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Top 5 Fiction 2020
What a strange year it has been! I hope reading helped get you through the ups and downs. I know I definitely turned to books for both comfort and information, rereading old favourites, and learning about newly relevant subjects. These are my favourite fiction books read or reviewed (not necessarily published) in 2020. You can click the titles for links to the full reviews. Check back on Thursday for my top non-fiction picks!
The Burning God
Disillusioned with the Dragon Republic, Fang Runin has broken with Yin Vaisra and his Hesperian backers, and returned to the South, seeking new allies among the rag tag armies of the Southern Coalition. Nikan remains riven by civil war, and Rin finds to her dismay that the men who lead the Southern forces are no more willing to put a young woman in charge than their Northern counterparts, no matter if she is one of the last shamans in the Empire, able to call down the Phoenix, god of fire and vengeance, onto the battle field. The final installment of R.F. Kuang's Poppy Wars series follows Rin as she makes the latest in a series of bad bargains with untrustworthy allies who both fear and covet her power. The Burning God is a visceral finale that forces Rin into reckoning with the carnage wrought by her rash decisions and shifting alliances, even as she attempts to mentally retreat and wall herself off from the catastrophes Nikan will have to overcome in order to ever have any hope of recovering from these cataclysmic power struggles. Kuang brings her first trilogy to a close as it began, in fire and blood, and with many questions for which there are no easy answers or neat solutions.
Categories: Fantasy
Felix Ever After
Kacen Callender tells the story of Felix Love, a high school student who has already transitioned to male, but is still exploring their gender identity and coming to terms with some of the non-binary options. Felix has never been in love, but has a deep romantic streak, and this novel sees him caught between an enemies-to-lovers epistolary romance via Instagram messages, and the possibility that one of his oldest friendships is actually romantic. Next to the romances, my favourite element of this book was the way it explored the complicated forms of internalized homophobia and transphobia that can exist within the queer community where Felix is supposed to feel safe, such as his ex-girlfriend Marisol, and the anonymous bullies causing trouble at school and online.
Categories: Young Adult, LGBTQ+
As the son of the President, Alex Claremont-Diaz, his sister June, and their best friend Nora Holleran are America's golden children, beloved by the press, and the perfect political surrogates for President Claremont and Vice President Holleran as they pass through the 2018 midterms and aim for re-election in 2020. But Alex commits a very public faux-pas when he gets into an altercation with his long-time rival, Prince Henry of England, at the wedding of Henry's older brother, Prince Philip. As the White House and Buckingham Palace fly into damage-control mode, Henry and Alex are forced to fake a public friendship for the press, even while the sparks that are flying behind closed doors are of an entirely different sort. But if they ever want to really be together, they'll have to come to terms with themselves, their families, and their place in history. Casey McQuiston has written what is at heart a light, fluffy romance, but one that also cheekily sends up the problematic aspects of the trope at its center. I suspect that some people won't like politics intruding into their fluffy romance in this manner, but I personally found it helped to acknowledge the cognitive dissonance rather than simply ignoring the problems inherent in the trope. Your mileage may vary, but for me this was a perfect bit of fluffy, swoony fun.
Categories: Romance, LGBTQ+
Old beyond his years, teenage Jared feels responsible for all the adults around him, from his mercurial mom Maggie, to her deadbeat boyfriend Richie, to his lying father and his pregnant step-sister, and the elderly neighbours who helped him out in a time of need, as well as their wayward granddaughter, Sarah. His mom is estranged from her own family, and his father's mother has always harboured the belief that he isn't actually her grandson, but rather the illegitimate son of a Trickster. His only support, his beloved dog Baby, has recently died, and Jared is having a hard time keeping it together for everyone who needs him. He drinks too much, and smokes too much, and sometimes he blacks out. And sometimes he think he sees and hears things, even when he isn't half-cut. Things that make him wonder if his grandmother might not be crazy after all. At first, Jared's life seems normal, or at least, only abnormal in sadly normal human ways. Slowly but surely, however, Eden Robinson layers in little bits of weirdness that creep in around the edges, and Jared's chapters are mixed with bizarre, expansive interludes that hint at a world beyond his day-to-day reality. The magic seeps in until it is almost pervasive, slowly invading every corner of his life until he has no choice but to face the destiny he has been running from.
Categories: Canadian, Speculative Fiction
The Starless Sea
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student who studies video games, but has a passion for story and narrative in all its forms. Visiting the nearly-deserted library between terms, Zachary stumbles across an old book of short stories, an improperly catalogued and mysterious donation to the university's collection. But what is truly remarkable about this book is that Zachary is in it; the third story perfectly describes a real incident from his childhood, one that he never dared to speak of, let alone commit to paper. Coming eight years on the heels of Erin Morgenstern's debut novel The Night Circus, The Starless Sea is divided into six books within books. At first, alternating chapters from Zachary's perspective are interleaved with fragments from his mysterious library find. Morgenstern also layers in excerpts from the diary of Zachary's friend Kat, one of the few people who seems to notice or care when he goes missing from the university in pursuit of answers, desperate to discover the provenance of the book, and ascertain once and for all whether the world it describes might be real and reachable. The Starless Sea is the story of a magical library, but also something much more impossible than that. It is a story of doorways, and possibilities, of choices and their consequences.
An honourable mention also goes out to S.A. Chakraborty, who completed her truly excellent Daevabad trilogy with The Empire of Gold this year.
What were your top fiction reads of 2020? I especially want to hear about your comfort reads and fluff! What got you through?
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Casey McQuiston
Eden Robinson
R. F. Kuang
by Casey McQuiston
"June, I'm the son of the President of the United States. Prince Henry is a figurehead of the British Empire. You can't just call him my archnemesis… Archnemesis implies he's actually a rival to me on any level and not, you know, a stuck-up product of inbreeding who probably jerks off to photos of himself."
As the son of the President, Alex Claremont-Diaz, his sister June, and their best friend Nora Holleran are America's golden children, beloved by the press, and the perfect political surrogates for President Claremont and Vice President Holleran as they pass through the 2018 midterms and aim for re-election in 2020. But Alex commits a very public faux-pas when he gets into an altercation with his long-time rival, Prince Henry of England, at the wedding of Henry's older brother, Prince Philip. As the White House and Buckingham Palace fly into damage-control mode, Henry and Alex are forced to fake a public friendship for the press, even while the sparks that are flying behind closed doors are of an entirely different sort. But if they ever want to really be together, they'll have to come to terms with themselves, their families, and their place in history.
Red, White & Royal Blue is told from the perspective of Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son of America's first female president, Ellen Claremont, who is divorced from his father, the senator for California, Oscar Diaz. Although college-aged, Alex lives in the White House with his mother while he attends school at Georgetown, and his sister June has returned home after graduation as she attempts to start a journalism career with the baggage of not being taken seriously as a result of her status as First Daughter. Alex is mouthy and over-confident, with a laser focus on going straight into politics after college and becoming the youngest Congressman ever elected. So it maybe isn't surprising that coming to terms with his sexuality has been on the back burner. After all, "he's absolutely sure that guys who kissed a Prince of England and liked it don't get elected to represent Texas."
The Claremont-Diaz family is, of course, entirely fictional, a made-up successor to the Obama administration, although certain real political figures are mentioned in passing. Ellen Claremont is finishing out her first term, and heading into the 2020 election as her son undertakes a liaison that could provoke an international crisis. The British Royal Family is semi-fictionalized, drawing clear comparisons to the real monarchy without directly copying the family members as characters. McQuiston's fictional version of the firm is headed by Queen Mary, whose daughter Catherine has withdrawn from public life since her husband, the film star Arthur Fox, died an early death due to pancreatic cancer. Her three children, heir Philip, and younger siblings Beatrice and Henry comprise the family's younger generation of the Mountchristen-Windsors.
This book is at heart a light, fluffy romance, but one that also cheekily sends up the problematic aspects of the trope at its center. For example, early in the book Alex complains to his sister June that "royal weddings are trash, the princes who have royal weddings are trash, the imperialism that allows princes to exist at all is trash. Its trash turtles all the way down." June shoots back, "you do realize that America is a genocidal empire too, right?" I suspect that some people won't like politics intruding into their fluffy romance in this manner, but I personally found it helped to acknowledge the cognitive dissonance rather than simply ignoring the problems inherent in the trope. Your mileage may vary.
As the book goes on, Henry and Alex develop into frenemies, then lovers, and launch a snappy epistolary romance as they exchange text messages and emails, and try to sneak across the Atlantic to see one another as often as their duties will allow. The sex scenes are a bit more explicit what you would generally find in a YA novel—Red, White & Royal Blue is marketed into the New Adult category—but not actually that graphic overall. It will certainly appeal to fans of m/m YA tales such as Carry On or The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. Most of all, however, this was a perfect bit of fluffy, swoony fun, which was exactly what I needed in the current moment.
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Got a call (well, e-mail) from Milan records in France asking if I'd be interested in doing some jazz record covers.
The art director Franck Laurent, wanted a bluesy drawing of Nina at the piano, I kept thinking of this book cover by one of my all-time favorites, Miguel Covarrubias. The blue color was my idea.
Like the middle orange bottom one as well Paul!
Very iconic but with Nina Simone, there's no other outcome. Looks wonderful.
The Miguel Covarrubias cover is totally rad. Why copy it?
Must confess to envy over this gig. How many ways can you say 'fun'? Beautiful work. my password here is 'nicedone'.
It's clear, I ran out of ideas about fifteen years ago.
Sympa! Genial! Il me rappelle un peu de la série de « jazz » de Matisse. Is it all digital? Are their any study sketches?
A full LP cover is a dream job for sure. Looks great.
Clearly you are a talent, but why not make the most of the opportunity and look forward to originality rather than look back by repurposing?
Why not? Probably for the same reasons people still record songs by Cole Porter and George Gershwin. Why would Nina Simone cover songs done by Billie Holiday? Looking back is just as legit as looking forward.
That's an interesting and perfectly valid way of looking at it, Paul. Nice job. And I'm fairly certain the Covarrubias cover is pretty much forgotten except for the most ardent of us Covarrubias fans and maybe a few Langston Hughes fans. As Peter Allen sang, "everything old is new again."
OK but when a musician covers a song, the royalties go to the musician who wrote it thru ASCAP. Will Paul Rogers send money to the Covarrubias estate? I don't see this as looking back as much as I see it as taking from another illustrator which we learn in school as unethical. If Covarrubias were alive today then what what would you say.
Nadine, with all due respect, I think Covarrubias would deeply respect what Paul has done --in general and specifically in that Paul pays homage to him in this assignment --and in this post. Plus, the client had input here as well. Not that this absolves the illustrator of a moral need to acknowledge his sources, it does complicate things a little bit. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. When illustrators refuse to acknowledge their stylistic debts or blatantly imitate others is when I would assume your point of view without reservation.
Respectfully, I think many of the artists on this site who teach would agree that if a student were to turn this in as a final, they would be in very hot water.
There are few touchier topics than the use of another artist's work as part of making a new piece. There are no set rules. Sometimes it seems OK, even smart, other times it feels totally wrong. Each artist must make their choice, on each project. I'm certainly guilty of using history in a lazy way at times. Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast showed us that using history can be a legitimate and informative way to make images for today's audiences, Milton had this to say in an interview with Print Magazine. "The process of looking back at the past is very accepted in our business—the difference is when you take something without adding anything to the conversation. ... I think unless you're modifying it and making it your own, you're on very tenuous ground." "It's a dangerous example for students, if they see that appropriating people's work is the path to success. Simply reproducing the work of others robs you of your imagination and form-making abilities. You're not developing the muscularity you need to invent your own ideas. ... But it's important for students to understand that any idea can be exploited, but not simply reproduced." I certainly agree with Nadine, that it's unethical to take something from another illustrator who is out here working today. It's important for young artists to find their own voice, and Glaser's warning to students should be heeded. I'll definitely owe some illustrators a few drinks in the sweet hereafter.
Congrats on getting such a plum assignment. Nina's voice is so rich and identifiable. Her version of Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" rivals that of Billie Holiday.
Love this one, Paul! You certainly gave it the Paul Rogers twist. I love the first and last versions.
I am a huge fan of your work and visit your blog intermittently . I often refer other fellow artists here also. Very pleased to see you doing something with Nina Simone, my all time favourite jazz vocalist. Your work is kind of a graphic depiction of her style; both very unique.


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Looking to the Past as We Design for the Future of Mixed-Use
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By: Chris Osborn
The explosion of the Coronavirus pandemic has almost instantly reversed the momentum of social charge that was inexorably bringing us together.
There has been a scramble to create a manageable distance while trying to maintain the connections necessary for the continuation of work, nutrition and social sanity. "Social Distancing" has become the norm, although it is a poorly chosen term for the behavior modification that is needed. What we really need is managed spatial distancing without the social and emotional isolation that comes with it. We need a managed environment and a mediated perimeter.
These challenges are not new to designers, as the predecessor of the modern dense mixed-use development, the Italian Hill Town, came about due to social and economic pressures not unlike what we have today. It offered concentrated resources and easy access to places of work, which were predominately the fields. It provided an economy of pooled assets such as water, food and labor. It offered protection from outside forces that compromised their livelihood.
We've seen this "pandemic-proofing" occur throughout history and look back to the Croatian city of Dubrovnik – the first place in the world to introduce the concept of quarantine. In 1377 the city found itself especially susceptible to the spread of infectious disease coming in through its ports and created its first large quarantine facility- the lazaretto – which, coupled with mandated isolation periods decreed for anyone entering the city, helped to suppress transmission.
Unfortunately, these strengths could come at the price of total isolation, which is the current challenge. From a technological standpoint, we now live in the "Global Village," first described by Marshall McLuhan nearly 60 years ago as a place where we can share culture instantaneously through a worldwide, integrated electronic network. Although most of us are not technologically isolated, we can easily become socially and emotionally isolated. We have the additional challenge of providing access to food and medical care while deterring contact with potential carriers and security threats.
The current trend in expansive social interaction has resulted in an "unmanaged perimeter" in our work and social lives. The vibrancy of unscripted, chance interactions comes at a price.
The classic Italian Hill Town offers some insight into how this archetype can help us today. Residents often sit in their windows and converse with neighbors and passersby, offering an opportunity for social interaction with no physical collision. They can get the news, enlist the help of their neighbors and direct the delivery of necessities to their front door or stoop. If there is a social gathering, political or religious event, they are not prevented from joining in. Groceries, cooked food, medical and religious assistance are just down the street. While the perimeter of the home and neighborhood can be closed off from physically mixing with their neighbors and friends, residents are never truly alone, fully cut off or socially isolated.
Our current mixed-use development model offers many of these same attributes. The control and sanitation of common areas and communal services is much more simplified and condensed than less dense developments. Delivery of groceries, meals and packages are completed with minimum effort and maximum speed. Centralized mail and package delivery locations can be easily sanitized, and the delivery personnel are exposed to the minimum of uncontrolled circumstances. An on-site clinic provides immediate access to medical care without the need for travel. Thus, possible contagion is localized and easily managed, particularly because cleaning and other services are centralized and can be consistently applied and quickly adjusted to local conditions.
Managing social isolation is a much harder task. Design that creates an arms–length communication in a controlled setting, similar to the balconies overlooking streets in the Italian Hill Town model can work in a low to mid-rise development. For high density developments, the answers are much less clear.
Components for an interactive, but spatially mediated environment:
Courtyards and piazzas are key common area components to an interactive social environment, specifically, spaces that can be seen from residences and private areas. They provide space for programming like symphonies in the park or movies on the lawn. The spaces should have good cross–ventilation, shade and cover, as well as areas where people can linger and interact. They should be broad enough to allow people to maintain a safe distance from others and still allow travel through the space. Shared spaces provide a constant visual reminder that residents are part of a community with a responsibility for appropriate social interaction.
Common spaces should have views or vistas to adjoining areas and neighborhoods. They need to be active and should always be part of a pedestrian traffic pattern.
Residences should have visual access to these common areas, such as windows, balconies, stairs and walkways. These would allow visual communication and social connection without physical contact. It also provides a constant visual reminder that residents are part of a community and encourages appropriate social interaction.
Stairwells should be glazed or open to encourage their use instead of elevators as a way of supporting overall health through physical exercise. Elevators and elevator lobbies should have a similar visual connection. Both should be constructed using materials that are easily cleaned and resistant to wear so that they always present a clean fresh environment.
Visitors and residents should be able to access living units, stores, restaurants, clinics and other services without having to expose themselves to adverse weather conditions. Conversely, there should always be alternate paths to allow them to enjoy the out of doors when the weather is appropriate.
The perimeter of these developments must be able to be managed so that 1) incoming traffic can be monitored and controlled and 2) it gives a sense of security to the inhabitants and workers in the community.
These design features allow for human connection in communities that are socially restricted. Residents remain a part of the community despite the obstructions. Italians currently under lockdown due to the Coronavirus outbreak have taken to singing and creating music together from their balconies, allowing neighbors to stay connected while physically apart. Spanish people under lockdown go to their balconies every evening to applaud the efforts of the country's healthcare workers. In Israel, a band that had taken to the balcony to make music noticed a couple getting married in the courtyard below and decided to serenade the newlyweds with traditional Jewish wedding songs.
It might be easy to give up on design in the face of the current threat. But we can see that, even in challenging times, the best mixed-use projects inspire meaningful human interaction and, with sensitivity and consideration, can help reduce anxiety and risk.
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Margaret Fox, the daughter of John and Rachel (Mathias) Fox. She was born 4 February 1839 in Sinking Valley, Pennsylvania and died 8 January 1914 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania.
"Mrs. Margaret Fleck, wife of the late Martin Luther Fleck, died this morning (sic) at the home of her daughter Mrs. Rebecca Black, near Skelp, Sinking Valley, of pneumonia. Mrs. Fleck had been in failing health for some time past and last week she caught a heavy cold which terminated in pneumonia. She gradually grew weaker until the summons came this morning at 8:40 o'clock when she fell peacefully asleep.
Mrs. Margaret Fox Fleck was born in Sinking Valley about 75 years ago; her husband preceded her to the grave in 1902. Early in life she united with the Lutheran church of Tyrone and died rejoicing in that faith. Surviving to mourn the death is one daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Black, one brother, Reuben Fox, and one sister, Miss Mary Fox, all of Sinking Valley." - Tyrone Herald, 15 January 1914.
His obituary reads "Martin Luther Fleck, formerly a resident of Tyrone, died very suddenly Friday morning at his home at Scalp Level in Sinking Valley. He had been in poor health for some time but had no alarming illness. After a hearty breakfast on Friday he started to go to his stable and a few minutes later his wife found him overcome by heart failure and leaning against a tree. She assisted him to the house where he died a few minutes later.
The deceased was aged 64 years. He is survived by his wife, and one daughter, Mrs. Harry Black, of Tyrone. One sister, Mrs. Jane Keatley, of Nebraska, also survives him. Mr. Fleck resided in Tyrone for several years until about six years ago when he returned to Sinking Valley, which had been his place of residence most of his life. He was a member of the First Lutheran church of Tyrone. he was also a member of Sinking Valley castle, knights of the Golden Eagle, an order in which he has long taken great interest, and in which he has held the office of district chief for several years.


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Q: how to completely remove cuda? (16.04) I was given a ubuntu 16.04 machine, and I think somebody had installed cuda 9.0 before. I installed cuda 10.1 using .deb file and then I installed tensorflow-gpu but found it requires which requires cuda 10.0 so I installed cuda-10.0 toolkit (toolkit only). by the way, I installed nvidia driver using apt-get install, (latest version).
Somehow, tensorflow-gpu doesn't work (only cpu is used), so I decided to completely remove cuda. I tried sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove cuda and when I type dpkg -l | grep cuda, I see
ii  cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-10-0-local-10.0.130-410.48 1.0-1                                        amd64        cuda repository configuration files
ii  cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-10-0-local-nvjpeg-update-1 1.0-1                                        amd64        cuda repository configuration files
ii  libnccl-dev                                     2.2.13-1+cuda9.0                             amd64        NVIDIA Collectives Communication Library (NCCL) Development Files
ii  libnccl2                                        2.2.13-1+cuda9.0                             amd64        NVIDIA Collectives Communication Library (NCCL) Runtime
ii  nccl-repo-ubuntu1604-2.2.13-ga-cuda9.0          1-1                                          amd64        nccl repository configuration files
rc  nvidia-cuda-toolkit                             7.5.18-0ubuntu1                              amd64        NVIDIA CUDA development toolkit

how can I remove those cuda9.0 things?

A: Just deinstall the packages.
sudo apt-get purge libnccl-dev libnccl2

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Journalists attacked while covering clashes in Lebanon
June 19, 2012 3:16 PM EDT
Cairo, June 19, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists is disturbed by what it sees as a trend in the attack of Lebanese journalists covering clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime. In the past month, at least nine journalists have been attacked in four separate incidents.
"We see a disturbing pattern of attacks on journalists covering this widely reported international story," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney from New York. "The Lebanese government is responsible for ensuring that journalists are able to carry out their work without threat or fear of assault, and must do all in its power to protect them."
On June 10, Ghadi Francis, a correspondent for the Beirut-based TV station Al-Jadeed, was covering the internal elections of the local Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Dhour Shweir, north of Beirut, when Hussein Hashem, the bodyguard of Assad Hardan, the party's president, assaulted her, according to news reports. The reports said that Hashem had asked Francis to leave but when she refused, he punched her in the face and kicked her multiple times. Another journalist, Firas Shoufi of the daily Al-Akhbar, tried to intervene but was hit in the face, the reports said.
The Syrian Social Nationalist Party issued a statement apologizing for the assault and claimed that Hardan's bodyguard was not responsible, news reports said. A day earlier, Francis had published a story about the party's elections, citing the possibility that Hardan may lose the election, according to news reports.
Naji Mazboudi, a cameraman for the Beirut-based private broadcaster Al-Mustaqbal, was attacked by two unidentified assailants while filming at a Beirut hospital on May 21, according to news reports. Mazboudi had been filming patients injured from clashes on the highway of Tareeq Al-Jadeed, news reports said. The men beat the journalist as he left the hospital, insulting him and his employer and telling him not to return, the reports said.
On May 20, a group of unidentified men attacked Rona al-Halabi, a correspondent for the Beirut-based TV station Al-Jadeed, and cameramen Omar Khaddaj and Elie Abu Asly while they covered clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad near the northern road of al-Abda near Tripoli, according to news reports. The men blocked the journalists from filming and then beat Khaddaj on the head and attempted to seize his camera, news reports said. Khaddaj suffered bruises to his head, but the other two journalists were unharmed. The clashes came in the aftermath of the shooting of Ahmad Abdel Wahed, an anti-Syrian regime Sunni cleric, at an army checkpoint, news reports said.
Lastly, a group of unidentified armed men attacked a news crew from the Moscow-based broadcaster Russia Today on May 17 as they covered clashes between pro- and anti-Assad supporters in the northern city of Tripoli, the station reported. The men attacked three crew members, destroying their equipment and calling them "spies of Bashar al-Assad," news reports said. The journalists have not been identified in news reports.
Lebanon has increasingly been affected by the unrest in neighboring Syria, CPJ research shows. In April, CPJ documented the killing of a Lebanese cameraman while filming near the Syrian border.
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Firas Shoufi
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Authentic recipe for ribollita. Typical example of simple cooking that has its roots in the Middle Ages. Peasants prepared it in large quantities on Friday. It happened to enrich their soup with the gravy they could bring home rarely from their lord's kitchen. The first time they ate their soup with bread (bread soup for ribollita) and, the next day, they were used to boil again their soup left. It became a so firm soup to be eaten with a fork: the typical ribollita, a traditional recipe of Tuscany. Other Italian soup or minestra recipes?
- Soak the cannellini beans overnight in cold water.
- The next morning cook the cannellini beans in abundant water until tender.
Remember to add the bay leaf too.
Don't add salt to the water because it often hardens legumes.
Put aside cooking water and remove the bay leaf.
- In the meantime clean the Tuscan kale.
Cut its tough stems out.
Cut its leaves into strips and wash them.
- Clean and wash the savoy cabbage.
Cut its leaves into strips.
- Clean and wash the Swiss chard.
- Clean the garlic clove.
- Clean and chop the carrots and celery.
- Put 1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil in a big crock pot or in a pan.
- Gently fry the onion, celery and carrots on very low heat in olive oil.
- Add the tomatoes and stir.
If you use peeled tomatoes mash them with a fork before adding.
- Add all the other vegetables.
- Stir and let all the ingredients flavor for few minutes.
- Pour in the cooking water of beans.
Add other water to cover.
- Bring to a boil and then lower the flame.
- Simmer for about 2 hours adding other hot water only if necessary.
- Add the cooked beans a quarter of an hour before the end of cooking.
- You'd have a dense soup.
- Once turned off the stove, add the thyme and the remaining olive oil.
Cover and let your soup rest.
Alternate your bread slices with ladlefuls of soup in a big bowl.
- Let all rest even for some hours.
Now you have the bread soup for ribollita.
It is very tasty even if served warm or at room temperature.
So you'd have half of your soup left.
- Look at the nearby photo: it's the bread soup for ribollita in an individual plate.
- The day after transfer your soup left in a crock pot.
- Let your soup boil again until very firm.
Someone also likes it sticks on the bottom to form a crust.
- Someone serves it with raw chopped onion on the surface and sprinkled with other olive oil.
- You can see Tuscan ribollita photo at the beginning of this page.
- You can imagine easily that every family in Tuscany has its own version of ribollita.
- Now I want to remember you that you don't have add some ingrendients to ribollita. For example potatoes. For two reasons. First of all purists say potatoes aren't an authentic ingredient for ribollita. The second reason is nutritional. There are already the beans and bread that contribute to the amount of carbohydrates ;)))) the wisdom of peasants had come to certain conclusions before modern science and nutritionists!
You shouldn't use zucchini too. The main reason is that when Tuscan kale is in season they are out of season. So, definitely, they didn't appear in the original and authentic ribollita recipe.
- Someone use no garlic.
- Other Tuscan people like to add a bit of chilli though it seems not to be a typical ingredient of ribollita.
- I noticed in some versions there is the habit to add a raw ham bone too. It may rmember the gravy by which peasants flavored their soup.
But if you add it, your soup is no more a vegetarian dish.
- Some people reduce to puree half of the beans to thicken the soup. In my opinion it is not necessary.
- Ribollita is one-plate meal for my husband and me. In this case we increase the doses and complete our meal with seasonal fruit (oranges and apples).
- Peasants shew great wisdom as I've just said before, but undoubtedly the modern studies tell us something more about cooking techniques and on the ingredient combination to stay healthy.
- For example, prolonged cooking makes us lose too many vitamins. It's a pity because Tuscan kale is particularly rich in the precious vitamin C.
- It would be better to avoid to fry vegetables in olive oil. I prefer to add it to my soup once turned off the stove not to miss the extraordinary nutritional qualities of olive oil.
To reduce cooking time I cut the Tuscan kale, savoy cabbage and Swiss chard into very thin strips.
- I calculated nutrition facts of ribollita soup without bread. For stale bread you have to add 350 kCal per 100g (3 1/2 ounces).
What's the right wine for " Ribollita recipe "?
My husband and I generally pair young Chianti (red wine from Tuscany) with ribollita but if you prefer white wine you might choose Vermentino.


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Open winscp and connect to remote.ee.columbia.edu as one of the host names. Your username is your EE account username as is your password.
The right pane lists the contents of your home directory and the left pane should contain your documents directory. Please copy the ilab.key file from the right pane to the left.
Hit Ok until a new desktop shows up.
To change the screen resolution inside the session please go to Preferences-> screen resolution.
Go to http://www.nomachine.com and download Nomachine remote access client.
Type get ilab.key to obtain the key.
Run Nomachine and click "create new connection." Set protocol to SSH and host to micro1.ilab.columbia.edu – micro31.ilab.columbia.edu, remote.ee.columbia.edu or remote1.ee.columbia.edu (# is the number of the machine you wish to access). Set port to 22, and security to password authentication.
When selecting the login options, make sure to click "Use Nomachine Login." In the login settings choose "Use alternate server key" and select the ilab.key file you downloaded in step (3).
Now you can login by clicking on the profile you made in Nomachine. Click "Create a new GNOME Virtual Desktop." You should be able to view the Linux desktop. The resolution can be improved from within the session using preferences->screen resolution.


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My lunch with my co-workers to be went well. Seem like a nice bunch although it's hard to get a real impression of such a large group of people from one afternoon. Roll on January 8th!
New phone is good. It's completely different from my last phone and I'm slowly figuring out how to do the basic things, so aside from the fact that the home screen graphic features the Houses of Parliament (and even then it's the wrong way round for some reason), it's already proving a more than capable successor to my old C600.
Christmas shopping is drawing to a close. A CD and some books for my Gran and we're done. We'll we're done BUYING things but I'm still waiting on three things arriving, all for Louise! I'm trying not to stress over it… yet.


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Q: Print contents of a file in reverse line order So i've been running into issues trying to get my program to print output correctly. I have a text file with some content in it, and want to print it from the bottom up.
    fptr = fopen("file.txt", "r");

    fseek(fptr, 0, SEEK_END);
    count = ftell(fptr);

    while (i < count)
    {
            i++;
            fseek(fptr, -i, SEEK_END);
            printf("%c", fgetc(fptr));
    }

    printf("\n");
    fclose(fptr);

A sample output from this would be
Input:
Hello
My name is

Output:
si eman yM
olleH

What I want the output to be:
My name is
Hello

A: How you're doing it, reading a character and seeking backwards one, is inefficient.
The Perl module File::Readbackwards is a good read. Perl's IO is very close to C, and the code is well commented.
The basic algorithm is to read and buffer blocks, and find lines within that block, but starting at the end of the file and going backwards.

*

*Open the file.

*Seek to the end.

*Seek backwards to the previous block.

*Read that block into a buffer.

Once you have that buffer, scan backwards through the buffer until you find a newline. Now you have a complete line. If you fail to find a newline, read the previous block and try again.

That's non-trivial, so here's how you'd do it reading backwards one character at a time until you see a newline. I've used the fgets interface to get one line at a time.
char *fgets_backwards( char *str, int size, FILE *fp ) {
    /* Stop if we're at the beginning of the file */
    if( ftell(fp) == 0 ) {
        return NULL;
    }

    int i;
    /* Be sure not to overflow the string nor read past the start of the file */
    for( i = 0; ftell(fp) != 0 && i < size; i++ ) {
        /* Back up one character */
        fseek(fp, -1, SEEK_CUR);
        /* Read that character */
        str[i] = (char)fgetc(fp);

        /* We have the whole line if we see a newline, except at the start.
           This happens before we back up a character so the newline will
           appear on the next line. */
        if( str[i] == '\n' && i != 0 ) {
            break;
        }

        /* Back up the character we read. */
        fseek(fp, -1, SEEK_CUR);
    }

    /* Null terminate, overwriting the previous line's newline */
    str[i] = '\0';

    return str;
}

These lines will come out backwards, so reverse them. That's simple enough.
void reverse( char *start ) {
    size_t len = strlen(start);

    for( char *end = &start[len-1]; start < end; start++, end-- ) {
        char tmp = start[0];
        start[0] = end[0];
        end[0] = tmp;
    }
}

Putting it all together...
fseek( fp, 0, SEEK_END );

char line[1024];
while( fgets_backwards( line, 1024, fp ) != NULL ) {
    reverse(line);
    printf("%s", line);
}

Note, I was sloppy about error checking. Each call to fseek should be checked.

NOTE: I wrote this part before the OP clarified what they wanted. Oh well, it's still pretty cool.
Now that you have a complete line, you can tackle reversing it separate from reading the file.
char *reverse_by_word( char *string ) {
    size_t len = strlen(string);

    /* Allocate enough space to store string, and a null */
    char *reversed = malloc( len * sizeof(char) );

    /* Initialize reversed to be an empty string so strcat knows where to start */
    /* There's no need to initialize the rest of the string,
    /* the garbage from malloc will be overwritten */
    reversed[0] = '\0';

    /* Read the string backwards, character by characer */
    for( int i = (int)len - 1; i >= 0; i-- ) {
        /* If we see a space... */
        if( isspace( string[i] ) ) {
            /* Add the word after it to reversed */
            strcat( reversed, &string[i+1] );
            /* Faithfully reproduce the whitespace after the word */
            strncat( reversed, &string[i], 1 );
            /* Chop the string off at the space */
            string[i] = '\0';
        }
    }

    return reversed;
}

This is the destructive version, string gets chopped up with null bytes. It's possible to do this non-destructively and I might edit it later.
Since input and reversed are the same length, using strcpy with no bounds is safe.
We can test this works and faithfully reproduces all the whitespace.
#include <assert.h>

int main() {
    char input[] = " Hello  My\tname is ";

    char *reversed = reverse_by_word(input);
    printf( "'%s'\n", reversed );
    assert( strcmp(reversed, " is name\tMy  Hello ") == 0 );
}

Here's the non-destructive version. Basically the same idea, but instead of marking where we've already printed with null bytes, we remember it in last_idx.
char *reverse_by_word( const char *string ) {
    size_t len = strlen(string);

    char *reversed = malloc( len * sizeof(char) );
    reversed[0] = '\0';

    /* Read the string backwards, character by characer */
    int last_idx = (int)len;
    for( int i = (int)len - 1; i >= 0; i-- ) {
        /* If we see a space... */
        if( isspace( string[i] ) ) {
            /* Add the word before it, stop at the last word we saw. */
            strncat( reversed, &string[i+1], last_idx - i - 1);
            /* Faithfully reproduce the whitespace. */
            strncat( reversed, &string[i], 1 );

            /* Remember the last place we printed up to. */
            last_idx = i;
        }
    }

    return reversed;
}


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No fireworks' and no 'big bonanza' in Budget 2018 – Leo Varadkar
Budget 2018 will have " no fireworks" and no "big bonanza", according to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
But he said the series of tax and spending measures will ensure the country's books are balanced, as well as giving a little back to hard working families.
Speaking on his way into government buildings ahead of Cabinet, Mr Varadkar confirmed that the budget has been agreed with Fianna Fáil and the Independent Alliance.
Mr Varadkar said an average family with two children will save €500-600 per year as a result of Budget 2018.
And he said it will result in the biggest health and education budgets ever – resulting in more teachers, nurses and doctors.
"It's a good budget overall. There are no fireworks, no big bonanza. But it is another small sustainable step in the right direction for our county."


The First Counseling List based on Round 1 of Seat Allotment for Rajasthan Engineering Admission Process (REAP) 2017 has been released on Rajasthan Technical University's official website rtureap.com as well as on rtu.ac.in.
The Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) has released the First Counseling List based on Round 1 of Seat Allotment for Rajasthan Engineering Admission Process (REAP) 2017 on its official website rtureap.com as well as on rtu.ac.in. The Rajasthan domicile candidates seeking admissions in the B.Tech. B.E. and B.Arch. courses in Engineering Institutes across the state of Rajasthan can check the First Counseling list by following the instructions below.
How to Check REAP 2017 First Counseling Seat Allotment?
Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) had earlier released the Round 1 of Seat Allotment for Rajasthan Engineering Admission Process (REAP) 2017 on July 7th 2017. RTU reserves 85% Seats for its domicile candidates and 15% for the candidates from outside Rajasthan. The Seat allotment process is done on the basis of JEE rank of the candidates.
The candidates who have qualified for First Counseling List need to report to their allotted reporting centre as per the schedule with all their documents and fee before 24th July. Students who are not satisfied with this list can change or modify their options till 26th July and can wait for further Seat Allotment Results.
The Second Round of Seat Allotment for RTU REAP 2017 is expected to be released on July 27th 2017. Complete details of the Choice Filling can be accessed here.


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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- University of Iowa junior quarterback Nate Stanley has been named to the 2018 Maxwell Award Watch List.
An All-Big Ten honorable mention, Stanley garnered multiple player of the week honors following performances against Iowa State and Ohio State. As a junior, Stanley ranks 18th in program history in career passing yards (2,499) and 11th in career passing touchdowns (26).
The Maxwell Award has been awarded to College Football's Player of the Year since 1937 and is named in honor of Robert Maxwell for his contributions to the game as a player, sportswriter, and official.
Akrum Wadley was named to the Maxwell Award preseason Watch List last season. Two Hawkeyes -- Nile Kinnick in 1939 and Chuck Long in 1985 -- have won the award, while former quarterback Ricky Stanzi was the most recent semifinalist in 2010.
The award, in conjunction with the NCFAA, will announce semifinalists on Oct. 29, while finalists will be revealed Nov. 19. Winners will be announced Dec. 6 as part of the Home Depot College Football Awards Show.
Stanley and the Hawkeyes open their season against Northern Illinois on Sept. 1. For ticket information visithawkeyesports.com/fightforiowa.


US regulators have confirmed details of a pilot scheme to test the impact of tick-sizes on liquidity in smaller stocks.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) told US exchanges last year to submit proposals for how such a pilot scheme might work.
The SEC has now revealed it will run a pilot for two years, which will widen the minimum tick size for a number of small-cap stocks.
Market participants will have a whole year to prepare for the scheme, which will begin on 6 May 2016.
Regulators wants to see whether wider tick sizes for small-cap stocks can improve market quality and provide benefits to issuers and investors. Some critics of the existing tick size regime state that small tick sizes favour investment in larger and more liquid names.
Stocks eligible for the scheme will have a market capitalisation of $3 billion or less and an average daily trading volume of one million shares or less, with a volume weighted average price of at least $2 each trading day.
The scope of the scheme is vast, and will cover 1,400 securities split into three test groups.
The first test group will quote in $0.05 increments and trade at any price increment permitted. The second group will also quote in $0.05 increments but will also trade in $0.05 increments except for certain exceptions such as trading at midpoint.
A final test group will be subject to the same rules at the second group, but will also be subject to the "trade-at" rule, which prevents price matching by anyone not displaying at a price at a trading center's best protected big and offer. These test groups will be accompanies by a control group, which will be subject to a $0.01 increment, the current minimum for US equities.
The SEC will release data generated during the pilot on a regular basis and analyse the wider impact tick sizes are having on smaller stocks.


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WWE can't seem to make up their minds about what they are doing with Sasha Banks. Her team lost a triple threat match on RAW this week meaning that they will enter the Elimination Chamber match first on Sunday.
However, WWE release a report saying that Banks was pulled from the match due to suffering a shoulder injury. Then it was said that Bayley will be in the Chamber all by herself which hardly seemed fair.
UPDATE: After undergoing additional rehabilitation on her injured shoulder, Sasha Banks has been cleared to compete in the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship Elimination Chamber Match this Sunday.
It looks like she was cleared after all. So you can expect both halves of the Boss n Hug Connection competing on Sunday.


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El Club Patí Vila-sana és un club esportiu de Vila-sana, al Pla d'Urgell, fundat el 2003, dedicat a la pràctica de l'hoquei sobre patins. És l'equip del poble més petit que juga a l'OK Lliga femenina. Va pujar a la màxima categoria el 2017 i el 2018 va jugar per primera vegada la Copa de la Reina, arribant fins a semifinals al Pavelló de les Casernes de Vilanova i la Geltrú.

El Club Patí Vila-sana es va fundar el 2003, en el si de l'Associació de Famílies d'Alumnes de l'escola del poble, amb poc més de 700 habitants, com a proposta d'activitat extraescolar. En l'actualitat té onze equips i més d'un centenar de jugadores i jugadors.

Història
El 2014, l'equip femení sub-16 va pujar per primera vegada al podi del Campionat d'Espanya de FEM 16, en tercer lloc, després de guanyar per 4-0 l'Alcorcón. El mateix any va debutar a la Nacional Catalana amb victòria a domicili, 3-5, davant l'Sferic de Terrassa.

Per a la temporada 2021-2022, el CP Vila-sana va iniciar un procés de renovació de la seva plantilla, inclòs el fitxatge de l'argentina Luciana Agudo, doble campiona del món i que formà part del conjunt groc vestint la samarreta amb el número 7, amb el propòsit d'acabar la lliga entre els quatre primers fet que dona accés a les competicions europees.

Des del 2005, compta amb el Centre de tecnificació per a jugadors i jugadores de la Territorial lleidatana mercè al conveni signat amb la Federació Catalana de Patinatge, acord que permet entrenar a Vila-sana les millors promeses, tant masculines com femenines de les categories alevina i infantil. A més, el CP Vila-sana té Cal Pau, la seva Masia particular, dues cases unides amb capacitat per a tretze noies en què hi conviuen diverses jugadores internacionals amb l'objectiu de formar-se i acabar triomfant al primer equip.

Referències

Clubs d'hoquei sobre patins catalans
Vila-sana
Clubs esportius catalans femenins

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I like watching movies. I know it would be far more effective for learning English to read or listen to shorter topics, such as news, interviews or something. I must say that it is my hobby. After I just watch the movies, I check the words in the movies with my dictionary that I don't think I am able to use them naturally. I keep watching the movie until I finish checking words used in another movie. 'You've Got Mail' is the movie that I have been watching recently. I don't know how many times I have watched it. Incidentally, 'Toy Story' is the movie from which I've been checking the expressions.
I'm not sure whether I already explained the story of the movie before. It is an old movie in 1998. There was no such faster network systems those days, like fiber optics. You might feel nostalgic hearing the sound connecting the lines. A male and a female corresponded with each other by e-mail without knowing they were opponents on their own business. The man's huge capital had eliminated the woman's small book store. After several things happened, the man tried to be her good friend pretending not to be the person with whom she communicated on line. At the last scene, Joe came to see her in person as the person.
If I were the woman in the movie, Meg Ryan, I might refuse to him, Joe Fox, the man who had a big company. He often said in the movie, 'It's not personal, it's business'. I know why he was saying. Also, I know why she said when Joe visited her apartment to cheer up; 'It was personal to me. It was personal to a lot of people. What is so wrong with being personal? Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal'.
Being able to forgive or forget terrible things might possibly be one of wonderful skills of human being. Maybe Kathleen might become a great author of children's books after they started their new relationship. It was the truth that she closed her shop, the memorable shop.
Maybe I am a narrow-minded person. It's an interesting movie, though.
I think conflicts in relationships like these is what makes love even stronger.
Ohhhh, the situation is able to make love grow. It reminds me of Romeo and Juliet.
My eye is getting better. I'm going to see the docter today. Thank you, girlgeum, for your concern.
Hope your eyes be okay.
Romeo and Juliet ended tragically, don't want that. I prefer Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Yes, it's worth reading. I think Mr. Darcy's my ideal guy, well some of his qualities. Read it. One of my favorite novels.


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Q: BitmapImage load difference between pack:// and c:\ uri I've got a strange bug when trying to load image from file instead of pack://
I'm using a ESRI map in accelerated mode and want user to be able to use own map icons (copying them to Icons directory).
I've made an icon manager helper, loading icons at program start:
            public static void Reload()
            {
                _icons = new Dictionary<string, BitmapImage>();

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                var asm = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();
                var resName = asm.GetName().Name + ".g.resources";
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                        {
                            var regex = new Regex(@"images\/(.+\.png)");
                            foreach (DictionaryEntry entry in reader)
                            {
                                var name = string.Empty;
                                var matched = regex.Match(entry.Key.ToString());
                                if (matched.Groups.Count == 2)
                                {
                                    name = matched.Groups[1].Value;
                                }

                                BitmapImage image = null;
                                try
                                {
                                    image = new BitmapImage();
                                    image.BeginInit();
                                    image.UriSource =
                                        new Uri(@"pack://application:,,,/Client;component/Images/" + matched.Groups[1].Value, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
                                    image.EndInit();
                                }
                                catch(Exception e)
                                {
                                    Logger.Log(e);
                                    image = null;
                                }

                                if ((name != string.Empty) && (image != null))
                                    _icons.Add(@"resource\" + name, image);
                            }
                        }

                // read directory
                var fregex = new Regex(@"\\(.+\.png)$");
                string[] files = null;
                try { files = Directory.GetFiles(Settings.Default.ExternalIconsPath, "*.png", SearchOption.AllDirectories); }
                    catch (Exception e) { Logger.Log(e); }

                if (files != null)
                    foreach (var file in files)
                    {
                        var name = string.Empty;
                        BitmapImage image = null;
                        try
                        {
                            image = new BitmapImage;
                            image.BeginInit();
                            image.UriSource = new Uri(file, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
                            image.EndInit();

                            var match = fregex.Match(file);
                            if (match.Groups.Count == 2) name = match.Groups[1].Value;
                        }
                        catch (Exception e)
                        {
                            Logger.Log(e);
                            image = null;
                        }

                        if ((name == string.Empty) || (image == null)) continue;
                        if (!_icons.ContainsKey(name)) _icons.Add(name, image);
                    }
            }

public static BitmapImage GetImageByName(string name)
        {
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            if ((name == null) || (_icons == null)) return defaultImage;

            BitmapImage image;
            var res = _icons.TryGetValue(name, out image);
            return res ? image : defaultImage;
        }

Later in code i'm use it like this:
        cameraGraphic.Symbol = new PictureMarkerSymbol
            {
                OffsetX = 12,
                OffsetY = 12,
                //Source = IconManager.GetImageByName("resource\\blue_eye_buble2_24_24.png"),
                Source = IconManager.GetImageByName("blue_eye_buble2_24_24.png"),
                Width = 24,
                Height = 24
            };

It works without any problem, but when I set UseAcceleratedDisplay="True" (DirectX acceleration) to ESRI map layer I got an System.NullReferenceException when use icons from file (I tried same icons). Icons from pack:// works good in accelerated and non accelerated modes.
What is the difference ? Should I use another way to load icons from file ?

A: I beat it. It's all about relative and absolute paths.
This works just fine:
image.UriSource = new Uri("file:///" + baseDir + file, UriKind.Absolute);


Women's FIDE Master, Jennifer Yu, spoke to over 50 area Girl Scouts (Daisy to Senior) and leaders at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (Central Branch) in Charlottesville on 17 October 2015. Jennifer spoke about the importance chess has been to her as young woman, what she has learned from the game so far and her chess goals.
With this kind of chess resume any university would be eager to have as talent on their campus. Jennifer hopes to attend the University of Virginia in 2020/2021, hopefully, on a chess scholarship and continue to advance community chess efforts for all K-12 students, especially girls and college age women.
In March 2020 Charlottesville will again play host to the Virginia State Scholastic (K-12) Chess Championships. Charlottesville is in a five year rotation with other geographical locations in Virginia to host this event. Charlottesville hosted the 2015 event at Monticello High School. In 2016 the event will be held in Northern Virginia.
During this 2 hour event Jennifer also played a blitz game with local Expert level Blitz player Rob Masri to demonstrate the focus it takes to play under pressure at a high level.
By the time of the 2017 US Open Chess Championship scheduled for 29 July – 06 August in Norfolk Virginia, Nate hope that a large group of K-12 chess players will go an visit or even participate from this area. It's all part of an ongoing strategy to have a sustainable community-based chess program for all students in the Charlottesville / Albemarle area.


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Last time I described how actions and outputs work in general. Now I can start to show you some of the actions that are included in Window Clippings 3. Some might sound familiar but they all include significant improvements.
In previous versions the "Save to disk" action had a bit of a strange identity. It was an action but its settings were configured differently to other actions. This proved to be a bit confusing. The new "Save to disk" action in Window Clippings 3 has been completely rewritten and includes a few new features.
The first thing you should notice is that all of the actions are now configured directly in the main Window Clippings application window. For the most part there are no modal dialogs to deal with. Simply double click an action you'd like to edit and its configurable settings are directly presented. Most of the options for the "Save to disk" action should be pretty self-explanatory.
Copy full image file name – does what it says and copies the full file system path of the resulting image to the clipboard.
Open containing folder – opens the folder containing the resulting image in Explorer with the image file selected.
Open with default program – opens the resulting image as if you had double-clicked it in Explorer.
The Save to disk action supports the following image formats: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Bitmap, and JPEG XR. The PNG, TIFF and JPEG XR image formats all support 32 bpp images to accommodate an alpha channel.


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Parents Campaign for More Leave After Child Loss
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi
"You have 12 weeks off to have a child," Kluger said, "but three days off when a child dies. It doesn't make any sense."
In summer 2011, after receiving letters from Montanans who had also signed Kluger's initiative, Sen. John Tester, D-Montana, proposed the Parental Bereavement Act, which would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act to incorporate extended, job-protected leave for the loss of a child.
"The senator was struck by it and, like most people, surprised the law wasn't already taken care of," said a spokesman from Tester's office. "We want to see it pass but we don't have a lot of time left this year."
The average bereavement leave for a person who loses a child is three days, according to Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, a researcher at Arizona State University and the founder of the MISS Foundation, which provides support to grieving families. Cacciatore has been studying the emotional, social, cognitive, and economic impact of child death on individuals, families and society for almost 20 years.
"The death of a child is one of the most traumatic experiences a human being can endure," Cacciatore said. "I cannot express to you how incredibly devastating this is to people."
Experts like Cacciatore explain that without giving parents sufficient time to grieve for their loss, companies and corporations will pay for it in the long run.
Researchers at the Grief Recovery Institute, a nonprofit foundation, measured how situations like death and divorce affect U.S. businesses. According to Russell Friedman, executive director of the institute, the current estimated annual loss due to reduced productivity as an aftereffect of grief is around $225 billion.
"When someone we love dies, we lose the ability to concentrate or focus," Friedman said. "Your brain doesn't work right when your heart is broken. That's why businesses lose money."
Three months for bereavement leave is a more realistic standard than three days, according to Cacciatore. After 12 weeks, "people are usually past the stage of being stunned and paralyzed by the loss," she said. "Now they can understand what this loss means."
Image: Grieving woman, via Shutterstock.
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Vox is a German free-to-air television channel launched on 25 January 1993 and owned by RTL Group. The channel mainly broadcasts documentaries and US series and movies.

An integral part of the night program is the series Medical Detectives / Forensic Files, which regularly gets very high ratings, sometimes up to 20%, which is rather unusual for the broadcaster.

History
VOX started transmitting on 25 January 1993, replacing Lifestyle. It competed with public television by broadcasting many live and informational programmes. The channel was originally owned by an assortment of German media companies:
UFA (Bertelsmann) – 24.9%
Westdeutsche Medienbeteiligungsgesellschaft (West German Media Holding Company) – 25.1%
Holtzbrinck-Verlag (Holtzbrinck Publishing House) – 14.5%
Warner Music Germany – 14.5%
Development Company for Television Program (DCTP) – 11%
Mittelständische Unternehmensbeteiligung (Middle Class Business Holdings) – 10%

The director of programming at launch was Ruprecht Eser. One year after the channel's launch it seemed clear that the original programme concept would not work. Market share among the target group relevant for advertisers was at 1.5%, too low to attract much advertising. VOX took significant losses. By February 1994, all the original partners except UFA and DCTP sold their stakes. As a result of the losses, the quality of programmes began to decline. VOX had to repeat its movies every few weeks to fill the schedule. On 1 April 1994, VOX went into liquidation. More than 250 employees were laid off.

VOX's logo consists of the letters V and X, with a red circle "eye" using negative space to create the O.

By November 1994 VOX had new owners:
News German Television Holding (News Corporation) – 49.9%
Canal+ – 24.9%
UFA (Bertelsmann) – 24.9%
DCTP – 0.3%

Gradually, VOX gained a foothold in the German television landscape. In 1998, VOX signed an output deal with 20th Century Fox, leading to more series and movies being broadcast alongside magazine-style shows. In December 1999, RTL Television bought out News Corporation. A short time later, canal+ sold its share to UFA (Bertelsmann AG). 99.7% of the channel now belonged to RTL Group, with the remaining 0.3% held by DCTP.

Now, VOX is the most successful private television station of the so-called "second generation".  The channel had so much success with series such as CSI and CSI: Miami that they were transferred to the more widely watched sister channel RTL Television. CSI: NY gets a market share of up to 21% on VOX.

Audience share in March 2008 was 5.4%, with share amongst 14- to 49-year-olds at 7.4%. In the 2011/12 television season, VOX had a 5.6% share of all viewers, making it the sixth-most watched channel, and 7.4% among viewers aged 14–49, making it the fourth-most watched channel by that demographic.

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The average age of the viewers is 48.6 years (as of 2016).

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Threat of Dengue Outbreaks in Philippines Remains Amid Tepid Government Response
Marya Salamat October 4, 2010 1 Comment dengue, noynoy aquino
The Department of Health should not merely focus on educating the people about cleanliness, said Dr. Gene Nisperos, vice-president of Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD). The government should also act decisively on deforestation, urban planning (which includes genuine mass housing and an up-to-par drainage and sewerage system), on top of giving public health subsidies.
MANILA– Known as "break-bone fever" because it can be extremely painful, dengue is an illness and now a perennial health problem brought about by a mosquito bite. It is prevalent in tropical countries such as the Philippines. Populous areas are more easily prone to dengue although it poses the same danger for both urban and rural dwellers, said the non-government Council for Health and Development (CHD) in its latest health bulletin.
Anyone can fall ill with dengue anytime during the year but the number of patients noticeably increased much more rapidly during the rainy season. This may be explained by the fact that the dengue-carrying mosquito called Aedes aegypti, which has black with white spots and active during daytime, breeds in stagnant pools of water.
These mosquitoes used to inhabit forested areas, but increased deforestation, according to botanists, has driven them to populated villages. In the metropolis where the drainage system had been found obsolete since 1977, the draining capacity of which, according to an urban planner, is down to a mere 25-percent, the mosquitoes apparently have ample breeding areas when it rains. The Aedes aegypti mosquito lives only for two days to four weeks, but the eggs it lays can survive up to a year and hatch whenever the climate is favourable to it.
The Department of Health should not merely focus on educating the people about cleanliness, said Dr. Gene Nisperos, vice-president of Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD). The people also prefer cleaner surroundings but the government has to act decisively about deforestation, urban planning (which includes genuine mass housing and an up-to-par drainage and sewerage system) on top of giving public health subsidies, according to progressive health, environmentalist and women's groups.
Dengue Victimizes the Poor More
Dengue is worse for the poor majority of Filipinos, said Dr Nisperos. Owing to joblessness, lack of sanitation in jam-packed communities, lack of access to clean water and mass housing, the poor are more vulnerable to dengue. They also do not get proper nutrition, if they manage to eat three square meals at all. They live in areas that are vulnerable to disasters and epidemics, not to mention violent demolitions and threats of eviction. "The houses of the poor often do not have screens that can ward off mosquitoes," said Dr Nisperos.
While it is true that everyone could be bitten by the dengue-carrying mosquito, the poor stand to suffer more because poverty has forced them to live with these dangerous mosquitoes, and hunger hardly prepare their bodies for resisting diseases. The almost non-existent heath services for the poor further makes them vulnerable, added Dr. Nisperos.
Health advocates demand a better government approach to dengue. (Photo by Marya Salamat / bulatlat.com)
The treatment for dengue in a public hospital costs at least P7,000 ($160), and the patient has to wait in line for a long, dangerous time, said Dr Eleanor Jara of CHD. Although public hospitals are relatively cheaper, these are understaffed and ill-equipped.
So far there is no definite cure yet for dengue. Instead, what are being treated in dengue patients are only its symptoms. The patients' vital signs are being monitored to prevent dehydration and blood tests are being administered often to monitor the blood platelet count. Some have to undergo blood transfusion, which is costly, if the platelet count has gone down to a life-threatening level. In time, the dengue patient gets better, under the close supervision and treatment of symptoms, with adequate rest. Some patients, said the CHD, may be given antibiotics to prevent other infections. There is no vaccine against dengue but there are studies and experiments to develop one.
Worsening Dengue Epidemic Requires All-Out Government Response
At present, the reported dengue cases alone have more than breached the 80,000 mark, which was the health department's worst-case scenario early this year. As of September 11, some 84,023 Filipinos have fallen ill of dengue, a 118-percent increase from last year's, and these are just the reported diagnosed cases.
Sadly, more than 500 have died due to dengue from January to September this year.
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is the worst kind of dengue infection. As described in the CHD bulletin, the DHF-afflicted patient can suffer from serious bleeding. Research shows that DHF results when a patient contracted more than one of the four viruses carrying dengue. The body could experience shock or convulsion due to lack of blood, in a condition called "dengue shock syndrome."
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