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How Comprehensive Observability Can Save DevOps from 'Unknown Unknowns'
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9 Dec 2020 3:00am, by B. Cameron Gain
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DevOps teams often deploy and manage cloud native applications across a variety of multicloud and on-premises environments. For many engineers charged with debugging or improving application performance, it may seem that they are staring into the daunting abyss of scattered deployments, with little hope of meaningfully understanding what parts of their code are working and what needs to be fixed. This is why comprehensive observability is now in especially high demand.
According to Honeycomb, comprehensive observability is a method of collecting and analyzing unique, high-cardinality telemetry data in order to provide the full context for any given event, or service request. That data is shipped to a data backend where it can be analyzed to help debug or troubleshoot the many unforeseen and complex issues that arise in cloud native distributed systems, such as Kubernetes.
Modern distributed systems can fail in unique and novel ways, with many of those newly discovered failure modes never to be seen again. Such anomalies can't be addressed by existing monitoring, APM and logging solutions because these tools are designed to find known or predictable issues. They also don't drill down past overall aggregate behavior and into individual user experience because they lack the capacity to effectively collect and analyze high-cardinality data, Honeycomb asserts. When operating at scale, standard monitoring metrics such as CPU or memory usage logs are insufficient to debug an issue when it's difficult to even pinpoint where the code is running within the system.
Observability thus constitutes "the ability to understand what is happening inside of your systems and to do so without having to push new code, using the existing instrumentation and data flowing out of those systems," Liz Fong-Jones, principal developer advocate, for Honeycomb and a member of the governance committee of OpenTelemetry, said during The New Stack's livestream podcast as part of its KubeCon + CloudNativeCon coverage.
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"A comprehensive observability platform is more than a collection of logs, metrics, distributed tracing data and other analytics," Fong-Jones said. "It's proactively measuring your systems, rather than looking only when things are broken."
In this article, we'll cover what comprehensive observability should offer organizations working with highly distributed, multicloud environments.
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The Evolution of Observability
It wasn't that long ago when monitoring tools were largely used to detect errors and remediate fixes in the event of failure. In this way, the monitoring space was previously about "having static things" and what actions to take when outages occurred, for example, Jaana Dogan, principal engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and fellow livestream guest, said. An application in production that crashed, for example, was remediated with predetermined actions while that approach doesn't scale anymore, she said. Today, "the world is becoming extraordinarily large and complicated."
Instead, observability is a dynamic process involving "trying to figure out what's going on without being prepared so much for the failure," Dogan said.
Observability involves analyzing "unknown unknowns versus known unknowns," Fong-Jones said. "Monitoring was about measuring things that you knew to predict in advance, whereas observability helps you understand how and why."
Viable observability tools today must proactively measure and analyze systems, and involve many use cases beyond just "break/fix," Fong-Jones said. "Can you actually instrument your code as you're writing it the same way you would write unit tests? Can you actually visualize what's happening inside of your CI/CD pipeline?" she said. "To me, that's what comprehensive observability means, and a lot of other people, unfortunately, take 'comprehensive' to mean implementing traces, logs and metrics, and I don't think that's the case at all."
OpenTelemetry Open Doors
Organizations should be able to adopt a comprehensive observability platform without having to write code or do other heavy-lifting in order to implement the tools within their existing systems. The recently initiated OpenTelemetry project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is intended to provide a vendor-neutral framework to foster interoperability among the many options on offer by tool providers. In many ways, OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a model for the future of observability.
"OpenTelemetry enables organizations to export instrumentation for code in a vendor-neutral fashion so they only need to instrument it once," Fong-Jones said. "So, to me, observability is not about tooling but observability is about what humans are able to do with the tooling."
Oftentimes, an organization may have faced difficulties implementing advanced tools, such as Prometheus, or Jaeger for distributed tracing, that OpenTelemetry can now help to resolve.
"Buying yourself a Jaeger instance does not magically give you durability unless your engineers actually know how to use it," Fong-Jones said. "So, the use of OpenTelemetry to generate and export that data, and in the backend, for instance, Jaeger, or a proprietary closed source backend [provides] a variety of options that help you really achieve… comprehensive observability."
Looks Like A Duck
Limited metrics offered by some vendors certainly do not constitute observability. In some cases, for example, an APM microservices platform for tracing certain stack instances may be useful but does not by itself span the observability needs of many, if not most, organizations.
"Because you call it a duck doesn't mean it is a duck, and what observability is, is a testament to the power of what Charity Majors, [Honeycomb's co-founder and CTO] and Honeycomb, have been doing," Chuck Daminato, a sit reliability engineer at ecobee, a Honeycomb customer said.
By using the query capabilities Honeycomb's platform offers, for example, ecobee was able to detect and analyze some not-so-apparent issues customers might have experienced when signing up and logging on to its platform with mobile devices ahead of a new product launch.
"Honeycomb's platform really helped us to find some corner cases when the application and business logic didn't work. We weren't cognizant of them, either, since they didn't manifest themselves in ways that really impacted the application [significantly]," Daminato said. "Just being able to say 'we're getting this type of error for this type of request for this type of client,' and the ability to quickly do a query as opposed to thinking from first principles all the different types of [data and metrics helped.]
"We were launching a couple of new products and services," he said, "and I can say without a lie, that if it wasn't for Honeycomb, then we would not have gotten there in time."
Observability for DevOps Collaboration
A viable observability platform offers a number of features that help engineers quickly find the source of incredibly complex problems when they occur and also proactively find ways to improve production systems in highly distributed environments. In practical terms, observability should free software developers from the obligation of writing and managing instrumentation code that they then have to adjust for different on-premises data centers or cloud platforms, Torsten Volk, an analyst for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), told The New Stack. "During crunchtime, developers need to be able to focus on finishing their application code and worry about the end user experience instead of having to update and test instrumentation functions."
Comprehensive observability puts telemetry data in the hands of engineers along with tools to analyze that telemetry and interrogate their systems, in any arbitrary number of ways necessary, until they get to the root cause of reliability problems, performance bottlenecks and other issues.
"This helps observability platforms to become a collaboration space," Volk said, "for developers, DevOps teams, SREs and traditional IT operators to continuously enhance application code and operations."
Modern cloud native distributed systems offer many benefits over traditional monolithic systems. But the complexity introduced by microservice architectures also requires modern tools designed for modern systems. The seemingly daunting abyss associated with the challenges of finding ways to improve and debug application performance in often hybrid and multicloud environments is partially due to the limitations of older generations of tools that were designed for the needs of monolithic systems. Wrangling that complexity and equipping teams to better, and more proactively, understand their cloud-native systems becomes manageable thanks to comprehensive observability.
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Säg det på finska (finska: Sano se suomeksi) är en finländsk film från 1931, regisserad av Yrjö Norta. Filmen var Finlands första fulländade ljudfilm.

Säg det på finska var Lahyn-Filmis andra långfilm. Filmen innehåller flertalet sång-, musik- och dansföreställningar med bland andra Ture Ara, Georg Malmstén, Markus Rautio och orkestern Zamba. Huvuddelen av filmen har idag gått förlorad; det enda som finns bevarat är en scen, där Ture Ara framför folksången Tuoll' on mun kultani.

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Samtliga medverkande föreställde sig själva
 Ture Ara
 Paavo Nurmi
 Zamba-orkestern
 Georg Malmstén
 Emmi Jurkka
 Eino Jurkka
 Martti Jukola
 Edvin Laine
 Ritva Aro
 Hemmo Airamo
 Arvo Ahti
 Markus Rautio

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Filmer 1931
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SXSW 2016: 'Sidemen' Documentary Explores the Lives of Backing Bluesmen
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Pinetop Perkins in Sidemen - Long Road to Glory.
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"The blues had a baby and they named it rock n' roll," Muddy Waters once sang, both boasting his influence and blessing his musical offspring. And without a doubt he was right; the British Invasion that swept the music world in the 1960s and 1970s (and the American bands that followed) owed a massive debt to Waters and Howlin' Wolf, two iconic bluesmen who brought the Delta to Chicago and turned the genre into an electric tour-de-force. But unlike a blues pioneer like Robert Johnson, Waters and Wolf weren't going at it solo -- both were backed by musicians whose names have been neglected even as their impact continues to be felt throughout blues and rock music today.
It's those backing musicians -- specifically Wolf's guitarist Hubert Sumlin and Waters' pianist Pinetop Perkins and drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith -- that are the focus of the new documentary Sidemen: Long Road to Glory, which premiered this year at SXSW Film Festival. The 80-minute documentary features extensive interviews with the three musicians, as well as conversations with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Gregg Allman,Johnny Winter, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Perry and plenty more, documenting the lives and careers of Sumlin, Perkins and Smith, whose work by nature meant they were seldom acknowledged for their contributions to music history.
Originally conceived as a Last Waltz-style concert documentary, director/screenwriter Scott Rosenbaum and co-screenwriter/producer Jasin Cadic were forced to re-tool their narrative when all three musicians, first Perkins, then Smith, then Sumlin, all died within an eight-month period in 2011. "We really had to dig in to the back stories of their lives, which were incredible," Rosenbaum told Billboard last week about the making of the film, which took seven years to complete. "It was definitely an intention to capture who they were, the legacies they represented and the music we all loved and that they inspired and performed."
Through interviews, archival concert footage, graphic arts-style animation from Bounce Comics artist Chuck Collins and recollections of iconic recording sessions like those for Howlin Wolf's London Sessions LP in 1971, the film presents a story of their rise from their Southern plantation roots to clubs and halls around the world and back down again as the blues faded from popular music culture, painting their journeys in a fair -- if ultimately rose-colored -- light. After the film's premiere, Billboard caught up with Rosenbaum and Cadic to talk about the life and legacy of Sumlin, Perkins and Smith and the experience of putting Sidemen together.
What attracted you guys to the concept of the sideman?
Scott Rosenbaum: We grew up loving the blues and reading the backs of album covers and seeing who engineered the records and who played guitar on the records, and these were the guys for the Muddy band and the [Howlin'] Wolf band. So at the point when we got to meet them the first time, it was very clear that they weren't going to be with us forever. Pinetop was 95 when we met him, Hubert was younger, 76 or 77, but had had a heart attack, had a lung removed. It was clear that we were in the presence of music history that was fading. We just didn't quite know it was fading so quickly.
Jasin Cadic: I think what really attracted me to this project as an artist, as somebody who paints and plays in bands and writes, being an artist and getting that credit is probably number one for an artist. And I think that they earned it. People need to hear their story, too.
The thesis of the first part of the film seemed to be a quote from Levon Helm's book when he says everyone knew Muddy and Wolf, but these guys in their bands had to stay behind and hear the crazy stories from after-parties rather than attend them as well. How did you arrive at that thesis?
SR: Originally, it wasn't to highlight the fact that they were sidemen per se, it was, these were the guys on the records that inspired the Rolling Stones and the Who and the Doors. But it wasn't quite the focus, it was more just the music. And maybe in a way, the performance spoke for itself: they were the guys in the background, but you're hearing Hubert Sumlin playing the lick to "Red Rooster" that inspired the Stones, or "Back Door Man" as you saw with Robbie Krieger, that was the genesis of the idea.
JC: It's like the saying, "You don't know what you've got until it's gone." Once you know they're gone you realize how important they were and you realize what should be told. [When they died] it made us switch gears a little bit and dig deeper and really tell more of the story. Not just that they were there, but what they represent and what they did and what they were a part of.
Some of the interviews in the film were impressive. What did you take away from those conversations?
SR: It wasn't like Martin Scorsese calling up these big artists and getting interviews, it was purely because of who Pinetop, Willie and Hubert were. And to hear Gregg Allman, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Gales, Shemekia Copeland -- all these world-class musicians we grew up revering -- talk about them with such humility and reverence was amazing. You see these guys talking about them and speaking about them from a place of great respect, and it says a lot about the guys.
JC: Joe Perry spoke to us for so long that his team had to pull him away from us to go do sound check. He was just talking and he wouldn't stop with the stories and the love. It was like, once you got these people going, it's just pouring out of them. I think that these people that we talked to saw the need to tell the stories and make sure that their legacies are solid and the stories are told.
SR: I think on some level, with the rare exceptions like Mick Jagger or Robert Plant -- true frontmen -- that everyone is a sideman in some way. Jimmy Page would probably argue that point, but he's the sideman to Robert Plant in a way. I think it's really the respect that these guys had for the blueprint of what they did that really came through, and I think they could empathize on some level as well.
I've read books on those legendary London Sessions with Wolf and Muddy, how Clapton was afraid he wouldn't be invited back, those things. What was it like to hear those stories from these guys' side?
SR: As far as that London Session goes, it was a window into that animation in our film. If you recall that London Sessions album cover, it's animated figures of Clapton and Wolf and Bill Wyman, and it was always a vision of mine to animate that section using sort of those characters. Jason was the one who knew this fantastic New York animator and it really brought that whole segment of the film to fruition.
JC: When Scott first came up with the idea to do the London Session and animate it because of the album cover, we expanded on that idea. When the film started to add their childhoods, there's nothing to show, of course. So instead of showing stock or recreating or something, we came up with the idea to do all their childhoods in cartoon, too. A friend of mine, Chuck Collins, he's based out of New York, he does something online called Bounce Comics, and that's his style. So as soon as we talked about it I knew, "This is the guy I'm calling." And he was in.
SR: We wanted very much this film to transcend the music audience -- certainly just the blues audience, although we wanted to serve and satisfy those audiences -- we wanted to make this thing different than anything people have seen before. I have a shelf full of blues documentaries, and they're great, but they're only for blues fans. Willie, Pine and Hubert asked us to make sure that the music lived on beyond their lives time and again in the interviews, and the way we interpreted that was to make a film that transcends just the niche audience.
That's a heavy burden they put on you.
SR: It's certainly is; it's been a long seven years, five years since they passed. There was no way we couldn't finish this film after that.
The film almost becomes a sad story; towards the end of these guys' lives, things weren't really going all that well anymore. There was that one quote about Hubert, that he was "too famous to be a sideman, but too shy to be a frontman" after Wolf died. Pinetop was 90 and living in public housing with multiple family members being abused.
JC: There was that window, like we showed, where the blues was gone, and they had no work and were suffering. No one's going to make a movie only about the low point, but you have to include the low point.
SR: Clearly we loved these guys and this is a Valentine to them, but if we just did all of the high points and the great things, you'd lose that three dimension of the people that they were, and the lives they led, the suffering that they had to go through.
JC: The perseverance. It adds to them as people, and to come back through even that? Most people would just walk away, or just curl up and die.
It's like the bookend of struggle. But then at the end, Pinetop gets a Grammy at age 97.
JC: That wrote itself.
SR: We went out to L.A. in February 2011 to film the Grammys and hope that they would win, which they did, and then the next month we were down in Austin for [Pinetop's] funeral. It was unbelievable. And then that whole year unfolded: Willie died next, and then Hubert right behind him. It was nuts.
What response have you gotten from the film?
SR: The only one that really mattered to us was the friends and family and Muddy Waters' band that was there Friday night, as well as the local Austin residents who have such an appreciation for the history, the music, and in all likelihood knew Pinetop as well.
JC: Willie's son was there -- he appears in the film towards the end, Javik -- as the credits were rolling he comes up behind us and gives us a hug and says, "We did it." That's all that matters right now.
After spending seven years working on this film, speaking to all these people, really getting to know these guys, what did you walk away from the experience with?
SR: As a filmmaker and an artist, you're certainly dealing with all kinds of struggle. And it was hard for seven years working on this project. And as you said earlier, it was a heavy burden that they laid at our feet, and there was no way not to finish it. But there was certainly a lot of lean times where we ran out of money, where we ran out of will. But then you stop to think, "Wait a second, we're making a film about the very thing we're going through on such a small scale."
For these guys to grow up on a plantation and survive through plantation life and rise from that and persevere through all of the shit they had to deal with traveling through the south in the '50s and '60s, dealing with all the racism. Paul Usher, Muddy's harmonica player who was [at the premiere] on Friday night was telling me how they would drive in one big car, bass strapped to the roof, and oftentimes they'd leave a gig and hit the next town and want to get a hotel room, but they couldn't stay there because they were black. So the suffering that they endured, we can't even comprehend.

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NEW YORK (AP) - A man charged in the friendly fire death of a New York City police officer says the shooting stemmed from a "prank gone horribly wrong."
Christopher Ransom told the New York Daily News in an interview published Friday that he only meant to carry out a phony holdup of a T-Mobile store in Queens.
He said he carried a fake gun and that a friend videotaped the stunt.
Ransom said he returned the workers' money but police were already responding and opened fire. The shooting claimed the life of Det. Brian Simonsen and wounded Sgt. Matthew Gorman.
He told the newspaper that he was not a "monster" and that he didn't anticipate what happened.
Ransom faces murder and other charges in Simonsen's death.


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Ott DeFoe Takes Charge In First Round Of Bassmaster Open On Douglas Lake
DANDRIDGE, Tenn. —
Bassmaster Elite Series pro Ott DeFoe proved there is no place like home on the first day of the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Northern Open No. 3 at Douglas Lake.
DeFoe won the May 2014 Northern Open on his home waters of Douglas Lake. Today, he set himself up for another win by catching a 17-pound, 5-ounce five-bass limit to take over the lead in this year's Douglas Lake Open.
"It was kind of a struggle in some ways today," DeFoe said. "This time of year this lake is so tough. It is an amazing lake about 10 months of the year, but a couple of months of the year the fishing just gets harder."
When the fishing gets tough in the fall, DeFoe heads upriver and runs his aluminum bass boat over the shallow shoals.
The Knoxville, Tenn., pro relied on his extensive knowledge of his home lake rather than practice for the Open. "I went last Friday to kind of boat ride and look around," he said. He also wanted to test drive his boat to see if he could run the shoals. DeFoe discovered he could run as shallow as 7 to 8 inches to reach some of the same waters he fished when he won the Open in 2014.
The three-time B.A.S.S. winner noticed three other competitors in the same section of the river he was fishing. He said conditions are changing rapidly in the river with clear and dirty water mixing and the water level falling. "I am okay with that because it will make me readjust. I feel like that's the best way for us not to 'beat up' the fish. If the conditions were very stable, the fish would stay right there, but with the water changing it makes them move around."
Custom boat builder Mike Watson relied on one of his own custom-built aluminum boats to navigate the shallows of the river and take over second place with a 16-9 five-bass limit. "I just got real fortunate when I got on one hole, caught my fish and then bailed out of there by 11:30," said the 51-year-old Watson. "I was concerned this morning because the flow had doubled from yesterday to today."
The Bluff City, Tenn., angler left his spot after catching his limit and idled downriver to prevent running into any shoals. "I felt like in this tournament, if you catch 15 pounds, you need to get out of a spot," Watson said. "It was a long day after I left there."
Others in the Top 5 include Wil Hardy, Harlem, Ga., third, 15-7; Brian Latimer, Belton, S.C., fourth, 14-14; Drew Benton, Panama City, Fla., fifth, 14-9.
Taking over the lead in the co-angler division is Bobby Drinnon with three bass weighing 10-8. The 37-year-old machinist from Rogersville, Tenn., said he caught his limit within an hour after he and his partner, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Drew Benton, reached their first spot.
Chad Pipkens of Lansing, Mich., leads the pro division for the Phoenix Big Bass Award after the first day of competition with a 5-11 largemouth. Leading the nonboater division for the Phoenix Boats Big Bass Award is Chancey Hatfield of Mayking, Ky., with a 4-13 largemouth.
Friday's takeoff and weigh-in, along with the final-day takeoff, will be held at the Dandridge Public Boat Dock, 100 Public Drive in Dandridge. Spectators will need to take a shuttle from First Baptist Church, 951 TN 92 S in Dandridge. Morning shuttles will run 5 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and afternoon shuttles will run 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The final-day weigh-in will move to the nearby Bass Pro Shops, 3629 Outdoor Sportsman Place in Kodak, Tenn.
The event is hosted by the Economic Development Alliance of Jefferson County, Tenn.


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Letter from Theodore Debs, 12/21/1933. Says that if it had not been for his health he would have answered Putnam's letter long ago. Writes that he appreciated that Putnam gave Eugene V. Debs a place of honor in his article for the HOUSTON POST on...
Journal of Proceedings of the Common Council from January 1, 1987 to December 31, 1987, Terre Haute, Indiana
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The 1987 Journal of the Proceedings of the Common Council from January 1, 1987 to December 31, 1987 of the City of Terre Haute, Indiana.
Byron-Curtiss, A. L 1921-11-01
Birthday cards;
Letter to Eugene V. Debs on SOCIAL PREPARATION FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD letterhead, 11/01/1921. Says that he is writing to wish Eugene V. Debs a happy 65th birthday. Mentions that Eugene V. Debs visited his home in 1909.
Feigenbaum, William M 1926-10-19
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 -- Health
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Cannon, John 1921-11-05
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De Jong, Mauritz 1915-12-23
Christmas; Elections -- United States; Socialist Party of the United States of America; Presidential elections -- United States; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1916;
Letter to Eugene V. Debs on Socialist Party, New York County letterhead, 12/23/1915. Expresses wish that Debs has a happy holiday. States that he is glad to hear that Debs has promised to serve as "standard bearer" of the Socialist Party in 1916.
Gerber, Julius 1914-07-20
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Debs, Eugene V. 1913-10-02
Appeal to Reason; Health;
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Arts-Leisure
The art of translation: Two books by Valley academics shed light on the Holocaust and the writing life
KATHRYN LACHMAN
Lachman has translated an award-winning biography by French writer Ghislaine Dunant.
Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever wrote a memoir of surviving the Vilna Ghetto during WWII, now translated into English for the first time by Justin Cammy.
JUSTIN CAMMY
"Auschwitz and After," Charlotte Delbo's three-part memoir about surviving internment in Nazi concentration camps and rebuilding her life, is considered a classic first-person account of the Holocaust.
Jewish prisoners are rounded up in Vilna (today Vilnius) in July 1941 after German troops occupied the city. Almost the entire Jewish population there was murdered during the war. Bundesarchiv/Wikipedia
By STEVE PFARRER
Kathryn M. Lachman
A few years ago, a survey conducted by Claims Conference, an organization that oversees restitution for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs, revealed some disturbing news. Many Americans, especially younger ones, lacked a basic understanding of the Holocaust, the survey said, with respondents significantly understating the numbers of Jews murdered and failing to recognize the names of most Nazi death camps — even what was perhaps the most notorious one, Auschwitz.
But two recent translations by Valley writers and professors offer a reminder of the horrors of that era — and more.
Kathryn Lachman of the University of Amherst Massachusetts has produced the first English translation of an award-winning biography of Charlotte Delbo, the French writer who wrote a haunting memoir about surviving internment at Auschwitz. And Justin Cammy, who teaches at Smith College, has made the first English translation of a wartime memoir by the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, one of only a few hundred people to survive the Vilna ghetto in Poland (today it's part of Lithuania).
Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed by Ghislaine Dunant
Translated by Kathryn M. Lachman; University of Massachusetts Press
Delbo, born in 1913, grew up in a working-class family and as a young woman became involved in theater, in particular through her work as a personal secretary for Louis Jouvet, a noted French theater director and filmmaker in pre-WWII France. Arrested in 1942 for her participation in the French Resistance — her husband was executed for his role in that — Delbo spent two years in Auschwitz and another Nazi camp and later wrote three linked books, "Auschwitz and After," about the experience.
Lachman, who has taught French literature, comparative literature and other subjects at UMass — she's an avowed Francophile who previously lived and studied in Paris — said she first discovered Delbo's writing during her Ph.D. program at Princeton University. She read the first part of Delbo's memoir, "None of Us Will Return," in the original French ("Aucun de nous ne reviendra").
She says she was struck by the way Delbo used her background in theater to try and touch readers "visually and sensually," eschewing a conventional narrative and chronology for a more impressionistic, even poetic approach to try and "faire voir," or make visible, the surreal barbarity of Auschwitz, a place where the Nazis had destroyed all reference points to ordinary life and decency.
"She had this experience as a witness that she was trying to convey, and she did it in a really unique way," Lachman said. "It was very powerful."
Then Jim Hicks, the editor of The Massachusetts Review, the Five Colleges literary journal, approached her a few years ago about translating Ghislaine Dunant's biography of Delbo. The 2016 book, which won a significant award in France, the Prix Femina, examines Delbo's life chiefly through her writing.
"Jim put this enormous manuscript on my desk," Lachman said with a laugh. "I found it immediately compelling, though I didn't realize at the time how much work would be involved. ... I read it and did the first draft of the translation at the same time."
Among other things, the biography looks at Delbo's long physical and emotional recovery from her imprisonment and her growth as a writer. "She was a [literary] outsider who made her own path," said Lachman, who learned that Delbo, who died in 1985, was also a prolific playwright, a key supporter of women's rights, and an opponent of France's 1952-1964 war to retain Algeria as a colony.
Delbo also taught French in Massachusetts at one point, where she mentored a high school student from New York, Cynthia Haft, who grew up to become a good friend and later translated some of Delbo's work into English, including for The Massachusetts Review.
"It was fascinating to learn all of this, and to discover how rich French theater was at that time," Lachman said.
Lachman met with Dunant in Berlin to discuss the early stages of the translation, where the French writer told her she was happy to have a version of the book appear "in the music of my English," Lachman said. As a trained violinist, Lachman added, "That comment meant a lot to me."
Given the increasing growth of authoritarian regimes around the world and the threats to people based on their religion or ethnicity, she noted, "[Delbo's] voice is needed more than ever."
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg by Abraham Sutzkever
Translated by Justin D. Cammy; McGill-Queen's University Press
Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2010) has been called the greatest poet of the Holocaust, a writer who could wring meaning and even beauty from history's worst case of genocide; he's also considered one of the leading Yiddish poets overall and a champion for Yiddish after World War II, working to keep alive a language threatened by the loss of so many of its native speakers.
Sutzkever, born in what today is Belarus, also wrote a memoir about repeatedly cheating death in Vilna (today Vilnius) in what is now Lithuania, where the Nazis (and some Lithuanian collaborators) destroyed the vast majority of the Jewish population of about 75,000.
Justin Cammy, who teaches Jewish Studies and world literatures at Smith College, first read Sutzkever's poetry as an undergraduate and became so taken with it that he switched majors from political science to Yiddish Studies, with a specific concentration on Yiddish writers in prewar Vilna, then one of the largest centers of Jewish cultural and intellectual life in Europe.
For various reasons, Cammy says, Sutzkever's memoir was never translated into English, though editions in Hebrew, French, German and Lithuanian were issued. "I've wanted to translate this into English for many years," he said, "because it's such a vivid document of a particular time, and because he never wrote anything else like it."
Indeed, "From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg" is written in tight, journalistic prose with a sense of immediacy — Sutzkever began writing it in 1944, when the Germans still occupied Vilna — that reflects the chaos and terror that quickly grip the Jewish community once the city falls to the Germans during the invasion of Russia in early summer 1941.
Within days, Nazi death squads begin shooting Jews just outside the city; in one early scene, Sutzkever is rounded up for one of these mass executions but miraculously escapes. But horror was never far away: The Germans murdered both his mother and his newborn son.
When they weren't killing Jews, the Nazis often found entertainment in humiliating them. Sutzkever, along with an elderly rabbi and a young Jewish boy, was once forced to strip naked and dance in a circle around their burning clothes, which three German soldiers had set on fire, along with parchment torn from a Torah scroll.
But, as Cammy notes, Jews kept their culture alive in the ghetto, maintaining basic schools and staging plays, concerts, art exhibits and poetry readings. Sutzkever had an important role in that effort and in hiding Jewish artworks and other valuables from the Nazis, Cammy said: "He believed in spiritual and cultural resistance along with armed resistance."
In the fall of 1943, Sutzkever and his wife escaped the ghetto and joined partisans fighting in forests outside Vilna. Several months later, Soviet Jewish writers convinced Russian officials to airlift the couple to Moscow so that Sutzkever could document Nazi atrocities in Vilna.
Cammy has actually translated two versions of Sutzkever's memoir, as a later version includes testimony he gave at the Nuremberg trials as well as some essays he wrote in the 1960s, after he had moved to Israel. Those accounts provide an early glimpse of the rise of antisemitism in Russia after World War II, when some Jewish writers, doctors and other professionals were imprisoned or murdered on the order of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
It's a fate, Cammy says, that Sutzkever might have faced himself had he remained in the Soviet Union. Now he hopes his book will provide a fresh look at what he calls "an incredible story and an important record of that time."
Steve Pfarrer can be reached at spfarrer@gazettenet.com.


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Drabblecast Director's Cut – The Box Born Wraith
May 11, 2019 Director's Cut, Drabblecast, Horror
"Just Lookin' for Chocolate."
Norm and author Kevin Anderson discuss the horror genre, the origins of Cryptkeeper Norm, and of course, the hit story "The Box-Born Wraith" featured as Drabblecast episode 87 back in 2008 and published as our second official Halloween Special.
"We all die in the dark, Benny…"
Another Drabblecast Director's Cut bringing more detail and author insights to a fan favorite episode.
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Drabblecast 341- The Litany of Earth
November 4, 2014 Drabblecast, Drama, Horror
After a year in San Francisco, my legs grew strong again. A hill and a half lay between the bookstore where I found work and the apartment I shared with the Kotos. Every morning and evening I walked, breathing mist and rain into my desert-scarred lungs, and every morning the walk was a little easier. Even at the beginning, when my feet ached all day from the unaccustomed strain, it was a hill and a half that I hadn't been permitted for seventeen years.
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Drabbleclassics 11 – The Box Born Wraith (87)
October 31, 2014 Drabbleclassics, Horror
"I don't want to die in the dark!"
Norm spends this episode doing his very best cheesy Vincent Price styled horror show host (Note: not a Vincent Price imitation, but an imitation of a really bad Vincent Price imitator), complete with an interminable string of puns about "ghouls" and "ghosts." As this year's Halloween treat, Norm selects a truly terrifying story from frequently heard contributor Kevin David Anderson, also seen in Dark Animus, and numerous other publications which include the word "Dark" in their titles. In "The Box Born Wraith," an unexpected encounter between a condemned mobster and a tribe of hungry ghouls changes both the captive and the captors. Finally, still in character, Norm urges listeners to face the horrors of the voting booth in November's election.
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Drabblecast 262 – My True Lovecraft Gave to Me
October 31, 2012 Comedy, Drabblecast, Horror
Dear Mr. Kugelmacher,
This letter is to inform you of my resignation. As you know, I have spent the last fifteen years of my life working in your department store, from the age of twelve when I was hired as a stock boy, to my years spent in the jewellery department, to my time in management. I have loved working here, and I am very sorry to leave, but I fear that if I remain any longer, my health and my sanity will be forfeit. Perhaps if I explain the events of weeks, it will become clearer why I have to quit.
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Drabblecast 108 – The Wicked Witch Looks at 40 (Decades)
March 27, 2009 Comedy, Drabblecast, Fantasy, Horror
The wicked witch business wasn't what it used to be. It had been such a simple thing, to lure children with candy; back in the old days when candy had been hard to come by…
In this episode's Drabble, a moth eloquently expresses her attraction to a bright light and her own subsequent destruction. The feature story, The Wicked Witch Looks at 40 (Decades), follows Winnie the witch through her (long overdue) midlife crisis. After a particularly discouraging Halloween, where not a single child is captured, she takes the advice of an article in Martha Stewart Living magazine, changing her house and her lifestyle.
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Drabblecast 87 – The Box Born Wraith
October 29, 2008 Drabblecast, Horror
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Drabblecast 36 – Pumpkinseeds
October 31, 2007 Action, Drabblecast, Horror
Their orange gazes came from devilishly carved eyes and their vigilant stares sent a chill up Kincade's neck. He had never liked the gutted vegetables that people found hauntingly ornamental this time of year…
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"We wanted to put a real focus on reading in our school – both to raise standards and to encourage our children to read more often and widely," said Year 2 class teacher Diane Kenny. "When we discovered Reading Eggs from 3P Learning – we thought that the interactive world and the element of competition involved would really engage our children with reading".
Brookdale is a small, one-form entry community primary school in Greasby on the Wirral in the North West of England. Rated 'Good' by Ofsted, its motto is 'Believe, Progress, Succeed' and it prides itself on its friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
Pupils come from a mixed catchment area and all achieve well and make good progress.
Reading Eggs is aimed at children aged 4-11 and includes a host of fun, online lessons, a library of 2,000 eBooks and a range of engaging and motivational activities. The activities take place in a colourful online world including a shop, a bank and a cafe. Covering core literacy skills including spelling, composition and comprehension, the resource helps learners to develop their reading and comprehension skills and to progress eventually onto reading whole books.
"I like the library, it's a great resource," said Diane. "As the children learn to read and then progress through the lessons they win points to spend online on clothes for their avatar and furniture for their 'houses'. It really motivates them and they don't realise they are mastering vocabulary and spelling at the same time.
As well as appealing to children, the resource includes many teaching tools. Teachers can monitor students individually – checking for example how many games they have played, their vocabulary and the last three books they have read.
"My favourite feature is the 'placement test', said Diane. "This shows exactly where the children are and where they should be working, linking them to lessons which are right for their level – it's a really good tool.
"I'd say the biggest benefit is that the children like it enough to actually use it! You never hear a grumble when we ask them to work in Reading Eggs. It's really child-friendly and they love winning the 'eggs' and hatching 'critters'.
"Spelling has really come on in our school. Children like the structure of the spelling activities on Reading Eggs – there's an introduction and then lots of repetition. The repetition is what helps with spelling, for example just today the 'igh' sound letter string came up in a sentence about six different ways. This really helps to get the spellings embedded in their brains.
"Overall our results for reading put us in the top percentile and I'm sure some of that success is down to the Reading Eggs resource. We are real fans and are always recommending it at meetings and other school gatherings.


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Joao Zanon
CIM-Bedford Canadian Young Mining Leaders Award
Born in Brazil, Joao Zanon started his career working in the commissioning, start-up and operation of manufacturing facilities before moving to the mining industry. He joined Vale in 2010 to work on projects at Vale Indonesia. After three years, he moved to Newfoundland and Labrador, working as area manager during the construction of the Long Harbour Processing Plant and from 2016 to 2021 as project director for the Voisey's Bay Mine Expansion, successfully delivering the start of production at Reid Brook Underground mine without any lost time incident.
Since 2021 Zanon has been the head of projects for the North Atlantic Region and vice president of projects at Vale Canada, managing the portfolio of capital projects in Sudbury, Thompson and Voisey's Bay.
Zanon is a mechanical engineer and has an MSc in strategic planning from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.


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May 6, 2019 May 5, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff
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DOJ: The Long-Awaited Mueller Report Will Be Released Thursday Morning
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by Chuck Ross Attorney General William Barr plans to release a redacted version of the special counsel's Russia report on Thursday morning, a Justice Department official told reporters. The report is expected to contain redactions for classified information as well as information provided to a grand jury that special…
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House Democrats Move to Subpoena Mueller Report
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March 26, 2019 March 25, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff
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February 25, 2019 February 24, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff
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February 4, 2019 February 3, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff
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Half Of America Doesn't Have Confidence Mueller's Report Will Be Fair
January 29, 2019 January 28, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff
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December 24, 2018 December 23, 2018 Minnesota Sun Staff
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Longtime former Purdue President Steven Beering dies
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP): Former Purdue University President Dr. Steven C. Beering, who expanded and diversified the West Lafayette campus during his 18-year tenure, had died, the university announced. He was 87.
Purdue did not disclose the circumstances of Beering's death, but current President Mitch Daniels confirmed to WLFI-TV that it was not from COVID-19.
Beering went to Purdue in 1983 after serving as dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine and director of the IU Medical Center in Indianapolis.
Before that, he served 12 years in the Air Force, during which time he became an adviser to the U.S. surgeon general in internal medicine and a medical consultant to NASA, where he was a physician to the nation's first astronauts and to President Dwight Eisenhower, Purdue said.
"His 18-year leadership of our institution was but one chapter in an epic life of serial achievement," Daniels said.
Under Beering, Purdue expanded its international efforts, grew its liberal arts programs, promoted diversity and added 20 major buildings. Enrollment of international students grew threefold to become the largest at any public university.
Beering was born Aug. 20, 1932, in Berlin and spent most of his early years in Hamburg, where his father managed two retail furniture stores before World War II. After the war, the family moved to London and then to the U.S. in 1948, settling near Pittsburgh.
Jane Beering, his wife of 58 years, died March 9, 2015. Beering is survived by his sons Peter, David, and John and five grandchildren
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there will not be immediate services. A celebration of life is planned for the future when conditions allow.
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Lets Meet Neilia Hunter, Joe Biden's First Wife – All About Her Tragic Story
Posted on Published: August 6, 2022 - Last updated: November 19, 2022
Categories Celebrities
Neilia Hunter was an American-based celebrity ex-spouse and media personality. She was famous for being the ex-wife of the 46th US President – Joe Biden. Moreover, she is well-known for appearing in media gatherings and party meetings with Joe – when they were together.
Age at the time of death 30 years
Source of Wealth N/A
Neilia Hunter's Pictures with "Joe Biden"
Neilia Hunter Was Only 30 At The Time Of Her Death
She Had Three Children With Joe Biden
Q What was Neilia Hunter's cause of death?
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Q What was Neilia Hunter's date of birth?
Q Is the Neilia Hunter car accident rumor true?
Q How did Neilia Hunter die?
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Neilia Hunter's full name was Neilia Hunter Biden. She was born on July 28, 1942, in the United States of America, to Louis Née Base and Robert Hunter. She attended local educational institutions to complete her education. Her ethnicity was White, her religion was Christianity, and her nationality was American. Moving on, she was 30 years old at the time of her death.
Neilia Hunter
Known as Neilia Hunter Biden
Death Date December 18, 1972
Birthplace United States of America
Famous As Celebrity Spouse
Father's name Robert Hunter
Mother's name Louis Née Base
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Neilia was married to Joe Biden, with whom she had three children, whose names are Joseph Robinette "Beau," Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christine Biden. For some unknown reason, the couple decided to call it quits a year before Hunter's car accident.
Neilia Hunter's Pictures with her ex-husband "Joe Biden" and kids "Joseph Robinette "Beau," Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christine Biden"
Past relationships Joe Biden
Kids Joseph Robinette "Beau," Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christine Biden
Cooking and Gardening
Favorite Food Clam Chowder
Favorite Color Purple
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Favorite Actor Michael K. William
Favorite Actress Angelina Jolie
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Q: What was Neilia Hunter's cause of death?
A: Neilia Hunter's death cause was a car accident.
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A: The information about Neilia Hunter's grandchildren is not available on the internet.
Q: What was Neilia Hunter's date of birth?
A: Neilia Hunter's date of birth was July 28, 1942.
Q: Is the Neilia Hunter car accident rumor true?
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Personally I love to perform Kumbhaka. This is the moment when you hold your breath in between the inhalation and the exhalation. I remember, one of my yoga teachers nicknamed the effect of kumbhaka " the yogic trip". Why do we keep the breath out? What yogi say is, the period when we are not breathing at all, allows us a lot of space and silence. Maybe you recognize these kind of moments; moment when you start to feel different energies flowing through the body and start to explore other sides and realities in the mind?
Retention of the breath brings about a certain condition in the brain, a certain change in the spinal cord as well as in the physical body. Pranayama influences the nervous system and thereby the brain.
Puraka, kumbhaka and rechaka produce different effects in the body. Thus stopping the breath either inside or outside is the meaning of pranayama. The ayama – the distance of the length of prana – is increased but the number of respirations per minute is decreased.
What do the Yoga Sutras say about Kumbhaka?
Pranayama is the pause in the moment of inhalation and exhalation when that is secured.
In his book Four chapters of freedom, Swami Satchitanda comments on this sutra as following. 'After perfection of Yama Niyama and Asana sufficiently the aspirant should take up pranayama. It is the cessation of inhalation and expiration. There is neither rechaka (exhalation) nor puraka (inhalation), there is only kumbhaka'.
The agency of the breath was used to access the pranic field, to attain balance in the body and control the mind. The practises would render the body-mind instrument capable of experiencing higher states of consciousness so that the ultimate union with the transcendental reality could be experienced.
Picture this! Yogic text says that prana is like a wild elephant. If you want to tame the prana, you will have to take as much care as you would while taming a wild elephant. There must be steadyness and patience; there should be no hurry. Therefore retention of the breath must be practised slowly and with care. If there is any drawback, either physically or mentally, then the practise must be stopped for a few days or in certain cases months. Also. Atmospheric conditions, food habits, age, physical condition and other factors must be considered before beginning the practise.
Swami Satyananda says that "breath control should not be practised in physical asanas. It is wrong to control the breath in certain physical postures. There are certain other postures in which pranayama may be practised, but the student must know in which exercise to practise it and in which exercises to avoid it." For this, there should be a clear understanding of the meaning prana. Prana doesn't has anything to do with the lungs but much to do with the life current.
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SES spearheading quantum technology encryption network for Luxembourg
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The LuxQCI consortium will spend the next few months defining the scope of project, and how it can support other European Union members. Credit: SES
TAMPA, Fla. — Satellite operator SES is leading a consortium to design a system for guarding communications in Luxembourg against cyberattacks, which could feed into Europe's broader plan for a network that is also protected by quantum technology.
The consortium will devise a satellite and terrestrial network for Luxembourg's Quantum Communications Infrastructure (LuxQCI) project, which Luxembourg's government is coordinating.
One of LuxQCI's main features will be its use of quantum mechanics to distribute encryption keys, more securely than networks that currently encrypt most of the world's communications.
It aims to shield the communications networks surrounding confidential data, financial transactions, power grids and other critical infrastructure against evolving cybersecurity threats.
It comes as a slew of recent cyberattacks in the U.S. shines a spotlight on the need to improve network security.
The CEO of U.S. software company Kaseya told Reuters July 5 that between 800 and 1,500 businesses worldwide have been affected by an attack that targeted its operations.
A separate attack in May closed a U.S. pipeline that provides a significant portion of gasoline and jet fuel to the East Coast.
Luxembourg-headquartered SES is leading the new consortium through its fully owned affiliate SES Techcom, a solutions provider.
The other members of the group are also based in Luxembourg: IT infrastructure public agency InCert, consultancy itrust, data center company LuxConnect, digital solutions provider LuxTrust and the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT).
Satellite-enabled cybersecurity will be an integral element of reliable quantum communications infrastructures, according to SES CEO Steve Collar.
"The safe and intrusion-resistant data exchange mechanisms developed here will serve as a flagship project that can be replicated on a wider European scale," Collar said in a statement when the consortium was announced July 13.
Europe is developing a broader European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI) initiative, aiming to be a federation of national networks across the region.
Luxembourg was among the first seven of the European Union's 27 members to participate in EuroQCI, which the European Commission launched in June 2019 but remains in a very early stage.
Airbus said May 31 that it is leading a consortium to develop EuroQCI, securing a 15-month study contract.
SES spokesperson Suzanne Ong said the consortium it is leading will spend the next few months defining the scope of LuxQCI, and how it can best support other member states of the European Union.
"The study will act as a basis where its findings can be implemented beyond Luxembourg to serve wider European QCI ambitions and make such an infrastructure scalable," Ong said.
Arqit, the British startup in the middle of becoming a public company, aims to raise $400 million for a quantum technology encryption network.
The venture said June 11 that it is developing a federated version of this network, in partnership with the governments of Japan, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Austria, the U.S. and U.K.
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'EMPLOYER WHO WAS MY FRIEND'
By Dr Vanessa Gearson
Southern Daily Echo – 2 March 2000
Michael Colvin was not just my employer – he was my friend. For the past 18 months I worked for him at the House of Commons as his Private Secretary and came to know him, his family and his beloved Romsey constituency very well indeed. Mind you, Michael Colvin MP came as one half of an inseparable team – his wife Nichola playing an integral part in his political life.
Michael and Nichola interviewed me together and it immediately struck me how close they were and how – even having been married for 44 years – they were able to make each other laugh. As the interview progressed, I asked him what he was really looking for in the person he employed. "Quite simply, I would like a friend," he said.
The following day, having seemingly passed the test, I was making my way into the centre of London when I received a call on my mobile telephone from Michael. Without introducing himself he announced: "I have just spoken with your husband and we decided you should have this job." There it was – a fait accompli – and so I began to work for a couple who would become firm friends – not only to me but to my husband as well.
Working for Michael was in itself a lesson in how things should be done. He was impeccable in his manner and his dress – a true gentleman – and his sense of duty pervaded all aspects of his life. He also had a wry sense of humour. He once introduced me to John Maples, the then Shadow Foreign Secretary, as "my wretched secretary". The look of surprise on my face must have been very obvious as he then laughed and said: "Wretched for you in that you have to work for me!"
Michael was a very amiable man. Indeed, I never once saw him lose his temper. He was full of energy and was not afraid of rolling up his sleeves and helping out – whatever was required. He fought passionately for the issues he cared about. He had a deep social and moral conscience and cared first and foremost for the people he represented and the needs of his constituency. He also had a profound respect for Parliament and for its traditions.
Michael was very artistic and always carried a sketchbook with him. I remember one particular sketch he brought to the office following a rather dry debate in the House after midnight. He had spotted Madam Speaker slouching in her chair with her shoes kicked off and her glasses on the end of her nose and had used the pen in his pocket to capture the moment for posterity.
We always laughed about the difference between the city girl and the country gentleman. He once asked me if I rode. "Only in taxis," I replied. He had promised me a pair of wellington boots, horrified to learn that I did not possess a pair.
Michael loved life at the House although he had a pathological loathing of one particular aspect of modern life – the pager. Its constant bleeping, purring and vibrating did not agree with him. Nonetheless, even after more than 20 years in the House of Commons, he loved to hear Big Ben chime.
Many people have asked me how Michael felt about remaining a backbencher. I think the key to this is simply explained. He was satisfied. He loved being a constituency MP and had no ambition to climb the ministerial ladder – a remarkable quality in an environment that can be so aggressive and personally orientated.
Michael was a man of integrity, principle and honour. A life in politics can be fickle and transient and yet he lived according to his values – in this respect politics had no part to play. Most of all, nothing mattered more than his family and it is with this knowledge that I believe they are able to draw strength from one another during these awful days.
As for me, I respected him enormously and still cannot believe that he and Nichola are no longer with us. As we try to come to terms with this terrible tragedy I shall attempt to do what he would have wanted and expected – to carry on as normal and be positive. There is a lot of work to be done and, until such time as Romsey has a new Member of Parliament, I shall be here to do what I can in his name.


NEW YORK (AA) – Wall Street closed lower Friday after a disappointing jobs report fell far below projections.
The Dow Jones fell 31 points to end the day at 17,807. The S&P 500 lost 6 points to close at 2,099 and the Nasdaq was down 29 points to finish at 4,942.
For the week, the Dow was lost 0.4 percent, the S&P 500 was flat and the Nasdaq rose 0.2 percent.
The U.S. added just 38,000 jobs in May -- the fewest since September 2010. Forecasters expected the economy to add 160,000 new jobs.
Meanwhile, oil prices were down more than 0.6 percent at the close of markets.
At the final bell, the American benchmark West Texas Intermediate traded at $48.79 per barrel -- a 0.7 percent decline.
International benchmark Brent crude lost 0.6 percent at $49.75.


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package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
	"k8s.io/kops/cmd/kops/util"
	"k8s.io/kops/pkg/commands/commandutils"
	"k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/util/i18n"
	"k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/util/templates"
)

var (
	deleteSSHPublicKeyExample = templates.Examples(i18n.T(`
	# Delete the SSH public key for a cluster
	kops delete sshpublickey k8s-cluster.example.com

	`))

	deleteSSHPublicKeyShort = i18n.T(`Delete an SSH public key.`)
)

type DeleteSSHPublicKeyOptions struct {
	ClusterName string
}

func NewCmdDeleteSSHPublicKey(f *util.Factory, out io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
	options := &DeleteSSHPublicKeyOptions{}

	cmd := &cobra.Command{
		Use:               "sshpublickey [CLUSTER]",
		Short:             deleteSSHPublicKeyShort,
		Example:           deleteSSHPublicKeyExample,
		Args:              rootCommand.clusterNameArgs(&options.ClusterName),
		ValidArgsFunction: commandutils.CompleteClusterName(f, true, false),
		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
			ctx := context.TODO()

			return RunDeleteSSHPublicKey(ctx, f, out, options)
		},
	}

	return cmd
}

func RunDeleteSSHPublicKey(ctx context.Context, f *util.Factory, out io.Writer, options *DeleteSSHPublicKeyOptions) error {
	clientset, err := f.Clientset()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	cluster, err := GetCluster(ctx, f, options.ClusterName)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	sshCredentialStore, err := clientset.SSHCredentialStore(cluster)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := sshCredentialStore.DeleteSSHCredential(); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error deleting SSH public key: %v", err)
	}

	return nil
}

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These quotes are taken from the work: The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, by Saint Alphonsus Maria de Ligouri. Those not otherwise indicated are from Saint Alphonsus himself. They are arranged in order that they appear in the work.
Because of the difficult nature of these quotations this preface has been added to help their being read with all faith and trust that a faithful Catholic should have in them.
Saint Alphonsus was the Bishop of Saint Agatha of the Goths, Founder of the Redemptorist Order, and was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church within less than a century after his death (astonishingly fast compared to the other great doctors). He was in fact specifically proclaimed the Doctor of Moral Theology.
"No ecclesiastical writer has ever received more direct, positive and formal approbation than that accorded by the Holy See to the moral writings of this Doctor of the Church. While still alive, four Popes expressed their admiration of his prudent doctrine. (…) In 1831, Pope Gregory XVI enhanced this approbation when he decreed that professors of theology could safely teach any opinion of St. Alphonsus, and that confessors, without weighting reasons, could safely follow him – simply on the fact that St. Alphonsus said so. Each of the thirteen predecessors of Pius XII in the chair of Peter has in some way or another recommended, approved or exalted the 'Moral Theology' of the Patron of confessors. In his Apostolic Brief of April 26, 1950, Pope Pius XII alludes to some of them. «By his learned writings, especially his 'Moral Theology,' he dissipated the darkness of error with which Jansenists and unbelievers have cloaked the world» (Blessed Pius IX). He was «the most illustrious and benign of moralists» (Leo XIII). «He illumined obscurity, made doubts plain and clear, and in the maze of over-strict and over-lax theological opinions, he hewed a path which directors of souls can tread in safety» (Blessed Pius IX). To this chorus of pontifical voices, Pope Pius XII felt, he said, constrained to add his own, declaring St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori the celestial Patron of both confessors and moral theologians. For, as the Cardinals and bishops of Spain and Austria declared in their petition for his Doctorate, «the Moral Theology of St. Alphonsus has given back to the Sacred Tribunal of Penance the mercy and the kindness of the Sacred Heart.»" –Homoletic and Pastoral Review: New Patron of Confessors, St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Vol. LI, No. 6, March 1951, Fr. Galvin J. J. C.SS.R., 1951, p. 511
Though this book was written for those in religious life the preface of English edition of The True Spouse of Jesus Christ says the following: "The saint himself tells us that his book is suitable not only to nuns, but also to all members of the religious state, in that which refers to the observance of the vows, regular discipline, and the perfection of their state. As for the practice of Christian virtues, the work will be found highly useful even for seculars."
"Almost all our rebellious passions spring from unguarded looks; for, generally speaking, it is by the sight that all inordinate affections and desires are excited. Hence, holy Job made a covenant with his eyes, that he would not so much as think upon a virgin. (Job 31:1) Why did he say that he would not so much as think upon a virgin? Should he not have said that he made a covenant with his eyes not to look at a virgin? No; he very properly said that he would not think upon a virgin; because thoughts are so connected with looks, that the former cannot be separated from the latter, and therefore, to escape the molestation of evil imaginations, he resolved never to fix his eyes on a woman."
"The thought follows the look; delight comes after the thought; and consent after delight." -Saint Augustine – Bishop of Hippo, Father, and Doctor of the Church
"What is not seen is not desired, and to the desire succeeds the consent." -Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church
"If Eve had not looked at the forbidden apple, she should not have fallen; but because she saw that it was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and beautiful to behold, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat. (Gen 3:6) The devil first tempts us to look, then to desire, and afterwards to consent."
"A deliberate glance at a person of a different sex often enkindles an infernal spark, which consumes the soul."
"Through the eyes the deadly arrows of love enters." -Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Father and Doctor of the Church, De modo bate viv. s. 23.
"The first dart that wounds and frequently robs chaste souls of life finds admission through the eyes. By them David, the beloved of God, fell. By them was Solomon, once the inspired of the Holy Ghost, drawn into the greatest abominations. Oh! how many are lost by indulging their sight! The eyes must be carefully guarded by all who expect not to be obliged to join in the lamentation of Jeremiah: My eye hath wasted my soul (Lamentations 3:51)."
"The eyes, because they draw us to sin, must be depressed. He that looks at a dangerous object begins to will what he wills not." -Pope Saint Gregory the Great, Father and Doctor of the Church, Mor. J. 21, c. 2.
"Gaze not about, says the Holy Ghost, upon anothers beauty; . . . hereby lust is enkindled as a fire." -Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 9:8-9
"To avoid the sight of dangerous objects, the saints were accustomed to keep their eyes almost continually fixed on the earth, and to abstain even from looking at innocent objects. After being a novice for a year, St. Bernard could not tell whether his cell was vaulted.…St. Peter of Alcantara kept his eyes constantly cast down, so that he did not know the brothers with whom he conversed….The saints were particularly cautious not to look at persons of a different sex. St. Hugh, bishop, when compelled to speak with women, never looked at them in the face. St. Clare would never fix her eyes on the face of a man. She was greatly afflicted because, when raising her eyes at the elevation to see the consecrated host, she once involuntarily saw the countenance of the priest. St. Aloysius never looked at his own mother in the face."
"St. Gregory states (Dialogues: Book 2, Ch.2) that the temptation, to conquer which St. Benedict rolled himself in thorns, arose from one incautious glance at a woman."
"St. Jerome, (Ep. ad Eustoch) though living in a cave at Bethlehem, in continual prayer and macerations of the flesh, was terribly molested by the remembrance of ladies whom he had long before seen in Rome. Why should not similar molestations be the lot of the religious who wilfully and without reserve fixes her eyes on persons of a different sex?"
"It is not the seeing of objects so much as the fixing of our eyes upon them that proves most pernicious." -Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church
"If, our eyes should by chance fall upon others, let us take care never to fix them upon any one." -Saint Augustine – Bishop of Hippo, Father, and Doctor of the Church;Reg. ad serv. D. n. 6.
"It is not lawful to behold what it is not lawful to covet." -Pope Saint Gregory the Great, Father and Doctor of the Church
"The evil thought that proceeds from looks, though it should be rejected, never fails to leave a stain upon the soul. Brother Roger, a Franciscan of singular purity, being once asked why he was so reserved in his intercourse with women, replied, that when men avoid the occasions of sin, God preserves them; but when they expose themselves to danger, they are justly abandoned by the Lord, and easily fall into some grievous transgressions."
"Where Christ is, there modesty is found." -Pope Saint Gregory the Great, Father and Doctor of the Church, Ep. ad Dioclem.
"I do not mean to say that the eyes should never be raised or never fixed on any object. No; but they ought to be directed only to what inspires devotion, to sacred images, and to the beauty of creation, which elevate the soul to the contemplation of the divinity."
"St. Francis of Assisi once said to his companion, that he was going out to preach. After walking through the town, with his eyes fixed on the ground, he returned to the convent. His companion asked him when he would preach the sermon. We have, replied the saint, by the modesty of our looks, given an excellent instruction to all who saw us."
"It is related of St. Aloysius, that when he walked through Rome the students would stand in the streets to observe and admire his great modesty."
"When Innocent II visited St. Bernard at Clairvaux, such was the exterior modesty of the saint and of his monks, that the Pope and his cardinals were moved to tears of devotion."
"Surius relates a very extraordinary fact of St. Lucian, a monk and martyr. By his modesty he induced so many pagans to embrace the faith, that the Emperor Maximian fearing that he should be converted to Christianity by the appearance of the saint, would not allow the holy man to be brought within his view, but spoke to him from behind a screen."
"That our Redeemer was the first who taught, by his example, modesty of the eyes, may, as a learned author remarks, be inferred from the holy evangelists, who say that on some occasion he raised his eyes. And he, lifting up his eyes on his disciples (Luke 6:20) When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes. (John 6:5) From these passages we may conclude that the Redeemer ordinarily kept his eyes cast down. Hence the Apostle, praising the modesty of the Saviour, says: I beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ. (2 Cor. 10:1)"
"If, my children, we desire to raise the soul towards heaven, let us direct the eyes towards the earth." -Saint Basil the Great – Bishop of Caesarea, Father, and Doctor of the Church, Serm. de Ascesi.
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Roy Gerrard (25 January 1935 – 5 August 1997) was an English author and illustrator who wrote a number of picture books for children.

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Learn about the Arrhenius, Brønsted-Lowry, and Lewis theories of acids and bases
Overview of three theories of acids and bases: Arrhenius theory, Brønsted-Lowry theory,...
Article media libraries that feature this video: Arrhenius theory, Brønsted-Lowry theory, conjugate acid-base pair, Lewis theory, proton acceptor, proton donor
Different theories define acids and bases.
In the Arrhenius theory, an acid dissociates to produce hydrogen ions in water. A base produces hydroxide ions in water. In the Bronsted-Lowry theory, an acid is a proton donor. A base is a proton acceptor. This works in any solvent.
An acid that loses a proton is a conjugate base. A base that gains a proton is a conjugate acid. When ammonia, NH3, reacts with hydrochloric acid, HCl, ammonia acts as a base because it accepts a proton. However, it is not a base in the Arrhenius theory because no hydroxide ions are produced. In the Lewis theory, an acid is a substance that accepts an electron pair. A base is an electron pair donor. This is the most inclusive theory of acids and bases.
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