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Urbanization in the United Arab Emirates 2021
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The share of urban population in the United Arab Emirates saw no significant changes in 2021 in comparison to the previous year 2020 and remained at around 87.3 percent. Still, the share reached its highest value in the observed period in 2021.
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Earl Horter (1880-1940)
Title: Process Set for the Etching "Demolition", Comprised of the original drawing, the enlarged transfer drawing and the final state of the etching
Medium: graphite on paper (2), etching on wove paper
Dimensions: Various
Signature: All unsigned
Edition: Unique set of three works (Preliminary drawing, transfer drawing & etching)
Estate of the Artist
New York Corporate Art Collection
Horter, Earl
Philadelphia, 1880−Chestnut Hill, Pa., 1940
Earl Horter was a Philadelphia based artist and collector of early twentieth-century American and French art, African sculpture, and Native American artifacts, with a particular interest in Cubist works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque from 1909 to 1914. Over the span of just a decade, Horter assembled and then sold off one of the largest collections of modern art in the United States.
Horter grew up in a working-class family in Philadelphia. He earned his living as a self-taught draftsman, engraving stock certificates for the John Wanamaker store. In 1903 he moved to New York to work as an artist for the Calkins anHortd Holden advertising agency, and later founded the firm's first art department. Horter studied etching at the Art Students League in 1908 and regularly showed his work at the annual Exhibition of Advertising Art at the National Arts Club and through the Association of American Etchers. In 1913 he also began casually collecting prints after visiting The International Exhibition of Modern Art (also known as the Armory Show), where he purchased a suite of thirteen lithographs by Edouard Vuillard. In the following years, he bought an additional twelve lithographs through Ambroise Vollard and began frequenting such galleries as Alfred Stieglitz's 291, Macbeth, Montross, Berlin Photographic Company, and Washington Square's collection of African sculpture.
Horter returned to Philadelphia in 1916, accepting a position at the N.W. Ayer and Son advertising firm, where he eventually became art director. Around this time he began socializing with the "Thirty-One Philadelphia Artists," a group (including Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler) who had trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Through this circle, Horter met Arthur B. Carles, who had studied in Paris from 1907 to 1912 and knew American collectors Gertrude and Leo Stein personally. Carles further exposed Horter to European contemporary art, particularly Cubist works by Braque and Picasso. In the early 1920s, although Horter had been collecting American art—predominantly prints—since 1913, his focus turned toward European modernism.
Horter traveled to Europe for the first time in 1921 on a commission to draw European monuments for a client, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company. He likely attended the first auction of Cubist dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's holdings at the Hôtel Drouot and visited American artists in Paris, alongside Carles. Throughout the 1920s he returned often to Paris, acquiring works for his growing collection. Although the details surrounding his purchases in Europe are largely unknown, Horter generally collected without the help of a dealer and preferred acquiring works from the artist directly whenever possible. He assembled the majority of his works by Braque, Picasso, and Juan Gris between 1925 and 1928; many had once been in Kahnweiler's stock or were acquired from Léonce Rosenberg. Key examples include Picasso's Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910; Art Institute of Chicago) and Playing Cards, Glasses, Bottle of Rum: 'Vive la France' (1914; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Promised Gift from Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection); Gris's Guitar and Glass (1916; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven); and Braque's Bottle, Glasses, and Newspaper (1913; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Promised Gift from Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection). Acquisitions made in the United States were typically purchased from New York galleries. Horter bought Picasso's Still Life with Bottle of Port (1919; Dallas Museum of Art), from the Whitney Studio Galleries and purchased several works from collector John Quinn's estate sale in 1926.
Additionally, Horter developed an interest in African art after visiting a 1914 exhibition at 291 entitled Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art. Inspired by fellow collector and friend Albert C. Barnes, in 1925 Horter began acquiring African sculpture through the help of Paul Guillaume and Stieglitz; highlights in his collection included a Guro mask from the Ivory Coast, several Songye male figurines from Congo, and a Kota reliquary guardian figure from Gabon.
Horter collected extravagantly and beyond his financial means. His personal papers suggest that he owned ten works by Picasso in 1926, and that this figure had doubled by the end of 1927. At the peak of his collecting, Horter possessed thirty works by Picasso and Braque; two works by Gris; one painting by Henri Matisse; four sculptures by Constantin Brancusi; and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 1 (1911; Philadelphia Museum of Art). He housed his collection in his small residence at 2219 Delancey Street in Philadelphia and interspersed his Cubist works with examples of African sculpture.
With the onset of the Great Depression, Horter could no longer afford to buy new works; he began lending to exhibitions with the hope that his collection would sell intact. The Collection of Earl Horter was presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the spring of 1934, followed by Modern Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Earl Horter of Philadelphia at the Arts Club of Chicago. Although several works sold, Horter was forced to begin dispersing his collection through private sales by the mid-1930s. Important works were acquired by the likes of Douglas Cooper, Charles B. Goodspeed, Pierre Matisse, and Louise and Walter Arensberg. With proceeds from these sales, Horter began augmenting his collection of Native American artifacts—specifically objects crafted by the Plains Indians—which were much more affordable than modern European painting and sculpture. Although the details surrounding these purchases are generally undocumented, Horter seems to have made the majority of such acquisitions in 1938 and 1939. At the time of his death, Horter's Native American collection numbered roughly 1,500 objects and was left to his fourth wife, Elizabeth Lentz Horter.
Contributed by Rachel Boate, August 2018
Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
A painter, draftsman and printmaker who also worked for advertising agencies as a commercial artist, Earl Horter amassed a notable collection of modern art, African sculptures and Native American art during the 1920s. Born in Philadelphia in 1880, little is known about is early life and artistic training. Horter was described as a landscape artist in the census of 1900. He was hired by the Calkins and Holden advertising agency in New York City around 1903, based on his ability as a draftsman. He apparently took classes in etching at night, with his first etching dated to 1908. He married the first of his four wives in 1909. Horter quickly established a reputation as an etcher. In 1911 he was one of three artists (including Joseph Pennell [1857-1926]) commissioned by the New York Edison Company to create illustrations of scenes of New York for "Glimpses of New York: An Illustrated Handbook of the City." In 1914 he showed his works at the first exhibition of the New York Society of Etchers, for which he was also a juror and the secretary. Horter exhibited four etchings in San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, where he received a silver medal. The following year his first solo show of 30 etchings and 33 drawings was held at the Frederick Keppel and Company gallery. Later in 1916 Horter agreed to join the N. W. Ayer and Son advertising agency in Philadelphia, where he started work the following January. He soon rose to the position of an art director. One of his significant projects was to travel in the United States and Europe creating drawings using the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company's "Eldorado" pencil, a specialty product sold to artists and architects. Over a period of years Horter produced about 55 drawings that appeared in Dixon's advertisements.
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Q: try:/except: returns a syntax error in Python when trying to run module Below is my code and the error is on line 4 "except" gives a syntax error... (this is a debugging and error catching assignment. I don't see what is wrong with it)
while True:
        try:
                userInputOne = input(int("How much time in hours a week, do you spend practicing? ")
        except TypeError:
                print("Oops! Practice time must be rounded to the nearest integer. It also needs to be a numerical value! ")
                break
    else:
        userInputTwo = str(input"How good to do want to be? Enter 'very good', 'good', mediocre, 'not good' ")
        if userInputTwo not in ('very good', 'good', 'mediocre', 'not good'):
            print("Please use one of the options. ")
        else:
            print("Let's calculate...")
            break

A: I Attached the working code.
Syntax Error was caused by missing parethesis and wrong indents. Take a look at your else: statement. It's not at the same height as the try: statement.
TypeError means, that you dont have to convert your input to strings, because they already are. Otherwise i suggest you create some variables and convert them via int() when you want to calculate with them.
while True:
    try:
        userInputOne = input("How much time in hours a week, do you spend practicing? ")
    except TypeError:
        print("Oops! Practice time must be rounded to the nearest integer. It also needs to be a numerical value! ")
        break
    else:
        userInputTwo = input("How good to do want to be? Enter 'very good', 'good', mediocre, 'not good' ")
        if userInputTwo not in ('very good', 'good', 'mediocre', 'not good'):
            print("Please use one of the options. ")
        else:
            print("Let's calculate...")
            break

Edit:
I recommend using PyCharm (if you don't) with its Auto-Indent function and nice "indent guidelines". So you can see many mistakes much easier.

A: Your code:
while True:
        try:
                userInputOne = input(int("How much time in hours a week, do you spend practicing? ")
        except TypeError:
                print("Oops! Practice time must be rounded to the nearest integer. It also needs to be a numerical value! ")
                break
    else:
        userInputTwo = str(input"How good to do want to be? Enter 'very good', 'good', mediocre, 'not good' ")
        if userInputTwo not in ('very good', 'good', 'mediocre', 'not good'):
            print("Please use one of the options. ")
        else:
            print("Let's calculate...")
            break

To start off with, should look like this:
while True:
    try:
        userInputOne = input(int("How much time in hours a week, do you spend practicing? "))
    except TypeError:
        ...
        ...

Some ways I like to catch and fix this:

*

*Run pylint on your file. It will tell you where errors exist and give you warnings for code that can be improved.

*Use vim and the command == which will attempt to do some auto-indentation.

But the most important thing is to understand that whitespace is important in Python. A syntax error of spacing exists throughout the file. You need to have four spaces rather than the eight in your code. Also, as noted in the comments above, you have some unbalanced parentheses which will break your code. In addition, you have an else statement without an if. Many problems all around, so I'd suggest re-working the code a few lines at a time and make sure that it works before moving forward. In addition, you cannot convert a string to an int, or at the very least you'll get unexpected results.

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Granchain, (hasta 2008 Grandchain),  era una comuna francesa situada en el departamento de Eure, de la región de Normandía, que el 1 de enero de 2016 pasó a ser una comuna delegada de la comuna nueva de Mesnil-en-Ouche al fusionarse con las comunas de Ajou, Beaumesnil, Bosc-Renoult-en-Ouche, Épinay, Gisay-la-Coudre, Gouttières, Jonquerets-de-Livet, La Barre-en-Ouche, Landepéreuse, La Roussière, Saint-Aubin-des-Hayes, Saint-Aubin-le-Guichard, Sainte-Marguerite-en-Ouche, Saint-Pierre-du-Mesnil y Thevray.

Demografía

Los datos demográficos contemplados en este gráfico de la comuna de Granchain se han cogido de 1800 a 1999 de la página francesa EHESS/Cassini, y los demás datos de la página del INSEE.

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By Stephanie Harper
Whether Adam DeVine is starring in an animated movie or a film that shows his actual face, he always puts his best foot forward. With the holidays approaching, families are scrambling to find some of the best movies to enjoy with their young family members. His latest movie on CBS is called Reindeer in Here, and it is one of the more adorable flicks to catch on TV.
Since Adam voices the main character in the movie, it makes sense that his fans would be a little bit curious to know about his personal life. Who is he linked to at the moment? Is he married?
Is Adam DeVine married? Meet his wife, Chloe Bridges.
According to People, Adam is married to a woman named Chloe Bridges. They crossed paths for the first time in 2014 while filming The Final Girls. They hit it off on set, and he popped the question in 2019. Their engagement began when she agreed to marry him! In 2021, they finally made it down the aisle in a gorgeous Mexican ceremony. According to Chloe's IMDb page, the actress has landed a handful of interesting roles for herself over the years.
Some of those roles include Game Over, Man!, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. She also starred in The Rookie, Insatiable, Charmed, and The Righteous Gemstones. Chloe has been quite open about how happy she is in her marriage on social media.
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Back in 2018 when Adam took her to one of the most iconic amusement parks ever to celebrate her birthday, she shared a picture of the couple and added a caption that said, "It was a great birthday. Thank you for all the messages and to @andybovine for setting up this Disneyland day and @chelsofield @iwishiwaspizza for coming and @rebelwilson for helping us with the dinner reservation and our great guide Amy for riding all the roller coasters with us twice."
When they got married in 2021, she shared a thread of photos highlighting some of the most memorable and beautiful moments from their time in Mexico. She added a caption that said, "We kept the rehearsal dinner small, asking our parents and the wedding party to get to Mexico a day early. And maybe the best decision I made all weekend was having an open mic so anyone/everyone could give a speech - they came prepared with jokes, as you can see by the sheer amount of teeth in these photos."
In the leading photo from the thread, Adam is seen kissing her cheek while she clutches his neck with her beautiful diamond ring on display. In another picture from the thread, Adam and Chloe are seen smiling wide at a table with some of their friends in the midst of their celebration.
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William Waldorf Astor, primer vizconde Astor (31 de marzo de 1848 – 18 de octubre de 1919) fue un millonario estadounidense que se convirtió en noble británico. Era miembro de la prominente Familia Astor.

Vida en Estados Unidos

William Astor nació en Nueva York, único hijo de John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890) y Charlotte Augusta Gibbes (1825-1887). Fue educado en Alemania e Italia antes de estudiar en la Escuela de Leyes de la Universidad de Columbia. En 1878, se casó con Mary Dahlgren Paul (1858–1894).

Fue elegido para la Asamblea del Estado de Nueva York en 1877, y al Senado en 1879, donde sirvió hasta 1881. Astor fue probablemente elegido con la ayuda del jefe republicano de Nueva York, el famoso Roscoe Conkling, con quien su familia estaba involucrada. En 1881, Astor fue derrotado por Roswell P. Flower como candidato para el Congreso de Estados Unidos. En 1882, el presidente Chester A. Arthur nombró a Astor ministro para Italia, cargo que desempeñó hasta 1885 ("Ve y diviértete, mi querido hijo", le dijo el presidente a Astor). Durante su estancia en Roma, Astor desarrolló una pasión por el arte y la escultura.

A la muerte de su padre, a principios de 1890, Astor heredó una fortuna que le hizo el hombre más rico de Estados Unidos de América. También en 1890, comenzó la construcción del lujoso Hotel Waldorf, sobre el lugar de su antigua residencia (su primo, John Jacob Astor IV, construyó el contiguo Hotel Astoria en 1897, y el complejo se convirtió en el Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. William, aunque era el dueño, lo visitó sólo una vez en su vida).

Gran Bretaña
En respuesta a una disputa que se originó con su tía Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor en 1891, sobre cuestiones de posición en la Alta Sociedad, Astor se mudó a Gran Bretaña con su familia. Alquiló la Lansdowne House en Londres hasta 1893, cuando compró una propiedad en Cliveden-on-Thames en Taplow, Buckinghamshire, al Duque de Westminster. En el verano de 1892, Astor fingió su propia muerte, aparentemente de neumonía. Sin embargo, el engaño fue prontamente descubierto, dando lugar a que Astor fuese objeto de burla en la prensa.

Astor hizo varias adquisiciones de negocios, mientras vivió en Londres. En 1892, compró la Pall Mall Gazette, y en 1893 creó la  Pall Mall Magazine. En 1911, adquirió The Observer. En 1912 vendió Magazine, y en 1914 regaló Gazette y The Observer, junto con el edificio en Newton Street, a su hijo Waldorf Astor.

En 1903 adquirió el Castillo de Hever, cerca de Edenbridge, Kent, a unos 30 kilómetros al sur de Londres. La extensa propiedad, construida en 1270, fue el lugar donde Ana Bolena vivió de niña. William Waldorf Astor invirtió una gran cantidad de tiempo y dinero para restaurar el castillo, el edificio qué se conoce como la "Villa Tudor" y creó un lago y jardines. En 1905 dio a su hijo William Waldorf Astor II y a su nueva nuera, Nancy Langhorne, la propiedad de Cliveden como regalo de bodas.

En 1908, abrió el Hotel Waldorf en el West End de Londres, buscando establecer un hotel de estilo americano en el Reino Unido.

Filantropía y nobleza

Astor, habiéndose convertido en ciudadano británico en 1899, se interesó en obtener distinción en la sociedad británica. Entre las organizaciones benéficas beneficiadas con sus donativos estaban The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street (al que donó $ 250,000 en 1903), el University College de Londres, la Universidad de Oxford, la Universidad de Cambridge, la National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, la Sociedad de la Cruz Roja Británica y el Gordon Memorial College. Sus donaciones a organizaciones benéficas de guerra incluyeron $125,000 al Fondo de Ayuda Nacional del Príncipe de Gales, una cantidad similar al Fondo de Familias de Oficiales de la Princesa Luisa, $200,000 a la Sociedad de la Cruz Roja Británica, $25,000 al Comité de Empleo de la Reina María, y una suma similar al Lord Mayor's National Bands Fund. Donó anualmente $5,000 al King Edward's Hospital Fund a partir de su fundación en 1897.

Tales donaciones eran frecuentemente honradas con la concesión de un título de nobleza a su benefactor. El 1 de enero de 1916, se le ofreció y aceptó un título en la nobleza del Reino Unido bajo el título de Barón Astor del Castillo de  Hever en el condado de Kent. El 3 de junio de 1917, el Barón Astor fue elevado al rango de vizconde. La concesión fue controvertida, ya que representaba para muchos cómo un millonario estadounidense podía comprar su camino a la aristocracia británica.

Muerte

Astor murió de insuficiencia cardíaca congestiva en el baño de su casa de Brighton, Sussex, Inglaterra, a los 71 años. Fue incinerado y sus cenizas enterradas en el piso de mármol de la capilla de Cliveden.

Descendencia

 Waldorf Astor, 2do vizconde Astor (1879-1952) casado con Nancy Witcher Langhorne en 1906. Su primer matrimonio, en 1897, terminó en divorcio 1903.
 Pauline Astor (1880–1972), casada el 29 de octubre de 1904 con Herbert Henry Spender Clay (1875–1937).
 John Rudolph Astor (1881-1881).
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19. Multilateral Agreement for the Establishment of an International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries
New York, 24 September 2010
6 October 2017, in accordance with article 12(1) which reads as follows: "The present Agreement shall enter into force on the sixtieth day after the date of deposit of the tenth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.".
6 October 2017, No. 54748
Signatories : 7. Parties : 14
Depositary notification C.N.639.2010.TREATIES-2 of 7 October 2010
Following the resolution 58/201 of the General Assembly of 23 December 2003 adopting the outcome of the International Ministerial Conference and the Almaty Programme of Action, and the resolution A/RES/64/214 of the General Assembly of 22 December 2009 welcoming the establishment of the think tank for the landlocked developing countries in Ulaanbaata, the 9th Annual Ministerial Meeting of Landlocked Developping Countries, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 24 September 2010, endorsed the final text of the Multilateral Agreement for the Establishment of an International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries which was deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 24 September 2010. In accordance with its article X, the Agreement was opened for signature at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 1 November 2010 and will remain open for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 31 October 2011.
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"The Kyrgyz Republic shall be exempted from the contributions to the Think Tank's budget stipulated in Article VIII of the Agreement, as well as any other contributions that might be established in the future for the States Parties of the Agreement."


Hush, a San Diego startup that has developed "smart earbuds" to minimize the distractions of a noisy world, is beginning a crowdfunding campaign today that would enable the year-old company to produce as many as 10,000 units by spring.
Founded by three UC San Diego engineering students (all named Daniel), Hush has set a goal of raising at least $100,000 on Kickstarter to produce wireless, noise-masking earplugs with a Bluetooth link that enables a user to connect with a smartphone.
By downloading the Hush mobile app, users can set their notifications to allow important phone calls, calendar alerts, and wakeup alarms to go through—without disturbing sleeping partners. The app also enables users to fall asleep to the sound of ocean waves, rainfall, and other types of white noise, and a Hush tracker enables users to find missing earplugs.
Each pair of Hush earplugs also comes with a charging dock that doubles as a travel case.
CEO Daniel "Ewok" Lee says Hush created the Kickstarter campaign after raising $150,000 from angel investors over the past two months in the culmination of what might be described as a seed-stage "pitchfest" strategy for the hardware startup.
Designing of earplugs is quite crucial, they require expertise because they have NRR(Noise reduction Ratio) which varies from one earplug to the other.


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Personal Website of Kurt Reichinger
KURT REICHINGER online ...
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Miscellaneous .
Below you find some of my further activities. Beware it's only some. Not all.
Travelling .
My current job needs some travelling with destinations mainly within the borders of the European Union. As a member of working groups on European level it's about once or twice a month that I am packing my trolley, taking my laptop and entering a taxi for the short trip to Vienna Airport. Often, business travelling is about getting up early and returning home late without seeing more than two airports and the meeting venue. But sometimes you have the opportunity to catch one or the other impression of your destination. Of course I also enjoy travelling with my family which usually gives much more time to see more than a mere glimpse of your destination. Some of my trips are documented on the photo page.
RENOVATING .
Since May 2013 together with my wife I am renovating an old house originating from the 1920ies in Halbturn, a small village in the province of Burgenland, just a few miles from the Hungarian border. This may sound like being a lot of hard and painful work, but in reality it turns out as a short holiday break every other weekend.
Chairing .
Since March 2007 I am chairing the Anhängervereinigung des Wiener Sport-Club, i.e. the Supporters Union of Wiener Sport-Club, being in my 4th term now (re-elected in March 2015 for a new 2-year period). Founded in 1952, this famous supporters club has followed the Wiener Sport-Club through all the highs and lows since. Although being an allround sports club, most of the public attention has been given to the club's football team. Unfortunately, most of the money has been given to football, too, leading to big financial troubles, insolvencies and a subsequent split into two clubs: the Wiener Sport-Club with fencing, cycling, squash, swimming and water polo teams still active; and the Wiener Sportklub, playing football and attracting the masses to Dornbach, the traditional home of both Sport-Club and Sportklub. The Anhängervereinigung supports both clubs with vocal, emotional and financial contributions.
Writing .
More than 20 years ago I was founder of "Schwarz auf Weiß" (SaW) remaining its chief editor for some 20 issues. SaW was one of the first Austrian football fanzines and being clearly dedicated to the fortunes and misfortunes of the Wiener Sport-Club football team. It contained match reports, interviews, background stories and positions from a young and prospering group of WSC supporters, later to be known as "Friedhofstribüne". Today, I am the author of a bi-monthly key message in the so-called Nachrichtenblatt, the official information leaflet of the Anhängervereinigung des Wiener Sportclub.
Furthermore, I enjoy writing the occasional piece for Austrian football magazine ballesterer fm - Magazin zur offensiven Erweiterung des Fußballhorizonts.
AFC Sunderland vs. QPR (Groundhopping), ballesterer fm #100, March 2015
Derby County vs. QPR (Groundhopping), ballester fm #94, September 2014
Preußen Münster vs. Karlsruher SC (Groundhopping), ballesterer fm #82, June/July 2013
Southend United vs. Leyton Orient (Groundhopping), ballesterer fm #81, May 2013
1000 und ein Spiel (Fansektor), ballesterer fm #80, April 2013
Fulham FC vs. Westham United FC (Groundhoping), ballesterer fm #80, April 2013
AFC Wimbledon vs. Macclesfield Town (Groundhopping), ballesterer fm #69, February 2012
Kleinkrieg im Kleingarten (Spielfeld), ballesterer fm #67, November 2011
Verliebt in eine Liga (Rezensionen), ballesterer fm #64, August 2011
FK Jelgava vs. FK Ventspils (Groundhopping), ballesterer fm #63, July 2011
Borussia Dortmund vs. Schalke 04 (Groundhopping), ballesterer fm #60, March 2011
Harmonie in der Vorstadt (Web-Artikel), ballesterer fm #60, March 2011
FC 04 Ingolstadt vs. KarlsruherSC (Groundhopping), ballesterer fm #57, November 2010
Glory glory Hallelujah (Spielfeld), ballesterer fm #57, November 2010
Fußballpoesie ohne Klischees (Rezensionen), ballesterer fm #56, October 2010
Brüsseler Traumabewältigung (Fansektor) - Ballesterer fm #55, September 2010
FC Brussels Molenbeek vs. RAEC Mons (Groundhopping) - Ballesterer fm #52, April 2010
Oasen des 12. Mannes (Fansektor) - Ballesterer fm #51, April 2010
Im Wildpark (Rezensionen) - Ballesterer fm #51, April 2010
We're shit and we know we are (Fansektor) - Ballesterer fm # 50, March 2010
CF OS Belenenses vs. Gil Vicente FC (Groundhopping) - Ballesterer fm # 48, December 2009
20 Jahre Mauerfall (Nachspielzeit) - Ballesterer fm # 47, November 2009
FC Kobnhavn vs. Brondby IF (Groundhopping) - Ballesterer fm # 46, October 2009
Tschö Tivoli (Lost Ground) - Ballesterer fm #43, July 2009 (together with Etl, S.)
Groundhopping .
Well, it would not be correct to describe myself as a fully fledged groundhopper. But after all the years I still try to visit another stadium, another ground, another game of football. In other words: do some groundhopping. In my humble opinion this is still one of the best ways to become better acquainted to a country and its people. Check out the grounds on foreign soil where I have watched a full game. Because you know only these grounds count in groundhopping.
Kurt's international groundhopping on larger map
Stadium of Light, February 2015
Wembley Stadium, June 2014.
Giuseppe Meazza Stadio, Inter, January 2014.
Preußenstadion, Preußen Münster, April 2013.
Wacker-Arena, Wacker Burghausen, March 2013.
Roots Hall, Southend United FC, February 2013.
Craven Cottage, Fulham FC, January 2013.
Generali Arena, SpVgg Unterhaching, April 2012.
Cherry Red Records Stadium, AFC Wimbledon, January 2012.
Zemgales Olimpiska Centra Stadions, Jelgava, June 2011.
Signal-Iduna-Park, Borussia Dortmund, Dortmund, February 2011.
Kenilworth Road, Luton Town FC, Luton, January 2011.
Ansan Wa~ Stadium, Ansan Hallellujah FC, Ansan, October 2010.
Audi-Sportpark, SV 04 Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, October 2010.
Stade Edmond Machtens, FC Brussels, Brussels, March 2010.
City Ground, Nottingham Forest, Nottingham, January 2010.
Esprit Arena, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, October 2009.
Estadio do Restelo, CF OS Belenenses, Lisbon, October 2009.
Parken, FC Kobnhavn, Copenhagen, August 2009.
(Old) Tivoli, Alemannia Aachen, Aachen, May 2009.
Riding .
I never was very much into Italian football. Well, AS Piacenza's stadium still is on my groundhopping to-do list, but that's for another reason. What I do like are Italian cycles. I have been riding a Bianchi mountain bike for half of my life, and I still do. And I ride a Vespa for some nine years now. A scooter with a small 50 ccm engine. But a perfect tool for mobility in a country where summers are getting longer at the expense of wintertime. So watch out for a guy on a silver-coloured Vespa ET4-50 with a red Viennese number plate reading W-46BAO. That's me. Cruising the streets of Vienna, stopping at some street cafe, taking off the helmet and enjoying an espresso in the sun.
Update as of December 2011: Sold my Vespa as it did not do any longer what it was expected to do. Unsolvable problems of dying off without any warning significantly harm the fun. Now thinking of alternatives ... a season ticket for public transport?
Kicking .
Playing football at the age of 47+ has become a somewhat lonely affair with most people of my age long having pulled out of the game due to damaged knees, overdimensional bellies, backaches, progressive alcoholism, drug abuse, or other cheap excuses. In fact you have to play against people being some twentyfive years younger and twice as fast as you. Nevertheless it still is a hell of a lot of fun. And right so.
In summertime we play outdoors near the banks of the Danube, in wintertime it's 3-a-side indoor soccer at some primary school in the third district of Vienna. What shirts I am wearing? Well, it's either a green VfL Wolfsburg shirt (from the times when a guy named Wolfgang Wolf was coaching Wolfsburg), the green and white hoops shirt from QPR (addressing the strong Irish support for the West Londoners), or the blue and white hooped shirt from QPR (from the 2006/07 season).


CSEA/VOICE Local 100A President Pam Wells, standing, watches over children as they create their artwork.
That was the question posed to children attending a unique program at the close of the Capital Region's Spring Conference.
CSEA/VOICE Local 100A President Pam Wells, who is also a child care provider in the Capital Region, and CSEA Director of Early Learning and Care Program Denise Dowell, conducted the training to teach children about the labor movement.
They also wanted to hear from the kids about their lives, feelings and aspirations.
The result? A colorful, canvas mural full of messages of hope, self-reliance, positivity and peace.
Included in the program was a reading of the award-winning, labor-themed kids' book by Doreen Cronin, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type. The story, set on a farm, illustrates the power of collective bargaining after the cows discover a typewriter in the barn and type a list of demands for the farmer that includes blankets and better working conditions.
The other animals join in and when their requests are denied, they all go on strike.
In the end, both sides form an agreement, the requested items are provided by the farmer, and the animals give up the typewriter.
The conference concluded with the kids filing in, singing and holding the mural for all to see.
"Seeing the children and hearing their messages of hope, reminds us all what we are fighting for as part of the labor movement — fair treatment at work and the security to care for ourselves and our families," said CSEA Capital Region President Ron Briggs.


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50 states, 50 heroes: Counterattack
By Mike Stoll
Published 6:30 am Saturday, November 28, 2020
Born Jan. 3, 1927, in Portsmouth, Virginia, Richard Thomas Shea Jr. attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute before dropping out in 1944 to enlist in the Army. He served with the 53rd Constabulary Regiment in Nuremberg, Germany, during the post-World War II years, rising to the rank of staff sergeant.
In 1948, Shea took an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. As a cadet, Shea ran cross country and won the European 1,500 and 5,000-meter championships. While at West Point, he set seven indoor and outdoor records in track and field. His indoor mile run of 4 minutes and 10 seconds and two-mile run of 9 minutes and 5.8 second remained records at West Point for over a decade; since then, only eight runners have recorded better run times.
Richard Thomas Shea Jr.
Shea graduated with the Class of 1952 and was offered the chance to run in the Olympics. With the U.S. involved in the Korean War, Shea declined the Olympics, choosing instead to accept his commission and enter active duty. By July 1953, he was a first lieutenant and the executive officer of Company A, 17th Infantry Regiment, Seventh Infantry Division.
In July 1953, the Seventh Division was manning defenses on a 300-meter hill near Sokkogae, a city in modern-day South Korea located along the border between modern-day North and South Korea. The position, dubbed "Pork Chop Hill" because of its resemblance to a pork chop, had been a key strategic site that changed hands between U.N. and Communist forces throughout the course of the war. American forces gained control of the hill after a vicious battle that lasted from April 16-18, 1953, which was followed by a lull in combat as armistice talks were being ironed out.
On the night of July 6, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) launched a major attack against Pork Chop Hill with a heavy concentration on Company A's position. As the numerically superior PVA forces poured into the trenches, Shea volunteered to go to the most threatened area of the line. He organized a counterattack that resulted in hand-to–hand fighting; Shea personally killed two enemy soldiers with his trench knife. The move succeeded in blunting the PVA assault and drove them back.
The PVA reorganized and proceeded to launch multiple attacks upon Company A's position. Throughout the fight, Shea moved along the position to inspire his men and aid in the defense. At dawn on July 7, the PVA made an all-out attempt to overrun the Americans. Shea met the attack with another counterattack and drove the PVA forces back.
On the afternoon of July 7, elements of Company G joined the defense. Company G had suffered heavy casualties during the fight; what remained was integrated into Company A.
Shea gathered 20 volunteers from this new force and launched another counterattack on the PVA. He was wounded during the fight, but refused to be evacuated and insisted on continuing to lead the charge. At one point in the attack, an enemy machine gun position pinned down the Americans. Shea charged the machine gun, firing his rifle, throwing grenades and killing the three-man crew.
Shea continued to lead his men in the defense through the morning of July 8, when the PVA launched another attack. Despite again being wounded, Shea refused evacuation and rallied his men for another counterattack. He was last seen fighting PVA troops in hand-to-hand combat before he was killed.
Shea was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, which was presented to his widow on May 16, 1955, by Army Secretary Robert Stevens at the parade grounds of Fort Myer, Virginia. He was also posthumously awarded a Purple Heart.
Shea is buried in Olive Branch Cemetery in Portsmouth.
Shea was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1987 and the U.S. Military Academy Hall of Fame in 2004. West Point's outdoor track and field complex is named in his honor.
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Although Kate's first instrument was the violin, she has had a life-long career in opera, musical theater, and commercial studio work. Equally at home in concert as well as stage productions, Kate is a Eugene O'Neil Cabaret Fellow and has performed on stages across the country.
Aunt Dinah is a medium who can tell your fortune and give you spells and charms to make your life everything you want it to be...or is she? Written by Edward Barnes, performance is 24 tracks of pure voice and all Kate. Album and DVD produced by Doug Simao.


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Q: react-data-grid: Sortable column header. What dictates which side of the text does the sort icon render on? I've built out a react data grid. I've added the sortable optional feature and on my system is working with the sort icon(s) rendering to the right of the header text, which is how I'd prefer it.
Others in my group have pulled my code when they run it the sort icon is rendered to the left of the header text (I'm assuming somehow inserting the pull-left style to the icon span).
I can find no information that outlines how exactly this can be controlled, or why it would work differently from one system another.
Hopefully someone is still using this component that can shed some light on this.

A: You should be able to target the icon and override with CSS. If you inspect the element in Dev tools, it will tell you the classname of the icon. Use CSS to move its position.


The first-generation of EPC technology helped the market meet earlier mandates. Gen 2 will drive companies to remodel their supply chain business processes and redeploy their economic assets for long-term gains. Momentum built in 2005, will spark further RFID innovation in 2006.
Inman & Co (Electrical) Ltd is to implement a market leading software solution that will support the company's nationwide expansion and provide its growing customer base with a speedier and more efficient service.
The Association of Manufacturing Excellence has announced it is offering discounted rates for UK and Ireland delegates attending its annual conference in Dallas.
The most obvious reason why global logistics is now getting C-level attention is a four-letter word: COST!
A striking feature of the manufacturing software market over the last year has been the renewed interest in customer relationship management (CRM). Sages research with Benchmark confirms that manufacturers have suddenly taken to this technology.
The best WMS help minimise inventory by supporting the efficient flow of materials. They can link with ERP, manufacturing and other systems to ensure stock is ordered and scheduled for delivery only when required and made available for production as soon as it arrives.


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- (void)viewDidLoad {
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    // Get the new view controller using [segue destinationViewController].
    // Pass the selected object to the new view controller.
}
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American News Nov 30, 2021 12:24 AM EST
CNN releases statement in response to revelations about Chris Cuomo from NY AG
Documents revealed that the younger Cuomo was "actively in touch" with Melissa DeRosa, who was still Andrew Cuomo's top aide at the time, and gave her statements to be used by his older brother, as well as leads on his various accusers.
Ari Hoffman Seattle, WA
November 30, 2021 12:24 AM 2 mins reading
CNN responded Monday night to allegations that host Chris Cuomo, the brother of disgraced former New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, used his influence and media connections to help his brother out by finding information on his accusers.
The network released a statement which read, "The thousands of pages of additional transcripts and exhibits that were released today by the NY Attorney General deserves a thorough review and consideration. We will be having conversations and seeking additional clarity about their significance as they relate to CNN over the next several days."
According to CNBC, "Chris Cuomo told investigators that he engaged with what he described as "sources" regarding the various allegations against his brother that were described in at least one news article, according to the records. He also said he talked to his sources about yet-to-be-published stories from media outlets."
"I would – when asked, I would reach out to sources, other journalists, to see if they had heard of anybody else coming out," the junior Cuomo told investigators.
Chris Cuomo also guided DeRosa on writing statements for his older brother.
Just to be clear, if anyone else on CNN's roster did this, they'd not only be fired but blacklisted from journalism period. https://t.co/lw5pyAE4g0
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) November 29, 2021
On March 12, Chris Cuomo sent a text message to DeRosa with a full written statement for the embattled New York governor.
"I will not resign, I cannot resign. I understand the political pressure I understand the stakes of political warfare, and that's what this is … And I understand the conformity that can be forced by cancel culture," the texted statement reads.
Andrew Cuomo, however, did end up resigning back in August, after a damning report was released by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
If this story is accurate, it describes a series of shocking ethical breaches — fireable offenses at any other news outlet. https://t.co/EqFsllFk9m
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) November 29, 2021
Chris Cuomo had previously downplayed his role in helping his brother weather the scandals. He said during a segment on his show in August following his brother's resignation, "I was there to listen and offer my take and my advice to my brother was simple and consistent. Own what you did, tell people what you'll do to be better, be contrite and finally, accept that it doesn't matter what you intended, what matters is how your actions and words were perceived. There are critics saying things about me, many unsupported but know this, my position has never changed. I never misled anyone about the information I was delivering or not delivering on this program. I never attacked nor encouraged anyone to attack any woman who came forward. I never made calls to the press about my brother's situation. I never influenced or attempted to control CNN's coverage of my family."
It's hard to imagine any news executive keeping Chris Cuomo on staff after today's revelations.
Then again, as CNN likes to say, "THIS is CNN." https://t.co/f7dkzBz3CX
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) November 29, 2021
The investigation into the multiple instances of workplace sexual misconduct against Andrew Cuomo, with possible criminal consequences, is still ongoing.
Chris Cuomo was recently accused of sexual harassment by veteran TV news producer Shelley Ross, who alleged he grabbed her buttock in 2005 while they both worked at ABC News.


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Watch: 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, Tsunami warning issued
Dec. 14, 2021 Updated 11:13 am. IST
A magnitude 7.3 underwater earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Flores Island, triggering tsunami warnings from the country's meteorological service.
The quake struck at a depth of 18.5 kilometres (11.5 miles) under the sea, 112 kilometres (74 miles) north of Maumere, the second-largest town on the island in East Nusa Tenggara province, with a population of 85,000 people, according to the US Geological Survey.
Residents in the vicinity felt the earthquake severely, according to National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokeswoman Abdul Muhari.
On television and social media platforms, people fleeing away from buildings that were rocked by the tremors were seen.
A 7.3 magnitude #earthquake struck off Flores Island in #Indonesia. Possibly a tsunami. pic.twitter.com/UhFkIXJygJ
— Aleksander Onishchuk (@Brave_spirit81) December 14, 2021
"There is no damage information yet, but the quick reaction team is working to gather the information," Muhari said.
Indonesia, a massive archipelago of 270 million people, is frequently afflicted by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis due to its location on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines that arcs across the Pacific.
Just now #Earthquake of 7.6 magnitude hits #Indonesia #tsunami warning issued after #quake
We pray No body hurts and everything gets normal 🙏🙏#earthquakes pic.twitter.com/3YT4dLXcmF
— Gagan deep (@KingOfPunjabG) December 14, 2021
In January, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck West Sulawesi province, killing at least 105 people and injuring almost 6,500.
There have been no reports of injuries or property damage as of yet.
'Simple is beautiful': Roti making girl's smile makes many hearts flutter; video goes viral


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The Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy recently published an article about the disease-fighting benefits of exercise. The article is titled, "Physical Activity and Exercise Therapy Benefits More Than Just Symptoms and Impairments in People With Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis." Many people know how exercise makes your muscles and bones stronger, releases endorphins and improves your mood, aids with weight loss and overall health; however, the articles states exercise also effective in the "prevention of at least 35 chronic conditions and treatment of at least 26 chronic conditions." That's a lot of chronic conditions! The article mentions one of the benefits is from exercise-induced anti-inflammatory effects.
Unfortunately, most adults in the United States do not get the minimum recommended level of exercise (moderate-intensity activity for 150 minutes a week or 5 days of 30 minutes). The majority of these same people have chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and many other health problems. People have said if they could put exercise in a pill form, it would be a pharmaceutical miracle. Unlike surgery or medications, exercise does not have negative side effects or put you at risk for serious harm.
As a physical therapist working in Cardiopulmonary Rehab, we spend a lot of time helping patients find ways to incorporate exercise into their daily lives. Can they walk outside, use a treadmill, ride a bike, get a gym membership, or join a group exercise program? It often takes a life changing even for people to change their habits and start exercising and/or eating better, but it would save us millions of dollars if people started these habits before their problems began.
How many minutes of exercise did you get this week? If you are already meeting or surpassing your goal, how can you help others get more exercise?
My training has been going well, and I only have 4 weeks until my spring marathon. Here are the details of my workouts the past 2 weeks.
It is finally warming up here and actually feels like spring! Blue skies, but still some snow on the mountains. Hope you have a great week!


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Q: MVC 4 Remove "home" from base route Basically I want to make it so that:
http://website.com/Home/About
Shows up as:
http://website.com/About
The "home" controller showing up in the url would make the url longer for the user to read.
I tried to do the following:
routes.MapRoute(
            name: "About",
            url: "",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "About", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

Could someone help me out please?

A: Try this.  It also makes your URLs lowercase.
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.LowercaseUrls = true;

        routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

And in your Home controller:
    [Route("About")]
    public ActionResult About()
    {
        return View();
    }

A: Try something like this:
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    routes.MapRoute(
        "OnlyAction",
        "{action}",
        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" }
    );

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Default", // Route name
        "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
    );

A: Step 1:
Create the route constraint.
public class RootRouteConstraint<T> : IRouteConstraint
    {
        public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection)
        {
            var rootMethodNames = typeof(T).GetMethods().Select(x => x.Name.ToLower());
            return rootMethodNames.Contains(values["action"].ToString().ToLower());
        }
    }

Step 2:
Add a new route mapping above your default mapping that uses the route constraint that we just created. The generic parameter should be the controller class you plan to use as your "Root" controller.
routes.MapRoute(
                "Root",
                "{action}",
                new {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional},
                new {isMethodInHomeController = new RootRouteConstraint<HomeController>()});

 routes.MapRoute(
                    "Default",
                    "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                    new
                    {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional}
                    );

Now you should be able to access your home controller methods like so:
example.com/about,
example.com/contact

This will only affects HomeController. Alll other Controllers will have the default routing functionality.


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Like everyone else who read The Passage, I anxiously awaited the release of the next book in the series, The Twelve. It seemed like it took years to come out.
Well, I am sad to say, it really wasn't worth the wait. It was a decent read, but there were so many characters, and so many different time frames, it was just difficult to follow. Maybe had there not been so much time between reading the first and second books, it might've flowed easier. Could be, or maybe I have just too much going on right now to have given it the concentration it needed.
It was definitely interesting during the parts that I actually got into (more the beginning of the book), but towards the end, I just wanted it to be over. I'm not sure if I will be reading book 3 in this series, we'll see when the time comes!


After discovering how fabulously glycerine captures the freshness of cucumber, I had to see if it was just as good at capturing lemon.
Yeah, you guessed - it's GREAT!
Let's make lemon glycerine extract!
Glycerine extracts are commonly made with dried plant materials that are reconstituted with water, then added to the glycerine.
The usual ratio of water to glycerine is 50/50. But we're using fresh ingredients here, so we need to do a titch of calculation.
Even though this is a glycerine extract (and would not normally need preservation), Aroma Zone (whos method I have followed for this and the previously made glycerine extract) recommends adding preservative.
Tip: Always always measure your ingredients by weight - this is the only accurate way to be sure of your amounts in any formula.
Place the funnel into the container and line it with your chosen filter.
I wish there was a sniff button here - the glycerine has beautifully captured the scent of the lemon.
Final step: transfer to your final container.
Here's the final product. As you can see, it has taken on a golden hue from the lemon.
The extract can be used in place of glycerine in any formula. I've tried this one in skin tonic and the previously-made cucumber extract in an eye cream.
We're not done making glycerine extracts just yet... stay tuned for a strawberry glycerine extract.
Thank you María for the inspiration - you've really started something here!
Hi Lise, this is wonderful, I really want to try it. There is a question though, are there different types of glycerin? Like edible and medicinal or are all the same?
Hi María - oh that's a great idea! I've tried it in a cream and shower gel so far, but great for a toner!
Beautiful idea. I need to try it just to sniff it!
Thank you for this! I have a lemon tree that is bursting right now! Of course this recipe used all of 1/2 of one of them, haha, but if it works well I will make more! I'm now in search of an Ecocert preservative for a 2.5 pH, which is what I ended up with for this product. Hard to imagine it needs a preservative, but, I don't know very much. Thanks for sharing this!!
HI Lindy, Thanks for your feedback. Fresh food glycerites do indeed the addition of preservative, although I agree, the acidity of this one - along with the glycerine percentage might suggest it wasn't necessary. I've had a few glycerites go wonky - it comes down to percentage of glycerine to what you have added to it. If you want to try preservative free, give it a shot, but be sure and monitor the mixture carefully and don't add it to anything you give to anyone else until you are sure you have a stable preparation.
Hello Lisa, lemon sounds lovely and refreshing to include in skincare products. I am wondering whether its safe to use in the day and head out into the sun? I'm worried about sun exposure after using lemon glycerites.
Hi Chua Lin- I understand your concern. If you are adding your glycerite to a leave on product (cream, tonic etc) then you might want to err on the side of caution and keep the percentage very low. If you are using it in a rinse-off you can be more generous with the amount. That said, a glycerite is a milder extraction and does not have the same concentrated strength as an essential oil.
Thank you very much Lisa, that makes a lot of sense. There are alot of wonderful fruits with their properties. May I know what resource do you use when researching your ingredients? Do you research scientific journals?
This is great and I will try it out. I was wondering though why life spam was only 6 months? Any chance we can build that up to 2 years if we're thinking of shelving it?
Hi Laura - You'll probably want to use the glycerite as an ingredient in a skincare product within 6 months of making it, as many cosmetics products have an expected life span of 6 - 12 months, so overall you are looking at a longer period. That said, I have some glycerites that have lasted over 2 years.
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The City of Slaughter
By David Solway May 29, 2011 12:00 AM ET
In 1903, the Jewish community in the town of Kishinev, the capital of the Russian province of Bessarabia, was decimated by a pogrom, a frequent occurrence in that part of the world. It was triggered by the age-old blood libel, the Jewish inhabitants of the town suspected of murdering a young Christian boy and using his blood in the baking of matzo. The riot lasted three days, killing and wounding hundreds of Jews, destroying houses and looting businesses. As the New York Times for April 28, 1903, reported, "At sunset the streets were piled with corpses and wounded. Those who could make their escape fled in terror, and the city is now practically deserted of Jews."
Events of this barbarous nature have been a commonplace of Jewish history, whether in Eastern and Central Europe or in the Holy Land, whether in Kishinev or in Hebron where 67 Jewish men, women and children were butchered and the Jewish community expelled in the anti-Jewish riots of 1929. These are only two of the more notable "incidents" in an uninterrupted chronicle of anti-Semitic bloodletting, culminating in the Holocaust and morphing today into the multipronged attack by the Muslim world, the international left, the United Nations and European capitals on the state of Israel.
The rampage in Kishinev, however, has assumed a kind of emblematic status owing to a celebrated poem, "The City of Slaughter," by Israel's national laureate, Chaim Nachman Bialik, who visited the town to prepare a report on the massacre. Few read the report today but the poem, over 400 lines long and filled with macabre detail and vehement denunciation, has become part of the Jewish archive, and is said to have contributed to strengthening the Zionist project and to the eventual formation of the paramilitary Hagannah in Mandate Palestine. Interested readers might be moved to consult Simon Dubnow's History of the Jews in Russia and Poland and the essay collection Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History.
What makes the poem especially memorable is not only its vivid account of the pogrom but its undisguised condemnation of Jewish passivity and abject resignation — in some instances, as we know, even of collaboration — in the face of endemic Jew-hatred and the repeated eruptions of carnage to which Jewish communities were subjected. Its description of Jewish men cowering in cellars while their women were being raped and disemboweled is utterly harrowing and unforgettable. Bialik knew, as Daniel Gordis explains in a seminal essay, "The Shame of It All," that the re-creation of Israel was "about changing the condition of the Jew, by changing the nature of the Jew."
Jews could no longer sit back, defenseless and afraid, while their people were being terrorized and killed. A state would need to be re-established in which the Jewish people would refuse to be the helpless victims of the world's undying enmity, "shocked by what is done to them [and] infuriated by their powerlessness," as Gordis writes. And so in the course of time it came to pass that Israel rose again from the darkness of history, not without great suffering and continued slaughter, but with pride, conviction, strength and purpose. Bialik's poem, with its unsparing judgment of Jewish docility and nonresistance, was instrumental in "changing the nature of the Jew."
Not entirely however. For among the Jewish population both in Israel and in the Diaspora are many who, like their Kishinev forebears, remain feeble and compliant, timorous conciliators rather than courageous fighters. They live in modern cities, not in shtetls and ghettos. Most flaunt university and college degrees, not yehshiva parchment, and preen themselves on their sophistication and putative insights. The texts they bend over, indifferent to the fury that rages around them, are not the sacred scrolls of the faith, as was the case with their ancestors, but treatises of propitiation, anti-Zionist screeds and manifestos of spurious enlightenment. The result is, mutatis mutandis, the same. True, they no longer cower in cellars while their women are being defiled, but their complicity in the campaign to weaken the Jewish state, reduce its borders to indefensible proportions and encourage its adversaries who wish to destroy it is evident. They are content to watch Israel being raped and dismembered.
Indeed, many actually facilitate the process. Elhanan Yakira in his important 2010 book, Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust, transfers Bialik's thesis into the contemporary milieu, speaking passionately about "the participation of Jews and Israelis in the anti-Zionist campaign," which he regards as "in effect…annihilationist," as a position characterized by "ignorance, bad faith, or malice" adopted by a "community of opprobrium." It is nothing short of a "moral disaster" perpetrated by the descendants of Bialik's colony of submissives who today have transformed the acceptance of victimhood into the disparagement of their own.
For the Court Jews are everywhere, the kapos abound, the so-called "peace" constituency retains its prominence, left-wing Jewish professors work tirelessly in classrooms, lecture halls, blogs, articles and op-eds to delegitimize an embattled nation, rabbinical fellow-travelers engage in "dialogue" with anti-Semites and support influential figures ill-disposed toward the Jewish state, Jewish voting blocs mobilize on behalf of their antagonists and betrayers, Israeli revisionist historians and Jewish UN apparatchiks act as Palestinian water-carriers, Jewish public intellectuals and journalists propose solutions to the Middle East conflict that would lead to the disappearance of Israel, directors of Jewish organizations invite Palestinian jihadists to lecture them, or abet sanctions against Israel, or back a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood. These trimmers and delinquents stubbornly deny who their real enemies are, as they saunter cheerfully toward the abattoir. For those who want names and addresses, I provide a compendious list of such tergiversators in my recent book, Hear, O Israel!. But the most reprehensible among them are already well known.
Bialik still has their measure. This is why his poem stays fresh and contemporary and needs to be read not simply as a literary artifact but as a political lesson for the present and a warning for the future. I present below a sort of hybrid version, a cross between an adaptation and a free translation, substantially abridged and focusing on the spiritual and intellectual defection of far too many Jews wherever they may be found. I have taken a few small liberties in the rendering but I believe they are warranted in the evolving context of cultural resilement among a significant element of modern Jewry. The message of the poem is no less relevant today, when the very existence of Israel is increasingly threatened and terrorist charters call for the killing of Jews, than it was in 1903 when the Zionist movement was just gaining momentum.
From The City of Slaughter:
Do not fail to note
in the dark corners of Kishinev
crouching husbands, bridegrooms, brothers
peering through the cracks of their shelters,
watching their wives, sisters, daughters
writhing beneath their bestial defilers,
suffocating in their own blood,
their flesh portioned out as booty.
And what did these watchers
cradle in their hearts?
Did they pray for a miracle:
Lord, Lord, spare my skin this day?
These are the sons of Maccabees?
The heirs of Hasmoneans
who lie in the privies and jakes and pig styes
with trembling knees,
concealed and cowering,
crammed by the scores
in all the sanctuaries of their shame?
Their pious ruses and denials are of no account,
and in the time of affliction,
on the trampled ground of the present
or on the horizon brimming with blood,
their cries, their confessions, their scourgings
will be of even less account,
fists beating against the stones.
There will be no salvation for the shamed.
And even their resignation,
their making peace with shame,
will not redeem
the cracked pillars of the synagogue
or recompose
the charred scrolls of the Sefer Torah.
For there is rot in their bones,
corruption in their hearts,
weakness in their knees,
and their bitter cry sent into the storm
of Kishinev and every Kishinev to come
shall not be heard,
not even in the porticos and corridors of heaven.
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RSpec.describe LiveMetric do
  let(:raw_conditions) do
    "resource_type = 'VmOrTemplate' and resource_id = 6 " \
    "and timestamp >= '2016-04-03 00:00:00' and timestamp <= '2016-04-05 23:00:00' " \
    "and capture_interval_name = 'daily'"
  end

  let(:conditions) { [raw_conditions] }

  let(:incomplete_raw_conditions) do
    "resource_type = 'VmOrTemplate' " \
    "and timestamp >= '2016-04-03 00:00:00' and timestamp <= '2016-04-05 23:00:00' " \
    "and capture_interval_name = 'daily'"
  end

  let(:incomplete_conditions) { [incomplete_raw_conditions] }

  it "#parse_conditions" do
    parsed = LiveMetric.parse_conditions(raw_conditions)
    expect(parsed.size).to eq(5)
    expect(parsed[0][:column]).to eq("resource_type")
    expect(parsed[0][:op]).to eq("=")
    expect(parsed[0][:value]).to eq("VmOrTemplate")
    expect(parsed[1][:column]).to eq("resource_id")
    expect(parsed[1][:op]).to eq("=")
    expect(parsed[1][:value]).to eq("6")
    expect(parsed[2][:column]).to eq("timestamp")
    expect(parsed[2][:op]).to eq(">=")
    expect(parsed[2][:value]).to eq("2016-04-03 00:00:00")
    expect(parsed[3][:column]).to eq("timestamp")
    expect(parsed[3][:op]).to eq("<=")
    expect(parsed[3][:value]).to eq("2016-04-05 23:00:00")
    expect(parsed[4][:column]).to eq("capture_interval_name")
    expect(parsed[4][:op]).to eq("=")
    expect(parsed[4][:value]).to eq("daily")
  end

  it "#process_conditions" do
    processed = LiveMetric.process_conditions(conditions)
    expect(processed[:resource_type]).to eq("VmOrTemplate")
    expect(processed[:resource_id]).to eq("6")
    expect(processed[:start_time]).to eq(Time.parse("2016-04-03 00:00:00 UTC").utc)
    expect(processed[:end_time]).to eq(Time.parse("2016-04-05 23:00:00 UTC").utc)
    expect(processed[:interval_name]).to eq("daily")
  end

  it "#process_conditions raises error on incomplete conditions" do
    expect do
      LiveMetric.process_conditions(incomplete_conditions)
    end.to raise_error(LiveMetric::LiveMetricError, "LiveMetric expression must contain resource_id condition")
  end
end


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Laura Dunn, executive director of the sexual assault survivors organization SurvJustice, crosses the street in her neighborhood in Washington. Dunn, a victim of sexual assault, believes an affirmative consent standard could have helped her 2004 case during campus judicial proceedings, which failed to find wrongdoing, even after appeals.
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TRENTON, N.J. >> You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things to the next level. She seems to be throwing all the right signals.
But if things turn sexual, are you sure that will hold up under legal scrutiny?
That's a question at the center of a national debate surrounding "yes means yes" — more accurately called affirmative consent — the policy that requires conscious, voluntary agreement between partners to have sex.
A new proposal in New Jersey makes it the latest state moving to require college campuses to define when "yes means yes" in an effort to stem the tide of sexual assaults.
Whether the policy will reduce assaults remains unclear, but states and universities across the U.S. are under pressure to change how they handle rape allegations.
California adopted a similar measure in August, and New York's governor directed the State University of New York system to implement a similar standard. New Hampshire lawmakers are also considering it.
Supporters and critics agree the measure could encourage students to talk openly and clearly about sex and that a culture of "yes means yes" — an affirmative agreement compared with the "no means no" refrain of previous decades — could help address the issue of campus sex assaults.
Laura Dunn, executive director of the sexual assault survivors' organization SurvJustice, said she was raped as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin in 2004, after a night of drinking at a party by two men and fellow members of the crew team. She agreed to be identified by The Associated Press.
Dunn believes such a standard could have helped her case during campus judicial proceedings, which failed to find wrongdoing. Her experience led her to become an advocate for sexual assault survivors, she said.
"Had they had an affirmative consent standard they would have realized I would never have consented," she said.
But skeptics of the policy raise questions — many of which have yet to be settled because the standard is new and it is unclear how many cases have been subjected to the standard– about whether it offers enough protections to the accuser and accused alike.
Affirmative consent standards could unfairly shift the burden of proof to the accused, critics say, pointing out that any sexual contact could then be ruled inappropriate absent some proof of consent.
Some critics also say they could prove to be unfair to victims, who may themselves facing a heavier burden during campus tribunals under Title IX — widely known as the law governing the role of men and women in athletics, but which also aims to protect students from sexual discrimination — which currently defines the standard as "unwelcome and offensive touching."
Yes means yes "sounds so darn good," said Wendy Murphy, an adjunct professor at New England Law and an attorney handling sex assault cases. "(But) it doesn't get better than 'unwelcome and offensive.'"
Some students, though, express skepticism over the "unwelcome and offensive" standard, saying it fails to convey the seriousness of sexual assault. Student groups at Harvard started a petition last month to get their university to adopt affirmative consent language.
"We certainly agree with the university's desire to address a wide range of behaviors through their policy," said Jessica Fournier, a member of Our Harvard Can Do Better, one of the groups organizing the petition. "However, we believe referring to these acts simply as 'unwelcome' does not encapsulate the severity of these actions."
Nationally, reports of forcible sexual offenses on campus rose from 3,443 in 2011 to 4,062, according to the Education Department. In New Jersey, the figure rose from 78 in 2011 to 83 in 2012, the most recent year available. That's because of increased reporting of crimes due to a culture change and greater support for victims, said Paul Shelly of the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities. Indeed, only 13 percent of forcible sexual assault victims reported the crime to police or campus authorities, according to a 2007 National Institute of Justice study.
What changed, experts said, are students' attitudes.
"It's great that it's receiving this attention, but it's not a new issue. I think what's fueling it are student protests about how their institutions have mishandled cases," said Sarah McMahon, the co-director of Rutgers' Center on Violence Against Women and Children.
In New Jersey, state Sen. Jim Beach introduced legislation since the debate was making waves nationally. The bill that would withhold state funds from colleges and universities unless they adopt an affirmative consent standard is still waiting for its day in committee.
"We saw what happened in California, realized that it was a problem not only in California but in New Jersey and other campuses around the country," Beach said. "So we thought that if we did that we would certainly accomplish raising awareness of the entire problem."
Skeptical supporters said the policy needs to be coupled with education in order for it to succeed.
"The policy is not a magic bullet," McMahon said.
Associated Press writer Philip Marcelo in Boston contributed to this report.
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"Notes on James Mill" is a text written by Karl Marx in 1844, originally part of the so-called "Paris Notebooks". In it Marx  criticizes parts of James Mill's Elements of Political Economy.  It forms the foundation for what later became his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844.

"Notes on James Mill" is particularly important to the development of Marx's overall project because it gives insight into the concept of non-alienated labor. Marx here describes unalienated labor as labor in which one's personality is made objective in one's product and in which one enjoys contemplating the features of one's personality in the object one produces. As one has expressed one's talents and abilities in the productive process, the activity is authentic to one's character. It ceases to be an activity one loathes. Marx further claims that one gains immediate satisfaction from the use and enjoyment of one's product - the satisfaction arising from the knowledge of having produced an object that corresponds to the needs of another human being. One can be said to have created an object that corresponds to the needs of another's essential nature. One's productive activity is a mediator between the needs of another person and the entire species. Marx suggests that this confirms the "communal" character of human nature, since individuals play an essential role in the affirmation of each other's nature.

See also
Marxism
Marxist theory
Marxist philosophy

Footnotes

References

External links
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In his thought-provoking book The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism (2010), author Howard Bloom introduces the concept that nature explores and consolidates information using fission-fusion strategies. Fission refers to splitting apart. Fusion refers to bringing together. According to Bloom, fission and fusion are relevant to human systems as well. In other words, they apply to both human individuals and organizations. This is a powerful metaphor and it's also useful for looking at tendencies within your business. Beyond the level of scientific frameworks, these two metaphors can help you to better lead and manage your organization.
Organizational "fission" and "fusion" don't happen at the same time. Like a heartbeat, they happen in a rhythm. In-out, in-out, in-out. If your business is demonstrating a lot of activity involved in making new discoveries and attempting to drive things forward, we can describe it as being in "fission" mode. If it's digesting its discoveries and consolidating people around them, we can refer to this as "fusion" mode. In other words, we can map fission and fusion onto our PSIU matrix.
If you look at the PSIU matrix of Organizational Physics below, you'll see that Producing and Innovating forces are really fission strategies, while Stabilizing and Unifying are fusion strategies. Your organization needs a mix of both but, by law, these forces compete for available energy. Understanding that fact alone will help you to recognize and accept what forces (more fission or more fusion?) are really required for your organization and team at any given time – and why – and then give the system what it needs.
As a manager, you want to create a conscious rhythm for your business and your teams. Team meetings, strategy sessions, and group events are tactics for improving team fusion. On the other hand, giving your team the time, space, and autonomy to execute on the daily work, while tracking progress and giving clear feedback, are tactics for improving fission. What strategy should you deploy when?
If it feels like your team is too fragmented — like a clutch of chickens running around with their heads cut off — it's a sure sign that there's a need for more fusion. You'll need to invest more time and energy on getting everyone on the same page, step away from the daily work, and seek to create team-wide alignment. Or, if it feels like your team is too consolidated — bogged down in bureaucracy, process, and pointless meetings — then break some glass and set them free. Get them out there mixing it up in the world and getting shit done.
While both fission and fusion are necessary for an organization to prosper, a healthy organization will invest about 20% of its time and energy in fusion strategies and 80% in fission strategies. That means that, out of five work days, you're investing one in fusion – information-sharing, decision-making, and keeping everyone on the same page – and four in fission – allowing everyone on the team to get their heads down and jobs done without unnecessary interruption. If this ratio gets too far out of whack, then you're going to either burn up with too much fission or implode under too much fusion. To learn how to avoid this, as well as how to achieve and maintain the ideal ratio, you can read more in my new book Organizational Physics – The Science of Growing a Business.
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