A dead, fallen leaf lay beside Voshchev's head; the wind had brought it there from a distant tree, and now this leaf faced humility in the earth. Voshchev picked up the leaf that had withered and hid it away in a secret compartment of his bag, where he took care of all kinds of objects of unhappiness and obscurity. "You did not possess the meaning of life," supposed Voshchev with the miserliness of compassion. "Stay here—and I'll find out what you lived and perished for. Since no one needs you and you lie about amidst the whole world, then I shall store and remember you.
Here the words "dead," "earth," "meaning," "endure," and especially "conscious" are signals of where the novel is going. Who is living and who and what is dead, and can we always tell the difference? Who is conscious, and of what? What meaning can we find, enduring on and in the earth? Soon Voshchev joins a crew of men digging the titular pit, intended for the foundation of a building to house proletarians. But there are many discussions of the novel's political content (Chandler and Meerson's Afterword does a good job of summarizing the history and politics involved, though I've added a short bibliography below for those particularly interested); what I want to focus on here is the amazing language.
And then, between 1929 and 1932, he was sent on a number of journeys through central and southern Russia. Other writers who visited collective farms did so as members of Writers' Brigades—and they, of course, were shown only a few model collective farms. Platonov, however, was sent by the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, and he saw what was really happening.
That experience complicated his optimism. He seems still to have retained a belief that the shining communist future was a possibility, but having seen the stupidity, inefficiency, corruption, and brutality that were everywhere on the ground, no matter what the Kremlin planners might intend, he had to respond, to tell the truth as he saw it, and that response involved a complex and brilliant manipulation of the very language the Kremlin used to propagate its ideas. Characters are always talking about "directives" and "backwardness" and "tempo," regurgitating the catchwords that ceaselessly bombard them from Party organizers, "plenipotentiaries," and other emissaries from officialdom. One of them asks: "Is it really sorrow inside the whole world—and only in ourselves that there's a five-year plan?" The five-year plan inside us is one of the things the novel is about; some of the characters are trying to fulfill it by constant work, others by denunciations and violence, and the main viewpoint character, Voshchev, by questioning and introspection, irritating pretty much everyone else (as Platonov irritated the Party, despite his professed devotion to its ideals). By the time the novel heads into increasingly surreal-seeming and deadly territory, you're so accustomed to the strangeness of the telling that you can't escape its spell.
Fedorov called modern writing "the work of men who have stopped being human and who have become typewriters." It may be that the style of The Foundation Pit is, in its way, an attempt to revive the "sacred, resurrectional character" of language and thus restore fraternal relations to mankind. There's never been anything else like it; even Platonov quickly retreated from it (he did, after all, want to be published), and his later works are written in a more "normal" style. But this will always be his masterpiece.
В день тридцатилетия личной жизни Вощеву дали расчет с небольшого механического завода, где он добывал средства для своего существования. В увольнительном документе ему написали, что он устраняется с производства вследствие роста слабосильности в нем и задумчивости среди общего темпа труда.
The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization , by Lynne Viola. You have to make allowances for her excessive enthusiasm for her subject, the "25,000ers" recruited from factories and other dens of trustworthy proletarians who fanned out across Russia to help impose collectivization (Mark Von Hagen's review says she is "sympathetic to their struggle against all the other actors in this tragic story, who appear as villains, including … the backward Russian peasants" who were the victims), but she paints a detailed picture of the nitty-gritty of the process on the ground.
Above all, read Moshe Lewin's classic The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia . Lewin explains the economic background and effects of Stalinism and collectivization in such a clear way that even I, an economic illiterate, could understand what happened. This will help you understand not only Platonov but the entire subsequent history of the Soviet Union.
Hat, I pointed out once before at this blog that there is a different way to approach Fedorov's work. Just go with the flow, man, loosen up ! You're much too literal-minded here. Maybe Fedorov was personally looney, and believed in everything he wrote – so what ? Forget about that, let his ideas wash over you like the plot of an epic science-fiction novel. These are Russians we're dealing with, for pete's sake ! All that crazy stuff in Fedorov, Tsiolkovky et al. is fabulously thought-provoking.
You know why Fedorov thought that everyone who ever lived should be brought back to life, right ? It was because he thought it was unjust that material progress should benefit only those who were born later. Think about it. At least take a look at Obshee Delo sometime.
"supervising the digging of ..": yep, supervising is the lark.
Must be because I'm ni kulturny, but that opening graf would put me off the book completely. It seems to me to be literal, word for word, translation of something that may well work in Russian, but (as always, for me) totally fails in English.
At least take a look at Obshee Delo sometime.
I don't know why you say that. I called him loony then and now, and I still have an unreasonable fondness for such loons. I just don't take them as seriously as you do.
Sigh. "Seriously" is not the point. You are a figure of authority on Russian authors worth reading. Tender souls may be frightened off Fedorov by what you say – but then where would the next generation of loonies come from ? "Theory", "deconstruction" etc. are in decline, thank God – so we need new talent.
For the 19th c. Russian thinker Nikolai Federov (sic) nature was the enemy because it condemned the human personality to extinction. The only worthwhile human project was a titanic struggle for immortality. But for Federov it was not enough that future generations should have done with death. Only when all the human beings who have ever lived were raised from the dead would the species become truly immortal. The human enterprise was the technological resurrection of the dead.
It seems unbelievable that these fantasies could ever have had a practical influence. Yet Federov's thinking was one of the intellectual currents that shaped the Soviet regime. The Bolsheviks believed man to be destined for dominion over nature. More, influenced by Federov, they believed that technology could emancipate mankind from the Earth itself. Federov's ideas inspired the Russian rocket engineer Konstantin Tsiolovsky (1857 – 1935) and through him the first generation of Soviet space explorers. Federovian ideas animated the Soviet regime from its beginnings to its very end.
Federov's view of humanity as a chosen species, destined to conquer the Earth and defeat mortality, is a modern formulation of an ancient faith. Platonism and Christianity have always held that humans do not belong in the natural world.When they imagined that humanity could rid itself from the limits that surround all other animal species, the thinkers of the Enlightenment merely renewed this ancient error.
Resistance to Federovian policies was one of the forces that triggered the Soviet collapse. The explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl galvanised protest all over the country. Much of the opposition to Gorbachev focused on his scheme for redirecting some of Russia's rivers, which would have flooded large parts of Siberia and–as a consequence–altered the world's climate. Mercifully Gorbachev was toppled, and this grandiose folly never came to pass. Even so, the Soviet legacy to post-communist Russia was a devastated environment–a legacy that its semi-criminal, slash-and-burn capitalism has only made yet more catastrophic.
Thanx, Crown. I did say his ideas were fabulously thought-provoking, didn't I ?
Calling Fedorov a loony is one extreme, but attempting to demonize him is also an extreme. "The Marxian-Federovian cult of technology" is a ludicrous notion. My understanding is that Fedorov was essentially unknown in the Soviet Union after WW 2.
The Russians had no monopoly on destruction of the environment and obsession with technological solutions. Look at the GDR, look at America, look at Vietnam and China – the non-Russian examples are endless.
That's true–lots of dictators have tried to mess about with their environment and not only dictators, either–but look at a former-communist country like Romania, its environment was ruined. Or look at China with its huge dam projects and its attitude towards global warming. Of course you can say the same about the USA: the environment is less important than the economy. I'd better shut up.
In any case, what I find interesting in Fedorov is how his ideas fit into a larger context of (what I guess I must call) moral philosophy.
According to the Wikipedia article you linked, "Gray sees volition, and hence morality, as an illusion, and portrays humanity as a ravenous species engaged in wiping out other forms of life." Doesn't sound like my kind of thinker. And portraying Fedorov as the dark genius of the twentieth century is even loonier than his own ideas.
Thanks for this, LH. I've been wondering whether or not to read Platonov for a while, and now my mind's made up. Curious as to your thoughts on NYRB in general (the whole alternate-canon thing is vaguely maddening, and very illustrative of the last ten years of publishing), and on Grossman's Life and Fate in particular. Though maybe you've already posted about it, and I've missed it.
This is a powerful work and as good a summary of the dark side of Russian history as I've read; in 200 pages it provides unforgettable vignettes of the various kinds of suffering imposed by the rulers of the Soviet Union, as well as sometimes lengthy historical analyses. If I encounter anyone who (after all this time and all the information that's come out) still doubts the horror of what Lenin and Stalin created, I will give them this book and hope they are open to what it has to say. The account of the Ukrainian famine of the early '30s, to take just one example, is crushing and convincing.
However, it presents itself as a novel, and it's really not. It starts out as one, with a 50-year-old protagonist, Ivan Grigorevich, returning to Moscow from the east Siberian Gulag and meeting his well-off cousin, but it quickly becomes a series of musings by Ivan about the course of history, and for long stretches Ivan himself is forgotten and Grossman pours out his rage at what was done (tempered by his understanding of the human beings who did it) and reaffirms his belief in the ultimate value of freedom. This is not meant as a criticism, simply as a warning to anyone who might go into it expecting a traditional novel with a plot. This is not that, but it's something valuable in its own right.
I dunno. What about Knopf's Blue Jade Library in the '20s, based on Carl Van Vechten's suggestions?
Thanks Mab. Nice to feel there are two approaches to this.
Actually, Paul, I sympathize. I read the Foundation Pit in college and hated it. HATED IT. Yuck. Puke. Couldn't stand it. But then Robert Chandler had questions about the Russian as he was doing a new translation, and I passed them on to a Russian translator friend who knew Platonov very well, and WHAMO PRESTO BAM a new world opened for me. It doesn't surprise me that Hat, who is the Reader From Heaven, (that is, the reader every writer dreams of) got it. I think we mortals have to read 50 pages or so with a suspension of disbelief (and a bottle of Maalox). But if you stick it out, you might be surprised. Or not. But I think Platonov is worth the effort.
Oh, I'm sure I would have hated it in college too. I've come to many things late in life, beets, Cecil Taylor, and Platonov among them.
Schnittke ! No effort involved in appreciating his music, I would have thought. But not a "companion book" <*shudder*> on his music.
However, I wouldn't go straight from Mozart to Schnittke – you might have a nervous breakdown.
I meant to say that I love the way you wrote this post, Language. One of your best.
Wow, thank you. I spent several days trying to compose it, then released it into the wild with a sense that I hadn't managed to say anything like what I wanted to say.
Besides finding the discussion of Platonov very interesting, I especially liked the way the abrupt beginning worked. Just saying.
I read Platonov a long time ago on the recommendation of Joseph Brodsky. I thought then, and still do, that The Foundation Pit is one of the most powerful books of the 20th C. Maybe my reading of Russian history, especially about the Soviet state and its strange Marxist-Leninist jargon prepared me for it, but Platonov's use of that jargon seemed absolutely appropriate and brilliant from the get-go.
I agree with Mr Crown. It's a great post. Perhaps I'm looking at it from the angle of a translator, but what I liked is that you pointed out the other ways an author might have approached the beginning. But Platonov didn't do X or Y or Z. He did something else. Why? Why does it sound so strange? There was a reason for that; what is it?
Well, I am not as old as Hat even now (and never will be). I still can't stand beets (every so often, my beet-loving wife induces me to try 'em, but nope, they still taste like beets to me), and I can't stomach this sort of prose even for a paragraph, never mind a whole book. Perhaps because I have to read, decipher, and act upon far too much of this kind of thing.
"You did not possess the meaning of life," supposed Voshchev with the miserliness of compassion.
This appears to be one of those insane said-bookisms-in-translation that you denounced back in 2012: inserted, rationalized, quipped, and the like.
I've read Platonov in the tenth grade and did not like it at all then. Perhaps it wasn't the right age to appreciate his prose.
Learned an interesting historical tidbit too.
In conversation between older crippled vet and Voshev where the above quote occurs, they refer to the WWI as "the real war".
Presumably, young Voshev has seen the Russian Civil War as everyone in Russia, but didn't consider it the "real war".
rom Dorothy Sayers, "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club" – it's the 1920s and two young ex-officers are considering a much older veteran at the Club.
A pair of spindle shanks with neatly-buttoned shoes propped on a footstool was all that was visible of General Fentiman.
I don't know if this was also true of the Napoleonic wars in early 19th century Britain. In the literature people seem to talk about "fighting in the Peninsula" rather than "in the War" tout court.
Toy conflict or no toy conflict, my maternal granfather, who had taken part in WWI, went missing—I think he was killed—during the civil war. Mother was a posthumous child.


Our lesson today called for building a pyramid out of blocks, legos or cans. Over the years our block and lego supply has diminished so dramatically that we didn't have enough of any of these products for Dawson to build one.
So, he attempted to make one out of mini marshmallows and toothpicks. And he attempted to make one out of K'NEX. The idea was to have one that looked ancient and one that looked modern.
The marshmallow one collapsed. The K'NEX one never would take proper shape.
What did we learn? First, if you do not have a solid foundation, your building will fall. And second, building pyramids is H.A.R.D.
Can you even imagine building one in the blistering heat with no real tools or equipment to help you?
On Thursday I wrote about the $30 gift card I won to the Philbrook Art Museum gift shop.
I read on another blog (and I can't remember which one so that I can give proper credit) about making a hieroglyphics scroll. That gave me a great idea!
I made a hieroglyphics scroll for Dawson and put it on his chair with a hieroglyphics key. He had to decipher the code to find the gift card. The scroll said "Look n the Nile for reward."
I hid the gift card under his Nile Diorama that is out on our patio table.
He was really excited about us winning the gift card! He has his eye on a really cool owl puppet. He wants to name it Dexter and use it to tell stories to the kids in Eli and Brynne's classes at school.
I left Dawson a sticky note on his planner last week telling him how proud I was of how hard he had been working since we started school.
The next day I had a sticky note on my chair that said, "U R A DOOFUS!" with a smiley face.
At least it wasn't a tack in my chair.
Look what I won from Nikki at The Painters 5 in the Curriculum Clean Out.
This will be a great addition to our library! And, Dawson is planning on holding some kids camps this summer at our house, and a science camp is one he wants to do. This book will hopefully give him some great, age-appropriate ideas!
Thanks, Nikki! And thanks, Homeschool Creations, for hosting the giveaway!
Hey, it's Dawson again, doing my weekly blog post. :( Well some of the things I enjoyed about this week are: I made a diorama of Egypt; I made tomb paintings; and, I just got to free draw one day. You can see pictures/purchase my drawings on my mom's blog. :) I also got to bake fig and date bread. Turns out I'm a really good baker. I'll ask my mother/teacher if she'll post my recipe on her blog. One of the things I'm not enjoying is ALGEBRA!!! I have to do 30 problems of questions I don't always understand! And today I have to go over the 13 problems I missed yesterday plus the 30 I have to do today!!! That's 43 problems!! (at least I know how to add).
PS. My drawings are each $49.95, plus shipping.
** To see mom's perspective on the week and get specifics about projects we completed, go here.
What have we done this week? So much!!!
We are continuing our studies of Ancient Egypt and the desert based on our reading in Genesis about the story of Joseph.
Doing lots of art and projects is very important to Dawson.
This week he made a tomb painting, using this idea from Samantha at To Be Busy at Home (thanks a million, Samantha, for the great idea!) His tomb painting depicts the things in his life that are important: his dog Crusoe, his girlfriend Tess (her picture is turned on it's side on the bottom), him riding his skateboard, and the symbol of "life".
First he laid a piece of paper on the tile on our kitchen table and rubbed it with crayon to get a textured look.
Next he free-handed pictures onto construction paper depicting things in his life that are important to him.
Then he laid the cutouts under his textured paper and did crayon rubbings of them.
While at Philbrook Museum last week, we entered into a random drawing for a gift card to the museum's gift shop. As you remember, Dawson really enjoyed the museum that evening, making amulets and doing the scavenger hunt. As we were getting ready to leave the museum, we stopped by the gift shop and he found several things he really wanted.
Well ... we won the $30 gift card to the gift shop!!
I was so excited because I thought this would be an awesome reward to give Dawson for working so hard this first week of school and, above all, for having a great attitude!
Don't you love it when you hear these words?
"What's next? Never mind, I'll just look at the list and see what's next. If I can do it on my own, I'll just do it."
This month I have been participating in a blog hop called the Not-Back-to-School Blog Hop. It's been so great to get inspiration from others' school rooms, to read about all of the many curriculums being used and to see pictures of the great kids who have the pleasure of being schooled by their biggest supporters.
This final week of the blog hop we are asked to present "A Day in the Life" of our homeschooling day. This has been the first full "normal" week we have had. So, I will do my best with what we have done so far.
5:15 a.m. ~ *gulp* ~ Between then and 7:00 a.m., I go for a run, get in some coffee and computer time, shower and get ready for the day.
In the 6th grade Dawson took Spanish from a teacher he absolutely loved! He loved her personality and her style and he retained a lot from her class.
Since Dawson has a continued interest in the Spanish language, I immediately turned to Senorita Johnston for help. Not knowing anything about Spanish, I didn't want to spend a ton on a curriculum that might or might not be a good fit. And, I knew that Dawson loved her teaching style.
Senorita Johnston was so sweet and helpful! She recommended some curriculums I could purchase and then told me that she would be more than willing to loan us some materials.
Last Friday we picked up those materials.
They included a textbook (that she would like to have back at the end of the year), two workbooks that we can use and keep, and a VHS tape (the first of many in a series) and its' companion booklet. She said when we are done with this tape to return it for the next one. She even threw in a piece of candy for Dawson. How sweet is she?
This is us today. We tried a healthy snack and some hydration. We've decided to do our tough work now so we can relax with a documentary and art projects this afternoon. I guess these days will happen too.
On Thursday night we went back to Philbrook Museum to hear Dr. Kara Cooney, a famous Egyptologist, speak. She had a series on The Discovery Channel in 2009 called "Out of Egypt". She spoke primarily about the 21st Dynastic mummies, and it was very interesting.
Before she spoke we had the opportunity to make amulets. Amulets were buried under the clothing of the dead before they were mummified.
Dawson chose to make a Scarab which symbolizes rebirth.
I made an Eye of Horus which symbolizes protection.
And then he made an eyeball which symbolizes nothing, but reminded him of the regeneration of the mummy in the movie, The Mummy. So he made it.
Then we went on a scavenger hunt of the To Live Forever exhibit. We found every item on the list, and some were hard! We had a good time doing it! We had gone to the exhibit previously, but the scavenger hunt made us dig deeper into the exhibit and made it more exciting.
For those of you studying Ancient Egypt, National Geographic Channel has five back-to-back documentaries playing on Friday, September 3rd.
* The Scorpion King, 8:00 a.m. ~ "The Scorpion King likely united kingdoms of ancient Egypt."
* The Real Ramses, 9:00 a.m. ~ "Fresh interpretations of existing evidence reveal secrets behind the success of Ramses II."
* The Pyramid Code, 10:00 a.m. ~ "Experts trace the development of pyramids from flat mud-brick structures to the giant masterpieces still standing today."
* Secrets of the Valley of the Kings, 11:00 a.m. ~ "Archaeologists unravel the secrets of the Valley of the Kings, the sacred tombs of the Pharaohs in Egypt."
* Mystery of the Screaming Man, 12:00 p.m. ~ "Over 100 years ago an unidentified mummy was found lying alongside some of the most famous pharaohs in Egyptian history, with his face contorted in a scream."
There is always the possibility that Dawson will re-enter public school at some point in his future. Even if he doesn't, and we decide to homeschool him through high school, record keeping is a necessity! This is especially true if he decides to go to college.
Although Oklahoma does not have any specific homeschooling laws that we must follow, record keeping is still a good idea for many reasons.
I want to be able to show what we have done and to track Dawson's actual progress with his school work.
We are, in fact, running our homeschool like a "school". It's just a school that caters to its student's strengths and areas of interest. But at the same time it is a school that is preparing him for further education outside of our home, either in high school or college.
I desired to keep an actual grade book of his assignments and assign values to his work. But I really didn't want to manually do it in an old-time grade book.
As you can see, he's a teenager of many words.
We are using this weekly blogging tool, of Dawson writing a weekly wrap-up post (go here to read it), as a writing assignment for him. He typed it. Then he and I sat together while he looked for his grammatical and spelling errors.
He is right ... he doesn't type much. So, we'll be starting his typing curriculum next Monday.
This week we started our A World of Adventure curriculum and Saxon Pre-Algebra and just tried to get into somewhat of a groove. I think we were very successful at that.
I posted about our first day of school here and will be posting on Monday about one of our field trips.
* He didn't give me attitude about school even once! One time, when I asked him to do something I knew he wouldn't like, he sighed. But then he stopped mid-sigh and completed the assignment without any protest. And he did it well.
Hey, this is Dawson. I'm not sure what to say. My mom's just making me do this every Friday. I don't even know what to put on here! :(. Okay, she wants me to talk about my week. So, this week I got to go to Stone Canyon Elementary to be a teacher's helper for my old kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Morris. There wasn't any work for me to do so I played with LEGOS. :D. Another thing we did was go to Philbrook Art Museum yesterday for a scavenger hunt and to listen to some lady talk. The bad thing about home schooling is that I don't get to see my girlfriend Tess. I only get to see her on the weekends SOMETIMES, so that really STINKS. A good thing about home schooling is I'm the most popular kid in my school / house. Well, I feel like a Hot Pocket so I'm logging off.
PS: I've never typed this much in my life.
Well, I don't want to jinx it, but if every day goes as well as today .. we are going to have a great year!
Here are some before-school photos .. and he thought he was going to get out of the paparazzi-fest just because he wasn't going to public school today like the other kids. Yeah, right! He should know me better than that!
Do you know what I like about homeschooling? Where can you go to school and get away with kissing your teacher? And even better, where can the teacher get away with kissing her student? I did that lots today!
He thinks I'm the cutest teacher he has and I think he is the most popular student.
Weekly Wrap-Up ~ The School Room is Complete!


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Norwalk is a great bedroom community of Los Angeles, California. Once a sleepy farming community, Norwalk has now become one of the most populous cities in the entire state. Only 17 short miles Southeast of all the action of bustling Downtown LA, the area boasts a long history, as well as plenty to do and see. Public transit in the area is also readily available to all, and the area's residence are very diverse in race. Here, we will take a quick look at the history, modern growth of, and current population of the Norwalk area.
Norwalk was founded on land purchased by two brothers from Oregon with the last name of Sproul. Gilbert Sproul, one of the brothers, had a railroad and passenger stop built in the town. The city was founded under its official name in the late 1800s. By the 1880s, the town boasted its first school. A cheese factory was one of the very first businesses in the town itself, established by the same family who help to found the school. For many years it thrived as both a railroad town, as well as an area of dairy and beet farms. Many who settled the area were Dutch.
Post WWII Growth
After WWII, particularly in the 1950s, Norwalk saw a huge population boom, and became a suburban community of LA. As part of this population boom, many Latino and Latino families moved to the area. Since then, the population has grown steady, with the exception of a nearly 6% decline in population in the 1970s, reflected in data from the 1980 census. Since then, the population has grown by around 22.2%, total from 84,901 to 105,549. The growth in Latino population is still seen in census data in the area to this very day.
Today, most of the Norwalk population is Latino, with Whites, Asians, African Americans, and other racial groups, as well. Most of the Latino population is Mexican. Most live as households with children under the age of 18 in their homes, and most of the households own their own dwellings. The majority of households have around 4 people or so living in them. The average age of citizens of Norwalk is around 32.5, a whole six-months younger than the national average age of 33. There are more females than males in the city.
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      support <https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/wiki/Browser-support>`__.

#. In the address bar, enter the host name or IP address for the
   dashboard.

   .. code::

       https://ipAddressOrHostName/

   .. note::

      If a certificate warning appears when you try to access the URL for
      the first time, a self-signed certificate is in use, which is not
      considered trustworthy by default. Verify the certificate or add an
      exception in the browser to bypass the warning.

#. On the Log In page, enter your user name and password, and click
   :guilabel:`Sign In`.

   The top of the window displays your user name. You can also access
   settings or sign out of the dashboard.

   The visible tabs and functions in the dashboard depend on the access
   permissions, or roles, of the user you are logged in as.

   * If you are logged in as an end user, the :guilabel:`Project` tab is
     displayed.

   * If you are logged in as an administrator, the :guilabel:`Project` tab
     (:ref:`dashboard-project-tab`) and :guilabel:`Admin` tab
     (:ref:`dashboard-admin-tab`) are displayed.

.. _dashboard-project-tab:

OpenStack dashboard—:guilabel:`Project` tab
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Projects are organizational units in the cloud, and are also known as
tenants or accounts. Each user is a member of one or more projects.
Within a project, a user creates and manages instances.

From the :guilabel:`Project` tab, you can view and manage the resources in a
selected project, including instances and images. You select the project
from the CURRENT PROJECT list at the top of the tab.

.. figure:: figures/dashboard-project-tab.png

**Figure: Project tab**

From the :guilabel:`Project` tab, you can access the following tabs:

-----------------------
:guilabel:`Compute` tab
-----------------------

:guilabel:`Overview`: View reports for the project.

:guilabel:`Instances`: View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop, pause, or
reboot instances, or connect to them through VNC.

:guilabel:`Volumes`: Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:

* :guilabel:`Volumes`: View, create, edit, and delete volumes.

* :guilabel:`Volume Snapshots`: View, create, edit, and delete volume
  snapshots.

:guilabel:`Images`: View images and instance snapshots created by project
users, plus any images that are publicly available. Create, edit, and delete
images, and launch instances from images and snapshots.

:guilabel:`Access & Security`: Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:

* :guilabel:`Security Groups`: View, create, edit, and delete security groups
  and security group rules.

* :guilabel:`Key Pairs`: View, create, edit, import, and delete key pairs.

* :guilabel:`Floating IPs`: Allocate an IP address to or release it from a
  project.

* :guilabel:`API Access`: View API endpoints.

-----------------------
:guilabel:`Network` tab
-----------------------

:guilabel:`Network Topology`: View the network topology.

:guilabel:`Networks`: Create and manage public and private networks.

:guilabel:`Routers`: Create and manage routers.

----------------------------
:guilabel:`Object Store` tab
----------------------------

:guilabel:`Containers`: Create and manage containers and objects.

-----------------------------
:guilabel:`Orchestration` tab
-----------------------------

:guilabel:`Stacks`: Use the REST API to orchestrate multiple composite cloud
applications.

:guilabel:`Resource Types`: Show a list of all the supported resource types
for HOT templates.

.. _dashboard-admin-tab:

OpenStack dashboard—:guilabel:`Admin` tab
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Administrative users can use the :guilabel:`Admin` tab to view usage and to
manage instances, volumes, flavors, images, projects, users, services, and
quotas.

.. figure:: figures/dashboard_admin_project_tab.png

**Figure: Admin tab**

From the :guilabel:`Admin` tab, you can access the following category
to complete these tasks:

----------------------------
:guilabel:`System` tab
----------------------------

:guilabel:`Overview`: View basic reports.

:guilabel:`Resource Usage`: Use the following tabs to view the following
usages:

* :guilabel:`Usage Report`: View the usage report.

* :guilabel:`Stats`: View the statistics of all resources.

:guilabel:`Hypervisors`: View the hypervisor summary.

:guilabel:`Host Aggregates`: View, create, and edit host aggregates. View the
list of availability zones.

:guilabel:`Instances`: View, pause, resume, suspend, migrate, soft or hard
reboot, and delete running instances that belong to users of some, but not all,
projects. Also, view the log for an instance or access an instance through VNC.

:guilabel:`Volumes`: Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:

* :guilabel:`Volumes`: View, create, manage, and delete volumes.

* :guilabel:`Volume Types`: View, create, manage, and delete volume types.

* :guilabel:`Volume Snapshots`: View, manage, and delete volume snapshots.

:guilabel:`Flavors`: View, create, edit, view extra specifications for, and
delete flavors. A flavor is size of an instance.

:guilabel:`Images`: View, create, edit properties for, and delete custom
images.

:guilabel:`Networks`: View, create, edit properties for, and delete networks.

:guilabel:`Routers`: View, create, edit properties for, and delete routers.

:guilabel:`Defaults`: View default quota values. Quotas are hard-coded in
OpenStack Compute and define the maximum allowable size and number of
resources.

:guilabel:`Metadata Definitions`: Import namespace and view the metadata
information.

:guilabel:`System Information`: Use the following tabs to view the service
information:

* :guilabel:`Services`: View a list of the services.

* :guilabel:`Compute Services`: View a list of all Compute services.

* :guilabel:`Block Storage Services`: View a list of all Block Storage
  services.

* :guilabel:`Network Agents`: View the network agents.

* :guilabel:`Orchestration Services`: View a list of all Orchestration
  services.

OpenStack dashboard—:guilabel:`Identity` tab
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

:guilabel:`Projects`: View, create, assign users to, remove users from, and
delete projects.

:guilabel:`Users`: View, create, enable, disable, and delete users.

OpenStack dashboard—:guilabel:`Settings` tab
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Click the 'Settings' button from the user drop down menu in the top right
of any page, you will see the :guilabel:`Settings` tab.

:guilabel:`User Settings`: View and manage dashboard settings.

:guilabel:`Change Password`: Change the password of the user.

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6 Best Islands Around Phuket
The Southern Thai island of Phuket is a beautiful destination with a large range of attractions both on and off the island. In fact, there are numerous other islands that are only a short boat's ride away from Phuket. From tiny groups of rocks to large settlements on low, sandy banks, there's no shortage of islands in the area. And best of all, they all offer a unique experience to travellers. If you're looking for gorgeous, idyllic locations to go on an island-hopping journey around Phuket, check out the list below.
1. Phi Phi Islands
The Phi Phi Islands are one of the top destinations in the region. It's a group of six stunning islands that offers some of the best holiday experiences for the whole family. Phi Phi Don is the largest and only inhabited island in the archipelago, and is divided into three main areas: there's Laem Thong, the main village that's filled with shops, restaurants, bars, and hotels; the idyllic beach that house only a few exclusive resorts; and the southern coast which has a few hotels backed by a jungle. From the main island, you can go to Phi Phi Leh which has great snorkelling spots with colourful marine creatures and Bamboo Island which is a quiet paradise that you can relax on.
2. Racha Islands
The Racha Islands have two islets: Racha Yai and Racha Noi, which are located about 20 kilometres south of Phuket. They are ideal snorkelling and diving destinations with plenty of colourful fish in the surrounding seas. Racha Yai is the only island with accommodation options and a few restaurants and bars. With deep blue waters, white sand, and bright green vegetation, it's an ideal place to spend your day.
3. Coral Island
Coral Island is a small island that's only a 15-minute speedboat ride off the south eastern coast of Phuket. It's a short distance from Phuket and the diverse marine life in the area makes it one of the most famous day trip options amongst travellers. This small island has two beaches: Long Beach and Banana Beach, both on the north side on the island. It has a few restaurants and bars to cater to the sizeable crowd during the day—but that doesn't mean the island doesn't have peaceful spots! In fact, you can find these secret spots away from the crowd at the extreme ends of each beach.
4. Koh Panyi Island Village
Koh Pan Yi is a unique island on Phang Nga Bay, and is one of the must-visit attractions when you're in Phuket. The island is made up of a village built on stilts over the water. The village has a single, large limestone monolith backing it, making it an interesting and photo-worthy sight. The island village is a popular stop for island hopping tours in Phang Nga Bay and the number of restaurants and shops here reflect that.
5. Koh Yao Islands
The Koh Yao Islands comprise of two islands: Koh Yao Noi and Koh Yao Yai, situated close to th


A few of my favorite Mike moments, in no particular order. Sh'mon.
Ed Sullivan Show. 1969. Coolest 11-year-old on the planet.
James Brown split at 2:20. He was 10.
James Brown passes the torch to Mike. And Prince.
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Darren Solomon
COMPOSER / MUSICIAN
Darren Solomon is a Brooklyn-based composer, producer and musician. His professional career began at the age of 19, when he joined the band of R&B legend Ray Charles as his bassist. In the following years he became a busy musician on the New York scene and began working as a composer for TV commercials. He's scored over 400 national ads for clients like Google, AMEX, Pepsi, L'Oreal and MnM's, earning a Best Music Clio and a Cannes Gold Lion.
Darren is Creative Director and Partner at Quiet City Music + Sound, a music production house with studios in New York and San Paulo, Brazil.
Maintaining an avid interest in the intersection of art and technology, Darren created the crowdsourced web-based music project "In Bb 2.0", which became a viral hit, featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, CNN, and the Evolution of The Music Video series at BFI, London.
As a venue for his songwriting and production, he created the electronica project Science for Girls, which was featured in Electronic Musician and KCRW's Song of The Day.
Other highlights in a diverse career include producing the music for the H&M x Balmain runway show, composing the theme to A&E's Parking Wars, teaching masterclasses in production and composition and SUNY Purchase (where he is a Visiting Artist), and curating for the inaugural season at the innovative Brooklyn venue National Sawdust.
Darren maintains a busy schedule performing electronic music, exploring applications for music in new media, composing for dance companies, and curating and producing live shows.
I've written the music for over 400 national TV commercials for brands including Coke, Samsung, Honda, Google, M&M's, Verizon, Dell, AMEX, L'Oreal, Geico, and a memorable one for K-Y Jelly. Here are a few examples.
I regularly perform live around the city, here are some clips!
H&M x Balmain Runway Show
I produced the music and DJ'd the show, working with Balmain Creative Director Olivier Rousteing and choreographer Normann Shay.
3 Legged Dog gallery performance
Live electronic set with visual artist Matt Romein
Hip Hop Tribute to Miyazaki
A night of Hip Hop inspired by Miyazaki films, here featuring Baxter P Wordsworth.
Aether Dance Company
Original score for motion capture dance company Aether, performed live at National Sawdust.
I created a collaborative music project called In B Flat 2.0
The videos for the site were created by me and people from all over the world. The project was featured on NPR, CNN, and Google Creative Lab's 87 Cool Things On The Web. Hear my interview on NPR's Weekend Edition.
As a visiting artist at Northern State University, I worked with the students to create marker/music, a music and Google map mashup.
I wrote Everything Bad But Forever, a program written in p5.js that generates an infinitely long drug commercial. Using a data set of the text from 75 actual drug ads, it algorithmically creates weird and horrifying side effects and recites them over a random selection of stock footage. The drug names are generated from a data set of 100 actual product names. Here's some footage of its output.
remixes/mashups/tidbits
assorted tracks for your listening pleasure
This is Science For Girls.
I wrote, produced, and performed most of the album, and each track has a different singer.
Read an article in Electronic Musician about the production of the album.
I got my start in music when I joined Ray Charles' band, playing bass on tour with him for two years. I later worked with jazz, latin, and pop artists around NYC and on tour. Here are a few clips, including work with Ray Charles, Olivia Newton-John, and Barry Manilow.


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Tech Life You need a sense of humor
Key job interview point: if you could pull off a one liner or otherwise make me giggle, the chances that we're going to connect significantly increases. Adept comedy shennanigans are not a prerequisite for good interview, but, chances are, if you're going to make it to the Rands Monthly Poker Game… you can tell a joke.
Wit. A Sense of Humor. Whatever you want to call it — to me, it's a sign of a higher functioning mind.
The Daily Show has been a staple in the household for many years now. It is the longest season pass on the Tivo and, on a daily basis, it's the most likely chosen show if I'm planting myself on the beanbag and wondering "What to watch?"
For those of you who don't know, the Daily Show is Jon Stewart. He's a comedian. The show is fake news and Stewart is a fake newscaster. Like real news, there are brief segments on current events combined with indepth longer pieces focusing on a particular story, and, finally, an interview usually with some topical political or entertainment type. All of this is wrangled by Stewart who has a significant depth chart when it comes to comedy writers because every show is funny.
I mean it, you will laugh/giggle/smirk at least once in every single show.
The Daily Show's importance in the political landscape changed significantly in the past year. It started with a couple of Emmys and was followed by an increasing prominent guests. To me, it started with The Daily Show landed Howard Dean as a guest followed quickly by presidential candidate John Kerry and then former president Bill Clinton.
Other news shows have taken note of The Daily Shows increased role in a public discussion… in fact, they're probably jealous. First, OReilly called the demographic "stoned slackers and, just recently, Stewart was taken to task on Crossfire in a heated exchange that resulted in Stewart saying "Dick".
If you've never watched the show, you are scratching your head thinking, "Didn't Rands say it was fake news? Uh, what's the big deal? Why do real news shops care what Comedy Central is doing?"
The deal is this.
My generation has no use for the regular news. We were first desensitized to news with the onslaught of 24 hour news channels which reduced the top stories delivered to us by taking heads in 22 second blips. Then, conveniently, the Internet showed up which gave us CNN.com, My.Yahoo.com, and Drudge. This berrage of media has given the ability digest the news for the entire planet in seconds. Local news is campy and dull, Sunday news shows are longwinded, and newspapers are really only kept around because they handily travel to the bathroom.
We're the weblog generation. If you want to get our attention, you'd better not sound corporate, political, or stupid because we vote daily with our clicks. You better have a unique voice otherwise your information is no different than that news ticker scrolling across the bottom of every single cable news channel right this second. You want my attention? Engage my brain. No, better yet, respect my brain.
The Daily Show's voice is Jon Stewart and Jon Stewart is funny. I'm not talking chicken crossing the road funny, I'm talking wit. The ability to discern original truths for daily events and to convey them in way that I'm going to listen. I listen to comedy because I respect the brain power it requires to land that zinger at the right place and the right time. Moreover, I'm convinced that it takes, at least, a basic understanding of what is going on in the world to make comedy topical and relevant.
A joke, witty repartee, laughing… this is not the answer to the world's ills. The answers begin when informed people starting debating what the hell is going on. In my network of friends, we've remained curiously silent about current events until today… at lunch… we were all fired up and I blame Jon Stewart.
# October 20, 2004
uno` 15 years ago
I love the Daily Show. Why doesn't the conservative right have an answer to this format? I have some theories, but don't really want to bore with a left vs. right bitchlist.
Anonymous 15 years ago
Wait a second, uno – you're saying that Fox News ISN'T the right's answer to the Daily Show?
dos 15 years ago
Now this is fast sex…
"the top stories delivered to us by taking heads in 22 second blips."
Adjarian 15 years ago
I have a theory about why the right isn't funny. First of all, it's true: there are no funny people on the right. I mean, look at Ben Stein.
Second, instead of humor they have outrage. Ann Coulter is the right's Jon Stewart. The whole point is she's not funny, she's brazen. Who gives a fuck if it's true, IT FEELS GOOD TO SAY IT. The right's sense of theater comes out in being sassy and wild. Like humor, it's not exactly true but takes off from reality. Or, as Ann would say,
"Republicans will shoot burn and bury the terrorists. Kerry will give them a speech."
[LAUGHTER]
JAWN STUART FOR PERSIDENT1!! seriously though… the only reason the daily show is damn good were the original correspondents – namely steve carrell and stephen colbert. I'm intentionally leaving out Vance Degenitals since his pieces were the epitome of shit. The legacy is somehow carried by Ed Helms and Rob Cordry, who should get a flake of credit somewhere after Stewart ends his 5 run at the end of this year.
You can also thank the upright citizens bridage in NY for bringing such wonderful talent to the forefront of TV. We need more shows like this instead of crap like The Graham Norton Effect or Wanda Does It!
a "fan" 15 years ago
> We're the weblog generation.
pretty sure you and I aren't in the same generation, old man.
nug 15 years ago
I usually watch the Daily Show on my tivo a day or two later than when it aired. Many times I find Stewart making fun of the same news items that friends have already made fun of in IRC. It makes me laugh and at the same time reinforces how absurd real news is.
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The ceremony will take place Tuesday, May 22nd at 7 p.m. in the blue gymnasium (new gym) at Caroline High School.
Students should arrive between 5:30 and 6 p.m. on Tuesday and report promptly to the red gymnasium (old gym), find their 3rd period teacher, and sit with their 3rd period class. Guest seating in the gym will begin at 6:00 pm. All guests must have a ticket to gain entrance into the ceremony.


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Госуда́рственный академи́ческий хореографи́ческий анса́мбль «Берёзка» и́мени Н. С. Наде́ждиной — советский и российский хореографический ансамбль русского народного танца.
Создан в 1948 году советским балетмейстером и хореографом Надеждой Сергеевной Надеждиной (1904—1979), имя которой коллектив носит с июня 2000 года.

Полное наименование — Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение культуры «Государственный академический хореографический ансамбль "Берёзка" имени Н. С. Надеждиной» Управления делами Президента Российской Федерации (с 23 декабря 2006 г. ансамбль принят в ведение Управления делами Президента Российской Федерации).

История
Первое профессиональное выступление ансамбля состоялось в июне 1948 года на площадке московского летнего эстрадного театра «Эрмитаж» с русским девичьим хороводом «Берёзка» в исполнении девушек в довольно длинных бело-красных сарафанах с веточками берёзы в руках под мелодию русской народной хороводной песни «Во поле берёзка стояла…». Хоровод был поставлен основателем и художественным руководителем коллектива Надеждой Сергеевной Надеждиной и имел немалый успех. От этой постановки ансамбль и получил своё название.

В дальнейшем Н. С. Надеждиной были поставлены такие хореографические композиции, как «Лебёдушка», «Цепочка», «Прялица», «Сударушка», вальс «Берёзка», «Большой казачий пляс», «Балагуры», «Праздничная плясовая», «Холостяки», «Сибирская сюита», «Ямщики», триптих «Русский фарфор», цикл «Времена года» и другие.

Наиболее узнаваемой композицией ансамбля является русский девичий хоровод «Берёзка», известный особенной походкой девушек, создающей впечатление, что они стоят на месте, а сцена под ними вращается.

Изначально танцевальный коллектив был исключительно женским. Но в 1959 году, с приходом мужской группы и созданием оркестра русских народных инструментов, в репертуаре ансамбля появились как мужские, так и парные танцы — «Топотуха», «Узоры», «Холостяки», «Праздничная плясовая», «Ямщики», «Балагуры», «Карусель», «Сибирская сюита», триптих «Русский фарфор», хореографический цикл «Времена года».

Всего за более чем тридцатилетнюю творческую деятельность Н. С. Надеждиной было поставлено более сорока сценических произведений на народной основе.

Надежда Сергеевна говорила о творчестве своего коллектива следующее:
«В центре любой нашей работы, будь то лирический хоровод или весёлая пляска — поэтический образ русской девушки… Мы хотим как можно ярче выразить , отразить чистоту и величие русского народного искусства. Это источник вдохновения для нашего ансамбля».

Выступления ансамбля «Берёзка» имели большой успех в Советском Союзе и в зарубежных странах. В годы холодной войны (1946—1989) иностранная пресса писала, что человечное и одухотворённое искусство «Берёзки» «пробуждает добрые чувства и веру в братство между людьми», и называла выступления ансамбля «огненной сенсацией».

После кончины Н. С. Надеждиной в 1979 году художественным руководителем и главным балетмейстером коллектива стала ведущая солистка «Берёзки» и первый помощник Н. С. Надеждиной Мира Михайловна Кольцова, в будущем получившая почётные звания «Народный артист СССР» (1989) и «Народный артист Украины» (2004), профессор, которая бережно сохраняет творческое наследие основательницы ансамбля, успешно развивает и приумножает его. Ею созданы хороводы «Кружевницы», «Осенний хоровод», «Радуга», «Реченька», «Колокольцы», хореографическая сюита «Защитникам Отечества посвящается», хореографическая картина «Петрушка», кадриль «Хохломская скамейка», танцевально-игровое действо «Московский двор» и другие постановки, являющиеся продолжением, творческим переосмыслением и развитием «надеждинского стиля».

В настоящее время ансамбль «Берёзка» продолжает активную гастрольную деятельность и по-прежнему пользуется широкой популярностью в современной России и в мире.

1 августа 2022 года художественный руководитель ансамбля Мира Кольцова скончалась.

Здания

В советское время, до 1990 года, репетиционный зал ансамбля «Берёзка» находился в здании Церкви Преподобного Сергия Радонежского Высоко-Петровского монастыря, расположенного на улице Петровке в Москве. После перестройки коллектив вынужден был покинуть стены монастыря. На протяжении шестнадцати лет ансамбль скитался по разным местам, взывал о помощи, писал множество писем властям.

Наконец, в 2006 году Управлением делами Президента Российской Федерации было принято решение о восстановлении и реставрации исторического здания — бывшего особняка мецената Сергея Тимофеевича Морозова в Леонтьевском переулке (дом № 7) в Москве — для последующей передачи его всемирно известному танцевальному коллективу. 20 декабря 2006 года распоряжением Федерального агентства по управлению государственным имуществом (Росимущества) это здание закреплено за ансамблем «Берёзка» на праве оперативного управления.

Гастрольная деятельность
За все годы концертной деятельности коллектива, по сведениям прессы, хороводы ансамбля «Берёзка» прошли «плывущим» шагом расстояние, превышающее длину экватора. Гастроли ансамбля сопровождались триумфальным успехом и принесли коллективу мировое признание. Творениям Надежды Надеждиной восторженно аплодировали на всех континентах планеты.

Ансамбль «Берёзка» давал концерты более чем в восьмидесяти странах мира, таких как: США, Япония, Франция, Южная Корея, Колумбия, Аргентина, Чили, Венесуэла, Греция, Китай, Италия, КНДР, Турция, Швейцария, Бельгия, Хорватия, Сербия, Польша, Египет, Социалистическая Республика Вьетнам и др.

Художественные руководители-главные балетмейстеры

 Надежда Сергеевна Надеждина (1908—1979) — народная артистка СССР (1948—1979);
 Мира Михайловна Кольцова (1938—2022) — народная артистка СССР (1979—2022);
 Татьяна Валерьевна Сельгмяэ — (и.о., с 2022 года).

Фильмография
 1953 — «Песни родной стороны»
 1960 — «Девичья весна»
 1962 — «Концерт Государственного хореографического ансамбля "Берёзка"» (фильм-концерт)
 1969 — «Русские этюды» (стереофильм)
 2018 — «"Берёзка". Красота на экспорт» (документальный фильм; Россия, производство — «ВГТРК», автор и режиссёр — Дарья Пиманова; премьера — 8 апреля 2018 года; приурочен к 70-летию ансамбля)
 2018 — «Берёзка» (16-серийный телевизионный художественный фильм; Россия, производство — кинокомпания «Русское» по заказу телеканала «Россия», режиссёр — Александр Баранов; премьера — 9 апреля 2018 года)

Афоризмы Н. С. Надеждиной
 Девушкам, артисткам ансамбля, которые были в хорошей физической форме, но не могли создать нужный сценический образ, основатель и художественный руководитель «Берёзки» Надежда Сергеевна Надеждина во время репетиций говорила: «Худая корова — ещё не газель».
 К артистам-юношам, исполняющим свои роли с неподобающим лицом, Надежда Сергеевна обращалась с вопросом: «Что вы танцуете с физиономиями цареубийц?».
 На вопрос о том, есть ли у неё недоброжелатели, Надеждина отвечала: «Только если ты — бездарь, у тебя нет врагов».

Награды
 1959 — медаль «За вклад в укрепление дружбы между народами» Всемирного совета мира (ВСМ).

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт Государственного академического хореографического ансамбля «Берёзка» имени Н. С. Надеждиной //http://beriozkadance.ru/history/
Информация об ансамбле на официальном сайте Управления делами Президента Российской Федерации
 ВИДЕО. Концерт Государственного академического хореографического ансамбля «Берёзка» имени Н. С. Надеждиной на сцене Концертного зала имени П. И. Чайковского в Москве 18 июля 2017 года (длительность — 02:05:12). Официальный сайт Московской государственной академической филармонии // meloman.ru

Управление делами Президента Российской Федерации
Музыкальные коллективы по алфавиту
Танцевальные коллективы по алфавиту
Академические коллективы России
Ансамбли народного танца России
Музыкальные коллективы СССР
Музыкальные коллективы России
Музыкальные коллективы, появившиеся в 1948 году
Появились в 1948 году в России

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This round engravable pendant looks great personalized on the front and back with a symbol, monogram or message and it includes a neck chain. Choose traditional (colorless) etched engraving for a more elegant look. Or, choose laser engraving which produces a darker mark that is easy to read from a distance.


If you ever visit or have visited Singapore, you may be mystified by our mishmash of English, Chinese, Malay and a number of dialects, or what is more commonly known as Singlish .
Here's an attempt to demystify at least part of it.
P.S. Christina is concerned about how the examples may affect her public image as a board gamer and designer. I share her concerns. So here's a disclaimer: I vouch for Christina's character and the examples below do not represent her in any way.
Agak means to estimate or to approximate. "Ation" is sometimes added to verbs to create new nouns. Agaration therefore means an estimation or approximation.
Malay word agak, which also means guess.
Me: Tomorrow play Three Kingdoms Redux. What time you reaching?
Christina: Don't know, depends on what time I wake up.
Me: Can at least agak anot.
The multi-syllabus bit and its tangential connection to board gaming. Locals may be able to catch the connection, but most of the rest of the world will not.
Further elaboration of the above reasons found here and here.
Atas means high class or sophisticated. There may be a hint of arrogance depending on its usage.
Malay word atas, which means above or on top.
Me: Tomorrow play Three Kingdoms Redux. Got jio Christina anot?
Friend: She a bit the atas, don't think she will come.
Atas is a little too atas for us.
Balek means to go back or to reverse.
Malay word balek, which means to return.
Me: Er... Auntie, you assigned a general to the control Han emperor action space but you don't have gold leh.
Christina: Ai yeah, wrong move. Can balek or not?
Balek has a slight negative connotation as a company name, i.e. suggests that we are going backwards.
Chope means to pause or hold on.
Malay word chup, which means to reverse a move in a game or to halt a game.
Christina: Chope, I think I made wrong move. Can balek or not?
Chope means to reserve a place/seat.
Me: Tomorrow play Three Kingdoms Redux. 2p.m.
Christina: I want to play. But I may be a little late. Can chope place for me?
Chope also has a slight negative connotation as a company name, i.e. suggests that we are pausing.
Kaki means friend or regular partner in a game.
Malay word kaki, which means leg.
Me: Tomorrow play Three Kingdoms Redux. Who to jio?
Christina: Our usual kaki Ah Ghee lor.
P.S. Ah Ghee is a close family friend.
This was our number 1 choice. It is short, and easy to pronounce. Unfortunately, we discovered that it meant poo in Hungarian.
Further elaboration of the above can be found here and here.
Long Chiam Pas is the Singlish equivalent of scissors paper stone.
Me: OK, let's choose which state to play. I want to play Wei today.
Christina: I want to play Wei also.
The name is too long. It may also suggest we are designing board games with not much depth.
Masak means toys or children's pretend-play.
Me: Er... Auntie, don't fold the cards. The game belongs to the gaming club. Don't treat it like masak.
Well, we are designing and producing board games, and not toys.
Pakat means to gang up, sometimes secretly.
Malay word pakat, which means an agreement.
Me: Ei, Auntie needs some spears desperately. Let's choose Produce Spears/Horses as the alliance space to delay her.
Pakat suggests that we are using some underhanded means.
Pang Chan means to give a second chance.
Hokkien word 放, which means to release. Chan is probably a shortening of chance.
Pang Chan suggests that we are kindda desperate.
Relak means to relax, to chill and not get so excited or agitated.
Probably a mispronounciation of relax.
Me: Relak relak, joking only lah.
Relak was near the top of our shortlist of names. It was easy to pronounce, but we ultimately rejected it because of its rather tangential connection to board gaming.
Sard means amazing or cool.
Malay word saat, which means a period of time. Not sure how the meaning changed so much to mean cool.
Me: Auntie got a copy of pre-production Three Kingdoms Redux. She say jio us to try this weekend.
Sard is not easy to pronounce and it also has a rather tangential connection to board gaming.
Stylo means stylish. "Milo" is sometimes added to it, i.e. stylo milo, to emphasize the point.
Probably a shortening of stylish. The addition of "Milo" is a mystery to me;Milo is a popular energy drink in Singapore.
Me: Wah, check out Christina's "Starting Player Rules" t-shirt. So stylo.
We liked the sound of stylo. It certainly sounded stylo enough! We rejected it because of its tangential connection to board gaming.
Tikam means to try one's luck. Tikam was also a game of luck popular in the 1970s and 80s. Its primary targets were children. There would be a board of 100 numbers, and different toys hung on each number slots. Children would be attracted to the toys, and badger their parents for some money to buy a number. A random draw to pick a number follows, and the child got to experience the thrill of tearing open the number and locating the toy on the board.
Malay word tikam, which means to take part in a game of chance.
Me: Yay, I won the Hire Instructor and/or Import Technology space. Can finally train some armies.
Christina: Yeah. And you get to tikam one enhancement card too.
Tikam suggests we are designing board games that are very luck dependent and without much depth.
Tombalek means to do something in the wrong order, or upside down.
Malay word terbalek, which means inverted.
Me: Er... Auntie. You took the Train Armies action before the Recruit Armies action. Tombalek and a bit the silly, right?
Tombalek suggests that we are doing things the wrong way.
Zero point is a children's game, more popular with girls than boys, involving a long chain of linked rubber bands and jumping over the rope at different heights.
Christina: Zero point was my favourite game in primary school. Agricola with Farmers of the Moor and Three Kingdoms Redux are my favourite games now.
Zero point was also a name near the top of our list. Until we found out the URL was already taken.
So how did we settle on the name of Starting Player?
Follow this link and this link for the story.


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A House of History: Ebenezer Baptist Church
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. regularly preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a masterful orator whose words rang out over the nation and the world, evoking hope and change. His role in the American civil rights movement may make him seem larger than life, but on any given Sunday from 1960 to 1968, he could be found practicing his calling by preaching to his congregation in his hometown. The same man who delivered "I Have a Dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial also delivered Sunday sermons at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. One of the main attractions of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Site, Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church is located in Atlanta's iconic Sweet Auburn neighborhood not far from Dr. King's boyhood home.
A Chronicle of Ebenezer Baptist Church
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a regular presence at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Personal Roots
In 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in his family's home just a short walk from Ebenezer Baptist, where his father was pastor and his mother was the musical director. His grandfather, Daniel Williams, had been pastor at Ebenezer from 1894 to 1926. Dr. King spent his childhood in this neighborhood, part of a tight family with very special ties to Ebenezer Baptist.
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Dr. King joined his father as co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1960. In this role, he tended the spiritual needs of his congregation with the same passion, dedication and energy he put into his civil rights work. His vision and ideals ripened with every sermon he delivered in that sanctuary, leading his congregation in faith and calling his nation's conscience to task.
The Ebenezer Baptist Church
Honor and Tribute
April 9, 1968 was a day of national mourning. All eyes were on Atlanta for the two funerals of the great civil rights leader, the first of which was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Attending this private funeral were friends, family and dignitaries. Following the service, Dr. King's coffin was carried by procession to Morehouse College, where a second, public funeral was held, and finally to South View cemetery where he was laid to rest, though he is now buried at the plaza between the King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Restored for the Future
As part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park, a unit of the National Park Service, Ebenezer Baptist Church has been formally recognized as an important national landmark. For this reason, the National Park Service invested in its restoration in 2001, returning the sanctuary and fellowship hall to the way they looked when Martin Luther King Jr. was co-pastor with his father.
Heart of a Movement
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized famous, historical civil rights protests beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. It's no coincidence that Ebenezer Baptist Church was the location for the founding meeting of this respected organization. As such, it was the original center of the American civil rights movement.
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Kendrick Lamar just released the video for his latest single, "i," and it's unbelievably uplifting.
The song is amazing — an upbeat, soulful number that samples the Isley Brothers' 1973 hit "That Lady." Lamar originally released the soulful track last month and received a bit of flak from his fanbase, who thought it was "too poppy," relying on a sample "too familiar to intrigue." But the video is the perfect representation of just how empowering this song is. Lamar knew exactly what he was doing — he even knew "i" would draw these kinds of critiques and spoke to them in a recent interview.
"I think from jump, the classifications of music is totally twisted because now we have a generation where you take an Isley Brother's sample, which is soul, and now people consider it pop. And I knew that would come of course, but me as a leader in music, I want to revamp that whole thing and put it back to its original origins. And not be scared to step out and say this is not that, this is black and this is soul."
The video owns this idea. Its soul roots are present throughout — Ron Isley makes a cameo — and Lamar's choreography is nothing short of inspirational. Dancing through the city with some old-school moves, Lamar stops one man from killing himself and distracts police officers from arresting another. He leads them all to an epic dance party under a bridge before riding off into the night, elated.
It's uplifting, reverent and life affirming — all the things Lamar intended it to be.


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University of Glousestershire at SI-UK Abuja Office
SI-UK Abuja Office
Representative: Samuel Adeboye
The University of Gloucestershire is made up of three campuses, two in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester, and was awarded university status in 2001 following the merger of numerous institutions. 10,000 students are currently enrolled from over 60 different countries. The University of Gloucestershire was ranked second in the UK for international student support following the International Student Barometer in 2014.
Many courses feature local and international field trips and the option to spend a semester abroad on a student exchange. The Degreeplus initiative combines internships with formal training to improve employability after graduation. Gloucestershire also offers two year 'fast-track' courses in subjects such as Law and Business, allowing students to enter the workplace or further training faster and at a lower cost. The University has also been awarded14 National Teaching Fellowships and have a strong portfolio of lecturers with industry experience.
University of Gloucestershire is home to a new initiative with INTO to provide language lessons to international students before and during their degree.
The Student Services Team works to ensure that international students receive comprehensive and relevant advice. Each campus has a Helpzone where students can receive support and assistance on issues they may be facing. International Student Advisors help current international students have a successful and enjoyable time while studying. This includes the International Welcome Week which gives students access to all the information and support they need before they start their course, while throughout the year, various trips, parties and social events are organised for international students.
88th in the Times University Guide 2016
54th in the Guardian University Guide 2016
80th in the Complete University Guide 2016
Following the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, 25% of University of Gloucestershire's submitted work was class as 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent'.
All international students are guaranteed a place in University of Gloucestershire halls of residence provided they apply by the given deadline. Approximately 1,380 rooms are available in Cheltenham and Gloucester and a residential support team is on hand to assist you with a any issues that may arise during your stay.
The University is centrally located in the UK and within easy reach of major cities. London is two hours away by car or train, with Birmingham, Bristol and Oxford all less than one hour.
Two campuses are based in the town of Cheltenham, often referred to as the 'Gateway to the Cotswolds', with a third in nearby Oxstalls. Cheltenham is an attractive and peaceful town located in an area of outstanding natural beauty that attracts six million tourists from all over the world every year. It is also home to the world-famous Cheltenham Racecourse, which is also used as a venue for social events and the university graduation ceremony.


Is there a way to have a lower version resolution of the robots mesh wise to streamline simulations?
...more than just the internal kinematics line but less than the fully resolved robot?
Actually the next release of KUKA|prc already contains two different sets of meshes, one in high and one in reduced quality.
If you've got Dynamo, you could give the Dynamo release a try.
Not sure when we will release it publicly for GH - hopefully soon as I'm already using it without many issues with my students.
In the meantime the member version allows you to define Custom Robots. I don't mind providing you with the default meshes for the robots, so that you can manually reduce them via ReduceMesh in Rhino.


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Even though Bush II will lose the popular vote in the US presidential election of 2004, his electoral college victory seems assured. With Republican party governors firmly in charge of Florida, California, Texas and New York, and supported by a whopping Bush campaign war chest approaching $200 million, dubious electronic voting schemes courtesy of Diebold, Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors (http://www.blackboxvoting.com), it seems certain that Bush will make it back to the Oval Office through the back door that is the Electoral College. And if not the Electoral College then by benefit of a rebel attack on US soil which kills thousands of Americans and leads to the suspension of the US Constitution. That according to General Tommy Franks, USA (Ret.), who opined in the magazine Cigar Aficionado that the US will have to shed its constitution in favor of a military style of government. Even the notorious aristocrat Alexander Hamilton would have been appalled as such a statement, as would Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But these are mediocre times in history; particularly, and dangerously, in America where its people have eliminated those who might have continued to wage a struggle for an equitable form of government in the US, as well as engage the world through international treaty building.
All of this, it seems, is a fait accompli.


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Moonspell reached the Portuguese top first with their album Sin/Pecado, and were, along with Metallica and Iron Maiden, the only metal band to reach the first place of the Portuguese charts after the release of their album, Memorial, in 2006.[2] With Memorial, Moonspell also became the first Portuguese heavy metal band to have a record certified gold status.[3] They are also very popular in Germany, where Memorial entered in 68th in the Top 100 Chart.
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Hospitals are still short of oxygen, critical for COVID-19 patients. Here's why
A spot is set aside for empty oxygen tanks outside Reo Vista Healthcare Center in San Diego.
(Sam Hodgson / San Diego Union-Tribune)
By Samantha MasunagaStaff Writer
After almost two weeks in the hospital battling COVID-19, Gerardo Mercado was ready to go home. There was just one problem: He couldn't get portable oxygen cylinders to aid his recovery there.
Southern California hospitals are struggling to get enough lifesaving oxygen to patients as they weather the COVID-19 surge, revealing infrastructure problems at old buildings and a supply-chain backlog with critical consequences.
"Our hospitals have never experienced this kind of strain on the oxygen supply chain," said Adam Blackstone, vice president of external affairs and strategic communications with the Hospital Assn. of Southern California, which represents 180 hospitals.
COVID-19 hospitalization rates in L.A. County have come down from their alarming highs of two weeks ago, improving the oxygen pipeline to hospitals. But hospital administrators and medical suppliers say problems with refill and delivery of oxygen tanks are still hampering the medical response.
It's partly a hospital infrastructure problem, as some aging and overworked pipes that funnel oxygen to patients have frosted, slowing down or even stopping oxygen transmission.
There are also not enough concentrators, which extract oxygen from the air, and tanks to meet demand at hospitals or for patients to take home when they're discharged. On the distribution side, the number of trucks available to deliver oxygen has been stretched thin.
To deal with the surge in demand, some companies are bringing in medical oxygen from other states — sometimes as far as 1,000 miles away — or increasing production locally, said Rich Gottwald, president of the Compressed Gas Assn. trade group, which represents about 90% of the industrial and medical gas industry.
To help accommodate, California has temporarily loosened restrictions regulating the transport of oxygen, oxygen equipment and other COVID-19 supplies, including the limit on how many hours a truck driver can be on the road. State officials have also set up a task force to address the oxygen supply issue.
At least one part of the supply chain is intact: the oxygen molecules themselves. Industry experts say there's no shortage of those. Factories that produce liquid oxygen for medical use simply pull in air from outside the building, carefully filter out any particles, and separate it into its components: nitrogen, oxygen and other gases.
The nitrogen can be sold to nearby heavy industrial plants, which use it to dry items or run meters, or it can be vented into the atmosphere.
The remaining liquid oxygen is loaded into freezer trucks that drive to hospitals and refill large tanks that supply oxygen to patients. The oxygen needs to stay chilled to remain in liquid form, which allows for more tons to be delivered than could be done with gas.
Transporting chilled liquid oxygen over long distances isn't typically done because it's expensive, but some companies are doing it amid surging demand. "They are going all out to bring product in," Gottwald said.
Trucking in liquid oxygen from far-off places isn't a sustainable option, in part because there aren't nearly enough freezer trucks to do that, said Jonas Oxgaard, a senior U.S. chemicals analyst at Bernstein Research, an investment research firm.
"With a year's head start," it would "absolutely" be possible to build up large fleets of freezer trucks and train people to load and unload them, Oxgaard said. "But we didn't because we didn't see it coming."
In addition to transportation issues, facilities and companies are struggling to get enough supplemental oxygen bottles and tanks, said Monica Vargas, spokeswoman for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. That has led to a shortage of those cylinders and is "impacting gas companies' abilities to fill replacement orders," she said in an email.
Mercado, the hospitalized COVID-19 patient, said a case manager told him the hospital was having problems getting portable oxygen equipment for patients slated to go home.
The 62-year-old, a catheterization lab nurse who was hospitalized at his workplace, St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, knew how coughing spasms could leave him gasping for breath, and he wanted oxygen by his side.
His son scoured the internet for nearby medical supply stores. Many told him they were inundated with orders and wouldn't take new customers, Mercado said. Eventually his son was able to rent an oxygen concentrator and oxygen cylinder.
He set them up in Mercado's home and fired off a victorious text: "The eagle has landed." Mercado is still recovering.
Medical oxygen vendors typically drop off oxygen cylinders to hospitals and other healthcare facilities, and pick up empty ones to refill and redistribute. With the recent COVID-19 surge overwhelming hospitals, empty cylinders aren't being returned. Neither are some of the cylinders being used in patients' homes, said Gottwald of the Compressed Gas Assn.
New cylinders can be made, but that takes time and money, he said. The trade group's members are coordinating to bring more order to the process, ensuring that distributors drop off only as many cylinders as they receive and that hospitals return cylinders.
"In the hospitals' defense, they're just cycling through patients," Gottwald said.
At Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, healthcare workers try to make sure that the storage racks of empty oxygen tanks are always full so the vendor can replenish them daily, said Christina Rodriguez, a respiratory care practitioner at the hospital.
"There are stragglers of tanks that might not get rotated through, but as long as we have a full rack of fulls, it's the most important thing," Rodriguez said. "We're constantly trying to get those empty ones or the ones that are really low rotated back out."
At Kaiser Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center in East Hollywood, staff added yet another task to their ever-growing list: teaching home-going COVID-19 patients how to use portable oxygen equipment.
Before COVID-19 hit, the oxygen supplies vendor would normally go to patients' homes, deliver the equipment and teach them how to use it.
Now, delivery workers are inundated. Demand for oxygen supplies is so high that there aren't enough drivers. And if patients don't receive or learn how to use the equipment, they can't be discharged from the hospital, where beds are sorely needed.
That left case managers such as Adriana Mendez lugging 40-pound concentrators and cylinders to patients' rooms. "We just have to juggle, we have to prioritize," said Mendez, a registered nurse in the Los Angeles Medical Center's emergency department, where "if someone needs oxygen, that's our priority."
A state task force working to alleviate the supply and distribution problems is building oxygen depots in crucial areas, including one in Riverside County that opened last month. After the state initiated talks with the region, the depot got up and running within 72 hours, said Bruce Barton, the county's director of emergency management.
Housed in a large county facility, the depot is staffed with state personnel from the Emergency Medical Services Authority and runs 24/7. It uses concentrators to fill large tanks with compressed oxygen for hospitals, which can use these portable tanks to help patients breathe as they're being transported or treated in hospital areas such as conference rooms and gift shops that don't usually house patients.
But these tanks don't supply oxygen at a fast enough rate for critically ill patients, who typically rely on the high-flow oxygen that comes from the building's pipes.
Meanwhile, there's an additional way to help fix the oxygen shortage, Barton said: Communities at large can work to loosen the grip of the pandemic.
"It's the hand-washing, the social distancing, the wearing of masks, getting the vaccination," he said. "That's really how we can drive down the demand side of this."
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Ambroz Andrić (Tuzla, 10. prosinca 1939. – zaselak Tomići kod Omiša, 21. srpnja 1972.), bio je hrvatski politički emigrant i revolucionar.

Bio je članom Hrvatskog revolucionarnog bratstva koji je bio u Bugojanskoj skupini.

Poginuo je u borbi s jugoslavenskim vlastima u zaselku Tomićima kod Omiša.

Hrvatska politička emigracija (1945. – 1989.)
Hrvatska u drugoj Jugoslaviji
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Pliny the Younger and the Power of Scarcity
By Don Ayres | February 20, 2015 | 8:22am
Photos by Don Ayres Drink Features
It's 9:30 on a Tuesday morning, and the line from San Diego's vaunted Toronado Pub already stretches 60 deep. The people in line take care to avoid blocking entrances to neighboring storefronts as they take turns seeking respite from the heat of the late-morning sun. Before the doors open at 10, the line will approach the century mark as thirsty drinkers gladly queue up on a weekday to get a 10-ounce pour of one of America's most sought-after brews. Early February can only mean one thing for West Coast craft beer fans: it's Pliny the Younger season.
As this scene unfolds in sunny San Diego, 540 miles to the north in Santa Rosa, the line at Russian River's brewpub started much earlier. During the two weeks that Russian River releases its burly triple IPA, it's not uncommon for people to line up in the cold predawn hours while heavy rain beats down on them from above. For those who make the pilgrimage to the source, wait times can range from six hours on weekdays to nine hours on the weekend. The frenzy over this beer is so big that in 2013, the Sonoma County Economic Development Board calculated that the annual 14-day release event is worth $2.4 million to the local economy.
So what is it about this beer that makes people go absolutely insane? For starters, it's a very well-made triple IPA that has an excellent aroma and flavor with tons of malt and hops, but that's not it. There are plenty of great beers out there that don't engender a Krustyburger Ribwich-like cult following of people wherever kegs are rumored to pop up. Quality aside, the biggest thing going for Pliny the Younger is scarcity and the feeling that you're getting something exclusive whenever you're able to snag a goblet. It's not uncommon to see similar fervor around releases of other "whales" like Dark Lord from 3 Floyds and server-crashing online sales for brews like The Bruery's Black Tuesday and Veritas by The Lost Abbey.
Back in San Diego, Toronado's midday tapping of Pliny the Younger wasn't announced with a lot of fanfare on Facebook or Twitter. For those who signed up for the bar's email newsletter, a simple message detailing their release plans (a total of four kegs spread out over the course of a week) was the only warning people got. "I've never had Younger before, so there's definitely some anticipation and excitement," said Ross, who was the first person in line at 7:45 am. Accompanying him in line was his friend Brent who has had it before but added, "I like the rarity, and that probably adds to the anticipation."
Despite limited publicity, it didn't take long for word to spread through online forums and Facebook groups, and the rush was underway. "It's pretty manageable," said Ian Black, owner of Toronado. "We get a lot of people showing up, but we usually get around 200 pours from a keg." For the Tuesday morning release, those 200 pours managed to last 51 minutes before the keg kicked.
With the rampant popularity of Pliny the Younger, it's becoming increasingly popular for bars to use that enthusiasm to raise money for a good cause. O'Brien's pub, which is one of the elder statesmen of the San Diego craft beer scene, charged people $20 for a ticket good for a 10-ounce pour and donated the money to local animal charities. "This is our 4th year of doing the charity keg and I know other bars around the state do something similar, which I think is great," said Tom Nickel, owner of O'Brien's. "There is a lot of hype surrounding the release of Pliny the Younger, and it is nice to be able to funnel all of that into supporting some great causes."
In case you thought that the inflated price might give would-be drinkers pause, people still lined up as much as an hour early for the opportunity to snag their beer later at a more leisurely pace. Think of it as a way to prepay your line-standing time so you can stroll in later like a rock star and grab your brew without a wait. "You can buy the ticket now, and then come back a couple of weeks from now and have your beer in the afternoon instead of drinking it at 11 in the morning," said Dan, who was the first in line for the charity pour tickets.
Will the novelty of Pliny the Younger ever wear off? Maybe, eventually, but it seems like the end of the exuberance is nowhere in sight. Until it happens, as long as they keep making it, people will keep lining up earlier and earlier.
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