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First female bishop
THE BALTIMORE SUN
IT SEEMS WOMEN have always played a leadership role in the 213-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Jarena Lee, for example, a preacher from Philadelphia's Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, is celebrated as one of the first black women to speak out publicly against slavery.
With the election of the Rev. Vashti McKenzie as the denomination's first female bishop, women have finally gained official recognition in the church's highest ranks.
"Because of God's favor, the stained glass ceiling has been pierced and broken," the Payne Memorial pastor told the cheering church convention that gave her overwhelming support in the second round of voting.
When the first woman ran for A.M.E. bishop 36 years ago, she received 13 votes of a possible 1,067. Another woman garnered 200 votes four years ago, falling far short of the 50 percent required.
Women account for 70 percent of the A.M.E. church's 2.5 million members. When church delegates gathered in Cincinnati this week, few doubted a woman would be elected bishop. Indeed, a special resolution was introduced to mandate such an election.
The convention, wisely, rejected such a procedural fiat. It wanted the election conducted on merit.
Over the past decade at Payne Memorial, Ms. McKenzie has proved to be an electrifying preacher. She will now be an inspiration for other denominations still resisting top leadership roles for women clergy. With her responsibilities including Botswana, Mozambique and Lesotho, she will be an influence far beyond U.S. borders.


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Humań (ukr. Умань, Umań) – miasto na Ukrainie, w obwodzie czerkaskim, nad Umanką (dorzecze Bohu), siedziba administracyjna rejonu humańskiego.

Ośrodek przemysłu maszynowego, materiałów budowlanych i spożywczego; węzeł drogowy. W mieście znajdują się dwie szkoły wyższe i muzeum.

Historia

W Koronie Królestwa Polskiego

W czasach I Rzeczypospolitej Humań przynależał administracyjnie do województwa bracławskiego prowincji małopolskiej Korony Królestwa Polskiego. W 1569 hetman Roman Sanguszko odniósł pod Humaniem zwycięstwo nad Tatarami. W 1609 król Polski Zygmunt III Waza nadał Humań Walentemu Aleksandrowi Kalinowskiemu, określając w dokumencie to miejsce jako pustynią pewną "Umań" zwaną, w S[taro]stwie bracławskim leżącą, iako w uroczyskach swych to przezwisko pustyni się zawiera. Tutejszy zamek w XVII w. był jedną z najsilniejszych polskich twierdz wschodniego Podola. Zlokalizowany w pobliżu czarnego szlaku, stanowił posiadłość rodu Kalinowskich i był zdobywany kilkakrotnie przez Kozaków. W latach 1672–1699 Humań znajdował się przejściowo we władaniu Imperium Osmańskiego. W XVIII w. stanowił część rozległych posiadłości Potockich na wschodnim Podolu. Humań został wówczas przez Stanisława Kostkę Ortyńskiego połączony traktem z położonym na zachodzie województwa Brahiłowem. W 1748 Franciszek Salezy Potocki ufundował budowę nowego drewnianego kościoła katolickiego. W 1768 podczas koliszczyzny Kozacy i miejscowi ruscy chłopi wymordowali załogę twierdzy, mieszkańców i okoliczną ludność oraz Żydów i duchowieństwo unickie, którzy schronili się w Humaniu (rzeź humańska). U schyłku Rzeczypospolitej stacjonowała tu 8 Brygada Kawalerii Narodowej.

Ośrodek polski w zaborze rosyjskim

Po II rozbiorze Polski od 1793 w zaborze rosyjskim, jako siedziba powiatu humańskiego. W 1796 Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki założył dla żony Zofii Potockiej park, znany dziś jako Park Zofiówka. W latach 1815–1820 u Bazylianów w Humaniu uczyli się polscy romantyczni literaci, m.in. Józef Bohdan Zaleski, Seweryn Goszczyński i Michał Grabowski. W 1826 oddano do użytku nowy klasycystyczny kościół w Humaniu ufundowany przez Potockich. Po upadku powstania listopadowego dobra humańskie zostały odebrane Aleksandrowi Potockiemu przez cara rosyjskiego.

W okresie zaborów Humań stał się ważnym ośrodkiem szkolnym Polaków na wschodnim Podolu. W czasie zaborów naukę pobierali tu m.in. późniejsi polscy wojskowi (Wacław Budrewicz, Rajmund Duracz, Włodzimierz Hellmann, Edmund Malinowski, Franciszek Zieliński), pisarze (Marian Gorzkowski, Józef Jeżowski), ziemianie (Wojciech Zatwarnicki), lekarze (Fortunat Jurewicz, Ignacy Hoffman), profesorowie (Henryk Ułaszyn, Aleksander Kamiński, Leon Borowski), historycy (Edmund Liwski), działacze sportowi (Zenon Paruszewski), dziennikarze (Wacław Zagórski), prawnicy (Aleksander Dębski).

W 1897 r. mający 31 016 mieszkańców Humań był największym miastem Podola po Kamieńcu Podolskim. W wydanym w 1914 r. Przewodniku po ziemiach dawnej Polski, Litwy i Rusi Mieczysław Orłowicz podawał: "Humań, m. pow. gub. Kijowskiej z 34.000 m. Polaków  około 2.100. Ma kościół pokapucyński, Sąd Okręg. w gmachu pobazyliańskim, progimnazyum męskie i sławną szkołę rolniczą. Do zarządu tej ostatniej należy słynny ogród Zofijówka (...) Księgarnia polska Witkowskiej. Hotele w Humaniu: Europejski, Francuski.".

W czasie I wojny światowej w 1915 adwokat Mirosław Sawicki założył tu Polskie Towarzystwo Pomocy Ofiarom Wojny w Humaniu.

Okres walk o miasto i czasy ZSRR
7 kwietnia 1918 odbył się uroczysty przemarsz Wojska Polskiego przez Humań.

Podczas wojny ukraińsko-radzieckiej, oddziały Hryhorijewa w 1919 r. zamordowały 300-400 Żydów. Od 1922 do 1991 część ZSRR. W 1934 Sowieci odebrali kościół Wniebowzięcia NMP katolikom. Około 20 lipca 1941 r. NKWD zamordowało w Humaniu ok. 700–800 więźniów doprowadzonych z Czortkowa.

W 1989 liczyło 90 596 mieszkańców.

W 2013 liczyło 87 111 mieszkańców.

Zabytki
 park Zofiówka (koniec XVIII wieku) powstały z inicjatywy Stanisława Szczęsnego Potockiego, wojewody ruskiego, jako dar dla jego trzeciej żony, Zofii. Park miał 150 ha powierzchni i stanowił jeden z najpiękniejszych parków w Europie. Powstał nad malowniczym jarem rzeki Kamionka. W centrum wykopano dwa sztuczne stawy z różnicą poziomów 20 m. Budowniczy Ludwik Metzell opracował układ wodociągów, kanałów, wodotrysków, fontann i kaskad. Z Francji i Włoch sprowadzano marmury i gotowe rzeźby. Wybudowano altany, sztuczne groty; wytyczono aleje i ścieżki spacerowe z posągami, obeliskami, wazonami i platformami widokowymi. Park został skonfiskowany przez cara Mikołaja I za udział w powstaniu listopadowym Aleksandra Potockiego, syna Szczęsnego. W XIX wieku przeprowadzono zmiany, w 1841 roku wybudowano altanę chińską, klasycystyczny Pawilon Flory i Pawilon Różowy oraz bramę wjazdową z dwoma pawilonami odźwiernych. W czasach sowieckich Zofiówka utraciła wiele ze swego blasku; obecnie utrzymana jest w dobrym stanie i odwiedzana przez turystów
 Kościół katolicki pw. Wniebowzięcia NMP (I poł. XIX w.)
 dawny klasztor bazylianów z lat 1765–1784
 hala targowa (II poł. XVIII w.)
 Sobór św. Mikołaja, wzniesiony w latach 1809–1812, katedra eparchii humańskiej
 dworzec kolejowy z 1890 r.
 kościół protestancki z końca XIX w.
 gmach gimnazjum żeńskiego z 1900 r.
 wieża ciśnień z pocz. XX w.
 grób Nachmana z Bracławia

Obiekty niezachowane:
 zamek
 Synagoga Nowobazarna w Humaniu
 Synagoga Starobazarna w Humaniu

Osoby

Urodzeni w Humaniu
 Leon Borowski – polski inżynier
 Włodzimierz Józef Dobrowolski – podpułkownik lekarz Wojska Polskiego
 Eugeniusz Dziewulski – polski dyrygent, kierownik muzyczny i dyrektor teatru, reżyser, scenograf
 Radosław Nowakowski – polski wojskowy, oficer Marynarki Wojennej, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari
 Aleksiej Radzijewski – radziecki dowódca wojskowy ukraińskiego pochodzenia, generał armii, Bohater Związku Radzieckiego
 Irena Sandecka – polska poetka, nauczycielka
 Witold Sawicki – polski harcmistrz i historyk prawa
 Iwan Skoropadski – kozacki hetman
 Stefan Tarnawski – polski lekarz wojskowy, generał brygady, żołnierz Armii Krajowej
 Mirosław Vitali – polski lekarz
 Janusz Julian Wierusz-Kowalski – polski działacz polityczny, instruktor harcerski
 Stefan Wolski – polski poeta i prozaik, adwokat

Związani z Humaniem
 Józef Jeżowski – polski filolog klasyczny, poeta, tłumacz, współzałożyciel Towarzystwa Filomatycznego
 Nachman z Bracławia – rabin chasydzki
 Zofia Potocka – polska arystokratka (tytułowana hrabiną), stambulska kurtyzana pochodzenia greckiego, według legendy niewolnica sułtana, metresa wielu osobistości
 Edward Przewóski – polski adwokat i publicysta
 Mirosław Sawicki – polski adwokat i działacz harcerski
 Michał Sierakowski – polski biskup rzymskokatolicki, proboszcz w Humaniu
 Iwan Skoropadski – hetman Lewobrzeżnej Ukrainy
 Oskar Żawrocki – polski działacz harcerski

Miasta partnerskie
  Częstochowa, Polska
  Gniezno, Polska
  Kórnik, Polska
  Łańcut, Polska
  Szprotawa, Polska
  Botoszany, Rumunia
  Aszkelon, Izrael
  Nof ha-Galil, Izrael
  Safed, Izrael
  Davis, Stany Zjednoczone
  Milford Haven, Wielka Brytania
  Romilly-sur-Seine, Francja
  Haapsalu, Estonia
  Radziwiliszki, Litwa
  Batumi, Gruzja

Zobacz też
 Pułk Humański Lekkiej Jazdy

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

 Zamek w Humaniu
 MSN World Atlas
 Archiwalne widoki miasta w bibliotece Polona

Miasta w obwodzie czerkaskim
Rejon humański
Prywatne miasta Potockich herbu Pilawa
Prywatne miasta szlacheckie I Rzeczypospolitej (województwo bracławskie)

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How to protect my website?
You have chosen a brand and would like to organize your presence on the internet. You will invest in creating and developing a website to promote your business, your products and services. This phase requires significant intellectual and economic efforts that have to be conserved and defended, all the more so when your activity is carried out online exclusively.
By its nature, a website with its graphic, text content and source codes is accessible to all and is, therefore, easily "copyable" by third parties. Malicious acts may also include reservations of identical or similar domain names, either for the purpose of reselling to you domain names at exorbitant prices or to divert your clients to competing products or services.
You have legal means to protect and defend your efforts and investments:
In view of domain names: It is possible to protect against abusive domain name reservations even if there are many domain name extensions and it is impossible to completely occupy the domain. It is simply necessary to have a real reservation strategy, by being present in the extensions for which there is no dispute settlement procedure and in those that correspond to the geographical areas of your activities. One should also make sure that the planned domain names do not infringe on previous rights (trademarks, domain names ...) and that the sought-after domain names are available for reservation. If the proposed domain names are not available because third parties have already reserved them, there still is a chance, there are liberalization techniques that vary according to the circumstances (anonymous redemption procedure, back-orders with automatic recovery option in case of non-renewal of the domain name by its holder on due date ...). It is also possible to defend against abusive reservations (cybersquatting, typosquatting, etc.) as soon as your domain name leads to an active website. This requires the setting up of surveillance and rapid actions (letters of formal notice, UDRP procedures, SYRELLI, etc.)
In view of your website and its contents: your graphic creations, the texts, software, and even source code can be protected by copyright if these works of mind are original (see Copyright) and if you are able to prove their dates of design (see Timestamping). In order to enforce your rights, it is necessary to first detect counterfeits [see web/ digital and surveillance of domain names and URLs] and, if necessary, take appropriate legal measures to stop the contested measures (see Pre-litigation and Litigation).
Finally, do not forget that any online uploading of a website, whether commercial or not, implies the drafting of legal notices. These are mandatory and must comply with the latest regulations (Law for Confidence in the Digital Economy, Consumer Code, Commercial Code, etc.).
The drafting of general conditions of sale or use, while not required, is strongly recommended.
The solicitation of user consent is also a must if your website uses cookies and other tracers (European "Telecom Package" Directive) and if you collect, process and store personal data, you must declare it to the CNIL (see Web/Digital).

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SCI's energy, special events motivate volunteer turned staff member
Volunteer Spotlight //
Tuesday July 29, 2014
Playing-card tower expert: That was Taylor Kooker's first title at the Science Center of Iowa. She encouraged participants to ask questions as they designed whimsical playing-card forts on her first day as a volunteer at the Des Moines Mini Maker Faire in September 2014.
"My favorite part was when I helped kids build cool, tall forts out of cards," Kooker said. "It was fun to see what they created."
Today, Kooker has a new title: sales associate. After volunteering at the Des Moines Mini Maker Faire and other special events, Kooker joined the SCI Box Office staff, a position she has held since June.
She initially got involved with SCI's Volunteer Program to earn hours for her silver cord at Carlisle High School, where she graduated in May. One behind-the-scenes role led to another, giving Kooker, 17, a new perspective on all things SCI.
"When I volunteered here, I interacted with the kids in the exhibits," Kooker said. "Now, I run group orientations, so it's fun to see big groups of kids come in and help start their visit the right way."
Whether she's building the ultimate playing-card fortress or welcoming a group, Kooker said SCI's high-energy work environment and community-focused events keep her coming back.
"Everyone is so friendly. It's a cool place to work," she said. "I think SCI's events contribute a lot to the Des Moines metro."


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I'm new on pure MongoDB and I've some questions about pure MongoDB.
1. Does pure MongoDB use schemas and models like Mongoose ODM?
Do we need to define schemas and models with their fields?
2. Does pure MongoDB have any validators?
First, I have a problem in accessing mySQL 8.0.13 using Workbench suddenly where the usual password is not accepted.
C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\mysql-8.0.13-winx64\bin>mysqld –initialize-insecure –console 2019-01-06T13:48:30.472661Z 0 [System] [MY-013169] [Server] C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\mysql-8.0.13-winx64\bin\mysqld.exe (mysqld 8.0.13) initializing of server in progress as process 7148 2019-01-06T13:48:30.526721Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010457] [Server] –initialize specified but the data directory has files in it. Aborting. 2019-01-06T13:48:30.549741Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-013236] [Server] Newly created data directory C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\mysql-8.0.13-winx64\data\ is unusable. You can safely remove it. 2019-01-06T13:48:30.566754Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010119] [Server] Aborting 2019-01-06T13:48:30.575948Z 0 [System] [MY-010910] [Server] C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\mysql-8.0.13-winx64\bin\mysqld.exe: Shutdown complete (mysqld 8.0.13) MySQL Community Server – GPL.
Now, even though I have no problem in connecting, the schema just will not show up.
Please help me out how to make MYSQL server work properly again.


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Q: mysql fetch to a multidimensional associative arrays php I have a sql query which returns a bunch of rows containing id,field1,field2,field3 and I want to create an array to be accessed this way:
$array[$id]['field1']

I tried this:
$stmt2->bind_result($idOpcion,$field1,$field2,$field3);
while ($stmt2->fetch()) {

            $options = array(
                "$id" => array(
                    "field1" => $field1,
                    "field2" => $field2,
                    "field2" => $field3)
                );
}

and to access:
$id = 501; //Just for clarify the example

<option <?php if $options[$id]['field1']==$dimension->getIdDimension()){echo "selected";}?>
value="<?=$dimension->getIdDimension()?>">
<?=$dimension->getNombreDimension()?></option>

And I get the message:
NOTICE: Undefined offset: 501

What I'm doing bad?
As you can imagine, the main goal is to load/select the proper option in a select, based on the stored data. Any other solution?.
Thank you in advance.

A: Thanks to Arsh Singh, now it works!
while ($stmt2->fetch()) {

            $options[$id] = array( "field1" => $field1,
                    "field2" => $field2,
                    "field3" => $field3);

}

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The newly designed search results. The new search results have extra categories in the listing to further filter out the listing.
The redesigned restaurant details page has a cleaner and a clutter free interface.
To begin with, the page now shows up to a maximum of 5 image thumbnails on the top. These photos will have both official photos and the user uploaded ones. Both types will be labelled under the respective photo's title.
Reviews are highlighted on the top and the best known features (cuisines, restaurant amenities, inclusions or price value) are shown in a tag-like-section.
Tapping on 'Send an Enquiry' or 'Reserve Table' opens up an action sheet, instead of navigating to a new screen.
The Reservations tab shows a list of restaurants you have reserved/enquired. Quick actions can be performed on these list items to make a phone call or send a message (in case user has an enquiry) by swipe gestures.
Aaand.. we are nearing the final stretch. Profile page was designed in a way to give the user interface more breathing room.
Timeline is a new concept. It shows the list of all restaurants you have been to. Timeline screens, as clear with the name, keep a timeline of your restaurant visits. The fallback allows you to hide or delete a restaurant that got listed.
The main feature of Timeline is in allowing the user to enter his feedback — by reviews, reactions, or by adding photos.
Wrapping up what I have done.
I got started with the project after spotting a design vacancy on LinkedIn. All the work done, and presented here, as well on the website http://prasillakshmanan.com/projects/quandoo were solely done by me over the course of more than a month.
Getting into this project, I knew this would be a challenging opportunity to brush up my branding/identity designing skills, and doing more thought processes for UX issues.
Looking back now, within the last month I was able to polish all the skills I had kept rarely used and this exercise helped me deliver so much more.
Within the last four weeks, I was able to work on different aspects of design, and I set out to deliver the best I can.
I thought, ideated, drew, I designed, I iterated, and iterated again. I would admit that this is too short of a time to completely redesign the product, or give a rebranding without knowing the brand in-depth through the people in Quandoo. But I believe this is a first step in a change for the better.
👉🏾📱Here's the link to the interactive prototype. Feel free to play around with it.
It would have been great to get real data on how customers are actually using Quandoo, and how business is being made since the above redesign were made solely based on my personal experience.
I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Please do reach out to me at [email protected] or at my LinkedIn — I'm always down for a conversation!


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Campedelli is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Dominic Campedelli (born 1964), American ice hockey player
 Nicola Campedelli (born 1979), Italian footballer and manager

See also
 Campedelli surface

References

Italian-language surnames


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Q: Laravel - How to convert API Resource to array recursively? I'm using Laravel API Resource and want to convert all parts of my instance to an array.
In my PreorderResource.php:
/**
 * Transform the resource into an array.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request
 * @return array
 */
public function toArray($request)
{
    return [
        'id' => $this->id,
        'exception' => $this->exception,
        'failed_at' => $this->failed_at,
        'driver' => new DriverResource(
            $this->whenLoaded('driver')
        )
    ];
}

Then to resolve:
$resolved = (new PreorderResource(
  $preorder->load('driver')
))->resolve();

At first glance, the method resolve would fit it but the problem is that it doesn't work recursively. My resource resolved looks like:
array:3 [
  "id" => 8
  "exception" => null
  "failed_at" => null
  "driver" => Modules\User\Transformers\DriverResource {#1359}
]

How to resolve an API Resource to array recursively?

A: Easiest way is to generate json and convert back to array.
$resource = new ModelResource($model);
$array = json_decode($resource->toJson(), true);

A: Normally, you should just do:
Route::get('/some-url', function() {
    $preorder = Preorder::find(1);
    return new PreorderResource($preorder->load('driver'))
});

because this is how responses should be used (of course you can do it from your controller).
However if there is any reason you want to do it manually you can do:
Route::get('/some-url', function() {
    $preorder = Preorder::find(1);
    $jsonResponse = (new PreorderResource($preorder->load('driver')))->toResponse(app('request'));

    echo $jsonResponse->getData();
});

I'm not sure if this is exact effect you want, but you can get also other information from $jsonResponse if you need. And result of ->getData() is object.
You can also use:
echo $jsonResponse->getContent();

if you need to just get string

A: The late answer, you could also go with:
Route::get('/some-url', function() {
    $preorder = Preorder::find(1);
    $jsonResponse = json_decode(json_encode(new PreorderResource($preorder->load('driver'))));
    echo $jsonResponse;
});

In case you want only array string you remove the outer json_decode.


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At today's meeting, Erik Morimoto, Director of Public Works, and Matt Anderson gave an overview of the Wastewater Treatment System for the Village of Cary. Matt described in detail the filtration process used by the village. Residents of Cary are fortunate in having the property, facility and expertise to ensure that our wastewater is efficiently processed in a cost-effective manner. And, the facility has the capacity to accommodate additional growth within the community without the need to upgrade equipment.
Erick reviewed some of the Construction Projects that are planned for the Village. At the top of that list is the upgrade to the Metro Station, a $2.3 million grant project that includes a new depot and pedestrian crossing at Route 14. Being the 60th busiest station out of Metra's 236 stations, this upgrade is much needed. Thanks to both Matt & Erik for a very informative program.


Is government trying to control information on problems after go-lives of NPfIT systems?
Transformational government - just a spin doctor's meaningless phrase?
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Q&A WITH DWIGHT YOAKAM
FOR HIS 'UNDER THE COVERS' ALBUM
Q: This album is like a juke-box from your soul. What was the original inspiration for the album?
DWIGHT: Well, initially it was an outgrowth of a performance we gave in the summer of '95, a live radio broadcast from the studios at Capitol Records. We happened to do three or four cover songs in that broadcast and the response to that was universally pretty strong. Then Pete and I had talked about doing a cover album for a couple of years. We thought it might be fun to do an album that explored songs we had performed in night clubs over the years, early on in our performing career. We also wanted to cover songs that we never played but ones we had been fans of.
Q: What was the criteria for the songs that actually made it onto the album? Just to isolate one song, the Clash's "Train In Vain" gets recast in a blue-grass setting.
DWIGHT: It's a twist on a song and a twist on bluegrass. It's not truly a pure bluegrass performance because we've added accordion and drums. Ralph Stanley is playing banjo and singing harmony with me. In the spirit of the album, it is a hybrid kind of bluegrass performance of a song that I've always admired. I loved that melody line when I originally heard The Clash do it years before. I always carried it around in my hip pocket as a song that I thought I might cover some day. And this was my opportunity. In fact, it was originally an unlisted track on the Clash's album, London Calling. I had to go hunt and figure out, "what's that song?"
Q: Wasn't "La Croix D'Amour" (a 1992 European-only release) also a catalyst for this album?
DWIGHT: Yeah. That was an earlier collection of songs that we released in Europe at the suggestion of a couple of the heads of the European record division who felt they wanted to hear, almost exclusively, things that we had done that were up-tempo. And when we began to explore putting an album together like that for Europe, we went and covered "Here Comes The Night," by Them and the Beatles' "Things We Said Today." For this album, we remixed "Things We Said Today" with a live drum track that was not originally on the "La Croix D'Amour" album. The whole track as it is presented on this album is a remix, top to bottom, with the addition of the new drum track.
Q: Maybe you could describe the freedom that you went into this project with because there are no borders here.
DWIGHT: I think one of the great examples of feeling that we were not prisoners of any kind of genre perimeters is "Good Time Charlie." When we recorded it, I felt it was only going to be a part of the album if I had somehow achieved a performance that was my own–in terms of leaving a fingerprint on the song without compromising the material in any way. Once we had cut the track and I started singing it, I couldn't bring myself to just do the melody the way that Danny O'Keefe had performed it because it was done so well that I didn't feel it did justice to mimic the previous performance. The words of the song, I think, are so profoundly well-written and poignant that I just let myself open up to going to where I felt the emotions of the song were at the moment I began singing the first verse. I was alone in the studio, Pete was in the studio office and our engineer, Michael Dumas, was in the control room at Mad Dog. This was the first collection of work that we had recorded at the new Mad Dog Studios in Burbank. I just turned the lights off in the studio–a very dim light came in from the control room–and I knew the verse so well that I didn't need the light on the music stand for the lyrics. I just let myself drift into another place. I'd been listening to Chet Baker sing in the previous six months off and on. Something in his vocal approach, combined with just the lyrical content of this song, siezed me, and I began to explore other places melodically with the verses. There's a melancholy to the situation and circumstances he describes that is so succinctly extreme that it made me want to curl up, figuratively, in an emotional fetal position as I began performing the melody, which is what I was probably attempting to do by restricting the intervals I sang in each verse, sort of withdrawing into the dark blueness of the lyrics, so-to-speak. I hope Danny O'Keefe enjoys my interpretation of it. I'm such a fan of his own reading of the song, and thought the original recording was such a perfect expression of those emotions, that I felt it was almost untouchable."
Q: What's interesting about the record is the inclusion of "Baby Don't Go." Some people think Sonny and Cher are a kitschy footnote in musical history. What was your attraction to the song?
DWIGHT: Pete Anderson and I had both, at different times, heard the song just driving in a car. We were on the phone with each other, one day, immediately after I had heard it and I said, "Remember that shuffle Sonny and Cher did?" We both felt it was a well-written song and had always liked it. When this project came up, I suggested we do it and that we do it as a duet. We cut it without having a duet partner set. I had actually suggested a couple of people and one of them was in fact Sheryl. I had seen her perform on the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame inaugural for the museum in Cleveland. She came out and sat in with about five different acts. And each time that she sat in with somebody, the level of musical quality of their performance rose by a couple of notches. I mentioned her to Pete then, not knowing Sheryl, not having met her, only being aware of a performance I'd seen her give in '94 in Dallas. I was filming a movie and I happened to go see a show with Blues Traveler and she was part of the bill, touring with her first single. I was impressed with that live performance and the earnest kind of abandon that she approached her performance with. So the seed was planted there. I bumped into Sheryl this year at the Grammys. Pete and I had not had anyone perform on the track at that point yet, and she and I happened to discuss performing together at some point. I got back home and thought about that. I talked to Pete and I called Sheryl, and she agreed to do it. I was extremely flattered. She brought a reading to it that was unique. She's singing in a lower register and there's a sultriness to that performance that has a great charisma. When I heard it, I was reminded of a combination of Mavis Staples and Bonnie Bramlett during the answer/call thing at the end. I was really mesmerized by her performance.
Q: Moving ahead to "Tired Of Waiting." It has a "Mack The Knife feel to it. So how did you ever wind up in this musical setting?
DWIGHT: We arrived at that place via a couple different avenues. I had decided this album might present an opportunity to take a Bobby Darren sort of journey. I told Pete I think I want to do a big band track, a swing track, on this album. I had a desire to perform a song in that genre. We began to explore different material and I'd even thought of covering a Louie Prima version of "Up A Lazy River," which is cast originally in that musical context. And then we started to look at other material that was originally performed in another context and Pete called me and left a message really excited about covering the Kinks' "Tired Of Waiting." He said "Remember the Kinks' song "Tired Of Waiting?" I said yeah. He said, "That's the song we should cover with the big band!" I shook my head and my brain rattled around like the cowbells on Red Skelton's show. I really couldn't even fathom that. I said "Well, let's try that in rehearsal." So we got together and we were rehearsing everything with the band without the horn section, just with the rhythm section. The moment I began to sing it in that swing mode, Pete and I looked at each other and knew it would work and knew it would work almost absurdly well. And by that, I mean, I couldn't get through the first verse without the band and myself just breaking up at the simultaneous absurdity of what we were about to do with the song: one, we were covering the Kinks; two, we were covering the Kinks in a big band swing version; and three, here I am singing this Kinks cover in a Darrenesque kind of context. This album grew from a desire to knock down any parameters and preconceived notions about what we were able to do as performers, the band and myself. We explored music in its purest sense, for the joy to be found in all of it's emotional expressions.
Q: It's so smooth. And speaking of smooth, so is "Claudette," which opens the record. What led you to that one?
DWIGHT: We had actually performed "Claudette" in the 1989 tribute to Roy Orbison at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles when Barbara Orbison, T. Bone Burnett, Don Was put together a special for HBO. Pete and I kept it in our minds, in our mental hip pocket, as a song that we might want to consider to record someday. It was a song that, although Roy wrote it, he had never released as a single. The version that's known by its radio play is the Everly Brothers' version. It's also so expressive of the kind of musical legacy that I come from, which includes The Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison, two of the major musical influences in my life. So here's a song that was written by one, Roy, and performed by and identified with the other act, The Everlys. I wanted to weld both together in my own kind of expression of what I heard coming from those two artists as a child. They both had a profound influence on how I sing, The Everlys and Roy. Roy and I were able to talk about that, on a plane one Sunday morning. I'll never forget that. It was the first time I met him. I was on my way to Nashville to receive a gold album for Guitars & Cadillacs–it was in the fall of '86 and he and Barbara were sitting behind my manager and me. We began to talk over the backs of the seats. We were airborne and it was just a glorious morning to be in the sky. It was an early morning flight and we broke through clouds, with the sun blasting through the windows of the plane, and I'm able to talk to Roy Orbison for the first time in my life. He had this other-worldly quality anyway, and it was certainly in his singing voice. He leaned up to me at one point and said "Dwight," and he kind of half whispered it, "Do you feel like your singing voice has a life of its own, like it's another person?" It was the first time anybody had ever articulated that to me in an open way–something that I had held as a secret and almost something that I had guarded as a secret. I was embarrassed to share those feelings or to bring it up with anybody for fear that they would ridicule me as being at best a lunatic, at worst some sort of narcissistic fool. And to have Roy Orbison, of all people, tell me that the animal that lives within us–our voice–appeared to be less in our control than anybody could imagine and possess a mystery and mystique attached to it that only another person who had to wrestle with that sort of angel/demon that can live inside them would understand. It was a profound moment in my life to share with somebody, and to share it with Roy Orbison was really an overwhelming experience. So in doing this song, I'm able to hopefully share it with him in a musical way. And as well as the Everlys. They have mystical voices. Their tracks and their songs have always held a great fascination for me. One of the early albums I had in my possession was one of theirs. It was a Warner album with a gold picture frame on the cover. The two of them were in these striped Banlon pull-over shirts with these huge–I mean, nuclear–pompadours. I was captivated by the visual as well as the musical aesthetics of both acts. Roy and the Everlys are part of the legacy from which I hail personally and part of the cultural legacy that gave birth to what I do musically.
Q: What about "Playboy," the Wynn Stewart song? Is Wynn Stewart also the person who popularized it?
DWIGHT: Yeah. Wynn Stewart had the only radio hit that I know of on the song. I don't know if Buck Owens ever covered it or not. Wynn Stewart was a Capitol recording artist in the '50's and Merle Haggard performed in his band on bass. Wynn Stewart was a West Coast country artist. I don't know if Buck produced or Wynn Stewart did, but Buck may have been instrumental in getting him signed to Capitol. "Wishful Thinking" was another great Wynn Stewart song. But "Playboy" had always appealed to me. I'd never performed it in public. I'd bring it up from time to time as an illustration of that Bakersfield sound in conversations and in interviews over the years. I used to sing it around the house. I love Wynn's vocal style and his recording of it.
Q: "Wichita Lineman." This is another great moment on the album. It is so hybrid and it jaw-droppingly goes through so many styles within seconds. Tell us a little about what went into this song.
DWIGHT: It was originally an outgrowth of a conversation that came up with some folks that were involved in a film project–they were toying with the idea of using that song as a closing track and asked if we would ever consider cutting it. When that didn't happen, we went in on our own because the idea so captured my imagination. I was such a huge fan of the song and had not thought about it in a couple of years. When it came up, I was at the studio finishing my Christmas album. We were standing in the control room and I had this conversation with this person. I was relaying the conversation to Pete and I began to sing it a cappella. We both started to smile because we realized I had never explored that kind of vocal range on record. Jimmy Webb wrote some brilliant songs and this is certainly on par with the best that he ever wrote. I know everyone alludes to "MacArthur Park" as being his great triumph, but lyrically, I'm hesitant to exclude "Wichita Lineman" from that same level of genius. Having said that, when Pete and I and the band sat down and actually decided to record it, the use of it in the film was no longer an issue. We were doing it really for the purpose of embellishing the covers album and adding it as a track that we now felt excited about creatively. We didn't want to do the song if, again, we couldn't explore a unique interpretation of it–an interpretation that would do justice to the original creative catalyst for the song and for the writer and at the same time define itself as its own specific performance. And that's what we were trying to do with every track on the record. Singing the lyrics of this song in the studio was both an exhilarating and eerie experience. There's such a mystical, other-worldly kind of quality that comes out of the imagery (due in part to the lyrical use of an experience with its extreme juxtaposition of a repairman working on a highline pole while simultaneously communicating telepathically with a lover) that the song seemed to take on a sort of wildly metaphysical importance in my mind as I was singing it. And it is a further example of Webb's metaphoric expression being so blindly brilliant that his songwriting talent all but defies analysis and description.
Q: If this album tells the story of your own musical legacy, "Here Comes The Night" possesses that loner quality that is so prevalent in your own music. What attracted you to this song?
DWIGHT: Maybe you're hearing a shy 15-year old kid who found it really tough to approach a girl that he had a huge crush on. Although the lyrics are about a relationship that's come and gone, it certainly deals with a sense of alienation and isolation that can be an outgrowth of feeling socially inept. So there's a little of that in the song.
Q: The guitar sparkle on "Here Comes The Night"–there is a comparison there with the shimmering guitars that exist on your own records.
DWIGHT: The fingerprints are still our own on this album. Pete's solo on "Claudette" is a scalding, white-trash guitar work-out that I hope doesn't go overlooked. On "Here Comes The Night" there are examples of Pete's unique stylistic approach to the instrument. Also, we shifted again the rhythm in the verses–it's almost a bit ska. There is a bit of reggae turn-around on the back beat on the verses. We just explored through our own interpretation of the material.
Q: With "The Last Time," it's really interesting that you've given a country twist to this song because the middle period Stones would explore country.
DWIGHT: I had talked with Mick Jagger a couple of times about recording together and writing and recording something together. I hope the Rolling Stones will be flattered by our taking it off into a nuclear Merle Travis kind of break-neck mystery train groove. It's a hybrid also. There's some Travis picking going on with the lead electric guitar at a pretty volatile tempo. There's a raging bluegrass tempo to it. What I did with the vocal was perform it in a traditional bluegrass half time fashion. It was fascinating to sing those lyrics with that kind of interpretation applied to it. We had played the song over the years at different times, but had done it in a form that was closer to the original style the Stones had done it in. The Lonesome Strangers sang on it with me. Their vocal style–being post-nuclear Delmore Brothers–added another element.
Q: Your vocal syle on "Things We Said Today" by The Beatles is real notable. Can you reflect on that?
DWIGHT: When I cut that originally for La Croix D'Amour, it was the first real recording, melodically, that was such a severe departure from the blues, rockabilly- based singing that I had done. Even that early inspiration of it was very freeing and allowed me to express myself in a unique way musically. To me, the Beatles' version seemed to embrace a youthful innocence. I think we were able to interpret it in a darker way and possibly introduced a new emotional mystery to the song. There's more foreboding in what Pete's doing in the lead guitar intro.
Q: Why did you cover "North To Alaska" by Johnny Horton?
DWIGHT: It's a tribute to Johnny Horton. The first hit single I ever had was a cover of the Johnny Horton song, "Honky Tonk Man." "North To Alaska" was a song that I loved from the time I was a child. I played it for years in the bars when I was receiving my musical education at the hands of dancers and alcoholics. It was something that I thought about recording several times and had just never had the opportunity before this.
Q: What's in the lyric that's appealing to you?
DWIGHT: In finding Johnny Horton first as a seven-year-old child listening to my parents' record collection, I was always fascinated with these images that he created, lyrically, that were absolutely paintings in my mind of places and events and specifically on "North To Alaska." Even to this day, everytime I sing the line, "One small band of gold to place on sweet Jenny's hand," I see pictures. I probably learned about lyrical picture painting– visualization–by listening to him. This is an acknowledgement of that influence.
Q: It's interesting that your decision to do it tells a story of your own legacy.
DWIGHT: Until we spoke just now, I really hadn't articulated for myself how profoundly influential he was, along with Johnny Cash, as a songwriting stylist mentor. I knew vocally that as a child I had been infatuated with Johnny Horton's voice and I've referred to that before.
Q: The album ends with that hidden track "T For Texas." Who originated that song?
DWIGHT: It's one of Jimmy Rogers' most famous compositions. A lot of people are unaware that Jimmy Rogers–The Blue Yodeler, The Singing Brakeman, as he was referred to in the late 20's and early 30's–wrote that song. He was the first great nationally known country music star. He died tragically of tuberculosis in the early 30's as his success was on the ascent and acknowledgment of his talent and his ability to transcend cultural boundaries had not been fully realized yet in terms of the enormous fame that would have attached itself to his music and career had he lived.
Q: How did your version differ?
DWIGHT: Of all the songs on this record, that one may be the closest in its musical interpretation to the original. I don't know that Jimmy did it with much more than a guitar and a vocal. We tend to take it deeper into Mississippi, (although Jimmy was originally from Meridian), than his version, with the kind of Delta blues electric guitar that Pete was playing on the song with me. The way it felt when we got finished, was almost as if we're hiding ourselves in the performance of the song. It was if Pete and I were on a porch somewhere, way back up in the hills, doing the song together in another lifetime. We cut it live, just sat down and did it warts and all, we didn't overdub anything. We just sat in the studio one night, and performed it. It was completely spontaneous–I didn't know when I was going to come in. I didn't start playing on the first verse, I just dropped in on the acoustic guitar when it felt right to me. I dropped out at the end when I felt like it. It was a joy to do this song with Pete, first in his old single apartment. For a few months I stayed with him and slept on the floor when I had nowhere else to go. We'd sit around and play things like that together. It came full circle in that studio setting. It was spontaneous with me kind of facing him with an acoustic guitar and him sitting with an electric guitar in his hands. That's how we rehearse most of the material we do on every album. Pete and I initially go over arrangement ideas together. We get together for a arrangement meeting after I've written the songs that I think I want to do. He sits in my music study with a Telecaster and a little amp and I sit across from him with my Martin and march through the material and play it down in its most raw, pure form.
Q: It's interesting how the album opens with "Claudette" and closes with "T For Texas." In terms of your inspirations and all of your roots, they are two good bookends for this album. In closing, we wanted to note that it's a real testament to your talent that you are not only exploring your roots but that you've come up with something new along the way.
DWIGHT: Thank you. That was the point of this. It's an exploration and a musical journey that illustrates that music should be and can be completely freeing–it's nothing that Pete and the band or I find imprisoning. I feel music shouldn't be marketed in a narrow-cast way. It's inhibiting to musical growth and exchange.
Q: That's why a lot of people are turned onto Beck at the moment. He's melding a lot of different stuff there. People are looking to be freed. That's what they come to music for in the first place.
DWIGHT: I did. It didn't matter that my socio-economic background was as a kid–I found an affinity with what I was hearing Herb Albert do, what I heard Johnny Cash do and what I heard Bill Monroe and Elvis do as well as what I heard Dean Martin and the great Bobby Darren do. And Bobby Darren is a great example of that, if we look back at his career at everything from the bobby socks teenage frivolous innocence of "Splish Splash" to where he took it–of course everyone remembers "Mack The Knife." And there's also "Beyond The Sea." The sophistication of it and his performance was just brilliant and I was completely infatuated with it. And then he came out on The Tonight Show–in blue jeans, sandals, hair to his shoulders–and sang with an acoustic guitar "If I Were A Carpenter." I think every musician should be inspired by that. And throughout it, he maintained the integrity of his emotional voice. He never compromised that. It was perhaps, against his best "career interest." He never seemed to be a prisoner to any of those parameters. Parameters can be in fact welcome. They can help us find ourselves and they can define musical forms, but they're not something that should be put upon us as confines. They're structural support for what I do musically at any given time, but I also have door-ways built into those structures. We should all have those door-ways that allow us to be able to move from room to room.
Q: There is a lot of stuff to discover in the attic.
DWIGHT: There are toys in that attic, as those guys in Aerosmith said all those years ago.
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Do the 3rd and 4th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution apply during martial law?
In the event of martial law being sanctioned in the United States, I am in question about the Constitution and how it would apply. If a soldier comes to my home during martial law and asks to be quartered or be let in for an "unlawful" search am I still subject to outline the Constitution to soldiers and deny them from quartering in my home or searching in my home without a warrant signed by a judge? I know the legislative and judicial branches are in the backseat during martial law, so that's why I ask this. If the 3rd and 4th amendments didn't apply then could they waltz right into my home even if I said they cannot?
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Anthony CollierAnthony Collier
Is "martial law" actually defined anywhere in law in USA in the first place? Or is it just whatever the government declares the details to be when it's declared? – user4012 Jun 25 '17 at 13:26
@user4012 I suppose the most obvious definition would be the suspension of habeas corpus. – cpast Jun 25 '17 at 13:27
Also, it's worth noting that the 3rd and 4th Amendments are ultimately words. A court has a judge with a robe and a gavel. An Army infantry fireteam has four members: three equipped with M4 carbines (and one of those with a grenade launcher), one with an M249 light machine gun. In the closest historical precedent (the Civil War), Lincoln simply ignored some judicial decisions that he felt were wrong and incompatible with his oath as President. It's not universally agreed that he was wrong to ignore those decisions. – cpast Jun 25 '17 at 13:39
@cpast: But the important question is whether those fire teams, and the rest of the chain of command (who have all taken an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic") would follow orders to impose martial law. – jamesqf Jun 25 '17 at 17:20
Martial Law is defined:
"the imposition of direct military control of normally civilian functions of government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in occupied territory." Source: Wikipedia.
Martial law /noun
the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
the law imposed upon a defeated country or occupied territory by the military forces of the occupying power.
Source: Dictionary.com
The primarily important aspect of Martial law is that it is imposed by the military, most often with an occupational force and not through a civil process.
In the U.S. where martial law may be imposed by the executive branch of the government, there are statutory limitations in how this can be done lawfully; including Congressional authorization, and limits on what can be imposed. I would refer to the US Constitution's protections of Habeas corpus, the "Posse Comitatus Act", the "Insurrection Act", and the Bill of Rights amendments you cited.
If done outside of these limitation, this would be extralegal and would be more similar to a coup d'état by one branch of the government to seize power over the entirety of the Union or a military overthrow of the government by force. Therefore, the Military's governance is not restricted by any preceding legal or political doctrine. In the United States, this would include a nullification of any part or the entirety of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, based on the disposition of the Military command.
Or it would be illegal, resulting from a fracturing of the Union - a civil war. In this situation, any legal precedent is potentially null and void in the regions controlled by those who have splintered from the current government. Within those areas, the rules practiced would be set at the leader's own discretion. However, in the case of an illegal breakage from the government, soveriegnty is not acknowledged and is arguably never established. Therefore, the original law of the land would still be in effect as long as the original government was maintained, and violations could be prosecuted as such when original control is reestablished.
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@SleepingGod a state of emergency is not synonymous with martial law. – PV22 Jun 25 '17 at 13:44
would be pretty scary if it was, the US has been under a State of Emergency since 9/11 – Mennyg Jun 25 '17 at 20:23
I completely misunderstood this at first, but I believe I understand. Martial law lawfully has statutory limitations imposed by checks from other branches which something like unwarranted search and seizures are less likely to happen, but going the extra hundred miles with a coup would null those limitations and give a body of individuals or an organization like the military the utmost authority in the country, right? I think I got that. – Anthony Collier Jun 26 '17 at 12:34
@AnthonyCollier Yes, sorry for the poor formatting of the original answer. I reread it and saw that it was a bit scattered in how the argument was presented. – PV22 Jun 26 '17 at 12:37
The Third Amendment says:
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
If we are at war, then a law could be passed to allow forced quartering of soldiers. I don't think a martial law would suffice; there's really no point to saying "in a manner to be prescribed by law" if the military can just make up the law as it goes along. But if we're already to the point of declaring martial law, I doubt anyone would stop them.
The Fourth Amendment states:
Whether a search is "unreasonable" is a matter of some interpretation. There are already cases where the police can enter your home without a warrant and it's not considered unreasonable - for example, if they have reason to believe you're actively destroying evidence. So, whether the military can search your house might depend on why they're doing it. If it's "we detected radiation from an atomic bomb somewhere on your block, and we need to find out where it is before it explodes" then they can legally search your house without a warrant. If it's "we're searching all houses in this area just in case we find something", then they legally can't, although then you still have the problem of how you tell the guys with guns that they can't do something.
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Under martial law, the laws governing the military now govern the civilians, at least that's the general principle. Each nation, or more correctly, each military, can decide how to apply that.
If it were to happen in the US, that means the civilian population would fall under the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which does not implement all aspects of the US Constitution. When one joins the military, they agree to give up some of their constitutional rights, for the duration of the enlistment.
Presumably, the 3rd and 4th amendments would no longer apply, although the commander on site would be well advised not to exercise the full extent of the UCMJ, if they wanted to avoid an armed insurrection.
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Ah, so the population would fall under the jurisdiction of the UCMJ which does make sense why some constitutional rights wouldn't apply during marital law. Thank you! – Anthony Collier Jun 25 '17 at 15:30
I have no idea where you are getting this. The 3rd and 4th Amendments cannot be overridden be executive mandate. – Avi Jun 25 '17 at 19:18
They are not override by executive mandate. They are overridden by the needs of the military, and by agreement of the enlisted (except for the draft). This also applies, to a limited degree, to anyone who holds a security clearance - to get that clearance, they agree to give up the right to unwarranted search and seizure - if it involves classified material. This is one reason why martial law is not declared in the US - it is a very drastic step. – tj1000 Jun 26 '17 at 2:09
Again, I have no idea where you're getting this. The 3rd and 4th Amendments cannot be overridden by the "needs of the military"; indeed, such logic would make the 3rd amendment completely meaningless in all applications. People consent to a search in order to get security clearance. That in no way "overrides" the 4th Amendment, just as declining to say something does not override the 1st. You have cited no case law, no statutes, no news articles. If you are going to make such extraordinary statements of constitutional law, they need to be substantiated. – Avi Jun 26 '17 at 3:01
This isn't the definition of martial law, this is the definition of a military coup. – MSalters Jun 26 '17 at 11:01
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MILWAUKEE, Wis.–John Albert Thraen, 81, Milwaukee, Wis., formerly of Elizabeth, died on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee.
A memorial gathering will be held from 10-11 a.m., Saturday, April 20, at Law-Jones Funeral Home, Elizabeth. Following the memorial gathering, a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., also at the funeral home.
Urn placement will be at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery, Elizabeth, following the memorial service.
Light refreshments will be served at St. Mary Catholic Church.
Family and friends are encouraged to share a story at Small Town Saloon, Elizabeth, following the formal services.
Memorials may be given to the Milwaukee Public Library or Sierra Club in John's memory.


As I sit here waiting for my nails to dry, I'm grateful that on a Monday I can sleep in while the rain beats outside, fix a Southern breakfast just for moi and paint my nails that are finally growing because I've stopped biting them. I had actually stopped biting my nails. It was a childhood habit that I conquered. I believe the resurgence was the overwhelm of how big my life was becoming. It was the stress of change. Over the past weeks of a roller coaster ride from car breaking down to the pressures of managing my to-do's, I decided to disengage from that feeling of being the hamster on the wheel.
Maybe it was the overwhelm of a busy albeit purposeful life. Just stuff like your car needing major repairs at the most inopportune time can shift your priorities and cause additional stress to your life. I already felt in some ways like the tail was wagging the dog. My life had become so big to me that I felt it was running me instead of me running it. One thing I realize is my purpose-driven life was being short-circuited by my performance-drivenness.
Underneath it all was feeling like I had to measure up. I had a new book that I self published but didn't really know what that meant. So, when people told me it was going to be bestseller, I jumped on that bandwagon. When it didn't, I scratched my head and felt disappointed. To be honest, I grappled with that for a long time. I tried to put a different spin on it and say that Amazon or the New York Times don't determine that--that my book is a bestseller if it changes someone's life--still deep, deep inside, I felt ashamed.
That thread of ashamedness led to my discovery and a bigger lesson. You can mess up a good thing if you bring the old stuff with you.
I feel like I'm going through Oxygenation: Out with the bad air and in with the good. Bad air, getting stuck in performance mode when I feel anxiety. Good air, evaluating everything I do by my purpose-led intentions. My Wise though soft-spoken inner voice has always told me the truth. "You're going too fast," it whispered while I was trying to juggle a full plate and catch other objects to add to it. I was so caught up in the energy that I couldn't disengage. I tried but kept getting swept up.
It was like being in New York City during rush hour. Folks honking horns and saying with some specially crafted four-letter words, "Move it!" Cabs whizzing around with folks in the streets trying to hail them. Billboards competing for your attention and your dollars. It's overwhelming. The authoring, coaching, entrepreneurial world can be just as intimidating to a newbie. Folks say they aren't competing but everywhere you turn is everybody going for theirs as if someone fired a gun at a 100 yard dash. This person is saying, "come over here," and another is saying "oh no, I have what you need." Before long you feel like the little round ball in the pinball game that keeps bumping into this and that when all you want is to get to the hole at the top. You want to shout, "Calgon, take me away!"
I've never done well when there are too many choices. I am so not the proverbial kid in the candy store. Not at all. When there are too many choices and they are all good, I don't know which to choose first. I get so overwhelmed that I shut down. Ultimately, I leave with nothing.
For me, it's been about getting back to basics. What was my intention for my life? It was 4 things: (1) To do what fulfilled me, (2) To live my life on my terms, (3) To get up every morning excited about my day and (4) To have the money to do all the above. That's it. That's all.
So, I'm sitting with my legs crossed, in my jammies, with wet nails that I hope I have not messed up while typing this blog and a hot flash here and there. Everything else can wait. I'm breathing and staying in a meditative space as I evaluate how I live my purposeful life. Mundane tasks have to be managed. For me, the joy is more important than anything else! This is the sound of my Mindful Monday.


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The Messiah came 2000 years ago to show us The Way by example through The Narrow Gate into The Kingdom of Yahuah. That "way" is through Mikveh, Circumcision, and bringing an Offering to the Altar of Yahuah. After showing us "The Way" on Passover, the veil was torn giving all of us access to follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately, we have been misled for 2000 years! We all have been taught to either keep Easter (which is a Babylonian ritual), or keep The Seder )which is a Roman pagan banquet). We have been taught an entirely different Gospel message that it took The Creator to come and die to save us, when salvation is through a Mediator and High Priest chosen from among men. This book overcomes those lies, and firmly established The Way and example the Messiah set, that we should follow to enter through The Narrow Gate.


The last month or so has been really tough for us around here. Living in the tent all summer was fun, but then it started to get cold and things started getting tough. Sealing the cabin up seemed to take forever. We are trying to gather wood to keep us warm for the winter and that is taking forever and the wood is not as dry as we had hoped. The money is running really low. We also have all the normal chores to do, which take longer than they normally would because we have to get water and heat it, not just turn on a faucet. That is just the biggest example. Everything takes longer. On top of that we have two younger children to entertain. They are loving life most of the time, but they do fight and get bored. Anyone who knows anything about children knows what I mean.
So with all these difficult situations that we have knowingly caused for ourselves, what were we thinking and why in the world would we do it? Why would we make our lives so difficult on purpose? We were living in a normal house with electricity. I was working a good job, making plenty of money to live off of. We were fine for the most part. So why did we turn our lives upside down?
There are so many reasons. I know I have mentioned a few of them before. We wanted to grow our own food. We wanted to live off the land not tied to the grid. We wanted to get out of the town and live in the quiet of the woods. Too many reasons to get in to today. But there is one big reason that I want to share with you today. The one that keeps me going. The one that tells me it will all be worth it some day. The one that is, to me, the meaning of life. Having a full, and meaningful human experience.
The way I see it is, we don't really know what happens when we die. We all have our own beliefs or ideas as to what we think will happen to us, but we don't know for sure and we surely can't all agree. I don't really think it matters. We are here to experience life as people on earth. This is my life and my experience, so I want to make of it what I think it should be.
Much of the world around me grows up, goes to school, goes to college, gets a job, raises their own family, retires at an older and older age, and then you die. That is the plan, the American Dream, that is what we should all do. That is not what I want my life to be. I want more. That is why we decided that we were not going to follow this plan. I grew up and went to college and got a job. Then I realized that I was done. I want to be home with my family and be able to provide for my children time and knowledge. Love and experiences. I don't want to be tied down to a career that stresses me out, working for someone who doesn't care about me. It is my life and I want it to be the fullest experience I can possibly have in the time I have.
By living in a tiny house that we have no mortgage on, it allows me to retire at a much younger age. Many of the people who aren't able to retire can't do so because they have to pay rent or a mortgage. Then on top of that utilities. Then they have to provide food for themselves. We won't have a mortgage or rent, and we will have a permaculture garden that will provide us as much food as possible with as little effort as possible, once established. We will still need to make money, but it won't be massive amounts. We will have to work hard for everything that we have, but it will all be for our family. It won't be for someone else. By working hard through our lives, we will be healthier. By growing our own food instead of eating highly processed food, we will be healthier for that too. By decreasing our stress levels, not working tedious jobs, we will be healthier still. Obviously things can go wrong and unexpected things can happen, but that is the case no matter what you do in life.
Having my kids grow up in an environment where there is no TV and they have to use their imaginations, they will be better for it too. We always take the time to teach them about everything around them. They have learned so much already just by reading and exploring, I think that we are setting them up in the best way we possibly can. Unlike much of society, I hope my children don't want to go to college. I want to set them up with enough life skills that they never need a formal education along with the huge costs. I don't want them to have to work a stressful, un-fulfilling job that keeps them away from their families. I want them to have the opportunity to live their lives to the fullest. Yes, they may hate us for raising them in a little house off the grid, but that is ok. I want them to have the chance and the skills to be self sufficient. I hope they can come to appreciate what we are trying to do.
That being said, I don't think that our parents did anything wrong or anything like that. They did what they believed in and raised us they way they saw fit. We have lived good lives and were given all the tools that we needed to be strong individuals and follow our own dream. They have given us all the love and support we have needed to turn our lives upside down and do what we needed to do. We have stressed them out plenty in attempting our crazy adventure, but they never told us we were wrong or that we shouldn't do it. We appreciate all of those things and couldn't have done it without them.
So, there it is in a nutshell. This is why we chose to do something crazy. I really believe that it will all be worth it. I couldn't be happier. Our children don't even know, yet, that we are not "normal." They are having a great time, living happy, healthy lives. I am planning my retirement, at age 33. The plan is by 40 I will not have to work as a nurse anymore. Maybe just one day a week to pay for insurance unless we find something better. Even though life is tough right now, there will be a day when we are better established and we will have more time to relax. Once we learn more of the skills we need for our new lives, things will get easier as well. Right now, we have no idea what we are doing. People say we are crazy and that they could never do what we are doing. But we are motivated in what we want in life. That is all it takes to get past the crazy. Or it it really not crazy at all?
Things have been really busy around here, so I'm sorry I haven't been keeping up. Finishing up the house and getting prepared for winter is a ton of work. Lots of little odds and ends. We are living in the cabin right now, and have been for a week, so I'm updating a little backwards. Here is the roof assembly!
Nothing too exciting. Just a basic roof, all up to keep us dry.


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530 consecutive weeks. That's how long our Podcast, The Final Lap Weekly, has been running. Incredible, and it's all in thanks to the amazing fans we have. They continue to listen week in and week out, and some have even begun to chip in their own hard earned money to help move the show to the next level (you can too at our Patreon page).
This week's show was another classic, as we broke down one of the more exciting Bristol night races in recent memory. We also have IndyCar and Amazing Race star Conor Daly on the show, as he is making his NASCAR debut this weekend at Road America.
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This playful, round dichroic Murano glass lampwork pendant makes for a stunning, yet contemporary fashion statement. Colored primarily in green with a bar of blue and one of pink, this pendant is brand new, never having been worn. Its 18-inch soft, black rubber chain terminates in a silver-plated chain with lobster claw clasp.
This subtle, earth-toned pendant works well with both modern formal and casual wear, and it can be worn by either women, men, or teenagers. Add this one to your jewelry collection for when you want a pleasing yet eye-catching piece.
Note: This is a Fair Trade product made by artisans in China. The artisans are compensated fairly for their work, helped with preservation of their cultural traditions, and are given development help to assist their communities to rise above poverty.


The concept of global ecosystem services has become a powerful paradigm for understanding the link between ecosystem processes and related human activities, which is expressed by the economic and ecological quantification of the services in regards to sustainable development. The role of tropical forests in the global climate system and the uncertainty of the exact magnitude of this complex interaction has become a major concern to the scientific community. In this paper we review and synthesize the global effects of Amazon deforestation in Brazil, as well as drivers and challenges related to this process. To this end, we provide data on carbon emissions from combined annual maps of clear cutting of primary forests and spatial information on biomass distribution for different vegetation types and secondary vegetation growth, as well as the temporal dynamic related to the deforestation process and its interregional heterogeneity, the social and institutional drivers. In 2009, during the Conference of Parties, of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (Copenhagen, Denmark), Brazil announced a voluntary commitment to reduce the national GHG emissions by 2020 and, to this end, such commitment requires reducing Amazon rainforest deforestation by 80% over a decade. To achieve this target, a set of consolidated remote sensing techniques have served to monitor and calculate the extent of deforestation, which became indispensable auditing tools for conservation, forest restoration and implementing climate change mitigation schemes.


Soapy Natural is a quality handmade artisan soap and skincare brand. Artisanal products are made with natural ingredients, and not to forget, made with love, to love yourself. Here's a fun fact: The maker behind Soap Natural is a down-to-earth Japanese expat living in Malaysia. Which is why, each and every handmade soap has a touch of Japanese element; style, colours and even the names for each soap. Some of the unique names include Homura (ほむら) soap, Tsukikage (つきかげ) Soap and Shizuku(しずく)Soap.
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Moderna Announces Advances Across mRNA Pipeline and Provides Business Update
COVID-19 vaccine sales for 2022 approximately $18.4 billion (unaudited)
Reiterating 2023 expected minimum COVID-19 vaccine sales of approximately $5.0 billion; continue to expect additional contracts for 2023
Company continues to scale with 48 programs in development, including 36 in ongoing clinical studies, and is increasing R&D investment to an expected $4.5 billion for 2023
Pivotal Phase 3 RSV study of mRNA-1345 in older adults ( ≥ 60 yrs.) has now accrued the cases required to complete our first interim efficacy analysis
Moderna and Merck announced mRNA-4157/V940, in combination with KEYTRUDA, demonstrated a 44% reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death in melanoma patients. Phase 3 study in melanoma patients to start in 2023, with rapid expansion to additional tumor types
Phase 1/2, multiple ascending dose Paramount study of propionic acidemia (PA) candidate (mRNA-3927) is ongoing
CAMBRIDGE, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 9, 2023 / Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced updates on its industry-leading mRNA pipeline. Moderna continues to scale, now with 48 programs in development, including 36 programs in clinical trials encompassing mRNA infectious disease vaccines and mRNA therapeutics spanning seven different modalities.
"We enter 2023 in a great position, with significant momentum across our clinical pipeline, a highly energized team and a strong balance sheet of over $18 billion of cash and cash equivalents," said Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna. "With our infectious disease franchise continuing to accelerate with exciting near-term catalysts for RSV Phase 3 data and Flu Phase 3 data, and recent breakthroughs in the development of individualized cancer treatments, as well as our rapid advancement in rare diseases and promising cardiology programs, the Moderna platform is delivering across several modalities. Our progress is meeting the high expectations we set out a few years ago, and with encouraging clinical data across the entire Moderna platform, we are accelerating our investments to deliver the greatest possible impact to people through mRNA medicines. Our board has approved a significant increase to our R&D investments, with a budget for 2023 of around $4.5 billion. 2023 is going to be a very exciting year for Moderna, and most importantly, for patients."
Stéphane Bancel will present an update on the Company and its pipeline of mRNA development programs on Monday, January 9, 2023, at 2:15 p.m. PT at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. A live webcast of both the presentation and question and answer session will be available under "Events & Presentations" in the investor section of Moderna's website at investors.modernatx.com. A replay of the webcast will be archived on Moderna's website for 30 days following the presentation.
Summary of Program Updates
Vaccines against respiratory infections
2022 COVID-19 vaccine sales of approximately $18.4 billion (unaudited)
Reiterating 2023 expected minimum COVID-19 vaccines sales of approximately $5.0 billion from confirmed Advance Purchase Agreements and 2022 contract deferrals
Potential additional contracts in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other key markets
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine
Pivotal Phase 3 RSV efficacy study (mRNA-1345) in older adults (60+) has enrolled 36,604 participants
Primary endpoints are safety and vaccine efficacy
The Phase 3 RSV study has now accrued the cases required (64 confirmed cases with 2+ symptoms accrued, minimum of 42 required) to complete our first interim efficacy analysis
mRNA-1010 Southern Hemisphere immunogenicity study in adults (18+) is fully enrolled (6,000 participants); data readout expected in 1Q23
mRNA-1010 Northern Hemisphere efficacy study in older adults (50+) is fully enrolled (22,510 participants); data readout could occur this winter depending upon cases accrued in the study and vaccine efficacy
Vaccines against latent viruses
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine
CMV is a common infection and is the leading cause of birth defects in the U.S. About 1 out of every 200 infants in the U.S. are born with congenital CMV infection (12,000-20,000 congenital CMV cases annually in the U.S. alone)
Phase 3 CMVictory trial with mRNA-1647 is ~40% enrolled. Now enrolling in Japan
CMV is a $2-5 billion opportunity with no approved vaccine on the market
Personalized cancer vaccine
Moderna and Merck announced mRNA-4157/V940, in combination with KEYTRUDA, demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death compared to KEYTRUDA monotherapy in stage III/IV melanoma patients with high risk of recurrence following complete resection
mRNA-4157/V940 in combination with KEYTRUDA reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 44% (HR=0.56 [95% CI, 0.31-1.08]; one-sided p-value=0.0266) compared with KEYTRUDA alone. Adverse events observed with mRNA-4157/V940 in KEYNOTE-942 were consistent with those previously reported in a Phase 1 clinical trial
Results are the first demonstration of efficacy for an investigational mRNA cancer treatment in a randomized clinical trial
Companies plan to discuss results with regulatory authorities and initiate a Phase 3 study in melanoma in 2023 and to rapidly expand to additional tumor types
Rare disease therapeutic: Propionic acidemia
As of last clinical update (September 8th, Moderna R&D Day)
6 patient-years of experience on drug with all eligible participants electing to continue on Open Label Extension study
Encouraging data showed a decrease in the number of metabolic decompensation events (MDEs); initial discussions with regulators supportive of MDE as a primary endpoint for a pivotal study
Cardiovascular: Relaxin
First patients have been dosed in a Phase 1B trial of our heart failure treatment candidate, mRNA-0184. This first-in-human Phase 1B clinical trial is being conducted in patients with stable heart failure to evaluate its safety and tolerability, and to assess the pharmacokinetic (PK) profile and pharmacodynamic (PD) effects of a range of dose levels and dose intervals of mRNA-0184
mRNA-0184 encodes for relaxin, a naturally occurring hormone that is known to cause hemodynamic changes that are potentially beneficial for heart failure patients. The mRNA sequence of mRNA-0184 is engineered to instruct the body to produce relaxin with an extended half-life, with the goal of producing a sustained clinical benefit in heart failure patients - this longer half-life may result in more durable effects compared to previous approaches
mRNA-0184 utilizes similar technology as our propionic acidemia candidate, mRNA-3927
Inhaled pulmonary therapeutics
Cystic fibrosis (CF)
Moderna's collaborator, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for VX-522, an mRNA targeted at treating the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis for the approximately 5,000 people with CF who cannot benefit from a cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator
VX-522 is delivered to the lung through inhalation of a CFTR mRNA encapsulated by a lipid nanoparticle. Once delivered to the target lung cells, the mRNA is designed to produce functional copies of the CFTR protein
Summary of Corporate Updates
Reinvestments
Moderna increases investments in R&D, manufacturing infrastructure, and company buildout, and pursues external investment opportunities (licenses and/or M&A). R&D investments in 2023 are estimated at $4.5 billion, up from approximately $3.3 billion (unaudited) for 2022
Moderna has entered into an agreement to acquire OriCiro Genomics, a Japanese company with a novel development approach for cell-free synthesis and amplification of plasmid DNA, a key building block of mRNA manufacturing
Moderna forms strategic research collaboration with CytomX Therapeutics for development of mRNA-based conditionally activated therapeutics for oncology and non-oncology conditions. CytomX will receive an upfront payment of $35 million, including $5 million of pre-paid research funding
Ongoing strategic collaborations include a partnership with Carisma Therapeutics to discover, develop and commercialize in vivo engineered chimeric antigen receptor monocyte (CAR-M) therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Additionally, Moderna is partnering with Metagenomi to accelerate the development of in vivo gene editing therapeutics
Return capital to shareholders
Repurchased 23 million shares (avg. price $143/share) for $3.3 billion in 2022, with $2.8 billion remaining for future repurchases from the $3.0 billion August authorization
Moderna has purchased a Priority Review Voucher (PRV), which allows the Company to obtain expedited FDA review of a licensing application. Moderna had previously been granted a PRV for mRNA-1273 and intends to use both PRVs to accelerate review of two expected BLA filings from our pipeline
Key 2023 Investor and Analyst Event Dates
Vaccines Day: April 11, 2023
R&D Day: September 13, 2023
ESG Day: December 7, 2023
In over 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across seven modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for rapid clinical and commercial production at scale. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna's capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use and approval of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moderna's mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and auto-immune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past eight years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including statements regarding: anticipated sales under advance purchase agreements in 2023 and the associated dollar amounts to be received, which should not be construed as expected 2023 revenue; potential additional contracts for COVID-19 vaccine sales; the expected market size for Moderna's products, including CMV; the expected timing for data from Moderna's Phase 3 studies in flu; the potential for mRNA, including mRNA-4157, to effectively treat different types of cancer, including melanoma, and plans for studying treatment in additional tumor types; plans to conduct a Phase 3 study of mRNA-4157/V940, and the timing of such study; early signs of potential clinical benefit for PA; the potential for mRNA-0184 to result in more durable effects compared to previous approaches targeting heart failure; Moderna's capital allocation priorities, including anticipated spending on R&D for 2023; Moderna's agreement to acquire OriCiro Genomics; and Moderna's plans to use priority review vouchers to expedite FDA review of programs from its pipeline. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "may," "should," "could," "expects," "intends," "plans," "aims," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue," or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. The forward-looking statements in this press release are neither promises nor guarantees, and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond Moderna's control and which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, among others, those risks and uncertainties described under the heading "Risk Factors" in Moderna's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2022, each filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and in subsequent filings made by Moderna with the SEC, which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Except as required by law, Moderna disclaims any intention or responsibility for updating or revising any forward-looking statements contained in this press release in the event of new information, future developments or otherwise. These forward-looking statements are based on Moderna's current expectations and speak only as of the date of this press release.
Mary Beth Woodin
Senior Director, R&D Communications
MaryBeth.Woodin@modernatx.com
https://www.accesswire.com/734434/Moderna-Announces-Advances-Across-mRNA-Pipeline-and-Provides-Business-Update


In this Preshow Rituals segment, the singer-songwriter, Grayson Ty, shares what he does before every show.
In this Preshow Rituals segment, the singer-songwriter, Grayson Ty, shares what he does before every show. You can check out his rituals, after the break.
Pre-show rituals, especially for some of our bigger shows, typically begin early in the day and last right up until show time. Keeping things laid back throughout most of the day is a must because I don't wanna overhype and psych myself out. It's also important for me to stay busy throughout the day or else I start overthinking things like my setlist, stage presence, and overall performance that night. It can be really easy to get consumed in the pressures of knowing the quality of my show determines the quality of the night that my fans have, but that pressure is also one of the best parts about being a performer.
We like to rehearse and run our set one-time-through early in the afternoon if it's an evening show. Any kinks in the set list/songs are sorted out and discussed prior to rehearsal so that our run-through is just that – to run through the set as if it were show time. Our set lists are typically generated days in advance to give ourselves time to make any last-minute adjustments if need be.
Upon arrival at the venue, I typically have some herbal tea (throat coat preferred) and some water to keep the pipes cleared. An hour before we hit the stage, we do some vocal warm-ups and harmonizing without instruments. The locks us in with one another both mentally and musically. At this point, my nerves are generally suppressed with a glass of whiskey, fully understanding the neutralizing effects it has on the tea from before, but it's my proven method I'm sticking to it.
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require 'prawn'
require 'rmagick'
require 'aws-sdk'
require 'bitly'
require 'mail'

if ENV['RACK_ENV'] != 'production'
  require 'dotenv'
end

module CertificateGenerator
  if ENV['RACK_ENV'] != 'production'
    Dotenv.load
  end
  Bitly.use_api_version_3
  CURRENT_ENV = ENV['RACK_ENV'] || 'development'
  PATH = "pdf/#{CURRENT_ENV}/"
  TEMPLATE = File.absolute_path('./pdf/templates/diplom.jpg')
  URL = ENV['SERVER_URL'] || 'http://localhost:9292/verify/'
  S3 = Aws::S3::Resource.new(region: ENV['AWS_REGION'])
  BITLY = Bitly.new(ENV['BITLY_USERNAME'], ENV['BITLY_API_KEY'])

  def self.generate(certificate)
    details = {name: certificate.student.full_name,
               email: certificate.student.email,
               date: certificate.delivery.start_date.to_s,
               course_name: certificate.delivery.course.title,
               course_desc: certificate.delivery.course.description,
               verify_url: [URL, certificate.identifier].join('')}

    file_name = [details[:name], details[:date], details[:course_name]].join('_').downcase.gsub!(/\s/, '_')

    certificate_output = "#{PATH}#{file_name}.pdf"
    image_output = "#{PATH}#{file_name}.jpg"

    make_prawn_document(details, certificate_output)
    make_rmagic_image(certificate_output, image_output)

    upload_to_s3(certificate_output, image_output)

    if ENV['RACK_ENV'] != 'test'
      send_email(details, file_name)
    end

    { certificate_key: certificate_output, image_key: image_output }
  end

  private

  def self.make_prawn_document(details, output)
    File.delete(output) if File.exist?(output)
    Prawn::Document.generate(output,
                             page_size: 'A4',
                             background: TEMPLATE,
                             background_scale: 1,
                             page_layout: :landscape,
                             left_margin: 0,
                             right_margin: 0,
                             top_margin: 0,
                             bottom_margin: 0,
                             skip_encoding: true) do |pdf|
      pdf.move_down 220
      pdf.font 'assets/fonts/Gotham-Bold.ttf'
      pdf.text details[:name], size: 44, color: '009900', indent_paragraphs: 120
      pdf.move_down 75
      pdf.font 'assets/fonts/Gotham-Medium.ttf'
      pdf.text details[:course_name], indent_paragraphs: 120, size: 20
      pdf.text details[:course_desc], indent_paragraphs: 120, size: 20
      pdf.move_down 95
      pdf.text "Göteborg #{details[:date]}", indent_paragraphs: 120, size: 12
      pdf.move_down 65
      pdf.text "To verify the authenticity of this Course certificate, please visit: #{get_url(details[:verify_url])}", align: :center, size: 8
    end
  end

  def self.make_rmagic_image(certificate_output, output)
    im = Magick::Image.read(certificate_output)
    im[0].write(output)
  end

  def self.upload_to_s3(certificate_output, image_output)
    s3_certificate_object = S3.bucket(ENV['S3_BUCKET']).object(certificate_output)
    s3_certificate_object.upload_file(certificate_output, acl: 'public-read')
    s3_image_object = S3.bucket(ENV['S3_BUCKET']).object(image_output)
    s3_image_object.upload_file(image_output, acl: 'public-read')
  end

  def self.send_email(details, file)
    mail = Mail.new do
      from     "The course team <#{ENV['SENDGRID_USERNAME']}>"
      to       "#{details[:name]} <#{details[:email]}>"
      subject  "Course Certificate - #{details[:course_name]}"
      body     File.read('pdf/templates/body.txt')
      add_file filename: "#{file}.pdf", mime_type: 'application/x-pdf', content: File.read("#{PATH}#{file}.pdf")
    end
    mail.deliver
  end

  def self.get_url(url)
    begin
      BITLY.shorten(url).short_url
    rescue
      url
    end
  end

end

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