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#WriteHereWriteNow: How to make the most of direct speech
We love direct speech.
As writers, nothing brings life to our work more the actual words people say.
Quotes, dialogue, comment — whatever you call it. We need the words of others to add emotion, opinion and drama.
Just try reading a book by the journalist and author Jon Ronson.
The man behind The Psychopath Test and others has made a career out of using direct speech to optimum effect.
But quotes mean handling interviews and therein lies the issue: sometimes interviews go wrong.
Try this clip, for example. Unluckily for the Channel Four News presenter Krishna Guru-Murthy, this car-crash celebrity interview has since gone down in history.
Next step forward Rhys Ifans. The Ruthin-born actor became legendary for all the wrong reasons a few years ago after a magazine interview turned into a study in interview hell.
Handling interviews is not easy and a skill only acquired through practise over time. That, and making mistakes.
We'll be discussing how we use direct speech and how to get the best out of our interviewees at the next #WriteHereWriteNow meeting at Storyhouse, Chester.
Share your experiences and join the conversation before the next meeting by posting below.
Over to you …
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#WriteHereWriteNow: Can we learn to write better?
There is a big difference between interviewing someone who wants to tell their story and someone who doesn't. I think you can learn to write good speech but getting good content is tricky with a reluctant interviewee, as per your example. I also remember Parkinson's interview with Meg Ryan; it was so obvious that appearing on a chat show was not where she wanted to be! Sometimes you get the best quotes when you put your pen down or turn off the recorder!
David Atkinson says:
Thanks for your comment, Helen. That's a great point about turning off the recording device. What do the others think?
Sarah-Jayne says:
I'd be concerned about missing vital information if I didn't have a recording device! At times, I can be busy scribbling down key notes but then miss the next point.
I'm sure knowing shorthand would be useful in this situation! Or knowing how to summarise an interview effectively, in a way that's easy to recall afterwards when putting a written piece together.
True. How do other people keep a record of their interviews whether for books, blogs or articles. Over to you …
I agree 100%with Helen on this. Interviewing someone who actually wants to discuss things is a massive advantage. As a media student I had horrendous experiences interviewing people who either froze as soon as a microphone was placed in front of them, or just didn't want to be there. I also believe that if you have the time, preparation and research is vital. I've recently interviewed a poet who commented that it was nice that I'd actually read their work before speaking to them. The last person who interviewed them hadn't, and it apparently became obvious during the interview and subsequent write up.
I'm new to interviewing people and definitely want to learn more about how to do it well. I'm interested in how to get a good interview with a non-celebrity person, who isn't experienced and PR trained – how to set it up and make them feel comfortable, then how to ask good questions that create interesting quotes. And as Sarah comments – how not to then miss these in my notes!! In terms of these celebrity examples, I'm a reader who prefers to hear an interview about the subject – the film or the book perhaps – rather than their personal life, so I empathise a bit with the celebrity walking out of these pointless questions – but I know there's a lot of demand for this from the Journalists point of view.
Paul Diggory says:
Interesting examples! I thought there were two key factors in the Robert Downey interview: the interviewer didn't strike me as having any real empathy with the DC / Marvel comic genre, but it started to go downhill after his question that assumed he'd become a better person and by implication that he didn't used to be a good person. As Claire says, preparation and research is rewarded and based on that interview, a little respect doesn't harm. I recall reading the Janice Turner / Rhys Ifans interview at the time – it's far more entertains to the reader than a 'successful' celebrity interview would have been. I don't think anyone could have rescued that interview. Grace Jones came up with the solution when she considered Russell Harty to have been rude to her on TV!
I don't have much experience of interviewing others, apart from recruitment situations. I have received very good training on handling interviews which included sessions with a former R4 Today programme presenter who'd interviewed Thatcher, Reagan, etc. It was scary the way he manipulated me through his questions and observations such that it became almost impossible to achieve the outcome I wanted. To secure a good interview with your subject I would think being genuinely interested is important as it's quite seductive. With that in mind I'd prefer to record a session. This allows you to focus your attention on the subject and not just to listen but understand – I think that's difficult when you're trying to capture what's already been said in a pad. It must also be helpful to identify flaws in your interviewing style so you can improve.
Vicki Robinson says:
I did some interviews a few years ago which generally went well. I found doing the early part of the interview by email helpful as it helped the interviewee to relax by giving them thinking space. My biggest challenge was someone with an agenda who tried to take over the conversation. He'd basically written the piece in his head and expected to dictate it to me! I got round it with some clever editing…
Thanks for your comments. Some really interesting points here, especially around the importance of research and empathy. We'll discuss more tomorrow evening.
Conor says:
Very interesting and insightful comments above!
I think you can pick up a lot of added context to an article/story from an interview. That said, I have only done one article on the basis of an interview in recent years and I used quotes from the interviewee, and worked in quotes from colleagues also.
See http://www.chesterbutcher.com/images/SportingShooterOctober2015.pdf
I would not be comfortable using a recording device for an interview. I think that would be a barrier to effective communication. On the other hand in my day to day job I tend to write quotes for colleagues, which colleagues then approve, as this is a more effective use of time in keeping quotes relevant and concise and especially when up against tight deadlines.


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package org.folio.marccat.util;

import org.folio.marccat.business.common.SubfieldCodeComparator;
import org.folio.marccat.model.Subfield;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.*;

/**
 * The Class StringText.
 */
public class StringText implements Serializable {

  /**
   * The Constant serialVersionUID.
   */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = -486513419723833977L;

  /**
   * The subfield list.
   */
  private List subfieldList = new ArrayList();

  /**
   * Instantiates a new string text.
   */
  public StringText() {
  }

  /**
   * Instantiates a new string text.
   *
   * @param a the a
   */
  public StringText(final Subfield a) {
    this();
    addSubfield(a);
  }

  /**
   * Instantiates a new string text.
   *
   * @param stringTextString the string text string
   */
  public StringText(final String stringTextString) {
    parse(stringTextString);
  }

  /**
   * Instantiates a new string text.
   *
   * @param codes  the codes
   * @param values the values
   */
  public StringText(final List<String> codes, final List<String> values) {
    for (int i = 0; i < Math.min(codes.size(), values.size()); i++) {
      this.subfieldList.add(
        new Subfield(codes.get(i), values.get(i)));
    }
  }

  /**
   * String to set of subfield codes.
   *
   * @param str the str
   * @return the sets the
   */
  public static Set stringToSetOfSubfieldCodes(String str) {
    if (str == null) {
      return null;
    }
    Set set = new TreeSet(new SubfieldCodeComparator());
    if (str.startsWith(" ")) {
      /*
       * for historic reasons, this column is not nullable -- the convention
       * has been to put blank to signify that there are no repeatable subfields
       */
      return set;
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
      set.add(String.valueOf(str.charAt(i)));
    }
    return set;
  }

  /**
   * Parses the model xml element content.
   *
   * @param xmlElement the xml element
   * @return the string text
   */
  public static StringText parseModelXmlElementContent(Element xmlElement) {
    String subfieldContent;
    Element content = (Element) xmlElement.getChildNodes().item(0);
    StringText stringText = new StringText();
    NodeList subfieldList =
      content.getElementsByTagName("subfield");
    for (int subfieldIndex = 0;
         subfieldIndex < subfieldList.getLength();
         subfieldIndex++) {
      Element subfieldElement =
        (Element) subfieldList.item(subfieldIndex);
      if (subfieldElement.getChildNodes().item(0) == null) {
        subfieldContent = "";
      } else {
        subfieldContent = subfieldElement.getChildNodes().item(0).getNodeValue();
      }
      Subfield subfield =
        new Subfield(
          subfieldElement.getAttribute("code"),
          subfieldContent);
      stringText.addSubfield(subfield);
    }
    return stringText;
  }

  /**
   * Parses the.
   *
   * @param stringTextString the string text string
   */
  public void parse(final String stringTextString) {
    if (stringTextString != null) {
      StringTokenizer tokenizer =
        new StringTokenizer(
          stringTextString,
          Subfield.SUBFIELD_DELIMITER);
      while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
        this.subfieldList.add(new Subfield(tokenizer.nextToken()));
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Gets the subfield.
   *
   * @param klm the klm
   * @return the subfield
   */
  public Subfield getSubfield(int klm) {
    return (Subfield) this.subfieldList.get(klm);
  }

  /**
   * Gets the number of subfields.
   *
   * @return the number of subfields
   */
  public int getNumberOfSubfields() {
    return this.subfieldList.size();
  }

  /**
   * Adds the subfield.
   *
   * @param subfield the subfield
   */
  public void addSubfield(Subfield subfield) {
    this.subfieldList.add(subfield);
  }

  /**
   * Adds the subfield.
   *
   * @param klm      the klm
   * @param subfield the subfield
   * @return the string text
   */
  public StringText addSubfield(int klm, Subfield subfield) {
    this.subfieldList.add(klm, subfield);
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Equals.
   *
   * @param anObject the an object
   * @return true, if successful
   */
  public boolean equals(Object anObject) {
    if (anObject instanceof StringText) {
      return this.subfieldList.equals(
        ((StringText) anObject).subfieldList);
    }
    return false;
  }

  /* (non-Javadoc)
   * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
   */
  public String toString() {
    Iterator subfields = this.subfieldList.iterator();
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    while (subfields.hasNext()) {
      builder.append(subfields.next());
    }
    return builder.toString();
  }

  /**
   * To display string.
   *
   * @return the string
   */
  public String toDisplayString() {
    String returnString = "";

    Iterator iter = subfieldList.iterator();
    while (iter.hasNext()) {
      final Subfield aStringTextSubField = (Subfield) iter.next();
      returnString = returnString.concat(aStringTextSubField.getContent());
      if (iter.hasNext()) {
        returnString = returnString.concat(" ");
      }
    }
    return returnString;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the marc display string.
   *
   * @return the marc display string
   */
  public String getMarcDisplayString() {
    return getMarcDisplayString("$");
  }

  /**
   * Gets the marc display string.
   *
   * @param subfieldCodeSubstitution the subfield code substitution
   * @return the marc display string
   */
  public String getMarcDisplayString(final String subfieldCodeSubstitution) {
    StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();

    Iterator iter = subfieldList.iterator();
    while (iter.hasNext()) {
      Subfield aStringTextSubField = (Subfield) iter.next();
      result.append(subfieldCodeSubstitution);
      result.append(aStringTextSubField.getCode());
      result.append(aStringTextSubField.getContent());
    }
    return result.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Contains subfield.
   *
   * @param subfield the subfield
   * @return true, if successful
   */
  public boolean containsSubfield(Subfield subfield) {
    return this.subfieldList.contains(subfield);
  }

  /**
   * Gets the subfield list.
   *
   * @return the subfield list
   */
  public List getSubfieldList() {
    return Collections.unmodifiableList(subfieldList);
  }

  /**
   * Adds the.
   *
   * @param text the text
   * @return the string text
   */
  public StringText add(StringText text) {
    if (text != null) {
      for (int i = 0; i < text.getNumberOfSubfields(); i++) {
        addSubfield(text.getSubfield(i));
      }
    }
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the subfields.
   *
   * @param include the include
   * @param exclude the exclude
   * @return the subfields
   */
  public StringText getSubfields(String include, String exclude) {
    return getSubfields(
      stringToSetOfSubfieldCodes(include),
      stringToSetOfSubfieldCodes(exclude));
  }

  /**
   * Gets the subfields.
   *
   * @param include the include
   * @param exclude the exclude
   * @return the subfields
   */
  private StringText getSubfields(Set include, Set exclude) {
    StringText text = new StringText();
    for (int i = 0; i < getNumberOfSubfields(); i++) {
      Subfield s = getSubfield(i);
      if (((include == null) || (include.contains(s.getCode())))
        && ((exclude == null) || (!exclude.contains(s.getCode())))) {
        text.addSubfield((Subfield) s.clone());
      }
    }
    return text;
  }

  /**
   * Order subfields.
   *
   * @param order the order
   * @return the string text
   */
  public StringText orderSubfields(String order) {
    StringText text = new StringText();
    for (int i = 0; i < order.length(); i++) {
      text.add(getSubfieldsWithCodes(order.substring(i, i + 1)));
    }
    return text;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the subfields with codes.
   *
   * @param codes the codes
   * @return the subfields with codes
   */
  public StringText getSubfieldsWithCodes(String codes) {
    return getSubfields(codes, null);
  }

  /**
   * Gets the subfields without codes.
   *
   * @param codes the codes
   * @return the subfields without codes
   */
  public StringText getSubfieldsWithoutCodes(String codes) {
    return getSubfields(null, codes);
  }

  /**
   * Generate model xml element content.
   *
   * @param xmlDocument the xml document
   * @return the element
   */
  public Element generateModelXmlElementContent(Document xmlDocument) {
    Element content = null;
    if (xmlDocument != null) {
      content = xmlDocument.createElement("stringText");
      List subfieldList = getSubfieldList();
      Iterator subfieldIterator = subfieldList.iterator();
      while (subfieldIterator.hasNext()) {
        Subfield subfield = (Subfield) subfieldIterator.next();
        Element subfieldElement =
          xmlDocument.createElement("subfield");
        content.appendChild(subfieldElement);
        subfieldElement.setAttribute(
          "code",
          subfield.getCode());
        Text text =
          xmlDocument.createTextNode(subfield.getContent());
        subfieldElement.appendChild(text);
      }
    }
    return content;
  }

  /**
   * Generate marc xml element content.
   *
   * @param datafield   the datafield
   * @param xmlDocument the xml document
   * @param cclQuery    the ccl query
   */
  public void generateMarcXmlElementContent(Element datafield, Document xmlDocument, String cclQuery) {
    if (xmlDocument != null) {
      List subfieldList = getSubfieldList();
      Iterator subfieldIterator = subfieldList.iterator();
      while (subfieldIterator.hasNext()) {
        Subfield subfield = (Subfield) subfieldIterator.next();
        Element subfieldElement =
          xmlDocument.createElement("subfield");
        datafield.appendChild(subfieldElement);
        subfieldElement.setAttribute(
          "code",
          subfield.getCode());

        Text text =
          xmlDocument.createTextNode(subfield.getContent());
        subfieldElement.appendChild(text);

      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Checks if is empty.
   *
   * @return true if no subfields are present or all the subfields are empty
   */
  public boolean isEmpty() {
    if (getNumberOfSubfields() == 0) return true;
    Iterator it = getSubfieldList().iterator();
    while (it.hasNext()) {
      Subfield s = (Subfield) it.next();
      if (!s.isEmpty()) return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Add punctuation before the given code unless the given excluded punc is already present.
   *
   * @param code         the code
   * @param punc         the punc
   * @param excludedPunc the excluded punc
   */
  public void addPrecedingPunctuation(String code, String punc, String excludedPunc) {
    int subfieldIndex = 0;
    for (Object o : getSubfieldList()) {
      Subfield s = (Subfield) o;
      if (s.getCode().equals(code) && subfieldIndex > 0) {
        Subfield before = getSubfield(subfieldIndex - 1);
        if (!before.getContent().endsWith(excludedPunc)) {
          before.setContent(before.getContent() + punc);
        }
      }
      subfieldIndex++;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Remove the given punctuation if preceding the given subfield code.
   *
   * @param code the code
   * @param punc the punc
   */
  public void removePrecedingPunctuation(String code, String punc) {
    int subfieldIndex = 0;
    for (Object o : getSubfieldList()) {
      Subfield s = (Subfield) o;
      if (s.getCode().equals(code)) {
        if (subfieldIndex > 0) {
          Subfield before = getSubfield(subfieldIndex - 1);
          String bc = before.getContent();
          if (bc.endsWith(punc)) {
            before.setContent(bc.substring(0, bc.length() - punc.length() + 1));
          }
        }
      }
      subfieldIndex++;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Ensures that the given subfield codes end in the given punctuation.
   *
   * @param codes          the codes
   * @param otherTerminals the other terminals
   * @param terminalChar   the terminal char
   * @return true if given subfield is found
   */
  public boolean addTerminalPunctuation(String codes, String otherTerminals, String terminalChar) {
    int subfieldIndex = 0;
    boolean result = false;
    for (Object o : getSubfieldList()) {
      Subfield s = (Subfield) o;
      if (codes.contains(s.getCode())) {
        result = true;
        if (!otherTerminals.contains("" + s.getContent().charAt(s.getContentLength() - 1))) {
          s.setContent(s.getContent() + terminalChar);
        }
      }
      subfieldIndex++;
    }
    return result;
  }

  /**
   * @param klm      index to be set
   * @param subfield value to be set
   * @return this StringText
   */
  public StringText setSubfield(int klm, Subfield subfield) {
    this.subfieldList.set(klm, subfield);
    return this;
  }

}

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Building record BRS 003 - Church of the Most Holy Trinity
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Holy Trinity Church: St Edmundsbury and Ipswich diocese, Suffolk archdeaconry, Beccles and South Elmham deanery.
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CHURCHYARD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
PLAGUE PIT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
ROUND TOWER (Unknown date)
St Edmundsbury and Ipswich diocese, Suffolk archdeaconry, Beccles and South Elmham deanery. Status : rectory. Structure : chancel with sacristy, nave, N aisle, S porch, W round tower with spike. Date : tower base Sax, nave walls Norman, rest early C14.
A meeting of the SIA visited Barsham church in October 1862 and inspected "the remains of a Norman font lately brought to light beneath the foundations of the present one" (S1).
"Round tower with one Norman W window". "Norman masonry and one N window in the nave". The "great surprise is the E wall and E window. The wall is decorated with one bold trellis of stone lozenges or a diagonal stone grid against the flushwork ground, and the E window is simply made part of it, that is traceried all the way through in this diagonal grid. It is a unique conception, and one is at a loss how to date it" (precis) (S2). (See (S2) for full description)
The W tower "is obviously extremely early and probably pre-Conquest". "The present chancel screen is C17 and the pulpit is also Stuart of the square box type. There is the tomb of Sir Edward Echingham 1527 to the N of the sanctuary and in front of it "is an interesting brass, probably Sir Robert atte Tighe 1415. He wears the SS collar, the badge of adherents of the house of Lancaster" (precis) (S3). (For full description see (S3)). NW corner of graveyard traditionally reserved for plague pits - see (S5).
July 1995: From observations made during a recording of the inetrnal elevation of a section of the round tower it was possible to suggest dates for the three stages of the towers construction. The earliest phase of the tower, from ground level up to a point level with the apex of the nave west gable end, can be attributed to a Norman 11th or 12th century date although evidence for this was limited. The second stage was represented by the c.2.75m of tower wall fabric immediately above the stage 1 phase. The four blocked windows recorded in this stage suggestd a c.14th century date for what would have been, prior to the construction f the third stage, the belfry. The third and final phase was represented by the present belfry which was datable from the red brick used in its construction, to the the Tudor Period. The present bellframe is a 19th century Victorian replacement of its Tudor predecessor (S6)(S7).
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<S1> SSF50042 Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. PSIA, 3, 1863, (3), 421.
<M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish file. Parish file: (S5).
<S2> SSF16083 Bibliographic reference: Pevsner N & Radcliffe E. 1974. The Buildings of England: Suffolk. Pevsner N, The Buildings of England-Suffolk, London 1975 (second ed) 87.
<M2> SSF43978 (No record type): Photographs: DJR 1-37.
<S3> SSF3293 Bibliographic reference: Cautley H M. 1975. Suffolk Churches. 221.
<S4> SSF20782 (No record type): SAU, Suffolk Parishes, a guide to their archaeology and history, 1984- 1985, ms.
<S5> SSF2891 (No record type): Buchanan J, letter to SAU (RDC), February 1993, sketch maps.
<S6> SSF19044 Unpublished document: Boulter, S.. 1995. Record of Archaeological Recording: The Church of The Most Holy Trinity, Barsham. SAU, Boulter S, The Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Barsham (BRS 003): Record of Archaeological Rec.
<S7> SSF20390 (No record type): SAU, photographs, DJR 1-37, 1995.
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No better term than this,--thou art a villain.
As dearly as my own,--be satisfied.
Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.
O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!
O, I am fortune's fool!
Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio?
Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!
A crucial scene, which marks the transformation of the play from comedy with tragic elements into full-fledged tragedy.
As Benvolio and Mercutio are walking through Verona, they encounter Tybalt and his henchmen. Tybalt and Mercutio trade insults. Romeo enters, and Tybalt starts insulting him.
Romeo is now married to Juliet, and therefore Tybalt's kinsman. He refuses to be wound up, so Mercutio gets angry for him, and as Romeo tries to stand between the two of them, Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm.
This does get Romeo wound up, and he kills Tybalt in a rage. With Capulet's wife asking for Romeo's life in return, he's instead exiled to Mantua.


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One would expect, at the very least, that a master plan that aims to change the face of the Goan landscape would have some basic concepts clear. Since we are talking about the growth of large-scale 'development', the draft RP-21 is expected to have a clear idea of what it means by 'development'. But nowhere in its 270-odd pages is there a clear definition, neither is there any clarity on how this 'development' will relate to the existing Goan conditions. This is a serious issue, especially when one thinks about how a loosely-defined idea of 'development' is at the heart of the destruction of Goan ecology.
Keeping aside the fact that the RP-21 has been criticized by several activists for procedural lapses that benefit the builder lobby, it appears to be also riddled with contradictions. The future that the draft plan envisions for Goa appears to be divorced from ground realities of what the people of Goa need, in terms of the basic facilities like water, sanitation, and public transportation (to name a few). For instance, the RP-21 envisions a better system of public transport in order to reduce traffic, but at the same time it also envisions new highways so as to handle the projected increase in the movement of goods due to new industries. One could argue that improving public transport and increasing the number of roads are mutually discordant aims. Similarly, one can suggest that the vision of improving agriculture or protecting forests is at odds with that of new highways as it is the fields and forested lands that give way for highways in the Goan context.
The main, and only, real aim of RP-21 is to have rapid economic growth. In this context, RP-21 laments the fact that Goa is experiencing a brain-drain of engineers, and envisions jobs only for persons who have technological expertise. One could point out that the bulk of Goans migrating out of Goa are not all engineers, but those who work in service industries – or so-called blue-collar jobs – around the world. How would the RP-21 protect such Goans from forced migration due to lack of opportunities? It won't be able to because the type of industries and infrastructure that it hopes to foist onto Goans will be able to only employ a handful of engineers, that too, if they possess the requisite qualifications that the jobs created demand; everyone else still will have to seek greener pastures elsewhere.
Likewise, for the promotion of new information and technology driven industries, the RP-21 talks about the importance of instilling skills in the local people that would make them employable in this sector. However, it also talks about the need for more housing for the in-migrating population that would be employed in these industries. Clearly, these massive industries will require a large workforce from outside, so much so that for every job these industries create for a Goan, the RP-21 envisions that another will be created for a person migrating from outside. Thus, the argument that locals will get jobs if Goa is opened up for the development of large-scale infrastructure and industries is just a red herring. Goa's population would not be able to supply the required workforce for these industries. If the plans go through, there will be a huge influx of people into Goa and no one knows what the consequences of this drastic demographic increase will be.
Similarly, there are many areas, such as the plans for double-tracking of railways and the construction of marinas for boosting tourism, in which one can observe logical and practical deficiencies in the draft RP-21. Its vision for a future Goa, thus, simply does not match the claims that it makes. Like many other master plans that the government has formulated thus far – whether through its own personnel or through private consultants – the RP-21 is also keenly aware of the problems Goa will face should the kind of development that it envisions become a reality. To that end, the plan advises caution, and checks and balances through governmental regulation and legislation. However, we have known time and again that the requisite laws and regulations are either not put in place or are jettisoned the moment private profit or pelf take centre-stage.
There isn't much of an option left, but to force the government to abandon such schemes and visions as contained in the draft RP-21 (or even in legislations like the Investment Promotion Act). As Amita Kanekar recently wrote, what we need instead is to support the common folk, whose labour develops and sustain the region. Simultaneously, the authorities need to prepare a plan of how they would facilitate the young people in Goa to acquire various kinds of skills (and not necessarily technical), rather than devoting all their energy in 'developing' i.e. profiting from Goa's land – as Marian Pinheiro suggested. For if we don't have such a vision for the future, privileging communities and individuals, backed by iron-clad legislation to check irregularities, Goa will witness even more destruction.


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Gauguin painted this enigmatic composition of an animal god and angel during his second trip to French Polynesia. He borrowed the title from a collection of poems by Charles Leconte de Lisle, whose Poèmes Barbares (Barbaric Poems), 1862, is full of creatures inspired by the author's imagination of Tahiti. Gauguin's knowledge of local customs and beliefs was more extensive and informed than the poet's, though his composition displays a similar fusion of different mythologies. The animal has been identified as Ta'aroa, the Tahitian deity who is the creator of the universe, but the winged, female figure who gestures and looks away combines elements of both Christian and Buddhist traditions.
Recent studies by the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums have discovered a second painting beneath this composition. A landscape with galloping horses being ridden by nude figures, it relates to several pastoral scenes that Gauguin made during this period.
Paul Gauguin, French (Paris 1848 - 1903 Fatu-Iwa [Marquesas Islands])
Poèmes Barbares
Alternate Title: Savage Poems
Level 1, Room 1220, European Art, 19th–20th century, Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
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64.8 x 48.3 cm (25 1/2 x 19 in.)
framed: 97.8 x 81.9 x 5.8 cm (38 1/2 x 32 1/4 x 2 5/16 in.)
Signed: u.l.: P Gauguin 96
inscription: upper left, inscribed, French: Poemes Barbares
inscription: verso (stretcher), handwritten in white chalk: 33E7[?]
inscription: verso (stretcher), handwritten in red ink: 4[encircled]
inscription: verso (stretcher), handwritten in graphite: Wertheim
inscription: verso (stretcher), handwritten in graphite two times: 10133F
inscription: verso (stretcher), handwritten in graphite: #125A[underlined]
inscription: verso (stretcher), handwritten in red chalk: 188
stamp: verso (stretcher), black ink: DE Hauke & CO., Inc. / 3 East 51st Street, New York
inscription: verso (stretcher), stencilled letters and numbers in bright red (repeated on frame): L.40.22.1
inscription: verso (frame), handwritten in blue crayon: RNN 3496
label: verso (frame), red-bordered label: 1626[underlined] / 1
label: verso (frame), decorative blue-bordered label: 2250[underlined] / [2 lines of numbers rubbed off] / 86
Unidentified owner, Paris, sold; [through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 16, 1906, no 30.]. Dr. Alfred Wolff, Munich, (1912). Sir Michael Sadler, England, (1912). [De Hauke & Co., New York], sold; to A. Conger Goodyear, New York, (1929-1937) sold; [through Wildenstein & Co., New York]; to Maurice Wertheim, New York (1937-1951) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
Exposition Internationale, exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany, 1912), no. 167
F. Burger, Cézanne und Hodler (Munich, Germany, 1913), vol. I, p. 82; vol. II, pl. 31
Paul Gauguin, Lettres à Daniel de Monfreid (Paris, France, 1919), see letter dated Feb 14 1897
Charles Morice, Paul Gauguin, Henri Floury (Paris, France, 1919), repr. in b/w facing p. 106
Important Pictures by 19th Century French Masters, exh. cat., Leicester Galleries (London, England, 1924), no. 59
Starr Figura, First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York, NY, 1929), no. 47
Arsène Alexandre and Bernheim-Jeune, Paul Gauguin, sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre (Paris, France, 1930), p. 182, repr. p. 167
Arsène Alexandre, The World's Masters (New York, NY, 1930), repr. pl. xxiv
Reginald H. Wilenski, French Painting, Hale, Cushman & Flint, Inc. (Boston, MA, 1931), p. 289
Cézanne-Gauguin, exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH, 1936), no. 6
Paul Gauguin, Intimates Journales (New York, NY, 1936), repr. p. 29
Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, exh. cat., Harbor Press (New York, NY, 1936), no. 33
Retrospective Loan Exhibition of Works by Paul Gauguin, exh. cat., Wildenstein Galleries (New York, NY, 1936), no. 34
C. J. Bulliet, The Significant Moderns and their Pictures (New York, NY, 1936), repr. pl. 79
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 1936), no. 280
Pola Gauguin, My Father Paul Gauguin (New York, NY, 1937), ill. opp. p. 217
John Rewald, Gauguin, French and European Publications (New York and Paris, 1938), repr. p. 117
The Complete Graphic Work and a Selection of Paintings by Paul Gauguin, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1938)
Edward Alden Jewell, French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries in American Collections, Hyperion Press (New York, NY, 1944), repr. p. 162
Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Today's Collectors: Modern Milestones", Art News (June 1946), vol. XLV, no. 4, p. 64
A loan exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the benefit of the New York Infirmary, exh. cat., Wildenstein Galleries (New York, NY, 1946), no. 31
French Painting since 1870, lent by Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), pp. 38-41, repr. p. 39
Six Masters of Post-Impressionism, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, NY, 1948), no. 16
La Peinture Française Depuis 1870: Collection Maurice Wertheim, exh. cat., Tom Taylor (Québec, Canada, 1949), no. 16, pp. 45-47
Lee van Dovski, Paul Gauguin oder die Flucht vor der zivi-lojation, Olten (Bern, Switzerland, 1950), no. 328
Bernard Dorival, "Sources of the Art of Gauguin from Java, Egypt, and Ancient Greece", The Burlington Magazine (April 1951), vol. XCIII, p. 118
Howard Devree, "By French Masters: The Metropolitan Shows Wertheim Collection", The New York Times (New York, NY, July 6 1952), p. 6, p. 6
Marshall B. Davidson, Gauguin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1953), repr. in color
Almanac Stuttgart, Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen (Stuttgart, Germany, 1955), repr.
Charles Gorham, Und das Gold ihrer Körper ; das abenteuerliche Leben Paul Gauguins., Holle Verlage Gmblt (Baden-Baden, Germany, 1955), ill.
René Huyghe, Gauguin, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1959), repr. p. 82
John Canaday, Mainstreams of Modern Art, Henry Holt and Co. (New York, NY, 1959), p. 386, repr. p. 384
The Maurice Wertheim Catalogue: Modern French Art-- Monet to Picasso, exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC, 1960), p. 14, repr. p. 15
René Huyghe, Gauguin, Antonio Vallardi (Milan, Italy, 1962), pp. 145-146
The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, exh. cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX, 1962), p. 18, pl. 4
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1964), no. 547
René Huyghe, Sens et destin de l'art, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1966), repr.
Sidney Finkelstein, Der Junge Picasso, VEB Verlag der Kunst (Dresden, Germany, 1970), repr. as no. 63
Wayne V. Anderson, Gauguin's Paradise Lost, Viking Press (New York, NY, 1971), repr.
Nathan Knobler, The Visual Dialogue: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Art, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1971), repr. fig. 12
G. M. Sugana, L'Opera Completa di Gauguin (Milan, Italy, 1972), no. 373
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, exh. cat., Maine State Museum (Augusta, ME, 1972), no. 10
Jean-Luc Duval, Le Journal de l'Art Moderne, Skira (Geneva, Switzerland, 1973), p. 146
Mary Lynn Zink, "Gauguin's 'Poemes Barbares' and the Tahitian Chant of Creation", Art Journal (Fall 1978), vol. 38, pp. 18-21
Frances Spalding, Roger Fry, Art and Life, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1980)
Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Gauguin's Religious Themes, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, NY and London, England, 1985), repr. in b/w as no. 192
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 223, p. 195, repr. in b/w
John O'Brian, Degas to Matisse: the Maurice Wertheim Collection, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Fogg Art Museum (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1988), no. 20, pp. 95-97, repr. in color
René Huyghe, Gauguin, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1988), repr. in color p. 73
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 95, color plate; pp. 108, 257, repr. b/w cat. no. 390
The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1990), repr. in color no. 26, p. 83
Karen A. Signell, Frauenträume, Walter-Verlag (Solothurn and Düsseldorf, Germany, 1995), repr. in color on cover
Georg-W. Költzsch, ed., Paul Gauguin: Das verlorene Paradies, DuMont Buchverlag (Köln, Germany, 1998), no. 36, p. 174
Manfred Dierks, Das Dunkle Gesicht, Artemis & Winkler Publishing (Dusseldorf and Zurich, 1999), repr. in color on cover
Suzanne Greub, ed., Gauguin, Polynesia, exh. cat., Hirmer Verlag (Munich, Germany, 2011), repr. p. 219 as fig. 201
Elizabeth M. Rudy, "Researching the Wertheim Collection at the Harvard Art Museums", Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (Summer 2014), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 301-6
Manet and the Post-Impressionists, Grafton Galleries, London, 11/05/1910
Exposition Internationale, [Unknown venue, Cologne], Cologne, 01/01/1912 - 12/31/1912
Post-Impressionist Pictures and Drawings, [Unknown venue, Leeds], Leeds, 01/01/1913 - 12/31/1913
Important Pictures by 19th Century French Masters, Leicester Galleries, London, 01/01/1924 - 12/31/1924
First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 11/01/1929 - 11/30/1929
Summer Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 05/01/1932 - 09/01/1932
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 01/01/1936 - 12/31/1936
Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Paul Gauguin, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 03/20/1936 - 04/18/1936
Paul Gauguin, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1936 - 05/21/1936
Cézanne-Gauguin, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 11/01/1936 - 12/13/1936
The Complete Graphic Work and a Selection of Paintings by Paul Gauguin, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 06/17/1938 - 10/02/1938
A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/03/1946 - 05/04/1946
French Painting since 1870 lent by Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1946 - 09/07/1946; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 07/01/1953 - 09/13/1953
Six Masters of Post-Impressionism, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/08/1948 - 05/08/1948
La Peinture Française depuis 1870, Musée de la Province de Quebec, 07/12/1949 - 08/07/1949
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 07/01/1952 - 09/14/1952
French Paintings Since 1870 from the Maurice Wertheim Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/01/1953 - 09/30/1953
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 06/15/1957 - 09/15/1957
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 06/10/1958 - 08/31/1958
The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Modern French Art--Monet to Picasso, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 06/17/1960 - 09/04/1960
The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 06/13/1962 - 09/02/1962
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 06/20/1963 - 09/01/1963
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 06/24/1965 - 09/07/1965
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/03/1968 - 09/22/1968
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, 06/01/1971 - 09/30/1971
The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Maine State Museum, Augusta, 06/01/1972 - 09/01/1972
Manet to Matisse: The Maurice Wertheim Collection, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, 04/09/1985 - 05/25/1985
Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985
The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 03/01/1990 - 04/10/1990; Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 04/14/1990 - 05/13/1990
Paul Gauguin: das Verlorene Paradies, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 10/31/1998 - 01/10/1999
Re-View: S427 Impressionist & Postimpressionist Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/02/2008 - 06/18/2011
32Q: 1220 Wertheim, Harvard Art Museums, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
Straus.8492
Artist of original: Paul Gauguin
X-radiograph(s) of "Poèmes Barbares"
1951.49 Paul Gauguin Poèmes Barbares Paintings


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Абдель Рахман Шалгам (арабский: عبد الرحمن شلقم) (родился в 1949 году) — ливийский политик, дипломат и государственный деятель. Был министром иностранных дел Высшего народного комитета Ливийской Джамахирии (правительство при Каддафи) с 1 марта 2000 года по 4 марта 2009 года

С 1984 года по 1995 год являлся ливийский послом в Италии.

С 1998 года по 2000 год, Абдель Рахман Шалгам возглавлял секретариат иностранных дел в Всеобщем народном конгрессе Ливии (парламент).

Во время пребывания Шалгама на посту главы внешнеполитического ведомства страны произошло улучшение ливийско-американских отношений

4 марта 2009 года Шалгам ушел с поста главы МИДа, где его сменил Мусса Кусса. Сначала он стал представителем Ливии при Совбезе ООН, где Ливия была непостоянным членом до конца 2009 года, затем был постоянным представителем Ливии в ООН. Являлся им до марта 2011 года, когда перешел на сторону оппозиции.

Гражданская война
В самом начале гражданской войны Шалгам оставался лоялистом режима Каддафи, но подчёркивал, что убийство хотя бы одного ливийца уже является преступлением. Однако уже 25 февраля 2011 года Шалгам в своей речи в ООН осудил правительство Ливии и политику Муаммара Каддафи, в которой заявил, что сперва не мог поверить, что вождь страны приказал открыть огонь по собственным гражданам, и сказал, что «он больше не будет служить правительству Каддафи». В частности, Шалгам «пробивал» через Совбез резолюцию № 1970, которая связывала руки Каддафи. Шалгам также назвал власти Джамахирии фашистским режимом.

5 марта 2011 года Шалгам был назначен постоянным представителем в ООН от Переходного национального совета Ливии. В тот же день власти Ливийской Джамахирии заменили Шалгама на Али Трейки в качестве постпреда при ООН.

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 Talking to media at UN headquarters after giving a speech on the state of Libya's political upheaval
 Abdurrahman M. Shalgam — Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the UN.. In: Mission Staff, CV Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative.

Родившиеся в 1949 году
Родившиеся в Ливии
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Персоналии:Ливия
Политики Ливии
Министры иностранных дел Ливии
Министры Ливии
Послы Ливии в Италии
Постоянные представители Ливии при ООН

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WORSHIPPING UNCLE GUS
Gus is an electrician, or a sparky as they are known in Britain. He's also a hunk and a very naughty man who has been fooling around with his nephew Rory at the building site where they both work. And now Rory's younger brother Archie has got a summer job at the site, which means two double the fun for Gus, as both the lads do his bidding, such as worshipping his chest and armpits with their tongues.
Archie is in for one heck of a week as he's trained up by his uncle and brother to become Gus's second fag. But there are games being played which complicate matters - good complications, as they make the sex all the more hot.
SPARKY GUS - THE ALPHA UNCLE
Gus is an electrician, or a sparky as they are known in Britain. He's also a hunk and a very naughty man who has been fooling around with his nephew Rory at the building site where they both work. And now Rory's younger brother Archie has got a summer job at the site. He hasn't seen his uncle for many years, but is very impressed when he meets him again, the man stripped to the waist and looking so fine. Is it any surprise he wants to see more, and Gus will be happy to oblige. Archie is in for one heck of a week as he's trained up by his uncle and brother to become Gus's second fag. But there are games being played which complicate matters - good complications, as they make the sex all the more hot.
SPARKY GUS'S ASS - SADLY NOT AVAILABLE
Gus is an electrician, or a sparky as they are known in Britain. He's also a hunk with a very tasty ass, although it's totally off limits as Gus is a certified top. He's a very naughty man man as well, who who has been fooling around with his nephew Rory at the building site where they both work, screwing the lad ragged several times a day. Now Rory's younger brother Archie has got a summer job at the site, and he's invited to join the family fun. He won't get his hands on his uncle's ass, but his cock is even better, and that's definitely up for grabs
Gus is an electrician, or a sparky as they are known in Britain. He's also a hunk and a very naughty man who has been fooling around with his nephew Rory at the building site where they both work. And now Rory's younger brother Archie has got a summer job at the site. He hasn't seen his uncle for many years, but is very impressed when he meets him again, the man stripped to the waist and looking so fine. Is it any surprise he wants to see more, and Gus will be happy to oblige.
SPARKY GUS - HE WANTS TO SHOW HIS NEPHEW MORE!
Gus is an electrician, or a sparky as they are known in Britain. He's also a hunk and a very naughty man who has been fooling around with his nephew Rory at the building site where they both work. And now Rory's younger brother Archie has got a summer job at the site. He hasn't seen his uncle for many years, but is very impressed when he meets him again, the man stripped to the waist and looking so fine. Is it any surprise he wants to see more, and Gus seems happy to oblige, giving Archie a sight of the dick which will go up his ass at the end of the week and pop his teenage cherry.
Bur that come later. Archie is in for one heck of a week as he's trained up by his uncle and brother to become Gus's second fag. But there are games being played which complicate matters - good complications, as they make the sex all the more hot.
TWO FAGS FOR SPARKY GUS - THE ALPHA UNCLE
The sparks are really flying in my latest book... Two Fags for Sparky Gus - The Alpha Uncle.
A whole week of incestuous fun is in store for Archie, when he agrees to join his brother Rory and Uncle Gus in their existing sexual relationship at the building site where they work. In theory, he is being trained to become his Uncle's second fag, and will be spectacularly popped at the end of the week. But not all is as it seems. Will Archie get the deflowering of his dreams, or will it all go spectacularly wrong?
NEWLY RELEASED
Uncle Flynn is a brute of a man, who fought and hospitalised Andy's father many years ago. Added to this, Andy's elder half brother, Jeff, stayed aloof during their schooldays, refusing to acknowledge the relationship, despising their father for marrying Andy's mum. These are the shards of Andy's broken family, which a broken down car will bring together, in spectacular incestuous fashion.
THE SMELL OF A CUB
THE BEAR NECESSITIES
Two grizzly bears looking for a discreet but adventurous cub to play with!
That's what it said on the Grindr profile. And teenage rugby player Bennie (aka Big Boy) was very interested. He loved mature hairy men. He needed discretion, and he was desperate for his cherry ass to be popped. An arrangement was made for after Bennie's match, and he was asked to bring his sweaty jockstrap along. It sounded really kinky. The only trouble was, one of the bears turned out to be Big Boy's dad.
A problem, or a golden opportunity to satisfy years of suppressed lust? Will Big Boy be allowed to take his jockstrap off for the bears to sniff. Of even better, will they sniff it while he's still wearing it - one at the front and one at the back?
TIME TO UNWRAP THE PRESENT
Dad's wearing a Jockstrap under his jeans, and he fills the pouch impressively well.
I'm wearing a massive grin on my face as the horny big brute gives me a look. Apparently this is my birthday treat, and it's now up to me to unwrap the rest if I want to play with my present.
That's what it said on the Grindr profile. And teenager Bennie (aka Big Boy) was very interested when he saw this picture of Yogi. He loved mature hairy men. He needed discretion, and he was desperate for his cherry ass to be popped. The other bear Baloo wasn't shown, but he sounded equally good, if not better. An arrangement was made. The only trouble was, Baloo turned out to be Big Boy's dad.
A problem, or a golden opportunity to satisfy years of suppressed lust? Will Big Boy get to play with Yogi and see what's packing out those briefs. And more importantly, will Bennie get to see what his even bigger dad has to offer? Will Bennie get more than just a look?


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Q: Stop the keyboard pushing the top app bar off the screen in Compose I have a Compose activity, where there's a top app bar, and some TextFields towards the bottom of the screen. When I focus on one of the TextFields and the keyboard is invoked, I want the text field to appear above the keyboard, so I can see what I'm typing. This works fine, however the whole screen content is pushed upwards making the top app bar disappear or be cut off at the top.
I think ideally, the top app bar would be pinned to the top, and only the contents below would shift. It doesn't matter if the top app bar is part of the scaffold, or above the scaffold in a Column:
    Scaffold(
        topBar = {
            TopAppBar("...")
        }
    ) {
        // scrollable contents with TextFields
    }

---> OR

    Column {
        TopAppBar("...")
        Scaffold {
            // scrollable contents with TextFields
        }
    }

This is the unwanted behaviour illustrated:

Is there a way to achieve my desired behaviour of pinning the top app bar? Should the top app bar be pushed up by default in Compose?

A: Try this
class YourActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        window.setSoftInputMode(
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_NOTHING
        );
        setContent { /* Composable Content */ }
    }
}

A: It looks like you have to specify a weight to one of your composable.
Taking some reference from an answer from this post. Assuming you have set adjustResize in your manifest,
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"/>

you can consider this as a rough solution
Scaffold(
    topBar = {
        TopAppBar(title = { Text("Hello World")})
    }
) {
    Column(
        modifier = Modifier
            .fillMaxSize()
            .padding(it)
    ) {

        Box(
            modifier = Modifier
                .weight(1f)
                .background(Color.Gray)
                .fillMaxWidth()
        )

        Box(
            modifier = Modifier
                .fillMaxWidth()
                .wrapContentHeight()
                .background(Color(0xFF6f4d8c)),
            contentAlignment = Alignment.Center
        ) {
            TextField(
                value = "User Name",
                onValueChange = {}
            )
        }

        Box(
            modifier = Modifier
                .fillMaxWidth()
                .wrapContentHeight()
                .background(Color(0xFF6286bd)),
            contentAlignment = Alignment.Center
        ) {
            TextField(
                value = "Password",
                onValueChange = {}
            )
        }
    }
}

I just put some colors to show how the widgets occupy the space in their parent Column.

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Q: How to specify Perl version for apache2 mod_cgi? I have installed additional versions of Perl on a Fedora 21 system.
On the PATH, my custom Perl (5.10.0) has priority over the distro's default Perl (5.18.4)
user$ perl -v
> This is perl, v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux

root# perl -v
> This is perl, v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux

However, when printing the Perl version in a script served by Apache, it appears to be using the "wrong" version:
5.018004

How can you direct Apache to use a specific version of Perl?

A: When using plain CGIs, the OS (through the #! line) is responsible for picking the interpreter. As we have established, the shebang was pointing to the wrong version of the interpreter.
The easiest way is to edit it. If you need the same script to work with two different perl versions depending on the call context, you can use something like #!/usr/bin/env perl in the shebang to have it respect the environment, then change the PATH variable for apache.
If you cannot edit the shebang, there is the option of going through mod_perl (make sure you compile it against the desired version) if you don't mind using this specific version for the whole webserver.
Another way would be to run the webserver within some kind of container (chroot, lxc, docker, or just using mount namespaces) so that your /usr/bin/perl points to some other version of the interpreter.


Special thanks to the Americans of Japanese Ancestry World War II Memorial Alliance/Japanese American Living Legacy for sharing this list of the men who served in the 100th Infantry Battalion. The World War II Memorial Alliance is composed of volunteers who have worked for many years to create a registry of all the soldiers who served in the 100th, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion during World War II.
The names that are capitalized are those soldiers who were killed in action.


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Dorothee Mields (* 15. April 1971 in Gelsenkirchen) ist eine deutsche Sopranistin und Barockmusikerin.

Leben
Dorothee Mields hat Eltern deutscher und bessarabischer Herkunft. Sie studierte an der Hochschule der Künste in Bremen bei Harry van der Kamp, Elke Holzmann und Gabriele Schreckenbach. Später setzte sie ihre Studien fort bei Julia Hamari (1994 bis 1998) und Richetta Manager (seit 2006).

Sie widmet ihre Arbeit der Musik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, tritt aber auch mit zeitgenössischer Musik auf. Sie arbeitet regelmäßig mit Ludger Rémy, Hans-Christoph Rademann, dem Collegium Vocale Gent, dem Bach Collegium Japan, der Nederlandse Bachvereniging, dem "Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra", dem Freiburger Barockorchester und anderen zusammen.

Dorothee Mields unterrichtete von 2001 bis 2003 an der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar. Seit 2016 doziert sie am Königlichen Konservatorium Den Haag und seit 2018 an der Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Seit 2016 ist sie mit dem amerikanischen Komponisten Aaron Andrew Hunt verheiratet.

Prämierte Einspielungen
Ihre Einspielung der Gellert-Oden von Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (mit Ludger Rémy am Hammerklavier) wurde vom Magazin Le Monde de la musique mit einem "Choc" ausgezeichnet.

Die 2014 erfolgte Einspielung von La Couronne de Fleurs und dem fragmentarischen Werk La descente d'Orphée aux enfers von Marc-Antoine Charpentier unter Paul O'Dette und Stephen Stubbs mit Mields als Proserpine und Enone bzw. Amaranthe und weiteren Solisten sowie dem Kammerensemble des Boston Early Music Festival wurde im Februar 2015 mit dem Grammy Award als die "Beste Opernproduktion" des Vorjahres ausgezeichnet.

Diskografie (Auswahl)
 2009: In darkness let me dwell. Lautenlieder von John Dowland. Mit Lee Santana (Laute), Hille Perl (Viola da gamba) und dem Ensemble Sirius Viols.
 2010: Henry Purcell: Love Songs. Mit der Lautten Compagney Berlin unter Wolfgang Katschner
 2012: Henry Purcell u. a.: Love's Madness. Lautten Compagney Berlin unter Wolfgang Katschner

Mit Ludger Rémy
 2002: Deutsche Kammerkantaten von Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
 2003: Johannes-Passion von Georg Gebel
 2004: 30 Gellert-Oden (Herrn Professor Gellerts Geistliche Oden und Lieder) von Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach mit Ludger Rémy (Hammerklavier)
 2007: Zwei Serenaden von Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
 2008: Die Liebe Gottes ist ausgegossen und weitere Kantaten von Philipp Heinrich Erlebach

DVD
 Johann Sebastian Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Kantate BWV 80. Dorothee Mields (Sopran), Terry Wey (Altus), Bernhard Berchtold (Tenor), Klaus Mertens (Bass); Chor und Orchester der J. S. Bach-Stiftung, Rudolf Lutz (Leitung). Samt Einführungsworkshop sowie Reflexion von Johannes Anderegg. Gallus Media, 2017.

Weblinks

 Dorothee Mields auf der Website der Konzertdirektion Schmid

 Diskografie von Dorothee Mields beim Carus-Verlag
 Dorothee Mields auf der Seite der jpc-Schallplatten-Versandhandelsgesellschaft
 Dorothee Mields in Aufnahmen der Nederlandse Bachvereniging (komplett online)
 Dorothee Mields in Aufnahmen der J. S. Bach-Stiftung (komplett online)

Einzelnachweise

Sopran
Interpret Alter Musik
Historische Aufführungspraxis
Echo-Klassik-Preisträger
Deutscher
Geboren 1971
Frau


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WDSU - New Orleans
Kanter: More demand for COVID-19 vaccine than supplied to Louisiana
Woman investigated for theft of Pelosi computer due in court
Federal authorities arrested a woman whose former romantic partner says she took a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. Riley June Williams was arrested Monday, according to a Justice Department official. The federal prosecutors' office in Harrisburg, where she was jailed, said Williams was due in court Tuesday afternoon.
PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN: "Well, excuse the emotion, but when I die Delaware will be written on my heart." On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden bid an emotional farewell to his home state of Delaware on Tuesday, where he served as U.S. senator for 36 years, before becoming Barack Obama's VP. On Wednesday, Biden will be sworn in as the 46th U.S. president. "I'm truly honored to be your next president and commander in chief, and I'll always be a proud son of the state of Delaware." Biden then flew to Washington, after his plans to take Amtrak were scrapped over security concerns, where he attended a remembrance ceremony for the 400,000 Americans who died from COVID-19. The event was the first such memorial ceremony from the federal government acknowledging the staggering death toll from the pandemic. Biden led the lighting ceremony and moment of silence featuring a light display surrounding the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. "To heal, we must remember, and it's hard sometimes to remember. But that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation. That's why we're here today. Between sundown and dusk, let us shine the lights in the darkness, along the sacred pool of reflection, and remember all who we've lost." Following the moment of silence, 400 bells tolled at the National Cathedral to symbolically honor the 400,000 Americans who have perished to COVID-19.
A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether the U.N. health agency should have labeled it a pandemic sooner. In a report issued to the media Monday, the panel led by former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said there were "lost opportunities" to adopt basic public health measures as early as possible. "What is clear to the panel is that public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and national health authorities in China in January," it said.
Senate's top Democrat, Republican seek path to guide 50-50 chamber
Facing a 50-50 partisan split in the U.S. Senate, the chamber's top Democrat and Republican discussed adopting a power-sharing deal similar to one struck two decades ago in similar circumstances, a Democratic spokesman said on Tuesday. Democrat Chuck Schumer, set to become majority leader on Wednesday thanks to incoming Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote, told the chamber's top Republican, Mitch McConnell, that he favored adopting a deal along the lines of the 2001 arrangement "without extraneous changes from either side," a Schumer spokesman said.
India's homegrown coronavirus vaccine developer Bharat Biotech on Tuesday warned people with weak immunity and other medical conditions including allergies, fever or a bleeding disorder to consult a doctor before getting the shot — and if possible avoid the vaccine. The company said those receiving vaccinations should disclose their medical condition, medicines they are taking and any history of allergies. It said severe allergic reactions among vaccine recipients may include difficulty breathing, swelling of the face and throat, rapid heartbeat, body rashes, dizziness and weakness.
UK's Meghan seeks lawsuit win without trial after 'triple-barrelled' assault on her privacy
An accused Capitol rioter threatened to kill his children if they turned him in, FBI says


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NASA backs Blue Origin's Orbital Reef space station
Alexa, book me a ticket to low Earth orbit.
A. Tarantola|12.02.21
@terrortola
A. Tarantola
In this article: news, NASA, Northrop Grumman, ISS, Orbital Reef, Blue Origin, Low Earth Orbit, tomorrow, Space
Following October's news that Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spaceflight company planned to build its own commercial space station in low Earth orbit, NASA announced on Thursday it has selected the program for funding through a Space Act Agreement to further develop the the station's design. The funding is part of NASA's Commercial LEO Development program, which aims to "develop a robust commercial space economy in LEO, including supporting the development of commercially owned and operated LEO destinations."
"We are pleased that NASA supports the development of Orbital Reef, a revolutionary approach to making Earth orbit more accessible to diverse customers and industries," Brent Sherwood, Senior Vice President of Advanced Development Programs for Blue Origin, said in a prepared statement. The station would be an orbital "mixed-use space business park" that would offer any number of turnkey services as well as reduced operational costs for burgeoning low-g industries "in addition to meeting the ISS partners' needs."
Blue Origin is partnering with Sierra Space in this project with the former focusing on the architecture and infrastructure of the station — everything from its design and construction to managing lift logistics using the New Glenn heavy launch system — while the latter is tasked with developing the station's LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible Environment). Boeing is also helping out, designing the operations-maintenance-science module and leveraging its Starliner crew capsule. Genesis Engineering Solutions is involved as well. It's working on a single person spacecraft that tourists and employees alike will be able to putter around in.
Thursday's announcement, ironically, comes at the end of a year in which Blue Origin protested NASA's "fundamentally unfair" decision to award a lunar lander contract to rival SpaceX to the GAO, which quickly dismissed the claims. Blue Origin then sued NASA — literally, sued NASA —"in an attempt to remedy the flaws in the acquisition process found in NASA's Human Landing System," a spokesperson for Blue Origin told Engadget in August. The company subsequently lost that suit as well but, hopefully, Thursday's deal will serve as a balm for Bezos' critically wounded ego.
The Orbital Reef team hopes to have its first modules in orbit by the end of the decade with further expansions happening throughout the 2030s. But Orbital Reef isn't the only egg in NASA's commercial LEO basket. Northrop Grumman announced on Thursday that it too had signed a Space Act Agreement — to the tune of $126 million — to design a "free flying" space station that will be a permanent presence in LEO for at least 15 years.
"Our station will enable a smooth transition from International Space Station-based LEO missions to sustainable commercial-based missions where NASA does not bear all the costs, but serves as one of many customers," Steve Krein, Northrop Grumman's vice president of civil and commercial space, said in a statement. The company plans to leverage its existing Cygnus spacecraft, its Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) and its Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), as the basis for the station's design.
As part of its agreement with NASA, these development proposals will have to account for every aspect of the station's "commercialization, operations and capabilities," according to Northrop Grumman, "as well as space station requirements, mission success criteria, risk assessments, key technical and market analysis requirements, and preliminary design activities."


Employers with employees and operations impacted by Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey are asking what type of compensation, employee benefits, and tax relief may be available to them and their affected employees. There are existing provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), and guidance that permit employers to provide direct employee assistance on a tax-favored basis, as well as assist employees in making donations to their affected co-workers and families. The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"), the Department of Labor ("DOL"), and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC") have also moved quickly to provide retirement plan disaster relief guidance for affected employers and their employees.
These same types of compensation, employee benefits, and tax relief should be available to employers if President Trump declares Hurricane Irma a federal disaster.
In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Congress adopted Section 139 of the Code, which allows employers to pay or reimburse employee expenses that qualify as "qualified disaster relief payments" in connection with a "qualified disaster." Such payments or reimbursements are not taxable as income, not subject to employment taxes or withholding, and generally deductible by the employer. A "qualified disaster" is a disaster that (i) results from terrorist or military actions, (ii) results from an accident involving a common carrier, (iii) is a presidentially declared disaster, or (iv) is an event that the Secretary of the Treasury determines is catastrophic. On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey was named a presidentially declared disaster in the designated counties affected in Texas, retroactive to the date that the storms began on August 23, 2017. On August 28, 2017, Tropical Storm Harvey was named a presidentially declared disaster in the designated counties affected in Louisiana, retroactive to August 27, 2017. Based on historical precedent, President Trump is likely to declare Hurricane Irma a disaster depending on the severity and impact of the storm, and such declaration is likely to be retroactive to the date that the storm first impacts a region.
"Qualified disaster relief payments" include payments received (regardless of the source) for the following expenses: (i) reasonable and necessary personal, family, living, or funeral expenses incurred as a result of a qualified disaster; (ii) reasonable and necessary expenses incurred for the repair or rehabilitation of a personal residence due to a qualified disaster (a "personal residence" can be rented or owned); and (iii) reasonable and necessary expenses incurred for the repair or replacement of the contents of a personal residence due to a qualified disaster. The rules on substantiation of expenses are not as strict as other types of expenses as an accommodation to the expediency that an employee may need to obtain immediate shelter and personal items. Qualified disaster relief payments do not include expenses that are otherwise reimbursed through insurance or Federal Emergency Management Agency (or "FEMA") grants and do not include any income replacement payments, such as payments for lost wages or unemployment compensation.
Employers generally may adopt temporary paid-time-off ("PTO") policies for employees affected by a qualified disaster. Such PTO will continue to be treated as wages for income and employment tax purposes.
Employers may also be able to provide reimbursement for certain expenses that could be considered working condition fringes, such as transportation to a temporary emergency working site, evacuation assistance, or similar types of expenses. These expenses should, however, be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the working condition fringe rules are satisfied.
Employers may make charitable contributions to unaffiliated public charities or private foundations, and they may provide "matching contribution" programs that match an employee's donation to such public charities or private foundations.
Employers also may provide donations through their own sponsored public charities, donor-advised funds through a public charity, or the employers' own sponsored private foundation. Each of the different approaches applies separate tax rules.
In general, for an employer-sponsored public charity, the employer may not exercise too much control over the charity, and donations to aid the employer-sponsor's employees in a disaster must provide, among other things, that affected employees be selected by an independent selection committee and adequate substantiation is provided to show that any benefits to the employer are incidental and tenuous.
Employers may use donor-advised funds to make grants to affected employees, provided that the purpose is relief for a qualified disaster under Section 139 of the Code (as described above) and additional requirements are met, including, among other things, that recipients of aid are selected by an independent selection committee and adequate substantiation is provided to show that any benefits to the employer are incidental and tenuous.
Finally, an employer-sponsored private foundation may provide assistance to employees affected by a qualified disaster under Section 139 of the Code. The same general rules for employer-sponsored public charities and donor-advised funds apply, with the additional conditions of ensuring that there is no self-dealing with the private foundation's officers or other interested persons and that no other conflict of interest exists that could subject the private foundation to excise taxes under the private foundation rules of the Code.
Employers may offer leave sharing programs to their employees permitting employees to donate vacation, sick leave, or PTO. There are two types of programs: (i) one in which employees offer leave directly to co-workers impacted by a presidentially declared disaster and (ii) another in which employees donate leave to an employer-designated public charity or private foundation.
Under IRS Notice 2006-28, leave donated to a co-worker will not be taxable to the donor but, rather, taxable to the recipient when the leave is taken, if made under a "major disaster leave sharing program," which is triggered when there is a major disaster declared by the president under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ("Stafford Act") or a major disaster or emergency affecting a sufficient number of federal employees. This is a different definition than a "qualified disaster" under Section 139 of the Code. On August 25 and August 28, 2017, President Trump declared Hurricane Harvey and Tropical Storm Harvey, respectively, major disasters under the Stafford Act.
Leave is donated for use by other employees who have been adversely affected by a major disaster. An employee is considered to be "adversely affected" by a major disaster if it has caused severe hardship to the employee or a family member of the employee who requires the employee to be absent from work.
The plan does not allow a leave donor to donate leave to a specific leave recipient.
The amount of leave that a leave donor may donate in any year generally may not exceed the maximum amount of leave that he or she normally accrues during the year.
A leave recipient may receive paid leave (at his or her normal rate of compensation) from donated leave. Each leave recipient must use this leave for purposes related to the major disaster.
The plan adopts a reasonable limit, based on the severity of the disaster, on the period of time after the major disaster occurs during which a leave donor may donate, and a leave recipient must use, the donated leave.
A leave recipient may not convert leave received under the plan into cash in lieu of using the leave. However, a leave recipient may use leave received under the plan to eliminate a negative leave balance that arose from leave that was advanced to the leave recipient because of the effects of the major disaster.
The employer must make a reasonable determination, based on need, as to how much leave each approved leave recipient may receive under the plan.
Leave donated due to one major disaster may be used only for employees affected by that disaster, with certain de minimis exceptions, and unused leave needs to be returned to the donors.
If the above requirements are not met, the leave sharing program may still be used, except that the leave donated is taxable to the employee donating the leave.
On September 5, 2017, the IRS published IRS Notice 2017-48, which specifically provides that if employees contribute leave that the employer pays to a charitable organization to benefit victims of Hurricane Harvey, the IRS will not treat the cash payments as income to the employees. The employer may also take a business deduction for the payments made to the charitable organization. To take advantage of this tax relief, the charitable organization must be qualified under Section 170(c) of the Code.
Both the DOL and the IRS have provided warnings to the public regarding Hurricane Harvey charity scams. To take advantage of the tax relief, employers should carefully follow the rules described in the IRS and DOL guidance in any program providing benefits to affected employees. The tax-exempt status of any unaffiliated public charities or private foundations should be confirmed.
It may seem easy for an employer to contribute to a "gofundme" page or similar vehicle set up by an affected employee. Any type of vehicle established to benefit one individual cannot qualify as a charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code because it does not provide a "public benefit." Such contributions are generally treated as gifts for tax purposes between unrelated individuals. Since financial transactions between employers and employees are generally considered taxable (unless a specific exception applies), a specific donation to an individual through a "gofundme" page or similar vehicle should be reported as income to the employee recipient, even if an employee's relative, and not the employee, is the beneficiary of the donations. To avoid issues over income tax treatment, an employer could instead make qualified disaster relief payments to an employee or member of the employee's family (as described above).
A qualified employer plan is allowed to provide an employee or a former employee with a loan, or a hardship distribution, for a need arising from Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey. If the employee asserts that there is a financial need as a result of Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey, then there is no need to receive any further documentation and the distribution will be treated as a hardship distribution for federal tax purposes.
A "qualified employer plan" means a plan or contract meeting the requirements of Section 401(a), 403(a), or 403(b) (and a Section 457(b) plan maintained by an eligible employer under Section 457(e)(1)(A)), and, for purposes of the hardship relief, that could, if it contained enabling language, make hardship distributions. Any hardship arising from Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey is treated as an "unforeseeable emergency" for purposes of distributions from such plans. The maximum amount available for hardship distribution has not changed.
The IRS provided relief in connection with filing extensions for Form 5500 series returns as a result of the disaster for taxpayers who reside or have a business in the disaster area. The relief generally extends from August 23, 2017, through January 31, 2018.
Under 29 CFR § 2510.3-102, employers are required to forward plan assets on the earliest date on which such amounts can reasonably be segregated from the employer's general assets, but in no event later than the 15th business day of the month following the month in which the amounts were paid to, or withheld by, the employer. The DOL will not, in case of a failure attributable to Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey, seek to enforce these provisions to the extent that affected employers, and service providers, act reasonably, prudently, and in the interest of employees to comply as soon as practical under the circumstances.
Section 101(i) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (or "ERISA") and the regulations issued thereunder, at 29 CFR § 2520.101-3, indicate that the administrator of an individual account plan is required to provide 30 days' advance notice to participants and beneficiaries whose rights under the plan will be temporarily suspended, limited, or restricted by a blackout period (i.e., a period of suspension, limitation, or restriction of more than three consecutive business days on a participant's ability to direct investments, obtain loans, or obtain other distributions from the plan). With respect to blackout periods related to Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey, the DOL will not allege a violation of the blackout notice requirements solely on the basis that a fiduciary did not make the required written determination.
The DOL recognizes that plan participants and beneficiaries may encounter difficulties in meeting certain deadlines for filing benefit claims and Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (or "COBRA") elections. The guiding principle for plans must be to act reasonably, prudently, and in the interest of the workers and their families who rely on their health plans for their physical and economic well-being. Plan fiduciaries should make reasonable accommodations to prevent the loss of benefits in such cases and should take steps to minimize the possibility of individuals losing benefits because of a failure to comply with pre-established time frames.
If the plan administrator of a plan is a Designated Person, PBGC will, for purposes of assessing any late payment or late information penalty, treat as timely any premium filing required to be made for the plan beginning for the period starting on August 23, 2017, to January 31, 2018, if the filing is made by January 31, 2018. In that case, PBGC will waive the applicable penalty, but not the applicable interest charge.
the deadline for filing the post-distribution certification (Form 501) without penalty.
If the deadline for requesting a review of a PBGC determination under PBGC's regulation on Rules for Administrative Review of Agency Decisions falls on or after August 23, 2017, and on or before January 31, 2018, the deadline is extended to January 31, 2018.
All employers with employees and operations impacted by Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey directly or indirectly should take immediate action to review the relief available for their business and employees. In addition, further developments should be monitored by employees with employers and operations that may be impacted by Hurricane Irma and subsequent disasters.


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PoliticsQuiet Mikes Mumblings
By Quiet Mike Jul 22, 2010 Jul 27, 2010
As it pertains to war, whenever the United States says jump, other countries always seem to say how high. No, I'm not referring to Iraq. I'm not even speaking of Afghanistan which America now sees (going on nine years) as their longest ongoing conflict in their country's history; in fact it's not by a long shot.
In 1971 Richard Nixon was the first president to declare war on drugs. Nixon's main goal at the time was to stop the flow of drugs coming into the U.S. through Mexico. The effort grinded traffic at the border to a virtual halt and as a result lasted for only 20 days. That was the beginning.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon
In the decades since, the United States and various partners have spent untold billions on law enforcement, incarceration and border patrolling all in the name of prohibition. In the 1980s, the U.S. took it a step further by using "the war on drugs" as mere propaganda to justify Ronald Reagan's paramilitary operations under the guise of a righteous cause, mainly fighting leftist insurgencies in central America, namely Columbia & Nicaragua. The end result was the death of tens of thousands.
Over the last ten years the war on drugs has not gotten any better, especially in Mexico. On December 11th 2006, the newly elected president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, promised to crack down on the dozen or more drug cartels running the Mexican drug trade and sent sixty-five hundred federal troops to Michoacán. Over the next few years the number of troops involved has multiplied to roughly forty-five thousand.
Calderón's efforts have paid off to a degree despite all the inside corruption. The Mexican army has severely cut the ability of the cartels to move its drugs into the United States and Canada. The army and federal police have also arrested or killed several high profile cartel kingpins.
Unfortunately, the decrease in trafficking has led to skyrocketing prices for cocaine and other drugs. Cocaine prices in some areas have jumped as much as forty percent making gang territory that much more valuable, valuable enough to murder and die for, which is why we are now seeing an upsurge in violence in some areas of Canada and the United States.
Mexican Drug Seizure
The total chaotic violence we are now seeing in Mexico is due to a huge power vacuum created by the arrests and killings of cartel leaders by the Mexican army and police. So chaotic in fact that it makes Iraq and Afghanistan look like a family picnic. Since Calderón's crackdown, an estimated 22 000 people have died in less than four years, many of them innocent women and children caught in the crossfire.
In 2008, the American congress passed the Mérida Initiative to help Felipe Calderón and certain Central American countries combat drug trafficking. They were given a billion and half dollars over three years on top of what they were getting already and naturally the violence since has only increased.
The cartels in Mexico are better armed and organized now than at any time in history, employing new weaponry and tactics. In fact, the first car bomb of the conflict was used as recently as this past weekend.
While the United States provides money to Mexico to clean-up trafficking drugs into the U.S., 90% of the weapons used to fight the bloody turf war in Mexico are smuggled in from the U.S., a vicious circle indeed. These armaments include military grade assault rifles, hand grenades and grenade launchers (there has even been a submarine used to smuggle cocaine).
Arms Bust in Mexico
Most of these weapons coming from inside the United States are untraceable due to the lack of a state or national gun registry as well as the fact that there are seventy-two thousand gun stores in the country. Virtually all cartel or gang related murders in Mexico are going unsolved.
Former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico have all said that the U.S. led war on drugs is pushing Latin America into a downward spiral and they have recommended to Barack Obama new policies such as decriminalization of marijuana and to treat drug use as a public health problem and not as a security problem.
Canada's Stephen Harper unfortunately does not feel the same way. In his four years in office he has thrown out the liberal plan to decriminalize marijuana, he has tried to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders and he has tried repeatedly to close down the only safe injection site in Vancouver. Like Felipe Calderón, he's just another partner.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/
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LiNCHigher, a partnership of ten education providers and organisations across Lincolnshire, received excellent feedback from one of their schools on our work, and approached CragRats in April 2017 to explore further possibilities.
With an interest in our three tier career programmes, our CragRats' workshops were an ideal fit with LiNCHigher's own focus on increasing aspirations amongst young people, with the overall aim of improving access to Higher Education.
Our Business Support Team arranged for LiNCHigher to see a CragRats event, to give a direct experience of our 'Life-Changing Learning' in action. Having discussed intended outcomes, a bespoke approach was then taken by adding an extra module to our programmes, as well as devising and producing student resources.
CragRats' workshops are scheduled with LiNCHigher's target schools and we are delighted to be continuing our work with them until December 2018.


I actually drink black coffee or straight up tequila but I do appreciate the fun fall festive beverage that is the pumpkin spiced latte.
It's no secret I love snail mail and really enjoyed sending my Thankful For You cards a few years ago.
This year I hopped on the trendy train and made them pumpkin spiced.
I know. I can't even.
Write a loving message, pick a pretty envelope, and send those suckers out.
Cuz it is the season to be thankful for more than just Starbucks and in light of everything going on... there is a LOT to be thankful for!
I made you a template here!
I printed my template on a pretty ivory card stock and then cut them out.
I then printed my saying on kraft paper for the sleeve. Or Coffee Collar for all you Patrick Dempsey devotees.
Here is that template for you!


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U.S. releases first declassified Iraq documents
March 16, 2006, 9:03 AM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
The Bush administration Wednesday night released the first declassified documents collected by U.S. intelligence during the Iraq war, showing among other things that Saddam Hussein's regime was monitoring reports that Iraqis and Saudis were heading to Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks to fight U.S. troops.
The documents, the first of thousands expected to be declassified over the next several months, were released via a Pentagon Web site at the direction of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.
Many were in Arabic — with no English translation — including one the administration said showed that Iraqi intelligence officials suspected al-Qaida members were inside Iraq in 2002.
The Pentagon Web site described that document this way: "2002 Iraqi Intelligence Correspondence concerning the presence of al-Qaida Members in Iraq. Correspondence between IRS members on a suspicion, later confirmed, of the presence of an Al-Qaeda terrorist and names."
More documents to come
The release of the documents, expected to continue for months, is designed to allow lawmakers and the public to investigate what documents from Saddam's regime claimed about such controversial issues as weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida in the period before the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003.
The Web site cautioned that the U.S. government "has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy of the information contained therein, or the quality of any translations, when available."
A handful of prewar Iraq government documents released Wednesday had been translated into English.
Iraqi troops sent to Afghanistan?
They included one Iraqi intelligence document indicating Saddam's feared Fedayeen paramilitary forces were investigating rumors in the fall of 2001 that as many as 3,000 Iraqis and Saudis were going to fight in Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion.
"In the report on the status of rumors for November of 2001 regarding Fedayeen Saddam in al-Anbar, there is an entry that indicates that there is a group of Iraqi and Saudi Arabians numbering around 3,000 who have gone in an unofficial capacity to Afghanistan and have joined the mujahidin (mujahedeen, or holy warriors) to fight with and aid them in defeating the American Zionist Imperialist attack," the translated document stated.
"After presenting the matter to the Supervisor of Fedayeen Saddam, he ordered that the matter should be looked into for verification of the truth of the rumor," the translation said.
House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., requested the release of millions pages of documents and audio recordings captured during current and previous U.S. military operations in Iraq. Most have sat untranslated for years.
Last weekend, Negroponte agreed to set aside money and establish a system to make the documents available to the media, academics and other researchers.
In a statement, Hoekstra welcomed the chance to answer questions about prewar Iraq. "Whether Saddam Hussein destroyed Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or hid or transferred them, the most important thing is we discover the truth of what was happening in the country prior to the war," he said.


Tom Long is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 2018, he is Fulbright visiting professor at the Instituto de Ciencia Política of the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. He is also an Affiliated Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He holds a PhD in International Relations from American University.
Tom's research interests include U.S.-Latin American relations, Latin American foreign policy, North America, and the dynamics of asymmetrical international relations. His first book, Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2015) was named one of the best books of 2016 by Foreign Affairs. It is now out in paperback (Cambridge, Amazon).
Since finishing his PhD in June 2013, Tom has published in numerous journals, including International Security, International Affairs, International Studies Review, Latin American Research Review, Diplomatic History, International Politics, Contemporary Politics, Foro Internacional, and The Latin Americanist, as well as having authored several book chapters and essays. His research in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and the United States, has been or is currently being supported by grants from the Fulbright Program, Tinker Foundation, British Council, the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, and the Truman Library Institute. He is the Chair of the Robert A. Pastor North American Research Initiative, based at American University.
At the University of Warwick, Tom teaches modules on rising powers, Latin American politics, and IR of the Americas. He has also previously taught IR theory, U.S. foreign policy, inter-American relations, history of global politics, international organizations, global governance, and international relations of small powers. He has been on the faculties of the University of Reading, the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Mexico City), and American University; he has also been a visiting researcher at Universidad de los Andes (Bogota) and Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro).
He has presented at many conferences, including International Studies Association and Latin American Studies Association, and he has given invited papers and presentations at Oxford University, the College of Europe (Bruges), University College London, American University, FGV (Rio), UNAM, CIDE, Universidad de los Andes, and elsewhere. He was awarded Best Young Scholar by the Diplomatic Studies Section of ISA in 2015, and in 2013, he was awarded best paper by a graduate student by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies.


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How long can a cutting be kept for before it isn't viable anymore?
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Hi I have several Pitaya cuttings having followed the quide here. Last year 2014, I set the cuttings in compost pots, the cuttings with a single cut put into the compost have produced shoots and are growing fast now that have been transplanted to the soil area. However, all the cutting that have a cut at both ends (correct orientation) have not produced any shoots although there is a good root structure within the compost. Any suggestions please.