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Lindsay Kemp: working class bohemian
Noel Halifax
The unexpected death has been announced of Lindsay Kemp, I was going to say the dancer, but he was far, far more than this. He had a profound effect on the art and music scene of the 1970s and beyond and he was at the centre of an LGBT+ cultural revolution in London. As he once said, "We wanted to change the world, and we did for at least ten minutes."
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Windrush: Movement of the People
Phil Turner
Racist Tory politician Enoch Powell is well and truly nailed for his "politics of the gutter" in this triumphant celebration of Caribbean migration.
It comes as we hear words from Powell's vile "rivers of blood" speech made in 1968 which whipped up hatred up over immigration, predicting that black people will gain the "whiphand". Ten years before Powell was the minister who had initiated such migration to solve Britain's post-Second World War labour shortage.
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Q: Google Cloud Firestore Triggers not Detecting Write to Database OS: Mac OS Catalina v 10.15.1
Python version: Python 3.7.1
I'm writing a Cloud Functions in Python to be triggered by writes/updates/etc. to a Firestore database. My function essentially just looks like this in my main.py:
def hello_firestore(data, context):
    """ Triggered by a change to a Firestore document.
    Args:
        data (dict): The event payload.
        context (google.cloud.functions.Context): Metadata for the event.
    """
    print("Hello")

I want this function to watch for updates to the document test_collection/test_document. I deployed this function using:
gcloud functions deploy hello_firestore \
  --runtime python37 --trigger-event providers/cloud.firestore/eventTypes/document.write \
  --trigger-resource projects/PROJECT_ID/databases/default/documents/test_collection/test_document

The function deploys successfully, and appears in my Firebase console and in the GCP console. I have a script running on my local machine:
import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials
from firebase_admin import firestore
import time

cred = credentials.Certificate("./path/to/adminsdk.json")
firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)
db = firestore.client()

doc_ref = db.collection(u'test_collection').document(u'test_document')
doc_ref.set({u'test_field':'test_value'})

time.sleep(60)

doc_ref.update({u'test_field':'new_value'})

The database updates accordingly. I expect the function to execute (since the trigger condition is satisfied), and I would expect to see the corresponding stdout output in the Firestore console logs or the GCP console logs. However, there is nothing there -- no error message, and no indication of the trigger event happening (the only logs are the ones that arise as a result of deploying the function). Additionally, manually editing the database in the Firestore console does not have an effect.
I've also tried writing this Cloud Function in Node.js (and deploying it accordingly) and the result is the same -- no indication that the event has occurred.
Any tips/suggestions would be great. Thanks!

A: I believe you want the following deploy command, where default is in parenthesis:
gcloud functions deploy hello_firestore \
  --runtime python37 --trigger-event providers/cloud.firestore/eventTypes/document.write \
  --trigger-resource projects/PROJECT_ID/databases/(default)/documents/test_collection/test_document

See here for more details: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/cloud-firestore

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I spent some time this morning pondering the history of my world for my novel Wolf: Sins of the Father. I figured I would work on a map to help me flesh it out. This is super rough, and more representational than actual. Still I thought it might be interesting to post.
Again, it's super basic. It also demonstrates why I'm writing and not drawing. I changed a country's name today. I'm sure it's residents will adapt over time. I also delete four whole countries. Mostly because there was no need for them. I have my hands full with three or four. Five works to give me some room to grow. A full Nine is a bit much for now. Besides, if I ever want to add more there are the warnings the people of Magdaran try to give about Things East.


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[Home] [WTC (demolition)] [Progressive Collapse]
You've heard that the Twin Towers pancaked, crushing themselves completely. The experts gave us a fancy-sounding term for this: progressive collapse . If you search with the phrase "progressive collapse" you will find numerous articles, most of them written since 9/11/01 about things like assessing and retrofitting existing structures against progressive collapse. It seems that the only examples of progressive collapse of buildings cited are the Twin Towers, Building 7, and the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/challenge.html
Our take...
A pancake-style collapse isn't quite as rare as some sites want to portray. Here's what happened to the L'Ambiance Plaza in 1987, for instance.
L'Ambiance Plaza was planned to be a sixteen-story building with thirteen apartment levels topping three parking levels. It consisted of two offset rectangular towers, 63 ft by 112 ft each, connected by an elevator. Seven-inch thick posttensioned, concrete slabs and steel columns comprised its structural frame (Cuoco, 1992). Posttensioning overcomes the tensile weakness of concrete slabs by placing high strength steel wires along their length or width before the concrete is poured. After the concrete hardens, hydraulic jacks pull and anchor the wires compressing the concrete (Levy and Salvadori, 1992)...
At the time of collapse, the building was a little more than halfway completed. In the west tower, the ninth, tenth, and eleventh floor slab package was parked in stage IV directly under the twelfth floor and roof package. The shear walls were about five levels below the lifted slabs (Cuoco, 1992). The workmen were tack welding wedges under the ninth, tenth, and eleventh floor package to temporarily hold them into position when they heard a loud metallic sound followed by rumbling. Kenneth Shepard, an ironworker who was installing wedges at the time, looked up to see the slab over him "cracking like ice breaking." Suddenly, the slab fell on to the slab below it, which was unable to support this added weight and in turn fell. The entire structure collapsed, first the west tower and then the east tower, in 5 seconds, only 2.5 seconds longer than it would have taken an object to free fall from that height. Two days of frantic rescue operations revealed that 28 construction workers died in the collapse, making it the worst lift-slab construction accident. Kenneth Shepard was the only one on his crew to survive (Levy and Salvadori, 1992).
One floor slab falls onto another, which can't take the weight and collapses onto the next, which can't take the weight, and... Any of this sounding familiar? The end result was a big pile of rubble...
And from this photo it looks like it's fallen into its own footprint, mostly, although as we don't know when it was taken or how much clearing-up's gone on it's hard to tell for sure.
(Click on the picture for a larger version).
This building had a very different design to the WTC, of course. And it was under construction, with the cause of collapse being primarily temporary issues:
The major deficiencies were: improper drape of post-tensioning tendons adjacent to elevator openings, overstressed concrete slab sections adjacent to two temporary floor slots for cast-in-place shear walls, overstressed and excessively flexible steel lifting angles during slab lifting, and unreliable and inadequate temporary slab-column connections to assure frame stability.
http://www.engineering.com/content/ContentDisplay?contentId=41009018
But nonetheless this does show a structure can undergo progressive collapse, when it no longer has the capacity to support a given load. Which surely has at least some relevance to the topic here. And there are other examples of progressive collapses occurring during construction, again due to temporary issues, but illustrating the same point:
In December 1985, a catastrophic accident occurred in Los Angeles during construction of a 21-story steel-frame building. Eighty tons of structural steel sections were stockpiled on one bay on the fifth floor, loading the bay to twice its designed capacity. Three beams failed suddenly at their temporary connections, precipitating a progressive collapse of 10 bays all the way to the ground floor. Three construction workers were killed in the accident.
In March 1973, a dramatic multistory building collapse involving premature removal of shoring occurred at Bailey's Crossroads in Fairfax County, Va. The construction pace for the 26-story project was quite rapid; one floor slab completed per week. At the time of the collapse, concrete was being placed on the 24th floor, and shoring was simultaneously being removed from concrete at the 22nd floor. The sudden, progressive collapse carried the weight of the failed concrete of the 22nd, 23rd and 24th floors all the way to the ground level. The failure killed 14 construction workers and injured 35.
http://www.djc.com/news/co/11155170.html
If you prefer to deal with finished buildings, though, there's the New World Hotel in Singapore, which suffered a progressive collapse due primarily to poor design:
In 'March 1986, a six-storey building - the Lian Yak building - collapsed rapidly and totally to the ground and basement levels with the loss of 33 lives . Hotel New World occupied the top three storeys, and the entire building was completed in 1971 .
A report of the Inquiry (2) into the collapse presented to the President of the Republic of Singapore in 1987 concluded that the root and main cause of the collapse lay in the grossly inadequate design . Dead weights were underestimated, and a large number of individual structural members were grossly under-designed . Compared with CP110, the factors of safety of some columns were below 1 .0, concrete strengths were generally well below normal requirements, and workmanship was of a low order . Signs of structural distress had been ignored . As a result, cracking developed and propagated, deformation in columns progressively transferred overloads to other columns, resulting in their progressive collapse .
http://www.scoss.org.uk/publications/rtf/07Report.pdf
Professor Zdenek P. Bazant reports progressive collapse as occurring in a number of older buildings (we've not seen the details to verify this, but here's what he said anyway):
A number of ancient towers failed in this way, too|e.g., the Civic Center of Pavia in 1989 (Binda et al. 1992); the cathedral in Goch, Germany; the Campanile in Venice in 1902; etc. (Heinle and Leonhardt 1989), where the trigger was centuries-long stress redistribution due to drying shrinkage and creep (Ferretti and Ba·zant 2006).
http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/bazant/PDFs/Papers/ProgressiveCollapseWTC-6-23-2006.pdf
Another famous case was the Ronan Point flats in the UK. Arup's David Scott, Barbara Lane and Craig Gibbons report, "Fire Induced Progressive Collapse", explains what happened:
The building was constructed from pre-cast concrete elements. A gas explosion occurred on the 18th floor, blew out the perimeter structural panels, resulting in the collapse of the floors above in that quadrant of the building. The falling debris impacted the floors below, resulting in the failure of the majority of floors below. The incident was identified as a progressive collapse, the extent of which was disproportionate to the cause.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040719180205/http://www.nibs.org/MMC/ProgCollapse+presentations/Scott's+revised+paper.pdf
This was not directly comparable to the WTC collapses, because only a part of the building failed (see http://www.lalamy.demon.co.uk/ronanpnt.htm), however it does illustrate that progressive collapse isn't some modern mirage. Consider these quotes, for instance.
The Ronan Point apartment building collapse in England in 1968 generated substantial interest in general structural integrity for buildings and in the prevention of progressive collapse. Many authoritative papers were prepared in the decades that followed that failure and subsequent failures of other buildings, and some building codes and reference standards have attempted to incorporate provisions to address the problem of progressive collapse by enhancing general structural integrity.
http://www.nibs.org/MMC/ProgCollapse%20presentations/DusenberryRevised%20paper.pdf
Although progressive collapse is not a new topic in the structural field, recent collapses have brought this issue to the fore. Following the partial collapse of the Ronan Point residential tower block in London, the UK building regulations provided recommendations to guard against disproportionate collapse. These UK guidelines aimed to prevent progressive collapse by ensuring adequate tying of a structure (in concrete or steel) so that catenary action could develop, and this approach has often been cited as good practice. It is noteworthy that little research has been conducted into these recommendations, particularly whether they are adequate to protect a damaged structure from progressive collapse.
http://www.pubs.asce.org/WWWdisplay.cgi?0510522
Substantial interest? Yes, actually: here's a summary of the Ronan Point Inquiry recommendations.
The partial collapse of Ronan Point in 1968 alerted the UK's construction industry to the problem of progressive collapse. An explosion in an apartment on the 18th floor, in the Southeast corner of the 22-storey tower block blew out the non-loadbearing walls of the kitchen and the living room and the external loadbearing wall of the living room. The upper floor slab fell on to the floor below initiating the progressive collapse of one corner of the whole block as can be seen in Figure 1. The cause of the explosion was leakage of town gas from a defective connection on a cooker, which was probably ignited by a struck match (HMSO, 1968). In the report of the Ronan Point Inquiry the following recommendations were made:-
Recommendations for existing tall buildings:-
'(29) All blocks over six storeys in height should be appraised by a structural engineer who should consider:
(a) whether they are susceptible to progressive collapse .
(b) whether they have been designed to resist adequately the maximum wind loadings which they may experience.
(c) Their behaviour in the event of a fire.'
'(30) In blocks that are judged to be susceptible to progressive collapse, measures must be taken to strengthen them to eliminate this risk, and the gas supply should be turned off until this has been done.'
Recommendations for new tall buildings:-
'(32) Designers of new blocks must design the building so that it is not susceptible to progressive collapse, paying particular attention to introduction of continuity at the joints and so disposing the load-bearing walls that alternative paths are provided in the event of local failure.'
'(43) The Building Regulations should include provisions dealing with progressive collapse.'
http://www.nibs.org/MMC/ProgCollapse%20presentations/Moore%20paper.pdf
The phenomenon isn't the sole preserve of terrorist attacks in the US, then. Real engineers have had real concerns about progressive collapse for a very long time.
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Trudeau about to face his own mail delivery problem
Barrie McKennaEconomics Reporter
A community mailbox is seen in the east end of Montreal, Que. on Thursday, March 5, 2015.Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press
Ending door-to-door mail delivery likely ranks as the most unpopular move the post office has ever made.
Canada Post president Deepak Chopra botched the communications strategy when he awkwardly defended the cost-cutting move by suggesting it might encourage house-bound seniors to get more exercise.
"The seniors are telling me, 'I want to be healthy. I want to be active in my life,' " Mr. Chopra told a parliamentary committee in December, 2013.
Canadians were not amused at the thought of grandma, clad in a track suit, slip-sliding down icy sidewalks to collect her pension cheque.
Justin Trudeau promised a moratorium on shifting Canadians to community mail boxes during the election.
And on Monday, Crown-owned Canada Post pre-emptively suspended all further "conversions," including 460,000 already in the works as it awaits guidance from the new government.
But reversing an unpopular decision does not mean it's the right thing to do.
Prime-minister-designate Justin Trudeau will almost certainly reach the same conclusion as the Conservatives did about the post office – something major has to give.
Canada Post can't continue to fund all of its operations subsidy-free without dramatically changing the way it operates. Delivering letters to Canadians isn't just a legislative requirement, it's the post office's main business, accounting for slightly more than half its revenue.
But it's a business that is in inexorable decline. The Internet is rapidly making most mail obsolete. So-called "transaction mail" – letters, bills and statements – fell by 102 million pieces in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2014, a 7.2-per-cent decline. And the rate of decline is accelerating.
The challenge is compounded by the fact that every year Canada Post must deliver less mail to more people. Mail volumes are dropping by more than 200 million pieces a year – down a total of 1.4 billion since 2006. And yet the number of addresses grows by roughly 170,000 a year, compounding inefficiency.
Canada Post delivered 3.6 billion letters in 2014. Assuming a steady rate of decline, its mail bags will be empty in less than two decades as the letter goes the way of the typewriter and the fax machine.
The rest of Canada Post's business is made up of parcels and direct mail, both of which are growing, but not nearly fast enough compared to the decline of letters. Add to that a large solvency deficit in its pension plan and a shrinking work force, and the arithmetic is not favourable.
The plan to shift 5.1 million Canadian homes to neighbourhood boxes was the centrepiece of a five-year plan to put Canada Post back on firmer financial footing. The post office estimates the change would have saved $400-million to $500-million a year.
The conversion has barely begun. Roughly 100,000 homes were moved to community boxes last year and another 800,000 this year. That means Canada Post has so far converted just 900,000 – well shy of its target of 5.1 million by 2018.
Canada Post's labour unions insist that the post office is profitable and can afford to reverse the service cuts.
That's a distortion of the facts. Yes, Canada Post posted a profit of roughly $200-million last year on revenue of $8-billion. But it's a thin profit margin, buoyed by one-time gains from a stamp price hike and lower employee benefit costs.
Through two quarters of this year, Canada Post has slipped back into the red, and it's projecting a loss on the year.
Canada Post needs the half a billion dollars in savings to avert large and inevitable losses down the road.
If Mr. Trudeau wants to forgo those savings and permanently halt the conversions, he has some explaining to do.
Why would some Canadians deserve better service than others? Getting mail at your door is already a rare privilege in Canada. Only about a third of the 15.3 million addresses in Canada now get it. Most of the rest of us pick it up our mail at community boxes or in apartment or office building mail rooms. A relatively small number of rural residents still get mail delivered to mail boxes along highways.
Mr. Trudeau will also have to explain to Canadians why they should subsidize home delivery for a privileged minority, including people living in some of the toniest urban enclaves in the country?
Unless the Liberals can come up with a more palatable way to save $500-million a year, taxpayers will soon have to swallow some pretty hefty losses at Canada Post.
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Spin Doctor calls turntablism -'skillful' juggling
MUMBAI: Amidst, DJs, hip hoppers and rappers, there exists turntablists, though a very few in India. Spin Doctor, a name, who has held strong this genre in India for 12 years now, talks exclusively about it.
Commenting on what a 'turntablist' is, Spin Doctor says, "Back in the days, when hip hop revolution had happened, DJs used to spin from a record. Turntablism is therefore a skilful juggling, where in I do lot of scratching, re-juggling. It's not just about playing with buttons, but has a lot of live elements."
"Turntablism is not done by many DJs in India. It is a very difficult art, which very less people are covering it, but I am happy that I have stuck to it," he further exclaims.
He further comments on the hip hop scene in India, "It is booming, and growing like anything. Also, Bollywood movie, Gully Boy has helped. Initially, as a hip hop DJ, it was very difficult for us to perform, but now everybody is absorbing this genre."
Lastly Spin Doctor, who is a doctor by profession reveals, what led to this switch, "I started DJing as a hobby, but didn't know that I will be so much into it. While studying medicine, our curriculum was very stressful. I wanted to do something in music and aspired to be a rapper, but I was bad at it. Hence, I thought of opting for DJing and then turntablism happened. I keep growing and learning every day about as a turntablist."
He recently performed at Breezer Vivid Shuffle Season 3 in Mumbai.
Spin Doctor Aye Hip Hopper DJ DJing live Gully Boy Breezer Vivid Shuffle Season 3 hip hop
Boris Brejcha releases driving new single 'To The Moon And Back'
MUMBAI: Distinguished German DJ and producer Boris Brejcha unveils his latest project 'To The Moon And Back', out now via Ultra Music.
Martin Jensen releases remix of stefy de cicco & ben hamilton's kid cudi "day'n'nite" rework
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Russia outlaws Descartes
Not in his entirety, I hasten to add. It's only Cartesian epistemology or, to be precise, its central postulate that's deemed delinquent,.
Cartoon at the time of the Pact (it's Poland on the ground)
All knowledge, wrote the philosopher, is based on comparing two or more things. Now, I have both philosophical and theological problems with that notion (it denies, for example, intuitive or revelatory knowledge, along with the knowledge of God, who is by definition incomparable).
But Putin's objections are more practical than that. The other day the Duma proposed, and Putin endorsed, a law making it illegal to "equate the objectives, decisions and actions of the Soviet leaders, generals and soldiers with the objectives, decisions and actions of the Nazi leaders, generals and soldiers."
One can deduce two things from this, one false, the other true. The false inference is that no parallels between the Soviets and the Nazis exist and therefore drawing them can yield no knowledge. The true inference is that the parallels do exist, but the knowledge they yield is unacceptable to Putin and his coterie.
If Euclid is to be believed, parallel lines can't converge – which is why they are called parallels and not overlaps. But that doesn't mean they can't be drawn. In this context, though Bolshevism and Nazism weren't identical in every respect, their similarities outweighed their differences.
The Duma member who proposed the law singled out Poland as the principal culprit in drawing those objectionable parallels. Yet one wonders how anyone can deny that the Poles have every right to wax Cartesian in this respect.
After all, on 23 August, 1939, the two evil regimes, Hitler's and Stalin's, signed a pact (followed by a lesser-known friendship treaty) dividing Europe in general and Poland in particular between them. To claim her piece, Germany attacked Poland on 1 September; Stalin followed suit on the 17th.
Thus at the beginning of the war Hitler and Stalin were allies. They fired the first shots, and Poland was the first target.
Before the year was out, the Soviets deported more than a million Poles. Most ended up in Siberian concentration camps, others in unmarked graves – and the 22,000 officers murdered at Katyn and elsewhere are far from being a complete list of victims. At least 300,000 Soviet Poles also fell victim to Stalin's genocidal purges, with about 100,000 dying of bullet or neglect.
Under those circumstances one can understand the Poles' inability to distinguish between Brown and Red concentration camps, or between Brown and Red hit squads – especially since most Poles who perished in the Nazi camps were actually Jews (who accounted for three million out of the five million Poles killed during the war).
Actually, since the affection for Jews in Poland has always been rather understated, most Poles who lived through the war regard the Soviet occupation as worse than the Nazi one. And when the Soviet troops re-entered Poland in 1944, they began to rape, loot and murder on a scale that exceeded the Nazi crimes, which took some doing.
Moreover, having occupied the country, the Soviets installed a version of their own evil regime that continued to enslave the Poles for the next 50-odd years, while the Nazis only managed to do so for less than five years.
Moving on to a more fundamental level, both communist and Nazi ideologies – which is to say both nationalism and internationalism – are offshoots of the Enlightenment. A major difference between the two is that the Nazis declared war on the whole world except their own people, while the Bolsheviks' war was waged on the world, including their own people.
While national and international socialism each developed in its own way, both were doctrinally committed to extreme statism, with state worship replacing religion, to which both regimes were violently opposed. That model came courtesy of Marx, and both Hitler and Stalin acknowledged their debt to him, the first obliquely, the second directly.
As part of the alliance established on the state level, the NKVD and the SS forged their own links. In 1940 the NKVD-SS Friendship Society was inaugurated with the approval of both Stalin and Hitler. The two diabolical organisations were comparing notes and exchanging pointers.
Even before the natural affinity between the two was institutionalised, a profitable exchange of ideas and equipment had been under way. The SS learned from their Soviet colleagues how to set up and run a network of concentration camps – and how to use gas for mass murder.
The Soviets were the first regime in history to use poison gases on their own people. That happened during the peasant uprisings in the 1920s, when gas shells were dropped from planes on the forests where the rebels were hiding. At the same time, the Soviets pioneered the use of gas vans, mobile gas chambers of low throughput but high efficacy.
The Nazis saw the potential of that innovation, used it in the early stages of the Holocaust and later developed it into the stationary facilities since then amply documented. In gratitude, the Gestapo shared with their NKVD colleagues the torture equipment essential to the needs of the Soviet growth industry.
In short, the parallels between the Soviets and the Nazis are perfectly valid and clearly visible, mutatis mutandis. But one can understand why Putin's gang regards them as obnoxious.
Its ideological basis is a return to the imperial glory of Stalin's Russia, if without the attendant communist slogans. Hence Putin's propaganda machine is busily fostering the image of Russia as a noble fighter for goodness surrounded by enemies colluding to destroy it.
Russia emerges as a sort of prostitute with a heart of gold whom everyone screws and no one loves. Explained in those terms is everything awful that happens to Russia, such as her appalling poverty (outside Putin's trusted lieutenants), the former constituent republics claiming their independence, and the West responding with sanctions to Putin's holy mission of reversing "the worst geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century" (i.e. the disintegration of Stalin's empire).
Putin's Goebbelses are spinning the same yarns as did Soviet propaganda from Lenin onwards. NATO, using that ghastly Poland as its spearhead, is planning an invasion of Holy Russia, starting with her historically lawful, if illegally detached, property in the west.
This week Putin's answers to Der Sturmer are screaming about the impending NATO thrust into Belarus to be launched from Poland and Lithuania. The only possible response is of course to preempt that aggression by dispatching Russian troops into the country, whether she wants it or not.
Reviving the ethos of a virtuous Soviet Union heroically fighting off its enemies is part of the propaganda offensive. Obviously, anyone daring to compare Stalin with Hitler jeopardises this signalling of nonexistent virtue. Clapping such a spoilsport into prison becomes the only logical response.
If old René were alive today, he'd have to think twice before indulging in his epistemology. Comparing those two things might or might not yield knowledge. But it could definitely earn him a tenner in one of the extant camps.
Author Alexander BootPosted on 29th October 2020 Categories Blog
4 thoughts on "Russia outlaws Descartes"
Efrem Sepulveda says:
30th October 2020 at 2:32 am
Just as an aside. That FDR overlooked all of this from Stalin and called him Uncle Joe seems to make a mockery of all we did in the "Good War." Perhaps judgement comes upon America in the form of the fear of a virus. I could be wrong.
Yura Dashevsky says:
30th October 2020 at 11:30 am
It's a confession. Coming from the top.
Dr Fish says:
If Vlad doesn't like what you say, you are either 'whacked' by 'unknown' assailants or kidnapped by mysterious people and just disappear, probably to an early grave or maybe a gulag. Under Xi's system you are detained for questioning on the subject of endangering state security. No formal charges are ever laid and you just 'disappear' into a the equivalent of a gulag.
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Hitler and Stalin both saw a kindred spirit in the other. Leaders with "balls" willing to do what others were unwilling to do. None of that moralistic stuff holding action back with deliberation. Just go do it.
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Guest Post and character interview from Caroline Fardig – author of Bad Medicine the latest Lizzie Hart Mystery
Character interview—Blake Morgan
CF: Thanks for sitting down with me for an interview today, Blake.
Blake: It's my pleasure to be here. *Grins* Maybe we could have a drink later. You know, after the interview. See where the evening takes us.
CF: Thanks for the offer, but I'm married. Then again, I've heard that doesn't stop you.
Blake: Ouch. Have you been talking to Lizzie Hart?
CF: She and I are tight. I interviewed her a while back. She's a bit of a firecracker.
Blake: She's certainly infuriating at times.
CF: Wow. Maybe we'd better stay on topic. What do you do at the Liberty Chronicle?
Blake: *Puffs out chest* I'm the lead investigative reporter. I write hard-hitting stories and exposés, giving our readers the information they need to know.
CF: Is there really that much to report about in Liberty? Aren't there better news stories elsewhere?
Blake: You'd think that, but there is definitely an undercurrent of danger here. With all of the craziness that's happened lately, the stories are just as juicy as those I reported in Chicago.
CF: So you're not a local? Why move to Liberty of all places from Chicago?
Blake: No, I'm not a local, but my father grew up here. I moved to Liberty to handle my ailing grandfather's estate. I could probably move back now that I have everything in order, but there's something about this town that makes me want to stick around for a while.
CF: Does that something rhyme with Lizzie?
Blake: Maybe we should stay on topic here.
CF: Right. Sorry. So how do you go about investigating a story?
Blake: I employ several different tactics to gather my information. Of course, there's always simply interviewing people close to the situation. I have an in with the Liberty Police Department, so sometimes I can get access to semi-classified information. If all else fails, I have some rather sophisticated surveillance equipment at my disposal.
CF: That last part sounds marginally legal at best.
Blake: You say potato, I say you can't sit around and wait for the story to come to you.
CF: Okay, then. Maybe we'll quit talking about your work for a while. What do you like to do for fun?
Blake: Well, I was going to show you later after we get that drink…
CF: I think we're done here.
BAD MEDICINE is the third book in THE LIZZIE HART MYSTERIES series.
What do a smokin' hot detective, an evil chiropractor, and a couple of blind dates from hell have in common?
Lizzie has to wrangle them all in the third book of THE LIZZIE HART MYSTERIES series!
Lizzie Hart is overjoyed that six whole months have passed without a single murder in the sleepy town of Liberty. It's also been six months since Blake Morgan heartlessly dumped her, but she's determined to get over him. She's slimmed down, ready to party, and injury-free, except for a little nagging pain in her ankle. She's also very single, but her friends are doing everything in their power to fix that—including setting her up on one disastrous blind date after another.
Lizzie's reprieve is short-lived when an old friend of hers is found dead from an apparent drug overdose. She wants to write it off as bad behavior after having seen the guy cheating on his wife with the new chiropractor in town. However, when she sees that same chiropractor playing doctor with another man who ends up dead, she worries there could be murder afoot.
Doing her best to stay on the right side of the law this time, Lizzie decides to go straight to the police with her suspicions. Unfortunately, the only cop available to speak with her is the stern yet hot new detective who has already given her a traffic ticket and a reprimand for public intoxication. Not surprisingly, he brushes her off, leaving her no choice but to begin snooping on her own. Lizzie soon learns she's going to need help to get to the bottom of this mystery, but her best partner in crime solving, Blake, has turned into her worst enemy.
Can Lizzie and Blake find a way to work together to catch the killer…or will they kill each other first?
Buy link:
http://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Lizzie-Hart-Mysteries-Book-ebook/dp/B010RUKXTU/ref=pd_sim_351_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=14RBSD8BEH1AKHTFTD96
CAROLINE FARDIG is the author of the LIZZIE HART MYSTERIES series and the forthcoming DEATH BEFORE DECAF, available November 2015 through Random House. Her eclectic working career included occupations of schoolteacher, church organist, insurance agent, funeral parlor associate, and stay-at-home mom before she realized that she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. Born and raised in a small town in Indiana, Fardig still lives in that same town with an understanding husband, two sweet kids, two energetic dogs, and one malevolent cat.
www.carolinefardig.com
http://www.carolinefardig.com/blog/
http://www.carolinefardig.com/mailing-list/
Twitter: @carolinefardig
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caroline-Fardig/496944767049778
Q&A with Caroline Fardig author of It's Just a Little Crush (Lizzie Hart Mysteries)
1. What was the inspiration for your novel?
Since I was a kid, when I was bored, I would let my mind wander.
I would often come up with fun and crazy stories, and this time, I
decided to write one down.
2. When did you take up writing?
It was about three years ago. I wrote my first draft of IT'S JUST A LITTLE CRUSH and didn't tell anyone about it for a really long time. I finally got the courage to show it to a friend, and she encouraged me to do some tweaking and ultimately to publish it.
3. How important is setting/place in your writing?
The setting, to me, is just like a character in a story. The plot unfolds the way it does because of the area where the story takes place. Take Sex
and the City, for example. If the four girls had lived in a small, hick town, would any of the crazy things that occurred have happened at all?
No. On the other hand, in a story like Where the Heart Is, if Novalee had been dropped off in the middle of New York City, do you think she
and her baby would have been able to survive solely on the kindness of
others? Not a chance.
4. Do you have a favourite character (s) in your current novel?
Of course, my two leads, Lizzie and Blake are my favorites. I love to make them banter back and forth.
5. What's the best piece of writing advice you were ever given?
The best advice is not to take it personally every time your book is criticized, especially on the Internet. When
you're a new author struggling to get noticed, it's very exciting to get reviews, because then you know that people are actually reading your book. However, being human, it's difficult to not be hurt a bit by a bad review. If you're getting poor reviews and are worried about the quality of your work, let someone read it who you know will give you a straight answer—good or bad.
6. Do you have a schedule for writing?
I don't have a set-in-stone schedule that I follow, but I do have consistent times when I work. You'll find me at my
computer when my kids are at school and also for an hour or so after they go to bed. It's infinitely easier to write when you don't have kids yelling or the SpongeBob theme song playing in the background.
7. Are you a plotter or someone who tends to wing it?
As with my life, I do about 25% plotting and 75% winging it. I think winging it makes for much more interesting reading (and a more spontaneous and fun lifestyle).
8. Can you name three of four of your current favourite books?
I'm reading THE FAMILY YOU CHOOSE by Deborah Nam-Krane right now, and it's so captivating, I get angry when I have to put it down. I just finished Jami Deise's KEEPING SCORE, and I think it is going to be a serious hit. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I love Scott Kenemore's ZOMBIE, OHIO. It's a great pre-Halloween read—not really scary, but still all about zombies.
9. Can you tell me a little bit about what you are working on now?
I am editing my third novel, BAD MEDICINE. I would rather be creating something new, but painstaking editing is
always a must.
10. What advice would you give to a fledgling writer to assist them on their journey?
Don't try to do it alone. Find a network of writers in your genre (there are tons of groups on Facebook) and lean on them
for advice. Better yet, find an awesome publicist like mine (Sarka-Jonae of SJ Publicity) and let her take you
there on the fast track.
CAROLINE FARDIG was born and raised in a small town in Indiana. Her working career has been rather eclectic thus far, with occupations including schoolteacher, church organist, insurance agent, funeral parlor associate, and stay-at-home mom. Finally realizing that she wants to be a writer when she grows up, Caroline has released her debut novel, IT'S JUST A LITTLE CRUSH, now a #1 Bestseller. She is currently hard at work churning out a second novel in the LIZZIE HART MYSTERIES series. She still lives in that same small town with an understanding husband, two sweet kids, two energetic dogs, and one malevolent cat.
EXCERPT: It's Just a Little Crush
"Girl! You are a hot mess!" That's the way my
cousin Becca greets me at the funeral home. She, like always, looks like a model ready for the runway. Why didn't I get some of her "look perfect all the time" genes?
"I'm well aware of that," I acknowledge sullenly.
"What happened? You're all sweaty and stuff. Did you walk over here?"
"No, I didn't walk over here. I had a bad day." I start ticking things off on my fingers. "I had no sleep, I got grilled by a cop, I was late to work, people were gossiping about me, my boss reprimanded me (twice), I didn't get to go to lunch, it was hot in the office, and I was stressing about the mountain of copy I have to go through. Now I have to attend a funeral for a friend, who I found dead. Does that answer your question?"
"Yep. Come on into my office, and I'll try to do something with the mess on top of your shoulders," Becca says as she steers me down the hall.
Becca's private bathroom is stocked with all kinds of makeup, hair products, and hair appliances. No wonder she's always fabulously perfect—she keeps a mini beauty salon at work. She opens a door inside
the bathroom to reveal a small closet full of beautiful clothing.
"Here, put this on," Becca orders, throwing a red blouse my
way. "Your outfit could use some help."
"What's wrong with my outfit? It's cute."
"It's so last season."
"Ha! That's where you're wrong," I retort. "I've had this for three years."
Becca rolls her eyes and goes to work on my sweaty, tangled hair. She quickly dry shampoos, combs, curls, and sprays it. She has made it clear that she won't let me even peek in the mirror until she is totally done with me. After she is
satisfied with my hair she gets to work on my makeup.
"Now, you're not going to put too much on, are you? I like a natural look," I warn.
"I put makeup on people for a living."
"Yeah, dead people."
You can find Caroline on Social Media
Website: www.carolinefardig.com
My blog: http://www.carolinefardig.com/blog/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caroline-Fardig/496944767049778
Media inquires: http://www.sjpublicity.com/contact.html


Your boss asked you to prepare a spreadsheet for a meeting the next day. It took a couple of hours and some shuffling of priorities, but you did it.
When you arrive at the meeting, though, your boss handed you a spreadsheet that she (or someone else) created, which means you just did a whole lot of work for nothing.
Should you tell your boss how frustrated you are?
Michael Rosenthal, a partner with negotiation and workplace conflict resolution firm Consensus, advises that you first do a temperature check.
"Be sure your emotions are in check. When emotions are at their peak, reasoning capacities are physiologically at their weakest," he says.
1. Forget about communicating your frustration for the moment and instead try to learn more about the process itself. Was there a reason your boss moved forward without you? Maybe she forgot she made the assignment, maybe you misunderstood, maybe she wanted a second version.
Your heart-to-heart will clear the air. But, more important, it will set the stage for a better working relationship in the future.
Office grapevine riper than ever?


Coming from a troubled neighborhood, without a father, and playing only one unremarkable year of high school football DeQuin Evans' story exemplifies the Rudy Award. After graduation DeQuin worked as a bagger in a grocery store to help support his family.
While still working, he tried out for a Junior College Football team as a walk on and made the team despite his lack of football experience. He worked his way into becoming a standout player and eventually earned a scholarship in to the University of Kentucky. During his first season he earned All-SEC honors while leading the team in quarterback sacks and tackles for loss. Even though he had only been in the program one year, his teammates elected him team captain for the 2010 season.
DeQuin's story took another turn this year when he was struck by significant shoulder and ankle injuries before and during the season. Dequin, however, has continued to play and has missed only one game with injuries that would have sidelined virtually any other player. It is fitting that his perseverance has been rewarded by playing his best football in the final two games of the season and helping the Wildcats reach bowl eligibility.
Through it all Dequin has always kept an attitude of gratitude. He's not only grateful to get to play football. He's grateful for the equipment he receives. He's grateful to go to school and not have to pay for it. He's grateful for the academic support. He's grateful when someone is nice to him. He seems to be grateful for everything and his amazing story exemplifies the qualities of character, courage, contribution and commitment.


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Q: How does a Pull Request append an empty commit? When we create a Pull Request, Visual Studio Team Services adds an empty commit to the source branch with the message:

Merge PR XY from src-branch into target-branch.

I inspected the git commands that VSTS issues but couldn't find any related command.
Does anybody know how it's done?
PS: As an example, in the picture below, commit a8581061 is done by VSTS whereas commit 5adb8333 was in bramch features/add-serilog.

A: They're not doing anything out of the ordinary; just accepting a pull request is going to create that commit.
BTW, the notion that a merge commit is "empty" is not correct. The merge commit contains all the changes from the branch that is merged(features/add-serilog in this context) and is made on top of the branch that is merged into(develop).
You can recreate this behavior by using the git merge command; just go onto develop and do git merge features/add-serilog. You'll get a prompt to edit the commit message defaulting to something like Merge branch 'features/add-serilog' into 'develop'. Saving changes will create your commit. When you push that commit, the pull request will get closed automatically(note that this only works if the pull request is initially open and you have permission to push to develop branch).


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Britons blame cancer risk on 'fate'
More than one in every four Britons believes that whether or not they get cancer is purely down to luck.
A survey conducted by Cancer Research UK published today found that 27 per cent of British adults said cancer risk was determined by fate and could not be lowered by human efforts.
As stopping smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, eating fruit and vegetables and avoiding sunburn have all been proven to reduce cancer risk, Dr Lesley Walker, director of information at Cancer Research UK, said that education is a key issue in lowering cancer cases in Britain.
"It is alarming that such a large percentage of the British population do not realise that half of all cases of cancer can be prevented by lifestyle changes," Dr Walker commented.
"We can give people information about how to do this but it is seriously worrying that so many people think cancer is down to fate."
The survey found that the percentage of people attributing cancer risk to fate rose in the most deprived areas of Britain to an average of 43 per cent, compared to 14 per cent in the most wealthy areas.
People over 65 were the age demographic most likely to blame cancer on fate.
Work blamed for Britons' aches and pains
Cancer is Britons' greatest fear
Britons oblivious to osteoporosis risks
Britons 'unaware' of obesity cancer link
Boozing Britons 'vulnerable to mouth cancer'
Britons 'still at risk from vCJD'


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Truett's Chick-fil-A Sports: What to know ahead of Monday's National Championship game. NFL's Wild Card Weekend scores, three more games today.
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Truett's Chick-fli-A, 264 Shorter Ave., 6 a.m.-10 p.m. Drive-through, curbside and Door Dash.
Mount Berry Mall, 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m. (curbside, carryout, Door Dash). Shipping Container, 6 a.m.-10 p.m. All Monday-Saturday.
Monday: National Championship: Alabama vs. Ohio State, Miami, 8 p.m., ESPN.
What to know ahead of Monday night's game. NCAA
Big game, big coverage: With the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide fired up for their fifth College Football Playoff National Championship Game appearance, SEC Network will feature 15 hours of wall-to-wall programming surrounding Championship Monday and the Tide's quest for their 18th national title trophy against the No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes (8 p.m. ET, ESPN). The schedule
The National Football League's Wild Card Weekend updates. For more, click NFL
AFC No. 2 seed Buffalo Bills top No. 7 seed Indianapolis Colts, 27-24.
NFC No. 6 seed Los Angeles Rams beat No. 3 seed Seattle Seahawks, 30-20.
NFC No. 5 seed Tampa Bay Buccaneers over No. 4 seed Washington Football Team, 31-23.
AFC No. 5 seed Baltimore Ravens at AFC No. 4 seed Tennessee Titans, 1:05 p.m. (ABC, ESPN)
NFC No. 7 seed Chicago Bears at NFC No. 2 seed New Orleans Saints, 4:40 p.m. (CBS, Nick, Amazon Prime Video)
AFC No. 6 seed Cleveland Browns at AFC No. 3 seed Pittsburgh Steelers, 8:15 p.m. (NBC, Telemundo, Peacock)
The Divisional Playoffs schedule will be announced once all wild card games have been played.
Atlanta Falcons: The latest on the general manager and head coach searches; plus Mock Draft.
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Berry College: The tentative plan is to have a five-game football season begin sometime in February. The schedule will be finalized soon.
No outside fans at Berry/SAA events per COVID concerns. Fans will be limited to only students, faculty, and staff members that are part of an SAA institution's COVID-19 on-campus community. These members of the campus community must be subject to all of their institution's COVID-19 protocols including but not limited to regular testing. At this current time no outside fans, parents, or spectators will be allowed at any SAA competition. Each institution may determine the number of limited fans it allows to attend a competition based on that school's COVID-19 policies and procedures and local health guidelines for gathering restrictions. Throughout this semester, the SAA COVID-19 Task Force committee will continue to monitor all fan procedures and policies based on national and local health recommendations, social distancing, masking, contact tracing, and coronavirus testing. For more information on the Southern Athletic Association, please visit www.SAA-Sports.com.
Shorter Hawks: Shorter head football coach Zach Morrison says football practice will begin at the end of January with a five-game schedule slated to begin on Feb. 27 with a game at Kennesaw State University. Two of the games will be played at home including the March 20 showdown against Edwards Waters College and March 27 against Fort Valley State University. Shorter's home games will be played at Darlington's Chris Hunter Stadium.
Atlanta Braves open spring training Feb. 27: The Braves will be based as the new spring training campus in North Port on the coast of Southwest Florida. The inaugural season was cut short by the pandemic in 2020. The first game of the Grapefruit League is Feb. 27 at Baltimore. The first "home" game is March 1 vs. the Nationals. Spring schedule
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Go to the phone app, top right, three dots, under settings go to calls, additional settings, see if call waiting alerts is enabled. You should see 'During a call, notify me of incoming calls'.. enable that if it's not enabled.
Yes, that's enabled. Thanks for your response, though.
More specifically, when I get to that last screen, the call waiting is gray like it's off. I touch nothing, but after 2-3 seconds, it goes to the green (on) mode, all by itself. So maybe the problem is in there somewhere?
turn it off, do a hard restart of the phone. test that it's off by calling yourself whilst you call your Voicemail or something like that. then turn the toggle back on, do another hard reset and test again.
Won't that remove all my data? Happy Thanksgiving.


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Regina Smendzianka
*9 X 1924 Toruń, †15 IX 2011
Regina Smendzianka – winner 11th award IV Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warszawa (1949) – was born into a family of amateur musicians. She began playing piano at age four. At six years of age she was already taking regular lessons with Maria Drzewiecka: initially privately but after two years within the Pomeranian Music Association Conservatory in Toruń. She began performing publicly at age eight. In the winter of 1934 she took part in the Competition for Young Talents in Warszawa, she won an award and a diploma of merit.
At age 12 (1936) she became a student of Prof. Heryk Sztompka's, at the aforementioned Conservatory in Toruń. Two years later (1938), she performed with an orchestra for the first time, performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C major. The outbreak of World War II interrupted her musical studies in Toruń.
In 1939, The young pianist's family moved to Kraków, where Regina Smendzianka kept up her general education in secret and worked to help with the family finances.
After the German capitulation, in 1945, Smendzianka became a student at the State Music Academy in Kraków under Prof. Henryk Sztompka. She received her degree with highest honours in 1948. Shortly thereafter she began intensively developing her concert career, performing with the Kraków, Katowice and Warszawa philharmonic orchestras. In June 1948, she won first prize in the National Elimination Chopin Competition; one year later, she won the 11th award at the Fourth Chopin Competition in Warszawa. For the following five years (1950-55), she perfected her skills under the tutelage of Prof. Zbigniew Drzewiecki.
In her career as a virtuoso, spanning over half a century, Regina Smendzianka performed in 33 European countries, North and South America, the Middle and Far East. She performed as a soloist with all national orchestras as well as symphonies in Berlin, Leipzig, St. Petersburg, Cologne, Tokyo, Helsinki, Mexico City, Caracas, Havana, Teheran, Milwaukee and others. She worked with such conductors as: Zecchi, Kondraszyn, Kegel, Conta, Sanderling, Martinon, Mata, Rowicki, Krenz, Wisłocki, Czyż, Kord, Wit, Katlewicz, Fitelberg, Skrowaczewski and others. She joined orchestras on tours of Belgium, Switzerland, England, Canada, the USA, Bulgaria and Holland. She participated in many international music festivals in England, Bulgaria Austria (Wiener Festwochen), Yugoslavia, Romania, Japan, Germany and Poland (Warszawa, Kraków, Słupsk, Duszniki, Antonin, Bydgoszcz and others).
The pianist's substantial repertoire includes piano music of all styles and from all epochs – from baroque through contemporary. A generous selection of Chopin's works have a favoured place in her concert programmes as do the works of other Polish composers (including Lessl, Janiewicz, Ogiński, Krogulski, Moniuszko, Zarębski, Paderewski, Pankiewicz, Melcer, Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Malawski, Bacewiczówna, Łuciuk, Meyer, Palester and Baird).
Regina Smendzianka's discography includes several dozen recordings done by Polish and foreign labels (Polskie Nagrania "Muza", Deutsche Grammophon, Camden, RCA Italiana, CNR Holland, Pony Canyon, Bellwood, Koch). Recorded are: Chopin's (Concerto in F minor, complete waltzes, polonaises, nocturnes, Fantasie in F minor, Barcarole in F major, Berceuse, Tarantella, Ecossaises, mazurkas, etudes), Moniuszko, Schubert (Sonata in A major, Op. 120, Moments Musicaux, Op. 94), Łuciuk (Lirica di timbri), Bacewiczówna (II Sonata, 10 Etude, Mały tryptyk), Paderewski (Fantazja polska), Franck (Symphonic Variations), Bach (Concerto in A major), Mozart (Concerto in C minor), Malawski (Symphonic Etudes) and Françaix (Concertino).
In 1964, the pianist began her pedagogical career – initially at the National Music Academy in Kraków (to 1968), and later at the Chopin Music Academy in Warszawa (1968-1996). In 1972-73, she served as rector of the Warszawa institution. She conducted master's courses in Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Venezuela and others. She sat in the juries of international music competitions in Warszawa (Chopin Competition – 1970, 1980, 1995, 2000), Salerno, Tokyo, Moscow, Helsinki and others. Aside from all these activities, she authored a book entitled "How to Play Chopin – an attempted response" (2000) as well as numerous articles regarding musical performance.
In 1988, the artist established her own foundation (The Regina Smendzianka Foundation), the goal of which is to support Polish musical culture (by, among other activities, financing prizes, in the form of new instruments, for talented young Polish pianists, those who win the highest honours in piano competitions).
Regina Smendzianka in Youtube:
Smendzianka Regina - Berceuse, Op. 57 op. 57
More about composition
Smendzianka Regina - Ecossaise in D major [Op. 72 No. 1] [op. 72 nr 1] & no. 2 & no. 3
Smendzianka Regina - Piano concerto in F minor, op. 21 1st movement, part I
Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Witold Rowicki
Smendzianka Regina - Piano concerto in F minor, op. 21 1st movement, part II
Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Witold Rowicki
Smendzianka Regina - Piano concerto in F minor, op. 21 2nd movement
Smendzianka Regina - Piano concerto in F minor, op. 21 3rd movement
Smendzianka Regina - Tarantella in A flat major, Op. 43 op. 43
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in A flat major, op. 42
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in A flat major, Op. 34 No. 1 op. 34 nr 1
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in A flat major [Op. 69 No. 1] [op. 69 nr 1]
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in A minor [op. posth.]
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in A minor, Op. 34 No. 2 op. 34 nr 2
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in B minor [Op. 69 No. 2] [op. 69 nr 2]
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 op. 64 nr 2
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 op. 64 nr 1
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in D flat major [Op. 70 No. 3] [op. 70 nr 3]
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in E flat major [op. posth.]
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in E flat major, Op. 18 op. 18
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in E major [op. posth.]
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in E minor [op. posth.]
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in F major, Op. 34 No. 3 op. 34 nr 3
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in F minor [Op. 70 No. 2] [op. 70 nr 2]
Smendzianka Regina - Waltz in G flat major [Op. 70 No. 1] [op. 70 nr 1]


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Moroccan bank, KCB ink deal for Kenya expansion plan
Tuesday, Mar 19, 2019 by: Sylvia Mwagoposted in: finance comments: 0
Morocco's royal family-owned lender Attijariwafa Bank has inked a trade finance co-operation agreement with KCB Group with an eye on local trade deals.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on the sidelines of the 6th International Forum Africa Development (FIAD 2019) held from March 14 to 15 in Casablanca, Morocco will see, Attijariwafa Bank, one of Morrocco's largest lenders, gain access to the Kenyan and regional markets through KCB Group.
"This memorandum of understanding is very important for the Attijariwafa Bank group and will allow economic operators in all the countries where the group is present to access the Kenyan market but also to all the markets that KCB covers level of East Africa," said Attijariwafa Bank CEO Mohamed El Kettani in a statement. KCB operational director Samuel Makome represented Kenya's biggest bank by assets at the ceremony.
The bank, however, had not provided additional details on the MoU by the time of going to press. Business Daily has however learned that the deal will open the door for the Moroccan lender to enter the local and regional market where KCB operates.
Attijariwafa last November said it plans to launch a new acquisition push in East Africa before end of 2019, starting with Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Attijariwafa, controlled by the royal family through its Al Mada holding company, already has subsidiaries in Cameroon, Congo Republic, Egypt, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Tunisia and Togo. It also has branches in Europe and the Gulf.
"We have opportunities in Rwanda. We are also considering opportunities in Kenya and Ethiopia," Youssef Rouissi, the bank's deputy general manager for global corporate investment banking, was quoted saying then.
"The idea is to acquire banks that are ranked among the first five banks in every market," he said while speaking on the sidelines of an investment conference in Johannesburg.
Several international banks want in on the regional market as they seek to tap new East Africa deals.They include New York-based lender JPMorgan Chase and one of Russia's largest privately owned banks, Promsvyazbank, both of which have said they are mulling over expanding operations into Kenya.
SBM Holdings, Mauritius's second-biggest lender, acquired Fidelity Commercial Bank and Chase Bank and has since kicked off expansion in East Africa.
Meanwhile, KCB said earlier this month that it is aiming to be the first Kenyan bank to venture into Ethiopia as the Abiy Ahmed-led government opens up to foreign investment in the banking sector.
Source: Business Daily Newspaper.
UK injects Sh220m into Kenya solar plants
Dealer to launch showroom for BMW in Nairobi


Each year, the RightsCon program is created by the vibrant and diverse RightsCon community. RightsCon Toronto was home to our community's most ambitious program yet, where more than 2,500 registered participants from 118 countries came together for 450 sessions. The RightsCon Tunis Call for Proposals will officially launch in early October 2018.
The RightsCon program is the guiding pillar of the community. As the world becomes more and more digital, the relevancy of issues tackled at the event grow. In Toronto, we saw the emergence of important new program tracks and issue areas: artificial intelligence and non-discrimination in machine learning, election integrity and the erosion of democracy, and misinformation in the media, to name a few.
The program for RightsCon Tunis will build from the successes of RightsCon Toronto by continuing to prioritize community-driven sessions that strategize for our human rights in the digital age. Organizing a program session provides the best opportunity to connect with and learn from leading experts around the world. A program session can be a policy discussion on an emerging problem, an advocacy strategy-meeting for creating new campaign tactics, a demo of a new civic tech initiative promoting democratic participation, or a workshop on how to fundraise as a civil society organization and improve operational development.
Stay tuned for more information, including the launch of our brand new RightsCon Community Platform.


We all have those days – especially this time of year. We work late or we're out late doing errands (hello last minute holiday shopping!). It's dark out when we get home. We're cold. We are craving the warmth, and sunshine of summer. And we're also craving some comfort food – and a warm blanket – to get us through the night.
That's where this soup comes in. It may have taken about two hours to cook (but less than 30 min prep time really), but it was well worth the time. I'm not a huge fan of beef, and B's not a huge fan of lentil soup or spinach – but we both loved this stew! Hearty, healthy, filling and comforting – what more could you ask for on a wintry night? (Besides ice cream and a glass of red wine that is … yes, I love ice cream in the winter with red wine. Try it.) And as a bonus, the leftovers froze well – B enjoyed them even 2 weeks later out of the freezer!
Heat 2 Tbs olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add beef and cook until browned on all sides.
If skillet dries up, add another tablespoon of olive oil. Add celery, leeks, onion and carrot and cook, stirring often. Cook vegetables until soft, about 5-7 minutes.
Add broth, water, tomatoes, lentils and wine to pot. Cover and cook for 1-2 hours or until lentils are softened.
Just before serving, add spinach and stir until wilted. Enjoy!
Yum! Can't you just see the comforting-ness?
A few weeks ago I finally reactivated my library card! This means trouble – I now have a ton of library books on my night stand, and even more on hold. In between all the best-sellers and fiction books, I also made room for a few cookbooks. The first one, Meat Free Monday, is by Paul McCartney and has a collection of meatless meals – breakfast, lunch and dinner – for a whole year. I tagged a few recipes, including one for a meatless dinner stew.
I really really enjoyed the recipe – the book said it made 4 servings, but B and I had dinner, and I froze 5 cups for leftovers, even a few without potatoes for B, who is starting a low-carb diet this week.
Heat half of olive oil in a large pot. Add onion and celery, cook until tender but not colored. Add garlic and saute for another minute.
Add the remaining oil, chopped peppers, zucchini, and eggplant to the pan and cook for 3-4 minutes.
Simmer for 25-30 minutes until veggies are tender.
Add beans and olives, cook for another 5 minutes.
Taste the stew! Add salt, pepper or other spices as needed. Serve with crumbled feta and chopped parsley.
As I shared with you earlier, I gave up meat for Lent and thus have been experimenting with quite a few new and different recipes. Dinners, typically chicken, pork or sometimes steak, are now slightly different and require a little more though process. So far (yes, only oneish weeks in) it's been going well and I've had tons of fun trying out all the new recipes I've found.
I was on Pinterest a few weeks ago making a board of all the recipes I want to make when B said to me, "Why don't you actually look at some of those cookbooks you own?" I realized he was right – I'm always finding recipes from blogs, Pinterest, etc. but hardly ever taking advantage of the zillion cookbooks I have! So I took out the first book that I could see – my Bon Appetit cookbook I got as a wedding gift from my brother's wedding "date." I marked off a few recipes and decided that this week was perfect to make the Garbanzo Bean, Lentil and Vegetable Stew.
I baked some cornbread, made the stew on Monday night and B and I enjoyed it on Tuesday. B's rating? He'd "definitely eat it again" (which means it's a winner).
Add tomato sauce, coriander, caraway and cayenne; stir one minute.
Stir in broth, water and lentils. Increase heat to high and bring everything to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until lentils are almost tender, about 15-17 minutes.
Add garbanzo beans, carrots, frozen lima beans and parsley. Cover and simmer until carrots are very tender, about 20 minutes.
Stir spinach info stew. Cover and cook just until spinach wilts, about 3 minutes.
Enjoy! Serve over rice (which I did not do; I don't like rice) or with cornbread (which I did do because I love cornbread).
After B and I enjoyed the stew for dinner, we had about 3 cups leftover which were great for lunches the next few days.


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Where does The Sultan's School advertise job vacancies?
All vacancies are normally advertised on our website from early December. In addition the school uses a number of recruitment agencies, which include Search Associates and Hays. Posts are also advertised in TES.
Applications sent directly to the school will receive an automated reply acknowledging that we have received your information. Each year we receive hundreds of applications for each post and therefore we advise applicants that if you have not heard from us within six weeks of submitting an application you should assume that your application was unsuccessful.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted either directly by the Principal (or the Head of Primary/Secondary) or through one of the agencies we use. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview either by telephone/SKYPE or face-to-face depending on the candidates location.
References will be checked prior to final interview for teaching posts. All contracts of employment are subject to receiving two satisfactory references and Criminal Record/Children's Barred List Checks.
Where can I find more information about the vacancy?
All shortlisted candidates are sent an information package about the school, that includes the terms and conditions of the contract.
I don't want to apply for any of the posts on the website but I wondered if you have any other vacancies which may be of interest to me?
All our vacancies are advertised on our website. Unfortunately, we don't accept speculative applications.
I have previously applied for a post at The Sultan's School and was unsuccessful. Can I try again?
We recruit on a post by post basis therefore you are free to apply again.
How does TSS support the professional development of its staff?
Staff are provided with many opportunities to undertake CPD both within school, across the region and internationally.


The foundation stone of St John's Cathedral was laid in 1901, and the first portion of the building (comprising the sanctuary, chapels, transepts and two bays of the nave) was consecrated in 1910. The architect, John L. Pearson, who had recently designed the new Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, had been chosen by Bishop Webber, for whom he had also designed a church in London. John Pearson's son Frank continued the work his father began.1 The building is in Early English Gothic style, with many characteristics of French Gothic, built largely in local stone: external coursed rubble of porphyry, and internal freestone dressings of brown Helidon sandstone.
From 1910 until the mid 1960s, the building remained much as it was opened. The east end, comprising the sanctuary, side chapels and transepts, adjoined just two bays of the nave with a temporary west wall.
The second phase of the building, comprising an extension of a further four bays to the nave, was commenced in 1965 and consecrated in 1968 by Archbishop Philip Strong. Again, a temporary west wall was constructed.
The final phase of construction commenced in 1989, comprising the completion of the nave, construction of the south-west porch and west front, addition of the north and south towers, completion of the central tower, and the addition of the three spires. The completed building was consecrated by Archbishop Phillip Aspinall in October 2009.
A suitable electric motor and Kinetic Blower to be supplied for the first portion of the organ.
External casework not included in this estimate.
Front pipes silvered with aluminium.
Some confusion remains concerning the date of the Swell Double Diapason addition. A stop described in the Norman & Beard records as "Swell 16ft Double Diapason" was shipped from England in June 1915, but it was described as the new "Swell Bourdon stop" presented by Mrs N. Congeau when used at a recital in the Cathedral on Monday 11 October 1915.8 A Swell Bourdon 16ft was also recorded on the old console as one of the 1924 additions, which marked the centenary of the City of Brisbane.
A letter concerning the Swell Double Diapason from B.B.Whitehouse & Co. to Norman & Beard in 1915 included the statement "We take it that you will use metal as far down as advisable, as the wood pipes are dutiable."10 It appears, therefore, that the upper (metal) registers of the original Swell Double Diapason may have been transferred to the Great as a Double Diapason in 1924, at which time both stops were completed. The Pedal Violone added in 1924 was borrowed from the Great Double Diapason, although this had not been the original intention. Pipes for these two stops are contained in the north-transept casework.
(A) The whole scheme of the organ to be full cathedral scale and designed for a large and lofty building.
(B) The Diapason work to be especially full and mellow. Stops 2 and 3 on Great are too often of much too equal strength.
(C) All these stops Great Nos 8, 9, 10, Swell 21, 22, Choir 36, are in most English organs of far too rasping and harsh a character. I shall be delighted if you can get the same strength without the usual piercing harshness.
(D) Swell Box. . . . I trust that I shall get an absolute PPP when closed on both Swell and Choir . . .
(E) The Pedal Bourdon to be soft enough quality to accompany the softest stops in the Swell.
(F) The Open Diapason wood cannot be too full or weighty.
(G) The tremulant. Messrs. Whitehouse will write regarding this.
(I) Reeds. The quality of the reeds must not be too smooth. On all except the Oboe I want Trumpet tone not Horn or Cornet tone.
(J) Lever Pedal to Swell and Choir.
The organ was officially re-dedicated on Sunday 18 June 1972 in its enlarged and rebuilt form. With the addition of a Positiv Organ in the former location of the organ console, a swallows nest was extended out below the organ chamber and above the ambulatory to accommodate the new console. The outer towers of the sanctuary façade were raised significantly to accommodate the new Positiv Organ and to allow access to the lowered console.
The conceptual framework for rebuilding the organ in 1970-72 was that of providing a versatile instrument capable of playing repertoire from a variety of schools and periods. At that time in Brisbane, there were no modern mechanical-action organs, and the imperatives followed were those evident in major rebuilds elsewhere by Hill, Norman & Beard. Much of the original pipework was revoiced, and wind pressures were generally lowered. The former Great Open Diapason No 1 was redeployed on the Pedal Organ, the former Great Principal 4ft and Fifteenth 2ft were replaced by new stops, and several stops were moved between divisions. The two 8ft string stops on the Solo Organ were reported to have come from the organ of Gloucester Cathedral in England, which was rebuilt around the same time.16 If the report is correct, they had been added to the Gloucester organ in 1920 by Harrison & Harrison,17 but Simon Pierce has noted that the string stops on the Solo Organ in Brisbane are of composite pipework, possibly incorporating some pipes from the original Swell Dulciana.
Following the re-opening of the organ in 1972, recital series by Robert Boughen at the Cathedral included the complete organ works of Bach (twice), Messiaen, Buxtehude, Brahms, Franck, Howells, Liszt, Mozart and Mendelssohn.19 The rebuilt instrument served from this time to inspire several generations of young organists who had not otherwise had the opportunity to perform the wide repertoire of the organ on such a versatile instrument.
With the completion and enlargement of the Cathedral, the instrument was found to lack the necessary projection of sound. Under the direction of Rev. Rupert Jeffcoat (organist of the Cathedral from 2005 to 2010), Simon Pierce sought to restore something of the character of the 1909 instrument, whilst working within the general scope of the 1972 specification. Wind pressures were generally raised, existing pipework was revoiced to suit the higher pressures, and some stops that had been moved between divisions in 1972 were returned to their original location.22 Four of the 1972 stops (Gt. Gemshorn 8ft; Gt. Spitz Flute 4ft; Sw. Spitz Flute 8ft; Ch. Trompette 8ft), were deleted to make way for five new stops (as listed below) that better serve the restored 1909 character of the organ.
The organ suffered water damage during a freak storm on 27 November 2014.25 A small two-manual Laukhuff organ, originally located at St James' Anglican Church, Kelvin Grove, was installed in the Cathedral in 2016 on a temporary basis, pending repairs to the main organ.
1 J. Donald Bleakley, Guide to St John's Cathedral, Brisbane (Brisbane, 1969).
2 Queensland Heritage Council, Queensland Heritage Register, location 600076; The Heritage of Australia: The Illustrated Register of the National Estate (South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1981), 4/12.
3 The Brisbane Courier (8 January 1909), p. 5.
4 The Brisbane Courier (29 October 1910), pp. 5, 6; The Queenslander (31 October 1910), p. 37.
5 The Brisbane Courier (30 November 1910), p. 2.
6 Specification for Order Number 999 in Norman & Beard Order Book (3 February 1909), supplied by S. Forder (Director and Secretary, Hill Norman & Beard, London) to Geoffrey Cox, 1974. Details of additions [in square brackets] noted at the old console agree substantially with those given in George Sampson, 'The Music at St. John's Cathedral from 1898 to 1935,' Brisbane Cathedral Notes, vol. 19, no. 242 (1 Oct 1935), pp. 133-34, although Sampson states that only 19 stops remained to be added, and does not list the Choir/Solo Orchestral Oboe as 'still required'.
7 Details from plaques on the original console, noted by G. Cox, c.1972; Details of Norman & Beard invoices 11715, 12065 and 12572 to Messrs B.B.Whitehouse & Co., supplied by S. Forder (Director and Secretary, Hill Norman & Beard, London) to Geoffrey Cox, 1974; Brisbane Cathedral Notes, cited by Robert Boughen, c.1974; The Brisbane Courier (1 March 1913), p. 16.
8 Norman & Beard Invoice 12990 to Messrs B.B.Whitehouse & Co. (21 June 1915), supplied by S. Forder (Director and Secretary, Hill Norman & Beard, London) to Geoffrey Cox, 1974; Brisbane Cathedral Notes, cited by Robert Boughen, c.1974.
9 Whitehouse Bros Ledger (1922-1940), p. 79.
10 Letter dated 30 April 1915 from B.B. Whitehouse & Co. to Norman & Beard, supplied by S. Forder (Director and Secretary, Hill Norman & Beard, London) to Geoffrey Cox, 1974.
11 Denzil Scrivens, 'The Organ of St John's Cathedral, Brisbane: The Rediscovery of the Organ Case Designs,' OHTA News, vol. 40, no. 3 (July 2016), pp. 16-23.
12 Letter dated 26 December 1908 from George Sampson to Norman & Beard, supplied by S. Forder (Director and Secretary, Hill Norman & Beard, London) to Geoffrey Cox, 1974.
13 Hill, Norman & Beard Order nos Q793, 867 & 877, noted in OHTA News, vol. 14, no. 2 (April 1990), pp. 27, 29.
14 Date supplied by Dr R.K. Boughen (Cathedral Organist 1960-2004) in personal communication to G. Cox, November 2004.
15 Undated newspaper clipping, late 1971 or early 1972, supplied by John Maidment.
16 S.J. Webb, 'The rebuilt Gloucester Organ,' The Musical Times, vol. 112 (1971), p. 799.
17 The Organs and Organists of Gloucester Cathedral (Friends of Gloucester Cathedral, c.1972), pp. 17-19.
18 Specification noted by G. Cox, 1972.
19 Biographical notes provided for a recital at Brisbane City Hall during the 30th Annual Conference of OHTA (30 September 2007).
20 The Organ Voice, vol. 19, no. 3 (December 1991), p. 56.
21 Personal communication to G. Cox from W.J. Simon Pierce, August 2008.
22 Interim reports were provided in OHTA News, vol. 33, no. 1 (January 2009), p. 10, and in Organ Australia, vol. 5, no. 3 (September 2009), pp. 8-9.
23 David Vann, 'An Organ Ramble to St John's Cathedral, Brisbane,' Organ Australia, vol. 7, no. 1 (January 2011), pp. 14-17.
24 Specification noted by Geoffrey Cox, July 2011, with details of changes provided by Simon Pierce.
25 Personal communication to G. Cox from W.J. Simon Pierce, November 2014.


So I thought I'd go on a scavenger hunt for more jacket images with men's heads cut off. After all, it's only fair. Funny that with these I have two more covers with people wearing a box on their head.
Cover trends are so interesting. In one of my old bookclubs we decided that one month people could only nominate books with legs or feet on them as that was the big trend then. I think we ended up with David Davidar's The House of Blue Mangoes as our choice.
I'm here from Book Blogs too, just like Carin above, and from the same question too!
I never thought about that topic before, but sooo many of my books have the cut off body parts too!
Hi Other Carin! Nice to meet you! My name is actually a nickname, short for Caroline (there was a Carrie already on my block). But I like being different. I often see this spelling in movie credits, and it can be nice to identify mail I don't want to open instantly. I hope you enjoy!