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Biker yobs blighting Meltham beauty spot
THE picturesque Meltham Greenway is being spoilt by kids dropping litter and riding off-road bikes.
One of the residents says that beer cans, bottles and rubbish left behind in the pathway are a blight on the area.
Jane Rose says that there is a growing problem with dog fouling not being cleared away or thrown in bags into nearby blackberry bushes.
And she has also called for a gate to help prevent off-road bikes and quad bikes getting onto the pathway.
But the council has told her that while a "kissing gate would help to control motorbike usage... the council does not want to erect a gate".
In fact the council believes that a single timber post prevents vehicle access – but a picture taken by a neighbour shows a motorbike accessing the area.
Mrs Rose has lived nearby for eight and a half years and said: "All the residents have had trouble.
"We keep being told by the council to make a list of all the problems and then they'll arrange a meeting – but I've been doing that for eight years.
"Everybody knows about the problems, everybody knows how to stop it, but nothing is being done about it."
The 27 residents of a nearby estate want a kissing gate to prevent motorbikes and quad bike access.
They looked at a brochure of gates which the council would use and are adamant that the gates would not prevent wheelchair or pushchair access.
The mother-of-four added: "They have said that we've got no civic pride – but the opposite of that is true.
"We are protecting our homes and would like to see the Greenway as it should be.
"I've got four small children and we don't use and enjoy that area as much as we should.
"When we see the gangs go past the residents know we are in for a sleepless night.
"We hope they will finally listen to the problems we experience every day and do something – but we are a very small voice against a big organisation."
A spokeswoman for Kirklees Council said: "A heavy duty timber post has been erected to prevent vehicle access whilst still allowing access by wheelchairs and pavement scooters.
"We do not plan to erect a gate as it would be very difficult to prohibit off-road bikes whilst still allowing easy access to the Greenway by legitimate users."
"There is a very active Friends of Meltham Greenway group which involves local residents and Sustrans Volunteer Rangers who help keep the path clear of litter, cutting back vegetation and securing funding to carry out further path link work and path improvements."


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Home » Global » Week of antiwar protests launched MLK Day weekend
Week of antiwar protests launched MLK Day weekend
By John Catalinotto posted on January 17, 2023
Jan. 16, 2023 — The antiwar actions scheduled Jan. 13-23, in at least 50 U.S. cities, come as another escalation is threatened in the U.S.-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
Seventh Avenue, New York City, Jan. 14, 2023. (John Catalinotto)
Reflecting NATO's escalation, the Danish newspaper, The Worker, reported last week that the U.S. was poised to unload tanks at the Aarhus port to drive overland to Ukraine. German imperialism was about to send its own tanks to the reactionary Kiev regime. In both countries antiwar groups plan protests.
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) scheduled its call to action to coincide with the Jan. 16 holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At many rallies, organizers recalled or played King's April 1967 speech, when the Civil Rights leader castigated the U.S. war against Vietnam.
Reports to Workers World, in order received by Jan. 16, include:
No to NATO in New York City, Times Square, Jan. 14. Hundreds joined the rally called by Answer. Setting the political tone for the participants, Sara Flounders of UNAC — who is a contributing editor to Workers World — slammed NATO's role as a U.S.-led force for oppression of peoples and nations around the world. (Hear her talk at: youtu.be/BL2rSDjCI_U)
Times Square, New York City, Jan. 14, 2023. (Brenda Ryan
Following an hour of education and agitation, the crowd marched and rolled downtown on Seventh Ave. to bring the message to others in Manhattan. While the original call emphasized a demand for negotiations, many of the signs held by participants had the slogan, "No to NATO!"
Boston Common, Park Street Station, Jan. 14. Antiwar activists gathered in a sleeting rain for a rally and speak-out near the newly unveiled bronze statue: "The Embrace," dedicated to King and his spouse, Coretta Scott King — who had met in Boston in the 1950s. The statue's "Freedom Plaza" base pays homage to 65 additional civil rights leaders. The activists recommitted to strengthening the U.S. workers' struggle against the evils of poverty, racism and militarism — as Dr. King taught.
Boston union activists join antiwar action, Jan. 14, 2023. (Maureen Skehan)
Chanting "Money for jobs and education, not for war and nuclear conflagration!" "Cuba sí, bloqueo no!" and "No war but class war!" trade unionists, immigrants, LGBTQ+ and disability rights activists, veterans, socialists and youth coalesced with a chorus of demands — including "Defund the Pentagon, Abolish NATO" and "Fund Human Needs, Not U.S.-NATO Wars!"
Indigenous prayer offerings were made, and the Black National Anthem was sung.
Workers World Party youth leaders shared news from the Venceremos Brigade's recent 51st trip to Cuba. Mairead Skehan Gillis said, "We need to fight for our own revolution here. We saw how beautiful socialism can be."
Wil Hodgkinson spoke on the growing imperialist war danger and threats against China. He was cheered when he concluded, "People are saying no to endless war! Down with the U.S. empire! No to imperialism and yes to peace!"
San Francisco, downtown. Jan. 14. Demonstrators ignored the threat of heavy rain to protest the U.S./NATO-provoked war in Ukraine and to demand "No expansion of NATO." Several speakers, including Mike Wong of Veterans for Peace, warned about U.S. military plans to provoke wars against both Russia and China. The theme of the Answer-led demonstration was "Negotiations Now — Peace in the Ukraine — No NATO Expansion."
San Francisco, Jan. 14, 2023. (Answer – Bay Area)
Several speakers, including Judy Greenspan of Workers World Party, sharpened the demands to include ending U.S. militarism, occupation and threats against Russia, China, Palestine, Haiti and Cuba. Greenspan and several speakers condemned the U.S.-imposed sanctions against one-third of the world.
West Harlem, New York City, Jan. 13. People filled St. Mary's Episcopal Church for a discussion opening the joint antiwar activities. Presentations by the Rev. Annie Chambers, co-chair of the National Welfare Rights Union; Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report executive editor; and Omowale Clay, December 12 Movement, showed the relationship between the battle against white supremacy at home and against imperialist war abroad. Kimberley called NATO "an illegitimate structure in service of imperialism."
John Parker, Socialist Unity Party, California U.S. Senate Candidate, who recently traveled to Donbass, and Melinda Butterfield, Struggle-La Lucha co-editor and author of "U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine & Donbass," revealed how Ukraine's Kiev regime, placed in power by a U.S.-manipulated coup, waged war on the people of Ukraine's southeastern Donbass region for eight years before Russia had intervened.
Representatives of many organizations, including Richie Merino from UNAC, made short solidarity statements before the meeting ended.
Seattle, MLK Day Jan. 16. At the 40th annual MLK Jr. march, many people carried antiwar signs and banners, chanting "Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation." After the march, some people attended the grand reopening of Seattle's Northwest African American Museum.
Seattle, Jan. 16, 2023. 40th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day march (Jim McMahan)
Contributors: Maureen Skehan, Judy Greenspan, and Jim McMahan.
antiwar protests
The Lessons of Buffalo
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Q: How to create File object Javascript/angularjs Requirement 1. In my project, a page requires user to upload a document which is done by using an angular directive (3rd party). When user hits submit button, the posted file is accessed in ASP.NET MVC controller (Request.Files). This file is finally saved on the Web Server.
Requirement 2. A user can also edit the form wherein all uploaded documents are to be shown. Here user can add/remove documents as well as can view the uploaded documents.
Requirement 1 is achieved successfully by using an angular directive.
When a file is browsed and selected, the angular directive creates JavaScript File object. So I believe to achieve Requirement 2, I should also create JavaScript File object array programmatically to fulfill the requirement of the angular directive.
So when the page opens in edit mode, I create a JSON object in ASP.NET MVC controller and passes it to the angular controller where I try to create JavaScript File object array and then passes it to the angular directive.
The File object array is created as below:
$scope.files = [];
var uploadedFiles = [{fileContent:a byte array, fileName:'doc1.txt'}]; //this comes from the Web Server
$scope.files.push(new File(uploadedFiles[0].fileContent , "filename.txt", {type: "text/plain", lastModified: date}));

The above code does not throw any error but when I click the file name it downloads the byte array as string not the original file content.
Please suggest how to achieve the same.

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Q: Apache Spark with Apache Kafka integration I'm new to Spark, and I am using Spark Structured Streaming (Spark 3.0.0, scala 2.12) to read data from kafka topic
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correct me if I'm wrong but as I read from different answers and from Spark documentation , spark use consumer groups to read from kafka , and should map the executors as 1:1 with partitions if I have the same number of each
but when I check the consumer groups, I only find that one IP is consuming and it's the driver IP, so the data is not consumed directly from executors, and I found the tasks are only being divided for 2 executors and the third one is almost idle
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*Can I divide the workload over all the executors?

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'No concerns' of water main break near Love Canal
UB women's soccer has the most wins and best RPI in their division, but lost out at a shot at the MAC championship based on win percentage. (Courtesy of Paul…
UB women's soccer has the most wins and best RPI in their division, but lost out at a shot at the MAC championship based on win percentage. (Courtesy of Paul Hokanson/UB Athletics)
'It's mind-blowing': First in wins, first in RPI, UB women's soccer get the boot
by: Jerry Sullivan
Posted: Apr 12, 2021 / 04:06 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 13, 2021 / 12:05 PM EDT
Back in the fall, UB women's soccer coach Shawn Burke served on a Mid-American Conference committee that had a daunting task: Plan for potential scheduling disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"There's no right or wrong way how to figure out teams without the same amount of games," Burke said at the time. "There's a good chance that a team is going to get screwed."
Little did he know. Burke's team, one of the finest in school history, would be the one getting damaged by the league's COVID contingencies.
The Bulls finished the season 6-1-1 in the MAC East. There were no non-conference games during the pandemic. They had the most wins in the division. They currently rank 40th in the national power rankings (RPI), the best in the league. They beat Bowling Green (49th) during the season.
But it's Bowling Green that will play Ball State for the MAC championship next weekend. In keeping with protocols, BG finished with the best winning percentage in the East, .833 vs. .813. Despite playing only six games and being on pause from March 29-April 11, they're in the title game.
UB is out in the cold. Last year, the MAC decided to eliminate the conference tournament in women's soccer to save money. So unlike the basketball programs, they can't make a run through an expanded MAC tourney. Either you win your division or you're out of luck.
The situation was made even tougher by the fact that UB was not allowed to make up a game that had been scheduled for April 4 at Bowling Green, due to BG going into a two-week COVID pause.
"The committee asked how do you get as many games in as possible, and how do we not punish teams for COVID outbreaks," Burke said Monday. "We have the opposite."
It's UB that is being punished for another school's outbreak. Burke said he doesn't fault Bowling Green. They played the minimum six games and adhered to their county's COVID rules. But they were essentially rewarded for their coronavirus outbreak by not having to face UB again.
Not surprisingly, the Bulls are outraged. On Sunday night, during the bus ride home from a 1-0 win at Ohio, senior Marcy Barberic and the entire UB squad released a statement saying they were "extremely frustrated and disheartened … we have earned the right to play."
They believe they should be allowed to play that makeup game with BG. But the MAC decided not to allow any makeup games after the end of the regular season on April 11 (Sunday).
Marcy Barberic leads UB with 9 goals. (Courtesy of Paul Hokanson/UB Athletics)
"Basically, we have this whole week," said Barberic, a Grand Island native who is fourth in the nation in goals scored per game. "Bowling Green is cleared from their Covid protocols today. The MAC is just not allowing the flexibility to make that game up when we deserve the opportunity to prove we can beat them again and win that MAC championship."
The question is, why couldn't there be makeup games this week? The schedule is wide open until Saturday. The NCAA selection committee doesn't select the field until next Monday. Yes, there were many postponements, which would have to be played in order based on the agreement last fall. But why not play the ones that matter most?
"We could go to BG and they could win," Burke said. "Fair enough. As athletes, you can live with that. What's hard to live with is that you don't even have an opportunity. We knew things would be crazy with this Covid year, but we have an opportunity to let the players decide who will represent the East."
There was no stipulation for makeup games after the regular season. If the MAC had required BG to make up games, it would have started with a lost contest against Akron, since the policy called for lost games to be made up in the order they were scheduled.
Here's what makes it even tougher to stomach: The lack of makeup games this week might have been the result of a simple typo, an error in the league's transcript of the bylaws. Burke said there was an agreement to leave April 14-15 open for makeups. But the bylaws stipulated April 7-11 for the last round of makeup games.
"Maybe men's soccer agreed to April 7," Burke said. "But there's no possible way it would have been April 8 for women's, because every team had a game scheduled for April 8 and we never play back to back."
Burke said the league could have mistakenly put the women's makeup dates with the men's, or they could have typed the wrong dates. Maybe they changed their minds. In any case, UB got the short end.
"It's mind-blowing," Burke said. "We talk about fluidity and how things change during COVID and the need to be flexible. We had that opportunity and there was zero flexibility."
Jeremy Guy, the MAC's assistant commissioner, explained the league's decision on Tuesday in a point-by-point review, saying Bowling Green met all the championship parameters agreed upon by league members last fall.
Guy said the policy for both men's and women's soccer provided for only an April 7 makeup date. The review said "only the men chose to design their schedule with this date left open in the middle of the season."
He said it was not a typo, as the UB team suggested.
UB is has an outside chance to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. (Courtesy of Paul Hokanson/UB Athletics)
Mark Alnutt, the director of athletics at UB, expressed his disappointment in a statement released Monday afternoon, saying the players had sacrificed so much during the pandemic and "deserved a better fate than the one decided for them."
"In a time when we should be most flexible in the interests and experiences of student athletes, this decision was a collective miss on the part of coaches, administrators and the Mid-American Conference," Alnutt said, "and warrants further discussion on the existing structure of MAC championships for all sports."
Barberic, who intends to take advantage of the NCAA rule allowing athletes an extra season of eligibility due to COVID, said the problem could have been avoided if the MAC hadn't killed the conference tournament. She said they should reconsider that decision.
"Why can't we have our conference tournament and let the players decide who wins the MAC?" Barbaric said. "It shouldn't be decided by coaches in a room. The players should decide."
During the recent NCAA women's basketball tournament, the disparity in resources between the men and women became a major issue. Even in women's basketball, a TV draw and revenue-producing enterprise, the women are made to feel like second-class citizens.
"It's hard not to think that at times," said Burke, whose team won the MAC in his first season as head coach in 2014. "That's what I told my administrator. How do I tell my players they matter, and their college experience matters? It's tough in this spot."
There's still the outside chance of an at-large NCAA berth. But the MAC hasn't received an at-large bid since 2009. UB's power rating actually dropped after Sunday's win. They have little chance of getting in over the Power 5 schools without winning the MAC title.
"History is not on our side," Burke said. "We're historically a one-bid league. With no non-conference games, I don't know how the RPI will work. We're going to have a couple days off. We'll train the rest of the week, have some fun and pray for a miracle on Selection Monday."
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The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games was held on 1 August at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

The following records were established during the competition:

Schedule
The schedule is as follows:

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

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Women's 0200 metre backstroke
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Magnificent castles to visit in Europe
Posted on March 3, 2019 (March 3, 2019) by Administrator
Travelling gives us a tremendous opportunity to step outside of our daily lives and see things we wouldn't normally get the chance to do. We get to walk in the footsteps of others before us and see how they lived. Nothing is more breathtaking that getting to walk the same halls as royal families from centuries ago or even the current British Royal Family. We've put together some current and ex-Royal residences we think should definitely be visited next time you're in Europe.
Hohenwerfen Castle, Austria
Initially built in the 11th century, Hohenwerfen Castle is located 40 kms from Salzburg Austria and is a majestic fortress that was once owned by the House of Hapsburg. The castle has been extended and renovated since its construction and has been utilised as a hunting retreat and residence by the prince-archbishops of Salzburg, a state prison and more recently a training camp for the Austrian Gendarmerie. However since 1987 it has served as a tourist attraction where people can experience over 900 years of Austrian history.
Windsor Castle, England
The longest-occupied palace in Europe, Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England is a residence of Queen Elizabeth II however it is open to the public at certain times of the year. It was constructed in the 11th century and like many royal and ex-royal residences, it has been extended and renovated throughout its history although it has never been used as anything other than a royal residence. Queen Elizabeth II has undertaken renovation works to restore and maintain the castle so it can remain a tourist attraction.
Palace of Versailles, France
One of the most recognisable ex-royal residences in Europe, the Palace of Versailles is a mere 20 miles from Paris, France and one of the most visited attractions in France. Initially constructed as a hunting lodge by Louis XIII, it was extended on a grand scale by his son Louis XIV until the French Revolution in 1789 forced him to leave. From 1837 it was transformed into a museum until the early 20th century when restoration works commenced to showcase its former glory.
Schwerin Palace, Germany
Located in the city of Schwerin, this former ducal palace is located on an island in Lake Schwerin. Although records show that fortifications have been at this site since the 12th century, the palace was extensively renovated and extended by Grand Duke Friedrich in the early 19th century. Since 1990 it was once again designated as a seat of Parliament and more renovation works have been undertaken. Guided tours are a great way to experience all the history Schwerin Palace has to offer.
Culzean Castle, Scotland
Overlooking the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, Culzean Castle was constructed by 1792 for the 10th Earl of Cassillis, David Kennedy. In order to avoid inheritance taxes, it was gifted to the National Trust of Scotland in 1945 on the condition that the apartment at the top of the castle be given to the General of the Army, Dwight D Eisenhower. Eisenhower visited the castle 4 times including once when he was President of the USA.
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Aly Perry as 'Nina'
What excites you about working on this play?
It just won the Tony Award for Best Play!
The pacing is sharp, the characters are vibrant. It is modern, old-fashioned, and topsy-turvy. Great comedy. Durang walks the fine line between seriousness and comedy with this play in particular. It is at once over-the-top, and also extremely real. A true delight.
What is your favorite line in the show?
"Beware Hootie Pie." - Cassandra
Is there anything about playing this role that intimidates you? Why?
Nina is a young, idealistic, bright eyed young woman who dreams of being an actress. She is absolutely sincere in her eagerness and her interest. The challenge is to bring that level of impressionability and awe to the stage without creating a caricature for comedy. In my past, I've been pegged as an ingénue (as is true for many performers, and young enthusiasts in general), and I aim to bring a depth to Nina's sweet wonder.
What would you like the audience to be thinking about after the show?
Hmm...Hopefully they have laughed and guffawed and grinned and felt yearning and acceptance and love... I suppose a question that could arise is: "What barriers have I built that prevent me from taking risks toward further joy?" That seems really heavy right now. Here's where I'm coming from: Several characters in the play are suspended from action within their own lives, and suddenly there is a ball of chaos that barrels through the living room and disrupts that suspension...Yes, so, it'd be lovely to hear that the play sparked a conversation around how we protect ourselves from our own bliss or contentment.
What made you want to work with Vermont Stage?
It is a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with Vermont Stage's actors, directors and designers. They are a company taking risks and bringing new kinds of material to the Burlington and Vermont area! It's a thrill.
Ellen McQueeney on playing 'Masha'
Why should someone come to see this show?
Anyone who wants to laugh and have a good time should come to see this show! Christopher Durang is a master playwright who has crafted a wonderfully funny, moving play about complex characters who are now middle aged and questioning the choices they made in life.
What excites you about working on this show?
I am excited about working on this show because the play is so well written! Playing comedy is always a welcome challenge, too, and my castmates are very talented and a lot of fun to work with! I look forward to many performances with this fine group of actors...to find all the nuances of the characters and the play!
What character are you playing and how would you describe them to someone?
I am playing the role of Masha....sister of Vanya and Sonia...and the only sibling who "got out" of the family home and had a career and a life. Masha is a successful actress, and she is most famous for her "Sexy Killer" movies, but she deeply regrets not having had a career as a classical stage actress. She is very insecure, which she masks with her apparently large ego and her self-involvement. She loves nothing more than to talk about herself and her acting experiences....and she just cannot understand why she hasn't been able to hold onto any of her five husbands. In the play, she shows up with her very young "boy toy" boyfriend, Spike. Clearly, she is trying to recapture her youth and trying to make herself feel better about her life.
Is there anything about your character that you can relate to?
The only thing about my character that I can relate to is that, I too, am an actress....but the similarity stops there. While I have had a successful career as an actor, working regionally and off broadway, I have never known life as a celebrity, as Masha has. For this, I am actually grateful, as a life in the public eye can lead to great insecurity, disillusionment and despair. In Masha's case, she has never been able to stay in a steady relationship because of her success and her life choices, and this distresses her greatly.
Is there anything about playing this role that intimidates you?
The only thing that intimidates me about playing Masha is a bit of concern that the audience will see her as mean or evil, rather than just self involved. So, hopefully, as the story unfolds, she will be revealed as greatly flawed and insecure, and if I do my job correctly, perhaps the audience will feel some sympathy for her as they see how she is changed throughout the course of the play.
My favorite line in the play is Nina's line...."Oh, life is like a long, long pathway in the forest, filled with wonderful surprises ahead. Artistic fulfillment, fame, fortune....love. Do you agree?"
Ito Aghayere on playing 'Cassadra' in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"
What character are you playing and how would you describe her to someone?
I'm playing Cassandra, and I would describe her as...the benevolent know-it-all, the reluctant psychic, the under appreciated prophetess.
Is there anything about playing Cassandra that intimidates you?
Yes! I'm playing a woman that hears things. That alone is daunting! To be able to bring life and authenticity to the role of Cassandra is a challenge I look forward to. This character is a woman plagued by visions of the future in addition to the incessant need to rescue her employers from it. She's not crazy, she's cursed. She is determined to make the best of it. Her strong desire to change the future and her uncanny and unpredictable prescient abilities are both ironic and hilarious components of her personality that are grounded in an undeniable (albeit somewhat crazy) reality!
I'm a middle child in a very big family with loads of experience giving advice that's never taken!
Because you'll be laughing for 99% of the time.
"And Hootie Pie should be called Spawn of the Devil."
Andy Butterfield on playing 'Spike' in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"
What gets you excited about returning to work at Vermont Stage again after THE QUARRY?
Vermont Stage offers a completely professional and collaborative theater experience for all modes of theater artists. The production teams are first-rate and their efforts create a rehearsal environment anchored in trust and support, which allows for actor vulnerability and experimentation with bold choices. Once a VSC show opens, the smart and appreciative audiences, including the loyal season subscribers and dedicated board members, fill the seats and offer their participation in the collaboration, completing the circular flow of energy between actor and audience.
What character are you playing and how would you describe him to someone?
I'm playing Spike, an attention craving, aspiring actor. He's very loving, but not all there. There's a Seinfeld episode where Elaine dates a guy that Jerry calls a "Mimbo"...a male bimbo. That's Spike. Women, fitness, and food motivate most of his day-to-day decisions and he brings chaos into a room whenever he enters.
How have you been preparing to take on this role?
One of the requirements of the actor who gets the opportunity to play Spike is to have a believably fit body. So, in addition to my usual script analysis and character exploration, I've been training hard at Crossfit TT in South Burlington, and eating a high protein, low carbohydrate diet. As Spike says, "If you got it, flaunt it", so I've made a great effort towards that demand. My approach to character work generally starts from a physical place. Once I get the sense of a character in my body, their motivations and active choices are more intellectually accessible to me. With Spike, in particular, I've discovered that I personally connect with his athleticism and I can use that as a way into understanding the decisions he makes. It also gives me the opportunity to highlight the strong physical aspects of him in the performance.
There are so many great lines in this show. They're funny out of context, and even funnier in context. You should definitely see this show for the full effect, but in this specific moment, I guess my favorite line is, "No, I can just strip to my underwear...see you later babe, I'm gonna go cool off in the pond." Haha...soooo Spike.
I would like the audience to be thinking that their jaw and abs hurt because they couldn't stop smiling and laughing for the previous two hours.
Kraig Swartz on playing Vanya in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"
What character are you playing and how would you describe them to someone? I'm playing Vanya and I would describe him as a person who keeps the peace. He is surrounded by difficult/eccentric/insane/combative people, and his first priority is to prevent explosions. I think conflict upsets and exhausts him, and he therefore ignores his own emotions in order to deal with the emotions of his family....until he doesn't....
Is there anything about playing Vanya that you can relate to?
Of course. I'm the youngest child in my family, and is the case with many youngest children, my role in my family was always the mascot. My job was to keep the dinner conversation light, funny and free of conflict. If ever I sensed trouble brewing in the family, it was time for me to start the comedy, thus averting the tragedy. While Vanya is not the youngest sibling, he spends the whole play putting out interpersonal fires that keep flaring up all around him. Also, Vanya is dealing with getting older. I am too.....that's all I want to say about that...
What do you think this play is about?
Two things. Family and change. And how those things relate to and influence each other. We take on these roles in families. Often these roles are for the good of the family and initially beneficial. But if we're not careful, we get trapped in these roles and the years go by and suddenly we realize that we haven't really moved on with our lives. Emotionally or otherwise. And while breaking out of those old roles can be frightening, staying in them is not an option. Most of the characters in V&S&M&S are reaching that critical point in their lives, where the time for stasis is over and change (wanted and unwanted) is careening towards them. And then everyone goes nuts.
Of my own, it's: "Having professors for parents had it's drawbacks. Father was so angry when you didn't know something. But what 7 year old knows who wrote The Imaginary Invalid? Father became so enraged when I said Neil Simon. I, mean, I was 7!!!" But my favorite line in the entire play is Spike's, for it's sheer character-defining narcissistic weirdness: "But the unhappy orphanage lady thinks I'm a stud, that's nice." Genius.
Because it's freakin' hysterical and they will have a blast.


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However I would argue that there isn't actually a goal to Yoga at all. Yoga is about just coming along and doing Yoga - yes of course with awareness, but not striving for it. Any goal can create expectations, desires, disappointment and ego. There is so much striving, competition, goals and deadlines in our modern life — but our minds have not evolved to be healthy like this all the time. If you dedicate even just a little of your time to just being with Yoga and accepting whatever happens, you might be amazed how it can calm your mind.
I teach for Edinburgh University Yoga Society. The classes are members only, but you can become a member for just £10 even if you are not a student. Classes have now finished for the current academic year.
If you are interested in a Yoga retreat in the sun, I highly recommend the beautiful, tranquil Eco-Yoga centre Yoga Holidays Portugal. I led a week there in September 2017 and hope to go back again next year.
I write regular articles with sequences you can practise at home, and information about Yoga. The articles relate to the themes in my classes, but please enjoy the benefits of them even if you don't come to my class.


After iOS 7 has received a facelift in 2013, we've all been waiting for a similar upgrade for Apple's industry leading desktop operating system Mac OS X. So, when Apple released OS X Yosemite in 2014, it has completely changed the way we think about designing Mac OS X. Many companies have updated their apps with a new, modern "Yosemite looking" design.
Having an amateur eye for design myself, I really welcomed the new OS X update, as it made the whole system feel new and modern again. But like when iOS 7 was released, there are still many unpolished areas all around the OS. One of the most interesting design features of Yosemite was the dark mode, which changed the menu bar and dock theme into a nice dark one, making the OS look like a professional system.
Many users have adopted the dark mode and apps were updated with white versions of the menu bar icons, to make them look good in dark mode (well, honestly some apps still did not update yet, but better late than never I guess).
But the problem I kept seeing on OS X is not connected to the newly introduced dark mode, but rather to the dock. The icons in dock are always inconsistent in shape, as each developer kind of picked their own style. Apparently even Apple is not very consistent when it comes to OS X icons.
For example, App Store, iTunes, Safari, LaunchPad and Photos use circular shape, Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders and Notes use a tilted narrow rectangle and Finder and System Preferences use a wide rectangle. And of course there are exceptions to this rule such as iMovie, FaceTime, GarageBand and others.
Because I really loved the consistent shape of the icons on iOS, I was looking for a way to fix OS X in my own way. Since already many systems apps are circular, I chose to find circular icons for all my apps.
Lucky for us, we can change the icons on OS X to our own preferences, including system icons! While I was searching around for a quick solution I came across LiteIcon, a simple icon swapping tool. Great, all we need now is some nice looking icons.
Of course there are many others that you can find on DeviantArt, just make sure before downloading any icon, that it is in .icns format (so it looks great in all sizes, even in different views in Finder).
I would like to thank all the authors for providing the icons for free.
After an hour of searching for the right icons, this is my desktop on MacBook Pro (on both screenshots above and below, click on them for full image) and I am pretty satisfied with the result.
I could find an alternate icon for almost every app I use daily, including 1Password, Slack, Evernote, Skype, TweetBot, OmniFocus and there are also icons for many other common apps. Sometimes there are even multiple versions available, so you can pick which one fits best with other icons in your dock.
Not everyone will create an .icns icon, you can alternatively use .png, but will not look good on all devices (Finder displays a different type of the icon if it is in List mode).
Every time an app is updated, the icon will be lost, so it must be replaced again.
Icons cannot be dynamic. For example Fantastical 2 and Reeder generate an icon when they are open to show additional information. That icon temporarily replaces the set icon, but dock will revert to the one you picked, once the app is closed.
In general I feel much better using Yosemite after the icon update and I also encourage all of you to try it out. Maybe you can find an icon set that you will like.


Remain has a seven point lead over Leave: 45% say they would vote to stay if the referendum were tomorrow, compared to 38% who would vote to leave.
Half of Britons (49%) say that they know a fair amount about the issues around the UK's membership of the EU, while three in ten (30%) say they don't know very much, and 8% say they know nothing at all.
The economy is seen by half of the general public (47%) to be the most important factor in their decision in the referendum, while immigration is the second most important (24%).
Just one in five members of the general public (22%) agree that they are excited by the EU referendum, while 36% say they are bored by it. However, more than four in five agree that it is an important moment in the history of the UK (85%).
Britons are split about whether Britain's national security would be better off if Britain left or remained in the EU (22% vs 28%). However, two in five say that it would make no difference (43%).
Despite the lead for Remain in the polls, as many voters say they dislike (26%) as like (24%) the EU. Just half of people saying they would vote to remain actually like the EU (49%).
ComRes interviewed 1,002 British adults by telephone between 8th and 10th April 2016. Data were weighted to be representative of all GB adults aged 18+. Data were also weighted by past vote recall. ComRes interviewed 500 British adults who read The Sun at least once a week. Data were weighted to be representative of all British readers of The Sun as defined in the National Readership Survey.


This section of the OBRUK campaign covers the impact of changes to women's income on their personal safety.
Red Alert: Don't let Universal Credit bypass Women!!
In the midst of a recession, the cuts to government spending have led to a loss of public sector jobs, public sector cuts and pay freezes. Whilst these changes are impacting individuals across the country, there is growing evidence to suggest that they are having a disproportionate effect on women. Furthermore, it is clear that this has implications on their personal financial freedom. As the Women's Budget Group state, there has been "an immense reduction in the standard of living and financial independence of millions of women, and a reversal in progress made towards gender equality".
As a survey conducted by Netmums earlier this year shows, families are experiencing the dual problems of incomes in decline (66 %reported their incomes had gone down) and at the same time, the cost of living going up (93 %reporting they had noticed the increase in cost of groceries for example.
This is an issue particularly affecting women in the capital. According to an IPSOS MORI poll commissioned by London Councils, half of the women surveyed say the economic downturn has had a big impact on the way they and their households live over the last three years (compared with 39% of men). They are also more interested in receiving advice on how to reduce the cost of living (45% compared to 32 %of men are interested in this help) and support with childcare (26% compared to 18%).


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Critics aren't in love with Kristen Stewart's new movie 'Underwater'
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Underwater (Credit: Fox)
It appears that critics aren't diving into Kristen Stewart's new sci-fi horror movie Underwater.
The movie, just emerging from the depths now after being shot in 2017, finds the Twilight star among a team of underwater researchers besieged by flesh-eating creatures after an earthquake nearly destroys their deep-sea lab.
Read more: Reviews for Charlie's Angels reboot are a mixed bag
Stewart is teamed with Vincent Cassel and Silicone Valley's T.J. Miller for the sub-aqua monster flick, but so far it's not feeling a great deal of critical love.
Variety has blasted it as a 'deep-sea knock off of Alien' in a scathing notice, dubbing it 'rudderless junk'.
"Underwater is a stupefying entertainment in which every claustrophobic space and apocalyptic crash of water registers as a slick visual trigger, yet it's all built on top of a dramatic void. It's boredom in Sensurround," critic Owen Gleiberman goes on.
(Credit: Fox)
Adds The Wrap: "Underwater is not Alien beneath the sea, although it desperately wants to be, from the close-up of barefoot [Stewart] to having her run around in her underwear to the possible 'baby' sea monster the crew captures at one point."
The Guardian has called it 'soggy and silly', while Screenrant reckons its 'shallow and boring'.
Some offered faint praise, including Forbes' Scott Mendelson, tweeting: "By the way, review next week, but #Underwater is aggressively 'fine.' It's well made, well-acted (Kristen Stewart has fun as an overly chatty would-be action heroine) and the first reel is pretty good, it drags in the middle before firing on all cylinders in the final moments."
Read more: Kristen Stewart is up for playing a gay superhero
The Hollywood Reporter's John Defore is also vaguely complimentary, calling it 'an effective sci-fi thriller', but also notes 'a skimpier version of Ellen Ripley's underwear-action-hero look is one Alien reference this movie could've done without'.
One minute Stewart is being hailed with movies like Personal Shopper and then she's making the roundly panned Charlie's Angels reboot.
So sometimes, it's hard to know quite where we stand.
Helmed by William Eubank, Underwater splashes down in the UK on February 7.


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Q: Awk: Splitting on 2 or more spaces only I'm trying to reformat the output of the last command e.g. last -adn 10 | head -n -2 | awk -F' {2,}' '{ print "USER:",$1,"IP:",$5 }'.
>> last -adn 10 | head -n -2
root     pts/0        Tue Jul 10 13:51   still logged in    10.102.11.34
reboot   system boot  Fri Jun 22 09:37         (18+04:19)   0.0.0.0

I would like my output to be something like:
>>last -adn 10 | head -n -2 | awk -F' {2,}' '{ print "USER:",$1,"IP:",$5 }'
USER: root IP: 10.102.11.34 TIME: Tue Jul 10 13:51

I've tried every method described here, and I can't figure out why this is not working for me.
When executing that command, it simply stores the whole line in $1, and the others are blank.

A: UPDATE based on @WilliamPursell comment/suggestion:
Instead of this:
awk -F' {2,}' '{ print "USER:",$1,"IP:",$5 }'

Try this:
awk 'BEGIN{FS="   *"}{ print "USER:",$1,"IP:",$5 }'

seems to be working for me and fixes the shortcoming of my previous solution using 'BEGIN{FS="  "}... which only split on exactly 2 spaces.
Note: FS is set to 3 spaces and an *, meaning the last space can occur zero or more times.

A: By default, gawk does not enable interval expressions. You can enable them with the --re-interval flag. Other versions of awk may or may not support them at all.
If you can't enable the flag, you can use a more explicit match. For example:
$ echo 'foo  bar baz' |
    awk -F'[[:space:]][[:space:]][[:space:]]*' '{print $2}'
bar baz


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Rachel Knicely's life has been on hold for six months while she takes care of her great aunt, who has Alzheimer's. Putting her aunt first was an easy decision—accepting that Aunt Tweet is nearing the end of her battle is far more difficult.
Nicholas Adams's ministry is bringing comfort to those who are sick and homebound. He responds to a request for help for an ailing woman but when he meets the Knicelys, he realizes Rachel is the one who needs support the most. Nicholas is charmed by and attracted to Rachel, but then devastating news brings both a crisis of faith and roadblocks to their budding relationship that neither could have anticipated.
This beautifully emotional and clean story contains a hero and heroine who are better at taking care of other people than themselves, a dark moment that shakes their faith, and a well-earned happily ever after.
While the Denver Broncos were announcing their choices, Rachel and Jacqui decided to take a quick potty break since the Titans' picks weren't until the nineteenth spot.
Near the concession stand, the two ran into familiar faces and chat- ted until someone caught Rachel's eye. She blinked as her heart danced at the same moment as his eyes connected with hers.
"Nicholas Adams," Rachel whispered. As he walked in her direction, she began to meet him halfway. "What are you doing here?"
"Rachel," he said in a low, deep voice that seemed to project above the other noise. "You look...stunning, and I happen to like football."
She blushed, something she rarely did when men complimented her. She usually owned it and responded with a saucy smile. "Thank you. You look amazing too."
He chuckled. "I doubt that. The only men staring me down are those who are wishing they had your attention."
They were quiet as they watched each other. "You haven't called me," he said in an accusatory tone that almost sounded like he was wounded. He had no idea how many times she'd wanted to. Rachel glanced
away, embarrassed, then exhaled. "I know."
"Why?" He gave her a penetrating stare, then folded his arms in a
stance that indicated he would wait for her answer.
"I didn't want to bother you," she said honestly. "I figured you
moved to the next person on the prayer list." She didn't mention Mother Jenkins had called her twice to check on her.
"Bother me." Unfolding his arms, Nicholas slipped his hands into his pockets. He smiled, and his dimples made an appearance.
She smiled too.
"I like those dimples," he said, complimenting her.
"I like yours too." Suddenly, a deafening roar erupted around them, and Rachel jumped, but Nicholas didn't take his eyes off her to investigate.
An excited fan walked by, shouting to anyone who would listen, "The Titans picked Xavier Nelson!"
Nicholas gave the guy a high five. "That linebacker from Alabama is a good choice." Then he turned his attention back to Rachel. His eyes sparkled. "See, I can multitask."
He had a magnetism Rachel found hard to pull away from, but she didn't want him to miss another highlight. "I guess I'd better let you go so you can enjoy the draft," Rachel said, but she really didn't want him to go. Until this moment, she hadn't known how much she had missed seeing him and hearing his voice.
"I am enjoying myself just fine." He reached out and took her hand. His touch left her fingers tingling.
Another guy approached Nicholas and cleared his throat. Although they resembled each other, Rachel thought Nicholas didn't seem happy with the man's presence.
"This is my brother, Karl Adams," Nicholas said in an annoyed manner, never taking his eyes off Rachel.
"Nice to meet you," Karl said with a sly grin. "I've heard so much about you."
Rachel raised her eyebrows in curiosity, and Nicholas gave his brother side-eye, his nostrils flaring.
"You have my deepest sympathies about your aunt," his brother added.
Of course, her aunt's passing. Why was she disappointed that Nicholas hadn't mentioned anything flattering about her? She exhaled. "It was nice meeting you, Karl, and good seeing you again, Nicholas." She turned to leave, but he touched her arm. Rachel stopped herself from shivering, but that didn't stop goose bumps from popping up.
"Call me, Rachel." His tone was gentle with a hint of a plea.
"O-okay." She was the first to walk away, and she could feel his eyes on her. She glanced over her shoulder and saw she was wrong. It was
different admirers who watched and winked at her, but she was only attracted to Nicholas Adams. How had the women at his church let him stay single this long? Rachel was curious to find out.
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Manxman Peter Kennaugh has been named in Team Sky's line-up for the 2014 Giro d'Italia, which begins in Belfast on May 9.
The 24-year-old, from Douglas, was a key member of the Team Sky squad which helped Chris Froome to Tour de France glory in 2013.
The nine-strong team for the first Grand Tour of the season will also feature Italian riders Dario Cataldo and Salvatore Puccio, Ben Swift, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Bernhard Eisel, Sebastian Henao and Kanstantsin Siutsou.
Mark Cavendish sprinted to victory in Brescia to take the red jersey in the Giro d'Italia.
Mark Cavendish thanked his Omega Pharma Quick-Step team for getting him over the line first as the Giro d'Italia got underway.


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Pennington County Jail significantly reduces population during year of pandemic
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Arielle Zionts
Apr 1, 2021 Updated May 13, 2021
The Public Safety Building in downtown Rapid City is home to the Rapid City Police Department and Pennington County Sheriff's Office.
Grace Pritchett, Journal staff
After years of trying to accomplish the feat through reform efforts, 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, marked the first time the Pennington County Jail saw a significant decrease in its population since 2015.
Pennington County has received $3.4 million from the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge grant since 2015 to create programs that reduce the population and racial inequities in its jail.
However, the jail's average daily population (ADP) instead grew from 479 in 2015 to 614 in 2018. Law enforcement said this was due to an increase in methamphetamine-related arrests, and the population would have been even higher without the reforms.
The Journal used ADP numbers that represent state and federal defendants, but not those on electronic monitoring.
The ADP steadied out to 612 in 2019 before dramatically dropping to 519 in 2020.
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"We engaged safety and justice partners to reduce the jail population using timely initiatives that were years in the making due to the foresight of community leaders," Jail Commander Rob Yantis said in the Pennington County Sheriff's Office 2020 Year in Review.
While COVID-19 "expedited the process … the Safety and Justice Challenge jail reduction initiatives cannot be discounted both before the pandemic was in full effect and as mechanisms to reduce jail populations during the height of community spread during the pandemic," sheriff's office spokeswoman Helene Duhamel told the Journal.
COVID-19 related changes included:
The Jail Population Review Team met more often to identify inmates who a judge might agree to release or give a lower bond;
The Pennington County State's Attorney said he asked law enforcement to issue citations for people to appear in court rather than arrest them when possible;
The presiding judge of the 7th Circuit Court signed several orders, including ones that excused certain failures to appear, allowed for delayed probation sanctions, and prioritized jailed defendants' cases.
While the jail significantly reduced its population last year, large racial inequities remain. Native Americans comprised 56% of the jail population even though they represent only about 10% of the county population, according to the annual report and most recent Census estimate.
Pennington County Jail
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The sheriff's office saw no COVID-19 deaths among its staff, Care Campus clients, and adults and children it detains, Duhamel said.
140 employees and four Care Campus clients caught the virus as of March 12, she said. 70 adult inmates and three minors tested positive upon intake or after being booked into the adult and juvenile jails.
The jail began implementing COVID-19 prevention procedures in March, Yantis said in the report. Mitigation methods ranged from intake screenings to quarantines to providing personal protective equipment.
"Our dedicated staff were invested in our mission and responded to any request with determination and grit," Yantis wrote. "Because of their hard work, COVID-19 never became a plague inside the jail."
While calls for service and vehicle stops increased from 2019 to 2020, the sheriff's office made fewer arrests: 4,404 in 2020 compared to 5,280 in 2019.
"We weren't as proactive as we are some years because of COVID-19," Sheriff Kevin Thom said of why arrests might have decreased.
Another theory, he said, is that more people were sheltering in place which means people were doing less crime outside of the house and law enforcement had less contact with the public.
Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom
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Reports of murder, sexual assault, burglaries, thefts and stolen vehicles within the sheriff's office jurisdiction — the entire county except Rapid City and Box Elder — remained steady or yo-yoed from 2018 to 2020.
Aggravated assaults nearly doubled during that time period from 54 reports in 2018, 65 in 2019 to 102 in 2020. Robberies also steadily increased but with much fewer cases from one in 2018 to two in 2019 to seven in 2020.
Methamphetamine remains the most common drug people are arrested for. The drug accounted for 26% of drug arrests in 2012, rose to 57% in 2015 and hovered around 70% from 2017 to 2019 before increasing to 73% in 2020.
The Internet Crimes Against Children Unit received 504 cybertips — an increase of nearly 25% from 2019 — about suspected child sexual abuse materials, the report says. That resulted in a 60% increase in the numbers of subpoenas and search warrants it prepared.
Cybertips have been increasing each year but ICAC units across the country saw an extra large increase in 2020, said Brent Gromer, who oversees the Rapid City office. He said the increase might be due to more people working from home, which means they have more time to be on the computer. Children being home from school means there's more of an opportunity for them to be victimized.
The Rapid City-Pennington County SWAT team, called the Special Response Team, activated for a record of 13 incidents since it was created in 1990. The SRT activated eight times in 2019, 12 in 2018 and 11 in 2017, according to past annual reports.
The sheriff's office used its new drones 25 times last year.
A drone used by the Rapid City-Pennington County drone team.
Other stats, future plans
The 24/7 testing center began to dramatically reduce how many people it was testing in March due to the pandemic. Some people were instead monitored through remote testing devices, and judges suspended required testing when possible.
Evictions have increased each year from 2017 to 2020, according to data provide by Duhamel. There were 107 evictions in 2017, 123 in 2018, 147 in 2019 and 154 in 2020.
The pandemic caused many people to lose all or some of their income, but laws and aid helped prevent or delay some evictions.
The sheriff's office responded to a record number of coroner calls in 2020. Coroners are called whenever there is a homicide, suicide, accidental death or a medical/natural death that occurs outside, inside a house, or anywhere else outside the care of a medical provider.
There were 288 calls in 2013, 355 in 2019 and 406 in 2020.
Only eight of those calls were related to COVID-19, Duhamel said. There were more homicides across all Pennington County jurisdictions: five in 2019 compared to 14 in 2020.
Plans for 2021 include an assessment of the two jail towers, which are structurally sound but likely in need of plumbing, electrical and HVAC upgrades, the annual report says. Once the study is complete, the sheriff's office will work with county commissioners to fund the improvements. The entire process could take several years.
The sheriff's office also hopes to begin construction this year of a short-term mental health stabilization center next to the Care Campus. Gov. Kristi Noem signed a bill last week providing $4.6 million to build the center, which is meant to expand services and keep people close to home. The sheriff's office hopes the center will be operational by 2022.
The proposed Crisis Stabilization Unit would be built in this grassy lot behind the Care Campus at 321 Kansas City Street.
— Contact Arielle Zionts at arielle.zionts@rapidcityjournal.com.
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Jan 06 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874 on this day in history.
Jan 08 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast in the year 1811.
Jan 10 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes in the year 1811.
Feb 02 Russian settlers establish Fort Ross trading post, north of San Francisco in the year 1811.
Feb 03 Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") in the year 1811.
Feb 15 Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74) on this day in history.
Feb 24 Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church on this day in history.
Feb 25 Carl Schuberth, composer on this day in history.
Feb 27 [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of US general Robert E Lee in the year 1811.
Mar 01 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel in the year 1811.
Mar 01 Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878 in the year 1811.
Mar 19 Frantisek Adam Mica, composer, dies at 65 in the year 1811.
Jan 06 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874 was born in the year 1811.
Jan 09 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856) was born in the year 1811.
Feb 03 Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") was born on this day in history.
Feb 23 George Washington Hewitt, composer was born in the year 1811.


As I was preparing to head out this Sunday afternoon for lunch and see a movie (The Monuments Men) with my friend Laurie, I spritz on a bit of my perfume from The Sanctuary Spa and it made me think about the spa. This is a lovely spa in London, specifically, the Covent Garden location that I have had the absolute pleasure of visiting four times since my first visit to the spa in 2008. During my most recent visit to London in June, I had difficulties trying to make a booking to the spa because as I am based in the US, the new online booking website no longer worked for ISPs based on the United States. I even tried to email The Sanctuary directly to make a booking, but they couldn't seem to be bothered with helping me. This was a red flag and very disheartening. It takes time, planning, and MONEY for an American to holiday in London, and considering that I go there approximately every 12-14 months to visit my dear friend Lucinda, one would think that the spa would have been more accommodating for an American trying to make a booking.
Since I could not make my spa booking, Lucinda and I took advantage of a coupon to go to Amida Spa at Chelsea Harbour instead. And we had a great time. I did miss some exclusives that were specialized by The Sanctuary, but I received my spa experience as I desired. It was my intention that on my next visit to London, possibly in November, I would try to visit the spa again. However, just this morning, I learned that the spa will be closing all of its locations as of May 31st! I was so shocked to learn this and the website did not go in to details - I had to read more about it at Get the Gloss. Apparently The Sanctuary has been losing day spa business, so instead of closing down one or two of the four spas to increase demand at the remaining spas, they are closing all four down. Moving on, they will launch their cool spa items via online retail. Well, I personally think this is a poor decision plan. They could have at least just left the Covent Garden spa open - it's absolutely beautiful (I hope another fancy Spa goes in that space). Well, I reckon during future visits to London, I'll find other spas to frequent, and I'll have to go to Boots to buy the Sanctuary toiletries I've come to enjoy.
Goodbye Sanctuary, I'll miss your lovely Covent Garden Spa!


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November 1, 2018 nature4health
Over the last three years nearly 2,000 people took part in 'Nature4Health' – and our evaluation shows that on average they saw a big boost to their wellbeing and an increase in their everyday physical activity.
The results of the evaluation show that people who took part increased their levels of walking and moderate physical activity by over a third by the end of the twelve weeks. Participants also saw a significant improvement in their mental wellbeing, recorded by before and after surveys. The results are particularly significant because of the large number of participants.
The findings are in line with growing evidence that the natural environment is important to our health and wellbeing. The government calls for more 'green prescribing' in its recently published 25 Year Plan for the Environment. The plan encourages the NHS to work more closely with environmental organisations to offer therapies such as gardening and outdoor exercise in natural settings to people with mild to moderate mental health conditions and who may be struggling to overcome loneliness and isolation.
Paul Nolan OBE, Director of the Mersey Forest commented:
"We've known for years that the local environment can be a powerful tool in improving wellbeing – and now with Nature4Health we've shown how that tool can be put into action, in real communities, at a large scale. We're looking forward to working with the NHS and local authorities to build on this success and help more people improve their everyday lives."
Quotes from people who took part in Nature4Health activities include:
"I've come off antibiotics after being on them for 20+ years due to a long term lung condition – the walking helps my breathing." (Jan)
"I feel a lot healthier – I notice my knees feel a lot better. My breathing has improved- I am not panting or wheezing like I did when I first started." (Ken)
"You meet new people and it is great for mental health and social activity. The comradeship of the group is important to me and we have a good group." (Alison)
"Since I have been on the course I feel much more relaxed and I am starting to appreciate life again. I still have a long journey ahead, but I am beginning to cope a lot more" (Andrea)
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Following a prize draw to celebrate the end of 'Nature4 Health' two lucky winners have received 'Go Outdoors' vouchers, enabling them to purchase equipment designed to help them continue to enjoy the benefits of the great outdoors and mindful contact with nature that they gained from their involvement with the project.
Sue (below centre) took part in our Health Walks at Taylor Park in St Helen's last year. Sue and her husband Ken were dedicated members of the group, walking in all weathers. They enjoyed the contact with other, like-minded people who were focused on a goal of walking as part of a weight loss programme. But the overall benefits of being outdoors in the beautiful surroundings of the park meant they felt a connection with each other and with nature. The group enjoyed seeing the changes in the landscape and wildlife as the seasons passed. 'I will really miss the group', said Sue. 'There were some days when I really didn't want to go, but I knew my friends would be there and so it motivated me to go and join in. I didn't get out of the house much before that group; I needed that 'push' to get me out, and I then I loved it!'
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Sue (centre) with husband Ken and Suzanne Londra from The Mersey Forest.
After three years and many great successes The Mersey Forest's Nature4Health project has come to an end.
Funding from Big Lottery's Reaching Communities Fund has meant that we were able to work with a really diverse range of partner organisations to improve the wellbeing of nearly 2,000 people across Merseyside and North Cheshire through using contact with nature, their local communities and green spaces.
And, thanks to funding from Cheshire West & Chester Council, we are continuing to work on Cheshire's Natural Health Service for people living in Cheshire West.
An impact report will soon be published, detailing research and analysis of Nature4Health carried out by our researchers, together with colleagues at Liverpool John Moore's University and the University of Liverpool. We all know that contact with nature is probably a good thing, but this research will highlight exactly why that's the case. In the meantime, watch these films about some of our key projects with 'The Reader' and 'Change, Live Grow St Helen's' , which show the human impact of our work with communities.
https://www.nature4health.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Nature4Health-V1-Reading-With-Nature.mp4
https://www.nature4health.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Nature4Health-V1-Routes-to-Recovery.mp4
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Nature4Health, Reading with Nature, Calderstones Park, Liverpool
'I love reading, I always have', says Raymond, an 83 year-old living Simonsfield Care Home in Liverpool. Raymond, like many other people attending 'Reading with Nature' has dementia. He finds many day-to -day tasks challenging and frustrating because of his illness. Nonetheless, he stands before a small group and performs a moving recital of a poem called 'The Seashell' with the accuracy, pace and timing of a professional actor. 'It just came to me easily, and I knew what it meant, I was quite happy with it. In fact, I loved it!'
Raymond reciting poetry to the group.
The group, comprised of residents and staff from nearby care homes, as well as a number of dedicated volunteers is called 'Reading for Nature', a poetry group for people with dementia run by The Mersey Forest as part of their Nature 4 Health programme in partnership with The Reader.
The Reader is a national organisation which uses the concept of Shared Readingto change lives, reduce social isolation and build stronger communities. Working with the Mersey Forest on 'Reading for Nature' creates an obvious opportunity for the two agencies to collaborate on their shared objective of improving peoples' well-being.
Discussing their surroundings with Katie from The Reader
Stephen Ward from the Mersey Forest said, 'This is part of our 3 year, Big-Lottery Funded Nature4Health programme. We're looking to get communities across the spectrum more active and gaining the passive benefits of being in the outdoors and in contact with nature as a way of improving their well-being'.
Katie Clark from the Reader explained that the park itself was an ideal setting for sharing poems about nature which then prompts discussion amongst the group. As communication can be a challenge for people living with dementia the words, thoughts and images created by the poems and the natural surroundings can prompt memories, emotions and sometimes, as in Raymond's case, simply a connection in the resonance of the poetic language itself.
Diane 82, who has Parkinsons, found herself a little shy at the start of the group but grew in confidence through the session; 'There are some situations where you wouldn't normally open your mouth', she says, 'but I feel comfortable here. I try and make sense of the words. It's certainly food for thought and I'm looking forward to coming again'.
Volunteer Joan with Daphne
Volunteer Catherine Sinclair from Liverpool used to bring her mother Margaret to the group. 'My mother used to read quite a lot but her memory was affected and so to see her read out poems that she knew from school age gave me and her an enormous amount of pleasure. And I think it's so important for people to still be able to enjoy things when they are suffering from this progressive, insidious disease. Some people may not be able to articulate but they do engage in conversations and if a person's speech is affected you can often see their eyes light up.'
Care home staff fill out their evaluation forms –feedback is crucial to the success of the project
Rachel Duffy, who has been a volunteer with The Reader since 2014, says as she gains a lot from the feeling of connection with other people. 'Not everyone is what you might have thought of as a 'poetry person', and maybe they don't say much about the poem but they enjoy reading them together. Even people who don't express any thoughts or feelings seem to like the peace and satisfaction of reading together. Even if their communication is little disjointed and they suddenly say 'Did you come in the car?' or 'how old are you?'. You're just creating a little bond with them or putting something a bit different into their minds, or perhaps giving them the words for something they are no longer able to express themselves'.
It was clear that this was a refreshing and enlightening experience for so many of the participants today. A real privilege to be part of.
Mindful Contact with Nature
June 1, 2018 June 1, 2018 nature4health
Our Mindful Contact with Nature sessions are proving very popular and there's been some great feedback. Not only from participants but also from those closest to them. We've loved hearing the stories and here's one of our favourites:
"The lady I spoke to told me her husband thought she was less agitated. When they were out walking together she didn't feel the need to chatter constantly, and they both learned to enjoy the moment, and have ten minutes of mindful concentration on their surroundings. And she was sleeping better. She still wakes in the night but stays calm and goes back to sleep. I know her and she did seem much calmer" (Louise)
From those who took part, they also had some great feedback:
"My experience during the course was really positive. It helped me deal with a difficult relationship breakdown" (Sara)
"Everyone who suffers from anxiety associated problems should attend ongoing mindfulness programmes" (Rosemary)
"By week 5 everything was beginning to seem greener and finding bluebells in the most unexpected places was uplifting. I was re-discovering my affinity with nature" (Deidre)
If you want to take part then the current sessions are running at Neston on Thursday afternoons or email Suzanne.Londra@merseyforest.org.uk to find out more.
Walking in the forest boosts the immune system, potentially helping to fight cancer
- Nippon Medical School, Tokyo


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10 unknown architectural wonders
9th May 2020 11th April 2015 by Kia
We all know of the world's great architectural wonders: Petra, Giza, Angkor – but what of the hidden gems rarely appearing on those ubiquitous bucket lists? Here are 10 unknown architectural wonders to add to yours.
Göbekli Tepe, Turkey
Six miles from the ancient Turkish town of Urfa lies a set of massive 11,000-year-old carved stones, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had purportedly not yet developed metal tools or even pottery.
The site, discovered in the 1960s and later excavated by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, pre-dates Stonehenge by about 6,000 years and calls into question what we think we know about the progression of hunter-gatherers.
Simply put, Göbekli Tepe with its intricate carving and sophisticated engineering wasn't the work of simple cavemen.
Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni, Malta
(Image: Hamelin de Guettelet, Creative Commons)
The Hypogeum is a subterranean structure dating back to 3300-3000 BC. Thought to have been originally a sanctuary, it became a necropolis in prehistoric times with more than 7,000 individuals found within its chambers.
What's curious about the Hypogeum is that male voices can reverberate throughout the entire complex if the source is standing in a certain spot. This only works if the voice is in the 95 to 120 Hz range, however, so women's voices don't usually reverberate in the same way.
Bukhara Fortress, Uzbekistan
Bukhara Fortress, commonly known as the 'Ark', was initially built and occupied around 5th century AD. It served not only as a military structure but also as a 'town within a town', housing various royal courts that reigned over the region surrounding Bukhara. The Ark was occupied until it fell to Russia in 1920.
Today, 80% of it lies in ruin amid some remaining royal quarters and several museums.
Leshan Giant Buddha, China
At 233 feet tall, this giant Buddha's fingernails are larger than the average human. Built during the Tang Dynasty in around 713 AD, the statue was carved out of a cliff face at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in the southern part of Sichuan province.
It is the largest stone Buddha in the world and it is by far the tallest pre-modern statue in the world.
Chand Baori, India
Located about 100 kilometres from Jaipur on the Agra road, this incredible stepwell was built in approximately 800 AD by King Chanda of the Nikumbha Dynasty.
It comprises 3,500 narrow steps over 13 stories and extends approximately 100 feet into the ground making it one of the deepest and largest stepwells in India. Upon completion, it was dedicated to Hashat Mata, Goddess of Joy and Happiness.
Chan Chan, Peru
Chan Chan is an archaeological site in the Peruvian region of La Libertad. Built around 1300, it covers 20 square kilometres, making it the largest Pre-Columbian city in South America as well as the largest adobe city in the world.
At the height of the Chimú empire, the city's 10 walled citadels housed an estimated 60,000 inhabitants and contained a vast wealth of gold, silver and ceramics.
Derawar Fort, Pakistan
(Image: Muhammad Ashar, Creative Commons)
Rising from the Cholistan Desert in Pakistan's Punjab region, Derawar comprises 40 stunning bastions arranged in a giant square formation. The walls have a circumference of 1,500 metres and stand up to 30 metres high.
The fort as it stands today was built in 1733 and is located next to a mosque modelled on Moti Masjid in the Red Fort of Delhi in India.
Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali
Mali's Great Mosque of Djenné, constructed in 1907, is the largest mud brick building in the world. It is one of Africa's greatest attractions, but is far less known on the world stage.
Built almost entirely with sun-baked earthen bricks, sand and mud-based mortar and plaster, the mosque walls can crack during the long African summers. However, the local community takes an active role in maintaining the mosque and even has an annual festival dedicated to replastering it.
Las Pozas, Mexico
Las Pozas, near the Mexican village of Xilitla, is a surreal but stunning series of temples, pagodas, bridges, pavilions, sculptures and stairways built next to a set of idyllic waterfalls.
Commissioned by British poet Edward James in the 1960s, the site was built as his very own version of the Garden of Eden. Construction cost more than $5 million, which James funded through auction of his collection of Surrealist art.
Bibi Ka Maqbara, India
No, this is not the Taj Mahal. The resemblance may be explained, however, by the fact that it was built by the sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, the son of the emperor who built the Taj Mahal.
Commissioned in the late 17th century, Bibi Ka Maqbara was built in memory of Aurangzeb' first wife, Dilras Banu Begum. Alas, it will always remain in the shadow of the mausoleum built for his mother.
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After days of intense negotiations here, Iran and the six world powers have reached a deal intended to limit Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for lifting economic sanctions….reports Asian Lite News
Delegates from the EU and P5+1, the five UN Security Council permanent members plus Germany, attend a meeting on the sidelines of the nuclear talks between Iran and world powers in Vienna, capital of Austria
Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers reached a "good deal" here on Tehran's nuclear programme, an Iranian official close to the negotiating team said.
UK welcomed the nuclear deal and Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "We will continue to work closely with our international partners to encourage Iran to play a transparent and constructive role in regional affairs, particularly in the struggle against violent Islamist extremism."
"We recognise the concern in the region about Iran's historic pattern of regional activity. We will maintain our clear position in support of the Gulf states and against Iranian interference in their internal affairs. We hope, and expect, that this agreement will herald a step-change in Iran's relations with its neighbours and with the international community. "The removal, over time, of economic and financial sanctions represents a huge opportunity for Iranians to make positive decisions about their country's future and its role in the region.
The result of the talks between Iran and the six countries — China, Britain, France, Russia, the US and Germany — would be formally announced soon, Xinhua quoted an European Union (EU) spokesman as saying.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) meets with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna
The nuclear talks have been aimed at reaching a final deal to limit Iran's nuclear programme in exchange for lifting economic sanctions imposed almost a decade ago in accordance with a UN resolution after Iran refused to suspend its uranium enrichment programme.
Iran for long has said that its nuclear programme was for peaceful purposes. The West fears it could be used to build an atomic bomb.
A movement toward a deal has been marked by years of tough negotiations. The deal was meant to impose long-term, verifiable limits on nuclear programmes that Tehran could modify to produce weapons. Iran, in return, would get tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief.
On Tuesday, Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif met his German, French and British counterparts.
A formal announcement about the deal was expected after a final meeting between all the negotiators. The foreign ministers of Iran and the six powers will meet at the UN centre here, a spokeswoman for the European Union said.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU's Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini are expected to read a joint statement, diplomats familiar with the talks said.
Diplomats said most of the nuts and bolts of implementing the deal have been agreed upon. But over the past week, issues that were previously on the back-burner have led to new disputes.
Among them was Iran's demand for a lifting of a UN arms embargo and its insistence that any UN Security Council resolution approving the nuclear deal be written in a way that stops describing Iran's nuclear activities as illegal.
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Busy Philipps Is All Michelle Williams Will Ever Need
Williams is "so in love" with her forever friend.
By Kenzie Bryant
Everybody knows friends that watch Dawson's Creek together last forever. It's a common phrase. And even Busy Philipps and Michelle Williams, who starred on the show together in the early 2000s, live by that same tenet. At a recent New York screening of Williams's latest movie, Manchester by the Sea, the actress told People, "I'm here with my best friend."
"I'm so in love with her," she continued, referring to Philipps, her date. "She's proof that the love of your life does not have to be a man! That's the love of my life right there."
Who needs Pacey? Who needs Dawson, even? (Really, who ever needed Dawson?) On Monday, Philipps posted a side-by-side comparing a photo of her and Williams from 2001 with one taken at this week's event. "I love that we almost always stand on the same side of each other," her caption reads. "Also, can I just say—we aren't at a costume party in 2001. That's legit how we were dressed for a regular night out. I guess I really was my character from Cougartown? And thank God my eyebrows grew back."
Philipps also posted a picture of Williams and her at the Critics Choice Awards last week. (Williams again took Philipps as her date.) Her caption there reads, "Michelle and I like this picture of ourselves in a porta potty better than any red carpet pics we saw. So here you go."
Just like regular couples will you, when you've been together this many years, it's important to keep spicing up the relationship.
Kenzie Bryant is a staff writer at Vanity Fair.
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