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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Live is Coming to the Buddy Holly Hall
The Emmy Award-winning PBS KIDS TV show "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Live" is coming to the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences on Saturday, April 2, 2022, at 6:30 p.m.
Emily Claire
First National Tour of An Officer and a Gentleman Comes to The Buddy Holly Hall
Calling all musical lovers, the Buddy Holly Hall is getting another amazing Broadway series that I am so excited about. An Officer and a Gentleman will be here January 11th and 12th, 2022. The musical is based on the Oscar-winning film and original screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart. Thi...
Kelsee Pitman
Two Huge Comedy Tours Are Coming to Buddy Holly Hall
If you haven't had a chance to get out there and laugh, there are plenty of fantastic opportunities coming up in 2022.
Cirque Musica is Bringing Their Holiday Spectacular to Lubbock This Winter
Christmas is coming, and so is the Cirque Musica Holiday Spectacular.
Zach Williams Along With Anne Wilson To Perform At Buddy Holly Hall in 2022
Get out those calendars and start planning ahead for more shows coming to The Buddy Holly Hall. It was announced on Monday that Grammy Award winner Zach Williams along with special guest Anne Wilson will be stopping in Lubbock in 2022 as part of their 35 show tour beginning in Indiana on March 2...
Chad Hasty
Mask or No Mask? It's Up to Each Artist at the Buddy Holly Hall
If you plan on attending a performance at the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences in Lubbock, you may be asked to wear a face mask. Or maybe a mask will only be encouraged and not mandated. The decision is up to the artist and those performing...
The Caprock Jazz Concert Is Coming To The Buddy Holly Hall
Are you fan of jazz music who also wants to help out a local organization? If so, you are in luck because the Roots Historical Arts Council is presenting the Caprock Jazz Concert at The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences in September...
Boz Scaggs Is Coming to Lubbock
Get ready, blues fans.
George Lopez to Bring OMG Hi Comedy Tour to Lubbock's Buddy Holly Hall
I'm thrilled the the Buddy Holly Hall is hosting yet another high-caliber comedian and that Lubbock is becoming a regular stop for these tours.
George Lopez Will Perform At Buddy Holly Hall
The Buddy Holly Center has announced another big name performer who will be coming to Lubbock. It's another sign that life is getting back to normal after the coronavirus pandemic. It's also a sign that artists are ready to take their shows to Lubbock...
Joan Jett Is Coming to Lubbock
Lubbock is back in the swing of things and this is just one of the many amazing shows coming to our brand new concert hall.
Chad Prather To Perform In Lubbock
It's another big announcement from the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock and just the latest sign that life is getting back to normal in Lubbock and throughout the United States after a year of the coronavirus pandemic. Get ready to laugh and think about the issues of the day...


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Q: Access Database with javascript? How Do I use javascript to connect and access values of database ?
I want to register a user ,so when I am about to create user i want to check wheather username is available or not(means want to do search operation over database)?
can we do this with javascript? cause it is use for client side so I am confused?

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can we do this with javascript? cause it is use for client side so I am confused?

JavaScript is a general-purpose programming language, not a client-side language. People use it server-side all the time.
However, if you mean, can you use JavaScript in the web browser to access a database on your server, the answer is: Not directly, no (well, not unless you're on an intranet and jump through hoops you really don't want to jump through); you need a middle layer. You can have JavaScript on the client send messages to the server (via ajax, for instance); server-side code then needs to process those messages, ensure they're valid and not malicious, and then very guardedly update the database and send back a result to the client browser.
The server-side language can be JavaScript or any other language you want to use on the server. I notice you tagged your question jsp, so presumably you'd want to write the server-side stuff in Java (rather than JavaScript). If so, and if you want to use ajax so you have a modern, non-page-refresh experience, it looks something like this:

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*User performs and action, raising an event in the browser.

*JavaScript code handles the event by sending an ajax message to the server; in the case of login, you probably want to do a POST.

*A JSP (or better yet, a servlet)

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*Receives the POST message

*Validates the contents, checking for malicious content and other similar attacks

*Queries and/or updates the database using prepared statements and similar to avoid SQL injection attacks

*Sends the response, with information about the result of the operation

*The JavaScript code receives the response to the POST ajax call and looks at it to see what happened

A: Directly, not. The JavaScript is generally running on an untrusted machine.
Since JavaScript is a scripting language. So, you should consider to use ajax call (e.g. a post) to access your server database...
Similar thread discuss the issue

A: Thank god it is not possible with JavaScript. You need a server-side scripting language to validate some user´s input against a database.

A: You shouldn´t use client javascript to access databases for several reasons (bad practice, security issues, etc) but if you really want to do this, here is an example:
var connection = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Connection") ;

var connectionstring="Data Source=<server>;Initial Catalog=<catalog>;User ID=<user>;Password=<password>;Provider=SQLOLEDB";

connection.Open(connectionstring);
var rs = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Recordset");

rs.Open("SELECT * FROM table", connection);
rs.MoveFirst
while(!rs.eof)
{
   document.write(rs.fields(1));
   rs.movenext;
}

rs.close;
connection.close;

A better way to connect to a sql server would be to use some server side language like PHP, Java, .NET, among others. Client javascript should be used only for the interfaces.
And there are rumors of an ancient legend about the existence of server javascript, but this is another story. ;)

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Piece of Chocolate Cake: A tribute to Nanny Piggins
March 19, 2019 × Oliver × The journey
Hey cHEwY gum gums
Thai-riffic! isn't the only funny book to turn 1o this year.
Nanny Piggins is also celebrating her 10th birthday. R.A Spratt is having a party at the Children's Bookshop in Beecroft this Saturday afternoon. I won't be able to make it because I'm up on the Gold Coast for Storyfest (more on that next week), but I want to give some love to this nanny with trotters
Back before I became published, I was reviewing Random House books for Buzz Words (e-mag for children book industry news). I reviewed a lot of authors who are now mainstays in the scene, like Tristan Bancks, Jacqueline Harvey and Belinda Murrell, but there was a fresh voice on the scene that struck a chord with me.
R.A Spratt.
Rachel came from a TV comedy background, so she already had those comedy tools in the bag, and well…the result is gold (Jerry).
Why do I love Nanny Piggins so much? It's in the name. Nanny Piggins is a pig who looks after Mr Green's kids. Mr Green is the unreliable and overworked parent on steroids. He really hates his kids and the feeling is mutual. All it takes is one little chapter to set the scene, and then it's a permission note for Nanny Piggins and the kids to have some crazy adventures. And oh my, do they have some cracking adventures. They do dangerous things. They eat chocolate cake. Sometimes they do both at the same time. It's the kind of unsupervised bliss that I would have loved to have taken part in, if I was a kid.
Rachel does such a great job in nailing Nanny Piggins' un-PC characteristics, that she had enough material to fill nine books. Each book contains short stories, mini-episodes, where Rachel takes one little scenario and milks it for all its worth.
As an aspiring writer analysing Nanny Piggins, it's situation comedy 101.
For example, in the fourth Nanny Piggins book (The Accidental Blast Off), there's one story where Nanny Piggins signs up to be the lollypop lady because she thinks she'll have a giant lollipop to hold. When she finds out the truth, she takes her wooden stop sign and finds better things to stop than just traffic. It's a wild idea that keeps growing and growing.
If you dig deeper into the stories and look at her words, Rachel squeezes in so many jokes and irrelevant lines that only switched on kids and adults would get. It's biting satire that you'd expect from a sketch show. Like in her fifth book, Nanny Piggins is up against a rival ringmaster from Cirque De Soul, which is in her own words, 'one of those awful artistic circuses where they play classical music and impossibly thin acrobats hang by their teeth from the ceiling for ages while the audience is meant to contemplate their own insignificance.'
There have been countless times where I just had to stop reading and admire Rachel's craftiness, for pushing boundaries and poking fun at everything in society, using Nanny Piggins as a platform. While there were nine books (or seasons as I call them), I have a soft spot for the first book, because while I was editing Thai-riffic!, it gave me the confidence to be out there and bold.
R.A Spratt has continued to shine with her brilliant detective series, Friday Barnes and more recently, with the Peski Kids. Rachel's irrelevant humour is still there in spades. If you think I am crazy in my author talks, you haven't seen Rachel in action. She is dangerous haha.
So I'll be having a piece of chocolate cake to celebrate my favourite nanny and pig. If you haven't discovered Nanny Piggins yet, do yourself a favour and check it out. Nanny Piggins is the series that I wished that I'd written, it's something so daring and outrageous, as well as being funny in all the wrong and right ways.
O.W


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Prof. Mathis has conducted research in a number of areas of cognitive psychology, including the conceptual and lexical mental representations of novice and expert bilinguals, the effects of a visual scene context on the recognition of individual objects, the visual perception of objects under masked conditions, automaticity of orthographic and phonological processing used during reading, and how magazine advertisements implicitly increase positive attitudes towards the products depicted.
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Kahan, T. A., *Hengen, K. B., & Mathis, K. M. (2011). An examination of orthographic and phonological processing using the task-choice procedure. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26, 171-190.
Kahan, T. A., & Mathis, K. M. (2007). Searching under cups for clues about memory: A classroom demonstration. Teaching of Psychology, 34, 124-128.
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Mathis, K. M. (2002). Semantic interference from objects both in and out of a scene context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 171–182.
Neill, W. T., & Mathis, K. M. (1998). Transfer-inappropriate processing: Negative priming and related phenomena. In D. L. Medin (Ed.)Psychology of Learning and Motivation Vol. 38, pp. 1-40. San Diego: Academic Press.
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Доходный дом В. Д. Кувшинского в Перми — здание на перекрёстке улиц Петропавловской и Газеты «Звезда». Является объектом культурного наследия регионального значения.

История

Трёхэтажное здание было построено по проекту пермского архитектора Турчевича А. Б.. В период 1884—1916 гг. его владельцем был потомственный дворянин, пожизненный член Пермского научно-промышленного музея Владимир Дмитриевич Кувшинский. Он был управляющим машино-судостроительного и литейного завода И. И. Любимова, в 1902 г. открыл свою типографию, с 1903 г. стал издателем ежедневной газеты «Пермский край», в 1903—1905 гг. был директором губернского приюта.

Часть помещений своего большого дома Кувшинский сдавал в аренду. Здесь находились помещения переплётно-футлярного завода и производства конторских книг, принадлежавших товариществу «Абрамович И. С. с сыновьями», мастерские дамских нарядов П. С. Балашовой, детское учебное заведение Е. Н. Воробьёвой, мастерская мужской одежды К. П. Желнина. В период 1906—1908 г. в этом доме работало Пермское отделение Сибирского торгового банка, после которого его помещения занимал С. А. Крылов — содержатель меблированных комнат, в 1909—1910 гг. носивших название «Петербургские номера», а в 1911—1917 гг. — «Россия».

В 1917 г. В. Д. Кувшинский продал свой дом З. З. Ахунову, а в 1918 г. этот дом был реквизирован Советской властью. Часть помещений дома была отдана правлению кооператива ссудо-сберегательного товарищества, часть — переделана под квартиры (в одной из них жил сын Кувшинского — Дмитрий Владимирович). В период 1926—1929 гг. дом занимало общежитие рабфака, в 1937—1941 гг. здесь находился фармацевтический институт, в 1941—1953 гг. — стоматологический институт.

Позднее здание использовалось как один из корпусов медицинской академии.

В 2017 году законсервировано, фасад затянут. Здание требует серьёзного ремонта.

Примечания

Литература

 Гайсин О. Д., Субботин Е. Л. Дом Кувшинского (угол улиц Петропавловской и Газеты «Звезда», № 30/16) // Пермский дом в истории и культуре края. Выпуск 6, Пермь, 2013

Кувшинского

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Have you tried with Oracle java or OpenJDK, instead of the OpenJ9? If so post logs from that as well.
Server Cannot Be Found in Batch File.
Try removing the "cd" from the beginning, and see if that helps.
9minecraft is bad, see https://stopmodreposts.org/ for more information. I would only download mods from curseforge, or from the actual website of the mod author. You should delete all of the mods you downloaded, and redownload them from authorized locations. There;s no telling what gets stuck into those redistributed jars.
i don't why it crashed can someone please help?
I would try removing some/alll of the coremods and seeing if it still crashes like that. If not, you could try adding them back one by one, testing in between to see if it runs.
How to add proxy (SideOnly.Client)?
I think you got it, you're using optifine for 1.13, you need a 1.13.2 version specifically for the version of forge you are using. i don't use optifine, so I do not know if they are up to date as of yet, my guess would be probably not since forge itself is still being worked on for 1.13.2 *edit: It also looks like you have a mod for 1.6.4 in there as well.
Why would lack of a job stop you from making an oracle account? I don't recall when I made mine, but I'm sure I wouldn't have paid any money for it, and if they require you to put an employer/profession, you could always say self employed software developer or something like that.
You should not repost on your issue after 5 minutes, it is considered rude. This is not a chat room, it takes time for people to see your messages. That being said, you will not receive support for 1.7.10 here, it is too old, and regardless of mod popularity, is no longer supported on these forums. You will need to update to a more recent (1.10+ from what I've seen) version to get support.
Minecraft 1.7.10 is no longer supported on these forums. You will need to update to a more recent version to receive support. Also, repeat posting after less than an hour is considered rude, give people time to answer your question.
Also, you should update to a more recent version, I do no believe 1.8.9 is supported any longer.
Endercore crashing because there are Natura item references in the config file for items that don't exist? That would be my guess, based on just reading the first few lines. Often times if you read what it tells you, it gives hints as to what may be wrong.
You will need to update to a more modern version of minecraft to receive support here. 1.7.10 is really old, and no longer supported on these forums.
Looks like maybe underground biomes is trying to access client only classes perhaps? If you remove it, does it work?
You will need to update to a more recent minecraft version to receive support. 1.7.10 is very very old, and no longer supported on these forums.
Is the java 64 bit?
1.7.10 is so old, it is no longer supported. You will need to update to a newer version to receive help here.
An error occurs when attempting to launch a clean forge server.
You must have java 8 for forge, at least until forge for 1.13+ comes out.


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"it is such a privilege belonging to a small regional community and so rewarding to share the celebration of achievements, to carry each other through the tough times and to do what we can to contribute to the future of our town, as individuals and as a business" – Mat and Sue Daubney
In the process of developing our Bannister Downs Dairy brand and business in the early days, the journey was long and the learning curve was huge! Sometimes we certainly questioned if we were doing the right thing but we were incredibly lucky to have the support of our family, our team, our industry and our community. It was from the support of others that we were inspired to be courageous. Our community kept us moving forward through the tough times and it was with our community that we wanted to celebrate at our proudest moment – putting our first pouch of Bannister Downs Dairy milk on the shelf at the Northcliffe General Store in August 2005. Everyone was behind us, willing us to succeed.
The Daubney family has been part of the Northcliffe community for generations from Group Settlement in 1924 – it's part of who we are and it's in honour of the on-going support we've received from the people of our community, that we are delighted to be in a position to give back and look forward to this growing further over years to come.
Charities and Community Groups
We never forget where we started as a small business and though we personally had a lot of heart and big dreams, our community helped us get here. This is why we always support community events whenever we can. Since 2004, we have provided donations to assist schools, sports groups, individuals or events, to help those in disaster or severe disadvantage.
Some of the groups we have recently supported include:
Northcliffe District High School
Pemberton District High School
Manjimup Senior High School
East Manjimup Primary School
St Joseph's Primary School, (Pemberton)
Kearnan College Manjimup
Northcliffe United Soccer Club
Pemberton Arts Group
Nannup Music Festival
Nannup Agri Education
Hand in Hand Project
Bannister Downs is proud to be part of our vibrant local community which is a town in the Shire of Manjimup. We are committed to supporting local community events and emerging businesses within our shire. To this end, we created the Hand in Hand Project in 2013, which is a not-for-profit venture aimed at supporting locally-based organisations and individuals. We want to provide opportunity within our local community and promising new businesses in a way that is accessible, structured and generous, enabling organisations and individuals to receive financial support that will also be of long-term benefit to our community.
Whilst we are in the process of establishing and growing our business we have limited funding available, however we have created a structure that we expect to grow over years and then be able to provide increasing opportunities and funding to local projects in the future.
The next round of Hand in Hand submissions closes on - 12th November 2021
Submit your applications via the links below.
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We hope by showing the way and offering achievable grants focused specifically within our shire, other businesses may also see the community benefit of offering this type of support to those who need it and may, in the future, consider joining with our Hand in Hand Project to build this project together, or to create a similar initiative of their own. Some of the groups that we have recently supported include:
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We are really proud of our partnerships with some really special Western Australian organisations.
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WA SCHOOL CANTEEN ASSOCIATION
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Please get in touch with us via our Contact Us page for more information about our community outreach, partnership and support programs. Bannister Downs also partners with several businesses and organisations through sponsorships and donations, which is a way for us to recognise the community support we received when we were just starting out on this journey.


Having qualified first and second in a grid of 36 riders at the historic 4.185 km Bugatti circuit – and with lap times well over a second faster than their nearest rivals in both Superpole sessions – Gimbert and Nigon were both fired up for the first 15-lap Superbike race of the day.
In fact, so fast was Sébastien Gimbert on the S1000RR during Saturday's free practice that his best lap of 1:36.603 was only 3.2 seconds slower than Valentino Rossi's pole position time at the same circuit earlier this year – and only 0.8 seconds slower than the final MotoGP qualifier, Mika Kallio on the Pramac Racing Team Ducati. However, Gimbert set his time on a virtually stock RR.
With a 21-point deficit to his team-mate Nigon, reigning 'Champion de France' Sébastien Gimbert knew that there was still everything to play for in both races and with the title chase still possible, it was him who got the got the best start off the line, followed by Suzuki rider Freddy Foray and Julien Da Costa on the Kawasaki. Despite taking the lead in the early stages, Freddy Foray was soon forced to yield to the two BMW riders, who soon mounted an early challenge for the lead and powered ahead at the front of the pack of riders.
Before long, pole-setter Sébastien Gimbert had pulled a one-second gap on his team-mate – posting the fastest lap of the race on lap 7 – and going on to comfortably win the first leg by nearly four seconds in advance of Nigon. Third place went to Julien Da Costa, although he was more than 16 seconds behind winner Gimbert. With privateer S1000RR riders Loïc Napoleone, Nicolas Pouhair and Alexandre Perrault finishing the first race in 12th, 13th and 14th places respectively, there were five RR riders among the top 15 in race one.
Having closed up the points gap over his team-mate, a resolute Gimbert lined up at 1615 for the day's second Superbike race. As predicted, the title chase continued between the two BMW riders, with both determined to ride as hard as possible, but neither wanting to make any mistakes that would allow their team-mate to seize the advantage.
It was the #7 RR rider Erwan Nigon who made the best start to race two, just in front of current champion Gimbert. On the second lap, challenger Kenny Foray crashed out of contention and left the two BMW Motorrad France riders to battle for the lead in front of Kawasaki rider Julien Da Costa in third, albeit it quite a long way behind.
Having set the fastest lap of race two as early as the third lap, it was Gimbert who showed he meant business on his #1 RR and just two laps later he found a way past his team-mate and took the lead. After this point, he was simply unstoppable on the BMW superbike and cruised ahead to win the second race – and his first double victory of 2010 – by over four seconds.


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THX Updates 'Deep Note,' the Spooky Sound It Plays Before Movies
It's kind of like the old one, but this one goes to 11.
By Peter Kafka Apr 4, 2015, 10:10am EDT
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Do you still see movies in movie theaters? If you do, or if you remember doing that, then you'll remember the THX logo and its accompanying audio, a vaguely threatening crescendo that kicks off the proceedings.
THX, which is essentially an audio certification system, has been running the same version of that video and audio clip (with occasional tweaks) for more than 30 years. It first debuted in 1983, along with "Return of the Jedi."
Now the company is updating the audio component, which it calls "Deep Note," for the 2,000+ THX theaters worldwide. The new version, the company promises, is "faithful to the original character, [but] the resulting audio is intensely more complex, taking the audience on an epic sensory journey unlike anything they've experienced before."
Yahoo's Rob Walker has more on Deep Note's background and James A. Moorer, the man who created both the original audio trailer and the new one.
Here's the old logo and sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrnaxZt3vBo
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Throughout the campaign he's painted Engel as out of touch with the needs of the district, which includes part of the Bronx and Westchester County. Engel rode out much of the coronavirus shutdown in his home in Maryland outside of Washington, D.C., and not in the district which was an epicenter of the outbreak.
"While he's absent, I am here, present and engaged," Bowman said in a recent interview. "We need leadership that's going to be here who understands the pain the people are going through and is fighting to uplift their needs first and foremost. Eliot Engel has never been that leader."
Engel has been slapped with criticism from challengers in the past but emerged unscathed. Two years ago, he faced three primary challengers and ended up with more votes than all three of them combined.
This time around, an increasingly polarized political climate and the success of progressives like AOC have made this seem like one of Engel's most serious primary challenges in years. Bowman has gotten the most attention, but he's one of four challengers that are on the ballot for the June 23 race – although one of them, Andom Ghebreghiorgis, has dropped out and endorsed Bowman.
Engel, 73, of the Bronx, first took office in 1989 and is today the chair of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee. New York's 16th congressional district is reliably blue, so the Democratic primary is considered the main event.
"I am running on my record of accomplishment and experience," Engel said. "From fighting for a woman's right to choose to the battle for gun safety laws, I've been working on the legislative front lines working for our communities."
He said that experience has led to extra funding for hospitals in the district and co-sponsoring with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders to co-sponsor a law enforcement bill called the George Floyd Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act.
He's not only being challenged from the left, but by candidates identifying as more moderate. Both have contended not only with going up against a longstanding incumbent but fought against the narrative in some news coverage that it's a two-person race with Bowman receiving much attention.
Chris Fink, 61, a tax attorney from Pelham, painted Engel as an absentee congressman who hasn't passed much legislation. He also called Bowman a puppet of the Justice Democrats, the group backing him that also helped AOC unseat longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in a 2018 Democratic primary.
Fink said he believes voters in the district will do their homework and find he has outlined tangible plans where Engel and Bowman haven't. He said he is in the race to win even though he's being out-fundraised and outspent by both Engel and Bowman.
He said he got into the race because Engel's focus has been largely on international issues.
"It felt like he was neglecting our district and the needs of our district," Fink said. "As I talked to more and more people, they said 'yeah, we don't see him. Our roads and bridges and schools are falling apart.'"
New Rochelle resident Sammy Ravelo, who was born in the Dominican Republic, said he would be a voice for the underrepresented Hispanic residents who make up more than a quarter of residents of the district.
Ravelo, 50, served in the Navy and is a retired NYPD officer, and said he doesn't agree with factions of the party that have taken a strong anti-police stance even though he agrees there is opportunity for reform.
Extreme progressives are pushing the party to the left much like the Republican Party was reshaped in the last two decades, he said.
"They're the version of the tea party on our side, the Democratic side. If you disagree with them on one thing that's it, you're somehow a Democratic in name only and I don't side with that."
Here's a look at fundraising and spending through June 3, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filings:
Raised this election cycle: $2,000,443.74
Spent through June 3: $1,371,186.98
Cash on hand: $826,284.24
Raised this election cycle: $971,209.13
Spent through June 3: $626,199.24
Cash on hand: $32,965.81
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Raised this election cycle: $48,435.45
Spent through June 3: $44,926.96
Cash on hand: $3,508.49
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Two fine first half saves by Deal 'keeper James Tonkin, when he denied both James McDonald and Kushal Campbell in one on one situations, proved crucial in enabling the Hoops to complete a league "double" over Hollands & Blair on Saturday.
Deal led by a single goal at half time, scored by Danny Smith. The left back, making his 400th starting appearance for the club, fired home a 34th-minute free kick.
Then, after Blair 'keeper Ryan Nicholls saved well from both Steve Butcher and Joe Reeves early in the second half, Deal scored from a 61st minute penalty by Andy Miller, following a trip on Jack Paxman.
Two minutes later Paxman delivered a superb cross to enable Sam Wilson to score with ease before Blair substitute Rob Denness pulled a goal back for the visitors with a header in the 65th minute.
With 15 minutes left Wilson grabbed a second goal, and his 21st of the season in all competitions, when once again Paxman, who stole the ball from a Blair defender, was the provider.
Deal: Tonkin, Paxman, D Smith, Bigginton (Adams 67), K Smith, Hark, Scott, Butcher (Foster 58), Wilson, Reeves (Coyne 72) , A Miller.


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What is the scope of the database?
The scope of the database is terrestrial arthropod pests and plant pathogens. Weeds, vertebrate pests, aquatic pests, and animal diseases are not currently included.
What is the purpose of the database?
Rates of invasion of unwanted species are increasing around the world for various reasons, such as:
increased rates of international travel and trade;
changing patterns (i.e. origins) of travel and trade;
increasing diversity of unwanted species in trading partners, due to invasions there;
increasing urbanisation of pest species;
climate change; and
natural selection for "invasiveness".
Therefore biosecurity managers are facing increasing volume and diversity of invaders, and it is inevitable that some of these successfully establish. Many authorities implement surveillance activities to detect invasions early enough to attempt eradication. In other cases, new technologies or economic imperitives may enable eradication of already well-established pests. The science and practice of eradication is developing rapidly.
This database compiles information on historical and current eradication programmes to give biosecurity practitioners rapid access to international experience and expertise. Ultimately, the database aims to improve the success rate and efficiency of future eradication programmes by improving transfer of knowledge between eradication practitioners, by
collating and summarising information on past eradication attempts against particular species;
identifying characteristics of invasive species which make them easy or difficult to eradicate;
helping managers to quantify the feasibility and likely costs of potential eradication programmes;
identifying the eradication tools that might be used against particular pests;
tracking the efficacy of new eradication tools;
linking to published documentation and literature on eradications;
making available unpublished information and experience which would otherwise be lost; and
demonstrating the track-record of successes and failures of particular countries or against particular targets.
These aims mirror those of the Global Island Invasive Vertebrate Eradication Database which compiles information on eradications of vertebrate pests from islands.
What is an "eradication?"
The word "eradicate" originates from the Latin "to uproot" (eradicatus).
In ecology, eradication is the intentional local extinction, or extirpation, of a particular taxon. This involves the killing or complete removal of every individual of the target taxon from a defined area, i.e. achieving population size zero.
The target taxon is most often a species, but may sometimes be a subspecies or more than one closely related species. Eradication programmes almost always target pestiferous invasive species in part of their invaded range.
The target area for an eradication may vary greatly in size. Often eradications are carried out in geographically isolated areas, such as islands, to minimise the risk of reintroduction. Sometimes, however, eradications may target a particular part of a species' range because of the environmental, economic, or political benefits of removal, even if the species is likely to reinvade.
One of the biggest challenges of any eradication programme is demonstrating success. The International Plant Protection Convention specifies standards for plant pest eradications in its International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures No 9, but these are largely descriptive. Current international practice specifies that, provided that reasonable surveillance activity has been carried out, eradication of most plant pests can be declared once there have been no detections for at least three times the normal generation time of the target taxon.
What are the criteria for inclusion in the database?
It is a subjective decision as to whether a particular activity constitutes and "eradication attempt". For inclusion in this database, management programmes must satisfy three main criteria:
The stated management aim should have been eradication. Therefore, pest management programmes or trials of pest reduction technologies do not qualify for inclusion, unless eradication was fortuitously achieved. The latter are included because they can inform the effort and expenditure required to achieve eradication. Pest management programmes which do not achieve eradication are not included because without the intent of eradication they omit the greatest technical challenges of any eradication campaign: achieving and demonstrating the absence of the very last target individual.
Similarly, spatial containment programmes are not included. Often new incursions are initially managed for containment while enough information is gathered to determine the likely costs and benefits of attempting eradication. In such cases, the word "eradication" may be used but without this being the current aim of management. Such cases are not included unless there is evidence that the management aim has eventually changed from containment to eradication. As with pest management, there may be cases where eradication was achieved fortuitously during a containment programme, and these may be included.
Temporal distinction
For inclusion in the database, management programmes should have achieved absence from the eradication zone for at least one year, or three times the normal generation time of the target taxon, whichever is larger. For species with very short generation times, such as many mosquitoes and fruit flies, temporal distinction is not clear-cut, especially when monitoring tools are imperfect or there are active pathways of reintroduction. In some cases, pest populations may reappear in the same area some time after eradication was thought to have been achieved. and this may indicate either that the previous eradication attempt was unsuccessful or simply reintroduction. If the issue is in doubt, then the first programme is marked as "likely eradication" rather than "confirmed eradication".
Note that many reported mosquito "eradication" programmes are excluded from the database because they are simply short-term (annual) actions aiming to reduce local densities to below nuisance levels, with no expectation for long-term population impacts.
Spatial separation
It is sometimes difficult to decide whether eradication actions against the same taxon in adjoining political areas (e.g. countries or states) should be considered as separate programmes or not. When separate political administrations have been largely responsible for management actions in adjoining regions, then these are included separately. However, when the responses are conducted under the auspices of a common political or advisory body, then they are grouped. For example, the cotton boll weevil response in the United States spanned many political regions (states) but was largely driven by the industry in a coordinated fashion, so this has been included as a single eradication programme.
In the case of local European gypsy moth responses in the United States (beyond the "slow the spread" zone), local responses have been separated spatially by county and temporally by at least two years.
In some cases, an eradication programme may be carried out despite there being no local population found. For example, the find of a single gypsy moth male in a monitoring trap in Hamilton, New Zealand, was sufficient to prompt a programme of quarantines and aerial biopesticide applications. Such cases are included in the database, but with the infested area recorded as zero so that they can be easily excluded from analysis if required.
Similarly there are cases where there is no evidence that founder populations have actually established and spread. An example would be Asian longhorn beetles found infesting a tree that was imported, sold and planted in someone's garden. Such cases are included in the database because the IPPC, under ISPM9, classifies the resulting clean-up as an eradication.
Where have the data come from?
Ideally, the primary source of eradication information is the peer-reviewed scientific literature, and this has been the case for some of the data in the database.
Unfortunately, the outcomes of historical eradication attempts have rarely been reported in the peer-reviewed literature, especially for failed attempts. Therefore, an important secondary source of information has been searches of the "grey literature", including unpublished reports, conference proceedings, media releases and news reports.
In some cases, important data have been obtained through personal communications with the managers involved in particular eradication programmes.
At the same time that the current database was established, the European Union PRATIQUE programme (Baker et al. 2009) independently collected and analysed data on plant pest eradication and containment programmes. Once the two efforts became aware of each other we worked together, and the appropriate PRATIQUE data have been included here.
Baker RHA, Battisti A, Bremmer J, Kenis M, Mumford J, Petter F, Schrader G, Bacher S, De Barro P, Hulme PE, Karadjova O, Lansink AO, Pruvost O, Py, ek P, Roques A, Baranchikov Y, Sun JH 2009. PRATIQUE: a research project to enhance pest risk analysis techniques in the European Union. EPPO/OEPP Bulletin 39: 87-93.
How have programme costs been standardised?
To compare the costs of different eradication programmes worldwide these have been converted to a common currency: the 2015 United States dollar (USD).
First, historical annual average exchange rates have been used to convert local currencies to the USD, as described by Officer (2009).
Then the USD amounts have been standardised to the year 2005. There are many different "inflation rates" that might be used to do this conversion, some of which will inflate early years more than others. These are described by Williamson (2010). Here, we have used the "GDP deflator", that represents the average price of all the goods and services produced in the economy. Since eradication programmes involve a combination of fixed and variable costs for manpower and materials, this arguably provides a better index of cost than other methods which rely on either the price of household consumables or the cost of unskilled labour.
The data used to make the conversions were sourced from the MeasuringWorth websites cited below.
Officer LH 2009. Exchange rates between the United States dollar and forty-one currencies. MeasuringWorth, http://www.measuringworth.com/exchangeglobal (updated December 2010).
Williamson SH 2010. Seven ways to compute the relative value of a U.S. dollar amount, 1774 to present. MeasuringWorth, http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare (updated April 2010).
What should I do if I notice an error or omission in the data?
Every endeavour has been made to include only the most reliable data in the database. However, given the patchiness of the available information, and the fact that much of it is (by necessity) sourced from the media and the grey literature, it is possible that you may notice some inaccuracies or errors.
If you do see an error, we would appreciate it if you could let us know about it and, if possible, provide a correction.
How can I contribute to the database
Your contributions are welcomed! Please see the user manual for guidelines.
Can I use the data for my own projects?
Yes. As far as we are aware, all of the data included in the database are in the public record, and available for use by anyone. You should, however, check the terms of use statement first.
A great deal of effort has been used to compile these data in one place and to make them easily accessible. Therefore, if you make use of any data from here, we would appreciate a message from you, and an appropriate citation in your publication or presentation. This will help us to keep up to date our list of publications using the database and to justify the ongoing expense of maintaining and updating the data.
Are the data available as a spreadsheet for analysis?
Yes. The data, or a filtered subset of it, may be supplied to you on request. It will be expected that appropriate co-authorship, citation or acknowledgement will be used. See also the terms of use.
How should the database be cited?
The database should be cited as:
Kean JM, Suckling DM, Sullivan NJ, Tobin PC, Stringer LD, Smith GR, Kimber B, Lee DC, Flores Vargas R, Fletcher J, Macbeth F, McCullough DG, Herms DA et al. 2023. Global eradication and response database. http://b3.net.nz/gerda (accessed 27 January 2023).
How can I contact the database administrator?
A contact form can be accessed from the bottom right of any database page.
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Peggy Bacon, Off with their Heads! (1934). Association copy, inscibed with original sketch.
Bacon, Peggy (1895-1987) Off with their Heads! New York: Robert M. McBride, 1934. First edition. 89 p; 32 cm. A rather worn copy, very good in cloth-backed boards.
Inscribed to Niles Spencer and his wife Betty, with an original drawing.
A wonderful association. Bacon (1895-1987) and Spencer (1893-1952) were part of a close circle of friends who studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Arts Student League. Other members of the Group of Seven, which was the subject of a recent exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, included Alexander Brook (whom she later married), Reginald Marsh, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. A boisterous photo of the group from 1921 at the Smithsonian hints at the dynamics (see below). Although she was to marry Brook (bottom left), Bacon's affection seems to be centered on Spencer (both top right). Bacon would divorce Brook in 1940.
Bacon and Spencer among the "Group of Seven"
Bacon placed Spencer next to her in her art as in life. Her etching Congenial Scene (1929) depicts the Bacon/Brook family along with the Spencers and the Kuniyoshis. The two friends sit next to each other, she is in a chair hunched over her drawing pad, he stretched out on a couch, an odalisque. In contrast, Bacon's husband stands hulking in the foreground, his back to the viewer.
In her charming group portrait, The Ardent Bowlers (1932), Bacon and Spencer sit next to each other. He is in a state of abstraction, she is calling for his attention.
It is possible that the original sketch that adorns the flyleaf of this volume is allegorical. The cat was Bacon's personal totem, as evidenced in her many works. Does the cow in the field represent Spencer's wife?
In 1932, WPA director Holger Cahill identified Bacon as the most talented caricaturist in the America, and John Canemaker concurred. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker,Vanity Fair, Fortune and other publications, Bacon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for graphic arts in 1934. This volume represents the fruits of that fellowship, a collection of 39 satirical portraits of notables, including Franklin Roosevelt, Dorothy Parker, Georgia O'Keefe, Lillian Gish, Diego Rivera, and Bacon herself. Brook and Kuniyoshi are both depicted in the book. But evidently she could not bring herself to satirize Spencer.
Holger Cahill, "American Art today," in Fred J. Ringel, ed., America as Americans See It (Literary Guild, 1932)
John Canemaker, "Portraits in Acid: The Caricatures of Peggy Bacon," Print, November 10, 2010.
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2015/kuniyoshi/index.cfm
https://www.carpelibrumbooks.com/graphics-and-curios/original-art-and-illustration/from-one-art-league-student-to-another


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Golden Labrador Lucy gives birth to litter of 13 black-coated puppies
Home » Golden Labrador Lucy gives birth to litter of 13 black-coated puppies
It was no easy delivery for one strong mom dog who gave birth to a litter of 13 puppies, but not one of them took after her and her golden coat.
The puppies, born to 3-year-old Golden Labrador mom Lucy in England, all have the perfect black coats of their dad.
Not only was owner Catherine Smith shocked at the number of pups Lucy had but the fact they all looked the same was also a surprise.
"This is the first time we have bred a dog and thought she might have five or six," she said, adding Lucy was in labor for under five hours.
"She had the first four in 20 minutes and then they just kept coming," she said, according to News Today.
"I think she wondered where they'd all come from," she added, as per LadBible.
According to The Labrador site the average Labrador has a litter of between 6 to 8 puppies and the rarest color is chocolate.
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The English record for the most Labrador puppies was recorded in May this year when 6-year-old Bella gave birth to 14 black and yellow puppies, as reported by Times Now News.
Catherine, from Somerset, said Lucy was mated with her friend's eight-year-old black lab Bastion but didn't expect to have so many black-coated puppies and was getting through 33 pounds of food.
However, the 8 males and 5 females have since been sold to new owners.
What an incredible dog mom, well done Lucy, what a beautiful litter of pups you delivered.
Please share with all the Lab fans you know.


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Headlines: Selkirk, The Bronx and Collectionair
1) Bristol Residents Worried Public Sculpture Will be Too Creepy
Artist Frank Benson's proposed public sculpture of the 18th century mariner Andrew Selkirk - the possible inspiration for the character of Robinson Crusoe – is under fire because it might be too creepy. To be fair, the proposed location for the public sculpture is a former graveyard near St. Andrew's Church in Clifton, a suburb of Bristol, England. In numerous complaint letters, locals claim that the sculpture has too much potential to be creepy or "terrifying" at night, placed in the context of the former graveyard. Interestingly, Benson has done a lot of research to ensure that the sculpture not only properly does justice to its subject, but that its placement does not disturb or displace any existing graves.
2) Bronx Residents Protest Using Art to Support Gentrification
An art fair and party put on by rapper and producer Swizz Beatz in the Bronx, NY, is drawing controversy and protests. The borough of The Bronx, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the region, is seeing massive displacement of locals in favor of gentrification and high-priced condominium developments. The art fare, called "No Commission", was already staged last year in Miami and features artwork by a number of selected artists who are not being represented by galleries (hence the lack of commission explained in the title.) Residents of the Bronx are taking issue with the fair and the surrounding celebration due to the Beatz's connections to condo developers, as well as the lack of Latino or Bronx-affiliated artists participating in the fair.
3) Prize Winners Imagine a Garden Atop Abandoned World's Fair Structure
Artist duo Aidan Doyle and Sarah Wan have an interesting proposal for the New York State Pavilion Ideas Competition, a contest for artists to reimagine the site of Phillip Johnson's Tent of Tomorrow, which was constructed for the 1964 World's Fair and now stands forgotten and decayed in Queens. The artists' entry is a proposal to turn the retro-futuristic tent into a lush hanging garden titled Hanging Meadows. The proposed artwork would take the form of an installation that visitors could stand in, simultaneously enjoying the greenery while taking in spectacular views of New York and the surrounding area. This idea and other proposals for the space are currently on display at a pop-up exhibition featuring design proposals for the site's restoration.
4) "Affordable" Art Sales Website Backed by Well-Known Art Figures
A new website called Collectionair, which aims to make artworks available for slightly less-exorbitant prices, is seeing support from a number of art world heavy-hitters. Co-founded by Olivier Varenne, international curator at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania and Valerie Konde - a former Google employee - Collectionair aims to help younger and less-recognized artists get attention on an international level, while at the same time making works available for less than $10,000. The website's advisory board thus far includes Philippa Adams, director of the Saatchi gallery in London, and Adelina von Fürstenburg, curator of the Armenian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale


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TextEmma Elizabeth Davidson
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Fashion killer: House of Gucci's costume designer talks dressing Lady Gaga
As the long-awaited movie finally lands in cinemas, Janty Yates discusses working collaboratively with 'LG', steering clear of Dynasty-era Joan Collins, and running riot in the Gucci archives
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From the moment the slowed-down, spaced-out strains of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" kicked in and Lady Gaga solemnly crossed her chest and uttered "Father, Son, and House of Gucci" in the teaser trailer for the film of the same name, we knew we had a high camp fashion classic on our hands. Finally getting its release this week, the movie has been an age in the making. With scripts passed pillar to post around Hollywood's biggest players for the best part of five years, and everyone from Penélope Cruz, to Angelina Jolie, to Margot Robbie rumoured to be in the running to play notorious fashion killer Patrizia Gucci, news broke in early 2021 that Gaga had secured the role – and more importantly, the opportunity to really ham up her oft-mentioned, meme-worthy Italianness.
What followed was a frenzy of pap shots capturing Gaga and on-screen lover Adam Driver – cast in the role of ill-fated Gucci heir Maurizio – in various locations; cosying up to each other in a skiing scene in the Alps, or otherwise being chauffeured from their winnebagos to the set under enormous umbrellas. Naturally, attention quickly turned to House of Gucci's costumes, with countless publications – including a little mag you might know as Dazed – picking apart the sartorial side of the early BTS photographs like hyenas ripping meat from a carcass. Power shoulders, wiggle dresses, luxe velvet suits, and that unmistakable double-G emblem? House of Gucci promised a feast for the eyes.
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With Sir Ridley Scott in the director's seat of the movie, it made sense that he turned to longtime, trusted collaborator Janty Yates when it came to the clothes. With costumes for the cast of Gladiator, Hannibal, and Alien offshoots Prometheus and Covenant – which she worked with London wunderkind Craig Green on – under her belt, House of Gucci saw her let loose in the Italian house's archives and given free reign to pull as many looks as she liked for 'LG' (as she affectionately calls Lady Gaga) and the rest of the cast, including Jared Leto, Al Pacino, and Driver.
With the story of deceit and murder spanning three decades, from the heady disco days of 1970 right through to the early 90s, the movie gave Yates the opportunity to "really go wild". As well as rare Gucci looks dug up from the house's back catalogue, she also pulled from major labels including Alaïa, Valentino, and Saint Laurent. Though there's an endless stream of excellent fashions on show throughout, Yates' only regret is that more looks didn't make it into the final cut. "There was a scene where LG and Al Pacino were dancing at Studio 54 and she's in a stunning turquoise halterneck dress that was cut," she recalls. "It was in the trailer, so I don't understand why it's not in the film! But you know, Ridley knows what he wants to keep and what he wants to cut, so I'm sure there was a good reason."
As House of Gucci gets its widespread release today, Yates fills us in on collaborating with 'LG', drawing inspiration from Gina Lollobrigida as opposed to Joan Collins, and getting to run riot in the Gucci archives.
Hey Janty! You've long collaborated with Ridley Scott on costumes for his films. How did you feel when he asked you to help him bring this particular story to life?
Janty Yates: Well actually, it was Lady Scott, his wife, who had been sitting on the story for about 20 years, and every time I'd hear them talking about it I'd say 'Don't forget me! Don't forget about me!' – you know, throwing my hat in the ring and making it known I wanted to do it. But it was a very long process, and went all over the place. It went to Wong Kar-wai, it came back to Ridley, I think at one point Martin Scorcese was in the mix. I never imagined Ridley would end up doing it. It wasn't until COVID really hit that we got round to doing it, and I actually started doing my research and development during the first lockdown.
You've stated that the wardrobe of Gina Lollobrigida was a big influence when it came to Patrizia's costumes. What was it about her look that inspired you?
Janty Yates: It was more Sir Ridley who loved Gina's look, and he kept bringing her up throughout the initial process. We kept trying to tell him she was from the 1960s, but actually we took a couple of ideas from her. Ridley's whole concern was that he wanted her to be more Gina Lollobrigida than Joan Collins from Dynasty, who had those huge blouses with enormous shoulders, and huge amounts of jewels dripping off her. We wanted to veer away from that and go more classic. I was kind of nervous to broach this with LG on Zoom on the first day, but she was actually on the same page – she said 'I want to look exactly like my mother', and her mother is a full-blown Italian lady. She was very on board with the vision from the off.
"I was kind of nervous to broach this with Lady Gaga on Zoom on the first day, but she was actually on the same page – she said 'I want to look exactly like my mother', and her mother is a full-blown Italian lady" – Janty Yates
What was it like working with Lady Gaga? Was it quite a collaborative process?
Janty Yates: She is a great collaborator, so wonderful all the way through. I started my cutter quite early, which MGM allowed me to do, bless them, because their head of production understood how important it was we were ready. We had lots of shapes and pieces ready for the first fitting and LG just loved everything. We made around 50–60 looks for her in total in the end.
The movie begins in the mid-1970s and spans the 80s right into the 90s. Can you talk me through Patrizia's style evolution?
Janty Yates: She had a very definitive arc. We started her off very sweet, maybe even a bit naive, in little cashmere twinsets and skirts, and a very iconic Burberry trench with the check on the outside – which I didn't even know existed, but LG told me it did so we found one. A miracle! And then there was the dress she wore, for example, when she drives up in her little car and walks across the forecourt of her father's trucking company where she works. Her bum wiggles, and her high heels clack on the tarmac, and she knows exactly what she's doing to those men, they all love her. But it's still all very innocent.
Then she of course sets her sights on Maurizio and her style changes radically. We used everything from mock Chanel, to Gucci archive, to vintage Yves Saint Laurent. We threw everything at it.
Then the arc begins its descent when she's run over and ends up in hospital with a brain clot, and she's given up on Maurizio. She turns into quite an aggressive woman, really, and gives up caring about what she wears – she's in jeans and leather jackets, which came as quite a shock to me actually when I was researching her style.
You worked with Craig Green on the costumes for Alien: Covenant, so I'm wondering if, alongside the big designers you pulled for House of Gucci, you also included any pieces by young or cult designers?
Janty Yates: My cutter was turning out such glorious outfits and we had so much already, there was no need to look for anyone new because we were already spoiled for choice. But actually, a while ago I was doing a lot of prep for a film called Merlin for Disney and I came across a designer called A Sai Ta (of Asai). I met with him on Brick Lane and we had a good long chat, and he was going to make the costumes for all the little gelfling kind of things. Sadly, it got put on hold, but we really bonded and I think his work is absolutely wonderful. I couldn't fit anything of his into House of Gucci, though.
You were allowed to delve into the Gucci archives ahead of filming. Did you go into them looking for anything specific, or did you wait to see what came to you?
Janty Yates: The archive was actually quite small, housed in a room above the museum of which I became a habitual visitor. There were about 15–20 outfits we took, and we borrowed a lot of bags. We kept them all in the strong room we were functioning out of on set. We ended up using two Gucci looks in the film – one of which was a double-G tunic worn with matching trousers that LG wears when she's on 42nd Street and finds all the fakes being sold. She's wearing a mink on top of course. And then there's the double-G silk blouse in tans and browns with the leather skirt she wears when she's at her daughter's sports day. We really were spoiled for choice between the various archives and my cutter's magnificent work, which I think makes up about 60 per cent of the film.
"Ridley's whole concern was that he wanted (Patrizia) to be more Gina Lollobrigida than Joan Collins from Dynasty, who had those huge blouses with enormous shoulders, and huge amounts of jewels dripping off her. We wanted to veer away from that and go more classic" – Janty Yates
Do you have a favourite look, or one that you feel really sums everything up?
Janty Yates: I would have to say her bridal gown. LG looked so pretty and so youthful, and very innocent and naive. Everything was sewn by hand so it took between eight and ten weeks to make that gown. We actually had the photographs of Patrizia herself at her actual wedding, and made a replica of the quite plain dress she wore for that as well. We didn't decide until the morning we were shooting the wedding scene which one we were going to use. LG put both of them on, but in the end the more OTT one won – it was just overwhelmingly beautiful.
Creatives are obviously notorious for being hard on themselves, so I'm wondering if there was anything you wished you'd done differently when you saw the final film?
Janty Yates: Oh no, I was absolutely delighted with the final result (laughs). The only thing I would say is that I wish there were more looks in it! For example, there was a scene where LG and Al Pacino were dancing at Studio 54 and she's in a stunning turquoise halterneck dress that was cut. It was in the trailer, so I really don't understand why it's not in the film! But you know, Ridley knows what he wants to keep and what he wants to cut, so I'm sure there was a good reason.
I mean, he loves an extended edit, so maybe we'll eventually get to see it…
Janty Yates: Oh absolutely, I think it might make the director's cut someday. Here's hoping anyway!
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The administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is calling to parishes of the schismatic Ukrainian church, requiring them to advocate for his victory in the presidential elections, Verkhovna Rada Deputy Chairman Oksana Syroid said on the Verdict television program yesterday.
"The current president's team is doing everything it can to lose even those it has, because they use the language of hate," the Deputy Chairman commented.
The first round of the elections was held on March 31. Actor Vladimir Zelensky received 30.24%, Poroshenko—15.95%, and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko—13.39%. As no candidate won a majority, a second rote of voting will be held on April 21 with only Zelensky and Poroshenko on the ballot.
The hierarchs and clergy of the schismatic church have already openly thrown their weight behind Poroshenko, as have those of the Ukrainian Uniate church. On April 1, "Bishop" Adrian Kulyk-Bogdan wrote harshly against those who voted for Zelensky, saying: "I can't believe that in our land there is such a high percentage of Little Russians … and outright idiots," reports Vesti.
Ukrainian journalist Alexander Voznesenky has noted that a number of schismatic clergy and bishops wrote messages on social media that whoever voted for Zelensky should leave their friends' list.
"Imagine for a moment that a pastor would push people away from himself and from Christ for the sake of politics! But this is a fact, and it is now happening on a huge scale," Voznesensky said.
As he notes, Uniate clergy and hierarchs are doing the same.


While Lhakar is about devoting one day of the week to our cause, last week, Tibet lost a dear friend who I'm sure devoted much more than just one day a week to Tibet's freedom.
Adam Yauch, of the Beastie Boys passed away last week way before his time. And while I don't personally know him at all, I thought we owed it to him to at least shed some light on his large contribution to the Tibet movement.
I honestly had no idea who Adam Yauch was then (although over the years, I got to learn about his greatness in music and Tibet activism), I just knew he was famous, and so I followed all my older cousins and took a picture with him. Of course we all had to take individual pictures with him, and I remember him being so patient with all these little Tibetan brats bugging him endlessly for autographs and photos.
I then remember him being called up to stage and speaking to the crowd, so calmly, so cool, yet with so much love, respect and passion for Tibet.
Beyond just feeling 'cool', I remember probably thinking for the first time, that people actually cared about Tibet, the world actually cared. With our small protests growing up, made up mostly of Tibetans, a lot of the time it really did feel like we were shouting with all our might, but no one was listening. Well I really think Adam Yauch and his work was instrumental in making the world stop and listen.
And now that I think about it, I don't think I'm sad because I've lost someone who made feel like I was cool, or had so much patience to take photos with a bunch of crazy Tibetan kids, or because as a direct result of his work in the Freedom Concerts I got to see KRS-One speak so passionately on MuchMusic about why Tibet should be free. I know it's because Tibet lost a great and arguably irreplaceable friend.
I met Adam Yauch only once. It was during a bathroom break, which came at the end of a heated session in a Tibet-China conference at Harvard in 2002. I rushed to the bathroom and found myself standing next to Adam Yauch, who was using the urinal to my right.
We greeted each other in Tibetan. I was an international relations student at Brown University at the time.
They were describing Tibet in a language that betrayed their Han chauvinism, and every Tibetan in the room was visibly distraught. But most of us were tongue-tied, understandably intimidated by the heavy use of political terminology by professors and researchers who hid the ultimate weakness of their arguments behind the cloak of academic jargon.
One of the Chinese academics had a deep, commanding voice that made up for his thick accent. He seemed to be aware of the impact his voice was having on his audience, as he continued to lecture the Tibetans about how much Chinese leaders truly respected the wishes of the Tibetan people.
Silence fell upon all. The academic had no answer, because the question was direct, simple and honest. It pierced right through all the pretension, and illuminated everything in an instant.
This, in essence, represents the monumental impact Adam had on the Tibetan freedom struggle. His compassion, action and creativity illuminated to the whole world the truth of China's oppression of Tibetans.
After backpacking in Nepal, where he met Tibetan refugees for the first time, Adam came home and founded the Milarepa Fund, a nonprofit advocacy organization named after Tibet's most famous and beloved saint. Milarepa was an eleventh century Tibetan saint whose life and words have provided inspiration to countless Tibetans searching for spiritual liberation, and his story of tragedy and triumphs have served as milestones and benchmarks in seekers' journey toward enlightenment. His verses, simple and melodious, are sung to this day in the form of songs and opera.
It is not hard to understand why Adam found inspiration in Milarepa. Himself a spiritual seeker, Adam turned his musical genius into a force for social and political justice. Taking on the biggest colonial empire on the planet, he became a fierce advocate of Tibetan freedom.
Acting upon his belief that change in Tibet can only come through public awareness and grassroots pressure, he reached out to the greatest musicians of the era. He then set about organizing a series of mega concerts in North America, Europe and Asia that came to be known as the Tibetan Freedom Concerts. It was these concerts from 1996 to 2001, attended by hundreds of thousands, and the grassroots awareness they created, that eventually transformed the Tibetan cause from an obscure, fringe issue into a defining political movement of our time.
Adam supported numerous Tibetan projects, most visibly Students for a Free Tibet (SFT). The Milarepa Fund, founded by Adam, was one of the three organizations that helped birth SFT in 1994, as an answer to the rapidly growing youth interest in Tibet. Today SFT is one of the leading organizations in the movement.
To the end of his tragically short life, he remained a fierce warrior and humble supporter of the Tibetan freedom movement.
Ever since we shared that short conversation at the urinals at Harvard, I have always pictured him as a simple, unassuming human being with a heart the size of a universe. Adam was a true American saint.
Ummm i guess Chinese wanted to liberate us Tibetan out of kindness just like Japanese wanted to liberate Nanking in 1937.
Thank you for sharing your own thoughts on MCA. I am still beside myself with grief, and will be lighting candles for Adam for 49 days after his passing. May we carry on his love and light!
Thanks for this obituary. He truely seems to be someone genuinely supporting cause. He went so far to woo a Tibetan girl, eventually marrying her. Condolences to his family. May he reborn swiftly in a Tibetan family.


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A partnership for sport excellence and performance
This month Savini Due announced by posting on its official website, the conclusion of a one-year partnership, through which the company of Italian origins, leader in the bathroom furniture market in Romania, becomes official sponsor of the cycling team Giotti Victoria for competitions in Romania, Hungary and ex-Yugoslav countries.
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About Giotti Victoria cycling team
The Giotti Victoria – Palomar team is an Italian-Romanian cycling team founded by the former great cyclist of Italian origin, Stefano Giuliani, internationally recognized for his successes in the Giro d 'Italia. The team consists of cyclists from Italy, Romania and Japan, and participates every year in competitions such as the Tour of Romania, the Tour of Japan, Ronde de L'oise (France), the National Championship in Italy, the National Championship in Romania, and many more.
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Savini Due is a leader in the bathroom furniture market in Romania, Hungary, and is an important player in the market in Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav countries. For 17 years, the passion for Italian design and the quality of the materials used have been translated into products that have been noticed year by year at international fairs, and which we find in most of the Romanian baths. The company is actively involved in the life of the society and in the local community, where it supports education in hygienic conditions, health and sports, through the different programs that it conducts annually.


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Organ, M.K., Ephemera in Archives: What to Do? - A Possible Solution from the University of New South Wales Archives, Archives and Manuscripts - Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, Canberra, 15(2), November 1987, 105-118.
This article attempts to define ephemera for archivists and librarians; looks at the methods o f dealing with ephemera previously employed by both groups; suggests that instead o f undergoing off-hand destruction, ephemera be considered a necessary part o f a comprehensive archival collection; and, finally, proposes a simple system for gaining physical and intellectual control over ephemera in an Archives, based on methods employed by the University o f New South Wales Archives.


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Psychic TikTok is a Cesspit of Sylvia Brownes
Rebecca Watson Follow on Twitter Send an email September 24, 2021
In the past few years, I've seen a resurgence in a "belief" in astrology, at least amongst my friends and social media follows. I say "belief," with quotation marks, because honestly I've never been sure how much people actually believe in it. Like, the smarter people I know MUST understand that it's just stupid fun, right? Even I can appreciate sort of "witchy" culture as a way to daydream about a more magical world, particularly a world where women and other marginalized groups come out on top. Where we have secret knowledge of esoteric arts. Where we can make a rapist's dick fall off by burning some incense or whatever. I know, that escalated quickly but it's kind of the point! Many years ago I used to give a talk about "women's intuition," and about how the idea of women having some "magical" way of knowing things arose in part due to their oppression, and due to men monopolizing science and technology. In a world where women are told their stupider, and then denied basic education, how could women find power? And when women DID demonstrate superior knowledge and understanding of something, how could society explain it? WITCHERY!
Astrology, psychic powers, and other superstitions propagate in environments where people are uncertain, anxious, and feeling helpless. Over the past five years, women in the US have dealt with a president who openly bragged about sexually assaulting women and who suggested that women (but not men) should be "punished" for seeking abortions (after he beat a competent female politician for the job). Sure enough, he stacked the Supreme Court with anti-woman judges and now abortion has been effectively outlawed in Texas.
Obviously there's plenty more going on both in the US and around the world — and thanks to social media, regardless of whether or not we're experiencing more equality than ever before, our perception of our own inequality, and the continued inequality women experience around the world, is what really matters here. Seeing all the bullshit happening as we doom scroll our lives away, it's understandable that we'd find some comfort in the idea of unplugging and losing ourselves in sage and crystals and candles and spells and magick. Magick with a "k." No one wants to see your card trick, Kyle, we want to summon an Elder God to devour your sanity.
But — and there's always a "but" for your local skeptical killjoy, isn't there? But lurking beneath the fun has always been the true dark side of superstition. Not ghosts or demons or swamp things but the human monsters who, knowingly or not, severely fuck people up with their "psychic skills."
Skeptics of the 90s and early 2000s saw this happen during the glory days of "psychics" like Sylvia Browne. Browne was a mainstay on daytime television where she would tell people about their dead loved ones, like when she told a woman that her boyfriend drowned (he was a firefighter who died on 9/11 and Browne claimed she was seeing hoses) or when she told the mother of Amanda Berry that the missing girl was dead, and added that the mother must know it because Amanda wouldn't NOT call her. The mother told local news that she "98% believed" that Browne was telling the truth, saying "Please don't misunderstand me. I still don't want to believe it. I want to have hope but, after a year and a half, what else is there? It seems like the God-honest truth. My daughter would always call home."
The mother died of heart failure a year later, believing her daughter was dead. Nine years later, Amanda Berry escaped her captor and was found alive. (You may remember her case due to the heroism and meme-ability of her captor's neighbor, Charles Ramsey.)
That wasn't even the first time that happened with Browne. In 2003, she told the parents of Shawn Hornbeck that their missing son was dead, only for him to turn up alive and well a few years later. When Jon Ronson asked her about what went wrong, she said ""I think what I did was I got my wires crossed. There was a blonde and two boys who are dead. I think I picked up the wrong kid."
That's all, she just got the wrong kid! No big deal. Sorry, Hornbeck family, for causing untold despair on top of your already unimaginable pain! Wrong kid. Another kid is dead. Whatever.
Part of me hoped that "psychics" like Browne were a thing of the past, but a smarter part of me knew that humanity would never evolve into something so good. Which is why now we have #PsychicTikTok.
This came to my attention because of the currently ongoing case of Gabby Petito, a young Instagrammer who was documenting her tour of the US in a van with her fiance when she suddenly disappeared, and her fiance emerged thousands of miles away in Gabby's van refusing to tell her parents or police where she was or why she wasn't with him. With our society's current true crime obsession, this became perfect fodder for social media detectives. It's bad enough that idiots on TikTok were loudly proclaiming that Petito's fiance was guilty because he was seen reading a book "about groups of people exploring uncharted terrain that go missing." The book was Annihilation. It's…it's got nothing to do with domestic violence and murder, or even #VanLife.
The amateur detective shit, and the obvious profiting from the (likely) murder of a young woman for social media clout, is bad enough. Worse, in my opinion, are the "psychics" who smell blood in the water. In the same way that Sylvia Browne profited off the pain and uncertainty of the families of missing people 20 years ago, people like Angela "the Unicorn Witch" (nearly 120 thousand followers and 2.6 million likes) have hopped on TikTok to let the world know that she psychically discerned what happened to Gabby, and she would be happy to share her knowledge if Gabby's grieving family gets in touch with her. According to her website, she only charges $150 for a 45-minute spiritual reading! A real deal, considering that she has exactly the same amount of psychic ability as Sylvia Browne (zero), who charged something like $400 an hour.
The Unicorn Witch isn't the only one — TikTok is absolutely infested with people claiming to have a link to the spiritual world that will tell them what happened to Gabby, like this parasite.
I'm sure that at least some of them are "closed eye" psychics, as described by M. Lamar Keene in his expose "The Psychic Mafia." A lot of people think they have special powers and enjoy playing around with this stuff. But Keene (who was a professional psychic) points out that once you start charging people for readings, it becomes impossible not to realize at some point that you can't perform as well as you'd like, and you start buffering your performances by knowingly cheating — researching clients beforehand and feeding them the information you know (hot reading), or taking cues from what you see around them or on their person like a wedding ring (warm reading) or improving your ability to "cold read," which is using generalities like "I see an older man with a name starting with "J" and waiting for the client to fill in the details.
That's why while I understand the desire to play make believe, it's so important to make sure that people know the real con going on behind the "magick." Suspend your disbelief if you'd like when dealing out tarot cards or playing with an ouija board with your girlfriends, but don't be fooled by scam artists who are taking advantage of grieving people.


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Why it is the Hard Drive that just arrived at my door with ALL of Jean Sargent's Papers on it! 34 boxes containing 799 files and 17,583 pages are now condensed into a12 GB collection on a 5″x7″ drive.
There is an average of 1.7 pages for each day of the 29 years Jean did her research!!!
The total tab for the digitization is $3550 which was underwritten by your donations. The final project cost is about 20 cents per page, but in return for that we have gotten a quality scanned PDF of each file and folder and accompanying TIFF image. Each document was scanned using a High Res OCR (Optical Character Resolution) so each document is searchable for the first time. Note that there are items that could not be scanned due to copyright concerns.
I will be looking for a way to share this massive collection in short order, but first I have to get a better fix on the data it contains.


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