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The Life of St. Symeon the Fool for Christ According to Evagrius Scholasticus
By Evagrius Scholasticus
(Ecclesiastical History; Bk. 3, Ch. 34)
SYMEON THE MONK
There lived also at Emessa, Symeon, a man who had so completely unclothed himself of vainglory as to appear insane to those who did not know him, although filled with all wisdom and divine grace. This Symeon lived principally in solitude, affording to none the means of knowing how and when he propitiated the Deity, nor his time of abstinence or eating. Frequently, too, on the public roads, he seemed to be deprived of self-possession, and to become utterly void of sense and intelligence, and entering at times into a tavern, he would eat, when he happened to be hungry, whatever food was within his reach. But if any one saluted him with an inclination of the head, he would leave the place angrily and hastily, through reluctance that his peculiar virtues should be detected by many persons. Such was the conduct of Symeon in public.
But there were some of his acquaintances, with whom he associated without any assumed appearances. One of his friends had a female domestic, who, having been debauched and become pregnant by some person, when she was urged by her owners to name the individual, said that Symeon had secretly cohabited with her and that she was pregnant by him; that she was ready to swear to the truth of this statement, and, if necessary, to convict him. On hearing this, Symeon assented, saying that he bore the flesh with its frailties; and when the story was universally spread, and Symeon, as it seemed, was deeply disgraced, he withdrew into retirement, as if from feelings of shame. When the woman's time had arrived, and she had been placed in the usual position, her throes, causing great and intolerable sufferings, brought her into imminent peril, but the birth made no progress. When, accordingly, they besought Symeon, who had come there by design, to pray for her, he openly declared that the woman would not be delivered before she had said who was the father of the child. And when she had done this, and named the real father, the delivery was instantaneous, as though by the midwifery of truth.
He once was seen to enter the chamber of a courtesan, and having closed the door, he remained alone with her a considerable time; and when, again opening it, he went away looking round on all sides lest any one should see him, suspicion rose to so high a pitch, that those who witnessed it, brought out the woman, and inquired what was the nature of Symeon's visit to her and continuance with her for so long a time. She swore that, from want of necessaries, she had tasted nothing but water for three days past, and that Symeon had brought her victuals and a vessel of wine; that, having closed the door, he set a table before her and bid her make a meal, and satisfy her hunger, after her sufferings from want of food. She then produced the remains of what had been set before her.
Also at the approach of the earthquake which visited Phoenicia Maritima, and by which Berytus, Byblus, and Tripolis especially suffered, raising a whip in his hand, he struck the greater part of the columns in the forum, exclaiming, "Stand still, if there shall be occasion to dance." Inasmuch as none of his actions were unmeaning, those who were present carefully marked which were the columns he passed by without striking them. These were soon afterwards thrown down by the effects of the earthquake. Many other things he also did which require a separate treatise.
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Water Sustainability for Thousand Oaks
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A recent report from the Ventura County grand jury says that "without major, immediate changes, Ventura's water shortages will be at a scary level within five years." The report concluded that cities must address water needs. "Ventura County may have survived the worst of the state's drought but . . . several cities rely too much on imported water and haven't developed plans for an emergency water shortage."
It's clear that our cities need to address the issue because Sacramento legislature is not. Ventura County cities are on their own to solve this one.
Doing back-of-envelope calculations reveal a creative, economically viable solution including a continuous infrastructure revenue stream:
Calleguas Municipal Water District, which supplies the drinking water for Thousand Oaks and most of Ventura County, purchases annually 87,541 acrefeet of water, costing $82.5 million, from the Metropolitan Water District. After conventional water treatment, Calleguas distributes the drinking water to the city and county.
An innovative solution to consider, making the county less dependent on imported water, is to redirect the ultra-pure effluent back to Calleguas for reuse. It would save $11.4 million dollars for the Thousand Oaks resident which will lower the average homeowner $600 annually.
The result is for Thousand Oaks to become less dependent on imported water in Los Angeles, for Central Valley farmers to have more water, and having a continual revenue stream to maintain water and wastewater systems without raising rates or floating construction bonds.
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Action Alert: Reinstate #CUB55 workers in Australia
The BWI is supporting the struggle of 55 maintenance workers at Carlton United Breweries (CUB), members of BWI-affiliate the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and our partner the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU). On 10 June the workers were unceremoniously sacked by CUB, while secretly-recruited temporary workers that were flown in from out of state and bussed to the worksite behind blackened windows. The so-called #CUB55 workers were then offered their jobs back on a non-union agreement with a 65% pay cut.
"The treatment of these workers is simply appalling and BWI is throwing its full support behind them," said BWI General-Secretary Ambet Yuson, "We are demanding the reinstatement of the #CUB55, on the pay and conditions in their previous collective agreement."
"Its horrifying that workers can be seen as so disposable, and what's worse is that nothing that has been done by CUB, or the labour contractor 'Programmed' that sits at the centre of this dispute, is in breach of current labour Australian law," Yuson continued. "This has got to change."
In 2011 CUB's parent Fosters was acquired by beverage giant SAB Miller headquartered in London, United Kingdom. CUB have already used labour hire practices to cut its permanent workforce down to the current 55 workers to cover its 24-7 operations. SAB Miller is now in the process of being merged with AB InBev to create the biggest brewery conglomerate in the world, selling one in three beers drunk globally.
The fact that these 55 workers are willing to stand up to this enormous corporate giant is inspiring. So what can you do to help? 1.8 million Australians have already signed up to boycott many of their favourite beers in solidarity with the #CUB55, and current reports indicate that the volume of production has fallen from 1.1 million cases per week to only 400,000. Over 5000 CUB-free BBQs have already been organised by union members across Australia in time for the NRL (Rugby League) Grand Finals.
To support the #CUB55 workers you can do the following:
1. If you're in Australia, then join the boycott against CUB and register your CUB-free BBQ through the Australian Unions webpage.
2. Post a selfie of yourself or your union holding a sign that shows your support for the #CUB55, and post it to the BWI@Work facebook page.
You can download the campaign sign here.
3. Send a protest letter CUB's General Manager Southern Operations Gary Woodburn at gary.woodburn@cub.co.au and let them know how you feel.
Download a sample letter here
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The Horse Forum > Life Beyond Horses > Movies, Music, and TV > Your favorite horsey song?
and of course, the Mr. Ed theme song!
Wildfire is my favorite. It rates as an all time favorite not just horse related favorite.
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Almost forgot my absolute favorite!
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Mazeppa, the fourth transcendental etude by Franz Liszt.
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I have to add this because I often used to ride Champion the Wonder Horse to school - in my head of course!!!
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Faster Horses by Tom T. Hall.
Older whiskey, and more money"
He said, "It don't do men no good to pray for peace and rain.
And buffalo chips is all it means to me."
He looked at me an' he said, "You are a liar."
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I have way too many to list but I wanted to mention Natasha Bedingfield's 'Wild Horses'.
This one ties for my favorite, btw.


Helping people has always been my passion, When I was young, I used to volunteer at local nursing homes. The experience of helping the elderly and caring for them fostered a sense of happiness which would carry through my entire life. When I graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Michigan State University, I worked in a fast-paced emergency room. For five years, I was a part of a team that saved many lives. Although this was a rewarding career choice, I found my true calling was still to come, and explored many medical professions before I chose dentistry.
I attended Indiana University, graduating with a DDS degree. Dentistry is the only field in which I could combine my altruistic nature with my artistic and mechanical skills. Using cutting edge technology, I help people of all ages achieve and maintain a healthy smile. I get a true sense of pride knowing my work helps you eat, smile, and live a more beautiful life. I consider myself lucky. Very few people get to love their jobs, and even less get to have a job they are passionate about. My passion comes through in the quality of my work, and the close relationships I foster with my patients.
Why Choose Honest Family Dental?
Honesty IS the best policy. In all human interactions, especially with yourself, being honest is the only way to be. Early in my career, I found my patients to be distrustful of dentists. What is the reason for this lack of trust? It is the lack of patient education which erodes the trust between the Doctor and his patient. Honesty is the foundation of trust. Without it, all relationships will fail. I treat all my patients as I would my parents, my siblings, or my children. I will dedicate myself to educate you, so that we can make educated and appropriate decisions for your oral health.
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Q: Why can't I link to spdlog library installed with conan I have a simple CMake project and try to use the spdlog library (version 1.5.0) installed by conan.
But when building I get the following error:
undefined reference to `spdlog::get(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'

I'm not sure if the problem comes from my setup, conan or the spdlog library.
Can anyone help me where to look?
My local setup:
Ubuntu 19.04,
QT Creator,
Clang 9 (in the IDE and conan),
conan 1.24.0

A: Please start first with the "Getting Started" from the Conan docs https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/getting_started.html, make sure it works, and then, start from there to do your own examples.
In the getting started you will have an example of consuming existing libraries in ConanCenter. There is also a prominent "Important" notice that says:
If you are using GCC compiler >= 5.1, Conan will set the compiler.libcxx to the old ABI for backwards compatibility. You can change this with the following commands:

$ conan profile new default --detect  # Generates default profile detecting GCC and sets old ABI
$ conan profile update settings.compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11 default  # Sets libcxx to C++11 ABI

Basically the default auto-detected profile is using libstdc++, while your compiler is mostly likely using libstdc++11. You need to change the default profile with:
$ conan profile update settings.compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11 default

And then do "conan install" again, and build.

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I am sure many of you are aware that Himeshji has given the music for Kamal Hasan's latest film: "Dasavatharam". The music released on the 25th April 2008 and had the prescence of Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini and Jackie Chan at its launch. The soundtrack has been released in both Hindi & Tamil. Now it is time to give your own music review!
Tell us your thoughts on the music here!
The stage is set for the audio launch of the film on a grand scale on April 25. Jackie Chan is coming for the event. "Amitabh Bachchan will also be here," adds Kamal. "Chan is well known to the producer. So he decided to invite him. It will be a grand event," he says with a smile.
Music Review: My name is….
Tum Mile Jaane Dil Ko Mere Kya Hua….Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Hua….
I know all of us Reshammiyans are waiting to hear some new music from our rockstar right? Well now we can because Himeshji has composed the song 'Tum Mile' for the film "My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves"! He is the guest composer on the soundtrack along with Pritam!
Once you have all heard the song, do post your thoughts about it here!
Music for 'Welcome' out now!!
So enjoy the music – remember buy the CD!!
Post your thoughts on the music here!
Your Review: Music of Fear!!!!!!
Of course Himeshji's Tanha Tanha is awesome! But I must also say that 'Tu Hai Ishq' is a truly melodious song & shows the versatility of Himeshji!
Tell us your thoughts about the music here!
Your Review: New promos of Darling on air!!
I am sure many of you have seen the new promos of Ram Gopal Varma's film 'Darling' (*Fardeen Khan & Esha Deol) which are picturised on 1 duet song sung by Himeshji: 'Tadap Tadap Ho Tum'!!
Seeing as Himeshji has only composed one song for the film (original & remix version rest of the songs are composed by Pritam) we want to know what you all think of the song! So please tell us your views here!!! I personally love the song! It sounds very different to Himeshji's other compositions yet it still has his unique violin touches to it!
We're back again with another discussion and this time we ask you to review the music of Himeshji's latest film with the Deols: Apne!
My faves include Mehfooz and Dekhu Tujhe To Pyaar Aaye!
It's that time again when we ask you all to tell us your thoughts about Himeshji's latest movie soundtrack: Fool N Final!!
Tell us your thoughts here!!!


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Hjóðaklettar (Echo Rocks) in Jökulsárgljúfur in the Northern Region in Iceland are part of vast Vatnajökull National Park. The Rocks area distinctive cluster of columnar rock formations, unique even in Iceland. The columns lie at all angles thus reverberating sound with stunning clarity. Apart from the rock formations in Hljóðaklettar, you will find a labyrinth of caves and rock castles. You will also be amazed to see columnar basalt and basalt rosettes. Lava rosettes are developed when the lava stream forming the columns cools from all sides simultaneously. They are quite impressive.
When hiking the area, you will see columnar basalt everywhere. Further, Hljóðaklettar is possibly the only place in Iceland you will find vivid honeycomb weathering. There is a well-marked hiking trail through the area. To most people, clockwise is the right way to approach everything. In this instance, though, you should go anti-clockwise as it will give you more impressive views of the wonders of Hljóðaklettar, especially the "Church" and the "Troll." Much as your eyes will enjoy Hljóðaklettar, it is the shouting will do it for you. You'll find your voice doesn't just echo in waves into silence. It will reverberate from all directions, travel from one rock wall to another, reverberating over and over again, like a sonorous cobweb. It says a lot about nature's musical flair.


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ATAR charade: University accuses Piccoli of 'shameful elitism'
By Eryk Bagshaw and Inga Ting
Updated February 18, 2016 — 8.01pm first published at 9.38am
Interactive: See which courses have the most offers below cut-off
Panel to crack down on admission standards
Beginning of the end for university admissions
Universities take students with low ATARs
A University vice-chancellor has launched a scathing attack on NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, accusing him of "attacking students with shameful elitism".
Greg Craven, the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, made the comments on Thursday following Mr Piccoli's call for some courses to have a cap on the number of taxpayer-funded places reinstated.
Mr Piccoli spoke out this week after a Fairfax Media investigation in January revealed universities across the state were earning millions of dollars in revenue by admitting students with marks below the minimum advertised for entry.
An analysis of confidential new Australian Catholic University data obtained by the Herald has revealed that Professor Craven's university has some of the lowest entry standards in the state.
Greg Craven, the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University. Credit:Louise Kennerley
NSW school-leavers with ATARs as low as 19 are being accepted to the university, with more than one hundred students with sub-50 ATARs enrolling in courses such as commerce, nursing and double degrees in teaching.
Up to 45 per cent of offers were made to ACU candidates who did not make the university's ATAR cut offs, which are already low compared to other NSW universities. About 96 per cent of students offered places in ACU's prestigious Bachelor of Physiotherapy failed to make the cutoff of 98.15.
Professor Craven has previously said that "university cut-offs are as easy to rig as a bush picnic race meeting".
He defended the university's admissions policy on Thursday. "These students have been admitted on a basis other than ATAR, in line with the university's commitment to access and equity," he said.
Andrew Piccoli. Credit:Louie Douvis
The nationally renowned public law expert was recently appointed to Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham's Higher Education Standards Panel to reform university entry processes in the wake of the university entrance scandal.
Mr Piccoli labelled the appointment as "very concerning".
Australian Catholic University's Banyo campus Credit:Robert Shakespeare
"He is the noisiest person in the university sector but that is no reason to put him on a body that is looking at standards," he said.
It is understood that the NSW Government has been concerned about ACU's flexible admissions process since 2012. The university has six campuses around Australia catering to more than 25,000 students with NSW campuses in North Sydney and Strathfield.
Mr Piccoli singled out the university's teaching program as having very low barriers to admission.
"They are the worst offender. They do not have even have minimum standards," he said.
Mr Craven was also appointed by the federal government to head a review of teaching standards in 2014, at the time the Australian Education Union said ACU was "part of the problem, not the solution".
Professor Craven fired back on Thursday, accusing Mr Piccoli of peddling a misleading story.
"What Minister Piccoli is advocating is a return to the bad old days when only the elite were able to go to university, with sparse opportunities for people from the outer suburbs and the bush," Professor Craven said.
"Minister Piccoli is wilfully misguided if he thinks attacking students is either good policy or good politics".
On Wednesday, Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said there were no plans to reinstate caps on university places, despite public spending spiralling out to $13.3 billion under a system he has previously described as unsustainable.
"Universities should be ensuring every student is supported to finish their course so they don't end up just being another number on an enrolment list," Senator Birmingham said.


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Department helped more than 8,000 Irish citizens return home during pandemic
Ireland's foreign affairs department helped more than 8,000 Irish citizens return home safely from 126 countries during the Covid-19 pandemic, the minister has said. Simon Coveney said that Ireland has also allocated over 140 million euro to the global Covid-19 response.
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Ireland's foreign affairs department helped more than 8,000 Irish citizens return home safely from 126 countries during the Covid-19 pandemic, the minister has said.
Simon Coveney said that Ireland has also allocated over 140 million euro to the global Covid-19 response.
Mr Coveney told the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee: "The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has left no corner of the globe untouched and the council has addressed it frequently.
"In the early months of the pandemic, we (EU Foreign Affairs Council) focused on co-ordinating consular assistance to EU citizens.
"The council also discussed how the EU could step up support for vulnerable countries.
"A co-ordinated Team Europe response package has provided over 35 billion euro to date."
It was confirmed earlier this week that people travelling to Ireland from "red" listed regions will no longer have to restrict their movements once they receive a negative Covid-19 test after arriving in the country.
The test must be taken five days after arrival in Ireland.
The new travel rules are due to come into effect from midnight on November 29.
It gives a glimmer of hope to families hoping to be reunited at Christmas, as it limits the number of days people have to spend in self-isolation.
The government agreed the changes at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday in a bid to bring Ireland in line with the EU's traffic light system.
In a statement, the Government said: "From midnight November 29, arrivals from an EU red region will not be expected to restrict movements following receipt of a negative/not-detected result from a Covid-19 PCR test taken a minimum of five days after arrival in Ireland."
It means if people receive a negative PCR test they will be free to move around rather than having to isolate their movement for 14 days.
The Government said this provision will also be available to people arriving from orange regions who may not have availed of a pre-departure test.
The Government has also given the green light to allow Covid-19 testing for passengers travelling through daa airports in Dublin and Cork.
Passengers will be able to avail of tests before and after their flight at private testing facilities.
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USDA's Chief Economist Expects Exports, Yields Up; Feed Prices Down
Feed and nutrition Markets and economics
by Sarah Mikesell
26 February 2013, at 6:19am
ANALYSIS - Despite the historic drought, USDA chief economist Joseph Glauber said at the 2013 USDA Outlook Conference that US agricultural exports will have another record-breaking year and the financial outlook for the ag sector remains solid. However, he acknowledged there are differences between sectors, writes Sarah Mikesell, Senior Editor.
"Row crop producers have generally fared well despite the adverse weather, in large part due to higher prices and federal crop insurance programs which have helped offset yield losses," Glauber said. "Livestock, dairy and poultry producers have experienced sharply higher feed costs, combined with poor pasture conditions, with limited safety net programs on which to fall back."
His 2013 outlook calls for a rebound in crop yields resulting in record production levels for corn and soybeans, and by fall 2013, he expects lower prices for most grains and oilseeds.
"Lower crop prices should lead to lower feed costs and improved profitability for the livestock, dairy and poultry sectors," he said.
Despite his bright outlook, Glauber acknowledged that there are many uncertainties.
Outlook for US Agricultural Exports
US agricultural exports for fiscal year (FY) 2013 are projected at $142 billion, down $3 billion from the November 2012 forecast, but $6.2 billion above FY 2012 levels and a record in nominal terms after adjusting for inflation.
Imports for FY 2013 are forecast at $112.5 billion, also a record. The agricultural trade balance for FY 2013 is forecast at $29.5 billion.
Exports to China are projected to be $22 billion, down $1.4 billion from last year's record, but for the second straight year China has edged out Canada ($21 billion) as the number one market for US agricultural exports.
"US agricultural exports to China have grown, on average, almost 20 per cent annually since FY 2005," Glauber said. "Soybeans and cotton have dominated US exports to China, accounting for as much as 75 per cent of total agricultural exports in recent years, although red meats, coarse grains, and feeds and fodder have all shown strong growth."
Soybean exports are projected to exceed $22 billion in FY 2012, a record level if realized.
Meat exports are projected up 1.3 percent with increased beef and veal and poultry exports offsetting a small decline in pork exports.
Dairy product exports are forecast down 3.3 per cent while exports of horticultural products are up almost 12 percent over FY 2012 levels.
Increases in export values for FY 2013 are being attributed to higher commodity prices because export volumes are expected to drop for many commodities. Only rice and wheat exports are projected to be higher in volume and value.
Soybean exports are projected to decline by almost 5 per cent in volume due to drought-reduced supplies.
Corn exports for FY 2013 are projected at just 24 million tons, down almost 38 percent from FY 2012 levels.
US corn exports are projected to be at their lowest levels since the early 1970s in volume.
In part due to record corn production, reduced domestic use and available export capacity, Brazil will likely overtake the US as the world's largest corn exporter in FY 2013. While the US will likely regain its position as largest corn exporter in FY 2014, the low levels of exports reflects the severity of year's drought.
Outlook for Crops
Global grain stocks are expected to tighten in 2012/13, while cotton stocks increase as China increases its public inventories.
"The droughts in North America, southern Europe and the Black Sea region sharply reduced wheat, corn, and soybean supplies," he said. "Global wheat stocks for 2012/13 are projected to be at their lowest level as a per cent of use since 2008/09. Global corn stocks as a per cent of use are projected to be the lowest since 1973/74."
Despite record production, strong demand has reduced global rice stocks, and soybeans stocks are anticipated to increase reflecting large anticipated production in the Southern Hemisphere, but stocks as a per cent of use will remain below 2010/11 levels, he said. Large global supplies should lead to stock rebuilding in 2013/14, but markets are expected to remain volatile until production levels are known with more certainty.
Global cotton stocks are projected for 2012/13 at 82 million bales, a record high and up 19 per cent from last year. The bulk of the increase has been in China where the government has been increasing their cotton stocks to bolster producer prices.
With China forecast to hold over 50 percent of world stocks, the world cotton outlook will depend on the sustainability of such policies over the longer run, Glauber noted.
High grain and oilseed prices will support another year of large plantings for wheat, corn and soybeans. Combined acreage for those crops topped 230 million acres in 2012 and will likely approach similar levels for 2013.
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) enrollments are down again for 2013/14 to 27.1 million acres.
Total CRP area has declined 9.7 million acres from its peak in 2007/08.
Wheat seedings are projected at 56 million acres, up 300,000 from 2012.
Hard Red Winter (HRW) wheat area is down 0.7 million acres from 2012 due to the drought
The decline has been offset by increased seedings of Soft Red Winter (SRW) wheat, up 1.3 million acres from 2012 levels.
Spring wheat seedings (including durum) are projected to decline due to more profitable returns for corn and soybeans.
Expectations for more normal spring weather should result in more soybeans and slightly less corn being planted in 2013, he noted.
Corn planted acreage is projected at 96.5 million acres, down slightly from last year's 75-year high. Soybean acreage is projected at 77.5 million acres which, if realized, would equal the record high level reached in 2009.
Increased SRW wheat seedings will likely increase double-cropping and reduced CRP area in the upper Midwest could further boost soybean area.
US upland cotton area for 2013 is projected at 9.8 million acres, a decline of 2.3 million acres from 2012, and reflects lower expected returns for cotton relative to alternative.
Similarly, a small decline in long grain rice area is expected in the Delta where expected returns to soybeans look more favorable for 2013.
Yields for spring-planted crops are projected to rebound from drought levels, but weather remains key. Forecasts point to continued dryness in the central and southern Great Plains.
Weighted by seeded area, the hard-red winter wheat states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma have 50 per cent of their wheat crop rated in poor or very poor condition compared to just 10 per cent at this time last year. Spring rains will be especially important in the Great Plains this year where elevated levels of abandonment are expected.
Nationally, wheat production is projected to be 2.1 billion bushels, down 7.4 percent from 2012 levels, due to higher abandonment rates and a return to trend yield from last year's record level. Rice and cotton production are also forecast lower, largely reflecting lower planted area and a return to trend yields.
Effect of Drought on 2013 Yields
A number of factors suggest that corn and soybean yields will likely return to trend.
"We have already seen some improvement in the eastern Corn Belt," he said. "While much of Indiana and Illinois was in drought throughout much of the summer, fall and winter rainfall has improved conditions there."
Studies suggest that there is little correlation between seasonal precipitation in one year and the next. Research shows that corn and soybean yields are largely determined by summer weather conditions, with July weather being the most important. So Glauber concluded that there is little evidence to suggest that low preseason moisture levels will have significant impacts on corn and soybean yields.
Blend Wall Constrains Corn Use for Ethanol
From 2005/06 to 2010/11, corn use for ethanol in the United States grew by over 680 million bushels annually, topping 5 billion bushels in 2010/11 and 2011/12.
"With higher corn prices due to the drought, ethanol production margins tightened considerably this past summer," he said. "As a result, weekly production numbers fell below the allowable cap for conventional ethanol under the Renewable Fuel Standard and have remained below the cap since mid-July."
Projected corn use for ethanol has been reduced for the 2012/13 marketing year to 4.5 billion bushels. A record corn crop for 2013/14 should improve ethanol production margins and lead to increased ethanol production.
Corn use for ethanol is projected at 4.675 billion bushels for 2013/14, up 175 million bushels from last year, but below 2011/12 levels.
Glauber said several factors will likely hinder further growth in corn use for ethanol over the next few years.
"One, US gasoline consumption has been declining since 2008. At the time the Energy Act of 2007 was passed, forecasts by the Energy Information Administration for gasoline consumption implied almost 150 billion gallons of blended gasoline by 2014," he said. "Increased fuel efficiency and fewer miles driven due to the slow economic recovery have caused gasoline consumption to decline."
Current EIA forecasts of blended gasoline fuel consumption in 2013 are less than 134 billion gallons, 16 billion less than forecasts made in 2008. Also, ethanol penetration rates remain near 10 per cent as growth in higher blends (E15 and E85) remains limited. Current penetration rates would imply a blend wall of less than 13.4 billion gallons for ethanol. Ethanol produced in excess of that amount must be held as stocks or exported.
Lastly, he said, while export markets have provided an outlet in past years for excess ethanol production, current export prospects are reduced because of increased competition from Brazil and potential trade restrictions for exports to the European Union.
Prices for Grains, Oilseeds to Fall in 2013/14
Farm prices for most grain and oilseeds will be lower, reflecting larger domestic and world supplies. A return to trend yields will likely push corn prices down significantly as stock levels rebuild.
"Corn prices are forecast to average $4.80 per bushel in 2013/14, down 33 per cent from 2012/13's record levels and, if realized, the lowest average price since the 2009/10 marketing year," he said. "Likewise, larger supplies and increased carryout will weaken soybean prices to $10.50 per bushel, down 27 per cent."
Cotton prices are expected to increase by 3 per cent to 73 cents per pound for 2013/14, reflecting tighter domestic supplies. Rice prices are projected at $15.20 per cwt, up 30 cents from the midpoint of 2012/13's price, in part reflecting smaller domestic supplies and ending stocks.
Outlook for Livestock, Dairy and Poultry
Livestock, dairy and poultry producers faced high feed costs for most of 2012 and high prices are likely to persist through much of 2013 until new crops become available in the fall, Glauber noted.
"Feed ratios, which have generally been tight since 2007, tightened further in 2012 as feed costs rose relative to meat and dairy prices," he said. "While productivity gains have offset some of the decline in feed ratios, margins have been tight throughout the second half of 2012 and into 2013."
Cattle producers have been particularly hard hit by poor pasture conditions and a poor hay crop. Almost two-thirds of US pasture and hay crops were in drought conditions with almost 60 per cent of pasture condition rated poor or very poor for most of July, August and September 2012.
Dryness in the Southern Plains has persisted for over two years and resulted in large liquidation in cattle numbers. The January 1 NASS Cattle report indicates that most of the decline in the US cattle herd has been in the central and southern Plains. Cattle and calf numbers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas declined by 3.4 million head between 2011 and 2013, a reduction of 13.6 per cent. During the same period, the U.S. cattle herd declined about 3.6 per cent. The US cattle and calf herd is at its lowest level since 1952.
"Likewise dairy producers were adversely affected by high feed costs and poor pasture conditions. High temperatures during the summer also adversely affected milk production," he said. "As a result of high feed costs, milk feed ratios have remained near the low levels experienced during 2009."
Strong pork and broiler exports helped keep margins higher than they would have been otherwise, but high feed costs have limited hog, poultry and dairy expansion. Prices for livestock, dairy and poultry products are all forecast up in 2013 (figure 19). However, the livestock, dairy and poultry sectors face continued tight margins in 2013, at least until new crop feed grains and soybeans reach the market in the late summer and fall. Another year of below trend yields and high prices would likely result in further liquidation.
Outlook for Food Prices
Higher crop and livestock prices will drive consumer prices higher in 2013 but the increase should be small relative to increases in recent years. Food inflation is currently low. Food-at-home prices rose 1.3 percent over the same period.
"USDA forecasts that food prices will increase only between 3 to 4 percent in 2013," he said. "Inflation is expected to remain strong, especially in the first half of 2013, for most animal-based food products due to higher feed prices. Food inflation is expected to be above the historical average for categories such as cereals and bakery products as well as other foods."
Farm Income
USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) recently released its revised farm income forecast for 2012 as well as its first forecast of farm income for 2013.
For 2012, net cash income is forecast at $135.6 billion, a record in nominal terms and, the highest since 1973, adjusting for inflation.
Farm cash receipts are forecast at $391 billion, up $17 billion over 2011 levels.
Crop receipts are estimated at $220 billion, up 5.4 per cent over 2011, while livestock receipts are up 3.4 per cent to $172 billion.
Total expenditures are up as well, with feed costs forecast to rise 16.6 per cent to $64 billion reflecting higher grain and oilseed prices.
Other farm income, which includes crop insurance indemnities covering the 2011 and 2012 crop years, is forecast to be $31.3 billion in 2012, up 20 percent over 2011 levels.
For 2013, ERS projects net cash income to be $123.5 billion, a decline of almost 9 per cent.
Total cash receipts are forecast at $393 billion, up marginally from 2012.
Crop receipts are forecast to decline 1.5 per cent from 2012 levels to $216 billion while livestock receipts are forecast to increase 2.8 percent from 2012 levels to $177 billion.
Feed costs are expected to increase by $4 billion to almost $68 billion. Other large increases in production expenses are forecast to be rental expenses, up $1.7 billion and labor costs, up almost $3 billion.
"While net cash income is projected to fall in 2013, net farm income is forecast at $128 billion, a nominal record and, if realized, would be the highest level in real terms since 1973," he said. "The increase in net farm income in 2013 reflects projected increases in farm inventories in 2013 due to the expectation of trend yields and increased crop production. "
ERS forecasts that average farm business income, after rising in 2012, will fall for most row crop producers in 2013. Higher production expenses will likely offset record farm cash receipts. Net cash income is forecast lower in 2013 for all livestock farm businesses due to higher feed costs. Feed costs are forecast up 6 per cent for 2013 and make up 51 per cent of expenses for dairy, 19 per cent for beef cattle, 42 per cent for hogs, and 35 per cent for poultry farm businesses.
Farm equity is forecast to increase to record levels in 2012 and 2013.
The farm debt-to-asset ratio for 2013 is forecast at 10.2 percent.
Farm assets in 2013 are forecast at a record high $2.732 trillion, a record high in both nominal and real terms.
Farm real estate is forecast at $2.35 trillion, up 7.5 percent over 2012 levels (and up 15.7 percent over 2011 levels).
Real estate debt is forecast to decline by $3 billion (2 percent) in 2013 but this decline will likely be offset by increases in non-real estate debt which is forecast to increase by almost $12 billion from 2012 levels.
High prices ahead of planting should encourage large corn and soybean acreages, and assuming normal yields, stock levels should rebuild and prices should moderate in 2013/14, Glauber said. Lower feed costs will bring relief to livestock, dairy and poultry producers and allow modest expansion over the next 12 months.
"A key uncertainty is whether the historic drought of 2012 persists through 2013. Another year of drought would likely result in large liquidation and hardship for livestock producers. Historical odds favor a rebound in crop yields, however, which should bring significantly lower prices in 2013," Glauber concluded.
Sarah Mikesell
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True Colors: How an A24 T-Shirt Became an Essential Piece in the Downtown Wardrobe
The indie film studio has long punched above its weight when it comes to cultural impact. As Oscar season revs up, we take a closer look at the distributor-cum-brand-cum-(dare we say?)-art project. Plus omicron hits the art world and more in this week's column.
By Nate Freeman
Tshirts: courtesy of A24; Online Ceramics: Getty Images; C'mon C'mon and Red Rocket: Everett Collection.
The website Grailed is the streetwear world's go-to place to find rare, coveted items of clothing being resold by fashion aficionados, often at grand markups from the retail price. A Louis Vuitton x Supreme backpack from 2017 will set you back $35,000. An Off-White x Burton snowboard? It's just over $18,000 as of press. Assorted Chrome Hearts chrome hearts: activate the platinum card. Lately, right alongside all the covetable totems of drop culture, a burgeoning swath of the resale site has been catering to a strange variant of hypebeast lust: promotional merch for films produced or distributed by A24, the boutique movie studio started by three mid-career Hollywood execs in 2012 that engendered the kind of cult appeal once reserved for skate brands and certain punk bands. Many of the assembly-ware shirts with imagery from A24 movies were likely produced for the cost of a decent tee, ink, and maybe some garment dye, but can sell on Grailed for more than $200; hoodies can fetch $500.
"It all came together and now A24 has a streetwear brand," said Lawrence Schlossman, a former Grailed brand director who now cohosts the hit menswear podcast Throwing Fits. He mentioned offhand that, even with his large collection of designer grails, he owns an A24 shirt, and wears it often.
That A24 currently has a handful of movies in the Academy Award conversation that's now underway—including the now playing Mike Mills's C'mon C'mon and Sean Baker's Red Rocket, which stars former MTV VJ Simon Rex in a breakout role—might have something to do with the brand's zeitgeist appeal. But there's more to it than that—enough to at least warrant a column's worth of investigation from True Colors as the holidays bring us fully into Oscar season. So since when did movie studios start clout-chasing? Just a few years ago, even the idea that anyone would care about the people who put out movies was enough for Robert Pattinson to express disbelief that he was being contacted for a story. "It's crazy that there is an article about a distribution company," Pattinson told GQ. "That's completely nuts." (For the record, A24 expanded into production in 2016. Its principals declined to be interviewed for this story.)
But as far as indie film companies go, none in recent history have A24's manic track record. After the company's first theatrical release of the now forgotten Roman Coppola project starring Charlie Sheen, the company kicked off a yearslong hot streak with zeitgeist-capturing flicks like Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring, and 2016's A24 film Moonlight had captured the Oscar for best picture. They've also lit up the box office with buzzy not-dumb horror hits like Hereditary and Midsommar.
And they've used said buzz to sell T-shirts that fashion geeks fight over, proving that we now live in a world where skate fans and sneakerheads are trading grails that were made by Hollywood suits to promote an art house movie. It used to be that merchandise was simply what a band signed to an independent label like SST sold at a folding table by the stage after the show alongside stickers and CDs. Skate brands made T-shirts so their skaters could rep the logo not just under the deck but across the chest. The merch wave has of course been cresting for some time—arguably since the mid 2010s when all the off-duty models at Paris Fashion Week rocked T-shirts made by the skate magazine Thrasher, and Kanye West sold $90 hoodies celebrating a one-off Life of Pablo listening party at Madison Square Garden, despite estimates that some of his sweaters cost barely $20 to make. (They can now sell for double on Grailed.)
The emergence of quotidian apparel as a high-fashion object had a whiff of conceptual art project, a Duchampian attitude in which a urinal could be transubstantiated into museum-worthy sculpture just because the artist said so. Clearly a studio curating hundreds of items on a dedicated shop page on their website want fans of their movies to lust over the A24 dog leashes and A24 beach towels.
But what they might not have expected was for the idea of an A24 fandom to become one's entire ethos. Coastal elites who think lit-mag tote bags are basic started 'gramming themselves in A24 snapbacks and hoodies with the earnestness of a Knicks fan wearing blue and orange to the Garden. On dating apps, there have been reports of 20-somethings stating, in the box where you describe your personality: "A24." Naturally, the celebrities have gotten wind of the mania. In September 2020, Emma Stone emerged from quarantine in a white hat emblazoned with the studio's logo, and in February of 2021, Hunter Schafer, star of the A24-produced Euphoria, braved the snow in Manhattan with a peach-colored version.
The key to A24's merch supremacy may lie in its taste in collaboration; from the get-go, they've enlisted taste-making streetwear and apparel heads to lend a hand in terms of design and, well, clout.
"Any graphics-driven streetwear studio would relish the opportunity to collab with A24," Schlossman said. "It can platform a collaborator. To some extent, they have the pick of the litter."
Elijah Funk, one half of the duo behind hippie streetwear titans Online Ceramics, which has made apparel based on A24 films including Saint Maud, The Lighthouse, and Midsommar, explained that the feeling is mutual when I spoke to him this week.
"I go on Reddit and there are like, A24 kids—it's a full on lifestyle," Funk said. "Their merch drops sell, it's a full-on streetwear drop."
The mysterious Chicago-based graphic-tee-as-appropriation collective Boot Boyz Biz teamed up with A24 for an Uncut Gems T-shirt that's now on Grailed for $105. ("Rare. Sold out in seconds," reads the listing.) A24 also tapped speed-metal and splatterpunk-inspired merch duo Brain Dead, started by Angelenos Kyle Ng and Ed Davis, to lend their imprimatur to a line of A24 products.
The major collaboration thus far has been with Online Ceramics. Started in 2016 by Funk and Alix Ross—artists who had previously worked coffee jobs or worked in the studio of the painter Laura Owens—Online Ceramics makes shirts that are the apparel equivalent of a peace sign embraced in a hug, on acid. Designs feature flower power catchphrases in Gothic typefaces smashed up against a series of cartoon touchstones, such as flute-toting minstrels, hopping frogs, smiling turtles, dragonflies, and many, many Grateful Dead references. They recently also had a show of their paintings at David Kordansky Gallery, and naturally they made merch tees to commemorate the occasion. (On sale for $55 at the gallery, now $150 on Grailed.)
The collab with A24 got started when the buzz out of Sundance for Hereditary reached Ross, who watched a preview, agape.
"I watched the trailer and I was like, we have to make merch from this movie," Ross said.
They finished making the design—which featured a scene from the movie wherein a flaming phantom confronts a screaming Toni Collette on the front, with the blurb, "A journey through the deepest and coldest level of hell," in classic O.C. script on the back—even if they couldn't get connected with anyone at the movie.
"I didn't even know what A24 was at the time," Funk said.
"We made the designs and we were gonna release it bootleg," Ross said.
"We were still pretty small then, we could have gotten away with it," Funk said.
Eventually, a friend put them in touch with Zoe Beyer, the A24 creative director and architect of the company's marketing and social media voice back in the embryonic days, and the rest is history—they've now branched into hardware, crafting swords for 2021's The Green Knight. They now have what Ross called a "codified official unofficial" relationship with the studio, and plan on making shirts and also "other things beyond shirts" tied to the studio's slate next year.
But as with indie four-pieces minting merch, there is always the question of when the band will sell out. Over the summer Variety ran a story claiming that A24 had been exploring a sale of the studio, and the price they were floating was between $2.5 billion and $3 billion. Suddenly, A24 was no longer the underdog, but the corporate overlord. And the fun side project of selling stuff on their website didn't seem as quirky.
When asked about the potential sale of a rival studio this summer, Tom Quinn, founder of fellow independent distributor NEON, told Deadline he would stick to his values and not sell, before adding, "I can assure you that what we will not be doing is selling $50 candles."
Your crib sheet for comings and goings in the art world this week and beyond…
…The New York Academy for Art held its annual fundraiser at Sotheby's Tuesday night, honoring Peter Saul, who at 87 was there to be fêted, omicron be damned. Catered by Sant Ambroeus, the fancy Italian sandwich joint with an outpost in the Sotheby's lobby, the dinner brought out collectors Adam Lindemann and Glenn Fuhrman; artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham; and museum bigwigs like the Met's director Max Hollein and the New Museum's Massimiliano Gioni. But the most talked-about guest may have been Alison Roman, controversial queen of the viral anchovy-heavy recipe. It was her first public appearance since The New Yorker's Lauren Collins dropped a much talked-about profile of Roman on Monday.
…The response to the omicron COVID wave has been changing in New York in real time this week, and at the moment it's impossible to tell if we're barreling toward inevitable lockdowns, or moving into an era where boosters and negative PCR tests are prerequisites for parties. (Or maybe we're even…overreacting juuuuust a bit?) What we do know is, in addition to the countless gallery holiday shindigs canceled on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, there's also one global mega-gallery that was forced to close on Thursday due to an outbreak. The gallery's website indicates that those locations are indeed shuttered for now.
…Artist Alex Israel posted a story to his Instagram feed showing two figures, backs to the camera, with the floating text "Bill and Jay." The figure on the left looks a lot like Bill Bell, the Los Angeles collector whose Tadao Ando–designed Malibu house looks a lot like the one in the picture. And the figure on the right looks a lot like Jay-Z. Just saying.
…Jacob King, long a lieutenant to the collector and advisor Eleanor Cayre at Cayre Art Associates, is leaving, very much amicably, to start his own shop. Called Fine Art Group LLC, he'll continue to advise clients and help them build collections in the long term, not the short term.
…In another sign that people just have way, way too much money to throw around these days, a Patek Philippe watch sold for an eye-popping $6.5 million at Phillips in New York Monday after 14 minutes of bidding.
…The whacked-out color-popped architectural curio that is the East Hampton home of artists Madeline Gins and Arakawa has a pending sale after years on the market. Known as the Bioscleave House, it was initially listed for $2.495 million in 2018, but the price was dropped to $975,000, per Zillow. The artists built it as a quirk-stuffed fun house that would promote good immunity, thus prolonging one's life span, inspiring the home's nickname, the Lifespan Extending Villa. Both Arakawa and Gins have since died.
…New art concern Particle—which buys artworks and then sells "particles" of the works as NFTs to unsuspecting crypto-paying patrons—is putting the Banksy that it bought at Sotheby's in May for $12.9 million on view in New York. Go by 43 Crosby Street in Soho if you desperately need to see this Banksy before spending your Bitcoin on a fractional ownership of it. What a world!
Scene Report: Tis the Season
It's somewhat difficult to write a Scene Report when so many of the scenes on which to report this week have been canceled. An art adviser's soiree that was supposed to take over a SoHo boite was postponed until 2022, as were birthday parties and holiday parties across town. The reason, of course, was the omicron COVID variant, which, as previously noted, seems to be spreading like crazy around certain circles. New York's Shawn McCreesh wrote a piece detailing what it was like to be in the echo chamber that is Media Twitter and doomscroll all day through tweets that essentially boil down to "everyone I know has COVID lol." In the always-adjacent art world, Jeanette Hayes put up a post on Instagram asking brave followers to comment "1" if they had omicron. As of Friday morning, 17 people had confirmed.
But then again…Dr. Anthony Fauci, national infectious disease expert, said that a booster shot of the vaccine largely protects one against the variant. All the breakthrough cases True Color has heard about this week seem to be either asymptomatic or very mild. Which perhaps is why some events went on as planned. There have been dinners indoors at arty french restaurants, source-to-writer cocktails at packed hotel bars, nights with artists playing pool at dive bars, dinners at Chinatown restaurants, and one open bar for a new tech-adjacent art start-up. There were holiday gatherings at the apartments of artists, where there were ample smoked-fish canapés but masks, not so much. The big event of the week was an annual gathering at a certain art dealer's West Village home, down one of the coveted mews-like semi-private alley spaces, where a number of prominent critics, artists, dealers, and advisers gathered to down tequila, pop truffle-heavy hors d'oeuvres, and gawk at Warhol drawings and Polke paintings hung on the walls. Omicron hasn't won. Yet.
And that's a wrap on this week's True Colors! It's also a wrap on True Colors for the year. We'll be back in January ready to tackle all that the art world throws at us in 2022. Got a hot tip as to what that may entail? Drop me a line at nate_freeman@condenast.com.


Debut author Jan Hahn's novel, An Arranged Marriage, begs the question, "can a marriage of convenience ever lead to true love?" In Hahn's impressive alteration of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, days after Miss Elizabeth Bennet stringently refuses the proposal of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy at Hunsford, her beloved father dies, leaving the family with meager resources and an estate entailed to their toad-eating cousin, Mr. Collins. Half a year later, as the ladies of Longbourn are packing to make way for the new owner, Mr. Darcy offers for Elizabeth's hand once again. Despite her passionate dislike and distrust of the man, Elizabeth, with a grievous and bitter heart, accepts his proposal, saving her family from ruination and despair. Refreshingly narrated from Elizabeth's keen and often caustic perspective, we are privy to her inner most thoughts as she struggles to conquer her turmoil of the loss of her father; the disgrace of her youngest sister; the humiliation of her eldest sister; the anxiety of nearly losing her home; and of course, the distress from this arranged marriage. And yet most disconcerting to her psyche is her blossoming passion for the last man in the world she could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
I first discovered the writings of "JanH" in February of 2007 on-line at Mrs. Darcy's Story Site. In fact, I read this very story in one sitting, into the wee hours of the morning, only to discover to my horror, for some unknown reason, my computer would not scroll past Chapter 12! Fortunately, some kind soul at the site's Forum sent me a link so that I could finish the story. Ever since I have long wished that this talented author would publish her stories in print, so that this confirmed fan-girl could have them in my belonging. Alas, this whimsical wish has come to fruition. Congratulations, Jan Hahn! In a demesne of numerous Darcy and Elizabeth books available these days, An Arranged Marriage is at the top of my stacks, ready to be re-read. Again, and again, wherever the book falls open. It's THAT enjoyable! A must read. I look forward to reading her next offering, The Journey due out in Fall 2011.
What a lovely review – definitely put on my wish list!
This sounds fantastic! I would really love to read it! Excellent review Christina, as always!
I can't wait to read this and have just ordered it from Amazon.com. Just wish it had been available for my Kindle.
I am not usually someone who reads sequels of Austen books, but your review is making me rethink that tendency with this book, thank you. Oh and I see from Sherry that it's not on kindle? Dang!
I love Jan Hahns writing! When it comes to JAFF, she is exceptional! This was one of the first stories I read when I discovered the mrsdarcy site. I can't wait to get my hands on the book!
Great review! I so agree witht the 5 stars!
Its not on kindle? Well I don't doubt that the publishers at Meryton Press will hear your cry of alarm and do something about it. It would be a shame to miss out on this book. So glad you liked my review. The story told from Lizzy's POV is wonderful. Her voice just comes right off the page!
Great review! My copy just arrived from Amazon last Thursday and I am very much looking forward to starting it!
I believe I ordered this already and I'm really looking forward to reading it! I loved this review and am even more excited to read it after this review.
Oh dear! What is a lover of all-things-Austen to do? My "to-read" list would probably reach to the second story of my home by now. However, as an excellent review is supposed to, this sequel sounds so enticingly different than the others and with a 5/5 rating it piques my curiosity. I'll have to add this one too! Full speed ahead…..
This sounds so charming and inventive — I rather like the exploration of an arranged marriage and the possibility of love. Will keep my eye out for this!
Thank you, Christina! Your generosity overwhelms me! I feel doubly blessed – to have found Jane Austen and to have readers who like my work. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Jan, Not generous… just honest. I say what I mean, and mean what I say– especially for reviews here at AustenProse. Believe me, if I didn't like the book or the writing, my review would reflect as much. It's a great book! And truly, I can't wait for more of your work to be published. By the way– Beautiful cover with Elizabeth in mourning clothes. Nice subtle touch.
This looks like a great book–I haven't read it yet, but hope I get the chance!
I was impressed with Christina B's review, and the 5 out 5 Regency Stars definitely makes it worth the read. Congratulations to Jan on the great story!
Love all of Jan's stories. Very emotional and well written.
Goodness, nothing like Darcy staring intently into your eyes.
I'm definitely going to have to read this one.
Wow–this review makes me want to run right out to the bookstore or Amazon and clear my plans for the rest of the day! What a wonderous site that shares book recommendations…I'm in danger of spending more time here than on my work! Thanks for adding another book to my towering to-be-read-soon stack…I can't wait to get my hands on this one!
Sounds like a great story. I will add this to my TBR list.
Sorry to write this out, but the review and the novel itself are totally different. I was eager to find the book after reading this nice review, but frankly, it didn't live up to my humble expectations. The plot of the story is mediocre, Elizabeth turns into a simpleton, Darcy mean and stupidly mysterious. I like the idea of an arranged marriage blossoming into the discovery of true love and trust though. I hope the writer rewrite it with more twists and better details. Thank you.


VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 10, 2009) - WebTech Wireless Inc. (TSX:WEW), a leading provider of location-based and fleet telematics services, announces that they, along with UK OEM partner Overview Mapping Ltd., have been selected by Protectagroup Ltd. to provide telematics services for an innovative insurance program targeted at young drivers. The selection was a result of a rigorous pilot phase previously announced in October 2008, with rollout begun last month. The agreement could potentially cover tens of thousands of Protectagroup's policy holders and includes options to extend and develop other telematics-based insurance products in the future. Protectagroup is Wales' largest independent insurance broker and services customers across the UK.
The large scale pilot announced in October proved the effectiveness and ROI of pairing WebTech Wireless' in-vehicle Locators™ and Overview Mapping's VeriLocation™ vehicle management software and call centre support - customized to Protectagroup's specific requirements. The young drivers program enables policy holders to reduce their annual premiums by not driving between 11 pm and 5 am. Vehicles are fitted with a WebTech Locator™ device which sends an automatic notification if the vehicle is driven within the restricted hours. The program reduces Protectagroup's insurer partner's risk and insurance claims and provides customers with significant premium reductions and incentives based on their actual driving behaviour.
Andrew Overton, Managing Director of Overview Mapping Ltd., said, "As a valued partner with WebTech Wireless, we are delighted to have been selected by Protectagroup for this important initiative in the UK automotive insurance market. This innovative solution couples WebTech's proven Locator™ hardware with our advanced VeriLocation™ software and customer support capabilities to provide real value for Protectagroup and their younger policy holders."
Edward Kulperger, Sr. Director, Personal Automotive and OEM, WebTech Wireless, said, "The insurance industry in the UK is one of the most advanced and competitive in the world, so to have been selected by Protectagroup for their young drivers program, and the implications this holds for the further development of usage based insurance models, is an important milestone for WebTech." He added, "We expect similar announcements to come from North and South American insurance companies and specialized channel partners in the near future that will continue to validate our leadership in this market."
This latest event underscores WebTech Wireless' commitment to providing custom made solutions for a variety of industries that depend on efficient and effective mobile resource management.
Overview Mapping was formed in 1995 and is a leading provider of telematics solutions for the UK market. The company is privately owned with head offices in Northamptonshire, UK. For more information, please visit www.overviewmapping.com.


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The Sixers look to finally conquer the dreaded SEGABABA.
After blowing double-digit lead in the fourth quarter, the Sixers needed overtime to topple Charlotte Friday night at the Center. A win's a win, but I'm sure Brett Brown would have preferred a less strenuous finish, as the team had to fly to Memphis for tonight's game against the Grizzlies.
Already this season, we've seen how the second night of a back-to-back can tilt the scales. The losses in Milwaukee, Toronto, and Brooklyn were some of Philadelphia's worst performances of the season. In particular, the game against the Nets was a clunker, with Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons both saying afterwards that the team played soft. Memphis will have the freshest of legs tonight, having been off since a win Wednesday night at home against the Nuggets.
Fresh off his second 40-point effort of the season, the Sixers will need another hard effort from Embiid, facing a Grizzlies team that looms larger than most with grizzled (*wink*) vet Marc Gasol and dynamic rookie big man Jaren Jackson Jr. Gasol is shooting 44.1% from three on the season on 3.4 attempts per game. Knowing Embiid's difficulties guarding big men who stretch the floor, it will be interesting to see if Brett Brown looks to cross-match defensively and stick Dario Saric on Gasol. Embiid seems to relish opportunities to show up young big men, so a potential matchup with JJJ could be fun.
After missing most of last season with an Achilles injury and surgery to repair a bone intrusion in his heel, veteran point guard Mike Conley is back and leading the team in scoring (16.7 ppg), and assists (6.0 apg). The ambidextrous Conley has always been one of my favorite players to watch, relying on savvy changes of direction and shiftiness rather than pure speed to get wherever he wants on the court (which isn't to see he's not fast, his father was an Olympic gold medalist in track and field, after all). Seeing the much larger Simmons on him could be a fascinating matchup, particularly in light of the fact that Ben is also a guy who does a lot of things out on the court with both hands.
Embiid was asked after the game if he's playing too many minutes: "We waited 2 1/2 years for this. I'm excited. I love it. If these guys ever tell me to take a game off I might kill them."


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Promoting diversity among councillors
by WLGA Leader, Councillor Andrew Morgan
This year's local elections in May will be a chance to make significant strides for diversity in local government, as all seats across Wales' 22 councils will be contested.
We all know the current situation in our council chambers; councillors are generally male, white and older than the average man or woman on the street.
Women account for only 28 per cent of councillors in Wales and six of Wales' 22 council leaders, which represents a miserly high point.
A further 11 per cent of councillors are disabled, and only 1.8 per cent are from a black or minority ethnic background.
Councils need to look much more like the communities they serve, and communities should be represented in local decision-making. Research has clearly shown that 'great minds don't think alike' as the best decisions are made when a range of voices is represented.
Anyone who cares about inclusivity and local democracy should, therefore, be pulling out all the stops to ensure barriers are overcome to secure progress.
That's why the Welsh LGA (WLGA) has undertaken a range of ambitious actions and commitments intended to spur change and promote diversity in democracy. These include encouraging all political parties to commit to proactively improving diversity, supporting the use of voluntary quotas, and encouraging all councils to sign up to a 'Diversity Councils' declaration, to demonstrate a clear, public commitment.
We have also set up a 'Be a Councillor' website, with e-learning, advice, videos and case studies, and councils have developed local action plans and are undertaking local engagement work with partners. These are progressive actions that, together, will support the emergence of more diverse civic leaders.
Progress relies on concerted and coordinated action, and the WLGA is working closely with the LGA and our sister LGAs in Scotland (COSLA) and Northern Ireland (NILGA) to campaign for more diversity in democracy.
We have welcomed work undertaken by the Welsh Government to remove barriers and improve access to standing for councils.
Legislation has been introduced to make permanent the provision for remote council meetings, following its successful adoption during the pandemic. A new Access to Elected Office Fund has also been launched recently, to support disabled people standing for election.
Welsh Government reforms mean councillors in Wales are entitled to family absence provisions on a par with public workers, and payments for costs for caring responsibilities, while job sharing allows greater flexibility for people to take on senior roles.
One of the main barriers to change is the rise in abuse and intimidation of public figures. Not only does this trend impact on the safety of individuals and their families, but it also dissuades people from taking part in politics, especially women and people from black and minority ethnic communities.
The WLGA is working closely with the LGA, COSLA and NILGA on a Civility in Public Life campaign to support any councillors who may have experienced abuse, and to stand up against intimidation of councillors.
Being a councillor is far from an easy role, but it is hugely rewarding. You can get things done. You can give voice to the seldom heard. You can make a real difference to people's lives.
It is up to all of us to encourage people from all walks of life to feel they can make a change in their communities by standing at the local elections.
Visit the WLGA's 'Be a Councillor' website. More information on civility in public life is available on the LGA's website.
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Book review: Without You, There Is No Us
by Philip Gowman posted 15 Dec 2016 15 Apr 2018 updated 15 Apr 2018
in Books | North Korea | News and Current Affairs. 4 minute read
Suki Kim: Without You, There Is No Us.
Rider / Penguin Random House, 2015, 291pp
I always come to books about the DPRK with a certain amount of reluctance, because there are far too many of them and I wonder what each successive book will have to say that is new.
I approached this one with slightly less reluctance partly because I enjoyed the author's debut novel, secondly because I know someone who I think used to be her boyfriend, and thirdly because I have a lot of sympathy with her reported view that "books by white male writers on North Korea were better received in some quarters than books like her own." I was delighted but rather surprised that Adam Johnson's novel The Orphan Master's Son won the Pulitzer Prize as I found it a mixed blessing which struck lucky with the timeliness of its publication soon after the death of Kim Jong-il.
Suki Kim's offering is a memoir of her six months during 2011 as an English language teacher at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST). The last days of her assignment were during the week that Kim Jong-il's death was announced.
PUST is an institution funded and staffed by evangelical Christian organisations. Its students are the children of Pyongyang's elite, drawn among other things by the chance to achieve excellent Englsih language skills. The staff are allowed to hold prayer meetings among themselves, but of course the subject of religion is banned as a topic of conversation with the students.
Other topics of conversation are strictly monitored too, to prevent or slow down the realisation that things outside of North Korea might not be as bad as the regime might like to portray. Students are required to keep tabs on each other – they are not supposed to talk to the teachers one-on-one, and it appeared that they needed to report back to minders (referred to as "the counterparts"), who had to preapprove lesson content and monitor subsequent discussion to ensure the precious students were not subject to injurious influences.
Nevertheless the students are not completely Isolated from news of the outside world: teachers are allowed to discuss western news articles, though often the significance of Apple, Facebook and even the Internet seem to be lost on the students. They are aware of the existence of the Harry Potter stories. Interestingly, these stories were thought to be pernicious by the Christian teaching staff, while the counterparts were happy to approve the screening of one of the movies as an end-of-term treat for one of the classes. In exchange for this window into the outside world, the students and counterparts at PUST give us, through the pages of this book, little insights into their own world. For example, we learn of the 12 songun wonders of North Korea – including the apple farm which Kim is allowed to visit early into her stint at PUST.
Despite the context of control, and despite the tendency of the students to tell lies with casual ease, one of he touching things about Suki Kim's account is the bonds of friendship which could grow between students and teacher, evidenced by the emotional farewells at the end of each term.
Suki Kim joined the teaching staff without any religious affiliation herself and with the intent of writing this book: she backed up her notes onto several USB sticks in case her work was ever discovered. If we consider the work of PUST to be valuable in terms of introducing the children of Pyongyang's elite to western ideas we must hesitate to condone Kim's project. After all, the academic world rounded on the journalist John Sweeney for posing as a student and joining a tour group of academics from LSE in a project that resulted in a lightweight BBC documentary that told us nothing new about North Korea. Sweeney's project was accused of making future academic research projects more difficult and potentially endangering the lives or livelihoods of the North Korean tour guides / minders.
Equally, Suki Kim's work could be of danger to PUST's future work – something that she herself acknowledges in an afterword, and she uses the word "betrayal" at various points in the main body of her text. In order to justify that risk, the new information that the betrayal brings to light has to be of commensurate worth, and Barbara Demick's comment on the back cover that the book "greatly expands the limited bounds of what we know about North Korea's ruling class" seems to me over-generous. At the end of the day, Without You is a pleasant, interesting read, but not a game changer. What it does do, rather like John Everard's Only Beautiful Please, is to introduce us to North Koreans as human beings, and for that it is to be welcomed.
Links / further reading:
Off the cuff But on the record, Liz Spayd, New York Times, 14 September 2016
BBC Panorama documentary on PUST: Educating North Korea.
A Tongil Tours discussion of the BBC Panorama documentary on PUST
Suki Kim's Ethics Note
Buy Without You There Is No Us at Amazon
Filed in: Book Reviews | Books on DPRK | DPRK | Education and teaching | Memoirs
Authors: Suki Kim
Other tags: PUST
Exhibition news: Memories of Korea, at Han Collection from 6 January
Event news: Practical Engagement with DPR Korea


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Caching is one of the easiest ways to increase system performance. Databases can be slow (yes even the NoSQL ones) and as you already know, speed is the name of the game.
A caching strategy for Top-10 leaderboard system for mobile games will be very different than a service which aggregates and returns user profiles. Choosing the right caching strategy is the key to improving performance. Let's take a quick look at various caching strategies.
This is perhaps the most commonly used caching approach, at least in the projects that I worked on. The cache sits on the side and the application directly talks to both the cache and the database.
The application first checks the cache.
If the data is found in cache, we've cache hit. The data is read and returned to the client.
If the data is not found in cache, we've cache miss. The application has to do some extra work. It queries the database to read the data, returns it to the client and stores the data in cache so the subsequent reads for the same data results in a cache hit.
Another benefit is that the data model in cache can be different than the data model in database. E.g. the response generated as a result of multiple queries can be stored against some request id.
When cache-aside is used, the most common write strategy is to write data to the database directly. When this happens, cache may become inconsistent with the database. To deal with this, developers generally use time to live (TTL) and continue serving stale data until TTL expires. If data freshness must be guaranteed, developers either invalidate the cache entry or use an appropriate write strategy, as we'll explore later.
Read-through cache sits in-line with the database. When there is a cache miss, it loads missing data from database, populates the cache and returns it to the application.
Both cache-aside and read-through strategies load data lazily, that is, only when it is first read.
In cache-aside, the application is responsible for fetching data from the database and populating the cache. In read-through, this logic is usually supported by the library or stand-alone cache provider.
Unlike cache-aside, the data model in read-through cache cannot be different than that of the database.
Read-through caches work best for read-heavy workloads when the same data is requested many times. For example, a news story. The disadvantage is that when the data is requested the first time, it always results in cache miss and incurs the extra penalty of loading data to the cache. Developers deal with this by 'warming' or 'pre-heating' the cache by issuing queries manually. Just like cache-aside, it is also possible for data to become inconsistent between cache and the database, and solution lies in the write strategy, as we'll see next.
In this write strategy, data is first written to the cache and then to the database. The cache sits in-line with the database and writes always go through the cache to the main database.
On its own, write-through caches don't seem to do much, in fact, they introduce extra write latency because data is written to the cache first and then to the main database. But when paired with read-through caches, we get all the benefits of read-through and we also get data consistency guarantee, freeing us from using cache invalidation techniques.
Here, data is written directly to the database and only the data that is read makes it way into the cache.
Write-around can be combine with read-through and provides good performance in situations where data is written once and read less frequently or never. For example, real-time logs or chatroom messages. Likewise, this pattern can be combined with cache-aside as well.
Here, the application writes data to the cache which acknowledges immediately and after some delay, it writes the data back to the database.
This is sometimes called write-behind as well.
Write back caches improve the write performance and are good for write-heavy workloads. When combined with read-through, it works good for mixed workloads, where the most recently updated and accessed data is always available in cache.
Some developers use Redis for both cache-aside and write-back to better absorb spikes during peak load. The main disadvantage is that if there's a cache failure, the data may be permanently lost.
Most relational databases storage engines (i.e. InnoDB) have write-back cache enabled by default in their internals. Queries are first written to memory and eventually flushed to the disk.
In this post, we explored different caching strategies and their pros and cons. In practice, carefully evaluate your goals, understand data access (read/write) patterns and choose the best strategy or a combination.
What happens if you choose wrong? One that doesn't match your goals or access patterns? You may introduce additional latency, or at the very least, not see the full benefits. For example, if you choose write-through/read-through when you actually should be using write-around/read-through (written data is accessed less frequently), you'll have useless junk in your cache. Arguably, if the cache is big enough, it may be fine. But in many real-world, high-throughput systems, when memory is never big enough and server costs are a concern, the right strategy, matters.
I hope you enjoyed this post. Let me know in the comments section below which type of caching strategies you used in your projects. Until next time.


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Q: TS2339: Property 'props' does not exist on type 'Home' I have a very basic program of react with tsx, I am getting an error which I am not able to figure out why
import React from 'react';
// import {connect} from 'react-redux'

export class Home extends React.Component {
    render(){
        console.log(this.props)
        return (

Working

        )
    }
}

import * as React from 'react'
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import {Home} from './Components/Home.component'
class App extends React.Component<any,any>{
render(){
    return(
        <Home value="abc" />
    )
  }
}
ReactDOM.render( <App />, window.document.getElementById("app"))

git clone this for code

A: After pulling down your repo and inspecting it, I realised that you do not have react typings for typescript.

Typings is the simple way to manage and install TypeScript definitions

Adding this line
"@types/react": "^16.0.25" // or another version you prefer

to the package.json and running npm i or yarn if you are using yarn as a package manager, one more time, solved the issue.
Try it out and let me know if this solves it on your side :)
PS: TypeScript requires you to describe the shape of your objects and your data. If you look at the other answer I provided earlier, it was pretty much a long and complicated version of You need to specify a type that describes your props and need to pass this to the component in question

A: Typescript needs to know the shape of the props and state passed to a component. If you really want to stop Typescript from enforcing typings in your component (which, btw, defeats the whole purpose of using Typescript), then, the component that needs access to the props or state passed to it has to specify the type or shape so to speak, as any. That is, your component will look something like this
export class Home extends React.Component<any, any>

instead of
export class Home extends React.Component

which btw, is an incorrect way of extending a class if that class expects props and/or state.
Passing any type for props and state means that the component in question must accept any kind of shape (type) for both props and state.
Try this
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

export class Home extends React.Component<any, any> {
  render() {
    console.log(this.props)
    return (

Working

    )
  }
}

class App extends React.Component{
  render() {
    return (
      <Home value="abc" />
    )
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById("app"));

and everything should work as expected because you got Typescript out of your way in terms of type-checking for you.
You can also view the demo here
If you actually wanted to enforce the shape (type) of the props and/or state you would then have to define these shapes with, usually, an interface or inline type annotation. Here is an example of the same code above that enforces the shape of the props using the former method:
import * as React from "react";
import { render } from "react-dom";

interface Props {
  value:string,
  name:string
}

export default class Home extends React.Component<Props>{
  render() {
    console.log(this.props)
    return (

Working. The props values are: {this.props.value} {this.props.name}

    )
  }
}

class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Home value="abc" name="def"/>
    )
  }
}

render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));

Now, here you could never be able to add any other prop to the Home component that is not defined in the Props interface.
For example doing something like:
<Home value="abc" name="DEF" somethin="else"/>

would not compile because somethin is not defined in the interface that is used by the Home component.
To enforce the shape of the state you'd have to do the same thing as for the props, i.e. define a contract (interface).
Also, note that you still need to access your props via this NOT Props as this is just a type definition of the structure not holder of the values themselves.
You can view the demo for this alternative here


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