Fortuitous that Cathy of My Little Kitchen tapped me tonight to play Music in My Kitchen on the eve of my camera's death. I had great entries planned for you tonight (I made Caesar salad! I bought a Galia Melon!)--(and maybe I'll still post about them sans pictures)--but in the meantime, let me answer these music questions.
18.39 GB. And I just deleted a bunch because I wanted to copy all my music on to my iPod. I am constantly listening to music. I am listening to music right now. "Burn Down The Mission" came on my random rotation. "Tumbleweed Connection" is one of my favorite Elton John CDs. I saw Elton on David Letterman the other night and the song he played was so depressingly banal--so elevator-ready--that I wanted to shake Elton by his wig and yell: "Why don't you write music like you used to! Music that matters! Music that's interesting!" Someone should burn down his new mission--to write crappy music.
CD? As in singular? Please! I did an interesting thing, though, recently that I am SO glad I did. I tore out the New Yorker's year-end CD round-up and bought a bunch of CDs by artists I never heard of. I ended up falling in love with Tift Merrit's CD "Tambourine." I am addicted to this CD. I implore you to buy it and when you pop it in to skip to track 10---"I Am Your Tambourine." This is the most rollicking, exciting track I've heard in a mighty long time. If you told me I had to get up at 5 am tomorrow to milk cows, I would go to sleep bitter; but if you played this as my wake-up call, I would be so giddy those cows would be milking me! And then the next song is so beautiful: "Laid A Highway." But in addition to Tift, I also bought Van Hunt's self-titled CD ("Van Hunt" for those who don't know what self-titled means) and I love the songs "Dust" and "Hello, Goodbye." The rest are slowly growing on me. (This is my first R&B CD. I feel so with-it.) Then Gretchen Wilson's "Here For The Party," Tom Waits "Real Gone," The Hives "Tyrannosaurus Hives." My friend Jason gave me Eileen Farrell's "I Got A Right To Sing The Blues" (I queried Jason: "Does she really?" (Opera singers don't get the blues, do they?)) and Lena Horne's "The Lady and Her Music." This CD is hilarious. Lena's version of "I Got A Name" is shockingly new. You know that song---it's the song that goes "Rolling on down the highway / Rolling on down the highway." She ends it in this spirited declaration: "I...I intend to keep moving ahead...oh yes I do...because I'm not gonna let life...I'm talking about good old sweet, hard life...I'm never gonna let it pass me by!" That's rivaled only by her "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter" where she brays: "And I'm gonna out-act Diana Ross...I'm gonna outact Ruby Dee...I'm gonna outact Gloria Foster Farah Foster Major Bo Dereck Cheryl Teegs Cher and all them soap opera queens you ain't ever seen, honey!"
Before writing this message? I don't know, it's on random rotation, sister. According to my iTunes Most Played list (and this will tell us what was most likely played) my top played song is Liz Phair's "Glory"--which I don't really believe, because although I like that song, I can't imagine I clicked it 34 times. #2 is Wilco's "Hummingbird" from their new CD "A Ghost Is Born." I like that song. My favorites from my most popuar are: "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" by Leonard Cohen (because of the lyric, "Giving me head on the big double bed"); "Take Me With U" by Prince; "Turkey Lurkey Time" from Camp (by way of "Promises, Promises" which I also have); "English Girls Approximately" by Ryan Adams (this song makes me so happy when it comes on---it's really simple but lovely); "There's Always Something There To Remind Me" as performed by All Saints at the Burt Bacharach Tribute concert (from the CD "One Amazing Night"); "Train In Vain" as performed by The Clash (I love this version). I've also lately become obsessed with Donovan---particularly "Catch The Wind" and "Lalena." (That came by way of Bill Murray's apperance on Conan O'Brien; they played "Atlantis" on his entrance and I asked my dad who sang "Atlantis" and he told me Donovan and that led to this CD.) I've also been addicted to The Magnetic Fields' newest CD "I." It's soft and smart and sad and it gets better the more you listen to it.
1. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." First it was the song dad played on the piano when I was growing up. Then it was the song in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters." Then it was the song from the "Pal Joey" CD with Patty Lupone. Then it was Ella Fitzgerald's version, Rosemary Clooney's, and now Lena Horne's. It's one of the most perfect songs ever written. It's one of my favorites to play on the piano.
2. "Ragtime" by Randy Newman. This IS my favorite song to play on the piano. Learning it in E flat major made all the difference. It's the first quiet song I really mastered---Jewish piano playing (especially for families) often involves shmaltzy loud banging. This one wows them and doesn't require a piano tuner afterwards.
3. "Mr. Me" by They Might Be Giants. All I can remember is driving around L.A., miserably working for a big law firm, and singing--at the top of my lungs--"He ended up sad! He ended up sad! He ended up really really really sad!"
4. "The Dangling Conversation" by Simon & Garfunkel. Ok, so this list is SO old-mannish but listen to this song and tell me it's not gorgeous. Lyrically, compositionally, performatively--it's just so lush and rich and resonant. This and "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright." Nothing beats early Paul Simon---his later stuff is great, but his early stuff is so pure and innocent and honest. I love it.
5. "Independence Day" by David Byrne. Rei Momo (the CD this is from) clicks a switch in my brain and instantly takes me back to the moment I realized law was a mistake and that I needed to go to writing school. I remember listening to this driving from my creative writing advisor's house (she wrote my letter of recommendation for NYU) with the sky all pink and knowing that I was doing the right thing. Then, when I sat down to write the play that would eventually get me in, I listened to this CD on repeat on my ipod. We were on a cruise ship, so its tropical rhythms take me back to that weird fusion of activity---sitting on the deck of a ship with my grandparents, looking at green fuzzy tropical islands with my laptop on my lap writing a play about Jewish summer camp. The spirit of "Independence Day" kind of informed the play as it echoed what was going on in my real life. It may not be a great song (I think it is) but it carries so much meaning for me.
No one! We're food bloggers...we're supposed to write about food!
SPOILSPORT! you play and then you don't let others play too?! tsk. bad, bad blogger.
I always thought it was "giving me head on the unmade bed". Nice to see something different on your fabulous food blog. I loved your songfight song too. Digressions are fun!
Food bloggers have such a sharp sense of taste and aesthetic that it's no surprise to see some great music recommendations. I just ran off to download the Tift Merritt album, and it is excellent. Thanks for sharing!
I agree with Katie -- keep your flawless aesthetic pronouncements coming! Viva Wilco! :) m.
I also share your "Promises, Promises" affection; one of my favorite musicals to perform in.
Love your blog; keep up the good work.
i've been tagged already, i don't think there's backsies on this (although if i could, i would give 5 completely different choices).but thank you for putting me in such illustrious company.
love bewitched, bothered and bewildered and the pj harvey choice. tops.
My husband (a muso) loves Promises Promises. We have a vinyl copy but no record player. I would love to find it on CD for him.
Hi, I enjoy your blog. Can you please let me know where to get Galia Melons in NYC? I've tried it before and loved it.


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Stereospondylomorpha is a clade of temnospondyls. It includes the superfamily Archegosauroidea and the more diverse group Stereospondyli. Stereospondylomorpha was first proposed by Yates and Warren (2000), who found Archegosauroidea and Stereospondyli to be sister taxa in their phylogenetic analysis. A similar clade is Archegosauriformes, named by Schoch and Milner (2000), which includes Stereospondyli and some Permian temnospondyls that are similar in appearance to stereospondyls, including the archegosauroids. However, according to Schoch and Milner's phylogeny, Archegosauroidea is a paraphyletic group of taxa that are successively basal to Stereospondyli, rather than a monophyletic sister taxon.

Chinlestegophis, a putative Triassic stereospondyl considered to be related to metoposauroids such as Rileymillerus, has been noted to share many features with caecilians, a living group of legless burrowing amphibians. If Chinlestegophis is indeed both an advanced stereospondyl and a relative of caecilians, this means that stereospondylomorphs (in the form of caecilians) survived to the present day.

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Permian temnospondyls
Triassic temnospondyls
Jurassic temnospondyls
Cretaceous temnospondyls
Cisuralian first appearances
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Neck pain is a common problem in our society, and Dr. James DeVoe is here to help. Neck pain can be caused from work or auto injuries, poor posture, or just everyday stress and strains.
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With a fantastic domain name like 'Objective' the homeowners have developed a massively standard soccer web site and it is simple to see why it has a reputation as one of many sport's premier websites. There is breaking news that retains followers up to date with the latest happenings; plus fixtures, results, league tables, opinion polls, newest transfer rumours and movies.
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Combining the winning powers of a touchscreen with highly engaging content is sure to make your product shine in the eyes of the consumer.
Take a look around, chances are there is at least one touchscreen in your line of vision at this exact moment. That's because touchscreens are everywhere. From tablets to smartphones, you'd be hard-pressed not to find some sort of touchscreen device in every room.
Turns out, marketers should become particularly attuned to touchscreen technology. According to a recent study by the Shullman Research Center, customers who are touch-oriented spend the most money on luxury items, reported AdWeek. Of the survey participants, 17 million respondents ranked touch as their number one sense. Out of those 17 million, 48 percent of them had purchased a luxury item in the past 12 months.
The takeaway? Touch-centric approaches to marketing may be the key to increased sales. If the Shullman study doesn't have you sold, there's more. A study from Boston College Professor Adam Brasel found that products viewed through a touchscreen are more highly valued than products viewed through other mediums, reported The Marketing Science Institute. In fact, on-site research in physical store locations has proven that touching a product via a touchscreen interface enhances perceived ownership. This type of psychological pull towards an item has the potential to draw consumers into a purchase - hence why displaying content on a touchscreen display is a marketer's dream.
Touch adds a whole new dimension to the marketing landscape. Not only are customers constantly engaged, but they are in control of their own journey. Consumers now have a sense of empowerment while still seeing the same carefully crafted marketing messages on behalf of your brand.
With ViewPoint Touch, an interactive multimedia touchscreen display, the marketing experience becomes a stimulating and informative experience. The sleek design of the custom interface allows users to easily navigate through various content items while remaining entertained.
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The North-East's first theatre-in-the-round is to open in Newcastle next month.
THE North-East's first theatre-in-the-round is to open in Newcastle next month. Daniel Thomson was given a guided tour of the unique building.
THE beauty of theatre may lie in the ability of the performers to ignite the imagination of those in the audience.
But as I was led into the labyrinthine depths beneath Lime Street, Byker, there was no need to suspend my disbelief to see the wonders before me.
The building I was exploring, a former flax mill designed by John Dobson in 1848, is known throughout the region as The Cluny, but will soon be home to the region's first theatre-in-the-round.
"The stage is below ground level to insulate against the two enemies of theatre – light and sound," Ben Fletcher-Watson told me as we descended below the Ouseburn Valley for an exclusive glimpse of The Round.
"Having seating all around the stage will create a much more immediate connection between the audience and the performer," says Ben, the theatre's outreach and education manager.
The Round is an innovative 180-seat theatre slotted behind a listed facade in a courtyard space between warehouses on Lime Street. It hopes to revive a form of theatre dating back to ancient Greece and Rome, and later made fashionable in the US in the latter half of the 20th Century.
In three weeks the theatre will open to the public for a special preview event during the Ouseburn Festival – but there is still work to be done ahead of its official launch in August.
This much was obvious as I made my way through the flurry of activity, dodging workmen and stepping over snaking wires, to be greeted with a symphony of sawing, hammering and banging.
But just as clear was the potential of this space, which hopes to distinguish itself not only with its unique design, but with its line-up of innovative shows for babies, children and young people.
Ben says: "Flexibility is at heart of everything we're doing. Bruvvers are our resident theatre company and the idea was to create a venue as adaptable as they are.
"The ethos is accessibility for all, with shows suitable from birth onwards, and we wanted to create a space, which could be turned to any use.
Variety will be the order of the day at The Round when it opens on August 25 with everything from aerial trapeze for babies, bilingual plays for children, and Shakespeare for teenagers, planned in its first season alone, which will close on New Year's Day with a pantomime by Bruvvers.
As well as the theatre itself, the four-storey building houses two dressing rooms, a bar and cafe, office space, and a stunning glass-covered atrium.
"It was a quirk of the building design we hadn't fully anticipated. We wanted a space, which let in natural light, but we didn't realize it would look so spectacular. Now we plan to make full use of it by opening it up as part of the bar and cafe area," Ben says.
Walking around the soon-to-be-finished theatre, the care and attention that has gone into its design and construction is evident, but you would expect nothing less from the creative minds from which it sprung.
The Round was the brainchild of Bruvvers Theatre Company artistic director Mike Mould who bought the derelict Cluny building in 1982 with the dream of creating a theatre within its walls.
Bruvvers took up residency on level five of the building, but Mike decided to lease the rest of the property to a co-operative of artists and businesses, including The Cluny pub, which has become famous as a venue for live music in its own right.
Without a performance space, Mike temporarily shelved his plans for a theatre of his own and took Bruvvers on the road, where they have since become a popular touring theatre company performing to 50,000 people each year in the North-East.
Two years ago, Mike came up with an unconventional plan to revive his dream and sent out a letter to all his friends asking them to give £1 toward the cost of building his theatre.
When one of his friends, Bruvvers director and TV scriptwriter Julie Blackie, suggested a more realistic approach, Mike and a dozen of his friends got together and began the long process of raising enough money to build a theatre from scratch.
The group has now raised about £1.1m and is on the verge of opening the doors.
Ben says: "Every member of the steering group gave up their time voluntarily and has never been paid a penny. This really is a theatre built by the people for the people. We even had donations from 185 ordinary people who wanted to help.
Mike lives in The Cluny building at 36 Lime Street with his wife, textile artist Ali Rhind, who is producing a new artwork for the main stairwell of the theatre.
The Round has taken 18 months to complete and has been funded by TyneWear Partnership, Newcastle City Council, Arts Council England, and the Northern Rock Foundation, among others.
It opens for the first time during the Ouseburn Festival on July 21 and 22 with a free performance of Chrissy at the Crossroads by Bruvvers Theatre Company at 2pm on Saturday and an art and music event from 4pm to 6pm on Sunday. The Round will open on August 25.
A valley in the heart of Newcastle will fill with music, art and street entertainment as an annual festival broadens its horizons this year.


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Samsung Galaxy M22 to Debut With 25W Fast Charging Support, US FCC Site Suggests
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Samsung Galaxy M22 will come with 25W fast charging support, a listing on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) site has suggested. The unannounced Samsung phone has apparently received the FCC certification with the model number SM-M225FV/DS. Although there aren't many new details to gather from the US FCC listing, the development suggests the Samsung Galaxy M22 could be Samsung's most affordable phone with 25W charging support. The South Korean company is rumoured to launch the Galaxy M22 with a 6,000mAh battery.
As initially reported by MySmartPrice, the US FCC site shows that the Samsung phone with the model number SM-225FV/DS supports 9V/ 1.67A (15W) and 9V/ 2.77A (25W) charging capabilities. Since the model number appears to be associated with the Samsung Galaxy M22, the 25W charging could naturally be one of its key highlights.
It is, however, important to note that while the Samsung Galaxy M22 appears to have 25W charging support on the hardware side, it is not likely to deliver a faster charging experience out-of-the-box, as the phone is likely to come bundled with a 15W charger (EP-TA200). This could be a cost-saving move by the company.
The US FCC certification site also indicates that the Samsung Galaxy M22 would come with Bluetooth v5.0 (Bluetooth LE), NFC, and Wi-Fi 802.11ac connectivity. The phone also appears to have dual-SIM support along with 4G LTE.
If we look at the rumour mill, the Samsung Galaxy M22 could share similarities with the Galaxy A22 that debuted earlier this month alongside the Galaxy A22 5G. However, the upcoming M-series phone is said to have a larger 6,000mAh battery over the 5,000mAh one available on the Galaxy A22.
Other specifications of the Samsung Galaxy M22 may include a 6.4-inch AMOLED display, MediaTek Helio G80 SoC, and a 48-megapixel primary rear camera sensor. The smartphone could also run on Android 11 with the latest One UI on top.
The listing on the US FCC site shows that the Samsung Galaxy M22 received the certification from the regulator just Monday, June 21. It is, thus, safe to assume that Samsung may take some more time to make its new smartphone official.
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In vitro determination of efficacy of indigenous plant extracts used for internal parasites control by small-holder livestock farmers in Chief Albert Luthuli Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Shiba, Mlungisi Richard
Ethno veterinary medicine practices are popular among the resource constrained small-holder farmers. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of traditional remedies particularly the indigenous plants has not been extensively documented. Hence, this study was conducted to determine efficacy of indigenous plant extracts used by small-holder farmers in Chief Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa for internal parasites control. Information on indigenous plants used for the control of internal parasites of livestock by local farmers in the study area was gathered through a questionnaire survey. A total of 188 livestock farmers (both males and females) of mixed ages were interviewed. Thirteen different plants were frequently mentioned by the respondents as remedies for livestock internal parasites. Of these, seven plants could be identified up to their families and species. Plant species collected were Dicerocaryum sp (50%), Pappeacapensis (61%), Aloe ferox (90%), Helichrysum sp (56%), Senecio congestus (83%), Senecio barbertonicus (67%) and Gardenia sp (73%). These plants were extracted using distilled water and analysed to determine their efficacy through in vitro assays; Egg hatch, larval development and larval mortality assays. All the assays were performed at different concentrations of 2.5mg/ml, 5.0mg/ml and 7.5mg/ml. The nematode third stage larvae were incubated for 24hr, 48hr and 72hr during the larval mortality assay. The present study showed that all the seven-plant species under investigation possessed some anthelmintic activities of varying strength. The highest egg hatch inhibition was observed from the extracts of Senecio barbertonicus with 100 % and the lowest from Dicerocaryum eriocarpum with 2.25 %, for larval development the highest was Gardenia sp 100 % and the lowest Helichrysum sp 26 % at concentration 7.5 mg/mL respectively. Whereas, the highest in larval mortality assay was Senecio barbertonicus and Gardenia sp achieved 100 % after 48hrs and the lowest was Dicerocaryum eriocarpum with49.89 % after 72hrs at concentration 7.5 mg/mL respectively. The use of other different forms of extraction media is recommended because different results can observe and be compared with the results of the present study. Toxicity studies on the indigenous plants observed to have stronger anthelmintic activities would assist in the future recommendation of these remedies for large scale or commercial use as anthelmintic drugs. Keywords: ethno veterinary medicine, gastrointestinal parasites, anthelmintic
Thesis (M. Agricultural Management (Animal Production)) -- University of Limpopo, 2018
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Yes, I know this Wonder Woman tribute post is a few weeks overdue. I had intended to do something to coincide with the premiere of the film (which I loved, incidentally), but just didn't get to it until now.
Wonder Woman has been one of my favorite comic book heroes for nearly half a century. She has also been a cornerstone of my comic art gallery since I began collecting in earnest 13 years ago. I own more artworks featuring Diana of Themyscira than of any other character — more than 60 pieces, at current count, which is twice as many as the second leading character in my collection (Supergirl). Aside from my Common Elements theme, Wonder Woman art represents the largest single segment of my collecting hobby.
Choosing among my Dianas proved no easy task, but here are my ten favorite (at least today) Wonder Woman images, listed alphabetically by penciler.
As classic as it gets — powerful, graceful, beautiful. When I close my eyes and think "Wonder Woman," she looks pretty much like this.
Michael Dooney is a pinup artist par excellence. His stylish take on Diana — with a couple of costume suggestions from your Uncle Swan — demonstrates that.
If I can only own one Adam Hughes original — and to date, that's been the way that circumstances and budget have worked out — it might as well be his deft take on Diana. Hughes is most widely renowned for his rendering of the feminine form, but it's the eyes that make this one.
I love seeing a unique take on a familiar character. James E. Lyle ("Doodle" to his friends) creates a winner here.
I refer to this picture as "Diana's Day Off." I love the idea of her just relaxing by a lake, dipping her toes into the cool water, and letting someone else battle evil for a day.
Geof Isherwood is one of the most underrated artists in the business, period. His approach to Diana here is simultaneously classic, ultra-modern, and just a tiny bit off-center… in a good way.
A perfect setting for our Amazon warrior — a battle that might be taking place in ancient Greece a couple of millennia ago. Alan Patrick's composition is outright stunning.
I often post this piece online to honor one of our traditional servicepersons' holidays, Memorial Day or Veterans Day. Wonder Woman leads the charge into battle as only she can.
Few artists can convey as much with just a few perfectly placed lines as can Brian Stelfreeze. And his acting — the expressions on his faces, the body language of his figures — never fails to be anything but powerful.
The first Wonder Woman piece I ever personally commissioned. The particulars of Diana's costume were my suggestion. Everything else you see here sprang from the imagination of the now departed and deeply missed Al Rio. What a phenomenal talent the comic art world lost when he left us.
Let's add one honorable mention. I don't fully embrace the notion of a Wonder Woman / Superman romance for several reasons, but this piece is just so darned cute, it almost makes me a believer. Sadly, it's the only original artwork I own by the late Mike Wieringo, whose work I absolutely love.
If you're interested in checking out my Temple of Diana in its entirety, pop on over to my gallery at Comic Art Fans. There, you can see every Wonder Woman artwork I own, along with a bunch of other amazing art that happens not to feature the Themysciran Princess.
And that's your Wonder Woman Art Friday.
Categories: Cinemania, Comic Art Friday, Dead People Got No Reason to Live, Hero of the Day, SwanStuff, That's Cool!


The worlds of SoCal streetwear and Southern hip-hop come together as LRG presents the lookbook for its Holiday 2012 collection, featuring none other than Alabama-born, Atlanta-bred rapper Gucci Mane. Dubbed "High End Lowlifes," the lookbook depicts self-described swindlers living the luxurious lifestyle of the rags-to-riches dream as the likes of Gucci, graffiti artist POSE, snowboarder Chris Grenier, and skateboarders Felipe Gustavo and Chico Brenes highlight Lifted Research Group's latest collection of denim, hoodies, pullovers, sweaters, button-downs, graphic tees, outerwear, caps and more. LRG's Holiday 2012 collection is now available online and in-store at select stockists.


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Q: Ionic 2 Angularfire 2 retrieve collection from firebase I'm developing a mobile app using Ionic 2, Angularfire 2 and Firebase, but I'm stuck, this is my Firebase data structure:

I need to create a list from carrito, but at the same time I need to get the precio field and link it to another collection - precios, and get with the key value (as shown in the image above), the fields related (opcion & precio).
The code : list.ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController, NavParams } from 'ionic-angular';
import {AngularFire, FirebaseListObservable} from 'angularfire2';

@Component({
   selector: 'page-lista',
   templateUrl: 'lista.html',
 })
 export class Lista {
    public restaName:any;
    serviceData: string;

    carrito: FirebaseListObservable<any>;
    precios: FirebaseListObservable<any>;

    constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, public navParams:
    NavParams, af: AngularFire, private shareService: ShareService) {

    this.serviceData = shareService.getRestaName();
    this.restaName = this.serviceData

    this.carrito = af.database.list('/carrito', {
      query: {
        orderByChild: 'restaname',
        equalTo: this.restaName
      }
    });
     this.precios = af.database.list('/precios', {
      query: {
        orderByKey: true,
        equalTo: this.precio  ???? ---> HERE BEGIN MY DOUBTS
      }
    });
  }

Here is part of lista.html
<ion-content padding>
 <ion-list>
   <ion-item *ngFor="let item of carrito | async ">

 {{item.prodname}} - {{item.cantidad}}

   </ion-item>
   <ion-item *ngFor="let precio of precios | async "> ??? HOW CAN I GET THE FIELDS precio and opcion

${{precio.precio}}

   </ion-item>
 </ion-list>
</ion-content>

Any tips or comments will be appreciated !

A: You could use an Array of FirebaseObjectObservable instead of
precios: FirebaseListObservable<any>;
public precios :Array<FirebaseObjectObservable<any>>
this.carrito.subscribe(carrito => carrito.forEach(singleCarrito=>
precios.push(af.database.object('/precios/'+singleCarrito.precio))

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Alex Begg and Queen Margaret Academy
SCILT's Business Language Champions programme helps schools and businesses to build exciting and sustainable partnerships that equip young people with the international communication and employability skills they need for their future careers.
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Queen Margaret Academy is a six year comprehensive Roman Catholic school serving the district of South Ayrshire and certain adjacent parts of East Ayrshire – a wide area which includes Ayr, Prestwick, Troon, Tarbolton, Dalmellington, Maybole and Girvan. The school roll is approximately 600.
At Queen Margaret Academy, learners study French during the broad general education. The department also offers French and Spanish to pupils in S1 to S6. Mandarin is taught as part of an elective to S1, S2 pupils and S6 pupils.
Further information about the school can be found on the Queen Margaret Academy website.
The project with Alex Begg gives the young people in S1 a real and engaging context for their learning and provides them with an insight into the world of work. It shows them how the learning of a language can enhance their career prospects as well as developing their skills for learning, life and work.
Alex Begg
Alex Begg is a textile company which produces luxurious cashmere scarves and throws for the Begg & Co brand as well as for some of the world's most prestigious fashion houses. The company has a long history which began in 1866 when the company began making scarves in Paisley before moving to Ayr in 1902.
The company exports to countries around the world and as such requires people with language skills.
Find out more on the Alex Begg website.
The partners worked together to devise a project that would enhance the teaching and learning of Chinese in the S1 curriculum. As pupils were just beginning their studies in Chinese, it seemed appropriate to use the project to introduce and practice personal language.
The project was launched by the Human Resources Assistant and the Design and Sales Director, who visited the school to speak to all S1 classes.
The young people were given an insight into the textile industry and the company as well as the range of employment opportunities available. The staff spoke about the value of learning languages for the world of work. They emphasised that not only do languages help you to communicate with people from other countries, but the skills you develop when learning a language can be used in a wide range of jobs and industries. They also spoke about the importance of having the right attitude towards work by being positive, resilient and willing to learn. Pupils were given the opportunity to admire and try on some of the luxurious scarves and shawls that had the staff had brought with them.
The pupils responded very positively and were extremely enthusiastic about the visitors.
Help cards
The pupils were then tasked with creating help cards for the sales team at Alex Begg to use when they visit China on business. Pupils worked with their teacher to identify useful vocabulary for the staff to help them to introduce themselves and start to build relationships with colleagues in China. They presented the vocabulary, meaning and pronunciation on the help cards, and the best cards were chosen by the staff at Alex Begg.
"Thank you so much to all students who have submitted their project work to us. We have had fun trying to pronounce some of the sayings. It was difficult to pick one out-right winner so we picked three." (Human Resources Assistant, Alex Begg)
Winning help card 1
The winning groups were treated to a tour of the company where they saw at first-hand how the beautiful scarves and shawls are produced.
"I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Beggs. I learned the detailed steps in creating a scarf and I was amazed by the time and effort Beggs take in making a top quality scarf. The tour was great and extremely interesting" (S1 pupil)
我非常喜欢去BEEG的这次参观,我学到了制作围巾的详尽的工序,同时也被BEGG 公司制作高质量围巾的努力所震惊。这次旅行非常好,也非常的有趣. (Chinese translation)
Learners enjoyed the experience. They were engaged in the different activities offered and the project made the context they were studying much more engaging and relevant.
"I really enjoyed going round the factory because I enjoyed learning about how they make the scarves and about the different processes they need to go through. My favourite part was looking at the way they are weaved." (S1 pupil)
我非常喜欢参观这个工厂,因为我很享受学习他们是如何制作围巾以及中间需要经过的不同工序。我最喜欢的部分是进入到他们进行纺织的一个声音很大的房间里,因为我喜欢看他们是如何纺织的,同时我也非常享受观看最后的扫描工作。(Chinese translation)
The staff thought the project was a great opportunity for the learners to see the relevance of learning Chinese and agreed that it had been very worthwhile.
The staff at Queen Margaret Academy would like to continue to promote languages to learners in this way.
"I am still on a high after our tour this morning. It was certainly a good promotional tool [for languages] because we are all talking so positively about it. The pupils came back to my classroom afterwards and were talking all about it. We would be so keen to continue this business link. It is so valuable to the pupils to have an insight into the world of work. We can talk about it to a certain extent in school but our trip this morning was invaluable." (Principal Teacher, on return from the visit to the company)
The staff at Alex Begg & Co also benefited from the project and are very keen to continue working with the school. They have suggested developing the project for the next session, and have asked the school to consider developing a phrase-book instead of simply help card.
"I will be taking the cards to China on my next visit in the autumn! Good work from and thank you to all the pupils." (Sales and Marketing Director)
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Do you know someone who deserves recognition for their water conservation efforts? Contact Briana Morgan at 928-855-2618 to nominate them for the next Certificate of Recognition in Lake Havasu City!
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, Mayor Mark S. Nexsen along with Briana Morgan, Lake Havasu City's Water Conservation Specialist, presented the Lake Havasu Unified School District with a Certificate of Recognition for their water conservation efforts in installing a new football field at the local Lake Havasu High School. The LHUSD is the sixth recipient to receive the award as part of the Water Conservation Certificate of Recognition Program established by Lake Havasu City. Lake Havasu Unified School District Superintendent Diana Asseier and Director of Business Services Michael Murray accepted the award on behalf of the LHUSD.
It seems counterintuitive that installing a new football field would help the School District save water, however the upgrade involved replacing the High School's old grass field with a new artificial-turf field, and removing much of the older irrigation system. According to Briana Morgan, Water Conservation Specialist with the City, the District enjoyed a decrease of 95 percent in water consumption as well as an equivalent 95 percent decrease on their water bill for that metered area. Comparing August 2017 to August 2018, the football field's water consumption dropped from 303,812 cubic feet down to 16,297 due to the installation of the new field. According to the LHUSD, although water still needs to be used on the new field - primarily for the snack bar area and bathrooms, but also to cool down the artificial turf prior to games for the football players - this consumption decrease will now be the new norm in water usage for the entire football stadium.
Mayor Mark S. Nexsen, along with Briana Morgan, Lake Havasu City's Water Conservation Specialist, presented Steve and Debbie Torina with a Certificate of Recognition for their water conservation efforts in retrofitting their RO system to divert RO waste to their landscape. The couple is the fifth recipient to earn the award, and the first non-business related recipients to receive the award as residents.
Mr. and Mrs. Torina moved to Lake Havasu City five years ago from a water-conscious community in Washington State. In the community where they are from, Steve had mentioned that water conservation was not just encouraged; it was a normal part of living there. In their Washington community, homes were built to save as much water as possible, and conserving was something every citizen did without even thinking about it. When Steve and Debbie moved here, they were shocked that there were no regulations on how their home should be built in order to conserve water, and even though it wasn't required of them, they decided to install the plumbing to encourage water conservation. Namely, they installed a hot water recirculation system in their home to prevent water waste in the winter. However, after living here for five years, they discovered there was a bigger water issue they didn't think about because they didn't have it in Washington; reverse osmosis systems.
The typical RO system wastes three to five gallons of water in order to produce just one gallon of drinking water, and all of that RO waste is typically sent down the drain. Upon learning this, Steve and Debbie decided to re-route this RO "waste" and put it to some good use. Steve installed some retrofit plumbing to divert the RO waste to a large cistern-like tub in their garage. From there, he put a water pump in the tub, which pumps the water out through a hose that connects to their irrigation valves, and then diverts the water to their landscape. After installing this system around May of last year, the Torinas realized they could water their entire landscape fully off of RO waste alone, and no longer use potable water to water their plants. "I don't understand why this isn't something that is encouraged or offered for every new building built or remodeled in Lake Havasu City that plans to have an RO system. It is a relatively inexpensive piece of additional plumbing that can save you both water and money," Steve said. This has resulted in a 39% reduction in their total home water use, and a 17% reduction in their total water bill on average for the past year.
If you would like to nominate a business, a group or an individual for conservation efforts, contact Lake Havasu City's Water Conservation Specialist, Briana Morgan, at 928-855-2618.
On Thursday, February 8, 2018, Mayor Mark S. Nexsen, along with Briana Morgan, Lake Havasu City's Water Conservation Specialist, presented the North Branch of Mohave State Bank with a Certificate of Recognition for their water conservation efforts in replacing their old irrigation system, installing a new xeriscape, and implementing green infrastructure in 2017. Mohave State Bank is the fourth recipient to earn the award, and the first recipient to receive the award this year.
Lisa Van Ella, Mohave State Bank's Branch Manager, accepted the award on behalf of the Bank, and was chosen specifically to represent the Bank in this moment as she was the primary mastermind behind the project itself. Through her collaborative efforts, she not only came up with the idea to revamp the Bank's landscape, but she also formed a diverse committee to assess the many aspects that come with changing an entire landscape.
The committee created to ensure the project's success included ASU Lake Havasu's ECO Club for coordinating the recycling of the old landscaped plants to be used in the BLM's Fisheries Habitat Program, Briana Morgan, Water Conservation Specialist, for plant selection, determination of water use, stormwater runoff, and determination of bio-swale and curb-cut placements, Dr. David Young, ASU Lake Havasu's previous Director and Botanist, for plant selection, Mychal Gorden of Mychal Gorden Landscape Design Inc. for plant selection and landscape architecture, and Andy Roose of Elite Yard & Landscape Services for the xeriscape and bio-swale implementation.
Upon forming the committee, Lisa had expressed the "pain points" of the current landscape at Mohave State Bank; the existing landscape included trees that blocked the business signage, plants with large amounts of debris, water stagnation in concrete areas, and of course, high water consumption in a failing irrigation system. The project assessed these areas of concern and installed a water-efficient xeriscape suitable to the business signage, removed areas of concrete and installed curb cuts to allow for water infiltration to planter areas, and implemented bioretention swales to help to divert portions of the 56,000 gallons of runoff that occurs on the property annually with average rainfall.
Briana Morgan, Lake Havasu City's water conservation specialist, recognizes the efforts made by The Shoppes at Lake Havasu to reduce water consumption. Michelle Misurelli, The Shoppes' property manager, receives the award from the city with Mayor Mark Nexsen in the background.
The Shops at Lake Havasu was recognized in October of 2017 by Mayor Mark Nexsen, Water Resource Coordinator Doyle Wilson and Water Conservation Specialist Briana Morgan for efforts taken to reduce the property's irrigation usage. The original landscape installed when the business opened was technically desert-friendly and adapted from a Las Vegas landscaping company, however, they soon realized the temperature and elevation differences between Las Vegas and Lake Havasu City can make some "desert-friendly" plants unsuitable here. The Shops gradually began weeding out the plants that were not doing so well for plants better suited to Lake Havasu City resulting in a 42% reduction in water use.
From left, Water Resource Coordinator Doyle Wilson, Mayor Mark Nexsen, Mudshark Brewery owners Tina Stocking and Scott Stocking; and Water Conservation Specialist Briana Morgan.
Havasu's Mudshark Brewery was recognized on July 17 by Mayor Mark Nexsen, Water Resource Coordinator Doyle Wilson and Water Conservation Specialist Briana Morgan for recent efforts to reduce both its consumption of water and the business's energy dependency.
"Many businesses and individuals take great strides to conserve water in Lake Havasu City, and we should be recognizing them for their efforts," Nexsen said.
From left to right: Lake Havasu City Water Conservation Specialist Briana Morgan, Beachcomber Resort Manager Jim Hill, Lake Havasu City Mayor Mark Nexsen, Lake Havasu City Water Resources Manager Doyle Wilson.
Beachcomber Resort took the spot as Lake Havasu City's first certificate of recognition recipient by reducing their average monthly water consumption by 60%! The resort removed all of the oleander bushes that once lined the property. By doing so, the water consumption dropped from about 200,000 cubic feet per month (roughly 1,496,000 gallons) to about 80,000 cubic feet per month (598,400 gallons).


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What should I do?

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Fix 0xc0000001 in Windows 8
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This example taken from the Technet page about bcdboot would install from current C:\Windows source to drive S:. S: should be the drive with the boot flag  (1), which is usually called System on OEM installs, so S: may be correct.
As far as I know bcdboot is only available on Windows 7, Windows 8 and above. (Don't ask me for advice on EOL software.)
Reinstalling GRUB
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Information on the official recognition of the "Event commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Georgia" in 2012. (December 26, 2011) ⇒
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On December 8, 2011, the Embassy of Japan, with support from the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, will organize a "Japanese Culture Evening." (November 17, 2011) ⇒
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Great East Japan Earthquake: Message from the Japan women's national football team 'Nadeshiko Japan' conveying thanks and recovery of Japan to the world (September 14, 2011) ⇒
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Information on the Japanese Government Scholarship for 2012 (April 12, 2011) ⇒
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FBI Agent Provocateurs and Fusion Centers: Boys Gone Wild
By Delinda C. Hanley
Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs
As former FBI Deputy Director John Pistole (r) listens, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales warned Americans against "homegrown" terrorist cells inspired by a "violent jihadist message" (AFP photo/Nicholas Kamm).
THE SAME day President Barack Obama reached out to 1.5 billion Muslims around the world in his speech to the Turkish parliament, saying the United States "is not and will never be at war with Islam," Muslim Americans described what looks like a war on their community here at home. The American Muslim Taskforce (AMT) on Civil Rights and Elections, a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, discussed their concerns at a briefing at the National Press Club on April 6.
"This is a very important message to the American people, to the West and to the Muslim world in general," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). "We appreciate Obama's efforts to bring peace and justice to the Muslim world, and American Muslims are not only willing but they are ready to help," he stated.
Obama needs to improve Washington's relations with 6 to 7 million American Muslims—relations badly damaged in the previous administration's "war on terror" and by its invasion of two Muslim countries.
"We support and we do encourage the president to reach out to the Muslim world," added Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, "but as my grandmother used to say, charity begins at home."
During the presidential campaign Obama visited numerous churches and synagogues, but never a mosque or Islamic Center. "We say, 'yes he can' visit a mosque here in America," Bray said. If he did, he'd discover people who support his presidency and who are concerned about issues like health care, jobs, energy and education, Bray noted. In fact, according to post-election polls, 95 percent of eligible Muslims voters turned out to vote in 2008, and nearly 90 percent voted for Obama.
AMT chairman Dr. Agha Saeed cited provocative domestic practices and civil rights abuses which began during the Bush administration but which continue today. These abuses include mistreating Muslim activists, including Dr. Sami Al-Arian (see p. 58); labeling as "unindicted co-conspirators" such respected mainstream Muslim organizations as CAIR and the Islamic Society of North America in connection with trials of Muslim charities; and sending FBI agents and informants into mosques to spy on worshippers.
In one notorious case, the FBI hired convicted felon Craig Monteilh to spy on mosques in Orange County, California from early 2006 through late 2007. (While he was collecting thousands of dollars for his FBI work inside mosques, Monteilh conned two women he met at the gym out of nearly $150,000 in elaborate pharmaceutical scams.)
Ahmadullah Niazi, a 34-year-old Afghan immigrant, and another member of the Islamic Center in Irvine, CA, reported the con artist to the FBI in June 2007, claiming that Monteilh was espousing terrorist rhetoric and trying to draw them into a plot to blow up shopping malls and other buildings. When the FBI refused to investigate, Islamic Center leaders realized Monteilh must be an agent provocateur, and won a restraining order to prevent him from returning to the mosque.
An FBI agent allegedly told Niazi that the agency would make his life a "living hell" if he did not become an informant. Sure enough, the FBI arrested Niazi on Feb. 20 of this year and charged him with perjury and passport fraud. The following day Monteilh bragged to the Los Angeles Times that he was the paid informant who had helped nab Niazi.
Another recent FBI sting, which captured headlines and fueled Islamophobic fires across the country, involved the June 23, 2006 arrest of the "Liberty City Seven," named for the poor, predominantly Haitian and African-American Miami suburb where the targeted men lived. Prosecutors accused the seven "radical African-American Muslims" of plotting to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other U.S. buildings. The defendants, who turned out to belong to a Moorish religion blending Christianity and Islam, said they thought they were tricking an al-Qaeda member into giving them $50,000. Defense lawyers portrayed the case as a FBI sting operation and the ensuing arrests as a play for publicity to highlight the government's campaign against domestic terrorism.
The arrests were announced in Washington, DC at a press conference hosted by then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, giving them maximum news exposure. It took three trials, three juries and nearly three years, but on May 12 federal prosecutors finally succeeded in gaining convictions of five of the men.
What other elaborate sting operations are under way? Who else is providing special surveillance of Muslim Americans? In May 2006, seeking to allay fears of FBI spying in their community, 11 Muslim American leaders, mosques and local organizations filed a joint Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. They asked for all FBI records of the agency's surveillance and investigations of themselves and other groups since January 2001. A year later the agency turned over only four pages of documents.
In 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Muslim-American leaders and groups who had made the FOIA request, seeking a court order that the FBI comply. Since then, the government has provided hundreds of heavily redacted pages of documents which show that the FBI has conducted surveillance on lawful First Amendment activities of Muslim Americans. The FBI documents describe Muslim fund-raising activities in support of earthquake relief, work for immigration reform, and public speeches advocating nonviolence at conferences and Muslim student meetings. On April 20, 2009 a federal judge ordered the FBI to release nearly 100 more documents that detail the bureau's surveillance of Muslim leaders and organizations in Southern California.
Soon it may not just be FBI agents gone wild who are watching and reporting on the activities of Muslim Americans. Big Brother may also include private sector agencies, including health care workers, credit card and telephone companies, banks or meter maids, building inspectors, or postal workers and librarians who help compile information on American citizens for the government agencies.
Since 2006, the federal government and the Department of Homeland Security have helped states and major cities set up a network of some 58 "fusion centers." These institutions were originally created to improve the sharing of "anti-terrorism intelligence" among various state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. Their mission has quickly expanded to include "the collection and analysis of information from law enforcement agencies, the private sector and the intelligence community" on "all crimes and all hazards."
According to a 2007 ACLU report, these new fusion centers "raise very serious privacy issues at a time when new technology, government powers and zeal in the 'war on terrorism' are combining to threaten Americans' privacy at an unprecedented level."
The Maryland State Police Department's covert surveillance in 2005 and 2006 of local peace and anti-death penalty groups, including the American Friends Service Committee, caused a local uproar last summer, when the ACLU of Maryland obtained local police files.
According to a Texas fusion center's "Prevention Awareness Bulletin" produced on Feb. 19, 2009, it is "imperative" that law enforcement officers report the activities of lobbying groups, Muslim civil rights organizations and anti-war protest groups in their areas. Also suspect are supporters of former Congress members and presidential candidates Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr, peace activists and hip hop bands. According to its Web site, North Central Texas Fusion System bulletins are disseminated to thousands of people in more than a hundred different agencies.
A Missouri report says that law enforcement officers may be able to spot potential terrorists by their political bumper stickers, such as those for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, or by their subversive literature. A 200-page Virginia fusion center report notes that terrorists are likely to use Twitter, podcasts and social networking sites as communication tools.
I'm not making up this stuff.
Critics, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, accuse the centers of collecting uncorroborated allegations and, on occasion, inaccurate and incomplete information on individuals and organizations. Anything might find its way into fusion center computers, including agenda-driven information supplied by hysterical Islamophobes or self-proclaimed terrorism experts like Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Frank Gaffney, Joe Kaufman, or Alan Dershowitz. Are reports generated by think tanks like the Center for Security Policy, the Middle East Forum, the Israel Project, and Hudson Institute feeding fusion centers? Just who and what countries have access to fusion center computer systems?
This writer doesn't want to offend the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI or even fusion centers (and end up with a hefty personal file). Washington Report staff appreciated being able to call on the FBI when our offices were broken into and a safe destroyed in November 2006. Staff also asked, and received, FBI help when we received a threatening e-mail during the recent AIPAC conference in Washington, DC.
However, most Americans believe authorities should stick to investigating criminal and violent activities, and not wage a war on Muslim Americans and others engaged in constitutionally protected civil rights advocacy and peaceful political activities. President Obama would be well advised to visit an American mosque and listen to the Muslims next door.
Delinda C. Hanley is news editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
http://www.wrmea.org/archives/3006-fbi-agent-provocateurs-and-fusion-centers-boys-gone-wild.html
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The 2020–21 season was Stoke City's 104th season in the Football League, the 44th in the second tier and seventh in the Championship.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the 2020–21 season began later in September with matches continuing to played behind closed doors. Stoke began the season in good form, winning eight of their first 16 matches and were just outside the play-off places at the beginning of December. However a number of injuries to key players most notably to Tyrese Campbell saw goals dry up and the team went nine games without a win at the turn of the year. Stoke were unable to put a sustained run of results together in March and April and ended the season in mid-table.

Pre-season
Stoke announced their retained list in July 2020, leaving the club were goalkeeper Adam Federici from the first team, and Jake Dunwoody, James Jennings, Ash Kigbu, Cameron McJannet, Tre Pemberton, Abdul Sankoh, Ollie Shenton and Scott Wara from the under-23 squad. Also leaving were the two players who agreed to temporary contract extensions to cover the final nine games of the 2019–20 season, Mame Biram Diouf and Stephen Ward. O'Neill made his first signing of the summer bringing in former Sheffield Wednesday left-back Morgan Fox. Centre-back James Chester re-joined the club having spent the second half of last season on loan from Aston Villa. Stoke brought in former Sheffield Wednesday striker Steven Fletcher on 14 August. Former Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel joined the club on 17 August 2020 having left Trabzonspor in March. On 9 September Stoke brought in winger Jacob Brown from Barnsley.

The squad returned to Clayton Wood on 7 August and the following week travelled to Belfast for a training camp and a behind closed doors friendly against NIFL Premiership champions Linfield at Windsor Park. Stoke won 1–0 with a first half strike from Josh Tymon. They then played two matches against League One sides, losing 1–0 to Burton Albion and beating Shrewsbury Town 5–1. Stoke ended their pre-season schedule with back-to-back wins over Premier League sides Leeds United and Newcastle United.

Championship

Because the 2019–20 season was extended into the summer of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 season started at a later date of 12 September 2020 with matches continuing to be played behind-closed doors. The summer transfer window was open from 27 July to 16 October.

September
For the season opener away at Millwall, Michael O'Neill started new signings Morgan Fox and John Obi Mikel. The match was a cagey affair with few chances and it unsurprisingly ended in a goalless draw. Stoke produced a poor performance in the first home game of the campaign against Bristol City, with the Robins winning 2–0 with goals from Nahki Wells and Andreas Weimann. Stoke earned their first victory of the campaign away at Preston North End on 26 September. Preston started the match the better team but the match turned in Stoke's favor after Tom Barkhuizen was sent-off in the 22nd minute for a tackle on Morgan Fox. Stoke went on to win 1–0 with a close range finish from Lee Gregory.

October
Stoke faced Birmingham City in the first match in October and despite having the better possession and chances they were frustrated by a well disciplined Birmingham side and they took the lead through a Harlee Dean header. O'Neill brought on Powell from the bench and he scored in the 86th minute to help Stoke earn a 1–1 draw. Following the international break, Stoke travelled to Luton Town where former manager Nathan Jones had returned to. After an uneventful first half Stoke scored twice early in the second through Fletcher and Powell to see out a 2–0 victory. Four days later they took on Barnsley and poor defending cost them in the first half as Elliot Simões gave the Tykes the lead before Campbell equalised just before half time only for Dominik Frieser to score in stoppage time. A mistake from Jack Walton just after half time allowed Tommy Smith to score his first goal for the club. Nathan Collins was sent-off for an off the ball incident with Frieser and Stoke were able to see out a 2–2 draw. Collins' red card was later rescinded by the FA. Stoke put in a fine performance against promotion favorites Brentford and were 3–0 up after goals from Campbell, Fletcher and McClean before a late brace from Marcus Forss ensured a nervy finish but Stoke were able to gain a 3–2 win. City then produced an abject performance away at Swansea City where they lost 2–0 without having a shot on target. Stoke ended October with a 1–0 win against Rotherham United with a long kick from Angus Gunn being lobbed into the Millers net by McClean.

November
Stoke were then controversially beaten 3–2 by Watford at Vicarage Road. Fletcher had given Stoke an early lead before Tom Cleverley leveled for Watford despite clearly barging into Angus Gunn. A João Pedro penalty put Watford in front with Stoke responding through Powell. Ismaïla Sarr won the match late on for the Hornets despite a handball in the build up. Stoke beat early league leaders Reading 3–0 with goals from Campbell, Fletcher and Brown to earn a first league victory at the Madjeski Stadium. Stoke suffered an injury problem after both senior goalkeepers, Adam Davies and Angus Gunn were ruled out for up to two months with Josef Bursik being recalled from his loan at Doncaster Rovers. Bursik started two days later against Carlos Corberán's Huddersfield Town who took the lead through Carel Eiting. Two quick goals from Campbell put Stoke in front before Isaac Mbenza levelled for the Terriers. An own goal from Richard Stearman ensured Stoke went into half time with a 3–2 lead which was extended by Sam Clucas early in the second half. Naby Sarr pulled another goal back for Huddersfield but Stoke held out for a 4–3 victory. Stoke struggled against leaders Norwich City and were 3–0 down early in the second half after goals from Emiliano Buendía and a brace from Teemu Pukki. Buendía was then sent-off which sparked a comeback from Stoke with Campbell and Collins scoring but Norwich held on to win 3–2. November ended with a drab goalless draw at Tony Pulis' Sheffield Wednesday.

December
Stoke's goalkeeping injury crisis worsened prior to the match against Wycombe Wanderers after Niki Mäenpää who was signed on a temporary deal to provide cover for Bursik, also suffered an injury in training meaning that Andy Lonergan was brought in on a similar contract. 1,000 Wycombe fans were allowed to attend the match following the end of the second lockdown in England and they saw Nick Powell score the only goal of the game after 72 minutes. Stoke moved into a play-off position for the first time this season with a 1–0 win over Middlesbrough thanks to a first half header from Nathan Collins. They then missed the chance to move into an automatic place as Cardiff City came from behind to win 2–1. A depleted Stoke team played out a goalless draw at Derby County on 12 December. Stoke suffered another long-term injury after it was confirmed that Campbell would miss the rest of the season. Three days later they played out another goalless draw this time away at Queens Park Rangers. They then ground out a 1–0 win over Blackburn Rovers with Powell scoring an early diving header. On Boxing day against Coventry City, City played out a third consecutive goalless away draw. Stoke ended 2020 with a 1–1 draw against Nottingham Forest in foggy conditions.

January
Stoke began 2021 with a narrow defeat against promotion chasing AFC Bournemouth. For the trip to Blackburn Rovers, O'Neil gave first starts to new signings Rabbi Matondo and Rhys Norrington-Davies in what was Stoke's youngest starting eleven for 15 years with an average age of 25. Powell gave Stoke a first half lead before Blackburn equalised through John Buckley. James Chester was then sent-off after bringing down Adam Armstrong who was through on goal and Stoke held on for a 1–1 draw. The side then drew 3–3 at relegation threatened Rotherham United with O'Neill critical of his teams defending. Stoke ended January without a win after defeat against Watford and a draw away at Huddersfield Town where Rhys Norrington-Davies was sent-off just before half time.

In the January transfer window, O'Neill trimmed his squad by loaning out Moritz Bauer, Lee Gregory, Tom Ince, Liam Lindsay and Kevin Wimmer whilst Thibaud Verlinden left on a permanent basis. Coming in were Alfie Doughty from Charlton Athletic and three loans Jack Clarke, Rabbi Matondo and Rhys Norrington-Davies.

February
Stoke's barren run of form continued into February with a goalless draw against Reading and a heavy defeat at Norwich. Stoke ended their nine-game winless run with a 1–0 win against Sheffield Wednesday with Steven Fletcher scoring against his former club. On 19 February 2021, club captain Ryan Shawcross left Stoke by mutual consent after 14 years ahead of a move to Inter Miami CF in the United States. City coasted to a 3–0 win against Luton Town with Powell scoring twice to complete a league double over the Hatters. The team then put in an inept performance away at Barnsley, losing 2–0. Stoke ended February with a first visit to the Brentford Community Stadium where they lost 2–1 despite taking the lead in the first minute.

March
Stoke lost a third game in a row after a 2–1 defeat against Swansea. Powell gave City an early lead but goals from Connor Roberts and a controversial late penalty from André Ayew earned Swansea the win. Three days later they ended their losing run with a 2–0 home win over rock bottom Wycombe Wanderers, with Rhys Norrington-Davies and Harry Souttar scoring their first goals for the club. They were then easily beaten 3–0 by Middlesbrough. Stoke played out a goalless draw with Cardiff City with under-23s striker Christian Norton making his league debut. A goal from Jacob Brown gave Stoke a 1–0 win against Derby County in the final match of March to move the team past the 50 point mark.

April
Over the Easter weekend Stoke had mixed fortunes as they beat Bristol City 2–0 at Ashton Gate on Good Friday but then lost 2–1 to Millwall on Easter Monday. The following week the team lost again, this time 2–0 to relegation threatened Birmingham City. Following the Birmingham game assistant manager Billy McKinlay left the club and was replaced by the former Bristol City manager Dean Holden. Stoke played out a drab goalless draw with Preston North End on 17 April with Harry Souttar being sent-off late on after bringing down Alan Browne. Stoke lost 3–2 to Coventry City, with O'Neil highly critical of his team's performance. Stoke drew 1–1 at Nottingham Forest with Rabbi Matondo first goal for the club being cancelled out by Lewis Grabban.

May
Stoke lost their penultimate game of the season 2–0 to Queens Park Rangers. Stoke ended the 2020–21 season with a 2–0 win against AFC Bournemouth with academy graduate Will Forrester scoring on his debut.

Results

League table

FA Cup

Stoke were drawn against Leicester City in the FA Cup and were well beaten 4–0 making it five consecutive third round exits.

EFL Cup

In the first round of the EFL Cup Stoke beat EFL League One side Blackpool 5–4 on penalties after a goalless ninety minutes. On September 17 2020, Stoke went on to beat Wolverhampton Wanderers in the second round, after a late winner from Jacob Brown. In the Third Round, Stoke edged past League One side Gillingham 1–0 with a goal from Tyrese Campbell in the 37th minute. City again won 1–0 in the fourth round away at Aston Villa with a first half header from Sam Vokes. Stoke faced a strong Tottenham Hotspur side in the quarter final. Spurs won 3–1 with goals from Gareth Bale, Ben Davies and Harry Kane whilst Jordan Thompson scored his first goal for Stoke.

Squad statistics

Transfers

In

Out

Loans in

Loans out

References

Stoke City F.C.
Stoke City F.C. seasons


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The Unbreakables
Lisa Barr
There's something melodramatically untidy about The Unbreakables, the story of a woman who plunges herself into a period of hedonistic self-discovery in France when her husband confesses to a double-digit number of affairs. On the whole it thinks itself much more daring than it is, and sometimes the melodrama pitches a little bit too high, leaving the reader rubbing their ears and wondering how on earth things got that bad.
Sophie Bloom has a very comfortable, very good marriage with her sexy doctor husband, Gabe, the only man she's ever loved. Correction – she thinks their marriage is comfortable and good. On her forty-second birthday and during a happy dinner party, she finds out that her husband is a serial adulterer. While Sophie gave up her dreams and ambitions to raise their now-nineteen year old daughter Ava, Gabe has cheated on Sophie with numerous women, making him the most prolific philanderer in their small Illinois town. Sophie is, understandably, at a loss for what to do beyond being furious. Worse, when she confronts Gabe, he says he would've kept going if he hadn't been caught. Because Gabe and Sophie got together in their teens and didn't date many other people, she has become sister-like in her familiarity, and thanks to a lot unexciting attempts at conceptive sex a few years earlier, has stopped arousing him – which is even more of a blow, considering it was his low sperm count that turned sex into a science experiment for both of them. And to make things even worse one of her best friends is among Gabe's conquests, and another helped him hide the truth from Sophie for five years.
Clearly, Sophie needs a revenge plan – and one is made for her when she learns Ava, studying alone in Paris, has suffered her own humiliating cheating situation. Sophie throws caution to the wind and jets off to Paris with a one-way ticket and no other plan other than to comfort Ava. She quickly learns that her daughter's post-breakup fling with her married art professor may have resulted in a pregnancy. As Sophie tries to figure out a way to tell her daughter that her parents are divorcing and helps her handle her messy life, Sophie begins again, creating a list of rules – the titular Unbreakables – for herself to follow. Most of them are self-pleasure centered (and many of them feel ripped off from Eat Pray Love), and in light of Gabe's affairs she's fine with chucking her job to live in a hotel, sleep with twentysomething French folks and become deeply entangled in the life of a dying sculptress. Which life will Sophie choose for herself – the American one she left behind or her new, daring one across the ocean?
The Unbreakables would have been a fun fuck-it-all-let's-go-to-Europe novel if it weren't for a few troubling undercurrents woven throughout. The best part of the book is Sophie, who is rightfully selfish and trying to enjoy herself and her independence for the first time in her life. I enjoyed the complicated love triangle between Sophie's benefactress, her husband and her long-term lover…who is also the cad Ava was sleeping with. I liked the way Sophie's inability to forgive is contrasted with Ava's ability to work on her flawed relationship. I liked her warm friendships with her female friends as well, and the book's observations about art are interesting, if not particularly fresh.
But the trouble with Sophie's revenge is that it's a dull one. She drinks too much, she eats fine French food, she has wild sex with a couple of twenty-year-olds, she finally re-devotes herself to her art (without actually producing an original piece of her own) and settles for a conventional romance. It's a boring, navel-gazing wallow made creepy because of how and why she ends up with her guy.
Then there's how the book treats Sophie's flirtation with bisexuality, which is retrograde and dull and belongs in one of those gauzy Zalman King movies where the heroine makes out with another woman but is always available for the hero. The French folks in this novel are the kind of French people who always show up in novels by expats who admire their social and sexual fearlessness, want to try them on like a pair of shiny Louboutins, and then return them. Thus, Sophie can have orgasms while fingering another woman but won't dare label herself queer after it's over or do it again; she kissed a girl but she didn't like it. And the two young French people she fucks in this novel are never jealous or annoyed because – nihilism. They're French and free man, but even they end up weighed down by conventionality. Don't get me started on one of Sophie's friends fixing a plot point by coming out of the closet via confessing a years-long crush on her, only to have them both shrug it off, laugh about it, and have this friend hook up with an extremely minor character, as if the situation wouldn't be foundation shaking.
The Unbreakables is a story about characters that ought to have imagination and wit but are bankrupt of both. What starts out as a promised feast for the soul only feeds the heroine's shallow perception of herself, and that's the greatest tragedy of all.
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elaine s July 5, 2019 at 6:15 am	- Reply
Interesting review – I feel that I have read the book, albeit second hand. My first thought on reading Lisa's outline and concluding paragraph is that Gabe was probably more interesting, sexy and attractive. One can almost understand his serial adultery with a wife like Sophie.
Lisa Fernandes July 5, 2019 at 1:51 pm	- Reply
Gabe was kind of a dick, actually, but his cheating might have made more compelling reading!


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Q: Web-камера в Java Ребята, есть вопрос. Как научить java работать с веб-камерой? что нужно для такой задачки, как вывод картинки с нее на обычный фрейм? и можно ли потом это изображение с помощью сокета передавать куда-нибудь(например на другой компьютер по локалке)?
A: Есть такая библиотека - JMyron
Пример использования:
myron = new JMyron();
myron.start(imgw, imgh);
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Q: How do I check if a variable really responds_to :dup? I wanted to use value.respond_to?(:dup) ? value.dup : value in order to check if I can duplicate an object but it failed with TypeError on booleans, nil or such "primitives" alike.
I've ended up with:
begin
  value = value.dup
rescue
  #ignore, use the original if no dup-able (e.g nil, true, etc)
end

Is there a better way?
Bonus: Why does it responds :dup?
Not deep dup, just for the question.
EDIT:    Thoughts:

*

*obj.class.methods.include? :new is nice but a bit too hackish i think it has bad performance

*Marshal also looks like an overkill

*one line rescue could have been the best solution, but type specific one line rescue is not possible at this time (IIUC matz is on that!), and as @JörgWMittag mentioned its wrong.

*Personally i think dup being defined at the object level is wrong.

So, quoting @Linuxios

There isn't really a better way

A: You can write it as one line this way:
value = value.dup rescue value

Very clear.
It is standard to define a dup method that raises TypeError for types that cannot be duplicated. Thus any object will "respond to" it. You really have to call it and check with a begin-rescue-end.

A: There isn't really a better way. dup is defined on Object, which means that any class which wants to not respond to it needs to overload it to throw an exception. NilClass, TrueClass, FalseClass, and Number are all subclasses of Object. That means they have to override the method to throw an error.
One way around this, if you are looking for a deep copy anyway, is to use the usual Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(obj)) which will deal with numbers, bools, and nil just fine.
For example:
1.9.3-p392 :001 > obj = "hi"
 => "hi"
1.9.3-p392 :002 > Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(obj)).object_id != obj.object_id
 => true
1.9.3-p392 :003 > obj = 3
 => 3
1.9.3-p392 :004 > Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(obj)).object_id != obj.object_id
 => false

A: def dupable?(obj)
  obj.class.methods.include? :new
end

dupable?(1)     # => false
dupable?(3.2)   # => false
dupable?(:a)    # => false
dupable?(true)  # => false
dupable?(nil)   # => false
dupable?("cat") # => true

A: I think the reason it responds to dup is that Class inherits from Object which has a dup method.
It appears that in the dup method in Object checks for a 'special constant' and raises the error you're seeing:
VALUE
rb_obj_dup(VALUE obj)
{
    VALUE dup;

    if (rb_special_const_p(obj)) {
        rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "can't dup %s", rb_obj_classname(obj));
    }
    dup = rb_obj_alloc(rb_obj_class(obj));
    init_copy(dup, obj);
    rb_funcall(dup, id_init_dup, 1, obj);

    return dup;
}

I guess the only thing you could do is check for these special constants in your method.

A: There is a somewhat better way, not sure about checking error message though:
begin
    value = value.dup
rescue TypeError => e
    # !!! not sure about the following line
    raise unless e.message == "can't dup %s" % value.class.name
    #ignore, use the original if no dup-able (e.g nil, true, etc)
end


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