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Chinese NGOs in Africa are New and Making Some Mistakes but They're Learning Fast
by Huang Hongxiang
"Chinese embassy staffs in local countries said we are a non-governmental organization and won't help us with anything, while many local NGOs and journalists see us as some kind of 'Chinese government propaganda' and they're very rude towards us. It's so difficult," said Ms. Zhang, a 50-year-old staff member in a Chinese NGO in Kenya who preferred not to share his full name.
After years of working in the Chinese non-profit sector, Zhang is very frustrated.
"People, especially westerners always discriminate against us and pick on us. Recently, we gave free school bags to local children, and they criticized us for being sexist just because we gave boys blue ones and girls pink ones. We want to do the right thing, but it doesn't seem like people always appreciate us."
Her perceptions of how many locals and foreigners often perceive Chinese NGOs and their staff is consistent with a lot of the rhetoric I've heard over the years.
For example, when I interview local and international NGO activists and researchers and ask them anything about Chinese NGOs, invariably most dismissive comments like "G-NGOs," as in government-run NGOs, or that they represent an outdated, "old fashion charity." And the one that I like the most is that Chinese NGOs and their staff are all part of a "white washing" effort to cover up misdeeds by the Chinese government.
It's not easy.
We Shouldn't be Surprised That People are Ignorant. Chinese NGOs Are Relatively New.
The idea of Chinese people going to other countries to do humanitarian or conservation work is a very new concept in our history. After all, up until the late 20th century, China itself was among the world's poorest countries. So, for much of our history we've been guided by a philosophy that dictates to "first take care of self, then family, community, country and finally the world." Not surprisingly, this mindset has led to most Chinese people to, well, just care about China.
But that's now starting to change.
In recent years, as China opened up to the outside world and became wealthier, a growing number of people have become more interested and concerned about critical issues abroad. And as more Chinese people travel internationally for business and holidays, there's greater exposure to the outside world. All of this has led to more people becoming interesting in doing the same kinds of volunteer and charity work that are commonplace among Europeans and Americans.
Now, we're starting to see more Chinese people, particularly young people, volunteer in Southeast Asia, Africa, and other developing regions; more Chinese companies engaging in legitimate corporate social responsibility initiatives; more Chinese NGOs, even some of those famed "G-NGOs" start to operate overseas and more Chinese people at home respond to calls for donations to support humanitarian and conservation campaigns in Africa and other developing regions.
Following a Well-Trodden Path
The history of U.S. and European aid programs in Africa is littered with waste, corruption, inefficiencies and, well, lots and lots of mistakes. A lot of that learning took place decades ago when globalization was still a new concept. And today, as more Chinese people take their first steps out into the world to do similar work, they're making a lot of the same mistakes.
The "white savior complex" (that's arguably still present) has now morphed into a "Chinese savior complex" in movies like Wolf Warrior II. All those U.S. and European vacationers who want to "make a difference" on their two-week holidays doing meaningful "voluntourism" is also now becoming trendy among China's urban elite. And that whole idea of focusing on what they want to give rather than what people need that has long been common in the U.S. and EU aid efforts is, indeed, becoming increasingly pervasive in China too.
Don't get me wrong. Just as most of those European and American volunteer and aid workers weren't motivated by bad intentions, neither are the Chinese who are now going abroad to do this kind of work. They haven't read books like "Dead Aid" by Dambisa Moyo or graduated with an advanced degree in international development.
I've met a lot of these people and I can tell you their intentions are good but they still have to learn about sophisticated, modern day NGO work:
"I made my profession in Kenya, I want to give back to society," said a Chinese company leader in Kenya, after donating to local orphanages.
"I just love to see the kids smile," said Zhiyang, a Chinese university volunteer who raised funds to build two small schools in Kenya slums.
"I never learned to become a professional NGO worker. My major was art. But I just want to help people get out of poverty," said Zhang, the frustrated aid worker I mentioned earlier.
I'll be the first to admit that not all of the charitable work that Chinese NGOs and their staffs are doing in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa is always very good. In fact, a lot of people would even say they're not doing anywhere near enough. And, we should also be upfront about saying that not all of the work is even motivated about helping people in need but about putting a shine on China's global image. So, yes, critics of some of China's G-NGOs are partially correct.
But just as it was 30, 40, 50 years ago when Americans and Europeans ramped up their humanitarian programs and went out into the world, we too are just starting now to do the same. And just as they improved, we will too. But it will take time.
Cut Us Some Slack
If we want to solve of the world's most pressing problems from climate change to poverty and, yes, to viral pandemics, then China and, more importantly, Chinese civil society will have to be part of the solution.
And that means we need to encourage Chinese people to devote their time, money and energy to supporting these causes and giving them the chance to make mistakes and learn from those experiences.
But we need time and, more importantly, a bit of space to move within. But I'm becoming increasingly worried that may not be possible in today's polarized world.
"No matter what we do," goes the thinking among a growing number of Chinese people considering development work, "the anti-China sentiment in the U.S. and Europe is so strong and they're so good at the PR war that a lot of local people [in Africa] often have a lot of negative perceptions about us."
I've heard this complaint from Chinese people more and more over the past few years, and they're becoming increasingly defensive, doubting that "good heart will eventually be recognized".
As the founder of an organization promoting global citizenship education in China, I have to admit that I'm a bit discouraged about this trend. While I will continue to encourage them to embrace the outside world, become more focused on international development and learn how to work according to internationally-recognized standards, I also think it's equally important that others give them a chance as well.
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I hate secrets. I mean, I like it when people trust me enough to tell me secrets, and I have no problem with keeping other people's secrets, but I hate keeping my own secrets. I tend to not keep too many secrets. I'm not good at having secrets. Especially big secrets. Especially secrets that take a lot of your thinking time. I also hate things that aren't secrets but shouldn't be discussed for whatever reason so I have to keep them to myself.
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"You can call me anytime," she said over the phone from her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. It's the second time I've been lucky enough to talk to Miss Loretta, which is how everyone refers to her, and each time it's a joy. Unlike other living legends, she goes out of her way to find out about the guy asking the questions, and ends our conversations with promises of more to come.
Born in 1932 in Butcher's Holler, Kentucky, she wrote about the real facts of her life, and turned it into classic song. Songwriters struggle everyday with the old quandary of wanting to write about specifics, but maybe not so specific as to lose your audience. And so some choose to write intentionally vague songs, so as not to exclude or alienate any listener.
But time and time again we learn the same lesson. Which is that the most universal songs are the most specific ones. The beauty and undying strength of "Coal Miner's Daughter" lies in the truth. Every line is true. And there was more, as she related in this story behind the classic song.
Yet even those of us who have never been to Butcher's Holler – or any holler for that matter – can experience the world of her childhood. It's all there. That is, except the parts she cut out, as related during our talk on the origins of this remarkable song.
LORETTA LYNN: "I wrote it on a little $17 guitar. It didn't stay in tune. And $17 was a lot of money, cause at the time we didn't have any money. But then Gibson gave me a guitar, and I wrote all the others on that one.
Every word is true. My daddy would work all night in the coal mine. During the day he would work in the cornfields. There were ten of us. He had to make a living for us. Eight kids. I was second, so I would take care of the kids while Mommy did the sewing and the cleaning and everything else. I think that's why I sing. I'd rock the babies to sleep and sing to them.
The song says Mommy's fingers were bleeding. I'd seen them bleed many times. In the wintertime we had these old clothes-lines made out of wire. It would be so cold that her fingers would stick to that wire. She'd pull them loose and I'd see the hide come off of those fingers. I would hide and cry. Monday was wash day. She'd scrub on those washboards all day and her fingers would bleed. But she didn't complain.
My Mommy, to me, was beautiful. I'd see everything she'd do, whether it was crying or laughing. She would rock the babies by the coal oil light, like in the song. That was our light. We didn't have much light. Butcher Holler, Kentucky was dark at night. You go up a long holler, and there's trees everywhere and it's very dark.
We had a well. I would help my daddy a lot and bring the water in at night when I wasn't being lazy.
[The song] says we'd go without shoes in the summer. We would wear our shoes out before it would be warm enough to be without shoes. We'd have holes in our shoes, and put paste-board in our shoes. But halfway to school the paste-board would come out. One time my daddy found me by the creek with my shoes off, just crying, cause it was so cold from those shoes with holes. And Daddy picked me up and carried me home. And Daddy only weighed 117 pounds. I don't know how he did it, but he did.
You know, you hear about poor people in other countries. There are a lot of poor people in our country if you go to the right places. There are a lot of hollers, not just Butcher Holler. I've seen them. I guarantee you there's kids right to this day in the Kentucky hills that don't have shoes.
There's the line "Daddy always managed to get the money somewhere." Parents do what they have to do. Daddy would usually try to get two hogs, one to raise and one to sell. So the other hog would pay for itself. We had a rough life. It was a hard life. Mommy would raise a garden in the summer, and we'd help her. She would can, and I would pick wild blackberries. I would go and pick from morning till night. And Mommy would pack up 100 quarts of blackberries.
The song doesn't tell half of it. If I told the whole story nobody would believe it now anyway.
[Producer] Owen Bradley heard me writing it. It had about ten verses, and he said it was too long. He said, "There's already been an 'El Paso,' there didn't need to be another one." He knew it was about my life, and he didn't care about my life and figured nobody else would. So I cut out, I think, four verses. And I cried the whole time. And I have lost those verses, I do not remember them. I wish I did.
We cut it in Owen's studio in his barn. It was my arrangement. I told him exactly how I wanted it, whether I wanted the steel to start it, or the fiddle. Then I sang the song to the band, and said, "This is what we're gonna do now." And I sang it live with the band. Just sang, I didn't play guitar. Just a couple takes at the most. I never did many takes of anything. The more I sing, the worse I get. I like to make it fresh.
It was my husband Doo's idea to put a banjo on it after. He was right. It added so much to the song. None of us could believe it.
It was a fun session. I stopped at the store before going to the barn. I'd get a half a roll of bologna cut up, and cheese, bread, onion, potato chips. We made everything fun. I didn't have a drink but whoever had a drink had a drink. A hillbilly party. I didn't want my sessions not to be fun. Because if you go into a recording studio and you think you're a better singer than the boys that's gonna play behind you, then you better not go. It's a thing you are feeling and you can sense, and I know the musicians can sense it.
Miss Loretta in Nashville, photo by Stephanie Chernikowski/Morrison Hotel Gallery.


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IT'S ONLY WEDNESDAY. – Hello? I Forgot My Mantra.
Published on November 20, 2013 by i forgot my mantra.
This is one of those weeks. A week where even the most zen Mary cannot win. Yesterday felt like it should have been the end of the week. And it was only Tuesday. I can't wait to see what today has in store–although I know it involves me giving some Clayton High School students a tour of my place of employment. So there's that.
Anyway, I don't know how to embed this video, but you should definitely click here. And below find a pretty picture of New York.
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The National Shrine and Parish of Saint Anne, commonly known as the Santa Ana Shrine or Hagonoy Church, is an 18th-century, Baroque church located at Brgy. Santo Niño, Hagonoy, Bulacan, Philippines. The parish church, under the aegis of Saint Anne, is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malolos. It was declared a National Shrine in 1991. In 1981, a marker bearing a brief history of the church was installed on the church by the National Historical Institute, precursor of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.

History

Parish history
Sources tell that Hagonoy was already a thriving community before the arrival of the Spanish Missionaries with claims that the local chieftain of prehistoric Hagonoy, along with the chieftains of Betis and Macabebe, confronted Miguel Lopez de Legazpi during their conquest of Manila in 1571. As for the beginnings of the Catholic institution in the town, Hagonoy was said to have been established as a visita of Calumpit as early as 1581 when Don Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa, then Governor General of the Philippines, handed over Hagonoy to Sargento Juan Moron to be included in Encomienda of Calumpit. Juan Moron later handed over his jurisdiction over Hagonoy to Fray Diego de Ordoñez de Vivar and the priest establish Hagonoy as one of the visitas of Convento de Calumpit. Proof of the establishment of the visita of Hagonoy can be found on the documents from a private meeting of the Augustinian dated January 17, 1582, with Fray Diego Ordoñez de Vivar as signatory for Hagonoy. Another meeting on September 21 of the same year 1582, confirms the existence of the convent of Hagonoy with Fray Diego Vivar as its first minister.

Edifice history
Fray Diego Ordoñez de Vivar erected parochial structures made of lights materials in barrio Quinabalon (now Barangay Santa Monica) and placed it under the guidance of Saint Anne. From 1731 to 1734, a stone and brick church was built by Fray Juan Albarràn, possibly still on the Brgy. Santa Monica site. The said church was razed by fire on August 12, 1748. As for the present church, its foundations were laid in 1747 on its current site in Barrio Sto Niño during the time of Fray Eusebio Polo. The site was moved to its present location due to flooding on the former site. Fray Buenaventura Roldán completed the church in 1752. Another church was said to have been built from 1815 to 1836 by Fray Juan Coronado. The said church was razed by fire in 1856, which also damaged 30 houses in the town center. Fray Manuel Alvarez, appointed as parish priest in 1862, started building another church, bigger than the previous ones to accommodate a larger number of people. Besides the expansion of the church, its design was also remodeled into one that was described as unique for that era. The church walls were partially damaged by an earthquake in 1871, and repairs followed soon after it under the leadership of Fray Ignacio Manzanares. Secular priest from Archidiocese of Manila has started to administered the church in 1900 upon the evacuation of Augustinian order due to Filipino Revolution against Spain. Church renovations were done in 1936 and 1961 (the year when the porte-cochere was added by Father Celestino Rodriquez). Gradual renovations continued from 1968 to 1970 under Monsignor Jose B. Aguinaldo. The present façade, with the predominant images of saint resting atop the pilasters is attributed to him.

Architecture
Prior to the Mid-20th century renovation, the church façade is bare of ornamentation save for volutes founds on the end of the imaginary triangular pediment, circular reliefs and buttress-like pilasters capped with roof tiles. The façade is pierced with 5 windows: three semicircular arched ones and two rectangular ones on the first level. A porte-cochere with a balustraded top mars the view of the bottom part of the façade. Much of the design of the façade has been changed after the 1970s renovation. The façade now sports three arched entrances, all featuring hardwood doors carved with great details. Tuscan capitals were incorporated into the four pilasters and were now capped off with huge images of Augustinian saints. A rose window and a tableau of Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary were also added into the center of the pediment. The entire façade is capped off with a cross held by two cherubs. To the left of the church rises the six-level rectangular bell tower. Originally a five level tower, a sixth level and a cupola was added during the latest reconstruction of the church. The bell tower is bare of detailed ornamentation except for the balustraded semicircular arch windows and buttresses placed at the corners of the tower.

See also
Other declared national shrines under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malolos:
 National Shrine of the Divine Mercy
 National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima
Parish of San Pascual Baylon and National Shrine of Nuestra Señora Inmaculada Concepcion de Salambao

References

External links

 Archival Photos of the National Shrine of Saint Anne from the Filipinas Heritage Library

Spanish Colonial architecture in the Philippines
Roman Catholic churches in Bulacan
Baroque architecture in the Philippines
Roman Catholic national shrines in the Philippines
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malolos

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Земля Бигуден или Бигуден (,  произносится ['vro vi'gudn]) — территория в департаменте Финистер области Бретань во Франции, располагающаяся юго-западнее города Кемпер. Название приобрела от местного традиционного женского головного убора, и оно было неофициальным, но позднее название было официально утверждено.

География
Традиционная территория была составлена тремя группами кантонов: Гильвинек, Пон-л'Аббе и Плогастель — Сан-Жермен. Столица Земли Бигуден город Пон-л'Аббе. В настоящее время Бигуден разделен на две группы коммун: Объединение коммун юга Земли Бигуден и Объединение коммун Верхней Земли Бигуден:

Культурная самобытность
Отличительные особенности привычек и одежды этой местности привлекали художников и этнологов с конца восемнадцатого века, что привело к возникновению уникальных теорий, заявлявших, что местное население произошло от докельтских коренных обитателей Бретани, или что «физиогномическая схожесть» с монголами указывает на происхождение от древней Азиатской расы.

В течение девятнадцатого века местные костюмы в большей мере приобрели законченный и красочный вид. Особенно известен стал высокий шнурованный чепец, носимый женщинами и называемый бигуден, который покрывал только макушку головы, а в основании головного убора был закреплен вытянутый треугольной кусок ткани. На них были вышиты узоры цветов. К 1900 году этот головной убор приобрел форму высокой сахарной головы. В начале двадцатого века чепец стал еще выше: он достигал 15-20 сантиметров в конце 1920-х и стал еще выше сразу после Второй мировой войны. К 2000 году чепец возвышался на 30-35 сантиметров при ширине в основании 12-14 сантиметров. Статуя работы Рене Квилливика Бигуден в Пор-Пулане изображает женщину в головном уборе. Статуя отмечает границу между Землей Бигуден и Кап-Сизен.
Пьер-Жак Хельяс, бретонский писатель двадцатого века, был из Бигудена.

Флаг
Флаг Земли Бигуден был создан в 1992 году как часть программы по продвижению этой территории. Он был разработан Бернардом Бруном по запросу Ассоциации по развитию Земли Бигуден и состоит из трех частей. Левая включает символику горностая, представляющую двадцать коммун Бигудена (формально 22 коммуны). Золотой цвет передает искусство местной вышивки золотом, которая когда-то доминировала в регионе. Три оранжевых полосы справа связаны с тремя кантонами, образующими Бигуден.

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"Riveting, heart-wrenching, and full of Old Hollywood glamour, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of the most captivating reads of 2017." –BuzzFeed "The epic adventures Evelyn creates over the course of a lifetime will leave every reader mesmerized. This wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet and her tumultuous Tinseltown journey comes with unexpected twists and the most satisfying of drama." —PopSugar From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six—an entrancing novel "that speaks to the Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in us all" (Kirkus Reviews), in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the '80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn's story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways. "Heartbreaking, yet beautiful" (Jamie Blynn, Us Weekly), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is "Tinseltown drama at its finest" (Redbook): a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it costs—to face the truth.
A 2018 Audie Award Finalist for Best Multi-Voiced Performance
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"Riveting, heart-wrenching, and full of Old Hollywood glamour, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of the most captivating reads of 2017." –BuzzFeed
"The epic adventures Evelyn creates over the course of a lifetime will leave every reader mesmerized. This wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet and her tumultuous Tinseltown journey comes with unexpected twists and the most satisfying of drama." —PopSugar
From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six—an entrancing novel "that speaks to the Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in us all" (Kirkus Reviews), in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
Summoned to Evelyn's luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the '80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn's story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.
"Heartbreaking, yet beautiful" (Jamie Blynn, Us Weekly), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is "Tinseltown drama at its finest" (Redbook): a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it costs—to face the truth.
"This audiobook and its ensemble of narrators bring mid-twentieth-century Hollywood to life. Stand-out performer Alma Cuervo, portraying the title character, Evelyn, excels in her understanding of the reclusive washed-up starlet. Desperation, anger, and love have all been part of Evelyn's life, and Cuervo's performance delivers them all. Robin Miles captures the vulnerability of Monique Grant…Julia Whelan, in a sly, catty tone, voices the sounds bites of the tabloids that dogged Evelyn throughout her life…The story is one of pure triumph and tragedy—an absolute must for fans of Old Hollywood. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award." —AudioFile
"Tinseltown drama at its finest." —Redbook
"Reid transports readers back to Hollywood's heyday with a heroine in the likes of—but more intriguing than—Elizabeth Taylor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Katherine Hepburn. Yes, Evelyn Hugo is the glamorous idol you admire…Her life's story is heartbreaking, yet beautiful, and will keep readers captivated." —Us Weekly
"Expertly captures the hothouse nature of Hollywood…The story is fresh, and the end reveal is worth the wait." —Historical Novel Society
"Fascinating, emotional, and will be hard to put down." —Associated Press
"[A] tale sure to appeal to fans of women's fiction." —Library Journal
"Speaks to the Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in us all." —Kirkus Reviews
"Wow! What a book!…This is an all-out winner! You'll stay hooked until the very last page, as the amazing, thought-provoking ending will leave you wondering, what would I have done?" —RT Book Reviews (4½ stars, Top Pick!)
Author Bio: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid is the acclaimed author of several books, including Daisy Jones & the Six, a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Esquire, Parade, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, and others.
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I am assuming you have followed the previous tutorials in this short series on how to manipulate Pubmed references using Python (1, 2, 3, 4).
We have cleaned up the references by removing unwanted fields and ensuring sections like the abstract are not split over multiple lines. The cleaned references are saved in a text file cleaned_pubmed_refs.txt. We are now ready to cycle through each reference to ask a user whether they want to keep, reject, or query it (i.e., have a second user double check the reference).
The code below sets up the framework for us to loop over each reference and ask the user for a response. Because we want to copy and delete files, we will import the copyfile command from the shutil module (shell utilities) and the remove command from the 'os' module (operating system).
# Read in all lines and remove line-breaks.
# Open the keep, reject and query files ready to add references.
Line 5-9. Make a copy of cleaned_pubmed_references.txt to keep a pristine version of the reference file. This line should only be run once, immediately after you have finished cleaning the references. If the user processes the references over several sessions, this line should not be run again otherwise the files will be overwritten each time. We also create names for the four text files we will work with.
Line 17. When we sort many references, we will likely process them over several sessions. Thus, at the end of each session we will write an updated version of f_sort with the references that still need to be sorted. Therefore, we delete the file to ensure we write the remaining references to a new file.
At this point we have read in all the references that need to be sorted (contained in sorting_refs.txt), and have opened four text files ready to receive the references we process: appending our selections to f_keep, f_reject, and f_query and writing the unprocessed references to f_sort.
Now the fun part! We are going to cycle through each reference and ask the user what we should do with it. We will do this by printing to the terminal the title and abstract of the current reference and ask the user what to do. We will use the input command to get a response from the user and execute code based on this response. The loop will end when there are no more references to process, or the user provides s as a response, which will write the remaining references to sorting_refs.txt. Although the code is the longest we have seen thus far, it is not very complicated. The key is to break it down into sections and understand what is going on.
Line 5. This if statement checks if the current line is our designated separator between each reference. If the current line is not '—–', the program goes all the way down to the bottom to execute the code below the else statement on Line 44, cur_ref.append(line), which allows us to accumulate each line of the current reference. If the current line is '—–', we instead execute the indented code.
Line 9-13. We print the current reference title and abstract to the terminal and use input to ask the user what we should do.
Line 15-26. If the user inputs 'k', 'r', or 'q', the current reference is written to the appropriate file.
Line 27-42. If the user inputs 's', the code under else is executed. First we write the current reference as well as the remaining references so that we can continue sorting them later. We then thank the user and tell them how many references are left to sort. Finally, we close all our text files and get out of the for loop using the break command.
After processing all the references, we will have 4 files: sorting_refs.txt, refs_keep.txt, refs_reject.txt, refs_query.txt. At this point, sorting_refs.txt should not contain any references and the other files should contain references based on the user's selection. The user can now ask a friend to manually review the references in refs_query.txt and decide to either keep or reject them. After that, you are ready to extract the e-mail addresses from the references in refs_keep.txt, which will be the topic of the final post in this series.


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Ten '90s Acts to Check Out on Tour This Summer
From boy bands to alternative rock and ska, the '90s still has something for everyone
by Samantha Lopez and Regan Bexler
This article is presented by StubHub
As the summer months heat up, concertgoers will be traveling, bonding with friends and family, and belting out their favorite jams by their favorite artists long into the summer nights. It's definitely a season for creating memories; however, with the number of high-quality acts from the '90s still out on the road and doing what they do best, summer is also a time for fans to relive and reconnect with the past.
Whether it's a chance to see a band whose poster hung on your wall in college, an artist who dropped a single that became your song of the summer as a teen, or a member of a boy band you had a major crush on back in the day, there's nothing better than seeing old friends take the stage for a night, play the music you love, and take you back to a time when life was simpler and music came first.
Naturally, we at Consequence of Sound will spend part of our concert experience this summer with the '90s acts that we grew up with, and StubHub is the absolute best go-to for scoring tickets and turning back that summer clock. So, here are 10 '90s bands totally worth checking out this summer. We'll see you out there.
–Regan Bexler
Backstreet Boys (DNA World Tour)
Okay, so they're not exactly boys anymore. But Backstreet Boys are still the top-selling boy band of all time and the first group since Led Zeppelin to see their first 10 albums all reach the Top 10 on the charts. That's rarefied air, folks. And lest we ignore the obvious, these hunks didn't exactly grow up to be pot-bellied slouches either. Pretty faces, pretty ballads, and pretty dance moves will never go out of style, and boy do these boys have the hits to warrant a summer trek: "I Want It That Way", "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", and "As Long as You Love Me". Couple those smash classics with new tracks off this year's DNA album, and you have one of the hottest Backstreet Boys tickets in years. The Boys are currently on the European leg of their DNA World Tour but will be back in early summer with tons of dates in both Canada and the States. It's 2019, and, indeed, Backstreet's back! –Regan Bexler
Blasts from the Past: "I Want It That Way", "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", and "As Long as You Love Me"
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Backstreet Boys shows here.
Bush and Live (ALT-IMATE Tour)
This summer, two pioneering '90s alternative forces are going to combine powers to commemorate two decades of the straight-up "do-it-yourself" and non-conformist attitude that we've come to associate with the umbrella genre of "alternative music." The co-headlining tour dubbed "The ALT-IMATE Tour" (see what they did there?) is going to celebrate the 25th anniversaries of each band's respective landmark releases. Live, freshly reunited, are commemorating their breakout sophomore album, Throwing Copper, which includes hits like "Lightning Crashes" and "I Alone", while Bush revisit their debut, Sixteen Stone — ya know, the one your older sibling listened to on loop and the one you can still hear seeping in from the walls of the room next door with Gavin Rossdale encouraging, "Breathe in/ Breathe out." These two bands in their heyday were quintessential to the whole "cool, but tough" disposition. –Samantha Lopez
Blasts from the Past: "Machine Head" (Bush), "Glycerine" (Bush), "Lightning Crashes" (Live), and "I Alone" (Live)
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Bush and Live shows here.
Cake with Ben Folds
Some veteran tour pairings are no-brainers. Cake and Ben Folds might take a little imagination. The first is more or less an experiment in scratchy spoken word over an eclectic spectrum of accompaniment, and the latter ranges from soft piano ballads to full-on power pop. Still, if you were listening to alternative radio in the '90s, you couldn't escape either artist and likely bought records by both. And nobody who goes to see Cake with Ben Folds will be skipping a set. Not only do the acts — still releasing fresh music by the way — have that knack for transporting listeners to a certain time and place, but both are also incredibly willing to pull out the cover songs and take an audience to another era or place altogether. It's our suggestion that you, like the song says, go the distance and make sure you catch Folds and save room for Cake. –Regan Bexler.
Blasts from the Past: "The Distance" (Cake), "Brick" (Ben Folds), "Still Fighting It" (Ben Folds), and "Short Skirt / Long Jacket" (Cake)
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Cake and Ben Folds shows here.
Hootie & the Blowfish (Group Therapy Tour)
You might have to jog your memory around the block a few times to recall that Hootie & the Blowfish were once the biggest band on the planet. What won't take you any time at all, though, is recognizing the songs that catapulted a roots band with a country singer to the top of the charts at a time when a second wave of grunge still reigned supreme across the airwaves. Twenty-five years later, Cracked Rear View has sold more than 21 million copies, and "Let Her Cry", "Only Wanna Be with You", and "Hold My Hand" have become classic rock staples. While Darius Rucker has had more than his fair share of success as a country solo artist, die-hard Hootie fans rejoiced late last year to learn the band would not only be touring but putting out new music. The tongue-in-cheek Group Therapy Tour will be in session across the States beginning in late May and winding down in late August. We'll save a leather coach for you. –Regan Bexler
Blasts from the Past: "Let Her Cry", "Only Wanna Be with You", and "Hold My Hand"
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Hootie & the Blowfish shows here.
Long before Sarah McLachlan was making us bawl our eyes out during commercials raising awareness for abused and homeless animals, she was using her songwriting powers to make us feel for others and climb the charts. It's also easy to forget that McLachlan has been a driving force for opportunities for women in the music industry, most notably her founding of Lilith Fair in the late '90s. Now, McLachlan finds herself in that envious spot where she can add to her catalog as she chooses and fall back on some of the richest singles and deep cuts of the '90s, an array of songs that can make concertgoers bob as easily as sob. As of now, McLachlan has a slate taking her across the States in late July and into mid-August. Don't be the one crying because you missed the show. –Regan Bexler
Blasts from the Past: "Building a Mystery", "In the Arms of an Angel", and "Sweet Surrender"
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Sarah McLachlan shows here.
Reel Big Fish
Some of these tours are victory laps: some of the biggest bands of the last 30 years coming back for yet another bow in front of thousands of adoring fans. Then there are bands like goofballs Reel Big Fish who, while successful by most measures, never quite reached the heights of ska contemporaries like No Doubt, Sublime, or even The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Still, the Fish are still out there on the road and recording music, buoyed by their incredibly fun-loving trio of hit singles off 1996's Turn the Radio Off: "Sell Out", "She Has a Girlfriend Now", and "Beer". Not only will they be bringing their wacky sense of irreverence across the States in June and July, but they'll also be sharing headlining duties during stints with Bowling for Soup and The Aquabats. There may be bigger names touring this summer, but nobody puts on a funner show than our favorite sell-outs, Reel Big Fish. –Regan Bexler
Blasts from the Past: "Sell Out", "She Has a Girlfriend Now", and "Beer"
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Reel Big Fish shows here.
Some people tend to lump The Smashing Pumpkins with acts like Pearl Jam and Nirvana, having emerged alongside the two. But the Pumpkins were less influenced by traditional underground rock and more by a mash-up of goth rock, psychedelia, heavy metal, and dream pop, a differing palette that creates a very precisely layered soundscape. The band created a sound driven by swirling, distorted guitars that ferment beneath Billy Corgan's angst-ridden lyrics. Smashing Pumpkins are one of the most visible alternative rock bands of the early '90s, achieving mainstream success over the decade with classic releases Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness before entering the raucous chapter that carried them into the 2000s. After a misunderstood onslaught into electronic rock on Adore, Corgan issued a final pair of efforts before putting the group to rest for an extended early aughts hiatus that came to an end with 2007's Zeitgeist. Along with an ever-changing lineup, Corgan continued to churn out albums under the Pumpkins moniker before reuniting with most of the original lineup for a 2018 reunion. That same lineup, along with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, will spend June and July in Europe before making a run through the States in August. –Samantha Lopez
Blasts from the Past: "1979", "Tonight, Tonight", and "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Smashing Pumpkins shows here.
Although often categorized in the post-grunge category, Third Eye Blind displayed a brighter sound than many of their late-'90s peers, taking as much influence from classic pop/rock traditions as allowed by the angst-ridden music that infiltrated the decade. The group scored its first hit in 1997, when their debut single, "Semi-Charmed Life" (you're singing it in your head right now, aren't you?), cracked the Top 10. Third Eye Blind built upon that success throughout the following three years, releasing a number of singles while touring with big names like U2 and Oasis. After taking a break during the early 2000s, the band returned in 2015 with its fifth studio album, Dopamine. Now, the band are once again living a charmed life as a legacy act on the '90s tour circuit, including dates across June and July with Jimmy Eat World. –Samantha Lopez
Blasts from the Past: "Semi-Charmed Life", "Jumper", and "How's It Going to Be"
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Third Eye Blind shows here.
Formed in 1989 in Fort Worth, Texas, you probably know Toadies as the innovators who brought us the 1995 grunge-mix-essential "Possum Kingdom". The band found success during the '90's rock boom, showcasing crumbly yet catchy guitar-based music that was a refreshing spin on the hard rock that was so prevalent at the time. Toadies sported an obvious Pixies-influenced sound, mirroring the howl-like screech of Frank Black, intertwined with the off-center guitar lines of Clark Vogeler — in line with Joey Santiago's notable guitar wailing. The band made a splash with their major-label debut, 1995's Rubberneck, and the heavier-but-delayed Hell Below/ Stars Above, which shows them trudging through primordial sludge, awakening the long-forgotten heavy metal past. Toadies reemerged in 2017 with The Lower Side of Uptown and proved that you don't need to reinvent the wheel to stay relevant. They're mistakenly thrown in with the rest of the grunge-lite bands, but as it turns out, Toadies have always been and will always be a rock band. Toadies will be hopping across their native South in May. –Samantha Lopez
Blasts from the Past: "Possum Kingdom", "Tyler", and "I Come from the Water"
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Toadies shows here.
Weezer are one of the most popular bands to emerge during the post-grunge alternative rock aftermath of the mid-'90s. They're the band the kids who were holed up in the rec room playing records while studying or watching TV looked up to; they helped pave the way to making geeks "cool." Drawing from heavy power pop sounds of arena rock and the angular guitar leads of post-punk, what really makes Weezer Weezer is the infusion of a quirky sense of humor and an endearing awkwardness that made their self-titled debut (aka The Blue Album) a modern rock classic. The debut helped associate Weezer with a specific synthesized alt-rock sound intertwined with a '70s-ish trash-rock fondness, which was then all served together with the aforementioned power pop distinction and clever music videos. They've been bashed and dismissed by super critics –but in true geek fashion, they don't let the haters get them down, and they'll spend much of 2019 bringing that unmistakable geekiness to the dorky masses in concert. –Samantha Lopez
Blasts from the Past: "Say It Ain't So", "Buddy Holly", and "My Name Is Jonas"
Buy: Tickets to upcoming Weezer shows here.
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Води началото си от роби от азиатско-кавказки произход (тюрки, черкези, кюрди), купувани от владетелите на Египет и използвани като елитни войници. През 1260 г. мамелюците завземат Йерусалим и провеждат систематична кампания по унищожаване на военните гарнизони на кръстоносците. В продължение на повече от 250 години Египет и Сирия са управлявани от мамелюкски султанат.

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Един от най-могъщите мамелюкски владетели, Байбарс (1260 – 1277 г.), се възкачва на власт, след като участва в разбиването на монголите при Айн Джалут през 1260 година. Това е определяно от историците като първото значимо противопоставяне на монголските завоевания.

През 15 век мамелюците се включват във войната срещу османските турци, които превземат Кайро през 1517 г. Османският владетел Селим I слага край на управлението на мамелюците и поставя неголям гарнизон в Кайро. Въпреки това мамелюците запазват известна автономност и власт.

През 18 век по време на упадъка на Османската империя, мамелюците съумяват да възстановят до известна степен властта си в Египет, но мамелюкският управител на Кайро е разбит от Наполеон по време на неговата Египетска кампания през 1798 година. През 1811 г. Мохамед Али паша избива останалите военачалници – мамелюци и поставя начало на династия, управлявала Египет повече от век.

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Mayra Crowe
m.l.crowe@dundee.ac.uk
Lecturer in Spanish
Categories:academic stafflanguageseuropean studies
Mayra teaches Spanish at all levels from the Languages for All programme, to final year undergraduate and on our graduate diploma course.
Her particular roles are:
Co-ordinator of Spanish - Applied Languages
Co-ordinator of Spanish - Languages for All
Programme Leader - Graduate Diploma in Spanish (distance learning course)
She also teaches on the 3rd and 4th year - Vision of Europe - module, which uniquely is a non-language module taught in Spanish.
She co-organised, and contributed to, the Consejería de Educación, Scottish Association of Language Teaching (SALT) Spanish workshops in 2012. These will be held in Dundee again in 2014.
Top tips for students
Before studying this course, Mayra recommends that you visit a Spanish speaking country.
MLitt in Teaching Modern Languages to Adults (TMLA) University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, 2008
Diploma in Teaching Modern Languages to Adults (TMLA) University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, 2006
Certificate in Teaching Modern Languages to Adults (TMLA) University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, 2004
Diploma in Environmental Legislation for Industry Procuraduría Federal para la Protección del Medio Ambiente (Federal Attorney's Office for Environmental Protection) Mexico City, Mexico, 1995
LLB Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Metropolitan Autonomous University), Mexico City, Mexico, 1994
Certificate in Evidence, Medical and Criminal Law Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico, 1992
2011 - present: Lecturer in Spanish (f/t), University of Dundee, Languages.
2007 - present: Spanish Examiner, Institute of Linguists (IoL), Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen.
2010 - 2011: Lecturer in Spanish (p/t), University of Dundee, Languages.
2000 - 2011: Spanish Lecturer in Spanish (p/t), University of Abertay Dundee, Business School, Division of International Business and Communication.
2008 - 2010: Teaching Fellow in Spanish (p/t), University of Dundee, Communication and Languages Studies (CALS).
2007 - 2011: Tutor in Spanish (p/t), Dundee City Council, Educational Development Service.
2007 - 2010: Spanish Assistant (p/t), Harris Academy, Grove Academy and St. John's High School, Dundee City Council, Educational Development Service.
2008 - 2010: Spanish Lecturer in Spanish (p/t), Dundee College, Melrose Campus, Dundee, Scotland.
2006 - 2008: Spanish Interpreter and Translator, NHS Speech and Language Department, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
2000 - 2007: Spanish Teaching Fellow in Spanish (p/t), University of Dundee, School of Applied Linguistic and Language Studies (SALLS),Dundee, Scotland
1995: Legal Analyst, North American Commission for Environmental Co-operation, Mexico City
1994 - 1995: Legal Analyst, Fideicomiso de Fomento Minero (National Mining Works Trust of Mexico), Mexico City.
1994: Legal Assistant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Co-ordination of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Mexico City.
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Discussion in 'General Banter' started by FRANKIE, Mar 13, 2014.
1. The parking lot at the once a year, one day clearance sale at Macy's.
2. My husband taught me how to park.
3. ............and I did make it to the bathroom in time.
4. There must be something wrong with the 'self parking' feature of my car.
5...........and now I'm able to back up my car by just using the mirrors.
6. You decide. What does it say under the 2 cars, "doctors only" or "clergy only".
I've seen various videos and images like this before, and I'm guessing it's the same reason. Automatic gearbox and confused driver who hits the gas rather than the brake.
Other than that, really no idea!
Apparently this does happen quite a lot in America of all places where auto is king.
Hey look guys, Not only can I now do the driving on 2 wheels trick, I can now park it the same way too!


The CPNP Foundation is once again offering up to 20 scholarships for pharmacy school students to attend the upcoming CPNP Annual Meeting, April 7-10, 2019, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Each student recipient will receive a full student registration to the 2019 Annual Meeting ($215 value) and a $285 travel stipend. These grants are possible because of the generous support of CPNP members and the CPNP Past Presidents' Destiny Fund, which specifically supports student scholarships.
Over the past three years, student attendance at the CPNP Annual Meeting has grown from 81 attendees in 2015 to 136 attendees in 2018. The CPNP Foundation is thrilled that students are increasingly showing an interest in psychiatric pharmacy and recognize the continued importance of these scholarships. According to CPNP Foundation President, Cindy Kirkwood, "It is critical to support these individuals in pursuing careers in psychiatric pharmacy so that we can continue to grow our profession and continue our impact on the future of those living with mental illness. We are pleased to once again offer student scholarships to the CPNP Annual Meeting where there are so many opportunities for student programming and involvement."
Applications are currently being accepted in the online application portal, and the deadline to apply is Monday, January 7, 2019. To be eligible, a student applicant must be a full-time pharmacy student in pursuit of her/his first professional pharmacy degree, a paid student member of CPNP in good standing, and they must not have previously received this grant. Students applying for a registration/travel scholarship must complete an online application and provide a current curriculum vitae; a personal essay of no more than 500 words describing the applicant's interest in CPNP and psychiatric pharmacy, including objectives for attending the meeting; and one letter of recommendation from either a clinical pharmacy practitioner or faculty member.


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Mike Opelka
I Saw Teeth and Hair and Gator': Woman Wrestles 7-Foot Alligator to Save Her Dog
"The most God-awful, piercing scream that I have ever heard in my life."
Image source: YouTube
One Inverness, Florida, woman has earned the title of "dog's best friend" after she risked her own life to take on a hungry alligator.
Lori Beiswenger told WFTS-TV she was gardening when she heard "the most God-awful, piercing scream that I have ever heard in my life." She turned to see Hope, her small dog in the jaws of a 7 1/2-foot alligator.
"I saw teeth and hair and gator and they were rolling around on the ground," she told WFTS.
When the gator carried the dog into the pond nearby, the 52-year-old Beiswenger leapt to action, following the animal and screaming for help, hoping someone from the golf course nearby would hear and come to her aid.
As the alligator started taking the dog underwater, Beiswenger fought back. Waist-deep in the water, she grabbed the alligator's tail, trying to stop the creature from killing her dog.
Screaming louder and in the pond water up to her neck, Beiswenger pulled on the tail of the thrashing gator twice, to no avail.
"The third time I did, he turned around and looked at me," Beiswenger said. That's when she feared for her life and backed out of the water.
About the same time, golfer Jodie Daniels heard the screams and responded. Using a golf club and a shovel, Daniels managed to retrieve the dog from the alligator.
The 9-year-old terrier mix was rushed to the local animal hospital and required over three hours of surgery, but is expected to recover.
The hungry alligator was not as lucky as Hope the dog. Trappers caught the animal, killed it and reportedly sold the meat to a local restaurant.
A few days after the incident, with her beloved dog on the mend, Beiswenger shared the story of the attack and the capture of the alligator. "I read him his Miranda rights because he had his hands tied behind him," she said.
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Back from a week at the beach. - I bet you think this blog is about you.
Back from a week at the beach.
Well, plus a week in which I flailed about and tried to catch up with life.
I returned from a week in Rehoboth Beach a week ago Saturday. It was a nice destination within close driving distance, so the trip itself wasn't super expensive. There were seven people in the beach house we rented for most of the week, plus an additional body on each weekend. I desperately needed the break, and the hot tubbing, good food, ample booze, and beach time was pretty nice.
i so didn't need to see the big bucket of fries on my first day of cutting out starches. ;) they look delicious, and by the photos, your trip was quite the refresher! i'm looking forward to that next week when i'm in new york city.
Honestly the fries were good but not so much that I'll be craving them again anytime soon. Twice a year is probably ample.
i suppose i can forgive you then. of course, i dreamt about fries last night.


As it is to be done for the comparison of two most powerful blogging platforms working in the world.
And they are WordPress and the BlogsPot.
But lemme try at least!
1.3 What's in the history??
1.5 What's the difference here then between Blogger and WordPress?
1.10 WordPress.org, the best winner!
Blogger is also the name of BlogSpot where this service was first developed by Pyra Labs back in 1999.
Then it was acquired by the Google, Inc. just in the four years time span (in 2003) from Pyra Labs.
And the primary subdomain is generally used as https://blogspot.com to access the Blogger/BlogSpot service and has been the same since its inception.
The computer language that was used to develop this service was Python.
WordPress hit the market in August 2005 and by the world-famous company, Automattic, which most people already know about.
And was coded into the two programming languages namely PHP and MySQL.
History is the past word, to see what went past already.
And the online world is not all about the past but is the name of future.
That is the reason the history about the Blogger/BlogSpot and WordPress will not really bring the new trends, and that I put up just a little bit of the history as you can notice just for that same reason — history is the past.
There are some very big, noticeable, and immense differences between all of these blogging platform.
BlogSpot is just one, so do not really worry about it.
But WordPress is different… I must tell it is so different.
From the feature to offerings to everything.
In short, BlogSpot and WordPress are definitely different from each other.
And the WordPress is different too.
What's the difference here then between Blogger and WordPress?
WordPress is not just only the WordPress.
But it is WordPress.com and WordPress.org, the two players in one game but do have their own differences.
WordPress.org, another player in the family of the WordPress.
It is the free platform with many limitations.
WordPress.com (mind that .COM thing) is the free blogging platform. And just like BlogSpot, it is up with many limitations as well.
The software itself is free to use but you cannot run the blog using the software that you downloaded off the WordPress.org for FREE but yet it is more powerful and almost-limitless in many cases, for many features.
Now we hop over the versus part to understand all the differences, all the problems, and all the features out of these three blogging platforms.
And that what is more feature-rich in terms of everything.
Yeah, there is always the money factor to gain more and many features unlocked for you but at least they are there.
Easy customizable, more control, and with no limits; I announce WordPress.org a winner out of the two blogging platform.
Let me put up some quick get-started resources to go on with the WordPress.org instantly!
Paid themes you can find from: Elegant Themes, StudioPress, ThemeForest, EnvatoElements, and more.
What we need is the limitless blogging platform to actually excel into the blogosphere.
What is your winner? And why you picked it to be placed as the first?
Let me really know with your valuable comment!
Great Article ! I think newbies must be started with Blogspot and then steadily transfer their blog to WordPress. This may enhance their experience in blogging field.
Changing platforms seems to be a slightly difficult idea for a person like me but if you can do it easily, you can do this way too.
very nice thanks for sharing such a great post ever on comparison.


Traditional relaxing massage combined with learning basic tricks maserskich. During the classes in pairs, each person has the opportunity to learn basic tricks maserskimi, used in classical and relaxation massages. Mini course combines theory with practice, and additionally allows to relax and unwind with a massage. Mini massage course is primarily a fun, allowing couples to get closer to each other, learning relaxation of the body map.
The purpose of massage is relaxation of the facial muscles, smoothing and flexibility of the skin and removing the typical signs of fatigue. Massage improves blood circulation, leading to improve its color, reduce burdensome shadows and discoloration. Each cosmetic treatment for the face should be combined with an additional massage the face, neck and décolleté.
Recommended primarily for those who spend most of their time sitting, loading the spine and excessive tension affecting the neck and shoulder muscles. Short but effective massage helps to relax the muscles, bridging fatigue.
Hot stone massage is a therapy that uses heated basalt stones of volcanic origin. During the massage, they affect energy centers called chakras according to ancient Indian tradition. The combination of hot stones, which can be heated to different temperatures, with the appropriate massage techniques is beneficial for tired, stressed body and mind.
Sports massage is used to relieve tension, muscle pain and Restrictions Caused eg. As a result of intense exercise. This massage helps in the treatment of any injury and prepares the body to make a new effort. Physiotherapists in a professional manner assess the condition of the customer, Adapting techniques and the mechanical strength of the stimulus is adequate Their needs.
It is a massage consists in reaching the deep layers of muscle and connective tissue, allowing them to loosening, stretching and tension reduction. The therapist uses thumbs, fists, forearms and elbows to get the best results of their actions. The purpose of massage is to restore normal muscle tone and fluidity of movement by changing their structure and the removal of the resulting blocks and adhesions. This technique is particularly true in the case of feeling stiff neck, voltages of various parts of the body, migraines of the substrate muscle and nervous tension.


Garden Park Medical Center (GPMC) is being recognized by The Joint Commission as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® for 2014, five years in a row. This achievement demonstrates that Garden Park Medical Center's commitment to assuring that evidence-based interventions delivered in the right way and at the right time – because it's the right thing to do for the patients.
The Joint Commission's Top Performer on Key Quality Measures program recognizes accredited hospitals that attain excellence in accountability measure performance. Recognition in the program is based on an aggregation of ORYX® accountability measure data reported to The Joint Commission during the previous calendar year. The data report on evidence-based interventions for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children's asthma care, hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services, stroke, venous thromboembolism (VTE), immunization and perinatal care. GPMC is one of 1,224 hospitals surveyed. Garden Park Medical Center is being recognized for the following four measure sets: Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Surgical Care and Perinatal Care.
The Joint Commission launched the Top Performer on Key Quality Measures program to encourage hospitals to consistently improve their performance on accountability measures by publicly recognizing those that ultimately achieve excellence in this arena. The ultimate goal is to improve the care provided to patients in all aspects addressed by these accountability measures.


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Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Bartók's compositions
Bartók Correspondece (Database)
Bartók Writings (Database)
Folk Music in Bartók's Compositions (Database)
Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition
History of the Archives
Research Conditions
Other Bartók Institutions
(25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945)
Béla Bartók's life and work seem particularly relevant during a period of European integration that is just happening before our eyes and to an extent that was previously certainly never even dreamt of, especially not during the composer's life when Europe was repeatedly divided by two "World Wars." Bartók's unquenchable interest in (and, as he himself expressed, love for) the peasant music of different nations, ethnicities, groups and territories has set an unparalleled example for us today.
Béla Bartók, composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist, was born in Nagyszentmiklós in Hungary (now Sînnicolau Mare in Romania) in 1881 and died in New York in 1945. His childhood was plagued with various illnesses. After the early death of the father (Béla Bartók, Sr.), when he was only seven years old, his mother, Paula Voit, struggled to raise her two children, Béla and her then three-year-old daughter, Elza, wandering from town to town before finally settling in Pozsony (Pressburg, now Bratislava, Slovakia) where Béla received thorough musical instruction and completed his grammar school studies. Following in Ernő (Ernst von) Dohnányi's footsteps, four years his senior and also coming from Pozsony, he studied piano (with Liszt pupil István Thomán) and composition (with Hans Koessler) at the Budapest Royal Academy of Music between 1899 and 1903. Although he was immediately recognized as a powerful talent as both pianist and composer, his career was not an easy one. After writing his first grand-scale "nationalist" compositions (notably the Kossuth Symphony, a work soon withdrawn, the Rhapsody for piano and for piano and orchestra, and the First Orchestral Suite), he discovered peasant music as a more indigenous and more "authentic" source of something particularly "Hungarian" in music and began to collect folk music on a regular basis and to write modern, often experimental works (Fourteen Bagatelles for piano, First String Quartet) using folk music-derived modernistic material. The development of his new musical style was also influenced by the personal crisis of his unrequited love towards the violinist Stefi Geyer in 1907–1908 whose crucial artistic document is the posthumously published ("1st") Violin Concerto. In 1909 he married Márta Ziegler who bore him his first son Béla Bartók, Jr. (1910–1994). Besides being piano professor at the Academy of Music in Budapest from 1907 on, Bartók gradually developed into a full-scale scholar. For more than a decade, he devoted most of his energies to field trips to remote areas of pre-First-World-War Hungary that also included large areas of partly or mainly Slovak and Romanian speaking ethnic groups. Quite early in his research, Bartók turned to the collection of folk music from the minorities as well thereby significantly contributing to the then new field of comparative ethnomusicology. He was particularly interested in archaic features of peasant music that he described as a "natural phenomenon" whose study should be considered as "scientific" work. His extensive collections in Hungary include some 3500 Romanian, 3000 Slovak and 2700 Hungarian, as well as some Serbian and Bulgarian melodies.
From 1906, he often worked together with fellow composer and ethnomusicologist Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967). In search of ancient musical cultures, Bartók even collected rural Arab songs in Algeria in 1913 and later he visited Turkey in 1936. His collecting activity, however, practically ended in 1918 soon before the partitioning of Hungary in the wake of the First World War and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when fieldwork on territories with some of the richest folklore traditions became impossible. Instead, he carried on his ever more detailed scholarly transcriptions and systematization of his Slovak and Romanian collections. In the meantime he also published the first scholarly monograph on Hungarian peasant songs (A magyar népdal, 1924, Das ungarische Volkslied, 1925, Hungarian Folk Music, 1931) that also included a large selection of examples. Between 1934 and 1940, he worked on the preparation of an edition of the 13,000 Hungarian songs collected by then and preserved at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1937/38, he was also involved with a series of recordings for the Pátria series. For his ethnomusicological work he became elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1935.
By the end of the First World War, especially after the successful premières of his two stage works (to librettos by Béla Balázs), the ballet, The Wooden Prince (1914–17), and the opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) in 1917 and 1918, respectively, he had established himself as the leading composer of his generation in Hungary. From 1918 on, his compositions were published by Universal Edition, Vienna, and he could start to build up an international career as pianist and, more importantly, composer regularly visiting Paris, London and other musical centres of Europe. He also toured the United States and the Soviet Union in the later 1920s.
1923 marks his divorce from his first wife and his marriage with his young pianist pupil, Ditta Pásztory. Their child, Péter Bartók, was born in the following year.
Bartók's piano music, e.g. Allegro barbaro (1911) and Outdoors (1926) and his pedagogical compositions, e.g. For Children (1908–1911) and Mikrokosmos (1932–39), as well as the Forty-Four Violin Duos (1931) occupy a significant place in 20th-century composition, and his six String Quartets (composed between 1908 and 1939) are considered among the finest modern representatives of the genre. Some of his larger scale orchestral works also had a significant world-wide success from their first performances, especially the Dance Suite (1923) and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936), the first of his compositions commissioned by the Swiss conductor and patron Paul Sacher. His pantomime, The Miraculous Mandarin (1918–19, orchestration 1924 on a scenario by Menyhért (Melchior) Lengyel), is probably his most daringly and most radical modernist masterpiece whose subject matter caused outrage at its première in Cologne in 1926. These works put him close to the rank of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, the two most famous composer innovators of his generation. As lecturer, author of numerous studies and articles, and editor of extensive volumes of folksong collections, Bartók was considered as a leading authority on East-European folklore.
Following Nazi Germany's occupation of Austria, he changed publishers to the London based Boosey and Hawkes and started to arrange for his departure from threatened Hungary and Europe and, in 1940, he went to the United States. Apart from giving concerts, he was mainly occupied at Universities, Columbia University, from which he received an honorary doctorate and where he worked at the transcription and systematization of Milam Parry's South Slavic collection, and Harvard University. During his American exile, his fatal illness, leukaemia, soon made its appearance. Still, he was able to compose some great masterpieces, such as the Concerto for Orchestra (for conductor Serge Koussevitzky, 1943), the Sonata for Solo Violin (for the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 1944) and his Third Piano Concerto written for his wife, and he was able to complete the preparation for publication of most of his folk music collections, which were, however, published only posthumously.
While during and immediately after the war he was deeply concerned with his homeland's fate and future, and he never gave up his Hungarian citizenship, he did not consider it timely to return to Hungary. Decades after his death, his remains were solemnly transferred from New York to Budapest by his two sons and reburied at the Farkasrét Cemetery where it now rests.