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=====================
Extending Entry model
=====================

.. module:: zinnia.models.entry

.. versionadded:: 0.8

The :class:`Entry` model bundled in Zinnia can now be extended and customized.

This feature is useful for who wants to add some fields in the model,
or change its behavior. It also allows Zinnia to be a really generic
and reusable application.

.. _why-extending:

Why extending ?
===============

Imagine that I find Zinnia really great for my project but some fields
or features are missing to be the Weblog app that suits to my project.
For example I need to add a custom field linking to an image gallery,
two solutions:

* I search for another Django blogging app fitting my needs.
* I do a monkey patch, into the Zinnia code base.

These two solutions are really bad.

For the first solution maybe you will not find the desired application and
also mean that Zinnia is not a reusable application following the Django's
convention. For the second solution, I don't think that I need to provide
more explanations about the evil side of monkey patching (evolution,
reproduction...). That's why Zinnia provides a third generic solution.

* Customizing the :class:`Entry` model noninvasively with the power of
  class inheritance !

The extension process is done in three main steps:

#. Write a model class containing your customizations.
#. Register your model class into Zinnia to be used.
#. Create and register a new :class:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin`
   class for your new model class.

.. _writing-model-extension:

Writing model extension
=======================

In the suite of this document we will show how to add an image gallery into
the :class:`Entry` model to illustrate the concepts involved when
extending. We assume that the pieces of codes written for this document
belong in the :mod:`zinnia_gallery` module/application.

.. versionchanged:: 0.13

The :class:`zinnia.models.entry.EntryAbstractClass` has been moved and
renamed to :class:`zinnia.models_bases.entry.AbstractEntry`.

The first step to extend the :class:`Entry` model is to define a new class
inherited from the :class:`~zinnia.models_bases.entry.AbstractEntry` and
add your fields or/and override the inherited methods if needed. So in
:mod:`zinnia_gallery` let's write our gallery models and the extension in
the :class:`Entry` model in :file:`models.py`. ::

  from django.db import models
  from zinnia.models_bases.entry import AbstractEntry

  class Picture(models.Model):
      title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
      image = models.ImageField(upload_to='gallery')

  class Gallery(models.Model):
      title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
      pictures = models.ManyToManyField(Picture)

  class EntryGallery(AbstractEntry):
      gallery = models.ForeignKey(Gallery)

      def __str__(self):
          return 'EntryGallery %s' % self.title

      class Meta(AbstractEntry.Meta):
          abstract = True

In this code sample, we simply add in our :class:`Entry` model a new
:class:`~django.db.models.ForeignKey` field named ``gallery`` pointing to a
:class:`Gallery` model and we override the :meth:`Entry.__unicode__` method.

.. note:: You have to respect **2 important rules** to make extending working :

          #. Do not import the :class:`Entry` model in your file defining
             the extended model because it will cause a circular
             importation.

          #. Don't forget to tell that your model is ``abstract``. Otherwise a
             table will be created and the extending process will not work
             as expected.

.. seealso::
   :ref:`model-inheritance` for more information about the concepts
   behind the model inheritence in Django and the limitations.

.. _writing-model-customisation:

Writing model customisation
===========================

Adding fields is pretty easy, but now that the :class:`Entry` model has
been extended, we want to change the :attr:`image` field wich is an
:class:`~django.db.models.ImageField` by default to use our new
:class:`Picture` instead.

To customise this field, the same process as extending apply, but we can
take advantage of all the abstracts classes provided to build the
:class:`~zinnia.models_bases.entry.AbstractEntry` to rebuild our own custom
:class:`Entry` model like this: ::

  from django.db import models
  from zinnia.models_bases import entry

  class Picture(models.Model):
      title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
      image = models.ImageField(upload_to='gallery')

  class Gallery(models.Model):
      title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
      pictures = models.ManyToManyField(Picture)

  class EntryGallery(
            entry.CoreEntry,
            entry.ContentEntry,
            entry.DiscussionsEntry,
            entry.RelatedEntry,
            entry.ExcerptEntry,
            entry.FeaturedEntry,
            entry.AuthorsEntry,
            entry.CategoriesEntry,
            entry.TagsEntry,
            entry.LoginRequiredEntry,
            entry.PasswordRequiredEntry,
            entry.ContentTemplateEntry,
            entry.DetailTemplateEntry):

      image = models.ForeignKey(Picture)
      gallery = models.ForeignKey(Gallery)

      def __str__(self):
          return 'EntryGallery %s' % self.title

      class Meta(entry.CoreEntry.Meta):
          abstract = True

Now we have an :class:`Entry` model extended with a gallery of pictures and
customised with a :class:`Picture` model relation as the :attr:`image`
field.

Note that the same process apply if you want to delete some built-in fields.

.. _database-considerations:

Considerations about the database
=================================

If you do the extension of the :class:`Entry` model, you have to alter the
Zinnia's database tables for reflecting your changes made on the model
class.

Fortunately since Django 1.7 you just have to write a new migration for
reflecting your changes, but the migration script will be written in the
:mod:`zinnia.migrations` module, which is not recommended because the
result is not replicable for multiple installations and breaks the
migration system with future releases of Zinnia.

Fortunatly Django provides a solution with the :setting:`MIGRATION_MODULES`
setting. Once this setting done for the ``'zinnia'`` key, can now start to
write new migrations.

It's recommended that the new **initial** migration represents the default
:class:`Entry` schema provided by Zinnia, because after that, you just have
to write a new migration for reflecting your changes, and you just alter
your database schema with the ``migrate`` command.

.. _registering-the-extension:

Registering the extension
=========================

Once your extension class is defined you simply have to register it,
with the :setting:`ZINNIA_ENTRY_BASE_MODEL` setting in your Django
settings. The expected value is a string representing the full Python path
to the extented model's class name. This is the easiest part of the
process.

Following our example we must add this line in the project's settings. ::

  ZINNIA_ENTRY_BASE_MODEL = 'zinnia_gallery.models.EntryGallery'

If an error occurs when your new class is imported a warning will be raised
and the :class:`EntryAbstractClass` will be used.

.. _updating-admin-interface:

Updating the admin interface
============================

Now we should create a new :class:`~zinnia.admin.entry.EntryAdmin` admin
class to reflect our changes and use the new fields.

To do that we will write a new admin class inherited from
:class:`~zinnia.admin.entry.EntryAdmin` and register it within the admin
site.

In the file :file:`zinnia_gallery/admin.py` we can write these code lines
for adding the gallery field: ::

  from django.contrib import admin
  from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

  from zinnia.models.entry import Entry
  from zinnia.admin.entry import EntryAdmin

  class EntryGalleryAdmin(EntryAdmin):
    # In our case we put the gallery field
    # into the 'Content' fieldset
    fieldsets = (
      (_('Content'), {
        'fields': (('title', 'status'), 'lead', 'content',)}),
      (_('Illustration'), {
        'fields': ('image', 'gallery'),
        'classes': ('collapse', 'collapse-closed')}),) + \
      EntryAdmin.fieldsets[2:]

  admin.site.register(Entry, EntryGalleryAdmin)

Templating
==========

Now we can easily
:doc:`customize the templates</how-to/customize_look_and_feel>`
provided by Zinnia to display the gallery field into the Weblog's pages.

For more information you can see another implementation example in the
`cmsplugin-zinnia`_ package.

.. _`cmsplugin-zinnia`: https://github.com/django-blog-zinnia/cmsplugin-zinnia


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Leopold Schmidt (Berlín, 2 d'agost de 1860 - Berlín, 1927) fou un compositor alemany. Al mateix temps seguia els cursos de la Reial Escola de Música i de la Universitat de Berlín fou nomenat director d'orquestra del teatre de Heidelberg; l'any següent exercí idèntiques funcions al Friedrich-Wilhelmstadt, de Berlín, i després als teatres municipals de Zúric i Halle. El 1897 aconseguí la càtedra d'història de la música en el Conservatori Stern i el 1912 la del Conservatori Scharwenka. També va exercir molts anys la crítica musical al Berliner Tageblatt. Va editar diverses obres d'autors antics.Com a compositor se li deuen una sonata per a violí, cors i melodies vocals. Molt més nombroses i importants són les seves obres de literatura musical, entre les quals hi ha:
 Zur Geschichte der Märchenoper, (1896)
 G. Meyerbeer, (1898)
 Haydn, (1898)
 Geschichte der musik in XIX Jahr, (1901)
 Bachs H. Moll Messe, (1901)
 Glucks-Orpheus, (1901)
 Moderne musik, (1904)
 Tommesister des XIX Jahr, (1908)
 Aus dem musikleben der Gegenwart, (1908-1912)
 Mozart, (1909)
 Beethoven, (1909)

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The pub run was down on numbers this week but not quality of participants with Jack Ingham making a much anticipated return. Still no massive(work), Glenn (holiday) and John Boothman (tired!!!!). I don't believe race machine Boothman has ever been tired. Sellors trapped on his hair dryer and was playing with the chain on his bike. A quick emergency phone call and Shaun 'AA' Chew came and sorted it. Once Sellors had sorted himself and got changed we were off on a shortish run. The usual pace setters were off and whipped man Collins was soon pushing Sellors at the usualfrantic pace. We soon made it to the bottom of the steep end of Weets and half bull half man Lee 'swell head' Edwards was off in pursuit of the hares. We made it back to forty steps in one piece, although Sellors tried to hang himself on a stile on the way down much to our amusement (still needs to get a decent headtorch). Ingham was suffering a tad and decided enough was enough and dropped in his house on the way past. It was at the end of 40 steps where Jock caught us by surprise and darted off saying "see you next week", without us even being able to give him the whip phone app. The best excuse for not having a beer though was presented by the Minotaur himself. Jen asked Lee if they were going for a beer, Lee made it look like it was his decision and said no. This was clearly a well rehearsed act to get him out of the pub.
Once we got sat down John Boothman joined us and did look a tad jaded. Although the 3 peaks cyclocross and two training sessions would've rendered lesser men useless.
Andy Collins looked a happy man as he was off the hook for most whipped pub run member this week due to Jock's demise. No Screw either this week, probably due to the rumours of Jack Inghams Wednesday night house calls.
Next week we'll be at the Red Lion and hopefully, we'll be back to full strength.
Lee Parrington was holidaying in the Lakes this weekend when he stumbled across this race. Carrying on his great form at the minute, he won it.
Dea Walkden has been trying to get below 40 minutes for a 10K race. He finished this one in 40:02, still a PB, but a tantalizing 3 seconds adrift from his target, which he still hopes to achieve before he is 50.
We had two members out in this race riding as Barlick Fell Runners. David Poole had a brilliant race to finish in 89th position and John Boothman did better than he expected finishing 335th. John describes it as a bike race with three hard fell races thrown in, carrying your bike up and then riding back down on bone shaking descents.
Sam Gibbs and Shaun Chew entered under the Hope Factory Team and finished 53rd and 113th respectively.
536 finished and a lot didn't.
The Men's Team Smashed It.
The men's team are in division two, but on the day yesterday, they beat the men's teams from all divisions and not only did they do this, but they did it by a huge margin. It would be quite unfair to pick out any one individual from the men's team as this was done by a good team effort. All our runners finished in the top twenty three which demonstrates that we have strength in depth.
Not only that, but our B team also had a cracking performance, finishing 8th overall. Again, a good all round team performance. This puts the A team firmly at the top of division two and the B team at the top of division four.
Quite unbelievably, the V40 team also did well, finishing 5th out of all three divisions. However, they were beaten by Preston, who are also in Division Two, but this still leaves them, albeit after only one race, in a promotion place.
The ladies team also put in a cracking team performance, finishing 3rd overall. They were however, narrowly edged out by the Trawden ladies, who are also in division three, but again, this still leaves them in a promotion position. Like their male counterparts, the ladies B team also put in a good team performance, finishing 8th out of all divisions. Do not be fooled by Heather Driver's finishing time, as due to a mix up, she was one of those who had to form an orderly queue to finish, to allow the men's race to start. This probably added 2 minutes to her time.
The day also saw a new phase in the development of the club. For the first time, we had junior runners out in this competition and they not only put on a good show, but many stopped around and cheered on our senior runners which helped to create a great atmosphere. For many of them, this was there first taste of racing and they will have learned a lot from their experience. Pictures of some our youngsters are above.
All in all, this was a good opening day for the new cross country season.
At the presentation evening last night, Barlick Fell Runners were awarded second place in the team of the year category and reflects much of what has been achieved in the club during its short life.


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TOM LARSON-Drummer & Percussionist
originally from Colorado, but has been living in Nashville, aka Music City USA, since 1996. He is an in-demand session player that has become a vital part of the diverse Music City scene. Besides an extensive discography portfolio, Tom also has studied Classical Percussion, and graduated from the prestigious University of New Orleans Jazz Studies Program.
Blues Drummer of the Year, 2001
Percussionist of the Year, 2001 & 2002
Ballroom DJs Michelle & Bob Friedman
have been part of the ballroom dance word for the past 30 years. As avid dancers they started with Ballroom Dance Lessons, and for the past 17 years as professional DJs – specializing in Ballroom Music. In 2001 they even won Top Couple in a Good Morning America 25 hour dance marathon. They have a comprehensive music library of over 40,000 tracks, which includes all types of Ballroom, Smooth, Latin, Rhythm, Hustle, West Coast Swing, Argentine Tango and other specialty dances. They are northeast coast DJ favorites spanning NY, CT, NJ, PA, & DE areas, and are regulars at the world famous Stardust Dance Weekends. They are equally at home playing their music for Ballroom Socials, Showcases, Competitions, and professional performances for some of the world's most famous ballroom couples. While preferences in music certainly vary from person to person, what they use as their criteria when choosing music to play is really very simple - does it make dancers feel like they just have to get up and move, or doesn't it? They get great satisfaction when they watch dancers who were heading for their seats at the end of a song turn around and pull each other back out to the dance floor time and again as a new piece begins.
Latin DJ Harry Trinidad
mostly known as DJ Harry T. is a well-known Salsa DJ/Promoter in the NY Tri-state area since the year 2000. He is one of the Co-founders of Salsa Warriors Radio(www.salsawarriors.com) started in June of 2014 that is still going strong, serving Salsa lovers worldwide. Salsa music is his specialty, but he plays other Latin genres such as Bachata, Merengue, Cha Cha etc. He is also a resident DJ on the world-renowned Salsa Cruise (www.salsacruise.com) that's sails every year. He has deejayed in clubs in NY, CT, MA, FL and Puerto Rico. Harry also managed the Salsa in the Catskills weekend for 8 straight years (2010-2018). He currently plays throughout Connecticut where he lives and in New York.
Argentine Tango DJ Maia Martinez
is an Argentine Tango dance instructor & performer. Maia has been focusing on building the Tango community in the Hudson Valley for the last decade. In efforts to expand Tango, she started DJing for her own events where she found great joy and discovered a new exciting way to make people dance. For the last few years Maia has been exploring and learning about the magical world of Argentine Tango DJ's. Maia takes DJing very seriously, which means she knows we must have fun. She brings an exciting selection of well known pieces with a few delightful and fresh tunes. A Milonga with Maia is a dance party!
WCS/Hustle/Country DJ Lou Brockman
a past national ballroom champion and the only ever National Dirty Dancing Champion, as seen on the Oprah Winfrey Show, has been a deejay for major dance studios and special events in New York City for more than two decades, including residencies at Dance New York and Dance Manhattan, bringing his championship dancer's love to the sounds that make everybody want to move.
Donna Desimone-Dance Instructor & Entertainment Director
has made dance her life long career since the age of 4. Her training, teaching and knowledge of tap, ballet, jazz, Broadway theater and ballroom has made her a diverse teacher and dancer to her students & classes. Donna has won countless dance and choreography awards in Ballroom and Hustle and resides on Long Island NY. Donna has been the Entertainment director for Stardust since 1993.
Edgar Osorio-Dance Instructor
Professional World Class Ballroom and Latin Dancer, Salsa and Argentine Tango,choreographer ,Teacher, Coach, Dance Performer and Pro /Am partner Of many successful students. Owner CEO and founder of the "OSORIO DanceSport studio" Ballroom and Latin dance. Located in the ballroom of the Hurleyville performance Art centrE, 219 Main St.Hurleyville N.Y. 12747 Edgar started dancing at the age of 14 learning the disciplines of Mexican Folk Dance as well as jazz, Ballet, Modern Dance and Martial Arts. He also participated in TV commercials and theatre art productions . He moved to Buenos Aires Argentina for one year to study Argentine Tango with the legendary Carlos Gavito In Marcella Durán. Because of his passion for dance , he decided to move to New York and dance 24/7. Edgar started working at the Fred Astaire Dance Studios for 13 years , learning the business and making Ballroom and Latin Dance his priority and new career. He had great success in teaching, competing and coaching . His outstanding performance made him gain many National titles since 2000. He holds multiple titles as a champion in the Rising Star category and open professional , finalist in the U.S Nationals in American Rhythm competition. In 2010, he placed first in the professional National USDCS, United States Dance Championship, U.S. Mambo Championship and the World Salsa Championship held in Miami and Puerto Rico. His great abilities for dance gave him the opportunity to work with the 4th grade children's at the White plain Elementary School and several semesters for the ballroom program at the campusat SUNY Purchase University, New York, as well as coaching Raising stars and professionals. Edgar has been participating in many Professional and Pro/ Am competitions around the world, traveling to Greece (Greece OpenChampionship), Italy (Castelbrando Cup), Costa Rica (Costa Rica Classic Championship), Mexico, ( Mexico Open Dance Championship) Blackpool (London ) and throughout the United States. His outstanding performances, creativity and character brought him to a successful career in Ballroom dancing, mastering the International and American styles salsa and Argentine Tango . In 2011 Edgar was one of the choreogrspher for the movie MUSICAL CHAIRS directed by Susan Sideman. Edgar worked with both professional able bodies and disabled wheelchairs dancers. Edgar also choreographed the mayor dance scenes .
Nino DiGiulio-Dance Instructor
Owner and Executive Director of May I Have This Dance, one of the most popular social dance studios in the nation, Nino has created a unique curriculum and trained thousands of dance students and professionals. An expert in all ballroom and latin dances, he has won numerous top teacher awards and competitions in West Coast Swing and Hustle. He has been a featured instructor, coach, judge, and competitor at national events like Swing Dance America, World Hustle Championships, International Hustle & Salsa Championships, Swing City Chicago, Carolina Groove, NY Hustle Congress, and the Chicago Salsa Congress.
Amanda Doerr-Dance Instructor
A Master Instructor with the prestigious Chicago-based dance studio, May I Have This Dance, Amanda received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre/Dance at the University of Wisconsin. She is an award-winning choreographer and talented social dancer. Student's love Amanda's ability to put everyone at ease and make learning even complicated steps easy and fun.
Maia Martinez & David Salvatierra-Dance Instructors
are Directors and instructors of Dojo Dance Company. They bring a refreshing touch to the dance community of The Hudson Valley, New York. Dojo dance company is a Dance school located in Hudson valley that performs and teaches Argentine Tango, Latin Rhythms & Martial Arts. Their main goals are to share cultural values, create community through dance and improve life style by inspiring people to move. Dance Company opens a new way for people to learn HOW to dance, HOW to connect with themselves and then to everyone else. They are truly committed to their students, and offer an unique style, original and organic of teaching/learning. They are able to connect your inner and outside music!!
DANCE INSTRUCTION. Expertise: Argentine Tango & Latin Rhythms. Folklore Argentino.
Licensed: Dxf coach, Groove Facilitator. Martial Arts, Shotokan Karate. Conditioning. Self-defense.
Nicole Gifford-Dance Instructor
A Senior Instructor with the prestigious May I Have This Dance studio based out of Chicago, Nicole is known for making even the most difficult steps easy. Students adore her and flock to her social ballroom dance classes. She also has a degree in dance and has directed her own Modern dance company for over a decade.
Richard Givney-Dance Instructor
has a successful twenty four years' experience in all aspects of the ballroom dancing industry through cultivating and achieving personal, professional and educational goals. He competed professionally in International Latin; has his teaching certifications in multiple syllabi, including both American and International dances, and franchised and independent curriculums. He continues to take lessons with top professionals for teaching and personal dance goals. Last year his ballroom dance program won the 2012 Best in Monmouth County, NJ Health & Life Magazine's "Reader's Choice Award". Richard is available for private or semi-private lessons.
Heather Gehring-Dance Instructor
originally from Vermont, studied classical ballet with Boston Ballet, School of American Ballet and Hartford Ballet, becoming a professional at age sixteen. Besides the stage, Heather has danced on TV (MTV, Gossip Girls, Today Show, Tony Danza Show, Boardwalk Empire), and in movies and commercials (Enchanted, Little Manhattan). With her partner Lou Brockman, she has traveled the world teaching and performing their unique "Silver Screen Style" as well as performing in many infamous NYC venues including Town Hall (with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks), 54 Below, Rainbow Room and Birdland. They have taught and performed at Jacob's Pillow, Harvard University and NYU.
Sergei Slussky-Dance Instructor
discovered Ballroom Dance while he was a student of Fine Arts in Yaroslavl, Russia. Drawn to the world of competitive ballroom dance, Sergei joined the Dancesport Formation Team "Vesna," touring in Russia, Poland and Romania and earning top honors in many events. Sergei's competition experiences eventually led him to teaching when he became the dance coach of a Formation team in his birthplace, Arkhangelsk, Russia. In 1991, Sergei came to Portland, Maine where he taught before entering Brigham Young University, renowned for having the largest collegiate Ballroom Dance program in the world. While at Brigham Young, Sergei excelled at the Ballroom Dance Medal Tests and danced with the BYU Formation team. After his time at BYU, Sergei taught dance in Boston before returning to Portland, Maine, his adopted hometown.
In 1998 with a "Highly Commended" score he became a member of the prestigious Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (ISTD) and later, Dance Vision International Dance Association (DVIDA) both members of the National Dance Council of America. In 1999 Sergei opened the American Ballroom Dance Academy in Portland and then his current Aquarius Ballroom Dance Studios. Sergei has continued to compete in Professional and Professional-Amateur competitions throughout the US and Canada helping his students win awards while earning the Top Teacher title himself.
Sergei's wide range of dancing and teaching experiences as well as his unique characteristics of meticulous, methodical presentation of material, warmth, style, grace and humor enables him to work well with a variety of students, ranging from beginners learning the foundations of social dance to experienced dancers wishing to hone their skills for in preparation for performance. Sergei joined The Ballroom's dance faculty in January, 2000.
Linda Leverock-Dance Instructor
has been partner dancing for 30 years. She has traveled the northeast learning, instructing, and competing in Swing, Hustle and Country 2 step. Ballroom and Latin dance are a few more of her favorites. Linda has enjoyed performing and instructing for many years in the community of Oneonta and for the Ballroom U.S.A Dance Southern Tier Chapter and Southern Tier Swing Dance Society in Endicott, N.Y. She is registered with The World Swing Dance Council Points Registry in the Advanced Swing Division. She has won many first place prizes and made the finals in competitions leading and following in WCS, Hustle.and Swustle.
She has taken numerous intensive workshops and hundreds of workshops and privates with Dance Pros and continues to do so as she goes to weekend competitions through out the Northeast. She has completed Global Professional Dance Instructors Association (GPDIA) beginner and intermediate courses and is now a certified GPDIA instructor
She has studied with: Skippy Blair, Mario Robau, Robert Royston, John Lindo, Robert Cordoba, Donna DiSimone, Debra Hampton and many more Top Pro's.
Dancing is fun and creative also keeps the mind and body young.
Dance is the sign language of music …so Let's dance.
Lou Brockman-Dance Instructor
a Chicago native, began ballroom dancing when he was a young teen. He has lived in NYC for over two decades and has danced in films (Mona Lisa Smile, Disney's "Enchanted"), and had featured performances on television (The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, NBC's Today Show, Michael Feinstein's American Songbook, Boardwalk Empire), and on stages around the world (The Kennedy Center, Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow) Lou was a member of the acclaimed American Ballroom Theater and is a highly respected choreographer who has taught master classes at Harvard University and NYU.
Molly Gelsomino-Fitness Instructor
Molly will be having morning stretch classes Saturday and Sunday at 9:00 am to get you ready to dance. Originally from Upstate, New York. She has a diverse background in the arts, including a BA in Dance from the University at Buffalo, over 15 years of performance and choreography in concert dance and 6 years as a Dance Educator in the Brooklyn Public Schools. Molly is a former professional cheerleader for the AFL, and spent 6 years in NYC as a Co-Artistic Director for The Movement Collective Dance Company. As a newer resident of Sullivan County, Molly found Zumba® to be the most exciting way to fuse her passion for dance. music and fitness. Molly enjoys inspiring her clients and encouraging her classes to feel the music, join the party and have a fun fitness experience upon stepping into the studio. PLEASE BRING YOUR FLOOR MAT FOR THIS CLASS
Marion Panos-Fitness Instructor
Belly Dance Instructor - In 2009, Marion joined our fitness staff and teaches Belly Dance classes at the weekends. Marion is trained in several styles of dance, including jazz, modern, Afro-Brazilian, African, Middle Eastern and Ballroom. She is proficient in American style ballroom and Latin and has also studied International Standard. She competed around the country at the pro-am level in American style ballroom and Latin for many years. She was a professional Middle Eastern dancer and has been teaching Belly Dance for more than 15 years.
ENTERTAINERS & INSTRUCTORS
Leo Mora & Christine Garced
Leo Mora: Originally from Costa Rica, Leo's desire to dance derived from his passion and admiration for the art, as well as his longing to hold a smoking hot chica in his arms at a salsa nightclub. Leo was a street dancer who started out social dancing however, he was quickly scouted out because of his natural talents. He started his professional career at Arthur Murray International over 10 years ago which is where he met his partner Christina. He is a certified and award winning instructor, sought after coach and full Championship Adjudicator with the NDCA. No stranger to the stage or screen, Leo was last seen as the featured dancer on David Tutera's "CELEBrations", dancing a salsa with Vanessa Williams.
Christina Garced: Studying dance by the age of three, Christina has a diverse background in the performing arts including many styles of dance (modern, jazz, ballet, lyrical and hip hop) and a Bachelor's Degree in English Theatre from New Jersey City University. However, growing up in her parents' Arthur Murray Dance Studios, ballroom dancing has always been an integral part of her life. Christina decided to pursue her professional career in the American Style because of its boundless creative and uninhibited nature. Recognized not only for her choreography, Christina is also a certified and award winning instructor, as well as a full Championship Adjudicator with the NDCA. Leo and Christina decided to embark on their professional dance journey together in the American Style Smooth Division at the end of 2009. Their partnership reached instant success, and within their first year as a competitive team they found themselves in the Arthur Murray World Smooth final in addition to bringing home the title of Rising Star Smooth World Champions. Soon after, they decided to add on the American Style Rhythm dances to their repertoire which led them to many career highlights and successes.
As United States American Style 9-Dance finalists and 2X Arthur Murray 9-Dance Campions, Leo and Christina have had the honor of performing and teaching up and down the Northeastern coastline as well as numerous venues around the United States. Not only limited to the American Style, Leo and Christina are also known for excelling in the specialty dances such as Salsa, Bachata, and Hustle. Among their competitive ballroom dancing successes, they have also been cast as featured performers on major TV network shows such as: WE tv's David Tutera's "CELEBrations", TLC's Say Yes to the Dress and HGTV's House Hunters.
Career highlights and awards: *United States 9-Dance Finalists *Millennium Dancesport *Ohio Star Ball 9-Dance Bronze Medalists *2X Arthur Murray 9-Dance Champions *2X Jesse Smith Memorial 9-Dance Award recipients *Arthur Murray World Professional Smooth and Rhythm Finalists. *Arthur Murray World Hustle Champions
Junior Cervila & Guadalupe Garcia
Junior Cervila was considered by New York newspapers "the Gene Kelly of Latin Dance". Originally born in Brazil and based in Buenos Aires, where the tango got into his blood, has an extensive professional history that includes performances on Broadway (NY) at Gershwin theatre with "Tango Argentino", also performed at Lincoln Center and Town Hall in New York, danced in the film "Tango" by Carlos Saura, film which was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Film.
Junior travelled the world with Julio Iglesias´Show. He filmed for the BBC with the prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet of London, Deborah Bull, and developed one of the leading roles in the successful musicals "Tanguera", "Piazzolla Tango" and "Tangorama". He was elected to a private tango show the Rolling Stones on tour in Argentina in 2007. He danced with the orchestra of Daniel Barenboim in late 2006 and in Buenos Aires at Luna Park, Gran Rex, Teatro Opera, Teatro Colon and the Nueve de Julio in a historic concert of "Tango Argentino" to 15000 people. Since 2001 Junior runs his own company "Latin Dance Company" in which fuses salsa, tango, samba and flamenco.He is considered by many as the best and most versatile dancer nowadays. He starred "Tanguera" in Amsterdam, London (Saddlers Wells), Basel, Munich, Paris (Theatre du Chateler), and traveled USA, Moscow and Italy with his own show. 2014 to 2016- He was the choreographer of "Piazzolla Tango" and "Tango Porteño", two of the most prominent tango shows in Buenos Aires seasons. 2017- Performer and Choreographer of tango in Andrew Loyd Webber's "Evita" directed by Josh Rhodes in USA.
2018 – Played The Gigolo at Grand Hotel, the musical at City Center (New York City) and part of the program Fall for Dance 2018 as a choreographer and performer.
2019 – Maestro at ATUSA, -Argentine Tango USA Official Tango Championship & Festival-, the official US branch of Tango Buenos Aires Dance World Cup.
Guadalupe Garcia started dancing when she was 5 years old with Argentine Folklore and at 12 she started with tango. When she was 18 she got the degree of Argentinean Folklore Teacher. 2004‐2010 ‐ Member of the UBALLET (Ballet de la Universidad de Buenos Aires), Mora Godoy's Tango Company, Juan Corvalán's Tangomalambo's Company, and Roberto Herrera's Company, with tours which travelled worldwide.
2005‐ 2006 ‐ Italy: shows "Tango Querido" (Barletta), "Noche porteña" (Matera) and "Patio Argentino" of Tango and Folklore (Roma) 2007‐2008 ‐ Greece: lessons, seminars, and dancer of the show "El Bandoneón", Athens. 2007 ‐ until now‐ she has worked in local tango shows in Buenos Aires, such Complejo Tango, Michelangelo, Taconeando, Piazzolla Tango,Gala Tango and Tango Porteño.
2011 ‐ Misterio Tango Festival (Argentina).
2009 ‐ 2012‐ She traveled to various cities in South America, Europe and Asia, teaching courses and seminars (Greece, United Kingdom, Poland, France, Italy, Portugal, Dubai, Brazil y Chile).
2012 ‐ Korea (World Yeosu Expo), dancer of the show in the Argentina's pavilion.
2014 ‐ Principal Dancer at the show Glorias Porteñas, partnering Juan Carlos Copes.
2015 ‐ Tango e Paixão's Show (Brazil)
2015‐2016 Principal Dancer at the show Piazzolla Tango Tango Cabaret's. Show‐ Teatro Avenida ‐ Buenos Aires. Classes and performances in New York, Washington DC, London, Moscow, St Petersburg (White Nights Festival) Los Angeles, Miami and Toronto (Canada).
2017- 2018 Official Judge at ATUSA Official Tango Championship and Festival, US branch of Tango Buenos Aires Dance World Cup.
2017: Cast of Loyd Webber's "Evita"
2019 – Maestra at ATUSA, -Argentine Tango USA Official Tango Championship & Festival-, the official US branch of Tango Buenos Aires Dance World Cup.
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At the reception desk of the townhall in Töreboda one can find an InfoPoint. Here, broschures and maps of the area are available. Our dedicated staff is happy to answer your questions. The reception desk at the townhall in Töreboda is one of many certified InfoPoints. There is a large number of InfoPoints in Skaraborg. You recognize InfoPoints by the green athorization mark.
The opening hours are limited on days before holidays, the day befor Christmas Eve, Midsummer and during summer holidays.
Follow Kungsgatan towards the guest harbour (north), about 50 m/55 yards. Turn then left in to Skolgatan and follow that road about 100 m/109 yards. Turn then right in to Drottninggatan. After 100 m/109 yards the town hall is located on the left side of the road.
A computer is available to visitors for looking up information.
The town hall is located in central Töreboda.


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Allison Doren
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Allison Georgia Doren
Merrin Dungey
Assassin/Doppelganger of Francie Calfo
Arvin Sloane/Julian Sark
Allison Georgia Doren was the doppelganger of Francie Calfo and an assassin who worked under the orders of Arvin Sloane and later Julian Sark. She is most noted for killing Francie in her own restaurant as well as Dixon's wife, Diane.
After Will heard about Francie's death (and after Sydney asked him to join her on a mission) he stabbed Allison in the chest and killed her, avenging Francie's death.
Allison killed Francie inside of her restaurant, shooting her in the forehead whilst she was talking to her mother on the phone. After killing her, Allison received a call from Julian Sark. She then said that "Everything's in place." (Phase One).
From there on, Allison posed as Francie Calfo while simultaneously taking orders from Sloane and Sark. Despite everything, she never raised any suspicion. However, when Sydney and Allison were at a cafe, Francie presented a gift to give to Michael even though she barely knew him. Sydney was wondering how Francie knew what kind of suit Vaughn would wear, but Allison managed to lie her way out of the accusation.
Her life with Sloane and Sark didn't cease, as she was ordered to perform a few tasks for the two of them. At one point she had to execute a plumber for unknown reasons. The second task was more serious however. After Dixon accidentally killed Sloane's wife during a raid on his villa, he ordered Allison to kill Dixon's wife, Diane, which she did via a car bomb.
Allison was finally ordered to blow her cover and kill both Will and Sydney. Allison pinned Will onto the wall of the house and stabbed him in the chest, crying as she did so. She hid the body in the bathtub and waited for Sydney to come back home (The Telling).
When she did, Sydney was getting more and more suspicious of "Francie" because Will wasn't home and she was too calm. Sydney offered her coffee ice cream (which she accepted) and then ran into her room to get her gun. Allison showed up and said, "I just remembered...Francie doesn't like coffee ice cream." realizing she blew her cover. The two engaged in a fierce fist fight around the house, using everything they could find in order to subdue the other combatant. During the fight, Sydney found Will's body lying in the bathtub, thinking she had already killed him (The Telling).
The fight reached its climax when Allison slammed Sydney into a mirror (possibly piercing her spine with a shard of glass) and Sydney fell to the floor, unable to fight any longer. Allison slowly reached for Sydney's gun, but Sydney slit her face with a large piece of glass and got the gun herself. She aimed the gun at Allison and shot her in the arm and chest twice, supposedly killing her (The Telling).
Allison was seen once again returning to Julian Sark after supposedly dying the previous two years. While in bed, Allison explained how she survived the gunshot wounds and how a medication from a Rambaldi jornal healed her wounds.
Allison was ordered by Sark to locate a device that acted as a launch control for a nuclear arsenal in a nightclub, which was guarded by two men: Heinrich Strauss and Robert Lange. Allison killed Heinrich with a sniper and after encountering resistance from Michael and Sydney, she eventually found Lange and extracted his tooth shortly before killing him. Sydney finds the body and is knocked out by Allison, but not killed.
While meetig with Sloane in Prague (who was a double agent at the time) Allison told him that the only reason why she didn't kill Sydney was because there was something in her brain The Covenant needed. Afterwards, Sark reveals where the location of the device is.
Sydney encounters Allison again in Sofia and she explains how she was able to survive for so long. Just as Allison is about to kill Sydney, Sydney knocks the gun out her hand and they get into a fight again, which results in Allison getting shot. However, as she is hoisted away to the hospital, she kills all the paramedics and escapes, despite barely having a pulse. (The Nemesis)
Allison, shortly after she's stabbed by Will.
While accompanying Sark on a mission to retrieve a safe deposit box belonging to Julia Thorne, she encounters Tippin and the two engage in a fight while Sydney chases after Sark. During the fight, Allison pulls out a knife and tries to slash Will with it. After hitting her in the head with a light fixture, he grabs her hands and pins her to the wall with the knife aimed at her chest. Will angrily mutters, "This is for Francie." and plunges the knife into her chest, similar to what she did to him. (Remnants)
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Kansas City Fails To Pick Up Option On Royals
KANSAS CITY, MO—In an expected move Wednesday, the City of Kansas City declined to pick up their 2010 option on the Royals baseball club, ending the team's 41-year tenure with the Missouri municipality. "It was time to move in another direction," Kansas City mayor Mark Funkhouser said at a press conference. "There were some vested incentives that would have automatically kicked in if the Royals had finished higher than last place, or won more than one championship in their existence. But we just couldn't afford to make another mistake like that 18-year extension back in 1991." The Royals have generated some mild interest from other cities, including Portland, OR and Copenhagen, though the Danish capital is said to be leaning heavily toward acquiring a public pool or parking lot.


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SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korea again denied its involvement in a series of data leaks at South Korea's nuclear power operator and rebutted Seoul's interim probe results that accused the communist regime of conducting the hacking attacks.
The North's Central Internet Research Institute said that the investigation that linked Internet protocol addresses used in the attack to North Korea is groundless and was fabricated by Seoul, according to Pyongyang's state media Korean Central News Agency.
The denial follows a March 17 announcement by a special investigation team that found the data leaks at the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. "believed to have been caused by an (unidentified) group of North Koreans hackers."
In December, an unidentified hacker, claiming to be an activist against nuclear power, had posted data about nuclear power plants, including their blueprints, five times and threatened to destroy the facilities while demanding they be shut down.
Earlier this month, the hacker renewed its threats by posting more files on Twitter that included documents concerning the country's indigenous advanced power reactor 1400, while demanding money in exchange for not handing over sensitive information to third countries.
The state-run KHNP operates 23 nuclear reactors in South Korea that provide nearly one-third of the country's energy demand.


East Chicago residents are taking additional legal action over high levels of lead and arsenic found around their homes.
A new lawsuit is the first to single out DuPont and Atlantic Richfield, two chemical companies that have taken on legally responsibility for the hazards.
Attorney Thomas Zimmerman filed the suit last week in federal court on behalf of residents who have to move out of East Chicago's West Calumet Housing Complex.
It's on the site of a former lead refinery run by companies now owned by Atlantic Richfield, and it's near a DuPont pesticide plant.
In 2014, the two companies agreed to pay the Environmental Protection Agency $26 million to help clean up the area.
"But that does not compensate the residents for the inconvenience and expense associated with the disruption of their lives, and having to find a new place to live and move," Zimmerman says.
He wants DuPont and Atlantic Richfield to pay for West Calumet residents to move out or find temporary housing and to clean their belongings. He's also seeking damages for "aggravations" the contamination has caused, such as not being able to play outside or garden in contaminated soil.
Zimmerman has asked the court to make his suit a class-action on behalf of the more than 1,000 people who live in West Calumet.
It's the only lawsuit so far that focuses solely on DuPont and Atlantic Richfield. Other suits filed for residents in recent months have named the companies alongside city officials, or not at all.
"We decided to name the businesses because they were the ones who polluted the site," Zimmerman says.
Chemours is DuPont's performance chemicals division, which became a separate company in 2015. A spokesperson there did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
An Atlantic Richfield spokesman says only that the company, which is owned by BP, is complying with the EPA agreement.


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Attorney Anne Bremner, left, delivers opening statements to the jury in the trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, who faces two misdemeanor charges in Pierce County District Court.
Credit: Image courtesy of Pierce County District Court.
Trial gets underway for Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer on false reporting charges
Amy Radil
A jury has been selected and attorneys on Wednesday delivered their opening statements in the trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer.
Troyer is charged with two misdemeanors for false reporting and making false statements, stemming from his off-duty encounter with a Black newspaper carrier, Sedrick Altheimer, in January 2021.
Prosecutors say Troyer followed Altheimer and accused him of being a thief, before calling a 911 dispatcher and saying, according to the recording, "I'm about two blocks from my house and I caught someone in my driveway who's threatened to kill me and I blocked him in and he's here right now."
The call triggered an emergency response, but according to the complaint, Troyer then reversed himself, and told Tacoma police that Altheimer never threatened him.
"In effect, Sheriff Troyer backpedaled from his statements to the 911 dispatcher about Mr. Altheimer threatening to kill him — statements that prompted more than 40 officers to rush to him, and caused Mr. Altheimer to be questioned as a possible suspect," said Barbara Serrano with the Washington State Attorney General's Office in her opening statement.
Serrano said the state will endeavor to show that Troyer knowingly lied about facing a threat.
"This case is quite simple. Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer got into a confrontation with a newspaper carrier and then lied to a 911 dispatcher reporting that the newspaper carrier threatened to kill him."
Defense attorney Anne Bremner said she will emphasize that Troyer called a non-emergency phoneline to reach the dispatcher, and that the emergency response was quickly curtailed so that most police officers never arrived on the scene. In her opening statement, she maintained that Troyer was merely looking out for his neighbors when he followed Altheimer. She said that she will disprove the prosecution's claims.
"They have to prove that he willingly lied," Bremner said. "How could they ever prove that? Because that claim is false."
Bremner said the case by Troyer's defense will be focused on questioning the credibility of two people. One of them is Tacoma police officer Chad Lawless, now a detective, who interviewed Troyer at the scene and said Troyer backtracked on his claim of being threatened. Bremner said Lawless "didn't memorialize his conversation in any way, saying something different than what the Sheriff says."
The other person that Troyer's defense team will try to discredit is Sedrick Altheimer, the newspaper carrier. Bremner told the jury Altheimer has a financial motivation in this case because he's filed a civil lawsuit seeking $5 million in damages. Bremner said the accounts of the police who responded to the scene are at odds with one another. Some of those officers are expected to testify on Thursday.
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"Alternatively spliced human tissue factor: a circulating, soluble, thrombogenic protein."
Bogdanov V.Y., Balasubramanian V., Hathcock J., Vele O., Lieb M., Nemerson Y.
Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA] (ISOFORM 2), FUNCTION, SUBCELLULAR LOCATION, TISSUE SPECIFICITY.
"Lipid-bound factor Xa regulates tissue factor activity."
Hathcock J., Rusinova E., Vaananen H., Nemerson Y.
"Affinity purification of human tissue factor: interaction of factor VII and tissue factor in detergent micelles."
Guha A., Bach R., Konigsberg W., Nemerson Y.
"The influence of exogenous tissue factor on the regulators of proliferation and apoptosis in endothelial cells."
"Structural integrity of the gamma-carboxyglutamic acid domain of human blood coagulation factor IXa Is required for its binding to cofactor VIIIa."
Larson P.J., Stanfield-Oakley S.A., VanDusen W.J., Kasper C.K., Smith K.J., Monroe D.M., High K.A.
"Formation of tissue factor-factor VIIa-factor Xa complex induces activation of the mTOR pathway which regulates migration of human breast cancer cells."
Jiang X., Zhu S., Panetti T.S., Bromberg M.E.
"TF/FVIIa transactivate PDGFRbeta to regulate PDGF-BB-induced chemotaxis in different cell types: involvement of Src and PLC."
Siegbahn A., Johnell M., Nordin A., Aberg M., Velling T.
"Localization of tissue factor in the normal vessel wall and in the atherosclerotic plaque."
Wilcox J.N., Smith K.M., Schwartz S.M., Gordon D.
"Tissue factor and its natural inhibitor in pre-eclampsia and SGA."
Erez O., Romero R., Hoppensteadt D., Than N.G., Fareed J., Mazaki-Tovi S., Espinoza J., Chaiworapongsa T., Kim S.S., Yoon B.H., Hassan S.S., Gotsch F., Friel L., Vaisbuch E., Kusanovic J.P.
"Isolation of cDNA clones coding for human tissue factor: primary structure of the protein and cDNA."
Spicer E.K., Horton R., Bloem L., Bach R., Williams K.R., Guha A., Kraus J., Lin T.C., Nemerson Y., Konigsberg W.H.
"Human tissue factor contains thioester-linked palmitate and stearate on the cytoplasmic half-cystine."
Bach R., Konigsberg W.H., Nemerson Y.
Cited for: DISULFIDE BONDS, PALMITOYLATION AT CYS-277.
Cited for: ALTERNATIVE SPLICING, INDUCTION.
"Heparanase enhances the generation of activated factor X in the presence of tissue factor and activated factor VII."
Nadir Y., Brenner B., Fux L., Shafat I., Attias J., Vlodavsky I.
Cited for: INTERACTION WITH HPSE.
"The crystal structure of the complex of blood coagulation factor VIIa with soluble tissue factor."
Banner D.W., D'Arcy A., Chene C., Winkler F.K., Guha A., Konigsberg W.H., Nemreson Y., Kirchhofer D.
Cited for: X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (2.0 ANGSTROMS) OF 33-251 IN COMPLEX WITH FVIIA.
"Structure of extracellular tissue factor complexed with factor VIIa inhibited with a BPTI mutant."
Zhang E., St Charles R., Tulinsky A.
Cited for: X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (2.1 ANGSTROMS) OF 37-242 IN COMPLEX WITH FVIIA.
Note: Additional isoforms may exist.
Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [GENOMIC DNA], VARIANTS ALA-36 AND VAL-145.
AC093117 Genomic DNA No translation available.


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Bartlete History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Bartlete is one of the many names that the Normans brought with them when they conquered England in 1066. The name Bartlete came from the personal name Bartholomew, and in its altered form is a baptismal name meaning Bartholomew. As the naming tradition grew in Europe baptismal names began to be introduced in many countries. Baptismal names were sometimes given in honor of Christian saints and other biblical figures. There are very few Christian countries in Europe that did not adopt surnames from these religious figures.
Early Origins of the Bartlete family
The surname Bartlete was first found in Sussex, where "the head of this family, according to Dallaway, may be considered one of the most ancient proprietors of land residing upon this estate in this county. The first in the pedigree is Adam de Bartelott, said to be of Norman origin, father of John, who married Joan Stopham, coheiress of lands in the manor from whence the name is derived." [1]
Another reference claim "the Barttelots of Stopham have a tradition that they came into England at the Conquest, and settled at a place called La Ford, in that parish, in which they still reside." [2]
The church of Stopham contains a long series of the family's monuments. "The church is partly in the early and partly in the decorated English style, with a square tower; the pavement is almost entirely composed of large slabs of Sussex marble, inlaid with brass figures and memorials of the Barttelot family, and in the windows are representations of some of the Barttelots and Stophams in stained glass, said to have been removed from the ball windows of the old manor-house." [3]
Early History of the Bartlete family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bartlete research. Another 66 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1069, 1944, 1566, 1662, 1682, 1471, 1557 and 1501 are included under the topic Early Bartlete History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Bartlete Spelling Variations
It is only in the last few hundred years that the English language has been standardized. For that reason, Anglo-Norman surnames like Bartlete are characterized by many spelling variations. Scribes and monks in the Middle Ages spelled names they sounded, so it is common to find several variations that refer to a single person. As the English language changed and incorporated elements of other European languages such as Norman French and Latin, even literate people regularly changed the spelling of their names. The variations of the name Bartlete include Bartlett, Bartlet, Bartlette, Bartolet, Bartelot and many more.
Early Notables of the Bartlete family (pre 1700)
Outstanding amongst the family at this time was John Barthlet or Bartlett ( fl. 1566), an English theological writer. John Bartlet (fl. 1662), was an English nonconformist divine, educated at the University of Cambridge and William Bartlet (died 1682), was an English independent minister, educated at New Inn Hall, Oxford. [4] Richard Bartlot (1471-1557), was an English physician, Fellow of All Souls' College, and took the degree...
Another 65 words (5 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Bartlete Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Bartlete migration to Australia +
Bartlete Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
John Bartlete, aged 25, a labourer, who arrived in South Australia in 1853 aboard the ship "Calabar" [5]
William John Bartlete, aged 39, a labourer, who arrived in South Australia in 1853 aboard the ship "Calabar" [5]
^ Shirley, Evelyn Philip, The Noble and Gentle Men of England; The Arms and Descents. Westminster: John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1866, Print.
^ South Australian Register Tuesday 2nd August 1853. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) Calabar 1853. Retrieved http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/williamstuart1853.shtml.
Bartlete (English)


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Pyramid Set by Keith Haring
Pyramids by Keith Haring
Published the year before Haring's death in 1990, this rare screenprint on anodized aluminum features dozens of the artist's iconic characters dancing in a celebration of life. Arranged within a large pyramid, the exuberant figures are rendered in bright yellow against a rich teal background. The pyramid was a common theme in Haring's work, simultaneously referring to antiquity and symbolizing eternity.
Silkscreen on anodized aluminium plate
41 x 57 Inches each
Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist responding to New York City's street culture of the 1980s. His work is about birth, death, sex and war – very fitting for the period in which he lived and worked. Keith Haring was openly gay at a time when most non-heterosexuals kept their sexual proclivities behind closed doors. Part of Haring's importance as an artist was how his art raised awareness of AIDS. Many of his works were featured in the Red Hot Organization's efforts to raise money for AIDS research and AIDS awareness. Keith Haring himself died of AIDS in 1990 at age 32.
Keith Haring was born and grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania with his parents and three younger sisters. His father, Allen Haring, was a cartoonist who may have been an inspiration for him to pursue his artistic talents and certainly influenced his son's work.
The artist's first work that garnered attention was his public art painted in the New York City subways. These renderings were more akin to Pop art than Street Art. Perhaps they could best be described as Pop Art on the street.It was at this time that his work "The Radiant Baby" became symbolic of the artist. This image, with its bold lines, vivid colors, and dynamic pose, expresses profound messages of life and unity.n 1980, Haring organized shows in New York City's Club 57 and for the first time started drawing animals and human faces. He also pasted provocative collages around the city made from cut up and reassembled headlines from the New York Post.
Marilyn Monroe 30 -Andy Warhol
Tete d'Homme aux Cheveux Longs by Picasso
Rain Forest By Roy Lichtenstein
Tomato Soup by Andy Warhol
Line of Figures by George Condo
Crying Girl by Roy Lichtenstein


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Sri Desiraju Hanumanta Rao and Sri K. M. K. Murthy
Each sloka is available in ITRANS, Devanagari or Roman transliteration. Fonts need to be downloaded for the last two formats. Word meanings in english and an english translation for each sloka are given. The work is still in progress.
http://www.valmikiramayan.net/
Ramayana on hindunet.org
The complete Valmiki Ramayana is available here in XDVNG devanagari, ITRANS, or as devanagari postscript files. The navigation bar greatly facilitates use of the text. The complete Ramacharitamanasa is also available in ISCII, ITRANS, CSX, PS or XDVNG formats. Links to other interesting sites are given. Definitely worth a visit.
http://www.hindunet.org/ramayana/
Gita Press Gorakhpur, India
Founded in 1923 to propagate the Gita, over the years, the institution has made available more than 300 million copies of the Gita, Ramayan, Bhagvat, Durga Saptashati, Puranas, Upanishads, and other books in Sanskrit, Hindi, English, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, Bangla, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, and other Indian languages. Ramcharitmanas (.pdf files) is available here for viewing and for download. Each verse is given in devanagari with a roman tranliteration and an english translation.
http://www.gitapress.org/english/epbooks_eng.html
Srimad Ramayana: The Travels of Rama by Valmeeki Muni
Translated by Karnamrita Dasa, 1997. English translation of Ayodhya Kaanda available. This is part of the ISKON group of sites.
http://www.islandnet.com/krsna/science/hearing/ramayana/ramayana.htm
Multilingual Ramcharitamanas:
On this website one can Read the Book in devanagari, Search for words or specific verses, use the PowerBrowse feature, download and print the text, and do much more.
http://www.ramcharitmanas.iitk.ac.in/
Ramayana on Urday.com
Well-organised chapter-wise english summaries of the Ramayana.
http://www.urday.com/ramayana.htm
Versions of the Ramayana
Has a map of India with the various versions of the Ramayana marked on it according to geographical popularity.
http://www.msu.edu/~mahereri/rel340/versions.html
Lessons from Ramayan
http://www.boloji.com/ram/
Rama and the Ramayana: Lessons in Dharma
http://www.askasia.org/for_educators/fe_frame.htm
Ramayana - A Picture Gallery
http://home.att.net/~s-prasad/ramimage.htm
The Ramayana - an enduring tradition
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/special/ramayana/
The Ramayana: A "Telling" of the Ancient Epic
http://www.globaled.org/curriculum/story2a.html
Understanding Hinduism - Ramayana
http://www.hinduism.co.za/ramayana.htm#Ramayana


I kept forgetting to post this comic but I figured there's no better day to do it than on Father's Day!
Here is my guest comic contribution to the Greg Universe Special. I had fun with it, especially with the colors. I wanted to use a limited color pallet so that the pink moments would really pop.
I also scripted a second comic for the issue that was brought to life by the amazing coelasquid! Here are some places to buy a physical or digital copy if you want to check out the rest of the Greg special if you haven't already!
Like previously on Mother's Day they've got the Yo Mama Battle, now Rhett and Link are back with Yo Daddy battle for Father's Day!


The global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, STMicroelectronics has revealed its Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology is powering the contactless features of TCL Communication's newly launched Alcatel 3V smartphone for the European market.
ST's technology ensures robust connectivity for fast and reliable contactless payments, e-ticket transactions, peer-to-peer data transfer, and emerging use cases including interacting with physical-web objects like smart posters or store-shelves. Superior RF performance also helped TCL Communication to streamline certification to mandatory stringent EMVCo, GSMA and NFC Forum standards for handsets.
"With the all-new direction of our Alcatel 2018 smartphone portfolio, we are committed to continuing delivering high-quality and affordably priced smartphones that appear more premium than their price," said Stefan Streit, General Manager, Global Marketing, TCL Communication. "We are pleased to partner with ST to equip Alcatel 3V with reliable and secure contactless connections for our customers around the globe and to provide even richer experiences and superior interoperability throughout the numerous contactless terminals in their everyday lives. The support provided by ST and the highly effective collaboration between our technical teams helped us quickly achieve the applicable certifications for the Alcatel 3V", he added.


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Reimagining Legal Education, Part 2
Not all experiments will be successful, especially if the premises are unsound.
Mark Pulliam
In a recent article for City Journal, I profiled Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law, a new institution in Knoxville that offers skills-based training at a lower cost than the prevailing model of legal education. Another "alternative" law school, ostensibly with a similar mission, is the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law, which presents an interesting contrast with both LMU and conventional legal academia.
Unlike LMU, a private school serving southern Appalachia, UNT at Dallas is a publicly funded institution that targets the diverse urban population of southern Dallas County. Created by the Texas legislature in 2009 and opened in 2014, the law school occupies the historic Old City Hall building, which underwent $70 million in renovations. Notably, Dallas already had a private law school, Southern Methodist University, and its sister city, Fort Worth, boasts the Texas A&M School of Law. With UNTD, Texas now has ten law schools statewide, six of which receive state funding.
What was the Lone Star State's rationale for opening yet another law school, at great taxpayer expense, at a time of plummeting law school applications and a challenging job market for attorneys? As Dallas, the state's third-largest city, experienced rapid population growth and demographic change, political leaders lamented the lack of legal resources available to poor and middle-class residents. The city's population is now majority-minority, and many residents, especially in South Dallas, are economically disadvantaged. State Senator Royce West, who has represented the city since 1992, supported opening a public institution that would train an atypical student body to provide legal services to an underserved population. UNTD has fulfilled West's vision—its law school offers an affordable and accessible education to minorities and nontraditional students, including older working adults (the average age of students is 33). By charging lower tuition, the institution hopes that graduates unburdened by massive student loan debt will provide legal help to ordinary people unable to afford representation by high-priced firms.
The law school's novel approach initially generated praise. Its lavishly funded facilities, central downtown location, and leadership (the founding dean is a retired federal judge) contributed to the favorable publicity. Indeed, good intentions have guided UNTD's belief that applicants' "grit" and "life experience," rather than college grades and LSAT scores alone, could determine admissions decisions. This approach produced an entering class of about 150 students, a cohort ranging in age from 20 to 74—albeit thin on academic credentials.
Though UNTD Law has received an "A+" rating from The National Jurist as one of the "Most Diverse Law Schools," its unconventional student body has raised concerns. Questions about UNTD students' qualifications, as evidenced by low LSAT scores, led the American Bar Association to recommend against provisional accreditation. Boosting the institution's average LSAT scores would require admitting fewer students, thus reducing tuition revenues and undercutting the primary rationale for the school's existence: producing a cadre of practice-ready lawyers to address the community's unmet legal needs.
The ABA ultimately reversed itself and granted provisional accreditation, but its initial instincts proved correct. When UNTD's first graduating class took the Texas bar exam in July 2017, only 59.3 percent of the class passed, the worst results of any of the state's ten law schools and far below than the statewide average of 72 percent. (Baylor University led, with a pass rate of 93 percent.) As the ABA Journal remarked, "Although UNT is to be commended for keeping the cost of law school as low as possible, if over 40 percent of its graduates fail the bar, it's no bargain." UNTD's tuition and fees, at over $18,000 per year, are far less than other Texas schools charge, but they're not exactly a "bargain." While UNTD graduates' bar results have varied since the July 2017 exam—with pass rates ranging from 40 percent to 61 percent—the school ranks consistently as one of the state's worst performers.
At this point, it's unclear what path UNTD will take. Royal Furgeson, the school's founding dean, stepped down in June 2018 and was replaced by Angela Felecia Epps, former dean of Florida A&M University College of Law, a historically black institution, whose graduates, FAMU proclaims, are "champions of civil rights and social justice." Will UNTD become an activist social-justice academy, in the mold of CUNY School of Law, another self-styled urban law school? Or will Epps lead UNTD in the direction of Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law, as a de facto historically black institution? Texas Southern is not an auspicious model: its graduates had the second-worst bar-passage rate in July 2017 (barely ahead of UNTD, at 63.64 percent), and since then it has anchored the cellar position, with pass rates as low as 28 percent. In any case, it's likely that UNTD's primary function will continue to be, as one sympathetic observer remarked, to "produce more law graduates of color and from modest origins than are turned out by the established law schools."
Significant changes will be needed to salvage taxpayers' enormous investment in creating and operating the UNTD College of Law. Texas contributes over $27 million a year to the law school. Skeptics rightly wonder if the concept was fatally flawed from the inception. The premise was that "nontraditional" students could be molded into affordable legal-services providers, yet barely half of UNTD's 2018 graduates managed to find any type of full-time legal employment. In hindsight, it appears that the Texas legislature got snookered into approving this institution, with the state's taxpayers left holding the bag.
Herein, another lesson for reforming legal education: good intentions alone don't produce salutary results. Many aspects of the traditional academic model can be altered—reducing costs, emphasizing practical skills over theory, teaching the basics, and so forth. Lowering admissions standards to the point of enrolling students ill-equipped to pass the bar exam, however, is shortsighted and futile. Subsidizing experiments at taxpayer expense to appease powerful politicians like Senator West is a breach of the public trust.
Mark Pulliam is a contributing editor at Law and Liberty and blogs at Misrule of Law. He writes from Austin, Texas.
Photo: University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law/via Facebook
Reimagining Legal Education
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Mark Pulliam Long the liberal redoubt in conservative Texas, the capital city is becoming a statewide model.
Lone Star Exception
Mark Pulliam Austin's top cop is high on competence, low on drama.
Ethnic Studies 101: Playing the Victim
Heather Mac Donald An aggrieved Harvard professor exemplifies how a fast-rising academic field injects paranoia and hatred into American culture.
How to Guarantee Higher College Tuition Costs
Scott Yenor Like many public universities, Boise State illustrates how federal and state funding create incentives to spend more money—and pass the cost on to students.
Great Hearts, Great Minds
Max Eden An unusual charter school network, serving middle-class families, promotes a classical curriculum—and gets results.
Why shouldn't law schools be run as trade schools? Mark Pulliam June 27, 2019	Education, Politics and law


MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 29 /CSRwire/ - Seven international entrepreneurial teams will take the stage at GreenBiz Group's Circularity 19 event in Minneapolis this June to find out who will win the world's premiere biomimicry design prize.
The $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize, sponsored by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, will be awarded to one of seven finalist teams in the Biomimicry Institute's Launchpad, an accelerator program for early-stage, nature-inspired innovations. A $25,000 second prize from an anonymous donor will also be awarded.
From June 18-20, 2019, GreenBiz's Circularity 19 event will bring together more than 500 thought leaders and practitioners to define and accelerate the circular economy, a transformational business strategy focused on designing and manufacturing products and materials that have continuous lifecycles. Biomimicry, a foundational principle of the circular economy, is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature's patterns and strategies.
The Biomimicry Launchpad was created to support biomimicry entrepreneurs as they take early-stage, nature-inspired solutions to market, deploying the solutions we need right now to tackle the climate change crisis. Over the course of a year, Launchpad teams work with experts and mentors to prototype and test their designs. The Launchpad experience culminates in the Ray of Hope Prize award event.
Aruga Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, US) - self-cleaning surface technology, inspired by the dynamic surface structure of arteries, dolphin skin, and mussel byssuses.
EcoSTP (Bangalore, India)- an eco-friendly sewage treatment approach, inspired by the four chambers of a cow's stomach.
Gen-Rail (Long Beach, CA, US) - an innovation that harnesses wind generated on urban freeways and converts it into energy, based on inspiration from cockroaches, California condors' wing shape and the desert snail shell's structure.
Habari (Utrecht, The Netherlands)- technology that protects tea plants from frost damage, inspired by the giant groundsel and giant lobelia plants.
Phalanx Insulation (Long Beach, CA, US) - an insulation grid meant to be applied to exterior walls of existing buildings, inspired in part by cacti, Saharan silver ants, and the Saharan camel.
UPOD (Ithaca, NY, US) - a carnivorous plant-inspired mosquito control device.
Watchtower Robotics (Boston, MA, US) - a gecko-inspired leak detector to help water pipeline operators around the world save water and protect infrastructure.
The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has supported the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge and the Biomimicry Launchpad since 2014, a multi-year effort to crowdsource, support, and seed promising innovations inspired by nature. Each year, the Institute and Foundation together award the $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize® to the most viable prototype that embodies the radical sustainability principles of biomimicry.
Applications are now open for the 2019-2020 Biomimicry Launchpad cohort. Want to get support to bring your bio-inspired idea to life? You can learn more and apply at innovation.biomimicry.org/launchpad.


I'll never forget that quote, as it sums up perfectly what this blog is about. Don't let the name fool you; this is no ordinary #menswear blog that focuses on floral prints, Sprezzabox accessories, and fun socks. I prefer looking at things from an older lens, one that combines all encompassing vintage style (specifically 1920s-1960s) with contemporary tailoring. This blog is probably the only blog that advocates spearpoint collars, high rise trousers, and double breasted suits in a modern context. And don't worry, we still wear sneakers!
We are advocates of classic style with a twist; this is inherent in the name. Street is a reference to streetwear and its rebellious/alternative nature. I'm not wearing Supreme or Palace, but there's a lot to learn from it. I think that your style should be different and can be meant to challenge people's view of traditional clothes. Pieces like bucket hats and knit caps are a great way to achieve that. Sprezza is a reference to the Italian term of "studied carelessness". I believe that this means that you should still know the rules of menswear, but apply them in a way that is truly natural and easy (almost slouchy). The combination of these words two has resulted in this blog: a rebellious, yet easy approach to classic menswear. No matter what, your outfits should look easy and personal to you. And if it's different than what others expect, then do it.
One main focus of this blog is the rules and history of menswear. I believe that every outfit and article of clothing is full of life, ranging from the history of the garment to its current application. Once you know the basics, then you can feel free to break them like I do. Many of us, while we love suits and tailoring, have a distinct personal style. Having a personal style doesn't always mean you have to follow the rules to a T. I simply want to give you inspiration to help you gain perspective and find new ways to wear your suits and ties.
Another goal of this blog is to show you that fashion is not something reserved for the rich. We believe that fashion is in the hands of the everyday person and that everyone can look great. A lot of the stuff we wear will be from eBay or thrift stores, which are then tailored to fit our bodies. While we do believe that certain high prices are required for certain details (and that custom should be used if you can), you can definitely find some quality and unique pieces if you look hard enough.
What you might see in this blog will challenge you. It might mean wearing sneakers with trousers or even wearing your tie carelessly. It may even wearing something completely modern and tailored with a shirt or tie that hasn't been worn in decades! We even advocate white socks. These are all classic things that have our own unique spin on it. Personal style is key at Street x Sprezza.
Started to follow you because of the Gentlemen Gazette I look forward to your advice.
Just found your site. Historical 30's / Great Depression Era reenactor here. You really were able to square away deffirences between modern era and the 30's but more importantly the need for expert tailoring. Many thanks for a phenom site.


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Zachary served in the Marines Corps from 1984 until 1987, but found it hard to work after he left.
He entered the U.S.VETS Fathers Program in 2014 and by the next year, he had enrolled in school to become a smog check technician. He graduated in March and within three months had passed both state certification exams and received a job offer.
This spring, Zachary was approved for a housing voucher through the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. When he received news of his voucher approval, Zachary said, "This is the best news I could have possibly hoped for!"
Zachary was featured at the U.S VETS – Los Angeles graduation this September as the alumni speaker, and shared about his transition from homelessness to permanent housing with the help from U.S.VETS staff, case management, and the many resources and supportive services that we offer.
He now has a great two-bedroom apartment with enough space for him to be able to use for visitations with his kids, who he's now reconnecting with. "I'm so excited to be able to have them spend some weekends with me," he said.
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