Donald Trump and Hilarry Clinton on Tuesday night differed on their national security plans for USA if elected into office.
A cool, calms and calculated Donald Trump said he'll ask NATO members to pay their bills and also 'respectfully' ask countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, German, Japan and others to pay for the tremendous security the United states provide to them. He also said he will seek to increase number of US troops and develop the U.S missile defense system, saying cyber security is at it's lowest in the U.S and that America needs to be many steps ahead of enemy countries and ISIS.
"His whole campaign has been one long insult to all those who have worn the uniform," Hillary, the Democratic nominee said at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
"We are going to work with our allies, not insult them. We are going to stand up to our adversaries, not cozy up to them. We are going to have real plans, not claims and secret plans,"
Clinton said Trump lagged behind in securing key military supporters compared to past Republican nominees including John McCain and Mitt Romney. She pointed to her endorsements from retired Marine Gen. John Allen and former CIA deputy director Mike Morell.
"They know they can count on me to be the kind of commander in chief who will protect our country and our troops, and they know they cannot count on Donald Trump," Clinton said en route to Florida.
"They view him as a danger and a risk."
Meanwhile Trump vowed to take aggressive action to help veterans at home and confront threats abroad including acts of terrorism from ISIS.
"We are going to solve the ISIS problem," Trump said. "But we have to get back to building our country, because our country is going to hell."
Trump argued that Clinton's email use and her handling of classified information is "disqualifying."
"I just don't think she has a presidential look and you need a presidential look," Trump said of Clinton.
"I'm talking about general, by the way, she says things about me that are horrible," Trump said. "As an example the single greatest asset I have, according to those that know me, is my temperament."
Trump, trying to emphasize his military support, released a letter from 88 retired generals and admirals citing an urgent need for a "course correction" in America's national security policy.
"We believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world," the military leaders wrote.
"For this reason, we support Donald Trump's candidacy to be our next commander in chief."
Zanzibar Records Front-man ,Fdeo is out with a New spanking video titled 'Kalanyo' Which He featured the music-taliban 'Oritse Femi'.
The video features amazing appearance From beautiful ladies, which added more sauce to the catchy Lyrics, and Oritse Femi who sure did delivered as expected.
Mira Simboroba is a perfect definition of Creativity. The super-talented Singer, Prolific Songwriter, and awe-inspiring producer nestle his essence in the Nigeria Music scene with this soul-stirring popping RnB song.
Mira Simboroba The 'Hold Something' Crooner has continue to define why he's tagged as one of Nigeria's most emphatic singer.
Set to Drop this One he titles "Never Let You Go" which every one who listens will notice he sang this for someone so unassuming to him.
With "Imaka" still hot on the streets and just weeks after wowing music lovers with the audio – UPTOWN Nation's frontman – A.M liberates the visuals for his latest tune –OJAJU, enlisting the street expertise of YBNL Boss – OLAMIDE.
Kylie Jenner is reportedly planning to sue a fat-burning company for 'deceiving unsuspecting consumers' into believing its product is the key to her curves. TMZ reports that a fat-freezing billboard advert for the company was put up in Los Angeles, California over the weekend and on it is a model that looks a lot like Kylie.
Jenner has reportedly launched her legal team to have the billboard campaign taken down.
Ed Meyer, the representative for Dr. FatOff, has also told TMZ that the billboard is staying up.
"She is my idol. She likes eating pomelos, so I've bought a lot of them for my proposal." But Mumu rejected him.
To make matters worse, Mumu told local press that bystanders who'd witnessed the fruity exchange then proceeded to help themselves to the pomelos.
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Powerboi 4Real Eze On SessiOntinz Is back with "Power Remix" Produced by Moore Money and a video Directed by Mr. Moe Musa featuring Oritse Femi and the living legend Dj Jimmy Jatt.
Listen and enjoy yourself with this amazing hot remix as 4Real Eze gets set to blow your mind with another hit song titled My life/osalugoku soon.
British born Nigerian singer, CHIOMAH IGWEH aka Chicutie has come through with the video to her most publicised debut single titled MO GBONA.
Chicutie, a full blooded Nigerian with a Yoruba mother and Igbo father, born in Chelsea, South West London and currently a final year degree student studying Sound Engineering in Birmingham UK, has made her debut in the UK Afro-beat scene with a bang bang having released both audio and visual to her Techno touched Afrobeat sound "Mo Gbona".
The rejuvenated charming singer, Chicutie after her first single "COCKYNESS" released in June 2011 has performed at various private functions, and comedy shows such as CRACK YA RIBS, AY LIVE, Last man standing with "iGoDye", and also stared at the Nottinghill Carnival at the Nigerian Corner (now called Lagos corner). She appeared on BEN TV on the "Magazine show" to celebrate Nigeria 51st Independence Day. Her 16th birthday bash celebration was televised on "WhatsDaHype" a Nigerian music show also on BEN TV London in October. Mo Gbono is produced by Benie Macaulay and video shoot and directed by Cardoso Films. Download, listen, watch the sweet tone "Mo Gbona and share !
Yet as hard as the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumverate may try to cover it up, it appears that the message about the real situation in Buhari's Nigeria is beginning to get across to the world. As a glaring example of this permit me to share the words of a strong Trump supporter, Republican Congressman Tom Marino, which were contained in a letter that he sent to Secretary of State John Kerry a few days ago.
"A member of the United States Congress, Tom Marino, has written a letter to Secretary of State, John Kerry, asking the US government to withhold security assistance to Nigeria until President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrates a "commitment to inclusive government and the most basic tenets of democracy: freedom to assemble and freedom of speech".
He also asked the State Department to refrain from selling warplanes and other military equipment to Nigeria until President Buhari establishes a track record of working towards inclusion.
In a two-page letter dated September 1, 2016 and addressed to Kerry, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by THISDAY yesterday, Marino, a Republican from Pennsylvania who assumed office on January 3, 2011, said there were a number of warning signs emerging in the Buhari administration that signal "the man who once led Nigeria as a military dictator might be sliding towards former autocratic tendencies".
The Congressman, who is a member of the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs, and the Chairman, Sub-committee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, said Nigerian government must "hold accountable those members of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Military complicit in extra-judicial killings and war crimes".
In the six-paragraph letter to Kerry, Marino also expressed concern over Nigeria's anti-corruption war, saying "of additional concern is President Buhari's selective anti-corruption drive, which has focused almost exclusively on members of the opposition party, over-looking corruption amongst some of Buhari's closest advisors. Politicizing his anti-corruption efforts has only reinforced hostility among southerners".
His letter to Kerry reads: "Dear Secretary Kerry, I am encouraged by the personal interest you have taken in aiding Nigeria and its administration as it takes on endemic corruption, multiple insurgent movements, and a faltering economy.
"I would urge the U.S. to withhold its security assistance to the nation until President Buhari demonstrates a commitment to inclusive government and the most basic tenets of democracy: freedom to assemble and freedom of speech.
A logical start towards this commitment is for the Nigerian government to hold accountable those members of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Military complicit in extra-judicial killings and war crimes".
He further wrote: "The Secretary to the Government of Kaduna State even admitted to burying 347 of those killed in a mass grave. And while President Buhari promised swift condemnation, his words rang empty.
Instead of swift reforms, Buhari chose to reinstate Major General Ahmadu Mohammed, who Amnesty International revealed was in charge of the Nigerian military unit that executed more than 640 unarmed, former detainees.
Describing President Buhari as a former military dictator whose reign (as military head of state) was cut short by a coup, he stated that the President has continually shunned inclusivity in favour of surrounding himself with advisors and ministers from the north of the country and the region he considers home.
"Of President Buhari's 122 appointees, 77 are from the north and control many of the key ministries and positions of power. Distrust is already high in Nigeria and favouring Northerners for key appointments has only antagonized the issue.
These appointments are also primarily Muslim in the north and Christian in the south, adding a religious aspect to long-held regional biases.
"Of additional concern is President Buhari's selective anti-corruption drive, which has focused almost exclusively on members of the opposition party, over-looking corruption amongst some of Buhari's closest advisors. Politicizing his anti-corruption efforts has only reinforced hostility among southerners," he claimed in the letter.
He said the Obama Administration would advance justice by urging the Buhari Administration to act decisively to hold accountable members of the police and military.
The congressman said, "This is a logical first step in making a demonstrable, sustained commitment to inclusive democracy, with distributed power in Nigeria. Until President Buhari establishes a track record of working towards inclusion, we ask the State Department to refrain from selling warplanes and other military equipment to the country.
Congressman Marino ought to be commended. He has spoken the minds of millions of those who really care about what is going on in Nigeria from all over the world.
He has written what the overwhelming majority of Nigeria's ruling and political elite believe but dare not say publicly out of fear of persecution and reprisals from their own government.
Most importantly Congressman Marino reflects the mind of Mr. Donald Trump, his party's presidential candidate, on this matter and indeed the views of the majority of deeply concerned American Christians.
This is welcome support for those of us that are fed up with Buhari's pro-north, pro-Hausa Fulani and pro-Muslim agenda.
Congressman Marino has rightly observed the sad and shameful events that are unfolding in our country.
These are events that many of us warned the Nigerian people would end up happening if they made the mistake of voting Buhari into power during last years presidential election campaign.
Though we were ignored, insulted, humiliated, persecuted, falsely accused and treated with contempt and disdain for speaking the truth, our words have proved to be prophetic. Today we are witnessing those ugly events that we warned about unfolding before our very eyes.
The bottom line is as follows: if we want Nigeria to stop charting this shameless and utterly dangerous course and if we wish to get off the "road to Kigali" we must pray alongside our American friends for Donald Trump to win the presidential election in November.
"A foreigner is now speaking for southerners who are under oppression by Islamist Buhari and his terrorist Fulani group. This reminds of a popular quote : ''I freed thousands of slaves, I could have freed thousands more if only they knew they were slaves". This is sad because a large number of the oppressed are so dumb that they still believe their oppressors and shout "sai Buhari". One thing is certain though, as the political situation in Nigeria deteriorates day by day, Buhari and his Fulani terrorist murderers are now more likely to end up international criminal court in the Hague".
How appropiate Mr. Olorunbi's words are and I say a big "amen" to his prayer.
In conclusion let us consider the words of Mr. Stephen Asake, an excellent writer, a devout Christian and a man who has earned the respect and affection of many over the years.
"The debate between the 'Trumpers' and 'Clintoners' is getting charged up by the day in Nigeria, rivalling the tempo in America.
As a matter of fact, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and all other chat platforms and social media discussion groups, are saturated with TRUMP vs CLINTON debates.
I know of not less tha four different Trump vs Clinton WhatsApp chat groups where supporters of both candidates slug it out.
Many talented writers and public affairs commentators have also written articles and public commentaries to make their preferences between the two candidates known.
One of such is no other person than the Cicero of our time, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, the former minister of Aviation and presidential spokeman during the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency.
"The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton. We cannot let this evil continue. We will defeat Islamic terrorism just like we've defeated every threat before".
He ended his article by saying that ''How right he is. Let us hope that he wins because if he does the world will be a far safer and better place for believers''.
This thinking is very popular among Nigerian Christians. Though most commentators are of the view that both Trump and Hilary are not known to be committed Christians and so the preference of Trump by Evangelical Christians is misplaced.
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has raised a very crucial issue: the issue of the Christian faith of both candidates. I am a 'Trumper' (Trump supporter) too!
Not because I think he is a Christian or not, but because I find in him a man of courage who, in a politically correct world where nobody wants to speak against establishment, Trump will dare to speak it out.
In a world where the persecution, dehumanisation and biased treatment against Christians is most rampant, Trump will dare to call a spade by its stark name.
At a time when in most countries of the world with a muslim majority they continue to commit genocide against Christians and other minorities, Trump dares to cry out for justice.
In an America that was founded on acknowledgement of God and principles of Christianity and where morally bankrupt President Obama is subtly implementing policies that seek to uproot Christianity and America's cherished Christian heritage, it is only Donald J. Trump that dares to hit the nail, not only on the head but with his head by shouting foul!.
I can go on and on but let me turn to some of Trump's critics. Many of them have continued to doubt his Christianity, haba! Whom among those is a better Christian? Who among those avowed critics and holier than thou incurables can ''cast the first stone'? Only God knows who his true followers are. Those criticising Trump's.
To my mind even if Trump is not a church going christian, but openly talks about Christians and christianity in a world where many are either ashamed or afraid to do so, he deserves our prayers and support.
After all, God can use anybody, Christian or not, born again or not to bring deliverance to His people. In fact there are Biblical passages replete with such stories of how God used pagan rulers to save His people from destruction.
In the book of Isa'iah, God used a Persian King by the name of Cyrus for the good of the Jewish people, even though Cyrus was a "pagan" king. Just as Trump is being regarded as non-Christian by his detractors. How in the world could this possibly have happened?"
Mr. Asake has served us a cerebal contribution which can hardly be faulted. Kudos to him.
Permit me to end this contribution by answering the question that he posed in his last sentence. In reference to the rise of Cyrus, the pagan king who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, he asked "how could this possibly havework happened?"
The answer is as follows: it happened because the Holy Spirit is at work and because the Holy Bible tells us that "God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform". It also says "He uses the foolish things of this world to confirm the wisdom of the wise".
It follows that the Lord can use anything or anyone, including a loud, rumbustious, colourful and passionate pagan King, to effect His purpose and restore the fortunes of His people.
He did it with the Persian King Cyrus and, by His grace and power, He will also do it with Donald J. Trump.
This is a statement signed by Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant-Media & Publicity to the Vice President. There is no country in the world that can face the kind of stealing that has taken place in Nigeria without having to deal with the consequences, including the current state of the economy.
According to him, "this country has been badly governed. We are dealing for instance with the embezzlement of funds to the tune of $15B in one sector alone."
"Our currency depreciated because we don't have the reserves to back it. At the height of the oil boom, there were no savings."In addition to the massive fall in oil prices, the VP stated that the vandalization of pipelines has led to a worsening of the situation with the country loosing about 1m barrels of oil per day for up to 6 months now. The vandalism has equally cut power supply short since gas pipelines were also destroyed.
The social investment programmes according to the Vice President are on course, reassuring the nation "that very soon the 500,000 jobs scheme will take off," alongside other schemes.
Earlier Archbishop Daniel expressed the support of the forum for the diversification of the Nigerian economy by the Buhari presidency, while calling for access to lower interest rates. The forum also asked the federal government to checkmate the violent herdsmen, create ranches in the states and promote religious harmony.
"The President has said twice in the past fortnight that anyone who commits atrocities must be arrested and tried and he has demonstrated that resolve," Prof Osinbajo said.
He however added that generally the country's criminal justice system is rather slow in delivering justice, adding that there is need for justice sector reforms.
Twisted Mind Records ceo/frontline act P.R.E drops the visuals to his hot single titled LAGOS which features KKTBM'S leading artiste YUNG6IX .
The joint was produced by KKTBM'S incredibly talented producer DISALLY and the visuals where shot by F.O.M films.
Enjoy believe and spread the GOSPEL.
"I assure you that we are going to get out of our economic problems. We are almost out of our security problem and we are going to make Nigeria greater again. We are going to be very proud of our country once again, our size, our resources will not be for nothing. We will continue to grow."he saidria will be out of economic recession soon – Pres Buhari said.


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Kephisodotos () war ein altgriechischer Bildhauer und Bronzegießer am Ende des 4. Jahrhunderts und dem Beginn des 3. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. aus Athen.

Kephisodotos entstammte einer Familie von berühmten Bildhauern. Sein Vater war Praxiteles, einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Bildhauer der gesamten Antike, sein Großvater und Namensvetter Kephisodotos der Ältere. Er arbeitete mit seinem Bruder Timarchos zusammen, mit dem er offenbar gleichberechtigt bei der Arbeit war. Ein bestimmter Anteil der einzelnen Brüder am Werk ist nicht auszumachen.

Ein Werk der Brüder ist heute wieder erkennbar. 1990 gelang es nach längerer Forschung dem Archäologen Klaus Fittschen, aus 72 Repliken des Kopfes und sieben Repliken des Körpers und der schriftlichen Überlieferung die Sitzstatue des Dichters Menander zu rekonstruieren, die nach dem Tod des Dichters 291/90 v. Chr. für das Athener Dionysostheater geschaffen wurde. Schon 1882 wurde die Basis an der von Pausanias erwähnten Stelle gefunden. Die Inschrift an der Basis bezeichnet Kephisodotos und Timarchos als Schöpfer der Statue. Die vielen überlieferten Repliken zeugen von der hohen Wertschätzung, die Werk und Künstlern in der Antike entgegengebracht wurde. Die Rekonstruktion zeigt eine sehr ruhige Statue. Der sitzende Menander ist vom Zuschauer abgewandt mit sinnend geneigtem Kopf.

Vielfach wird den Brüdern auch die Kapitolinische Venus zugewiesen, die eine Abwandlung der Aphrodite von Knidos ihres Vaters war. Weitere Werke sind aufgrund der literarischen Überlieferung und aufgrund von Inschriften an erhaltenen Basen bekannt. So schufen sie Statuen in Athen, Delphi, Kos, Megara und Troizen, von denen die Basen erhalten sind. Mehrere der Statuen wurden später nach Rom gebracht. So stand eine Statue der Leto im Apollontempel auf dem Palatin sowie Asklepios und Artemis im Iunotempel an der Porticus Octaviae. Eine Statue der Ennyo stand auf der Agora von Athen. Im Erechtheion auf der Akropolis standen Statuen des Lykurg und seiner drei Söhne, die aus Holz geschaffen waren. Für Theben sollen sie eine Statue des Dionysos gefertigt haben, für Megalopolis eine Kultbildgruppe mit Zeus, Artemis und der Personifikation von Megalopolis, die jedoch möglicherweise auch von ihrem Großvater geschaffen wurde. Kephisodotos soll zudem neben der Statue des Menander auch weitere Statuen von Dichterinnen, Myro und Anyte sowie Porträts von Philosophen geschaffen haben. Eine Inschrift auf der Basis in Eleusis stellt die Wissenschaft vor Probleme, da sie um das Jahr 344 v. Chr. datiert wird und als Schöpfer der zugehörigen Statue Kephisodotos und Timarchos nennt, was jedoch eigentlich zu früh für die Brüder ist, da das immerhin mehr als 50 Jahre vor dem Terminus post quem der Statue des Menander wäre.

Literatur
 Bernard Andreae: Kephisodotos (II). In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike. Band 1: A–K. Saur, München/Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3, S. 410–411.

Anmerkungen

Bildhauer der Antike
Grieche (Antike)
Geboren im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Gestorben im 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
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A ship from land-locked Switzerland has traveled across the globe and will stop over in Jakarta for 10 days.
The Fleur de Passion dropped anchor in Jakarta from April 3 in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the worldwide cruise by Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan. From Jakarta, it will then leave for a six-week crossing to Nosy Be, Madagascar.
Swiss Ambassador to Indonesia Yvonne Bauman said on the initiative of Geneva-based non-profit organization The Foundation Pacifique, the Fleur de Passion had been sailing on a research mission in science, education and marine mapping.
Given that Switzerland has no coastline, it was surprising that the ship could sail so far, she added.
"I am very surprised because as you know, Switzerland is surrounded by land. The ability to sail ships is nothing compared to Indonesia, which has a long coastline," said Baumann during her remarks aboard the Fleur de Passion in the port of Sunda Kelapa, North Jakarta, on Wednesday.
Pacifique Foundation vice president Samuel Gardaz said the ship, which was originally a World War II German minesweeper, was turned into a vessel with a scientific and educational mission in the 1970s.
"In French, Pacifique means the Pacific Ocean, but it also means peaceful. It's a mission we carry and it's important to mention," said Gardaz.
He explained that the Fleur de Passion started its voyage in Seville, Spain, on April 13, 2015, because there was no coastline in Switzerland. The route was that taken previously by Magellan, who was trying to map the oceans of the earth.
Leaving Seville, the ship stopped in Brazil and a number of ports on the American continent. Entering the Pacific Ocean, the Fleur de Passion stopped in Samoa and the Solomon Islands before it visited Brisbane and three other ports in Australia.


The first thing that intrigued me about this book, right off, was the beautiful cover‐ I think that cover could draw anyone in. Then I read the synopsis and realized that I'd heard of this book before, when it was published under, I believe, Dreamspinner Press. And I just… Honestly, the plot sounded convoluted and, since I'd read the synopsis on the first version, I… knew some things about the book and the possible ending (all presented right there, in the book blurb) and I was very, very wary of reading it.
So, this is… I think the second edition of the book, now published under DSP Publications, which is an imprint that does, it feels, books that feature gay or bi or whatever characters, but don't necessarily feature as much romance. ''Til Darkness Falls' is definitely romantic, though. It just has a lot of other elements twined in, which is one of the other things that made the book so attention grabbing for me. The book starts in ancient Egypt, with a young prince and his slave, who is really his lover. The two boys are deeply in love, but the prince must get married. The future bride, Hebeny, is extremely jealous, and uses an Egyptian god to cast a curse on the couple‐ they will meet, again and again, throughout their future lives, and fall in love. And Hebeny will always be there, following them from life to life, to ensure that the lovers betray each other.
This is all presented right within the first several pages, so right up front, you know, as a reader, nearly every single thing that's going to happen, plot wise. And the plot is intense and interesting and creative, but I think… I think putting it so upfront like this is kind of a fatal flaw. I don't mean to say that knowing what's going to befall our main characters, Alrick and Brian, takes any tension or excitement away from the book. It doesn't. But it gives the book a kind of tension that isn't so much excitement as much as terrible and ominous. This was a stressful read for me. Knowing that Brian is a cop and Alrick is a hitman (and no, those aren't spoilers) and that they will be at odds, even as they're falling in love, just gives this huge sense of doom to the book.
Actually, if the knowledge of the characters' past lives takes the tension out of anything, it takes it out of the romance. Brian and Alrick meet and fall in love almost immediately. Which is exactly what you know is going to happen. So it's predictable and very sweet but also very fast, and only really believable in that you know they're soul mates‐ this seems to be the only real reason the two of them get along so well, so quickly.
So, after all of that, it's probably easy to think I didn't like this. But that's the thing‐ I did. It's well‐written. It's sweet and the romance is kind of unbelievable, but there are a lot of moments where it's also very real and touching and it feels honest. And the character development is excellent. Brian and Alrick are very real people. There was also none of the confusing plot lines I was expecting‐ at times, the story does dip back into Egypt, but only briefly, and it's always very clean. I just really enjoyed reading the book, right up until the middle, when it became too much.


Melt chocolate and butterscotch pieces in top of double boiler over hot water. Remove from heat.
Quickly stir in chow mein noodles and chopped nuts until they are evenly coated.
Drop by teaspoonsful onto wax paper. Chill.


Waste Management will pick up yard waste the last week of March through the first full week of December.
Non-Acceptable Materials: Dirt, stone, concrete, and rocks. No limbs larger than 3 inches in diameter.
Place cart/bags against the curb by 6 a.m. on collection days and remove cart same day. Keep cart/bags at least four feet from parked cars, mailboxes and other obstacles that may prevent Waste Management team members from picking it up.
Yard waste carts are available to rent through the City's Water Department at (815) 838-0549. Yard waste carts can also be purchased from Waste Management Customer Service at (800) 964-8988. Yard waste can also be put in brown paper bags (no sticker necessary).
More information about the services provided by Waste Management is available on Waste Management's Lockport Illinois Waste Services page.
There will only be one pass through to each residence. Please ensure that your branches are out at the beginning of the program: the first Mondays in May and October. It may take a few days, to up to two weeks to pick up your branches.
You MUST have your unbundled branches laid cut end out at the edge of your yard on the first day of the program.
The Public Works annual leaf pick up program is scheduled to begin in mid-October provided enough leaves have fallen to warrant a crew going out,and it will run through the beginning of December, weather permitting.
To take advantage of this program please rake your leaves along the back edge of the curb. To prevent potential flooding issues for you or your neighbors please do not put leaves in the street. Please be aware it may take up to two weeks to get to your location. If you do not want to wait for the leaf truck you also have the option to put the leaves in Kraft bags for Waste Management to pick up on your garbage day (no sticker necessary).


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Republican Dilemma: How to Push School Choice Without Swelling Government
By Alyson Klein — July 20, 2016 4 min read
It's no secret that most Republicans are big fans of school choice. But they are also big fans of a lean federal government.
So how does the party push its agenda to give parents a greater array of options—including access to charters, vouchers, and education savings accounts&mdash while not going so far as to create a "federal Department of School Choice"?
That was the central question posed Wednesday by Rep. Luke Messer, a Republican from Indiana, at a panel sponsored by the party's Cleveland Host Committee here on the third day of the Republican National Convention.
"I've heard many Republicans say our education agenda should start and stop with abolishing the federal Department of Education," Messer said. "I think the challenge, though, with that being our agenda is that it sounds to your average mom and dad like we don't care about something that is one of the very highest priorities in their life, like whether or not their kid will have access to a high-quality education. So from [my] perspective, a great way to devolve federal power would be to empower
Messer's preferred solution: Give the states the option of taking their federal dollars for disadvantaged students—about $15 billion annually through a program known as Title I—and using it for school choice.
That way if Massachusetts "wants to continue the existing monopoly approach"—meaning one that lacks choice—they can continue to do that, but if Indiana wants to modify the approach and empower families, we can do that."
Educational choice, it turns out, was a theme of several convention speakers Wednesday night, including the vice-presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
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The idea of allowing federal funds to be used for school choice programs or "portability" in Beltway-speak isn't brand new.
In fact, Messer and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., tried to get the policy included in the Every Student Succeeds Act. They were unsuccessful, in part because of opposition from teachers' unions and Democrats, but also because not everyone in the Republican party was sold on the idea.
Messer acknowledged that school choice fans have some thinking to do about how all of this might work at the federal level.
"We need to work hard on the philosophical implications," he said. "Much of the
policy work in this movement has been done at the state level over the last couple decades."
Messer noted though, that the school choice movement is gaining steam: Every GOP presidential candidate who spelled out his or her education agenda this time around included a choice component, he said. Donald Trump's vice presidential pick Mike Pence—who is Messer's home state governor—has worked to push forward on charters and vouchers, Messer said. And Trump himself has consistently praised school choice in his campaign speeches.(Donald Trump Jr., also expounded on it in his Tuesday night speech to convention delegates.)
What's more, in Messer's view, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is behind the eight ball on this issue. Clinton supports charter schools, but strongly opposes vouchers.
"If you listen to Hillary Clinton's rhetoric on these issues, it sounds like something that is decades old, not tied to existing realities," Messer said. "We're on the right moral side of this conversation. Every kid in America ought to have the opportunity to walk into a good school, but we're also on [the side of] the right social trend. .. When you talk to millennials, 70, 80, 90 percent of millennials support educational choice."
Messer said that if Republicans are going to move forward on a school choice agenda, they need to have data and educational outcomes to back up their approach. He noted that Indiana has posted higher graduation rates, even as it has expanded charter and voucher options, so at the very least, school choice hasn't hindered educational progress in the Hoosier State.
And he pointed to his fellow panelist, Denisha Merriweather, who took advantage of Florida's tax credit to attend what she says was a higher-quality private school than the public school she was slated to go to.
Merriweather, who is now pursuing a master's degree in social work, is a political Independent who wouldn't say which candidate she is supporting in the presidential race. But she doesn't understand the politics surrounding vouchers.
"I love to tell my story so that people can see that most people taking advantage of a scholarship look like me," said Merriweather, who is black.
Supporters cheer during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
--Swikar Patel/Education Week
Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., arrives before a House Financial Services committee hearing on the annual report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council last June.
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### As local process

1. Set OPENSHIFT_IMAGE_REGISTRY environment variable
    ```bash
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    ```

2. Run ImagestreResource Controller
    ```bash
    make local-dev
    ```

### With ko

1. Set OPENSHIFT_IMAGE_REGISTRY environment variable in controller deployment manifest
    ```yaml
              env:
                - name: OPENSHIFT_IMAGE_REGISTRY
                  value: "<openshift-image-registry-url>"
               ...
    ```
2. Run ImagestreResource Controllermake local-dev
    ```bash
    make ko-app
    ```

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How Italy coped with covid-19 during lockdown
Looking back on the coronavirus epidemic in Italy: How did we get here?
After months of lockdown, almost 250 thousand cases of coronavirus, and tens of thousands of deaths, Italy has started reopening its borders, signaling its confidence in the future. Though the country has suffered, strict efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and protect the population have proven to be successful. But how did we get here?When two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for coronavirus late January, many residents feared that the Eternal City would be the next Wuhan, the Chinese city from which the mysterious new virus originated. At that point, Wuhan had been under a strict city-wide lockdown for only a week, with the virus continuing to spread throughout the city at an alarming rate. Despite harrowing news coming out of China, the idea of a world pandemic seemed impossible and surreal, like something out of a Ridley Scott movie--definitely not the next chapter of 2020.
Spallanzani Hospital, where the Chinese tourists where treated. In February, as the scattered fears about the Chinese couple in Rome died down, life in Italy seemed to be normal. Spring was around the corner. Families visited parks together, students huddled in groups outside of school gates before class started, and people ordered their coffee side-by-side at the bar. Wuhan and the surrounding region of Hubei continued to suffer, with cases increasing by thousands on a daily basis, but the virus, so far known only as SARS-Cov-2, no longer posed an international threat.
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In mid-February, in the midst of a bad flu season, hospitals in the Lombardy region started reporting abnormally high numbers of pneumonia, according to Time.On 20 Feb., a 38-year-old man checked into a hospital in Codogno, a small town in Lombardy, with pneumonia symptoms. Normally a healthy, athletic man, he had visited a local doctor days before, who had diagnosed him with the flu and sent him home. In the hospital, as he lay intubated and barely conscious, his wife mentioned to Dr. Annalisa Malara that he had recently attended a dinner party with a friend who had returned from China.
Coronavirus: Italy has world's third highest number of cases
Dr. Malara made the independent decision to test him for coronavirus. In an article for the European Society of Cardiology, she writes, "the patient did not meet the national criteria for coronavirus testing but because of his severe situation, we decided to do it anyway." Before the test results came in, Dr. Malara followed her instincts and quarantined the man, herself, and the nurses who had been in contact with him. "The risk of not doing so was too high," she writes. Also read:
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His test for coronavirus came back positive that night. The hospital immediately alerted local government representatives, and soon after, everyone who had been in the Codogno hospital was tested: patients, doctors, nurses, and the loved ones who had been in contact with them. Dr. Malara's decision to quarantine the first man, Italy's official patient one, would be the first of a few instinctual decisions that softened the coronavirus's blow on Italy. Nevertheless, the coronavirus was in Italy, where its journey had only just begun.
CIvico Ospedale in Codogno.Tests from the Codogno hospital started coming back positive. On 21 Feb., an elderly man in Veneto died from the coronavirus, the first virus fatality in Italy. On 23 Feb, ten towns in Lombardy and one town in Veneto were labeled "red zones," and put under strict lockdowns. By 1 March, coronavirus cases in Italy jumped from three to 574, with the death toll at 41. On 4 March, schools and universities across the nation were mandated to close. On 8 March, the majority of northern Italy was put under lockdown, with the national case number around 6,000.
Military trucks transporting coffins of the Bergamo Coronavirus victims. As the case numbers spiked in northern Italy, the situation seemed hopeless. Doctors and nurses were working tirelessly, and citizens under lockdown were following the newly enforced stay at home mandates and social distancing rules. The disheartening fact was that Italy had taken preventative measures against the virus before other countries had. After the Chinese couple in Rome was diagnosed, flights from China to Italy were suspended and the Italian government declared a state of emergency. At the time, Conte stated that Italy was likely the first country in the EU to enforce such a strict preventative policy.
Italian president: 'I too will spend Easter alone'
Though Italy was initially the European country hardest hit by the coronavirus, at the time, the future of the entire European continent was uncertain. France's first coronavirus outbreak occurred not long after Italy's, as did Germany's. In a sense, by taking strict action against the virus, Italy was gambling. The only example to follow was China's, so that's what it did. The government knew the motion to extend the initial lockdown across northern Italy would put a financial strain on the country, as Milan is the economic capital of Italy, but the gesture demonstrated that the wellbeing of Italian citizens outweighed financial insecurity. On 10 March, the entire country was put under lockdown. Also read:
Conte: Italy is 'on right path' to beat Coronavirus
In the days following the national lockdown, strict preventative measures were added: all shops, bars and restaurants were closed, group gatherings were banned, individuals were required to keep a distance of 1 meter between one another, masks were required in public indoor places, and citizens were urged to stay home as much as possible. According to the BBC, studies conducted by the Imperial College London and the University of California found that Italy's lockdown prevented around 630,000 deaths and millions of infections. Still, it would be months before the virus numbers plateaued and began to decline. Also read:
Italy honours its covid-19 heroes
On 4 May, Italy loosened some of its restrictions, entering Phase 2 of lockdown. On 15 June, Italy entered Phase 3, allowing businesses to open, groups to meet, and citizens to freely roam outside their homes. In this phase, the emphasis is on contact tracing and preventing large virus outbreaks. Local and national governments in Italy are closely monitoring the situation, ready to re-introduce restrictions when necessary. In some areas, this has already happened. On 3 July, the governor of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, described Veneto as "high risk" after a spike in new cases. Around 80 people have been ordered to self-isolate. New restrictions will be placed on the region on Monday. Smaller virus clusters have appeared in Bologna, Mondragone, Palmi, Rome, and several other cities across Italy. In these cases, the government's immediate response is to lockdown the source of the breakout (not the entire city), test, contact trace, and treat.
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J. Frank Dobie's ranch has provided a refuge for many Texas writers over the years—myself included. But it's his path-clearing spirit of clumsy, bighearted democracy to which we really owe a debt.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/ghost-writer/
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LANDLORE: Eighty-one writers and artists have lived on Dobie's former property. Some say the old man, who died in 1964, still visits.
When I heard the rumor that the University of Texas regents were thinking of selling J. Frank Dobie's storied Paisano Ranch to developers, I assumed that this was another example of the sort of anti-intellectual lunacy that Dobie spent much of his life fighting. Dobie, the great folklorist and writer who came to be known as Mr. Texas, bought the 254-acre ranch in the Hill Country southwest of Austin in 1959, just five years before he died. It was more a retreat than a ranch, a place where he and his two famous companions, historian Walter Prescott Webb and naturalist Roy Bedichek, could sit back, drink whiskey, and talk life and literature.
Though events ultimately pushed him in that direction, Dobie was never a flaming liberal, and he had an uneasy relationship to intellectual life in general. He was a confirmed conservative, a nineteenth-century man at heart, his philosophy forged by tales of cattle drives, open ranges, and cowboy culture. In the twenties, when he was a junior faculty member at UT-Austin with no doctorate, he proposed teaching a class on the literature of the Southwest, only to be informed curtly that there was no such thing. His famous reply was that there was plenty of life in the Southwest and so he'd just teach that. Life and Literature of the Southwest became one of the most popular courses at the university and helped make Dobie a beloved figure. Partly because of this class, and a companion bibliography Dobie wrote, the skepticism voiced by his colleagues about Southwestern literature was put to rest.
After Dobie died, some of his supporters purchased Paisano and gave the ranch to UT, to be used as a place where writers who were from Texas or who wrote about Texas could live and write for long, uninterrupted residencies. Since its inception in 1967, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, under the supervision of UT and the Texas Institute of Letters, has brought 81 writers and artists to the ranch. It's difficult to quantify the fellowship's value to our state, but its recipients have produced about 150 books and countless poems, articles, journals, and works of art. In 1972 I was one of those lucky people, and I confess to being fiercely protective of this magical place. Knowing how much anger Dobie's politics provoked from his higher-ups at UT and reactionaries around the state, I started to wonder if the current bunch of regents might have been looking for an excuse to make Paisano disappear entirely.
Luckily, I was guilty of an overreaction. Paisano is safe, for now. But reading Steven L. Davis's new biography, J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind, reminded me why I was given to such suspicions in the first place. Dobie and Webb have been vilified by current generations as racists, and to a degree they were. Dobie's attitude toward Mexican Americans was condescending and paternalistic. His prose glorified brave Anglo settlers while dismissing Mexicans who resisted Anglo domination as "bandits" and praising those who accepted submission as "good Mexicans." Parts of Webb's book on the Texas Rangers rattle with jingoism and are horribly slanderous to Mexicans. Nonetheless, without dismissing their flaws, it must be said that in the political climate of Texas in the early twentieth century, both men were relatively progressive. And crucially, as Davis's book makes clear, Dobie shed many of his inherited prejudices over time. By the forties, he was calling on UT to integrate.
It's chilling to remember how rabidly conservative Texas was in the forties. Anti-
intellectuals roamed the countryside like packs of lizard people. Senator W. Lee O'Daniel took to the airwaves to compare Franklin Roosevelt's liberalism to Adolf Hitler's fascism, and this was during the war. Regents appointed by Governor Coke Stevenson and O'Daniel before him were convinced that UT had fallen into the claws of "liberalism" and took it as their duty to clean house. UT president Homer Rainey, who resisted them at every turn, became their whipping boy. They wanted to stop teaching social work, on the grounds that it promoted socialism. They proposed loyalty tests for faculty. Banning travel to academic conferences in parts of the country where "Bolsheviki" ideas were tolerated was just one of their brighter ideas.
When the regents took it upon themselves to fire four untenured economics instructors for "subversive activities"—they had made public statements in support of FDR's Fair Labor Standards Act—Dobie decided that he'd had enough. He was by then a Texas icon. Since 1914 he'd been a fixture on the UT campus, and with the publication of Coronado's Children, in 1930, he had become the state's most popular writer. He wasn't the first nationally recognized writer from Texas; Katherine Anne Porter and O. Henry had previously carved out careers, but only after leaving the state. Dobie was the first to prove that a writer could stay down here and still make a living. And a difference.
"More than any other factor, these attacks on academic freedom caused Dobie to reassess his deeply held, almost instinctive political beliefs," writes Davis, the assistant curator at the Southwestern Writers Collection, at Texas State University—San Marcos. "He realized that the greatest threat to individual freedom was no longer the government—it was right-wing business interests. With this insight the fifty-three-year-old Dobie became a political liberal."
Along with Bedichek and others, Dobie circulated a petition asking the regents to rehire the four instructors. The regents not only ignored the petition, they upped the ante. "They summoned several members of the English faculty to explain why suggested reading lists included U.S.A. by John Dos Passos," Davis notes. "Regents condemned the book as 'thinly disguised Communist propaganda [that] repeatedly showed vile contempt for the flag, the church, and the nation's most sacred institutions.' " When Rainey again resisted them, the regents fired him.
Outraged, Dobie publicly labeled the regents "native fascists" and wrote a column for the Dallas Morning News that was so inflammatory the editors refused to publish it. The firing of Homer Rainey erupted into a huge student protest and a march on the state capitol. Stories in the national media portrayed UT as a second-rate backwater school, and the American Association of University Professors formally censured it. Nonetheless, by speaking out, Dobie knew he was putting his job in jeopardy. In 1947, after more than thirty years on the UT faculty, he was terminated.
I didn't know much of this when I first tried to read Dobie, in college. For writers of my generation (I'm 75), the main question about Dobie was why his reputation so far exceeded his apparent literary achievements. Dobie wasn't a particularly engaging writer. His stories about Longhorns and buried treasure apparently appealed to readers during the Depression, but even by the sixties they were lost on many of us. I tried to read him again in the winter of 1972, when I got to Paisano. His prose seemed stiff and quaintly old-fashioned. But after reading Davis's book, I understand that our debt to Dobie isn't so much about literature as it is about intellectual freedom: By fighting against the forces of conformity and narrow-mindedness, even when they came from within himself, Dobie blazed a trail for the many Texas thinkers and writers who came after him, whether they care to tip their hats or not.
Besides, Dobie was more collector of lore than master prose stylist. "Dobie could have been a good writer," Davis reminded me recently, when I called him up to talk about his book. "He had the skills. But he came of age during the oral tradition of storytelling. He made a conscious effort to capture that oral style. That's why his prose sounds so jarring to the ear. It's like reading dialect."
Dobie dedicated himself to preserving this style because he knew it was vanishing. The same could be said of the wild Hill Country terrain from which his ranch is carved. Barton Creek curls and twists through the property, running cold and clear between massive limestone bluffs and boulders the size of two-story buildings. There are deep pools where you can swim and sun-baked outcroppings where you can lie on your belly and watch fish spawn and tend nests on the sandy creek bottom. You approach the house along a crooked gravel road, across a low-water crossing where the creek can be either hubcap deep or, in heavy weather, a torrent that can sweep your car away. When the creek is at flood tide—and scores of water moccasins are washing downstream, their heads sticking up like angry periscopes—it doesn't really matter that there is no direct way into or out of the ranch. It's a living museum: On a far corner of the property sits a log cabin built more than a hundred years ago. Wildflowers, cacti, rare native grasses, and clusters of giant oaks spread out in all directions, and deer and wild turkey wander at will. I'll never forget one moonlit night, sitting alone on a log bench on one of the foot trails, watching in amazement as a mother skunk strolled by with her two babies, her nose held high as though to remind me of my inconsequential place in the scheme of things.
The house has six rooms, a large fieldstone fireplace, and thick stone walls. Dobie so loved sleeping in front of a crackling fire that he installed an air conditioner so he could light it even in the heat of summer. There are reminders of him everywhere: his handmade pine writing desk, bearing the date 1911; a mesquite roadrunner carved by his colleague Mody Boatright (paisano is Spanish for "fellow countryman"; in the Southwest, it also means "roadrunner," an animal that Dobie adopted as his personal symbol); various prints inscribed by artist friends, including a drawing of Dobie by Tom Lea. And of course books, books everywhere, spilling out of every shelf, including a set of Dobie's works as well as volumes by Webb and Bedichek.
Many of the writers and artists who lived at Paisano experienced a fundamental change, some epiphany that helped shape a career. For me, Paisano was a spiritual rebirth, a space where I caught my breath and reviewed where I'd come from and where I hoped to go. I never finished the novel I intended to write, but I did bang out a long article about an escapade on a movie set in Durango, Mexico, where a group of anarchists (myself among them) made their own movie while intermingling with the cast and crew of a big-time Hollywood production. A. C. Greene, one of the earliest Dobie Paisano fellows, finished A Personal Country and remembered Paisano as "a season of self-discovery . . . a time to find time." Poet-novelist Sandra Cisneros, a native of Chicago, says that the ranch experience altered her destiny. "It was so healing for me that I decided to stay [in Texas]," Cisneros said. "I would not be a Texan now if it hadn't been for that Dobie Paisano." Author Jan Reid told me that it was at Paisano that he first learned discipline and called it "the place where I learned to write." Several Paisano fellows reported encounters with Dobie's spirit while at Paisano. I jokingly told a TV reporter that I'd seen Dobie's ghost sitting in a rocker on the gallery. Later, seated in that same rocker, I had—or maybe dreamed that I had—a brief conversation with Dobie.
"You don't really know what you're doing, do you?" the gravelly voice asked.
"Don't worry. None of us do. Writing is a process of discovery. You learn by doing."
I'm prepared to admit that my chat with Dobie's ghost was probably a product of my imagination. That same imagination may be working when I fly into a state of alarm over dark rumors that the ranch is to be bulldozed, paved over, or chopped into subdivisions. As I say, these things are easily exaggerated. The story started with a report in the Dallas Morning News in August linking Paisano's
fate to that of the controversial development of UT's Brackenridge Tract, the site of an ecological field laboratory near the Colorado River in West Austin. The UT regents have been debating what to do with Brackenridge for many months, but waterfront property that valuable will almost certainly be developed sometime in the coming years. When that happens, they may need to find a new location for the lab—and Paisano is on the list of possible sites. Yet the university's president, William Powers, emphatically assured the director of the program that the ranch will never be used for anything other than the Dobie Paisano.
I'm sure President Powers is speaking the truth, but I'm unwilling to completely let go of my skepticism. Not in this current political climate, with its grim recollections of the forties. Have you noticed how much the people running around with signs comparing President Barack Obama to Hitler resemble the ones who said the same thing about Roosevelt? Maybe the strain of lunacy that went after Dobie and his compatriots isn't dead; maybe it's just been down there hiding, waiting for the right moment to strike. I'm keeping an eye on the situation, just in case.
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Boston, MA (October 29, 2015) — The number of health professionals holding the Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) credential reached 1,000 this month, reports the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, which oversees the certification program.
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In the U.S., they work in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
60% have a degree or background in nursing.
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13% include risk management in their primary professional responsibilities.
To learn more about the Certified Professional in Patient Safety credential, visit www.cbpps.org.


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We had a late start on Wednesday. We are going to take the train to Alexandria, and we want to make sure that we get the tickets, so we start with a trip to Ramsees railway station. I had expected the trains (which seem nice from the guidebook) to be much used by tourists, but as it turned out, all the information was in Arabic, with the platform numbers, and the word "platform" as the only thing in English.
Again, we relied on the help of strangers. This time, a police officer helped us. His English was passably good, and we were able to score two tickets to Alexandria on first class on Friday with little problems. The tickets had nice holographic anti-fraud stuff on them, and luckily, had all relevant information printed in English.
Leaving the train station, we got a further reminder of how intrinsic religion is to everything in Egypt. As it was drawing near on the mid-day prayers, the prayer chants could be heard over the loudspeaker in the station. Some people stopped up to pray in a public area designated for this, but most just continued their daily affairs.
We took the subway to Attaba station. According to the guidebook, we should be able to walk up Sharia el-Muski from here to Midan Hussein, which is the "hub" of (tourist) Islamic Cairo. It turned out that we were not following el-Muski, but again, the ubiquitous police were able to help us out. Only one of the five police officers loitering in the area we ended up spoke English. But they all rolled their eyes when we said we were going to Midan Hussein (which appearantly is also pronounced Husseen). Heh. We took a taxi.
In Islamic Cairo, we had a tour of the Al-Ahzar mosque, possibly one of the most important ones (but not the largest) in Cairo. Our guide was named, you guessed it, Muhammed. The building is quite beautiful, and was well worth the visit.
Next stop: Khan il-Khalili and El-Fishawi coffee house. We later learned the the craziness of the Khan was probably mostly attributed to the fact this this was still Eid il-Fitr, but it is still a very peculiar place. It consists of small streets, if you can fall them that, full of shops. The streets are more like corridors between buildings, with just allowing about three people to stand beside each other in the street. The vendors are pushy: One guy said the usually pleasantries ("welcome to Egypt, where are you from"), and shook my hand. Then he wouldn't let go of my hand and tried to physically lead me into his store. Another guy yelled after me: "What can I do to smell your money." No joke!
El-Fishawi's was nice, and more quiet than the rest of the Khan. We sat for a while, enjoying a sheesha and a drink of water. You can't really get anything to eat here, though, so we decided to head to what we thought was the nearby Al-Ahzar park for lunch at the Citadel View Restaurant.
As it turns out, the park is pretty close, but the enterance is on the opposite side of where we were. As we were trying to orient ourselves, a pleasant young man, who spoke English very well, came up and offered his help. As we were pretty sick of people leeching onto us for money, we tried to avoid him at first (to which he said, "don't be afraid, I am not a terrorist or anything" – oookay?). He finally reeled us in when he told us that he was studying English and was looking at this as a opportunity to practice. He took us to the park, and we had a pleasant chat along the way. The name of our guide was, you guessed it, Muhammed. But as he said: Everyone has called him Beter (Arabic doesn't have P's) since childhood. We ended up tipping Beter the LE 20 he asked for in the end, despite the fact that when he first me us he insisted that he didn't want our money. Oh well. Welcome to Cairo.
The Al-Ahzar park is a beautifull spot with an excellent view of much of the city. Surprisingly, there are hardly any tourists that visits it. The hillside restaurant had a good, but overpriced buffet. The service was extremely slow. But the views were to die for. Sitting here during sunset, we realized the sun doesn't set in the horizon, in Cairo, it sets in the smog!
After the park, we took a taxi back to the hotel. The day had made us pretty tired, so we just sat down in the hotel tea garden for a few hours. Like everywhere else in Egypt, this place is full of cats, most of which will come up to you your table to beg for food or petting.
We decided to go for one last adventure this day. Especially Sarah had enjoyed the fast-food restaurant Gad on Sharia 26th of July. She also enjoys the fact that she's better able to cross the street in the wild traffic of Sharia 26th of July than I am. This place is extremely popular with the Caireens, but you won't see a European face there (unless you bring it yourself). The food is good and cheap and the service is very fast. When it is busy, different groups of guests will share the same table.
On our way back, I took a few pictures from the more quiet areas of Sharia 26th of July (I didn't want people to feel like I was taking pictures of them). A few kids came and wanted to be part of the shot, and they thought it was really cool when I took a picture of them. They did hi-fives afterwards, and I mistook the gesture of one of them as a request for Baksheesh, so I gave him a pound, much to his friends amusement.
As we walked home, I came to think about the theories of new urbanism about the important of sidewalks that are being used. In the teeming mass of pedestrians that is Cairo streets, we never feel unsafe. Then again, maybe it's just the constant police presence.
For much of this day, Sarah decided to wear a hijab (scarf). It was interesting to notice the different reactions we got. Many people would assume we were Muslims, and many people would look at me strangely for accompanying her. She said that she felt people reacted more positive to her, though.


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Interview: Darren Aronofsky Part 5
By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2008 7:00 am EST
Last month, I had another chance to sit down and talk with Darren Aronofsky, the director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain, about his new film The Wrestler. We're going to call this part five because it continues the series of interviews regarding The Wrestler that began at the Toronto International Film Festival (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). You can read the fourth part, which was on the site yesterday, at this link. In the fifth and final part of our Wrestler series, I talk to Aronofsky about 3D, IMAX, High Definition filmmaking, The Fighter, Robocop, Watchmen, hopes for a 5.1 audio remix of Pi and more.
Q: The crumbling ballroom, when and how did you find that place?Darren Aronofsky: We were scouting Asbury Park. I was like Evan Rachel Wood in the movie. I looked through the crack. I said, "What the hell's that space?" I could see it through the crack. I was, "Let's get in there." We actually never scouted it until we actually shot it. We didn't have that type of budget. I saw it and was like, "Get me permission to get in there. That's the location. Let's get in there." On the day of we had permission to go in. I think actually Bruce [Springsteen] might own it. I think he's bought up, through a corporation, a lot of Asbury Park and they're redoing it. I don't know. I'm not sure. You may have to fact check that. That's what I've heard. It's an old casino. It says casino on the outside. I don't know if it was a gambling casino or what it was, but it's just this beautiful space.
Q: It looks like a ballroom.
Darren Aronofsky: Yes. That's why we improvised the dance. I walked in there and I said, "Mickey, are you going to ask Evan to dance?" Mickey doesn't like to dance. I was like, "Are you going to waltz? You're going to waltz. You're going to waltz here." He's like, "I can't waltz." I'm like, "I'll teach you how to waltz." So there's a video of me teaching Mickey how to waltz, which is a pretty embarrassing video. I said, "Let's just give it a shot and see what happens." I wanted something. It was very much like that scene in Requiem when they break into the building and they go to the roof and they set off the alarm and all that stuff. In the script it was actually, I think it was a snowball fight they had, something silly. I think originally in The Wrestler script they were going to go play skee-ball. Then we realized Asbury Park doesn't have skee-ball. Then we turned it into a snowball fight. Then it didn't snow. I was like, "Okay, they need to do something that's kind of silly and endearing." That night we saw that space and I said, "All right. They'll just break in here and do something illegal and then do something touching." I remember afterwards, Evan walked away and she was sobbing. She had some personal connection with her own life, which is her story to tell. But she really resisted at the beginning. But then afterwards really was glad that she did it. Those things happen.Q: It seems like much of the process of making this film was you making Mickey do things that he doesn't want to do and laughing about it.Darren Aronofsky: There's a certain amount of that. Mickey is definitely a coaster. He'll put his feet up on the table and just sort of– He's like that kid in high school who did no work and got B+'s the whole time, because he's got so much talent that he's able to do it. Yes, it was pushing Mickey a lot. My biggest accomplishment on the film was that he wears no sunglasses in the entire movie. Every day Mickey showed up with a pair of sunglasses and it was about convincing him that they don't want to see the sunglasses. "Mickey, people want to look at your eyes. That's why they're paying money. That's why they're here." He knows that. He's so much armor and he's so soft inside. Did you meet him yet?Q: Yes. Even at that party in Toronto he was wearing the sunglasses. It was a pretty dark place.Darren Aronofsky: Yes. He's got a lot of armor. He's got a really soft interior and he's really gentle. He's got a lot of love and a lot of soul and a lot of spirit. He just hides it because he's just afraid. There's a lot of fear. I think like the outbursts he's had and all that stuff is just out of fear. He was always resisting that. It was like, "No, you can't have sunglasses. Yes, you have to sing Round and Round. Yes, you have to dance to Round and Round, Mickey." I think Mickey would rather– Mickey likes to hang out. I think that's kind of the feeling you get in the film is like he's just hanging out in the movie.Q: One of the things I noticed in the film is that Mickey does a lot of work playing off the way he breathes. Was that one of your directions or was that his choice?Darren Aronofsky: I think it came naturally. Mickey is sort of like that. We pushed it a bit. North Dallas Forty, do you know that film?
Q: Yes.
Darren Aronofsky: Do you know that wake-up scene with Nick Nolte? I watched that with Mickey, because Mickey's a big fan of the film. We looked at it and talked about it. As soon as Mickey started doing it, I talked to our sound recorders and I said, "We need a lav on him at all times. You need to be recording him at all times, even when the camera's not rolling. We just want those grunts." Then when we went into looping, which Mickey completely says he never does, but he gave me three days. It was a negotiation. But he told me very early on, "I never loop." I'm like, "Mickey, you're the star of the film. You're going to have to do some looping." He's actually very good at it. I think, once again, it's work and he's kind of lazy. He did it. I had him go for about 20-30 minutes of just making those grunts and then we sort of sprinkled them around wherever we needed to pepper them. Mickey was doing it anyway. I think Mickey also was sore because of all the training he was doing. He'll talk about it, but like six months of the bodybuilding to put on the 35 pounds, then three months of the wrestling training. He lived on a third floor walkup and he talks about how his trainer would have to push him up the stairs to get up the three flights to get home, because he was so sore. He really worked really hard to do it. He was also dealing with a lot of physical issues. I don't know his age. It's anywhere between 51 and 67 or something. You think about a 50-something year old guy doing what he did physically. It's really tough.Q: Definitely. I want to get your opinion on a couple things here. When RoboCop was first announced, they were saying it was going to be 3D. I think you've since said that it isn't going to be.Darren Aronofsky: There's been no discussions about it. I love 3D, but there's been no discussions. There's not even a screenplay. Everything's very premature. Everyone loves announcements, especially the Internet. For me it was like it's a really interesting title that's really big, which I definitely have interest in doing. The studio's a very exciting place. I love the people there.Q: You haven't started work with that? You're still developing the screenplay?Darren Aronofsky: We've finished the treatment just like a week ago. The studio was very excited. Now we're writing the screenplay. There's nothing. Until there's a screenplay, everyone wants to spend all those zeros on it. It's not a discussion. It doesn't really exist. Hopefully, things will continue to move forward well. We'll see.
Q: Sorry to direct it to RoboCop, but I actually wanted to get your opinion on 3D. What is your feeling on 3D? I don't think I've ever read an interview where you talked about 3D.
Darren Aronofsky: I actually haven't seen the new technology of 3D. I haven't seen any of these films in 3D. The first one was like Polar Express. Was that one of them?
Q: Yes, I think so.
Darren Aronofsky: I didn't see that. I haven't seen anything yet. I'm dying to. I didn't go to see the other one, Beowulf. But I remember 3D as a kid and when it came out. There was like a brief window of it. I don't know when it was, maybe the late 1970s or early 1980s, it must have been, probably the early 1980s.Q: It was very gimmicky.Darren Aronofsky: It was very gimmicky. I saw a couple of them and it was great. I loved it as a kid. I think it's really interesting. The whole question I just have is the whole headache issue and that type of stuff. Also, a guy with glasses, "Am I okay?" Are you okay when you go and see them?
Darren Aronofsky: They slide over?
Q: Yeah, they slide over.
Darren Aronofsky: I haven't done it yet. I am really not the good guy to ask. But the money it's making, the way IMAX is making, it seems like adding to the event spectacle of movies is always helpful.
Q: That's my next question, IMAX. Did you see The Dark Knight in IMAX?
Darren Aronofsky: I didn't see it in IMAX. I went to a screening and I just saw it in the normal projection. Was there a big difference?
Q: A huge difference. I highly recommend it when they re-release it in January.
Darren Aronofsky: Oh, they're going to re-release it in January?
Q: Yes, for award season. They're doing–
Darren Aronofsky: Oh, they're doing some of that. I'll check it out.
Q: That seems to be the big buzz. Everybody's asking, "Are you going to be doing any scenes in IMAX?" Obviously, you haven't seen it, but I highly recommend checking it out. I'd love to see what you could do on the huge screen. It expands from normal widescreen to the full screen.
Darren Aronofsky: Right. I'll tell you, when I go to the movies, I like sitting in the back so I can feel the whole screen. I don't like going– Tarantino always talks about sitting in the front rows. Is that who it is? Someone like that? I don't know. I thought it was him. Anyway, I like to go to the very back. Otherwise, I get a little eye strain and a little nauseous and stuff. Also, I like to see. I think the frame is part of the picture. I think it's like if you go to an art gallery and if you don't see the edges of a painting, you're not really seeing it. I like to sit back and feel the blackness around it. That's why I hate when they have exit signs right by the edge. I don't go to movie theaters where there's exit signs. I want to see like a black frame around it and get lost that way. I sit pretty far back. But then you get screwed with the surrounds and stuff. It's really hard. I'm really picky and choosy on the movie theaters I go to.
Q: Definitely. What is your feeling on shooting in HD, HD filmmaking?
Darren Aronofsky: Does that include Zodiac? Would Zodiac be an HD film? I think that was the first film I saw that was completely convincing and that looked as beautiful as film. I think with low-end video there's been a lot of successful features, from Blair Witch to Celebration. That's one way of pushing video. Then there's other ways of trying to make video look as beautiful as film. I think Fincher and Harris Savides completely pulled it off in Zodiac. I thought that film looked amazing. It was funny. There was one shot I had an issue with. When I worked with Harris I talked to him about it. I said, "There was one shot." He knew the exact shot I was talking about. But I think it took them a lot of time to make it look that good. First of all, the technology they were walking around with, they had a giant refrigerator following them to store all this stuff, at least my understanding of it. But when it gets into a handheld with that quality and it has the responsiveness of film, I don't think there's a difference. The thing about film is that it's more like the human eye still. The way it sees contrast, it just has more– the whites don't blow out and the darks don't disappear. It kind of gives you a good balance. I think it really matters what's the right tool for the medium. I think if we had shot The Wrestler in video, it would have fallen apart. I think giving it the film and the widescreen aspect makes it feel bigger in some way, because it's part of our visual language. But then Danny Boyle shot on video, didn't he, for Slumdog?
Q: Yes, he did Slumdog.
Darren Aronofsky: It looked gorgeous.
Q: I think that's a smart approach to it. A lot of people, like Robert Zemeckis and James Cameron, they're pioneering this whole new level of filmmaking, but they're looking at it like this is a better way to make films, rather than a better way to tell the required story.
Darren Aronofsky: It's great that they're pioneering and I'm so happy there's technicians like James Cameron. The fact that whatever he's doing with Avatar is going to be off-the-shelf technology in three years. It's really exciting as a filmmaker. That's how quick it takes. I remember when he did morphing in what, T2? Yes, it was T2 was the morphing guy?
Darren Aronofsky: Two years later you could buy it on a laptop for nothing. It's great. He does this. In The Abyss he did all that water stuff that ended up. Now anyone can do it. It's great that he has the money and the support to do that stuff. I know the filmmakers can use those tools and do it. I'd say I've kind of come from the school, just because I've never been in a place where I can pioneer technology. You need a lot of money behind you. I think I'm more into the scrappy or garage take of taking these techniques and then kind of figuring out new ways of using them. That's kind of been my attitude towards it.
Q: I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask about The Fighter and whole Brad Pitt thing that recently went on.
Darren Aronofsky: Brad Pitt was never attached.
Q: Wasn't there a report in the trades?
Darren Aronofsky: There probably was, but he was never attached. He read it and was considering it, but he didn't come on it. It's very complicated. It's deep into studio politics over at Paramount. There's also a lot of money against it. Me and Mark Wahlberg really want to make it and Scott Silver, the writer. It's just really complicated. It's unfortunately complicated to make because of the context it's sitting in right now. It's a great script. Hopefully, it will get made at some point. It's just kind of mired in a lot of stuff.
Q: In Toronto we talked about a lot of the projects you've been attached to or weren't attached to and you cleared up some of that stuff. I'm wondering what project did you have within your grasp that you regret not being able to make?
Darren Aronofsky: I don't actually regret any of them of the ones that came through. The film I ended up making was really the film I wanted to make. Making The Fountain cost me the opportunity to make a bunch of movies. That whole time I was completely focused and interested in making The Fountain. I ended up getting to make the film I wanted to make. I don't really look back and regret it. I'm excited to see– The only one that comes near some regret, I spent one week on The Watchmen. I can't wait to see it. It looks great. You saw 20 minutes of it, right?
Q: No, I didn't. I saw minutes of Trek last week.
Darren Aronofsky: Of Trek which looks good?
Q: It looks good. It looks very different. It looks very Star Wars.
Darren Aronofsky: It's a very complicated thing he undertook. But I'm really looking forward to Watchmen. By everything I've seen, it looks pretty amazing. I think he did a great job. As a fan I'm excited to see that. It's rare as a fan when you get really, really juiced up. You take off a day of work and take the whole company down. We used to do it all the time, but it's been a long time since there's been something to see. We'd go opening day to the opening screening. That will definitely be for Watchmen.
Q: How many people are involved with Protoza?
Darren Aronofsky: It's me, there's two development guys, Ari Handel and Mark Hayman, and then there's a lot of producers loosely attached to us. We're going to start trying to produce more stuff. Then there's like a support team. So it's like seven or eight people.
Q: Do you think Warner Bros will ever release The Fountain with the commentary track you recorded and released online?
Darren Aronofsky: I really hope that some day I get the ability to be able to redo that DVD or whatever it turns out, that download or whatever. I had no input on it. It's unfortunate that I didn't get to. I didn't have that type of power to get it made the way I wanted to get it made. So to me, it's an eyesore. I'd really like to do it the proper way and give it the right release of paths. I have all these other surprises for it. Maybe at one point I'll get the chance to do that.
Q: I think it was great that you released the commentary track on online.
Darren Aronofsky: Yes. It was fun for the fans and everything. People appreciated it. It's been great. This tour has been great and seeing the underground Fountain movement. There's been so many people who have come up to me and just talk about their personal experiences with it. That's been really rewarding.
Q: Your other two films, when are they going to be on Blu-ray?
Darren Aronofsky: They're not?
Q: I thought I looked last night...
Darren Aronofsky: You might be right. I have no idea. I went to Lionsgate. It's the tenth anniversary of Pi this year. I was like, "Let's do a 5.1 mix and update it." It would be great. Update it, but I couldn't get them to do it. That film comes back to me in 10 years. I get it.
Q: Oh really?
Darren Aronofsky: Yes. I get full control of that film in 10 years. I'll be able to do something with it. Hopefully, Requiem there's some technical issues with the DVD. There's some technical fuck-ups that need to be repaired as well. At some point we'll get back into that. It would be great for Pi to do a digital remastering of it at some point. I would love to do that.
Q: Do you think Hollywood will ever remake Pi?
Darren Aronofsky: Never. Now that the economy's gone to shit, who knows? I'd be more interested in a Broadway play. Actually, in Europe they want to do a stage production of Requiem. I was like, "Go for it."
Q: Really?
Darren Aronofsky: Yes, it would be great.
Q: That's awesome.
Darren Aronofsky: It would be very funny.
Q: My last question is your short films, like Supermarket Sweep, when are those ever going to be available or will they ever be available?
Darren Aronofsky: For your short–
Q: Yes. Big director, small films I'd love to–
Darren Aronofsky: You're embarrassing me.
Q: I've never even seen them. Usually I get sent stuff. No one's ever–
Darren Aronofsky: Do you get permission from the guys to do that?
Q: Sometimes but most of the time it is readily available.
Darren Aronofsky: Student work. It was a little bit embarrassing. Maybe at some point you'll convince me to do Supermarket Sweep. I did a documentary before that, a little portrait film. I have to get them digitized. That's a problem, because it's predigitized.
Q: So it's film?
Darren Aronofsky: They're all film. Some of them are on videotape, but they're probably on like some weird beta cam format and you probably can't even find a deck to transfer them. At some point maybe I could convince technical to do a remastering of it, scan it and do it. Maybe if I actually get paid one day I'll be able to afford to do that. I have the negatives in storage. Maybe at some point I'll get them up. I'd love to do that for you, but if I get them digitized, I'll do that because I'm sure there's some rights issues with some of this stuff.
Q: The other thing, it seems like supermarkets are in a lot of your films.
Darren Aronofsky: They are.
Q: Why is that?
Darren Aronofsky: I have an issue with supermarkets. Not an issue, but I have a fascination, an issue with supermarkets. They've just been a big part of– I just think– I haven't actually analyzed it in a long time, but they show up a lot. It's true. It's in Requiem. Pi there's no supermarket, is there?
Q: I don't think so.
Darren Aronofsky: And The Fountain there's no supermarket. I'm a big fan of supermarkets. I don't know what else to say.
Q: It was great talking with you.
Darren Aronofsky: It was great seeing you again, Peter. The next time I'm in town we'll do lunch or something, maybe less rushed.


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Q: How to change the locale in moment.js I know this probably looks like a duplicate question but I am unable to change my locale using moment in  my React/ES6 setup.
This is what I have been able to gather from the internet but it doesn't work
import moment from 'moment';
import 'moment/min/locales';

moment.locale('en-gb');
moment('31/08/2021').format('YYYY-MM-DD') \\ returns 'Invalid Date'

Where am I going wrong?

A: This may not be the perfect way to do it but it definitely works.
    locale = 'en-GB';
    value = '07/06/2021';

    moment.locale(locale);
    const localeData = moment.localeData();
    const format = localeData.longDateFormat('L');
    console.log(moment(value, format).format('YYYY-MM-DD')); // '2021-06-07'

A: It does not look like a moment locale issue. Try specifying the right input format to parse a moment string.
More info can be found at https://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string/

console.log(moment("31/08/2021", "DD/MM/YYYY").format("YYYY-MM-DD"));
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.24.0/moment.min.js"></script>

A: Try this:
moment('31/08/2021', 'DD-MM-YYYY').format('YYYY-MM-DD')

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