything he's ever known. Hermione Granger is looking for her big break and Draco is going to give it to her whether she likes it or not. (EWE)
Harry Potter, T, English, Drama, chapters: 2, words: 8k+, favs: 9, follows: 31, updated: 9/14/2020 published: 5/27/2020, Hermione G., Draco M.
37Ghost Bride » After Draco Malfoy's untimely passing, Hermione Granger hops head first into the fray. He may be gone but his soul begs for sacrifice or as some people may call it, a wife.
Harry Potter, T, English, Romance & Drama, chapters: 8, words: 32k+, favs: 17, follows: 72, updated: 7/17/2020 published: 9/15/2019, [Hermione G., Draco M.]
2 Fires Burn and So Do I Something about Draco Malfoy's current behavior doesn't sit well with her. In the name of public health, Hermione has a responsibility to investigate. And its a hell of lot easier than dealing with her own issues because no one walks away from war. #8thyear #PossessiveDraco
Harry Potter, M, English, Supernatural & Angst, words: 7k+, favs: 10, follows: 5, 7/2/2020, Hermione G., Draco M.
530To Love, Honor, and Obey » Princess Kaoru is saved by the savage battousai. Law of the land gives him her hand in marriage. Kaoru hates the idea and runs away. Guess who catches her? Battousai has a split personality that is nice? [bk]
Rurouni Kenshin, T, English, Romance & Drama, chapters: 5, words: 10k+, favs: 124, follows: 108, updated: 11/13/2007 published: 9/9/2003, Kaoru, Battousai
65Body and Soul » [EDIITED]Miroku is sucked into his kazaana, before he met the group. He is now stuck inside his windtunnel. There is only one person who can get him out. [MirokuKagome]
Inuyasha, T, English, Romance & Adventure, chapters: 2, words: 9k+, favs: 11, follows: 4, updated: 7/29/2004 published: 8/22/2003, Miroku, Kagome H.
35All of Me » Inuyasha hates being a half demon and half human, and just wants to be accepted. Kagome figures out a way to change that. But at what costs?
Inuyasha, T, English, Romance & Fantasy, chapters: 9, words: 8k+, favs: 6, follows: 3, updated: 10/12/2003 published: 6/26/2003
24My Favorite Mistake » It wasn't supposed to happen. Our love. We should be with others, but our feelings are too strong. No one can know about us. No one can know about my favorite mistake.
Inuyasha, T, English, Romance, chapters: 2, words: 2k+, favs: 5, follows: 2, updated: 9/29/2003 published: 9/6/2003, Miroku, Kagome H.
20Thirty Days » Inuyasha and Kagome are always fighting, and never stop to see things from the others point of view. What would happen if their lives were reversed? Could the pair finally get along?
Inuyasha, K+, English, Fantasy & Romance, chapters: 3, words: 4k+, favs: 3, updated: 8/26/2003 published: 7/15/2003
7Sugar and Spice » The legendary battousi is a woman. Her name is Kamiya Kaoru. What does she want? Himura's Death. Kamiya always gets what she wants...
Rurouni Kenshin, T, English, Angst & Romance, chapters: 2, words: 2k+, updated: 8/22/2003 published: 8/8/2003, Kaoru
86 Never let go » *Complete*Kagome and Inuyasha have to fight to stay alive, and fight to stay together. Someone wants Kagome will do anything to get her.
Inuyasha, T, English, Romance & Angst, chapters: 18, words: 16k+, favs: 13, updated: 8/11/2003 published: 6/9/2003
15Whatever it Takes » Kenshin and Misao are in love, but war and overbearing parents tear them apart. Before he dies,Kenshin makes a promise to her that one day they will be together. Can his reincarnation keep that promise?
Rurouni Kenshin, T, English, Romance & Drama, chapters: 4, words: 3k+, updated: 7/24/2003 published: 7/8/2003, Aoshi
3Bring Back Tomorrow AU Inuyasha is filled with hatred anger. He does everything the wrong way. He meets Kagome, and all that begins to change. Can she heal his wounds and reveal his past?
Inuyasha, T, English, Romance & Angst, words: 1k+, follows: 1, 7/1/2003
8i want you here a short poem about kagome/inuyasha's feelings for each other. please reveiw!
Inuyasha, K, English, Romance & Poetry, words: 134, 6/14/2003
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Wakamiya, Hosho, Akagi, Kaga
(1st class) Furutaka, Kako, Aoba, Kinugasa, Nachi, Myoko, Haguro, Ashigara
(2nd class) Tsushima, Manshu
(1st class) Yodo
(2nd class) Uji, Sumida, Fushimi, Toba, Saga, Ataka, Seta, Katata, Hira, Hozu, Atami
Aso, Tokiwa, Katsuriki, Itsukushima, Shirataka
(1st class) Umikaze, Yamakaze, Urakaze, Isokaze, Hamakaze, Amatsukaze, Tokitsukaze, Tanikaze, Kawakaze, Minekaze, Sawakaze, Okikaze, Shimakaze, Nadakaze, Yakaze, Hakaze, Shiokaze, Akikaze, Yukaze, Tachikaze, Hokaze, Nokaze, Namikaze, Numakaze, Kamikaze, Asakaze, Harukaze, Matsukaze, Hatakaze, Oite, Hayate, Asanagi, Yunagi, Mutsuki, Kisaragi, Yayoi, Uzuki, Satsuki, Minazuki, Fumizuki, Nagatsuki, Kikuzuki, Mikazuki, Mochizuki, Yuzuki, Fubuki, Shirayuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, Murakumo, Shinonome, Usugumo, Shirakumo, Isonami, Uranami, Shikinami
(2nd class) Sakura, Tachibana, Kaba, Matsu, Kashiwa, Katsura, Kaede, Kiri, Kusunoki, Ume, Sakaki, Sugi, Momo, Kashi, Hinoki, Yanagi, Enoki, Nara, Kuwa, Tsubaki, Maki, Keyaki, Momi, Kaya, Nashi, Take, Kaki, Tsuga, Nire, Kuri, Kiku, Aoi, Hagi, Fuji, Susuki, Hishi, Hasu, Tade, Sumire, Tsuta, Ashi, Yomogi, Wakatake, Kuretake, Sanae, Sawarabi, Asagao, Yugao, Fuyo, Karukaya
(1st class) I-1, 2, 3, 4, 21, 22, 23, 24, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 63
(2nd class) Ro-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68
W-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
(oiler) Tsurugisaki, Sunosaki, Shiretoko, Notoro, Erimo, Sata, Tsurumi, Shiriya, Iro, Kamoi, Ondo, Naruto, Hayatomo
Yamato, Koshu
(2nd class) Sokuten, Toshima, Kuroshima, Ashisaki, Katoku, Ento, Kurokami, Katashima, Enoshima, Ninoshima, Kurosaki, Washizaki, Tsubame, Kamome
Dai 5 go Sokaitei, completed (FY1923, Minesweeper)
Hatsuyuki, completed (FY1923, Destroyer first class)
I-go dai 56 Sensuikan, completed (FY1923, Submarine first class)
Shirataka, completed (FY1923, Minelayer)
Haguro, completed (FY1923, Cruiser first class)
Murakumo, completed (FY1923, Destroyer first class)
Miyuki, completed (FY1923, Destroyer first class)
Atami, completed (FY1927, Gunboat second class)
Uranami, completed (FY1927, Destroyer first class)
Tsubame, completed (FY1923, Minelayer craft second class)
Myoko, completed (FY1923, Cruiser first class)
Ashigara, completed (FY1923, Cruiser first class)
Kamome, completed (FY1923, Minelayer craft second class)
Shikinami, completed (FY1927, Destroyer first class)
Itsukushima, completed (FY1923, Minelayer)
Matsue, discarded (Survey ship)
Ha-go dai 3 Sensuikan, discarded (Submarine third class)
Ha-go dai 10 Sensuikan, discarded (Submarine third class)
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VAdm Suetsugu Nobumasa
Adm Taniguchi Naomi VAdm Yamamoto Eisuke
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Wales v Trinidad and Tobago Betting Tips: Can Giggs' men begin with a win?
Placed into a five-team group with two automatic spots and three sides ranked below them, Wales will fancy their chances of progressing to Euro 2020.
It's Ryan Giggs' first qualifying campaign as manager, and he'll look to maintain the progress Wales showed under Chris Coleman.
This isn't the first time these two sides have met. Robbie Earnshaw scored twice in a 2-1 win in 2006, as T&T prepared for their first ever World Cup campaign.
Wales' form isn't great. They've lost four of their last five games. They've also won just one of their last five on home soil.
Tonight's visitors lie some 74 spots beneath Wales in the rankings, and they've won just two of their last 18 away games – against Guadeloupe and Nicaragua.
Giggs has said he's focusing on building an international squad, as opposed to a strong XI. The former Manchester United winger has also stated he wants to include players who are regularly playing club football.
Gareth Bale should feature, although Aaron Ramsey is definitely out for this one, but will play against Slovakia. David Brooks may not play the full 90 minutes as he recovers from injury.
Wales will also be without Ethan Ampadu, Sam Vokes and Tom Lawrence for both tonight's friendly and Sunday's qualifier.
Harry Wilson could be in the XI after a shining campaign for Derby County.
There's no Dwight Yorke or Stern John for the visitors anymore, so Lester Peltier and Willis Plaza are expected to lead the attack tonight.
This evening's game should really be about Giggs' putting together the finishing touches for Sunday's crucial qualifier.
Trinidad and Tobago are likely to sit back and hope to counter. Wales may come across similar tactics in qualifying against Slovakia, Hungary and Azerbaijan.
So the focus should be on breaking down compact defences while creating space for Gareth Bale to run into.
Wales are 2/9 favourites to win this one, with the visitors out at 12/1.
With no Ramsey this evening, Bale sits alone at the top of the goalscorer betting. The Real Madrid ace is 2/1 favourite to score first and 8/13 anytime.
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Music to Soothe
Aubrey Reeves – July 10, 2019
In our modern world, music is all around us. It plays in the background at the shopping centre, in the car, at your local restaurant or bar to set the mood; you may also have it play in the background at your workplace, at the gym, or while you make dinner. Yet, I wonder how often most of us really listen attentively to music. I know that I don't. It's always there, but I rarely pay it much mind. This winter, during my treatment for cervical cancer, I was put into several situations where not only was I able to really concentrate on music and appreciate it fully, but by doing so, it helped to relieve the anxiety and pain I was experiencing.
Photo courtesy of Stephen Dagg/The PMCF.
I went through two phases of radiation treatment. The first, called 'external radiation,' required me to be at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre for treatment five days a week over several weeks. At these daily sessions, I was required to lay down on a flat platform and the radiation therapists would then make small adjustments to ensure my body was in perfect alignment for the treatment. Once they exited the room, the large external beam radiation machine would then rotate around the platform delivering radiation to precise points on my body to treat the tumor.
While the external radiation treatment was painless and only took a few minutes, I had to remain lying completely still for the duration. With nothing to distract the mind during a time of great emotional stress, it could be an anxiety-inducing experience. The kind and attentive therapists obviously recognized that for many patients the treatment was emotionally difficult even if it was not physically demanding. They asked at my first session if I wanted music playing. I'm glad that I agreed. Each day I was treated to a couple different songs during the session, rarely ones that I would have selected for myself. Day-to-day as the therapists rotated their work shifts, so too did the mix of musical genres and artists. I was exposed to a broad range of music from classical to pop and jazz including Celine Dion, Bob Marley, Diana Krall, Mozart, Beyoncé and many others. I found myself appreciating musicians I had previously dismissed as 'not my style' and finding the daily random music dose to be a great pick-me-up.
It is no huge surprise that music works as a simple distraction from stressful or uncomfortable experiences, but it can do so much more than that for patient well-being. Music can help to reduce heart rates and hormone levels, and suppress the sympathetic nervous system (known as the 'fight or flight' stress response) as well as trigger endorphins and dopamine levels.
A 2019 study published in the Support Care Cancer journal looked at the self-reported symptoms of patients at a comprehensive cancer treatment centre when offered musical therapy. Patients were treated with a board-certified music therapist from September 2016 to May 2017 and asked to rate their symptoms on a standard 10-point scale before and after the musical intervention. The highest impacts were felt on improvements to anxiety (92%), depression (91%), and pain (89%), but results were also reported for other symptoms such as drowsiness, nausea, fatigue and appetite.
Music came to my aid again in the second phase of my treatment, called 'internal radiation' therapy. During this phase, I was admitted twice for overnight stays at the hospital. Each time, a radiation device was surgically inserted while I was under general anesthesia. Later when I was conscious, radiation was administered internally via the device in large doses directly to the tumor.
Unlike the external treatment, this process was painful, exhausting and much more psychologically arduous—but I came prepared. For my hospital stay, I'd selected a playlist of music that I hoped would help me through the experience, which included a lot of calm classical music, cool jazz and ambient soundtracks.
Late one night during my hospital stay, I was in considerable pain despite the medication and couldn't sleep as the sounds of the ward were unpleasantly distracting. I turned appropriately to the album Discreet Music by Brian Eno. Recorded in 1975, this was Eno's pioneering ambient album, which he was inspired to write while bed-ridden in a hospital following a car accident. As he tells it, a friend who was visiting put on a record of 18th century harp music for him as she left, but the volume was quite low and he was unable to reach to turn it up. It was raining outside and he started to perceive how the "odd notes of the harp" would interact with the sound of the rain and other sounds in his environment. From this experience, he suddenly thought of music that "didn't impose itself on your space in the same way but created a sort of landscape that you could belong to." In my own hospital room, through my headphones, I entered Eno's landscape, concentrating on its gentle sonic hills and valleys. By the end of the album I felt noticeably less pain and my mind eased into sleep.
There is a growing body of research that shows music has some effect on managing pain following surgery. A systematic review published in The Lancet in 2015 aimed to assess whether music improves recovery after surgical procedures. The review found that music did have moderate impacts on reducing post-operative pain, anxiety and medication usage while also increasing patient satisfaction. The study found that the choice of music and timing of delivery made little difference to outcomes.
With this knowledge, perhaps it should be standard practice to encourage all pre-operative patients to prepare their own playlists for their hospital stays. Music is inexpensive, non-addictive and non-invasive. It's also a simple tool for patients to personalize their experience and give them some sense of control over their pain management. Even if the benefits are small, prescribing music as a complementary tool for pain relief certainly causes no harm and would cost the health system little, so why not?
Through this musical journey, I've decided to make a conscious effort to spend more time really listening to music after my recovery. I want less music in the background and more in the forefront of my life. If music can make me feel better when I'm sick, then it should make me feel great when I'm well!
This post is part of a special three-part series by Aubrey Reeves. Read the other instalments here, and here.


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Regional Health donates enough laundry detergent for over 8,000 loads at the HOPE Center.
By Alexus Davila |
Posted: Fri 6:53 PM, Dec 07, 2018 |
Updated: Fri 10:48 PM, Dec 07, 2018
RAPID CITY, S.D, (KOTA TV) - The HOPE Center asked for laundry soap and Regional Health delivered.
The User Access team collected enough laundry detergent for over eight thousand loads.
In just two weeks, Regional Health workers collected hundreds of pounds of laundry detergent to help homeless people wash their clothes. The donation will last for about a year for the HOPE Center. The Hope Center does about 12 loads of laundry a day. From January to November over 1,600 people signed up to go wash their clothes.
"We are here to help and everybody has a need. And we can go with that," says Regional Health User Access member Chris Vanderhoof.
The HOPE Center is still asking for donations.


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Q: Text recommendation - suggestion I am working on a personal project. I worked on some publicly available data sets. I have to build a text recommendation system that suggest users meaning full text(1 -2 lines) based on pre-defined rules.
How do I go about building a text recommendation system and how do I define the rules (The rules are simple checks like AC, then suggest a text if not suggest alternate text). I also need to know how I can make the system learn by itself to update rules
ANy inputs, links to research papers, github links etc will help

A: First of all, you will be encountering a cold start problem.
The simple solution would be to recommend all-time favorites text. More sophisticated solutions are here.
Thereafter you can use collaborative filtering by collecting implicit data like views, clicks, comment , bookmarks of the text. Because users seldom give ratings.
So you can use implicit data as:
'VIEW': 1.0,
   'LIKE': 2.0,
   'BOOKMARK': 3.0,
   'FOLLOW': 4.0,
   'COMMENT CREATED': 5.0, as ratings.
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The Town of Innisfil and Uber have launched Canada's first ridesharing-transit partnership.
This partnership will not only encourage residents to access local transit hubs but will help them get around town and explore the community.
Through this partnership, the Town of Innisfil will subsidize a portion of the fare for all trips taken by residents within Innisfil, while offering additional subsidies for rides going to and from transit hubs. In addition, the Town of Innisfil has also partnered with Barrie Taxi as part of this new on-demand transit model to provide accessible rides.
This partnership will help Innisfil residents connect with the Barrie-South GO Station, and the local GO Bus line. Ridesharing has become a first mile/last mile complement with public transit in cities around the world. The American Public Transportation Association, to which many Canadian transit authorities are members, published a study last year that found that people who routinely use "shared modes" of transportation (e.g., bikesharing, carsharing, and ridesharing) were more likely to use public transit. Today, people are combining ridesharing and public transit to substitute for a car and create shared journeys. As a case in point, in London, 30% of Uber rides in the outer boroughs during the morning rush hour end within 200 metres of a Tube or train station.
Realizing these trends are already happening, more and more transit authorities and cities are entering into formal agreements with ridesharing companies to help connect people to public transit, like in the feeder communities of New York City and Orlando , or improve paratransit services for the elderly and disabled, as with a pilot program in Boston .
Photo: Innisfil CAO Jason Reynar, Innisfil-Barrie Taxi Representative Tom Watson, Uber Ontario Public Policy Manager Chris Schafer, Uber Driver Jeff Wilton, Mayor Gord Wauchope, Deputy Mayor Lynn Dollin, Innisfil Manager of Land Use Planning Tim Cane and Senior Policy Planner Paul Pentikainen.


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Analysis, Canada, Health & Safety Enforcement
Workplace Manslaughter Charge Going To Trial Says Quebec Superior Court
April 12, 2017 Norm Keith
The Quebec Superior Court recently released a decision with broad implications for corporate employers, owners, managers and supervisors across Canada. In R. c. Fournier,[1] Justice Villemure held that an individual's contravention of provincial health and safety legislation was an "unlawful act", under section s. 222(5)(a) of the Criminal Code ("Code") and therefore a basis for committal to trial under a criminal charge of manslaughter. This case involved the owner of a small construction company, who is now personally being charged with manslaughter arising from a workplace fatality. This is the first decision of its kind in Canada.
The decision must not only have been a shock for Mr. Fournier, the owner of a small construction firm, who had lost a worker in a tragic workplace accident, but also for criminal lawyers across Canada, since this is the first time this issue has been considered by the courts. It will be even more shocking for individuals, supervisors and employers, and others, bound to comply with provincial, strict liability health and safety laws. Since there were 852 workplace fatalities in Canada in 2015 – there were 852 potential opportunities for a contravention of health and safety laws to give rise to criminal manslaughter charges.[2]
What Happened in this Case
According to the Superior Court's decision the facts of the case include the following:
Lévesque and Mr. Fournier were working together at a construction project replacing in-ground sewer and water main lines;
The Quebec Safety Code was applicable to the excavation that was taking place;
Fournier and Mr. Lévesque were both working in an excavation on the day of the fatality;
The walls of the excavation were not shored, and dirt and other material removed from excavation was placed too close to the edge of the excavation;
Lévesque died when the walls of the excavation collapsed. He was working alone at the time of the collapse.[3]
Mr. Fournier was charged with two counts under the Code — criminal negligence for breach of the duty of persons directing work under section 217.1 thereby violating s. 220 of the Code, and manslaughter by unlawful act under section 222(5)(a) of the Code. There is no mention in the Superior Court decision about whether strict liability offences under the Quebec Safety Code were also laid against Mr. Fournier and what the outcome, if any of those charges were.
Following a preliminary inquiry, a judge committed Mr. Fournier to stand trial on both charges. Mr. Fournier challenged the committal to stand trial on the manslaughter charge.
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John Travolta's plane house has a hangar and even a private runway
by Alessandro Renesis | Last updated on Aug 22, 2022 at 9:29AM | Published on Aug 9, 2022 | Celebrities
John Travolta's mansion, known as his 'plane house', has its own private runway and hangar for his personal collection of planes.
A lot of celebrities own private jets but Travolta's love of all things aviation is next level.
His house literally looks like an airport.
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The actor, who is known for being a high-profile member of the Church of Scientology, lives on a complex called Jumbolair.
It's an aviation estate where members can fly directly in and out of.
Travolta and his late wife Kelly Preston were one of the first couples to ever purchase land on the estate.
They lived there together until Preston, real name Kelly Kamalelehua Smith, died in July 2020.
John Travolta plane house
Jumbolair
The actor makes no secret of his love of planes and flying.
In fact, he regularly posts about his expeditions on his personal Instagram account.
Travolta also recently revealed he has different licenses allowing him to fly the Boeing 737, the 707 and the 747.
Image: Jumbolair
John Travolta's private plane collection
The Grease star's plane collection is nothing short of impressive.
At one point he even owned a Boeing 707 he purchased from Qantas, Australia's flag carrier.
Qantas probably gave him a bit of a discount, considering he's the company's brand ambassador.
Even so, the 707 ended up costing the star just a hair over $50 million.
The actor named it the 'Jett Clipper Ella', after his late son Jett who passed away in 2009 when he was just 16-years-old.
John Travolta plane collection – Boeing and Gulfstream
Believe it or not, the 707 isn't the only Boeing in his collection as he also has a 727, the 'great-grandfather' of the 737 that low-cost airlines use.
Except there's nothing 'low-cost' about it if you want to buy one.
The Boeing 727 costs $24 million.
In an interview with an aviation magazine, Travolta said he was certified to fly 11 different jet types, including the Lear and the Gulfstream.
Speaking of Gulfstream jets, the actor has actually owned three of them.
For the record, the 'cheapest' Gulfstream private jet you can buy will set you back $20 million.
He also owns a Bombardian Challenger 601 ($2.2 million), an Eclipse 500 ($1.4 million) and a Dassault Falcon 900 ($8 million).
Image: Dassault Falcon
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in Grease
After making his Hollywood debut in 1975, Travolta's career took off in 1978, when he played Danny Zuko in the musical romantic comedy Grease.
Sandy Olsson, his love interest in the movie, was portrayed by the late actress Olivia Newton-John, who died on August 8 this year.
Travolta took to Instagram to pay tribute to his co-star and long time friend.
"My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better," he said.
"Your impact was incredible. I love you so much.
"We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!"
Image: A Band Apart / Jersey Films / Miramax
To date, Grease still remains one of his most memorable performances ever along with Pulp Fiction.
Then again it's fair to say that acting runs in the family.
His three siblings are actors, and even his late ex-wife Kelly Preston was an actress.
Back in 2000, they even co-starred in a movie together: 'Battlefield Earth'
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Welcome to Season 2 of L'oeil Vigilant, a poetry magazine in the form of a surveillance feed for your smartphone. The feed offers a view, in the foreground, of the streetlights just outside our South Bronx editorial offices. The background depicts the Robert F. Wagner Houses of Manhattan and the landing approach to La Guardia airport in Queens. All around, the ambient flow of sunlight, passenger jets, security lighting, and Harlem River Drive traffic are monitored 24/7. Also freight trains bound for the landfills of Pennsylvania loaded with medical waste.
The magazine functions in monthly episodes written and designed by artists within the constraints of our surveillance apparatus: an Everfocus Ultra 720+ security camera with low light capability and a 60-160mm manual zoom lens connected to a Swann 43425H DVR. The DVR features SwannView Link security application software with motion detection and sound. Based on each artist's instructions, we can log into the apparatus and make daily visual and verbal adjustments to the camera, the time code, a moveable text box within the feed, and up to four rectilinear masks. Edited by Joe Scanlan, Season 2 will take a reflexive bent and feature episodes by E L Burchfield, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Eileen Myles, Neeta Patel, Hirsch Perlman, A Tribe Called Quest, and Alice Yang.
Marcel Broodthaers died in 1976, just as video was becoming a prevalent high art medium but long before there was a brisk market for consumer-based home surveillance systems. Given developments in his visual aesthetic at the time of his death—exhibitions in Berlin, London, and Paris belied a budding interest in "all over" visual composition—we believe Broodthaers was beginning to sense the cognitive shift of the television age, the disciplined, participatory effect of viewing images on superficial dot matrix screens. It would seem that Broodthaers was becoming aware that we don't watch such screens so much as surveil them, our eyes pulled across their surfaces in the constant search and assembly of content. There is a similar watchfulness— and distraction—in Broodthaers late work. L'oeil Vigilant is dedicated to that visual and cognitive shift.
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Dynamism Hallmark of China-Russia Relations
Dmitri Trenin
Summary: China and Russia have been cooperating closely over the past three decades. But since the Ukraine crisis, the process has become more dynamic. Moscow and Beijing are now coordinating their policies on a wider range of issues.
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Both China and Russia have re-elected their presidents, and the two countries, China led by President Xi Jinping and Russia by Vladimir Putin, seem to be on track to reinforce their bilateral ties.
Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.
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Global major power relations took a new turn at the end of 2017, especially after the United States officially designated China as a strategic rival. This, of course, was anything but a declaration of a new "Cold War", but it certainly exhibited a palpable change in attitude. The earlier careful balance between engagement and hedging in the US' China policy has been disrupted. Tensions, that have always been there, are becoming more pronounced.
This pales in comparison with the sharp tailspin in US-Russia relations since 2014. Perhaps it is safe to say Washington-Moscow might get worse. With several rounds of sanctions, accusations of election meddling, and rising military tensions, not least in Syria, the US-Russian agenda has de facto shrunk to just one item: war avoidance. This state of affairs is likely to persist for years — if we are lucky, of course.
For Washington, both China and Russia are power rivals of the US. In a stark and stunning departure from previous US foreign policy practices, Washington is now seeking to simultaneously contain Beijing and Moscow. But by pressuring both at the same time, the US is drawing China and Russia closer together. This may be due to Washington's self-confidence and its disdain for old-fashioned "Kissingerian" geopolitics, but it may also be due to the simple lack of strategic thinking in Washington.
China and Russia have been cooperating closely over the past three decades. But since the Ukraine crisis, the process has become more dynamic. Moscow and Beijing are now coordinating their policies on a wider range of issues; Chinese companies have been given access to Russia's energy resources in exchange for investments in Russia's energy sector; Russia has agreed to sell China more sophisticated weapons systems; and the two countries' navies have held exercises in the Atlantic basin as well as the Pacific.
Still, barring a simultaneous US attack against both, which is unlikely, Russia and China will not form a military bloc. In general, permanent peacetime alliances which were the hallmark of the second half of the 20th century are not a salient feature of the much more fluid 21st century, except as a system supporting a single power's global leadership, as in the case of the US. China and Russia, each of which is a great power, perceive no need for an outside protector, and seek no hegemony over each other. They need reassurance, but also flexibility. The current formula of their relationship — "never against each other, but not necessarily always with each other" — suits them well.
Yet Russia's economy is five times smaller and population 10 times smaller than China's, and its economic growth rate anemic. US and European sanctions have sharply reduced Russia's access to Western credits, investment and technology, and Russia has come to rely more on China. In these circumstances, there is little in the realm of foreign policy that Moscow needs as badly as a realistic strategy of economic interaction with Beijing that would help Russia's development while avoiding over-dependence on its neighbor. A Russia that feels comfortable about its relationship with China is also in Beijing's best interest.
Even as the US global leadership is waning, and competition among countries increases, national leadership is becoming more important, and the lack of it is turning into a significant disadvantage. Weak leadership within Europe — at the country and European Union levels — has contributed much to the EU's current woes. Weak leadership in the US has led to a near-paralysis of the American political system. In Russia, twice in the history of past century, weak leadership led to state collapse.
The next decade will be crucial for the fate of all major powers. Will the US political class regain its self-confidence to fix the broken political system and improve America's competitiveness in a world where US dominance will continue to shrink? Will the EU consolidate and turn into a single strategic player, or will it fragment even more? How will China manage the shift from the export-driven to a domestic consumption-based model, even as it proceeds to reshape the world order? Can Russia handle a political transition and modernize its economy while resisting the growing pressure of the US? These are just some of the questions where the quality of national leadership is a decisive issue.
This op-ed was originally published on China Daily.com.cn
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Brandy Hanson, 26, Lincolnville, reported her activity tracker wrist band, valued at $125, taken from a city street between 5:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. Oct. 4 in the 200 block of Lumbard Rd., Lincolnville.
A rear window, valued at $1,000, and four midnight edition rims and tires, valued at $5,000, were reported stolen from Midway Motors at 614 N. Ash St. between 8 p.m. Oct. 8 and 5:30 a.m. Oct. 9. Police reports said that other property also was damaged during the incident.
An unknown party stole $260 cash from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 400 block of S. Ash St. between 3 p.m. Oct. 6 and 9:30 a.m. Oct. 7.


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The Daktari Children Wildlife Club
Posted by Robin on Tue January 5, 2016 in Wamvenga Stories.
The Daktari children wildlife club members, with a group of 10 their members, visited us for a game drive. I found out on arrival that only 2 of the Daktari children wildlife club members had seen a lion in the wild... No one in our car has seen a "live" rhino but me! I am on Game drive in the Greater Makalali Conservancy. My game viewer is filled to the brim, not with foreigners from far-away continents but with teenagers from a local village called; "The Oaks". They have started the Daktari children wildlife club at their village. The village is just 10 km away from the wildlife reserve and my passengers are all around 15-16 years old. Most of them recently joined their village's newly founded Daktari children wildlife club and are very excited for this trip.
Expectations are high and everyone of them has its favorite animal and the lion is the most popular. I picked my passengers up 20 minutes ago at Makalali main gate and we are on our way in our open Landrover to the riverine area of the dry Makustwi river to get some shade. It's a very hot winter's today. It's 13:30 and the temperature must be around 35 degrees. The bush shows its winter colors; brown-yellow-grey and reds and the air vibrates with heat. A White-backed vulture soars over us scouting the land for carrion. There are sparse flashes of bright green from the Magic Guarri bushes which happily keep their leaves throughout winter as though they are not affected by the 4th month absence of rain. Where do I start with these youngsters? There are so many things I would like to show and teach them as we drive along but I must use my time wisely as this might be their only gamedrive in their life. This drive for the local kids is a dream come true for me.
The owners of Kristis Kamp, where I do most of my safari guiding, agreed to supply their vehicle for this drive and here I am driving the future generation of decision makers. In the previous years working as a nature guide in several private game reserves in the Lowveld I saw that the old connections between people and the land had almost disappeared. How do you care for a land and wildlife you have never seen? Apart from the employees of the various reserves and wildlife estates there is no access anymore for the majority of local people to experience the surrounding land, its beauty and its abundant wildlife.
There are good reasons for the owners to keep the land fenced but the result is that our reserve and its wild animals is as alien for a local youngster as for a foreigner visiting from another continent. Where do I start? I start with the simple facts for every animal we see, its name, how to recognize a male and a female, its food source and how it developed adaptations to fit into this harsh but magnificent environment. I hope that my enthusiasm rubs off! We stop at the tracks of an Elephant, then a Kudu and then a Leopard.
I explain carefully how to recognize it and the direction it is going. Grass-root work but so important to them! They soak up the information like sponges, ask me a million questions and cheer whenever they see another animal. What a delight to drive them around. I am convinced that through my drive I helped to bring out more passion, care and concern for the wildlife and the land we live in plus boost the member-ship of the Daktari children wildlife club majorly. To be continued!


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Any ideas why I might see only ipv6 for eth0?
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Our services usually run about an hour in length. We have a blend of worship styles. On some Sundays the worship is more formal with hymns and on other Sundays it is less formal with contemporary Christian music. We use both the organ and a grand piano with a Praise Team to lead the songs.
Are children welcome at your services?
We encourage families to worship together. A couple services a month we offer a children's message during the main service. We also have activity bags available, and a parenting room from where the service can be seen and heard.
We do pass a plate, however, you should not feel compelled to give. We do offer an online giving option as well. You can find a link at the bottom of this site. If you feel so moved, feel free to contribute using either of these options.
We typically offer communion on the first, third, and fourth Sundays of the month. We ask that you first speak with pastor prior to participating in communion.
We ask that you attend an adult information (confirmation or new member) class to learn about the Lutheran faith and Redeemer Lutheran Church or present a letter of transfer from another Lutheran church.


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You will learn about food chemistry and analysis, food processing and product development, as well as food safety. You will also develop an understanding of the effects of food components on human nutrition and health.
USQ is at the forefront of the developing market for 'functional foods' such as purple carrots and Queen Garnet plums. The University is a world leader in functional food research (ERA National Report, 2015).
Food and beverage processing is one of the most rapidly growing industries employing a large percentage of Australia's total workforce. As such graduates can pursue a range of careers in food product development, agricultural science, food safety and quality assurance.
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Non-classroom time seen as more of a priority in other countries.
Teachers in the United States are given significantly less time and support for high-quality professional learning than their counterparts in other developed nations, according to a new report published by the National Staff Development Council.
The report, co-authored by Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, finds that U.S. teachers average 1,080 hours per year in classroom teaching time, leaving little time for non-classroom professional activities. By contrast, the average instruction time for teachers in other counties in the Organization of Economic Development is 803 hours per year for primary schools and 664 hours per year for secondary schools.
In most European and Asian counties, according to the report, teachers have some 15 to 20 hours per week for grading, lesson preparation, meeting with students and parents, and working with colleagues. A significant number of schools in high-achieving countries build time into teachers' work day or week for professional development, prominently including forms of collaborative work on instructional issues.
By comparison, the report says, the three to five hours per week that the average U.S. teacher has for lesson planning is usually not spent with colleagues.
The report, titled "Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the U.S. and Abroad," also finds that the professional development that U.S. teachers do receive is largely provided in workshops and other short-term events, and is frequently not intensive or integral to their work.
"The nation lags," the report concludes, "in providing public school teachers with chances to participate in extended learning opportunities and productive collaborative communities in which they conduct research on education-related topics; to work together on issues of instruction; to learn from one another through mentoring or peer coaching; and collectively to guide curriculum, assessment, and professional learning decisions."


We Cannot Conquer Hate With Hate | Jen-spiring!
I usually don't post anything political, but my social media newsfeed has been cluttered with inaccurate historical information.
First of all, I could not be more condemning of ISIS. I can't even call them horrible humans because I don't consider them human. Somewhere in their extremism they have lost their humanity. I have so little regard for this group, that I won't say more. They do not deserve my attention.
Now, on to history. Whether or not you like President Obama, he is correct about the Crusades. Pope Urban II in a speech full of propaganda urged the knights of Europe to take Jerusalem. He promised them entrance into Heaven if they killed "infidels." As the Crusaders marched toward their target, they took many cities along the way. They were known to not take prisoner and to kill all inhabitants of the conquered cities [yes, this includes children]. They did not stop at killing Muslims either. This was also an opportunity to kill Jews too. In one of the worst battles, as they were running low on food supplies, they turned to cannibalism, eating the flesh of those they killed. But don't take my word for it; do some research. I am posting a link to an article by a professor at the University of Tennessee.
To compare the Muslim conquest prior to the Crusades to the Crusades is comparing apples and oranges. As Islam spread, the Muslims did not kill entire cities. In fact, in some areas they shared places of worship with the Christians; that is, the same buildings were used as both cathedral and mosque. It would be more accurate to compare the Muslim conquest to the expansion of the Spanish or British empires. I'm sure that the indigenous people of the Americas felt the same as those in Spain when the Muslims invaded.
I am so proud to be an American because I like to think of us as a nation of people who want the greater good, who value freedom for everyone, not just ourselves. It is so upsetting to me to see people whom I know to be intelligent, honorable people castigate Muslims in the same way that a hate group like ISIS denounces Westerners. There are a lot of wonderful people who practice Islam; just as there are wonderful Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists. The actions of a few do not equal the actions of all. I'm sure that those of us who are Christian, whether Catholic or Protestant, would not like to be linked with the behaviors of the Westboro Baptist Church or, for that matter, the attacks of the Irish Republican Army in the last century. Any apple can have bad seeds.
We cannot conquer hate with hate.


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The ACCIONA | SAINZ XE Team debuts in Saudi Arabia Extreme E, the new sustainable competition
Extreme E is a new championship that promotes, for the first time, the fight against global warming, sustainable mobility and gender equality.
Carlos Sainz, winner of the World Rally Championship and the Dakar Rally, and Laia Sanz, winner of the Trial World Championship, the Enduro World Championship and winner of the Dakar Rally, will get behind the wheel of the electric vehicle.
The ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team will make its debut this Saturday, April 3rd, in Extreme E, the new sustainable off-road championship for electric SUVs, which will kick off in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia.
With this initiative, ACCIONA seeks to raise awareness of climate change's impact and the need to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy through motorsport.
The team will have Carlos Sainz and Laia Sanz as drivers of its 100% electric vehicle in a new racing series with a clear social commitment. Extreme E is designed to promote sustainable development and the fight against the climate emergency, as well as gender equality, values to which ACCIONA is committed.
Carlos Sainz has won the World Rally Championship twice, in 1990 and 1992. He has also won three Dakar Rally titles and the last Princess of Asturias Award for Sports. Laia Sanz has been the Trial world champion thirteen times and the Enduro world champion five times. She has finished all the Dakar Rally editions from 2011 to 2021 as the eleven-time women's motorcycle champion. Her involvement behind the wheel of the ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team is her official jump from motorcycles to four-wheel vehicles.
ACCIONA, which already led the first team capable of completing the Dakar Rally with a zero-emissions vehicle in 2017, will once again seek to prove the reliability of electric mobility and the competitiveness of renewable energy in the most challenging landscapes. QEV Technologies, an engineering firm specialized in electric mobility R&D with extensive experience in such competitions, will be the team's technological partner.
CLIMATE, SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUALITY
The ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team will compete against eight other teams in five races throughout 2021. The series will take place in landscapes that exemplify the ecosystems threatened by the impact of climate change. Therefore, the first X Prix will take place in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, which is characterized by arid and rocky terrain, an example of the desertification and drought caused by global warming.
Extreme E is committed to being a zero carbon footprint competition. All emissions from the races and their logistics will be offset. Extreme E is also a signatory to the United Nations' Sports for Climate Action Framework.
The competition also promotes gender equality. The rules state that teams must have a 50/50 split of men and women, with the same number of kilometers driven by each team member.
The nine teams will use the Odyssey 21, the official 100% electric off-road SUV, with batteries powered by green hydrogen systems.
IN SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Arabia, with a population of 33.4 million, is the third largest water consumer in the world. As part of its Vision 2030 sustainable development program, it has implemented measures to reduce consumption by 43% by the end of the decade.
ACCIONA contributes to meet this target with the construction of five desalination plants in the country, which will supply around 1.8 million m3/day of desalinated water through reverse osmosis, the most efficient technology with the lowest carbon footprint.


Ashley Klinger & Co. - News - "A Cooler Cookout"
That's the word that comes to mind when we flip through Marcus Nilsson's spread in the latest issue of Bon Appetit.
Part of the August issue, the 4-page story offers readers the means to "A Cooler Cookout," providing a variety of simple (not to mention, tasty) recipes with some new takes on old grilling favorites. Printed alongside Marcus' stellar photos, these recipes are sure to spice up any and all standard backyard BBQ fare! So go on - pick up a copy of the magazine's August issue, check out Marcus' images, and give one of these delicious summer staples a try for yourself!


The Honeymoon Spa Suite is the luxurious and romantic couple's getaway you've been dreaming of! Nestled in its own completely secluded, lush tropical garden, this is your own personal paradise, including private swimming pool, luminous open-air shower, outdoor 'starlet' spa bath on the verandah, and couple's sauna! Enjoy the holiday of your dreams at the 4.5 star Rarotongan Resort while at BlueMoon Raro.


Improve your Judgement experience by 'Agile – Judgement', that offers an User-Friendly mobile application which helps the users / players to play the popular card game – Judgement in a very manageable manner. The game is designed with a decent User Interface along with various game validations. The Game would help the host to Customize his game and maintain the player scores. The application is specially optimized to be extremely easy to configure.


Woodchart's three player cribbage board, complete with skunks! Pegs are hidden in a compartment in the back of the board. The board is made of natural cherry wood. The bodies of water are etched into the board.
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Reporting to the department supervisor you will work along side a small team. Alongside your colleagues you will assume responsibility for ensuring that the branch sales and revenue are recorded and reconciled in a timely and accurate manner. Communicating appropriately with branch operations and senior finance peers to minimise and resolve any discrepancies. On a daily basis you will reconcile your own branch revenue and card transactions to the bank statements, complete branch petty cash, accurately record any branch vouchers and process new branch and relocation costs.
Ideally you will have experience of working in a busy finance department, preferably in a role that has involved significant levels of communication with finance and non-finance colleagues. If it happens to be in a multi-sited, fast paced then that would be a real added bonus. Your attention to detail and accuracy will be put to good use and will your ability to organise your day around changing priorities. Training will be offered on the internal accounting system but a strong Excel ability would be highly advantageous.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a fast paced, fast moving and fast growing organisation. In addition to the competitive salary they offer an unrivalled selection of additional perks that include 25 days holidays, Long service awards, Childcare vouchers, Subsidised onsite canteen,Free parking.


Street Articles Home | Shopping and Product Reviews | Fashion Style | Swiss Watch Manufacturing Brands Are The Best Of The Lot!
Nowadays there are so many different watch brands available in the market, with all of them claiming to offer offbeat timepieces that most of us get tempted easily. But we need to keep in mind that Swiss timepieces are the best in the industry and it is safest to buy a watch from a Swiss brand as they have proven track record which very few watch manufacturing companies can claim. So it is advisable if one buys a Swiss watch instead of investing in some regular brand that is making false claims. Now there are several Swiss watch brands from which you can pick and choose the one you like the most.
Michele Watch is one such brand, who is offering excellent and high quality ladies watches for several decades. Named after Michele, the granddaughter of the founding father Michael Barouh, the brand has launched several collections over the year. Each of their timepieces is handcrafted by their designers in their own factory before they are dispatched to the numerous authorized stores across the globe. Some of the popular models are discussed below in detail.
Michele Classic Mww12k000001 has Diamonds, Stainless Steel Bezel Material with 114 diamonds encrusted on the bezel. The watch looks great with its stainless steel band and several other interesting features such as the Stainless Steel case, enamel dial, Chronograph, Central 60 Second Hand, Quartz (Battery), Michele Logo Crown with Swiss Chronograph Movement. This watch belongs to the Tahitian Series.
There are other varieties of Michele Watch as well that you can easily check out from their online site. But as I always suggest make it a point that you buy your watch only after you have physically visited the store. If you are unaware of the location of their authorized stores, then you can drop them an email or can call up the number provided in the site to know where the stores are located.
Buying a watch is not that difficult as it is made out to be. And once you know which model you want to buy, the entire exercise becomes a smooth and hassle free one. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and buy the one that you like the most.
View our website to check out the latest models of Michele Watch.


We are currently in the process of upgrading Tripal to support Drupal 7. Our goal is to release a version of Tripal compatible with Drupal 7 by the end of this year.
There is a branch of Tripal in the development sandbox (branch 7.x-2.x) which is the branch we are working on for the conversion. Currently, the Tripal Core, DB, CV, and Organism modules have undergone upgrades. Those modules can be obtained from that development branch installed and used on a Drupal 7 instance, although we have not completed full testing to weed out bugs in those modules. The Tripal Analysis module is next in line as is the Tripal Views module. We are progressing in order of module dependency.
Please feel free to check back with us anytime to check on status.
I'm cc'ing this to the Tripal mailing list.
3 months, 6 months, 1 year, more?
Is there any dev version supporting Drupal 7 that is stable enough to use?
> Tripal to be Drupal 7 compatible in the near future.
>> such as chado,gbrowse, biomart or even blast database?
>> Build for Windows Store.
> Build for Windows Store.


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Q: java.io.IOException: There are no more files - (when copying a pdf to another location) I inherited this code that contains a function that copies a .pdf file from one location to another, creating new folders (named by hash value) in the process, and saves the new path to a database that a BI tool later uses to access the file via an API.
After we moved the file server to a new host, and quadruple checked the permissions and path references, we receive this java.io.ioexception when copying the files to the new location in the code. The copy fails, the folders aren't created where applicable, and the files are not accessible through the API.
The log files show that the program correctly identifies the source file, and correctly builds the destination path.
Any ideas as to what is causing this IOexception? Haven't encountered this one before, and I can't seem to find a relatable thread anywhere on the internet.
Function:
import java.io.File;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;

public boolean pushFile(File file, String newFileName)
{
    File newFile = new File(SAN_LOCATION + "\\" + newFileName.subSequence(0, 2) + "\\" + newFileName);

    try
    {

        System.out.print("Copying " + file.getName() + " to: " + newFile.getAbsolutePath());
        FileUtils.copyFile(file, newFile);
        System.out.println(" - Good file transfer");

    } catch (IOException ex)
    {
        System.out.println(" - Bad file transfer");
        Logger.getLogger(Utilities.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

Log Snippet:
Copying ARC FERM 2019-06-18 07-35-58_AM0000006.pdf to: \\tf-fs-1\arcstor\fc\fc3533e07547850176b671730ddccfcc - Bad file transfer
java : Jun 18, 2019 11:01:27 AM datatosql.PushToSQL pushFile
At C:\arc\ch_agilent_hplc.ps1:2 char:1
+ java -jar ".\Agilent.jar" CH HPLC "$file" 2>&1 | Out-File C:\arc\Logs\Agilent\ch ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (Jun 18, 2019 11...hToSQL pushFile:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

SEVERE: null
java.io.IOException: There are no more files
    at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)
    at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.copyFile(FileUtils.java:1076)
    at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.copyFile(FileUtils.java:1040)
    at datatosql.PushToSQL.pushFile(PushToSQL.java:763)
    at datatosql.PushToSQL.push(PushToSQL.java:508)
    at agilent.Agilent.main(Agilent.java:503)
    enter code here

A: Googling "There are no more files" finds people who are having issues with security software, particularly ASUS Data Security Manager. So I suspect that the problem is not in your Java code. You can prove this by manually copying a file, something like this:
copy some.file "\\tf-fs-1\arcstor\fc\fc3533e07547850176b671730ddccfcc"

I got the path from your error message, but check it's correct! I think that you need the quotes around the path. My guess is that this won't work because it's being blocked by something on the remote machine.

A: I faced a similar problem.  In my case, I was using FileUtils.copyFile(file, newFile) in a loop.  After 258 successful copies, I would get that error.  I altered my code to use Files.copy(sourcePath, destPath) instead, and the problem went away.


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Ep 4 Go Fact Yourself with Cristela Alonzo and Maz Jobrani
Posted Fri, 01/19/2018 - 12:41 by MaxFun Intern | 0 comments
Go Fact Yourself
J. Keith Van Straaten
Helen Hong
Frank DeCaro
In this episode, Maz Jobrani reveals how much he makes per episode on Superior Donuts, and Cristela Alonzo leads the audience in a sing along of one of her favorite songs. In What's the Difference, Cristela and Maz share their theories on the difference between eternal and everlasting, and prison and jail. Maz's claimed areas of expertise are: Iran, shaving one's head and bad accents. Cristela claims to know a lot about The Golden Girls, bad 1980s movies and 1980s Radio Hits. Who will triumph in this useless game of trivia? Find out!
Appearing in this episode:
Cristela Alonzo, host of her new podcast To Be Continued
Maz Jobrani, star of Superior Donuts
With guest experts:
Jim Colucci,Entertainment writer, radio reporter, editor at CBS Watch magazine and author of Golden Girls Forever
Eliza Jane Schneider, Accent and dialect coach
Go Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun. The show is recorded at the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles.
Theme Song by Jonathan Green
David McKeever is the Live Sound Engineer.
Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher
The show is edited by Christian Dueñas
Bea Arthur
Cristela Alonzo
Estelle Getty
Jim Colucci
To Be Continued podcast
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Dick Van Dyke
Posted Tue, 03/22/2016 - 02:30 by Ibarionex Perello | 0 comments
Margaret Wappler
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Photo by Jesse Thorn
Dick Van Dyke on His Early Years in Television, Worrying Less, and Owning Up to the Worst English Accent in Film History
For over 70 years, Dick Van Dyke has been an entertainer of stage, film and television. His work has garnered him generations of fans as well as numerous honors including a Grammy, a Tony and several Emmy awards.
Though he initially sought out a career in radio, he was soon performing on the stage and on the new medium of television, which included the classic comedy, The Dick Van Dyke Show created by Carl Reiner. Along with his many other television appearances, Dick Van Dyke has starred in films that are still family favorites decades after they were made, including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Dick Van Dyke joined Jesse to talk about landing the lead role in Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway despite not being a trained singer or dancer, his memories of working with a very young Mary Tyler Moore, his alcoholism and getting sober, and how he maintains a healthy physical and mental lifestyle in his nineties.
Dick Van Dyke's new book, Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging is available now.
Canonball with Margaret Wappler on Bjork's Post
Every so often we like to take a closer look at albums that should be considered classics, to find out what makes them great. It's Canonball.
This week we're joined by the pop culture critic and writer Margaret Wappler. She'll talk about Bjork's 1995 album, Post. This album served as the follow-up to Bjork's first album, Debut. The album went beyond being a repetition of what she had created before, and served as "a breakout work of feminine emotional electronica".
Margaret Wappler's essay on Bjork can be found in the anthology Here She Comes Now. Margaret's novel, Neon Green will be out in July. She can also be heard as our sister-podcast, Pop Rocket.
The Outshot: Ralph Lauren
Jesse will tell you about how Ralph Lauren captures the shared American-ness of Sonia Sotomayor, Jay-Z and Donald Trump. (You can find his video interview for Put This On here.)


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4 PI SKY goes hunting for more transients
This week, members from the 4 PI SKY team visited the AMI telescope in Cambridge, UK, in search of even more transients.
Members of the 4 PI SKY team visiting the AMI telescope. Shown (from left to right): Clare Rumsey, Richard Saunders, Anthony Rushton, Tim Staley, Kunal Mooley, Rob Fender and Richard Armstrong.
The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge already have a very succesful partnership of following up astronomical transients at 15 GHz using the AMI large array. Gamma-ray alerts from the Swift-BAT space telescope robotically send messages back to earth-based servers, which in-turn automatically command AMI to slew to transient location in the sky (effectively eliminating the need of human intervention). However, when the array isn't chasing high-energy explosions it spends a significant amount of time surveying galaxy clusters looking for Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects.
AMI recently completed the Tenth Cambridge Survey (10C; AMI Consortium: Davies et al. 2011; AMI Consortium: Franzen et al. 2011) at 15.7 GHz creating the deepest high-frequency (10 GHz) radio survey, complete to 1mJy in 10 different fields covering a total of≈27 deg^2. These data could contain radio transients that haven't previously been found at other wavelengths and it is our goal to search the entire archive for historic events.
A new correlator that will power high-spectral resolution observations with AMI
In the mean-time, the AMI telescope is undergoing a major upgrade to the correlator. The original correlator was a lag-based system, which suffered from large errors in correlator lag spacing and was prone to man-made radio frequency interferences (RFI) particularly at low declinations due to geostationary satellites.
The new AMI Digital Correlator (AMIDC), pictured right, will have a highly channelized digital correlator system giving more flexibility within the radio band and a much more uniform response across it, which would provide the potential to avoid or mitigate to a large extent many of the problems with the current system. This will significantly improve the sensitivity of the array.
Ultimately, we would like to use the new system to detect radio transients in near real-time and produce rapid VOEvent alerts that can help coordinate follow-up observations.


The next episode of the Mortal Kombat Online livestream on Twitch will include a major guest—Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, the actor who played Shang Tsung in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie!
Watch the stream live right here on Wednesday, October 3, at 8PM Eastern!
Cary famously portrayed the shapeshifting villain in the film, and also reprised this role decades later for Mortal Kombat: Legacy.
If you want to put forth a question to the actor and have him answer it live, then be sure to register and leave a comment on the discussion forums! You can also try and ask a question live on the Twitch stream.
I'll ask the most obvious that everyone wants to know:

Shang Tsung again, when?
Our good friend Kelsey will probably ask about all things MK Movie related, so I'll refrain from anything movie related.

Has he ever been asked to Voice Act for any of the MK games?
Our good friend Kelsey will probably ask about all things MK Movie related, so I'll refrain from anything movie related.
Has he ever been asked to Voice Act for any of the MK games?
Please feel free lol. I used to talk to him on Facebook to the point it annoyed him.


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One Dad Two Dads and Other Fairy Tales
Ilana Mercer, May 10, 2001
For parents thinking of introducing their kindergarten-aged children to the topic of same-sex families, a couple of book reviews might be helpful.
"Asha's Mums," "One Dad Two Dads Brown Dad Blue Dads," and "Daddy's Roommate," are unadulterated advocacy. Scant wonder the books are turgid and cannot be pried from their pitch i.e., that same-sex families are just groovy. What's particularly unforgivable about this pamphleteering is that it leaves children out in the cold. The upbeat little tykes in the books are simply parroting the say-so of the advocates.
The silliest of the three, "Asha's Mums," tells a completely contrived tale. The two authors must have racked their unsupple minds to come up with a plot that would show the perils from a hostile world to a child with two mums. Since these perils are few, our authors concocted a story that doesn't gel.
Asha is excited over an impending trip to the Science Center. All that changes when the 'homophobic' teacher calls on the child to explain why her permission-slip sports the signatures of two mothers. You can, after all, only have one mother reasons the teacher. When the poor child vows never to go back to school, Mom One (Alice) materializes in a flash to upbraid the oppressive pedagogue.
In yet another scene designed to push buttons, Asha's sunny painting of her family, two moms front and center, initiates a discussion in class. And what would such a discussion be without the progeny of the prototype bigoted parents piping up? "My mom and dad said you can't have two mothers living together…it's bad." No sooner do the cherubic kids silence the voice of the dissenting rube kid than mommies Sara and Alice swoop down to ensure that opinion about same-sex parents remains monolithic. Yes, to sexual diversity; no, to diversity—and freedom—of opinion.
With teacher on the straight and narrow, all are primed for one last lesson. You can have two mommies "just like you can have two aunts and two daddies." It's never too late to start teaching the lessons of moral and intellectual equivalence: everything is the same, no one thing is better or preferable. Judgment must be suspended at all times.
This tale is a series of sensibility tweaks. Nothing in the permission-slips my daughter brought home over the years ever said, "All sexual partners in the household sign on the dotted line." What's generally requested is a signature of a single parent or a guardian. The authors decided to use the permission-slip ruse as part of their coming-out project. Further, unless I don't get the birds and the bees, Asha was conceived with the aid of a man. Whether Asha is a product of artificial insemination, adoption or shotgun, a man exists somewhere with half of her DNA. He might be a deadbeat dad or just a sperm donor. He may even be a poor sod toiling to send The Moms maintenance while they remain mum about him. From this obfuscating tale he has, however, been expunged.
Straining at the seams with condescension, "One Dad Two Dads Brown Dad Blue Dads" is dedicated to "Jacob, who has only one mom and one dad," but doesn't need your sympathy, "because they're both pretty great parents." This bit of comedy lays bare an indifferent to what children really want. Can you honestly imagine a child jumping up and down demanding an extra dad, "Just like Lou has?" The story has been compared to Dr. Seuss. It shouldn't. "One Dad Two Dads" lacks Dr. Seuss's delicious sense of the absurd, the kind that tickles kids pink. And kids, absent indoctrination, will detect this imposter.
The book begins with a little guy telling of the domestic bliss that comes with having two blue dads. Code Blue is an unfortunate metaphor for gay: the dads are said to be the same as every other non-hypothermic dad except for their hue. How did they get this way? "They were blue when I got them." And that's okay because it seems reasonable to assume that people are born to their sexual orientation. But then comes the clincher: "They are blue because… they are blue. And I think they're wonders – don't you?" It is one thing to suggest the dads were simply born "blue," but quite another to declare them wonders by virtue of their tinge. Why impart to children that the value of a person is a function of his sexual orientation? People are wonderful because of their character, because of what they do, not because of whom they bed.
Towards the end, the pigmentally checkered dads begin to multiply and some green dads appear on the scene. Like Oscar Wilde's signature carnation, green is a good deal more festive. However, more than anyone, Wilde, who is often appropriated by the gay community, would have found insulting the attempt to define the Self in terms of sexual preference. After all, the great wit's most favorite organ was still his brain.
"Belinda's Bouquet" is more honest. One can sense some attempt at adopting a child's perspective. The book does speak to differences. The only hint of the same-sex addle is that the two mothers are the ones who strategically dispense the nuggets of wisdom. If I wanted to be difficult I might ask why 'mama' teaches poor chubby Belinda to chant, "My body belongs to me," every time someone comments about her weight. Wouldn't, Mind your own business," or, "You're no oil painting," have been more effective? But one can't hope to divine every bit of feminist affectation.
The themes of adult selfishness, divorce, and same-sex union converge in "Daddy's Roommate." Published by Alyson Wonderland publications, this story is particularly sad. The little narrator here has no name! This isn't surprising, since children in these books exist to affirm their parents. What is alarming is that the educators, who stand firm behind these books, and who routinely tout the self-esteem catechism in schools, overlooked the sagging sense of self exhibited by the books' tots.
The nameless narrator tells us his parents have just divorced. With nary a reference to the sadness of this event, he blurts out; "Now there's somebody new at Daddy's house. Daddy and his roommate Frank live together, work together, eat together, sleep together." From here on in it's pretty much "Brown Dad Blue Dads" all over again, detailing the good times the dwarfed child spends with the two larger-than-life men.
Mommy, like the child, is a conduit in the service of the men's outing. She tells no-name boy that Daddy and Frank are gay and that "being gay is just another kind of love." "Daddy and his roommate are very happy together," chants the child, "and I am happy too!" So long as Dad has found his true self, so will the boy arrange his feelings accordingly. It's a cruel farce that has a child spouting homilies in the service of a parent's project.
What would I have considered an honest narrative?
"My name is Ben. I am very sad. My mom and dad are divorcing. Frank is my dad's new friend. My mom and dad held me tight. I told them I wanted my old home back again, and I cried."
©2001 Ilana Mercer
A version of this article was published in Canada's North Shore News
& on LewRockwell.com
CATEGORIES: Family, Feminism, Gay Issues, Gender Issues, Homosexuality, Left-liberalism, Literature
TAGS: AshasMums, DaddysRoommate, LGBTQ, SameSexFamilies
Written by Ilana Mercer on May 10, 2001