Isogai, A. D., Alexiuk, E., Gardner, H., McCarthy, D. D. P., Edwards, V., Tsuji, L. J. S., and Spiegelaar, N. 2015. Sustaining a Local Food Security Initiative in a Remote Sub-Arctic Community. International Journal of Sustainability in Economic, Social and Cultural Context, 10(3-4): 1-17.
Gates, M., Hanning, R. M., Gates, A., McCarthy, D. D. P., and Tsuji, L. J. S. 2013. Assessing The Impact Of Pilot School Snack Programs On Milk And Alternatives Intake In Two Remote First Nation Communities In Northern Ontario, Canada. Journal Of School Health, 83(2): 69-76.
Cowan, D. D., McGarry, F. M., Moran, H., McCarthy, D. D. P., and King, C. 2012. Dreamcatcher: IT to Support Indigenous People. IT Professional, 14(4): 39-47.
McCarthy, D. D. P., McGarry, F., Cowan, D., Whitelaw, G. S., Robins, A., General, Z., Liedtke, J., Youden, H., Barbeau, C., Charania, N., Sutherland, C., and Tsuji, L. J. S. 2012. Collaborative Geomatics And The Mushkegowuk Cree First Nations: Fostering Adaptive Capacity For Community-Based Sub-Arctic Natural Resource Management. Geoforum, 43(2): 305-314.
Gardner-Youden, H. L., Barbeau, C., McCarthy, D. D. P., Edwards, V., Cowan D., and Tsuji, L. J. S. 2011. Indigenous mapping technologies: the past, present and future of the collaborative geomatics web-based tool. Knowledge Management for Development Journal, 7(3): 340-353.
Karagatzides, J. D., Kozlovic, D. R., De Iuliis, G. Liberda, E. N., General, Z., Liedtke, J., McCarthy, D. D. P., Gomez, N., Metatawabin, D., Tsuji, L. J. S. 2011. Youth Environmental Science Outreach In The Mushkegowuk Territory Of Subarctic Ontario, Canada. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 10(4): 201-210.
Kirchhoff, D., McCarthy, D. D. P., Crandall, D., McDowell, L., Whitelaw, G. 2011. Strategic Environmental Assessment And Regional Infrastructure Planning: The Case Of York Region, Ontario. Impact Assessment And Project Appraisal, 29(1).
McEachren, J., Whitelaw, G. S., McCarthy, D. D. P., and Tsuji, L. J. S. 2011. The Controversy Of Transferring The Class Environmental Assessment Process To Northern Ontario, Canada: The Victor Mine Power Supply Project. Impact Assessment Project Appraisal, 29(2): 109-120.
Kirchhoff, D., McCarthy, D. D. P., Crandall, D., McDowell, L., and Whitelaw G. S. 2010. A Policy Window Opens: Strategic Environmental Assessment In York Region, Ontario, Canada. Environmental Assessment Policy And Management, 12(3): 333–354.
Pritchard, C., Sistili, B., General, Z., Whitelaw, G. S., McCarthy, D. D. P., and Tsuji, L. J. S. 2010. Akimiski Island, Nunavut, Canada: A Test Of Inuit Title. Canadian Journal Of Native Studies, 30(2): 407-414.
Whitelaw, G. S., McCarthy, D. D. P., and Tsuji, L. J. S. (2009) The Victor Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Process: A Critical First Nation Perspective. Impact Assessment And Project Appraisal, 27(3): 205-215.
Michaels, S., Goucher, N.*, and McCarthy, D. D. P. 2006. Considering Knowledge Uptake Within A Cycle Of Transforming Data, Information, And Knowledge. Review Of Policy Research, 23(1): 267-279.
Michaels, S., Goucher, N.*, and McCarthy, D. D. P. 2006. Policy Windows, Policy Change, And Organizational Learning: Watersheds In The Evolution Of Watershed Management. Environmental Management, 38(6): 983-92.
McCarthy, D. D. P., 2003. Post-Normal Governance: An Emerging Counter-Proposal. Environments: A Journal Of Interdisciplinary Studies, 31(1): 79-91.


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It's tax filing season which is met with great anticipation (for those expecting refunds) or great dread (for those expecting to make big payments). With changes in tax laws, elimination of certain tax forms, and the partial government shutdown, this may be a confusing time for some, so we present this resource guide to help you.
The library receives a small amount of federal tax forms and an even smaller amount of state tax forms every tax year which are displayed for our patrons. The forms and publications that we expect to receive this year are the Massachusetts Resident and Non-Resident Form 1 Booklets, the IRS 1040 Forms, and the IRS 1040 Form Instruction Booklets. Once these items are received, they will be displayed in our new book room on the ground floor of the library. Because we only receive a small amount, we ask that all patrons please only take forms they need for their own tax filing.
Members of the library's reference department can print out 2 free copies of any tax form. Patrons using this service must supply the tax form number/name. Please note, as of this year, the 1040A and 1040EZ forms no longer exist.
Library staff members are not authorized by revenue agencies to give tax advice or determine the correct form to match specific needs.
January 28, 2019: The official start of tax season.
January 31, 2019: The latest date for employers to supply W-2 forms to their employees.
April 15, 2019: Tax filing deadline for tax payers who don't live in Maine or Massachusetts.
April 17, 2019: Tax filing deadline for tax payers who live in Maine or Massachusetts.
Free Filing Options: A variety of tax payers may be eligible for free online tax services. Use the links below to determine eligibility and the best service for your needs.
Federal Tax Returns Mailing Addresses for Paper Filing for Massachusetts Residents.
Please Note: Bentley University is not a VITA Location this year.
Returns done by appointment only.
The Unstoppable Wasp Volumes 1 and 2 by Jeremy Whitley: This next generation of the Wasp is Nadia, an unknown daughter of Hank Pym, raised to be an assassin and rescued by Hank's ex-wife, Janet Van Dyne, the first generation Wasp. Frustrated by the lack of respect for women in the super hero realm, Nadia recruits other young female super powered individuals and starts G.I.R.L. This re-imagining of a Marvel story and character is very empowering and answers the question of what makes up a family. The new version of She-Ra on Netflix would make a great watch alike.
Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson: Very charming graphic novel about Phoebe, her new best friend, the vain unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils. This is a great alternative for those of us who still miss Calvin and Hobbes.
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory: The Wedding Date was one of my favorite books I read this spring, and I was delighted to read a new title by the same author, featuring one of the former title's secondary characters as one of the protagonists. NIk (short of Nikole) is horrified when the actor that she has been casually seeing for a few weeks proposes to her via the Jumbo Tron at Dodger Stadium. Carlos and his sister come to her rescue and defense when the fans give Nik a hard time for refusing. Predictably, Nik and Carlos start a tentative romance, but just as in The Wedding Date the relationship is well done with both parts of the couple having a lot of agency and proceeding in a healthy way. The book is also just a lot of fun and the secondary characters are well rounded.
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver: This character driven novel features inhabitants living in Vineland, New Jersey in present day and the late 19th century. This thoughtful novel features a strong sense of place as well as a real life (but little known) 19th century female scientist, Mary Treat. I would suggest this for fans of A Map of Salt and Stars (for readers who enjoyed the alternating time periods), The Paris Wife (for readers who enjoy fiction about real people who didn't get their due in history), State of Wonder (for readers who enjoy a little science with their fiction), and Inherit the Wind (for readers who enjoy dramas about Darwin and the Scopes Trial).
Nutcracker by ETA Hoffman: I re-read this classic tale and inspiration for the ballet for the first time in 34 years and was glad to revisit this edition beautifully illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
The Library Book by Susan Orlean: Part true crime, part love letter to public libraries, this details the history of the Los Angeles Public Library as well as the investigation into the 1986 fire that damaged the building and its materials.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Read by Kate Reading (isn't that a great last name for an audiobook narrator?): Reading Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux inspired me to revisit this classic about the March sisters. It had been so long since I had read it, that I had forgotten most of what had happened (and found I remembered more of the various film versions). A recent visit to Louisa May Alcott's home, Orchard House, helped me appreciate the novel in a new way!
My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley, Read by George Newbern: I'm currently listening to this novel, by the author of The Object of my Affection. David and Julie were married nearly thirty years ago, divorcing when David realized that he was gay. They parted on friendly terms but haven't spoken since the divorce until Julie asks for David's help regarding her teenage age daughter from her second marriage. This character driven novel is sardonic and often funny with melancholy moments.
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan: I enjoyed this fantasy novel full of asian mythology and strong female characters.
Livia Lone by Barry Eisler: I'll read almost anything set in my home state of Washington, especially thrillers with female protagonists. This had an engaging fast paced story, and i appreciated all the footnotes at the end detailing the author's research with links.
Podcast: Surviving Y2K: Remember 1999 and the fear that computers wouldn't understand they year 2000? Through present day interviews we are able to follow several different people as they prepared for the new millennium.
Top Chef Season 15 on Hulu I'm obsessed with this show and always binge it in a few days when it finally arrives on Hulu.
The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable was a disappointment. I was enticed by the lure of a Kennedy story, but put off by the hugely unlikable characters. It felt like watching a movie with bad Boston accents. The story revolves around Alicia Darr, a Polish Jewish refugee and her romance with then Congressman Jack Kennedy. The author uses information released in 1977 that said Alicia was paid $500K by Bobby Kennedy just before JFK became President. We assume the money is to stay quiet, but quiet about what? That's the question the author fleshes out. It's a good premise but for me, fell flat.
The Practice House by Laura McNeal: Although I stuck with this novel, I don't recommend it. It's about Aldine McKenna, a 19 year old woman who leaves her home in Scotland to work as a teacher in the Dust Bowl that is Kansas in 1930. You think the story will be about Aldine and her sister because it begins with them, but shortly after the sister falls in love with a traveling Mormon (I am not making this up), the 2 young women leave for America and we never hear much about the sister after that. Then you think the story will be about Aldine, but in the second half of the book, many characters' points of view are used. Aldine lives with a family on their failing farm, falls in love with the father, and when the family moves to California, is farmed out to work at a Harvey House restaurant. The writing is solid, but I found the plot and organization lacking. There is a satisfying twist at the very end, which made me glad I finished it.
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells: I was hoping to learn about the fascinating history of libraries, but instead found this book to be an unorganized collection of mostly anecdotal stories referencing famous libraries and obscure bibliophiles. Most of the time I found myself searching online to understand the context of the stories the author told. There were some historical facts about libraries and books that I found interesting, but unless you are a dire hard book collector, this book is better left on the shelf.
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicolas Carr: In this book, Carr questions the impact technology has had upon our lives and how it is changing the way our brains process information. I was pleasantly surprised how well the author interwove the history of writing and reading and prior research about brain plasticity to demonstrate how the human brain has evolved over time. The author also provides an overview of the history of computers and how the internet developed to become the powerful entity that it is today. I didn't feel that Carr was negatively criticizing technology, but instead he argued why it is important for society to understand how technology is altering our ability to "think deeply" so that we can make informed decisions about how we personally use technology going forward. Sometimes the author gets a little heavy handed with the statistics he provides and there are a few sections that felt a little dry (and might require a basic understanding of cell biology), but overall it was a well-researched book and interesting read.
London: a Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World presented by Professor Robert Bucholz: This lecture series is by The Teaching Company, and I watched it to prepare for a trip to London. Even though there weren't many visuals and it was mainly Professor Bucholz lecturing to the camera, I really enjoyed the series. It covers London's formation in 60 B.C. by the Roman Empire through the early 2000's. If you are someone who enjoys history or is planning a trip to London, I highly recommend this series. It was perfect for watching in the evening after work and before bed. There is an audio version, but if you choose to use that I recommend printing out a few maps of historic London so you can get your bearings.
Feminasty: the Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson: The title and reviews of this book gave me high hopes, but the book itself didn't quite live up to them. This collection of essays, ranging in topic from periods to #MeToo to makeup and more, made some excellent (and maddening!) points, but I didn't find it as funny as it was billed to be.
Flocks by L. Nichols: A graphic memoir of a trans man's experiences growing up in a very religious community in rural Louisiana, discovering the world and himself with the help of academics and the various groups that supported him in very different ways. It was a quick read – I finished it in one sitting – and both heart-breaking and hopeful. I don't read graphic novels/memoirs often, but found that the illustrations in this one added so much to the story.
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein: This book is part memoir/part investigation into how the Evangelical sexual purity movement (True Love Waits, etc.) affected those who were a part of it. As someone who came of age in the church during this movement, I found this book especially fascinating.
Room by Emma Donoghue: A novel told from the point of view of five-year-old Jack, who lives with his mom in a sound-proofed shed where they're held captive by his mom's kidnapper. I'd been curious about this book for years but was worried that it would be a bit too difficult/intense to read as the mom of a young kid. There were certainly some parts that got me right in the feels, but it was one of those too-rare books that I just didn't want to put down!
Shade: a Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza: A poignant comparison of the Obama and Trump presidencies, featuring photos by Souza, who was Chief Official White House Photographer under President Obama. This book made me all kinds of nostalgic.
Juliet, Naked: I read the book that inspired this movie back when it came out in 2009, and I remember thinking it was just okay. The movie, however (in my opinion) told the story better, and was cute and enjoyable. It's hard to go wrong with Chris O'Dowd, and the scenery in the English seaside town was charming.
Crazy Rich Asians: An incredibly well done romantic comedy that doesn't drag out all the tired tropes that can plague the genre. That said, I'm not a fan of ostentatious displays of wealth and/or entitlement, and this movie was full of both. I should have known going in, given the title, but alas. Otherwise, it's a great film!
The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic: I was really into Weird Al in high school, and this was a fun trip down memory lane. It's got some hits as well as some deeper cuts, which I enjoyed. However, I was a bit dismayed to realize how much of my brain's real estate is still taken up by lyrics to these songs!
What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah: I loved this collection of short stories set in Nigeria with its rich characters and compelling plot lines. Be forewarned, though, that the theme of family dysfunction runs rampant throughout.
Nutmeg the Guinea Pig by Jane E. Clarke (Dr. Kittycat Series): I love illustrations that blend photographs with hand-drawn elements. Turns out the story line is also compelling as the Doctor and her assistant solve a medical mystery involving a furry patient who is feeling unwell.
Full Speed Ahead! How Fast Things Go by Crusshiform: Beautifully designed book with side-by-side illustrations of animals and inanimate objects that travel at similar speeds such as a hedgehog and millipede (one mile-per-hour) and a high-speed train, peregrine falcon, Formula 1 race car, and frigate bird (217 miles-per-hour).
What We Do in the Shadows: Hilarious take on the challenges vampires face in the modern world, such as gaining admission to nightclubs, dealing with slacker flat mates, and more.
Barry: Oh how I love Bill Hader, but not in this very popular series, in which he plays a hit man trying unsuccessfully to get out of the "business." Cluelessness and innocence have a certain charm, but Barry has a bit too much of both. Henry Winkler as Hader's boss, on the other hand, is fantastic!
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: This debut collection of short stories is a terrifying and all too familiar set of dystopian tales revolving around race, privilege and capitalism. A mjst read for fans of "Get Out", Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood.
Marvel Rising, Vol. 1: Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl team up in this middle grade graphic novel. Joined by fellow superheroes America Chavez, Inferno and more. I'm overjoyed with the diversity Marvel has been embracing over the last five years. It's great to see a variety of heritages and body types, particularly in volumes aimed at younger readers.
The Little Book of Life Hacks by Yumi Sakagawa: This was a fun start for the new year! This super cute book is full of tiny life tips for everything from relaxing, cleaning, crafting, cooking and more! My favorite tips were for ways to use white vinegar and lemon to clean different parts of your house, and the section on making your own hair care spa products.
Upstairs at the White House, My Life with the First Ladies by J.B. West: A behind the scenes look at the inner workings of the White House through the eyes of the Chief Usher who was employed during 5 terms of the Presidency. Mr. West worked closely with the First Lady in residence; advising them on anything from foreign dignitary protocol to positioning on the staircase for a state dinner.
Katerina by James Frey: A thriller/love story as a fictionalized memoir of the author's past, living in Paris and its impact on his current life.
Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing up in the South Taught Me about Love, & Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon (audiobook): Reese Witherspoon's advice on embracing the Southern woman's way of life. Paying tribute to the women in her life who helped shape her character.
GURU by Ru Paul (audiobook): Another memoir, sharing his philosophies and way of life of looking beyond one's identity to achieve success.
Always at the Carlyle (DVD): Stories of the legendary hotel and it's infamous guests.


Here's a project to enhance the shop. Pulls for the fans and shop lights.
I like that......very cool Bill!
The blimps are great! Are they there for airial race coverage? Goodyear and Fuji blimps covering the same event. Must be something special going on.
Looks like you have a really cool race room!
One added bonus for the die cast fan pulls: they make it easier to pull the chains, since the chains are a slight bit longer and the cars serve as a T-handle.


If you were to happen upon the once-elaborate monastery now in the hills of Northern England, you would find its jagged mass of ruins to be something of an unfinished sketch: The lantern tower at the northwest corner of the grounds is measured by the uneven shadow cast by the presbytery at the eastern end of the expanse, and the cloister, once arcaded in black marble, has eroded to a simple white sandstone. Legends that have since fallen into disrepute speak of a medieval order of lapsed nuns who had taken for their residence this abandoned fortress after having suffered expulsion for their sins by the now extinct Order of Circassia. It was said, though mostly in jest and generally as counter-point to a moralistic tale, that these nuns had danced a knight to his fiery death to secure their safe escape.
The towns and villages that had once sprung around the monastery had died away, and so these lapsed nuns remained upon this vast tract of land, undisturbed, amidst the lush, rolling hills of Yorkshire--flanked on all sides by mountains and forests of farms connected by dusty ochre roads which fell into disuse except, from time to time, by wayward travellers in search of a legendary thing that they only, by dint of their own personal certainty, could have believed to abide there.
The nuns were believed to have harnessed rare alchemical powers as their path to the divine; by transmuting the four elements and maintaining their delicate balance, they were able to bring the interactions of matter to their purest and most perfect synthesis—they transformed, thus, plainness into a most innate beauty and malady into instinctive percipience; they released the nature of each existing thing into an atmosphere in which it could breathe. Their fervor, in this respect, had been of detriment to the sacrosanct humility of the Order and an embarrassment to their abbess, and so it was that the band of offending nuns was expelled by swift and incontrovertible Papal decree. Their powers, though dubious, were famed, and they were beset by constant marauders who believed their magics to lie in their physical accoutrements; several hundred miles from their abbey, they were cornered by a knight in a graveyard who sought to divest them of their talisman. But he was a fool—their power no more resided in their talisman than a conductor's resides in her baton—for it is the gestures themselves, and not the wand, that prompt the stirrings of a vast orchestra. So, to protect their secrecy as they stole away in the night, these nuns crowded the knight in their flowing white robes and left him flailing amidst the gravestones, their habits cast into the air where they settled amongst the tombstones like ghosts in the moonlight. Thus obscured to the knight, they continued along their way, their long hair now fallen upon their shoulders and the wind casting its gaze upon their necks.
Every so often, the legend—spread most vastly by skeptics—fell upon ears that saw in this slip of a tongue a possibility for escape, and so it was that, from time to time, these nuns were applied to for succor by the desperate and strong-willed from towns all over England. The nuns would adjust the vibrations of the elements so that they vibrated in tune with the person—water that passed the gullet with the burn of fire, they would not adjust the fire, but the throat; for those who felt they breathed through earth or walked upon air, they would make the earth a thing that could be breathed, the air a thing to be trodden upon. It was thus that they respected the proclivities of the individuals to their elements; that they made the earth rise for those who needed it so, made it dissolve for those who could not abide by it. Some believed the nuns could drink fire, and be sustained.
The makeshift pilgrims who sought this deliverance imbibed the idea of this pleasant fiction and, in the certainty of their own belief, chose this legendary landscape over an identifiably undesireable reality. As such, these iconoclastic nuns of the Order of Circassia could boast a unique collection of headstrong sojourners who had joined their ranks. The nuns, having brought very few menfolk to their escape, had few children to birth, and thereby the Order was condemned to the life span of only a few generations.
Now the monastery is inhabited by no one; but the sun shines upon it all the same with nothing extraneous to absorb its light except for the hand-crafted bricks that once supported the heavy Romanesque archways. The pink-yellow brown glimmers against the moss that still grows; and there are the ancestors of the Swainson's thrush, gray birds that seem to materialize from a gust of wind, and from the monastery can be seen the upswirl of thousands of birds that animate at once from all the windows and the archways and the parapets and the chimneys, as though the monastery were a giant flute expelling its melody in the form of swirling birds.
The vast expanse of its grounds remain covered in verdant grasslands, rolling hills, and mossy vines still cling to the maze-like walls of this once-fortress. The monastery has made no significant impression on the academic world beyond the discovery of a few choice pieces - wooden bowls with mysterious staining, a decrepit lyre with two strings still intact (B and F), and written notes detailing the medical conditions of those who had travelled to the nuns for succor. But beyond even this, there is a residue of this hidden era that persists all throughout Europe and through the world; an idea forged here without its inhabitants recognizing it as such, they perceiving it only in the form of a young woman come to their door with a strange request. She is Aurelia.
On the night before she undertook her journey, Aurelia regarded the skyscape of London one last time from atop the turret balcony of her bedchamber. A full moon illuminated a thick penumbra of clouds that scattered the light, rendering the sky a shade of darkened ultramarine, and the sky appeared, as the skin of an old woman's face, stretched with age. A white light was apparent in delicate adumbrations, as though it were wisdom that shone through the cracks.
And so Aurelia looked upon a city of Norman spires daubed in azurite; the heads of criminals were arranged haphazardly on spikes atop the gatehouse of the Southwark Cathedral. The stillness of the Thames was marred insignificantly by the steady moorings of a single cog, visible only by the slight folding of its mast sail, and she tracked its movement and thought that if she looked upon this, if she gazed upon only this--the movement of it as a single point--then there might be some deliverance from the tyranny of lines and angles, the persistence of curves.
Aurelia imagined the arduous path that would take her into the hills of Yorkshire far beyond the borders of the city. The wails of the mad enthroned within the local confines of the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew's rose into the night like the wails of Gregorian chanters, and she saw these thoughts rising in cloudy tufts and abutting the dome from underneath; their desperation, so unavailingly human, sought outlet in the bay windows of the upper embankments. The howls rose like threads in the night and twisted about the city, running along the castle walls and down the city streets. Something had come loose in the city's nighttime--visible to a single cog that set out on its nighttime voyage to trade its wares across the Thames--and these mad thoughts, imprisoned in the daytime within the walls of the monastery, were allowed play to outline the cityscape. They travelled in arabesques over the cathedrals and danced alongside the London Bridge, smudged out the heads of criminals and instead floated upon the water, surging towards the sky with virtuosic dignity and a formidable grace. It was beautiful for a moment; but then it was all afire--or so it seemed, as Aurelia wrapped her shawl about her shoulders and made her way secretly to the stables, where she was offered by the stable boy the release of her Suffolk mare.
Aurelia and her horse had followed the River Skell to its thinnest point along the Yorkshire Highlands.
Aurelia was more adept than any other at the maneuvering of her mare, for she understood the ways that the muscles and sinews of a horse made it move, and she calibrated the forces and angles of her own limbs into its perfect synchronicity, being almost uncomfortably aware of the new balance struck between the human machinery and the equine, second by second, as hundreds of lines and angles reconstituted with a burst of force to re-acquaint with the terrain, and to take again as if to the skies. It was said that Aurelia could perform powerful and elegant feats by horse that very few had learned to master--and of those, only soldiers, and that for the purposes of war.
The hours of sunlight were the most taxing; the world was bared in its extraordinary array, and this saturated canvas struggled thus against the plane of the imagination. Aurelia clasped her forehead and led her mare to rest for a moment upon the sloping embankment of the river.
The noonday sun illuminated a pathway—invisible by night—that cross-stepped up the side of the mountain. From this distance it looked generally unpromising to the casual traveller—a wayward hair fallen from some divinity's careless tress, liable to change its orientation at any moment. For Aurelia, the challenge of precipitous height offered relief from the monotonous meanderings of the river stream; from above would be visible not the one path along the river, but many, and the promise of this stultified the laggard boredom that had begun to thicken in Aurelia's chest like a viscous mist. But now, so close to the river journey's end, she took a special pleasure in observing her horse lapping up the water, which seemed to echo across the green brush that dotted the bare cliffs. Cruel, the sparseness of the vegetation gave the impression of limited verdure in the valley beyond the peak, and yet Aurelia was certain that her destination would be quietly lush; that there were nuns fluttering to and fro and that there lived beyond the hill a fabled community, boisterously flourishing in its own regard. She did not hazard to think that what she was looking for did not exist beyond the cliff.
"Hallo," an approaching pilgrim in a broad-brimmed hat took Aurelia by surprise. He donned the clothes of a wealthy man but appeared in his manner to be a glorified peasant; and in fact the broad-brimmed hat seemed to have been obtained from one travail and the robe, not in the least part of a set, from some discarded raiment of a passing nobleman. Aurelia eyed him dubiously, for he did not resemble the pilgrims with whom she was familiar, and he seemed, by all counts, to be travelling by himself. She quietly hid her satchel beneath the folds of her olive-green dress; in this was her betrothal ring, measured in gold and thinned into the shape of two hands that clasped one another; she had thought that if she came to some trouble she might sell it, or if she were captured by marauders she would exchange it for her release.
The pilgrim furnished an amulet in Aurelia's direction, frightening her as she sat upon the grass pulling stalks from the bank of the river. The amulet was a silver medallion upon a striated link chain, which he pushed invasively into Aurelia's line of sight. She considered the image of the engraved saint, leaning upon a tired scavein with his back hunched horizontally.Then, she pushed the amulet towards the traveller, who pocketed it again in the leather scrip that hung from his waistband.
"I am fine on my own, thank you," Aurelia responded with a kindness more earnest than manners often allow.
She had hoped the traveller would immediately take his leave upon this rebuff, but he set himself up a curious station upon the bank of this river, putting out all his curios along the boulder. He bent down and regarded their shadows, seeming to measure something, and then scratched his chin. His beard moved from side to side, casting a full shadow upon his array and then revealing it in violent gusts of light. "Mmm, mmm…" he murmured to himself with every measurement as he moved these from side to side, seeming alarmed at the effect his own shadow had upon the piece. He then took to cleaning himself in the river, as this army of curious he had lined up stood as sentinels on the watch.
"Where are y'going to?" he called from the river when he seemed refreshed enough to have gathered his bearings. Now his locks glittered in the sunlight and Aurelia imagined that he was a statue come to life. "From your clothes, you don't look to be in a solitary way," he said.
The traveller now dried himself off, stray specks of water dotting the boulder as he shook his locks. His curios flinched as they maintained their hallowed posts. He swept them up into his satchel and they felt again to be irredeemably inanimate as they clicked together and he tightened the cord.
"I wish you good fortune and solace," the traveller said, tipping his hat, and thus the stranger went whistling upon his way.
Later, Aurelia would think upon this as she lay in her monastery quarters and wonder, as the constellations played themselves out above her head, where the traveller might have gone to and whether he bathed always with his curios all settled into rows or whether it had been a chance occurrence, shared by them both, upon the River Skell.
She felt inside of her the drum of her circulation, along the journey, as she felt herself either closer to or farther from her goal - this reaching a high pitch at those moments when she wondered at the existence of the monastery at all - but as Aurelia and her mare turned the last hill, she saw the grounds of the monastery nestled within the hills - as though the world held it between its index and its forefinger and held it up to the light for examination. She wondered for a moment whether merely having believed it caused it to appear at this moment instead of any other; she wanted to believe that this is how it must work, and that really this monastery could have appeared anywhere in this infinitely malleable universe, and that a triumph more emotional than physical, more personal than situational, caused it to appear before her now; that this was how the mare, who could not possibly have known his destination, blazed his weary tread into a steady trot and made its way steadily down the sinuous path towards the edifice, knowing that that was the place where they had been heading.
The monastery was the residue of ruins and reconstructions, a temporal patchwork of sorts: three fortress walls that indefatigably beg a fourth; grass sprung from where once the monks of the Order of Albigensia walked along the marble corridors on the balls of their feet; a burbling moat--emitting constantly a sound as of numerous butterflies batting their thousand wings--that must have burbled so even as it commingled with the echoing boom of a young soldier's blunderbuss--fired for the very first time. Following this ravaging military conflict, the grass grew verdant upon the embankments and the weeds gave way to bright moss that glittered green even in the moonlight. Our story, however, is not that of the war that ironically brought these young defectors to their knees, nor is it that of the Order of Albigensia and its systematic demise. After the abandonment of the grounds in the 11th Century by the soldiers at the Battle of Hastings; after the subsequent raids by the Norman invaders; after the adoption by and dissolution of the Order of Albigensian monks, Aurelia had come to call upon the nuns who were the sole inhabitants of these grounds, and she found that it was no boisterous compound; no flourishing village.
As Aurelia wound her way through the final foothills and descended upon the entrance to the monastery, the sun shone upon representations of Apollo and Mercury were integrated into the engravings that appeared both on the facade and in the main corridor. The image of the lyre, of which it is said that Mercury created one morning and learned to play by noon, was seen everywhere. Upon the tympanum, Mercury stood at the center with his winged sandals and his winged hat, leaning upon his caduceus, Jupiter's stolen thunderbolt burning in his left hand. Along the supports of the archway was a representation of Mercury plucking the four strings of a lyre to angels that floated in mid-air, in stone relief; the sculptural tufts of a bird flapped in accordance with the melody, a broken string of the lyre in its beak. Aurelia thought of the stone bird and wondered if perhaps her heart skipping a beat was concomitant with a bird falling somewhere. With each pluck of the lyre, one of the four humors was struck; this could affect one greatly.
Aurelia knocked on the heavy wooden door, flanked on either side by imposing Romanesque figures who must have been the donors to the monastery in its original incarnation. The figure on the right held an unfurling scroll; the figure on the left looked at her crossly.
"The carvings were once vermilion," Aurelia told the nuns when they answered her call at the door, though she had no way of knowing so, "and the image of the lyre was painted in bronze." She collapsed at the doorway; a thrush landed upon her hair, which was splayed over the stone step. Groups of these thrushes swept from the parapets, and it appeared as though the edges of the roof disintegrated into the blue sky.
It was not immediately that the nuns had agreed to grant Aurelia's request - they bade her stay with them for a full week until she had reached full physical recovery from her journey and could be deemed of sound mental state to decide her own affairs. The nuns left Aurelia free, for the most part, to wander the grounds as she wished. They noticed that she came to be more and more laggard in the daylight, but as night fell, and she was free to wander in only the punctuated darkness of her own candle, her vision became more manageable by her and she was calmer.
The original band of individuals who constructed the monastery were believers of the Manichaean philosophy, and indeed many of the architectural components of the monastery reflect the particulars of this creed of darkness and light. Some corners are kept dark, intentionally unilluminated, but just because it is never seen does not mean it is considered "wasted"; other spots experience light or darkness according to the time of day, so the building has not experienced a repetitive moment but has instead been recreated in infinite visual iterations delineated by the shifting light. Light is either radiated unabashedly, pervasively by the sun, abstractly spreading throughout, or it is a concentrated, viscous thing from a candle that chooses what to make material.
Beside her bed they placed a small wooden box for her meager belongings, painted—only on the inside—a Venetian red. Aurelia recalled that the goldsmith had measured perfectly its weight, rolling the fragile suspension between his two fingers and pointing the others straight ahead until the two bronze scale plates reached a stasis; she had held her breath, without knowing she was doing so, until the pendulum had come to a stop. In the moments when she felt at peace in the monastery, she would forget for a moment why she had escaped, and would hold this ring and weep for her family, for the man to whom she was to be betrothed, to the stable hand who had so innocently unlocked the mare for her that night. But then she would remember the visions that plagued her and she would hear the cries of St. Bartholomew's again, blotting out the stars.
The monastery was designed specifically according to the interaction of the constellations with Pythagorean/Platonic cosmic numerical theories, and openings in the roofs corresponded to the movements of the stars in particular seasons. Later, those in the court of Catherine d'Medici would dance according to the configurations by which this monastery admitted starlight.
Aurelia's bedchamber was open to the sky, and at night she would calculate the movements of the constellations; stepping with her feet upon the stars, one by one, in the patterns that they carved out and the subtle variations that they mapped. She had followed the stars since she had been a child, had slept on the balcony when the weather allowed, rested her head on her shawl as she calculated the number of boats on the Thames by the mere sound of the water and imagined a ship cutting its movements through the stars, transferring wares from this port to that one. She carried a compendium of these constellations in her heart and felt that each day she weaved another string held together by beads of starlight, a brocade of sorts, wrapped gently around her heart; that she would lay them out, each string a timeline of stars of various provenance, unfurl them from herself and they would wind and branch over the city of London and then she would walk upon paths of her own starlit veins. She would dance upon the streams of constellations, glide as through rivers, her feet barely touching - lifted by light only, dancing through air. At times, it would seem as though she flew.
At last, the nuns agreed to assess Aurelia's request. Each night for seven nights, a different nun would sit at Aurelia's bedside and hear of her illness: She had become increasingly plagued with visions of lines and angles that recoordinated and reconstituted any landscape in front of her; she could not set her eyes upon the sloping roofs of the palace without feeling an uncontrollable ache in her spine, could not look upon the creases in her lover's face without calculating the aerial velocity of an extended line and balance. Seeing these lines everywhere she looked, she imagined a beautiful confluence - so much so that she was glutted with it, day by day, and without outlet.
These notes were recorded comprehensively - religiously - and following the seventh night and a secret conference of the nuns, the last session was conducted. Aurelia's words had filled three books. The nuns deemed her worthy of the recompense for her suffering, and indeed, that evening, as sunset approached and Aurelia saw the last hint of daylight she was ever to see, the nun brought a gold mazer filled with arsenic; first, she bade Aurelia wash her hands in the bowl and recite an oath; then, with the acid, the nun blotted out the girl's eyes.
The heartbeat, as they say, is the stamping of the feet, and breathing is the hint of the melodic phrase. As Apollo the sun god banishes the horrors of night and heralds the dawn, the shadows on the wall fade to the ochre. Aurelia does not wake up.
The notes on Aurelia's condition, of no use to the nuns any longer, are deposited in a dark corner of the monastery and remained there untouched for nearly a hundred years. These are to be found a century later by traveling marauders and sold at the time of the Renaissance to the throne of Italy, which is to be the first site of the ballet--of which the record of Aurelia's illness is to be the first formal treatise.
The birds near the monastery now spread throughout the grounds as starlings, sweeping upwards in a unified gale and then scattering like dark dust upon the fortress turrets. They mirror the scattering of the pigeons at Trafalgar, which seems a far way off, and suggest the scattering of grains that served as Beauchamp's inspiration for the choreography of his ballet. These birds travel continents easily (if not quickly) and have been known to be the cause of exotic seeds that have been transported and planted as far as North America. These grains came to be traded at high value in the late 18th century on the trading floor at Wall Street, before it was the machine-driven thoroughfare it is now - when it was in fact a trading post for farmers toting bags of grain.
An apple tree now hangs above Aurelia's grave; the Swainson's thrush plays with the stalks of grass that move to and fro to the beats of the starlight upon her headstone.


It may not look like anything special but marinated mushrooms and artichoke hearts are usually an instant hit at gatherings. They are tangy, herb-y, and a good fit for other plates you've got going on, especially an antipasto spread. I somehow managed to put this together as one of the first things I made when I started cooking and keep coming back to it [original post here - this is a revamp of the first version of this dish that I've made.]. It's an appetizer you can start the day before and should, to allow the flavors to meld with each other better. Served cold, the plate of mushrooms and artichoke hearts will definitely fancy up any party, AND the recipe is easy too!
I was not kidding about how easy this was. Slice mushrooms and artichoke hearts. Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly. Cover container and let sit overnight (or minimum 2 hours).
Heat a large pan on medium and add in entire bowl's contents. There will be residual oil in the marinade so you don't need to pre-oil the pan. Cook until most of the liquid has evaporated and mushrooms have shrunken.
Chill contents through in the refrigerator. Serve cold!


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The COPRIN project-team scientific objective is to develop and implement systems solving algorithms based on constraints propagation methods, interval analysis and symbolic computation, with interval arithmetic as the primary tool. The academic goals of these algorithms is to provide certified solutions to generic problems (e.g. to calculate all solutions of a system of equations within a search space) or to manage the uncertainties of the problems (e.g. to provide an enclosure of all solutions of a system of equations whose coefficients are intervals). These academic goals may also be declined in applicative goals. For example we may determine a domain that describes all possible dimensions of a mechanism that has to satisfy a set of performance requirements. Given this domain it will be possible to determine nominal dimensions for the mechanism so that even if there are bounded variations between the real dimensions and the nominal ones, then the real mechanism will still satisfy the requirements: hence we will be able to manage manufacturing uncertainties for the real process.
Our research aims to develop algorithms that can be used for any problem or are specific to a given class of problems, especially problems that are issued from application domains for which we have an internal expertise (such as mechanism theory and robotics).
A key point of these algorithms is that they rely heavily on symbolic pre-processing and formal calculation in order to improve the efficiency of the problem at hand. Our long term goal is to be able to synthesize automatically a specific solver according to the structure of the problem that has to be managed.
Implementation of the algorithms will be performed within the framework of general purpose software such as Scilab, Maple, Mathematica and will be based on the already existing library ALIAS, that are still being developed mostly for internal use.
Since a theoretical complexity analysis of interval analysis based solving algorithms is usually extremely difficult, the efficiency of the algorithm is systematically experimentally evaluated through ALIAS on various realistic test examples.
Dissemination is also an essential component of our activity because interval analysis based methods are not sufficiently known in the engineering and academic communities.
Experimental work and the development of our own prototypes are strategic for the project as they allow us to validate our theoretical work and to discover new problems that will feed in the long term the theoretical analysis developed by the team members.
As this topic is very large and cannot be managed by a single project-team COPRIN has been one of the main proponent for the creation of the "Action d'Envergure National" PAL (Personnal Assistant Living), that has been accepted in 2011 and that is coordinated by D. Daney.
In summary COPRIN has two major research axes, interval analysis and robotics. The coherence of these axis is that interval analysis is a major tool to manage the uncertainties that are inherent to a robotized device, while robotics provides realistic problems which allow us to develop, test and improve interval analysis algorithms.
COPRIN was created in 2002 and therefore has reached the twelve years limit. It will be followed by a new project-team called HEPHAISTOS, that will be focused on assistance robotics.


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MTV VMAs 2019: Complete Winners List
Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish take home the night's top prizes
Reid Nakamura | August 26, 2019 @ 4:58 PM	Last Updated: August 26, 2019 @ 8:53 PM
Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images
The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards were on Monday night, handing out the show's signature moon man trophies to winners ranging from Taylor Swift and Cardi B to crossover flamenco music star Rosalia and "Old Town Road" crooner Lil Nas X.
Swift and fellow pop star Ariana Grande came into the night with the most nominations, and the two left with the VMA's top prizes, Video of the Year and Artist of the Year, respectively. Best New Artist, which came down to a two-way live fan vote between Billie Eilish and Lizzo, was awarded to Eilish at the end of the show.
Missy Elliott was awarded the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her groundbreaking work as a musician and music video artist and returned to the show's stage as a performer for the first time since 2003 with a medley of her biggest hits.
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Other performers included Swift, who just celebrated the release of her seventh album, "Lover," "Senorita" duo Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello, Fifth Harmony alum Normani, Miley Cyrus, Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Lil Nas X, Lizzo and Rosalía.
After going hostless last year, the VMAs returned to the traditional format this year, with comedian Sebastian Maniscalco hosting the live show from New Jersey's Prudential Center.
See the full list of nominees below and check back throughout the night for updates.
21 Savage ft. J. Cole – "a lot" – Epic Records
Billie Eilish – "Bad Guy" – Darkroom/Interscope Records
Ariana Grande – "thank u, next" – Republic Records
Jonas Brothers – "Sucker" – Republic Records
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus – "Old Town Road (Remix)" – Columbia Records
Taylor Swift – "You Need to Calm Down" – Republic Records — WINNER
Cardi B – Atlantic Records
Billie Eilish – Darkroom/Interscope Records
Ariana Grande – Republic Records — WINNER
Halsey – Astralwerks/Capitol Records
Jonas Brothers – Republic Records
Shawn Mendes- Island Records
Drake – "In My Feelings" – Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – "Shallow" – Interscope Records
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus – "Old Town Road (Remix)" – Columbia Records — WINNER
Taylor Swift – "You Need to Calm Down" – Republic Records
BEST NEW ARTIST
Ava Max – Atlantic Records
Billie Eilish – Darkroom/Interscope Records — WINNER
H.E.R. – MBK/RCA Records
Lil Nas X – Columbia Records
Lizzo – Atlantic Records
ROSALÍA – Columbia Records
BEST COLLABORATION
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – "Señorita" – Island Records — WINNER
Taylor Swift ft. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco – "ME!" – Republic Records
Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber – "I Don't Care" – Atlantic Records
BTS ft. Halsey – "Boy With Luv" – Columbia Records
PUSH ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bazzi – Atlantic Records
CNCO – RCA Records
Lauv – LAUV/AWAL
BEST POP
5 Seconds of Summer – "Easier" – Interscope Records
Cardi B & Bruno Mars – "Please Me" – Atlantic Records
Khalid – "Talk" – Right Hand Music Group/RCA Records
Jonas Brothers – "Sucker" – Republic Records — WINNER
BEST HIP HOP
2 Chainz ft. Ariana Grande – "Rule the World" – 2 Chainz Ps/Def Jam
Cardi B – "Money" – Atlantic Records — WINNER
DJ Khaled ft. Nipsey Hussle & John Legend – "Higher" – We The Best/Epic Records
Travis Scott ft. Drake – "SICKO MODE" – Epic Records/Grand Hustle/Cactus Jack
BEST R&B
Anderson .Paak ft. Smokey Robinson – "Make It Better" – Aftermath Ent/12 Tone Music
Childish Gambino – "Feels Like Summer" – RCA Records
H.E.R. ft. Bryson Tiller – "Could've Been" – MBK/RCA Records
Alicia Keys – "Raise A Man" – RCA Records
Ella Mai – "Trip" – 10 Summers/Interscope Records
Normani ft. 6lack – "Waves" – Keep Cool/RCA Records — WINNER
BEST K-POP
BTS ft. Halsey – "Boy With Luv" – Columbia Records — WINNER
BLACKPINK – "Kill This Love" – YG Entertainment/Interscope Records
Monsta X ft. French Montana – "Who Do You Love" – Epic Records
TOMORROW X TOGETHER – "Cat & Dog" – Republic Records
NCT 127 – "Regular" – SM Entertainment
EXO – "Tempo" – SM Entertainment
BEST LATIN
Anuel AA, Karol G – "Secreto" – Universal Music LatinoBad Bunny ft. Drake – "MIA" – OVO Sound/Warner Bros. Records
benny blanco, Tainy, Selena Gomez, J Balvin – "I Can't Get Enough" – NEON16/Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope Records
Daddy Yankee ft. Snow – "Con Calma" – Universal Music Latin Entertainment
Maluma – "Mala Mía" – Sony Music US Latin
ROSALÍA & J Balvin ft. El Guincho – "Con Altura" – Columbia Records — WINNER
BEST DANCE
The Chainsmokers ft. Bebe Rexha – "Call You Mine" – Disruptor/Columbia Records — WINNER
Clean Bandit ft. Demi Lovato – "Solo" – Big Beat/Atlantic Records
DJ Snake ft. Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B – "Taki Taki" – DJ Snake Music Productions Ltd/Geffen
David Guetta, Bebe Rexha & J Balvin – "Say My Name" – Big Beat/Atlantic Records
Marshmello & Bastille – "Happier" – Capitol Records
Silk City & Dua Lipa – "Electricity" – Columbia Records
BEST ROCK
The 1975 – "Love It If We Made It" – Dirty Hit/Interscope Records
Fall Out Boy – "Bishops Knife Trick" – Island Records
Imagine Dragons – "Natural" – KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
Lenny Kravitz – "Low" – BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
Panic! At The Disco – "High Hopes" – Elektra Music Group — WINNER
twenty one pilots – "My Blood" – Elektra Music Group
VIDEO FOR GOOD
Halsey – "Nightmare" – Astralwerks/Capitol Records
The Killers – "Land of the Free" – Island
Jamie N Commons, Skylar Grey ft. Gallant – "Runaway Train" – Interscope Records
John Legend – "Preach" – Columbia Records
Lil Dicky – "Earth" – Dirty Burd, Inc./Commission/BMG
Billie Eilish – "Bad Guy" – Darkroom/Interscope Records – Directed by Dave Meyers
FKA twigs – "Cellophane" – Young Turks – Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang
Ariana Grande – "thank you, next" – Republic Records – Directed by Hannah Lux Davis
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus – "Old Town Road (Remix)" – Columbia Records – Directed by Calmatic
LSD ft. Labrinth, Sia, Diplo – "No New Friends" – Columbia Records – Directed by Dano Cerny
Taylor Swift – "You Need to Calm Down" – Republic Records – Directed by Drew Kirsch & Taylor Swift
Billie Eilish – "when the party's over" – Darkroom/Interscope Records – Visual Effects by Ryan Ross, Andres Jaramillo
FKA twigs – "Cellophane" – Young Turks – Visual Effects by Matt Chandler, Fabio Zaveti for Analog
Ariana Grande – "God is a Woman" – Republic Records – Visual Effects by Fabrice Lagayette, Kristina Prilukova & Rebecca Rice for Mathematic
DJ Khaled ft. SZA – "Just Us" – We The Best/Epic Records – Visual Effects by Sergii Mashevskyi
LSD ft. Labrinth, Sia, Diplo – "No New Friends" – Columbia Records – Visual Effects by Ethan Chancer
Taylor Swift ft. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco – "ME!" – Republic Records – Visual Effects by Loris Paillier & Lucas Salton for BUF VFX
Anderson .Paak ft. Kendrick Lamar – "Tints" – Aftermath Ent/12 Tone Music – Editing by Elias Talbot
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus – "Old Town Road (Remix)" – Columbia Record – Editing by Calmatic
Billie Eilish – "Bad Guy" – Darkroom/Interscope Records – Editing by Billie Eilish — WINNER
Ariana Grande – "7 Rings" – Republic Records – Editing by Hannah Lux Davis & Taylor Walsh
Solange – "Almeda" – Columbia Records – Editing by Solange Knowles, Vinnie Hobbs, Jonathon Proctor
Taylor Swift – "You Need to Calm Down" – Republic Records – Editing by Jarrett Fijal
BTS ft. Halsey – "Boy With Luv" – Columbia Records – Art Direction by JinSil Park, BoNa Kim (MU:E)
Ariana Grande – "7 Rings" – Republic Records – Art Direction by John Richoux — WINNER
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus – "Old Town Road (Remix)" – Columbia Records – Art Direction by Itaru Dela Vegas
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – "Señorita" – Island Records – Art Direction by Tatiana Van Sauter
Taylor Swift – "You Need to Calm Down" – Republic Records – Art Direction by Brittany Porter
Kanye West and Lil' Pump ft. Adele Givens – "I Love It" – Warner Records & Def Jam Music Group – Art Direction by Tino Schaedler
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
FKA twigs – "Cellophane" – Young Turks – Choreography by Kelly Yvonne
ROSALÍA & J Balvin ft. El Guincho – "Con Altura" – Columbia Records – Choreography by Charm La'Donna
LSD ft. Labrinth, Sia, Diplo – "No New Friends" – Columbia Records – Choreography by Ryan Heffington
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – "Señorita" – Island Records – Choreography by Calvit Hodge, Sara Biv
Solange – "Almeda" – Columbia Records – Choreography by Maya Taylor, Solange Knowles
BTS ft. Halsey – "Boy With Luv" – Columbia Records – Choreography by Rie Hata
Anderson .Paak ft. Kendrick Lamar – "Tints" – Aftermath Ent/12 Tone Music – Cinematography by Elias Talbot
Billie Eilish – "hostage" – Darkroom/Interscope Records – Cinematography by Pau Castejon
Ariana Grande – "thank you, next" – Republic Records – Cinematography by Christopher Probst
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – "Señorita" – Island Records – Cinematography by Scott Cunningham
Solange – "Almeda" – Columbia Records – Cinematography by Chayse Irvin, Ryan Marie Helfant, Justin Hamilton
Taylor Swift ft. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco – "ME!" – Republic Records – Cinematography by Starr Whitesides
BEST GROUP
BEST POWER ANTHEM
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign "Hot Girl Summer"
SONG OF THE SUMMER
Ariana Grande & Social House – "boyfriend"
24 Most Iconic VMAs Moments, From Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' to 'Miley, What's Good?' (Photos)
If the MTV Video Music Awards have ever been about the awards themselves, that era is long past. The most unpredictable and frequently over-the-top awards show remains one of the last-standing watercooler TV events by delivering iconic moments year after year. Here are a few of the most legendary from the show's nearly 35 year life.
Madonna performed her single "Like a Virgin" at the very first VMAs in 1984, donning a wedding dress for a performance that looks downright tame by modern standards but raised a few eyebrows in its day.
Looking to top her last performance when she returned to the VMAs stage in 1990, Madonna went for an elaborate 18th Century France-inspired aesthetic for her rendition of Video of the Year nominee "Vogue."
Michael Jackson and then-wife Lisa Marie Presley shocked the audience when they locked lips for an awkwardly long and stilted kiss while introducing the 1994 VMAs.
In 1995, Courtney Love crashed Madonna's live post-VMAs interview by throwing makeup at the pop star and screaming across the room. "Courtney Love is in dire need of attention right now," Madonna deadpanned before being forced to cede her airtime to the Hole singer's antics.
In hindsight, the idea of Fiona Apple appearing at the VMAs seems like an odd fit, but one suspects it never made less sense to anyone than to Apple herself, who famously proclaimed "This world is bulls---" while on stage to collect her Best New Artist award.
Lil Kim's racy outfit at the 1999 VMAs grabbed the attention of many a red carpet photographer, but the rapper's one bare breast also captured the imagination of her co-presenter Diana Ross, who couldn't resist giving Kim's chest a gentle onstage tap.
Upset about his band's loss to Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford bum rushed the VMAs stage in 2000, attempting to bring the entire night to a literal crashing halt by scaling the background. He failed and spent the night in jail.
Former Disney star Britney Spears had no shortage of moments marking her new persona as an adult pop star, but none more iconic than her 2001 performance of "I'm a Slave 4 U" with an albino burmese python named Banana wrapped around her shoulders.
In 2002, Britney Spears presented Michael Jackson with a lifetime achievement trophy in honor of his birthday, but her use of the phrase "artist of the millennium" seemed to capture Jackson's imagination, leading him to deliver a speech accepting an award definitely does not exist.
For decades Madonna stood as the biggest provocateur at the VMAs, and inviting Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera to join her on stage in a re-creation of her iconic "Like a Virgin" performance was meant to be something of a torch-passing. What no one was expecting was for the three performers to up the ante by making out on stage.
Britney Spears has had many ups and downs throughout her decades-long career, but her glassy-eyed performance of "Gimme More" at the 2007 VMAs stands as one of her most public fumbles, a warning sign of the rocky road ahead.
With four now-legendary words -- "I'mma let you finish" -- Kanye West ensured that Taylor Swift's career would be inextricably tied to his own. Whether its a feud between stars, a troubled friendship or a media narrative from which one party would like to be excluded, the story of Kanye and Taylor has transcended debate about whether or not Beyonce made the best music video of all time.
Lil Mama effectively tanked her career when the spirit of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys's "Empire State of Mind" carried her out of her seat in the audience and onto the VMAs stage in 2009. Confused viewers may have at first believed the stunt was intentional, but by the time Jay-Z attempted to shoo her off like a dirty New York pigeon, her fate was sealed.
Despite a long career in New York and two giant singles in "Just Dance" and "Poker Face," Lady Gaga was still far off from the mainstay pop star she is now when she performed "Paparazzi" in 2009. A self-consciously arty and borderline-manic performance that ended with her bloodied body being lifted into the air, Gaga's VMAs debut was a bold statement by an artist looking to stake her position in the pop landscape.
A year after the interruption heard round the world, West returned to the VMAs to debut "Runaway," a haunting toast to "douchebags" and "assholes" that's widely regarded as one of the best and most self-reflective singles in the rapper's catalogue.
If there's an image from the 2010 VMAs that will endure the test of time, it's Lady Gaga, who showed up wearing a dress made out of raw meat, accepting her Moonman from Cher, wearing a re-creation of one of her most iconic '80s costumes.
Blue Ivy Carter made her television debut at the 2011 VMAs, when Beyonce took the stage to perform the immaculate throwback single "Love on Top." "I want you to feel the love that's growing inside of me," she told the audience, nailing every dance step and key change before surprising the crowd by unveiling her baby bump.
The VMAs have come to be defined by flashy costumes, big energy and even bigger stunts, but in 2011 Adele showed everyone up by slowing it down. Accompanied by just a piano and a spotlight, the British songstress brought the house down with her world-conquering ballad "Someone Like You."
Rihanna opening the 2012 VMAs with a medley of her hits "Cockiness" and "We Found Love" isn't often the first performance that people remember, which is a shame because the seamless shift between the DGAF attitude that would later become her trademark and the party-starting pop star persona that defined her early career was so skillfully executed.
If Miley Cyrus twerking on Robin Thicke at the 2013 VMAs didn't launch the thinkpiece industry, it certainly sent it into high-gear. Conversations about race and culture online have since become commonplace, but for many, it was Cyrus's wagging tongue that led them to first encounter the phrase "cultural appropriation."
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In the past many directors/major shareholders built up a pension (on paper) through their own management. Half of the pension built up during the marriage should, in principle, be paid to the other partner. However, exceptions are possible, depending on the financial health of the company. The payment must not jeopardize the continuity of your company. In practice, this gives rise to a great deal of discussion. GMW lawyer will find the best possibilities for our clients.
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Is it only the salary of the director/major shareholder that is decisive, or also money which is taken from the current account and/or dividend payments? How much liquidity can be released from the company for alimony? Are the figures in the year of the divorce different from other years? Should money be reserved for investments? Calculating the alimony for entrepreneurs is a personal matter and requires specific financial expertise and we have this expertise in-house.
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"Oliver Holmes Woodward (1885-1966), mining engineer, metallurgist and soldier, was born on 8 October 1885 at Tenterfield, New South Wales, son of native-born parents Sydney Arthur Woodward, storekeeper, and his wife Jemima Johnstone, née Reid. He was educated at public schools and for two years at Newington College, Sydney. Early practical mining experience at Irvinebank, North Queensland, was followed by three years at Charters Towers where he worked underground and studied part time at the School of Mines. In 1909 he was awarded the W. H. Brownemedal for mining and in 1910 the medal for metallurgy. Further experience underground qualified him as a mine-manager. As such he went in 1913 to Mount Morgan and then to Papua where he assisted the geologist (Sir) Colin Fraser at the Laloki and other mines. Late in 1914 Woodward returned to Mount Morgan to recover from malaria.
In August 1915 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; he was commissioned and posted to No.1 Company of the newly raised Mining Battalion. He sailed for France in March 1916. On its arrival in Flanders the battalion was broken up and the 1st Tunnelling Company became an independent engineer unit. Deployed in the Armentières sector, France, the company fought on the surface as well as underground and in June 1916 Woodward won the Military Cross for blowing up a snipers' post in no man's land.


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Agustí Villaronga Riutort (Palma, 21 de abril de 1953-Barcelona, 22 de enero de 2023) fue un director de cine, guionista y actor español.

Biografía
Nació en Mallorca, en 1953. Fue nieto de feriantes que vendían bolsos de piel en mercados y ferias hasta que su abuela murió de tuberculosis en un hospital de Tarrasa, cuando su padre era un crío. A este le tocó ser un niño de la guerra, arrastrado al frente con quince años y acogido más tarde por una costurera (la tía Lola, aunque no era tía carnal) en Palma de Mallorca, donde trabajó como cartero. Apasionado del cine, le inculcó a su hijo la pasión del arte visual.

Cuando Agustí era solo un niño, jugaba a hacer proyecciones con dibujos, cajas de cerillas y linternas. A los catorce años decidió ser director. Cuando acabó el colegio escribió a Roberto Rossellini a su escuela de cine en Roma. Le respondieron que antes debería pasar por la universidad. Terminó sus estudios básicos en el Colegio Nuestra Señora de Montesión de jesuitas y, algo decepcionado, ya adolescente, se trasladó a Barcelona donde se matriculó y licenció en Geografía e Historia.

Poco después de iniciar su carrera conoció a Víctor García, con quien se embarcó en la compañía de Núria Espert. Recorren Europa y América representando un papel en Yerma, de García Lorca. Al volver para seguir con sus estudios, actúa en varias películas en las cuales trata con Pepón Coromina, productor que le propone llevar el vestuario de La plaza del diamante. Desde entonces, no paró de enlazar un rodaje tras otro, conociendo a los técnicos, el oficio y los secretos del cine.

Ejerció de profesor de Imagen así como de director artístico, decorador, estilista y realizador de videos de moda, siendo todo esto un paso previo para su incursión en el contexto cinematográfico con sus primeros cortos: Anta mujer (1976), Laberint (1980) y Al Mayurka (1980).

Y por fin, en 1987 y con menos de treinta millones de pesetas, reúne al equipo y las condiciones idóneas para llevar a cabo su anhelada ilusión de rodar un largometraje, su ópera prima Tras el cristal, siendo seleccionada para el Festival de Berlín.

Julián Mateos y Maribel Martín le producen El niño de la luna (1989), con la que desconcertaría al público y a la crítica internacional en el Festival de Cannes de 1989. Fue galardonada con un Premio Goya al mejor guion original y nominada al mejor director y película. Pero lejos de los premios, la crítica y el público atacan con vehemencia su trabajo.

En 1992 abandona temporalmente la ficción con Al-Andalus: las artes islámicas en España, un documental producido por Sogetel y el MoMA de Nueva York, y no regresa hasta 1995.

Durante este tiempo, se obsesiona con la adaptación de la novela de Mercè Rodoreda La mort de primavera, pero, tras dos años de ir de productor en productor y no conseguir apoyos, desiste, aceptando un encargo de Massa d'Or Produccions, Tornasol Films y la cadena francesa Arte, para llevar al cine la novela de Georges Simenon El pasajero clandestino (1995), alejada de su forma de narrar y expresar. Declaró durante su rodaje que la tentación de dejar el cine fue muy grande.

Pero regresa con 99.9 (1997), otro encargo en el que María Barranco tuvo que ver, ya que le propuso a él como realizador del guion. El filme, coprotagonizado por Terele Pávez, estuvo presente en diversos festivales, entre ellos los de Montreal, Toronto, Roma, Sitges, La Habana y el Fantafestival, donde ganó dos premios además del Premio Méliès de plata a la mejor película fantástica europea.

Su siguiente trabajo, El mar (2000), supone su regreso como autor de una película "íntegramente suya". Fue coguionista junto a Biel Mesquida (poeta mallorquín) y Toni Aloy, de una novela de Blai Bonet. Presentada en el Festival de Berlín y nominada al Oso de Oro, lo único que no causa es indiferencia. Su reconocimiento se hace internacional y gana el Premio Manfred Salzgeber a la innovación.

En 2001 recibió el Premio Nacional de Cine de Cataluña.

En su búsqueda incesante por lo difícil y nuevo, dirige junto a Isaac P. Racine y Lydia Zimmermann en Aro Tolbukhin: en la mente del asesino (2002), un falso documental donde juegan con las posibilidades del lenguaje fílmico mezclando estilos, géneros y formatos. Fue galardonado con el Premio Ariel como mejor guion original y nominado a la mejor película y dirección.

Alejado del cine, adapta un texto teatral para la realización en formato televisivo de Después de la lluvia (2007), con la obtiene una buena pero poco trascendente acogida.

En el tintero se quedan obras como la ya mencionada La mort de primavera y Bárbaros de Occidente, una historia inspirada en la vida y obra de François Augiéras, un escritor y pintor francés del siglo XX, y La Giganta, un proyecto sobre el que estuvo trabajando, pero que una vez conseguidos los apoyos financieros, uno de los productores huyó con el dinero sin que hasta la fecha se sepa nada.

En 2010 estrena Pan negro (basada en la novela Pa negre y Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells, del escritor Emili Teixidor), con una historia centrada en la infancia y adolescencia de un chico durante los oscuros años 40. A la vez que descubre la sexualidad, se despertará en él una conciencia moral. Esta última película se presenta en el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián (donde Nora Navas consigue la Concha de Plata a la mejor actriz) y gana nueve Premios Goya (entre ellos el de Mejor dirección) de un total de cetorce nominaciones.

En 2011 recibió el Premio Nacional de Cinematografía y su película Pan negro fue seleccionada para competir por el Óscar a la mejor película de habla no inglesa.

En 2012 recibe varios galardones por su trayectoria, como el premio honorífico del Festival Internacional de Cine y Artes Escénicas Gay-Lesbo y Trans de Bilbao (Zinegoak), el premio Jordi Dauder de la Muestra de Cine Latinoamericano de Cataluña y un homenaje del  Spanish Cinema Now en Nueva York.

Filmografía

Premios y candidaturas

Premios Goya

Premios Fotogramas de Plata

Premios Gaudí

Premios Ariel

Premios Sant Jordi de Cine

Medallas del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos

Premios Turia

Premios Butaca

Festivales de cine

Bibliografía

Estudios críticos y académicos
 Germán Piqueras, "Víctimas y verdugos. La muerte como leitmotiv en el cine de Agustí Villaronga" Crimen y fantástico, Editorial Cinestesia, 2021. p. 217–228 ISBN: 978-84-120496-8-8

Referencias

Enlaces externos

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Directores de cine de las Islas Baleares
Actores de las Islas Baleares
Guionistas de cine de España
Guionistas gais
Actores de cine de España
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Ganadores del Premio Goya a la mejor dirección
Ganadores del Premio Goya al mejor guion adaptado
Ganadores del Premio Goya al mejor guion original
Ganadores del Premio Gaudí
Ganadores del Premio Gaudí a la mejor dirección
Directores de cine de España
Directores de cine LGBT
Personas homosexuales de España
Galardonados con el Premio 31 de Diciembre
Españoles del siglo XX
Españoles del siglo XXI
Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes
Fallecidos por cáncer
Fallecidos en Barcelona

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Dana Milbank: Trump merchandising is dead. Here's how we can save it.
April 18, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
Tuesday morning's Washington Post carried the dispiriting news that Donald Trump's merchandising empire has collapsed.But I think we can make it great again.Trump-branded items — steaks, shirts, underwear, perfumes, chandeliers,...
Dana Milbank: Trump was on the ballot in Virginia. He lost.
November 8, 2017 at 12:00 a.m.
President Trump may have been 7,000 miles away in Seoul on Tuesday, but make no mistake: He was on the ballot in Virginia when his imitator, Republican Ed Gillespie, lost...
Dana Milbank: The Democrats have become socialists
September 14, 2017 at 12:00 a.m.
When Bernie Sanders launched his bid for the Democratic nomination, he was often asked whether he, a democratic socialist, would actually become a Democrat. Now, more than a year after...
Dana Milbank: The 144 million people who like Trump best
August 9, 2017 at 12:00 a.m.
The fake news media is full of accounts about how President Trump's standing is slipping among his "base" — his most loyal supporters.Balderdash.There is absolutely no reason to think Trump's...
Dana Milbank: The Mooch takes a fall of biblical proportions
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like its (sic) heaven on earth."— Mark Twain, as told...
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The publication I write for has a new name: The Amazon Washington Post.The moniker was bestowed in recent days by President Trump, putting the newspaper in the company of the...
Dana Milbank: Sean Spicer is the latest Trump casualty. He won't be the last.
Sean Spicer wasn't a Trump guy.During the primaries, when he was chief strategist to the Republican National Committee, Spicer told friends that he was confident Donald Trump wouldn't win the...
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It's easy to see why Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants the TV cameras off during her White House news briefings.There is, for one, the matter of her boss constantly proclaiming things...
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Giving whole new meaning to the phrase "you be the judge", People's Court Raw invites anyone with a dispute and a video camera to upload their argument, notify the "defendant" by email, and then let the web-surfing masses vote on who's right.
Boasting that People's Court Raw "is the ultimate democratic tool", spokesperson and media personality Harvey Levin (no relation) urges visitors to "let the world finally prove you right…" with this "ultimate argument ender".
As of this posting, cases include a dispute over a boyfriend's back hair; a workplace quarrel about a co-worker who belches; and a domestic spat that results when a husband can't get to sleep because his wife snores.
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Hey y'all what's up, it's Shade and a lot of you may recognize me from different servers as "Wilson" or "Trinity" or something similar. These last few months me and a few friends have been working on a project and today we've gotten to a point where we felt we could share it with y'all. I know a few people around here might be familiar so thank you to anyone who helped, wouldn't have been possible without you.
Trinity is another custom PSOBB experience and it's something I've always wanted to do so we finally did it. Our software is coded in C# and we used Tethella as a heavy reference, so shout out to Sodaboy and friends for that one.
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I can confirm though there's been some work and heavy bug fixing - even sometimes knocking out every bug reported in a day on the same day. Well maintained development wise and I can't wait to see where it goes!
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Is the server code available to the public?
Not at the moment, but making a version of it that is, is not out of the question.
Thanks for the positive words!!
Well, another PSO Project dead so soon after arrival. Website's down and little to no trace exists of these guys mere months later.
Trinity PSOBB has been put on hiatus due to the server owner being busy with certain life obligations.
If you'd like the source or something specific from the source we can talk. There's a lot of things in there that are not just publicly available or easy to get like cmode, trade window, wide screen, high res hud, etc.
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Walgreens and VillageMD Expand in Arizona with 22 Full-Service, Primary Care Practices Opening by End of Year
Strategic partnership on track to open 600 primary care clinics in more than 30 U.S. markets over next four years
Village Medical at Walgreens in Phoenix, Ariz. (Photo: Business Wire)
DEERFIELD, Ill. & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) and VillageMD today announced the opening of 18 Village Medical at Walgreens locations in the Phoenix area with plans to open four additional locations by end of this year. Through the Walgreens and VillageMD integrated care model, patients are able to receive comprehensive primary care alongside convenient and cost-effective pharmacy services.
"The strategic partnership between Walgreens and VillageMD aims to change how healthcare is delivered in this country," said Jamie Vortherms, vice president of healthcare services, Walgreens. "By coordinating Village Medical primary care with Walgreens pharmacy services in our stores and virtually, the patient experience is now improved with more convenient, in-neighborhood access to care."
In Arizona, chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke, diabetes and liver disease are responsible for seven out of 10 deaths among Arizonans each year.1 Village Medical primary care physicians and Walgreens pharmacists work together to provide care for chronic conditions, as well as everyday illnesses and injuries. With more than 2,100 daily cases of COVID-19 in the Phoenix area in recent weeks, Village Medical at Walgreens locations provide access to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations through the Walgreens pharmacy, in addition to increased access to neighborhood primary care providers, via in-person or telehealth visits.2 Whether a chronic condition or an acute medical need, patients can benefit from building an ongoing care relationship with their primary care providers in a seamless, coordinated and comfortable location.
"Phoenix-area residents, and particularly patients who need ongoing care for chronic conditions, will benefit from our integrated care team and our high-tech, high-touch model," said Brent Asplin, M.D., president of Village Medical. "We first entered the Phoenix market last year and we're encouraged by the demand we've seen in the area – and we're just getting started on delivering exceptional care to the community."
The 22 Village Medical at Walgreens locations in Arizona will create more than 800 jobs within the community. Village Medical will employ nearly 500 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) well-compensated professionals.3
Village Medical at Walgreens locations accept a wide range of health insurance options. Patients may access care and support through in-person, at-home and telehealth visits. To learn more about the Village Medical at Walgreens services and locations in Arizona, please visit https://www.villagemedical.com/locations/arizona.
For more information as well as multimedia assets, please visit the Walgreens Newsroom.
About Walgreens Boots Alliance
Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is a global leader in retail pharmacy, impacting millions of lives every day through dispensing medicines, and providing accessible, high-quality care. With more than 170 years of trusted healthcare heritage and innovation in community pharmacy, the company is meeting customers' and patients' needs through its convenient retail locations, digital platforms and health and beauty products.
Including equity method investments, WBA has a presence in more than 25 countries, employs more than 450,000 people and has more than 21,000 stores.
WBA's purpose is to help people across the world lead healthier and happier lives. The company is proud of its contributions to healthy communities, a healthy planet, an inclusive workplace and a sustainable marketplace. WBA is a participant of the United Nations Global Compact and adheres to its principles-based approach to responsible business.
WBA is included in FORTUNE's 2021 list of the World's Most Admired Companies*. This is the 28th consecutive year that WBA or its predecessor company, Walgreen Co., has been named to the list.
More company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.
*© 2021, Fortune Media IP Limited. Used under license.
About VillageMD
VillageMD, through its subsidiary Village Medical, is a leading, national provider of value-based primary care services. VillageMD partners with physicians to provide the tools, technology, operations, staffing support and industry relationships to deliver high-quality clinical care and better patient outcomes, while reducing the total cost of care. The Village Medical brand provides primary care for patients at traditional free-standing clinics, Village Medical at Walgreens clinics, at home and via virtual visits. VillageMD and Village Medical have grown to 15 markets and are responsible for more than 1.6 million patients. VillageMD is also the largest participating sponsor of CMS' new Direct Contracting program and estimates it serves more than 56,000 patients. To learn more, please visit www.villageMD.com.
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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements. All statements in this release that are not historical are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, assumptions and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those related to the timing and effectiveness of collaboration plans and implementation, the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the strategic partnership, competitive actions in the marketplace, and the ability to achieve anticipated financial and operating results in the amounts and at the times anticipated, as well as those described in Item 1A (Risk Factors) of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.'s Form 10-K for its fiscal year ending August 31, 2019 and Form 10-Q for its fiscal quarter ending February 29, 2020, and in other documents that Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. files or furnishes with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Each of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., Walgreens and VillageMD do not undertake, and expressly disclaim, any duty or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement after the date of this release, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions or otherwise.
1 Stats of the State of Arizona. National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/arizona/arizona.htm
2 Arizona coronavirus map: What do the trends mean for you? Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/map/arizona
3 Village Medical internal data.
Walgreens PR Contact:
Jessica Masuga
jessica.masuga@walgreens.com
VillageMD PR Contact:
Molly Lynch
molly@lynchgrouponline.com
Walgreens and VillageMD are opening 22 full-service Village Medical at Walgreens primary care clinics in the Phoenix area this calendar year.


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Number of paid sick leave days in 2015 varies by length of service and establishment size
January and February, the middle of the cold and flu season, typically are the peak months when people miss work because of illnesses. How many workers can use paid sick leave when they can't go to work because of illness or other medical concerns? In March 2015, 61 percent of workers in private industry had paid sick leave benefits. About 7 in 10 of those workers received a fixed number of sick leave days each year. Most of the rest received sick leave through a consolidated leave plan, which provides a single amount of time off for workers to use for any purpose. Among those who received a fixed number of sick leave days, the amount varied depending on the employee's length of service and the size of the establishment.
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Number of paid sick leave days per year for workers in private industry, by length of service and establishment size, March 2015
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On average, workers in private industry received 7 days of sick leave per year at 1 year of service. The average was 8 days at 5 and 10 years of service and 9 sick days per year at 20 years of service. Employees in establishments with 1 to 49 workers or 50 to 99 workers received fewer paid sick days on average than employees in establishments with 100 workers or more.
What about workers who don't use all their sick leave each year? Can they carry it over to use in future years? In March 2015, 47 percent of workers in private industry who received a fixed number of paid sick days could carry over unused sick days from year to year. Usually there was a limit to the number of days these workers could carry over. The remaining 53 percent of workers in private industry could not carry over unused sick days from one year to the next.
These data are from the National Compensation Survey — Benefits program. For more information, see "National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2015."
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Number of paid sick leave days in 2015 varies by length of service and establishment size on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/number-of-paid-sick-leave-days-in-2015-varies-by-length-of-service-and-establishment-size.htm (visited January 19, 2020).
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