'A tree walk in Cairo? What's wrong with doing the pyramids like everyone else?" My friend has a point, but I can't convey my answer by text. Instead I switch off the phone and inhale the scents of honeysuckle, mimosa and jasmine that have breezed in on the cool morning air. Butterflies flit in buxom, blue-blossomed jacarandas and hollyhocks and bird-of-paradise plants stand to attention like sweeping brushes. There's sunshine and birdsong - hoopoes, European bee-eaters, a laughing dove, and the reedy squawk of two ring-necked parakeets kicking off by the pool. It's a fair trade-off for the fumes, bleating horns and rush-hour mayhem of downtown Cairo.
It may sound trite, but what if you've seen the pyramids - twice? I'm done haggling at Khan el-Khalili and I've had my fill of the Egyptian museum, at least until it moves to its sparkly new home in Giza next year. But I refuse to ditch old-flame Cairo for the next low-cost fling because the glitter has fallen from her icons. I just need a new plan of attack. And here, in a garden villa in the lushly landscaped quarter of Maadi, I think I've found it.
The restored 1920s Villa Belle Epoque has plenty of Cairo's exotic allure yet none of its irritants which, although arguably part of its appeal, can get wearing after a hard day's street pounding. This is one of those owner-run gems where you can squander precious sightseeing hours without feeling at all guilty.
Why would I want to be haggling with a trinket-toting bandit in front of Cheops or risking life and limb on the Giza ring road when I can be pottering in the local bazaar and relaxing under a peach tree? Besides, Egypt is omnipresent - in the 13 rooms embellished with handpicked antiques, in details throughout such as the shutters, cornices and Arabic motifs.
There's a tranquil, luminous air to Villa Belle Epoque. A ground-floor conservatory fronts on to the garden, its patios and poolside dining area shaded by fig, guava and peach trees. Some rooms (such as Cairo, which has a palm tree and a plump-cushioned sofa from which to watch the sunset) have plant-filled conservatories for lounging in. Others have French windows giving on to large balconies. From mine, Rosetta, you can harvest the pendulous fruit from a mango tree. Tea at a Nile-side plant nursery, winter bonfires, trips to the Opera House and walking tours of Maadi's historic homes and gardens can also be arranged.
A former stomping ground of Anglo-Egyptians, this tree-lined neighbourhood bears all the hallmarks of the British abroad. Founded in 1907 on the Nile's eastern bank (Maadi means ferryboat) by Jewish-British investment company Delta Land, the suburb was settled by wealthy expats, who filled their sprawling gardens with exotic plants and trees. Boundaries were marked by hedges and casuarina trees, there was an annual gardening competition, and once a week lawns were flooded with their quota of fresh Nile water. Villas, churches, mosques, a sporting club and a clutch of municipal buildings hint at Maadi's colonial heyday, and although some of the more handsome villas have now been snaffled by embassies and are watched by rifle-toting guards, Maadi remains home to a dynamic international community.
And an awful lot of trees. According to my guide, a local Egyptologist called Willy, some have been around for millennia. When times were hard, local softwoods were used to make the Pharaohs' coffins. "Coated in mud, fine plaster and varnish they gave the appearance of gold." The ancient mulberry fig, mentioned in the Bible, also grows here.
We amble, unmolested, down Maadi's main thoroughfare, Road 9. Lively enough and with a scattering of coffee shops, bakeries, bookshops and open-fronted workshops, it's positively comatose compared with the chaos of downtown Cairo. I meet a jolly ironing man, whose industrial-sized board fronts the street, buy a book on Maadi and stop outside a fruit shop, called The Tree, which has one literally growing through its roof.
"In Maadi you can't chop them down," says the owner, Hany. "It was either buy it with the tree or don't buy it at all." He slices open a fruit that looks like a peach but tastes like a plum, hands it to me and declares proudly that he supplies herbs to Wagamama, which opened its first North African branch, in Cairo, last year. There's no charge for the peach-plum.
I idle away the next hour at Cafe 55, which boasts five happy hours. "That's why Egyptians are so happy," grins the manager.
En route to the toilets I find a back room hung with historic black and white photographs. There's Maadi Sporting Club's Nympheas Pond, and its 1952 tennis team, the 1953 Lycée Français, now a mosque, and a submerged Canal Road pictured in the flash flood of 1945.
Back at Belle Epoque I plonk myself on a shaded terrace and order lunch. Last night Ashraf, my kindly waiter, had recommended a steaming pot of Nubian-style lamb stew, chock-full of velvety meat and garden-fresh okra; today it's a zingy cold orange soup. His grandfather, a tailor for the Egyptian army, settled in Maadi in 1899. Having worked the Nile cruise circuit since 1991, Ashraf is happy to be home. I'm too full for dessert but a plate of tiny tooth-rotting pastries arrives, on the house.
That evening I ride the metro 15 minutes into town, for the princely sum of one Egyptian pound (11p), to see some Sufi dancing. Not one for folklore, I'm dubious, but when I find out it's held inside a restored caravanserai - a spectacular building in the Fatimid quarter of Old Cairo, I decide to give it the benefit of the doubt.
Admission is free, which is a travesty, because Brucie would have a field day with this lot. Handsome, agile and supremely talented, the performers peel off layer upon layer of multi-coloured petticoats, whirling kilos of material around as if it were spun sugar. It's like watching a Cirque du Soleil performance crossed with a Robbie Williams concert, and I want to shower them with baksheesh.
Skirting Khan el-Khalili with its pashminas (got the rainbow-assorted set), hookahs (two up in the loft) and leather bags (always room for another) I make a beeline instead for a taxi rank and scoot back to Maadi, where I sip mint tea under a stately mango tree at the vanilla villa. Cats mew, bats clatter in the leaves and families in the neighbouring apartment chitchat and clatter plates.
Back in Rosetta I fling open the windows and balcony doors. Something strange is occurring. After a day "out there" I want to let Cairo in, not shut it out. I never thought I'd say it, but thank God for the 'burbs.
Villa Belle Époque is 25 minutes by road from downtown Cairo - a £3 taxi ride, or 15 minutes on the metro. A three-night break including return flights with BMI, transfers and breakfast costs from £495 with Bales Worldwide (0845 057 0600; balesworldwide.com). EgyptAir (egyptair.com) has return flights from London Heathrow to Cairo from £289 including taxes.
Tucked down a cobbled alley in the laid-back Christian quarter, Beit Al Mamlouka, which opened in 2005, is a restored 17th-century house with just eight rooms, all beautifully decorated in exotic Damascene style. One of the suites, Suleiman the Magnificent, has its own fountain and a 230-year-old ceiling fresco. The hotel is set around a traditional courtyard filled with citrus trees, and a stable has been made into a gallery, restaurant and bar. Doubles from £92 including breakfast (00 963 11 543 0445; almamlouka.com).
One of the few places in Dubai where less is more, Fusion, in the fashionable Jumeirah district, has 15 stylish, minimalist suites, with white walls, art-deco furnishings and black bathrooms. Come night-time, the tropical gardens, swimming pool and barbecue area are abuzz with design junkies, media types and fashion groupies. Doubles from £67 including breakfast (00 971 50 478 7539; fusionhotels.com).
Housed in a striking art-deco building in the leafy Achrafieh district, in the heart of old Beirut, the opulent Hotel Albergo has 33 themed suites - take your pick from oriental, European, colonial and Mediterranean styles - adorned with crystal chandeliers, antiques, rich fabrics and original paintings and tapestries. For cityscape views head to the extraordinary rooftop pool and bar, bordered by a garden with jasmine and fig trees. Doubles from £165, room only (00 961 1 339797; albergobeirut.com).
Located in the Al-Jdeida quarter, just outside the old city walls, Beit Wakil was one of the first of Aleppo's boutique hotels, and is housed in an old merchant's residence. It's arguably one of the city's most elegant hotels too, with its domed lobby, high vaulted ceilings, and courtyards with bubbling fountains. All 14 rooms are decorated with a local flavour with traditional Aleppine furniture and beautiful stone bathrooms. The restaurant, situated in the cellars, is one of the best in Aleppo. Doubles from £82, including breakfast (00 963 21 211 7083; beitwakil.com).


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Panorama of the past
I was doing some research on the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits this week, the outfit best known for operating the Orient Express and other luxury train services. Less well known is that in 1894 the directors set up a subsidiary, the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels, through which they began operating luxury hotels around the world. In Egypt, they took up the lease on what had been one of Ismail's numerous palaces until it had been seized following his abdication in 1879. The CIGH had the former khedivial residence remodeled, refitted and opened to paying guests in October 1894 as the Gezira Palace Hotel—or Gheezireh Palace Hotel, as in those days the more letters in a word the more authentically foreign it was thought to be.
The image above is part of a CIGH advertising poster and it is one of the most unique and beguiling views of Cairo I've ever seen. It must date from the very last years of the 19th century, soon after the CIGH acquired the Palace, which is at the centre of the panorama. If you don't yet recognize it, the Gezira Palace would eventually – after a long spell as a private home – become the Cairo Marriott, and the island is what's now Zamalek. The bridge in picture is Qasr el-Nil. It's as though the artist is hovering above the east side of 26th of July Bridge.
Behind the U-shaped building are the extensive khedivial gardens with twin lakes overlooked by the Kiosque, a large free-standing pavilion that was originally used as guest accommodation, but later became function rooms and a casino. South of the ornamental gardens, the Khedive's private park has already became a sports and recreation ground, for polo and horse riding – it's now the Gezira Club. Missing is the 6th October flyover that now cuts across its middle. Beyond, the west bank is largely desert, apart from the thread of greenery that indicates the road running straight to the Pyramids on the horizon.
I love the detail, like the dahabiya just setting off from the moorings at Bulaq bound for Upper Egypt, and the lions at the end of the bridge. So many feluccas too – it looks more like Aswan than Cairo.
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Tagged as Cairo Marriott, Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels, Gezira Palace, Zamalek
Anglo-American Nile Company
As I posted a couple of months back, I'm currently at work on a follow up to Grand Hotels, this time round focusing on the Nile steamer services. The manuscript is progressing well and I'm due to hand it over to my publishers, the AUC Press, in mid July. One of the major operators of Nile boats was an outfit called the Anglo-American Nile Company, founded in 1896 and in existence until at least the late 1920s. Unfortunately, information on them is very hard to come by. If there's anybody out there who has any leads, I'd love to hear from you.
Filed under Nile steamers
Tagged as Anglo-American Nile Company
A new novel that might be of interest to readers of this site is The Visitors by Sally Beauman. It's set in Egypt in 1922, where a young English girl has been sent in care of a chaperone to recover from the typhoid that killed her mother. The opening chapters largely play out in the salons and on the terrace of Shepheard's in Cairo, which is beautifully brought to life. The supporting cast of characters include familiar names such as Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon, Lady Evelyn Herbert, Arthur Mace, Harry Burton, Pierre Lacau, James Breasted, Arthur Weigall and a host of other real-life people, all of whom were involved in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun – the event that provides the novel's dramatic backdrop. Beauman does a good job of putting flesh on the biographical bones of her historical cast and succeeds in bringing the characters to life. How accurate and fair she is, I can't say – it would take someone better read in Egyptology than me to comment. Her descriptions of Shepheard's and Winter Palace are generally spot on though, right down to describing the bathrooms of the former as being vast and echoing, like mausoleums – one 19th century journalist said sitting in one of them was like being in a chamber at the centre of a pyramid. If I were being picky I might mention that the Continental hotel isn't across the Ezbekiya Gardens from Shepheard's but just up the street, and the Winter Palace is not designed in a Baroque style – far from it – but that's minor stuff. A bigger problem, I found, is the voice of the protagonist, Lucy, whose inner thoughts run to things like, "In the fustian Cambridge circles in which I'd grown up, divorce equaled disgrace". She's supposed to be eleven years old, for god's sake. I found this such a problem I gave up on the book a quarter of the way in. Now I'll never know whether Howard Carter found that tomb or not.
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Tagged as Howard Carter, Sally Beauman, Shepheard's, The Visitors, Winter Palace

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Render structures as time-series cellular automata in the North-South direction of the selection box.
This filter will let you import a (non Alpha) png and specify the RGB values to match as 'seed cells'. It places them in the middle of the south-most plane and runs the simulation from there. You can also select "None" and it will use the non-air blocks in the south-most plane to seed the process. The final approach is 'randomise' and you suggest the 'frequency' of live cells in the first layer as a float (i.e 0.2 = 20% chance of each cell being 'alive'). I also save off the last frame if you read in from a png file so you can start again from that point later. It's in the MCEdit binaries directory with an "_end" suffix.
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Labor Price(definition): A dollar amount that the client pays the shop for labor expenses incurred while repairing the vehicle. By 2020, it is projected that some 85% of autos created in the nation will be energy effective vehicles (EEVs), producing Malaysia the regional hub for EEVs in line with this, the Malaysia Automotive Institute (MAI), will set up a unique booth at the Autoshow to share its vision as effectively as develop awareness to assist turn Malaysia into a regional base for Power Efficient Vehicle (EEV) production.
For somebody that has more experience than I, please refer to our fellow blogger, Kitties26 and her weblog, A lot more Nail Polish She has employed automotive pigments successfully in holographic and duochrome frankens. Let me place it this way, if you are not supplying exceptional service and high quality you will never get ahead in an auto repair shop, and it is the rare person who succeeds to any degree in my knowledge right here and abroad. The worldwide automotive market is facing adjust on two fronts: a shifting market landscape of emerging markets and growing environmental regulations, and evolving consumer behavior and expectations. Our integrity of work and your satisfaction are the most essential components of our organization.
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The race for electrification is on and businesses that bring viable hybrid and electric powertrains to market first will dominate the future automotive marketplace. If you are hunting for option approaches of instruction, we have 3 mobile automotive instruction vans, set up like mini-classrooms that permit us to bring training to your workplace. We advised international automobile components manufacturer Delphi Automotive on the acquisition of the motorised cars organization of automotive connector manufacturer FCI S.A. For example, you may need to test a fuel injector's On-time ratio and compare this to the specification in your repair manual during a troubleshooting procedure. The mobile market is very good exactly where I am, but I do not know sufficient about the automotive trade in Nigeria to make an honest estimate of the industry there. Then I employed that new shade to paint the insole, like the edges that showed all the way around.
Depending on what type of carpet you haven't you may possibly be in a position to buy an automotive carpet paint. I produced a weave blanket in December and the technicians got the loom operating following functioning with it and ordering parts for a complete semester. For the greatest results, use a dimensional paint with a smooth finish, such as shiny, metallic or pearl.


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The New-York Missionary Magazine, and Repository of Religious ..., Volumen2
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Mr. Cowper was born at Berkhamstead, in Bucking. hamshire, his father being the incuinbent of the living of that place. Our poet is descended from the first Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England, his grandfather being one of the children of that nobleman.
Mr. Cowper received his education at Westminster school; and a place of considerable profit, that of the clerkship to the House of Lords, a patent office, and which had been a considerable time in the family, was reserved for him. But upon his quitting school, and entering into the Temple, he found himself. reluctant ta undertake a function of activity and business. His native love of retirement, a constitutional timidity of mind, and the languor of a very weak and precarious state of health, discouraged him from undertaking the duties of a situation, which required the most unremitting attention and diligence.
About this time he lived in habits of close and familiar communication with Dr. Cotton, the elegant and ingenious author of the Fire-Side. His intimacy with this gentleman must have contributed to his inclination for poetry, by the instructions and example of his friend. But the first foundation of his poetic excellence was laid by his fainiliarity with the best authors of antiquity.
At Huntingdon, a place in which he resided for a few years, he contracted a strong friendship with the Rev. Mr. Unwin, and, on the death of that gentleman, accompanied his widow to Olney. It was in this village, and about this period of his life, that Mr. Cowper produced the earliest compositions that are traced to his pen. The poems he wrote upon this occasion were hymns, published in a collection called the Olney Hymns, and distinguished by the latter C. They bear internal evidence of a cultivated underftanding, and an original genius. His time was now wholly dedicated to that literary leisure, in which the mind, left to its own operations, pursues that line of pursuit which is the most congenial to its taste, and the most adapted to its powers. In his garden, in his library, and in his daily walks, he seems to have disciplined his muse to the picturesque and vivid habits of defcription, which will always distinguish Cowper among our national poets. No writer, except Thomfon, seems to have studied nature with more diligence, and to have copied her with more fidelity. An advantage which he has gained over other men, by his disdain ing to study her " through the spectacles of books," as Dryden calls it, and by his pursuing her through her haunts, and watching her in all her attitudes, with the eye of a philosopher as well as of a poet.
Mr. Cowper had no propensity for publiclife; it was not, therefore, singular that he should have neglected the study of the law, on which he had entered. That knowledge of active life, which is so requisite for the legal profeffion, would scarcely be acquired in lonely wanderings on the banks of the Ouse, and in silent contemplations of the beauties of nature. In this retreat, he exchanged, for the society and converse of the inuses, the ainbition and tumult of a forensic life; dedicating his mind to the cultivation of poetry, and storing it with those images, which he derived from the inexhaustible treasury of a rich and varied scenery in a most beautiful and romantic country. .
The first volume of poems which he published con- ' fifts of various pieces, on various subjects. It seems that he had been affiduous in cultivating a turn for grave and argumentative versification, on moral and ethical to-, pics. Of this kind is the Table Talk, and several other pieces in the collection. He who objects to these poems, as containing too great a neglect of harmony in the arrangement of his words, and the use of expreffions too prosaic, will condemn him on the principles of criticisin, which are by no means juft, if the object and style of the fubject be considered. Horace apologized for the carelefsness of his own satires, which are, ftri&tly speaking, only ethical and moral discourses, by observing that those topics required the pedestrian and familiar diction, and a form of expression, not elevated to the heights of poetry. But, if the reader will forego the delight of
It wou that were ir. Cowpero may still offected mor
smooth versification, and recollect that poetry does not altogether confift in even and polished metre, he will ree mark, in these productions, no ordinary depth of judg. ment, upon the most important objects; and he will be occasionally struck with lines, not unworthy of Dryden for their strength and dignity.
The lighter poems are well known. Of these, the verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, on the island of Juan Fernandez, are in the most popular estimation. There is a great originality in the following stanza :
I am out of humanity's reach;
I must finish my journey alone;
Never hear the sweet music of speech;
I start at the sound of my own. It would be absurd to give one general character of the pieces that were published in this volume; yet this is true concerning Mr. Cowper's productions; that in all the varieties of his style, there may still be discerned the likeness of the same mind; the same unaffected modefty which always rejects unseasonable ambitions and ornaments of language; the same easy vigour; the same serene and cheerful hope, derived from a steady faith in christianity.
I am not prepared to affirm, that Mr. Cowper derives any praise from the choice and elegance of his works, but he has the higher praise of having chosen them without affectation. He appears to have used them as he found them; neither introducing fastidious refinements, nor adhering to obsolete barbarisms. He understands the whole science of numbers, and he has practised their different kinds with considerable happiness; and if his verses do not flow so swiftly as the delicacy of a modern ear requires, that roughness which is objected to his poetry, is his choice, not his defect. But this sort of critics, who admire only what is exquisitely polished, these lovers of "gentleness without finews,'* ought to take
# Dr. Sprat's Life of Cowley,
into their estimate that vast effusion of thoughit which is so abundantly poured over the writings of Mr. Cowper, without which human discourse is only an idle combination of sounds and syllables. · Let me hasten, however, to that work which has more peculiarly given to Cowper the character of a poet. After an interval of a few years, his. Talk was ushered into the world. The occasion that gave birth to it was a trivial one. A lady had requested him to write a piece in blank verse, and gave him the sofa for his subject.
This he expanded into one of the finest moral poems of which the English language has been productive. · • It is written in, blank verse, of which the construction, though in some respects resembling Milton's, is truly original and characteristic. It is not too stately for familiar description, nor too depressed for sublime and elevated imagery. If it has any fault, it is that of being too much laden with idiomatic expression, a fault which the author, in the rapidity with which his ideas and his utterance seem to have flowed, very naturally incurred.
In this poem his fancy ran with the most excursive freedom. The poet enlarges upon his topics, and confirms his argument by every variety of illustration. He never, however, dwells upon them too long, and leaves off in such a manner, that it seems it was in his power to have said more.
The arguments of the poem are various. The works of nature, the associations with which they exhibit themselves, the designs of Providence, and the passions of men. Of one advantage the writer has amply availed himself. The work not being rigidly confined to any precise subject, he has indulged himself in all the freedom of a miscellaneous poem. Yet he has still adhered so faithfully to the general laws of congruity, that whether he inspires the softer affections into his reader, or delights him with keen and playful raillery, or discourses on ordinary manners, or holds up the bright pictures of religious confolation to his mind, he adopts, at pleasure, a diction just and appropriate, equal in elevation to the
Vol. II. No. 4.
sacred effufions of Christian rapture, and sufficiently easy --- and familiar for descriptions of doinestic life; skilful
alike in soaring withiout effort, and defcending without • meanness.
He who desires to put into the hands of youth a. poem which, not destitute of poetic embellishinent, is free from all licentious tendency, will find in the Talk a book adapted to his purpose. It would be absurd austerity to condemn those productions in which the pas, fion of love constitutes the primary feature. In every age, that paffion has been the concernment of life, the theme of the poet, the plot of the stage. Yet there is a sort of amorous sensibility, bordering almost on morbid enthusiasm, which the youthful mind too frequently imbibes from the glowing sentiments of the poets. Their genius describes, in the most splendid colours, the ope. rations of a passion which requires rebuke instead of in. centive, and lends to the most grovelling sensuality the enchantments of a rich and creative imagination. But in the Talk of Cowper there is no licentiousness of defcription. All is grave, and majestic, and moral. A vein of religious thinking pervades every page, and he discourses, in a strain of the most finished poetry, on the insufficiency and vanity of human pursuits.
Nor is he always severe. He is perpetually enlivening the mind of his reader by sportive descriptions, and by representing, in elevated ineasures, ludicrous objects and circumstances, a fpecies of the mock-heroic, of which Philips* was the first author. In this latier sort of style Mr. Cowper has displayed great powers of versification, and great talents for humour. Of this, the historical account he has given of chairs, in the first book of the Task, is a striking specimen.
The attention, however, is the most detained by thofe pallages, in which the charins of rural life, and the endearments of domestic retirement, are pourtrayed. It is in vain to search in any poet of ancient or modern times, for more pathetic touches." The Talk abounds
* The Splendid Shilling,


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Haluzhan (, also Romanized as Hālūzhān; also known as Halūchān, Halūjān, Halūrān, and Hās̄urān) is a village in Kusalan Rural District, in the Central District of Sarvabad County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 111, in 23 families. The village is populated by Kurds.

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Towns and villages in Sarvabad County
Kurdish settlements in Kurdistan Province

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April 3rd marks the 130th anniversary of the announcement of Sofia as a capital of Bulgaria. At 11:00 AM a ceremony took place in the church "St. Alexander Nevski", followed by the ritual rising of the Sofia flag.
The chairman of the National assembly Georgi Pirinski and the prime minister Sergei Stanishev attended the ceremony. At 13:00 PM, the open-air gallery in front of the National theatre opened the exhibition "Russia and Bulgaria at the end of the 19th century. The participation of Russian citizens in the revival period of Bulgaria". The exhibition was organized by the Main archive of Moscow.
At 19:00 PM in hall 1 of the National palace of culture begins the concert-spectacle dedicated to the anniversary. The funds gathered from the concert will go to a charity cause.


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TOPNEWSPRESS RELEASEASEAN keeps silent about the Rohingya crisis
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ASEAN keeps silent about the Rohingya crisis
While the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) annual summit and the East Asia Summit (which gathers 16 countries, among which the United States, Japan, China, Russia, Australia, India and the 10 ASEAN countries) have just ended in Manila, Médecins du Monde– Doctors of the World laments that the Rohingya issue was neither on the agenda nor in the final declarations, although it affects the most persecuted minority in the world.
"After that the ASEAN took a stance in late September blaming publicly violence in Burma, we were expecting a regional position‐taking regarding the Rohingya crisis. The summit could have been an opportunity to reiterate this denunciation, but unfortunately it came to an end without mentioning the Rohingya, who are victims in Burma of a real ethnic cleansing, according to the United Nations", declared Gaël Austin, President of Médecins du Monde Japan.
Although it is based on the non‐interference principle regarding its members' home affairs, in order to avoid lobbying Burma, the ASEAN has a key role to play at a regional level in this crisis resolution.
"Faced with this situation, we, humanitarian stakeholders, cannot accept this silence. The world can no longer be an observer of the unspeakable horrors suffered by the Rohingya people that remained in Burma and by the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Bangladesh or in the surrounding countries",carries on Dr. Françoise Sivignon, President of Médecins du Monde France.
Médecins du Monde, which supports local partners in Bangladesh to give medical aid to these populations, denounced several times the lack of response among the international community concerning this crisis, which is exceptional in terms of scope, violence and complexity. Thousands of people died. 850,000 people fled the nightmare and thousands carry on fleeing whereas there is a terrible lack of targeted sanctions.
The Rohingya people had no nationality; now they have no land, no shelter, and the abuses they are suffering are not recognized.
"We were expecting a strong involvement from the ASEAN regional stakeholders regarding this crisis resolution, and concrete commitments to assist, protect and recognize the Rohingya's fundamental rights. Through this oppressive silence, the international community, including the ASEAN countries, are participating to trivialize the unbearable. Not doing anything is not an option in one of the largest current humanitarian crisis"and Gael Austin and Dr. Françoise Sivignon.


This is brilliant. I'm now trying to work out quite which word the abbreviation "ȹ" stands for (as in the middle of the last line of Psalm 94(95)). Quia? Quod? Quoniam?
that they shall not enter into my rest.
According to this site, ȹ means qui or quod but I am pretty sure it can also stand for quia. I think it is quod "that" in this case, but I am no expert.


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Stewart-Haas, Penske employees tested positive for COVID-19
By Nate RyanJun 19, 2020, 11:15 PM EDT
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UPDATE: Team Penske announced in a statement Saturday afternoon that one of its team members tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week and "recovered without any further symptoms" after quarantining all week.
"Earlier this week, Team Penske had one of its team members report positive for COVID-19. This employee has been in quarantine all week and has recovered without any further symptoms. Due to the team's stringent protocols, only a few of our personnel had reason to quarantine and none of those individuals are experiencing any symptoms. The identities of those impacted, along with additional details, will not be released due to privacy concerns."
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Stewart-Haas Racing confirmed Friday night that two employees at its Kannapolis, North Carolina, race shop had tested positive for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
The news initially was reported by Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic. Citing multiple people familiar with the situation, their story reported a number of employees who could have come into contact with their infected co-workers were sent home Tuesday from SHR's shop and hadn't returned.
Stewart-Haas Racing sent a statement to multiple news outlets:
"Stewart-Haas Racing has experienced two positive COVID-19 test results, neither of which involve personnel who travel to race events. Robust protocols have been in place and continue to be followed diligently to mitigate the spread of the virus while maintaining the health and safety of all members of the organization and greater community."
Stewart-Haas Racing is the first NASCAR team to confirm positive COVID-19 tests.
Since restarting its season May 17, NASCAR has conducted health screenings at races without testing for COVID-19.
NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O'Donnell was asked this Monday about the sanctioning body's protocols and whether anyone had tested positive for COVID-19.
"Everything has been going, actually, remarkably smooth, in terms of the protocols that have been set in place," O'Donnell said. "We've certainly had some folks who may have presented some symptoms that we've turned away early. That's up to them to disclose if there were any issues in terms of did someone have COVID or not, but I would say (the protocols have) worked 100% according to plan.
"We've not had challenges during an event where anything has come up where we've had to react during the hours that the garage was open. It's been if there were any issues prior to someone entering the facility, which have been very minimal.
"We expect there will be some challenges. We need to continue to do our due diligence. We need to continue to wear our masks. We need to continue to follow the protocols."


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BAMcinemaFest announces June film panel lineup
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The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) recently announced the full lineup of panels for the 11th annual BAMcinemaFest, which will take place on Saturday, June 15.
In 2009, the same year as the first edition of BAMcinemaFest, partner IFP moved its offices to Dumbo, where it has continued its now 40-year-long dedication to the empowerment and career sustainability of independent filmmakers based not only in Brooklyn, but around the world.
In addition to their partnership on the panels at BAMcinemaFest, Amy Dotson, IFP's former Deputy Director and Head of Programming, will be a Keynote Speaker at this year's panels.
On the first Saturday of BAMcinemaFest, June 15, BAM and IFP will host a series of panels about the state of the film industry today, covering topics from the feasibility of art house programming, working in independent film, building a career in film and more. Panelists include Closing Night film "De Lo Mio's" director Diana Peralta, Spotlight film "South Mountain's" director Hilary Brougher, "Vanity Fair" film critic K. Austin Collins, BAM's Associate Vice President of Film Gina Duncan and many more.
Tickets for BAMcinemaFest go on sale on Thursday, May 16 at 10 a.m.
The June 15 panels are listed below.
10:15am – 11am - Short Films, Short Attention Spans - As we are fully enmeshed in the digital era, short films have more platforms than ever. But is it art or content? And, does it matter?
Panelists: Mona Panchal, VP Digital, Topic Studios; Nikyatu Jusu, Director of Suicide by Sunlight; Lotfy Nathan, Co-director, Days of Black and Yellow; Moderator: Sean Weiner, Director of Creative Culture, Jacob Burns Film Center
11am – 11:20am - Keynote: Speaker TBA
11:20am – 12:05pm - Art House is Dead / Long Live Art House! - Exploring the power and necessity of the movie-going experience in the golden age of streaming services.
Panelists: Gina Duncan, Associate Vice President of Film, BAM; Lesli Klainberg, Executive Director, Film at Lincoln Center; Mike Maggiore, Programmer, Film Forum; Rajendra Roy, Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern Art; Moderator: Alison Kozberg, Managing Director, Art House Convergence
12:10pm – 12:30pm - Keynote: Speaker TBA
12:30pm – 1:15pm - Critically Minded - Is film criticism a dying industry in the crowd-sourced era? Or do we need professional observers of cinema to help us understand the work, and our own feelings about them? Panelists: Kameron Austin Collins, Film critic, Vanity Fair; Monica Castillo, film critic; Doreen St. Felix, Staff writer, The New Yorker; Tayler Montague, Freelance writer & film programmer; Moderator: Elizabeth Méndez Berry, Director of Voice, Creativity & Culture, The Nathan Cummings Foundation
2pm – 2:45pm - Producing Powerhouse - Real talk about budgets—and profit—and an insider's perspective on the role of creative producing today.
Panelists: Dani Tate Melia, Producer, The Farewell; Beth Levinson, Producer, 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide; Member of the Documentary Producers Alliance; Moderator: Michelle Byrd, Managing Director, PGA East
2:45pm – 3:10pm - Keynote: Amy Dotson, Director, Northwest Film Center; Curator, Film and New Media, Portland Museum
3:15pm – 4pm - Making Your Film Your Own - Directors working with limited budgets face great challenges in production—but these boundaries can often lead to incredible and unique films. Hear from several outstanding BAMcinemaFest filmmakers about the inspiration and paths of making of their own films, and the personal spin they impart.
Panelists: Deborah Granik, Director, Leave No Trace; Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli, Director, So Pretty; Diana Peralta Director, De Lo Mio
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Q: ASP.NET - Calendar control - Strike off dates with a custom strike I want to strike off all the dates before today in a calendar control with an overlapping, red color x in ASP.NET. I can strikethru using the normal font strikethrough using the DayRender event. I can add an image but that sits adjacent to the date. I want the x (image) to overlap the date
Is this possible? If so, please help me how to go about it.
Thank you.

A: Use CSS,

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The calendar control, like all ASP.NET control, outputs HTML. In this case it will output an HTML table, with a structure that looks something like this:

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The , or table-cell as it's known, will contain the date and image you're inserting. You can use CSS to apply specific styles to the cell and image so that they are rendered differently.
My guess is your calendar's HTML with an image will look something like this:
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You can use a CSS stylesheet to apply the following styles:
table.calendar_widget td {
  position: relative;
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table.calendar_widget td img {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
}

That's the basics of HTML - if this doesn't help I'd recommend tracking someone down familiar with front end development and getting their help.

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Mark Abbot Dumas is the only person you'll see in a position like this.
Honestly, Mark is the only man in the world who can touch a polar bear in this way.
But taking a little swim with Agee the bear is completely normal for Mark.
Mark and the 800lb bear are very close and share a lot of trust.
The trainer and his wife Dawn took in and trained Agee when she was only just eight weeks old.
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Agee performs a variety of commands for Mark, but in exchange for her favorite treats. She loves to chow down on steak, cookies, salmon and chocolates. Her trainer believes that she actually loves her work. "They are extremely intelligent animals and you can see she gets enjoyment out of being stimulated through her work." She could have never lived in the wild, so it's important to keep her busy. Her work and play with Mark makes her happy (even if she does get a little jealous when she sees him working with other women). Via Daily Mail Agee is pretty fantastic, share this wonderful polar bear with your friends by clicking on the button below.
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Is your ride diesel-powered? Each time you drive it, carbon deposits can build up and suppress your engine's performance. These deposits can be found on the exterior tips of the injector, and inside the nozzle spray channels. Depending on how your engine bay is laid out, it can be difficult to spot this happening at first glance.
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Manchester United news: Juan Mata expresses concern for stricken Luke Shaw
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Juan Mata may have been making the most of some time off during the international break with a well-deserved holiday, but the Spanish midfielder is keeping his Manchester United teammate Luke Shaw in his thoughts and is backing the in-form fullback to make a speedy recovery.
"After spending some time back at home in Asturias, visiting family and friends, I'm starting the week feeling good. As you all know, we've had a few days that are different to the norm, as there aren't any domestic games, so we've made the most of being able to train hard during the week and then rest at the weekend," Mata expressed on his weekly blog.
Shaw has been a revelation this season for United and has inarguably been their best player so far but he suffered a sickening injury during England's 1-2 loss to Spain on the weekend.
The 23-year-old was involved in an accidental collision with Spain fullback Dani Carvajal and had to be stretchered off with oxygen support, leaving many fans fearing the worst.
"I chose to spend mine back at home, to make sure that I'm feeling fully charged ahead of the games that are coming up soon. It was a great couple of days, as there was great weather and also Asturias' regional holiday, so my break was perfectly timed."
The fullback, however, did tweet to claim he was doing fine and would be back on the pitch in no time.
"Right now, however, I am writing this back in Manchester, ready to get back into training and already thinking ahead to our next Premier League match against Watford."
Shaw's had a horrific few seasons riddled with injuries so official prognosis on his injury is still awaited.
England have confirmed that he suffered a concussion and has returned to Manchester to work with the club's medical team in a bid to return as soon as possible.
"Many of you will have followed the international games, especially with the UEFA Nations League starting. One of the biggest fixtures of the opening games was without doubt England vs Spain, which finished 2-1 in our favour. It was a great result, although England didn't give up until the final whistle in an attempt to at least take a point. The worst news from that match was Luke Shaw's collision, which forced him off the field due to injury."
United next take on high-flying Watford at Vicarage Road on September 15 in a clash that will test their title credentials.
"As you're all aware, he has been in really good form over the last few weeks, I hope that it won't be anything serious and that he can be back fit as soon as possible. I'm sending you a big hug and my best wishes, Luke."
The Red Devils have recovered from an early-season slump of two consecutive losses to beat Burnley away, playing some of the best football in recent memory, but their visit to the Hornets will be their toughest test yet.
"There is still one more international game to go before league action gets back underway, but personally I am already focused on getting myself ready for what's to come in the Premier League, Champions League and the League Cup, as during this rather busy month we will be playing in all three competitions," Mata added.
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3 Ways You Can Prevent Your Reputation From Holding You Back
Although upholding a good reputation is important, it could also be holding you back if you're not willing to step outside of your comfort zone.
By Purdeep Sangha • May 5, 2021 Originally published May 5, 2021
Your reputation is a big part of who you are as a person. A good reputation makes you feel better about yourself, while a bad one can leave you with sleepless nights. There's nothing worse than a client spreading negative comments about you on social media or other channels, especially if the claims are untrue.
If you're not willing to do things and take on additional business because it could hurt your reputation if you fail, you may be missing out on massive opportunities that your competition is willing to jump on.
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1. Be optimistic
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Related: You Need to Meet Your Challenges With Pathological Optimism at Every Turn
2. Pursue to the final stages
You owe it to yourself to pursue your opportunities to the final stages. If you've completed your due diligence and your opportunity still doesn't look like it's worth doing, then say "no" or "not right now." But don't say no before you have enough information to make an informed decision. The opportunity may not go anywhere, but at least you've investigated to the point that you're not going to be kicking yourself in the butt afterwards. One of the biggest regrets business leaders have is not pursuing an opportunity that crossed their path earlier in life.
Related: Easily Distracted? Here's How to Stay Focused When Opportunity Abounds
3. Have an acceptable risk meter
How do you know how much reputation risk you're willing to take on, unless you have a way of measuring it? Risk can be subjective and objective. Most of the time, risk calculation is done subjectively. However, having an objective measure will give you more confidence in your decision. Having an actual measure of the impact will give you a clearer picture of what could go wrong and how much it could cost you in brand confidence as well as in dollars.
Know how to measure your reputation risk. You want a healthy measurement for the risk you're willing to take, but also the opportunity you're willing to leave on the table.
Related: Risk Literacy: Need Of the Hour
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Jim Shooter has been editor in chief for several years. Marvel's readers are constantly asking for a story involving all the heroes and all the villains. Mattel is looking for some kind of event to do a toy tie-in with. Shooter's answer? Secret Wars.
Secret Wars I was a crossover that played out in 12 monthly issues debuting in mid-1984. The idea was to bring all the Marvel heroes and all the villains together for an epic battle that would have an effect on the entire Marvel universe.
Shooter asked all the big name books to leave an opening for the story during a particular month. Those characters would disappear for the Secret Wars at the end of their regular books and reappear in the next issue of their regular books with the effects of the Secret Wars in tow.
Readers of the regular series would wonder where Spider-Man's new black costume came from, how did Hulk break his leg and why did The Thing stay on the alien planet. To find the answers, they'd purchase the 12 issues of the Secret Wars.
Secret Wars was extremely profitable and at the time, everyone was raving about it. 20 years later, many people are quick to write the whole thing off as a marketing ploy. Shooter was the brains behind the story and wrote all 12 issues.
Shooter chose to write it himself obvious reasons. All of the other writers were so protective of their characters they would have a fit if someone else was to do the writing. Shooter figured everyone already hated him because he wouldn't let people hack anymore, so if people were going to get angry at someone, it might as well be him.
Shooter was right about the writers disliking him because aside from Spider-Man's black costume and The Thing staying on Battleworld, most of the writers quickly wrote the repercussions of the Secret Wars out of their stories. By the time the last issue of the Secret Wars was published a year later, only The Thing was still referencing the effects.
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Aside from reading the 9 main issues, the stroy branched into 22 other series that spanned 33 books. The 9 main issues were written by Shooter as well as Daredevil 223 which was a Secret Wars II tie-in.
Secret Wars II was completely wrapped up by the middle of 1986 but references to the Secret Wars would still surface. Thor 383 would have an untold story from SWI and the Fantastic Four would engage in an epic battle sub-titled SWIII at the end of 1988. Quasar, Deadpool Team-Up and What If would also briefly touch on the SW. Twenty years after SWI, a trade paperback reprinting SWI 1-12 was published.


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I've done a ton of searching online but it doesn't seem to be the case for anybody else?
Thoughts?

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For Android devices:
Chrome does not allow applications to play HTML5 audio without an explicit action by the user, similar to how it is handled by iOS, but differently than how the stock Android browser handles it.
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L'église Saint-Joseph est une église catholique de l'ancienne commune de Bruay-en-Artois, aujourd'hui partie de Bruay-la-Buissière dans le Pas-de-Calais. Dédiée à saint Joseph, elle dépend de la paroisse Saints-Pierre-et-Paul-en-Bruaysis du diocèse d'Arras.

Histoire
De 1855 à 1913, la population de Bruay passe de 700 à  habitants. La première pierre de l'église est posée en 1913 par la Compagnie des mines de Bruay. L'église est prévue pour desservir les cités des fosses n° 6, n° 6 bis et n° 6 ter, dites d'Hallicourt, (les deux premières ouvertes en 1913, le dernier puits ouvert en 1915), la fosse n° 6 étant située à  de l'église qui se trouve à la cité des Fleurs. Mais les travaux sont interrompus par le début de la guerre de 1914-1918 et ne sont repris qu'après la guerre selon les plans de l'architecte Paul Degez. Elle est bénie et inaugurée le  par  Julien. Le , un avion allemand lâche des bombes sur la fosse, entraînant un effet de poussier et faisant trente-quatre victimes brûlées vives. En 1992, les anciens vitraux de l'église de la Clarence démolie ont été transférés à Saint-Joseph; ils représentent les quatre Évangélistes et la tragédie minière survenue à La Clarence en 1912. Ils témoignent ainsi de l'hommage due aux victimes des catastrophes minières en général.

La cité de corons 16-3, son école, l'église Saint-Joseph, la cité de corons des Fleurs, ainsi que les terrils 2 et 3, ont été classés le  au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco.

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Description
L'église néo-gothique de briques à encorbellements de pierre dans le style régional présente un clocher au-dessus de la façade coiffé d'une haute flèche d'ardoises et un porche en pointe. Elle est en plan de croix latine.

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 Liste des biens du bassin minier du Nord-Pas-de-Calais inscrits sur la liste du patrimoine mondial

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 Vidéo de l'église (YouTube)

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Hull EMBA Scholarships Available for Women and Charity Sector Leaders
FIND MBA, Jul 29, 2014
Scholarships will cover the full cost of the EMBA program
Hull University Business School has announced that it is now offering two new full-tuition scholarships for EMBA candidates.
The first scholarship will be available for a female candidate and is aimed at supporting women "to achieve greater representation in leadership at a senior level," according to the scholarship information webpage. To be eligible for this scholarship, applicants must have received an offer to study on the EMBA program in 2014, and have not already received any other scholarship or sponsorship. Applicants must submit a 1,000 word essay on what they will contribute to the EMBA program.
The second scholarship is available for an EMBA candidate who works for a registered charitable organization. To be eligible for this scholarship, applicants must be an EU or UK national, have already been accepted into the 2014 EMBA cohort, and must not already have been awarded other scholarships or sponsorship. A 1,000 word essay is also required to apply for this scholarship.
Each scholarship covers the full cost of the EMBA program, which is £20,000.
Hull's Executive MBA program is two years long, with long weekend modules delivered approximately every six weeks. The program also features a hands-on consultancy project and an optional module abroad.
Applications for the EMBA program are still being accepted for the fall 2014 intake.
For more information, please see the Hull news release announcing the launch of the two EMBA scholarships.
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Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, daughter of Thomas Haworth (d. 1830) and his wife Euphrasisa (d. 1856, aged 76), was born on 27 May 1802 at Elstree, Hertfordshire. The Latin name of the herb called "eyebright" is Euphrasia officinalis. So when RB referred to "My English Eyebright" in Sordello (III, 967), he obviously meant Euphrasia Fanny Haworth. Already a close friend of RB when Sordello appeared in 1840, Miss Haworth was destined to become a favourite of EBB as well. She was a neighbour of William Charles Macready (q.v.), and RB first met her at the actor's Elstree home. A still-extant copy of RB's Paracelsus (1835) is inscribed to her as a gift from Macready. Later, RB added his own inscription as evidence of a new friendship: "Now the author wishes he had presented this book to Miss Haworth!" (See Reconstruction, C431.) The recipient made her own additions to the copy: five pen sketches illustrating RB's poem. Presentation copies of later works, starting with Strafford in 1837 (Reconstruction, C583), were inscribed to Miss Haworth by RB himself. Miss Haworth, meanwhile, had paid tribute to RB in "Sonnets to the Author of 'Paracelsus'," appearing in The New Monthly Magazine of September 1836 (see Reconstruction, L121–122). Fanny Haworth clearly was someone of much interest to RB during his early years. His letters to her show more playfulness, more tendency to self-revelation, than do many of his others. Note for example the description of his own intense "love for flowers and leaves" in the letter dated 24 July 1838. He referred freely to poetical works in progress or being planned. Whatever EBB may originally have thought about this early confidante of her husband, shared enthusiasms drew the two women together from the time of their initial meeting in 1851. Their common interests (besides RB) included spiritualism, mesmerism, and the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). Still existing are more than 50 letters that EBB, in the final decade of her life, wrote to Fanny Haworth. Miss Haworth not only saw the Brownings during their sojourns in England, but also visited them in Italy. A letter which EBB wrote to her sister Henrietta from Florence at the end of December 1857 reported that Fanny Haworth "dined with us" on Christmas Day. Though not regarded as a professional writer or artist, Miss Haworth mingled comfortably with literary people and showed considerable evidence of literary and artistic talents. She was present at the Ion supper given by Thomas Noon Talfourd (q.v.) on 26 May 1836. As previously noted, her 1836 sonnets honouring RB proved acceptable to The New Monthly Magazine. She published a volume of stories entitled The Pine Tree Dell and Other Tales in 1827, and a volume of verse, St. Sylvester's Day and Other Poems, 20 years later. Her Stories for Idle Afternoons (Reconstruction, A1150) appeared in 1875. She produced at least 3 portraits of the Brownings' son, Pen (Reconstruction, H10, 69–70), and numerous drawings to illustrate scenes from RB's dramatic works. Miss Haworth died on 6 February 1883 at her London residence, 24 Pembroke Square.


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This Tudor Home in Newton Gets a Vibrant, Feminine Redesign
Interior designer Tiffany LeBlanc creates a home worthy of the owner's playful aesthetic.
By Alene Bouranova· 8/20/2019, 9:01 a.m.
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The sitting room's quirky furnishings include Kelly Wearstler's "Alta" table lamp. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
There's nothing like working on a house with excellent bones. Especially when those bones include 19th-century millwork, five first-floor fireplaces, sky-high ceilings, and boatloads of crown molding—as was the case with the circa-1890, 7,000-square-foot Tudor Tiffany LeBlanc tackled in Newton. "[When I first] walked through, I was like, 'I want this house!'" says the LeBlanc Design principal, who signed on to redesign the home in 2016. "It's gorgeous. And you could tell that there was so much history in [the space]."
The only problem was the décor, which for a long time had felt a little too stuffy to the homeowner. She'd done work here and there in the 12 years she'd owned the house—painting; restoring the wood floors; renovating the carriage house—but in 2016 she realized the overall look wasn't working for her, or her impending empty-nester lifestyle, anymore. "The house had a bit of a masculine tinge, with darker colors, antiques, and a more traditional look," she says. "[I wanted it] warmer, lighter, and a little more reflective of who I am as a person." Plus, she needed better functionality in the kitchen, where she and her Italian water dog, Hunter, like to hang out when her two sons are away at college.
So she and LeBlanc came up with a game plan to renovate the first floor, deciding to revamp the main rooms and save the heavy lifting for the kitchen. The existing historical features meant there wasn't much need for structural change; instead, LeBlanc relied on modern textures, colors, and furnishings to brighten the space and offset the woodwork. "Part of our solution was to [make the space] more feminine by bringing in metallics and blush tones to soften all that heavy wood," LeBlanc says.
Walter Lane Cabinetmaker created the custom banquette where the family dog likes to perch. "He loves [sitting on] the bench to look out the window," the homeowner says. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
Blues and pinks in the library link the palettes found throughout the first floor. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
The library is the homeowner's favorite room in the house, thanks to its cozy feel and displays of personal knick-knacks. It also holds LeBlanc's favorite design detail, the metallic Holland & Sherry wallcovering. "I love, love, love it," she says. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
Next door in the billiards room, LeBlanc curbed an old-school, gentlemen-only club vibe with delicate touches. She installed mirror–backed Urban Electric Co. sconces above the fireplace, and placed Corbin Bronze's Renaissance Woman statue alongside it. She covered the hardwood floors—which LeBlanc calls a "big value," but also dark and heavy—with a plush Jonathan Adler carpet that matches the midnight-blue felt of the pool table, which is inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
Sleek light fixtures from the Urban Electric Co.—the "Garrison" sconces above the fireplace and the "Double Arm" pendant light above the pool table —modernize the wood-paneled billiards room. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
"[The carriage house] was largely designed with [my sons] in mind," the homeowner says. "When they're in town, that's their go-to spot for hanging out with friends." / Photo by Michael J. Lee
LeBlanc also worked her magic in the property's carriage house, populating it with clean-lined furniture to create the casual and contemporary vibe the homeowner requested. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
The elegance continues into the sitting room. Here, LeBlanc balanced cool tones with warm accents, such as the gray Emerson Bentley swivel chairs that sit around a taupe brindle-and-suede Verellen ottoman. She livened up the crown molding by adding textures: A soft-blue Japanese rice cloth covers the walls, and black stone surrounds the fireplace and hearth. "The architecture is such a player that it set the tone [for the décor]," LeBlanc explains. "And for me, the interiors started to layer in the same way you should feel when you're in the home: comfortable, playful, and a little colorful."
From the sitting room's Merida flatweave carpet to the Palecek tripod table, each furnishing had to earn its spot in the home. "To equal the beauty of the architecture, we looked for things that had merit, like the house," LeBlanc says. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
The heart of the renovation, however, was the kitchen. "I really wanted to lighten it up and streamline it, and make it more modern with simple lines," the homeowner says. To accomplish that, LeBlanc stuck to a neutral palette, using a mix of metallic accents for drama, such as a shimmery Ann Sacks tile backsplash and a custom brass hood from Francois & Co. Newly installed beams add depth to the room, while also mimicking the woodwork in the rest of the house. For functionality's sake, LeBlanc moved the appliances—a Wolf double oven, microwave, and range and a Sub-Zero refrigerator—to the same wall, in front of the quartzite-topped island. "The kitchen's organization didn't make much sense before," the homeowner says. "It's so much more central now."
The revamped kitchen makes a perfect gathering space for family and friends: "I host a lot of big holidays, and it's just really nice to have people in this clean, beautiful, kitchen," the homeowner says. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
An Arteriors "Hathoway" chandelier, which echoes the custom brass Francois & Co. range hood, ties together the kitchen and the breakfast room. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
In the adjacent breakfast room, a custom banquette below a row of windows pulls triple duty as seating, storage, and a bed for Hunter. For a less-formal—but still polished—look than the dining room, LeBlanc chose a low-key yet luxe walnut dining table, which she paired with plush wool chairs and a brass-and-glass chandelier that echoes the kitchen's hood.
With the redesign complete, the homeowner says, the house finally feels like it's hers. Sure, there's ample space for hosting family and friends, but more important, she and Hunter have plenty of spots to curl up and read. And she's content with her cozy lifestyle: "It's a big house for me; I think eventually at some point, I'll make a change and move into the city or something," she says. "But while the kids are still around, I'm here. And I love it. I mean, it's home."
Colorful fabrics add intrigue to the formal dining space. LeBlanc chose Brunschwig & Fils's "Samarkand" textile for the drapes, and reupholstered the dining chairs in Carleton V's "Dardanelles" and Osborne & Little's "Guimard" textiles. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
Wood cabinets in the butler's pantry are reminiscent of the home's millwork. / Photo by Michael J. Lee
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By the time Name-It Comics came out, Maple Leaf's first title, and Canada's first comic book, Better Comics had already had eight issues out and its second title, Lucky Comics (at that time known as "Union Jack – Lucky Comics") had had half that. The other title that came out concurrently with Name-It Comics was Bing Bang Comics with its lead and cover feature being the adolescent, Denis the Menace type of trouble maker, Pinky.
Comic book art runs the rainbow spectrum from realistic, to semi-realistic, to surrealistic, each time the metaphor getting stronger. In the surrealistic "toons" the world is populated by caricature humanoids and/or anthropomorphic fauna ('funny animals"). Each of the four WECA publishers, except Educational Projects, had features that fell somewhere on the surrealistic end of this continuum.
Many times over the last year or so I've wondered about what became of the original locations of all the WECA era Canadian comic book publishing houses. Are the original buildings still standing or have they been razed to make way for modern money making enterprises? I glean the following address information from the indicia of the actual comics.
"Johnny (Jack) Canuck." He was a personification of our national identity much in the same way that America had "Uncle Sam" and Britain "John Bull," who started to be depicted in political cartoons just a couple of years (1869) after Confederation. Like all national personifications he is an hyperbole, let's say like a lumberjack riding a Timmie's donut inner tube down the rapids a river of maple syrup and using a hockey stick for a rudder.


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The Last Lion Alone 1874-1932 Vol I Winston Spencer Churchill Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
The Last Lion Alone 1874-1932 Vol I Winston Spencer Churchill Visions of Glory, 1874-1932. William Manchester
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Cold And Fast Lenovo Legion 2 Pro Price and Specifications Announced with Unique Cooling System
by Kamlesh Bhati
Lenovo Legion 2 Pro Price and Specifications
In the evening of April 8, Lenovo held a new conference with the theme of "COLD AND FAST", and the Gaming Phone Legion 2 Pro price and specifications were officially unveiled with up to 18GB RAM and 512GB storage. The first sale will take place at 10:00 on April 9.
Lenovo Legion 2 Pro Official Introduction Video
Lenovo Legion 2 Pro Price and Memory Options
8GB + 128GB version 3699 Yuan
12GB + 128GB version 4099 Yuan
On the front screen, the Legion 2 Pro is equipped with a 6.92-inch 2460 × 1080 AMOLED 144Hz Samsung custom gaming non-porous screen, using the latest E4 light-emitting material and diamond arrangement. And it is also equipped with Pixelworks independent display enhancement chip, which ensures excellent display quality while achieving a high refresh rate. With a 720Hz multi-finger sampling rate and the industry's lowest 3.8ms screen touch latency, providing users with a responsive and hands-on control experience.
Legion 2 Pro display also supports HDR 10+ screen display certification, with 111.1% P3 wide color gamut coverage, Delta E < 0.5, whether playing games or watching videos can have a fine and realistic display effect. The peak brightness of the screen can reach up to 1300 nits, the screen also passed the TUV Rheinland anti-blue light eye protection certification, and supports global DC dimming.
In terms of rear camera, the Lenovo Legion Gaming Phone 2 Pro is equipped with a dual-camera image system, respectively a 16MP ultra wide-angle macro lens with a wide 120° framing range and a 64MP 1/1.32-inch sensor; the front lens is a 44MP side-mounted pop-up front camera with industry-leading neural network-based virtual image generation technology, that allows users to automatically generate an exclusive image through AI face attribute detection or customize the image to pinch the face. In terms of video shooting, the Lenovo Legion 2 Pro supports HDR10+ full process experience, and also supports 8K video, director mode, Audio Zoom, and many other features.
The Legion 2 Pro is equipped with Snapdragon 888 flagship chip + full-blooded UFS 3.1 and full-blooded LPDDR5 core processors, which significantly increase the read/write and loading rates, adding to the flagship performance again. Lenovo officially released this mobile game measured frame rate. The results show that the average frame rate reached 59.5fps when playing "Original God", with frame rate fluctuations as low as 6.8fps. besides, the phone scored 855,000 points on AnTuTu Benchmark at room temperature.
The Legion 2 Pro is equipped with a large 5500mAh battery and dual 90W fast charging, which can charge 82% of the battery in 17 minutes, and can be fully charged in 30 minutes, and supports healthy charging, which can better extend the battery life through high voltage protection and current limitation.
As a gaming phone, it will naturally have different optimization in terms of gaming and heat dissipation. The Legion 2 Pro has a bypass charging function, which allows the charger to supply power to the system and not to the battery. This ensures that the phone does not get hot and the power does not drop.
The Legion 2 Pro is equipped with a dual vortex fan pressurized liquid cooling active-passive integrated mid-range cooling system. Lenovo sets up a large liquid-cooled VC heat sink for the middle heat source, thus realizing fast and even heat from the middle to both sides. The built-in pure copper closed air duct, supported by the unique T-shaped air duct design, can further extend the heat exchange time in the body and take away more heat.
Inside Lenovo Legion 2 Pro Cooling System
Besides, the Legion 2 Pro has a built-in dual turbocharged fan with a 0.22mm ultra-thin fan blade for less wind resistance and greater ventilation. According to the actual test results of the China Academy of Metrology, the maximum ventilation volume of the fans can reach 2724.3ml/min, which is equivalent to 750 internal and external heat exchanges per minute, doubling the cooling efficiency.
Furthermore, the phone has two air outlets, the main fan is used for air intake from the back cover opening, and the secondary fan further exports the airflow to the second air duct. The noise level of the dual turbofans is as low as 24.7dB and has a life expectancy of 50,000 hours and 5.7 years.
The Legion Gaming 2 Pro features an AI intelligent temperature control system with 14 evenly distributed temperature sensors to precisely control temperature and prevent lagging. Officially, the phone supports 7×24 hours of lag monitoring, reducing the number of lags by 40%.
The design of the Legion 2 Pro is very unique and very different from traditional mainstream phones. The internal design uses ATA 2.0 mid-architecture, similar to the mid-architecture of a car, with hardware stacked in the middle to further optimize the heat dissipation structure, from the core area of the mid-architecture hardware and conduct heat to both sides simultaneously.
The unique architecture of the Legion 2 Pro also achieves asymmetrical aesthetic, including the world's first and only dual X-axis motors, a new dual vortex fan pressurized liquid cooling active-passive integrated middle cooling system, dual symmetrical eight gods keys, etc. The feel and operation are made for the real experience of gaming.
Other aspects, the Legion 2 Pro phone also supports the most powerful dual speakers in the phone, full-featured USB-C interface, 5G + Wi-Fi 6E dual network, etc. The color scheme has two kinds of Black and White, supports RGB faith light, weighs 262 grams, and measures 176mm × 78.5mm × 10.32mm.
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