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Nick Collison Retiring After 15 Years in the NBA
After 15 years in the NBA — all of which were played with the Seattle/Oklahoma City franchise — Nick Collison is retiring from the game of basketball. He leaves at 37 years of age after being drafted 12th overall in the 2003 draft, telling ESPN's Royce Young, "I've had an incredible run. I'm proud of my career. But it's time to go."
A mainstay in the Oklahoma City community, Collison hangs up his sneakers having played the third-most games (910) in SuperSonics/Thunder history. He's also fourth on the franchise's all-time rebounding list (4,701), sixth in blocks (469), and fifth in field goal percentage (53.3%). Not bad for a "glue guy", but his impact was always most felt by what he contributed in intangibles. As such, he is perhaps the fan's most beloved member of the Thunder outside of Russell Westbrook.
In a story told to Royce Young by Collison himself, Collison thanked the fans by saying:
"I've been in OKC 10 years now, and the fans have been incredible. They are there every night; they know the game and appreciate effort. From day one we felt the love, and I want everyone to know I've loved playing in Oklahoma City.
It's always meant so much to me and my family that the people of Oklahoma City appreciated what I did. Most people don't get to feel anything like that. I've had it for 10 years and I am grateful."
He went on to mention his teammates — including a certain number 35:
"I love my teammates. My best friends in the world were my first teammates in Iowa Falls. Kirk Hinrich is the toughest guy I played with. Brent Barry has been a mentor to me. Royal Ivey is like a brother to me.
I love KD. I miss him. I played my best basketball with James. I wish we would have had more time. I feel like a proud big brother watching Russ become both the player and the man that he is. I really appreciate all the battles we've been through.
I love Perk, A-Mo, Dre. Luke Ridnour gave me terrible haircuts, but the way he puts his family above everything has inspired me to be a better father.
Serge and Thabo cleaned up a lot of our mistakes and didn't get enough credit. I learned a lot from D-Fish.
Steven Adams is special. He has a unique mix of humility, ability, toughness, and he will do anything for one of his guys. And he has such a sick sense of humor — I love it. I can't name all the guys I played with here, but I hope all of them knew I wanted to win with them above anything else."
While Collison's retirement has long been expected, it still feels like a punch in the gut having it become official. Many believe his jersey will be the first retired by the Thunder organization — a belief I certainly agree with. In a parting message on Instagram, Collison posted the following video.
For more from Collison, read this:
"I started in cold gyms in small towns in Iowa and ended up playing more than 1,000 games in the best league in the world … But it's time to go." After 15 years, Nick Collison is retiring from the NBA: https://t.co/lpcfCE46O5
— Royce Young (@royceyoung) May 10, 2018


The premise of the program is that, unless women understand how their government works (or should work), they will not be able to participate effectively. The program both explains the processes and engages women in the practice of Indian parliamentary process.
They begin by teaching the main points of the parliamentary process and in the course of practicing (acting as an actual parliament) they elicit from participants what issues are most important to them. The practice teaches them how to define the issues clearly and in parliamentary language, to examine existing policies and ministries or departments that are responsible – or could be made responsible – for those issues, to formulate clear solutions to the problem, clearly state guidelines and criteria for action, and develop a budget for the needed changes, including alternative sources of funding (re-directing existing funds or identifying new sources of revenue).
The speakers, led by Moderator Drindrina Sinha, also see this process as helping women to monitor what the government is doing and, at some point, to make parliament itself more efficient.
For instance, their learning about developing a proper budget gives the women skills to analyze and critique the budgets that government proposes. Also, their process of developing solutions that can be presented to government officials can short-circuit delays by officials uninterested in preparing or unable to prepare solutions. Having a clear, effective solution, complete with a list of agencies involved and budget strategies, makes the proposal ready for implementation. And the women can monitor action and call representatives to task for not acting.
The process also prepares women to take part in government and perhaps eventually to run for office. This is a major challenge in a country where women are often denied education or any chance to speak out. The program teaches them that they can speak out in ways that will be heard, and that can effect needed changes.
IWID has been holding the Women Parliament programs since 2008, engaging women from all areas of India, with all levels of education or not, and from all walks of life.
As the women learn the process, they then return to their region or village and engage others in the process. This allows the women to begin to create solutions for the issues closest to them, whether it be land reform, housing, inheritance (widows do not have the right to inherit their husbands' property), problems facing immigrants – internal or from outside India – or other situations. The inclusivity of the project reaches both urban women and those in remote rural areas, through the system of training a few who return and pass on their experience.
The program on Monday was supposed to include an exercise in planning out a solution to a problem we chose, but participants began to besiege the panel with questions the minute they gave us time to sit quietly. The audience was very diverse – we had participants from India, East Timor, Suriname (UN representative), a francophone country (another participant translated her questions, Australia and New Zealand, and a few of us from the United States. Several represented Indigenous populations, and one (Australian, I think) woman I spoke to told me that her university students found the process enlightening and were making good use of it.


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Ms. Hansen is in great gratitude to serve as Valley High School's Drama Director. For the past 28 years, she has found friendship, connection, and artistry in theatre education. Her door is always open!
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Rob has practised Law as a Sole Practitioner in the Province of Ontario since 1993
Since the late-1990's, Rob's practice focus turned to Personal Injury and Worker's Compensation matters
Since the early 2000's, Rob's practice has been almost exclusively focused on representing injured Workers before the Ontario Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (W.S.I.B.) and the Ontario Workplace Safety & Insurance Appeals Tribunal
Rob also counsels and advises Personal Injury civil litigation counsel on s. 31 Right to Sue matters
Rob is a regular speaker before the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, a group of personal injury lawyers
Rob has represented hundreds of injured workers in appeals before the W.S.I.B. and counsel of record on dozens of reported decisions at the W.S.I.A.T.
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The House of Khronos (Khronoksen Talo) project by Lönnström Art Museum and visual artist duo IC-98 has been extended with a virtual reality environment (2017–2018) that documents the house in Pöytyä in Southwest Finland in a new way.
The House of Khronos project focuses on creating experiential presentations of surveys of the house acquired for the project. The VR environment is one way of achieving the project's aims, which are to demonstrate the inherent value of land and to remove the House of Khronos from the realm of human ownership and use.
Before it was fenced off for a thousand years, the House of Khronos and its immediate surroundings were documented. Several surveys were made of the area: in addition to a survey documenting the nature and landscape values as well as architectural history of the area, also geological and archaeological surveys were made, and a bird survey. The artistic content and script of the VR environment is by IC-98, and it was coordinated and co-scripted by Asta Kihlman. The data were turned into an immersive VR environment by Morrow Games Oy.
The virtual reality environment was made possible by a grant from the Kone Foundation and a grant for innovative museum projects from the Finnish Heritage Agency.
Virtual Reality version for HTC Vive was developed in Unreal Engine 4 and mobile VR version was developed in Unity.
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Myślenie – ciągły proces poznawczy polegający na skojarzeniach i wnioskowaniu, operujący elementami pamięci takimi jak symbole, pojęcia, frazy, obrazy i dźwięki.

W świetle neurobiologii (m.in. António Damásio) głównym składnikiem myśli są obrazy percepcyjne o różnych modalnościach zmysłowych, np. słuchowe, wzrokowe, węchowe, smakowe, które odpowiadają przedmiotom, procesom zachodzącym z udziałem przedmiotów lub odpowiadającym im słowom. Tworzone reprezentacje percepcyjne są topograficznie zorganizowane w mózgu. Są one aktywowane z udziałem "reprezentacji dyspozycyjnych", tworzonych w innym miejscu mózgu, wykorzystywanych w toku myślenia.

Myślenie może być pojmowane również jako ruch świadomości oraz skupienia i koncentracji. W praktyce jest jednak wywoływane nieświadomie bez udziału woli i wiąże się z naszymi poprzednimi myślami i działaniami.

Modelowanie myślenia
Ludzkie myślenie jest realizowane przez
procesy psychiczne/kognitywne opierające się na systemie pojęć o różnym stopniu konkretności łączone w mózgu w mniej lub bardziej świadomy sposób.

Według interpretacji A. M. Gadomskiego proces myślenia jest badany na poziomie dynamiki sieci neuronowych, zaś funkcje myślenia są interpretowane na poziomie symboli jako własności abstrakcyjnego umysłu. W tym ujęciu, procesy mózgowe są nośnikami operacji symbolicznych, takich jak skojarzenia i wnioskowanie, oraz wspierane są nieświadomymi/podświadomymi operacjami poszukiwania w pamięci.

W komputerowej symulacji myślenia w celu rozwiązania danego zadania tworzy się program operacji oraz w trakcie wykonywania konfrontuje się go z oczekiwanym wynikiem.

Istnieje wiele bardziej i mniej ogólnych modeli myślenia, racjonalnego, irracjonalnego, emocjonalnego, oraz modeli mniej lub bardziej zależnych od kontekstu.

Proces myślenia w aspektach psychologii klinicznej
Wyróżnia się aspekt operacyjny, dynamiczny i motywacyjny myślenia.

Aspekt operacyjny
W tym aspekcie myślenie to ciąg pojęć. Pojęcia te wchodzą ze sobą w złożone relacje (powiązania). Myślenie umożliwia wyodrębnianie różnych cech danego pojęcia, zauważanie podobieństw pomiędzy różnymi pojęciami, abstrahowanie od cech różniących pojęcia, uogólnianie i uszczegóławianie, czego efektem jest też tworzenie nowych pojęć.

Operacyjne własności myślenia to np.: abstrahowanie, uogólnianie, uściślanie, kojarzenie, zapamiętywanie.

Myślenie o myśleniu to meta-myślenie, jest ono podstawą ludzkiej samoświadomości.

Przykładami objawów zaburzeń myślowych są:
 myślenie nadmiernie konkretne – osoba nie potrafi wyjść poza obserwowalne właściwości danego przedmiotu lub jednoznaczne skojarzenia wobec pojęcia; nie potrafi określić cech łączących pewną klasę pojęć (np. "Co mają wspólnego rower i motocykl?" Odp.: "Nic nie mają wspólnego, rower jest na pedały a motocykl na silnik".);
 myślenie nadmiernie abstrakcyjne – osoba wychodzi poza konkretne znaczenie pojęć, ale operacje abstrahowania i uogólniania są wykonywane na tak wysokim poziomie, że efekt jest nieprzydatny do wykonania jakiegokolwiek działania praktycznego; (np. "Co mają wspólnego rower i motocykl?" Odp.: "Oba zbudowane są z materii".);
 myślenie oparte na subiektywnych związkach między pojęciami – osoba wykonująca operacje abstrahowania i uogólniania opiera się na subiektywnych związkach między pojęciami, związkach które istnieją tylko dla niej (np. "Co mają wspólnego rower i motocykl?" Odp.: "Oba są ładne".).

Aspekt dynamiczny
W tym aspekcie myślenie to proces, który wymaga odpowiedniego tempa i selektywności. Ta strona myślenia ma wiele wspólnego z uwagą.

Objawami zaburzeń są:
 nadmierna dynamika – labilność myślenia. W czasie wykonywania operacji pojawiają się uboczne wątki, skojarzenia, których osoba nie potrafi wytłumić; (np. "Co mają wspólnego rower i motocykl?" Odp.: "Bo mają koła, takie jak mój rower, jaki dostałam w dzieciństwie – żółty, tak jak samochód mojego kolegi ze szkoły podstawowej – tam był bardzo groźny dyrektor...");
 osłabiona dynamika – inercja myślenia; charakterystyczna jest tutaj "lepkość" myślenia; jeżeli chory raz wykonał zadanie w określony sposób, to kurczowo trzyma się tego sposobu, nawet jeżeli w kolejnych zadaniach nie daje odpowiedniego wyniku; (np. Pyt. 1. "Co mają wspólnego rower i motocykl?" Odp.: "Mają koła." Pyt. 2. "Co wspólnego mają dzbanek i filiżanka?" Odp: "Mają takie koła u góry (okrągłą górę)."

Aspekt motywacyjny
Ta strona myślenia zajmuje się ukierunkowaniem tego procesu na konkretny cel.

Objawami zaburzeń są:
 wielowątkowość myślenia – osoba w akcie myślenia dąży do różnych, czasami sprzecznych ze sobą celów gubiąc po drodze to, co istotne. Motywacji jest zbyt dużo i poszczególne motywy są sprzeczne; (np. Pyt. 1. "Co mają wspólnego rower i motocykl?" Odp.: "Rower i motocykl mają koła. Ale też mają kierownicę. To jest najistotniejsza cecha, która je łączy..." itd.);
 rezonerstwo – to myślenie, które utraciło ukierunkowanie na cel i do niczego nie prowadzi. (np. Pyt. 1. "Co mają wspólnego rower i motocykl?" Odp.: "Wiele mają wspólnego i też wiele różni je; czy naprawdę to, co jest między nimi wspólnego jest ważniejsze od tego, co je różni; podkreślając podobieństwa nie można zapominać o różnicach.").

Zaburzenia myślenia
Zaburzenia myślenia możemy podzielić na:

 zaburzenia treści myślenia, do których należą: urojenia, idee nadwartościowe i natręctwa;

 zaburzenia toku myślenia, np. przyspieszenie, zwolnienie, zahamowanie, zatamowanie, rozkojarzenie, splątanie.

Uwagi

Zobacz też

 dychotomia myślenia
 intuicja
 koncepcja rozwoju intelektualnego
 mapa myśli
 myślenie strategiczne
 myślenie symboliczne
 myślenie twórcze
 myśli
 podejmowanie decyzji
 rozumowanie
 wnioskowanie

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Andrzej Rajewski i Janusz Rybakowski, Podstawy psychopatologii – materiały dydaktyczne dla studentów, 2.1.5 Myślenie, 2.1.6 Intelekt, s.17–28 (zob. )
 Bartosz Brożek, Myślenie: Podręcznik użytkownika

Procesy poznawcze
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Q: Wine can't load module p11-kit-trust.so I'm in 13.10 64 bit and I've installed wine from the official repositories. Running wineboot or trying to install any .exe gets me the following message:
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so:
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory

I've tried the directions from the diferent answers here but there is no /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ folder nor a gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so file in the gnome-keyring:i386 package from the official repositories (gnome-keyring_3.8.2-0ubuntu3.1_i386).
Should I be using a different gnome-keyring:i386 package version from the one in the official repositories?
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I solved this by using the suggestion from the answer here

A: I had the same problem with Ubuntu 14.4 on an AMD64 box;
Not sure how I ended up in that state, but it was obvious that, inside of firefox, the pipelight/silverlight plugin tried to load two dynamic libraries, and could not find them.
Both were attempted to be loaded as 32bit variant (more specificaly from a directory explicitly designated for 32bit libs.)
The related library files for 64bit architecture where present
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I read about some hackish approaches like ubuntuforums about "p11-kit error Workaround WINE in AMD64 Ubuntu 12.04, and tried to install packages with similar names to get the libs.
The tricky part was that the libs are not in the packages where you'd expect them from the packages name, but slightly similary named packages.
So, I found out that these two packages
p11-kit-modules:i386 and libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386
need to be installed to fix the two  "couldn't load module" cases.

Note that this did not resolve a third error message line followed direcly to the the lines discussed above:
err:secur32:schan_AcquireClientCredentials Could not find matching protocol

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As Black History Month comes around, we are reminded of the brave, heroic and enduring acts of the many black heroes of our past and present. We recognize names like Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman, with the list going on and on. Acknowledging these people and understanding the struggles they endured and the obstacles they had to overcome to create a better life for themselves and others is crucial to allowing us to continue to grow as people and as a nation.
While none of the names listed above fought for our country as a soldier, their actions embodied the core character traits of the Medal of Honor, and they are prime examples of how one can apply patriotism, citizenship, courage, integrity, sacrifice and commitment to our everyday lives.
Honoring Tennessean and Medal of Honor Recipient George Jordan
Sergeant George Jordan
George Jordan was born into slavery in 1847 in Williamson County, in central Tennessee. In 1866, just after the Civil War ended, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, 38th Infantry Regiment. The Army had established a cavalry and infantry regiment of African American soldiers. Their main tasks were to help control the Native Americans of the Plains and protect settlers, stagecoaches, wagon trains and railroad crews along the Western front. Eventually he was transferred to the 9th Cavalry Regiment, where he spent the majority of his 30-year military career.
While Jordan was illiterate when he entered the service, he was determined to serve his country to his highest ability and taught himself to read and write during his early years as a soldier. By 1879, he rose in rank to Sergeant because of his solid character and dedication to the U.S. Army.
In May 1881, at Fort Tularosa, New Mexico, in hostile Apache territory, Jordan became a hero for the U.S. military. While commanding a detachment of 25 men known as "The Buffalo Soldiers," Jordan fought off an unexpected attack on the town by a force of more than 100 Apaches. Jordan fearlessly led his men, repelling the attacks and succeeding without a single casualty.
Just three months later, on August 12, 1881, Jordan faced and overcame another seemingly impossible situation. The Medal of Honor Citation reads:
"At Carrizo Canyon, N. Mex., while commanding the right of a detachment of 19 men, he stubbornly held his ground in an extremely exposed position and gallantly forced back a much superior number of the enemy, preventing them from surrounding the command."
Enduring Injustices After the War
By the time of his retirement in 1896 at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, Jordan had served 10 years as first sergeant of a veteran troop renowned for its performance against the Apache and Sioux. In his retirement, Jordan joined other Buffalo Soldier veterans in nearby Crawford, Nebraska to become a successful land owner.
Unfortunately, however, despite his position as a decorated war veteran and landowner, he still fell victim to the inequalities of his time. After countless attempts to vote, his efforts bore little fruit. The greatest injustice was in the autumn of 1904 when his health declined dramatically. He was denied admission to the Fort Robinson's hospital and was told to try the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C. After being denied proper medical care, he died on October 24h, with the post chaplain officially complaining that Jordan "died for the want of proper attention."
Receiving the Honor Jordan Deserved
Jordan was buried in the Fort Robinson cemetery, his funeral conducted with full honors and attended by most of the post's personnel, a bittersweet ending to the story of an exemplary "Buffalo Soldier." Due to the appalling circumstances surrounding his death, changes were made to the healthcare discrimination policy allowing his name and legacy as a Buffalo Soldier and as a Medal of Honor recipient live on. During WWII, an Army facility was named after him, Camp George Jordan in Seattle, Washington. In 1999, the Army's 6th Recruiting Brigade in North Las Vegas, Nevada named their new headquarters building after Sergeant George Jordan.
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Experimental stability limits and CO/NOx emissions of heptane combustion within porous ceramic burners
Chung Jen Tseng, John R. Howell
An experimental investigation of the stability limits and CO/NOx emissions of the combustion of liquid heptane within a highly porous inert medium (PIM) has been conducted. Partially stabilized zirconia (PSZ) ceramic foams are used in the current study. Two reticulated PSZ porous ceramic cylinders of equal length and diameter are used to build a PIM burner. B-type thermocouples are connected to a data acquisition system to measure the burner wall temperature. A model 10AR chemiluminescent NO/NOx analyzer and a model 48H gas filter correlation CO analyzer from the Thermal Environmental Instruments Inc. are used to measure NO, NOx and CO outputs from the burner, respectively. An air blast nozzle is used to atomize the liquid fuel. Normal heptane is used as the fuel in this study. The droplets have an average diameter of about 10 μm and a Sauter mean diameter of about 15 μm. Results of flame stability limits, wall temperature profiles, flame speeds, and CO and NOx emissions outputs for various equivalence ratios are presented.
Combustion and Fire Research
F.B. Cheung, Y.A. Hassan, A. Singh
Proceedings of the 1995 30th National Heat Transfer Conference. Part 14 - Portland, OR, USA
Duration: 6 Aug 1995 → 8 Aug 1995
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD
Proceedings of the 1995 30th National Heat Transfer Conference. Part 14
Portland, OR, USA
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Tseng, C. J., & Howell, J. R. (1995). Experimental stability limits and CO/NOx emissions of heptane combustion within porous ceramic burners. In F. B. Cheung, Y. A. Hassan, & A. Singh (Eds.), Combustion and Fire Research (2 ed.). (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD; Vol. 304, No. 2).
Tseng, Chung Jen ; Howell, John R. / Experimental stability limits and CO/NOx emissions of heptane combustion within porous ceramic burners. Combustion and Fire Research. editor / F.B. Cheung ; Y.A. Hassan ; A. Singh. 2. ed. 1995. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD; 2).
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New Year's Eve is widely known as a day to welcome a new year surrounded by your closest family and friends. It's a time to celebrate another year gone by, get excited for future plans and vow to adopt better habits or maybe lose a few bad ones.
A great way to commemorate the end of 2015 is to host a New Year's Eve party at your house for you and your loved ones. There is a lot of preparation and effort that goes into a successful end-of-year celebration, but with some planning, it's possible to host a great party without breaking the bank.
It's the responsibility of the host to make sure guests are comfortable and happy. One of the best things to provide for guests is a smorgasbord of tasty snacks. Since many people start celebrating later, guests won't necessarily expect to get an elaborate dinner, so instead, you can offer hors d'oeuvres. To determine how many to make, count on each guest eating at least two of each variety.
Snacks and hors d'oeuvres don't have to be hard to make, nor do they need to be expensive. In the interest of catering to potential New Year's resolutions, try to keep things healthy. As Food Network notes, mixed nuts and other healthy options are always a hit. Also, along with a meat and cheese platter, offer a fruit or veggie tray for those wanting to leave room for some decadent treats.
Set out some tasty snacks for your guests to enjoy while counting down the hours and minutes until the new year.
Many people plan to celebrate New Year's Eve by watching New York City's celebration in Times Square on TV. According to USA Today, an estimated 1 billion people tuned into the festivities in 2014.
Real Simple suggested that hosts put together New Year-themed games, such as a guessing game to see how each person wants to live his or her life in the upcoming year. Many will also be making New Year's resolutions; go around the room and share yours with the group. Others have traditions of making as much noise as possible when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve. Money Crashers explained hosts can play upon this tradition by having a contest to see who brings the loudest noise maker.
New Year's Eve decorations are typically synonymous with glitter and sparkles. Reusing holiday decorations, such as gold or silver garland, is an inexpensive way to set a festive tone. White string lights will also create a festive atmosphere.
PopSugar explained that putting tea lights in an airtight bag in the freezer for a night will help them last longer. Also, using colored light bulbs in place of your usual ones will create a fun atmosphere your guests will enjoy.
There are also some fun decorations you may be able to find around your home already. For instance, plants and small garden statues can dress up the buffet table.
When the confetti has already decorated Times Square and your party is starting to wind down, help your guests out as they prepare to embark on the new year. Make sure you have phone numbers for a few cab companies in your area to ensure a safe ride home for your friends, or enlist a few designated drivers ahead of time.
As they leave, make sure they take a memento with them. Party favors don't have to be expensive to be appreciated by your guests. Real Simple suggested giving out bags of black-eyed peas along with a recipe, as the legume is said to bring good luck. HGTV recommended including some treats they can enjoy on the first day of 2016, along with a thank-you card. It's a good idea to let your guests know you enjoyed celebrating the close of 2015 with them.


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Freya's math's confidence prepares her for the 11+ exams
Freya is working on negative numbers, algebra, learning how to simplify and solve linear equations, which will further improve her problem-solving skills.
When Vikki enrolled her daughter Freya onto the Kumon Maths Programme in 2014, she already had the benefit of knowing the positive effect that Kumon had on her son few years earlier. He had developed great study skills and it gave him a head start at school. Vikki wanted the same for her daughter.
Freya had become familiar with her older brother's daily study routine when he was studying the Kumon programmes and she was excited to follow in his footsteps.
Vikki was delighted to experience her daughter benefit from Kumon the same way her son did. From learning column addition and subtraction, to improving her understanding of solving maths problems have given Freya a great foundation to flourish at school.
Freya has a solid understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. She has even mastered long division and fractions! Now she is working on negative numbers, algebra and learning how to simplify and solve linear equations, which will further improve her problem-solving skills.
Freya has become very detailed in answering questions as well as solving maths problems quickly and confidently. Vikki said, "my daughter is good at her times tables, she has taken an organised and determined approach to maths and her other school subjects since joining Kumon. She has also increased her maths skills and knowledge which enables her to tackle new challenges in her school work."
Now that Freya is 10 years old, Vikki has started to think about preparation for the 11+ exams as Freya has already developed a great attitude to studying; Freya's confidence will leave her fully equipped to take on the 11+ exams when the time comes.
Instructor Karen has been running the Weybridge study centre in Surrey for over seven years and has nurtured her students to reach their full potential and develop a passion for learning. Karen said, "since joining Kumon, Freya has progressed to be a confident, independent learner. I am very proud of her achievement as I know it has not always been easy for Freya. What I admire most about Freya is her diligence and lovely smile no matter her challenges. She has a positive attitude to work and is resilient."
Vikki shared with us her thoughts about the maths programme - "I think the Kumon Maths Programme offers students a great foundation in the maths principles and develops their ability to continue learning and succeed in the future. Thanks to Kumon, my child is now more independent in her learning."
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The importance of learning multiplication from a young age
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Marriage and Capacity: When Consent Isn't Enough
This article was written by Ian Cranefield, consultant solicitor for Richard Nelson LLP, and was originally published by Action on Elder Abuse.
This month solicitor Ian Cranefield discusses the jurisdiction of the courts when deciding a whether a vulnerable party has the mental capacity to marry. Ian explores the principles and approach of the courts when determining consent for older people — as well as those with learning disabilities or mental health conditions. In addition, he explains the balanced assessments that must take place when looking at mental capacity, and when an exertion of power to decide whether placing restrictions to marriage and companionship is appropriate.
In my articles for Action Points I seek to demonstrate how some day-to-day issues of mental capacity are being evaluated and decided by our courts, in particular the Court of Protection, when presented with difficult problems.
Readers of Action Points will be all too familiar with the intricacies of assessing mental capacity and the conflicts that arise when seeking to ensure that as much decision-making power is left in the hands of people as possible. We are all too aware that this must realistically take into account whether an individual's vulnerabilities might permit and expose them to exploitation by others. It is always and always will be a difficult balance to strike. No other issue has caused more consternation and difficulty for the courts than determining questions of whether a party has the mental capacity to marry (and, in respect of some of the cases, the capacity to commence a sexual relationship).
The primary problem for the courts are the various contexts in which these applications are made. For example, few people would argue that a young person with a significant learning disability should be denied the comfort, companionship and security of a relationship or marriage if they appear to understand this commitment. In this respect, cases such as Sheffield City Council v E (2005) have sought to set the threshold for capacity for marriage at a low level, the Judge in that case stating: "There are many people in our society with limited or borderline capacity whose lives may be immensely enriched by marriage. We must be careful not to set the test of capacity to marry too high, lest it operate as an unfair, unnecessary and indeed discriminatory bar against the mentally disabled."
But marriage can potentially be exploitative as well, for personal, psychological or financial reasons. The case of SA (Vulnerable adult with capacity: Marriage) concerned an application to the High Court by a Local Authority, which invited the court to place restrictions on the possible marriage of SA in an arranged marriage contract.
SA was said to have limited intellectual abilities. She had a reading age of seven or eight years old. However, she was viewed as having the capacity to make decisions about marriage herself but was also deemed to be at risk of being coerced into arrangements that were unsuitable or undesirable for her. The High Court had no hesitation in exercising its inherent jurisdiction in relation to SA. The court made it clear that it would make orders designed to ensure that SA was able to make an independent and properly informed decision. The court also made it clear that the exercise of the court's inherent jurisdiction was not confined only to cases where a vulnerable adult was disabled by mental incapacity from making their own decision. The court's inherent jurisdiction could also be exercised in relation to a vulnerable adult who, even if not incapacitated by a mental disorder, was potentially under constraint, subject to coercion or undue influence or potentially otherwise deprived of the capacity to make a relevant decision, disabled from making a free choice or incapacitated from giving or expressing real and genuine consent.
An arranged marriage is certainly not, however, a forced marriage. In some cases, the court has had to consider circumstances in which such a marriage is being actively encouraged to secure the future of a vulnerable or incapacitated person who has struggled to live independently from their parents and who faces real insecurity as their parents get older or ultimately die.
One recent example is the London Borough of Southwark v KA (Capacity to Marry). The Judge in this case was asked to review the plethora of case law on the subject of capacity to marry, but, instead, she made it clear that she would apply the statutory test of mental capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 instead. She went on to look closely at all the circumstances of the proposed arranged marriage and decided that the statutory presumption of capacity under the law had not been displaced by the potential concerns raised before her. She made some notable comments as follows:
"The ability to understand a concept of and the necessity of one's own consent is fundamental to having capacity: in other words that P "knows that she/he has a choice and can refuse…" (this principle may be of great assistance in other cases where a vulnerable person retains capacity but is living in an environment of hostility and isolation – perhaps where they are being denied contact with others by someone with whom they live. Can they accurately be said to have capacity when in circumstances where they are never presented with any choices?)"
The risks of sexual activity must be understood by those participating, by giving informed consent. This must include the risk of serious ill-health (from sexually transmitted disease), and the risk of pregnancy although clearly, as the Judge was keen to point out, "Pregnancy does not constitute ill-health".
The consent to marry is a capacity test and not a welfare test. The Judge did not consider it relevant to inquire about KA's knowledge of financial remedy law and procedure upon divorce. The Judge had not been presented with any evidence that suggested that KA lacked the capacity to decide whether to end the marriage or whether to agree or resist a divorce.
"I do not know whether a marriage will truly bring happiness to KA. His disabilities will provide challenges for anyone and they will be different for a wife who has capacity from one who lacks it. A marriage might lead to distress, conflict and misery for KA and his family, as opposed to enhancement of his life and of his personal autonomy but it is not for me to weigh up the relative chances of finding a wife who is prepared to love and cherish KA with all his needs, against that of finding one who is unequal to the task."
Finally, one must consider the case – all too familiar to practitioners in the field of elder abuse – in which an alleged 'gold-digger' attaches themselves to a lonely, often bereaved older person with diminishing capacity or other vulnerabilities, with the aim of financially benefiting from the marriage.
Sadly, in respect of cases such as these, the courts' normal enthusiasm for removing barriers to marriage and companionship becomes less attractive. The principal decision in this sort of case was a case called A, B and C v X, Y and Z (2012) in the Court of Protection.
In short, X (the person with alleged capacity limitations) was an elderly and very wealthy man whose wife of 56 years died in 2008. He was fortunate to have a very close family who assisted him and visited him regularly. It was decided that he might benefit from full-time care from a carer. His family arranged this in the form of Z who first came to work with X in July 2010. By October 2010 X was expressing a wish to marry Z and thereafter it appears that there was a very rapid breakdown of relationship between Z and X's adult children and interruptions to contact and disputes over the control of X's affairs.
It was decided by Mr Justice Hedley in 2012 that X retained the capacity to marry and that he could also (as long as his understanding was independently assessed by a medical practitioner when the time came) revoke and create a new Lasting Power of Attorney in favour of Z or another person and write a new Will.
In respect of the issue of contact between X and his adult children, the Judge said: "The idea that this distinguished elderly gentleman's life should be circumscribed by contact provisions as though he was a child in a separated family is, I have to say, deeply unattractive." The Judge additionally urged those representing Z and the family to reach agreement on the issue of contact, instead.
X's children planned to appeal the Judge's findings which they believed conflicted with the medical evidence they had produced and other evidence in the case. They believed the Judge had underestimated the extent of coercion and undue influence imposed upon their father, but sadly X died before the appeal could be listed for hearing.
This unfortunately deprived mental capacity practitioners like myself from the benefit of new Court of Appeal guidance concerning potentially exploitative marriages, but it is probably only a matter of time until the validity of an alleged cynical and financially motivated marriage is once again brought before the courts for evaluation.
Despite the numerous cases which have come before the courts on this subject, the court's objective of permitting life-enhancing companionship, but protecting the vulnerable from exploitation, continues to be a very challenging task.
Written by Ian Cranefield
Ian Cranefield has practised as a litigation and dispute resolution solicitor to great success since qualifying as a solicitor in 1995. Ian is best known for his work in the safeguarding & protection of vulnerable adults in mental capacity litigation and financial recovery claims after exploitation or financial abuse.
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Janet Robishaw, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Research & Chair of Biomedical Sciences at Charles E Schmidt College of Medicine from Florida Atlantic University says the overprescribing of painkillers like Vicodin and oxycontin has led to a condition called opioid use disorder.
"This is a chronic relapsing disease that they're going to have for the rest of their life," Robishaw said.
Robishaw and her team at Florida Atlantic University wanted to know if some people were at a higher risk of developing an addiction to opioids, so they studied the genes of 25,000 chronic pain patients.
"About 20 percent of the patients clearly showed that they've gone on to show signs that they're developing an addiction," Robishaw told Ivanhoe.
Robishaw says the goal of the study is to create an "addiction risk score" to help doctors better assess patients.
"If we could identify the 20 percent of patients ahead of time that are at high risk of developing addiction we will not prescribe those patients opioids." She said.
After years of relapsing, Fata got clean thanks to treatment. He believes genetics may have played a role in his addiction.
"How the results could have been different if I were to have seen somebody and been assessed," Fata mused.
With hopes of saving others from addiction in the future.
Fata is currently pursuing a degree in social work to help others dealing with addiction. Robishaw hopes to create a predictor tool doctors can use in the next five years. Her study is supported by a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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As the stakes in customer service get higher, cable operators are getting touchier.
From the look and feel of customer Web sites to the signage in payment lobbies and the language used by in-home technicians, cable providers are devoting more resources than ever to managing a multitude of "touchpoints" that influence customer perceptions.
Once defined narrowly as the interaction between telephone agents, installers and subscribers, customer service now is construed by most operators in a more holistic way.
The modern view encompasses everything from the tone of a human voice at the end of a phone call to a growing range of automated self-care technologies. Some think that even the logo-decorated vans driven by service technicians contribute toward perceptions that can influence product sales and make or break customer loyalty.
"The critical experience for the customer is their overall experience with the company," says Suzanne Foy, director of customer care strategy and support for Cox Communications Inc.
A broadening definition of what determines the customer relationship represents a step forward for an industry that once struggled merely to tell customers what time a technician would stop by to fix a problem. Faced with competition from wireline telecommunications providers and satellite TV rivals, cable operators are now trying to hold on to customers the old-fashioned way: by treating them well in every interaction.
For Insight Communications Co., that means not only resolving service requests on the first try — the so-called "first-contact resolution" goal of many providers — but making sure that messages and behaviors are consistent across a wide range of customer touchpoints: at home, in bill-payment lobbies, over the phone, and online.
An expanded view of customer service also demands closer links between call-center agents and cable marketing departments.
Customer-segmentation databases that were once used mainly for direct-marketing campaigns are increasingly valuable to call-center agents who are being asked to support ancillary product sales and make product recommendations while they're on the phone, says Tom Brooksher, president of Denver-based industry training firm NCTI.
Brooksher says new knowledge-management tools can assist CSRs in making appropriate recommendations depending on who's calling. But they demand rethinking of traditional roles. "This takes a deepening of the relationship between the call center management people and the marketing staff," Brooksher says.
Links between cable industry marketing and customer-service disciplines also are emerging nationally.
The Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, historically devoted to marketing and communications practices, launched a customer care initiative in 2002 and has staged national conferences featuring industry heavyweights like Cox CEO James Robbins and Comcast Corp. chief operating officer Steve Burke.
In addition to overseeing Insight's 20 call-center facilities, Seibold reviews the language Insight uses in its marketing and ad campaigns to ensure consistency with what CSRs are telling customers over the phone, and works with operations teams to promote consistency and first-contact resolution in the work that service technicians perform.
Measuring the impact of cable's increasingly integrated customer-care approach is difficult.
One ongoing study, from the University of Michigan, shows a longstanding customer satisfaction gap between cable companies and satellite TV providers has narrowed slightly over the past year.
According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, the top four U.S. MSOs either maintained or raised their overall satisfaction scores from 2004, while scores of both DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp.'s Dish Network fell by more than 4%.
The ACSI study spotlights the big motivation for better cable service: competition.
Today, demand for certain products remains high, but cable providers now must contend with a growing number of competitors with largely similar offerings. That leaves fewer differentiating factors for consumers to weigh.
Customer care — on all levels — is one area where operators can produce favorable impressions without resorting to a price war.


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GOWANS, William
Letter signed ("Wm. Gowans") to Fitz-Green Halleck, poet and a Gowans customer; [New York, n.d. (not after 1867)
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, small 4to. "Every body has some 'damned good natured friend.' Let me be your ficus achates on this occasion & point out the amusing passage in the National Journal. You will see that you are not so great a man as we.....
GREENE, Lydia Mitchell, American autograph collector
Autograph letter signed (either a draft or a retained copy) to Rev. William Buell Sprague; New Bedford, 18 January 1846
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to, on pale blue paper. Mostly regarding swapping autograph items: a "scrap of Burns with the letter of Gen. Montgomery" from him in exchange for "the letter of Fitzgerald." Fine condition. (BA).
SPRAGUE, Rev. William Buell (1795-1876)
Autograph letter signed ("WB Sprague") to "My Dear Friend"; Albany, 24 November 1842
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to. "... The signature of Queen Anne to which you refer is not in my possession, nor have I ever seen it. I have none of the Pope's Bulls, nor have I seen any..." Sprague was a clergyman, author, and one of the.....
[WHITLOCK, Brand, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1913-1922] – Cardinal D. J. MERCIER, Archbishop of Malines in Belgium
A group of four autograph letters signed, one autograph letter (unsigned), and two typed letters signed from Cardinal Mercier to Ambassador Whitlock; written from Antwerp and elsewhere in Belgium, 3 October 1914-29 April 1920
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 7 letters, 13 pages, 8vo and 4to, in French on Cardinal Mercier's printed stationery, most with typed English translations; in a red half-morocco slipcase, gilt-lettered. From the Estelle Doheny collection. Contents: 1. ALS, 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, Antwerp, 3 October 1914. Regarding a Mr.....
[VICTORIAN ARTISTS]
A file of correspondence by five artists: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Sir George Causen; Edward John Gregory; John William North; and William Stott (of Oldham); to the London picture dealer Charles Deschamps (about seven letters are to his assistant W. P. H. Groome or others), 1872-1888
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Consisting of 188 autograph letters signed, and one autograph postcard signed (336 pages, 12mo and 8vo), plus 25 related items. As below:. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). 38 autograph letters signed, 52 pages, nearly all 12mo, about half in French, most signed "L Alma-Tadema" (a few.....
TOURGÉE, A[lbion] W[inegar] (1838-1905)
Autograph letter signed ("A. W. Tourgee") to "My Dear Little Friend"; n.p., n.d.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo. Tourgée was a carpet-bagger judge and a best-selling author of sensational political novels, including 'A Fool's Errand'. Here (in about 155 words) he writes a playful response to a girl's request for an autograph: "My publisher handed me your request for an.....
TALLEYRAND, Charles-Maurice (1754-1838), celebrated diplomat
Autograph note signed ("Talleyrand"); n.p., n.d.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo, in French. Sending regrets in response to an invitation.
SUE, Eugene
Autograph letter signed (in full), in French, to a young poet; [Paris, 7 January 1869]
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo, integral address leaf. A letter of encouragement to a young poet who had sent Sue some of his verses. (With transcript and English translation.) (BA).
SOUTHEY, Robert
A great literary content autograph letter signed ("Robert Southey") to his publisher Joseph Cottle in Bristol; [London?], 5 April 1797
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, small 4to. Southey complains that the printer "Mr. Rosser seems determined to be consistent in his management of my poor Letters [i.e. 'Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal', 1797] & do nothing as he ought to ... I......
SHAW, Irwin
Typed letter signed ("Irwin") to William Saroyan ("Dear Bill") in Dayton, Ohio; New York, 6 March [1943]
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 pages, 4to, double-spaced on pale yellow paper. For more than half this letter Shaw critiques the movie 'The Human Comedy' based on Saroyan's play of the same title: "The big news is that I took my entire family... to see 'The Human Comedy' and.....
SHAW, George Bernard
Autograph postcard signed (initials) to Cyril Bristow, Jr., in Santa Barbara; Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts, 17 July 1933
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, small 8vo, in ink on his personal postcard with his printed address. Apparently Bristow has written to Shaw seeking his advice about a career as an artist. Shaw responds: "You had better take your drawing seriously and make it your profession. Until you.....
SCHULBERG, Budd
A group of five exceptional and revealing typed letters signed ("Budd") to William Saroyan; written from Culver City on Selznick International Pictures Inc. letterheads, Summer 1937.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 5 1/2 pages, 4to, approximately 2050 words (four of the letters single-spaced, one double-spaced). In very good condition. The letters constitute a virtual running account of Schulberg's occupation with 'What Makes Sammy Run': "I wrote a story last week which I am sure is.....
SALINGER, J[erome] D[avid]
A group of four typed letters signed ("Jerry") to the actress Geraldine Brooks (1925-1977); Windsor, Vermont, 20 September 1962, 20 May 1964, 7 June 1974, and 30 May 1976
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 6 pages, 4to, half are single-spaced, at least 2600 words, with three envelopes. 20 September 1962: "... I guessed you were in Hollywood... because I've seen you in TV plays coming out of there... I had a letter a couple of years.....
Autograph letter signed ("J. Ruskin") to Frederick Furnivall; n.p., n.d.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, small 8vo (creased from folding). Framed with a color portrait, overall 23 x 18 inches. Ruskin writes to arrange a meeting. (BA).
RUKEYSER, Muriel
Two typed letters signed (in full), containing the texts of seven short poems in the body of the letters, to William Cole; New York, 13 and 14 May 1968
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 4to. In the first letter, Rukeyser writes: "Once you asked me to send you some short poems, saying you did not know I had written any. – Here are four:" In the second: "And three more (all of yesterday's and today's have been.....
Autograph letter signed (in full) to "My Dear Gentry"; n.p., 18 November [1926?]
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo, on his letterhead with small engraved vignette. Regarding illustrations: "I consider these designs Too Terrible for words. They utterly miss the spirit of the story. Could you get another done from my rough pencil sketch I enclose [not present] & let me.....
PERELMAN, S[idney] J[oseph]
Three typed letters signed ("Sid") to Jay Martin, who was working on his biography of Nathanael West; New York and n.p., 29 November 1968, 6 January 1969, and 5 July 1974
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. The first two (total of 3 pages, large 8vo, single-spaced) are on 'The New Yorker' stationery and the third (one page, large 8vo, double-spaced) is on airmail paper. A total of approximately 800 words. With two original 'New Yorker' mailing envelopes. The letters discuss the.....
PATMORE, Coventry
Autograph letter signed ("C. Patmore"), to "Dear Sir"; Hastings, 18 April 1888
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo, integral blank leaf, on gray paper. "I am much obliged to the loan of Swedenborg's(?) volume, which is the one I wanted. Also for the pamphlet. I will return them shortly." (BA) Patmore (1823-1896), English poet and literary critic, is best known.....
NORRIS, Frank
Autograph letter signed ("Frank Norris") to Grant Richards, his English publisher; New York, ca November 1901
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 4to, on two sheets of "Doubleday, Page & Company" letterhead (where Norris was an editor). A reply to Richards' letter of November 4, mostly discussing the sale of 'The Octopus' to Tauschnitz, for which Norris got £30 which was split with Richards who.....
MORRIS, Wright
One autograph letter signed and one typed letter signed (both "Wright") to Russ Hills of 'Esquire'; n.p., and Mexico, 7 and 22 February n.y. [early 1950s]
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 8vo, the TLS full-page and single-spaced. In the typed letter, Morris complains about the magazine censoring his language in a soon-to-be-published story: "What friggin' sort of nonsense is this? Copulating comics, triple-breasted Playmates, but no friggin' immortal litrachur, eh?..." (BA).
MOORE, Merrill
Four typed letters signed, one autograph letter signed, and two typed letters unsigned, to Charles A. (Cap) Pearce, his editor at Harcourt, Brace & Co, March to July 1939
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Totaling about 1,200 words, accompanied by a typed page of notes by Pearce with holographic emendations by Moore concerning Moore's new book. Mostly concerning Pearce's plans to leave Harcourt for another position in publishing. Moore and Pearce had worked closely together in the Thirties as.....
MAURY, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873), oceanographer, hydrographer, during the Civil War a Commander in the Confederate Navy
Autograph letter signed ("M. F. Maury") to "My dear Sir"; Washington, "Observatory," 21 December 1857
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Regarding a meeting. (A difficult handwriting!). (BA).
MACLEISH, Archibald
A dictated typed letter signed (single-spaced) and a typed letter signed (double-spaced), both signed "A. MacLeish," to William J. Griffin of the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville; Cambridge, Mass. and Conway, Mass., 8 January 1952 and 1 August n.y.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 4to, on MacLeish's letterheads. The dictated Jan. 8 letter concerns a three-meeting course on the teaching of poetry that MacLeish would be giving at the College. The TLS is a thank-you letter for his enjoyable experience at the College: "It was a......
McGUANE, Thomas
An excellent correspondence with his first literary agent, Dorothea Oppenheimer, covering the period during the writing of his first two books (mostly as a Stanford Writing Fellow): 'The Sporting Club' and 'The Bushwacked Piano'
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Comprising: 29 typed letters signed, 5 typed postcards signed, and 2 autograph postcards signed, all from McGuane to Oppenheimer, and one typed letter signed (carbon copy, with holograph note) from McGuane to William B. Decker (senior editor at Dial Press); written from Palo Alto (and.....


Following on the success of the ROBOCOP reissue, Nicolas Winding Refn and Milan Records are proud to present the vinyl reissue of the original score to The Terminator supervised and mixed by composer Brad Fiedel himself!
Double colored 180gm LP housed in a tip-on gatefold jacket.
* Description previously stated there is a download card included. There is NOT a download card included with this LP.


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Flash Fiction Day Top Ten: Gay Degani's Favorite "Car" Flashes
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June 24 is (Inter)National Flash Fiction Day. In celebration, SmokeLong Quarterly asked several amazing writers of flash fiction to share a top ten list of flash favorites on a topic of their choice. SmokeLong contributor, Gay Degani, has a story featured in the National Flash Fiction Day anthology, Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour. Today, she shares her favorite flash stories featuring cars.
By Gay Degani
Here are my Top 10 Favorite "Car" stories in no particular order. Why cars? I live in Southern California, less than a mile from Arroyo Seco Parkway, the oldest U.S. freeway (completed in 1940) to connect Pasadena to Downtown Los Angeles.
I've spent a good part of my life on the 10, the 40, the 60, the 80. From age 5 to age 17, I traveled with my family by car from Torrance to Iowa and Louisiana every summer. I like driving. I like cars. Cars are a terrific metaphor for life. They take us where we want to go and sometimes where we don't. They make us think ahead, plan for disaster, excite us with possibilities. They are a gamble, a rush, a source of pride or humiliation. When we purchase a car, it has to say something about us. Almost everyone has an opinion about cars: love, hate, or merely tolerate them, they have become a necessary part of modern life.
I write a lot of stories with cars in them: "Oranges," "Dani-Girl's Guide To Getting Everything Right," "Doing Mr. Velvet," "Cords," "Eye for an Eye," "Flash Flood," "Isla Vista 1970," "Kindling," and "Something about LA" to name a few.
And I like these stories. Every one of them is beautifully written, but each stands out for its own reasons.
The Stories:
"A Place You Know" by Chloe N. Clark at Smokelong Quarterly
Chloe N. Clark's "A Place You Know," is a sad and lovely journey to a "city of the dead" underscoring both the action in the story itself and a metaphor for life. " Our mother bundled us into the car early—the sun barely having crested the sky." Then "I always got bored at the halfway mark." And "We drove so long to get there. The cities around us rose and fell."
"Imagine Your Daughter is a Cherry Red Convertible" by Kathy Fish at New World Writing
Kathy Fish wields her very special brand of magic in "Imagine Your Daughter is a Cherry Red Convertible." The title says so much, the story is a singular cautionary tale for all parents to mind their children, and its message smacks you before you can hit the brakes.
"Accident" by Dave Eggers at The Guardian
I love the immediacy of Dave Eggers, "Accident." You the reader are figuratively in the driver's seat, not just a gawker, but a virtual perpetrator of careless driving. He writes, "Walking to their car, which you have ruined, it occurs to you that if the three teenagers are angry teenagers, this encounter could be very unpleasant."
"Apocalypse Story" by Roxane Gay at Wigleaf
Even though the title of "Apocalypse Story" warns the reader of what's coming, Roxane Gay's first paragraph suggests a different kind of tale. Yet, as she is wont to do, she soon delivers an excellent piece of flash suspense. "He covered my hand with his. My hand was resting on the cup holder between our seats."
"The Ambulance Driver" by Ben Loory at Wigleaf
Irony is what draws me to Ben Loory's "The Ambulance Driver," and the fact that the main action of the story is all too common, and its consequences are not always what we think.
"Tollbooth" by Max Hipp at New World Writing
"Toll Booth" by Max Hipp is one of those stories that takes the reader somewhere unexpected by glimpsing the lives of three people that converge at a metaphorical pay station in life.
"Road Kill" by Paul Beckman at Sugar Mule
The extremely prolific Paul Beckman has written several "car" stories, but the one I favor is "Road Kill" where he explores the juxtaposition of nature vs. machine. The catalyst of the story, too, appeals to me too since it deals in an archetypal situation.
"Triangulation" by Christopher Allen at A-Minor
Experimental fiction is something at which Christopher Allen is a master, and his "Triangulation" is proof. Setting and structure are the elements that make this flash into a story to experience.
"Driving Me to Distraction" by James Claffey at Mad Hat Lit
James Claffey's "Driving Me to Distraction" gives the reader a father whose rage at life is expressed in road rage and the lessons his son has learned. The prose goes deep, both strong and visual: "My nightmares were of death and twisted steel and Naugahyde seats sticky with young boys' blood."
"Yuppies" by Anne Elizabeth Weisgerber at Ink in Thirds
And last, but certainly not least, is Anne Elizabeth Weisgerber's "Yuppies," which takes the reader into a sunny noir place. Though this might seem a contradictory, it is exactly what the story delivers.
Southern Californian Gay Degani has a collection of short stories, Rattle of Want (Pure Slush, 2015) and a suspense novel, What Came Before (Truth Serum, 2016). Nominated for Best Small Fictions and Pushcart consideration, she won the 11th Annual Glass Woman prize. She blogs at Words in Place.
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Taking care of your mouth—and your baby's—is one of the easiest ways to help your baby right from the start. When you're pregnant, you may be more prone to gum disease and cavities, which can impact your baby's health. If you already have an infant, her tiny teeth matter! Caring for them now sets her up for a lifetime of good oral health.
Check out these easy steps to protect her tiny teeth at any stage.
See a dentist before you deliver. You may be more prone to gum disease and cavities when you're pregnant—and having them can affect your baby's health. Also, when your baby arrives, you could pass that bad bacteria from your mouth to hers and increase her likelihood of getting cavities too. Seeing a dentist while pregnant is totally safe—and it's good to get this done before your hands are full (literally) with your new baby.
Brush twice a day and floss once a day. This is the best way prevent bad bacteria from growing that can be passed to your baby once they're born.
If you're having morning sickness, rinse your mouth with 1 tsp of baking soda in a glass of water after you get sick. This helps wash the acid away and keep your tooth's enamel safe.
Even if you can't see them yet, those tiny teeth are there—hiding just beneath the gums. Make sure to take care of them right from the start.
Wipe the gums twice a day with a soft, clean cloth—in the morning after the first feeding and right before bed. That helps wipe away bacteria and sugars that can cause cavities.
Once her first tooth comes in, start brushing her teeth twice a day with a smear (rice-grain sized) amount of toothpaste.
Take your baby to the dentist by her first birthday. It's the best way to spot signs of problems early. If you don't have a dentist, ask your pediatrician to check out your baby's mouth and help you find one.


The Phoenix Education Grant is the first national scholarship endowment fund created for burn survivor students pursuing their education dreams. Your donations make these dreams come true!
The Phoenix Education Grant is supported by the generous donations of individuals and corporations who share the Phoenix Society's mission to empower burn survivors and help them return to a full life. In 2013 the Phoenix Society partnered with AlloSource, one of the nation's largest non-profit providers of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts. AlloSource pledged to donate $25,000 annually over 10 years to help support the Phoenix Education Grant.
Just ask Alonza Yanes, 2016 Phoenix Education Grant recipient. In his thank you note, Alonzo very eloquently stated how this award is helping him achieve his life's dream.
"It is with great gratitude that I humbly accept your generous scholarship towards funding my education. I am nervous, yet incredibly excited about the start of my college studies at the School of Visual Arts. This scholarship will assist me in fulfilling my dream of studying animation as a career. Like the other recipients, I have experienced a set back in life, but I am happy to overcome and move forward. I am honored to be the recipient of this award and to have your confidence in my abilities."


As the Royal Couple left the Chapel to rousing cheers, everybody was scrambling to get their special souvenir picture of the moment.
And now, with the wonders of modern technology, the NumisProof Advisory Committee has approved this stunning on-the-day picture for a remarkable wedding day release.
In collecting terms it's a first - the fastest NumisProof ever produced.
The Mint have been on standby, the photo has now been sent and striking will commence within hours.
And now, you could become one of just 495 collectors, in the world, to own the on-the-day Royal Wedding NumisProof struck in 2 whole ounces of solid Sterling Silver to a pristine Proof finish.
Silver NumisProofs are reserved for only the most important occasions. And very few can be as important as celebrating such a significant Royal anniversary.
We expect deliveries to commence mid-June. Also available as a gold-plated edition here.


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Marle bezeichnet:

 Marle, französische Gemeinde

Marle oder Marlé ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Arnold Marlé (1887–1970), deutscher Schauspieler und Theaterregisseur
 Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard (* 1982), französischer Organist
 Jo van Marle (1925–1995), niederländischer Fußballfunktionär
 Raimond van Marle (1888–1936), niederländischer Kunsthistoriker
 Thomas de Marle (um 1073–1130), Graf von Amiens, siehe Thomas de Coucy
 Walter Marle (1873–1941), deutscher Mediziner

Siehe auch:
 Marle (Familie)


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Screenwriters: Malusi Bengu, Thando Mgqolozana and John Trengove
Nakhane Touré
Bongile Mantsai
Niza Jay Ncoyini
Thobani Mseleni
Gabriel Mini
Country: South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France
Classification: MA15+
Runtime: 88 mins.
Australian Release Date: 8 February 2018
Previewed at: Dendy Cinemas, Newtown Sydney, on 30 January 2018.
John Trengove's The Wound was selected as South Africa's entry for Best Foreign Language Film in this year's Academy Awards, making the shortlist but not the final five; it was a worthy nomination though. It's a confronting drama set in the hills of the Eastern Cape in South Africa where the elders of the Xhosa tribe take boys to be initiated. In the film, a group of Xhosa men set up camp to prepare for the ceremony, which involves the circumcision of the adolescents followed by three weeks of lessons teaching them how to be 'men'. The boys come mainly from regional areas but one comes from the 'big smoke' and the differences between the country boys and the city kid are immense.
Once a year, a lonely forklift driver working in Cape Town, Xolani (Nakhane Touré), undertakes the role of 'carer' for one of the initiates. This year he's been asked to look after Kwanda (Niza Jay), a teenager from Jo'burg who's regarded as being "too soft" by his father. Xolani has another reason for being there though - to meet up with an old friend from his village, Vija (Bongile Mantsai), with whom he has an annual, furtive sexual liaison. Vija is a macho family man caught up in a society that does not recognise nor accept homosexuality; on the contrary, it is perceived as going against African culture. Indeed, it's doubtful that he even thinks of himself as gay. When the two lovers are sprung in flagrante by Kwanda it creates confusion and panic for the pair and the story enters the realm of tragedy.
A complex plot on many levels, The Wound successfully reveals scenarios that are hidden not only from the outside world but also from the very people inhabiting this closed and closeted society. Furthermore, the subtext implies that urbanisation is killing traditional culture and this, perhaps, is the real wound. At one point Vija says to Kwanda words to the effect that the city-dweller won't be happy until he's destroyed them all. There are some pretty confronting scenes of circumcision, even though they're implied and we're spared vision of the cutting, but we do learn a lot about the treatment of 'the wound' in the days thereafter. Those who go through it have to be brave and can show neither pain nor fear; it's a significant part of Xhosa tradition and is treated as a necessary procedure for entering manhood but can this tradition last in the modern world? Regrettably, cinematographer Paul Ozgur's excessive use of 'wobbly-cam' will put some people off; yes, the film is shot in some pretty rugged country but a tracking shot or two would have smoothed off some of the hand-held camera's rough edges.
Trengove's The Wound is a fascinating, documentary-like film, the like of which you won't have seen before (for one thing it's entirely in the Xhosa language) and it stays with you long after the screening ends. It will inevitably be compared to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and, perhaps, with the more recent God's Own Country, however, it stands alone as a film that places its audience in the middle of a drama that is both enthralling and heart-breaking.


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package com.github.alexvictoor.proxy;

import com.github.alexvictoor.livereload.Broadcaster;
import com.github.alexvictoor.livereload.FileReader;
import com.github.alexvictoor.livereload.FileSystemWatcher;
import com.github.alexvictoor.livereload.WebSocketServerInitializer;
import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
import io.netty.bootstrap.ServerBootstrap;
import io.netty.channel.group.ChannelGroup;
import io.netty.channel.group.DefaultChannelGroup;
import io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup;
import io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioServerSocketChannel;
import io.netty.handler.logging.LogLevel;
import io.netty.handler.logging.LoggingHandler;
import io.netty.util.concurrent.GlobalEventExecutor;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

public class LivereloadServer {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LivereloadServer.class);
    static final int DEFAULT_PORT = 35729;

    public final int port;

    private final List<File> files;
    private NioEventLoopGroup workerGroup;
    private NioEventLoopGroup bossGroup;

    public LivereloadServer(List<File> files) {
        this.files = files;
        port = DEFAULT_PORT;
    }

    public void start() {

        // Configure the server.
        bossGroup = new NioEventLoopGroup(1);
        workerGroup = new NioEventLoopGroup();

        ChannelGroup allChannels =
                new DefaultChannelGroup(GlobalEventExecutor.INSTANCE);
        Broadcaster broadcaster = new Broadcaster(allChannels);
        try {
            for (File file : files) {
                FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(file.getCanonicalPath());
                watcher.addCallback(broadcaster);
                watcher.start();
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw Throwables.propagate(e);
        }

        FileReader fileReader = new FileReader();
        String jsContent = fileReader.readFileFromClassPath("/livereload.js");

        ServerBootstrap b = new ServerBootstrap();
        b.group(bossGroup, workerGroup)
                .channel(NioServerSocketChannel.class)
                .handler(new LoggingHandler(LogLevel.INFO))
                .childHandler(new WebSocketServerInitializer(allChannels, jsContent));
        try {
            b.bind(port).sync().channel();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
        logger.info("Livereload server ready");
    }

    public void stop() {
        if (bossGroup != null) {
            bossGroup.shutdownGracefully();
            workerGroup.shutdownGracefully();
        }
    }
}