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GREGORY GLADE HANCOCK
Gregory Hancock is the Executive Artistic Director for the internationally acclaimed Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre and now also serves as the director for The Academy of GHDT. Through the Academy of GHDT, Mr. Hancock is able to pass on a legacy of work and training to young aspiring dancers. Mr. Hancock has taught dance for many years at numerous local dance institutions. He has trained numerous students over the years who have continued to dance professionally in companies throughout the world. He has also taught dance at "Daile" the national dance ensemble of Latvia in Riga, Latvia. Most recently, Mr. Hancock has taught modern dance in Mumbai, India at Expressions Modern Dance Company, the premiere modern dance company of Mumbai. Mr. Hancock's unique choreography has been lauded internationally and he has received numerous honors for his work including Individual Artist Fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, Creative Renewal Fellowships from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and Lilly Endowment, fellowships from ArtsLink and the Citizen Exchange Council in NYC and was awarded Outstanding Choreographer at the Youth America Grand Prix Finals in NYC. He has created an expansive repertoire of pieces for the professional company and has created choreography for companies throughout the USA and Europe.
ANGELA AGRESTI
Angela was born and raised in Indianapolis where she trained at the Jordon College Academy of Dance before moving to the University of North Carolina School for the Arts for ballet. She grew up dancing in GHDT's The Nutcracker, student company, and did multiple performances with the main company. After high school, Angela went on to dance in Cincinnati Ballet for one season before moving to Amsterdam to be in the Dutch National Ballet where she has danced for the last 8 years. While at Dutch National Ballet, she danced a mix of classical ballet, Balanchine works, Han van Manen, and contemporary and neoclassical works, along with new creations. She has been featured in William Forsythe's Second Detail, Alexei Ratmansky's Don Quichot, along with many other demo-soloist roles in ballets such as The Dream, Paquita, and Swan Lake. Not only has she been able to share her gifts as a dancer, but she has also worked alongside many choreographers at Dutch National Ballet as a ballet master. These works were performed within the company, and brought to the Origen Cultural Festival in Riom, Switzerland where she was also responsible to lead the dancers in daily class. Angela also recently expanded her work as assistant choreographer by working on the first Virtual Reality ballet created by Pete Leung that has been a part of festivals and the first Virtual Reality Cinema in Amsterdam. She has been a part of the AGHDT family since 2018.
Hannah Brown began her dance training in Charlotte, North Carolina under the direction of Melissa Hale-Coyle and Lisa Leone at the Charlotte City Ballet Company. She attended the University of South Carolina, where she performed in works by choreographers such as George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Helen Pickett, and Gianni Di Marco. In 2013, she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Dance Performance and Choreography. She has had the pleasure to be a company dancer with Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre and a teacher at the Academy since 2013.
KIRSTEN FERGER
Kirsten Ferger danced professionally with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov with training from Elena Tcherichova, Mikhail Baryshinkov, Jurgen Schneider, Georgina Parkinson and Susan Jones. She was a Principal Dancer with the American Festival Ballet under directors Stephen and Elizabeth Rowe-Wistrich of Stuttgart Ballet where Kirsten had the pleasure and opportunity to perform Holberg Suite choreographed by John Cranko, and performed several years with Indianapolis Ballet Theatre under the direction of George Verdak and Dace Dindonis. She also received private coaching from Irina Kolpakova while Ms. Kolpakova was with Ballet Internationale. Ms. Ferger, while on scholarship at the American Ballet Theatre School, trained with Patricia Wilde, Valentina Pereyslavik, Royes Fernandez, Daryl Grey, and Michael Maule. Additional training, while in New York City, includes Maggie Black, David Howard and Robert Denver. Ms. Ferger began her training in Indianapolis at the Jordan College of Music, S.I.D. with Colette Kaufman, Jack Copeland, Peggy Dorsey, and Rebecca Rutt and at Butler University with Karl Kaufman, Michele Jarvis, Teresa Ragucci-Chatelanie, Bud Kerwin and William Glen. Ms. Ferger received scholarships at American Ballet Theatre School and Butler University and awards which include Indiana Dance Alliance, Indiana State Arts and Letters Competition, and received honorable mention at the National Arts and Letters Competition in New York City. Ms. Ferger has taught for over 16 years beginning with the Academy of Ballet Theatre from 1993-1999. Kirsten started teaching company class for Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre in 2004 and continues to teach for GHDT and AGHDT staring with the opening of GHDT's Academy in the fall of 2009.
CHLOE HOLZMAN
Chloe Holzman started her training at Northwest Ballet Academy in suburban Chicago. She received her BFA in Ballet with an emphasis in teaching and character dance from the University of Utah, along with a Minor in Psychology. She was also president of the Character Dance Ensemble with whom she traveled to Spain, Hungary, and Ukraine to learn local folk dances and perform the group's repertoire. Her first performance with Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre was "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in 2018, at which point she also joined the academy faculty. She teaches our next generation of dancers with the beginning classes, as well as Character and Ballet. Chloe is currently working on her certification as a teacher in the Cecchetti method.
CAMDEN LANCASTER
Camden Lancaster received her Bachelors in Dance Performance at Anderson University. While at Anderson she had the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center and twice received the Allen Choreography Award. Camden joined GHDT in 2018. Her first performance with the company was THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Camden's most memorable roles to date are "Mother of the Chosen" in EXODUS and "The Other Women" in the LA LLORONA. She has been the resident Jazz teacher at AGHDT since 2019.
ABBIE LESSARIS
Abigail Lessaris began her journey with Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, in 2006, in their annual performance of The Nutcracker when she was 10 years old. She was a student at The Academy of GHDT since its opening in 2009 where she received her most valued dance training under the instruction of Mr. Hancock and the wonderful AGHDT staff. Abigail was a member of G2, the pre-professional company of GHDT, for 6 years until her graduation in the spring of 2014. Abigail is currently a company dancer and rehearsal assistant with GHDT. Abigail has been a member of the faculty at the Academy since 2016. She serves as the Director of G2, alongside Mr. Hancock, as well as teaching modern.
ZOE MAISH
Zoe Maish began her training in Carmel, Indiana at The Academy of GHDT and performed with GHDT's pre-professional company G2. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of the Fine Arts in Dance. While at school, Zoe danced in Martha Graham's HELIOS at the Joyce Theatre in NYC, and toured the Midwest in the University of Iowa's DANCERS IN COMPANY. Zoe has been with GHDT since 2018, and teaching Modern and Yoga at AGHDT since 2019.
Thomas James Mason, from Denver, Colorado, began dancing at Premier School of Dance and is alumni to the pre-professional program at Sweatshop Dance. Thomas is trained in Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical, Modern, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Commercial and Aerial, and continues to expand into other styles of dance. He graduated in 2015 from the Dance and Movement program at Denver School of the Arts and then moved to the United Kingdom. Thomas graduated in 2018 from Falmouth University with a BA(Hons) in Dance and Choreography. After graduating in 2015, Thomas worked professionally as a freelance dancer traveling around the world performing, along with teaching and choreographing in different projects both on film and onstage. Also, while at Falmouth University, Thomas was a company member at Yskynna Vertical Dance Company until moving back to the states to join Gregory Hancock Dance Theater in 2019. Thomas started teaching at AGHDT in 2020.


I had the pleasure of photographing the Ottawa Babywearing Group Picnic Fundraiser at Hampton Park in mid-July. The group is raising money to buy carriers, wraps, and slings, to lend out to Ottawa parents who are learning how to carry their babies in safe and ergonomic ways. For more information on the group please visit with blog.


Throughout my life, I've had several recurring dreams, most of which are pathetically typical. The loose tooth dream, the I am enrolled in a college course I forgot to attend dream, the plane crashing dream (in which I never die). But I've also had another recurring dream for the past two or so decades that is unique to me - it's one where I have a conversation with Elliott.
Elliott is my first cousin - my dad's sister's son. We have always been very close with my aunt and her family, and have spent summers in Cape Cod with her since before I can remember. She had kids later in life, so when she had her first adopted son, I was ten years old. In an irony that is not all too rare, when she adopted her first son, she was actually pregnant with her second. And approximately six months later, her second son, Elliott, came.
I was in love with both boys. I was at the age where I was just beginning to feel maternal, and confident and cocky enough to "take care of them." I changed diapers, I gave bottles, and I held them. I remember my sister and I fighting vigorously over who got to hold the "bubba" first.
My sister and I with Bubba #1, David. Check out those glasses!
Thankfully, there were two, so my sister and I could hand off. I have vivid, clear memories of holding my cousin Elliott, the younger one. He was so smiley, so happy, and made such good eye contact. He was such a joyful baby.
Elliott at 6 months - happy, smiling, and looking right at me.
Thirty years later, I am haunted by these memories. Because in a mere few years from the above photo being taken, Elliott wouldn't make eye contact anymore. At age 3, he was diagnosed as autistic.
I was young, so I don't remember the details, but I do remember my dad telling me that they thought Elliott might be deaf, because he wasn't talking. They were going to do some testing, and take him to doctors. And some time after that, he received the devastating diagnosis. I didn't really understand what that meant - back then, autism wasn't a mainstream diagnosis that one encountered, or worried about. And really, if you have never seen an autistic person, how can you really know what it means? For me, I learned about autism by being with Elliott, year after year.
At first it wasn't completely obvious. Lots of kids don't talk, and lots of kids have tantrums. But as Elliott got older, the diagnosis of autism began to take form. He learned to talk, but would not engage in conversation. He would not look anyone in the eye. He would have complete meltdowns over the most random of things - bananas, cold water, loud noises. As he grew taller and got acne and his voice grew deeper, his mental state lagged. While his contemporaries were moving on to girls and friends and sports, Elliott still loved playing with toys and watching Barney. And in any event, he had no interest in friends or girls. As Elliott likes to say, he prefers a "party of one." And now - at the age of 25 - he hasn't changed much. The toys, the shows, the tantrums - the epic tantrums - they've all remained.
I can't even begin to imagine the struggles my aunt has gone through to raise Elliott and give him all of the care that he needs. There are no breaks, no respites and no end ever in sight. Elliott requires constant care and supervision, and my aunt has devoted her life to making sure he receives only the best. She has endured a divorce, a lawsuit against the state to get Elliott the care he is entitled to, and countless aides/teachers/therapists in and out of her home on a constant basis for the last quarter of a century; not to mention the hundreds of thousands she has spent on his therapy and care. Her life revolves around Elliott - plain and simple.
But through it all, she loves him more than life itself. And so does our family. Some of our favorite all time stories are ones we call "Elliotisms." Ones where he would pick food off a stranger's plate at a restaurant, where he would walk past kids on the dock in the pond and push them off (!), where he would blow out other people's birthday candles (including mine!), and where he would eat 10 Dunkin Donuts in one sitting. We've all learned the lesson that if you don't laugh, you'll cry. And Elliott can be pretty hysterical and charming.
The amazing thing about Elliott is that there is more to him than meets the eye. He is smart - crazy smart, in that weird savant kind of way (give him a date, he'll give you a day of the week). He is emotional - he used to be obsessed with weddings, and took home a copy of my wedding video and watched it over and over again. And whenever I see him, he hugs me. Mostly out of obligation - he has been taught how to be polite and how to mimic social customs, but I also know he cares about me and feels comfortable in my presence. For Elliott, that's a small circle, and I feel privileged to be a part of it.
And then there's the recurring dream... The one where Elliott and I have a conversation. I never can recollect what the conversation is about, so I don't think it's ever been something super deep. But that feeling of able to connect with him - to talk to him, to make eye contact him, to understand him... I do yearn for that. So I suppose that's why I have dreamed about him so often, for so long.
As my aunt gets older, the inevitable questions arise. What will become of Elliott when my aunt is gone? I won't even get into detail about the pathetic state of services for adults with autism, but suffice it to say they don't exist. And so, as my aunt has done for all of Elliott's life, she is taking things into her own hands.
A couple of years ago, my aunt founded the Greengard Center for Autism, in an effort to address the needs of autistic adults. Located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the center offers a day program (and soon to be residential program) for young adults with autism to receive ongoing education, access to recreation, a social community, and opportunities to find meaningful work.
My aunt has recently leased a property for the center, but it is in desperate need of renovations. She has started a Go Fund Me campaign to help cover some of the costs.
I've always made it a point not to use my blogs as a means to plea for solicitations, for whatever cause, but for this I need to make an exception. This may be a small center, in Portsmouth New Hampshire, for a handful of autistic adults. But what it stands for is so much more - autistic adults need services, assistance, and support. And now, the autism epidemic is coming to a head. All of those children diagnosed in the past 25 years - 1 in 68 (1 in every 42 boys) - they will all become adults. As a community, and as a society, it's our job to ensure they are taken care of - because their parents will not be here forever to take care of them. My aunt's hope and dream is that this center will serve as a model for other communities across the country (and world).
Look, the world is crap these days. ISIS and guns and a fascist Republican presidential hopeful. But if you are willing, a donation to this campaign - no matter how small- will make a real difference.
Elliott, my aunt, and my whole family thank you!
My aunt and Elliott, at our house this past Thanksgiving.
Update: Thank you so much for your generous donations! My family and I are truly humbled. In an effort to ramp things up, the person in the DC area who donates the most gets a night out for cocktails with me (drinks on me!). You can email me at butidohavealawdegree@gmail.com with your donation amount and email address. AND THANK YOU!!!
I just donated. I've been reading your blog for years (have commented occasionally, sorry for mostly being a lurker) -- I have two sons and am thinking about a third, am a former attorney (now SAHM, mostly ...), husband is still in big law, etc. Needless to say, so much of your writing resonates with me. My three year old has autism and I'm so thankful for people like your aunt working to create a future for kids like mine. Happy holidays!
I just gave. Good luck to your aunt. While neither of my two kids have autism, it is so comforting to me as a mom to know such places exist (or will exist). And I love your blog!
What your aunt is doing is wonderful. It's true that services and supports for autistic adults are truly lacking. But please refrain from using the words "devastating" and "epidemic" when describing autistics. Autism is a disability, not a disease, and autistic people need accommodation and support. AIDS was an epidemic. Autism is not a disease that kills people and spreads throughout populations. I highly recommend reading Neurotribes by Steve Silberman for an extremely comprehensive history of autism and neurodiversity, or reading one of the many blogs written by autistic adults to learn more about what it's like being autistic. My daughter is autistic and we have never once felt "devastated" by her.
I am sure no offense was meant by the words "epidemic" (and I am sure no one means to imply that autism is contagious, only that it is affecting more kids, and hence it is becoming a more serious problem, if only as a function of population growth (although there could be emerging environmental factors that are triggering it in greater proportion. I believe that this is not well-understood, or ruled out, by any means.) All the best to your family - you seem so protective and caring.


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Иоанн Комнин (), имевший прозвище Целепис — сын византийского аристократа Исаака Комнина.

В 1130 году он вместе с отцом бежали из Византии после неудачного заговора против их родственника — императора Иоанна II Комнина. Попав в Конийский султанат, они попытались составить против него коалицию из армянских, европейских и мусульманских правителей. Военные успехи императора заставили Иоанна и Исаака в 1138 году возвратиться на родину.

В 1139 году Иоанн принял участие в походе в Малую Азию. Год спустя, при осаде Неокесарии, он поссорился со своим дядей, и перебежал на сторону сельджуков. Позже он принял ислам и женился на дочери султана Масуда I.

Прозвище Иоанна Целепис является греческим переводом турецкого слова Çelebi, означавшего знатное происхождение.

От первой жены (женился в период с 1131 до 1140) у него был сын по имени Исаак, который был убит под пытками в 1184 году.

От второй жены, возможно, его сыном был Сулейман Шах

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Crisp responsive One Pager aimed to raise funding for an upcoming messaging app called 'Hemlis' – that means "Secret" in Swedish. This app promises to be completely secure and is brought to you by one of the master minds behind The Pirate Bay.
We love the internet, social networks and the power it gives for sharing and social connections. When sharing something on Twitter or Instagram the whole world can see it and that is great!
What we don't love though is that private communication has more or less turned into an open stream for companies and governments to listen into. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Google have been forced to open up their systems and hand out information about their users. At the same time they have been forbidden to tell anyone about it!
We're building a message app where no one can listen in, not even us. We would rather close down the service before letting anyone in.


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Vianí is een gemeente in het Colombiaanse departement Cundinamarca. De gemeente telt 3992 inwoners (2005).

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Satelite television service provider Multichoice which owns the direct broadcast satellite service, DSTV, has the leeway of increasing subscription prices willy-nilly and Botswana Communications Regulations Authority (BOCRA) cannot control that.
Before yesterday's appeal BOCRA had won a case in which it sought to make Multichoice Botswana as a Subscription Management Service Provider Licence to comply with its regulations, especially controlling of prices. However yesterday the supreme court quashed BOCRA's case of controlling Multichoice Botswana saying by the regulator now want to regulate the subscription management service provider as a full broadcaster hence the move to control its tariffs.
According to the CoA, Multichoice Botswana which is registered in Botswana merely does administrative work for the broadcaster Multichoice Africa which in turn has exclusive control of both the bouquets of channels and tariffs. Multichoice Botswana does not own any DSTV service (network), DSTV broadcasting signal or decoder or any products it sell in Botswana but merely acts as an 'agent' for Multichoice Africa, therefore Multichoice Botswana cannot be deemed a broadcaster, according to the CoA decision which agrees with the subscription management service provider.
This is not the first legal battle between Multichoice and the broadcasting regulator as the love-hate affair dates back to 14 years ago when BOCRA was called the National Broadcasting Board(NBB). That time, same as the recent case, the NBB had sought to control Multichoice Botswana which won the case all the way to the Court of Appeal.
Therefore what was happening in this legal battle is in a de ja vu manner. Multiple Batswana who subscribes to DSTV pay tv services have a bitter pill to swallow with this CoA judgement as there have been constant cries of overpricing by the service provider despite low or lack of quality in the content.


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The story of a half-African, half-Siberian child growing up in the fast-changing Moscow of the 1980s, The Underground has been called one of the "ten best Russian novels of the 21st Century," and "a master class in how to write the Russian postmodern novel" (Continent Magazine). In this subtle and atmospheric novel, exiled Uzbek author and BBC journalist Hamid Ismailov provides a tour of the Soviet capital, on the surface and beneath, in the years before the fall. Though deeply engaged with great Russian authors of the past—Dostoyevsky, Turgenyev, Gorky, Nabokov, and above all, Pushkin—Ismailov is an emerging master of a new kind of Russian writing that revels in the sordid reality and diverse composition of the country today.
1984 Chiasma
The meaning of words that have gone before
is lost, although something still remains to be said…
I am Moscow's underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town. My mother Moscow (though everyone called her Mara, or Marusia) was born in some little Siberian town or other, maybe Abakan, maybe Tayshet and, with that town's strange name in her passport, she picked me up in the year of the Moscow Olympics—or maybe earlier, during the preparations—from an African sportsman from a "friendly country." She was one of the limitchitsa*, working as friendly civil patrols in the Olympic village. "We were sent out to them, but they came into us, all right!" she explained later, drunk. And so that is how I came about, a cross between a bulldog and a rhinoceros: Kirill, by the name of Mbobo. My mother died when I was eight, and I died four years later. And that is all there is to my Moscow life. The rest is just decaying, late-blown blooms of memories.
When you are condemned to spend your largely unlived Khakass-nigger life underground, your closest friend is not the maggot chewing on your slit-lilac eyes, nor the roots of the disheveled fir tree sucking the dark paint out of you in the night, nor even the other dead, each rotting alone; no, it is the metro that becomes your best friend. And not because, when you reached the age of five, out of lack of money, your sobered-up mother gave you a many-hued metro map and said: "This is a portrait of you, Mbobo, my prickly little sunshine!" And not because I always fled from the terrors and delusions of life on the surface to the kingdom where even I was a pale shadow, indistinguishable by color or fate; and not even because my days ended there and my nights began in that neighborhood. No! The metro became my best friend simply because when the ground hums, when a passing train shivers not far away, then bones knock together, teeth chatter in rhythm, and little ants, building their abodes, scatter and creep through the darkness where there once was skin.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this train terminates here. Please exit the cars…"
Komsomolskaya Station
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The first book Mommy bought me was about a scary plant named Periwinkle. I was afraid to be alone with that book, especially the rough sketches of a prickly burdock that teemed over the pages from all sides. One day I decided to get rid of that book, so I took some matches to the garbage chute at the top of the staircase in our hostel and torched that book. But then that Periwinkle, with its dry bract, flared up in such a way that the flames jumped over onto my wide sharovari pants, and I yelled as loud as I could. The neighbors came running out, rolled me around on the floor, put out the flames but not the fear that was still afire in me, screaming. "Don't tell Mommy! Don't tell Mommy!" But they told Mommy as soon as she came home, and then she whipped me in our tiny room with her thick ladies' belt.
I remember how my blackened skin burned under each stripe being laid out on my back and butt. I yelped in pain, but what I feared most was that Mommy would stop and tell me the most terrible thing, the thing I was more afraid of than pain: "Now get your things and go to your father!" Where in all of black, hot Africa—which sounded like hell to me—was I supposed to go? But having flogged me with her rhetorical: "Gonna do that again? Are you?" she left me pressed into the hot bunk as she crumbled dry corn onto the floor, then made me kneel on it with bare knees. That's how that stinking burdock got its revenge on me, laughing from the walls, masquerading as the metro map…
Later, when my first stepfather—Mommy finally told me not to call him "Uncle Gleb," but "Daddy"—gave me a book with drawings of an underground fairytale city called Metro, and an ABC book with pictures of that same system, I would spend the long winter hours when they had left my three- or four-year-old self by the window (double-glazed and with cotton wool stuffed between the two sets of frames to keep the draft out) either staring warily at these two books, with pictures that looked like they had been drawn with a wet crayon, or peering into Moscow's indigo darkness, which had something in common with those unearthly drawings, as well as with my warring, frightened innards. Maybe those books would bring some kind of misfortune down on me.
It was in that same third or fourth year of my life that I first dreamt about that underground town full of multicolored lights. And maybe because it was underground, or under floor, it shone much brighter than anything I'd ever seen in my waking life and, for some reason, it was this town I wanted to name after the word dearest to my heart: "Moscow." Lightbulbs shone like stars, the noble polish of granite and marble glittered and gleamed, and that special warm and ethereal darkness made no distinction between the colors of faces—everything glittered and gleamed with the reflection of those same underground stars and underground moon, underground marble and underground granite, and I recognized that kingdom as my own. I dreamt that dream several nights in a row.
Then one day, not-Uncle-Gleb-but-Daddy took me to Moscow from Khimki-on-the-Left-Bank, where Mommy and I were living with him. Everyone in the wintry elektrichka** gawked at me, the way you would stare at an exotic insect at the "zoo. We got off and I thought I saw the Kremlin, but Daddy said it was just Leningradsky Station. Then we crossed the square and found ourselves at some massive temple doors.
Remember the entrance to the metro from the Kazansky railway station? Regal doors flung wide open under eleven lamps, spanned by an enormous arch with the enormous letters METRO, and above the arch, like the turreted symbol of Moscow, synonymous with the Kremlin, a zigzag, the wide open legs of the letter M, luminous with ruby light…
I felt in my black guts that I was entering a new world. The air coming from those wide-open doors was stale with the smell of muscly sweat. People with suitcases and bundles were making their way, like ants, to the turnstiles. I knew two fairy tales that could help me here: one was about a little orphan boy whose mother disappeared into a gaping cliff, and you had to say: "Rock, crack open!" and then the monolith would open its great muzzle. And the second story was about Ali Baba, who could slip into his cave at will with the magic password: "Open sesame!" The first story terrified me; the second tickled my curiosity.
Uncle Gleb—Daddy—led me to the iron box on the wall and put a small coin into it. Large five-kopek coins spilled out in reply. Ah, how generous was that world! He handed one to me and explained how to slip through the gate when the rubber-ended metal pincers parted, and how it opened up for only a brief moment. Heart racing, I took a long look back at the entrance into this world where, going into the unknown, downward, lamps shone as figures floated past. "Daddy, why are we leaning backward but the people coming toward us are leaning forward?" I babbled on the escalator, hiding my fear behind "curiosity.
"No, Son," he explained. "We're all standing up straight. It's just that our escalator's going down, and theirs is going up. It's what's called an optical illusion."
"And what's an optical illusion?"
"You'll find out when you're older."
"And when will I be older?"
"When you find out what an optical illusion is."
I was flying along at Uncle Gleb's side, holding his hand. He yanked me off the escalator—you can't look back—and into the underground snow palace, a kingdom of marble and white stone, with pillars instead of columns, with a never-ending dome stretching to infinity instead of a ceiling. Never in my life, my life on the other side, on the surface, had I seen such beauty, such splendor. My Daddy, an experienced guide, didn't rush me as I stared, wide-eyed. He led me slowly and ceremoniously from one mighty pillar to the next; they stretched along the painted arc into the dome and were decorated with tendrils of stone leaves. This world entered my pounding heart in tremors, and I felt that no one would be able to drag me back from this world or this world back out of me…
But all of a sudden, into the hustle and bustle of people danced a thin whistle. The train, with a blue-green stripe, suddenly ripped between the pillars, gnashing and screeching. Terrified, I shrunk into a ball as my stepfather said: "Let's go!"
It was a metro train. Its doors opened and, like blood from the throat of a slaughtered rooster, people spurted out. The passengers waiting on the platform, including us, were sucked into the void.
"Watch the closing doors!" a disembodied, rasping voice boomed out, and I sensed that the only thing ahead of me was oblivion, made more bearable by that same rough voice: "The next station is Lermontovsky."
But I didn't make it to Lermontovsky. I stayed forever at my primordial station, mired in my tears. If ever I was mortally swindled, then it was in the metro that day. Nurtured by my dreams and the pictures in the ABC book, I had never expected that this marble palace-station would suddenly stop short and that nothing but a dark tunnel would open up, as though it were pouring out of me with the involuntary muddy tears of childhood's unforgiving disappointment.
I couldn't believe my eyes. This rude deceit was so obvious: miles and miles of maggoty darkness, the sudden flashes of those mendacious stations—now a different one, then another—illusory, "deceptive, ephemeral, so contrary to my dreams of my underground city that never ends. It was like drawing a picture on the first page of the ABC book and then simply leaving empty leaves, only to interrupt that emptiness later, on page ten or page twelve, with another colorful picture drawn with a wet crayon. The uninterruptedness of my child's world was broken once and for all. As I now understand, then and there I was thrown against my will into the cobbled and re-cobbled world of the grownups, into the optical illusion…
* A person with temporary permission to live and work in Moscow. These were often young people from far-flung regions of the Soviet Union.
** Elektrichkas are small trains that run from city centers to the surrounding countryside.
HAMID ISMAILOV is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 for the United Kingdom, where he now works for the BBC World Service. His works are still banned in Uzbekistan. His writing has been published in Uzbek, Russian, French, German, Turkish and other languages. His books of poetry include Sad (Garden) (1987), and Pustynya (Desert) (1988). His books of visual poetry include Post Faustum (1990) and Kniga Otsutstvi (1992). He is the author of the novels Sobranie Utonchyonnyh (1988), Le Vagabond Flamboyant (1993), and many others. He has translated Russian and Western classics into Uzbek, and Uzbek and Persian classics into Russian and several Western languages. Ismailov's novel The Railway, originally written before he left Uzbekistan, was published in 2006 in an English translation by Robert Chandler; a Russian edition was published in Moscow in 1997. A Poet and Bin-Laden, translated by Andrew Bromfield, was published in September 2012.
CAROL ERMAKOVA studied German and Russian language and literature and holds an MA in translation from Bath University. She first visited Russia in 1991. More recently, Carol spent two years in Moscow working as a teacher and translator. Carol currently lives in the North Pennines and works as a freelance translator.
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JusWondering… Casting The Home Improvement Movie
Come on. It's inevitable. We're reaching the bottom of the fish barrel (in which we like to shoot) when it comes to properties from the 80's (and earlier). With The A-Team hitting the big screen this summer, there aren't too many shows left to adapt.
So what about the 90's? They happened like ten years ago, right?
I know television has tried several reboots of 90's shows (namely 90210 and Melrose Place), and a few programs have made the leap to film (The Simpsons, South Park, Strangers With Candy, The X-Files, Sex and the City… you know, all cartoons). But there are plenty of hits that scream big screen, and today, I'm going to focus on casting one of them:
Home Improvement: The Movie
Tim Taylor – Although Tim Allen isn't doing much else these days (besides directing Crazy on the Outside and voicing Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3), this is a reboot of a franchise after all, so who do you go with? Mr. Reboot incarnate, Chris Pine.
"(Grunt)-(grunt)-(grunt)-(grunt)..." because I don't know how to spell the (grunt).
Jill Taylor – If you've ever watched Attack of the Show on G4, Ms. Olivia Munn has proven time and time again that she's one tough cookie, just like Jill Taylor.
"Tim, don't even think about touching the dishwasher. Her name is Consuela."
Brad, Randy, and Mark Taylor – Who else but the Jonas Brothers? If Zack & Cody only had another brother…
It's a Disney production, and so are they.
Al Borland – Fresh in my mind courtesy of his performance as a CTU agent in 24, Freddie Prinze, Jr. would make a great sidekick. Just like he does with Sarah Michelle Gellar Jack Bauer.
"I don't think. Tim."
Lisa / Heidi (Tool Time Girl) – Rosie Jones. Google Image Search her. You'll understand.
"Forget everybody else. Do you know what time it is?"
Wilson Wilson, Jr. – The notoriously hidden Tiger Woods would be great as the vessel of sagely advice. Plus, he'd introduce diversity into a show that supposedly took place in Detroit.
"Howdy neighbor... by the way, where's Jill?"
BONUS: Preview for Roland Emmerich's Full House


Wurstfest is here, and it's bringing all-you-can-eat sausages.
Photo courtesy of King's Biergarten.
King's Biergarten, 1329 East Broadway, has launched its annual Wurstfest. All month long, guests can get all-you-can-eat sausages starting at $9.95, including traditional varieties like hot cheese "Scharfe Käse Wurst" and spicy kielbasa, exotic versions like elk and wild boar, and vegan wursts in flavors like chipotle and smoked apple sage.
After 94 years in Houston, the top dogs at James Coney Island think it's time for a Houston Dog, and they're asking Houstonians to help create it. Locals can go to JCI Grill's Facebook page and post their suggestions for the restaurant's all-new Houston Dog. Just describe the bun, sausage, toppings and anything else you believe makes the ideal Houston Dog. Submissions will be judged by JCI Grill based on creativity, availability of ingredients and how they relate to Houston. Entrants also must like the Facebook page and include #JCIHoustonDog with their post. Deadline for entry is August 14, and the "win the menu" grand prize is a $250 JGI Grill gift card and JCI Grill swag bag.
Three Brothers Bakery, 12393 Kingsride, 4036 South Braeswood, 4606 Washington, has a refreshing new lineup of beverages to help Houstonians keep cool this summer, with offerings including frappes, lemonade sodas and house-made tea syrups. Frappe flavor options include Fig Mascarpone, Horchata and Thunderdome, which features cold brew coffee with an extra shot of house-made vanilla syrup, blended with milk and ice and topped with a double shot of espresso. New tea flavors include Pomegranate, Huckleberry Lemon and an extra-fruity flavor called Triple Black, a blend of blackberry, black raspberry and black currants. Lemonade soda flavors include Triple Black, Pomegranate, Lime and Strawberry, Pomegranate and Blueberry Mint.
Hit Sylvia's Taco Tuesday all month long.
Tuesday is Taco Night at both locations of Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen, 6401 Woodway, 1140 Eldridge. For all of August, the eateries will be offering some of the most popular tacos for $5 (4 p.m. to closing, every Tuesday). Five bucks will get you top tacos like the grilled tacos rancheros made with taco meat or chicken; Laredo soft tacos made with taco meat, chicken or carnitas; Weslaco crispy tacos with taco meat of chicken; and Rio Grande Valley grilled tacos, made with grilled corn tortillas stuffed with chicken and jack cheese.
Central Market, 3815 Westheimer, will turn up the heat with the 22nd annual Hatch Chile Festival, running Wednesday, August 9, through Tuesday, August 22. The festivities officially begin with the Lighting of the Roasters and Store Stroll on Thursday, August 10, at 5 p.m., and will continue the celebration with a series of hatch-filled cooking classes, from a parent-and-child tamale-making class to a fiery lunch-and-learn.
On Tuesday, August 15, guests are invited to an Angulo Innocenti Wine Dinner at Backstreet Cafe, 1103 South Shepherd. Enjoy five beverage-paired courses, including wild mushroom tagliatelle, braised beef cheek with violet chimichurri, and fig galette with mascarpone-sherry ice cream. Cost is $100 per person plus tax and gratuity. Call 713-521-2239.
The Pass & Provisions, 807 Taft, will be hosting a Broc Cellars wine dinner, featuring winemaker Chris Brockway, on Wednesday, August 16, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Guests can enjoy a six-course dinner paired with interesting wine selections from Broc Cellars for $105 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Call 713-628-9020.


I spoke about within-green and between-green variability in putting green speed using the standard deviation of multiple measurements as a statistic. The median standard deviation for both within- and between-green variation is about 0.3 feet. That's approximately 4 inches. I suggest that greenkeepers continue to report a single number as the green speed. I also suggest that greenkeepers occasionally take multiple measures of green speed, on the same green and on multiple greens, and then calculate the standard deviation. If the standard deviation is more than 4 inches, and if resources are available to do the work, I suggest doing some maintenance that may reduce the variation. That could include measuring the #ClipVol of putting surfaces, verticutting, topdressing, rolling, applying a growth regulator, adjusting mowing height, etc. The measurement can be made again to evaluate the results of the changed maintenance practices.


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Among the most endangered bird populations in the country, Great Lakes piping plovers are imperiled chiefly by significant loss of and degradation to the wide sandy beaches they require for nesting. On the available beaches, they often face a wide range of predators. Nests themselves can be effectively protected with fenced exclosures but the precocial chicks remain vulnerable to predators until they fledge.
As plover populations have declined, the loss of any young or adults becomes even more significant. By the early 2000's, management agencies recognized predators were an important limiting factor.
At the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, the most important plover site is Dimmick's Point on North Manitou Island where avian predators were frequent. Starting in 2003 and partnering with Michigan DNR, US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, USDA Wildlife Services began protecting plovers. In addition to nest exclosures, predators were removed and gulls were dispersed with pyrotechnics and shooting. Results of that project from 2003 through 2014 were presented at the 2015 Wildlife Damage Management Conference held in Gatlinburg, TN.
Predator management that included lethal control appears to have benefitted plovers. Before predator management (1993-2002) the number of plovers fledged averaged 3.9/year compared to the number of plovers lost averaged per 6.3/year. Tracking of WS work from 2003-14 showed that when active predator management was applied, the average number of plovers fledged was 18.5/year compared to the average number of plovers lost at 10.6/year.
The 27-day period between hatching and fledging has been perilous for plover chicks. Predator management at Dimmick's Point, however, has proven effective at increasing the odds that chicks can survive this critical stage. Prior to predator management (1993-2002) only 45% of hatched chicks survived to fledge; once predator management was instituted, 64% of hatched chicks survived to fledge.
Protecting piping plovers isn't easy. But an adaptive management approach that includes a full range of methods and close communication amongst partners has been key to this effort's success.
Wildlife Services is a strategic partner of The Wildlife Society
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Boutin, of Sherbrooke, Que., earned her third medal in the 1500m this season and bested her result in the same distance at last year's World Championships by one position. She led the pack several times in the final race but was overtaken by gold medalist Min Jeong Choi of Korea in the last laps. Boutin's time of 2:29.803 placed her ahead of Russia's Sofia Prosvirnova on the podium.
In the men's 1500m, the final was recalled mid-way through the first race after Girard was taken out by a Japanese competitor. In the second start, the native of Ferland-et-Boilleau, Que. led the field with four laps to go but was ultimately passed by two Koreans to finish with a time of 2:31.685.
A penalty to the skater who crossed the line first vaulted Girard into silver medal position, behind Hyo Jun Lim and ahead of June Seo Lee, both of Korea. It is the second time Girard has captured a silver medal in the 1500m at the World Championships, his first coming in the 2016-2017 season.
Lachenaie, Que.'s Steven Dubois skated in the 1500m final with Girard and finished fourth. In the B finals of the same distance, Courtney Sarault (Moncton, N.B.) and defending World Champion Charles Hamelin (Sainte-Julie, Que.) raced to 11th and 14th place respectively in the distance rankings.
Participating in the B final of the 500m, Girard finished second to earn a sixth overall placement in that distance. His was the best Canadian result in the 500m.
The women's relay team qualified for Sunday's final, finishing second in their semi-final despite an untimely fall in the last laps. They will race for the podium against the Netherlands, Russia and Korea. The Canadian men finished fourth in their relay semi-final and will have to settle for a place in the B final.
Sunday will see Boutin, Hamelin and Dubois skate in the 1000m quarterfinals with the hopes of reaching the podium later in the afternoon. Their teammates did not qualify for the main event in this distance.
Based on results from all three distances, the top eight athletes per gender will participate in the 3000m super final on Sunday afternoon in a bid to be crowned the overall World Champion.
CBC Sports and Radio-Canada will live stream Sunday's races beginning at 8:00AM EST. The competition will also be featured on CBC's Road to the Olympic Games program at 2:00PM EST.
For more information on the event, including links to schedules and full results, please visit the Speed Skating Canada website.


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WATCH ABOVE: An Edmonton minor hockey association has avoided becoming the victim of an email scam that cost a Calgary association nearly $100,000. Shallima Maharaj explains how.
An Edmonton minor hockey association has avoided becoming the latest victim of a nasty email scam that cost a Calgary association nearly $100,000.
The scammers wound up on the losing end thanks to the quick thinking of Randa Kachkar, treasurer of the Knights Southside Hockey Association.
Kachkar received an email on Feb. 23 from a sender posing as the president of the Knights.
"First thing I thought of was to check the 'reply to' address to see who it came from," she said.
The name of the sender checked out. The email address did not.
She grew highly suspicious and engaged the sender in a conversation.
Eventually, the sender wrote back and insisted they needed help setting up the transfer for payment in the amount of $5,100. Kachkar's next move was a game changer.
She asked them, "What is your pet name for me?" Their response – Panda – was wrong.
After hearing about the scam that netted thieves nearly $100,000 from Calgary's McKnight Hockey Association, Kachkar is grateful they did not wind up in a similar predicament.
Ice time does not come cheap. It rings in at nearly $200 an hour for them, she said.
"What I recommend to people out there is – what's your standard operating practices? And don't stray outside of those," Kachkar said.
Cyber security expert David Papp believes public awareness and education are crucial to navigating the Internet. He says the kind of scam Kachkar found herself having to fend off has become significantly more common since the start of the year.
"Be more skeptical. You have to not necessarily click on things or open attachments if you're unsure," Papp offered.
This type of approach, he says, is different from phishing.
On Feb. 16, Hockey Alberta issued a memo to minor hockey associations, junior and senior club teams and pond hockey programs.
Among the red flags they urge people to be on the lookout for are requests to transfer funds into another account, a sense of urgency to have a payment made and the appearance that the request is coming from the president or vice president of the organization.
The memo encourages members to ensure they exercise due diligence when any financial requests are received using email.
That includes checking the actual email address from which the request is coming from and simply trusting your gut.


Create a personalized piece of art while gaining a deeper understanding of your sources of inspiration. Learn to use collage, printmaking, image transfer, acrylic mediums, paints and/or stencils to build your workbook and to express your artistic voice. Artist trading cards and acrylic skin transfer will also be examined.
Classes will be held in a fun and relaxed environment, and no experience is needed to participate.
Printmaking supplies, paints and specialty papers will be included in the cost of the course and you are welcome to bring special "source material" from home to include in your workbook.
Participants do need to supply a used, printed, hardbound book (9x12 inches or larger) from a thrift store or garage sale. Look for heavy paper and a solid-sewn binding. We will be upcycling these into your workbooks. Please DO NOT buy a brand new journal as this works against the main methodology of the class.
Weekly demonstrations and workbook prompts help motivate participants to maintain this as an ongoing art practice.


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// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License.
package com.azure.spring.data.cosmos.repository.query;

import com.azure.spring.data.cosmos.Constants;
import com.azure.spring.data.cosmos.core.mapping.CosmosPersistentProperty;
import com.azure.spring.data.cosmos.core.query.CosmosQuery;
import com.azure.spring.data.cosmos.core.query.Criteria;
import com.azure.spring.data.cosmos.core.query.CriteriaType;
import com.azure.spring.data.cosmos.repository.support.CosmosEntityInformation;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Sort;
import org.springframework.data.mapping.context.MappingContext;
import org.springframework.data.repository.query.parser.AbstractQueryCreator;
import org.springframework.data.repository.query.parser.Part;
import org.springframework.data.repository.query.parser.PartTree;
import org.springframework.lang.NonNull;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
/**
 * TODO: String based query, based on how cosmosDB provides.
 *  StringCosmosQuery class,
 *  How to bind values to the query. if CosmosDb already has binding capability, if not we would have to do it here in
 *  some creative way.query creator are associated with part tree queries,
 */
public class CosmosQueryCreator extends AbstractQueryCreator<CosmosQuery, Criteria> {

    private final MappingContext<?, CosmosPersistentProperty> mappingContext;

    /**
     * Creates a new {@link CosmosQueryCreator}. {@link CosmosParameterAccessor} is used to hand actual
     * parameter values into the callback methods as well as to apply dynamic sorting via a {@link Sort} parameter.
     *
     * @param tree must not be {@literal null}.
     * @param accessor must not be {@literal null}.
     * @param mappingContext must not be {@literal null}.
     */
    public CosmosQueryCreator(PartTree tree, CosmosParameterAccessor accessor,
                              MappingContext<?, CosmosPersistentProperty> mappingContext) {
        super(tree, accessor);

        this.mappingContext = mappingContext;
    }

    private String getSubject(@NonNull Part part) {
        String subject = mappingContext.getPersistentPropertyPath(part.getProperty()).toDotPath();
        final Class<?> domainType = part.getProperty().getOwningType().getType();

        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") final CosmosEntityInformation<?, ?> information =
                new CosmosEntityInformation<>(domainType);

        if (information.getIdField().getName().equals(subject)) {
            subject = Constants.ID_PROPERTY_NAME;
        }

        return subject;
    }

    @Override // Note (panli): side effect here, this method will change the iterator status of parameters.
    protected Criteria create(Part part, Iterator<Object> parameters) {
        final Part.Type type = part.getType();
        final String subject = getSubject(part);
        final List<Object> values = new ArrayList<>();

        if (CriteriaType.isPartTypeUnSupported(type)) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unsupported keyword: "
                + type);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < part.getNumberOfArguments(); i++) {
            Assert.isTrue(parameters.hasNext(), "should not reach the end of iterator");
            values.add(parameters.next());
        }

        return Criteria.getInstance(CriteriaType.toCriteriaType(type), subject, values, part.shouldIgnoreCase());
    }

    @Override
    protected Criteria and(@NonNull Part part, @NonNull Criteria base, @NonNull Iterator<Object> parameters) {
        final Criteria right = this.create(part, parameters);

        return Criteria.getInstance(CriteriaType.AND, base, right);
    }

    @Override
    protected Criteria or(@NonNull Criteria base, @NonNull Criteria criteria) {
        return Criteria.getInstance(CriteriaType.OR, base, criteria);
    }

    @Override
    protected CosmosQuery complete(@NonNull Criteria criteria, @NonNull Sort sort) {
        return new CosmosQuery(criteria).with(sort);
    }
}

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Tom Fahy founded Leadership Resource Group, Inc. to work with senior leaders and executive teams to foster results-driven organizations that are both highly successful and healthy places for the human spirit. His pragmatic approach to organizations and values-based leadership orientation develops clients and client systems more capable of sustained excellence in today's highly competitive world. Client executives in top-tier organizations consistently describe Tom as an insightful, results-oriented and highly effective consultant and coach. He is known for his ability to work effectively with senior leaders facing tough challenges and to deliver quality results on the promises he makes to clients.He has worked extensively with executives and senior leadership teams in professional services firms and organizations in a variety of industries including information technology, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals to improve individual and organizational performance. He has held executive level HR and Talent Management positions in the information technology and financial services industries and has more than fifteen years of experience as a member of senior leadership teams.Clients value Tom's credibility as a coach and consultant which arises from his experience in senior executive roles combined with his ability to translate ideas and thought leadership in executive and organizational development into pragmatic action plans which have an immediate impact on organizational results. He a proven track record in developing highly educated professionals such as physicians, pharmacists, PhD level scientists, technology leaders, lawyers and others to be highly successful senior leaders in corporate settings.Tom is a faculty member for The Costin Institute at Midwestern University and the Executive MBA and Tulane/ICESI Master of Management programs of the Freeman School of Business of Tulane University. He served as a faculty member of the Graduate School of Business at Loyola University Chicago (1994–2007) where he was formally recognized twice for excellence in teaching and contributions to the field.He is a graduate of programs at the Center for Creative Leadership and the Art and Practice of Leadership Development at The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is certified by New Ventures West as an Integral Coach and holds a PhD in organization development from Benedictine University where his dissertation research focused on the contribution of executive coaching to organizational change and senior leadership development. He is a graduate, with distinction, of the INSEAD Executive Master of Coaching and Consulting for Change (EMCCC) program specializing in clinical organizational psychology.


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We are hungry in three languages : potentials for change in the 2014 uprisings in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Bosnia-Herzegovina has seen major uprisings and protests early this year. Parallel to a violent challenge to the power, a network of citizen assemblies, plena, has developed across the country, giving cause to the assumption that a new social movement is emerging, finally giving rise to a long absent civil society. The thesis discusses the complex political circumstances that background the collective action and questions up to which extent they limit or determine the movement's potential. A review of social movement literature provides the theoretical basis for an assessment and location of the movement. Against this background, an assessment of the political impact is intended. The research question, whether this new movement can have an impact on the overall stalemate in BiH politics and on the human rights situation, particularly at the interface of economic, social and cultural and civil and political rights, will be approached theoretically and empirically. Ethnographic observation and qualitative interviews allow an insight into organization and characteristics of the movement and its prospects. Emphasising the personal experiences of a chosen sample of movement participators that served as key informants, a number of factors for success and possible future actions are assessed.
https://doi.org/20.500.11825/406


How can we encourage our kids to know the Bible in a world with so many distractions? Randall Goodgame creatively sets Bible passages to fun music, making it nearly impossible for your kids not to sing the Word of God. Even Charles Morris was snapping to the beat by the end of this fun video.
Slugs & Bugs has applied its unique blend of sincerity and silliness to 18 brand-new songs filled with lyrics straight from Scripture. The captivating melodies will have you and your kids memorizing Bible verses without even realizing it. Featuring special appearances by the African Children's Choir, author Sally Lloyd-Jones, and a host of Nashville's finest musicians.


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La Grande ist eine Kleinstadt im Union County, Oregon, USA. Die Stadt ist die Countyverwaltung des Union County. Früher hieß der Ort Brownsville. Der heutige Name lässt sich auf Charles Dause zurückführen, der die Schönheit der Gegend oft mit dem Begriff La Grande umschrieb. Das U.S. Census Bureau hat bei der Volkszählung 2020 eine Einwohnerzahl von 13.026 ermittelt.

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Im La Grande School District befinden sich die Schulen Central Elementary School, Island City Elementary School, Greenwood Elementary School, La Grande Middle School und La Grande High School. Außerdem gibt es mit der Eastern Oregon University eine Universität in La Grande.

Medien
Die tägliche lokale Nachrichtenzeitung heißt The Observer. Es existieren einige Radiostationen.

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Die Interstate 84 verläuft durch La Grande. Es existiert mit dem La Grande/Union County Airport ein Regionalflughafen.

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Apartment 4 is the first in the Open House Project series, an ongoing Arts Center initiative providing a platform for emerging and underrepresented artists and art forms. Artists and organizations are invited to collaborate and experiment with new ideas and original content in exhibitions that use the galleries in the John Michael Kohler home as a place for artistic inquiry. The home, built in 1883, is a unique setting for the generation of new curatorial explorations of topics ranging from the familiar to the phenomenal.
Iris Häussler and The Chipstone Foundation:
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Apartment 4 explores the mysterious circumstances of Florence Hasard, a character developed by Toronto-based artist Iris Häussler. Through diary entries, archive research, and object studies, this site proposes possible biographical clues in our investigation of Florence Hasard.
This website currently features the Apartment 4: Iris Häussler and The Chipstone Foundation exhibition, on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center until June 16, 2019. It takes visitors back to that moment of discovering Hasard's disappearance and invites them to uncover clues to her life.
On October 1, 1942, Milwaukee landlord Agnes Przybylski discovered an unusual scene in the apartment she had rented to a French immigrant fifteen years prior. Everything in the space appeared eerily untouched—just as it was on the day it was rented. However, a storage room in the back was crammed wildly with her tenant's things and filled with works of art and altered clothing. The tenant, Florence Hasard, was nowhere to be found.
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Greece Warns Albania of Turkey's "Revisionism" in the Balkans
Dendias meets his counterpart Olta Xhaçka in Tirana on Wednesday. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Greece warned Albania of Turkey's revisionism in the western Balkans during a visit of Greek FM Nikos Dendias to Tirana on Wednesday.
On the eve of Greek PM Mitsotakis' visit to Albania, Dendias said after meeting his counterpart, Olta Xhaçka, that Albania has made a key choice: to become a member of the European Union, a choice that Greece enthusiastically supports.
"It [has chosen] to do what is self-evident: to place itself at the hard core of the European family," the FM told the press, "and we Greeks believe that is where it belongs."
However, he continued, this means the country has to decide on "a series of parameters" that serve the basic EU narrative.
Greece has a "great problem with Turkey's revisionism"
"Greece does not have a problem with Turkiye itself, or with Albania's collaboration with Turkiye, but it does have a great problem with Turkish revisionism, as with any revisionism," Dendias said. "Therefore, any parameter must first serve the European idea, and then it must not allow the expression of revisionisms in the region."
Dendias spoke of the emergence of "revisionist forces that wish to return to other times, other eras, and other perceptions."
"These revisionist forces are attempting to approach the Western Balkans with the ultimate goal, I fear, not of cooperation," he said, "but of creating spheres of influence that are not in line with the European acquis, the European perspective, or European values."
Earlier this week, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his help in signing a deal with a Turkish company to buy three Bayraktar drones, which are widely used in the war in Ukraine.
"We signed an export contract with Albania, a country where we have walked for centuries and share strong historical, cultural and humanitarian ties," the CEO of the Turkish drones company said in a statement.
Dendias' visit to Tirana coincided with a statement made to EURACTIV by former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who said Turkey "intervened" to cancel a 2009 Greece-Albania maritime deal.
"Turkey is no doubt a friend, a partner, but with a doctrine of neo-Ottomanism that I will not accept," he said, referring to some six hundred years of Turkish Ottoman rule in the region.
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Talks in Tirana also focused on the delimitation of the EEZ and the continental shelf between the two nations.
Dendias said that dialogue between Athens and Tirana must accelerate "in order to reach a compromise that will allow us to submit the special agreement referring the issue to the International Court of Justice in The Hague."
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is carrying out a planned visit to Himare, Livadhja, and Dervician in southern Albania on Thursday. There, he will have meetings with members and representatives of the Greek ethnic minority in the neighboring country, the Prime Minister's press office said.
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Italian instability could lead to more problems for Europe
Anti-referendum posters showing premier Matteo Renzi are seen in Rome a day after the referendum vote last week. Picture: Gregorio Borgia/AP
Philippe Legrain
Zombie-banks, anti-EU sentiment and a stagnant economy are just some of the issues facing a country that would be too big to bail out, writes Philippe Legrain
Political instability in Italy is nothing new. But Italian voters' rejection of constitutional reforms in a referendum has not only led prime minister Matteo Renzi to resign; it has dealt another blow to a crisis-ridden European Union.
In the near term, Italy's ongoing banking crisis could flare up again and threaten European stability; in the longer term, Italy may have to leave the eurozone, which would put the single currency itself at risk.
The "No" side was widely expected to win. But the scale of its victory — a whopping 59% of the vote — was shocking, and largely a triumph for anti-establishment forces, particularly the Five Star Movement.
The movement, led by the comedian Beppe Grillo, is leading in opinion polls, supports holding a referendum on eurozone membership, and is now demanding an immediate general election.
Most Italian commentators have downplayed the referendum's significance for the rest of Europe. They argue that a new caretaker government, probably led by the technocratic finance minister Pier Carlo Padoan, will reform electoral laws to keep the Five Star Movement from power.
And even if the Five Star Movement captures a majority in the Italian parliament's lower house, it will not have a majority in the senate, so it cannot form a government, unless it breaks its pledge not to join a coalition. In any case, the argument goes, a eurozone referendum would be hard to deliver, because it would require a constitutional amendment.
Italy faces political and economic uncertainty after Renzi's referendum defeat https://t.co/J9ibpOM7b5 pic.twitter.com/zD81XyxWIc
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) December 5, 2016
All of that may be true, but it misses the big picture. Renzi was the pro-EU establishment's best — and perhaps last — hope for delivering the growth-enhancing reforms needed to secure Italy's long-term future in the eurozone.
Muddling through with a weak technocratic-led government amounts to waiting for an accident to happen. And, with the far-right Northern League and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia also aligned against the euro, an anti-euro government is likely to come to power at some point — perhaps after the next general election, which is due by 2018 (but could be held as early as next spring). Then all bets will be off.
The immediate problem is Italy's zombie banks, which are inadequately capitalised, insufficiently profitable, and saddled with bad loans. These banks need to raise fresh capital, which was already proving difficult before the referendum, and now may be impossible amid the heightened political uncertainty.
Capital is fleeing Italy. Government-bond yields, which rose sharply in the run-up to the referendum, have so far remained steady; if they were to spike, however, Italian banks' fragile balance sheets would deteriorate further. And, because the European Central Bank has already bought many Italian bonds through its quantitative easing (QE) program, it could not readily intervene further.
The most endangered bank is Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), which is trying to raise €5bn in new capital. If it fails to do so, the government will likely furnish it with public money to stave off a collapse.
That, in turn, would require MPS's junior bondholders to take losses, unless the government breaches the EU's bank 'bail-in' rules, which would undermine the eurozone's new banking union. While small investors who were mis-sold bonds could be compensated, large, powerful ones would not be.
MPS's travails could have wider economic repercussions. Italy's largest bank, UniCredit, which is better positioned than MPS, could struggle to raise the more than €10bn that it is seeking. Because many eurozone banks remain weak, the crisis could then spread.
In the longer term, Italy's eurozone membership could be at risk. Unless Italy enacts radical reforms to address its sclerotic growth, it is hard to see how it could ever have a viable future in a dysfunctional monetary union dominated by a mercantilist, deflationary Germany.
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— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) December 11, 2016
Italy's economy is no larger today than it was in 2000. Its share of global exports has plummeted. And despite the boost from the ECB's QE program, a weak euro, and the looser fiscal policies of recent years, output is growing at an annual rate of less than 1%.
Moreover, Italy could barely stabilise its public debt — which now amounts to 133% of GDP — even when bond yields were reaching record lows. An economic downturn or rising interest rates would thus send public debt soaring again — and Italy cannot count on the ECB to continue buying its bonds indefinitely.
Italy's political situation — marked by a sense of never-ending misery and growing resentment against the EU and Germany — is equally unsustainable. Youth unemployment stands at 37%. Eurozone fiscal rules continue to chafe. And EU governments have done little to help Italy cope with the refugee crisis.
Italians used to be enthusiastically pro-European, and saw EU governance as preferable to corrupt domestic mismanagement. But support for the euro, the EU, and the country's pro-EU establishment has plunged.
The mere possibility of Italy leaving the eurozone — which would entail the redenomination of €2.2trn of Italian government bonds in devalued lira — could spark financial panic.
What's more, Italy is too big to bail out, and an anti-euro government may be unwilling or unable to agree to the strictures of an EU loan, which would be necessary for the ECB to quell the panic. It is also implausible that Germany would offer to enter into a eurozone fiscal union that entails pooling its debts with Italy's.
In addition to stronger demand in the eurozone, Italy desperately needs bold leadership — to restructure its banks, write down unpayable corporate and household debts, reform its economy, boost investment, and clean up its politics. Yet both the eurozone and Italy are likely to try to muddle on for now.
Philippe Legrain, a former economic adviser to the president of the European Commission, is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics' European Institute.
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Q: Input CLK Keeps Showing As Hi-Z on ModelSim I am writing some basic verilog code that blinks an LED at some frequency. The code for the design file is the following:
`timescale 1ns/1ns

module FPGA_Testing(input reset, input clk, output reg LED);

    reg [32:0] counter;
    reg state;

    always @ (posedge clk) begin
        if(reset == 1) begin
            counter <= 0;
            state <= 0;
        end
        else begin
            counter <= counter + 1;
            state <= counter[20];
        end

    end

    always @* begin
     LED =  state;
    end

endmodule

and the test module is here:
`timescale 1ns/1ns

module FPGA_Testing_tb;

     reg clk;
     wire LED;
     reg reset;

     FPGA_Testing test(
                      reset,
                      clk,
                      LED
                      );

    initial
    begin
        clk = 0;
        reset = 1;
        #10
        reset = 0;
    end

    always
    begin
        #5 clk = !clk;
    end

endmodule

When I compile the code, I get these as my warnings and critical warnings:
Warning (18236): Number of processors has not been specified which may cause overloading on shared machines.  Set the global assignment NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS in your QSF to an appropriate value for best performance.
Warning (18236): Number of processors has not been specified which may cause overloading on shared machines.  Set the global assignment NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS in your QSF to an appropriate value for best performance.
Warning (292013): Feature LogicLock is only available with a valid subscription license. You can purchase a software subscription to gain full access to this feature.
Warning (15714): Some pins have incomplete I/O assignments. Refer to the I/O Assignment Warnings report for details
Critical Warning (169085): No exact pin location assignment(s) for 3 pins of 3 total pins. For the list of pins please refer to the I/O Assignment Warnings table in the fitter report.
Warning (18236): Number of processors has not been specified which may cause overloading on shared machines.  Set the global assignment NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS in your QSF to an appropriate value for best performance.
Warning (18236): Number of processors has not been specified which may cause overloading on shared machines.  Set the global assignment NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS in your QSF to an appropriate value for best performance.
Critical Warning (332148): Timing requirements not met
    Info (11105): For recommendations on closing timing, run Report Timing Closure Recommendations in the TimeQuest Timing Analyzer.
Critical Warning (332148): Timing requirements not met
    Info (11105): For recommendations on closing timing, run Report Timing Closure Recommendations in the TimeQuest Timing Analyzer.
Critical Warning (332148): Timing requirements not met
    Info (11105): For recommendations on closing timing, run Report Timing Closure Recommendations in the TimeQuest Timing Analyzer.
Warning (18236): Number of processors has not been specified which may cause overloading on shared machines.  Set the global assignment NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS in your QSF to an appropriate value for best performance.
Warning: Warning: File FPGA_Testing_run_msim_rtl_verilog.do already exists - backing up current file as FPGA_Testing_run_msim_rtl_verilog.do.bak11
Warning: Warning: File FPGA_Testing_run_msim_gate_verilog.do already exists - backing up current file as FPGA_Testing_run_msim_gate_verilog.do.bak11

And then when I run a RTL simulation with ModelSim, I get this

As you can see, the clk and reset values in the testbench file are correct, but the clk and reset values in the design module are both Hi-Z(which I suspect is the reason why I get undefined behavior from the other values in my design module). I am pretty sure I did the connections correctly, so I am unsure as to why I get these Hi-Z values.

A: At the top-level of your simulation you have two modules:

*

*FPGA_testing

*FPGA_testing_tb

Thus somehow you managed to include your bare, unconnected "FPGA_Testing" module at the top level (alongside your test bench).
In the hierarchy I can see your module because under "FPGA_testing_tb" there is a [+] with the name 'test'. That is where you DUT (Device Under Test) is.
To see your module working look at the signals inside that. You should,hopefully, see your counter working in there.

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