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What Makes Dubai So Special?
Why is Dubai considered to be one of the best cities in the world? – The progress made in architecture in Dubai Dubai is a metropolis that aspires to be both the largest and the most successful in the world. The city never stops working to improve upon its already impressive collection of landmarks and architectural marvels.
In addition to being home to a number of architectural marvels, such as the Burj Al Arab and the Burj Khalifa, Dubai is also home to a number of important tourism and recreational sites.
Dubai has high expectations that it would be able to add even more fascinating attractions to its already extensive list in the years to come.
The following are examples of some of the outstanding projects that are anticipated to be finished within the next three years: The Project for the Dubai Water Canal The Museum of the Future is located here. The Crowning Glory of the Stream The Municipality of Al Habtoor Those islands known as Deira.
The First District of the MBR City The City of the Magic Lamp The framework of Dubai The coastline of Al Mamzar Beach The Bluewaters Island, where the Dubai Eye is located The Port of Dubai in Dubai Creek The Burj Khalifa will be surpassed in height by the Dubai Creek Tower.
The skyscraper has not yet been finished despite the fact that its completion in 2022 had been anticipated.
However, due to the widespread spread of the coronavirus, it is now unclear when the construction of the structure will be finished. The construction started in 2016, and it is estimated that it would cost more than 3.67 billion AED. When all of these new developments are finished, it will unquestionably enable Dubai to keep its place as one of the top cities in the world, and even improve on that position! There is a large and growing expat population in Dubai.
Over 200 different nations are represented among Dubai's expatriate community, which accounts for 80 percent of the city's overall population.
This diversity is made possible by Dubai's policy of toleration and openness for people of all cultures, faiths, and ethnicities.
According to Gulf Sotheby's International Realty, the demand for real estate is expected to remain high due to the fact that 44 percent of younger, millennial expatriates are interested in purchasing a property in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the next three years.
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A frequent stop for vacationers and travelers. Dubai is a flourishing tourism destination that can be reached by plane from two-thirds of the world's population in less than eight hours. By the year 2020, Dubai hoped to attract twenty million tourists annually, which would be twice the number of tourists it had in 2012.
Despite the fact that numbers dropped during the year 2020 as a direct result of coronavirus travel restrictions, Dubai became a favorite destination among online influencers.
These individuals were surely drawn to the affluent aspect of the city.
The Gulf Bureau of Statistics predicts that by the year 2023, the city will be in the top spot worldwide in terms of both tourist and business.
It is anticipated that Dubai's economy would return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, with gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 3.5%, despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been responsible for the downfall of many economies over the course of the last year.
Opportunities for companies that are rapidly expanding in Dubai To successfully attract overseas investors, it is essential to provide a business climate that is secure, sustainable, and profitable.
Because the city is politically secure, has a robust economy, and a bright outlook, it is an easy choice for anybody wishing to invest in real estate in another country.
According to the real estate website Bayut.com, the annual rental returns in Dubai vary from 8% to 10%, which is helping to attract a rising number of investors from China and India. Dubai's property market In contrast to the majority of real estate markets, which have been experiencing a fall throughout COVID-19, Dubai's real estate market began to recover in February of last year due to increased demand for upscale apartments and villas.
In the month of February, real estate prices increased in a number of locations, including Jumeirah Beach Residence, Palm Jumeirah, and International City, with an average rise of 1.3% month over month.
If you are thinking about moving to Dubai, you should read over our free emigration and currency guidelines or give us a call at the number 020 7350 5474 to talk to us about how you may save money on your currency transfer.
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If you are planning to go there, you should also look over our advice.
What is Dubai best known for?
The record-breaking Burj Khalifa, Dubai Mall, and the Palm, as well as Dubai's dynamic culture, tumultuous past, contemporary infrastructure, enormous aquariums, and indoor ski slopes, have all contributed to the city's widespread notoriety. In addition, Dubai is famous for its super-fast automobiles, its driverless underground, its sweltering summer temperatures, and its beautiful beaches.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates receives tourists throughout the entire year.
You'll learn 33 amazing things about Dubai that have made the city renowned throughout this guide.
Let's find out what sets Dubai apart from other cities, from its awe-inspiring skyscrapers to its opulent shopping opportunities, from its dazzling nightlife to its exhilarating desert safaris.
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What makes Dubai a special city?
The rich diversity of nations' cultural practices and religious beliefs Due to the large number of people living in Dubai who are not natives of the country, the city has developed into a genuinely global metropolis, and as a result, it is home to a diverse range of places of worship, restaurants, language schools, and cultural events throughout the year.
What attracts Dubai tourists?
The following are the top sources of tourists visiting Dubai: (Jan-Dec 2021) –
Country Number of Tourists
India 9,10,000
Saudi Arabia 4,91,000
Russia 4,44,000
United Kingdom 4,20,000
USA 3,11,000
France 2,91,000
Oman 2,80,000
Pakistan 2,47,000
Germany 2,40,000
Egypt 2,18,000
Others 34,28,000
The United Arab Emirates' tourism industry, which is effectively managed by the government, has undertaken "revival" measures in order to open its doors to tourists. In order to help travelers acclimate to the 'new' normal and provide them with a sense of safety while they are traveling, creative solutions have been developed.
These efforts to reignite the tourism industry were not for naught and were successful.
Between January and December of 2021, Dubai welcomed around 7.28 million tourists from other countries.
Which around 0.91 million were people of Indian descent.
The majority of tourists traveling to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates came from the country of India (and this trend has not changed).
Russia came in second place with 0.44 million tourists, while Saudi Arabia came in second place with 0.49 million tourists. You are welcome to have a look at the graphic to see which 10 countries send the most tourists to Dubai.
Is Dubai the most beautiful city?
On a list of the "Most Beautiful Cities" in the Arab world, Dubai was voted to be number one overall.
How do you describe Dubai?
Characteristics of the city Dubai is known as a city of skyscrapers, ports, and beaches, and it is a popular destination for sun-seeking tourists in addition to being a hub for international commerce. It has the sense of a Middle Eastern melting pot, and the environment is typically accepting because of the enormous number of people who have moved there from other countries.
There is not a significant emphasis placed on one's religious membership in city life. Even though Islam is the predominant religion in Dubai, the city is also home to Christian churches and Hindu temples. Dubai is a place that has a low crime rate overall, and its administrative effectiveness and openness to commerce have contributed to the city's phenomenal growth.
Critique of Dubai's authoritarian government and the governing class, on the other hand, is not permitted, and the city continues to maintain a culture of covert corruption.
What is attractive UAE?
According to the Retail Operation Index compiled by Arcadis, retailers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) benefit from some of the finest operating circumstances in the world thanks to the high quality of the country's infrastructure and the healthy economic climate in which they operate.
How To Get Married In Dubai?
What Factors Shape The Social Norms In Dubai?

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This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during October for: "Final Action Dates" and "Dates for Filing Applications," indicating when immigrant visa applicants should be notified to assemble and submit required documentation to the National Visa Center.
1. Procedures for determining dates. Consular officers are required to report to the Department of State documentarily qualified applicants for numerically limited visas; USCIS reports applicants for adjustment of status. Allocations in the charts below were made, to the extent possible, in chronological order of reported priority dates, for demand received by September 11th. If not all demand could be satisfied, the category or foreign state in which demand was excessive was deemed oversubscribed. The final action date for an oversubscribed category is the priority date of the first applicant who could not be reached within the numerical limits. If it becomes necessary during the monthly allocation process to retrogress a final action date, supplemental requests for numbers will be honored only if the priority date falls within the new final action date announced in this bulletin. If at any time an annual limit were reached, it would be necessary to immediately make the preference category "unavailable", and no further requests for numbers would be honored.
*NOTE: For October, F2A numbers EXEMPT from per-country limit are authorized for issuance to applicants from all countries with priority dates earlier than 15OCT15. F2A numbers SUBJECT to per-country limit are authorized for issuance to applicants chargeable to all countries EXCEPT MEXICO with priority dates beginning 15OCT15 and earlier than 22OCT15. All F2A numbers provided for MEXICO are exempt from the per-country limit.
Given the limited availability of visa numbers and the existing demand, the Department expects to reach the FY-2018 annual limit of 50 Special Immigrant Visas in the SI category early in the Fiscal Year. As a result, it has been necessary to establish an October Final Action Date of April 1, 2010. It is likely that number use will require the SI category to become "unavailable" in the coming months. Once the annual limit of 50 visas is reached, further issuances in the SI category will not be possible until October 2018, under the FY-2019 annual limit. The SQ Special Immigrant Visa category for certain Iraqi and Afghan nationals employed by or on behalf of the U.S. government in Iraq or Afghanistan is not affected and remains current.
Employment First: The category will remain "Current".
The above final action date projections for the Family and Employment categories indicate what is likely to happen on a monthly basis through January based on current applicant demand patterns. Readers should never assume that recent trends in final action date movements are guaranteed for the future, or that "corrective" action will not be required at some point in an effort to maintain number use within the applicable annual limits. The determination of the actual monthly final action dates is subject to fluctuations in applicant demand and a number of other variables.


There is only one God and we should worship Him alone.
Jezebel was a Phoenician princess, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre, which is ancient Phonecia. Ahab and Jezebel worshiped the false gods Baal and Asherah, erecting shrines to them in Samaria. This was evil in the sight of the Lord.
Ahab, who ruled the northern kingdom from 874 to 853 BC, was considered the wickedest king of Israel. The Old Testament speaks of Ahab more than any other king of the northern kingdom of Israel. Four chapters are devoted to Ahab's reign (1 Kings 18, 20–22).
Elijah stood up boldly for God in a time when idolatry had swept his land. After a 3-year drought, Elijah went out to confront the king and his false prophets. Confident of the power of God, Elijah challenged the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of the false god Asherah to a showdown on Mount Carmel.
How can we, like Elijah, confront evil?
God is calling his people to face evil in this world with the truth of Scripture and with boldness. When God made a covenant with Israel on Mount Sinai, he told them to have no false gods.
In the days of Elijah, the children of Israel went after the false gods. Their sin led to a the prophet Elijah challenges the false prophets (1 Kings 18:15). The same thing happens in our lives, families, churches, and communities. When we make a commitment to live for God, we will face conflict with evil.
Just like Elijah, God will give each of us power and wisdom through the Holy Spirit to confront whatever evil may stand in opposition to the plan of God.
Did Elijah fight with the spirit or flesh?
The Bible says we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers the rulers of the darkness of this world (Eph. 6:12). The prophet Elijah did not come against the false prophets of Baal with an army and weapons. Instead he relied on the power of Almighty God to show Himself strong and to prove supernaturally that He was in fact the one true God.
Sometimes when we are confronted with evil in this world, we are tempted to fight it with our own human strength. But Scripture tells us that it is not by might, not by power, but by his spirit that we overcome in this life (Zech. 4:6). The book of Revelation declares that believers overcame the devil by the blood of the lamb, by the word of their testimony, loving not their life, even unto death (Rev. 12:11).
So when we confront evil in our lives, families, churches, or communities, we need to do so first in the spirit through prayer and through declaring the truth of the Word of God. If we will put our trust in the Lord first and not rely on our own strength or understanding, God will come through to uphold his word and to protect his people (Prov. 3:5-6).
Did Elijah seek revenge on Ahab and Jezebel?
No. Scriptures tells us that when the enemy comes in like a flood God will lift up a standard against him (Is. 59:19). God raised up Elijah, one of the most powerful prophets of the Old Testament to confront two of the most wicked rulers in Israel's history, Ahab and Jezebel.
The Bible teaches us that God will not be mocked; whatsoever a person so was they will also reap (Gal. 6:7). Ahab and Jezebel not only rejected God, but they encouraged and promoted idolatry throughout the land. While Jezebel was thoroughly corrupt, Ahab showed that he had tenderness still in his heart toward the one true God. Because of this, God showed him mercy, despite Ahab propensity to sin and to listen to his unbelieving spouse.
However we see in the case of Ahab, that God's mercy toward him was only extended until he stopped obeying the clear direction that God had given him through his prophets. When that happened and he overtly disobeyed, the judgment of God came to his life and he died a violent death in fulfillment of the words of the prophet. Likewise, Jezebel also died violently, exactly as the prophet had foretold. When we are confronted with those who do evil and who fight against the God of the Bible, we may be tempted to allow hatred and 'unforgiveness' to rise up in our hearts.
But Jesus made it clear that we are to love our enemies, do 'good' to those who persecute us, and pray for those who treat us poorly (Matt. 5:44). Perhaps by showing love to people like this, they will have a change of heart and turn to God for salvation. It is not for us as human beings to pass judgment, but instead to intercede for those who do not know the Lord that their eyes would be open (Luke 6:28). Scripture clearly says, "Judgment is mine says the Lord. I will repay" (Rom. 12:19). Those who sow violence and hatred, unless they repent and turn from their wicked ways, will reap a tragic harvest (Gal. 6:7). Scripture says that God does not wish that any would perish, but that all would come to salvation (2 Pet. 3:9). So it's our responsibility to pray that God would be merciful to those who oppose Him in this life.
How do we stay hopeful, like Elijah, when we don't see the rain?
There were no visiual signs of God's provision but Elijah simply went to the top of Mount Carmel and bowed low to the ground. He prayed with his face between his knees.
And soon the sky was black with clouds.
Should we boast in the Lord or Ourselves?
How do I become even closer to God than I am now?


For the second time at Flame Off we are offering "Taster" classes.
Not everybody has the time or the money to attend the Thursday full day classes and many that do book on a class have to make a choice between 2 or 3 of their favourite artists , well now you can book a 3 hour "taster" class with all the artists plus more.
Each class will be 3 hours , either 9.30 - 12.30pm or 1.30-4.30pm on both Friday and Saturday allowing you to take part in a shorter class and still enjoy Flame Off as well.
In this class we will cover right from the basics of holding a mandrel correctly and comfortably, gravity shaping and heat control. We'll discover the difference between opaque and transparent glass, playing with colours and frit, pulling stringers in different thickness and using glass as a tool.
And by the end of the lesson you'll be armed with the knowledge on how to shape beads with only basic tools commonly found in most starter kits!


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Nationalism Is a Dangerous Toy to Play Around With
The unintended consequences of nationalism.
Matt Kim
In the age of globalization, what place is there for nationalism in our media and our art? When the broad, often constructed, notion of a national identity drives the narrative of entertainment, it risks rendering that work non-essential, even boring. Just look at Overwatch.
Like many people in my generation, I tend to consider globalization as an egalitarian and almost moral concept. Nations and nationalism sow discord, especially in the post-colonial era where national identity are constructs meant to create fictional boundaries of division. More importantly, there is no single idea of what a nation or a national story is, other than the one constructed by the powers that be.
This could be positive narratives, could be insidious narratives, either way though it's an overly simplistic way of thinking about things.The important thing in this case is to understand the difference between a culture and a nation. As a nation, the United States of America is just a GDP, population statistics, and a military affixed to a western idea of democracy. As a culture, the U.S. is built upon millions of different stories, ideas, and history. The latter is much more interesting than the former, and it's why something like the Olympics and Olympic-themed events feel at odds with today's pop-culture discourse. The aptly timed Summer Games in Overwatch only bolsters my point.
Lucioball Overwatch
Much has been written about Overwatch's diverse roster of characters, but it feels like Blizzard never fully acquaints itself with the rich, cultural history of all 22 heroes in Overwatch. It's why the company feels like it can slap a Native American costume on the Egyptian hero Pharah, despite what it might say about skin color and cultural appropriation. Without taking a side on that debate, it's at least safe to say that Blizzard's consideration of national and racial identity isn't the highest concern when creating characters. They simply design a cool hero, affix a nationality, and do their damnedest to at least be accurate about their cultural representation. It's "pretty good," I would say, without going much further than that.
It's why the recent Summer Games event Blizzard is hosting on Overwatch feels so generic at best, and a little dangerous at worst. For example take Zarya, the character from Russia. Zarya was one of he first heroes announced for Overwatch, and the reception to her character has been largely positive. Here's a woman character in a video game who breaks several molds of what female video game characters looked like. She's tall, muscular, tattooed, and sports a fun pink hair color. She's "Russian" enough, but more than that she's Zarya.
Now look at her Russian costume Blizzard released for the Summer Games. Blonde haired and sporting a Russia uniform, she's been made to fit in with a standard athletic appearance. It normalizes her appearance to fit in with what a representative of "Russia" would look like. Not just her, but the Brazilian Lúcio gets a soccer jersey, and the other characters get a national uniform appropriate to their race. It's a silly trifle that allows players to win some specially timed loot and play a new mode called Lúcioball (it plays like soccer).
But if you bring in something as nationalistic as an Olympic style of games, something the recent doping scandal in Russia illustrates as a matter of national pride, then you risk drawing unfortunate comparison.
Character outfits Blizzard Entertainment
In-game, Zarya is a little bit wary of Overwatch's robot race known as the "Omnic". As it stands, it's an interesting direction for the character who interacts differently with human and robot characters in-game. It adds to her character in a way that makes her complicated to root for. By engaging with something like the Olympics, and regressing her character design to something that appears typically Russian, it's not hard to see how her character's racism and national identity makes her appear compared to real world headlines.
Of course not all Russians are racist or homophobic. That's one narrative often portrayed in the media however, and it's further proof of the unfortunate consequence of nationalism. So while culture is something to be valued and celebrated, nationalism and nationalist narratives that are continuously perpetrated domestically and abroad complicate things. And while creators and developers should never be discouraged from trying new and fun things, Blizzard's laissez-faire attitude towards identity can lead to pretty boring — and even downright unfortunate — outcomes.


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Q: How can I store data from entity type selectbox (Symfony)? I have a select box created with formbuilder:
<select id="form_type" name="form[type]" class="form-control select2 select2-hidden-accessible" tabindex="-1" aria-hidden="true">
  <option value="1">text</option>
  <option value="2">hidden</option>
  <option value="3">password</option>
  <option value="4" selected="selected">icon</option>
  <option value="5">select</option>
</select>

This is how it is created in my controller:
$formBuilder->add('type', EntityType::class, array(
            'attr' => array('class' => 'form-control select2'), 'label' => 'Type',
            'class' => FieldTypes::class,
            'choice_label' => function ($fieldTypes) {
              return $fieldTypes->getName();
              }
            ));

$formBuilder->add('cancel', ButtonType::class, array('label' => 'cancel','attr' => array('class' => 'cancel form-btn btn btn-default pull-right close_sidebar')))
        ->add('save', SubmitType::class, array('label' => 'Save','attr' => array('id' => 'submit-my-beautiful-form','class' => 'form-btn btn btn-info pull-right','style' => 'margin-right:5px')));
        $form = $formBuilder->getForm();

        $form->handleRequest($request);

But when I want to save a selection I get the error message:

Argument 1 passed to App\Entity\Fields::setType() must be an instance
  of App\Entity\FieldTypes or null, string given, called in
  /Users/work/project/src/Controller/PagesController.php on line 242

In my entity:
 public function setType(?FieldTypes $type): self
  {
    $this->type = $type;
    return $this;
  }

This is how it it stored:
$entity = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository($EntityName)->find($data['form[id]']);
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
foreach ($fields as $field) {
   $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
   $func = 'set'.$field['fieldName'];
   $args = $data['form['.$field['fieldName'].']'];
   $entity->$func($args);
}
$em->flush();

A: Use the method $form->handleRequest($request). It will populate your form using its configuration (it will instanciate a FieldType using the posted id).
Here, you add manually the "raw" value of your select, which is string containing the id of your FieldType.
edit : see the docs

A: According to your code, its little bit diffucult to understand but
if $field is as a string.
foreach ($fields as $field) {
$obj = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository($fieldEntity)->find(field);
$entiy->setType($obj);
}

A: Try after form submit block
$entity->setType($form->get('type'));

$form->get('type') will return as a FieldTypes class.
also if you use $field instead of $field['fieldName'],
will object return.
for example,
$func = 'set'.$field;

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Tourists Left in Limbo After Passport Theft From Agency
Thread: Tourists Left in Limbo After Passport Theft From Agency
7th February 2017, 06:45 #1
About 50 tourists whose passports were stolen after being sent away for visa extensions last month were still in limbo on Monday despite a large travel agency reportedly agreeing to foot the bill for new documentation.
According to Chea Sokhum, a branch manager at bus company Virak Buntham, 50 passports were sent to VLK Travel in Sihanoukville from smaller agencies in the coastal town last month. VLK then passed them onto CPSTA, a logistics company, who arranged for the package to be taken to Phnom Penh on a Virak Buntham bus on January 22, Ms. Sokhum said.
The passports were then placed in a Virak Buntham office in Daun Penh district, but were stolen by "two scavengers" that night as a security guard napped, she said.
On Monday, 20 representatives of small travel agencies in Sihanoukville met with VLK, which agreed to foot the bill for issuing new documentation, said Keo Sreyrath, the owner of Otres Tour & Travel.
"I already settled it for the clients. I sent them to Phnom Penh to get new passports, and I will pay for all the expenses," she said, adding that VLK would reimburse her.
VLK representatives declined to comment.
British backpacker James Lloyd, 22, who was among those whose passports were stolen, said he expected it would be a while before he could get new travel documents.
"We don't know who is paying and what we're going to pay for," he said.
"We were going to leave Cambodia at the end of this month[to go] to Vietnam, me and my friend that I am with," he said.
"Honestly, we will not be able to do that because it needs more than a month to come through."
soumy@cambodiadaily.com
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Husband Sabotages Wife's Job – Then Claims She is Under-Employed
Family law litigation has a well -deserved reputation for often being unpleasant: by definition, all disputes involve conflict but the addition of emotional factors frequently foster mud-slinging and accusations, sneaky tactics, and generally bad behaviour on the part of separated and divorcing spouses.
Although certainly not the worst I've seen, a decision from last week released by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice called Myers v. Myers illustrates this, and in particular shows how such tactics can sometimes backfire on the party perpetrating them.
The couple had been married for about 15 years when they separated. They had two children aged 16 and 12 at the time. Respecting the child custody arrangement, the court wrote:
After separation, they maintained their separate residences relatively close to one another in the Napanee area. They developed and maintained an equal time sharing regime for the children, who moved seamlessly from one parent's home to the other. This continued until that arrangement was disrupted as a result of an incident in August 2010 during a baseball tournament in New Brunswick. [The daughter's] baseball team was playing for the champanionship. The Respondent/father, a spectator, became involved in an incident which found several of the parents confront one another on the playing field. [The daughter] was embarrassed and angry at her father. Their relationship unfortunately deteriorated to the point where [the daughter] has refused to see her father as of December 2010. Since then, she has resided in the sole care and custody of her mother and has not had any contact with her father. Although this unfortunate estrangement could and should have been resolved a long time ago, it continues to linger. In my view, a little goodwill and some humility would likely restore the prior unblemished relationship of father and daughter. They both owe it to one another. [The other daughter] continues with the original sharing arrangement, spending equal time with each parent.
The wife sought support from the husband, and claimed that he was routinely under-reporting his income from his self-employment as a plumber.
The husband, in turn, was asking for spousal support from the wife. However, her current work situation and income-earning capacity was in turmoil, a situation that was at least partly orchestrated by the husband himself.
This is because the wife, who had been employed with Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), had been the subject of a work-related complaint lodged by the husband himself in 2010 (i.e. after separation) that she was misconducting herself in her job, by directing legally-aided clients to her own lawyer. The court described the situation this way:
With respect to the Respondent's complaint made to LAO, she has and continues to deny it. She states there is no substance, nor factual support for the complaint. In confronting the Respondent, he admitted to her that "if you throw enough s***, something will stick." Additionally, the Respondent told her that if she were to discontinue her Application, he would withdraw his complaint to LAO. In this trial, the Respondent called no evidence to substantiate any of the allegations of his complaint to LAO. In fact, he admitted that he had no facts to support his complaint and that it was entirely an unsubstantiated feeling upon which he had acted. Nevertheless, it had a drastic adverse consequence for the Applicant. Despite her prior unblemished work record, she was in effect put on a dead end track by LAO, pending the outcome of the investigation launched as a result of the complaint. To this day, the investigation does not appear to have reached an official conclusion.
Not surprisingly, the allegation took its toll on the wife personally: She had been removed from the front lines of her workplace, had been instructed to work from home, gradually became depressed and struggled with her work. Her doctor recommended a leave of absence, and she sought counselling. She was eventually diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
On the husband's motivation for filing the complaint, the court wrote:
I find the complaint made by the Respondent to be malicious and without substance. By his own admission, the Respondent acknowledged the complaint was in retaliation by him to the Applicant's actions in attempting to identify the particulars of any cash transactions in which he may have been involved with respect to his business. He acknowledged that he had no information regarding the Applicant's status of her employment with LAO and had no information regarding her emotional disability resulting from the complaint which he launched. To his credit, he has accepted that the Applicant has gone through a difficult period as a result of his unfounded complaint.
Since her job status with LAO was uncertain, the wife switched careers by training to become a licensed paralegal. Yet despite his undeniable role in her work-related woes, the husband nonetheless claimed she was deliberately under-employed.
The court found that, to the contrary, under the circumstances this change in the career path was reasonable in the circumstances. Indeed, it commented that the husband had advanced a spousal support claim against the wife "[f]or reasons that are not clear." He currently earned more than she did, and in light of all the usual legal considerations was the party who was in a better position to pay support.
Furthermore, the husband had been hiding his true income. The court concluded that as sole proprietor of an unincorporated plumbing business, he was regularly operating on a cash-sales basis with no "paper trail", and he was earning unreported income that amounted to at least 10% of his annual declared gross sales. The court also found the husband had significantly inflated his business expenses.
In the end, the court took all these conclusions into account, and allocated the husband as having 60% of the child support responsibility, while the wife was to have 40%. He was to pay $1,750 per month for 2012, $2,000 per month for 2013, with adjustments made for subsequent years until 2017 when support would terminate. The court also made additional findings in connection with special expense and costs.
Myers v. Myers, 2013 ONSC 170 http://canlii.ca/t/fvj1g
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Venezuela is in the throes of a severe economic and humanitarian crisis. The incompetent, repressive policies of President Nicolás Maduro have propelled Venezuela into a downward spiral, and political turmoil is deepening the chaotic situation in the country.
The economic and humanitarian crises, coupled with rising authoritarianism, have forced many Venezuelans to flee.
As the conditions worsen in the oil-rich country, the number of Venezuelans flowing into neighboring countries continues to grow. As of February, more than four million Venezuelans—over 10 percent of the country's population—have fled the country. Colombia alone is estimated to be hosting more than two million Venezuelans.
The Venezuelan refugee crisis has become the latest in a string of massive dislocations of populations across the world. This massive exodus of Venezuelans is reminiscent of the Syrian refugee crisis, not just because of its massive outward flow, but also because of its likely consequences in host countries. In this respect, the risks and challenges that Europe and neighboring countries of Syria have faced during the refugee crisis provide some important lessons for Latin America as it confronts the Venezuelan migration crisis.
Bashar al-Assad's regime has ruthlessly targeted millions of civilians, including with chemical weapons and barrel bombs. The civil war has killed thousands of Syrian citizens, displaced half of the population, and caused millions to flee the country. The burden of the exodus has largely fallen on countries bordering Syria—Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan—but it's also had a profound political effect in Europe.
The most important problem of the Syrian refugee crisis has been the misinterpretation of the Syrian civil war by European countries and Syria's neighbors. Many governments have failed to foresee the longevity of the conflict. It was wrongly assumed that the Assad regime would be shortly overthrown and the war would quickly die down. Under this idealistic scenario, Syrians would return to their home after an Arab Spring-like regime change.
Unfortunately since the crisis started, Syrian refugees have been held in temporary refugee camps in neighboring countries, many of which have been open for several years. Host countries have resisted classifying refugees as permanent settlers because of concerns that they may never return to Syria once they permanently resettled. As a result, host governments arrived at a messy compromise; providing temporary shelter for displaced Syrian citizens substantially diffused the crisis, but it was not a long-term solution.
The lack of a coherent collective plan in Europe has led to serious challenges that threaten the survival of a unified Europe itself, not to mention the long-term future of displaced Syrian refugees. The refugee crisis sparked many concerns within European Union (EU) member states. As the crisis escalated, nationalist and xenophobic sentiments have become a growing concern, and anti-immigrant populist movements have gained strength throughout the continent.
Anti-immigration sentiment has become inflamed across the developed countries in Europe as well as in neighboring countries. Populist leaders across Europe have been using the migration crisis as political capital while ultra-nationalist parties have successfully turned fear of refugees into votes. Will the flame carry across the Atlantic for Venezuelan asylum seekers?
As the scale of the Venezuelan crisis becomes more acute, the million-dollar question is how Latin American countries will manage a refugee crisis on a scale that the continent has never experienced.
Latin American countries' first reaction to the Venezuelan refugee crisis showed some striking similarities with the European reaction to the Syrian refugee crisis. Under current policy, Latin American countries are considering the Venezuelan refugees as temporary settlers that will return to their home country once the Maduro regime leaves power. But that moment seems a long way off, as the once petroleum-rich country continues to spiral into an economic, political and humanitarian disaster. Meanwhile there are no serious challenges to Maduro's grip on power and a realistic exit strategy remains difficult to imagine. The Venezuelan government will most likely retain its hold on power through more repression within Venezuela and finding new, like-minded allies around the world.
The process ahead is littered with the challenges for Venezuela's neighbors. As the number of Venezuelan refugees soars, animosity towards Venezuelan migrants will likely continue to grow. As the scale of the exodus grows, these refugees will be scapegoated for economic shortcomings in hosting countries. Populations will start to believe that Venezuelan migrants are responsible for taking their jobs and social benefits. Indeed, harassment aimed at intimidating Venezuelan refugees has already started to appear in some Latin American countries. If this crisis isn't addressed as an objective policy issue, the region risks a tide of right-wing populism fueled by negative sentiment towards refugees.
With no short-term solution in sight, a strategy that addresses the long-term issues presented by the presence Venezuelan refugees in host countries is essential. The region needs to be better positioned to identify and react to the refugee crisis before it turns into a full-blown regional crisis. Venezuelan refugees should be considered as permanent migrants given the deteriorating situation in their poor, directionless country. At the same time, host countries should concentrate on long-term policies to mitigate the potential political, economic, and social disturbance within their borders.
Most important, due to the risks associated with rising negative sentiment, a better integration policy would be in the interest of host countries. As the Venezuelan crisis continues to drag on, the continued presence of Venezuelan migrants throughout Latin America threatens to strain economies and deepen political tensions, fueling public anxiety and hostility towards the refugees. And given Maduro's intransigence, the political oppositions' lack of a coherent democratic strategy and the government's half-baked economic proposals, change is unlikely to come soon.
Host countries should come to terms with the possibility that many displaced Venezuelans aren't going anywhere anytime soon. By adopting a holistic, compassionate long-term strategy for integrating Venezuelan refugees socially and economically, Latin American countries can avoid the serious errors of their European counterparts.
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The Maynardville Open-Air Theater is an outdoor theatre in Maynardville Park, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa. It seats 720 people and is known for its annual Shakespeare in the Park plays.

History

Park grounds
Before it was named Maynardville, the land where the park now sits was government ground, first administered by the Dutch East India Company and, after 1795, by other British authorities.
In July 1807 two young officers of the Cape regiment, Lieut. Louis Ellert and Lieut. Ernst Egger, married two sisters named Gertruida and Catherina Baartman. Just prior to his marriage, Ellert was granted a piece of land adjacent to the camp, where he built a cottage named Rosendal. The uneven ground was levelled and cultivated by slaves on either side of a stream known as the Krakeelwater, which flowed through the small estate. For several years Ellert and his wife shared the house with her sister and husband until, in 1810, Egger decided to purchase a piece of ground adjacent to Rosendal for his own use. Ellert was later killed in the war on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, but because he had transferred ownership to his wife, the widow Ellert continued to manage her small farm after her husband's death.

Her brother-in-law was not so efficient in his farming operations and this, coupled with his extravagant life style, forced him into bankruptcy. His land was not lost to his family, however, because his sister-in law purchased his property. To do this and to support her large household, the widow Ellert took a bond on the property from a Cape Town businessman and member of parliament named James Mortimer Maynard.

In 1836, Maynard took over Rosendal from the widow Ellert, who had become insolvent. He later bought another property from her to make up the site for his home, Maynard's Villa. Maynard died on 9 September 1874. As he failed to produce an heir, his estate went to his nephew, William Mortimer Maynard Farmer, who was already an established business man.

Farmer married the daughter of Major Richard Wolfe, then resident magistrate and civil commissioner of Wynberg. Their daughter Enid married John Bernard, a major in the Royal Marines; they had two sons, Gerald and Brian. Enid Bernard died in 1949 and Maynardville was immediately sold to the Cape Town City Council, to be preserved as a public park. The historic but dilapidated homestead was demolished by the municipal authorities in 1954.

Theatre
The theatre had its origins in late 1949, when a local philanthropist, Margaret Molteno, submitted an application for municipal permission to convert the little-used park into an open-air theatre for dance performances. She had been inspired by a recent visit to Regents Park Open-air Theatre in London, and intended to use the project as a means of funding schools and teacher-training colleges for underprivileged children on the Cape Flats. She chaired the Athlone Committee for Nursery Education, which was a group of women who conducted charity projects in underprivileged areas. The open-air theatre was first established by a small group of members from this committee, including Jean Bernadt, Dulcie Cooper, Ann Harris, Margaret McKenzie, Margaret Molteno and Lorna Thompson. A successful approach to the then Mayor of Cape Town, Mr Abe Bloomberg, resulted in permission to use the premises. The Athlone ladies had the grounds overhauled, and facilitated the pro bono services of the Municipal Orchestra, Principal Dulcie Howes of the UCT Ballet School and Dean Erik Chisholm of the College of Music as conductor.

The open-air theatre officially began operation from the evening of 1 December 1950, with the successful performances of Les Sylphides, St Valentine's Night and Les Diversions. The money raised from this and later performances went to fund a pre-primary school in Athlone as well as the establishment of the Athlone Teachers' Training College – the country's first college for coloured teachers of pre-school children. Another supported community project was the Blouvlei Nursery School, which was built by Dora Tamana, Jean Bernadt and Margaret Molteno of the Athlone Committee, under Mrs Tamana's direction, and opened in May 1955. Unusually for South Africa at the time, Maynardville had also been preserved as "Open to All" and free from segregation. This was one reason why the venue was chosen. Several of the founding committee members were members of the Black Sash, the South African Communist Party or other strongly anti-apartheid organisations. The organisers and first audiences were also multiracial.

In 1953, instead of organising the annual ballet performance, Mrs Molteno approached the well-known South African actresses Cecilia Sonnenberg and Rene Ahrenson, and invited them to establish Shakespearean seasons.
The actresses were first uncertain and then declined the invitation later that year. The dance performances therefore began again in 1954 with Don Quixote and Carnaval performed on a wooden stage situated where the seating of the modern stage is now located. The reason for situating the stage in the north-west corner of the park was that since 1952 the badly dilapidated Maynard villa could no longer be used for routing electricity for the stage. The Athlone ladies found that they could access electricity directly from the street poles at the intersection of Church and Wolfe streets and so the stage needed to be close enough to be within reach of their cables.

In 1955 Mrs Ahrenson and Mrs Sonnenberg finally agreed to accept the project and they enlisted the support of the Councillor A.Z. Berman for the necessary infrastructure. The Athlone Committee now stopped their annual dance performances to work on supporting the Shakespearean preparations being led by the two actresses. The organisers soon had a new and renovated stage and a raked auditorium. Mrs Ahrenson and Mrs Sonnenberg contacted Leslie French, an English stage and film actor, whom they had invited to South Africa only months before, to come to Cape Town to direct and act in the theatre's first play. It was chosen to be The Taming of the Shrew.

The performance of The Taming of the Shrew on 29 January 1956 was a notable success. The two actresses themselves performed leading roles in this and later productions. In 1957 the theatre opened again in the usual location but with the larger dimensions it has occupied ever since. In February 1958 the Maynardville Open Air Theatre was finally declared a permanent institution by the Cape Town City Council.
After the Shakespearean seasons were fully established, the ballet performances were begun again, and both were run in parallel ever since.

In the following years, the Shakespearean seasons grew into the immensely popular annual tradition of "Shakespeare-in-the-Park", which has made Maynardville famous. After decades of serving as the public face of the theatre, Cecilia and Rene retired in the mid-1990s, and most of the theatre's drama department closed when they left.  However, the park still maintains its dance performances and Shakespeare series through the Maynardville Theatre Trust, which was created after Cecilia retired.

(Plays are overseen by the Maynardville Theatre Trust, along with Artscape, while ballets were managed and run by the CAPAB Ballet Company from 1963 and by Cape Town City Ballet from 2002.)
2015 Othello (play)
2015 La Sylphide (ballet)
2014 The Tragedy of King Richard III (play)
2014 The Firebird (ballet)
2013 Giselle (ballet)
2013 A Midsummer Night's Dream (play)
2012 The Comedy of Errors (play)
2012 Solitaire, Graduation Ball (ballet)
2011 The Taming of The Shrew (play)
2011 Night and Day (ballet)
2010 Les Sylphides, The Firebird (ballet)
2010 Anthony and Cleopatra (play)
2009 La Sylphide (ballet)
2009 As You Like It (play)
2008 The Merchant of Venice (play)
2008 Giselle (ballet)
2007 Romeo & Juliet (play)
2007 Ballets al Fresco (ballet)
2006 Twelfth Night (play)
2006 Carmen (ballet)
2005 Swan Lake (Act 2) (ballet)
2005 Much Ado about Nothing (play)
2004 Le Tricorne, The Lady and the Fool (ballet)
2004 Macbeth (play)
2003 Two Gentlemen of Verona (play)
2003 La Sylphide (ballet)
2002 Giselle (ballet)
2002 A Midsummer Night's Dream (play)
2001 Othello (play)
2000 Romeo & Juliet (play)
1999 As You Like It (play)
1998 Twelfth Night (play)
1997 The Winter's Tale (play)
1996 The Taming of The Shrew (play)
1995 A Midsummer Night's Dream (play)
1994 The Tempest (play)
1993 Two Gentlemen of Verona (play)
1992 The Merchant of Venice (play)
1991 Loves Labours Lost (play)
1990 Much Ado About Nothing (play)
1989 Twelfth Night (play)
1988 Romeo & Juliet (play)
1987 Measure for Measure (play)
1987 Comedy of Errors (play)
1985 As You Like It (play)
1984 The Taming of the Shrew (play)
1983 The Tempest (play)
1982 Othello (play)
1981 A Midsummer Night's Dream (play)
1980 Romeo and Juliet (play)
1979 The Merchant of Venice (play)
1978 Twelfth Night (play)
1977 Much Ado About Nothing (play)
1976 Julius Caesar (play)
1975 Hamlet (play)
1974 Umabatha (play)
1974 Flower Festival in Genzano, The Firebird (ballet)
1973 The Tempest (play)
1973 Giselle (ballet)
1972 Sylvia (Act 3), Verklärte Nacht, Peter and the Wolf (ballet)
1972 Anthony and Cleopatra (play)
1971 The Winter's Tale (play)
1971 Coppélia Suite, A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
1970 Othello (play)
1969 The Merry Wives of Windsor (play)
1969 Les Deux Pigeons (ballet)
1968 Swan Lake (ballet)
1968 Richard II (play)
1967 Le Tricorne, The Lady and the Fool (ballet)
1967 Macbeth (play)
1966 King Lear (play)
1965 The Taming of the Shrew (play)
1965 Giselle (ballet)
1964 Hamlet (play)
1964 A Midsummer Night's Dream (play)
1963 The Merchant of Venice (play)
1963 Petrushka (ballet)
1962 TheSleeping Beauty (ballet)
1962 Much Ado About Nothing (play)
1961 Twelfth Night (play)
1961 The Nutcracker, Blood Wedding (ballet)
1960 The Tempest (play)
1959 The Winter's Tale (play)
1958 The Firebird, Les Patineurs, Beauty and the Beast (ballet)
1958 As You Like It (play)
1957 A Midsummer Night's Dream (play)
1956 The Taming of the Shrew (play)
1954 Don Quixote (pas de deux), Carnaval (ballet)
1952 Le Lac de Cygnes (2nd Act), Giselle (ballet)
1951 Les Sylphides, St Valentine's Night, Amor Eterno (ballet)
1950 Les Sylphides, St Valentine's Night, Les Diversions (ballet)

The park today

Maynardville has been designated as a "priority park" by the City of Cape Town, which means it has a development framework in place, spearheaded by the Maynardville Park Action Committee. This includes repairs to the facilities, incorporating the Wynberg library, creating a new gateway entrance, upgrading Rosendal Cottage, developing the historic avenue around Wolfe Street, and constructing a new pavilion.

Citations

Notes

Previous production reviews
http://www.capetowntoday.co.za/Theatre/Maynardville/Twelfth_Night.htm
http://www.fodors.com/world/africa-and-middle-east/south-africa/cape-town/review-108050.html
http://www.alltheshows.co.za/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=5794&year=2008&month=1
http://entertainment.bizcommunity.com/?p=84
http://jillinthecape.blogspot.com/2008/02/merchant-of-venice-maynardville-in-dark.html

Wynberg, Cape Town
Theatres in South Africa
Buildings and structures in Cape Town
Tourist attractions in Cape Town
Cape Town culture
Outdoor theatres
Theatres completed in 1950
1950 establishments in South Africa

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Archive for April 9, 2022
Newsline: Diplomat says no Russian oil embargo at next EU meeting
April 9, 2022 at 9:31 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
European Union foreign ministers will not formally discuss an oil embargo on Russia at Monday's meeting in Luxembourg, a senior EU diplomat involved in preparations said. (https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/oil-embargo-not-under-formal-discussion-at-next-eu-meeting-senior-diplomat-says-963385) EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell had earlier said that banning oil imports from Russia would be discussed when ministers meet for the scheduled gathering, after the bloc moved to ban coal in a fifth package of sanctions this week. But "It won't be on the table on Monday," the diplomat said. Lithuania as well as Ukraine itself are among the most vocal of EU member states in calling for a Russian oil embargo as the EU's next step. Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and Hungary have so far resisted more discussion about banning Russian oil imports because of their dependency on the energy source. The EU diplomat said it was up to the European Commission, the EU executive, to decide when to come forward with a proposal.
Newsline: Italian embassy councillor robbed in Delhi
Two persons were arrested by the police for robbing a 54-year-old Italian embassy councillor in Delhi. An Italian embassy councillor, a resident of Noida, lodged a complaint about robbery at Lodhi Colony. The incident took place when the councillor was going home from her office in the Chanakyapuri area. As soon as she reached near Soochna Bhawan on Barapulla flyover in an auto-rickshaw, she noticed that three-four men were standing there. One of the men came near the auto-rickshaw and snatched her bag. The bag contained a mobile phone, Aadhar card, PAN card, service ID card, two debit cards, a pair of gold earrings and a gold ring. (https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/italian-embassy-councillor-robbed-at-delhi-s-lodhi-colony-two-arrested/ar-AAW2id3) During the investigation, it was revealed that Narender, 26, and Ashish Barwa, 28 had been arrested by the Hazrat Nizamuddin Police Station in a robbery case, the police said. The mobile phone looted from the complainant was recovered by the police from their possession.
Newsline: Diplomats returning to Kyiv to show support
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says the Austrian embassy staff will return to Kyiv from western Ukraine. The Austria Press Agency reported that Nehammer announced the move during a visit on Saturday to Kyiv, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Nehammer said that "since the situation around Kyiv has now stabilized somewhat, the Austrian embassy's team will resume its work in the Ukrainian capital." He said it's a sign of Austria's "full support for Ukraine at this very difficult time." (https://www.wsoctv.com/news/live-updates/U4UXKDMYG2L375TVAI5YCP3H7M/) The team had been moved at the beginning of the war to an outpost in Uzhhorod, near the Slovak border in Ukraine's far west. The European Union also has returned its ambassador to Kyiv and Italy also reportedly plans to reopen its embassy there.
Newsline: Top Iran, Iraq Diplomats to Meet
The top diplomats of neighboring Iran and Iraq have agreed to soon meet amid a series of regional developments including two back-to-back attacks against U.S. soldiers deployed to both sides of Iraq's border with Syria. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein spoke via telephone, according to statements published by both sides Friday. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the two men discussed "issues of mutual interest, including bilateral ties, regional developments and the Vienna talks," where Tehran has sought Washington's return to a 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by then-President Donald Trump in 2018. (https://www.newsweek.com/top-iran-iraq-diplomats-meet-after-back-back-attacks-us-troops-1696494) The Iraqi Foreign Ministry issued a similar readout referencing these topics as well as "ways to strengthen bilateral relations." The Iraqi statement said that "the two sides stressed the need to meet as soon as possible to discuss developments in the region" and "the necessity of meeting in the coming days."
Newsline: Ambassador to Beijing says Sri Lanka not caught in a China debt trap
April 9, 2022 at 10:50 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Sri Lanka is not caught in a debt trap by China, according to its ambassador in Beijing, as the Indian Ocean island nation seeks help to overcome its most severe economic woes in decades, a situation leading to public unrest and a political crisis for the government. (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sri-lanka-not-caught-china-093000710.html) Speaking with the South China Morning Post, envoy Palitha Kohona admitted his country was in a difficult situation and had asked for financial support to help it get through the spiralling economic crisis which had led the government to raise interest rates, devalue its currency and curb imports of non-essential goods. Authorities in Sri Lanka have asked for a US$1 billion loan from China to meet the existing repayments to China, and a further US$1.5 billion credit line to buy Chinese goods. Colombo is also expected to discuss a potential loan programme with the Washington-based International Monetary Fund "in the coming days", according to Kohona.
Newsline: China's envoy warns UN not to add 'fuel to the fire' after North Korean missile test
China's envoy on North Korean issues Liu Xiaoming said the United Nations Security Council should not add "fuel to the fire," indicating his reluctance to back US efforts to pursue a new sanctions resolution following its recent ballistic missile test. Liu, who recently visited the United States and met White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell, posted on Twitter that the Security Council should play a "constructive role for the political settlement" of issues related to the Korean peninsula. "Any action it takes should be conducive to de-escalation and dialogue, instead of adding fuel to the fire," he added. (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-warns-un-not-add-093000276.html) The United States has been calling on China and Russia, both permanent veto-wielding members of the council, to cooperate in imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea, which test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in March, the first such launch since 2017. But US special envoy to North Korea Sung Kim told reporters on Wednesday that he cannot yet say "productive discussions" are taking place with the two countries.
Newsline: US embassy warns of 'arbitrary' Covid measures in China
The United States on Saturday warned of "arbitrary" Covid-19 measures in China and said it would let some staff leave its Shanghai consulate amid a surge of infections in the locked-down megacity. The US State Department will now allow non-essential employees to leave its consulate in Shanghai "due to a surge in Covid-19 cases and the impact of restrictions related to the response", a US embassy spokesperson said in a statement. The statement warned citizens to reconsider travelling to China, "due to arbitrary enforcement of local laws and Covid-19-related restrictions", adding that the embassy in Beijing had raised its concerns over the measures with the Chinese government. (https://news.yahoo.com/us-warns-arbitrary-covid-measures-072207434.html) Until March, China had kept cases low with snap lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but more than 100,000 cases have been reported in Shanghai since March in a test of the country's strict zero-Covid policy. The city's roughly 25 million inhabitants were locked down in phases last week, prompting complaints of food shortages and viral videos of disgruntled residents scuffling with officials.


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Ghirmay Ghebreslassie youngest man to win NYC Marathon; U.S. ends drought
By Nick ZaccardiNov 6, 2016, 2:28 PM EST
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NEW YORK — Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, a 20-year-old from Eritrea, became the youngest man to win the New York City Marathon, while Americans made both the men's and women's podiums for the first time since 1994.
In the women's race, Kenyan Mary Keitany became the first runner in 30 years to win three straight New York City Marathons.
U.S. Olympians Abdi Abdirahman and Molly Huddle each finished third on Sunday.
New York City Marathon results are here. A record 52,049 people started the 46th running of the five-borough race.
Ghebreslassie won in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 51 seconds, adding to a résumé that includes the 2015 World title and a fourth-place finish at the Rio Olympics just 11 weeks earlier.
He beat Kenyan Lucas Rotich by 1:02, becoming the first Eritrean to win a World Marathon Major title and the first non-Kenyan man or woman to win New York City since 2011.
Ghebreslassie, Rotich and Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa broke away in the 14th mile. Desisa dropped back six miles later (and eventually dropped out of the race altogether, along with defending champion Stanley Biwott and top pre-race American hope Dathan Ritzenhein).
Ghebreslassie inched away from Rotich over the final six miles in sunny, upper-50s weather, finishing comfortably enough to turn around, run back and high-five Rotich before the Kenyan crossed.
After, Ghebreslassie exuded self-assurance rather than any sense of astonishment when told of the history he made. When asked about his short turnaround from the Olympics. And when pressed about difficulties faced before or during the race.
"Only the wind," said Ghebreslassie, the second-oldest of eight children who took a short break from training one month ago to get married. "If you lose your confidence means you are hopeless. If you lose your hope, you can't do anything."
MORE: Keitany follows 3-year-old's advice; Huddle looks to 2017
Many had lost hope in Abdirahman long before Sunday's race.
The four-time Olympian had finished just one marathon since the 2012 Olympic Trials (an unimpressive 2:16:06 at Boston 2014) and turns 40 years old on New Year's Day. He pulled out before the Olympic Trials marathon in February with a calf injury.
"I didn't run the Olympic trials, so I told my manager, this is going to be my Olympic trials," Abdirahman said.
At the 19-mile mark, Abdirahman and five relatively unaccomplished men were 2 minutes, 20 seconds behind the three-man lead group.
When Desisa dropped out in the 22nd mile, Abdirahman suddenly was in the podium mix.
"I thought I might finish fifth, sixth, or seventh," said Abdirahman, Somalian born and nicknamed the Black Cactus. "When I passed Lelisa, that's when my eyes just — I don't know what hit me, but I just get another wind."
Abdirahman became the first U.S. man to make the New York City podium since Meb Keflezighi won in 2009, a simply stunning result. Keflezighi announced his final marathon Sunday.
"I was telling these guys I was in the Olympics in 2000, and they were looking at me, really?" Abdirahman said. "And I say yes."
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Keitany, a mother of two and the second-fastest female marathoner ever, crossed the Central Park finish line in 2:24:26. Her margin of victory over countrywoman Sally Kipyego, 3:34, was the largest since 1984.
The last runner to win three straight New York City titles was Norwegian Grete Waitz, who won five of her nine total from 1982 through 1986.
Huddle, a two-time U.S. Olympian on the track making her marathon debut, was third, the best finish by a U.S. women's runner since Shalane Flanagan was second in 2010.
Gwen Jorgensen, the Olympic triathlon champion in her marathon debut, finished 14th in 2:41:01.
Earlier, Tatyana McFadden, a 17-time Paralympic medalist, completed her fourth straight sweep of the Boston, Chicago, London and New York City Marathons.
McFadden, born in Russia paralyzed from the waist down and adopted from a St. Petersburg orphanage at age 6 by an American, completed her New York City four-peat on Sunday in 1 hour, 47 minutes, 43 seconds. She won by more than one minute after 26.2 miles.
The 27-year-old became the first women's wheelchair racer to win four straight New York City Marathons, taking her fifth overall crown. She has won 20 combined World Marathon Major titles.
She's the only marathoner, able-bodied or wheelchair, to sweep Boston, Chicago, London and New York City in one year, let alone four.
McFadden shockingly lost the Rio Paralympic marathon in a photo finish (video here). The woman who beat McFadden there, China's Zou Lihong, made her New York City Marathon debut Sunday.
McFadden went to Rio with a shot at seven gold medals in September. She won the 400m, 800m, 1500m and 5000m and earned silver in the 100m and the marathon. She and the U.S. were disqualified from the 4x400m relay.
Also Sunday, Marcel Hug of Switzerland won the New York City Marathon men's wheelchair race in a photo finish over Australian Kurt Fearnley. Hug swept the Berlin, Boston and Chicago Marathons this year, plus the Paralympics.
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Artwork is printed in the following formats. For availability of individual pieces please see the details below each piece.
Mechanized offset lithography printing is done on a large printing press that transfers ink from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the paper surface. Offset lithography is a common printing method. Hundreds of printed items, from calendars to postcards, are produced using offset lithography. For many years offset was the preferred way of printing most art reproductions in the commercial art world. With the evolution of digital technology, giclee printing has become the favored method of many artists. Care is taken when printing fine art reproductions to make sure the papers and inks used are all of archival quality.
Giclee is an art industry term for fine art ink-jet printing. Giclée (pronounced gee-clay) prints are high-quality reproductions that are printed with specialized fine art, digital ink-jet printers. A wider range of fine art paper and canvas surfaces can be used with digital printing as opposed to offset printing. Isolated color adjustments are easier to make with the giclee printing process thus making it possible for reproductions to achieve the closest look of the original work of art. Giclee printing also offers greater control over an artist's print inventory since prints can be printed on demand. The papers and inks used for fine art giclee prints are of archival quality.
Canvas giclee reproductions achieve the closest "feel" to the original oil painting. Rather than paper, a specially primed art canvas is used with a large format ink jet printer to reproduce the original painting, often to the exact dimensions as the original art. Certain canvas editions often will not exceed 20 to 30 copies, making this an extremely rare item. Some canvas orders must be placed by phone.
A set number of identical prints or canvases that are hand signed and numbered by the artist. The prints are limited to a pre-determined edition size and once sold out are not reprinted in the same print format.
The existence of the artist proof in modern printing is derived from traditional stone lithography when artist proofs were truly the first prints off a manual press and used by the artist and printer for color corrections and other adjustments. Bowing to that antiquated method of printing, artists today who choose the more modern printing methods often still issue a separate but much smaller edition of prints, "artist proofs" that are distinguished by the abbreviation AP located next to the number of the print. Typically, artist proofs are reserved by the artist for friends, family and loyal collectors and often sell for a higher price than the standard prints in the edition.
Have an experienced framer remove your print from the shipping tube it arrives in. The tube is not recommended for long term storage If you do not plan on having your print framed right away have the framer flatten and shrink wrap your print on acid free foam core for storage. A print file will also suffice. Certain precautions should be taken to ensure the long life of your print or canvas. Even though acid-free papers and light fast inks are used in printing, elements such as direct or indirect sunlight (UV light), fluorescent lighting, or high heat and humidity can have damaging effects on your print over time. Avoid hanging your print or canvas in rooms with natural sunlight and extreme climates. High heat, humidity and extremely dry or cold conditions should be avoided.
Have your print framed by a reputable framer who uses conservation framing methods. UV filtering glass, acid-free matting and backing should be used. Once framed, your print or canvas should be illuminated with incandescent lighting which is harmless to your print.


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Q: Send email using environment variables via Django for security I can send emails using environment variables in my settings.py, however how do I input these variables in views.py? When put the actual email in str--it works; but for extra security, I written it as env. variable and gave me an error: SMTPRecipientsRefused. Also, how do I get it to show the sender's email. It shows in the console, but not when I receive the email. I am trying to get different users to send to one email recipient as contact form.
settings.py:
SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')
EMAIL_HOST_USER=os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_USER')
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')

views.py:
def contact(request):
  message = request.POST.get('message', '')
  from_email = request.POST.get('from_email', '')

  send_mail('Contact Form', message, from_email, ['EMAIL_HOST_USER'])
  return render(request, 'first_app/contact.html')

contact.html:
<form action="/contact" method="POST">
  {% csrf_token %}
  <input type="email" name="from_email" placeholder="Your email">
  <textarea name="message" placeholder="Message...">
  </textarea>
  <input type="submit"/>
</form>

A: To use your project's settings in views.py you need to import the object django.conf.settings.
Change your views.py to:
from django.conf import settings

def contact(request):

    if request.method == 'POST':
        message = request.POST.get('message', '')
        from_email = request.POST.get('from_email', '')
        send_mail('Contact Form', message, from_email, [settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER])

    return render(request, 'first_app/contact.html')


MANCHESTER UNITED and Arsenal look set for disappointment in their pursuit of Brazilian ace Lucas Silva.
The Cruzerio midfielder has been linked with a switch to the Premier League after series of top displays for his hometown club.
European champions Real Madrid are also monitoring the 21-year-old's progress.
And a move to the Spanish capital appears on the cards for Silva, after he revealed it would be a dream come true to play for Carlo Ancelotti's side.
"I don't know what they are going to propose, whether they want me in the middle of the season or at the end and I stay for the Copa Libertadores," he told SporTV.
"I still don't know what will happen, but it would be interesting to stay for the Libertadores and then join up with the rest of the players for pre-season.
Speculation over a move to European football has grown recently after the player's agent suggested Silva is keen for a switch away from south America.
"It's always interesting to see that the big clubs in Europe are interested in the player," Luiz Rocha said.
"Lucas plays at the Brazilian champions and is one of the best players of Cruzeiro. We are pleased with the interest of big clubs.
"Representatives call and say they want to take him to Real Madrid or an English team."


Our amazing and crowd-favorite weedy seadragons have returned to a refurbished tank in the Temperate Waters Gallery on Level 2.
Several weedy seadragons (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) were added this week to the tank, which underwent a thorough cleaning that included repolishing the window, upgrading the life-support system, and refabricating the habitat. These seadragons, which were born in December 2017, traveled in February 2018 from Australia, with a pitstop in California, and had been growing behind the scenes here in Boston until they were ready for their home on Central Wharf. But that is another story, which you can read about here and here.
One of the weedy seadragons in the Temperate Waters Gallery on Level 2.
Additional mature weedy seadragons–those that had been here at the Aquarium for several years–will be returned to their home in the coming days and weeks, once the newbies get acclimated to their new surroundings. And, our incredibly amazing leafy seadragon will also return in the coming weeks to its comfy home among the other seadragons in their Level 2 tank.
The seadragons are joined in their habitat by 23 southern hulafish (Trachinops caudimaculatus). These fish, along with the seadragons, are native to the temperate reefs along the southern coast of Australia, where the temperature of the water is comfortably in the mid-50s to mid-60s.
There's a lot more you can learn on our blog about seadragons, which belong to an order of fishes called "tubesnouts" for their remarkable tube-like jaws!
Click around these links to learn more about these fascinating marine fish.
Australia is home to about 120 species of seadragons, seahorses, pipefishes, and pipehorses—more than anywhere else in the world. Australians are highly protective of these animals and their habitats. State and federal regulations control all trade in seadragons and their relatives. These governments are also investigating ways to protect their marine habitats from damaging fishing practices and from pollution from land.