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Volkswagen, UT, and ORNL Announce Partnership, Innovation Hub
Volkswagen Group of America; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the UT Research Foundation; and Oak Ridge National Laboratory today announced a partnership to create Volkswagen's first innovation hub in North America at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm.
Learn more at tickle.utk.edu.
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Student Spends Summer Assisting on New Knoxville Mural
Atop a scissor lift, senior Jody Lynn spent her summer roller painting and spraying the walls of Market Square's parking garage.
She is one of nine artists working with Seattle-based artist Addison Karl on Knoxville's newest public art featuring six faces of East Tennesseans. The project, which began July 1, wrapped up with a public unveiling Tuesday August 6.
As the only student artist assistant, Lynn was able to demonstrate the lessons she's acquired in the classroom, while learning from practicing artists.
Two UT-ORNL Joint Faculty Members Receive Presidential Science Honor
Two researchers with UT ties have received a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
David Cullen, a joint faculty member in the UT–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education and ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, and Kate Page of ORNL's Neutron Scattering Division are among the more than 300 researchers and engineers from around the nation to be recognized with the award.
Page begins a joint faculty appointment with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in UT's Tickle College of Engineering this month.
Established in 1996, the PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.
The recipients were honored at a ceremony in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 25.
Behn Named to International Accountancy Board of Directors
Bruce Behn, associate dean for Graduate and Executive Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Haslam College of Business, was recently appointed to the board of directors for the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. The new board held its first meeting in late July.
The AICPA develops standards for audits of private companies and other services by CPAs; provides educational guidance materials to its members; develops and grades the Uniform CPA Examination; and monitors and enforces compliance with the profession's technical and ethical standards.
Haslam College of Business Ranked Among 10 Best for Business Analytics
Analytics Insight magazine named the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Haslam College of Business as one of its "10 Most Prominent Analytics and Data Science Institutes" of 2019 in its July issue. Analytics Insight specifically credited Haslam's Master of Science in Business Analytics program as immersing students in a one-of-a-kind, real-world capstone course experience that will enable the next generation of data scientists to lead forward-thinking organizations' business analytics operations.
"This ranking speaks to our faculty's commitment to preparing our students with the necessary technical and soft skills to seamlessly transition from the classroom to the business world," says Michael Galbreth, head of the Business Analytics & Statistics department and Pilot Corporation Chair of Excellence. "Our students graduate fully capable of analyzing big data sets and communicating analytical results in nontechnical, business-specific terms."
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UT and ORNL: Partners to the Core
Collaborations with universities play a key role at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by connecting the lab, including its world-class scientists and engineers and facilities, with cutting-edge faculty who help push the frontiers of research and provide students an opportunity to blossom into scientists.
Of all the universities working with ORNL, none are as closely connected as the University of Tennessee.
Read more about the UT-ORNL partnership at tickle.utk.edu.
Hazen Co-Authors Study on Oil Spill Clean Up Safety
A UT professor and expert known for his work on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill recovery efforts has co-authored a report making a series of recommendations to federal agencies on how to safely clean up after spills.
Terry Hazen, the UT–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair for Environmental Biotechnology, teamed up with other scientists to write a report on oil spill recovery safety published this month by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
"One of the biggest concerns in cleanup efforts is the effect the spill has on people's health and livelihood," Hazen said. "It's not just that oil itself is harmful and potentially even flammable, but you have to be careful what kind of chemicals you expose crews to while trying to clean or contain the oil."
Graduate Student Spotlight: Elizabeth Mae Scott
During an introductory nuclear physics course her sophomore year, Elizabeth Mae Scott developed a need to understand things from their most basic, original structure. The course showed her how math becomes a language that physicists use to describe the world around them.
"Fundamental physics is a way to pry at the cosmos. It's really fun to try to understand the tenets of how things work, to push the boundaries of how we describe our universe," she said.
Scott earned bachelor's degrees in physics and mathematics from Tulane University. Now a graduate student in nuclear physics at UT, she continues to push those boundaries as part of a collaborative experiment called Nab at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Apr 17, 2019; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; Vancouver Whitecaps defender Doneil Henry (2) passes the ball against the Los Angeles FC during the first half at BC Place. (Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports)
The Vancouver Whitecaps are back on the road after last Saturday's 1-1 draw against the Philadelphia Union at BC Place. Up next is a trip to Commerce City, Colo., where the Caps will face the Colorado Rapids at Dick's Sporting Goods Park at 9 p.m. ET.
The clash will see the two worst teams in the Western Conference go against one another. The Colorado Rapids reacted to their 0-2-7 start to the season Wednesday by firing head coach Anthony Hudson.
"We appreciate Anthony's commitment to the Rapids organization during his time with the club," Pádraig Smith, executive vice president and general manager, said in the statement. "This is a pivotal period in the development of our team, and it's in the club's best interest to make a change now. We still have a lot of season left, and we look forward to getting back on track."
The move came after Hudson had been critical toward the Colorado Rapids' recruitment strategy.
"We come to a place where [there's] a team full of superstars and big-money players and a massive, massive gap in class," Hudson told the Denver Post following Colorado's 1-0 defeat to Atlanta United. "We are fighting down at the bottom with a bottom group of players, and we have to find a way to pick up a result.
"Today was just another example of the real gulf in class. If this was a promotion-and-relegation league, we'd have been relegated by now."
Words that also reflect the current status of the Vancouver Whitecaps. The Caps have a bad start under new head coach Marc Dos Santos with just one win in the first nine games.
Thankfully, for the Caps, there is no promotion and relegation in MLS. And on Saturday against Philadelphia, the Caps showed real signs of progress. For the first time this season, the Whitecaps had the majority of possession and also managed to transition the ball well from the defense to the attacking third.
Although the Whitecaps managed to carry possession into the attacking third, the Caps' biggest problem against Philadelphia once again was goalscoring. The Whitecaps have scored just seven goals in nine games, the fewest among all Western Conference teams.
Against the Union, Dos Santos opted to bench both strikers Fredy Montero and Joaquín Ardaiz to start the match. Instead, Yordy Reyna started the game in the No. 9 role. The Peruvian did not score, but looked dangerous and going forward appeared to have been the solution for the Whitecaps' problems to find a consistent striker.
Reyna, however, suffered an injury in the match and had to be subbed off.
"He did everything right apart from getting a goal that he deserved," Dos Santos said Tuesday before confirming Reyna would be out for the foreseeable future. "No it doesn't look good. We are talking about this month, that is seven games we are not sure he can participate in them. This is a tough blow for us, but we won't know until the end of the week, when the MRI results come back, how bad it is — but it is not encouraging."
Without Reyna, the Whitecaps need to find a goalscoring spark.
"We can't afford luxury players," Dos Santos said about his two other strikers, Montero and Ardaiz, indirectly criticizing the workrate of the two strikers.
The Whitecaps are open to adding another attacking piece before the transfer window closes for MLS clubs May 7.
A new attacking player, however, will not be available Friday against Colorado. The current squad will have to get the job done against a struggling Colorado side that will look to regroup under interim head coach Conor Casey.
Judging from training this week, the Caps likely will go with a 4-3-3 with Lucas Venuto, Montero and Lass Bangoura forming the attacking trident up top.
Meanwhile, defender Doneil Henry, who made the MLS team of the week following his performance against Philadelphia, was straightforward in what the Whitecaps need to do against Colorado.
"Win," he answered. "Defending well and scoring goals. It is as simple as that."
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Sudbury singer/songwriter previews solo album on CKLU
It goes Sunday at 7 p.m.
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Jun 27, 2021 • Last Updated June 27, 2021 • 1 minute read
Julie Katrinette
Julie Katrinette will preview her new solo album, "Let's Not Complicate Things (With Our Minds)", on CKLU 96.7 FM, Sunday at 7 p.m. The broadcast will also stream on cklu.ca and the free Radioplayer Canada app.
Launching officially on vinyl and digital platforms on July 1, the album marks the first solo release for Katrinette, best known for her work with the beloved all-female garage rock trio The Ape-ettes.
The album's first single, "Letting Go", pre-released on June 1, along with Katrinette's first music video, are available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnAWgBztgA .
With this album, Katrinette said she took a wide musical turn from her garage rock roots. The eight English and two French songs cover a range of folk, country, and bluegrass styles.
"Growth, hope, forgiveness, and joy permeate the album's tender lyrics and beguiling melodies," a release promoting the album said.
"A first album for singer-songwriter Julie Katrinette … This collection of folk-country-sometimes bluegrassy songs, written within a span of 13 years, will take you up and down and around the corner on the road of learning how to love and how to let yourself be loved," her bandcamp website said.
The album showcases a powerhouse of local talent including producer, singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Danyliw, and international touring musician and sound engineer Michel Houle.
Mastered by Matthew Wiewel at Deadpan Studios, the album features other Sudbury-based musicians including Patricia Cano, Darlene Sovran, Geoff McCausland, and Barry Miles.
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Be a Butterfly Hero. Submit a Photo and Help Save the Monarch Butterfly
NWF's New Butterfly Hero Campaign Inspires Kids and Families to Save the Iconic Monarch Butterfly.
RESTON, Va. – (March 23, 2015) – Be a Butterfly Hero. The majestic monarch butterfly is in decline and needs our help. National Wildlife Federation (NWF), America's largest wildlife conservation and education organization, is giving away 50,000 Butterfly Heroes Garden kits to help save the monarch butterfly.
NWF's new Butterfly Hero Campaign, launches March 4, 2015, and asks people to submit a photo of themselves making the international sign language sign of the butterfly on NWF's Butterfly Heroes website, at: www.nwf.org/butterflyheroes. By taking the pledge, participants will be mailed a free kit (while supplies last) and if entered by May 15, are eligible for a chance to win a trip for four to Walt Disney World. Botanical Interests is supporting the campaign with a donation of native milkweed seeds.
"We can each be a part of saving the monarch butterfly. The simple act of planting milkweed with your family provides monarchs with a place to lay their eggs, and helps ensure this iconic species has a future," said David Mizejewski, naturalist with the National Wildlife Federation.
Pollinators, of which the monarch butterfly is a part of, are mostly responsible for all the food that we eat. While monarchs are found across the United States — as recently as 1996 numbering some 1 billion — their numbers have declined by approximately 90 percent in recent years, a result of numerous threats, particularly loss of habitat due to agricultural practices, development and cropland conversion. Degradation of wintering habitat in Mexico and California has also had a negative impact on the species.
Monarch butterflies spend winter in Mexico or Central and Southern California, and then migrate north in spring into neighborhoods across the United States. They need places to rest their wings, drink flower nectar, and lay their eggs on milkweed which their baby caterpillars eat. Monarchs are losing this habitat, and without it the Monarch cannot survive. NWF is asking that people across the United States to plant milkweed to preserve the monarch's habitat. Learn more about NWF's monarch protection efforts at NWF.org/Monarchs and http://www.nwf.org/pollinators.
NWF's Garden for Wildlife program encourages responsible gardening that helps pollinators and other wildlife thrive. It encourages planting with native species like milkweed and discouraging chemical pesticide use. With nearly 200,000 locations and growing, NWF's Certified Wildlife Habitats and Community wildlife Habitats recognize individuals, schools, groups and whole communities committed to providing habitat for wildlife, including pollinators. Each of the nearly 200,000 certified locations provides food, water, cover and places to raise young. This makes yards, schools, businesses, faith-based organizations, campuses, parks, farms and other community-based landscapes into wildlife sanctuaries.
The brand new Butterfly Heroes Campaign is organized by NWF and is a part of a number of programs designed to inspire people to get outdoors, help wildlife, and become more aware of the nature in their neighborhood and community. NWF has worked to connect people with nature for decades, inspiring people through Ranger Rickmagazine, working with educators to get kids greening their schools and learning outdoors.
For more National Wildlife Federation news, visit: www.nwf.org/news.
National Wildlife Federation is America's largest conservation organization, inspiring Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future.
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A turn of the century chromolithograph depicting a huntsman, wearing his traditional red coat, holding his young daughter aloft.
This beautiful antique print captures a joyful family moment within the household of a noble British family. The young lady is wearing her father's riding helmet, which she's either been given or cheekily taken from his head. She's also wearing a light blue sash around her waist and a white dress with a lace collar.
The colours of this print are still so vibrant - from the light blue running through the carpet on the stairs, through to the checked pattern on the gentleman's waistcoat.
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November 10 was 'McHappy Day' in Argentina, the day when all sales from McDonald's most famous burger are donated to help children with cancer. This year the Burger King brand decided to embrace that cause.
On that day, the Burger King left rivalry aside and decided not to sell any Whopper sandwiches. The decision went for all the 107 restaurants in Argentina. The idea was to motivate people to buy the competitor's most famous burger to help as many children as possible. Whoever went to any BK restaurant and ordered a Whopper sandwich on McHappy Day, was politely asked to go to the nearest McDonald's instead. It was captured on camera, with shocked patrons wondering what happened to their favorite burger.
And for the fans of the famous flame-grilled burger, BK restaurants returned to sell Whopper sandwiches as soon as the McHappy Day ended.
The Drum chatted with Joaquín Cubría and Ignacio Ferioli, vice presidents and executive creative directors of David Buenos Aires, the agency that came up with the campaign.
What prompted this campaign of goodwill?
"Burger King does its own charity event every July. This year it helped Atomic Lab an NGO that prints 3D prosthetic arms for disabled kids. Since 'McHappy Day' is four months later, we thought it was a great opportunity to let differences aside and help our competitors," said Cubria.
McDonald's is the major competitor to Burger King. Why promote people going to their restaurant?
"Both events are quite far from each other. And we love the fact that asking people to buy from our competitors is the kind of thing that Burger King can do for McDonald's, but could never happen the other way around. It is simply a matter of brand personality. We have a client that's willing to take risks even if it means losing some profit in the process," added Ferioli.
It says in the fine print at the end of the ad that McDonald's did not "authorize or endorse" the gesture by Burger King. What was the response by McDonald's Argentina after the fact?
"There was no official response, but there was an 'off the record' response. Some of their managers communicated with their counterparts at Burger King congratulating them on the campaign and staff members tweeted spontaneously thanking for the support, but of course we cannot give their names," said Ferioli.
When the King went over to purchase a Big Mac, he was received with applause. What was the reaction like from customers in both Burger King and McDonald's?
"The first reaction of the customers at McDonald's was 'what the hell?' If you listen closely in the beginning of that scene a kid asks 'What is the King doing here?' But then everyone applauded the King's support. By the way, that's something that child will never forget. Customers at Burger King were also shocked by the proposal. They mostly went from 'This joke isn't funny at all,' to, 'ok, it's cool that the brand let's differences aside to help'. Of course, there were also some Whopper extremists who did not like the idea at all. We hope they might return some day," said Cubria.
What kind of planning by David went into creating this campaign?
"It was born from our most sincere kindness. Then, we just made sure only key people new about it so it didn't get spoiled or stopped until that day. Burger King staff in every restaurant across the country learned about A Day without Whopper that same morning through an internal memo signed by the National Sales Manager. They felt proud about the challenge. For one time only, the less they sold the better," said Ferioli.
The words McDonald's and Big Mac were bleeped out or not even uttered by the Burger King workers. How much of that was intentional or was it a legal issue?
"100% legal, the lawyers at Burger King did not sleep for two nights reviewing edits before airing," said Cubria.
How much publicity did this stunt generate?
"A lot. Millions of impressions, tons of earned media, but that's not what matters here. When McDonald's announced the outcome of the event as they do every year – a public thank you to customers who walked in that day – the numbers showed they sold 73,437 Big Macs more than in 2016, the historic record for McHappy Day. So hopefully we had a lot to do with their growth," added Ferioli.


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At Home in the World: Globalism in Modern Irish Writing
Amanda Tucker, University of MiamiFollow
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Patrick A. McCarthy
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Mihoko Suzuki
Anne Fogarty
Because the first part of the twentieth century in Ireland was marked with nationalist milestones like the Easter Rising and the Anglo-Irish War, most accounts of modern Irish literature and culture are nation-centered. This dissertation offers a new understanding of modern Irish writing by placing national identity in conversation with global consciousness, a burgeoning concept in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, this project explores three aspects of globalism: the attachments to foreign countries that Irish writers form; the ways in which these attachments affect their relationships with Ireland; and their subsequent articulation of global consciousness based on these transnational experiences. The introduction provides a critical and historical context for the project by negotiating between the established discipline of Irish Studies and the emerging field of Irish Diaspora Studies. Each chapter then investigates an Irish writer whose work indicates a relationship between global and national consciousness. The Irish-Argentine writer William Bulfin and the evolution of his relationship with gauchos, as it is suggested in his Tales of the Pampas, forms the subject of the next chapter. The second chapter juxtaposes Helen Waddell's The Princess Splendour and Other Stories, which retells fairytales from the Middle and Far East as well as from Ireland, with Lady Gregory's and Douglas Hyde's nationalistic collections of Irish folklore. The third chapter investigates the connection between the feminist underpinnings of Kate O'Brien's novels with the transnational movements that frequently accompany them. The fourth chapter examines the cosmopolitan imperative of Brian Moore's Irish-American novels. Finally, in the epilogue I briefly suggest the ways in which contemporary Irish writing extends the projects begun by these earlier figures.
Helen Waddell; Kate O'Brien; Brian Moore; William Bulfin; National Identity; Transnational; Global; Irish Literature
Tucker, Amanda, "At Home in the World: Globalism in Modern Irish Writing" (2008). Open Access Dissertations. 44.
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The vertiginous process of urban expansion in China has led to massive displacement as people find themselves dispossessed of their means of making a living and moved into new resettlement housing. This has created dissatisfaction and protest in countless cases while at the same time being met with a level of passive acceptance and even apparent welcome in others. In the case that we introduce here, that of Hongqiao in the west of Shanghai, displaced former villagers were deeply dissatisfied with the compensation they received and with what they saw as the failure of local government to provide them with the means to earn a living.
In 2006 the municipal government of Shanghai began work on the upgrade of its transport hub in the west of the city and the construction of a new commercial centre to rival Pudong in the east. The scale of the Hongqiao project was massive, even for a country that is used to bombastic urban projects. As a result of this project, over 11,000 registered villagers and countless more unregistered migrants lost their home and their means of subsistence. Our paper uses a questionnaire survey and interviews to gauge the situation of the displaced villagers in their new resettlement housing compared with their previous lives. In overwhelming numbers, the displaced villagers told us that while they appreciated their new surroundings, they had lost their main source of income from renting out housing and so faced serious problems in making ends meet. Our research leads us to conclude that the state failed to provide the displaced residents with adequate sources of income after their resettlement.
In this part of semi-urban semi-rural suburban Shanghai, local villagers earned often substantial amounts of income by renting out accommodation to migrants in quarters that they themselves had built without official permission (Figure 1). The compensation package they received failed to reflect the extent of this contribution to their income, and most of them found it totally inadequate as a foothold into a new life. For its part, however, the local government believed that it had satisfied its obligations to the residents by making available the purchase of additional new apartments at subsidised prices and by providing various public facilities for the residents (Figure 2).
Figure 1 Villagers' housing before demolition. The white house visible in the middle ground of this photograph, rented out to migrants, was built in the courtyard of the red brick house on the left. Source: Huacao Township Government.
Figure 2 The apartment blocks of the Hongqiao resettlement housing. Source: the authors.


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Peabody – Donald W. Freeman, 84, passed away surrounded by his family on May 7, 2020. He was the husband of the late Carol Ann (McLaughlin) Freeman with whom he was married to for 52 years. Born in Salem on December 13, 1935, he was the son of the late Vincent Freeman and Bessie (Whitman) Freeman. He was raised and educated in Beverly and graduated from Beverly High School. Donald served our country with the United States Army during the Korean War. Donald had been a supervisor for Vincent's Potato Chip Company for many years. He also had been an accountant for his family's gas stations. Donald loved spending time with his family. He had a heart of gold and could light up any room with his smile and good humor. He would look forward to the drives in winter to Florida and spend his summers either in North Conway or the family home in Maine. He enjoyed the outdoors bird watching and especially long walks in the woods with family. Donald was an avid golfer and a huge sports enthusiast. He would keep stats on all his favorite New England sports teams and could recite stats like a pro. He loved long drives with his wife and children. He is survived by his five children, Colleen Freeman of Merrimac, Donald Freeman Jr of Peabody, Charles Freeman of Berlin, Doreen Gardner and her husband Marc of Peabody, and Charlene Guidi and her husband Richard Guidi of Peabody, his grandchildren, Brad, Heather, Tayla, Jonathan, Thomas, Juliana, Lexi, Kody, Tyler, Cameron and Vivian, his great grandchildren, Avery, Allie, Mackenzie, Bentley and Emma and also many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his siblings, Raymond, Thomas, Vincent Freeman and Hilda Prince. Funeral Services are private due to the pandemic. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Donald's name to the Alzheimer's Assoc., 309 Waverly Oaks Rd, Waltham, MA 02452.
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Gerrymandering is the practice of setting boundaries of electoral districts to favor specific political interests within legislative bodies, often resulting in districts with convoluted, winding boundaries rather than compact areas. Gerrymandering in the United States has been used to increase the power of a political party; the term "gerrymandering" was coined on review of Massachusetts's redistricting maps of 1812 set by Governor Elbridge Gerry, so named for its resemblance to a salamander.
In the United States, redistricting takes place in each state about every ten years, following the decennial census. This defines geographical boundaries, with each district within a state being geographically contiguous and having about the same number of state voters. The resulting map affects the elections of the state's members of the United States House of Representatives and the state legislative bodies. Redistricting has always been regarded as a political exercise, which in most states is controlled by state legislators and governor. When one party controls the state's legislative bodies and governor's office, it is in a strong position to gerrymander district boundaries to advantage their side and disadvantage their political opponents. Since 2010, detailed maps and high-speed computing have facilitated gerrymandering by political parties in the redistricting process, in order to gain control of state legislation and Congressional representation, and to potentially maintain that control over several decades even against shifting political changes in a state's population.
Accusations of Gerrymandering are rare in the UK since the process of drawing boundaries for electoral districts (constituencies) is done by an independent Boundary Commission BCE. A redrawing in 2023 will slightly favour the Conservative Party- but this is unlikely to be seen as deliberate gerrymandering
Typical gerrymandering cases in the United States take the form of partisan gerrymandering, where the redistricting is aimed to favor one political party or weaken another; bipartisan gerrymandering that is used to protect incumbents by multiple political parties; and racial gerrymandering, aimed at weakening the power of minority voters.
The Supreme Court has failed to settle the issue and left it to the states.
The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed in Miller v. Johnson (1995) that racial gerrymandering is a violation of constitutional rights and upheld decisions against redistricting purposely devised based on race. However, the Supreme Court has struggled as to when partisan gerrymandering occurs (Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004) and Gill v. Whitford (2018)), and in a landmark decision in 2019 in Rucho v. Common Cause, ultimately decided that questions of partisan gerrymandering represents a nonjusticiable political question that cannot be dealt with by the federal court system. This decision leaves it to states and Congress to develop remedies to challenge and prevent partisan gerrymandering. Some states have created independent redistricting commissions to reduce political drivers for redistricting.
Supreme Court will hear arguments in high stakes voting laws caseThe U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Moore v. Harpe, a case that focuses on what the U.S. Constitution says about the state's involvement in regulating elections. CBS's chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford breaks down what this means for the future of democracy.
Moore v. Harper is a pending United States Supreme Court case related to the independent state legislature theory (ISL), arising from the redistricting of North Carolina's districts following the 2020 census.
In Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court will decide whether the North Carolina Supreme Court has the power to strike down the legislature's illegally gerrymandered congressional map for violating the North Carolina Constitution. The legislators have argued that a debunked interpretation of the U.S. Constitution — known as the "independent state legislature theory" — renders the state courts and state constitution powerless in matters relating to federal elections.
Operation RED MAP
After Obama's election victory in 2008, a group of Republican tacticians developed a plan to increase their chances of winning congressional seats. They targeted Democrat states due to redraw their house-district boundaries, and concentrated resources to make sure Republicans could take control of the state legislature. After this, new Republican-held state legislatures changed constituency boundaries to maximise Republican success in House of Representative elections.
Political writer David Daley has shown how in various states, such as Pennsylvania, the Republican Party spent significant campaign finance to attack a small number of Democrat state politicians, giving the Republicans a majority that they used to change boundaries for that state. The impact of changing just one state seat from Democrat to Republican was enormous. In 2008, Obama won Pennsylvania and 12 Democrat congressmen won seats from this state. In 2012, Obama won again, but only five Democrats won house elections because the constituency boundaries had changed. In 2012 - the first election using the new maps - Democratic congressional candidates received 100,000 more votes than Republicans, but Republicans won 13 of the 18 seats: 51 per cent of the vote translated into just 28 per cent of the seats. Democrats won by huge margins in just five areas, but more Republicans dominated house elections, with few changes in overall voting patterns.
Merrill v. Milligan October 2022
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case that would maintain Alabama's discriminatory congressional map and undermine Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The plaintiffs and respondents, a group of Black voters and civil rights organizations, claim that the map dilutes Black Alabamans' voting power. The Brennan Center and partners at Debevoise & Plimpton have filed an amicus brief supporting the lower court's decision finding the map violates the Voting Rights Act.


Does anyone have any epic tales of ME procrastination?
Some lovely tales on there.
"I started up the Stirling University Procrastination Society in 1980. It was a resounding success. Not one person bothered to return their registration form on time and we never got round to holding any meetings. Well done us. Yay!"
Well there is the future capital of the UAE on the borders of Dubai and Abu Dhabi: Al Karama (no, not that one). That's where the 01 phone code was reserved for. They never seem to have got around to that, do they?
My passport is by my bed. In the same bag it was in when I got home from holiday a 9 days ago.
Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
Have any of you procrastinated in taking a dump, you know held it in ?
Thanks! She is my ex but even keeping an ex happy is still a plus.
All part of the service. If it helps you get over her, I'm ginger and ugly.


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Q: Where to put my sqlalchemy code in my script? I had my sqlalchemy related code in my main() method in my script.
But then when I created a function, I wasn't able to reference my 'products' mapper because it was in the main() method.
Should I be putting the sqlalchemy related code (session, mapper, and classes) in global scope so all functions in my single file script can refer to it?
I was told a script is usually layout out as:
globals
functions
classes
main
But if I put sqlalchemy at the top to make it global, I have to move my classes to the top also.

A: Typical approach is to define all mappings in separate model module, with one file per class/table.
Then you just import needed classes whenever need them.

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Movies, TV Tim Grierson September 7, 2021
Clive Owen, the Best James Bond Who Never Was
The Oscar-nominated star, now playing Bill Clinton in 'Impeachment,' has spent much of his career being defined by the role he didn't get. It's a classic example of how audiences assume they know best what actors should be doing with their talents.
Welcome to Misleading Men, a regular feature where we look back at the actors who ruled Hollywood for one brief shining moment.
Some actors will forever be associated with the roles they didn't get. Gen-Xers remember that Tom Selleck was going to be Indiana Jones and Eric Stoltz was briefly Marty McFly. But Clive Owen is a very special case. For about 20 years now, we the viewing public have assumed that he should have been James Bond. Why wasn't he? We're never quite sure. Maybe he was offered it and turned it down? Maybe he was passed over for Daniel Craig? Maybe he never even was under consideration?
However it turned out, the Oscar-nominated actor has spent the bulk of his career dealing with a strange assumption we've put on him: We live in this surreal parallel universe where he's not James Bond and we can't accept it. The assumption follows him around, unfairly, and I think it's permanently colored our impression of the career he has had.
To this day, 007 shows up in commentary around his recent roles. Starting today, he'll play Bill Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story, which is all about the former president's affair with Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein), yet reviews continue to talk about the role he didn't land years earlier. "Owen is a fascinating pick for Clinton," IndieWire's Ben Travers wrote. "Embedded in the public consciousness as a British charmer — so much so that he spoofed James Bond rumors by playing '006' in the Pink Panther reboot before extending the gag throughout an entire feature film in Shoot 'Em Up — it takes more than a few minutes to adjust to the actor channeling that same energy into a breathy Arkansas drawl and gentle office shuffle."
There's nothing wrong with Travers bringing up Bond — really, it just underlines the phantom limb Owen has been carrying around for a while. Even though he's never played James Bond, we envision him in the part so effortlessly that we complete the picture for him. But maybe it's actually better that he never was the infamous British superagent. The 007 movie we've made starring him in our mind is better than any actual film could ever be.
Owen wanted to be an actor since he was a kid. "I think everybody knew I loved acting, but they didn't think I would actually get into a drama school and do it," he said in a 2009 profile, later adding, "I don't think anybody took it seriously. There was another kid at my school, Dominic, who wanted to be a guitarist and me and him were like the two freaks that were being 'unrealistic.' But I was really, really stubborn about it." Owen attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, working on stage and in British television before landing the part of Jack Manfred, a struggling writer looking for work, in Croupier in the late 1990s. It was a hard-edged British crime drama that doubled as a dark character study, and it was a launching pad for the English actor in the States.
"Although Mr. Owen bears fleeting resemblances to Dylan McDermott, Nicolas Cage and Bruce Willis," New York Times critic Stephen Holden wrote in his review, "the actor he most strongly recalls is the young Michael Caine, who purveyed a similarly offbeat blend of iciness and affability three decades ago." Croupier had been directed by Mike Hodges, who also made the original Get Carter, which starred Caine, so the connection made some sense: Both young actors knew how to convey a classy, dangerous demeanor.
But it was Owen's wardrobe in Croupier that inspired audiences to make another connection: Jack wears a tuxedo as a croupier, and he looked awfully good in it. "Some studio people saw me wearing a bowtie in Croupier and then I did a series of web adverts for BMW," Owen recalled, according to an interview dug up by the unofficial James Bond site MI6. "They thought, 'Black tie, fast cars, he's James Bond.'" But in the same interview, Owen said he only had a 15-minute meeting with the Bond producers: "[They] mentioned loads of exciting things, but at the end, there wasn't a single fact involved. It was all a hell of a lot of excitement about absolutely nothing. I've got a life, and I'm not going to have it turned upside down by Hollywood. When they make me an offer, then we'll talk."
It was around this time that the then-current James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, had just appeared in his third 007 picture, 1999's The World Is Not Enough. The Brosnan Bond movies were incredibly just-okay — a little too glib, a little too inconsequential — and as happens every time someone in the modern era takes on the character, almost immediately fans start thinking about who should play him next. And often, those fans are looking for a Bond who's not like the current Bond — or they want an actor who embodies what they think Bond should be.
Sometimes I lay awake at night thinking about how Clive Owen was never James Bond. pic.twitter.com/1cI9M688Ff
— Ibrahim Moustafa 🟢 COUNT out NOW! (@Ibrahim_M_) May 7, 2018
But it wasn't just Owen's bowtie in Croupier that made him seem ideal for the part. As opposed to Brosnan's somewhat smug 007 — his Bond knew he was a ladies' man — Owen possessed a snarling edge. He didn't feel polished — he exuded a menacing energy. Patrick Marber, who wrote the play Closer — which originally starred Owen at the Royal National Theatre in 1997 and was later turned into the film that earned the actor his only Oscar nomination to date — once said, "Most of us go into showbiz in order to be admired and affirmed by complete strangers. Clive doesn't seem to have this terrible flaw. He has no sentimental need to be liked by the audience." If Brosnan was the squeaky-clean class president, Owen seemed like the bad boy who sat in the back of the room.
There have been different stories over the years about just how close Owen got to being James Bond before Daniel Craig was chosen in 2005, a decision the producers spent 18 months mulling after Brosnan completed his final 007 film, 2002's Die Another Day. Oddsmakers back then thought Owen was the clear frontrunner — especially after the acclaim he received for playing the loathsome Larry in the film version of Closer — and so Craig's casting was a bit of a shock.
So what happened? In one version of the story, Owen told the producers he wasn't interested. In another, Owen wanted profit participation in the movies, which the producers nixed. And then, there's the story that he was never approached about playing 007 at all. "I didn't turn it down," Owen insisted in 2007. "I was never offered it. It was all hype. My wanting the role was never an issue. It was all spun. By whom I have no idea." As for the notion that he would have been perfect because he looked the part, Owen responded, "That's ridiculous. That's where you get bad James Bonds if you cast a guy who looks right. You cast the best actor."
Clive Owen – he would be an excellent Bond #CliveOwen ❤ pic.twitter.com/HFb4iVYnCe
— Lucy (@Kitten2402) January 12, 2021
Not that Owen hasn't had fun playing with fans' assumptions that he'd have been a great Bond — or that he'd desperately wanted the role. As Travers pointed out, Owen's role in 2006's The Pink Panther, with Steve Martin as Clouseau, was as a superspy cheekily named Agent 006. And in the following year's maniacally gonzo action-thriller Shoot 'Em Up, his hard-boiled character fires one of Bond's signature guns, only for it to jam at the worst possible moment, prompting him to declare it "a piece of crap." Even if Owen had secretly been mad about being passed over for 007, spoofing the association on screen was a fun way of deflating any tension around it.
Granted, when you write about cultural perceptions of actors, you're often talking about something incredibly ephemeral — a sense of an idea based on anecdotal evidence, gut feelings and dumb hunches. But I don't think I'm going too much out on a limb suggesting that Owen has never fully shaken audiences' impression that he should have been Bond — and that, consequently, the career he's put together is the one he's had to carve out in the face of that disappointment. For instance, a 2012 piece in The Independent about the actor was headlined "Clive Owen Steps Out of the Shadow of James Bond." And when The New York Times profiled him three years later while making his Broadway debut in the Harold Pinter play Old Times, the paper's Twitter account focused on his Bond connection, too:
Some have speculated he should play James Bond. For now, Clive Owen's working on Broadway http://t.co/AYFqUGKjXW pic.twitter.com/OlcNYRDqwc
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 20, 2015
It was almost as if the world couldn't move on from the fact that Owen wasn't James Bond. Were we mad at the injustice or sad that he'd somehow not lived up to his potential? Whichever the case, it speaks to a strange phenomenon among moviegoers where we assume that what we think an actor should do is also, marvel of marvels, exactly what they want to do with their careers. And because it seemed so certain that Owen was going to be James Bond, the reality that he wasn't ended up registering as a letdown. Critics were complicit in this: Take The Guardian's Philip French, who praised Owen in the excellent Spike Lee crime-thriller Inside Man by describing him as the actor "who many think should now be playing Bond." It wasn't just that Owen hadn't been picked for Bond — it was as if it'd been taken away from him.
I don't know if that public perception is a frustration for Owen, but his subsequent work has often been stellar. Not just Inside Man, where he has a blast playing an expert thief matching wits with Denzel Washington's shrewd detective, but also his reluctant hero in Children of Men, one of the century's best sci-fi films. He can do grizzled noir in Sin City then play a classy, dashing British agent in the underrated rom-com crime film Duplicity. (In his review, MTV's Kurt Loder opened by saying, "If Clive Owen had taken over the role of James Bond, rather than Daniel Craig — who hasn't yet brought to it anything like the romantic flair that Owen could have — the result, with a lot of luck, might have been a movie like Duplicity.") And he was the star of the gritty, atmospheric series The Knick, where Owen once again favored the type of complicated character he loves playing.
"They're like tightrope walks," he said in 2019 of the prickly roles he prefers. "You're dealing in areas that are really difficult to keep people onside with. I want to try to take you on this very difficult journey, it'll be a bumpy ride — but I find that exciting."
There's an alternate universe somewhere where Clive Owen actually did become Bond, and Daniel Craig is now playing Bill Clinton. https://t.co/XKLVGiK3vH
— James Luxford (They/Them) 🏳🌈🏳⚧ (@JLFilm) August 13, 2021
I haven't had a chance to see Impeachment yet, but playing the Leader of the Free World — especially one that, I presume, won't always be shown in the best light — very much seems to speak to that same desire. We shouldn't have been surprised that this is the route Owen would take with his career. Jack in Croupier — the role that first brought him to many people's attention — wasn't a particularly lovable fellow, and since then he's rarely portrayed straight-up good guys. (One of the best parts of Children of Men is how ill-suited his former idealist is at being the man who must protect the planet's last pregnant woman.) He truly is someone who doesn't worry about being loved on screen — and he doesn't like repeating himself.
"There are some actors who want to hone one thing. They want to do that and they do it very well," he said in 2015. "When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing — because I'm not, and we as people aren't. At this point in my career, I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better."
Owen can say things like that as much as he wants, and yet a portion of the viewing public will still always think, "Yeah, but it's a shame he didn't get James Bond." The truth is that, in many ways, the direction that franchise has gone since Craig was cast really would have fit him nicely. Starting with Casino Royale, 007 has been a darker, less overtly lovable character — he's a man riddled with demons. Craig has been a superb Bond, but the somber tenor of his installments only further strengthens the pro-Owen camp's belief that their guy would have been excellent. Some fans have even crafted homemade trailers that merge footage of Owen from other movies into Craig's James Bond films. You can't say Owen doesn't look the part.
It's doubtful that the Bond producers will consider Owen once Craig finishes his contract with this fall's No Time to Die. (When the film hits U.S. theaters, Owen will have just turned 57.) That ship has probably sailed, although anyone who's noticed how much Craig came to resent being shackled to 007 can't help but think that maybe Owen ended up with the better arrangement.
Even now, you'll see people on Twitter saying how much they wished Clive Owen had been James Bond — it's a tantalizing what-if that will never be sullied by reality. For years, journalists and moviegoers have debated who should be the next Bond. Maybe Idris Elba? Maybe a woman? (Maybe Lashana Lynch, who inherits the 007 designation in No Time to Die, will be a permanent replacement?) But if I was an actor, I'd almost rather be the next Clive Owen — the guy everybody wanted to be the new James Bond.
Think about it: With the exception of George Lazenby, every actor who's made a James Bond movie has made at least one bad one. By comparison, Clive Owen's track record as 007 is spotless — he's only been the star of the perfect James Bond movie you've constructed in your imagination. Nothing tops that: He gets the compliment of having people think he'd be a marvelous Bond without having to go through all the trouble of actually playing him.
Some may watch Impeachment and lament that Owen missed his chance at the role he was born to play — that we're living in the less-ideal timeline where he's not. I'd argue the opposite: We're actually in the better one. We got to see all that Clive Owen accomplished because he wasn't Bond.
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson is a contributing editor at MEL. He writes about film and pop culture for Screen International, Rolling Stone and Vulture.
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What woman does not recognize the deer?
like cows drawn home at milking time.
hard on smaller, weaker subordinates.
They gobble, grab, and gulp mouthfuls of corn.
only two months from spring foaling.
they "yard up" to the hearths of humankind.
Which one of us has not done the same?
Fed from the enemy's plate.
and shelter for our children.
Fought for position and status.
in the brightness of day.
cutting cedar pulp for the mill in town.
he blew any good job he managed to get.
hiding his shame even from himself.
he blew smoke rings to amuse us.
voice soft, dumbed with shame.
and Jim Beam, passing out on the couch.
shame smashed against the wall behind which I slept.
check to his name. It was a real shame.


We all know Ol' Billy Shakes has a way with words, but his biggest talent, in my opinion, was for the artisanally crafted sick burn. It takes a true Shakespeare nerd to have a favorite Shakespearean insult. There is at least one solid roasting in every play. You're in luck, because we at Book Riot are chock full of nerds and favorites.
Without further ado, here are our favorite Shakespearean insults. Wield them with care, and skewer your opponents with your rapier wit.
(Stabbing him) What, you egg?
"ABRAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
"Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
We bid you adieu, but first: what are your favorite Shakespearean insults? Drop your favorite in the comments section and join in the fun.


According to a co-sponsor of the bill, Democrat Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver, the bill mirrors "The Talk" that many black parents have with their children, explaining the delicacies of dealing with the police in America.
As usual, the rotunda ladies of BLM insist on remaining part of the problem. They need to exert their efforts in gyms instead.
Sadly, this was a parents job. And common sense.
But the progs already made sure most kids have only one parent - a welfare sucking mommy who couldn't teach a penguin to fish.


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Q: How do I make Vista machines see IIS on Win 7? I've got an ASP.NET application running under IIS on a Windows 7 Ultimate machine, on my home network.  However, no one can run anything against it in my home network; whether they're running another Windows 7 machine or Vista.  My guess is that I've got to share out wwwroot to everyone (Windows 7 and Vista), but I don't know how.  (Sharing on Windows 7 is, to me, the biggest mystery, and headache, I am having with this new OS.)
So, how do I do it?

A: Allow port 80 through your firewall.
Go to Administrative Tools, Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, Inbound Rules.
Click New Rule... on the left.
Select local TCP port 80 and allow the connection

A: This is probably better asked on Serverfault, but have you checked that all the machines in question are in the same domain (or workgroup if they are running Home editions )?


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Нина Сергеевна Теплякова (10 ноября 1904, Баку — 22 июля 1983, Москва) — советская танцовщица, теннисистка и теннисный тренер, заслуженный мастер спорта (1936) и заслуженный тренер СССР (1956), кавалер ордена «Знак Почёта» (22.07.1937). Девятикратная чемпионка СССР (в том числе 7 раз в одиночном разряде), как тренер подготовила около 20 мастеров спорта СССР, включая Елизавету Чувырину, Анну Дмитриеву и Ольгу Морозову.

Игровая карьера
В теннис Нину Теплякову, дочь бухгалтера, привёл познакомившийся с ней ведущий советский теннисист Николай Николаевич Иванов. Иванов начал ухаживать за мечтавшей о балетной карьере девочкой в курортном посёлке Мамонтовка под Москвой и уговорил её заняться теннисом. В 1922 году, в 18 лет, она впервые вышла на корт в чемпионате Москвы по теннису, всухую проиграв в одиночном разряде Софье Мальцевой, а затем и в миксте с Ивановым. Однако тренеру, который позже стал и мужем Тепляковой, удалось настроить её на развитие теннисной карьеры. В 1926 году на матче-турнире лучших теннисисток СССР, проводившемся в тот год вместо всесоюзного первенства, Теплякова обыграла и Мальцеву, и действующую чемпионку Елену Александрову. Этот успех расценили как сенсационный, но на следующий год Теплякова выиграла все внутренние турниры, в которых участвовала, и возглавила впервые введённый в СССР рейтинг десяти лучших теннисисток. В этот же год она также выиграла в Берлине Всемирную рабочую спартакиаду.

В 1930-е годы, уже окончив вечернее хореографическое училище Большого театра и выступая как танцовщица в программе мюзик-холла в составе ансамбля Касьяна Голейзовского «30 герлс», Теплякова продолжала оставаться лидером советского женского тенниса. После сезона 1932 года, пропущенного по болезни, она шесть раз подряд выигрывала чемпионат СССР в одиночном разряде — рекорд, который с тех пор у женщин так и не был побит, — и девять раз возглавляла всесоюзный женский рейтинг (в последний раз в 1939 году). Только в 1940 году она уступила звание чемпионки СССР и первую строчку в рейтинге ленинградке Галине Коровиной. Манера игры Тепляковой не была остро атакующей, она предпочитала играть с задней линии, однако её отличали быстрота перемещения по корту (под каждый принимаемый мяч она «забегала» справа) и хорошее тактическое мышление и чувство мяча.

В 1935 году Теплякова принимала участие в слёте спортсменов-антифашистов в Париже. В 1936 году она стала одной из первых в СССР, кому было присвоено звание заслуженного мастера спорта, а в 1937 году была удостоена ордена «Знак Почёта». В 1938 году, во время гастролей по СССР теннисистов из чешского клуба «ЦЦЦ» Теплякова, проиграв в первой встрече чемпионке Праги Киселовой, через несколько недель сумела взять реванш, освоившись с неизвестными до того времени в СССР укороченными ударами; она также участвовала в международных играх с теннисистами Турции, Бельгии и Франции.

После начала войны Теплякова окончила курсы рукопашного боя и стала инструктором Всевобуча. В 1942 году после долгого перерыва она выиграла чемпионат Москвы, а в 1943 году на Открытом чемпионате Москвы (куда были доставлены из всё ещё блокированного Ленинграда Зинаида Клочкова и Татьяна Налимова, а из Орска, где она работала в госпитале, — Галина Коровина) 38-летняя Теплякова получила травму мениска, окончившую её игровую карьеру.

Тренерская карьера
После вынужденного окончания выступлений Нина Теплякова, как и планировала, стала тренером. Среди её первых подопечных была Елизавета Чувырина, в свои 33 года достигшая только уровня первого разряда. Теплякова приняла Чувырину в 1948 году и за три года помогла ей стать чемпионкой СССР. Затем Чувырина повторила этот результат ещё трижды, а в конце 1960-х годов чемпионкой СССР в парном разряде стала уже её дочь Марина, которую также тренировала Теплякова.

Нина Теплякова стояла у истоков успехов двух ведущих советских теннисисток — Анны Дмитриевой и Ольги Морозовой. Дмитриевой она сумела привить манеру игры, совершенно не свойственную ей самой, заставив её идти к сетке с самого начала розыгрыша мяча — манера игры, которую она «подсмотрела» у знаменитого французского теннисиста Анри Коше. Теплякова тренировала Дмитриеву до 18 лет, когда та стала абсолютной чемпионкой СССР. Другая воспитанница Тепляковой, Ольга Морозова, сравнивала манеру игры одной из самых именитых своих соперниц, Крис Эверт, с манерой своего тренера — Эверт тоже довела до свершенства игру с задней линии. Среди других воспитанниц Тепляковой — неоднократная чемпионка СССР в разных разрядах, победительница более десяти профессиональных турниров в парном разряде Светлана Пархоменко (Чернева). В 1956 году Нина Сергеевна Теплякова получила звание заслуженного тренера СССР.

Нина Теплякова умерла летом 1983 года от тяжёлой болезни. Похоронена на Кунцевском кладбище в Москве. В 2003 году её имя было включено в списки Зала российской теннисной славы.

Достижения
 Семикратная чемпионка СССР в одиночном и двукратная в парном разряде
 Победительница Всемирной рабочей спартакиады (Берлин, 1927) в одиночном и парном разряде
 Первая чемпионка РСФСР по теннису (1927)
 Многократная чемпионка Москвы во всех разрядах, трёхкратная абсолютная чемпионка Москвы
 Тренер около 20 мастеров спорта СССР, включая Елизавету Чувырину, Анну Дмитриеву и Ольгу Морозову

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Статья Теплякова Нина Сергеевна в Энциклопедии «Российский теннис»
 Нина Теплякова на сайте Зала российской теннисной славы

Теннисисты СССР
Чемпионы СССР по теннису
Победители Всесоюзной спартакиады 1928 года
Тренеры по теннису СССР
Заслуженные мастера спорта СССР
Заслуженные тренеры СССР
Кавалеры ордена «Знак Почёта»
Зал российской теннисной славы
Похороненные на Кунцевском кладбище

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The Tellus South West project was a collaborative, environmental survey and research project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and carried out by a partnership of the British Geological Survey (BGS), the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of Exeter, Camborne School of Mines (CSM).
The project has gathered a large amount of scientific data that may benefit the economy, businesses and the environment in southwest England (http://www.tellusgb.ac.uk/).
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Q: How do I find the path of the file I am running on any operating system? (Python 3) I found this question that has answers that work on mac, but do they work on Windows, Linux, etc? I am referring specifically to os.path.realpath(__file__) or os.path.realpath('myPythonFile.py').
I apologize for this question being so obvious to figure out but I don't have access to non-mac computers and so can't test it myself.

A: According to the reference docs that method should work fine for all operating systems.
Specifically from the docs:

Note Since different operating systems have different path name conventions, there are several versions of this module in the standard library. The os.path module is always the path module suitable for the operating system Python is running on, and therefore usable for local paths.

A: I think that you should try this one too
import os
import sys
f_name = os.getcwd() + sys.argv[0]
print f_name