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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell surprised a local doctor with tickets to the Super Bowl after receiving an emotional email from the doctor's wife.
Local doctor earns free tickets to the Super Bowl
Posted: Saturday 02.06.2021 2:18 pm Briana Gasorski COMMUNITY, Local
DEARBORN — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell responded to an emotional email about a local doctor with free tickets for he and his friends to attend the Super Bowl.
Beaumont Dearborn Emergency Department Chief Dr. Zafar Shamoon has had a 12-year tradition of traveling to Las Vegas with two of his closest friends to watch the Super Bowl together.
Dr. Zafar Shamoon
With so much uncertainty still surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and all three being health care providers, they had decided to cancel their trip this year.
Shamoon's wife, Dr. Nadia Yousaf, sent a letter via email to Commissioner Goodell expressing her appreciation for the work that her husband and his team at Beaumont have done over the last year.
"I talked about just how hard he has been working in the emergency department and how every single person has been putting in so much time," she said. "I was so happy because he's been working so hard and doing so much, it is just an amazing opportunity to give back to all the first responders."
Shamoon told The Arab American News that he didn't know she was going to send the email and certainly didn't expect a response.
"It meant a lot to me that she recognized not only the work I put in, but how hard my entire team and department has been working, too," he said. "The game was always a way to catch up with my buddies and it ended up becoming a tradition. I'm still in shock, this is like our bucket list items coming true."
There will be 7,500 first responders and healthcare professionals in attendance for Sunday's game and all of them had to show proof of full vaccination in order to attend.
"Everyone has to be fully vaccinated, which I think makes me more comfortable," Shamoon said. "It's really emotional for me to be able to keep the tradition going with my brothers. Watching the Super Bowl is something that my dad and I really bonded over and just a reminder of that is emotional, too. In a way it helps that everyone there will be able to relate, as we all have been through it."
Beaumont Dearborn discharged more than 2,000 recovered COVID patients and have screened over 4,000 patients curbside.
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The Flaming Star Nebula (IC405) is illuminated by the bright variable star AE Aurigae. Although it is mostly an emission nebula, the Flaming Star Nebula also has a reflection nebula component which is seen as blue filaments near AE Aurigae. This nebula is estimated to be about 1500 light years away and about 5 light-years across.
This is an RGB image with Ha used as luminance. I am not sure that this is the best way of using the data and I will definitely try other options.


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Jo Brand and Omid Djalili bring Croydon back to our small screens tonight in the wry BBC Four comedy series Going Forward.
Jo Brand's character from the series Getting On, Kim Wilde, has quit nursing for the NHS and entered private health care. This comedy about broken Britain, focuses on the wider social implications of dysfunctional state services.
Here's the trailer for the three-part series.
Viewers will recognise extensive filming in local streets and private homes across Croydon, including Edgecoombe in South Croydon, where Kim visits a patient.
Homes in Nightingale Road, Lapwing Close, Quail Gardens, Warren Avenue and Copes View were used, along with the council flats at Broadcoombe. And Regus Croydon played the office interiors.


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Q: how create a generic method that can initialize value variable to 0 or ref variable to new (not null) I have something like this
V Func<V>()
{
  // do stuff
  V res = default(V);
 // more stuff
  return res;
}

The problem is that I want res to be either 0 or a new instance of V
I tried creating 2 methods
Func<V> where T: new()
Func<V> where T: struct

but surprisingly this is not allowed
My workaround is to have 2 functions
FuncNew<V> where T: new()
...
res = new V();
....

and
FuncDefault<V> where T: struct
...
res = default(V)
...

EDIT: Summarize answers
new(T) will new up a ref or value type; I did not realize that

A: You can use the new() constraint:
private V Func<V>() where V : new()
{
  // do stuff
  V res = new V();
 // more stuff
  return res;
}

Value types will be initialized to all-zeros, and any reference types will be initialized using their no-args default constructor.
If the reference type doesn't have a no-args constructor it can't be used with this method, and you'll have to use other ways (there are plenty of solutions to this problem elsewhere on SO, eg Passing arguments to C# generic new() of templated type)

A: So you want the result object to be integer zero, or a new instance of your generic type? That's not possible because the generic type parameter would only be valid for the integer type unless you specify object as the return type.
public object Func<T>()
     where T: new()
{
    if(something)
       return 0;

    return new T();
}

If you're trying to make a default initializer, you just need to new up the type. This should work for both integer and reference types.
public T Func<T>()
{
    return Activator.CreateInstance<T>();
}

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Lene Voigt (born Helene Wagner: 2 May 1891 - 16 June 1962) was a German writer and poet.   Although some of her earlier work employed standard "Hochdeutsch" German, she is better remembered today for her poetry and prose texts written in the Upper Saxon dialect.

After 1945 her home city of Leipzig found itself in what became, in 1949, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).   For various reasons Voigt's work disappeared from the shelves during the National Socialist years: her hopes that it would return to the magazines and bookshops after 1945 were dashed.   It is widely thought that this was, at least in part, because her Upper Saxon dialect writing was seen in some quarters as disrespectful.   Walter Ulbricht, the national leader between 1949 and 1971, also came from Leipzig, which meant that the dialect and accent of Saxony were the dialect and accent of the leader.   In West Germany, across the internal border, her work was again published during the 1950s, and after Walter Ulbricht left the stage it also experienced a revival in East Germany, where a particularly effective cheer leader was (and post-reunification remains) the cabaret artiste and impresario Gisela Oechelhaeuser.

Life

Provenance
Helene "Lene" Alma Wagner was born at her grandmother's home in Leipzig.   The circumstances of her birth may have contributed to subsequent confusion as to its precise date.   Her mother had already given birth in 1887 and again in 1888, but the first son had been born dead and the second died after three hours.   The understandable anxiety accompanying Helene's birth meant that she was subjected to an "emergency baptism" on the day she was born.   Her godparents were her mother's sister and grandmother along with a theology student who may also have been a maternal relative.   The doctors gave the parents little reason to hope that their baby daughter might survive, but survive she did.

Her parents had married in Leipzig in 1887.   Her mother, born Alma Maria Pleißner (1860-1924), came from an academic family.   She always spoke standard "Hochdeutsch" German and was uncompromising in her insistence that Lene should do the same.   Lene inherited something of her mother's critical approach to life.   While her husband was alive Alma Maria Wagner stayed at home and looked after the little family.   Later she was employed as a housekeeper.   By the time she died she was living in a "poor house" ("Armenstift").   Lene's father, Karl Bruno Wagner (1873-1917), worked as a typesetter. Lene later wrote that he came from a "family of mountain peasants" ("Gebirgsbauerngeschlecht").   From her father Lene inherited a talent for humour.   He liked to use the local dialect.   Sources indicate that Lene probably also inherited from her father a tendency to suffer with Depression and Psychoses. Karl Wagner drowned in 1917 when he was just 54.

Childhood
She grew up in Leipzig.   The family moved house several times while she was still small.   Lene Wagner was a wild child and something of a prankster.   For six years she attended school locally: she excelled academically, especially in lessons on Religion. Then, at her mother's wish, between 1905 and 1910 she attended a training establishment for Kindergarten work.   Her interests lay in another direction, however.   By the time she was 15 she had started to write poetry.   In the end she undertook an apprenticeship for work in the book trade.   Her childhood seems to have involved the omnipresence of relatives: aunts, in particular, were always in the background. The family was evidently a close-knit one.   She loved to read, later naming the Viennese novelist-poet Ludwig Anzengruber as the favourite author of her childhood years.   It was presumably from Anzengruber that she learned to identify social and political issues, and how to present them with humour.   After she grew up Lene Voigt also recalled a period of her childhood when she was sent away to live with a church minister in a small mining village in the Erzgebirgischer mountain region, near the border with Bohemia and to the south of Leipzig.   Precisely when, where and why she was sent to the mountains is unclear, but the arrangement was, in any case, temporary.

Employment
As was usual in working-class families at the time, Lene's childhood was all too brief.   According to several sources she left her parents' home as soon as she could.   She was only 12 when she took work as a courier for a dolls' clinic, collecting dolls in need of attention and returning them to their homes following repair.   This involved a very small girl walking the streets of Leipzig with an implausibly large basket.   She was later able to recall the image and joke about it, but the work itself was perfectly serious.   After she had been persuaded by her mother to enroll at an academy for Kindergarten work, between 1903 and approximately 1905 she worked as a nanny for a prosperous family.   As part of the work, she used to create puppetry games to keep the children amused.   It was the "background humour" incorporated in one of these puppetry games that led to her dismissal.

There followed a succession of jobs in Leipzig. At one stage she took an office job with the Teubner publishing business, and in 1912 she joined the Köhler Book wholesale traders (" Barsortiment Köhler").

Family tragedy
After at least two "disappointing relationships with men", on 19 or 24 September Helene Wagner married Friedrich Otto Voigt.   He was an orchestral musician who played in the Paul Lincke Orchestra, and the marriage took place in the St. Thomas Church.   Unfortunately war had broken out at the end of July, and after the marriage ceremony Voigt was almost immediately conscripted into the army.   He returned from the war alive but missing an arm, which put an end to his musical career.   Between 1917 and the end of February 1919 Lene Voigt was employed as a sales representative by Insel Verlag (publishers): her departure was greatly regretted by Anton Kippenberg, the head of the business.   The birth of her son, Alfred on 10 September 1919 provides a clue as to the reason for her resignation from Insel.   The marriage ended in divorce in 1920.   Nevertheless, Lene remained in touch with Voigt, and later on good terms with his second family, for the rest of her life.

By 1923 Lene Voigt was working for the foreign trade subsidiary of "Barsortiment Köhler", which collapsed in August of that year. This turned out to have been her last experience of full-time employment.   She now became a "Geistesarbeiterin" which was a contemporary euphemism for self-employment.

Bereavements
Living alone and without permanent work, Lene Voigt faced a compounding tragedy on 6 February 1924 when Alfed died from Tubercular Meningitis.   He was not quite five.   She tried to work through her grief by writing.

Happiness of a kind returned at some point between 1926 1928 when she teamed up with Karl Geil, an unemployed anarchist and opera singer.   He described Voigt as the one great love of his life.   Geil was married to someone else, but lived apart from his wife.   He was a member of a progressive movement known as the "Vagabond Brotherhood" which involved a rather itinerant lifestyle.   For a year or so from 1928 the meetings between Geil and Vogt became progressively less frequent, although they maintained an intensely passionate relationship by letter.   In January 1929 Voigt's worst fears were confirmed: Karl Geil was more seriously sick than he could admit to himself.   He collapsed unexpectedly on a street in Dresden and was taken to hospital where on 19 January 1929 he died as the result of a stroke.   It took considerable effort for Voigt to have his ashes returned from Dresden to Leipzig.   The deaths within a few years first of her child and then of her lover plunged her into severe  depression which would haunt her for the rest of her life.

Friends advised a new start.   Later in 1929 Voigt moved to the northern port city of Bremen, an industrial hub with a seething political and cultural energy.   She arrived with little more than a typewriter and a small suitcase.   The next few years were some of her most productive. Some of her best known books date from this period.   She also benefited from frequent visits from Robert Meier, an admirer twelve years her junior who became a lifelong friend.   Many of her texts, including some that never found a publisher, have survived only because she sent copies to Meier, and Meier took good care of them.

Success followed by dictatorship
Until the Hitler government took power Lene Voigt now enjoyed a hitherto unfamiliar level of financial security.   The rapid transition to one-party dictatorship during 1933 changed that.   Even after 1933 her books failed to follow the official orthodoxies.   Her humour was not to the liking of the authorities.   She became an object of government suspicion and a target for Gestapo surveillance.   She herself became increasingly unsettled, relocating to Lübeck in 1934 and to Flensburg in 1935.   For a long time she lived only in rented furnished apartments.

"Nicht sächsisch, sondern jiddisch"
One respect in which the Hitler government was keen for Germany to catch up with Britain and France involved centralsing state power.   Government strategy extended well beyond replacing Germany's former administrative structure. In Saxony Martin Mutschmann, the regional governor ("Gauleiter") established the "Heimatwerk Sachsen – Verein zur Förderung des sächsischen Volkstums e. V." (loosely, "...association for promoting Saxon popular culture and identity") in 1936.   The idea was to take control of all regional cultural aspirations and redirect them in support of party goals. The "Heimatwerk Sachsen" existed till 1945, intended to inspire the entire region of Saxony to identify with the National Socialist state.
   As part of this mission, the "Heimatwerk Sachsen" banned the Upper Saxon dialect. There was no longer any place for "Saxon comedy, joke makers and jewifying literati" , which had simply led to "mutilation of the language in Saxony" ("Verschandelung der sächsischen Sprache").   Lene Voigt was expressly identified as part of the problem.   Upper Saxon dialect literature was "unheroic": it was almost all pulped.

The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda placed a nationwide ban on further publication of Voigt's books.   The security services were only too well aware that she not only wrote texts using Upper Saxon dialect, but that before 1933 she had also worked with politically left-leaning publications and that she had openly asserted her atheism.   Voigt did not react robustly to the increasingly threatening situation in which she now found herself.   Intensified surveillance, proscription, the publishing ban and the resulting economic hardship led her to a form of psychosis.   Between 18 May and 15 June 1936 she was placed in a mental hospital in Schleswig for the treatment of mental instability and hallucinations.   When she was released it was "without mental disorder".   She herself diagnosed her illness as stemming from delusions of persecution.   That may have been necessary to secure her release, but at least one commentator has questioned her use of the word "delusion" in this context.

It is not known why Lene Voigt relocated to Munich in 1937, but her reasons for leaving the city are apparent: the newspaper of the local Nazi paramilitaries (SA) launched a press campaign against her, ostensibly in connection with an Upper Saxon dialect card-game.   In or before 1938 she relocated to Hamburg and then to Berlin where she lived till 1940.

In 1934 Lene Voigt had acquired a second home in Leipzig, and she had held on to it during the ensuing six years.   In 1940 she was therefore able to return to the city of her birth.   War had returned to central Europe at the end of the previous summer, and she was now conscripted for a form of national service obligation ("Dienstverpflichtung"). That involved working for the Giesecke+Devrient specialist printing company which at that time had its main business in Leipzig.   Later she was sent to work as an invoicing clerk with Lange & Meuche Verlag, which was part of the Rothbarth publishing conglomerate. She also spent time as an in-patient at Leipzig University Mental Clinic during 1940.   More precise details of how, why and when are not available due to the subsequent wartime destruction of her medical records.

Soviet occupation zone
The U.S. 2nd Infantry Division and U.S. 69th Infantry Division reached Leipzig in April 1945 and completed its capture after "fierce urban action".   By this time, however. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin had already agreed a postwar military settlement for the western two thirds of Germany which would divide the territory into four separate occupation zones.   Under the agreement Leipzig was to be administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone.   Accordingly, in July 1945 the United States army withdrew from the city and Soviet forces moved in.   By this time both the publishing firms who had published Voigt's work before the National Socialists had banned it had moved what remained of their businesses from Leipzig to Munich, which had ended up under American military occupation.

With the twelve year National Socialist period at an end, Lene Voigt might hope for better times ahead, and indeed her texts were included in "Die Rampe", Leipzig's first postwar cabaret show.   Sadly, there would be no large-scale return to the popular mainstream, however.   She overworked herself, worried about the future, and forgot to eat enough, at one stage weighing just .   She was also suffering with climacteric issues.   Reports of hallucinations and signs of mental instability led to a diagnosis (subsequently corrected) of "Schizophrenic episodes" and re-admission to the University Mental Clinic on 11 June 1946.    She remained there for fourteen days and was probably subjected to the conventional remedies of the time: Electroconvulsive therapy, Barbiturates and physical restraints ("Netzbehandlung").   The University Mental Clinic into which she was admitted in 1946 was not the one in which she had been treated in 1940, however.   That had been destroyed by an air attack in 1943: provision had been rehoused.   In 1945 there were 200 beds available for psychiatry and neurology treatment which was completely inadequate.   In the summer of 1946, when Lene Voigt was admitted, 25 cases were being refused admission every day.   Inside the Soviet occupation zone hospitals were experiencing food shortages and shortages of heating fuel that were in many cases measurably worse than during the war years.   Many of the doctors, nurses and other specialists still had not returned from the war, while others who were in Leipzig were still unable to work, pending denazification processing.   Due to the shortage of capacity at the University Clinic Voigt was transferred, on 26 June 1946, to the Saxony-Altscherbitz District Hospital ("Landesheilanstalt Altscherbitz"): gradually her condition improved and she returned to her writing.   She was discharged on 24 February 1947.   She was lucky.   The Saxony-Altscherbitz District Hospital was a specialist establishment for psychiatric and nervous disorders which even by the standards of the time and place had a terrible record. A later study determined that during 1947 887 patients accommodated in the institution - equivalent to 38% of all patients - died as a result of deficiencies in the care provided ("aufgrund der Mangelversorgung").

One of the poems Voigt wrote shortly before her discharge in February 1947 was entitled "Wir 'armen Irren'" (loosely, "We, 'poor lunatics'"). Coming across this work prompted Dietfried Müller-Hegemann (1910-1989), one of the hospital physicians who had overseen her treatment, to investigate Voigt's case further and to correct the "Schizophrenic episodes" diagnosis which had led to her hospitalisation the previous June.   It was now determined that in response to the exceptionally burdensome life events to which she had been subjected, she had become ill with repeating "Reactive Psychosis" (wiederholt "Reaktive Psychose").   In 1966, after he had retired from the hospital (and after Lene Voigt herself had died), Müller-Hegemann published a "Textbook for psychiatry and neurology" in which he wrote up the case in some detail.   Although he did not name his patient, he did include sufficient details to identify her beyond all reasonable doubt.   As a result, among several generations of students and practitioners of Psychiatric Medicine Lene Voigt became as well known (or better known) as the subject of a celebrated case study as she was as a published author and poet of German-language and Upper Saxon dialect texts.

Between 1947 and 1949 Lene Voigt worked in the Food Ration Cards department for the Leipzig region.   Little is known of her life circumstances during this time.

Institutionalised
On 6 July 1949 Voigt was admitted into the Leipzig-Dosen District Psychiatric Clinic.   Notes made at the time of her admission suggest manic aspects to her behaviour.   She "danced waltzes in front of the admitting physician and reportedly hallucinated and gave out paranoid utterances".  By August 1949 the acute phase of her condition had subsided, but she expressed reluctance to leave the hospital because she thought she might be unable to manage with life's daily demands if she were to go back to living on her own.   Instead the hospital administrators employed her as a live-in document courier.   The hospital's "pavilion-based" layout ensured a continuing need for documents to be delivered from one building to another.   This provided her with the necessary measure of security.   She began to make regular visit to the city centre and she also resumed her writing.   Hospital administrators from that time would remember her as an exceptionally well read woman with an intense interest in current events and a strong willingness to engage in conversation.   She was generous in giving away her own written pieces, which by this time were frequently handwritten.

Lene Voigt lived at the hospital in Leipzig-Dosen for thirteen years.   She was regarded as a reliable employee. The only wish she expressed consistently was that she might end her days at the Fritz Austel Retirement Home. The hospital management backed her in this.   However, on 16 July 1962 she died in the hospital wing of the District Psychiatric Clinic. Her death was almost entirely overlooked at the time when it happened, apart from a two line announcement in the local newspaper.   It was only in 1985 that a gravestone was placed over her grave, and only in 2002 that her remains were disinterred and reburied with other distinguished citizens in the "Artists' Section" ("Künstlerabteilung") of the Leipzig Südfriedhof (South Cemetery).

Works
Lene Wagner was fifteen when, in 1906, her first published contribution, a "gymnastics society humoresque", was published in "Der Leipziger".   In 1913 she became a regular contributor to the "Leipziger Hausfrau" newspaper, and in 1914, for the first time, her work was included in a book.   The book was an anthology entitled "Dichtung und Prosa von Leipziger Frauen" ("Poetry and Prose by Leipzig Women").  Over the next few years she continued to contribute regularly both to "Der Leipziger" and to "Leipziger Hausfrau": her pieces were generally in the entertainment genre, and often used the Upper Saxon dialect.   In 1920 she receives her first mention in the Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender: her entry in the biennial biographical directory (of German writers) mentions her membership of the ASV (national writers' association) and describes her as an author of sketches, satires and Upper Saxon dialect poetry. What she wrote was not merely entertaining, nor even just satirical-political: Voigt made no secret of her sympathy for the recently formed Communist Party (though there are no indications that she ever became a party member).   She contributed pieces to "Die Rote Fahne" ("... Red Flag), the party newspaper.   From 1921 she also wrote for "Der Drache" ("... Dragon"), a satirical magazine, and for the "Sächsische Arbeiterzeitung" ("... Workers' Newspaper").   Between 1923 and 1926 she was also writing for the "Proletarische Heimstunden", a short-lived anti-militarist magazine, her work displaying a style of casual inconsequential humorous journalism that rapidly disappeared after 1933 and has never really returned.

More recent studies of Lene Voigt tend to focus only on her better known works:  Upper Saxon dialect variants of ballads and other literary classics.   These are not simply "translations" into Saxon.   The well calibrated humour of the author endows them, frequently, with a less heroic and a more human tone than the German-language original versions.

Lene Voigt's reputation was at its height between the middle 1920s and the early 1930s.   She worked for a number of newspapers and magazines in Saxony, but her much work could be read across Germany and indeed in German language newspapers further afield.   She felt a particular affinity with the magazine "Der gemütliche Sachse" (in 1929 renamed "Der lustige Sachse") and over time became its principal contributor.   A first Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments appeared featuring Voigt's anecdites, poems, skits and parodies - not all of them just in dialect.   It proved successful and lucrative.   Books were published, collecting her dialect poems and prose texts together:  "Säk'sche Balladen" (1925), "Säk'sche Glassigger" (1925), "Mir Sachen. Lauter gleenes Zeich zum Vortragen" (2 volumes, 1928), *In Sachsen gewachsen" (1932), "Die sächsische Odyssee" (1933) and "Leibzcher Lindenblieten" (1935).   Alongside these dialect works, she also published the autobiographical narrative "Mally der Familienschreck (1927)" and a travel novel, "Vom Pleißestrand nach Helgoland" (1934) in German before the publication ban came into effect.

Except at the most acute phases of her illness Lene Voigt never stopped writing, even after 1949 when the Soviet occupation zone was relaunched as the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), and she herself moved into the Psychiatric Clinic where she would spend her final thirteen years.   However, during those final years she was no longer paid for any of her writing, because with the country under the direction of the relentlessly unamused (and Saxon) First Secretary Ulbricht, any "Saxon utterance" risked being interpreted by the authorities as a form of mockery.   During the Ulbricht years just one Lene Voigt poem - which she had sent to a newspaper as a "reader's letter" - was published.   Astonishingly, she was never forgotten by people in Saxony, however.

In West Germany new editions of her compilations "Balladen" and "Glassigger" did appear in the 1950s, but the author received no money, nor even a copy.   Worse than that, thanks to the Cold war divisions of the time, and the growing impenetrability of the border between the two Germanys, she was not even aware of these new editions of her work.   In East Germany, after Ulbricht died (and so more than ten years after Voigt's own death) her work did reappear in the press during the mid 1970s.   Then, in 1982, a Voigt book appeared in her homeland:  "Bargarohle, Bärchschaft und sächs'sches Ginsdlrblut" presented a cross-section of her life's work, including magazine contributions, dialect works and satirical pieces.   A second volume followed in 1984.   As East Germany approached its own time of decisive changes the focus of editors tended increasingly to concentrate on Voigt's more overtly political texts.

In 1978/79 Rowohlt Verlag acquired the publishing rights to "Balladen" and "Glassigger" which have enjoyed unbroken popularity in West Germany, and since 1990 Germany, ever since.

Revival and the Lene Voigt Society
During the 1980s and 1990s, to the extent that she had ever been forgotten, Lene Voigt was rediscovered, especially in the eastern part of Germany.   Wolfgang U. Schütte, in particular, undertook and from 1983 published new research work.   Further information and insights into Voigt's life became available only after 1990.   Since 1990 there has been an emergence of so-called Ostalgie, whereby people express nostaligia for what was good about the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989) without (in most cases) seeking to downplay the political repression and economic failings that led to its collapse.   Part of "Ostalgie" has been a booming interest in political cabaret which before totalitarianism was always more celebrated in the central industrial cities such as Berlin and Leipzig than further west.   Three stars and scholars from he world of cabaret in Leipzig who have shown particular commitment to reviving the poetry and lyrics written by Lene Voigt are Bernd-Lutz Lange, Tom Pauls and Gisela Oechelhaeuser.

The Lene Voigt Society ("Lene-Voigt-Gesellschaft") was founded in 1995 in Leipzig is a particular focus of commitment to discovering more aboud Lene Voigt's life and work.   It has taken responsibility in respect of a number of publications on Voigt including, not leastly, a six volume compilation of her own works.   The non-profit organisation has followed in her tracks and, in particular, worked to identify and draw attention to all the many Leipzig apartments and other homes and institutions in which she lived during a somewhat unsettled life.   As researches are pursued, it often turns out that earlier details of Voigt's life have been incorrectly recorded, and one of the Lene Voigt Society objectives is to promote the publication of a new biography to build on Wolfgang Schütte's 1983 with all the additional information that has come to light - not leastly through Schütte's own efforts - while eliminating those errors that remain in the public arena.

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Brainstem tuberculoma as a manifestation of paradoxical reaction in a patient with tuberculous meningitis.
Farheen Niazi, PAEC General hospital, Islamabad.
Mazhar Badshah, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad.
Tuberculosis commonly involves the CNS, During drug treatment of CNS tuberculosis paradoxical response (PR) may occasionally occur. The term "paradoxicalresponse"refers to the development of previously nonexistent tuberculosis lesions or worsening of preexisting lesions during antituberculosis treatment( ATT). Etiology is still not clear but delayed type hypersensitivity and alteration in immune system is thought to be a cause. Continued treatment improves PR without severe sequelae. We report a 41 year-old female patient with tuberculous meningitis(TBM) who developed brainstem tuberculomaduring the course of ATT, after about 9 months of treatment as a paradoxical response to ATT. Early identification, continuation of ATT with steroids and ventriculoperitoneal shunting to relieve raised intracranial pressure resulted in complete recovery of our patient. Clinicians should be aware of this phenomenon as it can lead to clinical worsening as late as 9 months. The objective of this case report is to increase knowledge of clinicians about this phenomenon and also to report its such late occurrence.
Niazi, Farheen and Badshah, Mazhar (2016) "Brainstem tuberculoma as a manifestation of paradoxical reaction in a patient with tuberculous meningitis.," Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS): Vol. 11 : Iss. 3 , Article 3.
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I'd love to know the story about why someone ripped up this particular part of the Telstar display in the US Space Park. August 1964.
Had to be souvenir hunting.
Here's an AP photo from the same event (you can see the same two figures and the Mona Lisa). Evidently it was televised to Europe.
Mike Kraus's photo is not dated, but shows a bit of that panel. At first glance I thought it might be Lyndon Johnson and wondered if they replaced the Kennedy photo with an LBJ photo.
...but then I found the AP picture and others from the event, which identify the person as Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
This was the Mona Lisa on loan to the U.S. which was televised to Europe.
This photo was taken during the unveiling at the National Gallery in January of 1963. The painting was also displayed at the Metropolitan in NYC that same year but was nearly ruined when a fire sprinkler broke. I don't know if the French government has forbidden future loans of the Mona Lisa but it has determined it, and a number of other art works in French museums, can never be sold. It's ironic considering the Mona Lisa is an Italian masterpiece created by the Florentine Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci. It may have been purchased by French nobility about 1518 and it spent decades at Fountainebleu until Louis XIV, who demanded all great art become a possession of the Bourbons, moved it to Versailles. In later years, Napoleon had it installed in his private quarters in the Tuileries in Paris. Once it found its way to the Louvre, it was moved into hiding during three wars---Franco Prussian, World War One, World War Two.
As for the Pieta, Craig is probably correct in that there were some Italian concerns when it was sent to NYC. However, it is the possession of Vatican City. Italy has no control over it.


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Cuomo Blasts Syracuse U Leadership After White-Supremacist Manifesto Allegedly AirDropped to Students
Olivia Messer
The Daily Beast November 19, 2019
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday blasted leadership at Syracuse University for its handling of ongoing hate speech and racist harassment on campus, which escalated overnight when a white-supremacist manifesto was allegedly AirDropped to some students' cell phones.
The university's Department of Public Safety announced in a campus-wide email early Tuesday morning that it was investigating reports that the hate manifesto, which students told The Daily Beast was the same one used by the Christchurch mosque shooter, was sent to student phones at Bird Library at around 1 a.m. It was also posted in an online discussion forum about Greek life just after 10 p.m., The Daily Orange, the student newspaper, reported.
"The hateful activities at Syracuse University are most disturbing, not only to the Syracuse University community, but to the greater community of New York," Cuomo said in a press release on Tuesday afternoon. "They have not been handled in a manner that reflects this state's aggressive opposition to such odious, reckless, reprehensible behavior. That these actions should happen on the campus of a leading New York university makes this situation even worse."
Earlier this month, Cuomo ordered state agencies to investigate hate speech on the upstate school's campus.
The university's DPS is working with the Syracuse Police Department, New York State Police, and the FBI to investigate the quickly escalating situation on campus, but the university's DPS said there was no "specific" threat to the school Tuesday, The Daily Orange reported.
In response to the events overnight, protesters have asked that the administration cancel classes and campus events.
"Students are scared for their own safety," tweeted Josh Meyers, a Syracuse student journalist, on Tuesday morning. "Campus is looking extra empty this morning."
"Students are truly terrified here," he told The Daily Beast.
The screed shared on Tuesday marks the 11th racist incident reported on campus since Nov. 6, including the Saturday night harassment of a black student by members of a fraternity who allegedly yelled the n-word at her as she waited for a bus. Others have included anti-Semitic and anti-Asian graffiti in the form of a swastika and slurs. The n-word was also reportedly found scribbled in residence halls and a physics building. In another incident, a student loudly yelled a racial slur against black Americans. Separately, a Chinese freshman reported a racial epithet being used against him.
University Chancellor Kent Syverud said in a letter to students and staff Sunday that he was "deeply angered by these events" and hours later announced a $50,000 reward for any evidence that leads to "the apprehension of the individual or individuals responsible for these heinous acts." The money came from a "generous" donor, he said. Otherwise, anyone with relevant information about the spate of incidents is encouraged to contact the Department of Public Safety directly.
But Cuomo said Tuesday, after hours of silence from the university administration in the wake of the manifesto's alleged release: "Despite his efforts, I do not believe Chancellor Syverud has handled this matter in a way that instills confidence."
"As we have learned repeatedly, these increasing exhibitions of hate and bigotry must be handled strongly, swiftly and justly," said Cuomo, who also called for the school's board of trustees to install a monitor. "That must be both the reality and the perception. Syracuse University and its leadership have failed to do that. It is your obligation to remedy the situation immediately."
The monitor, Cuomo said, must "effectively investigate these incidents, clearly communicate the facts with the board and to the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force and recommend a decisive strategy to address both the specific incidents and behavior."
Syracuse University Offers $50,000 Reward for Information About Racist Incidents on Campus
Earlier this week, after it became clear that one of the hate incidents originated from a fraternity on campus, Syverud suspended Alpha Chi Rho and—in one fell swoop—directed the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs to suspend all social activities of fraternities for the remainder of the semester.
"While only one fraternity may have been involved in this particular incident, given recent history, all fraternities must come together with the university community to reflect upon how to prevent recurrence of such seriously troubling behavior," Syverud said.
An ongoing campus sit-in has been staged by black students leading a movement called #NotAgainSU, which also organized a boycott of Syracuse basketball games. The sit-in began last Wednesday at 10:30 a.m., and dozens of students have joined the effort inside the school's Barnes Center at The Arch—a brand-new $50 million recreational complex. Participants have been holding signs that read "Black Safety Matters" and sharing their frustration on social media.
Early Tuesday morning, demonstrators asked the administration to cancel all classes and campus events until further notice.
"These active threats targeting students should be taken seriously and handled with a sense of urgency," said a statement from the group on Tuesday. "We believe that students should stay in spaces where they feel the most comfortable, as safety is paramount."
The demonstrators have vowed not to end the protest until all of their demands—including the expulsion of students involved in what they've called the "November Hate Crimes"—are met.
"The safety of students on this campus—specifically the safety of underrepresented and underserved students—is paramount," the group said Monday in a press release.
"I've never felt less safe on campus than I do right now," said Claire Bauerle, an 18-year-old Syracuse freshman. Bauerle told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that she, a white student, wants students of color to know they are supported.
"People aren't involved just to be involved," the Chicago native said.
"It's awful," Bauerle added, emphasizing that students are afraid that it will escalate into a shooting. "It doesn't feel real. It's like walking through an awful nightmare."
"Whether or not tonight's threat is credible, it's tremendously irresponsible if #Syracuse doesn't cancel classes," broadcast journalism major Sam Gelfand—a native of Parkland, Fla.— tweeted just after 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
"People on this campus, myself included, are shaken, frightened, and fatigued. This is no environment for academics right now. Just let people go home," he added.
Gelfand, a sophomore, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that he was "down the street from the Stoneman Douglas shooting while it occurred"—when 17 people died in one of the nation's most harrowing school shootings in February 2018—and that while on campus at Syracuse today he found himself "drawing parallels."
"I was terrified last night," Gelfand, who is Jewish, said. "These hateful incidents have consumed our lives; it's all we can talk about."
The "lackluster response" from the administration and the DPS is, Gelfand added, "inexcusable."
Professors, meanwhile, were not immune to the campus tension. Several tweeted that they had either canceled classes or would not penalize students who chose not to attend Tuesday.
"I will support and advocate for any students who choose not to go to class today," Prof. Genevieve García de Müeller tweeted. "I support the students protesting and I urge the chancellor to uptake their demands in a serious and systemic way."
She added: "Most of my students have said they are not going to campus today. As a Mexican and Jewish woman I don't feel safe going to campus. This is a direct attack. First and foremost I care about the safety of my students."
Late Tuesday afternoon, after days of intense national scrutiny, leaders at the university released a detailed, 11-page list of proposed campus changes, including a $1 million commitment to implement the responses over the next year. After meetings with a group of international students and protesters, Syverud said administrators have promised specific responses to each of the concerns voiced by students, including revisions to the student code of conduct, curriculum changes, increased access to resources, and better security.
"As Chancellor, I take very seriously these immediate priorities, and commit to promptly achieving them, as well as to supporting the other important measures in the responses," said Syverud.
Kathy Walters, chair of Syracuse University's Board of Trustees, later praised the plan's comprehensiveness.
"What he and members of his leadership team put forward is a plan with actionable solutions with real timelines, real deliverables, real resources and real accountability," she said. "That's what our students are asking for, that's what our students deserve."
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The Histocompatibility Committee (the Committee) is charged with reviewing the equivalency tables in Policy 4.10: Reference Tables of HLA Antigen Values and Split Equivalences and recommending any updates as needed. During the 2016-2017 review of the equivalency tables, the Committee identified a need to include HLA-DPB1 equivalences in policy. The Committee created a DPB1 unacceptable antigen equivalency table that includes G allele equivalences, and also made updates the existing tables to reflect advancements in HLA testing since the last comprehensive update. This proposal also updates the nomenclature in all equivalency tables in policy. By updating the equivalency tables, members have a current resource to use when performing and interpreting final crossmatches and considering organ offers. For candidates with antibodies to newly added antigens, these updates can help improve graft survival. The table updates in this proposal will provide members with new antigen equivalences that can help them make more informed transplantation decisions.
The Committee is looking for feedback on the inclusion of HLA-DPB1 G alleles in Table 4-14: HLA DPB1 Unacceptable Antigen Equivalences. Specifically, the Committee would like to hear from the community about the relevance and importance of including DPB1 G alleles in an equivalency table. The Committee also welcomes the opportunity for any feedback on the changes to the equivalency tables.
Research and Policy provide implementation support.
IT implementation effort is large. It includes updates for existing equivalency and matching tables, updating CPRA for candidates, creating new fields, and adjusting for match policy.
Research provides implementation support and monitors data after implementation.
Policy provides implementation support during internal meetings with IT and preparing updates for the Committee.
Lab: Implementation and ongoing effort associated with the update is minimal. If the update encourages labs to use higher resolution products, this could be a variable or optional cost. The update also allows staff to enter additional alleles for matching and unacceptables, which may require more time.
Hospital and OPO: Minimal or no impact.


I would like to announce that I do not like this clown.
This clown is, of course, based on the movie IT, a movie I am too scared to see. (I am also too scared to read the book or view the 1990 miniseries.) It is currently making people's lives worse at the TransWorld Halloween & Attractions Trade Show in St. Louis.
You can watch this video if you want, but I will not be viewing it a second time. I am done. This clown is bad, and I do not wish to see this clown again.


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Last updated 1/6/2020 at 1:32pm
The first day of legal sales of recreational marijuana in Illinois went "extraordinarily well," according to one industry representative, with total sales on Jan. 1 of nearly $3.2 million.
"I just I cannot express the gratitude from the dispensary operators to our customers about their courtesy and civility and patience. It was really a lovely, very successful rollout, I think, on the first day," Pamela Althoff, executive director of the Cannabis Business Association of Illinois, said in an interview Thursday.
On New Year's Day, Illinois became the 11th state to allow legal sales of recreational marijuana to adults. As the clock ticked down to midnight on New Year's Eve, many dispensaries were reporting long lines outside their stores, in some cases stretching around their block.
The much-anticipated event was made possible by passage of a new law during the 2019 legislative session, the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, which legalized the sale, possession and use of marijuana for people 21 and older.
Former state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, an architect of that law who now serves as Gov. J.B. Pritzker's senior advisor for cannabis control, reported during a news conference Thursday that dispensaries across the state conducted 77,128 transactions on Jan. 1, with sales totaling more than $3.1 million.
That happened despite a few snags on the opening day of sales, Althoff said.
First, she said, there were glitches in the software that dispensaries use at the point of sale, which contributed to long wait times. Previously, dispensaries were allowed to sell only to qualified medical patients, but now they must keep close track of both medical and recreational sales, which are taxed differently.
Adjustments made by the software company to address that change, Althoff said, caused a few problems.
"There were a few glitches, not everywhere, but in a few of the dispensaries," she said. "... But my understanding is that they were rapidly corrected. But it did add to some of the wait times that people experienced."
In addition, she said, many dispensary operators had made design changes to their stores to accommodate a larger retail clientele, but state officials had not yet inspected all of those changes and some dispensaries were unable to open for recreational sales on Jan. 1.
And then there were issues of supply. Under the new law, Althoff said, medical dispensaries, which were the first to receive licenses for recreational sales, are required to keep a 30-day supply of marijuana products for their medical customers, leaving only a limited amount of inventory available for recreational customers.
She said supply shortages are expected to continue until April or May, when cultivation centers that have been licensed to grow recreational marijuana reap their first crop.
NEW LAWS: The state's minimum wage increaseD by $1 to $9.25 hourly on Wednesday, Jan. 1, the first such increase since 2010. The wage will increase to $10 hourly in July before increasing $1 each January until it hits $15 by 2025.
Some new taxes and fees which will help fund a multi-year $45 billion capital infrastructure plan also took effect starting in January.
Registration fees for passenger vehicles increased to $151 from $101, while electric vehicle registration fees increased to $251 annually from $34 every other year.
The licensing fee for a trailer weighing less than 3,000 pounds also raised from $118 from $18, with every weight class above that also seeing a $100 increase.
A new tax on parking garages also took effect as the new year began, with a 6 percent rate applied to hourly and daily garages and a 9 percent rate applied to monthly.
The state will began taxing the value of traded-in vehicles starting after $10,000 of value, down from $20,000.
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Lee Mead: Living the dream
Tim Worsnop
Lee Mead - My Story - A Dream That Became a Reality
Victoria Theatre, Halifax on Saturday, February 16
Star of stage and screen Lee Mead became an instant favourite when he won the 2007 BBC reality casting show Any Dream Will Do and bagged himself the lead role in the revamped West End version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Since then he's starred in a slew of musicals and become familiar to even more TV viewers as Lofty Chiltern, a part written into continuing medical drama series Holby City and Casualty especially for him. Now Lee, who was married to former Eastenders actress and stage star Denise Van Outen is setting out on a 21 date theatre tour - My Story. It is described as a 'stripped down' show that will combine conversation and music and see Lee reflect on his life and career. Audiences will have the chance to listen to Lee reveal the magical moments, the highs the lows, the memories of his life and of course performances of the songs that mean so much to him and his fans and have put him centre stage.
Selected from thousands of performers Lee Mead was thrust into the spotlight for the revival of Joseph, which enjoyed an incredible and extended run. Since then his career has been on an upward tragectory. In the West End he's been in classic musicals as Wicked and Legally Blonde and the touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to name just a few. As a recording artist he's released five albums - the most recent of which Lee Mead 10 Year Anniversary celebrate the years since he won the coveted role of Joseph. Lee has also featured on countless other records including The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Now he shares his life stories directly in an evening that will introduce Lee the showman and as himself. This is a the wonderful stpry of adream that became a reality. This is his story!
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Disney and Comcast May Not Be the Only Ones Going After Fox
The battle between Comcast and Disney could turn out to be just a warmup bout in the fight to gain control of the bulk of 21st Century Fox's media assets. Variety cites Wall Street analyst Barton Crockett saying a major…
'Stranger Things' Star Flees Social Media Site After Coming Under Attack
A young star of the hit Netflix sci-fi series "Stranger Things" shut down her account on Twitter after users posted memes portraying her as homophobic. The AP reports that the memes targeted Millie Bobby Brown, showing the 14-year-old actress with…
Fox Apologizes for Obscene Gesture During World Cup
Coverage of the opening ceremony to the FIFA World Cup in Russia produced an embarrassing moment for Fox Sports, which has issued an apology after U.K. pop star Robbie Williams flipped the bird on live TV, Deadline reports. "The gesture…
Are the Yankees Trying to Buy Back YES Network?
The New York Yankees are said to be considering buying back control of YES Network, after selling off their majority shares in the company starting back in 2012. The New York Post cites sources saying the team is contemplating a…
Nicole Kidman Inks Deal for TV and Film Projects
Oscar-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Nicole Kidman will be making TV series and feature films under a new deal with Amazon Studios. The company issued a statement today announcing the first-look deal with Kidman's Blossom Films production company. The…
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Actress Brie Larson, soon to star as Captain Marvel, is reaching real-life superhero status after receiving one of the top honors at Women In Film's 2018 Crystal + Lucy Awards. In ceremonies Wednesday night at the Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom,…
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Discovery, which announced plans in January to relocate from its global headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., has settled on a new location for the headquarters. The company announced today it has selected 230 Park Avenue South in New York's Flatiron…
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A comedy series that premiered on cable earlier this month got off to a strong ratings start, with Paramount Network announcing that "American Woman" now ranks as ad-supported cable's highest-rated half-hour scripted series premiere in adults 18-40, women 18-49 and…
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The march of time continues at CNN, where the cable channel is readying next month's launch of the latest installment in its series of decade documentaries, "The 2000s." The channel announced today that the series will premiere Sunday, July 8….
Don Cheadle Returns to Showtime
Showtime greenlighted a new comedy series starring and executive produced by Emmy-nominated actor Don Cheadle. "Black Monday" comes is created by showrunners and executive producers David Caspe And Jordan Cahan, and also stars Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall. Cheadle returns…


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Residenset i Würzburg är ett barockpalats som tillhörde furstbiskoporna av Würzburg. Det är sedan 1981 uppsatt på Unescos världsarvslista.

Historik
Residenset byggdes 1720–1744 efter ritningar av Balthasar Neumann under överinseende av furstbiskopen Lothar Franz och hans bror Friedrich Carl von Schönborn. Slottet, vars interiörer fullbordades 1765–1780, anses som ett av de främsta exemplen på överdådig tysk barock med bland annat en mycket berömd trapphall. Den venetianske konstnären Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, assisterad av sin son Domenico, målade ett antal fresker i byggnaden.

Den 16 mars 1945 förstördes stora delar av anläggningen när 225 brittiska Lancasterplan bombade den medeltida staden sönder och samman.

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Nebraska Football hires Jake Peetz as quarterbacks coach
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Nebraska football has announced another roach will be joining their coaching staff. Jake Peetz is expected to join the coaching staff as quarterbacks coach and in an undetermined special-teams role. This was first reported by ESPN's Pete Thamel.
Peetz has experience with head coach Matt Rhule. He worked as the Carolina Panthers running backs coach in 2019, and as their quarterbacks coach in 2020. He has spent several years at the collegiate level. He was an offensive analyst for Alabama in 2013 and 2018. He also was LSU's offensive coordinator in 2021.
His most recent role was with the Los Angeles Rams. While in Los Angeles, he was an offensive assistant under Sean McVay.
Sources: Rams assistant Jake Peetz is expected to join Nebraska as QB coach and an undetermined special teams role. He's the former LSU OC and coached QBs for the Raiders and with Matt Rhule in Carolina. He's a former Nebraska player from 2003-05.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) November 30, 2022
Peetz has certainly risen up the football ranks wherever he has been. Not only that, he has experienced success where he has gone as well. He was an offensive assistant in 2015. He worked with Raiders' quarterback Derek Carr, who was able to put together a season that included 3,987 passing yards, 32 touchdowns, and 13 interceptions.
This marks the second coaching hire for Nebraska football in as many days. The program also hired E. J. Barthel as their running backs coach on Tuesday afternoon. It will be intriguing to see what other moves will be made for this coaching staff, as Rhule looks to put his stamp on the team.
Peetz has a track record of building talent and a track record of development. These two things could be extremely important, as the new coaching staff looks to rebuild the Nebraska football program in a major way.
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Home ASIAN FOOD
Homebound but in high spirits, with home-delivered cocktails
in ASIAN FOOD
If life gives you lemons, make limoncello. If you are handed tomatoes, sip on a Bloody Mary. Mumbai-based Mallika Sarkar may have taken this to heart while celebrating her lockdown birthday recently. Physically distanced from friends but not socially isolated, she organised the party over Zoom — and ordered a batch of premixed cocktails (sans alcohol) from the bar Social, popular with her set in pre-Covid times. The mixes were delivered to her and each of her friends individually, and the fiery Bloody Marys (with alcohol added from home bars) got the party going.
The way young, metropolitan India was used to socialising has been turned upside down in the last few months. Yet despite the closure of restaurants and bars, alcohol still remains a big part of our lives: whether it is to deal with the stress in Covid-19 times, to wind down for the day, or meet friends, albeit virtually.
Living room mixologists
In India, liquor sales may have been hit during lockdown, but now all eyes are on home bars to rev up spirits. Literally. Brands,retailers, professional bartenders and influencers are focussing on ways to engage with consumers at home. Consumers, for their part, are moving on from plain vanilla drinks, to paying more attention to what is in their glass — not just the quality of spirits (which is invariably better at home when people are likely to drink in a more discerning way than while bar-hopping on a budget) but also the mixers, garnishes and the ice that go into their drinks.
Globally, in pandemic-hit capitals such as New York, one category that has been cheering up otherwise beleaguered restaurants is high quality to-go cocktails. Authorities in the Big Apple allowed restaurants serving food to also home deliver cocktails, wine and spirits in March, and since then, homebound customers seem to be going all out for well-balanced Negronis, Martinis and Manhattans.
Research firm, Nielsen, reported that the category of home-delivered premixed cocktails had shot up by over 75% by the end of March, outperforming even wine that grew by 66%. In fact, chef Sujan Sarkar, whose restaurant, Rooh, in Chicago has been delivering three-course menus successfully (commanding a higher $45 per meal price than many takeaways), says that customers are even demanding things like square ice cubes to enhance their drinking experience.
Local flavours
In India, the cocktail culture had been growing steadily in the last few years, but was still nowhere close to what you'd find in other global cities like London or Singapore. Despite the emerging cult of the Negroni, sales were led by weekend binge-drinking, claustrophobic events, or over-priced shots. The culture of small cocktail bars where people could converse and savour well-made drinks was hardly pervasive even in more alcohol-friendly markets such as Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
Home-delivered cocktails may change that. Some of our best establishments are luring millennial customers with artisanal premixes sans spirits (because delivery of alcohol-laced cocktails is not permitted in India). Social recently launched SocialMixers in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chandigarh, with mixes made using seasonal ingredients and prepared in individual outlet kitchens.
Siddharth Wadia of Brown-Forman Worldwide LLC
Then there is Masque, the luxury restaurant in Mumbai, which is delivering two delicious mixes made by chef Prateek Sadhu, to be ordered alongside food. These include Limetter, a cordial made with smoked sweet lime (add gin or vodka at home), and The Terra, made from turmeric, ginger and honey. Both have been doing very well.
In Delhi, bars like Sidecar are offering bael (wood apple) and elderflower-basil spritzers delivered in serves of four to six people, with instructions on how to blend these with alcohol at home. As celebrity mixologist Nitin Tiwari, of Together At 12th in Gurugram, points out, "Bottled premixers and pre-batched drinks are becoming popular because when people are drinking at home, they are more conscious about quality. Local bars are using seasonal ingredients such as wood apples, turmeric, mangoes and tamarind, which can be made into cordials."
Big brands, big winners?
Meanwhile, liquor brands are hoping to up the game on their luxury portfolios; the rationale being that people at home invariably consume higher quality of alcohol (albeit in more limited quantities). In pre-Covid days, the majority of marketing spends for big brands were directed at eyeball-grabbing, high-energy events such as music or fashion festivals — enabling consumption within bars — but now the accent has shifted to online engagements that educate the customer as to the legacy, taste profile and other attributes of the spirit and brand.
While earlier, the average budget for a three-day music festival, attracting 2,000 to 3,000 people per day, could be as much as ₹50 lakh by a liquor brand, now these kinds of approaches have been recalibrated to focus on in-home consumption. "The biggest shift is to move our resources to engage with consumers on digital and at retail stores," says Siddharth Wadia, of Brown-Forman Worldwide LLC. Social media sessions where consumers can interact with global brand ambassadors, learn to make cocktails using kitchen ingredients, and participate in online quizzes are some ways in which campaigns are happening. "We are seeing consumers more inclined to experiment and go deeper into knowing what they are drinking. Our initiatives such as Grant's Triple Wood Trivia Nights online and Monkey Kitchen Cocktails [with Monkey Shoulder] have been very successful," says Payal Nijhawan, Head of Marketing, William Grant & Sons India, with brands such as Glenfiddich and Grant's.
Bacardi @home
While most liquor brands are focusing on educating the customer, some are looking at online engagements through art and culture. Bacardi India — with brands such as Bombay Sapphire, Dewar's, and Breezer — has been running campaigns around lockdown art, collabs with chefs, virtual music concerts, and encouraging people to dance to #BreezerShuffle while doing household chores.
Most luxury brands say they get around 250-300 people viewing each online session. It is a far more sedate engagement, where the assumption is that the Indian customer at home is actually as thirsty for knowledge as for the beverage. This means that, eventually, premium brands may be the biggest gainers. While lockdown and high taxation in states such as Delhi have seen business suffer, Sanjeev Banga, president, International Business, Radico Khaitan (with brands such as Jaisalmer gin and Rampur whisky) says luxury brands will see an increase in sales. "When you drink less, you always drink premium," he quips.
He is right. The days of endless Long Island Iced Teas in bars may be over for a while, but we can sip (attentively) on a perfect Martini — balanced between the juniper of the gin and the herbal of the dry vermouth, stirred not shaken — while comparing it with the smooth Belvedere Vodkatini we may contemplate next.
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Quizzes on Reading
Betrand Russell, "The Value of Philosophy"
Plato, "Apology: Defence of Socrates"
Saint Anselm, "The Ontological Argument"
Saint Thomas Aquinas, "The Existence of God"
William Paley, "Natural Theology"
Blaise Pascal, "The Wager"
Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not a Christian"
David Hume, "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion"
Gottfried Leibniz, "God, Evil and the Best of All Possible Worlds"
John Perry, "Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God"
Edmund L. Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"
René Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"
Christopher Grau, "Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine: Philosophy and The Matrix"
Robert Nozick, Excerpt from Philosophical Explanations
David Hume, "Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses"
David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"
W. C. Salmon, "The Problem of Induction"
Bertrand Russell, "The Argument from Analogy for Other Minds"
Gilbert Ryle, "Descartes's Myth"
David M. Armstrong, "The Nature of Mind"
Daniel Dennett, "Intentional Systems"
Paul M. Churchland, "Eliminative Materialism"
Frank Jackson, "What Mary Didn't Know"
A. M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"
John Perry, "A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality"
Bernard Williams, "The Self and the Future"
Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity"
J. David Velleman, "So it Goes"
Daniel Dennett, "Where Am I?"
Roderick M. Chisholm, "Human Freedom and the Self"
Peter van Inwagen, "The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will"
David Hume, "Of Liberty and Necessity"
Harry G. Frankfurt, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility"
John Martin Fischer, "Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility"
Harry G. Frankfurt, "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person"
Thomas Nagel, "Moral Luck"
Jeremy Bentham, "The Principle of Utility"
John Stuart Mill, "Utilitarianism"
E. F. Carritt, "Criticisms of Utilitarianism"
J. J. C. Smart, "Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism"
Bernard Williams, "Utilitarianism and Integrity"
Peter Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality"
Immanuel Kant, "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals"
J. David Velleman, "A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics"
Onora O'Neill, "Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems"
Thomas Nagel, "War and Massacre"
Rosalind Hursthouse, "Right Action"
John Rawls, "A Theory of Justice"
Robert Nozick, "Justice and Entitlement"
G. A. Cohen, "Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice"
John Stuart Mill, "The Subjection of Women"
Debra Satz, "Markets in Women's Reproductive Labor"
Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Racisms"
Thomas Nagel, "The Absurd"
Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Richard Taylor, "The Meaning of Human Existence"
Susan Wolf, "The Meanings of Lives"
Thomas Nagel, "Sexual Perversion"
Alan Goldman, "Plain Sex"
Anthony Brueckner and John Martin Fischer, "Why is Death Bad?"
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According to Wolf, what is problematic about asking for the Meaning of Life?
a. The question is unanswerable.
b. The question is obscure.
c. The question has an obvious answer.
d. The question isn't important.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a meaningful life, according to Wolf?
a. Active engagement in something useful.
b. Active engagement in projects of value.
c. Active engagement in projects that are somewhat successful.
d. Active engagement in projects that repetitive.
Which of the following is false, according to Wolf?
a. Morally good people can live meaningful lives.
b. Morally bad people can live meaningful lives.
c. Morally good people cannot live meaningless lives.
d. Morally bad people can live meaningless lives.
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Hyundai Kona Electric facelift arrives with bold new look
The Hyundai Kona Electric has been revised with a bold new look and a series of technology upgrades
by: Luke Wilkinson
A facelifted version of the Hyundai Kona Electric has been unveiled. It's due to go on sale in the UK early next year with a restyled nose, a mildly reworked cabin and a host of additional safety equipment. Range is unchanged, with the 64kWh model retaining its 300-mile capability.
Hyundai's cosmetic revisions focus on making the Kona Electric look less like its combustion engined sibling, and more like a purpose-built EV. To achieve this, the petrol car's radiator grille and front bumper have been replaced by a smoothed nose cone, which also brings slight aerodynamic improvements over the pre-facelifted model. Hyundai has also added a pair of vertical inlets on the front bumper, reducing the amount of turbulent air in the front wheel arches to minimise drag.
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The new front bumper is complemented by a fresh set of daytime running lights and new LED headlights. The old car's black body mouldings are now colour-coded, while the rear lights have also been updated. Hyundai will offer five new paint finishes, taking the Kona Electric's total number of colour choices to 10.
As with the recently revised combustion-engined Kona, buyers also get Hyundai's latest 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster, taken from the new i20 supermini. The old Kona's 10.25-inch infotainment system is carried forward onto the updated model, offering support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
There's also a new ambient lighting system for the driver and passenger footwell and two new interior colour packages, offering buyers the choice of black or two-tone grey upholstery, in cloth or leather.
Hyundai's engineers have applied updates to the electric crossover's safety equipment, too. New features for the facelifted model include blind-spot and rear cross-traffic collision avoidance systems, along with a safe exit warning system that informs passengers if there's approaching traffic when they go to leave the vehicle.
Like the old model, the facelifted Hyundai Kona Electric is offered with a choice of two drivetrains. The entry-level model features a 39.2kWh battery pack and a 134bhp electric motor, which gives the crossover a top speed of 96mph and a maximum range of 189 miles.
Hyundai's long-range electric drivetrain comprises a 64kWh battery pack and a 201bhp electric motor, which increase the Kona's maximum range to 300 miles. The crossover's top speed also climbs to 104mph and, when plugged into a 100kW fast-charger, the EV will recover an 80 per cent charge in as little as 47 minutes.
What do you make of the updated Hyundai Kona Electric? Let us know in the comments section below…
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The Reverend Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason is an experienced educator, fellowshipped minister, and licensed psychotherapist (LICSW) who offers Spiritual Direction to individuals, groups, and organizations. She is a noted speaker on the crucial intersections of spirituality and psychotherapy and has offered workshops at and lectures at universities, hospitals, congregations, national conferences, and retreat centers; she is also a prize-winning writer and anthologized essayist. In 2017, the American Association of Pastoral Counselors gave her a Distinguished Contribution Award for "vital contributions to the field of pastoral care and counseling" and her "innovative and visionary leadership" in institutional settings in her region.
Since her ordination by The Community Church of New York, Unitarian Universalist in 2006, she has occupied a host of roles in higher education, counseling centers, and faith communities in both New York and New England. In June 2022, she affiliated with the historic Arlington Street Church in downtown Boston as its Community Minister for Spiritual Direction.
Before moving to the Boston area in 2018 to serve a congregation, TRD worked in New York City, where she acted as Managing Director for the Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute, Curriculum Co-Chair for the Association for Spirituality & Psychotherapy, and a Director of Pastoral Care & Counseling Programs at the Blanton-Peale Institute. She taught on faculty at the Columbia University Spirituality Mind-Body Institute at Teachers College, the Fordham University Graduate School of Religion, and Union Theological Seminary, where she was also Pastoral Counselor on the Manhattan campus. Presently she is a Trainer and Mentor for the Apprenticeship Program at the Phoenix Center for Spiritual Direction.
TRD has worked for her denomination and ministers association at the district level, serving as the In Care/In Covenant Coordinator for those in formation in Metro New York to become religious professionals and spiritual leaders. Additionally, she has worked as a clinical supervisor in a number of practice settings. She has a specialty in trauma work and volunteered for years as a member of the UU Trauma Response Ministry. From 2016-2018, she was Community Minister of the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn; from 2018-2021, she was Senior Minister to the UU Society of Wellesley Hills. In 2022, she completed training as Spiritual Director and became a member of the UU Spiritual Direction Spiritual Network as well as Spiritual Directors International (SDI).
Raised in southern New England, TRD was educated at Catholic and girls' schools before studying literature and creative writing at Harvard College and the University of Michigan. She graduated with honors from Harvard and as a Colby Fellow at Michigan, she won the 1995 Hopwood Award for Major Essay. She later taught in the English Department at George Washington University and worked as a book reviewer for Washington area newspapers. In 1997, she was named a member of the National Book Critics Circle. That same year she also resided at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts on a Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship. Throughout her career, TRD has been fascinated by sacred story and narrative knowing; even today, she continue to explore their many therapeutic, educative, and spiritual implications. She now writes book reviews for the SDI quarterly journal Presence.
Her dual professional degrees were completed at Union Theological Seminary and the Columbia University School of Social Work, and TRD later earned a doctorate from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Pastoral Care & Counseling Psychology. TRD has published numerous articles in the popular press as well as in the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, writing on such topics as "The Sacrament of Gratitude" and "Story as Scripture, Therapy, Ritual". Her interests include narrative practice, trauma studies, feminist theologies, Twelve-Step Recovery, religious literacy, logotherapy, contemplative practices, spiritual autobiography, interfaith dialogue, Universalism, yoga, and American Transcendentalist thought. An anthologized essayist, she has an essay titled "Like Trees: Cultivating Spiritual Practices" is forthcoming in the 2022 volume Praying the Poets.
Today TRD occasionally consults with faith groups on mental health and human flourishing. TRD has served on a number of boards, including those for the Unitarian Universalist Society for Ministerial Relief, the Universalist National Memorial Church, the Murray Grove Association, the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship, the Association for Spirituality & Psychotherapy, the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, and the UU Society for Community Ministries, where she was also its Good Officer.
Currently, she lives outside Boston with her husband Benjamin Daniel Unger, a physician; they keep a house with two fine felines named Luna and Stella and a tank full of tropical fish. She is the convener and Chair of the Spirituality & Flourishing Interest Group in the Flourishing Network at the Harvard University Human Flourishing Program and also a coordinator of the the Greater Boston Regional SDI Gathering of Spiritual Directors, Companions, and Guides.
Further information about The Reverend Dr. and her work is available at her Linked-In profile at www.linkedin.com/in/kellymurphymason.


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 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
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Marvel announces new Captain Carter comic about What If...? breakout character
The five-issue series, launching in March, will be written by Jamie McKelvie with art by Marika Cresta.
Christian Holub
By Christian Holub December 10, 2021 at 05:05 PM EST
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The idea of Peggy Carter taking the super-soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers is quite an intriguing one. Once you hear about it, it's hard to let go. Anyone who wants to see more of Captain Carter in the wake of her popular appearances in the Disney+ animated series What If...? is in luck, because Marvel announced Friday that they are launching a new five-issue Captain Carter comic series in March.
Marvel first rolled out a Captain America version of Peggy Carter in the mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest, where she proved so popular she was soon brought into the comics in the pages of Exiles by Saladin Ahmed and Javier Rodriguez. Hayley Atwell's onscreen portrayal of Peggy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (first in Captain America: The First Avenger, then in her own TV series Agent Carter) boosted the character's mainstream popularity, but also made her British. So the sight of her wielding a vibranium shield emblazoned with the American flag just didn't make sense after a while (at least outside of the anything goes multiversal odyssey of Exiles). So when it was time to bring supersoldier Peggy into the MCU in the first episode of What If...?, Captain Carter was given straightforwardly British insignia.
It's that version that will star in the new Captain Carter comic written by Jamie McKelvie with art by Marika Cresta (Star Wars: Doctor Aphra). McKelvie is best known as an artist (especially for his collaborations with writer Kieran Gillen on critically acclaimed 2010s comics like Young Avengers and The Wicked + the Divine) and a character designer (he's responsible for both the modern Captain Marvel look and Kamala Khan's original Ms. Marvel suit). You can see his character design for Captain Carter below, as well as his cover for the first issue. Cresta will handle the interior art.
Captain Carter
The cover to 'Captain Carter' #1 by Jamie McKelvie
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Jamie McKelvie's character design for the 'Captain Carter' comic book.
| Credit: Marvel
"I'm as big a fan of the Captain Carter we've seen onscreen as anybody, so I jumped at the chance to create our own version," McKelvie said in a statement. "I'm having a great time exploring what it would be like for Peggy to wake up nearly 80 years after the end of the war. The world remembers the myth of Captain Carter, but to Peggy the reality was just yesterday. Now she finds herself in a nearly unrecognizable new world, how does she fit in? Can she be the superhero people want her to be?"
McKelvie continued, "Exploring these questions has been really exciting, and I love the world Marika and I have come up with. I can't wait for people to see Marika's pages — there's so much life and energy to Peggy and the rest of the cast, and the action scenes are stunning."
Captain Carter #1 will be available starting on March 9.
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Highlights: Bentley follows the Lambo route with the Supersports, the fastest, lightest, most powerful Continental - indeed Bentley - ever produced.
Named after a 1925 top-shelf variant (below), the new SS pumps out 463kW and 800Nm from the good ol' 6.0-litre W12, and clocks 100km/h in just 3.7secs.
Top speed is 329km/h, and it's 110kg lighter than the already slimmed-down GT Speed. And it's a flex-fuel car, accepting E85 as well as 98RON.
At last, a fast Bentley you can take seriously. But how does the 320km/h Continental GT like Aussie turf?


To add to my yellow brick road journey through life, I met up last week with Miss Pinup Australia 2016, Miss Jade, a beautiful lady who I know through photography as well as fan following on social media. I really wanted to take some photos of her in a glamorous setting to show you all how this lady is overcoming a huge and unexpected obstacle in her life. I felt so many feelings that night!
Let's backtrack a year ago and I was photographing a group of beautiful 50s looking ladies and Jade was one of them. I had been following her on social media for a while before then so already felt like I was shooting one of the pinup greats. I instantly loved her personality and as a photographer she was great to shoot.
A year has gone by and recently I started seeing Jade totally rocking this glammed up turban look on Instagram. Honestly I just thought she had found a new look and wow it suited her. Then a video was posted which I had to watch a second and third time, Jade was showing her followers what she currently looks like from no makeup to her full pinup look. Just one thing was different, she was bald and talking about chemo. I had no words.
I contacted Jade to ask if she would like to meet and tell me her story for this blog to which she kindly accepted. Which takes us back to the Polit bar on Friday night. We chat over a drink and I must say I felt totally underdressed next to her!
She told me few months back she discovered a lump in her breast, something she hadn't felt before. After a Dr's visit and tests she went back to the Dr to be told very frankly it's cancer. Treatment started immediately with chemo visits regularly. Jade was told hair loss would most likely start 14 days after her first chemo session so she prepared mentally for what was to come and eventually the leap to shave it off after falling out.
To give context, Jade freaking loves pinup, she lives and breathes it and when she said "it's all about the hair, you know getting that height and playing with it and now I don't have any", my heart broke for her. But no, she took it in her stride though and although having bad days she decided to share on social media the reality of it but also gave hope to others with her positiveness.
Jade had looked into wig options but it just wasn't feeling right or totally her and she told me "Belle, I just didn't want to look like a chemo patient". She started experimenting with scarves and diamonte brooches and became 'The Turbanator'. Her 2 kids even said 'Now you look like our mum' because it suits her look so much.
We talked about celebrities in the media that have come out about breast cancer before but you don't seem to see the struggles and the hair loss and the sickness, just the getting better part. Jade has found that sharing her videos and photos has given encouragement to others in her situation whilst making her feel positive about her own journey.
She has two rounds of chemo left and then onto surgery and radiotherapy, so still quite a bit to go but looking and feeling positive. Jade really expressed to me that dressing up each day and her pinup community has given her so much and makes her feel happy. She even goes full pinup and glam-turban to go to chemo sessions, I can imagine she would be the best dressed there.
We all wish the best for Jade with the rest of the treatment and thankyou for Just being you and so honest and brave.
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Emily Browning at 2017 Sundance NEXT FEST in Los Angeles.
Emily Browning as Babydoll in "Sucker Punch."
Emily Browning at the California premiere of "Sucker Punch."
Arielle Kebbel as Alex and Emily Browning as Anna in "The Uninvited."
Emily Browning at the LOreal Paris 2005 AFI Awards.
Emily Browning at the LOreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2007 program launch.
Emily Browning at the opening of the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival.
Emily Browning at the special screening of "Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events."
Emily Browning at the LOreal Paris Runway 1 show as part of LOreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2007.
Emily Browning at the LOreal Paris 2007 AFI Awards Dinner.
Elizabeth Banks as Rachel and Emily Browning as Anna in "The Uninvited."
Emily Browning at the Lexus Inside Film Awards InStyle brunch.
Emily Browning as Anna and Jesse Moss as Matt in "The Uninvited."
Emily Browning at the Lexus Inside Film Awards nominee announcement.
Emily Browning as Cassia in "Pompeii."
David Strathairn as Stephen and Emily Browning as Anna in "The Uninvited."
Emily Browning at the 2005 Lexus Inside Film Awards.
Emily Browning as Anna in "The Uninvited."
Emily Browning as Anna and Elizabeth Banks as Rachel in "The Uninvited."
Emily Browning at the LOreal Melbourne Fashion Festival opening party.
Emily Browning as Anna and Arielle Kebbel as Alex in "The Uninvited."
Emily Browning as Lucy in "Sleeping Beauty."
Emily Browning at the European premiere of "Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events."